Why is it feminism to stand up for women's rights but "whining misogyny" to stand up for men's rights?

Question

catholic: I think you just proved my point. PS I am not American nor in the USA.

Answer 1

It isnt. I think men should be allowed to stand up and fight against the treatment of fathers when they divorce. I think it's unfair, for example.

I do think that whining misogyny is when men slag of women and feminists and say things like 'That stupid cow got my job... she should go back to the kitchen where she is meant to work.' Which is quite commong, sadly.

Answer 2

Feminists are femi-n***s.

There are many similarities.

Answer 3

It's traditionally called "double standards" aka hypocrisy. It is based on their fear or hate of men and boys.

Hatred is feminism's motivating force. Without it feminism would soon crumble because it is the man-haters and their manginas who hold the movement together.

It is not generally realised that the founders of modern feminism were borderline psychotics with pronounced sado-narcissistic traits. Like attracts like and so disordered women continue to be attracted into the feminist ranks right up to this present day.

Answer 4

If you were actually doing something about men's rights, it would be different. But complaining about women all day long on GWS does not count as "standing up for men's rights."

Answer 5

For the same reason that a girl who hits a boy and then cries when she's hit back is in the right and the boy is in the wrong.

But yes, the word "whining" should be banned. You can basically hear the person who uses it saying: "I know your complaints are legitimate, so I'm going to obfuscate by attacking your manhood".

Take it like a man David G, take it like a man.

Answer 6

Thank you for acknowledging that feminsim is purely ideology which espouses basic rights for women...men who feel disenfranchised,alienated and oppressed  must acknowledge that it makes no sense to blame women for that as it is still men who hold socio-political power. Perhaps if those men focused their attention onto the inherent class oppressions they face in the structure which subordinates women, they may feel more allied to 'feminists.'

But while we are encouraged to 'hate' one another the status quo remains! Divide and rule and all that!

Answer 7

Great question-we wont' see too many misandrists who will answer this question.  They stay away from the harder questions!  :D  

Answer:  It's easier to paint your opponent as a subhuman and therefore ok to target, hurt, maim and yes, even kill innocents.  By saying "you don't have a right to complain" misandrists are treating men the way they claim some men have treated women.  Great logic and bodes ill for the future.

Now be quiet, hand over your children (or any future children) your job, housing and your country.

Oh and off to Siberia for 10 years hard labor for

er...let's see Directive #666 "thinking about having rights."

Answer 8

Because thee are no issues with "men's rights." Men have vastly more rights and privileges than women (especially white males) in virtually every venue of every society. Men still own 90% of the world's wealth and 99% of the world's property. Even in the west where women are in theory equal under the law, men still enjoy myriad privileges and opportunities that are denied to women, and most men still passively or actively work hard to keep women "in their place." (The huge number of male trolls in here pretty much demonstrates that.)

So yes, when men claim "their rights" are somehow being infringed or threatened by feminism, it's whining.

Feminism isn't about standing up for "women's rights" either, but that canard is so firmly entrenched in anti-feminist mythology that it's hardly worth mentioning.

Answer 9

It comes down to who can most effectively attach labels. Feminism hides behind a veil of sanctity thereby anything that could distract us from their "plight" must be bad by their definitions. I prefered the first wave

Answer 10

you are a bad boy, we are good for you

Answer 11

I don't know why?  Why do you consider standing up for male rights to be "whining misogyny"; I don't.  I usually consider them men's activist and nothing wrong with them.  However it depends on what issues they are discussing and how they present them.   Why is standing up for women's rights as a feminist some how mean that you hate men, marriage, and kids?   Or that you are a L*****n who wants to see all men die.   I guess both genders have a lot of fearful members who would rather insult and chalk comments up to the genders anger and turn it away from the insulter's own fear of the incompetence.

Answer 12

Because when a feminist stands up for women's rights, it's saying "gender is not a reason, it's a fact".

The people who created "Men's rights" movement invented it specifically to attack the laws and ammendments being put in place in order to protect a female's rights as a human being (such as opposing the new law that says you cannot turn somebody away from a sports team on the basis of gender) because they thought things were fine the way they were.

If they thought things were fine back when women made less because of her v****a, couldn't get on sports teams because of her v****a, had no court protection if her husband left her after years of housewifery for him, and couldn't be president because of her v****a... then they hate women and want to see them oppressed.

Hence the "whining misogny" label that they've earned.

Answer 13

Because it is, ok!?  Stop whining or you sleep on the sofa again!!    ; )

Answer 14

True feminism, by definition, should include the freeing of men from their shackles of attributed behavior pattern, if the woman in question, does not feel this way, then she is not a feminist.....

Answer 15

Men are pigs obviously...

Seriously, we just don't fight back. Woman are too beautiful to fight with and so we take it because we are men.

Answer 16

It's not unless the person talking about it actually is a misogynistic whiner.

Answer 17

Traditionalist thought:  Men are supposed to take the bad stuff and protect the women.

Feminist thought:  Women have been oppressed for 6,000 years by men.

Generalizations I know, but there's a lot of truth to those views.  Either way, men are supposed to just stand back and suck it up when wrongs are done to us.  We can't win with anybody.