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| 1 | What double standards between men and women *should* exist?I think the argument some women make is that abusers are more likely to be abusive if they have a partner they can more easily abuse. I think being "easy to abuse" has more to do emotional weakness and whether or not you recognize that you deserve better than physical weakness. Which arguably makes emotionally stunted men more susceptible to abuse than women, though I personally don't think there's any need to gender it. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/03/20 12:46 AM |
| 1 | What double standards between men and women *should* exist?It's not just lesbians, many studies have found that straight women abuse their partners at the same rate. Homophobes prefer to dig up studies that validate the patriarchal "men are abusers" stereotype in order to make it look like there's something about being a lesbian that makes you more likely to be abusive. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/03/20 12:36 AM |
| 2 | Men don't actually want or like when women are honest about their preferences.“For them, as for so many of us, romantic hurt equaled romantic blame, and because they were exclusive heterosexuals, romantic blame was assigned more often to the sex, not the morals, of the person inflicting the pain. Bisexuals know that hurt gets inflicted by both sexes in equal measure.” - Norah Vincent, Self-Made Man | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/03/20 03:41 PM |
| 1 | Incels, Feminists, and the Mentality of AbusersMy ex didn't even think of herself as feminist but she was still wearing blinders to the double standards she put me through and the abusive behaviours. My abusers weren’t feminists either, and I think that’s where the danger lies - women who grew up in matriarchal families (see the first link in my OP) and are only familiar with the aspects of feminism that rationalize the abusive double standards they internalized growing up. Of course, in my experience most of the people who call themselves f… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 26/03/20 06:00 PM |
| 1 | Warren Insults Mike Bloomberg’s Heighthttps://imgur.com/PXs4dwD | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/02/20 03:29 AM |
| 13 | From a therapist in an AskReddit thread.oh hai! And I don't think so. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/02/20 08:23 AM |
| 18 | From a therapist in an AskReddit thread.Examples of this mentality and the way women encourage / take advantage of it. My personal theory about where this pathological need for female affection/approval comes from. Further reading on this theory. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/02/20 06:04 AM |
| 2 | On the brain differences between men and women with a larger sample size. Thoughts?I will have to revisit this post when I am less tired and more sober, but here are my initial thoughts. Upvote for having done your research. Infants from as young as 9-17 months of age display gender-stereotypical toy preferences, with males being more predisposed to "thing" orientation and females being more predisposed to "people" orientation. By nine months infants are social creatures capable of understanding and reacting to the expectations of their adult caregivers. Females on average ten… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/02/20 12:13 AM |
| 1 | On the brain differences between men and women with a larger sample size. Thoughts?I'm sure there are differences, but until I'm presented with concrete evidence that a specific pattern of thought or behavior is caused by the Y chromosome or the lack of one I'm going to default to the assumption that there is no compelling reason to divide the world's brains into "male" and "female". | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/02/20 11:44 PM |
| 2 | On the brain differences between men and women with a larger sample size. Thoughts?Until we know of a clear mechanism by which the Y-chromosome might promote violent behavior (testosterone does not appear to be one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_hormone_therapy_(female-to-male)#Psychological_changes) I don't see any reason to prefer that theory over the alternative hypothesis that men are violent because they're taught to repress their emotions as children, left to fend for themselves on the playground under the logic that "boys will be boys", and grow up into a wo… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/02/20 11:37 PM |
| 1 | Thoughts and helpYou definitely shouldn't rely on it for anything other than "yes you should hire a lawyer and here's what they'll probably tell you". | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/02/20 11:09 PM |
| 2 | On the brain differences between men and women with a larger sample size. Thoughts?Height. Strength. Male pattern baldness. Voice inflection. The fact that women can get pregnant and men can't. None of those are brain things. I was talking about brain things. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/02/20 10:57 PM |
| 1 | On the brain differences between men and women with a larger sample size. Thoughts?Just a random "shower thought" but what if that socialization process is biological? Meaning parents are biologically predisposed to treat baby boys differently from baby girls, which then causes these differences? Given that pre-pubescent children would look completely identical if we didn't dress and groom them differently based on their genitals, I'm skeptical. It would be interesting to compare and contrast the development of gender-specific behavior in chimpanzees (who have a sex-based hier… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/02/20 10:26 PM |
| 3 | Thoughts and helpIf you're in the US, /r/legaladvice is surprisingly quality for a bunch of internet randos giving free legal advice. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/02/20 07:31 PM |
| 3 | On the brain differences between men and women with a larger sample size. Thoughts?Our findings that these sex differences are present in childhood implicate early life genetic or gene-environment interaction mechanisms. I can't access the full article so I can't check if they have any stronger evidence of a genetic or epigenetic factor, but I'm still not convinced that there are any meaningful differences between the male and female brain that aren't primarily the result of us socializing them differently pretty much from the moment they're born. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/02/20 07:20 PM |
| 4 | Japanese woman to white womenA neckbeard with an anime profile pic pretending to be a Japanese woman in order to spread the "Asian women are better because they're more submissive" shit is the cringiest thing I have seen this sub upvote. Y'all are better than this. | /r/MensRights | 19/02/20 06:49 PM |
| 1 | Boy Scouts Of America Files For BankruptcyEven now that we do know how bad it is, churches cutting their ties with the Vatican doesn't exactly seem to be a thing that's happening. Sexual abuse is one of those things that we always think of as being someone else's responsibility. Which is exactly what happened with the BSA, and is still happening in this conversation. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/02/20 10:36 PM |
| 1 | Boy Scouts Of America Files For BankruptcyFor many years, the Boy Scouts had insurance that would cover sexual abuse claims. But in recent years these carriers have been withdrawing coverage, arguing that the Boy Scouts knew about the abuse and didn't tell the insurance companies. That has left the organization with the prospect of having to fund any litigation and settlements itself. This isn't a new problem. Why didn't those local scouts take their limited resources and voluntarily sever ties with the BSA sooner? If only to protect th… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/02/20 09:28 PM |
| 2 | Boy Scouts Of America Files For BankruptcyThey're also a registered corporation with their own country with its own laws and a seat on the United Nations. Even Jeff Bezos can't buy that. https://youtu.be/OPHRIjI3hXs | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/02/20 09:03 PM |
| 1 | Boy Scouts Of America Files For BankruptcyI mean, that's the fundamental problem with the world isn't it? No matter how clearly evil an organization or important person is, taking them down is going to hurt somebody innocent who had no idea what was going on or lacked the power to do anything about it. And most people and organizations aren't clearly evil. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/02/20 09:00 PM |
| 2 | Boy Scouts Of America Files For BankruptcyThe Church gets donations because they're the OG exploitative televangelists. They preach poverty and charity as virtues and then build elaborate gold palaces for themselves in Rome. My friends from Latin America say that the Church is so heavily involved in their country's politics that cardinals and bishops are basically unelected government officials, with all the potential for corruption that implies. Nothing is ever wholly good or wholly bad but the Catholic Church has to go. Their private … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/02/20 08:41 PM |
| 10 | Boy Scouts Of America Files For BankruptcyCrossing my fingers that the Catholic Church is next. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/02/20 08:16 PM |
| 10 | Not all feminist instagram posts are bad, but this one is.This is the real answer. "Teach men not to rape" should be "normalize non-sexual physical contact and teach children how to negotiate consent for it". | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 16/02/20 09:42 AM |
| 5 | Not all feminist instagram posts are bad, but this one is./r/technicallythetruth | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 16/02/20 05:06 AM |
| 2 | For those who are MOC, trans-men, gays, e.t.c, how would you like to see the subreddit improve?I acknowledged both of those points already. although many people certainly act as if that is the case. And maybe you have hidden penalties from your other identities that effectively cancel out those bonuses. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 16/02/20 02:31 AM |
| 3 | For those who are MOC, trans-men, gays, e.t.c, how would you like to see the subreddit improve?That's very true, which is why no one actually believes that privilege is synonymous with quality of life - although many people certainly act as if that is the case. Privilege is like getting a hidden bonus to all your charisma checks. You'll still fail some. Maybe you're just unlucky and will end up failing the majority of them even with the bonus. And maybe you have hidden penalties from your other identities that effectively cancel out those bonuses. But those hidden bonuses are still there,… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/02/20 11:31 PM |
