That was written in response to Buckley's "men are body facists and women are not". I don't think there's any more pressure on women to look good than there is men to look good these days, yet feminists argue as if the pressure solely applies to women. I'll put my hand up and say part of the reason I now do 6 hours of weights a week is because I think a better body might make me more attractive to women.
If I was to write the reverse of "So women should be grateful for every tiny dicked, ugly, fat poor bastard who tries their luck?" I'd expect Julie Bindel round my house with a pair of garden shears.
Young women now earn more than young men. Issues with reaching earning potential surely have something to do with career breaks around family, of which there is a certain 'have cake and eat it' attitude. I'm sure there are many childless men
and women who see having children as a personal choice and would agree that there's only so much wider society should do to accomodate other people's choices. (And I'm quite open-minded about family arrangements after having kids - one of my mates is a 'house husband'.)
Feeling safe? As a man out at night, you're more likely to be attacked than a woman is. Surely this is another 'human' issue, not a feminist one?
And don't get me started on the prevailing feminist attitude towards porn, which would actually deny other female's rights to do certain work. Men are capable of switching from enjoying the female form to seeing women as rounded human beings. Where's the evidence that men see women as 'vaccuous or a sex object as a matter of course'? Again, women do just as much ogling/objectifying of the male body. The Diet Coke man isn't famous for his brains. A lot of feminists actually come across as a bunch of uptight prudes in the controls they want to have over sex, etc, ironically not that different from the old patriarchy/religions they despise!
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