Feminism? Masculism?

A friend of mine recently posted a link to an article called Men's Silence is Women's Gold. The main point is that women seem to have been able to fairly effectively domesticate the wild man and put him between the stove and the fist, so to say. Gender equality is of course important, as always, but it somehow indeed feels that with all the lobbying for women's rights and such, men are getting trampled and we're just staying quiet about that.

Another interesting thing related to this was that today on Facebook I noticed that some people I know had joined a group called "Kotirauhaa - Naisiin kohdistuvan parisuhdeväkivallan vastainen kampanja", which roughly translates to "Domestic peace - A campaign against domestic violence against women", or something to that extent. What the hell? Can domestic violence only be against women and not against men? At this point I call bullshit; this is precisely the attitude that makes me get incredibly annoyed with all the trendy feminist organizations. The problem isn't with men hitting women or women subjecting men to psychological violence, the core problem is about intra-relationship violence between partners. In my opinion gender doesn't have anything to do with it. Hell, does this mean that partners of the same gender never resort to violence? I guess it might be, considering that they are typically quite a bit more enlightened about all things related to equality than your average heterosexual.

This sort of behavior from these liberal feminists and whatnots is not only short-sighted, but also very offensive and degrading. It is undoubtedly true that if we look back in history, women have been treated very badly at times, but does it really give the moral authority to women to cut men's balls and shift the power to blatantly oppress others to them? Right now it feels that both feminism and masculism are extremist hard-line ideologies and both are very dangerous to the general equilibrium. It's already very good that people associate extreme masculism with negative things, but we should also try to understand that feminist organizations are none the better and should be treated with the same disgust and prejudice as their patriarchal opposites.