I understand that the tables have turned in these certain instances. And I DO think discrimination against men needs to end. I LOVE men, and even use the #MenToo hashtag to advocate for mens' mental health awareness.
And I appreciate your calm contribution to this contentious debate. i see you're attempt to try and defuse this arguement, and I appreciate your effort.
Here's the thing.
Most men seem like they're unable (or unwilling) to remove themselves from the center of their own perspective. They don't even realize they are doing it - but they are.
Women who are counteracting the systems of imbalance to correct ages of injustices by creating their own support systems are NOT women skipping to the head of the line. We're just trying to go from being in the red, to being in the black. And every step we take, men are trying to pull us back into our subserviant positions of yore. No fucking way, thank you very much. We simply are not having it.
Men have never experienced being "in the red" so to speak when it comes to cultural priority. They have always called the shots. And by they - I mean the few men that head up this domination based hierarchy we take for granted. Many men ALSO suffer silently under the same shit women deal with - but are socially conditioned not to complain about it.
If women-only career fairs and gender quotas for jobs offend men - try being systematically bought and sold, ignored, denigrated, raped, murdered, invalidated, and burned at the stake over the course of the last few millennia.
Women are VERY tired of living in a world where we have been told what to think, how to act, and what makes us valuable assets for men to own. Perhaps these aren't the actual words that get used anymore, but it's still the underlying sentiment. And men complaining about the few places where they've lost ground feels ridiculous to most of us.
We're tired of being told OUR emotions and feelings matter less than the feelings of men as their privilege has just barely begun to be challenged.
If men's awareness needs to be raised about anything these days, it's that women are no longer content to be told what we need.
We've got that handled on our own - and that DOESN'T mean we aren't also wiling to respect men. It just means that respect must be mutual, or the arguments that men bring to the table are moot.
