Lets start with definitions:
Patriarchy
Patriarchy is a social system in which males hold primary power, predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property. source
Gynocenterism
Gynocentrism n. (Greek, γυνή, “female” – Latin centrum, “centred” ) refers to a dominant or exclusive focus on women in theory or practice; or to the advocacy of this.1 Anything can be considered gynocentric (Adj.) when it is concerned exclusively with a female (or specifically a feminist) point of view. 2 source
Ask any virtually feminist and they will point out that men have ruled the world for most of history, and that they have excluded women from participating in the government process, and ask virtually any mens rights activist and they will point out that throughout history men have been expected to lay down their lives for women as a group (women and children first, war, etc.)
The truth is that both are correct, yes men have been the majority of rulers throughout history, but the laws that they have created has not been to advance men over women,. For every "women are not allowed to own property" their is also a "men must pay all expenses for ALL of his female relatives." These things are balanced. Laws are created to meet a perceived social needs.
And yes men are biologically expendable, her's a great discussion on this is by Lindybeige:
And I am not going to say that, perhaps, men went too far in trying to protect their women. And it's these efforts to protect that have created a lot of the arguments feminists have.
So I ask you, are men still expendable? Are we to a point in today's world where men no longer need to be the bloody sacrifice to protect women? Do men count? Feminists are trying so hard to dismantle the Patriarchy that I think that they forget the other half of the equation, that men have throughout history, been the wall between them and those that would harm them.
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if men are really there to protect women they are not doing a good job and we are in 2016 we don't need to sacrifice our life to save anyone, women just want to be free to protect themselves
I'm not sure what you mean? Not doing a good job of it, at least here in the US we have a department to protect women, women are the least likely to be hurt or killed, and we teach personal defense to women on a regular basis.
en.wikipedia.org/.../Office_on_Violence_Against_Women
Yet 3 out of 4 women will not experience violence in their lifetime (for men the statistic is nearly one in one)
US is not the whole world and they are protecting themselves not men protecting them
Is the government a patriarchal organization or not?
As for world statistics, I think that the 1 in 4 is global (one out of four women will experience violence within her lifetime), and the other one out of one men will experience violence in their lifetime is pretty universal.
www.npr.org/.../for-brazils-women-laws-are-not-enough-to-deter-rampant-violence
in Brazil the number of women that experience violence is really high
and men, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3763365/ I've spoken before about orphaned statistics ones that say (10 women are killed a day in Brazil) without looking at the corresponding number for men to get a complete picture. I challenge you to find a place in the world where women die by violence at a higher rate then men, I will bet you almost anything that you can't find one.
men aren't assaulted every 15 seconds here
In the US, here's the bet, I will watch any YouTube video or documentary of your choice if you are right and give a report to prove it, but if you are wrong, then ayou must watch a video of my choice, fair?
if I am right about what?
men aren't assaulted every 15 seconds here...
If you are correct I will watch whatever feminist video, documentary, etc. Do we have a deal?
www.ipsnews.net/.../
Last year, 6,029 rapes were committed in the state, and 4,993 of the victims were women. This represented a 24 percent increase in the number of women raped compared to 2011.
that is only in Rio where most rapes happen, so you really think that men are raped more than women? and why the number of rape is increasing every year?
Not rapes, violent assaults, men are definitionally barred from being raped (rape is legally defined as forced penetration) if you include the term forced to penetrate the numbers get closer to even (1.7 Million vs 1.67 Million per annum) but still women are more likely by a factor of a few percentage points. But when I was making the bet I ment violent attacks which of course include rape but wasn't exclusively about it.
when I said 15 seconds I was talking about rape. Men are more victim of crimes than women but the funny part is that the criminals are in most part men too, if men rape more and commit more violent crimes there is something that we should change about the mentality of people that say men suffer more from violent crimes
Yes men are more prone to acts of violence. There is some evidence that when you atick to, what is often thought of as gender based violence then men and women are about equally both victims and aggresser
here men are the majority of people that commit violent crimes here women like steal cellphones
Statistically men and women are domestically violent and rape at roughly the same rate (if you include made to penetrate). It's pathology and there isn't a gender predisposition to pathological antisocial behavior.