Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters

by Helen Smith

Women’s groups follow a double standard: When women lag behind men, that is an injustice that must be aggressively targeted. But when men are lagging behind women, that is a triumph of equity to be celebrated.

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Many of these regulations are said to be needed because rape is “increasing” at the nation’s colleges. However, much of this increase is the way that rape or sexual assaults are categorized.

to create an epidemic: 1 expand the definition of disease 2 lower standards of testing

When a partner isolates their spouse from friends, associates, and public places, it’s called domestic abuse. When it’s done to an entire gender, it’s called feminism.

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status and more resources than themselves necessarily means that financially independent women and government-assisted women are going to find fewer men in their social milieu attractive.

Yes, the basement, video games and porn might be a poor second (or not), but at least it’s attainable and doesn’t sit around trying to shame them for not performing up to par.

One argument for feminism was that we were wasting the potential of half of humanity. We’re no better off if we just waste the other half.

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“there’s something dangerously retributive about an approach that simply flips an inequity around and approaches power as a zero-sum game.”