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| 1 | The Men’s Rights Movement is split into two groups: those who want a positive role for men that fits into a positive role for society, those who want a defensive role for men, like feminism is for womenI'm not a libertarian...if anything I'm a social democrat. | /r/MensRights | 12/11/11 10:46 AM |
| 1 | A quick question for you, /mensrights/.That's why it's short-sighted -- legislators are only hearing from those people and the legislation they write doesn't take into account any other perspective. They're not the cause though, just a contributing factor. | /r/MensRights | 10/11/11 01:37 AM |
| 2 | For all the good work we do pointing out feminist hypocrisy, I think it important to acknowledge that there does seem to be a lot of misogyny on reddit.Yeah, people can say fucked up shit when they're anonymous online. In a place that's overwhelmingly male, you'll have more misogyny. In a place that's overwhelmingly female, you'll have more misandry. You're not going to change any of that shit unless you change the demographics. That being said, we MRAs should hold ourselves to a higher standard re sexism. Aside from the fact that we should already know better given our interest in gender-issues, it makes us look hypocritical as fuck to say sex… | /r/MensRights | 09/11/11 03:01 PM |
| 4 | A quick question for you, /mensrights/.The laws on this situation vary from state to state. In some places, simply being intoxicated is not enough for it to legally be considered rape...but in other places, like Kansas, you'll see laws like this: 21-3502: Rape. (a) Rape is: (1) Sexual intercourse with a person who does not consent to the sexual intercourse, under any of the following circumstances: [...] (C) [...] when the victim is incapable of giving consent because of the effect of any alcoholic liquor, narcotic, drug or other sub… | /r/MensRights | 09/11/11 02:03 PM |
| 1 | The Men’s Rights Movement is split into two groups: those who want a positive role for men that fits into a positive role for society, those who want a defensive role for men, like feminism is for womenMy concern with sustainability is the extent to which the emphasis on individual autonomy will undermine the emphasis on the common good. It is conceivable that society will stop functioning effectively if everyone is pursuing their own interests regardless of the influence on others. Yes, that would be a problem associated with absolute liberty. To avoid such things, you could structure a society in such a way that the things which most contribute to the common good are most rewarded. Generally… | /r/MensRights | 09/11/11 01:38 PM |
| 1 | The Men’s Rights Movement is split into two groups: those who want a positive role for men that fits into a positive role for society, those who want a defensive role for men, like feminism is for womenI think liberalization is an unstoppable force in history. I just don't know if it is a sustainable one. I don't see why liberty and equal rights shouldn't be sustainable. Some variations of liberalism would obviously not be sustainable (e.g. absolute liberty as espoused by certain libertarians, or absolute equality as espoused by certain socialists), but that doesn't make liberalism itself inherently unsustainable...it just highlights the fact that pretty much anything in large doses can be det… | /r/MensRights | 09/11/11 05:20 AM |
| 3 | I'm a transgender female living as a man; I have some observations and questions you might be interested in, /mensrightsIgnore thingsarebad, they're our resident extremist. | /r/MensRights | 09/11/11 04:41 AM |
| 2 | The Men’s Rights Movement is split into two groups: those who want a positive role for men that fits into a positive role for society, those who want a defensive role for men, like feminism is for womenthe liberal idiots who will solve nothing vs. the conservative intellectuals who already have (most of) the answers. ... Specifically, liberalism and atheism, and for men (but not women), preference for sexual exclusivity correlate with higher intelligence, a new study finds. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100224132655.htm | /r/MensRights | 09/11/11 04:31 AM |
| 0 | The Men’s Rights Movement is split into two groups: those who want a positive role for men that fits into a positive role for society, those who want a defensive role for men, like feminism is for womenOr is it that the most successful societies in the world have all become liberal? Most liberal democracies became liberal democracies hundreds of years ago (you know, right around the enlightenment). There are some exceptions like Taiwan (which became a LD in the 90's) and Japan which shifted after WWII, but they ALL experienced these successes after liberalization. | /r/MensRights | 09/11/11 04:19 AM |
| 1 | The Men’s Rights Movement is split into two groups: those who want a positive role for men that fits into a positive role for society, those who want a defensive role for men, like feminism is for womenLiberalism is a society destroyer ...except liberal democracies are the most successful societies in the world. And, if you rank them based on HDI, Gini coefficient, a composite from all common "freedom indices", and GDP per capita (PPP), you find the 20 "best" nations are ALL liberal democracies (with the most "liberal" places higher up). In order, they are: Country HDI Gini Freedom (composite) GDP P/C (PPP) Luxembourg 0.8520 26 1.0000 $78,409 Norway 0.9380 25.8 0.9375 $51,985 Sweden 0.8850 25 … | /r/MensRights | 09/11/11 04:09 AM |
| 9 | I'm a transgender female living as a man; I have some observations and questions you might be interested in, /mensrightsIf anything I'd see myself as a potential picked victim of violent crime for no other reason than I don't look tough at all. Get a tribal tattoo...it'll make you tougher in the same way that painting flames on your car makes it go faster. | /r/MensRights | 08/11/11 03:14 PM |
| 3 | Innocent or driven to kill? 21YO University of Michigan student is accused in mother's death. Murdered mother was mentally ill, abusive, and previously charged with domestic violence.If it wasn't in self-defense (i.e. a physical altercation), then he should be punished. While the abuse he suffered should have some bearing on sentencing, I don't think it would be right to just let him walk. I feel the same way about female murderers as well. | /r/MensRights | 08/11/11 10:12 AM |
| 7 | Feminist here...However, it seems to me that feminists view themselves as disadvantaged in ways different from the ways MRAs feel disadvantaged. When one group is disadvantaged, the other group is advantaged. I think the point you're getting at is that each group is advantaged and disadvantaged in many different ways relative to one another, which I (and I believe many other MRAs) agree with. Unfortunately, it seems that most popular strains of feminism tend to view it as an either-or situation. You're either a… | /r/MensRights | 08/11/11 09:45 AM |
| 2 | This CANNOT be realYeah, it's not. It was created by SRS trolls: http://www.reddit.com/user/bobappleyard http://www.reddit.com/user/zhazam | /r/MensRights | 08/11/11 06:25 AM |
| 7 | Feminist here...First, I'd like to say thanks for coming here and reading with an open mind, despite our PR problems. We do have some over the top MRAs, but I think the vast majority of us are reasonable people who have noticed certain problems and would like to fix them. As to whether or not MRAs and feminists can work together, well it's a bit complicated. The word "feminism" is frequently misused to mean "gender equality", but it's an ideology with certain essential beliefs (with a meaning well beyond "gende… | /r/MensRights | 08/11/11 06:14 AM |
| 5 | Can't take it anymoreDon't give up. If you leave she'll still badmouth you to him, but he won't be around you enough to see that she was wrong. It's a fucked up situation, but he's your son and he needs you. It sounds like you may be getting close to a nervous breakdown. If you feel like you're being run-ragged, try to plan ahead for some down-time...maybe a little trip, or just a few days in a hotel room where you can get away from everything for a bit and find your center again. Don't do it immediately, schedule i… | /r/MensRights | 08/11/11 01:55 AM |
| 1 | What is feminism?Who the fuck are you to judge an entire movement based on one person? That's pretty rich considering you just referenced r/MR thusly: a group of misogynists got called out for making ridiculous statements. ... I'm going to learn from you. From now on each & every person on r/MR is as crazy and delirious as that guy texaswildfires. Do whatever the fuck you want, but willful ignorance hurts you more than it hurts me. | /r/MensRights | 08/11/11 12:14 AM |
| 1 | What is feminism?You came here to start shit, and changed the subject when you couldn't defend your position. As I said before: you people can't handle actual debate. Here's some advice for you: don't start shit that you can't finish. | /r/MensRights | 07/11/11 11:44 PM |
| 1 | I made a suggestion in r/ideasfortheadmins for a way we can fix the sockpuppet issue. I'm cross-posting this to anti-MR subs as well since they constantly accuse us of sockpuppetry and this negates that issue.Interesting that you continue to feel the need to twist my words I provided a direct quote and then highlighted the point you were making. If you actually knew any real live homosexuals, you'd know a thing or two about what I'm talking about. Who's the homophobe, eh? My aunt is gay. Every girlfriend she had when I was growing up has been an "aunt". We lived in the same house when I was 9-11. My cousin is gay. For a long time, I lived next door to him, and growing up he was the closest thing I ha… | /r/MensRights | 06/11/11 12:41 AM |
| 1 | I made a suggestion in r/ideasfortheadmins for a way we can fix the sockpuppet issue. I'm cross-posting this to anti-MR subs as well since they constantly accuse us of sockpuppetry and this negates that issue.Um, nope, I never said that. ... we can expect a great deal of boys and men who would naturally have ended up heterosexual and masculine, to end up confused about who they are and who they should be, either as weak-willed, placating, unhappy heterosexuals, or as confused and unhappy homosexuals. Translation: "STRAIGHTS COULD CATCH TEH GAY!!!!" ... That's right, I posted a link to an article entitled Is White Nationalism Trying to Subvert the MRM?. Certainly seems relevant to a sub-reddit devoted… | /r/MensRights | 05/11/11 11:50 PM |
| 1 | I made a suggestion in r/ideasfortheadmins for a way we can fix the sockpuppet issue. I'm cross-posting this to anti-MR subs as well since they constantly accuse us of sockpuppetry and this negates that issue.You said: One's sexuality is not a choice. How one expresses it is. In a society where homosexuality and femininity are promoted over heterosexuality and masculinity, we can expect a great deal of boys and men who would naturally have ended up heterosexual and masculine, to end up confused about who they are and who they should be, either as weak-willed, placating, unhappy heterosexuals, or as confused and unhappy homosexuals. http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/kucym/celebrating_lgbt_on… | /r/MensRights | 05/11/11 11:23 PM |
| 1 | I made a suggestion in r/ideasfortheadmins for a way we can fix the sockpuppet issue. I'm cross-posting this to anti-MR subs as well since they constantly accuse us of sockpuppetry and this negates that issue.seeing as I'm libertarian ...yeah, you're a Ron Paul supporter and have tried to use r/MR to spread his shit. engaged to a black woman, and just spent the last two days entertaining two gay friends and partying at gay clubs. And I'm a giraffe who speaks to the dead and just spent the last year on a secret mission for the government wherein I saved a bunch of Martian orphans from evil Lord Xenu. You've posted anti-gay shit and white-nationalist shit to r/MR. Even if you weren't lying, which I ser… | /r/MensRights | 05/11/11 09:12 PM |
| 1 | RE: "Are you all incredibly angry, delusional, hateful, depressed ..."They are from r/SRS and are posing as an MRA to make us look bad. | /r/MensRights | 04/11/11 12:13 PM |
| 1 | RE: "Are you all incredibly angry, delusional, hateful, depressed ..."Hey guys. Just thought I'd pop in here to ask you if texaswildfires is really someone you want to rally behind on the whole men's rights issues? They're not an MRA. They are from r/shitredditsays, are posing as an MRA, and are saying crazy shit to make us look bad. Is it fully possible that he (and other users like him) is some kind of counter-troll trying to discredit your causes? Maybe. But when's he's out in the reddit wild spouting off his rhetoric, then coming back to r/mensrights to where … | /r/MensRights | 04/11/11 12:03 PM |
| 1 | What is feminism?You came here and started shit. If you're talking about in general then you're right. This shit all started over a year ago, before your ass interjected yourself. It started when people from r/feminisms and r/anarchism declared war on r/MR. Then the fools from something awful (that page is now hidden, btw), started mining reddit for un-PC statements, and would grab shit from r/MR (frequently these would include statements made by the very sockpuppets made to discredit us). Some of the people fro… | /r/MensRights | 04/11/11 03:46 AM |
| 1 | What is feminism?Then don't come here to start shit. | /r/MensRights | 04/11/11 02:56 AM |
| 1 | What is feminism?I notice you didn't actually link to any comments. I have no idea if what you've "quoted" was said by anyone other than you, let alone an actual MRA. I can play the unsourced quote game too: white cismen are so fucking boring, and i mean this very unironically ... Reproductive rights? Is that being able to force wives/girlfriends/daughters to have/not have abortions? | /r/MensRights | 04/11/11 02:12 AM |
| 1 | What is feminism?like this? You people can't handle actual debate, because your ideology is based on faith, not fact, so you have to rely on subterfuge like this, this, this, this, this, this, and this. | /r/MensRights | 03/11/11 11:54 PM |
| 3 | I made a suggestion in r/ideasfortheadmins for a way we can fix the sockpuppet issue. I'm cross-posting this to anti-MR subs as well since they constantly accuse us of sockpuppetry and this negates that issue.He says I'm a feminist troll. I say he's a white-nationalist homophobe trying to use r/MR to drum up support for Ron Paul. Read my user history and you'll see I'm clearly antifeminist [1] [2] [3]. Read his and you'll clearly see that he's a white-nationalist homophobe trying to use r/MR to drum up support for Ron Paul (see the links I already provided). | /r/MensRights | 03/11/11 07:29 AM |
| 3 | R/MR troll roundup for the nightThere's been a huge surge of trolls in the last 24 hours, so I thought I'd point out the most recent troll posts for down-voting. These posts have little or nothing to do with men's rights, and their primary purpose is to demonize men or distract from real issues. [...] http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/lyo1q/i_made_a_suggestion_in_rideasfortheadmins_for_a/ I invite anyone who actually believes this bullshit to read my user history, and to read thingsarebad's as well. I think you'll qu… | /r/MensRights | 03/11/11 07:01 AM |
| 7 | I made a suggestion in r/ideasfortheadmins for a way we can fix the sockpuppet issue. I'm cross-posting this to anti-MR subs as well since they constantly accuse us of sockpuppetry and this negates that issue.I invite anyone who actually believes this bullshit to read my user history, and to read thingsarebad's as well. I think you'll quickly see that thingsarebad is a right-wing homophobe trying to turn r/MR into everything the feminists claim we are: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/kucym/celebrating_lgbt_ones_sexuality_is_not_a_choice/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/lb21p/is_white_nationalism_trying_to_subvert_the_mrm/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/li87y/for_t… | /r/MensRights | 03/11/11 06:48 AM |
| 6 | I made a suggestion in r/ideasfortheadmins for a way we can fix the sockpuppet issue. I'm cross-posting this to anti-MR subs as well since they constantly accuse us of sockpuppetry and this negates that issue.I invite anyone who actually believes this bullshit to read my user history, and to read thingsarebad's as well. I think you'll quickly see that thingsarebad is a right-wing homophobe trying to turn r/MR into everything the feminists claim we are: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/kucym/celebrating_lgbt_ones_sexuality_is_not_a_choice/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/lb21p/is_white_nationalism_trying_to_subvert_the_mrm/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/li87y/for_t… | /r/MensRights | 03/11/11 06:47 AM |
| 1 | Friend's girlfriend wants to have rape fantasy, and she wants to be drugged.I'm not sure if a court would treat your situation as murder or manslaughter...but either way, the legality of killing someone would not be predicated upon consent, while the legality of a sex-act between two adults is predicated upon consent. That being said, I think consenting adults should be free to do whatever they want to each other...and that includes killing and eating one another. I would want nothing to do with anyone involved in such a thing, but it's not my place to interfere, nor is… | /r/MensRights | 02/11/11 09:19 PM |
| 2 | For a movement, you guys sure don't do much but complain.Reddit is a news and commentary site, not a platform for organization. Go to any subreddit for any movement and you'll see the same thing...news and commentary. | /r/MensRights | 02/11/11 08:31 PM |
| 6 | Are you all incredibly angry, delusional, hateful, depressed, violently upset, hate your wife (or hate women because you don't have one), support rape with false statistics, .... or is there some kind of smear campaign against r/mensrights?is there some kind of smear campaign against r/mensrights? http://www.reddit.com/r/againstmensrights http://www.reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays/comments/l9sru/ah_yes_this_old_chestnut_mras_on_trans_disclosure/c2qxx7q http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/lx81a/what_is_feminism/c2wbgc7) http://i.imgur.com/p0HrP.png ...what do you think? How does this subreddit have such a bad reputation from the outside, yet nobody is able to back it up with evidence? We have a bad reputation for a number of re… | /r/MensRights | 02/11/11 08:00 PM |
| 2 | No post about The Amazing Athiest being a pervert with a micropenis?We have a really bad image so shit like that is completely understandable. | /r/MensRights | 02/11/11 03:30 AM |
| 1 | No post about The Amazing Athiest being a pervert with a micropenis?I don't think so | /r/MensRights | 02/11/11 03:22 AM |
| 4 | What is feminism?Your first comment was made in a thread targeted by SRS. And most of the rest of your comments are either in SRS or MR. You're obviously from SRS and are clearly trying to post some crazy shit to make us look bad. Like I said, keep up with the bullshit...it just highlights how weak you people really are. You can't handle an actual debate on any of these issues, so instead you pose as an MRA and try to discredit us by saying crazy shit. | /r/MensRights | 02/11/11 03:17 AM |
| 3 | What is feminism?I think it's pretty clear that you're a troll. By all means, please continue playing agent-provocateur...it only shows how weak our opponents arguments really are. | /r/MensRights | 02/11/11 02:58 AM |
| 1 | No post about The Amazing Athiest being a pervert with a micropenis?I don't have it, nor did I watch it. Some screenshots were floating around earlier...I'm sure you could find them if you googled: "amazing atheist banana". | /r/MensRights | 02/11/11 02:44 AM |
| 2 | No post about The Amazing Athiest being a pervert with a micropenis?I have no idea what the context is here. . . The Amazing Atheist (a guy who makes youtube videos and is pretty popular...some of his stuff has been on the frontpage in r/MR recently) made a private video where he shoved a banana up his ass and may have rubbed shit all over himself. One of the girls he sent it to leaked it online. That's basically the context. | /r/MensRights | 02/11/11 02:22 AM |
| 3 | No post about The Amazing Athiest being a pervert with a micropenis?A) He's not an MRA, in fact when asked about r/MR, he's made it very clear that he wants nothing to do with us. So I have no idea why you think this has anything to do with r/MR B) What he does in the privacy of his own home is his own business and has absolutely no bearing on the validity of his arguments. C) it's "Atheist" not "Athiest". D) "Aside from being an idiot who inexplicably believes that his opinion is worth expressing" ... how does that make him any different from you? While it's ki… | /r/MensRights | 02/11/11 02:18 AM |
| 7 | Could MR help my dad?IANAL If you're in the US, then the best you can hope for is to get him off the hook for future obligations, or to get them reduced to something he can afford. Unfortunately there's a federal law (the Bradley Amendment) which makes retroactive reductions illegal...so that $30k is not going away, regardless of circumstances. He needs to stay on top of the debt, otherwise they may throw him in jail for contempt of court (it happens a lot...even to homeless men). Ultimately, he might be better off … | /r/MensRights | 31/10/11 03:42 AM |
| 2 | My two cents on why bigots deserve to be registered at Register-Her.com.And my point is that, if you're willing to unfairly demonize others, then you're not really against unfair demonization. | /r/MensRights | 27/10/11 01:15 AM |
| 2 | My two cents on why bigots deserve to be registered at Register-Her.com.This isn't about "hippy bullshit", this is about not being hypocrites. | /r/MensRights | 27/10/11 12:49 AM |
| 3 | My two cents on why bigots deserve to be registered at Register-Her.com.Without sympathy, understanding does not benefit us. If someone you hate is suffering, you may not only understand, but actually delight in their pain, as they do not have your sympathy. | /r/MensRights | 27/10/11 12:22 AM |
| 2 | My two cents on why bigots deserve to be registered at Register-Her.com.You don't need to put people in concentration camps for them to understand that it's horrible. They learn that it's horrible by hearing the stories of those who experienced such things and seeing those they respect denounce them. If you put people in a concentration camp, they're not likely to have philosophical debates about the merits and demerits of concentration camps -- but they are likely to resent you for treating them that way and will probably not want to look at you with any sympathy w… | /r/MensRights | 26/10/11 11:18 PM |
| 8 | My two cents on why bigots deserve to be registered at Register-Her.com....but then we're no better than those we decry. | /r/MensRights | 26/10/11 11:02 PM |
| 17 | My two cents on why bigots deserve to be registered at Register-Her.com.I'm opposed to registries like this on principle (e.g. the sex-offender registry), so I'm necessarily opposed to register-her.com...to do otherwise would make me a hypocrite. But lumping "bigots" in with serious offenders further undermines the whole thing. All of you, regardless of your general position re registries, should oppose including people on sex-offender registries for trivial offenses (e.g. public urination)...well this is the flip-side of that. You're including people on a list of r… | /r/MensRights | 26/10/11 10:32 PM |
| 1 | Have you ever been groped by a women without giving her permission?A few times. Mostly stupid shit (like friends, or drunken fun...trivial stuff that doesn't matter), but there were two incidents that bothered me. | /r/MensRights | 25/10/11 06:26 PM |
| 2 | Disproportionate veteran homelessness -- women make up only 7.5%There are now over 1.8 million women veterans nationwide. Women veterans represent 7.5 percent of the total U.S. veteran population of 23.4 million. http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/09/WomenVeteransBrieflyStated.pdf | /r/MensRights | 24/10/11 08:15 PM |
| 3 | Disproportionate veteran homelessness -- women make up only 7.5%There are now over 1.8 million women veterans nationwide. Women veterans represent 7.5 percent of the total U.S. veteran population of 23.4 million. http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/09/WomenVeteransBrieflyStated.pdf So if they're 7.5% of veterans overall, and 7.5% of the veteran homeless population, that means they're proportionally represented. Your headline is excruciatingly misleading. | /r/MensRights | 24/10/11 08:13 PM |
| 3 | How far will this go until people say "Lets now start to focus on men's education" instead of "Lol, men are stupid"? | /r/MensRights | 24/10/11 02:27 PM |
| 2 | Let's keep 'em honest. Wikipedia Men's Rights page has been unblocked for editing, and is being edited by some of the same actors that caused trouble. Make sure to follow wiki-procedure, and enforce it from others.If you had a shed on your property that you rarely used, and I decided to sleep in it for a couple years, I would not suddenly have a claim to that shed. This is a pretty bad example considering the very real possibility of adverse possession. Anyway, I've been staying out of this whole thing, but I respect Wikipedia, and am disgusted by some of the behavior I've seen on display from fellow MRAs. That having been said, some of the people editing that page are clearly using it to push a POV desig… | /r/MensRights | 22/10/11 05:52 AM |
| 0 | Woman abandons family to take part in OWS. How the article was handled is what is what I found peculiar.Corporate media gonna corp....wait, that doesn't really work so well. | /r/MensRights | 21/10/11 09:06 PM |
| 10 | Woman abandons family to take part in OWS. How the article was handled is what is what I found peculiar.Here's how the article came off to me: OMG A MOTHER IS PROTESTING OUR CORPORATE MASTERS INSTEAD OF COOKING DINNER!?!?!?!? HOW DARE SHE!!!!! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!!! | /r/MensRights | 21/10/11 08:14 PM |
| 1 | Hi, Mens' Rights!I'm seriously considering switching to nursing, as the job availability is massive at the moment. There's a severe shortage of nurses all across the country My aunt is a nurse and she does very well (she's raised 6 kids and actually had a beach house at one point). RNs get paid very well (like $40/hr), but from what I understand you have to see people at their worst, are exposed to some pretty dangerous stuff (she's been accidentally pricked by dirty needles, etc.), and the schedule can be deman… | /r/MensRights | 20/10/11 09:30 PM |
| 2 | Hi, Mens' Rights!Are the majority of you simply wanting the nation to take more notice of men than they do now, or are you advocating for more rights for men than women? There are certain situations where men get shafted...we'd simply like for men to not get shafted. We're fairly diverse when it comes to other viewpoints, and lack an overriding ideology, so you will find bigots here, but they're in the minority as most lean towards egalitarianism. ...No, we don't want more rights than women, we want some semblan… | /r/MensRights | 20/10/11 12:30 PM |
| 7 | Woman condemned to death after being found guilty of killing husband by pouring petrol in his house, setting it on fire after having locked the man inside asleepI generally oppose the death penalty because it's almost never possible for the state to truly know whether or not an individual is actually guilty. And beheading as a method of execution is pretty fucking cruel, regardless of guilt. More so, Saudi Arabia is pretty fucked when it comes to women's rights. It's a fucked up situation, in a fucked up country. | /r/MensRights | 20/10/11 11:56 AM |
| 2 | My men's rights activism for the day: Just donated to Ron Paul for his latest money bomb.Or just vote for NOT Ron Paul. After all every other dog in the race has a leash in the hand of the very same interests that founded communism and socialism. paranoia + abject ignorance = this comment Speaking of ignorance, I love how you ran away from our other discussion once I questioned your understanding of evolution. http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/lh6ma/my_mens_rights_activism_for_the_day_just_donated/c2ss5nz | /r/MensRights | 20/10/11 10:56 AM |
| 1 | My men's rights activism for the day: Just donated to Ron Paul for his latest money bomb.Oh, please elaborate. What exactly do you mean by "survival", and "most fit"? I'm also interested in what you think mutations are...but I suspect that would derail the discussion a bit too much so I'll leave that be for now. | /r/MensRights | 19/10/11 07:00 PM |
| 2 | My men's rights activism for the day: Just donated to Ron Paul for his latest money bomb.Wow...an actual evolution-denier on reddit. Great. Well, I doubt you even really know what evolution is, so before we get started on this whole "educating the ignorant" thing, why don't you explain what you think evolution is. | /r/MensRights | 19/10/11 06:54 PM |
| 0 | My men's rights activism for the day: Just donated to Ron Paul for his latest money bomb.it is better to remain silent and be thought as a fool than it is to speak out and remove all doubt. indeed | /r/MensRights | 19/10/11 06:09 PM |
| 0 | My men's rights activism for the day: Just donated to Ron Paul for his latest money bomb.Have you seen Ron Paul's latest speech? | /r/MensRights | 19/10/11 05:41 PM |
| 3 | My men's rights activism for the day: Just donated to Ron Paul for his latest money bomb.Anyone who wants to counteract thingsarebad's donation should consider donating to the socialists: http://socialistparty-usa.org/contribute.html | /r/MensRights | 19/10/11 02:28 PM |
| 1 | My men's rights activism for the day: Just donated to Ron Paul for his latest money bomb.No no no. It's because he's an evolution-denier who thinks the US would make a great theocracy. | /r/MensRights | 19/10/11 02:22 PM |
| 4 | PC feminists finally got around to defacing the Wikipedia men's rights section, which used to detail the MRM, and now talks about all the supposed privileges men have over womenPlease don't do that sort of shit. Wikipedia is a great resource which benefits everyone. The volunteer editors donate their time and expertise toward creating something great...and they'll be the ones stuck cleaning up a stupid edit war. The editors don't deserve to get shit on just because some random unrelated person took advantage of the open nature of Wikipedia. | /r/MensRights | 14/10/11 02:52 PM |
| 3 | How do I respond to this, without being insulting or condescending?"I just feel that men have had the upper hand for so long that it seems like what you are working for doesn't really serve any purpose." ...and it's exactly that mentality which has led to our current predicament. People assume men don't deserve help...and they're left to fend for themselves in a legal system that's stacked against them. I'd then bring up the cases of Frank Hatley Jr. and Turner v. Rogers. After explaining those, I'd ask if those men had the upper hand. | /r/MensRights | 14/10/11 03:54 AM |
| 2 | Seriously MRAs, what is with all this trans girl hatred? If you met some of the hot trans girls I've met, you wouldn't care what they were born with. And you wouldn't be gay for it, either.You're misreading. I said All transwomen were NOT born as intersex XX males. I didn't say no transwomen were born as intersex XX males. There's a major distinction there and you're completely misinterpreting it. If I say all men are not criminals, I'm not saying no men are criminals, I'm saying not all men are criminals. Make sense? | /r/MensRights | 13/10/11 05:59 PM |
| 2 | Seriously MRAs, what is with all this trans girl hatred? If you met some of the hot trans girls I've met, you wouldn't care what they were born with. And you wouldn't be gay for it, either.The existence of XX males who may have become transwomen is precisely why I worded this statement the way I worded it: Transpersons are whichever gender with which they identify themselves, but their sex is determined prior to birth All transwomen were not born as intersex XX males. | /r/MensRights | 13/10/11 05:14 PM |
| 2 | Seriously MRAs, what is with all this trans girl hatred? If you met some of the hot trans girls I've met, you wouldn't care what they were born with. And you wouldn't be gay for it, either.But if you didn't read my post, how can you actually agree with what I'm saying, or declare it anti-trans? You may have read a sentence or two, decided I said X, while overlooking something else that turns that X into a Y. You said r/TP wanted to open up a debate, well here is your chance. This is my position. If I'm wrong, or you disagree with something I said, argue against it. I can't say you'll convince me, but I'm at least open to being convinced by a compelling argument. | /r/MensRights | 13/10/11 04:31 PM |
| 3 | Seriously MRAs, what is with all this trans girl hatred? If you met some of the hot trans girls I've met, you wouldn't care what they were born with. And you wouldn't be gay for it, either.Agreed, but the intentions were the same regardless. To open up a debate and try to explain to people that trans girls are still girls. I take the view that gender (the social construct) and sex (a biological description) are two separate, but related distinctions. Some people are attracted to a particular gender regardless of sex...some people are attracted to a particular sex regardless of gender...and others are attracted to a particular combination of both gender and sex. I also tend to view… | /r/MensRights | 13/10/11 02:15 PM |
| 6 | Seriously MRAs, what is with all this trans girl hatred? If you met some of the hot trans girls I've met, you wouldn't care what they were born with. And you wouldn't be gay for it, either.And that's awesome....but that doesn't negate the fact that some people from r/transphobiaproject DO lead with hostility. When someone starts out with hostility, they're likely to be met with hostility. Aside from that, there's an assumption among many in r/TP that not wanting to sleep with a transwoman IS bigotry. There's no denying that it can be rooted in bigotry, but that's not always the case, and when you label people "bigots" simply because of their sexual preference, they're going to fee… | /r/MensRights | 13/10/11 08:39 AM |
| 4 | Seriously MRAs, what is with all this trans girl hatred? If you met some of the hot trans girls I've met, you wouldn't care what they were born with. And you wouldn't be gay for it, either.Then why start off with the hostility? Why not start off without the accusations, like this post: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/kri2u/trans_disclosurepostopmtf_in_this_case/ | /r/MensRights | 13/10/11 08:11 AM |
| 8 | Seriously MRAs, what is with all this trans girl hatred? If you met some of the hot trans girls I've met, you wouldn't care what they were born with. And you wouldn't be gay for it, either.But they made the post in r/MR with the confrontational headline insinuating all MRAs felt that way. I'm not saying Nijuro's goal was discrediting r/MR...but you can't deny that they came here looking for a fight...and then stoked the fire that they started. | /r/MensRights | 13/10/11 08:05 AM |
| 1 | My opinion of the whole trans-debateWhat you're seeing are SRS trolls and a handful of bigoted MRAs: http://i.imgur.com/LjS4b.png (source) http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/9938/65780406.png and it was all started by someone from r/transphobiaproject looking to start shit: http://www.reddit.com/r/TransphobiaProject/comments/l9nge/i_stirred_up_a_shitstorm/ | /r/MensRights | 13/10/11 06:40 AM |
| 4 | Seriously MRAs, what is with all this trans girl hatred? If you met some of the hot trans girls I've met, you wouldn't care what they were born with. And you wouldn't be gay for it, either.What you're seeing are SRS trolls and a handful of bigoted MRAs: http://i.imgur.com/LjS4b.png (source) http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/9938/65780406.png and it was all started by someone from r/transphobiaproject looking to start shit: http://www.reddit.com/r/TransphobiaProject/comments/l9nge/i_stirred_up_a_shitstorm/ | /r/MensRights | 13/10/11 06:38 AM |
| 3 | SecedeIf that's how you feel go to r/rights4men -- it was explicitly set up by bigoted MRAs for exactly that reason. | /r/MensRights | 13/10/11 06:27 AM |
| 10 | Why do you deserve to know if the woman you're fucking is trans?I'm just going to repost my comment from the last time this issue came up: Some men wouldn't consent to sex if they knew it was with a transwoman. Sometimes it's simply a matter of homophobia, but it could also be rooted in an innate desire to reproduce (there needs to be a term for this, I would say "cissexual", but that seems to be nearly synonymous with "cisgendered"). That being said, the transgendered (especially transwomen) have to be especially cautious given the abnormally high possibili… | /r/MensRights | 13/10/11 06:07 AM |
| 1 | CDC executive Kimberly Quinlan Lindsey arrested for child molestation (6 year old boy), bestiality, out of jailI lean towards agreeing with you, but what I wrote is the rationale for WBB posts in r/MR...and David Futrelle should know this already. | /r/MensRights | 12/10/11 04:50 PM |
| 4 | CDC executive Kimberly Quinlan Lindsey arrested for child molestation (6 year old boy), bestiality, out of jailSo why do people here need to read so many of these WBB stories? On that same sidebar you keep ignoring it gives a subscriber count...that count keeps going up (with us gaining over 1600 new subscribers in about 2 months). New people come here, and they need to see that women do this shit too. Aside from that, the posts could be useful, should others claim that women aren't pedophiles, or that women aren't rapists, etc. Actually, do you know anyone at all who thinks that women don't behave badly… | /r/MensRights | 12/10/11 12:40 PM |
| 1 | CDC executive Kimberly Quinlan Lindsey arrested for child molestation (6 year old boy), bestiality, out of jailI wrote in huge text because you, of all people, should fucking know better. For the past year or so you've run a fucking website about us, and have postured as if you have a clue what the fuck is going on... yet here you are displaying a fundamental lack of understanding re something which is pretty fucking common: WBB posts. I've read it already. It's a pretty incoherent, illogical rant, and much of it doesn't apply here since there's no evidence that she's getting different treatment because … | /r/MensRights | 12/10/11 10:41 AM |
| 2 | CDC executive Kimberly Quinlan Lindsey arrested for child molestation (6 year old boy), bestiality, out of jailREAD THE FUCKING FAQ http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/71ues/faq1_why_did_you_post_this_what_does_a_crazy_evil/ | /r/MensRights | 12/10/11 09:39 AM |
| 2 | The Patriarchy - ImageIf there's no slut shaming, and women are generally in positions of authority, that would go a long way. But by the definition to which you agreed, slut-shaming in and of itself is not a criteria of patriarchy...so its nonexistence could not falsify such claims. Barring the slut-shaming, would you agree that women generally being in positions of authority would be enough to falsify claims of patriarchy? no Okay, so in your view how many can remain unmet before a social system is no longer a patr… | /r/MensRights | 11/10/11 04:30 PM |
| 2 | The Patriarchy - Imagethat works I guess Okay, great. So by this definition, the criteria of patriarchy are as follows: Males must be viewed as the primary authority figure. The aforementioned view must be central to the organization of the social system. Within that social system, fathers must hold authority over: - women - children - property Before we go much further, I'd like us to reach an agreement on what, exactly, would falsify a claim that a particular society is a patriarchy. In my view, each of the aforeme… | /r/MensRights | 11/10/11 03:30 PM |
| 2 | What tv show/commercial do you hate the most because of how it portrays men? i'll starti mean, i hate beer There's a lot of different types of beer out there...have you tried the weird stuff (like weissbier, or rauchbier)? | /r/MensRights | 11/10/11 05:07 AM |
| 5 | The Patriarchy - ImageI know you're from SRS and are probably just here to start shit, but fuck it, I'm between clients right now and dealing with a stomach bug, so let's talk about The Patriarchy™. Before we get started though, can we settle on a working definition of the term? I mean, the definitions vary wildly, ranging from "an unjust social system that is oppressive to women" to "a social system in which the role of the male as the primary authority figure is central to social organization, and where fathers hol… | /r/MensRights | 11/10/11 04:45 AM |
