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2.While many men have supported women’s struggle for equality, there is a lack of education about men active in feminist activism. Why do you think this is?

There are several possible outlets to why the men active in feminist activism are overlooked. One that I think most people can acknowledge is the idea that the people making the curriculum in education or any type of information to the public is more than likely controlled by a specific group of people that always seems to be the case: wealthy, typically older, white men.

This idea addresses the idea of the patriarchy again, arguing that there is a lack of education because the men that choose to refuse ideas of feminism, typical to the type of man listed above (again not all of them but a large portion), are the ones who are responsible for releasing this type of information. The men choose not to educate the public on the men being active to 1) make it look as if all men don’t care about women’s rights as if it is a way to fight it and 2) to make the few men active in feminist activism look small and unimportant, and not the ideal version of a masculine man that defends all men. Either option in the end is targeted at women, forcing feminism and those involved to look like man haters. In the end, the lack of education about men active in feminist activism is depressing, because that education would help show the world that feminism is not just a woman’s issue, it is a human’s issue.

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1.Do you think that men have a role in the struggle for women’s equality; if so, what?

If you look at America, roughly fifty percent of the population are women. But that leaves the other fifty percent (roughly) to be men. However this isn’t even accounting for those who do not identify in either gender. And then looking outside of America (because feminism is not just an American belief) there needs to be move involvement of men in the issue of women’s equality. I think they have a role in the struggle for women’s equality because they are the patriarchy: a dominate white male society that women and the “others,” those who do not fit into a specific category, are forced to revolve around. The men that refuse to accept the fact that women deserve equality are the ones who have a role in our struggles.
Overwhelmingly, the role of men in women’s equality is a negative one. These men are obsessed with their power, and from that forms greed, from which they live their lives determined to not let anyone beat them or challenge them in any way. The minority of men who are in a positive role of women’s equality, the ones who advocate for simple human rights and the idea that women are people too (which to most men is shocking) are viewed as “gay” or too feminine, and not the ideal representation of the masculine man that strives to be better than all which is below him. Overall men’s role in women’s equality is a negative one. And because of this, as feminists try to change this view, feminism becomes associated with man-hating. Feminists should not be known as man-haters, but rather women (and men!) who seek to change the patriarchal society in which we live that revolves around one being as the alpha and the rest to tend to the alpha’s needs.

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