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With its oligarchs and cannon fodder peasants? Putin brought the oligarchs to heel 25 years ago; that's a lot of the reason the West is so mad at him. As for "cannon fodder," what world are you living in? The casualty ratio is like 10:1 in Russia's favor, and that was with Wagner throwing half-trained convicts into Bakhmut. I'm not naive enough as to believe such bullshit. No, you're even more naive than that; you are believing Western bullshit, as if they hadn't been caught lying about EVERY. S…
/r/MensRights19/08/24 12:00 AM
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I live in Tennessee, why? Russia is a classless society; they are multicultural and egalitarian. Not what I would describe as free or open, but those are different issues.
/r/MensRights18/08/24 11:57 PM
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Yea, Ukraine should not have done that.
/r/MensRights18/08/24 11:56 PM
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Yea, does that guy hold a high-level position in the Russian government? No. Azov is basically running Ukraine.
/r/MensRights18/08/24 08:27 PM
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Russia is literally one of the closest things we have to a fascist state Um, no; fascism is explicitly class-based, while Russia is a classless society. It is the West that is falling into fascism. the bully of the region Also false; they are responding to Western aggression. Russia is also anti-Israel What does that have to do with it? The Nazis helped Jews move to Palestine to create Israel, and Israel are basically Nazis with the word "Aryan" replaced with "Jew."
/r/MensRights18/08/24 08:26 PM
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“Ukrainian racial social nationalism is the core of ideology of ‘Patriot of Ukraine’ organization. Our nation’s historical mission at this critical juncture is to lead the global White Race in its final crusade for its survival. A crusade against the Semite-led Untermenschen.” -Andriy Biletsky, "White Fuhrer" of the Azov Battalion, 2014 This is who you are supporting.
/r/MensRights18/08/24 07:35 PM
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Well, there's a better chance of them coming back than the Ukrainians have...
/r/MensRights18/08/24 02:34 PM
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OK, I tried to fill out the survey, but I ran into a question which I cannot answer: Adding brief pauses can make you pause and think before opening apps. Which social media site would you prefer to use? A social media site with a delay that is determined by ... the rules of the platform to show you a public service announcement, or your own settings to show you a public service announcement I would not use a social media site which did either. I picked an answer at random to keep going, then ra…
/r/MensRights11/08/24 03:46 PM
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"Johnny Bench called..."
/r/MensRights09/08/24 01:49 PM
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He is asking you to put yourself in a risky position, you are not being unreasonable to ask for a guarantee. For example: When I asked what would happen if he decided to divorce, he said he wouldn't leave his kids' mom without a place to sleep. OK, then have him put it in writing; draft a pre-nup which states exactly what you will get in a divorce.
/r/MensRights06/08/24 07:00 PM
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You are asking Hold on, I'm not asking or even suggesting anything, I'm just trying to manage expectations, which may in fact take some of the anxiety out of the situation and possibly help him find a relationship.
/r/MensRights06/08/24 06:53 PM
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What point in history do you think wasn't like this? If anything, men's lives are far better than they were for most of history. This isn't new, the only difference is that women have had many (if not most) of their major issues addressed while men have not, and the answer is not to go backwards, but forward.
/r/MensRights06/08/24 02:00 PM
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The thing is, I was never more alone than when I was married; she was just another person looking to me to take care of everything. If anything, it was more isolating, since I had less time for myself.
/r/MensRights06/08/24 01:55 PM
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Sorta sounds like Communism That's what happens when the left becomes authoritarian; some of us believe that the government can provide services without intruding into the lives of its citizens. Or, at least, no more than the right-wing governments we have had no alternative to...
/r/MensRights06/08/24 12:51 AM
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Well, I suppose you could argue Socialism CLAIMS to be that. Well, who on the right advocates "pure" capitalism or private property rights? Pretty much no one, especially those in positions of power, that's just a natural tendency of compromise in politics. Then there's the fact that the American Left divides us by race and gender, Hold up, who are you calling the "American Left?" If you are talking about Democrats, we are not using the word in the same fashion. Democrats are liberals, who are j…
/r/MensRights05/08/24 07:29 PM
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Welcome, we are glad you are here, and are happy to talk. "Men's problems," are many and varied (just like "women's problems," right?); this is not an exhaustive list, and of course, different people here have difference issues, priorities, and perspectives, so you are going to have different arguments from different people. Some of my issues, in no particular order: -Family law; I spent 18 years paying as much as 73% of my income from two full time jobs in child support for my daughter by one w…
/r/MensRights05/08/24 02:34 PM
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The Saturday Paper quotes Professor Slater saying that he was assured by a representative from the Victorian government that he shouldn’t be too concerned about his evidence being omitted. “We need to imagine this future society that we want to live in. And that vision is not about alcohol. It’s not about class.” This is the key phrase, because it is absolutely about class, but the whole point of the modern feminist movement is to undercut class movements by dividing people on sex and gender, in…
/r/MensRights05/08/24 01:54 PM
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I thought their argument was that there were no biological differences, so why have women's sports, at all?
/r/MensRights05/08/24 01:16 PM
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That is literally what right-wing means; the left wants to eliminate class divisions, that is literally the definition.
/r/MensRights05/08/24 01:11 PM
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Any honest men's rights activist is actually left-wing; the right-wing wants to enforce class divisions, that's the whole point. Examples: Warren Farrell, Karen Straughan, Bettina Arndt, Harry Crouch, Herb Wasserman, Mark Brooks... pretty much anyone actually doing something to help.
/r/MensRights05/08/24 12:47 AM
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You have a grand total of 3 posts in this sub over the last 4 years, none of which were about anything of significance. But if you only ever showed up here out of antipathy for women and not for sympathy for men... don't let the door hit you in the brains on your way out the door.
/r/MensRights04/08/24 03:49 PM
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So, I'm a serious leftie, and I can't vote for Harris, just like I couldn't vote for Biden, Hillary, or Obama; they aren't even proper liberals (which itself isn't the same as left-wing) but neoliberals, i.e. right-wingers who are OK with gays and abortion. I'm not wild about Trump, but his economic and foreign policies were preferable, and I have a son in the Navy...
/r/MensRights03/08/24 01:39 PM
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I mean, this woman is just a grade-A bitch all the way around. Who cares if a male wants to act like a woman or a female wants to act like a man, in social situations? You don't have to agree with it, but it is polite to just go along, and it costs you nothing. JK is resentful of men stealing women's privilege, that's it. When it comes to two people trying to beat each other to the ground, though, there is a reason to separate them into groups by sex rather than gender.
/r/MensRights02/08/24 05:45 PM
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/r/MensRights02/08/24 01:56 AM
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I have gay friends who talk about not liking fish...
/r/MensRights01/08/24 09:03 PM
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Why would you want to post in a sub run by scumbags, anyway?
/r/MensRights01/08/24 07:27 PM
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When I first got married, my entire life had to change; I couldn't go to the gym for 5 minutes until she was calling and having me paged over the intercom, I couldn't ride my motorcycle, I couldn't go hiking... 6 months later, she's yelling at me for gaining weight, because I hadn't been exercising. I've been single for 20 years, now, and can barely muster any interest in chasing women, at all, at this point.
/r/MensRights01/08/24 10:38 AM
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Where are you getting your data? Because fully 50% of the population is under 18...
/r/MensRights31/07/24 10:47 PM
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So apparently women would rather be with a bear than a man alone in the woods. I can arrange that...
/r/MensRights31/07/24 02:19 AM
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You are confusing morals and ethics, which may be related, but are not, in fact, when discussing the terms in a religious context. Morality is about encouraging behavior which supports the survival of the individuals comprising a group or society; ethics are about perpetuating a regime or system of control over a group or society, which may, in fact, be contrary to morality, e.g. legal ethics. Religion falls into this category, explicitly, by failing to provide a basis for their codes of behavio…
/r/MensRights30/07/24 06:06 PM
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For centuries, religions have been the go-to for moral rules and guidance. They've shaped laws, influenced cultures, and told people what’s right and wrong. What does any of that have to do with morality? religions have been handing out moral codes forever. No, they CLAIM to do so; the codes they espouse are entirely immoral, and always have been. This has nothing to do with belief or lack thereof; God is an entirely separate discussion, and also one which has nothing to do with morality.
/r/MensRights30/07/24 04:37 PM
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No, they claim to espouse morality, but they do not recognize the contradiction of such a claim.
/r/MensRights30/07/24 03:48 PM
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From a moral point, this is ultimately a question of religions and alternate morality; No, religion has nothing to do with morality.
/r/MensRights30/07/24 03:22 PM
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No; oppressing women will just encourage more oppression of men. That's a losing strategy.
/r/MensRights30/07/24 02:08 PM
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Yes.
/r/MensRights28/07/24 11:14 PM
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I become this proud, manipulative, selfish, apathetic version of myself Yea, that's the mold they wind up forcing us into. This is why I do blue collar work.
/r/MensRights27/07/24 08:00 PM
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Not particularly, no; I'm not coming at this from a reductionist approach, though, but empirical.
/r/MensRights26/07/24 01:26 PM
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I don't think that means what you think it means; "hidden estrus" means that males just have sex with them all the time, instead of just when they are fertile...
/r/MensRights26/07/24 01:03 PM
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I mean, a better question would be, "Has the mental health community ever helped you?"
/r/MensRights26/07/24 12:59 PM
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It's all a social convention; female sex drive is as high or higher than men's, they are just conditioned to hide it.
/r/MensRights26/07/24 12:43 PM
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whatever their background.
/r/MensRights26/07/24 12:33 PM
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You know what? Screw all of these people who treat anyone badly, for any of these reasons; race, sex, religion, whatever. People are people, and deserve respect whatever their background.
/r/MensRights25/07/24 07:26 PM
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You don't subscribe to this ethic, yet you use example like you know it. That's what generally happens when you grow up as an atheist in a largely Christian community, yes; I had to learn it, just out of self-defense. I would get it when you would use real opinion, like accountability for women that is close to zero, expecting men to "man up" You do understand that not every interpretation of the Judeo-Christian ethic includes those, right? That's why I specified that I was talking about a parti…
/r/MensRights24/07/24 01:01 AM
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So, "nothing in particular," exactly what you accused me of doing. Debate honestly or don't bother, dude.
/r/MensRights24/07/24 12:08 AM
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So nothing in particular I literally gave two examples. Catholic ethics. I don't even know what you are talking about, here...
/r/MensRights24/07/24 12:03 AM
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...except that there is no corroborating evidence that Hamas did any such thing, while the Israelis brag about it.
/r/MensRights24/07/24 12:02 AM
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Well, depending on the interpretation, nothing, necessarily... other than that many people, including myself, do not subscribe to it. This results in things like people with suicidal urges or pedophilia tendencies refusing to seek help, because of the stigma attached.
/r/MensRights23/07/24 10:47 PM
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The Israelis have been raping Palestinian children, male and female, in massive numbers since 2006.
/r/MensRights23/07/24 10:37 PM
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Well, it's a start, but does nothing to address the fundamental problems with modern mental healthcare in the West, primarily its basis in a particular interpretation of the Judeo-Christian ethic.
/r/MensRights23/07/24 09:00 PM
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the Affordable Care Act And that was the exact opposite of universal healthcare reform, both in policy and intent; note that the single Democrat who tried to get a vote on Medicare for All was subsequently gerrymandered out of office by his own party.
/r/MensRights23/07/24 08:41 PM
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OK, so just my advice, and only knowing what you have said here: First, if you don't have to, don't bring up child support; there's no way for you to come out looking good in your daughter's eyes, no matter the details. Second, take it slow, and meet her where she is at. Don't talk about her mother or argue when she repeats her lies, unless she asks, and then be honest, but don't vent. Third, understand that ultimately, you may not be able to win her over; she may simply be too emotionally inves…
/r/MensRights23/07/24 05:45 PM
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dude you do not have to sell it to me im aleady on your side... But you are still repeating the propaganda: raising taxes to fund all of it You are already paying taxes to fund it; it comes out of every paycheck. Most people would wind up with more take-home income.
/r/MensRights23/07/24 04:08 PM
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social security How did that get into the conversation? BUT you have to recognize why it gets opposed by about 50% by evaluating all pros and cons... Well, first of all, depending on how the question is phrased, it gets 60-75% support; Medicare for All is wildly popular. Second, most of the reason there is any opposition at all is because the health insurance and pharmaceutical companies spend about $1 trillion per year on advertising, which means that news programs (funded by advertising) must …
/r/MensRights23/07/24 03:29 PM
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*citations needed. Infact, four different ones😂🤦‍♂️ Gallup: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://news.gallup.com/poll/468401/majority-say-gov-ensure-healthcare.aspx&ved=2ahUKEwiRiJ3et72HAxVBMdAFHYogAz8QFnoECBgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw39_eHA5m-VigKWdcCGH-w2 Pew: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/09/29/increasing-share-of-americans-favor-a-single-government-program-to-provide-health-care-coverage…
/r/MensRights23/07/24 03:08 PM
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You're the odd one out, here, buddy, which means that you are the one being divisive.
/r/MensRights23/07/24 03:04 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_System
/r/MensRights23/07/24 02:18 PM
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It is not, for the obvious reason that many people do not support universal(AKA Government funded) health care. It is overwhelmingly popular and would disproportionately benefit men. Why can't you advocate funding for male health without this? Because private insurance corporations are allowed to discriminate. And also note that the US is not world. The rest of the world already has universal healthcare. Sth I don't even know what this means. Stop assuming that it is objective fact and not a per…
/r/MensRights23/07/24 02:17 PM
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So, supporting an overwhelmingly popular issue that would disproportionately benefit men, while also generating popular support, is somehow non-male? And you even have to jump around the thread to try to make your point! What do you think you are accomplishing by being so dishonest? You are only hurting your own credibility.
/r/MensRights23/07/24 02:11 PM
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Every other industrialized nation uses single-payer, and gets better results for less money /shrug The issue that no one wants to talk about is that US GDP would shrink by 10%, immediately, but that begs the question of what good that portion of GDP is doing...
/r/MensRights23/07/24 01:59 PM
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This is directly related and should be unifying for male-centered politics, if for no other reason than that universal healthcare would allow us to insist on equal funding for male health issues under the 14th Amendment. That it also benefits everyone else makes it a strong argument, generally, because it appeals to a broader audience than those already inclined to support our cause.
/r/MensRights23/07/24 01:57 PM
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Are there any opportunities he can look into to see about getting rid of his arrears? AFAIK, this is one of the few debts that there is simply no way of getting rid of; the best bet would be to hire a lawyer to go back through the case and see if any of it can be reduced, i.e. the payment was more than it should have been, but that's about it. I would say move to another country, but I've had my back child support paid off for years, and they still have my passport locked.
/r/MensRights23/07/24 12:57 PM
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So, clearly, the correct formulation is, "Teach all people to treat everyone properly."
/r/MensRights23/07/24 12:49 PM
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Wow, that's almost half as many people as die in the US from lack of access to healthcare, most of whom are men.
/r/MensRights23/07/24 12:42 PM
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Universal healthcare.
/r/MensRights23/07/24 11:25 AM
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No, prior to universal male suffrage in 1842, men who did not own property could not be drafted in states with property qualifications to vote. The link between the two concepts is very old.
/r/MensRights21/07/24 11:54 PM
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If you can wait, 2 bedrooms would be great, or maybe you can swap, later? That means moving twice, but if it saves you $400...
/r/MensRights21/07/24 07:10 PM
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This seems like something of a reflection of social politics, in general, i.e. straight women are sexually attracted to masculine men, but then turn around and profess antipathy towards masculinity.
/r/MensRights21/07/24 04:28 PM
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There are examples of every one of those; in fact, a few years ago, there was something of an uproar about some states passing stricter laws against same-sex relations between adults and adolescents, e.g. a 19-year-old man and a 15-year-old woman was OK (4-year-rule), but 18-year-old and 17-year-old, both men, was illegal.
/r/MensRights21/07/24 02:04 PM
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Again, we've got the SCOTUS opinion on that, as well as on the draft, which they acknowledged violated the constitution, but they allowed it to stand under, "national defense."
/r/MensRights21/07/24 01:59 PM
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Theoretically, there's a 1968 SCOTUS decision which extends 14th Amendment protections to sex; that's why the ERA is redundant.
/r/MensRights20/07/24 09:11 PM
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Healthcare spending accounts for 17% of US GDP; in countries with universal healthcare, it tends to be between 4% and 8%, and most of them have lower per capita GDP, while still covering their entire population. Universal healthcare would also encourage entrepreneurship, as many people are tied to their corporate jobs for the health insurance, which they could not afford, otherwise.
/r/MensRights20/07/24 08:44 PM
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I mean, the stand-out point of that, to me, was that our healthcare system sucks...
/r/MensRights19/07/24 03:07 PM
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Most politicians are men, and most of them are not feminists, but pander to feminists.
/r/MensRights18/07/24 08:30 PM
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Yeah because it got posted in the GenX subreddit. ...but we remember it!
/r/MensRights18/07/24 04:06 PM
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I bet most people have no idea who he was, and that's the point; famous people dying always overshadows anyone else. Or, did you know that Shannon Doherty died last weekend?
/r/MensRights18/07/24 02:58 PM
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I can see where some people, men and women, genuinely have depression, but I think that most people that is applied to just find themselves in bad situations with no good way out.
/r/MensRights18/07/24 02:57 PM
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He knew that sometimes you can only treat the symptoms /shrug
/r/MensRights18/07/24 02:34 PM
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I have had exactly two good therapists in my life: First, when I was young, I had to see a child psychiatrist every week from when I was about 9 until I graduated high school, due to a requirement imposed by the Special Education department; fortunately, my mother found someone to take me to whose attitude was explicitly, "I'll take him as a patient, just to keep him away from someone else who might try to 'fix' him." We mostly played chess, but also just talked about life and how to interact wi…
/r/MensRights18/07/24 02:25 PM
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This is errant nonsense! No, the entire field of Psychiatry is devoted to extra-legal enforcement of, not just the Judeo-Christian ethic, but a particular interpretation thereof. Good luck finding an atheist therapist, most of them are moonbats like Jordan Peterson.
/r/MensRights18/07/24 02:15 PM
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Without looking it up, can you tell me the name of Ronald Reagan's press secretary who was shot and killed (eventually...) in the assassination attempt on Reagan? I'll even give you a hint: There is a gun control law named after him.
/r/MensRights18/07/24 01:51 PM
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To be fair, "Feminists," didn't do most of those, but manipulated others into doing them.
/r/MensRights18/07/24 01:40 PM
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But I’ve noticed a lot on this sub that you guys are anti-feminist and seem to confuse normal feminism with radical feminism So, there is some of that, but even "normal" feminism has some issues and has created some problems. The Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls in 1849, for example, is full of out-and-out lies, intended to provoke hostility from women towards men; not "some men," but ALL MEN. The most galling of these, to my eyes, is the claim that, "He has never permitted her to exerc…
/r/MensRights18/07/24 01:38 PM
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Can we have the option for no female seatmates? That would be fair.
/r/MensRights17/07/24 05:26 PM
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Really? It seems like it should be equal, since there are religions that allow for both.
/r/MensRights17/07/24 04:19 PM
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I'm still confused as to how bigamy laws are not clear violations of the 1st Amendment, there being religions that explicitly allow for it.
/r/MensRights17/07/24 12:26 PM
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...and they are going to lay all the blame on men for their lifestyles and "choosing" to not go to the doctor, when the larger problem is neglect from the medical community, itself.
/r/MensRights17/07/24 12:04 PM
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I wasn't pointing any fingers; "we" includes, "I."
/r/MensRights16/07/24 09:49 PM
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Better that we disclaim responsibility and give in to victim mentality?
/r/MensRights16/07/24 02:50 PM
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Let me sum that up for you: "We let it get like this through inaction." Yea, the US justice system is terrible, too, and I would likely wind up in prison if I hit a woman back for hitting me, but the alternative is to let it keep happening. When there are no good answers, you have to pick the least bad option.
/r/MensRights16/07/24 01:02 PM
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How did it get that way?
/r/MensRights16/07/24 12:44 PM
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Let's game this out: You don't hit back, and perpetuate the standard of women being allowed to hit men without consequence, virtually guaranteeing that it will happen again. You hit back, possibly get into trouble, but that woman, at least, will never hit you again. I did that, once, in high school, got suspended, but never had that problem again. Every girl in the school knew better.
/r/MensRights16/07/24 12:39 PM
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You're right, and it is probably a good thing, but she was the best woman I ever met (other than my mother), and if that is literally all that is on offer...? This is the real oddity of the situation between us and the feminists: I would love to find a, "strong, independent, free-thinking" woman, that would be fantastic, but instead they are creating weak, codependent, group-thinking girls who who use it all as an excuse to continue behaving like teenagers for their entire lives (or at least unt…
/r/MensRights15/07/24 03:30 PM
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I had an old friend, a woman I dated in high school and had been on-and-off lovers between marriages and children over the last 30 years, that we had supported each other through all sorts of problems. She got caught up in the latest nonsense about, "Women are not free therapists for men," crap, though, and no longer speaks to me; nevermind the 5 years that she and her daughter lived with me, rent-free, while we were not in any kind of relationship, or the numerous times that I got her, her frie…
/r/MensRights15/07/24 02:55 PM
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No, this is a natural consequence of industrialization and access to modern medicine, and is necessary to draw down the world population to a sustainable level, although that might take a couple of hundred years.
/r/MensRights15/07/24 01:49 PM
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This group should be on the "Electronic Plantation" list.
/r/MensRights15/07/24 01:46 PM
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Nonsense; we win by demonstrating moral superiority, not by abandoning it.
/r/MensRights13/07/24 01:05 PM
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I think that the nudity taboo is stupid /shrug
/r/MensRights12/07/24 06:39 PM
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That is a surprisingly deep ethical conundrum!
/r/MensRights11/07/24 11:29 PM
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It's already a requirement that every male citizen registers with the SSA Right, but it's not automatic, i.e. you can get away with it as long as you don't get caught.
/r/MensRights11/07/24 05:39 PM
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I mean, I oppose the draft, on general principle, but if it is going to exist, it should exist for everyone. The "automatic" part is troubling, though...
/r/MensRights11/07/24 03:32 PM
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The male orgasm is incredibly unhealthy Do they just make this stuff up, or is there some kind of bullshit clearinghouse where they pick it up?
/r/MensRights09/07/24 08:56 PM
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Find some friends, women are not the only solution to loneliness, and I've never found them to be "warm."
/r/MensRights08/07/24 01:00 AM
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My state has broken those into two different categories which go through two different court systems.
/r/MensRights07/07/24 11:14 PM
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Not anymore, but I did, yes.
/r/MensRights07/07/24 10:38 PM
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OK, I'm sorry, but the way you phrased it seemed like that was your opinion. And no, that's just the law in my state; other states are different.
/r/MensRights07/07/24 02:41 PM
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If you guys are not married/divorced then you don't have the right to ask for custody. Well, screw you too, buddy! WTF?
/r/MensRights07/07/24 01:50 PM
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How often do men actually file for sole or primary custody of their children? I wasn't allowed to; no parental rights includes no right to file for custody. If her mother had died, I would have had to try to adopt her, and probably would have been denied. Why do you expect feminists to fight your battles for you? Where did this come from?
/r/MensRights07/07/24 01:35 PM
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I do not, it's not something that gets a lot of attention.
/r/MensRights07/07/24 01:00 PM
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Right off the bat, I do not "call myself" a men's rights activist, I say that I am active in the movement. Yes. Abolition. Nuanced, there's a lot here. Not sure what you mean, but I support universal healthcare and UBI. Yes.
/r/MensRights07/07/24 12:38 PM
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This varies pretty wildly by location, circumstances, and the phase of the Moon... The problem I ran into is that in my state, if you were not legally married to the mother, you are denied parental rights, entirely; I was not allowed to take my daughter to the doctor or sign her out of school. And even visitation is extremely limited, I got 4 weekends per year and a week in the Summer, which was never increased, and her mother made that more difficult by moving 200 miles away (literally for no o…
/r/MensRights07/07/24 12:35 PM
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It comes from Calvinism, and is related to the Protestant Work Ethic. Basically, the culture of Western Europe and North America associates material wealth and political power with moral authority; under Calvinism, it is literally the case that you can tell who God's chosen people are by their social status, and that God has obviously chosen not to save poor people, or they wouldn't be poor. As a result, doing anything other than scrambling for as much money and power as possible is considered i…
/r/MensRights06/07/24 06:34 PM
1

Yes, but it's my word against hers; I could throw thousands of dollars at it, but it wouldn't go anywhere.
/r/MensRights05/07/24 03:31 PM
6

I'm actually having something of the opposite problem. I've been having serious health issues for the last 6 months or so, but it turns out that a doctor I saw last year falsified my medical records saying that I was exhibiting "drug-seeking" (for trying to get a prescription refilled) and "antisocial" (for refusing the Covid shot) behavior. Now, every doctor I go to sees that, ignores everything I say (chest pain, short of breath, passing out if I stand up too fast) and refers me to psychiatric…
/r/MensRights05/07/24 02:41 PM
2

I mean, I feel for the kids, but I think it's going to take more than individual effort to fix our educational system.
/r/MensRights04/07/24 07:30 PM
2

I hope you’ve found something you do really enjoy doing These days, I work 10-15 hours a week as a mobile mechanic, $150/hour :D
/r/MensRights04/07/24 06:05 PM
2

My only theory is that perhaps the schools you applied for were religious schools? No, this was the local school district; they just recently made Bible History optional in high school (it used to be mandatory).
/r/MensRights04/07/24 05:09 PM
4

I tried. Teaching high school was my backup plan after college; if I couldn't get a job in industry (which I couldn't), I would teach math and science. I was even considering an inner-city school, both because they probably need the help more, and because it helps pay off student loans (kind of, that turned out to be more of a joke). The first thing that I was told is that the local school district didn't hire people without actual education degrees; I knew this to be false, because I know peopl…
/r/MensRights04/07/24 01:21 PM
2

I'm not saying that anyone is moving to the "right," but that's what they are trying to make happen. I'm sorry, but if you think that Joe Biden - who pushes free trade, privatization, tough on crime, and warmongering policies - (or Democrats, more generally) is left-wing, then we are not speaking the same language.
/r/MensRights03/07/24 02:11 PM
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They basically kicked me out for being left-wing; it's just another establishment propaganda channel trying to drag everyone to the right.
/r/MensRights03/07/24 12:42 PM
8

I learned to cook young, and I have worked as a cook.
/r/MensRights02/07/24 01:00 AM
1

They've always been a little kooky (natural for a 3rd party), and too right-wing for my taste, generally, but supportive of civil liberties; their candidate this year is a woke authoritarian.
/r/MensRights01/07/24 01:29 AM
13

First, welcome to the club; I've been voting 3rd party since Ross Perot. Unfortunately, this year even the 3rd party candidates are moonbats. I've been voting libertarian the last couple of elections, but they have just gone off the rails.
/r/MensRights01/07/24 12:01 AM
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I mean, they are a right-wing establishment sub, I ditched them after getting brigaded for having even slightly left-wing, anti-establishment opinions. That being said, they never banned me for posting in here...
/r/MensRights30/06/24 01:38 PM
2

David Graeber is amazing The Dawn of Everything is really interesting, too, but difficult to read because he died before it was edited. War and Peace is not everybody's cup of tea. I read a few Russian books like "Crime and Punishment" Absolutely, that's fair enough, but Tolstoy had a slightly different outlook than Dostoyevsky, and the difference is important. If you can't make it through W&P or Anna Karenina, you might try How Much Land Does a Man Need?, which is a short story, but get the fee…
/r/MensRights29/06/24 08:35 PM
2

Albert Camus's "The Myth of Sisyphus" That is the more important work, but I enjoyed L'Etranger more.
/r/MensRights29/06/24 05:09 PM
1

We would’ve remained in the preindustrial era? I’m not sure that’s much better. Why would we have done that? I'm not even sure what you mean. The technology that we have now has helped humanity tremendously. Yes; Historical Materialism, one of the foundations of Marxism. ou can’t just skip oil and coal and go directly to nuclear. Who are you arguing with? Stephenson is my favourite author Anathem and The Baroque Cycle are two of my favorite works, and I bought a copy of Snow Crash when it was fi…
/r/MensRights29/06/24 05:08 PM
1

It's less about that work in particular than his overall evasiveness, but the Twelve Rules are a kind of set of philosophical "lies of omission;" half-truths that skirt around the underlying issues. Go watch his talk with Matt Dillahunty, who I also have disagreements with, but JP was out of his league.
/r/MensRights29/06/24 05:04 PM
1

I wrote up two pieces during and after I finished it: https://old.reddit.com/r/nealstephenson/comments/s6m7rn/almost_done_with_termination_shock_and_i_keep/ https://old.reddit.com/r/nealstephenson/comments/rvedd7/finished_termination_shock_and/ I loved the Texan redneck character and found a lot of relief in the fact that one man CAN make a difference in the world But it was errant nonsense; people don't behave like that, billionaires are not enlightened intellectuals who know or even care about…
/r/MensRights29/06/24 04:05 PM
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Some of these should be read earlier, but most people still haven't done so: The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein (Starship Troopers is excellent as well, if nothing like the movie) A Theory of Justice John Rawls The Relativity of Wrong Isaac Asimov The Demon-Haunted World Carl Sagan The Utopia of Rules David Graeber
/r/MensRights29/06/24 04:01 PM
1

I wasn't going to comment about Peterson, as little as I care for his ideology, but that was hands-down the worst book Stephenson has ever written (and Reamde was crap).
/r/MensRights29/06/24 03:48 PM
3

Zero-sum thinking; anything done for men takes resources away from women.
/r/MensRights28/06/24 07:34 PM
2

Better, thanks :) Although I would go a step further and specify "modern" feminism, although the 1st- and 2nd-waves also had their issues.
/r/MensRights09/05/24 01:51 PM
1

When did it start proving us wrong?
/r/MensRights09/05/24 01:45 PM
1

Any human society that squanders is most capable resource gatherers is also going to be outnumbered and overtaken Um, in hunter-gatherer societies, women provided ~80% of caloric intake. Now, granted, men provided meat, which is less calories and more protein, which is more valuable, but it's not that straightforward.
/r/MensRights09/05/24 12:03 PM
1

Still trying to push it? You have no shame, do you?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/05/24 01:33 AM
1

I made a qualified statement, which I applied equally to both sides, and you are trying to impute some kind of malign intent to the statement. This is what we call, "Toxic Femininity."
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/05/24 12:43 AM
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Women are incapable of TRULY empathizing WITH MEN; they can show us sympathy, or pity, or contempt, but not empathy (MEN ARE NO BETTER THAN WOMEN, but that's the stereotype). So, you flatly refused to read what I wrote, even after criticizing you for not reading what I wrote the first time?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/05/24 12:23 AM
1

