Then, if you want genuine objectivity, you might want to consider data.
I do think that women already know they can do things. But some things don’t depend on us. You keep repeating the part about the “victim narrative”. But there is no way that you can talk about being denied body integrity without being told that you sound as a victim. Yet, it is objectively true that many governments deny that to women.
When we denounce inequalities that make our lives worse or deny us opportunities, we are using our power to try to change things and get an even playing field. You believe that the solution lies in ourselves. But that is not true, because the fact is that being denied an abortion depends on laws. And laws depend on politics that cater to both men and women. Not just that, but also a majority of male politicians.
Sure, we can go on strike. But for a strike to be completely successful, maybe we do need to let some old people to die. I mean, many of them depend on women to take care of them. For free. Would that be a good solution? From a very psychopathic point of view that would work. Let the old (and probably sexist) men die so they don’t vote anymore instead of taking care of them and trying to persuade them. Same that the more sexist men hit women so women do what men want, we can be cruel and leave the old men fend for themselves. But I think that when men say things like “the solution lies within ourselves” haven’t really though what that would mean. Should women gather together and hunt rapist to castrate them? Or maybe kill them. That would work to stop rape. It is cruel, but efficient.
The thing is that what you call “playing the victim” is women looking for solution that won’t mean “an eye for an eye”. Yet, anytime we ask for very reasonable things like not being raped, not being forced to carry unwanted pregnancies, being paid the same and so on, we are told that “we have a victim mentality”. And whenever we stop doing the caring that men have become used to, called selfish, hateful or envious.
Example: Incels complain about “being denied sex”. MGTOW are divided among the ones that really go their own way and the ones who pester feminist forums to claim that now that they go their own way we would suffer (sorry, but the ones who really go their own way, didn’t visit feminist forums, because they are going their way). Then you have the “men rights activist”, also divided between the ones who actually ask for men’s rights (like paternity leave) and the ones who after a whole life of not caring about their children, complain that custody is granted to the mother and are really interested in not paying alimony. Worse,we do know they only care about not paying alimony because they ask for full custody while at the same time not visiting their children the days they have assigned. And when given custody, letting the care to the grandmothers or new girlfriends…
And you compare that to feminist. But while Incels have resort to terrorism (Search for Minassian) and killing people, the most “radical” feminist just show their breast (FEMEN). Because some Incels are asking for rape to be legalized and others for women to be forced to have sex by law (also rape). Feminist are asking for rapes to stop. So do you wanna put in the same category as “Groups with benign intentions” Incel and feminist? Really? And that is supposed to be objective?
