Sunday 11 March 2012

Won't somebody think of the men?

I used to like the Good Men Project. I really did. (This was back before Hugo Schwyzer left and a lot of creepy stuff about his past came out, though.) And then they wrote stuff like this and claimed that women were "othering" men.

First things first: spot the obvious logical fallacy, namely, the SPLC, an organisation I have nothing but respect for, is called out on using guilt by association (it didn't) - and then the article's writer uses guilt by association too. Second things second: the Manosphere and indeed quite a lot of MRAs are violently misogynist and anti-feminist. This article and others like it try and smooth that over, misrepresenting the arguments of feminists and painting the Manosphere as something righteous when it really, really isn't. I've seen people argue that misogyny is just honesty, that only men can think and any thinking woman is an honourary man, that eeeeeeevil women are responsible for all men's troubles...yeah, the list goes on. The Manosphere looks very much like an attempt by people with privilege to not give up said privilege.

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