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| 1 | "Emma You Are Next" website, threatening to leak nude photos of Emma Watson in retaliation for her daring to speak at a feminist conference, turns out to be a false flag operationThe site contained a countdown clock until midnight on September 23, threatening to release nude photos of Emma Watson in retaliation for her giving a speech about gender equality at a feminist conference. The site didn't didn't say that it was in retaliation for anything and didn't mention the speech. That was something cooked up by shitty journalists and paranoid feminists. | /r/MensRights | 25/09/14 03:05 AM |
| 1 | Feminists get black game developer fired because he posted with a hash #NotYourShieldIt was implied. No, it wasn't. why should "bad" people stay employed? Please point out where I said anything even close to that. | /r/MensRights | 22/09/14 09:08 PM |
| 1 | Feminists get black game developer fired because he posted with a hash #NotYourShieldWhere did I say that? | /r/MensRights | 22/09/14 08:54 PM |
| 9 | Feminists get black game developer fired because he posted with a hash #NotYourShieldSo because he doesn't like trannies or gays he's somehow bad? Yes, just like somebody who doesn't like men is bad. Prejudice against somebody merely because of how they are born is bigoted and wrong. if some white guy doesn't want to date black women, does that make him racist? No but if he rants angrily about niggers, that makes him racist. There's a difference between not dating somebody and ranting about people like them using slurs. | /r/MensRights | 22/09/14 10:13 AM |
| 2 | Will the Guardian newspaper ever take a day-off from having a go at men?I think she is the exception. She's not. There are tonnes of pro-male articles published by the Guardian. The CIF section is famous for the totally anti-men sentiment …so long as you only listen to what its detractors have to say. I won't deny that there are some terrible articles published in CiF, but it's certainly not "totally anti-men". As MattDB mentioned, Ally Fogg is an example of somebody who regularly publishes pro-male articles there. these days the Guardian is busy saying how wonderfu… | /r/MensRights | 07/09/14 10:22 PM |
| 2 | Relationship to Student: Other ___Father___Okay. I don't think you have any reason to make that up. Does anyone still have a shot of the full form? Somebody dug it up last time this was posted here. I can't find the old version, but I linked to the new version in my other comment. It's identical except they've done away with the predefined relationships and just left it as a freeform field. It should be blatantly obvious from looking at that version. Where could it possibly indicate that this section is for the female parent/guardian? If… | /r/MensRights | 02/09/14 07:13 AM |
| 3 | Relationship to Student: Other ___Father___No, you aren't listening. Stop being so outraged over nothing and start using your brain for a second. The form has two sections where you fill in the details for two parents/guardians. This photo shows the first section, the section asking about a female parent/guardian. That's why you can choose between mother, step mother, guardian, or other. Immediately below what is pictured in the photo, there is a second section that asks about a male parent/guardian. That's where you can choose between f… | /r/MensRights | 02/09/14 07:01 AM |
| 2 | Relationship to Student: Other ___Father___No, he means the male parent/guardian. Fathers are one example of male parent/guardian, but not the only one. There are also stepfathers and legal guardians. This form had two slots. One for a female parent/guardian and one for a male parent/guardian. This photo is intended to mislead people, it doesn't show the whole form. | /r/MensRights | 02/09/14 06:42 AM |
| 3 | Relationship to Student: Other ___Father___I had the same thought. Also, it seems to have resurfaced as this submission to /r/pics which appears to have been removed from that subreddit just this second, where other people are saying that they've seen it before as well. The submitter looks like a sock puppet account (little history, yet asking if he's been shadow banned). Yet for all the people who say that they've seen it before, Google image search isn't pulling up any other hits. My best guess is that it's been cropped from the origin… | /r/MensRights | 02/09/14 06:31 AM |
| 2 | MGTOWs Discourage Me From Being An MRA. Help?The problem I have is that it seems like MGTOWs still make up a fair size of the MRM I don't think that's remotely true. MGTOW seem to be a small fringe. Where did you get the idea that they were bigger than that? many MRAs also accept MGTOWs as part of the movement I really don't see MRAs talking about them much at all. the MRM doesn't seem much better than feminism. Then be egalitarian instead of choosing a gendered movement. | /r/MensRights | 01/09/14 06:31 PM |
| 1 | This is what feminists on Wikipedia look like when they are blocking editors on subjects they are patrolling to keep NPOV from interfering with their ideological narrative.This has recently been the case with the Reproductive coercion article, where one such editor WP:Canvassed men's rights editors to show up at that article; the Reddit thread that the editor used to WP:Canvass shows "battlegroundish behauvior" and bashes Kevin Gorman. That paragraph repeatedly accuses people here of canvassing (Wikipedia parlance for brigading) the reproductive coercion article in this thread. As far as I can tell, that's simply not true. The article wasn't mentioned at all, was … | /r/MensRights | 01/09/14 02:47 AM |
| 7 | Editing WikipediaAs far as I can tell, the MRM is more prone to being vandalised on Wikipedia than doing the vandalising. There are people who do nothing but hang out on MRM-related pages adding attacks on it and looking for ways to tear it down. Have you seen this submission for example? What are you doing about people like this? | /r/MensRights | 29/08/14 09:13 PM |
| 6 | In the early 90s, Norway introduced 10 weeks paid paternity leave for everybody. 20 years later, 90% of fathers take at least twelve weeks of leave and the wage gap has halved.in Norway it's MANDATORY. The article doesn't say that. Where are you getting this from? | /r/MensRights | 29/08/14 03:14 PM |
| 1 | Studies Show Women Are More Successful Than Men at Raising Money Online Via Kickstarter, IndiegogoPreviously discussed in MensRights here and in FeMRADebates here. | /r/MensRights | 28/08/14 02:31 AM |
| 6 | SJW doxx, threaten and harass innocent man, says it's 4chan's fault for tricking them </Feminist Logic>Chaotic neutral. | /r/MensRights | 27/08/14 03:35 AM |
| 3 | From 1997-2007, men were nearly 10x more likely than women to be arrested for marijuana possession in NYC. (x-post /r/PussyPass)To save people from making unwarranted assumptions: My initial reaction is that this is exactly what you would expect to see if police were targeting dealers. Drug dealing is a dangerous activity and it is mostly men that do it. If police were targeting dealers, then you would expect to see these kinds of statistics even assuming no gender bias in policing. However, that doesn't seem to be the case here. The statistics are only concerned with possession of small amounts of marijuana, and the off… | /r/MensRights | 22/08/14 04:30 AM |
| 2 | The other domestic violence case a sport has tried to ignoreDon't forget the media reaction to the incident where it looks a lot like Tiger Woods was attacked by his wife with a golf club. Even if that wasn't what actually went down, the media reaction was appalling. | /r/MensRights | 22/08/14 03:37 AM |
| 0 | A huge UK, chain toy shop, The Early Learning Centre, has posted sexist comments against dads on Facebook.It is a crap shop anyway. Which alternative would you suggest? I normally buy from there and I can't think of a suitable alternative. | /r/MensRights | 18/08/14 02:10 PM |
| 6 | Coventry rape centre launches counselling service for menCoventry has been getting a few things right lately. They recently increased the budget for domestic violence shelters by a quarter of a million pounds and changed providers away from an organisation that was reluctant to provide services to men. | /r/MensRights | 15/08/14 01:48 AM |
| 8 | "Michelle Obama told a joke about men they didn't find funny. That's hilarious"Another shock -- the Guardian posts an extremely controversial article... and then closes comments, because nobody should ever be allowed to disagree with them. There are 350 comments on that article, many of them disagreeing with it. | /r/MensRights | 09/08/14 04:32 PM |
| 1 | Writing about the MRM and Feminism?The Guardian publishes loads of pro-men's rights articles. You're better off refining your writing and ideas with smaller articles and strong editorial feedback than trying to tackle a whole book in one go, I think. | /r/MensRights | 08/08/14 07:30 PM |
| 5 | Writing about the MRM and Feminism?Why don't you start off smaller and pitch an article to Comment is Free? | /r/MensRights | 08/08/14 04:24 PM |
| 1 | More than 40% of domestic violence victims are male, report revealsI don't believe for a second you've seen 50 times more articles about women's issues than men's issues if you actually read the Guardian. | /r/MensRights | 01/08/14 05:31 AM |
| 1 | More than 40% of domestic violence victims are male, report revealsWell Ally Fogg and a few other contributors write about men's issues. So what's with the "they'll have to start writing about men's issues" then, if you know that they already do? But there's 50 time more articles about women's issues. No there isn't. Why do you think that? | /r/MensRights | 01/08/14 04:08 AM |
| 2 | More than 40% of domestic violence victims are male, report revealsI think The Guardian is realising, as it's the lefty paper, that they'll have to start writing about men's issues. The Guardian has been writing about men's issues for years. They've won awards for it. Where did you get your impression that the Guardian doesn't write stuff like this? Because it's certainly not from reading the Guardian. Where did you get this idea? That's not a rhetorical question, by the way. I really am interested in understanding how a newspaper that quite visibly writes arti… | /r/MensRights | 31/07/14 08:59 PM |
| 1 | This is awesome. Feminists are starting to question whether or not the Men's Rights Movement is actually behind #WomenAgainstFeminism.Yes. There's a hole in the pronunciation where the 'w' should be. | /r/MensRights | 30/07/14 09:27 PM |
| 1 | Lawsuit claims female student invited male student to dinner with her parents twice AFTER he allegedly raped herBecause its a press release designed to sound like a news report. Like 99% of new stories you hear in corporate media. No, it's actually highly unusual. Take a look at that kind of churnalism. It's almost entirely done by organisations not individuals. You can doubt the source, question their motives and their interests, but if you don't leave reasonable opening for what a source is saying to be evaluated for truth value, you're just performing ad hominem. I haven't done any of that. People with… | /r/MensRights | 29/07/14 07:38 PM |
| 3 | Hampshire Police Confirm Caroline Nokes MP Involved in Violent Attack on Home of Founder of Fathers4JusticeThe police have only confirmed that they took a witness statement from her. They have not said anything about her being a suspect. Meanwhile she claims to have been harassed by F4J. Frankly, I've seen enough dishonesty from F4J that I don't trust them in the slightest. It may very well be the case that she's done some horribly wrong things, but I won't take F4J's word for it. | /r/MensRights | 29/07/14 05:09 PM |
| 1 | Lawsuit claims female student invited male student to dinner with her parents twice AFTER he allegedly raped herThis seems to be the original appearance of this story. It's not. That's actually another example of what I pointed out. It seems to have been originally written by Banzaf himself in the third person then distributed through a press release service. COTWA is just republishing the press release there. Here's the original press release. Might as well email him and ask for his sources. I'm not really asking about his sources, I'm just confused that he seems to be writing about himself in the third … | /r/MensRights | 29/07/14 02:14 PM |
| -1 | Lawsuit claims female student invited male student to dinner with her parents twice AFTER he allegedly raped herWhat the hell do you want him to do? I'm not demanding he do anything. I saw something odd, and I was asking about it. You called this "pretty high profile attention". As far as I can see, it's a guy who is using a PR service to push his own articles, which is the last thing I would describe as high profile attention. But the circumstances seem odd to me, so I'm wondering whether I've misunderstood something. So I asked about it. | /r/MensRights | 29/07/14 02:09 PM |
| 3 | Lawsuit claims female student invited male student to dinner with her parents twice AFTER he allegedly raped herI'm having a difficult time understanding the context for this article, it seems rather strange. PRLog is just one of those places you can pay to distribute a press release. If I'm interpreting this correctly, Banzhaf wrote this so that it looks like a news article. He talks about himself in the third person to make it seem as if somebody else wrote it. He paid PRLog to distribute it as a press release. Is that correct? It seems like an awfully odd way of going about things, and I'm not sure why… | /r/MensRights | 28/07/14 10:22 PM |
| 2 | Feminism's homophobic roots -- demanding "compulsory heterosexuality" because homosexuality "oppresses women"up until the last few years, homosexual activists have rabidly attacked heterosexual boy's and men. This sounds like the paranoid rantings of homophobic right-wingers. Straight people aren't under attack from gay people. | /r/MensRights | 27/07/14 11:32 PM |
| 2 | Feminism's homophobic roots -- demanding "compulsory heterosexuality" because homosexuality "oppresses women"Not really sure you should rely on an HIV/AIDS denialist as a source of information. | /r/MensRights | 27/07/14 11:30 PM |
| 9 | 25% of convention goers have been sexually harrassed, a Woozle is born.Reminds me of the reason why Iggy Azalea stopped crowd surfing. People – mostly women – would try to finger her: "The crazy thing is girls will try to do it the most," Iggy said. "Girls will try to do it more than guys because girls think it's cool, like, 'What? We both got vaginas. It's fine!' Doesn't make it OK." | /r/MensRights | 27/07/14 03:52 AM |
| 4 | Noticed The Guardian has a Women's Blog, but I can't seem to find a male equivalent anywhere on their site...The thing is, with the Guardian, it's not even occasionally – they publish good articles on a regular basis. They highlight pro-men's rights comments as editor's picks. They've even published award-winning pro-men's rights articles, like The Rape of Men. Yet there are a handful of people here who will take every single opportunity to make it out to be the feminist devil. Even in that submission I linked to in my earlier comment, it was a pro-men's rights piece and it still got attacked. The Guar… | /r/MensRights | 25/07/14 11:47 AM |
| 10 | I was just trying to make a suggestion. (Disscusion)Feminism is for everyone! #killallmen | /r/MensRights | 25/07/14 01:10 AM |
| 3 | Noticed The Guardian has a Women's Blog, but I can't seem to find a male equivalent anywhere on their site...the whole of the Guardian newspaper is dedicated to (running down) men. This is nonsense. For instance, the most recent Guardian submission to /r/MensRights: Male rape: the last human rights taboo? In 2011, the Observer reported that male rape during conflict was "endemic", prompting the UN to change its definition of rape. So why are NGOs still ignoring the problem? How is an article about male rape victims being disenfranchised "dedicated to running down men"? And you commented on that thread,… | /r/MensRights | 24/07/14 09:16 PM |
| 1 | Pay Gap: Can't Say Men Work Harder So Call it "Overwork"Well I guess it depends on what you class as "work". If you'd do it anyway without being paid, then I wouldn't really class that as work. Aside from the number of hours, I do think more people should work on having portfolio careers like you – but the only way that's likely to happen on a wider scale is through efforts to limit working hours like they are doing in Sweden now. If it's a cultural norm to work 40 hours for a single employer, that doesn't leave a lot of time for other jobs. | /r/MensRights | 22/07/14 03:31 PM |
| 1 | Pay Gap: Can't Say Men Work Harder So Call it "Overwork"How, exactly, is it not healthy? See this article for details. In particular: more than 40% of employees are neglecting other aspects of their life because of work, which may increase their vulnerability to mental health problems when working long hours more than a quarter of employees feel depressed (27%), one third feel anxious (34%), and more than half feel irritable (58%). the more hours you spend at work, the more hours outside of work you are likely to spend thinking or worrying about it. … | /r/MensRights | 22/07/14 10:11 AM |
| 1 | Pay Gap: Can't Say Men Work Harder So Call it "Overwork""overwork" can be read to imply that men are doing this to themselves The only form of that word that I've seen with any regularity is "overworked", and it has the connotation that it is something done to the person rather than something they chose for themselves. I don't think the word "overwork" implies that it's their own fault in the slightest. | /r/MensRights | 21/07/14 12:58 PM |
| 10 | Pay Gap: Can't Say Men Work Harder So Call it "Overwork"At least they have the right to bear arms. Edit: Thanks for the gold! | /r/MensRights | 21/07/14 12:57 PM |
| 7 | Confused neutral trying to look big pictureWHich gender was (more or less) in charge and had the power to persecute the other in structural ways I don't think either gender has had that power in recorded history in a broad enough manner for it to be a useful concept. That kind of power resides with the people who are rich and/or born into the right families. I am curious if you believe that we are in the midst of a cyclical shift from a male-power society to a female-power society That would imply that I think either had the upper hand. … | /r/MensRights | 21/07/14 11:44 AM |
| 18 | Confused neutral trying to look big pictureYou're making a common mistake. You're viewing the rights of men and women as some sort of score, where men have historically had a higher score than women and this cycles. It doesn't work this way. People are oppressed in many different ways, and you can't simply add them up and come up with a useful number that can be used to compare how well off people are. For instance, in the UK during the First World War, only male landowners had the vote. However all men were subject to conscription. So w… | /r/MensRights | 21/07/14 11:23 AM |
| 4 | Pay Gap: Can't Say Men Work Harder So Call it "Overwork"Yeah. Saying men as a collective work more would be "offensive". Did you actually read the article or are you just getting offended at the submitter's linkbait title? From the article: Men were much likely to work long hours compared to women over the study period — in 2007, 17% of men worked at least 50 hours per week while only 7% of women did. | /r/MensRights | 21/07/14 11:08 AM |
| 22 | Pay Gap: Can't Say Men Work Harder So Call it "Overwork"Can't Say Men Work Harder From the article: Men were much likely to work long hours compared to women over the study period — in 2007, 17% of men worked at least 50 hours per week while only 7% of women did. There's nothing amiss here. Consistently working 50+ hours a week isn't healthy, and referring to it as "overwork" is perfectly fine. | /r/MensRights | 21/07/14 11:07 AM |
| 5 | Can some man here please tell me why "cis" should be a thing?He's talking about "cis", you're talking about "cisgender". "cis" is a prefix that has been in use across multiple scientific fields for a very long time. "cisgender" is just that prefix applied to gender. | /r/MensRights | 17/07/14 10:20 PM |
| 4 | Can some man here please tell me why "cis" should be a thing?You can't really adequately talk about concepts unless you have the words for them. "cis" just makes it easier to talk about trans subjects. It's a useful word. The way it's used on Reddit and Tumblr is poisonous though because it results in people feeling this way. The word "cis" is exactly the same type of word as "straight" or "heterosexual", which I assume you don't find offensive. The thing that makes it offensive is when you constantly see it used as part of phrases like "cis scum" etc. It… | /r/MensRights | 17/07/14 10:16 PM |
| 1 | "Only women victims of domestic abuse" propaganda on an NHS alcohol detox ward. In addition to a female only lounge vastly outfitted compared to the males.the recovery rate for twelve steps is indistinguishable from the spontaneous recovery rate I know on its face, this statistic seems like it means that twelve step programmes are ineffective, that isn't the case. Due to the fact that people in twelve step programmes have often already tried to recover by themselves and failed, this means that the twelve step programmes are effective. You should really start by visiting your GP first though. | /r/MensRights | 17/07/14 10:06 PM |
| 16 | Just a few little facts and statistics people should be aware of regarding “rape culture”.Also important: Myths about rape conviction rates are putting people off going to the police. The conviction rate for rape in the UK is 58%, not 6%. | /r/MensRights | 17/07/14 09:52 PM |
| 1 | Wife wants to have our 14-year-old son circumcised. Need help ASAP.He didn't create this throwaway for this question; it's a nine month old troll account. | /r/MensRights | 17/07/14 08:44 PM |
| 7 | Wife wants to have our 14-year-old son circumcised. Need help ASAP.This is a troll. This account is 9 months old, it's not a throwaway created for this question. He's been posting stuff then deleting it afterwards to get a clean account history. As you can see from this cached Google result, he makes a habit of posting questions like this to the same subreddits. Last time, he posted this question: 1, 2, 3: Okay, so here's the story: I work at a corporation, so does this other guy. We're both gay. He's engaged, so I'm not going after him or anything. Every day I… | /r/MensRights | 17/07/14 08:42 PM |
| 11 | Erin Pizzey, founder of one of the first Women's Refuges, determined violence among partners was roughly equal in rates. After which her and her family received death threats from militant feminists, had her dog killed, and fled to North America.Is that really a valid distinction to make? Yeah, if you go around telling people that somebody killed her dog and somebody points out that it's not true, then at best you look like you don't know what you are talking about and it's very easy for you to look like a liar even if it was an honest mistake. It's better to have the facts and truth on your side and there's nothing to gain from telling people her dog was killed when it wasn't. | /r/MensRights | 16/07/14 12:51 PM |
| 17 | Erin Pizzey, founder of one of the first Women's Refuges, determined violence among partners was roughly equal in rates. After which her and her family received death threats from militant feminists, had her dog killed, and fled to North America.It says her dog was shot, not that it was killed. I believe she said in her AMA that her dog wasn't killed. Edit: From the horse's mouth: I suppose without sounding too dramatic, my life, my safety, constantly threatened. My dog was shot on Christmas Eve on my property when I was doing some of my work and it was a terrible sight, he didn't die fortunately but it was terrible with his bleeding and screaming in pain. I don't know if it was feminists or not, but in any case my books were heavily ce… | /r/MensRights | 16/07/14 11:34 AM |
| 11 | Why if we are to recognize the bad history of men, aren't we also recognizing the good history of men?Why have you taken the image of somebody holding up a piece of paper saying something quite different and edited it to place your own words on it? That man didn't say what you are portraying him to have said. It seems very troll-like. | /r/MensRights | 15/07/14 08:50 PM |
| 3 | Female exec of Yahoo accused of sexual harassment by another female. Who's to blame? The male dominated tech industry.still I felt the need to get a dig in at them. Not necessarily. Often what happens is that the journalist circulates an early draft to solicit feedback from people in the industry, then substantially rewrites the article and chops out sentences from the feedback to use as quotes. It's entirely possible that what he said in the context he said it was sensible. I've had this happen to me and it's infuriating to see something that was a sensible rebuttal to a fear mongering article turned into a "t… | /r/MensRights | 15/07/14 02:00 PM |
| 10 | Cards Against Humanity creator Max Temkin has been accused of rapeHe was pushing "safe spaces" at PAX because they had a falling out with Penny Arcade over that Dickwolves idiocy. He seems to have come down on the side of "let's switch off our brains and get angry because penises were mentioned" which is how it all kicked off in the first place. | /r/MensRights | 12/07/14 04:03 AM |
| 6 | Anti-body autonomy "feminist" defends child genital surgeryIsn't male circumcision is much less dangerous/invasive than female circumcision? No. Both MGM and FGM are a wide range of practices. Unless you narrow it down and talk about particular types, you can't say that one is more or less harmful than the other. For instance, a ceremonial pinprick to draw a drop of blood is classed as FGM and illegal in many places, yet I doubt you'd consider a pinprick to be less invasive than amputating foreskin. And the spectrum goes in the other direction as well, … | /r/MensRights | 10/07/14 02:47 PM |
| 48 | Teen charged with sexting girlfriend will be forced to get an erection via an injection and be photographed by police for evidenceDo they get a warrant to do it to them against their will? | /r/MensRights | 09/07/14 06:56 PM |
| 3 | 14yo introduces 8yo to sexual conduct. Mother of the 8yo complains to police, who arrest and charge the 8yo.That depends on where you are. I believe in some places, like here in the UK, a teacher who has sex with one of their students who is just over the age of consent can still be charged with statutory rape, precisely because of their position of authority over the other person. | /r/MensRights | 09/07/14 11:21 AM |
| 0 | AVfM lays bare what happened with Doubletree HiltonI was talking about the security donations. And that's the one thing I have repeatedly stated I don't have a problem with people questioning. The only reason I commented in this thread is because the thread was specifically talking about the profits from the ticket sales and not the donations. TR_Rocks wrote: That's why I'm pretty confident in questioning why the ticket price was so high compared to the level of service provided by the venue - and that's not even taking the 30k raised for securi… | /r/MensRights | 07/07/14 08:34 PM |
| -1 | AVfM lays bare what happened with Doubletree HiltonSo you're saying everything is fine because AVFM is essentially a business? No. I'm saying that anything he does with the profits derived from ticket sales is fine. If he's misusing donations earmarked for security, then that's a problem. But we're specifically not talking about that in this thread – TR_Marks was specifically talking about the proceeds from ticket sales. One person with secret records is not accountable. There are lots of different types of business. Only some of them are expect… | /r/MensRights | 07/07/14 08:11 PM |
| 2 | AVfM lays bare what happened with Doubletree Hiltonthreats he knew were bogus No, threats he now thinks were bogus. Present tense. At the time he received the letter, he had no reason to believe that the threats were anything other than genuine. After several interactions with the hotel, he has reached the conclusion that they were probably bogus. Judging his previous actions as if he knew then what he knows now doesn't make sense. (Also, worryingly, this is a mistake I see a hell of a lot from people. Is theory of mind really so lacking in peop… | /r/MensRights | 07/07/14 11:59 AM |
| 4 | AVfM lays bare what happened with Doubletree HiltonMany feminists are convinced that Paul Elam is pocketing some or all of the money. Define "the money". It's perfectly fine for him to pocket some of the money earned from the ticket sales. Most conferences earn money; it's what keeps them in business. Not to mention the fact that it would be insanity to plan a conference aiming to break even exactly – one slip up and you're losing a lot of money. A conference is a business, and successful businesses earn money. If Elam is making money off ticket… | /r/MensRights | 07/07/14 11:52 AM |
| 19 | Action Opportunity: Ask Canadian Arts Councils To Please Stop Funding "Art" Promoting Gender Based Violence Against Boys and MenIt might be more effective to point out the homophobia – it stereotypes lesbians as man-haters. | /r/MensRights | 06/07/14 02:14 PM |
| 2 | http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/26/186-kurdish-students-kidnapped-isis-syriaEvery time something from the Guardian is posted here, you pop up to get your hate on. Previous examples: 1, 2. What is it with you and the Guardian? A load of boys have been kidnapped in a highly gendered crime and the best you can do is turn your nose up at it because the Guardian published it? You should be applauding them for publishing things like this, not berating them. Crimes like this getting more mainstream media attention is a good thing. I can't help but notice that your submission h… | /r/MensRights | 04/07/14 06:52 PM |
| 1 | Does anyone else think there is something wrong with how men and women are required to dress in the workplace?Yes, that's a troll. | /r/MensRights | 04/07/14 08:06 AM |
| 134 | Feminists scream rape at Marvel Comics after Captain America rape scene (Disclaimer: It wasn't rape)it kinda smacks of date rape. she was 14 before. even if she is suddenly now 23 it was inappropriate and gross. Wait… they are complaining that it's rape because the character used to be underage!? Everyone used to be underage! It's how time works! | /r/MensRights | 03/07/14 08:56 PM |
| -5 | Debunking the "when fathers fight for custody, they get it 70% of the time" factoid.It doesn't matter. You are supposed to post the original article not reposts. When this is done with blog articles, it's called blogspam. This is the same, except it's posted to a forum rather than a blog. It's still spammy. | /r/MensRights | 02/07/14 10:40 PM |
| -5 | Debunking the "when fathers fight for custody, they get it 70% of the time" factoid.This is spammy. All it does is copy the original article onto their own forum. The original was already posted here. If you want to re-post it, then re-post it; don't post links to people who have copied the article onto their own site. | /r/MensRights | 02/07/14 09:48 PM |
| 3 | Circumcised men in Nigeria more likely(by a LOT) to have hepatitis BI provided the link to the CDC with the relevant data. You provided links talking about HIV. We are talking about Hepatitis. These are two different diseases. By the way, people who "deal in science, facts and data" don't tend to call people virgins in their arguments, nor do they try to win arguments by suggesting they earn more money than their opponent. Those are not science, facts, nor data. | /r/MensRights | 02/07/14 09:23 PM |
| 1 | Are men's naked bodies the stuff of nightmares? I think notThat's not even remotely a response to what I said. I've already acknowledged that they publish shitty articles. My argument is that they also publish good, pro-men's rights articles. Pointing out a shitty article doesn't rebut that in any way. All you are doing now is trying to change the subject away from the fact that what you are saying is completely contradicted by the facts. You claim that they don't want male readers, but men make up 49% of their readers. | /r/MensRights | 24/06/14 07:53 AM |
| 3 | Just LOL: among their efforts to shut down AVFM conference, anti gender violence advocates write open letter VFW and call veterans wife beaters.No, he didn't. Yes, he did. He wrote an article directing his website readers to donate money to her. | /r/MensRights | 24/06/14 12:29 AM |
| 2 | Are men's naked bodies the stuff of nightmares? I think notThat's bordering on delusional. It's a mainstream newspaper that regularly publishes pro-men's rights articles. They aren't going to throw half their sales away. 49% of their readers are male. I don't know why you are so intent on smearing the Guardian, but you aren't even remotely connected to reality here. The facts clearly prove you wrong. | /r/MensRights | 24/06/14 12:25 AM |
| 2 | Just LOL: among their efforts to shut down AVFM conference, anti gender violence advocates write open letter VFW and call veterans wife beaters.Advertising her fundraiser doesn't make him her employer. oneiorosgripwontstfu didn't say that he was her employer, they said that she was associated with him, which is true. /r/MensRights advertised it too. That's a false equivalence. Futrelle organised fundraising for her. /r/MensRights linked to her. Those aren't even remotely the same thing. | /r/MensRights | 23/06/14 09:34 PM |
| 1 | Just LOL: among their efforts to shut down AVFM conference, anti gender violence advocates write open letter VFW and call veterans wife beaters.contrary to the information above, she clearly stated that she has no association with Futrelle or anyone else. You mean aside from the fact that he's helping her raise funds? | /r/MensRights | 23/06/14 09:14 PM |
| 2 | Are men's naked bodies the stuff of nightmares? I think notYou have maybe 3 or 4 articles over a 2 year period. No, that's what I happened to pull out of an old comment in a few minutes. That's not the sum total of good articles over that period of time. I don't have to exhaustively list every single decent article they've published to show they they have a habit of publishing good articles. I've shown that they publish good, pro-men's rights articles. Life & style Women The women's blog Feminism Women in politics Women in media Women in sport More on w… | /r/MensRights | 23/06/14 07:16 PM |
| 2 | Are men's naked bodies the stuff of nightmares? I think notFor the most part the guardian is pretty firmly entrenched in feminism. Shouldn't we try and praise them when they do something right? They write from a pro-male stance on a regular basis. See my other comment for details. The idea that the Guardian is this awful man-hating paper is bullshit propaganda. Yes, they publish some shitty things. But they also publish some good things. It's not one-sided in the slightest and you shouldn't be surprised when you see something pro-male from them because … | /r/MensRights | 23/06/14 04:44 PM |
| 4 | Are men's naked bodies the stuff of nightmares? I think notThe Guardian always rights from a feminist perspective. This is bullshit. From an earlier comment of mine: Nonsense. If this were true, they wouldn't have published this: The rape of men: the darkest secret of war. Here are some more articles they wouldn't have published if what you said were true: Finally, the government has assented to overhaul parental leave rights, to allow the 12 months leave that was previously restricted to mothers to be split between mothers and fathers according to the … | /r/MensRights | 23/06/14 04:42 PM |
| 0 | Women go crazy for mugshot of violent criminal. I thought men weren't objectified on their appearance?If you go around thinking that everyone who doesn't share your opinion is automatically a troll I don't. There's plenty of people here I strongly disagree with that I don't think are trolls. I think you're a troll because you are a brand new account that reinforces all the worst stereotypes about MRAs. This impression is only strengthened when you go to other parts of Reddit with an MRA-oriented username telling people you're terrified of women. You are indistinguishable from somebody who is del… | /r/MensRights | 23/06/14 09:36 AM |
| 4 | Women go crazy for mugshot of violent criminal. I thought men weren't objectified on their appearance?Oh look, another brand new account wishing violence on a woman. And elsewhere you're arguing for the mass sterilisation of female criminals. I smell troll. | /r/MensRights | 22/06/14 04:35 PM |
| 1 | The #endfathersday hashtag was (mostly) a hoax...this, however is not"the majority of stay-at-home moms are there because of financial hardship" She comes close to hitting the mark and veers away at the last second. In most places, paid parental leave is far better for mothers than fathers. As a society, we're financially rewarding families who choose the traditional gender role of mother as primary caregiver, and financially punishing families who don't. If feminism is about equality and tearing down harmful gender roles, why isn't this feminist demanding that w… | /r/MensRights | 14/06/14 02:01 PM |
| 8 | Harvard pubs study showing women perpetrate more DV, study mysteriously disappearedI'm calling troll on your two day old outlandish conspiracy theory idiot account. | /r/MensRights | 07/06/14 07:54 PM |
| 5 | Harvard pubs study showing women perpetrate more DV, study mysteriously disappearedNo, it's still published in the same place it was originally published. See for yourself. That's not a mirror. That's the original source. | /r/MensRights | 07/06/14 07:26 PM |
| 2 | Harvard pubs study showing women perpetrate more DV, study mysteriously disappearedWhat links? What summary? Are you talking about the abstract? All papers have those. | /r/MensRights | 07/06/14 01:56 PM |
| 2 | Harvard pubs study showing women perpetrate more DV, study mysteriously disappearedThis is slightly different in that apparently the authors did it themselves which kind of makes me a little suspicious, as to who they were aiming their study at. As academics their study should have been conducted and written up, not with a mind to being presented to the general public, but to their academic peers. That's what they did. They published it in a medical journal. Are you under the impression that they wrote the news article as well? I see no reason to assume that. The news article … | /r/MensRights | 07/06/14 01:32 PM |
| 4 | Cosmo gets it. Woman starts mental health campaign on college campuses after her brother commits suicide.I'd hardly say that Cosmo "gets it". They may have mentioned a good cause, but they are hardly allies. | /r/MensRights | 07/06/14 01:16 PM |
| 6 | Harvard pubs study showing women perpetrate more DV, study mysteriously disappearedThis isn't "more studies". That's the same "mysteriously disappeared" study that hasn't been suppressed at all. All that's happened is that a news feed that used to be on a Harvard website is no longer being published. One of the things mentioned in that news feed was this study. The blog author noticed that one of his links had rotted, and jumped to the conclusion that it was a conspiracy. | /r/MensRights | 07/06/14 01:10 PM |
| 45 | Harvard pubs study showing women perpetrate more DV, study mysteriously disappearedThis is pretty clueless. The study was published by the American Public Health Association, not Harvard. Harvard mentioned the study in a news feed of some sort. The blog post's author doesn't seem to understand that the news article is not the study itself. They link to a screenshot of "the study", but it's just a screenshot of the news article. Links rot on the web all the time. It's pretty clear that that entire URL structure is gone, it's not just that particular article that has gone. It lo… | /r/MensRights | 07/06/14 01:07 PM |
| 3 | Freedom of speech? No way! There's a petition on Charge.org to cancel an upcoming Men's Rights conference; they're claiming MRAs are linked to Elliot Rodgers and are demanding the PRIVATELY OWNED hotel cancel the conferenceThe point being made is that this was a newsletter, not part of an official registry. If I remember correctly, it wasn't even written by anybody at the SPLC, it was written by a freelancer. Appearing in the newsletter does not make anybody a "registered hate group". Calling AVfM a "registered hate group" is a lie. As the quote says, they list hate groups at the end of the year. Well, the end of the year came and went. Did AFvM make the list? No, otherwise you'd be linking to that instead of a ne… | /r/MensRights | 04/06/14 12:09 PM |
| 3 | Canadian brewery and venue pull out of supporting Toronto music festival because of the organising group's (CAFE) support for mens rights/issues.See the mod policy: Solicitations for Donations: Solicitations for donations must be done through registered groups, or must be able to prove the legitimacy of the fundraising. If a group wishes to solicit donations on r/MensRights, they must first contact the moderators with some kind of evidence of the legitimacy of the fundraising. However, the moderators do not explicitly support any fundraising attempts, and are not responsible for fraudulent activity. Please report any suspected fraudulent… | /r/MensRights | 30/05/14 06:02 PM |
| 7 | Canadian brewery and venue pull out of supporting Toronto music festival because of the organising group's (CAFE) support for mens rights/issues."I was planning on going to this event in support of Equality Day and the C-560 shared parenthood bill. How come you guys cancelled it?" | /r/MensRights | 30/05/14 05:53 PM |
| 1 | 'So, who's the extremist here?'I wasn't attacking you, I was offering suggestions. | /r/MensRights | 30/05/14 05:17 PM |
| 0 | 'So, who's the extremist here?'Yes that's right, thanks! | /r/MensRights | 30/05/14 03:27 PM |
| 0 | 'So, who's the extremist here?'It's a good article, but I think it spends a little too much time on what other people have said about COTWA and this takes emphasis away from the fact that your concerns are now being voiced by mainstream influential organisations. I would suggest that it would be better as two articles - the first that is really focused on NCHERM and RAINN, and the second that uses that knowledge to illustrate how you and they are on the same page while the people that accuse you of being extremists are actual… | /r/MensRights | 30/05/14 03:23 PM |
| 3 | 'So, who's the extremist here?'With respect, I've seen you post this link a couple of times, and each time, it's been a particularly uninformative headline. "COTWA was right" and "So, who's the extremist here?" don't say anything useful in isolation and they are easy to overlook. Something like "RAINN and NCHERM, two of the leading authorities on sexual assault and college risk, are now voicing the same concerns that we are" would be much more eye-catching. Have you gotten in touch with anybody from these organisations? Some … | /r/MensRights | 30/05/14 03:03 PM |
| 5 | Time magazine's editorial includes a nasty quote from an MRA. One problem: it's not real.TIME magazine specifically said the quote was from Reddit No they didn't. | /r/MensRights | 30/05/14 01:56 PM |
| 1 | Why does Feminist Barbara Ellen at The Guardian condone the sexual assault of schoolboys?the same unfounded accusation can be made the other way 'round No, it can't, because I've already acknowledged that the Guardian publishes plenty of anti-male articles. It's not an unfounded accusation either. I showed you pro-men's rights articles and you discounted them with suspicion without reading them You are quite visibly selecting bad articles and not selecting good ones when forming your opinion of the Guardian. your selection bias makes you see far more pro-male stuff than is actually … | /r/MensRights | 23/05/14 12:08 PM |
| 0 | Why does Feminist Barbara Ellen at The Guardian condone the sexual assault of schoolboys?I linked to the articles and even quoted parts of them. If you are so unwilling to read pro-men's rights articles from the Guardian that you won't even read them when they are handed to you on a platter, of course you're going to see far more anti-male articles than pro-men's rights articles - you've blinded yourself. All you are really doing is demonstrating how selection bias works. | /r/MensRights | 23/05/14 11:41 AM |
| 1 | Why in hell is /Mensrights in the Wikipedia "Controversial SReddits" and not SRS, AgainstMensRights, Picsofdeadkids, ETC?They have doxxed out many people and still to this day use the "Predditors" page in which they dox and expose redditors based on no real facts. Predditors was a flash in the pan that went down almost immediately after getting Reddit's attention. What leads you to believe it's still in use? They accused /MensRights of the Occidental College Rape Form but this isn't true. This subreddit did not participate in that trolling, it was 4chan. In no way we encouraged nor showed in any comment that we we… | /r/MensRights | 23/05/14 11:28 AM |
| 3 | Feminists femsplain to actresses they really are feminists even when they insist they aren't, and then femplain they are dumb and young. So much for actresses or other women being rational, able, compYeah, I've seen this plenty of times. I saw an article just the other day that basically said "Can we call X public figure a feminist even if she doesn't refer to herself as a feminist?" But you guys do it too. I'm not an MRA, I label myself egalitarian. But several people here have insisted that if I care about men's rights, then I'm an MRA. This isn't true, no more so than somebody caring about women's rights makes them a feminist. | /r/MensRights | 22/05/14 09:54 AM |
| 2 | Why does Feminist Barbara Ellen at The Guardian condone the sexual assault of schoolboys?Wow, five -- count 'em, five -- articles That's what I copied out of an old comment in a couple of minutes. There are certainly a lot more where they came from. that supposedly take pro-male stances I said they take pro-men's rights stances, and there's no "supposedly" about it. For instance, are you really claiming that an article about how men are getting raped and NGOs are pressured to only help female victims is not really a pro-men's rights article? You can't accept that it's a genuinely pr… | /r/MensRights | 21/05/14 01:45 PM |
| 1 | Why does Feminist Barbara Ellen at The Guardian condone the sexual assault of schoolboys?The Guardian does remove comments it does not agree with You've moved the goalposts. That wasn't your original claim. Your original claim was: If you ever post anything in the comments section that disagrees with the papers view it is removed. That is false. I showed it to be false, so you reformulated your argument as something quite different and much, much weaker. Also just recently the Guardian reported for weeks on a court case where a man was eventually found innocent of rape and the Guard… | /r/MensRights | 20/05/14 08:42 PM |
| 3 | Why does Feminist Barbara Ellen at The Guardian condone the sexual assault of schoolboys?I am afraid you are wrong on many counts. You haven't actually shown where I am wrong. My argument was essentially that they publish many good and bad articles. Your response was essentially "but they publish bad articles!" You aren't saying anything I haven't already acknowledged. All of the articles that you have highlighted do not compare with the double standard that the Guardian peddles such as by Barbara Ellen. You're right. An award-winning article on the rape of men isn't remotely the sa… | /r/MensRights | 20/05/14 08:38 PM |
| 14 | Why does Feminist Barbara Ellen at The Guardian condone the sexual assault of schoolboys?The Guardian is a feminist paper. It seems to hate men. Nonsense. If this were true, they wouldn't have published this: The rape of men: the darkest secret of war. Here are some more articles they wouldn't have published if what you said were true: Finally, the government has assented to overhaul parental leave rights, to allow the 12 months leave that was previously restricted to mothers to be split between mothers and fathers according to the choices of the family. The Institute of Directors i… | /r/MensRights | 20/05/14 03:30 PM |
| 3 | Does this community say this?It relies on ignoring anything but the most superficial "spending = bad" thought process. If you don't understand how replacing husband/father with government is bad for society If I say that your position depends upon a superficial devotion to financial conservatism, then that is not even remotely the same thing as saying that replacing husband/father with government is not bad for society. You really have to be deeply confused or rhetorically incapable to go from A to B like you just did. Plea… | /r/MensRights | 19/05/14 03:47 PM |
| 3 | Does this community say this?I've gone through it a couple of times with him. The most I've seen out of him is an argument that a) government spending went up when women got the vote and b) this spending will result in the end of civilisation as we know it. It relies on ignoring anything but the most superficial "spending = bad" thought process. The "facts" in question were just showing that women preferred a larger government. Since that goes against the fiscal conservatism that he seems to hold so dear, women's suffrage i… | /r/MensRights | 19/05/14 01:25 PM |
| 1 | NHS set to ban prostate cancer pill Abiraterone because it is not cost effectiveThe retirement age in the UK for women is 5 years before men for example No it isn't. The default retirement age in the UK used to be 65 for both men and women, but it was scrapped entirely. You're probably mixing it up with the state pension age, which used to be 60 for women and 65 for men, but is now being gradually equalised to 66 for everybody by 2020 and will then increase for both genders equally. | /r/MensRights | 15/05/14 08:49 AM |
| 8 | NHS set to ban prostate cancer pill Abiraterone because it is not cost effectiveThe NHS don't have the ability to ban anything. What they are doing is saying that they won't pay for it because it is too expensive. | /r/MensRights | 14/05/14 08:22 PM |
| 2 | More complete barmyness from the UK - Calling teachers "Miss" is now sexist.Because one single person said something silly? Take another look at the article. This is a single person's opinion. She's got no official backing, there is no move to actually change anything in response to her opinion, and there is nobody in support of it mentioned in the article. I don't see how this is somehow a sign that the entire country has a problem. | /r/MensRights | 14/05/14 08:20 PM |
| 3 | Female TV celebrity wins bid to keep sex bullying claims secret. "Because it involves an allegation of sexual misconduct. When it comes to that we don’t name the parties." You mean because it's a womaNot sure if you're from elsewhere in the world, but here in the UK, "paki" has been a racist slur since at least the 80s. | /r/MensRights | 11/05/14 06:41 PM |
| 2 | The plight of male rape victims in UgandaRelated: The rape of men: the darkest secret of war. | /r/MensRights | 07/05/14 10:10 AM |
| 2 | Gender gap in school performance seems to be attributable to unfair evaluation.This appears to be the study: Taking Boys Seriously - A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Male School-Life Experiences in Northern Ireland [PDF]. | /r/MensRights | 07/05/14 10:03 AM |
| 21 | Feminists file false sexual assault report during "sexual assault awareness week" at my campus. No repercussions for false reporter.Where does it say there was no repercussions? It doesn't. It also doesn't say that feminists were involved. OP seems to be making things up. | /r/MensRights | 06/05/14 05:08 PM |
| 2 | Mind boggling level of cencorship over at r/feminismYou aren't shadow banned at the moment. If you were, then your user profile wouldn't be visible. It looks to me like the /r/feminism moderators removed your comment. Subreddit moderators can't shadow ban anybody. | /r/MensRights | 26/04/14 11:45 AM |
| 3 | *re: Feminism* Did huffingpost just argue that rape victims shouldn't report rapes to the police?What you are seeing here is reinforcing the problem discussed in this article: Myths about rape conviction rates are putting people off going to the police. | /r/MensRights | 26/04/14 10:06 AM |
| 2 | Mind boggling level of cencorship over at r/feminismI was almost imedietly shaddow banned. You aren't shadow banned. If you were shadow banned, we wouldn't see this post. Only Reddit admins and Reddit's spam filter can shadow ban you. The /r/feminism moderators can't shadow ban anybody. Do you mean you were banned from /r/feminism? | /r/MensRights | 26/04/14 09:59 AM |
| 1 | Decent idea for an app, article isn't implicitly anti men, but the comments.. whoa. At least there is representation from both sides. Maybe we can help educate some of these people.I built an application similar to this a few years ago for a client. I noticed the marketing and press response were both heavily gendered. Women using it were characterised as needing it for dates. Men either weren't mentioned, or characterised as needing it for lone working. I've seen RFPs before this from other clients for similar applications, and the use cases all resolved around date rape. I don't think this kind of thing would be effective in preventing attacks. It wouldn't alert people i… | /r/MensRights | 23/04/14 01:49 PM |
| 1 | Just a Question to the Redditors HereI'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are being genuine. Look at it from everybody else's perspective. You're using a brand new account that only posts in this subreddit, you're asking questions that are already answered in the FAQ, you seem to be equating "men" with "rich white American men", you seem to have already made your mind up, and you end it all with what appears to be a disingenuous "I want to hear your side of the story". Then you jump into the comments and ac… | /r/MensRights | 23/04/14 01:42 PM |
| 2 | I'm trying to write an essay about the view radical feminism has on rape for my English 100 class.You'll probably be interested in this article: Myths about rape conviction rates are putting people off going to the police. | /r/MensRights | 23/04/14 10:53 AM |
| 3 | Wil Wheaton posts an infographic on Tumblr regarding a survey of this subreddit. Where did this come from? Is it legitimate?There's more information here.. As far as I can tell, you can limit your access substantially, but not enough that there won't be some people uncomfortable with the level of access granted. I would expect it to include subreddits that you're not subscribed to since that's how the RES feature works and I assume it uses that API. | /r/MensRights | 15/04/14 02:09 PM |
