Feminism is said to be about equality between the sexes.
While I don’t see feminists fighting equally on many issues (you can see my previous articles and follow my future articles to understand why), there is still one very important issue that is yet to be discussed. Men and women aren’t equal by nature. We are not equal by the most basic body function: reproduction.
Men and women aren’t equal by nature. We are not equal by the most basic body function: reproduction.
We can’t achieve equality of rights when we don’t have equal responsibility. It’s a bit like if you buy a house. Your tenants don’t have to pay your mortgage, but you have the right to renovate. Equal rights come from equal responsibility.
On the issue of reproduction, then, when considering rights, it is crucial to remember the differences between the sexes:
Men and women don’t have the same birth control options yet
Men’s only birth control options are condoms or a vasectomy. The problem with vasectomy is that it is not reliably reversible. It is comparable to a tubular ligation in women. Ie. it is invasive and considered permanent. The problem with condoms is that they are not an independent solution. If the woman lacks lubrication on her side of the condom, it can break and the man would be at risk, even if he used his method perfectly. So, even if this method is 98% effective when used perfectly, it needs perfect use from both partners. Therefore, perfect use is not achievable by the man alone. Women, on the other hand, have many safe and reliable options for birth control. They have IUDs, pills, rings, injections, patches… in addition to tubular ligation. These methods can provide 99.9% effectiveness with perfect use, and that can be achieved by the woman alone since these methods don’t require any input from a partner. Responsibility in the case of an unwanted pregnancy is therefore not equal because women can ensure perfect use by themselves. Perfect use – with very few exceptions due to birth control failing, not misuse. For women, the effectiveness of their birth control is in their hands and their hands alone. If you misuse your own birth control, it’s your responsibility. The problem is that men lack a safe, effective and reversible birth control option where use is entirely their responsibility. Men lack this option, yet are still held responsible when there’s an unwanted pregnancy.
Bodily autonomy
While women have the upper hand in birth control, it has been assumed that they don’t have the upper hand in the consequences of an unwanted pregnancy. In both abortion and pregnancy, it will be the woman who will experience the medical procedures, the body changes, the pains and the risks to her life. While the risk of life is significantly lower than it used to be, it is still a risk. A man will not experience any changes to his body. This does not mean he is not at risk of death from an unwanted pregnancy, however. If he is forced into fatherhood, he will be forced to provide for the child. He will need to work more hours, keep a job he doesn’t want, etc. This exposes him to greater risk of death in the workplace. The CDC data for 2013 puts the risk of pregnancy-related deaths for women in the US at 17.3 per 100,000 live births. This is slightly lower than the risk of death for taxi drivers and chauffeurs in the US for the same year at 19.7 deaths per 100,000 full-time workers. The annual rate for some male-dominated professions exceeds 100 deaths per 100,000 full-time workers. Men forced into fatherhood endure this annual risk for 18 years or more.
Nobody should be forced to endure pain, change their body or risk their life, be it at work or in a pregnancy. That is bodily autonomy.
Consent
Like marriage, parenthood should be something adults consent to. People have different situations in life and might not even be able to provide for themselves, much less for someone else.
Like marriage, parenthood should be something adults consent to.
The current situation and why it’s not right
Women have all the best birth control options and yet they are the only ones who can decide to say no to an unwanted pregnancy with abortion. Women can also stop their birth control and then force a man to pay for the resulting child. They can force a man to be a father, and then force him to support the resulting child for 18 years or more, which also supports her.
Solutions from the other side and why they don’t work
Some people want both parties to consent to an abortion. That means that if a man wants to keep the child, the mother would be forced to keep it. That goes against the right of bodily autonomy, forcing the woman to go through pain, change her body and risk her life, without her consent.
This also does nothing to address the ability of a woman to force a man into fatherhood without his consent.
