Male feminists tend to spout things like "I have male privilege because I can walk on the street without the fear of being assaulted".
This is actually an extremely common misconception. Statistics show that men are much more likely to be assaulted by strangers than women. Yet the exact opposite is a very pervasive and entrenched belief in our society. Ask almost anybody, no matter who it is, and that person is probably going to believe that women are much more likely to be assaulted.
(As I have commented in past blog posts, I believe this misconception is a result of our society caring more about women than men: We tend to pay more attention to, and get more outraged about, violence against women, and tend to shrug off and ignore violence against men, and thus we get the false impression that violence against women happens more often.)
What those male feminists say actually got me thinking that their feminism is giving them a false sense of security and safety. They fully believe what they are saying, and it may cause them to not take even the slightest of common sense precautions when eg. walking alone on the street at night. Their ideology may have brainwashed them into believing that they are completely safe and nobody is going to assault them.
This is one way in which feminism harms men too.
This is actually an extremely common misconception. Statistics show that men are much more likely to be assaulted by strangers than women. Yet the exact opposite is a very pervasive and entrenched belief in our society. Ask almost anybody, no matter who it is, and that person is probably going to believe that women are much more likely to be assaulted.
(As I have commented in past blog posts, I believe this misconception is a result of our society caring more about women than men: We tend to pay more attention to, and get more outraged about, violence against women, and tend to shrug off and ignore violence against men, and thus we get the false impression that violence against women happens more often.)
What those male feminists say actually got me thinking that their feminism is giving them a false sense of security and safety. They fully believe what they are saying, and it may cause them to not take even the slightest of common sense precautions when eg. walking alone on the street at night. Their ideology may have brainwashed them into believing that they are completely safe and nobody is going to assault them.
This is one way in which feminism harms men too.
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