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So what can we do to combat this mentality and treatment that men who do traditionally "feminine" things are less of a man? Stop using terms like 'mangina'?
/r/MensRights10/01/16 08:02 PM
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According to the article, Kevin Wilson, believed to be the unborn child's father, has been charged with child destruction and causing grievous bodily harm. Both offences carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Child destruction is an obscure crime, I'd not heard of it until this case. From the wikipedia article it seems that it only applies if an unborn child is unlawfully killed inside the womb. If it dies outside the body then it would be manslaughter or murder.
/r/MensRights19/06/15 11:28 PM
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I just feel that MRAs and feminists are at odds with each other That's an inherent part of the Men's Rights Movement. It's why it came into existence. The MRM is an anti-feminist offshoot of the pro-feminist Men's Movement.
/r/MensRights23/03/15 04:38 PM
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Do you still think 15% of all men are rapists by the way? I believe that between 5% and 15% of men are rapists. This belief is a result of my reading David Lisak's Rape Fact Sheet. Parts of this document are outdated now, such as the initial reference to a study in 2000 regarding female victimhood. However as far as I'm aware the studies mentioned on page 2 which discusses perpetrators are still valid. The section references 14 separate studies which use the methodology of a questionnaire. Of th…
/r/MensRights12/12/14 10:12 AM
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Do you not think the reason for the discrepancy between your experience and /u/misscatfreak's might be that a physical assault that leads to hospitalisation is highly visible whereas low level sexual assaults in the form of groping are not? You're seeing the former but not the latter, leading you to believe that retaliation by bystanders is a common consequence. There are all sorts of reasons why the victim of unwanted sexual touching might do nothing - surprise and shock, the tendency to 'freez…
/r/MensRights12/12/14 01:46 AM
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You don't think the problem with journalistic ethics in gaming is that the gaming media depends upon the big software companies, such as Blizzard and Ubisoft, for its advertising revenue, leading to an inevitable conflict of interest? Feminists such as Anita Sarkeesian, although the target of much criticism, seem like minor players. And Zoe Quinn, whose alleged affair started #gamergate, is even more minor.
/r/MensRights27/10/14 09:09 PM
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Are you saying that gamergate is not primarily concerned with journalistic ethics, but with opposing feminism? Afaict most of its defenders claim the former.
/r/MensRights27/10/14 02:30 PM
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The commentary is, I believe, correct. There have been studies that show violence against men is considered to be more acceptable than violence against women, and I think that's probably due to gender roles ie a social construct, though I have no evidence for this. I think that violence towards either sex can form part of a good joke. Equally it can form part of a bad joke, and sexism could be one reason for its being bad. The joke in the image I found to be mildly amusing. The fact that the fir…
/r/MensRights02/05/14 08:34 PM
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Which is better: 1) Marriage is only permissable between one man and one woman. 2) Marriage is permissable between one man and one or more women, but not between one woman and more than one man. Option 2 permits more freedom but is sexist, whereas option 1 is not sexist but permits less freedom. Both are equally homophobic, so that's a non-issue in deciding between them.
/r/MensRights02/05/14 03:51 PM
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It has been claimed that half of all suffragettes were anti-war, which was probably a much higher percentage than the general population. As I understand it, the actions which were considered particularly extreme at the time were things like the pinning of feathers on soldiers who were home on leave. So the objection from wider society would not have been that members of the Order of the White Feather were requiring an excessive display of masculinity, but that they were wrong in trying to shame…
/r/MensRights01/05/14 11:52 PM
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Support for the war was widespread throughout British society, it's not as if the suffragettes who did support it were unique in their militarism. And quite a few opposed the war. This article claims half, which would indicate that suffragettes were unusually anti-war, in comparison to their contemporaries.
/r/MensRights01/05/14 11:16 PM
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When WWI started most suffragettes stopped campaigning for women's suffrage, and spent their time assisting the war effort. The handing out of white feathers had nothing to do with their feminism, non-suffragists were part of the campaign too, and everything to do with them seeing themselves as patriots wanting to 'do their bit' for king & country. The campaign was founded by Admiral Charles Fitzgerald (who I'm guessing wasn't a suffragette) and the author Mary Augusta Ward, president of the Wom…
/r/MensRights01/05/14 10:29 PM
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If men are raped in fewer numbers, does that make male rape less important? Yes, it does. Not to the individuals who have been raped, but in determining how many resources to allocate to solve the problem. We should divert greater amounts of money to solve more prevalent and more serious problems. For example more funds should be spent on curing heart disease than on fatal familial insomnia (a very rare condition).
/r/MensRights01/05/14 10:14 PM
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Bear in mind that in the 1970s feminists tried to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (they were defeated by social conservatives) which would probably have applied the draft equally to both sexes. Feminists aren't responsible for suicide, or war, or workplace deaths, or homicide. Men are pressured into risk-taking by traditional gender roles, which have been around for thousands of years, and have been consistently opposed by feminists.