| 4 | "Nearly 3 out of 4 of the women surveyed said that name calling or put-downs on a regular basis constituted domestic violence and 44% suggested that even occasional harsh words counted as domestic violence."Look through the lies. What purpose is served by this legalization of minutiae in relationships? Hey, I'm not trying to be a dick or anything, but I think you might have meant "legislation"...legalization means something a bit different. Anyway I doubt there is anything nefarious behind this...I think it's more a case of people just being fucking retarded and not really thinking about the implications or ramifications of their position. | /r/MensRights | 10/10/11 03:57 AM |
| 8 | "Nearly 3 out of 4 of the women surveyed said that name calling or put-downs on a regular basis constituted domestic violence and 44% suggested that even occasional harsh words counted as domestic violence."CRIMINALS!!!!! I BET YOU BOTH FUCKED AT SOME TIME AFTER THAT POINT AS WELL, DIDN'T YOU?!?!?!?! THAT'S RAPE!!!! YOU SHOULD BOTH BE ON THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY FOR BEING HORRIBLE RAPIST DOMESTIC ABUSERS!!!! | /r/MensRights | 10/10/11 02:51 AM |
| 2 | "Why do my eyes hurt?" "You've never used them before." (X-post from 2X)You should probably read that story from the beginning. It changes things quite a bit. head-nod | /r/MensRights | 10/10/11 02:38 AM |
| 18 | "Nearly 3 out of 4 of the women surveyed said that name calling or put-downs on a regular basis constituted domestic violence and 44% suggested that even occasional harsh words counted as domestic violence."I think this bit is even worse: 1 in 3 insisted on something akin to a strict liability standard for the perpetrator, saying that put-downs and criticisms that did not hurt the other person’s feelings nonetheless should be considered domestic violence, a sentiment echoed by many women in the focus groups. To these women, verbal battery is a gateway to physical harm and should not be dismissed. So not only do they want to criminalize hurting someone's feelings...but they literally want to regulat… | /r/MensRights | 10/10/11 01:58 AM |
| 5 | "you lousy pinky dicked men are fat, too, ya know... you didn't want to miss your spot in line for the misogyny circlejerk."It seems to happen every time we get a bunch of new subscribers -- and we have gained over 1600 new subscribers in less than 2 months. It'll probably die down again once the bulk of the new people get over the shock of realizing that, yes, there are horrible and stupid people out there, and, surprising as it may seem, they do tend to say horrible and stupid things. | /r/MensRights | 09/10/11 04:50 AM |
| 1 | The doofus dad/capable mom tv trope in one picture (quite possibly the show that originated it)It dates back to at least the 1930's: Blondie’s marriage marked the beginning of a change in her personality. From that point forward, she gradually assumed her position as the sensible head of the Bumstead household. And Dagwood, who previously had been cast in the role of straight man to Blondie’s comic antics, took over as the comic strip’s clown. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_%28comic_strip%29#Marriage | /r/MensRights | 08/10/11 04:12 PM |
| 6 | What's the name for someone who's for general gender equality?"Gender-egalitarian" is the actual term, not "anarchist" or "men's rights activist (/advocate)". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_egalitarianism | /r/MensRights | 08/10/11 01:06 PM |
| 2 | looking for: More men are raped than woman by a longshot sourceI'm pretty sure you won't find anything backing up that claim. In rantgrril's comment she provides a link for sexual victimization in prison which states: Nationwide, these percentages suggest that approximately 88,500 adults held in prisons and jails at the time of the survey had been sexually victimized. That's for both male AND female. We have other data for rape/sexual assault prevalence (both reported and unreported) for that same approximate time period (which excludes prisoners as it's a … | /r/MensRights | 08/10/11 12:54 PM |
| 2 | Do you see men's rights as opposed to feminism, neutral towards feminism, or part of feminism?It needs to be stressed that feminism is not gender-egalitarianism, and that opposing feminism is not opposing women's rights. All variants of feminism (excepting equity feminism which is not actually feminism, but liberal-gender-egalitarianism) share 3 assumptions/beliefs: Men and women should be equal Men are above women in our society In order that said equality may be brought about that disparity must be corrected (i.e. women must be raised up/men must be brought down. In a society where men… | /r/MensRights | 08/10/11 02:07 AM |
| 1 | Gay men should be allowed to give blood -- Washington PostI donate my blood regularly. | /r/MensRights | 07/10/11 12:02 PM |
| 1 | Gay men should be allowed to give blood -- Washington PostYou might want to check that link you posted. Yeah, my bad. That's what I get for trying to multi-task. But the point I'm trying to make, is that an organisation like the Red Cross supplies blood to millions of people. They have a huge responsibility. And the vCJD ban just demonstrates how absurdly careful they are. But that defense is negated by the fact that a high-risk person (+P, -C) can donate blood, while a low-risk person (-P, +C) can't. These blanket-bans on gay men seem to reflect the b… | /r/MensRights | 07/10/11 10:57 AM |
| 0 | Gay men should be allowed to give blood -- Washington PostEven if you're a British vegan, you're still banned. That's pretty fucking retarded too, but it doesn't apply everywhere. We're both looking at the guidelines used by individual states -- mine was for KY, yours was for MI -- so let's look at the national guidelines: http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/eligibility-requirements/eligibility-criteria-topic CJD: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) If you ever received a dura mater (brain covering) transplant or human pituitary growth hormone, you… | /r/MensRights | 07/10/11 09:46 AM |
| 1 | Gay men should be allowed to give blood -- Washington PostThe way it's implemented is asinine. A straight person who fucks/gets fucked by a bunch of people without any protection is allowed to donate blood, but a gay man who's only ever slept with 1 man, and has always worn a condom is not allowed to donate. Obviously the promiscuous person who doesn't use a condom is a much greater risk for HIV than the gay man who does use a condom. Read the guidelines: http://chapters.redcross.org/ky/rivervalley/eligibility.htm#hiv For comparison, I personally am al… | /r/MensRights | 07/10/11 09:06 AM |
| 5 | In r/twoxchromosomes - What are your thoughts on tiny penises?The only way this would be an issue is if the same women who weren't interested in tiny-dicked men also screamed "sexism" at men who weren't interested in tiny-titted women (or some other physical characteristic). It's just a matter of preference...and we all have our own. | /r/MensRights | 07/10/11 06:52 AM |
| 1 | And here's what you get, ignatiusloyola, for all your hard work--/lgbt is "disgusted" at /mr's attempts to "co-opt" lgbt issues...Yes, my concerns couldn't possibly be with hijacking the subreddit with irrelevant material from a media-saturated minority group, heavily favored by victimologists in the political, social, and academic world, and funded to the tune of millions of dollars to promote their chosen issues in every arena of the media, the political and the judicial system. Obviously, my argument can never be taken seriously because there must be something wrong with me. Have you never even heard of the term "ad hom… | /r/MensRights | 07/10/11 05:06 AM |
| 22 | I was molested last year at a party and it was photographed and passed around and considered funny. Why is this ok?Something similar happened to me when I was around 14 (obese girl did shit to me while I was half-conscious in front of a room full of people), though fortunately this was before everyone started photographing everything and posting it online. If it's any consolation, it will eventually fade into the background...for you and everyone else. | /r/MensRights | 06/10/11 08:12 AM |
| 1 | New logo... Bad Concept... Bad Implementation....Movember Also, September is, apparently, "Prostate Cancer Awareness Month" | /r/MensRights | 06/10/11 06:20 AM |
| 1 | And here's what you get, ignatiusloyola, for all your hard work--/lgbt is "disgusted" at /mr's attempts to "co-opt" lgbt issues...Nothing you've said has shown that LGBT History Month is in any way substantively related content for this content-specific subreddit Some people use r/MR to spread anti-LGBT bigotry. LGBT history month, in the context of r/MR, was an attempt to make it clear that r/MR supports its LGBT members, despite what pseudo-consensus may have otherwise been inferred from the ravings of our bigoted fringe. So why don't you stop speaking with a forked tongue and say what you really think about me I think y… | /r/MensRights | 06/10/11 05:05 AM |
| 2 | "Time to man up, real men do this,or don't do that..."Men's rights is about defending manhood ...no, it's not. It's about equal rights for men...all types of men. | /r/MensRights | 06/10/11 03:07 AM |
| 1 | "Time to man up, real men do this,or don't do that..."I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but I take "man up" as a statement of being willfully strong and determined. I take it as "you're concerns are irrelevant so shut the fuck up and do what I expect". | /r/MensRights | 06/10/11 03:02 AM |
| 1 | Susan Walsh claims bi men are unfit for straight relationshipsWho the fuck is Susan Walsh and why the fuck should I care? Also, Gavin Rossdale seems to be doing fine in his straight relationship. | /r/MensRights | 06/10/11 02:44 AM |
| 1 | DAE not feel violated or shortchanged by being circumcised?I'm circumcised and I don't feel "violated"/etc., but feeling violated isn't the issue. It should be the individual's choice. Since children are too young to consent to such things, we should err on the side of not performing an unnecessary and permanent surgery which can sometimes result in death or disfigurement. That's what it comes down to, and that should be enough to end the involuntary circumcision of children. ...but apparently it's not enough to stop the circumcision of boys, while it i… | /r/MensRights | 06/10/11 02:40 AM |
| 1 | And here's what you get, ignatiusloyola, for all your hard work--/lgbt is "disgusted" at /mr's attempts to "co-opt" lgbt issues...LGBT History Month is not relevant to /MR's stated goals of advancing the advocacy of men's rights, even though gay men happen to be men. The reason gay men are being persecuted is largely not because they are men, but because they are gay. Where gay men are being persecuted moreso than gay women simply because they are men, our issues coincide. It's infinitely more complex than that. I notice you highlighted the "L", so I'm going to point you to MAAB lesbians. The same misandry which considers … | /r/MensRights | 06/10/11 02:12 AM |
| 1 | Many feminists state we are about hatred, which we arent , but when faced with such blatant hatred from them why do they expect a higher standard from us ?They're free to do as they like, but the MRM is never going to be the male branch of feminism and we probably won't be able to actually work together as the ideology itself is not compatible with the aims of the MRM (i.e. actual equality). They won't accept us unless we accept their ideology, and we don't accept their ideology (for a number of reasons). I can elaborate if you're actually interested, but for the sake of brevity I'll assume you're not. | /r/MensRights | 05/10/11 01:37 AM |
| 1 | Many feminists state we are about hatred, which we arent , but when faced with such blatant hatred from them why do they expect a higher standard from us ?"We should work together" still seems to have an implied "... on my terms" Working together implies cooperation. Cooperation implies compromise, not subservience. We will be supporting you on our terms, regardless of whether or not we have your support. If you decide to support our issues, we'd expect that to be on your terms. Sometimes we could work together when there's overlap (i.e. circumcision, male victims of DV, etc.), and in those instances, we could either combine our efforts, whereby w… | /r/MensRights | 04/10/11 11:25 PM |
| 0 | Many feminists state we are about hatred, which we arent , but when faced with such blatant hatred from them why do they expect a higher standard from us ?Pretty much this exact sentiment comes up any time a feminist-identified site posts an article about a men's rights issue. Because their arguments tend to center on "...feminism is the solution to these problems". When MRAs bring up LGBT issues, our arguments tend towards "...because there's overlap here, we should work together". Do you not notice the difference? | /r/MensRights | 04/10/11 08:58 PM |
| -1 | New logo... Bad Concept... Bad Implementation.That's why there's been all these strange self posts about the movement being 'co-opted'? Yeah. Basically there are a few people pissed off that we're supporting LGBT rights, and so they're now trying to undermine r/MR as best they can (and failing...as evidenced by the rising number of subscribers). It's actually a very thoughtful idea. Thanks...I'm actually the one who first suggested it. Some folks out there need to try harder to see the forest from the trees. It's only like 4-5 MRAs throwing… | /r/MensRights | 04/10/11 04:49 AM |
| 0 | New logo... Bad Concept... Bad Implementation.It's the men's rights symbol with the LGBT flag...for LGBT history month. | /r/MensRights | 04/10/11 04:32 AM |
| 2 | New logo... Bad Concept... Bad Implementation.http://i.imgur.com/7jzsZ.png | /r/MensRights | 04/10/11 04:20 AM |
| -1 | New logo... Bad Concept... Bad Implementation.I made the current logo in about 15 minutes, and I'm also a professional designer. If you had something better, you should have submitted it last week...when they were asking for submissions. | /r/MensRights | 04/10/11 04:19 AM |
| 3 | And here's what you get, ignatiusloyola, for all your hard work--/lgbt is "disgusted" at /mr's attempts to "co-opt" lgbt issues...Aww--thanks for being so concerned with how I'm appearing. I feel like you really care about me as a person, and are not just trying to make your argument by appealing to my vanity. I don't give a fuck about you as a person. I'm just tired of the bigots, and I'm tired of them drawing support from non-bigots who inadvertently support their bigotry. The shit you've posted makes you look like a homophobe. Homophobes will see that shit and it will strengthen their resolve. From your own link: We're … | /r/MensRights | 04/10/11 03:29 AM |
| 3 | And here's what you get, ignatiusloyola, for all your hard work--/lgbt is "disgusted" at /mr's attempts to "co-opt" lgbt issues...But it is content specific, or did you never read this? And it's great that you're not concerned about looking like a homophobe...but you do. What's more, you provide support for the actual homophobes in much the same way that egalitarians posing as "feminists" give support to actual feminists. If you want a subreddit that ONLY focuses on the concerns of straight men, there is always R4M...that's where the other homophobes fled to the last time these issues came up. | /r/MensRights | 03/10/11 11:47 PM |
| 7 | And here's what you get, ignatiusloyola, for all your hard work--/lgbt is "disgusted" at /mr's attempts to "co-opt" lgbt issues...Like I said in the comment, in which you found this link: What matters is that r/MR supports their rights, even if they hate us for it. You don't have to be a part of that, but actively fighting against it looks an awful lot like homophobia. | /r/MensRights | 03/10/11 11:26 PM |
| 2 | Debunking The Mammoths of MRA MythologyMore like: debunking the strawmen. | /r/MensRights | 03/10/11 11:24 PM |
| 2 | Why should we spend time promoting lgbt issues which are already being widely promoted at the local, state, national, and international level?You don't have to do anything. What matters is that r/MR supports their rights, even if they hate us for it. You don't have to be a part of that, but actively fighting against it looks an awful lot like homophobia. | /r/MensRights | 03/10/11 10:53 PM |
| 4 | Why should we spend time promoting lgbt issues which are already being widely promoted at the local, state, national, and international level?You guys spend more time bitching that r/MR supports LGBT rights then the whole of r/MR spends supporting LGBT rights. | /r/MensRights | 03/10/11 06:46 PM |
| 4 | ATTN Mods: You put up the wrong LGBT logo - My logo won first placeTIL: homophobes can't count. | /r/MensRights | 03/10/11 06:40 PM |
| 2 | LGBT & MensRights Logo CompetitionNP | /r/MensRights | 03/10/11 06:39 PM |
| 2 | LGBT & MensRights Logo CompetitionYeah, it was dark grey instead of black. Here's one in black: http://i.imgur.com/gq3Ef.png | /r/MensRights | 03/10/11 06:22 PM |
| 3 | LGBT & MensRights Logo Competitionhttp://i.imgur.com/JatfO.png | /r/MensRights | 03/10/11 06:09 PM |
| 2 | Male Privilege? I don't think so.I see, there were 2 marked 45. I'll edit it in. Thanks. NP | /r/MensRights | 02/10/11 06:03 AM |
| 2 | Male Privilege? I don't think so.You seem to have skipped one: On average, I am not interrupted by women as often as women are interrupted by men. | /r/MensRights | 02/10/11 05:51 AM |
| 6 | Vigilante justice on my college campus against alleged rapists, not sure how I feel about it. Would like to hear your thoughts. : TwoXChromosomesbut there is a group of people who are very radical, anarchists and the like. OOH what a shocker. Relevant: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ThUnJu7vhegJ:twincities.indymedia.org/2010/apr/anarchist-rapist-gets-bat-well-show-you-crazy-bitches-2+%22Anarchist%22+Rapist+Gets+The+Bat (google cache because the site seems to be down) http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/ip6yy/yo_fuck_anarchist_news/ | /r/MensRights | 01/10/11 07:46 AM |
| 2 | So, I broke up with my gf of 2 years after she gained well over 100lbs and told me she had no desire to lose it and I am not attracted to her. Why am I the bad guy?Still working on giving up soda. That's much harder than I expected. The first time I went a full day without the syrupy goodness of Dr. Pepper, I was literally shaking and plagued with migraines. Try Pepsi Max. It's soda, but it's made with aspartame instead of HFCS/sugar so it has no calories (and it actually tastes pretty damn good). Once you're used to the taste, regular soda will taste like ass (nauseatingly sweet). | /r/MensRights | 01/10/11 06:19 AM |
| 2 | So are gay men's rights somehow less important than straight men's rights?Actually, from what I see and hear gay men have more rights then traditional straight men. Is this a joke, or do you actually believe this bullshit? Legally you can't discriminate against gay males but straight males tend to have no rights. The Civil Rights Act doesn't protect employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation, but it does protect sex. In fact, only 21 states prohibit employer discrimination based on sexual orientation...and only 15 prohibit gender identity discrimination… | /r/MensRights | 30/09/11 09:17 PM |
| 7 | /r/MensRights is being intentionally underminedOf the top 20 on the frontpage right now, only 1 is related to LGBT anything (gay teen bullied even after suicide), 1 is explicitly about DV (DV awareness month post) and 3 more are about violence against men (2 about the guy getting kicked in the balls, and 1 about a picture of a severed dick in a frying pan). | /r/MensRights | 30/09/11 07:10 AM |
| 1 | Non-Confidence in AnnArchist - vote to remove as mod.I don't really care about the title. Change it, leave it...whatever. | /r/MensRights | 30/09/11 06:16 AM |
| 17 | /r/MensRights is being intentionally underminedhttp://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/ktkbc/rmensrights_supports_lgbt_history_month/ | /r/MensRights | 30/09/11 06:16 AM |
| 1 | Non-Confidence in AnnArchist - vote to remove as mod.Jeezus, how many people have to say this how many times...? Feminists are not interested in helping us, they seek ONLY to repair their rep, and undermine our movement. NO SHIT This isn't about feminists...this is about the idiots who CALL THEMSELVES feminists, but don't actually adhere to the ideology. I can't make it any clearer than that. Making changes to the basic approach the largest concentration of MRAs take without ANY consultation, based on a naive desire to appease feminists, IS STUPID… | /r/MensRights | 29/09/11 11:37 PM |
| 2 | Non-Confidence in AnnArchist - vote to remove as mod....and rather than making feminism a dirty word, r/mr intends to LEGITIMIZE feminism by taking the stance that 'some feminists' are good. Like it or not "feminism" is not a dirty word to those people...it's a word they view with pride. I take it you view the label MRA with pride. If someone is trying to convince you of something and they start talking about how MRAs are misogynists who want to subvert women's rights, etc., you're probably not going to listen to their message, even if they make g… | /r/MensRights | 29/09/11 10:23 PM |
| 2 | Non-Confidence in AnnArchist - vote to remove as mod.I don't really see us doing that though. Feminism is the belief that men are above women in our society, and that equality can only come about by raising women up/bringing men down. But feminism is sold as simple egalitarianism. In 2011, in the US (and other western nations), it's pretty damn obvious that men are not above women. But because of the "feminism is equality" PR campaign, you have A LOT of people calling themselves "feminists" when they really aren't...and they have to be approached … | /r/MensRights | 29/09/11 09:22 PM |
| 3 | Non-Confidence in AnnArchist - vote to remove as mod.I'm the one that suggested LGBT history month to them in the first place and it has absolutely nothing to do with feminists. | /r/MensRights | 29/09/11 10:01 AM |
| 2 | Non-Confidence in AnnArchist - vote to remove as mod.It's growing because the internet, the explosion of social media (like reddit), the strength of our arguments, and the fact that we haven't been co-opted by feminism...and none of that has changed. | /r/MensRights | 29/09/11 09:00 AM |
| 1 | Non-Confidence in AnnArchist - vote to remove as mod.It's not about accommodating feminists (they could all kill themselves for all I care)...it's about not alienating the regular people who call themselves a "feminist" because some freshman taking their first WS course told them "feminism is equality". | /r/MensRights | 28/09/11 11:35 PM |
| 1 | Non-Confidence in AnnArchist - vote to remove as mod.While I agree that feminists are much of the problem and that feminism itself is an ideology which ultimately produces sexism...changing the title is somewhat beneficial (even if the phrasing sucks). There are people calling themselves "feminists" who are not actually feminists, and unfortunately they're the demographic we need to reach if we want the MRM to gain mainstream support. While it's important to show them why "feminist" is an unfortunate label for them to choose, it's arguably more im… | /r/MensRights | 28/09/11 10:28 PM |
| 2 | children's shows: misandrist?? you be the judge,,,,You dumbasses are posting in a troll thread. Teefs is from SRS and posts anti-MRA shit. | /r/MensRights | 28/09/11 06:44 PM |
| 1 | The Death Penalty , your own view.You said: There's a chance that's just a fever dream of yours, making it possible that none of that happened. It's improbable but improbabilities is not impossibility. The only way this is possible is if reality were not independent from consciousness. You cited wikipedia...okay, well did you read the very first sentence? Realism, Realist or Realistic are terms that describe any manifestation of philosophical realism, the belief that reality exists independently of observers, whether in philosop… | /r/MensRights | 28/09/11 07:17 AM |
| 1 | The Death Penalty , your own view.I'm a realist, not a solipsist. But putting that ridiculously long and ultimately unnecessary argument aside, if you doubt the existence of a reality outside of your own mind...why the fuck would you waste your time in a comment thread about the death penalty? | /r/MensRights | 28/09/11 04:26 AM |
| -1 | LGBT & MensRights Logo CompetitionWhat rational point? Bitching and moaning that r/MR dares to acknowledge gay/trans MRAs? Ignoring the fact that r/MR is mostly straight/cis and that LGBT MRAs might feel like their issues are drowned out by yet another straight guy issue? They created R4M explicitly because they didn't like r/MR supporting gay rights...and that's not changing any time soon, so yeah he can fuck off back to his homophobic enclave. And if it bothers you so much, perhaps you should join him and spare us from all of … | /r/MensRights | 28/09/11 02:32 AM |
| 1 | LGBT & MensRights Logo CompetitionIf you don't like it, you can fuck off back to R4M. | /r/MensRights | 28/09/11 02:01 AM |
| 3 | LGBT & MensRights Logo CompetitionLG: http://i.imgur.com/7jzsZ.png SM: http://i.imgur.com/erbBc.png | /r/MensRights | 28/09/11 01:59 AM |
| 1 | The Death Penalty , your own view.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs | /r/MensRights | 28/09/11 12:57 AM |
| 1 | The Death Penalty , your own view.Heinous is in the eye of the beholder. And in my opinion, the crime wasn't especially heinous. These are especially heinous crimes. | /r/MensRights | 28/09/11 12:57 AM |
| 27 | Gawker mocks r/MensRightsGawker owns Jezebel and is a fucking GOSSIP blog (like TMZ...with a dose of self-righteousness). Between getting hacked by anon (who released their user's info), switching to an asinine new layout which actually interfered with reading their drivel, and generally acting like a bunch of over-privileged snarky bitches, they've lost a considerable portion of their readers...which means they make less money. Since then, they've been trying to stir up controversy in order to drive more traffic to the… | /r/MensRights | 27/09/11 07:52 PM |
| 1 | The Death Penalty , your own view.I have no problem with executing those who are actually guilty of especially heinous crimes. The problems are that we usually can't be 100% certain, and that the death penalty is sometimes used for crimes which are not especially heinous -- the Troy Davis case is an example of both of those problems (we weren't 100% certain, and the crime wasn't especially heinous). Until those problems are addressed (which may never be possible), there should be a moratorium on the death penalty. | /r/MensRights | 27/09/11 07:03 PM |
| 0 | Trans Disclosure(Post-Op)[MTF, in this case]I edited the original post within 2 minutes of the original post which was before you commented. I know, because when I reloaded the page there were no child comments. When I originally responded, I also reloaded to make sure it went through. Your edit wasn't there. A few minutes later, when I came across the thread again, your edit was there, so I edited mine and included the bit about finding someone guilty. Comment games aside, SHOW ME SOMEONE OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL WHO HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF RA… | /r/MensRights | 26/09/11 08:10 PM |
| 0 | Trans Disclosure(Post-Op)[MTF, in this case]Interesting, I found Rape by Fraud and Rape by Deception when I did a ctrl+f "rape" Really? You found that here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-11428560 You edited your comment AFTER I responded to you, and you're going to act like an ass now. Classy. I am not a house of public records, and I don't know where to search for court cases, The only court case I've ever heard of is the one in Israel. You found something similar in the UK...however it doesn't say they were charg… | /r/MensRights | 26/09/11 06:48 PM |
| -1 | Trans Disclosure(Post-Op)[MTF, in this case]ctrl+F -- "rape" -- Phrase not found EDIT: show me someone outside of Israel who has been found guilty of rape for this sort of situation. | /r/MensRights | 26/09/11 07:15 AM |
| 6 | Trans Disclosure(Post-Op)[MTF, in this case]It's not rape. If a person only wanted to sleep with people who were Jewish, but they slept with a Palestinian who was "passing", that wouldn't (and shouldn't) be rape. I realize courts in Israel have prosecuted Palestinians for exactly that...but Israel is a fucked up country with fucked up courts. | /r/MensRights | 26/09/11 06:48 AM |
| 8 | Trans Disclosure(Post-Op)[MTF, in this case]Some men wouldn't consent to sex if they knew it was with a transwoman. Sometimes it's simply a matter of homophobia, but it could also be rooted in an innate desire to reproduce (there needs to be a term for this, I would say "cissexual", but that seems to be nearly synonymous with "cisgendered"). That being said, the transgendered (especially transwomen) have to be especially cautious given the abnormally high possibility of violence they could face from bigots. Ideally it wouldn't be an issue… | /r/MensRights | 26/09/11 05:26 AM |
| 30 | Fuck that mentality.Actually it's not as weird as it sounds. Sometimes they dress up as utility workers, or pretend they're selling shit. In my area some Russians were going around like that. They'd have this small woman stand in front and knock, while two or three guys stand off to the side so you couldn't see them...when people looked out and saw it was only a girl with a clipboard, they'd open up and the guys would push their way in. They came to my house, but I only opened the door like 6" (and had my foot behi… | /r/MensRights | 23/09/11 05:55 PM |
| 1 | The Problem With Gay Rights, or why feminism is the enemy of all menPersonally I think that straight men have as much right to dictate what we should want as females do—that is, none whatsoever. You're absolutely right. I am aware of the undercurrent of homophobia that is often present among MRA and while most of the time I choose to ignore it, it doesn't mean that other gay men would. The MRM is in its infancy and we have, essentially, two diametrically opposed sides: you have the traditionalists/conservatives/etc., and you have the progressive/liberals/etc. Th… | /r/MensRights | 23/09/11 05:33 PM |
| 9 | All your problems begin with menSTOP OPPRESSING WOMYN BY REWRITING HERSTORY WITH YOUR PATRIARCHAL MANSPLAINING!!! | /r/MensRights | 23/09/11 03:52 PM |
| 5 | About being labeled a "misogynist"...Kill the rich, not the poor...good song though. | /r/MensRights | 23/09/11 03:43 PM |
| 4 | A new space to discuss men's rights - r/masculismWho's they? Those who oppose r/MR and are involved in your project. | /r/MensRights | 22/09/11 09:17 PM |
| 2 | A new space to discuss men's rights - r/masculismYou are neglecting to count the members who preferred for their own reasons to be approved submitters rather than moderators. ... Because in r/communityplans, everyone is a mod, every single person there. So not everyone is a mod. More so, if you had participants who weren't mods, and the SRS trolls were mods, then they would necessarily have a more central role than the non-mods. Aside from that, who knows how many more SRS trolls were participants but not mods, and who knows how much they post… | /r/MensRights | 22/09/11 09:00 PM |
| 5 | A new space to discuss men's rights - r/masculismYou need to understand that our r/SRS members have been extremely unpopular, and have been downvoted and disagreed with at every turn. That's not what I saw. I closed the tab so I can no longer prove it, but I saw them getting upvoted and people agreeing with them. The screenshot I had supplied doesn't show much, but one thing it does show is that, at the very least, they weren't downvoted (as you claim). The planning subreddit had almost a hundred members in it 81, and SRS represented at least … | /r/MensRights | 22/09/11 08:34 PM |
| 0 | A new space to discuss men's rights - r/masculismI'm kind of surprised that you're so opposed, considering how helpful you were to me when I reached out to you earlier...and I remain grateful for your very helpful guidance no matter what conclusion you end up coming to about our space, but I still had hoped that you at least would see what I'm really about here. I said to you: "I think it's going to end badly for everyone but the feminists...and I'd rather not be a party to something like that." That hasn't changed. In fact, the bullshit with … | /r/MensRights | 22/09/11 08:21 PM |
| 7 | A new space to discuss men's rights - r/masculismWe could consider opening it up, its not like we're hiding anything You have a good bit to hide though. I only had access to it for a few minutes, and I managed to find this. You've effectively given them a platform to spread not just feminism, but a particularly sexist strain of feminism. Have you been to the website they linked? Have you seen their definition of terms like "sexism"? They literally define it in such a way that women can not be sexist against men: Short definition: Sexism is bot… | /r/MensRights | 22/09/11 08:05 PM |
| 5 | A new space to discuss men's rights - r/masculism...and why is your planning subreddit now private again? I still had it open in another tab, so for anyone who's curious, here is a screenshot. | /r/MensRights | 22/09/11 07:31 PM |
| 6 | A new space to discuss men's rights - r/masculismWhy are several trolls from SRS (therealbarackobama, Amrosorma, barbadosslim) included in your mod list from your formerly private planning subreddit? Are those the sorts of feminists you wish to embrace with r/masculism? EDIT: they made the subreddit private again, so here is a screenshot of the mod list. | /r/MensRights | 22/09/11 07:15 PM |
| 2 | Bathrooms...okay. So you walked to the wrong bathroom and had to turn around and walk 40 feet to the right one? I'm really not seeing how this could even remotely be a men's rights issue. | /r/MensRights | 22/09/11 05:55 AM |
| 3 | BathroomsMaybe I'm misreading this, but are you really complaining about having to walk 40 feet to the men's room? | /r/MensRights | 22/09/11 05:38 AM |
| 2 | Tucker Max and Joy Behar debate the "Hookup Culture" - guess who makes the better argument?This is what I heard | /r/MensRights | 22/09/11 03:49 AM |
| 1 | Want to know about feminism? Read some Bell Hooks. Famous Feminist Author. Here is one of her essays on masculinity. Title: Penis Passion. By Bell Hooks.Have fun with this one: https://www.msu.edu/~versluis/HooksRage.html | /r/MensRights | 21/09/11 10:35 PM |
| 28 | About being labeled a "misogynist"...It's a honeytrap for libertarians and idiots. EDIT: http://i.imgur.com/1h6yq.png | /r/MensRights | 21/09/11 03:34 AM |
| 107 | About being labeled a "misogynist"...You sound like the type of person who might go on a shooting rampage or something. All of that resentment and narcissism is a recipe for fucking disaster. I'm being dead serious here: please talk to someone (i.e. a family member or a therapist). | /r/MensRights | 21/09/11 02:27 AM |
| 1 | There could never be such abuse with court appointed counselors in family law cases! "Valera and Duran also threw “charting” parties, where they and other American Therapeutic employees altered patient records to make it look like they needed the purported group therapy sessions when they didn’t."PsychSearch.net is a public service informational project of Data Search Worldwide, Inc., a public records retrieval company founded by Ken Kramer in 1998 and located in Clearwater, Florida. [...] Kramer, 49, of Clearwater, is a Scientologist and shares Scientology's ardent opposition to psychiatry. He runs a public records research firm and volunteers with the Clearwater branch of Citizens Commission on Human Rights, which was founded by the Church of Scientology in 1969 to expose abuses in psy… | /r/MensRights | 20/09/11 01:01 PM |
| 2 | Mother dying of cancer charged child support and had her kids taken away.For one thing: Ron Paul's "let the states decide!" isn't a solution to a problem. It creates 50 small tyrranies instead of one big one. That's just for starters. Okay, so you're an even more extreme libertarian than Ron Paul. ...you're not exactly helping your case here. I get it, you're an objectivist...great. I'm a lot of things, foremost, I'm a nihilist, following that I'm a skeptic, and a determinist. I don't believe in any objective morality; instead I seek out that which I believe will bri… | /r/MensRights | 19/09/11 10:27 PM |
| 2 | Mother dying of cancer charged child support and had her kids taken away.No, I thought you would lack a philosophical base for your argument By "philosophical base" are you referring to hollow platitudes like "you can't hold a gun to people's heads and call it charity", and "I absolutely do not owe you anything"? If so, then yeah, you're right...I don't base my political views on blurbs I cribbed from a Ron Paul flyer. You will have three options, of which only two are likely Well, we know which option you've chosen: You will feel threatened because I upset your flaw… | /r/MensRights | 19/09/11 08:32 PM |
| 2 | Mother dying of cancer charged child support and had her kids taken away.I can't stand people like you Then why did you bother replying in the first place? Oh, you thought I'd be a pushover. and I would want you to die if you were sick. Libertarianism: if I don't like your opinions, then I would want you to die if you were sick. "Kill the rich" is about as offensive as it gets. Only to rich people. You are an egalitarian Where did I say that? you get off on punishing success and want to glorify mediocrity. lol. If we actually lived in a meritocracy then perhaps your … | /r/MensRights | 19/09/11 07:39 PM |
| 2 | Mother dying of cancer charged child support and had her kids taken away.False. I earn money by entering into voluntary agreements, and working. No "collective effort" puts money into my pocket. I work for myself, to support my life. Not yours. Not anyone else's. You're protected by our taxpayer-funded police force and military. You're able to procure and ship products thanks to a taxpayer-funded road network. Your utilities are likely subsidized somehow through taxpayer money (especially if you live outside of a major metropolitan area). Tell me more about yourself … | /r/MensRights | 19/09/11 06:05 PM |
| 1 | Mother dying of cancer charged child support and had her kids taken away.My answer isn't ridiculous, it's rational. In no way does the word "rational" describe what you wrote. You cannot hold a gun to people's heads and call it charity. Hey look it's more "rational" thoughts from porkrocket. No, taxing income is not "holding a gun to people's heads". Don't want to pay taxes? Don't earn money. The mechanisms in place which allow you to earn that money come about through the collective efforts of those within your society. That tax is you paying your bill for utilizing… | /r/MensRights | 19/09/11 05:16 PM |
| 2 | Mother dying of cancer charged child support and had her kids taken away.Asks innocent question; posits ridiculous answer without waiting for a response. If OP could provide additional information (enough that I could verify it wasn't a scam), and provided a secure way for me to donate (preferably through paypal), I would be more than happy to donate. However, our society shouldn't be set up in such a way that someone is forced to rely on the good will of individuals for such situations. You're posting in r/MR so I assume you're aware of the double standard re male a… | /r/MensRights | 19/09/11 04:53 PM |
| 3 | Mother dying of cancer charged child support and had her kids taken away.I assume this is the US, as we seem to be the only country callous enough to demand that a dying person work a McJob from their deathbed. Social justice? Herp derp we ain't need no commufascialism! | /r/MensRights | 19/09/11 02:32 PM |
| 1 | IronyNo, I took the opinion hosted on the sidebar as information for people just getting into your community as representing the majority of your community. Don't act like it was just some random post I saw in a thread. Whatever you see reflects the opinion of the individual posting it. And sorry for the false dichotomy, here's the true trichotomy: One can either be for, against, or indifferent towards it. For a community, you can either have all, most, some, or none...either for, against, or indiffe… | /r/MensRights | 19/09/11 02:17 PM |
| 1 | IronyYou are being slippery. Not really. This all started because you said: Men's rights hates to be associated with women-hating abusive husbands who only want women to have children and cook them meals. Men's rights is fine with associating feminists with the radical feminists who want a matriarchy. You are moving the goalpost, not me. Either most of the community agrees with Kloo, and you guys are ironically stereotyping, or else it is "just the opinion of one poster". Decide which. This is a fals… | /r/MensRights | 18/09/11 06:21 PM |