That is not at all what I said. It sure would be nice if people bothered to read what they downvote around here.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/05/24 12:17 AM
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That is not what I said; it sure would be nice if people bothered to actually read what they downvote around here.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/05/24 12:13 AM
2

How long did it take for the emancipation of slavery to happen? When did it even start? France outlawed slavery in 1315, Brazil in 1888.
/r/MensRights08/05/24 07:10 PM
1

I fully think it's a cultural maladaptation essentially. Now, sure, but it was not in the past; how long does it take for culture to change in response to the environment?
/r/MensRights08/05/24 06:47 PM
2

Heh, well, my mental health is pretty good, but the years of stress really took a toll on my body, and I am having to deal with odd medical issues, now... ...and if you thought therapists were bad, modern doctors are all arrogant and clueless twits.
/r/MensRights08/05/24 06:35 PM
2

That depends on how you feel about Evo-psych.
/r/MensRights08/05/24 06:31 PM
4

I have had one good therapist and one decent one in my entire life. The first (good) one was my child psychiatrist, who flatly told me that he was just there to keep me away from someone who would actually try to "fix" me, and we mostly played chess. The second (decent) one was a therapist I went to while going through family court drama while my career was going down in flames, who just said, "You're not depressed, your life just sucks right now, and there's no magic cure for that." He gave me …
/r/MensRights08/05/24 04:23 PM
1

Interesting; I'm not sure that I agree with the guy in your link about applying your values to others (however justified his example), but values are absolutely important. What is a value you have that has directly led to you saying no to someone or something? I'll just give one example: Integrity - I have quit jobs because they required me to engage in unethical behavior to the detriment of our customers (and often themselves!), and my attitude is informed by the situations where I have been tr…
/r/MensRights08/05/24 04:16 PM
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No one ever promised that the world would be fair, so we just have to deal with it as best we can. I've been through this; I spent years in hell because of a couple of women, one malicious and one just unreliable, but it ended. I'm having to pick up the pieces, my health, especially, but how is this different than if an employer or police officer had cheated me out of money or caused injury? Why should we be more upset about one situation than the other? There are a lot of problems in the world,…
/r/MensRights08/05/24 03:43 PM
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Well, there are a number of factors: From an evolutionary perspective, males are disposable; if half the men of the tribe die, the women can still have the same number of children, but if half the women die, there will only be half as many people in the next generation. Tribes that let this happen were outnumbered and conquered or killed by tribes which did not. From a psychological perspective, fear is the easiest emotion to exploit, but it requires something to fear; "other men," (not me, neve…
/r/MensRights08/05/24 03:34 PM
40

I mean, I call lower-back tattoos, "Tramp stamps..."
/r/MensRights08/05/24 12:35 PM
1

I don't agree with that argument, but let me explain: The assumption is that the level of societal problems has been reduced to the point where specious debates about gender pronouns and "trigger warnings" are the most important issues of the day, since most other problems have been sufficiently dealt with. The problem is that this is self-evidently not true; poverty, crime, corruption, oppression, a lack of social cohesion, and the ongoing collapse of national infrastructure are all major issue…
/r/MensRights08/05/24 12:06 PM
2

Oh, I think we are making some new mistakes, at this point...
/r/MensRights08/05/24 03:18 AM
2

I see the retaliatory, reparations identity politics as being leftist. Reparations and DEI quotas are decidedly new idea in politics coming from the left OK, you say that because you associate those policies with Democrats, but the exact same people are voting for corporate welfare, cutting social programs, promoting "free trade," and privatizing everything they can get their hands on. That's not, "left," and neither are the other things you mentioned. I hope you stick around this sub Been here …
/r/MensRights08/05/24 03:17 AM
1

Forward doesn't exist. We switched from a more community based mindset to a more individualistic one. No, we are just trying to find the best balance between the two; that's "forward."
/r/MensRights08/05/24 03:15 AM
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https://old.reddit.com/r/LeftRightTalk/comments/1cfg736/left_right/
/r/MensRights07/05/24 11:03 PM
2

r/leftwingmaleavocates, and it never takes more than a couple posts to be permanently banned no reason given Lol, I've been banned from all sorts of subs - left, right, and center - and while LWMA aggravates me, sometimes, they haven't banned me.
/r/MensRights07/05/24 11:02 PM
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Left means workers paradise so if it's not workers paradise it's not left. Paradise isn't guaranteed under any system. Doesn't it matter that your prescription is the centralization of power Whoa! Where did this come from? No, I actually believe in more local control of most issues. Trump gave university students due process, Biden took it away. So Trump is left, Biden is right, and everyone is wrong. Got it. Where have you been? How Donald Trump Is Running To The Left Of Hillary Clinton On Key …
/r/MensRights07/05/24 11:00 PM
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The result is progressives who are sick of the democrats obsession with skin color and genitals have no where to go. And this is why I don't even consider them left, at all; even on those issues, they have taken them to such ridiculous extremes that they have gone "around the horseshoe" back over to the right.
/r/MensRights07/05/24 10:52 PM
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by anti social men i meant violent individuals, sociopaths, psychos these sorts. Well, a lot of people seem to think that includes all men, but I have also seen, firsthand, how the system is designed to create violent individuals, sociopaths, etc.
/r/MensRights07/05/24 08:59 PM
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So, in the US, at least, we don't have a "left-wing" party, and I would even argue that most European socialist states have missed the thread. The fundamental position of left-wing politics is that everyone must be treated the same. Welfare that covers women but not men does not count. Discrimination, in any direction, because of race, sex, etc, does not count. Those are divisive tactics intended to benefit the powerful... which is right-wing. The answer is not to go back, but forward.
/r/MensRights07/05/24 08:53 PM
1

I don't remember the other guy, but some state-level Republican up North turned out to be bankrolling the whole thing, explicitly as an effort to equate the MRM with right-wing politics.
/r/MensRights07/05/24 08:50 PM
0

He indelibly tarnished its reputation by linking it with an overt attempt to leverage the movement for right-wing political purposes. Note: I was there, and I haven't seen Elam dare to show his face around here since the last time I reminded him of the incident.
/r/MensRights07/05/24 08:15 PM
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Er, to be fair, Paul Elam and his right-wing crusade did a lot of damage.
/r/MensRights07/05/24 04:42 PM
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Ah, there's the rub; they don't see THEMSELVES that way, and will engage in mental contortions ("men aren't oppressed!") to maintain that illusion.
/r/MensRights07/05/24 04:42 PM
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Because people think in dualities, and so "men's rights" must oppose "women's rights," which makes us evil.
/r/MensRights07/05/24 04:32 PM
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That's all part of the plan; they don't care about men, in general, and especially "anti-social men," so it's OK if they die. And if they become violent, then that justifies everything they are doing. The famous, "self-licking ice cream cone."
/r/MensRights07/05/24 02:42 PM
1

So, all of those doctors are ignoring you????? None of them seem to be listening to a word I say Dr #7 just called back, looked at my labs, says FT4 of 0.87 ug/dL is fine, everything I read says 0.9 is low and even under 1.3 can be Hypo. He suggested a sleep study to see if I have sleep apnea, although I don't have any symptoms of it other than fatigue, and it doesn't explain my other symptoms. I guess I am looking for Dr #8. One thing you can do to dial your dosage in precisely, is alternate pi…
/r/MensRights02/05/24 06:58 PM
1

Insurance was astronomical That's one of the ways they are industrializing the entire industry; they are squeezing them out on purpose.
/r/MensRights02/05/24 04:11 PM
1

Healthcare is screwed in this country and I don't know what to do about it. It's systemic. First, the doctors themselves are usually in the field with the wrong motivations; incompetently trained by schools which are suborned by industry; and artificially limited in number by the AMA. Second, the structure of modern medicine is based on industrial principles; checklists and processes intended to maximize profits rather than patient outcome. There are no local practices, anymore, they've all been…
/r/MensRights02/05/24 03:53 PM
1

I've been reading up, and apparently there is a whole thing in the medical community about Drs reading charts and using the lab reference values, which are generalized for everyone, instead of looking up the age/sex/etc charts, which have different values. Yea, my hormone level is fine, for an infant; for an adult, it's like 30% under.
/r/MensRights02/05/24 03:16 PM
1

On to Dr #8! That's all I can do, I guess.
/r/MensRights02/05/24 03:07 PM
1

OK, nevermind, just got a message from this doctor saying that everything looks fine, despite my thyroid hormone being WAY below spec.
/r/MensRights02/05/24 02:27 PM
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I'm not sure why you didn't switch to a new doctor long ago I am on Dr #7, now.
/r/MensRights02/05/24 02:23 PM
1

My dad was diagnosed with thyroiditis and it took them many years to figure it out. The drug to treat it is the 3rd most commonly prescribed medicine on Earth, and something like 7% of the US population has Thyroid issues; it is super common, but the last thing they want to check, for some reason. It still sort-of pisses me off because he was to the point where he was having trouble getting around and you could tell he wasn't thinking straight. This is where I am; it's less "not thinking straigh…
/r/MensRights02/05/24 02:01 PM
1

"Limited"
/r/MensRights26/02/24 01:17 PM
1

"Spam?!" Seriously, fuck right the hell off.
/r/MensRights26/02/24 03:06 AM
1

So, you're just making up rules when you don't like something, now? Screw you guys, I'm out of here.
/r/MensRights25/02/24 11:20 PM
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Band of Brothers
/r/MensRights25/02/24 04:07 PM
1

Calling the opposition "Nazis" has always been a great way to discredit their arguments without ever having to bring arguments to the table yourself Yes, but sometimes, they really are Nazis. In Germany, where I'm from, we're thoroughly being taught the beliefs of Nazi Germany and the atrocities it commited. This isn't even close. So, when Zelensky's main adviser says that their goal is the, "Physical destruction of the Russian people," that's not even close? How about founding the Joseph Goebbe…
/r/MensRights25/02/24 03:57 PM
-7

Ukraine is being run by Nazis; not "neo-Nazis," not, "right-wing militants," actual Nazis whose fathers and grandfathers were in the original Nazi party and never gave up those beliefs.
/r/MensRights25/02/24 03:16 PM
-12

Well, dying from sports or drugs is one thing; dying in support of Nazis is something else, entirely.
/r/MensRights25/02/24 03:00 PM
0

They self-describe as leftists. Yes, because they want to exclude the left half of the spectrum from the conversation. They have left-wing economic views, often extreme. Like what?! I haven't heard any of them talk about nationalizing the oil industry... They work side-by-side and within leftist organisations: political parties, unions, advocacy groups. We don't have left-wing political parties in the West, at all, and most of these people hate unions; I don't know which advocacy groups you are …
/r/MensRights22/02/24 01:40 PM
1

I mean, it should be however the people involve want to do it.
/r/MensRights22/02/24 01:25 AM
9

The left is ultimately about dealing with class conflict; MLK was left-wing when he called for "color blindness" in race relations (in order to focus on class issues), which is considered heresy to the modern woke movement. Go watch Coleman Hughes' Ted Talk, and the ensuing controversy.
/r/MensRights22/02/24 12:50 AM
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There is nothing left-wing about these people; call them liberal, call them woke, whatever, just don't call them left.
/r/MensRights22/02/24 12:29 AM
2

How do you tell if your car is male or female?
/r/MensRights21/02/24 01:42 PM
-1

It has nothing to do with any particular class system, he was attacking the idea of a class system, at all.
/r/MensRights20/02/24 07:53 PM
1

but of course he argued the bourgeoise oppressed the proletariat. AT THE TIME HE WAS WRITING! "Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes. "In the earlier epochs of history, we f…
/r/MensRights20/02/24 06:39 PM
0

That's not at all how he expressed it, and even then, he proposed to solve that problem, not to use it as a wedge for some other goal.
/r/MensRights20/02/24 03:16 PM
0

I didn't realize Karl Marx extolled victimhood. He didn't, who told you that nonsense?
/r/MensRights20/02/24 02:03 PM
1

Lol, they were never righteous or smart.
/r/MensRights20/02/24 01:10 PM
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"Weakness invites attack."
/r/MensRights18/02/24 03:53 PM
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I didn't get to go to grad school for physics because I didn't have a senior project; they refused to fund my project, "because we need more women in the field," and funded two women who were flunking out of the program and wound up switching majors. I graduated, but that was the end of the physics program at that school (mid-sized state university), they no longer offer that major, and the department was merged under Chemistry.
/r/MensRights18/02/24 03:35 PM
3

I think there was an askanMRA sub at one point, but it got banned pretty much immediately.
/r/MensRights16/02/24 01:07 PM
4

you’d be hard pressed to find a left leaning person that doesn’t say they shouldn’t support affirmative action. Again, you are mixing up liberals and leftists. No leftist can support Affirmative Action, precisely because it is racially divisive. Go watch Coleman Hughes Ted Talk on color blindness (and Ted's attempt to stifle access to the video!).
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/02/24 07:38 PM
-2

Well, CRT is not that, it's just been misinterpreted, but ID is absolutely not left-wing, either.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/02/24 07:22 PM
6

No, but there is an actual definition of the term, and it excludes social division based on anything but class. Sexism, racism, etc, are simply incompatible with left-wing ideology, period.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/02/24 05:58 PM
13

When they say, "Love isn't transactional," they only mean it one way.
/r/MensRights15/02/24 01:54 PM
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We simply must separate ourselves from the shitlibs who call themselves left.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/02/24 01:48 PM
1

it is rather racist. Other expressions with racist origins: -"Hip-hip-hooray!" -Rascal -Vandal -"Paddy Wagon" -"Peanut Gallery" -"Fuzzy wuzzy" -Bugger -Hooligan ...this list goes on for a while.
/r/MensRights13/02/24 11:06 PM
2

That's just another way of saying, "ripoff."
/r/MensRights13/02/24 09:03 PM
33

To them, a disabled male is the definition of useless.
/r/MensRights13/02/24 05:55 PM
3

Then there is, "Welsh."
/r/MensRights13/02/24 02:17 PM
10

In American English, "Jew," can be used as a verb meaning to haggle or to cheat /shrug
/r/MensRights13/02/24 01:18 PM
48

To be fair, there's a lot less nonsense in blue collar work.
/r/MensRights12/02/24 03:35 AM
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I was denied funding for my senior project in college, in favor of a woman who was flunking out of the program, which prevented me from being able to apply to grad school without another year of undergrad, which I did not have the money for. So instead of working in a lab or teaching at university, I do blue collar work.
/r/MensRights12/02/24 02:31 AM
2

Im assuming you don't count Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Asia. Why not? Many countries in those regions do have left-wing governments. Oh no, I shattered your racist views of thinking only western Europe matters and none of the poor and non-white countries dont matter or the richest country in the world bar none apparently doesnt matter either Are you OK? Because I have no idea where this is coming from, and it seems like you are hallucinating.
/r/MensRights12/02/24 02:24 AM
1

Globally the US isn't right wing. Yes, it is! What on Earth are you talking about? My guess is you are solely comparing to western Europe (not even all of Europe). No, this is not comparative; again, the terms have meaning. My guess is that you are confusing Woke/"Progressive" politics, which are social issues, with left-wing, which is economic. There is not a single US politician in office who is on the left side of the map.
/r/MensRights12/02/24 01:49 AM
-1

It's not a belief, it's plain fact; the left is about focusing on and eliminating class distinctions, but both political parties are engaged in perpetuating or even increasing class divisions. Identity Politics, as an example, is the exact opposite of left-wing.
/r/MensRights12/02/24 12:51 AM
-6

Then why are both political parties in the US far right-wing?
/r/MensRights12/02/24 12:46 AM
-5

The left wing has been utterly ignored in the West for 50 years.
/r/MensRights12/02/24 12:06 AM
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Most of us feel that one of the major problems with feminism is its inherent divisiveness, and have no wish to contribute to it. You might also check out r/leftwingmaleadvocates, a sub for left-wing MRAs.
/r/MensRights11/02/24 10:36 PM
13

Yea, this has been the rule in the US for decades, and of course, due to corruption, it gets abused. I used to get arrested once a year for like 5 years because the child support corporation would "accidentally" suspend my driver's license, but neither they nor the state would actually notify me, so the first I knew about it was getting pulled over and handcuffed. They also suspended my professional licenses, which cost me several jobs.
/r/MensRights11/02/24 01:34 PM
1

I don't think that's the case. I personally believe that the belief in hierarchal structures is an authoritarian thing more than anything Not at all, anarcho-capitalism is essentially the belief that hierarchies will naturally evolve and enforce themselves, with no authoritarian government involved, at all. However I would argue over the last 15 years or so, we've actually seen the rise of an authoritarian left Where? I don't see much of any left, at all; the Democrats are, as always, right-wing…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/02/24 03:26 PM
2

Is the loss of understandability worth the increased nuance and granularity? No, it's not too bad: https://threedimensions.github.io/ I'm not actually sure you need a Conservative/Progressive axis. Abortion, LGBT issues, things like that aren't really on the left/right or auth/lib axes. I'd add vectors. Interesting, but I'm not sure how it would work.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/02/24 01:30 PM
1

Sure, but there are controversial decisions and otherwise, and that decision is not even debated by anyone.
/r/MensRights10/02/24 12:50 PM
1

The political compass, yes, although you really need 3 axes: -Left/Right -Authoritarian/Libertarian -Conservative/Progressive
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/02/24 12:49 PM
-1

No idea, but lots of them voted for Biden, who is, if anything, farther right than Trump.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/02/24 01:42 AM
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Can I be in the left if I don't believe a man can identify as a women, BLM movement are hypocritical because they don't care about black on black crime, and all white (men) people are evil? If not, I can't support the left like that. None of those have anything to do with the left, those are modern Progressive values, and taken to an extreme where they are actually incompatible with left-wing philosophy. 30-second history: The right does not have a starting point; it's relationship to conservati…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/02/24 08:47 PM
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OK, so I am in both communities, as well, and the main problem you are suffering from is a misunderstanding of what, "Left," actually means; you can be a left-wing conservative. Basically, it boils down to how you view conflict in society; the left sees social problems as arising from class distinctions, and the solution is to negate or nullify those distinctions... NOT TO CREATE NEW CLASS DISTINCTIONS OUT OF NOWHERE! And this is why feminism is right-wing; it is nothing more than an attempt to …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/02/24 08:06 PM
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I understand, but I think maybe that is the wrong solution; women complain about transactional relationships, but maybe that's how it has to work.
/r/MensRights09/02/24 05:44 PM
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The ultimate problem with the ERA is that it is moot; the Supreme Court extended the protections of the 14th Amendment to sex discrimination in 1968.
/r/MensRights09/02/24 03:14 PM
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That's not what I said; almost any successful young actress will be, "above average." "Especially attractive," tends to refer to the handful that stand out, even from other fairly attractive people. I'm middle-aged, so I tend to think of 90s actresses, but Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci are the first two that come to mind.
/r/MensRights09/02/24 03:11 PM
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Only feminine gender roles should be questioned, masculine gender roles must continue to be enforced.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/02/24 02:11 PM
1

...is Margot Robbie supposed to be especially attractive?
/r/MensRights09/02/24 02:03 PM
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I was 12 the first time a girl made a false accusation against me; yea, it pretty badly screwed up my interactions with women.
/r/MensRights08/02/24 01:30 PM
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I believe in gender egalitarianism.
/r/MensRights08/02/24 01:03 AM
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I mean, as fiction, it is passable in a pulp-romance sort of way, but you need to do better if you want to sell it as polemic.
/r/MensRights08/02/24 12:20 AM
2

Sure, but there is technically an argument that pointing an unloaded gun at someone is not actually Assault with a Deadly Weapon... although it will still count as self-defense if you shoot them.
/r/MensRights07/02/24 01:47 PM
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I mean, if the gun is loaded, then pointing it at anyone is a felony: Assault with a Deadly Weapon.
/r/MensRights07/02/24 01:24 PM
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Fair enough, but call it what it is: Progressive fascism.
/r/MensRights06/02/24 03:34 PM
2

streams of leftism which exist like rad feminism. Feminism is right-wing, not left.
/r/MensRights06/02/24 02:36 PM
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Good for you breaking the stereotype and at least trying. Doctors rushing people out and just wanting to give medication seems all too common though. Apparently my new doctor is better but I wouldn't know because I never go. The last one told me that all of my problems were because I ate meat, and should become a vegan. Mental health care is the only type I receive and my psychiatrist is decent at least. Well, that's good; the last therapist I went to spent an hour trying to find different ways …
/r/MensRights06/02/24 12:53 PM
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I've tried, but the last 3 doctors I've gone to literally did not listen to a word I said, tried to put me on medications that I clearly did not need (e.g. statins, when my cholesterol is 206), and referred me to mental health services for asking questions.
/r/MensRights06/02/24 12:44 PM
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Aren't men much less likely to receive preventative care and often wait until health issues are really bad? Yes, but that's hardly our fault; I can't find a doctor who will give me the time of day.
/r/MensRights06/02/24 12:38 PM
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I can absolutely see that, but at the same time, both that and the OP's notion of "square" have been played with in black culture.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/02/24 08:35 PM
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That happened to me twice while I was going through family court.
/r/MensRights05/02/24 02:46 PM
2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Urkel ?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/02/24 02:31 PM
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I mean, this sounds like a RadFem's ideal solution, and I'm not sure how reducing your sex drive will address the issue of loneliness; is sex the only thing you miss from a relationship?
/r/MensRights04/02/24 05:24 PM
1

Why do you think modern feminism is a right wing movement? Because it implicitly rejects class-based solutions to the problems they claim to want to solve; Third Wave Feminism was explicit about this, remember, "Lean In?" They don't want to change the system, they just want to be the oppressors instead of the oppressed.
/r/MensRights04/02/24 05:20 PM
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They are related, although there are other ways to get prestige, e.g. celebrity status.
/r/MensRights04/02/24 04:03 PM
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blue collar work pays $$$$ That has nothing to do with class; a broke lawyer has more social status than a millionaire shop owner.
/r/MensRights04/02/24 03:55 PM
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OK, what feminists are doing is enforcing social class; average vocational training might actually pay better than an average 4-year college degree, but a bankrupt lawyer still has more social status than a millionaire machine shop owner. This is why modern feminism is a right-wing movement. Now, there used to be a legitimate argument in favor of the college degree, because up until recently, they required a broader education involving History, Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy, etc, but Univers…
/r/MensRights04/02/24 03:55 PM
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a mens only draft is a violation of the 14th amendment "It remains to be seen, of course, whether Congress will end gender-based registration under the Military Selective Service Act," Sotomayor wrote in a statement joined by Associate Justices Stephen Breyer and Brett Kavanaugh. "But at least for now, the court’s longstanding deference to Congress on matters of national defense and military affairs cautions against granting review while Congress actively weighs the issue." I.e. the 14th Amendme…
/r/MensRights02/02/24 04:54 PM
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Oh, I ran that one into the ground; 300k miles, and it finally wore out. I've got two 20-year-old trucks that I will keep running forever.
/r/MensRights01/02/24 04:00 PM
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A few years ago, I got run off the road by a woman who ran a stop light, and when I honked, she yelled out the window that I was a broke asshole who shouldn't be on the road, not because I am broke, but because I choose to drive an older car and keep it running instead of paying for a new car.
/r/MensRights01/02/24 01:32 PM
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Do you expect feminists to call out bad behavior by women and girls? If so, then we have to do the same.
/r/MensRights29/01/24 05:10 PM
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So, I'm 46 and cursed with a "Baby face;" I regularly get mistaken for 30ish, and that's with a beard, if I shave people think I'm in college. Why is this a curse? Because I'm getting close to 50 and still get called, "The Kid," at work. I don't get taken seriously. I've asked people if there is anything I could do about it, and the most common answer is, "Stop being so cheerful," apparently having a jovial demeanour is associated with youth and if I want to be viewed as an adult, I should quit …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/01/24 12:55 PM
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Intersectionality could work out if we omit the 'privilage' aspect of it. No; the entire point of it is to distract from class issues by focusing on divisive traits.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/01/24 12:44 PM
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Intersectionality is part of the right-wing Identity Politics movement which seeks to divide people into the smallest possible units according to every possible metric other than class in order to prevent class solidarity and thus preclude activism that might lead to meaningful change in the world.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/01/24 12:43 PM
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Well, calling you names is certainly not a mature attitude, but at the same time, given the factors of youth, the current state of social media, and the fact that nothing she did involved any physical contact, this is what we call a "Tempest in a teapot." Not to dismiss what you are feeling, that is absolutely real and needs to be acknowledged and addressed, but part of that is to help put it into perspective... which is what both of you are seriously lacking (understandable, given your age and …
/r/MensRights28/01/24 05:08 PM
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Google search it; most results for "single men problem" will concern mental health, while most results for "single women problem" will point to societal causes or problems.
/r/MensRights28/01/24 04:53 PM
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I became an anarchist; if our society is going to treat me like that, then I am not going to support that society.
/r/MensRights28/01/24 03:16 PM
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I mean, I would have stopped, anyway (and just walked away laughing if she got mad), but you are exactly correct in that there are women who are ready to take offense at the offer, and so there is no expectation of help.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/01/24 04:36 AM
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Feminist ideology. OK... what does that have to do with liberalism?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/01/24 04:32 AM
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I mean, I know that's how they try to sell it, but it's just laughable.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/01/24 03:51 AM
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Here in the United States, it's showing that men in the age group of 18-29, which is Gen Z now, are supporting the Republican party whereas the women in the same age group are showing more support for the Democrats. OK, but since both of those are right-wing parties...?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/01/24 12:30 AM
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I don't follow your logic, but there are several problems with the situation, the first of which being that it was entirely her word against his, and the second being that he wasn't allowed to defend himself. This is all part of the larger problem of the "Rules-based order" being used as a political weapon, on all levels.
/r/MensRights27/01/24 06:48 PM
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"Rich people tend to be rich first and whatever else they are second." I do not agree with your premise; no, they do not tend to be feminists, some of them claim to be feminists in order to further their goal of becoming wealthier and more powerful.
/r/MensRights27/01/24 06:45 PM
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Yet another reason to oppose this asshat.
/r/MensRights27/01/24 02:31 PM
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My first question is, "How are they defining liberal and conservative?" Because the way those terms are used is almost always misleading.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/01/24 03:47 AM
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Here is the eulogy I wrote for my father: I didn't realize how much my father meant. Beyond simply my earliest role model and the complications of father-son relationships in general, he was my intellectual and ethical foundation; the touchstone of all that is right and true in a world of chaos and deceit. I loved him. I always hoped and feared that once he was gone I would be free; unfettered against the world, capable of great and terrible deeds. To the contrary, I find that I am bound more ti…
/r/MensRights02/01/24 01:34 PM
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"Human value," is an artificial construct; there is no objective measure. The proper question is, "To WHOM is a man worth anything?" The problem is that the generalized answer is, "Society," and a man's value to society is simply his ability to contribute to that society, generally through labor and is thus determined by actions. A woman's value is the ability to make more men (whether she actually does or not), and is thus intrinsic. This is the fundamental flaw in ideologies that promote absol…
/r/MensRights27/12/23 02:57 PM
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The history is that, up until about 60 years ago, the father almost always got custody of children on the basis that the mother was generally incapable of financially supporting them; if the father was a bum and the mother had money or income, that was different, but rare. That being said, there was no such thing as, "Child support," in any case. The reason it is such a big issue for men is that it only came about in order to make child custody arrangements "fair" to women by giving them the fin…
/r/MensRights22/12/23 02:13 PM
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Well, I don't even consider elections to be legitimate in the first place; they are incompatible with democracy.
/r/MensRights22/12/23 01:54 PM
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Uh, plenty of feminists talking up war with Russia, China, and the entire Muslim world.
/r/MensRights21/12/23 02:19 PM
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I'm sorry, you are surprised that you get more sympathy from people who agree with you on the topic you are whining about? Go complain about your boss paying you crap or your landlord not fixing your apartment, and see which side you like better. the next time you think feminists are all about equality and egalitarianism There is already a term for that: Humanist; the very term, "Feminist," implicitly demands a preference for women.
/r/MensRights21/12/23 02:19 PM
1

The democrats did stand for progressive changes in laws, polices, economy. Did they? This is the fun thing about Critical Race Theory; what it actually says is that many, most, or possibly all of the so-called progressive civil rights accomplishments of the 1950s and 60s were, in fact, poison pills meant to invoke social change as a giant wedge in the populace without actually changing much, in order to facilitate the authoritarian uniparty strategy that the Democratic-Republicans have always ut…
/r/MensRights21/12/23 01:58 PM
1

very progressive, govt transparency. More power to the people. These are what historically democrats or liberals or left wings stand for. No, those are all completely different things, and at no point have the Democrats ever stood for them! The democratic party today is insane. It's basically owned by corporations and even foreign govts now. Sadly increasing ly so is tje republican party, but it's not as much as the democrats yet. No, it's about equal, and always has been. The problem is that yo…
/r/MensRights20/12/23 04:07 AM
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No, even that old myth has been blown up; the latest studies show no ill effects from eating red meat. It's sugar that needs to be limited.
/r/MensRights18/12/23 03:47 PM
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I agree that that is what the Democrats want, but it is not left, it is very right wing.
/r/MensRights18/12/23 03:46 PM
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OK, right off the bat: -Nutritional guidelines are based on what agricultural combines want to sell, not what you need to eat. -Dietary fat is not bad for you, in fact you need quite a bit of it. -Dietary cholesterol is not the problem, high cholesterol is a result of arterial disease, not the cause. -Carbohydrate intake is the major problem driving obesity and heart disease, among other issues (e.g. diabetes).
/r/MensRights16/12/23 04:05 PM
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Neither did I.
/r/MensRights15/12/23 04:34 PM
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No, they prevent fertilized ova from attaching to the uterus.
/r/MensRights15/12/23 03:33 PM
1

