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Originally Posted by mickmoranis
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Feminism is about equality, and equality is about solving both men and womens issues.
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There is nothing equal about men having more power in our society (and having had even more power historically). There's nothing equal about one gender facing harrassment, abuse, and flat out rape at rates 10x men.
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Originally Posted by mickmoranis
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1. men do not report sexual harrasment for a multitude of reasons, one of which being men are as oppressed as woman are in today's society, especially when sharing this type of info.
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Complete bullshit. Even if I bought that men "are as oppressed" (which is demonstrably false), if women were harrassing/abusing/raping men at even half the levels that men do we'd hear about at least one case. But we don't: every last one of the
many, many news stories from the past year have been about male attackers. The only female I can even think of is that one teacher who slept with her students, and again there are like 10x more of those stories involving men (they just don't make the national news).
As for the rest of your post, men certainly suffer from our current gender roles too. The suicide rate is a perfect example of this: there's a genuine cost to us always being told "boys don't cry" "real men don't act like that", etc. Making our society more equal absolutely means addressing the problems with our society's definition of the male gender role ... but that does not mean men and women are equal.
Again, when you face 10x (or even just 1x) of the rate of harrasment/abuse/rape that women face
then you can say that women aren't oppressed. Personally I'm a big fan of not being raped myself, and I'd really like it if the 1/3rd-1/4th of the female population that will get raped in their lifetime could feel the same.