| 1 | IronyFeminism's goal is to raise women up, yes. Which would only bring about equality if women were being raised UP to the level of men; if men are not above women, then raising women up would put them above men. More women than men go to and graduate from college than women...this is a direct result of feminists raising them up (special programs/scholarships/etc. for women only). Yet instead of either A) now trying to also raise men up to the level of women, or B) removing the special help given to … | /r/MensRights | 18/09/11 06:14 PM |
| 1 | IronyWhy would an issue that most of the community agrees about divide the community? Who said most of the community agrees on this issue? Not me. Most of you have pointed out that you do not agree with Kloo's conclusion. Have we? There are 26,230 subscribers here; have 13,116 pointed out that they disagreed with kloo? If that's the case then why did you write your original post? | /r/MensRights | 18/09/11 05:51 PM |
| 2 | IronyIt's a deal-breaker for me because it would actually be sexist. I think gender-equal feminists would actually be ripe for recruiting and understanding the issues that mens' rights represents, Why should we bother trying to recruit actual feminists? In a society where men, as a class, are not privileged above women, the ideology of feminism (which asserts that men are above women and that women must be raised up) is fundamentally opposed to MR. Instead, we partly focus on showing those non-femini… | /r/MensRights | 18/09/11 05:48 PM |
| 1 | IronyI really take issue with your thinking that only a fool would read a posted opinion in the sidebar right under "Who is Men's Rights?" The heading for the post in question isn't "Who is Men's Rights". Only an idiot wouldn't recognize that bullet-points separate items. If you are issue based, then it is a waste of time at best to have non-issues like Kloo's opinion on the sidebar, and at worse it drives away potential MRAs. ...and? Again, we have no control over the sidebar. If you want it changed… | /r/MensRights | 18/09/11 05:30 PM |
| 2 | IronyWhat if there was a post linked on the sidebar about one users opinion that women should not be allowed to vote or something ridiculous like that? You would want that removed. Because arguing against suffrage would be a deal-breaker for me. If the current mod started pushing such an agenda in the sidebar, I would unsubscribe (and I'm sure others would as well). | /r/MensRights | 18/09/11 05:11 PM |
| 5 | IronyThe point is you do not agree that Kloo's viewpoint represents Mens' Rights, but you are fine with it being on the sidebar representing the forum Because only a fool would actually believe the comments of one person are the opinions of all. It's a trivial issue. If you actually believed in Mens' Rights "Men's Rights" isn't an ideology; it's a movement based solely on issues. I don't demand ideological purity in a movement that isn't centered on any particular ideology; I can accept that others w… | /r/MensRights | 18/09/11 05:07 PM |
| 3 | IronyAnd they did not in a year post a comment in the comment section You can't reply to old comments, but you can edit them. He edited that comment many times since he originally posted it. Moot point. If you don't like his opinion, and I don't like, and no one seems to like it, why don't we lobby to get it taken down so Men's Rights can be taken seriously? I've already answered this here. Also, you don't give a shit...you are a concern troll. | /r/MensRights | 18/09/11 04:47 PM |
| 3 | Ironywhy is his post made up of seven contributing MRAs' opinions He simply quotes them. They aren't contributors or co-authors or anything like that. He simply liked what they said and quoted their comments. | /r/MensRights | 18/09/11 04:31 PM |
| 4 | IronyNot gut instinct, the fact that that post tags at least seven other MRAs as contributors Kloo2yoo has QUOTED others. There's a difference between working with someone to author something and simply quoting them. For example: I've quoted you several times throughout my responses, yet you are not a co-author of my comments. Also, right at the top of the sidebar there is "earning scorn from feminism since 2008" ...and? This has nothing to do with associating all feminists with radical feminists. an… | /r/MensRights | 18/09/11 04:29 PM |
| 3 | IronySome MRAs complain about others generalizing all MRAs unfairly. One MRA has generalized about feminists unfairly. OP has then taken that unfair generalization about feminists and generalized (unfairly) that all MRAs have made this generalization. OP has then incorrectly labeled his generalization "irony". OP is either a concern troll or lacks self-awareness. Considering the fact that r/MR is a magnet for trolls, I'd say it's the former. | /r/MensRights | 18/09/11 04:11 PM |
| 6 | IronyIt is obviously a collective effort And this is based on what? Gut instinct? The linked item was written by 1 person...alone. He was a moderator here ("was" being the operative word), and wrote many things which he included in the sidebar. and it has been on the front page It has been in the sidebar, not the frontpage. Regular r/MR users have no ability, whatsoever, to edit the sidebar. so it would seem most of the community agrees with it Why? We had no control over its content or placement, an… | /r/MensRights | 18/09/11 04:00 PM |
| 5 | IronyWho authored it? Was it a collective effort, or was it written entirely by one person (who happened to be a moderator at the time)? | /r/MensRights | 18/09/11 03:51 PM |
| 5 | IronyDid "Men's Rights" write that, or was it written by a single person? | /r/MensRights | 18/09/11 03:41 PM |
| 2 | The 2010 NCVS has been released [PDF]2010 not 2011 ...anyway it's within the standard error. When I made this comment I had misinterpreted something and thought the report-rate had dropped to 35% instead of just 50%. | /r/MensRights | 17/09/11 01:38 AM |
| 9 | I have a serious question for you guys...If she only agreed to have sex with a condom, then it would clearly be sexual assault. If there was no clear agreement re protection, then shit will get more complicated. | /r/MensRights | 16/09/11 08:51 PM |
| 11 | What's the difference? (between feminism and the MRM)This should probably be in the sidebar. | /r/MensRights | 16/09/11 08:02 PM |
| 3 | The 2010 NCVS has been released [PDF]Did you not read the PDF? Do you not know what "NCVS" stands for? ...seriously? The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), administered by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, is a national survey of approximately 49,000 [1] to 77,400 [2] households twice a year in the United States, on the frequency of crime victimization, as well as characteristics and consequences of victimization. The survey focuses on gathering information on the following crimes: assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle… | /r/MensRights | 16/09/11 07:16 PM |
| 3 | The 2010 NCVS has been released [PDF]here's the relevant information: 2009 125,910 rapes/sexual assaults (pop: 307,000,000 ...about 0.04% were victimized) 55.4% reported (69,754) 2010 188,300 rapes/sexual assaults (pop: 309,000,000 ...about 0.06% were victimized) 50% reported (94,150) | /r/MensRights | 16/09/11 04:40 PM |
| 3 | The 2010 NCVS has been released [PDF]...it looks like the rape-rate went up, but the report-rate went down. What do you think happened? | /r/MensRights | 16/09/11 04:24 PM |
| 2 | So my redditor friend told me to post this...It sounds like she fucked this guy AFTER you two broke up. If you weren't together then she had no obligation to not fuck others. If you're really concerned, just ask her if she had been with anyone while the two of you weren't together. If she says no, and you know that's a lie, then you might want to consider whether you'd like to stay with someone who would lie to you like that...but if you never asked and, instead, expected her to just come out and tell you, then you're effectively expecting… | /r/MensRights | 16/09/11 10:15 AM |
| 6 | A Letter to the Editor I wrote after learning/becoming outraged at what I learned on /mensrights.I'm glad you're taking an interest in gender issues and that you're beginning to see the misandry which is generally ignored by our society, but you seem to be a bit confused re feminism. Feminism is founded upon the following 3 assumptions: Men and women should be equal in our society Men are above women in our society In order to bring about said equality women must be raised up to the level of men. While many forms of feminism may disagree on many key issues, they all agree on those 3 assumpt… | /r/MensRights | 16/09/11 10:02 AM |
| 3 | New Masculism / MRA WikiSo the right-wing MRAs made the MRM equivalent of Conservapedia. | /r/MensRights | 15/09/11 03:56 AM |
| 1 | Throwaway: tomorrow I'm attending a rape seminar, which is mandatory for all freshmen at my college. What statistics should I bring?My bad, I thought it was 1 in 4 women in college. Even still, assuming the NCVS figures apply exclusively to women (they don't), with a 2009 population of 155.6 million women, we have a yearly chance of 5 in 6224. Extrapolating that over a lifetime of 80 years (female life expectancy), a woman would have a 6% (400 in 6224) chance of being raped/sexually assaulted in her lifetime (and less, actually, because we counted all rapes/sexual assaults as all victims were female). For context you can app… | /r/MensRights | 14/09/11 09:58 PM |
| 4 | Throwaway: tomorrow I'm attending a rape seminar, which is mandatory for all freshmen at my college. What statistics should I bring?From what I've heard from people who've already done it, the seminar is your standard man-hating "all rape accusers were actually raped", "1 in 4 women will be raped", etc. crap. The 1-in-4 myth is easily refuted...in many ways. Here's the clearest (IMO): According to the NCVS (link is PDF) there were 125,910 rapes/sexual assaults (reported AND unreported) in 2009 (2010 NCVS should be out soon, but unless there was an unprecedented rape-epidemic to the tune of 1.9+ million I don't see it making … | /r/MensRights | 14/09/11 01:27 PM |
| 3 | Question for /r/MR: What are your religious views?I'm an atheist and I don't believe in anything paranormal (e.g. ghosts, magic, karma, chi, etc.). | /r/MensRights | 13/09/11 07:20 AM |
| 3 | What’s an “MRA”? Massively [W]rong AssholeI'm beginning to suspect this blog may be a parody. Poe's law | /r/MensRights | 11/09/11 08:19 AM |
| 2 | About a month ago my girlfriend posted this.. I need your guy's help.You can't change people; all you can do is get them to hide aspects of themselves from you. If you value your relationship with her over your relationship with your son, then stay with her, but stay out of your son's life. That will cause him some problems, but they're nothing compared to the problems he'd face if you try to have both and she winds up abusing him. He will probably hate you for not being there, but you're an adult...you can deal with it. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/11 07:44 AM |
| 7 | About a month ago my girlfriend posted this.. I need your guy's help....my stepmother used to torture me and she would constantly try to drive a wedge between me and my dad. I'm fairly certain she did it because she was jealous as it all started before I can even remember (i.e. I was too young to have done anything to make her hate me). Every time it counted he chose her over me...and I think that fucked me up more than the torture itself. Reading that post makes me think of my stepmother. I'm not saying she necessarily would torture your son, but it sounds like … | /r/MensRights | 11/09/11 07:32 AM |
| 0 | I'm about to take a class from my university's Women's Studies department. What should I expect?It happened about 5/6 years ago. At the time I did want to file a complaint, but we had already filled out our evaluation forms (just prior to the exam I think), and I had received an A for the class (...she seemed like the type that would get all retaliatory). | /r/MensRights | 10/09/11 05:24 PM |
| 8 | I'm about to take a class from my university's Women's Studies department. What should I expect?My school required that we take a women's studies course or a race studies course...since this was North Philly and there existed a very strong possibility that I might inadvertently say something awkward/offensive, I took WS. Here's what I remember: We had a professor and a TA. The prof was a middle-aged woman who looked a bit hippy-ish and somewhat unstable. The TA seemed perfectly normal and was friendly enough, if a bit quiet. The prof had us read some shitty textbook which claimed that Viag… | /r/MensRights | 10/09/11 05:24 AM |
| 3 | I need some help, new to Men's rights, want to get facts..I need facts, where do you guys get them? If you're interested in a topic, you need to do some research: http://scholar.google.com http://en.wikipedia.org http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ucr http://www.bls.gov http://www.census.gov http://www.bea.gov ...etc. re another comment: I also don't know what i'm talking about enough to convince others If you can't defend your position logically and dispassionately, then you shouldn't be arguing and you should consider the p… | /r/MensRights | 09/09/11 05:36 AM |
| 8 | Am I allowed to identify as both a Feminist and an MRA?Technically? Yes. Feminism is an ideology-based movement, while the MRM is issues based and not committed to any particular ideology. If you advocate for the rights of men, then (regardless of ideology) you're an MRA. However, if you do spend some time looking into this shit with a skeptical but open mind, then I believe you'll start to see why so many of us are antifeminist and you'll probably want to disassociate yourself from feminism. Welcome to r/MR | /r/MensRights | 08/09/11 06:51 AM |
| 12 | What kind of screwed up world do we live in when women are considered minorities and get preferential treatment in jobs and college admissions even though they compose the majority of college students?I'm a female (college student) and mostly always agree with what is said/posted in this subreddit... but showing no sympathy to a female who gets raped? that's a little much Hey there, this person is a troll looking to slander the MRM -- they are not an MRA. proof: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/k7dxm/social_media_star_trey_pennington_succumbs_to/c2i2cxy | /r/MensRights | 07/09/11 05:38 PM |
| 3 | Social Media Star Trey Pennington Succumbs to Divorce Tactics, Kills SelfTIL the MRM operates an apartment complex. | /r/MensRights | 07/09/11 12:51 PM |
| 7 | Social Media Star Trey Pennington Succumbs to Divorce Tactics, Kills Selffuck off troll EDIT: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k7knd/if_women_are_known_for_cooking_then_why_are_most/c2i30y2 | /r/MensRights | 07/09/11 12:18 PM |
| 3 | How do you prove emotional abuse?She's threatening people? You might want to look into having her involuntarily committed. Don't take that too lightly though...having someone committed can be devastating, so only do it if you think she is actually a danger to herself or others. | /r/MensRights | 07/09/11 08:02 AM |
| 0 | Look at the amount of effort r/shitredditsays put into bashing r/mensrights and the whole MRA movement! They really have nothing better to do I guess.lucky for us, if you aren't completely blinded by ideology You're like the christian who calls atheism a "religion" and thinks they've made a valid point. The MRM is issues-based, not ideology based. I realize this may be difficult for a feminist to understand, so I'll lay it out for you nice and simple: A feminist must hold certain beliefs in order to actually be a "feminist". Fundamentally they must believe that A) men are elevated above women in our society, B) gender-equality is something we… | /r/MensRights | 07/09/11 05:24 AM |
| 1 | Dear MensRighters-from a self described vehement anti-sexist (feminist)If men and women are different then our laws should deal with them differently Why? All sorts of people are inherently different, yet the law treats them the same...why should the differences based on gender be treated differently than differences based on other classifications? This is what I thought we were fighting against? Yes, we are...however fighting against legal discrimination does not mean one must deny reality (whatever that reality may be). I may think regular men lack the capacity t… | /r/MensRights | 06/09/11 09:42 AM |
| 3 | Common Ground Between MRAs and FeministsI, OfficeMudkip, enjoy murdering small animals while masturbating in a pile of my own feces. ...that's pretty fucked up, you should seek some help. | /r/MensRights | 05/09/11 08:06 AM |
| 4 | This is what a feminist looks like??? it's a PDF in google docs viewer. here's the PDF itself: http://www.courts.state.ny.us/courts/ad2/calendar/webcal/decisions/2008/D21742.pdf | /r/MensRights | 04/09/11 06:08 PM |
| 9 | This is what a feminist looks likeNOMAS is a feminist organization. He is their co-chair for child custody. EDIT: to make it easier/back up what I've said: http://www.nomas.org/leadership http://www.nomas.org/taskgroups/profeminism/ | /r/MensRights | 04/09/11 04:13 PM |
| 5 | This is what a feminist looks likeskip to page 7 | /r/MensRights | 04/09/11 03:53 PM |
| 5 | This is what a feminist looks likehttp://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/k4f2u/this_is_what_a_feminist_looks_like/c2hf8mn Basically, a prominent feminist lawyer had his license suspended for acting like a feminist. | /r/MensRights | 04/09/11 03:52 PM |
| 19 | This is what a feminist looks likeBarry Goldstein, co-chair for child custody at NOMAS (you know, the feminist group -- with ties to Andrea Dworkin -- formerly known as the National Organzation for Changing Men), apparently had his law license suspended...mostly for being a fucking liar. Here's my favorite bit: Charge 15 alleges that the respondent engaged in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation, in violation of Code of Professional Responsibility DR 1-102(a)(4) (22 NYCRR 1200.3[a][4]). On August 31,… | /r/MensRights | 04/09/11 03:51 PM |
| 2 | Dear MensRighters-from a self described vehement anti-sexist (feminist)A sexist is someone who assumes certain characteristics about a person because of the sex they were born. I disagree with your definition of sexism (as I believe it requires the belief that one sex is inherently superior/inferior based on inherent characteristics), but it's WAY better than the feminist definition. There are characteristics which arise from biology and differ by sex. It's not sexist to acknowledge as much...it is sexist to claim these differences make, taken as a whole, one sex b… | /r/MensRights | 04/09/11 11:44 AM |
| 7 | Former sailor wants compensation over ship circumcisionA) no one mentioned feminism until you came in to derail this thread with your bullshit. You are an attention whore. So here you go attention whore; here's some fucking attention. Do you feel better now that you've stolen the spotlight from some poor man who was victimized in such a brutal fashion? Oh, it's okay, he probably deserved it...after all, he's a man...right? B) feminists != women. Many (if not most) of those feminists we oppose posses a Y chromosome. You may find it politically benefi… | /r/MensRights | 04/09/11 11:07 AM |
| 1 | Do NOT tell any males... oops! [attention whoring fb status updates]Happy birthday | /r/MensRights | 03/09/11 03:07 AM |
| 25 | This just in: you are a misogynist if you prefer not to have sex with women on their periods.When I was younger I thought it would bother me...but it doesn't (even without a condom). That being said, not wanting to fuck a bloody orifice != misogyny. The fact that this needs to even be said to these people only highlights the level of delusion we're dealing with. No, thinking period blood is gross is NOT hatred of women. Lots of healthy vaginas expel blood. And if you think that’s gross, well, maybe spend your naked extracurricular time with someone who is vagina-free Did you catch that?… | /r/MensRights | 02/09/11 10:59 PM |
| 1 | ...I'm surprised no one has posted this yetReddit's dupe detector blows sometimes. Meh, I'll delete my post then. | /r/MensRights | 01/09/11 01:25 PM |
| 2 | ...I'm surprised no one has posted this yetoh, and also this: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2352#comic | /r/MensRights | 01/09/11 09:17 AM |
| 5 | Do we need more mods, now that Kloo is leaving?No. Ignatiusloyola has shown that they are fair-minded, and our "troll" problem shouldn't necessitate a bunch of mods. Worst case scenario, we have a bunch of comments from ineffectual pseudo-trolls. | /r/MensRights | 01/09/11 06:26 AM |
| 1 | kloo2yoo here - resigningGood luck with everything. | /r/MensRights | 01/09/11 01:45 AM |
| 11 | An apology to Jon Finkel from the Ladies of Nerdland at Escapist Magazine (plus bonus gender-reversal discussion!) (xpost /reddit.com)So on behalf of women everywhere, we Ladies of Nerdland would like to apologize to Jon Finkel for Alyssa's bad behavior. Hers is exactly the kind of behavior we despise, the kind that lives up to the mean girl stereotype. She probably won't have enough class to be ashamed of how shabbily she treated you, so we will be ashamed for her. And, also, of her. Just because you're a woman, and some other woman did something wrong, it doesn't mean you have to apologize on behalf of all women. The origina… | /r/MensRights | 31/08/11 05:21 AM |
| 33 | True feminism. Explained by a children's TV show.I doubt they'd feel disgraced since they didn't actually call themselves "feminists"; "second wave" feminists retroactively applied the label "feminist" to every historic WRA. | /r/MensRights | 31/08/11 03:57 AM |
| 0 | Comedian arrested for rape for comedy act.This doesn't lend credibility to any claim that she was coerced. Except for the fact that some stranger broke into her hotel room and sexually assaulted her while she kept saying things like "no" and "leave". We're only hearing his side...and his side makes him look an awful lot like a rapist. Is it technically rape? Maybe, but if not, it's still close enough that a reasonable person should know better. | /r/MensRights | 31/08/11 03:11 AM |
| 1 | This about sums it up.Since we're talking about legality, technically is really all that matters. Technically I'm allowed to run in a women's fun-run...that doesn't mean it's not set up explicitly for women, and that women aren't going to be overwhelmingly represented amongst the runners. Sure, there may be one or two men, but it's for women. Also: In four States, only the mother may relinquish her infant. http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/safehaven.pdf So, technically, men can't in 4 stat… | /r/MensRights | 27/08/11 05:34 PM |
| 1 | This about sums it up.So half of the country is set up so that the father CAN actually do something...if he even knows the children were left at a safe-haven (if not, he can go fuck himself). And only 13/50 states even bother to check if the child was reported missing? Really? That's a big fucking problem right there. One would assume they would all do that. I haven't read through the entire document you've so graciously provided, but this stands out as well: In four States, only the mother may relinquish her infant.… | /r/MensRights | 27/08/11 05:21 PM |
| 1 | This about sums it up.The vast majority of states allow either parent to relinquish an infant (some don't even require the relinquishing party to be a parent). I was operating under the assumption that in all states both parents could theoretically leave their children. But, come on, the purpose of these laws is to convince mothers to choose something other than abortion/killing the child once it's born. The law itself may be gender neutral...but the purpose and effect is overwhelmingly gendered (as women are, to a r… | /r/MensRights | 27/08/11 05:11 PM |
| 4 | Emergency contraception, birth control, what's the differenceSRS troll http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/jvozt/conservative_political_comics_arent_insane_at_all/ | /r/MensRights | 27/08/11 01:24 AM |
| 1 | This about sums it up.Well technically the father can do that as well, after the baby is born. The law, in its majestic impartiality, forbids both the rich and poor from sleeping under bridges. Yes, technically the father can...if he has sole custody of the child within the first 30 days...but how likely is that? Incidentally, this is why my original comment was phrased as follows: Abortion aside, she still has the ability and option to opt out of parenthood...in such a way that the child still exists, and without an… | /r/MensRights | 26/08/11 11:05 PM |
| 1 | This about sums it up.Safe haven laws typically apply only to the first 30 days. A lawsuit like that would take well over 30 days. The whole thing is set up so that she can simply leave the kid at the hospital...anonymously. If she does that, there's no way for him to get his child back. | /r/MensRights | 26/08/11 10:27 PM |
| 1 | This about sums it up.A father who wanted his child back if the mother abandoned it does have legal recourse, though it'd be without precedent (as far as I'm aware). How, exactly, could he get his child back? | /r/MensRights | 26/08/11 09:56 PM |
| -1 | This about sums it up.So? That doesn't mean things less extreme aren't valid reasons to be upset and that people should just suck it up and take it. It also doesn't mean "few things suck more"...MANY things suck more. Your ignorance is showing. Clearly you don't understand the concept of priorities. To some people, having someone who's supposed to love and care about openly hate you is worse than physical abuse. That has nothing to do with privilege. indifference != hate there is a HUGE difference between the two. An… | /r/MensRights | 26/08/11 09:54 PM |
| -1 | This about sums it up.So what? Just because there are worse things that could happen So what? You just said this: Few things suck more than hearing people fight over [...] ...that's what. Also, just because you personally didn't think it was that big of a deal, doesn't mean that it won't be more significant to someone else If that's the biggest problem someone faces in their life, then they have lived a very fucking privileged life. Honestly, I found that having someone blatantly not give a shit about me and fighting… | /r/MensRights | 26/08/11 09:36 PM |
| 0 | This about sums it up.Adoption isn't an option unless both parents don't want the baby and choose to not abort. No, that's not true at all. If he wants the child, and, after giving birth, she decides she doesn't, then she can ANONYMOUSLY leave it at the hospital and he has no recourse. Read the article I linked. | /r/MensRights | 26/08/11 09:22 PM |
| 1 | This about sums it up.Few things suck more than hearing people fight over who should support you and hearing your parents treat you like a disease that needs to dealt with instead of a human being that needs to be cared for. I was raised by a single mother. My father fought her tooth and nail re child support. She was only asking for around $150 a month and he wouldn't even pay that, so finally she had to take him to court and was told that he should be paying 4 times that much...but she was proud and took only the a… | /r/MensRights | 26/08/11 09:13 PM |
| 1 | This about sums it up.Which is why he should bear half the costs of either the birth or abortion. He shouldn't be forced into parenthood just like she shouldn't...which is why he should be able to opt-out of parenthood. And no, I'm not just talking about abortion, I'm talking about safe-haven laws as well. His ability to opt-out does not need to be equal to hers, but he needs a post-conception option as well...even if it's simply a 1 week window. | /r/MensRights | 26/08/11 08:51 PM |
| 1 | This about sums it up.If the woman chooses to abort, there is no child to support. If the man chooses to not be a parent, the child is still alive, just bereft a parent. Abortion aside, she still has the ability and option to opt out of parenthood...in such a way that the child still exists, and without any consequences. Safe-haven laws (also known in some states as a "Baby Moses laws") are statutes in the United States that decriminalize the leaving of unharmed infants with statutorily designated private persons so … | /r/MensRights | 26/08/11 08:47 PM |
| 9 | This about sums it up.It should remain her choice, because anything else is fucked. Maybe one day we'll have artificial wombs and a way to transfer fertilized eggs non-surgically (which is ridiculously implausible)...if that happened, then we should reevaluate such things, but until then: her body; her choice. | /r/MensRights | 26/08/11 08:34 PM |
| 6 | This about sums it up.I'd be fine with one week after notification of paternity and splitting the cost of either the abortion or the medical procedures/etc. to birth the child which are not paid for through insurance (i.e. half of any copays, etc.), along with a mandate that his insurer must provide coverage for necessary procedures stemming from her pregnancy even if they're not married. A) this avoids the problem of her simply not notifying him until it's too late, and B) both are responsible for putting her body i… | /r/MensRights | 26/08/11 08:30 PM |
| 1 | Women uses cat to stimulate her clit = upvotes but if a man puts peanut butter on his cock for his dog to lick off, sicko. (X-post)No, they're both sick. People like that shouldn't be pet owners. | /r/MensRights | 26/08/11 02:34 AM |
| 10 | DAE agree with 2/3 of men's rights stuff, but think the other 30% is kinda retarded?Like all the PUA and alpha-omega stuff, for example. None of that is "men's rights stuff". | /r/MensRights | 26/08/11 12:52 AM |
| 5 | If men who get women pregnant without their consent are reproductive abusers, surely women who get pregnant without the explicit consent of the men should be called the same?Mel Feit at The National Center for Men is promoting "Choice for Men" (C4M). It would allow a Man a limited amount of time to opt out of unwanted fatherhood (perhaps 30 days) from the time the man learns of the pregnancy. AKA "financial abortion" http://www.google.com/search?q=financial+aborton | /r/MensRights | 24/08/11 07:44 PM |
| 7 | If men who get women pregnant without their consent are reproductive abusers, surely women who get pregnant without the explicit consent of the men should be called the same?There are things you can do to protect yourself But this: We even put it in writing. ...is not one of them. As far as our courts are concerned, a parent can not sign away their child's right to child support. if she became pregnant and kept the child, family court would ignore that contract. This is why many MRAs (myself included) support what's called a "financial abortion". The financial abortion is similar to that which you've described; a man would be able to make their desire to not be a pa… | /r/MensRights | 24/08/11 07:36 PM |
| 1 | Serious question for the men in mensrights: Do you guys make a distinction between "women" and "feminists?"Of course there's a distinction between the two. In fact, many of the feminists I can't stand are actually men. The other day I started writing something relevant here, so I'll just post it to clarify: Feminism is an ideology with two fundamental assumptions: Men and women should be equal. Equality will be achieved by raising women up to the level of men (because men are privileged above women in our society). In 2011, in the west, the idea that men are above women is contentious (at best), so m… | /r/MensRights | 24/08/11 05:34 PM |
| 11 | Newbie here, and I have a questionbut I have found that since living as a male, there are different ways in which I am treated, some of them positive, and some of them negative. Some of my views have changed dramatically Have you considered writing about your experiences? It sounds like you could offer greater insight into gender issues for both men and women. I consider myself a humanist, and would like to be the best I can be. Maybe that is the term I am looking for to describe my beliefs? Humanism? If that's the term you feel… | /r/MensRights | 24/08/11 05:11 PM |
| 3 | Academicians reject presumption of guilt for menHere's the letter: http://www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres/FCF5808A-999D-4A6F-BAF3-027886AF72CF/0/officeofcivilrightsletter.pdf | /r/MensRights | 24/08/11 04:13 AM |
| 1 | List reasons why Dan Savage is awesome compared to insane feminists3) http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+santorum | /r/MensRights | 24/08/11 03:02 AM |
| 2 | why do your mods claim to oppose censorship but then delete posts outright?I'd rather continue this conversation through PM, if you don't mind. | /r/MensRights | 23/08/11 10:27 PM |
| 3 | why do your mods claim to oppose censorship but then delete posts outright?It wasn't below me when I linked it; I replied from my inbox. | /r/MensRights | 23/08/11 10:17 PM |
| 5 | why do your mods claim to oppose censorship but then delete posts outright?Can you un-delete them and take the post out of the spam filter then? It's not spam, and you seem to have deleted at least one comment unfairly. | /r/MensRights | 23/08/11 10:15 PM |
| 7 | why do your mods claim to oppose censorship but then delete posts outright?I saw this after saying the bit about her husband. Accordingly, I messaged him and asked if he deleted it, or if it was censored. I haven't heard back from him yet. However, we have clarification here, so we see that, yes, the comments were deleted by a mod. | /r/MensRights | 23/08/11 10:12 PM |
| 1 | why do your mods claim to oppose censorship but then delete posts outright?...and? Judging by context, it looks like lady_catherine's husband may have tried to post some supportive comments (perhaps creating a fake conversation of some sort), posing as an MRA or something...and that he was called out. It looks like, in response to being called out, he deleted one of his accounts and possibly those comments Reddit does not distinguish between user-deleted comments and mod-deleted comments. I had actually asked them to do as much but they never did. | /r/MensRights | 23/08/11 09:56 PM |
| 7 | why do your mods claim to oppose censorship but then delete posts outright?...probably caught in the spam filter...especially since her account is brand new. The vote activity and comments could be attributed to the fact that she immediately posted it to r/AMR. | /r/MensRights | 23/08/11 09:48 PM |
| 3 | Unsubstantiated complaint of paedophilia halts men's social groupI know, that was the point. No one on that list has r/jailbait in their list of subreddits in which they've participated (or, at least, they didn't when I posted it). | /r/MensRights | 22/08/11 08:53 PM |
| 3 | Castrati pledges fealty: "I mean, I get it, I am super privileged because of the structures of patriarchy. But I consciously try not to be an active agent for those structures, and happily identify as a feminist/feminist ally."Dan Savage first applied the phrase to this type of guy (spec. Hugo Schwyzer). And hell, it's better than "mangina". http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/07/21/to-tell-the-truth | /r/MensRights | 22/08/11 05:42 PM |
| 3 | Unsubstantiated complaint of paedophilia halts men's social groupI've found that nearly all the people who frequent r/mensrights have also frequented r/jailbait... http://metareddit.com/stalk?user=kill_the_rich http://metareddit.com/stalk?user=kloo2yoo http://metareddit.com/stalk?user=ignatiusloyola http://metareddit.com/stalk?user=rantgrrl http://metareddit.com/stalk?user=alanna http://metareddit.com/stalk?user=aetheralloy http://metareddit.com/stalk?user=thetrollking http://metareddit.com/stalk?user=evilpundit http://metareddit.com/stalk?user=fatalistic htt… | /r/MensRights | 22/08/11 05:18 PM |
| 6 | Unsubstantiated complaint of paedophilia halts men's social groupA while ago, someone posted a picture of a little boy looking at a little girls crotch and the girl said something like "with this I will rule you" or something like that. I don't think there was any nudity, but kloo deleted it saying it was child porn (i.e. he deleted it lest we be accused of supporting pedophiles). If memory serves, that same picture was taken from the frontpage of r/pics. Around the same time, some pedo-rights types tried to push their message in r/MR...so it was a legitimate… | /r/MensRights | 22/08/11 05:10 PM |
| 5 | Excuse me, do you have a gun I could borrow?...your comment is the first comment here, and the submission sits at +1/-0 (i.e. no one has even voted on it yet). A single person writing and submitting an article != a circle jerk. | /r/MensRights | 22/08/11 04:28 PM |
| 12 | You created me.Yeah, whatever. | /r/MensRights | 21/08/11 10:34 PM |
| 16 | You created me.And suddenly, a mod of r/anarchism developed a serious case of butthurt. Excrement spewed forth from the earthen chasm betwixt their legs. Sadly, they overestimated their importance and ability...for their excrement-spewing merely soiled their pants and dribbled on the ground a bit. Shortly thereafter they cried while eating some ice cream. -- Dante Alighieri, "Il Purgatorio" Incidentally, I think your threat hit the spam-filter...you should PM kloo and have him fish it out for you. | /r/MensRights | 21/08/11 09:54 PM |
| 7 | You created me.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVqOgklHhF0 | /r/MensRights | 21/08/11 09:25 PM |
| 2 | Dear r/Mensrights: Because I believe in true fairness and not the definition that believes one gender is superior, I have criticized r/againstmensrights for its faults as well. tl;dr Both sides r teh bad.I think that this "war" is a result of both sides being unfair to the other at many junctures. learn your history | /r/MensRights | 21/08/11 04:00 PM |
| 1 | I'm just deleting sexist and MRA diatribe. -/r/anarchismI'm a moderator because I asked to be. I'll stand up for MRA. http://www.reddit.com/r/anarchism/about/moderators ...your username does not appear on that list. | /r/MensRights | 20/08/11 07:43 PM |
| 8 | I'm starting a men's rights & support group on my college campus, and I need helpIf you end up making some flyers or pamphlets, submit them here I set it up with the intention of actually making pamphlets/flyers/etc. for people like you, but I'm lazy, and suck at organizing shit. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/11 11:00 PM |
| 1 | New 'Anti-Abortion Pill' Kills Mother, Leaves Fetus Alive...I actually had ctrl+f'd for MRA | /r/MensRights | 19/08/11 10:31 PM |
| 2 | New 'Anti-Abortion Pill' Kills Mother, Leaves Fetus AliveI suppose I should read more than the first few paragraphs before commenting next time, eh? | /r/MensRights | 19/08/11 10:28 PM |
| 2 | New 'Anti-Abortion Pill' Kills Mother, Leaves Fetus Aliveisn't even a humorous exaggeration of any MRA position. I don't think it was supposed to have anything to do with MRAs. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/11 09:59 PM |
| 3 | Does men's rights agree with me that the primary source of most men's rights issues are the expectations of men to take a parental role in protecting and supporting women?To me, a lot of it comes down to men being viewed as "moral agents" and women being viewed as "moral patients". What the fuck am I talking about? Here: Traditionally, only rational human beings can be moral agents, for they must hold responsibility for their actions. Marginal human beings, such as children and brain-damaged people, are not regarded as having moral responsibility for their behavior, and hence are not moral agents. However, they are still the objects of moral consideration and are… | /r/MensRights | 19/08/11 08:44 PM |
| 3 | ...but women were never GIVEN A CHANCE!So you have biological forces creating a predisposition for certain behavioral traits, and you have social forces which interact with other variables and, by the magic of determinism, result in an individual following a particular path. Because of this you're basically saying that, even if we negated said social forces, there would still be such predisposition. I fully agree with that, but I think you're missing one huge piece to the whole puzzle. What if a good portion of those social forces en… | /r/MensRights | 17/08/11 08:43 PM |
| 2 | Standing at the Crossroads - WHEN SHOULD FEMINISTS SUPPORT MEN’S RIGHTS?...something without all of the collateral damage. | /r/MensRights | 17/08/11 07:19 PM |
| 3 | Standing at the Crossroads - WHEN SHOULD FEMINISTS SUPPORT MEN’S RIGHTS?This is why nothing that has been done to increase the reporting of rapes (victim shield laws, etc.) has actually worked to increase reporting. ...but the report-rate for rape has been rising (28.3% in 1999 - 55% in 2009), and the incidence-rate has been dropping (0.9/1,000 households in 1999 - 0.8/1,000 in 2009). In other words, a person is less likely to be raped/sexually assaulted, and if they are, they're more likely to report it. ...so something is working. NCVS 1999: http://docs.google.com… | /r/MensRights | 17/08/11 06:56 PM |
