rabberMar 8

The Vanishing Men of Vancouver Island

https://lemmy.ca/post/61506863

The Vanishing Men of Vancouver Island - Lemmy.ca

We are finally talking about this now eh? I lost a cousin over 12 years ago, vanished into thin air. Nobody cared. Especially the RCMP. Much like all these guys. A few wanted posters was all my beloved cousin ever got. My favourite part of the article is this: >National statistics reflect a severe and often overlooked reality regarding violence against Indigenous men: > Between 1980 and 2012, Statistics Canada documented 1,750 Indigenous male homicide victims, compared to 745 Indigenous female homicide victims. > In this timeframe, 71% of all murdered and missing Indigenous people were men and boys. > According to 2020 Statistics Canada data, Indigenous men are seven times more likely to die by homicide than non-Indigenous people, and four times more likely than Indigenous women. We hear so much about missing indigenous women. I had no idea the stat for men was 4 times higher. Why doesn’t anyone care?

Show threadminorkeysMar 8
I’ve only ever heard of violence against women, highway of tears etc. That this was known and never mentioned is absolutely typical of how unvalued men are to society and how insignificant men’s journeys are. Nobody gives a fuck. 71% of the victims yet it’s never been brought up even during the highway of tears media coverage.
Show threadrekabis

Society as a whole is deeply misandric.

And scratch beneath the veneer and platitudes, and almost 100% of “feminists” are either wholly indifferent or downright celebratory.

It’s just one small reason of many why I consider any use of the term “feminist” applied to any man to be a deeply offensive pejorative. Why would any man hate his own gender so much, when average men - not the top-5%, but the bottom-80% - are so clearly second-class citizens behind women?

Mar 9 at 1:43amWeb
Show threadFluorideMindMar 9
Hate likes to coop terms to hide that it’s hate. Feminism ≠ misandry.
Show threadrekabisMar 9

Feminism ≠ misandry.

Strange, because that is 100% the source of all misandry, like how any attempt to bring political attention to men’s issues is painted as “misogyny”, simply because it’s men who are being paid attention to.

Such as domestic violence. Did you know that if you look at only non-reciprocal physical violence - as in, only one person is doing the physical striking - 71% of victims are men?

And yet, who is protesting the most loudly when people try to open up DV shelters for battered men using the same public funding that women’s shelters enjoy? Small clue: they invariably identify with the term you mentioned.

71%. You’d think there would be more shelters for a 71% proportion of victims. And yet, while North America has tens of thousands of shelters for the other 29%, it has only three for the 71%.

Three. In all of North America. Because political funding for it is lethally radioactive to political careers.

Show threadidiomaddictMar 9
You are fueling the gender war.
Show threadrekabisMar 9

You are fueling the gender war.

So true equality is “fuelling the gender war”, eh?

Why call feminism “equality”, then, if it is nothing of the sort?

Show threadminorkeysMar 9
It was always a lie, they want advantages, not equality.
Show threadFooBarringtonMar 9
Fuck off. No, “they” don’t want advantages. Try speaking with a woman in real life, you might find they are normal people!
Show threadminorkeysMar 9

I’m taking about feminists, not women. Those happen to be two different groups.

Despite the rhetoric, the implemented and championed policies often produce advantages, not equality. They don’t advocate for men. They don’t consider the impact on men. They don’t care about men. They cannot be advocates of equality while only focusing on only creating advantages, rights, preference and greater resource access for women exclusively.

Show threadFooBarringtonMar 10
Yeah, no, fuck off.
Show threadminorkeysMar 10
No, yeah, fuck on.
Show threadidiomaddictMar 9

Suggesting that men are betraying themselves by supporting feminism is fueling the gender war.

*Getting rid of gender related bias in mental healthcare is feminist.

*Removing gender-based barriers to all careers is feminist.

*Paternal leave policies are feminist.

*Government provision of comprehensive and inexpensive childcare services is feminist.

These policies directly support and help men. They improve men’s lives. Men should support them, if their goal is to increase opportunities, autonomy, and improve quality of life for other men. Other feminist policies seek to bring women’s opportunities, autonomy, and quality of life up to par with those of men, which indirectly helps men, as it helps the women around them be more capable, self-sufficient, and better community members.

Suggesting otherwise propagates an imaginary point of tension and stirs up distrust of women in young men. In other words, it fuels the gender war.

Show threadminorkeysMar 9
Only women get to do that?