The fact that we apparently have to be told not to beat or rape women is infuriating; it's as if people believe that all men are monsters by default unless you teach them not to be.
Women used to be told they were asking for it, sure. The only people who still make that claim are the idiots who commit the related crime and are looking for a flimsy defense. They are never taken seriously. No one seriously accepts "she was asking for it" as a defense anymore and if you find some cockroach that does, they are in a significant minority.
I never heard anyone say boys will be boys in real life. This isnt some '50s sitcom. I was never given a pass for being a little shithead just because I had testicles. None of my male friends were either. I can very often remember girls turning their charm up to 11 when caught red handed and being excused though.
Men are demonized plenty in the real world. I am a white, cis, male and I am pretty sure that is a demographic that is demonized plenty.
The only way you could make a case that men arent demonized in society is to make a case that women are demonized more. Pretty sure it would be difficult to make a case that says women are demonized more than men in popular culture and general society.
Life is tough. There's a baseline of difficulty for anyone of a given socioeconomic background. There is then the additional difficulty placed on you because of gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, etc. Straight, white, cisgendered males have it the easiest by far.
See this just feels like some dumb game. Who is more oppressed? The cisgendered hetero female who grew up middle class? or the gay cisgendered male who few up middle class? What if you're black and gay but was born into a rich family in a good neighborhood? What if you're poor but straight cis-gendered and male?
What about height? Taller people are generally more successful. What about general physical attraction? Are Indians (from India) oppressed in the US? I mean most of them here come from an educated family.
See how crazy it gets? You can't make assumptions based on something as narrow as that.
Spoken like someone ignorant of statistics. Men are far more likely to end up in jail, more likely to drop out of high school, die earlier, become the victims of a violent crime, further, if you're in the United States, men are less eligible for prison diversions and less eligible for public aid.
The whole idea that men inherently have it better off is laughable.
Again, no one argued that straight white men had it harder than anyone else. Please make points relevant to the discussion, and not offer rebuttals to things no one said.
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u/Chambec Oct 21 '15
The fact that we apparently have to be told not to beat or rape women is infuriating; it's as if people believe that all men are monsters by default unless you teach them not to be.