| 2 | Wil Wheaton posts an infographic on Tumblr regarding a survey of this subreddit. Where did this come from? Is it legitimate?If I recall correctly, you can get everything you need to do this so long as they authenticate using OAuth. Which means they don't need to supply their username and password, but you will have temporary access to their list of subscribed subreddits, as this is included in the scope you need to access their karma per subreddit. | /r/MensRights | 15/04/14 01:47 PM |
| 12 | Another biased businessinsider article claims /r/mensrights is home to "some of the most sexist men on the web"This is the same "business" website that published this article: Miley Cyrus Making Out Midget Baby Clickbait trash is right. These guys don't even deserve criticism, they deserve the absolute absence of attention. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/14 12:34 PM |
| 5 | Gay MRAs?I'm disappointed of what I perceive to be a lack of non-heterosexual MRAs. 1 in 5 /r/MensRights readers are non-heterosexual. | /r/MensRights | 11/04/14 06:12 PM |
| 3 | Google is rewarding high school teachers who get female students to complete a programming course with up to $2,500 for their classrooms. Male students don't count.I was writing BASIC when I was 8. People have gotten good results from turtle graphics and Python. For instance, Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python is aimed at 10-12 year-olds, and Young Coders at PyCon last year was a great success. For example: “When I was introduced to one of the younger girls, her dad said she wanted to be a game developer,” Richard said of an 8 year old attendee. “She was so excited by the whole thing I asked if it'd be OK if some of the kids came to my pygame tutor… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/14 06:28 PM |
| 3 | Please take this short demographics survey! Let's learn more about who we are here in r/mensrightsYou're not alone: 5.5% of /r/MensRights readers are gay, 10.33% are bisexual, and 3% are another kind of GSRM. Source. | /r/MensRights | 10/04/14 05:58 PM |
| 17 | Google is rewarding high school teachers who get female students to complete a programming course with up to $2,500 for their classrooms. Male students don't count.Girls get made fun of by other girls for learning technical skills on their own. Address this, and you'll address the largest barrier for women in tech. Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them off. | /r/MensRights | 10/04/14 05:54 PM |
| 4 | Google is rewarding high school teachers who get female students to complete a programming course with up to $2,500 for their classrooms. Male students don't count.The best way of getting girls into coding is with gender-neutral programmes at a young age. Singling girls out tends to put them off. 1, 2: Last year, Mulqueeny went on something of a crusade to try and attract more girls into programming, an endeavour she now calls a “fatal error,” for in drawing attention to the issue, she unwittingly made it appear non-mainstream and “scary.” As a result, she lost many of the girls she had. Mulqueeny has since learned that if you leave gender out of it, the g… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/14 02:48 PM |
| 3 | I'm going to submit a letter to my MP (Canada) requesting a ban on infant circumcision. Here's what I have so far.The usual argument for circumcision is that it promotes genital cleanliness; however, it is much more logical to teach our sons proper washing skills than to circumcise them. I'm not sure handing them counter-arguments is sensible. However if you are going to include this, I would suggest saying something like: An intact penis is not unclean simply because is has a foreskin. The cleanliness argument is used to justify FGM too in places where it is practiced and we rightly dismiss that in favour … | /r/MensRights | 10/04/14 02:19 PM |
| 1 | A woman complained that she "couldn't use the weight room because of the men and that's not fair." Now the gym might have women only hours in the weight room.yeah, but it was the historical mixture that caused the issue. There's no "historical mixture". The rules for this have always been crystal clear. What caused the issue was the fact that he's mislabelled it. Even if we'd have been using Unicode all along, this would still be a problem if he was transmitting UTF-8 when it was encoded as UTF-16. The problem is the mislabelling, not the lack of unicode years ago. | /r/MensRights | 06/04/14 11:30 PM |
| 4 | BBC quiz show University Challenge criticised for under-representing women, despite teams being selected meritocraticallyYou joke, but feminists have actually started to attack meritocracy: Why GitHub's CEO Ditched Its Divisive 'Meritocracy' Rug. | /r/MensRights | 06/04/14 10:48 PM |
| 1 | A woman complained that she "couldn't use the weight room because of the men and that's not fair." Now the gym might have women only hours in the weight room.This isn't a historical accident, it's a screwup by whomever maintains that website. The website explicitly declares that the page is encoded as UTF-8 in both the HTTP headers and in the HTML, but it's actually encoded in ISO-8859-1. | /r/MensRights | 06/04/14 10:36 PM |
| 7 | I'm a feminist. AMAWomen do have a lot more rights that they have to fight for than men. Alright, I'll bite, once again. Name all the rights that you think women have to fight for, and I'll name an equal amount of equal importance that men have to fight for. Sound fair? Only 6 months off for maternity leave That's the one you lead with? And you're throwing around the 77% figure while ignoring the explanations of why it's distorted? And you're telling people to "educate yourself" while they are clearly more aware o… | /r/MensRights | 30/03/14 02:57 PM |
| 3 | Hold everything. Something sensible just happened. This must be stopped at once.I've heard varying opinions on the matter. It seems to me that people grew up quicker in some ways but slower in others. I'm not really informed enough to offer a useful opinion myself though. | /r/MensRights | 17/03/14 11:47 PM |
| 3 | Hold everything. Something sensible just happened. This must be stopped at once.the average lifespan was halved 800 years ago. People needed to "grow up" faster. This is a misconception. Typical adult lifespans haven't changed all that much. The average lifespan was lower because infant mortality was much higher, bringing the average down. Excluding infants, people didn't die particularly young. | /r/MensRights | 17/03/14 11:33 PM |
| 1 | An admin's official response to Cowkitty's account banReally? I've only played the iPad version of Mirror's Edge, but I don't remember anything objectionable to feminists. What is she supposed to be fixing? | /r/MensRights | 16/03/14 02:00 PM |
| 2 | An admin's official response to Cowkitty's account banIt's EA. They've got such a long history of doing shitty things everybody should be avoiding them on principle anyway. | /r/MensRights | 16/03/14 01:59 PM |
| 14 | After an afternoon of talking with 'feminists' who say they're simply for equalityThe instructor said that women are pressured to take time off for child care reasons and that is the cause of the 85% work load, but I did get her to admit that the "wage gap" is not men and women being payed different amounts for the same work, but rather that it is men and women being pushed towards different fields and parental roles. Raising paternity leave to match maternity leave and reducing the stigma for men to take time of work and work flexitime for childcare reasons would go some way… | /r/MensRights | 13/03/14 10:22 AM |
| 1 | I was circumcised so tightly that I barely feel any pleasure, and every time I get an erection my penis bleeds and experiences pain. I'm just at a loss that feminists are against the genital integrityThis bill is an example: http://mgmbill.org/ Virtually all major feminist groups came out to attack the people behind this effort. NOW was staunchly opposed, Jezebel wrote an article encouraging opposition to the bill, and feminists were outraged and called the bill "sexist." Do you have a source for this? Google didn't turn up anything informative. | /r/MensRights | 13/03/14 10:16 AM |
| 9 | /againstmensrights is significantly more active lately in linking to us and vote brigading. Be aware and act accordingly.AMR was initially an offshoot of /r/Anarchism, who use the idea that they are under siege from "MRAs" as bogeymen to manipulate people in the same way USA cold war paranoids use "commies". It's a modern day red scare. It dwindled to almost nothing, with Aerik being the only person to submit there regularly for a long time. Then SRS announced their moratorium on /r/MensRights and directed the people who just couldn't let it go to join AMR. So it's true that AMR existed before SRS, but it was almo… | /r/MensRights | 11/03/14 10:01 AM |
| 4 | Show SNL How to Make Actual Jokes with the MRM as a Punch Line.That might be funnier if as soon as it happened, a siren went off and the "MRA police" came in Spanish Inquisition-style to haul her away despite his protests. | /r/MensRights | 10/03/14 03:36 PM |
| 8 | "No one has ever claimed to be an MRA and been a good person. No one." and "wanting equality doesn't make you an MRA; it makes you a feminist"No. He hates MRAs and MRAs hate him. See my comment for details. | /r/MensRights | 08/03/14 09:28 AM |
| 24 | "No one has ever claimed to be an MRA and been a good person. No one." and "wanting equality doesn't make you an MRA; it makes you a feminist"That's an easy one. Roosh isn't an MRA, he's a PUA. He hates MRAs and MRAs hate him. Roosh: “Men’s Rights” Has Become A Euphemism For “Sexual Loser” Roosh: The Men’s Rights Movement Is Dead MRAs: Roosh is an asshole, not an MRA MRAs: these men have nothing more to do with the cause of men’s rights than feminist bloggers or volleyball coaches I would point out that if he thinks Roosh is an arsehole, he's agreeing with something MRAs have been saying for years. | /r/MensRights | 08/03/14 09:27 AM |
| 2 | In response to a petition from /r/MensRights, Goshen College removes apparently discriminatory page "and are assessing improved resources for our students to help them reduce sexual violence against aA footballer was cleared of rape. An MRA decided the Guardian wasn't being quick enough publishing an article about it, and started haranguing reporters over Twitter. The Guardian gets round to reporting the verdict, the MRA claims it as a huge success. Thread. | /r/MensRights | 07/03/14 03:17 PM |
| 5 | Feminist Guardian newspaper extensively covers rape allegations against Nile Ranger, then fails to print a single word about his acquittal. Please submit a complaint.At no point did i criticise the Guardian for failing to update old articles Bullshit. You made it quite clear that the old articles not mentioning the verdict was a problem: So that's five articles about the case, none of which tell us that he was cleared by the jury of all allegations in less than an hour! You should expect old articles to not mention new developments. That's the norm, yet you are attacking the Guardian for it when all the newspapers do the same thing. the concern is the existe… | /r/MensRights | 07/03/14 12:42 PM |
| -4 | Feminist Guardian newspaper extensively covers rape allegations against Nile Ranger, then fails to print a single word about his acquittal. Please submit a complaint.First off: you've completely ignored my main point. You criticise The Guardian for not updating old articles, but this is the norm for all newspapers for all subjects. You are holding The Guardian to a higher standard than any other newspaper, and it's a standard that doesn't make any sense. Why do you expect The Guardian to go back and update old articles with the verdict? Other newspapers don't do this. Why aren't you demanding the same from the BBC or the Daily Mail? That article just appear … | /r/MensRights | 06/03/14 04:24 PM |
| -5 | Feminist Guardian newspaper extensively covers rape allegations against Nile Ranger, then fails to print a single word about his acquittal. Please submit a complaint.So that's five articles about the case, none of which tell us that he was cleared by the jury of all allegations in less than an hour! That's five old articles. It's not common for new developments to be added to old articles. The outcome of a court case is not a correction and a news article is not a wiki page that is constantly updated. An article that was published last year about somebody being charged with something is just as accurate today as it was when it was first published. He was cha… | /r/MensRights | 06/03/14 03:38 PM |
| 2 | The Southern Poverty Law Center has accepted a large donation from an infamous radfemIt's actually a saying that's a couple of thousand years old. See Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? for details. | /r/MensRights | 04/03/14 11:33 AM |
| 4 | Never forget the AMAmo. The day a top rated AMA was removed simply for being done by an MRA. Today is the one year anniversary.That's a Manhood Academy spammer. They spam links to shitty misogynistic crap, get banned, whine about censorship while calling people faggots, then register a new account to keep spamming. They've been spamming Reddit for years and they've been banned from this subreddit hundreds of times. | /r/MensRights | 03/03/14 09:51 AM |
| 1 | Feminist journalist: "I can almost imagine MRAs desperately willing for more men to get raped so they can instrumentalise them."I think we should start asking feminists how much evidence they would need. I've already been down that path several times. If you manage to get them to admit that actually, an awful lot of men are raped, they switch to "yes, but it's men that are raping men! The patriarchy hurts men too!". | /r/MensRights | 08/02/14 05:04 PM |
| 2 | Feminist journalist: "I can almost imagine MRAs desperately willing for more men to get raped so they can instrumentalise them."It's not even shared by all radical feminists. Lots of radical feminists hate TERFs. They are extremists amongst extremists. | /r/MensRights | 08/02/14 05:02 PM |
| 2 | Feminist journalist: "I can almost imagine MRAs desperately willing for more men to get raped so they can instrumentalise them."That's expected. TERFs believe that trans women are men. Therefore any feminist that doesn't agree with their hatred of trans women are "MRAs", where the "Men" in that acronym refers to trans women. | /r/MensRights | 08/02/14 04:59 PM |
| 3 | Feminist journalist: "I can almost imagine MRAs desperately willing for more men to get raped so they can instrumentalise them."It's actually reached the point where their distorted rape conviction statistics are discouraging women from reporting rape to the police. | /r/MensRights | 08/02/14 04:54 PM |
| 5 | Longtime hacker Susan Sons tired of feminist meddling in tech circles, 'Do not punish the men simply for being here. "Male privilege" is a way to say "you are guilty because you don't have boobs, feelDozens of my female colleagues in undergrad were pushed through four years of hell in a STEM degree only to realize they absolutely hated it. I've got a fair number of female friends who have computer science or related degrees. Almost all of them graduated and went on to work in entirely unrelated industries. A lot of them hate programming. For some of them, when they applied for university, their friends and families were surprised they would take computer science courses because they hadn't s… | /r/MensRights | 07/02/14 08:50 AM |
| 8 | Longtime hacker Susan Sons tired of feminist meddling in tech circles, 'Do not punish the men simply for being here. "Male privilege" is a way to say "you are guilty because you don't have boobs, feelI've hired female developers. It's not a significant risk, you're falling prey to misleading vividness. Women who act like Adria Richards are a minority and essentially non-existent among people who can do the job well. There are just a handful of them who get all the attention online and their supporters are mostly people from outside the industry. Hire people who know what they are doing and take pride in their work and you won't have problems with them. Hire substandard, self-serving workers … | /r/MensRights | 07/02/14 08:10 AM |
| 11 | Sex offender fights registry by registering his registerersYou don't have to be on his side to think the article has relevance to men's rights. The article raises several important questions. Are sex offender lists punitive? Are they free speech? The ACLU is backing him - what does this mean for the future of sex offender lists? | /r/MensRights | 24/01/14 02:35 PM |
| 10 | Denmark may soon be the first country in the world to issue a ban on non-therapeutic circumcisionGermany didn't ban circumcision per se. If I remember correctly, some parents accused their doctor of bodily harm when he circumcised their child, and the judge agreed that it met the definition of bodily harm as described by law. There was a lot of hand-wringing about anti-semitism, and the German government passed a law exempting circumcision from being classed as bodily harm. So basically it was against the law, but the government viewed it as an unintended consequence rather than an intended… | /r/MensRights | 24/01/14 02:22 PM |
| 5 | Sorry men, you are USELESSHow can you say that? This was a super scientific survey done by a hot sauce company and the article was so well written that all of the Daily Mail reporters were too modest to put their name to it, instead publishing it under the moniker "Daily Mail Reporters". If that's not a sign of quality journalism, I don't know what is! | /r/MensRights | 15/01/14 11:42 AM |
| 19 | Feminist police boss excuses women who shoplift and says it's because of welfare cutsTypical Daily Mail garbage. It's part of her job to look at the causes for crime, and she specifically said that she wasn't excusing anything. Understanding the reasons why somebody might commit a crime is the first step towards preventing it from being committed. I've seen MRAs point out that a very high proportion of male rapists were abused by women when they were children and this may be a causative factor. What would you think of a feminist that declared that it's just an attempt to excuse … | /r/MensRights | 12/01/14 10:03 PM |
| 2 | [Serious Question] Is this movement polluted with misogyny, or are the extremists just sticking out?And my point was not that the wage gap discussion is misogynistic, but that that is the focus rather than correcting some of the shit that men face. The misleading beliefs about the wage gap is some of the shit that men face. Look at Wimbledon for an example. Men have to play 5 sets, women have to play 3 sets. This was reflected in the prize money, where men won more than women. Then people tried to address the "wage gap", and they made the prize money for women the same as the prize money for m… | /r/MensRights | 11/01/14 09:06 AM |
| 2 | ELI5: Why do [most] MRAs on here dislike circumcision? Honest questionIf you can't understand what the big deal is, I'm guessing you are circumcised and think of removing the foreskin as something akin to getting your nails trimmed. This is not even remotely the case. The foreskin is a very sensitive part of the body, and one of its roles is to protect the glans, which is even more sensitive. It's like getting your eyelids torn off. And people do this to babies, where they don't have a choice and can't even use effective anaesthetics. | /r/MensRights | 11/01/14 08:54 AM |
| 4 | A new subreddit for those who are brave enough to actually express their opinions concerning male oppression.Troll subreddit. From the sidebar: Anyone can post because of freedom of speech, but females and pussies will be harassed without exception. No links or stats from any government agency (e.g. cdc.gov) or peer reviewed scientific journal. If you link to one of these you will be warned, unless it is a psychology journal, in which case you will be banned immediately. No articles written by women can be linked to in a post or comment, these comments and posts will be deleted and repeat offenders wil… | /r/MensRights | 11/01/14 08:45 AM |
| 3 | I have been down-voted and called out, for speaking out against the "all men are rapists" mindset.From the sidebar: Links to other subreddits must use NP format ("np" in place of "www"). Cross linking to submissions from other subreddits with fewer than 30,000 members within the first 24 hours is prohibited. | /r/MensRights | 10/01/14 06:46 PM |
| 3 | Had a thought, didn't really know where else to put it for discussion.Yep, I've seen the same. I've also heard that bisexual people get a fair amount of slut shaming from gay people, but I haven't witnessed that myself. | /r/MensRights | 08/01/14 09:51 AM |
| 1 | American woman's rights talk show host openly laughs at a man for getting raped over 3 days on her facebook page. Saying he can't be hurt by itFrom the sidebar: Facebook posts must be done w/ screenshot & blanked names. | /r/MensRights | 07/01/14 03:16 PM |
| 2 | Employers looking at social media profiles when hiring are biased in favour of white people and women.Exactly. Trying to do everything yourself is the sign of somebody who hasn't settled into a managerial role yet. It's a mistake most people make, but you have to train yourself out of it if you want to be good at your job. When something requires your expertise, do it. When it's a task you can delegate to somebody else who is less busy / cheaper, do that instead. Don't try to do everything yourself, or you'll bottleneck your business while leaving people who could help twiddling their thumbs. | /r/MensRights | 07/01/14 09:05 AM |
| 3 | Talk to me about the Southern Poverty Law CenterCheck the link I just edited into my last comment. It's probably the most relevant, as it shows the issue has been raised with them and they didn't do anything about it. The Change.org petition I linked to earlier was addressed to the SPLC as well, as as far as I am aware, they ignored that too. | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 08:33 PM |
| 3 | Employers looking at social media profiles when hiring are biased in favour of white people and women.Of course your people are a vitally important resource. And if you waste a technical director's time on running around chasing up info from job candidates, you're mismanaging that resource. This is what HR are for. I can't believe you've got any experience with these matters if you are so unfamiliar with the concept of delegation. | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 08:25 PM |
| 3 | Talk to me about the Southern Poverty Law CenterIf he's trans supportive, then you should probably show him The TERFs, where examples of her extreme hatred are littered throughout the site, or this article that summarises her behaviour and links to several other sources. There aren't many people out there that are so obsessively, unforgivably, dangerously hateful, yet she gets a pass from the SPLC because she told them she didn't hate men. Edit: And it's not like they haven't been aware of the issue. They just stonewall. | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 08:09 PM |
| 5 | Employers looking at social media profiles when hiring are biased in favour of white people and women.My comment makes more sense if you read all of it instead of skipping parts of sentences. No, the HR department doesn't write the requirements that get put in the job descriptions. I explicitly said I describe the requirements. You even quoted the sentence I said it in - you just skipped that part of the sentence. | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 07:53 PM |
| 2 | Employers looking at social media profiles when hiring are biased in favour of white people and women.That's what this submission is about. Some businesses do that, but it doesn't improve the quality of their hires. It just makes them more likely to hire white people and women. | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 07:32 PM |
| 8 | Employers looking at social media profiles when hiring are biased in favour of white people and women.HR departments are like most other departments - you can get really shitty ones, and you can get decent ones. I know a fair number of people who work in HR departments, and they will be the first to admit that a lot of the work they do is stupid bullshit. Unfortunately, it's necessary stupid bullshit because they have to deal with a lot of people, and a lot of people are dumb. And of course in countries with decent worker rights, there's a fair amount of regulation and best practices you need to… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 05:58 PM |
| 7 | Talk to me about the Southern Poverty Law CenterIn addition to what people have already mentioned, when the MRM reacted to the article, one of the things that was brought up was what about the radfems that support you? The SPLC published this response, which basically asked one of them - Cathy Brennan - "Do you hate men" and took her denial as gospel. This is the same Cathy Brennan that heads Gender Identity Watch, a group thousands of people asked the SPLC to designate a hate group. This is the same Cathy Brennan that ran RadFem Hub, a site … | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 01:03 PM |
| 7 | Talk to me about the Southern Poverty Law CenterA little more background information: a month before "Misogyny: The Sites" was published, prominent SRSer littletiger told people in SRS she knew somebody who worked at the SPLC and was going to talk to them about publishing something on MRAs. A month goes by, this article was published, SRSers started telling everybody the MRM was a hate group, and SRSers were congratulating littletiger on a job well done. A short while after that, somebody noticed that littletiger seemed to be responsible for … | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 12:36 PM |
| 5 | Any gay MRA's out there?Unless you list the issues you care about, specifically the ones "much of the MRA community is quite toxic" about, I'm labelling you a concern troll. Your attitude right there in that sentence is toxic. Your default assumption is that anybody criticising the MRM is a troll unless they prove their innocence. It's ridiculous and counter-productive. There's a lot to criticise about the MRM. If you direct hate at everybody who has a complaint, you're alienating almost everybody. That's not the way t… | /r/MensRights | 04/01/14 01:45 PM |
| 3 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.Fogg speaks up for men, until it conflicts with feminism. Once more, go read the article in question. It directly disproves you: The single most common reaction to International Men’s Day among my friends on the political left is always some variation on “I thought every day was International Men’s Day?’ Some try to make it about the problems men cause women while others press the pedal for full-blown mockery and derision. Surely they realise that such swipes barely tickle at the men in designer… | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 09:05 PM |
| 2 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.It's interesting if that submission was posted on the same day. It was, check the timestamps. Men, especially teenage boys, are embarrassed about many aspects of sex and why shouldn't they ask here? Because its not a men's rights issue. You can't tell any more because it appears to have been removed by a moderator, but after the poster realised their mistake, they edited the post and expressed embarrassment. They didn't think it belonged here either. We (men) need to offer each other a lot more … | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 08:43 PM |
| 4 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.Why you looking to make this a fight. You came out swinging and you're wondering why it's a fight? Why does me not liking a newspaper bother you so much. Read my comment again. You not liking the Guardian is absolutely fine. It's when you describe it as a "feminist hate blog" that you become a liar or delusional. No reasonable person would arrive at that conclusion from looking at what they publish. Saying stuff like that just makes you, and by extension this community, look utterly disconnected… | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 08:12 PM |
| 2 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.If somebody attacks him out of the blue, he's probably going to wonder who that person is and look at their website. If he did so, he would have seen somebody asking for help wanking. Which looks pretty ridiculous for a men's rights forum. So he made a snarky response referring to it. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 08:07 PM |
| 4 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.Why would this be unfair? Because generally speaking, the rich and powerful often become rich and powerful by having rich and powerful parents, not because they earned it. We do not live in a meritocracy and the demographics of the top rungs of society do not reflect who would deserve to be there in a more equal society. While a lot of the men at the top of society have earned their place, others got there because it was easier for them to get there than for everybody else to get there because t… | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 07:56 PM |
| 2 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.Similarly, in the piece you referenced, he took the opportunity to be abusive in defense of feminism. Not even close. Go read the article in question. The sentence @mensrightsrdt took issue with was taken out of context. It was pushing an MRM viewpoint - the apex fallacy, and the very next paragraph attacked the typical feminist reaction to International Men's Day. Yeah, he mentioned that men were overrepresented at the top of society - you can't describe the apex fallacy without mentioning the … | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 07:49 PM |
| 1 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.I just searched AVfM for articles mentioning the Guardian and Fogg. There's little in the way of commentary in the articles about the Guardian, but when there is, it's typically negative. The comments are strongly against it. As far as I can see, Dean Esmay and Glen Poole like Fogg, and the rest of AVfM loathes him. I'd say that article is fairly representative of AVfM's general demeanour towards the Guardian and Fogg, although I'll admit that Elly Tams is probably a focal point for the hate. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 07:32 PM |
| 5 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.Context: He was arguing with @mensrightsrdt whose name they have as "mensrights reddits" and who links to this subreddit in their profile. I'm guessing when they started attacking him, he visited this subreddit and saw this submission asking for help wanking, which was posted earlier that day. I saw that post while it was up too, they meant to post it to /r/sex and it did look ridiculous here. Or maybe he reads this subreddit and saw it before the argument. He does post a lot of stuff about the … | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 07:13 PM |
| 4 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.One article amount many opposing. Doesn't matter for the purpose of this specific discussion. You said: It's a trash rag, a glorified feminist hate blog to spout lies from. Then what the hell is it doing publishing award-winning articles about the problems men face, including describing the pressure to only help women that some aid workers face? You've only got two options here. You can admit that you completely mischaracterised it or you can look like you are completely out of touch with realit… | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 06:43 PM |
| 3 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.It won a couple of awards, and rightly so. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 06:22 PM |
| 8 | Men’s Rights Activists target sexual assault victim advocate with false rape ‘accuse-a-thon’there's an overlap between roosvh/the red pill/pua types and men's rights activists Here's what Roosh thinks of the MRM: The Men’s Rights Movement Is Dead “Men’s Rights” Has Become A Euphemism For “Sexual Loser” | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 06:08 PM |
| 3 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.TweetPoster posted it as a comment here. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 05:59 PM |
| 2 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.TweetPoster posted it as a comment here. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 05:57 PM |
| 2 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.Ah, AVfM has declared him and the Guardian as enemies. That suddenly explains a lot of the behaviour I've been seeing. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 05:56 PM |
| 6 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.Please, read this article: The Rape of Man. If you think it's "a trash rag, a glorified feminist hate blog" after reading that, you're goddamn delusional. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 05:38 PM |
| 7 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.I judged the work I saw. No you didn't. You went quote mining. The sentence you took issue with: men … still unfairly occupy the highest and most powerful platforms Now let's put that in context: This toxic culture of silence is not a product of chromosomes, testosterone or genes. Instead this traditional male stoicism is conditioned into us, sometimes literally beaten into us, from the day we are born. Boys don’t cry, we are told. Man up, be a man, take it like a man. The mental health charity … | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 05:35 PM |
| 5 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.From what I've seen, he publishes article after article in mainstream media highlighting MRM issues as things the public should be caring about. My other comment in this thread linked to several of them. One of them contradicts what you claim about him: he supports feminism and repeats lies like the wage gap and that all/almost all abuse is purpertrated by men From Need knows no gender, the article he wrote lauding an MRA as an inspiration (emphasis mine): As in most countries, Canadian men make… | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 05:27 PM |
| 9 | One of Britain's best pro-male journalists is being subjected to unprovoked libellous abuse from radfems on Twitter.As far as I've seen, Ally Fogg is a bit of a mixed bag. Sure, he's feminist-friendly, but he's also published a lot of things that are MRM-friendly too. He even published a piece on Earl Silverman calling him an inspiration and referring to his death as a tragedy. If you are describing him as nothing but "a feminist shill", then that's not accurate. People who are enemies of the MRM don't publish articles calling MRAs heroes. For instance, this is what I found in ten minutes: Finally, the govern… | /r/MensRights | 03/01/14 05:20 PM |
| 3 | 22 year marriage coming to a hostile endI'm sorry for your loss. Despite your family's reaction, you did the right thing by your mother and you didn't deserve this. If you had caved to your wife and spent less time with your mother, you would end up regretting it. You probably wouldn't have had a happy ending with your wife in any case if this is the way she treats you when you need her most. As far as your next steps are concerned, you must get legal advice as soon as you can. | /r/MensRights | 02/01/14 10:59 AM |
| 5 | Fallout: losing face after its dishonest criticism of AVFMS, the SPLC resorts to mass censorship, deleting over 100 comments by men's advocates. The hateful, childish, and trolling comments of their supporters were not deleted.Based on your observations, what is the nature of the close association you speak of? Well you've published things for AVfM, then you set up AVfMS. Is it not an offshoot of AVfM using the same brand, only catering to a specific subgroup? Also, how close would you say is too close? Modelling your site on AVfM. They use several tactics that make me and a lot of other people lose all respect for them. So far, I haven't seen anything from you that exhibits the same dirty tactics the main AVfM site u… | /r/MensRights | 31/12/13 11:50 AM |
| 3 | Fallout: losing face after its dishonest criticism of AVFMS, the SPLC resorts to mass censorship, deleting over 100 comments by men's advocates. The hateful, childish, and trolling comments of their supporters were not deleted.It's a shame that you as so closely associated with AVfM. I've only read a couple of your articles, but they are well written and don't alienate readers who aren't already in agreement. It's basically the opposite of what I expect from AVfM. | /r/MensRights | 31/12/13 08:35 AM |
| 3 | A possible partner group for the MRM?No. The Independent Women's Forum is on a mission to expand the conservative coalition, both by increasing the number of women who understand and value the benefits of limited government, personal liberty, and free markets, and by countering those who seek to ever-expand government in the name of protecting women This isn't about gender rights, this is about using a set of talking points that appeal to a certain demographic to push a particular political viewpoint in American politics. They've g… | /r/MensRights | 23/12/13 04:26 PM |
| 5 | Call for helpConvincing a 14 year old to send him naked pictures is one step short of convincing her to have sex with him. The fact that his marriage was failing and that he has Asperger's are not defences to this, they are excuses. 10 years doesn't seem unreasonable for somebody on the verge of statutory rape, and he agreed to it when he made the plea bargain. If I were you, I would accept that your friend committed a serious crime and was close to committing a much more serious crime, and that he now needs… | /r/MensRights | 23/12/13 01:58 AM |
| 1 | Domestic abuse[uk]: half a million victims 'too terrified to come forward'[No Men mentioned-UK Guardian again]The Guardian has two or three anti male articles every single day - yes, every day. I'm sure that's true if this is what you class as "an anti-male article". As a regular readier of the Guardian, and other UK publications, I have posted many measured polite comments and had dozens of them removed. I have been put on pre-mod status twice as a result. For a period of three months this year every single post I made to ANY of these articles was immediately and automatically modd'ed. I have never pos… | /r/MensRights | 22/12/13 11:49 PM |
| 1 | Domestic abuse[uk]: half a million victims 'too terrified to come forward'[No Men mentioned-UK Guardian again]Welcome to the world of the UK Guardian Newspaper. That would be the same Guardian that published The Rape of Men? The Guardian publishes world-class, award-winning men's rights articles that are well-sourced, compelling to non-MRAs, and highlight the intentional exclusion of male victims by aid organisations because of their bias toward female victims. If you write them off because an article dared to use gender-neutral language and used two examples of female victims, you're doing the MRM a di… | /r/MensRights | 22/12/13 11:08 PM |
| 5 | Are you a dog person? Then you're a misogynist! (Trigger warning: Marcotte)Well, I think I have a theory, and yes, it’s sexism. When all you have is feminism, everything looks like sexism. | /r/MensRights | 22/12/13 10:47 PM |
| 7 | Feminist Software Foundation gets grumpy with GitHub … or does it? • The RegisterIt's satirising postmodern discourse of the type discussed in this article. It does sound like a nonsense straw man, but it is a real thing in some feminist academic circles. | /r/MensRights | 19/12/13 01:59 PM |
| 5 | Feminist Software Foundation gets grumpy with GitHub … or does it? • The RegisterWhether the Feminist Software Foundation and C+= are a gag or not is hard to say. It's not hard to say. It's an obvious spoof. But "4chan creates a joke repo on GitHub" isn't much of a story to write about, is it? So the person writing for the Register has just inserted some false controversy to make it seem like a legitimate story. If you want to check out an actual feminist attempt at creating a language, check out Láadan. It's a conlang rather than a programming language, but it's not just a … | /r/MensRights | 19/12/13 01:55 PM |
| 10 | this needs to be read.First of all: terrible submission title. That alone is enough for a down vote. Everything here is posted because somebody thinks it should be read. Your title is completely and utterly uninformative. The reference at the end to religion is fitting. I've read similar articles in the past. This article is akin to the things "ex-atheists" write after they return to their faith, describing themselves as just being "angry at God". It's self-serving fiction. Likewise with this. He only parroted MRA ta… | /r/MensRights | 19/12/13 12:32 PM |
| 1 | MRA supports domestic violence?Essentially, she's accusing MRAs of making the Not All MRAs Are Like That argument while advocating for feminism. It shouldn't be difficult to use NAFALT to demonstrate her double standard. | /r/MensRights | 19/12/13 11:39 AM |
| 5 | Feminist cenorship at it's finest./r/lgbt was taken over by SRS types a while back. The decent members of the community founded /r/ainbow as an alternative. If you've got a problem with /r/lgbt because of things like that, you should be fine with /r/ainbow. | /r/MensRights | 19/12/13 11:36 AM |
| 6 | Trans* MRAsI was told this movement was only for cis-men. By whom? | /r/MensRights | 19/12/13 11:33 AM |
| 10 | The DailyMail reports that a female teacher RAPED (not "had sexual relations with") her student!!!Unprecedented. Here's the link to the story on Google News. Every single one of the news sources refers to it as rape, probably because that was what she ended up being charged with. The Daily Mail is doing nothing "unprecedented" here, all they've done is manage to get the charge right, just the same as every other source. The HuffPo article was written when she was first arrested back in October, before the investigation was concluded and before she was charged with rape. | /r/MensRights | 18/12/13 11:13 PM |
| 2 | (x-post from /r/offmychest) A vent to my old friends at /r/MensRights, and why we can't be friends anymore.Fox does the same sort of stuff all the time , so does MSNBC I don't believe they do, not to anywhere near the same extent the Daily Mail does. They are certainly biased and have a political agenda to push, but that is something separate to outright fabrication of news stories, especially fabricating news stories to pursue vendettas against individuals. Fox News is fairly famous for winning a court case where it was acceptable for them to lie. They are famous for this because it's exceptional. F… | /r/MensRights | 18/12/13 11:32 AM |
| 8 | (x-post from /r/offmychest) A vent to my old friends at /r/MensRights, and why we can't be friends anymore.To call something a tabloid implies that the stories are unambiguously false, that a person sat down and simply made them up out of thin air, that they have no basis in fact whatsoever. The Daily Mail does do this. Not for every story, but it's certainly a pattern. For example: Clear evidence that Daily Mail planned to use invented eyewitness accounts The EC repeatedly complains that he Mail edits their letters to distort them. They clearly sensationalised a story about a door opening on a plane… | /r/MensRights | 18/12/13 10:45 AM |
| 9 | With regards to Occidental College's "rape report form"I'm definitely angry. Knee-jerking, however, not so much. All evidence points to MRAs either flooding the report or advocating for the flooding of the report. I'm not talking about your reaction to what happened, I'm talking to your reply to me. I think this was a fuckup. I think this subreddit screwed up. I think this was handled badly by the moderators here. I think this was handled badly by this community en masse. I'm on your side. I was agreeing with you. I left a comment which essentially … | /r/MensRights | 18/12/13 12:13 AM |
| 6 | With regards to Occidental College's "rape report form"1,2, and 3 are just observations about the flaws in the system, not calls. 1: "I'd like to see..." 2: "I'm actually sorely tempted..." 3: "The quickest way to shut this one down is to anonymously report random women and let them sweat in the hot seat. This will be over before it begins." 4,5,6 are obviously meant to be tongue-in-cheek jokes 4: Steps to shut down a form this subreddit is attacking. 5: "Filling this out is fun!" 6: "Let's get submitting boys?" Even if I lend the most favourable in… | /r/MensRights | 18/12/13 12:00 AM |
| 14 | With regards to Occidental College's "rape report form"You know how you just made a comment complaining about angry knee-jerking? You are doing that very thing right now. Read my comment again. I didn't say no false claims were made. In fact, I quite specifically hedged and I even explained how false claims could have been made and not yet show up on record. Let's assume your argument is correct. How is this better in any significant way? My whole point was that it isn't better for the MRM, that the MRA response to this is going to damage the MRM's … | /r/MensRights | 17/12/13 11:51 PM |
| 10 | With regards to Occidental College's "rape report form"If nobody made any reports, who are you telling to "engage your brain"? The people calling for it to be done, and the people who voted them up. I have heard several people say /b/ were the ones who popularized it, if anyone abused that function, it was more likely just them. That's wishful thinking and nobody would believe it even if it were true. no one was actually legitimately calling on people here to do such a thing. 1 2 3 4 5 6 | /r/MensRights | 17/12/13 11:46 PM |
| 14 | With regards to Occidental College's "rape report form"But some people are claiming that it violates the Reddit TOS. It is not clear to me that it does, and I have not removed the article yet. It doesn't really matter if it violates Reddit's TOS. Anybody could see this shitstorm coming from a mile off and predict it would end badly for this subreddit and the MRM in general. If you saw it and left it up, you had a chance to stop this from blowing up in the MRM's face and you blew it. I know you are keen to keep the moderation to the minimum, but this… | /r/MensRights | 17/12/13 11:40 PM |
| 9 | With regards to Occidental College's "rape report form"Their daily crime log doesn't show any reports. As far as anybody can ascertain yet, nobody has actually made a false report. However it may simply be the case that they have yet to update the log, or that they realise that something has happened and have omitted reports. Either way, it doesn't matter. Even if no false reports are ever made, the factoid that the MRM made a bunch of false rape complaints is still going to be spread far and wide and believed by a lot of people. Good job fucking th… | /r/MensRights | 17/12/13 11:33 PM |
| 30 | Man speaking to feminists at an athiesm event asks them not to 'silence' critics, especially men. Feminists respond by getting up a petition against him, successfully demanding an apology, demanding his resignation & then denying they've ever 'silenced' anyone. Facepalm.When their GitHub account was closed, they moved it to BitBucket and added the following: Now hosted on BitBucket, as GitHub proves to be too misogynistic to support a feminist programming language. | /r/MensRights | 16/12/13 09:41 PM |
| 2 | Transmen & MRMTa! | /r/MensRights | 16/12/13 09:37 PM |
| 18 | Where does the misandry and sexism that is deeply ingrained in modern feminism come from?Movements dedicated to one particular group of people inherently attract chauvinists. If there's a movement that aims to benefit women, then women who hate men are naturally going to be attracted to it. To my understanding, female suffrage and rights had little to do with hating men and developing discriminatory attitudes against men. In theory, no. In practice, yes, that undercurrent of stepping on men to privilege women has always been there, right from day one. 70% of women survived the Titan… | /r/MensRights | 16/12/13 09:36 PM |
| 16 | Transmen & MRMThe MRM is fairly accepting of trans men. Previous threads: Hey, MensRights! How do you feel about transgender men? Trans issues are part of men's rights As the mod of mensrights, I openly argue for the rights of anyone 'who presently has, used to have, or desires to have a penis.' | /r/MensRights | 16/12/13 03:40 AM |
| 2 | What do you think of this video from feminist Rebecca Watson? 4 minutes in, the man makes it clear he's uncomfortable using only a condom for birth control and asks if she's on the pill. For this, she viciously shames and humiliates him.Shadowbanning is another possibility. If it's a new account and all of their comments have been removed by moderators, it's likely the automatic spam filter kicked in and shadow banned them. I would assume that you would be unable to view the comment replies in that case. | /r/MensRights | 16/12/13 01:15 AM |
| 6 | What do you think of this video from feminist Rebecca Watson? 4 minutes in, the man makes it clear he's uncomfortable using only a condom for birth control and asks if she's on the pill. For this, she viciously shames and humiliates him.Ironic that he comes here to complain about MRAs being afraid to debate, and then promptly deletes anything that draws criticism. Manhood Academy have been spamming their crap in here for years. I would assume that it's the moderators who are removing their comments. | /r/MensRights | 16/12/13 12:58 AM |
| 9 | The feminism club at my school is hosting a discussion on sexism against males. I'd like to bring some strong examples, preferably very reliable statistics. Anyone have any ideas?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermesmann_v._Seyer[1] State ex rel. Hermesmann v. Seyer 847 P.2d 1273 (Kan. 1993) Oh look, yet another attempt at deleting MRM-related Wikipedia pages by an SRSer. The same user that was the subject of this submission about SRS Wikipedia vandalism. You can see that this person makes a habit out of editing MRM-related material, for instance, to remove details that cast the feminist protesters at the University of Toronto in a bad light and to add details to the /r/Me… | /r/MensRights | 10/12/13 06:54 PM |
| 1 | [x-post: femradebates] Feminism Does Good Stuff... NAFALT!!!In a recent post someone asked a question as to why feminists are able to generalize the good things done in Feminism name to all of feminism and are not called out on it. I apologize I don't remember who asked this question or where it was if you respond to this post with a link to it I will edit it in to this post Are you thinking of this thread? | /r/MensRights | 08/12/13 10:14 AM |
| 3 | "How to date a feminist". Read the comments - the facade is is crumbling.Note how the author begins with "Feminism Is Not A Monolith" (true, at least by Pol Sci/Philosophy department standards) and then proceeds to answer the questions as if she were a representative of all feminists! This is something that I picked up on a long time ago, and once you are aware of it, you'll spot it in a hell of a lot of arguments. If something shows feminism in a bad light, then feminism is not a monolith and it's not representative of feminism in general. But if something shows fem… | /r/MensRights | 06/12/13 02:50 AM |
| 1 | Can I encourage all MRAs to spend a little time helping men in crisis at r/suicidewatch?this isn't an egalitarian group I seem to recall that when the last survey was done, more people here identified as egalitarian than MRA. | /r/MensRights | 30/11/13 03:51 PM |
| 0 | A divorced New York father is suing his ex-wife for Twitter stock worth up to $50 million he claims she hid from him during their marriage - while making him pay $2,465 a month in child-support payments even though he was broke.Eh, condemned by the Guardian. An outlet I have zero respect for due to its inherent misandry. It doesn't really matter if you respect the Guardian, the fact remains that the Daily Mail makes up stories. Also, words like "inherent" have particular meanings. They don't just mean "very". Even if you think the Guardian is misandric, it certainly isn't inherently misandric. Even the staunchest critic of the Guardian wouldn't say that, if he were honest. It's just not a supportable claim. This is the… | /r/MensRights | 28/11/13 11:21 PM |
| 0 | A divorced New York father is suing his ex-wife for Twitter stock worth up to $50 million he claims she hid from him during their marriage - while making him pay $2,465 a month in child-support payments even though he was broke.The Daily Mail is worse than yellow journalism. They are beyond exaggerating and sensationalising things. What they do is worse than skipping fact checking. They will outright make stuff up. They've been caught doing it time and time again. Here's a particularly prominent example. Yes, journalism as a whole is pretty bad. But there's a very clear line between not doing your due diligence when it comes to fact checking and just making things up. The Daily Mail is qualitatively worse than almost a… | /r/MensRights | 28/11/13 10:56 PM |
| 2 | Doctors remove boy's penis during a botched circumcision and don't even tell the mother.1 & 3 are downsides that you wouldn't have if you were circumcised. Actually, the opposite is true, and uncircumcised people are better off. | /r/MensRights | 12/11/13 09:26 AM |
| 14 | Aaaaand from now on I will identify as a mensrights advocate...In the latest episode the hosts also tried to argue for their position that "women as group globally have it harder than men." For this they referenced the global gender gap study, which I read and found to be horribly flawed and openly biased. Now I want to write a detailed criticsm of this Is a detailed criticism of this really necessary? The report itself states this: The third distinguishing feature of the Global Gender Gap Index is that it ranks countries according to their proximity to gen… | /r/MensRights | 12/10/13 09:16 PM |
