CBS News: “How Trump’s support among men reshaped the political landscape”

Interesting. It includes this appalling paragraph in relation to Richard Reeves, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of Of Boys and Men:

Reeves warns against relying on the conventional wisdom, saying that “if there’s a problem, there has to be a villain.” He says we can’t blame either feminism or the women’s movement for the challenges men face. “This is definitely not the fault of women …”

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3 thoughts on “CBS News: “How Trump’s support among men reshaped the political landscape”

  1. And he follows that with ” … But the problem sometimes on the other side, on progressive left side, has been to say that, by definition, men can’t have problems because men are the problem.” Of course it is not “sometimes” and its is the mantra of feminism itself that men can’t have problems because they are the problem. It really is the case, in this and the previous piece in the DM, that the writers are simply unable to see that if you consistently and very noisily favour one group over another the un favoured group both see and experience their second class treatment. This will become even more apparent to those bombarded with the idea of “equality”, who then find they are treated as less than equal. I actually think the triumph of feminism in becoming the orthodoxy of society and pushed in schools and media has been a part of this undoing. For a long time confined to University and the chattering classes, publicly feminism masqueraded as being “nice to women and girls because they’re more fragile” and garnered the support of the male’s inner white knight.

    However a proportion of the young have always rebelled against orthodoxy. And now boys and young men en masse are fed the “you are all oppressive shits” and deserve to be discriminated against. And understandably many do not take kindly to this.

    Years ago Michael Kimmel, a prominent male feminist who worked on feminist programmes in high schools observed that feminists like him had to acknowledge the many ways in which young women are horrible to their male peers and young men’s experiences of being discriminated against or are powerless “or we will be perceived as telling lies”. They have continued to ignore “the lived experience” of boys and young men and so many are indeed concluding they are being told lies.

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