InvisibleInkling Archive

Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

Upvotes	Comment on	Subreddit	Date (UTC)
1	Okay? Thanks. (x-post from r/rage) I feel terrible about this post, and it breaks my heart. I loved dolls when I was a little boy, and I thank God my parents didn't give a fuck about gender roles. This song, from Free to Be You and Me (which was way ahead of its time, changed my life. Especially because my name is William. I wish I could force the person who posted this to listen to it on repeat until they got over their damaging opinions.	/r/MensRights	22/11/13 10:14 AM
1	Parents Record 5 Year Old Boy Being Emotionally Tortured And Emasculated By Female Teacher I do not think you know me well enough (since you don't know me at all) to make such judgments about my character.	/r/MensRights	28/02/13 08:37 PM
1	Parents Record 5 Year Old Boy Being Emotionally Tortured And Emasculated By Female Teacher Please don't put words in my mouth. Judging by this very short clip, this teacher crossed a line. But I do think that all children, regardless of gender, should learn early on, even if they're only 5, that life isn't always sunshine and lollipops. Many kids in my generation (I'm in my mid-20s) were way too babied growing up - boys and girls alike - and it causes problems later on down the line.	/r/MensRights	28/02/13 08:06 PM
0	Parents Record 5 Year Old Boy Being Emotionally Tortured And Emasculated By Female Teacher And? If a kid makes it to five years old without someone being mean to him, he's lucky. Or rather, he's unlucky, because the fact that there are mean people on this earth - even adults, even women - is a really valuable lesson for kids to pick up early on.	/r/MensRights	28/02/13 07:52 PM
1	Parents Record 5 Year Old Boy Being Emotionally Tortured And Emasculated By Female Teacher No, shaming language is not a core/basic feminist tactic - many groups of people use shaming language, including misogynists, racists, homophobes, etc. What would make this a real issue for Men's Rights is if she was using gendered language to humiliate the child, which she did not. She just berated him. If you try to turn any example of a woman being mean to a man/boy into a men's right issue, you'll cheapen the entire cause. I also think that you're making a pretty big judgement on this teache…	/r/MensRights	28/02/13 07:35 PM
-1	Parents Record 5 Year Old Boy Being Emotionally Tortured And Emasculated By Female Teacher Playing the victim means acting like you or a group with which you identify is a victim when they're not. That's what I think is happening here. If she had used gendered slurs against him or done anything to bring his gender into the matter, then OP would have a right to post this here and claim she's emasculating him. But she didn't do that, which means this is being made into a cause when it's not, and therefore an example of playing the victim.	/r/MensRights	28/02/13 07:09 PM
-1	Parents Record 5 Year Old Boy Being Emotionally Tortured And Emasculated By Female Teacher I said "hypothetical aside" a while ago, per your request to leave hypotheticals out of it, so let's stop asking for evidence of a hypothetical. If you think "playing the victim" is a feminist trait, then I'm not sure I can argue with you because we'll never agree. Certainly there are some women who unfairly play the victim, but I would say that posting this video here on MensRights and claiming this is a gendered issue when it isn't is a very good example of how men can unnecessarily play the v…	/r/MensRights	28/02/13 06:32 PM
2	Parents Record 5 Year Old Boy Being Emotionally Tortured And Emasculated By Female Teacher I don't know, that's a pretty big statement to make. I've been a male educator in the past, and I know I've talked to students who acted out to let them know how their actions affected me on a personal level. Students who don't feel empathy for their teachers will act out, because they won't know the consequences of their actions. Her real crime, here, is humiliating the kid in front of his peers, something that I don't think works in most circumstances. And that is in no way a gendered behavior…	/r/MensRights	28/02/13 06:14 PM
-1	Parents Record 5 Year Old Boy Being Emotionally Tortured And Emasculated By Female Teacher Wait wait wait, you can't say you don't want to use hypotheticals in an argument and then ask for evidence of a hypothetical situation. Also, how does her playing the victim make this at all about gender? Lots of people, men and women alike, have the capacity to play the victim in certain situations. I also think it can be effective for teachers to show their students how negative actions hurt the teacher - especially if the teacher has a strong emotional bond with his or her students. Acting li…	/r/MensRights	28/02/13 06:07 PM
1	Parents Record 5 Year Old Boy Being Emotionally Tortured And Emasculated By Female Teacher Hypothetical aside, I still don't see how this has anything to do with gender. She said nothing about him being male . I think it's dangerous to turn a cause that isn't gender related into a gender battle, and something that happens far too often on this sub. Edit: Wanted to add, just because a female adult is being rude to an male child doesn't mean she's emasculating him, either. She's just being rude and demonstrating that she's a bad educator.	/r/MensRights	28/02/13 05:57 PM
6	Parents Record 5 Year Old Boy Being Emotionally Tortured And Emasculated By Female Teacher I'm curious as to how this plays into emasculation and gender roles. Honestly, to me this is just an adult acting reprehensibly toward a child. I would feel that way if the gender roles were reversed on either side of the story. No adult (of any sex/gender) should speak to a child (of any sex/gender) in this way.	/r/MensRights	28/02/13 05:18 PM