IT'S COMPLICATED: Women Against Feminism (a few thoughts)

I find "Women Against Feminism" to be horribly misguided. The methods used to express the points said were paved by Feminists. It seems that "misandrist" and "feminist" have become interchangeable terms in the eyes of some, and I can't help but find that disheartening.

I think Misandry and Misogyny are terrible things. I think that there are issues that affect everyone, regardless of gender and that stem from difficulties caused by what's perceived as some gender norms. I would also say I'm a Feminist, but in the broad sense. I hope to take things from a broad place, hoping to get the big picture, because if there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's this: things are always more complicated than they appear.

We may seek those simple answers, or even the most streamlined routes to solutions, but the depth of human experience is incalculable. With people it's never simple. Every issue relating to some aspect of the human condition has a near infinite number of angles to them, so it's a bit harmful to approach them as though they have anything but.

Something to concider is this: there are no simple things, only simple thoughts. We tend to willfully obfuscate complexity for simplicity. We obfuscate the complexity of both the internal and external systems at play.

It's completely within reason that those alligned with "Women Against Feminism" make make some points that address some of the things that slip through the cracks of the majority of Feminist talk, but they then participate in the same discrediting of every aspect of Feminism that Feminists are accused of doing.

So is there any solution? What new maxim should we rally behind to solve this? If you've been paying attention you'll know that there isn't one. It comes from the conscious search for the core of arguments and of people. Hearing what they have to say and learning of their experiences. It takes openess and humility, whether (like me) fueled by the thought that God desires us to know each other better and to know Him by understanding our connectedness, or by the underlying thought that people should just be decent to each other, or from any other place, this is what I see as a solution. Do not obfuscate it's complexity, because it's something that will take your whole life to do. There is no mastery, only exponential growth.