| 1 | How can I start a Doxx-proof (or at least Doxx-resistant) Men's Rights Youtube Channel?On the Internet? No, I don't believe so. The written word is everywhere and people absolutely do read words on the Internet. Of the few large video sites, those videos are there to - you know - show video. The number of people publishing blank videos while reading aloud are next to nil. It's not popular in the slightest. Podcasts are more popular than that, and podcasts aren't all that popular either compared to the written word. When people do listen to them, it's typically when they are away f… | /r/MensRights | 07/10/13 09:03 PM |
| 2 | How can I start a Doxx-proof (or at least Doxx-resistant) Men's Rights Youtube Channel?I have a lot to say, and I truly think that my writings would help. Then write! It seems odd that you choose the medium of video for this. You don't like YouTube's policies and you presumably won't be appearing in front of the camera, so why do you want a YouTube channel? Just start writing. | /r/MensRights | 07/10/13 08:47 PM |
| 5 | Xpost from Wtf. Atleast she is being charged, but still not called rape.I just don't get why they won't call it rape. Because rape is something only a man does according to UK law. | /r/MensRights | 06/09/13 05:21 PM |
| 1 | Why promoting the end of "male as default" in language and culture is a Men's Rights issue.As I understand it, the use of "male" nouns and pronouns is a holdover from when they were originally gender neutral words. Then specific words were coined for women, and men just got what was left over. It's got nothing to do with men being the default, that's just a wrong guess by gender studies people. If anything, it's due to giving women special treatment. | /r/MensRights | 02/09/13 11:30 AM |
| 4 | "Cliteracy: 101" Meanwhile, a million boys per year get their foreskin amputated because it's "just a piece of skin".An alternative comparison is to eyelids, which are also "just a piece of skin". Everybody has those and everybody understands the role they play in protecting your eyes. | /r/MensRights | 01/09/13 08:46 PM |
| 2 | Women in Prison (UK) where the feminists openly accept that it's only about equality if women are 'disadvantaged'Reminds me of that saying that's so popular with feminists: Homophobia: The fear that another man will treat you like you treat women. Except in this case, it's: WIP: The fear that the justice system will treat women like it treats men. | /r/MensRights | 28/08/13 12:14 PM |
| 13 | Is there a place in MensRights for me?You're fine here. In fact, this subreddit used to have a moderator that was a trans woman (ma99ie). Your boyfriend's experience with feminism is something that's been frequently expressed here. Whenever there's a thread talking about how people got involved with the MRM, a lot of people say they started out with feminism but were alienated when they tried to talk about men's problems and ended up here. I'm sorry to hear about the difficulties you have been going through. There's a lot of people … | /r/MensRights | 23/08/13 01:39 AM |
| 4 | Feminism and circumcision?From what I've seen, the vast majority fall into one of three camps: What's the big deal? Pay lip service, will acknowledge that it is bad only so long as FGM is acknowledged as worse, will not actually do anything about it. Is actively offended that people consider the problem to be even in the same category as FGM. I think I heard about a feminist group in Hawaii actually campaigning against it, but that was years ago, and the last time I looked for details I couldn't dig anything up. | /r/MensRights | 23/08/13 01:33 AM |
| 10 | What country has the most equality between the sexes?I'm not sure what a good source is, but a known bad source is the Global Gender Gap Report. In their own words: Gender equality vs. women's empowerment The third distinguishing feature of the Global Gender Gap Index is that it ranks countries according to their proximity to gender equality rather than to women's empowerment. Our aim is to focus on whether the gap between women and men in the chosen variables has declined, rather than whether women are "winning" the "battle of the sexes". Hence, … | /r/MensRights | 21/08/13 07:44 PM |
| 7 | Dr Phil under attack for 'misogynist tweet' which merely contained the question "Is it ok to have sex with a drunk woman?"I love drunk sex. Every woman I know loves drunk sex. Seriously. I've asked lots of women. This has actually been studied: Young adults in Europe deliberately binge on drink and drugs to improve their sex lives, research suggests. A third of 16 to 35-year-old men and 23% of women questioned said they drank to increase their chance of sex. The study - of 1,341 young people in nine countries including the UK - is published in BMC Public Health. this study showed many young people were "strategical… | /r/MensRights | 21/08/13 12:55 PM |
| 1 | Skin cancer 70% more deadly for menOther things that cause or prevent cancer, according to the Daily Mail. | /r/MensRights | 21/08/13 12:48 PM |
| 3 | BBC News - Feminism fights back against rape jokesI never really understood why people made a fuss about having a woman on a note in the UK. Every coin and every note has the Queen on it, and some notes have women on them already. There was nothing to be gained or lost from another woman being used on any side of the debate. | /r/MensRights | 20/08/13 02:44 PM |
| 20 | BBC News - Feminism fights back against rape jokesThis year, he was scheduled to return with a new show called How I Spent £150,000 on Chinese Prostitutes. He was forced to cancel the show because of debt problems Did this actually happen or did the comedian tell the BBC a joke that went over their heads? | /r/MensRights | 20/08/13 02:31 PM |
| 0 | This was "promoted" on my Twitter feed - I guess boys don't matterI agree with the general gist of your comment, but you should be aware that groom kidnapping is also a problem in some parts of the world, as are other forms of forced marriage for men. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/13 06:36 PM |
| 3 | Hey look, we made it on Wikipedia!Did they ever "consider" listing all those feminists from agentorange as a hategroup? They did actually. Well, I say "consider" - when they published their piece on men's rights, people pointed RadFemHub out to them. Their response was simply to ask the founder if she hated men, and publish her denial as fact. See guys, they can't hate men because they say so! This is the founder of a website whose comment policy read: no male-born or male-identified person is given a platform to speak in this s… | /r/MensRights | 19/08/13 05:08 PM |
| 1 | What should feminists do about rape?If you're looking at ways to reduce occurrences of rape, if you're looking at ways to fight rape culture, there is one very clear area where the difficulty vs results payoff seems far, far ahead of anything else you could do. Prison reform. The reasons for rape in free society is a societal problem. To fight it, you need to change society itself. That's a massive undertaking. The reasons for prison rape are institutional. To fight it, you need to change the institutions. That's still a significa… | /r/MensRights | 15/08/13 01:59 PM |
| 185 | Feminist Censorship on Facebook is RealIt looks to me like you copied and pasted the article. If this is the case, you violated this part of the community guidelines: Intellectual property Before sharing content on Facebook, please be sure you have the right to do so. We ask that you respect copyrights, trademarks, and other legal rights. This has nothing to do with the subject matter and everything to do with the fact that you are infringing the Daily Mail's copyright. For all you know, it was the Daily Mail who wanted it taken down… | /r/MensRights | 13/08/13 12:57 PM |
| 20 | Michael Shermer accused of rape on blog. Feminist mod: "There will be no benefit of the doubters or devils advocates" here.He seems like somebody who will read only up until the point at which he thinks he has something to attack, then only glance over the rest to quote mine. It's very common. | /r/MensRights | 11/08/13 04:53 PM |
| 19 | Michael Shermer accused of rape on blog. Feminist mod: "There will be no benefit of the doubters or devils advocates" here.Context. | /r/MensRights | 11/08/13 04:31 PM |
| 51 | The president of the University of Toronto's student union has moved to ban Mens Rights groups from Canadian universities at the upcoming annual meeting for the Canadian Federation of Students. She was the leader of both University of Toronto protests and hid her face with a ski mask."Mood watcher"? If I'm understanding this correctly, isn't this a synonym for "tone police", a concept much derided in feminist circles? I didn't see anything about the president being the leader of protests or hiding behind ski masks. Where did that come from? | /r/MensRights | 10/08/13 09:25 PM |
| 3 | 10-year-old girl arrested for allegedly raping 4-year-old boyIt happens more often than you'd think: In December 2006, a 4-year-old boy in Waco, Tex., was punished with an in-school suspension after a female aide accused him of sexual harassment. According to a television station there, the child had hugged the woman while getting on the bus, and she later complained to administrators at La Vega Primary School that the child had put his face in her chest. School officials later agreed to remove sexual references but refused to expunge the "inappropriate p… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/13 03:56 PM |
| 8 | Hugo Schwyzer is going nuts. c/o the delighted feminismsI think there's several problems with that: There's going to be a sizeable number of people in the MRM who will hold a grudge and make it an inhospitable environment for him. Whether true or not, it will be perceived by many as a self-serving PR move. Gender rights is probably an unhealthy thing for him to be involved with in any capacity. I remember when pn6 felt used by the other moderators of /r/equality and shut it down temporarily. They made a show of not banning him, but several people the… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/13 03:31 PM |
| 1 | Atheism+, Skepchick, FtB feminists going all out in attempt to destroy the skeptic movement: Ben Radford and physicist Lawrence Krauss accused of sex assault, Bill Nye accused of harassment, DJ Grothe accused of misogyny, Michael Shermer ACCUSED OF RAPE by PZ Myers. This is beyond fucking insane.Same. I think the communion wafer stunt and the associated attention gave him a big of an ego. | /r/MensRights | 10/08/13 12:31 AM |
| 2 | Rule update: Direct cross-linking no longer allowedExcept now people posting new links are going to get deleted because they forgot this particular curlicue in the rules The way that /r/SubredditDrama have implemented it, if you post something against the rule by accident, it is deleted and the AutoModerator bot leaves a comment telling you what the problem is and how to fix it. /r/MensRights already uses that bot, I would expect it is easy to configure it to do this here as well. | /r/MensRights | 06/08/13 09:27 PM |
| 2 | Have any of you seen the movie "super"? I feel like it deals with quite a few of the topics brought up here, and could be a great discussion piece for MRA issues.I've seen it. The rape scene was handled poorly I think. It portrays the victim as traumatised, but then it just carries on with the rest of the film as if the rape never happened and they are still best buddies. Not as bad as the ha-ha-he's-getting-raped scene that you often see, but still pretty bad. | /r/MensRights | 05/08/13 12:13 AM |
| 14 | Anyone know if these claims are true?Ask the people making the claim for their sources, don't ask other people to disprove them. The burden of proof is on the person making the claim. | /r/MensRights | 05/08/13 12:05 AM |
| 1 | Could I have handled this better?I don't think Facebook comments are a suitable place to have in-depth discussions. If you're going to respond to something like this, you have to keep it short. It says our very existence is threatening and we're the ones that have to make up for it. This was very succinct. Perhaps just say that you don't like the article, and offer that as an example. | /r/MensRights | 05/08/13 12:04 AM |
| 3 | Misogyny: The Sites | Southern Poverty Law Centerthe Southern Poverty Law Center has designated this subreddit as a hate group. No they haven't. Here's what they have to say on the subject: It's false. We wrote about the subreddit Mens Rights, but we did not list it as a hate group . . . In almost all cases, we list hate groups at the end of each calendar year when we publish lists. I very much doubt we would ever list the Reddit [r/MensRights] in question—it's a diverse group, which certainly does include some misogynists—but I don't think th… | /r/MensRights | 02/08/13 08:31 PM |
| 2 | Campaign group threatens retailers with legal action for stocking FHM, Loaded, Front etc magazines.Funny thing - in that photo of the covered up lads' mags, you can see on the row beneath, there are women's mags. You can make out Red magazine, specifically this issue that prominently features a supermodel in a bikini. | /r/MensRights | 29/07/13 12:21 PM |
| 2 | Study Confirms Male Circumcision is Genital MutilationThis is a completely useless link. It's to a press release issued in 2007 by the International Coalition for Genital Integrity. It doesn't link to nor cite the study. Doesn't mention the title, nor the authors. So basically, all you have to go on is the say-so of an organisation that clearly has a vested interest. This person seems to have dug up the original study, and it seems rather shaky. I think MGM is a crime, but showing off this press release as if it means something just damages your cr… | /r/MensRights | 26/07/13 12:35 AM |
| 1 | Do men's rights only extend to straight men?I believe the term you are looking for is marriage privatisation. | /r/MensRights | 25/07/13 02:20 AM |
| 1 | Do men's rights only extend to straight men?You're probably thinking of /r/Rights4Men. | /r/MensRights | 25/07/13 02:12 AM |
| 18 | TIL the doctor who ran the famous gender identity study on identical twin boys where one was raised as a girl falsified his data for 30 years, and that the boy never actually accepted his female identity : x-post todayilearnedThe thing that prompted him to be raised as a girl was that his penis was destroyed by a botched circumcision to treat phimosis. His twin brother wasn't circumcised and it turned out that he recovered without any need for circumcision. | /r/MensRights | 24/07/13 12:55 AM |
| 2 | /r/bestof no longer accepts links from /r/mensrightsI'll grant you that the Warren Farrell AMA may not be an example of a brigade per se. It wasn't an example of a brigade, at least linking to it in /r/MensRights. No need to couch it in "may" or "per se". If you're granting me that, you'll also be conceding that this is not true either: if linking to another part of Reddit leads to sudden, massive downvotes it's a brigade. ...since Warren Farrell's AMA is covered by the first part of the sentence but you are conceding that it isn't covered by the… | /r/MensRights | 24/07/13 12:27 AM |
| 2 | /r/bestof no longer accepts links from /r/mensrightsWhen someone links to something the community obviously won't agree with so that community grabs its pitchforks and head over, that's clearly a brigade. I'm not talking about things like that though. I'm talking about things like your Warren Farrell AMA example, which you labelled a "famous brigade". That wasn't linked because people wanted to grab their pitchforks, it was linked because it's a high-profile MRA doing an AMA - just about as relevant to this subreddit as you can possibly get. I've… | /r/MensRights | 24/07/13 12:11 AM |
| 2 | /r/bestof no longer accepts links from /r/mensrightsif linking to another part of Reddit leads to sudden, massive downvotes it's a brigade. Not according to the definition you posted: It's specifically mentioned in the Reddiquette as something not to do (it's called mass downvote or upvote campaigns, and considered vote manipulation) A campaign is an organised effort to achieve a goal, it's not a side-effect. If the votes are a side-effect, it's not a voting campaign. It's like saying that people driving to work is a campaign to pollute the atmos… | /r/MensRights | 23/07/13 11:49 PM |
| 40 | /r/bestof no longer accepts links from /r/mensrightsIf you're talking about Qanan, he believed the person responsible was a commenter at manboobz.com, although he blamed the owner of that blog for not removing his personal information when his attention was called to it, and the owner of that blog is an SRSer. Details. | /r/MensRights | 23/07/13 10:45 PM |
| 8 | /r/bestof no longer accepts links from /r/mensrightsNo, Reddit is not about brigading. It's specifically mentioned in the Reddiquette as something not to do (it's called mass downvote or upvote campaigns, and considered vote manipulation) If the person is linking to something relevant to this subreddit (like your Warren Farrell AMA example), then that's not a mass downvote campaign, even if mass downvotes happen to occur. The votes are a side-effect, not the purpose of linking. | /r/MensRights | 23/07/13 10:35 PM |
| 2 | A girl curious about Men's RightsCitation for the child support issues: It's Ten O'Clock: Do You Know Where Your Sperm Are? Towards a Strict Liability Theory of Parentage. | /r/MensRights | 23/07/13 01:53 AM |
| 5 | Female here -- how would you feel about having females on this subreddit who enjoy discussion?She's a trans woman isn't she? | /r/MensRights | 17/07/13 11:32 AM |
| 1 | MissingKids.ca only buying advertisements to find missing girls, not boys.First off, that second link isn't particularly relevant. Feminists protesting what somebody has to say means nothing about limits on freedom of speech in a country. Second of all, did I say they were number one or that they were perfect? Of course Canada has problems, most countries do. However your idea that Canada is worse than the USA because it has severe limits on free speech is not true, and I posted a solid source to back me up. | /r/MensRights | 17/07/13 07:53 AM |
| 2 | MissingKids.ca only buying advertisements to find missing girls, not boys.I'm really beginning to think it's even worse for men and boys in Canada than it is in the US- and that's saying something. That's true because of Canada's severe limits on free speech. Canada is ranked 20th in the Press Freedom Index 2013. The USA is ranked 32nd. | /r/MensRights | 16/07/13 10:22 PM |
| 2 | British organization opens hotline to help prevent Female Genital Mutilation and does not care about boysJudging by the prevalence of FGM in the West - pretty much nonexistent, with only 330 proven cases in a single year in the UK, I'd say FGM is almost a non-issue. I wouldn't call it a non-issue. It's a very serious issue. The problem is that it's only little girls that are protected instead of all children. By comparison, although there are 330 proven cases of FGM in a single year, there were over a hundred baby boys being treated in the emergency department in Birmingham Children's Hospital in 2… | /r/MensRights | 25/06/13 08:37 PM |
| 1 | Why do feminists do this?I tell her I'm not a feminist. So she asks me what I stand for and I list up my stance. So she says, hey, you're a feminist. I've never had this issue when I've told mras I'm not an mra. I have, right here in this subreddit, multiple times. | /r/MensRights | 21/06/13 09:15 PM |
| 12 | Under UK law, only a male can commit 'Rape'Talk to your MP. | /r/MensRights | 03/06/13 04:41 PM |
| 8 | Motion to Condemn MRA groups because MRA groups condemn feminism as violent. (PDF) see p.17, first entry.Yes, when Manhood Academy first started spamming /r/MensRights, kloo2yoo went over there and tried to convince them to stop. He had his comments deleted and he was banned. | /r/MensRights | 30/05/13 10:17 PM |
| 3 | Motion to Condemn MRA groups because MRA groups condemn feminism as violent. (PDF) see p.17, first entry.the blanket ban on his site, perhaps because some spammer initially ruined his chance to communicate it. As we discussed last time you defended Manhood Academy here, when the spamming started, kloo2yoo went over to their site and tried to get them to stop spamming with no success. Stop pretending this was a malicious third-party, you know that's not true. | /r/MensRights | 30/05/13 10:16 PM |
| 1 | Searching for men's rights leader/ figure to interviewI've done it too. I saw some dodgy IP addresses accessing my account, so I changed my password, thinking my browser would save it as it does for everything else. For some reason it didn't, and because I rarely log in, I didn't notice for ages, at which point, I had forgotten the new password. I hadn't set an email address, so I can't reset it. The next time I log out, I'll lose access to this account. | /r/MensRights | 28/05/13 12:57 AM |
| 1 | My interview with "pastel-forest"they feel much less need to respond to male victims of war rape. This is also a relevant article to that point: The Rape of Men. It won an Amnesty International Media Award and resulted in the UN changing its definition of rape to include men and boys. | /r/MensRights | 28/05/13 12:51 AM |
| 2 | Breakthrough week in the UK for men's equalityDomestic violence and sexual assault campaigns are always gender neutral. From an old comment of mine: Here's a bit more about domestic violence in Scotland: 60% said it was acceptable for women to hit their husbands while 35% admitted assaulting their partner. A total of 8% admitted injuring them young men aged 16-24 experienced physical and/or psychological abuse more often than young women and more often than any other demographic group. Alison Waugh and Jackie Walls called on the Scottish go… | /r/MensRights | 20/05/13 01:34 AM |
| 9 | Congrats on 70 000 readers!There are no radical MRAs So when JeremiahMRA says it's moral to beat your wife so long as it's done to make her behave rather than out of anger, are you saying that this is a mainstream MRA position, or are you saying that he isn't an MRA? When people like mayonesa and Demonspawn say that maybe we should take away the right to vote from women and most men, are you saying that that is a mainstream MRA position, or are you saying that they aren't MRAs? What about Demonspawn's claim that the move … | /r/MensRights | 20/05/13 01:26 AM |
| 3 | Beware of Trolls: Jezebel "paternity test" article appears to be fakeAside from the Jezebel trolling issues, this reminds me of an article from a few years ago: Over-the-counter paternity tests introduced in the UK; criticised And yes, it appears the representative criticising paternity tests is a feminist - Josephine Quintavalle is described as one of "the most outstanding representatives of contemporary Catholic feminism" and is a member of HandsOffOurOvaries, who described themselves as "proChoice and proLife feminists". So there are certainly some feminists o… | /r/MensRights | 06/05/13 10:46 PM |
| 31 | We had an Admin come to /MR and threaten to delete the entire subreddit. What the hell are they doing to all the people that doxxed Sunil Tripathi? Have they been ninja-banned?The problem we have here in particular is a pattern of a moderator repeatedly trying to exploit an event that happened over six months ago to share information Do you really believe this? The moderators seem to have been quite clear in explaining themselves. This isn't an attempt to use the Gawker shit as an excuse to publish information that shouldn't otherwise be published. This is an attempt to clarify and fix this idiotic "journalistic" exception to the rule you created for the Gawker incide… | /r/MensRights | 26/04/13 07:07 AM |
| 0 | Apparently, ejaculating without consent is also rape.She consented to penetration, but only if he didn't ejaculate inside her, and he knew this. Once he was inside her, he told her he was going to do it anyway and didn't give her a chance to object. That's rape, and this rapist should be going to jail for it. | /r/MensRights | 24/04/13 06:45 PM |
| 1 | Feminists Danielle Paradis & Anne Theriault making informal false accusations against and libelling mra's.As I understand it, the false accusation you are complaining about is that he said: I find you so pernicious and repugnant that the idea of fucking your shit up gives me an erection. ...and they are describing it as: getting aroused at violence toward women ...while you say: Fucking Shit Up is a reference to exposing lies. "Fucking your shit up" is not commonly understood to mean "exposing lies", and it is often said with the connotation of violence. For example, from Urban Dictionary: Refers to… | /r/MensRights | 24/04/13 05:38 PM |
| 3 | The proliferation of the 'bumbling dad' trope is problem, as well as a lack of father figures/male role models in TV, but one show that's a beacon of light that is all too rare.You have to watch the whole five seasons to fully appreciate it, but a central part of Fringe is the relationship between fathers and their sons. While it's not obvious to begin with, it ends up being a defining part of the series. | /r/MensRights | 22/04/13 04:43 PM |
| 15 | Leaflet on domestic violence for men, is entirely about 'how you can stop your violent behaviour'This is their corresponding booklet for women. | /r/MensRights | 22/04/13 04:39 PM |
| 2 | Ok , i hear manboobz and co whine about register her.com and yet no feminist castigates those who made this little gem...She's a transphobic radfem that even the likes of SRS hate. You probably won't see them castigate her on these grounds, but you'll certainly see them do it on other grounds, such as calling transwomen who are attracted to women "pretendbians", or reporting every transwoman on a dating site as "scammers". | /r/MensRights | 22/04/13 02:13 PM |
| 6 | Crowdsourcing a new word for: aggressive online efforts, usually with social media, to harm the employment or future employment of a person, esp. when said harm is motivated by ideology./r/MensRights is by far the most active subreddit related to discussion of feminists doing this to people whose financial livelihood they want to crush, so it's probably the best platform for discussing it. To be fair, it's hardly one-sided. Of existing terminology, "blackballing" would probably be the closest to what you are describing. "Lynch mob" is similar too. | /r/MensRights | 21/04/13 12:47 PM |
| 0 | "Unsurprisingly, and for the second year in a row, men’s rights activists have bullied venue staff hosting Radfem 2013..."Depends on the situation. While it may be an impotent threat for you, for some people, their IP addresses disclose their personal information or employer's information. It really depends on the situation. | /r/MensRights | 20/04/13 07:34 PM |
| 5 | The level of discourse in this subreddit needs to changeI agree. The level of discourse in this subreddit has plummeted over the past year or two. It used to be the case that people here would mock feminist fora for calling people who disagree MRAs or misogynists to avoid debating their points. Now people here are using the same tactics. | /r/MensRights | 20/04/13 05:40 PM |
| 3 | Handy Copypasta:Copying and pasting this information, why don't you update the wiki and link to the wiki instead? That means it can be kept up to date with new information. | /r/MensRights | 15/04/13 04:12 PM |
| 2 | Long Beach school district suing [false rape] accuser of Brian BanksI think it will help show a lot of people how serious a rape accusation is and what happens to people who falsely accuse. Sadly, no. She's not facing any consequences for her false rape accusation. This is about the civil lawsuit she brought against the university for having an unsafe environment. Nobody seems to want to do anything about the fact that she lied to police and the court to send Brian Banks to jail for five years. | /r/MensRights | 13/04/13 02:10 AM |
| 4 | Paul Elam should take down register-her.comI agree, it only harms men's rights and no good comes from it, but they won't take it down because of arguments like this, because AVfM's stance is that anything that pisses people off is good publicity. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/13 04:56 PM |
| 1 | I got sick of "feminism just means you're for equality", so I wrote this in response.Example: During the First World War, women in the UK didn't have the right to vote. Neither did many men - it was only male landowners who could vote. Additionally, men were being drafted to fight in the war against their will. Suffragettes were simultaneously campaigning to give women the right to vote while demanding that men be drafted to protect women. Even when participation in the war was optional for men, they were harassed in the street and called cowards if they weren't in military unif… | /r/MensRights | 11/04/13 01:27 PM |
| 44 | "Men's Resource Center" website has articles like "What kind of abusive man am I?" and "Men who abuse women"It does actually say something promising: If you’re the one being abused, the Men’s Resource Center is here for you as well. Although some men experience domestic violence in silence, believing that a real man will just deal with it and not burden others, you don’t have to be alone. The Men’s Resource Center also provides services for victims of domestic violence. ...however this is after multiple paragraphs of assuming you are the abuser, so I would expect a lot of victims won't even make it do… | /r/MensRights | 06/04/13 06:34 PM |
| -1 | UT Arlington Student Raped by Girlfriend, Ridiculed by ContemporariesAccording to the image, this is precisely what is implied No it isn't. Some of those profile pictures don't indicate gender and others are difficult to tell. More importantly, the OP directly contradicts it: Only 3 of the men who responded (myself included) agreed that he was raped. So no, it doesn't look like men don't think it's possible. It looks like a smaller proportion of men think that it's possible compared with women, and that's if you take them at their word rather than acknowledge the… | /r/MensRights | 05/04/13 09:54 PM |
| 13 | Feminists disrupt MensRights lecture at Canadian university, as documented by the Free Speech Alliance of CanadaNo need to come up with a new slogan, just recycle one of feminism's: This is what a feminist looks like. | /r/MensRights | 05/04/13 03:44 PM |
| 6 | UT Arlington Student Raped by Girlfriend, Ridiculed by ContemporariesAs I understand it, these days it's common for American universities to have anti-rape education classes that students must attend which often portray rape as something men do to women. Is this the case at your university? Could you bring this post to the attention of the people responsible for these classes and get something in writing about how they are going to address this issue in the future? | /r/MensRights | 05/04/13 08:43 AM |
| 5 | Update from earlier post: dear Men's rights I am a female college student student who is trying to make a speech educating students about rape, any help?To support my claim, I described my findings from an article I read where the war tactic of male rape was discussed. I described to them what happened to a Ugandan man who was raped 3 times a day for 3 years and had to wear a sanitary pad for his anal bleeding. he was abandoned by family, men like him who asked for assistance from the UN were denied because they were men. If anybody wants to read the full article, I believe it is this one: The Rape of Men. | /r/MensRights | 05/04/13 08:09 AM |
| 11 | Feminists disrupt MensRights lecture at Canadian university, as documented by the Free Speech Alliance of CanadaMilquetoast | /r/MensRights | 05/04/13 08:02 AM |
| 8 | /r/feminism has been complaining about /r/mensrights being anti-woman or anti-feminist. The opposite is also true. So, I decided to do a small study, and here's what I found:You will probably find this submission of interest, it links to an analysis of a month's worth of /r/MensRights comments, which is approximately 60 thousand comments. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/13 10:54 AM |
| 1 | Found this on a friend's FB post... apparently killing married guys is violence against womenThe source for this is an interview with Dr. Vandana Shiva, an Indian feminist. | /r/MensRights | 01/04/13 09:16 PM |
| 1 | Adria Richards did everything exactly wrong.That's a copy & paste from some super-extremist feminist blog. | /r/MensRights | 24/03/13 06:30 PM |
| 2 | The Truth About Adria Richards"That is not 'slightly more' "? It's an order of magnitude more. The guy pays $500/mo rent, she purportedly pays $5000/mo rent. Is this your answer to my question whether you can discard someone's viewpoint based on income difference? You have it backwards. she was discarding other people's opinions based on them having it "easy". This guy was pointing out that the vast disparity in their incomes puts her far out ahead compared with him when it comes to "having it easy" - essentially saying that… | /r/MensRights | 23/03/13 09:50 PM |
| 2 | The Truth About Adria RichardsHow exactly is having to blow a good chunk of your salary on rent, which is what tech developers in San Francisco have to do, an easy mode? Rent prices in this city are extremely overhyped Yes, I'm well aware of cost of living differences. Have you ever heard of commuting? You don't have to live in a city to work in a city. Spending $5K/mo on rent is something only extremely privileged people can do. take a look at that place on map... it doesn't look like "luxury", does it? I haven't looked at … | /r/MensRights | 23/03/13 04:31 PM |
| 2 | The Truth About Adria RichardsYou're missing context. She's tweeted things like "Being a straight, white male is living life on easy mode". The comment you are responding to is complaining that if anybody is living life on easy mode, it's her. | /r/MensRights | 23/03/13 03:14 PM |
| 41 | Feminist pissed off that mr has any sympathy for a couple of guys that were fired for making innocent remarks at a tech conferenceA reminder as to what Roosh thinks of the MRM: The Men’s Rights Movement Is Dead “Men’s Rights” Has Become A Euphemism For “Sexual Loser” He doesn't speak for the MRM and the MRM shouldn't be held accountable for his actions. | /r/MensRights | 23/03/13 03:12 PM |
| 2 | The Truth About Adria RichardsI only posted this here because MensRights is the most sane political board on Reddit. And you screw that up by posting images with her address in and talking about her getting set on fire. That kind of violent rhetoric does not belong here. | /r/MensRights | 23/03/13 02:46 PM |
| 5 | The Truth About Adria RichardsThose numbers don't add up, but in any case, I doubt a developer evangelist of her calibre earns enough to pay $5K/mo rent. She's probably not paying all that rent on her own - boyfriend, flatmate, rich family, or something. | /r/MensRights | 23/03/13 02:40 PM |
| 2 | The Truth About Adria RichardsI know you made an attempt at blocking out her personal information, but that address is still readable. This should be removed. Also, I know the guy said that she misinterpreted "I'd fork his repo", and that very well may be the case, but that doesn't mean she doesn't know what forking a repo means. It means she misjudged the tone of voice. Think "I'd fork his repo if you know what I mean". She interpreted it as innuendo, there's no reason to assume she doesn't know what the phrase literally me… | /r/MensRights | 23/03/13 02:33 PM |
| 11 | A month ago there was outrage over a penis joke at a PHP conference in LondonVery relevant. They are essentially the opposite to Adria Richards. You may have noticed that a feature of our response so far has been to not name-check these people – if you are interested in who they are, take a quick trawl through Twitter and make your own minds up. If we offended anybody, that was not our intention. We understand that not everyone will share our sense of humour and respect anyone’s right to disagree, after all wouldn’t it be a dull world to live in if everyone was the same.… | /r/MensRights | 22/03/13 09:47 PM |
| 2 | PyCon thanks Adria Richards for her contributions to the Code of Conduct (donglegate)This is a "fork" of the 2013 PyCon code of conduct including the staff and attendee guides. What's with the scare quotes? "Fork" is a technical term, and it's being used there in the correct way. Has this event actually made these guys so worried about using the word in its correct context that they feel the need to disclaim it in some way with scare quotes? | /r/MensRights | 22/03/13 09:35 PM |
| 9 | OFFICIAL SendGrid Statement: A Difficult SituationShe was a developer evangelist. Basically, her job was to foster good relations with the developers responsible for integrating code with SendGrid's systems. | /r/MensRights | 22/03/13 12:12 AM |
| 2 | Adria Richards fired from SendGrid.No, the experiment I'm thinking of involved a human with a bucket on his head being led to food by an ape because the ape understood that the human was unable to see it. I seem to recall they did similar experiments with other primates and found that they didn't understand that the human couldn't see the food. These are very vague recollections from a couple of years ago though, so I wouldn't be surprised to find out I'm misremembering :). | /r/MensRights | 21/03/13 11:26 PM |
| 2 | Adria Richards fired from SendGrid.It's essentially demonstrating theory of mind. If I remember correctly, some great apes can pass similar tests. | /r/MensRights | 21/03/13 10:09 PM |
| 18 | Adria Richards fired from SendGrid.Both times the companies probably didn't really want to fire either, but the way US business works it's too costly to keep controversial people in employment. It really wouldn't have been difficult at all to keep the developer on. He's not a public-facing employee. I don't see how she would have been capable of continuing to do her job in the face of the backlash against her. Her job revolves around building positive relationships with the developer community. | /r/MensRights | 21/03/13 10:01 PM |
| 15 | Adria mess: A new phase in the movement - for the first time, a feminist is publicly shamed and fired.They were standing behind her right up until their existence was threatened. As far as I am aware, the only indication that they were standing behind her was a claim she made. It's far more likely she was fired because she simply wasn't able to do her job effectively any more. A developer evangelist that a huge number of developers feel negatively about is a developer evangelist in need of a new career. | /r/MensRights | 21/03/13 09:30 PM |
| 6 | #donglegate - based on what you know of similar shitstorms, how do you see it playing out?Richards at a TED talk near you, talking about how brave she's been: 75% chance. This is what I expect. The idiots sending her threats is all the ammo she needs to milk this event as "the Internet hates women". She's Anita Sarkeesian 2.0 and she is suddenly in need of a new career, so why not professional victim? | /r/MensRights | 21/03/13 09:05 PM |
| 3 | Reaction by PyCon to Adria Richards bullying incidentIt's a legitimate job, especially for companies like SendGrid that provide APIs. PR for these companies often involves keeping developers happy, because in a lot of cases, developers are ultimately the ones who decide whether a provider is suitable or not. So they hire evangelists to listen to developers, address their issues, promote the service within developer communities, things like that. | /r/MensRights | 21/03/13 03:48 PM |
| 2 | Reaction by PyCon to Adria Richards bullying incidentShe raised a lynch mob on Twitter and got one of them fired. Of course they are going to be reticent about making a complaint - for fear of further reprisals. This was a serious breach of your code of conduct. Yes, the victims want to stay out of the limelight - not surprising - but that doesn't absolve you of having to deal with the breach altogether. Your code of conduct is there to protect people from this kind of thing and if you don't enforce it, you invite further behaviour like this. Do y… | /r/MensRights | 21/03/13 03:42 PM |
| 2 | Gender gap? In tech salaries there is no such thing.Depends. Typical technical recruiters don't have a clue what they are doing, they are just matching acronyms in CVs/résumés to acronyms in job requirements. I wouldn't call their jobs "technical jobs". The really good technical recruiters know what the technologies are and what to look for in a candidate. I'd call their jobs "technical jobs". Well, I would if they weren't imaginary. In 15 years, I've not heard a single person I've worked with claim to have actually met one of these mythical beas… | /r/MensRights | 20/03/13 06:02 PM |
| 8 | Men who oppose women's rights and freedomNo. Those spammers have been around far longer than SRS. There's no reason to believe they aren't genuinely trying to make money in scummy, hateful ways. | /r/MensRights | 19/03/13 01:49 AM |
| 1 | Woman is depressed, refuses to have sex with her boyfriend for a month, he gives her a sad look, she feels guilty and then consents to sex, thinks about it later and believes she may have just been raThis isn't the first time robert32907 has been caught trolling. | /r/MensRights | 12/03/13 03:38 AM |
| 3 | For the International Women's Day: The Suffragettes: One person, one vote. Lets keep it that way.From Wikipedia: Clinical studies by the journal of Psychosomatic Medicine found that "men had higher pain thresholds and tolerances and lower pain ratings than women" when exposed to cold pressor pain. The study asked participants to submerge their hands in ice water (the cold pressor pain procedure) and were compensated financially for keeping their hand submerged. Suggested explanations for this difference include that "men are more motivated to tolerate and suppress expressions of pain becaus… | /r/MensRights | 10/03/13 02:23 AM |
| 5 | Reddit's Victim Complex: The Reddit panel at SXSW went terribly wrong. A powerful site struggles with introspection (trigger alert for stupidity)I think you mean "inherent", not "inherit". | /r/MensRights | 09/03/13 06:22 PM |
| 100 | For the International Women's Day: The Suffragettes: One person, one vote. Lets keep it that way.The least that men can do is that every man of fighting age should prepare himself to redeem his word to women and to make ready to do his best, to save the mothers, the wives, and the daughters of Great Britain from outrage too horrible even to think of. -- Emmeline Pankhurst Mrs. Pankhurst toured the country, making recruiting speeches. Her supporters handed the white feather to every young man they encountered wearing civilian dress, and bobbed up at Hyde Park meetings with placards: "Intern … | /r/MensRights | 09/03/13 06:20 PM |
| 9 | "Man jailed for poking holes in condoms to get his girlfriend pregnant" ...but if the shoe was on the other foot he'd be on the hook for 18 yearsIt's Ten O'Clock: Do You Know Where Your Sperm Are? Toward a Strict Liability Theory of Parentage | /r/MensRights | 08/03/13 02:51 PM |
| 2 | Star Trek episode explores man falsely accused of assault/rapeThen again, there's an episode of Enterprise where one of the male crew members is invited to play a "game" with a female alien, and later discovers that he is pregnant because it is their equivalent of sex. It's played for laughs, with everybody mocking him for it. | /r/MensRights | 26/02/13 11:34 AM |
| 22 | Til 80% of soviet males born in 1923 didnt survive world war 2Also, up to 90% of the male population died in the Paraguayan War. | /r/MensRights | 24/02/13 06:45 PM |
| 2 | Results from an online dating experiment:This is the article about women rating 80% of men below average. I took a brief look at the Guardian dating website a while ago. It warns you when you are looking at somebody's profile and you don't meet their requirements. I'm slightly below average height, but by no means short, and I was amazed at how many women I seemingly wasn't tall enough for, despite usually being taller than them and despite it not being a problem in real life. Made me feel like a dwarf! | /r/MensRights | 24/02/13 01:52 PM |
| 3 | Corresponded with the author of the article on Modern vs Post Modern Discourse. Thought I would share his further insights.Here is the earlier submission. | /r/MensRights | 09/02/13 03:24 PM |
| 7 | A feminist argues at Norton forums that a men's rights site should remained blocked.Yes, shocking that a site with articles titles like "The New Nigger" might be classified as "Hate Site". NOW called John Lennon and Yoko Ono's song 'Woman is the Nigger of the World' a "strong pro-feminist statement". The article was clearly written along the same lines, and may well have been referencing the song. Not to mention the fact that the article was written by a black person. Why are you so keen to strip context away entirely? The article was not "I hate niggers" or "Kill all niggers".… | /r/MensRights | 09/02/13 01:32 AM |
| 2 | 2 out of 5 domestic abuse victims in the UK are men; 800,000 each year. Check out the Home Office quote.Thanks for the extra information. This might help you on that last one: How to make a freedom of information (FOI) request The FOI Act doesn't apply to these organisations directly (as far as I am aware), but if there is any government oversight into how these funds are spent at all, you should be able to get this information from the Home Office. And if there isn't any oversight, then a news article asking "Why is money intended for male domestic victims being diverted to women's shelters with … | /r/MensRights | 08/02/13 12:32 PM |
| 3 | 2 out of 5 domestic abuse victims in the UK are men; 800,000 each year. Check out the Home Office quote.Reminds me of this comment of mine from a couple of years ago: Here's a bit more about domestic violence in Scotland: 60% said it was acceptable for women to hit their husbands while 35% admitted assaulting their partner. A total of 8% admitted injuring them young men aged 16-24 experienced physical and/or psychological abuse more often than young women and more often than any other demographic group. Alison Waugh and Jackie Walls called on the Scottish government to ensure domestic abuse campai… | /r/MensRights | 08/02/13 11:37 AM |
| 3 | Vigorously support women's rights by fully engaging in efforts to ratify the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment (ERA): Some people have argued that ERA ratification will help men's rights also.Something that is both amusing and sad - these submissions were posted at the same time: Vigorously support women's rights by fully engaging in efforts to ratify the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment (ERA): Some people have argued that ERA ratification will help men's rights also. - 8 up votes, 1 down vote in /r/MensRights, 88% approval Vigorously support women's rights by fully engaging in efforts to ratify the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) - 10 up votes, 7 down votes in /r/Feminism, 58% approval… | /r/MensRights | 07/02/13 12:43 PM |
| 4 | Finally a women that says it like it is - "We need to restore fault-based reasons to justify divorce."It's a bit odd to direct that particular criticism in this particular instance. Schlafly campaigned against the Equal Rights Amendment on the basis that it would take away female privileges. That's probably the way in which she is most relevant to men's rights. But she was actually fighting against feminists on that one. In this particular case, she's the enemy of the MRM because she fought against a feminist-led push for equality. Sure, the feminists were mainly thinking of how it would improve… | /r/MensRights | 04/02/13 12:59 AM |
| 17 | Finally a women that says it like it is - "We need to restore fault-based reasons to justify divorce."The government shouldn't be regulating romantic relationships in the first place. Marriage privatisation is the only sensible way to treat marriage in a secular society. | /r/MensRights | 04/02/13 12:49 AM |
| 3 | Update: The "Boyfriend Trainer" iOS game appears to have been removed from the App StoreGoing to the itunes store doesn't tell us what this app was or did. Sorry, I assumed people would be familiar with it because there was a link to the story five submissions earlier, and it had been submitted that often that people were starting to complain. Would be more effective just linking google to the story. As far as I am aware, there aren't any articles about how it has been removed, you have to go to the App Store and see for yourself. | /r/MensRights | 03/02/13 10:08 PM |
| 5 | Update: The "Boyfriend Trainer" iOS game appears to have been removed from the App StoreFrom Wikipedia: Malware, short for malicious (or malevolent) software, is software used or created by attackers to disrupt computer operation, gather sensitive information, or gain access to private computer systems. Regardless of your opinion of the quality of Apple software, calling it malware is a bit of a stretch. | /r/MensRights | 03/02/13 10:02 PM |
| 5 | Update: The "Boyfriend Trainer" iOS game appears to have been removed from the App StoreAccording to Apple's rating system, an application that features frequent cartoon violence should be rated 12+. This application was rated 4+. | /r/MensRights | 03/02/13 09:58 PM |
| 3 | Update: The "Boyfriend Trainer" iOS game appears to have been removed from the App StoreYou can see a list of the developers' games here. | /r/MensRights | 03/02/13 01:49 PM |
| 8 | Why is it that men are held responsible for their actions no matter what their state of inebriation, but women get a pass?This is how you get people to pay attention. If you get people's attention by making them think you hate women, that only makes things more difficult. Attention is not intrinsically helpful, it can be harmful too. | /r/MensRights | 31/01/13 05:09 PM |
| 0 | Hey, /r/MensRights! You're Subreddit of the Day! Congratulations!It's certainly not 100% accurate, just a rule of thumb. | /r/MensRights | 31/01/13 04:26 PM |
| 12 | 'Abuse your boyfriend' app available on iPhonesWhen you submit an application to Apple, you don't choose the rating directly, you answer a series of questions about the app's content and the rating is calculated from that. 4+ is what you get if you answer "none" to every question about potentially objectionable material. There's a screenshot here and the documentation is here. Of particular note is that they will have had to claim that there is no cartoon or fantasy violence to get that 4+ rating. If they had accurately described the applica… | /r/MensRights | 31/01/13 04:12 PM |
| 25 | 'Abuse your boyfriend' app available on iPhonesEarlier submissions to this subreddit: iPhone app called "The Boyfriend Trainer" that simulates and encourages - actually REQUIRES - domestic abuse. Can't make this stuff up... They need to shut this app down 'Boyfriend Trainer' app encourages users to 'whack' boyfriends into shape iOS game that allows you to beat your boyfriend to "perfection" It's good to see this get wider attention from mainstream press, the more press this gets, the more likely it is Apple will remove this from the App Stor… | /r/MensRights | 31/01/13 01:36 PM |
| 4 | What was the website that switched genders and pronouns?Regender | /r/MensRights | 31/01/13 01:29 PM |
| 18 | Why is it that men are held responsible for their actions no matter what their state of inebriation, but women get a pass?Calling attention to the double standard: Good. Doing it in this shitty way: Bad. | /r/MensRights | 31/01/13 01:29 PM |
| 5 | Hey, /r/MensRights! You're Subreddit of the Day! Congratulations!I'd say unfavourable and misinformed. | /r/MensRights | 31/01/13 11:36 AM |
| 9 | Hey, /r/MensRights! You're Subreddit of the Day! Congratulations!It is a weird phenomenon when someone refers to the movement or the subreddit as "MRA", since "MRA" means "Men's Rights Advocate". I've always seen this as a shibboleth. You can fairly accurately tell whether somebody has been exposed to MRAs or their critics depending on what they call the movement. If they make this mistake, they are very likely to have an unfavourable opinion of the movement. | /r/MensRights | 31/01/13 08:47 AM |
| 3 | iOS game that allows you to beat your boyfriend to "perfection"Ah, sorry, I forgot. Switched the link to a screenshot and copied & pasted the text in. A lot of the comments are just as bad as the article, which isn't as easily rendered here though. | /r/MensRights | 30/01/13 03:34 PM |
| 27 | iOS game that allows you to beat your boyfriend to "perfection"Even Jezebel found it distasteful Previously on Jezebel: Have You Ever Beat Up A Boyfriend? Cause, Uh, We Have: Psychiatry News has a piece out this month about how men shouldn't be overlooked as victims of domestic violence, saying that: Women are doing virtually everything these days that men are—working as doctors, lawyers, and rocket scientists; flying helicopters in combat; riding horses in the Kentucky Derby. And physically assaulting their spouses or partners. According to a study of rela… | /r/MensRights | 30/01/13 09:56 AM |
| 1 | iOS game that allows you to beat your boyfriend to "perfection"Apple's rejection criteria is often subjective, meaning that whether something gets approved is often at the whims of whichever reviewer ends up reviewing an app. Also, even with objective criteria, reviewers make mistakes all the time. Apple don't proactively monitor approved apps for problems. Once an app has passed review stage, it's not likely to be taken down unless people complain to Apple or it gets press coverage. They won't notice there's a problem on their own. | /r/MensRights | 30/01/13 09:52 AM |
| 7 | iOS game that allows you to beat your boyfriend to "perfection"I think that this link is more helpful to get the complaint where it needs to go. Select iTunes > iTunes Store > Other iTunes Store Topics. Make sure you specify the app by its title (Boyfriend Trainer) and app ID (445601028). | /r/MensRights | 30/01/13 09:49 AM |
| 2 | This UK politician took on the feminist myths of how women are not treated fairly in the justice system. He is the first UK politician to stand up properly for men's rights. Please send him support.Here's his TheyWorkForYou profile. | /r/MensRights | 29/01/13 10:31 AM |
| 13 | New Subreddit Feature: Advocacy Spotlight. This week: Typhonblue1 day old account, posting paranoid stuff about women, already at -17 karma. Don't feed the troll. Downvote and ignore. | /r/MensRights | 28/01/13 07:39 PM |
| 8 | Major Human Rights Violation Rectified: Denmark Requires Haircuts For Men And Women To Be The Same Price.That sounds fair. Two people with long hair getting the same cut should be charged the same price, even if one is a man and one is a woman. Two people with short hair getting the same cut should be charged the same price, even if one is a man and one is a woman. The cost should be related to the service you are receiving, not your gender. | /r/MensRights | 24/01/13 11:26 AM |