| 1 | HIVE study says women are more productive than men in work (by 10%) and that men work more in weekends but complete less. Thoughts?To reiterate: by its own definition, the Pink Tax is only applicable to female-targeted consumer that are identical to male-targeted consumer goods save for marketing and branding. This is false. You very obviously did not read the article I posted and your argument amounts to a straw man. The pink tax is a phenomenon often attributed as a form of gender-based price discrimination, with the name stemming from the observation that many of the affected products are pink.[1] This is not a literal t… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/02/20 02:36 PM |
| 4 | Has anyone else noticed...That's the sub we're in yes ;) | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/02/20 01:41 PM |
| 524 | Praise and preach.The irony is that "If you didn't want to have to be responsible for a child you shouldn't have had sex" is a textbook anti-abortion argument that feminists absolutely loathe. | /r/MensRights | 15/02/20 01:35 PM |
| 1 | HIVE study says women are more productive than men in work (by 10%) and that men work more in weekends but complete less. Thoughts?Also, you've also fallen into the classic Pink Tax fallacy: that the more expensive products market at women are identical and interchangeable with the products marketed at males, but you've just clearly stated they are not. Okay fine, "identical or similar". I'm not aware of any reason women's cut pants would be any more expensive to manufacture than men's cut pants. I also know that multiple "for men" beauty products are cheaper despite being chemically identical to the original women's versio… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/02/20 01:27 PM |
| 1 | HIVE study says women are more productive than men in work (by 10%) and that men work more in weekends but complete less. Thoughts?I disagree with the word choose there. We don't have as much agency under capitalism as we'd like to think. I know several women who would prefer to wear men's pants for the lower price and functional pockets but for obvious reasons they struggle to find men's pants that are cut to fit their larger waists. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/02/20 11:25 AM |
| 13 | HIVE study says women are more productive than men in work (by 10%) and that men work more in weekends but complete less. Thoughts?The Pink Tax is the observation that products marketed towards women tend to cost more than identical products being marketed towards men. It has nothing to do with the wage gap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_tax | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/02/20 11:12 AM |
| 14 | HIVE study says women are more productive than men in work (by 10%) and that men work more in weekends but complete less. Thoughts?The second sentence of that article displays a complete lack of understanding about what the "pink tax" is. I'm not willing to give Hive my email address in order to read the full report, but from my experiences with tech companies publishing papers like this I'm guessing that it's about as scientifically rigorous and externally valid as PornHub Insights. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/02/20 11:03 AM |
| 1 | On a thread comparing abortion to a vasectomy...Most of the barriers to getting your tubes tied are either explicit legal ones meant to prevent women from being forcibly sterilized for eugenics reasons (white feminists: check your fucking privilege), or implicit legal ones resulting from the threat of being sued for malpractice. | /r/PussyPassDenied | 15/02/20 06:23 AM |
| 9 | For those who are MOC, trans-men, gays, e.t.c, how would you like to see the subreddit improve?I'm a trans woman (who remembers how she was treated before she renounced her masculinity) and I feel the same way. I was raised by an abusive misandrist who had complete and total control over my life for decades, internalized the gendered nature of that abuse, and vehemently reject the idea that men aren't / can't be "oppressed", but other than that my views are mostly in line with those of the Social Justice movement. I simply believe that "male privilege" is way more nuanced than e.g. white … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/02/20 05:17 AM |
| 5 | Has anyone else noticed...It's genuinely tragic that the men's movement has somehow become associated with the alt-right and white supremacy because black men are the ones who suffer the most from our society's androphobia. https://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2018/04/weaponizing-white-women-tears.html | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/02/20 12:20 AM |
| 0 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.If i was a victim of abuse I would be absolutely pissed. That's how you can tell actual abuse victims/advocates from people who are exploiting their tragedies to gain political points. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/20 11:55 PM |
| 6 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.So you admit to being willfully ignorant. Not sure what we're arguing about, since we seem to be in complete agreement. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/20 11:28 PM |
| 1 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.No, it's what you get if you search for "Amber Heard" and sort by new -> all time. Either there was a very abrupt loss of interest around the time Depp came forward with hid evidence, or the mods have removed almost every post about her since then. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/20 10:17 PM |
| 6 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.Oh no! How will Johnny Dept Amber Heard ever recover! I’m sure he’s no longer a multi millionaire even!!! Better repost another Amber Heard Johnny Depp article and beat your meat furiously with your friends about how you’ve beaten a dead horse so hard everyone’s already sick of hearing about it! Literally what the anti-MeToo crowd sounded like. This is about more than just one abusive millionaire couple, it's about a systemic denial of facts showing that female abusers are just as if not more co… | /r/MensRights | 10/02/20 10:01 PM |
| 5 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.You willfully empowered an abuser, promoted ideas like "Believe Women" that helped empower other monsters like her, and censored all evidence of this horrific mistake in order to protect the false narrative that the majority of abusers are men. What the fuck is wrong with you? | /r/MensRights | 10/02/20 09:02 PM |
| 6 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.Thank you for this. Completely disproves the claim that "toxic masculinity" exists because men are taught to look down on femininity. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/20 08:54 PM |
| 2 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.Not a shock. After the way they've chosen to react to this scandal, I no longer believe that feminists are well-meaning but ignorant. They're science deniers who willfully empower abusers. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/20 08:46 PM |
| 1 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.I'm not suggesting that they went back and downvoted posts retroactively. I mean that three years ago they suddenly lost interest in the subject - only three mentions of her in three years, the only one that mentions the scandal downvoted to zero. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/20 08:41 PM |
| 2 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.I'm not suggesting that they went back and downvoted posts retroactively. I mean that three years ago they suddenly lost interest in the subject - only three mentions of her in three years, the only one that mentions the scandal downvoted to zero. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/20 08:40 PM |
| 2 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.I'm not suggesting that they went back and downvoted posts retroactively. I mean that three years ago they suddenly lost interest in the subject - only three mentions of her in three years, the only one that mentions the scandal downvoted to zero. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/20 08:39 PM |
| 1 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.Why is that significant? =P | /r/MensRights | 10/02/20 08:35 PM |
| 5 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.I like to think that if clear evidence emerged that we'd helped empower an abuser, we'd at least have the decency to not actively censor posts about it. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/20 08:35 PM |
| 2 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.Amber accuses Johnny of abuse three years ago - multiple highly upvoted articles. Then Depp comes forward with evidence that he was the one actually being abused and suddenly the sub stops posting / starts removing articles about the scandal. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/20 08:32 PM |
| 19 | What is this subs opinions on two controversial dating subs, Female Dating Stratrgy and The Red Pill?The subs are mirror images of each other. FDS tries to game men for money and justifies it by saying men are just trying to game them for sex, TRP tries to game women for sex and justifies it by saying women are just trying to game them for money. Relevant xkcd from back before either sub existed. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/02/20 04:12 AM |
| 7 | QUESTION: When the topic of male violence and misogyny comes up, why aren't mothers brought up in the discussion?Taken from https://old.reddit.com/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates/comments/dmfi52/i_believe_men_are_just_as_if_not_more_likely_to/f56af84/ Domestic Violence Women assault men equally as often, and at sometimes greater rates, as the reverse Straus, M. A. (1997). Physical assaults by women partners: A major social problem. Women, men and gender: Ongoing debates, 210-221. Available from: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/32b9/67aa6ff64264da8c7a67895c516032ff023e.pdf Fiebert, M. S. (2007). References examini… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/02/20 03:05 AM |
| 7 | QUESTION: When the topic of male violence and misogyny comes up, why aren't mothers brought up in the discussion?TORONTO -- The age-old bias that suggests “boys don’t cry” is unconsciously perpetuated by mothers more than fathers, according to new research from the University of Guelph. The study, published in the Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, found that moms tend to favour girls expressing emotions of sadness and anger over boys. Fathers, on the other hand, lacked a bias towards emotions of anger and sadness in their children. https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/boys-don-t-cry-study-suggests-mothers… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/02/20 01:17 AM |
