The first time i saw the mention of meninism was when the twitter @meninistTweet was created and started gaining popularity quickly, with 1.25M followers today. seeing the retweets on my timeline of vulgar, sexist and idiotic posts, i clicked on the tweet directing me to the account, and upon investigating, was disgusted. with every scroll, the further down i went, the more enraged i was. blatant disrespect for pressing issues raised by the new wave of feminism were mocked, but not only the issues, but feminists as people as well. countless posts painting women’s rights activists as ugly, lonely, overweight, irrational men haters littered the page. I thought to myself how can “meninsts”, who supposedly established themselves as a voice for
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Posts in the other, or unrelated to men’s rights category, include making fun of gender identity issues. For example, a picture of a chart showing all the different symbols labeling the different identities that people have established, circling the male and female ones, and labeling those as actual genders. while they circle the rest and label those as mental disorders. If you squint, you can see the one little bar showing the single image i pulled discussing a serious men’s right issue. A photoset shows a public experiment conducted by DareLondon to show the double standard in domestic abuse. When a woman was being aggressively talked to and pushed around by a man, bystanders immediately intervened, coming to the defense of the woman, yelling at the abuser and threatening to call the police. On the other hand, when the roles were switched, people paid little to no attention to the abusive woman, and even seemed entertained like it was some sort of spectacle. As a feminist, an advocate for equality between the sexes, this appalls me and i know that this is a huge issue that shows the hypocrisy in society. But this was posted on the twitter page implying that feminists don’t care about this, only about themselves, and would …show more content…
On one hand, you have ignorant people with bigoted and indisputable sexist views, whether outwardly expressed or internalized, running twitter pages where they can freely spew any asinine thought that tumbles through their brain. But on the other hand, there are radical feminists who spend their energy fighting battles that don’t even need to be fought. I believe that the first meninist twitter, with the biography saying that their page is sarcasm, was made purely to incite these types of feminists. The effort of these feminists could be much better spent elsewhere on more pressing issues, rather than giving in to the game the meninists are playing. Pitting the two extremist points of view regarding the hot topic of the feminist agenda against each other provides absolutely no benefit to either agenda, for it is just the most close minded types of people blindly swinging at each
Posts in the other, or unrelated to men’s rights category, include making fun of gender identity issues. For example, a picture of a chart showing all the different symbols labeling the different identities that people have established, circling the male and female ones, and labeling those as actual genders. while they circle the rest and label those as mental disorders. If you squint, you can see the one little bar showing the single image i pulled discussing a serious men’s right issue. A photoset shows a public experiment conducted by DareLondon to show the double standard in domestic abuse. When a woman was being aggressively talked to and pushed around by a man, bystanders immediately intervened, coming to the defense of the woman, yelling at the abuser and threatening to call the police. On the other hand, when the roles were switched, people paid little to no attention to the abusive woman, and even seemed entertained like it was some sort of spectacle. As a feminist, an advocate for equality between the sexes, this appalls me and i know that this is a huge issue that shows the hypocrisy in society. But this was posted on the twitter page implying that feminists don’t care about this, only about themselves, and would …show more content…
On one hand, you have ignorant people with bigoted and indisputable sexist views, whether outwardly expressed or internalized, running twitter pages where they can freely spew any asinine thought that tumbles through their brain. But on the other hand, there are radical feminists who spend their energy fighting battles that don’t even need to be fought. I believe that the first meninist twitter, with the biography saying that their page is sarcasm, was made purely to incite these types of feminists. The effort of these feminists could be much better spent elsewhere on more pressing issues, rather than giving in to the game the meninists are playing. Pitting the two extremist points of view regarding the hot topic of the feminist agenda against each other provides absolutely no benefit to either agenda, for it is just the most close minded types of people blindly swinging at each