Recent content by AfungusAmongus

Why should we "have to" fulfill our assigned role? If Mom pulls in $100k/year but is awkward with kids and hates doing housework, and Dad could only make $40k/year (enough to feed them, but fewer toys, vacations etc.) but is fantastic with kids and loves keeping things tidy, it would be stupid...

Men's issues are, in total, at least as serious as women's. It's unbelievably crass of you to belittle addiction, suicide, homelessness, violence (both perpetration and victimization), biased courts, etc. It hurts me to see such rank bigotry from otherwise intelligent people. Ally Fogg is a true...

Welcome to the debate hall! Glad to see competing views in here - universal agreement is so boring. That said, it is frustrating that your Hot Take fails to engage relevant counter-arguments already made in this thread. Your assumptions about gender dynamics are (to put it charitably) not...

Don't forget the follow-up article on Silverman.

How exactly does a lady who died in 1929 define what feminism is today? I appreciate her work on contraception and women's suffrage, but as Jackelope says:

No True Feminist would do bad things (this is a logical fallacy). BTW I shall edit my above post to add that the National Organization for Women consistently has opposed shared parenting laws by lying about their contents, in order to preserve women's advantages in custody disputes.

Academic and political feminists with real power are no better than the tumblr trash: Feminist scholars like Mary Koss deploy and advocate **** definitions that exclude male victims, resulting in grossly inaccurate **** statistics (see NISVS 2011). They exclude a substantial number of male ****...

I'm not Buddy or Game Saxer, but they blame many of men's problems on modern feminism (a movement including men and women), not on feminism as a whole, and certainly not on women as a group. And indeed from the snarky Tumblrinas, strident gender studies profs, and fanatical political lobbyists...

Our society inflicts many serious harms targeting men, including including homelessness, suicide, violence, dangerous/stressful/unpleasant jobs, discrimination at all stages of criminal justice, and lack of reproductive rights. These harms are compounded by a culture that denies and rationalizes...

Can you give an example? Suppose we grant that each gender is better at certain things and that at least part of the explanation is biological (instead of cultural). What about the minority of men who excel at nurturing and decorating, and the minority of women who excel at building? We all...

I have mixed feelings about frats. On the one hand, frats are dangerous and need to be contained. When I went to college it was full of stinky frats. They were uncomfortably intense, especially in confined spaces such as elevators. Frat parties concentrated the horrid musky bro vibes and...

I'm well aware that SOME vegans are exceptionally fit. I lived with one who did Brazilian Ju-Jitsu and could probably take most Marines in a fight. For that matter I know a woman who can out-lift most men. But we're talking averages, and vegans and women both tend to be weaker. The same is true...

You claimed that feminists changed the definition to include men. Yet your link clearly states that their goal was to get more resources to fight violence against women. The inclusion of men seems to have been accidental - none of the examples in the supporting literature describes **** by...

It is, of course, right that objectively weaker soldiers of both genders be kept from the front. But why should we have double standards for gender (and not other strength-relevant categories such as age, disability, and diet) for the same job?

Suppose an elderly asthmatic vegan doing 5 pushups is the same as a young healthy omnivore doing 40. Does this mean we should lower the fitness standards for elderly asthmatic vegans? Do you realize that this new definition still excludes the vast majority of male **** victims? Even a boy who...