| 10 | U of T Student Union trying to ban and shut down A Voice for Men.If you believe these things, then I would encourage you to submit it to a feminist subreddit to inform them and observe the reaction. | /r/MensRights | 24/01/13 10:17 AM |
| 1 | Girlfriend is in the long-term planning stages for opening a Men's Shelter. Got any tips, ideas, or concerns?Good luck! I would get in touch with the women's shelters in your area so that if any men phone them up asking for help, they will be able to direct them to you. | /r/MensRights | 20/01/13 10:13 PM |
| 10 | Eliminating feminist teacher bias erases boys' falling grades, study finds | LifeSiteNews.com/r/FeminismHelpingMen | /r/MensRights | 18/01/13 10:56 PM |
| 2 | Contacting Government RepsAnd for the UK: They Work For You. | /r/MensRights | 18/01/13 02:35 PM |
| 0 | Study shows boys outnumber girls in STEM field because boys are smarter, not because STEM fields intentionally discriminate against girls.I have answered both questions You have not. You've engaged in generic whining about egalitarianism. You've created then attacked a whole bunch of straw men. You have not answered those questions, you've done your best to avoid answering them. | /r/MensRights | 15/01/13 09:22 PM |
| 0 | Study shows boys outnumber girls in STEM field because boys are smarter, not because STEM fields intentionally discriminate against girls.Again, you continue to avoid the point: An egalitarian viewpoint: Both genders should be afforded the same opportunity to take parental leave. How do you think this is linked with making a father less of a man (i.e. androgynous)? How do you think this is a fantasy rather than achievable? Stop running away from the argument. | /r/MensRights | 15/01/13 08:33 PM |
| 0 | Study shows boys outnumber girls in STEM field because boys are smarter, not because STEM fields intentionally discriminate against girls.It's really very simple: I'm asking you to justify your initial claim by explaining how it applies to an example. An egalitarian viewpoint: Both genders should be afforded the same opportunity to take parental leave. How do you think this is linked with making a father less of a man (i.e. androgynous)? How do you think this is a fantasy rather than achievable? We've been down this road before, you know I'm just going to keep dragging you back to the original point, so don't bother with any more … | /r/MensRights | 15/01/13 05:38 PM |
| 2 | Study Shows Anti-woman Gender Bias in Wikipedia, LinuxThe link to the paper is wrong. Here is the paper: Free Culture and the Gender Gap A summary of the argument, in his own words: I argue the gender gap is, in part, a consequence of the culture, dynamics, and values of these communities. First, free culture can be unappealing to those unable or unwilling to hew to the stereotypical features of the online geek (i.e., an identity associated with an intense and narrow interest and argumentative style). Also, these communities’ openness means that a … | /r/MensRights | 15/01/13 05:17 PM |
| 0 | Study shows boys outnumber girls in STEM field because boys are smarter, not because STEM fields intentionally discriminate against girls.No, that's what you ARE saying Quote the part of my comment where I said that. I think you'll find I've not said this. otherwise it wouldn't achieve your goal of giving women the opportunity to focus on their careers the same as men. I didn't say this either. What I said was that it was a benefit. I didn't say it was the goal. The goal is to afford both the mother and father the same opportunities to spend time with their infants. Now I daresay there won't be a 50:50 split amongst couples that h… | /r/MensRights | 15/01/13 04:25 PM |
| 0 | Study shows boys outnumber girls in STEM field because boys are smarter, not because STEM fields intentionally discriminate against girls.Nope, you are still avoiding the discussion. The discussion is not about the merits of paternity leave. You are using that as a red herring to avoid the discussion. The discussion is about you justifying your claims that egalitarianism is an androgynous fantasy. I gave a concrete example of an egalitarian concept; that parental leave should be equal. I challenged you to explain how that meant making a father less of a man or how it was a fantasy. Talking about the merits of parental leave does n… | /r/MensRights | 15/01/13 04:06 PM |
| 0 | Study shows boys outnumber girls in STEM field because boys are smarter, not because STEM fields intentionally discriminate against girls.Why does one need parental leave in the first place? From my comment: This has benefits for both genders, giving men the opportunity to be primary caregiver and given women the opportunity to focus on their careers more. it gives men more rights and contributes towards solving a lot of problems fathers face. I wouldn't have thought I would have to explain why we should support paternity leave to a supposed MRA. | /r/MensRights | 15/01/13 08:44 AM |
| 0 | Study shows boys outnumber girls in STEM field because boys are smarter, not because STEM fields intentionally discriminate against girls.They addressed exactly what you said. So where, exactly, did you make your case that a man having paternity leave is unachievable and makes him androgynous, less of a man? I described an egalitarian viewpoint - something you claim is an "androgynous fantasy" - and you had your opportunity to support your point by applying it to the example I gave. You didn't take that opportunity, you didn't address what I said at all. You just repeated your worn out talking points. You are not participating in … | /r/MensRights | 14/01/13 10:30 PM |
| 2 | Study shows boys outnumber girls in STEM field because boys are smarter, not because STEM fields intentionally discriminate against girls.Sorry, you didn't read or address what I said, you just threw a bunch more stupid straw men at me. Respond to what I am saying instead of chanting your tired old talking points at me. They weren't convincing the first time around, they are certainly no more convincing the thirtieth time. | /r/MensRights | 14/01/13 09:41 PM |
| 0 | Study shows boys outnumber girls in STEM field because boys are smarter, not because STEM fields intentionally discriminate against girls.Okay, let's have a look at a concrete example. I think men and women should both be able to take a significant amount of time off work as parental leave. This has benefits for both genders, giving men the opportunity to be primary caregiver and given women the opportunity to focus on their careers more. This does not make them "androgynous". The men are still men and the women are still women. It is not an attempt to make men and women the same thing. It is giving them the same opportunities. It… | /r/MensRights | 14/01/13 08:32 PM |
| 0 | Study shows boys outnumber girls in STEM field because boys are smarter, not because STEM fields intentionally discriminate against girls.Otherwise, you are attempting to treat unequal components of a system as equal Believing that people should be afforded the same rights is not treating unequal components of a system as equal. | /r/MensRights | 14/01/13 07:55 PM |
| -1 | Study shows boys outnumber girls in STEM field because boys are smarter, not because STEM fields intentionally discriminate against girls.So much for those androgynous fantasies egalitarians have... Straw man. You're just as bad as the people who say MRAs secretly want to rape people just because they want due process. You've taken a push for equal rights and twisted it into something unrecognisable in a childish attempt to demonise your enemies. | /r/MensRights | 14/01/13 09:57 AM |
| 4 | I wanted to hear about what you guys think about using the word "egalitarianism".There is no part of feminism I consider to be valid that cannot be called egalitarianism and there is no part of the MRM I consider to be valid that cannot be called egalitarianism. Gendered movements attract sexist nutjobs. Gendered movements alienate a lot of people. Identifying as an MRA or feminist seems to have no benefit and quite a lot of downsides. | /r/MensRights | 14/01/13 09:43 AM |
| 0 | America's prison boom (93% male prisoners) shown to be a false solution for crime, by incredibly powerful new evidence linking crime to lead pollution. Violence has a medical explanation, and we needCorrelation is not causation. The causation could swing in the opposite direction, or both could have a common cause. The article itself mentions one other correlation - the poverty level. For instance, what if poor lifestyles demand more lead than more affluent lifestyles? We already know poverty causes crime, so the correlation between crime and lead can be explained by poverty causing both. | /r/MensRights | 10/01/13 01:15 PM |
| 4 | How do you explain to the feminist left that there really isn't a wage gap?Well the fact of the matter is that there is a wage gap, it's just that virtually all of it is caused by reasonable things rather than discrimination against women. Perhaps if you start with that, you might be able to have a more reasonable discussion. For example, the effects of maternity leave on a woman's career affects her future salary. Raising paternity leave to be equal to maternity leave can mitigate this to some extent, helping both genders at once. | /r/MensRights | 10/01/13 10:40 AM |
| 5 | Does MR have any Wikipedia editors?Gain wikipedia experience before editing controversial Wikipedia articles. The problem is that every edit made that involves gender politics is considered controversial to some people, in effect locking out everybody that doesn't want to pour a tonne of time into Wikipedia. Those with the most spare time win. You can't do things as simple as say that masculism is a counterpart to feminism on the Men's Rights portal without an SRSer popping up to change it to say that it's a call for male dominan… | /r/MensRights | 10/01/13 08:27 AM |
| 2 | The Tone Argument - Dean Esmay lays out the case that a polite, inoffensive, conciliatory MRM is useless and ineffectual.On the other hand, it could be argued that Martin Luther King wouldn't have received the same amount of attention if Malcolm X hadn't made him look like the moderate choice. I've heard this argument before, the idea that extremists make the moderates more palatable, and I was pointed to this paper on the subject. You should note that this argument was presented to me as a defence for SRS. | /r/MensRights | 09/01/13 08:07 PM |
| 8 | The Tone Argument - Dean Esmay lays out the case that a polite, inoffensive, conciliatory MRM is useless and ineffectual.I read Warren Farrell‘s The Myth of Male Power around the time it came out, and that’s been almost 20 years ago now, and it effected me. [...] I will repeat this for emphasis: being nice, polite, and civil–it does not work. Nobody listens, nobody cares. You listened, you cared. Speaking of Farrell, everybody's familiar with the feminist protest he was recently faced with, right? Does anybody think feminism gained from that protest? Does anybody think that somebody would be convinced by gangs of … | /r/MensRights | 08/01/13 11:03 PM |
| 18 | It takes one to know one | Toy Soldiers on feminists and "The Nice Guys of OK Cupid"But you can't twist that into I did everything right and she STILL didn't say yes? Can't you see how that turns the woman into some kind of a date/relationship/sex vending machine? You're making the same mistake a lot of people having this argument make. You're conflating their relationship with an individual and their relationships with women in general. If a person is saying "I did everything right and she still won't return my affection", then yes, it's true that he doesn't automatically dese… | /r/MensRights | 08/01/13 01:11 PM |
| 8 | Judges overturn rape conviction, urge law change. --How do you feel about this article?If he started having sex with her while she was asleep, that's rape. If she was awake and he was aware she was only having sex with him because she believed he was her boyfriend, I'd call that rape, but if the law classified it as a different offence, I'd probably go along with that. If she was awake, and she assumed it was her boyfriend but he thought she knew it wasn't, it starts to get a bit less clear-cut. But the most important thing I can see, which the article doesn't shed much light on, … | /r/MensRights | 04/01/13 05:13 PM |
| 2 | When will society recognize that circumcision is genital mutilation???I read enough to find them unconvincing So why do you think that the rebuttal is merely "a small anti-circumcision advocacy group" when they supplied over 50 citations to go with what they were saying? Tell me, are the findings of this study any less true because "a small anti-circumcision advocacy group" were the ones to bring it to your attention? Does the Royal Dutch Medical Association's opinions suddenly become invalid because you read it in something published by a group called Doctors Opp… | /r/MensRights | 04/01/13 02:36 PM |
| 2 | When will society recognize that circumcision is genital mutilation???What a pointless ad hominem. Please actually read the links, it's obvious you haven't so far. | /r/MensRights | 04/01/13 10:21 AM |
| 4 | New HIV/AIDS infections increased in Uganda between 07/08 and 10/11(after the mass circumcision campaigned was implemented)It's highly misleading. It's relative not absolute. The absolute figure is actually 1.3%, and there are other problems with that study too. | /r/MensRights | 04/01/13 12:52 AM |
| 5 | When will society recognize that circumcision is genital mutilation???Deficiencies of the 2012 American Academy of Pediatrics Report on Circumcision The AAP report on circumcision: Bad science + bad ethics = bad medicine Commentary on American Academy of Pediatrics 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement | /r/MensRights | 03/01/13 11:41 PM |
| 2 | I do not normally go on here... but MensRights may help me...Get her into therapy. She sounds like her beliefs are formed by her trauma and feminism is just what she uses to bolster her feelings. You aren't going to reason her out of this unless she starts healing from that trauma. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/13 11:24 PM |
| 2 | Storyline from a British soap opera that shows that men too can be abused by women and that it's not just the other way around.Hollyoaks has portrayed male victims of domestic abuse a couple of times too, one in a straight relationship, one in a gay relationship. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/13 11:21 PM |
| 1 | Men's Rights, Public Perception, and WikipediaI'm not sure why you seem so angry though I suggest you read this. Whether you intended to or not, you came across as being very snarky. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/13 09:24 PM |
| 11 | Just as a note: Paternal Rights is a Feminist project.how the Feminist movement is working towards paternal rights. Please post concrete examples of how the feminist movement has helped fathers' rights to /r/FeminismHelpingMen. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/13 11:18 AM |
| 1 | What does Men's Rights think about parental leave?Aside from the obvious issue of the immediate health considerations of giving birth, yes, this should be equal. If I remember correctly, countries with equal parental leave have a smaller wage gap. Unsurprising once you take into account that one of the reasons for the wage gap is that women's careers are negatively affected by taking parental leave - if a couple have the opportunity for the man to take parental leave instead, women's careers will be less negatively affected on average and the w… | /r/MensRights | 03/01/13 05:18 AM |
| 5 | When the best of r/MensRights and r/Feminism meet, on what specific points do they agree and disagree?Yes, I think a lot of people here would agree with a lot of feminism if it was actually the equality movement many feminists claim it to be. The trouble is that it's almost entirely lip service when it comes to anything other than helping women or attacking things perceived to be male. Obligatory plug for /r/FeminismHelpingMen/. In fact, whenever "How did you become an MRA" topics arise here, there's always a substantial number of MRAs who say that they started with feminism and became disillusi… | /r/MensRights | 02/01/13 09:26 PM |
| -3 | The saga continues: After Reddit CEO Yishan goes on the record as saying links to "investigative journalism" will not be removed, an admin has done just that in /r/MensRightsAside from the Reddit-specific issues, I suspect he might be able to get it published/linked more widely in more mainstream websites. | /r/MensRights | 02/01/13 03:05 PM |
| 12 | The saga continues: After Reddit CEO Yishan goes on the record as saying links to "investigative journalism" will not be removed, an admin has done just that in /r/MensRightsI'm sorry, I don't understand what you are saying. Could you put it a different way? | /r/MensRights | 02/01/13 01:35 PM |
| 123 | The saga continues: After Reddit CEO Yishan goes on the record as saying links to "investigative journalism" will not be removed, an admin has done just that in /r/MensRightsBecause they whip up hatred against the people here. Last year, somebody posted a suicide note here, and a bunch of them came along and laughed at him, posting things like "1 down, [number of readers in the sidebar] to go". Yes, they are stupid and childish, but that doesn't mean they can't hurt people here. | /r/MensRights | 02/01/13 01:11 PM |
| -2 | The saga continues: After Reddit CEO Yishan goes on the record as saying links to "investigative journalism" will not be removed, an admin has done just that in /r/MensRightsSo what led you to decide one was journalism and one was a sneering blogger? Read my comment again. Specifically, I said: Chen writes as if he's a journalist. one is presented in the form of journalism I do not think that Chen's hit piece was journalism, and I've said as much in the past. If you think I said that it was journalism, you should go back and read instead of skimming. From my view point, your argument about TONE is bullshit. You don't think people are judged on appearance's sake? Or … | /r/MensRights | 02/01/13 01:07 PM |
| -1 | The saga continues: After Reddit CEO Yishan goes on the record as saying links to "investigative journalism" will not be removed, an admin has done just that in /r/MensRightsI hate to say it, but tone doesn't matter in context of Reddit's stated policy on doxxing. Appearances shouldn't matter, but unfortunately, people give them a lot more weight than is warranted. A busy admin doesn't have time to familiarise themselves with gender studies. They open two pages. One looks like journalism, one likes like a hateful blogger. Of course they are going to be treated differently. It's not fair, but it's understandable. | /r/MensRights | 02/01/13 01:02 PM |
| 0 | To all those complaining about /r/mensrights recent attitude-shift...Ok, perhaps if you had been part of the movement for longer, you would be aware of this trolling and new people joining and pleading with the movement to go back to being quiet and polite and getting no where. I've been commenting here for four years, and I think the accusations of trolling are almost entirely unwarranted. Sure, there are some trolls, but for the most part "troll" is used in this subreddit by the more extreme members to complain about people who disagree with them about their be… | /r/MensRights | 02/01/13 12:58 PM |
| -9 | The saga continues: After Reddit CEO Yishan goes on the record as saying links to "investigative journalism" will not be removed, an admin has done just that in /r/MensRightsAs much as I dislike Gawker, there is one clear difference between their article and AVfM's: the tone. Chen writes as if he's a journalist. Elam just sneers at people. What's this childish "scthhum" nonsense? Taken at their most superficial levels, one is presented in the form of journalism, and one is presented in the form of a sneering blogger. Whether you like it or not, they will be judged on those aspects by many people. If you act like a child, your credibility nosedives. | /r/MensRights | 02/01/13 11:52 AM |
| 13 | Men's Rights, Public Perception, and WikipediaYes, this comes up from time to time. You might be interested in this submission. Searching the subreddit for Wikipedia should turn up a few more submissions along similar lines. | /r/MensRights | 02/01/13 11:40 AM |
| 1 | Please pay attention to who you're upvoting in this sub. This post and several others are being HEAVILY concern trolled by feminists who have no other history ever commenting here.When a user breaks certain rules, for instance spamming or posting another user's personal details, the admins can institute a ban on that user that makes it look like the site is operating normally, but their submissions and comments only show up for themselves, not anybody else. Moderators of a subreddit cannot do this. Only the admins of Reddit - i.e. the people who run the website itself. | /r/MensRights | 02/01/13 11:25 AM |
| 0 | Please pay attention to who you're upvoting in this sub. This post and several others are being HEAVILY concern trolled by feminists who have no other history ever commenting here.Face it, the majority of /r/mensrights wants to kiss feminist ass. If you actually believe this then frankly you are delusional. Your beliefs are completely contradicted by what anybody can see with their own two eyes. Anti-feminist stuff gets posted and upvoted here on a daily basis. The top link today with thousands of upvotes is a picture of a feminist with a sneering title attacking feminism. If /r/MensRights is too feminist for you, then by all means unsubscribe and subscribe to /r/mensrigh… | /r/MensRights | 02/01/13 08:38 AM |
| 3 | Please pay attention to who you're upvoting in this sub. This post and several others are being HEAVILY concern trolled by feminists who have no other history ever commenting here.What's "more mature". Reddit has never been "mature". This subreddit has certainly been more mature than it currently is. I've been a reader of this sub for a long time despite the recent age of the account I'm posting under And we're supposed to take your word for that? While you complain about other people's lack of comment histories? there is a definite increase in "stop being such meanies to those sweet virtuous feminists, you nasty evil dudebros!" here lately Of course there are more compla… | /r/MensRights | 01/01/13 11:51 PM |
| 11 | Please pay attention to who you're upvoting in this sub. This post and several others are being HEAVILY concern trolled by feminists who have no other history ever commenting here.I swear, 95% of the time I see people accused of being "concern trolls" in here these days, it's because somebody is offended that somebody else isn't angry and hateful enough. I distinctly remember a couple of years ago I had a conversation in here where people were laughing about how feminists had turned on one of their own for saying something sensible about men's rights, calling them a concern troll. It seemed so bizarre and paranoid to everybody here. And now look at the state of this place… | /r/MensRights | 01/01/13 11:15 PM |
| 3 | The only thing worse than a hipster is a male feminist hipsterI wondered if he actually knows what's written on his sign. Possibly not. The last time robert32907 posted an image like this, the writing on it had been Photoshopped. | /r/MensRights | 31/12/12 02:38 PM |
| 8 | Apparently r/MensRights is a racially motivated hate group in the eyes of r/RacismIt seems the thread has been deleted (or at least I can't find it anywhere) but there was a thread that broke down the user demographics for /r/menrights and /r/whiterights was the second biggest cross-over, after /r/atheism. It was certainly many, many, many more than two or three users. Here it is. You'll notice that the "many, many, many" cross-over users total 17 out of a community of 56 thousand. For comparison, the number of cross-over users with /r/againstmensrights is 16. And rather than… | /r/MensRights | 29/12/12 09:21 PM |
| 0 | 2006: US DOJ REFUSED to fund #VAWA studies focusing on violence against men. PDF, see page 6, section K-4I'm not familiar enough with USA politics to be sure, but those have always struck me as dog whistle terms. | /r/MensRights | 29/12/12 08:59 PM |
| 12 | Apparently r/MensRights is a racially motivated hate group in the eyes of r/Racism/r/mensrights and /r/whiterights have a big cross-over audience They have a crossover audience, but I wouldn't call it big by any means. There are what, two or three people who post to both? I believe /r/mensrights used to be moderated by some of the same people who moderate /r/whiterights. I don't think this is true. Who are you thinking of? Or are you getting /r/MensRights mixed up with /r/Rights4Men? There was a smear campaign against pn6 where he was accused of posting to /r/WhiteRights, but… | /r/MensRights | 29/12/12 08:53 PM |
| 6 | Don't think this has been posted: Circumcision article in the Guardian.I think he's their token 'mens stuff' writer to compensate for the hordes of screeching feminists they have on comment is free I've said it here before and I'll say it again: Anybody here can pitch an article to Comment is Free. You don't have to be a professional journalist. If you're seeing a lot of authors you don't like on there, it's because they are the ones that have taken the time to pitch and write articles. Ally Fogg is not a "Guardian writer", he's not on staff, he's a freelancer. | /r/MensRights | 19/12/12 10:42 AM |
| 4 | Don't think this has been posted: Circumcision article in the Guardian.I don't recall hearing anybody complaining about "backstreet practices" of female circumcision when it was getting banned. Nor anybody justifying keeping it legal as a result. The American Academy of Pediatrics tried. You can guess how well it was received. | /r/MensRights | 19/12/12 10:30 AM |
| -2 | Who are the Extremist MRAs and what do you think of them?An egalitarian is actually advocating for a system of female supremacy Demonspawn is an example of an extremist MRA and I think he's fucking nuts. | /r/MensRights | 14/12/12 01:02 PM |
| 3 | Who are the Extremist MRAs and what do you think of them?They want men to retain the privilege in areas they once had. Actually, some of them advocate taking away the right to vote from women and some men, so they are actually arguing for reducing men's rights. They are more attached to their extreme right-wing politics than they are to men's rights, to the point where they want to harm men's rights, yet they insist they are MRAs. | /r/MensRights | 14/12/12 01:00 PM |
| 3 | Poster in memory of Thomas J Ball who will for always be an MRA hero.The only time I've ever seen him described as an MRA hero is by people who hate MRAs. This is a picture of a naked man with an erect penis. This was posted by a brand new account. They have since posted a comment advocating violence against a woman for writing a sex novel: She ought to have her ass smacked so it stays red for a long time the filthy vile cunt corrupting children. Yep, obvious troll. | /r/MensRights | 11/12/12 04:30 PM |
| 280 | Feminist blames men after asking them to leave film festival: "It is clear that those making trouble and 'sabotaging' the festival are those who complained and demanded refunds."Except, for the record, that wasn't quite what happened. As the transcript of the event makes clear, what I in fact said at the beginning of the panel discussion was: "I just wonder if there are any men that would like to show their solidarity and leave at this point, out of respect for autonomous women's space. It's a polite invitation, but I just thought you might like to consider it, as political allies. Thank you." [Cheers and applause.] It is fascinating that such a mildly expressed invitat… | /r/MensRights | 11/12/12 01:45 PM |
| 22 | How is this possible? Magic rape?It is Photoshopped. Here's the same photo with a different message on it. | /r/MensRights | 11/12/12 01:26 PM |
| 18 | "So-called “men’s rights activist” Paul Elam has started a campaign of harassment against a University of Toronto student for the “crime” of attending a pro-feminist demonstration"They are calling it a "pro-feminist demonstration"? Take their press tactics and turn them on their head. Take screen caps of the "pro-feminist demonstration" where they are clearly acting like thugs or children, and overlay them with quotes like "FUCKING SCUM" and "FUCKING PIGS". Put a call to action on it along the lines of "Watch this 'pro-feminist' demonstration at http://youtube/..." Top it off by slapping the slogan "This is what a feminist looks like." we've all heard so many times on it.… | /r/MensRights | 11/12/12 12:22 PM |
| 3 | Judge has sex with the ex-wife of a man that couldn't pay child support, the judge lets the woman pick the sentence for her ex-husband: 150 days in jail. JUDGE GETS SPERMJACKED by the woman. Now pregnant she makes the affair public, the Judge will probably lose his job and have to pay child support!If only unreliable sources are reporting on something, that's a big warning sign that the Daily Mail has made something up again. | /r/MensRights | 10/12/12 12:59 PM |
| 5 | 24/female/violentI'm just lucky I'm weak and never caused any real damage If you are doing this to loved ones, your physical strength is not necessarily what will damage them most. The deepest wounds are invisible. I agree with everybody else who has said you should get counselling or enrolled in a programme of some sort. Posting here isn't the best way to address this. | /r/MensRights | 10/12/12 01:30 AM |
| 7 | I think we can all agree that this is an excellent productUnexplained sedative drug exposure was detected in only 2 (3%) participants. [...] Use of sedative drugs to spike drinks may not be as common as reported in the mainstream media. -- What’s being used to spike your drink? Alleged spiked drink cases in inner city London. In 21 cases (2%), a sedative or disinhibiting drug was detected which had not been admitted and could therefore be an instance of deliberate spiking. -- Toxicological findings in cases of alleged drug-facilitated sexual assault in… | /r/MensRights | 04/12/12 06:03 PM |
| 4 | TIL Male rape victims can be held accountable for child support. (X-post from r/TIL)There are more cases cited in this article, including one from Kansas saying: This State's interest in requiring minor parents to support their children overrieds the State's competing interest in protecting juveniles from improvident acts, even when such acts may include criminal activity on the part of the other parent.... This minor child, the only truly innocent party, is entitled to support from both her parents regardless of their ages. The mother wasn't charged with the statutory rape of … | /r/MensRights | 30/11/12 11:23 AM |
| 1 | Man kills himself due to having been circumcised as an infant.Penile subincision (not safe for work, obviously). | /r/MensRights | 30/11/12 02:51 AM |
| 1 | Man kills himself due to having been circumcised as an infant.Please pay a visit to /r/suicidewatch. They've helped a lot of people who feel like you to find hope and comfort. | /r/MensRights | 29/11/12 11:14 PM |
| 2 | Man kills himself due to having been circumcised as an infant.While some complications may arise when a man is circumcised, it is not the same for the woman. If you were to compare the two, it would have to be the head of the penis that is cut off. Please stop perpetuating this misconception. There are several types of FGM. Some are far more harmful than typical western MGM, some are far more benign than typical western MGM. You are cherry-picking the most harmful types of FGM. Some types of FGM are a pinprick. You think that's like chopping the head of a … | /r/MensRights | 29/11/12 11:12 PM |
| 1 | Please - everyone sign this White House petition to ban non medical circumcisions under the age of 18.. We can make a difference.That's not the way politics works in the USA. The president has much less control over the law than you seem to believe. "Obama won't like this" is not a good reason to dismiss this. | /r/MensRights | 28/11/12 10:10 PM |
| 13 | My first small step into activism. (picture of what motivated me)Here's a few more links about domestic violence in Scotland, from an older comment of mine: 60% said it was acceptable for women to hit their husbands while 35% admitted assaulting their partner. A total of 8% admitted injuring them young men aged 16-24 experienced physical and/or psychological abuse more often than young women and more often than any other demographic group. Alison Waugh and Jackie Walls called on the Scottish government to ensure domestic abuse campaigns addressed the needs of… | /r/MensRights | 26/11/12 02:45 AM |
| 1 | Why many Redditors have been duped into believing men and women are biologically exactly the same!Nobody thinks that men and women are biologically exactly the same. It's a stupid straw man used by people who want to manipulate you into disliking particular points of view. You were probably downvoted because you said something utterly pointless or misinterpreted what somebody was saying. There's no need to point out that men and women are biologically different, everybody knows and agrees with this. | /r/MensRights | 21/11/12 10:28 PM |
| 2 | Website that allows university students to meet for casual sex charges £5 for men -- free for womenPlease don't link to the Daily Mail. | /r/MensRights | 21/11/12 12:51 PM |
| 1 | Pretty good manifesto. [UK statistics]It's a problem that people see #8 as something that isn't covered under #1. | /r/MensRights | 21/11/12 12:00 AM |
| 3 | Paternity testing is misogyny.As previously seen on Reddit: Over-the-counter paternity tests introduced in the UK; criticised. | /r/MensRights | 19/11/12 09:22 PM |
| 2 | NEW RULE: Crossposting to small subreddits for new threads is no longer allowed./r/firstworldanarchists | /r/MensRights | 15/11/12 12:08 PM |
| 12 | NEW RULE: Crossposting to small subreddits for new threads is no longer allowed.Reported, for breaking the rule about crossposting to small subreddits :). | /r/MensRights | 15/11/12 03:48 AM |
| 0 | Why "Men's Rights" and not simply Egalitarianism?I'm trying to show you that even though a law is only applicable to one sex, it might be unfair to the other. The law is not unfair, biology is. Why should the mother have the right to murder her unborn child, but not the father? Because it's growing inside the mother, not the father. | /r/MensRights | 13/11/12 03:06 AM |
| -1 | Why "Men's Rights" and not simply Egalitarianism?They both restrict one sex from doing something based on an anatomical feature of the other. How does the abortion law do that? | /r/MensRights | 13/11/12 02:47 AM |
| 0 | Why "Men's Rights" and not simply Egalitarianism?So if I make a law that says anyone without a penis can't vote, it would be equality under the law because it is an unfortunate consequence of our biology that women do not have a penis. It is not relevant to equal rights under the law because the law doesn't define who has a penis. Are you trolling or have you decided that egalitarianism must be wrong and worked backwards to find some justification for this no matter how ridiculous? Do you seriously not see the difference between the two laws? … | /r/MensRights | 13/11/12 02:37 AM |
| 0 | Why "Men's Rights" and not simply Egalitarianism?But why should only the mother and not the father have rights to the fetus? Because it's growing inside the mother and not the father. That doesn't seem very egalitarian. You just moved the goalposts. Remember: If you restate that as "equality under the law," Emphasis mine. We were talking about equal rights under the law. The inequality here is an unfortunate consequence of our biology. It is not relevant to equal rights under the law because the law does not define who a foetus grows inside. | /r/MensRights | 13/11/12 02:11 AM |
| -1 | Why "Men's Rights" and not simply Egalitarianism?The obvious formulation of the law is that you are allowed to abort a foetus growing within yourself. That's equality under the law. | /r/MensRights | 13/11/12 01:49 AM |
| 1 | Why "Men's Rights" and not simply Egalitarianism?Please give a specific example, those are very large areas and open-ended questions. | /r/MensRights | 13/11/12 01:09 AM |
| 1 | Why "Men's Rights" and not simply Egalitarianism?If you restate that as "equality under the law," how do you handle cases where laws for men and women have to be different because of their differing anatomy? Can you give an example of such a law? | /r/MensRights | 12/11/12 10:46 PM |
| 3 | Why "Men's Rights" and not simply Egalitarianism?Well the issue here seems to be my use of egalitarianism. What then is egalitarianism actually? As I said I've been under the impression it focuses on equal rights for men and women, no more, no less. It seems I'm wrong on that front. You aren't, it's just there's a vocal minority of people against equality here and they like to mischaracterise egalitarianism as some kind of genderless robot union aiming to stamp out individuality because they can't argue against the real thing. | /r/MensRights | 12/11/12 10:46 PM |
| 1 | What Makes People Think We're Mysoganistic - We Get Lumped In With These TypesDid you quote the wrong thing? You seem to be implying I'm defending feminism in a sentence that doesn't mention feminism at all. | /r/MensRights | 08/11/12 02:49 PM |
| 2 | What Makes People Think We're Mysoganistic - We Get Lumped In With These Typesyou are a centrist accusing all of those to the (left/right) of you of being extremists. Take another look at my comment. I didn't do that, in fact what I said and what you attribute to me are mutually exclusive opinions. You could turn and accuse me of using subtle interpretation as a means of hiding misogyny and re-labeling it militant Again, you are putting words in my mouth. Your above post is little better than what a militant feminist will do when they come to the /r/mr board and try and r… | /r/MensRights | 08/11/12 03:08 AM |
| 5 | What Makes People Think We're Mysoganistic - We Get Lumped In With These TypesEgalitarianism is a dirty word to these kinds of people. Both the hateful MRAs and the hateful feminists think egalitarians are their enemy. By virtue of the fact that it isn't supporting any particular "team", chauvinists are not attracted to it in the same way they are with explicitly gendered movements. If you say hateful things about women and call yourself an MRA, you can get away with it as long as you make a show about supporting men's rights. If you say hateful things about men and call … | /r/MensRights | 07/11/12 10:21 PM |
| 2 | What Makes People Think We're Mysoganistic - We Get Lumped In With These TypesYou lump yourselves in with them by calling yourself an MRA. When you call yourself an MRA, you join a movement that includes these people. If you want to be part of a movement that supports the rights of men while excluding people like this, you want egalitarianism, not the MRM. | /r/MensRights | 07/11/12 08:29 PM |
| 15 | Apparently the phrase "die cis scum" was invented by the Men's Rights Movement. /sYou're misrepresenting my position here. I never claimed there was "an appreciable number of people" who are influenced to become trans because of female privilege. I'm stating that there is an effect. You said this: If women didn't have all the special privileges there would be fewer MtFs. If it's not an appreciable amount, then it's not really worth talking about. As I understand it, there is physical evidence in the form of structural differences in the brain. I'd love to see it if you have a… | /r/MensRights | 06/11/12 02:25 PM |
| 32 | Apparently the phrase "die cis scum" was invented by the Men's Rights Movement. /sI'm not saying it affects the conscious decision process, but you can't say it has no effect either. I think if you're going to argue that an appreciable number of people are trans because they feel they can gain privileges that way, the burden is on you to show this effect rather than on anybody else to show that it doesn't exist. At some point they decide they're a woman trapped in a man's body. All physical evidence points to the contrary. As I understand it, there is physical evidence in the… | /r/MensRights | 06/11/12 12:21 PM |
| 56 | Apparently the phrase "die cis scum" was invented by the Men's Rights Movement. /sI don't think an appreciable number of people are trans because they want the privileges of the opposite gender. | /r/MensRights | 06/11/12 11:56 AM |
| 19 | Apparently the phrase "die cis scum" was invented by the Men's Rights Movement. /sI don't think they are blaming the MRM here. And men’s entryism into feminism and women’s spaces is nothing new. In this sentence, the "men" they are referring to are trans women. There's a certain type of radical feminist that considers trans women to be men trying to sneak their way into the enemy camp. | /r/MensRights | 06/11/12 10:21 AM |
| 3 | Saw this on r/AskmenThe only thing I'd add to that is to say that I think the difference in accountability is a symptom rather than a cause. The attitude that's most relevant is the perception that sex is something a man does to a woman rather than a mutual activity. That turns a drunken mistake by two people into an event with an attacker and a victim. | /r/MensRights | 05/11/12 01:57 PM |
| 14 | 286 scholarly investigations: 221 empirical studies and 65 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 partners2.) Any hardcore feminist will dismiss everything there because empirical information and scientific study is just another form of 'mansplaining' and the feminist knows 'in her vagina' that all men are evil oppressive potential rapists. A bit hyperbolic, but check this out from the first time I cited this, four years ago: You cite one study, from California State University, Long Beach. One study, from a community college, when all research into sexual violence points in the other direction. If … | /r/MensRights | 02/11/12 06:20 PM |
| 14 | So I commented on an r/socialism article about fgm saying that circumcision is also terrible. This was the response.A lot of them are convinced the only type of FGM is the most severe kind and the only type of MGM is the most benign kind. Point out that there are types of FGM that are exactly the same as typical western MGM and there are types of FGM that are far more benign. Link to the WHO page on FGM, they seem to respect that as a source. | /r/MensRights | 02/11/12 11:48 AM |
| 8 | Did i do anything wrong?Yeah, I've had people politely ask to go in front of me, and I've let them every time. Sometimes people are in a hurry for whatever reason, and it's not going to make much difference to me. But if somebody were to make a fuss like that, there's no way I'd do it just on principle. | /r/MensRights | 01/11/12 12:02 AM |
| 1 | Girlfriend recently told me that she was pregnant and I'm gonna be a dad. Within a few hours of this announcement, she completely changed and has been threatening that I'll never see or have custody of the child.Raising a kid is tough, especially if you're single. If she doesn't want to use you for support, what's she going to do with the kid when she has to go to work or have a day off from raising the kid? For most people, their support structure for raising their kids is their family. If you aren't an option to her, is she planning on leaving the kid with her parents? She might have been against it before, but as you say, she's radically changed her stance recently, and don't underestimate how desper… | /r/MensRights | 31/10/12 03:59 PM |
| 4 | Girlfriend recently told me that she was pregnant and I'm gonna be a dad. Within a few hours of this announcement, she completely changed and has been threatening that I'll never see or have custody of the child.You sound pretty young. How's your relationship with her parents? They are going to be the grandparents of this kid, and hopefully you'll be seeing a lot of them. Try to get them on side ASAP, show them you want to be a good father. If anything is going to enable her to cut you out of the kid's life, it's going to be them, so you want to give them as little reason as possible for them to go along with it and you want to build a communication channel between you and them that doesn't go through h… | /r/MensRights | 31/10/12 02:59 PM |
| 21 | Why don't feminists go after lesbians? Are they incapable of abuse and misogyny?If I recall correctly, the domestic violence rate is slightly higher in lesbian relationships than heterosexual ones. | /r/MensRights | 21/10/12 11:57 PM |
| 30 | Hi /r/mensrights. Girl here. I was wondering if I can get some advice? (If I'm in the wrong subreddit, please tell me where to go)I agree with everybody who says that your therapist is the best person to help you through this. I would reconsider asking TwoX though, people there probably have more insight into fear of men and your experiences as a girl than the people here. Alternatively there is also /r/LadyMRAs and /r/FeMRA. | /r/MensRights | 21/10/12 07:03 PM |
| 10 | Somebody is creating fake accounts that mimic former MR mods and posting supposed personal information of SRSersAlmost the same. Not even SRS take Aerik seriously, I think he's banned from there or something. | /r/MensRights | 19/10/12 10:26 PM |
| 2 | If you have reason to believe you're about to be doxxed like VA was by Gawker. Here is a script that scrubs your account before you delete it. Since reddit won't take a hard stance on this issue it is likely to happen more often now.Yes (and if you aren't technical enough to evaluate the code for yourself, I suggest waiting until others have had a chance to vet it). | /r/MensRights | 15/10/12 07:25 PM |
| 5 | If you have reason to believe you're about to be doxxed like VA was by Gawker. Here is a script that scrubs your account before you delete it. Since reddit won't take a hard stance on this issue it is likely to happen more often now.I don't have a question. I'm simply pointing out a fact. Giving them your login details will give them complete control over your account and you have absolutely no guarantee that they will run that script and only that script. Furthermore, there is nothing they can do to provide such a guarantee to you. This approach requires you to put absolute trust in them. If you have personal information you want to remove, for all you know, they will be making it worse by making a backup that you will no … | /r/MensRights | 15/10/12 04:00 PM |
| 11 | If you have reason to believe you're about to be doxxed like VA was by Gawker. Here is a script that scrubs your account before you delete it. Since reddit won't take a hard stance on this issue it is likely to happen more often now.They are about to publish the code so you can see exactly what its doing No, publishing the code means you can see exactly what the code would do if you ran it. You've got no way of knowing what they will do with your account if you give them your login details. Just because they claim to be running this script, it doesn't mean they will, or that this is the only thing they will do with your account. | /r/MensRights | 15/10/12 03:42 PM |
| 2 | Starting a new subredditIf its purpose is for the aggregation of information about these people, and personal information is banned, what kinds of information are you collecting about them and why? | /r/MensRights | 15/10/12 01:56 PM |
| 14 | /r/Creepshots and /r/violentacrez taken over by SRS by blackmailing with doxxing info. Apparently r/MensRights is next.They phoned his employer and told them he was a member of a hate group. | /r/MensRights | 10/10/12 09:35 PM |
| 12 | /r/Creepshots and /r/violentacrez taken over by SRS by blackmailing with doxxing info. Apparently r/MensRights is next.Reddit admins (as oppossed to moderators) definitely have access to your IP address. If that's in any doubt, just go to your user page and click on the "account activity" link in the right-hand sidebar. It will list all the IP addresses you've used to access the site recently. | /r/MensRights | 10/10/12 09:28 PM |
| 1 | /r/Creepshots and /r/violentacrez taken over by SRS by blackmailing with doxxing info. Apparently r/MensRights is next.I think reddit.com is a User-Acc that all the admins can access. Reddit started out without the concept of subreddits. It then split into several subreddits moderated by the admins, with the front page being the /r/reddit.com subreddit (due to the fact that the original format was example.reddit.com not reddit.com/r/example). After that, they allowed user-created subreddits, and then after that they retired the /r/reddit.com subreddit. Basically, messaging /r/reddit.com is a leftover from Reddit… | /r/MensRights | 10/10/12 09:22 PM |
| -1 | The political standing of this movement?I've seen several posts recently and a lot over my time here that bash on leftists, democrats or any form of liberalism. Why is that? It's the same small handful of kooks who shout as loudly as possible in an attempt to dissuade anybody to the left of the KKK from participating here. Count the usernames and discount the days-old accounts (when they get banned, they register a new name and start again). There's hardly anybody saying it, they are just shouting as loudly as they can and making a nu… | /r/MensRights | 10/10/12 08:23 PM |
| 2 | New to Men's Rights, Looking for InsightsI obviously don't want to call and say "I know this has been an ordeal and your son has been terrible but that is no reason you shouldn't spend time with your granddaughter." I think if you skip the middle bit, it's not so far off. It sounds like nobody is really happy with how things are at the moment, and there's no harm in acknowledging that. If you frame it as "We're all struggling at the moment, this might improve things for everybody, especially [the child], and help solve XYZ problems we'… | /r/MensRights | 10/10/12 03:33 PM |
| 37 | Feminist here with an honest question--before you bite, hear me out...If that really were the case, would you feel better/worse/the same about feminism in general/possibly be willing to consider yourself a feminist if you don't already? Why or why not? If feminism and egalitarianism were synonymous, then the term "feminism" would be pointless. A lot of people here identify as egalitarian and a few identify as anti-egalitarian. That's what you get when you unnecessarily tie a rights movement to one gender. The same applies to feminism. I'm assuming the subtext is t… | /r/MensRights | 10/10/12 02:56 PM |
| 5 | New to Men's Rights, Looking for InsightsMaybe work on building a relationship between yourself and his parents directly? If they are keen to be a part of her life and he isn't so keen, there's no reason why her grandfather can't be a positive male role model. It also solves the problem of them only hearing what he tells them, and it could be useful if he's having trouble meeting you. What if you suggested dropping her off at the weekend at his parents' house? They would get to spend time with their grandchild, your daughter would get … | /r/MensRights | 10/10/12 02:37 PM |
| 2 | An egalitarian guide to gauging of consent - Simple steps that are easy for any partner to remember and followThis article seems relevant. | /r/MensRights | 10/10/12 09:34 AM |
| 1 | An egalitarian guide to gauging of consent - Simple steps that are easy for any partner to remember and followYep. | /r/MensRights | 10/10/12 09:34 AM |
| 3 | MensRights is so much more welcoming than R/feminism.Thanks for been reasonable logical human beings.If you try and post and have a discussion on a topic in feminism you get told to post in askafeminist and there are no downvotes.I think this shows feminism is one giant circlejerk.some people will take advantage of whatever they think they can. So, yeah some women may shoot their mouths off when they have someone there to defend them. I've seen the same behavior from men. Women may use shame to get men to do things for them, but men may use shame to get women to do things for them too... it's just those things differ. Can't we just call those people jerks and not turn it into a sex war? This thread began because you were claiming women were universally good in one particu… | /r/MensRights | 08/10/12 08:02 AM |
| 6 | MensRights is so much more welcoming than R/feminism.Thanks for been reasonable logical human beings.If you try and post and have a discussion on a topic in feminism you get told to post in askafeminist and there are no downvotes.I think this shows feminism is one giant circlejerk.Wow, the white feather brigade has now sunk to the level of claiming something is Nazism online. I can't figure out what you are trying to say here. Trust me, women weren't happy about it and they sure as hell didn't invent or support the policy. I guess none of the men and women mentioned in this article existed? | /r/MensRights | 07/10/12 10:35 PM |
| 7 | MensRights is so much more welcoming than R/feminism.Thanks for been reasonable logical human beings.If you try and post and have a discussion on a topic in feminism you get told to post in askafeminist and there are no downvotes.I think this shows feminism is one giant circlejerk.You're cherry picking quotes from the study I'm pointing out that the study is directly contradicting you. this study explains that disparity. No, it doesn't. It's your interpretation that this explains the disparity, this is not a claim made by the study's authors. In fact, what the study says contradicts the idea that the difference in grades is merely a reflection of the students' perceptions: Interestingly, an analysis of teachers’ grading practices shows that these belief only partially mat… | /r/MensRights | 07/10/12 10:08 PM |
| 4 | MensRights is so much more welcoming than R/feminism.Thanks for been reasonable logical human beings.If you try and post and have a discussion on a topic in feminism you get told to post in askafeminist and there are no downvotes.I think this shows feminism is one giant circlejerk.in fact women probably would all vote against a draft. If I recall correctly, women are more in favour of war and a draft than men by a small but significant percentage, particularly those on the right of the political spectrum. Even if I'm misremembering the study though, I think there's very little chance that all women are against the draft. Consider, for example, the white feather brigade, where women bullied men into enlisting. Women don't want their sons, their brothers, their husbands, th… | /r/MensRights | 07/10/12 09:59 PM |
