Hey you guys I hope you're all well. So November 19th was International Men's
Day which is kind of like International Women's Day but without all the virtue
signaling, number one trending hashtags and adoring global media coverage.
Nevertheless, International Men's Day soldiers on as a day to appreciate all
the good blokes in our lives and to recognize the many, many, many wonderful
achievements of men. Just like International Women's Day, International
Men's Day also serves as an occasion to recognize many of the problems and
disadvantages that a lot of men face. Take for example homelessness. According
to the Australian Bureau of Statistics 59 percent of homeless people in Australia are
men. Similarly in the USA just under 61 percent of the homeless of
men. Or take male suicide rates. In Australia 75 percent of suicides were
men averaging out at one every four hours. That's six men taking their own
lives every day. Then of course there is the very very taboo topic of male
victims of domestic violence. Again according to the ABS one in three
victims of domestic violence are male yet that quite significant statistic
receives zero attention from the media and not a hint of government directed
programs to address the problem. Or how about the fact that less men than women
graduate from high school and university, or the fact that 99 percent of military deaths
and at least 95 percent of workplace deaths are men. Men work all the worst
most dangerous jobs, they work the longest hours, they pay most of the tax
they take less out of the welfare system than women do and they even die several
years earlier on average than women.
Given these rather dire statistics it would seem fair enough that like we
do on International Women's Day for women's issues, we use November 19th as
an opportunity to shine a light on some of these rather serious issues that men
face and try to -- you know address them. That to the rational thinking person
would seem perfectly reasonable, after all we're all human beings and all
deserving of recognition and compassion for that which makes us suffer
regardless of gender, race, sexuality, etc. Right? Well
not according to the left-wing dominated mainstream media who don't say boo about
International Men's Day and certainly not to feminist thought leaders and
their adherence. It's not so much that they ignore the day instead they bear a
strange and very distinct animosity towards it. They use it as an opportunity
to make fun of men, make fun of men's rights activists and really make fun of
anyone who even thinks of suggesting that men have anything less than an easy
ride through this life. This marks the difference between feminists and say
men's rights activists. MRAs are generally perfectly happy to have the
discussion about women's rights and indeed support women's rights. Their goal
is simply to gain recognition for men's issues and work towards solving them.
Feminists on the other hand will not have a bar of men's rights or men's
issues and demonize anyone who does as a misogynist, a rape apologist or whatever
other derogatory term is in vogue at the time. Now this strange feminist
animosity used to really mystify me and still mystifies a lot of people. However
after a lot of thinking about it so you don't have to I believe I have worked it
out and so in honor of International Men's Day i am going to attempt to
explain it. - Please explain - The third wave feminist narrative rests in large part
upon the concept of "male privilege". A conspiracy theory that asserts that men
namely white men are inherently privileged over women by virtue of
nothing but their gender. Feminists argue that we live in a patriarchy and that
there is an imbalance of power that favors men. When asked to explain this
feminists generally bring up the oft debunked wage gap
- (Shoe0nHead) The wage gap is simply the average earnings of men and women working
full-time it does not count for different job positions, hours work or
different jobs it has nothing to do with the same job it has nothing to do with
discrimination. - Or the fact that the vast majority of CEOs, politicians and other
high-paying powerful jobs are occupied by men. Really actually it's just those
two things they base the theory on other than occasional claims of something
called male entitlement which when you get them talking about it is actually
extremely subjective. Nevertheless feminists are noisy enough about these
things to convince the intellectually sub-par that their argument actually has
some basis in truth. This attitude ties in to the Marxist theory that one group
has power over another with the less powerful group necessitating a violent
revolution to topple the powerful. In the context of Karl Marx this was the
bourgeoisie versus the proletariat. Through a feminist prism however it is
the oppressor men versus the oppressed women. Feminists believe that men no
matter their station in life inherently oppress women simply by existing. Now
this attitude breeds a violently tribal mentality as evidenced by their
denigration and attempts to punish women who are not feminists or simply disagree
with some feminist principles. Take Australian feminist Clementine Ford's
opinion of women who aren't feminists.
