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$180 of that is probably the pack of smokes.
/r/PussyPassDenied22/05/21 10:08 PM
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A man would receive the same harsh sentence for exclusively performing oral sex, i.e. non-penetrative sex. Besides which, raping a child is the real issue here, penetration or no penetration. Also, it's entirely possible to penetrate a male with fingers, tongue, etc.
/r/PussyPassDenied30/12/20 03:18 AM
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This isn't PPD, this is fatty pass denied. In theory, yes. In practice, virtually no one makes excuses for fat men. The focus of "fat acceptance," "body positivity," etc. is almost exclusively on fat women. For all intents and purposes, this is indeed a PPD, with only a tiny dusting of penis in there.
/r/PussyPassDenied25/07/19 09:49 PM
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She did receive consequences. That they aren't as severe as some people might prefer doesn't mean they don't exist.
/r/PussyPass13/03/19 10:58 PM
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Guess you're right. Here's the relevant code in my state: https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter8/section46.2-924/ That said, I think we all know you're not allowed to plow through pedestrians just because they're breaking the law. Some people may not even drive themselves and may not know the rules of the road that apply to pedestrians, after all (homeless people, for example). You'd be incredibly hard pressed to suffer any consequences for hitting a moron playing in the middle o…
/r/PussyPass13/03/19 09:05 PM
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According to the article, the victims were killed while wearing dark clothing at nighttime in an area without street lights or pedestrian crossing safety measures of any kind. A potentially deadly situation like this has probably happened to all of us before. Last year, a homeless man just darted right out of the median bushes and directly in front of my car at night, in a low-light area with a 35 MPH limit. I floored the brakes instantly, but had I been glancing anywhere else for even a split-s…
/r/PussyPass13/03/19 06:39 PM
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Yet you dug through his post history anyway, you cancerous cretin. You've been a Redditor for a grand total of two years; you're subscribed to and participate in shitty and cancerous default subreddits such as /r/gaming and /r/AdviceAnimals; you appear to be a D&D, Pokemon, and Fortnite enthusiast, strongly suggesting you're a typical basic bitch manchild Redditor despite your multiple subscriptions to "lol that guy's dumb (not me tho)"-type subreddits such as /r/iamverysmart; etc. Interesting f…
/r/PussyPassDenied01/02/19 10:19 AM
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http://puu.sh/CFyAD/26c398d9a1.png
/r/PussyPassDenied01/02/19 09:40 AM
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Yeah, sure you did. Regardless, you're very, extremely mistaken. Of course, most Western European governments work very hard and quite deliberately to obfuscate immigrant crime statistics, so there really aren't any unbiased facts to consult when it comes to Germany specifically. However, some governments are much more transparent with their data and don't hide it for the sake of political correctness, and these statistics show that impoverished immigrants (of any race, really, but those from ce…
/r/PussyPassDenied27/01/19 12:38 AM
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there are as many cases where the offender is German Yet there are many times more Germans (native or fully assimilated) living in Germany than there are immigrants, so what does that tell us?
/r/PussyPassDenied26/01/19 11:25 PM
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Not unless they're also sentenced to community service, no. The guy is definitely guilty of theft, and a fairly serious variety of theft at that as meerkat kittens don't grow on trees even in the Kalahari Desert. Whatever the monetary value, it's an exotic species and important for the zoo's revenue and functioning. She's definitely guilty of knowingly receiving stolen goods in this case, and "But I was going to turn it in" isn't an excuse, since that's what everyone says. If you're caught first…
/r/PussyPass17/01/19 04:35 PM
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A suspended sentence is one that the convicted person doesn't actually have to serve at time of sentencing, but it doesn't go away entirely. It remains hanging over their head, presenting a threat, so to speak; if that person is convicted of breaking the law again during a certain period, the suspended sentence will almost certainly come crashing down on their head, this time as a real sentence. "Seven months in prison, suspended for twelve months" means that a seven-month prison sentence will b…
/r/PussyPass17/01/19 07:37 AM
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When I'm Emperor, this will be an automatic drawing and quartering. "BUT SHE'S A TROUBLED TEEN-" Nope, still drawing and quartering.
/r/PussyPass25/11/18 03:16 PM
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I dunno man, the stack of facts seems to indicate she may simply have had an (extremely unfortunate) brain fart. After all, she left the baby in the car for an entire work day. That's not what someone would plan to do if they were intending to off their baby, despite how it seems to some in retrospect (i.e., so bizarre it had to be an accident). If she did plot to kill the baby in such a bizarre way in order to get away with it, and additionally managed to sweet-talk investigators and the court,…
/r/PussyPass16/10/18 05:37 PM
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The UK justice system very commonly lets off child-torturing, child-killing women with a light penalty. They might receive a "life sentence" in some cases, but the minimum term will be 12 years, then it'll be reduced to 8-10 on appeal, and then later they'll be let out early. We've come a long way from the days when Great Britain hung child-killers by their worthless trash necks with 0 hesitation.
/r/PussyPass29/09/18 06:49 PM
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No one would (edit: except gay men), but phenomena like this (and there are a lot of them) underline the reality that men and women aren't the same in all ways or equal in all things. A whole lot's been said about this sort of thing, and I think that "women are the gatekeepers of sex, men are the gatekeepers of commitment" is pretty fair. It's oversimplified and imperfect, perhaps, but it comes pretty close. If you're young and looking to get laid, women have the upper hand in that arena unless …
/r/PussyPass18/09/18 06:54 PM
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More like a year of probation.
/r/PussyPass17/09/18 06:48 AM
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Pay attention to this guy's username, folks.
/r/PussyPassDenied28/06/18 06:49 AM
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In the US, I believe sexual assault requires penetration in order to be classified as rape, although it's worth noting that sexual assault charges alone can still carry penalties as severe as rape charges. It's a similar situation with forcible sodomy where only sodomy has occurred. I don't like it either, though. The system is basically set up so that only women can be said to have been raped, legally speaking, which is bogus. In the UK I believe they go a step further and specifically define r…
/r/PussyPass27/06/18 03:37 AM
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Suits vs. sundresses aside, complaining about air conditioning in a comfy office space where your ass sits on a $1500 ergonomic chair is the absolute epitome of first-world problems.
/r/PussyPassDenied25/06/18 08:35 AM
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Oi mate, 'ave you got a loicence fer that patois?
/r/PussyPass28/05/18 02:21 AM
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My pity ends where trying to ruin a man's career, reputation, and possibly marriage with a slanderous lie to save your own ass begins.
/r/PussyPassDenied20/04/18 04:09 PM
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I've been here since the beginning. What this sub has actually been turning into is every popular post being dogpiled by butthurt stealth feminists linking to /r/incel because SOMEONE SAID MEAN THINGS ABOUT FEMINISM. Postmodern feminism is absolute cancer and a major perpetrator of the pussy pass. Whining about it isn't going to do any good. You people are fucking hypocrites too, bitching that making fun of obnoxious feminists for being obese and weird-looking (for example) is woman-hating, yet …
/r/PussyPassDenied30/08/17 04:20 AM
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You have to love how the judges and other people cited in most of these articles assess the harmful effects of false rape allegations: They'll cause guilty men to go free, they'll make real rape victims reluctant to come forward, you've wasted government time and money, etc. Coming in dead-last in the negative aspects of false rape allegations, apparently, is the fact that an innocent man has been persecuted and his life ruined. That should be #1 on the fucking list, before "guilty men might go …
/r/PussyPassDenied29/08/17 12:32 PM
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His boss's name? Albert Einstein.
/r/PussyPassDenied11/08/17 03:19 AM
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You are dangerously naive. Here's to another decade or so of life experience; it'll do you some good.
/r/PussyPassDenied06/06/17 10:47 PM
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There's nothing logical about that response. It's personal opinion, a biased value judgment at best, and is the conversational equivalent of "Nuh-uh, you are!". Large swathes of Reddit are very clearly echo chambers, and were for many years before T_D even existed. It's objective fact that the great majority of Reddit is liberal or liberal-leaning, and therefore T_D is essentially surrounded by and sharing space with its very vocal opposition, with predictable results. T_D has caught a lot of fl…
/r/PussyPassDenied29/05/17 06:25 PM
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There are always legitimate reasons ("explanations" might be a better term) for a person's criminal behavior. It's the pussypass hypocrisy that's obnoxious. Hypothetically, consider a young man of the same age as the woman in this piece and with a similar background. He tries to extort a cop for possession of child pornography by fabricating evidence. No one would be making lame excuses for him. They'd be sharpening the tines on their pitchforks and joking about how Bubba's gonna be sticking it …
/r/PussyPassDenied21/03/17 12:41 AM
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But the end of that article is sad because it really does seem like she has some mental illness going on. A few years ago I might have agreed with you, except that practically every article about women committing felonies is loaded with that kind of excuse-making shit, up to and including articles covering women who rape their fifteen-year-old students. They always "have issues," are "emotionally distraught," and on and on and on.
/r/PussyPassDenied20/03/17 10:27 PM
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Yet "not all men" and "all lives matter" are statements of hate, right? No True Scotsman arguments are rampant on all sides in this day and age. It sucks.
/r/PussyPass23/02/17 05:24 AM
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Science disagrees with you, but if course since you reject science for feelings I don't think you'd know science if it smacked you upside the head. Next time you get a speeding ticket for driving like a selfish idiot, shoot me a message on Reddit and let me know how your lecture about Stockholm syndrome worked on the cop who pulled you over.
/r/PussyPassDenied22/12/16 01:18 AM
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I do love meeting Reddit's crazies and taking screenshots to crosspost elsewhere. A habitual moronic speeder justifying himself with insane conspiracy theories. Priceless!
/r/PussyPassDenied22/12/16 01:16 AM
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The speed limits along major east coast corridors were updated to 70 MPH years back, except in mountainous areas where you can go flying off the road at such a high speed. I'm not too sure about the midwest or west coast, because I don't live there or travel there often. When people see that 70 MPH sign, many drive at 75 MPH (because it's well known that 5 MPH over is generally tolerated by cops); entitled speeders drive at 80 MPH+. No matter what the speed limit is, there are idiots out there w…
/r/PussyPassDenied21/12/16 04:39 PM
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I tend to agree that travel is a human right. Your reasoning is flawed, however. While travel on foot or publicly available transportation can reasonably be called a human right, owning and operating a heavy piece of machinery that can kill a dozen people or more in an instant is a privilege that must be earned and maintained, not a human right. This holds true in Germany and Montana as well. Virtually every governing and judicial body in the world (not to mention traffic engineers et al.) recog…
/r/PussyPassDenied21/12/16 02:12 PM
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You know which crime is pervasive and normalized? Selfish pieces of shit speeding 15-20+ MPH over the limit down the fucking highway, that's what. It's one thing to do it occasionally, get caught, learn one's lesson, and stop doing it, but morons who feel entitled to habitually speed... well, I hope they get hit with huge fines and their licenses revoked ASAP. Fines aren't "theft." They're a deterrent and a punishment. Driving is a privilege, and if you choose to break the law and put others' li…
/r/PussyPassDenied21/12/16 09:48 AM
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Canadians call hit-and-run "fail to remain"? Learn something new everyday.
/r/PussyPassDenied18/12/16 10:05 AM
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http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/583/040/cff.png
/r/PussyPassDenied25/08/16 09:31 AM
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What a sniveling coward she is.
/r/PussyPassDenied20/01/15 06:05 PM
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Oh right, that's a striking one.
/r/MensRights31/05/13 06:11 PM
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I've seen citations of this statistic ranging from .02% (extreme radfem propaganda) to as high as 15%—and the person who claimed 15% actually cited an FBI study, rather than mentioning it with no source, as you have. That said, I personally believe no government organization has really done a truly thorough inquiry into false rape statistics, because it's unpolitical to do so. Also, two things: What percentage of reported rapes do you suppose are false, but are never discovered to be false, and …
/r/MensRights25/04/13 06:21 PM
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I didn't say or even imply that the law would only apply to women. Since you mention it though, women would certainly be in a much better position to abuse such a law, because men who report (or perhaps more appropriately, attempt to report) sexual abuse remain the subjects of ridicule, disbelief, and "men always want sex anyway" prejudice. Even disregarding that, my position isn't that people should be allowed to rape in mid-coitus by engaging in an unwanted activity. My position is that if mid…
/r/MensRights25/04/13 03:20 PM
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But there is a problem. It's so incredibly easy to lie about this sort of rape that it opens the door to all kinds of abuse by vengeful exes and so on.
/r/MensRights25/04/13 01:14 PM
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I've always strongly suspected that the "real" numbers of false rape claims were much higher than the average [of other types of false crime reporting] and much higher than feminists will admit, but never really had credible "proof"... since the research that would provide that proof is potentially damaging to feminist rhetoric, and therefore barely exists. Now I have some sources to cite. I'm completely unsurprised to read that it's 14%+.
/r/MensRights22/04/13 11:37 AM
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Violence against men is actually violence against women...? Makes perfect sense. Wait, is this an April Fools joke? Come on, it's gotta be.
/r/MensRights01/04/13 12:48 PM
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Interesting. I had much the same thought the other day: That feminism is slowly deconstructing the sexual revolution and inducing a Victorian-esque shame mentality towards sexuality.
/r/MensRights27/03/13 06:58 PM
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Sounds fantastic.
/r/MensRights07/03/13 10:04 PM
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Failing that, you could always insist upon a prenuptial agreement—although many women will object to a prenup, often because they interpret it as a sign of mistrust, or (more rarely) because they're gold diggers and they know it. Hurt feelings over trust issues aren't entirely unjustified, but the fact of the matter is that viciousness nearly always rears its ugly head when a relationship starts to deteriorate. It's one thing to trust someone when a relationship is going well, but if it ever sta…
/r/MensRights07/03/13 06:11 PM
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Regarding the "violence against men in war is incidental, not gender-based" claim: By that logic, most male-on-female domestic violence isn't gender-based, either. Does a boyfriend or husband hit his partner because she's female, or is it because he's angry, has violent tendencies and can't control himself? I would argue that it's the latter. If a gay man physically abuses his partner, is that violence against men? What about lesbians who abuse their partners? Even if cowards hit their girlfrien…
/r/MensRights02/03/13 11:22 AM
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While I agree with your sentiment and concur that women should be reported for violent behavior (and punished just as harshly as men), they already ought to have a reason not to do this: Being empathetic people who aren't sociopaths. Good people don't need laws to force them not to harm others.
/r/MensRights28/02/13 07:49 AM
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As I said: I wish MORE feminists would start thinking/behaving like Hyperdunk. They're a small minority. The entire readership of Jezebel (for example), the majority of politically influential American feminists, the majority of /r/feminism and /r/TwoXChromosomes, and certainly nearly all "radical" feminists very blatantly do throw men under the bus on a regular basis. I will admit however that I don't read feminist Internet hotspots on a daily basis, because it would be bad for my blood pressur…
/r/MensRights27/02/13 06:25 PM
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I wish more feminists would start thinking/behaving like Hyperdunk (the person you're quoting), rather than always taking the woman's side, assuming the man is at fault, and hoping he gets thrown under the bus—even with a complete lack of evidence, or Hell, evidence that suggests the man may not be at fault.
/r/MensRights27/02/13 11:51 AM
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I don't believe she was being sincere at all—it was snide arrogance, made obvious by the "let me know how that goes" tacked on at the end.
/r/MensRights18/02/13 10:05 AM
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I feel sorry for those poor saps manning the tables in the background.
/r/MensRights24/01/13 04:37 PM
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I implied that "they" are adults who have a problem thinking critically and who typically behave in an immature fashion, and I meant it. It's far better than the way in which "they" insult the MRA movement, namely by characterizing it as a collection of woman-hating, rape-enabling bigots. That's no exaggeration, and is much more damaging (not to mention false and libelous). Feminists can and do openly apply atrocious labels and vicious insults to their opposition. MRAs aren't afforded that luxur…
/r/MensRights15/01/13 02:30 AM
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Sometimes the truth hurts. If they don't like being characterized as irrational, then they shouldn't behave irrationally.
/r/MensRights14/01/13 03:15 PM
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/r/MensRights sees far more than its fair share of trolls and other obnoxious behavior, yet we don't ban dissenting opinions. They sometimes get downvoted into oblivion (not always my favorite aspect of Reddit), but that's how it goes. That's the crux of it, really. We have good mods, and they occasionally prune out troll posts and so on (the text-copying bot is there as a preventative measure), but we haven't banned dissenting opinions. We can handle dissenting opinions, because we are thinking…
/r/MensRights13/01/13 08:06 PM
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Where you see "a space for people to ask about feminism," I see a virtual ghetto where dissenting opinions are sent to be ignored. /r/feminism has over 15,000 subscribers, while /r/AskFeminists has only about 2,000. /r/TwoXChromosomes, 122,000 subscribers strong, is also rather prominently feminist and also tends to delete dissenting opinions. Refusing to engage in dialogue with those who hold opposing viewpoints is bad regardless of the circumstances, especially when we're discussing a propagan…
/r/MensRights13/01/13 11:26 AM
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It's true. If you challenge feminist rhetoric in any way on /r/feminism, your posts will be deleted. It's right there in the sidebar: feminist-supportive questions still belong in r/Feminism, but those questioning or criticizing feminism should direct their discussions to /r/AskFeminists You must agree or you cannot post, simple as that.
/r/MensRights13/01/13 10:13 AM
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It's typical feminist hypocrisy. Feminists feign support for equal rights, but in reality support women-first political and social agendas, while ignoring or denying men's rights issues. They feign support for LGBT causes, yet the ugly truth is revealed in the way feminists treat transwomen (male-to-female transsexuals)—they refuse to accept transwomen as "real" women, because they were born male. Feminists for the most part do not allow transwomen into all-female support groups and/or feminist …
/r/MensRights13/01/13 10:08 AM
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This infographic needs to cite its sources, otherwise it's useless.
/r/MensRights10/01/13 03:25 AM
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For one thing, I don't get "offended." Getting "offended" at everything is why feminism has gained the traction it has. For another, I never stated you have to stop being friends with people with whom you disagree. You just have to accept that you often can't change their minds. Convincing a feminist that feminism and especially man-hating is wrong and that men's rights is a worthy cause... if you succeed in that even once, then my hat's truly off to you.
/r/MensRights29/12/12 02:46 AM
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You must be very young and/or idealistic to post this comment in all seriousness. You'll find life disappointing in the extreme if you aim to "fix" every person you come across, and that includes your closest family members. Even if your way IS sometimes the right way, for the most part you'll simply convince people that you're an arrogant know-it-all. By all means, "show the way" to your friends, family members and acquaintances who aren't men's rights activists. It's your job, after all. Let m…
/r/MensRights28/12/12 05:42 AM
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In my opinion, this "Where are all the good men?" phenomenon is the perfect example of how feminism is changing Western society for the worse and harming not only men, but also women. Middle- and upper-class women are being taught (by feminist rhetoric) that they're underprivileged victims, when in fact they're no longer an oppressed class of people and, indeed, are afforded special privileges above and beyond those enjoyed by men. The best-known of these privileges are preferential treatment in…
/r/MensRights27/12/12 06:25 PM
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The Bechdel test is really easy to verify. Turn on your television. Oh, I have. Every other television commercial portrays men as bumbling idiots, as poor parents, as thoughtless oafs who can't manage their lives without the presence of a woman to manage it and correct his stupidity. Of course, that's because women spend the plural majority of money in our society, so ad agencies target them. But that doesn't make it right, and the very fact that women respond so well to blatant misandry should …
/r/MensRights21/12/12 03:21 AM
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Thirteen years ago, an anti-feminist gunman massacred 14 women at a university here because 'feminism ruined his life'. People still have not forgotten that... I assume you mean this? http://www.gendercide.org/case_montreal.html That was a lot longer than thirteen years ago. I think you lost a decade somewhere along the way. It's clearly the same case, can't be a coincidence. There was a memorial held in 1999, though. You expect me to believe you're informed when I know more about something that…
/r/MensRights21/12/12 02:24 AM
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You say you've never seen any men's rights issues in the course of living your life, but tell me: Have you seen any women's rights issues? When I say "see," I mean in your personal experience only, not what you've read on the Internet, learned at university or heard from other feminists. I consider your alleged non-specified experiences living in a non-specified country suspect at best. What kind of an answer were you hoping for? If you live in such an improbable utopia and base your worldview o…
/r/MensRights21/12/12 01:36 AM
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Expect to see a lot more like this. Consider it a sign of progress. I do, and I do. Even just over a year ago, when I first subscribed to /r/MensRights feminists weren't quite this enraged, nor nearly as vocal. I think it's working. Stupid shit like the "I need feminism because...." Tumblr groups they make aren't helping their image with the general public, either.
/r/MensRights14/12/12 03:15 PM
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Of course if his cabinet were 80% women, there would be no cause for concern among feminists.
/r/MensRights06/12/12 08:05 AM
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Men's Rights is in my view a temporary movement, necessary because the entire world currently fights for women's rights issues and ignores or ridicules men's rights issues, despite the fact that men now face just as many (and equally significant) gender-specific issues as do women. The end result of all goals of the Men's Rights movement is true equality, rather than men-first policies and ideologies and/or demonizing of women. That's a key difference between Men's Rights and feminism: Feminism …
/r/MensRights30/11/12 02:16 PM
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You say Men's Rights isn't about hating women. Although this is true, I never actually made that statement during this conversation. What I actually said was that feminism demonizes men, which is demonstrably correct and is not the same as "hating" them. Why, then, is it impossible to believe that a women's rights movement is not about hating men? Clever tactic. Stay on the attack, keep your opponent on the defensive, yes? I'll bite, though. Apparently you have poor reading comprehension, so I'l…
/r/MensRights28/11/12 03:45 AM
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Try posting a thread about men's rights issues (the actual issues; you believe they exist, right?) in /r/feminism, then wait a while and see what kind of responses you get. If the thread hasn't been immediately downvoted into oblivion or deleted by the moderators, check out the comments. I can already predict what the content of those comments will be, and that's an example of where we get these ideas. We get them from the words of feminists (including well known feminist leaders) and the action…
/r/MensRights28/11/12 03:10 AM
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Many men (including men's rights advocates) recognize that there are women's rights issues, but feminism goes far beyond simple advocacy of women's rights. It is a female supremacist movement—one that demonizes men, engages in women-first politics, and suppresses or outright denies the existence and importance of men's rights issues. Feminism is a divisive and exclusive force, not a uniting one. When feminists do acknowledge men's rights issues, they typically blame those issues on the so-called…
/r/MensRights28/11/12 02:22 AM
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According to some quick Internet stats, 5'9" is an inch shorter than the average American male, and an inch and a half shorter than the average white American male (I'm white). Don't even look at stats for Scandinavian countries, several of them are something like 6'0"... average. I've never seen myself as short mind you, or been aware of my height one way or another unless I'm literally looking up or down at someone.
/r/MensRights27/11/12 05:52 AM
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You're not thinking this through. The tenets of feminism are almost exclusively determined by females. A male sympathetic to feminist tenets and politics is therefore, for all intents and purposes, merely a vessel (or messenger, if you will) for the feminist agenda, which again, is determined almost entirely by women.
/r/MensRights27/11/12 04:17 AM
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Apparently the average solider in 1984 was 166 pounds.. not 200. Do soldiers go out into the field naked? Is it still 1984? I'm 5'9" and I weigh 160 pounds naked, which is normal. These days, 5'9" is a tad on the short side. Tall people also need to be evacuated. Wearing fatigues, a helmet, a flak jacket and carrying some gear, I guarantee you I'll weigh 200 pounds or more. I'm a scientist Yeah, sure you are. You didn't even account for the weight of fatigues and carried gear in the average weig…
/r/MensRights26/11/12 11:34 PM
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Guns aren't designed "for men," they're designed to operate properly while putting a certain caliber of bullet downrange at a certain rate of fire. Do you really think the engineers added on extra weight to make the guns seem more manly? Likewise, a 200-pound casualty simulates a typical male soldier. That test isn't designed "for men." It's 200 pounds because you need to be strong enough to evacuate a wide range of people that includes men. As for the rucksack, I've been in the military, I've b…
/r/MensRights26/11/12 10:48 PM
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I really appreciate all the logical points you made in that counter-argument. Well done!
/r/MensRights26/11/12 04:45 PM
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Here's something interesting, from Wikipedia just because I don't have a better source at the moment: In many universities, men's studies is a correlation to women's studies or part of a larger gender studies program, and as such its faculty tends to be sympathetic to or engaged in feminist politics. I find it strange that women get to have the majority say in women's studies, and also apparently the majority say in men's studies. Allowing everyone an equal say would be a lot more, well, equal.
/r/MensRights26/11/12 04:39 PM
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It doesn't matter what kind of women you're attracted to, that's completely irrelevant.
/r/MensRights24/11/12 04:03 AM
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Except the womanhood of a woman isn't called into question if she isn't tough. In fact, women are permitted to show signs of emotional or physical weakness without suffering ridicule.
/r/MensRights24/11/12 03:49 AM
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I believe that women have just as much female privilege as men do male privilege, yet feminists (and therefore much of society) claim that only men have privilege. The term "male privilege" carries this dishonest and hypocritical connotation whenever it's used.
/r/MensRights15/11/12 06:57 AM
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You're not a feminist, xLadyVirgil, not as defined by modern feminist dogma. You're an egalitarian, meaning you actually believe in equal rights. Like DejaBoo, I recommend you drop the badge. It's not what you think it is.
/r/MensRights11/11/12 06:01 AM
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Note that while the source is somewhat distasteful (Encyclopedia Dramatica), this is very real and the proof is in the article. It's old though, from 2007-2008. However, there are other radical feminists out there raising their own sons. Can you imagine being despised and having your sexuality demonized by your own mother? I can't.
/r/MensRights11/11/12 12:28 AM
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What tomsix said. Also, "profiling" is just a euphemism for "discriminating based on race, religion, or gender" anyway. It's misandric to target only males for shoplifting, no matter what you call it... especially when that's bullshit and women do it at least as often as men.
/r/MensRights09/11/12 01:49 AM
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What's stupid about this is that statistics suggest men and women shoplift equally as much. There is absolutely no reason for this other than women's assumed privilege to carry a bag everywhere they go, and/or just plain misandry.
/r/MensRights08/11/12 06:06 PM
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What's that site called? I'll take a PM if you don't want to state it publicly for some reason.
/r/MensRights07/11/12 08:26 PM
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Par for the feminist course. Women are not the problem. Feminists and misandrists are the problem.
/r/MensRights27/10/12 09:53 AM
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Questioning any aspect of feminist propaganda in any way will result in violent reactions from feminists, as well as embarrassingly obvious ad hominem attacks against those who dared called their (almost always tremendously biased) statistics and "studies" into question. "If you disagree with us, you are a misogynistic rape culture enabler" is the motto of both mainstream and extremist feminism. It's their shield against logic and transparency, and they need it... because if the general public r…
/r/MensRights27/10/12 09:48 AM
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I'm glad you're learning about this now while you're still young. Keep on reading this subreddit. Our court system allows women to use men as disposable resource dispensers, while also giving them a tremendous advantage over men in matters pertaining to child custody and visitation. This usually isn't a problem if your relationship with a woman is going fine, but if you get divorced or become separated and she's at all inclined to behave unfairly (most people are if a relationship has deteriorat…
/r/MensRights22/10/12 11:16 AM
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I should add that men being treated as primary caregivers for women and children (still) is also a part of this. Dangerous professions pay well, and when you're expected to care for your family or else be unmanned, it's worth the risk and hardship to earn good money. Coal mining, sea fishing and logging pay very well. Coal miners where I grew up draw salaries of $100,000+ per year nowadays, and deep sea fishermen earn tens of thousands of dollars per season (and they're comparatively short). Wom…
/r/MensRights21/10/12 06:21 PM
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Note: The five jobs I list are the five most dangerous jobs in the US with a female participation rate basically zero The patriarchy's keeping them out! I will say that there is an attitude among men who perform those sorts of jobs that it's "men's work." I grew up in southwestern Virginia, prime coal country, and still visit frequently. I know a fair few coal miners personally, as well as many of their co-workers, and that's their overwhelming opinion. I don't know any loggers or fishermen pers…
/r/MensRights21/10/12 11:30 AM
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A major issue men face is that we're considered disposable by society, purely because of our gender. Mainstream feminism doesn't acknowledge nor seek to address this issue in any way, and many feminists may deny it outright. There are a few common-sense examples. If a building is on fire, and a man and a woman are trapped inside, which of them does society expect firefighters to prioritize during a rescue? If a cruise ship is sinking, which gender is expected to board the lifeboats first? A real…
/r/MensRights21/10/12 10:41 AM
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The vast majority of idiots who think pregnancy is a magical, all-encompassing mitigating circumstance aren't qualified to have an opinion on the matter, either. That almost certainly includes you.
/r/MensRights08/10/12 03:54 AM
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You're actually kinda wrong. About what, in particular? A boy being treated differently than a girl under these circumstances (murdering an infant)? You cited a single case. Also, I'm definitely not wrong in my assertion that men in general receive harsher sentences than women for the same crimes, and are judged much more harshly than women (again, in general) for crimes involving children. That is fact. Whether this case follows that pattern completely is yet to be seen, though, that I readily …
/r/MensRights07/10/12 08:01 AM
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this 14 year old obviously couldn't handle the stressful situation I'm fairly sure "he/she couldn't handle the stress" is not considered a valid legal (or ethical) excuse for premeditated or even non-premeditated killing, whether or not the accused is underage. It's a mitigating factor perhaps, but certainly not enough to take trying her as an adult (or for murder) off the table completely. If you want to know more about teens being tried as adults, why it's done and the standards used to decide…
/r/MensRights06/10/12 11:29 PM
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This would have been legal if done by a doctor in Canada, but here she can get charged with murder, and as an adult. Doctors do not pry out fetuses with a pair of scissors and then directly strangle them to death. Also, most abortions must legally take place before the third (and usually before the second) trimester, though apparently laws vary by state and, of course, country. I am aware that most abortion procedures are gruesome, but once a living late-trimester fetus is outside of the body, I…
