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The Friendzone, Entitlement and Women as Prizes: The Men’s Rights Movement DOES Have Something to Say About This
Radical feminists have recently made a major issue of the Friendzone and the (almost entirely phantom) menace of men supposedly feeling entitled to women’s affections because they’re friends, they did something for her, they were nice, or some other reason mostly made up in the paranoid fantasies of fearmongering radical feminist demagogues. In reality, the vast majority of men are completely used to, and in many cases satisfied, with putting out enormous amounts of effort to make themselves worthy of affection, and expecting absolutely nothing in return.
And this is where the men’s rights movement has a legitimate grievance. As much as feminists are involved in complaining about the ‘Friendzone’ word, and entitlement, and the fearmongering propaganda that men collectively feel women owe them something, we’ve got something to say about this, too.
The men’s rights movement would actually have nothing at all to do with entitlement, or women supposedly owing men anything, and the idea of women as prizes is absolutely, hilariously right out. Here’s why.
First of all, the entire concept of courtship is, quite often, a contest. Men are pitted either against each other, or against a high set of standards, for a woman’s affections. He has to have some minimum standard of social status in order to qualify as a mate. Women expect men to be brave and have the guts to make the first move, and while men will go up and talk to fat women and ugly women, women will only ever make the first move if the guy is in the top ten percent of men. Men do not mind women who don’t have a job, but 3 out of every 4 women won’t date a man who doesn’t have a job. They say it’s not about money. Sure it’s not. And the fact that women don’t date short men isn’t about superficiality, either. (Cue eye-roll.) In fact, women are actually pretty brutal in their views about short men.
Put all of this together and what facts come out? Men are judged by women by their socioeconomic status: their jobs, their willingness to exert themselves for a woman, their height, in essence: their position in the male hierarchy.
The institution of Courtship is, basically, a giant contest, in which men are compared to and pitted against other men, or against standards that women refuse to be (and are usually not) held to themselves. But yet at the same time the feminist say women are not prizes. Ask yourself this: what lies at the end of a contest? You guessed it, a prize. No sane person goes into a contest just to participate and not WIN anything. Women say they’re not prizes, but they treat men as contestants, and they lie and say they don’t… but the evidence is overwhelming.
And this is where the men’s rights movement comes in.
Our opinion on all of this is not that hey, it’s a contest, so we should win something when we measure up. Nope, our view is, the contest is bullshit and we will not play it. We will not be held to standards that women aren’t being held to, and the women who try to hold us to this, are not worth dating or pursuing.
Women aren’t prizes. But on the other hand, men aren’t contestants. The institution of courtship is a rigged game that must end.
Radical feminists have recently made a major issue of the Friendzone and the (almost entirely phantom) menace of men supposedly feeling entitled to women’s affections because they’re friends, they did something for her, they were nice, or some other reason mostly made up in the paranoid fantasies of fearmongering radical feminist demagogues. In reality, the vast majority of men are completely used to, and in many cases satisfied, with putting out enormous amounts of effort to make themselves worthy of affection, and expecting absolutely nothing in return.
And this is where the men’s rights movement has a legitimate grievance. As much as feminists are involved in complaining about the ‘Friendzone’ word, and entitlement, and the fearmongering propaganda that men collectively feel women owe them something, we’ve got something to say about this, too.
The men’s rights movement would actually have nothing at all to do with entitlement, or women supposedly owing men anything, and the idea of women as prizes is absolutely, hilariously right out. Here’s why.
First of all, the entire concept of courtship is, quite often, a contest. Men are pitted either against each other, or against a high set of standards, for a woman’s affections. He has to have some minimum standard of social status in order to qualify as a mate. Women expect men to be brave and have the guts to make the first move, and while men will go up and talk to fat women and ugly women, women will only ever make the first move if the guy is in the top ten percent of men. Men do not mind women who don’t have a job, but 3 out of every 4 women won’t date a man who doesn’t have a job. They say it’s not about money. Sure it’s not. And the fact that women don’t date short men isn’t about superficiality, either. (Cue eye-roll.) In fact, women are actually pretty brutal in their views about short men.
Put all of this together and what facts come out? Men are judged by women by their socioeconomic status: their jobs, their willingness to exert themselves for a woman, their height, in essence: their position in the male hierarchy.
The institution of Courtship is, basically, a giant contest, in which men are compared to and pitted against other men, or against standards that women refuse to be (and are usually not) held to themselves. But yet at the same time the feminist say women are not prizes. Ask yourself this: what lies at the end of a contest? You guessed it, a prize. No sane person goes into a contest just to participate and not WIN anything. Women say they’re not prizes, but they treat men as contestants, and they lie and say they don’t… but the evidence is overwhelming.
And this is where the men’s rights movement comes in.
Our opinion on all of this is not that hey, it’s a contest, so we should win something when we measure up. Nope, our view is, the contest is bullshit and we will not play it. We will not be held to standards that women aren’t being held to, and the women who try to hold us to this, are not worth dating or pursuing.
Women aren’t prizes. But on the other hand, men aren’t contestants. The institution of courtship is a rigged game that must end.
