The thing for me is, I do believe in equality. And I do feel that sometimes women have it rough. Much more than men, that's for sure.
However, a lot of the time, the argument for feminism seems to just be this:
[video=youtube;rihu8_nbhw8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rihu8_nbhw8[/video]
Ultimately, as a male, I don't particularly have any idea how hard women may have it. I think when you look at men's attitude towards women in the past - yes, it is degrading. But I've seen women blame men for the most absurd things. Menstruation even being one of them.
In fact I've been previously labelled a misogynist for the simple reason being - I'm a male. Being a male, I have already been classed as two things by feminists - a pig who wants to pretend to have women's best interests at heart, merely to sleep with them. (Apparently dubbed the "Nice Guy" theory), or a "misogynist ****" who is seeking to oppress women.
That latter quote was from when I posted on Facebook about the people who post their images publicly, and garner publicity through the few thousand likes they attain. I think it's great that people can be confident in their appearance, and want to share it with everyone. But I suggested that it may attract bad publicity, and that they need to be more careful with the information they share - which is why Facebook offers a privacy option. At that point, I was attacked for the view point, with a girl claiming that "In the perfect world, there wouldn't be a need for privacy, but people will come and harass us anyway. Misogynist assholes such as yourself are just as bad, trying to oppress women".
Now, my viewpoint is, yes. If this was a perfect world, then it'd be fine. But it's far from that. There are murders, rapes, assaults, thefts - the list goes on. As far as I'm aware, that isn't going to stop any time soon. We are not a perfect world, but the ideal would be wonderful. My suggestions were not to oppress women - in fact, I didn't even mention women. I treated it as both males and females, as both are at risk on the internet and actively post publicly on Facebook. I merely felt concerned, and decided I wouldn't be able to rest easy, without passing on the information I learned in school about internet safety - a lot of people seem to disregard that quite openly.
To me, the fact that the girl got mad at me for "oppressing" her gender was absurd. Say a person's house got broken into because the occupants thought that the world should be a perfect world, so they can leave it unlocked. Now, imagine if the occupants got mad at the police who came to investigate the next day, claiming that "Locks on the door would be oppression". To me, that's what I likened it to.
I apologize if what I said upset anyone. It was not my intention. But rest assured, I'd love nothing more than equality between both sexes. I will stand up for women, and I will never treat them any more different than I would a male. But it's difficult to do so, when I'm automatically made the culprit for simply being a male.
However, a lot of the time, the argument for feminism seems to just be this:
[video=youtube;rihu8_nbhw8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rihu8_nbhw8[/video]
Ultimately, as a male, I don't particularly have any idea how hard women may have it. I think when you look at men's attitude towards women in the past - yes, it is degrading. But I've seen women blame men for the most absurd things. Menstruation even being one of them.
In fact I've been previously labelled a misogynist for the simple reason being - I'm a male. Being a male, I have already been classed as two things by feminists - a pig who wants to pretend to have women's best interests at heart, merely to sleep with them. (Apparently dubbed the "Nice Guy" theory), or a "misogynist ****" who is seeking to oppress women.
That latter quote was from when I posted on Facebook about the people who post their images publicly, and garner publicity through the few thousand likes they attain. I think it's great that people can be confident in their appearance, and want to share it with everyone. But I suggested that it may attract bad publicity, and that they need to be more careful with the information they share - which is why Facebook offers a privacy option. At that point, I was attacked for the view point, with a girl claiming that "In the perfect world, there wouldn't be a need for privacy, but people will come and harass us anyway. Misogynist assholes such as yourself are just as bad, trying to oppress women".
Now, my viewpoint is, yes. If this was a perfect world, then it'd be fine. But it's far from that. There are murders, rapes, assaults, thefts - the list goes on. As far as I'm aware, that isn't going to stop any time soon. We are not a perfect world, but the ideal would be wonderful. My suggestions were not to oppress women - in fact, I didn't even mention women. I treated it as both males and females, as both are at risk on the internet and actively post publicly on Facebook. I merely felt concerned, and decided I wouldn't be able to rest easy, without passing on the information I learned in school about internet safety - a lot of people seem to disregard that quite openly.
To me, the fact that the girl got mad at me for "oppressing" her gender was absurd. Say a person's house got broken into because the occupants thought that the world should be a perfect world, so they can leave it unlocked. Now, imagine if the occupants got mad at the police who came to investigate the next day, claiming that "Locks on the door would be oppression". To me, that's what I likened it to.
I apologize if what I said upset anyone. It was not my intention. But rest assured, I'd love nothing more than equality between both sexes. I will stand up for women, and I will never treat them any more different than I would a male. But it's difficult to do so, when I'm automatically made the culprit for simply being a male.
