dontneedfeminism:

growingoldwaytoofast: 23claw: growingoldwaytoofast: If you defend men by saying “not all men are like this” instead of agreeing that women are severely affected by sexism and sexist behavior, you’re part of the problem. Ahahahaha I defend the truth. And the truth is that not all men are the same. … Feminists as a group are not the oppressors. Whether or not they are in accord with one another or have varying opinions, they are not the ones in control of the system and the effects of disputes between feminists is negligible compared to males who have overwhelming control of the system. Apples and oranges. Oh really? If that’s true, why did the men who tried to do all these things (y’know, the ones with “power”) fail? Why did they fail *because* of Feminist opposition, if Feminism has no power? Believe me, Feminism has plenty of power. I mean for fucks sake, they changed the rape definition (not enough to include “forced to penetrate” as rape, funnily enough). They set up the Duluth Model for domestic violence (which, funnily enough, erases male victims almost entirely). First-wave feminists set up the Tender Years Doctrine, which completely 180’d the way child custody is handled, by making custody always go to women. Your argument that “Feminists have no power” is complete bull, and you know it.

You seem to be ignoring the distinction between having power and being in power.

Feminists have power, but no legislative power is comprised significantly with feminists. They are not the ones passing bills into laws. They are not “in power”, like the male is with their overwhelming control of the political system.

Now you seem content with pointing out the flaws of some feminists who have extreme position to disqualify feminism as a whole. Now I’m not going to say not to blame some feminists because not all have the same opinion. What I will say is that feminism is not perfect, because shockingly nothing is, and needs to get its shit together. They don’t get to disqualify their issues by acting as if as a whole they’re better than that or the extreme views of some are not representative. Now replace “feminist” with “men” and we’re back to my original post.