Reverse sexism is a male lie

Picture taken from the movie Waiting to Exhale 

Of late I have been coming across a lot of accusations that reverse sexism is very much a live and causing a great deal of problems. 

The accusers of this are predominantly white hetro males who often make these accusations from either a men’s rights or fathers rights point of view.

I have always had a big problem with this.  As I have mentioned in previous posts white hetro males are the most privileged of all people on this planet, which begs the question “what rights are they demanding?”

Investigation clearly shows that they are demanding the right to maintain strait white male supremacy and domination, the right to continue raping underage girls, the right to continue to abuse wives and girlfriends and quite a lot more.

These males are claiming that they are now the victims of sexism which is been delivered to them from a feminist dominated society.  I am really curious about this.  When did we become a feminist dominate society?  From what I can see we are still very much under the oppressive male dominated society.

Their idea of reverse sexism is when women dare to stand up to male oppression.  When women say men do not have the right to treat women and girls as property then men immediately accuse these women of been sexist.

So I guess in a male dominated society, men can treat women and girls as they like and that is not sexism, as it is just the man exercising his manly right.  But when a woman resists the horrors of male domination, oh well that is different, clearly she is an evil sexist feminist.

I am really trying to understand reverse sexism.  How can it take place when men still maintain most of the power in today’s world?

While it is certainly true that thanks to our feminist foremothers we women have certainly made progress and obtained some power, but I can assure you, not nearly enough to start discriminating against men in the way that they would have you believe.

By making women look bad the oppressor (men) are able to create the illusion that the oppressed (women) is really the bad apple and needs to be dealt with.

In their drive to educate women and girls about male domination, feminists must make this an important point.  Too often I see the victim getting all the blame, for example when a woman is raped it becomes her fault because clearly she was dressed provocatively or she shouldn’t have been in such a quite part of town by herself etc. 

Reverse sexism is the same thing.  It is blaming the victim; it is making the victim look like the cause of the problem.  And what better way to deflect male sexism towards women if men are able to get everyone to think we are now discriminating against men.

These men who make such accusations will often point to TV commercials that in their opinion are anti-male.  To be quite honest I have not found many of these so called anti-male adverts though I have come across many many adverts that are anti-woman.

But let’s humor the boys and have a look at one of these so called anti male adverts.

The one I would like to look at which attracted a lot of anger from many men is one created for the Australian Cancer Council called Cloakroom.  You may be aware of the women’s anti-cancer fundraising event called “Girl’s Night In” if not and if this topic is of interest to you, you can read-up on them here  http://www.girlsnightin.com.au/

Anyway back to the commercial at hand.

The commercial shows some women arriving at a house laughing and clearly happy to be there, their hostess takes the coat of one of the women and opens a closet.  In the closet we see a man (presumably either her husband or boyfriend) at the bottom of the closet, tied and gagged.  The women who was laughing with her friends when she opens the closet door looks at him with much disappointment as if she has been really let down by him, throws the coat into the closet and then closes the closet door.

The outraged males who complain about this advert are quick to ask how people would feel if the sexes had been reversed.

Well interesting they should ask this because this happens quite often in real life.  Women and girls get horribly abused by husbands, boyfriends and fathers and I have certainly read a lot of articles in which men keep women and girls locked up in closets, basements, car trunks etc.  This after they have beaten them up or raped them.

What makes this commercial amusing is that by looking at the physical size of the woman and the man you know it would not be possible for her to have actually been able to tie him up and lock him in the closet. In real life it would have been the other way around.

In the real world the oppressor oppresses women and girls and locks them in closets and basements, now we have a comical look at how the oppressed has locked the oppressor in the closet, giving him a taste of his own medicine.

The women are happy and laughing because with the evil oppressor locked away they can both have fun without been oppressed and deal with real issue that affect women in this case cancer issues without been belittled or made fun of.

If I had any complaints about this commercial It would have been that I would have liked to have seen more women of colour, especially as cancer affects all women and not just white women.  In fact by using women of colour together with white women it could have been more empowering.

Strait white males have always owned the property and employed women of colour to serve him.  Throughout history white males have been known to rape their female servants and slaves.

Well now the oppressive white male is locked in the closet and the women are now free to be women.