| 1 | Woman To Shelve Belief That Gender Is Social Construct For Few Minutes While Boyfriend Changes Flat Tire On Side Of RoadThe Babylon Bee is right-wing garbage. Half their articles are deliberate misinformation masquerading as satire. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 06/02/20 01:23 AM |
| 4 | If the word sexualize means "to make sexual", then our society sexualizes boys from the moment we tell them it's "inappropriate" for them to use the same restroom / locker room as women.She couldn't grasp that women(even young girls sadly) have a fundamental biological ability to stir sexual hormones in men to the point of physical attraction AND that because of this fact, they have an obligation to do their own part to measure it. I think I agree with your general point but that's a really fuckin' weird thing to say dude. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/02/20 11:39 AM |
| 4 | If the word sexualize means "to make sexual", then our society sexualizes boys from the moment we tell them it's "inappropriate" for them to use the same restroom / locker room as women.You remind me of that guy who posted here insisting that the problem with "toxic masculinity" is that toxic is a purely scientific term that only applies to chemicals and using it to refer to abstract concepts is confusing. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/02/20 06:48 AM |
| 7 | If the word sexualize means "to make sexual", then our society sexualizes boys from the moment we tell them it's "inappropriate" for them to use the same restroom / locker room as women.If you need to go into this much detail about what words technically mean, you're the one who's playing word games. "Sexualizing" is a perfectly apt and intuitive description of what is happening when you project your prejudices about adult men's sexuality onto kindergartners. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/02/20 06:33 AM |
| 12 | If the word sexualize means "to make sexual", then our society sexualizes boys from the moment we tell them it's "inappropriate" for them to use the same restroom / locker room as women.Not a word game. The prejudice against male sexuality starts before you even have one. Small wonder there are men who view even slightly intimate contact with a woman as sexual, when they've been told from the age of five that something as innocent as a coed sleepover is somehow sexual and inappropriate. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/02/20 06:10 AM |
| 15 | On the liberal reactionary and their Anti-masculinity/r/FemaleDatingStrategy I feel like there's something very revealing about the weird blend of feminist empowerment and patriarchal entitlement. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/02/20 05:38 AM |
| 18 | On the liberal reactionary and their Anti-masculinityThere's also the fact that many women (especially those in my family) think that as the mother, they should have the final say about what happens regarding the children. The men are just there to provide the money. I wouldn't blame a man who decided to walk away from a family that he's expected to support but isn't allowed to be fully a part of. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/02/20 05:35 AM |
| 19 | On the liberal reactionary and their Anti-masculinityBut I suppose if your biggest problems in life have always been romantic or familial and not financial, it can be easy to mistake your resentful fantasies for a political program. Finally someone said it. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/02/20 05:08 AM |
| 4 | Nobody talks about the "Womanosphere" and I doubt that any male journalist who did so would remain employed. Why's it OK to act as if all opinions expressed by men online are interchangeable?The article I linked above is literally the only time I have ever seen a feminist acknowledge that shameful history and the lasting impact it has left on their community. The rest of them act like transphobia is "over" in the same disingenuous way that they accuse men of acting like sexism is "over". I can't even call out transphobia in their communities without them telling me I'm wrong, they're amazing allies and if I disagree I must be lying about being trans. There is also currently a push t… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 31/01/20 11:23 PM |
| 20 | When men must always succeed, those who do not suffer the most.The majority of the homeless being men is a greater injustice than the majority of billionaires being men. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 31/01/20 02:54 AM |
| 7 | Nobody talks about the "Womanosphere" and I doubt that any male journalist who did so would remain employed. Why's it OK to act as if all opinions expressed by men online are interchangeable?OP did say that they only "act as if" they believe this. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/01/20 10:22 PM |
| 4 | Why are female-only STEM classes so popular?I completely agree. Segregation and equality go together like oil and water. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/01/20 10:16 PM |
| 4 | Why are female-only STEM classes so popular?One legitimate reason could be that due to cultural reasons boys typically go into CS courses with a higher level of starting knowledge than girls, although there's no reason universities couldn't just offer optional introductory courses that aren't unnecessarily gendered. In the 1990s, researcher Jane Margolis interviewed hundreds of computer science students at Carnegie Mellon University, which had one of the top programs in the country. She found that families were much more likely to buy com… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/01/20 09:04 PM |
| 21 | Nobody talks about the "Womanosphere" and I doubt that any male journalist who did so would remain employed. Why's it OK to act as if all opinions expressed by men online are interchangeable?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity I think the worst example is the way they insist that any transphobic feminist is a "TERF" and "not really a feminist". Being trans exclusionary has been the default for most of feminism's history because that particular kind of transphobia is rooted in the same androphobic prejudices peddled by mainstream feminists. TERFs are more representative of the people who call themselves "feminists" than incels or gamergaters are of those who take issu… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/01/20 08:28 PM |
| 11 | Nobody talks about the "Womanosphere" and I doubt that any male journalist who did so would remain employed. Why's it OK to act as if all opinions expressed by men online are interchangeable?It's one of those beliefs that no one will agree with when you say it out loud, but many people act as if it's true. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/01/20 08:25 PM |
| 0 | Feminists Panicking Over Women Abandoning Feminism Because Men Won't Date FeministsWe can acknowledge that there are communities where sexual abuse is normalized to a truly horrific extent without projecting that normalcy onto society as a whole. | /r/MensRights | 30/01/20 08:32 AM |
| 1 | Not enough people know that America used to have an extremely robust welfare system specifically for women. Feminists unwittingly helped dismantle it.As for "the real question": my question is a central part of your "real question." You haven't yet demonstrated that we're "provid[ing] women with the same special treatment they received under patriarchy." "Special treatment"? In some important cases, yes. The "same" special treatment? Not that I can tell, and not that you've demonstrated. As I said, I'm willing to believe that there is a meaningful difference between the special treatment feminists demand and the special treatment women alread… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/01/20 09:53 PM |
| 3 | Not enough people know that America used to have an extremely robust welfare system specifically for women. Feminists unwittingly helped dismantle it.That said, I'm opposed to a certain kind of anti-feminism, and opposed to bad arguments. I think both of these things hurt the progressive movement, and even indirectly hurt the effort to help men. The anti-feminism I'm opposed to sees feminism writ large as "the enemy" to be defeated instead of seeing it as a vital (if profoundly problematic) part of the progressive movement that is in dire need of reform. I think one way neoliberals have marginalized the progressive part of the men's movement … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/01/20 08:14 PM |
| 3 | Not enough people know that America used to have an extremely robust welfare system specifically for women. Feminists unwittingly helped dismantle it.That seems plenty eloquent to me =) | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/01/20 05:43 PM |
| 7 | Not enough people know that America used to have an extremely robust welfare system specifically for women. Feminists unwittingly helped dismantle it.When feminists lobby for special programs to help women in poverty, they're advocating for something they already had under "patriarchy". The fact that feminism tends to solve problems in the same way the system they're rebelling against solved them (gender segregation as a way of "protecting" women is another example) should make us stop and question whether feminism is actually the best way to effect meaningful change and bring about a truly egalitarian society. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/01/20 02:57 AM |
| 4 | Not enough people know that America used to have an extremely robust welfare system specifically for women. Feminists unwittingly helped dismantle it.I completely support women working outside the home and I don't think feminists were bad for pushing for it. What I do think is worth talking about is the way feminism puts all its focus on the top of society while ignoring the plight of those at the bottom. It's similar to how they choose to focus on the fact that most billionaires are male while ignoring the fact that most homeless people are also male. This post explains it better than I ever could. However, in their demands for political equ… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/01/20 02:24 AM |
| 6 | Any feminists whose work you like / find interesting?However, in their demands for political equality our feminists are like their foreign sisters; the wide horizons opened by social democratic learning remain alien and incomprehensible to them. The feminists seek equality in the framework of the existing class society, in no way do they attack the basis of this society. They fight for prerogatives for themselves, without challenging the existing prerogatives and privileges. We do not accuse the representatives of the bourgeois women’s movement of… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/01/20 09:38 PM |
