Wow, first thing you've said so far that I could agree with. But I think the "war on women" is made out of whole cloth to be used as a political tool. No such thing IMO
It's one of those things. Eighty years ago, it would have been fair to say women were disadvantaged in several ways. It just so happens that humans are the kind of creatures that have trouble making sensible amendments. When we see that the balance is too far in favour of one party, we tend to swing it too far in favour of the other in order to make up for it. Really the balance should be, well, balanced.
You just have to look at custody statistics, abortion law, the genders proportioning among welfare recipients, workplace deaths, suicides, life expectancy, alimony statistics, hours worked, the respective retirement ages of men and women, incarceration rates and the inequalities in the lengths of prison sentences given to men as opposed to women, for similar crimes, and military conscription laws in order to see that Western societies heavily, heavily disfavour men.
I've always made it clear that I believe in fairness and equal rights -- there's no reason for women to be unable to vote, divorce, marry whomever they like, earn money, accumulate wealth, own property and have a choice in whether or not to have children. But men should also be given similar freedoms and equal treatment surrounding them.
How many times have you heard "she took it all in the divorce" or "I can only see the kids once a week" from men? But the corrolary almost never happens. The same with abortion. If women are able to choose whether to be parents or not, then the super-liberal feminists must also concede that fairness dictates men be able to legally decide not to financially sponsor a child or become a father. It has the same end result for the potential patent. But not only does that kind of society fail to fit into their worldview (women ought to be given special privileges), it's also quite ugly where children's emotional wellbeings are concerned. Sorry hunny, since I'm allowed to abort, dad is also allowed to legally opt out of being your dad. He didnt want you.
That's what real equality would look like, Kayla. It's the exact reason I refuse to marry or have children in this country. Men get short changed at every turn where sex, relationships, marriage and children are concerned. All these feminists expect us to be okay with the idea that women may hold our life's work and our accumulated wealth to ransom by carrying our children, and to challenge them is to be labelled a mysoginist. Honestly, what is left for men in this society, if we are powerless over our lives and our children, upon the moment of conception?
Suicide is the number one cause of death in young men. And I can tell you that I suspect strongly the unbalanced laws surrounding parenthood, partnership and divorce are a large part of why.
We are expected to give 50% of jobs to women, then pander to them financially when they decide to have children (a decision we get no legal say in). I read an article a few days ago, positing that if a man ejacultes during intercourse without a woman's expressed consent, and she becomes pregnant, this ought to be classified as a statutory form of rape, since the woman did not expressly consent to being confined to mothehood and all its problems. Then surely the opposite ought to be true, too. If a woman lies about being on contraceptives, this should be classed as a form of rape because the man did not consent to being confined to fatherhood and all its problems. You see how ridiculous this gets??
Honestly, the biggest issue for me is the general message that young men and women are being given. That message is that men are the enemy of society and must be emasculated. If not physically so, then emotionally, psychologically, reproductively and financially so.