Indian online magazine Maggcom — likely to generate business for themselves — has just launched a campaign based on gender equality for men that predictably has some people in an uproar. Examples of the graphics created to express the issues of the campaign are included here. The text on their site reads as follows,
"Why should men have to give up their seat if they see a lady standing? Why should he have to hold out a door for a lady passing by? Men don’t get free entry in clubs. Men unlike women don’t get periods (yes don’t be so ashamed of it girls, you do that!) and so men can’t work their way out of the problem saying they are PMSing. Men certainly do not get the sympathy votes. Why should men not cry? Why should men do the heavy lifting? Why not girls?”
Unsurprisingly, Twitter users have taken exception to the campaign. Search hashtag #dontmancriminate for examples of their ire. See further graphics from the "don't mancriminate" campaign and more examples of its Twitter protest here.
Images: Maggcom
I will say that neither should hit each other.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449454/More-US-men-raped-than-women.html
http://www.cultural-misandry.com/mens-rights/
And despite the anti-feminist articles linked in the comment above, I think you'd find that most feminists are as opposed to these kind of things as a men's rights activist. Feminism is an equal rights movement, not a women should get all the advantages while men suffer movement.
But seriously, this whole "Men's Rights" thing is disgusting.
Men have dominated the world since the beginning of time, and now they're claiming to be "oppressed" because women are fighting for even the smallest shred of equality?
That's just insane.
For example, the first image seems to be saying NO ONE should hold doors, give up seats, and carry things, when it would be far more productive to say women should do those things too. In many parts of the world, they already do, but I guess that's inconvenient for their whine-fest.
The second image seems to be saying, "IT SHOULD BE OK FOR MEN TO HIT THEIR PARTNERS." Not "NO HITTING ANYONE."