tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311580.post112858407081558499..comments2023-10-06T08:21:06.640-07:00Comments on akatsuki talks rot: Equal rights for men now!akatsukirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18077017365909795321noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311580.post-1129783593406027902005-10-19T21:46:00.000-07:002005-10-19T21:46:00.000-07:00Now that I've started to look for it, I'm hearing ...Now that I've started to look for it, I'm hearing some rumblings from male voices. I overheard an undergrad complaining about the girls in his class having things easier, doing better in classes with male professors (lecturers).<BR/><BR/>Conversely, I've also overheard in the past a female student grousing about her female lecturer giving the females in her class a hard time because she didn't want to seem too "soft on the girls".<BR/><BR/>I guess so long as there is a "gender war", nobody wins.<BR/><BR/>As for Fathers for Justice, I have some sympathy for them. Without knowing the details of their cases, and just generalising out loud here, it's unfair to find against the father just because he's... well, not the mother! It's a false argument because there are plenty of non-maternal mothers out there, and plenty of families where the men take on the key care-giving role. And while I think they're going about it the wrong way, they've certainly got our attention now.akatsukirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18077017365909795321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311580.post-1128701867481316362005-10-07T09:17:00.000-07:002005-10-07T09:17:00.000-07:00I agree that discrimination against women is still...I agree that discrimination against women is still a serious problem. And I agree that this woman was out of order. The response does seem rather extreme.<BR/>I suspect this guy reacted as he did because he wants the world to be consistant and he thinks this is an example where it isn't but it could be. Us men are hopeless at accepting anything we perceive as inconsistent (he said, generalising massively). I try to keep things in perspective, there are still a lot more unfairnesses in the other direction if you see what I mean, but I actually do know quite a few men who feel strongly about this sort of thing. <BR/><BR/><I>Will men take to the streets in protest?</I> It'd be misguided in my view, but it wouldn't surprise me if we see a fair bit of this in the next ten years or so. Fathers for Justice might just be the start.<BR/><BR/>There's nowt as queer as folk, as they say.Garryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08188217045700587288noreply@blogger.com