Male chauvinists are digging their own graves
I hear from a lot of Anti-feminists and radical conservatives that men shall be granted authority over women because they are physically stronger. They always stress that men were more important because they fight, protect women and children and build the country, and are just better, stronger, more resilient, and so on. People like Andrew Tate always stress how women want to be dominated by men. Sigmund Freud believed women were envious of a man’s genitals, and everything was always about masculinity as a superior power.
Now, I don’t think masculinity is bad. In fact, I believe it is very important that we all have some masculine traits and that we celebrate this masculinity. However, it’s a problem when people start bringing authority into this debate.
Undeniably, men are physically stronger than women on average. Men also are more stress-resistant and can work longer hours.
Shall we grant them more authority than women because of that?
Well, my question is, what happens to the people who are physically weaker than both men and women? I mean people with physical disabilities, children, or sick people? They have less physical strength than women and shall receive less authority than them. At least that was the argument at the beginning.
See what happened here? Discrimination against women quickly turned into discrimination against disabled people or weaker men, too.
And what happens when a woman punches a man? Because the man is physically stronger, she is regarded as less of a perpetrator than a man. Sentencing disparity goes back to the chauvinism patriarchs inflicted on society. We value the physical strength of men to a degree where it harms even themselves.
And what about the repression that comes with motherhood? Many conservatives claim that caring for children is the duty of the woman. She shall sacrifice her career, her hobbies, and her pension to be a mother, which conservatives claim to be a holy figure, which I don’t object to. However, when after divorce children are being taken by the moms most of the time, how can conservatives actually speak of repression against men? You were the ones who put motherhood above fatherhood, which made child-raising a duty of women.
What some people don’t understand is that we can’t distribute authority unequally, but compassion equally. So when you approve that men shall have authority over women, you got no choice but to approve with less compassion for men because to be an authority needs to be deserved.
Feminists, men’s rights activists, all activists who want to protect an identity group…you all share an enemy, and yet you don’t work together.
If we want to change something, we have to forget stereotypes and forget male chauvinism. Currently, we go in the opposite direction, unfortunately. The new “sigma male” trend partly celebrates men as masculine who beat women or make them cry. That should worry us all. Because if one group is discriminated against, others will follow quickly.
