Feminism

This forum is the place to have more serious discussions about politics and religion, and your opinions thereof. Be courteous!

Moderator:Forum Administrators

Forum rules
When a registered user insults another person (user or not), nation, political group or religious group, s/he will be deprived of her/his permission to post in the forum. That user has the right to re-register one week after s/he has lost the permission. Further violations will result in longer prohibitions.

By default, you are automatically registered to post in this forum. However, users cannot post in the politics forum during the first week after registration. Users can also not make their very first post in the politics forum.
User avatar
linguoboy
Posts:25540
Joined:2009-08-25, 15:11
Real Name:Da
Location:Chicago
Country:USUnited States (United States)
Re: Feminism

Postby linguoboy » 2019-01-28, 3:36

I used the term "MRAs" on Facebook recently (coincidentally referring to an incident on this board) and one of my friends was like "I had to look that up and it reminded me of learning about incels".
"Richmond is a real scholar; Owen just learns languages because he can't bear not to know what other people are saying."--Margaret Lattimore on her two sons

vijayjohn
Language Forum Moderator
Posts:27056
Joined:2013-01-10, 8:49
Real Name:Vijay John
Gender:male
Location:Austin, Texas, USA
Country:USUnited States (United States)
Contact:

Re: Feminism

Postby vijayjohn » 2019-01-28, 4:54

Come to think of it, I no longer have any idea how I learned about incels in the first place. :shock:

User avatar
mōdgethanc
Posts:10890
Joined:2010-03-20, 5:27
Gender:male
Location:Toronto
Country:CACanada (Canada)

Re: Feminism

Postby mōdgethanc » 2019-01-29, 1:46

Unsurprisingly I learned about them from Reddit, which is full of neckbeards.
linguoboy wrote:I used the term "MRAs" on Facebook recently (coincidentally referring to an incident on this board) and one of my friends was like "I had to look that up and it reminded me of learning about incels".
Ackshyually MRAs are the good guys and feminism is an evil matriarchal conspiracy, and allow me to explain why in this 10,000 word essay.
[ˈmoːdjeðɑŋk]

Varislintu
Posts:15429
Joined:2004-02-09, 13:32
Country:VUVanuatu (Vanuatu)

Re: Feminism

Postby Varislintu » 2019-01-30, 20:57

I think I learned about MRAs here on UL, and incels popped up down in that rabbit hole.

Yesterday my boyfriend used the abbreviation PUA and I could not remember what it's an abbreviation for. That's how isolated I have become from all this stuff since having a kid. Then today I came to Unilang and got reminded what those words in PUA are. :lol:

vijayjohn
Language Forum Moderator
Posts:27056
Joined:2013-01-10, 8:49
Real Name:Vijay John
Gender:male
Location:Austin, Texas, USA
Country:USUnited States (United States)
Contact:

Re: Feminism

Postby vijayjohn » 2019-01-31, 1:03

Varislintu wrote:I think I learned about MRAs here on UL, and incels popped up down in that rabbit hole.

I have a vague feeling that might be what happened to me, too, except I can't figure out for the life of me how that happened.
Yesterday my boyfriend used the abbreviation PUA and I could not remember what it's an abbreviation for. That's how isolated I have become from all this stuff since having a kid. Then today I came to Unilang and got reminded what those words in PUA are. :lol:

I forgot and had to look up PUA when I saw this post earlier. :P

User avatar
mōdgethanc
Posts:10890
Joined:2010-03-20, 5:27
Gender:male
Location:Toronto
Country:CACanada (Canada)

Re: Feminism

Postby mōdgethanc » 2019-01-31, 18:02

I feel like PUAs were a 00s trend. I haven't heard much about them for years since they've been overshadowed by incels, who hate them.
[ˈmoːdjeðɑŋk]

vijayjohn
Language Forum Moderator
Posts:27056
Joined:2013-01-10, 8:49
Real Name:Vijay John
Gender:male
Location:Austin, Texas, USA
Country:USUnited States (United States)
Contact:

Re: Feminism

Postby vijayjohn » 2019-02-01, 1:15

Do all incels hate them? I thought it was only some.

