this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2025
835 points (85.3% liked)
Comic Strips
21083 readers
1488 users here now
Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
The rules are simple:
- The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
- The comic must be a complete story.
- If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
- You may post comics from others or your own.
- If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
- The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
- Politeness.
- AI-generated comics aren't allowed.
- Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.
Web of links
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world: "I use Arch btw"
- !memes@lemmy.world: memes (you don't say!)
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The problem with your long and heartfelt reply is that it cuts in half the point I am making. I am posing the hypothetical question of if the funds go to assist in aliviting problems that are exclusively suffered by men, not if the efforts and funds of the feminist organisations have knock of effects in making men's lives better, which, yeah they do via making a more gender dispersed society, and decreasing stressors in environments.
These are scenarios that exclusively benefit men. My statement is that I do not believe such transfer of resources to enable things to be better exclusively to assist men do not happen, and nor is it expected to be that way; and framing feminist organisations as not being biased towards helping women as their central objective is misrepresentative.
and because this topic is constantly a powder keg; yes, those organisations are doing good , necessary work that I approve of.
that's great, you are doing commendable work and the orgaisations you work with are doing great work.
Yes, and I'm saying there are prominent feminist voices advocating for specific approaches and helping boys navigate the world, with only incidental benefits to women (who avoid being abused by those men). They're publishing books, running workshops, providing online resources for these specific things.
Feminist organizations dedicated to protecting women's reproductive rights are also distributing condoms that go on penises, even for men fucking other men.
Maybe they are motivated by the "knock on" effects on women, but it's very clear that feminist organizations and advocates are doing things to address problems that only affect men and boys.
I'm talking about actual things we're doing, not just hypotheticals.
I'm mainly arguing against a narrow view where addressing problems is thought in terms of the demographic identity of the recipient of that help. Organizations try to tackle problems, and trying to gender code the problems and solutions I think is counterproductive.
Then why are we gender coding the name of the movement?
Are you asking feminists to stop helping men or something? I'm describing how feminist groups and organizations help men. The organizations they work for usually don't have gendered names, and even when they do, they tend to take on specific causes regardless of gender, because those causes are themselves important for elevating women's status towards equality.
The ACLU's Women's Rights Project, co-founded and operated by prominent feminist Ruth Bader Ginsburg, did some big work in the 70's, and their goal was to elevate women by fighting for gender equality, including (and perhaps especially) when men were the victims of discrimination. Craig v. Boren was probably the most famous example of their work on that front, where the Supreme Court struck down a higher drinking age for men in Oklahoma.
So it seems to me that you're pivoting away from "but why don't they help men" argument to fussing about the way they name themselves. The name is the name. I'm a feminist, I volunteer for feminist organizations, for important causes for women, in a way that often helps men directly.
Just to point out I've only commented once in the thread above, I'm not the same person you were originally replying to.
No, of course not. I'm just pointing out how the name of the movement 'feminism' is gender coded, which is ironic considering your earlier statement about not gender coding solutions and stuff
Whoops, my bad. That does fundamentally change the nature of your comment, I apologize. My criticism was off base.
My broader point is that I am fully aware of the fact that many feminist organizations intentionally and strategically attack problems that affect men motivated out of a bigger picture issue that primarily affects women. And that many feminist people and organizations choose to take on multiple issues, only some of which might be considered feminist causes. But as a whole, I think it's unfair to insinuate that feminists (either individuals or organized into organizations) don't care to devote resources to helping men. And that's the main thrust of what I'm getting at.
Fair enough. I don't disagree with any of what you've said, I just think they'd save themselves and everybody else a lot of pain if the name of the movement was more gender neutral.