Solutions that do work
To me, balancing the differences between the sexes regarding reproduction means taking into consideration the different rights and responsibilities: As women have better birth control options and the option to get an abortion, it’s important that women cannot force men into parenthood. If she misused her birth control, it shouldn’t be a man’s problem. If it’s an accident, she still has the option to abort. A man should therefore get the same right to say no to parenthood. That’s where legal paternal surrender (also known as financial abortion) comes into it. He would have the option to surrender his responsibility and rights to the child. To be fair, this solution requires 2 conditions:
- Women need to be advised of the man’s decision before 10 weeks. This provides her with the time to abort if she doesn’t want to be a single mother.
- Men would have to be advised of the pregnancy no later than 8 weeks, so they have time to decide too.
The cons and their solution
I will address the pro life position by keeping to the rights addressed in this article: Some women don’t want to abort, some men don’t want their unborn child to be aborted. In this case, the solution is a relationship contract between the parties where they both agree not to have an abortion or apply for legal paternal surrender. Relationship contracts could also be conditional on taking/using birth control if the parties so choose. That means that if a woman stops her birth control, the man’s responsibility for a resulting pregnancy is nullified.
Completely agree with this article. I have nothing more to add, you’ve said it all.
Feminism is NOT against men .
Feminism is NOT against Feminility.
Feminism’s goal is NOT to make Female and Male equal.
Feminism exists to help all women to have the SAME RIGHTS as men. Not for helping women to become men or live as men.
Feminism has helped INDIVIDUALS (women AND men) to be , act , live , be respected as a HUMAN BEINGS not as a predefined social roles.
Feminism fights all gender’s prejudices.
Feminism is for the freedom (for women AND men) of being what they want instead of what society expect from them.
Feminism exists because female exist.
If you are a female and you call yourself a Non-Feminist you sound ILLOGICAL as it would sound a black person in south africa if he declares to be FOR apartheid, as an ebrew to be FOR shoah, as a child to be FOR pedophilia, as a slave to be FOR slavery.
Women AGAINST Feminism are like writers AGAINST readers.
Women AGAINST Feminism are like musicians AGAINST concerts.
Women AGAINST Feminism are like mine workers AGAINST mine workers‘ Union.
Women AGAINST Feminism are like Children AGAINST Unicef.
Are you sure you are AGAINST feminism?
After giving this much thought and listening to all sides of for and against feminism I can absolutely say without a doubt that I am NOT nor will I ever call myself a feminist. I’ve been around long enough to see the true face of feminism and what it really means. Illogical? That’s your opinion and I respect your right to hold that opinion however I do not respect feminists as I’ve witnessed far to many women hiding behind their feminist agenda, using it to exploit, belittle and outright abuse men and the system we all live by, these women should be ashamed when they call themselves oppressed and completely ignore their very obvious privilege.
To say that you’ve been around long enough does not invalidate the feelings of your fellow women. Maybe women promoting feminism now are of a different generation and of a different privilege to yourself, I wouldn’t know. However to suggest that using the privilege that SOME women possess to further the rights of others is wrong is wrong in itself and should be frowned upon. Women do not have the right to remove themselves from a birth certificate, even if the child is placed up for adoption or given to the father to raise. Men have this choice. Feminism is not some “college movement” as so many people say. It is a movement that uses the realisation and utilisation of the privilege that we have to make a difference. Yes, there are biological differences between men and women, however this does not mean that we should not have the same rights. I would not call myself oppressed by males, I would call myself oppressed by the people who actively fight against the need for change, such as yourself. The problem for me lies in your inability to accept there is a problem worldwide just because it does not affect you, and label feminism as a radical movement. Feminism is not meant in radical terms, in the same way that there is a group in society that judges Muslims solely off of the actions of a few radicalised individuals. Whether you have been around 100 or 20 years, the fact stands that you are labeling the majority with the actions of a few and that as women, we can do better to support and love each other. I have been disgusted by some of the comment made on this site by women, and whilst I accept that some people have taken the face of feminism to promote values outside of the general consensus, I think to label the movement as a whole irrelevant and damaging fights against the exact thing that you are doing here now- expressing your opinion as a woman. I am a feminist through and through and will continue to campaign for the rights of both men and women in the true sense of equality.
Feminism is defined as “advocating women’s rights using gender equality”. When I say women’s rights it can mean anything a woman thinks she wants being a woman. Take abortion rights for example, It can be hurtful to men who desire to be fathers.