| 8 | MensRights is so much more welcoming than R/feminism.Thanks for been reasonable logical human beings.If you try and post and have a discussion on a topic in feminism you get told to post in askafeminist and there are no downvotes.I think this shows feminism is one giant circlejerk.It isn't teachers who are biased here. From the paper: Recent literature on teacher’s grading practices has found consistent, even if sometimes small, biases along the lines of gender, race, and ethnicity. Lavy (2008) finds that in Israel, male students are systematically given lower grades in all fields when graded non anonymously at the high-school matriculation exam and finds that these results are sensitive to the gender of the teacher. Dee (2007) also found that teachers give better grades … | /r/MensRights | 07/10/12 09:40 PM |
| 8 | MensRights is so much more welcoming than R/feminism.Thanks for been reasonable logical human beings.If you try and post and have a discussion on a topic in feminism you get told to post in askafeminist and there are no downvotes.I think this shows feminism is one giant circlejerk.It isn't the teachers who are discriminating Yes it is. The next sentence from the abstract you quoted: Our results show systematic gender interaction effects: male students invest less with female teachers than with male teachers while female students invest more with male teachers than with female teachers. Interestingly, female students’ perceptions are not in line with actual discrimination: Teachers tend to give better grades to students of their own gender. Results do not suggest that ethn… | /r/MensRights | 07/10/12 09:03 PM |
| 5 | MensRights is so much more welcoming than R/feminism.Thanks for been reasonable logical human beings.If you try and post and have a discussion on a topic in feminism you get told to post in askafeminist and there are no downvotes.I think this shows feminism is one giant circlejerk.You're vastly distorting what actually happened. I won't get into specifics because it's hard to do so without mentioning certain things, but let's put it this way: it's wasn't just the moderators and participants of /r/MensRights that thought you were trolling. The moderators of the other subreddit did as well. I won't hide who I am Who you are is somebody who has persistently trolled this subreddit and acted despicably towards people in it. If you choose to identify yourself as this troll, the… | /r/MensRights | 07/10/12 08:12 PM |
| 7 | MensRights is so much more welcoming than R/feminism.Thanks for been reasonable logical human beings.If you try and post and have a discussion on a topic in feminism you get told to post in askafeminist and there are no downvotes.I think this shows feminism is one giant circlejerk.And that is in my past I'm sorry, but the moderators believed you when you said that in the past and as soon as you were unbanned, you started trolling again. I wasn't trolling anyone with my posts Yes, you were, and it was fucking despicable. I've told you before, if you genuinely want to participate here, you should do so with a new account. It's impossible to assume good faith with your history. You make new accounts over and over again, the only reason you have to keep identifying yourself w… | /r/MensRights | 07/10/12 07:59 PM |
| 8 | MensRights is so much more welcoming than R/feminism.Thanks for been reasonable logical human beings.If you try and post and have a discussion on a topic in feminism you get told to post in askafeminist and there are no downvotes.I think this shows feminism is one giant circlejerk.Appeals to pseudo-intellect, and emotion run rampant. Aren't you the guy with umpteen accounts who was banned here for repeatedly calling everybody in here "MRApists" then taking your trolling all over Reddit lying about this subreddit. | /r/MensRights | 07/10/12 07:46 PM |
| 8 | Buzzfeed thinks that it's surprising that Men's rights members were reasonable to a female poster about her rape.It's important to be helpful and supportive to anyone who appears to be genuine - regardless of whether they are or not. Agreed. I thought there was a good chance it was a troll, but I commented as if it were genuine. If it's a troll then... what - they somehow won because somebody said they were raped and I was sympathetic? Who cares? But if it's not a troll, then treating them like one does nothing but add to their problems. I suggest if you want to talk about how a person like this is a troll… | /r/MensRights | 02/10/12 06:32 AM |
| -1 | Buzzfeed thinks that it's surprising that Men's rights members were reasonable to a female poster about her rape.honestly raped I thought the term you guys were using now was "genuine rape"? | /r/MensRights | 02/10/12 06:29 AM |
| 2 | Sexist posters have appeared all over my college blaming men for rape and sexual assault. What Should I do?But they still have to fit our (& admin's) definition of spam, which is LINKS with a financial motive/gain usually. So you're saying that this isn't spam because the links are embedded in images and YouTube descriptions instead of in the comments themselves? Isn't that a bit like saying the email spam tactic a while back that consisted of blank emails with image attachments to avoid spam filters wasn't really spam? The fact that the links aren't in the comments themselves is a spam filter avoida… | /r/MensRights | 02/10/12 06:07 AM |
| 2 | Sexist posters have appeared all over my college blaming men for rape and sexual assault. What Should I do?They aren't trolls, they are spammers. They believe in what they are saying. They run a $20/mo course on their website. That's what they are pushing with all this crap - everything they post has a link to their website where they charge for the course. They choose this style of interaction to appeal to their target demographics - people who hate women. Supporting evidence for them being spammers: Post from over two years ago from the creator of this subreddit complaining about them spamming. Ple… | /r/MensRights | 01/10/12 07:46 PM |
| 39 | I am a feMRA who was date raped. How should I go about getting justice?Go to the police. Now. People here are concerned with abuse of the system, but if you were raped, then involving the police isn't abusing the system, it's doing the right thing. | /r/MensRights | 01/10/12 03:41 PM |
| 3 | Sexist posters have appeared all over my college blaming men for rape and sexual assault. What Should I do?Whenever anybody sees this shit from Manhood Academy, submit their user page to /r/reportthespammers and also hit the report button here to notify the /r/MensRights moderators so they can remove the comment and ban them. This typically results in their user account getting banned from Reddit and they are forced to create a new account. If they realise this happens every time they post this shit to this subreddit, they'll stay away. Example. Edit: I just received this PM from the charming little … | /r/MensRights | 01/10/12 11:29 AM |
| 4 | Interesting Google Trends results on Men's RightsOne of the things I find interesting is the cyclic period of the graph. I wonder what causes that. It seems to peak in winter and fall during summer. Speculation: fathers who can't see their kids feel it most around the holidays, and fathers with intermittent access have their worries assuaged by seeing their kids on Father's Day. | /r/MensRights | 30/09/12 09:11 PM |
| 2 | In light of the incalculable damage feminism has done, in light of our society being on the brink of irretrievable and total collapse, I think women need to ask themselves, individually and collectively: Was it worth it?Women are not making our society collapse, you paranoid halfwit. | /r/MensRights | 22/09/12 05:41 PM |
| 3 | Interesting thread on how men feel they are attractive (or unattractive) to women/r/ladyboners | /r/MensRights | 17/09/12 11:51 PM |
| 1 | It's Easier to Get Banned from /r/atheismplus than /r/pyongyangProbably because you're on the list. | /r/MensRights | 17/09/12 04:38 PM |
| 3 | It's Easier to Get Banned from /r/atheismplus than /r/pyongyangProbably because you're on the list. | /r/MensRights | 17/09/12 04:37 PM |
| 7 | New Means Available to Prevent HIVgqbrielle is an SRSer who likes to say things like " die male scum". They also use alt accounts. | /r/MensRights | 17/09/12 10:04 AM |
| 6 | Needed links / studies about women who wilfully get drunk to improve their own attitudes / chances at getting sexA third of 16 to 35-year-old men and 23% of women questioned said they drank to increase their chance of sex. - BBC News, four years old. | /r/MensRights | 16/09/12 10:03 PM |
| 4 | My friend saw this in Vancouver...Derek Berdy is going to have a very hard time finding work as a journalist from now on. Depends. The second hit on Google for his name is to the article on A Voice for Men pointing out that he manufactured a story then lied about it. The problem though, is that the article is written in such a sneering tone that it's impossible to take seriously. So when a potential employer asks him to explain the article and he says that it's just somebody with a grudge against him, he's believable. Yet anothe… | /r/MensRights | 16/09/12 12:56 PM |
| 11 | Extreme porn: going too far?There are some rights you can't waive with a contract. For instance, no matter what the contract said, if she changes her mind about fucking them, they don't get to fuck her anyway. A contract where somebody agrees to be raped is not legally valid. The consent issues here are complicated: there is no point in having a safe word when you can't talk. I was clawing at their legs and slapping their thighs and they still wouldn't let up. On the one hand, if she's trying to get them to stop and they w… | /r/MensRights | 15/09/12 11:46 AM |
| 2 | New App - developed by the group Men Can Stop Rape - Could Help College Students Report Sexual AssaultI thought offshored apps were bad. Now I've seen one by a Women's and Gender Studies graduate. What a mess. | /r/MensRights | 14/09/12 05:59 PM |
| 3 | I just received this email from my mom. I don't know how much this has gotten out, but I was not too happy with the message.This e-mail should probably be taken seriously because the Crying Baby Theory was mentioned on America 's Most Wanted when they profiled the serial killer in Louisiana. Then that's a great reason not to take this email seriously, because anybody who did the slightest amount of fact-checking on this email would find that the police task force assigned to the case explicitly denied this rumour. Check out the Snopes link somebody else posted. If the person who put this email together fell for an im… | /r/MensRights | 13/09/12 10:19 AM |
| 2 | SRS moderators abusing bot-comments to obtain moderatorship in /r/circlejerk [x-post from subredditdrama]Yeah, nothing new there. AlyoshaV is the person who runs the bot telling everybody how mean SRD is, and they posted code for a vote cheating bot that was intended to make SRS win a Best of 2011 Reddit award. | /r/MensRights | 12/09/12 12:05 PM |
| 10 | "The Big Issue", a program to assist the homeless, restricts subscription program to women only.It's not just the unpredictability of the sales - most vendors I see are forced to stand outside in all weather to make their sales. I've seen some of them absolutely freezing standing there in the snow and wind all day selling the Big Issue here in the UK. I'm sure the opposite is true in the Australian summer - I doubt many of them can afford sunblock. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/12 01:57 PM |
| 26 | "The Big Issue", a program to assist the homeless, restricts subscription program to women only.In this instance, we're not dealing with an unfair law here, we're dealing with a company and consumers. From the linked article: A feasibility study funded by the Minister for Housing and Minister for the Status of Women, the Hon Tanya Plibersek, MP. showed that homeless and disadvantaged women presented with a far greater, and more complex, range of needs From the homepage: An idea so simple, it was funded by the Australian Government. This is not solely a problem with a private enterprise. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/12 11:24 AM |
| 9 | another assertion that all men are potential rapists. wondered how you all felt about this cross post from /lbgtThat's not something that actually happened. It's wishful thinking (and pretty shitty creative writing) that's been copied and pasted all over the Internet. Search Google for "The boy nodded and shuddered visibly" - there are tens of thousands of hits. | /r/MensRights | 07/09/12 05:26 PM |
| 14 | 75% of new mothers would stay at home to bring up their child if they could afford to | Mail OnlineThis "research" is just marketing material from uSwitch, a company that makes money by switching people's household bills to other providers. Their angle is that if people reduced their household bills, they could stay at home with their new baby for longer. They just made a questionnaire with questions that would give them statistics to push their marketing angle. Of course a new parent is going to say that they'd stay home if money was no object. This is unremarkable. This is not news. This is… | /r/MensRights | 07/09/12 09:53 AM |
| 2 | Are we really advocating violence now? I've seen comments like this before, but never being so highly upvoted.One of the (significantly upvoted) replies explicitly says that they would do it with the people in the house. | /r/MensRights | 05/09/12 10:27 PM |
| 2 | Are we really advocating violence now? I've seen comments like this before, but never being so highly upvoted.saying you'd defend yourself Burning somebody's home down while they are in it is not self defence. | /r/MensRights | 05/09/12 09:57 PM |
| 16 | Woman caught on tape faking rape accusation. NOW organization involved in cover-up. Welcome to America.Yeah, given that this is a day-old account whose only other activity is holocaust denial in /r/AskHistorians, I'm going to need a bit more than their say-so. | /r/MensRights | 05/09/12 01:35 PM |
| 1 | Here's a way you can use a coupon a first date without your date knowing or complaining about it.Don't really think this is on-topic here. Regardless, you should take your dates places you can afford. Overspending to impress is just setting yourself up for failure and kinda pathetic. I think splitting the bill or using a coupon is only likely to put off assholes, which is a good thing. Filters out the overly materialistic people. | /r/MensRights | 03/09/12 04:58 PM |
| 1 | 22 yrs old girl on financial abortion. Men, what's your take?What I mean is that "anti-male conspiracy" is a very specific turn of phrase, one that isn't typically used here, and one that doesn't really describe what the people here believe in any meaningful way (the mod in question was ignoring the connotations of "conspiracy"). It is, however, quoted elsewhere to mock or attack the people here. I think it's highly unlikely you came up with that specific phrase yourself without reading it somewhere, and I'm wondering where that was. | /r/MensRights | 31/08/12 12:06 PM |
| 6 | 22 yrs old girl on financial abortion. Men, what's your take?I wasn't aware of men's rights movement up until two days ago. I've noticed a lot of hatred towards women, fear that there's an anti-male conspiracy The reference to "an anti-male conspiracy" is something a former moderator put into the sidebar a long time ago. It was removed quite a while ago, not in the past couple of days. It doesn't generally come up in discussions here. Where did you notice this? | /r/MensRights | 31/08/12 03:01 AM |
| 2 | Why are half the posts on this board about circumcision? Can we make a circumcision subreddit so we can discuss more important things here?It's just a flap of skin people for fuck's sake. So are your eyelids, but I'm guessing you'd be pretty angry if somebody held you down and sliced them off without anaesthetic. Circumcision is an important men's rights topic. If you want to see a focus on other things, submit other things. | /r/MensRights | 27/08/12 10:30 PM |
| 1 | What is so wrong with circumcision?if given the opportunity to have in uncircumcised, I would still choose for it to be the way it is now. I think your situation is colouring your perspective. The vast majority of men in that position - billions of men - choose the exact opposite. many girls I know tell me that they find the un-cut variety "gross" and not ascetically pleasing. Two things: Firstly, if all you've ever been exposed to is a mutilated penis, of course an unmutilated one is going to look "wrong" to you. Secondly: If th… | /r/MensRights | 27/08/12 06:48 PM |
| 2 | This has to be a joke, right?It's not a joke, it's a troll, and you're incredibly gullible for falling for it. Stop that. | /r/MensRights | 27/08/12 02:15 AM |
| 2 | Same Sex EducationI went to a same-sex school and I found no value in that. It was certainly far, far better than other schools, but this was entirely attributable to the fact that it was a grammar school. Yes, there was certainly a sense of community - this is true of practically every school, and yours was nothing special in this regard. They didn't teach me how to be a man, they taught me the curriculum. I don't feel I gained anything from single sex education and I don't support it. | /r/MensRights | 27/08/12 02:09 AM |
| 3 | 'De-Blackifying' a controversial post...All I see here is 'see how shocking this guy's opinions are? We need to ban this kind of thinking outright!" Then I can only assume you are wilfully missing my very obvious point. The point is not that their opinions are wrong. The point is that if they want to take rights away from men, their views are utterly incompatible with the men's rights movement and they cannot be on-topic here by definition. Totalitarian bullshit Once more, if you want to see totalitarianism, take a look at your mates,… | /r/MensRights | 23/08/12 01:24 AM |
| 4 | 'De-Blackifying' a controversial post...Wait, you mean you've never seen your mates advocate this? Oh, that's easily cleared up: Demonspawn: Suggesting that the government works better without the women's vote is not misogyny. It's an analysis of the facts and the consequences of allowing women's suffrage. Mayonesa: Maybe too many men were allowed the vote, and the founding fathers were onto something with that landed males over 30 requirement. Demonspawn: Amen with that. The original vote was simply a thinly spread oligarchy. Wide en… | /r/MensRights | 23/08/12 01:07 AM |
| 6 | 'De-Blackifying' a controversial post...A bunch of people started showing up to previously removed threads, indicating that there had to be a cross link somewhere. I am just going by that evidence. Same thing is happening here. I've also noticed that the same users all seem to turn up at once to the same threads and the votes change by five points too. I assume it's a private sub. Jeremiah owns /r/MRAs, so despite protestations, I guess that's the most likely explanation. | /r/MensRights | 23/08/12 12:57 AM |
| 2 | 'De-Blackifying' a controversial post...I have talked to Legolas and asked him not to post r/MR stuff to SRD. He has agreed. I did not appreciate him doing so. I can confirm this. Side-note: I'm still going to discuss this place in comments, just not submit stuff there. I assumed that's what you meant. | /r/MensRights | 23/08/12 12:53 AM |
| 3 | 'De-Blackifying' a controversial post...t's a talking point the ultraconservatives try to push in here to try to advertise their politics. And censorship...literally remopving 'unwanted' thought, ISN'T pushing an agenda? It's pushing the agenda of "It has to be men's rights to go in /r/MensRights because /r/MensRights is not your recruiting board for your kooky politics". Taking votes away from some men is not an MRA viewpoint regardless of whether you think the idea has merits. If you want to discuss that, subscribe to one of their s… | /r/MensRights | 23/08/12 12:50 AM |
| 2 | YSK Paul Elam (A Voice for Men founder) advocates "normalizing pedophilia," & calls r/mensrights users "clueless" & ignorant. He spreads false conspiracy theories about Jews. He blames real victims of rape, & claims to not care about female child abuse. All *IN HIS OWN WORDS.*Your attempted personal attacks (like not having enough posts) don't change what he said. No, that's your job, right? | /r/MensRights | 22/08/12 09:22 PM |
| 1 | YSK Paul Elam (A Voice for Men founder) advocates "normalizing pedophilia," & calls r/mensrights users "clueless" & ignorant. He spreads false conspiracy theories about Jews. He blames real victims of rape, & claims to not care about female child abuse. All *IN HIS OWN WORDS.*modified! Incorrect. In reality I [shortened] the ending You took away some of his words and replaced them with your own. That's modifying the quote. So. . . Which is it? In context, the first sentence was likely sarcastic. You modified the second sentence. | /r/MensRights | 22/08/12 09:21 PM |
| 3 | 'De-Blackifying' a controversial post...what do you prefer, limited democracy, or tyranny of the majority It doesn't matter what I prefer, what matters is that this isn't a men's rights issue. It's a talking point the ultraconservatives try to push in here to try to advertise their politics. Taking votes away from some men is not an MRA viewpoint regardless of whether you think the idea has merits. If you want to discuss that, subscribe to one of their subreddits, such as /r/monarchism. And frankly, coming from an American I'm not Ame… | /r/MensRights | 22/08/12 08:38 PM |
| 5 | YSK Paul Elam (A Voice for Men founder) advocates "normalizing pedophilia," & calls r/mensrights users "clueless" & ignorant. He spreads false conspiracy theories about Jews. He blames real victims of rape, & claims to not care about female child abuse. All *IN HIS OWN WORDS.*The pedophilia point seems to be quite a misinterpretation. Your modified quote: "If you want to have a campaign to normalize pedophilia, by all means, lots of luck. But if you think you are going to get traction with men who are sick of being regarded as potential child abusers, [you're wrong]" His actual words: If you want to have a campaign to normalize pedophilia, by all means, and lots of luck. But if you think you are going to get traction with men who are sick of being regarded as potenti… | /r/MensRights | 22/08/12 08:05 PM |
| 2 | 'De-Blackifying' a controversial post...Considering you arrogant fucks always reply in smug, dismissive ways to criticism, there's no reason at all to assume you will deal in good faith. Asshole. Wow, it sure is a tragedy you are forced to participate here because there aren't any other men's rights subreddits and it's impossible for you to start your own. | /r/MensRights | 22/08/12 07:48 PM |
| -1 | 'De-Blackifying' a controversial post...So fucking what? Why is it so EVIL to say that kind of thing? Is the very topic off limits, because YOU don't see merit in discussion? You weren't talking about whether or not it was evil. You asked about the "narrow totalitarian agenda". You don't think taking away democracy is totalitarian? The topic is not off limits elsewhere, but it is off-topic here because the advocacy of totalitarianism is not men's rights. In fact, it's the opposite. How is depriving some men of their vote an aid to men… | /r/MensRights | 22/08/12 07:23 PM |
| 1 | 'De-Blackifying' a controversial post...Some people here - the people who are pushing articles like this one, the people who are vilifying the moderators - have explicitly stated that not only should women not have the vote, a lot of men shouldn't either. One of them even moderates /r/monarchism. I would expect this is what Sigil1 is referring to when he says "narrow totalitarian agenda". I don't think objecting to this is being a "hardcore leftist". | /r/MensRights | 22/08/12 07:04 PM |
| 7 | What part of "consent" and "self-ownership" don't feminists understand? You can't debate genital mutilation without feminists coming and saying "it's not even a comparison". They miss the main point!However FGM is done to different degrees, ranging from equivalent to male circumcision to much worse. So is MGM. For example, penile subincision (NSFW) is a hell of a lot more invasive. | /r/MensRights | 22/08/12 11:40 AM |
| 3 | Self harmNo, this isn't right. Self harm specifically refers to things like cutting, where somebody's purpose is to hurt themselves. Cases like drug abuse or risky behaviour where the harm is a side-effect is not self-harm. That's not "sneaky", that's properly distinguishing between very different things. Things like smoking excessively without regard for how much it harms you is not the same thing as slicing into your arm as a coping mechanism. If you want an umbrella term, use "self-destructive behavio… | /r/MensRights | 21/08/12 11:12 AM |
| 65 | Fess up, guys. Which one of you runs /r/feminism?Remember Cliffor, who used to troll /r/MensRights by ranting about lizard people and was eventually banned from here? When he realised the /r/feminism moderator was inactive, he put in a request to moderate the subreddit. kloo2yoo and sodypop immediately jumped in to warn the Reddit admins that he was a troll, and the admins made them both moderators instead. People noticed and started a witch hunt, and kloo2yoo immediately stepped down. sodypop then handed the subreddit over to other feminists.… | /r/MensRights | 21/08/12 10:27 AM |
| 2 | I told a girl I wouldn't have sex with her because she was too drunk.You believe a comment at -14 is representative of most of the community? You're an idiot. | /r/MensRights | 21/08/12 10:16 AM |
| 2 | SRS seems to be impersonating your group to portray you in a negative lightThey aren't SRS, they are spammers looking to sell shit. They are banned on sight here. They just keep registering new accounts. If you see them, report them, then submit their user page to /r/reportthespammers. Example. | /r/MensRights | 21/08/12 10:10 AM |
| 5 | Can /r/mensreights help me find cases of contraceptive fraud where courts have decided against the deceived party?This has lots of examples. If you look at the rulings, they often cite case law from other states. | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 10:58 PM |
| 3 | What is the best way to deal with MRA's who are using their activism to bash women?I see the division the same way. It's really just a handful of people. You pay attention, all the stuff being complained about here is just coming from a few very loud people who hang out on subreddits like /r/Rights4Men, /r/whiterights, /r/new_right, etc. My perspective, is that anybody interested in equality should call themselves egalitarians rather than MRAs or feminists and distance themselves from the gendered movements that attract these kinds of people. | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 07:01 PM |
| 4 | What is the best way to deal with MRA's who are using their activism to bash women?You know, I completely agree that they are just using the MRM as a vehicle for their particular brand of kooky conservatism, but as with feminists, other MRAs aren't really in a position to say they shouldn't call themselves MRAs. There are no rules saying who can and can't be an MRA. You can't define them out of the MRM any more than feminists can define their lunatic fringe away. Oh, bonus for you: remember the recent proposal that people who didn't like this type of bigotry should call themse… | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 06:45 PM |
| 32 | What is the best way to deal with MRA's who are using their activism to bash women?Well I don't particular care how this is received and I've been posting here for four years, so if Ta7711 isn't going to give examples, I will. Demonspawn literally thinks women having the vote is a bad thing. Of course, it's not misogyny, because he says it isn't. He says it's "analysis of the facts": Suggesting that the government works better without the women's vote is not misogyny. It's an analysis of the facts and the consequences of allowing women's suffrage. Here he is making lots of gen… | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 06:09 PM |
| -1 | Why Do Commercials Think That Men Are Idiots?The nature of women is an incorrect expectation? That's incoherent even by your standards. | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 12:40 PM |
| -1 | Why Do Commercials Think That Men Are Idiots?He said it was a problem. Problems aren't bad now? | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 12:37 PM |
| -1 | Why Do Commercials Think That Men Are Idiots?Problems aren't bad? Come on, you're not even trying. | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 12:37 PM |
| 0 | "If a man lives with a woman and she desires another man's seed then that is her prerogative."Do you seriously think that anybody falls for this nonsense? Why do you even bother? Are you trying to show your fellow ultraconservative kooks that you can out-kook them? | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 12:28 PM |
| -3 | Why Do Commercials Think That Men Are Idiots?Yeah, if something is bad by its very nature, then its inherently bad. Two different ways of saying the same thing. | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 12:27 PM |
| -3 | Why Do Commercials Think That Men Are Idiots?No, I called somebody a bigot for saying women were inherently bad. I think that women are different to men, I have no reason to call somebody a bigot for saying that. Once more, you're misrepresenting the reason for my disagreement because you don't like people pointing out bigotry against women. | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 12:26 PM |
| 1 | Why Do Commercials Think That Men Are Idiots?You mean calling MRAs bigots when you disagree with them? No, that's a misrepresentation and you know it. Like I said in my earlier comment, I call MRAs bigots when they say bigoted things, not simply for disagreeing with me. I disagree with a lot of people here without calling them bigots. You are trying to characterise me as calling people bigots merely for disagreeing to excuse the fact that I'm pointing out you and your mates being bigoted. If you don't like being called bigoted, don't say b… | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 12:20 PM |
| -1 | Why Do Commercials Think That Men Are Idiots?Men and women are different. It's not hatred to notice that. He wasn't merely saying that men and women are different, he was saying that the nature of women is the problem. It's misogynistic to think that women are inherently bad. If anybody said that the nature of men was a problem, everybody here would rightfully point out that it was bigoted. You don't get a free pass just because it's women you are being bigoted about. | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 12:13 PM |
| 0 | "If a man lives with a woman and she desires another man's seed then that is her prerogative."No, that is not radical egalitarianism. That is a very silly mischaracterisation of it. Do you seriously think that anybody falls for this nonsense? Why do you even bother? Are you trying to show your fellow ultraconservative kooks that you can out-kook them? | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 12:10 PM |
| 0 | "If a man lives with a woman and she desires another man's seed then that is her prerogative."It is if the consequence is known and the ideologues accept it. Denial persists. Your argument is self-contradictory. They know and accept the consequences, but they are also in denial? You can't have it both ways. How do the things you quote show that liberals know and accept the consequence that "Whatever we want at the moment is most important"? | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 11:56 AM |
| -1 | "If a man lives with a woman and she desires another man's seed then that is her prerogative."It's the result of liberal ideals No, it isn't, but even assuming it was, then you are still wrong. A consequence of an ideal is not an ideal in itself. Have you never heard of unintended consequences? You were talking about ideals. In order for that to be true, liberals would have to idealise those things. Whatever tortured logic you think you have to show that they are consequences does not show that they are ideals. | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 11:47 AM |
| 1 | Why Do Commercials Think That Men Are Idiots?Legolas-the-elf, promoting misandry by referring to criticism of women as "misogyny". Saying the nature of women is a problem is not "criticism", and pointing out that it is misogyny is not misandry. You keep telling MRAs to leave when they disagree with you No, there's plenty of MRAs I disagree with here. I tell people to leave when they behave like bigots and then whine about being called out on it. If you can't distinguish between being an MRA and being a bigot, that's your problem. Most of t… | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 11:45 AM |
| -1 | "If a man lives with a woman and she desires another man's seed then that is her prerogative."You are ridiculous. You have realised your original claim - that things like "Whatever we want at the moment is most important" are liberal ideals - is indefensible, so you are doing your utmost to try to shift the discussion away from that point. How does demanding that I name a liberal movement that isn't founded on egalitarianism the slightest bit relevant to your claim? It's not. You just want to distract people away from the fact that you said something very, very silly. Do you really think… | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 11:38 AM |
| -1 | "If a man lives with a woman and she desires another man's seed then that is her prerogative."No, our discussion clearly revolves around what you say the ideals of liberalism are, and that does not support your claims. | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 11:24 AM |
| -3 | "If a man lives with a woman and she desires another man's seed then that is her prerogative."No liberal movement exists that is not at least one of the two types. I didn't say otherwise, I said that it didn't support your claims. | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 11:03 AM |
| 1 | Why Do Commercials Think That Men Are Idiots?There comes a point in every MRAs growth that they realize the problem isn't feminism, but instead the nature of women. So now you're not just content to be a misogynist yourself, you're claiming all MRAs are misogynists? | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 10:47 AM |
| -2 | "If a man lives with a woman and she desires another man's seed then that is her prerogative."That doesn't support your claims. | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 10:45 AM |
| 0 | "If a man lives with a woman and she desires another man's seed then that is her prerogative."Those are all consequences of radical egalitarianism And I might say that eating babies and kicking kittens is a consequence of radical conservatism, but that doesn't make it true either. Your ultra conservative nonsense is an embarrassment to the MRM and you make MRAs look like nutcases. | /r/MensRights | 20/08/12 09:15 AM |
| 4 | Some comments/questions concerning MRM.I will be respectful in how I ask my questions what possible explanation can you give If you are trying to be respectful, expressing incredulity in this way is not a good idea. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/12 10:10 PM |
| 1 | "If a man lives with a woman and she desires another man's seed then that is her prerogative."So you don't actually believe what you wrote about them being liberal ideals then? | /r/MensRights | 19/08/12 08:20 PM |
| 1 | "If a man lives with a woman and she desires another man's seed then that is her prerogative."You are spouting ultra-conservative nonsense. Liberals do not idealise things like nobody working together or that "whatever we want at the moment is most important". If you actually believe this you are delusional. You are letting your politics drive you insane. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/12 07:50 PM |
| 9 | "If a man lives with a woman and she desires another man's seed then that is her prerogative."Those are not liberal ideals, they are a ridiculous straw man. They are as much a misrepresentation as the claim that all MRAs are misogynists. People hold these ridiculous misrepresentations up because they can't argue against their real opponents. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/12 05:34 PM |
| 3 | GirlWritesWhat says women instigate domestic violence against them"giving women what their demanding" Don't misquote. You removed a very important word from that quote: giving their women what they're demanding GWW was talking about particular women in particular circumstances, your edited quote makes it seem like she's talking about women in general. Women in general do not intentionally provoke domestic violence, but some women in some circumstances do, and those are the women GWW is talking about. | /r/MensRights | 18/08/12 03:07 PM |
| 4 | GirlWritesWhat says women instigate domestic violence against themI don't care if it's minor. It's not okay. Scott2508 said absolutely nothing to suggest he thought domestic violence was acceptable, just as GWW is not saying the things you attribute to her. You seem to be intent on implying that the people here think it's okay to beat their wives. Why? | /r/MensRights | 18/08/12 02:31 PM |
| 2 | GirlWritesWhat says women instigate domestic violence against themthe type she'd see at her shelter those men their women This is clearly addressing a subset of DV, not DV in general. | /r/MensRights | 18/08/12 02:27 PM |
| 1 | Need help with statistics. Can someone post information about female-on-male statutory rapes?Not statistics per se, but if a child is conceived as a result of the rape, the rape victim can be forced by his rapist to pay her child support. County of San Luis Obispo v. Nathaniel J. (1996) 50 Cal. App. 4th 842 [57 Cal. Rptr. 2d 843]: A 34-year-old woman seduces a 15-year-old boy and becomes pregnant. She gives birth to a daughter and thereafter applies for Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Is the child's father obligated to pay child support even though he is a victim of statutory r… | /r/MensRights | 18/08/12 01:11 PM |
| 0 | MR, what's your biggest "feminist" belief, or opinion that wouldn't mesh well with other MRA's?There are regulars here who explicitly argue against equality and say that giving women the vote will eventually lead to the downfall of civilisation. A gendered rights movement is always going to attract people like this. Because there is no solid manifesto or single ideology present in the MRM, people who believe in equality have no more right to the movement than the chauvinists. If you call yourself an MRA, you are grouping yourself with them If you call yourself an egalitarian, you are not,… | /r/MensRights | 16/08/12 01:18 PM |
| 2 | This is one side of men's right's that I am not seeing being discussed here yet.I can't walk out in public with my super awesome messenger bag without some douche bag shouting homosexual slanders at me. Out of interest, where are you? I carried a messenger bag daily for years, and I literally never ever got this once (in a city in the UK). | /r/MensRights | 16/08/12 10:10 AM |
| 3 | MR, what's your biggest "feminist" belief, or opinion that wouldn't mesh well with other MRA's?6 is very contested among MRAs. I don't think I've seen a significant number of people here contest that. I think that's just a silly straw man the traditionalists like to use in place of their opponents. | /r/MensRights | 16/08/12 10:02 AM |
| 9 | MR, what's your biggest "feminist" belief, or opinion that wouldn't mesh well with other MRA's?Sex while one of the participants are passed out though, is not okay obviously. I think seeing the line here can be difficult. I've been commenting here for years and I can't remember ever seeing anybody say that sex with an unconscious person is okay. | /r/MensRights | 16/08/12 09:58 AM |
| -2 | MR, what's your biggest "feminist" belief, or opinion that wouldn't mesh well with other MRA's?If you are for equal rights and hate the stupid, anti-equality shit that a small but vocal minority of the people here spout, you you should call yourself egalitarian, nor an MRA. They are a millstone round your neck and you are willingly putting them there. | /r/MensRights | 16/08/12 09:56 AM |
| 1 | Are you an MRA who supports egalitarianism?Or just call yourself an egalitarian. If you're an egalitarian MRA, then everything you care about that falls under "MRA" is also covered by "egalitarian". | /r/MensRights | 15/08/12 01:45 PM |
| 2 | Are you an MRA who supports egalitarianism?That's not really true. Some MRAs' reasons for supporting the MRM is because they hold egalitarian values, and some MRAs' reasons for supporting the MRM is because they hold traditional values, which are not egalitarian. | /r/MensRights | 15/08/12 01:42 PM |
| 2 | Are you an MRA who supports egalitarianism?I think it's possible, just not what actually happens. Note that "intellectual credibility" is not the sole determiner of what is right - it's just one piece of the puzzle. Any logical argument beyond je pense donc je suis needs axioms, and when it comes to rationales for social constructs, those axioms are typically our values. Most people are pro-liberty not because of logic, but because of their values. They don't want a world where people are unjustly denied freedom. An intellectually credib… | /r/MensRights | 15/08/12 01:41 PM |
| 15 | My mom said I was going to be circumcised, “While they were down there.” I begged her not toZero day old account comes into /r/MensRights to tell people how severe circumcision isn't. Don't feed the troll. Next time you see somebody you don't recognise saying something here that will get a lot of people angry, take a look at how old the account is. If it's obviously an account somebody has been made just to troll, just leave a note telling others not to feed them. Making people angry is exactly what they want. | /r/MensRights | 11/08/12 01:01 AM |
| 3 | Virgin defends policy of separating men from childrenI think it's interesting how the airline company only makes vague references to "safety", yet everybody immediately starts talking about sex abuse, which is the only type of child abuse carried out by men more than women. All other forms of child abuse are carried out by women more than men. | /r/MensRights | 10/08/12 10:35 AM |
| 3 | Virgin defends policy of separating men from childrenIt's happened a few times. The one that sticks in my mind is Boris Johnson (the Mayor of London) was told he couldn't sit next to his own kids. | /r/MensRights | 10/08/12 10:32 AM |
| 1 | Is there something better than "feminist" to call women that want to fight for womens equality but don't hate men and think they should be treated equally too?Humanism is like a secular kind of ethical framework. It's not an analogue to feminism or masculism, even if it sounds as if it should be. A feminist calling themselves a humanist is about as relevant as them calling themselves an atheist - it doesn't really have any bearing on the discussion. | /r/MensRights | 09/08/12 07:01 PM |
| 1 | SRSers/feminists vandalising MRM material on Wikipedia againI agree that there should be some barriers in place to discourage abuse and foster consensus, but Wikipedia has gone far too far beyond this and now fetishises process. As most people have a limited amount of time and energy to devote to Wikipedia, it inevitably results in whomever is willing to throw themselves into the bureaucracy the hardest getting to decide what ends up on the page. | /r/MensRights | 09/08/12 05:07 PM |
| 4 | SRSers/feminists vandalising MRM material on Wikipedia againIn my experience with math and physics, the articles are very accurate as there is simply no way to lie about the specifics in those fields. You'd be surprised. The same is true for web development, but popular misconceptions seemed impossible to eradicate when I tried a few years back. I suspect the difference is more to do with the demographics than how objectively correct details about the field are. Any kid who has read a tutorial thinks he's a web developer, but people who know how to add 2… | /r/MensRights | 09/08/12 04:58 PM |
| 15 | SRSers/feminists vandalising MRM material on Wikipedia againThis comment from the other day sums up why I really can't muster the energy to participate on Wikipedia any more. There's pages and pages of policy on neutrality, citations, etc. Any effort to change things back when a regular Wikipedia user wants that to not happen is going to be buried by relentless objections. I only posted it because I think the people here should know what's happening. | /r/MensRights | 09/08/12 02:49 AM |
| 101 | SRSers/feminists vandalising MRM material on Wikipedia againI can't see how it's posting personal information either. Thanks for the heads up. | /r/MensRights | 09/08/12 01:47 AM |
| 37 | SRSers/feminists vandalising MRM material on Wikipedia againIt's not an IP address of a Reddit user (as far as I am aware). When somebody edits Wikipedia anonymously, their changes are logged against their IP address so that Wikipedia can handle abuse and so that people can contact the person. Linking to their user page like that is the proper way of referring to the changes that particular anonymous user has made. | /r/MensRights | 09/08/12 01:46 AM |
| 6 | Dear MR, I was sent this chat log by a member of SRD. Please read it and reconsider publicizing our personal information. I am appealing to you on a human level, regardless of our stances on gender issues.So what happened to this? Can we out SRS next? These stupid coward whores deserve a little sobering humility and justice. No...they are just the useful idiot masses that serve their more radical cousins' purposes. They throw themselves on the alter of political correctness, pussy-begging, blind devotion, and ignorance in order to justify their continued self-inflated importance and continued purpose to live. They just aren't important enough to go after. | /r/MensRights | 09/08/12 01:28 AM |
| 7 | Dear MR, I was sent this chat log by a member of SRD. Please read it and reconsider publicizing our personal information. I am appealing to you on a human level, regardless of our stances on gender issues.From context, I think the "Agent_" user is supposed to be Agent Orange, the person who published the information on Radfem Hub users. The troll posing as manboobz has already tried to convince people he was releasing information on SRS users in the past. If I remember correctly, when the Radfem Hub information was posted, Agent Orange specifically said he wasn't going to attempt the same thing with SRSers. | /r/MensRights | 09/08/12 12:34 AM |
| 23 | Dear MR, I was sent this chat log by a member of SRD. Please read it and reconsider publicizing our personal information. I am appealing to you on a human level, regardless of our stances on gender issues.This is a troll. BSC is BAD_SEXUAL_COMMENT, one of the trolls from Game of Trolls. Game of Trolls is the place sisterofblackvisions went to boast about trolling everybody by pretending to be the sister of Black_Visions, the guy who posted a suicide note here. One of the moderators is viperz, the guy who went all around Reddit posting pro-rape comments and saying he was a representative of /r/MensRights. They don't have any information on SRS members, they are just making shit up to provoke argum… | /r/MensRights | 09/08/12 12:28 AM |
| 0 | Men of /MR: Would you accept the services of a female professional, such as a lawyer or doctor? If so, why?Get lost, Jeremiah. You've got /r/MRAs, you keep getting banned from here, if you think this place is so pointless, do something with /r/MRAs instead of creating account after account to evade your bans. | /r/MensRights | 08/08/12 09:41 PM |
| 3 | Famous men who were beat down by their female (wives / girlfriends)How many of these are proven? I see "apparently"s, biographies, "according to reports", etc. but I don't see convictions. When men are accused, everybody here is quick to point out the importance of the presumption of innocence, how about we drop the double standards and only talk about cases where the battery is proven? | /r/MensRights | 08/08/12 02:17 PM |
| 23 | Woman here, would someone mind clarifying some stuff for me?Many of the men I know seem to not care and are glad to be circumcised It's a variant of buyer's remorse. In order for them to acknowledge having been wronged, they would have to admit that their penis is mutilated. There is an immense psychological barrier to getting to that point, and most are understandably never going to get there. which leaves it difficult for me to have a solid opinion. Let me put this in perspective: there are billions and billions of uncircumcised men in the world. When … | /r/MensRights | 08/08/12 12:03 AM |
| 23 | Woman here, would someone mind clarifying some stuff for me?Here's a fairly inarguable one: it's legal to carve off parts of a baby boy's penis for no other reason than the parents' preferences. Without anaesthetic. With a rabbi sucking on the penis afterwards. It's illegal to do anything at all to a baby girl's genitals. They tried to relax the law to allow a pinprick in the USA, for the sole purpose of discouraging more severe back-alley FGM, and it was campaigned against so vehemently that the bill stood no chance. And if you point out this disparity,… | /r/MensRights | 07/08/12 11:26 PM |
| 8 | How do you deal with Feminists in a respectful way?I just got banned This appears to be the submission. The moderators didn't remove the submission (if they had, it would show as [removed] for everybody rather than showing your text). If you were banned for merely asking the question, why did they not remove the question? Maybe it's because, in the words of a moderator: You are repeatedly personally insulting people in violation of the subreddit rules. It seems to me you were being abusive and you are now trolling by bringing it here. from /askw… | /r/MensRights | 07/08/12 11:19 PM |
| 2 | Birmingham play centre bans Dads.I don't know why you're so intent on wilfully misinterpreting the article, but they quite clearly aren't saying what you want them to say. | /r/MensRights | 07/08/12 04:41 PM |
| 4 | Birmingham play centre bans Dads.In the article they're using Asian as a synonym for Muslim. They aren't. The article specifically differentiates between them here: The centre is in Birmingham’s Springfield ward which was home to 17,120 Asian or Asian British people at the time of the 2001 Census. It was also home to 13,461 Muslims – the largest single religious group at 46.5 per cent of the ward’s population. It also uses terms like "Asian Muslim", which is ridiculous if you think "Asian" and "Muslim" are synonymous. What woul… | /r/MensRights | 07/08/12 04:22 PM |
| 2 | Birmingham play centre bans Dads.No, Asian in the UK predominantly refers to somebody with a South West Asian ethnic background, as opposed to other places, such as the USA, where it predominantly refers to people with an East Asian ethnic background. While it's correlated with religion, it doesn't mean "Muslim", and in fact a lot of the Asians in the UK are Hindu. | /r/MensRights | 07/08/12 03:57 PM |
| 2 | So, I was at a bar and a girl somehow brought up circumcision.Some statistics from the UK you might be interested in: Birmingham NHS Bosses Stay Silent As Botched Circumcisions Put 100 Boys In A&E When Circumcision Goes Wrong In The UK | /r/MensRights | 06/08/12 04:47 PM |
| 3 | I can't believe this happened and the court voted in the woman's favor. Talk about diabolicalA couple of methods I can think of are: Artificial insemination following a particular process laid out by law (this is referenced in the article). Adoption. | /r/MensRights | 06/08/12 12:11 AM |
| 6 | I can't believe this happened and the court voted in the woman's favor. Talk about diabolicalThe reasoning behind the middle one is that the right to child support is the right of the child, not the mother, therefore the mother cannot form a valid contract waiving it because it is not her right to waive. | /r/MensRights | 06/08/12 12:10 AM |
| 20 | I can't believe this happened and the court voted in the woman's favor. Talk about diabolicalThis cited article is more interesting. It describes, referring to specific legal decisions, how the following situations do not relieve a father from his obligation to pay child support: The mother lies to the father about taking birth control pills. The statutory rape of a boy. Artificial insemination when the mother and father agreed that no child support will be paid. The father agreed to oral sex only. The rape of a man who is unconscious. | /r/MensRights | 05/08/12 10:10 PM |
| 3 | How /r/MR, Southern Poverty Law Center, SRS, and RadFemHub are Tied Togetherreleasing people's personal details onto the internet, to a community known for containing violent radicals Were there any repercussions for the people involved in the Agent Orange leak? Nobody seems to be aware of any instance of bad things happening to the people who had their personal information disclosed. Bit odd if the community is as violent as you claim it to be. | /r/MensRights | 05/08/12 02:52 PM |
| 6 | Hypothetical scenario - What should a guy do?I've been in almost exactly that situation. Telling a drunk person not to do something rarely works. You have to distract them by giving them something else to do instead. For instance, instead of telling her to stop drinking, ask her if she's hungry. Say you could really go for an X, where X is any random food sold in a different location. You make her feel hungry, you get her out of the bar so she can't drink any more, and you get some food down her to soak up the alcohol. By the time she's fi… | /r/MensRights | 05/08/12 02:03 PM |
| 4 | Single Mother Families now more common than Couple Families in the UK.How am I in the wrong? And why would you not delete a headline if you knew it to be untrue? | /r/MensRights | 04/08/12 06:45 PM |
| 9 | What are r/mensrights' thoughts about this controversy at a writer convention last month?He overstepped his bounds, she overreacted, he tried to apologise, she used the initial offence to misrepresent his attempt to apologise as stalking, and the blog article is just more of her trying to turn a faux pas into The Reason Why I Am A Victim And Men Are Monsters Part ∞. And she's being rewarded with nonsense like: She has been a true model of strength and forthrightness throughout this entire ordeal, and I am filled with admiration for her bravery in blogging about it and going public. … | /r/MensRights | 04/08/12 06:17 PM |
