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| 41 | Senate Armed Services Committee approves draft registration for womenIt looks like Republicans on the committee split 7-6 in favor with all Democrats supporting the change. | /r/MensRights | 16/06/22 02:47 AM |
| 2 | Selective Service Reform AWOL in 2022 NDAA (again); What Happens Now? - We MUST be active and equalize or abolish the Selective Service with NDAA 2023I know, but their headline made it seem like it was already considered again in 2022. | /r/MensRights | 17/03/22 08:48 PM |
| 2 | Selective Service Reform AWOL in 2022 NDAA (again); What Happens Now? - We MUST be active and equalize or abolish the Selective Service with NDAA 2023Lawfare's headline is slightly misleading. It makes it seem like Congress again considered and rejected gender-neutral SS registration when they are referring to what happened with the FY 2022 NDAA which was passed late last year. The next NDAA markup will likely happen sometime this summer for FY 2023. Still, it's good to see a reputable site continuing to deal with this issue. I've always thought that the longer the status quo remains in place, the more and more ridiculous and out of step it w… | /r/MensRights | 17/03/22 08:33 PM |
| 1 | After 46 Years, Illinois Ratifies ERAThey're 1 state short (the 35 states in the 70s + Nevada in 2017 and Illinois in 2018). As stated in my other comment on this post, most believe that Virginia is the best candidate for number 38. | /r/MensRights | 01/06/18 12:50 AM |
| 2 | After 46 Years, Illinois Ratifies ERAThe reason there is a push for states to continue to ratify the amendment is because legal scholars argue that Congress could retroactively repeal the deadline. | /r/MensRights | 31/05/18 08:33 PM |
| 7 | After 46 Years, Illinois Ratifies ERAFor anyone who's wondering why this is significant, the deadline that congress imposed on the ERA back in the 70s was not included in the actual text of the proposed amendment, so that deadline could be retroactively repealed by a simple majority vote. This brings the total to 37 states that have ratified the ERA. Only one more state is necessary, and the concensus among activists and observers seems to be that Virginia is the best bet. Nevada ratified the ERA last year, so there seems to be som… | /r/MensRights | 31/05/18 07:16 PM |
| 3 | Update on the NCFM lawsuit against the Selective Service SystemI don't pretend to know what will happen with certainty, but the longer the law remains unchanged, the more and more ridiculous it looks to more people. Whatever happens with this particular lawsuit, the status quo can't go on forever. | /r/MensRights | 28/05/18 08:20 PM |
| 8 | Update on the NCFM lawsuit against the Selective Service SystemCorrect. It's an equal protection challenge to the SS law as currently written. The Pentagon's recent removal of combat restrictions on women gives the lawsuit a good chance of succeeding, as the restrictions were the basis for the Supreme Court's decision upholding the law in 1981. | /r/MensRights | 28/05/18 05:59 PM |
| 20 | Update on the NCFM lawsuit against the Selective Service SystemThere is also another lawsuit against the SSS filed by a woman in New Jersey who was not allowed to register. That case is a little further behind this one, but I will also try to post the updates on that case as I find them. Hopefully both lawsuits are successful. | /r/MensRights | 28/05/18 04:07 PM |
| 8 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thinks Some College Title IX Trials Are Unfair to the AccusedRosen: What about due process for the accused? Ginsburg: Well, that must not be ignored and it goes beyond sexual harassment. The person who is accused has a right to defend herself or himself, and we certainly should not lose sight of that. Recognizing that these are complaints that should be heard. There's been criticism of some college codes of conduct for not giving the accused person a fair opportunity to be heard, and that's one of the basic tenets of our system, as you know, everyone dese… | /r/MensRights | 19/02/18 04:09 PM |
| 2 | Finnish presidential candidate (Social Democrat) doesn't want the army to be mandatory for women because they give birth and are weaker. She's naturally a Feminist and campaigning for equality. According to polls almost no-one is going to vote for her, thank God.Norway and Sweden have both required women to serve on the same basis as men in recent years. I wonder what kind of reaction there has been to this (if any) inside Finland. Is the country really that culturally different than its neighbors? | /r/MensRights | 28/01/18 04:32 AM |
| 2 | Pentagon recommends requiring women to register for the draftThis will be important when Congress begins working on the 2019 NDAA early next year. | /r/MensRights | 28/10/17 10:45 PM |
| 4 | Evergreen State Faces $2.1 MILLION Budget Crisis After Radical Students Go BerserkI think the University of Missouri has had the same problem ever since the Melissa Click mess went viral. It looks like even the kids are starting to revolt against this nonsense. | /r/MensRights | 02/09/17 12:44 AM |
| 5 | Political correctness gone mad? Loonatics Push to change Father's Day to 'Special Persons' Day' so children without dads aren't offended.Didn't 4chan come up with some 'feminist' anti-father's day campaign as a troll a couple of years ago? Are we really living in a world where this crowd will eventually live up to even the most ridiculous caricatures of themselves? | /r/MensRights | 26/08/17 08:52 PM |
| 3 | Bill Cosby Spokesman to Gloria Allred: 'Go Back to Law School'Gloria Allred is a buffoon and an embarrassment to the legal profession. From the Daily Beast: My Gloria Allred Nightmare. | /r/MensRights | 18/06/17 12:31 AM |
| 19 | Harvard pushing ahead with ban on men-only finals clubs, delaying ban on women-only clubs. Is anyone the slightest bit surprised by the hypocrisy?Any man who is penalized for belonging to a male only club should make a title IX complaint. | /r/MensRights | 23/04/17 10:54 PM |
| 3 | WomenLaw And The Right To TamponsThe best part of the piece: It may well be the case that some poor women are forced to choose between tampons and food for their children. It would be similarly true that poor women are forced to choose between the gas needed to fuel their cars to get to work or food for their children. The list of choices in the allocation of scare resources with food for their children can go on for a very long time. So should they all be free? Should they all be untaxed? They should, and there is a strong arg… | /r/MensRights | 19/04/17 01:51 AM |
| 32 | Texas A & M to force last male dorm to go coed while keeping 4 dorms all female because can't have any male spaces.It says they filed a title IX complaint, which is good to hear. The only way you'll get universities to respect men's rights is by using the courts to force them to. | /r/MensRights | 16/04/17 03:16 AM |
| 38 | "Even with numbing, it still hurt so badly that Danny screamed so hard, which caused his lungs to collapse." Circumcision gone wrong.For the love of God, end this barbaric practice now. | /r/MensRights | 28/03/17 10:53 PM |
| 1 | Gamergate's Brianna Wu Doesn't Understand How Gravity Works. She thinks rocks can be dropped off the moon to hit the Earth.It would be funny though watching her try to explain gamergate (and why they should care about it) to voters in South Boston. | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 11:28 PM |
| 5 | Gamergate's Brianna Wu Doesn't Understand How Gravity Works. She thinks rocks can be dropped off the moon to hit the Earth.And this woman wants to be in Congress. | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 05:46 AM |
| 2 | Rebecca Solnit, Who Helped Popularize ‘Mansplaining,’ Is the Queen of Fauxminism and FakeryA nice takedown of the woman who popularized 'mansplaining' by Cathy Young. | /r/MensRights | 15/03/17 04:40 PM |
| 3 | Prison Sucks, Women Hit HardestThis is a really great piece & a fairly short read, so I don't think a tldr is necessary. I was especially happy to see the author call out the double standards with regard to the concern for the impact of imprisoning mothers vs imprisoning fathers, as well as the fact that women already receive less time for the same crimes. | /r/MensRights | 15/03/17 03:42 PM |
| 1 | ""There is lots of evidence that it's actually women and children who could stand to be most affected by climate change,"Evidence? | /r/MensRights | 06/03/17 03:36 AM |
| 8 | Unlawful “speech tax” gets written off. "Cal Poly Confirms Change in Security Fee Policy After Student Group Alleges Double Standard". Feminists will now find it hard to silence opposition.It's mind boggling that universities still try to get away with this. It's been clearly established law for many decades that content-based restrictions on speech and these type of "security fees" are impermissible under the 1st Amendment, but there are still schools that try to sneak this stuff through. Universities always lose these cases/always have to back down when confronted, but they just don't seem to ever give up. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/17 10:01 PM |
| 1 | Democrat Cory Booker now attacking FIRE for defending men's due process rightsI honestly think Booker's an ideal opponent to have, as the guy is totally clueless and hapless as a politician. He has a habit of saying stupid things and making unforced errors whenever he grandstands on something. He's been 100% hype from day one, but people are just now starting to catch on. We could do a lot worse than having such a cheesy, disingenuous, used car salesman as an opponent. | /r/MensRights | 08/02/17 02:04 AM |
| 2 | Need help finding scholarly sources for a Men's Rights Senior research paper?Here's an overview of a really good source on sentencing disparities in the US Justice system from a University of Michigan law professor. Here's a link to the pdf. | /r/MensRights | 07/02/17 04:43 AM |
| 3 | Marvel's Big Plans For 2017 - Never Mind The PoliticsI posted this here mostly because there have been several other posts here in the past about Marvel's recent turn towards heavy handed politics (including pop feminism). This will be a welcome change if true. Archive version. | /r/MensRights | 07/02/17 01:26 AM |
| 9 | So I'm a liberal...I'm also fairly liberal, although I'm a civil libertarian first and foremost. As long as you're a consistent and principled advocate for equality, you'll fit in just fine. | /r/MensRights | 02/02/17 12:44 AM |
| 17 | Judge Wears Feminist Symbol to Court, Raises Questions About Her Fairness Towards MenImagine the uproar if a judge wore a MAGA hat in the courtroom. Edit - For the record, neither would be appropriate. I just want to point out that the reaction to a judge who wore a MAGA hat would likely be very different. | /r/MensRights | 02/02/17 12:41 AM |
| 1 | Book Review: The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack On Due Process At America’s UniversitiesA really nice review of KC Johnson's new book on Title IX overreach by Scott Greenfield. Johnson is also guest blogging about this issue at the Volokh Conspiracy for anyone who is interested. | /r/MensRights | 01/02/17 07:14 PM |
| 2 | Planet Fitness this morningThey put up similar signs in my workplace (for both male cleaning staff in women's bathrooms and vice versa). Although I don't blame you for being suspicious, considering that even today instances of men's privacy being given less importance than women's still pop up occasionally. | /r/MensRights | 01/02/17 02:44 PM |
| 2 | European Court validates life imprisonment for men only.I tried reading through the whole thing and it seems like the court just sidestepped the issue of sex discrimination and said that the Russian government can do whatever it wants in this area. I'm not really familiar with European law, but it would seem that this court is either incompetent (if such a matter is within their jurisdiction) or useless (if it is not). | /r/MensRights | 26/01/17 04:54 PM |
| 2 | Marvel continues its descent into PC hell...Yeah, I'm a fan of Black Knight (Bob Harras was on Avengers when I first started reading comics as a little kid), and I have a strong dislike of white knights, so I thought it was the perfect name for me. | /r/MensRights | 25/01/17 12:07 PM |
| 1 | Marvel continues its descent into PC hell...Thanks. I'll look into them. | /r/MensRights | 24/01/17 11:48 PM |
| 2 | Marvel continues its descent into PC hell...Well, that certainly explains your username! Ha! That's the first time in two years that anyone has noticed! | /r/MensRights | 24/01/17 11:08 PM |
| 28 | Marvel continues its descent into PC hell...I stopped buying new Marvel comics a couple of years ago out of frustration with the constant crossovers, re-numberings, reboots, etc. I occasionally get the urge to see what's happened in the Marvel Universe since I left, but whenever I do, I always come across something like this that immediately kills any interest that I may have had in picking up any new issues. Marvel's political agenda has pretty much ensured that this lifelong reader will spend his money elsewhere. | /r/MensRights | 24/01/17 10:26 PM |
| 5 | Write your senators to let them know you don't support smearing FIREI guess that whole "support and defend the Constitution" oath that Senators take doesn't actually mean a whole lot. When I write my Senators, I'll be sure to include a link to the open letter from the Harvard Law Professors highlighting the importance of due process on college campuses. | /r/MensRights | 11/01/17 07:17 AM |
| 8 | Here we go. DeVos' donations spark questions about her stance on campus sexual assaultIt seems as if the Democrats can't stop themselves from attacking the least objectionable things that Trump supports. Between stuff like this and their Russia obsession, they are proving they've learned nothing from the election, and they're as out of touch with what people care about as ever. And I say this as someone who has usually voted for them in the past. | /r/MensRights | 11/01/17 12:16 AM |
| 86 | My school forces me to validate myths that don't existI don't want to be responsible for getting you a bad grade from a vindictive teacher, so I won't tell you what to do, but if you want to tell the truth, I would suggest reading something from Christina Hoff Sommers on the "wage gap." This should get you started. She's written a lot about this issue, and has also made some videos that are available on YouTube. | /r/MensRights | 06/01/17 03:19 PM |
| 3 | Police investigate gun-related threat at the screening of controversial movie The Red Pill.Since announcing their plans to hold a local screening of the anti-feminist feature length film on January 14, Men’s Rights Brisbane say they have received a number of threats, with on Twitter user saying they hoped “someone shoots up that event Batman movie premiere style — dead MRAs (men’s rights activists) — cool!”. I wonder if this will get the usual coverage that the "threats" received by feminists get. I'm guessing it will be ignored to preserve the narrative that this kind of thing is on… | /r/MensRights | 05/01/17 09:47 AM |
| 5 | How Is This Acceptable?That place looks like a dump. | /r/MensRights | 30/12/16 07:16 PM |
| 7 | Read the comments, the discourse is changing.Regular people are much saner than the media class. The reason the media types hate comments sections so much is that they expose how out of touch they are with the average person. Double standards just don't seem right to most people, but media elites always have some impenetrable academic 'social justice' logic to justify their own prejudices. If you give regular people a voice, a lot of them are going to call bullshit on this stuff. | /r/MensRights | 21/12/16 10:38 PM |
| 31 | A post I made on askreddit about locker room double standards. I want more people to know what it's really like.If there's a disparity in the level of privacy that male and female athletes receive on your campus, you should consider making a title IX complaint. I agree that this is an important issue. It annoys me to no end whenever I hear about men's privacy being given less importance than women's. I always say that people need to stand up for their rights. You'd be surprised how often making an official complaint or threatening to sue will work. I've always felt that professional athletes should claim … | /r/MensRights | 21/12/16 04:12 PM |
| 11 | University of Minnesota Football Team Boycotts ‘Unjust Title IX Investigation’I know other versions of this story have already been posted, but Robby Soave has had consistently excellent coverage of this issue, so I thought I would post his piece. Student-athlete Drew Wolitarsky read a statement on behalf of the team Thursday night in which he blamed the administration for conducting an "unjust Title IX investigation without due process." "We are concerned that our brothers have been named publicly with reckless disregard in violation of their constitutional rights," he s… | /r/MensRights | 16/12/16 08:46 PM |
| 3 | Judge rules: "Hundreds of women and children are released from Texas immigration detention facilities." Plaintiff Bob Libal claimed conditions were "equivalent to prisons". No mention that 1200 men remain behind bars.If they're already in the U.S., then yes. | /r/MensRights | 14/12/16 05:00 PM |
| 8 | Judge rules: "Hundreds of women and children are released from Texas immigration detention facilities." Plaintiff Bob Libal claimed conditions were "equivalent to prisons". No mention that 1200 men remain behind bars.Whatever your opinion is on immigration, if you're going to release people from detention, it shouldn't be in a discriminatory manner. The guys stuck in these detention centers should sue ICE for violating their equal protection rights. | /r/MensRights | 14/12/16 03:52 PM |
| 8 | Education Dept's Overreaching Office of Civil Rights Fears the End Is NearWhatever one thinks of Trump, this has to be applauded. | /r/MensRights | 12/12/16 03:40 AM |
| 7 | Baby Dies of Herpes Virus in Ritual Circumcision in NYC Orthodox Jewish CommunitySeriously, fuck the pandering New York politicians who let this continue. | /r/MensRights | 08/12/16 06:51 PM |
| 2 | Pizzagate vs ‘The Steubenville Rape Crew’ – A Tale of Two HoaxesI don't necessarily believe in "pizzagate" (and neither does the author), but the article makes some good points about how the media treats conspiracy theories that fit their agenda vs. those that are inconvenient. Posted to this sub because men's rights are frequently a casualty of this bias (like in the other episode cited in the article), and also because Cathy Young is always a good read. | /r/MensRights | 07/12/16 01:35 AM |
| 3 | Congress drops plans to make women register for the draftThe controversial provision had been part of early drafts of the annual defense authorization bill, and narrowly passed a House Armed Services Committee vote last spring. A Senate panel followed suit a few months later. ... But conservatives in both chambers objected to the provision and stripped it out of the final legislative draft unveiled Tuesday. ... Though Democrats are likely to renew debate on the issue next year, it’s unlikely to progress far with Republicans set to control both chamber… | /r/MensRights | 01/12/16 12:49 AM |
| 11 | GOP Quietly Tanks Effort To Include Women In The DraftI'll post an update on the NCFM draft case when I have the time, but the good news is that Mr. Lesmeister (the plaintiff named in the suit) was found to have standing to sue earlier this month. The government had tried to argue that he didn't have standing because he'd already registered and was therefore not subject to the penalties for not registering, but the judge rejected that argument. The case has also been moved from the Central District of California to the Southern District of Texas fo… | /r/MensRights | 30/11/16 03:56 PM |
| 4 | Prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy expels 15-year-old boy for a "sexual encounter in which a female student got on top of him in a dormitory room and initiated a sexual act with her hand", while the female student faced no consequences.The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is at the forefront of protecting students' due process rights in campus, but they only deal with college cases. This is a high school case. I know there are individual lawyers who specialize in these kind of cases. | /r/MensRights | 28/11/16 11:57 PM |
| 30 | Prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy expels 15-year-old boy for a "sexual encounter in which a female student got on top of him in a dormitory room and initiated a sexual act with her hand", while the female student faced no consequences.I'm glad they're suing. I can't stress enough how important it is to stand up for your rights in situations like this; you'd be surprised how often suing or even threatening to sue works. | /r/MensRights | 28/11/16 07:17 PM |
| 9 | Are we Alt-Right or a Centrist Progressive movement?I understand your concerns, but I really don't think that the MRM has any connection to the Alt-Right, let alone actual Nazis; at least no more of a connection than it has to libertarianism, "brocialism", or general a-pox-on-both-their-houses apoliticism. There may be individual alt-righters that are sympathetic to the MRM, but it's important to remember that not all alt-righters are Nazi sympathizers. There's something of a civil war going on in the alt-right at the moment, with a large faction… | /r/MensRights | 26/11/16 09:22 PM |
| 17 | Are we Alt-Right or a Centrist Progressive movement?I like to think we're syncretic, or outside of the conventional left-right spectrum. It would be a shame to become an arm of either side, as neither has really done anything to earn it. Individual members can have their sympathies with one side or the other, but the movement should stay nonpartisan. | /r/MensRights | 26/11/16 08:44 PM |
| 25 | Feminist Lawmaker Smashes Colleague’s ‘Offensive’ Bikini Birthday CakeSen. Karen Carter Peterson spotted the cake, made by Rep. McFarland’s wife, in the legislature’s anteroom. She reportedly began yelling profanities at Abraham, then destroyed the cake by smashing the sign into the middle of it. Peterson said on Twitter that a staffer had told her the birthday boy also had a second cake that looked like a vagina — a claim that both Abraham and McFarland denied. “When I told her there was no second cake, she said, ‘You’re a liar,’ and I said, ‘You’re a liar,” McFa… | /r/MensRights | 22/11/16 12:34 AM |
| 13 | Sexism: "where an obscure male backbencher thinks he deserves to replace the most accomplished woman in Congress is how sexism works"These people have learned nothing. The Democratic Party elite isn't going to be happy until the whole country outside of New York & California is Republican. If they really thought Trump was as terrible as they say he is, they'd shut up and lay low, because every time they open their mouths they increase his chances of winning a second term. | /r/MensRights | 21/11/16 10:31 PM |
| 1 | THE TITLE IX MESS—WILL IT BE REFORMED?Good essay from KC Johnson on how the incoming administration may handle the title IX overreach. | /r/MensRights | 16/11/16 05:13 PM |