/r/MensRights01/05/14 10:02 PM
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I see the term 'Nice Guy' as describing a fairly limited range of behaviour. If we're talking about all possible actions, by 'nice guys', 'Nice Guys', or guys who don't fit either term then the range is certainly much wider, as you say.
/r/MensRights01/05/14 05:08 PM
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It's a chain of fast food restaurants named after the character from Popeye. Wimpy
/r/MensRights25/04/14 03:16 PM
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My understanding of the Nice Guy: Feels sexual attraction early on. Keeps this secret and begins a friendship. This friendship is fake, he really only wants sex. Makes the first move after friendship has become established. This is a bit different to Markley's Nice Guy: May or may not feel sexual attraction initially. Establishes a friendship which may be genuine. Waits for the woman to make the first move. Which is different again from the stereotypical female strategy: Wait for the man to make…
/r/MensRights21/04/14 10:05 PM
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The "gap" in the wage gap affords the person with that gap more free time to pursue their own interests That free time tends to be filled with childcare and domestic work. Women and men work almost the same number of hours, it's just women aren't paid for it. Suicide tends to not be a "choice" for an individual and is the result of them feeling beyond any human comprehension that they "have no other choice". This reraises the issue of the reason for the discrepancy between men and women. If indi…
/r/MensRights21/04/14 08:35 PM
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I agree, societal pressure is the main reason for the difference in suicide rates. But isn't that also the main reason why mothers stay at home while fathers keep working? Whether we see these as free choices, or severely limited due to gender roles, both men and women are in the same situation. So we should either take action on both issues - suicide rates and the pay gap - or neither.
/r/MensRights21/04/14 05:28 PM
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I suppose it depends on whether we consider suicide to be a rational response to intolerable conditions - irreversible illness, depression, shame - or an action that's due to a malfunctioning brain that can be treated. It seems that men suffer from depression about as often as women but the male response is a lot more likely to be suicide, whereas the female response is more likely to be to seek treatment. If this difference isn't a matter of rational personal choice, then does that mean male br…
/r/MensRights21/04/14 01:40 PM
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Aren't many of these differences - such as suicide, deaths due to dangerous jobs, and child custody - a matter of personal choice? If the wage gap is deemed to be a non-issue because it's largely due to the personal choice made by women to stay at home and raise children, then these must also be non-issues, otherwise there's a double standard.
/r/MensRights21/04/14 01:12 PM
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You raise an interesting point. I think it's necessary to distinguish between three sorts of arousal - the physical and mental arousal of the male character, and the reader's mental arousal. The protagonist must be experiencing physical arousal for the rape to occur, but I don't think he is portrayed as experiencing mental arousal. Is the erotic way the scene is depicted, which seems intended to excite the reader, also intended as a metaphor* for an aspect of the character's arousal, either phys…
/r/MensRights10/04/14 09:36 PM
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A character can have a conventionally attractive body, without the artwork lingering over their body's sexual characteristics. The art can't make up its mind whether this rape is supposed to be horrible or arousing. I'm not sure whether this ambivalence is intentional or merely a facet of comic tradition and commercial pressures.
/r/MensRights10/04/14 08:27 PM
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It's not that the character is sexually attractive, it's the, in my view, unnecessarily eroticised nature of some of the panels, mostly on page 8, which cuts against the message in the rest of the comic, leading to a more ambiguous overall message. Specifically: the four panels on page 8 which show the attacker's breasts from various angles - two from the side, one from above and one from below; the panel showing her hip and thigh as she pins down the protagonist's arm; and several panels featur…
/r/MensRights10/04/14 08:04 PM
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This is partly unsuccessful, I feel, due to the strongly eroticised depiction of the female rapist in the rape scene panels on page 8. It's too titillating for the reader to view the rape as wholly undesirable.
/r/MensRights10/04/14 06:24 PM
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people crossing the street Oh, the humanity!
/r/MensRights08/04/14 09:51 PM
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Also what about the Aurora shooting where 3 guys acted as shields in front of their girlfriends and died protecting them. Would a woman ever do that and why not? Yes, a woman would do that. Sophie Lancaster died protecting her boyfriend from attack.
/r/MensRights13/09/13 06:29 PM
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You make very good points. I think you're right that it's not so much feminine behaviour in men that's despised, but failure to live up to masculine ideals. Male failure is a very shameful thing, which may be part of the reason male suicide is much higher. What about female failure? It seems to me that women are primarily criticised in three areas - being a bad mother, promiscuity, and failing to meet beauty standards.
