Are you joking? Men are ubiquitously discriminated against these days.
(1) Child access, yes. But also alimony and the splitting of property (e.g. the house).
(2) He is pretty much presumed the primary aggressor in any physical altercation between a woman and a man.
(3) Study after study has shown that for equivalent crimes, men receive stricter and longer sentences. They're also more likely to receive a conviction when evidence is more or less identical. Prison facilities for women are more comfortable and provide more social services than those serving men.
(4) Social services in general are much less available for men. I've read a statistic that although men pay 75% of taxes, they are recipients of only about 35% of social services.
(5) When Howard Dean was governor in Vermont he founded what was then the only healthcare program for people in Vermont for those above the poverty line called "Ladies First." This kind of crap is everywhere. Need I say more?
(6) The draft.
(7) Being the first to be shoved up to the front line to get shot at in time of war whereas women are send there only if they volunteer, if at all.
(8) Try getting a job at restaurant as a guy. Ten bucks says you'll be in the back slaving over a hot stove rather than out front serving the customers. This is not a coincidence.
(9) Try getting a job in a day care facility or as a nurse as a guy. Good luck! Tell a lawyer you're being discriminated against. He doesn't give a damn.
(10) If you are working in an office and you are male, you are often required to wear a noose around your neck (a tie) whereas the woman sitting next to you wears what amounts to a slightly fancy tee shirt. The government will come to any woman's aid on such matters if the complain or threaten lawsuits, but if you are a guy with basically the same problem, presumably there is nothing that needs to be done about it.
(11) Try wearing false eyelashes to work if you are a guy. What about that women with her hair cut short, and the shirt that looks like a men's shirt? She gets a free pass.
(12) Being the butt of every bad joke about how men are stereotypically this or that, whereas if a guy makes a joke about women, he risks losing his job.
(13) Two people are drunk and have sexual relations. In some jurisdictions the consent is not considered valid and the sexual relations is considered a form of sexual assault, but it is always assumed that the woman's consent is not valid, whereas the man's consent is. Which is bull.
That's really just the tip of the iceberg.
Basically, the insidious problem here is chivalry.
It is a bunch of horsecr*p and unfortunately codified in law.
Neither liberals or conservatives are particularly friendly on any of these issues, because they both buy into dumb *****, whatever gets them elected. So basically, they can go ***** themselves.
1. Going to agree with, but again, that's the patriarchal system in place. Where everyday boys are taught to be tough, and girls are taught to be the caregivers. Granted in many first world nations, that's changed quite a bit in the past 40 years (look to Scandinavia for the biggest changes).
2. Statistically, he is generally the aggressor in domestic violence. Sadly, again the patriarchal element of society shames men for being "weak".
3. This is kinda true, but mostly false. Women have a statistical higher conviction rate on things that men generally get a walk on, the biggest being drug trafficking, and strangely, child abuse. Women are more likely to see prison time over child abuse than men.
4. Would like to see said breakdown, as the vast majority of government aid goes to farmers and corporations. Which, generally, are and run by white men.
5. Going to Vermont's medical pages, all I can find referring to "Ladies First" is referring to a program to get cardiovascular healthcare to poor women. Fun bit of trivia, cardiovascular care for women is generally ignored by the public, and many women don't realize the signs of a heart attack are different for us, than for men.
6. Again, the patriarchy. The draft is unnecessary in this day and age, and should be dumped.
7. Women are trying to get into combat positions, but men fight it, claiming women are incapable of battle/combat piloting/etc.
8. As a woman who's worked at many restaurants in her life, you're full of **** on this one. If you have the skill to be wait staff, you're going to be put out to the public. I see it every day, from fast food to nice restaurants, there are just as many men wait staffing as women. The opposite is more true in the back, as you leave fast food, it's actually harder for a woman to become a head chef than a man. Women like Anne Burrell and Cat Cora have to work harder than the Mario Batali's of the world.
9. Again, no. Men just don't enter the field. Look at your average male nurse in the US, they're either foreign-born nursing grads getting experience to take home (largely African communities) or guys from the armed services. Look at a nursing school's graduating class, American men are again, told by their peers that only "fags" go into nursing.
10. Awww, you have to wear a tie? Wear high heels for 8 hours a day. And we STILL get paid less.
11. This is the issues facing transgendered people, right here. This is why we need ENDA.
12. Eh, going to have to agree on this. Nothing pisses me off more than seeing "the retarded guy" stereotype in TV, movies, commercials. Then again... I hate seeing stereotypes.
13. Going to have to call you a douche on this one. If a person is drunk, they are unable to give informed consent, period. This works both ways as well, but again, men have screwed themselves into believing that men can't be raped.
So at the end of the day, you know who's fault it is, yours. Straight, white men have ****ed with everyone else for so long, they've moved onto their own.
Oh and at the end of this, Straight White Men still aren't discriminated against.
Come back to me when you get paid less for the same work, or you're fired for being married to a woman, or you're blamed for your own sexual assault, or when an entire political party lives to make your lives even easier than it is right now.
My only intention is to show that yes, in some ways, us opposite-sex domestic partner people are discriminated against in terms of employee benefits sometimes.)