/r/MensRights06/10/12 11:24 PM
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"We are so eager as a society to discredit women," I just smirked so hard, I think my face is actually stuck that way.
/r/MensRights06/10/12 12:04 PM
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Misandrist media may not be the worst men's rights issue out there, but they (specifically television commercials portraying men as incompetent idiots) were what planted the seeds of "men's rights issues" in my brain years ago. Like most people, I assumed for the longest time that feminism was correct and that men had everything easy in life. Took a while to come to the realization that that was untrue, and male-bashing commercials helped me along that path.
/r/MensRights05/10/12 06:37 AM
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I also noticed this. It only bothers me because women readily notice the use of pejoratives such as "cunt" or "pussy," yet seem to overlook the way "prick" and "dick" are commonly used. And "asshole"... well, everyone has one, but in general I think the insult references the male anus, and is almost exclusively used to refer to males.
/r/MensRights05/10/12 06:33 AM
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Ad hominem much? Not at all. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. Your first post suggested that men willingly enter into marriages with "bitches", and as I've explained, that isn't the case at all. Most men are simply unable or unwilling to predict that their partners will make their lives a living hell and clean them out in court. Furthermore, your opinion places the blame on men for choosing their wives poorly, when in fact the true blame rests on the shoulders of unscrupulous, selfish wi…
/r/MensRights25/09/12 10:13 PM
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You must be quite young still. The problem is that most people are terrible judges of character, especially the character of someone they're in love with. Yet, in truth, most people are notoriously bad judges of other people's character. This can be a dangerous combination. Most men don't think marrying "bitches" is fine. They feel that they know their partner very well, that they can trust her, that she is a good person, that she'll treat them fairly, and so on. A year or three down the line --…
/r/MensRights25/09/12 09:54 AM
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Yes, that is classic feminist logic in a nutshell. Modern society loves "affirmative action" for a variety of reasons, but the term is nothing more than a euphemism for discrimination. Instead of discriminating against one race, religion or gender, affirmative action discriminates against all but one (or a select few) race, religion or gender. When it comes to gender, there are only two of them. Since feminism is considered right and proper by society, discriminating against men in favor of wome…
/r/MensRights22/09/12 02:15 PM
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This commercial has been a known quantity here for quite a while, and yes, it's rage-inducing.
/r/MensRights22/09/12 01:57 PM
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Bodyguards, martial arts instructors, police officers, and similar professionals will tell you — with few if any exceptions — that one should: Avoid danger preemptively; never seek out violence. If danger finds you, flee to the nearest safety. If cornered, defend yourself by any means necessary, BUT... Look for the soonest opportunity to flee to safety. Only young idiots believe that "real men" should try to test their mettle against muggers, gangsters et al. They're just sexist fools who associ…
/r/MensRights27/08/12 12:36 PM
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I'm not going to write a dissertation for your benefit. I've already told you where to find the (readily available) information you seek. This isn't a courtroom; I am not obligated to spend five hours educating every misandrist imbecile who replies to my posts asking, "What proof?" There are too many of you. If you're not willing to cure your own ignorance, then unfortunately I simply don't have enough time in the day to pop a squat and and pow-wow with each and every one of you. My unwillingnes…
/r/MensRights26/08/12 11:57 PM
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If you have to ask, then you need to start with the basics. Check the sidebar links (over there on the right), watch a few videos made by MRAs (such as girlwriteswhat, a well known female MRA) and consider what they have to say, do some research of your own... in other words, make an attempt to step outside your narrow, indoctrinated worldview. Assuming men's rights issues are imaginary because feminist rhetoric instructs you to is pathetic. I am well acquainted with the tenets and philosophies …
/r/MensRights26/08/12 06:41 PM
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The majority of feminists live in the world's wealthiest countries, are often born into middle- or upper middle-class families, have easy access to a higher education, are afforded plenty of job opportunities, and rarely go hungry, thirsty, or without medical care. Nor do they suffer any particularly onerous hardships. These privileged elite fight to secure (yet more) special privileges for themselves, since the West is still thoroughly fooled into believing that Western women are horribly oppre…
/r/MensRights26/08/12 12:30 AM
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Except that men's rights issues have been proven to actually exist, and drawing a ludicrous comparison that no one with half a brain will pay any credence to just makes you look like an imbecile. The supporters of any unpopular cause will suffer for standing up for what they believe in. The supporters of women's suffrage suffered in the 1800s and early- to mid-1900s. The supporters of the civil rights movement suffered in the 1950s, 1960s and even the 1970s. Those were real, unarguably worthy ca…
/r/MensRights25/08/12 08:12 AM
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That's great. The more men and women who're willing to go public and take a stand for men's rights, the faster change will come.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 06:43 PM
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If you choose to be a public men's rights activist, you must prepare to be hated, persecuted, humiliated, perhaps even stalked and harassed. You're dealing with zealots and an ignorant populace who've unwittingly been indoctrinated into the self-serving, misandrist rhetoric of modern feminism. If you refuse to back down, you will lose many friends, perhaps even become estranged from romantic partners and family members. This is the price individuals must pay for standing up for what is right rat…
/r/MensRights24/08/12 05:49 PM
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I wish, thought, that it wasn't called that, though I understand why it is. Just to be clear, it's called that because few outside the men's rights movement fight for men's rights. In fact, many feminists actively work to suppress men's rights in favor of women's. Most MRAs are in fact egalitarians. We believe equally in women's rights, but women's rights are already hugely overrepresented.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 02:48 PM
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Yes, it's the classic wolf in sheep's clothing approach. They ally themselves with GLBT causes, for example, yet refuse to accept transwomen as real women within their own organizations... which shows a total lack of understanding of transsexuals.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 01:09 PM
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According to the Wikipedia entry on chimpanzees, our closest primate relative: "Low-ranking males benefit from an unstable hierarchy and have increased sexual opportunities." Pretty nonsensical when applied to human beings. Personally, I don't believe there's any such thing as an "alpha male" homo sapiens. Our societies are far too complex to allow even an extremely broad definition of what that would mean. If reproductive success is the yardstick used, for example, then regular sperm bank donor…
/r/MensRights23/08/12 12:43 PM
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It's pretty obvious what the intent of my comment was and I know why it was downvoted. I don't even care about this "issue" anyway Yes, I know. Have a nice day now, sexist.
/r/MensRights23/08/12 09:40 AM
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Actually, you are. The responsibility of making oneself understood properly lies with the speaker or writer, not the audience. Judging by the fact that you received only downvotes, you either failed to communicate properly or people interpreted what you wrote as a sexist remark. The implication of this: Yeah, when my girlfriend wants to have sex I'm absolutely devastated. ...in the context of this thread (and specifically as a response to my post) is very clear. It implies that men always want s…
/r/MensRights23/08/12 09:13 AM
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The way you feel about your girlfriend is irrelevant. This is a thread about an egalitarian anti-date rape campaign, which is remarkable for not exclusively focusing on the rights of heterosexual women, as most of them do. If you don't understand why your personal narrative is irrelevant to this much larger issue, then I'm not going to waste calories operating my keyboard in order to reply to you. I already explained why your original comment was sexist. Implying that men always want sex and sho…
/r/MensRights23/08/12 08:55 AM
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That's completely irrelevant to this thread. You're neither clever nor subtle.
/r/MensRights23/08/12 08:26 AM
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It's sarcasm/sexism. Men always want sex, you see, and should furthermore be grateful to receive it. That's what these people actually believe.
/r/MensRights23/08/12 04:25 AM
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What the hell are they doing dating/fucking people they believe are evil? Just because you think you can trust someone, doesn't mean you actually can. It is not my intention to insult you, but you're being naive. The vast majority of people who are betrayed and/or victimized by their partners genuinely believe they're dating a good person, someone whom they trust, until they find out otherwise. You know the way you feel about your girlfriend? You trust each other completely, and so on? Many peop…
/r/MensRights22/08/12 02:25 PM
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The comments on that article are astonishingly well written, far cry from the usual "lol fuk u pssy man up" posts on certain other news sites.
/r/MensRights22/08/12 02:21 PM
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Fantastic. This is the change we all want to see. While certain problems may (note my use of "may") affect some demographics more than others and in different ways, that doesn't mean the other demographics aren't worthy of consideration and representation. The demographics in this case being hetero men, hetero women, gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and FTM/MTF transsexuals. None of these are exempt from being sexually victimized in various different ways.
/r/MensRights22/08/12 01:50 PM
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You know this shit, is there a name for when someone tries to distract the argument by picking at something that's barely relevant? Yes, it's called special pleading, or more colloquially, a one-sided argument — and I'm not the one doing it, you are. You want me to accept the bases of your assertions as fact, argue within the boundaries you choose to set for this discussion, and focus on the issues you deem important, while ignoring others. Any deviation from the narrow constraints you've placed…
/r/MensRights21/08/12 01:51 PM
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Argh fuck I knew you'd go with that instead of actually making a reasoned response. How do you expect me to respond in the face of logical fallacy? That's what "no true Scotsman" arguments are — logical fallacies. In an argument between two people with no third-party moderator, I must aggressively attack the fallacy before we can proceed. I'm not accusing you of malice, you understand. I don't necessarily disagree with you: The media is partly to blame for giving credence to extreme feminist rhe…
/r/MensRights21/08/12 12:41 PM
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Yet another "no true feminist" response. Lovely. I'm tired of dealing with people like you. You blame all the misandry and insanity on extremists, claiming (or implying) that "real" feminists are egalitarian and not responsible for the poisonous rhetoric that gets airtime. Even if true, I don't give a FUCK. Well known feminist leaders and authors tend to be extremists. Feminist lobbyist groups — the ones that seem to have all the clout in lawmaking, university policy-making and so on — are extre…
/r/MensRights21/08/12 11:42 AM
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Anyway, in order to back up your assertion of media manipulation you've shown me an advertisement paid for by a feminist lobby group. Not exactly "wide-spread" and "insidious" is it? The video is not the entirety of my response. As I went on to explain after linking the video, there are more vehicles of feminist influence than the occasional radfem television commercial. I won't repeat myself, because I've already listed some of them. Ignoring the bulk of my argument is asinine, and if I did the…
/r/MensRights21/08/12 10:23 AM
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There's no "secret manipulation" involved. It's actually quite blatant. Fraudulent statistics and fear-mongering are feminists' bread and butter. The media is heavily influenced by feminist rhetoric and propaganda as well, yes, but there are blatant examples such as the above, too. Blogs aren't the only way feminist rhetoric is spread -- feminist leaders in the public eye, feminist books, feminist lobbyists, feminized universities, public speakers and so on all play their parts. It's not necessa…
/r/MensRights21/08/12 09:36 AM
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Women were certainly the victims of much more significant sexism in years past, but men have never had it easy. There seems to be an attitude that men had all of the advantages and privileges prior to women's suffrage, but that's simply not true. A hundred years ago, for example, men were considered just as disposable as we are today, if not moreso. Wars and dangerous, difficult jobs (both of which tended to be much worse at the time) almost exclusively claimed male lives, and they weren't optio…
/r/MensRights21/08/12 09:09 AM
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Just because feminists recognize the distinction between stranger and non-stranger rape does not mean they aren't responsible for fear-mongering and spreading general rape hysteria.
/r/MensRights20/08/12 08:05 PM
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Yes. A small proportion of the female populace will lie to their friends, family and/or co-workers about being pregnant in order to gain the special attention afforded to pregnant women. When the expected time of delivery approaches, if a child is not produced then the lie will be exposed. Occasionally, such women will go so far as to kidnap a child to fulfill their fake pregnancy. In a handful of cases, women have been known to cut a late-term fetus from the belly and womb of a real pregnant wo…
/r/MensRights20/08/12 07:23 PM
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Of course. However, even when non-stranger rapists are included, it is reasonably estimated that fewer than 5% of men are rapists. Therefore, stranger-rapists are a fraction of less than 5% of the male population. Also, many rapists do not rape children. See what I'm getting at? It's extremely unlikely that average men walking about in public are aggressive rapists and/or pedophiles. Of course children should be supervised and warned about stranger danger, but women hiding their kids from any lo…
/r/MensRights20/08/12 07:10 PM
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This is a fairly recent phenomenon, brought about by mainstream (not radical — mainstream) feminism spreading rape hysteria throughout the populace. Any male unaccompanied by a woman is to be viewed as a potential sex offender. This extends to men who pursue careers as daycare workers, massage therapists, teachers, youth outreach workers (such as Big Brothers), and so on. The demonization of men as a gender is in full bloom. Never mind that stranger-type rapists and pedophiles are incredibly rar…
/r/MensRights20/08/12 04:59 PM
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“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” This is laughably ignorant and is the main reason people think he is an idiot.
/r/MensRights20/08/12 12:06 PM
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Having low standards is a choice, and it's not the only one available. Rather than lowering standards, some unattractive (for whatever reason[s]) men simply opt out of romance, focus on their hobbies, and rely on masturbation for satisfaction. Of course, it's also possible to try to improve one's attractiveness to the opposite sex. There's no lack of agency involved there... or if there is, it can be blamed on genetics and/or accumulated life choices. Tell me, do you believe that men and women a…
/r/MensRights20/08/12 05:16 AM
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I also don't like the latter part, where he talks about how slut shaming is actually misandry, because it implies women are tainted by contact with disgusting men. That's getting into oppression olympics territory, and even if the motivation were true, the victims of the attitude would still be the women. That part made me uneasy as well.
/r/MensRights19/08/12 07:45 PM
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Here is my contribution. Hopefully the OP of that thread will get the chance to read it. No, you aren't. You are 100% in the right. A reasonable family or community member consults with/informs other family or community members before making major changes to the living space, making major purchases, et cetera. That applies to all community members equally, and is not the same as asking permission from an authority figure. A community member who unilaterally makes important decisions without invo…
/r/MensRights19/08/12 07:32 PM
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As you know a man can only really know other men through himself. I certainly don't. Men can know each other by sharing their thoughts and experiences with other men, as well as by observing other men and (in this specific case) the interaction of men and women in various social settings. This is the foundation of our species — individuals learn by experience and observation, and we evolve as a social species by communicating what we learn with one another. I could as easily claim women can only…
/r/MensRights19/08/12 05:22 PM
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"To have a high volume of sexual encounters with women, men must: A. Have great sexual magnetism based on physical appearance, or B. Have visible economic success, or C. Significant social status among other men, or D. An operational understanding of women and their desires and the ability to manipulate those things, or E. The ability to project high self confidence in social settings, or F. A combination of two or more of the above. Now, to have a high volume of sexual encounters with men, wome…
/r/MensRights19/08/12 04:56 PM
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Most likely, but I hesitate to make all-inclusive generalizations unnecessarily.
/r/MensRights19/08/12 02:47 PM
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A strawman is a deliberate misrepresentation of someone's opinion/argument. That's not what's occurring here. I understand what you're saying quite well; I simply don't fully agree with it. Refusal to accept the fundaments of your argument as immutable truths or to adopt your choice of terminologies does not render me a purveyor of strawmen. Your position is that mainstream feminism is misandry/pseudo-feminism, and that true feminism is perfectly egalitarian. That's correct, isn't it? We both se…
/r/MensRights19/08/12 02:20 PM
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You're doing a valiant job of defending feminism, but you've sidestepped, avoided, and/or deflected many of my arguments. That's fine; both of us have rejected some of the premises upon which the other's arguments are based, and that makes it difficult to reach any kind of a satisfying conclusion. I'll say this: If, as you claim, "true feminism" is a perfectly egalitarian ideology, then I support it 100% (although why retain the gender-specific label? and are men allowed to fully participate in …
/r/MensRights19/08/12 01:37 PM
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That's not what I meant. I mean equality in the simplest sense... if women have equal rights with men, then men have equal rights with women. Both sides have issues that need to be worked on immediately. Then we are in agreement on what's truly important, although I remain skeptical of your "true feminists" assertion. You're probably familiar with the "no true Scotsman" logical fallacy. Like it or not, the public face of feminism is in the hands of misandrists. Men's rights activists desire equa…
/r/MensRights19/08/12 04:49 AM
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Whether or not there are "real" feminists out there somewhere is irrelevant. The brand of feminism that politically correct society pays attention to and acts upon is of the mainstream variety. The majority of feminists (and more importantly, most feminist leaders) ascribe to mainstream feminist rhetoric. That's why it's called mainstream feminism. Mainstream feminism influences lawmaking, courtroom procedures, university policies, and many other forms of social change. The egalitarian "feminist…
/r/MensRights19/08/12 04:06 AM
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The fact of the matter is that feminism is quite fine. That's not a fact, it's an opinion, and I disagree with it. I think you'll find many men's rights activists would feel the same way. Feminism isn't part of the solution; it's part of the problem. Mainstream feminism actively ignores and downplays men's rights issues, demonizes men's rights activists (and men in general, as is the case with rape hysteria), and supports/lobbies for social and political initiatives that invariably benefit women…
/r/MensRights19/08/12 03:33 AM
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There are lambskin condoms. Not as safe, but better than nothing. Don't mistake me, though: I think a male birth control pill is a fantastic thing that we need as soon as possible.
/r/MensRights19/08/12 02:56 AM
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As for the WHY: Misandrists and feminists wish for women to have near-total control over conception and childbirth, and for men to have as little as possible. Condoms are fine because the woman knows the man's wearing one and can browbeat him into not using one or, in extreme cases, sabotage it. Children are a wonderful thing, but some women view them as a mechanism with which to ensnare a man and begin extracting an unjust amount of resources from him. The advent of easy, effective, unobvious m…
/r/MensRights19/08/12 02:53 AM
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And feminists in general, according to some material I've seen posted on /r/mensrights before. I remember watching a video a while back in which a prominent European scientist explains his research on male birth control medication to a group of panelists. He goes on to say that feminists had been vehemently opposed to his work from the get-go. I've lost that video; if anyone knows which I'm talking about and can provide a link, that would be grand. I'm assuming here that some proportion of femin…
/r/MensRights19/08/12 02:49 AM
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Raising awareness of the underhanded tactics used against men in divorce and custody proceedings is very relevant to the men's rights movement. As men are already at a severe disadvantage in that arena, it's important to be informed. Police corruption isn't the only factor here. There are also unethical attorneys and the female clients themselves to consider.
/r/MensRights19/08/12 02:39 AM
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A real MRA would have more than one account Not necessarily. I'm definitely a real MRA (with an extensive history in this subreddit) and I use my primary Reddit account here. Also, I don't have an account on other MRM websites because discussing MRM issues here on Reddit is all I can take. My day can be ruined (by negative emotions) pretty quickly just by checking this subreddit. I do follow other MRM-related websites of course, but mostly I lurk there (though recently I posted on girlwriteswhat…
/r/MensRights19/08/12 01:04 AM
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Please continue to whine and downvote anyone that tells you that you run the subreddit like a hate group against women that's centric around circlejerking and misogyny... You don't get it. Feminists make the same sort of hideously misandrist statements about men (and they mean it -- unlike in this subreddit, where such statements are frequently just a bitter parody of feminist rhetoric), and they aren't labeled as bigots. They're allowed to get away with it, even cheered on for their misandry. Y…
/r/MensRights18/08/12 07:26 AM
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I don't know why people do it, but it still serves its purpose regardless.
/r/MensRights18/08/12 02:30 AM
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I'm sure I'll be able to find one. I've thought it through for years and I have a contingency plan (e.g. frozen sperm), which I'd be willing to discuss with the surgeon in-depth. Also, when I tell them I'll fly to Costa Rica (or wherever) to have the procedure done on the cheap by questionable surgeons, they might have an ethical quandary to chew on. The ethics are misplaced in any case. This world is already packed full of human beings, and being vasectomized is ultimately no more impactful tha…
/r/MensRights18/08/12 02:00 AM
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I have actually, but here again I'm reluctant to do so because of the suspicious way in which society views men interacting with children. The Big Brothers/Big Sisters website seems to indicate I'm not the only male who feels that way: More than 70% of our children waiting for a Big are boys, but only 3 out of every 10 inquiries to volunteer come from men. In other words, women are more than twice as prevalent as men in Big Brothers Big Sisters, placing it in the same category as (pre-college) t…
/r/MensRights18/08/12 01:50 AM
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It was only the first few pages. Something Awful members founded the SRS subreddit, as a direct extension of various popular threads on Something Awful ridiculing the men's rights movement (and this subreddit) for being a bunch of whiners and closet rapists. Something Awful isn't a feminist safe space, to be sure, and 4chan certainly isn't either. But the general attitude of both sites toward the men's rights movement is far worse. And to be fair, feminism is rife with bigotry and misandry, and …
/r/MensRights17/08/12 01:26 PM
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Not at all; I truly appreciate your input, and thank you for offering it. I agree that kids are awesome, and it is admittedly true that fear is what's caused me to decide against having them. But that fear is very justified, and while many women may be reasonable and equitable, the power is largely in their hands and the odds are against me. If I were ever to have kids, once they were in my life I'm sure I'd feel exactly the same way you do. But it's still a gamble, and I'm not a gambling man. W…
/r/MensRights17/08/12 01:11 PM
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It wasn't clever, but yes, it was for naught. I notice in your posting history that, in addition to being a SRS regular, you're also an EVE player. (So was I, for a number of years.) Both the SRS and EVE communities are fairly small. These observations combined with your idiotic use of stale Internet slang like "lulz" and "oh noez" leads me to believe you're probably a SA Goon. Which means you very likely consider the idea of men's rights to be a joke perpetrated by closet rapists. Worry not; ev…
/r/MensRights17/08/12 01:04 PM
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The point of this thread isn't to slip in thinly-veiled complaints about women's rights issues, either. Your first post was stuffed full of them; not particularly subtle, and you're not fooling anyone.
/r/MensRights17/08/12 12:50 PM
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For the most part, you're not simply stating what you enjoy about being male. You first point out beaten-to-death feminist woes (woes blamed on men/misogyny), and only then opine, "I'm sure glad I don't have to deal with that." Your posts (particularly on SRS and outside of /r/mensrights) also tend to be very feminist-leaning. This is a thread in which people with your type of agenda can "stealthily" air feminist woes, many of which I consider to be bullshit or else more than compensated for by …
/r/MensRights17/08/12 12:37 PM
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I don't particularly enjoy being a man in this day and age. Men are literally the whipping boys of feminized society, and the only socially acceptable and politically correct course of action for us is to give in to that role, which I refuse to do. I'll never marry nor have children, in order to prevent myself from potentially becoming a victim of the hideously biased alimony, child custody and child support laws in my country (US). This affects my life negatively, as I cannot sustain a long-ter…
/r/MensRights17/08/12 12:21 PM
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Your agenda is showing. Also, I've seen your attitude towards men's rights activism elsewhere on Reddit, the latest just a few minutes ago. I'm onto you.
/r/MensRights17/08/12 12:02 PM
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I'm a female. I've never considered myself a feminist because most feminists these days tend to just support anything that places women above men. It's always refreshing to hear this from a woman or from newly-minted male MRAs. (Feminists in general anger me, but I particularly dislike it when men support anti-male feminist rhetoric.)
/r/MensRights15/08/12 11:48 AM
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Irrelevant. This could happen anywhere in the world, and the topic of discussion here is really about how severely false accusers ought to be punished, not only this specific case. Choose your basis for comparison and we can go from there.
/r/MensRights15/08/12 03:08 AM
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Prison sentences for rape are not uniform. A study made by the U.S. Department of Justice of prison releases in 1992, involving about 80 percent of the prison population, found that the average sentence for convicted rapists was 11.8 years, while the actual time served was 5.4 years. And personally, I believe the punishment for false accusations should be comparable or identical to the punishment for actual rape. I also believe that women who make false claims should be placed on the sex offende…
/r/MensRights15/08/12 02:55 AM
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To elaborate, feminists believe that all men are gifted with fantastic patriarchal privileges not afforded to women -- which is, to say the least, a hideously dishonest sentiment. Women enjoy at least as much privilege as do men in modern society, and many of those privileges were around well before before women's suffrage. This list (there's a link to the male privilege list) is a good way to get an idea of what each side (feminists and MRMs) thinks of the other's privilege. Note that the linke…
/r/MensRights14/08/12 07:57 PM
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There's no need to quibble over terminology, but since you insist, I will clarify: There is still much debate over just when an in utero homo sapiens (specific enough?) attains "personhood", for lack of a better term. Considering how little we still know about the human brain, and how ill-defined "life" and "consciousness" are within all of human science, the debate is understandable. Everyone is making guesses, some more educated than others. I have no doubt you're correct in saying that some p…
/r/MensRights13/08/12 08:45 AM
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First of all, the original comment doesn't clearly denote at which stage the commenter would consider a "fetus" to be a "baby." For all we know, he's entirely against abortion; it's difficult to say without clarification. Many people use "baby" as a catch-all for a fetus in any stage of gestation. That said, there is still an ongoing and heated debate about just when a fetus should be considered a baby, even among (supposed) experts. You seem very sure of your choice of opinion... pretty typical…
/r/MensRights13/08/12 07:25 AM
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You got a lot of downvotes for your partisan remark but quite frankly, I agree with the spirit of what you're saying. Whether we be pro-life or pro-choice, the fact is that if a woman wants to abort her baby, the father has no say in the matter. I think most MRAs would agree that this is despicable, unless of course there are clear concerns that the woman might suffer severe health problems as a result of carrying the baby to term. Feminists demand what they want, when they want it, regardless o…
/r/MensRights13/08/12 03:33 AM
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It's okay when feminists do it because reasons.
/r/MensRights13/08/12 03:19 AM
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COOOOONTEEEEXT.
/r/MensRights13/08/12 03:18 AM
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"Rape kit" is an appropriate legal term, as they're only utilized when the authorities are trying to prove that a rape occurred. Also, look them up -- they test for more than the simple occurrence of sexual intercourse. I realize this is a sensitive issue for all MRAs, but taking a stand on the terminology used here is pointless. False rape allegations go through all the time without any physical evidence whatsoever.
/r/MensRights12/08/12 10:41 AM
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Wait, did you mean how can she prove she was raped? Rape kit (much more reliable and long-lasting than trying to swab a man's genitals for vaginal fluids), video evidence, third-party witnesses.... Although in the US court system, all she has to do is make an accusation and that's enough to start an investigation.
/r/MensRights12/08/12 10:21 AM
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Men (and boys) often cannot control when and how they become aroused, as any boy who's been through high school knows very well. A man isn't always willing to fight off a female rapist, and may be coerced into the act. Note that female rapists typically use different tactics than male rapists, and it's rare for women to physically overpower men/boys or hold them at knife/gunpoint for the purpose of rape.
/r/MensRights12/08/12 10:19 AM
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Come to think of it, my earlier figure regarding what percentage of men are rapists may have been incorrect. I seem to recall it being significantly lower than 5% in actuality, but unbiased statistics are difficult to find on the Internet (or anywhere, for that matter). There are many problems with the statistics we're both using -- for example, it's widely believed that the vast majority of rapists are never caught, and therefore we have no way of telling whether these unknown subjects are form…
/r/MensRights09/08/12 05:31 AM
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I see your point more clearly now. However, while many rapists may themselves have been victims of sexual abuse (thus creating cycles of abuse), those cycles had to begin somewhere — and they began with sociopaths and other individuals who were born bad, predisposed to rape to satisfy their own needs even if they had wonderful childhoods and led privileged adult lives. In other words, the fundamental source of rape in the human species can never be eradicated. Sociopaths and narcissists will alw…
/r/MensRights08/08/12 09:41 PM
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I don't believe that rape and violence are synonymous. Rape is violence, absolutely, but it's a very specific type of violence, and doesn't necessarily adhere to the same patterns that other forms of violence do. To treat all forms of violence the same is to paint with too broad a brush, in my opinion. Let me give you an example: Frustration and money problems between domestic partners may lead to anger, and anger may lead either partner to strike out violently, but simply striking someone is ve…
/r/MensRights07/08/12 09:55 PM
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Feminists believe that all men are potential rapists and that if they speak out loudly enough against it, rape can be eliminated from our society. I wish I were joking. All true rapists (as opposed to the "she had drunk sex and regretted it afterward" variety) are sociopaths, extreme narcissists, emotionally underdeveloped/disturbed teenagers, and other types of individuals who will commit rape regardless of the consequences or societal taboos. It is no more possible to eliminate rape than to el…
/r/MensRights07/08/12 08:28 PM
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Just throw up your hands. She's equivocating.
/r/MensRights04/08/12 04:24 PM
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Holy shit, this article was published in my city's newspaper (serves all of Hampton Roads, but the HQ is here in Norfolk). In fact, my grandfather worked for The Virginian-Pilot for many years as an editor and columnist. It's always a strange feeling when news (even old news) hits close to home. Nothing surprising here, though. Feminists have a strong influence on policy-making in this entire country and most of the West, and what's a man's ruined life compared to the chance that some completely…
/r/MensRights02/08/12 05:54 AM
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The average age at which men die is lower largely because of external factors — violence (street violence, wars, etc.), job-related deaths (men are 20x more likely to die on the job), jobs that are physically debilitating, risk factors such as suicide and homelessness, and even poorer medical care. What I mean by "more durable" is that men can physically exert themselves for longer periods of time with lesser risk of injury, and endure more physical punishment than women without falling unconsci…
/r/MensRights30/07/12 12:44 PM
1

