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Justice for Men & Boys 
It’s nice to see Karen Straughan again.
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I am always impressed with the economy and confidence Karen Straughan gives to expressing both concepts but also their practical examples, “joining up the dots” for the listener/viewer. It’s ironic that it is precisely the sorts of “tools” used by feminists that easily reveal Male disposability once one looks. For instance analysis of popular media. Current advertising for some charities repeat the focus of aid on “women and children, and others” (martians perhaps), advertising by homeless charities put girls and young women front and centre, even the RNLI has an add where the “tug” is a father’s concern for his volunteer daughter’s safety(a long time supporter of the RNLI; I’ve never seen a mother’s concern for her volunteer son depicted. There are the usual life insurance ads. Wherein dads are encouraged to consider how they support their children and “partners” if they die. And of course a parade of films, dramas etc. With largely Male body counts. Then of course the “rom coms”.
Years ago, in public service, I did the inevitable anti sexism training, and of course this focussed on girls and women in the media, but of course if you simply apply the same lens to see how males are depicted it is actually pretty quickly apparent that males are indeed “responsible”, “disposable” pretty invisible as individuals and often “shamed”.
As Karen Straughan points out in fact modern feminism is simply a facet of the same chivalry that was the ideal for a couple of thousand years in christianity. Itself simply one expression of a gynocentric animus in humanity as a whole.
The thing I find hopeful is that, as in this case, a generation made familiar with feminist theory through its propaganda in schools and colleges, and in a sense a bit detached from the idea of chivalry because its “patriarchy” if prodded to look with the same gender studies eyes; but at males (by such as Karen) they’ll see the human doings, disposable sex, replaceable part etc. As this woman does.
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