Claim #1: men work harder than women.
Men have worked, historically, a fraction of the time women work, with more recognition and more reward than women.
Prehistoric women had stronger arms than modern athletes (1).
“Throughout the Industrial Revolution, gender was a major influence on worker salary. Women tended to receive between one third to on half of a man’s average salary. As the manufacturing industries began to grow, they would take advantage of these low average salaries amongst women and children. The ability to employ these women and children for little pay proved to be very beneficiary to these companies. Many industries exploited these people’s need for money, as they would turn a major profit in exchange for very cheap labor. Tasks such as printing, spinning, and other duties commonly learned at home were easy jobs to learn and were some of the most profitable. (2)“
In the United States: The Equal Pay Act was an effort to correct a centuries-old problem of gender-based wage discrimination.Women made up a quarter of the American workforce by the early 20th century, but they were traditionally paid far less than men, even in cases where they performed the same job. In some states, female workers were also forced to contend with laws that restricted their working hours or prohibited them from working at night (3).
The Equal Pay Act did not pass until 1963 (4). The wage gap exists to this day, due in part to wage secrecy, differing job titles for men and women, and a consistent undervaluing of skills when presented with a resume with a female name on top compared to a male name (5).
To be fair the above study has been conducted in everything from teaching to business. Male names get better offers and more interviews. Female names and obviously nonwhite names get poorer offers and fewer interviews.
Claim #2: men don’t get to spend as much time on childcare because they work too hard
Fathers have more free time than mothers (6). There is still a gender gap in the amount of house work men do. Full time working mothers spend more time doing childcare work than stay at home fathers (7). There’s even a gender gap observed in young children; daughters do more chores for less pay than sons (8).
Claims #3 and #4: men are overwhelmingly injured and killed throughout history and this is women’s fault
Much of these stats were taken from my other post, which, curiously has not been rebutted in any meaningful way. If you’ve read that before feel free to skip this.
Men are overwhelmingly first responders because historically men have barred women from being considered for fields like active combat (below), firefighting (8), and the police force (9).
Secondly, war affects the lifespan of women more than men. Even putting aside that most people killed from wars were not considered active combat:
Effect of Armed Conflict on Life Expectancy - Plümper and Neumayer 2006 In this study, armed conflict was demonstrated to have a statistically significant and adverse effect on women as measured by the decline in the ratio of female to male life expectancy (Plümper and Neumayer 2006). Normally women live longer than men in almost all societies, so a decrease in the gender gap is interpreted as suggesting that the direct and indirect consequences of conflict combined either kill more women or that the killed women are younger on average than the men killed. The authors therefore concluded that wars negatively affected women more than men when taking into account the entire conflict cycle (10).
Women still make up the vast majority of trafficking victims (11), sweatshop workers (12) , and prostitutes (13) in the world. Are you now going to claim that a US soldier, whose risk of dying was approximately 0.33% in Afghanistan alone over the past 15 years, has an equal risk of death as any or all of these professions? Because you’d be wrong.
Total number of troops in Afghanistan from this source (13). Total number of Afghanistan US troop casualties here (14). Table 1 below.
Table 1: tally of US troops deployed to Afghanistan (13) and total US casualties (14) expressed as a percentage using the following formula: # deaths * 100 / Total # of troops deployed. Max is the maximum percentage of troop death to deployed, min is the minimum percentage, and ave is the average percentage. Please note that even the maximum percentage is half a percentage point.
The maximum percentage of troops who die is 0.496% or 310 deaths out of 67,000. Prostitutes, particularly trafficked women and children, on the other hand, have nearly an 8% chance of being murdered while actively in prostitution (15). Please note that the overall statistics given in the abstract look at the women over 32 years, and that many of those women were not actively prostitutes for that long, in part because of the declining income earnings for older prostitutes (16).
Claim #5 “And enduring all of this for the sake of others is fully recognized as strength to all accept[sic] sexist radfems who want any excuse to spread hatred and generalizations about men. From sexist radfems who will do anything to make women as a group appear to be superior by default instead of equal, like they claim.”
Putting aside that this person misspelled “except,” claimed that male supremacy is “Fully recognized as strength to all,” and that they called “radfems” sexist and hateful approximately four times in only 56 words, where is the evidence of “sexist radfem hatred”? Where are the radical feminists killing male infants because they were born male? I have statistics of men killing female infants shortly after their birth (17).
Where are the radical feminists raping and murdering men, insisting that men change their names after marriage, insisting that male bodies be legally regulated?
I have statistics on the other side, too: girls age 15-19 in the world will most likely die in childbirth than any other cause (18), half of all Americans believe a woman should be legally forced to take her husband’s last name (19), marital rape was legal until 1993 (20) and to this day women can be made to pay alimony to their abusive husbands who have attempted to murder them (21), and that marital rape is still “semi-legal” in eight US states (22).
The claims above can only be accepted as logical with the following unsaid assumptions: (1) women owe men gratitude for our existence (2) by living independently, women are stealing something from men that is owed to them and (3) the only true “equality” between the sexes involves a recognition that men are superior. Those assumptions are all FALSE.
The underlying claims are also false.
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