Theoretically, yes, feminism should cover issues facing men. It IS about equality.
But there are issues facing men and boys that are unique and require specific care and attention. It doesn't serve anyone well to lump them all together.
For instance, make survivors of sexual abuse. Yes, feminism is against abuse of anyone, regardless of gender. But feminism, specifically, can't meet the needs men have for support or the changes in messaging we need around victimization of men & boys.
Feminism is & should be part of supporting all survivors, but the movement can't be expected to do all things for everyone.
Another example is the disposability of men & boys, especially PoC. This is a specific convo about masculinity that needs to happen.
Again, none of this is anti-feminist ... It's just, shall we say, interdisciplinary.
So if men are saying "feminism can't meet my needs", it's important we don't make that inherently anti-feminist.
The problem is, the men's rights movement exploited these men & ...
...tricked them into believing that if you support feminism, then you must not support these issues facing masculinity.
It was never true. Work/support around men's & boys' issues can happen in a feminist world (& should).
MRAs took advantage of certain men's very real pain.
In other words, a false binary has been established & exploited that I've seen playing out over the last 10 years, and it's a divide that needs to be healed.
*male survivors
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Little things to say to your teenage son this week while you're chilling at home:
1. Know what I admire about you? [compliment a quality of his or something he works hard at that's just about him, not about you or your family]
EX: How kind you are to our older relatives.
more examples:
-How hard you've worked to get your GPA up this year
-The way you try to be honest and kind at the same time
-Your commitment to your hobbies
-The way you always help Grandma clean up after Christmas
-They way you know who you are and stick to it
2. I know it can be hard to open up to parents because the world you're growing up in is so different from ours when we were your age, but you can always talk to me and I'll always try to understand and hear you out - and help, when you want me to.
One of the most effective Rx psychiatric drugs in history has become nearly impossible for many people to get - and yet the FDA appears to be doing nothing to help remedy it.
It's a "joke" drug to people who don't have this disability - so people think we can just go without it
For me, Adderall is a necessary part of my health - not just my work or productivity. It's literally key to my mental health and well-being.
How long will we make light of this situation? These drugs literally save lives and we're just passing the shortage off like it's nothing.
@irelight Also, I'm so sorry. Our nation is so effed and our priorities are so broken
The biggest failing of the podcast 'The Witch Trials of JK Rowling' is that @meganphelps claims objectivity while positioning random, hateful and problematic tweets against JK Rowling with Rowling's tweets against trans inclusion.
As if a random account with 643 followers and no blue check who says something objectively horrifying against Rowling is an indication that Rowling was right - that she is justified to say what she wants because trans activists are horrible and dangerous.
What would have been more accurate?
1. Comparing the worst anti-trans tweets from random accounts with the worst anti-Rowling or anti-TERF tweets from random accounts.
or 2. To compare Rowling's tweets with those of equivalent famous people who are pro- trans inclusion.
1. You can look at the CDS for any admissions cycle for nearly any school (& all UCs) and see EXACTLY the GPAs of students admitted. There aren't C averages admitted to Berkeley. Not a thing.
2. Why didn't this child apply to colleges where she would be admitted? There are TONS of great public and private schools that would not only admit this child, but would give them loads of merit scholarship.
Unless she only applied Ivy, this makes ZERO sense.
3. Your 4.2 GPA kid with a 1450 isn't getting into Ivy League schools. This is an excellent set of stats but it's not Ivy level. The only way this story is true is if the kid **only** applied Ivy + Stanford and Berkeley/UCLA & who told her to do that??