AkiraZXE Archive

Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

Upvotes	Comment on	Subreddit	Date (UTC)
3	'Male privilege is...' Sure, I can see why people see it that way. It's because they're utterly blind to hardships men have always had to endure due to a combination of stupidity and apathy. Let's look at the US. All presidents have been male. Most senators. Most business owners. Also virtually all combat deaths (and conscription was around for every major war). The vast majority of workplace deaths and prisoners. Most homeless. A significant portion of victims of violence in general. You throw a rock into a crowd of …	/r/MensRights	15/10/17 11:52 PM
1	'Male privilege is...' Cool leading question. Since we both already know the answer and how the lack of context will be used to draw an incomplete picture, let's skip that exchange and get to the real meat of why you're asking: Are we suddenly going back on the "us vs harmful gender roles" thing and blaming it on men?	/r/MensRights	15/10/17 11:24 PM
2	'Male privilege is...' us vs harmful societal behaviours Yeah this is a great sound bite, but once you fill in the missing details in a Feminist context, you find that it actually means "us vs them," it just took a more roundabout way to get there. If you look at the terminology used to describe the ways sexism can manifest itself, and how Feminism frames power in society, you'll find a trend that men are responsible for sexism, and women are not. The problem ends up being men, again, no matter who it's done to and by…	/r/MensRights	15/10/17 10:54 PM
1	Don't hide how you feel. Men are allowed to feel sad. Ok. Well, it's a dumb statement. There you go.	/r/MensRights	09/09/17 01:37 AM
1	Don't hide how you feel. Men are allowed to feel sad. I didn't say that, did I?	/r/MensRights	09/09/17 01:32 AM
1	Don't hide how you feel. Men are allowed to feel sad. Yeah, rather than writing a long comment explaining my thoughts even though it's going to be received horribly, I should just call people whiny bitches.	/r/MensRights	09/09/17 01:30 AM
3	Don't hide how you feel. Men are allowed to feel sad. Those people were the lowest common denominator from /r/all. The flood of tone police, contrarians, and these guys except unironically is ridiculous.	/r/MensRights	09/09/17 01:12 AM
1	Don't hide how you feel. Men are allowed to feel sad. Ok, let's say I take your stupid poster as evidence that I'm 10 years off and that in the 70s, women were just chattel being beaten and traded for sex, something we didn't get around to solving until the 80s. 40 years then. Point is, it has been multiple generations where women have not had it worse, men have, but the institutional power is focused entirely on solving women's "issues" while virtually every single person who dies on the job is a man, most people who commit suicide are men, and so…	/r/MensRights	08/09/17 11:45 PM
1	Don't hide how you feel. Men are allowed to feel sad. It's been the unchallenged position in society and in government for the last, what, 50 years? Pretty sure a handful of Reddit comments haven't changed that.	/r/MensRights	08/09/17 11:00 PM
15	Don't hide how you feel. Men are allowed to feel sad. Speak up about how you feel, it's ok. Ok shut up I don't like how you feel.	/r/MensRights	08/09/17 10:55 PM
5	Don't hide how you feel. Men are allowed to feel sad. One downvoted guy \| "GOD THIS SUB IS AWFUL" Then leave.	/r/MensRights	08/09/17 10:54 PM
31	Don't hide how you feel. Men are allowed to feel sad. This isn't a pissing contest to see who has the hardest life. But nobody bats a fucking eye when it's "women have it worse." Edit: Alright, let me explain this shit for all of our mentally challenged friends from /r/all who couldn't find their own ass with a map and a compass. This should all be clear to anyone who doesn't need help dressing themselves in the morning, but let's assume you're all at least a little bit literate, even if you're incapable of thinking for yourself. There are a limite…	/r/MensRights	08/09/17 10:51 PM
5	Spotted this at the NY State Fair If NOW isn't important enough to represent feminism, then there is nothing you would be happy with, sans some Roman-esque Tutelary Deity of Feminism coming down from heaven and informing us all what true feminism is.	/r/MensRights	04/09/17 08:40 AM
-2	Was unable to locate the mens restroom at Wendy's. Well at least it got your attention. Pointing out suicide rates, workplace deaths, etc. etc. etc. doesn't seem to be doing it.	/r/MensRights	03/09/17 03:09 AM
11	/r/Mensrights is once again being equated with hard core white supremacy, by reddit. Throw everyone who opposes you into a bit with the Neo-Nazis. Call everyone in the pit Neo-Nazis. Push anyone back into the pit who tries to crawl out. Most people like him are just bottom-feeding morons who get a rush out of being self-righteous. They're perfectly happy to lump every group they're opposed to together, because you're either exactly like them and therefore good human beings, or you're evil. Makes it easier to stomp out any opposition and keeps their dicks hard. Ironically, it's a…	/r/MensRights	13/08/17 05:15 AM
0	When I ask women why girls get much better grades in school, they usually say they are just naturally better at studying etc. When I ask women why men earn more than women, it's discrimination. Having a couple of classes under your belt sure doesn't seem to be doing a whole lot towards making people "well-rounded humans." You can't really study your way into that.	/r/MensRights	17/06/17 06:13 PM
1	This Quora user nails our feelings I like that one, I'll probably steal it.	/r/MensRights	08/04/17 09:33 PM
