Rights that have been taken away from men?

Question

A poster a few minutes ago mentioned that the feminist movement has gotten laws passed that have made women superior and have taken away the rights of men.

I admit to being clueless about this since I'm not aware of which laws he was talking about. Can someone cite these specific laws and how they've negatively affected men?

Also, if they're talking about divorce and custody laws, how do they differ today compared to the days prior to feminism?

I never made a big deal about it. I just asked the question and wanted to know if there was any merit in it.

Answer 1

In short, none.

But there are more complex issues here as well.

Both men and women have experienced horrible injustices in divorce and child custody cases, but many of the men who have been wrongly treated blame feminism rather than recognizing that there are judges are making bad decisions in both directions.

No one is comforted when they've been shafted, by being told that there are of the opposite sex are also getting shafted.

There are decent, responsible, loving fathers denied any access to their children by vindictive wives.

There are also abusive psychopaths who use child custody purely as a ploy to continue harassing and abusing the wives who managed to summon up the courage to leave the abuse.

And neither side feels inclined to acknowledge the other, because they feel like it's a denial of what they've experienced.

So they get into pis sing matches with statistics, debating which one is more common, instead of showing some humanity and acknowledging that both situations occur and both are unjust.

Answer 2

None, and I don't think I've ever heard anyone claim ''men had rights taken away from them.''

However, just because men never had rights taken away from them doesn't mean that in modern society they have it better than women everywhere. For example; women receiving lighter sentences for a same crime would not be a right, but a privilege. BIG difference!

Although I would say women and men have about as many rights as each other; women have greater reproductive rights. (I don't want to get into the debate whether they are merited or not and will not give my opinion that would surely surprise you as to what I think.) As well as V.A.W.A.
Men can fight on the front lines...and that's about it that I can think of.

P.S. Just because ''one poster'' said something does not represent the whole MRM. I see plenty of feminists making fallacious comments but I don't make a big deal about it unless the majority--or a large portion--of feminists hold the same common view.

Answer 3

I am a SHE not a HE... (btw I did not take offense to your question -even though I am in the crosshairs :))

You have me on the 'rights taken away from men'. You are right there, no rights have been literally taken away. I should have worded that better. But are you really trying to deny that the courts favour women? And law enforcement? And society?

When do you think that feminism started? How do the laws differ today compared to prior to feminism? When my grandmother wanted a divorce from her cheating, beating husband in the 40's, divorce was frowned upon -for any reason. She had to get an investigator to take pictures of her husband and his girlfriend. And even the judge tried to get her to take him back. Hardly fair for anyone I agree. And yes, the women had it worse.

BUT, in recognizing the injustice, and living it for years we should be less likely to reverse the injustice, right? No, we have done the same thing to men as they did to us.

The difference, IMO, is that we SHOULD have empathy and we SHOULD know better. Rather than sitting back and laughing bitterly as the men get the shaft, STRONG women should be standing up and supporting them.

Answer 4

Very good question. I would also like to know about this one.

The laws about divorce where originally made so the house wives wouldn't end up dieing on the street.

Not sure how women getting equal pay would negatively effect men. If anything men would benefit from it because their house hold income could double.

I'll star this and find out what others said.

Answer 5

One way in which men have recently gained MORE rights is in legal custody disputes. It used to be that the mothers almost ALWAYS were awarded custody almost no matter what. In recent years, it's become more of a 50/50 chance of who will win the custody battle between the mother and father.

Answer 6

Men do NOT have the right to know they are a Father...

In legal writing, men haven't specifically lost rights, but it is HOW those laws are applied... feminists from NOW have gone into court rooms during divorces, wearing their NOW badges & shirts, to intimidate judges into favouring the women. Now, the NOW gang don't have to turn up - the judges just 'know' how to behave based on past experiences.

Answer 7

Men have lost the right to equal opportunity for hire as to police, firemen, and the military. Women have substantially lower requirements in these areas. If they didn't, there would be more men (than there now is) b/c BIOLOGY dictates that the average man is more suited for this job than the average women and the top man is better at this job than the top women.

Answer 8

Abortion rights (though arguably not a law, but rather a set of court rulings that established law through precedent) is one that comes to mind. A father has no rights to a baby once conceived.

Answer 9

None. But women DOES have more rights than Men in the West. There are also many bias double standard against Men.

-Mother always have full custody of the children even if she was a crack w**re.
-Women serve less jail time than Men for the exact same crime.
-If a Man hit a woman (even out of self-defense) he is consider abusive.
-Lower physical requirement for women in police force and the military.
-Feminize education system putting young boys at disadvantage
-Women can falsely excuse Men of rape and win.
-Male rape victim aren't being taken seriously.
-There is special law to protect women (VAWA) but none for Men.

Answer 10

You may have the children as I do not not want to produce,, and get out of shape and all that pain YUCK