It's not like me to make assertions normally, but I'm making this one because of many provisos already in existence about CERTAIN life. Now I'm not going to include fetuses, bacteria, or ebola. This is living people, alive, walking around, ambulatory, sentient or soon to be sentient creatures. We seem to hierarchically characterize people as having a value based on many criteria, lately the media has been shown the shameful reality that some judges value the affluent to the poor. When a rich kid plows his car drunkenly into 4 people the kid suffers the merest of punishments...at least until his parents have to foot the bill for his Wrongful Death lawsuit by the families of those he killed.
This piece isn't really about that, however, so forgive the digression.
Society has always had its expectations for improvement, all of them built squarely on on the shoulders of those expected to bear the burden for its growth. This segment of the populace has suffered marginalization time and again. Laws aren't sufficient to help them, nor are they written with the express purpose of their inclusion. As time has gone forth segments of the world populace have seen radical improvements in their lives, rights and protections. All but this one segment. We'll come back to that later.
In the 1800s women's suffrage took to the streets and the world pushed by wealthy women in wealthy families upset they didn't have the right to have a say in their own governance. It took decades but right were achieved and proliferated at an amazing pace. The groups that began this were all under the Aegis of "Women's Suffrage" and then later "Feminism". These groups, despite historical evidence and their actions, have not been labeled as anything but liberators and groups for equality. Never labeled as hate groups or called anything but what history knows them classically for having accomplished...or pushed others into making occur for them in government.
If feminism is not considered a hate group, or one that rains hatred on society or men, or called misandric, yet pushes only for the betterment of the female, why then are Men's Human Rights Activists called women haters? The largest part of society at present has no real idea what rights men are not afforded anymore because, as with when women struck out to have the vote accorded to them, it is simply not seen as real. In the past it was simply not thought about that women should NEED the vote because men were expected to cater to their needs and hold them as dear or DEARER than their own needs. As it was shown hat society was changing and men could not keep up with the changes and that men could not presume to assist women sufficiently and she wanted her own ability to control her destiny, it was accorded to them.
Now, ages later, the demographic that has been tasked with all of lives hardest labors, building, jobs and fighting of wars is still nested in the exact same societal and political position as ever. Why would a woman be upset men want protection from violence, whether it's from men or women? Whether it's Domestic Abuse or Rape? Why do men need to be scorned when they are injured or in pain? How does it serve society to abuse men who are injured or sick? Or boys for that matter? How does it impose on women to protect boys from circumcision, incest, female teacher sexual abuse?How is any of this, or the fostering of the protection of males, hatred towards women?
Why do we value men's lives so little?
