I received this comment today from Jessamine79 and thought I just may make a few necessary comments as they do carry some of the typical misandry that feminism promotes and now has become mainstay in typical thinking and attitudes of women who have wandered through the hypocrisy that is feminism..
Hi. I'll give you some context before continuing so you know who I am: raised in a single parent family, 30 y/o, female, in a 7 yr committed relationship with a man, childless, professional (comm. services), used to call myself feminist now see myself as egalitarian. (Ed- egalitarian –adjective asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, esp. in political, economic, or social life.).
I agree with a great deal of your analysis, particularly the issue of work-life balance. I feel if I wanted to have kids now I would be unable to raise them in a satisfactory manner. My partner doesn't work much at the moment due to illness and even if he was making a good amount of money and happy to make the sacrifice I would feel guilty being supported by him. I also do not want to be a working mother, dropping my child off at day care to be raised by someone else. And on a less selfish level I agree that Family Law and CSA policies are very discriminatory against men and need to be looked at and revised immediately.
However, I think no fault divorce is a good thing. Why would you want to force people to live in an unhappy marriage? If people marry young by the time they are middle aged they are likely to have grown into different people, people they may not be able to live with any more. Young people also make stupid choices, I know I did. My grandfather when married to my grandmother was a drinker and a womaniser, after they divorced and he fell in love with her he completely reformed and is the sweetest man I've ever known. He was just miserable.
I do really get annoyed whenever women (fairly common) make any comment concerning relationships they never or so rarely comment on whether the "mother" was in the wrong or what she did to destroy that relationship. To me it is just another example of the "Girls Club" sticking together as we witness endlessly. It would appear that whenever anyone reads any article or commentary on that issue it is always the male who is blamed. Sadly today's media echoes that ad infinitum..
The point is that women never miss any opportunity to downplay the part of the female but have no issue condemning the other..
I think Germaine Greer was right when she spoke about 10 years ago about how aiming for the *same* rights as men was a mistake. Women and men have different experiences throughout life for biological and cultural reasons and have different needs. But from my perspective there is no "good old days". What about the fact there were laws permitting men to physically discipline their wives, no laws against rape in marriage etc? Women were also expected to be meek and not approach men so they had to wait to be approached and could only chose between those men with the confidence to approach them.
Personally I have absolutely no respect for Greer in any way, shape or form. I think she is just another empty sounding drum wallowing in a shallow, self-induced narcissism that she confirms every time she open it's
shrieking mouth. Incapable of normal behavior, desperate seeking attention for a movement that is on the way out and she is so desperate to keep it alive. Even now she wallows in regret at not having children. I hope you do not fall into that category and like Greer, spend post-menopause regretting it..
What about the fact there were laws permitting..
Men were jailed whenever women committed crimes, they were held responsible and not the woman.
What about the laws that sent men off to war to die in their millions or men forced to labour in conditions that was not only life threatening but did actually kill a lot of men. ?
How about those incidents where a female got herself pregnant (it does take two) and the Man had to step up to the plate and was forced to marry the women. Become a lifetime ATM and wage slave ?
You speak like nothing happened to those men back then and all was sweet and comfortable (try living in a saturated, germ ridden, bombed out foxhole, being shot at for a year and tell me how you would have enjoyed that) those men never had any other options, either go to war or jail.!
What about horribly restrictive gender stereotypes which where very much present in my childhood but becoming less so now. Good riddance to them!
You also obviously fail to witness or aware of the current situation concerning my sex. Men are stereotyped daily, promoted as losers, no-hoper, incapable of doing anything correct in today's media including newspapers, movies, serials, advertising (both in print and video) and tell me there is no hypocrisy from feminists who deny it exists or even suggest that it's just too bad, it's payback..
In summary I think you win some and you lose some. Yes, it will be harder for me to reproduce, but I feel I'm probably doing more good for more people in my work than I would produce just focusing it on my one or two children. And I am so glad for some other freedoms I have I would not have gained had it not been for the feminist movement. I agree though there are some ways in which men have been left out and I think it is great to hear men like yourselves making your voices heard.
And I am so glad for some other freedoms I have I would not have gained had it not been for the feminist movement
Feminism did not do anyone any favours as all it has done is turned both sexes into wage slaves and demanded adherence to PC. They just hopped onto the already rolling bandwagon that started during the first world war and escalated in the second world war when women were forced to fend for themsleves due to a male shortage (2 Million were killed), I suggest you have a listen to a few more of
my MP3 entries found here.. on the affects of feminism and the maelstrom of lies they created and still promote..
Apart from all that I thank you for your comment and hope it has straightened out some erroneous elements that has drifted into the public psyche concerning stereotyping men in general and the "men have it all" falsehoods..