User avatar
mōdgethanc
Posts:10890
Joined:2010-03-20, 5:27
Gender:male
Location:Toronto
Country:CACanada (Canada)

Re: Feminism

Postby mōdgethanc » 2019-02-02, 19:40

vijayjohn wrote:Do all incels hate them? I thought it was only some.
I don't know about all, but I was told that on the whole incels don't like them because they believe that PUA techniques are useless to incels, because they are biologically unable to pick up women for reasons. Therefore learning and trying to use them is nothing but "cope".
[ˈmoːdjeðɑŋk]

vijayjohn
Language Forum Moderator
Posts:27056
Joined:2013-01-10, 8:49
Real Name:Vijay John
Gender:male
Location:Austin, Texas, USA
Country:USUnited States (United States)
Contact:

Re: Feminism

Postby vijayjohn » 2019-07-03, 4:39

I learned only very recently about Dina Ali Lasloom, a Saudi woman (in case you didn't know, either) who attempted over two years ago to escape her family and seek asylum in Australia only for her family to force her to return to Saudi Arabia. This seems to be one of the highest-profile cases as far as women's rights (or even human rights) in Saudi Arabia are concerned. However, when I see some of these criticisms from non-Saudis, they complain that Western feminists aren't speaking out against this sort of treatment of Saudi citizens. Why do they say this when millions of people all around the world were doing just that, all kinds of international news agencies were reporting on it, etc.? So far, I haven't been able to tell whether they have some kind of agenda or are just ignorant or both or what.

User avatar
linguoboy
Posts:25540
Joined:2009-08-25, 15:11
Real Name:Da
Location:Chicago
Country:USUnited States (United States)

Re: Feminism

Postby linguoboy » 2019-10-29, 17:29

Reading up on the situation in Italy, where doctors are allowed to avoid performing abortions by declaring themselves "conscientious objectors" (which 70% do), and it's just horrifying. This is what I worry will happen in the USA if the GOP drive for "religious liberty" succeeds.
"Richmond is a real scholar; Owen just learns languages because he can't bear not to know what other people are saying."--Margaret Lattimore on her two sons

vijayjohn
Language Forum Moderator
Posts:27056
Joined:2013-01-10, 8:49
Real Name:Vijay John
Gender:male
Location:Austin, Texas, USA
Country:USUnited States (United States)
Contact:

Re: Feminism

Postby vijayjohn » 2019-10-29, 21:32

Feminism as a concept can be triggering for male rape victims. Some perpetrators of rape, against men if not also against other women, are women who claim to be feminists.

User avatar
md0
Posts:8188
Joined:2010-08-08, 19:56
Country:DEGermany (Deutschland)
Contact:

Re: Feminism

Postby md0 » 2021-01-19, 18:03

Greece, and to a lesser extend Cyprus, are currently experiencing a moment of reckoning with sexual abuse in professional sports. The usual trolls climbed out of their holes to share the usual woman-blaming bullshit. In one of those discussions though, someone brought up this case from Sweden, where the molested athlete was male.

I can only wonder if more men being empowered to speak about the sexual abuse they received may sway some of the men who genuinely believe that sexual abuse is a myth women made up to punish men. Maybe they will believe men more than they believe women.
"If you like your clause structure, you can keep your clause structure"
Stable: Cypriot Greek (el-cy)Standard Modern Greek (el)English (en) Current: Standard German (de)
Legacy: France French (fr)Japanese (ja)Standard Turkish (tr)Elementary Finnish (fi)Netherlands Dutch (nl)

User avatar
Aurinĭa
Forum Administrator
Posts:3909
Joined:2008-05-14, 21:18
Country:BEBelgium (België / Belgique)

Re: Feminism

Postby Aurinĭa » 2021-01-19, 19:09

It seems to me that the type of men bringing up abuse against men when people condemn abuse against women is often the type of men who only care about abuse against men when they can use it to dismiss abuse against women.

User avatar
Gormur
Posts:8190
Joined:2005-05-17, 1:11
Real Name:Gormur
Gender:male
Country:CUCuba (Cuba)
Contact:

Re: Feminism

Postby Gormur » 2021-01-19, 19:32

I don't know that I readily recognize feminism. I pretty much only recognize it when a group asks for rights. I guess because my view is that females are more important. They carry our future by having the ability to create life. That ability alone makes them more important and worthy of protection from danger. I just can't find fault in women. I think it's wrong or the wrong way to think about the subject of sexes. Everybody plays a different role even if they choose that role

So no, I don't believe that we're equal; except when it comes to living in the same society and having opportunities, but if women were treated equally then it wouldn't be because women need more than men
Eigi gegnir þat at segja at bók nøkkur er hreinferðug eðr ønnur spelluð því at vandliga ok dáliga eru bœkr ritnar ok annat kunnum vér eigi um þœr at dœma

User avatar
md0
Posts:8188
Joined:2010-08-08, 19:56
Country:DEGermany (Deutschland)
Contact:

Re: Feminism

Postby md0 » 2021-01-19, 19:35

Aurinĭa wrote:It seems to me that the type of men bringing up abuse against men when people condemn abuse against women is often the type of men who only care about abuse against men when they can use it to dismiss abuse against women.