| 4 | Any feminists whose work you like / find interesting?Self Made Man by Norah Vincent Devon Price Innuendo Studios, Pop Culture Detective Kaitlin Prest | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/01/20 09:36 PM |
| 3 | Billboards in BritainSo saying provocative things about women in order to "stimulate discussion" is trolling, but saying provocative things about men in order to stimulate discussion is art? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/01/20 05:25 PM |
| 1 | Billboards in Britain"Embrace lesbianism and overthrow the social order" is the only one I support. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/01/20 05:18 PM |
| 7 | Want to end "toxic masculinity"? Start showing more empathy towards men.The idea that men's lives and emotions are less important than women's predates feminism, which is one of the reasons I only ever say "patriarchy" in quotation marks. | /r/MensRights | 26/01/20 03:34 PM |
| 1 | Sexist stereotypes DENIED by science.Source | /r/PussyPassDenied | 26/01/20 02:25 PM |
| 21 | Want to end "toxic masculinity"? Start showing more empathy towards men.Source | /r/MensRights | 26/01/20 02:16 PM |
| 12 | Why is it men killing themselves in greater numbers is proof of toxic masculinity but women....You just validated basically my entire life story. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/01/20 04:52 PM |
| 16 | Why is it men killing themselves in greater numbers is proof of toxic masculinity but women....'Boys don't cry': Study suggests mothers, not fathers, show gender bias towards sons It should read "against sons", but regardless. Masculinity is not what's toxic here. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/01/20 04:49 PM |
| 7 | Why is it men killing themselves in greater numbers is proof of toxic masculinity but women....All three of your sources appear to relate to the second claim - do you have a source for the claim that women attempting suicide multiple times skews the statistics? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/01/20 04:40 PM |
| 1 | I'm a trans woman, and feminists' hypocrisy regarding people like me pisses me off.I wrote about my personal gender confusion at some length here, if you care: https://old.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/eaowxm/am_i_a_misogynist_or_a_trans_woman_do_i_hate/ I was under the impression transgenderism was a more basal, inherent issue of being born in the wrong body This is a common misconception, but no. One of the first things I learned when I started questioning is that not all trans people experience physical dysphoria. This is one of the reasons we abandoned "transsexual"… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/01/20 03:29 PM |
| 10 | I'm a trans woman, and feminists' hypocrisy regarding people like me pisses me off.Exactly. TERFs think that people who are raised as men can't be trusted. Mainstream feminists think that people who are raised as men can't be trusted unless they renounce their masculinity. What's more androphobic: fearing and distrusting people for being born with penises, or fearing and distrusting people for identifying/presenting as male? And since the former causes real harm to trans women and the latter causes real harm to trans men, which is more transphobic? Feminists say that gender is… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/01/20 07:08 PM |
| 7 | I'm a trans woman, and feminists' hypocrisy regarding people like me pisses me off.My sister was molested by a (cis) woman. I'm not convinced that "women's spaces" actually do anything to keep women safe. The idea that they do is rooted in the same "patriarchal" assumptions about men that feminists claim not to believe in. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/01/20 06:27 PM |
| 5 | I'm a trans woman, and feminists' hypocrisy regarding people like me pisses me off.The enemy of my enemy is sometimes my friend sure, and your support for male issues is welcome as a woman but why should we be overly concerned with the treatment of women or trans-women (same thing imo) by feminists? Because the enemy of your enemy is your friend. Isn't it up to feminists to police their own and change their movement? Do you think they are going to be particularly swayed by MRA criticism? Do you think we are in a position to right this wrong? I've given up on feminists policing… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/01/20 06:03 PM |
| 5 | I'm a trans woman, and feminists' hypocrisy regarding people like me pisses me off.Like many trans people, I don't experience physical dysphoria. My dysphoria is entirely social. I wouldn't have any problem with my body or even care about my gender at all if those things didn't cause people - including and especially feminists - to make false assumptions about and have inaccurate expectations of me. If my idea of "goodness" was not inherently linked to the idea of womanhood. If it wasn't genuinely harder for me to view men (including myself) with empathy and compassion, a prej… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/01/20 05:54 PM |
| 6 | I'm a trans woman, and feminists' hypocrisy regarding people like me pisses me off.All of that is true, but the real question here is: if trans people's brains really are different than those of cis people who were assigned the same gender, why? Is it genetic? Or is it the result of our experiences growing up? I lean towards the latter, but will admit that there's no hard evidence either way. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/01/20 04:21 PM |
| 13 | I'm a trans woman, and feminists' hypocrisy regarding people like me pisses me off.There is some science suggesting that at least some trans people literally have male brains in female bodies or vice versa (and also science suggesting that the difference between "male" and "female" brains has more to do with nurture than nature), but no. Gender dysphoria is diagnosed based on symptoms, not neurology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria#Diagnosis https://www.the-scientist.com/features/are-the-brains-of-transgender-people-different-from-those-of-cisgender-people-30027 | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/01/20 04:02 PM |
| 22 | I'm a trans woman, and feminists' hypocrisy regarding people like me pisses me off.And then, of course, there's the issue of trans men: Prior to my transition, I was an outspoken radical feminist. I spoke up often, loudly and with confidence. I was encouraged to speak up. I was given awards for my efforts, literally — it was like, “Oh, yeah, speak up, speak out.” When I speak up now, I am often given the direct or indirect message that I am “mansplaining,” “taking up too much space” or “asserting my white male heterosexual privilege.” Never mind that I am a first-generation Me… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/01/20 02:24 PM |
| 2 | /r/antifastonetoss doesn't know about LeftWingMaleAdvocatesSource? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/12/19 01:28 AM |
| 4 | How solid is the Women are Wonderful phenomenon?Here's a laundry list of examples of the closely overlapping Women are Wiser trope in popular media. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/12/19 06:49 PM |
| 2 | Is the "academic" concept of toxic masculinity anything other than a pseudoscientific intellectual fraud?But when you use a scientific term like Toxicity (a measurable concept) in an academic context, it's reasonable to assume that young minds will assume that the word is meant in its scientific, non-metaphorical sense. no they don't lmao | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/12/19 06:26 PM |
| 7 | Summarize your objections to feminism, either as a theory or as you see it being practiced, in up to three one-sentence bullet points.The first link is actually a troll pretending to be a radfem. Good to know, but I've met far too many feminists whose actions reflect this kind of thinking. The fact that they have the decency to shy away from statements that explicitly spell out it out doesn't really matter to me, any more than obvious misogynists shying away from openly misogynistic statements matters to them. Radfems are obsessed with fighting misogyny, to the point they ignored that a certain person they were rooting for was… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/12/19 05:32 PM |
| 11 | Summarize your objections to feminism, either as a theory or as you see it being practiced, in up to three one-sentence bullet points.While simultaneously insisting that they're not responsible for the actions and opinions of TERFs and other misandrist trash. I had maleness forced on me at birth. You chose to identify with a movement that is rife with androphobia and promotes harmful gendered stereotypes. You don't get to blame me for the actions of other men while pretending that your anti-male rhetoric isn't directly responsible for the rise of TERFs. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/12/19 04:26 PM |
| 6 | Summarize your objections to feminism, either as a theory or as you see it being practiced, in up to three one-sentence bullet points.Empathy for men is the cure for toxic masculinity. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/12/19 04:19 PM |
| 8 | Why I personally loathe the concept of "male privilege"I'm tempted to think that such a shift happened during Occupy Wall Street, when the most undeniably privileged group of all (the 1 %) was under heavy fire. Suddenly the world was introduced to the "progressive stack". I don't remember why and how that movement petered out, but it did so with a sad whimper. And since then identity politics on the left and on the right have been growing more and more divisive and inflammatory and on the forefront as opposed to class. It's not a coincidence that So… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/12/19 03:19 PM |
| 30 | Summarize your objections to feminism, either as a theory or as you see it being practiced, in up to three one-sentence bullet points.Women are not helpless, agency-less victims, but benefit from and play an outsize role in perpetuating the system of gender norms erroneously referred to as "patriarchy". Either gender is an artificial social construct that can be chosen and changed or it's something meaningful and important enough to explicitly organize your communities around. Pick one. The existence of female abusers, who by definition have more power and agency than their male victims, and the fact that mothers are routinely… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/12/19 02:55 PM |
