Oh yes I know it happens in real life and I agree there's usually an uncalled for response but my post was in reference to his use of internet feminists. While reading op's post I realized he mixed in real life situations but I overlooked it as him merely getting everything off his chest and venting.
I completely understand the huge role the internet plays in our lives whether good or bad. I further acknowledge as the world rapidly evolves we use it frequently to connect to people around the world, conduct money matters, make life altering choices as well as come to other conclusions. What I think you failed to grasp was that we also choose to interact with people (feminists included) via the internet therefore we can also choose to disengage.
Your title states you have an issue with internet feminists but it seems as if your issue is with feminists as a whole. Saying log off was not an ignorant way of dismissing ideals I may not agree with it is the option we have via the beautiful thing that is the internet. If someone has ignorant views and or can't rationally discuss issues in an adult manner why would any sane person continue to engage them? Alternatively if actively engaged in a face to face discussion of course one can only try to offer the other party knowledge or try to argue their point with reason.
I gotcha. My problem was with that I tend to run into them a lot
everywhere on Reddit, the other site I tend to lurk a lot, and ugh... they have a freakin' problem with EVERYTHING about men, EVER. If men aren't nice enough, they're misogynist a$$holes. If they're too nice, they're sexist nice guys that only want sex from being nice. If there aren't as much women as men in engineering fields and hard sciences, it's because of sexism, despite people being allowed to choose their own majors and women outnumbering men as college students. Women shouldn't have to join the selective service in order to vote, but men should because... like... rape culture and patriarchy.
I say
internet feminists because people say what they
really think on the internet. Now people are going to use some hyperbole in what they write for attention, but this affects what people think in a huge way because now you've got a whole generation of young women believing contradictory theories about gender and many wind up outright hating men or masculinity. This is because young people get their entertainment and social life catered to on the internet. My uncles were complaining to me the other day that their kids only want to do stuff on the computer now, while before they would just be itching to get outside to play. They see what people write. It's a powerful thing, and teaching the new generation of young people to hate men and anything masculine is extremely corrosive.
Embracing masculinity is a
good thing for men to do and I try to talk about these issues in online forums because I'm honestly pretty worried about what the next generation of men will be like. I'm not anti femininity or anti-woman as you can tell from my first post, but I don't want young men thinking
less of themselves just for being male. That's why I choose to continue to engage. I try to keep it to the appropriate boards, but lots of people bring their political ideologies into what should normally be boards that are free of this kind of discussion.
helped a lil), and there are still issues of spousal abuse and under representation of minority women in the professional workplace.
