There is a part of me that doesn’t really feel the need for men movements. I like a few ideas some of the groups have. For example, with the peace keepers I admire their love for god, the emphasis they place on family, and the way they want to bond with other men. Also, I like aspects of the million man because I appreciate the fact that they want to change how the black man is perceived and not the stereotypes that are constantly thrown around. However, with men having the privilege in this country and pretty much every other one in the world, I see most of these movements as something to oppose women, (except pro feminists, even though I feel like these men could just be feminist and support the women’s movements) and they felt excluded so they just let’s make a men’s movement too. Sometimes people are just left out. In addition, I thought it was interesting that the way our guest speaker’s father was absent from his life in certain ways, due to work, and it made him ultimately made him become a pro feminist. I’ve grown up with a dad who is traditional in pretty much every sense of the word, growing up on numerous occasions my father would tell me I couldn’t go certain places or do certain things because I was a girl, when my family would sit down for dinner, I couldn’t sit at the head of the table because it was a “man’s place”, or when my brother –in- law would get up to wash dishes, he would say things like “why would you wash dishes with all these women in the house” and he would always say things like my favorite (sarcasm) “a woman can’t do the same things as a man and still be a lady”. All those things really used to piss me off but after a while I would laugh at him as I got older and told him he was crazy, but I never felt strongly enough about it to make me want to become a feminists, honestly it kind of shaped some of the opinions I have today. Many of my classmates said they preferred our male feminist speaker over our female, I wasn’t too fond of either, but I appreciated what they had to say, but I felt like many preferred the male because he was more PC and he didn’t stir people’s feelings and make them upset or feel some type of way whereas the female did. It’s easier to like someone when they’re not controversial.
Yes...l soooooo concur!!! It is very easy to like someone when they're not controversial...and "PC" as you put it...Also I was wondering why he was reading a story that was supposed to be about him, word for word...That was a little crazy to me. I enjoyed reading your post.
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