When the past is used to justify all manner of female privilege and discrimination against the innocent men of the present.
Such is modern feminism.
Modern men grew up alongside women. We went to the same schools, were raised by educated mothers, sisters, and aunts. We shared the same classrooms, the same
environments, and the same opportunities. We entered the digital world together…joining platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at the same time. “No barriers”
We built friendships, relationships, and experiences side by side. “Bodily autonomy”
We knew women who lived freely, made their own choices, pursued careers, owned homes, and shaped their own lives.
In our everyday reality, there was no clear system where we were actively oppressing anyone or taking rights away until social media came.
Yet now, we are told to take responsibility for an alleged oppression we never participated in…things that happened generations before us. When we ask when this happened, we’re pointed to the past.
But that raises a question: are modern men meant to answer for history they didn’t create?
We are not reincarnations of the past, and we don’t carry the actions of previous generations. Accountability should be based on what a person does, not what others did long before they were born.
Respect, care, loyalty, and protection should not be automatic or demanded based on history alone. In today’s world, they should be mutual and earned…given through actions, just as they are expected in return.
The past should not be used as a tool to extract unearned privileges in the present. History deserves to be understood, but not weaponized. Moral responsibility belongs to those who acted, not to those who merely came after.