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Is Feminism Needed in the First World?

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What's your opinion on Third Wave feminism in Western Europe, Canada, and the U.S.? Do you think it's necessary and what for? What issues is the movement actually trying to solve, beside the choice to have an abortion, which many egalitarians are already fighting for? I really haven't seen Third Wave feminist do anything but complain on the internet. Many of them actually seem to be straight out sexist as well. I get that it is needed in underdeveloped countries where the rights and personal freedoms of people often take a back seat to religion, but what is the point of it here? I don't think there really is any. It seems to be mainly people who feel as they should be granted a pass in life because in the past, members of the same group had been oppressed or denied the same freedoms as others. What rights do women lack that men have? The whole point of feminism is to make women equal to men and that appears to already be the case in the west. [b]Edit #1[/b]~ This was not meant to be a penis poll, it just... kind of turned out that way.
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  • Edited by Some Black Guy: 3/8/2016 11:32:47 PM
    [b][u]Government Sponsored Sexism[/u][/b] 1) Real sexism is almost no shelters for male victims of domestic violence. 2) Real sexism is men getting harsher punishments for the same crime. 3) Real sexism is countries with compulsorily military service for men. 4) Real sexism, courts that takes children from fathers based on gender. 5) Men cannot even vote or get citizenship without enrolling for the draft.  6) Real sexism is numerous government departments dealing with women's issues but none dealing with men's issues. 7) Male infant circumcision/genital mutilation is legal and performed widely and even completely socially accepted but female genital mutilation is not. 8) A young boy -blam!- by a woman can be forced to pay child support to his rapist if she gets pregnant, that's real sexism. 9) Many countries do not even recognize female on male -blam!-. It can maximally only amount to “sexual assault” that's real sexism.  10) Real sexism is having no special laws like VAWA to protect men, even though men are the majority of victims of violent crime. 11) There are drives to fill quotas for women for the high paid roles but not in the dangerous jobs dominated by men, thats real sexism. 12) In the army, police, fire service or any other position women have to meet much lower physical standards than men. 13) Real sexism is services for men only given a fraction of the funds that services for women are given at a government and a social level. 14) For the same crime, irrespective of the gender of the offender, the perpetrator gets more punishment if the victim is female rather than male. 15) Most divorce laws are skewed against men, men can lose half his properly, money and children to a woman who decides to leave him. He is expected to pay for this betrayal, especially if he has already provided for and supported her, this is real sexism. [b][u]Social sexism against men[/u][/b] 16) Real sexism is being mocked when -blam!- because you're a man. 17) Men are expected to not show emotion and remain stoic at all times. 18) Victim blaming is acceptable ONLY when men are the victims and women the perpetrator. This is real sexism. 19) Real sexism is having your gender stereotyped by society as being violent, abusers, etc. 20) Men’s lives are given less value in any emergency situation. 21) Male children are often given harsher punishments by teachers for the same level of mischief as girls. 22) Young boys are given less care and attention by parents than girls and beaten over twice as often as girls by parents. 23) Violence against men by women is much more socially acceptable. 24) Affirmative action for women only in jobs, education, grants, etc. 25) Men enrolled in are often given tougher, more dangerous tasks to perform than women in the same post (in a job) This is real sexism. 27) Males who complain about being objectified are shamed as being “mentally fragile” or their sexuality is questioned. This is real sexism. 28) Men do not have the privilege of showing affection to each other in public as women without people questioning their sexuality. 29) Men are expected to ask women out, pay for dates, decide on the venue – if she rejects him he is often labelled creepy or needy. 30) If a man slaps a woman, he is an abuser and a monster, If a woman slaps a man, “he must have done something to annoy her” 31) When a man breaks up with a woman, he is called a “jerk”. When a woman dumps a man, “he must have failed her somehow” 32) Men are excluded from many positions such as babysitters, etc. 33) Young men having to pay higher car insurance is acceptable but the idea of women having to pay more for health insurance is not. 34) Despite the fact that the real victims of sexual discrimination are men the term sexual discrimination usually excludes men and the vast majority of surveys and news stories about sexual discrimination dont include men. 35) Our culture and media makes the assumption of men as guilty, violent offenders where as women are given special treatment at every turn. 36) In modern movies and TV violence against men is glorified but violence against women is regarded as especially horrific. 37) Many news reports will read the number of people killed and then highlight women and children as more tragic than male death. EG: "37 people were killed in a bus crash including 17 women" 38) Men are expected to carry heavy things for women, give up their seats for women, shovel snow, mow gardens and do any other job involving manual labour, that women do not wish to perform. 39) Real sexism is a society where men are taught that a man's role is to work, provide, pay and die in order to ensure a woman's happiness. 40) Real sexism is the fact that men working longer hours in harder more dangerous jobs to earn more money to pay for women's choices is being turned into a weapon against men. www.realsexism.com

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    • No but equality is needed. If I have to lift 60KG as a job requirement then so should a female worker especially if the Jon 'needs' such equality to ensure the safety of the team Firefighters soldiers etc. I wouldn't want someone watching my back that can't physically do the same Job as me wether male or female.

