The true thing that is NOT true (now)

When a hashtag #Blacklivesmatter spreaded all over the world, the counterpart movement, #Alllivesmatter has begun. It’s obviously true that “Not only black lives, all lives matter.” However, in this case, we have to express “Black lives matter”, not “All lives”. That’s because the white are not hit with a bad luck like be killing while being asked about their job by police, while they were just walking around. What we have to say now is not “All lives matter, regardless of one’s race”, but “Black lives matter. So, it’s wrong they are killed or injured unreasonably, and it’s wrong they have to make more efforts to avoid these than the other races. And if there is a race pushing or silently allowing, their privilege should be stripped away.” We should not use “All lives matter”, because it kills the attention to individual one that originally had to be seen. And I think this can be said to feminism.
There is a movement called “ #KuToo ”, a Japanese woman advocated. She said it’s discriminatory that women have to wear high heels and makeup, and if a woman doesn’t do them, she is considered ”lacking in manners”. A lot of women agreed it, and in March this year, Japan’s prime minister has expressed that “it’s clearly wrong to force women to suffer because of the way they dress, even though men and women are doing the same job.”
In response, many men say like “Men are struggling too, because we have to wear suits even if it’s summer, and shave or trim our beards every day. So, this activity leads to preferential treatment of women.” It’s not good to force men to suffer from the way they wear. It’s obviously true that “Both men and women should be removed the burden.” This is correct. This is universally correct.
But in this case, as with #Blacklivesmatter , we should say “Women should be removed the burden. ”This is because the physical damage caused by high heels can’t be compared to wearing suits or shaving beards, and there is a strong tendency for women without high heels and makeup to be considered “lacking in manners”, even if she looks as clean as men do.
The movements involved in feminism aren’t the kind that are trying to “favor women over men”. It’s about eliminating male privilege and the discrimination women are exposed. It is nothing but killing individual correctness, to present universal correctness as an alternative to individual correctness.
“Black lives matter” seems to be included in “All lives matter”, and “Let’s remove the women’s burden” seems to be included “Let’s remove both men and women’s burdens”, but it’s not. Not focusing the subject that needs to be voiced, and using the big subject that’s seemingly correct, leads to stopping the problem from being solved.

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