| 5 | Single Mother Families now more common than Couple Families in the UK.Find some information which indicates the opposite then. If I do that, will you delete this submission and stop submitting Daily Mail crap to Reddit? | /r/MensRights | 04/08/12 05:39 PM |
| 10 | Any Wikipedia editors here?I stopped participating in Wikipedia a long time ago. The whole point of a wiki is that it is easy to dip in and improve things. Wikipedia ceased to match that description a long time ago, these days, it's a bunch of fiefdoms enforced by an immense bureaucracy. | /r/MensRights | 04/08/12 04:53 PM |
| 9 | Single Mother Families now more common than Couple Families in the UK.All newspapers occasionally report false information. That's true, but not all newspapers intentionally make things up and not all newspapers do it so much that they have a reputation for doing so. Take this very article for example. The headline says that couples are a minority. Your headline says that single mother families are more common than couples. What does the data actually say? It says that this is true only in 7 constituencies. There are 650 constituencies in the UK. In 643 constituen… | /r/MensRights | 04/08/12 04:19 PM |
| 5 | Single Mother Families now more common than Couple Families in the UK.According to the Daily Mail, a tabloid well-known for making things up. For example: Daily Mail, Lies and Statistics The Red Arrows respond to Daily Mail lies Picking apart the Daily Mail’s ‘Statistics’ The Daily Mail lies about today's immigration figures | /r/MensRights | 04/08/12 03:47 PM |
| 2 | Advertising r/mensrights on reddit: After-action reportIt's not just GM though, this is an ongoing complaint. Take this story for example, or the comments in this thread. | /r/MensRights | 04/08/12 12:42 PM |
| 2 | "Victim blaming" anti-rape poster banned.There's nothing in the article to suggest it was banned. | /r/MensRights | 04/08/12 11:39 AM |
| 4 | Advertising r/mensrights on reddit: After-action reportFrom what I gather, it's expensive and not very effective at all. There have been a number of big stories this year about how useless Facebook advertising is, for instance GM cancelling their $10m campaign because it wasn't doing anything for them and the story this week that gave reasons to believe a lot of the click-throughs you pay for are bots rather than real people. I wouldn't recommend it. | /r/MensRights | 04/08/12 12:54 AM |
| 1 | Challenging NAWALTYet again, a link to an intentionally misogynistic blog from a brand new account. Note that it's not "TheRealPariah", it's a username made to look like that account by substituting an uppercase 'I' for the lowercase 'l'. Don't feed the troll. | /r/MensRights | 03/08/12 10:02 PM |
| 3 | the polarisation of equalitarian moveIt already exists. It's called egalitarianism. | /r/MensRights | 03/08/12 04:17 PM |
| 4 | Further Evidence of /r/SubRedditDrama used to Downvote Brigade MR.The votes in the earlier thread were way out of line with what I usually see in SRD. The same thing happened with the more recent thread. I would normally agree with your assessment of SRD's voting, but something's changed over the past few days. | /r/MensRights | 03/08/12 01:26 AM |
| 5 | r/MensRights Demographics Poll: This time, Organized!That would be a different question though; you can have straight/gay/bi/other trans people too. You probably want something like the following: Sexual orientation: heterosexual/homosexual/bisexual/other Gender-conformity: cis/trans/genderqueer Even that's pretty restrictive - nothing in there about the various types of asexuality, for instance. | /r/MensRights | 02/08/12 09:50 PM |
| 2 | r/MensRights Demographics Poll, Please ReadAs I said the last time somebody did a poll: post the questions here first to refine them. | /r/MensRights | 02/08/12 08:04 PM |
| 0 | Women are herd creatures, this explains a great deal of men's rights issues.Ah yes. Likening women to animals, links to an article entitled "Team cunt in action" on a misogynistic blog referring to women as "skank ho's"... let me guess: troll account. I check the user page, sure enough, zero activity besides this submission. Don't feed the troll. | /r/MensRights | 02/08/12 08:01 PM |
| 1 | /r/Feminism talking about cat-calling. Is this a serious issue? What does the MRM think?It's a microinequity. It can be harassment, if the person tells the cat-caller to stop and they continue. | /r/MensRights | 02/08/12 02:10 PM |
| 2 | Germany bans circumcision, ruling that “the fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity outweighs the fundamental rights of the parents.”As I understand it, they didn't rule any existing laws unconstitutional. There wasn't a law saying circumcision was okay. A local court simply said "Yeah, that's bodily harm" when presented with a circumcision case. There wasn't a law saying circumcision was okay, so by default chopping things off people is illegal, now the politicians are working on creating such a law so that there's an exception for circumcision. | /r/MensRights | 02/08/12 01:56 PM |
| 34 | Germany bans circumcision, ruling that “the fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity outweighs the fundamental rights of the parents.”This wasn't an intentional ban. A court ruled that existing laws against bodily injury applied to circumcision. The reaction from politicians is that they are considering passing laws specifically to make it legal again. | /r/MensRights | 02/08/12 12:40 AM |
| 3 | Foreskin Pride Parade in VancouverPlease don't use URL shorteners. They could lead anywhere. The direct URL is http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Foreskin+Pride+March+debut+Saturday+Vancouver+Gallery/7024026/story.html | /r/MensRights | 01/08/12 09:08 PM |
| 3 | So I saw some SRSers posting this link as a example of our views. Can we please agree that this is bullshit and and that this commenter does not represent us?Not just that, his other comment was already heavily downvoted and called out as a troll. | /r/MensRights | 01/08/12 09:06 PM |
| 0 | Did /r/subredditdrama Really DownVote Brigade Us?If I remember correctly, he said he stopped calling himself JeremiahMRA because he thought it was wrong to call himself an MRA when he wasn't doing any activism. That and he got banned, of course. And banned as JeremiahGuy. So now he's JeremiahDude. Wonder how long this account will last. | /r/MensRights | 30/07/12 10:32 PM |
| 9 | Did /r/subredditdrama Really DownVote Brigade Us?Something weird was happening with the voting in SRD and it carried over to the post here. It certainly seemed like there was outside interference. | /r/MensRights | 30/07/12 10:01 PM |
| -2 | Mens camping trips.It sounds like you just don't like the way this person behaves. Why are you generalising it to women in general? Why, if she behaved badly, did you decide "no girls" instead of "no her"? Seems childish, like a "no girls allowed" treehouse that kids have. I've got two groups of friends that have a similar camping trip every year. They all have a fantastic time. Both men and women attend both camping trips. It's not about your gender, it's about whether you enjoy each other's company in close prox… | /r/MensRights | 30/07/12 03:16 PM |
| -5 | r/SubredditDrama. Subscribe.That thread isn't typical. I've only seen threads like that arise in SRD when it's been directly linked to from SRS. I don't know what happened this time. Maybe it was linked to from a private subreddit or an external site like SA. | /r/MensRights | 30/07/12 08:37 AM |
| 31 | An Open Letter to the r/MensRights Community from a "Radical" Feminist (please read, not a "wow you guys are awful and bad!!!)So remind me when men were subjected, enslaved and robbed of their culture? This has happened to men all throughout history. Or told that they were scientifically inferior closer to monkey then men. From notorious feminist Valerie Solanas: The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be defici… | /r/MensRights | 29/07/12 08:18 PM |
| 1 | How about this idea - ERA - Equal Rights Activists.I think perhaps you missed the word "necessarily" in my comment. If the draft were abolished, what would women (and only women) inherently lose as a result that is of equal value? | /r/MensRights | 29/07/12 07:55 PM |
| 1 | How about this idea - ERA - Equal Rights Activists.That's a bad analogy. It's based on the assumption that equal rights is a zero sum game, where somebody advocating for women's rights necessarily harms men unless somebody else balances it out by advocating for men's rights. Gender equality is not a see-saw with men's rights on one end and women's rights on the other. It's two see-saws, both of which have equality on one side and discrimination on the other. Egalitarianism is pushing for equality on both see-saws instead of just one. | /r/MensRights | 29/07/12 06:54 PM |
| 3 | Divine Femitheist back from the deadFuckin cunt made it up to gain attention And you thought the appropriate response to this is to... give her more attention? Don't feed the troll. | /r/MensRights | 29/07/12 05:09 PM |
| 1 | How about this idea - ERA - Equal Rights Activists.They have more activity and subscribers than a brand new subreddit. Why start from scratch when you could contribute to one of those? | /r/MensRights | 29/07/12 04:51 PM |
| 11 | How about this idea - ERA - Equal Rights Activists.You should also be aware of /r/egalitarian and /r/egalitarianism that have similar aims. | /r/MensRights | 29/07/12 03:12 PM |
| 2 | r/MRA, help me out here.This is a subreddit dedicated to talking about injustices. As such, you're going to see the worst of the worst here, not what is representative of the world at large. I strongly suggest you make an appointment with a therapist to talk about these problems. Regardless of whatever discrimination and danger you face as a man, feeling like you are unable to even talk to a girl is unhealthy and unrealistic. A therapist can help you deal with your worries in a healthier way. In the meantime, I suggest… | /r/MensRights | 29/07/12 01:28 PM |
| 1 | An Open Letter to the r/MensRights Community from a "Radical" Feminist (please read, not a "wow you guys are awful and bad!!!)To use a more extreme example: if somebody happily tells people that they are a Klan member, when they start telling you about their ideas on racial equality, are you going to bother paying attention to their specific points? Or are you going to say "hang on, if you believe in racial equality, why are you grouping yourself with people who hate it?" | /r/MensRights | 29/07/12 12:56 PM |
| 11 | An Open Letter to the r/MensRights Community from a "Radical" Feminist (please read, not a "wow you guys are awful and bad!!!)I think my stance on a lot of issues would have me labeled a "radical feminist" by some Regardless of how other people might label you, you labelled yourself as a radical feminist. You are grouping yourself with the type of people who are very transphobic, who think that men talking is carnivorous and necrophiliac. What does labelling yourself as a radical feminist achieve that outweighs the implied approval of people like that and the alienation of potential allies that comes with it? | /r/MensRights | 29/07/12 01:03 AM |
| 3 | Fellow MRA's I am at the end of my rope. I'm done. Fucking DONE.There are posts and comments made in this subreddit periodically from people who have been in terrible situations similar to yours. Some of them have felt like their problems simply could not be solved. And they found the strength to keep on going, and eventually they got through it. They got visitation. They got their payments reduced. They stopped feeling like there wasn't any point in going on. I know right now you're feeling like you have no chance at all to fix your life. But feeling that w… | /r/MensRights | 28/07/12 10:29 PM |
| 1 | A call for some moderators in /r/mgtowI seem to recall he has gone back and edited comments to say different things after people have replied to him on /r/AntiSRS, earning him a reputation as a troll over there. | /r/MensRights | 27/07/12 01:40 PM |
| 1 | Is there a place where men and women can seriously discuss men's rights issues?/r/egalitarian/ /r/egalitarianism/ | /r/MensRights | 26/07/12 12:55 PM |
| 1 | r/MensRights and r/Feminism need to stick togetherIt seems "/r/feminism is being run by MRAs" is a popular meme there these days. Yeah, that idiocy was pushed by SRS and Aerik. | /r/MensRights | 26/07/12 12:50 PM |
| 15 | Men are less likely to get custody of their children? That's sexist against women.Also, as Sigil1 points out, NOW have opposed a shared parenting bill in recent years. | /r/MensRights | 20/07/12 11:50 AM |
| 24 | Men are less likely to get custody of their children? That's sexist against women.I suggest you point out to them that the tender years doctrine at the root of this discrimination was the work of a feminist. | /r/MensRights | 20/07/12 11:47 AM |
| 8 | Circumcision without consent is indefensibleJust a reminder: all of the comments are in response to an article on Guardian's Comment is Free. This is a section of the Guardian that is open to submissions from anybody. If you'd like to write a piece for them on men's rights, read their pitch guidelines. | /r/MensRights | 20/07/12 10:05 AM |
| 13 | Radfem calls "nearly all men" "Pornsick bastards"I thought it was bad to shame someone's sexuality? There's a particular type of radfem that is quite happy to shame people for their sexuality, even women. They typically criticise women for engaging in "PIV" sex (penis in vagina sex) because they think it is perpetuating the rape of women everywhere. | /r/MensRights | 20/07/12 01:21 AM |
| 2 | How does /r/mensrights feel about the branding iron that's being applied to Simon Pegg right now?It's the same complaint we've all seen from feminists a thousand times: A man expressing sexual interest in a woman is interpreted as denying every other aspect of the woman as a person. It doesn't matter if there's absolutely no evidence to support this link, the two are synonymous in the minds of some feminists. | /r/MensRights | 19/07/12 12:36 PM |
| 2 | The 2012 /r/mensrights demographic surveyThe three questions about rights and privileges did not include prejudice and societal discrimination. I think in the society I live in, people's rights and privileges are broadly equivalent, but they have differing levels of prejudice and discrimination. My answers could not reflect that with the questions as they stand now. Perhaps three more questions? Edit: Given that a lot of people have filled this in while being unhappy with the questions as they stand, perhaps it would have been a better… | /r/MensRights | 19/07/12 11:18 AM |
| 3 | Demographics in the MRA communityAnd egalitarian. | /r/MensRights | 18/07/12 08:07 PM |
| 2 | Twitter Feminists Go to War on @MENSRIGHTSHULK! Account suspended in 25 minutes.What was it suspended for? | /r/MensRights | 18/07/12 06:06 PM |
| 2 | Not bad, not bad at all.If I remember correctly, there was a survey done where men and women were shown shades of colours and asked to name them. The women overwhelmingly had more names for colours than men, with only a single exception: men were more likely to name a shade "salmon". I'm guessing it's because men are averse to calling shirts they wear "pink", so "salmon" has been popularised as a euphemism. | /r/MensRights | 18/07/12 12:50 PM |
| 8 | Not bad, not bad at all.From the press release: We’ve chosen to use an alpha male sport in our advertising to challenge assumptions about the type of men who get raped. It’s just as likely to be a rugby player as a librarian, a suited city banker as a hooded gang member. And we hope that by challenging our innate assumptions about the identity of male victims, we can make it even fractionally easier for a male rape victim to ask for help. | /r/MensRights | 17/07/12 11:48 PM |
| 12 | Awhile back an MRAers complained about people neutralizing Men's Rights articles on Wikipedia. New development, Wiki is running out of admins and editors.I wouldn't say they are running out - more like slowing growth, which is what you'd expect. Organisations like this can't cope with traffic by scaling human resources linearly. Some of the comments to that article are interesting. I think everybody saying that something doesn't meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines should be forced to read Wikipedia's entries for more than 600 Pokémon. | /r/MensRights | 17/07/12 06:01 PM |
| 19 | Am I totally off-base for assuming that a girl that let's me have unprotected sex with her is on the pill? I know its retarded, but still...Yeah, you're off-base. That's a stupid assumption. Use a condom. | /r/MensRights | 17/07/12 04:43 PM |
| 7 | Not bad, not bad at all.They did a really good job with this. I'm quite surprised at the disparity between the quality of the advert and the quality of the website though. The advert looks professionally put together and the website looks like something somebody whipped up in-house. Edit: This is the accompanying press release for the campaign. | /r/MensRights | 17/07/12 03:48 PM |
| 4 | True Egalitarianism from r/feminismWhile impotent_rage is acting fairly in this instance, when she started /r/GenderEgalitarian, she banned me and many others for objecting to the hate she was posting about this subreddit, then publicly lied about banning me for spamming. I quite clearly hate spam. I've tried to get her to retract the lie, but she refuses. I wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw her. | /r/MensRights | 16/07/12 09:21 AM |
| 21 | Girl cheats on her boyfriend, feels guilty, and is now claiming she was raped. Let's see if we can keep this poor guy from getting his life ruined.It's a shitty troll. The initial description is vague enough to fill in enough details later to completely change the character of the encounter. She's going from "a little tipsy", "3 beers in an evening", "I'm scared my boyfriend will leave me", then she's waiting until people condemn her, and switching to "I'm a rape victim because I was too drunk to consent, you guys are monsters". Not enough people paid attention in one subreddit, so they switched to another. Same thing as the troll that got… | /r/MensRights | 15/07/12 05:48 PM |
| 7 | Another example of faulty female reasoning: Inviting male attention but complaining if the "wrong" guy hits on them0 day old account posting misogynistic PUA stuff. I'm not inclined to give this person the benefit of the doubt. | /r/MensRights | 15/07/12 03:32 PM |
| 1 | Tumblr Feminists - TheAmazingAtheistOut of interest, are you an MRA? I've heard some people say that you are and some people say that you have said otherwise. | /r/MensRights | 15/07/12 02:41 PM |
| 9 | I just thought I'd let you guys know that according to a poster from the same group that shames people who generalize aspies (SRS). My aspergers has lead me to be indoctrinated by you guys.The opposite of trans. It means your gender identity and your sex are congruous. If you were born into a male body and you think of yourself as a man, you are cis. If you were born into a female body and you think of yourself as a woman, you are cis. Lately it's been used as a slur on Reddit by SRS-types, e.g. "die cis scum". | /r/MensRights | 14/07/12 08:59 PM |
| 17 | Straight guy has strangers force themselves upon him in a gay bar, commenters play down the incident because "this happens to women all the time". Typical anti-male attitude.Definitely. I've been groped in straight bars and gay bars and there's little difference in my experience apart from it happening much more often in straight bars, which is probably because I go to straight bars much more often. One of my friends had a particularly humiliating experience at a gay bar, but I attribute that to it being part of a stage act that he got dragged into rather than it being a gay bar specifically. | /r/MensRights | 11/07/12 09:43 PM |
| 20 | Feminism is not misandryIt seems to me that there are a small but outspoken group of controversial and self-identifying 'feminists' who spout misandry and bigotry. The feminists who you don't hear about are not controversial because they are generally agreeable, and they might not even identify as feminists. So in a world where people calling themselves feminists say things that are hateful about men and people who don't call themselves feminists say sensible things, you call that a win for feminism because the groups … | /r/MensRights | 11/07/12 09:08 PM |
| 3 | An honest hypotheticalWhat if this trend persisted despite massive affirmative action for boys? What if, despite loads of programs to promote male achievement in k-12, boys continued to lag behind? Affirmative action is wrong, and programmes to promote achievement for one gender are wrong. If there is a disparity, then that disparity should be studied to ensure that it isn't caused by discrimination. The goal is to give everybody the same opportunities in life, the goal is not to make sure they take advantage of thos… | /r/MensRights | 11/07/12 09:04 PM |
| 3 | Whenever I say "I'm done with you," I mean just that.Many years ago, a woman broke up with me and was then disappointed that we weren't together any more. Apparently it was a test to see if I loved her enough to not take no for an answer. After she explained it to me, I considered the breakup a win-win. Until that point, I thought that kind of thing was exaggerated crazy ex stories. Nope, they really are out there. Having said that, this is /r/MensRights, not /r/SillyThingsSomeWomenDo. Facebook screenshots of some woman saying something stupid don… | /r/MensRights | 11/07/12 08:55 PM |
| 2 | U.S. says Texas police department discriminated against women - by requiring they pass the same physical test required for men.And when the women granted artificial seniority aren't respected as much or promoted as much as the people who earned their actual seniority, I bet they'll call that sexism too. | /r/MensRights | 11/07/12 10:42 AM |
| 5 | "I would love to have a built in excuse every time I got so wasted I don't remember anything." Kidd Kraddick, nationally-syndicated DJ calls out women for using the "roofie excuse", media acts predictably.This has been studied: Toxicological findings in cases of alleged drug-facilitated sexual assault in the United Kingdom over a 3-year period: This paper outlines the toxicology results from 1014 cases of claimed drug-facilitated sexual assault [...] In 21 cases (2%), a sedative or disinhibiting drug was detected which had not been admitted and could therefore be an instance of deliberate spiking. What’s being used to spike your drink? Alleged spiked drink cases in inner city London: Unexplained … | /r/MensRights | 11/07/12 07:59 AM |
| 2 | I tried to become a feminist. But it seems that feminist doesn't give a fuck about men's issues.Whenever a feminist says that feminism is about equality, please encourage them to submit examples to /r/FeminismHelpingMen | /r/MensRights | 30/06/12 03:35 PM |
| 17 | If the feminists 'won' this whole gender argument, wouldn't they cause the same imbalance in rights that they're trying to prevent?Example of this already happening: the tender years doctrine. The presumption that fathers should get custody of children in the event of divorce was wrong. A push for equality would have been to simply erase that presumption. Instead, a feminist campaign to presume mothers should get custody of children was successful, which is one of the causes of the inequality against fathers that egalitarians and MRAs are fighting today. | /r/MensRights | 30/06/12 03:19 PM |
| 1 | To /r/feminism: here's what's wrong with redditYes. | /r/MensRights | 29/06/12 02:08 PM |
| 1 | Was feminism always wrong?There was a thread on this subject yesterday. | /r/MensRights | 29/06/12 11:07 AM |
| 5 | What is this about?Looking at the poster's history, it looks like they are referring to the recently failed legal challenge to the PPACA healthcare law in the USA. | /r/MensRights | 29/06/12 09:46 AM |
| 12 | So I just figured out this subreddit exists. What do you think of transgendered people?Transmen and transwomen are not the primary concern of this reddit, but they are and should be welcome here. Trans women can face the same problems men face because they are often perceived as men. Trans men can face the same problems cis men face because they identify as men and often pass as men. Therefore men's rights are relevant to trans people of all types. | /r/MensRights | 28/06/12 11:15 PM |
| 6 | I did something dumb and it caused me a lot of grief. I posted in TwoX only to be shamed, called stupid and called a troll. I got a PM that said I should post here, that MR would be more understanding and not just shame like TwoX. Story inside [NSFW]I'm going to agree with everybody in all the other subreddits you are posting this to - you are an obvious troll. Edit: Confirmed troll. | /r/MensRights | 28/06/12 02:54 PM |
| 2 | How do people here feel about the cause of past feminists?I think that a lot of the causes they fought for were worthwhile, but the movement as a whole was wrong. Even back then, to look around and see problems women faced while ignoring the problems men faced, and decide to participate in a movement to only help one of them was extremely chauvinistic. It's become a factoid that women had it much worse than men, but I don't think that's a reasonable position to take. Men were forced into horrible working conditions. Men were forced into war. Men were s… | /r/MensRights | 28/06/12 10:07 AM |
| 2 | manteresting.com - What do you think about this great site, r/mensrights?NBRA = Neck Beard Rights Activist = SRS Troll. Edit: The link to SRSBusiness is to a comment by NBRA that they have just deleted. | /r/MensRights | 27/06/12 09:32 PM |
| 12 | Gilles Simon Says Women Tennis Players Shouldn't Earn As Much As MenWimbledon started paying equal prizes back in 2007. Before 2007, men worked more and got paid more, now men work more and get paid the same. | /r/MensRights | 27/06/12 04:26 PM |
| 6 | Here is a story for you all I have come across. A story of cheating, deception, and woe. It is a story of why all women are bad.Surprise surprise, person posting "All women are whores" has a 0 day old account. Don't feed the troll. | /r/MensRights | 27/06/12 04:13 PM |
| 9 | May have come up before but should we disband Mens Rights or create a new one for Human beings?Its called egalitarianism, and there are already several subreddits dedicated to it, one of which is linked in the sidebar. /r/egalitarianism /r/egalitarian /r/equality /r/genderegalitarian The most common objection I've seen to this sentiment here is that there are so many people pushing for feminism, the MRM should exist as a counterbalance. There's also a minority of traditionalists who think equality is harmful or unworkable. I agree with you though, I don't think segregated movements are a … | /r/MensRights | 26/06/12 12:32 PM |
| 2 | MRAs, where do you stand on pregancy and maternity leave?You can simplify matters somewhat by realising that any health toll that pregnancy takes on women can be considered legitimate medical leave. That basically removes the inherent biological inequality from the argument. Let's say that while mom is pregnant and then looks after the newborn, dad goes to work. Okay... the dad gets to have children without having to suffer a career setback whereas the career setback is compulsory for women. Is this an inequality that society even can or should addres… | /r/MensRights | 26/06/12 11:10 AM |
| 3 | What's up with the constant spamming of manhood academy in every thread now and then?They are spammers. Report them to the moderators and also submit them to /r/ReportTheSpammers. | /r/MensRights | 26/06/12 10:03 AM |
| 7 | If the goal is equality...Mixing up relative and absolute percentages and putting them into a two column table isn't a very good way of presenting this information. I suggest using a pie chart for those items and removing the hyperbole like "Victim: Always / Never". That kind of vague complaint doesn't belong next to actual statistics. | /r/MensRights | 26/06/12 09:51 AM |
| 4 | Another baby boy died during religious ritual in the UK. How many more will it take?Not only is this blogspam - a link to a blog that does nothing but repeat the source article - but it's blogspam for David Icke, a guy who thinks the world is secretly run by alien reptilian overlords. | /r/MensRights | 26/06/12 08:51 AM |
| 5 | 'I Don't Steal Husbands... I Just Borrow Them For A Bit'For anybody not in the UK, you should be aware that the Mirror is a tabloid rag. Worse than the Daily Mail, believe it or not. In this case, this appears to be an advert disguised as a story. As a member of IllicitEncounters.com, the dating website for married people, I see men who are actively seeking affairs. If it wasn’t me, it would be one of the other hundreds of women registered on it. Basically, somebody from Illicit Encounters will have bunged the journalist some cash, and they construct… | /r/MensRights | 21/06/12 12:42 PM |
| 16 | Yoghurt Ad0 day old account, don't feed the troll. | /r/MensRights | 20/06/12 05:31 PM |
| 17 | We've contributed almost $10,000 to the Brian Banks Story in a single day, let's keep these posts on the front page until it's over.Well that's amusing. | /r/MensRights | 20/06/12 01:06 AM |
| 0 | Online Dating DecoderSo when it's something that confirms your existing biases, you respond "Of course", and when I point out something that contradicts your existing biases, that same source is now "meaningless". And you think you are in a position to talk about bias? | /r/MensRights | 15/06/12 03:49 PM |
| 4 | X-Post from AskReddit:Please help. My boyfriend is in jail and I don’t know what to do. I think it might be my fault.This was a troll. | /r/MensRights | 14/06/12 07:08 PM |
| 2 | I'll trick a stranger into giving me another child: says desperate mother | Mail OnlineDaily Mail Island | /r/MensRights | 14/06/12 06:25 PM |
| 0 | Online Dating DecoderDid you read the link I provided? Women exaggerate their income almost as much as men do. | /r/MensRights | 12/06/12 11:41 PM |
| 8 | Online Dating DecoderNo, translation: height and income are things that people consistently lie about in their online dating profiles. The biggest lies in online dating. | /r/MensRights | 12/06/12 04:59 PM |
| 1 | "The homosexualisation of male culture is, quite obviously, in the public interest."They actually added that disclaimer AFTER I posted this link around. This is not true. Google's cache from the 10th of May includes the disclaimer. | /r/MensRights | 12/06/12 01:39 PM |
| 1 | feminist programmer calls for gender separation in the classroom because a male asked difficult questionsare you by chance in the UK? I'll just provide this link to a comment I made yesterday and let you make up your own mind :). | /r/MensRights | 12/06/12 12:09 PM |
| 4 | "The homosexualisation of male culture is, quite obviously, in the public interest."This appears to be the article in question. Had amido linked to it, you would see that the first paragraph, in bold, says: This article, which is frank and opinionated and will be challenging to some readers, has not been edited and does not necessarily represent malehealth's views but that's not the point. Straight or gay, what do you think?. | /r/MensRights | 12/06/12 02:44 AM |
| 4 | Dear /MR: I'm a Wikipedian. I'd like to see high quality men's rights related content on Wikipedia.Yeah, the main things that concern me about it is: This was clearly and provably an edit by a prejudiced party. It's holding the MRM information to a higher standard than the rest of the article. I mean, this is a slop bucket article quoting song lyrics, drug slang and easter eggs. None of it is all that deserving to be there, but somebody went in to remove the stuff they disagree with. If we were going to debate the quality of the material, then the whole article should probably be removed. But… | /r/MensRights | 12/06/12 02:32 AM |
| 1 | feminist programmer calls for gender separation in the classroom because a male asked difficult questionsI take it back. I can think of two things matching your experiences. Being purposefully excluded from meetings (not exactly what you said, but I assume that was what you were implying). This happened to an ex-colleague of mine recently. He's male. Physical stuff. It was a dumb kid in college almost two decades ago. Again, the victim was male. I can't imagine anybody I've ever worked with going so far as to delete somebody else's work, and I've worked with some complete arseholes. None of the wom… | /r/MensRights | 12/06/12 02:22 AM |
| 5 | Dear /MR: I'm a Wikipedian. I'd like to see high quality men's rights related content on Wikipedia.What's your opinion on this? Personally, I don't really see the value in the article as a whole, but it's there. Somebody from SRS removed the references to the MRM with the excuse that it was "non-notable", however they left in such "notable" things as Jay-Z including the phrase in a song - quite deliberately, considering they removed content either side of that bullet point. | /r/MensRights | 12/06/12 02:07 AM |
| 1 | feminist programmer calls for gender separation in the classroom because a male asked difficult questionsNo, she's right. I don't think I've ever worked on a team where the lead didn't code. If you don't code, you're generally called a manager. And when budgets are tight, the contractors are first in line for the chopping block. | /r/MensRights | 12/06/12 12:44 AM |
| 1 | feminist programmer calls for gender separation in the classroom because a male asked difficult questionsYou and I are roughly in the same bracket experience-wise, and I've never seen or heard of this kind of behaviour either. Pretty much everybody I know would be shocked and appalled to hear of behaviour like that, it's so far from the norm as to strain credulity. If I've seen any sexism, it's women being given more leeway when they screw up compared with men. The things like you describe would not be tolerated in any company I have worked with. I totally understand people being sceptical and poin… | /r/MensRights | 12/06/12 12:39 AM |
| 1 | feminist programmer calls for gender separation in the classroom because a male asked difficult questionsIt comes up occasionally. I don't think it's a widely held opinion. | /r/MensRights | 12/06/12 12:22 AM |
| 1 | feminist programmer calls for gender separation in the classroom because a male asked difficult questionsI'm genuinely sad and frustrated that some men don't understand what I'm advocating for- which is strength in diversity. I've worked in diverse programming teams. They were diverse because one person favoured static typing while another favoured dynamic. They were diverse because one had a gaming background while another had a sysadmin background. They were diverse because one person had a particular interest in OpenGL while another was focusing on web services. The fact that some were men and s… | /r/MensRights | 12/06/12 12:22 AM |
| 4 | Just a quick heads up... [regarding r/Feminism]I think the top mod there is a liar who despises this subreddit, and even I think this sounds like a troll. | /r/MensRights | 11/06/12 12:44 PM |
| 1 | Why the hell is this a related sub in /r/beatingwomen?Considering StarlessNBibleBlack just posted a picture of bacon on a quran to /r/islam, I'd say they are trolling too. | /r/MensRights | 06/06/12 10:55 AM |
| 1 | Looking for some scholarly research done about misandry./r/MensRightsLinks /r/MRRef | /r/MensRights | 05/06/12 07:29 PM |
| 1 | Women always have to antagonise men and be on their high-horse...Heh, if I remember correctly, me doing the same thing with /r/TraditionalistMRAs is what made that stinky guy think we were the same person. | /r/MensRights | 05/06/12 04:06 PM |
| 1 | Any Stargate Fans? Feminist Captain Sam Carter. (not a vibrant issue but a fun one to discuss ^^)You're the second person this week I've heard say that Voyager was good. I seem to remember Sliders did an episode where women ruled the world that was all about inverting a completely over the top caricature of patriarchy. | /r/MensRights | 05/06/12 12:58 PM |
| 2 | Women always have to antagonise men and be on their high-horse...I've just created it, made you the top moderator, and resigned myself. Now stop posting that kind of crap here. | /r/MensRights | 05/06/12 12:31 PM |
| 4 | Women always have to antagonise men and be on their high-horse...This is /r/MensRights, not /r/CallWomenDumbBitches. Knock it off. | /r/MensRights | 05/06/12 12:21 PM |
| 6 | Vote Yes to subvert this feminist pollFucking up online polls doesn't belong in /r/MensRights. | /r/MensRights | 04/06/12 11:50 PM |
| 8 | A girl cheats on you and scams you out of a ton of money ...If there's no legal recourse and you aren't offering any details, I'm assuming the "scam" is little more than you regretting spending money on her when the relationship fell apart. Either way, throw the photos away. No good comes from vindictiveness, it just makes you a shitty person too. | /r/MensRights | 01/06/12 02:02 PM |
| 4 | I made an askreddit post talking about how that woman who is no longer a feminist did an IAMA, and the mods removed it because she didn't appreciate feminism enough. Help it get shown! (Had to use an alt account)The moderator in question is saying that the screenshot was faked. I'm guessing Riff_Raff_Yo is the person who faked it. | /r/MensRights | 01/06/12 12:49 PM |
| 2 | /r/Askreddit at its best! Thread posted about an ex feminist's thread being censored by a feminist Mod. The thread is then removed by that same feminist mod.The moderator in question is saying that the screenshot was faked. | /r/MensRights | 01/06/12 12:47 PM |
| 2 | Is Feminism an Ideology?To be clear, I am a feminist--but in a qualified sense. Like all of us here, I am for equal rights for all people, men and women. But I don’t limit equality to purely male or female issues. I see the fight for men and women rights as only one part in a struggle against discrimination of all sorts—be it economic, sexual, nationalist, racial, etc. The word "egalitarian" more closely describes these values than "feminist". I'm not really sure what you are asking with the rest of it. Of course femin… | /r/MensRights | 01/06/12 02:03 AM |
| 3 | girlfriend troubles.These aren't stigmas against men, these are reactions to your own behaviour. If you tell her you're not going to smoke any more and you keep on smoking, yes, she's going to trust you less. She's not doing it because she thinks men are untrustworthy, she's doing it because you are untrustworthy. If you want to convince her that you are trustworthy, you're going to have to start being worthy of her trust. That means don't tell her you won't do something and then go ahead and keep doing it again ov… | /r/MensRights | 29/05/12 06:30 PM |
| 6 | Female Privilege.Silver War Badge | /r/MensRights | 28/05/12 09:28 AM |
| 37 | Female Privilege.It was that common for men to be harassed, they had to create special badges for government workers and veterans to wear to indicate that they weren't "cowards". | /r/MensRights | 27/05/12 10:08 PM |
| 3 | Horrible BossesThere's a lot of films like that. Think about what kind of film While You Were Sleeping would be if the genders were reversed, for example. | /r/MensRights | 27/05/12 05:53 PM |
| 19 | How do you feel about gay rights, MRAs?hetrophobia and misandry that you find in the political LGBT movement Examples? RobotAnna, moderator of /r/lgbt, said: seriously fuck cisgender gay dudes. i would be so down with a new gay movement that threw cis gay dudes under the bus | /r/MensRights | 23/05/12 07:52 PM |
| 1 | Please stop linking to the Daily Mail, it's not a credible site.Virtually no newspapers are "feminist led". You'll find feminists complaining about mainstream media even more than the MRM. A news source that panders to your ideology but tells you lies is worthless. The Daily Mail is not on your side, it publishes whatever will rile people up, regardless of the truth. They are telling you what you want to hear. For all the complaints about feminist echo chambers I've seen here, you seem amazingly ill-equipped to recognise one. I'll ask again - when the Daily … | /r/MensRights | 18/05/12 11:14 PM |
| 1 | How it is vs How it should be - any advice on this infographic prototype?Also check out Many Eyes. | /r/MensRights | 18/05/12 10:51 PM |
| 1 | MRM Blogging HelpI know it's not exactly what you were looking for, but have you considered writing for a mainstream site rather than one dedicated to the MRM? You'd reach people outside the MRM that way. Consider: The New Journalist Comment is Free | /r/MensRights | 18/05/12 10:41 PM |
| 1 | I'm not sure if someone has covered this, but remember that crazy ex-girlfriend who pulled all of her boyfriend's teeth out? Turns out the story was fake. [Though it still doesn't make all the girls who supported it any better]Because this topic recently resurfaced, here's a few more examples of the Daily Mail being dishonest. Daily Mail lies about Facebook Do the weather forecasters quoted by the Daily Mail actually exist? Did immigrant crime really double in just THREE years? Summary by DavidCOG More links from other Redditors Lots of pleas to stop linking to it, with thousands of votes. And if you're fed up after reading all those lies, here's a few amusing things: The Daily Mail is terrible at doctoring their phot… | /r/MensRights | 18/05/12 10:14 PM |
| 1 | Please stop linking to the Daily Mail, it's not a credible site.Lots of newspapers make mistakes. This wasn't a mistake. They deliberately made stuff up. Lots of newspapers make mistakes, but it's not normal for them to simply invent things. As Knox realised the enormity of what judge Hellman was saying she sank into her chair sobbing uncontrollably while her family and friends hugged each other in tears. Do you understand this never happened? Do you understand she was happy because her appeal was upheld? Do you understand that it was made up by the person w… | /r/MensRights | 18/05/12 08:14 PM |
| 1 | I'm not sure if someone has covered this, but remember that crazy ex-girlfriend who pulled all of her boyfriend's teeth out? Turns out the story was fake. [Though it still doesn't make all the girls who supported it any better]This is not a zero-sum game. We aren't on two separate sides, the Daily Mail and the BBC. Complaining about the BBC doesn't make the Daily Mail the slightest bit more honest. If every single BBC reporter ate babies, raped kittens and kicked puppies on a daily basis, the Daily Mail would still be a muck-raking tabloid full of lies. But go ahead, if complaints about the bias of the BBC make you feel better about the Daily Mail's history of making things up entirely, go ahead and stick your head in… | /r/MensRights | 18/05/12 08:06 PM |
| 0 | Please stop linking to the Daily Mail, it's not a credible site.hmmm not used to you going down the route of shaming tactics but i have no persecution complex I wasn't accusing you of having a persecution complex, I was saying that's what you are doing by reading the Daily Mail. Somebody reads an article about some stuff that's sexist against men, they get angry and post it here, people talk about how terrible it is... well when the story was made up, what's the point? It feeds people's persecution complexes, it gets people angry, but it doesn't inform peopl… | /r/MensRights | 18/05/12 07:58 PM |
| 2 | Please stop linking to the Daily Mail, it's not a credible site.In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act The Daily Mail is not a bastion of truth. It makes things up all the time. I described numerous examples, including a case where they vividly described people's fictional reactions to a guilty verdict, made up quotes relating to that guilty verdict, and described events that didn't happen because somebody mistranslated "appeal upheld" as "guilty". | /r/MensRights | 18/05/12 07:32 PM |
| 1 | Please stop linking to the Daily Mail, it's not a credible site.It's not about corruption, it's about making stuff up. there are always nuggets of truth to be found Yes, the problem being that when you read the Daily Mail, you need to do research to determine whether something is a "nugget of truth", or simply something that they made up. If you're going to do that research, you might as well link to the actual source material. If you aren't going to do that research, you're pretty much guaranteed to be passing along lies sooner rather than later. It's a fal… | /r/MensRights | 18/05/12 07:29 PM |
| 2 | Please stop linking to the Daily Mail, it's not a credible site.Yes, because awards given out by newspaper executives cancels out the fact that they make stuff up, does it? I gave numerous examples of indefensible behaviour by the Daily Mail that shows it's extremely dishonest. And you think an awards ceremony that's basically an excuse to extract money from sponsors trumps that? | /r/MensRights | 18/05/12 06:36 PM |
| 5 | Please stop linking to the Daily Mail, it's not a credible site.Yes, because awards given out by newspaper executives cancels out the fact that they make stuff up, does it? I gave numerous examples of indefensible behaviour by the Daily Mail that shows it's extremely dishonest. And you think an awards ceremony that's basically an excuse to extract money from sponsors trumps that? | /r/MensRights | 18/05/12 06:36 PM |
| 4 | Please stop linking to the Daily Mail, it's not a credible site.Yes, because awards given out by newspaper executives cancels out the fact that they make stuff up, does it? I gave numerous examples of indefensible behaviour by the Daily Mail that shows it's extremely dishonest. And you think an awards ceremony that's basically an excuse to extract money from sponsors trumps that? | /r/MensRights | 18/05/12 06:35 PM |
| 5 | Please stop linking to the Daily Mail, it's not a credible site.Here's a few examples. | /r/MensRights | 18/05/12 02:37 PM |
| 4 | Please stop linking to the Daily Mail, it's not a credible site.The reason why it is so big is because they are more than willing to tell people what they want to hear, facts be damned. What you seem to be saying is that this is quite alright because they are telling you what you want to hear. So long as people are willing to look the other way when they make stuff up, their strategy of dishonesty sells a lot of papers. But it doesn't lead to people being more informed. | /r/MensRights | 18/05/12 02:37 PM |
| 0 | Please stop linking to the Daily Mail, it's not a credible site.It's not fake news, but the Daily Mail claiming credit is bullshit. The tabloids do this shit all the time. They pick something that will get people outraged, if things don't change they sell papers because people are angry, if things do change, they claim credit. Are you seriously so gullible as to believe them or are you astroturfing? If anybody wants to know why the NHS decided to start offering Abiraterone when before they wouldn't, they should listen to what the NHS is actually saying. It w… | /r/MensRights | 18/05/12 02:33 PM |
| 11 | Southern Poverty Law Center "Hatewatch" plays tit-for-tat with the "Manosphere" again | 5/5/12Radfem Hub's comment policy: The discussions on this blog are reserved for women. Female-born, women-identified women are welcome to take part. This means that no male-born or male-identified person is given a platform to speak in this space. An amazing thing happens when women-identified women have the chance to speak, away from the carnivorous and necrophiliac behaviors of men. Where on earth did people get the idea that she hated men? | /r/MensRights | 16/05/12 08:07 PM |
| 3 | awful lot of trolls this morning. nice to know we're getting to them :)That comment was submitted to /r/againstmensrights. | /r/MensRights | 16/05/12 05:50 PM |
| 3 | How many of you went to an all-boys school at some point? Is this the answer to feminist control of education?I actually attended both an all-boys school and a co-ed school too. I don't think there's any value in gender segregation. All you are doing is alienating kids from the other gender. I never felt like one gender dominated any subject, I never felt shamed to be male, and I received only encouragement to pursue the interests I wanted to. I'm sorry that you felt that way about your old school, it sounds like it was a shitty school. But I very much doubt it was shitty because it taught girls as well… | /r/MensRights | 16/05/12 02:17 PM |
| 6 | Unbelievable! In an AskReddit post about girlfriend being raped, woman says of r/mensrights "I don't even know how that subreddit is allowed to stay open. It's a breeding ground for rapists and misogynists."So let's recap: Somebody with a newish account with no other activity posts to AskReddit things like: I'm thinking I better leave her. I'm pretty sure she's lying about being raped. Then, almost immediately, a different brand new account with no other activity starts posting things like: You always believe a woman when she said she was raped! Your one of those rape apologists, aren't you? I just read this piece written by some MRA named Paul Elam You sound like one of those guys from /r/MensRigh… | /r/MensRights | 15/05/12 11:30 PM |
| 4 | I have a deep warm love for men and it pains me to see that we are treated like lesser humans. Feminists can try to fight us MRAs, but our love for one another and unity will overwhelm them.TROLL. Youtube username is "beatingwomen", they've posted to /r/beatingwomen, their other videos include a troll face in the first few seconds and something about violence to women. | /r/MensRights | 14/05/12 10:41 PM |
| 8 | How it is vs How it should be - any advice on this infographic prototype?On a practical level - "treatment" is a vague concept that you need to define more rigorously, and you need to cite your sources. On an aesthetic level - thicker, antialiased lines, softer colours, fewer words. Most of the small text should be represented visually, perhaps pie charts? The smaller text should be antialiased as well, and probably a little larger. Try a slightly off-white background too. To indicate the areas of concern, why don't you try shaded areas instead? | /r/MensRights | 10/05/12 04:29 PM |
| 15 | I'm not sure if someone has covered this, but remember that crazy ex-girlfriend who pulled all of her boyfriend's teeth out? Turns out the story was fake. [Though it still doesn't make all the girls who supported it any better]I very much doubt the DM sat down in their offices and pulled it out of thin air Why? They are famous for doing so. For example, take the Amanda Knox trial. It's fairly common with high-profile trials for newspapers to prepare two drafts, one for a guilty verdict, one for a not guilty verdict. And, understandably, sometimes mistakes happen, and the wrong story is published. That happened to a few newspapers with that trial. But the Daily Mail? Their story included "quotes" from people that were … | /r/MensRights | 09/05/12 09:14 PM |
| 30 | I'm not sure if someone has covered this, but remember that crazy ex-girlfriend who pulled all of her boyfriend's teeth out? Turns out the story was fake. [Though it still doesn't make all the girls who supported it any better]The original story was traced back to Britain's Daily Mail newspaper. The writer Simon Tomlinson, says he does not know where the story originated, despite its bearing his byline. "I've drawn a bit of a blank," he told MSNBC. Seriously guys. How many times do people need to be told that the Daily Mail is junk? The Daily Mail makes money by whipping up outrage. They are posted here embarrassingly often. Stop submitting this junk. This isn't the first time they've made things up and it won't be th… | /r/MensRights | 09/05/12 05:02 PM |
| 2 | I need to apologiseIf a Reddit account doesn't have a certain amount of karma, you have to go through a CAPTCHA to post anything. If the bot lost enough karma, it would be unable to post. | /r/MensRights | 04/05/12 02:06 AM |
| 2 | I've seen this link floating around reddit, it's a bunch of misogynist garbage that justifies SRS...almost.Please also submit them to /r/reportthespammers. Usually, they are caught fairly quickly, so it's not immediately obvious without context that they are spammers because their history is practically empty. To compensate for this, I've taken to leaving a comment for every submission I make about them: This is the latest Manhood Academy spam account. Manhood101 / Manhood Academy constantly spam until they get banned, then they register a new account and start again. If anybody complains, they get h… | /r/MensRights | 03/05/12 08:10 PM |
| 4 | What kind of woman gets pregnant just to take a year off work?It's the Daily Mail. They are so dishonest that I wouldn't be surprised if the baby in the photo didn't even exist and they staged it with an animatronic puppet. Nothing is beneath them. You can't trust a word they say. If a story is credible, it will be reported by other papers. Please submit links to those, or preferably to primary sources. Anything from the Daily Mail gets an automatic vote down. | /r/MensRights | 03/05/12 06:50 PM |
| 2 | I'd like /MensRights opinion on this...The director specifically is the one who is a repeat offender, yet will call out some of his other instructors (not me specifically) in staff meetings. I'm not really getting a good picture of your setup. Are you in a situation where, if he gets defensive, he can complain that you're making stuff up because he's called you out for something? To defend yourself from that, you'd have to give details on who has said what to you, and if they haven't done anything officially themselves, they might no… | /r/MensRights | 01/05/12 06:54 PM |
| 0 | I have a question for you guys...I don't think you need to make a big deal out of it. He's occasionally offended by that behaviour, so you're backing off on it. You're doing the right thing. He's probably just taking it a bit differently because you're his partner. For instance, there's a difference between one of your mates telling you you've got a small dick and your partner doing it. | /r/MensRights | 28/04/12 01:40 PM |
| 2 | The popular Frida Ghitis thread has been removed. It was faked.It's hard to know for sure. No, it's not hard to know for sure. We know for sure. Look at the images: Fake. Real. You can clearly see that the tweet about foreign affairs has been replaced. If the fake tweet actually existed, you'd see the foreign affairs tweet adjacent to it. She can go back and delete old tweets, but she can't edit them or insert new ones with old timestamps, which is what she would have to have done in order for both screenshots to be real. It just seems really odd that inste… | /r/MensRights | 26/04/12 09:17 PM |
