I recently discovered this phenomenon when I inadvertently walked into a beehive of feminists on a friend's Wife's Facebook post. I took exception to a link to a story that discussed putrid behaviour toward a female and the article attributed this behaviour to men and questioned the upbringing of men and what they learn at school, home and through the Internet etc.
I casually mentioned perhaps the author should have qualified the attribution to 'these men' or 'these types and men' and WOW did I push the feminist d-day button! I won't go into specifics but amongst other things I am apparently a misogynist hiding behind a Wife and children, I have no concept of empathy and I have no place pointing out that the behaviour of a few should not be attributed to all. They then went on to give me dozens of example of predatory behaviour of men toward women from whistling at them to home invasion and rape to murder.
One rather batshit crazy one continually referred to #notallmen and used (not all men) in a sarcastic manner and I looked it up to discover that it is a feminist catch cry whereby they can make whatever discriminatory, sexist and downright disgraceful comment they like about men in general and once you point out that not all men conduct in that behaviour we are being misogynistic and butting in on female conversations and validating our sense of superiority over females.
I pointed out that if I were to draw similar comparisons with the few Aboriginal people I come into to contact with at the train station and apply that to the Aboriginal people as a whole I would be called a racist. This further enraged the feminists as I was now diminishing their experiences of being targeted by comparing my own experiences.
My conclusions from the experience is that if we apply a broad brush to a race we are called racist, if we apply the broad brush to females we are sexist but if females apply a broad brush to men they are called feminists and that as a middle class, white, male Australian I am expected to ensure everything I do and say is politically correct but never question it when I am targeted because of my gender.
Should we just suck it up accept this lot in life or do we need to start speaking up when we are generalised just like ethnic groups and female groups would?
I casually mentioned perhaps the author should have qualified the attribution to 'these men' or 'these types and men' and WOW did I push the feminist d-day button! I won't go into specifics but amongst other things I am apparently a misogynist hiding behind a Wife and children, I have no concept of empathy and I have no place pointing out that the behaviour of a few should not be attributed to all. They then went on to give me dozens of example of predatory behaviour of men toward women from whistling at them to home invasion and rape to murder.
One rather batshit crazy one continually referred to #notallmen and used (not all men) in a sarcastic manner and I looked it up to discover that it is a feminist catch cry whereby they can make whatever discriminatory, sexist and downright disgraceful comment they like about men in general and once you point out that not all men conduct in that behaviour we are being misogynistic and butting in on female conversations and validating our sense of superiority over females.
I pointed out that if I were to draw similar comparisons with the few Aboriginal people I come into to contact with at the train station and apply that to the Aboriginal people as a whole I would be called a racist. This further enraged the feminists as I was now diminishing their experiences of being targeted by comparing my own experiences.
My conclusions from the experience is that if we apply a broad brush to a race we are called racist, if we apply the broad brush to females we are sexist but if females apply a broad brush to men they are called feminists and that as a middle class, white, male Australian I am expected to ensure everything I do and say is politically correct but never question it when I am targeted because of my gender.
Should we just suck it up accept this lot in life or do we need to start speaking up when we are generalised just like ethnic groups and female groups would?