| 1 | The framework / cause of men's issues: malagency, in-group biases, and gender feminismIn fact, the very first thing that the woman's movement ever addressed was child custody. They argued that women are natural caretakers and that mothers should receive custody, with fathers paying for their expenses through child support (before then, parental privileges were strongly associated with parental responsibilities, which usually caused men to receive custody). These changes were pushed for before women's suffrage I know this is an old post, but can you provide links and citations for… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/12/19 02:38 PM |
| 3 | Does anyone here dispute the assertion that "significant misandry is easily found in the output of mainstream modern academic feminism"There's a valid point in there somewhere, but "male feminists tend to be sexual predators" is a gross exaggeration, and it is hard to argue that people who have clearly adopted the "feminist" label in bad faith are "the output of mainstream modern academic feminism" as the title states. [the] male feminists [who do] go along with the "men are creeps" narrative [do so] because they're projecting their own behaviors on the rest of the population. I agree with my slightly edited version of your sta… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/12/19 02:22 PM |
| 5 | Does anyone here dispute the assertion that "significant misandry is easily found in the output of mainstream modern academic feminism"Speaking of TERFs, you may like this post I made laying out how their transphobia is a natural extension of the androphobia you see in mainstream feminist communities. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/12/19 11:07 PM |
| 5 | Does anyone here dispute the assertion that "significant misandry is easily found in the output of mainstream modern academic feminism"It's no secret that male feminists tend to be sexual predators Do you have anything to back this claim up? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/12/19 10:33 PM |
| 1 | Toxic femininity and female privilege are often hidden behind closed doors. Here are some examples.So it's intellectual superiority that you seek, and not actual problem solving. At this point I genuinely have no clue what you're on about. Gonna disengage from this thread now. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/12/19 01:40 PM |
| 5 | Toxic femininity and female privilege are often hidden behind closed doors. Here are some examples.That being said, I don't think that taking people with a personality disorder like narcissism is a good example of toxic femininity (as much as a male narcissist is not an example of "toxic masculinity", we're talking about a pathological condition) though it serves as an exasperated example of it. I agree, but also think that if we took the most egregious examples of toxic masculinity and put the men in question (e.g. Donald Trump and the alt-right) under a microscope we'd find narcissistic, ps… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/12/19 12:50 PM |
| 4 | Toxic femininity and female privilege are often hidden behind closed doors. Here are some examples.Literally. Physical abuse is still abuse when women do it. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/12/19 12:37 PM |
| 2 | Toxic femininity and female privilege are often hidden behind closed doors. Here are some examples.You're advocating that we throw out generations of linguistical work. ...I am? Edit: I think I understand what you're getting at now. To clarify, I am using the feminist definition in order to argue against the use of the feminist definition because I find "patriarchy" to be a biased and insufficient description of our system of gender roles and norms, which I think is exactly what you're arguing as well. I think saying that feminists are "throwing out generations of linguistical work" by using … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/12/19 12:26 PM |
| 1 | Toxic femininity and female privilege are often hidden behind closed doors. Here are some examples.Yeah, that's not how language works. Definitions are not imposed from above, and insisting that everyone else needs to standardize on your particular definition is a great way to end up communicating your point badly. thousands of years of academia lmao. The word "patriarchy" itself dates to the 1600s and it didn't acquire its "academic" definition until the 60s. Try again? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/12/19 12:22 PM |
| 1 | Toxic femininity and female privilege are often hidden behind closed doors. Here are some examples.Define patriarchy. I think one of the problems with discussions like these is that there are a lot of "wrong" definitions of patriarchy that have become "correct" within certain communities. (The academic definition is not necessarily more correct than the others.) | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/12/19 09:27 PM |
| 10 | Toxic femininity and female privilege are often hidden behind closed doors. Here are some examples.What I'm hoping people take away from this post is that women who dominate their families are able to do so not despite but because of their femininity. Their femininity gives them power over men in a way that other forms of oppression do not give power to the oppressed class. "Patriarchy" is better understood as a cycle of abuse, with men and women wielding and abusing power over each other in different ways, than as "rule by men". | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/12/19 09:21 PM |
| 7 | Toxic femininity and female privilege are often hidden behind closed doors. Here are some examples.I agree. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/12/19 09:16 PM |
| 14 | Toxic femininity and female privilege are often hidden behind closed doors. Here are some examples.You'd be 100% correct. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/12/19 06:06 PM |
| -1 | A lot of writers have a really warped notion of what it means for a man to "take advantage" of a woman.I am for critical thinking, not indoctrination. So I am not sure exactly what you were trying to prove with your link, but that blew up in your face massively, for what I am concerned. You're like the walking embodiment of /r/iamverysmart | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 29/11/19 03:38 PM |
| 1 | A lot of writers have a really warped notion of what it means for a man to "take advantage" of a woman.I just pointed out that a show by adults for adults on children discovering sex isn't exactly the place I would be looking for anything remotely healthy with regard to sex. Jesus Christ it could not be any more obvious that you haven't seen the show. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 29/11/19 03:12 PM |
| 1 | A lot of writers have a really warped notion of what it means for a man to "take advantage" of a woman.If you can't imagine why anyone would write or watch that show other than pedophilia, that says more about you than it does about the creators or the fans. That's like thinking The Handmaid's Tale's target demographic is people who get off on sexual violence. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 29/11/19 02:52 PM |
| 11 | This thread on trollx had me thinking.I'm not going to comment in this precise situation I appreciate that, because I'm open to this discussion but it's completely irrelevant to my situation, which is about the abuse of power within families and the role women play in explicitly teaching men to behave in toxic ways as part of teaching them the male gender role. The women in question were abusive to their husbands and to their children, which means by definition that they had power and therefore agency. They weren't victims of anythi… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/11/19 07:05 PM |
| 23 | This thread on trollx had me thinking.Growing up, I was explicitly taught by women that any contact between myself and the opposite sex was sexual in nature. Any time I made a friend who was a girl, her friends and relatives would aggressively insist on referring to me as her "boyfriend", constantly bombard me/us with sexual questions, and generally go out of their way to make me feel like an outsider who was only there because I wanted to get laid. This started at age 8, and I internalized it to the point where by puberty I had sto… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/11/19 11:27 AM |
| 13 | Some criticism of using "neckbeard" from a feminist website. Something I would personally like to see a lot more of.Beautiful. If there were more feminists like this I'd probably still be one. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/11/19 11:27 PM |
| 2 | Feminists and the media were concerned that Joker would lead to mass shootings. It didn't.And you wonder why you keep getting lumped in with right-wingers. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/11/19 02:52 PM |
| 2 | Feminists and the media were concerned that Joker would lead to mass shootings. It didn't.Okay liberal. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/11/19 12:03 PM |
| 2 | Feminists and the media were concerned that Joker would lead to mass shootings. It didn't.In other words, he's a leftist. Did you forget what sub you were in? Also he did an entire video about What I Mean When I Say "The Right". Doesn't sound like you've watched it. You may not agree with his way of categorizing, but you can't claim that he's unfairly lumping all these groups together. Really my only complaint about the guy is that he does the thing where he conflates being pro-feminist with being pro-woman, but that's one of those things that's too common for me to waste energy bein… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/11/19 11:44 AM |
| 1 | Feminists and the media were concerned that Joker would lead to mass shootings. It didn't.Watch the video I linked to in the OP please. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 12/11/19 10:55 PM |
| 2 | Feminists and the media were concerned that Joker would lead to mass shootings. It didn't.Why do people join cults? - Janja Lalich by TED-Ed | 6:26 Not all of this applies to alt-right internet cults, which operate differently by necessity. The video in my original post goes into a good amount of detail regarding this. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 12/11/19 04:25 PM |
| 1 | Treat everyone equally maybe? amazingHere's something that never occurred to me in the bajillion times I've seen this: she doesn't have time to sleep, but she has time to make this sign and do a photoshoot? | /r/PussyPassDenied | 09/11/19 12:34 PM |
