When #metoo results in virtually every woman I know on Facebook discribing things that have happened to them from levels of minor digust to illegal beyond reproach. I think I can safely assume male privledge does exist.
As does white privledge it doesn't mean every white male is going to make it in life bit the odds are heavily stacked in their favour.
But most people like to play the simple arguments you just played out. Because some do beat the odds we should ignore there is a problem is essentially what you are saying.
I do like how someone who pertually is insistant they have no political bias bang on about the left and liberals a lot and how flawed it is.
Equality is a simple thing to achive in law and practice you make every person equal. You then enforce that law (gender pay gaps of people doing equal jobs shows this is not happening but equal measure many firms don't put equal rights to men for taking time off as paternity pay by not making that right equal to men it's actually women who suffer as they have to take the burden of raising young children). Liberalism is about making sure all people are treated equally without prejudice regardless of who they are and I think too many people like yourself like to pretend because they have succeeded this prejudice does not inherently exist.
Just as a note I find this topic a little distasteful a day after we just marked 100 years since some women were allowed to vote. It's meant to be time to reflect not attack feminism.
When #metoo results in virtually every woman I know on Facebook discribing things that have happened to them from levels of minor digust to illegal beyond reproach. I think I can safely assume male privledge does exist.
As does white privledge it doesn't mean every white male is going to make it in life bit the odds are heavily stacked in their favour.
But most people like to play the simple arguments you just played out. Because some do beat the odds we should ignore there is a problem is essentially what you are saying.
I do like how someone who pertually is insistant they have no political bias bang on about the left and liberals a lot and how flawed it is.
Equality is a simple thing to achive in law and practice you make every person equal. You then enforce that law (gender pay gaps of people doing equal jobs shows this is not happening but equal measure many firms don't put equal rights to men for taking time off as paternity pay by not making that right equal to men it's actually women who suffer as they have to take the burden of raising young children). Liberalism is about making sure all people are treated equally without prejudice regardless of who they are and I think too many people like yourself like to pretend because they have succeeded this prejudice does not inherently exist.
Just as a note I find this topic a little distasteful a day after we just marked 100 years since some women were allowed to vote. It's meant to be time to reflect not attack feminism.
I was waiting for someone to claim to be offended , its ridiculous. Anyways dont worry soon all conversation will be banned and everything will be black and white and the whole world will be far worse off including for women too who will be banned from doing 100s of jobs and mothers will be looked down upon for choosing to stay at home. Equality has been achieved, IF a woman is paid less than a man OR vice versa when they do the exact same job to the exact same level then they can go to court and sue for damages.
As for feminism it should be scrapped in favour of simply equal opportunities now. The trouble with feminism is it ONLY targets areas where women are behind men allegedly. BUT it ignores ALL the mass of areas where men are way behind women
Heres just a few areas totally ignored by media and government in the UK
1) Boys are light years behind girls in schools. In fact white boys especially fare the worst of all groups at all ages. There are almost no male teachers in nursaries, very few in primary either (less than 10%) nearly half of children do not live with their fathers so have no male role model and this is proved to affect boys even moreso.
2) Women have far more spending power. Despite the overall average being 2% behind men , in many cases the women are in charge of the house budget and the money in joint accounts. The vast majority of the women get the benefits too. family allowance etc
3) 85% of divorces see women get to keep the family home, the children and half their ex partners incomes. Plus any social security benefits goes to the mothers. In many of these cases the men lose everything. This is why 90% of the homeless are men. No one ever mentions this fact.
4) men die 5 years younger than women in every nation on earth. why doesnt feminism or equality tackle that
5) men kill themselves at 5 times the rate of women in every nation on earth , why doesnt feminism or equality tackle that
6) cancer kills far more men than women. sorry to be blunt it does. yet the funing for womens cnacers is 2 and a half times the level of funding for mens cancer. Breats cancer for women has fallen every year for decade and thats marvellous. But at the same time male prostate has risen every year to record levels. why doesnt feminism or equality do something about that? The funding comes from the same pot, so its a clear case of womens lives being priorised as more important than mens
7) In everyday culture , men get sacked for the a misplaced comment or even a joke about a female referee. meanwhile the term stale male and pale is trotted out by feminists to denigrade men and despite this being racist, ageist, sexist its allowed to continue. This inherent double standard should be called out.
8) The BBC is inherently biased and the pro feminist stories outweigh those of mens issue at a rate of 20 to 1. I actually went on question time once OFF CAMERA by dimbleby and was told prior to the start that NO MEN could ask the main questions that night. I wrote to complain , no one responded. Meanwhile women only shortlists continue. totally undemocratic , discriminatory and illegal. They say its fine as we want parliament to LOOK like the public? Yet they only have 1 disabled MP when millions of the public have disablilities? Imagine these women only towns? imagine some of the millions of brilliant men banned from running for that party? all that talent lost to parliament forever due to this slavish biased anti democratic anti free speech dogma. best PERSON FOR THE JOB, end of. Oh and if you care about equal opportunities lets have some more disabled acccess please? much of westminster is very difficult for wheelchair users as are 1000s of builings across the UK.
9) There are 1000s more outlets charities refuges for women. Again thats due to funding and the end result is 90% homeless are men.
10) Revisionist history taught in schools. Black or white all men bad all women good. No context. LLoyd george a man gave women the vote that is ignored. 5.6 million men were not allowed to vote either in 1918. Prior to that working class men barely had the right to vote as it was all controlled by their phenomenally wealthy landowners. 120 years ago the working class MEN were mostly dying in rich peoples wars , or shot for refusing to fight. Those who did stay at home nearly all died of TB in a coal pit or slate quarry working for a slaves wage. Mans world? 80 million poor working class young men died in world war 2. Millions more died in world war 1 fighting for the uber rich. Vietnam the average age was 19 year old boys.
Its a rich PERSONS WORLD. the blair women mps 98% of them voted for the illegal iraq war so shoe horning women in just because their women is not only morally repugnant and anti democratic it will not change the world for the better. We needed a movement 100 years ago. Now all we need is balance and fairness. We are not getting it and at this rate eevryone will be worse off, including women
