When addressing the 21st century secular progressive (and religious progressive) world, you can’t really define men without addressing feminism. So here in Part Three I’ll ask “Does Feminism Hate Men?”
I mean, on the surface a lot of guys certainly seem to think so, hence a lot of male resistance and even hostility to anything that labels itself feminism.
MADRE, a global feminist organization, works to diversify and globalize the fight for gender equality. MADRE – ABC News
A few days ago, I wrote the first part of this series, Defining Men, Part One: Looking Through the Barbie Lens. I used the the currently popular film as a “jumping off point” to examine how modern feminism tends to view men. While the movie is touted to be pro-men as well as pro-women (only being “anti-patriarchy”), not everyone is convinced. Not everyone (mostly men) is convinced that the current incarnation of feminism is pro-men either.
As you may know or have guessed, feminism, especially across time, isn’t a static concept. Even the ABC story admits, “Feminism, the first wave of which began with the suffrage movement in the mid-1800s, looks vastly different today than it did generations ago.”
Okay, fine. But how different? The article goes on:
"When you awake in the morning, learn something to inspire you and mediate upon it, then plunge forward full of light with which to illuminate the darkness." -Rabbi Tzvi Freeman
Morning Meditations 