A very well written article, worth a read, if, like me, sometimes you just despair:
https://victimfocus.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/stop-asking-me-what-about-men/
https://victimfocus.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/stop-asking-me-what-about-men/
I think some of the push-back is the perception that the overwhelming majority about gender issues is focused on the challenges faced by women and that focus is disproportionate to the levels of discrimination etc they face.
I don't get your point.Is that so. Because I was wondering why we would write an article concentrating on abuse of/discrimination against/sexism etc focused on women at all, after all, won't someone please think of the men, or some other group which have been discriminated against.
Thank goodness you were able to point out it is more complex.
There mightn't be any here but yes, there are plenty of men who see a campaign to highlight an issue facing women and their first port of call is to look for a reason why it is really an attack on men. There are women who do the same thing when issues facing men are highlighted.Is this really a thing? Would any man here look at a breast cancer campaign and think 'Men get cancer too'....Or read a story from a female rape/sexual abuse victim and think men get abused too......
Is she talking about men in real life that she has come across or just people on twitter/facebook etc who comment on these things and who aren't exactly representative of the vast majority of human beings......
There are an awful lot of complainers out there in this internet age of armchair keyboard warriors.
Sounds like a reasonable thing to say? It is unacceptable for a man to pat a woman on the bum and if he does it in a work setting he should lose his job but it's not a prison offence. But should that be but in the same bracket as rape?
One by-product of all the good work (me too movement etc), is that men, as a species, are facing a relentless wall of negativity through the media. When Matt Damon said, basically, y'know there's lots of good guys too, he was nearly lynched for it.
Sunny, did you read the entire post? Because she clearly spells out the amount of comments she receives from men/women on varying issues.Reminds me of Tommy Gorman asking Roy Keane 'What about the kids?' during Saipan.......
Is this really a thing? Would any man here look at a breast cancer campaign and think 'Men get cancer too'....Or read a story from a female rape/sexual abuse victim and think men get abused too......
Is she talking about men in real life that she has come across or just people on twitter/facebook etc who comment on these things and who aren't exactly representative of the vast majority of human beings......
Because why do you need that validation? There are a lot of good guys who don't sexually harass women- well, I shouldn/t haveto tell you, that is what it should be, that is the norm, you don't need praise or validation for that. Why do you even need to say that? But you expect that praise, you expect every outcry of condemnation to be prefaced by- but not all guys are like that!
No, it's not at all about that. It's actually about not being about men.