Do feminists take that into account? No.
They simply don’t care about men’s feelings and thoughts. Now you might argue that its the problem with current generation of feminists, and not a problem with feminism itself. Ok, so how is feminism going to think about issues concerning men? It can’t because feminism is something only women enjoy by its definition. It has no room for men. Nature exists in duality, elections-protons, hot-cold and male-female. Both male and female suffer from their own issues and in the long run male and female create an union to continue their species. So both sides must be looked upon. and wen u create feminism, an ideology which speaks for only one side by its own definition, you are obviously ignoring the other side which suffers from its own issues as well. Thats the problem with feminism and that’s exactly why I don’t consider myself a feminist. Your argument that feminism has done something good for men though it doesn’t intend to do, is like saying honey bees help humans get honey to consume, though bees don’t intend to provide honey for humans. Thats how your argument is. This is exactly why most westerners though support gender equality don’t want to be called as feminist, simply becoz it doesn’t include both genders to qualify as being equal. Now do you understand why a lot of women are against feminism?
A very long winded NAFALT argument tells me that you haven’t actually read much of anything else on this site. Otherwise you would have known to do better than that. It doesn’t matter how many Gender Studies slogans you spout out about what feminism “means” and your personal little take on it (which by the way is a perfect example of the feminist entitlement wherein you think YOU get to decide the definition of an ideology and who is/isn’t “really” part of that ideology). Feminists and feminism itself is judged by its actions, it’s blatant lies, it’s hypocrisy and it’s vile work done in the name of female supremacy. So lets unpack this tripe you posted-
” does not invalidate the feelings of your fellow women”
-And feelz do not invalidate actual facts. Something you need to learn.
“However to suggest that using the privilege that SOME women possess to further the rights of others is wrong is wrong in itself and should be frowned upon.”
-And yet in that very sentence you admit it’s not about “rights” it’s about privileges. Try to keep up.
“Women do not have the right to remove themselves from a birth certificate, even if the child is placed up for adoption or given to the father to raise. Men have this choice.”
-It’s called the Moses laws. In effect you are removing yourself because you are removing yourself from ALL responsibility. That’s how that works. And men DON’T have this choice. The mother can CHOOSE to allow it. See how that works? It’s still HER decision. Try again.
“It is a movement that uses the realisation and utilisation of the privilege that we have to make a difference.”
-And there you go again using “privilege”. Do you even realize the asinine statement you made? You want to use privilege to make a difference by continuing to give women privilege while denying men basic rights? This is your make a difference? We’ve already seen the show. That’s why we are tired of the bullshit. Try again.
” however this does not mean that we should not have the same rights.”
-Then why are you and your cohorts actively opposing such rights? Why are you apparently tone deaf and not actually addressing the lack of rights men have? Try again.
“I would call myself oppressed by the people who actively fight against the need for change, such as yourself. ”
-In what way are you oppressed? Give actual specific examples not some slogan that is so broad and unverifiable as to be useless. Actual examples.
“The problem for me lies in your inability to accept there is a problem worldwide just because it does not affect you”
-The problem is that you and your indoctrinated cohorts (I love that word) show a WILLFUL inability to accept that the reality of the world, especially in the West, is nothing like what you were told to think in Gender Studies or other feminist propaganda depots.
” Whether you have been around 100 or 20 years, the fact stands that you are labeling the majority with the actions of a few and that as women, we can do better to support and love each other”
-Except the fact stands that we aren’t talking about some few feminists on the fringe of society. We are talking about the loudest, most covered and most powerful people and groups associated with feminists. Such as N.O.W. Know who they are? Want to claim they are “fringe” or “a few”? I’ll wait. By the way nice stab at both shaming and appeal to emotion in that last bit. Try again.
“and whilst I accept that some people have taken the face of feminism to promote values outside of the general consensus”
-Except see above about your lie that somehowwe are only talking about a “few” feminists and not the majority of powerful feminists and feminist groups. Try again.