| 8 | I Am New to the Men's Rights Movement and I Need Help.To learn more about the MRM, I would suggest reading Warren Farrell's The Myth of Male Power. It's pretty much the movement's foundational text, and covers most of the major issues. | /r/MensRights | 15/11/16 05:09 AM |
| 3 | Share ideas with Donald Trump's transition team about how to Make America Great Again, especially on Men's Rights!Yeah, Trump's really a wild card. It will be interesting to see how his judicial appointments (along with everything else) turn out. | /r/MensRights | 12/11/16 07:00 AM |
| 15 | Share ideas with Donald Trump's transition team about how to Make America Great Again, especially on Men's Rights!Thanks for posting this. I left a few suggestions, some men's rights related, some not. It probably won't amount to anything, but at least I can say I tried. Here's what I came up with. (1) Rescind the Office of Civil Rights' (Department of Education) 2011 "Dear Colleague" letter that tramples students' due process rights by subjecting them to kangaroo courts with a guilty-until-proven-innocent standard. (2) Either actively support requiring women to register for selective service, or scrap the … | /r/MensRights | 12/11/16 06:41 AM |
| 12 | How would you feel about a law requiring parents to watch their sons being circumcised if they choose to have the procedure done?If we're going to legislate in this area, I'd rather just ban the procedure all together. If you're looking for something that could be done in the immediate future (and has already happened in some states), convincing states to end medicaid funding of circumcision has a proven track record of reducing rates in states that have done so. | /r/MensRights | 12/11/16 06:04 AM |
| 8 | LUlz! Hilarious Ellen skit body shames men... what's the big deal? It's just a joke, right? Yet, never in a hundred million years would they even think of doing the reverse. Hypocrisy and double standards overload... again.I find Ellen to be on a Lena Dunham level of cringe-worthiness. It's funny, because Dunham's widely seen as a joke, but no one seems to notice that about Ellen. | /r/MensRights | 09/11/16 12:27 AM |
| 1 | First Amendment Lawsuit Settled with Speech Code Revisions on 10 Arizona CampusesRelevant to this sub due to who is often targeted by these speech codes and who their designed to "protect." | /r/MensRights | 08/11/16 05:25 PM |
| 2 | Janet Reno died today: thoughts on her legacy and the struggle to exonerate the falsely accusedI edited the original post to include this link. | /r/MensRights | 07/11/16 07:33 PM |
| 18 | Janet Reno died today: thoughts on her legacy and the struggle to exonerate the falsely accusedJanet Reno was a monster. Her behavior as Miami DA during the daycare sex abuse hysteria was inexcusable. She has never been held accountable, and the whole episode rarely even gets a mention when assessing Reno's legacy. Edit - here's a bit on her actions from Alexander Cockburn. I wish I could find more from him, as he was one of the only voices in the media attempting to hold her accountable. | /r/MensRights | 07/11/16 07:16 PM |
| 11 | Why female genital mutilation is a very different issue to male circumcision | International Business TimesNotice that she does not address the ethical issues with routinely performing unnecessary surgery on individuals who are unable to consent. This issue was only the subject of a recent piece in the Journal of Medical Ethics summarized here. This woman should be embarrassed to have written this | /r/MensRights | 06/11/16 09:59 PM |
| 5 | No more Ladies Night in California: California Tony Roma’s Ladies Night Drinks Class Action Settlement: Gender Discrimination, Pays $370KI'm surprised bars/clubs are still trying to do stuff like this. It's been clearly established for years and years that the Unruh Civil Rights Act prohibits this. These establishments always lose these cases. To top if off, you would think a big chain like Tony Roma's would have lawyers competent enough to know this. | /r/MensRights | 05/11/16 09:13 PM |
| 14 | Los Angeles police have charged Playboy model Dani Mathers over a "body-shaming" image she took of an older woman in a gym locker room.It's odd that the "body-shaming" angle is getting so much more play than the invasion of privacy one. I mean, as far as I know, body-shaming is not a crime, while taking candid pictures of individuals without their consent, in a place where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy is indeed a crime. That's what she's being charged with, isn't it? Also, I'm not sure that there would be quite as much universal outrage if a man had his picture taken like this. I'm sure some of the media outlet… | /r/MensRights | 05/11/16 07:12 PM |
| 8 | Rolling Stone found liable for defamation in UVA rape storyCouldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch. | /r/MensRights | 04/11/16 06:18 PM |
| 3 | Harvard men's soccer team's season cancelled for "scouting report" of women's teamThe main reason I'm sympathetic to this proposal is that one of the side effects would be to force private universities to finally respect students Constitutional rights. It's difficult to argue that a team ranking students by their looks amongst themselves, and having this revealed against their wishes could constitute unprotected harassment. At a public school, they'd have legal recourse. Also, the obligatory skepticism as to whether a women's team would be punished for doing the same. | /r/MensRights | 04/11/16 02:15 PM |
| 5 | Social Justice Warrior Superstate: Is Australia the Worst Place on Earth to Be Male?Not to downplay the issues facing men in Australia (or anywhere else), but it seems to me that it would be particularly galling to be a man in a Western country that considers itself a paragon of gender equality, but still conscripts men only (Finland, Denmark, and Switzerland immediately come to mind). At least non-Western countries have the traditional culture excuse to fall back on. Western countries have no such excuse. | /r/MensRights | 04/11/16 01:42 PM |
| 125 | Lena Dunham Wants to Improve Men by Making White Straight Men ExtinctOne of the rare blessings for the men's rights movement is having Lena Dunham as a prominent spokesman for the opposition. | /r/MensRights | 03/11/16 04:32 PM |
| 13 | No, feminist men can’t have a useful dialogue with men’s rights activistsThe other side only wants its views accepted without question. Any dissent, no matter how slight or justified, is taken as closed-mindedness and sexism. This is particular true for many feminist men. They tend to take feminist ideals and theories more seriously than feminist women, often out of a need to prove they are not faking their support. The result is that they are less likely than their female counterparts to accept any non-feminist perspectives, especially any men’s rights position. I m… | /r/MensRights | 02/11/16 04:00 PM |
| 5 | Linguistics Professor at UC Berkley in an article on Times.com calls 'Emailgate' (scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server) an attack on womenI'm not a Republican, but it seems like the Democrats have become completely unhinged this election cycle. Everyday they seem to have some new crazy conspiracy theory involving Russia, the FBI, WikiLeaks, Pepe, "brocialists", Glenn Greenwald, etc. They're sounding increasingly deranged and starting to sound like 60s Birchers, drawing connections between the UN, the Vatican, and water fluoridation in some kind of grand plot against the U.S. | /r/MensRights | 31/10/16 10:15 PM |
| 15 | "Can feminist men open up a useful dialogue with men's rights activists?" | The Age - Ah, that would be a "no", you cuckHonestly, I'd much rather have a dialogue with female feminists. Male feminists seem to have an odd attachment to chivalry and a dedication to white knighting that's utterly bizarre for anyone who claims to believe in equality. They so often seem to display the "toxic masculinity" we hear so much about in defense of the damsels in distress. | /r/MensRights | 31/10/16 02:58 PM |
| 76 | Seattle Central College changed the gym men's room to unisex (fine), but left the women's as women's only (not ok)...Make a title IX complaint. | /r/MensRights | 29/10/16 03:05 AM |
| 73 | Teacher sentenced to 30 years for molesting a female student files appeal, says she wouldn't have been punished so harshly if her victim had been a boyIt will be interesting to see how the judge and prosecutor respond to this. | /r/MensRights | 27/10/16 07:57 PM |
| 5 | “bureaucratic sex creep” - Colleges Enlist Growing Army of Title IX EnforcersI'm not unsympathetic to students' frustration with tuition and fee increases, but one of their main drivers is the ever growing number of administrators on campus (including title IX coordinators, 'diversity officers', affirmative action coordinators, etc). If they're serious about doing something about the ever increasing cost of education, they have to at least consider whether some of their sacred cows are necessary. Also, Jeannie Suk, the Harvard Law professor quoted in the article, has bee… | /r/MensRights | 26/10/16 11:08 PM |
| 2 | Beating Lee Messier, The White KnightThe tl;dr of it is that some college white knight overheard an argument between some woman (who seems crazy and hysterical) and her boyfriend and interjected himself into the situation. Said crazy woman assaults the cops, and our white knight objects to their 'ungentlemanly' response. The white knight then gets his ass kicked. Just goes to show the perils of white knighting. I'm not saying that the cops didn't overreact (look at the pictures), but the story really has all of the hallmarks of whi… | /r/MensRights | 25/10/16 04:27 PM |
| 4 | Men "Fear a Feminist Future" - next week, black people fear a KKK future!Well, I guess I can cross The Baffler off of the list of the list of publications I have any respect for. Laurie Penny is beyond the pale; if they're associating with her, I want nothing to do with them. | /r/MensRights | 24/10/16 01:15 AM |
| 2 | "Why feminists need to discuss gender disparity in the criminal justice system"It always makes me happy to see the Starr study cited in mainstream publications. It really deserves greater notoriety than it has received. | /r/MensRights | 21/10/16 01:43 AM |
| 3 | Rolling Stone Writer Admits Mistakes In Reporting Of Rape StorySeems like Erdely is trying to place all of the blame on 'Jackie' for this fiasco. | /r/MensRights | 20/10/16 08:03 PM |
| 13 | Labour should ban all men from standing in by-elections, MP Jess Phillips saysI'm not British, so correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the purpose of a labour party supposed to be to provide political representation to the working class? If that's so, why do so many modern Labour politicians seem so preoccupied with trivial, virtue signaling nonsense that almost certainly has most of its support among the posher classes? A lot of this stuff has to be completely alien to the actual working class (both men and women). | /r/MensRights | 12/10/16 02:54 PM |
| 26 | Girlfriend refuses marriage proposal until boyfriend gets circumcised [x-post]You're lucky that she's revealing herself to be such a bitch before you get married and not after. It gives you the chance to get out without the legal complications of marriage. Like everyone else has said so far, this is a totally unreasonable request. Try turning the tables on her and telling her you want her to undergo cosmetic surgeries before you marry her. See what she thinks about that, and then ask her why she expects you to do something she wouldn't do herself. | /r/MensRights | 11/10/16 03:25 PM |
| 3 | This store is illegally charging men extra tax! What does r/mensrights think of this? (X-post from r/NYC)This is likely illegal. | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 10:58 PM |
| 2 | If it's hypocritical for a woman to be president & send only men to war in a draft, then why should men be allowed to be president and pass anti-abortion laws that would force women to give birth even in the case of rape and/or life endangerment of the mother?Isn't it a fairly common feminist pronouncement that men in Congress shouldn't be telling women what to do with their bodies by legislating against abortion access? Isn't that one of the reasons frequently given for why we need more women in office? I'm 100% pro choice, so I'm in agreement with feminists on the abortion issue. I'm also largely in agreement with Hillary Clinton, NOW, every Democratic woman in Congress, and most other prominent feminist organizations that so long as we have draft … | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 03:41 PM |
| 3 | Tove Lo Doesn't Understand Women Who Don't Identify As FeministsWho? | /r/MensRights | 08/10/16 12:25 AM |
| 3 | Women & feminists HAVE historically opposed conscription of men, even to a greater extent than men have, & performed millions of dollars in unpaid labor to oppose it. (Sources inside.)I have my share of disagreements with feminists and feminist organizations, but on this issue, I have to give credit where credit is due. You should know that almost every major feminist organization in the U.S, including NOW, the National Women's Law Center, the Service Women's Action Network, and the American Association of University Women joined most of the other major civil rights and civil liberties organizations in the U.S (including the NAACP and Human Rights Watch) in signing the ACLU's… | /r/MensRights | 05/10/16 03:59 PM |
| 2 | When It’s Personal, The Virtues Of Due Process Become ClearWelcome to the world that trench lawyers have been telling you about, the one that academia has pretended didn’t exist so the mob wouldn’t call you mean names. The time to prevail on the substance was in the first prosecution (yes, it’s a prosecution, because its outcome is punishment). And that’s where due process is needed. How much? As much as is necessary to assure a fair opportunity to challenge the allegations, and even then, it puts the accused at a monumental disadvantage, just as in rea… | /r/MensRights | 28/09/16 04:05 PM |
| 2 | Black Democratic Lawmakers Don’t See Sexism In the Justice SystemThe Daily Caller should have brought this study to their attention. No discussion of sexism in the criminal justice system should be had without it. | /r/MensRights | 23/09/16 06:36 PM |
| 13 | "Biology teacher who had sex with five students spared jail"I won't hold my breath for any Brock Turner level outrage at this sentence. I would recommend everyone read criminal defense attorney & civil libertarian Scott Greenfield's take on this incident. He says everything that needs to be said about cases like this | /r/MensRights | 19/09/16 06:09 PM |
| 11 | AZ passes law presuming all parents/caregivers are sexual predators, makes them rebut assumptionIn Arizona, the legislature for some reason decided to define sexual abuse and molestation of a child in such a way that intentionally or knowingly touching the genitals or anus of a child or the breast of a female younger than fifteen is a felony. That should come as no surprise to anyone who is remotely familiar with Arizona, as the one thing the legislature is good at is passing the broadest and most Draconian criminal laws they can imagine. What might come as a surprise is that, thanks to th… | /r/MensRights | 16/09/16 03:35 PM |
| 6 | GOP senators fight female draft in defense billThe 14th Amendment only applies to the states. Prior to 1954, it was only possible to bring equal protection claims against state and local governments. In Bolling v. Sharpe, the Supreme Court ruled that equal protection was a necessary component of due process, so since that decision, it has been possible to bring equal protection claims against the federal government on 5th Amendment grounds. | /r/MensRights | 13/09/16 11:27 AM |
| 5 | Saugus mom pleads guilty to rape of two teenage boysOh man, as a civil libertarian, this is something I've given a lot of thought to. I don't pretend to know what the appropriate sentence is in a case like this. Obviously, I think you need to draw the line somewhere. The age of consent in Massachusetts is 16, which I don't think is unreasonable, but I'm open to other ideas. I guess the issue for me is how to fairly adjudicate these cases, taking into account the age, maturity, and willingness of the teen, and the relationship (is the adult an aut… | /r/MensRights | 13/09/16 11:20 AM |
| 6 | GOP senators fight female draft in defense billA group of 17 Republican senators is urging leaders of the Armed Services committees to take language out of a defense policy bill that would require women to register for the draft. The fact that they could only get 17 signatures seems like a good sign as to where the sentiment in the Senate is on this issue. Earlier this year, I would have assumed that it would be a clear majority of Senate Republicans. The contrast between House and Senate Republicans on this issue really is interesting. “Rat… | /r/MensRights | 13/09/16 10:05 AM |
| 11 | Saugus mom pleads guilty to rape of two teenage boysJudge Mary K. Ames sentenced her to four years in prison followed by three years probation, and ordered her to have no unsupervised contact with children under 16 and to register as a sex offender when she’s released from prison. Honestly, I probably lean more towards the idea that sentences for sex offenses (for both sexes) should be closer to those that women usually get, rather than those that men usually get. However, whichever one it is, it should be the same for both, on equal protection (… | /r/MensRights | 13/09/16 09:49 AM |
| 0 | Hillary Clinton's eliminationist rhetoric targets groups like /r/mensrights: "the basket of deplorables", "sexist", "He has given voice to their websites", "irredeemable", and "not America."Seems like this could be her “47%” moment in the manner of Mitt Romney in 2012. | /r/MensRights | 10/09/16 07:38 PM |
| 18 | Amy Schumer doesn't even understand her own female genital anatomy as she mocks circumcision: "I would tell you if I had an 'extra' flap over my clitoris". Well, Women have foreskins too.Amy Schumer isn't exactly someone who should be mocking the physical characteristics of others. She's also an idiot for not understanding that women do have an 'extra' flap over the clitoris. Add to that that she's not even funny for a supposed comedian, and she really doesn't have anything going for her. | /r/MensRights | 09/09/16 06:07 AM |
| 14 | Phyllis Schlafly, a prominent anti-feminist and early leader of the social conservative movement, died Monday at the age of 92I don't like to speak ill of the recently departed, so I'll just give the requisite RIP. | /r/MensRights | 06/09/16 05:03 AM |
| 3 | ISSUE ADVISORY – Women and the Draft; Moving Two Steps Closer to EqualityI assumed they would be silent about this, this time around. I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised. Credit where credit is due. | /r/MensRights | 01/09/16 07:42 AM |
| 3 | Male Diversion Program nearing ready point.It makes you wonder how many localities have similar programs for women only. That seems like it would be an equal protection violation. Anyway, good for this guy. Maybe his work will inspire others jurisdictions to catch up. | /r/MensRights | 29/08/16 07:54 AM |
| 32 | Female castrates rapist and forces him to eat his genitals - will not be prosecuted, is called a hero, and article advocates castrating all rapistsThis is fake. Link. | /r/MensRights | 28/08/16 07:27 AM |
| 3 | Inside the loud, bloody anti-circumcision movementI agree about the title, but it should be pointed out that titles usually come from the editors, not the author. Overall, it is a surprisingly good article. | /r/MensRights | 22/08/16 10:36 PM |
| 1 | An Acquitted Black Man Is Guilty Because Roxanne Gay Says SoAnd certainly the social justice warriors, while clueless as to the legal aspects of trials and acquittal, will stand behind this innocent black man and praise this outcome, right? The mere “technicalities” of law that they either embrace or ignore according to the outcomes their religion dictates, favor this innocent defendant, because systemic racism is a tenet of their belief system. But no. Not this time. ... This is Gay’s characterization of the trial. She wasn’t there, but that doesn’t mea… | /r/MensRights | 20/08/16 08:38 PM |
| 1 | Oklahoma Wesleyan Joins Lawsuit Challenging 2011 ‘Dear Colleague’ LetterYeah, this definitely feels like a big step. The OCR overreach over the past 5-6 years has been so immense that it really was only a matter of time before the courts started to correct it. Hopefully we're starting to reach that point. I always compare the moral panic over campus sexual assault to the moral panic over daycare sex abuse in the 80s. In the span of a few years, we went from a total witch hunt atmosphere to no one being willing to admit that they were caught up in it, as it had been … | /r/MensRights | 19/08/16 02:18 AM |
| 9 | HuffPo Feminist Admits Women Want To Be Taken Care Of (Cached)Why Strong, Independent Women Just Want to Be Taken Care Of Something tells me this woman is neither strong nor independent. This is the very definition of “princess feminism.” Why I Love Being Single ^ The title of one of her other articles. I wonder why she's single. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/16 02:07 AM |
| 8 | Where to find a lawyer to sue university over due process rights violations in sexual assault accusation (ultimately dropped by school)?I would recommend submitting your question here. FIRE is at the forefront of protecting due process rights in college campuses. Give them the details of your complaint, and if you have a case, they could contact the university on your behalf, or if necessary, connect you with a lawyer from their network to initiate a lawsuit. | /r/MensRights | 18/08/16 03:19 AM |
| 2 | Oklahoma Wesleyan Joins Lawsuit Challenging 2011 ‘Dear Colleague’ LetterThis is pretty significant, as this is the first time that a university itself has challenged this policy in court. | /r/MensRights | 18/08/16 02:52 AM |
| 4 | Bar's Age Policy Differs for Men and Women; Says Women "Mature Earlier" Than MenMr. Geraci said his policy did not discriminate against anyone. “Women mature earlier,” he said. “I don’t think it’s sexist.” Hell of a legal analysis. The policy at Kasey’s, Ms. Lieberman said, violates New York State’s Human Rights Law. The law she cited, Executive Law 296, prohibits the owner of “any place of public accommodation, resort or amusement” from denying anyone entry “because of the race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, or disability or marit… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/16 10:36 PM |
| 2 | San Francisco's top prosecutor peddles false information about state rape law to studentsI would actually like to see the DA attempt to put his ideas about consent and due process into action in a real courtroom. He'd likely end up embarrassed and rebuked by any real judge. Also, SF politics are some of the most corrupt in the country. It really doesn't get enough attention, but the city really is up there with Chicago or anywhere else. The amount of pay to play that's tolerated is disgusting. | /r/MensRights | 09/08/16 04:49 PM |
