Spiked: "#MeToo is ruining the lives of teenage boys"
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Your problem is literally the exact same problem as the feminists. You see a Matriarchy Monolith just like they see a Patriarchy Conspiracy. You focus on our warped culture overall and ignore the trees for the forest.
Every time you rant about how all women are the devil, I think of my sister who streams video games with me every Monday and trusts me to babysit my nephew for her. I think of my mom who pulls me out of depressive episodes and has long talks with me. I think of my cousin-in-law, who appreciates my company even after I sperged out and insulted her tastes.
I think of all the wonderful women in my life, and everything you say starts to ring hollow, even with the bits of truth you've latched onto rattling around inside.
Seriously, don't you see the problem with this? Your own sister trusting you to babysit your nephew is something that you should expect by default. It's nothing special. It should just be the way of the world. The fact that you think this shows a "good side" of women paints an extremely sad picture. Why should women treating a man as a person be anything to write about? Worse, why should a woman treating her own male relatives as people be anything to write about?
...yes. I'm living the default. That's the whole point. We live in a fallen world, but not everything is completely corrupt. There is still light.
You are taking Imp's comments far too seriously. He's a bit extreme, but that's nothing unusual on the internet. Fighting corruption isn't going to come from expecting only the default. It's going to come from expecting more. From fighting for more.
In my view, the problem with Imp isn't so much that his comments about women are crazy (they are over the top sometimes but whatever), it's that his focus on women distracts from men thinking about themselves. Men are never going to get any sympathy and respect from anyone, least of all women, unless they stand up and demand it. You need to do that rather than complaining about someone spouting shit about women on the internet. You need to care more about yourself than you care about "defending" women.