Are you an idiot? I directly responded to two of your major points. Yeah, you're an idiot.
/r/MensRights30/07/12 12:39 PM
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Several of you are misinterpreting my post. My statement in that post wasn't representative of how I personally think things should be. They are a description of how the system currently works, regardless of how I want it to work. Since we're stuck being disposable for the foreseeable future and society/feminists are okay with that, I ask the question: Why do we have additional responsibility but no rights to accompany it? I find it's more useful to ask questions than to parrot the same proclama…
/r/MensRights30/07/12 04:51 AM
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...I don't see why you don't prefer to work toward the former. I do — I try to raise awareness however I can, instill a sense of injustice in men I know (family, friends and acquaintances) at the idea that our lives are considered disposable... that in the eyes of many, we are resource dispensers for women and their children. (Not that children aren't deserving of resource allocation, mind you, but mothers almost invariably have more parental rights than the father — ergo they are "hers" in the …
/r/MensRights30/07/12 04:41 AM
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I don't dictate reality. I can only observe and draw conclusions. Also, our society is indeed immature and closed-minded. That's why men's rights issues continue to be ignored, downplayed and swept under the carpet. Will we develop augmentation technology to render natural physical strength obsolete? Perhaps, but how long until it's freely available to everyone? Modern dentistry has been around for almost a century, yet a fair few people in the West (and billions around the world) cannot afford …
/r/MensRights30/07/12 03:33 AM
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You act like the premise that men are more disposable is okay and should be maintained. That's sexist to literally everyone. Then you've read something into what I said that isn't actually there. I despise the "disposable male" phenomenon. My point, though, is that society still expects men to behave as though we're disposable. Also, feminists have shown no qualms with men being considered more disposable than women. It's hypocrisy of the highest order.
/r/MensRights30/07/12 03:27 AM
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It's one of their many privileges. A feminist will likely tell you that the selective service doesn't include women because of the mythical patriarchy. Does that seem counter-intuitive? Well, the idea is that the mythical patriarchy views women as weak and in need of protection. Makes more sense in that context. Now for the kicker: Have you ever heard of feminists fighting to have women included in the selective service? The answer is no, because they don't. Feminists fight to win the same right…
/r/MensRights30/07/12 03:15 AM
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Men already carry the responsibility of putting women's lives before their own, as demonstrated with crystal clarity by the Aurora shootings. Men who threw themselves over their wives/girlfriends in order to take a bullet for them were applauded as heroes and gentlemen. A few who apparently didn't were attacked by the media as cowards. Why shouldn't the fact that men's lives are considered more disposable confer certain rights not afforded to those who aren't expected to put their lives on the l…
/r/MensRights30/07/12 01:28 AM
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The problem is that once you read enough of the must read MRA books, you understand why egalitarianism is impossible. I still maintain that the primary issue will always be that men are larger, stronger and more durable than women — in such a fundamental way that even if an exceptional woman can match an athletic man's physical prowess technically (lift the same weight, run the same velocity, etc.), the woman's body will begin to deteriorate significantly faster during (identical) prolonged peri…
/r/MensRights30/07/12 12:19 AM
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Doing your own research is always a good decision. The Men's Rights movement is quite literally under siege from all quarters, and very few outside sources have anything flattering to say about it. Feminists loudy proclaim that we're misogynists, and that's what most people (including many men) choose to believe. According to feminists, if you disagree with feminism in any way, then you must be a misogynist. That claim is a logical fallacy known as "affirming the consequent." The success of femi…
/r/MensRights14/07/12 08:41 AM
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I can't "prove" someone's inner wants and desires. I don't bookmark every thread in this subreddit, either, but browsing it for a period of weeks or months will reveal that feminists always (and I do mean always) lobby for women's rights in issues of childbirth, childcare, and child custody—even when said lobbying is to the extreme and unjust detriment of the male gender. Men are simply given no consideration whatsoever. So while I may not be able to provide a concrete source for your very speci…
/r/MensRights10/07/12 04:54 AM
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We have no choice, but we have all the responsibility and accountability. And that's exactly how feminists want it.
/r/MensRights09/07/12 06:35 PM
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Ah yes, now that you mention it, I remember reading just that.
/r/MensRights09/07/12 05:49 PM
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I don't think this has much to do with men's rights, either. In China, boys (specifically sons, due to the one-child law) are more valued than girls, and that attitude is propagated throughout Chinese culture in general. I'm a staunch MRA, but in some parts of the world, women actually do still get the short end of the stick. I have heard (via videos and articles) that disregard for human life (ignoring accident victims, etc.) can be a problem in some parts of China. I don't believe this disrega…
/r/MensRights09/07/12 02:58 PM
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That room full of women was apparently also a room full of impressionable morons. Either that, or you're bad at reading expressions....
/r/MensRights09/07/12 02:51 PM
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See my post here: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/tw4qc/students_oppose_mens_centre_on_campus/c4qexli I'm talking about proportions. It's confusing because I'm using a percentage to describe the proportion of one percentage to another percentage, but my math is correct. 60% to 40% means that 3 women graduate for every 2 men. 3 is 50% more than 2; 4 (continuing with this example) would be 100% more than 2, or double.
/r/MensRights21/05/12 03:23 AM
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Take half of 40: 40 ÷ 2 = 20 And add that to 40: 40 + 20 = 60 And there you go. 60 is 50% more than 40. Put another way, for every 3 women who obtain their degrees, only 2 men obtain theirs. 3 is 50% more than 2; 4 would be 100% more than 2 (double).
/r/MensRights21/05/12 03:21 AM
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many students have questioned whether the men deserve funding. ... ...women make up 55 per cent of undergraduate students at SFU.... I'd say so, but then again I'm not a bigoted radfem.
/r/MensRights29/04/12 05:58 AM
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Germany is now on my short list of places to which I can eventually flee from the United States of Feminism.
/r/MensRights16/04/12 07:08 AM
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You are part of the problem. I have no issue with you believing that a succession of misfortunes and frustrations don't excuse a spree killing. I'd say most people would agree with you. Smugly downplaying the severe problems that man faced and ignoring the way our society tosses some people aside like garbage (most especially unattractive older men down on their luck) is ridiculous, though. Your scorn won't stop anyone from "going postal"... I believe it's a solvable problem (eventually), but no…
/r/MensRights11/04/12 03:35 AM
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This is rape hysteria, pure and simple. Rapists are highly skilled at locating victims (and highly motivated). They could quite easily gain access to the same public information presented by that app using straightforward Internet search tools, and any rapist interested in gathering information that way is already doing it. Or they could simply drive through neighborhoods, observe comings and goings, and note which women live where. It's been a favorite method for decades. (Obviously we're talki…
/r/MensRights03/04/12 08:36 AM
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Feminism just co-opted that and is riding the phantom oppression train. That's fair enough, I suppose. It's pretty infuriating that they ride that train while also happily reinforcing (yet ignoring the existence of) the "disposable male" phenomenon. Point is though, it's outrageous that women are being shown leniency for throwing their children in dumpsters and toilets now. They already receive lesser penalties than men for every other conceivable type of crime, but this goes beyond the pale.
/r/MensRights02/04/12 11:40 PM
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Feminists have gotten away with convincing society that women are worth more than men. I wonder if they'll manage to convince society that adult women are worth more than children? I surely hope not.
/r/MensRights02/04/12 06:49 PM
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No. There are examples all over this subreddit, and if you can't be bothered to read any of them, why should I spend fifteen to twenty minutes hunting down citations for you? How about the front page? Have you read about the man jailed for not paying child support, and asked to SIGN A WAIVER absolving the state government of liability in case someone holds him down and fucks him in the ass? Do you think any woman would ever be asked to sign a rape waiver? Hell no. Do you think any woman gets thr…
/r/MensRights02/04/12 04:01 AM
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I had a SEXIST FEMINIST teacher in high school. If you're going to correct him, do it properly. And quite frankly, I feel that sexism is endemic in almost all feminism, whether moderate feminists realize it or not. In a practical sense, feminism certainly is sexist. Feminist leaders have lobbied for laws and policies that victimize and literally discriminate against men, and they've gotten away with it. Where are the non-sexist feminists to protest when anti-male laws and policies are passed?
/r/MensRights02/04/12 03:39 AM
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Pay up or be exposed to rapists — one of our numerous male "privileges." I wonder how many women face this situation? Just kidding, I don't have to wonder. It's zero.
/r/MensRights02/04/12 03:17 AM
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how thin the veil is that keeps us safe There is no such thing keeping you safe. Only a very small fraction of men are rapists, and they're going to do it regardless of how badly feminists fuck up the legal system with their biased lobbying. Examples: Accusers being granted immunity to cross-examination, i.e. "rape shield laws"; the fairly high odds of a man being convicted on nothing more than a woman's word and how a handful of clueless jurors "feel"; et cetera. Your attitude seems to be that …
/r/MensRights01/04/12 06:04 PM
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Articles like this one help to keep me balanced and prevent me from descending into misogyny. Even though I know intellectually that not all women are man-hating sociopaths (very few are, actually), and while I certainly love and respect my own girlfriend, sister, mother, aunts, and etc., seeing the evidence in print written by an intelligent woman is extremely helpful. It also affirms for me that we aren't all "poor menz" inventing imaginary woes and hardships for ourselves. I know that intelle…
/r/MensRights20/03/12 06:42 AM
1