| 64 | To protect illegal women-only lounge, hundreds of women (and some men) promise to squat - The College FixThis woman obviously doesn't understand title IX. If you pass a law that explicitly states that colleges can't discriminate on the basis of sex, no one should be surprised when discriminatory policies, including ones they might like, are ruled to violate that law. This 'protest' doesn't make any sense. Women aren't being banned from the new lounge, so I don't understand the need to squat, and inviting men to help occupy the lounge would seemingly violate the spirit of the very thing they're prot… | /r/MensRights | 09/08/16 04:41 PM |
| 1 | SWAN Joins Coalition to Influence HASC/SASC on Women and the Selective ServiceOn July 22, 2016, SWAN joined forces with the ACLU and myriad veteran support and human rights organizations on a letter to the ranking members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee urging them to include language requiring women to register for the draft in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. ... More than 35 years ago, in Rostker v. Goldberg, 453 U.S. 57 (1981), the Supreme Court upheld the categorical exclusion of women from selective service registration requirements as c… | /r/MensRights | 28/07/16 05:24 PM |
| 16 | Pelosi to Clinton: Ease up on the woman thingYou know you have a problem when even Pelosi thinks you're emphasizing gender too much in your campaign. | /r/MensRights | 27/07/16 01:04 AM |
| 2 | 2 Vermont DNC delegates excluded due to genderLooks like this is getting some national attention. Ashe Schow has written something about it the the Washington Examiner. | /r/MensRights | 21/07/16 09:11 PM |
| 5 | Colleges to avoidAll colleges and universities are subject to title IX, and as such, are forbidden to discriminate on the basis of sex. However, as you mentioned above, they sometimes still do. In these cases, it is important to make an official complaint, and if necessary, threaten to sue. Most people would be surprised how often this works. In terms of due process protections, public colleges are state actors, and are thus bound by the Constitution, meaning that your 5th Amendment rights are better protected a… | /r/MensRights | 19/07/16 08:03 PM |
| 1 | ACLU LETTER ON SELECTIVE SERVICE AMENDMENTS TO FY17 FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONSDear Representative:On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, we urge you to support the DeFazio-Chaffetz-Coffman amendments(#46 and #47) to the FY17 Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) appropriations bill that defund the Military Selective Service Agency. Additionally, if Selective Service registration continues, we urge you to oppose Davidson amendment #104 to the FSGG appropriations bill which would prohibit the use of funds to change the Selective Service System registrat… | /r/MensRights | 16/07/16 04:53 AM |
| 4 | Public pools can host women-only swim sessions, human rights group rules – Women in the World in Association with The New York TimesThe amount of pandering to the ultra-orthodox in NYC in disgusting. Between stuff like this and the tolerance of rabbis with herpes performing oral sex of just-circumcised babies, it's clear that city officials are going above and beyond to excuse any and all bad behavior from this particular group. Add to that the 'modesty squads' that exist in some Brooklyn neighborhoods and women being forced to change their plane seats to accommodate these people, and its clear that we have a problem here. F… | /r/MensRights | 10/07/16 09:23 PM |
| 7 | House approves measure to bar women from having to register for the draftA similar amendment would have to be approved by the Senate for this to become law. Since the Senate already approved draft registration for women, it doesn't look like they would approve such an amendment. Whether or not registration will become gender neutral this year will still come down to the House-Senate negotiations this fall. If not, there's still the NCFM lawsuit. For anyone interested, here's the roll call vote. The amendment was approved by a 217-203 vote. A quick glance suggests tha… | /r/MensRights | 08/07/16 01:48 AM |
| 2 | Do you ever think MGTOW will ever become mainstream?It doesn't even have to become mainstream in the traditional sense for it to cause disruptions in the sexual marketplace. As long as it's big enough counterculture, it will skew demographics in a way that is disadvantageous to women. You can see something similar happening on college campuses, as well as among professional class women in major metro areas. There aren't enough "good men", or in some cases, enough men at all, for their liking. | /r/MensRights | 05/07/16 06:46 AM |
| 18 | Phillip Davies MP replies to a constituent asking for a second referendumI didn't have much of an opinion on the referendum one way or the other going in, as I'm not British and it's none of my business, but I must say that it's been quite gratifying to see the consternation of elites at their rejection. In a similar vein, I'm not really a Trump fan, but I can't help but enjoy the way he sends elite liberals and be-monocled conservatives into fits. | /r/MensRights | 26/06/16 12:22 AM |
| 9 | Clinton backs requiring women to register for draftShe has a weird history on this issue. She said yes in 2008 (along with Obama, who also seems to have no comment now), waffled when asked a couple of months ago, and is now firmly in the 'yes' column again. She even claimed somewhere (in one of her books, I think) that she tried to register back during Vietnam to make a point. I guessing the only reason she's coming out unambiguously in favor now is because she doesn't want to be seen as being behind the times, with nearly all Democrats and many… | /r/MensRights | 15/06/16 08:57 PM |
| 4 | Sex Object author Jessica Valenti on why modern feminists are fed upIt seems like about half of Jessica Valenti's writing is essentially about how beautiful and irresistible she is, and that men can't stop paying attention to her. This seems to be something a genre with young-ish, pop feminists, but Valenti seems to be particularly vain and narcissistic. | /r/MensRights | 11/06/16 04:44 AM |
| 2 | Article I was linked to regarding the DraftI think his girlfriend was probably uncooperative, if there was even an investigation at the time. | /r/MensRights | 08/06/16 08:36 AM |
| 3 | Article I was linked to regarding the DraftBy Hugo Schwyzer Google this guy. Not long after this was published, it came out that Mr. Number 1 Male Feminist is an actual sexual predator, who slept with and sexually harassed his own students, and was accused (with some evidence, I believe) of domestic violence. Feminists should be embarrassed on so many levels (including by this article) that they once embraced this guy. | /r/MensRights | 08/06/16 08:14 AM |
| 31 | Update - Nurse who drugged and sexually abused 4 boys in juvenile detention will face trial after a judge rejected the plea deal dropping all sex charges against herother female staff members colluded to keep the abuse secret, keep watch for each other, etc. Do you know if these other staff members have faced any charges? It's unbelievable that a prosecutor would have offered such a deal in the first place. That a juvenile detention official can repeatedly sexually abuse several underage inmates, and be offered such a plea deal without anyone even hearing about it is quite upsetting when compared to the outrage around the Stanford swimmer case (not that I a… | /r/MensRights | 08/06/16 03:31 AM |
| 2 | Orleans jail hearing: Suicidal inmate raped by cellmate, a known sexual predatorI'm glad to hear that the inmates/plaintiffs are suing for more outside oversight or control of this prison, that's an important first step, but there really needs to be some accountability and negative consequences for the prison administrators when things like this are allowed to happen. Unfortunately, it seems the only way they're going to care enough to put a stop to this is if it is made to be in their self-interest to do so. | /r/MensRights | 07/06/16 06:13 AM |
| 23 | No men allowed: Women-only pool hours draw complaints in NYCThe rec center in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood has apparently kept women-only pool hours since the 1990s, but the practice only came to the attention of the wider public when someone complained about it to the city's Commission on Human Rights. Commission spokesman Seth Hoy said it received an anonymous tip "a few months back" that the indoor pool might be violating the city's human rights law, which bans sex discrimination in public accommodations. Hoy said the commission reached out to… | /r/MensRights | 06/06/16 11:26 PM |
| 5 | I'm a woman who was expelled from college with no actual proofFirst, I'm very sorry that you've had to deal with this. It's absolutely unconscionable that a person can be punished in such a manner based on evidence that would get a prosecutor chewed out by a judge for wasting the court's time if they had brought these charges in a regular court. While sexual assault is a serious offense, and should not be treated lightly, we are in the middle of a moral panic similar to the one over daycare sex abuse in the 80s and early 90s. That eventually blew over, and… | /r/MensRights | 05/06/16 05:11 PM |
| 2 | Legislature OKs Bill To Revoke Paternity In Cases Of RapeIt would be interesting to see whether the bill applies in cases of statutory rape, as well. If so, that could potentially help some of the underage boys who have been required to pay child support after being taken advantage of by adult women. If parental rights can also be terminated in cases of statutory rape, that should at least allow some of these boys to pursue an equal protection challenge if they are denied the same protection from the law. | /r/MensRights | 04/06/16 09:46 PM |
| 2 | So what happens if women get to be in combat but don't have to sign up for selective service?The National Coalition for Men has a lawsuit against the selective service system that's due to go to trial soon before the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The lawsuit was originally filed in 2013, but was dismissed on the grounds that the issue was not yet ripe for consideration, as women had not yet been fully integrated into all positions in the military. The NCFM appealed, and earlier this year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled in their favor, o… | /r/MensRights | 04/06/16 02:03 AM |
| 6 | This Woman Was Expelled For Allegedly Sexually Assaulting A Man On Campus... and Buzzfeed makes HER out to be the VICTIMHopefully there will be a silver lining to this, and the fact that women can get caught up in the title IX craziness as well will make more people rethink having colleges adjudicate sexual assault claims. It sucks that it has to happen to a woman before enough people care, but that seems to be where we are. Also, I second the disgust at Buzzfeed's double standards on this. I feel for the girl, but I also extend that to all of the men who have faced these kangaroo courts. Buzzfeed is being so ope… | /r/MensRights | 01/06/16 02:41 AM |
| -2 | We should NOT be supporting Milo Yiannopoulos"there are socialist feminists who are anti-SJW?" Very much so. They tend to think of sjw-ism as elitist, bougie bullshit, that's more group therapy session than real politics. It's fairly common for "left twitter" (which is different from "woke twitter") to use "sjw" as an insult for the whole crowd that thinks of gamergate as their own personal Pearl Harbor. They've been openly sparring with some of our favorite insane feminists for a couple of years now. There has always been some nasty back … | /r/MensRights | 26/05/16 02:32 AM |
| 3 | We should NOT be supporting Milo YiannopoulosI think of Milo as more of an entertainer than a serious political thinker. I enjoy him on that level, and even know a couple of socialist feminists who enjoy his shtick as well (although they're also generally anti-sjw). I think a good portion of what we see is him playing a character. | /r/MensRights | 26/05/16 02:05 AM |
| 4 | Female teacher accused of sexual harassment by 10 male colleagues and 3 students is allowed back in school after arguing that the reports were the result of workplace envy over "a strong female in a department otherwise dominated by males"But Sanossian’s critics noted that the Equal Employment Opportunity Center found in March that there was probable cause for a case against her. The district is really opening itself up to much greater liability in the future. Unless she's on her absolute best behavior (and I'm not sure I'd want to put too much faith in that; she seems like she's probably a sex addict without much self control or common sense), the district is building quite a record of negligence and indifference in dealing with… | /r/MensRights | 23/05/16 05:29 PM |
| 8 | Intactivist Jonathan Conte dead at 34 - A gay San Francisco man who for years spoke out against male circumcision killed himself last week, according to his partner.That's unfortunate. It seems like Bay Area intactivists are particularly active/visible. I hope they can keep it up despite this loss. RIP. | /r/MensRights | 19/05/16 02:24 AM |
| 2 | Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell supports requiring women to register for selective serviceDespite their efforts to avoid a vote, House GOP leaders could find their hands tied by one major external factor that’s working against them. If lawmakers delay action on the issue, they could end up being preempted by the judicial branch — a fact that a House Armed Services aide acknowledged. “The courts could act at any moment and send this in a direction that Congress doesn’t like,” said the aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. There are now at least two court cases dealing with th… | /r/MensRights | 18/05/16 12:21 AM |
| 6 | ORANGE COUNTY KNOWINGLY IMPRISONED AN INNOCENT 14-YEAR-OLD FOR 2 YEARSSteven Schriver didn’t think that what he was doing was wrong, monstrous even. That by knowingly imprisoning an innocent child, he had crossed the thin line between ordinary prosecutorial indifference and cartoonish supervillainy. And that’s because we have a system that failed to make him understand. To give him examples to show we frown on this sort of thing. Until we start to do that, we will find that prosecutors like Schriver will continue to turn the dial. For those without a strong moral … | /r/MensRights | 17/05/16 03:08 PM |
| 11 | House panel strips language requiring women to register for draftI was never terribly optimistic about accomplishing this legislatively, and was honestly surprised that it got as far as it did in Congress, but I think there is reason to be more optimistic about its chances in court. The armed services committees of both chambers endorsed the proposal (noting the advice of the heads of the service branches in doing so). Sessions and other opponents have gone on record saying that their opposition is because they are dead set against 'drafting America's daughte… | /r/MensRights | 17/05/16 03:02 PM |
| 18 | House panel strips language requiring women to register for draft“The Rules Committee chairman is so concerned about a vote on women's equality in the military that he has created a provision ‘considered as adopted’ that overturns a measure voted on by the Armed Services Committee, ignores the mandatory scoring requirement, and passes itself, avoiding a separate vote by the full House,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, said in a written statement. “This is a dead-of-night attempt to take an important issue o… | /r/MensRights | 17/05/16 02:23 PM |
| 1 | House chairman wants to prevent women from entering the draftDo you know exactly which amendments were adopted? I could be wrong, but I think Sessions and Thornberry had separate amendments. Both amendments removed the registration requirement for women, but I think Thornberry's set up some kind of commission to study whether SS was necessary moving forward. There may have been a couple of others, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment. | /r/MensRights | 17/05/16 02:10 AM |
| 1 | House chairman wants to prevent women from entering the draftThe prohibition on floor amendments that increase the cost of legislation is a preexisting rule, and applies to all bills being considered. I agree that it seems kind of stupid, but with all of the hurdles that have been in the way of this passing, I'm glad Congress' byzantine rules might be working in favor of making the change for once. | /r/MensRights | 16/05/16 09:28 PM |
| 1 | House chairman wants to prevent women from entering the draftI don't want to tempt fate, but Thornberry doesn't sound too confident about his chances. | /r/MensRights | 16/05/16 07:51 PM |
| 2 | Senate Armed Services Committee approves draft registration for womenThe article is just a summary of the Senate's version of the NDAA, but it does include this: The Senate bill would also require women to register for the draft and establish the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service to review the future of the Selective Service System, as the draft is officially called. The House already included a similar amendment in their version of the NDAA, but it still needs to survive a full House vote intact. Still, this is another major hurdle cl… | /r/MensRights | 13/05/16 12:33 AM |
| 1 | Eroding Student Freedom, One Authoritarian Policy At A TimeI posted this mostly because I always enjoy Wendy Kaminer, and want to share her work. I was originally ambivalent about the ban on sex-segregated organizations at Harvard, as I assumed they had some official affiliation with the school, and that the school therefore had some level of interest in discouraging that. It turns out that these 'finals clubs' have no formal association with Harvard, which makes this a wild overstep of the administration's authority. | /r/MensRights | 12/05/16 01:13 AM |
| 36 | Teacher forced all second grade boys to stick heads in bucket of urineThe veteran teacher of 26 years remains on the job, according to the report. "This is a personnel matter," said school leaders in a statement. "Appropriate action has been taken to ensure that such conduct does not repeat itself. We will have no further comment." Something's wrong here. | /r/MensRights | 11/05/16 05:43 AM |
| 1 | Hoyer: Women should register for the draftSignificant because Hoyer is the number two Democrat in the House. | /r/MensRights | 10/05/16 10:19 PM |
| 1 | Rep. Pete Sessions has proposed an amendment to remove the requirement that women register with selective service from the NDAA. It will be debated by the House next week.This is fairly unusual, but this would explain it: Sessions’ staff said he was not available Monday to comment. But his House Committee on Rules had filed the proposal and indicated it would allow the NDAA floor vote next week. He chairs the committee that decides what will be voted on and when it will happen. At least it'll be interesting to see what the vote breakdown is in the full House. | /r/MensRights | 09/05/16 06:58 PM |
| 1 | Sign foreshadows a Clinton victory; Trump likely doomedIs there a reason Lou Holtz's endorsement of Trump foreshadows a Clinton victory? | /r/MensRights | 05/05/16 02:02 AM |
| 9 | Texas Teen Sells Artwork, Does Side Jobs to Fund Rescue of Two Boys in ShelterWhen he died I was put into foster care with my brothers and sisters until police and CPS could make sure that my parents did nothing wrong since no one knew why he died. While in foster care I was abused many times by another kid in the home. When I reported it, no one did anything to stop it. They told me it was ok and to forget about it. It was really hard hearing that and even harder after that same kid started touching my little brother. After 9 months I was allowed to go back to a family f… | /r/MensRights | 02/05/16 04:35 AM |
| 2 | Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, supports requiring women to register for the draftFor an amendment to be considered, it would have to be introduced by a committee member. It's possible that no one will introduce it in the Senate, but I would be surprised if the issue doesn't get raised at all. As you mentioned, the fact that their House counterpart has already passed the amendment makes it more likely that it will be introduced. If it doesn't get introduced, or doesn't pass, in the Senate, the issue would have to be sorted out during reconciliation. I have no idea what would … | /r/MensRights | 30/04/16 02:03 AM |
| 1 | Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, supports requiring women to register for the draftSo then what's left is the votes in the full house and senate. Are these something that might be a problem? It seems to me like most of the Republicans swayed over have been women with military experience, who are likely overrepresented in the armed services committees as opposed to congress as a whole. It does seem that most of the Republican women with military experience support the change, but there were also some male Republicans who supported the SS change. There were some on the House com… | /r/MensRights | 29/04/16 09:51 PM |
| 2 | Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, supports requiring women to register for the draftJohn McCain and Kelly Ayotte are also on the record in support. I'm also tempted to put Lindsey Graham in the yes column, as he criticized Ted Cruz's comments on the issue and defended the Republican presidential candidates who supported gender-neutral SS during one of their debates. He wasn't as explicit as the others, but it definitely sounded like he was in support. Edit - McCain, Ayotte, Ernst, and Graham are all on the Armed Services Committee, so barring any reversals, it should pass with … | /r/MensRights | 29/04/16 03:44 PM |
| 2 | House panel votes to make women register for the draftYeah, I just noticed the discrepancy. There are 63 members of the Armed Services Committee (36 Republicans and 27 Democrats), so I would guess the 32-30 number is more likely to be true (unless there were a lot of committee members who were not present, or otherwise not voting). Still, the House Armed Services Committee is a pretty conservative panel, so just getting any majority is a major hurdle cleared. Normally, amendments to the NDAA are approved by the House and Senate Armed Services Commi… | /r/MensRights | 28/04/16 02:50 AM |
| 23 | House panel votes to make women register for the draftWhen this issue first started receiving attention following the decision to allow women in combat, I knew it would reopen the door to another lawsuit, but I never thought it would get as far as it already has in Congress. It looks like this might actually happen. Apparently, the vote in the Armed Services Committee was 32-20. “If we want equality in this country, if we want women to be treated precisely like men are treated and that they should not be discriminated against, then we should suppor… | /r/MensRights | 28/04/16 02:29 AM |
| 2 | CROSS: CATHY YOUNG, FIGHTING FOR THE MIND OF FEMINISMA good interview with Cathy Young, conducted by the defense attorney, civil libertarian, and blogger Scott Greenfield. Cathy Young always has something insightful to say about gender- protectionist feminism. | /r/MensRights | 27/04/16 11:55 PM |
