honestly pisses me off when men say “feminism is good for me too!” women are being raped and murdered. i would drag you over hot coals to save even one child bride. and all you can think about is yourself.
literally. why is the rhetoric “men should support feminism bc it helps men too”? like isn’t the fact that it helps women good enough for them? are the rights of half the population only worthwhile to them if they get something out of it?
Men are repeating that ad nauseam because it defangs feminism and they know exactly what they’re doing. Real feminism will not help men. Real feminism is about wrestling power and resources away from men, the oppressor class; seizing the means of (re)production for ourselves; liberating ourselves from the Madonna/whore, modest/sexualized, private/public property dichotomy that men built and forced us into for their own benefit.
Men stand to lose everything - their maids, their sexual servants, their therapists, their broodmares, their social event coordinators, their nannies, their eye candy, their sources of income (because the industries profiting from women’s sexual and reproductive labor - controlled primarily by men - are some of the most profitable in the world), the group of people in an inferior position that give them a feeling of superiority when everything else in their life is shit.
Without women’s subjugation men will have to work to be successful, to achieve power and status and resources, to simultaneously take care of themselves while attempting to achieve all of that. Who would want to give up all of that? Who wants to give up free labor that benefits them knowing they’d have to work harder and possibly be outdone, outworked, and outsmarted by someone they were taught was inferior to them? Feminism will not help men and that’s the point.
