One issue I have with the whole "gender war" thing - from both male and female perspectives - is the apparent assumption that it's some sort of zero-sum game framed in the context of conflict. That is, if a woman wants something, be it power or money or status or whatever, that means that a man loses power, money or status. And the way that the feminist movement frames this search for "equality" seems to make it very clear that it's a war.
Well, for one, it's not a zero-sum game. Never has been. A capable person, regardless of gender rising to a position of power (or whichever context one wishes to consider) moves everyone forward.
And secondly, it's not a war. Framing it as such only forces the other side, whichever side that is, into a defensive position. Nobody wins in a war, there are just different levels of losing.
Some of the stuff coming from the hyper-feminist camp is little short of hatred. If the same things were said about, say, a racial or ethnic group that they say about men, they'd probably be locked up.
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