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Why The “Not All Men” Argument Is Downright Moronic

I’ll start off on a light note by saying MEN ARE TRASH. Seriously.

If you have a social media account, then you’ve certainly been acquainted with the #MenAreTrash trend and if you haven’t then I’d like to officially introduce you to it. Men Are Trash is a movement. That’s right, a movement. Men Are Trash is an anti-patriarchal movement and let’s just be clear that it has nothing to do with the fact that men are trashy love interests/partners and everything to do with the oppressive systems that are imposed on women, systems that men nurture and even actively participate in.

We know that there are “good men”, we understand that not ALL men are trashy bigots. That’s not the point of the movement. In fact, “Not all men” misses the point EVERY TIME. It quietens us down, it’s an attempt to shut us up and it has to stop. The “not all [insert problem]” argument is not constructive, it doesn’t bring forth any substance to the debate and it certainly doesn’t bring forth any solutions to the problems that women are systematically faced with.

Is it not relevant that the majority of your species is raping, abusing, killing, disenfranchising, undermining, patronising, policing, pirating, mansplaining and widely victimising women? Must we just look the other way and forget this is happening because “not all men”? So what are we to do? Nurse our wounds, overcome your systematic oppression and also have enough energy to try to figure out who’s trash and who’s not? We’d have to dedicate an awful lot of time to doing that because you don’t come with labels or perhaps written “trash” on your foreheads, you come into our spaces as people we can trust as people who are in authority, in position, in power and so we’d expect you to be ‘safe’ but 90% of the time, you’re trash to us.

The worst part of “not all men” is that it will be every trashy man’s favorite line to gain access to women. So in addition to trying to survive and thrive, women have to stay wary of every man they come across.

For instance, snakes are dangerous but “not all snakes are venomous” so… are we going to encourage kids to find out the difference if they ever come across a snake? And until men themselves can distinguish between the two without help from google or textbooks then don’t “not all men” MEN ARE TRASH because NOT ALL SNAKES.

Listen I’m not saying boycott men or that all men are evil, I’m saying women are being victimized by men to the point where it is necessary to point it out and hope that if we put you all into one group, you can actually bring change amongst yourselves because you are not mutually exclusive to each other. The actions of the majority of you men are not isolated from the actions of the minority.

Also if all you can take away from the #MenAreTrash movement is that you personally are not trash, then believe me, you’re a moron and you’re part of the problem.

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