Name one area of life in which women are privileged and men are not.
Explain to us why women face widespread rape, sexual assault and harassment if there is no misogyny.
Explain to us why until very recently women’s lives were strictly controlled and women were forced to be dependent on men if there has ben no such conscious decision to subjugate women. (You can’t use physical work and the obvious strength differences as an excuse because even in jobs were physicality didn’t matter, women were banned).
Explain to us why the majority of victims of child marriage are girls.
Explain to us why women are the majority of trafficking victims.
Explain to us why you see global epidemics of female infanticide but none of boys.
Enjoy the validation you are getting from people who still look down on you.
"Name one area of life in which women are privileged and men are not."
Exemption from military conscription.
"Explain to us why women face widespread rape, sexual assault and harassment if there is no misogyny."
Except in a minority of instances, like sociopathic serial killers, men and women mostly rape because they are horny, not because they hate.
"Explain to us why until very recently women’s lives were strictly controlled and women were forced to be dependent on men if there has be[e]n no such conscious decision to subjugate women. (You can’t use physical work and the obvious strength differences as an excuse because even in jobs w[h]ere physicality didn’t matter, women were banned)."
The gendered division of labor is present in every known society and every point in history, which is because it is the product of millions of years of evolution, rather than a fictional "patriarchy". Women are the sex that gives birth: the survival of the tribe - and by extension, the human race - rests upon the continued safety of women, so women everywhere are protected in ways the menfolk are not. A man just has to be physically intact long enough to plant a seed inside a woman, then his biological job is done. Whereas, every time a woman becomes impregnated, the next 9 months of her life is her (and the child she carries) becoming more and more vulnerable and incapacitated.
So all human societies built into their cultural norms that the men would leave the tribe to hunt and build and labor and lay down their lives in war, and the women would remain closer to home, where there was safety in numbers, and generally maintain the fabric of society, community and the raising of children.
This continued for tens of thousands of years until sometime in the late 1800s, when middle class white women living unprecedentedly safe, spoilt, but mind-numbingly boring lives, decided that labor was a privilege that was being selfishly kept from them by their fathers and husbands and community, and so began campaigning to be allowed to share the treat of being a wage slave, like their fathers and brothers and sons were forced to be. And men, because they are innately programmed to want to help and support and facilitate the wishes of women, for the most part just said "okay? if that's what you want? I guess?"
"Explain to us why the majority of victims of child marriage are girls."
Not quite sure what this is specifically asking: cultures that have arranged marriages marry off both boys and girls to each other. I guess if being married makes you a "victim" then they both are. If you're asking why men are attracted to and place value in young females, I guess it's because the younger a bride is, the more fertile she will be and the more healthy children she will be able to give him during her life. But you'd really need to speak to people who live in the cultures that practice that to get an answer.
"Explain to us why women are the majority of trafficking victims."
Different bad things happen to women and men. But more bad things happen to men. Explain why men are the overwhelming majority of casualties in war. Explain why men are 93% of all work fatalities. Explain why 80% of the homeless are men. Explain why 80% of suicides are men. And so forth. And so on.
"Explain to us why you see global epidemics of female infanticide but none of boys."
My understanding is that in certain poor parts of the world, having a son is favored over having a daughter, because the son is traditionally more likely in those cultures to be able to make a good amount of money to support the parents when they get old. But it seems to me that nature itself will eventually balance that out, because after a few generations, it becomes very hard for those sons to find any women to marry, and so women become more valued, at least by the sons.
But as I said before: different bad things happen to girls and to boys, but it's the worse option that generally happens to the boys. When Boko Haram kidnapped hundreds of Nigerian girls a few years back, there was global outrage and everyone from Michelle Obama to the cringiest Hollywood actor was photographing themselves with signs demanding their release:
But none of them said anything about what Boko Haram did to the hundreds of boys they encountered, which was to burn them alive.
Of course, murder is worse than kidnapping, but we all care about girls more than boys, and we all prioritize that over justice and equality and human rights and all the other feelgood buzzwords we like so much.
Because of their ability to bear children, females everywhere in the world are seen as having innate value simply for existing, in a way that males are not. Males have to achieve something to be seen as worthy of interest and care. Because of this, everywhere in the world, males are treated much more harshly and brutally in every part of life than females, but you are unable to see and feel anything about that, even when it's unfolding right in front of your face, and that is for two reasons: firstly, evolution made you, along with everyone else, care more for women than men. And then secondly, feminism came along to amplify, politicize and weaponize that innate indifference to males, making you not only callous but openly, gleefully hateful. This is the biggest and most fundamental problem here that you most urgently need to examine and try address in your life if you want to do any good in the world.
"Enjoy the validation you are getting from people who still look down on you."
Everything about this sentence is based in assumptions in your own head, and nothing to do with anything I've said.
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