| 16 | In Luxembourg, women have special parking zones just for them.fear of men | /r/MensRights | 17/08/11 06:36 PM |
| 4 | I'm serving on a jury for an alleged rape trial. I need your advice, r/mensrights. Has anyone done this before?And you would be right, as they're an r/AMR troll: http://www.reddit.com/r/againstmensrights/comments/jdfe3/if_rmensrights_are_so_much_in_favor_of_rights_for/ | /r/MensRights | 17/08/11 04:16 PM |
| 6 | I'm serving on a jury for an alleged rape trial. I need your advice, r/mensrights. Has anyone done this before?r/AMR troll: http://www.reddit.com/r/againstmensrights/comments/jdfe3/if_rmensrights_are_so_much_in_favor_of_rights_for/ EDIT: http://www.reddit.com/r/againstmensrights/comments/jlnft/nvmbs_allegedly_on_jury_selection_and_has_just/ Oh, look at that, r/AMR links to ANOTHER one of their own entryists as "proof" that MRAs are [insert pejorative here]. | /r/MensRights | 17/08/11 04:15 PM |
| 56 | ...but women were never GIVEN A CHANCE!The argument that, in the past, women weren't given the same opportunities as men and as a result were less likely to succeed in those fields, has merit. But (in the west/high-HDI nations) things seriously started to change in the 60's/70's...so now, it's not an issue. And you know what? We're already seeing the results of those changes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Yonath http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_W._Greider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_H._Blackburn http://en.wikipedia.or… | /r/MensRights | 17/08/11 03:24 PM |
| 1 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.That's clearly wrong. There was no deception involved in my example. She just didn't reveal her intentions. Your example was too vague to draw any meaningful conclusion re whether or not it was wrong. This is why I provided two examples using yours as a starting point so that we could draw a meaningful conclusion. More so, overt deception isn't necessary; she could just give him the fruity drink without telling him it's alcoholic...and that would still be wrong, if she did it in the hopes that h… | /r/MensRights | 16/08/11 03:35 PM |
| 1 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.I don't think a woman getting her virgin boyfriend drunk in order to have sex with him is inherently wrong. "He regrets it". So what? He wasn't raped. He had sex while drunk. Whether it's rape or not is a separate issue from whether it's wrong or not. I think it's wrong. As far as I'm concerned, the only time it wouldn't be wrong (aside from ridiculously outlandish situations, i.e. to save the world, etc.) is if the person doing the drinking did it specifically because they wanted to lower their… | /r/MensRights | 16/08/11 02:53 PM |
| 3 | Discrimination in finding a low level job.Well, good luck man. | /r/MensRights | 16/08/11 02:26 PM |
| 1 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.Because you're intentionally creating a situation where that person's judgment is impaired, in order to get them to agree to something they might not have otherwise. | /r/MensRights | 16/08/11 02:25 PM |
| 6 | Discrimination in finding a low level job.Other than complaining to whatever equivalent Australia has to the EEOC, I don't think there's much you could actually do. Employers will discriminate regardless of any laws, all the complaints do is ensure that they hide it better. By all means, file your complaint, but most likely the employer would get only a warning or something equally minor, and you'd still have no job. Apply to other places, I doubt they all discriminate like that. Also, consider scanning the job ads and posting them here… | /r/MensRights | 16/08/11 01:48 PM |
| 1 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.Thank you for clarifying that. That statement, when taken in the full context of the paragraph, did not imply that you believed in or had ever raped anyone. I don't give a fuck if you want to backpedal. You made a statement, it's there for all to see, and preserved in these comments. You painted me as a rapist because you didn't like the opinion I expressed, then when called on it, butchered my original point to try to make it fit. You can keep denying it, but it's there in black and white. I ca… | /r/MensRights | 16/08/11 12:58 PM |
| 2 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.Ethics? Yes, ethics. Look it up if you don't understand the meaning of the word. You want to discuss whether it is ethical to sleep with a woman that you know is drunk and then tell me it's okay because you are drunk? Is it ethical for a woman to sleep with a man that she knows is drunk? Are you going to tell me that's okay because she's drunk? Here's the thing about supporting gender-equality: you can't treat one gender as moral agents, and the other as moral patients. If one person gets the ot… | /r/MensRights | 15/08/11 10:44 PM |
| 3 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.Actually, I not only believe that to be true but the courts do too. Our courts have, in the past, held up all sorts of horrible things. Our courts can be (and in this instance, are) sexist as fuck. Just because you agree with them, it doesn't mean they're not sexist...it just means that you might also be sexist. Legally it can be. ...and? The law is not a trump card in a discussion on ethics. I didn't make that claim but I would defend it. See my previous point re sexism. Pro tip - if you don't … | /r/MensRights | 15/08/11 04:35 PM |
| -2 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.Chocolate was more like pussy and sex. Hence statements like: The thing is, in this world, only gender-A has a natural source of chocolate...gender-B must procure it from gender-A. It's an analogy, it doesn't have to be perfectly applicable to every instance, just the instances dealt with in the analogy itself. | /r/MensRights | 15/08/11 02:45 PM |
| -5 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.you present a compelling argument Yes, I do. | /r/MensRights | 15/08/11 02:41 PM |
| -4 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.HEY EVERYONE LOOK AT ME! I HAVE A "FUNNY" NOVELTY ACCOUNT AND AM INCAPABLE OF MAKING INFERENCES BASED ON THE CONTEXT OF A DISCUSSION! WHY AM I TYPING IN CAPS? NO I'M NOT TOO STUPID TO MISTAKE "CAPS LOCK" FOR "SHIFT", AND NO THAT HAS NO IMPLICATIONS RE THE CALIBER OF MY ARGUMENT, I MUST JUST BE MAD! | /r/MensRights | 15/08/11 02:34 PM |
| 3 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.You also said: edit: holy shit i just read your post, lmao The post I made was initially going to be a response to another comment, then I decided against posting it in that subreddit, and posted it here, and added to it so certain things would make more sense. I have no need to link to another thread, as that was simply a starting point for the line of thought. I don't care if you want me to; I don't care if you want to invite others into act like children and further derail the discussion; gro… | /r/MensRights | 15/08/11 02:24 PM |
| -5 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.Yes. That's exactly what that means. Feminist logic: HERRRP I'MMA LINK TO SOMETHIN'. DERR THEY DUN CALLED ME OUT FOR IT...THAT WHOLE SOMETHIN' MUSTA BEEN A RESPONSE TO MY LINK!!! WOAHHH! HIMS IS PSYCHIC!!! | /r/MensRights | 15/08/11 02:10 PM |
| 9 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.Do you honestly believe that because the man was drunk that lets him off? Do you honestly believe that, because a woman is drunk, she's no longer responsible for her actions? If two people get drunk and consented to fuck, it's not rape. They may regret that decision afterward, but that doesn't make it rape. More importantly, claiming such a situation is an example of a man raping a woman IS FUCKING SEXIST AS HELL. If two people getting drunk and consenting to fuck is rape, then BOTH are rapists.… | /r/MensRights | 15/08/11 02:07 PM |
| 3 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.Hey, thanks. No, seriously, thank you. By responding to criticism with your little temper tantrum, instead of, oh, reasonable debate, you show others just how weak the feminist position really is. So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for repeatedly shooting yourself in the foot and providing more evidence for the MRM's criticism of feminists and their childish tactics. | /r/MensRights | 15/08/11 02:00 PM |
| -1 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.http://www.reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays/comments/jjbn4/let_me_tell_you_about_chocolate_its_literally_sex/ Thanks for the publicity! | /r/MensRights | 15/08/11 01:45 PM |
| 7 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.If one person intentionally got the other person drunk so they could fuck them, then yeah...it's wrong. If they both just happened to get drunk, and then fucked...it's just fucking while drunk. Plenty of people regret fucking while drunk...but that alone doesn't make it rape. | /r/MensRights | 15/08/11 01:42 PM |
| 3 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.. I don't think there is any excuse for rape, but to think someone isn't flaunting their body as a prize to behold is ridiculous That wasn't my point. My point was that A) it's ridiculous to place all of the responsibility on men, while placing none on women, B) some people are quick to label others a "rapist" simply because they disagree on this issue , and C) this sort of sexist bullshit is why I can't take many feminists seriously. | /r/MensRights | 15/08/11 01:40 PM |
| 6 | A response to a stance which seems fairly common among feminists.Why would you do this? Are you trying to justify that some assholes would take advantage of a person who is not fully capable of making a decision due to being intoxicated? Jesus, come on out and tell us all who you feel about drugging a woman with Roofies! Be a man and explain that this is perfectly fine because the woman didn't say she liked chocolate too! ... They tell you that you're basically a criminal who should be locked up because you would accept chocolate from someone who offered it t… | /r/MensRights | 15/08/11 01:36 PM |
| 1 | Homeless guys were selling these in Philly yesterdayyeah... ...I don't really want to get too into it (because I don't feel like writing a treatise), but I think we should provide the basic necessities of life to all citizens (food, housing, etc.). It's 2011, and we have the resources to do that (and a lot more), we just allow the rich to hoard everything and it creates this fucked up situation where some have SO MUCH, and some have nothing at all. It's not right, and it actually fucks us in the ass (as we're seeing more clearly since the global … | /r/MensRights | 13/08/11 07:11 PM |
| 10 | HuffPo columnist thinks women deserve lifetime alimonyI don't know...I'm generally against the concept of alimony, but they were married for 40 years. She's too old to start a career from scratch now...so I don't think it would be fair to just leave her to fend for herself. It's pretty fucking heartless on his part. I don't have a solution here...it's a shitty situation, but I really don't see how to fix such things for people like her, without making it shitty for others. Maybe if we knew more about how he was supporting himself (I assume he's clo… | /r/MensRights | 13/08/11 07:03 PM |
| 1 | Homeless guys were selling these in Philly yesterdayI think the homeless vendors keep $0.75. ...at least that's what it claims on the cover. | /r/MensRights | 13/08/11 06:04 PM |
| 2 | Homeless guys were selling these in Philly yesterdayThe thing is, it's not covered in the mainstream media...at all...not even a blurb. I know...it's pretty fucked. This is deliberate, if the general public learned that men are second class citizens, then the needs of men would start to compete for resources reserved for woman. I think you may be overthinking it a bit. I think it has more to do with that fact that men as victims doesn't sell as much ad-space as women as victims. Male victims contradicts the male gender-role...causing that unpleas… | /r/MensRights | 13/08/11 05:47 PM |
| 10 | r/AMR links to troll-commenter to discredit MRAs, denies suggestion that they be skeptical, because possibility of troll-commenters is "ridiculous".Bullshit. I'm forced to used an alt account here precisely because my views were censored by the mods here. Many of the r/amr mods were banned without ever even posting in r/mr. You were all banned for posting and promoting a hit-list (which lists my name several times, and which you still have in your sidebar, BTW), not for expressing controversial views. I have no doubt that, if you could tie a name and address to this account, I'd have to watch my back for one of you crazy fucks. Actually, no… | /r/MensRights | 12/08/11 04:18 PM |
| 15 | r/AMR links to troll-commenter to discredit MRAs, denies suggestion that they be skeptical, because possibility of troll-commenters is "ridiculous".No...for so many reasons. First, I doubt most of these trolls are women. I think many are guys who are just doing it because they think we're an easy target for humor. Some may be motivated by ideology, but I doubt that's the norm. Second, none of this is about men vs. women...sometimes it's about MRAs vs. feminists, but MRAs can be women, and feminists can be men...in fact, some of the most convincing MRAs I've seen have been women (e.g. girlwriteswhat), and some of the most irritating feminist… | /r/MensRights | 12/08/11 02:57 PM |
| 30 | r/AMR links to troll-commenter to discredit MRAs, denies suggestion that they be skeptical, because possibility of troll-commenters is "ridiculous".Hi thepinkmask. Unlike you and your totalitarian "comrades" over in r/anarchism, the mods of r/MR don't use their position to impose their views on the rest of us by way of censorship. People are free to make whatever comments they like...and that includes bigoted statements. You don't have to like it, but when you claim we're all bigoted, simply because we don't censor people, you're being deceptive. And hey, you're free to be as deceptive as you like...that's another downside to fee speech...b… | /r/MensRights | 12/08/11 02:48 PM |
| 3 | S.F. gay married couple loses immigration battleFUCK OFF | /r/MensRights | 12/08/11 01:46 PM |
| 2 | OOOH I just got a downvote brigade called on me from r/AMRThe funny thing, is that they completely ignore the proof I supplied JUST ABOVE THE COMMENT THEY LINKED. http://www.reddit.com/r/worstof/comments/jdbxu/women_have_a_lot_of_power_over_men_cites_a_study/c2bpaon I guess it's hard to paint someone as an idiot when they've backed up their claims. Oh, and they've just banned me, right after I posted this. I guess they couldn't argue against my post, went through my comment history, called in a downvote brigade, and then banned me so they never had to … | /r/MensRights | 11/08/11 09:38 PM |
| 1 | Let's try and get a better version of the ERA passedI said "gender" instead of "sex" to also cover transpeople. | /r/MensRights | 11/08/11 06:26 PM |
| 42 | News Alert: A PHD in gender studies pays as much as a masters in computer science. Women everywhere shocked and appalled.Why don't people ever bother actually reading these studies? We reproduced the methodology originally used in the 2002 Census report on lifetime earnings. They describe this approach as: “Synthetic estimates of work-life earnings are created by using the working population’s 1-year annual earnings and summing their age-specific average earnings for people ages 25 to 64 years. The resulting totals represent what individuals with the same educational level could expect to earn, on average, in today… | /r/MensRights | 11/08/11 04:42 PM |
| 5 | Hi Men's Rights! I'm a woman who's looking to write an academic paper on false rape claims and how it affects the perception of men etc. etc... Help me find some sources please?The DV shelter I work for is really great about providing services to men and LGBTQ individuals I'm really glad to hear that. You should consider making a post so that we can make donations to your shelter. While 95 percent of domestic violence is a male abusing a woman Here you'll find nearly 300 studies/papers which show otherwise: SUMMARY: This bibliography examines 282 scholarly investigations: 218 empirical studies and 64 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physical… | /r/MensRights | 11/08/11 10:08 AM |
| 5 | And then they fight usinvolving two moderators from the subreddit r/feminism r/feminisms r/feminism, from what I've seen, is moderated by non-psychotic people. | /r/MensRights | 11/08/11 09:40 AM |
| 1 | What to do about a Lesbian coworker who refuses to fraternize with male counterparts?...there actually is a thing called "political lesbianism". While some radical feminists agreed with the group's arguments, many went wild at being told they were "counter-revolutionaries", undermining the fight for women's liberation by sleeping with men. ... It's no surprise that the booklet was so controversial. "We think serious feminists have no choice but to abandon heterosexuality," it reads. "Only in the system of oppression that is male supremacy does the oppressor actually invade and c… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/11 08:04 PM |
| 1 | Judge Shuts Down Divorced Father's BlogIt's not nearly so easy to dismiss a woman complaining about how men are treated badly. ...which is pretty fucked in and of itself. | /r/MensRights | 10/08/11 08:04 PM |
| 6 | Straight Pride Parade, Chapin's InfernoWell thanks for making a generalization about all Gay people gay culture != all gay people. but i know plenty who are sick of the whole Gay-Pride thing because they feel its like shining a spotlight on their lives, they want to be normal and average members of society and by making a big deal out of their sexual orientation occasionally they'll get mad about it. I can understand that. But a lot of people still need the gay-pride thing. Like everything else, I imagine it's a demographics issue th… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/11 06:33 PM |
| 5 | Straight Pride Parade, Chapin's InfernoYou don't need a straight pride parade...it's fucking retarded. When people are beaten to death for being straight, or they're sent to re-education camps to cure them of straightness, THEN maybe you'd need a "straight pride parade". Before it starts, let me explain it to those of you who, apparently, just don't seem to understand. When you're constantly told that you're somehow deficient due to some inherent quality (like race, sexual orientation, gender-identity, etc.) you start to internalize … | /r/MensRights | 10/08/11 06:15 PM |
| 1 | Let's try and get a better version of the ERA passedYeah, I'm not saying it wasn't contentious...but it did get a great deal of support, and was more than "feel good bullshit". | /r/MensRights | 10/08/11 04:43 PM |
| 2 | Let's try and get a better version of the ERA passedUnfortunately, they don't seem to apply the equal protection clause when it comes to things like DOMA, USC 18 sec. 116, or H.R. 2400. This version of the ERA would cover exactly that sort of discriminatory legislation. More so, if it was just "feel good bullshit", why did 35 states ratify the original ERA? It was an amendment to the fucking constitution, legislators don't generally amend the constitution for "feel good bullshit" (unless you count the 28th amendment AKA the "Why Can't We Be Frien… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/11 02:20 PM |
| 1 | Let's try and get a better version of the ERA passedI can't really see it requiring more than 1 post though. Maybe a petition? Or a PAC maybe? I do think that, however it's done, it should probably be centered off of reddit though, since reddit (as a platform) kind of sucks for that sort of thing. | /r/MensRights | 10/08/11 12:26 PM |
| 3 | I started a subreddit - MRArt...for making flyers and shit.Thanks. Hopefully the subreddit will actually amount to something. | /r/MensRights | 10/08/11 11:44 AM |
| 5 | I started a subreddit - MRArt...for making flyers and shit.I never see any MRA flyers/etc. so I figured we could start making some. I'm a designer, but A) am pretty fucking lazy and B) over-analyze the crap out of shit I make from scratch...so fuck it, I'll do a group project. This is a subreddit for people who: Want to design flyers and shit Want to discuss/propose ideas for flyers and shit Are willing to proofread/fact-check flyers and shit ...so, yeah. Join if you're interested, or don't. | /r/MensRights | 10/08/11 11:24 AM |
| 10 | Judge Shuts Down Divorced Father's BlogFrom what I've seen (WRT this type of shit), female judges actually seem less misandrist than male judges. ...probably because they're less susceptible to gender-role manipulation (i.e. I'm a poor defenseless lady and I need the big strong Mr. Judge to save me!!!). | /r/MensRights | 10/08/11 07:36 AM |
| 9 | Male rape scene in the movie "Super" and why merely verbalizing the word "no" does not make it rapeIf someone says "no", take it as "no". If they really meant "yes", well they'll eventually learn to say what they mean when every guy stops at "no". What's worse? That you don't cum tonight, or that you wind up in prison for the next 15 years because you thought "no" meant "yes"? This might not apply to certain BDSM type shit, or rape-fantasy shit (where I assume they would have a safe word or something), but for most situations, if someone says no...take it as a "no". You don't have to take it … | /r/MensRights | 09/08/11 08:30 AM |
| 3 | "Until we overthrow male supremacy and admit that male power is the problem, not radical feminism, nothing will change."Except for the part where you equated the feminist movement "upsetting" men, with the MRM "upsetting" feminists...and insinuated that feminism "upsetting" men wasn't an unacceptable form of bigotry. The two are not the same, as "feminist" is not another word for "woman", but a term to describe those who belong to a particular ideology. Opposing those of a particular ideology is perfectly acceptable as they chose to adopt that ideology. Opposing those who possess a particular inherent quality is … | /r/MensRights | 09/08/11 07:23 AM |
| 7 | "Until we overthrow male supremacy and admit that male power is the problem, not radical feminism, nothing will change."As an analogy, a "successful" MRA movement would upset feminists. Presumably the sole goal is not to upset feminists. Women != feminists. The author is clearly a gender-feminist (which seems to be the dominant strain within feminism, as opposed to equity-feminism). Gender-feminism is opposed to equal rights. Any movement which supports equal rights would "upset" those against equal rights...therefore the MRM should upset gender-feminists (which most people, including her apparently, refer to sim… | /r/MensRights | 09/08/11 04:50 AM |
| 4 | Feminist sues over dress code and 'sexual harassment.'...you sound insane. | /r/MensRights | 08/08/11 02:36 PM |
| 3 | Feminist sues over dress code and 'sexual harassment.'If true, what she described would be actual sexual harassment...I don't see why this is in r/MR. | /r/MensRights | 08/08/11 02:32 PM |
| 3 | Israeli Feminists Oppose Joint Custody LegislationFUCK OFF | /r/MensRights | 08/08/11 08:37 AM |
| 2 | Alabama cops lure deadbeats into custody with football ticketsAre you trolling me? Pregnancy is a pretty clear and direct consequence of having sex. I'm highlighting the absurdity of the position that because something may happen, you are consenting to it. More so, pregnancy doesn't always follow intercourse...and in many of those scenarios, the man can still be held liable for child support. One man received a blowjob, the woman saved the sperm and impregnated herself...he was held liable for child support. Where did he consent to parenthood? Another man … | /r/MensRights | 08/08/11 05:12 AM |
| 2 | Alabama cops lure deadbeats into custody with football ticketsA child may result from the sexual contact. A robbery may result from you walking down the wrong street. Just because something may happen, doesn't mean you're consenting to it...that's not how consent works (if it were, we would automatically be considered to have consented to anything that may happen and no one could ever be considered to have been victimized). That is the contract you enter into whenever you engage in sexual contact. I don't see how this is unfair or confusing. It's unfair be… | /r/MensRights | 08/08/11 03:20 AM |
| 1 | Alabama cops lure deadbeats into custody with football ticketsShe's consenting to the consequences of parenthood if the baby is carried to term. She's not consenting to parenthood; she's consenting to the possibility that she'll become pregnant. Once pregnant, she has a choice as to whether she wants to abort, or whether she wants to carry the child to term. Should she carry the child to term...she is only then consenting to biological parenthood, but not parenthood in the sense that she is somehow responsible for that child. Only by keeping that child for… | /r/MensRights | 07/08/11 11:31 AM |
| 0 | Alabama cops lure deadbeats into custody with football ticketsreally? why on earth not? When a woman has sex, is she consenting to parenthood? Is she consenting that a fetus can use her body and resources to grow itself? After that fetus becomes a child and is born, does that act of sex mean she agreed to devote her time, money, and resources to raising that child? No. After conception, she has 3 months to avoid parenthood. After the child is born, she has about 30 more days to avoid any inescapable form of parenthood (see: safe-haven laws). So we've estab… | /r/MensRights | 07/08/11 10:00 AM |
| 0 | Alabama cops lure deadbeats into custody with football ticketslol i dont think ive ever been talked down to by someone who unironically quotes wikipedia as if it were a legal dictionary. If you have an issue with the definition they've supplied, why not provide a reasoned argument against it on their talk pages? I assure you, if your criticisms are valid and sourced, they will allow you to make the necessary changes. But, apparently you don't, for if you did have an issue with the actual definition, you would have raised it...but you didn't. Instead, you m… | /r/MensRights | 07/08/11 08:07 AM |
| 3 | Alabama cops lure deadbeats into custody with football ticketsinvoluntary servitude is when you are forced to do particular labor, not when you have to work to pay off a financial obligation you have. Are you aware of correlative-based fallacies? Well, what you've just done is a textbook example of what's known as a "suppressed correlative". Wikipedia sums it up pretty well: The fallacy of suppressed correlative is a type of argument that tries to redefine a correlative (one of two mutually exclusive options) so that one alternative encompasses the other, … | /r/MensRights | 07/08/11 06:47 AM |
| 2 | "No State or political subdivision of a State may adopt or continue in force a law, regulation, or order that prohibits or regulates the circumcision [...]"Sure, if our leaders really wanted something done, withholding funding/etc. is something the government would do in order to pressure these orgs/etc. into compliance. The problem is that they don't seem to give a fuck about MGM...so I don't think they would bother with such tactics. We need to get the ERA ratified. | /r/MensRights | 06/08/11 09:54 AM |
| 1 | "No State or political subdivision of a State may adopt or continue in force a law, regulation, or order that prohibits or regulates the circumcision [...]"See my edited comment. | /r/MensRights | 06/08/11 08:17 AM |
| 7 | "No State or political subdivision of a State may adopt or continue in force a law, regulation, or order that prohibits or regulates the circumcision [...]"...meanwhile: Girls Protection Act of 2010 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose a fine or five-year prison term, or both, on any U.S. citizen or alien admitted for permanent residence who knowingly transports in foreign commerce a girl under the age of 18 for the purposes of female genital mutilation. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR05137:@@@D&summ2=m& EDIT: also Congress finds the following: [...] (2) Male circumcision is an important part of many world religions, includi… | /r/MensRights | 06/08/11 08:02 AM |
| 3 | Guess The Gender of This Cars Driver.If someone else parked over the line like that, everyone else would have to park like that as well. If the person who started it then left, it would appear that someone else initiated the shitty-parking, when it wasn't necessarily the case. All we have is a picture, we don't know if he started it, or if it was a reaction to an existing shitty-parker. Also, his car is fine. Not everyone feels the need to prove they're a man by driving a ricer, nor does everyone have the need for a work-truck. | /r/MensRights | 06/08/11 04:21 AM |
| 2 | A new subreddit for us to muse about double standards and whatnot. Caution: Contains SexismHe who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. Congrats, you've sunk to the level of the r/AMR mods, etc. | /r/MensRights | 06/08/11 04:12 AM |
| 3 | Guess The Gender of This Cars Driver.Clue: it's a guy | /r/MensRights | 06/08/11 04:06 AM |
| 3 | You know Rebecca Watson, who equated being politely invited to coffee with rape? Well, (surprise of surprises) She LIED to cover her tracks...I think the whole thing was blown out of proportion...but this isn't proof that she lied. When we throw out accusations that a person is a liar, we're no better than those who do the same with the term "rapist". | /r/MensRights | 06/08/11 03:06 AM |
| 2 | You know Rebecca Watson, who equated being politely invited to coffee with rape? Well, (surprise of surprises) She LIED to cover her tracks...redditor for 1 day | /r/MensRights | 06/08/11 03:02 AM |
| 1 | Infertile men may be able to 'grow their own sperm' opening the door to fatherhood for thousandsAre you sure about that? Because it didn't set off Murdoch-block...and it's not on here. | /r/MensRights | 05/08/11 09:15 AM |
| 0 | So apparently r/ShitRedditSays thinks that mens rights is for a bunch of babies with delusions...That is a dumb sentiment to say the least. Oh, please elaborate, why is that a "dumb sentiment"? Historically, when the rich/those in power fear violence from the little people, it seems that then, and only then, do they give in just enough to calm everyone down. We've become complacent...they no longer fear us. And without that disincentive preventing the more egregious attacks against the lower-classes, they've begun to act more overtly. My username is meant as a reminder...a reminder to the r… | /r/MensRights | 05/08/11 09:00 AM |
| -12 | So apparently r/ShitRedditSays thinks that mens rights is for a bunch of babies with delusions...OP (teefs) got pissed when I called them on their bullshit...I imagine this is related. http://www.reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays/comments/j8j9v/rmensrights/c2a0t6h | /r/MensRights | 05/08/11 06:59 AM |
| 3 | Even Google Can't Find Shelters For Homeless Single FathersPerhaps he meant men who have their children with them. Like these guys. Judging by that thread, it seems like many places may require that men first give up their kid before they can stay at the shelter. There do appear to be some that accept single-fathers though: The Salvation Army Red Shield Family Residence is a safe and welcoming emergency housing shelter offering loving, respectful, compassionate, and non-judgmental services in order to empower residents to strive towards self-sufficiency… | /r/MensRights | 04/08/11 10:12 AM |
| 1 | I reversed the gender on this banner at my university... it didn't stay that way for long.Sure. | /r/MensRights | 04/08/11 12:47 AM |
| 3 | Would you support a flat rate for child support payments?So basically, the custodial parent would receive $X per month, and the noncustodial parent would be responsible for paying Y% of their income every month. The state, acting as an intermediary, would combine all revenue from noncustodial parents, and distribute it to the custodial parents. For example, let's say X = $850/mo and Y = 20%. If noncustodial parent A earned $1000/mo., they would pay $200/mo. to the state, who would then disburse $850/mo. to custodial parent A. And noncustodial parent B… | /r/MensRights | 03/08/11 03:08 AM |
| 4 | Feds Order Insurers To Cover Birth Control Free Of Charge To WomenI believe vasectomies should be on the list, for example. Are they? Because it sounds like only female-birth control is covered. Here are some highlights: http://www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/womensprevention08012011a.html STI counseling, and HIV screening and counseling: Sexually-active women will have access to annual counseling on HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). ...because sexually active men don't have to worry about HIV and STIs. Wonderful, I'll let my cousin know that,… | /r/MensRights | 03/08/11 02:34 AM |
| 4 | How do you reconcile liberal politics with Men's Rights?I have no need to "reconcile" being a liberal with being an MRA. The left isn't "owned" by radical feminists, just like the right isn't "owned" by religious zealots. A lot of people on the left may identify as "feminists"...but I believe that has more to do with them operating under the flawed assumption that "feminism = equality". In terms of Democrats/Republicans, both are assholes, and neither are "left"; they're both just right-wing authoritarians...the only difference is degree. http://poli… | /r/MensRights | 03/08/11 02:08 AM |
| 2 | More feminist insanity on Domestic Violencehere are nearly 300 studies/white papers saying roughly the same thing, spanning 1963-2011: SUMMARY: This bibliography examines 282 scholarly investigations: 218 empirical studies and 64 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 369,800. http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm | /r/MensRights | 02/08/11 02:56 PM |
| 3 | Mom may walk free after killing her son because prosecutors can't find evidence proving that she also didn't try to kill herselfIf her defense argument—that her son's life was a hell of sexual abuse and death threats—is true, then she was, in my opinion, right to kill him. I don't really understand such a perspective. I'm more of a hedonist/utilitarian so I look at suicide/euthanasia/etc. as being rational when the total pleasures (good stuff in general...even the little things, like the taste of a food which you only slightly enjoy) of life are grossly outweighed by the total pains, based on reasonable expectations of f… | /r/MensRights | 02/08/11 01:03 PM |
| 3 | 20 years after false conviction, man freed for sexual assault he didn't commit- one of first cases accepted by Hawaii Innocence ProjectI recommend following their blog for constant updates about similar victories. Also, donate a large sum of money. | /r/MensRights | 02/08/11 09:07 AM |
| 2 | Know how feminists allways complain about harshly women are judged for their looks? Turns out the ugliest men are discriminated against more than the ugliest women, by a factor of seven.I don't think Seth Rogen is bad looking...I could see myself being attracted to someone like him if I were gay. | /r/MensRights | 02/08/11 07:46 AM |
| -1 | Men of r/mensrights...but otherwise, whether you’d like to admit it or not, women have nearly always been considered secondary to men Not where I live, and not since I've been alive. after all, we’ve only had the ability to vote for about 50 years now More like 91 years My main point is this; don’t blame women for our current society. We don't. We tend to blame feminism and white-knights. I blame gender-feminists, the image of woman as perpetual-victim, social conservatives, men who are too cowardly to stand up to th… | /r/MensRights | 02/08/11 07:25 AM |
| 15 | Feminist moderators have made /r/anarchism a laughing stock on Reddit. These are the same people who founded /r/againstmensrights.I like to watch as they eat themselves...it's like a sitcom, only I hate most of the main characters and only watch for the times that they hurt themselves. Anyway, I think it's neither. Everyone has the potential to be oppressive/authoritarian/etc., it's just human nature. Now, you have these anarchist-kiddies who read about how bad oppression/authoritarianism is all the time, but it's all on the outside, you know? They see it in others, but they assume it's not in them...so they don't do anyth… | /r/MensRights | 01/08/11 05:01 AM |
| 0 | What is a mangina?First of all, I'll say I didn't really care for the term "mangina" at first. It didn't sit right with me because it seemed like a cheap insult. But in fact, it's the best, most efficient way to describe a man who worships women and hates men. I didn't mind it at first...and then I heard it over and over and over again for the past 2 years. Now I can't stand it and when I see someone use it I have less respect for them. There are better terms. Uncle Tom works pretty fucking well, IMO. But, if you… | /r/MensRights | 01/08/11 12:24 AM |
| 5 | To the US guys in here: Did she really say that? and what was the reaction in your society?...didn't you outlaw strip clubs in Iceland? I'd say that's probably a bit worse than a politician saying something idiotic to gain votes. | /r/MensRights | 31/07/11 01:12 PM |
| 12 | The man who raised me is not my father, but a man led astray by my mother.but I went to a psychologist and claimed she had abused me and my father psychologically for years. I told him about our situation and he agreed it was abused. I just want to be clear on something...you didn't make anything up, right? I mean, you told the psychologist the truth about your situation and he agreed that it was abusive...you didn't invent or twist certain situations to paint her in a bad light...right? | /r/MensRights | 31/07/11 01:08 PM |
| 0 | r/AMR can't handle the truthIf you don't believe me, just check my submission history...ctrl+f for "abortion_billboard" and you should find it quickly. | /r/MensRights | 31/07/11 01:00 PM |
| 4 | To the US guys in here: Did she really say that? and what was the reaction in your society?Politicians say a lot of asinine shit...especially when pandering to their base. It's just another reality you come to accept when living within the confines of a horribly outdated and thoroughly corrupted politico-economic system. | /r/MensRights | 31/07/11 12:49 PM |
| 7 | I reversed the gender on this banner at my university... it didn't stay that way for long.How about we don't complain about stupid shit, like a lack of popular support for whites-only beauty pageants, when we are so obviously privileged, in HUGE ways, when compared to non-white people. It's a matter of fucking perspective. Aside from that, we have an issue with people coming here to spread white-nationalist propaganda. I'm disgusted by that shit, and don't want those assholes to co-opt what should be an egalitarian movement. So you know what? I'm going to fucking say something about … | /r/MensRights | 31/07/11 12:43 PM |
| 5 | I reversed the gender on this banner at my university... it didn't stay that way for long.Equal treatment? Of course. But we don't receive equal treatment. In most ways, we receive better treatment. A black man and a white man will face very different sentences for the same crime. A black child is likely to grow up much poorer than a white child (and be subjected to all the disadvantages which come with poverty). Blacks are demonized by our culture, or otherwise put down by it, so much so that many black children have horrible self-esteem issues. Blacks don't live as long as whites. … | /r/MensRights | 31/07/11 08:28 AM |
| 9 | I reversed the gender on this banner at my university... it didn't stay that way for long.but try white pride or Miss White xxx University and you will be kicked out or arrested for hate crimes. If you want to start any of that shit, you can. You want an all-white university? Go for it. Good luck getting enough students to stay in business for more than a semester or two (I imagine it would follow the same path as that libertarian university). You want a Miss White beauty contest? Go right the fuck ahead. Beauty contests are asinine, but no one will stop you. You want to start a whit… | /r/MensRights | 31/07/11 07:08 AM |
| 5 | Can you spot the difference?When they say "importance" it has nothing to do with endorsement/etc. of the message. They're not saying that women's rights are more important than men's rights. The WRM has had a much bigger historical impact than the MRM...so to a site like wikipedia, that makes it more "important". Once the MRM has done more, the importance of the MR wikipedia page will rise. | /r/MensRights | 29/07/11 07:46 PM |
