I suspect that a lot of the issue is due to the way that the media panders to these narratives.
It's presented as "Giving women a chance to compete in the workplace!" - and the media will not ever question that or give time to anyone who does. If it were ever presented as "Women! Do you want your sons to be unemployable? Do you want your sons to know that they're disposable tools? Do you want them to lead such a hopeless life that they'll kill themselves before you're even on your pension? VOTE FEMINIST!" it'd get a lot less traction.
That's not even to say that I believe that every advance in women's rights must necessarily come at the expense of men's rights ... but that is a decent summary of feminist advocacy.
That's exactly my point about every protectionist measure. Protectionism looks like it favors the group they claim, and it really only favors the leaders, or the upper-echelon of that group that aren't under threat.
Unions do the same thing with labor, racists do the same thing with race, theocrats do the same thing with religion.
My problem with Impossible, is that he goes backwards and says: "See! Laborers hate individual bargaining! Unions opposes it, and they speak for laborers! I know because so many laborers are in unions." Except the numbers are worse for women & feminists than it is for unions & labor.
I suspect that a lot of the issue is due to the way that the media panders to these narratives.
It's presented as "Giving women a chance to compete in the workplace!" - and the media will not ever question that or give time to anyone who does. If it were ever presented as "Women! Do you want your sons to be unemployable? Do you want your sons to know that they're disposable tools? Do you want them to lead such a hopeless life that they'll kill themselves before you're even on your pension? VOTE FEMINIST!" it'd get a lot less traction.
That's not even to say that I believe that every advance in women's rights must necessarily come at the expense of men's rights ... but that is a decent summary of feminist advocacy.
That's exactly my point about every protectionist measure. Protectionism looks like it favors the group they claim, and it really only favors the leaders, or the upper-echelon of that group that aren't under threat.
Unions do the same thing with labor, racists do the same thing with race, theocrats do the same thing with religion.
My problem with Impossible, is that he goes backwards and says: "See! Laborers hate individual bargaining! Unions opposes it, and they speak for laborers! I know because so many laborers are in unions." Except the numbers are worse for women & feminists than it is for unions & labor.