Joe_Cavalry All Day Every Day

The problem with feminism is that it has too many brands. It's often confused with women being against men, largely because many women who call themselves feminists exhibit exactly that. But the fact is that women still suffer from gender disparities, not just in the workplace but also in the family.

Feminism has a single proposition. Equal rights and respect for both men and women. When businesses pay women less for doing the same work, there's no equal rights. When our society forgets that women do most of the work at home, especially the most important work of raising children, there's no respect. When we deny women the time to care for children and forget that they have different bodies than men, we are being careless and shortsighted.

I wrote a piece about why men, myself included, ought to stand up more for women: http://room4debate.com/debate/what-if-men-stood-up-for-women. I hope it's useful to people who think that feminism is just an attack on men. Women are the main victims of disease, violence, and poverty around the world. They carry the biggest burden of keeping families together. And for all that, we still don't give them enough opportunities to do the kinds of things they'd like to do professionally.

I don't know about you, but I know a lot of people, especially men, who were raised single-handedly by a hard-working mother. There are many of those, and it's unfair for them to have to do so much while men get to only care about being able to work.