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SvennoJ on 09 December 2015
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Metroid33slayer said:
SvennoJ said:
Vagina envy much?

The points you marked about the justice system. Who'se fault is that? Have a female police and justice system and see how those pretty women get treated ;) Any sources to back that up btw?

Anyway I don't believe it has overshot equality at all. Maybe you should get in touch with your male privilege.
http://amptoons.com/blog/the-male-privilege-checklist/

And believe me, giving birth is not a pro. All respect to my wife for surviving 2 difficult births with emergency c-section. It's a real advantage throwing up daily for 9 months, then get cut open and unable to do much for another 3 months while healing with a newborn to take care of.

Lol at the 93, that's just offensive. Btw you can't wear perfume in Canadian government buildings.
http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/hsprograms/scent_free.html
A lot of those points are pretty offensive.

Most of these are privileges not rights that is true. There is no actual right that a man has that a woman doesn't (in the west) but women do have rights that men don't and that is the point. Here they are

  1. Women have the right to genital integrity

  2. Women have the right to vote without agreeing to die (or conscriptional immunity, e.g. Austria, Finland, Greece, Switzerland)

  3. Women have the right to choose parenthood

  4. Women have the right to be assumed (competent) caregivers for children

  5. Women have the right to call unwanted, coerced sex rape

However, there are at least 7 more legal rights women have, that men don't (varying by Western country):

  1. Women have the right to lower jail sentences for the same crime US, Australia, UK

  2. Women have the right to not be assumed sexual predators British Airways, Qantas, Air New Zealand, Virgin Australia

  3. Women have the right to government departments that solely serve their interests Office on Violence Against Women - US, Ministry for Women - New Zealand, Office for Women - Australia

  4. Women have the right to government-enforced gender quotas Leadership positions in publicly traded companies - Norway, Legislated quotas in national parliaments - Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal

  5. Women have the right to exclusive tax benefits for being a business owner US, Australia

  6. Women have the right to domestic violence shelters US, Canada, Europe

  7. Women have the right to not be assumed the primary agressor in a domestic dispute US, UK

1. And men don't? I can see where that law comes from as my mother joined the fight against forced female circumcision, aka cutting off the clitoris. Male circumcision isn't as bad, yet should not be decided for the child either. Foreskins can be restored, however not covered by insurance. Sue your parents I guess.

2. Men too. You can always object and do substitute community service or spend the time in jail if you don't want to do that either. Many civilized countries have abandoned the draft. Many women have fought for their right to join the army. Many mothers have fought against the draft. I don't see how this relic of the past is proof of equality gone too far.

3. Blame biology.

4. Blame biology.

5. To call it a right is weird, but certainly it's way more easily believed when a women calls rape. While the blame the victim attitude is a lot less nowadays when it comes to female rape (she asked for it) male rape still comes with a large stigma.
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1666-5-awful-realities-being-man-who-was-raped-by-woman.html

Well, I'm a male rape victim who has no problem acknowledging that men have dominated every position of power in the history of modern society -- who do you imagine is responsible for creating a culture that ridicules men who cry, get overpowered by women, or otherwise assume a role normally inhabited by women? The Department of Justice isn't run by feminists -- who do you think created the law that, until just recently, insisted that female-on-male rape was literally impossible? All of this ignorance, every single bit of it, stems from the same culture that thinks the harshest way to insult a man is to call him a woman.

In the end, female rape is still a huge issue as well

So for me -- or anyone else -- to decide that my story is proof that men are the "real" victims of the modern world and that women/feminists are thus the enemy, is nuts. All victims are real. All victims should feel like they're able to speak up without being dismissed or ridiculed. If a movement -- regardless of what it represents -- ever feels like it's losing ground by showing empathy, then something has gone seriously fucking awry.


As for the rest, is it up to females to fight these battles for men?
There was one male shelter in Canada, he lost the fight for recognition and funding.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/04/29/earl-silverman-dead-suicide_n_3179850.html
Yet kinda ironic that it's female activists that bring attention to this wrong.


Maybe these things will become better with equality in government. It's slowly getting better, up to 22% now.
http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/leadership-and-political-participation/facts-and-figures