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AfungusAmongus

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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 them. We can begin to fix them by standing up for the men and boys that we love, empathizing with them, and calling out anti-male bigotry.
 
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In this community I've seen alot of mixed thoughts on what constitutes being sexist.

Certain females in our scene say that men approaching them is sexist while others tell you they want to be approached and if you don't you are sexist.

Sexism is far too loose a term for our community and society as a whole. Being able to humiliate someone by calling them sexist for so much as looking at a women should not be acceptable.

Yes, some men are trash for believing themselves to be superior to women but women taking advantage of the few bad apples is just as bad.
 
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ARISTOS

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  • Men are falling behind in both high school graduation and college enrollment.
  • Men are more likely to be in Special Education and remedial classes.
  • Men are more afflicted by mental disorders like ADHD and Autism.
  • Excessive video gaming and porn have been aggressively marketed to men. This constant level of instant gratification and fantasy makes school, career pursuits and real life romantic relationships less stimulating.
  • Economic difficulties for the working class has resulted in the destruction of the male self esteem, as a provider.
  • While women are becoming more independent, the late 20's male living with their parents has been a trend.
  • Due to many past experiences with the portion of men who are abusive and misogynistic, women are more skeptical than ever about men in general.
  • For men, online dating is usually not worth the opportunity cost and approaching women in real life conjures fear of sexual harassment.
  • Men, due to the pressure of needing to be macho and never showing weakness, often lack a meaningful emotional support network.
  • Men face peer pressure to engage in self-destructive behaviors, especially in low-income communities: Intelligent guys are know it alls. Empathetic guys are mushy. Professional guys are squares. Speaking proper English is nerdy. Anti-violence is weakness. Not doing drugs is goody two shoes. Tolerance is shameful. Respect for women is white-knightish.
There's been a massive culture switch over the past 30-40 years in regards to employment and the role women play in the world. This will continue to change.

The American psyche of what it means to be a man will have to be readjusted, lest we fail our brothers and sons. This isn't the time to blame women but to take charge and decide the kind of future we want for ourselves
 
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SSG SAX GAMER

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Idk how to post here but...
Women. Certain women like feminist are good. They don't want female supremacy, they want equality.
I'd consider myself a feminist of sorts. I am NOT going to run around telling people "you'd better be a feminist".
If someone asks, I will answer, "Yes, both genders should be equal." But The Man hating feminist are ridiculous. Women who want to prove that they are stronger than men in all aspects. Women who want to see men suffer for being a male. This is not good for us. I do not want to grow up in a world where I will be punished for being born male. Many women have got a bad idea of how to be "strong". Women can be strong, yes. I'd say most of them are strong in this day in age, but the men hating feminist are not. I don't mean to seem like a kid, but they are basically bully's. I am sure some people have heard about this incident where a girl was drowning in a pool and went unconscious. A person who had happened to be a man saved her and brought her out of the pool. She claimed that she was thankful to be alive, but she said the man had physically ***** her. She said, "I would have rather died than let him touch me". This scares me. What if in the future shaking hands will be called ****? If these types of people want to dominate the human class I don't want to live with them. It seems malicious to me. These women could destroy many things that would be seen as normal today, but could be ended due to the men hating feminist thinking everything a man can do is wrong.
I may not have made sense in this post, but I know Men can be hurt by these women and i do not want to be stuck with them in the future. I am only 14 and if I have to grow up in a world where men hating feminists are rulers, I want to hide.
The reason men are against feminism and don't want to be feminist is because of what it has become. Feminism used to be about women having equal rights and priviledges as men. Although today they still say that they are about this, it isn't always true. Modern feminism in general (along with most modern feminists) have become extremist complaining about random stuff. For example, Most modern feminist are like Anita Sarkeesian, who use double standards, partial truths, and nit-picking to create problems where there aren't any. It isn't just video games either, just a couple years ago they complained about the comic book cover for the first spider-women. Also, they complain about women being sexualized and not treated equally even though (only in first world countries) they have it better than men. However, women aren't being treated equally third world countries, but those aren't the kind of topics that they are concerned with or the things they are trying to solve. they put focus on women being "treated fairly" in video games, tv shows, and the media, then they put focus on helping women in the real world.

tl;dr people think feminism is cancerous and toxic not because of the core principles, but because of what feminists do and what they represent in modern day society.
 

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ARISTOS

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The reason men are against feminism and don't want to be feminist is because of what it has become. Feminism used to be about women having equal rights and priviledges as men. Although today they still say that they are about this, it isn't always true. Modern feminism in general (along with most modern feminists) have become extremist complaining about random stuff. For example, Most modern feminist are like Anita Sarkeesian, who use double standards, partial truths, and nit-picking to create problems where there aren't any. It isn't just video games either, just a couple years ago they complained about the comic book cover for the first spider-women. Also, they complain about women being sexualized and not treated equally even though (only in first world countries) they have it better than men. However, women aren't being treated equally third world countries, but those aren't the kind of topics that they are concerned with or the things they are trying to solve. they put focus on women being "treated fairly" in video games, tv shows, and the media, then they put focus on helping women in the real world.

tl;dr people think feminism is cancerous and toxic not because of the core principles, but because of what feminists do and what they represent in modern day society.
My thoughts put into words.
*Clapping intensifies*
How does this improve on the problems men are facing? Unless you are meaning to say that all of the problems stem from women?
 

AfungusAmongus

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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 that together constitute the modern feminist movement, I see copious hatred ('male tears'), fear ('**** culture'), and blame ('patriarchy') directed (unlike the blame from our aforementioned Smashers) at an entire gender.
 

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