Sexism is a sign of weakness, not a sign of strength.
Agreed. Just like most other "isms". Rather than pulling themselves up they want to keep others down/below them. Or they're worried that they will lose some of the benefits afforded to them at the expense of those others.
Seem to you, maybe, because that's what you expect. Presumably you're projecting your own way of thinking onto your target group. Or maybe you're just making something up on the fly as a distraction.
I assume you've seen the guest list then and know who's going to be there?
And yes, that's what I'd expect, and what I believe the majority understand.
Stating "nope" does not magically create more resources. I have no idea why anyone would seriously claim that it does. Do you really think that it does?
Since the resources are finite and for some reason your Magic Word doesn't create more resources, increasing funding for healthcare for men will decrease funding for something else. Since the funding will come from the healthcare budget, that "something else" will be healthcare for women.
Sorry, what? You argued that competing for funding is "anti-feminist". Have a re-read of what I said and maybe you'll get it this time. I understand there's a finite budget, but arguing for more funding for your cause is not inherently "anti" a competing cause. Arguing against the funding of a cause is "anti" that cause however.
For example putting in a funding request for research on prostate cancer does not mean you don't care about research into breast cancer.
One of the "big" issues we are seeing at the moment is that there seems to be much more organisation and passion for causes that affect women than affect men. Why? Personally I think it's because men, in general, just aren't as bothered about helping themselves, allowing the other causes to have a say. Unfortunately the most vocal "pro male" causes seem to be run by anti feminists, concentrating on anti-feminism, rather than advocating male issues themselves.
That's not to say there aren't some rabid anti male "feminists" around, just that they are in the minority, don't have much say in anything (but love twitter and social media) and would be swamped even more if men got together and created cohesive and organised advocacy/research groups for said male "issues".
Some people don't want sexism. They don't want to define and divide people by sex and advocate everything for the "right" sex only. They don't want to do the very thing that they're objecting to. So the answer to your question is that some people are not sexist hypocrites.
The majority don't, but at the same time there has to be a realisation that sometimes there has to be some division. There are specific issues that affect certain parts of society (women, men, LGBT, BAME etc*), and in those cases they need to be considered individually. Those that ignore this fact are just as bad as those that push for their "section" of society to have more rights than others.
Let's remember here that there's usually a reason that a section of society progresses from complaining with a few words and grumpy people to actually getting off their bums and on the streets (or mortuary tables in extreme examples), running for offices and/or starting advocacy groups. The civil rights movement in the US and Suffragettes in the UK for example...
*Whether that be medical, societal or other reason.
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