| 3 | Feminists don't want to acknowledge that they have institutional power now. Here's why that's dangerous.Now that I've had a little more sleep, I just wanted to add - I think generally feminists would be a lot more receptive to male advocacy arguments but they need to hear it first. And I completely disagree. I'm a trans woman. I'm coming from a feminist background here. Never heard of any of those guys you mentioned except Limbaugh, who is a crusty white dog turd. I did used to go on r/mensrights before I found this sub, but not nearly as much as I used to go on r/TrollXChromosomes. Feminists have… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 04/11/19 11:38 AM |
| 3 | Feminists don't want to acknowledge that they have institutional power now. Here's why that's dangerous.there are very few places on the internet that is friendly to people who consider advocates for both men's and women's issues. That's exactly the problem. I don't think we actually disagree on anything. I completely acknowledge that there are causal reasons feminists have become the way they are, I'm just not going to cut them any slack for it. Any more than they're going to cut misogynists any slack because "it's just the way they were raised". Everyone has a reason for being the way they are. … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/11/19 11:33 PM |
| 3 | Feminists don't want to acknowledge that they have institutional power now. Here's why that's dangerous.So I wouldn't single feminists out as particularly hypocriticl because they're not really presented with great arguments regarding male advocacy as of yet. Yet they claim that there's no need for male advocacy, because feminism is going to solve men's issues for them. All we have to do is focus entirely on white, cis women's issues without ever contributing our own opinions, feelings, or perspectives to the conversation. And that doesn't change one bit if you decide that you're actually a trans … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/11/19 11:15 PM |
| 5 | Feminists don't want to acknowledge that they have institutional power now. Here's why that's dangerous.I completely agree with you, and I actually don't have much of a problem with feminism. Feminists, on the other hand, are raging hypocrites who only care about their values when it's convenient for them. This is an overgeneralization, but I feel that it's somewhat more fair to make generalizations about people who chose to call themselves feminists than it is to make sweeping generalizations about people who had maleness forced on them at birth. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/11/19 10:46 PM |
| 1 | Feminists don't want to acknowledge that they have institutional power now. Here's why that's dangerous.What? Earlier today you were enthusiastically agreeing with me and I'm genuinely confused about your stance now. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/11/19 12:14 AM |
| 3 | Feminists don't want to acknowledge that they have institutional power now. Here's why that's dangerous.The blogger I linked to is a left-wing disability rights advocate. idk wtf more you want. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/11/19 11:39 PM |
| 4 | Feminists don't want to acknowledge that they have institutional power now. Here's why that's dangerous.Because you've been trained to think of anything that centers men as "right wing". | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/11/19 11:30 PM |
| 4 | Feminists don't want to acknowledge that they have institutional power now. Here's why that's dangerous.This is why I consider myself an anarchist, an ideology I think is best summed up as "screw the people in power no matter what -ism put them there, even and especially if it was anarchism". | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/11/19 12:54 PM |
| 13 | Feminists don't want to acknowledge that they have institutional power now. Here's why that's dangerous.Feminists have demonised power, I wouldn't say that they're necessarily wrong to do so. Unchecked power will always be abused, and the best way to keep power in check is to demonize the very concept (imo). Feminists are just tellingly selective about which kinds of power (and which kinds of powerful people) they choose to hold accountable. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/11/19 12:32 PM |
| 17 | Feminists don't want to acknowledge that they have institutional power now. Here's why that's dangerous.Tl;dr If someone has power they don’t want to acknowledge, they probably can’t be trusted to use their power ethically. A feminist is someone who wants the power of a man, the privileges of a woman, and the responsibilities of neither. Also, the archive for that site is confusingly hidden under the About tab so I linked to it back there if anyone wants to see more from this author. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/11/19 11:15 AM |
| 2 | I'm currently watching BoJack Horseman Season 6 episode 3. Part of what makes this show great is that it's aggressively pro-woman but still willing to call feminists out on their bullshit.Those are the exact episodes I was thinking of. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/10/19 10:53 AM |
| 3 | I'm currently watching BoJack Horseman Season 6 episode 3. Part of what makes this show great is that it's aggressively pro-woman but still willing to call feminists out on their bullshit.Family Guy has issues where it does episodes with morals like "people should stay in abusive relationships because the other person would fall apart without them". | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/10/19 02:51 AM |
| 2 | I'm currently watching BoJack Horseman Season 6 episode 3. Part of what makes this show great is that it's aggressively pro-woman but still willing to call feminists out on their bullshit.It wasn't the focus of the episode, but when I posted this we were being treated to a series of feminist business owners who'd marketed their products as environmentally friendly, ethically sourced etc. selling out to the show's equivalent of Amazon and saying that doing so was feminist because it empowers women. A better episode to highlight in this sub would probably have been s04e05 Thoughts and Prayers, which is about a group of studio execs trying to use the current epidemic of mostly male … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 29/10/19 12:10 PM |
| 5 | Yes, Female Privilege ExistsAmber. Fucking. Heard. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/10/19 02:24 PM |
| 1 | Alternate names for the system of gender norms that feminists erroneously refer to as "patriarchy"?People here hate my theories, but I strongly believe it is precise and adecquate. I personally am intrigued. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/10/19 12:48 PM |
| 19 | Yes, Female Privilege ExistsWhenever misogynists (wrongly) assert that women played no role in creating the modern world, feminists are (rightly) quick to jump in with a list of inventions and scientific advancements that women deserve the credit for. But when it comes to society and culture? According to feminists, that was all men. Women had nothing to do with creating the system of gender norms that women erroneously refer to as "patriarchy". How convenient. Edit: I want to clarify that this is not about assigning blame… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/10/19 12:47 PM |
| 1 | Alternate names for the system of gender norms that feminists erroneously refer to as "patriarchy"?No, we need a term with the explicit connotation that the world can and should be different. Something we can contrast against both feminism and egalitarianism. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/10/19 12:45 PM |
| 17 | Yes, Female Privilege ExistsI also think this is more an issue of parinoia than it is a legitimate concern. I'm stepping into a minefield here, but my stance on this is similar to my stance on terrorist attacks and mass shootings - they're incredibly unlikely to actually happen to you, but they're also the exact kind of threat that your brain is hardwired to pay attention to. You can't not be afraid, especially when you're a woman who's been bombarded with messages telling you to be afraid ever since you were little. That … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/10/19 11:21 AM |
| 28 | Yes, Female Privilege ExistsWe’re policing ourselves. We do this by understanding what it’s like to be in someone’s shoes and how they may feel victimized. This... does not match my personal experience at all, which is that women are very bad at empathizing with men. "Patriarchy" taught them that men's lives and emotions were less important than theirs, feminism taught them that men are less deserving of empathy because we're oppressors. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/10/19 11:02 AM |
| 10 | Yes, Female Privilege ExistsI agree. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/10/19 10:49 AM |
| 24 | Yes, Female Privilege ExistsMy only objection to this article is that "no one ever said [female privilege] doesn’t exist" is total bull, even when you accept the obvious hyperbole. Feminists are in no rush to acknowledge their privilege or the ways in which women's actions perpetuate the system of gender norms they erroneously refer to as "patriarchy". That's why they define "sexism" as something that women are fundamentally incapable of. It's easier than critical thought or personal growth. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/10/19 10:42 AM |
| 1 | Let's talk about how "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists" (TERFs) are actually just misandrists who have weaponized feminism against a particularly vulnerable group of "men".Nope. And I'm also blocking you, cuz I don't owe randos on the internet anything and I'm tired of debating people who are full of shit. Your argument is "I would support trans people if I thought they were sincere, but I don't believe they are." That's the same as not supporting trans people at all, just wrapped in a layer of steaming hot bullshit. Hence my comparison to people who start sentences with "I'm not racist, but" and then say something racist. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/10/19 08:29 PM |
| 1 | Let's talk about how "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists" (TERFs) are actually just misandrists who have weaponized feminism against a particularly vulnerable group of "men".This is not about sincere people deciding after ample thinking they would be happier transitioning, but I have come to recognize this as the transphobic equivalent of "I'm not racist but". the idea people can 'choose' their gender That's literally what being trans is? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/10/19 01:57 PM |
