Anyone else getting really fucking tired of the fact that men aren't allowed to stand up for themselves?
Now, I'm not talking about "wah, the women are rising up" or anything like that, I legitimately grew up believing that people are equal—a view I also understand is not typically shared by this board, but that's beside the point for the moment.
I am fucking sick of not being able to speak in my own defense. Girls that I knew and have been friends with since childhood hit university, took SJW courses, chopped their hair off and cut ties with me because I was "problematic". Yes, I'm a tall, able-bodied white guy. No, that does not somehow make my German-Canadian ass responsible for perceived racial crimes in the American South. I'm sorry the residential schools happened too, but THOSE WEREN'T MY ANCESTORS.
Of course, the moment you try and say anything in your own defense, you get labeled. For some reason, the title of the movement doesn't matter when it's feminism apparently—from what they say, men's issues like the catastrophic suicide rate or the disproportionate homelessness rate are FEMINIST issues, apparently fine to meekly mention in the background of feminist gatherings if you don't raise your voice. Try to actually do anything about it? You're now a Men's Rights Activist! And apparently that's a really bad thing for some reason! Because I guess Women's rights can look out for men, but Men's rights can't look out for women!
No joke, I've been a pretty left-leaning individual my entire life. I'm a weed-smoking, easy-going, long haired hippie. Despite all that, this SJW bullshit has pushed me further to the right than I had previously thought I could go. Still wouldn't call myself right-leaning, but I now feel like I'm pretty squarely in the middle of the road.
How is it that 3rd wave feminism can fuck up so hard? How does a movement take someone like me who should, by all logic and upbringing, be on the same side, and manage to turn me into someone who opposes the movement?
And also, what fucking media did these people watch to talk about there not being good female role models? Did they miss Kim Possible? Captain Janeway? Xena? If I wasn't just hammering out a post, I could put together a DAMN long list of shows and games that cast women in a positive role, often times at the expense of men, going back to the 90's and likely longer. How can all these things just get somehow forgotten in the name of supporting a narrative?
I dunno. I'm mad, Holla Forums. The side I thought I was on doesn't seem to want me or anybody like me. If this is the kind of treatment feminists are fighting to overcome, I have to wonder what the fuck is wrong in their head to make them think that treating others the way they used to get treated before they started putting their foot down is going to have any impact other than to make the OTHER group put THEIR foot down in response.
Spoiler alert: NOBODY reacts well to being ignored and belittled. While I'm sorry that happened to women for as long as it did, I think someone would have to be brain damaged to think that ignoring and belittling people as a reaction to that kind of behavior is EVER going to lead to any kind of lasting peace or understanding.
SJWs are fucking cancer on society.