1	This Quora user nails our feelings That's what the definition of a patriarchy is. I'm talking about The Patriarchy, the feminist-created Patriarchy Theory, not a patriarchy in the general sense.	/r/MensRights	08/04/17 08:45 PM
16	This Quora user nails our feelings You know, she may understand that much...but she doesn't actually get it. Let's just break this down. The simplest definition of The Patriarchy is a societal system which benefits men at the expense of women. Patriarchal norms create the gender roles which have always, and continue to improve men's standing in society while devaluing women. That is the core of Patriarchy Theory. She says that the worst, most dangerous and underpaid jobs are done by men. She says that's the fault of The Patriarch…	/r/MensRights	08/04/17 05:54 AM
2	TIL: The US Department of Justice found that 80% of victims of murders by a woman are men, but only 24% of victims of murders by a man are women. Get back to me when feminism isn't blocking every single attempt the MRM takes at even getting society's attention, let alone solving men's issues. Then we'll talk about being nice. Well, we won't, because you've ignored all the important points to tone police, but you get the idea.	/r/MensRights	24/03/17 11:13 AM
2	TIL: The US Department of Justice found that 80% of victims of murders by a woman are men, but only 24% of victims of murders by a man are women. The MRM has spent fucking decades trying to make feminism stop being shit, and you know what? It's never worked. Feminism cannot be reasoned with. I'm saying that feminism, right now, is the primary obstacle the MRM faces in getting even the slightest bit of attention to men's issues. When somebody says "oh well yannow, they're bad feminists, I'm a good feminist" or some other nonsense, it doesn't matter, because it doesn't change what feminists have done and continue to do, completely unopposed…	/r/MensRights	24/03/17 10:25 AM
4	TIL: The US Department of Justice found that 80% of victims of murders by a woman are men, but only 24% of victims of murders by a man are women. Yannow, there's nothing I hate more than your type. It seems there's not a day that doesn't go by that a feminist comes into /r/mensrights to talk about how feminism is really just so great and that we shouldn't go after it. Feminists are the ones who defend society ignoring men's issues. You've come to a place about men's issues, and you're proselytizing about how feminism isn't the problem when feminists are the singular power in control of the discussion of gender in western society. No matte…	/r/MensRights	24/03/17 09:36 AM
15	TIL: The US Department of Justice found that 80% of victims of murders by a woman are men, but only 24% of victims of murders by a man are women. No, I'm sorry but you're wrong. I would love for that to be the case, but one of the typical feminist strategies to derail and eventually bury any discussion regarding men's problems in society, or society's warped views of gender issues is: Ok, but can we at least agree that women still, on average, have it worse in our society? With the implication being that, due to having it worse, the existence of female advocacy is justified. Then, it follows that the existence of feminism is justified, be…	/r/MensRights	24/03/17 09:02 AM
2	Found in Sociology Textbook. Women win custody battles but are still somehow the victims? Sociology has: A massive ideological skew, where the vast majority of sociologists lean one way A severe problem with reproducibility I imagine these two are connected, but even if they weren't, it means anything coming out of sociology is suspect at best, and outright harmful at worst.	/r/MensRights	17/03/17 08:19 PM
1	"My Body My Choice" Having been here on and off for years, they won't answer in any meaningful way. That kind of person comes here only to validate their belief that all MRAs are evil misogynists. Doesn't matter how you spell it out to them, anything you say will be taken as misogyny. The only thing you can do is point out their stupidity for anyone watching, and hope they stop coming here to be a shitstain.	/r/MensRights	12/03/17 08:00 PM
3	"My Body My Choice" You must have missed all the feminist groups shutting down men's advocacy for the better part of three decades. Or the feminists pushing anti-male legislation. Or the very core theory of feminism which relies on men essentially being evil. Feminism isn't a synonym for women's rights, nor is it a synonym for egalitarianism. This sub is not the antithesis to women's rights, and if you had educated yourself better you wouldn't needed to whinge at us over your misunderstandings.	/r/MensRights	12/03/17 08:32 AM
1	"My Body My Choice" So they're not arguing against circumcision.	/r/MensRights	12/03/17 08:27 AM
1	"My Body My Choice" Good for you. This isn't about your dick. It's never about your dick. This conversation is not about whether or not you're personally happy with your dick, but how we shouldn't be making a permanent change to a boy's dick long before he has the choice to decide for himself.	/r/MensRights	12/03/17 08:25 AM
1	Boys as victims of pederasty is not discussed in the mainstream media Unusual how this, the comment, started dropping in score recently despite it providing links so it can be fact-checked. Especially since /r/mensrights has always been very friendly to homosexuals, especially homosexual men, given the double-whammy. Funny that, considering OP posts in the recently taken over /r/Pussypass, currently controlled by neo-nazis and white nationalists who came from off-site, and is a mod of one of the new /r/Pussypass' related subreddits. Just, you know, something to co…	/r/MensRights	27/02/17 02:05 AM
