“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?
“Same goes for most of your other “men issues” that is literally just mortality, or things like homelessness, imprisonment or drug abuse for same exact logic, the solution to those problems is not in equality of sexes.”
“Just mortality”. You mean staying alive. As in, the very thing that all human beings hold most valuable, and the only common prerequisite for all the other good things we might value.
Also: homelessness, imprisonment and drug abuse are among the worst situations anyone can experience. They affect men overwhelmingly.
Again: what is your definition of “sex equality issue”? I’d like to read it in full.