The Rich Port wrote:While I would prefer that men's rights, as a non-issue as presented by MRAs, not be discussed, I get the feeling it won't be that simple, since it never is, so, I might as well say my piece.
Men face discrimination, but not from women. Rather, they face discrimination by the conservative patriarchy that has dominated politics for thousands of years. Within that conservative patriarchy lie every single issue that has affected both men and women for those same thousands of years: mental illness as weakness (as if willpower is all that it takes to overcome schizophrenia, for example), the denial of rape of men (because men can't be raped by women, they're physically stronger than women, etc.), excessive punishment (men do more damage to society, they commit more violent crimes, we need to be harsher on criminals, rehabilitation doesn't work), denial of parental rights (a classic, women are the nurturers, they're the ones that stay at home to raise children while men go out to work), and, in the military, the disposable nature of men, the physical superiority of men, the mental superiority of men, the viciousness inherent in men, all of which means they're the "Grunts" that die by the thousands in pointless conflicts to satisfy the same patriarchy of rich, white men, who have been passing around these older-than-dirt stereotypes since the beginning of civilization.
Absolutely the MRM is a reactionary movement, when the denial of the patriarchy and the equality of men and women is something that the Feminist movement has been fighting for and continues to fight for in the contemporary.
By denying that patriarchy, the Men's Rights Movement does more damage to malekind than anything "feminazis" do today.
There's pretty scarce evidence that feminism has been fighting to get female rapistsof men recognized as rapists, female domestic abusers punished, to make child custody more gender neutral, to get more domestic violence shelters that are open to men, to make selective service gender neutral, to undo the stigma regarding males and mental health, to fix the gender gap in the Justice system, to remove the sexism against male teachers, or any of the other issues facing men.
Your claim that feminism fights the patriarchy in this way is suspicious at best and downright delusional at worst.