1	Boys as victims of pederasty is not discussed in the mainstream media California-based National Association for research and Therapy of Homosexuality 71% upvoted Read what you're upvoting before you upvote it. The post has nothing to do with the media not giving a rat's ass about male victims of sexual assault and rape. The post is a bunch of anti-gay bullshit of the religious fundamentalists (from years ago even!) being spun that way, by claiming the gays are a bunch of pedophiles.	/r/MensRights	26/02/17 11:12 PM
0	Sure is a new BRIGHT day in this sub! Hello all Victory That's a funny way to spell "surrender".	/r/PussyPass	23/02/17 09:12 AM
5	"Every Brick in every building": a reminder to the Men whose efforts built and maintain our world. No. If you treat the genders as a class, and impose responsibility across generations to that class, then it only makes sense to also attribute that class's achievements to everyone in it. It's running off the same logic that makes "privilege" work, but using the positives of the "male class" instead of the negatives.	/r/MensRights	31/12/16 01:47 AM
-1	Jennifer Lawrence tries to criminalize men, but manages to directly accuse herself Here, let me spell it out for you, because you clearly couldn't be assed to put your head to good use. Outside the subreddit, because of comments like the parent comment, every single MRA is an evil rape-supporting misogynist. Doesn't matter what else we say or do, it doesn't matter if they're at the top or the bottom of a thread. Inside the subreddit, nobody wants to hear it. We get enough of it. Unless you have a solution to his stupid comment, shut up or fuck off. Nobody wants to hear you bit…	/r/MensRights	23/05/16 10:30 AM
-1	Jennifer Lawrence tries to criminalize men, but manages to directly accuse herself I'm unsubbing because this place is becoming the feminist mirror. Maybe worse. Let me guess: don't let the door hit your ass on the way out? Worse? You're delusional. You've apparently never actually seen what a hatefest looks like. People like him who make vague generalizations, and people like you who are eternally "concerned" about the sub have been around since it started. We get it, the sub sucks. It was always going to suck. It's a large forum for a social movement that doesn't go anywhere…	/r/MensRights	23/05/16 08:38 AM
2	Men should have the right to ‘abort’ responsibility for an unborn child, Swedish political group says Your saying feminists need to go out and change our views with actions whilst saying we should call out those that do as being a part of the problem. Unsurprisingly, you have the reading comprehension of a shovel. Let me try this again. If feminists who claim that "feminism is good for men and women" want non-feminists to view feminism the same way they do, they need to make that a reality. So, let's look at reality as it is now. Have they tried to solve boys underperforming in schools? No. Femi…	/r/MensRights	11/03/16 01:59 AM
5	Men should have the right to ‘abort’ responsibility for an unborn child, Swedish political group says I call her out for standing under that banner and I'm making an enemy of an ally. Here's where you're wrong. She's not. If you stand under the feminism banner, then protect feminism when feminism is the vehicle by which men are being harmed in western society, you're not an ally, you're an obstacle. You are indirectly responsible for feminism's actions by making it impossible to criticize feminism. No amount of lip service about "real feminism cares about men" will change that, because reality d…	/r/MensRights	10/03/16 11:30 PM
7	Men should have the right to ‘abort’ responsibility for an unborn child, Swedish political group says No, call them out on it. None of these supposed "good feminists" are actually doing anything tangible for equality between the sexes in the modern day. They may give you lip service, but realistically, all they're just useful idiots. Every time somebody says "not aaallll feminists", all they're doing is making it more difficult to criticise the feminists fucking shit up for the rest of us by acting as a wall. Fuck em, it's their choice to stand under that banner with the "not real feminists", th…	/r/MensRights	10/03/16 10:23 PM
3	Let's just come out and say it: feminists are insane NAFALT Right, well, if any reasonably large number of feminists were actually "for equality" and cared enough to act on it, shouldn't take you all that long to prove it instead of just dragging out the lip-service.	/r/MensRights	12/01/16 09:29 AM
17	Typical The definition of feminism as defined by feminists? No, but it doesn't actually match up outside of feminist circles. Now, if feminists were marching in the street in recognition of the vast majority of homeless people being men, or recognition of high suicide rates for men, or recognition of any male victims of domestic violence or sexual violence, it might be a legitimate definition. If established feminist groups were pushing for laws and procedures that might actually help men in places wher…	/r/MensRights	19/09/15 01:17 AM
17	Obama announces new "women and children first" immigration policy: freedom for undocumented women, jail for undocumented men. Democrats this coming election.	/r/MensRights	25/07/15 04:55 AM
