Because apparently sexism is only something women deal with

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I know that this MyTake will be immediately attacked, and mocked but I believe it needs to be discussed. Women believe that they're the only ones who are oppressed in America. Yet that couldn't be farther from the truth. In fact, the women who believe that they are the only ones being oppressed are the ones oppressing men. It's the women who believe feminism is truly about the equal rights of both women and men when even those women are preventing men from having a voice unless it benefits women in some way. Why can't men speak for themselves anymore? Why is the country all about women? In this MyTake, I will mention a few of the misandristic things women are doing that oppress men in America. There are plenty more than these examples, mind you, but I am unable to list them all. So please feel free to mention any I've missed in the comments.

1. Family Court

One of the things propelling prejudice against men in family courts is the basing of decisions on stereotypical attitudes and beliefs. Most judges in family courts center their decisions on their own understandings and beliefs. Many judges raised in traditional homes consisting of fathers as breadwinners and mothers as caretakers have resisted letting go of the "tender years" doctrine. That simply shows that judges award custody to women. Stereotypically, men are considered to not care, basically, about anything other than the money. Other myths in court systems are that men are not usually capable of being custodial parents as are mothers etc. Such beliefs of most judges in family court have been discriminating against men and damaging towards child-parent relationships as most men are separated from their children via unfair court decisions. Regardless of constitutional pledges of equality, some people are less equal than others. This is the message passed on to men when custody is awarded to women after a custody evaluation. Most men who go to courts seeking equality leave feeling stripped of their fatherhood as they are not only denied custody, but also are constrained in the access to their children. It is therefore highly conclusive that men do suffer both from the loss of their parental rights and access to their children due to a biased court system discriminating against men for being men.

2. Justice System

Many of the gender differences observed in court and other parts of of the criminal justice system stem from social perceptions of how men and women behave. One area where this is apparent is in sentencing of sex crimes. When women are convicted of sex crimes, they tend to receive lenient sentences than men who commit the same crimes, possibly because men are often ASSUMED to be sexual aggressors while women are assumed to be more passive. Other studies found the following gender discrepancies in criminal justice:

- Women are less likely than men to be detained before their trials.

- Women are 58% less likely than men to be sentenced to prison.

- Women who are convicted of theft crimes often receive shorter prison sentences than men who commit theft crimes.

I mean, just look at what's going on regarding the Depp v Heard case!

3. Feminism

For men, the rise of feminism has relegated us to second-class status. Inequality and discrimination have become a part our everyday lives.

A lot of feminist rhetoric today does cross the line from attacks on sexism into attacks on men, with a strong focus on personal behavior: the way they talk, the way they approach relationships, even the way they sit on public transit. Male faults are stated as sweeping condemnations; objecting to such generalizations is taken as a sign of complicity. Meanwhile, similar indictments of women would be considered grossly misogynistic.

What's more, male-bashing not only sours many men -- and quite a few women -- on feminism. It often drives them into internet subcultures where critiques of feminism mix with hostility towards women. Modern feminism view western civilization as a patriarchy and have migrated from academic and activist fringes into mainstream conversation. One reason for this trend is social media, with its instant amplification of personal narratives and its addiction to outrage. We live in a time when jerky male attempts at cyber-flirting can be collected on a blog called Straight White Boys Texting (Which carries a disclaimer that prejudice against white males is not racist or sexist, since it is not directed at the oppressed) and then deplored in an article titled: "Dear men: This is why women have every right to be disgusted with us."

Whatever the reasons for the current cycle of misandry -- yes, that's a word, derided but also adopted from ironic use by many feminists -- its existence is quite real. Consider, for example, the number of neologisms that use "man" as a derogatory prefix and that have entered everyday media language. "Mansplaining," "Manspreading," and "Manterrupting." "Manspreading" and "Manterrupting" are these primarily male behaviors that justify the gender-specific terms? Not necessarily. The study that is cited as evidence of excessive male interruption of women actually found that the most frequent interrupting is female-on-female. ("Femterrupting?") Sitting with legs apart may be a guy thing, but there is plenty of visual documentation of women hogging extra space on public transit with purses, shopping bags, and feet on seats. As for "Mansplaining," these days it seems to mean little more than a man making an argument a women dislikes. Slate correspondent Dahlia Lithwick has admitted using the term to "Dismiss anything said by men" in debates about Hillary Clinton. And the day after Clinton claimed the Democratic Presidential nomination, political analyst David Axelrod was slammed as a "Mansplainer" on Twitter for his observation that its a measure of our country's "great progress" that "Many younger women find the nomination of a women unremarkable." Men who gripe about their ex-girlfriends and advise other men to avoid relationships with women are generally relegated to the seedy underbelly of the Internet — various forums and websites in the “manosphere,” recently chronicled by Stephen Marche in the Guardian. Yet a leading voice of the new feminist generation, British writer Laurie Penny, can use her column in the New Statesman to decry ex-boyfriends who “turned mean or walked away” and to urge straight young women to stay single instead of “wasting years in succession on lacklustre, unappreciative, boring child-men.” Feminist commentary routinely puts the nastiest possible spin on male behavior and motives. Consider the backlash against the concept of the “friend zone,” or being relegated to “friends-only” status when seeking a romantic relationship — usually, though not exclusively, in reference to men being “friend zoned” by women. Since the term has a clear negative connotation, feminist critics say it reflects the assumption that a man is owed sex as a reward for treating a woman well. Yet it’s at least as likely that, as feminist writer Rachel Hills argued in a rare dissent in the Atlantic, the lament of the “friend zoned” is about “loneliness and romantic frustration,” not sexual entitlement.Things have gotten to a point where casual low-level male-bashing is a constant white noise in the hip progressive online media. Take a recent piece on Broadly, the women’s section of Vice, titled, “Men Are Creepy, New Study Confirms” — promoted with a Vice Facebook post that said: “Are you a man? You’re probably a creep.” The actual study found something very different: that both men and women overwhelmingly think someone described as “creepy” is more likely to be male. If a study had found that a negative trait was widely associated with women (or gays or Muslims), surely this would have been reported as deplorable stereotyping, not confirmation of reality. Meanwhile, men can get raked over the (virtual) coals for voicing even the mildest unpopular opinion on something feminism-related. Just recently, YouTube film reviewer James Rolfe, who goes by “Angry Video Game Nerd,” was roundly vilified as a misogynistic “man-baby” in social media and the online press after announcing that he would not watch the female-led “Ghostbusters” remake because of what he felt was its failure to acknowledge the original franchise.This matters, and not just because it can make men less sympathetic to the problems women face. At a time when we constantly hear that womanpower is triumphant and “the end of men” — or at least of traditional manhood — is nigh, men face some real problems of their own. Women are now earning about 60 percent of college degrees; male college enrollment after high school has stalled at 61 percent since 1994, even as female enrollment has risen from 63 percent to 71 percent. Predominantly male blue-collar jobs are on the decline, and the rise of single motherhood has left many men disconnected from family life. The old model of marriage and fatherhood has been declared obsolete, but new ideals remain elusive.Perhaps mocking and berating men is not the way to show that the feminist revolution is about equality and that they have a stake in the new game. Yet it is not too far-fetched to see the pro-Donald Trump sentiment as fueled, at least in part, by a backlash against feminism. And while some of this backlash may be of the old-fashioned “put women in their place” variety, there is little doubt that for the younger generation, the perception of feminism as extremist and anti-male plays a role, too.

Like I said above, I am unable to mention more. So if I missed any, please mention them in the comments.

Because apparently sexism is only something women deal with
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