| 5 | UK government blocks transgender women from facing deportation to Singapore where she would face military conscription because she "would be returning a woman to her home country to be punished as a man"I support transgender rights, but I find it endlessly frustrating that discriminatory policies that impact <1 percent of the population elicit far more condemnation from certain quarters than ones that negatively impact 50 percent of the population. I would love to see a man who's facing conscription in his home country claim that his right to be free from sex discrimination is being violated by being deported from the UK. It would be especially gratifying if he were from one of the supposed exe… | /r/MensRights | 27/04/16 10:11 PM |
| 7 | Columbia should offer a men's studies courseI'm not entirely sold on the idea of men's studies classes (or women's studies classes, for that matter), but it's a very good article overall; from the student newspaper of mattress girl's alma mater, no less! On average, men face extremely high rates of imprisonment, harsher prison sentences than women, a higher rate of completed suicides, academic disenfranchisement, and repressive social norms. ... Women, by virtue of being seen as the weaker sex in society, often elicit much more sympathy f… | /r/MensRights | 27/04/16 10:03 PM |
| 90 | Of COURSE Hillary Clinton thinks women are treated unfairly in sentencingThis woman is beyond repulsive. If I lived in a state where my vote mattered, I would vote for the Republican just to keep her out of office. Since I don't, It'll be third party again for me. | /r/MensRights | 27/04/16 09:53 PM |
| 3 | Would this be breaking title IX?It's possible that other floors have men's and unisex bathrooms. That kind of arrangement isn't uncommon. If the whole building had only women's and unisex bathrooms, that would be a title IX violation. If that's the case, you (or someone else) would need to make a formal complaint with the university before anything happens. People really should file official complaints/ threaten to sue more often. They'd be surprised how often it works. | /r/MensRights | 25/04/16 04:15 PM |
| 6 | Hillary campaign blames the ‘sexism’ of Democrat voters for her high unfavorable ratingsShe has high unfavorable ratings because she is extremely easy to dislike. She has the same cheesy, disingenuous, untrustworthy, deceitful, and two-faced personality that most Democratic politicians have these days, only cranked up to 11 (I'm not a Republican, but they're usually more honest about who they are). Add to that her suspicious dealings since she and her husband left the White House, and I honestly can't think of anything good to say about her. | /r/MensRights | 18/04/16 10:12 PM |
| 1 | Update on the National Coalition for Men's case against the Selective Service SystemI'm not affiliated with the NCFM, I've just had a longtime interest in this issue, and have been following this case closely. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/16 04:20 PM |
| 3 | How a Wrongfully Convicted Inmate Killed His Way Out of PrisonArchive link for anyone who doesn't want to give Rolling Stone the traffic. It's a little long, but a very good read about someone who was wrongly convicted and sentenced to prison, where they were forced to commit a murder in self-defense. At least things worked out for him in the end (in this case anyway). | /r/MensRights | 15/04/16 01:45 PM |
| 9 | Judge threatens to free men accused of violent crimes if Louisiana doesn’t provide attorneysI've been following the situation in Louisiana for a few months now. A good overview of how we got here was given by Scott Greenfield on his blog, Simple Justice: Orleans Parish Public Defender Says “No More.” The Louisiana ACLU has actually sued Orleans Public Defenders over this. It's counterintuitive that they would sue the public defenders office and not the state, but Greenfield says that's likely a strategy to establish a right to a higher standard of defense against a defendant who is unl… | /r/MensRights | 09/04/16 03:09 PM |
| 5 | Alabama + commenters want to castrate sex offenders. Because of course all sex offenders are men, right?It seems like there's a good chance that something like this would be an Equal Protection violation. Someone facing this punishment could rightly argue that they wouldn't be facing it if they were a woman (who had committed the same offense). The mandatory nature of this particular proposal would also raise 8th Amendment issues, I would think. | /r/MensRights | 04/04/16 03:45 PM |
| 23 | Judge uses Prison Rape as a deterrent to scare males from committing offences, admitting she knows about it, doesn't care and doesn't even say it's wrong or a problemFor the record, the Supreme Court has held that sexual assault in prison constitutes cruel and unusual punishment for over 20 years now. It is also the responsibility of officials to put a stop to it. Farmer v. Brennan At the very least, this woman's cavalier attitude is contrary to the spirit of the 8th Amendment. She's a judge; she should know better. Shame on her. I should also add that I doubt she would so carelessly say something like this to a woman that was before her court. If a judge we… | /r/MensRights | 04/04/16 03:11 PM |
| 2 | I read an article by a self-proclaimed feminist shaming men who support democratic socialism (&Bernie). Can you guys help me make sense of this?Being a "real man" by this woman's standards seems like an awful lot of work for not much reward. Seriously, she's basically asking for complete selflessness, dedication to the wants and needs of women, and a lack of concern for one's own well being. What is she offering in return? An open letter of appreciation? That Doesn't sound like a very good deal to me. I guess there's no shortage of desperate-for-approval Arthur Chu types on the Right either. | /r/MensRights | 21/03/16 03:33 AM |
| 3 | Since many missed it: The Bar Association hires lobbyists to get Shared Custody law VETOED --> Anyone else think this is a big deal?This pretty shameless on the Florida Bar's part. We can't have a fairer, more streamlined divorce process; that would be bad for business. | /r/MensRights | 11/03/16 04:12 PM |
| 3 | U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas says women should register for military draftGood to hear. I live in a neighboring district, and was wondering if she would take a position on this (being on the Armed Services Committe, and all). | /r/MensRights | 11/03/16 04:10 PM |
| 14 | Innocent Ohio black man to get $1 million for spending 39 years in jail$1 million for 39 years seems far too low. A family friend spent 32 years in prison on a wrongful murder conviction and was awarded a share of more than $100 million, along with another exonerated man and the familys of two others who died before they were cleared. They were all victims of the same corrupt, mobbed-up FBI agents. I get that it's hard to touch the level of corruption in that case, but still, just $1 million for 39 years? | /r/MensRights | 03/03/16 02:49 PM |
| 2 | 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that lower court was wrong to dismiss NCFM's challenge to male-only selective serviceThe only issue I have is that if there was a draft would be that women would probably get pregnant to avoid it. I'm pretty sure that, in the event of a draft, the most common way that both sexes would dodge it would be by making sure that they test positive for some drug or another. That would certainly be the simplest way to do it. | /r/MensRights | 20/02/16 04:04 PM |
| 2 | 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that lower court was wrong to dismiss NCFM's challenge to male-only selective serviceI read somewhere that Scalia was of the opinion that the Constitution does not guarantee gender equality at all Yeah, he said that when the 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868 it was never intended to prohibit sex discrimination. The Supreme Court has held that the Equal Protection Clause does indeed prohibit this since Reed v. Reed in 1971. Although it certainly won't be good for Apple v. FBI. The way things are going with regard to government spying, I'll be happy if Apple just keeps up their f… | /r/MensRights | 20/02/16 04:09 AM |
| 3 | NCFM wins Ninth Circuit Selective Service Appeal!The decision can be read here: 160219 NCFM-Lesmeister v SS 9th Circuit decision | /r/MensRights | 20/02/16 03:23 AM |
| 3 | 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that lower court was wrong to dismiss NCFM's challenge to male-only selective serviceWow. This ruling came about a month or two earlier than I was expecting. By the time this case makes it to the Supreme Court, assuming Congress doesn't act first, there should be nine members once again. Politics aside, it can only help this case if Obama (or another Democrat) gets to make the appointment. Edit - I would also like to add that the government has 14 days to request a new hearing, so I will be checking PACER for any new filings. | /r/MensRights | 20/02/16 03:01 AM |
| 1 | Why haven't I seen any white men on the "short list" for SCOTUS nominees?He's Jewish. | /r/MensRights | 17/02/16 08:40 PM |
| 2 | Why haven't I seen any white men on the "short list" for SCOTUS nominees?Merrick Garland of the D.C. Circuit is usually mentioned as being on the "short list" whenever there's a Supreme Court vacancy (including now). | /r/MensRights | 17/02/16 05:59 PM |
| 6 | Can an MRA be a feminist?There's no reason why a person can't be both. It's not really feminism in and of itself that the MRM is at odds with, but critical theory, postmodernism, and other academic left orientations that have an unfortunate tendency towards illiberalism and an equally unfortunate influence on a not insignificant number of feminists. It should be obvious why the MRM would be in conflict with philosophies that believe things like men can't suffer from sexism or that it's OK to ''punch up'' at men (why do … | /r/MensRights | 16/02/16 05:12 AM |
| 5 | Feminist: "We women already make a disproportionate contribution to society." therefore there should be a draft and it should be restricted to men.This woman is an idiot and feminists should be embarrassed that she claims to be one of them. On the other hand, at least it's just a letter to the editor from some nobody. At first, I was worried that the NYT was printing an actual editorial from someone with this backward point of view. | /r/MensRights | 13/02/16 07:16 PM |
| 7 | The Campus Rape Hysteria from a Prosecutor's POV: Leave Campus Rape Charges to the ProfessionalsThe folks more cynical about prosecutors might think that all prosecutors would applaud getting ‘rapists’ by any means, even if that meant burning down the legal system. Foremost, without the impediments to prosecution already embedded in the legal system, there is quite likely to be more wrongful convictions. Although expulsion from college because of a false rape conviction might not carry with it a long prison sentence, it will carry with it many, many collateral consequences. In addition, in… | /r/MensRights | 13/02/16 02:46 AM |
| 1 | A military draft for women? Yes, if needed. Fair is fair.As always, Cathy Young is spot on. | /r/MensRights | 13/02/16 02:34 AM |
| 1 | Marco Rubio’s Stance on Drafting Women Makes No Freaking SenseThey're just playing to their base, they probably don't expect the bill to pass. They're signaling to their base that they're not going to allow the godless heathens in Washington to draft their daughters and upset the ''natural'' order of things. | /r/MensRights | 12/02/16 01:46 AM |
| 3 | Marco Rubio’s Stance on Drafting Women Makes No Freaking SenseThere might be something admirable about the notion that Rubio is intentionally disadvantaging his preferred policy positions in order to protect Congress’ traditional powers from encroachment by the other branches. But the protection this bill provides is pointless and nonexistent. President Obama is already powerless to contradict the preexisting, unambiguous law. And if the courts really want to strike down the male-only draft, the fact that Congress passed a law saying they can’t would simpl… | /r/MensRights | 12/02/16 01:00 AM |
| 5 | Congressmen Mike Coffman and Jared Polis introduce bill to abolish selective serviceCoffman, a veteran who served in Iraq, said he agreed with the Pentagon's decision to allow women to take on any role in the armed forces — "so long as the physical and training standards are not in any way compromised." He added that if his bill was not successful, he would support adding women to the Selective Service. A Polis spokesman echoed Coffman's sentiment. "In Rep. Polis' view, the selective service should be abolished, but if it is to continue, then he believes the draft should apply … | /r/MensRights | 11/02/16 04:10 PM |
| 4 | Armed Services Committee chairman John McCain backs women in the draftThis is a pretty big deal. McCain decides what the committee will vote on and when they will do it. This is also a reversal for him as he said no to this in 2008. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/16 08:34 PM |
| 1 | Senator Kelly Ayotte Backs Draft Registration for WomenI remember coming across this 2013 article a while back that had this to say: Under the legislation now on the books, men aged 18-to-25 are required to register with the Selective Service. When asked if the law applies to women as well, Romo replied: "No. In order for it to apply, Congress would have to amend the Military Service Act." Republican Sens. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska both spoke of pursuing such an amendment a few years ago but so far no action has been… | /r/MensRights | 10/02/16 03:39 AM |
| 23 | US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand endorses women registering for the draftThere's a small bit of added significance to this as Gilibrand is a member of the Armed Services Committee (as is Claire McCaskill, who has also come out in favor of this). I've strongly disagreed with them on how to handle cases of alleged sexual assault on college campuses, but I must give credit where credit is due. Good for them. | /r/MensRights | 09/02/16 04:13 AM |
| 6 | Ted Cruz: Making U.S. women eligible to be drafted is 'nuts'For anyone who missed it, Rubio, Bush, and Christie said yes to the women/SS question at the debate last night. It also doesn't look like Cruz has much of a chance in NH. | /r/MensRights | 07/02/16 11:14 PM |
| 5 | Bush, Rubio, Christie: Women should be eligible for Selective ServiceBush, Rubio, and Christie are all more progressive on this issue than Hillary, apparently. This should give some cover to Congressional Republicans to support this. | /r/MensRights | 07/02/16 04:57 AM |
| 1 | Key CT lawmakers open to making women sign up for the draftI think it would be unlikely that enough Representatives or Senators would care enough about changing the SS law to go to the mat for the gender exclusivity and vote against the NDAA for that reason. It's not uncommon for a handful of liberal Democrats and libertarian Republicans to vote against the NDAA itself as a protest against excessive military spending or some other issue, but that's out of 435 in the House & 100 in the Senate (and this usually puts them in the doghouse with the leadershi… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/16 02:39 AM |
| 2 | Key CT lawmakers open to making women sign up for the draftThe Armed Services Committes are where most of the action will take place on this issue. A change to the SS law would most likely be done with an amendment to the MSSA striking the gendered language as part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act process (handled by the Armed Services Committes), and completed when the House & Senate versions are reconciled through conference committee towards the end of the year (the committee votes would likely happen much earlier in the year). It's u… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/16 01:30 AM |
| 4 | Bill would increase penalties for teachers who have sex with teensYou can read about the actual bill here. It seems pretty straight forward; I'm not sure how prosecutors would get around applying it equally, absent not bringing child sex charges against ANY women in the first place, but that could potentially be difficult to pull off. I'm generally not a fan of mandatory minimums, so I'm not sure how I feel about it personally. The upside would be that the proposed law could bring some uniformity to sentencing for men and women. | /r/MensRights | 05/02/16 11:22 PM |
| 11 | Should women be required to register for the draft? They can serve with valor in combat roles, but feminists have clashed on the issue.Though Congress is highly unlikely to ever resume active conscription, the purpose of a nationwide Selective Service registry is to enforce an equal distribution of the burden of war. Since the Vietnam War, when the wealthy and powerful easily avoided the draft, most easy-to-access deferments have been scrapped. If the draft is to have its desired effect—forcing decision-makers in the federal government to personally grapple with the severity of sending combat troops overseas and lessening the d… | /r/MensRights | 05/02/16 03:08 AM |
| 5 | Hillary Clinton — Alleged Feminist — Declines To Back Generals Who Say Women Should Register For The DraftAlso relevant is that in a 2008 debate she was in favor of requiring women to register. I saw that before as well. Remember that her '08 campaign was a lot less gender focused than this one. She doesn't want to risk alienating her base (which is disproportionately older) and jeopardizing her gender gap (millennials tend to be most supportive of making this change, while baby boomers and older are least supportive). | /r/MensRights | 04/02/16 05:09 PM |
| 39 | Hillary Clinton — Alleged Feminist — Declines To Back Generals Who Say Women Should Register For The Draft"The idea of having everybody register concerns me a little bit unless we have a better idea of where that’s going to come out." When she said this, Anderson Cooper should have responded with this: Nearly all men — even non-citizens and refugees — must register for Selective Service within 30 days of turning 18. The system has existed in its current form since 1980 and is in place to ensure that enough manpower is in place in case of large-scale war. She didn't call for the termination for the r… | /r/MensRights | 04/02/16 04:22 PM |
| 3 | Army, Marine Corps Generals Say Women Should Have To Register For The DraftThe issues of women in combat and registering for the draft also have a legal connection. The Supreme Court ruled in Rostker v. Goldberg in 1981 that it was constitutional to draft only men into the military because women were excluded from combat roles. But "things have changed," a federal judge in California said during a December hearing over a lawsuit arguing that an all-male draft is unconstitutional, as the Two-Way reported. As NPR's David Welna noted after Carter's decision, "Congress see… | /r/MensRights | 03/02/16 06:21 PM |
| 5 | Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, on female draft - "We don’t think women should be exempt from the draft any more than they should be exempt from combat roles"Verna Jones, executive director of the American Legion, said the Legion’s official position is that women should be treated the same as men. Jones said the American Legion is actively working to change issues it believes in for the military and veterans, including registering women with the SSS. With 2.2 million Legion members, she said, anything is possible. This is even more surprising. The American Legion used to be damn near reactionary (on a whole lot of issues). Whenever this issue would c… | /r/MensRights | 30/01/16 05:34 PM |
| 1 | Playing Politics With Online AbuseThird, speaking of bias and double standards: Verified Twitter users include people like the notoriously foulmouthed Australian feminist Clementine Ford, known both for general male-bashing comments and for nasty attacks on individual men as well as on women whose opinions she finds objectionable. One tweet of hers, later deleted, used crude epithets to mock conservative Australian columnist Miranda Devine. Another said, of Iranian-born columnist Rita Panahi, whom Ford considers “Islamophobic,” … | /r/MensRights | 23/01/16 08:29 PM |
| 6 | Sorry, activists, another flawed survey doesn't prove rape cultureThe survey was funded through the Justice Department's Office on Violence Against Women, hardly a neutral agency. The survey was conducted through the Bureau of Justice Statistics, whose data on the issue show that the actual rate of victimization is closer to 6 out of 1,000 female students. The DOJ hired RTI International, a research group that was responsible for a previous campus sexual assault survey claiming 1-in-5 women are victims. This survey was created by people who knew how to get hig… | /r/MensRights | 22/01/16 03:19 AM |
| 2 | Feminism and Social Androgyny (Gender Theory)It's hard not to notice that society is much less enthusiastic about allowing men to opt-out of their traditional gender role than it is about allowing women to do so; for instance, there seems to be a never ending procession of articles on what a ''good man'' or ''real man'' is supposed to do for a woman (sometimes even from purportedly feminist sources), while anything that attempted to ask what a ''good woman'' should do for a man would almost certainly be decried as horribly misogynistic. Th… | /r/MensRights | 21/01/16 04:28 AM |
| 3 | Clinton Focused Her Campaign On Being a Woman and It Isn’t WorkingBut it highlights a major problem for Clinton. President Obama was able to bring out record numbers of African-Americans to support his candidacy. It does not appear as though Clinton will be able to mimic those results with women voters. Clinton could very well inspire a historic number of women to vote, but it is not clear those women would be voting for her. Clinton still does better than Sanders overall and with African-American and Latino voters, as well as Democrats over 50. But her campai… | /r/MensRights | 20/01/16 07:29 AM |
| 0 | Dad sentenced to SIX MONTHS in jail for overpaying $ 3,000 for child support (caused by bureacratic errors)Texas has an elected judiciary, so it could be quite beneficial to publicize this farce as much as possible between now and whenever Judge Lisa Millard next comes up for reelection. | /r/MensRights | 18/01/16 09:13 PM |
| 25 | After Cologne, Feminism is DeadIt's a really good piece, so I would recommend reading the whole thing, but this paragraph gets to the heart of the matter: As a general point, it really is astonishing the extent to which the feminist left (in fact, the left in general) is prepared to veto entire chapters of its own otherwise Inquisitorially-enforced ideology in the interests of maintaining 100% solidarity with Islam — the most ruthlessly misogynistic force in the world today. The same people who see and hear rape culture liter… | /r/MensRights | 18/01/16 08:01 PM |