19	Stop claiming we should support feminism. Just stop! Oh screw off with that. It's not a vocal minority. I'm sick of feminists coming in here to righteously defend feminism. A movement that is demonstrably sexist against men will never be an ally to the MRM. No matter how you justify it to yourself, the truth is that you're enabling this bullshit, not fixing it. As I've told others, if you want feminism to have a good image, especially within the MRM, you're in the wrong damn place. You don't fix feminism by saying "not all feminists!", you go make…	/r/MensRights	29/06/15 01:45 AM
1	Reddit Takes Down Post About Woman-on-Man Sexual Assault Until the admins step in and tell you to not do that anymore, which is exactly what happened with Gamergate over at KotakuinAction.	/r/MensRights	12/06/15 05:27 AM
21	Equal pay? In Australia, there is pressure to allow companies to pay women MORE than men (in the exact same job) without facing discrimination lawsuits. The only grounds for getting paid more will be having a vagina! You know what? I'm sick of this, so have this rant. Why is it never the fault of feminists when feminists, especially those in power, do shit that is harmful to men and/or society? It's always "oh but it's just those feminists" well they're the only ones that fucking matter. You showing up to preach feminism doesn't fix a god damn thing. There's always some stupid remark about how there are assholes everywhere, but guess what? Our assholes aren't the ones off trying to reshape society. There's n…	/r/MensRights	24/05/15 08:52 AM
2	Obama purposefully only answers women at end of year press conference. Besides that, it's disturbing. How could it ever be something to shrug off when outright ignoring men isn't just a political stunt, but a successful one?	/r/MensRights	21/12/14 02:47 AM
11	Technology is sexist because it's not designed specifically for women All my photos from that event are obviously unusable for one simple reason: good smartphones are designed for male hands Hey lady, guess what? I'm male, I have small hands. I'm just a small dude in general, about as tall as your average American woman. Nobody's discriminating against me because people wanted bigger screens for their phone. Not because it fit better, and let's not pretend smartphones have anything close to an ergonomic design, but because it's easier to see what's on-screen and e…	/r/MensRights	15/09/14 05:43 AM
11	No more Male Spaces! Despite having womens only gyms and spas, it's apparently not acceptable to have a male only barber. The sheer foolishness is bad enough, but it's the hypocrisy of allowing women You don't really get gamers then. Pretty much always, your gender is completely irrelevant to the game that you're playing. Doesn't matter if it's modern competitive multiplayer or some "classic" that only really had singleplayer. You act like it's just women, but it's not. What matters to other gamers is skill, experience, and knowledge. There are plenty of men who get shit for playing one or two games and nothing else, if you've ever heard somebody use the term "casual" before. That's the defa…	/r/MensRights	04/09/14 06:05 PM
5	The safe spaces of nerdy men, feminist migration, and alienation And the thing with that is, they're well-known because they've created things worth caring about. Not because of any coincidental characteristic they have, just because they do recognizable work. Everyone listed there may happen to be men, that's irrelevant. There are plenty of men who worked on entirely forgettable games, and their names have been forgotten along with those games.	/r/MensRights	21/08/14 03:34 PM
1	4chan explains Tits or GTFO, true equality I understand. I mean, I'm not usually that directly hostile. I just wanted to illustrate a point in the best way one can, through demonstration, as much as a smartass move as it already is. To show that if we're going to play on the level of /b/, that it's really not going to be pleasant for anyone involved.	/r/MensRights	17/07/14 05:57 PM
-4	4chan explains Tits or GTFO, true equality See? You've learned to embrace the inner /b/ already. I knew you could do it.	/r/MensRights	17/07/14 03:38 PM
-3	4chan explains Tits or GTFO, true equality And he was replying to the post, which is about that, which you replied to, in defense of. You can see how one might actually reach that conclusion if one was able to follow a chain of logic for more than one step. Hey though, don't let me stop you. I've already felt my embarrassment for defending this sub in the past, it can't be undone now.	/r/MensRights	17/07/14 03:28 PM
-7	4chan explains Tits or GTFO, true equality I did, actually. Maybe you didn't notice, but there was a lot more going on than "we say tits or GTFO to remove female social advantages", namely harassing people. You haven't actually even tried to justify that, you've just sort of ignored it. Or maybe you haven't even recognized it, which is pretty crazy considering the first image is about it, the second is defending it, and the third is explaining the origin of the phenomenon as a whole, a year prior to the events of the previous pictures, a…	/r/MensRights	17/07/14 03:11 PM
-13	4chan explains Tits or GTFO, true equality Apparently you've missed the point of that colorful little speech. Very little of the actual post had anything to do with denying female privilege and everything to do with /b/ acting like twats. If we're going to support or defend /b/ acting like twats, we might as well act like twats as well. I did basically spell that out in my first paragraph and my last sentence. The secondary point was that it does no favors to the MRM to support a post which defends harassing somebody until they break dow…	/r/MensRights	17/07/14 03:01 PM