” I think to label the movement as a whole irrelevant and damaging fights against the exact thing that you are doing here now- expressing your opinion as a woman”
-Except that is exactly what you and yours do whenever men attempt to address or talk about issues they face. “Neckbeards”, “male tears”, protests where you shout in some guys face that’s he’s a piece of shit and deserves to die because he wanted to go to a discussion about the horrendous rate of male suicide, including his 2 friends that committed suicide, etc etc. Need I go on? It’s what your doing here when a woman is trying to address one of these issues. See there’s already been a “movement” called egalitarianism that actual DOES try to address things from a basis of equality. Something your ideology has yet to EVER do in it’s history. By the way no one is stifling a woman’s ability to express herself. The only people that constantly tell women that they can’t be heard and they don’t have opinions that matter are indeed FEMINISTS. Remember Mad Men and The Honeymooners aren’t documentaries. Try again.
“I am a feminist through and through and will continue to campaign for the rights of both men and women in the true sense of equality.”
-Except that by definition you cannot campaign for both as you are a feminist. Nothing here that you have written has indicated one iota of understanding of issues at large or even this very specific issue. You didn’t actually address anything written in any way that is substantive. Not one word that isn’t about you and your perception of reality based upon your feelz as taught to you by feminists. Nothing you have said would make a male trust you to “fight for the rights” of men or that you even grasp what “true sense of equality means”. This is why you aren’t trusted. This is why your ideology is rightly considered hateful. This is why a site like this and women like this exist. We are not taking your propaganda, slogan pitching over the REALITY of actual life and how it works. Try again.
People are oppressed. You cannot tell me that children who are forced into marriage are not oppressed. You cannot tell me that an innocent girl who was raped was not oppressed. You cannot tell me that women should be ashamed for standing up for THEIR BELIEFS. If you have the right to speak out about what you believe, why shouldn’t others? You speak out confiidently, but you say that other women should be ASHAMED for speaking out. Who are you, that you can speak your feelings and thoughts, while you insult other women, and say that they should stop. I respect you, and your opinion, but I do not agree with you, at all.
Elena pls b logical y are u committing fallacy, y would you say non feminist are illogical, wat is good to me may b bad to you, and moreover it is when most female fail that is when they gall back to feminism. Take it or leave it I am a non feminist, most of u are anti men
You sound very certain of your misconceptions, Elena. Myopia is a disability, however. Just because you don’t see something not mean it does not exist.
Essentially, what you are trying to say is that feminism = gender egalitarianism. Yet you have failed to define egalitarianism or show the ways in which feminism actually upholds, supports or promotes actual gender equality. This is actually impossible to show, so I don’t blame you for not trying.
Token virtue signalling does not equal gender egalitarianism. Gender egalitarianism requires equal human and civil rights *regardless of gender*. Women Against Feminism understands this. The legislation lobbied for by feminists shows that they do not.
Under feminism, women’s rights have been elevated above those of men and children. That is not gender egalitarianism. That is assigning rights *because of gender*. It is gender apartheid.
Women Against Feminism is not “Women Against Women’s Just Rights”. It is women against state-mandated gender prejudice! It is women against the injustice that results from society and the law gender profiling men as violent, privileged and oppressive by nature.
Women Against Feminism is women FOR human rights – *regardless of gender*.
Feminism is and always has been a movement to improve outcomes for women with regard to men. It is Gender Marxist by nature in that it views women as the victimised proletariat while depicting men (#YesAllMen) as willful oppressors. Feminism looks at history and humanity only through the perspective of embittered women. It does not see men’s sacrifice. It does not see the suffering of children. It does not see the agency of women who choose motherhood despite feminist’s insistence that women’s biological roles are slavery, designed for the benefit of men.
You are personally free to delude yourself into believing that a movement called “feminism” could stand for human rights regardless of gender, but we have seen (and survived) the harms of feminism’s sexism.
Feminism is sexism. The future is human.
Just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean doesn’t exist.
There’s a certain irony about this statement.
Feminism is for females but it does have a benefit to the male gender as well.
For example one of the reasons the highest suicide rates that males have is because of the idea that showing emotions is feminine.
