Many people suppose that the eugenics-inspired, genocidal ideation-styled, violent authoritarian types of feminist utopian philosophy find their source exclusively in ideology. The fact is that the mentality called misandric fixation need not arise through the influence of ideology, as history shows.
Gold-digger. The very phrase will get you tarred in many circles as a “misogynist.” The interesting thing is, the phrase came from history, and it came about because of the way some people were actually behaving.
Back in 1893 Colorado passed a laws granting women full voting rights. The following year, three women were elected to the Colorado House of Representatives. Did this new political development put an end to the fair sex’s unconscionable and constant suffering under the iron domination of The Patriarchy?
We often think the Men’s Human Rights Movement is new. It is not, although it has gone in multiple waves. The current wave of the MHRM, which we nowadays dub the “second wave,” owes much to the first wave, made up of men like Reuben Kidd.
Welcome to the disruptive world of facts, the world of Gonzo History. Today, Robert St. Estephe dedicates his work to dedicated to R. Tod Kelly, Alyssa Pry, Alexia Valiente and Elizabeth Vargas, the group of mainstream journalists who managed to miss the point entirely of the Men’s Human Rights Movement, all without a lot of help.
Once upon a time there was an oppressive patriarchy. This nasty “archy” was, for members of the inherently non-violent sex, one huge day-in and day-out 24-hour living hell In this Great Age of the Oppression women were thwacked my husbands wielding sticks no wider than your thumb-drive. Right?
Intersectionality: the study of how various forms of human rights violations and oppressions overlap and reinforce each other. Here we see a case illustrating the ‘intersectionality’ of quite a few oppressive institutions: proxy violence, relational aggression, refusal to accept responsibility for one’s actions, the ethos of male disposability, plus “a woman’s prerogative to change her mind.”
Victims of acid attacks are often in the news these days. An interesting bit of history is that at one time acid-throwing was, like poisoning, considered woman’s weapon against men.
The history of efforts to hold women equally culpable for violence and held to the same standards as men when they commit crimes is longer than you may think. Robert St. Estephe returns with some historical examples that should not surprise, but somehow do.
Even though ideology helps, misandric fixation need not arise through it. Robert St. Estephe observes that it goes back centuries.
