'Oh, please' yourself. I've been seeing it, alongside reverse-racism, everywhere I go lately. And the rhetoric you're spouting here is word-for-word exactly what they all say. It leads me to question if anyone out there who claims to have a mind of their own actually does.
To suggest or imply that one gender's plight is more serious or more important than another's is sexist; the same way suggesting or implying one race or ethnicity's plight is more serious or more important than another's is racist. The more political branches of the punk scene are taking the more 'common' social prejudices and over-compensating for them by reversing the same prejudice towards anyone who is white, heterosexual, or male. It's fucked-up and doesn't solve any social issues at all; it just alienates and confuses people who go to the punk scene in hopes of finding a safe place, as well as distracts from the real social issues at hand.
Feminism as a movement isn't exclusive to a certain gender, as it's supposed to be fighting for equal treatment and opportunity for females. Somewhere along the way, in some sectors at least, it has become a sexist entity in itself, rejecting, ignoring, or denying outright that males can be feminists and, just like females, experience similar, albeit in different ways, forms of sexism, oppression, pressure, and abuse.
Male-on-female, male-on-male, female-on-male, female-on-female, and beyond all exist. Period.
What is all this talk of 'privilege'? It is my personal belief that your class is the deciding factor, above all, of privilege. Sure, unfortunately, we still live in a country (and maybe society) where males have certain privileges that females do not. We haven't come that far, and it's very sad. However, I did not choose my skin color, my anatomy, or my class upon being born into this world, the same way no one gay chose their sexual preference, no one transgender chose their anatomy, no one black chose their skin color; I did not choose this 'privilege'. And because this privilege is not my choice, I should not be rejected or have my opinions deemed less meaningful just because I happen to be a 'white, heterosexual male'. It is not always the individual that helps perpetuate the social injustices or roles placed on us at birth, it's the powers that be: the employers who choose the employees, the government figures who choose the laws, the authority figures who choose the criminals, the religions who choose the sinners, et cetera. What privileges I do or do not have is irrelevant to the real issues.
To suggest or imply that one gender's plight is more serious or more important than another's is sexist; the same way suggesting or implying one race or ethnicity's plight is more serious or more important than another's is racist. The more political branches of the punk scene are taking the more 'common' social prejudices and over-compensating for them by reversing the same prejudice towards anyone who is white, heterosexual, or male. It's fucked-up and doesn't solve any social issues at all; it just alienates and confuses people who go to the punk scene in hopes of finding a safe place, as well as distracts from the real social issues at hand.
Feminism as a movement isn't exclusive to a certain gender, as it's supposed to be fighting for equal treatment and opportunity for females. Somewhere along the way, in some sectors at least, it has become a sexist entity in itself, rejecting, ignoring, or denying outright that males can be feminists and, just like females, experience similar, albeit in different ways, forms of sexism, oppression, pressure, and abuse.
Male-on-female, male-on-male, female-on-male, female-on-female, and beyond all exist. Period.
What is all this talk of 'privilege'? It is my personal belief that your class is the deciding factor, above all, of privilege. Sure, unfortunately, we still live in a country (and maybe society) where males have certain privileges that females do not. We haven't come that far, and it's very sad. However, I did not choose my skin color, my anatomy, or my class upon being born into this world, the same way no one gay chose their sexual preference, no one transgender chose their anatomy, no one black chose their skin color; I did not choose this 'privilege'. And because this privilege is not my choice, I should not be rejected or have my opinions deemed less meaningful just because I happen to be a 'white, heterosexual male'. It is not always the individual that helps perpetuate the social injustices or roles placed on us at birth, it's the powers that be: the employers who choose the employees, the government figures who choose the laws, the authority figures who choose the criminals, the religions who choose the sinners, et cetera. What privileges I do or do not have is irrelevant to the real issues.
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