In this case it was brought up in support of female athletes speaking out, but I can see how there's a thin line between that and minimising the vastly more common sexual abuse against women.
I guess I can only hope there's a way to wake rape-denying misogynists up.
"If you like your clause structure, you can keep your clause structure"
Stable: Cypriot Greek (el-cy)Standard Modern Greek (el)English (en) Current: Standard German (de)
Legacy: France French (fr)Japanese (ja)Standard Turkish (tr)Elementary Finnish (fi)Netherlands Dutch (nl)

vijayjohn
Language Forum Moderator
Posts:27056
Joined:2013-01-10, 8:49
Real Name:Vijay John
Gender:male
Location:Austin, Texas, USA
Country:USUnited States (United States)
Contact:

Re: Feminism

Postby vijayjohn » 2021-01-20, 13:47

Is it really becoming more common at a rate where we have any hope of abuse apologists noticing?

EDIT: Also I've said this before, but "vastly more common" is questionable especially given how often rape is underreported.

User avatar
md0
Posts:8188
Joined:2010-08-08, 19:56
Country:DEGermany (Deutschland)
Contact:

Re: Feminism

Postby md0 » 2021-01-21, 11:43

vijayjohn wrote:Is it really becoming more common at a rate where we have any hope of abuse apologists noticing?

EDIT: Also I've said this before, but "vastly more common" is questionable especially given how often rape is underreported.

I certainly believe that the experiences of male victims are more under-reported. I am not sure about frequency though (and we can only hope for more data). I had that discussion with a few gay men over the last year, and the notion of "equality of arms" came up. They did mention to me how they are less likely to shy away from both verbal and physical confrontation if someone attempts to harass them. Both because of comparable physical size and because of socialisation. That's for adults only of course.

Then again, that equality of arms goes out of the window when things like this can happen.
"If you like your clause structure, you can keep your clause structure"
Stable: Cypriot Greek (el-cy)Standard Modern Greek (el)English (en) Current: Standard German (de)
Legacy: France French (fr)Japanese (ja)Standard Turkish (tr)Elementary Finnish (fi)Netherlands Dutch (nl)

User avatar
Johanna
Language Forum Moderator
Posts:6679
Joined:2006-09-17, 18:05
Real Name:Johanna
Gender:female
Location:Lidköping, Westrogothia
Country:SESweden (Sverige)

Re: Feminism

Postby Johanna » 2021-01-21, 15:19

md0 wrote:In one of those discussions though, someone brought up this case from Sweden, where the molested athlete was male.

Athletes, plural. I don't remember if anyone else has come forward than those mentioned in the Wikipedia article, but Nousiainen molested at least three young boys during his coaching career.
Swedish (sv) native; English (en) good; Norwegian (no) read fluently, understand well, speak badly; Danish (dk) read fluently, understand badly, can't speak; Faroese (fo) read some, understand a bit, speak a few sentences; German (de) French (fr) Spanish (es) forgetting; heritage language.

User avatar
md0
Posts:8188
Joined:2010-08-08, 19:56
Country:DEGermany (Deutschland)
Contact:

Re: Feminism

Postby md0 » 2021-01-28, 13:09

"If you like your clause structure, you can keep your clause structure"
Stable: Cypriot Greek (el-cy)Standard Modern Greek (el)English (en) Current: Standard German (de)
Legacy: France French (fr)Japanese (ja)Standard Turkish (tr)Elementary Finnish (fi)Netherlands Dutch (nl)

vijayjohn
Language Forum Moderator
Posts:27056
Joined:2013-01-10, 8:49
Real Name:Vijay John
Gender:male
Location:Austin, Texas, USA
Country:USUnited States (United States)
Contact:

Re: Feminism

Postby vijayjohn » 2021-08-23, 1:59

Aurinĭa wrote:It seems to me that the type of men bringing up abuse against men when people condemn abuse against women is often the type of men who only care about abuse against men when they can use it to dismiss abuse against women.

A friend of mine who is a male rape victim wrote to me this afternoon, "I've found most male survivors to be quite compassionate of female survivors, but that certainly can't be said in the reverse."


Return to “Politics and Religion”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 13 guests