| 17 | I guess I am officially done toying with feminism, I guess this is my place now?Always glad to have more people from different backgrounds. Most here, I would guess, also identify as egalitarians. | /r/MensRights | 18/01/16 04:32 AM |
| 2 | Hello. I am new to the Mens Movement and want to try to be part of this community.Welcome aboard. Everyone with a serious interest in men's issues is welcome, all races, religions, political beliefs, etc. As far as information, I would recommend Warren Farrell's The Myth of Male Power. It can be found pretty cheaply. | /r/MensRights | 17/01/16 11:56 PM |
| 19 | California colleges to make proving innocence a punishable offenseSue the University of California System for everything they have; maybe they'll have to cut back on the 'Title IX coordinators' and 'welfare and diversity officers.' | /r/MensRights | 15/01/16 11:02 PM |
| 154 | A Male Feminist Said That He Will Punch Every Anti-feminist and MRA in Public and He Will Force Every Dissenter to Accept Feminist Ideology by His Muscle!I think this is that toxic masculinity we hear so much about. | /r/MensRights | 15/01/16 08:52 AM |
| 14 | Harvard prof. takes down gender wage gap mythPretty much. It's still nice whenever an expert is willing to say so publicly though. | /r/MensRights | 15/01/16 02:31 AM |
| 19 | Harvard prof. takes down gender wage gap mythBasically, the Harvard economics professor (a woman) has found that the overall gap is a result of difference in hours worked and how much value men and women respectively place on flexibility. | /r/MensRights | 15/01/16 02:08 AM |
| 7 | Yes Means Yes - Until She Regrets ItThe single most troubling issue with “yes means yes” instead of “no means no” stems from what I outlined at the start of the article: men are held to higher standards than women. Consent is taught as something a man must actively and regularly request, and it is something that women may give. It is a woman’s right, and a man’s responsibility. And, as has been proven time and time again, consent can be revoked after the fact. Odd seeing today's feminists embracing this Victorian notion of fragile… | /r/MensRights | 14/01/16 11:22 PM |
| 10 | Men don't need a bathroomIt sounds like what she's doing is probably illegal. Building codes explicitly require separate male and female facilities and specify how many of each are necessary; it's specified right in the North Carolina plumbing code. If anyone has any complaints, they should direct them to the North Carolina Department of Insurance (Office of the State Fire Marshall), as they develop and enforce building codes. | /r/MensRights | 14/01/16 11:09 PM |
| 201 | ‘Jackie’ must turn over communications with ‘Rolling Stone’ in suit over discredited rape storyThe National Organization for Women released an open letter to UVA President Teresa Sullivan following Eramo’s filing, apparently calling for Eramo to be punished for asking a judge to bring Jackie out of the shadows. “Your dean’s demands recite nearly every false argument made to undermine victims of sexual assault,” according to the letter. “It is exactly this kind of victim blaming and shaming that fosters rape culture, re-victimizes those brave enough to have come forward, and silences count… | /r/MensRights | 13/01/16 05:47 AM |
| 423 | Sanders: Law enforcement should handle campus rapeHe added that too many schools are treating it as a "student issue" instead of referring accusations to law enforcement, and added that victims shouldn't have to be in classes with their rapists. But the idea of mandatory law enforcement referral has long been met by with skepticism by advocates trying to stop sexual assaults on college campuses. Ninety percent of survivors polled by the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence and Know Your IX said they wanted to have the choice of whether to r… | /r/MensRights | 12/01/16 10:16 AM |
| 1 | Flirting with authoritarianismIt’s one of the great contradictions of our time. Our society seems more sexually open than ever. You can’t switch on the television without seeing the likes of Lady Gaga whipping her backing singers with a bicycle chain. Yet it’s hard to recall any time since the famously stiff 1950s that society has been as sexually suspicious as it is today. Only now it isn’t conservatives with blue rinses leading the charge against sex — it’s feminists with purple dye-jobs. Across the West, supposedly radica… | /r/MensRights | 09/01/16 02:44 AM |
| 12 | Recently strayed away from Feminism. Looking for good books on Men's Rights. Any recommendations?Warren Farrell's The Myth of Male Power is as close to a foundational text as the movement has and touches on most of the main issues; it's definitely recommended. I'd recommend Who Stole Feminism? also by CHS, as well. | /r/MensRights | 08/01/16 05:53 AM |
| 5 | Senator Demands Answers from Department of Education About Controversial MandatesGiven the substantive mandates announced in OCR’s letters, Senator Lankford asks Acting Secretary King why the agency declined to submit them for public notice and comment, as required by the federal Administrative Procedure Act (APA). “Perhaps OCR sought to avoid notice-and-comment procedures, fearing that education officials and other interested groups would have voiced substantive objections to the letters’ policies if given an opportunity,” Lankford writes. “If so, this fear would have been … | /r/MensRights | 07/01/16 09:25 PM |
| 21 | Is it legal for a company to do this?No. It is not legal. Requiring bar staff to be female would not be considered a bona fide occupational qualification unless the place is promoting itself as a Hooters-type establishment. If you wish to pursue this, contact the EEOC. | /r/MensRights | 21/12/15 02:27 AM |
| 7 | Men's rights group lawsuit: male-only draft violates constitutionAttorneys for the federal government said the case should still be thrown out arguing, in part, that because the named plaintiff, James Lesmeister, has registered for the draft, the point is moot. "There is no assertion in the complaint of any injury whatsoever," Assistant U.S. Attorney Sonia McNeil said. Berzon pushed back, saying: "but they do have an assertion of an injury, i.e. 'We have to register. If I were a woman, I wouldn't have to register'." It's quite satisfying to see avowed feminis… | /r/MensRights | 12/12/15 02:33 AM |
| 10 | Professors, rights groups write letter defending student due process rightsSome of the signees include Elizabeth Bartholet from Harvard Law, several professors from the George Mason School of Law, as well as past and current directors of the ACLU. The organizations that have signed the letter are heavily involved in defending due process rights for accused students, including Families Advocating for Campus Equality and the group Stop Abusive and Violent Environments, as well as the National Association of Scholars. Good to see more ACLU people finally getting involved;… | /r/MensRights | 10/12/15 12:41 AM |
| 1 | Court reviews all-male draft in wake of Pentagon women-in-combat decisionGlad to help. | /r/MensRights | 09/12/15 06:36 AM |
| 1 | Court reviews all-male draft in wake of Pentagon women-in-combat decisionAnyway, I can see where the government is going with this. They are cynically trying to convince the court that the only "valid" redress for men to seek is the abolishment of the draft. That would then put the government in an rock solid position in terms of case law, treaties, human rights laws, etc. There is no way that a court would force the government to abolish the draft. The plaintiffs are not urging the court to require women to register or for the elimination of the registration process… | /r/MensRights | 09/12/15 05:02 AM |
| 1 | Court reviews all-male draft in wake of Pentagon women-in-combat decisionHe stood their arguing about whether the case was ripe before the recent changes for way too long. Even I could tell the judges were getting frustrated and trying to get him to realize that that didn't matter. He probably spent too much time on it, but I would point out that the dispute is over whether the district court's dismissal of the lawsuit on the grounds of ripeness was correct or not, so he was "covering his bases" as he said in the video. It also seemed like the government attorney rec… | /r/MensRights | 09/12/15 04:05 AM |
| 3 | Court reviews all-male draft in wake of Pentagon women-in-combat decisionAnd, correct me if I'm wrong, but the verdict will only be either sending the case back down to the courts to look at seriously, or tossing it out on procedural grounds, right? They're not actually evaluating the actual merits of the case? Yes. That's what's at issue here and what the NCFM is asking for. This is moving really, really slowly. Obviously at some point they'll actually have to look at a case like this on its merits but even if they rule favorably it looks like it could be years befo… | /r/MensRights | 09/12/15 12:57 AM |
| 7 | Court reviews all-male draft in wake of Pentagon women-in-combat decisionProbably a good 3-4 months at least. I'm waiting for the video of oral arguments to be posted on the 9th Circuit's youtube channel. I'll post the link when it's uploaded. Edit: It's up. Start at 2 hours, 5 minutes in. | /r/MensRights | 09/12/15 12:35 AM |
| 1 | Republicans raise alarm about women in combat Their subtle warning: It could force all young women to register for the draft.I'm well aware of who she is, I strongly disagree with her on college kangaroo courts, and I don't trust any politician. Still, credit where credit is due. | /r/MensRights | 05/12/15 05:00 AM |
| 23 | Republicans raise alarm about women in combat Their subtle warning: It could force all young women to register for the draft.Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who supports the decision, said Thursday she does think it will “eventually” mean that women will be part of the draft. But that’s not a bad thing, she said. “There’s all kinds of ways women can serve, and there’s all kinds of ways men can serve,” she explained. “And if, in fact, we were at a point where we were having a draft again, I would think both would and should serve.” Credit where credit is due. | /r/MensRights | 04/12/15 06:14 PM |
| 7 | Court to hear whether women should register for draftWhat would be horrible is if this makes it to court, they examine all the evidence, and rule that even with women in combat it's acceptable for only men to be draft-eligible. Because after that, there's virtually no way to get it challenged in the future. Not necessarily. The only realistic chance that the government has of prevailing on this issue, post-combat ban, is to argue that so few women would meet the physical standards that they should still not be considered 'similarly situated' with … | /r/MensRights | 04/12/15 03:31 AM |
| 9 | Court to hear whether women should register for draftIt will be interesting to see what the government will try to argue now that the combat ban is 100% history. On every previous post-Rostker challenge (Schwartz v. Brodsky, Elgin v. Department of the Treasury, and this case up until this point) the government prevailed due to the combat ban still being in place and the Rostker precedent still being good, that's obviously not the case anymore. You should be able to watch and/or listen to the arguments here the day after. Should be interesting. On … | /r/MensRights | 04/12/15 01:14 AM |
| 7 | US to open all combat roles to women, taking bets now on how long before they lower the physical requirements and how long it takes for that to get a man killedJust in time for this: 2015-12-08 9:30 am Courtroom 3, Richard H. Chambers US Court of Appeals, Pasadena National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System - The National Coalition for Men and James Lesmeister appeal from the district court's dismissal of their action challenging the Military Selective Service Act, which requires certain men, but not women, to register with the Selective Service. | /r/MensRights | 03/12/15 06:14 PM |
| 15 | New York Times: Women are the First Priority in Reducing Overall IncarcerationHow does the NYT editorial board plan to square this with the 14th Amendment? California had a similar policy to what the NYT is advocating here, but a federal judge ruled it unconstitutional on equal protection grounds just this past September. | /r/MensRights | 01/12/15 02:21 AM |
| 5 | Turning 18 this month and Selective Services is giving me nightmares.While nothing's ever certain, I'd say it's highly unlikely SS will actually be used. There's a good chance that it won't even exist within the next couple of years, as the lifting of the ban on women in combat changes the underlying facts of the previous Supreme Court case, and there's currently a lawsuit against the SS law that has oral arguments scheduled for December 8th. I'm betting the elimination of the registration requirement for men is the more likely ultimate outcome than the registrat… | /r/MensRights | 16/11/15 04:11 AM |
| 23 | Hillary Says It’s OK That She Takes Wall Street Money Because of Women and 9/11What I said was that Obama's campaign wasn't based on identity politics to near the extent that Hillary's is, not that it was entirely free of them. Hillary basically has no other issue than her gender. As I stated above, Obama focused largely on economic issues in key states. The Obama campaign literally put their money where their mouth was with their campaign ads. I agree though that, unfortunately, almost any major Democratic campaign will have some focus on identity politics these days. | /r/MensRights | 15/11/15 08:50 PM |
| 39 | Hillary Says It’s OK That She Takes Wall Street Money Because of Women and 9/11I'm not really an Obama fan, but I don't think you can say that his 2012 campaign was centered on identity politics to anywhere near the extent that Hillary's is. I remember him mostly trying to avoid focusing race during his campaigns. Obama won mostly because he kept his campaign focused on economic issues in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa (the states that decided the campaign). Remember this ad.. Obama's own economic record certainly wasn't great, but Romney was… | /r/MensRights | 15/11/15 07:25 PM |
| 66 | Hillary Says It’s OK That She Takes Wall Street Money Because of Women and 9/11Hillary Says It's OK That She Takes Wall Street Money Because of Women If there was ever a sentence that sums up why I believe Hillary will ultimately lose the general election it's this. The number of people who respond favorably to this mix of in-your-face identity politics and corporate whoredom is not going to be enough to go all the way. | /r/MensRights | 15/11/15 06:43 PM |
| 1 | I plan to make a Youtube channel for Men's Rights in Turkey. Can you help?I would assume that there are government agencies in your country that keep track of these statistics. You could try finding the information from them. Good luck with your project. I wish I could help more, but I have to admit that I'm not very familiar with Turkish society. | /r/MensRights | 11/11/15 12:15 AM |
| 1 | I feel MRM issues oftentimes are issues of class rather than gender, thoughts?Workplace deaths/injuries might be heavily class related, but at the very least, class does not explain why working class men receive substantially harsher prison sentences than working class women. Nor does it explain why fathers so often get the short end of the stick in family courts. Also, I can't for the life of me see how you could possibly deny the gendered nature of draft registration, when the text of the law requires compliance from "all male citizens and resident aliens." If it was cl… | /r/MensRights | 11/11/15 12:01 AM |
| 2 | Senator Claire McCaskill Tells Men to "Shut the Hell Up"Regardless of this, she's going to have a very difficult time winning reelection in 2018. She was on the ropes in 2012 and facing defeat until her opponent's lack of discipline saved her, and that was with presidential election level turnout. Missouri is a Republican-trending state, and with Republican-favoring midterm level turnout she should be good as gone so long as she has an opponent that can stay on message. It's only that much worse for her if Hillary wins and she has to run for reelecti… | /r/MensRights | 10/11/15 09:25 PM |
| 3 | I feel MRM issues oftentimes are issues of class rather than gender, thoughts?Could you elaborate? What specifically are you talking about? | /r/MensRights | 10/11/15 07:40 PM |
| 1 | Should women be drafted? Congress may have to decide soonYeah, that's my take on this as well. Maybe I'll be surprised and the issue will gain some support in Congress, but my bet is we'll have to wait another year or two after January 2016 for the case to work its way to the Supreme Court (unless the government decides to stop defending the lawsuit). | /r/MensRights | 05/11/15 11:27 PM |
| 1 | Should women be drafted? Congress may have to decide soonYeah, it's good to see things move forward after about a year without action. It should still be a few more months after oral arguments before a ruling is issued, though. At least the 9th Circuit is supposed to be pretty good on equal protection cases. I'm interested to see how this turns out. You should be able to see audio and video recordings here the day after the argument. | /r/MensRights | 05/11/15 10:36 PM |
| 9 | Should women be drafted? Congress may have to decide soonA small advisory group called DACOWITS -- the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services -- makes regular reports on such issues directly to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, and has advised him to ask Congress to change the Military Selective Service Act to require women to register for the draft. I wasn't aware that this had already happened. Good to know. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the male-only policy. Justice William Rehnquist wrote that the policy did not violate the Constitutio… | /r/MensRights | 05/11/15 09:18 PM |
| 14 | Clinton previews her lame 'everything is sexism' strategyI'm not exactly a committed Sanders supporter myself. I may or may not vote for him, as he at least seems honest (a rare quality for a creature of Washington) and also seems like a decent person (an even rarer quality). This is less a defense of Sanders, and more an indictment of Clinton. For all the reasons you listed, I can't believe she is still able to command about half of Democratic primary voters. She's dishonest even by the standards of other politicians, and her campaign seems to be alm… | /r/MensRights | 27/10/15 01:07 PM |
| 23 | Clinton previews her lame 'everything is sexism' strategyHow I loathe this person. | /r/MensRights | 27/10/15 12:11 PM |
| 7 | American selective service."oh well the draft hasn't been used for x amount of years and won't be so it doesn't matter" or "women can't fill combat roles so..." I agree that it's annoying when people say these things, but I don't believe I've ever seen them said here. I find myself wondering why no one brings up that men can not apply for federal scholarships or hold any federal position (along with some state positions) without signing up? These things get brought up all the time here. Why is it that no one brings up tha… | /r/MensRights | 19/10/15 10:04 PM |
| 3 | Draft women? Why not?I still expect that a lawsuit will be necessary to achieve any change in the selective service law, but it's still nice to see that there's a growing number of people in the media willing to speak out about this. | /r/MensRights | 18/10/15 11:00 PM |
| 16 | Action Opportunity Update: New Jersey Coalition for Battered Women changes its name to the New Jersey Coalition to End Domestic Violence, and commits to more inclusive work for the benefit of all domestic violence victims.Wow, this is actually a pretty substantial win. Good job. | /r/MensRights | 18/10/15 06:42 PM |
| 8 | Marvel Introduces Female Wolverine in ComicsStupid. X-23 was a great character in her own right. When Marvel canceled her solo series a couple of years ago, it was the end of me buying any new superhero comics from them. | /r/MensRights | 16/10/15 12:39 AM |
| 6 | The day I met the other victims of extremism: boys brainwashed to killGood read. This issue could really use some more international attention. It's a shame no one prominent or no organization has taken it up yet (that I know of). These young men – more accurately boys – were primed for death. I'm glad this was made clear. The tendency to think of minor males as "young men" while referring to young females as "girls" contributes to the empathy gap and acceptance of male disposability that allows things like this to happen in the first place without too much of an … | /r/MensRights | 10/10/15 03:16 PM |
| 3 | Second Department of Education Official in Eight Days Tells Congress Guidance Is Not BindingIf the April 4, 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter is not binding as these officials state, why is the Department of Education claiming that institutions violate Title IX if they do not conform with the letter’s terms? Why is ED forcing institutions to change their policies to meet the demands of the letter when it enters into settlement agreements with institutions under investigation? Is anyone aware of any other instances of an agency claiming powers it was never granted, exercising these powers li… | /r/MensRights | 06/10/15 05:06 PM |
| 3 | Middlebury Student Paper Condemns Judicial Scrutiny of College’s Disciplinary ProcessesThe editorial followed a Vermont federal court’s decision to halt Middlebury’s expulsion of a student accused of sexual misconduct, pending further legal proceedings. The court issued a preliminary injunction, which may be granted only when a party can show both that they have a likelihood of success on the merits and that they would suffer irreparable harm without the injunction. The answer is more and more lawsuits. We have the law and Constitution on our side. | /r/MensRights | 06/10/15 04:56 PM |
| 4 | What is the role of identity politics in the MRM?Identity politics should, ideally, be kept to a minimum in the MRM. I see the MRM mostly as a civil libertarian movement, as so many men's rights issues stem from a failure to respect the equal protection and due process rights (among other rights) of men. It would be a shame to see the MRM fall into supporting a gender-reversed version of the oppressor/oppressed dynamic that radical and third wave feminists favor. In my view, the MRM's primary function should be organizing around specific issue… | /r/MensRights | 06/10/15 08:00 AM |
| 4 | Cathy Young: My brush with campus intolerance.Relevant to this sub because Cathy Young was speaking on these campuses at the invitation of the Canadian Association for Equality. | /r/MensRights | 02/10/15 06:45 PM |
| 7 | CNN wants you to feel really sorry for this woman who was just executed. After all, she only murdered her husband.From the article: This isn't the only U.S. case on which Pope Francis -- who called for an end to the death penalty when he spoke in Congress last week -- has commented. His representative has also sent a letter to Oklahoma's governor, asking her to commute the death sentence for Richard Glossip, who's scheduled to be executed there Wednesday. I'm against the death penalty, and certainly take no joy in any execution, but it is annoying seeing the disproportionate attention that women on death ro… | /r/MensRights | 30/09/15 05:18 AM |
