!antisexism@lemmy.today is a community directed against the gender-based discrimination of men, women and nonbinary people.
It stands strongly against patriarchy and all forms of gender inequality, and is supportive of both feminism and masculism, as long as their end goal is equality.
Since, apparently, no Lemmy communities I know have tackled the gender-based issues from this angle, I decided to start my own. Will be happy to see you!
Love it! I was recently thinking about the stuff a lot. Yesterday me and my wife were watching our first marvel movie together and she had sooooo much knowledge of the characters and universe. She said she was always so self conscious of that because she was always taught its a “guy thing” to love comic books and superheros. She said she knows i don’t care about that but she was still worried i would think she is to “boyish”. I said i love how much she knows and i want her to be herself and tell me all about it. Not whatever gender role she was told to act like. She grew up in a very conservative right wing family. She is a hardcore leftist nowadays and learning to stand up for herself and i couldn’t be prouder of her.
This plays such a bigger role in our daily lives than we think and its important to talk about.
It’s insane how much people are self-limiting with all those stereotypes. In my own relationship, I often help my loved one untangle a lot as well.
Thank you for creating this community. I’ve long thought that the patriarchy and gendered norms harm everyone.
And that the hostile approach of some “feminist” and “men’s rights” movements are only adding fuel to the fire.Yup. Agreed. Emma Watson brought it to light when she pointed out how it harms babies and how they bond with their fathers in their early days, for example.
(Taking care of babies is for mothers, apparently.).
Happy to know I’m not the only one thinking this way!
Love to see this sort of approach to gender discrimination and sexism.
Different folks face very different types of issues but I think standing together and solidarity is the path forward
Exactly! And I think being part of united community helps better understand the circumstances of others, which ends up helping everyone.
Sounds great! I’m onboard!
Happy to have you there! Feel free to post what you find interesting as well!
I’m going to assume OP doesn’t know what masculism is if they also state that they want to support feminism
What’s wrong with !mensliberation@lemmy.ca ?
If you actually understand masculism, why not just call it “mens rights” instead of a faux neutral term?
Masculism is a movement against gender-based discrimination of men.
It may take many forms, and, unfortunately, some of them are clearly misogynistic and often appropriated by people who are into patriarchy. Similarly, some forms of radical feminism do get misandric.
Those are not the flavors of feminism and masculism I talk about, and those are clearly against the community rules.
Among those feminists and masculists that call for true gender equality, however, contradictions are unnecessary since the end goal is exactly the same.
- A community about men (!antisexism@lemmy.today is about everyone)
- Openly focused on the feminist perspective, which, in my opinion, is limited because it only takes one angle.
Think of !antisexism@lemmy.today as an attempt to form a wider group (men, women, and nonbinary) exploring gender inequality from different angles.
To be honest, this is the first time, I heard that masculism is supposed to be more than slightly veiled anti-feminism. Maybe there are different roots for that expression? In Germany, the word is absolutely burned and every person calling themselvese masculinists are trash, as far I am aware of.
I think your idea about a community that wants to adress everybody by using the neutral term antisexism is a good idea, though.
That cultural context is super interesting. Here in the US I feel like I more often hear the shitty people of that type labeling themselves men’s rights advocates
It makes sense that different places would have picked up different terms for that movement and as such would cary that unpleasant connotation, but I hadn’t really thought about it
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, it gave me new things to think about :)
Yeah, unfortunately, in the later years the term has been widely used by a lot of bigots to push something very different from the original idea.
Even Wikipedia now mentions both.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculism
I only mean it in the original sense, and am happy that quite a few people agree that this community should have its place.