| 2 | The popular Frida Ghitis thread has been removed. It was faked.she doesn't deny that they were her tweets, just that she didn't delete them. She obviously doesn't know what you are talking about. I can't find the faked screenshot, but if what ignatiusloyola says is accurate, the troll replaced a tweet. That would mean that the screenshot couldn't possibly be explained by her deleting the tweet - she'd be able to delete it, but she wouldn't be able to go back and insert a different tweet with the same timestamp. | /r/MensRights | 26/04/12 02:54 PM |
| 2 | I just wanted to say that I'm proud of you guys.People have been voting down and fighting against radical and ugly comments here for the whole time I've visited--years at this point. I agree with this. | /r/MensRights | 25/04/12 04:43 PM |
| 18 | Justin Bieber writes song about false paternity claims. Recall Mariah Yeater, 20, falsely accused him of fathering her child, and was not charged.If Billie Jean didn't make a dent in people's perceptions, it's unlikely this will. | /r/MensRights | 25/04/12 01:56 PM |
| 1 | Shock as Prosecutors Drop Rape Charge Against Female RapistPerhaps however you can reply to my posts without needing to make condescending remarks about my intelligence. It was a legitimate question. You are reading things wrongly. There's no rational response to that other than "You are reading things wrongly. Why?" I can't meaningfully reply to something like: And on what basis are you assuming that this dropping of charges was because the woman was proved innocent? ...because you are asking me to justify an assumption I haven't made. I'm sure that yo… | /r/MensRights | 22/04/12 07:36 AM |
| 2 | Shock as Prosecutors Drop Rape Charge Against Female RapistAre you suggesting that it is just as likely that the male made a false allegation, as it is that he was raped? Do you really believe that these two possibilities are equally likely? No. Serious question: is English not your first language, or do you have some kind of impediment in understanding the written word? Because you've got a serious problem somewhere. You are inventing things that aren't part of the news article and thinking that they are facts, and you are inventing things I haven't sa… | /r/MensRights | 22/04/12 05:40 AM |
| 7 | Misrepresentation of the MR subreddit in the Reddit community at large.Doing something like that is pretty easy from a technical perspective. You just poll /user/viperz/comments/.json and post a reply to each one. You need a bit of a karma bump to begin with so you aren't prompted with a CAPTCHA, but it's otherwise straightforward. However I'm pretty sure people have tried similar things in the past and ended up with their account banned from Reddit. If you want to make sure he's not lying about this subreddit, I suggest subscribing to his comments as a news feed a… | /r/MensRights | 22/04/12 05:28 AM |
| 3 | Shock as Prosecutors Drop Rape Charge Against Female RapistAnd on what basis are you assuming that this dropping of charges was because the woman was proved innocent? I'm not. Did you actually read what I wrote? I said there are multiple possibilities for why these charges could be dropped legitimately, and I gave one as an example. I wasn't saying that particular example was what actually happened. Then all of a sudden, the prosecution drops all charges. This case was not thrown out by the Magistrate. It was the Prosecution who all of a sudden dropped … | /r/MensRights | 22/04/12 04:10 AM |
| 3 | Shock as Prosecutors Drop Rape Charge Against Female RapistIs there any reason to believe this is improper? There could be any number of legitimate reasons why the charges may be dropped, for instance if she were able to prove her innocence. It looks awfully like the fathers4equality blog tried to "sex up" this article. The source article on the Adelaide Now website has no mention at all of shock or surprise. The entire blog entry, including the title, is an exact copy & paste of the news article, except with "Shock as" prepended to the title, and the w… | /r/MensRights | 22/04/12 01:22 AM |
| 9 | My college is forcing me to take sensitity training and a class on sexual harassment because they said I had visited this subreddit numerous times in the campus libraryFlorida State University As this is a state university, hate speech codes are unconstitutional. Florida State University Law Review actually discussed this not too long ago: Public university hate speech restrictions that have been challenged in court have been decisively struck down on First Amendment grounds. Apologies if I've got this wrong, but you sound like a troll to me, trying to scare people away from reading this subreddit. Nobody is going to get kicked out of university for visiting R… | /r/MensRights | 21/04/12 03:48 PM |
| 1 | Fraud conviction against transsexual man raises many questionsI made the same mistake the first time I read it. | /r/MensRights | 19/04/12 04:06 PM |
| 2 | Fraud conviction against transsexual man raises many questionsWhile Sweden's usually quite progressive, they do have some problems with trans acceptance. Trans people have to be sterilised if they want to be legally recognised as their identified gender not their birth gender. That's changing now, but I guess they've got a bit of progress to make on that front, especially if news agencies refer to transwomen as men. | /r/MensRights | 19/04/12 02:20 PM |
| 3 | Fraud conviction against transsexual man raises many questionsPlease note that Billing follows the lead of the news agencies in calling the accused a man, when they say "a transsexual man" one would say a transwoman in English | /r/MensRights | 19/04/12 02:15 PM |
| 7 | I feel more comfortable in MensRights than in /r/women or /r/TwoXChromosomesI take issue with the "many, many" part. There are certainly some, but I don't think there's a lot. | /r/MensRights | 19/04/12 02:12 PM |
| 12 | I feel more comfortable in MensRights than in /r/women or /r/TwoXChromosomesI've seen it first hand at work. Boss shoots down an idea as unfeasible or uncommercial, most people (guys and girls) just go "oh well, they've been doing their job for 35 years. You live you learn", whereas the victimists go off and blame patriarchy and that it's because they're women they are not being listened to. I've experienced that first-hand too. Criticise somebody's code? It couldn't possibly be because it was shitty code. It's because she's a woman and you are a misogynist! Except I di… | /r/MensRights | 19/04/12 01:51 PM |
| 8 | Looking for instances where feminists supported laws that negatively affected men.I actually created /r/FeminismHurtingMen as a complement to /r/FeminismHelpingMen a while back. I haven't properly set it up yet, but feel free to submit there. The criteria will be similar to the other subreddit - so only actual activism conducted by self-identified feminists please. | /r/MensRights | 18/04/12 11:28 PM |
| 12 | SenselessPossessive "its" has no apostrophe. Grammar mistakes cost lives. It should really be "his" anyway. | /r/MensRights | 18/04/12 01:58 AM |
| 2 | /r/shitredditsays_/ (note the underscore)...another subreddit dedicated to trolling /mr. that's...what...5 now? and this one is modded by the Eschat troll himself...Probably, but it's all just speculation really. My comment in antisrs goes into a bit more detail. | /r/MensRights | 18/04/12 12:18 AM |
| 2 | /r/shitredditsays_/ (note the underscore)...another subreddit dedicated to trolling /mr. that's...what...5 now? and this one is modded by the Eschat troll himself...If somebody made a new account, trolled some rape victims, and then kept telling people he was from /r/MensRights, would you believe him? I wouldn't. Here we have sisterofblackvisions doing something horrible, and now they keep telling people they are inspired by and endorsed by eschatology, SRS, etc. And you believe them? | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 11:38 PM |
| 1 | /r/shitredditsays_/ (note the underscore)...another subreddit dedicated to trolling /mr. that's...what...5 now? and this one is modded by the Eschat troll himself...I think that's a big assumption, considering how hard sisterofblackvisions is trying to link themselves to eschatology. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 09:32 PM |
| 12 | Check this thread on r/LGBT. Misandry by the mods.Yeah, the same subreddit where a moderator said "You don't know what the fuck you are" to somebody questioning their gender identity and where a different moderator thinks that "gay men should be thrown under the bus because it's their turn down there". Big surprise. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 08:48 PM |
| 4 | /r/shitredditsays_/ (note the underscore)...another subreddit dedicated to trolling /mr. that's...what...5 now? and this one is modded by the Eschat troll himself...Note that sisterofblackvisions, the troll pretending to be the sister of the man who committed suicide, is a moderator there. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 08:40 PM |
| 2 | Can someone please show me where /r/MensRights is against treating women equally? I just don't understand this comment.About a month ago. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 07:06 PM |
| 15 | regarding the al franken debacle.An alternative approach is to email his opponents something along the lines of "I'm not voting for Al Franken because he doesn't do his research. What's your views on the subject?" and CC him. If enough people do that, his opponents will take it as a cue to use it in their campaign and he will realise where it came from. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 06:55 PM |
| 2 | Can someone please show me where /r/MensRights is against treating women equally? I just don't understand this comment.you don't exactly see many feminists complaining that it isn't fair that women aren't "equal" in draft selection That's the only thing I hear them say about the draft selection. The problem is that they only seem to think about it when they are accused of only caring about women, not that they support an unequal draft. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 02:40 PM |
| 5 | Can someone please show me where /r/MensRights is against treating women equally? I just don't understand this comment.Jeremiah was banned a while ago. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 02:37 PM |
| 0 | DAE have trouble believing women who say they were raped?It sure is easy to try to dismiss people who criticise you with the magic incantation "white knight", but I think everybody except your little fanboy zaferk sees right through it. Aside from any other reason, if I wanted to impress women, do you really think I'd try to do it in /r/MensRights? | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 12:23 PM |
| 0 | DAE have trouble believing women who say they were raped?No, you seem to think treating a women like a princess is misogyny. I said Demonspawn was being misogynistic. Please explain how you've arrived at this conclusion from that. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 12:22 PM |
| 2 | DAE have trouble believing women who say they were raped?No, you seem to think treating a women like a princess is misogyny. I said Demonspawn was being misogynistic. Please explain how you've arrived at this conclusion from that. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 12:40 AM |
| 4 | DAE have trouble believing women who say they were raped?Perhaps when women stop making slut walks... Most women don't do that. stop voting for more benefits from money mostly collected from men.... Most people do that, and women pay taxes too. when they no longer file false allegations of rape over being drunk.... Most women don't do that. But you'll still be a pussy-begging white knight. Ah yes, yet another accusation of being a white knight. I know you don't want to hear this, but when people tell you to stop being misogynistic, it's not because th… | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 12:39 AM |
| 5 | DAE have trouble believing women who say they were raped?Please spend more time socialising with women instead of avoiding them. You have no idea how "most women" act. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 12:19 AM |
| 2 | DAE have trouble believing women who say they were raped?No, you seem to think treating a women like a princess is misogyny. I said Demonspawn was being misogynistic. Please explain how you've arrived at this conclusion from that. due to whatever warped feminist influence I'm anti-feminist. Don't try to cast aspersions on me by accusing me of something that isn't true. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 12:16 AM |
| 3 | DAE have trouble believing women who say they were raped?I see you've bolded a bit of your quote, but I don't see how it's relevant to my criticism. Saying that it's not their fault because it's how they were brought up doesn't mean it's not misogynistic to call women not responsible for themselves. You're still stereotyping women as incapable, regardless of the reasons why you think it's the case. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 12:13 AM |
| 3 | If we had a Men's Rights app, we'd be able to back up our arguments without a break in conversations.That's not what I meant when I was talking about the approval process. When you publish a native application in the App Store, Apple review the application to make sure it meets their requirements. This usually takes 7-10 days or so. Every time you want to update the application's functionality or fix bugs, you have to go through this procedure, and sometimes applications get rejected for stupid things. A website that works well on a smartphone isn't subject to this process, so there's less red … | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 12:07 AM |
| 2 | DAE have trouble believing women who say they were raped?I think you're missing a negative in there somewhere, your comment doesn't make sense as written. Unless you think Demonspawn treats women as if they were princesses or you think I think that? | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 12:01 AM |
| 3 | DAE have trouble believing women who say they were raped?This is what you said: Women are not responsible for themselves. Okay, so I'll amend what I said: Thinking that women are unwilling to or incapable of being responsible is misogynistic | /r/MensRights | 17/04/12 12:00 AM |
| 4 | If we had a Men's Rights app, we'd be able to back up our arguments without a break in conversations.You don't necessarily need a native application. A wiki with a mobile stylesheet/responsive design and HTML 5 offline support would probably be a better approach - no approval process, there are more people capable of setting something like that up, it would be suitable for gathering information from multiple contributors, and it would work on multiple platforms. If you really want to see something like this built and there aren't any volunteers, what about putting something on Kickstarter to cr… | /r/MensRights | 16/04/12 11:53 PM |
| 5 | DAE have trouble believing women who say they were raped?I know what misogyny means, and thinking that women are incapable of being responsible is misogynistic. I'm not calling out things merely because they "do not put women above reproach", that's an absurd mischaracterisation and you know it. | /r/MensRights | 16/04/12 11:31 PM |
| 8 | DAE have trouble believing women who say they were raped?Women are not responsible for themselves. Can you knock it off with this misogynistic bullshit? Most women are not like this. Practically everything you say about women seems to be from the viewpoint that they are all alike. I swear, when you post these stupid generalisations, it makes me think you've only ever met one woman who happens to be horrible and you're basing your entire worldview on her. | /r/MensRights | 16/04/12 10:51 PM |
| 5 | DAE have trouble believing women who say they were raped?Relatively new account with zero history besides this submission, implying that /r/MensRights is promoting misogynistic attitudes towards female rape victims? Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with everybody else in saying that this sounds like a troll. In case you are serious: No, that attitude is wrong. Women aren't cruel and vindictive, some people can be, regardless of gender. People accused of rape should be afforded the presumption of innocence, but that doesn't mean the accuser should be p… | /r/MensRights | 16/04/12 10:45 PM |
| 1 | Just some questionsFair enough. | /r/MensRights | 16/04/12 10:39 PM |
| 4 | Just some questionsHow would people here feel about someone who doesn't take a side in either feminism or the MRM, but who is a proponent of gender neutrality. I identify as an egalitarian, I believe that gendered rights movements are inherently harmful and counterproductive. You could describe me as an anti-feminist and anti-MRA. Despite that, I haven't had any real problems here, and I think a lot of people here are closer to me ideologically than some of the extremists who identify as MRAs. In this thread I out… | /r/MensRights | 16/04/12 09:23 PM |
| 2 | Man forced to leave children's area at McDonaldsIt was closing time and he was swearing at staff and wouldn't leave. It was perfectly reasonable to call the cops to get rid of him. | /r/MensRights | 16/04/12 06:14 PM |
| 3 | I have been away for a few days - any update on the Black_visions situation?We don't have confirmation that Black_Visions committed suicide, nor that he is still alive. From the account and pseudonym history, it's likely he was genuinely suicidal in my opinion. We don't have confirmation that the news article linked to Black_Visions was in fact referring to him, nor do we have confirmation that it was not him. We do have confirmation that the "sister" that posted here was a troll and they were widely condemned by just about everybody on Reddit. | /r/MensRights | 16/04/12 02:44 PM |
| -8 | Dr. Helen coming to grips with MGTOW. "What would world be like without firefighters & soldiers?" OP doesn't say much, but the comments r great.I think the world would probably be a much better place without soldiers. | /r/MensRights | 13/04/12 11:53 PM |
| 9 | A horrible thing indeedthe only link between radfemhub and reddit is you. That's not true. Off the top of my head, radfemhub was linked here when they published a piece calling for people to donate to the SPLC because of the "hate group" thing, and also I linked to them in /r/funny a couple of days ago as an example of womyn-born-womyn groups excluding transmen. I'm sure plenty of people have linked to them; they are an extremist feminist group, so they are undoubtedly of interest to many people in gender rights subre… | /r/MensRights | 13/04/12 10:44 PM |
| 2 | On male disposability: Study shows that "Women and children first" on sinking ships was not so much the case (link within)It wasn't a criticism, it's just you mentioned you couldn't find the study :). | /r/MensRights | 13/04/12 10:10 PM |
| 2 | On male disposability: Study shows that "Women and children first" on sinking ships was not so much the case (link within)The study was posted here yesterday. | /r/MensRights | 13/04/12 09:26 PM |
| 5 | How can I be an activist?Watch what your elected representatives are doing on your behalf. Write to them when they do something good or bad. Write to them when there's an upcoming vote that's relevant. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/12 11:09 PM |
| 2 | Call me a prude with no sense of humor but... (Slight spoiler alert)It's not uncommon. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/12 11:07 PM |
| 4 | From the sister of black visions who committed suicide - a thank you to men's rightsYou don't need to. You were talking about the effort needed to find the person, not the effort needed to prove that they are guilty in court. You're moving the goalposts. You don't just look on an Internet forum and say "We've got him, case closed". You find out who they are, then you get a court order to seize their computers and ISP records as evidence. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/12 05:08 PM |
| 15 | From the sister of black visions who committed suicide - a thank you to men's rightsWe're being told that he killed himself that night. Nobody has said this. By then the bullying posts were gone- they were deleted that same night by qanan - so unless he took screenshots of the comments as they were made and sent them to his sister, she couldn't have seen them. She doesn't claim to have seen the comments, she quoted him talking about them. Furthermore, the specific comment referenced was quoted in a reply which is still visible. It's perfectly reasonable to be skeptical, but thi… | /r/MensRights | 12/04/12 04:03 PM |
| 7 | From the sister of black visions who committed suicide - a thank you to men's rightsIt's fairly common as a data storage strategy for "deleted" things to merely have a flag next to them to say that they are deleted. Then the front-end code only shows things without that flag. This enables, for instance, a moderator to remove a comment, then to undo it and put the comment back if they change their mind or made a mistake. It's also useful in various situations for data integrity - you might want to "delete" a product from an online store, but that product should stay in your data… | /r/MensRights | 12/04/12 03:47 PM |
| 2 | From the sister of black visions who committed suicide - a thank you to men's rightsI also did mean traceroute to find the IP. You don't use traceroute to find the IP. You are provided the IP from Reddit, ARIN records will tell you which organisation the IP address is allocated to, then you have to ask the organisation in question for their records relating to that IP address. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/12 03:39 PM |
| 5 | From the sister of black visions who committed suicide - a thank you to men's rightsIt takes a lot of resources to gather that sort of information and link a person to their anonymous online identity. You don't need vast resources to track some of these people down, you just need a little knowledge of the situation. One of the people involved uses their full name on Something Awful. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/12 03:33 PM |
| 7 | The "Eschatology" type troll.People see the similarities, they just ignore them because falsely claiming that you're holding the two up as equivalent is an easy way for them to dismiss your argument. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/12 02:18 PM |
| 8 | Looks like we've got a stalkerOne of the regulars in one of the feminist subreddits a couple of years ago left a heavily up voted comment (it was at least +20) that included the claim that any male embrace of a woman at all is inherently oppressive. They weren't even talking about anything sexual, the topic was something along the lines of a man putting his arm around his girlfriend. It really stuck in my mind because I couldn't help but picture a little boy hugging his mom. When the only tool you have for looking at the wor… | /r/MensRights | 12/04/12 01:42 PM |
| 6 | German court rules: Women shouldn't be convicted of incest because of a timid personality structure. It's fine if men are, though.Breast cancer is largely hereditary. Do you think it should be illegal for people with the breast cancer gene to have children? What about people with Huntington's and other hereditary diseases? What about sickle-cell anaemia? What about sterile people and gay people? Do you think incest should be legal for them? | /r/MensRights | 12/04/12 01:15 PM |
| 3 | Equality?If I take that approach, the entire meeting shuts down, and afterward many of the participants go out of their way to exact punitive sanctions for my violating the social order. I've been in too many meetings to count where women participate fully without shutting the entire meeting down. The only time I've ever seen a woman derail a meeting was because it was her first week on the job and she was unused to the role she was in, not because she was a woman. She now leads a team of developers and … | /r/MensRights | 12/04/12 01:05 PM |
| 23 | From the sister of black visions who committed suicide - a thank you to men's rightsBecause if your brother's committed suicide, you need support, not links to news articles about his death or accusations of being a troll. It costs us nothing to take her at her word and be supportive. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/12 01:33 AM |
| 5 | From the sister of black visions who committed suicide - a thank you to men's rightsI've sent it via PM. I'm not going to post it in this thread. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/12 01:06 AM |
| 15 | From the sister of black visions who committed suicide - a thank you to men's rightsThe news article was posted here before. I think we should put our skepticism on hold for the time being. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/12 01:04 AM |
| 68 | From the sister of black visions who committed suicide - a thank you to men's rightsHi Sandy, I'm really sorry to hear that. I'm glad Jerry found some comfort here and I'm sorry it wasn't enough. Thank you for letting us know what happened. A lot of people say horrible things they don't really mean, especially on the Internet where you don't have to face people. It is absolutely no excuse for the people involved, but I hope you can find some comfort in the fact that even the worst things that were said to him here were said out of a stupid sense of rivalry and not because they … | /r/MensRights | 12/04/12 12:57 AM |
| 1 | How come many women/girls complain about being used for sex, but...?this is not an issue with women, it's an issue with people making statements without thinking throught the context of those statements. I think the context in which this is happening and the way in which it affects people is quite clearly gendered and it's reasonable to talk about it as such. If you want to argue that there's an underlying, gender-neutral reason for this, then you're quite free to make that argument. But complaining about "sweeping generalisations" that just aren't there does no… | /r/MensRights | 11/04/12 03:58 PM |
| 3 | How come many women/girls complain about being used for sex, but...?Huh? He's explicitly hedging. The title says "many women" not "women", he's referring to personal experience with "I've seen this", and again in the body of the question, he says "many women", not "women". He's quite clearly not making sweeping generalisations about all women or stereotyping them. | /r/MensRights | 11/04/12 12:10 PM |
| 2 | Is it wrong for me to ask my prom date to pay for her ticket?It depends on your relationship. If it's completely one-sided, then yes, that's unfair. If there's give and take, then it's reasonable. For example, if you pay for this, then she takes you out for the day on your next date, as long as it roughly evens out over time, that's fine. Not each and every thing has to be split down the middle so long as you are equals in the relationship, and watching every penny can quickly get annoying. However what you have to remember is that it's an unpleasant fact… | /r/MensRights | 11/04/12 12:04 PM |
| 3 | Rescued British feminist Laurie Penny says Gosling's no hero, after saving her from being run over. Penny also insists that because war is raging in the Middle East, everyone needs to calm down about Ryan Gosling.Here's the story from the horse's mouth. Seems reasonable enough. Vapid celebrity comings and goings is Twitter fodder, but it shouldn't be news fodder. | /r/MensRights | 10/04/12 02:29 PM |
| 1 | You know what this sub needs. Post based user flairs.This won't work because user flair can be disabled by the user. | /r/MensRights | 09/04/12 05:59 PM |
| 3 | A favor, for the next episode of AVfM radioThere is a huge problem in the liberal mindset that truth is decided by number/diversity of subscribers. This is nonsense. Liberals don't believe that, it's a stupid mischaracterisation you're making to demonise them. You continually label your opinions as truth. You are in no position to complain about misuse of the term. | /r/MensRights | 06/04/12 09:14 PM |
| 1 | "Tell men not to rape"They have - many, many times. He manages to post a few links, then he gets reported, then he registers a new account and starts all over again. I've reported about a dozen of his accounts to /r/reportthespammers myself. They never last very long - whenever I see him post something, the account is always less than a few days old and has less than a dozen comments. | /r/MensRights | 04/04/12 04:50 PM |
| 12 | My wife bought me an iphone the other day. This is after I refused to buy one for myself. Guess which app SHE downloaded on MY phone first?Just use the built in password mechanism and don't ever leave your phone unlocked. For people who aren't aware of this, you can use proper passwords on iOS. It's relatively easy to see somebody entering a four digit PIN, less so if it's a lot of meaningless characters (I tend to use the first letter of each word from two lines of a song, including capitals and punctuation - easy to remember, but looks like gibberish to anybody watching you enter it). You can also set iOS devices to auto-lock and… | /r/MensRights | 04/04/12 02:06 PM |
| 60 | My wife bought me an iphone the other day. This is after I refused to buy one for myself. Guess which app SHE downloaded on MY phone first?If you open the Settings app, there is a section called "Location Services". This controls how your location can be used. You can switch the location services off altogether, or on a per-app basis. If you go to the bottom and hit "System Services", you can switch the Status Bar Icon on, which will make a little pointer appear in the status bar whenever your iPhone is tracking your location. If you would prefer to use your location without being tracked, then as long as Find My iPhone is switched… | /r/MensRights | 04/04/12 02:00 PM |
| 2 | Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them offAgain, you've got no response, so you just resort to your standbys: Just outright ignoring the argument that you are hurting the MRM by latching your politics to it. Mislabelling your opinions as truth. Throwing an accusation to try to distract people (an attack on liberalism doesn't do anything to refute the claim that you are hurting the MRM). You almost ventured into an actual argument for a second earlier in the thread there. Shame you retreated into your old tricks. To be honest, if I had v… | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 10:08 PM |
| 4 | Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them offAnd now you've fallen back on your old standby of mislabelling your opinions as truth. Please, pick a more appropriate word, for your own sake. It's not "truth". It's your opinion. Everybody can see that. When you use the word "truth", all you are doing is saying "Hey guys, I'm giving up on arguing rationally and I've just decided to argue by assertion from now on!". It utterly, instantly destroys your credibility in the eyes of anybody with two brain cells to rub together. Whether you choose to… | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 09:50 PM |
| 4 | Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them offAh, there you go again, avoiding the point once more. I thought perhaps this time you'd have a response for me if I broke down why I think you're hurting the MRM by latching your politics onto it. But instead you'd rather try to divert the discussion away again. This time you've got an even more outlandish sky-is-falling attack on liberals. Why do you continue to dodge the point about you hurting the MRM? | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 09:17 PM |
| 7 | Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them offFinally! You're starting to talk! The MRM is conservative. No, it has a diverse range of viewpoints. Furthermore, your political views are not accurately described as "conservative" alone. They are a particular type of conservatism that differ quite strongly from other types of conservatism. I know lots of conservatives. None of them have much in common with you. I'd guess roughly 100% of them would laugh at your political views. Some of them would literally question your existence as you fit th… | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 09:02 PM |
| 5 | Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them offSee that bit you quoted? See the bit underneath it you wrote? The two things aren't connected. The bit you wrote is an attempt to divert the attention away from the fact that you are hurting the MRM by latching your politics onto it. It's an attempt to shut me up because you don't like the fact that I'm pointing out something you and I both know is true. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 08:41 PM |
| 3 | Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them offI'm not dodging the point at all. And yet once more you seem to have posted a comment that doesn't respond to it. You're right, at this point, it's not even dodging, it's just sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting I CAN'T HEAR YOU! You keep on talking about how I should GTFO, but you don't seem to want to talk about how your unwillingness to stop attaching your politics to the MRM is hurting men's rights. Would you care to comment on that at all? Or are you going to post yet another re… | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 08:35 PM |
| 4 | Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them offSo shut up. It's funny, I don't see any part of your comment that actually responds to my point that you are hurting the MRM by latching your politics onto it. It's almost as if you really, really, really don't want to talk about it. And the more you dodge the point, the more obvious it becomes to everybody. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 08:11 PM |
| 8 | Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them offHaving so many threads get dragged down into the "American women, wah, wah", "Horrible liberals, wah, wah" muck that Demonspawn and his ilk like to wallow in makes the whole community look like a bunch of sexist children. This was a submission about a subject's gender disparity among British schoolchildren and a potential reason why it isn't caused by sexism against girls as is commonly alleged by feminists, and he wanted to drag it down into a rant about American women yet again. He wasn't conv… | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 07:26 PM |
| 3 | Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them offTrue enough. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 07:11 PM |
| 6 | Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them offYep, once more, avoiding the point. Number of times I've brought up the fact that you're driving people away from the MRM by latching your politics onto it: 3 Number of times you've meaningfully replied to it: 0 Number of times you've tried to avoid it by throwing some irrelevant bullshit at me: 3 Do you realise that pretty much everybody outside of America and most of the people inside America finds your type of childish demonisation of your political bogeymen laughably feebleminded? Do you rea… | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 07:09 PM |
| 8 | Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them offGood job avoiding the point again. Oh look, it's Demonspawn driving away somebody who cares about discrimination towards men. If you really cared about the MRM, you wouldn't try to latch your repellent politics onto it. You know damn well it drives people away but you just won't stop pushing it. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 06:30 PM |
| 4 | Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them offI think what she's aiming for is preteen level(Saying "...year 8 is too late."), which is absurd to me; even I didn't have any interest for programming at that age. I was just starting to learn C in year 8 or year 9. Not at school, but in my own time. I found it fascinating. I realise I'm probably not the norm, but I've got no problem believing that something like Logo could hold kids' interest at a younger age. I tried to do stuff with Logo when I was 8 but the tape broke. government programs t… | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 06:17 PM |
| 5 | Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them offPlease, tell me more about your clearly very detailed knowledge of "my MRM". Before you start, you should be aware that I'm not an MRA so you have no clue what you are talking about. Funnily enough, it's people like you that make up a large part of the reason why I will never call myself an MRA. I would never profess to being part of a movement that encompasses opinions, attitudes and values like yours. Your politics are completely unacceptable and by pushing them within the MRM, you discredit i… | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 05:59 PM |
| 8 | Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them offWhat's the matter, can't address the point I made so you decided to make a different one to distract people? You know damn well you come in here champing at the bit for the chance to push your politics. It's the ugliest side of the MRM and you hurt the MRM by doing it. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 05:44 PM |
| 2 | Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them offDon't act like you don't jump for joy when you spy an opportunity to peddle your hateful little brand of politics, and don't act like your little entourage doesn't set each other up for this kind of shit. Oh look, an article about little girls in the UK! If I wonder aloud about the state of American women, I'm sure somebody will be able to chime in about the evils of the American nanny state! | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 05:31 PM |
| 0 | Girls and coding: female peer pressure scares them offThe article is about children. Not grown women in the USA, but young girls in the UK. Please stop using /r/MensRights to push your American politics on everyone. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 05:03 PM |
| 4 | I need to vent. My friend was sexually harassed by two women the other night.Your experience is quite different to mine. I've got several gay and lesbian friends who have been best friends for years, in some cases a decade or two. There's certainly a lot more drama than average, but they certainly don't hate each other. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a single gay person I know that doesn't have close gay friends of the opposite sex. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 02:05 AM |
| 11 | I need to vent. My friend was sexually harassed by two women the other night.Its no secret that lesbians hate men. Some lesbians hate men, but it's hardly all of them. Lesbians are lesbians because they are attracted to women, not because they hate men. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/12 02:01 AM |
| 3 | Can we please start banning anti-male trolls who call the MRM a "redundant, misinformed group of cowards that use women as scapegoats for their own life fails" and "lonely virgins"?JeremiahMRA and JeremiahGuy are the same person. Jeremiah changed accounts because he doesn't consider himself an activist at the moment. He was later banned for harassment. | /r/MensRights | 28/03/12 07:10 AM |
| 17 | This is the kind of bill I like to see!You're right. Although it's highly improbable, mistakes are made in hospitals from time to time and a mother could end up with the wrong baby. Also, as written, this law would not protect a transwoman in states that recognise their new gender (it's still a state issue IIRC?). It costs nothing to make this law gender neutral and it protects people in corner cases. | /r/MensRights | 27/03/12 02:39 PM |
| 0 | In the last 3 months, feminists have been trying collect all the articles about the times when feminism has helped men on a subreddit called r/FeminismHelpingMen. Looking at all their links is very educational.Why does "Helping men as a side effect of helping women" not count? There are people who claim that feminism is about equality. There are people who claim that the MRM is unnecessary and/or illegitimate because feminism is addressing men's problems. If this were the case, then inequalities men face would be tackled by feminists because they are inequalities, not because they help women and have a male benefit as a side-effect. What I have observed is that feminists will tackle inequalities that … | /r/MensRights | 27/03/12 11:47 AM |
| 1 | In the last 3 months, feminists have been trying collect all the articles about the times when feminism has helped men on a subreddit called r/FeminismHelpingMen. Looking at all their links is very educational.That's a fair point. I do make a habit of asking people who believe feminism is pro-equality to submit there, but lack of attention is a problem. | /r/MensRights | 26/03/12 08:38 PM |
| -1 | In the last 3 months, feminists have been trying collect all the articles about the times when feminism has helped men on a subreddit called r/FeminismHelpingMen. Looking at all their links is very educational.My criteria for /r/FeminismHelpingMen is in three parts: Must be done by people who self-identify as feminists. Must be a case of activism, not just lip service. Must be done primarily to help men. Helping men as a side-effect of helping women doesn't count. I believe Hoff Sommers identifies as a feminist, I think Warren Farrell used to but no longer does, and I don't think Erin Pizzey identifies as a feminist. So some cases where some of them helped men would count, some would not. I think "sel… | /r/MensRights | 26/03/12 08:37 PM |
| 1 | In the last 3 months, feminists have been trying collect all the articles about the times when feminism has helped men on a subreddit called r/FeminismHelpingMen. Looking at all their links is very educational.I'm not actually an MRA. I identify as egalitarian and I think gendered movements like feminism and the MRM are counterproductive to equality. You could describe me as anti-feminist and anti-MRA. I started out on Reddit participating in /r/MensRights /r/feminisms etc. but I rarely post in the other gender movement subreddits now because of horrible attitudes towards moderation or low traffic. When I set the subreddit up, I was expecting to get a few legitimate examples. Not many, but a few. It w… | /r/MensRights | 26/03/12 08:30 PM |
| 5 | SRS False Flag Group [watch for false MR links]The sad thing is that apparently he has an IRC channel for AMR. He must be really lonely. | /r/MensRights | 24/03/12 02:24 AM |
| 2 | I don't want to go into work today cause my boss creeped me out yesterday. What should I do?It's a link to AskReddit. If people comment in this thread, the OP won't see it. People should be clicking through and commenting over there instead. | /r/MensRights | 24/03/12 02:14 AM |
| 19 | How does MensRights feel about affirmative action? Is it on/off the table as a measure to achieve equality? Discuss.You can't fix sexism with more sexism. | /r/MensRights | 23/03/12 06:17 PM |
| 14 | What the hell happened here?I pointed out a wildly exaggerated theory I was brutally downvoted and called "ignorant" for presenting a counter-argument. That's not really how it went down though, is it? Your first comment, you came out swinging. It wasn't pointing anything out, it wasn't presenting a counter-argument, you threw an insult at him in an otherwise content-free comment. That set the tone for everything that followed. You weren't challenging his ideas, you were picking a fight. Now you are complaining you got one… | /r/MensRights | 23/03/12 07:43 AM |
| 9 | Professional behavior not necessary for offended womenUgh, that snide commentary really grates. It totally misrepresents what people are saying in places. People working in the computer industry often tweet as part of their job. Her Twitter bio starts out "Product @basho". Not even "Works on...". It reads like she represents Basho. If you name your employer as the very first thing in your Twitter bio, it's fair to say that your tweets about business partners are going to be associated with your employer. It's downright offensive to characterise thi… | /r/MensRights | 23/03/12 07:19 AM |
| 3 | Why people think /r/MensRights is full of bigots and irrational people.As I said in /r/SubredditDrama, there was a hell of a lot of non-/r/Mensrights regulars posting in that thread. The person in question, Phatso816 doesn't seem to have posted in /r/MensRights before. This is not "what's wrong with /r/MensRights", this is an example of the place getting swarmed with people from elsewhere. It's not representative of this subreddit. | /r/MensRights | 17/03/12 10:04 PM |
| 5 | Hey MRAs, I just thought you should know that SRS and SomethingAwful are about to redditbomb you in an attempt to have you shut down.Yes, she's claimed it again here. The other person I saw claim this was MuldartheGreat who says that it was removed by one of you guys. | /r/MensRights | 17/03/12 09:26 PM |
| 12 | Hey MRAs, I just thought you should know that SRS and SomethingAwful are about to redditbomb you in an attempt to have you shut down.SA actually harassed a guy into losing his job once. He committed suicide because of it. Edit: You guys are totally right in asking for a source for that. I read it a while ago and can't find where. I asked around and had somebody confirm my recollections, but I haven't found a good source yet. If I recall correctly it was in the Laissez Faire SA forum. | /r/MensRights | 17/03/12 03:34 PM |
| 6 | Hey MRAs, I just thought you should know that SRS and SomethingAwful are about to redditbomb you in an attempt to have you shut down.And I think Goonocaust's submission here is probably part of that. | /r/MensRights | 17/03/12 03:32 PM |
| 17 | Hey MRAs, I just thought you should know that SRS and SomethingAwful are about to redditbomb you in an attempt to have you shut down.Agent Orange only registered on Reddit to talk about his leak; he wasn't an /r/MensRights user. He published information on radfems from another site, he didn't publish information on people from SRS/SA, in fact he specifically said he wasn't going to bother with them. | /r/MensRights | 17/03/12 03:31 PM |
| 15 | Hey MRAs, I just thought you should know that SRS and SomethingAwful are about to redditbomb you in an attempt to have you shut down.The manboobz_ troll (note trailing underscore) that was originally set up to irritate manboobz told SRS that he was working with Agent Orange to post the personal information of SRSers "at the end of the week". That was three or four weeks ago and nothing happened. Agent Orange had already posted that he wouldn't do that. Naturally, they stopped considering manboobz_ a troll and started considering him a bastion of truth because it suits their goals to be able to tell people MRAs are trying to p… | /r/MensRights | 17/03/12 03:29 PM |
| 1 | This is what happens if you are (like me) a bisexual MRA posting to /r/lgbt right now.Ha, no offence taken :). | /r/MensRights | 16/03/12 09:45 PM |
| 1 | Were there any repercussions for the people involved in the Agent Orange leak?Heh, and now you've caught me trying to become updated on various /r/MensRights related drama :) | /r/MensRights | 16/03/12 09:16 PM |
| 16 | I was hit by the "You're a bigot because the SPLC said so" argumentThe SPLC has denied calling /r/MensRights or the MRM a hate group. | /r/MensRights | 16/03/12 08:52 PM |
| 10 | This is what happens if you are (like me) a bisexual MRA posting to /r/lgbt right now.If that makes you sad, then do yourself a favour and pretend there's no more. They closed /r/lgbt and everybody lived happily ever after on the /r/ainbow farm. | /r/MensRights | 16/03/12 06:22 AM |
| 10 | This is important, please read. I think SRS just tried to get information on me from my last post about the askreddit mod and him standing up to SRS.I received a similar message. Doesn't look like baiting to me, but I think there's a number of reasons to be cautious of the claim that this is Black_Visions. Doesn't mean it isn't, I'm just saying don't believe every random message that comes your way. Hopefully he'll come back here, but even if he does it might be under a new name, so we may never know. Black_Visions is not the only person here to feel suicidal. A lot of the things that can lead a person to the MRM are deeply upsetting, and if… | /r/MensRights | 16/03/12 05:41 AM |
| 17 | This is what happens if you are (like me) a bisexual MRA posting to /r/lgbt right now.This is useless oppression olympics, bro. There is institutional oppression against gay people & against women. There is not institutional oppression for men & heteroes. It's nice that her first sentence is a warning for what is about to follow. | /r/MensRights | 16/03/12 04:38 AM |
| 31 | This is what happens if you are (like me) a bisexual MRA posting to /r/lgbt right now.There was a big upheaval in moderation style in /r/lgbt recently. It's become a very unwelcoming place. You should go to /r/ainbow instead. If you're interested in the background, Xincedie over at /r/SubredditDrama has put together a multi-part recap of most of the drama (there's been more since). But be warned - if you let your morbid curiosity get the better of you, it could put you off Reddit altogether! Just try to bear in mind that most of Reddit is not like that and you should definitely g… | /r/MensRights | 16/03/12 04:22 AM |
| 34 | This is what happens if you are (like me) a bisexual MRA posting to /r/lgbt right now.As fucked up as banning you is, the really fucked up thing is that teefs, the queen of treating people uncivilly, feels it's her place to deliver lectures on how unchecked privilege can make people uncivil. As if she values civility! | /r/MensRights | 16/03/12 04:01 AM |
| 3 | Important: Please help if you can find out about a potential suicideFor anybody still following this, I have no way of verifying this information, but there was an anonymous tip-off that this article about a recent suicide is about Black_Visions. I can think of a few reasons why this tip-off should be treated with skepticism, but I thought I'd better let people know the claim was made. Black_Visions, hopefully you're alright. If you need to, come back either under your old account or a new one, doesn't matter which as long as you're okay. | /r/MensRights | 16/03/12 03:46 AM |
| 2 | Were there any repercussions for the people involved in the Agent Orange leak?3 months ago. | /r/MensRights | 16/03/12 01:05 AM |
| 3 | Were there any repercussions for the people involved in the Agent Orange leak?I haven't heard that rumour, but I wondered if that was the case at the time. I would have expected somebody to have begun crowing about the MRM's gullibility by now if that were the case though. | /r/MensRights | 15/03/12 11:45 PM |
| 2 | infiltration of mensrights ?Appeal to tradition is a logical fallacy. However you seem to be trying to change the topic. The topic is whether Jeremiah is posting things to deliberately provoke the moderators. The topic is not whether beating and terrorising women is acceptable. Exactly how far does Jeremiah have to push things before you'll start to think he's doing it to get a reaction from the moderators? Or do you think that there's no opinion too extreme for him to honestly believe? | /r/MensRights | 15/03/12 05:21 PM |
| 3 | infiltration of mensrights ?sean connery thinks it is ok to do so. Sean Connery is an actor. He is no more an authority on domestic violence than Jenny McCarthy is on medicine. If you want advice on relationships, see a therapist, not an actor. feminism has simply made opinions that are not politically correct seem untouchable. Having a problem with domestic violence is not "political correctness" and you don't have to be a feminist to think that it's wrong. It's actually perfectly ordinary to think that it's repugnant to … | /r/MensRights | 15/03/12 04:18 PM |
| 3 | infiltration of mensrights ?I think a lot of the stupid things Jeremiah posts he genuinely believes. That's not trolling, you're right. But he's started to get a lot more extreme recently. Now he's posting things approving of domestic violence, saying it's okay to beat your wife, etc. He's crossed the line into trolling - he's pushing things as far as they'll go so that he can crow about being banned and feed that persecution complex of his. I don't think he posted pro-domestic violence crap because he thinks it's a contri… | /r/MensRights | 15/03/12 03:32 PM |
| 3 | 10 years ago I made a mistake.When men are dangerous, the state acts to stop them. Women are dangerous because the state acts in their behalf. Then your quarrel is with the state, not with women. | /r/MensRights | 15/03/12 12:39 AM |
| 4 | 10 years ago I made a mistake.Have you seen /r/MRRef? | /r/MensRights | 15/03/12 12:38 AM |
| 6 | Update to yesterday's "Girl in relationship subreddit asks for advice on her possible cheating - highest comment in the thread insinuates she was raped and should get some friends to "confirm" this." -- she was actually drugged.I think the phrase that got everybody's knees jerking was "See if some of your other friends can confirm this". It's not telling her to ask her friends what happened, it's telling her to ask her friends to corroborate the claim that she was drugged, when at that time, her being drugged was speculation from a random Internet commenter. It implies that we should assume that the guy raped her. Only a very small proportion of suspected drug assisted rapes actually show unaccounted-for drugs in their… | /r/MensRights | 14/03/12 03:52 PM |
| 3 | GirlWritesWhat - HATE!! - In response to r/MensRights being declared a "hate group" by the SPLCYou forgot /r/egalitarian :) | /r/MensRights | 14/03/12 04:15 AM |
| 1 | Just an SW mod, with some thoughts on suicideThanks for the advice, I'll bear that in mind. Keep up the good work. | /r/MensRights | 13/03/12 08:04 PM |