/r/MensRights15/08/13 09:03 AM
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I think it's true that each gender polices its own. Men police men with homophobia and misogyny - 'faggot', 'pussy', 'mangina'. Women police women with slut-shaming and body-shaming.
/r/MensRights14/08/13 03:41 PM
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It's true that the Iraq Body Count data shows overwhelmingly male casualties, but other studies have shown much closer male:female ratios. A common conclusion is that more men die from war directly, but more women die from the indirect consequences of war, such as disease and starvation. Armed Conflict Deaths Disaggregated by Gender is a review of the literature that includes both Iraq Body Count and many other studies. The research we have explored uses different datasets and investigates diffe…
/r/MensRights13/08/13 09:11 AM
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You're right. Gender roles hurt everyone. Society is in a transitional stage. The old patriarchal world where the man was the provider and defender has collapsed as women entered the workplace. But, as a society, we haven't fully grasped the concept of equality, as evidenced by the fact that men are still expected to pay for dinner and so forth. There needs to be a feminism for men, a masculism, that's really focused on dismantling male gender roles. Imho, the MRM is not that movement yet becaus…
/r/MensRights12/08/13 09:59 PM
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Yet more evidence that dogs are the most privileged group in America today.
/r/MensRights12/08/13 09:27 PM
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I agree with you that the wealthy are the most privileged group. One of the classic texts about white privilege, Allen's The Invention of the White Race, makes much the same point about blacks and whites being played off against one another. From the wikipedia article on white privilege: In his historical work Allen maintained: that the “white race” was invented as a ruling class social control formation in the late 17th/early 18th century Anglo-American plantation colonies (principally Virginia…
/r/MensRights12/08/13 04:58 PM
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It's estimated that the total difference is 23%, though most of that is down, as you say, to personal choice. The discriminatory component is 5-7%. Source The 1-2% figure might be referring to federal government workers. Source
/r/MensRights11/08/13 10:32 PM
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I rewrote my post since that quote, but yes I think that's certainly a privilege, at least the 5-7% of that that's estimated to be due to sexist discrimination. Men didn't earn that 5-7%, it isn't due to working harder, or having better qualifications, or being better at their jobs. It's pure privilege. It's affirmative action for men.
/r/MensRights11/08/13 10:02 PM
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To talk about a group being privileged, or discriminated against, is not to attribute any quality to the group itself (or to members of the group), but rather is a statement about how the group is treated by society is a whole. For instance, the statement "black people are lazy" is racist, but the statement "black people face numerous forms of discrimination" is not racist, but rather a statement about how the group is treated. In the same way, the statement "men are less intelligent than women"…
/r/MensRights11/08/13 09:39 PM
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I think a feminist would be more likely to want to teach self-confidence, assertiveness and, possibly, practical self-defence techniques, believing that those are more important factors than clothing. A confident person might wear revealing clothes, but wouldn't necessarily, and their confidence should be apparent thru body language and demeanour. Also feminists usually want women to have more freedom over aspects of their lives such as what clothing they wear.
/r/MensRights11/08/13 09:14 PM
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"While people perceive dress to have an impact on who is assaulted, studies of rapists suggest that victim attire is not a significant factor. Instead, rapists look for signs of passiveness and submissiveness, which, studies suggest, are more likely to coincide with more body-concealing clothing." Source
/r/MensRights11/08/13 06:44 PM
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All feminists don't believe the same thing. Equity feminists, such as Christina Hoff Sommers, believe that the goals of feminism - equality under the law - have been mostly, or even completely, achieved in the United States. Two of her books are on the /r/MensRights suggested reading list in the right sidebar.
/r/MensRights11/08/13 01:24 PM
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If women really want laws like this, fine, then stop requiring men to take all of the initiative, and stop shooting guys down for not being aggressive enough. Women aren't a monolithic group.
/r/MensRights11/08/13 01:11 PM
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Silence absolutely can be consenting to sex. When animals, including humans, experience extreme fear, one possible physical response is to completely freeze, a state known as tonic immobility, or, colloquially, 'playing possum'. In such a state a person would be silent, without this silence indicating consent to sex. The existence of such a response is one reason to adopt a 'Yes Means Yes' approach.
/r/MensRights11/08/13 01:06 PM
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It should be possible to be both. Consider that feminist author, Susan Faludi wrote both Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, and Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. The latter text addresses many of the same concerns as the MRM. There seems to be general agreement within both feminism and the MRM that traditional gender roles should be rejected. In our post-industrial society, there should be no requirement on men to be tough, strong and emotionless, and no requirement on…
/r/MensRights10/08/13 04:12 PM
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Statements such as "men have a natural predisposition towards violence" or "men are slaves to their sexual desires" could be seen as misandrist, as they are claiming that men cannot control their own actions. Such ideas are relatively commonplace.
/r/MensRights09/08/13 03:18 PM
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