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What privilege do men have in this country that women don't? And don't give me the $0.70 for every $1.00 myth. Actually it is women who are given more favorable outcomes in divorces and child custody, women have special scholarships and awards, we have our own international day for crying out loud!

How is life a little tougher for women? How are we isolated and alone? This mindset is absurd and completely divorced from reality.

Let's take a look at the women in Muslim countries, in Haiti, in poor African countries, etc. THAT is oppression. If all these whiny feminists would take a day to recognize and stand up for those women, imagine the impact it could have.

ETA: This is not meant to be rhetorical, germandawg. I really want you to answer these questions.

Up until fairly recently young girls who would be in their 30's or older today were treated very differently in school as kids than their male counterparts because girls "couldn't grasp" mathematics. Supposedly that has changed for the better. All of the extracurricular activities at school which girls are encouraged to take part in are geared at supporting the boys in their activities....even girls sports until pretty recently were nothing more than warm ups until the main event took place. Again that is slowly changing.

Men have vastly superior numbers in decision making roles at every level of our lives, especially when it comes to hiring and promoting. It is a natural tendency for us to hire and promote people who are like us because we understand one another more thoroughly....if a man and a woman are totally equally qualified for a job or a promotion and it is a man doing the hiring he is more likely to hire the man.

Women make less than men because we expect women to raise children and would think they were a terrible woman if they let their husbands do that. Meanwhile a man is expected to travel and work long hours and forget he has a family and is rewarded for doing so.

the instances of men sexually harassing women in the workplace....real, true harrassment, is much more common than the other way around...although I would guess that men are more likley to be punished for it if accused because most of us would laugh a man out of the building for complaining about a woman wanting to have sex with her....

We live in a patriarchal society. There is nothing that can be done about this as it is steeped in our DNA. As such our society is geared toward making men's lives less complicated than women's, period. Pretending that men and women are equal without compensating for this is just silly...we aren't.

There has to be a feminist movement to even remotely have a level playing field...stop and think about that for a moment. If you are trying to level a 2X4 you have to exert pressure on one side or the other....thats what the feminist movement has done. The playing field has not leveled in a vacuum. Has that movement gone too far? yes, in some instances...but without that pressure things will sink back to where they were in darker days.

In contrast to this there does not need to be a masculine movement aimed at leveling the playing field....because all of us...man, woman and child knows that the field is already tilted in favor of men because we control, designed and built the damned table to begin with.

The feminist movement began organically. It isn't some secret cabal trying to ruin the lives of men. It has definitely grown into a bigger movement than I think anyone would have envisioned and there is no doubt some money behind that BUT the essence is that women knew they were not being treated equally but should have been...and went out and have tried to make that happen. It hasn't completely yet but it is closer...and if women stop fighting we will revert back to where we were 30, 50 or even 100 years ago.

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Let's take a look at the women in Muslim countries, in Haiti, in poor African countries, etc. THAT is oppression. If all these whiny feminists would take a day to recognize and stand up for those women, imagine the impact it could have.

I could not agree more...liberals of all stripes need to shake off the whole tolerance bullshite and come to terms with the fact that a sizeable segment of Islam is fricking insane and needs to be removed from the planet. The treatment of women, gay people and anyone who isn't male and toeing the line in the Muslim world is a travesty and should be condemned by any and all westerners with any sense of decency. The same is true of poor women all over the world....but that does not mean that simply because women in Asia are kidnapped and sold into sex slavery for the enjoyment of men...IN THE UNITED STATES...that women in the US are on a level playing field with men in the US....because they simply aren't by nature....

The worst thing that ever happened to women is a result of men being arse holes and not the feminist movement. Women used to be about as free as a human could be....they could exist by working like dogs around the house instead of doing so around the house AND in a job outside of the home....but men weren't content with having a built in slave....many men had to mistreat their spouse and leave them when they got a little age on them or simply run around and frick anything that was willing while their wife was at home taking care of the things that should have mattered to the bastard....so women had enough and got out of that shite as best they could...but it didn't happen in a vacuum and without a movement. That movement has gone too far at times...all such movements do....but overall the effect has been positive for women....