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Hot take - men are against de jure "positive discrimination" in favour of women because there's no de jure "positive discrimination" in favour of men.
https://melissahogenboom.substack.com/p/feminism-has-gone-too-far
She tries to explore the statistics where new generations feel that feminism is no longer about lifting up women but putting down men.
It is interesting to see that she mentions that women outperform men academically and in early earnings. She however fails to explore why that happens.
I can't speak about your country and your culture - I can only speak about mine. I will be quoting women feminists (with links), but in Polish (I tried autotranslating them and they seem readable).
Here in Poland men are de jure (and de facto) discriminated against in all levels of education, e. g. https://www.rp.pl/opinie-polityczno-spoleczne/art43786261-jakub-chabik-dyskryminacja-pozytywna-plus-rownosc-selektywna-to-bunt-mezczyzn in early education: girls have now better average scores in language than boys and equal in math, but for their gender girls are offered extra points to qualify for "math excellence extracurricular programs", as uni STEM only sees only ~40% of women. There is no similar program for uni bio or med, where men are only ~25%.
Heck: https://krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/wieczorkiewicz-istnieja-formy-dyskryminacji-mezczyzn-ze-wzgledu-na-plec-polemika-z-wojcikiem/ - she explores forms of de juro and de facto discrimination against men in Poland, lack of interest from progressive and leftist parties to even mention men discrimantion and issues (and even blaming men for them), and finishes the article saying that she sees the right-wing counterforce parties getting access to men because of all that.
So yeah - if you base your feminism at "When someone is accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression", then that feminism is bad.
There definitely isn't going to be someone from the meme in this comment section.
Usually it's more like « I know we oppressed you for millennia, but maybe you could ask more nicely for us to stop »
misandry is bad. and a lot of people confuse the two.
but the outrage is justified. crazy to think that women are still being made to feel less than in the fucking future.
The only feminism branch I take issue with is the TERF variety, and just to be clear, its not the feminist part of that. I hope that enough of us can agree on that much.
TERFs aren't feminists
They clearly do not strive for gender equality since they hate, in their words, "women who are men"; this means that they want to distinguish between genders and treat them differently
Feminists strive for equality. Misandrists do not.
Zero disagreement here. You're for all women or you're not feminist. There's no middle ground.
100%, the ostracizing of transwomen leads to oppression of all women. Not looking, dressing or acting feminine enough... it's about controlling women. The ones who get attacked in bathrooms by terfs and other transphobes are most likely ciswomen because there's so few transwomen in comparison
Edit// whoops, I came through /all and didn't notice which community... Sorry! I'll leave this up only since I'm technically allowed as an enby, and because fuck terfs.
It's hard to reason with people who keep saying "we're fucked because of who women voted. They shouldn't be able to vote.". If anyone has advice on how to convince them otherwise...
Don't forget the strawmen that insist the majority of feminists want a heirarchy reversal in society. (And also regularly insinuate or outright say that feminism leads to white men being 'cucked' universally by black men. Really, it all sounds like fetish projection when you look into it enough.)
or outright say that feminism leads to white men being 'cucked' universally by black men.
The real psychosocial roots of fascism.

See also the argument that most anti-LGBTQ+ people are in fact, deeply "in the closet", usually because of religious brainwashing reasons.
Most men don't know what feminism is. They just go by the name and what the most vocal 'feminists' say or do.
I'm a man, and after a lifetime of work, I can say that I have generally preferred my women bosses more than the men. I've had a few great male bosses, but I've also had some extremely terrible ones.
On the other hand, most of the female bosses I've had have been excellent, some great, and only a few have been mediocre or bad, but none of them were as bad as some of the male bosses I've had.
Today, as a business owner, I also prefer to hire women. They are more reliable, in general, and it's easier to find smart women workers than men. Many men are proud of their ignorance.
I'm a man, and …
"… as such feel the need to talk where my talking is specifically against the rules. Because I'm a real feminist and show this by ignoring women's boundaries."
If i really really really need to say something. I would say its unfair how often women win in custody dispudes, even if there is no real argument why. Most of the time if its "a draw" the mother wins by default.
Other than that cant really think nothing else.
Well maybe that i live in country where men have mandatory military service, but women dont. But in my mind its okay that women dont have to serve, so i guess im against equality then?
If i really really really need to say something.
If course you really really really need to say something in a group that very specifically asks you not to. Sorry, no. Tells you not to. Rule #1.
Because you're a man and the silly little requests of silly little girls don't matter, do they?
That’s a misconception. These days, the main reason why women are granted majority custody more often is because men seek out custody less often.
The right to say "no".
That's pretty much it. Every other right boils down to that one in the end.