CatsAndSwords Archive

Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

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14	Saw a comment claiming that Domestic violence in lesbian couples is lower and according to this perpetrators are not women. How true is it? The claim is about IPV rates in lesbian relationships. The statistics about the gender of the perpetrator are for CSV (and stalking). IPV and CSV are not the same thing.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	17/07/26 08:29 AM
5	The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Male Intimate Partner Violence Victims Some of the answers are in the article! Almost half of the participants indicated that their partner’s aggression became either more severe and/or more frequent during the COVID-19 pandemic. [...] This data supports what is seen in other studies that explored women’s victimization (e.g., Boxall & Morgan, 2020) and studies exploring a more inclusive range of victim groups (e.g., Thiel et al., 2022). For example, Gilchrist et al. (2023) found across a range of gender and sexual orientation groups …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	07/05/26 12:11 PM
2	Does this Women’s Aid statement come across as dismissive of male victims, or am I reading too much into it? Not only that, many men try to "protect" their "masculinity", for lack of better word, because being victimized by a woman is often considered emasculating. Something that feminists, who so often love to talk about masculinity and its trappings, should know if they actually cared about men. There is another similar problem (in the linked article, but also on many studied on the subject). The authors focus a lot on fear, which is very feminine-coded. Men will be less likely, if not to feel fear, …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/04/26 06:15 AM
19	Does this Women’s Aid statement come across as dismissive of male victims, or am I reading too much into it? Focusing only on how they dismiss male victims of domestic violence: The subject has been extensively studied. They cite a single, 25-years old, N=44 study in Scotland only. That screams cherry-picking. They again cherry-pick what they want in the article, an reformulate it in a way that diminishes these men's experiences. For instance: a majority of men who said that they were victims of domestic violence were also perpetrators of violence Notice, by the way, that they say they were victims (ca…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	25/04/26 01:36 PM
21	My quick look and thoughts about the study ‘I’m a red-blooded male’: Understanding men’s experiences of domestic abuse through a feminist lens Thanks for the head up! While I have a few reservations about it, I must acknowledge that I really appreciate a research project that actually listen to victims -- in this case, male victims -- and relay their voices. Now, I am a bit wary about their "man box" framework. Like much talk about "masculinity", it is used as a way to put on men the responsibility for the gender norms they adhere to, and to avoid to contemplate the pressures they face. For instance, I found some part of the conclusion…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	07/04/25 07:17 AM
19	Male perpetrators of sexual violence are under-reported in comparison to female perpetrators of sexual violence. Thoughts? As already commented, the first one is not a research paper. In particular, the key sentence Male perpetrated violence, particularly sexual violence, including pressure or coercion, is a highly stigmatized behavior and likely under-reported in a way that is not comparable to female's reports of violence perpetration. has absolutely no evidence to support it. Great work. The second one is a research report. As already noticed, it has issues of sample size. However, I think that there a more sever…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	19/12/24 08:53 PM
2	Intersectionality is not coming to save men. So, there is a stronger version of intersectionality that I want to address (some steelmaning doesn't hurt). The conclusion is the same, but the reasoning slightly different. Ideally, intersectionality is not just about studying finer categories; that needs no specific theory. It's about how stereotypes and discrimination on a sub-category (e.g. "black woman") comes from the interaction of the stereotypes about the larger categories ("black" and "woman"). In other words, it's about replacing the…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	29/01/24 10:19 PM
3	criticism for gender symmetry in DV? Overall, I agree that it doesn’t matter if there is symmetry. My main issue is people saying that it’s rare when it’s not. I managed to access two recent papers mentioned by OP (Cunningham/Anderson and Fanslow & al.). Both claim asymmetry, but they don't show that male victims are rare. A 60/40 or 70/30 W/M ratio is not enough to justify the kind of unbalanced resources and discrimination we have now. I'd have no qualms using these works to argue for more resources for men. "rare", for me, would…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	29/12/23 09:50 AM
4	If you guys want some insight into what it’s like being a boy in the education system right now… I would say that it's not just women, but that has already been talked about. Instead, I'll talk about some strategies that these teachers use to deflect their responsibilites. It's about parents or peers, not teachers (or more generally, schools). Of course teachers have no biases and a purely positive influence, but if their pupils are badly raised at home, there is only so much they can do /s What shocks me the most is the wide use of "biotruths". If you said there that girls don't do science…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	23/10/23 05:14 AM
13	What are your guys’ thoughts on the whole “men are more likely to divorce their partners if they develop an illness or disability” thing The study on which this idea is based is Gender disparity in the rate of partner abandonment in patients with serious medical illness, 2009. This is far from the only study on the subject, but it found a large echo (here on a NYT blog), and these statistics are the one which get cited in the wild. On the one hand, I don't see anything immediately wrong with this study. The population is small (or even very small), we don't have the data, and the study was done in 3 clinics in a single area, but …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	26/04/23 12:21 PM
1	Critiquing the Mikael Elinder/Oscar Erixson study of maritime disasters. I think it would be much better, although not without difficulties in the model. That said, as OP remarks, they would then have 18 data points, and not multiple thousands, so their findings become much less significant. It would actually be quite interesting to see which of their results would still hold.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	22/09/21 07:21 AM
