amn051511:

This guy’s a tool.

I’d say more like spot on. Standing up for true equality means standing up for the equality of all people, not just what affects you personally. Anything else isn’t fighting for equality at all, but rather just trying to give yourself a good deal. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing, but pro-women is fundamentally different from pro-equality, and is something many feminists need to be called out on when they claim to be the latter but are actually the former.

He rubs a lot of feminists the wrong way because a lot of feminists have these hypocritical tendencies (and some actually are straight-up sexist against men). I’m generalizing with that statement, and he generalizes quite a bit as well, but the core concept is there.

Perhaps the one thing I’d question is his stance on the existence of patriarchy in the modern day. While he’s generally right that it doesn’t really exist in the first world (which he seems to be addressing North American culture in his statements), I don’t think anyone can argue against the fact that patriarchy still largely exists in some third world countries.

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