You do understand the purpose of affirmative action, right? It's to counterbalance hundreds of years of "affirmative action" that not only benefitted white men, but actually barred others from having any opportunity, often legally. A mere 50 years ago women and Black Americans were second class citizens by law. Imagining that they are now somehow on an even playing field just because the laws have changed is a joke.
Women aren't taking your jobs - you're being screwed over by the elites and not only are you thanking them for it, but you're misdirecting your anger away from them.
Asserting that feminism has “gone too far” is also a way to complain about economic changes that have nothing to do with women or other scapegoated demographics. Rather than indicting the system itself (because you define yourself by success in that system) it is less confronting to just complain about “how it used to be” when (white) men had a bunch of unearned advantages.
Was it immigrants who issued those predatory loans that lost them their homes? Was it feminist women who outsourced their jobs and created deals that let billionaires pay no taxes? Did LGBT people embark on ruinous trade deals? Of course not. America’s angry white men are right to be angry, but they are delivering their mail to the wrong address.
— Kimmel, Michael. Angry White Men (p. xiv). PublicAffairs. Kindle Edition.
