“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 how the fuck is work deaths a sex equality issue? what's your solution, make sure more women die at work so it's equal, yay, we're done? No, the solution is to make sure less people die in general and that has nothing to do with their sex. Yes if the cultural inequality is decreased you might expect that statistic to also become more even, but that is just a side effect to observe as a curiosity. 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. That leaves you with parental fraud and family court, you may talk about those things in this context... obviously these are very important problems that affect majority of people throughout their lifetime... major major things yes, and not at all a side effects of different issues...
sidenote: objective devaluation of men's lives stem exactly from the same logic as objective valuation of women's, and yes it is patriarchy
> _“That leaves you with parental fraud and family court, you may talk about those things in this context... obviously these are very important problems that affect majority of people throughout their lifetime... major major things yes, and not at all a side effects of different issues...”_
Parental fraud does not affect “majority of people” — it affects men _only_.
Again, how tilted against men has the balance of a specific issue to be for you to acknowledge that that issue is sex-related, and that it would make no sense in the context of a society where men actually “exerted absolute authority” and “used their power to their own advantage”?
