Today, as usual when I finish my work and entered the tube station, I picked up the Evening Standard to read during my trip; it’s always the best way to survive the claustrophobic, stressed and crowded London Underground.
Today, an amazing first page:
I’m astonished with the way Men’s Movements are growing. In the 60s and 70s western societies saw the growing of feminists movements and activism, and now, in the second decade of the 21th Century I guess we will watch the rise of men’s movements and activism against their inequalities.
Their space is being threatened by women, which are still less payed compared to men who have the same role, have less access to higher roles in business and in other institutions such as the military, have lower access or limitations in competitive sports (in 2012 Women’s boxing will be, for the first time, included in the Olympic Games, but with limitations in the number of athletes and rounds), have a higher rate as victims of domestic violence and rape, and so on.
Call me ‘obnoxious bigot’ feminist, call me radical, whatever, but I think Tory MP Dominic Raab must live in another dimension or maybe just came back from a possible future, where women rule over men. All evidences (stats and studies in Social Sciences) in western societies (and I’m only talking about the western societies) points to higher inequalities of women, and there’s still men who believe in their social victimization. It would be possible, seeing and accepting men as victims, if we were living in that ‘possible future’, but this is the present, and the ‘reality’ is very different.
Is he afraid of loosing what he imagines as being is ‘masculinity’?
Or,
Is he afraid of a possible ‘hegemonic femininity’?
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