The pill and IUD do not prevent pregnancy.
/r/MensRights15/12/23 03:23 PM
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So, why isn't it called, "Pregnancy control?"
/r/MensRights15/12/23 03:22 PM
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And what? It’s a “sliding scale”. Contraception. Then “morning after pill”. Then abortion drug. Then procedure before a certain time. Then medical abortion. Then birth and killing the infant a crime in essentially all cases. Right; that's because the line is, and always has been, at birth. Every attempt to change it has been motivated by political skulduggery, not concern for children. And as for “privacy”. They are involving medical staff. It’s already drawing other people in. So, we can have a…
/r/MensRights15/12/23 02:46 PM
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OK, so the birth control pill is not "birth control" according to you, since the ova gets fertilized, it just prevents it from attaching to the uterus. You are the one playing semantic games.
/r/MensRights15/12/23 02:11 PM
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Abortion isn't birth control Does it prevent birth? Then it is birth control. Note that this is explicitly how the Catholic Church opposes the practice, as the bible is extremely clear about when individual life begins - at birth.
/r/MensRights15/12/23 01:53 PM
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Just as your opinion is right and correct from your point of view No! It's not about, "right and correct," it is about that being the only place to draw the line that does not create other problems, e.g. it being used as a wedge issue to divide people against their own best interests. Note that the Southern Baptist Convention was pro-choice until they figured out that they could use it as a political weapon. t was cited by SCOTUS.... English Common Law is not a religious tradition, and note the,…
/r/MensRights15/12/23 01:24 PM
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It prevents birth; what else would you call it?
/r/MensRights15/12/23 01:17 PM
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The feminists are not consistent on this issue No surprise there... I don’t believe in unlimited abortion rights (incidentally neither did the original Roe v Wade judgement). I would suggest the limit for “elective” (ie non-medical) abortion should be based on the 50% survival probability, which is around 22 weeks (from memory). After that it should be based upon medical reasons. So, here's my problem with that: Privacy. At some point, you have to deal with the fact that you are advocating socie…
/r/MensRights15/12/23 01:17 PM
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This is a matter of opinion as to whether a 39-weeks in-utero "baby" is alive or not. No, it is a matter of definition. I'll go out on a limb and say that "most" (> 50%) people think a baby is alive at 39 weeks. Likewise I think "most" (> 50%) agree a "baby" is not alive before the first week. Again, what they think is irrelevant to the law; "life begins at birth," is not an arbitrary distinction, it is both natural (obvious) and practical in that it avoids problems... like this very discussion.…
/r/MensRights15/12/23 04:47 AM
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Reducing the discussion to "choice" without contemplating the question of "life" only takes one parties need into account. Except that, in the case of abortion, they are having to radically redefine "life" in order to conflate abortion with murder. Even the bible explicitly states, in at least two places, that a person's "life" does not begin until birth; the Romans famously practiced abortion before and during the era of the New Testament, but not a word was spoken against it. Religiously, lega…
/r/MensRights15/12/23 03:47 AM
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To be fair, they tried to prosecute women who traveled out of state for an abortion.
/r/MensRights14/12/23 10:08 PM
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Absolutely.
/r/MensRights14/12/23 10:05 PM
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Send this woman some flowers, nothing any MRA could ever say would have as much impact as this idiot!
/r/MensRights14/12/23 10:01 PM
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Because the government is interfering in medical decisions; you might have moral objections to birth control, but there is no ethical justification to imprison people for it.
/r/MensRights14/12/23 09:58 PM
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But hadn't the corner stone of American politics been states rights? Not since 1869, no.
/r/MensRights14/12/23 09:56 PM
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This is a civil rights issue, you ought to be able to get the judge disbarred over that.
/r/MensRights13/12/23 07:29 PM
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After the ruling I was told to sign the court order ( we have never done this before) I told the judge no and they threaten to take me to jail and I obliged. That was under duress. upon leaving the officer shredded my intake form and any other records. That is destruction of government records, and is absolutely a civil rights violation. You need a lawyer.
/r/MensRights13/12/23 06:52 PM
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What is the point of the law? To protect children from abuse, or to protect them from themselves? And how does holding the man accountable serve either function in this case? It's easy to say, "11-year-olds shouldn't have sex," but age of consent has always been arbitrary and skewed high; even 100 years ago, girls got married by age 12 all the time. At some point, this is nothing but moralistic hypocrisy.
/r/MensRights13/12/23 05:32 PM
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Has it ever been enforced?
/r/MensRights13/12/23 01:29 AM
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The left is basically feudalism again. What?! No, that's right-wing, individual ownership of the means of production. Or do you think that the Democrats are on the left?
/r/MensRights13/12/23 12:25 AM
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Well, first of all, your spectrum is weird; why is "liberal" at the opposite end from "conservative?" And why is "Democrat" in-between "Independent" and "Left-Leaning," but there is no, "Left," at all? Simply put, I'm not on your map.
/r/MensRights13/12/23 12:24 AM
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Call a lawyer, first, but AFAIK, your mother-in-law is not a legal guardian of your children, so I don't think that she can legally keep them from you.
/r/MensRights13/12/23 12:18 AM
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"Incel" is an attitude, so it's really up to you. I know I’m very ugly and I’m trying to improve my look but I know I’ll never be good looking but I am trying. Looks aren’t everything I know but they still matter a lot. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder;" you might be surprised.
/r/MensRights13/12/23 12:17 AM
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put tabasco sauce in it Now, that's an idea :P
/r/MensRights12/12/23 05:25 PM
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Because laws about it doesn’t exist and the “material” is discarded so it isn’t considered theft It's not about theft, it's about fraud, and the law absolutely does exist to cover it! That the courts are corrupt is another issue.
/r/MensRights12/12/23 04:18 PM
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https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/tennessee-bill-would-make-it-illegal-to-falsely-accuse-someone-of-being-babys-father/article_851cb26a-c7fd-11ed-bbbe-2344cf773e0a.html https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2023/05/19/the-end-of-permanent-alimony-understanding-the-nuance-behind-senate-bill-1416/?slreturn=20231111205603 https://www.healthline.com/health/mens-health/mens-mental-health-month
/r/MensRights12/12/23 01:57 AM
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The problem is that they are advertising a criminal use.
/r/MensRights12/12/23 01:19 AM
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At best we're dealing with fraud It is absolutely fraud... good luck getting a DA to pursue a woman, and mother, for such a crime That's the problem, in a nutshell. My issue is that this device is explicitly designed with paternity fraud in mind...
/r/MensRights12/12/23 01:18 AM
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How is this not illegal?
/r/MensRights11/12/23 08:20 PM
1

