My most recent regret is that my vote-slider goes only to 100%.
"More and more of my old friends are falling victim to this abuse. Women are constantly use strawman arguments to derail conversations that get close to the heart of the problem."
It's a modern-day battle of the sexes, except, 90% of the women aren't participating and the 10% who are shrieking harpies have waylaid the entire narrative.
Barely 20% of women will identify as feminists anymore, and that's according to a feminist co-opted rag:
More and more of my...ahem...more "beta" type male friends are falling into this odd belief that somehow virtue-signalling into the feminist collective is going to get them laid. As if the years of advice to "be themselves and a unicorn will appear" wasn't enough for them to realize you must watch what people do, not what they say, to learn the truth.
"Do they continue and just ignore the truth or do they confront their demons and admit they were wrong?"
It would seem self-evident that they already made this choice in favor of the former.
"by saying I was insecure to see a woman in a power position."
This is where you refer them to projection, pointing out how it is 100% impossible for them to know what you are thinking/feeling, and therefore that their argument is a demonstrable lie, and that the most likely reason for it is that they are projecting their own pathetic biases onto you.
Then you drop the mic.
Thanks so much for your comment, it always feels a little better to come across another island of sanity.
Few identify as feminist but most believe in equality of sexes...that's the reason why they started saying feminism is about equality and suggesting unless you'd call yourself a feminist you are against just treatment for the sexes.
"feminism is about equality"
Yes, except if it were, you'd hear about feminist tirades on the underfunding of prostate cancer on a per-capita basis, or the wholly unethical family court system.
But you don't...cause it's not.
It never was about equality either. That's another excuse, that feminism before was better and now it's getting bad. All feminism is based on believing men abuse women for their benefit. So they are trying to create "better" circumstances for women so they can be at the same level of men. This has nothing to do with equality and it's a lie women are given worse treatment to begin with.
Something I can't quite put my finger on suggests that women may be less interested in prostates than men are breasts, for an unrelated reason.