| 1 | There’s now a House Men for Women Caucus, but its policy agenda is unclearWith no members yet, Beyer is being very vague about what policies the group will support. While he personally backs President Obama's childcare tax credit proposal and proposals that would expand paid parental leave, the caucus is sticking to a "voluntary, business-led approach," avoiding new laws entirely. This doesn't sound like it's going anywhere. It sounds like it might as well be renamed the Congressional Don Beyer Caucus, as it seems he's using feminism as a trendy branding strategy as a… | /r/MensRights | 29/09/15 08:06 PM |
| 7 | An Open Letter To Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Who Wrote An Article Greatly Mischaracterizing The MHRM and MGTOWExcellent rebuttal. It made all of the points that I thought really needed to be made in response to that article. I'm personally somewhere between a libertarian and a liberal (in the American sense), but I've long been a reader and supporter of Reason and was quite disappointed to see identity politics, not to mention shoddy research (or was it outright dishonesty), rearing its ugly head there. Does the MHRM believe that “feminists have destroyed the rightful social order” or that men are “the … | /r/MensRights | 29/09/15 05:11 AM |
| 7 | The Problem With Campus Sexual Assault SurveysHis remarks were echoed by his fellow college presidents. But if these heads of institutions of higher education truly believe the survey results, their collective response constitutes a dereliction of duty. What the AAU survey describes is an epic criminal justice calamity that should prompt emergency action. If 1 in 4 women on their campuses can expect to be victimized each year, college presidents should reinstate the long-abandoned sexual segregation of dorms; there should be a strictly enfo… | /r/MensRights | 24/09/15 10:57 PM |
| 7 | How schools can stop 'civil rights' trampling due processMaatz testified that by using a lower standard of evidence than at criminal trials — a preponderance of evidence, allowing administrators under federal pressure to be just 50.01 percent sure an assault was committed — is acceptable, because that's the standard used in civil trials. But what Maatz failed to note is that civil trials also provide rules of evidence, discovery, right to effective counsel (not just a lawyer sitting silently in the background), subpoena power and sworn testimony. In c… | /r/MensRights | 24/09/15 10:41 PM |
| 7 | Colorado district attorney responds to Rep. Jared Polis' sex assault commentsStan Garnett is the district attorney for Colorado's 20th judicial district. In an op-ed for the Daily Camera, he perfectly explained why colleges should not be adjudicating felonies. "Although universities adjudicate student discipline, it is a serious mistake to equate investigation and resolution of felony sex assault with cheating on a test or drinking or smoking in a dorm room or the other normal fodder of the university discipline process, where due process on some level is important, but … | /r/MensRights | 21/09/15 09:05 PM |
| 0 | U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Afghan Allies’ Abuse of BoysIt really needs to be the end of the military career of anyone involved in aiding and abetting this. | /r/MensRights | 20/09/15 07:39 PM |
| 5 | Parents in circumcision fight reach agreement over mom's desire to see boyBetween Chase's 'father' and this guy, there have been some horrible fathers in the news recently. | /r/MensRights | 18/09/15 04:52 PM |
| 6 | Hillary Clinton pushes campus sexual assault mythsI have a hard time thinking of a candidate I would be less inclined to vote for than this woman. | /r/MensRights | 18/09/15 04:44 PM |
| 9 | Rep. Jared Polis did not misspeak, he just doesn't like the backlashAt least we've reached a point where this issue has gotten enough mainstream attention that Polis feels the need to backpedal. | /r/MensRights | 16/09/15 08:44 PM |
| 24 | Actual "women only" job posting at my companyWhat country was this job being offered in? If it was in the U.S., you could contact the EEOC. | /r/MensRights | 16/09/15 01:46 AM |
| 1 | Can anybody explain to me why Men are required to sign up for the draft and women are not?Still doubting that the excuse of that women aren't allowed to all combat positions won't be used. The Navy has had women serve on combat vessels for years, and yet the Supreme Court still used that excuse after the 2013 directive from the Commander and Chief. The link is between the ability to legally serve in direct ground combat positions and whether or not it is constitutional to discriminate on the basis of sex when registering individuals for the draft, not really whether one can legally s… | /r/MensRights | 16/09/15 01:34 AM |
| 1 | Can anybody explain to me why Men are required to sign up for the draft and women are not?I hate how everyone is waiting for the entire integration of women to all combat roles. Rostker v. Goldberg is the controlling case on this issue, and that case established the combat exclusion/SS exemption link, so if we want the courts to revisit this issue, there is a much better chance of that happening once there is no prohibition on women in combat. This means if a single role is decided not to allow women in them they will continue to claim that the lawsuit isn't ready for ripeness. Not n… | /r/MensRights | 16/09/15 12:53 AM |
| 2 | Can anybody explain to me why Men are required to sign up for the draft and women are not?My pleasure. And I of course concur with your sentiment with regard to the SS law. | /r/MensRights | 16/09/15 12:10 AM |
| 2 | Can anybody explain to me why Men are required to sign up for the draft and women are not?People are moderately okay with sending their sons off to die horrible deaths but are petrified at the thought of anything bad happening to their "baby girls". If given the choice, people would rather their son die than their daughter. I think this is demonstrated by the disparate reactions some in the internet feminist/"social justice" community have towards the registration of men and women. When discussing the registration of men, the reaction is most often along the lines of "lol, it's not a… | /r/MensRights | 15/09/15 11:56 PM |
| 7 | Can anybody explain to me why Men are required to sign up for the draft and women are not?The short answer is that in 1981 the Supreme Court ruled that since women were not allowed to serve in combat roles, they were not "similarly situated" with men for the purposes of a draft, and thus excluding them from registration could pass an Equal Protection analysis. The Department of Defense recently announced a change in policy with regard to women in combat, with all roles expected to be opened to women by this coming January. This changes the underlying facts of that 1981 Supreme Court … | /r/MensRights | 15/09/15 11:22 PM |
| 71 | Appalling trend: innocent young men are deemed necessary collateral damage in the war on rapeAlthough I was already familiar with most of the quotes in the article, I still feel sick after reading them all in one place. That many of these people are in positions of power is absolutely terrifying. While those who have had their due process rights violated by these kangaroo courts have had some success in court, universitiy administrators still seem to not get the messages that what they are doing is flagrantly unconstitutional. They'll just keep throwing their students' tuition money aro… | /r/MensRights | 14/09/15 01:51 PM |
| 6 | Federal judge says California early-release program can’t exclude male inmates.This situation in Florida really needs to be rectified with a similar lawsuit. | /r/MensRights | 13/09/15 02:54 PM |
| 2 | Campus Rape And The Trouble With Affirmative ConsentThis article is from last year, but obviously as relevant as ever, especially in light of Congressman "better 10 innocent men expelled than 1 guilty man not" Polis' comments. Also, the author, Wendy Kaminer, is one of my very favorite people to read. Here is another article from her on the same subject. I would really recommend everything by her. I'll link to her work from The Atlantic as well. | /r/MensRights | 13/09/15 06:27 AM |
| 5 | The Return of the Sex WarsTo Halley, it's strange to hear feminists appealing to men to change their behavior while leaving women of of the equation. "I'm really troubled by this trend in which women are helpless and passive and men are the big responsible protectors," she said. "That's the ideology of the gilded cage. It's astonishing to see feminists reawakening it uncritically. If young people are going to have a robust role in creating the conditions they want to live in, feminists have to call off this ban on discus… | /r/MensRights | 13/09/15 06:08 AM |
| 3 | Girls being given preferential treatment in criminal lawSo basically the sentences for the same crime are different for boys and girls as a matter of policy, not just sentencing bias, in Jacksonville? Boys should sue on equal protection grounds for not getting the girls' sentence. Most criminals have sob stories, but it seems we only care about them when they are women's stories. | /r/MensRights | 12/09/15 11:14 PM |
| 19 | Better that five innocent students get expelled than one guilty student stay enrolledIndeed, if University A expels 10 students on this ground and they’ll go to University B, while University B expels 10 students on this ground and they’ll go to University A (“we’re talking about them being transferred to another university, for crying out loud”), the actual rapists will just be shuffled around from place to place, so neither university will get safer. And the wrongly accused (by hypothesis, eight or nine of them, compared to one or two correctly accused) will pay the cost. Of c… | /r/MensRights | 12/09/15 11:59 AM |
| 3 | Colorado Rep. Jared Polis needs to resign: he wants to expel innocent students merely accused of sexual assaultShit. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I had two Volokh free speech/hate speech articles in front of me and originally linked to the wrong one. I've fixed the link. The illiberalsim that I was referring to is coming from the Congressman in the article, not the author. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/15 05:35 PM |
| 33 | Colorado Rep. Jared Polis needs to resign: he wants to expel innocent students merely accused of sexual assaultI do worry just how much some representatives from safe Democratic districts will be willing to openly take radically illiberal positions on things like due process, free speech, and equal protection in the future. Not just illiberal positions, but ones that have no basis in any widely accepted interpretation of the Constitution. I say that not only with regard to this jackass, but to this one as well I fear the future of liberalism may be a mix of Clintonesque crony capitalism (socialism for th… | /r/MensRights | 11/09/15 12:05 PM |
| 78 | Hillary Clinton — “I'm not asking people to vote for me because I'm a woman, but I think if you vote for somebody on their merits—one of my merits is I'M A WOMAN”She's not convincing anyone to vote for her with this kind of rhetoric. Anyone who responds positively to this is someone who was already going to vote for her no matter what. She's just preaching to the converted. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/15 12:46 AM |
| 2 | Racial discrimination during adolescence has a lasting effect on the bodyFeeling that you've been discriminated against (as a result of race, sex, or whatever) can certainly be stressful, especially if it is ongoing and no one seems to care. I'm not a scientist and I don't fully understand everything in the article, but it seems reasonable that stress could lead to negative health effects. I'll defer to the experts on this. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/15 12:03 AM |
| 3 | Man Exonerated After Decade In Prison Set To Graduate From Loyola Law SchoolWith help from the Wisconsin Innocence Project, Adams was exonerated after 10 years in prison. The Innocence Project is an excellent organization. I would encourage anyone interested in the law, civil rights/civil liberties, & constitutional rights to support them. 10 Things Anyone Can Do To Help Exonerate Innocent People and Prevent Wrongful Convictions | /r/MensRights | 10/09/15 11:05 PM |
| 1 | Campus sexual assault hearing applauds witch-hunt mentalityPolis said. "Why shouldn't a private institution, in the interest in promoting a safe environment, use an even lower standard than a preponderance of evidence, like even a reasonable likeliness standard?" Not all colleges and universities are private institutions. Public universities must adhere to reasonable due process protections afforded to students by the U.S. Constitution. Cohn noted this in the brief moment he was able to respond before being interrupted by Polis, who asked if the prepond… | /r/MensRights | 10/09/15 10:28 PM |
| 3 | Rep. Jared Polis Thinks Colleges Should Be Able to Expel Students When They're Only 20% Sure a Rape HappenedDo you have anything to say about the radical disregard for the constitutional right to due process that the Congressman is showing, or are you just shitposting? If I were an sjw, I would tell you to kill yourself or die in a fire or to drink bleach. Since I am not an sjw, I'll just tell you to go troll somewhere else. | /r/MensRights | 10/09/15 06:36 PM |
| 15 | Will you circumcise your son? Why or why not?No. Why would I? Most of the world (Europe, Latin America, Asia) gets by just fine without having had it done. It really is a peculiarity that It's done on such a wide scale in the U.S. (the rates have fallen in recent years, but I believe it is still over 50%). If you're going to perform body-modifying surgery on a child, you really need a better reason than the ones most commonly given by the pro-circumcision side, which usually amount to the ass-backwards "why shouldn't we do it? It's normal.… | /r/MensRights | 10/09/15 01:32 AM |
| 3 | Saving for a Daughter but Not a Son: This Father Is Starting a Fund to Combat the Wage GapIf this kid grows up to have any self respect, he won't have anything to do with this asshole. If he needs any special care in his old age, let the daughter handle 100% of it | /r/MensRights | 09/09/15 08:27 PM |
| 1 | Education Department rewards lying by twisting Title IXMoreover, OCR itself noted in pages 30-31 of its investigative report that “OCR’s review of the investigator’s report and his supporting documentation led OCR to conclude that the preponderance of the evidence did not support a finding that Student A was subjected to unwelcome sexual conduct that created a sexually hostile environment.” Yet, OCR suggested the college should “remedy” the imaginary harm caused by its failure not to process her false complaint faster. On pages 40-41 of its report, … | /r/MensRights | 09/09/15 03:16 PM |
| 4 | Time to End a Last Vestige of Gender Inequality in the Armed ServicesAlthough I would prefer if Congress did away with the law altogether, I suppose amending it is second best. I actually think the abolition of the Selective Service System, or at least the registration requirement, is the more likely outcome of any successful post-January 2016, post-women in combat equal protection challenge than the registration of women. A Supreme Court ruling against the MSSA would be accompanied by an injunction ordering the government to stop enforcing the law (stop penalizi… | /r/MensRights | 07/09/15 11:08 PM |
| 4 | Time to End a Last Vestige of Gender Inequality in the Armed ServicesA woman’s life is no more valuable that a man’s and no less valuable on the battlefield. It’s time for the Selective Service Act to reflect the times. In the name of equality, Congress needs to amend the law. Surprising, but heartening, to see this written in a mainstream publication like Newsweek (and by a woman, no less). | /r/MensRights | 07/09/15 09:28 PM |
| 1 | Out of curiosity, what do you identify as politically? (Poll)Somewhere between a liberal and a libertarian. | /r/MensRights | 02/09/15 11:24 PM |
| 8 | Got this with my meal at McDonald's this morning. So much for equalityAren't fast food managers just another burger flipper, but with a 'manager' label on their name tag? They probably get a whole $8 as opposed to the $7.25 minimum wage. McDonalds is just bragging about having a lot of low paid women workers (along with everyone else). | /r/MensRights | 01/09/15 08:32 PM |
| 1 | Global Database of Quotas for WomenIt likely will. The necessary qualifications for members of Congress are set by the Constitution, and can't be altered without a Constitutional amendment. This means that a requirement that a candidate must be female would be impermissible, absent such an amendment. You would also run into equal protection issues as well. Here is a law review article (pdf warning) from someone who sympathizes with gender quotas, but is forced to admit that anything more than voluntary party 'commitments' to incr… | /r/MensRights | 30/08/15 06:26 AM |
| 4 | need help learning about colleges holding rape cases.FIRE is the best resource for reading up on the legal/constitutional issues surrounding attempts to undermine due process rights on college campuses. Information on some important recent cases can be found here and here. The New York chapter of the ACLU came out against that state's proposed affirmative consent law on due process grounds, which you can read about here. There was also the letter signed by 28 Harvard Law School professors pointing out the due process problems with that school's af… | /r/MensRights | 30/08/15 03:04 AM |
| 9 | Man jailed for four months for theft of pop, candy bar dies in Virginia cellVirginia has to have one of the most messed up justice systems in the country. It's like a parody of the stereotypical savage American legal system, except it's not a joke. The Justin Wolfe and Michael Kenneth McAlister cases are just two that come to mind off the top of my head. Combined with the whole inject-a-kid-with-viagra-and-photograph-his-erection story that was posted here the other day, and now this, this state is in serious need of some federal oversight and reform. | /r/MensRights | 30/08/15 01:47 AM |
| 8 | The Fainting Couch at ColumbiaColumbia’s students were given a menu of “participation options.” They could watch a minimum of two preselected videos about “rape culture” and gender identity and write a “reflection” about what they had learned. They could attend film screenings about sexual assault and masculinity and engage in a monitored discussion afterwards. They could create a “work of art” about the “relationship between sexual respect and University community membership.” Or, if they “identif[ied] as survivors, co-surv… | /r/MensRights | 30/08/15 12:19 AM |
| 8 | Men still expected to pay for everything while dating.This is what I'm talking about when I use the term "princess feminism." At least most of the comments were ridiculing the article. | /r/MensRights | 29/08/15 03:49 PM |
| 5 | 71% believe political correctness is a problem in the US. Only 18% disagreeThis is up from 61% in June 2014, and the number has been climbing since 2010. That timeline syncs up closely with how I have observed the growth over the top political correctness in this country. At least the average person seems to finally be catching on. | /r/MensRights | 29/08/15 06:03 AM |
| 1 | Towards A New Nerd Culture - Honey Badger Brigade opinion pieceGood read. I always enjoy your writing. It really deserves a wider audience. | /r/MensRights | 28/08/15 03:09 PM |
| 61 | Ohio University student Rachel Baker's plans to retweet the names of the presumptively innocent accused of sexual harassmentNot only her, but the university as well for allowing her to harass her fellow students. She's basically shouting from the roof tops that she's committing libel. | /r/MensRights | 28/08/15 02:33 PM |
| 1 | Public Universities Threaten Students Over Controversial Off-Campus BannersIn Papish v. Board of Curators of the University of Missouri (1973), the Supreme Court held that students cannot be punished simply because their speech contradicts a university’s “conventions of decency.” And in Iota Xi Chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity v. George Mason University (1993), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the jurisdiction of which includes ODU, ruled that even crude student speech enjoys First Amendment protection. In these rulings, the courts held that the Univers… | /r/MensRights | 27/08/15 11:37 PM |
| 3 | Did anyone else see the men's rights article in Playboy? What did you think?It's a pity that they don't seem to allow comments on their web articles. I have a feeling that they wouldn't be to the liking of the new powers that be at the helm of this sinking ship. | /r/MensRights | 27/08/15 11:29 PM |
| 2 | European Train Heroes Exemplify Traditional Masculinity's VirtueWhile I of course think these guys are heroes and are deserving of much praise, I get very uneasy about pieces like this that come uncomfortably close to glorifying male utilitarianism and disposability. It seems like the flip side of this story where men were essentially shamed for being the victims of a terrorist attack, and not attempting to take down their captors action hero style while likely getting killed in the process. The difference, of course, is that here they are being praised for … | /r/MensRights | 27/08/15 04:37 AM |
| 136 | UPDATE: Teen charged with sexting girlfriend will be forced to get an erection via an injection and be photographed by police for evidenceI remember this story from about a year ago. While it certainly sucks that a police department would pursue something like this, and even worse that a judge would approve, it's comforting that there was such an outcry that they were forced to back peddle. The reaction was not only virtually unanimously negative, but quite outraged as well. The public was well ahead of the legal system (or at least Virginia's legal system) here. | /r/MensRights | 26/08/15 09:34 PM |
| 1 | Another woman sentenced to probation for sexually assaulting a teenage boyNice work. I'm always looking through news stories and legal documents about various equal protection/civil liberties issues, so I'll keep this in mind in the future. | /r/MensRights | 26/08/15 06:15 AM |
| 24 | "Victims have rights. Here, the victim also has responsibilities. A 34-year-old woman seduces a 15-year-old boy and becomes pregnant. Is the child's father obligated to pay child support even though he is a victim of statutory rape? We conclude he is liable for child support." Actual case.Isn't it a little odd that a mother who is a proven child molester would retain custody of the child in the first place, let alone be able to receive child support payments from her victim? I know that there have been a number of states around the country that have seen legislation introduced that would bar rapists from having visitation rights to the child that was conceived as a result of the rape. I'm not sure if any of them have passed yet, but it seems that if rapists will not be allowed vi… | /r/MensRights | 26/08/15 03:23 AM |
