You had bad things happen to you because that is life.
Life does not have to be this way. Life does not involve your parents not taking care of you for a lot of people.
it means that as men you are granted more concessions, more respect, more choices and more opportunities than women in the same situation are. Hey, don't forget to mention that being born British also means I get to have an NHS that saved my life, and that lots of Americans don't get that option. Even so, I still think that everyone ought to have healthcare. By the same token, I ought to have had a decent childhood - yes, even me.
as men you are granted more concessions, more respect, more choices and more opportunities than women in the same situation are. I get that this is true - but this is not to say that this is how it should be, or that I approve of such things. One of the things missing from the ' feminist manifesto' if you want to use the term is "ok, what party do we vote for, what steps do you want me to take to eradicate this problem - where do we start, even" ?
I read 'The war Against Women' by Marylynne French , many years ago. Now she outlines what the problem is - but towards the end of the book, I am thinking "so what is the answer, where are the proposed solutions?" Sadly , the book never told me.
I really hope that the ' 4th wave' that you speak of will clearly spell out the proposed solutions. Will even take the radical step of saying ' yes, there is a solution, something that ~I~ can do to fix what needs fixing.' However, I think that the Green Party, in England at least, is already on it - a political system that works for everyone and not just the upper classes in our society and the western nations in the world. I mean, there are more specifics to go through than that, but that is it in a nutshell. Reform, not revolution.
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Life does not have to be this way. Life does not involve your parents not taking care of you for a lot of people.
it means that as men you are granted more concessions, more respect, more choices and more opportunities than women in the same situation are.
Hey, don't forget to mention that being born British also means I get to have an NHS that saved my life, and that lots of Americans don't get that option. Even so, I still think that everyone ought to have healthcare. By the same token, I ought to have had a decent childhood - yes, even me.
as men you are granted more concessions, more respect, more choices and more opportunities than women in the same situation are.
I get that this is true - but this is not to say that this is how it should be, or that I approve of such things. One of the things missing from the ' feminist manifesto' if you want to use the term is "ok, what party do we vote for, what steps do you want me to take to eradicate this problem - where do we start, even" ?
I read 'The war Against Women' by Marylynne French , many years ago. Now she outlines what the problem is - but towards the end of the book, I am thinking "so what is the answer, where are the proposed solutions?" Sadly , the book never told me.
I really hope that the ' 4th wave' that you speak of will clearly spell out the proposed solutions. Will even take the radical step of saying ' yes, there is a solution, something that ~I~ can do to fix what needs fixing.' However, I think that the Green Party, in England at least, is already on it - a political system that works for everyone and not just the upper classes in our society and the western nations in the world.
I mean, there are more specifics to go through than that, but that is it in a nutshell. Reform, not revolution.