“Let’s combat the pay gap! Sexual harassment! Glass ceiling! STEM inequality! Ignored heroines! Rape culture! Sexist language! Pressure to be pretty! Down with the patriarchy!”
“Uh… What about male lifespan, work casualties, military deaths, the draft, parental fraud, traffic accidents, suicide victims, homicide victims, homelessness, imprisonment, drug abuse, family courts, work hours, concrete floor, educational attainment? Shouldn’t we at least talk about that too?”
“Yeah, that’s all the patriarchy! See? It’s a system that oppresses both #women and men. We feminists work to dismantle it. It’s in men’s best interest, too. Aren’t you a #feminist?”
“Sure I am — if it’s about equal treatment of both sexes under the law, and about removing any discrimination on the basis of sex.”
“Then you’re against the #patriarchy, too.”
“Well, I would prefer a word that is less divisive and doesn’t suggest that #men are the problem… I don’t think ‘patriarchy’ really means what you just said. But if we have to unite under that banner… so be it! Down with the patriarchy! Down with sexism!”
“Well said! See? We’re in this together! Let’s combat the pay gap! Sexual harassment! Glass ceiling! STEM inequality! Ignored heroines! Rape culture! Sexist language! Pressure to be pretty!”
“Wait. What?”
@tripu I'm not sure if I agree or disagree with you based on this, but the work deaths stat was kind of a shock when I first heard it. iirc men are something like 16-17x more likely to be killed at work?
“How the fuck is work deaths a sex equality issue?”
How is an extremely bad outcome (death, no less) affecting 1,165% more men than women (ie, men being >12× more at risk) not a sex equality issue?
Issues with a much, much smaller imbalance in favour of men (eg, the “pay gap”) are invariably considered a sex-related issue.