This is really the difference with feminism in USA/UK and feminism in these small Scandinavian countries in Europe, and also I can say in the German / Slavic speaking area in Central and Eastern Europe.
Many feminist issues a la USA/UK do not exist. A short summery...
In USA this feminist discussion is getting immediately hateful and often mixed up with strong racist remarks - 'destroying the white race' -
however there is no progress, as USA is a legal chaos and people are hateful against each other. It's against ALL men and against ALL women...
This is not the case in Scandinavia, also in Germany such feminist discussion in general remains civilized.
Yes, it took a while, but for example alimony in Germany is not a topic anymore as it is in USA - the new family law since 2008 limits strongly any alimony claim to maximum 3 years - the law says, divorce means also to work during a transition period to become totally financially independent from the former spouse, with or without children does not matter. 3 years financial support for the ex-wife and after it's zero. You are forced to 'Go your own way', if you like that or not' as a woman is irrelevant.
Child support is also regulated in percentages of the actual earning, no court will send you to jail if you are jobless and cannot pay child support, the system is much more lenient, more tolerant.
Of course unlike USA medical insurance is totally out of question, as the national health system is for everybody, nobody is excluded if living there. This includes foreigners with proper visa. Any medical bill is not a headache.
To look out for a foreign wife/even if she is of different race - this was never any issue, no discussion about visa, a 'marriage license'? Are you kidding me?
Abortion, not a topic anymore. The solution was found somewhere in the middle. How do you even know a woman is pregnant during the first 3 to 4 months? OK, if she wants an abortion, she can keep it as a secret, no objection, abortion during this time is legal. Who cares? After that, carry out the child. No right for late abortion.
OK, feminism exists, father's rights are not so clear either, but by far it is not what I see from USA, with one side totally against abortion, and the other side even supporting abortion a few days before birth. In Europe people are looking for a solution somewhere in the middle.
There is also a discussion going on about 'herbivore' men in Japan, it's similar to MGTOW. -
It's about economic concern, not really about legal concern, not about hating women, but the question is why should I create problems which do not exist for me now, problems I can avoid?
Should you sell out yourself only because you are a man, working day and night to pay for housing loan, to pay for the best education for your children etc. What about myself as a man? Who cares about me?
You might call the ideology of MGTOW to be selfish a little for the male, but it is not hateful against ALL women.
MGTOW is strongly against radical feminism, a toxic movement, rampant in USA, which is looking out for privileges and advantages with the sole justification of being a female. -
This has nothing to do with EQUALITY anymore. It's about to extort money from companies, from individuals, from public funds for the benefit of some certain groups of women (in USA indeed mostly 'white'). Needless to say, exactly these women are financially already fairly good off and they never care about other females who are below their own status.
I think, Cornfed sees only feminism in the Anglosphere, especially in USA and I agree, feminism in English speaking regions is really a bad hateful movement against all which you might consider 'male'.
No male in USA is safe, even not small boys, see the following links, what I read here would be classified as 'idiotism' anywhere else in this world.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/12/us/si ... uspension/
Amid a tidal wave of negative publicity, a Colorado school system has let a 6-year-old boy return to school and said it won't classify his kissing a girl on the hand as sexual harassment.
The story of first-grader Hunter Yelton made national news and spurred outrage this week after word spread that his school near Colorado Springs suspended him for the kiss and accused him of sexually harassing the girl.
On Wednesday night, CNN affiliate KRDO reported that Canon City Schools Superintendent Robin Gooldy met with Hunter's parents. The superintendent then changed Hunter's disciplinary offense from "sexual harassment" to "misconduct."
http://www.kxxv.com/story/5785699/4-yea ... ng-teacher
4 -year-old Accused of Improperly Touching Teacher
BELLMEAD- A four-year-old hugged his teachers aide and was put into in-school suspension, according to the father. But La Vega school administrators have a different story.
Damarcus Blackwell's four-year-old son was lining-up to get on the bus after school last month, when he was accused of rubbing his face in the chest of a female employee.
The prinicipal of La Vega Primary School sent a letter to the Blackwells that said the pre-kindergartener demonstrated "inappropriate physical behavior interpreted as sexual contact and/or sexual harassment."
Blackwell says it's ridiculous that the aide would misread a hug from a four-year-old. Blackwell wrote to administrators demanding that the whole incident be expunged from his son's academic file because his son is too young to know what it means to act sexually.
David Davis, the executive director of the Advocacy Center in Waco tends to agree with Blackwell. He says assuming the boy has not had sexual encounters, or been inappropriately exposed to pornography, most four-year-olds are sexually innocent.
Blackwell got a response from the La Vega administration. The sexual references on the discipline referral were removed. But the thing that makes Blackwell most upset is they told him "your request for an apology by the aide and removal of all paperwork regarding this incident is denied." Now the young student's file will refer to the incident as "inappropriate physical contact." And Blackwell says he will continue to fight the district.