Off with his balls. The majority of women feel the same. Male chauvinism is just a gesture. Men who are sure of themselves have no need to put women down. Do we mean all men should be pushed off a cliff? Do we mean women are always right? Give me a break. There are plenty of countries in the world — Afghanistan, the Congo, Saudi Arabia — where women are persecuted horrifically, and suffer unimaginable violence.
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More from The Irish Times Opinion. Home energy upgrades are now more important than ever. Speaking about the men's rights conference he organized last summer, he explains, "Feminist activists have come out and pulled fire alarms, harassed attendees, interrupted and protested.
When we had a conference on men's issues in Detroit, there was a demonstration, pressure on the hotel to shut us down. We eventually had to change venues. How much of what is really going on are you paying attention to, sir?
Max never asks me that question outright, but I can hear it, minus the "sir," beneath a lot of what he says. I ask about the harassment of feminists — of women in general, on the street, in their homes, by classmates and strangers.
How much is he paying attention to, for that matter? He shrugs it off. But it's not, like, organized, anyway. Guys catcalling don't have meetings to plan it. Years ago I was standing on a metro platform with a woman I knew. It was around 3 in the morning; we'd walked a mile to our train.
She says it's the first time she's gone that stretch of road without being catcalled. I ask why. The answer is obvious. She says most men won't do it if the woman looks like she's with her owner. Other headlines coincide with our time together. Max blames both on religious extremism and says he can't understand why "the good Muslims" don't denounce terrorism. Extreme behavior is a sore spot for any movement, and nobody is more forgivable than one's own.
Max concedes that some MRAs and associated activists go too far. You can criticize these people, you can try to debate them, but threats are way out there. So does he denounce the violent elements on any of his forums?
He has tweeted unkind things to feminists. Does that encourage the ones who cross the line? It's super fringe. They're not going to stop just because I say so. The feminists. All of us. You know? Just ignore the crazy shit. Near the end of our call, Elam had this to say: "Of course there's anger out there.
I've never seen a social movement, including women's liberation, the black civil rights movement, gay rights, that did not involve some anger. So this whole idea that oh my god they're angry is rooted in the very misandry and the very bigotry that we're trying to address. Perhaps Elam is simply more self-aware than Max is, but it is difficult to hear them talk this way and maintain credulity. It all sounds a little I'm maligned, and I'm oppressed, and society is too backward for the revolution I'm bringing , but I don't say so.
I ask Max if he has a girlfriend. Yes, he says, that they've been seeing each other a few months. A couple of weeks go by. Vague plans had kept Max busy on the weekends; I've traveled out of town to report another story. It is September now, and we are sitting in Max's apartment.
His having a girlfriend is curious. Earlier in the evening, Max had told me or rather had paraphrased, perhaps unconsciously, from a dozen articles and frat house bull sessions that the base tragedy of feminism was the transformation of American women. Their entitlement. Their schizophrenic affect toward the dominance of men. Even the ones who are not feminists have been spoiled by the culture. Like "male allies" in the eyes of internet feminists, ostensibly uncorrupted women are valuable but often suspect.
Come on. You don't think women could possibly respect themselves and want to be with some evil sexist pig like me. He is teasing me. Joviality is one of Max's preferred diffusion tactics. It isn't entirely ineffective. Max is naturally charismatic, and I am not surprised he has a girlfriend, only that he wants one.
He looks down at his phone and smiles. Something on Twitter. He types. I wonder what kind of charisma he's employing there. You know what I mean. Just a lot. And you can never know. So it's hard to trust or invest in anybody long enough to find out. She's in law school. He shows me a picture. I'm not much for intuiting whole personalities from photographs, but I agree she has a look, an irrepressible appearance of sincerity without the usual attendant inexperience.
She's capable. It's in her brow line, somehow. Before meeting with Max for the third time, I'd placed another call to a more public face of men's empowerment. This time it was to Daryush Valizadeh, a writer popularly known as "Roosh V. He is the author of more than a dozen self-published books, each of which offers tips for picking up the women in a country he has visited the best way to exploit the insecurities of Poles evidently diverges at a book's length from the ideal manipulation of Norwegians.
This is not a men's rights magazine but something more pure: an expression of rage, admittedly proudly, against the prevailing tide of feminism. Of the three men I talk to, Roosh is by far the most charming. He has none of Elam's middle-aged weariness, nor the irregular intensity of cadence that makes one think of sandwich board prophets.
What Max possesses in natural charisma, Roosh has given a practiced sophistication. He is funny and acutely aware that this goes much further in building rapport with a potentially hostile journalist than Elam's bitter complaining about "countless interviews" gone wrong ever could. Roosh's story is typical for the movement. He sees a culture laid to waste by contemporary values, by feminism and the left. The decline is existential, robbing not only men but women of purpose and therefore happiness.