3	Critiquing the Mikael Elinder/Oscar Erixson study of maritime disasters. Nice find. I think there is a problem that you mentioned in passing, but without getting into the details, and which seems pretty damning from a statistic standpoint. Their model has this specification: The unit of analysis is the individual passenger or crew member. This means that they consider the survival of each passenger to be independent from the others. For instance, if you do the simplest men:women comparisons, their model specify that each man has a probability of survival p(man), each…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	21/09/21 02:36 PM
1	School Officials In France Invite Boys To Wear Skirts On Friday To Protest Sexism I'll quote and translate some excerpts from one of the high-schooler who organized this<sup>[1]</sup> : [Ordinary sexism] is made of regards, words and small things, girls and boys who dare not wear freely what they want to. In general, the world we're living in is not always egalitarian or fair towards women, but also sometimes towards men. ~ We use skirts to symbolize the gap between genders. [...] Today, on the one hand men are not allowed to wear skirts, and on the other hand a woman who wea…	/r/MensRights	16/05/14 07:24 PM
2	The much higher rate of male suicide only started in the late 60s early 70s Here are a few statistics (% of suicides commited by men): Austria (1873-1877): 82,1 Prussia (1831-1840): 81,9 Prussia (1871-1876): 81,9 Italy (1872-1877): 80 Saxony (1851-1860): 79,1 Saxony (1871-1876): 80,7 France (1836-1840): 74,3 France (1851-1855): 74,8 France (1871-1876): 78,7 Denmark (1845-1856): 75,0 Denmark (1870-1876): 76,9 England (1863-1867): 73,3 Source: Suicide, E. Durkheim, 1897. Not really sure about what the OP tried to show, or where their numbers come from... Edit: Note that t…	/r/MensRights	13/02/14 01:04 PM
2	Australian Sex Discrimination Commission OKs paying men less for the same work These policies are not only bad (as in discriminatory - but other people have already talked about that), but also kind of stupid. Even from a feminist or egalitarianist standpoint, they do not make sense. Let us assume that we are looking for policies that try, to some extent, to abolish the traditional gender roles. For instance, you would like women to work as much as men, be as well paid (no more or less), and you would like men to care for their children as much as women. Now, imagine a you…	/r/MensRights	02/08/13 10:59 AM
7	If there are more women than men in the United States. then why are there still discrimination laws against women. Don't try to read more than what I wrote. I don't say that the situation of women in the Western world is the same as the situation of the black people in the Apartheid-era South Africa. That would be stupid. I just say that OP's argument does not hold water, with a quite extreme example.	/r/MensRights	23/02/13 10:25 PM
17	If there are more women than men in the United States. then why are there still discrimination laws against women. That's not a good argument. Being the demographic majority does not means you can't be discriminated against. Case in point.	/r/MensRights	23/02/13 09:40 PM
5	Hardly thread-worthy, but i'm tired of all men being portrayed like this. This does not explain such a large discrepancy. These surveys claims that men, on average, have two to three times as many partners than women. This would mean that there are two to three times as many non-virgin women as there are non-virgin men. Since, there are roughly as many men as women, even if there were no virgin women, this would mean that one half to two thirds of the men are virgins. This is preposterous. I'll stick with the explanation that "women under-report, men over-report", plu…	/r/MensRights	24/11/12 02:52 PM
1	My ex-gf took over my home and won't let me in. What am I supposed to do?(r/AskReddit) I still prefer the possibility that he is making that up. That would mean nobody (or at least, one person less) got locked out by a cheating ex-girlfriend, and tomorrow this thread will be forgotten.	/r/MensRights	07/10/12 05:47 PM
0	Male decline is no myth: Why that New York Times op-ed has it wrong. - Slate Magazine About this sentence: "The new development is this: For many jobs there are a lot more young Suzies in those cubicles these days than young Bills. That’s why these young women as a group have a higher median income." I think she is right, but there is a non-trivial reasoning behind the "that's why". In the general population, there is roughly as many women as men, and significantly less working women than working men. So the claimed fact that "there are a lot more young Suzies in those cubicles t…	/r/MensRights	05/10/12 05:39 PM
2	Frenchman recieves 800,000 euros for false child rape conviction The French justice is notoriously very stingy. That's not an excuse for such a low compensation; I just want to point out that this happens in almost any situation, except perhaps if the compensation is awarded to somebody rich and famous (which then might gain up to 45.000.000€ as a moral compensation for some fiscal and judicial imbroglio).	/r/MensRights	28/09/12 10:04 AM
6	Study shows gender bias in science is real. Here’s why it matters. Tough luck for you. Graduate degree in probability/statistics, finishing a PhD, and teaching assistant (including for a statistic class) here. That's for the ad hominem. When you're dealing with millions a sample size of 127 is not going to cut the mustard. The whole point of statistics is that the population size does not matter. Only the sample size matters. Be it one thousand, one million, one billion or more, the precision of the study will be the same. So comparing the sample size of 127 to…	/r/MensRights	25/09/12 01:59 AM
4	Study shows gender bias in science is real. Here’s why it matters. To quote the article: Fig. 1. [...] All student genders differences are significant (P < 0.001). Fig. 2. [...] The student gender difference is significant (P < 0.01). You can also have a look at the standard errors on the graph (small tip: if you double the size of the boxes, you get confidence intervals at 95%). I am all for criticizing statistics, but it is better to actually read the study before.	/r/MensRights	24/09/12 08:03 PM
3	Not surprisingly, Naomi Wolf can no longer tell the difference between her brain and her vagina. Okay, time to answer a few points. More remarkably, few of us know that when a woman has an orgasm – and, even before that, when she feels empowered to think about pleasurable sex, anticipate it, focus on how to get it, and feels in control of and knowledgeable enough about her body to know she can probably reach orgasm during sex – her brain gets a boost of the neurotransmitter dopamine. Then, in orgasm, opioids and oxytocin are also released. Well, dopamine is the neurotransmitter that drives …	/r/MensRights	10/09/12 12:34 PM