You're not on the Left. You don't get to tone police the Left. Which feminists? What does the "demonization" do to the men, compared with what does toxic masculinity do to men and women? I'm not only talking about violent criminals.
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You were talking about murderers, rapists and enslavers. All of those things are violent crime.
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Until we admit there is something about men which makes them more likely to commit violent crime than women, we cannot begin to tackle the problem. Is it only some men? Or do all men have it in varying degrees? We won’t know if people prevent us from investigating.
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You've started by ignoring half the population, when there are plenty of violent women as well, even if a smaller percentage, and fewer that make the news (or that people do more than laugh about when they do, for whatever reasons). I'm guessing there are many causes, some...
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...affecting both men and women, some mostly affecting one and not the other. But to start by ignoring half of them doesn't seem like a good plan if you really want to get to the bottom of causes. That's starting with a conclusion.
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Whatever causes violence, men have more of it. Do you agree?
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Yes, men are more likely to take on both positive & negative roles involving violence so they are the majority of soldiers & jobs involving physical protection & the majority of violent criminals. This ratio is consistent among all the great apes.
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Correction - "SOME feminists are..." I think it's not a great idea to demonize a group while correctly calling out demonization of a group. Mainstream liberal feminism does not demonize men.
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"Mainstream liberal feminism does not demonize men." Can you support that claim?
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Here's someone well-recognized as a face of mainstream liberal feminism.http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2014/9/emma-watson-gender-equality-is-your-issue-too …
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I think it's great that 'he for she' encourages men to help with the problems women face. And women will help with the problems men face too, right? ...Right? <crickets>
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Did you actually read the speech? And yes, there are other feminists who decry it, but this is the official mainstream of feminism.pic.twitter.com/m9Mg94I9ZK
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Yes, this is how they address men's issues, if at all. They see it as ways that helping men would also help women or suggest men could be helped if they'd just be more like women. Little mention of prison sentencing, MGM, custody laws etc.
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The simple fact, however, is that the one country that is considering banning MGM is Iceland. a *very* feminist place (they even banned strip clubs there, a step too far in my view). Many feminists support joint custody; many more support paternity leave.
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Quite a number of feminists are in fact "prison abolitionists" - something I, again, can't actually agree with. And feminists *started* widening the definition of rape so it also includes male victims. (California also includes female perpetrators, many feminists there).
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Did you read the recent NYT's recent hymn to Marxism? They reject rationality (coherence) as oppressive white-male centered thinking. Not kidding. They state outright in that article that the goal is to destroy everything without regard to the consequences.
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'Violent criminals who are mostly male include women among their victims.' You say that like it's an incidental detail. Most people, whether male or female, are not violent. But when we look at those who are violent the great majority are male. This is not a trivial point.
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1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have been victims of [some form of] physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetime. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime. https://ncadv.org/statistics
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