A video about male disposability from a rather unlikely source

[TheBigQuestion]

 

I vaguely remember the above video being posted here not too long ago in another thread that got shut down for reasons I can't remember. What I do remember is that the contents of the video were not discussed at all. It's 16 minutes long, so I'll give a synopsis, but I do think that it's something worth watching regardless of how you feel about present-day gender relations, so I urge you to do so and post your feedback on it. I agree with most but not all of its contents, but I'll chime in with more detail later. It's not my intention to start another classic LS gender war, so please, restrain yourselves.

 

This is, in a nutshell, a video explaining how the feminist movement (not all of it, but a great portion of it) generally has been exploiting the idea of male disposability and wrongfully making it seem like women have been the truly disadvantaged gender throughout history and in the present day. I made several of these arguments a long time back in various feminism-related threads, emphasizing how you can't look at gender relations in a vacuum (for example, my assertion that in the grand scheme of things, a lag of a few decades between universal male suffrage and universal female suffrage in the West is inarguably miniscule).

 

Full disclosure: While I actually remember watching this video a long time back, I recently learned that the woman in the video (yes, you read that right) is probably the most famous men's rights activist (MRA) out there. What makes her presence in that community fascinating is that she seems to genuinely champion many of their pet causes (exposing the true extent of female-on-male domestic violence and rape and chastising society for making light of it, for example) while embodying traits that a person uneducated about MRA would think that they would find distasteful; namely, she is a bisexual, divorced, and has exclusive custody of her children. And before anyone jumps on me for it, she pointed those things out about herself in a later video that I saw. I'm not stereotyping her appearance. She has described herself as someone who the world would expect to be a feminist.

[ThaWholigan]

I subscribed to this woman a long while back out of interest, so I know of this video. I PROMISE I will be back to this thread with my thoughts ....

[TheBigQuestion]

I subscribed to this woman a long while back out of interest, so I know of this video. I PROMISE I will be back to this thread with my thoughts ....

 

Look forward to reading them, good sir.

[TheBigQuestion]

 

Another relevant video by the same person, which in some respects I feel is reflective of the attitudes frequently defended here on LS. The title of the video is more incendiary than its content.

[EasyHeart]

She soonds Canadian. . ..

[TheBigQuestion]

Eh?

 

She's mentioned she's from British Columbia, I believe.