-13	4chan explains Tits or GTFO, true equality So then, I take it given your reaction, and really the sub's as a whole, we're now perfectly ok with doing things the /b/ way? Alright, I'm down. Basic decency and a level of discourse slightly higher than lower primates flinging shit at each other are really just troublesome things. You're an idiot and by sharing this garbage, you're bringing down the MRM as a whole. If you want to know why, it's because, and this is simple though you may not understand, denying female social privileges and act…	/r/MensRights	17/07/14 01:38 PM
2	Instead of having "feminism" and "men's rights," why isn't there one civil rights group that works to solve inequalities suffered by both genders? You've got plenty of other answers so I won't try to cover stuff that somebody else has done better than I ever could. but I have some feminist friends who responded with outrage when I told them that I thought the idea of men's rights activism made a lot of sense, whereas they claimed that men "don't need" a civil rights group and that "it's basically just a hate group." You've just answered your own question. There are certain people in the world who will spew bullshit about the MRM, mostly st…	/r/MensRights	04/06/14 01:57 PM
17	Boy breaks up fight between two girls. Police come. First reaction? Tase the boy! He's in a coma with life screwed up, probably facing charges. Others agreed and said that de Rivera was not being aggressive towards the officer. and In Coma Come on. Even if he started arguing with the officer or blocking his way, which there isn't even eyewitness accounts of, that's no fucking excuse for this kid to end up in a coma. Nothing we know even says any sort of weapon needed to be used against him. Besides, if I'm operating a crane, you seriously think I can get away with "I can't control gravity" if I drop something heavy on somebody? That's r…	/r/MensRights	07/05/14 09:30 AM
2	George Melcher Elementary: a seven year-old boy has a nervous breakdown after being bullied and tormented by peers. School officials put him in handcuffs. The boy was nonviolent and never uttered any How can you trust teachers with your kids minds A lot of people don't, but a lot of people don't have a choice. Teachers, I couldn't say one way or the other, it'd be case by case, but administration and other non-educator school employees just aren't smart enough. These are people who are easily influenced by authority and power, all it would do is give them more of an attitude towards the students and teachers, but the vast majority of them would not use the weapon when they needed to anyways.…	/r/MensRights	05/05/14 11:56 PM
-2	Should false rape accusers be sued? They should be given the same sentence the "rapist" would have gotten if he'd gone to prison. I agree - they should spend the next 5 to 80 years in a men's prison. Look, I'll walk everyone through the chain of logic here. X knowingly and maliciously accuses Y of a rape that did not happen. Y is not only found innocent, but X, without a shadow of a doubt, is found to be, as stated above, falsely accusing Y knowingly and maliciously. Therefore, X should be subject to the punishment that Y would ha…	/r/MensRights	14/01/14 11:20 AM
6	Medicating the Masculine: "I’ve seen boys being routinely misdiagnosed as ADD and medicated for it just for being well… boys. " As somebody who had the ADHD childhood/teen experience, "zombie" is a pretty accurate description of how it felt. I'd be on and off meds, mostly because my mother's schedule would change frequently and nobody could keep track of whether I took them or not. I just wouldn't during those times, so I had a pretty good understanding of the difference between on them and off.	/r/MensRights	17/12/13 01:44 AM
15	Dec 2012: woman allegedly gang-raped in a moving bus in India = WORLD OUTRAGE. Feb 2013: man allegedly gang-raped in a moving pickup in South Africa = DEAFENING SILENCE This is probably not the proper use of the idiom nor entirely accurate, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.	/r/MensRights	23/03/13 05:12 PM
1	A simple video that shows what men lose when they experience genital mutilation (NSFW Think health class) Vaccines don't take something away, but they do protect against deadly diseases. On a reasonable scale, that is. There are a couple of iffy studies correlating fewer HIV infections in circumcised males, but they might as well say the stage of the moon under which you were born was a contributor. Other than that, they mostly protect against bad hygiene and not knowing how to avoid injuring yourself. I cannot find solid evidence saying that they are common, so let's put that aside for a moment. Ph…	/r/MensRights	28/01/13 07:52 PM
17	A simple video that shows what men lose when they experience genital mutilation (NSFW Think health class) I'll just point it out again because people seem to forget it. Just because you don't support circumcision doesn't mean you're getting on the cases of everyone who has been circumcised. You can be happy as can be with your dick, fine, I don't care. No reason to defend an unethical, unnecessary operation though. It's just frustrating. Look at it this way, the majority of people in the US think I don't deserve some kind of body integrity. I didn't have a choice in what was done to me until after i…	/r/MensRights	27/01/13 09:41 PM
-1	When did this outrage towards nice guys start? What the hell? In my experience, your first example doesn't actually exist in real life. I've never met him or ran into him, only heard of the other two referred to as him. To add to this, most start out as the third point and end up as the second. There are exceptions of course, that's just what I've seen.	/r/MensRights	25/01/13 10:39 PM
