Men's Liberation and Race

Anti-Sexism | Feminist Movement | UN Fourth World Conference on Women - Bejing, China | GLBTQ | INCITE | Men's Liberation | Conclusion| Anti-Sexism Sources

Farrell's The Myth of Male Power, discusses how the parallel that the civil rights movement be apllied to women's oppression where the men were characteriszed as the oppressor. However, "Masculists" can use the same comparison. Men and Blacks have comparable experiences of oppression. For example, "Blacks were forced, via slavery, to risk their lives in cotton fields so that whites might benefit ecnomically while blacks died prematurely.. Men wer forced, via the draft, to risk their lives on battlefields so that everyone else might benefit ecnomically while men died prematurely...Both slaves and men died to make thworld safre for freedom" (Farrell, 38). Also on a more personal level, slaves gave up their seats for whites, we call it subservience; when men give up their seats for women, we call it politness...These symbols of deference and subservience are common with slaves to masters and with men to women" (Farrell, 39).