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[–]just_lesbian_things 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

If males are becoming violent and disordered it's because society and law is favouring systems that disadvantage them. Feminists have played no small role in pushing for such systems under the guise of fighting 'patriarchy' and wamen power.

How are feminists responsible for deadbeat fathers who won't take care of their own children? I'm not quite following the leap of logic.

[–]Trajan 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You have just one piece of the problem there. Feminist thinkers (e.g. Dworkin, Greer, de Beauvoir) have long seen marriage as an instrument of patriarchal oppression. They attack marriage, seeing it a woman becoming the property of a man, and champion the idea of women as single-parents while also blaming the men involved. I certainly say that the men are equally to blame in these situations where children are born outside of committed relationships. We need to address the deadbeats, address the reckless mothers, and end this ideological view of it being perfectly fine or even somehow admirable to have children outside of marriage.

[–]Aureus[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Very well said

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks!