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In reply to the discussion: How do we advance men's liberation without making women feel like their rights are being infringed? [View all]petronius
(26,683 posts)it's couched as "You are..." or "Men are..."; i.e., broad-brush attack-type language. But that's not alienation from the topic as much as from the speaker.
I'd also say that responding to a discussion of injustices faced by women with a men's counter-example ("Yes, but..." language) is not likely to lead to productive conversation.
Avoiding those two structures is nearly all that's necessary, IMO, to speak of real injustices faced by men.
More generally, I can not recall ever feeling alienated, as a man, by women speaking of injustice or expecting their rights and I've never felt that my rights would be diminished as a consequence. So if a man (and I really don't mean this as a reference to the OP or any DUers) is having the problem of alienating women or causing them to feel infringed on, I'd wonder if he doesn't need to reconsider what exactly he's perceiving as injustices against himself or us...
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