5	Its things like this that really Piss me off... This campaign also aims to target 18-25 year-old women about the dangers of rape by intoxication. Young women can take precautions to help avoid an attack of this nature in the first place. For instance, women should drink responsibly and avoid binge drinking at all times. They should have an emergency "escape" plan to ensure they can get home. And, young women can look out for one another to ensure they get home safely after a night out. It's not "victim blaming" and "perpetuating rape culture"…	/r/MensRights	20/01/13 01:46 AM
1	New rape prevention campaign in vancouver drops sexual assault by 10% Indeed. I agree that it needs to be more specific about the assault itself, I was just shortening it to get it out of the way. Though I question just how many people don't consider such things rape, I don't have any opposition to pointing it out, as long as it's done in a way that doesn't spin such things as inherently male or in any other discriminatory way.	/r/MensRights	09/01/13 11:41 PM
1	New rape prevention campaign in vancouver drops sexual assault by 10% No less valid than considering the campaign successful is what I was trying to point out. If Vancouver's statistics are enough to indicate success but Edmonton's statistics don't indicate otherwise, than it seems that there are different standards of evidence for determining the effectiveness of this campaign, depending on if the evidence shows success or not. It's not as if a difference of two years is enough to determine long-term trends before the campaign, considering the short length of tim…	/r/MensRights	09/01/13 11:37 PM
5	New rape prevention campaign in vancouver drops sexual assault by 10% The article does not mention what the trends were before the campaign in Edmonton. But we know that ever since the program was introduced there, there have been more reported cases. By the standards of "some statistics reported by some article on some news site", it would at least show that it's not helping. After all, it only took one year, according to this (which is linked by that blog post), it only took a year to see this significant decrease in reported sexual assaults, and it only goes ba…	/r/MensRights	09/01/13 04:23 PM
1	New rape prevention campaign in vancouver drops sexual assault by 10% On a duplicate post for this article that I discovered shortly after replying here, somebody had replied with this link. I later updated my reply at r/sex but didn't bother here. Is this just as valid? Either way, you didn't really answer my questions. I'm not really asking for this to be treated like particle physics with how research is conducted, but I think those questions are fair to ask. I'm not necessarily the campaign should be stopped (rather, reworded), just that a somewhat more critic…	/r/MensRights	09/01/13 02:24 PM
5	New rape prevention campaign in vancouver drops sexual assault by 10% I'm just gonna repost my reply in r/sex here, minus the last statement as it's not relevant to this sub. I don't wish to link it because I'd like to see how well it goes on that sub without any other influence. How about a poster that says "hey, don't rape". Seems if posters are somehow reminding people not to rape, you could do it without reinforcing the idea that rape is an inherently male thing. For that matter, where is this 10% coming from, and how do we know it's linked to this campaign? I…	/r/MensRights	09/01/13 01:07 PM
3	Can We Try To Focus on Men's Rights, not "I Hate Feminists!" jokes? Oh I see, so it's that we're too aggressive and might scare people away? Well, sorry, but tough. Whether or not you realize it, you're a pretty good concern troll. To clarify as to why it's pointless: we're understandably angry. We're not just angry people who happen to see some issues in society affecting them, rather that these issues are frequently ignored or written off, even by those who supposedly stand for gender equality. That's not just something you passively accept. I'd be more worrie…	/r/MensRights	01/01/13 02:34 AM
3	Can We Try To Focus on Men's Rights, not "I Hate Feminists!" jokes? You're fucking joking, right? I would rather they hadn't started anything with the MRM, but they have and I'm not in the wrong to push back. Hell, I felt this way even before I considered myself an MRA, and ended up here because of the anti-male sentiments that are supposedly so rare. That includes nonsense like "male privilege" and the ironic way it's used against us, which is more or less soft sexism, but seems to be a core tenant of feminism. The ones who think all men are rapists are not the…	/r/MensRights	31/12/12 11:48 PM
11	Can We Try To Focus on Men's Rights, not "I Hate Feminists!" jokes? Feminism may not have caused those issues (depending on which issues we're talking about), but they're either completely apathetic towards them or actively fight against us trying to fix them. I'd say, until that changes, feminism won't have a cozy home here. That also includes a few feminists recently who have written articles claiming that feminism cares about men's issues while making insane claims about the MRM, for that matter. It's not unfair to criticize, especially harshly given the acce…	/r/MensRights	31/12/12 08:52 AM
32	Can We Try To Focus on Men's Rights, not "I Hate Feminists!" jokes? Because after a while, people get tired of explaining it, but luckily it's right there on the side bar if you want to know why people dislike such talk here. If you want to know more, rather than trying to defend feminism in such a place, you could have made a thread asking why people don't like feminism here. Granted, it might simply get downvoted and ignored because concern trolling is an increasingly large problem lately, but it's a more legitimate effort at least. Also, I do partially agree …	/r/MensRights	31/12/12 05:38 AM
