So I’ve been reading a fair bit about this whole “#INeedMasculismBecause” tag on twitter, how it started on 4chan as a parody to the feminism tag saying and found it’s way to Twitter where people in a way parodied the parody. Possibly, I’m not too clear on that.

(Please take note that I use the word ‘masculism’ as pretty much the same as the word ‘feminism,’ just for the opposite gender, not in reference to male superiority)

But come to think of it, there’s serious problems - and the majority of people using the tag appear to be feminists. Or so I find (if you search the ‘INeedMasculismBecause’ tag on tumblr, you’ll find most users are proud feminists.)

Now, I’m not attacking feminists. I admit, there’s a lot more inequality for women in society than there is for men. But there is for men, Including not limited too;

- Custody rights

- Image in mainstream society that they are more violent, which I’m not saying isn’t true, but in the majority of court cases this public conception of the violent strong male usually works against their favour, warranting harsher penalties than females

- Discrimination in the health department; many male diseases are over shadowed by namely - breast cancer, I’m not shunning the advocacy of breast cancer. But there are many male diseases that aren’t well advocated; prostate cancer, isn’t as much, although it is becoming more common place now in society. ‘Alport Syndrome,’ it affects both sexes, but affects males much more severely. That and mental health, although this is becoming more commonplace in the media - there still is a wide belief that men shouldn’t cry, don’t get depressed, “Man up!” “Grow some balls,” “Don’t be a pussy/wimp.” This belief is held by both genders, but, it’s still a misconception

- Lastly, this one has been used a bit, but it doesn’t make it any less true - violence against men, this includes but isn’t limited too; rape and domestic violence. Now I’m definitely not saying women commit more crimes, the statistics are out on that, way more many men commit this kind of stuff. But things like that do happen. Just because a male is usually physically stronger than a female, doesn’t make it alright - and to add to that, there are many things a female can do to, such as attack not only with just her body, but with weapons; knives, bats, blunt instruments, guns - I mean, get a male fighting a women with a bat, the guy’s going to get pretty dinged up. Then there’s the whole perception with retaliation, that’s favoured toward females. And then there’s the whole thing with rape, it does happen with men. Namely, not anywhere near, but it still does. But then most people laugh it off, “You could’ve over powered her.” “You wanted it, it felt good didn’t it?” Feminists say rape is never funny, then they go and mock masculism.

I realise there’s probably a better word for masculism, but, that’s not what this post is based around.

I’m the point that even though men don’t face as many problems as women, they still do, and somehow people, a majority of them feminist’s make fun of it, it’s like their almost rejecting their selves. It’s pretty much like men making a joke of the #INeedFeminismBecause tag, if guys did, “Oh fuck no! take this seriously, women aren’t equal.” It doesn’t matter about how many inequalities there are in each sex, it just matters if there are. And there are.

This is why sometimes I say I don’t overly like feminism.

P.s. I’m not saying feminists take the piss out of the tag, I’m saying the people who take the piss of out the tag are feminists (mostly, look through tumblr).