Why the Men's Rights Movement Is Garbage

[McCamy Taylor]

143. There is a matriarchy, but it exists at a family level not a societal one

and it is relatively small in this country and predominantly lower-middle class. While some men are affected by it within their families growing up ("Go play ball while your sister and I talk about serious stuff like health care and babies and cooking&quot there is nothing that the legal system can do to fix it. Change has to occur in the home.

The men blaming "feminists" should actually be blaming the Catholic Church---Irish Catholics are the biggest promoters of this matriarchy. They tell their men "Bring home a paycheck and anything else you do is ok you poor pitiful slob." I am not knocking Irish-Catholics. I come from an Irish-Catholic family. The women were expected to be strong. No one cuts them any slack if they were not strong. As someone once wrote, there are no Irish-American Princesses. This starts in childhood. The men are expected to be weak. If they do better than weak---why then they are saints, the cute precious little darlings and fit for the priesthood.

Keep in mind, the Irish-American matriarchy is quite small. Most of the men in the men's "rights" movement probably have not encountered it.

WASPs, Muslims and Jewish men who complain of being marginalized because of their gender are probably FOS. Their boys are treated like little kings. Maybe that is the problem. They go out in the world and suddenly every man is a king. Same goes for most Latinos and just about every Asian and African family I have met that has both sons and daughters. Which means the Irish-American Matriarchy (which includes a lot of Black folks, many Black folks being part Irish, too) is a minority in this county and definitely not trampling the rights of the majority men.