[email protected] - a joint movement of men, women and nonbinary people against all sorts of gender-based discrimination
[email protected] is a community directed against the gender-based discrimination of men, women and nonbinary people.
It stands strongly against patriarchy and all forms of gender inequality, and is supportive of both feminism and masculism, as long as their end goal is equality.
Since, apparently, no Lemmy communities I know have tackled the gender-based issues from this angle, I decided to start my own. Will be happy to see you!
Thank you for creating this community. I've long thought that the patriarchy and gendered norms harm everyone.
And that the hostile approach of some "feminist" and "men's rights" movements are only adding fuel to the fire.
Yup. Agreed. Emma Watson brought it to light when she pointed out how it harms babies and how they bond with their fathers in their early days, for example.
(Taking care of babies is for mothers, apparently.).
Love it! I was recently thinking about the stuff a lot. Yesterday me and my wife were watching our first marvel movie together and she had sooooo much knowledge of the characters and universe. She said she was always so self conscious of that because she was always taught its a "guy thing" to love comic books and superheros. She said she knows i don't care about that but she was still worried i would think she is to "boyish".
I said i love how much she knows and i want her to be herself and tell me all about it. Not whatever gender role she was told to act like.
She grew up in a very conservative right wing family. She is a hardcore leftist nowadays and learning to stand up for herself and i couldn't be prouder of her.
This plays such a bigger role in our daily lives than we think and its important to talk about.
Masculism is a movement against gender-based discrimination of men.
It may take many forms, and, unfortunately, some of them are clearly misogynistic and often appropriated by people who are into patriarchy. Similarly, some forms of radical feminism do get misandric.
Those are not the flavors of feminism and masculism I talk about, and those are clearly against the community rules.
Among those feminists and masculists that call for true gender equality, however, contradictions are unnecessary since the end goal is exactly the same.
To be honest, this is the first time, I heard that masculism is supposed to be more than slightly veiled anti-feminism. Maybe there are different roots for that expression? In Germany, the word is absolutely burned and every person calling themselvese masculinists are trash, as far I am aware of.
I think your idea about a community that wants to adress everybody by using the neutral term antisexism is a good idea, though.