| 5 | Can you spot the difference?high importance vs. low importance? | /r/MensRights | 29/07/11 07:18 PM |
| -8 | I'd like to mention this here: upvote the worst mensrights posts when you see themAnyway I looked into this asshole and have come to the conclusion that he's just a sad forever-alone-type. His dating profile and livejournal tell the story of a 29 year old nerd who has some pretty major social problems, with tendencies towards obsession, codependency, delusional thinking, and agoraphobia. Whenever I research his type (i.e. those that declare war on the MRM), I'm always left feeling really bad for them. They just come off as extremely pathetic, you know? It reminds me of this p… | /r/MensRights | 29/07/11 07:13 PM |
| 6 | I'd like to mention this here: upvote the worst mensrights posts when you see themYou're reading the date he joined, the date it was posted is: Jul 29, 2011 05:54 | /r/MensRights | 29/07/11 06:44 PM |
| 0 | Show Dick some Respect!The odd thing about ||||||censored||||||; on Facebook, she is a member of PETA?! ... Well, I let PETA have a piece of my mind about this, I suggest you do the same. Here is what I did: This is asinine...in a HUGE way. Some girl said some stupid shit on facebook, and because she's a member of PETA (by the way, anyone can become a member...my mom's even a member), this guy is trying to use us as his personal army to harass her...and in such an ineffectual way too. You should probably delete this p… | /r/MensRights | 29/07/11 08:33 AM |
| 0 | Please fix an inaccuracy in the r/mensright's "antimale legislation roundup".The conservative bit is definitely relevant (as that seems to be the reason she opposed the ERA), but IMO the antifeminist bit is irrelevant. Antifeminism simply means one opposes feminism in some or all of its forms. If you support equality, but don't believe the patriarchy exists...you're an antifeminist. Hell, even some who identify as "feminists" are considered to be "antifeminists" by others. | /r/MensRights | 29/07/11 06:05 AM |
| 4 | Please fix an inaccuracy in the r/mensright's "antimale legislation roundup".How about: "women's groups, such as STOP the ERA (where "STOP" is an acronym for "Stop Taking Our Privileges") campaigned against passage of the ERA and, ultimately, it was defeated" | /r/MensRights | 28/07/11 11:35 PM |
| 7 | Please fix an inaccuracy in the r/mensright's "antimale legislation roundup".I think the Schlafly bit is important though. I mean, she founded "STOP the ERA", a relatively popular (and obviously effective) campaign against the ERA, where "STOP" literally stood for "Stop Taking Our Privileges". That's pretty fucked, and deserves to be mentioned to highlight that it wasn't male-chauvinism that led to the defeat of the ERA (which I think would be assumed otherwise). | /r/MensRights | 28/07/11 11:22 PM |
| 7 | Please fix an inaccuracy in the r/mensright's "antimale legislation roundup".This is a fair criticism. How do you think it should be rephrased? | /r/MensRights | 28/07/11 10:56 PM |
| 3 | Oops! Feminists Admit That They Are Vulgar SexistsCalling anything "the" implies officiality and you know this. ...really? So, "The Cat in the Hat" is the official cat for hats? Or is it the official hat for cats? Is "The Lone Ranger" the official status for all rangers? When some blogger says something is "The Movie of the Year", is that somehow the official declaration of all bloggers? No, you're an idiot. If I linked to some retards blogpost and said its what "the MRA's definition" you would be furious. Not really. There are tons of assholes… | /r/MensRights | 28/07/11 08:43 PM |
| 1 | Oops! Feminists Admit That They Are Vulgar SexistsYour rebuttal is completely hypocritical. Only if you lack basic reading comprehension skills. "Its not the official definition, I never said it was but here is why it is an official definition" This is not what I said. "The Feminist Definition" != "The Official Feminist Definition". Official necessitates an office/hierarchy of some sort. The feminist movement has neither office, nor hierarchy, therefore they can not have an official anything. Organizations within the movement, such as NOW, can … | /r/MensRights | 28/07/11 08:22 PM |
| 2 | Oops! Feminists Admit That They Are Vulgar SexistsEvery single feminist does not have to use that definition for it to be "the feminist definition". The only criteria it needs in order to fulfill that role is that it must be: 1) the only definition which significantly deviates from the standard definition, 2) that was created by feminists, 3) which is used by feminists. As far as I know, it fulfills those 3 criteria. | /r/MensRights | 28/07/11 08:09 PM |
| 1 | Oops! Feminists Admit That They Are Vulgar SexistsLabeling anything as an official definition makes you look foolish. Did I call it the "official definition"...anywhere? No. Using a straw-man makes you look foolish...but I suppose that's unavoidable when you are actually a fool. We're done here. Troll someone else. Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking; we are done here, and you should troll someone else. | /r/MensRights | 28/07/11 07:57 PM |
| 3 | Oops! Feminists Admit That They Are Vulgar SexistsThis is me complaining that you are trying to call anything an official definition. It was the the first comment I made to you. Now do you want to apologize for being a self aggrandizing retard? http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/j2a2o/oops_feminists_admit_that_they_are_vulgar_sexists/c28kcut Yes, I apologize for misinterpreting that comment. Do you apologize for being a troll? You continue to say that feminists have other definitions, some do but you are labeling an entire class of peo… | /r/MensRights | 28/07/11 07:51 PM |
| 2 | Oops! Feminists Admit That They Are Vulgar Sexistsbut my retort was the fact that you are calling anying "the" feminist definition is bullshit. No it isn't, you disingenuous fuck; you didn't take issue with that until now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalpost Incidentally, they call it the feminist definition, and other feminists accept that. Certainly there are equity-feminists out there who may not accept it...but honestly, I don't even really count them as "feminists" (I count them as "egalitarians" using an unfortunate label for… | /r/MensRights | 28/07/11 07:28 PM |
| 9 | Is equal rights to go topless in public a big thing in feminism right now?It's stupid that there are laws against it...but I don't see it doing much to "desexualize breasts". Does the fact that one is allowed to wear a thong in public do much to desexualize asses? That being said, if women want to walk around topless (not that I think many would)...that should be their right...but guy's will stare, and topless women will be denied entry to certain stores, etc. ("no shirt, no shoes, no service"), and that should be their right too. | /r/MensRights | 28/07/11 07:15 PM |
| 2 | Oops! Feminists Admit That They Are Vulgar SexistsA feminism blog is cited in that article? No...and I never said it was. I said the definition they used was the feminist definition of sexism. It's not a strawman, as you implied, but a very common argument put forth by feminists. I was supplying the evidence demanded by your criticism. I don't know what you are trying to prove here but you seem to be embarrassing yourself. ...yeah, whatever you say, champ. My mistake was in assuming that you were genuinely skeptical...I gave you the benefit of … | /r/MensRights | 28/07/11 06:48 PM |
| 3 | Oops! Feminists Admit That They Are Vulgar SexistsFinally, a Feminism 101 Blog is cited pretty frequently. 83,181 times, apparently EDIT: http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com+site%3Afeministing.com http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com+site%3Ajezebel.com | /r/MensRights | 28/07/11 06:29 PM |
| 5 | Oops! Feminists Admit That They Are Vulgar SexistsIt's the feminist definition of sexism. Confront a feminist on their sexism, and you will see it pop up. an important, but often overlooked, part of the term is that sexism is prejudice plus power. Thus feminists reject the notion that women can be sexist towards men because women lack the institutional power that men have. https://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/sexism-definition/ ... First of all, let’s establish a working definition of sexism: Just like how racism = power + prejud… | /r/MensRights | 28/07/11 06:08 PM |
| 4 | Ask MR: What is your political alignment?Liberal http://politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-8.25&soc=-3.44 | /r/MensRights | 28/07/11 05:59 PM |
| 1 | Why Are So Few Young Men of Color Graduating High School? "Nearly half of young men of color age 15 to 24 who graduate from high school in the U.S. will end up unemployed, incarcerated or dead."I never looked at Batman in that way before, but I definitely see what you mean. | /r/MensRights | 27/07/11 09:20 PM |
| 3 | Why Are So Few Young Men of Color Graduating High School? "Nearly half of young men of color age 15 to 24 who graduate from high school in the U.S. will end up unemployed, incarcerated or dead."This is my take on it: Funding for public high schools is usually done locally. Poorer areas have less money per child, and so the quality of education suffers. If they graduate, they would only be looking at crappy jobs...but we've outsourced as many of them as we can, so those crappy jobs have become hard to find too...and every employer now knows that they can get the best possible employees for the lowest possible wage, so the available crappy jobs have been going to those with a higher soci… | /r/MensRights | 27/07/11 09:00 PM |
| 1 | What's the deal with /r/MensRights vs /r/Feminisms?le sigh This is not a FFFUUUU comic, and you are not a stick figure. As an atheist I often bemoan the lack of community that group suffers from due to it's lack of ideology. I'm an atheist and consider myself to be a skeptic. As far as I'm concerned, nothing is more toxic than dogmatic adherence to an ideology that is immune to reason. "Community" is nice and everything, but it's less important than action. If you want ideology, join a secular humanists group. I view all of these non-ideological… | /r/MensRights | 26/07/11 09:49 PM |
| 2 | What's the deal with /r/MensRights vs /r/Feminisms?I say that I land in the feminist camp because I see how men are privileged with respect to women and vice versa. Look up "benevolent sexism". Also: http://www.reddit.com/r/Feminism/search?q=female+privilege&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance 1 result for "female privilege" in r/feminism...and it's from an MRA...and the only real response dismisses it as making up for historical injustices. Is this very effective? Considering the atheist movement is also devoid of any overriding ideology, is comprise… | /r/MensRights | 26/07/11 08:44 PM |
| 2 | What's the deal with /r/MensRights vs /r/Feminisms?The central tenant (question) of this post is why MRA via /r/MensRights has created (and actively promotes) a divide. And the point is that we didn't create the divide. The entire MRM could be viewed as a response to the attacks on men by the feminist movement itself. /r/MensRights seems to land exactly in the spot it found feminism in. Solely advocating instead for men. Where is there room for both? It doesn't appear to be here, and yet there does appear to be room in r/Feminism. r/feminism is … | /r/MensRights | 26/07/11 07:54 PM |
| 5 | What's the deal with /r/MensRights vs /r/Feminisms?Advocating for (more) support for any singular gender issue (i.e. pitting men's rights against feminsm) seems to destroy the sense of equality I aim to pursue while entrenching seems to destroy credibility. I'm curious what /r/MensRights 'abandons' to be feminist (other than it's rejection of the label) or how 'seeing the light' and shedding the label 'feminist' doesn't in it's own way support the sexism that I am against. Read this thread | /r/MensRights | 26/07/11 06:22 PM |
| 3 | Barbarossaaaa: Anders Breivik != mra != white nationalismFirst of all. Many of the people here including myself are leftists. Don't get caught up in this silly notion that progressivism automatically means more feminism, and men's rights by not being feminist must be conservative. I'd say it's actually new liberal. ...I know. I've been participating here for like 2 years (former accounts). In that time, I've seen a good amount of right-wing shit, and anti-liberal stuff. I've seen other MRAs assume all MRAs are conservative, etc. If nothing else, I thi… | /r/MensRights | 26/07/11 06:09 PM |
| 1 | Barbarossaaaa: Anders Breivik != mra != white nationalismI couldn't agree more. Honestly, I had wanted to say something similar (i.e. we need to address the right-wing extremism festering within the MRM)...and when I started hearing about Breivik's views, I started thinking that we really needed to do something...but we're under attack, and I'm a bit concerned that any chink in the armor will aid our attackers. That being said, the point has already been raised, so any chink is already there...now I think we need to address this issue before it gets a… | /r/MensRights | 26/07/11 06:41 AM |
| 1 | So... feminist trolls quote-mined the Norway shooter's manifesto (Anders Behring Breivik), posted the excerpts to /r/mensrights pretending to be a long time lurker and member of the MRM, and now a moderator of /r/againstmensrights is lying about how well that post did over here.Whether or not they know is irrelevant. They won't be able to identify me until I actually do something...and by then, it would already be too late. To stop me, they would need to ban/censor anyone who seems like a supporter of theirs. | /r/MensRights | 26/07/11 06:14 AM |
| 2 | So... feminist trolls quote-mined the Norway shooter's manifesto (Anders Behring Breivik), posted the excerpts to /r/mensrights pretending to be a long time lurker and member of the MRM, and now a moderator of /r/againstmensrights is lying about how well that post did over here.Who says I haven't already? ;) | /r/MensRights | 26/07/11 02:47 AM |
| 3 | So... feminist trolls quote-mined the Norway shooter's manifesto (Anders Behring Breivik), posted the excerpts to /r/mensrights pretending to be a long time lurker and member of the MRM, and now a moderator of /r/againstmensrights is lying about how well that post did over here.I disagree. If they want a war, I say we give them a war. | /r/MensRights | 26/07/11 02:43 AM |
| 3 | So... feminist trolls quote-mined the Norway shooter's manifesto (Anders Behring Breivik), posted the excerpts to /r/mensrights pretending to be a long time lurker and member of the MRM, and now a moderator of /r/againstmensrights is lying about how well that post did over here.create new account develop a feminist/anarchist persona and post/comment often enough on r/feminisms and r/anarchisms over several weeks/months quote-mine the crazy-guy manifesto, and make a post or two expressing your "thoughts" rephrase said quotes so they express the same points, but bring up his manifesto on google respond to other comments with some of the mined quotes link it on r/againstmensrights as proof that anarchists/feminists are all mass-murderers in waiting enjoy your ban Bonus po… | /r/MensRights | 26/07/11 02:36 AM |
| 7 | Dr. Phil's Testimony was 'Reckless and False,' Group Charges - Yahoo! Newsdonate to SAVE here: http://www.saveservices.org/contribute/ | /r/MensRights | 25/07/11 11:59 PM |
| 3 | Feminists trying to trick you into signing petition to broaden the definition of rape to be any time a man has sex with a woman and the woman has imbibed any amount of alcoholThis is about the term "rape" as it applies to the UCR, not to federal law, as, per USC 10 § 920. Art. 120. rape is currently defined as: (a) Rape.— Any person subject to this chapter who causes another person of any age to engage in a sexual act by— (1) using force against that other person; (2) causing grievous bodily harm to any person; (3) threatening or placing that other person in fear that any person will be subjected to death, grievous bodily harm, or kidnaping; (4) rendering another per… | /r/MensRights | 24/07/11 05:55 PM |
| 12 | sexist r/mensrights: female mods need not apply [xpost from r/againstmensrights]sodypop and yellowmix identify as male. r/feminism != r/feminisms I already knew Yellowmix was a man, which is why I didn't link to r/feminisms' moderator list. He, and many other men I've encountered who argue rabidly for feminists, are what Dan Savage calls "Castrati" (though, I think "uncle tom" is more appropriate). re: 2x, they have 13 mods. So, a ratio of 1:12, m:f. Does that meet your quota? Really? If r/MR had 13 mods, I'm sure at least 1 would be a woman. I nominate rantgrrl, ma99ie, an… | /r/MensRights | 22/07/11 08:19 PM |
| 16 | sexist r/mensrights: female mods need not apply [xpost from r/againstmensrights]Every major subreddit that deals with gender issues has gender diverse moderation. Except one: r/mensrights. oh yeah? Are any of these moderators men? http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/about/moderators http://www.reddit.com/r/feminism/about/moderators There are a number of individuals on r/mensrights who identify both as women and as MRAs, so why are they excluded as a class from moderatorship? I would have no problem if rantgrrl, ma99ie, or girlwriteswhat wanted to be mods...because they'… | /r/MensRights | 22/07/11 07:03 PM |
| 2 | Dr. Drew appears to pressure Bristol Palin to accuse Levi Johnson of rape.curious67 is a pedo-rights guy. In his own words: rlier this month, a judge gave custody to the child's father, Donald Coleman, a registered sex offender who impregnated Trista Crews Coleman in 1997 when he was 38 and she was 14 years old. That kid is already 13. She kept sleeping with him and getting herself impregnated for at least another 10 years. She was 24 when she got herself pregnant again. http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/iu02a/father_of_3_sex_offender_because_his_wife_mother… | /r/MensRights | 22/07/11 04:18 PM |
| 1 | Dr. Drew appears to pressure Bristol Palin to accuse Levi Johnson of rape.Defending that boyfriends of 15 year olds should not go to jail for 15 years is reason for banning here (so I will not say defend this). You left out the part where that boyfriend was 38. Many of us support Romeo and Juliet laws...but most of us don't support middle-aged people being allowed to sleep with children. | /r/MensRights | 22/07/11 04:15 PM |
| 6 | TheYoungTurks finally starts treating men's problems seriously - Rape of menOkay, so they mentioned the "Refugee Law Project" and I found their website, but they don't appear to have anything set up to donate directly. While looking through their stuff, I came across this, and thought you guys might appreciate it. Anyway, I sent them a message to see if there's a way that we could donate to them directly. If they show me a way, I'll post it here so we can all help support their work. | /r/MensRights | 22/07/11 03:40 PM |
| 9 | What do you think are the 10 biggest issues facing men?We're not allowed to complain. Honestly, I think this underlies a lot of our issues (including those in this list). Women are allowed to complain, and so they do. The more women complain about a particular issue, the more likely that issue will be addressed. When addressing that issue creates a new issue for men...men can't complain and that new issue goes unaddressed. Think about it. MRAs are subjected to a ridiculous amount of abuse just because we complain about these issues...and some of tha… | /r/MensRights | 21/07/11 04:15 PM |
| 6 | Why are we banning feminists but not white supremacists?Racist posts get upvoted here all the time. http://www.reddit.com/domain/feministing.com/search?q=mensrights&restrict_sr=on so does shit from feministing.com. Does that mean r/mensrights supports feminism too? Point to actual racist posts, or fuck off. | /r/MensRights | 21/07/11 03:03 PM |
| 6 | Transgender Woman KilledIn a press release issued by MPD, Mayor Vincent Gray (D) said, "Every homicide in the District of Columbia is a tragedy for which the perpetrators must be brought to swift justice." "However, if the investigation concludes that this shooting was the result of bias based on sexual orientation or gender identity, MPD and my administration will work with this community to see that there is an appropriate response to this kind of violence, which cannot be tolerated.” It sounds like the mayor has the… | /r/MensRights | 21/07/11 02:55 PM |
| 1 | I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about this (warning wall of text)You need to move. When I was growing up, my mom would scream at me for every little thing. I tried the living at home while going to college thing too. And then, in the middle of yet another mundane argument, she punched me. I've been around 6'4/6'5 since I was 16, and around then I was about 260lbs of muscle, so she couldn't really hurt me physically, but the fact that she'd think it was okay to punch me like that hurt me more than a bruise ever could. I couldn't hit her back...so I just crouch… | /r/MensRights | 21/07/11 02:43 PM |
| 1 | U.S Representative calls fellow representative "Vile" "Despicable" "Not a lady." Sexism card pulled.This. Insulting her personally is one thing, but when a congressman says: “You have proven repeatedly that you are not a Lady, therefore, shall not be afforded due respect from me!”, it's a slap in the face to all women like her, and anyone who fights against rigid gender-roles. | /r/MensRights | 21/07/11 02:21 PM |
| 4 | /r/MensRights Demographics Survey! Results will be updated here as I receive them. It'll be interesting!redditor for 5 hours Cute. Someone's fishing for data...no thanks. | /r/MensRights | 21/07/11 12:17 PM |
| 7 | Why are we banning feminists but not white supremacists?They were banned for posting a hit-list, not for being feminists. If we were banning people for being feminists, you wouldn't see posts like these: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/e21vs/im_a_feminist_and_i_want_to_ask_you_all_a_couple/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/feewj/im_a_feminist_i_believe_in_mens_rights/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/gzh1l/im_a_feminist_and_i_just_wanted_to_say/ IF we were banning people for ideology, then I would agree that the whit… | /r/MensRights | 21/07/11 12:08 PM |
| 4 | Ban announcementsI don't "bitch" about crossposts. I point out that downvote brigades where you're not welcome are not a good thing. Well, you're not welcome here, but that doesn't seem to stop you. As a matter of fact, I don't. I think the number of comments I've deleted can be counted on one hand. Nevertheless I don't complain that you people banned the feminists. What feminists? Oh, you must mean the people who made the hit-list. | /r/MensRights | 20/07/11 07:10 PM |
| 4 | Ban announcementsYou constantly bitch about cross-posts, yet 22 of your last 100 submissions were cross-posts. You constantly ban and delete comments from people because they aren't your friends and express an opinion you don't like, but when your friends get banned for creating a fucking hit-list, you scream about it. And you're calling someone else a hypocrite? ...really? Do you just, you know, completely lack self-awareness? | /r/MensRights | 20/07/11 06:47 PM |
| 1 | Oops, the US Dept of Health and Human Services page showing that mothers murder their kids far more often than men disappeared... but Google cache still shows itThey only seem to have printed copies, so I'm limited to the executive summary: Among children in single-parent households, those living with only their fathers were approximately one and two-thirds times more likely to be physically abused than those living with only their mothers http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/statsinfo/nis3.cfm#family Perpetrator's Sex. Children were somewhat more likely to be maltreated by female perpetrators than by males: 65 percent of the maltreated children had been ma… | /r/MensRights | 20/07/11 04:14 PM |
| 1 | Oops, the US Dept of Health and Human Services page showing that mothers murder their kids far more often than men disappeared... but Google cache still shows itWomen...as a class. The rich, as a class, no longer fear everyone else, because so many of us have become complacent. In the past, they feared that which befell Nicholas and Alexandria, and so they acquiesced and allowed some progress to come about. They stopped killing children in their factories. They allowed the elderly to retire with dignity, instead of begging for food on the corner. They stopped forcing people to work themselves to death 60-80 hours a week. They even allowed a few other so… | /r/MensRights | 20/07/11 02:48 PM |
| 5 | r/againstmensrights has posted a text dump of a user report. how was this information obtained?Sounds good to me. The type of people who would preemptively deafen themselves from hearing opposing opinions, are not the type of people I would ever want anything to do with. I'm not sure how much of this you've thought through though. You see, at best, you'll be hiding our comments from the people who install your extension...but we'll still see their posts and be able to respond to them. Every point we raise against these people will be seen by everyone else, without a response. The assumpti… | /r/MensRights | 20/07/11 02:21 PM |
| 4 | Oops, the US Dept of Health and Human Services page showing that mothers murder their kids far more often than men disappeared... but Google cache still shows itFeel free to dance around the facts all you want. ...yeah Men are good. Men are good parents, men are good for women, men are good for children and families. Men improve the lives of everyone around them. ...I agree, and feel the same about women. | /r/MensRights | 20/07/11 02:07 PM |
| 4 | r/againstmensrights has posted a text dump of a user report. how was this information obtained?I couldn't give two fucks if they banned me. I have a dynamic IP, access to thousands of different proxies (if needed), browse in private mode with some other shit (i.e. auto-deleting LSOs, etc.). If I actually wanted to post on one of their subreddits, I would and there would be nothing they could do to stop me. | /r/MensRights | 20/07/11 02:02 PM |
| 7 | Oops, the US Dept of Health and Human Services page showing that mothers murder their kids far more often than men disappeared... but Google cache still shows itFathers are involved in 36.6% of child maltreatment. 37.8% ...you missed the 1.2% that was "father & other". I do. When a man is around the rate of child maltreatment is reduced to the exact same % as men alone. Men actually are statistically most likely the cause for reduced child maltreatment in couples... This sounds nice, but I don't think it'll hold much water. What you would ultimately have to show is that, controlling for opportunity, women are more likely to abuse children than men. Idea… | /r/MensRights | 20/07/11 01:35 PM |
| 1 | Some questions about r/mensrights.Though I usually ignore the fighting between you guys and 2x I don't have a problem with 2x (just some other subs like r/feminisms, and r/anarchism). Most of the "fighting" (if you could even call it that) is between us and gender-feminists. Occasionally a normal person who actually thinks "feminism = equality" will wander into an argument, etc., but they're the people many of us are trying to educate. I notice that it usually comes down to one accusing the other of supporting the supremacy of o… | /r/MensRights | 20/07/11 12:47 PM |
| -1 | Mensright has been really organized and attacking innocent subreddits such as r/feminisms, r/anarchism and a few others but it's time to get organized ourselves and stop this. Anyone is free to join!lol, I'd like to see them try. | /r/MensRights | 20/07/11 12:11 PM |
| 0 | Why white women shouldn't date black men: a flyer/ Racist site says important taboo truth for Men's Rights:Maybe higher criminality of blacks (against whites AND blacks) plus low class white crime is to blame for much of domestic violence and rapes? Discuss the issue, don't taboo, downvote, censor.Fuck off with this racist bullshit. | /r/MensRights | 19/07/11 03:19 PM |
| 4 | Gentlemen, my good friend has been dating a feminist for the past few years, and I need some help.If you just wanted to piss her off...when she brings up rape (especially if she brings up how it's so unreported), you can use the NCVS. It's an annual survey done on a bunch of different crimes and tracks how often they happen both reported and unreported, what percentage are reported, the relationships of the victim/perpetrator, etc. Feminists love to misquote older versions, out of context, to claim that rape is especially under-reported. You can find all of them here (you want the one's simp… | /r/MensRights | 19/07/11 02:06 AM |
| 8 | VAWA Must Be Rewritten by Phyllis SchlaflyFuck Phyllis Schlafly, and fuck her son. The MRM should want nothing to do with her. Schlafly became the most outspoken opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment during the 1970s as the organizer of the "Stop the ERA" . . . an acronym for "Stop Taking our Privileges", because Schlafly argues the ERA would take away 'privileges', including "dependent wife" benefits under Social Security and exemption from Selective Service registration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly#Opposition_to_an_… | /r/MensRights | 18/07/11 09:20 PM |
| 1 | NCADV - Fact Sheet - Is This True?Just look up their sources and check other sources. It's boring, but that's how you figure out when they're presenting facts or Facts™. | /r/MensRights | 18/07/11 08:58 PM |
| 1 | NCADV - Fact Sheet - Is This True?I'm really sorry to hear that. I don't think I come from an especially non-violent family (as I was physically and psychologically tortured by my step-mother), but spouses/etc. weren't really violent towards one another...probably because most of them didn't stay together long enough to reach that point. | /r/MensRights | 18/07/11 08:56 PM |
| 1 | NCADV - Fact Sheet - Is This True?Do you mean by a partner? Or just general assault in a lifetime? If general assault, then yeah, I agree...I've been assaulted countless times, many times by friends, and I've assaulted them too. If by a partner...then I don't know about that. It didn't happen to anyone in my family (they're a bunch of gossips...I would have heard something), I never heard about it happening to any friends (though they probably wouldn't have said anything anyway), only 1 of my exes ever mentioned being abused by … | /r/MensRights | 18/07/11 08:33 PM |
| 1 | NCADV - Fact Sheet - Is This True?Hell, according to that fact sheet, men are fucking monsters and 25% of all women are abused! No, it's have been assaulted or raped in their lifetime by an intimate partner (the vast majority of which would be assaulted, not raped). This includes being pushed too hard, one time, by a partner, 30 years ago. In a lifetime, you'll experience a LOT of shit, this just means that, if you're a woman, you have a 1 in 4 chance of being abused by a partner at least once in that lifetime. Nearly everyone w… | /r/MensRights | 18/07/11 08:21 PM |
| 1 | NCADV - Fact Sheet - Is This True?Let's go source by source. Source 1: Tjaden, Patricia & Thoennes, Nancy. National Institute of Justice and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, “Extent, Nature and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey,” (2000). Claims: ###One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.1 TL;DR: looks legitimate from the source: Intimate partner violence is pervasive in U.S. society. Nearly 25 percent of surveyed wo… | /r/MensRights | 18/07/11 08:12 PM |
| 1 | Jewish men on the decline: Is Judaism becoming too female-centric?Fortunately, I don't put much stock in the opinions of delusional people. | /r/MensRights | 18/07/11 03:06 PM |
| 0 | How does mensrights feel about transgendered people, transmen, transwomen, the genderless and so on?Many of us don't believe "feminism" is synonymous with "gender equality". Here is a big long dialogue which covers that topic in some detail. | /r/MensRights | 18/07/11 01:50 PM |
| 3 | How does mensrights feel about transgendered people, transmen, transwomen, the genderless and so on?In the US, I think trans-people are treated pretty shittily. A few years ago (2003 I think), a transwoman was murdered and her body was dumped in an alley next to my old job...people joked about it and shit, which I thought was pretty fucked. It was almost like my co-workers, etc., viewed the dead woman as sub-human. However, I take issue with something I've noticed -- many in the trans-community seem to assert that a straight cisgendered man should be attracted to transgendered women and, if he… | /r/MensRights | 18/07/11 12:10 PM |
| 1 | Jewish men on the decline: Is Judaism becoming too female-centric?Certainly, but if it's a commonly-accepted definition, then I doubt it would deviate from the definition supplied above in any meaningful way. More so, considering you've referenced "mystics", it's pretty clear you're not referring to an obscure exception, like secular spirituality, but to a spirituality which is, at the very least, focused on the supernatural (if not also a God/soul/etc.). | /r/MensRights | 18/07/11 11:10 AM |
| 1 | Jewish men on the decline: Is Judaism becoming too female-centric?religious != spiritual organized religion != individual spiritual awakening ...but it's still bullshit, and "belief in a God or universal spirit" would be "spirituality". Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul Of or pertaining to the God or a Church; sacred Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spiritual Some mystics say spirituality = freedom, and freedom is most certainly a masculine pursuit You say "spirituality" = "freedom" = "masculine"? There are a few… | /r/MensRights | 18/07/11 02:23 AM |
| 1 | Jewish men on the decline: Is Judaism becoming too female-centric?First, being "spiritual" is not a good thing, it's just the replacement of one load of bullshit with another, more vaguely defined bullshit. Second, the assertion that "men are more spiritual" is contradicted by the study listed above ("Have absolutely certain belief in a God or universal spirit: 77 (65)"), and is not backed up by anything other than conjecture. | /r/MensRights | 18/07/11 12:20 AM |
| 0 | I will be concerned about sluts who are raped but aren't believed when feminists are concerned about Fed.R.Evid. 413You should include the Bradley Amendment. | /r/MensRights | 17/07/11 06:54 PM |
| 3 | Jewish men on the decline: Is Judaism becoming too female-centric?Modern women are more religious than modern men, so it seems likely that less restrictive/oppressive religions would start to become more feminine...the super-organism is just reflecting the shared-traits of its constituent organisms. They cite Jewish feminism as a model for the movement: Just as feminists in the '60s and '70s found new ways to connect to Judaism, through their women-only study groups and female life-cycle rituals, men must now carve their own version of that path. People now ha… | /r/MensRights | 17/07/11 06:51 PM |
| 14 | I will be concerned about sluts who are raped but aren't believed when feminists are concerned about Fed.R.Evid. 413Fuck man, read your headline again...you've just called rape victims sluts. You may not have intended for it to come off that way, but that's how everyone opposed to the MRM will read it...and that's how they'll present it to everyone else. Aside from that, they'll claim you're saying promiscuous women deserve rape...and regular people will believe them. I love your site, and you're a huge part of the MRM (that's why I'm even saying anything here)...but with this post, you're giving the oppositi… | /r/MensRights | 17/07/11 05:47 PM |
| 8 | Don't mention false rape allegations, even if they occurred, because they make some women feel "loathed and feared" on redditSo lovely that almost every post I put up on r/feminisms ends up getting tattled to r/mensrights. You're a bunch of fucking children. And what, exactly, would you call this? How is that not "tattling", while bumes' post is tattling? What's more childish? Crossposting, or crossposting and then complaining when others crosspost. You're just another fucking hypocrite who calls themselves a "feminist". When you can have me arrested and defamed by large media conglomerates on nothing but your word, I… | /r/MensRights | 17/07/11 05:18 PM |
| 1 | "I am hopeful that Mr. Chadwick will not be the first American to receive life imprisonment in a divorce case."Ugh... this is pointless. You do not understand the concept of innocent unil proven guilty. If a court order says "do X", and you don't do X, you are guilty. That court order will usually incorporate a way to prove whether or not you've done X (e.g. a signed form proving completion of an anger management program). You do not understand: contempt of court, bail, or the fact that our legal system extends beyond simple platitudes. The issue here isn't proving guilt, it's whether or not the court is… | /r/MensRights | 17/07/11 01:23 AM |
| 1 | "I am hopeful that Mr. Chadwick will not be the first American to receive life imprisonment in a divorce case."First, thanks for downvoting my post, just because I disagreed with you...classy as fuck. Bail is about whether or not someone will show up to court, not about whether or not they will commit another crime. You have no idea what the fuck you're talking about: Under 18 U.S.C. § 3142(b), the defendant must be released on personal recognizance or unsecured personal bond unless the judicial officer 1 determines “that such release will not reasonably assure the appearance of the person as required or … | /r/MensRights | 16/07/11 10:09 PM |
| 3 | In 2009, a study found that women are less happy than they used to be. Guess what? New study finds that is the case for men, as well.As someone who's lived with depression, and grew up in a home filled with depressed people, I've thought about this...a lot. It's complicated, but I think it has to do a lot with the loss of hope. We walk around with a feeling of emptiness inside and we assume everyone else doesn't feel that way. If there's some deficiency we can point to, we assign the blame for that emptiness on that deficiency...and it allows you the ability to compartmentalize the pain, and would make you happier overall. Bu… | /r/MensRights | 16/07/11 04:56 PM |
| 0 | "I am hopeful that Mr. Chadwick will not be the first American to receive life imprisonment in a divorce case."Uh, yes, these risks are taken every time someone charged with a murder is given bail. You don't get to take away due process just because "I promise you judge, this guy really is guilty!" A lot of people charged with murder aren't given bail...that's up to the judge, whom it's assumed will exercise good judgment. Judges have no accountability when it comes to contempt, they don't have to listen to the evidence. It doesn't matter if every piece of evidence says the guy cannot actually follow the… | /r/MensRights | 16/07/11 02:49 PM |
| 1 | The Times, They Have A-Changed - even leftists are becoming uncomfortable about associating with a movement that is obviously violent and sexist.Only if "our principles" are: hating those who are different, and belligerence. Otherwise, no, this has nothing to do with compromising the MRM's principles. | /r/MensRights | 16/07/11 02:46 PM |
| 1 | The Times, They Have A-Changed - even leftists are becoming uncomfortable about associating with a movement that is obviously violent and sexist.and says something lie "we need to change our tone to appeal to the feminists regular people". FTFY We have crazy fucks in the MRM...and this has given ammunition to those who oppose us. By making an attempt to not come off as a crazy fuck, and by distancing ourselves from those who are actually crazy fucks, we can stop supplying them with ammunition. We are in a war -- a war against organized feminism for the hearts and minds of regular people. Every time someone disparages all women unfairly, … | /r/MensRights | 15/07/11 11:21 PM |
| 9 | Anarchists Support Men's RightsBy posting here, you'll only make it easier for them to label you "MRA scum" and dismiss everything you've ever said. | /r/MensRights | 15/07/11 10:13 PM |
| 6 | Break the cycle of hate...This comment was cross-posted men's rights, so I'm deleting it. http://www.reddit.com/r/metanarchism/comments/ipr8j/banned_nihilozero/c25t4xu What a fucking hypocrite: http://www.reddit.com/r/TransphobiaProject/comments/iohov/she_has_said_she_is_transgender_malefemale_so/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/g33ff/xpost_voting_is_not_enough_if_youre_working_a/ | /r/MensRights | 15/07/11 02:35 PM |
