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Is anyone interested in going to this event on the 19th of this month?
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I'd go if I had the day off but while the topics are will worth airing but, as with some equally valid feminist issues, the discussion can be clouded by people with way too much baggage and can turn into woman hating/men hating diatribes.
"It's a crime to hit a woman"
I was talking to a Garda over the weekend and he said that it was a much bigger issue than drugs but because it spanned so many government departments there was no real interest of addressing it. He called it a silent epidemic. He also said that it mainly effected young men so it was ignored. The thing is that addressing as an issue only facing young men leaves those young women in that dark place to face it alone. The same goes in the other direction for domestic violence.
Just to point out to you that domestic abuse is not nor has ever been a gender issue, both men and women suffer almost equal rates of domestic abuse, every single unbiased survey and report shows the same thing.
I don't know if many of you have the misfortune to watch First Dates on channel 4. Mrs. Firefly loves it so I get to watch it too. Anyway, if it's the girl who "rejects" the guy, a cartoon-ey thing is shown where a woman slaps the man in the face. The first time I saw it I was shocked. If it was applied to when the guy "rejects" the girl, it would cause hysteria.
Have you any evidence to support that assertion.
How much evidence do you need?
This seems to be from a disinterested scientific paper it concludes
This does not support your case in any way that I can find, it appears to be about abuse experienced by women exclusively.[/QUOTE]huge study done by the Council of Europe
This is just a google search
This is the same google search as the link aboveand check them out too.
This is about diabetes.World Health Organisation website and do the same
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This is a press release from Amen. Interesting but only what you would expect
This seems to be from a disinterested scientific paper it concludes
"Whereas physical aggression toward a partner has been assumed to be a male-only phenomenon (Walker, 1989), recent studies have consistently found that women and men have engaged in some level of physical aggression toward a partner at relatively equal rates (Archer, 2000)."
This does not support your case in any way that I can find, it appears to be about abuse experienced by women exclusively.
This is just a google search
This is the same google search as the link above
This is about diabetes.
So some evidence from the US, a press release from a mens organisation and nothing.
You know a thing about feminists is that they care enough to present their points carefully
It does not mean that women beat of kill men to anything like to same extent as men do to women but men who are victims of psychological or physical abuse are almost invisible
I thought I'd share this.
In my opinion it's an offensive, disgusting piece, written to offend.
If a man made such sweeping sexist comments they would be rounded on and rightly so.
I disagree that it's called feminism. The author may characterise herself as a feminist and indeed she may well be one but it is a blind and bigoted intolerance which is at the heart of this piece.
A quick Google search found this from a woman writing the the Daily Telegraph
and he’s “not aware of a single area where women are disadvantaged relative to men.”
Take the tough new rape rules, which saw Director of Public Prosectutions Alison Saunders explain that ‘no means no’ isn’t enough. Men need to ensure that their sexual partners have given affirmative consent.
Meninism is the semi-satirical name given to a movement sprung from men’s rights activists (MRA). On Twitter, its main goal is to mock feminism. But many ‘meninists’ really do want to spread the word about issues affecting men. It’s similar to a Reddit subculture, known as ‘Red Pill’ – a group of social media users who feel that men, not women, have been socially disenfranchised.
Maybe it's the terminology that is disenfranchising men - intelligent men who care about social justice and equality, but don’t feel that their voices are being heard? The sort of men that feminism, ironically, needs.
But I find it hard to believe that the ‘bottom of the pyramid’ is full of men. We just can't ignore the fact that many serious issues almost exclusively affect women - such as sexism and the gender pay gap.
Others affect both genders - such as domestic violence - but have a dramatic slant towards women. Currently two women a week in the UK are killed by a current or former partner.
Women have no legal disadvantages, quite the opposite in fact, but they still face sexism and they have children and so the reality is that in a small business if you are hiring a person for a key role which cannot be done by anyone else a woman who might start a family within the next 5 to 10 years is at a disadvantage. Yes, men face their own problems as well but that's not the question you asked.Perhaps you can tell me an area where women have less rights/opportunities than men have?
I'm not aware of any.
No they don't.Everyone cares about social justice and equality.
They are, or would be if they heard them, by every woman I know whether they identify themselves as a feminist or not.No one heard of the hashtags #KillAllMen #EndFathersDay #ToxicMasculinity....they didn't come from nowhere and they were not exactly frowned upon by feminists.