You know… support for women’s rights is so ubiquitous in western society it’s not exactly as edgy a topic as it was in the 1950s.
Shoppers Drug Mart had a radio ad a couple years ago boasting about how they financially support over 400 women’s charities.
And that’s great; I hope at least most of them are valid and not grifting operations, and that they accomplish some good, but my main takeaway listening to the commercial was, “there ARE over 400 charities specifically for the benefit of women.” Good for them, but can you name 10 charities that help men? 4 charities? Even one?
I grant there’s several charities that are not divided along gender lines, supposedly helping anyone who needs it, like food banks and homeless shelters. Many of those, especially the shelters, turn away males in need. I remember hearing on two occasions about a homeless man with his young son who’d lost their house, trying to get into a shelter so they wouldn’t have to sleep on the street at night. They were willing to take the child (and by “take” I mean “take custody”, and would immediately railroad the kid into the foster care system) but Dad could drop dead for all they cared, so long as it wasn’t in their parking lot.
I see panhandlers at stoplights every day in my city, more than ever now as housing costs and rents have more than doubled in the last 10 years in my city. They’re all men.
As the comedian said, only half-kidding, “if you see a homeless man with a dog… you feel sorry for the dog.”
There’s never any shortage of people willing to help a woman in distress, with their problems, major or minor. Men, on the other hand, are seen as disposable people. If they’re not immediately useful to you, most people don’t care if they suffer, usually dismissing it by assuming they deserve their misery somehow, as though they’d done it to themselves.
In the real world I see more women oppressing women and their rights than men ever daring to attempt it. It would be political and social death, instant job loss, to try… because we know we’re disposable. We can be thrown away at any moment and never thought about again. If we lose favour, people just want us “away”; no concern where “away” is, or what happens to our lives every after. Dismissible, disposable, forgettable. 2nd class or 2nd choice people at best.
Men even treat each other this way. You’d hold the door for a lady and let it go in the face of the guy behind her.
There’s a guy at my workplace… His ex-wife falsely accused him of a crime and had him sent to jail for several months, cut the brake lines on his truck one time, smashed out all the windows another time, is already having his wages garnished for alimony and child support because her lawyer convinced a judge she deserved to take more than he was willing or able to pay (he still needs to eat and a place to sleep himself, after all). She’s been sneaking into the office on payday to steal his paychecks before he can even touch them. This monstrous criminal has full custody of their 5 kids. From her knee, they are learning values and how to interact with society, how to deal with conflict and disagreement. No one in any official capacity has yet seriously suggested removing these children from the insane monster’s “care”. No one in any official capacity has been willing to stand up for the father’s rights… or his survival (remember, she’s tried to murder him). No one seems interested in putting the criminal in jail before she can do more harm (“but who would look after her children?” “Uh, how about their loving father?” “Nope. We’ve painted him as an ex-con now.”) This is about as one-sided an example of oppression as I can imagine, and it’s really happening, today.
Tell me more about this “male-dominated world” you live in? Do you feel “oppressed” because you’re still not allowed to stab a man and shit in the open wound without consequences?
Oh go ahead with it anyway. You’ll be treated with such kid gloves you’ll be back on the street in six months at most. People will pat your shoulder and tell you he probably did something to deserve it. He’s of the disposable gender, after all.
You know… support for women’s rights is so ubiquitous in western society it’s not exactly as edgy a topic as it was in the 1950s.
Shoppers Drug Mart had a radio ad a couple years ago boasting about how they financially support over 400 women’s charities.
And that’s great; I hope at least most of them are valid and not grifting operations, and that they accomplish some good, but my main takeaway listening to the commercial was, “there ARE over 400 charities specifically for the benefit of women.” Good for them, but can you name 10 charities that help men? 4 charities? Even one?
I grant there’s several charities that are not divided along gender lines, supposedly helping anyone who needs it, like food banks and homeless shelters. Many of those, especially the shelters, turn away males in need. I remember hearing on two occasions about a homeless man with his young son who’d lost their house, trying to get into a shelter so they wouldn’t have to sleep on the street at night. They were willing to take the child (and by “take” I mean “take custody”, and would immediately railroad the kid into the foster care system) but Dad could drop dead for all they cared, so long as it wasn’t in their parking lot.
I see panhandlers at stoplights every day in my city, more than ever now as housing costs and rents have more than doubled in the last 10 years in my city. They’re all men.
As the comedian said, only half-kidding, “if you see a homeless man with a dog… you feel sorry for the dog.”
There’s never any shortage of people willing to help a woman in distress, with their problems, major or minor. Men, on the other hand, are seen as disposable people. If they’re not immediately useful to you, most people don’t care if they suffer, usually dismissing it by assuming they deserve their misery somehow, as though they’d done it to themselves.
In the real world I see more women oppressing women and their rights than men ever daring to attempt it. It would be political and social death, instant job loss, to try… because we know we’re disposable. We can be thrown away at any moment and never thought about again. If we lose favour, people just want us “away”; no concern where “away” is, or what happens to our lives every after. Dismissible, disposable, forgettable. 2nd class or 2nd choice people at best.
Men even treat each other this way. You’d hold the door for a lady and let it go in the face of the guy behind her.
There’s a guy at my workplace… His ex-wife falsely accused him of a crime and had him sent to jail for several months, cut the brake lines on his truck one time, smashed out all the windows another time, is already having his wages garnished for alimony and child support because her lawyer convinced a judge she deserved to take more than he was willing or able to pay (he still needs to eat and a place to sleep himself, after all). She’s been sneaking into the office on payday to steal his paychecks before he can even touch them. This monstrous criminal has full custody of their 5 kids. From her knee, they are learning values and how to interact with society, how to deal with conflict and disagreement. No one in any official capacity has yet seriously suggested removing these children from the insane monster’s “care”. No one in any official capacity has been willing to stand up for the father’s rights… or his survival (remember, she’s tried to murder him). No one seems interested in putting the criminal in jail before she can do more harm (“but who would look after her children?” “Uh, how about their loving father?” “Nope. We’ve painted him as an ex-con now.”) This is about as one-sided an example of oppression as I can imagine, and it’s really happening, today.
Tell me more about this “male-dominated world” you live in? Do you feel “oppressed” because you’re still not allowed to stab a man and shit in the open wound without consequences?
Oh go ahead with it anyway. You’ll be treated with such kid gloves you’ll be back on the street in six months at most. People will pat your shoulder and tell you he probably did something to deserve it. He’s of the disposable gender, after all.