| 0 | "I am hopeful that Mr. Chadwick will not be the first American to receive life imprisonment in a divorce case."No there is not. I have no interest in repeating myself simply because you're too lazy to read the fucking thread. I've already outlined those valid reasons. If you disagree that those reasons are valid, make your point, because this childish "no it's not", "yes it is" back and forth you seem to be courting is not something in which I wish to engage. If they broke the law then charge them. Do you know what a court order is? No? Well please educate yourself. The court needs to be able to enforce … | /r/MensRights | 14/07/11 04:50 PM |
| 2 | Anti sex-work feminists make other feminists feel "unsafe".I hate the Anti-Sex League as much as anyone else, but what I hate even more is a veiled attempt at censorship based on some intangible "feeling". It's like the venerable Mr. Franklin said: Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety | /r/MensRights | 14/07/11 12:39 PM |
| 2 | "I am hopeful that Mr. Chadwick will not be the first American to receive life imprisonment in a divorce case."It's not simply about differences in situation, but about having to have a trial for the contempt of court charge after so long. Please note that you're the one who's added "after so long". I agree that, if it were to exceed, say, a few months, then a trial might be appropriate...but many people are thrown in jail for contempt for only a few days. In many (likely most) of those cases, a jury trial would be unreasonable and unnecessary. Again, we do need reform, but we shouldn't abandon the conce… | /r/MensRights | 13/07/11 10:17 PM |
| 0 | "I am hopeful that Mr. Chadwick will not be the first American to receive life imprisonment in a divorce case."Any time someone is to be put in jail, there should be a trial. Any time? If you just murdered someone in front of a cop, they shouldn't be able to hold you in jail until after your trial? That's completely unrealistic. The murderer might go murder a bunch of other people in the mean time, or they might kill themselves prior to trial, etc. Now you're probably thinking I've just completely misinterpreted what you've said. You didn't mean that sort of situation, you just meant other situations...b… | /r/MensRights | 12/07/11 08:44 PM |
| 1 | "I am hopeful that Mr. Chadwick will not be the first American to receive life imprisonment in a divorce case."There are some valid reasons for having it though. If someone kept disrupting the trial, and refused to stop after instructed to do so, a judge can hold them in contempt and retain order...which is fundamental to a fair trial. That example was just direct contempt, while Chadwick's case is indirect contempt...but I'm not even opposed to all instances of indirect contempt either. For example, if someone violated a court-order to participate in anger-management, there should be some consequences..… | /r/MensRights | 12/07/11 07:12 PM |
| 3 | Did anyone else see the rape of Jason by a girl on True Blood last night?...enjoy 4x01 - http://www.fileserve.com/file/Jt8rxxx/True.Blood.4x01.hdtv-lol.avi 4x02 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B7BYQ5WX 4x03 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=58FCW0C8 | /r/MensRights | 12/07/11 05:49 PM |
| 16 | "I am hopeful that Mr. Chadwick will not be the first American to receive life imprisonment in a divorce case."At the very first divorce hearing to set alimony, Bobbie said Beatty told the court he had some bad news. He had given a real estate venture $5,000 and agreed that they could come to him for additional funds -- up to $2.75 million if they got in trouble. It was at the time of the divorce that he says the company came to him demanding that $2.75 million -- a figure equivalent to the family fortune. "No one could believe that he was standing there saying this and expecting everyone to believe it,"… | /r/MensRights | 12/07/11 03:13 PM |
| -1 | Does anyone else think it's weird that most feminists are wiccan, and vice versa?I'm pretty sure most feminists aren't wiccan. Even if you exclude all of the sane people who refer to themselves as "feminists", I still don't think most would be wiccan. In the US, I imagine you would see some version of christianity overrepresented amongst those who call themselves "feminists". In european countries, you'd probably see atheism as the standard. | /r/MensRights | 12/07/11 01:23 PM |
| 0 | Yeah... i'm gonna go ahead and un-frontpage r/MensRights...your "activism" :| ...you do realize this is a NEWS site right? | /r/MensRights | 12/07/11 02:48 AM |
| 0 | Yeah... i'm gonna go ahead and un-frontpage r/MensRights...going-nowhere "activism" ...you do realize this is a NEWS site right? We're here to read news and discuss what we've read. If you want activism, join or found an activist group; don't bitch and moan because the hammer doesn't work on screws. | /r/MensRights | 12/07/11 02:14 AM |
| 2 | Why Circumcision is a Feminist IssueI was circumcised, and I don't feel abused, or mutilated, or emotionally scarred from the event. If your dick looked like this I'm sure you would feel abused, mutilated, and emotionally scarred. | /r/MensRights | 11/07/11 09:39 PM |
| 2 | Randall Munroe (XKCD) on requiring gender to be shown in a public Google+ profileI don't really give a fuck about Google+, but I can see why one might want to make certain aspects of their profile private, like gender. Honestly, I'm surprised Google doesn't know better considering all the complaints over Facebook's privacy settings, etc. | /r/MensRights | 09/07/11 01:24 PM |
| 1 | How Rebecca Watson's response to Dawkins imparts a lesson on feminismIt would be nice if it was so. No, it literally DOES encourage critical thought...that is basically the point of the movement. self-identified skeptics do indeed tend to believe they are more critical and rational than others, and occasionally (and paradoxically) that makes them less so. That doesn't appear to be what spatula_bastard said. His central point appears to be: treat claims made by skeptics with skepticism. And that's fine, because you should treat claims made by everyone with skeptic… | /r/MensRights | 09/07/11 10:32 AM |
| 2 | How Rebecca Watson's response to Dawkins imparts a lesson on feminismthe skepticism community lays claim to encourages critical thought FTFY is that perhaps you should apply the same sorts of critical thought that you do towards theism towards your own belief system, towards the conclusions you reach. Yes...every skeptic should. | /r/MensRights | 09/07/11 01:42 AM |
| 17 | Hey r/MensRights - I'm a female trying to understandI'd like to append nlakes' statement to read as follows: Basically we don't believe women earn less over a lifetime primarily because of sexism. ...as many of us do acknowledge that not only could sexism from one's employer unfairly limit a woman's earning potential (e.g. paying a woman less because of the assumption that she'll drop out of the workforce to raise a child, despite a lack of any evidence other than gender), but that rigid gender-roles could discourage young girls from pursuing cer… | /r/MensRights | 08/07/11 09:11 AM |
| 2 | Can you be banned from a subreddit without even posting in it? This must be a new record!Yeah, he banned me too. | /r/MensRights | 07/07/11 05:01 PM |
| 2 | Father who stabbed his two children to death found not criminally responsible...I didn't post it, so you'd have to ask dopplerbike how, exactly, they felt it was a MR issue. Personally, I think it serves as a stark reminder that class and race are, for the most part, bigger factors than gender when it comes to such privilege. | /r/MensRights | 06/07/11 02:50 PM |
| 10 | Father who stabbed his two children to death found not criminally responsibleGuy Turcotte was a well-regarded doctor despondent over his wife’s affair, and one night, while she was off on a weekend ski trip, he did the unimaginable: He stabbed the couple’s two young children in their beds, killing them both. According to his legal defence, the cardiologist was a loving father and “normal” guy who simply snapped. And in a verdict that shocked a province on Tuesday, a jury unanimously agreed. Mr. Turcotte was found not criminally responsible for the double slaying of his f… | /r/MensRights | 06/07/11 03:14 AM |
| 2 | Do you believe that patriarchy exists?There is still something which could be labeled "patriarchy" in some other countries (i.e. every theocracy), but it doesn't appear to exist in the US...at least it hasn't for as long as I've been alive. There are actually quite a few definitions of "patriarchy" which get tossed out. Some of those definitions are unfalsifiable and, as such, are meaningless. Those definitions which are falsifiable, are easily disproven when a small amount of critical thinking is applied. TL;DR: no. | /r/MensRights | 05/07/11 10:05 AM |
| 1 | I am a man who was rapedHave you considered a sex surrogate, or if you couldn't afford that sort of thing, using a hooker as a surrogate? It might help you work through some of this. | /r/MensRights | 04/07/11 10:10 PM |
| 1 | Don't MRAs and feminists both want gender equality? Where's the big disagreement?Child support is based on the income of the man. A poor man isn't going to have to pay 100,000 a month in child support "just because". ...it's supposed to be, but even homeless men are sent to jail if they can't afford to pay: Frank Hatley has been sitting in a Georgia jail for over a year for failing to reimburse the state for all the public assistance his “son” over the past two decades. The problem is that the homeless man is not the father of the boy and both the Court and the prosecutors k… | /r/MensRights | 04/07/11 08:53 PM |
| 1 | Don't MRAs and feminists both want gender equality? Where's the big disagreement?I guess it should depend on the situation. If he just wants to be a part of the child's life, and no one opposes that, then he could work something out with the mother (e.g. paying her retroactive child support). If, on the other hand, she doesn't want him in the child's life, and she isn't deemed an unfit mother or anything like that, then she should be able to keep him away. He waived his rights to the child...you can't just hit ctrl+z on that sort of thing. If the child was already adopted by… | /r/MensRights | 04/07/11 05:19 AM |
| 1 | Don't MRAs and feminists both want gender equality? Where's the big disagreement?I've watched too many collaborative projects fail because reddit simply isn't set up for such collaboration. Reddit is great for conversation, but when it comes to actually doing something, you'd better move it off-site (and good luck retaining the visibility that reddit offers). | /r/MensRights | 04/07/11 04:13 AM |
| 2 | Don't MRAs and feminists both want gender equality? Where's the big disagreement?Okay, but let's say the woman is extremely poor, and she is going to need some support in raising a child. The father wants nothing to do with the child, so he has a "financial abortion". Now, the woman is effectively forced to have an abortion against her wishes. It's not fair to the woman. But let's say the man was poor and couldn't afford child support without working 60hours a week. If the woman chooses to have that child, she's ACTUALLY forcing him to work against his wishes (and I emphasiz… | /r/MensRights | 04/07/11 04:09 AM |
| 8 | Don't MRAs and feminists both want gender equality? Where's the big disagreement?If this is not a common MRM view, please correct me. It's not. Many MRAs support what's called a "financial abortion", which would take place before the child was born. Effectively, the biological father could give up all rights and obligations to the unborn child, within, say, the first trimester. Mothers would still have the same option to: abort/birth, raise/abandon (at a safe haven), as they did before. Effectively, this would allow men the ability to opt-out of parenthood, after conception,… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/11 11:02 PM |
| 2 | Man wife gets cancer so his boss, a women, fires him. "It's business. I'm running a company here, and I need to make sure the department runs," she told him. Nuff said about the empathy and compassion of women.Change it to "nearly everyone" or something like that. Selfishness (which is basically the root of it all IMO) is within basically all life on earth. Our ancestors have been competing with one another for resources since they were single-celled organisms, so we all have the capacity to do these things...it's not something unique to rich people, they just have the power to do this shit, and no one is stopping them. That's all I was really trying to say. I agree with your point about our society r… | /r/MensRights | 02/07/11 01:52 PM |
| 5 | Man wife gets cancer so his boss, a women, fires him. "It's business. I'm running a company here, and I need to make sure the department runs," she told him. Nuff said about the empathy and compassion of women.This is what rich people do, it's not a man/woman thing...it's a rich/not-rich thing. They don't see you as "people" they see you as commodities to be bought and sold...machines to be used until a less expensive alternative comes around. When that happens, they'll cut you loose. They don't care if you have a sick spouse, or if your kids won't be able to eat. They don't care, they just want to use you up and toss you aside when they're done. They do this to accumulate more and more and more of OU… | /r/MensRights | 02/07/11 08:16 AM |
| 0 | [xpost]All that's wrong with the MR subredditYou're going to have to go back into a time machine and make it so. This is asinine. Again, the MRM has always been about all men, not just white, cisgendered, straight men. Oddly the rise of the lgbt movement along with feminism and other 'counter-culture' movements, mark the beginning of general male disenfranchisement -- which is exactly what they were designed to do. Feminism, sure...because it was taken too far. But everything else? No. If you're looking to blame something, other than the f… | /r/MensRights | 30/06/11 10:19 PM |
| 0 | [xpost]All that's wrong with the MR subredditIn this particular incidence, sadly you are wrong. You see, there never was a unity between lgbt issues and mens issues. The MRM has always been about all men, not just white, cisgendered, straight men. While not ALL LGBT issues are MR issues, some definitely are, and some of those are brought up in r/MR...occasionally. Then I'll stick to 'progressive' even though the newspapers and establishment thinkers such as yourself, would like to define it another way. Progressivism has been a political i… | /r/MensRights | 30/06/11 09:29 PM |
| 1 | [xpost]All that's wrong with the MR subredditI contend that going back to a 'previous state' is impossible. By trying to resurrect the division between "gay men" and "men", you're seeking a return to a previous state WRT values/norms, where homosexuality was considered a deviation from the norm and, thus, distinct. This is reactionary, whether you've misinterpreted the meaning of the term, or not. I suppose that makes me more of a futurist than a 'reactionary'. That's not what "futurist" means. EDIT: also, "reactionary" can be used to mean… | /r/MensRights | 30/06/11 08:54 PM |
| 1 | [xpost]All that's wrong with the MR subredditI find your terminology interesting.. so tell us about your theory of 'reactionaries'. You seem to have some training in identifying these types of 'subversives'. You too could have such training if you simply looked up the meaning of the word! It's amazing what you can do with this here computator! The term reactionary refers to viewpoints that seek to return to a previous state (the status quo ante) in a society. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary | /r/MensRights | 30/06/11 08:34 PM |
| 3 | [xpost]All that's wrong with the MR subredditJust admit the formula is better. And less accomodating to the BS that goes on in this subreddit of which you are part. If by "BS" you mean: support for LGBT rights, support for egalitarianism, and acknowledgment that racism is still a huge fucking problem in most of the US...then yeah, I'd say such an exclusionary formula would be "better" at eliminating that "BS". And, certainly, anyone who's not some reactionary ass would feel pride when considered "part" of that which you seek to eliminate..… | /r/MensRights | 30/06/11 08:11 PM |
| 8 | [xpost]All that's wrong with the MR subredditAll that's wrong with the "rights4men" subreddit: Stupid name. 4 = for??? What are you, 12? Stupid logo. Oh look, an awkwardly positioned stock silhouette holding a scale. No, that's totally not poorly executed derivative work. Stupid posts, like this one, or this one. Nearly everything on the frontpage has a score of "0"...yet the mod is complaining about r/MR having "goofy up/downvotes". A group of 24 people seem to think they're the only "true" MRAs...lol They're obviously homophobic as evide… | /r/MensRights | 30/06/11 06:40 PM |
| 1 | If we are to defend the rights of men, we shall defend them all, not just heterosexuals. Boy wears dress to school, is suspended and denied the privilege of going to his school's dance. [xpost /r/reddit.com]Children who are not emancipated minors are not able to enter legally binding contracts. If the kid had the money on hand for the billboard, sure - that might work. But if there was a payment plan for it? Nope - can't legally bind a child to making payments on something. He's still a citizen and he still has 1st amendment rights. And replace Senate with Parliament, it's the same damned thing at the end of the day, and kids can't run for it. No, a parliament is not the same as a senate...but it's… | /r/MensRights | 30/06/11 12:37 AM |
| 2 | Photographer Taryn Simon's TED talk. Watch it all, but from 11:30 - 17:00 she covers those wrongfully convicted...some of whom had been sentenced to death.You can buy her book, "The Innocents", here. Also I, know it's not a MR issue, but I was really surprised to hear that the US government operates several TV stations overseas...I can't verify that it's illegal to broadcast them domestically though, but still it's pretty fucked. | /r/MensRights | 29/06/11 06:19 PM |
| 3 | Why is this OK?I took it as character A represents a particular type of guy, character B represents all women (as, based on A's statement, it seems B is supposed to be acting on behalf of all women). Effectively, the comic seems to be expressing the message that women don't like that type of guy, and those guys should be thankful for being told as much. Is it a little bit misandrist? I don't think so, but if it is, it's way below my "give a damn" threshold...it's just a comic and it's pretty funny. Also, after… | /r/MensRights | 29/06/11 08:01 AM |
| 1 | If we are to defend the rights of men, we shall defend them all, not just heterosexuals. Boy wears dress to school, is suspended and denied the privilege of going to his school's dance. [xpost /r/reddit.com]Last I checked, kids don't have the right to vote or bear arms, serve in the military, run for parliament, or legally make decisions for themselves without court consent. Voting: The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. Clearly this is a subset of citizens. To bear arms: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of t… | /r/MensRights | 29/06/11 06:53 AM |
| 1 | If we are to defend the rights of men, we shall defend them all, not just heterosexuals. Boy wears dress to school, is suspended and denied the privilege of going to his school's dance. [xpost /r/reddit.com]Kids are not citizens ... Go read up on the Constitution and Classical Liberalism. Can you be this fucking stupid? Really? All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. There you go: citizenship, for most, begins at BIRTH. Right now you sound like a post modern feminist. Again, you're a loud-mouthed, ignorant fuck. Someone who wasn't a loud-mouthed, ignorant fuck, would probab… | /r/MensRights | 29/06/11 05:52 AM |
| 3 | Thoughts and constructive comments on menrights subreddit from an avid MRA.However, how is "Woman Arrested After Allegedly Spraying Deputies With Breast Milk" and "Mom kills her kid due to her own negligence. Uses it for her own personal gain." related to men's rights? http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/71ues/faq1_why_did_you_post_this_what_does_a_crazy_evil/ | /r/MensRights | 28/06/11 04:06 PM |
| 2 | The Kind Of People We Are Dealing WithThis is willful ignorance not always | /r/MensRights | 27/06/11 12:59 AM |
| 7 | New logo needed, to emphasize racial and lgbt inclusiveness, but not feminism.So...watch it when you reboot? I'll sum it up, but my summary will be shit compared to the video. Basically, a designer is hired to design a sign telling people to stop at intersections (a stop sign). First he makes a simple red circle with the word "stop" on it. The committee in charge of the project makes him add a bunch of crap, and the sign ends up so jumbled that it fails to serve its purpose. The video is supposed to highlight the problems associated with design-by-committee...one of which… | /r/MensRights | 26/06/11 11:43 PM |
| 3 | New logo needed, to emphasize racial and lgbt inclusiveness, but not feminism.Changing the logo to incorporate all of that will render it pointless and confusing. Why not just put some attention-grabbing graphics/banners into the sidebar affirming our support for LGBT rights and our opposition to racism? You can create a link to a page explaining r/MR's position on these issues, and add the graphics with the content tag. EDIT: we don't want this | /r/MensRights | 26/06/11 11:22 PM |
| 2 | The Kind Of People We Are Dealing WithHowever, it's not always possible to distinguish between willful ignorance, and regular ignorance. So perhaps it's best to assume regular ignorance is the case, and act accordingly. | /r/MensRights | 26/06/11 11:06 PM |
| 1 | An Idea to Find Out If Someone is a Misandrist Without Fail.When they do such a thing, they are the "raging fire", because they are many. When we do such a thing, we are the "torch", because we are few. I'm not seeing what the "explosives" could possibly be. Perhaps if we outnumbered them by several factors of 10, and we all did such a thing, that could be the "explosives"? ...but we're so small that this would be unrealistic. Also, explosives ignite secondary fires and spread them further. Please clarify what you were trying to say. | /r/MensRights | 26/06/11 07:11 PM |
| 2 | An Idea to Find Out If Someone is a Misandrist Without Fail.You can't extinguish a raging fire with a torch. | /r/MensRights | 26/06/11 06:56 PM |
| 5 | The Kind Of People We Are Dealing WithAnyway. It is a 'teachable moment' Actually, it is, but not in the way the author seems to think. Someone says: The similarities end at the 'cutting' - male circumcision does not result in the same physical abuse as that inflicted on girls. I am appalled that this article seeks to draw a parallel between the two practices. And this would be the time to bring up the different varieties of FGM, specifically type IIa, which is comparable to male circumcision, and "pricking", which is infinitely les… | /r/MensRights | 26/06/11 06:06 PM |
| 7 | Judge orders boyfriend to take down abortion billboard.Her name is Nani (which appears on the billboard), and they live in a small town...anyone who recognizes him would immediately know who he was talking about. | /r/MensRights | 24/06/11 05:52 PM |
| 1 | Female here, wondering what MensRights thinks about my friend's view on abortionFirst, are you incapable of replying only once? EVERY SINGLE REPLY FROM YOU IS DOUBLED. In your timeline and mine, men AND women have the ability to not become parents. And only women have the ability to do so after conception. To say that men don't think clearly while fucking is a cop out. Holy fuck...no. http://duke.edu/~dandan/Papers/Heat_of_Moment.pdf Would you use a condom even if you were afraid that a woman might change her mind while you went to get it? Non-aroused subjects answered "Yes… | /r/MensRights | 24/06/11 05:31 PM |
| 2 | Why should there be subsidized abortions?Which is something I don't support. I believe all should have access to an education and necessary healthcare. And I'm not interested in a big long argument over this, as A) I'm currently involved in another tedious and unnecessarily long argument here, B) I'm tired of trying to convince those who fervently oppose the things I support, and C) it's likely be pointless as I'm sure you've put a great deal of thought into your position, just as I have put a great deal of thought into mine -- another… | /r/MensRights | 24/06/11 05:03 PM |
| 2 | Why should there be subsidized abortions?Because, to the state, the cost of an abortion is much less than the cost of a child. Ignoring welfare and all of that, how much do you think it costs to send a child to public school for 1 year? More than that, what about other costs, like crime? I see where you're coming from and agree with the sentiment that we shouldn't subsidize elective procedures...but I do believe the benefits outweigh the costs, and don't have an objection to my tax dollars being used for this particular procedure. I be… | /r/MensRights | 24/06/11 03:17 PM |
| 1 | Female here, wondering what MensRights thinks about my friend's view on abortionYes you are, you are forcing her (not me, her) to possibly change her decision If you force someone to do something, you couldn't describe it with terms like "possibly" and "decision". Forcing someone REMOVES their decision-making power. No I don't. As I said in the remainder of that sentence which you appear to have ignored: ", or else you're fucking sexist as shit." So yeah, you don't...but, you're fucking sexist as shit. You stop pregnancies before they happen, she can stop them after. Equali… | /r/MensRights | 24/06/11 03:05 PM |
| 1 | Female here, wondering what MensRights thinks about my friend's view on abortionAnd does saving that money later make you clear of conscience to know that you essentially forced a woman to have an abortion against HER will because she couldn't pay for it? If I hold a gun to your head and say "DO THIS OR I'LL KILL YOU" I'm forcing you to do something, if I don't give you money, I'm not forcing you to do anything. Should you be required to face the consequences of your actions? I think the answer is yes. Well, then you MUST apply that same logic to women, or else you're fucki… | /r/MensRights | 23/06/11 10:34 PM |
| 2 | Female here, wondering what MensRights thinks about my friend's view on abortionThen you're equivocally making the decision to carry a child to term about money, and that's fucked up. Equivocally? No, I am saying there's a huge financial component...there's nothing ambiguous about that. But it's more than that -- child support means you are required to work to support someone else, against your will if need be. How many men have been thrown in jail because they couldn't afford their child support obligations? How many men have to go without food, to pay for some child that … | /r/MensRights | 23/06/11 09:38 PM |
| 1 | If we are to defend the rights of men, we shall defend them all, not just heterosexuals. Boy wears dress to school, is suspended and denied the privilege of going to his school's dance. [xpost /r/reddit.com]Oh fuck you. You're a loud-mouthed, ignorant fuck, who seems more than happy to have others oppressed simply for wearing clothing you don't like. You want to to start with the poorly crafted guilt by association fallacies? Then fine. Punishing this kid is the equivalent of early nazi excesses. | /r/MensRights | 23/06/11 02:31 PM |
| 3 | Female here, wondering what MensRights thinks about my friend's view on abortionboth partners need to consent to an abortion. I don't support that. As far as I'm concerned I have no right to tell you what to do with your body, and you have no right to tell me what to do with mine. I support what's called a "financial abortion" (as do many other MRAs). Basically, a man should be able to give up all parental rights and obligations before the end of the first trimester (i.e. the same time period most women have to abort), however it would have no bearing on what a woman does w… | /r/MensRights | 22/06/11 10:41 PM |
| 6 | RE: /r/racism. . . How I will picture yellowmix from now on. . .Fuck this shit. Just because a crazy person moderates r/racism, it doesn't mean you have to be a racist douche. | /r/MensRights | 22/06/11 11:02 AM |
| 5 | Men’s rights outreach to any guys of /r/racism.It looks like they deleted your post. | /r/MensRights | 21/06/11 08:11 PM |
| 1 | What, exactly, do the men of r/mensrights want out of romantic relationships with women?the law has changed in both Florida and Georgia since those cases. So if they've been changed in the past few years, why is that not evidence that the MRM is succeeding? Why, instead, are you trying to hold this up as proof that our concerns are baseless? You seem to be the disingenuous one here, not us. The fact that the law is not different in Ga is indicated by this sentence in the story: "With the help of a Georgia Legal Services lawyer, Hatley went to court and was relieved of his responsib… | /r/MensRights | 20/06/11 09:16 PM |
| 2 | Antifeminism VS MysoginismI've written about this before so I'll just copy and paste my response: "Antifeminism" is opposition to feminism in some or all of its forms. Many feminists like to claim "feminism is gender equality", and by extension antifeminism is opposition to gender equality. However this is incorrect. Feminism is two things. First and foremost it is a set of beliefs and assumptions. Those beliefs and assumptions have grown over time (so much so, that it would take too much time to list them all), but at t… | /r/MensRights | 20/06/11 08:52 PM |
| 1 | What, exactly, do the men of r/mensrights want out of romantic relationships with women?Without citing the specific laws, I do know that Florida, Georgia, and Ohio all allow a man to walk away from financial responsibility for a child if he is not the biological father, under any circumstances. Including whether or not he has held himself out to be the father. Well, it's apparent you didn't even look at my links from earlier. The Florida justices ruled 7-0 against Richard Parker. The Court ruled Parker must continue to pay $1,200 a month in child support. Parker’s child support p… | /r/MensRights | 20/06/11 08:46 PM |
| 4 | What, exactly, do the men of r/mensrights want out of romantic relationships with women?I'm referring to a male birth control pill. I think drug companies are working on that. Until they actually come up with something and bring it to the market, let's not pretend it's a viable option, okay? All I can say is that you're wrong. Then prove it, because I've actually backed up my claims with something other than conjecture and a pompous appeal to my own authority. Paternity testing is dispositive with respect to child support obligation in most states. If you were involved in the child… | /r/MensRights | 20/06/11 07:39 PM |
| 9 | What, exactly, do the men of r/mensrights want out of romantic relationships with women?male birth control would completely solve the problem. Like a condom? Unfortunately, sperm can be salvaged by a woman, used to impregnate herself, and the man will still be held liable for child support. More so, men who are raped can still be held liable for child support too. For instance, a lot of states have abolished common law marriage. 11 states still have common law marriage. Also, that case you cite (where the dude is forced to pay child support for a kid that wasn't his) is definitely … | /r/MensRights | 20/06/11 01:27 PM |
| 1 | If we are to defend the rights of men, we shall defend them all, not just heterosexuals. Boy wears dress to school, is suspended and denied the privilege of going to his school's dance. [xpost /r/reddit.com]Could I offer you a tissue? Yeah, I need a fucking tissue, because proving some jackass wrong, and laughing at him as he struggles to avoid any acknowledgment of the fact that he was wrong, just makes me oh so sad. | /r/MensRights | 20/06/11 08:52 AM |
| 1 | If we are to defend the rights of men, we shall defend them all, not just heterosexuals. Boy wears dress to school, is suspended and denied the privilege of going to his school's dance. [xpost /r/reddit.com]Adults have Rights - not children. What the fuck?!?! Children have rights...they have always had rights. Our constitution doesn't stipulate that the bill of rights only applies to those over 18. I'm sick of people rewarding them with stars, rainbows, and unicorns for being special little snowflakes. No, that's not even remotely close to what is happening here you ignorant fuck. This is about standing up for a person's right to free expression. No one gives a fuck if you disagree with what he's e… | /r/MensRights | 19/06/11 07:35 PM |
| 1 | If we are to defend the rights of men, we shall defend them all, not just heterosexuals. Boy wears dress to school, is suspended and denied the privilege of going to his school's dance. [xpost /r/reddit.com]you'd face an angry me followed by a chat with a police constable and then a magistrate. ...for trespassing and possibly public nudity, depending on the circumstances. However, if I weren't on your property, but were dancing nude in public as a form of protest, etc., I might be able to avoid any charges because it is technically protected by the first amendment. It is the boy's "right" to wear a dress to a school dance which is minor. Nope, it's protected speech and that trumps one's desires not… | /r/MensRights | 19/06/11 10:36 AM |
| 5 | Just a heads up to r/Mensrights: This redditor is spending hours every day actively running a campaign against you, try to bombard you with downvote brigadesNo, it's a "he". His personal information is REALLY easy to find through google and pipl. | /r/MensRights | 19/06/11 08:50 AM |
| 1 | If we are to defend the rights of men, we shall defend them all, not just heterosexuals. Boy wears dress to school, is suspended and denied the privilege of going to his school's dance. [xpost /r/reddit.com]Free Speech does not apply in a school environment Yes, it does. | /r/MensRights | 19/06/11 08:44 AM |
| 1 | If we are to defend the rights of men, we shall defend them all, not just heterosexuals. Boy wears dress to school, is suspended and denied the privilege of going to his school's dance. [xpost /r/reddit.com]You take middle-school dances WAY too seriously. Regardless of your near-religious devotion to something which is, IMO, pretty fucking minor, one's "right" to not be offended by a boy in a dress (and let's face it, that's what this comes down to) shouldn't trump one's right to express themselves. | /r/MensRights | 19/06/11 08:34 AM |
| 1 | crosspost from r/oneY and r/equality - someone on oneY pointed out to me that it deserved to be heard here as well, so here goes: I just did a little research into government funding toward men and toward women, and the numbers are pretty interesting (although not that surprising)Well, first I think the public would forget about it in a week. Second, I don't believe the backlash would be that great...especially now that the MRM seems to be cementing itself as a legitimate faction on gender issues (i.e. we would be arguing against punishing all males). Third, they should already be staffed in such a way that such a thing would be unlikely. But, if they're not willing to make these things gender neutral, the only remaining solution is to share the budget evenly...which mea… | /r/MensRights | 18/06/11 04:16 PM |
| 4 | crosspost from r/oneY and r/equality - someone on oneY pointed out to me that it deserved to be heard here as well, so here goes: I just did a little research into government funding toward men and toward women, and the numbers are pretty interesting (although not that surprising)Yeah, but you could have a woman's area and a men's area within the same building. At most, it would just require a bit of light construction (i.e. an interior wall here, a door there), but that might not even be necessary depending on the building itself. Also, is keeping these women away from all men really the best way to help them? Wouldn't that gender-isolation only further strengthen any existing anxiety issues? | /r/MensRights | 18/06/11 10:49 AM |
| 2 | I'm starting to see people link this article (more specifically, the picture) as fact. Help me debunk it.RAINN presumes to know how many rapes are unreported- that's false, no one knows that. In fairness, there is the NCVS. I agree with everything else you've said. | /r/MensRights | 18/06/11 08:42 AM |
| 7 | If we are to defend the rights of men, we shall defend them all, not just heterosexuals. Boy wears dress to school, is suspended and denied the privilege of going to his school's dance. [xpost /r/reddit.com]It's reasonable for a school to set a dress code which is distinct for boys and girls. Why do you believe it's reasonable for a school to set gender-specific dress codes? I disagree that it's within the purview of a public school to police gender roles. Remember, we have compulsory education in this country...he is required, by law, to attend. Because of this, the double standard highlighted here may even be unconstitutional, depending on how SCOTUS would interpret the equal protections clause. … | /r/MensRights | 18/06/11 08:35 AM |
| 6 | crosspost from r/oneY and r/equality - someone on oneY pointed out to me that it deserved to be heard here as well, so here goes: I just did a little research into government funding toward men and toward women, and the numbers are pretty interesting (although not that surprising)How can this problem be solved when there is only so much money to go around? Well, I don't understand why some things need to be gender-specific. Why can't the shelters/housing allow male residents, and why can't the addiction and recovery centers allow females? Why not just make them all gender-neutral? | /r/MensRights | 18/06/11 08:08 AM |
| 2 | Can I be a feminist AND a masculinist at the same time?Part 2. On that note, can you explain the term "antifeminist" and why many of the posters on MR seem to identify with it? Is it because the movement has been tainted by the "wrong" kind of women's activism and has ignored mens' issues for so long? Or is it because feminism and masculinism are incompatible? "Antifeminism" is opposition to feminism in some or all of its forms. Many feminists like to claim "feminism is gender equality", and by extension antifeminism is opposition to gender equality… | /r/MensRights | 17/06/11 10:25 AM |
| 2 | Can I be a feminist AND a masculinist at the same time?First off, thanks for taking the time to hear our side instead of simply jumping to a conclusion and demonizing us. Now, I don't consider myself to be a "masculist" as I don't want to replace one dogma/doctrine/ideology (feminism) with another (masculism)...I think it's dangerous and allows the wrong types of people the opportunity to gain way too much power. I don't believe "isms" are really necessary for the advocacy of justice/fairness/equality with regards to gender, in fact I think they get… | /r/MensRights | 17/06/11 10:24 AM |
| 1 | How often do you think a police call about domestic violence ends in an unarmed woman being shot?I do support a citizen's right to carry, in principle...but I also think police officers shouldn't carry firearms as a matter of routine (they should be limited to tazers, batons, and other non-lethal weapons). If they legitimately need a firearm, they could radio in for armed backup...but for the most part, they don't need them. Maybe there should be an exception for super-high-crime areas, but other than that, I don't see the need. | /r/MensRights | 16/06/11 03:33 PM |
| 5 | How often do you think a police call about domestic violence ends in an unarmed woman being shot?Cops shouldn't carry guns. They don't in the UK and from what I've seen, those cops seem way better than ours...let's follow their lead on this one. | /r/MensRights | 16/06/11 12:10 PM |
| 2 | A woman's right to choose - and a man's obligation to deal with it.The logic at work here is that a woman's right to abortion has nothing to do with whether or not she wants to be a parent. Justifications aside, the real reason most women have abortions has everything to do with not wanting to be a mother. Please view table 2 on page 4 (marked page 113) of the following study: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3711005.pdf The overwhelming majority of reasons given had to do with not wanting to be a mother. The reality of the situation is that women have a… | /r/MensRights | 16/06/11 06:09 AM |
| 1 | A woman's right to choose - and a man's obligation to deal with it.I look at it like this: he is 1/2 responsible for placing her in a state (pregnant), so he should be 1/2 responsible for the cost of returning her to her prior state (not pregnant). In this state (pregnant) she has 2 primary options (abortion, birth), and so he should be 1/2 responsible for whichever option she chooses. Now, there are many people for whom abortion is not a realistic option (usually for religious or moral reasons). As such, it would be unfair to place the entire burden of the onl… | /r/MensRights | 16/06/11 05:51 AM |