This link really needed a much more descriptive title.
/r/MensRights20/03/12 06:28 AM
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They did, but remember that a lot of /r/mensrights readers (including other MRAs) break out the downvotes whenever MRAs get angry or become sarcastic. I think a little blistering sarcasm is in order. Behaving in a perfectly polite manner at all times isn't going to do any good regardless, because anti-Men's Rights folks invent far worse things to ascribe to us than a little acerbic wit.
/r/MensRights18/03/12 01:34 PM
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Yes, that is the power women have been given over men — men enjoy NO such power over women, nor should they (neither gender should). It is immoral, unethical and disgusting.
/r/MensRights18/03/12 01:29 PM
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In my opinion, being the parent who's granted custody of your children is a great privilege, not a burden. All child support payments should go directly to the children's welfare, into their college funds, or into their savings. Of course, even if the money is spent solely on the children, it can be used to subsidize other expenditures. For example, she (it's usually the mother, as we well know) could spend the $700 on school clothes and supplies, freeing up more of her own money to spend on her…
/r/MensRights16/03/12 03:21 PM
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[ ] told [ ] told hard [x] toldasaurus rex In all seriousness though, it's nice to see a level-headed, intelligent mod with a big ol' backbone.
/r/MensRights15/03/12 11:16 PM
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Apparently, if a man is in any way rude or condescending to a woman, it's automatically a sexist comment. Which is ridiculous, given that men can be rude and condescending to men and women can be rude and condescending to women (not to mention women seemingly get a pass for being rude and condescending to men), but that's feminist logic for you: Filter out everything else and focus only on men being mean to women.
/r/MensRights15/03/12 08:05 AM
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Wow, this classy lady is the entire package, isn't she? She didn’t mean to. She said she was sorry! She's had a tough time lately. He touched her leg and her dog (given she was drunk, perhaps he just brushed them). She was responding to his "male aggression." She's ready to move on (how nice for her!). She wants to give him a big, wet kiss and a hug (insensitive self-aggrandizement). Well, at least she didn't come right out and say, "I have a vagina, you're not going to charge me are you?" What …
/r/MensRights14/03/12 02:08 AM
1