It said that women are less happy now than at any other time," he says. But you see women who are addicted to their phones. They're having to work in a job that, let's be honest, is a glorified way to push paper. Do they feel happy? Do they seem happy? I just don't buy that women or anyone is amazingly happy because they can buy a new iPhone every year. If we define happiness by being a consumer zombie, then yes, maybe that's right.
But anyone who has chased that knows there's no gold at the end of that rainbow. I repeat this sentiment to Max at his apartment. He says it sounds a little "lefty," but he gets the drift.
They can make their own choices about what to buy. He points out after about an hour that he has only put out games specifically criticized by Anita Sarkeesian. For all his writing about how to sleep with multiple women, Roosh says it would be better the old way. The way where men had one partner and women had one partner. But, he adds, "It's easy to look back into the past and extract the best things that they did, and hope and wish that we had that. Of course, as humankind marches on, we can never pick and choose.
So I'm thinking, what is the best deal that a man can do where he doesn't get screwed, where he doesn't have his life ruined, where he doesn't get imprisoned for something like a false rape accusation? In Roosh V. He claims no deep biological imperative beneath his seduction tactics. Only a culture falling apart in the West, marriages dying as women are no longer beholden to the pillars of its stability. Hooking up, going out, getting laid: These are just distractions, perhaps the best distractions still available, and Roosh fancies himself pragmatic.
Not as such," he says. This is a peculiar construction for anyone, especially for someone with Max's instinct for putting others at ease. In June of last year, Time's Jessica Roy attended the first annual men's rights conference outside Detroit, a conference Elam was central in organizing.
If men are allowed to talk crap about women, women should be able to dish it out as well. Just an opinion though. We are absolutely in the age of the feminazi, who are driving for the exact thing the feminist movement was driving against.
And, I absolutely welcome a male contraception option. Men too, should have the choice to determine which woman is worthy of our seed. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Scale with a woman on one side and a man on another and they are equal to each other. Previous Post Modern day feminism is a fight for gender equality. I also want to see a world where makeup, fashion, and beauty are respected as the arts they are.
Feminism is about increasing the freedom we all have to find the roles that fit us best. Changing my view of what feminism meant was a little scary for me — it was comforting to tell myself that women had achieved equality, and that any issues I might experience with sexism were just isolated, one-off events.
All the little moments of sexism I experienced were connected, and other women faced more intense and constant discrimination that came from the same source. Author bio: Ginny Brown is a Contributing Writer for Everyday Feminism, as well as a speaker and educator specializing in sexuality and relationships. She writes for various publications and has her own blog here. She lives in the Philadelphia area with her poly family and three cats.
Follow her on Twitter lirelyn. Current social media mostly focuses on extremism. So man hating blockheads that claim to be feminists will rise to the top. Since they are women, they get a free pass to spread devision via hate and missinformation.
The issue is not enough female feminists call out man haters. If they do call them out and try to have a reasonable debate, they are treated as a sexist sympathiser or lesser because they all the sudden are labeled as representing the enemy. Current feminism behaves like a cult. I hate cults. Thank you for this write-up! I wish more people would realise that all we really ask for is that both genders be accorded the same level of respect — not for men to look down on women, and not for women to hate on men.
I feel as though women, talking from experience bc I know a lot of females at my school, constantly try to have any excuse to make them innocent or not at fault. I found that it was not all women, as I still liked my step-family, female friends, and female teachers most. If women hate on men almost nobody will point them out, but if a man says a single thing about a women the planet turns against him.
Some other stereotypes can be that all men are sexist, or rapist, or immature, or child predators, etc. Its stereotypical. Men and women evolved in a certain way for survival, and have behaved that way for hundreds of thousand of years.
What you seem to want is to get rid of any biological trait that makes men be men and women be women. Good luck trying to get rid of a biologically ingrained behavior in your short lifespan. You might as well try to get lions and many other mammals to stop fighting for females. Sure, humans are different in that they can reason and therefore can make a conscious decision to stop behaving a certain way, but this is wishful thinking.
The truth is that cultural Marxism, this insane urge to challenge every bit of social behavior and try to change everything is going to inevitably lead to the total collapse of Western civilizations. Maybe an actual war to break women out of their comfort zone would sober them up real quick.
Humans derive a lot of meaning from suffering after all. Definitely some great points you have there. They look at you as sexual objects for their own pleasure. Feminist is soon to be over, it is also a wrong term. Feminist should be feminine in attitude but this corrupt ladies always changing terms and made own dictionary. This Feminist is like a cult, Godless people who believe that God is only a religion.
This is how man is hypocrite being, we allow women to have more what they called freedom then these women try to over take something what man created. They lost their gender, and it is not just about gender what they fight. They fight for money, material , power, position and language and all what world can offer and played innocent of global warming. This kind of a cult of selfpity and insecurities, who wants to show cleavages, pussies, panties, legs and rage are shown in public and for children.
They fight for something in exchange of bad habits and bad habit was a term of freedom, selfish and greed. Men should offer jobs to these women at logging, mining, fishing, farming to these kind of ladies.
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