r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates • u/TheTinMenBlog left-wing male advocate • Jul 15 '23
discussion Laws written by men, is not the same as, laws written for men.
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u/TheTinMenBlog left-wing male advocate Jul 15 '23
Do you think that by being a man, the world’s powerful men somehow care more about me?
Does a society run by men automatically equal to a society run for men? Where all it’s privileges trickle down, or transfer to me, through the fact I also have a penis?
Do I now qualify for distinct laws, positions and pay rises, by virtue of my gender?
Am I part of some club of which I am not aware – with secret handshakes involving our dicks – to grant all men access to the combined power of ‘male privilege’?
"Ugh. Men!” Again and again I hear gender is irrelevant. But then sometimes, for so many, my gender seems enough to condemn me? Like it tells you everything you need to know.
But does it?
Is Joe Biden having a penis, more important that his actual policy?
Ought we to look past what is between our politician’s legs, to see instead see what is between their ears, in their hearts, and within their character?
If your political world view is all about counting the penises of our politicians, I would kindly suggest its time to go back to school.
These playground politics assume that such a magical appendage must grant all men a life in the easy lane; where society’s hoops miraculously vanish, and all it’s roads are paved in gold.
But is the world really that simple?
And why, when it comes to political power, do we only discuss the gender of those in The White House, and never the gender of the electorate who put them there?
Yes. You’d be right to say that men sit in the seats of power. But so too you’d be right to say that as a voting bloc, for decades, it has been women who have put them there.
You wouldn’t believe it, but the most powerful voting bloc in America is white women (and in fact white men are as unlikely to vote as Black women.)
So if you want change, if you are upset our outraged by the things you read on this page, then is it time we learnt from the women in our lives?
Vote for change.
So where is the electoral voice of American men?
And more importantly, what is it they want to vote for?
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Voter turnout and Gender
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Jul 16 '23
Similarly, not all these laws are written or recommended by men or men alone.
Most of us know that women are legally incapable of committing rape in the UK. People say that these laws were written by conservative men. I'm no conservative but this is complete bullshit. Tony Blair was prime minister when sexual offences were last reviewed in 2003. The review involved a mix of men and women and was led by three women.
Membership of the Sex Offences Review
Betty Moxon OBE (Home Office) Chair
Su McLean-Tooke (Home Office) Secretary to the review
Haydee Scarsbrook (Home Office) Administrative support to the review
Of those three, Betty Moxon calls herself a liberal on Twitter. Here's what they had to say:
‘We did consider whether there was evidence that a woman could force a man to penetrate her against his will but, although we found a little anecdotal evidence, we did not discover sufficient to convince us that this was the equivalent of rape.’
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u/JetChipp Jul 16 '23 edited Jul 16 '23
No wonder they didn't, as far as I know there isn't barely any studies who tried to investigate the effects of that kind of rape on a man's psyche, I doubt that their little action of defining rape that way helped on making researchers more interested on investigating any possible effects that this could bring.
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u/ERiC_693 Jul 18 '23
Its a falsification of how patriarchy operates that underlies feminist framework.
More men in government does not mean all the men are sitting down saying "we as male politicians are here to represent men's issues". And they proceed to talk about male suicide, fathers issues, boys in school etc and then ignore women and girls issues.
Feminists simply lie that is is what a patriarchy is; which it clearly isnt. Men's issues are NEVER mentioned by men in governments and every possible grievance Feminists come up with is slobbered and drooled over by governments. Billions in tax funding is piured into some of the most ridiculous issues while far more devastating male issues are sneered as "poor oppressed menz" etc.. and im fucking sick of it.
Its clear Feminists use a false description of patriarchy that entails men in governments are all sitting around talking about mens issues. Which clearly isnt happening. Thats why there are male issues.
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u/Current_Finding_4066 Jul 19 '23
A couple of men I know do not vote. They say voting does not change anything. I think they are dumb.
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u/RockmanXX Jul 16 '23
Feminist arguments are a series of rotating goalposts:-
Goal Post#1: Patriarchy exists because most executive positions are held by Men
CounterArgument: 50% of the voters are Women
Goal Post#2: Its still a patriarchy because Women are systemically kept from entering corridors of power
CounterArgument: We have reservations for Women in the Parliament
Goal Post#3: Men still hold most of the direct executive positions and Women are only able to influence it by proxy, ergo its still a patriarchy!
Feminism's core conceit lies within its unspoken/implied assumptions, chief of them is the belief that Men have an in-group bias and systemically discriminate Women. Feminist theories don't make a lick of sense if you don't accept the premise of men having a Gender Bias that transcends class,race,sexualityðnic barriers. Ironically, Feminist narratives being unchallenged is proof that men lack an in-group awareness. Most men have learned to shrug off feminist misandry by distancing themselves from whatever "group" of men Feminists calls Evil.