The reason why it’s conveyed as feminine is a negative reason because femininity is associated with weakness and frailness.
This also leaks over into other areas such as body image.
As a male having a body figure that is skinny or chubby or fat is seen as feminine or conventionally female, insults such as pussy and you’re such a girl come to some peoples mind hence creating a bad health issue.
Sports is particularly bad, the phrase you run like a girl, throw like a girl, play like a girl is both insulting to the female gender but also towards the male gender.
Even things like cooking, sewing, doing daily chores have been in the past and even now stereotypically shown as feminine.
This is pretty harmful for young boys as it doesn’t allow a child to be a child, from a young age toxic ideas are imbedded into their head that something is wrong with them if they don’t follow a ridged oppressive idea of what is male.
Even crying, it’s pretty often that the phrase don’t cry like a little girl is thrown around, casually etc.
How do you think this would affect a male mentality?
It’s quite easy to be against Feminism, I’m more than aware that Feminism has its faults but it’s easy for Anti-feminists to dismiss the good about Feminism entirely to create a bias view point.
For example there is a huge misconception on what Feminists think of mothers, I feel like anything a woman does is empowering as long as its HER CHOICE.
If she wants to have kids and a husband, fantastic it’s not my say.
But I dislike the propaganda about motherhood, the overly oppressive propaganda.
For example, pins, posts and the Ideals that a woman is not a real woman unless she has a child.
It is incredibly obvious the huge societal pressure on women to conceive and be a mother, I have felt that pressure my entire life.
It is EXPECTED of women.
I want to normalise the Idea of women not having children and having a husband as much as the Idea of women not having a husband or children.
I want the same reaction when I say no I don’t ever want kids to be as boring as me saying here’s 500 reasons why I like the colour brown.
Not to be asked a dozen times why not and people exclaiming to me kids are the wonders of the universe and looking at me as If I’m mentally sick.
That needs to stop.
Also WOMEN WORK so that men don’t get all the pressure of being piggy banks. Like for instance ( Hypothetically because I don’t really feel the need to find a partner) in this economical state it’s better for both males and females to work.
I FEEL LIKE females getting the opportunity to work RELIEVES the stress and oppressive nature of men needing to be the breadwinners of the family and the piggy banks that go out every day and work themselves to death.
THIS IS to both give women rights but also ACKNOWLEDGE and try to even out the suffering that it caused men.
As a Feminist I’m also against women getting easier jail sentences, I believe that in law and fairness a criminal is a criminal regardless of gender.
FOR FELLOW FEMALES it is not STRONG or BRAVE to hit or abuse your male partner, it is a terrible, terrible abusive act and the abuser should be judged CORRECTLY. Do not HURT your significant other, it is no different for me whether it’s a female or male being abused.
You know what I’m here for? Accepting every body type, male and female because the media feeds very unhealthy imagery into peoples minds and just guys..love yourselves your perfect?
Also can we get rid of this man-hating myth?
My best friends are guys, my little brother is a guy.
The closest person in the world platonically is a guy.
My buddies that I play sports with and get drinks afterwards are guys.
IT IS NOT AN US AND THEM.
I’m against assholes and jerks and they come in every gender.
I’m against when rape victims are blamed or not believed. ( Male and Female)
I am for Feminism for the anorexic / bulimic people that look at magazines and get upset when they don’t look the same.
I’m for the little boys and men who were told to not be pussy’s when they got sad or upset or scared.
I’m for kicking the asses of the homophobic assholes that called a straight guy gay or a girl for liking cooking.
I’m here for the little girl that never got to study science because she was bullied out of it.
Or the boys that never got a doll when they were a child because of their sexist parents beliefs.
I’m here for the child brides ( That’s still happening even in Australia) I want that to stop.
As a Feminist you do what you like as long as it doesn’t hurt you or anyone else than let me tell you I’m here for it.
I am a Feminist and this is my belief.
My favorite part of your comment is, “her choice!” The article above is about having equal choice. If the female is truly equal to the male then they both should have an equal choice in reproduction matters. Women already have a choice, let’s offer men a choice too. Sound equal?