You know why jewish Population in Europe is decreasing and jews are fleeing to Israel? They aren't; Israel's Jewish population is dropping from emigration due to Israel's radical racism.
/r/MensRights11/12/23 07:42 PM
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Where are they disceiminated? They can legally Vote and are fully accepted citizens in Israel. Male Arab Israelis are not allowed to marry Jewish women, among other restrictions on their rights, e.g. government service, etc.
/r/MensRights11/12/23 07:41 PM
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Where did you get that number? It's more like 15,000, and you compare that to the total Jewish population, not the populations they are embedded in; how many Jews in France? Poland? Places where they were actually historically persecuted?
/r/MensRights09/12/23 05:34 PM
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Can Muslims live in peace in Israel? No; they are legally discriminated against. Can jews live in peace in Palestine, Lybia, Syria, Iran, Jordan etc.? They did, for 2,500 years, until the Zionists showed up; actually, there is still a sizable Jewish community in Iran which is fervently opposed to the state of Israel. There have been offers to end the crisis, but only one Side IS in complete denial and would Not Take a compromise I agree; the Israelis.
/r/MensRights09/12/23 05:30 PM
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Lol I was gonna be like God damn, little chick a black belt in judo or something 😂 I mean, there are some big, strong women, and training can make them dangerous, but even a black belt in judo doesn't actually make up for a 100lb weight difference. 'm sorry dude you had to deal with that. Crazy how some men will jump to violence because some woman wants them to. They're just as bad as the man hating feminists in my opinion cause they are enabling this behavior. I hope you have made a full recove…
/r/MensRights09/12/23 02:36 PM
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One party in a democratic nation How can you call Israel Democratic when they don't let more than half of the people living in the area they claim to vote? at least with Likud there's a chance A chance of what? Dying quickly or slowly? Did you also ignore No, I just understand the context, that was something of a paraphrase and has a very specific meaning, which applies only to that area. Not all Isreali's are against a two state solution. It doesn't matter, any Israeli who has tried to implemen…
/r/MensRights09/12/23 02:32 PM
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The nazis nationalized their industry No, they didn't! They did the opposite; they put the government and state entirely at the service of privatized industry.
/r/MensRights09/12/23 02:26 PM
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"Instigated" by a teenage girl; the guy she got to do it was 3 years older than me (I was 13) and a golden gloves boxer (which I only found out after the fact).
/r/MensRights09/12/23 02:25 PM
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Arabs and Europeans as a whole have been committing genocide against Jews for thousands of years. Europeans, for about 800 years, but not Arabs, and even if that were true, how would it justify their genocide of Palestinians, who lived in peace alongside Jews (indeed, many of them were Jews) for 2,500 years? Ask yourself what happened to those populations. Many of them are still there, and always have been; there is a fairly large Jewish community in Iran, and many Muslims were converts from Jud…
/r/MensRights09/12/23 03:03 AM
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Israel is a target of Jew haters Yea, that's too bad, but it's not the topic of discussion, here. There are legitimate criticisms of Israel which have nothing to do with hatred towards either the Judaic religion or the Jewish ethnicity, which center around the oppressive policies coming out of the Zionist movement. Until you admit and deal with that, those "Jew haters" will simply be empowered by Israel's own behavior. Set your house in order.
/r/MensRights09/12/23 01:57 AM
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Whatever; different flavors of right-wing that have never had anything to do with left-wing philosophy.
/r/MensRights08/12/23 04:09 PM
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Bro really, did you inform yourself on anything about this conflict? Hamas whole reason for existence is the annihilation of Israel. And how is that equivalent to "genocide of Jews?" Do all Jews live in Israel? Even half? No. Yeah how Israel got where it is is really bad, now we have to find a way how to solve this conflict. The Oslo Accords was the last serious attempt; the Mossad had Yitzhak Rabin assassinated for signing them, and installed Netanyahu, whose explicit goal was the removal of al…
/r/MensRights08/12/23 03:37 PM
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So does the left these days. Then they are no longer, "left," by definition; it would be like someone calling themselves right-wing and calling for nationalization of all industry.
/r/MensRights08/12/23 03:35 PM
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o Hamas is anti-Semitic against Jews Sure... nd calls for the destruction of both Israel and Jews Ah! That is not the same thing! They don't say a word about any Jews now living in historical Palestine. Incidentally, the Likud (Israel's ruling political party) charter contains ACTUAL ethnic cleansing language, including the original "from the river to the sea," quote: "The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is e…
/r/MensRights08/12/23 03:34 PM
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Hamas' goal is actual genocide of Jews Source? elimination of their nation. The one that exists on land that is rightfully theirs but excludes them?
/r/MensRights08/12/23 04:59 AM
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Im not on Israel's side but terrorists don't deserve to live. Even when Israel is the bigger and original terrorist? They tried to assassinate the president of the US! They attacked one of our Navy ships and tried to blame it on Egypt to draw us into war! They stole nuclear material to build bombs from us! How many instances of them behaving barbarically - however badly Hamas has behaved - does it take before you criticize their actions?
/r/MensRights08/12/23 01:42 AM
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leftis love to call a war genocide when certain people do it. No, we just insist on calling it out when we see it, no matter who is behind it.
/r/MensRights08/12/23 01:15 AM
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https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/18cug4p/hamas_raped_men_as_well_as_women_during_october_7/
/r/MensRights08/12/23 01:08 AM
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How do you describe Israel's indiscriminate murder, torture, theft, and oppression of Palestinians over the last 75 years, then? What is it about the situation that makes it OK for Israelis to do to Palestinians, but not for Palestinians to fight back?
/r/MensRights08/12/23 01:07 AM
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https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/18cvwda/israel_has_been_raping_palestinians_including/
/r/MensRights08/12/23 01:05 AM
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Ironically, the video is about Israel labeling as "anti-semites" anyone who points out their war crimes. As for off-topic, I only posted in response to the Zionist propaganda post about Hamas raping men, which has not been substantiated, unlike the allegations in this submission.
/r/MensRights07/12/23 08:32 PM
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I'm on r/leftwingmaleadvocates, but they are a little goofy, too.
/r/MensRights07/12/23 07:25 PM
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The forums are gone; I can't even find the archives, anymore, and all the critics on the other side care about is that he said something mean, once.
/r/MensRights07/12/23 07:24 PM
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So, 32 upvotes for this, but net negative votes for one about the IDF raping a Palestinian boy... Guys, we have a serious fucking problem in this sub.
/r/MensRights07/12/23 05:32 PM
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Evidence? Every claim Israel has made about that has turned out to be bogus, but they literally declared a Jewish human rights group looking into a single instance of IDF rape of a Palestinian minor to be a terrorist organization. If you had been born in Palestine, you would be out there doing anything you could to fight the people killing your family and friends, too.
/r/MensRights07/12/23 05:30 PM
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You know, I only posted because of the guy posting Zionist propaganda, i.e. the people actually murdering Semites (Palestinians) in job lots.
/r/MensRights07/12/23 05:29 PM
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There's no moral equivalency, here; Israel is clearly committing war crimes, has been for 75 years since they started this disaster, and almost all of their claims about Hamas turn out to be bogus, e.g. "beheading children," etc.
/r/MensRights07/12/23 05:28 PM
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Left wing activism. Er, call them liberal or progressive, if you must, but please don't call them "left-wing." One of the defining features of left-wing philosophy is a commitment to an egalitarian society, which feminism implicitly rejects.
/r/MensRights07/12/23 01:36 PM
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No, this was about him using the MRM as a vehicle for radical right-wing activism.
/r/MensRights06/12/23 10:09 PM
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That was a decent documentary; I was active on the old AVFM forums at the time it was being made, and the biggest problem was that, between the actual filming and the release, there was a huge scandal involving Elam, which has been completely ignored since both sides are ideologically biased. Note that this incident is why there are no forums on AVFM, anymore...
/r/MensRights06/12/23 08:06 PM
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Because the immediate assumption is always that we are opposing women's rights; opposed duality is a deeply embedded social meme.
/r/MensRights06/12/23 03:04 PM
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How can people look at Israel and think that they are the victims? How can people look at Northern Ireland and think it was the fault of the Irish? People rationalize their behavior, generally according to what society tells them.
/r/MensRights01/12/23 03:35 AM
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Exactly the opposite; women say the nastiest things about each other, even (or maybe especially) their "friends." This is a tricky question, because it is relative; there is this idea that women emotionally support each other, but most of my female friends call me to complain about their female friends not listening to them. This is going to vary by person; having largely given up on romantic relationships, I don't generally think of them as related. I would hope so. I do, certainly, I can't say…
/r/MensRights30/11/23 10:31 PM
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I mean, I think JP is an intellectual lightweight, but that's a really stupid meme.
/r/MensRights30/11/23 10:23 PM
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So, I am pro-choice, and think that she had the right to do that. That doesn't make it a good thing, especially for such a paltry reason, and I sympathize with you, but at the same time, this is why that set of morals includes things like not having sex before marriage. You haven't mentioned birth control, which isn't 100%, but it helps. Find a better woman and make sure you both agree on some basic ideals before jumping in the sack, again.
/r/MensRights30/11/23 04:29 PM
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Or right-wing, authoritarian progressives.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/11/23 09:18 PM
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Do you have a link to a legitimate site? My security software just about shit itself when I clicked on that.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/11/23 11:53 PM
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The dude is a conservative How is he conservative? and is a populist. Um, yea? If anything the guy is just extremely ignorant on political topics, and doesn’t really have the intellectual capacity to build a rational political perspective. "Tell me you have never listened to an episode of his show without telling me you have never listened to his show."
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/11/23 10:11 PM
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Huh? Have you ever listened to him? He was a Bernie supporter.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/11/23 09:55 PM
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A lot of the people who listen to Joe Rogan are right-wing conservatives, but it's hard to call him that. As for, "conservative takes," I'm not sure what you mean; she's not in the ultra-woke crowd, and that naturally exposes her to accusations of insufficient ideological purity, which is not a good road to go down.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/11/23 04:18 PM
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Note: "Left" and "progressive" are not the same thing.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/11/23 04:01 PM
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Is shoeonehead left wing She was a Bernie Sanders supporter. most people that will acknowledge men issues are right wingers unfortunately I disagree; I think that most people who acknowledge men's issues are automatically assumed to be right wing.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/11/23 04:00 PM
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Shoeonhead?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/11/23 02:56 PM
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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert A. Heinlein
/r/MensRights26/11/23 02:20 PM
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Craig Murray was covering this trial, and actually went to prison for contempt of court for reporting on the defense, which the MSM was ignoring.
/r/MensRights26/11/23 02:09 PM
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READ A FUCKING HISTORY BOOK. The front room of my house is literally a library with a focus on History, an inheritance from my father who was a state university professor of history.
/r/MensRights25/11/23 10:19 PM
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Nice slogan, do you have an argument to go with it? I disagree; collectivism is the only protection we have against tyranny. A tyrant is, by definition, an individual who claims to own everything, while the tradition of the United States, which spread to most of the rest of the world, was to own everything collectively. All land in the USA is owned by the collective people, which is how we justify taxation; we are not stealing your property, you are paying us rent to use our land.
/r/MensRights25/11/23 09:53 PM
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collectivism is now libertarian according to you. It always has been; go read Thomas Paine. If you cannot understand that individual property rights underpin liberty than you are really hopeless. That's not an argument; collective property rights, as we have in most modern states like the US, are more important. Stop being stupid, everywhere collectivism has been applied people have been oppressed. Collectivism is always accomplished at government gunpoint against the wishes of most people, this…
/r/MensRights25/11/23 08:41 PM
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You live in a healthy society; ours has been undermined, and I don't see an easy solution.
/r/MensRights25/11/23 07:57 PM
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but what is bad about family laws except custody laws? Lifetime alimony? Bias in domestic violence law? There is plenty.
/r/MensRights25/11/23 07:51 PM
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I make over $100k as an auto mechanic /shrug
/r/MensRights25/11/23 07:46 PM
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Have you ever considered getting into finance to some degree? I was going for my Series 6 several years ago, but as you say, it's not honest work, and since I was honest, they ran me out pretty much immediately. I make 6 figures doing blue collar work and don't need a gym membership :)
/r/MensRights25/11/23 07:28 PM
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i don't understand weren't you talking about custody laws? I said family law, including custody laws, but that is the definition of situational; not all men have children. i was just replying using the same logic bec you sir treated men like a monolith I treated both groups the same.
/r/MensRights25/11/23 07:25 PM
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You have a physics degree and have to take a second job? Second? No, that's my main job; I work 50-60 hours per week. Not to pry but what is the avg American teaching job pay? At what level? I could teach high school science (not sure how that converts to Japan, 14-17 year-olds) for $22,000/year, but I would have to pick up an extracurricular activity (coaching sports, etc) and take a lot of education courses to get certified; and then it's a glorified baby-sitting job, you aren't expected (or r…
/r/MensRights25/11/23 07:14 PM
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Oh, man, some gems in here: This may well be true. But harping on people to get married from high up in the ivory tower fails to engage with the reality on the ground that heterosexual women from many walks of life confront: that is, the state of men today. Having written about gender, dating, and reproduction for years, I’m struck by how blithely these admonitions to get married skate over people’s lived experience. A more granular look at what the reality of dating looks and feels like for str…
/r/MensRights25/11/23 07:06 PM
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Two problems: That is still situational, and is the best example you can come up with, and Why are women, as a group, culpable, but the men who both allow and enforce this system must be viewed as individual actors? That's a double standard, the last thing we should put up with.
/r/MensRights25/11/23 06:46 PM
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Nice; one of my degrees is in physics, but teachers don't make enough to live on in the US, so I work as an auto mechanic.
/r/MensRights25/11/23 06:43 PM
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mens issues (which let’s face it, always involve women Yea, this is the problem; on the job deaths have nothing to do with women, and other issues range from tangentially-related to or, at best, situational, i.e. family law might benefit women, but it was mostly men who wrote it.
/r/MensRights25/11/23 06:17 PM
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the fact is that libertarianism is incompatible with American liberalism Right; are you under the impression that Liberalism is on the left side of the spectrum? Because it's not. Nobody but delusional fools thinks libertarians are in the american left You don't seem to have a grasp of what the terms mean. Left and Right are economic terms concerning the balance of individual vs collective property rights. Progressive and Conservative are social terms concerning traditional values. Authoritarian…
/r/MensRights25/11/23 03:28 PM
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Yet govt if tyrannical can go on a genocidal run as well ! Point is no organisation should have so much central authority and power. Which is why I acknowledged problems with government overreach, but the solution is not less government, it is better government; just like the solution to bad speech is not less speech, it is better speech. I do acknowledge role of govt and they have their use in maintaing order. But they should be kept at the minimum. I don't think that anyone has ever advocated …
/r/MensRights25/11/23 03:21 PM
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left wing libertarian is an oxymoron On the contrary, I consider right-wing libertarianism to be paradoxical. and you again cannot make a good argument And yet, you cannot argue against it.
/r/MensRights25/11/23 03:16 PM
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Most of men's issue stem from overreaching govts and unfair enforcement of contracts by judiciary Absolutely not; most of men's issues stem from social preference for women, which is only exhibited through unfair enforcement, but government action is literally the only protection we have against, for example, lynch mobs killing us because a woman complained that we glanced in her direction. There are certainly problems with government overreach, which is why I am a left-wing libertarian and not …
/r/MensRights25/11/23 02:05 PM
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But the russian and Spanish libertarian Revolutions and many others featured working class and farmer based feminism and women’s rights movements. Sure, and it can be argued that they implemented gender egalitarianism best, but that was also significantly later than English and American feminism (sorry for the cultural bias... but that's the culture most of us are living in). emma Goldman I would not call her either libertarian or left, but I understand how some people get there. One of the few …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/11/23 02:03 PM
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Title IV-D That's just sick.
/r/MensRights23/11/23 01:51 PM
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What i mean by every class was relative to men of the same class, and in formal politics. Meaning, the male not the female miners, would speak at whatever union, town, church, or militia meetings existed. Except even that was demonstrably untrue; Anne Hutchinson wasn't banished from Massachusetts for being a female preacher, but for preaching against the Intercession of the Clergy; Mother Jones opposed giving women the vote, for various reasons, summed up as, "You don't need a vote to raise Hell…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/11/23 01:50 PM
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In what universe is that even remotely reasonable, for anyone? I mean, they are both rich, so they don't care, but there needs to be a hard upper limit set for child support.
/r/MensRights22/11/23 02:22 PM
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Feminism was ultimately an upper-class movement. Coal-miner's daughters in the 1800s didn't think, "Gee, I hope I can go down in the mine like Daddy when I grow up;" they were already down there, with their brothers and sisters and mother and everyone else. What they seem to have all agreed upon was that before the 20th century, women of every class were more excluded than men from formal political and diplomatic roles and public participation. Again, this only applied to the upper class; the lo…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/11/23 02:17 PM
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None of those is true except your voting record. Johnson is a conservative. He is Libertarian, who are economically right-wing, but as the only party supporting basic human rights... Not voting is a waste. Your vote to waste, though. 2020 was a waste; 2024 isn't looking too good, either. Modern Liberalism is a left-leaning movement. No, it is not; as Nancy Pelosi so eloquently put it, "We are capitalists, that's it." No, it's not Marxism or its confederates, true, but those are theories and reac…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/11/23 02:48 AM
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Liberalism is Leftist, not Rightwing. No. Liberalism is one of the two right-wing movements that came out of monarchism, the other being conservatism. You are confused, obviously, so perhaps shouldn't attempt to critique it. You are ignorant, so perhaps you should try to learn. Who did you vote for in the last two Presidential elections? I didn't bother, last time. In 2016, I voted for Bernie in the primary (boy, what a waste that was), and Johnson in the general.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/11/23 12:25 AM
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What are you doing here? I am male, left wing, and advocate for men's issues. I critique liberalism, among other right-wing philosophies.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/11/23 09:49 PM
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Yea, it's stupid. The usual examples of "toxic masculinity" are misogyny, homophobia, and aggression... as if women do not exhibit the same traits mutatis mutandis. I suppose we could separate out examples of "toxic femininity," such as manipulation, violence by proxy, and gaslighting, but again, men engage in those behaviors, too.
/r/MensRights20/11/23 04:35 PM
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OK, no offense, but what are you doing here?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/11/23 02:58 PM
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Here's the key piece: Going further, feminists’ beliefs about gender similarity (vs. difference) also give reason to believe that their attitudes toward men may even be more positive than nonfeminist women's. In general, feminists have resisted, challenged, and rejected traditional notions of gender difference, seeing them as mythical justifications of gender inequality. Feminist scholars have dismantled popular, religious, and scientific claims of gender differences in reasoning abilities, neur…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/11/23 09:54 PM
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Eh, it was still his fault. We don't have to listen to women.
/r/MensRights18/11/23 06:07 PM
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Thank you, I hope you're ok! Oh, this was more than 30 years ago. And hope the girl who did this to you gets the day she deserves, in court! Oh, she wound up in prison a few times, but it had nothing to do with me; it's better that way, no Karmic load o.-
/r/MensRights18/11/23 03:02 PM
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I mean, we know about it, many of us have been victims of it (one of the three fights that put me in the hospital was instigated by a teenage girl). That's a good term, though, and yes, it needs more attention.
/r/MensRights18/11/23 02:53 PM
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My only complaint is that these people were never, "left," they are neoliberals, who are just a different flavor of right-wing.
/r/MensRights16/11/23 03:54 PM
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https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html 14 Common Features of Fascism ... 8, The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
/r/MensRights14/11/23 06:25 PM
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Yea, they get a double-whammy. The part that stuck out to me was successful black men being the most depressed, likely because they are the most isolated; they probably find it difficult to fit in with upper class white men, lower and middle class black men will either shun or try to exploit them, and upper class black women seem to be intensely manipulative (e.g. Jada Pinkett Smith).
/r/MensRights14/11/23 05:46 PM
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What I am saying is that we will not be allowed to set them up ourselves; what we need are allied organizations set up by women but run by men.
/r/MensRights14/11/23 02:35 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny
/r/MensRights13/11/23 07:32 PM
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As always, it depends, but no, if my friends and I are talking about women, it is usually about a specific woman.
/r/MensRights13/11/23 12:53 PM
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properly funded mental health services that are created by men and made specifically for men All of those are things that the Establishment is dead-set against, but this one will send alarm bells ringing in the highest halls of power. "Men cannot be allowed to have their own spaces," is the mantra; we are too "dangerous," so we must be monitored, controlled, and manipulated... and if that drives more and more men to suicide, at least they won't be catcalling women on the street.
/r/MensRights13/11/23 12:35 PM
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No, just the ones the media allows on TV. Most Americans are somewhat libertarian-left-progressive, but the conversation is never allowed to go in that direction so they don't know it.
/r/MensRights12/11/23 01:34 PM
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That's authoritarian.
/r/MensRights12/11/23 12:05 PM
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Not at all. I believe in equal rights for all sexes, races, sexual identities, etc, I just don't believe in forcing people to acknowledge them. E.g. my solution to the "gay marriage" debate was for the government to stop recognizing marriage, entirely.
/r/MensRights11/11/23 11:37 PM
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OK, what you are complaining about is the "ultra-woke," crowd, then; yea, the people who want to use it as a bludgeon against anyone they disagree with. That is very much in play.
/r/MensRights11/11/23 06:40 PM
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The difference is that the man is expected to build the future society. The flaw with feminist ideology is that it is inherently divisive; the very words focuses on women and obliterates men's concerns.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/11/23 04:54 PM
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It has pretty much always been this way, or worse. I grew up in the late 80s and early 90s, when "rolling queers" (i.e. going out and beating up gay men) was a popular hobby for jocks and rednecks, and I wound up knowing a lot of LGBT folk because I didn't do that and I was big and scary enough that even the jocks tended to leave me alone (and anyone else nearby), so they learned to hang out near me. I came across as a pretty big asshole about it, picking fights with people to preempt the proble…
/r/MensRights11/11/23 03:06 PM
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Yes, you do; I do too, you're not alone :) We get conditioned to think of life in military terms (because that's how our lords and masters like it...), where we are supposed to be in alternating phases of conflict and passivity, but struggles to change society are not wars, they do not end. So we can't act like it is an emergency; this has been going on forever, and will continue to go on. Sometimes it gets better, sometimes it gets worse, but overall, it has generally trended towards better. Yo…
/r/MensRights11/11/23 02:43 PM
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I was at a community meeting over the Summer where one speaker brought up, among other things, that last year, in our state, 92% of suicides were rural white males over 45. She was immediately interrupted by a woman in the audience jumping to her feet and demanding to know how that affected women.
/r/MensRights11/11/23 02:05 PM
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Stop. Relax. Breathe. We appreciate the help, but don't worry yourself sick over this; you are important, too. if I have children. Will they have to grow up hearing this abomination of men? That is not what I want. I also do not want them teaching girls to be afraid of men. So what is it we can do? "If all the world were just, there would be no need of valor." There are always problems; there are always injustices; life is about dealing with those things, and when you think about what our ancest…
/r/MensRights11/11/23 05:51 AM
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I think that it is a result of the social conditioning that comes with a monogamous tradition; "locks and keys." In any of the various polyamorous relationship configurations, the general trend is the opposite; poly women are far and away the most sexual, from the combination of opportunity and ability. This was widely noted among Arab harems, and even Mormon polygamy carried hints and rumors of same-sex relations between sister-wives from almost its inception, without anything like the condemna…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/11/23 05:24 PM
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I would say go read it, but it's 560 pages, and pretty dry :)
/r/MensRights10/11/23 03:15 AM
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What’s the theory of justice about? It's based on the idea of the Veil of Ignorance; imagine that, before you are born, and you have no idea whether you are male or female, your family is rich or poor, you will be smart or stupid. Now design a fair set of rules for society. He then lays out two basic rules: Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all. Social and economic inequalities are to …
/r/MensRights10/11/23 03:01 AM
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M46, I am a libertarian-left-wing progressive, in that order; "metamodern," as opposed to traditional or modern. Not religious, unless you count humanism as a religion, I tentatively accept John Rawls' Theory of Justice as a rational moral framework. I do not begrudge you your faith, though; in a way, I envy it, but I am on a different path, and that's OK. I am here because I had my own experiences with society treating me badly as a man, and I felt like I had no support, so I am here to support…
/r/MensRights10/11/23 02:37 AM
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you cannot reason with unreasonable people. And I am not saying that Jezebel is a counter-example to that, I am just throwing anchors out there to feed our better natures (and piss-off man-haters in the process :) ).
/r/MensRights09/11/23 06:04 PM
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First, congratulations to all on a victory. Second, a note of moderation about that victory: They shut down rather than recognize that their position was invalid. A true victory would have been to convince them to moderate their views and acknowledge men's problems, which would have been a victory for them, as well. Now, this may well be naive about the purveyors of this particular website, but we should all pay attention to any opportunity for mutually beneficial outcomes; it's a lot easier to …
/r/MensRights09/11/23 05:53 PM
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The US Government is not a religion. Exactly! Let me guess George Bush's secret adopted nephew flew a plane into the second tower We have no idea what happened because they white-washed the whole thing; Iraq and Afghanistan had nothing to do with it, though. Perfect example. The US government fucked around and did something unethical and a US Citizen blew up a building filled with government employees. Self correction. WHAT?! That is fucking insanity. So why haven't the Palestinians self correct…
/r/MensRights08/11/23 11:33 PM
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Boko Haram You have personal "lived experience" with them, do you? Note: They are not killing people because they are not Muslim, they are killing them because they see them as agents of Western imperialism (not that this makes them nice people that I would want to have a beer with). If you are getting your information from the mainstream news, then you are grossly misinformed on many topics other than this one. "We kill people over less than cartoons." Please do tell. You are joking, right? It …
/r/MensRights08/11/23 10:28 PM
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My experience with Muslims in general in America when they are in a group is they are an oppressive conquering force that will resort to violence. They legit kill people over cartoons. America has a navy because muslim pirates would kidnap our people and hold them hostage. OK, but their "lived experience" with Americans is much the same; "oppressive conquering force," is the US military! We kill people over less than cartoons. The Barbary pirates enslaved everyone... unlike the Americans at the …
/r/MensRights08/11/23 10:02 PM
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Well, first, I don't tend to lump "all" of much of anybody together, so why don't we talk about feminism itself for a minute. "Women face institutional and social barriers which men do not, and some measure should be taken to mitigate that," is a perfectly legitimate position to take. The problem is when it begins to exhibit one of the following extra characteristics: -Blaming men, as a group, for women's issues -Trying to tie women's issues, specifically, to any other ideology, e.g. capitalism,…
/r/MensRights08/11/23 09:29 PM
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Are you really going to call the Jews oppressors and omit the Palestinians from the equation? Responsibility is proportional to authority; who has had authority in this situation? Not the Palestinians, every attempt they have made to organize politically has been violently crushed by Israel, or before that, the Irgun and Lehi. Do you know about the Sterngang? The bombings of hotels, schools, mosques, restaurants; the string of worldwide assassinations, including an attempt on president Harry Tru…
/r/MensRights08/11/23 08:51 PM
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I didn't say a single word about the Palestinians, but they neither started this nor have any ability to bring it to an end, other than by collectively agreeing to commit suicide, and holding a group of people accountable for something that they have no control over is... evil.
/r/MensRights08/11/23 03:04 PM
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Uh, this isn't just "shocking," it's suspicious as hell!
/r/MensRights08/11/23 02:12 PM
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...and they're not even dying for their homeland, Crimea and Donbas were never supposed to be in Ukraine.
/r/MensRights08/11/23 02:59 AM
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Sooooo many colors! And ones you can't even see... Ever since I turned 18 OK, I'm 46, so I'll try not to "Dad" you :) You will discover as you grow older that most of the things that you think you know are at least somewhat wrong, and you avoid a lot of loss and embarrassment by holding on to a little kernel of doubt about everything. So, to counter the, "Red Pill/Blue Pill," discussion, allow me to introduce you to Chesterton's Fence: "There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; l…
/r/MensRights08/11/23 02:39 AM
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"You're not wrong, you're just an asshole." :) They've got the right idea, but are largely using it for the wrong reasons. Yes, there is a fiction that we engage in, as a society, a narrative that we are bound up in that let's all of us bloodthirsty beasts get along in a civilized world, and that narrative has begun to clash with the obvious realities in front of us... That does not mean that fictions are not useful, or that our own desires and prejudices are automatically correct because the ot…
/r/MensRights08/11/23 02:19 AM
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"Familiarity breeds contempt," you need to break the mold; it doesn't have to be confrontational with, or even directly related to your wife and kids. Get a hobby; motorcycles are mine, lots of guys like to fish, join a billiards or bowling league, there are options. Get a different job or position, one that requires some travel and gets you out of pocket for a while. Change your hair, grow (or shave) a beard, buy some nice clothes, These ideas may not have any effect on your family, or it may h…
/r/MensRights07/11/23 05:33 PM
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Lol, it is the all-time most popular hobby in human history!
/r/MensRights07/11/23 01:03 PM
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addicts You might start your argument by trying to convince us that "pornography addiction" is even a thing.
/r/MensRights07/11/23 01:02 PM
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I grew up spending my Summers on a farm; you've never seen a bunch of animals fuck, have you?
/r/MensRights07/11/23 01:00 PM
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Anti-semites aren't welcome here Where did I even talk about Semites? I didn't mention the Palestinians, once!
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/11/23 12:59 PM
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Whoa, if that was so important, you'd think perhaps there'd be a pornography addiction epidemic for men born in 1960? ...but there wasn't, and there isn't, now. the reality that you deny is that a 13 year old boy in this day and age can do something a boy in 1960 could never: have the entire internet's collection of hardcore porn at his finger tips at the press of a button, from the comfort of his own home. No, he had to go get a Tijuana Bible from his buddies, and the major improvement there wa…
/r/MensRights07/11/23 12:56 PM
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HAHAHAHAHA! I mean, your worldview is so narrow, I don't even know where to start; you've never been on a farm, have you?
/r/MensRights07/11/23 12:06 AM
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Since 1970? Every video rental store on the planet had a room dedicated to it. Quit trying to tie broader social conditions to your own personal hobby horse.
/r/MensRights06/11/23 11:45 PM
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Pornography at the modern scale is unprecedented Every video rental store in America had a room dedicated to it by 1973. I'd like to see those studies btw cause I have also seen studies showing potential negative effects of it. Sure; I can give you studies showing negative effects of literally any subject; that is not a problem with the subject, it is a problem with people. Alcohol is undeniably problematic, but trying to suppress it just made it worse. Ditto for the drug war. The answer is to d…
/r/MensRights06/11/23 11:44 PM
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Pornography nowadays is easily accessible and it is truly unknown what any potential long-term effects of it are. What on Earth are you talking about? Pornography goes back at least 4,000 years, and has been "easily accessible" by anyone with a TV and a VCR since 1970. There have been numerous studies, from Kinsey to Masters and Johnson to modern studies showing it to be no more problematic than any other hobby which can be taken to unhealthy extremes.
/r/MensRights06/11/23 11:01 PM
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I had an uncle in Viet Nam, that pretty well spoiled it for a while.
/r/MensRights05/11/23 09:37 PM
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I come from a long and storied military family; one grandfather skippered a landing boat on Omaha Beach, another was at the Chosin Reservoir. My great-great-great-great-grandfather fell in the Revolutionary war, and his wife took up his position, firing cannon at the British and entering into American history. My first American ancestor was the captain of an Irish regiment who retired in Pennsylvania, and he was the descendant of English and Scottish knights. When we weren't soldiers, we were sh…
/r/MensRights05/11/23 08:22 PM
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"Girlfriend got PAAAAAAIIIID!"
/r/MensRights03/11/23 07:37 PM
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No, that's not how it works. The correlation between mental health, poverty, and crime is more complicated than that; growing up poor leads to poor decision-making ability, in general, because of the decisions that are forced upon you so often, and debt not incurring the same sense of loss as losing possessions. This is then reinforced by your peers, who are rationalizing their own poor decisions, which you absorb as the "correct" way to function in your environment. Modern therapy is usually co…
/r/MensRights03/11/23 02:09 PM
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I was at a community meeting over the Summer where a speaker brought up the fact that, in my state, 92% of suicides are white men over age 64, and mostly rural. She was immediately interrupted by a black woman standing up and demanding to know how many women committed suicide, why that wasn't mentioned, and proceeded to carry on for about 5 minutes until the speaker gave up and sat down.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/11/23 01:58 PM
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-.o
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/11/23 03:50 AM
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I mean, I see that, but at the same time, we all have mothers and sisters and daughters, so anything that helps them without hurting us, helps us, too. ...and we should encourage that attitude from the other side :D
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/11/23 01:43 AM
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I mean, it takes a lot of be more of a scumbag than Piers Morgan.
/r/MensRights02/11/23 04:19 PM
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If you don't mind I kind of do mind, since getting buried in the weeds is exactly the opposite of what I'm trying to do, here. I am not trying to create any kind of false equivalence, but at the same time, it is undeniable that women face SOME kind of challenges that men do not, and by throwing out that anchor, we get the sympathy of some people who would otherwise dismiss us out of hand. I'm not saying that it makes a huge difference, but as the old woman who pissed in the sea said, "Every litt…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/10/23 02:11 PM
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In the US, 25% more males died of Covid than females.
/r/MensRights29/10/23 01:45 PM
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Other: It is a tool, and like all tools, it can be used for either good or bad ends. I absolutely accept the proposition that women face issues in society that men do not, and that they should organize in order to address those issues. There tend to be two problems, though: The associated tendency to minimize or dismiss the issues that men face, and mock attempts to organize to address them. The assumption that men, as a group, are either at fault or responsible for fixing said issues in every c…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/10/23 02:33 PM
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Birthdays are traumatic for me. My parents forgot a couple of years when I was a kid, and then my tenth birthday was an unbelievable disaster (all my friends got food poisoning, my Mom cut her toe off, and my brother ran over the cat), and I wasn't really... around... for my birthdays through most of my teenage years. I do remember my 21st birthday; they got really mad at the bar I had been working at, because they thought I was already 21, and I'd been drinking there for years. I spent at least…
/r/MensRights27/10/23 02:08 PM
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The Count of Monte Cristo
/r/MensRights26/10/23 07:24 PM
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"Keys and locks."
/r/MensRights26/10/23 04:50 PM
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I just looked up entry level jobs requiring physics/STEM degrees. Um, is that in some place like Long Beach, CA, or Cambridge, MA? Where the cost of living is twice what it is anywhere in the country a human being might actually want to live? If we could get some nuclear plants building...
/r/MensRights25/10/23 06:31 PM
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That is what is known as a, "weasel word," intended to denigrate without making a specific accusation which can be rebutted.
/r/MensRights25/10/23 01:49 PM
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I mean, $20/hour is better, but...?
/r/MensRights25/10/23 01:05 PM
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taxation is theft No, refusing to pay taxes is theft; you're on our land, asshole!
/r/MensRights25/10/23 02:57 AM
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Lol, start with her!
/r/MensRights24/10/23 11:20 PM
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I ride motorcycles :p
/r/MensRights24/10/23 02:36 PM
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OK, so, interestingly enough, I am currently writing a book, part of the plot of which is, roughly, "how this system came about" (it is set about 5,000 years ago). I have been doing a lot of research, and this is the conclusion I have come to. Loosely, human society seems to have developed through 3 different modes of normative social behavior: -Nomadic hunter-gatherers, prior to exposure to civilization (i.e. the Sioux don't count), tended to have very loose family structures which were not nec…
/r/MensRights24/10/23 02:07 PM
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That's why they aren't actually, "left."
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/10/23 01:11 PM
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Er, no; LGBT rights and gun rights do not fit on the same axis.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/10/23 10:21 PM
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Yo! Although, just to throw out there, in Dara O'Briain's words: "Not an angry atheist, if you are a believer, good luck to you!"
/r/MensRights23/10/23 09:18 PM
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What would be the others axes be besides social and economic? Well, authoritarian vs libertarian, for one; some people argue for nationalist vs globalist, although I argue that it is a false dichotomy.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/10/23 09:16 PM
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Isn't that what I said? :p
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/10/23 06:39 PM
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Oh, sry :) OK, so left and right are economic terms; each side defines it a little differently, but can be roughly summed up as, "What do we owe back to our community from our own individual labor?" The absolute right would say nothing, while the absolute left would say everything. If there is a term that has lost all meaning, it is, "liberal," which should indicate moderate libertarian right, but everyone who calls themselves that today is an extreme authoritarian. Social issues are a completel…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/10/23 05:14 PM
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That is not at all how it works.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/10/23 04:50 PM
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He's actually lib-left, but socially conservative (pro-gun, not a LGBT ally but also opposed to laws oppressing them, etc), which is why you need more than two axes.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/10/23 04:49 PM
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True leftists are few and far between. I think it's less that than a simple misunderstanding of the term. I've got a friend who describes himself as right-wing, because he is on the conservative side of social issues, but if you ask him about economics, then he thinks that corporations should be more regulated, should pay more taxes, the public education, transportation, and healthcare should be better... He is a socially conservate left-winger! But there is no room in our political spectrum for…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/10/23 12:52 PM
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It's a fundamental problem with human psychology that the easiest way to encourage solidarity in a group is to give them a common enemy to rally against. Less, "the Left," than progressive-liberals, but they have still decided that, since Feminism was progressive, then men must be the enemy; perfectly logical... but wrong.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/10/23 12:50 PM
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Really, it seems like its the extremists on both sides who have a problem with evo psych; feminists, because it gives a rational basis for masculine behavior which they want to demonize, and traditionalists because it implies that things like gender roles are conditional, not necessary, and certainly not innate. ...which are the two groups that are the biggest obstacle to solving men's issues.
/r/MensRights22/10/23 07:55 PM
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Any time :)
/r/MensRights22/10/23 07:51 PM
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WE CARE! I relate to you more than you can know, I grew up with similar experiences, and I wish I could tell you that it goes away; it will get better... and then it will get worse, again, and then better, and that just seems to be life. My solution has always been Pride; I've got stuff that I still want to do and see in this world before I die, and I refuse to let anyone else's bullshit stop me from living long enough to do so! (and I can always make a different choice, tomorrow) I don't know i…
/r/MensRights22/10/23 02:54 PM
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Um, Evo Psych is just fine, misusing it is not. This article starts off with the assumption that incels have been disproportionately involved in mass shootings and violent attacks, and are inherently susceptible to extremism, then sets about explaining that assumption through an abuse of scientific terminology. There is no "science" involved, here, this is simply posturing.
/r/MensRights22/10/23 02:41 PM
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Many countries taxes are based on progressive percentage based tax system. I see this no less than slavery. Being forced to pay significantly more for a govt service because of being productive members of society is theft OK, Murray Rothbard, let's get real. First of all, no, it is not slavery, and it is absolutely possible to make a living below the standard deduction and not have to pay taxes, at all! In fact, in most cases, they will actually pay you... Second, you switched terms and expected…
/r/MensRights21/10/23 09:07 PM
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Fight Club
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/10/23 04:17 PM
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Yea, in fairness, I'm about the closest thing to a genuine "loner" as you're ever going to meet; my best friend from high school lives 2 miles down the road, and I haven't seen him in months. Of course, I always go to see him, he hasn't come to see me in years...
/r/MensRights21/10/23 02:11 PM
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I'll just cut and paste my last answer: "MGTOW," is, "Men Going Their Own Way," not, "Men Following Some Other A-hole." MGTOW is not a group, it's not even a philosophy, it's just the position that, "Whatever is happening here and now is not working for me, so I'm going to go do my own thing until it either it changes or I do." I don't even generally use the term as a self-descriptor, despite the fact that it is talking about me; I have grown children, but I have been single for 15 years, and ot…
/r/MensRights21/10/23 01:08 PM
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So, I don't particularly care what the answer to that question is, so long as the complement is also true: I.e. if men have less right to their children, then they also have less responsibility for them...
/r/MensRights20/10/23 09:25 PM
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Go tell that to all the people Monsanto poisoned and killed. Who? No one has ever died from acute exposure, and only anecdotal evidence has connected it to any cancers! I have a right to be skeptical and not believe everything I see just because it’s backed by some huge corporation. Then why did you link the most biased sources imaginable? What, is The Guardian some kind of moral pillar of news? Don't make me laugh! The best you can get out of the academic work on the subject is that, if it caus…
/r/MensRights20/10/23 08:28 PM
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OK, this bullshit is why people don't take environmentalism seriously. If you are going to ignore the science when you don't agree with it...!
/r/MensRights20/10/23 08:20 PM
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I have a certificate to legally handle pesticides and Ive studied chemicals and chemistry for almost 7 years Reading the MSDS' on packaging and scare stories from fake new is not the same thing as having 36 semester-hours of college Chemistry. It doesn’t matter if something is even mildly toxic it shouldn’t be in food. So, cherries, apples, coffee...? The dose makes the poison; too much of anything will kill you. It’s a long term poison and shouldn’t be used and yet it is on almost everything we…
/r/MensRights20/10/23 06:37 PM
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I used to work with glyphosate One of my degrees is in Chemistry; you were saying? The WHO classifies it as a class 2A carcinogen, a group which includes compounds from several common fruits including apples and cherries, as well as coffee, nitrate fertilizer, vinyl, roofing tar, airborne vegetable oil vapors from cooking, and red meat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IARC_group_2A "The agents in this list have been classified in group 2A (probable carcinogens) by the International Agency for Rese…
/r/MensRights20/10/23 05:48 PM
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I'm so sick of this. Yes, used improperly (which it often is), glyphosate can be problematic in certain ways; don't drink it! That being said, in normal contexts, it is no more toxic or carcinogenic than a dozen other greater substances we are all exposed to on a daily basis. Quit getting lost in the weeds...
/r/MensRights20/10/23 05:11 PM
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"First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win." - (variously attributed)
/r/MensRights20/10/23 03:03 PM
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The "ick" at the guy hobbling around his hospital room on crutches after almost dying from an infection was particularly enraging.
/r/MensRights20/10/23 01:46 PM
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The risks of not doing it consist of increased risk of cancer, HIV, and more. /facepalm So, why are the rates of all of those lower in countries that do not automatically circumcise? I absolutely support a parents right to prevent their child from getting that - you don't? No, parents do not have the right to mutilate their children for religious reasons.
/r/MensRights20/10/23 01:20 PM
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There are plenty of medical reasons people get circumcised, feel free to research it on your own. I have; there are also serious countervailing considerations involving lifelong debilitation, but that is not the discussion we are having right now. I have plenty of examples of circumcision being shamed Then you should have no problem linking to some of them.
/r/MensRights20/10/23 01:16 PM
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I mean, this is an old problem; how do these people get paid, again? "It is difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
/r/MensRights20/10/23 01:25 AM
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circumcision, which is a well established medical procedure to ensure long term health for men. Well, that is debatable, and I disagree, but the opinion should be addressed rather than shamed; do you have any examples you can link to?
/r/MensRights20/10/23 01:24 AM
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I got out of academia a decade ago for this exact reason: "Wow, that's a really interesting idea, what would you think about HELPING [female peer] write a paper on it?" "No? Well, no lab time or funding for you! Your own academic career? We've got enough white men in the field!"
/r/MensRights19/10/23 04:17 PM
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I mean, isn't there scientific evidence already "proving" that men have higher spatial reasoning abilities as a result of biology? So, the study the OP is talking about suggests that the difference does not show up until the ages of 6-8, and then widens; how much of that is biological and how much environmental is open to discussion, but it is also hard to argue that girls and boys are encouraged in different activities. A related question is why boys are doing so poorly in school, overall, then…
/r/MensRights19/10/23 04:12 PM
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It doesn't "prove" anything, it suggests that playing with toys like blocks and tiles improves spatial reasoning skills, which influence math and science ability. There is some stuff in there about parents using "spatial language" with sons more than daughters, but ends with suggesting that parents and teachers encourage both girls and boys in behaviors which tend to improve these skills.
/r/MensRights19/10/23 03:48 PM
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Schools have pretty broad latitude in matters like this; you could try to go through legal avenues, but the cops are unlikely to even write a report, and your local judge is going to throw it out on spec, you would have to find someone to take it on appeal... Over a lock? Not going to happen. Just remember these people for the thieves and authoritarian bastards that they are.
/r/MensRights19/10/23 03:32 PM
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One of my 3 STEM degrees is in physics; I can teach high school for $27,000/year, or college for $15,000/year, or work as a lab tech for $15/hour, or...?
/r/MensRights19/10/23 01:48 PM
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What way? I'm sure this idea is destined for failure. Move, change your name, work for yourself or under-the-table so you have no reported income, etc.
/r/MensRights19/10/23 01:21 AM
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There are various ways of dealing with that.
/r/MensRights18/10/23 09:28 PM
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"Skip town and change your name," the advice of the first lawyer I went to, and I have regretted not taking his advice for 18 years.
/r/MensRights18/10/23 07:38 PM
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So, you moderate based on the principles of fascism? Fuck you, buddy, I'll just leave, instead!
/r/PurplePillDebate18/10/23 07:33 PM
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How did you infer that it was not a challenge? Crap like this is why I hate this sub.
/r/PurplePillDebate18/10/23 02:09 PM
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What the fuck do you think PUA and RPD is all about? Jesus, man, think it through! Are all women looking for rough sex? No, but most of them are looking for confidence, even if it crosses over into arrogance or dominance; they will prefer that to timid. Some people just take it to extremes...
/r/PurplePillDebate17/10/23 02:38 PM
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fantasies Have I presented this in some kind of particularly lurid light? This is not a fantasy, this is a dynamic that plays out in many relationships, to greater or lesser extents.
/r/PurplePillDebate17/10/23 02:31 PM
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Fully consensual dom-sub relationship that ended because I wasn't rough enough for her /shrug I'm a big guy, she was tiny and wore skimpy clothes to show off bruises, it wasn't a good look, but the sub is actually in charge...
/r/PurplePillDebate17/10/23 02:20 PM
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I know, "It was a different time," sounds awful, but that was also just our relationship...
/r/PurplePillDebate17/10/23 01:55 PM
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Absolutely, for one reason and one reason alone: Everyone got more slack. I was a 90s teen, which is when PC really started becoming a thing, but to us it was a joke; my high school girlfriend even had a running gag where I would show up and ask, "Miss, may I grab you by the hair, drag you behind that bush, ravish your body until you can barely move, then leave you naked and bruised in the dirt?" and she would cheerfully say, "Sure, let's go!" (one of the catch-phrases was, "You have to ask," so…
/r/PurplePillDebate17/10/23 01:34 PM
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physics pays more than communications or psychology. Er, not really.
/r/MensRights17/10/23 12:27 AM
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Israel is the defending country here. TIL that the people taking land from the people who used to live there are, "defenders." Fucking wow.
/r/MensRights17/10/23 12:26 AM
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So originally, when computers were big monstrosities that filled entire rooms, yes, the operators were primarially men. Well, they were also usually the guys who built the thing in the first place, and there were like 5 computers on Earth. However, there was a brief period, where computers were common enough for data entry, and having simple computations done over large data sets (The type of thing you'd do in a spreadsheet nowadays), it was commonly done by women. OK, you are talking about the …
/r/MensRights16/10/23 12:43 PM
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So, right off the bat: I heard from my raging feminist sister that when IT started out it was a low paid women's job but it changed be be higher paid men's job. First, when was IT a "woman's job?" Is she talking about telephone operators or something? That wasn't exactly a high tech position that required extensive training, was it? Second, since when is IT a particularly high paying job? For one thing, AT&T paid their operators well! For another, I make more money doing blue collar work than I …
/r/MensRights16/10/23 12:06 PM
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It might be some kind of factor, but not much; the gender wage gap has been pretty definitively traced to women pausing their careers to have children. If there is a piece of the wage gap that has not been explored, it is the idea of cutting off the top 1% of earners and seeing what happens to statistics.
/r/MensRights16/10/23 11:55 AM
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But... that's who I want to date!
/r/PurplePillDebate14/10/23 06:48 PM
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Here in the US, I went years applying to jobs with no reply, only to start getting responses when I quit self-identifying on sex, ethnicity, and disability status. It got me interviews, sort of; I would show up, and then they wouldn't bother to actually interview me.
/r/MensRights14/10/23 02:25 PM
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Well, who gives decent dating advice? I think the majority of the problem is that there are different ways of making relationships work, and that just because you are your partner found a way that works for you is no guarantee that it will work for any other couple.
/r/PurplePillDebate14/10/23 01:41 PM
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But they mourn the Israeli civilians and denigrate the Palestinian civilians; they can say, "Both sides!" all they want, but their actions give the lie to that statement.
/r/MensRights13/10/23 04:42 PM
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https://archive.org/download/145175386785/145175386785.jpg How many colors did they hit? :)
/r/MensRights13/10/23 02:39 PM
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Have you heard a peep about the Palestinian women who are dying from Israeli war crimes right now? Oh, about the poor Israeli women who were murdered, sure...
/r/MensRights13/10/23 02:36 PM
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There are pros and cons And that's it. Again, though, I don't worry about casual crime; if anyone is going to kill me, odds are on my ex-wife.
/r/MensRights10/10/23 10:38 PM
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From everything I'm reading that's a flat out lie. "It represents a difference in reporting and definitions between countries." "OK, will you give us the raw data so we can compare apples-to-apples?" "No." The difference is entirely that we have guns and the UK does not; criminals are more hesitant to mug random strangers in the US because the chance of getting shot is quite high, but then, the interactions we do have tend to be more deadly, which is why our homicide rate is so much higher. Is o…
/r/MensRights10/10/23 04:26 PM
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What's the scale? 1 to 10 or is like DEFCON, where 5 is the lowest? Oh, it's completely arbitrary; the next level up is, "Circles of radiating doom in a cloud of disdain." Regardless, glad to hear things are getting better. I quit my job, that went a long way :) For what it's worth, I, too, resent being forced to do things I would be perfectly happy to do on my own. I would guess that most everyone would, so maybe it's the second option, that some people appreciate the kick in the pants? Maybe, …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/10/23 03:05 PM
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From a male perspective: Part of the point of a taller/larger man is that we are better able to protect a woman from OTHER tall/large men, which a small/short man is less likely to be able to do.
/r/PurplePillDebate10/10/23 01:42 PM
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October 10, 2023 Stress level is down to Condition Emergency Red 4, sleep debt was paid down by about an hour last night (cold weather is helping), still gearing myself up at 9:30am to check my mail for the first time this morning. I had something of a realization about a years-old conversation with my last girlfriend last night, one of her parting comments was that, "You resent being forced into actions which you would be perfectly happy to do of your own volition." Does this mean that other pe…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/10/23 01:34 PM
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Despite it being widely taught, we don't have enough concrete proof that it actually reduces teen pregnancy rates Um, yes we do; maybe not the other stuff, but this part is iron-fucking-clad!
/r/MensRights10/10/23 01:22 PM
1

Bah, you just shoot at knees.
/r/MensRights10/10/23 01:13 PM
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In the U.K. Maybe this is why you have 3 times the violent crime rate as the US...
/r/MensRights10/10/23 01:13 PM
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Club, stick, rock, almost literally anything else.
/r/MensRights10/10/23 01:10 PM
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...and this is why I carry a gun.
/r/MensRights10/10/23 01:15 AM
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"Fake it 'til you make it." The only way to gain confidence is to put yourself out there, take a risk, and either succeed and know you are capable or fail and learn that the consequences weren't that bad (in most cases).
/r/PurplePillDebate09/10/23 07:08 PM
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Have you become free? "Free," is one of those concepts that is relative, not absolute: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheUnfettered "Most characters in fiction, like people in real life, have broad lists of priorities and restrictions that determine their behaviour. We care about what other people think of us, how we will be able to feed ourselves in the future, the well-being of friends and family, our worldly goods, etc. Of course, how much we care about any given restriction or p…
/r/PurplePillDebate09/10/23 05:59 PM
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I don’t have any “white guilt” because I’m not white. Do you actually believe that only white men are interested in men’s rights? That is not at all what I said; I said that idea comes from white guilt. Have you read any slave narratives? Yes; have you read any contemporary accounts of anyone else? Northern industrial workers living on starvation wages with the most likely outcome being maimed or killed from the complete lack of safety? Women being locked into garment factories and then burning …
/r/MensRights09/10/23 12:46 PM
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philip iv of france escape financial ruin... he killed them afterwards. "Never trust the feds." -Malcolm Reynolds
/r/MensRights09/10/23 01:57 AM
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Africa is a continent with many different groups of people. They aren’t all one in the same way that Europe is made up of different groups of people. Europe is made up of many different groups of people; not all white people have the same background. the form of slavery in Africa was nothing like the brutal and dehumanizing form of chattel slavery that existed in the American colonies/United States. This is kind of a weird white guilt excuse that has been bandied about, because it really depends…
/r/MensRights09/10/23 01:55 AM
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As the cops like to say, "You can beat the rap, but not the ride."
/r/MensRights08/10/23 09:11 PM
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There seems to be an innate difference in how people's brains are wired, between those who want to be free and those who want to be controlled (and in turn to control others); libertarian vs authoritarian. Authoritarians are always looking for an excuse, a moral justification to put themselves in a higher position in the hierarchy; skin color was just easy, right? We are getting over that, though, slowly but surely. The one great advantage the United States has is that, ironically, half of the p…
/r/MensRights08/10/23 03:50 PM
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Oh, brother, have I got a long, strange trip for you! There is an author named Neal Stephenson who is kind of the king of speculative fiction, right now, and he wrote a kind of series involving how the current monetary system came about and where it is going. The first book is called, Cryptonomicon, and it is kind of the seminal work on how digital currency has the power to change the world, along with a deep dive into the history of cryptography, i.e. how to keep digital currency secure, with h…
/r/MensRights08/10/23 03:31 PM
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Beads are one of the oldest forms of currency, period, and might date back to the origin of language.
/r/MensRights08/10/23 03:07 PM
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I mean, blaming slavery on white people, at all, is a stretch; African slaves were originally enslaved by other Africans, the Arabs dominated the trade until the 17th century, and up until 1453, most slaves came from Eastern Europe ("Slav" is where the word comes from). You can't even argue for historical inequities, as the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe are, right now, the target of an ethnic cleansing campaign supported by the "real" white people of Western Europe and North America.
/r/MensRights08/10/23 02:20 PM
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Is this a reactionary movement? Generally speaking, no. The history of the movement roughly traces back to Warren Farrell, a founding member of the New York chapter of NOW, a feminist organization, who was tasked with analyzing the ways feminism might be ignoring men's issues... and then basically run out of the organization for not coming back and saying, "Nope, everything is just fine for men, carry on!" Do you guys believe that men’s rights issues are a direct result of feminism or did they p…
/r/MensRights07/10/23 01:33 PM
3