4	Men's Rights vs. Feminism vs. Egalitarianism And even if it were upvoted, it's not relevant anyways. That post does not say "women caused everything from the holocaust to my car not starting today" or whatever nonsense. Anything negative about any women != misogyny. It's not like we haven't all seen questionable statements from an extreme minority being used to confirm that the MRM is full of women-hating assholes.	/r/MensRights	24/12/12 10:28 PM
3	The reason why feminism will never serve as the basis for an effective men's movement Great. Don't tell us that. To be blunt, I doubt many here care what your personal beliefs are, and a few individuals will not change our view of a much larger group. You want us to view feminism better, go support us in feminist spaces. Encourage like-minded individuals to do the same. When we can't fill r/MR every day with misandric shit from feminists or people claiming to be feminists or whatever spin you want to put on it, then those of us that dislike feminism might change our minds.	/r/MensRights	22/12/12 12:37 PM
3	Am I right to feel a bit ticked off here? Some context. Maybe I missed it, but it doesn't actually say she was a feminist anywhere in this article, so this "hurr durr MRAs" thing was entirely unfounded. Not to mention, they make it sound like MRAs haven't been trying to get female-on-male rape acknowledged as a reality (assuming that's even what it was, the wording is vague). This is not a case of the brave victimized feminist standing up for the poor patriarchy-oppressed men or whatever the new feminist narrative is, it's one victim ac…	/r/MensRights	22/12/12 12:26 PM
5	"Black people are oppressed, so I joined the KKK!" Geeze, apologists sure flocked to this post. Anyways, looks like the predictions were right. I've been hearing that feminist groups are trying to co-opt the things the MRM stands for and what it has accomplished, and looky here. Funny thing is, just a couple months ago I remember some male feminist posts about how these issues don't actually exist. Ah well. They can try and take credit and pretend to stand up for men, but history does not back up such claims.	/r/MensRights	20/12/12 04:13 AM
1	A Petition to End Selective Service for Young American Men. For many people, the concept of conscription is indefensible for reasons they would consider to be self-evident. There's not much good to be said about putting people to death against their will. I would sooner take up arms to defend one's right to choose than to defend, even in words, forcing one into combat. Though I'd rather not do it at all, since I believe violence should be avoided whenever possible. I am not ashamed of this and not too caring about whether or not somebody thinks I should …	/r/MensRights	14/12/12 10:05 AM
1	So my female friend just blew my mind... The MRM supports equality under the law, and nothing else from the state. FTFY. MRAs don't all fall into the same political categories, merely have a few similar ideas involving equality, and anything else about them is irrelevant in the context of gender equality until it comes to implementing it. Even then, talking in such absolutes and making these kinds of presumptions is shaky business.	/r/MensRights	13/12/12 08:13 PM
0	I feel this has less to do with feminism . . . I'm not really seeing it. Seems to me to be a bit of a stretch of what is already shaky wording. Guess such a thing is bound to have multiple interpretations.	/r/MensRights	11/12/12 09:52 AM
1	I feel this has less to do with feminism . . . No, she's trying to turn herself into the victim. I need feminism because my boyfriend was sexually abused	/r/MensRights	11/12/12 08:02 AM
2	Car commercial removed from Youtube for being "hate speech" - Shows women freaking over their partner buying a car I can't really blame Google for the way they run Youtube video takedowns. It's not even close to desirable, but it wouldn't take much for an army of lawyers to come down on them, unfortunately. The layout, however, is inexcusable.	/r/MensRights	09/12/12 10:38 AM
0	Who here would want to be uncircumcised? Impacted wisdom teeth are pulled because they are dangerous, and because the lack of wisdom teeth will not prevent you from eating, talking, breathing, or any such thing. In fact, in some cases, having those teeth can prevent normal functions. It depends on the circumstance. No reason to have them pulled if they don't cause any issues. If somebody's foreskin was infected to the point where it couldn't recover, of course circumcision would be the route to take, just like amputation. As for your b…	/r/MensRights	30/11/12 10:18 AM
4	Tired of being called a "rapist" for supporting r/mensrights gender traitor Is this really a thing? Because one term I've heard over and over by racists, mostly neo-nazis, is "race traitor".	/r/MensRights	22/11/12 08:54 AM
0	/pol/ Rape Analogy (X-Post /r/4chan) I am extremely suspect of this post.	/r/MensRights	05/11/12 01:47 AM
4	I couldn't help but speak up when she said "it is impossible for a man to be the victim of sexism" If white males had all this power, why would it be necessary to discuss these issues? Surely if one had so much power, they could instead just force whoever to be silent, or hell, maybe even force them to agree. Or hell, he could have just stopped the racist or sexist comments in the first place. That is, unless that grand universal power doesn't belong to every single white male on this planet simply because they're white males. gasp	/r/MensRights	26/09/12 05:32 AM
