Hi there, all. Original poster here.
So I don'y know how my post, from a wrestling forum, was brought here but I feel I need to clear up a few things:
This post was made directed at a person who I don't get along with very well. My anger in the post was overblown more at him than anything.
Now, I'll come out and say it: I cannot find myself agreeing with most modern feminists to the extent where I can say I identify as one. Does it mean that im not for equal pay? No. Does it mean im not for woman's representation? No. Does it mean that I don't believe there's a misogynist problem in some people? Of course not. However, I must tell you and this is through no lack of trying, every modern feminist I have met in my experience has treated me rudely when I point simple things out like the fact that men are, in fact, sometimes assaulted by woman or treated as sexist by woman. The response I have heard more often than not seems to be "Yes, it happens, but its not big enough for us to worry about on an equal level." I find this line of thinking wrong, and there are other lines of thinking this iteration of feminism has that I also cannot agree with. I won't mention them all here as I feel it would only cause a back and forth similar to every other ugly conversation about it i have had, and I'd rather not go through it all again, but that is what I was trying to say in terms of "Calling them out" - Just trying to express what *I* personally think is wrong with some things.
While I readuly admit that, hey, maybe I've just seen some rude ones, maybe i just don't get it--thats why I said "Let me know" -I'd love to be convinced. I haven't been yet.
Mind you if you were to ask me about a lot of things, i'd tell you I'd agree I want it. I think some things I can agree with, but my own experiences with Feminism have only made me upset, even to the point of tears. I just can't call it something I believe in. It's not a case of being on Tumblr, or not wanting to understand. I've tried. I simply find that every feminist i've met has brrn inconsiderate of the way *I* feel as a male about things. Maybe you reading this may change that.
I'm sorry my original post offended any of you...
I'd ask though that my posts not be reposted here in the future though. I understand there's no law against it and it has nothing to do with me and feminism, I would ask this of anyone reposting my material anywhere. It just seems creepy since it wasn't done with my knowledge.
I'm not trying to say im perfect. I probably am ignorant even still to s lot of things, but as it stands, this is the opinion I have without going much deeper than this. No, I do not want woman held back. No I do not deny we as males can mistreat them, but I cannot call myself a feminist or endorse feminism as a philosophy by many of todays standards at this time. I hope I don't seem offensive in stating that and I hope that clears things up.