Whiny, angry, man-hating feminism

[FreethinkingSceptic]

"Some bad experiences"? I assume you are of the age and education to know a little about our history. Perhaps many today's women listened to their grandmothers or even great grandmothers describe their lives being ruled by men. Most women couldn't even have their own checking account or bank accounts unless it was co-signed by a male until the 1960's, single women couldn't get a mortgage, at least generally until 1974. They couldn't vote until 1920 and had to fight like hell to get that. They had to fight like hell to be able to have control over their own bodies until the mid 1970's. And men are still trying to take that right away. Many universities denied women admission up into the mid 1960-s. So yeah. Women have a good reason to be a bit tired of the patriarchal society that still continues to try to put them back "where they belong". The only sector of society that has had it much worse are blacks. But that's a different story.

That has little to do with individual people's experiences in day-to-day life, let alone experiences with every member of a demographic. Historical anecdotes aside. While people can point out historical examples of women being discriminated against, I believe it would be foolish to assume that "men" as a whole are personally culpable for this, given that men are born into a society with pre-defined ways of doing things which may require change. No man single-handedly created all of the social conditions which may have led to women not being treated equally as individuals and under the law, and I don't believe there is anything inherent in "men" which creates these conditions. My view is simply that certain outdated, gender-centric ways of thinking led to laws and social patterns which negatively affected women (and had negative effects on men as well), and that, to some extent, these patterns varied quite a bit based on one's social economic status. (e.x. One can go as far back as ancient Greece and find that women of well-to-do families had access to better career and education opportunities than the average man, or even the average women).

I stand by the point that some who ascribe to the more radical varieties of feminism seem to blame men or balkanize women against men as a demographic, rather than attempting to bring reconciliation between men and women.