It's all so sick, just absolutely sickening. The reforms are good, but the fact that these heinous laws still exist at all revolts me. I read Wendy Murphy's horseshit rebuttal — which boils down to pretending it's still 1950, and asks the reader to feel sorry for a divorced woman who would have to (GASP!) get the fuck out of the house and start working again without eternal alimony to support her in leisure for the rest of her life. The people who continue to condone these alimony laws are vile,…
/r/MensRights10/03/12 02:53 AM
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A sexist charity that discriminated against women would create an uproar. Stay classy.
/r/MensRights08/03/12 06:52 AM
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So this is (one of many) cases where an open-minded women is much more intelligent than a feminist male. Some people prefer to "go along" in life, and would rather not think for themselves with regard to highly sensitive issues such as morality, ethics, political correctness, et cetera. If enough sources (co-workers, family, the media, and so on) assure such people that X is true, then they'll come to believe that X must be true. After all, everyone else believes that X is true. Intelligence is …
/r/MensRights07/03/12 05:22 AM
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Possibly, but keep in mind that people usually don't end up on the news if there's nothing noteworthy about them. Thus, ordinary men won't even be on the radar for people like Yumi (or whomever) to ridicule.
/r/MensRights06/03/12 02:53 PM
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no one having the tenacity of saying such things The word you meant to use is "temerity." I'm not trying to be pedantic, just pointing that out. Anyway, Rush Limbaugh is a jackass and has been for decades.
/r/MensRights06/03/12 02:51 PM
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As stated earlier, sex toy stigma is a much more significant and widespread issue for men than for women. Feminists and feminist sympathizers like to pretend we're still living in the 1950s when they describe the suffering of the female gender. You'd have me believe that feminism has failed to make an impression on our society over the past 60 years. I'm not buying what you're selling. Women are certainly not free of the "slut" stigma in general (which is chiefly propagated by other women these …
/r/MensRights06/03/12 01:59 PM
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I'm perfectly aware of your agenda. You needn't elaborate. This (sex toy stigma) is a relatively trivial issue, compared to numerous far more important issues facing the male gender. I'm not going to spend time arguing with the devil's advocate (that's you) in a thread about sex toys. I can offer you some satisfaction, though: I believe male sex toy stigma absolutely dwarfs female sex toy stigma. You already knew that, of course, since I agreed with the image link. Cue whatever smug reaction you…
/r/MensRights06/03/12 02:22 AM
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Nope, not even that.
/r/MensRights06/03/12 01:38 AM
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Yep, I've noticed this too. Sex toys for men (at least for currently single men) are almost universally considered perverse, the resort of virgins or of those who can't "get women." There is no such stigma attached to ownership of sex toys by females.
/r/MensRights05/03/12 11:44 PM
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I absolutely agree, but what's incredibly frustrating is that feminists can get away with blatant misandry — yet feminism continues to flourish. We're expected to behave as perfect, egalitarian gentlemen all the time, lest we discredit our movement. Yet the people who oppose us fight dirty and are allowed to fight dirty. Praised for it, even.
/r/MensRights05/03/12 11:38 PM
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Well for starters, I've reviewed your posting history. You appear to enjoy going on witch-hunts for MRAs who secretly harbor double standards. That exposes ("exposes" being a word you're fond of using) your agenda. Furthermore, none of your squawking about MY OPINION changes the fact that you're predicating your entire argument against me on baseless assumptions and ad hominems. I offered my opinion. You're certainly free to disagree with it. You didn't disagree with it, though — you attempted t…
/r/MensRights05/03/12 07:49 PM
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I actually don't have a problem with the sentiment in and of itself — i.e., deadbeat dads denied full custody rights, made to pay child support. The problem is that deadbeat moms don't receive the same treatment. If by some statistical miracle the father is awarded custody of his children, the mother almost certainly won't have to pay him child support. Society treats men as money dispensers for women and children. In other news, water still wet, story at 11.
/r/MensRights05/03/12 07:39 PM
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It's probably not true, but it should be.
/r/MensRights05/03/12 07:31 PM
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Your argument hinges entirely on accusing me of hypocrisy — but that accusation is based on blind assumption, and nothing more. You have absolutely no proof. In fact, my posting history on /r/MensRights will show that I'm vehemently opposed to all the typical double standards. That means that I have proof (my track record), while you're simply blowing ignorant smoke. NONE of what you said would apply if it was a guy breaking up with his GF It certainly would. Society at large might not feel that…
/r/MensRights05/03/12 07:26 PM
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You can wave around your sarcastic, asinine little quotation marks and one-off snide comments all you like. A human being who is irresponsible and unable to provide adequate care (food, clothing, medical, academics, and so on) has absolutely no business being awarded custody of children. For that matter, a human being who can't provide veterinary care, food and adequate housing and playtime for a pet has no business owning a pet. This is not a men's rights issue at all. It's a human rights issue…
/r/MensRights05/03/12 05:45 PM
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Each man was also ordered in court to carry a life insurance policy naming his former wife as sole beneficiary. You have got to be fucking shitting me.
/r/MensRights05/03/12 05:38 PM
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Absolutely. My comment was general in nature. People who do accept the consequences, step up to the plate and do the right thing (again, male or female) are to be admired.
/r/MensRights05/03/12 05:36 PM
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Thank goodness for women who understand men's rights issues and refuse to support anti-male bigotry. There seem to be at least a fair few of them. I'm also thankful for women who, while they may not support men's rights, aren't particularly active in feminism or women's rights, either. I'm not perfect. Far from it, really. If not for these reminders that women aren't all out to get men, I could see myself becoming a true misogynist a few years down the road. I've already grown to hate anti-male …
/r/MensRights05/03/12 05:27 PM
1