As cops like to say, "You might beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride!"
/r/MensRights07/10/23 02:37 AM
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"Shallow" is the opposite of "deep." "Beauty is only skin deep." Personality is about how someone makes us feel. Emotions come from "deep" within. Fickle? It can be, but moral? Absolutely; this is about how you treat other people, about your concern for their physical and emotional well-being... what is more moral than that?
/r/PurplePillDebate06/10/23 03:12 PM
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Men complain about getting hit on by women?!
/r/PurplePillDebate06/10/23 02:13 PM
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It is emotional blackmail, and you must learn to react in ways that are healthy for you! Stay positive; smile more (yes, ironically, smiling actually makes both you and everyone around you feel better, except those who are trying to make you feel badly...!); find an outlet or space that encourages you in something, whether it is a sport, tabletop gaming, a hobby club, whatever.
/r/MensRights05/10/23 05:10 PM
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It's not about, "where," it's about, "who!" None of these women would complain if Liam Hemsworth hit on them in the middle of Church service, but the sub-80th-percentile men shouldn't be allowed to hit on them... anywhere.
/r/PurplePillDebate05/10/23 01:27 PM
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if a guy really likes a particular woman, he will not tell her he wants sex right away, because he won't want her to get the wrong idea, so he will hold off on sex as well, and just date for a few dates at least. Yea, this absolutely goes both ways, and maybe with slightly different motivations, but at the same time... Why do guys hate... Who cares about those guys? Fuck those guys! There is no requirement for anyone to have sex with anyone else, ever, and if sex is all you are looking for, why …
/r/PurplePillDebate04/10/23 05:39 AM
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I mean, I'm 46, and my N count is 8 (9, maybe? I was pretty drunk one night...), but I tend to have long-term polyamorous relationships.
/r/MensRights04/10/23 04:34 AM
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This was a major point of contention in my marriage, one which was never resolved. "Familiarity breeds contempt," maybe.
/r/MensRights04/10/23 04:31 AM
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The non-objectionable part of the deleted post: in most of human history, male children were more valued, male children were most invested in, wives were humiliated or rejected if they couldn’t birth males ...and my reply: First, I am talking about NOW, people living, today, and about how they are being treated, not what you or I or anyone else thinks that the past was like. Second, you are trying to justify viciousness as retaliation for supposed ancestral wrongs; is that helpful? Does that mov…
/r/PurplePillDebate03/10/23 03:07 PM
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IT IS NOT A PRIVILEGE It is when it saves your life, because people actually pay attention and care if you are in danger or injured! Oh, there are downsides to getting attention? There are times that you don't like it? It is annoying and inconvenient? you have to understand that for must of us it started when we were REALLY young, i’m talking children young. Ask most women they will tell you that the the height of their catcalling happened when they were teens. first time i got followed by a car…
/r/PurplePillDebate03/10/23 02:32 PM
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What blue pill advice do you think people choose to misinterpret? "If your erection lasts more than 4 hours..."
/r/PurplePillDebate03/10/23 02:03 AM
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How about challenging common notions of "masculine" and "feminine" in the first place? Cooking is often considered "woman's work," (in someone's world...), but the most famous chefs tend to be men; is Gordon Ramsay feminine? The best advice is, as always, to be yourself; no, it won't help make you friends or get you dates, but the friends and lovers you do find will be genuine.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/10/23 03:56 PM
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Obviously this assumes that people who have high body counts intent Their intent is beside the point; if I lose a race, but say it was my intention to do so, did I win?
/r/PurplePillDebate02/10/23 03:42 PM
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So, let's start with your premise that body count is any measure of success... The "ideal" body count for most people should be either 1 or 2 (unless you are either in the sex trade or a genuine poly/pan), depending on their bend, and any more than that is basically the number of times you fucked up a relationship. And *THAT is the issue with high-N-count individuals, men or women; it tends to indicate a lack of concern with interpersonal relationships, which is one thing in high school or colle…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/10/23 02:38 PM
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More like dress up as if you have more money than you do.
/r/MensRights30/09/23 11:49 PM
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I hadn't had coffee yet and left the word, "up," out :p
/r/MensRights29/09/23 09:29 PM
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When I was going through Divorce I had a young child. I called WIC to sign up, and was told flat out I can't apply because I'm a man. I went through the same thing, about 20 years ago, only I never got any change of tune or anything else; I wound up down in their office talking to the program director, whose only comment other than to maintain that I didn't qualify (for WIC, food stamps, or anything else, ignoring the rules) was that a man had no business raising a small child and I should give …
/r/MensRights29/09/23 03:23 PM
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Where do you get acquisitive purposes here? If they had been predominantly murdering intimate partners, it would be legitimate to speculate about the existence and extent of possible abuse playing a factor; I was, in fact, prepared to throw out that anchor in the discussion (note that this is why lawyers have assistants; to check sources while they construct the actual argument). Also note that this same point works the other way with the given data... But it is gone in regards to female perpetr…
/r/PurplePillDebate28/09/23 03:12 PM
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What are some popular opinions commonly held by people of your own gender So, interesting wording, because you could literally have both sides of the same opinion in here, if they are both commonly held. For example, it is common for men to believe that women should be wives and mothers instead of having careers, but it is also common for men to believe that women should get preferential treatment in education, hiring and promotions... and I disagree with both.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/09/23 02:54 PM
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Yes, but I had a counter ready for a different argument, and now it goes off in a whole other direction, e.g. I was prepared to say that it looked like women almost only ever kill intimate partners, but if I was reading that backwards, then it looks like they are actually more likely to kill for acquisitive purposes... We can go into it if you want, although there is another piece involved where studies show that women are less likely to be charged with crimes in the first place..
/r/PurplePillDebate28/09/23 02:21 PM
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Basically, UK and US statistics aren't directly compatible at all. That is a problem, but again, there is no study showing anything but a large disparity. Having said all that, I wouldn't be surprised if we had more assaults and robberies per capita than the USA. We are * way* more densely populated, after all. ...and you have less murders, as knife wounds tend to be more survivable than gunshots, which goes into its own bizarre moral calculus about the relative deterrent levels... The majority …
/r/PurplePillDebate27/09/23 06:39 PM
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I denied the premise of the question, that the only two options are to tell the truth or to lie. Telling the truth would be moral, as would remaining silent, but lying would be immoral. The only counter would be a greater immorality, e.g. lying about hiding Jews from Nazis.
/r/PurplePillDebate27/09/23 06:37 PM
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If a stranger runs up to me and demands to know how much money is in my wallet, according to you, the only moral choice is to tell the truth? And now you are resorting to fallacy; there is a third option!
/r/PurplePillDebate27/09/23 05:34 PM
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No, what is interesting is that literally every mainstream source you look at for these figures deflect by complaining about "selective" statistics, and yet no one can come up with a comparison showing anything but a massive difference? I can say more. You will need to.
/r/PurplePillDebate27/09/23 04:59 PM
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https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-10.xls Total murder victims: 13,927 Acquaintance: 2,778 Girlfriend: 505 Wife: 485 Every other category where the victim knew the perpetrator is lower; son, father, brother, boyfriend, husband, etc.
/r/PurplePillDebate27/09/23 04:56 PM
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Lying to strangers is immoral? That you could even form that question... well, thank you for saving me the trouble of continuing the argument; you have completely given up any moral basis for your position.
/r/PurplePillDebate27/09/23 04:51 PM
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Carry a gun dipstick! My daughters have guns, but that's not an option in the UK.
/r/PurplePillDebate27/09/23 03:58 PM
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Which ones? Breakdown of US homicides: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/expanded-homicide British violent crime rate is actually closer to 7 times higher than the US (mostly because it has dropped in America): http://www.discouragecriminals.net/compare-us-with-british-violent-crime/
/r/PurplePillDebate27/09/23 03:56 PM
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I would start with not demanding women modify their behavior while acting like modifying men's behavior is an impossible task. So, it's OK for you to demand that our behavior change, but not for us to demand the same of you? Sorry, what "immoral act" are you referring to here? Lying? Deception? Intentional emotional harm? Did you need examples from the US? No, just that your society obviously encourages violence, in general. Also, your claim is false. I'm sorry, it is incorrect; the gap has wide…
/r/PurplePillDebate27/09/23 03:43 PM
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Until that risk goes away OK, do you have any suggestions for that? How is that risk ever going to go away? And what about the reverse? The 2nd and 3rd most common murderer profiles are, "wife," and, "girlfriend," right after the generalized, "acquaintance;" do men have the right to commit some kind of similarly immoral act in order to protect themselves? Interesting that this was in the UK, which ironically has a violent crime rate 3 times as high as the US...
/r/PurplePillDebate27/09/23 02:40 PM
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Not superficial, and certainly some would argue that the Enlightenment came out of the Judeo-Christian tradition (although they are still not the same thing), just a third option :)
/r/MensRights27/09/23 01:12 PM
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The entrenched principles of the Western/Abrahamic worldview, rooted in Abrahamic religions like Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, often lean towards suppression and superficial alleviation concerning mental health. Um, sure, but Eastern philosophy dismisses such concerns, entirely; suicide isn't seen the same way in the East, it is considered a fundamental human right... which solves half the problem, I grant you, but I hope that's not the best of all possible worlds. Which is why the modern We…
/r/MensRights27/09/23 03:24 AM
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...when that is because the expectation is that the good-looking rich guy will support you, and help make your children successful? Yes, that is transactional.
/r/PurplePillDebate26/09/23 07:40 PM
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And see, that's fine, but at the same time, it is ultimately transactional, right? What's on the other end of this transaction?
/r/PurplePillDebate26/09/23 07:34 PM
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height is more logical than a pleasant personality? in 2023? Does it still pertain to success? btw women want men who are attractive as well. Oh, absolutely, but there are other factors involved; most men don't concern themselves with a woman's height, income, etc.
/r/PurplePillDebate26/09/23 04:16 PM
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I bought mine years ago, but it was a cheap one off Amazon. Some of them record sound, too. It may be illegal (made so by feminazis) Um, that depends on the state and the situation. I'm in Tennessee, single-party consent, I can record literally anything I can legally see other than inside courthouses against judges' orders. But even in two-party consent states, you can either inform them they are being recorded, or you can only use it in your defense! So act accordingly :)
/r/MensRights26/09/23 03:48 PM
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Just make sure to tell the police you are recording; even in a single-consent state, the video's no help to you if you are dead.
/r/MensRights26/09/23 03:19 PM
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I have a pencam I keep in my pocket, and not just for this; dealing with the boss, police, etc.
/r/MensRights26/09/23 03:12 PM
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Ironically, in a sense women's tastes are more logical; height, intelligence, wealth, status, these are all indicators of success and stability. Men's tastes are more emotional, aesthetic; "Do I find this woman attractive?" "Does this woman have a pleasant personality?" Worse, women will tend to jump to, "better," whenever that is an option, whereas with men it's more about the answer to the above questions changing from yes to no, absolutely.
/r/PurplePillDebate26/09/23 03:07 PM
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Men don't really have wide preferences. Guys settle for what they can get. On the low end, yes, but how often do you see some tall, svelte guy walking around with a great, big, fat woman? I personally know a couple of men (both over 6' and not overweight) who actively prefer larger women, not just tall, but with some weight. The end of human civilization because a few nerds are not able to get laid is largely exaggerated. Now, why do you implicitly equate incels with nerds? That's not a valid co…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/09/23 03:04 PM
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Can you explain why that is? The difference between liberal, left and progressive? Historically, "Liberal" and "Conservative" were the two strains of Capitalist thought that replaced the old Feudal/Mercantilist system. John Locke is considered the "Father of Liberalism," which is concerned with things like individual rights, including economic rights such as private property and free markets. Edmund Burke first codified the notions of Conservatism, which is concerned with preserving traditions, …
/r/MensRights24/09/23 04:14 PM
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We appreciate the help! I prefer to say that I am against what feminism has become; women face issues in society that need advocacy and action... but so do men, and everyone needs to be careful about playing the Victim Card. This means dialogue, though, not just negation and propaganda.
/r/MensRights24/09/23 03:57 PM
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Feminism has had very strong liberal support when it comes to lobbying for feminist policies. Joe Biden championed VAWA for example. Feminism is also very much a part of identity politics, pushed largely by the left. Whoa! You switched terms, there; "liberal" is just a different flavor of right-wing. Joe Biden does not have a single left-wing bone in his body. Identity politics are absolutely incompatible with left-wing philosophy.
/r/MensRights24/09/23 03:41 PM
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OK, so here's the problem: Left and Right are economic descriptors, not social ones, and to that extent, neither MRA nor feminism are directly related to economic policy. HOWEVER!! Left-wing philosophy concerns itself with class-based conflicts, which sex/gender issues can certainly be construed as, but the point is to ameliorate them rather than exacerbate the problems, which is where certain MRA and feminist individuals and groups can be problematic. Right-wing philosophy, on the other hand, d…
/r/MensRights24/09/23 03:39 PM
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bsl.2477
/r/MensRights23/09/23 07:49 PM
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Except that mental health is not a factor in sentencing guidelines, only as a mitigating factor in guilt; sex is a factor, and by the guidelines, females get 40% shorter sentences than men, and get early parole more often. This is every bit as institutional as racism, which is also a factor.
/r/MensRights23/09/23 07:01 PM
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What are most likely situations in which men gets killed, and why? Edit: I mean as a victim of HOMICIDE, if that's not obvious. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/expanded-homicide So, right off the bat, we are facing the fundamental problem that men are valued so little that a solid half of murders are never solved, so we have no idea what the circumstances were. Dealing with what we know, only 20% of murders are committed by a stranger to the victim, w…
/r/MensRights23/09/23 02:31 PM
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Misandry starts wars and gets men maimed and killed. Misandry puts men in prison, and makes prison harsher, getting men raped and tortured. I mean, this list could go on...
/r/MensRights22/09/23 07:38 PM
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so you just agreed to pay 75% of your income out-of-court and rolled with it? What? No, what are you talking about? Tennessee does not use judges for child support court; it runs through a private corporation which appoints its own magistrates and takes a percentage of all child support collected. I was not allowed to have a lawyer, and generally I was not allowed to even speak, at any point. I was also not allowed to petition the magistrate until I had completed the administrative process throu…
/r/PurplePillDebate21/09/23 02:58 PM
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The figure is 85% of CONTESTED custody cases go to the mother.
/r/MensRights21/09/23 02:31 PM
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If a judge used "imputed income" to calculate your income, that typically means you were either lying about your income or non cooperative with financial discovery (either on purpose or because you have a shit lawyer/accountant or don't do your taxes). Ha! They never bothered to ask. That said, it's possible you got a shit judge and a shit lawyer - it's Tennessee, after all. But that's more of a problem with the Tennessee courts than the institution of divorce. Judge? Lawyer? This is Tennessee..…
/r/PurplePillDebate21/09/23 02:25 PM
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We call this, "Pulling an Alex Salmond," on him.
/r/MensRights20/09/23 11:00 PM
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I don't think so. It shouldn't be that easy to hoodwink a woman into giving birth and then say 'see you later'. Let's not be greedy. But it should be easy for a woman to do that to a man? Why is that greedy for a man but not a woman? doesn't Safe Haven apply equally to both parents? No, only the mother.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/09/23 08:32 PM
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With the exception of abortion, fathers have this rights. No, we don't; I can't elect to give up a child for adoption without the mother's consent, but she can do so without mine. I have heard of fathers receiving child support, but I never got any for the two I had custody of. And Safe Haven laws do not apply to men, at all.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/09/23 07:43 PM
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The only time Tennessee does imputed income is when someone can’t present real reliable proof of income or when someone is unemployed or underemployed voluntarily. Yea, that, "underemployed voluntarily," does a lot of lifting; the child support corporation gets to determine what that means.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/09/23 05:24 PM
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the wage gap is a societal issue And family rights are not? The wage gap exists in every industry but it’s important to note that there are less women in physical jobs so that’s a representation gap rather than a wage gap. ...and jobs that require physical labor generally pay more than those that do not, e.g. coal miner vs day care worker. Do you know of a man who was lied to about birth control? Other than myself, twice? Yes, several. I do not know any men who sabotaged birth control to get a w…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/09/23 05:22 PM
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Looking at the data collected in the study I see for 50/50 custody - red states are 22%, blue 40%, and purple/swing states are 59%? Um, which election are you using to determine which are red and which are blue? Because my results were a little different. I can only guess it’s due to red states being more conservative/religious and more likely to think women should take care of the children. Huh? The conservative view was that the father should get custody of children in a divorce basically ever…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/09/23 04:50 PM
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They required you to pay child support but you were entitled to no custody. Yeah, there's something you're leaving out here, bud. We weren't married, I had no parental rights, at all. n the worst case scenario where the mother has sole custody of 2 kids, makes no money, and you make minimum wage working two full-time jobs, child support is 34% of your income. Right; they used the formula, just made up numbers to plug in. Please look up "Imputed Income." But of course in your totally real situati…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/09/23 04:47 PM
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Men don’t have options because they fundamentally don’t control reproduction. Trying to “make it fair” is impossible because it’s just not comparable. ...OK, so men are just on average bigger and stronger, and can do more work to make more money, so trying to make the pay gap fair is impossible? you rarely hear that men paying child support were lied to about birth control. Only if you don't listen.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/09/23 04:45 PM
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When dads fight for more custody, they get it 92% of the time. When they just ask for more custody, they get it 79% of the time. Ooooh, right, sure, that helps. In my state, I didn't have standing to ASK for custody in the first place. What state is this? Tennessee, they use imputed income and still don't follow the formula, though.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/09/23 02:29 PM
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It's not in the law, officially; it's a trick they use called, "imputed income." I.e. They make up a random number that you SHOULD be able to make, and base child support on that. It didn't help that I had a nice, cushy government job that I got chased out of by false allegations from the same woman, and couldn't get anything similar afterward, but my imputed income was still about 50% more than my government salary had been.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/09/23 02:28 PM
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Apples and oranges THAT IS EXACTLY THE PROBLEM THIS IS INTENDED TO ADDRESS! The whole point is that mothers have far more options than fathers do; abortion, adoption, keep the child and milk the father for child support, or just drop the child off at any police, fire, or EMT station and walk away. This solution is to give fathers the same legal right to give up responsibility for the child, balancing the scales. Note that part of the motivation is to help prevent women from "trapping" men by int…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/09/23 02:23 PM
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It’s definitely moving that way. It also depends on what state though. Red states are less likely to give 50/50 which makes sense as they are typically more conservative. How does that make sense? And if you look at a map of the situation, it doesn't fall out that way. I don’t think the noncustodial parent should be left in the poor house. I can only go by my state which I know is the 5% because my brother went through it and a few single parents I know. The percentage is irrelevant, it's how ba…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/09/23 02:19 PM
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Shouldn't it be the same as the time limit for Safe Haven laws for women to give up their children?
/r/PurplePillDebate20/09/23 01:35 PM
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When fathers actually want half custody they get it. Um, no. We’ve been moving away from deference to the mother and trying to get 50/50 for quite some time now. Trying, yes, but NOW and most other "women's groups" strenuously oppose default 50/50 laws. Also I’m baffled by the notion that child support is letting single mothers live the high life. Most men are not basketball players or a celebrity. In my state for 1 child it’s 5% of your paycheck ...wow! In my state, it's whatever the magistrate…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/09/23 01:34 PM
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Custodial parents pay the majority of the costs to support a child. Say what?! Who and where is this?
/r/PurplePillDebate20/09/23 01:32 PM
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We know that the standard argument against paper abortion is what's best for the child It is? I've never gotten that as a response; it's usually about shifting all responsibility and agency onto the man, as some kind of karmic balance for women being the ones who actually get pregnant.
/r/MensRights20/09/23 01:26 PM
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The last woman who pepper sprayed me got tossed off a walking bridge into a creek. What self-defense weapons are legal in your country? If you can, get a telescoping baton, and don't take that crap.
/r/MensRights19/09/23 02:20 PM
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What's the country gonna do when there's an invasion and they need more people? Just lay down and let the takeover happen? No, the draft will just be reinstated. The US has never needed conscription for national defense, only for offensive actions. Indeed, the main reason we didn't enter WWI earlier was because we have an armed citizenry, and Mexico was unwilling to ally with Germany and attack us because of that. If citizens are armed, you don't need a conscript army.
/r/PurplePillDebate18/09/23 02:27 PM
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Funny, I wasn't allowed to register for college until I registered for the draft...
/r/PurplePillDebate18/09/23 02:25 PM
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People like to wallow in self-pity.
/r/MensRights17/09/23 01:47 AM
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First and foremost, it is a divisive issue that distracts from unpopular actions the Establishment wishes to engage in, but doesn't want to debate publicly: "Look how much we love women and our opponents hate women! Never mind that we both agree on endless wars, serving corporate interests to the detriment of the middle and working classes, crushing dissent from both the left and right, restricting civil liberties (just conveniently different ones, right?), and generally turning our once proud a…
/r/MensRights16/09/23 09:19 PM
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Hence my joke that I am a, "Volcel;" I could go out and pick up women, I just can't be bothered with all the hassle that comes along with it :p
/r/MensRights16/09/23 09:10 PM
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INvoluntary CELibate. I.e. "Guys who can't get any."
/r/MensRights16/09/23 08:28 PM
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7/10 6'3", 250lb, I could lose 20 of those, but I carry it well with a lot of muscle, look 20 years younger than I am, have blond hair, blue eyes, a decent face, good facial hair which goes from a goatee to a full beard depending on the season. I did have women throwing themselves at me when I was younger (and skinnier), and I get some attention, even now, but I'm less interested (and busier!).
/r/PurplePillDebate16/09/23 01:22 AM
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Except that all of his problems are the result of his own "non-toxic" attitudes: -He was the "nice guy" with his wife, who needed a stronger, more assertive personality in her spouse. -He accepted a job that he was clearly unqualified for out of misplaced optimism, never once suspecting the ulterior motive of his employer. -His "hands-off" approach to coaching leads to a worse problem with bullying and, arguably, his star player being transferred out from under him. -And even the ultimate "win" …
/r/MensRights15/09/23 10:45 PM
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No. Now, quick Devil's Advocate: Different things are important to different people, right? Men can be Catholic priests and women can't; that's only important to a small group of people, though.
/r/MensRights15/09/23 04:02 PM
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I mean, we can pee standing up and reach the top shelf easier? I guess I am saying that there are things, but not a lot of them are important.
/r/MensRights15/09/23 03:50 PM
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The orgasm gap I mean, guys can only get off a few times, there's just no way to catch up...
/r/PurplePillDebate15/09/23 01:46 PM
2