| 3 | Let's talk about how "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists" (TERFs) are actually just misandrists who have weaponized feminism against a particularly vulnerable group of "men".Agreed. And, similar to trans women, mainstream feminists aren't nearly as at being allies as they give themselves credit for. Prior to my transition, I was an outspoken radical feminist. I spoke up often, loudly and with confidence. I was encouraged to speak up. I was given awards for my efforts, literally — it was like, “Oh, yeah, speak up, speak out.” When I speak up now, I am often given the direct or indirect message that I am “mansplaining,” “taking up too much space” or “asserting my whit… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/10/19 11:27 AM |
| 1 | Let's talk about how "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists" (TERFs) are actually just misandrists who have weaponized feminism against a particularly vulnerable group of "men".I used the words interchangeably in this post, but I generally draw a distinction between misandry (hatred of men) and androphobia (fear of men) and would describe mainstream feminists as androphobes rather than misandrists. Edit: Of course, as we all know... | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/10/19 11:16 AM |
| 8 | Let's talk about how "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists" (TERFs) are actually just misandrists who have weaponized feminism against a particularly vulnerable group of "men".I would argue that that is merely a difference in scale, not a difference in kind. The transphobia I see "TERFs" express is merely the androphobia I've encountered in feminist communities taken to its logical extreme. On a more personal note, my real beef here is "I shouldn't have had to go through the lengthy and emotionally draining process of figuring out that I'm trans in order to get mainstream feminists to treat me like a human being." | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 26/10/19 11:57 PM |
| 6 | According to this article, there are women who are arrested for self-defence in DV cases.The headline here isn't a domestic violence case, but a human trafficking case. Victims of human trafficking being arrested for having been coerced into performing illegal activities (instead of being recognized as the victims they are), and the fact that traffickers often use this threat as leverage against their victims, is a serious and truly disgusting problem. But willfully misidentifying human traffickers as "domestic abusers" because it suits your anti-male agenda is also fucking disgusti… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 26/10/19 07:43 PM |
| 3 | I believe men are just as, if not more likely to end up in an abusive relationship than women. We're just taught not to perceive women's behavior as abusive.Holy shit this is beautiful. Thank you. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/10/19 05:07 PM |
| 14 | When they call us "incels"To me it's more about the blatant hypocrisy of using body shaming as a weapon against men who disagree with you, while simultaneously labelling any criticism of women's bodies misogynistic. Men have body issues too, and those body issues come from the same place women's body issues do - the system of gender norms that feminists erroneously refer to as "patriarchy". Weaponizing these body norms in order to "win" arguments ultimately has the effect of bolstering the very system feminists claim to … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/10/19 05:03 PM |
| 10 | When they call us "incels"I've never been specifically labelled an incel either, but feminists have been pushing the "everyone who disagrees with us is just bitter that they can't get laid" narrative since long before incel was even a word. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/10/19 05:02 PM |
| 7 | When they call us "incels"You might like this: https://old.reddit.com/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates/comments/dchagg/feminists_who_stereotype_men_who_disagree_with/ | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/10/19 12:10 PM |
| 2 | The reason I became a feminist and the reason I stopped being a feminist, in one image. 21st Century feminism is a hyper-capitalist ideology. They don't want to end oppression, they want 50% of our oppressors to be women.How is 21st century feminism is a hyper capitalist ideology? I wrote a bit about this here. Also capitalism itself as an economic system isn't oppressive, the people in it are or that can be. No different from socialism which is full of dictators. Rather than engage in a debate I'm tired of having (edit to add: I didn't intend for this to be about Bernie or about economics, but about values), I'm just going to recommend checking out /r/anarchy101. Not because I'm trying to turn you into an anarc… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/10/19 11:55 AM |
| 1 | I believe men are just as, if not more likely to end up in an abusive relationship than women. We're just taught not to perceive women's behavior as abusive.(I can post studies about this if you want). Please do. I can't believe more people aren't talking about this. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/10/19 10:09 PM |
| 2 | The reason I became a feminist and the reason I stopped being a feminist, in one image. 21st Century feminism is a hyper-capitalist ideology. They don't want to end oppression, they want 50% of our oppressors to be women.Relevant and important. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/10/19 10:03 PM |
| 7 | I believe men are just as, if not more likely to end up in an abusive relationship than women. We're just taught not to perceive women's behavior as abusive.The thing is, your parent sets the standard for how you expect other people to treat you. If your mother was abusive, you're probably going to go through a series of abusive relationships as an adult. The amount of power mothers have over their children - especially in the era of no-fault divorce and a broken and biased family court system - is something Feminists spend a lot of time willfully ignoring. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/10/19 01:39 PM |
| 5 | Why are you guys left wing?Obama opened child concentration camps on our southern border? Also, Bernie. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/10/19 12:09 PM |
| 6 | Why are you guys left wing?Because I don't support pointless, unending wars. Or child concentration camps. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/10/19 11:55 AM |
| 3 | I want to talk about my feminist ex-therapist.I reject your attempt to force this label on me. Gender equality is not an exclusively feminist value. Also, you replied to the wrong comment. Dumbass. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/10/19 11:37 PM |
| 1 | I want to talk about my feminist ex-therapist.Yeah, that's the kind of wibbly-wobbly "well, technically" bullshit that caused me to leave feminism. Blocking you, since you clearly have nothing to say that's worth listening to. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/10/19 11:29 PM |
| 4 | I want to talk about my feminist ex-therapist.Feminists do not and never have treated men and women as equals. Edit to add: In fact, they have spilled quite a bit of ink talking about how feminism is not about "equality", but about "justice", which is awfully convenient since equality has an objective definition, while justice means literally whatever the fuck you want it to mean. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/10/19 11:27 PM |
| 2 | I want to talk about my feminist ex-therapist.This entire thread is about how men's anger towards women, no matter how justified, is constantly invalidated and labelled misogynistic. I think you are missing the point. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/10/19 11:20 PM |
| 2 | I want to talk about my feminist ex-therapist.Your statement implies that your opinion would have been different if you had taken gender into account. If I misread that, my apologies. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/10/19 11:15 PM |
| 1 | I want to talk about my feminist ex-therapist.It's almost as if REPRESENTATION MATTERS and feminists have been actively fighting to prevent female-dominated professions from being held to that standard. Also, why the FUCK does my gender matter?! | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/10/19 11:07 PM |
| 2 | I want to talk about my feminist ex-therapist.The fuck are you talking about? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/10/19 10:01 PM |
| 8 | I want to talk about my feminist ex-therapist.I spent my entire life believing that I deserved everything those abusive women did to me. Realizing that I didn't was a huge personal breakthrough. She chose to invalidate the most important breakthrough of my life. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/10/19 09:32 PM |
| 7 | I want to talk about my feminist ex-therapist.I'm not going to claim that you're full of shit or anything like that, When someone starts a post like this, that's my cue to stop reading. Later. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/10/19 06:41 PM |
| 3 | I want to talk about my feminist ex-therapist.Soldiers and police officers are the exception to the "dangerous jobs" rule. They're glorified enough to warrant attention in the representation department despite the risk. Edit: Now that I think about it, that says a lot about feminism's implicit acceptance of capitalism, militarism, and the police state. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/10/19 06:40 PM |
| 14 | I want to talk about my feminist ex-therapist.Representation matters... unless the field is female-dominated. Then it deserves to stay that way. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/10/19 06:13 PM |
| 5 | Today is the 2 yr anniversary of #metoo. Let's teach women not to rape.Amber Heard is a legally proven domestic abuser. Still being invited to speak at feminist rallies against domestic abuse. Does anyone care? Of course not, least of all feminists, because it was a woman doing it to a man and therefore not important. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/10/19 01:55 AM |
| 9 | "This milestone is long overdue": Fortune journalist seems to believe that female executives whose careers were cut short were the real victims of the recession, and that Wall Street's only real problem is a lack of women CEOsNot power, but specifically hard power. Feminists want you to believe that the social, familial, and emotional power women wield is meaningless and "doesn't count", because money is the only form of power that matters. Edit: To clarify, "familial power" includes the complete and total power women are given over children, whether by "patriarchy", by feminism, or by our court system. Feminists want you to think that their misandry/androphobia is harmless because women don't have power over men. Th… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/10/19 11:28 PM |
