This. Is. Abusive.

Men need friends. Men need acquaintances. Men need peers. Men need people to cheer them on and notice their accomplishments and tell them that their hair looks good. Men need inside jokes with their coworkers and friends they can turn to after a hard day. Men need rich social lives and platonic hugs and emotional support from people they aren’t dating.

Men need to be treated like human beings who are capable of honoring their commitments, and not like misbehaving dogs who can’t control themselves unless they are carefully supervised.

As a culture, we’re pretty good about recognizing how important it is for women to have an emotional support network outside of their partner, but we’ve almost gone out of our way to deny that same social support to men. It’s socially acceptable for straight men who maintain close platonic friendships with women to be constantly accused of “cheating”, and yet straight men who form intimate and emotional bonds with other men are still accused of being “gay”. We’ve created a culture where many straight men rely only on their female partner for emotional support, leaving them nowhere to turn if their female partner becomes abusive, controlling or cruel.

A man who isolates his female partner and controls her social media is quickly marked as an abuser. A woman who does the same to her male partner is shrugged off as “just jealous” or even cheered on for “protecting her relationship”. And it’s wrong.

If the thought of your straight male partner having female friends makes you overwhelmed with jealousy, you aren’t ready for a relationship. If you can’t handle the thought of not having access to your boyfriend’s phone, passwords and social media accounts, you are not ready for a boyfriend. If the idea of other women following your boyfriend on social media or complimenting his appearance fills you with rage, you are not ready to date someone seriously. Loving someone means placing trust in them, and wanting to see them happy and supported in all areas of their life.

Love is not control.

Trixie Tang breaking down the fundamentals of equality and gender roles

It is already much more acceptable for girls to do boy stuff than it is for boys to do girl stuff. Gendered activism made that happen decades ago.

Femanesia strikes again.

Also, it sure is funny how SJWs imply benefiting women will automatically benefit men, but regularly oppose people who try to help men without adhering to mainstream feminist dogma.

Also also, notice how the onus, in these screenshots, is on men to act in order to benefit women. Not women helping themselves. If OP’s interpretation is correct, they’re saying feminism wants men to protect women.

i have just one thing to say about all this…

remember how most of yall treated the bronies.

The instant assumption was that they were all pedophiles. Imagine if girls got that treatment for something innocuous as liking Transformers.

I still hate this stupid trickle-down equality idea.

Heck, these same type of folks seem to convince themselves women are new to fandom and geeky interests every other week, just to complain about supposed trolls.

Men have almost always welcomed women into niche interests. Tavletop gaming, video games, anime, comic books, etc etc etc. SJW types pretend that those have been hostile spaces until recently, but the thing is, those have only been hostile spaces to self absorbed and narcissistic ideologues, because those things are not about YOU, they’re about sharing a love of that interest.

On top of that, every time SJW types were let into those interests, they took them over and made them hostile to the original fanbase. Tabletop gaming has gone to shit. Video games have gone to shit, comic books can barely sell anymore, movie theatres were losing money even before Covid hit, Star Wars and Star Trek have both become toxic and insulting to the original fanbase and stories. It’s terrible.

Great meme. Most water has impurities and can even be polluted and toxic.

H20 is distilled water that is pure.

If feminism was water.

every time i see that "if you have white teenage boys listen up" twitter thread it makes my blood boil. feminists spent a decade talking about how awful and evil and worthless white men are and now they act surprised white boys are driven away from liberalism and towards the alt-right. and to top it all off they don't even acknowledge the blame could be on themselves (unless it's then thinking they weren't forceful enough with their teachings lmao) and look towards literally anybody else to blame. but it's them. they're the ones who wrote articles about how unsafe men are, including their own sons. they're the ones justifying things like #KillAllMen by saying that good men won't get upset about it. they're the fucking monsters here. the alt-right saw an opportunity and it was given to them on a silver platter by selfish fucks who cared more about being allowed to just treat men like shit than actually being decent people.

fuck feminists, especially feminist monthers who believe this shit, you assholes got what you deserved. i hopw your children get away from the toxic cult that is the alt-right but i also hopw they get away from you.

Feminists treat everyone else like shit and then they wonder why bigots are so loud and obnoxious these days.

It’s actually a circle of recruitment here.

“Feminist” moms inspire alienation and hatred in their sons, which makes them easy pickings for the alt-right. Their female classmates see their shitty behavior, assume all men are like your average alienated 15-year-old boy, and then get recruited in turn by TERF’s. Some of them don’t grow out of this and have their own sons, and the cycle repeats.

Basically, instead of talking to them, parents like her just go, “oh, my son’s a misogynist prick, fuck it!” 