1	This page is brought to you by the Men’s Rights Movement as a tribute to FRA-MRA Thomas James Ball. February 21, 1953 to June 15, 2011 As valid as the points he makes are, he also slapped a 4-year old hard enough to make her bleed, and explains in his last words how to make a Molotov so we can "burn out" oppressors. I suppose people can be pushed pretty far, but we could find better examples of the broken system at work than this, since this kind of information can easily be used against us. Hell, even I probably wouldn't have been comfortable around this guy.	/r/MensRights	06/09/12 07:57 AM
2	Becoming misogynist? (LONG POST) When did liberalism become feminism? Liberalism (from the Latin liberalis) is a broad political ideology or worldview founded on the ideas of liberty and equality. From Wikipedia I'd say we all agree that today, feminism and equality don't always go hand-in-hand. Not that it really matters. There are enough problems here even without political labels. It'll only hinder MRAs in the long run if they're divided by nonsense political lines.	/r/MensRights	30/08/12 11:57 AM
1	You were punched. You never once said that a person shouldn't be a coward and allow others to walk all over them. Actually, yes I did, omitting "coward" because I, more often than not, understand how people actually think. Or don't, in some cases. Yup, calling someone out for being a coward is "being a jackass". More or less, it is. Judging somebody instead of helping them is being a jackass. You'd be impressed by the number of people who would agree with that statement. I never ignored anything you said. Apparen…	/r/MensRights	17/08/12 05:47 AM
2	You were punched. A) So, you admit that I never said it. In fact, I never addressed OP directly. So then, your argument is that I didn't parrot what you said exactly? B) If what I did was an "attack", what did you do towards OP, and pretty much everyone else in the thread? Either way, I only spoke to you, nobody else, and not because I think people shouldn't stand up for themselves, but rather that being a jackass about it is not the way to go about getting OP or anyone else to accept any of your points. If you a…	/r/MensRights	17/08/12 05:34 AM
1	You were punched. Ok, I tried to be nice. Are you retarded or just trolling? Answer me this, and answer honestly. I expect a quotation. Did I say that it's ok to let people treat you like shit? If you can quote where I explicitly said it's ok to treat people like shit, then you're right. If you try to point out how something I said somehow means I was implying it, you're retarded, and if you refuse, you're a troll.	/r/MensRights	17/08/12 05:04 AM
1	You were punched. Did I say that it's ok to let people treat you like shit? No, I did not. I tried to explain how your approach is, at best, doing nothing but getting people to really dislike you. I'm going to let you in on a little secret: The more you belittle somebody, the less likely they are to change something you say is "bad". They're more likely to become a bitter and anti-social. However, you clearly don't care about any of that. You didn't come here to help him, either by helping him changing his ways o…	/r/MensRights	17/08/12 04:41 AM
4	You were punched. Instead of insulting you (difficult as it is), I'd like to point out that you will never change anything with your attitude. You come off as a self-righteous, arrogant ass. You haven't really offered any new ideas or solutions, you've just belittled somebody and told them how they should be. Really, all you've effectively accomplished is getting people to despise you, myself included. You might also have made OP feel worse, which again, doesn't help at all. He's not going to listen to any "advic…	/r/MensRights	16/08/12 10:50 AM
3	The end of the circumcision debate... (drum-roll) They have about the same risk as circumcision, to my knowledge. Go figure. The STD prevention is irrelevant. There are far more effective ways to prevent STDs, and infants and young children are not going to be having the sex necessary to contract any STDs. Already made that point. Let me clarify the "group effectiveness" of vaccines. I was referring to society as a whole. For instance, if fewer people can actually catch Polio, there will be less Polio being spread, reducing the number of people…	/r/MensRights	03/07/12 08:36 AM
3	The end of the circumcision debate... (drum-roll) The difference between vaccinating against Measles and "vaccinating" against phimosis is that washing your hands is not going to prevent Measles. We vaccinate against certain diseases for all sorts of reasons, including lack of effective treatments/cures, high risk of permanent damage, and being highly contagious. Vaccines are also more effective if more people in the population have had them, which is irrelevant for about half your list. Besides, vaccines don't require that you remove part of t…	/r/MensRights	03/07/12 07:42 AM
8	The end of the circumcision debate... (drum-roll) It's not a medical decision. A medical decision is what treatment you would get for your child if they had an infection of some sort. What is circumcision treating? Foreskin? At best, it's a cosmetic procedure right alongside breast augmentation, with the added bonus of (currently) permanent damage. At worst, it's casual amputation. You wouldn't cut off your child's left index finger just so he would be right handed, would you? There really isn't much of a difference here. Also, screw respect. B…	/r/MensRights	02/07/12 08:56 PM