| 6 | "This milestone is long overdue": Fortune journalist seems to believe that female executives whose careers were cut short were the real victims of the recession, and that Wall Street's only real problem is a lack of women CEOsSomething I've been thinking about a lot lately is how unbelievably capitalist feminism is. The idea that men are privileged - which is how feminists justify literally everything they do to us - is fundamentally rooted in the idea that money and the ability to earn it is more important than your emotional well-being as a person. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/10/19 10:41 PM |
| 1 | Lets get thousands of people to find this guy to go on a date with me.Not a dude ;) | /r/PussyPassDenied | 09/10/19 12:54 AM |
| 16 | Lets get thousands of people to find this guy to go on a date with me.Imagine if a man took a selfie with a random woman in the background and posted it to the internet begging people to help him find her... feminists would be shouting themselves hoarse. | /r/PussyPassDenied | 08/10/19 09:27 PM |
| 0 | So what does everybody here think of the current controversy over the joker movie?I sourced this in the original post, though it looks like the hyperlink is broken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_(King_novel)#Connections_to_actual_school_shootings | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/10/19 04:15 PM |
| 4 | Have you considered identifying as non-binary?So... you aren't wrong. Gender is a spectrum and nobody is 100% male or 100% female. So technically, everyone is non-binary. The thing is... the same is true of sexuality. Nobody is 100% straight or 100% gay. So technically, everyone is bisexual. And... bisexuals don't really like that line of reasoning. Because while it's correct in theory, in practice most of the world's population identifies as straight or gay. And it's kind of shitty to pretend that people who call themselves gay/straight ar… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 07/10/19 10:12 PM |
| 3 | Have you considered identifying as non-binary?Trans woman here, no they are fucking not. This attitude is a big part of why I stopped calling myself a feminist. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 07/10/19 09:40 PM |
| 2 | Have you considered identifying as non-binary?That too. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 04/10/19 05:11 PM |
| 17 | Have you considered identifying as non-binary?Trans woman here, you're right but it turns out that - surprise! - feminists don't actually follow their own rules! Cis feminists only pay lip service to trans rights, and only when it's convenient for them. If you question their orthodoxy in any way, you're labelled an oppressor. Prior to my transition, I was an outspoken radical feminist. I spoke up often, loudly and with confidence. I was encouraged to speak up. I was given awards for my efforts, literally — it was like, “Oh, yeah, speak up, … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/10/19 07:02 PM |
| -1 | Feminists who stereotype men who disagree with them as fat, ugly losers who are just upset that they can't get a date are actually recycling a very old prejudice...Is this an attempt at whataboutism? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/10/19 10:11 AM |
| 2 | Amber Guyger Sentenced to 10 yearsThis is America. It's a miracle that a white female police officer faced any punishment at all. | /r/PussyPassDenied | 03/10/19 09:31 AM |
| 9 | Amber Guyger Sentenced to 10 yearsShe went into the wrong apartment thinking it was hers and was so freaked out that she murdered the actual tenant while he was eating ice cream in his underwear. | /r/PussyPassDenied | 02/10/19 11:18 PM |
| 1 | So what does everybody here think of the current controversy over the joker movie?Most shooters are not mentally ill. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/10/19 10:43 PM |
| 1 | So what does everybody here think of the current controversy over the joker movie?They may be similar (you should watch the video I linked), but surely you agree that "decided to shoot up a school after reading a book about someone he relates to deciding to shoot up a school" is a lot more plausible than "decided to shoot up a school after playing a game about a space marine killing demons on Mars". | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/10/19 05:24 PM |
| 2 | So what does everybody here think of the current controversy over the joker movie?Stephen King requested that his novel Rage (published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman), a novel about a disaffected young man who shoots up his school, be pulled from shelves after numerous school shooters were found to have read it. Would those people have done what they did if they hadn't read the book? Nobody knows. The book didn't "make them" do it, but it's also disingenuous to claim that it had zero influence on them. The kind of people who go out and do these things definitely seem li… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/10/19 12:00 PM |
| 21 | Activists protest to cancel men's homeless shelter, will be women only homeless shelter instead. State senator calls this 'better'.Concerns had been expressed about placing single men — some of whom may have been formerly incarcerated — near five neighborhood schools with young children. This is why 75% of the homeless are men. Fuck these people. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/10/19 06:06 PM |
| 3 | About the Weary Weaponizing of White Women's TearsIsn’t it the story of why 2 men got arrested for standing in Starbucks? Isn’t it the story of Emmett Till? It's an issue that absolutely affects men. Just because the article doesn't put the spotlight on us doesn't mean it's not male advocacy. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/10/19 06:34 AM |
| 10 | About the Weary Weaponizing of White Women's TearsWhite women tears are especially potent and extra salty because they are attached to the symbol of femininity. These tears are pouring out from the eyes of the one chosen to be the prototype of womanhood; the woman who has been painted as helpless against the whims of the world. The one who gets the most protection in a world that does a shitty job overall of cherishing women. The mothers, sisters, daughters and aunties of the world’s biggest bullies (white men). But the truth is, white women ha… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/10/19 12:08 AM |
| 2 | Is there room in this sub for trans women too? This is the post that made me realize that calling myself a feminist meant betraying who I am./r/MensRights is honestly a lot more trans-friendly than some of the feminist subs. And I'm not just talking about the feminists whose transphobia is euphemized as "TERFism". | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/10/19 12:03 AM |
| 4 | "A false dichotomy, also known as either/or reasoning, is the artificial reduction of all the choices available in a discussion to two... Of course, reality is rarely so simple. Instead of an artificial binary choice favoring an ideology, life offers a diverse landscape of choices and consequences."This is basically what feminists did to the word "misogyny". Been in use since the 1700s Literally translates to "hatred for women" Feminists: Misogyny isn't hating women, it's participating in behavior that perpetuates women's oppression. We redefined it and anyone who doesn't know the "correct" definition is stupid and wrong about everything. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/09/19 11:58 PM |
| 3 | "A false dichotomy, also known as either/or reasoning, is the artificial reduction of all the choices available in a discussion to two... Of course, reality is rarely so simple. Instead of an artificial binary choice favoring an ideology, life offers a diverse landscape of choices and consequences."I'd be fine with them calling it feminism if they didn't pretend that they advocate for men's issues too. It's mind-boggling how they think men can't ever understand what they go through, but somehow they understand what it's like to be a man, what our issues are, and how to solve them better than we do. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/09/19 04:28 PM |
| 3 | "A false dichotomy, also known as either/or reasoning, is the artificial reduction of all the choices available in a discussion to two... Of course, reality is rarely so simple. Instead of an artificial binary choice favoring an ideology, life offers a diverse landscape of choices and consequences."Back before I became a feminist (and then changed my mind again) I used to have feminists try to "rules lawyer" me into being on their side by saying "you agree with women's rights, therefore you're a feminist". It pissed me off so much. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/09/19 04:15 PM |
| 4 | "A false dichotomy, also known as either/or reasoning, is the artificial reduction of all the choices available in a discussion to two... Of course, reality is rarely so simple. Instead of an artificial binary choice favoring an ideology, life offers a diverse landscape of choices and consequences.""The time has come for the whole world to make a choice... you're either with us, or you're with the terrorists." | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/09/19 02:29 PM |
| 8 | "A false dichotomy, also known as either/or reasoning, is the artificial reduction of all the choices available in a discussion to two... Of course, reality is rarely so simple. Instead of an artificial binary choice favoring an ideology, life offers a diverse landscape of choices and consequences.""For instance, you might say that someone is either alive, or they're dead, ignoring the fact that they might be Dracula. Or you might say that if someone's not a Democrat, they must be some sort of Republican, ignoring the very real possibility that they may be Dracula." | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/09/19 01:58 PM |
| 1 | Is there room in this sub for trans women too? This is the post that made me realize that calling myself a feminist meant betraying who I am.Noted =) | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/09/19 01:19 PM |
| 1 | Is there room in this sub for trans women too? This is the post that made me realize that calling myself a feminist meant betraying who I am.It's me, /u/TransphobicFeminist! That makes me so happy to hear. You're right about the username, I made that account when I was really angry and just wanted to endlessly shit on feminists and it's caused some needless confusion. So new account, new me. Looking forward to using it to do something more thoughtful and constructive than just spewing anger. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/09/19 12:49 PM |
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