I'm sure "psychological rape" is also defined as being a male-only offense. After all, in society's opinion, men aren't supposed to feel violated, unsafe, or abused — that would make us wimps and pussies. Actually, from all I've read, women are at least equally as likely as men to commit so-called "psychological rape"... and possibly more so. Well, typical day in the men's rights movement. It's the same kind of shit over and over. If you choose to look, men's rights abuses are literally under ev…
/r/MensRights05/03/12 05:18 PM
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Eh, I'm inclined to agree with Demonspawn here. If you (male or female) choose to have sex with a useless scumbag (again, male or female), you must be prepared for the consequences and responsibilities of having a child — one way or another. The chances of conceiving with proper birth control may be remote, but they are usually not 0... unless you get your tubes tied, but even then, surgeons have been known to very occasionally make mistakes.
/r/MensRights05/03/12 04:47 PM
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If this is a true accounting of the reality of your situation (people tend to be biased towards their own side — some more than others), then he doesn't deserve jack shit. No custody, no financial support, no nothing. Stick it to him... as politely as you feel you must. I've shared a house with lazy, entitled people who refuse to pitch in or carry their own weight financially before, and they are typically also delusional about their uselessness. They may not be "bad people," but by God, they wo…
/r/MensRights05/03/12 04:40 PM
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EU to make all wartime casualties 40% female by 2020? EU courts will pass down equal sentences to females for identical crimes by 2020? EU to make all homeless people 40% female by 2020? EU to favor men in 40% of alimony/child custody cases by 2020? EU to offer just protection and equal representation to men accused of rape by 2020? ... Nope. "Equality" only for stuff that benefits women. Same story, different day, eh?
/r/MensRights05/03/12 04:25 PM
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Creep shaming is possibly the worst of the bunch. A man branded a "creep" by a woman is typically a man she considers unfit for her — he's not handsome enough, tall enough, sophisticated enough, wealthy enough, et cetera. That's fine. The hypocritical part of creep shaming is that identical romantic advances from a man said woman finds attractive aren't considered creepy in any way. "Creep" goes far above and beyond simply finding someone unattractive. The term indicates that there's something u…
/r/MensRights03/03/12 11:21 PM
6

