There's an economic rationale for anti-feminist men to oppose reproductive rights for women....

[YoungDemCA]

Think about it. If a woman doesn't have control over her reproduction, she will be at a significant disadvantage for getting a job, for maintaining a job, and for getting promoted in whatever her occupation is. Her best option then would be to depend on her husband (if she is married, that is) for being the economic provider.

That is what the traditional gender divide was built on; a (married) woman was the property of her husband. This is also part of why marriage was more prevalent in the past, and why women would marry at a young age; since women didn't have the reproductive rights they have now until relatively recently in American history, their economic options would be severely limited if they didn't marry. Plus, the social shunning of unmarried women coming from these traditional gender roles and expectations.

It is no coincidence that the feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s really got off the ground with reproductive rights (the pill in 1964, IIRC) and went further into that territory (Roe v. Wade in the early 1970s), along with an economic revolution: women going to work en masse, and getting better, higher-paying jobs than they had in the past. Increasingly higher educational levels among women, of course, were crucial to all of this as well.

When MRAs and other anti-feminist men (and women-they exist, too, unfortunately) scold and berate feminists, they are-consciously or unconsciously-promoting social and economic structures that benefited (white, hetero-normative) men, at the expense of everyone else-the largest overall group being women. Their virulent opposition to feminist goals, tactics, and challenges of traditional sources of power and privilege underscores their devotion to a past system where a woman could be raped by her husband, where she could not legally get an abortion, where she had no sexual autonomy to speak of, where she could not work (except in underpaid, working-class occupations where she would be paid much less than her male counterparts), where the authority of the male as the head of a household was universally dominant in society, and where a woman had few options (all of them bad options) outside of marriage to a man, who owned her as his property.

My $0.02 for tonight.