| 2 | Iran has clothing restrictions for men tooI wouldn't have a problem with people walking around naked...I just wouldn't want them to sit on anything or touch anything. The rule may be rooted in stupidity...but there's definitely a public health issue related to public nudity. | /r/MensRights | 16/06/11 05:01 AM |
| 1 | A woman's right to choose - and a man's obligation to deal with it.This is why many MRAs support the financial abortion. In detail, this is what I would support: Women would retain the same right to keep or abort the child/fetus, however men would be given a window of opportunity (i.e. the first trimester, with a minimum of 1 week to reach a decision after being informed of the pregnancy) to opt out of parenthood. By opting out, one wold give up all parental rights and obligations to the unborn child...no child support, no visitation, etc. Regardless of the man… | /r/MensRights | 16/06/11 04:38 AM |
| 1 | "Doctors' productivity doesn’t match that of men [..] even full-time female doctors reported working on average 4.5 fewer hours each week"Agreed. This is why I believe we need a comprehensive rehabilitation of the public education and health system in the US. Last week, I made a post explaining my thoughts on the matter here, though I think only 1 person viewed it. | /r/MensRights | 15/06/11 09:48 AM |
| 2 | Hyphenated last namesIt's probably a result of children born to families where the mother hyphenated her last name. In a few generations, if this trend continues, last names could get ridiculously long, e.g. 3 generations of this practice would result in a name like: James Knapp-Loomis-Smith-Washington-Diego-Wilson-Carter-Gray. | /r/MensRights | 14/06/11 02:52 PM |
| 1 | Throwaway account time: How many of you have to hide your membership to /MR? How many of you would lose their children/homes if your wife caught you reading this subreddit?Okay, wow....well first things first, you need to make sure r/MR isn't showing up in your browser history. Download firefox, or chrome and set it to automatically start in private browsing mode/incognito mode (I assume you should be able to do this in chrome). That should be enough to ensure that, if she does decide to invade your privacy, she probably won't find anything (unless she's like a computer forensics expert or something). I'm not married and probably never will be...but after reading … | /r/MensRights | 14/06/11 01:59 PM |
| 2 | How are Ladies Golf Courses Acceptable?Augusta National Golf Club, located in Augusta, Georgia, is a famous *men's golf club. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta_National_Golf_Club I have no problem with a women's golf course whatsoever, as long as men's golf courses are allowed as well. Also, fuck golf. | /r/MensRights | 11/06/11 03:56 PM |
| 3 | If you're looking for a place to donate some money, consider the Innocence Project. They work to exonerate those who have been falsely convicted.The donate link looks weird (didn't realize until after I posted it)...so if you don't trust it, start here: http://www.innocenceproject.org/ and click "donate online". or, if you're not sure about the validity of the organization, check them out on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocence_project | /r/MensRights | 11/06/11 08:40 AM |
| 2 | I decided to calculate the male-to-female suicide rates per countryWell, I made this a few months ago, so I could figure some shit out. It includes a bunch of data (GDP per capita, gini coefficient, birth/death rates, etc.). The column labelled "Total Score" is a composite score rating HDI, gini, GDP/cap. and a composite score for "freedom" based on a bunch of freedom indices. The ROE column is the rate of (population) expansion...it's the total number of new people created/1000, adjusted for deaths/1000..."difference" is the number of how many new people will … | /r/MensRights | 11/06/11 07:01 AM |
| 1 | I'm a Physician, a Jew, a Father & Grandfather: My position on CircumcisionYou have a pro-circumcision username, and your history is filled with pro-circumcision posts, yet you write shit like this: Seriously. I can find no information on the infection rates of infant circumcision. ...insinuating that you are even remotely close to being impartial and are, thus, open to being convinced in the first place. Such an insinuation is so obviously flawed, given your username and history, as to be fucking laughable. But I would have completely ignored that, had you not written… | /r/MensRights | 11/06/11 05:12 AM |
| 1 | I'm a Physician, a Jew, a Father & Grandfather: My position on CircumcisionDoes that mean you are a murderer? No, but it does indicate that I'm not particularly fond of the rich. | /r/MensRights | 11/06/11 12:59 AM |
| 10 | I'm a Physician, a Jew, a Father & Grandfather: My position on CircumcisionSeriously. I can find no information on the infection rates of infant circumcision knock yourself out: http://www.circumstitions.com/Complic.html far more infants die every year from complications due to vaccines, yet the anti-vaccine crowd is shouted down as a bunch of crazies. Because vaccines are medically necessary, the vast majority of circumcisions are not. He has proven himself to be an anti-circumcision troll. ...are you fucking joking? YOUR USERNAME IS "CUTANDLOVINGIT"!!! | /r/MensRights | 10/06/11 05:31 AM |
| 3 | "Personally, I don't mind being compared to a dog, because in our society, dogs are more respected than men. The comparison feels like an upgrade."Now I would like to speak directly to my male readers who feel unjustly treated by the widespread suppression of men’s rights: Get over it, you bunch of pussies. 3 months later... The cover of TIME on May 30th featured a picture of a pig and the title "Sex. Lies. Arrogance. What Makes Powerful Men Act Like Pigs." Interestingly, I heard no protests about TIME's characterization of powerful men (and by extension, men in general) as pigs. Apparently that worldview is universally accepted. You all k… | /r/MensRights | 08/06/11 10:03 PM |
| 1 | I'm going to start calling out the inequities between males and females in everyday experience; First, why do public restrooms for females have extra little lounge areas with flowers and chairs while mens' restrooms have nothing of the sort?Where the heck are all these fancy bathrooms? Well, I know they're in at least 1 office in the Verizon tower, and an office in a Langhorne industrial park. In fact, the place in Langhorne was set up in such a way that they built this weird nook in the women's room for the bench, and that nook took space from the men's room...it's hard to explain...I can draw a diagram if you need one. But like--SEPTA stations, fast food, stadiums, normal restaurants Why would they bother in places like that? pla… | /r/MensRights | 05/06/11 03:29 AM |
| 1 | I'm going to start calling out the inequities between males and females in everyday experience; First, why do public restrooms for females have extra little lounge areas with flowers and chairs while mens' restrooms have nothing of the sort?Well I guess maybe that's where you are, Philadelphia metro area, if that means anything to you. | /r/MensRights | 05/06/11 02:30 AM |
| 1 | I'm going to start calling out the inequities between males and females in everyday experience; First, why do public restrooms for females have extra little lounge areas with flowers and chairs while mens' restrooms have nothing of the sort?They're not just for nursing. I used to work in an office as a supervisor. Some shit happened involving the women's room and the office manager had me go in once it was empty to let her know what was up (toilet overflowed). I go in and there's this fancy leather-like bench in there in this nook with what looked like mood-lighting. The mens' room was nothing like that...just toilets, urinals, sinks, etc. and standard tube lights in the ceiling...very utilitarian. After the problem was fixed, I as… | /r/MensRights | 04/06/11 07:47 PM |
| 1 | This should be good.ah. | /r/MensRights | 03/06/11 11:59 PM |
| 1 | This should be good.I think it got deleted. yeah it's not showing up in /new ...they deleted it. Edit2: No. It's different there. ...? are they changing headlines again? | /r/MensRights | 03/06/11 11:51 PM |
| 6 | Is the moderator of /r/feminisms conducting astroturfing campaign against /r/mensrights?aerik and yellowmix are not sockpuppets. I just looked into them and found enough personal information on both that I'm confident they are distinct from one another. I won't post any of that shit here because I don't want to get banned...so either take my word on it, or look into it yourself. | /r/MensRights | 03/06/11 05:30 PM |
| 1 | There are probably more men than women raped in the United States every year — most of them in prison. Best estimates put the annual number of prison rapes at about 140,000, which is 50,000 more than the 90,000 or so rapes of women reported to police.Oh, no I'm not trying to say all rapes from the NCVS are female. I'm just taking OP's numbers and applying the NCVS ratio regarding unreported rapes. Assuming his numbers are accurate, and the NCVS is accurate, that would be 220k female rapes vs. 140k prison-rapes (which don't include female inmates I assume)...so we're looking at 360k rapes at least (not counting male non-prison rape) meaning at most -- assuming the numbers/stats are correct -- prison-rape would reflect 38% of all rapes. If you… | /r/MensRights | 02/06/11 04:25 AM |
| 1 | There are probably more men than women raped in the United States every year — most of them in prison. Best estimates put the annual number of prison rapes at about 140,000, which is 50,000 more than the 90,000 or so rapes of women reported to police.Only about 41% of all rapes/sexual assaults are reported to the police (according to the 2008 NCVS). Using your numbers, that would put the total somewhere around 220k. I'm pretty sure the NCVS doesn't include prisoners (but I could be wrong), so we'd be looking at about 38% of all rapes being prisoner-rape. | /r/MensRights | 02/06/11 03:55 AM |
| 2 | 2 women sledgehammer man to death when he tries to help thembut it makes it less likely. Sure, but none of that means they're guilty. Until we have more information, we should refrain from jumping to conclusions. | /r/MensRights | 31/05/11 09:23 PM |
| 2 | 2 women sledgehammer man to death when he tries to help themI just think the scenario you've outlined it far too unlikely to take seriously. The idea that something nefarious may have been going on is not so unlikely as to not be taken seriously...at least not based on the very limited information we have available to us. The Gary Heidnik thing is a ridiculous situation, but it's what immediately popped into my head when I was listening to the story. There was some mentally retarded girl he supposedly "helped"...she wound up in his basement. To the peopl… | /r/MensRights | 31/05/11 07:41 PM |
| 1 | 2 women sledgehammer man to death when he tries to help themSo you believe in self-carried justice? If someone attacks me, it's my right to fight back. If vigilantes were 100% sure that they always had the right person and that the person was guilty, I would have no problem with vigilante justice. However, because they make mistakes, I don't support it on principle. I've never heard your term "self-carried justice" -- I googled it, but the only thing that came up as a discussion on gaia -- so I assume you are referring to one's right to defend themselves… | /r/MensRights | 31/05/11 05:54 PM |
| 1 | 2 women sledgehammer man to death when he tries to help themNo matter how you look at it, no matter what the guy could've done, nothing justifies the two girls' murder. Maybe you all didn't grow up hearing stories about Gary Heidnik, so I'll simplify his story. He would pick up prostitutes, chain them up in his basement, rape the fuck out of them and torture them (e.g. applying electric current to their chains). He fed them dog food and, when one of them died, he would cut them up and mix their bodies in with that dog food to feed them to his living slav… | /r/MensRights | 31/05/11 04:38 PM |
| 1 | "The banning of circumcision was the first step used by several tyrants to eliminate and expel their Jewish population." ಠ_ಠIf it's illegal, they just won't perform it in hospitals as a matter of course. As far as I'm concerned, that's the big issue here. Ultimately, any law would only really be enforced when someone fucked up an illegal circumcision anyway. So, as long as your mohel doesn't have shaky hands or anything, it shouldn't affect you. And no, it wouldn't be unconstitutional. Your right to practice your religion is not immutable; it ends where another person's rights begin. The fact that a circumcision can … | /r/MensRights | 31/05/11 03:50 PM |
| 0 | "The banning of circumcision was the first step used by several tyrants to eliminate and expel their Jewish population." ಠ_ಠI would agree if you said "christian" or "muslim", etc., but "jewish" is an ethnoreligious term...it designates both an ethnic group and religious group. So, yeah, babies are born jewish...they're just not born judaist. | /r/MensRights | 31/05/11 03:25 PM |
| 1 | The Feminist West Has Commited Suicide: EVERY SINGLE Rape in Oslo for Past Five Years Committed by non-Westerners.hahah, win! | /r/MensRights | 31/05/11 03:16 PM |
| 1 | The Feminist West Has Commited Suicide: EVERY SINGLE Rape in Oslo for Past Five Years Committed by non-Westerners.it's less about the spectrum of trauma and more about the stigma/shame associated with reporting rape and sexual violence crimes. That's a pretty big assumption on your part as well. Do you deny that sexual assaults such as gropings from strangers are generally less traumatic than pretty much all forms of robbery? Do you deny that such gropings, or other minimally-traumatic instances, are likely to happen more often than more serious types of rape/sexual assault? I'm sure some might feel a stigm… | /r/MensRights | 31/05/11 03:07 PM |
| 1 | Name of post-conception option for men?I like "abdication"....how about "preabdication" (or something like that) to indicate it's happening prior to the child's existence? | /r/MensRights | 31/05/11 02:45 PM |
| 1 | Name of post-conception option for men?I use the term "financial abortion"...but it causes some confusion. I think anything with the word "abortion" in it, may give the impression of forced abortions, which we all know is not what we're seeking, but I can't think of a better term to describe "terminating all parental rights and obligations before the child is born". EDIT: the term "predoption" just popped into my head. Since, it's very similar to giving your child up for adoption, but is happening before the child is born. | /r/MensRights | 31/05/11 02:40 PM |
| 3 | 2 women sledgehammer man to death when he tries to help themThere's something weird about this...why were they in his home in the first place? I know his family is saying he was a "nice guy" who just tried to help people...but it seems pretty fucking shady. How do we know he was actually trying to "help" them, and not do something else to them? I'd like to hear the facts of the case and hear their side before jumping to any conclusion here. | /r/MensRights | 31/05/11 02:30 PM |
| 1 | The Feminist West Has Commited Suicide: EVERY SINGLE Rape in Oslo for Past Five Years Committed by non-Westerners.So you're referring to the composite rate, of 47.1%...which INCLUDES rape/sexual assault. ...which means you take issue with rape/sexual assault being reported less than robbery and aggravated assault? I guess I can understand thinking that, but it makes sense that it would be that way. I look at it like this; each classification of crime encompasses a spectrum of suffering/trauma/anger/etc., basically negative shit. The spectrum would have a dividing line between "trauma" which a victim feels m… | /r/MensRights | 31/05/11 02:24 PM |
| 1 | The Feminist West Has Commited Suicide: EVERY SINGLE Rape in Oslo for Past Five Years Committed by non-Westerners.Even though your same source shows that rape is reported at a significantly lower rate than all violent crime) No, it doesn't. Rapes/sexual assault: 41.4 Simple assault: 41.3 But the whole point of the original comment was to claim something about how feminists overstate the statistics But they do. I originally found the NCVS by researching feminist claims that 70% of all rapes go unreported. I was shocked and tried to find the source of that claim to better educate myself on the mater...then I … | /r/MensRights | 31/05/11 01:14 PM |
| 0 | The Feminist West Has Commited Suicide: EVERY SINGLE Rape in Oslo for Past Five Years Committed by non-Westerners.I can't cite their claim, but I can show that, in the US at least, rape/sexual assault is reported at an equivalent rate to that of simple-assault, and occurs much less frequently than all other forms of violent crime, with the possible exception being murder (however, it's nearly impossible to get statistics on the number of unreported murders...for obvious reasons). Source: NCVS | /r/MensRights | 31/05/11 12:31 AM |
| 2 | For anyone complaining about being "censored" on r/mensrights, r/feminisms DELETED three out of four of my comments there for no reason other than because they disagreed with them.Sweet, thanks for letting me know. | /r/MensRights | 27/05/11 11:43 PM |
| 3 | For anyone complaining about being "censored" on r/mensrights, r/feminisms DELETED three out of four of my comments there for no reason other than because they disagreed with them.I have no idea. I posted this 2 days ago trying to get some things changed to at least make mod abuses more obvious. Yesterday, I PMed Hueypriest (an admin) and asked him to take a look, but he didn't post anything there, so maybe he just overlooked the PM or didn't have time to address it right away (I imagine the admins are busy as hell trying to keep the site up and everything). | /r/MensRights | 27/05/11 09:22 PM |
| 11 | For anyone complaining about being "censored" on r/mensrights, r/feminisms DELETED three out of four of my comments there for no reason other than because they disagreed with them.Yeah, and they even changed the headline. If you allow subreddits to show you custom styles, you'll see their fake headline, if you turn that feature off, you'll see the real one. | /r/MensRights | 27/05/11 07:44 PM |
| 3 | In all of history has there ever been a class of people who were more educated, lived longer, owned more, spent more, worked less, had more legal rights than white women today and still claimed they were oppressed? If so, then who?No problem; thanks for keeping an open mind re these issues. | /r/MensRights | 26/05/11 04:39 AM |
| 8 | In all of history has there ever been a class of people who were more educated, lived longer, owned more, spent more, worked less, had more legal rights than white women today and still claimed they were oppressed? If so, then who?It's complicated, but it may not have anything to do with sex-discrimination at all (PDF). More so, in major cities, we're beginning to see a reverse wage gap manifest itself, which is likely related to the fact that more women than men are now earning college degrees. | /r/MensRights | 26/05/11 04:27 AM |
| 2 | Men are in charge of what now?It's always a patriarchy because....there's a patriarchy. No, there isn't When you can't think of an example to disprove the patriarchy, that pretty much proves there's a patriarchy. So, if there are several examples disproving "patriarchy" does that also prove there's no patriarchy? If so, see above. | /r/MensRights | 25/05/11 02:41 PM |
| 3 | I ask /r/feminisms if it's wrong for men to want a post-conception choice of being a father. This is their answer.Why did someone downvote my post to ideasfortheadmins? Probably because they don't want it to say "censored". Who knows, people downvote tons of shit on reddit for random reasons...it's not really a big deal. | /r/MensRights | 25/05/11 02:05 PM |
| 3 | I ask /r/feminisms if it's wrong for men to want a post-conception choice of being a father. This is their answer.I just posted a suggestion here, which you may find interesting. | /r/MensRights | 25/05/11 01:58 PM |
| 15 | I ask /r/feminisms if it's wrong for men to want a post-conception choice of being a father. This is their answer.r/feminisms censors dissenting opinions. If you don't agree with the moderators, they delete your comments. | /r/MensRights | 25/05/11 01:49 PM |
| 3 | Examples of feminists standing up for men's rights, or supporting the removal of unjust female privilege?Honestly, I think it's a bit of a red herring. I subscribe to the idea expressed by Christina Hoff Sommers that there are two types of feminism: gender-feminism, and equity-feminism. I'm sure there are equity-feminists out there who stand up for men's rights. The real question is whether or not equity-feminists represent a majority of those within the feminist movement...and I don't believe they do. Don't get me wrong; I'm sure the majority would describe themselves as "equity-feminists" when gi… | /r/MensRights | 22/05/11 10:15 AM |
| 2 | Penis Preservation Prevails: Ban on Male Circumcision Will Appear on San Fran BallotIs it even routine in Canada? In the US, at least when I was born, the nurses just take the newborn to another area of the hospital and circumcises them without asking if the mother even wants it done. | /r/MensRights | 19/05/11 06:27 AM |
| 6 | Penis Preservation Prevails: Ban on Male Circumcision Will Appear on San Fran BallotI do not support circumcisions that are performed for non-medical reasons. And that is exactly what's being targeted: A surgical operation is not a violation of this section if the operation is necessary to the physical health of the person on whom it is performed because of a clear, compelling, and immediate medical need with no less-destructive alternative treatment available, and is performed by a person licensed in the place of its performance as a medical practitioner. http://www.sfmgmbill.… | /r/MensRights | 19/05/11 06:03 AM |
| 10 | Penis Preservation Prevails: Ban on Male Circumcision Will Appear on San Fran BallotAbout 30% of the world's men are circumcised, and there is a 0.5% rate for complications...that means about 15,000,000 men are walking around with some problem resulting from their circumcision. I'm circumcised. I don't consider myself mutilated either. But if this (NSFW) was what my dick looked like, I would certainly feel mutilated, and I would resent the fact that it was done to me without my consent. Why do we have to do it to infants when it's not medically necessary? Why can't we just let … | /r/MensRights | 19/05/11 05:35 AM |
| 14 | Penis Preservation Prevails: Ban on Male Circumcision Will Appear on San Fran BallotI was circumcised for medical reasons I have nothing against that whatsoever, nor do most who oppose unnecessary and involuntary circumcision. I am against it being performed without the consent of the individual, when it is not medically necessary. I was circumcised at birth and it's not that big of a deal to me either...but if it were my choice, I wouldn't have had it done. It's wrong to make that decision for an infant, it has lasting repercussions, the procedure can go wrong (link NSFW), and… | /r/MensRights | 19/05/11 05:18 AM |
| 6 | Shaming men for killing children without mentioning women do it more oftenI thought that was a feminist, and therefore a liberal thing. feminist != liberal Liberalism is the belief in liberty and equal rights. Do you believe that we should all be free to pursue whichever lifestyle we want, as long as it doesn't hurt someone else, without some authoritarian power imprisoning? Do you believe we should all have the same rights, without privileging one group over another unjustly? Congratulations, you're a fucking liberal, as are most people. Many feminists may be social … | /r/MensRights | 18/05/11 04:34 AM |
| 3 | If you had to choose only one MR issue to advocate/fight for for the rest of your life, which would you choose and why?Stamping out the bigotry (mostly racism and misandry) in our legal system. The legal system must be just or it loses all legitimacy. | /r/MensRights | 17/05/11 07:08 AM |
| 9 | Is circumcision America's number one men's rights issue?and it's not an issue for Men's Rights to discuss? Are you delusional?! We do discuss it because it is an MR issue...it's just not "the number one men's rights issue". It's horrible and it's pervasive...but do you know what's worse than circumcision? Completely ruining a man's life based on nothing more than hearsay. This is basically what EVERYONE ELSE has been telling you, but you don't seem to be listening. | /r/MensRights | 13/05/11 11:03 AM |
| 1 | Let's start a ribbon campaign for the falsely accused.That's what I think we should use...but only if everyone else is cool with that. | /r/MensRights | 11/05/11 04:27 PM |
| 2 | Let's start a ribbon campaign for the falsely accused....I just assumed it was the norm. | /r/MensRights | 11/05/11 04:25 PM |
| 1 | Let's start a ribbon campaign for the falsely accused.Yeah black was the first one I went with. I don't know...blue just seemed right due to the whole victims rights thing, and because it seems most who are falsely accused seem to be men. Anyway, if you guys think a different would work better...then we should use that instead. Though, if we're using something other than blue, I'd vote for black. | /r/MensRights | 11/05/11 06:46 AM |
| 1 | Let's start a ribbon campaign for the falsely accused.Why not make one? You're on r/MR already...so you already know about this sort of thing. Those of us who are already aware, can use a ribbon campaign like this to bring the message to others. | /r/MensRights | 11/05/11 02:27 AM |
| 1 | Let's start a ribbon campaign for the falsely accused.This is something we can all do. Two men in your family were falsely accused...so pick up some ribbons and spread the word. It's much easier than you might think. Make some, then contact the manager at your local grocery store or something and ask if you can set up a table out front. I think you should pitch it to some of the other men's rights blog like Glen Sacks or Paul Elam or the Spearhead. Yeah I suck at that sort of thing as it feels too presumptuous, but I just PM'd avoiceformen and pier… | /r/MensRights | 11/05/11 02:23 AM |
| 5 | A whole lot of girls were "liking" this image in my Facebook feed. I'm so deeply offended that this has become acceptable.I think I heard this same joke a few years ago with the genders reversed. Here's an example from 3 years ago: http://www.hayabusa.org/forum/random-thoughts/77684-why-women-like-deck-cards.html | /r/MensRights | 11/05/11 01:59 AM |
| -1 | Boy wears skirt to school in protest against 'discriminatory' rules which ban boys from wearing shortsThe reason men don't protest these things is because they've been indoctrinated into thinking there's no problem. I think a lot of it comes down to the fact that "good enough" is fine for the vast majority of men. Whether it's the way we're brought up, or our biology, or a combination of both...we don't need things to be 100% perfect. Look at household stuff. Many guys don't really care if the house isn't pristine, as long as it's at a basic level of cleanliness. But many women can't settle unle… | /r/MensRights | 11/05/11 01:42 AM |
| 1 | Boy wears skirt to school in protest against 'discriminatory' rules which ban boys from wearing shortsI used to work sales at a high-end cigar store and they had me wear a suit. ...I didn't mind it, but I can see why others might. | /r/MensRights | 11/05/11 01:16 AM |
| 1 | Wanna be in MenZ?There is so much bullshit here that I wouldn't even know where to begin. And you know what? I really don't care enough to even bother trying. I offered to help, you responded with hostility...that tends to piss people the fuck off, so you may not want to do it in the future. As far as my suggestions go, don't take them. In fact, do the exact opposite of what I've said. I'm pretty sure that, eventually, you'll realize I was right. You may not admit it, since that would probably hurt your super-se… | /r/MensRights | 07/05/11 03:47 AM |
| 1 | Wanna be in MenZ?Apparently, you're a huge dick. Congratulations. Yeah, I was trying to show you what it means to actually shit all over your cornflakes. Good job recognizing the obvious. Other than that, you're completely wrong. lol | /r/MensRights | 07/05/11 01:33 AM |
| 1 | Wanna be in MenZ?Man, you came on with a "you don't know what you're doing" Where does my original post say that? it doesn't. Maybe you're just a bit hypersensitive. "no one with any talent is going to help you" I said you won't get any decent work that way. And you won't. You presented the standard "here's my startup project! Work for me for free! It will help you somehow! And maybe it could result in a paying job at some point!" Do you have any idea how common that is? Do you even realize that ANYONE going int… | /r/MensRights | 05/05/11 09:59 PM |
| 1 | Wanna be in MenZ?If the shit you laid down can be called 'help' then I don't want it. ... Good luck with your thing. If you want any advice, need help finding a good printer, or have any other questions, feel free to PM me. I'm more than happy to help a fellow MRA get the message out there...but from what I can tell, your format seems a bit inefficient. I offered my help and put forth some constructive criticisms based on what I had seen. You're not HELPING at all, you're trying to shit in my corn flakes If I wa… | /r/MensRights | 05/05/11 07:44 PM |
| 1 | Wanna be in MenZ?In fact, I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't. I'd prefer if people did this because they have compassion and desire to help, and that's obviously not top of mind for you. Well, if you're going to be a dick about it, then no, I'm not interested in helping you at all. Paper is dying, sure. Are you going to tell me that things like the iPad are too? The iPad is a transitional device. Netbooks, laptops, HTPC's, smartphones, tablets, and e-readers are all merging. A regular blog is a standard which wor… | /r/MensRights | 05/05/11 06:46 PM |
| 1 | Woman sues strip club for charging women moreShe's right. Women shouldn't be charged more to enter a strip club, just like men shouldn't be charged more for buying car insurance, etc. The real split comes up between those who feel the government should have the authority to regulate such things, vs. those who don't. But since the government does currently have that authority, it needs to be wielded equally and consistently. If you're going to protect essential characteristics, you can't pick and choose when you'll protect them and when you… | /r/MensRights | 05/05/11 06:07 PM |
| 3 | Wanna be in MenZ?I'm a designer and I guarantee you're not going to get any decent work this way. Do you have any idea how often people ask us to do free work with the promise of maybe having a paying job down the road? ALL THE FUCKING TIME. I'm sure you think it's a great deal and that your project will be the most amazing thing ever...but so does everyone. The type of person who would do this is going to be an amateur...and it will show in their work (which reflects poorly on you). I googled "menzmagazine" and… | /r/MensRights | 05/05/11 05:49 PM |
| 2 | So I was raised feminist in Sweden. I've read all the FAQs and I've been lurking for some months. But for the life of me I can't figure out how third wave feminism is different from the MRM.There are different types of discrimination...namely: legal and social. An example of legal discrimination would be the assumption of male-guilt when it comes to domestic disturbances. An example of social discrimination would be a man treated like a potential pedophile when he takes his daughter to a playground. Both types are horrible, however social discrimination would be less of a slight than legal discrimination as our entire legal system is predicated on the notion of justice and impartia… | /r/MensRights | 05/05/11 03:49 PM |
| 3 | Reddit, a girl in one of my classes has a boyfriend but is banging some other dude. Should I tell him?I don't know any of these three people that well Then you have no obligation to any of them, and should just mind your own business. | /r/MensRights | 04/05/11 02:50 AM |
| 2 | Civil Suit Against Brown University Shows Wealthy Parent of a Rape Accuser Effectively Bribed an Administrator in Order to get an Accused Male Student Kicked Out.nope, it's pretty common actually Chinese Walls are used in law firms when one part of the firm, representing a party on a deal or litigation, is separated from another part with contrary interests or with confidential information from an adverse party. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Chinese_wall#Law | /r/MensRights | 28/04/11 03:09 PM |
| 2 | Some Men Just Need to be Slapped.TIL they still make Brut O_o | /r/MensRights | 28/04/11 01:30 AM |
| 0 | I got a call from a woman at work todayYou posted it here for a reason; don't get pissed at us if we don't immediately recognize that reason without some fucking context. | /r/MensRights | 27/04/11 12:19 AM |
| 0 | I got a call from a woman at work todayIf you're just scrolling through and come across a headline that says: "I got a call from a woman at work today", it's pretty fucking vague. So you click it, and you only have: "The conversation started like this: 'I have a violent partner and she's stolen my card...'"...it's not even remotely clear that you're trying to highlight the fact that lesbian couples can be abusive too. It just seems like you fucked up your submission (e.g. you didn't understand how self.posts worked and thought you co… | /r/MensRights | 26/04/11 09:41 PM |
| 4 | My debate with a feminist if you're interested. It's sorta long.In the future, you might also want to try very simple logic: We know that businesses will do whatever they can get away with to maximize profits. If businesses could get away with paying women less for the same work, thus increasing profit, why would they even bother hiring men at all? | /r/MensRights | 21/04/11 06:33 AM |
| 1 | Feminist pussy. X-post from r/f7u12people don't make a connection between "pussy" as slang for vagina and "pussy" as slang for a weak person I'm not saying they wouldn't make the connection if they thought about it...though most wouldn't think about it. I'm just saying that most people would recognize that calling someone a "pussy" has no vaginal connotations. They may not realize that the two uses are derived from separate terms...but they know they're different and they mean them differently. | /r/MensRights | 20/04/11 07:44 PM |
| 1 | rape/sexual assault makes up 4% of all violent crimes, reported or unreported. It is no less under-reported than simple-assault (both at a rate of 41%).on college campuses ...that covers a subset of all rapes/sexual assaults. From what I can tell, this seems to be the study she's mentioning. On page 24 you can see that 95.2% is comprised of 85 unreported rapes. I'm skimming through and their numbers are weird. At one point, they say the number of rape victims in their sample is only 74, with 86 completed rapes...but if 85 = 95.2%, then there would need to be 89.3 completed rapes in the sample...not 86. Meh...this is weird and I don't care enoug… | /r/MensRights | 20/04/11 06:22 PM |
| 1 | Feminist pussy. X-post from r/f7u12What I mean to say is that (in my opinion) what your audience thinks you mean is more important than what scholarly research says your words mean. Yes, that's an opinion. Look up the debate between prescriptivists and descriptivists...it's been going on for decades, if not centuries. But putting that aside for now, you're right...context is very important. If I say you're a pussy because you can't lift a box, I'm saying you're weak; I'm not saying you're a vagina...and that's perfectly clear to … | /r/MensRights | 20/04/11 05:38 PM |
| 7 | "Mexican men who display extreme jealousy or avoid sex with their wives could be tried in court and punished under a new law, the special prosecutor for crimes against women told a local newspaper on Friday.""If we do not stop this from the beginning, it turns into beatings, and the beatings turn into more beatings and rape, until it gets out of hand, and whoops, she died," she told the paper. what a strong argument... | /r/MensRights | 20/04/11 03:37 PM |
| 0 | Feminist pussy. X-post from r/f7u12In our culture, it has come to mean something different from its origins. No, it hasn't. When I was a kid, there was a TV show basically documenting the Howard Stern show. In one episode they had a porn star on and, before she went on air, they were talking to her about what she could and couldn't say. They clarified that she could call people "pussies", but she couldn't refer to her "pussy". She had a discussion clarifying it and, on the TV broadcast, they bleeped it out every time she referred… | /r/MensRights | 20/04/11 03:31 PM |
| 2 | rape/sexual assault makes up 4% of all violent crimes, reported or unreported. It is no less under-reported than simple-assault (both at a rate of 41%).No, 41% are reported. ...I worded my headline poorly because I'm an idiot. Katie Couric said that 95% of sexual assaults go unreported. What was her source? | /r/MensRights | 20/04/11 02:48 PM |
| 6 | Why don't men have any rights with regards to unplanned pregnancy?Did he equally have another organism leeching off his body for 9 months? Will she be forced to pay child support for the next 18 years, even if she didn't want the child? Red herrings really are the best fallacies! | /r/MensRights | 20/04/11 02:03 PM |
| 13 | Why don't men have any rights with regards to unplanned pregnancy?The term "male abortion" was coined by Melanie McCulley, a South Carolina attorney, in her 1998 article, "The Male Abortion: The Putative Father's Right to Terminate His Interests in and Obligations to the Unborn Child", which was published in The Journal of Law and Policy.[54] The theory is that when a woman becomes pregnant she has the option of abortion, adoption, or parenthood; and therefore, in the interests of gender equality as it is recognized in law, in the earliest stages of pregnancy … | /r/MensRights | 20/04/11 01:43 PM |
| 1 | rape/sexual assault makes up 4% of all violent crimes, reported or unreported. It is no less under-reported than simple-assault (both at a rate of 41%).This is the National Crime Victimization Survey...source of the "60% of all rapes go unreported claim" some feminists love to trot out in order to end a discussion. When put into context, it loses quite a lot of its oomph. EDIT: my headline may confuse some people. It should say "both are reported at a rate of 41%". | /r/MensRights | 20/04/11 01:26 PM |
| 1 | Infant's rights question for /r/mensrights...I don't have an issue with it assuming it's an appropriate public place, like a park bench or something. Just don't do it in front of a classroom while they're trying to take a final exam over the sound of your crying child (my WS professor actually did this to my class...luckily it's really easy to get an A on a women's studies final exam). | /r/MensRights | 20/04/11 07:40 AM |
| 5 | I love this subreddit, but..I don't know if I can keep letting myself read it. It both angers and saddens me at the same time. I didn't know any of these issues than men face when it comes to the favor of women by the courts and legal system truly existed. I mean, I knew custody/alimony/marital assets in divorce was fucked up since I was young, but the things here are absolute horror stories. From the months that I've been a frequent reader here, I've decided two things: 1. Pre-nuptial. Iron clad. 2. Sperm bank visits in a… | /r/MensRights | 20/04/11 06:07 AM |
| 21 | Feminist pussy. X-post from r/f7u12Calling someone a pussy, in this context, has nothing to do with women. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, puss was used as a "call-name" for cats in both German and English, but pussy was used in English more as a synonym for "cat": compare "pussycat". In addition to cats, the word was also used for rabbits and hares as well as a humorous name for tigers. In the 19th century, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the meaning was extended "in childish speech, applied to anything s… | /r/MensRights | 20/04/11 04:43 AM |
| -2 | 15 Aspects That Must Be Recognized in Third-Wave FeminismWhatever dude. If you want to sound like a moron, that's your business. I was just trying to help you craft a better argument. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/11 09:25 AM |
