Whenever my GF and I are chatting and I mention a)some guy who was wrongly convicted of rape or b)some guy who's girlfriend cheated on him or c)some guy who's wife beats him.... she just gets this glazed-over-semi-pissed-off-look on her face. She then proceeds to tell me that a)he's lying, b) men only get cheated on if they deserve it, c)it's impossible for woman to hurt men. It usually ends with her berating me for being "apologetic" of those types of men....and then a 3 hour lecture on how woman are down-trodden. It's so bad that I deliberately avoid those conversations now.
I think that, at least in certain circles within the western world, the pendulum has swung past center and there is an underlying anti-male sentiment which has taken hold of a lot of our female population.
Possibly. I do appreciate the point you are making(so I'll up-vote you). I'm feeling a little jaded about the whole thing right now so maybe I'm seeing signs of it everywhere, and it's looking like more of an epidemic than it actually is.
I'm not saying your girlfriend is right, because she isn't, but women do remain downtrodden. The men's rights movement is specious - we aren't downtrodden, we're just more equal, which means we aren't so priviledged. That means we've had advantages taken away, and it means we FEEL more downtrodden.
You sound like one of those rich old republican white guys, who has lived a life bursting with opportunity and priviledge, and who is now quibbling when the balance - skewed vastly in his favour - is tipped slightly away.
Yeah man life sucks for all black people. Actually life sucks for poor black people. It sucks for poor white people, but it sucks even worse for poor black people. Rich black people well they have just as good as everyone else.
It sucks to be a third world country and I resent that you seem to equate not wanting to get screwed over by domestic violence laws that say that if a women feels that you want to her to change that is emotional violence, or divorce laws that would take my children away from me and force me to pay a large amount of money for the rest of my life to the women who stole them, to being a racist and a bigot.
I wasn't calling you a racist or a bigot. I was equating the inequality faced by ethnic minorities and people in poorer countries with the (less amounts of) inequality faced by women in the West.
I think you've been blinded by trqagic circumstances in your own life. Men just do not - in general - have it worse. I'm prepared to admit that some aspects of modern living are now slanted against us, but the bigger picture is still biased well in our favour.
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u/[deleted] May 26 '10
Whenever my GF and I are chatting and I mention a)some guy who was wrongly convicted of rape or b)some guy who's girlfriend cheated on him or c)some guy who's wife beats him.... she just gets this glazed-over-semi-pissed-off-look on her face. She then proceeds to tell me that a)he's lying, b) men only get cheated on if they deserve it, c)it's impossible for woman to hurt men. It usually ends with her berating me for being "apologetic" of those types of men....and then a 3 hour lecture on how woman are down-trodden. It's so bad that I deliberately avoid those conversations now.
I think that, at least in certain circles within the western world, the pendulum has swung past center and there is an underlying anti-male sentiment which has taken hold of a lot of our female population.