Has anyone else watched Ted Lasso? I think that was the intention of that show, to give an example of what "healthy masculinity" is supposed to look like: He is upbeat, mild-mannered, self-effacing, and very agreeable. But even in a fictional narrative, the outcomes are clear: -His wife resents him -His employer (a woman) abuses him -His best friend pities him -His protege betrays him -His peers mock him ...and while everyone around him gets everything they want out of him, he winds up alone, mi…
/r/MensRights15/09/23 01:40 PM
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Well, that is certainly how the law views it... It is surprising to see a supposedly feminist magazine work so hard against female agency, though.
/r/MensRights15/09/23 01:17 PM
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I’m dirty on the fact that all left wing political movements have basically been taken over by feminism.... In Australia the Labor Party OK, hold on; that political parties change which special interests they are most beholden to is not a new phenomenon. But the fact remains that they have to sell out the left to pander to the feminists, every single time. Is the right doing any better about not pandering to women? Not really, they just do it differently, i.e. the tradcon route.
/r/MensRights15/09/23 02:37 AM
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More things are named after men than women :p
/r/MensRights15/09/23 02:25 AM
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in that time and place everywhere in the Ancient World Let me know when you want to discuss something that I actually said.
/r/MensRights14/09/23 06:04 PM
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Literally nobody interprets this as only gay men are sinners whilst lesbians walk scot-free That was actually how it was interpreted for most of the last 2000 years, e.g. medieval European laws against homosexuality specifically exempted women, for the precise reason that they weren't mentioned in those passages. As for the murder take, remember that verse 22 says '[if] there is no harm' then it is only a fine. If the baby is born deformed or dies (as a result of being murdered), then that's obv…
/r/MensRights14/09/23 03:04 PM
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they took those women as sex slaves Um, what were they before? That's kind of how women were treated, by everyone, in that time and place.
/r/MensRights14/09/23 02:43 PM
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left wing political movements who’ve either swallowed feminism hook line and sinker, or who’ve just been taken over by feminism and it’s daughter ideologies (identity politics) Do you have us confused with Democrats or something? Somehow “left wing” has been transformed to mean “feminism”, which means they write off anyone who opposes feminist as “right wing” by definition. Then why are the vast majority of people in the Men's Rights Movement left-wing? Because the difference is that the right w…
/r/MensRights14/09/23 02:42 PM
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Well, thanks for giving me a reasonable argument instead of just insults /s
/r/MensRights13/09/23 07:43 PM
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There are women who literally call themselves Marxist Feminists And people who call themselves anarcho-capitalists, but it's still a contradiction in terms. Do you think that the only way to support men's rights is to oppress women? Now you're just pulling the classic Feminist tactic "If you don't agree with me, you're a misogynist" No, I am using your own logic against you; if feminism is on the left and is biased against men, you are on the right and must be biased against women, because that'…
/r/MensRights13/09/23 07:43 PM
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toH bup Dep loS lIch!
/r/MensRights13/09/23 04:55 PM
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Feminism and Marxism have been synonymous since the early 1960s. Only by reactionary conservatives trying to conflate them; feminists have done nothing for the left, and the left views them as a divisive distraction. feminism is the freaking POSTER CHILD of extremist hard left ideology. And that should be a warning sign! Yes, the people who oppose both like to lump them together, even though neither group wants anything to do with the other! I get that you can't take the cognitive dissonance of …
/r/MensRights13/09/23 04:47 PM
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the left wing is any better with its Feminist Feminism is right-wing, not left-wing; please look up the terms.
/r/MensRights13/09/23 04:44 PM
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The fundamental philosophy behind left-wing politics is the dismantling of class structures; social class, labor class, racial class, and yes, even sexual class. Feminism, by definition, only works for the benefit of women, which as a class-based structure, is incompatible with the left. Or, why has feminism ALWAYS been a movement of the wealthy elite? It wasn't 19th century coal-miners' daughters saying, "I hope I can grow up and work in the mines like Daddy does when I grow up;" for one thing,…
/r/MensRights13/09/23 04:18 PM
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If you ever run into anyone from the old forums, you can tell them that you spoke to SST, Paul and I had it out more than once :)
/r/MensRights13/09/23 02:50 PM
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Fuck! (sorry, not your fault) This was supposed to have been stickied here, years ago. He got caught using the MRM as a wedge for right-wing, reactionary politics, with some rural New England religious whack-a-doodle GOP state senator or something backing him, which is why AVFM changed hands (and no longer has forums...). I guess we are going to have to dig up the skeletons buried in our closets, again.
/r/MensRights13/09/23 02:39 PM
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God dammit, will this right-wing tool please go away and quit besmirching our movement?!
/r/MensRights13/09/23 01:20 PM
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Of course, it was a somewhat shallow dive into the community, but then again, she was focusing on the issues and the struggle, so that is a very limited criticism. I wish we could scrub Paul Elam from everything he ever had to do with the movement, though.
/r/MensRights13/09/23 01:18 PM
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They were saying things like forced marriage, laws about female sexuality, not allowing abortion is misogynistic but this all happens to men too?! Oh, irony; yes, men could be forced into marriage, male sexuality was far more constrained (not a word about lesbianism in the bible), and, if anything, abortion is pretty clearly allowed as causing a miscarriage is explicitly not murder (Exodus 21:22-25). Do you guys have other examples of discrimination against men in religion? Well, there are all t…
/r/MensRights13/09/23 01:06 PM
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No. Feminism is incompatible with left-wing philosophy, fundamentally.
/r/MensRights12/09/23 11:58 PM
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Wow, that's even worse. No, leftism has nothing to do with social change, except inasmuch as it effects political and economic change. Liberals don't want change, at all, they just want to appeal to White Guilt while they keep the same crooked game going.
/r/MensRights12/09/23 11:58 PM
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Please stop conflating "left" with "liberal" or "progressive," they are not the same thing.
/r/MensRights12/09/23 08:24 PM
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WTF are you talking about, dude? I have looked in 3 different places, and the closest you get is the one about blocking people in the middle of a debate, but it specifically notes that what I am doing is OK!
/r/PurplePillDebate07/09/23 04:04 PM
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(5) No Woe is Me Posting ?
/r/PurplePillDebate07/09/23 03:35 PM
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Where is that rule? I can't find it on the list. Ms. Degree I have her blocked :p
/r/PurplePillDebate07/09/23 03:12 PM
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Which rules are those?
/r/PurplePillDebate07/09/23 03:02 PM
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This is just observational bias at work. Do many people act like this? Sure! We have a name for them, though: Scumbags. That they seem to be the norm is simply by virtue of the fact that their behavior gets noticed, while people who do not act like that do not get noticed. Basically, what you've got there is a list of red flags.
/r/PurplePillDebate07/09/23 01:18 PM
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"Block user," is helpful for this :)
/r/PurplePillDebate07/09/23 01:14 PM
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This is kind of extreme. Right, that's what I am saying.
/r/PurplePillDebate06/09/23 06:16 PM
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OK, hold on a second: My phone number is on the Do Not Call registry; if you cold call me, you are (theoretically) liable for up to a $10,000 fine, and if you didn't bother to check, my attitude should be the least of your concerns. The "men hitting on women" equivalent of this is the man breaking into the woman's house to proposition her!
/r/PurplePillDebate06/09/23 02:26 PM
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Of course, this would realistically never happen, but what if it did? I mean, it does happen, sometimes.
/r/PurplePillDebate06/09/23 01:54 PM
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I mean, I agree, but the first lesson you learn in polyamory is: "You are responsible for your own orgasm." If you aren't getting off, say something, do something, whatever needs to happen; if you are just lying there and then complaining about it, that's your own fault.
/r/PurplePillDebate03/09/23 08:51 PM
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That's not limited to men.... :p
/r/PurplePillDebate03/09/23 02:54 PM
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I think that is a short-term view; a post-scarcity society would annihilate the corporate model, and you are already starting to see that on a smaller scale (e.g. firearms, automotive performance, tool organizers and accessories, and probably tools themselves, soon).
/r/MensRights03/09/23 02:54 PM
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What kind of partner do you want? And what kind of person do you need to be in order for that kind of person to want to be your partner? This is one of those subtleties about truly maturing: You need to focus on yourself, some or even a lot of the time, especially when you are young, not to the neglect of your relationships with others, but to the extent that you need to be able to fulfill your role in those relationships.
/r/PurplePillDebate03/09/23 02:42 PM
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Virtually every community has its share of regressives. Not sure why on earth you chose LGBT for your example Because as the exemplar of progressivism, they have just as many regressives as any other community. or singled out "me" as "wanting to be different"? Because you were the one separating yourself from the "tradcons." Understand, I consider that entire mode of thought to be inherently problematic. I just realized that you might have inferred that I was grouping you with the LGBT community…
/r/MensRights03/09/23 02:30 PM
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The people of today are not the people of 100 years ago In some ways, yes, but other ways, less than ever; the LGBT community is no less acquisitive, authoritarian, or intolerant than the "tradcons" you want to be different from. I don't think you can decouple these things from the economy while the rich enjoy getting richer without consequence. Lots of places have managed it; we'll see if they can hang on, but predictably, their systems are now giving better results than ours, which might final…
/r/MensRights03/09/23 02:03 PM
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the problem is Capitalism. You know, as a pretty hard left-winger, I hate putting it that way. Capitalism was a HUGE improvement over Mercantalism, and was the wedge that broke open the social order to allow liberal democracies to come about and flourish. And even Adam Smith saw the problems with the system and predicted many of the negative results that could and have come about as a consequence, but then, he was more focused on the fact that he saw, within his lifetime, a "traditional" mode of…
/r/MensRights03/09/23 01:43 PM
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It's the ADHD medication being used on kids who don't have ADHD. I feel like the 90s was all about parents being drugged up and not paying attention to their kids. Now it's parents drugging up their kids so they don't have to pay attention to them. No, this was starting back in the 90s, it's just becoming widespread.
/r/MensRights03/09/23 01:35 PM
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Feels like the ppl in control just get more and more stupid each generation. I saw this in my own family: My great-grandfather build a hundred-million-dollar distribution business back in the 50s, with locations in 4 states and protected regions for two major brands. Grandad was a drunk who had brain damage from cirrhosis by the time he was 50. My father and uncles were spoiled brats who pissed away millions of dollars on the most ridiculous nonsense (horse farms, Las Vegas property development,…
/r/MensRights03/09/23 12:51 PM
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No, it only affects what kind of woman you wind up dating.
/r/PurplePillDebate03/09/23 12:39 PM
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We have sacrificed the integrity of our educational and healthcare systems in the relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits, and our children see no reason to contribute to a society which has nothing to offer them.
/r/MensRights03/09/23 02:16 AM
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I have, yes.
/r/PurplePillDebate02/09/23 07:50 PM
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Middle-aged male, here: -Police, for completely different reasons. -Low-end jobs; not that I'm a snob, but at my age, if you are neither able nor willing to find a "real" job, we are not going to be compatible. -"None;" I'm not looking for a housewife, my kids are grown and I'm not much interested in anyone else's so single mothers are out, in general (for other reasons, as well), and I grew up with the trust fund set and would rather nosedive into a swimming pool full of cheese graters than spe…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/09/23 06:06 PM
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I think the problem is that there is a difference between what we are saying and what they are hearing. What we say: "The patriarchy isn't real, most men are more oppressed than women!" What feminists hear: "Women are oppressing men!" What we mean: "A small group of people that happens to be mostly men holds an inordinate amount of power over the rest of us, and happens to treat other men worse than they do women." I like to use the, "Bill Gates and 10 bums in an elevator," analogy; on average, …
/r/MensRights02/09/23 04:18 PM
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This is the guy whose career consisted of homoerotic fantasies appealing to the basest motives of the human psyche? That's what mythology is about: These are not stories that we are supposed to imitate, but cautionary tales about human failings. "The dialectic of the homily is predicated upon a ground of evil." The biggest problem with religion is that it long ago lost touch with its subject matter.
/r/MensRights01/09/23 11:25 PM
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I mean, isn't it enough that they exploit sweatshop labor and overcharge for mediocre quality footwear?
/r/MensRights01/09/23 07:36 PM
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men after 35 This is not strictly true, as women often tend towards attraction to older men, and many men (myself, for example) don't actually start looking even fully adult until 40ish. I'm 46, regularly get mistaken for a college student, and my most common workplace nickname is still, "The Kid," often from people half my age. Note that this has been disastrous for my career advancement.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/09/23 04:31 PM
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with no money, no future, no woman, certainly no family or kids, wasting away all your time watching mindless entertainment, while everyone else your age is making a name for themselves. And it will only get worse as you age. Money is only as hard to get as your ambition and ethics allow, and has nothing to do with the rest. "Future?" No one here gets out alive. I had a family; I divorced my wife and my kids grew up, and even if we had stayed together, one of us would probably have outlived the …
/r/PurplePillDebate01/09/23 04:28 PM
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While these are not completely separate, Red Pill has a political/philosophical component that is extremely polarizing (justifiably or not), and that is not something that we want dividing people over the MRM. RP/BP is more about the nature of the roles that we play out in society and how they interact, while the MRM is about fair and just treatment of everyone involved, however else you may feel about gender roles and expectations. IMHO, the MRM should look at RP and the Trans movement in a sim…
/r/MensRights01/09/23 03:43 PM
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99% of people just so happen to think Gal Gadot is attractive. Yea... and I'm not one of them! Christina Ricci, on the other hand...
/r/PurplePillDebate30/08/23 06:13 PM
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Different people just have different standards; a lot of women considered extremely beautiful I think are butt-ugly, and my personal beauty standard is regarded as rather plain by popular standards. I think ugly is more consistent.
/r/PurplePillDebate30/08/23 04:46 PM
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looking at a girl then starting to want her badly until one she either is not into me or is into me and I loose feelings 93% of the time. Forbidden fruit is always sweeter; what is happening is that you are finding that your physical attraction is not complemented in some other way.
/r/MensRights30/08/23 04:20 PM
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I think it is because, while another man might be more of a threat, he might also be an ally, a trader, a source of information or knowledge... A woman meeting a strange woman is meeting a competitor, in almost all cases, unless it's a wedding, in which case there is jealousy and resentment.
/r/MensRights29/08/23 07:45 PM
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"The chase is more fun than the dinner."
/r/PurplePillDebate29/08/23 04:24 PM
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They didn't; they supplanted it.
/r/MensRights29/08/23 03:35 AM
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No, it is an intentional strategy employed to divide us.
/r/MensRights28/08/23 01:54 PM
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It gets to be a viscous cycle where the couples’ mutual enjoyment comes to a standstill because neither will elevate until they see the other do so. Right, which is where the whole, "aggressive male," comes into play, because communication is usually so poor that neither partner actually understands what is happening.
/r/PurplePillDebate27/08/23 05:14 PM
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Who would you choose? Now I’m sure since this is ppd you’re going to claim that you don’t care about her money, but reality and stats show that men choose the one with money. That's not about the money, it's about the personality; I would choose a working woman who doesn't make much over a stuck-up trust-fund baby every day of the week. Money is a necessity in our society, it’s just how it is. Sure, but HOW YOU GO ABOUT GETTING THE THINGS YOU NEED IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF MORALITY!
/r/PurplePillDebate27/08/23 04:49 PM
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DISCLAIMER: yes yes this would never happen to you It has, actually (several different reasons, in fact, including simple sexual exhaustion), and yes, I will "go through the motions," although I wouldn't put it that way. Sex, to me, has always been largely vicarious; much of the pleasure I receive from it is directly about the pleasure my partner is feeling, and so even if I am not "involved" in the same way, I am generally happy to help out.
/r/PurplePillDebate27/08/23 03:10 PM
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Women like grown men with money. Nothing immoral there. OK, I thought you were crazy in the OP, but this just takes the fucking cake; if manipulating a person emotionally for access to their material wealth, that they would not have given you otherwise, is not immoral, what the fuck is?!
/r/PurplePillDebate27/08/23 03:02 PM
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So, we are supposed to apologize for biology, now? Thank you for expressing rank misandry, I guess, so we can at least address it. Yes, mean of all ages tend to be attracted to teenage women; that is the point when biology says that they are at their peak health and fertility. Note that as a 46-year-old man, the last thing I want to do is spend any time with a teenage girl, for any reason. Here's the problem: I would never leave a young women alone with a man AT WHAT POINT DID BEING ATTRACTED TO…
/r/PurplePillDebate27/08/23 03:00 PM
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I generalize all feminists as misandrists... left-wing feminists This is contradictory, and exactly why feminism is not left-wing; it can't be. The fundamental basis of left-wing thought, at least since Marx, is that societal ills trace largely to class conflict (often intentionally exploited by the right), and the solution is to eliminate the distinctions as much as possible. Any kind of "Identity Politics," whether it be feminism or black nationalism or Christian Dominionist, is fundamentally …
/r/MensRights27/08/23 02:45 PM
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RUN! RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN! That is called, "Splitting," alternating idealization and devaluation of others, a manifestation of Borderline Personality Disorder, sometimes called Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, which is most often characterized by intense but unstable interpersonal relationships, strong emotional reactions (particularly anger and fear), and a distorted sense of self, often resulting in self-destructive behavior (substance abuse, unsafe sex, criminal activity, sui…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/08/23 04:55 PM
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I think that this is the sort of situation where the ability to moralize simply fails; there is no good answer to the problem, and all you can do is sympathize with both parties.
/r/MensRights25/08/23 04:35 PM
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Because as someone who is trans and bisexual, and who frequents LGBT spaces a lot, there is usually a generally negative misconception in those places about the Men's Rights community. I'm not saying that everyone in those spaces believes in those harmful misconceptions and false information, but those in places, there is a lot. OK, but that's about those other spaces, not the actual men's rights spaces! I'm not exactly sure why? But especially in my talks and discussions in said places, a lot o…
/r/MensRights25/08/23 03:07 PM
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You are an alpha "To the extent such a thing is real." claiming alphas dont exist No, I am claiming that the actuality of the situation is quite different from the idea which has become popularized. and would run away from a fight. No, I said that I wouldn't walk down that alley, because I'm not letting social pressure like thinking of yourself as special and better than everyone else push me into rash action. If someone insists on fighting, I'm happy to oblige, but I don't go looking, I try to …
/r/PurplePillDebate25/08/23 01:28 PM
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there's generally less LGBTQ folks here. Than where? And are there? How would you know?
/r/MensRights25/08/23 01:49 AM
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How do you feel about men who don't care about masculinity and instead just prefer to do what makes them happy, and don't give a fuck about if people perceive them as feminine or not? Good for them! And do you believe men should be stoic, strong, protective When they need to be, yes, but so do women. I've noticed a lot of people online (Not in this subreddit, but sometimes in men's spaces) "Men's spaces," is kind of a loaded term, isn't it? What does that mean, exactly? Since a lot of folks on t…
/r/MensRights25/08/23 01:36 AM
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I havent been jumped by a gang I have. Maybe I would chicken out but I dont claim to be an alpha also I do, but I still know better than to go down that alley!
/r/PurplePillDebate24/08/23 11:22 PM
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In this fight scenario I would imagine alpha giving a good fight even if the mass would eventually beat him. Heh, "tell me you've never been in a real fight without telling me you have never been in a real fight."
/r/PurplePillDebate24/08/23 06:52 PM
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Uh-huh, and what happens during the lab projects in Chemistry class? What happens when he walks down the wrong alley and gets jumped? What happens when one of his shortcomings (which everyone has) comes to the fore? He steps back and follows someone else. Again, leadership roles vary and change by season and activity, and you see that reflected in human hunter-gatherer and nomadic societies. It only seems to become an absolute thing in settled groups. I would suggest Graeber's The Dawn of Everyt…
/r/PurplePillDebate24/08/23 03:42 PM
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OK, it goes back to an old (now repudiated) theory about how wolf packs worked, i.e. with an "Alpha" male and female who were the "leaders" that kept the rest of the pack in line. Modern research has shown that packs are more like extended families, usually with a mated pair, some of their children (those who didn't leave for another pack) and their mates (from other packs), and that "leadership" roles vary and change by season and activity.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/08/23 02:25 PM
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A broader perspective is usually better...
/r/PurplePillDebate23/08/23 07:06 PM
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It's their choice, of course. That being said, as a parent, I have found that people who have not raised children simply do not have the same perspective on the world.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/08/23 05:11 PM
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Gen X, thank you very much!
/r/PurplePillDebate23/08/23 04:27 PM
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LMAO, you are a woman, aren't you? "Open up, tell me your feelings!" then "Shut up, I don't want to hear this, I'm not your therapist!" ...then wonders why men don't open up!
/r/PurplePillDebate23/08/23 02:28 PM
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Speak for yourself. I'm 45... Ur part of the issue on why men dont open up today lol. I have posted this before, my eulogy for my father: "I didn't realize how much my father meant. Beyond simply my earliest role model and the complications of father-son relationships in general, he was my intellectual and ethical foundation; the touchstone of all that is right and true in a world of chaos and deceit. I loved him. I always hoped and feared that once he was gone I would be free; unfettered agains…
/r/PurplePillDebate23/08/23 02:04 PM
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My high school girlfriend married her other high school boyfriend (another engineer, but he went to a better school), and left him a couple of years ago; they moved to another state, and I haven't heard from her in a couple of years, but I hope she is doing well. My ex-wife is working as a cook at a tourist attraction inside a mountain, and lives with her boyfriend who is a repair technician for a chain of pawn shops. They do OK, but she is still crazy. My daughter's mother married a landscaping…
/r/PurplePillDebate23/08/23 01:46 PM
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OK, let's talk. Right off the bat, I feel much the same way; I am a middle-aged man (45), who has dated younger women, and it didn't work for me, at all. As you say, maturity level, and especially trying to date women who don't really remember the 20th century, I find that they simply are not as engaged with the world (I blame being raised by the Internet). Now, what is the attraction? Well, men, especially during adolescence or just after, seem to take a little longer to mature than women, and …
/r/PurplePillDebate23/08/23 01:38 PM
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It's not my cup of tea, but if it works for them, more power to them!
/r/PurplePillDebate23/08/23 12:08 AM
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I mean, right off the bat, what is considered "girly" is different in different times and places; pink used to be a boy's color, and blue was for girls. Cosmetics, jewelry, even clothing styles have gone either or both ways in different places.
/r/MensRights22/08/23 09:15 PM
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she would only target the top 30% of men I.e. the ones who already have their pick of women, most of whom are younger, yea, that's going to make it tough.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/08/23 06:42 PM
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Arranged marriages?
/r/PurplePillDebate22/08/23 01:39 PM
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As a physicist, I'm not impressed with her level of scientific understanding, either.
/r/MensRights21/08/23 07:07 PM
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Ha! No.
/r/PurplePillDebate21/08/23 04:57 PM
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I live in the South, we're mostly Scots-Irish, which means half-Scandinavian, so lots of redheads and light eye colors. I actually have central heterochromia; the outer ring of my eyes is blue, but the inner part is yellow (or amber, I guess, but it's even brighter than in that picture), so in bright light when my pupils contract, my eyes look green (blue + yellow).
/r/PurplePillDebate20/08/23 11:52 PM
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OK, it looks like, "amber," is the official name, but yea, like this: https://www.pouted.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Amber.jpg
/r/PurplePillDebate20/08/23 11:34 PM
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No, like sunflower yellow, almost gold or orange.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/08/23 07:17 PM
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Regarding the last question I’m assuming you want someone who leans the same way politically but would it bother you if they didn’t care about politics? I mean, it would suggest a level of detachment that I would find concerning, but I understand the attraction. And this is your perfect partner your allowed to be super picky with your answers! Yea, but I'm just not super-picky; even things like hair and eye color... those come from my first junior high girlfriend, my last significant other had d…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/08/23 05:35 PM
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Red Green Do not care On the slender side of medium, some curve to hip and breast, but anything other than super-skinny or obese Don't care Don't care Don't care None would be weird in my age range, but other than that don't care Non-religious or possessing a metaphorical understanding of any religion Het/bi/poly 30-50 (I'm 45) I am left-libertarian-progressive and rebelliously intellectual, so...
/r/PurplePillDebate20/08/23 05:12 PM
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Why are you trusting a women to be on birth control. Well, we were living together and engaged to be married... If you don’t want your life “ruined” but want to engage in raw sex knowing you don’t have a choice - get snipped I did, and have been physically assaulted by women when they found out. Knowing women have an out and men dont - due to being the owner of uterus Oh, so now we're talking about how biological differences impact real life rights and responsibilities? I thought that the entire…
/r/PurplePillDebate19/08/23 09:54 PM
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"Women, if you want birth control or abortion rights, just keep your legs closed!" Screw you! At the end of the day - you are not going through pregnancy therefore it will always be “her body her choice” that’s just reality. Sure, and I am 100% in support of abortion rights and birth control access. Why aren't you in favor of extending the same rights that those technologies gave to women to men? Women can either decide to keep the child or not to. YOU cannot force termination or carrying a chil…
/r/PurplePillDebate19/08/23 09:42 PM
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Over time the expectation of always absorbing and retreating from every attack takes an increasing toll on your mental health. Yes, but the solution is not to stop retreating, it is to stay away from those people.
/r/MensRights18/08/23 10:30 PM
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I appreciate that. It is funny that you would say "keep your chin up". I specifically try to keep mine down. I don't want anyone to feel threatened by me, I am just existing. Or trying. OK, I don't know why I didn't think about it, because I had to work on this myself: Be upbeat, even corny; loud, if you want, but put on a big smile and be just super-friendly. By going around with your head down, you are putting out an air of insecurity, which makes people uncomfortable; you are clearly in want …
/r/MensRights18/08/23 09:14 PM
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I'm a big white guy, I kind of know how you feel. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, when fighting was more "acceptable" I guess? It was just something that happened, now people call the police and it's a big deal. I was in a lot of fights, too, and was married to a woman who thought that hitting me when she was upset was acceptable behavior. But you also know that hitting anyone - men or women - generally didn't accomplish anything but to make you feel better. Instead, view these things as warning s…
/r/MensRights18/08/23 08:50 PM
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For arguments sake let's say the bad boy is Windows, and the nice guy is Mac. No, you're missing the point; those are both the bad boys. Linux is the smart, sane, responsible one. If I had to choose between selling a Windows or a Mac But you don't; there is a better choice... but someone doesn't get rich off of it.
/r/PurplePillDebate18/08/23 02:44 PM
1

That makes no sense at all. Companies go out of business all the time when they don’t supply people with what they want to buy. Really? Do you like Windows or MacOS? They both suck, so why do you use them? Can I force you to buy a Hummer is you don't want one? And yet, GM is still in business, even after making garbage for 50 years. Only way that would be feasible if you have no other alternative. -.- So long as you have options you're going to buy what you actually like and want. ...but you don…
/r/PurplePillDebate18/08/23 02:27 PM
1

Obesity rates have also gone up, and men's taste in female body type varies more than women's taste in male body type.
/r/PurplePillDebate18/08/23 02:00 PM
1

Ah, the really nice thing about the current, disastrous state of the world is that all the old myths are getting blown up. Men adapt to the dating market, they always have. They give the women what they want based on what they respond to, not what they say they think they want. Markets don't work that way, and never have; suppliers don't adapt to the market, they force the market to adapt to what they want to sell.
/r/PurplePillDebate18/08/23 01:31 PM
1

what do you think is easier? Finding the perfect balance between "bad boy" and "nice guy TM," or just being a selfish asshole? Being a selfish asshole is always easier; it's still no excuse. I choose to err the other way, if I am "too nice" for a woman, then she can kiss my ass :)
/r/PurplePillDebate18/08/23 12:55 PM
149

"MGTOW," is, "Men Going Their Own Way," not, "Men Following Some Other A-hole." MFSOA are the ones who should have to explain themselves. MGTOW is not a group, it's not even a philosophy, it's just the position that, "Whatever is happening here and now is not working for me, so I'm going to go do my own thing until it either it changes or I do." I don't even generally use the term as a self-descriptor, despite the fact that it is talking about me; I have grown children, but I have been single fo…
/r/MensRights17/08/23 06:02 PM
6

As with everything else, the answer is about moderation, balance. The same traits defined as "toxic masculinity" are the same traits we all see so many women pursuing, and that is a clue; it's not the traits, themselves, it is about how they express themselves and to what extent. My father was arrogant and on the edge of emotionally abusive, but my mother put up with him for 50 years because he had to back up his arrogance and hold himself to the same standards he applied to others, which was bo…
/r/PurplePillDebate17/08/23 03:34 PM
1

They were large women, which is the only reason I didn't instinctively pick up the one who grabbed me and throw her through the 3rd-floor window. As for revenge... I kept a list, like Arya Stark, for a long time, but I finally let it go. My daughter is 19, now, lives on her own, wants nothing to do with her mother, and is the only one of my children who has come up to help me build my new shop. She saved up and bought her own old beater pickup truck, like mine, because that's what she learned to…
/r/MensRights16/08/23 01:30 PM
25

Here's what the cop who tried to frame me for a felony (and only cost me a month in jail, 10 grand, and my job) said: "Well, you're guilty of something, so take this as a warning!"
/r/MensRights16/08/23 12:29 PM
13

Yeah, I don't get the appeal of eating healthy to live like 90 years... It's so you don't feel like you are 90 when you are 60.
/r/PurplePillDebate15/08/23 05:57 PM
2

As I said at the beginning: If I had to go through it again, people would die.
/r/MensRights15/08/23 05:46 PM
17

When the child turns 18, the support has to end. ...unless they go to college, which can extend it to 22, at least in my state.
/r/MensRights14/08/23 05:39 PM
96

I spent 18 years in that hell; I wanted more children, but wound up getting a vasectomy, because I would have killed myself and/or other people if I had to go through it again. At age 27, I had a good job and custody of two of my children from a previous marriage, but the child support corporation (just call it CSC to stay out of trouble) refused to acknowledge them and based my child support on the third child as if she were my only child (and the magistrate told me, to my face, that their moth…
/r/MensRights14/08/23 03:12 PM
-12

First of all, this is such a small thing that I don't even worry about it; I always offer to pay, at least while dating, and consider it a plus if she offers to go Dutch. Once in a relationship, especially cohabitating, a budget and reasonable expectations must be set. That being said, I don't put up with any other "shit tests," and may express a preference for some female-normative behavior from her (e.g. "I really like women in skirts or dresses").
/r/MensRights12/08/23 03:55 PM
2

Oh my god, just go look at before and after glamour shots, it's unbelievable what makeup and clothes can do for a woman. Makeup on men, at least to any actually noticeable degree, is reserved for Johnny Depp and Russell Brand, who don't really need the help. Clothes do help men, significantly, but as much as a status symbol as anything else.
/r/PurplePillDebate12/08/23 02:56 PM
23

It is mostly accepted that, in ideal conditions, sex is better than masturbation and porn. Sure. The problem is that under less than ideal conditions, it is far, far worse.
/r/PurplePillDebate10/08/23 01:59 PM
3

Damn, man, it was 2 years ago, and I have no idea where I saw it; you can google it as easily as I can, but it was one of the melancholic impy nightmare bitches like Jessica Valenti.
/r/MensRights10/08/23 03:38 AM
19

In the first year of the pandemic, there was a shift where a slightly higher proportion of women were dying on the job, and there was a huge outcry about it... until it turned out that it was only a drop in the TOTAL number of people dying on the job, which just happened to involve more men.
/r/MensRights10/08/23 12:16 AM
5

Yea, I was trying to go passive-aggressive :)
/r/MensRights10/08/23 12:09 AM
16

How about, "Boys don't need constant validation?"
/r/MensRights09/08/23 11:56 PM
13

I couldn't agree less. I was extremely successful, relationship-wise, in my teens and 20s, but that fell off abruptly as real life responsibilities took up my time and wore out my patience. I don't really date, at all, anymore, preferring looser relationships. My career was a disaster, though, until I reinvented myself about 40, and now I am doing quite well. A lot of this had to do with appearance, though; I looked like I was 19 until I was about 35, and I still get mistaken for 30ish in my lat…
/r/PurplePillDebate09/08/23 05:10 PM
3

That's why I only date lesbians...
/r/MensRights08/08/23 07:21 PM
4

The majority of men I know that are above 6'1 go almost exclusively for short women. I'm 6'3", and here's where you have it backwards: Women choose men, men don't choose women; I don't "go" for anyone, short women have gone for me. Seriously, they are the ones I found literally throwing themselves at me; if you didn't get to me before they did, maybe you should have been quicker! Both tall men and short women fetishise each other and discriminate against tall women and short men. I have dated ta…
/r/PurplePillDebate08/08/23 12:42 PM
8

I didn't care, bc not everyone is going to like me. ...and that's OK! :)
/r/PurplePillDebate05/08/23 09:09 PM
87

From a male perspective, there are a lot of women that I find sexually attractive, but have terrible personalities, or just aren't on my wavelength politically/philosophically/etc. I know that there is a stereotype that men will fuck anything, but I won't, a lot of guys I know won't, and some women I know seem to be willing to be the town bicycle and let anyone have a ride. And vice versa; sure, some men will stick their dick in anything, and some women only care about looks, and... "People are …
/r/PurplePillDebate05/08/23 05:09 PM
2

There is 0 benefit for men to be more emotionally expressive. Women hate it when a man is overemotional. On the contrary, that is what lets them manipulate us, which is why men should not be very emotionally expressive.
/r/PurplePillDebate05/08/23 01:27 PM
83

Speak up when you see it, if you can; sometimes it's the little things that count most :)
/r/MensRights03/08/23 01:51 AM
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Wasn't that Rushdoony guy involved with writing the Fundamentals? No, he wasn't even born at the time; his big claim to fame was Christian Reconstructionism and the christian homeschool movement, although both of those drew heavily from the Fundamentals. Those people are the absolute worst. Yea, that guy wanted to kill all Catholics, for a start.
/r/PurplePillDebate02/08/23 09:36 PM
1

She was not thinking clearly, to state the obvious :) She got better, mostly, later, but we didn't stay together, and my son is in the Navy and divorced, himself, so this has been a few minutes.
/r/MensRights02/08/23 02:44 AM
2

Athena, goddess of war, went into the workshop of Hephaestus seeking new weapons, but having been scorned by his wife, Aphrodite, Hephaestus was overcome with lust at the sight of the virgin deity and was determined to seduce her. Athena, not wishing to give up her maidenhead, fled, but was caught, and in their struggle, his member brushed against her thigh and he spilled his seed on her skin. Disgusted, Athena wiped it off with a scrap of wool, which fell to Gaia, Earth, and impregnated her wit…
/r/MensRights01/08/23 09:26 PM
1

she must've lost her mind & joined a cult No, just partying and drugs.
/r/MensRights01/08/23 07:55 PM
29

Well, that certainly helps with the, "Divide and conquer," strategy they are trying to implement. Of course, from what I see, most younger people are neither liberal nor conservative; I see a lot more genuine left-wing thought out there.
/r/MensRights01/08/23 01:24 AM
2

My wife met these weird people at her dojo, and started going out with them more and more. Eventually, she would disappear for days at a time, then show up in the middle of the night in strange clothes acting as if nothing was wrong and with no explanation for where she had been or what she had been doing, then tried to kill herself when I filed for divorce, broke out of the mental institute they stuck her in, kidnapped our son and lived in a cave for 3 days until they ran out of food, got the c…
/r/MensRights31/07/23 08:44 PM
1

Well, I've always liked redheads...
/r/PurplePillDebate30/07/23 07:59 PM
4

I typed up a big long thing, but it wasn't enough, so I did it again, and it still just wasn't getting the whole message across, so I've gone back to Fundamentals... literally! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fundamentals 90 volumes purporting to be, "a new statement of the fundamentals of Christianity," it was actually a business project created with the singular goal of literally inventing social issues through religious (i.e. non-resolvable) arguments in order to subvert the growing left-wi…
/r/PurplePillDebate30/07/23 01:08 PM
11

45M, I know many wonderful women and have seen many successful relationships; my own parents were happily married for 50 years until my father died. Much of my romantic issues have been my own fault, no way to deny that, but also frequent cases of ships passing in the night. I don't generally blame women, as a group, for anything, and shy away from holding individuals accountable for what are ultimately societal issues being driven by people profiting off of the division.
/r/PurplePillDebate29/07/23 07:35 PM
126

As the cop said who did something similar to me (but on a much smaller scale; couple of weeks in jail, $15,000 in seized property and cash, lawyer's fees, etc, fired from my job and they dragged it out over a year so that a pending felony was on my background check making it impossible to get another job...): "Well, I'm sure you're guilty of something, so take this as a warning." Yea, that'll teach me... /s
/r/MensRights29/07/23 04:12 PM
5

Blue collar male, here, and I can't find a woman to hold an intellectual conversation with; granted, I am a college graduate, but even at university I wasn't impressed with most of the intellects on display. And I am not looking to take advantage of anyone, I just want someone to share experiences with; a partner, not a dependent and not a caretaker.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/07/23 01:07 AM
2

Sure, the plan didn't work, so it must be that sexism is even more ingrained and powerful than they thought, right?! The fact is that Darwinism does work on a social level, just not on an individual level; the welfare mom with 8 kids is beating the CEO with 2.4 children, and the society which properly addresses that problem will succeed over the society that tries to ignore it. This scheme will fail, and it will be ugly and painful to go through, but there is no other way to learn the lesson.
/r/MensRights26/07/23 08:54 PM
1

Making tertiary education a hostile environment for males is how women are going to usurp the decision-making power in the law and politics of the 2030s. If that were going to work, it would have happened by now, but if anything, the reverse is true; women are actually abandoning those positions. All they have done is make sure that the men in power, now, are uneducated fools.
/r/MensRights26/07/23 11:16 AM
1

Useful for what?
/r/MensRights26/07/23 11:01 AM
2

I have a "baby face," i.e. I am 45 years old and still get called, "The Kid." No one takes anything I say seriously. People tend to assume that I have no real responsibilities, and are shocked to discover that I have 3 children, usually after doing something that has cost me a lot of time and/or money, and on one notable occasion, a major promotion. Yea, the waitress always flirts with me; how is that relationship going to go? For a fling, sure, but I'm not a cad, and I simply don't have anythin…
/r/MensRights26/07/23 03:29 AM
1

Funny how you can find nations that skipped the capitalism portion then, Russia went from a monarchy to communism and china went from imperial rule to communism. That's because you think that monarchy/empire are somehow incompatible with capitalism; on the contrary, it is a necessary state of exploitation in order for capitalism to continue to exist. Or, why does the West spend so much time and effort perpetuating such systems?
/r/MensRights25/07/23 10:04 PM
1

I know, it collapsed after all. Why didn't that collapse bring about Marxism? Because Marxism is about the collapse of Capitalism, not a post-feudal totalitarian oligarchy like the USSR. This is about stages of development, "Historical Materialism;" Marx said that Capitalism was a necessary step, just not the last one, and he was not firm in his belief in the system that would replace it, the alternative, apparently, being fascism. The USSR was winning the space race for a while but you yourself…
/r/MensRights25/07/23 02:45 AM
1

