“Men are the oppressors…in a patriarchal world.” – The Red Pill
In 1973, 29-year-old tennis superstar, Billie Jean King, accepted a challenge to face 55-year-old former top-seeded world champion, Bobby Riggs, in an exhibition match. Having derided women’s tennis players as inferior to their male counterparts, Riggs had already demolished top player, Margaret Court, in straight sets before setting out to conquer King. His second attempt did not go as planned. King trounced Riggs 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 to claim the $100,000 prize and end any further nonsense about weak women athletes. At a time when women were fighting for equality, Billie Jean King, led by example.
The early feminist movement originated during a period when it was simply not in the cards for a woman to be educated and gainfully employed. Marriage and children were their predestined lot, with few alternatives available, if even allowed. Yet, what Billie Jean King and the early women’s rights movement did to free women from their secondary role in the world, is now being reimagined by modern feminism. Ignoring the significant advances already gained, they are instead, envisioning themselves in a state of oppression, where women are persecuted daily by the violent and toxic men in their lives and in the world. With the patriarchy back in the driver’s seat, we are being led to believe that women are being victimized all over again.
There is little doubt that men are, in fact, leading in many ways. Men rank higher in workplace deaths, suicides, assaults, incarcerations, homelessness, and death by war. Men also have statistically shorter life spans. In fact, throughout history, men, and even boys, have been sacrificed for the good of society. After ushering women and children to safety, they fought the wars, hunted the prey, and gave up their lives to protect the innocent. Yet, for all of that, men are still perceived as the privileged gender. But as we will soon discover, the one-sided feminist narrative that men are the only thing holding women back from grabbing the brass ring is a whole lotta hooey.
Despite some accounts, the men’s rights movement is nearly as old as the women’s rights movement, both beginning in the nineteenth century, when a lack of opportunities left women restrained, while work and family obligations left men burdened. At the time, under English common law, men were legally responsible for their wives’ actions and the subsequent punishments, namely, fines and prison time. Thus, as women lamented their roles as adoring wives and mothers, men too had their own part to play – as not only providers and protectors but also proxy criminals.
In Cassie Jaye’s 2017 documentary, “The Red Pill”, Jaye, an avowed feminist, took to the road to discover why so many Men’s Rights Activists had so many followers and so many haters. Believing them to be the rape apologists described so often by her feminist peers, Jaye wanted to see for herself what they were really all about. Yet rather than confirming their hatred of women, Jaye instead found a group of men fighting for their rights in custody battles, focusing their concerns over boys’ struggles, and simply attempting to regain their dignity and respect following decades of feminist lies. Newly red-pilled, Jaye discovered the men’s movement was not the backlash against women’s success she had expected to find, but a call to action in defense of their own rights and honor.
In the workplace and within relationships, men are experiencing the slippery feminist slope that has turned unwelcome romantic attention into both psychological harm and legal discrimination under the Civil Rights Act. And despite repeated feminist claims of out-of-control toxic masculinity, a 2019 CDC National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey reveals that men are actually 31 percent more likely to be victims of domestic violence than women. This should be unsurprising in a culture that has long stigmatized any violence against women yet failed to apply the same standards of aggression towards men.
Discrimination in the reproductive rights of men begins with pregnancy, where women continue to believe that they have sole decision-making over children, even though babies are genetically 50/50 of their parent's genes. Comedian Dave Chappelle said it best, when during one of his recent specials, he disclosed, “I’m not for abortion. But I’m not against it, either…This is theirs (women). The right to choose is their unequivocal right. Gentlemen, that is fair. And ladies, to be fair to us, I also believe, if you decide to have the baby, a man should not have to pay. That’s fair. If you can kill this m*****f***er, I can at least abandon him. It’s my money, my choice. And if I’m wrong, perhaps we’re both wrong.” Men, however, continue to have little say in whether their in-utero children, live or die.
Men’s concern about bias in the family court system is worsened by the fact that 81.6 percent of custodial parents are women. Although women retain guardianship of their children in most instances, men are expected to provide ongoing financial support, often while being deprived of their children’s presence in their lives. Having been cast as the villain in failing relationships for far too long, men are increasingly opting to avoid marriage at all costs - a devastating loss for society.
When Jaye looked at the men’s movement from their perspective, she found more commonalities than differences and changed her own beliefs. Like Riggs and King, men and women play the game of life together. It’s time we look for areas of agreement, and instead of continuing this political farce, find ways to support one another.
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