| -1 | 15 Aspects That Must Be Recognized in Third-Wave Feminism"feminism is irrelevant" is a statement about reality. No amount of belief will change the factuality of this statement. Feminism has to actually be irrelevant, otherwise it's not a factual statement. "feminists are sexist against men" is a statement about the views of a group and about reality. Belief can change the factuality of this statement, but it's very unlikely. Without a qualifier, all feminists would need to be sexist against men for this to be true. One non-sexist feminist and the sta… | /r/MensRights | 17/04/11 02:08 AM |
| 2 | Why do you sympathise more with a potential rapist than a rape victim? Is it because you are afraid that you might rape someone one day?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4m4lnjxkY | /r/MensRights | 17/04/11 12:18 AM |
| -2 | 15 Aspects That Must Be Recognized in Third-Wave FeminismIf many people believe something about a group, and many of them even join that group - then it isn't a myth. It is true. ...so christianity is truly the path to immortality? Feminism may actually be all of those things...but whether people believe those claims or not has no bearing on their factuality. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/11 12:04 AM |
| 1 | How to avoid becoming a new Feminism?Which is why we should try to reach some sort of general consensus on the basic details of these core issues. From there, we put together a manifesto and build in the kill-switch. | /r/MensRights | 16/04/11 03:42 PM |
| 1 | How to avoid becoming a new Feminism?Well, an example could be the financial-abortion. | /r/MensRights | 15/04/11 11:39 PM |
| 3 | [FB] Feminist posts the WSJ article about wage gap, feminist circle-jerk ensues. When I simply post evidence (not an argument) which challenges her world view, she bans my ability to comment on her page.My aunt is a nurse. She was in some welfare to work program and they paid for her training. Now she makes an assload of money...she owns two houses and could afford to raise 6 kids comfortably (and they were comfortable...I lived next door to them for a few years...we were like brothers/sisters). Nurses are paid very well. They don't make as much as doctors (some of whom are definitely over-paid)...but they don't take out hundreds of thousands of dollars for medical school, nor do they need the … | /r/MensRights | 15/04/11 11:16 AM |
| 9 | How to avoid becoming a new Feminism?how can MR keep away from the same pitfalls? A kill switch. If we set out clearly defined, attainable goals (none of the fictitious "smash the matriarchy" bullshit so common amongst feminists), we'll build in our own destruction. Once those goals are attained, others can point to their attainment as proof that the movement is unnecessary. That, and we should avoid the cult-like aspects of feminism. There should be no rock-star MRAs, we shouldn't start calling ourselves "masculists". We should st… | /r/MensRights | 15/04/11 10:22 AM |
| 4 | FAQ request: Is feminism about equality?Fundamentally, feminism centers on the idea that "equality" is best achieved by removing social and legal restrictions for women. What "equality" actually means is a subject of contention amongst various feminist-factions. Some believe equality means social and legal equity, where our society would treat men and women the same. Others suggest that women are comparatively disadvantaged biologically (mostly in that women tend to be smaller/physically weaker than men, and that when pregnant they ar… | /r/MensRights | 15/04/11 05:05 AM |
| 1 | FAQ request: Is feminism about equality?Attention anyone laboring under the false impression that Cliffor is an MRA Cliffor is a known troll who pretends to be an MRA in order to discredit us. She admitted it in that thread and posted a picture proving it. She then deleted her admission/comments and continues to pretend she's an MRA. This is the sort of subterfuge r/MR deals with on a regular basis. She is one of many trolls pretending to be MRAs. If you read something and it looks like the ramblings of a lunatic, there's a good chanc… | /r/MensRights | 15/04/11 03:50 AM |
| 6 | J. Crew Ad With Boy's Pink Toenails Creates StirFair enough, but I'm curious about your (and any other MRA's) take on this. There shouldn't be a controversy...but things like this will remain controversial until we overcome the anti-LGBT bigotry in our society. We're going in the right direction (at least on this issue), but we've still got a long way to go before the LGBT crowd is actually accepted. | /r/MensRights | 14/04/11 02:16 PM |
| 1 | [xpost from seddit] An (old) man's advice to 4chanThat doesn't prove anything, Actual, it proves that you didn't know what you were talking about. Falsifiability != "If you try to falsify something, you assume it's wrong to begin with." Falsifiability or refutability is the logical possibility that an assertion could be shown false by a particular observation or physical experiment. The act of testing a hypothesis is, necessarily, an attempt to both prove and disprove it. You will succeed in one or the other and get further to the truth. If you… | /r/MensRights | 13/04/11 04:08 AM |
| 1 | [xpost from seddit] An (old) man's advice to 4chanYou obviously don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Here's a wikipedia article, explaining this shit...have fun. Falsifiability, particularly testability, is an important concept in science and the philosophy of science. The concept was made popular by Karl Popper in his philosophical analysis of the scientific method. Popper concluded that a hypothesis, proposition, or theory is "scientific" only if it is, among other things, falsifiable. That is, falsifiability is a necessary (but not… | /r/MensRights | 13/04/11 01:49 AM |
| 1 | [xpost from seddit] An (old) man's advice to 4chanthey would be trying to see whether it's true or not. In other words: they're trying to see whether it's false or not. | /r/MensRights | 13/04/11 12:44 AM |
| 0 | [xpost from seddit] An (old) man's advice to 4chanFalsifying scientific theories, yes Falsifying hypotheses, yes. Falsifying every random statement, no. A) that's a hypothesis. B) If it's falsifiable and it's not prohibitively difficult to research, there's a damn good chance someone has or will do a study on it. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/11 11:12 PM |
| 2 | [xpost from seddit] An (old) man's advice to 4chanScience does not look for what's wrong, only for what's right. WTF?!? Yes it does. Falsifiability is a big factor in scientific research. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/11 10:37 PM |
| 1 | [xpost from seddit] An (old) man's advice to 4chanAnywho, he's about one half-step from calling it bullshit. He's correcting a common misconception. Depression isn't sadness, a better word for it might be "deflation"...like a balloon that's had some of the air taken out. You're not writhing in constant pain...you're just generally depressed...like a button, pushed down, etc. Those two parts alone tell me that he hasn't experienced it, Depression runs in my family, and I've been dealing with my own since I was a child. Those two lines tell me he… | /r/MensRights | 12/04/11 10:33 PM |
| 1 | Has feminism blocked social mobility for men? Feminism provided an obstacle to social mobility for working class menFeminists didn't start this thread you idiot. ...and? You deserve your low class and troubles, I know that hurts your oh so sensitive feelings but yeah it's your fault and you should be shamed not for your poorness but for your hatred of others. I only hate those who hate me. You arent blaming the rich you are blaming feminism. Please develop some reading comprehension skills. I'm not blaming anyone for my situation, I'm complaining about having my struggle dismissed because I'm a white male. If… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/11 01:02 AM |
| 1 | Has feminism blocked social mobility for men? Feminism provided an obstacle to social mobility for working class menNo one is shaming you into silence ... Grow a pair, you make us look bad. you are making us look whiney. Grow up. Grow up. You make us men seem like bitter assholes. Shaming, that's what it looks like. you are the one blaming your race and gender for why you didnt get a scholarship I'm pointing out that there are scholarships specifically available to people of other races and genders, which are denied to men, while the scholarships available to white men are available to everyone else, regardle… | /r/MensRights | 09/04/11 11:31 PM |
| 1 | Has feminism blocked social mobility for men? Feminism provided an obstacle to social mobility for working class menYeah yeah mr Internet tough guy is going to beat me up. Again, you've failed to comprehend what the fuck you were reading. You seem yo do that a lot. If you talk to people like that, there's a good chance they'll respond with a fucking fist. You troll like this online because you know that's not going to happen. Basically, you're a coward who hides behind a computer screen, attacking people as viciously as you can in order to feel better about yourself. It's infuriating and pathetic at the same … | /r/MensRights | 09/04/11 10:52 PM |
| 1 | Has feminism blocked social mobility for men? Feminism provided an obstacle to social mobility for working class menA B average isn't great A B average is decent Temple isn't just some "local college" Yeah, it is. All the community colleges in the area work specifically with Temple because it is our local state-funded college (there are 4: Temple, Penn State, University of Pittsburgh, and Lincoln University). You complain because you weren't exceptional Simply going to college should not require that one be exceptional...not in a society where a BA is required pretty much everywhere. if you expect a free ride… | /r/MensRights | 08/04/11 07:16 PM |
| 1 | Has feminism blocked social mobility for men? Feminism provided an obstacle to social mobility for working class menA 2.9 GPA? Yes, a B average. That's exactly why you have struggled. It shouldn't be, considering I wasn't trying to go to harvard, but a local college so that I could get a regular job (all of which seem to require a college degree these days). My brother worked the same hours you did in a computer repair place. While in high-school? If so, I find it REALLY hard to believe he had time to build robots and shit as you had suggested. Hell, even just studying was difficult to schedule. He worked his… | /r/MensRights | 08/04/11 12:36 AM |
| 1 | Has feminism blocked social mobility for men? Feminism provided an obstacle to social mobility for working class menIt's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I had to get his info for FAFSA...I remember having to take a train out to his house to bring him a packet of shit, a few times. I know some of the other shit I applied for definitely required his information. This all happened between 2003 - 2006, so my memory of it is fuzzy...but I know for a fact that A) I had to get his financial information when applying for financial aid and B) his income coupled with my mom's made me ineligible for financial aid. | /r/MensRights | 07/04/11 07:20 PM |
| 1 | Has feminism blocked social mobility for men? Feminism provided an obstacle to social mobility for working class menIt was only a few years ago. Here's the situation. My mom kicked my dad out when I was an infant (he cheated or something...idk). He married a rich woman who hated me (she used to burn me and shit when I was young), and never provided any support beyond the $300 a month in court-ordered child support and the costs associated with his bi-weekly weekend visits (e.g. food, gas to pick me up, etc.). That's fine, he can fuck off for all I care (also his wife is dying of some painful disease so :D). B… | /r/MensRights | 07/04/11 06:19 PM |
| 1 | Has feminism blocked social mobility for men? Feminism provided an obstacle to social mobility for working class menI've had to work since I was 15, M-F after school until about 10 PM and saturdays...yet I graduated with a 2.7 GPA (B average). I have a brother who built lego robots in highschool, Virginia Tech was actually offering not only a full ride but also a housing stipend for him to go there. Good for him...why did he have the free-time to build robots? Did your parents not need him to kick in for the bills? Was he free to pursue his interests free of financial obligation? Great, I'm happy for him, but… | /r/MensRights | 07/04/11 05:29 PM |
| 2 | Has feminism blocked social mobility for men? Feminism provided an obstacle to social mobility for working class menSounds like you should have worked harder in highschool. I did well enough in high school. Don't blame women You're obviously incapable of understanding what you've read. Show me where I "blame women" for anything. You can't because that's not what this is about. | /r/MensRights | 07/04/11 04:03 PM |
| 16 | This is why I don't feel welcome here - the overwhelming misogyny and outright hatred towards women.So, this is totally not misogyny, right? Correct, it's called "sarcasm". | /r/MensRights | 07/04/11 01:03 AM |
| 6 | Has feminism blocked social mobility for men? Feminism provided an obstacle to social mobility for working class menyou used to have everything handed to you What was handed to me? I was born to a working-class family and grew up broke as shit (4 women and me in a 2 bedroom row-house). Despite my good grades, because I'm a white male, I wasn't eligible for most scholarships, etc. So, I worked 50-60 hours a week in retail (cigar store) and a filing room (commercial printer) to pay for community college (3.9 GPA btw) and a ridiculously depressing apartment in a shit neighborhood. I managed to get a loan through… | /r/MensRights | 06/04/11 08:52 PM |
| -3 | Has feminism blocked social mobility for men? Feminism provided an obstacle to social mobility for working class menread the sidebar | /r/MensRights | 06/04/11 08:06 PM |
| -1 | As a feminist, I have complicated feelings about the "men's rights movement," as you might imagine.And we should work with those exceptions or convert them into MRAs. I figure she's just a regular person who calls herself "feminist" because she thinks it's all about equality. She hasn't bitten into the rotten center yet, just nibbled on the candy coating a bit. If we're hostile towards people like her, they'll stay away from us and cling to their candy like it's sacrosanct. If we're more amiable towards them, we can encourage them to bite in deeper...to taste that rotten center we've all tast… | /r/MensRights | 02/04/11 04:17 PM |
| 2 | As a feminist, I have complicated feelings about the "men's rights movement," as you might imagine.I agree that some feminists seem to be trying to co-opt MR issues for the sake of strategic dominance, but I don't think that's what's going on here. She's basically saying that she's a feminist and agrees with the MRM on some issues. For the MRM, it would make strategic sense to try and "convert" people like her into MRAs. When we're belligerent towards them, it only causes them to cling even more to their ideology. But even if we don't convert them, even if we just work with them on certain is… | /r/MensRights | 02/04/11 04:04 PM |
| 2 | As a feminist, I have complicated feelings about the "men's rights movement," as you might imagine.seconded. She's a little bit patronizing...but we all are to varying degrees (that's what happens when you think the other side just "doesn't get" something). Overall, she seems fairly reasonable. She seems more like the "right" kind of feminist...the kind who could be a potential ally to the MRM. I think we should look at this post as an olive branch of sorts. We may not agree on everything 100%...but working with people like her (i.e. reasonable equity-minded feminists) could give us a serious… | /r/MensRights | 02/04/11 04:55 AM |
| 15 | FAQ 2: Are men and boys who are raped really being charged child support? (yes!)How does it fail? Ignoring the whole rape thing (which this thread is about), it fails when you claim its "fair", "just" or "equitable". If women have sex, they can opt out of parenthood through: Abortion giving birth and leaving the child at a hospital Leaving the child at any safe-haven area at any point before it's 18 In none of those situations will a woman be required to pay child support. If men have sex, they can not opt out of parenthood. Hell, even if a man doesn't have actual sex, just… | /r/MensRights | 30/03/11 08:56 PM |
| 0 | I'm a feminist. AMA."Female privilege" still fits the definition they provided for "privilege". They go on to dismiss "female privilege" by rebranding it as "benevolent sexism"...but that only holds up if you actually accept the existence of the patriarchy, as gospel. To skeptics, it's on equal footing with "god", "ghosts", and other bullshit. Here is a decent refutation of the patriarchy hypothesis, I suggest you read it. For feminists, it seems the existence of "privilege" is predicated on the existence of "patri… | /r/MensRights | 30/03/11 03:13 PM |
| 0 | I'm a feminist. AMA.In the context of feminist discourse, I am giving the commonly accepted definition of privilege. No, you're not: Before discussing “male privilege” it is first important to define what privilege means in an anti-oppression setting. Privilege, at its core, is the advantages that people benefit from based solely on their social status. It is a status that is conferred by society to certain groups, not seized by individuals, which is why it can be difficult sometimes to see one’s own privilege. In … | /r/MensRights | 30/03/11 01:44 PM |
| 0 | I'm a feminist. AMA.No, we're still defining terms. If you can show me that my definition of privilege is itself logically flawed, I'm willing to listen. Here is the definition of privilege: A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise; preferential treatment. The status or existence of such benefit or advantage. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wiktionary/en/wiki/privil… | /r/MensRights | 29/03/11 10:44 PM |
| 10 | Chivalry truly dies when you're reprimanded for being polite. [xpost from /r/pics]I would agree, were it not for the fact that I've been reprimanded for something equally stupid. Long story short, I used to work in a position where people were constantly asking me really complicated, detailed questions. I would reflexively look up when listening/considering the question. Well, one girl decided I was "rolling my eyes" and made a complaint. I never acted condescendingly or acted like the questions were stupid or anything like that. When I was first reprimanded I had no idea wha… | /r/MensRights | 29/03/11 01:47 PM |
| 1 | A young man’s right to choose NOT to be a father…He has no rights here. If he absolutely, 100% doesn't want to be a father or pay for her decision...then his only real option is to flee the country. An easier way to do that would be for him to get TEFL certified and find a job teaching in a foreign country. Once there, he can work on obtaining permanent residence, etc. It would probably be best if he left before the kid was born, as I know of at least one extradition treaty which stipulates: Persons shall be delivered up according to the provi… | /r/MensRights | 28/03/11 10:02 PM |
| 8 | Top 10 Reasons Why Women Cheat...it is all men's fault.cool fact: men cheat more than women. [citation needed] | /r/MensRights | 28/03/11 05:14 PM |
| 2 | Let's get this straight, once and for all.Of course. Women as a class of our entire species? Then yes, absolutely. Women in the US and similar nations? No. The sexism in places like Saudi Arabia simply does not compare to the sexism in places like the US...for either sex. No one is going to be stoned to death for the "crime" of having been raped, and no one is granted legal authority simply because of what's between their legs. The sexism women face here tends to be of the social variety (e.g. "slut shaming"), while men face similar soc… | /r/MensRights | 28/03/11 05:36 AM |
| 1 | Woman lies to ex-boyfriend that she was kidnapped and raped; he calls police; she's charged with filing false reportYeah, I don't think she should be arrested. She should receive a bill for the costs associated with the report, which should teach her that such actions have consequences...but anything else seems like overkill. No one was hurt, no one's name was dragged through the papers and labelled "rapist"...her actions just wasted the time of the police which, I agree is bad...but not bad enough to necessitate imprisonment. | /r/MensRights | 27/03/11 11:50 PM |
| 3 | Why This Subreddit Is Needed: An In Depth Look At The Rise of Male SuicideMen are not only treated like shit by society but they are told it's their fault as well. Pretty much. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that men are judged by what they do, while women are judged by how they are. Does that make sense? A man is judged by achievement, while women are judged primarily by specific characteristics. I'd like to say we should just judge all people by WHO they are...but it seems that's impossible. There's no simple solution here...but maybe as people who ar… | /r/MensRights | 25/03/11 06:32 PM |
| 2 | ACLU sues state over dad's custody loss after hard lemonade mix-upConsidering the average weight of a 7-year-old, I'd like to think that the average malt beverage could put the child's BAL at dangerous levels. I Assuming he's average weight, only had one, and didn't chug it, his BAC would be about 0.06 - 0.08...a buzz, but nothing really dangerous. Hell, in some places he'd still be okay to drive. Now, if he drank four of them, yeah, he'd be in danger...but one isn't a big deal. Fuck, when I was younger than that my grandfather used to let me drink some of his… | /r/MensRights | 25/03/11 06:06 PM |
| 7 | My last post (for a while anyway) on the Good Womyn Project, entitled "White Female Privilege".Privilege is complicated...and that's what pisses me off about some feminists. To hear them explain it, only men can ever be privileged...but it's never that simple. Pretty much every common group is privileged in some ways and disadvantaged in others. Most of the time, it comes down to how closely they resemble the norm in a particular situation/circumstance/organization/society/etc,. In K-12 schools, women are the norm, which is why male K-12 teachers are comparatively disadvantaged. Mostly th… | /r/MensRights | 25/03/11 01:42 PM |
| 0 | Presumed Guilty: Philadelphia man, falsely accused of raping an 11 yr. old girl, severely beaten with bats and lumber. Police gave his photo to the public and advise use of force on him.I mean hells bells, they got the wrong guy the first time, that is reason enough to say LEAVE IT TO THE COURTS. You're absolutely right. The fact that the mob has a good chance of getting the wrong guy is the reason mob justice should be avoided. But the guilty man who was attacked totally deserved it. | /r/MensRights | 23/03/11 06:33 AM |
| 0 | Presumed Guilty: Philadelphia man, falsely accused of raping an 11 yr. old girl, severely beaten with bats and lumber. Police gave his photo to the public and advise use of force on him.It seems as though the actual rapist was also the victim of vigilante justice: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/dncrime/Police_Video_might_link_Carrasquillo_to_high_school_attack_.html I remember that shit on the news...he fucking deserved it. But yeah, the police never should have encouraged vigilante justice like that...even if the bastard got what was coming to him. The other guy though, it's a shame...I hope he gets a huge payout. Wow, Mayor. It's not enough to say you "don't condone" vigi… | /r/MensRights | 22/03/11 09:29 PM |
| 2 | Charges Dropped against Abdirashid Dahir (GMU Student kicked out of library and arrested)In case you hadn't noticed, the gentleman also is reported to have cried. and he was mocked for being childish. VanDoren approached Abdi at the desk saying, “If you had not acted like a little child, we would not have this problem.” ... Why does the lady need to "grow up" and the gentleman not? Because he's not doing it to be petty...she is. Why are the woman's tears considered a manipulation and the man's genuine? When women cry, people tend to be sympathetic. When men cry, they're mocked. In t… | /r/MensRights | 22/03/11 11:33 AM |
| 0 | Oh look, someone else is trying to discredit r/MR by posting ridiculous shit.Did I not say "it's horrible"? Did I not say "shit sucks"? No, I didn't act like it's "no big deal"...I simply acknowledged that it makes sense that, in such situations, a falsely-accused man may feel like murder is their only option, or they may feel like they have nothing left to lose and seek out vengeance. Our society has a tendency to demonize EVERYTHING, even legitimately trivial shit (such as the demonization of welfare recipients), so it shouldn't surprise me when people like yourself co… | /r/MensRights | 19/03/11 10:57 PM |
| 1 | Can we have a Penis Monologues?To be honest it took me some time to see how bad circumcision is. I guess its because it happened to me and I don't remember it being bad. seconded. It hasn't caused me any problems, physically or psychologically, and I don't envy the uncircumcised, it's just a matter of principle for me. It's wrong for us to force the procedure on young boys and the justifications I've seen do not outweigh the ethical issue...until they do, we just shouldn't do it. But I don't see the value in a "penis monologu… | /r/MensRights | 19/03/11 10:43 PM |
| 4 | Oh look, someone else is trying to discredit r/MR by posting ridiculous shit.For the benefit of the other readers. | /r/MensRights | 18/03/11 07:36 PM |
| 4 | Oh look, someone else is trying to discredit r/MR by posting ridiculous shit.which I'm subscribed to ...thus proving one of my points. But you'll never know, will you, dumbass. Keep lying to yourself, maybe it makes it feel better when you cry at night because mommy touched you and all women think you are gross. In other words, you can't refute anything I said, so instead you'll fall back on the fallacies/insults again. | /r/MensRights | 18/03/11 06:42 PM |
| 5 | Oh look, someone else is trying to discredit r/MR by posting ridiculous shit.20 people who just happened to be trolling at that time? 20 people who, over the course of several hours, read the comment and wish to discredit r/MR. They don't need to be actively trolling, nor do they need to have ever trolled before in their lives. You're from r/hackbloc...which is affilliated with r/anarchism a subreddit which has attempted to undermine r/MR before. And, speaking of your hacker collective thing, it seems reasonable to assume that many people from there would know how to use… | /r/MensRights | 18/03/11 06:08 PM |
| 4 | Oh look, someone else is trying to discredit r/MR by posting ridiculous shit.Your logic is not only faulty, it's retarded. Then I'm sure it should be super-easy to show that, instead of using fallacies to argue your point. 20 people voted something up. Yet we've had a problem with people, like you, coming here to discredit r/MR. It's perfectly reasonable to expect the number of people who are willing to devote time and effort, as you have, to be less than the number of people who would be willing to devote less time and effort. Because of your efforts (and the efforts of… | /r/MensRights | 18/03/11 05:47 PM |
| 2 | Oh look, someone else is trying to discredit r/MR by posting ridiculous shit.So yes, it is kind of telling about this forum not really... It requires X effort to post ridiculous comments in the hopes of discrediting r/MR N are willing to devote X effort to realize said wish. voting in such a way as to discredit r/MR requires <X effort Therefore it stands to reason that there should be >N willing to devote the necessary <X effort to upvote a ridiculous comment, for the purposes of discrediting r/MR So, it really depends on the size of N. Based purely on my experiences, I'… | /r/MensRights | 18/03/11 05:34 PM |
| 0 | A woman has been found guilty of keeping an African woman as a slave in London for four years.read the FAQ (linked in the sidebar) please: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/71ues/faq1_why_did_you_post_this_what_does_a_crazy_evil/ | /r/MensRights | 17/03/11 12:50 PM |
| 1 | Finding "privilege" offensivePrivilege is complicated and I don't agree with the people who dismiss it outright, but I also don't agree with the people who tend to throw the term around as a pejorative seem to lack an understanding of its nuance. First, privilege itself has multiple roots and an infinite number of manifestations...and some of them are perfectly acceptable (i.e. if a person "earns" a privilege, than most wouldn't take issue with it). When it comes to privilege based on inherent qualities such as race, sex, r… | /r/MensRights | 17/03/11 12:45 PM |
| 3 | wow...apparently if women don't have government funding to pay for their doctors at places like planned parenthood, they want to withhold sex from usIt's second city...the same comedy group where John Candy and Mike Myers got their start. This is satire. Nothing to see here, move along. | /r/MensRights | 17/03/11 12:38 PM |
| 2 | My campus newspaper printed misandrist op-ed, I responded.Honestly, the second I read "campus" I was expecting a steaming pile of shit, but what you wrote was ideal. You're putting them on the defensive without being hostile and you didn't present any difficult to defend positions. Keep advocating like that and you'll open plenty of eyes. | /r/MensRights | 15/03/11 02:09 PM |
| 5 | [Crosspost from WTF]: GMU (Male) student get's arrested for "abduction" for not giving up HIS study room to a woman.http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/g3op4/student_harassedarrested_by_university_police/ | /r/MensRights | 15/03/11 08:58 AM |
| 2 | Student harassed/arrested by university police because he wouldn't let a woman steal his study roomNotice how false accusers are starting to be arrested and prosecuted. ...because the MRM shined a light on these issues and the perversion of justice was undeniable. | /r/MensRights | 15/03/11 12:11 AM |
| 37 | Student harassed/arrested by university police because he wouldn't let a woman steal his study roomThe girl set it all in motion...but in the end, it was vindictive cops who took it to its psychotic conclusion. It's a power thing and it's a revenge thing. Regardless of gender, when you give people the ability to exercise power over others, without any real oversight, many will abuse that power. Whether they're cops or they work at the DMV, the only difference is degree. When all else is equal, we give women power without oversight by assuming they're victims and assuming men are oppressors...… | /r/MensRights | 14/03/11 04:08 PM |
| 11 | PZ Myers compares men's rights supporters to neo-nazisI actually respect PZ Meyers, but when it comes to gender issues, he's a fucking small-minded bigot who cherry-picks the worst blog comments he can find and claims they represent the MRM platform (FFS he links to David Futrelle's blog). Here, he is being intellectually dishonest and it's pathetic. The video was patronizing and used dubious numbers to further a misandrist agenda...any reasonably well-informed man who has some self-respect would take issue with it, yet we're not allowed. Like Dani… | /r/MensRights | 13/03/11 11:55 PM |
| 9 | PZ Myers compares men's rights supporters to neo-nazisTL;DR Is the MRA community in favor of or against wearing dresses? It's almost as if the MRM is comprised of different individuals with different opinions and prejudices! But, no...that doesn't conform to what PZ Myers said. No, MRAs are just a bunch of conservative homophobe trans-bashers. Never mind the fact that there are plenty of gay and trans MRAs...nope, we're all just a bunch of rednecks who hate everyone who's not a Bubba. | /r/MensRights | 13/03/11 11:55 PM |
| 3 | This is not the place for porn / NSFW shots. A user has been temporarily banned for the post. He can be back in a week if he remembers to ask me.I remember seeing that post and, while I thought the poster was being a bit hyper-sensitive...in no way should they have been banned. Here, I think you're being hyper-sensitive. We aren't r/feminisms or r/anarchism...we're supposed to be better than that. | /r/MensRights | 12/03/11 11:43 AM |
| 2 | If MRAs care about men dying at dangerous jobs, where's the MRA support for unions and workers' rights?I support unions and worker's rights. | /r/MensRights | 09/03/11 09:17 PM |
| 3 | MRs Gay Concern Trollso now you're straight..? You seem a bit too fascinated with my dick and where I put it. Though I'm flattered that you're interested, I'm straight...and, even if I were gay, I find stupidity to be unattractive, so I don't think I'd be interested then either. Sorry, you'll have to find someone else to make you "squeal like a piggy". yet still VERY CONCERNED about how masculinity is being defined? Don't have an aneurysm, Billy Bob. Men made the Camaro Men made the tampon too, what's your point? re… | /r/MensRights | 09/03/11 07:18 PM |
| 5 | MRs Gay Concern TrollLet me explain using two examples. read the rest of the very short thread before addressing an already covered issue: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/fzn9t/mrs_gay_concern_troll/c1jw6w3 The MRM does not cover all gay rights issues, but those issues which pertain to gay men would fall under both headings. If, for example, lesbians were allowed to marry, but gay men weren't, this would then become a men's rights issue. | /r/MensRights | 09/03/11 12:31 AM |
| 1 | Why I am not a feminist.It is interesting, the book from which she pulls sounds like an interesting read and I think it would be valuable in refuting "NAFALT" claims. The book is by Phyllis Schlafly, so I doubt it. You may know of her son, Andy Schlafly, founder of Conservapedia. | /r/MensRights | 08/03/11 10:15 PM |
| 4 | MRs Gay Concern TrollI'm straight, not that it matters...and I'm pretty sure you have no idea what a concern troll is. As, in this situation, YOU would be the concern troll (or did you NOT make a post expressing your "concern" that some aspect of the MRM doesn't conform to your prejudices?). And, by the way, the Camaro, has always been the women's version of the Firebird. For someone who's so concerned with policing masculinity, you'd think you'd choose a more masculine car for your fucking username. | /r/MensRights | 08/03/11 10:06 PM |
| 2 | MRs Gay Concern TrollOh fuck off. I fight for the right of men to be what they want to be. You, however, seem, to want men forced into your image of what men should be. You're worse than the feminists...you're a fucking conservative. | /r/MensRights | 08/03/11 09:44 PM |
| 1 | Why I am not a feminist.Feminism refers to movements aimed at defining, establishing and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Holy fuck! I never, EVER read the wikipedia definition of feminism before! Read the talk pages dumbass, that's one of the more contentious pages on wikipedia. People who are interested in a topic contribute their piece of knowledge to wikipedia. This is great for scientific articles, but when it comes to ideological articles (especially WRT po… | /r/MensRights | 08/03/11 08:42 PM |
| 3 | MRs Gay Concern TrollBullshit. Rights denied to gay men are rights denied to men. The MRM does not cover all gay rights issues, but those issues which pertain to gay men would fall under both headings. Gay men have been a part of the MRM for a while. If you can't tolerate that fact, then you don't have to associate yourself with the movement. | /r/MensRights | 08/03/11 08:00 PM |
| 1 | Why men are better matesUS here. for "boyfriend", I got: miss me propose a gift addicted to me for "girlfriend", I got: want me want me back happy a gift Both were pretty vanilla :/ | /r/MensRights | 08/03/11 07:23 PM |
| 4 | Why I am not a feminist.Also, feminism is about equality lol I'll try to make this as simple as possible: If feminism is about seeking equality for both genders. Then no form of feminism would seek the superiority of one gender over another. There are forms of feminism which seek the superiority of one gender over another. [1],[2], therefore feminism is not about seeking equality between the genders. | /r/MensRights | 08/03/11 07:15 PM |
| 7 | MRs Gay Concern TrollOP is a douche, gay men's rights are men's rights. | /r/MensRights | 08/03/11 06:45 PM |
| 7 | What resources do you recommend for someone who wants to learn more about the MRM?Many bigots who oppose men's rights come here and downvote anything that isn't shaming men for having the audacity to question why they're treated so poorly. It happens to most posts, don't let it get to you. | /r/MensRights | 04/03/11 07:54 PM |
| 5 | Great! A man has declared women are better than men at everything! Don't you just love the White Knight leaping to the defense of women everywhere?lol I hope it becomes a national bestseller. Why? More men will see it and wake up to the misandry that surrounds them. | /r/MensRights | 03/03/11 11:35 PM |
| 6 | Feminist Workplace MythsThis conforms to my own experiences as well...but the article isn't going to be well-received given the fact that it's criticizing women, as a class, while praising men, as a class. Meh, I'll heap on some more anecdotal evidence... this is going to be long and boring...don't read it if you don't care: I used to work for an outsourcing firm in a call center. The company went through employees like toilet paper, so tons of people were always being brought in, and tons of people were always being f… | /r/MensRights | 03/03/11 07:10 PM |
| 0 | If you joke about rape, you are the rapist's comrade.The language is technically correct No, it's technically incorrect. Attempted rapist != rapist, just like Attempted murderer != murderer. So without quibbling over the precise statutory definition, this equates to rape or attempted rape. 120 men admitted to raping to attempting to rape. This is actually a relatively slim proportion of the survey population — just over 6% Is this a representative enough study to support their claims or are they engaging in dishonest work. No the study is fine. Th… | /r/MensRights | 03/03/11 12:37 AM |
| 3 | If you joke about rape, you are the rapist's comrade.Because 6% of college-aged men, slightly over 1 in 20, will admit to raping someone in anonymous surveys, A new survey of college students revealed the 6 percent of respondents admitted to either raping or attempting to rape someone. Funny how those statistics get changed from "either raping or attempting to rape someone" into "admit to raping someone". | /r/MensRights | 02/03/11 11:38 PM |
| 1 | Democrats Attack Scott Brown for Being A Victim of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Claim It is A Political StuntLike I said, "That study you reference to doesn't say anything about male victims of sexual assault and you have no idea if it would help him or not." Sexual assault victims are victims. When we are aware that someone was a victim, we hold them less responsible for their actions, even if the victimization has nothing to do with the actions in question. This shows that it is the sort of thing that could aid him politically. You think anyone can call themselves a victim, in any circumstance? I kno… | /r/MensRights | 02/03/11 03:03 PM |
| 3 | Insurers cannot charge different premiums to men and women because of their gender, the European Court of Justice has ruled.but can you provide the stats? Men drive about 74% more miles than women (meaning women would account for about 37% of all miles driven). | /r/MensRights | 01/03/11 08:10 PM |
| 1 | Democrats Attack Scott Brown for Being A Victim of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Claim It is A Political StuntWho is "we"? The MRM That study you reference to doesn't say anything about male victims of sexual assault and you have no idea if it would help him or not. Wow...really? It has to do with victimhood in general. And sexual assault is a form of victimhood which has become particularly powerful. It's simple logic: victims are X Y is a victim Therefore Y is X. You're grasping at straws. | /r/MensRights | 01/03/11 06:05 PM |
| 5 | Insurers cannot charge different premiums to men and women because of their gender, the European Court of Justice has ruled.Young men are more likely to get into wrecks. drive. It is a fact. FTFY | /r/MensRights | 01/03/11 04:45 PM |
| 2 | Democrats Attack Scott Brown for Being A Victim of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Claim It is A Political StuntAgreed. If a woman made this same claim, nobody would dare question her. Why is it okay to operate differently when the alleged victim is male? We would be skeptical of her story, and we should be skeptical of his story as well. Now, it may be hoax, but I doubt it. Doesn't seem to be the sort of thing that would aid him politically ... In the experiments involved in this study, those who highlighted past suffering were held less responsible for transgressions and given less punishment. http://ww… | /r/MensRights | 01/03/11 08:51 AM |
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