Sex is supposed to be a degrading act for a woman and introducing an element of pleasure for a woman is a sign of societal degradation, the crisis of masculinity, the civilisation is about end. ...and the only new thing about that is that it is the man's fault instead of the woman's!
/r/PurplePillDebate24/07/23 09:10 PM
1

The USSR collapsed under it's own weight, we didn't get a Marxist utopia out of that. That wasn't the right system, as I already said. I don't think any country has managed to collapse into such a thing. Cuba has one of the best healthcare systems on Earth, despite the US blockading and sanctioning it for 60 years, now, as well as a strong university system that is free to citizens and subsidizes tuition for students from educationally-deficient countries like the United States. What makes you t…
/r/MensRights24/07/23 08:50 PM
1

Well, only on the issues that are distractions; that way they never have time to get asked about the real issues.
/r/MensRights24/07/23 12:01 AM
3

Oh, no! You’re stuck in a box let’s put you in another box Exactly; you can be on one side or another, but you aren't allowed to look for compromises or middle ground.
/r/MensRights23/07/23 11:44 PM
-1

Meh, he is kind of like Ayn Rand; he makes sense up to a point, then comes to some bizarre conclusion out of nowhere, and changes the subject when asked to explain. Bear in mind that I have fundamental doubts about the legitimacy of his academic discipline, in the first place...
/r/MensRights23/07/23 08:56 PM
-4

And the purpose of "gender is a social construct"? Has nothing to do with biological sex. Under the labour theory of value /sigh no, that is not how that works. And you can fuck off with the "you haven't read my holy book" When you literally have no idea what you are talking about, but want to straw man my position... fuck you, too, buddy.
/r/MensRights23/07/23 02:54 PM
-5

Is the bourgeoisie and the proletariat not a class distinction? Yes, AND THE ENTIRE POINT OF MARXISM IS TO ELIMINATE THAT DISTINCTION! "Communism," as a distinct political movement, came about from the attempt to manage this by force... and it failed. Fair enough, but adding MORE class distinctions is clearly going in the wrong direction. The broader context of Marxism is that this will happen naturally as the old system collapses under its own weight, which seems remarkably like the last centur…
/r/MensRights23/07/23 02:07 PM
0

...OK, nevermind; I used to watch a channel that had stuff like that, but it's all gone, now, and when I try to search for it, I get Jordan Peterson and, "Emma Watson explains why some men have a problem with feminism." No middle ground is allowed, it seems.
/r/MensRights23/07/23 01:49 PM
9

Why do people think that hating men is the answer to anything? Because people are always looking for some "other" to hang all of their problems on, and primary characteristics like sex and skin color have always been popular ways to divide people against their own best interests. And yes, this is against women's best interests, too; we all have mothers and fathers, most of us have brothers and sisters, many have children of both sexes... anything that harms any of us harms us all. Which brings m…
/r/MensRights23/07/23 01:10 PM
-6

feminism is a marxism based ideology Oh, FFS, not this shit again; Marxism opposes class distinctions, feminism is an explicitly class-based distinction! They are fundamentally contradictory.
/r/MensRights23/07/23 01:10 PM
-8

So, bear in mind that you get the craziest of the crazy talking the most and loudest online; or do you agree with everything that Paul Elam or Andrew Tate has ever said? Hit up some youtube videos of feminists reacting to MRA stuff, some of them are decent, it will restore your faith in humanity :)
/r/MensRights23/07/23 01:01 PM
1

I've always heard the opposite, that Americans were lazy and we rely on immigrant men to do all the tough jobs, like agriculture and construction. That's the stereotypes I've heard. Most Americans who work full time work 50-60 hours per week, and rarely take vacations, or even sick days unless it is debilitating. So it doesn't include part time employees, whereas the other countries did? So that means that the average American works even LESS hours than this source reports. Lol damn No, that mea…
/r/MensRights22/07/23 08:11 PM
0

Which is weird, because Americans are generally known for working longer hours and taking fewer vacations than anyone else, and looking at the "data" provided, they must be smoking crack! The first thing that I noted was that the US is measured by all full-time employees, whereas most of the others were by all employees, so that right there blows the entire comparison out of the water.
/r/MensRights22/07/23 06:33 PM
1

Right, let me know when you quit living in fantasyland.
/r/MensRights22/07/23 06:11 PM
1

Why do you think that? Because the overwhelming trend in human history is towards people doing more work over time, not less.
/r/MensRights22/07/23 06:10 PM
2

That list uses different sources for different countries, which used different rubrics; it also flies in the face of virtually all anthropological studies...
/r/MensRights22/07/23 03:33 PM
1

Lol, why do you think the Establishment/Deep State pushes Radfem? It's just more people to exploit, and they can pay each of us less.
/r/MensRights22/07/23 03:29 PM
1

All throughout the 19th/20th century? So, the Tsars, fair enough, but they were slaughtering everyone. The rest of that is extremely questionable, other than the stuff during the current conflict, which has been pretty well disproven. People in Donbas already chose their destiny in 1990 by voting for Ukrainian independence in a valid referendum. So, even though most of them voted the other way, they never get to hold another referendum? Even after the government they were forced to join is coupe…
/r/MensRights22/07/23 03:16 PM
82

So, I'm your opposite. I was the golden boy; tall, slender when I was younger, muscled and svelte in my teens, blond hair, blue eyes... I had to beat the girls off with a stick. This also meant that I didn't respect the situation, and when one girl decided to trap me with a kid, then ditched me and the kid, I didn't handle it very well. Computer work isn't great for staying in shape to begin with, I gained weight since I didn't have time for the gym, another woman tricked me into getting her pre…
/r/MensRights22/07/23 02:50 AM
1

Uhm idk not being genocided by our neighbors? When was this, exactly? We already chose our destiny, it's not for Westerners to decide what would be better for us. OK, then we'll just stop sending weapons; works for me. Now, how about letting people in Donbas choose their destiny? All those revolutions and resistance weren't enough to change the minds of some disgusting individuals on Reddit it seems. I don't even know what you are talking about here. And no, Ukraine wasn't the most corrupt. Russ…
/r/MensRights22/07/23 12:46 AM
9

The world is unfair, and we have to be better.
/r/MensRights21/07/23 11:11 AM
16

I think they are...
/r/MensRights21/07/23 11:09 AM
1

Isn't that up to the women we have sex with? -.-
/r/MensRights17/07/23 10:05 PM
39

Devil's Advocate: In fairness, there is more societal stigma against women "abandoning" their children, and single fathers by-and-large must have both wanted the responsibility and were able to convince both the mothers and the courts that they were suited to do so. I.e. single fathers tend to be the best of the bunch, while single mothers are often the worst.
/r/MensRights16/07/23 07:34 PM
0

I am an American as well and a combat veteran. And yet, you think that sending my son (a Navy corpsman; I don't have time to list my family's history of military service) to fight in support of literal Nazis to prevent their victims from claiming their own right to self-determination is in line with the traditions of America? You should be ashamed. Enact some real change in our country I am active in many groups; men's rights, anti-fascism, free speech, 2nd amendment, universal healthcare, educa…
/r/MensRights16/07/23 04:12 PM
0

Withdrawing from a treat on how another country “recognizes” your sovereignty in no way justifies armed invasion of said country. So, what justified Ukraine's invasion of Donbas? Poroshenko? You mean the president elected with a clear majority of 54%? Ah, yes, because the secession referendums in Donbas and Crimea, which turned out the exact same way as the previous 3 votes, was illegitimate, but Poroshenko's election, in the middle of a coup, while Nazis were literally burning their opposition …
/r/MensRights16/07/23 02:52 PM
0

Ah yes, I forgot about the totally not questionable at all unrealistically high percentage of people who “voted” in the referendums. You mean the same way they turned out the last 3 times they held them over the last 30 years, which surprised no one because of the ethnic divide between Eastern and Western Ukraine? I see you are completely ignoring the 1996 constitution of the nation of Ukraine states in article 73 that territorial changes can only be made if ALL citizens of Ukraine vote. Which c…
/r/MensRights16/07/23 02:31 PM
2

Those are pennies if you consider destroying russian military potential. Why would that be a good thing, assuming it were even likely? Also it is better for ukrainian people to not be under Russia. Um, leaving aside that the whole issue is whether or not they get to choose, how would that be better? Ukraine was the most corrupt, oppressive, and unequal country in Europe before this mess started, and has only gotten worse.
/r/MensRights16/07/23 02:16 PM
0

All of you should ask yourself who started this war and who put the men, Ukrainian and Russian alike into warfare against each other? Um, that would be the United States, which funded Nazis to coup the Ukrainian government in 2014. Donbas seceded, Ukraine invaded them... where is your complaint about that invasion?
/r/MensRights16/07/23 02:14 PM
0

I reject your hypothesis that it's "rich old men" because instead, it's capital. I dislike that mode of argument because it tends to remove culpability from the individual onto an abstraction. Capital didn't do anything but what someone else did with it, and trying to mix ideological politics in with activist movements is usually a good way to split them up and prevent them from fixing anything. There are women in high political roles and in business leadership positions that benefit from this w…
/r/MensRights16/07/23 02:10 PM
-9

Sorry, I'm not a Nazi, so I don't buy Nazi propaganda.
/r/MensRights15/07/23 10:57 PM
61

More poor young men dying for rich old men's greed.
/r/MensRights15/07/23 03:48 PM
16

That my policy of just leaving without explanation has been correct all along.
/r/PurplePillDebate13/07/23 07:54 PM
1

I don't even think like that.
/r/PurplePillDebate13/07/23 02:04 AM
1

How about a 2 that would absolutely blow my mind? :)
/r/PurplePillDebate12/07/23 10:31 PM
9

Many, yes, to the extent that this seems like a ridiculous question to me; I have always had female friends with whom I just had no romantic or sexual chemistry (not necessarily based on looks, either), and we got along just fine.
/r/PurplePillDebate12/07/23 08:52 PM
2

Me: Middle-aged cis-het white male, blue-collar Southerner, left-wing libertarian progressive. Most attractive: 7 (oh, baby, I would drink your bath water!), then 3 (skinny, but with some flesh and some curve, very hot!), but there is nothing wrong with 2 or 6 (a little curvier than I prefer, but wouldn't kick them out of bed for eating crackers). Least attractive: 4 (just too much), then 1 (too skinny, no curves!), and I'm not wild about 5 (I don't have abs like that, and I'm not going to work …
/r/PurplePillDebate12/07/23 05:31 PM
17

"why don't men fantasize about giving birth?" Lol, I've passed a stone, I don't need to :p
/r/MensRights10/07/23 11:09 PM
2

Men are almost exclusively visually stimulated. /eyeroll Could you be more blithely sexist?
/r/PurplePillDebate08/07/23 06:13 PM
27

Well, there are two kinds of hypocrisy: "Do as I say, not as I do," i.e. something is acceptable behavior for one person, but not another. "This is a value that we should all aspire to, but none of us can fully live up to for reasons of simple humanity," i.e. perfect honesty, which would be seriously problematic.
/r/PurplePillDebate08/07/23 04:13 PM
18

That is grossly illegal in about 5 different ways; record some of this, sue their asses off, and get whatever job you want in the settlement.
/r/MensRights07/07/23 05:41 PM
1

At what cost and what goals? I don’t think there’s been a lot of deaths as a result of SpaceX. It’s not leading to toxic pollution in parts of the world the way things like PV cells do. No, but launch reliability is WAY down from NASA's standard, and the whole thing is way too focused on manned space travel. And the order of magnitude reduction in launch costs is a real advance. How much further it can take us is another matter, but an order of magnitude reduction is what it is and arm waving ca…
/r/MensRights06/07/23 11:12 AM
2

Well, Tesla is just overhyped nonsense; electric cars are one of the stupidest ideas imaginable. The problem with SpaceX is that it is focused on human space travel, which is expensive, dangerous, not very useful from a scientific point of view, and drains funds from space projects which are scientificially useful.
/r/MensRights04/07/23 10:57 PM
2

I want to be a housewife and have a lot time to myself to do whatever I want. OK, so interesting point, here: The only reason "housewife" is viewed as an easy job is because of modern appliances which have reduced the workload. Similar technologies have increased productivity in the workplace, but men are just asked to do more work, instead of having more time off. I don't blame you for your attitude, I just think that everyone's life should be easier.
/r/PurplePillDebate04/07/23 09:31 PM
2

SpaceX reduced the cost per unit weight to orbit by an order of magnitude. That’s massive! It’s what the Shuttle was supposed to have delivered. Sure, but at what cost and with what goals in mind? Tesla. Well I don’t hate it, but see it as hype and arm waving. It's worse than that, it is actively harmful. He’s certainly not some hyper masculine MRA though. Right, not at all, I have no idea where this idea is coming from.
/r/MensRights04/07/23 07:22 PM
2

I approve of what he did with Twitter, though I'm not so much a fan of SpaceX, much less Tesla.
/r/MensRights04/07/23 03:14 PM
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Again, Musk is still very progressive, he's just not 100% on side with everything the ultra-woke crowd comes up with, so he's out of the group. And what happens when you do that? Your movement consists of only the most extreme minority... and dies.
/r/MensRights04/07/23 02:32 PM
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"Husband cumming..." someone else finish it :)
/r/MensRights04/07/23 12:57 AM
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I mean, right off the bat, I don't see either of those two as particularly masculine men, and both of them cater to the woke crowd, just not to the point of censorship of any kind of criticism, which apparently makes them anti-woke... "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." -Napoleon
/r/MensRights03/07/23 11:14 PM
3

Ukraine is getting desperate for manpower, not that it is going to do them any good ;(
/r/MensRights21/06/23 11:12 AM
1

Yea, but they don't all nucleate into the smallest possible family units.
/r/PurplePillDebate21/06/23 10:58 AM
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OK, so, you realize that what you are describing is only a 20th-century American social structure, right? It isn't like this in most places, it wasn't like this before, and it probably won't be like this forever. We just live in a really screwed up time and place, all the way around.
/r/PurplePillDebate21/06/23 01:46 AM
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Women like vulnerable men... ...because they are easy to manipulate and abuse? Yea, we noticed.
/r/PurplePillDebate15/06/23 06:13 PM
1

Oh, she can; me stepping in was a mercy!
/r/MensRights13/06/23 01:54 AM
1

My mother, not long ago :) My father, not long before he died ;( My daughter, the last time someone insulted her, and I let him off with a warning... <.<
/r/MensRights12/06/23 08:22 PM
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Misandry sends men to prison to be tortured. Misandry causes doctors to neglect men to death. Misandry causes women to support wars that they know they will never be called upon to fight.
/r/MensRights11/06/23 01:52 PM
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Oh, don't interrupt, you'll get your chance to yell at her after he's done.
/r/PurplePillDebate10/06/23 02:41 AM
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I have pretty serious stress and anxiety issues due to life issues (not depression, exactly, but not far removed), that I was getting by with a yearly prescription of a dozen xanax (enough to decompress once a month and hold it together the rest of the time), but poverty and legal issues left me without insurance for a while, and I can't find a doctor who will refill the prescription. They will put me on blood pressure medicine, and a uric acid reducer, and an anti-depressant, but apparently a d…
/r/MensRights09/06/23 02:45 AM
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As a middle-aged man who is theoretically in the dating market, I am not interested in women more than maybe 10 years younger than me (I am 45). I've tried it, and it's just difficult to have a conversation. Even with 30-year-old women with ostensibly equivalent education (i.e. graduate degree), they just haven't developed the same kind of perspective, especially if they haven't had children, and if they have, they are probably still around when I am just getting used to my kids being grown and …
/r/PurplePillDebate08/06/23 03:52 AM
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Interesting, thanks (and happy cake day :) ).
/r/PurplePillDebate07/06/23 09:01 PM
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And in my honest opinion as someone from a Latin background, I find the average American in general ugly. Men and women. Sorry to offend anyone but Americans just aren’t as concerned with how they present themselves compared to other cultures. Just out of curiosity, which aspect of presentation are we (Americans) the worst offenders on? Is it hygiene, dress, hair style, conversation, etc?
/r/PurplePillDebate07/06/23 07:37 PM
0

No, but fathers should have the right to give up rights and responsibilities, i.e. "Paper Abortion."
/r/PurplePillDebate06/06/23 04:11 PM
1

Not especially, no. I would much rather have a companion and friend.
/r/PurplePillDebate06/06/23 03:02 PM
1

Shame that the comparison here is ‘I can’t get my dick wet’ That better not have been aimed at me, and I don't see that nearly as much as legitimate and serious problems facing men.
/r/PurplePillDebate04/06/23 09:02 PM
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Sure, and I was mostly referring to any men who were saying that being a woman is better. There are pros and cons to everything, right?
/r/PurplePillDebate04/06/23 06:27 PM
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It is certainly a mistake to think that any of us are truly capable of judging others' experiences, but this is also why I like the notion of the Oppression Olympics, the sense that there is some kind of contest for who has it worse, which helps to realize how absurd the idea is. Women face problems in the world. Men face problems in the world. Gay/straight, trans/cis, black/white, dexter/sinister... we should work on all of them, and not try to dismiss the concern of either/any side because, "X…
/r/PurplePillDebate04/06/23 05:25 PM
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OK, would you rather be bitten by a dog or a human? https://www.statpearls.com/ArticleLibrary/viewarticle/18347 "The physical trauma from a human bite is rarely spectacular with relatively minor lacerations and occlusion bruising being the main initial findings. Human oral flora and contagious disease spread to account for the greater amount of morbidity with human bites."
/r/MensRights04/06/23 01:25 PM
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I mean, to be fair, the mouth of any human is far dirtier than most animals...
/r/MensRights03/06/23 05:39 PM
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Do you want an active woman because it most likely would mean she isn't obese/good body, or another reasons? I know plenty of active people with terrible bodies, so if that's the goal, it is misguided. I just want someone who won't try to keep me home all of the time, which means either sharing an interest in some kind of outdoor activity with me or having their own regime or hobby.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/06/23 10:57 AM
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The first thing that came to mind was Secondhand Lions, with Robert Duvall and Michael Caine acting in loco parentis. Good Will Hunting, again father figures rather than actual fathers, but Robin Williams and Stellan Skarsgard are fantastic.
/r/MensRights28/05/23 08:56 PM
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That is both more and less true than you might think; yes, times and places did not allow women to do most things, but it has almost always been more of a social reflex than anything else. "Andre Norton," for example, is an intentionally gender-ambiguous Nom de Plume, and not because there was any particular stigma about women writers at the time, I believe it was for personal family reasons. But then we have so little of the writings of Sappho or Hypatia, for example, because they were destroye…
/r/MensRights28/05/23 03:05 PM
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I think you are looking at it in a rather narrow sense; literature about the human condition comes in many forms, and if you look at fantasy, science fiction, even romance, these tend towards timeless stories about what it means to be human. Madeleine L'Engel, Ursula K. LeGuin, Anne McAffrey, Elizabeth Moon, Mercedes Lackey, Lois McMaster Bujold, Andre Norton, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Margaret Atwood... Mary Shelley! Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion is one of my all-time favorite series. Then you h…
/r/MensRights27/05/23 05:43 PM
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I am finally out from under this system, but even months later, just reading this makes my blood boil. What scum! What terrible excuses for human beings! Our society cannot long survive with vicious parasites like this sucking us dry, nor does it deserve to.
/r/MensRights25/05/23 08:48 PM
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OK, this should honestly be pinned at the top of the sub, or something. The actual method to pick up women, similar to PUA, but without the ass-hattery: Approach lots of women. This is both a numbers game and building experience/confidence. Stand out. Make yourself memorable in some way, i.e. clothes, accent, etc. In this day and age, just being clean and presentable goes a long way. Appearing like you have a job is a good idea, too. Be cool. Don't fawn over them, don't stare; if you are going t…
/r/PurplePillDebate23/05/23 12:18 AM
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I mean, to some extent, those are the same thing. The question is, did they want to pull the ladder up behind them?
/r/MensRights21/05/23 03:31 AM
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What exactly do you mean with bullshit? Well, as just two examples, the idea that going to college will result in you getting a higher-paying job, and the idea that women have a lower sex drive than men. These ideas are, perhaps, useful to society in various ways (encouraging education and maintaining traditional gender roles), but they are flatly contradicted by any kind of actual analysis.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/05/23 02:33 PM
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...I'm probably the wrong guy to talk to about that. I wound up going to college, anyway, did well, got 3 STEM degrees... and can't get a job using them. Instead, I started doing blue collar work, and now I make more than my former professors. Sexual dynamics are not the only aspect of our society that is overflowing with bullshit.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/05/23 02:02 PM
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its just that with the way yall think, it sometimes brings women down to bring men up? i dont mean to sound disrespectful, but im not taking issue with your cause, but the way you approach that cause! Are you suggesting that because some people who agree with our aims use incendiary language and hold biased and discriminatory opinions that it detracts from the legitimacy of the entire movement? -.^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Solanas Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988…
/r/MensRights20/05/23 03:00 AM
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OK, right off the bat, women absolutely face issues in our society that should be addressed, and it is right and proper for there to be activism to promote awareness of those issues. Is it such a strange idea, then, that men might also face issues? Or that men might have a harder time getting attention paid to those issues? As you yourself seem to think, "because men, historically, have always had rights," right? Wrong. As a middle-aged white male, I would not have been allowed to vote in some s…
/r/MensRights20/05/23 02:46 AM
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That I flunked out or that I was having lots of sex? Or that women have sex drives, too?
/r/PurplePillDebate19/05/23 09:21 PM
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Even in transactional terms, it's more nuanced than that; both people are providing to the other, not just sex, but companionship, status, security, etc. Which party is providing how much of what is pretty much always the discussion.
/r/PurplePillDebate19/05/23 09:19 PM
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My Dad told me when I was 14, "Girls want it just as bad as guys, they are just better at hiding it," and I flunked out of high school because I was having sex all the time.
/r/PurplePillDebate19/05/23 08:03 PM
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Not sure about OP, but mine was 2/3 of my income for a very long time.
/r/MensRights19/05/23 05:45 PM
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Well, for one thing, he's not interested in breaking down such abstruse concepts as the "qualities" that makes a man true.
/r/MensRights18/05/23 07:25 PM
8

"Just be yourself."
/r/PurplePillDebate15/05/23 08:25 PM
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262, and not a day under 196; the Victorian Era ruined women forever!
/r/PurplePillDebate10/05/23 01:28 AM
4

Just a joke. It's really not...
/r/PurplePillDebate07/05/23 03:38 PM
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I'm 45, 3 children by two partners, my last fling was with my high school girlfriend, but even that was 8 years ago. There is kind of a long-term tease situation going on with a lesbian/bisexual couple I am friends with, that I am not opposed to pursuing, but the one time I got the call, I was doing something with my kids, so it may or may not go anywhere, and I am fine with that. I'm not chasing sex just for the sake of sex. It would be nice to have a partner, but I'm a fairly odd fish (highly …
/r/MensRights07/05/23 02:58 PM
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Yea, sorry, but I see pornography as one of the enablers of men (and women) to disengage from the toxic dating environment that now exists.
/r/MensRights06/05/23 10:44 PM
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When a man and woman partner up it’s expected that they will bring pleasure and intimacy to one another’s lives from this point forward with no need for additional tools or people. Your lives should complete one another and you should find pleasure with each other and each other only as the basis of your relationship from this day forward. Well, bless your heart :p
/r/PurplePillDebate06/05/23 08:12 PM
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Classical liberalism is [one of] the politics that arose from Enlightenment philosophy. FTFY.
/r/PurplePillDebate02/05/23 10:36 PM
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Hell, no! I'm looking for a sugar mama!
/r/PurplePillDebate02/05/23 03:44 AM
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No, you are thinking of the Enlightenment; they developed at the same time and are often conflated, but they are not the same thing.
/r/PurplePillDebate02/05/23 12:40 AM
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I'm not sure how much overlap there is between BP and the hard left; liberals, sure, but that's not the same thing, they want nothing to do with Marx. As for Liberalism, it has always been nothing more than an apology for the excesses of the current dogma.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/05/23 12:34 AM
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This is one reason I do blue collar work, even when I do interact with women, they are hesitant to start in on that kind of talk, not when I am covered in grease, dirt and blood from keeping their world running.
/r/MensRights27/04/23 02:35 PM
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Gene therapy advances to the point where true and complete sex changes are available and commonly used multiple times, and the resulting understanding and commonality of experience more-or-less sorts itself out.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/04/23 03:04 AM
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Presumably trolling isn’t allowed. I mean, enforcing that rule on Reddit is like handing out speeding tickets at the Daytona 500. Plus I'm an anarchist, so appealing to the mods is not my natural move :)
/r/PurplePillDebate21/04/23 02:55 AM
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Says the guy with no arguments, just ad hominems. Not cool.
/r/PurplePillDebate21/04/23 02:16 AM
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"Thought?" These are facts; this is happening! And "anyone" other than me, the OP, the person you replied to in the first place, or the 3 other commenters agreeing with us? Physics programs at universities are closing because of this; stuff doesn't work because the engineers don't know what they are doing (have you bought a car, lately?); men are giving up on the system and finding other ways to live. The cracks are beginning to show... and it's about time!
/r/PurplePillDebate21/04/23 02:14 AM
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I know that there’s medical misogyny. Women aren’t taken seriously about health problems. My father died of medical neglect; he went in for a cough, they did an x-ray... and didn't bother to look at it. 3 months later, stage 4 lung cancer. I almost died of it, too, not that long ago; I wound up in the ER after passing out at work, they didn't find anything wrong... because they didn't look at the test results. Luckily, I didn't make it out of the hospital before almost dying. Let's not even disc…
/r/PurplePillDebate21/04/23 02:12 AM
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This is ridiculous; efforts to expand access and encourage women to enter STEM have actually reduced the number of women going into those fields, and because of quotas, both formal and informal, it is actually disrupting both careers and the actual status of the relevant disciplines. As an example, the number of female Physics Ph.D.s dropped from about 1 in 4 to about 1 in 7 from 1990 to 2010; at the same time, efforts to equalize gender enrollment meant that more qualified men were excluded fro…
/r/PurplePillDebate21/04/23 01:52 AM
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Well, the men who died don't have any problems, any more...!
/r/MensRights18/04/23 09:12 PM
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And I understand completely, but at the same time, have you ever been around militant feminists? Racial activists? Environmentalists? Alien abduction victims? Third World poverty lobbyists? Flat Earth Society Members? You will find both the most obnoxious fools and the most eloquent sages in the most surprising endeavours, but idiots can be right on accident, and people can sound smart but be stupid... or evil. And, of course, many of these attitudes are the result of intentional divisiveness in…
/r/PurplePillDebate18/04/23 03:19 AM
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OK, challenge time! Pick a movement, any movement, and we will go out and find idiotic comments by people following it. That is not an accurate reflection of the movement! I have my own issues with RP, but cannot deny the underlying truths that it... tries to address? That seems to be the criticism, and it's not that it is inaccurate, but it ignores the fact that no one else is even talking about what we can plainly see happening before our eyes. I'm closer to 50 than 40, but remember being myst…
/r/PurplePillDebate18/04/23 01:52 AM
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OK, I'll play. I am single because after two failed marriages and a fiance who wrecked my life with false accusations and used our child against me for 18 years, I am no longer willing to risk my financial, emotional, or actual physical health (stress is one of the biggest killers) in the pursuit of companionship and love that I got all too little of even in those relationships. I have children, but they are grown, and I had a vasectomy 15 years ago, so I won't be having more. Ironically, I don'…
/r/PurplePillDebate16/04/23 02:49 AM
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Attitude is everything. Physical weakness doesn't mean much; the baddest guy in the world can walk down the wrong alley but not walk out, and the little guy in the corner can pick up a chair and whack you over the head with it. Then there are guns. The mental side is much more important; you have to be in the kind of mindset where you can do those kinds of things, and it doesn't come naturally to most people. That's why military training is so harsh, and why there is a mystical side to most mart…
/r/MensRights15/04/23 12:22 AM
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Men get criticized regardless. Dating younger women? You're exploiting her naivete. Dating older women? You're exploiting her maternal instincts. Dating women your own age? You're stuck in the past. And probably exploiting her, somehow. You can't win, so don't play that game.
/r/PurplePillDebate14/04/23 01:19 AM
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I think this is actually a return to a very old Northwestern European pattern where five to ten percent of people never had relationships...even if they reached old age. I just looked it up, as of 2018, 16.5% of Americans over 55 did not have children. Yes, that's not the same as having relationships, but then, a lot of people have children without the relationship, so that might be a wash. And monastic orders still exist, and some... odd people wind up in them. They might not be as prevalent as…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/23 09:03 PM
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...so, what some random tradcon a-hole on Youtube says is automatically red pill dogma? It doesn't work like that. "Red Pill" is about seeing through the false narrative we have been presented with about how men and women interact ("Blue Pill" sees that narrative as necessary, or at least useful). It is not about reverting to some imagined, prior mode of interaction, and the people who are saying that are trying to hijack the movement and turn it into just another right-wing circle-jerk.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/23 10:57 AM
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Wait a minute, when did "red pill" turn into Tradcon?
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/23 10:42 AM
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Sure, but half of my friends were in triple digits by their mid-20s.
/r/PurplePillDebate07/04/23 10:17 PM
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I'm 45, started at 14, have been single most of that time, and my N count is 7. 3 high school GFs, 2 marriages, 1 LTR, and 1 ONS.
/r/PurplePillDebate07/04/23 09:53 PM
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No, that's crazy. Get out in the real world and meet women in real life; you may still run into static, but you won't be getting automatically filtered out like OLD.
/r/MensRights05/04/23 02:30 AM
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Emily had never had penetrative sex... while they were fooling around, John slid inside of her without asking ...and this is where I call bullshit. OK, women lose their hymens in various ways, including accidents and menstruation, and yes, some women are just naturally bigger/looser than others, but my (granted, 30-year-old) experiences with young women was always something of a struggle at first, even with fingers. Either John has a pencil-dick, Emily doesn't count penetrative masturbation as s…
/r/MensRights04/04/23 09:56 PM
14

