men's rights

The current gender-based bifurcation of reality boils down to a state of deep personal and psychological laziness -- permitted by social consensus.

The state of personal lassitude that strongly embraces the importance of gender identity was perhaps less an invitation to sink into stupidity in the past, when economic and social options were limited. One had to do what one had to do, without mechanical leverage to lift you up, and without the liberating measures of chemical birth control.

These days, however, when diversity is made allowable by the increase in general social knowledge and by greater scientific advancement (including social scientific), it is laughable that some people demand to be treated according to a particular categorical definition.

A male demands to be viewed  as 'masculine' because "I say so."

This is the logic of a two-year-old, slamming its foot down, whilst fearing any adversity from  its mother.

Even this assertion of his independence is deceptive, for it is not really the need to be treated as a member of a separate and distinct category that drives the one who claims "his rights" as a member of this category or the other.

Rather, he is intent on assuring his sense of safety and security in the world, though his demand to be treated always in the same way, both before and subsequent to any actions that he might perform. For, if his actions were truly attractive and desirable, he would have not have made them dependent on others according to him the self-definition he prefers. After all, masculinity used to be about facing hardships, including not being acknowledged as having the identity you thought of as yours. Swimming in the glamour of self-image, conversely, was once considered pejoratively feminine (the fantasy of femininity, with its fluid qualities of self-creation, as per the movie screen.)

Underlying his demand to be treated as "masculine", come hell or high water, appears to be a desire never to move or change anything about oneself, not even his perceptions. Is the desire at hand to become a woman? Does such a desire mean returning to become again a passive, suckling infant? Or stranger still, requiring to be treated always in one particular way, no matter what -- doesn't it involve the strong determination to be treated like an already dead person, a corpse?