[Serious] What is your view on gender equality?

  1. The goals of equality under the law, at least in the west, have been largely achieved. Women can vote, they're no longer second class citizens. This kind of activism would best be suited for the third world.

  2. The name is st00pid and implies female supremacy rather than equality of any kind. Ask yourself, do you call yourself a "blackist" if you believe in racial equality? No? Then why should anyone call themselves feminists? Do you call yourself a "homoist" if you believe gays should be able to marry?

  3. There are too many nitpickers and PC whiners... Feminists who think a fucking dongle joke somehow oppresses them for example. Oh boo hoo hoo! Or being called a "bitch", ignoring of course that males also get called bitches if they're an annoying pain in the ass.

  4. There is this idea of "male privilege". But it's fine to ignore female privilege. Who has a life span that's 5-7 years higher? Women. Who are disproportionately over-represented in homelessness? Men. Who is expected to be the assertive side in a relationship? Men. Who are disproportionately more likely to be incel and whine on dating sites they can't find a girlfriend? Men. Who are disproportionately LESS likely to succeed in the prostitution industry? Men. (Unless of course you prefer the idea of "gay-for-pay") And for feminists who supposedly are interested in how all issues affect gender equality, ha ha, that's rich, I've never seen you live up to your ideals, not even one bit. You only say it because you have to so you don't appear sexist, one-sided and hypocritical.

None of these things actually seem to bother feminists and pointing out that means you're "MRA".

For the record, I'm not MRA. I accept that there are inequalities that come from human nature and no government policy or social movement can truly change to any meaningful degree. Can they? No, they can't. They think they can legislate against certain speech, shun certain actions. It's the same mentality as revolutionary marxism really, only applied to gender rather than class.

What they do in fact is pretend these issues don't exist, that men have ALL the privileges 100% of the time in any topic possible.

  1. Opposition to prostitution. While it may not be true of all feminists, it's certainly a mainstream thought among them. Many push for the Swedish model. Look, if you don't like it, then just don't be a prostitute. Don't whine that you're being oppressed or exploited if you willingly chose to inject yourself into this business. Plus given the rates some of the prostitutes charge, it's a fair question to ask who truly is the "exploited" one. Or... maybe it's just free market and you need to get over it.

5.a. Leftism. Let's just spell it out, one of the reasons you don't want prostitution to be legal is because you'd rather these women get welfare instead. Brilliant, let's increase government dependency further and take out an entire industry. Meanwhile you can keep telling them how "oppressed" they are by the "patriarchy".

Also tip: Not all of them do it cause they're poor. There's also a lot of easy money in it.

  1. WTF is the "patriarchy" anyway? It's not tangible, doesn't have a coherent definition, doesn't actually mean anything. Humans naturally have a tendency to organize themselves in a society where male dominate, there is no active conspiracy behind it to oppress women. There is no particular group of cackling evil men that you can identify as "The Patriarchy".

  2. Equality at the expense of liberty and merit: The most ardent of feminists will insist that you must have 50-50 in government by FORCE, this is in fact anti-democratic, anti-liberty, anti-merit.

My guess is that if we do reach that point without force and it tilts over to something like 65% women 35% men, they won't demand any kind of affirmative action.

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