I normally see myself as a pretty down-to-earth person. There’s not an awful lot that I think is by design against me, but then again, I suppose it depends on how you define “by design”. For instance, I see current sexist attitudes in my culture as arising and changing from the agricultural revolution’s new concept of “personal property” and “paternity”, so I don’t think it’s deliberate. It’s a deeply rooted behavior passed down through generations as a way that genders relate to one another. It’s fairly obvious to me that this has to stop, but it’s not intentional, at least not generally.

But the intentional misogyny of the Men’s Rights Movement has me thinking a little differently. It has me thinking that maybe powerful feminists are behind the scenes, pulling the strings. Not because men are really the ones who are oppressed – most of the “oppression” men experience actually comes out of misogyny, as the insults and shame of a man usually come out of being called a “woman”. It’s not because men are seen as utilities in society – their utility is usually seen as superior to sitting around and being an object, and they even get glory and praise for the service to the community they do, while women get ridiculed for the same services (EG – military).

No, it’s because I can think of no greater way to bring people over to feminism than to create a grassroots movement that so perfectly represents why feminism is still needed, BADLY. I mean, when feminists talk about men hating women, there the MRAs are, hating women. When feminists talk about male privilege, there the MRAs are, to exemplify what it means and how they have it. And when feminists talk about how women are constantly objectified, sexualized, put down, mocked, or otherwise not taken seriously as human beings for the crime of having a vagina, there the MRAs are, showing EVERYONE that this is the truth. They just come out of the woodwork to prove feminists right!

I’m beginning to wonder if this isn’t just an incredibly successful viral ad campaign – BECOME A FEMINIST, IT’S MORE RATIONAL THAN BEING AN MRA!