Yeah and look at any time there is a situation where they might be vulnerable men or males who don’t fit the stereotypical mold of machoness or masculinity, and you’ll find feminists proudly putting their boots down on such men, simply because of their gender and not because they’re trying to act like the very men feminists have asked them to become. I myself am often drawn to hobbies and things labelled “girly” and some of the nastiest, most toxic and gender shaming language I’ve ever received have come from women. They may not be feminists, but this fact still pokes holes in the feminist drum beating that there is an all oppressive “patriarchy” that hurts men too. One also needs to look no further than the existence of TERFs to see the hypocrisy among feminism and in the issue of what feminists say vs the reality of what they do.
Using feminist propaganda, feminist slogans, feminist lies and feminist misinformation to try to rebut criticism of feminism is about as ridiculous as it gets. Your screed that goes from exceptional situations that prove a rule, to outright fabrications ,to somehow equating 50’s television to real life is just a complete clusterfuck. Nothing you’ve written showed an understanding of males or the male POV on anything. If you don’t understand 1 entire half of an equation, then no one should trust you when you say you have the answer for everybody or that you are somehow speaking with nothing of the whole.
Respect. Thank you for speaking out.
I’m absolutely shocked by this. This is what makes things go very wrong and low. I feel it’s uneducated. Look around. Seriously. Have some God damn DIGNITY. FOR THE LOVE OF….
Well said
Men did not invent, design or have any input into the design of the sexual reproduction system of male and female. Whether you believe in “God,” an impersonal creative force, evolution, cosmic accident, whatever, men had nothing to do with biology.
Girls and women were not, are not, forced to be female by men. Laws do not compel girls, women, to be female. From the standpoint of humans and human-made laws girls and women chose to be female. No one compelled a single one to be female.
Females’ fathers did not choose to send an “XX” sperm to fertilize the mother’s ovum (egg).
Neither men nor men’s laws compelled any girl or woman to be female.
Nor to emit an ovum once every 28 or so days.
Nor to exude estrogen type e to allow sperms to pass through her cervix.
Nor to open her cervix.
Nor to assist sperms through her uterus to her fallopian tube wherein resides this month’s ovum.
Nor to carry sperms up her fallopian tube to meet her ovum, which is up to that point a cell of her body.
If fertilization is successful, the cilia of her fallopian tube along with protective mucus that she generates carries the ovule (fertilized ovum) to her uterus where, if all is favorable, her endometrium (lining of her uterus that she grew) takes the now-embryo in, encloses it and feeds it as it grows a placenta. Men, laws, do not compel any of this. From the standpoint of all other humans and human laws her actions are entirely voluntary.
Does this not lead one to a conclusion that one does not have any right to take the life of another to avoid inconvenience, embarrassment, shame? All the more so when she generated this person within her body – voluntarily?
We and our laws see the parents, the creators of a child, as having a special duty to see that the child is cared for. If parents do not want, or are unable, to care for a child they created, they may discharge their duty by finding someone else who will accept the child and care for her.
Perfectly said. Bravo!
There is no reason that you need to yell at her. She has the right to her own opinion. People like you are the exact readon many do not agree with feminism. Modern “feminists” seem to have the term equality mixed up with supremacy.
I don’t see how this conversation is anything besides constructive. I find it fantastic to discuss views and debate, regardless of which side I am on, and once people embrace that; there should be no need to criticise people for arguing back
Only 18% of women in the US define themselves to be a feminist, while over 85% believe in equality of opportunity and rights between the sexes. There is a reason. Most women now see that feminism is no longer about equal rights and equality; they see it as a vindictive and hateful man hating culture which is out not to fight for equality but to use victim hood and unrealistic ideology to try to get young and opportunistic women who would otherwise have a great career ahead of them, and turn them into manhating social pariahs. Plain and simple, the great majority of women do not believe in the the present existence of the feminism that you are describing.