| 4 | Another woman sentenced to probation for sexually assaulting a teenage boyI don't know if this has been researched or not, but it would be interesting to compare sentences that female sexual predators get today to those they received 10, 15, 20 years ago. You see stories like this one (and others, unfortunately), but also other cases where prosecutors and judges have given no special treatment and have made it explicit that a woman accused of a sex crime will be given the same treatment as an accused man. It could be illuminating as to whether we've made much progress… | /r/MensRights | 26/08/15 03:05 AM |
| 9 | I wanted to post about an issue in this category that I have no one to talk to about.You're probably in for an annoying couple of years, but this is most likely just a phase that she'll grow out of, and probably rebel against, by the time she's a teenager. She's parroting a trendy version of feminism, and doing so probably makes her feel more grown up. Kids like to try out various identities in their adolescent and teen years. | /r/MensRights | 26/08/15 02:44 AM |
| 11 | Mozilla CEO threatens to fire person responsible for anonymous "hate speech" [i.e. speaking ill of feminists] on Reddit.It's interesting how left-leaning opinion on private censorship seems to have "evolved," especially over the past year or two. It used to be the left that was concerned with the coercive power of private restrictions on political expression, and the chilling effect that employer retaliation could have on free speech. I remember they were certainly not ok with the reports of employers threatening to fire Obama-supporting employees that made the rounds back in 2012, and were calling for some kind … | /r/MensRights | 25/08/15 05:56 AM |
| 2 | University dismisses male student's harassment claimFemale prosecutors and female cops too. Like female judges, if they identify as feminists, it's usually the old-school real-deal variety. They're actual, honest-to-goodness strong women and tend to not look kindly on those looking to play the gender card. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/15 04:41 PM |
| 1 | Mom admits to killing 3 young sons so that her daughter could have more attention - despite the previous deaths, a judge had returned the third son to her custody just 6 days before he was killedMRM=Men's Rights Movement. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/15 04:37 PM |
| -5 | Mom admits to killing 3 young sons so that her daughter could have more attention - despite the previous deaths, a judge had returned the third son to her custody just 6 days before he was killedIt seems a bit morbid to spin a seriously horrific triple filicide into a comment on gender politics, and some kind of warped lesson for feminists. "This will make them think twice"? Bloody hell, that's cold. As I said above, I don't wish feminists as a group to be blamed for this. What I did say, and what I stand by, is that I hope some of the people who impulsively, irresponsibly, and gleefully label any nut who goes on a shooting spree as an MRA will maybe think twice about doing so in the fu… | /r/MensRights | 19/08/15 04:33 PM |
| 2 | Maxim Magazine -- A publication for men -- joins in the celebration of the woman who allegedly lit her boyfriend's penis on fire for cheatingIt's really, really bizarre how these media orgs, from gaming mags to men's mags, are placing (feminist) ideology above their own profits. Evidently they are getting some terrible advice from recent female grads in media + gender studies hired under diversity quotas. Awful management. But no skin off my nose. Maxim, like the NY Times etc., represents old media. Dinosaurs. I read enough case stuides in college about failing businesses panicking and making bizarre and baffling decisions in attempt… | /r/MensRights | 19/08/15 04:21 AM |
| 5 | University dismisses male student's harassment claimIn court, Judge Sara L. Ellis ruled earlier this month that the male accusing student could move forward with his Title IX claim against the university, ruling that the university responded with "deliberate indifference" to his harassment claim. At least we can say we've had much more success with judges recently than we've had with politicians or university administrators. As an aside, Ashe Schow is great. Her reporting on these issues has really been indispensable. Her work and FIRE's blog, Th… | /r/MensRights | 19/08/15 04:14 AM |
| 2 | New York Times: Men’s Studies Redux - Readers Respond to a Master’s Program in MasculinityI would imagine that people who read the New York Times, and comment on their website, make up a disproportionate share of the 20% of the population that identifies as feminist. I'd imagine there's a lot of demographic overlap between NYT readers and feminist identifiers. Both categories are disproportionately middle class-upper middle class, white, college-educated, cosmopolitan, and blue state dwelling. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/15 04:05 AM |
| 3 | Maxim Magazine -- A publication for men -- joins in the celebration of the woman who allegedly lit her boyfriend's penis on fire for cheatingIt's weird that sjw types are trying to colonize publications like Maxim and Playboy, that might have been popular with "bro" types a decade ago, but are at death's door today. Seems like a waste of time. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/15 03:54 AM |
| 0 | What does /r/MensRights think of Bernie Sanders?He's good on the majority of issues that I consider make or break when deciding whether a candidate is worthy of support, IE: I don't expect him to start any more wars of choice. He'll likely be better than the other candidates when it comes to beginning to scale back foreign entanglements. There's reason to believe he'll be more skeptical of profligate military spending, and be more willing to push to bring it to a more reasonable level. He's been good on the majority of civil liberties issues,… | /r/MensRights | 19/08/15 03:41 AM |
| 4 | Name stuff that is 100% boy/man exclusive?Selective Service. At least for another year or two, anyway. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/15 03:23 AM |
| 463 | Mom admits to killing 3 young sons so that her daughter could have more attention - despite the previous deaths, a judge had returned the third son to her custody just 6 days before he was killedHoly crap! This is one of the worst things I've ever read. “In her mind,” Goslee said, “she was protecting her daughter from being not as loved as the boys were by their father.” So she's willing to murder her sons so her daughter can get more attention from their father? Who wants to bet there will be people sympathizing with this woman and trying to blame the father for "forcing" this monster to kill her kids? I hesitate to write this, as it will probably contribute to the internet gender wars… | /r/MensRights | 19/08/15 03:05 AM |
| 5 | U's 'yes means yes' policy is obviously flawedAs the Star Tribune reported, in a July meeting, regent Michael Hsu called for university lawyers to review the policy before it was implemented, noting that he had received e-mails and phone calls from those concerned about the proposed policy. That review is now finished. But late last month, university spokeswoman Lacey Nygard said the public won’t get to see it, citing attorney-client privilege. The fact that the U won’t tell students or the public what its lawyers think about the policy sug… | /r/MensRights | 15/08/15 06:04 AM |
| 2 | Dave Chapel talking about a Houston Serial Rapist - of men. Was this a real case? Any info? (Obviously, the crowd is laughing but Dave talks about the gender bias)Was this a real case? Any info? Unfortunately, it was a real case. | /r/MensRights | 07/08/15 09:29 PM |
| 1 | If you're an MRA, don't play MagicWho is this person? Is this the creator of the game (or someone else in an official position) telling heretics not to play or is it just some random asshole with a blog? I've never played magic, so I'm not really familiar with it, but if it's the former, I think I would want to spend my money on another hobby after this. If it's just some random authoritarian, then I guess it's just a good source of comedy. | /r/MensRights | 07/08/15 07:44 PM |
| 2 | Congress Introduces Second Campus Due Process Bill: The Fair Campus ActThe "war on women" narrative fell flat with the electorate last year. I expect the Democrats will at least attempt to use it again next year, but the results will likely be the same. The people who respond positively to it tend to be disproportionately pretentious, upper middle class, NPR listening, New York Times reading types. Basically, spending the election season pandering to them provides little-to-no benefit, as they are A: very likely to turn out to vote anyway (mostly as a result of the… | /r/MensRights | 06/08/15 08:51 PM |
| 3 | Congress Introduces Second Campus Due Process Bill: The Fair Campus ActI haven't heard anything from the national ACLU about either of these bills, but they are pretty new. It seems as though that the national organization has been trying to avoid the issue so as to not offend either "social justice" advocates or civil libertarians. Incidentally, this is how the fight over university speech codes also initially played out within the ACLU in the late 80s/early 90s. Most of the work that the ACLU does is done through their state chapters, which have a large degree of… | /r/MensRights | 06/08/15 09:15 AM |
| 4 | Congress Introduces Second Campus Due Process Bill: The Fair Campus ActIt's good to finally see some people in positions of power doing something tangible about the erosion of due process on college campuses. For a while, it felt like no one that mattered cared about this issue. It's a familiar feeling for civil libertarians, but that doesn't make it feel any better. | /r/MensRights | 06/08/15 01:40 AM |
| 32 | Obama calls for end to female genital mutilation in Africa while US has highest rates of male circumcisionI definitely wouldn't circumcise my child, but I was speaking of more of a macro decline in circumcision rates. I believe the rate is still over 50%, but has declined in recent years. I'm optimistic that this can continue to decline and hopeful that it will accelerate as more people speak out. | /r/MensRights | 30/07/15 08:59 AM |
| 2 | Question to the Americans hereI certainly don't suggest we try to bribe judges! What I was trying to suggest was the possibility that there may be some rich guys (of any political persuasion) don't want to be separated from a large chunk of their money (as they often don't wish to be) as a result of divorce, and as a result may be willing to fund some super PACs and such that will support some candidates (of either party) and ballot initiatives that will try to change that. These organizations would support men's issues more… | /r/MensRights | 30/07/15 08:54 AM |
| 3 | Question to the Americans hereI agree that the institutional left does not care about either men's rights or civil liberties in general. Neither does the institutional right. Mainstream conservatism is still largely defined by traditional social conservatism and a judicial philosophy that is hostile to equal protection and due process claims, no matter who is bringing them. I have no love for Salon, the Huffington Post, or similar garbage, but their right-leaning equivalent is more stuff like Fox News and the Wall Street Jou… | /r/MensRights | 30/07/15 08:38 AM |
| 41 | Obama calls for end to female genital mutilation in Africa while US has highest rates of male circumcisionIt's good to see a tenure-track professor at a legitimate university speaking out on this issue. Even better that it's a woman (and a sociologist to boot!) You probably wouldn't have seen this even a few years ago. I think there's definitely reason to be optimistic about where we're headed with regard to circumcision over the next 10-20 years in this country. | /r/MensRights | 30/07/15 07:16 AM |
| 1 | Question to the Americans hereMRAs seem to be divided pretty evenly among 'progressives' and 'libertarians' - two diametrically-opposed ideologies that makes cohesive political action difficult. I think there's some hope that the two groups can work together on certain issues. libertarian-leaning Republicans and traditional liberal Democrats have been able to work to together in Congress in the last couple of years on certain issues like attempting to reign in the NSA and the surveillance state. If we focus on the issues we … | /r/MensRights | 30/07/15 06:36 AM |
| 2 | Question to the Americans hereWho is MRM lobbyist, what is MRM PAC, and what is MRM super PAC? I'm as concerned about money in politics as the next guy, so I don't feel entirely comfortable advocating this, but I would have to assume that there are more than a few multimillionaires out there who were taken to the cleaners in divorce who would be willing to fund super PACs, legal foundations, and lobbying/advocacy organizations that focus on men's issues if we emphasized alimony, child custody, and other family law/divorce re… | /r/MensRights | 30/07/15 06:18 AM |
| 5 | 19 year old Southern Californian looking for alternatives.If she stole your financial aid funds, then you have a valid criminal complaint on your hands. She has no right to that money. How did she steal it? Did she make you withdraw it and hand it over, or did she steal it directly from your account? Can you prove that she stole your money? As for the job situation, have you tried getting a work-study job through your college? Usually there are both on and off campus jobs available. You should inquire about this at your school's financial aid office wh… | /r/MensRights | 26/07/15 04:49 AM |
| 28 | Obama announces new "women and children first" immigration policy: freedom for undocumented women, jail for undocumented men.I wonder about this myself. The Supreme Court has actually upheld sex-discriminatory laws around immigration in the past. Nguyen v. United States Flores-Villar v. United States These cases specifically dealt with whether it was constitutional to place greater restrictions on the children of U.S. citizen fathers attempting to become naturalized, than on the children of U.S. citizen mothers. In the first case, from 2001, the discriminatory law was upheld on a 5-4 vote. In the second, from 2011, it… | /r/MensRights | 25/07/15 02:10 AM |
| 1 | Help me help my husband find his balls and fight for his son.I'm not a lawyer (although I hope to be), so I can't say how much of a chance you and your husband have of gaining custody, but from what I do know it would be imperative to document everything if you are to have any hope. Does your husband have proof that he has been supporting his son? Cancelled checks? Does he have receipts for gifts and care packages? He should also really make the support order and custody agreement official. It sounds like at the moment his visitation rights are at the wil… | /r/MensRights | 22/07/15 05:09 AM |
| 19 | Student Expelled for Rape Has Evidence He Was the Victim. Amherst Refuses to Review It.It would seem that this would be a clear Title IX violation. How the hell could it not be? | /r/MensRights | 22/07/15 03:09 AM |
| 26 | This is how NOW used children as human shields during the legislative battle on AlimonyWhile I agree that we sometimes spend too much time criticizing/making fun of feminism, it's stuff like this that I would like to show people when they criticize us for "anti-feminism." I don't think we should go looking for fights, but we also shouldn't be expected to ignore incoming attacks just because some consider the source to be a sacred cow. One of the main criticisms of the MRM is that we just bitch online and don't do anything in the real world, but when we actually try to lobby legisl… | /r/MensRights | 18/07/15 07:34 PM |
| 2 | Congresswoman Declares Herself "Proud Social Justice Warrior"Unfortunately, this is my member of Congress. At the very least, I don't expect her to go any further than holding her current House seat. | /r/MensRights | 16/07/15 08:34 PM |
| 6 | Yes! "Lawsuit challenges constitutionality of male-only draft registration"Male-only draft registration was upheld not on the basis that there was no prohibition on sex discrimination, but on the basis that women not being allowed to serve in combat roles made them not similarly situated with men for the purposes of a draft (the Equal Protection clause requires that similarly situated individuals be treated similarly). The lifting of the combat ban on women (which is scheduled to be fully implemented by January) changes the underlying facts of that Supreme Court case, … | /r/MensRights | 15/07/15 11:49 PM |
| 10 | Yes! "Lawsuit challenges constitutionality of male-only draft registration"In Rostker v. Goldberg (1981 Supreme Court case that upheld male-only draft registration on the grounds that the combat exclusion made men and women not "similarly situated" for the purposes of a draft) there was initially at least one female plaintiff, but they were removed from the case on the grounds that their rights were not being violated. In Schwartz v. Brodsky (a 2003 case from a federal court in Massachusetts that used the Rostker/combat exclusion precedent to uphold the selective servi… | /r/MensRights | 15/07/15 11:05 PM |
| 7 | Yes! "Lawsuit challenges constitutionality of male-only draft registration"No. it's not legal to discriminate on the basis of sex/gender. The Supreme Court established that the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment prohibits sex discrimination in 1971 in Reed v. Reed. Although sex is considered a quasi-suspect classification and generally receives a lower level of scrutiny, known as intermediate scrutiny, than discrimination claims based on race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin, all of which are considered suspect classifications that receive strict scr… | /r/MensRights | 15/07/15 10:52 PM |
| 4 | 'Affirmative consent' rule is delayed at the University of MinnesotaOn Wednesday, Regent Michael Hsu raised concerns about the legal implications of the proposal, which was poised to take effect at the end of a 30-day comment period next week. Hsu said he’d received numerous e-mails and phone calls in the wake of recent news stories about the policy, which critics say would stack the deck against the accused in any disciplinary proceeding. Hsu said he wants to hear from the U’s legal counsel about the implications of the policy. Nationally, civil-liberties group… | /r/MensRights | 14/07/15 08:13 AM |
| 3 | Brooklyn Museum Exhibit Claims Sneakers are SexistThe more attention and mainstream coverage these people get, the better it will be for those of us opposed to them. The average person's reaction to these kind of people would range from laughter to anger. That's basically how the first wave of wacky political correctness burned itself out in the early to mid 90s. Once these crazy views were exposed to more than just college students, faculty, and professional activists it became crystal clear just how marginal they were. | /r/MensRights | 13/07/15 11:37 PM |
| 12 | Medical professional brags about scaring boys and taking here anger towards men out on them.Sounds like the dean is investigating Where did you hear that. I would really like to hear more about this. | /r/MensRights | 13/07/15 01:33 AM |
| 4 | Medical professional brags about scaring boys and taking here anger towards men out on them.Holy crap! This woman is practicing medicine? This really needs to some attention. | /r/MensRights | 13/07/15 01:30 AM |
| 3 | Alexia LaFata thinks it's 100% OK to cheapen and mock male sexuality but not female.I can definitely see the usefulness of 'couch fainting feminism'. It captures the Victorian prudery and the apparent belief that being a woman is some kind of infirmity that requires constant special treatment and extra delicate handling. I just think 'princess feminism' best captures the spoiled brattyness of so many contemporary feminists. I really do picture many of them as pouting, whining, and screaming privileged little girls throwing a tantrum about something or other. | /r/MensRights | 12/07/15 07:47 PM |
| 5 | Alexia LaFata thinks it's 100% OK to cheapen and mock male sexuality but not female.Bizarre. It almost seems like she was pointing out her own cognitive dissonance. What a wacko. | /r/MensRights | 12/07/15 07:39 PM |
| 17 | Alexia LaFata thinks it's 100% OK to cheapen and mock male sexuality but not female.I think the term "princess feminism" best describes this kind of bratty, selfish double-standard loving version of feminism. | /r/MensRights | 12/07/15 05:19 PM |
| 2 | Report says girls being misdirected into juvenile detentionIt's definitely annoying that this report focuses on girls. They're a comparatively small minority of those incarcerated, even in the juvenile system (but I guess what else do you expect from the Ms. Foundation for Women and the Human Rights Project for Girls). But I have to say, at least the proposals to remedy the problem are gender neutral. It would very likely be unconstitutional to pursue a UK-style don't-ever-imprison-women-for-anything-no-matter-what proposal in the US, so it's good to se… | /r/MensRights | 12/07/15 01:27 AM |
| 72 | "Female conscription is not a feminist issue" (The Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights)NKF considers female conscription as a misunderstanding of the concept of gender equality and the intentions of the Law on Equality. Gender equality implies first and foremost that women and men should have the same human rights and fundamental freedoms. Women should be valued and allocated power and resources on equal terms with men. But women and men do not have to be alike or do the same things to be equal. I actually got mad reading this. What a bunch of gender essentialist bullshit. These w… | /r/MensRights | 08/07/15 07:55 AM |
| 3 | Kentucky women's prison will be split to add men's section....will make it easier for females to stay out of prisonThe article alludes to it. I've also read about Kentucky's reforms a few times over the past couple of years (this is an area of interest for me). Corrections officials say reforms including substance abuse treatment and changes in sentencing guidelines have lowered the number of women serving prison time in Kentucky. Kentucky Among States Already Reducing Drug Sentences Kentucky is one of a growing number of states that have directed money away from prison construction and toward treatment prog… | /r/MensRights | 08/07/15 04:33 AM |
| 1 | Kentucky women's prison will be split to add men's section....will make it easier for females to stay out of prisonFrom what I gather from the article, it sounds like this is not really similar to the UK situation, which engages in de jure discrimination and outright treats men and women differently in the criminal justice system (which would almost certainly be a 14th Amendment violation in the US). Rather, it seems like Kentucky has already seen a reduction in the number of female prisoners due to some unspecified reforms (likely changes to keep more non-violent offenders out of prison, which seem to be ca… | /r/MensRights | 08/07/15 01:26 AM |
