Galloism wrote:Imperializt Russia wrote:"Rejecting women" (in this context, celibacy) and "being a homosexual male" are not the same thing. And indeed, many high society types who have retained a modicum of fame either were gay or rumoured to be such. The enforcement of anti-homosexuality in the UK has been extremely classist, right up to and indeed beyond its partial and eventual total decriminalisation.
If you reject women because of your perceived treatment by women, and/or how you worry women might "treat" you in future, you are a bad person with irrational concerns.
Eh, I'm not sure it's an irrational concern. Overblown perhaps, but not per se irrational.
Keep in mind - women abuse their partners at roughly equal rates to men, but men are arrested for being abused, and no one will believe them. Almost a million men are raped by their partners each year, but people by and large side with their rapists. Women, like men, also sabotage birth control to "trap" their partners into this abusive relationship - except women have the social freedom to leave, while men are socially shamed and told to "man up".
And if any of this abuse or rape results in a child, holy shit are you fucked. The state will require you to support your abusive rapist partner for 18 years. If you don't stay and endure the beatings, you're alternatively awful for leaving your abuser or leaving your child in the hands of your abuser. Oh, and if you try to get your child away from your abuser, you probably are viewed as being the abuser. Therefore, your chances of success are slim and you'll be vilified in any case.
Overblown? Perhaps. Irrational? Not a chance. They decided it wasn't worth the risk. I disagree, but that's their choice.
Much like political lesbianism, which has similar motivations (except without the state sponsored reinforcement of abuse).
In case you're not familiar with political lesbians, they are straight women who "become gay" because they want to reject men.
Being told to man up after facing trauma is indeed, the causation of a culture that enforces toxic masculinity and toxic femininity. None of these problems were caused by feminists, but by pre-set ideals that men are strong and cold and women are weak and warm, thus the judicial system often sides with either depending on the issue and the culture they live in.
Luckily, there are countries that don't have juries/judges deciding the sentences but pre-set laws to decide who gets what for which crimes, though these countries often have too low jail times to even feel like a punishment to a rapist of either sex.
" is just so ironic. I had a few but lost em while moving