hominishostilis:

sammishim:

No, I don’t think it’s ‘The CAUSE” (because when dealing with things like abuse and violence, trying to name one CAUSE is stupid.)

But I do blame feminism for the widespread dismissal of male abuse, abso-fucking-lutely. Because of a little thing called The Duluth Model, manifested in present day as The Primary Aggressor laws.

You see, the Duluth Model was actively advocated for by feminists, and The Primary Aggressor Laws really only slapped a new name on them. These laws make it so that men are overwhelmingly the ones arrested by domestic abuse even though multiple studies now show that domestic violence is evenly split between the sexes, and lesbian couples have the highest rates of reported abuse. Yet it’s men that now bear the stigma as abusers, and even deserving of abuse when they are the victims. (I can really tell you didn’t read those links now, because there are links for both of these things among them.)

1) Men have been systematically abused for just as long as women have, society just doesn’t seem to perceive much of it as “abuse” because men are expected to deal with it and suck it up. - good job.

2) “The Patriarchy” doesn’t exist in first world countries like America, where mainstream feminism seems to think the entire world resides until they need an example of women being oppressed - then they’re glad to point to women in countries where Patriarchal systems still exist, while doing nothing to help them, while using it as an example of why *they*, as women with all the same rights as men (and a few men don’t have) in America, need feminism.

3) The Patriarchy is men, you dolt. You clearly don’t know the first thing about Patriarchy theory (because its a theory, with no basis in reality concerning first world countries). Patriarchy is described as a system of power where men hold all of the advantages - and it’s a system designed to benefit them.

So when you point at the imaginary boogeyman “Patriarchy”, you’re actively blaming men for their issues. You’re actively blaming men for their own high suicide rate, in a society that ignores mental illness and depression in males until they *snap* and off themselves or hurt someone else - then they’re only acknowledged as an example of “why men are inherently dangerous”. You’re blaming men for their abuse being ignored, for being afraid to come forward about it, you’re blaming men for being ashamed of both their masculinity and their lack of it (two sides of the same coin - shaming men for stepping out of their accepted gender practices). You’re blaming men for the issues, which are all linked above, that feminism has been demonstrated to have directly caused. (Not “Patriarchy”, feminism. The US in particular doesn’t have a single aspect of a Patriarchal society.) And then, claiming we “need feminism” to solve those issues.

That’s called “circular logic”, and it’s a fallacy. It’d be like if I stabbed you, and then told you that you needed to hire me to protect you from people with knives.

Are you starting to see how feminism’s crusade against the mythical “Patterwacky” is really just feminism demonizing men?

Women are the majority of voters since they gained the right, spend the most wealth, control the most finances , have an entire branch of the government dedicated to their health (try looking up “Menshealth.gov”).