HelplessGazelle Archive

Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

Upvotes	Comment on	Subreddit	Date (UTC)
1	Boy suspended after using finger as pretend gun. The pathologizing of boyhood continues. Cops and robbers - Kids running around and shooting guns, one kid feels threatened and tells his mom, now the school is sued. Dolls - Kids sit there relatively quietly and no one gets hurt or sued. That has nothing to do with gender at all. It has everything to do with getting sued and preventing kids from getting hurt.	/r/MensRights	04/10/13 05:51 PM
1	Boy suspended after using finger as pretend gun. The pathologizing of boyhood continues. I did say Obviously the kids should be able to play around so I think that answers your question. I thought this was a subreddit about men's rights, not how children should play. That is why I downvoted you, for being off topic to the subreddit. You seemed to have downvoted me for my opinion. Let me ask two questions that should alleviate this. Do you believe that girls should be aloud to play with fake toy guns? and what do you think about the girl who got in trouble for playing with a fake gun…	/r/MensRights	04/10/13 05:24 AM
0	Boy suspended after using finger as pretend gun. The pathologizing of boyhood continues. All of the points you just said have nothing to do with what we were talking about. We were discussing whether or not this was a men's rights issue. From what you just said I can clearly see your bias. It's not a men's rights issue at all. Obviously the kids should be able to play around, but for the people of this subreddit to get angry as if it is some 'war on masculinity' is a complete joke. What the people here are doing is no better than what feminists do, taking problems that aren't that b…	/r/MensRights	04/10/13 05:04 AM
0	Boy suspended after using finger as pretend gun. The pathologizing of boyhood continues. Geez, what the heck is wrong with you? That's not the issue that we have been discussing. It was how people think this is a men's rights issue, when it is not.	/r/MensRights	04/10/13 04:58 AM
3	I don't think spermjacking is much of an issue but... I had a girlfriend who faked a pregnancy to get me to not use protection to then get her pregnant. Luckily, it didn't work. I found about it all months after she had a "miscarriage," which was really her putting blood and/or perioding on my bed.	/r/MensRights	04/10/13 04:50 AM
0	Boy suspended after using finger as pretend gun. The pathologizing of boyhood continues. I'm not agreeing with these kids getting in trouble at all, but there is a big difference between playing with dolls and chasing and play "aiming a gun at someone." Dolls aren't seen as "superior." They are seen as less dangerous and less potential to be dangerous in the future. It's really obvious to someone who isn't biased.	/r/MensRights	04/10/13 04:41 AM
2	Boy suspended after using finger as pretend gun. The pathologizing of boyhood continues. Yes, but those are things that generally get someone hurt. It's not because they are masculine. I didn't say that they should punish this boy though. I definitely think a lot of people are over reacting about a lot of this stuff, but it has nothing to do with being a male. Creativity and imagination doesn't have to come from dangerous things and there are plenty of other things they can do that don't make them any less masculine. That's like saying taking away sleazy clothes from girls makes the…	/r/MensRights	04/10/13 02:36 AM
-1	Boy suspended after using finger as pretend gun. The pathologizing of boyhood continues. I'm sorry, but you sound like a male equivalent of a feminist. If they were punishing him for having stronger muscles, a penis, or a Y chromosome, I could understand what you mean. Guns do not equal male. Yes, it is something a higher percentage of males do than females, but that means nothing. Here is a more extreme example, males could commit more murders than women, but making murders illegal doesn't mean they are against men, it means they are against people getting hurt. They are two differ…	/r/MensRights	04/10/13 02:06 AM
1	Boy suspended after using finger as pretend gun. The pathologizing of boyhood continues. I'm new to this subreddit, but it seems like you are taking that a little far. I don't think they were criminalizing masculinity, they were criminalizing guns.	/r/MensRights	04/10/13 01:58 AM