Who are the Men Who Oppose Women’s Equality?

Well, the list is quite long indeed. There are the unabashed women haters of the Manosphere, the Broligarchs, the corporate moguls, the tech billionaires, the pornography pushers, the pimps, the johns, the sex traffickers, the Evangelicals, the Catholic church, the Christian Nationalists, the Dominionists, the fundamentalists and male supremacists of every variety of patriarchal religion, the incels, rapists, pedophiles, and lest we forget, the trans-identified fetishists and autogynephiles, sex addicts, and sadists.

All across the political spectrum, women are commodified, vilified, debased, silenced, dehumanized, and sentenced to second-class citizenship and would be rendered handmaidens of the Right, transmaidens of the Left if these men had their way. Women’s agency, bodily sovereignty, freedom, and autonomy are restricted on the one hand, and exploited on the other, but denigrated and dismissed by both. From the bedroom to the boardroom, women are treated as nothing more than objects to be manipulated and used. The tyranny of the ruling sex class of men, however they ‘identify’, reveals itself not only in the handling of the Epstein files and case, but in the staggering statistics:

  • Over 4 women a week were murdered in California in 2020; now there are 4 women a day being murdered in the U.S.
  • Over 298.000 rapes of women were reported in the U.S. in 2020
  • Spousal abuse of women is estimated at 4.8 million every year
  • Approximately 1 million women are stalked annually in the U.S.
  • Over 78% of sexual harassment charges were filed by women between 2018-2021
  • 7 in 10 human trafficking victims are women and girls
  • Over 500,000 cases of female genital mutilation have occurred or are at risk of occurring in the U.S.
  • Abortion rights and birth control are increasingly under attack, risking women’s health and lives
  • “Women in every state report injustice in their family law cases, especially battered mothers trying to protect their children from abusive fathers who aggressively litigate against them, using family court to stalk, harass, punish, and impoverish their former partners and children” according to NOW
  • Child marriage is still prevalent in the U.S., 87% of victims of which are girls
  • Women still earn around 82 cents to every dollar men earn
  • Single women and mothers with children are the two fastest-growing groups of people experiencing homelessness in the United States
  • Sexual assault victims are overwhelmingly female and their assailants are male
  • Women and girls’ safe spaces are being invaded by trans-identified males, including prisons where female prisoners are being assaulted and raped
  • Women and girls’ achievements, opportunities, endorsements, scholarships, and trophies are being stolen by mediocre male athletes – over 600 individuals in 29 different sports have been affected
  • Girls are the fastest growing group to be medicalized, sterilized, and mutilated by sex-rejecting “gender affirming care”

See:

Women Count USA

Domestic Violence Abuse Rates

Violence Against Women Statistics

Human Trafficking in the USA

FGM Statistics

Crisis in Family Courts

Child Marriage

Gender Pay Gap

Women and Homelessness

UN Report on Effect of Trans-identified Males in Female Sports

How the Debate Over Men in Women’s Sports Both Obscured and Advanced Sport Science

The Female Category – WHAM (Women’s Hockey Assoc. of Minnesota)

California transgender convict pulled from female prison for alleged rape

DOC employee reports men are claiming to be women to transfer prisons

USA: Almost 50% of Trans Inmates in Federal Custody for Sex Offences

https://washingtonstand.com/news/pornhubs-year-in-review-sextrafficking-abuse-and-age-verification

No platforming and Silencing of Women in Academia

Special Report on Trans Youth

Irreversible Damage

If you’re wondering why the system enables this abuse and exploitation, and why there is little to no accountability, read this:

If We Win, This Changes Everything

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For those unable to attend in person, please register at this link, for that date. Registration will open two days prior to the hearing.

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THE UNDERBELLY OF THE CAPITALIST PATRIARCHY

By Ann E. Menasche.

This piece is the opinion of the author and not necessarily the opinion of Feminists in Struggle as an organization.

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal, as revealed in the Epstein files, provides all that we need to know about the men (and a few women) at the highest echelons of wealth and power and their support of, or at best indifference to, the ubiquitous sexual exploitation of women and girls.  In their eyes, women and girls are merely sexual objects, property to be bought and sold, used and abused by men.  Women are not recognized as full human beings.

Clearly, Epstein himself was both a misogynist and a sociopath – a sex trafficker and serial child molester, raping and torturing underaged girls, delivering them as prey to the powerful men he flew on the “Lolita Express” and “serviced” on his islands.  He was a pathological liar (he even lied about obtaining a college degree). a thief, a crook, who raised his millions through dishonesty and complete lack of a conscience.  He was also a eugenicist and trans-humanist, enamored with the fantasy of creating a super-race from his own sperm; and a close collaborator with the reactionary leadership of the Israeli state, whose dehumanizing of Palestinians and myriad crimes against humanity are re-known (none of which have made Jews one iota safer).

The scandal is also a mirror into the souls of the men who run our society – the Banksters, war profiteers, imperialists, real estate speculators, owners of the fossil fuel industry, Big Pharma, the health insurance industry, corporate politicians and others of or beholden to the billionaire class who cavorted with Epstein and embraced him as one of their own.  It is not a pretty sight.

The Epstein files have also exposed men on the Left including well-known intellectuals and anti-imperialists like Noam Chomsky who associated with, and defended Epstein.  This continued even after Epstein was convicted of child abuse, thereby revealing Chomsky’s own sexism, hypocrisy, and moral bankruptcy.

The refusal of so many men on the Left to recognize women as fellow humans deserving of full rights or to see us at all, has not only led to defending sex traffickers like Epstein, and to supporting institutions that degrade and exploit women’s bodies such as prostitution, pornography, and commercial surrogacy.  It has also led to the wholesale embrace by the male dominated Left of gender identity ideology that deems women’s rights expendable and subordinated to males who claim to be women, thereby rendering us invisible or reduced to our body parts or lack thereof (“uterus-bearers”, “non-men”).

Patriarchy and capitalism are joined at the hip; one cannot be uprooted without the other.  Men who purport to be on the Left need to figure out whose side they are on, i.e., whether their identification with male power and privilege is greater than their commitment to securing a peaceful, just and sustainable world for the women and ultimately for all the people of this planet.