- Women who sneer at feminism because they need men to know how much they love them have no idea how quickly those same men will turn on them the moment they step out of line.
Have some *bleep* self-respect. I know this will rile some people up but
#sorrynotsorry because it's bloody true. Also this is specifically
aimed at women who argue that feminism is a man-hating movement and that they
don't hate men they love them and think they're just wonderful. - In other words if
you're not with us against the vile male oppressors there's something wrong with
you, you're against us and you're a gender traitor. Now this assertion from
Clementine and others like her is obviously very juvenile and demonstrates
an inability to think critically but for some reason that's where they're at. The
problem with the conspiracy theory of male privilege is that actually has very
little basis in fact. Male privilege is based on what's known as the apex
fallacy. That is the notion that the experiences of those at the top end of
an identity group are representative of the experiences of all members of that
group. So while feminists will argue that white men are privileged because they
make up the ranks of the most economically privileged that is a tiny
percentage of men and is in no way an accurate representation of the
experiences of men at large. I'm going to let Jordan Peterson explain this one he
does it much better than I do. - In what sense is our society
male-dominated? - The fact that the vast majority of wealth is owned by men, the
vast majority of capital and is owned by men, women do more unpaid labor - A very tiny
proportion of men and a huge proportion of people who are seriously disaffected
are men, most people in prison are men, most people who are on the street are
men, most victims of violent crime are men, most people who commit suicide are
men, most men -- most people who die in wars are men, people who do worse in school
are men. It's like where's the dominance here precisely? What you're doing is
you're taking a tiny substrata of hyper-successful men and using that to
represent the entire structure of the -- of Western society. There's nothing about
that that's vaguely appropriate. - This Marxist prism of the oppressor versus
the oppressed or the battle of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat
necessarily dictates that there is only so much equality to go around and that
in order to take it one group has to cede power so to speak whether
voluntarily or by force. Now unlike conservatives and libertarians, who think
in terms of the individual and the limitless potential of that individual
to make something of themselves with the right choices and a little bit of luck
feminists believe that people succeed and fail as a pack, rather than as
singular people. That's why they're so set on quotas and equality of outcome
rather than equality of opportunity and merit. If you don't believe in the
concept of the individual as the ultimate source of success then of
course you're going to think equality of outcome is a good idea. After all it
doesn't matter what the individual puts in it's what the pack
out of it that's important. So the feminist idea of success is decorating
corporate boards and political parties, the police force etc with an equal
number of women to men regardless of their merit it's all about how things
look and how everything seems on the surface not about substance. Now this
brings me to the real reason feminists feel such flagrant animosity towards not
just International Men's Day but men's rights in general. Because they are so
steeped in this Marxist notion that there is only so much equality to go
around they genuinely believe that men's rights and women's rights cannot exist
in tandem. They believe that if the so-called oppressor gets even so much as
a look in and that knocks back the rights of the allegedly oppressed. They
genuinely feel that any discussion of men's issues necessarily detracts from
women's issues regardless of the fact that women's issues get infinitely more
time and sympathy in the mainstream cultural arena than men's issues. To
the casual observer this feminist mindset is quite clearly ludicrous, like
they live in a fantasy land. It's like they believe that they're in Harry
Potter and that they're the terrified desperate Hogwarts students trying
valiantly to overthrow the Death Eaters
When really they're in Daddy Daycares the bratty unruly children running
around while Eddie Murphy or rational thinking people tries desperately to
placate and clean up after them all the while hoping that eventually they'll run
out of steam and take a nap.
But it does explain their defensiveness whenever International Men's Day rolls
around. It's easy to roll your eyes at their delusion but really I think we
should pity them. Can you imagine having got yourself into such a state of
depression and self-loathing that you have actually constructed and are living
out this Marxist horror story? It must be awful living as someone whose entire
existence is based on a lie. So if you haven't already -- take a moment to
acknowledge all the good men in your life. They go through more than they let
on. Women have issues and so do men. If we want to make a better world it's very
important to remember that addressing them is not mutually exclusive. If you
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