| 1 | Petition to free woman jailed for sex with 3 underage students reaches 40,000 signatures after story goes viral in RussiaMy issue is not with your argument (I don't entirely disagree), but with the tone of many of the commenters. There's a heavy "America not strong like Mother Russia, at 17 boy should be man and learn to kill for country, drink vodka, smoke, and wrestle bears, not need protection like girl" vibe to many of the comments. This kind of attitude is absolutely poisonous for men's rights, and goes a long way toward perpetuating male disposability and utilitarianism. THAT's what I have a problem with. I … | /r/MensRights | 07/07/15 05:38 PM |
| 1 | Petition to free woman jailed for sex with 3 underage students reaches 40,000 signatures after story goes viral in RussiaI would say that since they are commenting on an American legal case, the onus is in fact on them to understand our cultural context and why this is not acceptable here. What happens in the "Motherland" couldn't be less relevant to this case. | /r/MensRights | 07/07/15 04:03 PM |
| 1 | Need some help with some supporting facts advocating the Men's Rights MovementWhen someone disputes that men are likely to get the short end of the stick in family courts, they usually mean that men who seek custody in court are almost as likely to get custody as the mother. The thing is, that is in fact the misleading statistic. Men are usually discouraged from seeking custody in court by their lawyers, who tell them they'll very likely be wasting their time and money pursuing something they have little to no chance of winning, considering the biases in the system. This … | /r/MensRights | 07/07/15 09:19 AM |
| 3 | Need some help with some supporting facts advocating the Men's Rights MovementI think the most important thing that you can do when discussing the men's rights movement with people who aren't well informed about it is to simply highlight the issues that the movement talks about. Much higher rates of suicide for men than women Much higher rates of homelessness for men than women Much higher rates of occupational fatalities for men than women Much higher rates of incarceration for men than women, as well as much lighter criminal sentences for women even when they have commi… | /r/MensRights | 07/07/15 07:52 AM |
| 2 | "You don't need MRM, as Social Conservatives are already working on your issues" ----- says columnist who apparently never heard of the FL Governor's veto of Alimony ReformSo this brings up the question. What do men’s rights activists have as their signature issue? Child support? Child-custody reform? Social conservatives are already doing that. Male circumcision? Atheists, and the natural-birth movement. Tightening divorce laws? Social conservatives, again. Educating young men? Everyone from policy wonks at the American Enterprise Institute to Laura Ingraham is worried about that. Military conscription? Ironically, feminists tried to pursue that with the Equal Ri… | /r/MensRights | 07/07/15 06:12 AM |
| 2 | Petition to free woman jailed for sex with 3 underage students reaches 40,000 signatures after story goes viral in RussiaI think that's at the heart of why I follow these cases. This "Russian" ideology is at the heart of male disposability and the empathy gap. Indeed. This is really the heart of what the men's rights movement is (or at least should be). Rights are moral/legal entitlements. The purpose of the men's rights movement is to ensure that these rights are not abridged on the basis of sex, as a result of cultural/social acceptance of male disposability and relative lack of empathy for men. How this got mix… | /r/MensRights | 07/07/15 05:46 AM |
| 2 | U.S. Women's Soccer Team Will Get $33 Million Less Prize Money Than The Men's Winner. It's like the author comparing a Rolex to a Timex, and saying because they both keep time they should be worth the same. Pulls straw man and misrepresents the reality of her arguments.Nice to see that even the Buzzfeed commenters are calling the author out on her duplicity. | /r/MensRights | 07/07/15 12:46 AM |
| 5 | How about we let boys decide for themselves when they become men? Just a crazy thought.I wonder what this piece of work thinks girls should have to do to become women. She'd probably consider the very question to be "misogyny. " "Being a man" seems like a thankless job. Honestly, I don't know why anyone would want it. | /r/MensRights | 02/07/15 04:49 AM |
| 2 | What does this subreddit think of this article about working mothers and their children?Makes sense, I guess. If daughters see their mothers gainfully employed full-time, than it would stand to reason that they would see this as the the normal thing to do, compared to the children of mothers who took years off after having children, or only worked part-time, and would therefore be more likely pursue this themselves. It's also not surprising that men who are married to career women would spend more time on childcare and housework than those who are not. If she's bringing home half o… | /r/MensRights | 30/06/15 04:39 AM |
| 1 | WSJ: New York State Legislature Passes Alimony Overhaul .... (baby steps)It seems that alimony reform is signifigantly easier to pass than shared parenting legislation. I know that feminists usually oppose both when push comes to shove, but from what I've read, it's the divorce lawyers' lobby that usually plays the bigger role in killing shared parenting. Is there really that much more money to be made from fighting over custody than fighting over spousal support? Why else would they go to the mat to prevent presumptive joint custody, but "allow" alimony reform to pa… | /r/MensRights | 25/06/15 05:05 PM |
| 2 | Global Gender Gap report - anyone interested in reviewing my critique?I'd definitely be interested in reading the critique. | /r/MensRights | 25/06/15 04:58 PM |
| 2 | Meryl Streep urges Congress to back "equal" rights amendmentAnd this is assuming she isn't going for a version of the ERA which has the Hayden Rider attached! The Hayden Rider was only attached to ERA proposals in Congress in the 50s and 60s, and women's groups, to their credit, withdrew their support for the amendment when it included that language. In fact, many believed that the Hayden Rider was a stealth proposal to undermine support for the ERA. The version that actually passed Congress and is thus far 3 states short of ratification did not include … | /r/MensRights | 24/06/15 12:47 AM |
| 1 | New charges expected for Scottsdale yoga teacher after jury refused to indict her for sex with teen boyGood for the city attorney then. | /r/MensRights | 22/06/15 08:04 PM |
| 2 | His dad finally decided to cash this chip in when he was 35!In keeping with the spirit of the invitation, they'll be going for Happy Meals. | /r/MensRights | 22/06/15 09:30 AM |
| 1 | New charges expected for Scottsdale yoga teacher after jury refused to indict her for sex with teen boyYeah, I don't really have a problem with a defense attorney throwing anything out there that they can for their client, but what drives me crazy to no end is when you have judges and juries fall for such nonsense. I can't believe that in the 21st century, some people still want to assign more agency to teenage boys than to adult women, to the point where they believe that the kid had to have been the aggressor or had to have drugged the woman to violate her. | /r/MensRights | 22/06/15 09:25 AM |
| 5 | New charges expected for Scottsdale yoga teacher after jury refused to indict her for sex with teen boyThe article says the Maricopa County grand jury declined to indict for lack of evidence. It appears that the Scottsdale City Attorney (or whoever) is pursuing this case with the kind of zeal usually reserved for male sexual predators, so...good? I guess. It's progress, but if there's insufficient evidence, then that should carry the day. I guess my hope here is that it was the county grand jury that was stupid and sexist got it wrong (I hate that I have to write this), and that the city prosecut… | /r/MensRights | 22/06/15 07:17 AM |
| 2 | A woman's only bathroom or a joint bathroom.Best part is, the shared bathroom is disgusting. Ugh. Is this one of those dumps along route 1? | /r/MensRights | 22/06/15 04:16 AM |
| 1 | Why do men always get the shorter end of the stick?I couldn't have said it better myself & can't upvote this enough. | /r/MensRights | 22/06/15 04:06 AM |
| 11 | A woman's only bathroom or a joint bathroom.Hmm...If those are indeed the only bathrooms in the hotel, then that's possibly illegal. The Biggest Obstacle to Gender Neutral Bathrooms? Building Codes. These days, America’s public restrooms are regulated by two separate federal agencies. Workplace restrooms are the purview of the U.S. Department of Labor, which sets state guidelines through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Non-workplace public restroom guidelines are governed, broadly, by the Department of Health and… | /r/MensRights | 22/06/15 04:01 AM |
| 4 | Why do men always get the shorter end of the stick?Part of it is just the fact that change often happens slowly. As you said, historically speaking, men were less involved with raising their children than women were. We're not even that far removed from the times when women were expected to stay at home with the children, while men brought home the bacon. The vast majority of people over 50 (or 60 at the most) grew up in that world. As a consequence, those memories still influence people's thoughts on the relative importance of mothers and fathe… | /r/MensRights | 22/06/15 03:47 AM |
| 5 | A woman's only bathroom or a joint bathroom.Does the entire establishment have only women's and mixed bathrooms? I ask because I've seen posts like this before where it turned out that there were other areas of an establishment that had men's and mixed bathrooms. If I'm not mistaken, it's actually common for state/local laws to specify that there needs to be a certain number of men's and women's bathrooms in certain establishments. | /r/MensRights | 22/06/15 03:29 AM |
| 2 | Is the Men's rights movement anti-feminism? [Serious]Yes. I agree with the textbook definition of feminism, and believe that the MRM and this form of feminism can work together. I believe the MRM's greatest contribution so far has been putting a number of issues out there that feminism has had to respond to. Whether they responded in a satisfactory way or not is secondary to having accomplished the feat of getting the most recognizable and prestigious gender issues-based movement (feminism) to acknowledge that the issues are there. Hypothetically,… | /r/MensRights | 20/06/15 04:01 AM |
| 6 | Is the Men's rights movement anti-feminism? [Serious]I can only speak for myself, and you'll probably get multiple differing opinions about this, but I'm not categorically anti-feminism. I just take issue with the most visible (and unfortunately influential) versions of feminism. Extreme, bullhorn feminists (like the type you see disrupting gatherings to discuss men's issues) tend to be illiberal leftists who along with their often demonstrated disdain for free speech also have no regard for other basic rights like due process (which leads to supp… | /r/MensRights | 20/06/15 02:59 AM |
| 3 | Amnesty International wants Cameroon to free 84 jailed boys accused of backing Boko HaramI'm honestly more disappointed in the lack of a reaction from Western governments, media, and NGOs (with the exception of Amnesty International, I guess) than I am with the actions of the Cameroonian government here. Civil rights/civil liberties aren't always universally recognized and upheld in the developing world. Western governments, media, etc, however, should know better. They usually don't miss an opportunity to get on their high horse about this kind of stuff. It's frustrating that they … | /r/MensRights | 19/06/15 09:56 PM |
| 1 | The SJC Strikes Back: Lifetime Alimony ReturnsUnless I'm reading the article wrong, it appears that what the the court ruled was that the alimony reform law can't be applied retroactively. The law should still apply to marriages that ended after the law went into effect. While this is disappointing, and there's still work to be done in this area, we're at least still in a better place than we were before reforms were passed. | /r/MensRights | 19/06/15 09:34 PM |
| 3 | NFL's oldest cheerleader, Molly Shattuck, pleads guilty to rape chargeBoys have the right to be protected from sexual predators just like girls do. You're right of course, but it's more than just that. The quest to have the right to equal protection under the law upheld is at the heart of so many men's rights issues that any case that helps even a little to establish that is something to be happy about. | /r/MensRights | 17/06/15 04:26 AM |
| 24 | A male rape charity has had its funding slashed to zero. Where are all the outraged men?I can't upvote this enough. | /r/MensRights | 12/06/15 07:04 PM |
| -2 | /r/2XC is finding out that maybe taking self-defense classes to stop rape might be more effective than spouting sexist platitudes about teaching men not to rape.I don't really understand why some people have such a low opinion of 2x. I'm not saying the op necessarily does, but I've seen plenty on this sub and others that lump them in with amr and similar subs. They usually seem pretty reasonable. | /r/MensRights | 11/06/15 06:24 PM |
| 7 | Mods at /r/TwoXChromosomes refer to male circumcision as "male genital mutilation". Thank you. I for one much appreciate that.(Very) likely unnecessary and potentially dangerous, yes. | /r/MensRights | 09/06/15 11:39 AM |
| 14 | Mods at /r/TwoXChromosomes refer to male circumcision as "male genital mutilation". Thank you. I for one much appreciate that.The benfits of circumcision are at best dubious. I'll never for the life of me understand why some people insist on erring on the side of surgery that will most likely be unnecessary. Do we do this with any other medical procedure? | /r/MensRights | 09/06/15 04:23 AM |
| 14 | The Week has featured an article on the Men's Rights Movement. Thoughts?It's frustrating that in pretty much every mainstream article about the MRM, the author will briefly mention issues that negatively impact men, but then conclude that what we're upset about is losing the power that men may have had at one time. They clearly started with this idea in mind and worked backwards from there. | /r/MensRights | 08/06/15 03:59 AM |
| 6 | "New York City commuter fights manspreaders by sitting on them" – would this be an article if the shoe was on the other foot?Surely if someone can be arrested or cited for sitting with their legs too far apart, than there must be some similar legal recourse when you have someone actually sit on you, right? /s I mean, come on, which is the greater invasion of space? | /r/MensRights | 08/06/15 01:28 AM |
| 1 | Portraits of Men Crying Over Being Drafted into Lithuanian MilitaryGood one. | /r/MensRights | 06/06/15 05:18 PM |
| 1 | Portraits of Men Crying Over Being Drafted into Lithuanian Military1 All the NCFM is asking the courts to do is declare the current SS law a violation of the right to equal protection under the law afforded by the due process clause of the fifth amendment. The courts don't have the ability to decide whether women should register along with men or the registration requirement should be done away with. It will be up to congress to decide between those two options after the case is won. We can lobby for abolition of SS at that point, but the case must be won to pu… | /r/MensRights | 06/06/15 04:48 PM |
| 1 | Portraits of Men Crying Over Being Drafted into Lithuanian MilitaryFinland, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, and Greece still require military service from men only. Almost every country in Europe still had conscription as recently as 2000. Sweden, which is as feminist as a country can get, still had male-only conscription until about 2010. Norway, which has had quotas for female corporate directors for about a decade now, is just getting around this year to requiring military service from women on the same basis as men. It seems that there isn't much of a correl… | /r/MensRights | 06/06/15 04:20 PM |
| 1 | Portraits of Men Crying Over Being Drafted into Lithuanian MilitaryIt's the National Coalition for Men that's currently suing the selective service system. | /r/MensRights | 06/06/15 04:13 PM |
| 1 | SurvivorsUK, who had their funding cut to £0, are now accepting donationsDo you think there are no women on top who fuck over people? What man is to blame for Hillary's bad decisions and policies? Do you blame men for Thatcher or Merkel or all of the female members of congress who vote no differently than their male counterparts? It seems quite sexist to deny that women have the agency to make the choice to be elitist, selfish assholes. | /r/MensRights | 05/06/15 03:01 PM |
| 2 | Hateful feminist Lucy Cavendish craps all over single dads. Why not?Yeah, thats pretty much how I feel. | /r/MensRights | 05/06/15 12:41 AM |
| 14 | Hateful feminist Lucy Cavendish craps all over single dads. Why not?"The counter-argument is that this has been happening to men since time began. We are not used to stories of women losing custody of their children," agrees Marshall. "Few would expect to do so because they were pursuing a successful career. It's a new phenomenon that seems punitive in the eyes of many women. For him, the key to handling this unexpected flipside of equality is communication and negotiation" I'm glad that the article at least acknowledged that this has been the standard fall-out … | /r/MensRights | 04/06/15 09:27 PM |
| 2 | Defense for woman accused of molesting 13 year old boy: "I would not be doing my client's case justice if I did not mention the acronym 'milf', which has entered into every day colloquial English language usage."I was about to reply to the above comment, but this was everything I wanted to say. | /r/MensRights | 04/06/15 08:22 PM |
| 4 | Defense for woman accused of molesting 13 year old boy: "I would not be doing my client's case justice if I did not mention the acronym 'milf', which has entered into every day colloquial English language usage."I know this disparity exists almost everywhere, but it seems like a disproportionate number of these cases in which a female sexual predator receives an extremely light sentence or otherwise has people making excuses for her come from the UK. Not sure why that would be. | /r/MensRights | 04/06/15 07:39 PM |
| 1 | Ugly Custody dispute. Just want to be a dad. What to do?I wish I could give you some advice myself, but unfortunately the best I can do is direct you to r/legaladvice. It really sounds like you should have some recourse here. Usually, a mother can't just unilaterally decide to remove a father from their child's life. | /r/MensRights | 03/06/15 01:26 AM |
| 4 | Looking for suggestions for a school project.The way to avoid as much controversy as possible would be to choose a topic that it would be very difficult for anyone to take issue with without looking like a jerk. Something like sexual abuse in the prison system could meet this criteria. It mainly affects men (but not exclusively, if you choose this you should at least touch on female and trans victims as well), and for a long time was considered something of a joke. I feel like we've made some progress in getting people to take this more se… | /r/MensRights | 03/06/15 01:17 AM |
| 1 | FIRE President to Testify at House Judiciary Committee Hearing Regarding Free Speech on CampusThis is good to hear. It says Wendy Kaminer will be testifying as well. She's always excellent on free speech and civil liberties issues. It would be great if this could lead to some federal legislation supporting free speech on campuses. Probably not, but who knows. It's good to have it finally on the agenda either way. | /r/MensRights | 02/06/15 01:41 AM |
| 6 | Any socialists or leftists here?I'm very wary of putting labels on myself these days, but I continue to support many left-leaning positions: I believe in a true single-payer health care system. I support labor law reforms that will make union organizing less onerous, and believe that employers who violate these laws should face penalties sufficient enough to discourage them from doing so. I believe that the number of hours worked should be reduced. I support a guaranteed basic income to partially subsidize the work reducation.… | /r/MensRights | 01/06/15 05:18 AM |
| 7 | I hope MRA's are for equal rights, and do not become radical like feminists.I absolutely agree that we must put our best foot forward and do our best to be as fair and reasonable as possible. Ideally, we should be what the feminists claim to be and be for full equality. While issues that primarily affect men should abviously be the focus of the movement (who else will address them if not us?) I believe we should be willing to support women's issues where reasonable and feasible. I have personally had success in getting people to think differently about the men's rights … | /r/MensRights | 26/05/15 02:01 AM |
| 3 | Can I be a communist and an MRA?You'd probably find more resistance from communists than men's rights advocates about this. Whatever floats your boat I say. | /r/MensRights | 25/05/15 12:11 PM |
| 4 | I am now 18. Signing up for the Selective Service was the most discomforting thing I've ever done.Sorry for the wall of text. Lots of info to cover. tl;dr at bottom. I think the name of the case is National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System. You should be able to find all of the info, along with the legal documents, on ncfm.org. The lawsuit was filed in April 2013, but was dismissed that July on the grounds that the issue was not yet ripe for decision and was based on speculation about future events that may or may not happen. Basically, what the Pentagon did in January 2013 was … | /r/MensRights | 16/05/15 09:30 AM |
| 7 | I am now 18. Signing up for the Selective Service was the most discomforting thing I've ever done.I don't know who your congressman is but if it's Martha McSally (who represents the Tucson area, I believe) she should be sympathetic, as she's been outspoken about this issue in the past. She was on Fox News a couple of times around the time that the Pentagon announced the end of the ban on women in combat and debated some former military guys, arguing that if SS must continue to exist, it should apply to both men and women. As an aside, McSally seems like a hell of a woman. She was the first w… | /r/MensRights | 16/05/15 09:08 AM |
| 1 | Pressure grows on marines to consider lowering combat standards for women.The upside to this is that it would seemingly take away the government's last line of defense in a lawsuit against selective service (assuming they're planning to do this for the army as well). With the combat exclusion being lifted, the government's only real argument for keeping SS the way it is would be that women would not meet the standards and would not be needed. It seems it would become impossible to make that argument if the standards are being designed so that women can meet them. | /r/MensRights | 21/04/15 05:16 PM |
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