Why are guys so threatened by feminism??

Question

Not all guys, I know..... But seriously, so many guys are so threatened by feminism! All feminism is is human rights, not man-hating! Seriously, look it up guys!

All it sais to women is that these guys are uneducated and misinformed... And hugely scared of women! So scared they feel they need to put women down. Sad!

Answer 1

Men that are  threatened by feminism are insecure or maybe they're angry at radical feminists, the ones that push for more rights.

Answer 2

They are threatened by it for the same reason normal people are threatened by anything that takes away there rights.

Feminism is scary and no it is not for all human rights.

Explain abortion and vawa and how does that benefit all humans and not just one group?????

*edit*

You answered the abortion part but I see you mentioned nothing about VAWA

Wheres the responce for that one?

Answer 3

Half the post-feminist feminists, equalists and traditionalists on Yahoo! Answers are women. The fact that you would single the guys out is an example of why I don't like feminism.

"Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses."

-Camille Paglia

Answer 4

Check your facts ...I'm a woman and I'm scared of feminists, too.

Answer 5

I like feminists and i am not threatened by them.

All feminism is human rights but it produces a byproduct called 'men-hating'. Most honest feminists would agree on that.

Many men are threatened by feminists because many feminists are biased and want more than just equality. I have seen few feminists who were plain sexists. If equality is what they want they should not discriminate in any manner. This could be the reason why they put down feminists.

Answer 6

Us men arent scared by it but like the title says, threatened. We are b/c feministic talk may seem 2 some like an assault on men and generally their pride.

Answer 7

agreed.

Answer 8

You mean like Way?  He tries to say hes not a misogynist but then calls a woman a 'chick'. Yeah he is.   Tell Donald Trump to open up a school for boys- oprah opened up her school because there were none for females.  

As for male teachers - the proportion of male administrators to teachers is much higher than for females.    Men may be 10% of the teachers but they are 50% of the administrators.  Is that equal?

Why are women supposed to argue against the use of the word dude- I will tell you I have never used it.    You don't like it YOU protest it.   As I said before get some rich guy to open up a school for those boys.

Answer 9

I think it's the other way around.

Answer 10

Male teacher:  Are you only concerned with the male suicide rates? Are you concerned only with males leaving the teaching profession? Truth is, women leave the profession of teaching for many reasons, the same and different from their male counterparts.  Also, young females who are pressured into s*x or drugs or belittled by society also commit suicide out of the same troubles as young men. You seem to be incorrectly linking suicide to post feminist thinking. You seem to be incorrectly linking underpaid teaching positions to the number of male teachers who walk away from their jobs.

I think what you need to know is that the opposition to your thought process is also incredibly viable. I, as a professional woman see hate and prejudice towards women every day that you are either ignoring or do not seek because it does not affect you.

I see women being turned into sexual objects daily by the same billboards you simply see as "fine". I see women dressing the way they want to dress and men acting as though they can insult them by talking in disgusting fashions toward them and many times with disdain if the women choose not to go home with them. I see you, a grown man claiming that if a bank is robbed it is because it had money inside and it should expect to be robbed. Only, you are using women dressed in clothing that shows off their bodies as the bank. Let's be fair sir.

Answer 11

You answered your own question; uneducated and misinformed, but you could also add the fact that they have nothing better to do with their time.

Not all feminists have the right idea though.

Answer 12

They are?

Answer 13

I don't expect anyone to willingly and happily give up his privileges.

Answer 14

I think it's only a gut-reaction to the superiority-complex that they experience on a personal level with women who tout the banner of feminism to recieve societal advantages- not the ideology of equal rights itself with most men who wrinkle their nose in disgust at the word.

I have no problem with feminism, but as a young man who grew up in post-feminist society i have been exposed constantly, on television, and in person to hardcore feminist double standard - "men are b******s" quotes and the ideology being expressed, either seriously or with glibness- without any reaction. I've watched countless men s***w up on advertisements and being laughed at in a way that women would find disgusting, even objectifying. i've seen it become normative for women to flaunt their sexuality whilst berating sexual attention from men, who are 'pigs'.  I see also, that the plight of young men in todays age with their unprecedentedly high suicide rates and mental health issues are ignored, whilst Oprah opens up a girls school in Africa and an advertisement with a chick in lingerie on it is taken down on the street, and all this time i hear women talk about the glass ceiling and sexism at work.  In my own career as a male teacher, i face so many ignored obstacles in my profession- male teachers leave the profession at an alarming rate due to these obstacles, and yet, nothing is done to identify or remedy them.

I am not sexist, i am not anti-feminist, but i do see this double standard, and unfortunately, i think that humanity has a lot to learn about equality.

btw, i understand if you don't appreciate my comments, but in addition to a thumbs-down, i would like some kind of dialogue to the point i have raised as well, i am under the impression that it is valid.

edit:

Molly - of course i'm not only concerned with male suicide rates, but youth male suicide is what has risen exponentially and sociological studies that i've read have pointed to it being due to issues of societal displacement, the lack of the 'breadwinner' role, is that a symptom of feminism, i leave that too you- but there has never been a program, or any funding or interest on an issue that i see all the time in my profession.

In regards to only being concerned about male teachers, again you, misjudge me, just because i raise an ignored concern about men and not women- it's only because this is the issue that is pertinent to this dialogue- and it is completely ignored- do you know that if a child is physically disabled and needs mobility assistance, i am not allowed to render this assistance but rather, must ask a female staff member to do this? Has such a concern ever crossed your mind? I doubt it, but i do not blame you for it, we can only speak of things in our own experience, also, i never spoke of banks, your analogy is completely fallacious and meant to villify -let's be fair, maam.



also, to the 'professor' who is as wrong as it gets really;

the context of my use of the word chick is that it is a lingerie model in a s**y ad- that you attribute the hatred of women to me by this appellation is only more pointed of your double standard. I bet you've never been so offended by the word dude. Right? Also, do you really truly think the brothers of those girls (taken from poverty-stricken environments) who are student's at Oprah's school have ANY chance of an education?

I do appreciate the dialogue though.

'EDIT:

Thanks for responding to my answer, sorry that my answer is getting so long but i have to reply to this, first, any man who ridicules women in the workplace on a gender-bias, should be prosecuted, hands-down- as should any who do on the basis of the other gender or any of the races- i'm not arguing against equality and i'm 100 percent aware that bigots exist of all creeds and genders- this is why there exists now, a legal framework to prosecute such injustices- there are also  legal action groups and support groups and programs and inititiatives and fine people like yourself to campaign to address inequality where it exists- i'm only speaking of the pervading societal double standard, from my own point of view, i'm answering your question, specifically, i'm trying not to write a manifesto!

Now this.

" Only 1000 times worse! Women were not even ALLOWED an education until the 1900's!"

I have never liked this reasoning, people don't have historical memories- children who are born now have no historical memory of the past, you weren't alive in the 1900's! You're ancestors almost definately have benefitted at one point or another from historical injustices of women, of other races, is the land you're living on now yours by ancestry or was somebody once killed so you could buy it? We are all the benefactors of horrid injustices- we need to address what is current and be vigilant not to be blind to injustice again- not pine over a past that we do not, as entities, have.

Answer 15

The irony is women had to be controlled since year dot and we put up with it until recently, yet men feel threatened by the same control that women endured.  Who's having the last laugh?