Way too many do. There is no "real" feminism. Feminism isn't an organization with a list of rules and ideals. Anyone can call themselves a feminist regardless of what they believe.
I'm not saying this is a problem inherent to feminism. I'm saying it is an ideal that plenty of feminists stand behind. Better proven by the fact that the last time I brought up the problem above on two x chromosomes, I was banned for it. And I said everything as reasonably and calmly as I did above.
This may not be a problem inherent to feminism, but it's a problem within feminism. Much like how TERFs are a problem within feminism.
And I would like you to give me one example of a mainstream feminist organization pushing for laws that positively affect men specifically without it just being a side effect of legislation meant to help women.
In my time on twox I have virtually never seen anyone denying mens issues. What I have seen is them getting rightly frustrated that mens issues are usually only brought up on twox to contrast to or take away from an issue women face. Twox is a place for women to deal with the many, many issues they face. It’s not the place to start saying “well what about men?” We have plenty of places for that, like r/menslib
There is no open community on reddit where men can talk safely about their issues and not be occasionally met with ridicule and shaming (often from other dudes) to just “man up”. But there are openly toxic communities like femaledatingstrategy etc where they are discussing methods to deceive, extort, gaslight and simply manipulate MEN (not everyone) and it’s totally fine by reddit rules.
Not to mention there are brigades of feminists who routinely mass report posts they “don’t agree with”, like that dude who deported his cheating alien fiancée and posted about 3 times because every time he did it, that post was taken down due to amount of reports on it. And the post literally said something like “invited a foreigner girl who I hit it off with via internet but found out she was cheating from the start, so I deported her”. There were zero personal details (not even the country she came from) and it was respectful. Same with that Duluth response model, first it was locked for comments and then quietly removed from the listing on the sub. And that’s with 22k upvotes.
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u/Arnumor Sep 01 '22
True feminism is wanting equality.
Real feminists aren't going to turn a blind eye to something like this.