Nope. Men's rights need to be fought for specifically, because they go unrecognized and are frankly shit on by all of Western society. Women's rights, minority rights, GBLT rights, and so on have numerous large, influential advocate organizations working on their behalf already.
/r/MensRights03/03/12 11:01 PM
2

Seems fine to me. She was exercising her presumed female privilege to assault against men with little fear of consequence, and he defended himself by punching her in the face. I applaud the crowd for not supporting bigotry by chastising him.
/r/MensRights03/03/12 10:57 PM
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"Pussyfooting" is meant to mean walking softly and quietly, like a cat. It's not vagina-related shaming language, jackass.
/r/MensRights03/03/12 10:38 PM
8

Interesting fact: Women are much more likely to harm or kill their own children than are men. And yet, mothers (even shockingly unfit mothers) are awarded custody in the vast majority of cases. Isn't it strange that feminists don't mind hanging onto old-fashioned ideas (such as "the children should stay with their mother"), provided said ideas benefit women and are anti-male?
/r/MensRights02/03/12 01:46 PM
2

You're right, but the problem is that there's no law in place to specifically punish false accusers. In my opinion, false rape accusations should be punishable by felony prison sentences of anywhere from 5-25 years in prison, along with appropriate recompense (up to and including wage garnishment) for the falsely accused's legal fees and suffering. An individual who ruins an innocent person's life (or attempts to do so) is deserving of severe punishment. That is justice. False rape accusations r…
/r/MensRights01/03/12 06:09 PM
12

Klok was not charged for any criminality in connection with her lie. Today wasn't the day I realized our society is just as frightening, backward and depraved as any other in human history, but it easily could have been.
/r/MensRights01/03/12 06:01 PM
2

Heh. I think all of us MRAs have noticed these commercials. I certainly have. They've been around for decades, and they're still with us today: Fathers, husbands and boyfriends are routinely portrayed as idiots, mess-makers, clumsy oafs, thoughtless cads, and blabbermouths, while their female counterparts are portrayed as smart, competent, graceful, well organized, sensitive, and responsible. In fact, such commercials sowed the initial seeds of discomfort in me as a child and teenager — seeds wh…
/r/MensRights18/02/12 08:32 AM
2

People almost always choose to believe whatever best supports their personal agenda, with little regard for facts or logic. If you support Men's Rights and your identity is unknown, you must be a man (and a misogynist, naturally). If there's visual evidence that you're female, you must have self-loathing issues, must be a troll, etc. The existence of reasonable women who support the Men's Rights movement for perfectly understandable reasons is a dire threat to misandrist bigots. They will lash o…
/r/MensRights18/02/12 06:03 AM
1

The answer, of course, is societal double-standards.
/r/MensRights17/02/12 12:23 PM
1

Of course there's "this whole thing called the creative industry" — but there's also this thing called "in-demand professions." Professions that are in high demand pay much better salaries than do professions based on obscure special interests. That's reality, and it will never change. A further reality is that writing, art, film-making, and other creative professions are fickle. They're extremely competitive fields in which it's difficult to succeed financially, and if students expect to pay of…
/r/MensRights14/02/12 06:37 AM
2

My mother is a well regarded and very successful family law attorney who owns her own (small-town) firm. She's so in-demand that she has to pick and choose which cases she'll handle — for the past twenty-five years, she's never lacked for clients. Just the opposite, in fact. She is the sole attorney in her firm (my father, who practiced criminal law, died in late 2010), and employs one paralegal/secretary. My sister will have an immediate job opportunity with my mother's firm once she passes the…
/r/MensRights14/02/12 06:23 AM
4

I laughed, but I'd say it's more likely feminists think males and females are scrutinized side-by-side, and that the women are simply passed over in favor of the males. Which, to me, is absolute garbage. Every university, business, corporation, and government agency I've ever heard of in this day and age pisses itself at every opportunity to hire women for important positions, thus proving to the world how (conventionally) PC they are.
/r/MensRights13/02/12 06:08 PM
3

I'm pretty sure weeglos means that students who'd be entering lower-paying jobs would receive more financial aid to compensate. That makes a lot of sense to me, actually. I don't see how that would create "castes". For one thing, children of the wealthy can study whatever they damned well please anyway, so we're mostly dealing with middle- and lower-class students here (the typical recipients of financial aid). For another, most students choose their majors based on what they think they want to …
/r/MensRights13/02/12 05:49 PM
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I'm not sure why young people seek to earn degrees in art, theater, soft sciences, or other niche fields of study, and then expect to be showered with money after they graduate. I suppose they're too naive to grasp worldly reality, and our society is too permissive to burst their bubbles. Reminds me of one of those "occupy Wall Street" pictures I saw. One of them portrayed a young woman holding up a piece of paper that read: "I'm majoring in minority women's studies, I want to work in activism a…
/r/MensRights13/02/12 10:05 AM
2

While the events in this story reflect badly on the police and are annoying to MRAs, keep in mind also that bystanders, neighbors, police, parents and anyone else will be viciously criticized (or even brought up on charges) by our society if they fail to report or respond to things that "don't seem right," and it later turns out that a child suffered or died as a result. Of course, men bear by far the harshest burden of this societal pressure when they find themselves in the hot seat.
/r/MensRights13/02/12 09:45 AM
2

Me neither, but in certain quarters it's an idea that's very, very stubbornly clung to. It's total bullshit of course, but people who are wrong and don't want to be wrong have to hang onto whatever they can.
/r/MensRights08/02/12 03:00 AM
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"If the next generation has sons that are as repulsed by rape as they should be...." The obvious implication (for anyone who isn't mentally impaired) is that AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF SONS takes a casual attitude toward rape. As usual, the hate spewed by people who are trying to pretend they aren't bigots is carefully veiled in subtlety and euphemism. What it really is, is vitriolic, misandrist propaganda. Or a mother's ridiculous overreaction. Oh, I'm sorry... I suppose her blanket statement only…
/r/MensRights08/02/12 02:57 AM
2

I cannot describe how much I detest this attitude. I suppose it's not entirely fair to women as a gender to become infuriated because some of them are still gold-diggers, while others are feminists who believe women should earn the same as men (even though men are far more likely to perform physically difficult and/or dangerous jobs, as we all know). But I know some women have both of these attitudes simultaneously, and I hate those women. I try to remain fairly calm when posting on r/MensRights…
/r/MensRights20/01/12 02:38 PM
4

Only in Nevada, as far as I'm aware.
/r/MensRights20/01/12 02:33 PM
8

I still blame women's attitudes primarily. Competition for women will probably always be part of our species (although I hope for a more equitable mating environment in the future), and when women perpetuate certain expectations that essentially amount to "Give me stuff and I'm more likely to fuck you," it's extremely difficult to convince men not to follow suit. I just think women have more power over the situation than men do, thanks to their roles as the "gatekeepers" of human sexuality, as a…
/r/MensRights20/01/12 02:33 PM
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It's wonderful to know that there are people in academia who are willing to address these issues.
/r/MensRights19/01/12 04:13 PM
7

Physically difficult and/or dangerous jobs tend to pay more nowadays than many fresh-out-of-college jobs. Example: In southwestern Virginia, coal miners can make up to $100,000 a year. That "Deadliest Catch" television show demonstrates the same principle. Moreover, women "extract" men's salaries far more often than the opposite is true. Women are the biggest spenders of household incomes, at least in the United States, which is why a great deal of television commercials are targeted at them. Yo…
/r/MensRights17/01/12 10:48 PM
2

