Do Men Need to Fight for Their Rights as Women Do?

Abstract 

Gender inequality has been noted as one of the key social issues affecting the world today, which has created the need for women to embrace feminism as a way of creating an environment that supports the rights of women. Although this has been seen as a key step towards advancing the position of women, it has also raised serious questions on the position of the men. The main issue has been on whether men ought to fight for their position within the same front as the women in the social environment. In that view, this research paper seeks to examine the question ‘Do men need to fight for their rights as feminist women do?’ The paper will reflect on trying to understand the influence that feminism is having on the position of the men in the society. The analysis will help in highlighting whether men ought to consider their positions as being threatened with the aim being towards establishing a framework through which to advance the fight for their rights. The paper will seek to engage in an in-depth analysis of the question with the aim being towards enhancing overall understanding on some of the underlying impacts associated with feminism from the perspective of the men.

Introduction 

The social issue of gender inequality has created a situation women are often considered as being inferior when compared to the men, which has created the need for the women to embrace feminism. The question of whether men ought to consider themselves as being threatened by the feminist ideology has raised serious concern among the men within different social environments taking into account that it becomes hard to determine whether indeed men should fight for their rights. The main issue of contention has been the fact that women have embraced feminism as part of their ideal towards fighting for their rights. That means that the women often believe in the fact that they ought to use feminism as a key tool allowing them to build on their capacities to ensure that the society is able to build on equality for all persons regardless of gender. Consequently, this has raised the question ‘Do men need to fight for their rights as feminist women do?’ while taking into account that most of the women in the society tend to embrace this ideology.

The focus of this research paper is to reflect on whether the position of the men, within the society, will be secured moving into future while considering the relentless efforts by women to embrace the feminist ideology. The issue is driven by the fact that most researchers have pointed to the fact that feminism does not focus on the need for women to have equal rights to the men. Instead, feminism creates an ideology that seeks to ensure that the women would gain more advantages and trying to trample over the patriarchal society, which is considered as having far reaching negative effects on the social front, especially for the men. From that view, this paper will seek to examine the overall levels of impacts that feminism is having on the position of the men. That will help in highlighting the extent to which this position ought to be preserved and secured through the fight for the rights of the men within the same breathe as the feminist women.