You’ve actually made one of my points too! As a female, I would love to know who designated 18% of women to be the voice of 100% of women. They demonize men, and women too. If you’re a stay at home mother and wife you’re labeled as weak and less of a woman. I fail to see how I’m less of a woman for using my womanhood for exactly what it was given to me for..
If your gonna act like a bitch, you can leave! And this is why some of us females don’t want feminism you guys are forcing us to become feminist when we don’t want to!
you can say whatever you want, but the way you perceive feminism isn’t the same way as others are. most feminist i’ve met LITERALLY call ALL men rapist, pigs, sexist, etc. they act like their superior to men, or at least want superiority over men.
Feminists are against men!
Human rights activists fight for both!
In my opinion you are human rights activist fighting for both, or the the negative ones fighting for their own gender ( feminists and musculinists )
So go back to your caves you feminists and masculinists !!
Um, feminism is actually very contradicting. You’re actually asking for the same rights men have, but not giving men the same rights that women have. Kind of unfair to grant women the same rights as men when men do not and will not ever have the same rights as women. Example. Feminism is very supportive of being pro choice. So, they feel as though women should have the right to choose whether or not they have an abortion. I completely agree, but, if the woman wants an abortion and the man does not, how exactly are they being given the same right on that situation? The man is pretty much told its not his choice at all, which could lead to severe emtional problems and possibly affect him for the rest of his life. I mean if feminism is actually dedicated to equal rights for both genders and not just females as you stated earlier I would like to know what options they will be offering men in that situation, you know since rights must be equal, then the man should be consulted and his opinion should matter equally. I fail to see where men have any rights in that matter at this time. You can not ask for equal rights but with exceptions because youre a woman, thats actually doing exactly what youre saying men have done… What about men who do not want a baby with someone and the mother has chose to keep the baby? The man would then be demonized for “not rasing his children” that he didn’t want in the first place. You could chalk that up to “he should have been more responsible if he didn’t want kids” but then so should every woman sitting at an abortion clinic waiting to abort the fetus they acquired while engaging in irresponsible, unprotected sex. Also, on numerous occasions I have witnessed feminist demean women for choosing to be the traditional wife and stay at home mother. Weak, I believe is the term that is most used for that lifestyle. I don’t exactly agree with a group of women telling me I am weak as a women for wanting to be a wife and mother full time. I actually don’t agree with a group of women thinking they get to delegate what women are or are supposed to be at all. They claim to speak for all women and there again, no, you most certainly do not speak for all women. Only 18% of the female population in the United States are feminist and so I’m not sure who elected them the voice of all women since 82% of women actually do not agree with feminism. feminist have also went as far as to say in the situation of “rape” while both parties are intoxicated that the man, even though intoxicated, can still make level headed decisions but women can not. So consensual intoxicated sex is rape if the women soberly regrets it the next day, and can only fall back on the man? Because according to feminist intoxicated or not he is still perfectly capable of making the same decisions that he would sober. Yeah so, really failing to see the equality in all of this… oh and FYI, if feminism is not all those things, I suggest you guys stop portraying it as such on media outlets. Kind of hard to say feminism are not those things when people can pull up a whole protest on youtube led by feminist demanding fathers day be removed as a day in general.
Plenty of people oppose feminism for a variety of reasons. Women always had a varied experience of the patriarchy (hence why women have oppossed feminism since its inception), which makes it completely inapropriate to compare it to other forms of opression or injustice such as 19th century mine deaths or slavery. Feminism needs to be held to account for the injustices that feminists inflict upon the world.
When development of safe contraception for males has been proposed organized femdom (for that is what feminism is) loudly and bitterly opposed it. They do not want men to have control of fertility.
“The church?” What church are you wanting to register deaths? There are over 20,000 sects just of Christendom.
Civil government laws require death registration. Only where a sect of religion is the official government “established” religion does a religious organization register births, marriages and deaths.
Feminism, is the equivalent to a hate group; all do respect Elena. Have you not stop to ask yourself why WOMEN AGAINST FEMINISM, are against feminism in the first place? ( putting things in cap dose not further prove your point is more valid then someone else.. just an “fyi”)
Women who are against feminism see it for what it really is.. an embarrassment to other f