Of course it would.
/r/MensRights13/01/12 09:55 AM
2

That's a big problem in the fight for true equality. If there's a gender or ethnicity difference between two applicants like Vicki and Jim, there will always be some suspicion of sexism or racism unless the female/minority is awarded the position.
/r/MensRights12/01/12 09:08 AM
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That sounds more like bias against the place she did her internship, rather than than gender bias. Theoretically, it could have happened to two males applying for the position. Although if the place she did her internship was somehow related to women's studies or the like, I suppose a case could still be made.
/r/MensRights12/01/12 08:58 AM
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BearofHappiness, I for one think your position is fair and reasonable. Some of the MRAs in this thread are being pretty viciously antagonistic for no particular reason I can discern. While it's true that men would probably be crucified by feminists for having a male-only dialogue about female circumcision, I feel that's a bit of a red herring here. I don't think it has to be a male-only issue, either. Personal opinions unrelated to BearofHappiness' points follow Also, I myself am circumcised and…
/r/MensRights12/01/12 08:46 AM
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That's fairly vague. Was Vicky's internship rejected outright, or was it rejected because because the college couldn't accept both and then subsequently hire two people for the same job? Or was there more than one opening for the job Jim was hired onto? It's very difficult to call regard this as gender discrimination without more information. Perhaps the employers liked Jim's extracurriculars more? Perhaps he interviewed better? Again, speculation without more details.
/r/MensRights12/01/12 08:36 AM
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You're mixing your genres, though. The liberal hippy view (last I checked) is that interracial couples should be tolerated, but also that men should be demonized as part of the feminist reparations initiative.
/r/MensRights12/01/12 08:14 AM
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It's a little on the extreme side, but personally I agree with the underlying sentiment: It's incredibly aggravating when women want to have their cake and eat it, too. By which I mean keep all the special female privileges to themselves, yet be given access to all the special male privileges as well.
/r/MensRights10/01/12 03:44 PM
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"Feminization" simply means "the effects of feminist activism on society." At least, that's how I see people using it. Do they use it bitterly? Yes, but a lot of gender activists use jargon and buzzwords bitterly. Again, how do you propose to describe "the effects of feminist activism on society"? Does it need to be spelled out completely each time? Is there a politer term I'm unaware of?
/r/MensRights10/01/12 03:38 PM
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So "feminism" as the name of a sociopolitical movement is fine, but when a male uses "feminization" to complain about the effects of feminism, the word is unnecessary and offensive? Get the fuck out of here. Since you "stopped reading" at "feminization," you should have no idea what the article entails anyway.
/r/MensRights10/01/12 02:54 PM
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Is there a euphemism you'd rather use instead?
/r/MensRights10/01/12 09:54 AM
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Can you? Your determination to have the last word while ignoring what I have to say and parroting the same generic hate speech makes you look like a fool.
/r/MensRights06/01/12 01:09 AM
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I've always felt strongly that child support payments should be monitored and carefully budgeted. Every cent should go toward the child's clothing, general costs of living, schooling, toys/entertainment (a reasonable proportion, given the income of both parents), and other expenses. Any extra should be placed into a college fund or what-have-you. I absolutely do believe there are parents who receive X amount of child support money, spend Y of it on the child, and then spend (X - Y) on luxuries f…
/r/MensRights05/01/12 11:26 PM
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I knew from the beginning that you posted here primarily to vent ignorant rhetoric in a controversial post. Even so, I actually read everything you had to say before deciding you were a bigoted moron. For the record, when I go to r/Feminism or r/Feminisms, I read and consider what anyone and everyone has to say, and keep an open mind. In fact, some of my views on men's rights issues have been tempered by feminist counter-arguments. If I see a post started by extremist feminists, I'll avoid posti…
/r/MensRights05/01/12 11:08 PM
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Skimmed. Nothing worth reading. Translation: I have no cogent arguments to offer, only insults and ad hominem attacks that serve and reinforce my biased, rhetorical agenda. My replies to you contain a much higher proportion of actual arguments, rather than poo-flinging. Also, you're wrong yet again. The majority of MRAs don't criticize feminism because of the man-haters and bad apples in the movement (which is your basis for criticizing the MRM). We criticize feminism because of the demonstrable…
/r/MensRights05/01/12 10:43 PM
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I never said the MRM didnt have some issues that needed adressing. You implied as much when your first reply ignored the portions of feminist activism that are detrimental to men's rights. Those would be the portions that cause me to not want to date feminists who believe in such bigotry. Also, it's pretty obvious from your overall tone that you, like many feminists, consider the "some issues" facing men to be much less important than those facing women. Good luck doing that when you spend all o…
/r/MensRights05/01/12 10:34 PM
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Yes, feminists are absolutely the enemy when they clamor to advocate special privileges for women, shitting all over men's rights in the process. Have you even glanced at the r/MensRights sidebar? Do you deny that those men's rights issues exist? Do you deny that the majority of feminists downplay said issues, assert that they're less important than women's rights issues, or even dismiss them outright? If so, I probably know more about the reality of feminism than you do. I don't want to have a …
/r/MensRights05/01/12 10:22 PM
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If those ideals alone represented feminism, I wouldn't have a problem with feminists. As it is, your reply is a gigantic pile of highly selective rhetoric.
/r/MensRights05/01/12 10:01 PM
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Thanks for the advice. That's basically what I was fishing for: "How to bring up the issue obliquely so that it can be discussed indirectly." The Justin Bieber case (and similar) is an excellent option. I'd consider myself a relatively apt person socially, but I'm not particularly cunning, if you take my meaning. I'm no good at subtly probing people with a hidden agenda in my mind.
/r/MensRights05/01/12 01:36 AM
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Those are good points but, in practice (and as I've alluded to earlier), very few people are wise enough to challenge commonly held beliefs or tradition. They may answer "yes" to these questions without being passionately involved in activism or possessing a certain anti-male mindset. I'd call them "casual believers." Not too long ago, I MYSELF believed that women were still significantly oppressed in Western society, and I'm a man. That's because it was a casual belief that I "osmosed" from our…
/r/MensRights05/01/12 01:10 AM
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Think of this another way. If a woman you were dating were a feminist trying to screen out MRAs discreetly, would you rather find out right away, or wait to give her a chance to explain to you why she (or you) is one of the good ones? I'm really not sure. That's a good question. It's not that I can never like feminists as people, which should be obvious since my sister is one. It's that I feel a need to protect myself from a romantic relationship with someone who'll discriminate against men beca…
/r/MensRights05/01/12 01:02 AM
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But people don't even think of it in those terms. For the most part, they just make wild assumptions based on what they happen to absorb from the media and Western culture. Besides which, statistics are not actually a good reason to discriminate against individuals, ESPECIALLY if the statistics you're using as a guideline are marginal. Imagine what would happen if we judged people by statistics. In the US, a disproportionate number of black people are felons compared to other ethnicities, for ex…
/r/MensRights05/01/12 12:50 AM
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Not everyone realizes that, either. That's kind of my point: Properly and thoroughly explaining one's complete viewpoint on controversial issues is outside the scope of a (pleasant) first, second, even third date, in my experience. You have to lay a little groundwork first. Again, in my opinion. Thus my desire to screen out dyed-in-the-wool feminists immediately on the sly. It's probably not really possible, was just wondering what people thought (so far it's amounted to questioning me and makin…
/r/MensRights04/01/12 11:55 PM
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Well, fair enough. You think it's fine to bring this subject up on a first date, and I do respect that. I'd rather know ahead of time without having to discuss it. We're going to discuss plenty of things on the first couple of dates, and I'd rather have the controversial discussions a bit later. It's a matter of preference, I suppose.
/r/MensRights04/01/12 11:50 PM
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As I've said in another response, I've never found it to be a good idea to discuss controversial topics with people you hardly know, especially when it involves opposition to a viewpoint widely considered to be politically correct. Nowhere have I said it's not important to be able to discuss these sorts of issues. Just not, you know, on the first couple of dates. That's the key issue here: Screening potential partners for bigoted feminist views without letting them know that that's what I'm doin…
/r/MensRights04/01/12 11:48 PM
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It has nothing to do with "confidence." I don't know about you, but I don't have in-depth discussions with women I'm dating on hot-button issues of any sort (religion, politics, etc.) until we get to know each other better (as in more than a couple of dates). Once we've gotten to know each other better, it's at that point that headway can be made in those sorts of discussions. A viewpoint can sound a lot different coming from someone you don't know versus someone you do. I feel you have an under…
/r/MensRights04/01/12 11:44 PM
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As I mentioned in another response, many people simply accept politically correct viewpoints as being the "right" ones, without ever having closely examined them. A non-feminist woman's broad knowledge of feminism may only include the idea that it "helps women." She may not know that there are legitimate reasons to oppose feminism. And so because she's not familiar with the legitimate reasons to oppose feminism (or at least some of the things feminist say and do), she may simply think that I'm a…
/r/MensRights04/01/12 11:22 PM
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If she's not a feminist, surely she'll wonder why I asked. Since many people tend to accept politically correct viewpoints as being the "right" ones without examining them closely, giving her an honest answer ("I don't date feminists") would be a real mood-killer. I see some downvotes flying around, and I don't really care about them, but I have to wonder: How many MRAs would really be happy in a relationship with a feminist? Better question: How many of you already ARE, and how is it? I'm not t…
/r/MensRights04/01/12 11:17 PM
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I could certainly just ask them, but "Are you a feminist?" seems like a rather off-putting question to me, even if said woman isn't a feminist. If nothing else, feminist is widely considered to be the politically correct stance in our society. Correct me if I'm wrong. It's not hatefulness on my part, I just know perfectly well that a relationship between myself and a feminist (or at least a woman who's active in mainstream feminism) would be doomed to failure.
/r/MensRights04/01/12 11:06 PM
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But of course.
/r/MensRights04/01/12 10:45 PM
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According to what I've read, it's not simply a case of mothers being more likely to abuse their own children. Mothers are actually far more likely to abuse their own children than fathers (doesn't apply to stepfathers, etc.). I have no idea how much real truth there is to any of these sorts of statistics, but if true, it begs the question: If it's all right to discriminate against men in childcare, why then are mothers given preferred treatment in family court? If we're going by hearsay statisti…
/r/MensRights04/01/12 10:41 PM
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My wording was probably poor. Allow me to rephrase and elaborate. Feminism includes women's rights, but purports to also be concerned with men's rights and, in fact, with equality for all people. Some or even many feminists may believe this to be the case, but in practice, I disagree. Feminism focuses on female issues and gives no consideration to the rights of men. An excellent example of this is US family and divorce law, an arena in which feminists inarguably seek advantages for women regardl…
/r/MensRights04/01/12 12:42 AM
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I'm sorry, there seems to be some sort of misunderstanding between us. I'm not mocking female rape victims, nor am I mocking the expenditure of resources on victimized women; I'm mocking the idea that victimized women (or rape victims in general) should receive special attention above and beyond the attention given to anyone who is a victim of suffering. In other words, victims of suffering are all equally worthy of attention and concern, be they male or female, rape victims or murder victims, o…
/r/MensRights04/01/12 12:35 AM
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My primary issue with the "fate worse than death" assertion is when it leads to this reasoning: "Well, men are simply killed outright, and that's not as bad." And then, "Rape of females is a more important issue, and we should focus most of our energy on that." That sort of reasoning also kind of takes a shit on the strength of rape survivors, don't you think? A woman who is raped might die or commit suicide, but she may instead receive treatment, heal (somewhat) and go on to live a healthy and …
/r/MensRights03/01/12 08:46 PM
1

Hey, I live in Virginia Beach. ...It's funny how special interest articles become much more interesting when they hit close to home, even if the people in question might as well live in Anchorage for all the likelihood you'll actually meet them. Anyway, it's always nice to see family court decisions in men's favor every once in a (great) while.
/r/MensRights03/01/12 01:07 PM
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Having read The Male Privilege Checklist, three things stand out to me (note that I'm essentially referring to female disadvantages implied by the stated male privileges). The first thing I've noticed is that many of the items on The Male Privilege Checklist are really facets of the same broad issue, spread out as much as possible to bloat the list. A search for the word "job" should demonstrate what I mean. The second thing I've noticed is that several of the items on The Male Privilege Checkli…
/r/MensRights03/01/12 11:56 AM
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In spite of myself, I can't help but find this story humorous. I feel like I'm watching The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. The woman tears his clothing, breaks his property, punches him in the face, and essentially she's being charged with "being really mean" and "you might have accidentally missed with a punch and hit the kid instead." Meanwhile, man-haters reply to this thread with, "Maybe she was protecting herself and/or the child from him." Had a man assaulted a woman and made the news i…
/r/MensRights02/01/12 11:37 PM
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infrequent discussions about how you don't want to fuck transwomen probably isn't attracting many transgendered people into mensrights spaces Transgender advocates will (in my experience) be first in line to point out that "sex" and "gender" aren't synonymous: "Sex" refers to the biological reproductive capabilities a person is born with, whereas "gender" refers to a mindset, role within society, and/or set of specific characteristics. While transgender people can change their gender to a great …
/r/MensRights02/01/12 11:19 PM
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Haven't you guys heard? Rape is a fate worse than death, at least if you're female. That's why it's all right to ignore men's suffering while focusing on women's. I wish I were joking... I guarantee you that's some people's mindset. Actually, given some of the articles that have popped up on r/MensRights recently, it sounds like there are plenty of male rape victims in embattled locales, too.
/r/MensRights02/01/12 05:25 PM
2

Sweden isn't necessarily worse just because of the Julian Assange case. I'd wager there are proportionally far more such high-profile cases in the US. I hear tell that Swedish divorce and custody law is far more equitable than US divorce and custody law, and that's at least a step in the right direction. I'm only going by hearsay, though. It may be that there's nowhere "better" to run off to.
/r/MensRights02/01/12 05:13 PM
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I myself have no plans to marry and/or father children. Perhaps with a vasectomy and a prenup, or if I emigrate to Sweden, but in the United States under our current system of laws? No thank you. I'm not sure how many men my age (late twenties) feel the same way, but there are probably a whole lot more of us now (proportionally speaking) than there were fifty years ago. I'll be interested to see how society evolves in the coming decades. I'm hoping for the pendulum to swing away from feminism an…
/r/MensRights02/01/12 07:13 AM
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(the limo driver testified that Desiree was in a pissy mood and quoted here as saying "Who does he think he is?") I'm sorry, but I can't help responding to this. He's Mike Fuckin' TYSON. Duh.
/r/MensRights02/01/12 06:29 AM
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Heh, that's pretty thorough and well written for a Yahoo! Answer.
/r/MensRights02/01/12 06:27 AM
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I agree with the OP to a certain extent. I do believe men are likely to bear a harsher burden of vilification for knowingly spreading STDs, but men in general are held more accountable for their crimes than are women and receive harsher punishments (not debatable; that's statistical fact). This is just another symptom of a larger issue. Even so, any human being who spreads around a severe STD like AIDS will still be vilified, male or female. Spreading around lesser diseases will result in less v…
/r/MensRights02/01/12 05:57 AM
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I have yet to meet or hear from a feminist (not even a moderate feminist) who recognizes men's rights issues as being equally important to women's rights issues. In fact, it's usually the opposite: Men's rights issues are treated as trivial at best, or nonexistent as worst. I've been shouted down by both men and women as "ignorant" for asserting that men's rights issues actually matter. I think the feminist movement likes to claim they're concerned with equality for all people, but I don't feel …
/r/MensRights02/01/12 05:21 AM
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I'm new to this whole men's rights thing, and the vast majority of advocates (including women concerned with men's rights) all seem to agree on the key issues facing men in today's society. TheAmazingAtheist is no exception. I've felt for years that feminism (especially radical feminism) was a crock of shit, not just because I'm male but also because focusing only on the issues of one group seems inherently unfair and unproductive to me. Just from what I've seen, heard and read in the last few d…
/r/MensRights01/01/12 08:25 AM
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Folks, I stated in the OP that I'm new to the men's rights movement. Why are you assuming I'm a troll because I thought women have it tougher? Are men not groomed to believe exactly that until they get a wake-up call? It's not easy to stumble upon people with whom to discuss men's rights, either. You (some of you) are downvoting my self-post and calling me a troll because I'm doing something you should very well be able to understand. Or am I missing something? I actually think it's kind of funn…
/r/MensRights31/12/11 01:43 PM
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Thank you! It seems a lot of people (including women) have spent a lot of time contemplating and researching issues of male inequality. I really had no idea there was... so much. The more I read/watch/discuss, the more I feel as though I've had the wool pulled over my eyes for my entire life, and that male inequalities are actually far more serious and widespread than I'd realized.
/r/MensRights31/12/11 12:09 AM
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Thanks for drawing my attention to that video.
/r/MensRights31/12/11 12:06 AM
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I know it's not just white men, but white American males are the ones who are (essentially) told: "Suck it up, you have it better than anyone." In the minds of most people, it seems that being a white American male automatically means you're not allowed to protest inequality.
/r/MensRights30/12/11 11:45 PM
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That's what I believe about equality issues in general, but most people seem to disagree.
/r/MensRights30/12/11 06:38 AM
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I absolutely agree, carniemechanic (hope no one misunderstood). The misandry in American TV is completely trivial. I was just offering it as the example of my first inkling, as a little kid, that there was such a thing as misandry. Had no idea it was even a "thing" at the time, of course.
/r/MensRights30/12/11 05:49 AM
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That's a fair point, but there are people out there in the world losing their kids to starvation or even the sex trade. I'm not saying that means first-world men's problems don't matter — I'm just supporting my assertion that the "we have it tougher" logic is a load of crap, even if true, because if that's the case then surely we need to go out and find those who have it the absolute toughest and focus all of our efforts on them.
/r/MensRights30/12/11 05:44 AM
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That's a good point. I think some "we have it tougher" arguments do have merit, but basing them on assertions made by people who have no personal experience from the perspective of those they believe "have it easier" is an awfully shaky foundation upon which to build.
/r/MensRights30/12/11 05:39 AM
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Yeah, laughtracks get to me, too. It's not pleasant to realize you're being subtly manipulated.
/r/MensRights30/12/11 05:37 AM
You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

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