Well, Internet access is spotty in Amish communities...
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/23 11:53 PM
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I’m sure most of you are living a really privileged life Sure, pretty much anyone in a modern, first-world country; go tell the feminists, or blacks or Hispanics, or LGBT, or...? people choosing to play victim. My fiance quit taking her birth control without telling me, moved back in with her parents after getting pregnant, demanded I give up all parental rights but still pay child support on threat of "destroying my life," which she proceeded to do by falsely accusing me of domestic abuse, narc…
/r/MensRights01/04/23 01:24 AM
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+1
/r/PurplePillDebate31/03/23 11:00 AM
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you can't be promiscuous with one person. let's other men fuck his woman. What in the actual fuck? If she is fucking other people, then she is promiscuous, and if she is doing it with me... How hard is this to wrap your head around? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory
/r/PurplePillDebate31/03/23 12:22 AM
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I guess you don't know how reading works.
/r/PurplePillDebate30/03/23 10:41 PM
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You're not getting it you can't be promiscuous with one person. /facepalm I give up.
/r/PurplePillDebate30/03/23 09:39 PM
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See other reply.
/r/PurplePillDebate30/03/23 01:38 AM
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No, you still aren't understanding; she can be promiscuous, AS LONG AS IT'S WITH ME! It's one thing if we have a thing with another couple, or an "understanding" about being out of town, or even go to swingers' parties or orgies or whatever, but it's something else when she's the town bicycle and everyone is laughing at you behind your back.
/r/PurplePillDebate30/03/23 01:37 AM
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No, we want women who will be promiscuous WITH US!! (and maybe their cute girlfriends) We don't want a woman who just sleeps with anyone, but we don't want a prude, either, however hot they dress.
/r/PurplePillDebate29/03/23 09:55 PM
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Because it's about competition; the 5001st guy might be better and he will wind up with some other woman, and she can't bear the thought.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/03/23 12:49 AM
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OK, wow, do you have it all backwards; I mean, so do a lot of the RP/PUA men, but... The "disdain" isn't necessarily real; the frustration might be in having to engage in PUA behavior (we used to call it drama) in order to get women's attention at all, and disdain is part of that. You have to push their buttons in order to gain their interest, and that involves toying with their emotions. In my younger days I did it on accident; I would moon over a girl and treat her like a princess, only to be …
/r/PurplePillDebate27/03/23 01:31 AM
1

With zero trace of irony as the nanny state takes over the control of children’s books, birth control, social media, and threatens to re-criminalize weed. What does any of that have to do with the left? The Far Right wants more laws, not fewer. Which far right? Libertarians, sure, but the GOP is mostly a bunch of fascists who just want a different set of authoritarian laws put into place.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/03/23 11:49 AM
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Being anti-authoritarian is a core right wing trait. Um, you mean like fascists/Nazis, which are, by definition, right-wing authoritarians? Are you sure you're far left? Yes, I'm just an anarchist, not a communist.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/03/23 11:40 AM
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It's pretty widely known that the left hates TRP It is? I'm pretty far left, but anti-authoritarian, so... I think that, like so many others, you have "liberal Democrats" confused with "left-wing," when they have pretty much nothing in common.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/03/23 09:35 PM
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Well, you need to consult an attorney, but off-hand, I can't think of a way to make that happen, at least in the US. If you die without a will, your estate goes through administration, which follows inheritance laws; if you have no heirs, everything reverts to the state. If you die with a will, but without beneficiaries, the same process applies. You could set up a trust or foundation, but there still has to be a named party to manage it, and they have at least some latitude in how to run it. An…
/r/MensRights20/03/23 09:55 PM
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No, they have been saying that because of external factors; you are implementing a suicide protocol from the inside.
/r/MensRights17/03/23 09:22 PM
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Who cares? That's the beginning of the end of this sub, wait and see.
/r/MensRights16/03/23 09:41 PM
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I don't care about formal education, but you had better be pretty well read if you want to have a conversation with me /shrug
/r/PurplePillDebate13/03/23 02:43 AM
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OK, right off the bat, it really requires some kind of balance; outside of overriding factors (e.g. extremely rich), you need a certain minimum level of both looks and personality. A total Chad with the personality of a caveman is going to have a rather limited dating pool, as will the most eloquent Choad in the world. And different women are going to weight those attributes differently, just as some men prefer personality to looks, or even have different standards for either.
/r/PurplePillDebate12/03/23 04:01 PM
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No... stop taking the red pill. Women are not demanding sperm from people, they aren't picking their men or whatever. This is just some wild shit if you actually believe that. This is my fucking life, dude! I got the vasectomy in the first place because women kept on stringing me along until they got pregnant, then dumping me. After the third time, wtf am I supposed to think?
/r/MensRights26/02/23 05:28 AM
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Why would liberals not like it, but conservatives do? Because liberals tend to be feminists whose overarching goal is their own freedom, including to get pregnant by whichever man they choose, which male birth control interferes with. Conservatives, on the other hand, are mainly concerned with returning to some imagined perfect past where everyone just did what they were told, especially women, and even religious zealots opposed to female birth control will tie themselves into rhetorical knots t…
/r/MensRights26/02/23 02:51 AM
1

Do you live in conservative circles or something? No, quite the opposite.
/r/MensRights26/02/23 12:26 AM
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Research on male birth control has been undermined since at least 1971. I had a vasectomy in 2007 (after 3 children that I had limited say over), and you would not believe the crap women have given me for it over the years.
/r/MensRights25/02/23 02:29 PM
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I think to the extent there is anything to this, it is that emotionally manipulative behavior is considered more acceptable by/from women.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/02/23 10:31 PM
0

How many single billionaires do you see? It's not that all, or even most, women are gold-diggers, just enough.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/02/23 12:03 PM
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I will admit to being attracted to the skinnier end of the spectrum, but too skinny is a definite turn-off. It's not a deal-breaker unless it is extreme in one direction or another.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/02/23 12:01 PM
1

Again, I'm not convinced that natural intelligence exists, so that doesn't actually mean anything.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/02/23 11:58 AM
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You have to prove that AI is possible, first, and before that, you have to prove that natural intelligence is possible.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/02/23 12:00 AM
1

He was less so in 2016.
/r/MensRights21/02/23 12:31 AM
1

Then why did half the party vote for the 2002 AUMF, and every subsequent AUMF since?
/r/MensRights21/02/23 12:16 AM
1

When were they the anti-war party?
/r/MensRights20/02/23 12:01 PM
1

Obviously you don't watch the news properly, Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, Taiwan, South China Sea, Covid weaponised Uh, China and Russia didn't start any of that; the USE (United States Empire) did.
/r/MensRights20/02/23 11:58 AM
0

Ah, yes, because they have started so many wars over the last 20 years... /S
/r/MensRights19/02/23 08:41 PM
4

...and look what they did to him.
/r/MensRights19/02/23 08:40 PM
2

Let's see here: Bernie Sanders, Ron Paul, Howard Dean... checks out. We can stop voting for the major parties, though. (Very) small steps.
/r/MensRights19/02/23 02:55 PM
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My son is in the military, so this scares the crap out of me. We have to stop voting for politicians - men and women - who seem bound and determined to keep us fighting ever more wars.
/r/MensRights19/02/23 02:39 PM
3

Uh, what do China, Russia, or Iran have to do with it? They don't have any say in the matter.
/r/MensRights19/02/23 02:38 PM
2

I'm 45, and would have a hard time dating anyone under 30-35, maybe; it's just too hard to relate to people that much younger.
/r/PurplePillDebate13/02/23 01:21 AM
1

Oh, sure; here they are, not in any particular order: Family law Healthcare, especially mental health (many of these go beyond gender issues, as well) Education Criminal Justice Social division Technically, circumcision is a health concern, but that topic has a list of its own, and circumcision is pretty far down it.
/r/PurplePillDebate13/02/23 01:02 AM
1

It has happened to quite a few men, but thank you for not immediately trying to defend the practice. And honestly, that's not even on my top 5 issues, just within the gender debate.
/r/PurplePillDebate12/02/23 09:06 PM
1

That, and that it generally seems to be more intense. In fairness, I seem to have quite a few circumcision-related issues /shrug
/r/PurplePillDebate12/02/23 08:55 PM
1

Wow, you're like my mirror image; I'm a straight male, but wow am I jealous of women's sexual pleasure. ...and I live in the mountains of East Tennessee :)
/r/PurplePillDebate12/02/23 04:14 AM
-1

I.e. "Where do you live?" I wanted to suggest that I approve of your attitude, and add a light suggestion of flirtation; my fault for trying to be subtle, right?
/r/PurplePillDebate11/02/23 10:56 PM
2

ASL? :)
/r/PurplePillDebate11/02/23 10:01 PM
14

Because weakness invites attack, and women are not, "sharing their trauma," when they write songs like that, they are engaging in emotional manipulation, which won't work for men. Have you ever read The Time Machine? Men are Morlocks, women are Eloi; we exist for no purpose other than to make sure that the world operates properly for them, so our wellbeing - mental, physical, or emotional - is irrelevant, and upsetting to them to even have to think about. Out of the night that covers me, Black a…
/r/MensRights11/02/23 09:39 PM
1

So, I'll skip over the parts that you will have to sort out for yourself and just get to the meat: I'm a little bitch, a short weak little 5'7 man that women will never take seriously. I'm 6'3", 250lb of muscle, and spent my youth in stupid and dangerous activities that involved an unfortunate amount of violence, and I know, for a fact, that there are skinny 5'7" guys that I would not want to mess with. You can fix that; work out, train, study, you could be a scary dude, if you put your mind to …
/r/PurplePillDebate10/02/23 02:04 AM
–

every profession out there, they use terminologies and acronyms to describe complex theories and situations. For example the medical field uses terminology to describe symptoms as well as diagnosis. And at no point are the terminologies derogatory to the subject matter in any way Proton Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy "Hey, someone bring me the PENIS machine!" Quark - noun, a subatomic particle; verb, to screech or call like a bird. Names of the first six time derivatives of position: ve…
/r/PurplePillDebate04/02/23 01:49 PM
-1

I'm more depressed about the times I did, "win."
/r/PurplePillDebate04/02/23 03:17 AM
2

at any given time men willing to engage in casual sex grossly outnumer women. Sure, but it's like playing the lottery: "If you ain't in, you can't win."
/r/PurplePillDebate04/02/23 02:25 AM
1

OK, step back a second; Terms like, "masculine," "feminine," "gay," "straight," are problematic both for being ill-defined, and for presenting as a binary spectrum rather than the far more complicated situation that actually applies. Different people care about different things, and trying to tie everyone down to a label is ultimately pointless. Like you, I care about biology, and prefer a masculine female to a feminine male (although a skirt just does something for me), but I do not judge a man…
/r/PurplePillDebate03/02/23 03:08 AM
15

I'm not sure; it really seems like we aren't supposed to care, at all, or at least, we are supposed to act like we don't care.
/r/MensRights31/01/23 12:45 AM
73

Well, that is the big advantage of the traditional male stereotype; we aren't supposed to care what they think.
/r/MensRights31/01/23 12:04 AM
8

Roman matrons would tell their sons, "Come back with your shield, or on it." The White Feather movement did much the same in World War I. Our mothers are all of our first authority figures. The gender conflict is complicated and nuanced and many other things, besides, but it is not one-sided.
/r/MensRights17/01/23 05:17 AM
1

Based.
/r/PurplePillDebate16/01/23 12:08 PM
0

the gender war is another attempt at attacking core Western heternormative values? Well, that is the good part of it, yes.
/r/MensRights12/01/23 12:02 PM
1

...so, is she single, now?
/r/MensRights12/01/23 01:41 AM
2

Dog (small) - She wants a play thing. She'll make you her plaything. Avoid at all costs. Based AF. Cat - she might be shy, an old soul, more introverted, generally passive. Or batshit crazy and the complete opposite. Might ruin your life but you'll get a good story out of it. ...could you be any less specific? :p Bird - Free spirit. Doesn't like feeling trapped but doesn't mind doing it to a bird. ...or to you, or...! Ferret - She's either mentally still a child or she's crazy. {sigh} Yea, but i…
/r/PurplePillDebate10/01/23 01:52 AM
4

Shit, I'm fine with trashy women...
/r/PurplePillDebate03/01/23 10:32 PM
0

It's like saying all physical standards are shallow Um...
/r/PurplePillDebate01/01/23 01:56 AM
4

Shallow.
/r/PurplePillDebate31/12/22 04:00 PM
1

Looks: 6, blond-haired, blue-eyed, but slightly overweight, need to get back to the gym. Income: ~$60k, mid-sized town in the South (I rent a 3-bedroom house with a garage and fenced-in yard for $1200/month). Height: 6'3", built like an NFL fullback.
/r/PurplePillDebate31/12/22 04:00 PM
1

Go tell the "body positivity" movement, or feminists about that.
/r/PurplePillDebate31/12/22 03:47 PM
0

Just as predatory and degenerate, thank you very much, while managing to be more shallow and insensitive.
/r/PurplePillDebate31/12/22 03:46 PM
4

And how do women come across with, "tall?" If anything, that's worse, as there isn't much a man can do about that. "F* well" is another problem, because that is almost always a communication problem, from the person not being satisfied.
/r/PurplePillDebate31/12/22 03:43 PM
1

We are talking stereotypes, here, right?
/r/PurplePillDebate31/12/22 03:41 PM
0

Well, hold on a second, that very situation is the problem; the woman not only doesn't meet the man's standards, she doesn't even care! But the man is the problem?!
/r/PurplePillDebate31/12/22 03:41 PM
0

Thin, cooking and cleaning, willingness to have sex.
/r/PurplePillDebate31/12/22 03:40 PM
3

I am 6'3", blond-haired, blue-eyed, not a model but not unattractive, make ~$60k in a mid-sized town in the South, and don't have any problem keeping sexual partners, but anything more than that is just hopeless.
/r/PurplePillDebate31/12/22 03:39 PM
4

Well, to some extent, a couple of those are just dickish.
/r/PurplePillDebate31/12/22 03:31 PM
1

Um, yea, I literally said that.
/r/PurplePillDebate31/12/22 03:27 PM
1

That was my point; why isn't a woman wanting a quality man sexist, too?
/r/PurplePillDebate31/12/22 03:27 PM
27

OK, but men want -A thin woman -A woman they find attractive -A woman who can cook and clean -A woman who WILL f*, well or not. So, why are women's standards acceptable, but men's standards are abominable?
/r/PurplePillDebate31/12/22 03:20 PM
8

classic traditional conservative girl who ideally has an N count of 0. For those in the US the best analogy would be the Southern Bible Belt virgins. Ha! You don't know many Southern Bible Belt girls, do you? Sites like Match.com are pretty much exclusively for tradcon relationships, it will simply tell you to look elsewhere if you are at all out of the mainstream.
/r/PurplePillDebate29/12/22 10:27 PM
-5

Modern feminism is absolutely right wing.
/r/MensRights29/12/22 04:59 PM
49

I just ask why this "Patriarchy" seems to always make rules that benefit women over men.
/r/MensRights23/12/22 10:13 PM
2

But you are saying that it is our own fault by doing so.
/r/MensRights21/12/22 07:39 PM
-1

Because I disagree.
/r/MensRights21/12/22 07:39 PM
3

OK, wait, I consider child support a separate issue, and I am all for, "paper abortions," but that's not the same thing as financing abortion.
/r/MensRights21/12/22 05:38 PM
0

At what point is a member of bourgeoise no longer one? When the means of production are owned by the workers. The majority of both left and right political theory operate on class or caste based policies. No. Some want to destroy the classes of course but fundamentally all of them view and analyze the world through the lens of class. Again, no; a genuine leftist position would treat all people the same, regardless of "class." Did you know that France does not even track ethnic demographics? They…
/r/MensRights21/12/22 05:36 PM
3

I can hardly call 18 years of financing something Where are you that tax money goes to it?
/r/MensRights21/12/22 05:33 PM
9

...but problems like these are due to the patriarchy I mean, victim-blaming, right off the bat. Please explain how all of these "Patriarchal" policies almost always benefit women over men? why aren’t you angry at all the men that cause these problems We are! That's kind of the point! why are y’all debating abortion when it has literally nothing to do with you Well, that issue mostly comes up in relation to the different rights men and women have regarding children, and most MRAs come down as pro…
/r/MensRights21/12/22 05:30 PM
1

Caste based leftist policies That is a contradiction in terms; can you give an example? Left philosphy is not inherently anti classism. Yes, it is. even Marxist theory functions on caste based policies. The proletariat class vs the bourgeoisie class etc. Except that the entire point was to eliminate the difference!
/r/MensRights21/12/22 05:18 PM
2

Is it any more shallow than just caring about money or looks? I don't know, but I wasn't making a particular judgment about it.
/r/PurplePillDebate21/12/22 04:59 PM
1

Women brag about men being handy even in mixed company. Sure, but that's on top of their base social status. you could just fix it. That's the other problem; unless they have a 10+ year-old car, I can't do anything without the $5,000 scanner ;(
/r/PurplePillDebate21/12/22 04:57 PM
1

Um...!
/r/PurplePillDebate21/12/22 04:55 PM
0

Left wing beliefs encompass more than just communism dude. Sure... It has always been a left wing force No. Liberal, sure, but that is not left-wing. By definition, feminism is dividing people based on class, specifically sex/gender, which is entirely incompatible with left-wing philosophy.
/r/MensRights21/12/22 04:54 PM
5

This is somewhat unavoidable; pretty much by definition, people are here because of feminists using women's issues as a club to beat men with. Yes, it is important to note that this does not define feminism and that not all feminists act this way. I will go a step further and suggest that it is not even always feminists doing so, but trad-cons abusing the issue to make extreme conditions as a poison pill which they hope will cause male progressives to change their minds. BUT! That is not our pro…
/r/MensRights21/12/22 12:49 PM
1

I don't care what a woman does for a living; is she smart? Kind? Funny? Kinky? Does she look for the best in others?
/r/PurplePillDebate21/12/22 01:16 AM
3

I have a couple of, "friends with benefits," things going on, and live out in the woods with my dogs /shrug
/r/PurplePillDebate20/12/22 10:23 PM
1

If I look at it from a fiscal perspective, yes; I appreciate the knowledge for its own sake, though.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/12/22 10:22 PM
2

Just to be clear, I wasn't making an explicit value judgment; in a sense, that is LESS shallow than simply caring about how much money someone makes. People care what their friends think, and I am fine with not knowing people like that :)
/r/PurplePillDebate20/12/22 10:19 PM
3

...which is why I am turning wrenches instead of teaching college or working in STEM.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/12/22 10:15 PM
57

Lol, I'm an auto mechanic; actually a dealer service tech working on up to class VII trucks, I make good money. I'm physically fit, 6'3", blonde-haired and blue-eyed, socially graceful, well educated (I actually have 3 college degrees), and have a generally progressive political outlook. But I am "low status" because I do blue collar work, there's just no way around it. The problem is that when my prospective girlfriend goes out with her friends who are dating doctors and lawyers, she's not goin…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/12/22 05:41 PM
-4

My only argument is that there is nothing left-wing about feminism; it has always been a movement of, by, and for the liberal elite. Coal-miners' daughters weren't thinking, "Gee, I wish I could go work down in the mines like Daddy instead of staying home and listening to the servants gossip like Mom," largely because they, and their mothers, were already working in the mines. The left is our only hope, as the right doesn't give a shit about anyone's wellbeing.
/r/MensRights20/12/22 01:09 PM
0

I think these men just don't want to have to deal with any kind of conflict or compromise; "traditional" marriage implies that the wife does whatever the husband says without comment or argument... which is insane. Yes, you can go and find some desperate woman from another country who will put up with it (because it's better than the situation they are getting away from), and that's hard to argue against, other than that we should be working to improve living conditions, everywhere, so this woul…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/12/22 10:08 PM
3

The one thing that will NOT happen is young women dating dudes that are like 45+ I'm 45; still attract younger, attractive women; am not rich, filthy or otherwise.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/12/22 03:50 PM
10

Between the Red Pill/tradcons and Blue Pill/F-in-ists, is there a middle ground? There's not a lot of daylight, there, no. Is there a third option? Yes, it's called being a decent human being and treating others with respect, male, female or other.
/r/PurplePillDebate09/12/22 02:40 AM
2

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/men-women-prison-sentence-length-gender-gap_n_1874742
/r/MensRights07/12/22 12:05 PM
4

I guess that you are the sole arbiter of who exactly is an intellectual and who exactly is not. That is literally the definition: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/intellectual Have a little humility and accept that even people you disagree with are intellectuals in that they make a living in the world of ideas, even if you disagree with those ideas. That is a different discussion, entirely; which of his ideas would you care to debate? Christopher Hitchens was a wretched educated idiot in my est…
/r/MensRights03/12/22 04:34 PM
6

Um, I think you missed it: It's not that younger people are any better, but that the people who are good at relationships aren't looking for them when they get older.
/r/PurplePillDebate03/12/22 03:56 PM
2

That is not how that works; an intellectual is one who relies upon logic and reason rather than emotion or instinct. Dr. Phil doesn't pretend to do that, he is expressly concerned with people's feelings. Peterson pretends to do that, but his arguments always devolve into pathos, when they are not outright fallacious.
/r/MensRights03/12/22 03:02 PM
1

Jordan Peterson is not a pseudo intellectual celebrity, he’s an intellectual celebrity. The man is embarrassingly poorly educated for a college professor. An example of a pseudo intellectual celebrity would be Doctor Phil. Dr. Phil isn't pretending to be an intellectual.
/r/MensRights03/12/22 12:09 PM
50

"It's like air; you don't notice it until it's gone."
/r/PurplePillDebate02/12/22 10:37 PM
3

I think it is far too much attention paid to a pseudo-intellectual celebrity.
/r/MensRights02/12/22 10:36 PM
2

You've got it backwards; Biden and Obama are progressive, but not left.
/r/PurplePillDebate02/12/22 11:24 AM
0

So the people who answered the poll in the OP that sometimes it is OK to cheat, presumably includes some moiety of people in relationships with one another; couples may have "out of town" exceptions, things like that. Let's keep in mind what we are talking about, here.
/r/PurplePillDebate02/12/22 12:28 AM
1

The people in the relationship. Right... so if we decide not to have that boundary, what business is it of yours? Reading your post history. Oh boy, oh boy, OH BOY, that's going to be fun :)
/r/PurplePillDebate01/12/22 11:58 PM
2

There is an assumption when you enter a relationship where that person will follow healthy boundaries. OK... Such as not fucking other people. Who decides that that is a boundary? Also, bro are you a Holocaust denier too? WTF? Where did that come from?
/r/PurplePillDebate01/12/22 11:46 PM
23

I simply must see a source for that!
/r/MensRights01/12/22 10:35 PM
2

So, there is an implicit assumption in there that I have some kind of possessive right to the body of the other person, and that is problematic. I mentioned respect and responsibility, which in context means, basically, be discreet, use protection and common sense, etc. Being embarrassed would bother me, a little; my partner getting a disease or pregnant by someone else, or worse, absolutely.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/12/22 10:28 PM
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Ok, so I am also a leftist man, but pretty much the opposite of you on... Everything. I'm lib-left, though. First, your statistics are problematic because you changed terms; "liberal," and, "left," are not the same thing! Some woman with a car covered in Greenpeace and LGBT-ally stickers while voting for right-wing democrats and ignoring labor issues cannot be called a leftist. Second, you seem to be socially conservative; things like cheating or independence do not bother me. There are such thi…
/r/PurplePillDebate01/12/22 05:23 PM
2

They had better be, in the modern world.
/r/PurplePillDebate29/11/22 04:59 PM
3

Equal in what regard? I like to think that I treat people generally the same, other than the occasional implication of romantic interest towards women I find appealing (attractive + interesting, weighted towards interesting). Everyone deserves courtesy, IMO. That many other people (not just men) are shallow and crass is helpful in that it tells you that you don't want anything to do with such people.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/11/22 12:07 AM
7

Why do you guys think you are always portrayed by the media as chauvinistic/incels? Because that is the easiest way to dismiss us. we have to admit there are some bad apples, and they are always the first ones to come up. What do you guys think we can do to fight those 2 problems, How do we get rid of the bad apples Does Feminism weed out their extremists? No, they celebrate them. We are not going to waste a single moment worrying about it until they do.
/r/MensRights03/11/22 10:56 AM
36

Our society has a tradition of continuing beatings until morale improves, no surprise here.
/r/MensRights01/11/22 11:19 PM
1

In that sense, perhaps (although I have seen cases to the contrary), but both your parents treated both you and your sister terribly. I was really only talking about people being inconsiderate, though. That's not a gender thing, certainly.
/r/MensRights01/11/22 10:46 PM
10

I couldn't - quite - bring myself to vote for Trump, despite the red-hot garbage fire the democrats have turned into, but I can relate. I have that argument with my aunt. As for your family situation, I'm sorry you have had to go through all of that. The big clue is that, even now, they can only see the situation from their own point of view; it's about what they need, they aren't thinking about what you need. This isn't even a gender thing, this is just people being inconsiderate. DO NOT let th…
/r/MensRights01/11/22 09:32 PM
3

Someone should make a movie about that. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571235/
/r/PurplePillDebate25/10/22 09:27 PM
20

I think that most women will stay single rather than "date down."
/r/PurplePillDebate25/10/22 09:25 PM
3

I got mine about 15 years ago, I get aches when the weather changes.
/r/MensRights23/10/22 09:45 PM
1

OK... More women would violently abuse their spouse.... see the problem, there? This doesn't justify the behavior!
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/22 01:05 PM
1

Wow.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/10/22 08:47 PM
1

Again, I don’t hate hunters, I just don’t want to date one. Change, "hunters," to any other group, and see how that sounds. Black people, for example. First aid kits don’t kill people. Not having one does.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/10/22 01:50 PM
1

Of course I know about it, but smoking is almost worse.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/10/22 01:48 PM
1

You don't know any women who chew tobacco?
/r/PurplePillDebate21/10/22 10:06 PM
3

I don’t want guns in my home because of moral reasons That's the part I don't understand; I don't like anyone getting injured, but I keep a first aid kit around, just in case. I don't advocate violence, but I don't get the only vote. not because I’m unstable My brother doesn't keep guns because he has a bad temper; our father was the same way. They didn't think that applied to others, though. Also, not wanting to animals hurt isn’t juvenile That's not what you said, but even then... it's like th…
/r/PurplePillDebate21/10/22 10:06 PM
1

I think I speak for the entire sub when I say we want to hear the full story. Let's keep this light, hmm? That story goes dark in a hurry. What about 11:30? What can I say? It's better, but not by much :p
/r/PurplePillDebate21/10/22 10:55 AM
1

It's less the field than it is the kind of people who find it interesting.
/r/PurplePillDebate21/10/22 10:52 AM
2

That’s one’s more of a personal preference as opposed an objective standard. Seeing dead or injured animals upsets me greatly. Well, fair enough, but it's a little juvenile. I also don’t want guns in my home. Are you that unstable?
/r/PurplePillDebate21/10/22 10:51 AM
1

Ah, yea, I just don't spend much...
/r/PurplePillDebate20/10/22 10:54 PM
2

Well, it's mostly that I work a job that I enjoy as opposed to one that pays well.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/10/22 09:14 PM
1

It's just Magic; D&D is more fun, they come up with some great ideas :)
/r/PurplePillDebate20/10/22 09:11 PM
2

likes hunting What's wrong with hunting?
/r/PurplePillDebate20/10/22 09:08 PM
2

Damn, and here I've got bad financial habits...
/r/PurplePillDebate20/10/22 10:59 AM
1

Yea, I've run into that one a couple of times, and one of those women is on the list twice.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/10/22 10:57 AM
2

I had to stop at 10, or the list would have kept on going.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/10/22 10:55 AM
1

Nope.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/10/22 10:47 AM
2

Yep, that's another one :p
/r/PurplePillDebate20/10/22 10:47 AM
4

Wow, you've led a charmed life! My red flags: Has an ex-husband recently escaped from prison. Is pregnant and isn't sure who the father is. Nazi tattoos. Tattoos of messages to their future selves. Turtle tattoos (LOOONG story). House arrest tether on ankle. Can of chewing tobacco rolled up in shirt sleeve. Falling down drunk at 10am on a Saturday morning. Majored in Psychology. "My name is Jennifer, but I am called Shenandoah."
/r/PurplePillDebate20/10/22 01:50 AM
0

It could be that the promiscuous women are rather rare, and most other women have extremely low n-counts... but I doubt it :)
/r/PurplePillDebate20/10/22 01:34 AM
3

I mean I’m one that goes to kink clubs to simply watch. I have some trauma OK, that explains a lot (not in a bad way); you just don't know the same kind of people. I have friends that do more, but even they aren’t Fucking every guy. I won't say, "every," but the standard is amazingly low. 30 partners is a pretty adventurous number. That is higher than mine, and I'm 45, but that's the point; I am not promiscuous. I'm not a prude, but I am particular about who I sleep with and why. For someone who…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/10/22 01:33 AM
12

So you’re telling me, in the realm of “women only fuck chads” you know multiple women whose bar for sex is “alive and well?” Yea, I consistently argue against the notion of women being picky, pointing to the (relative) success of PUA as evidence. And not just one woman..but several? Which part of, "I bounced for a strip club," was unclear? Is it somehow surprising that these women are sexually promiscuous? May I ask what brought you to this sub if you have access to so many women willing to slee…
/r/PurplePillDebate19/10/22 10:36 PM
9

Some of them blew past that in their teens; let's break it down: Pick up one person every weekend for 20 years; that's some of my friends. Go to a lot of swingers parties and orgies for 10 years; I really only know one person like that, not my scene. Work in the adult entertainment industry for 5 years (which winds up in near- or out-and-out prostitution most of the time); that's most of them, since that's where I tended to meet people like this. Keep a purse full of condoms on you at all times …
/r/PurplePillDebate19/10/22 09:59 PM
5

30s and 40s. To be fair, I met most of them working as a bouncer at a strip club, and we would hang out and play Magic and D&D after closing.
/r/PurplePillDebate19/10/22 09:41 PM
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It's less about the number than it is about the behavior; I have female friends with 4-digit n-counts, that I love dearly, but I would never date them because they don't take it seriously. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just not what I am looking for.
/r/PurplePillDebate19/10/22 09:23 PM
1

Studies either show that women are lonelier, men are lonelier or no gender difference. Well, that covers all the bases, doesn't it? :p
/r/PurplePillDebate18/10/22 09:59 PM
1

I'm 6'3", and while I've mostly dated shorter women (5' - 5'4"), I had a girlfriend in high school who was 6'1". It doesn't really matter to me one way or the other.
/r/PurplePillDebate18/10/22 09:47 PM
3

Without getting into the politics of the situation, let's remember that it is always the common men of both countries who suffer for the ambitions of others.
/r/MensRights21/09/22 09:50 PM
4

When you see something unfair, speak up; if enough people start to notice, then we might be able to fix it.
/r/MensRights11/09/22 09:21 PM
3

Nothing. We are inherently unequal, in several different aspects. The best we can do is to acknowledge that it goes both ways, we each have our advantages, and to address those inequalities in a fair and respectful manner.
/r/MensRights11/09/22 01:56 PM
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