If she had sat the down and said, “hey, this is why such and such is wrong”, then perhaps they wouldn’t end up depressed and alienated.  I hope they have friends with parents who are more welcoming than their own.

More specifically, you have to have mutual understanding with them, depending on what it is. If they want to kick puppies, by all means, lay down the law, but if it's something that's simply troublesome, then try to understand where they're coming from, and talk them out of any harmful ideas.

The approach that some of these parents are taking can be sweet-sounding and empathetic on the surface, but if there's still an underlying message of "you are inherently bad", you won't reach them in a way that matters. Bigotry will be its own undoing, and the people who refuse to accept people for who they are will see them fleeing to someone who does... even if that someone is a different kind of bigot.

Everyone wants to feel accepted and nobody wants to feel ostracized, and it really is that simple. Rejecting all discrimination against anything that people cannot help but be is a necessity moving forward, because at the end of the day, if the future you're building doesn't have a place for everyone, then the outliers will deny that future.

“How to abuse your boyfriend 101”

Oh yeah, you didn’t know starting fights for fun is abusive, ladies? Well it is so fucking stop.

This is why everyone thinks feminism is a joke. I used to be a feminist but I left the movement because the movement was so toxic, judgmental, and hateful. Until feminism goes back to what it was made for, I cannot call myself a feminist.

Why I’m not a feminist (anymore)

I used to call myself a feminist until I saw the hate most “feminists” have towards men. That’s not being “equal”, it’s oppressing and bullying people for the gender they’re born with.. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? Feminists that are shitty towards men really don’t see that they’re just as toxic as the men that are bad to women. I don’t want that toxic shit anywhere near me, my male friends and family.

Real equality is balance, and especially no hate towards any gender. Men and women are different after all in many ways, but in the good way - women can do things in a wink that men find difficult for example. If you find the talents of men and women, you can make them fit like a puzzle. Everyone has their strong points and combined it can become a great force.

Stop hating men, stop being toxic and stop being a hypocrite. You’ll never create equality by treating men like garbage.

The failings of feminism

Feminists sets the trap by saying feminism’s on the side of truth and light, and if you don’t call yourself one, it means you favor women being sexually harassed, assaulted or worse. In short, it proves you’re a chauvinist bigot.

No it doesn’t.

Believing women deserves equal treatment and rights doesn’t make you a feminist, it makes you a regular, every day decent person. It’s time to come down from your high horses if you think you get to call somebody scum if they don’t call themselves a feminist.

We shouldn’t have to cave to self-righteous lectures about it being our duty to embrace some doctrinaire “ism,” especially the most dogmatic one of all - feminism. Since when did feminism take on the role of the world’s jury and judge.

It’s offensive the way feminists cherry-pick obvious outrages, such as rape and harassment, and imply we are in favor of such things if we don’t cheer on feminism as a movement. Or proudly wear the label. Nonsense.

Feminism for what it used to be is finished in the first world. That brand of feminism is over. We now live in an era where mostly young liberated, privileged women take the equal opportunity that they’ve been given for granted and use it to try and make us believe they’re still being oppressed and they’re victims of a body-controlling male privilege patriarchy and the only way to fix it is to be quiet, listen to them, ask no questions and pander to their demands. 

They are pretending to be freedom fighting feminists of the early days where the issues they claim to be fighting for actually once did exist. Today they try so hard to keep themselves in that past world of oppression and inequality while forgetting that they are some of the most free, capable, equal and privileged people on earth. Real feminisms are ashamed of what these women are doing with the freedom and rights they once so vigorously fought for.

Today’s feminists aren’t angry about injustices or not having equal rights because they already have every advantage, all the justice and every right they need, they’re simply angry that their lies are being called out and no longer believed and people have stopped taking them seriously. They are babies.

Feminism today is a tarnished brand, at least in image. No - not tarnished because critics unfairly caricatured it. It’s because as well as their delusional state of victimhood that they encourage, feminism is ultimately one-sided. 

Despite its lip service about being just as much for men as women, it not only completely ignores and mocks men’s issues but it shames, silences and demonizes men with any chance it gets. 

Feminism stereotypes males as a problematic gender and sees their rambunctious, spirited nature as “toxic” and a problem that needs to be tamed. Feminism tells boys that they are born with misogyny and privilege and their predatory instincts are a threat to women. That’s a damaging message to be sending but eh, it’s just men, they’ll be alright. 

The obvious truth is that most men and most western civilized people absolutely opposes gender inequality and the abuse of women. And to say everyone must declare themselves a “feminist” to spare being shamed and insulted is sickening self-righteousness and judgment. 

If you don’t like people forcing themselves onto you, stop trying to force yourself and your feminist ideology onto everyone else. It’s not working anymore.