You didn't answer VVD's question. How is your own, everyday life affected by this evil feminist battle against men?
Furthermore, the way you're going about this is all wrong. Posting a smattering of unconnected incidents from different times and places is a very bad way to prove that anything is good or bad, and makes you look like a conspiracy theorist who is asserting that there is some massive, global, feminist push against men, which is laughable.
And for good reason. This idea basically suggests that any parent should be given equal custody as long as the court deems them "fit." If we go by your own scenarios, there are a number of women (and men) who are abusive, violent, and unfit but get deemed fit for custody by the courts. More specific standards would be superior, but this bill wants to generalize them by default. The correct answer here is to make the standards even more specific, not to generalize.
Your first link doesn't work.
First off, the idea that false rape accusations are an easy tool is just plain wrong. It's well-documented that rape charges have very serious social effects on the person doing the accusing, whether male or female. There's social stigma attached to being a rape accuser, which is exactly why men underreport rape.
Second, why should rape defendents be given anonymity? If it were true that a large number of rape accusations were false, then this measure may be worth considering, but that isn't the case. As I pointed out before, using the corrected infographic, even if you assume ALL accused who don't reach trial are innocent (which is obviously not true,) the number of true charges is still over 5 times higher than the number of false charges. In short, this measure would protect more rapists than innocent people.
I didn't see the word feminist in either of these articles. What makes you label the one organization and one parliamentary member who support this initiatve "feminist," and furthermore, to pluralize it as if it represents some mass body of opinion? Feminism is about equality- why should something that wants to heighten and concretize gender inequality be feminist, especially when it doesn't label itself such? Are people who believe that women should be given less rights MRAs?
I completely agree, male victims should be helped, not that the MRA community is doing anything about it. Some of the stats in those articles are very easy to tear down, though. More troubling, anyway, is attempting to use this research to support the near-conspiratorial scenario you are implying, which actually isn't present in any of the research you posted.
Eh, the first article specifically speaks of a debate within the gender activist community in India, not an overwhelming consensus that men don't get raped and shouldn't have rape laws- it specifically talks about women supporting neutrality.
The 2nd article explains the situation: "a woman who causes or
makes it possible for a person to insert his (or her) bodily organ or an object into her sexual organ will be charged with rape..." That's an absurd definition of rape and could easily be abused. Any reasonable person should oppose such a law. "Making it possible" for someone to penetrate you is a ridiculous way to define rape- as the article notes, someone could rape a woman and then use this definition to claim that the victim actually raped them.
The line about male and female dominated industries is perfect sophistry. Framing the issue through the number of jobs men lost in very specific industries is a great way to avoid a lot of issues: that
women are still losing more jobs while men are gaining them, economic recovery is still taking longer for women than men, and women are more likely to be poor and to die from lack of access to money and resources, and that's true worldwide, not just in the US.
Economic Recession | Pew Social & Demographic Trends
Women, the Recession, and the Impending Economic Recovery | Graziadio Business Review | Graziadio School of Business and Management | Pepperdine University
"Women in the Down Economy: Impacts of the Recession and the Stimulus i" by Randy Albelda and Christa Kelleher
Off the balance sheet: the impact of the economic crisis on girls and young women
Feminism at its core is just a social movement for equal socioeconomic and political statusfor women after centuries of it being denied. You can argue that the movement has gone astray, or been too co-opted by short-sighted or extremist strains, or that much of its focus or motivations have become outdated, but to label the entirety of feminism a "hateful ideology" is fukking absurd and you seem too smart too say something like that.
Pretty much. It's been hijacked. The feminism of today isn't your and the rest of our mothers' feminism. I'm still blown away that despite all I've written about the false rape statistics, labor stats, education stats, and prison stats, that people just don't get it. I have to assume that it's because they don't want to.
