Publishers note: The following article is not a typical article for AVFM. The material in it will look familiar, even fundamental. It is presented here as a part of a special project we are undertaking to provide an interactive site feature designed to educate people about modern misandry on a global scale.
There will be many more of these articles to come, each from a different country. We will also be soliciting readers in different countries to submit articles similar to this one. Over time we hope to gather an overview article from every country affected by modern misandry. PE
The United States is one of the world’s leading nations in what has been called the sexual revolution. In this country, feminism – a movement claiming to be about equality between sexes — has flourished and grown in power and influence quite impressively over the past fifty years.
While focused on social and political advances for women, proponents of feminism also allege they are invested in freeing both sexes from historically imposed sex-based constraints and disadvantages. The idea is that by freeing one sex from the limitations of gender roles, you invariably must free the other.
True to some of those claims, feminism has fostered many advances for women. Those changes are apparent in the degree of freedom and opportunity now afforded women in this culture; in reproductive rights, education, employment and in the ability to be full participants in the governance of their own lives and in the country in which they live. There is very little, if any, systemic discrimination against women remaining in the United States any more.
Unlike feminism’s claim to embody equality, however, it has done little to nothing about sex role based disadvantages faced by men. Those problems, fifty years after the advent of popular feminism, remain unaddressed and in many cases have significantly worsened. Men continue to be the primary victims of suicide, violence, homelessness, educational failure, legal discrimination and a startling array of other issues too numerous to list here. You can view a much more complete list of the problems, with sources, at the following link.
http://www.avoiceformen.com/activism/about/
How did we get from a movement for sexual equality to a society that only paid attention to the problems of one sex?
As the women’s movement became more popular and powerful, it also became more narrow, ideological and punitively anti-male. The movement has shifted from an agenda to promote the issues of women, to an agenda that actively thwarts efforts to identify, measure and solve problems faced by men and boys.
That counterproductive agenda is a product of what we call misandry, or the hatred and/or fear of men and boys.
Ironically, feminist misandry is exacerbated and amplified by feminists first distorting, then exploiting and capitalizing on traditional gender roles, rather than ending them.
Men have been trained and socialized for uncounted centuries of human history to sacrifice without complaint, to shoulder the lion’s share of responsibility for protecting and providing for families and the society around them. They are trained, quite literally, to be willing to die if that is what it takes to accomplish those objectives.
Rather than push for women to truly break free of their gender role and to equally share this burdensome weight of social responsibility with men, the feminist movement has become one of privilege and abject opportunism, seeking only the benefits of newfound political and social power while clinging tightly to benefits already conferred on women from the practice of chivalry and other traditional female-only entitlements.
They have revised and rewritten the social contract between men and women, to one driven by misandry and dependent on men staying true to their gender roles while women singularly avail themselves to the benefits of the sexual revolution. This lopsided arrangement comes at an extreme cost, and it is men and boys who are paying it.
If you return to the AVFM World Map of Misandry (available soon) and hover over the flag of the United States you will find another list of links, all of which point you directly to examples, articles and research that illustrate the presence and negative consequences of misandry in American culture.
