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comment by Meriadoc
Meriadoc  ·  4104 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Suicide is a gender issue

Feminism has always been about total equality. The name is more or less a misnomer. Whenever I see a godawful argument on reddit about "men's rights" the issues always come back to those that are centrally addressed bty feminism, namely patriarchy. It is a patriarchal society that says that not only are women weak and emotional, but men are strong and emotionless. It is a patriarchal society that tells me to be overly successful and never speak of their problems. It is a patriarchal society that forces men and women into gender roles that are outdated and detrimental to one's health in our modern world.

There has been movement in these things over the last few decades, but there seems to be an unwillingness from men to accept that feminism is there to resolve issues on both sides of the coin, and a inexplicable resilience to fixing the issues that affect them. I suppose that's what leads to a confusion that men are oppressed by feminism.