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Someone finding your body attractive should never ever be an insult. Not under any circumstance. The fact that to some people this IS an insult indicates to me that there's something very wrong with our society.
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Finding your body attractive is not insulting. It's what behaviours that can cause that are insulting. Various forms of staring, harassment, soliciting sexual favours and so on, from me everywhere you don't even know. This might not seem bad to you, but to someone who gets this every single time they go out in public, from people physically capable of taking what they want, in a society that sees this as normal and will take steps to punish women who stand against this bullshit, it's intimidating and distressing and not okay. Men who do this will rarely stop when asked, and won't take no for an answer. Only the presence of a man will make them stop, or even the statement "I have a boyfriend" when a simple "no" won't suffice, regardless of whether its true or not. Because even imaginary men get more respect than women.
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Another thing is that things like breast cancer adverts (warnings, not places to buy your own tumor) are always geared at women, yet you'd be surprised at the amount of men who can get the disease. I've also never seen anything on TV warning men about testicular cancer.
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There's this common line of anti-feminist argument that follows this pattern, and I've actually seen it in some of Thunderf00t's videos (not sure if it's the ones you linked to because I really don't want to sit through that disingenuous bullshit again). That where we see listed several valid issues that are faced specifically by men, and there are plenty of them (not as numerous or generally as bad as those faced by women, but they're still there and need to be fixed). And then instead of discussing them as though they were issues that can and need to be fixed, the context is that we put up with out problems, therefore women should put up with theirs. Literally, recognising real problems, then deliberately ignoring them so that they can be used as ammunition in an argument. This is throwing men under a bus so that they can continue to whale on feminism. It is a tactic used primarily by the slimy veterans of the Men's Rights Activism movement, or MRAs, who are entirely about hating feminism and do nothing to help men. They see any improvement for women as making life worse for men. While privilege is, as Joe said, a zero-sum-game, rights are not. We can work on improving life for men an women at the same time, which is ~99% of humanity right there, and the only time a privileged group will lose out when another group gains equality is when they were unfairly profiting on that inequality (not always knowingly), and I've no problem with that loss at all.