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    • my penile poll senses have to fail me.

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    • Name one thing feminists have done to further the human race as a whole. There's your answer.

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      • This feed is why gamers get such a bad rap

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        • In memory of those that voted yes for the sake of the penis poll. RIP

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          • *sacrifices self for the poll, presses top button*

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            • Its gone too far

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              • Edited by The Researcher: 3/11/2016 9:44:51 PM
                [quote]Is meninism need in the first world?[/quote] Fix'd the title - http://www.realsexism.com/ ~80% is true that if not ~90% (in the link)

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              • Yes. I believe women are far superior to men. They need to be above us, not equal.

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              • Edited by Sabre013: 3/10/2016 4:11:59 AM
                Although I've already posted here, here' something else. Some crazy feminazi was super angry that we found water on Mars and said the discovery was sexist. She claimed that it was sexist that we found water on Mars, the masculine planet, when we could be doing the same on Venus, the feminine planet. There is a long list of reasons we can't find, and didn't look for, water on Venus. 1) Atmosphere is almost completely carbon dioxide. 96 percent carbon dioxide in fact. This comes in again later but it also doesn't help a few things. The only oxygen in the Venetian atmosphere is in the 20ppm of water vapor. That means one out of every 50000 parts of the atmosphere is water vapor. Yea, that's bad. Earth's atmosphere is ~20% oxygen in any given space, so let's compare that percentage to the percentage of oxygen in the same area from everest's peak. At the peak of Mount Everest, you have 33% of the ~20% oxygen at sea level. This means that the air at the top of Mount Everest is ~6.6% oxygen in the same area due to the fact that the air at the peak is much thinner at everest's peak than at sea level. People have to bring bottled oxygen up there or they lose proper judgment or pass out. That's with 6.6% oxygen in the same area. Venus has .00002% oxygen in the same area. Not surviving, and no water. 2) Acid rain. Before people say we can just make a ship or use space suits, we can't. Venus has acid rain, and it is extremely corrosive. Nearly every time we've sent probes we've lost contact in about 30 minutes of them entering the atmosphere because the acid rain destroys them. One landed successfully, but it transmitted for only 20 minutes before going dark. Enough said there. 3) It's F***ING HOT and the barometric pressure is stupidly high. Basically, if you were to go outside right now and feel the air push down on you, we can say that is about average for earth. Multiply that feeling by 92. Venus's atmosphere is x92 heavier than earth's. But for those not scientifically inclined, let me explain how hot it is on Venus. Because the atmosphere is almost entirely carbon dioxide, heat gets stuck there. A lot of heat. Earth's surface temp averages at 287K, which is about 57 degrees fahrenheit and about 14 degrees Celsius. Venus's average surface temp is about 735K, which is 863 degrees fahrenheit and about 462 degrees Celsius. Yea, it's hotter than the surface of mercury people and Mercury is right next to the sun. So yea, I'd say there's no water on Venus. Scientists proved it in the 70s and man can't bring water to Venus and not die. Venus cannot support life. So the feminazis can shut up and stop asking me about it.

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                • Has no one noticed this was meant to be a penis poll yet?

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                  • It needs equality, not feminism.

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                  • Don't even get me started...

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                    • They already have equal rights. And in some cases, more than equal rights.

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                      • Hello I am grill and I am treated equally everywhere I go. My boyfriend and I were both just hired at the same store, he has a degree and I don't, we both are getting $7.50/hr. If anything, I'm given special treatment for being a girl. No one holds the door open for my boyfriend when he's 50 steps away. Lol

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                      • You know, I don't mind, once when I was 7 years old, I sat on a banana, and that of course changed my whole life. -Hugh Neutron

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                      • Nope

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                      • Cool this turned into a penis poll

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                        • This penis poll is a symbol of the patriarchy's control over society.

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                        • This is the BEST thought out poll ever,[spoiler][b][i]i mean, look at it.[/i][/b][/spoiler]

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                        • I do believe in women's right. I also do believe that there is a gender imbalance between males and females. However, SOME (notice I said some, not all) woman's are taking it that step further, and wanting more rights than men's. The point of feminism is to have equality, not for woman's to take over men's. Why is it called feminism if it's for equality for BOTH sexes? I truly believe in equal rights for both man and woman, but what I don't agree in is one gender dominating the other, like men's dominating woman's now, or woman's dominating men's like what some feminist wants. It is suppose to be equal for both genders.

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                          • I at least want them to have equal pay if they do the same job just as well as myself.

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                            • Only equality-based feminism.

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                            • Edited by zose: 3/10/2016 5:17:19 AM
                              I've actually seen a feminist post stated that now that scientists have found a way to impregnate woman with bone marrow that the ONLY real purpose men severed was void and they should ALL be killed off. I was completely stunned. Like I thought feminism was all about equality but everywhere I look it's a sexist hate movement against men. Edit 1: https://witchwind.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/utopia-what-would-a-womens-society-look-like/ The link is not the same post as the one i saw but is still the same thing. Credit goes to Number16BusStop for showing me this site.

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                              • How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb? [spoiler]None, they can't change anything[/spoiler]

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