We need to dare speak up about the consequences and get as many people as possible to ask exactly that question. I think appealing to mothers is the best bet, because they are often responsible for the attitudes kids are brought up in. I often experience men silently aggreeing with my opinions in open discussions but they know it's a losing battle at home. Courage, however, is contagious, so sharing content like this on social media is a great first step!
The mother is the gatekeeper to womanhood and the girl imbibes her mother. Her relationship with her mother becomes her relationship to the world and with herself—her self-image, her body, her attitude towards men, sex, money, etc. But it is that very dynamic that has brought us generation after generation of feminists, and making an appeal to new mothers would be to ask them to disown (in large part) her self-identity and the woman who birthed her.
Currently, men don’t know how to say no to feminist messaging because of their need for validation, uncritical support, and the “provide and protect” mentality which blinds them. And women don’t know how to say no because of in-group bias. How willing would women be, as a group, to reveal the deception of feminism which might then challenge their position as being “the better sex?” That being said, it is much easier for a woman to stand up to a woman (or male feminist) at the interpersonal level. But if a woman takes a public stand as an advocate for men’s issues, she will be hounded and demonized.
I think the women who try to change the narrative amongst women have to be very clever about it. I have sometimes had luck in a group of other mothers when focusing in on their son’s interests and upcoming potential struggles.
I applaud you for your effort. But you will never feel your word fall harder out of your mouth with a thud heard miles away, then attempting to change the minds of women about feminism... And unfortunately this is a problem of women and power.
You think there's a way out of this?? LOL Feminism is the single greatest neurotoxin to ever happen to human civilzation.
We need to dare speak up about the consequences and get as many people as possible to ask exactly that question. I think appealing to mothers is the best bet, because they are often responsible for the attitudes kids are brought up in. I often experience men silently aggreeing with my opinions in open discussions but they know it's a losing battle at home. Courage, however, is contagious, so sharing content like this on social media is a great first step!
The mother is the gatekeeper to womanhood and the girl imbibes her mother. Her relationship with her mother becomes her relationship to the world and with herself—her self-image, her body, her attitude towards men, sex, money, etc. But it is that very dynamic that has brought us generation after generation of feminists, and making an appeal to new mothers would be to ask them to disown (in large part) her self-identity and the woman who birthed her.
Currently, men don’t know how to say no to feminist messaging because of their need for validation, uncritical support, and the “provide and protect” mentality which blinds them. And women don’t know how to say no because of in-group bias. How willing would women be, as a group, to reveal the deception of feminism which might then challenge their position as being “the better sex?” That being said, it is much easier for a woman to stand up to a woman (or male feminist) at the interpersonal level. But if a woman takes a public stand as an advocate for men’s issues, she will be hounded and demonized.
I think the women who try to change the narrative amongst women have to be very clever about it. I have sometimes had luck in a group of other mothers when focusing in on their son’s interests and upcoming potential struggles.
I applaud you for your effort. But you will never feel your word fall harder out of your mouth with a thud heard miles away, then attempting to change the minds of women about feminism... And unfortunately this is a problem of women and power.