| 3 | Just an SW mod, with some thoughts on suicideThanks for everything you do. SW is probably the most meaningful thing Reddit has ever achieved, and it's all thanks to the hard work and compassion you guys put in. It must be incredibly draining. One of the people that's posted suicidal things recently has stated that they don't want to be referred to you guys because they aren't interested in being talked out of it. Do you have any suggestions for this kind of situation? | /r/MensRights | 13/03/12 04:26 PM |
| 1 | Important Update on the SPLC, the status of their listing and my having to step downI think if JeremiahMRA had been banned he'd be screaming it from the rooftops. Besides, the MRA account was posting in here as recently as two days ago, and the Guy account was registered four days ago. | /r/MensRights | 12/03/12 08:49 PM |
| 1 | I no longer take the SPLC seriously. You shouldn't either.ignatiusloyola says that he talks infrequently with kloo2yoo via email and that kloo2yoo no longer has access to that account. Short of asking the admins to get involved, there doesn't seem to be any way of removing the zombie account from being the top moderator. Reddit changed permissions a while ago so moderators lower down the list can't remove moderators above them. | /r/MensRights | 12/03/12 07:52 PM |
| 2 | Important Update on the SPLC, the status of their listing and my having to step downAre you JeremiahMRA or somebody spoofing him? If you are the same person, can you verify with your other account? Why the two accounts? | /r/MensRights | 12/03/12 04:27 PM |
| 0 | Important Update on the SPLC, the status of their listing and my having to step downAgent Orange actually happened. Somebody did say it, but they were buried. The false rumour is that Agent Orange was going to post the personal information of SRS participants. That never happened. It was a lie spread by an obvious troll. | /r/MensRights | 12/03/12 04:26 PM |
| 5 | Does this subreddit really believe there are no male privileges and little to no sexism against women?I think most people can be considered to have privileges that other people may not. I don't think there's anything special about men in this respect, and I think that rights are often mislabeled as privileges. I think there is sexism against men and women, and I think a lot of things labelled as sexism against women are not. Both privilege and sexism are often brought up disingenuously to shut down rational discourse. | /r/MensRights | 12/03/12 04:20 PM |
| 13 | Important Update on the SPLC, the status of their listing and my having to step downHe doesn't mention women once. Are you one of those people who tries to deflect criticism of feminism by falsely equating feminism with women? You know everybody is wise to that dishonest rhetoric here, right? | /r/MensRights | 11/03/12 08:22 PM |
| 5 | Important Update on the SPLC, the status of their listing and my having to step downIf by "skirts around it" you mean "doesn't say that"... | /r/MensRights | 11/03/12 07:43 PM |
| 10 | Important Update on the SPLC, the status of their listing and my having to step downAgent Orange was allowed to post to /r/MensRights because he didn't break any rules. The moderators asked not to post any personal information here, and he agreed to abide by the rules. He did release personal information on extremist radfems on an external site, not Reddit. He did not release personal information on SRS members. An obvious troll told people he was working with Agent Orange to release personal information on SRS members, and you guys suspended all reasonable skepticism and belie… | /r/MensRights | 11/03/12 07:35 PM |
| 10 | Important Update on the SPLC, the status of their listing and my having to step downStewart Lee, a British comedian, had a routine where he ripped into Top Gear for telling racist jokes. He was saying that racism was being seen as acceptable because it was "a joke, like on Top Gear". SRS adopted it as their slogan for dismissing people saying "it's just a joke" to them. Of course, if "it's just a joke" is not a valid defence, all of their "kill whitey", "cut up men" stuff is indefensible. What Qanan is saying is that the DoJ might not care that they think it's a joke. | /r/MensRights | 11/03/12 06:02 PM |
| 30 | Important Update on the SPLC, the status of their listing and my having to step downInterestingly enough, if you care, a former promient member of SRS, Laurelai, was/is involved with two groups, one of which was just dismantled by the FBI. For the people that don't follow /r/SubredditDrama, Laurelai was banned from SRS recently. There are conflicting stories about the reason. SRS say that she was hitting on a 17 year old and when she was turned down, she started accusing her of terrorism, etc. Laurelai says that the 17 year-old was hitting on her, telling her that she blew up a… | /r/MensRights | 11/03/12 04:40 PM |
| 7 | How do you guys feel about this?It's a pun/double entendre. It's not saying that men who like kids are pedophiles, it was a play on the words "playing with little kids", where "playing with" can be read as a euphemism for sexual activity. It's fine. | /r/MensRights | 11/03/12 04:07 PM |
| 3 | Movies where women run around killing men.Teeth is another one, I said a similar thing back then. | /r/MensRights | 11/03/12 12:21 AM |
| 2 | As a reminder, people can and have created false-flag attacks on this subreddit, to make us look like we collectively sympathize with racists and rapists.Yep, here's another recent one saying that a woman couldn't possibly have been raped because she was black, posted by a brand new account. If you see something sexist, racist, pro-rape, etc., please check the age of the account. Tell people not to feed the troll, then down vote, report, and ignore. Don't respond to them, that's what they want. | /r/MensRights | 10/03/12 11:54 PM |
| 8 | Am I the only one that see a difference between Feminism and Feminism?All of the reasonable parts of feminism can be described as egalitarianism. If you want to jettison the connotations with feminism, don't call yourself a feminist, call yourself an egalitarian. | /r/MensRights | 10/03/12 10:26 PM |
| 19 | SomethingAwful Anti-MensRights IRC ChannelIt certainly reads that way: I've seen what these fuckers do to people who go against them, so I'm not using my actual nick for this. I'm too scared. This sounds like what they think we think, not what we actually think. One potential motive for posting this: When you connect to an IRC channel, everybody in that channel can see your IP address. | /r/MensRights | 10/03/12 06:22 PM |
| 3 | I no longer take the SPLC seriously. You shouldn't either.I think it's a coincidence. They were talking about updating the sidebar a couple of days ago. | /r/MensRights | 10/03/12 03:18 AM |
| 9 | Hello mensright, I'm a female.I hope she won't have to. | /r/MensRights | 10/03/12 03:15 AM |
| 1 | Men's Rights Top Scoring Links: What is this subreddit about? This is the best portrayal of Men's Rights topics, not the "New" or "What's Hot" list.Excellent idea. | /r/MensRights | 10/03/12 01:36 AM |
| 5 | I no longer take the SPLC seriously. You shouldn't either.But wasn't the stuff they quoted from him present in the sidebar until very recently? I don't think it's too objectionable for them to refer to the sidebar as authoritative. | /r/MensRights | 10/03/12 01:28 AM |
| 4 | TIL: Southern Poverty Law Center thinks R/mensrights is a burgeoning hate group.I think it's likely that the admins thought they were just doing something stupid with their own readers and didn't realise the wider implications. | /r/MensRights | 09/03/12 10:36 PM |
| 8 | TIL: Southern Poverty Law Center thinks R/mensrights is a burgeoning hate group.Back when SRS was nominated for the best of 2011 awards, ICumWhenIKillMen posted two comments in /r/SubredditDrama. One was a block of code, one was a screenshot of some code. Both were chunks of code that cycled through a list of Reddit accounts, voting up the SRS nomination (each piece of content on Reddit has a unique ID and the ID for the SRS nomination was visible in one of the comments). It cycled through a list of proxies, I would assume because Reddit is smart enough to notice hundreds o… | /r/MensRights | 09/03/12 02:58 PM |
| 5 | TIL: Southern Poverty Law Center thinks R/mensrights is a burgeoning hate group.Feminism is a men's movement too Feel free to post examples of feminism helping men to /r/FeminismHelpingMen. I'm looking for examples of feminist activism primarily aimed at helping men. | /r/MensRights | 09/03/12 02:37 AM |
| 15 | What does r/mensrights think about this? Popped up on my wall.Before I was properly exposed to feminism, I would have supported her 100% because I'd assume that the man forced himself on her. After being exposed to feminism, I can't help but notice that she didn't actually state that the man forced himself upon her, and she could be referring to a bad decision she made under the influence of alcohol. A lot of the things she says would seem to indicate that this is the case. People do all kinds of stupid shit when they are drunk that they later regret, incl… | /r/MensRights | 07/03/12 01:08 PM |
| 5 | Women feel happy when their husband or partner is upsetThis headline appears to be a complete misrepresentation of the study. If we take a look at an article that goes into more detail we see that the satisfaction is tied to their partners empathising with them. (Spelling edit: I'm pretty sure it's got nothing to do with them emphasising!). | /r/MensRights | 06/03/12 04:50 PM |
| 7 | About child support.I don't think children of rich parents need more money than children of poor parents. Child support should take into account the cost of living (in suitable areas; just because they live in a rich neighbourhood right now, it doesn't mean they are entitled to it) and should ignore the parent's income. If they make so little that the cost of child support is overwhelming to them, the state should cover the difference. | /r/MensRights | 06/03/12 01:44 PM |
| 3 | Request regarding copying the OPs and reposting them within threadsI agree that this isn't a good long-term solution. I made a bot to repost to a separate subreddit. I haven't had the time to finish it yet though. | /r/MensRights | 06/03/12 01:09 AM |
| 0 | I am a woman worried about respecting her boyfriend's rights in our breakup. Advice from experts?I don't think anybody is saying that she should be able to decide on her own to take his child away from him. But she does need to decide what she should aim for. | /r/MensRights | 06/03/12 12:04 AM |
| 0 | I am a woman worried about respecting her boyfriend's rights in our breakup. Advice from experts?Good luck. I hope things work out well for all three of you. | /r/MensRights | 05/03/12 11:55 PM |
| 4 | On NAFALTActually, I do this on purpose. I don't really like the quotation system used by most sites. Have you considered the fact that the added semantics and visual styling that come with the <blockquote> element type can be essential for people with disabilities? It's basically saying, "If most of a group of people are something, it's okay to assume that all of them are". I've not mentioned the relative proportions of people in a group and I don't think I've even remotely come close to implying anythi… | /r/MensRights | 05/03/12 11:33 PM |
| 0 | I am a woman worried about respecting her boyfriend's rights in our breakup. Advice from experts?It's not very fair on you, but try to remember that it's not just beneficial for your boyfriend, it's what's fair for your son as well. Be careful how your lawyer interacts with your boyfriend. You don't want to give the impression you're gearing up for a legal fight or that will really make him defensive. Maybe go and find out what your options are by yourself, then try to set up a joint meeting where you can sort it all out together. The only real way of getting somebody to not be defensive in… | /r/MensRights | 05/03/12 09:42 PM |
| 3 | On NAFALTQuote people by starting lines with > I mean, think for a second how MRA's are characterized by people outside the movement, and ask yourself if you fit that mold. You appear to have mistaken me for an MRA. My complaints about feminism largely hold true for the MRM as well. The MRM doesn't have a counterpart to patriarchy, so it's not as bad, but the principles behind dismissing gendered movements are the same for both. If gamers did call themselves slobists, would that give us any less reason t… | /r/MensRights | 05/03/12 09:33 PM |
| 5 | Trans issues are part of men's rightsI agree that there's significant overlap between men's rights and trans rights. Both transwomen and transmen have to deal with the problems we talk about here. You are right that trans people can receive a hostile reaction here, and it's not clear whether you know of the history. For the most part, the negative reaction is due to trans people from /r/TransphobiaProject trying to start a little war. People from here have tried to offer olive branches to them only for them to be thrown back in our… | /r/MensRights | 05/03/12 05:08 PM |
| 3 | I am a woman worried about respecting her boyfriend's rights in our breakup. Advice from experts?There's an uncomfortable fact that's difficult to accept, but is nevertheless true: you can't make somebody into a good parent. They have to choose to be a good parent, and it takes a lot of work. It seems clear your boyfriend has not made this choice. Your son deserves better, but that's the dad he has. Although it seems like he has nothing to contribute, you don't make it sound like his dad is abusive or dangerous to your son in any way. It doesn't sound like he's able to provide a stable home… | /r/MensRights | 05/03/12 04:35 PM |
| 16 | On NAFALTGamers don't call themselves "slobists" or have a unifying theory of "soapiarchy" where they blame soap for their problems. Pizza delivery drivers don't call themselves "narcists" or have a unifying theory of "potiarchy" where they blame pot for their problems. The difference between those examples and feminism is that the problems with feminism are intrinsically linked to feminism. Regardless of how carefully you word things, the name and focus of feminism and the blame directed at "patriarchy"… | /r/MensRights | 05/03/12 04:24 PM |
| 6 | I got a questions (honestly curious)It's a human rights issue. Children have the right to bodily integrity regardless of the religion their parents believe in. For what it's worth, there are plenty of Jews that are against circumcision; they don't think it's essential to Judaism. Really, an all-powerful creator getting all huffy over you having a foreskin is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. The fact that you don't have a problem with it is part of the problem itself. The fact that it's so normalised to chop piece… | /r/MensRights | 05/03/12 11:58 AM |
| 3 | This subreddit needs to shake off its anti-women reputation for the sake of these issues being taken seriously.That's a Manhood Academy spammer. They keep getting banned from this place, and they keep setting up new accounts. You'll see that it's a brand new account, and if you check back later, you'll see the comment removed. They aren't representative of the community, they are rejects from it. Good job confirming your biases though. Edit: And it's removed, just like I predicted. | /r/MensRights | 05/03/12 10:28 AM |
| 6 | Rebecca Watson Attempts to Explain the MRMSpam. | /r/MensRights | 05/03/12 10:18 AM |
| 1 | What's with all the CENSORSHIP!Just because the original poster isn't honest doesn't mean it can't lead to a productive discussion of real MR issues. I think if the discussion is framed by a person who intends to be disruptive, the likelihood of it turning into a productive discussion is low. If you see a topic removed because a troll posted it, and you think it has potential, why don't you post it yourself? There's still the opportunity for discussion, and we won't be led around by a troll. | /r/MensRights | 03/03/12 07:36 PM |
| 2 | Woman dresses as man to deceive young girls into sex. Judge says she 'could' go to prison, even though she committed acts of statutory rape.Its more the implicit idea that such an approach is truly unacceptable when applied to a woman, but would be fine if applied to a man. I don't think this was implied by the post. People have differing ideas in here about what the appropriate response is, but I don't think I've ever seen anybody argue that men should get off easy while women are punished more, I've only seen people say that people should be treated equally. | /r/MensRights | 03/03/12 06:17 PM |
| 6 | Who on earth is pn6?pn6 was the founder of this subreddit. He deleted his account quite a while ago. He came back as kloo2yoo eventually. He deleted his account shortly after an extended period of bullying in /r/Equality that was implicitly condoned by the moderators there. I'm not sure if that was the direct cause of the name change, but he certainly wanted gingeroot/lawyergirl and her ilk to stop taunting him, asked them to stop several times, and asked the moderators to intervene several times. | /r/MensRights | 03/03/12 05:06 PM |
| 2 | Woman dresses as man to deceive young girls into sex. Judge says she 'could' go to prison, even though she committed acts of statutory rape.I think it's fair to say that the poster was implying that a man who commits similar crimes would receive harsher treatment. I don't see why you think that the gender was irrelevant or why mentioning it means that you hate women. | /r/MensRights | 03/03/12 04:52 PM |
| 4 | Woman dresses as man to deceive young girls into sex. Judge says she 'could' go to prison, even though she committed acts of statutory rape.misogynistic This was quite obviously posted in relation to sentencing disparity. Why have you described it as hating women? That's not evident in this post at all. | /r/MensRights | 03/03/12 03:57 PM |
| 1 | Traditional Gender roles are TerriblePosted 36 minutes ago: To get down-voted into oblivion, I have one thing to say: you guys are on the same side as modern feminists. "But wait!" you say, "I hate those feminists, they are trying to crush men for their own empowerment, this can't possibly be true!" It actually is. Why is it true? All that both groups are trying to do is get away from traditional gender roles and the societal bias that has arisen from them. Men have trouble getting paternity rights in a divorce? Traditional roles s… | /r/MensRights | 03/03/12 03:53 PM |
| 2 | Traditional Gender roles are TerribleI down voted this because: You pre-emptively complained about being down voted. You describe modern feminism as if it were solely the tiny speck of "abolishing gender roles" while ignoring everything else feminists say and do. Very few people would argue with abolishing gender roles. It's the rest of feminism that's the problem, and you're outright ignoring that. You are conflating criticism of feminism with criticism of women. You said that the reason people would down vote this is because you … | /r/MensRights | 03/03/12 03:52 PM |
| 8 | IAMA Men's Rights Activist : IAmAAnother manhood spam account. | /r/MensRights | 02/03/12 10:18 PM |
| 2 | WTF is a "Derailment Argument"?Or do you think all these people with PhDs working for big organizations are just making innocent mistakes? I think there's obvious bias in many cases, but yes, I think a lot of those PhDs are making stupid mistakes. Most people are idiots. Fewer PhDs are idiots, but enough are. You'd be surprised at how far effort without insight can get you. | /r/MensRights | 02/03/12 12:34 PM |
| 2 | Did I get raped? Did I handle it wrong? Or did nothing happen at all?I am trying to understand what is rape per definition and what people think rape is. Rape (of the non-statutory kind) is when somebody forces you to have sex against your will. Thinking that it is wrong and going ahead with it anyway isn't sex against your will, it's choosing not to exercise your will. That doesn't make what they did okay, but so long as you had the choice, it wasn't rape. | /r/MensRights | 29/02/12 08:39 PM |
| 9 | Did I get raped? Did I handle it wrong? Or did nothing happen at all?Your attitude seems to be that everything that happens in your life is something that happens to you or is done to you, without you having any control over it. That's not being shy, that's not a lack of assertiveness, that's a serious psychological problem that you should see a therapist about. It is not normal for a 23 year old to be unable to stand up to a 16 year old kid. Talk to a therapist about it. As for rape? Maybe it was, if she was under the age of consent in your jurisdiction. | /r/MensRights | 29/02/12 10:42 AM |
| 2 | Did I get raped? Did I handle it wrong? Or did nothing happen at all?Submitted 22 minutes ago: This happened several years ago: Me: 23 years, very shy, single Her: 16 years, very extrovert, single We started talking over a forum and I thought she seemed really cool, similar music interests, fun to talk to about sex and very openminded. She suggested that we meet. I knew about the age gap and pointed it out and said that we can meet at a public place and just hang out if she still were interested. She said it was no problem and showed up with two female friends. W… | /r/MensRights | 29/02/12 10:25 AM |
| 5 | A friend of mine is being accused of rape, but I'm certain that he didn't do it because she's black and it's virtually statistically impossible. Will this hold up for him in court?Don't feed the troll. | /r/MensRights | 28/02/12 01:20 PM |
| 7 | I just wanted to say that I think this subreddit has become a much better place.I saw a lot of stuff insisting that women are evil, should be subjugated, and are all part of some massive plot to subjugate men. I would have lumped it in with rapingwomen and beatingwomen--a terrible, terrible place. I've been commenting in this subreddit for years, and there's never been a lot of that stuff. People see what they want to see. I think it's you that's changed, not the subreddit. If somebody tells you that this subreddit is all about hating women, and you click through, you only … | /r/MensRights | 28/02/12 10:09 AM |
| 2 | Feminist anti-porn lobby group ‘Morality in Media’ recording your IP address and ‘illegal access’ to their site!!No, none of that will stop a website from getting your IP address. All websites you visit see your IP address, it's a fundamental part of how your browser talks to web servers. It's perfectly normal for them to have this information, they are just trying to scare people by spouting nonsense at them. | /r/MensRights | 24/02/12 06:13 PM |
| 1 | Feminist anti-porn lobby group ‘Morality in Media’ recording your IP address and ‘illegal access’ to their site!!Nah, unless you are using a proxy, they really do have access to your IP address. They have to - it's how their web server knows where to send the web page data that your browser asked for when you clicked the link. It just doesn't mean anything. So they have your IP address. So what? Visiting their website isn't illegal. | /r/MensRights | 24/02/12 06:09 PM |
| 5 | Are women who refuse to take the last names of their husbands feminists who should be avoided?Is a woman who claims that she wants to keep her last name and pass it on to her child if she ever gets married more than likely a misandrist? Why go against tradition? Men traditionally pass on our names to our children because it's the only way other people know that they belong to us. Women have too much power. This idiotic stream of consciousness is from a zero day old account. | /r/MensRights | 24/02/12 03:09 PM |
| 3 | Small Questionnaire from males 16-35 on some gender questionsWestpoint cadets are not average. You have to pass a fitness test just to gain admission. | /r/MensRights | 23/02/12 01:43 AM |
| 1 | Small Questionnaire from males 16-35 on some gender questionsHey, there are advances made in medicine every day. The one they make tomorrow could be the one that helps you. If you're feeling low, please check out /r/depression and /r/SuicideWatch. I know life can be a struggle when you are dealing with depression, but there are ways of making things easier. | /r/MensRights | 22/02/12 10:54 PM |
| 5 | Small Questionnaire from males 16-35 on some gender questionsThe average man is stronger than the average woman, and the average man finds it easier to build muscle than the average woman, but the important thing is that averages don't matter when you are talking about individuals. You are not tied to the performance of "the average woman"; by definition, half of all women are stronger than that. If you want to be stronger than the average man, go to the gym and make yourself stronger than the average man. | /r/MensRights | 22/02/12 09:39 PM |
| 1 | Small Questionnaire from males 16-35 on some gender questionsThen I apologise for reading too much into it. I think I unfairly knee-jerked at your summary that women are entirely at risk while men are not. I've seen too many numbers twisted that way to describe women as the sole victims while sweeping male victims under the carpet. | /r/MensRights | 22/02/12 09:30 PM |
| 2 | Small Questionnaire from males 16-35 on some gender questionsDo you think it is better to be a man or a woman in todays society? Which of today's societies? If you're talking about Norway you're going to get a different answer than if you are talking about Saudi Arabia. I'm in the UK, and my answers don't necessarily generalise to other places. I think there are advantages and disadvantages for either gender. On balance, I'd say women have it slightly easier, but other life factors are far more important, such as the class you are born into and the educat… | /r/MensRights | 22/02/12 08:51 PM |
| 3 | Girl in my Writing class writing an essay on why men should have their penis cut off if they rape someone.It's too easy to call that person a misogynist then. Seriously, shocked people can't put two and two together and see the parallels. I'd go with likening it to cutting the hands off thieves. It's already demonised as barbaric in many places in the world, you can use that to your advantage. | /r/MensRights | 22/02/12 09:20 AM |
| 1 | I need support, advice about breaking up with a mind-warping abusive girlfriendPlease see a doctor. She is not a super villain. She is not Hannibal Lector. She can't control your mind. You aren't thinking rationally, you are suffering, and you are likening yourself to a fictional character that committed suicide. You really need to speak to a doctor about these things. | /r/MensRights | 22/02/12 09:16 AM |
| 2 | Is this anything to do with /r/mensrights?I seem to recall the "bro" accounts have something to do with the anarchism subreddits, a way to mock MRAs or something like that. | /r/MensRights | 22/02/12 09:06 AM |
| 35 | More new modsI regret that I have but two eyes to roll at you. | /r/MensRights | 21/02/12 05:35 PM |
| 1 | upon reddit's policy change and removal of all subreddits sexualizing minors, well known blogger and Gawker writer tweets "do /mensrights next." not /niggers, not /radicalfeminism, not any other truly offensive or extreme subreddit...just us.You're forgetting that my words are in reaction to being told I am a cunt that should die either before or after I fuck myself. I am responding to this: And you can respond anyway you like. I'll continue to be calm and respectful. That is totally at odds with "yeah, but I was mean to them because they started it". In order to take the higher ground, you have to, you know, take the higher ground. You can't just tell people that you are taking the higher ground then fling shit at them. | /r/MensRights | 15/02/12 04:19 AM |
| 4 | Comment detailing sexism against men (found on TwoX)When the /r/GenderEgalitarian meltdown happened, InfinitelyThirsting was the only one of the moderators to act with the slightest bit of integrity. The other two moderators were abusive and InfinitelyThirsting had the good grace to distance themselves from the mess entirely instead of silently going along with the others. | /r/MensRights | 15/02/12 04:09 AM |
| 2 | upon reddit's policy change and removal of all subreddits sexualizing minors, well known blogger and Gawker writer tweets "do /mensrights next." not /niggers, not /radicalfeminism, not any other truly offensive or extreme subreddit...just us.I'll continue to be calm and respectful. There is nothing "calm and respectful" about telling people they are "shitting themselves metaphorically" or telling people that we are all children. | /r/MensRights | 14/02/12 10:40 AM |
| 2 | upon reddit's policy change and removal of all subreddits sexualizing minors, well known blogger and Gawker writer tweets "do /mensrights next." not /niggers, not /radicalfeminism, not any other truly offensive or extreme subreddit...just us.Is anyone here capable of doing something other than flying off the handle at someone who isn't a part of the hivemind? I don't think it's fair to describe my reply to you as "flying off the handle". | /r/MensRights | 14/02/12 10:38 AM |
| 1 | upon reddit's policy change and removal of all subreddits sexualizing minors, well known blogger and Gawker writer tweets "do /mensrights next." not /niggers, not /radicalfeminism, not any other truly offensive or extreme subreddit...just us.The supportive comments were posted before the edit that made it sound like he raped somebody. When people posted those comments, it was reasonable to support him because it didn't make him sound like a scumbag rapist. The edit totally changed the character of the post. It's pointed out in the thread itself. | /r/MensRights | 14/02/12 10:36 AM |
| 2 | Stop apologizing.Subscriber stats. Doesn't look like there's been any significant drop recently. | /r/MensRights | 14/02/12 09:38 AM |
| 19 | The ugly truth behind the anti-men's rights crusadeThat isn't /r/MensRights regular A_Nihilist. It's a new account by a troll. Note there are two underscores in the username, not one, and it's a lowercase 'n'. | /r/MensRights | 14/02/12 09:10 AM |
| 12 | The ugly truth behind the anti-men's rights crusadeHere is Atredies_Zero admitting in SRSMeta that they are trolling with the above comment. Quoted: I'm tempted to poke him with a stick and tell him that ArchangelleAzraelle is Chromakode and see how he reacts. Edit: Fuck it, I'm going for it. Edit2: If anyone wants the quote to help spread mayhem here although be warned it comes from Violentacrez. | /r/MensRights | 14/02/12 08:55 AM |
| 6 | Women’s tennis: higher pay for weaker play, less work. Women get same pay for lower performance, less productivity (fewer spectators that pay less), less work. Women have time to play doubles, thus Wimbledon top 10 women take home more money then men & get more sponsor moneyThis is how feminism wedged in and cried foul The main campaign for this was pushed by women's tennis player organisations, who were probably motivated by self interest. However they were supported by feminist associations such as the Fawcett Society. | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 01:51 PM |
| 0 | Can I actually make an impact in this fight?If there aren't enough people participating, that should be even more reason to start participating. | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 07:11 AM |
| -4 | Something Awful is planning to attack /r/mensrights, /r/seduction, /r/atheism among others. I was just banned.Lots of content-free mocking from usernames I don't recognise, no posts in SRS... I take it all of the people posting here are from SA? | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 05:56 AM |
| 5 | A suggestion regarding "personal stories"Sorry, you replied too quickly to catch my edit :). Requiring screenshots would make it less likely that people would bother, as they have to take the screen grab, save it, upload it, then post the link to it. People are lazy. It's more important to have it posted at all than it is to get a false sense of security from it being in image form. | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 05:08 AM |
| 6 | A suggestion regarding "personal stories"I'm afraid this won't fix anything. It's trivial to fake screenshots without opening Photoshop up. Most browsers have built in developer tools where you can just open it up and change content at will. It's really simple to do, non-developers can do it easily. In my browser, I can right-click on the text, select "Inspect element", and edit the content to say whatever I want. So long as established accounts do the copy & pasting, it should be fine. Requiring screenshots would make it less likely t… | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 05:04 AM |
| 1 | r/mensrights has an image problemMore links in the sidebar would be nice. People whine that there aren't sources, flood them with sources and statistics I say. A link to /r/MRRef wouldn't go amiss. | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 04:41 AM |
| 1 | r/mensrights has an image problemAs a percentage, yes. But that doesn't mean much. I could start a subreddit today, and if it gets 9 other subscribers, it would have grown 1000% overnight. But that doesn't mean it's a meaningful rate of growth. The smaller the subreddit, the fewer subscribers it needs to gain to double in size. | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 04:39 AM |
| 2 | r/mensrights has an image problemSometimes they simply invent stuff out of thin air. I'm pretty sure I spotted Aerik claiming kloo2yoo and I get paid to promote AVfM here. | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 04:26 AM |
| 3 | top thread of the day...we get compared to /beatingwomen in no time. this bullshit needs to end.they take any normative statement (i.e., the former) as a universal statement (i.e., the latter), as referring to each and every possible woman rather than to the general form or essence of womanhood, from which there may be accidental deviations. If you think that it's okay to complain that women are intrinsically bad in some way because a few women accidentally deviate from the terribleness of womanhood, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that yes, you are a misogynist by any reasonabl… | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 04:15 AM |
| 7 | top thread of the day...we get compared to /beatingwomen in no time. this bullshit needs to end.It is not true that women and black people are homophobic. There is a difference between saying "women are homophobic" and "women are more likely than men to be homophobic". Bear in mind that the study that prompted Jeremiah's claim that "women are homophobic" showed that 28% of college-aged women in Texas would dump their boyfriend if he had a heterosexual affair but 79% would dump him if he had a homosexual affair. Even if we give the most charitable interpretation to Jeremiah by assuming this… | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 04:03 AM |
| 3 | top thread of the day...we get compared to /beatingwomen in no time. this bullshit needs to end.The thread that talks about people ignoring /r/MensRights because of a perception of misogyny? What would you have me learn from that thread? | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 03:54 AM |
| 3 | top thread of the day...we get compared to /beatingwomen in no time. this bullshit needs to end.You are simultaneously claiming what he said is misogynistic because he is criticizing women, and that your definition of misogyny is NOT criticizing women. Women don't all act the same way, they don't all do the same things, they don't all share the same values. If you say something like "women are homophobic", that's an untrue generalisation about all women, and you're probably a misogynist. If you say something like "a lot of women are homophobic", or "women are more likely to be homophobic t… | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 03:51 AM |
| 6 | top thread of the day...we get compared to /beatingwomen in no time. this bullshit needs to end.The crap I do? When is the last time I said I enjoy looking at pictures of battered women? Because nothing else he said in the comment you replied to is questionable. That's precisely my point. They posted a huge screed about how "women do this, women do that", how angry they are at women, and how they come here to be angry at women. If you look at a comment like that and conclude that the only objectionable part of it is where he said he likes watching women beaten to a bloody pulp, they are po… | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 03:27 AM |
| 7 | top thread of the day...we get compared to /beatingwomen in no time. this bullshit needs to end.He posted this response in order to encourage down-votes on jumad and to encourage people to ignore jumad's comment entirely. Agreed. He is doing this because he wants to protect women. Actually, I'm doing it for /r/MensRights, not women. The account is an obvious sock puppet trying to portray /r/MensRights as woman haters. It was created today. Their only activity is posting comments saying things like how great it is to watch women beaten to a bloody pulp. They've claimed to have posted things… | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 03:13 AM |
| 7 | top thread of the day...we get compared to /beatingwomen in no time. this bullshit needs to end.They commit crimes against men with impunity and we link to it in here day after day. "We" do, do we? The account you're posting with was created today and the only activity is the comments you've posted in this thread. What's your real account? | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 03:01 AM |
| 6 | top thread of the day...we get compared to /beatingwomen in no time. this bullshit needs to end.I never said "women are homophobic", liar. Nor am I a "misogynist". 99% of what jumad said is accurate, but you ignored it because your primary concern is to white knight for women in support of female supremacy. You are a liar and a troll. You cannot provide evidence to support your lie that I said "women are homophobic". You cannot provide evidence to support your lie that I want r/MR to be a "haven of misogyny". You are a liar and a troll. Women are homophobic: "Women were more tolerant about… | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 02:55 AM |
| 9 | top thread of the day...we get compared to /beatingwomen in no time. this bullshit needs to end.You think anybody objecting to your misogyny is a white knight. If you're going to post dumb things like "women are homophobic" that generalise the entire gender, what do you expect? This is not the haven of misogyny you want it to be. | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 01:45 AM |
| 5 | Can I actually make an impact in this fight?Get involved in politics. Find out what your representatives are doing in your name and talk to them about it when you see them doing something objectionable. If you want specifics, try posting where you are. Nobody can suggest things for your area unless you tell them where your area is. | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 01:29 AM |
| 47 | upon reddit's policy change and removal of all subreddits sexualizing minors, well known blogger and Gawker writer tweets "do /mensrights next." not /niggers, not /radicalfeminism, not any other truly offensive or extreme subreddit...just us.It was a troll. When that post originally appeared, he said he was falsely accused and there was nothing in the post to indicate otherwise. He edited it afterwards to include stuff that made it sound like he really did rape somebody. It was from a zero day old account that conveniently got posted to SRS as soon as the edit was made. It was a troll. | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 01:26 AM |
| 1 | This entire thread is nutsAnyone who does that IS an MRA, whether they self-identify as one or not. I disagree. I've had people tell me that if I believe in equal rights, I'm a feminist too. Identifying as MRA or feminist is a political statement that I explicitly do not want to make. I am not an MRA or a feminist. | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 01:11 AM |
| 10 | top thread of the day...we get compared to /beatingwomen in no time. this bullshit needs to end.mra's always side with the accused. This is a lie. Here is a recent post from a woman who wasn't sure if she got raped. /r/MensRights sympathised and told her that yes, it was rape. There was one single negative comment, which was from a 0 day old account and it was called out and promptly deleted. I know how keen you are to portray this entire subreddit as pro-rape monsters, but it quite obviously isn't the case. | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 01:07 AM |
| 14 | top thread of the day...we get compared to /beatingwomen in no time. this bullshit needs to end.Rant against women from a brand new account. Don't feed the troll. | /r/MensRights | 13/02/12 12:56 AM |
| 33 | top thread of the day...we get compared to /beatingwomen in no time. this bullshit needs to end.When that thread was originally posted, it was reasonable enough to support him - he didn't appear to have raped anybody. That's why there are supportive comments. Then he edited it afterwards and posted comments to make it look like he did rape somebody, and you guys from SRS started posting. Given that it was on a throwaway account and that you guys got involved straight afterwards, I'm assuming that it was one of you guys that posted it in the first place. | /r/MensRights | 12/02/12 11:52 PM |
| -3 | Recent traffic stats - any idea what happened on the 9th to generate so much traffic?The thread was removed from /r/MensRights almost straight away. SRS were the only ones linking to it. Then they goaded that guy into saying the horrible stuff, then they posted it to several other subreddits, then the Internet at large noticed. Right at the beginning of the thread, he said something like "You're going to troll me? Then I'm going to troll you back." SRS didn't just have something to do with it - without SRS, it would never have happened in the first place. Edit: It has come to my… | /r/MensRights | 12/02/12 07:29 PM |
| 4 | Women are homophobic: "Women were more tolerant about a boyfriend sleeping with other women, 28 percent likelihood of continuing to date him, but a boyfriend who had a homosexual affair had a 79 percent likelihood of being kicked to the curb."It's fairly obvious to anybody with the remotest grasp of statistics that those numbers can't support general statements such as "women are homophobic". Take your women-bashing elsewhere, this is not related to men's rights. | /r/MensRights | 11/02/12 09:29 AM |
| 38 | I am a man who was falsely accused and tried for rape. AMA.Prospective employers never found out. I was never charged so I never had to disclose any of it. How did it get to trial if you were never charged? | /r/MensRights | 11/02/12 01:34 AM |
| 4 | r/mensrights has an image problemYou can get the recent comments posted on a subreddit by appending /comments/ to the URL. For example: http://reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/ If somebody regularly does a spot check of recent comments and classifies them as fine/troll/misogynistic/anti-feminist/etc., then whenever anybody says "well it's full of misogyny", you can reply with a link saying "That's a dishonest smear, here's spot checks showing only 1% of comments are misogynistic". | /r/MensRights | 11/02/12 01:30 AM |
| 1 | I'm a product of rape and want to go see my father, but my mother is extremely upset about it. What do I do?(xpost)I can understand why your mother is upset, but ultimately it's your opinion that matters the most. You want to meet him, so meet him. It could go well, and you could want to see more of him. You could hate him and never want to see him again. You could be indifferent and not care either way. But you won't know unless you actually meet him. Whether you tell your mother or not is really dependent upon your relationship with your mother. If you decide to tell her, how about reminding her that there… | /r/MensRights | 11/02/12 12:29 AM |
| 2 | I am a man who was falsely accused and tried for rape. AMA.How did you lose your job? What did they do and how did your employer react? Did they make it difficult for you to get a new job? How did prospective employers react when they found out? | /r/MensRights | 10/02/12 11:50 PM |
| 5 | People are Mean to My WifeDoes it matter? For the purpose of this discussion, yeah. If I were stuck at home all day I'd start a home business or a degree or something. Is she doing something like this? Then she's not just a homemaker, and she can explain that to her friends. Instead of saying "I'm a homemaker", she can say "I'm working on X", or "I'm studying Y". Also, housekeeping is not just about cleaning. You have to buy groceries, do the laundry, probably (depending on country) pay the bills manually, prepare food u… | /r/MensRights | 10/02/12 07:00 AM |
| 6 | Feminist organisation, La Leche, pressures government to remove segment in anti-smoking ad depicting rugby player Weepu bottle feeding his daughter, because "breast is best"They are 100% pro-breastfeeding, but the mother using the pump and the father feeding breast-milk by bottle is perfectly acceptable. Then why do they have a problem with this ad? | /r/MensRights | 10/02/12 06:46 AM |
| 1 | People are Mean to My WifeI've never really understood the "homemaker" label. It doesn't take all day to cook dinner and clean the apartment. What does she do the rest of the time? | /r/MensRights | 10/02/12 06:39 AM |
| 2 | This entire thread is nutsThat doesn't make him a defacto MRA. I'm anti-feminist, I advocate for the rights of men, but I identify as egalitarian, not MRA. I'm often perceived as an MRA by people who hate MRAs though. | /r/MensRights | 09/02/12 09:52 AM |
| 2 | This entire thread is nutsI've no idea if he identifies as an MRA. The only time I've seen him around is when one of his videos got posted here a while back because it was criticising feminism. Regardless of whether he does or doesn't identify as an MRA, the usual anti-/r/MensRights crowd have associated him with this subreddit for a while now, and of course everybody who hears about this hears that it happened on /r/MensRights, despite it essentially being just SRS and him. | /r/MensRights | 09/02/12 09:49 AM |
| 2 | This entire thread is nutsI didn't know it was him, but I get the impression it was relatively well known. I don't think SRS "outed" him if that's what you are wondering. | /r/MensRights | 09/02/12 09:35 AM |
| 11 | This entire thread is nutsFor everybody wondering what went on: He complained in SRS about somebody calling themselves ICumWhenIKillMen. They banned him. He posted that complaint over here. It was removed quickly by the mods because linking to SRS is forbidden (don't feed the trolls). SRS linked to it several times. The entire thread was basically a mob of SRS goons attacking him for hours. He decided to troll them back for hours. Everybody escalated. He posted terrible things, which is exactly what they wanted. SRS then… | /r/MensRights | 09/02/12 09:15 AM |
| 9 | I had an experience that I would be very interested to hear your opinion on.You told him no right up until falling unconscious, it's definitely rape. If somebody puts the moves on you a couple of times, that's fine, but if he does it over and over again while you are on the verge of passing out, phone a friend or a taxi, get out of there, and dump him in the morning. The comment you link to isn't particularly relevant here, it's not like he could reasonably claim to think you consented. You kept saying no and he just waited until you were asleep and couldn't say no any … | /r/MensRights | 09/02/12 12:38 AM |
| 5 | Something I'd like to whine about momentarily - I despise how anyone who disagrees with Feminism is an "MRA troll"."Leftist" stuck out like a sore thumb for me too. It seems to almost exclusively be used pejoratively, in the sense that something is inherently wrong because it is not right wing. It's not merely descriptive; you could use "left wing" for that. It's a similar sort of thing to the difference between "Jew" when used as an adjective and "Jewish" (not calling you anti-semitic, just talking about language). | /r/MensRights | 08/02/12 08:54 PM |
| 4 | Something I'd like to whine about momentarily - I despise how anyone who disagrees with Feminism is an "MRA troll".Not just feminism. If you ever head over to any of the big "anarchism" subreddits, you'll find that they are convinced the MRM is waging a war against them and everybody who doesn't agree with them is an MRA saboteur. Well, I can't tell if they actually think that, or if the moderators just use it as a political tool to ban undesirables. | /r/MensRights | 08/02/12 07:29 PM |
| 1 | IAmA feminist who has been financially supporting her husband and his family since he has decided to change careers. AMA.I identify as feminist because I feel that while there are inequalities in society that are damaging to men, there are far more inequalities that are damaging to women. I don't see the connection between the number of inequalities and your support for a gendered movement such as feminism. What does that particular label actually do for you? It certainly alienates some people. What's the benefit for you? It's the same reason why people talk about providing equal rights to black people but not to … | /r/MensRights | 07/02/12 09:10 AM |
| 1 | IAmA feminist who has been financially supporting her husband and his family since he has decided to change careers. AMA.We just want to be treated as equals. Why do you identify as feminist rather than egalitarian? Can you think of any examples of feminism helping men? Do you do you believe you live in a patriarchy? I also think it's amusing that both the comments I've gotten so far start out by saying that you guys don't hate women, even though I didn't even mention that in my post. :) You conflated this subreddit's views on feminism and its views on women. These are two totally different things, and it is often… | /r/MensRights | 07/02/12 05:27 AM |
| 3 | Mother loses custody and $552,000 in California parental alienation caseNote in the final sentence of the court's ruling two of the mother's attorneys are also sanctioned. One of those attorneys has been sanctioned numerous times by the courts yet is still touted by the domestic violence industry as a leading authority on the issues. Set up a Google alert for their name, leave a comment pointing this out every time she is quoted somewhere and follow up with a complaint to the editor in cases where it is a newspaper chasing her for a quote, asking for the quote to be… | /r/MensRights | 07/02/12 05:18 AM |
| 3 | So.... I attended an orgy recently, and one of the girls lied about her age.Oh yeah, and that is what brought up the "no linking to SRS" rule. No, that rule has been in place for a lot longer than 7 days. That submission was probably removed for violating it. | /r/MensRights | 05/02/12 01:59 AM |
| 1 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."So thats just one count then. If you are conceding that it is homophobic, we have reached the conclusion of this argument. | /r/MensRights | 05/02/12 01:47 AM |
| 2 | So.... I attended an orgy recently, and one of the girls lied about her age.I don't think I've seen a single person who regularly participates in SRS bring anything of value to a subreddit that is hated by SRS. The only things I've seen are insults and childishness. If you want to be taken seriously, either stop participating in SRS or use a throwaway when you do so. | /r/MensRights | 05/02/12 01:35 AM |
| 16 | So.... I attended an orgy recently, and one of the girls lied about her age.If she uses a fake ID to convince him she's old enough, he's still liable for statutory rape in some states. | /r/MensRights | 05/02/12 01:30 AM |
| 2 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."Why do you consider people opposed to anything gay to be homophobes? That's not answering the question either. | /r/MensRights | 05/02/12 01:24 AM |
| 3 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."Homosexuality is a greater threat to the United States than terrorism. Poe's Law. I'll assume troll due to your -223 karma. | /r/MensRights | 05/02/12 01:21 AM |
| 2 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."Do you think the "abominable sin" referred to in the article is referring to a political movement or a sexuality? Do you think the complaints about "anti-bullying talk linked with language that supports queer teens" are due to those children being part of a political movement, or because of their sexuality? The "gay agenda" is fear mongering bigotry. These kids being bullied to the point where they commit suicide are not abominable and they are not pushing an agenda. | /r/MensRights | 05/02/12 01:18 AM |
| 2 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."That's not answering the question. | /r/MensRights | 05/02/12 01:11 AM |
| 3 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."There's at least three unstated assumptions here. Firstly, that homosexuality necessarily leads to a decline in birth rates. One of the genes associated with homosexuality is also linked to greater fertility in women. More people with the gene means more babies born, even if some of them turn out to be gay. Also, gay people still start families and artificial insemination and surrogacy are two of the ways in which they do that. Secondly, that a lower birth rate is a threat to the stability of th… | /r/MensRights | 05/02/12 01:05 AM |
| 1 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."And is this article not about the movement? A sexuality is not a movement. Homophobes often try to equate the two though, which is where the clichéd "gay agenda" term came from. Regardless of what this article is purportedly about, it contains several homophobic sentiments. | /r/MensRights | 05/02/12 12:24 AM |
| 5 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."Do you think that gay people are a threat to the stability of the USA? Or are you just arguing for the sake of it? | /r/MensRights | 05/02/12 12:22 AM |
| 4 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."I don't believe they are a concern troll, I think that they are so invested in American conservatism that anything that conflicts with it is seen to be factually incorrect and morally wrong. | /r/MensRights | 05/02/12 12:20 AM |
| 3 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."Do you think that gay people are a threat to the stability of the USA? Or are you just arguing for the sake of it? | /r/MensRights | 04/02/12 11:50 PM |
| 6 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."I regret not picking a better name when registering. It was for a dumb joke. Oh well, there's still the occasional joke to be had out of it. | /r/MensRights | 04/02/12 11:49 PM |
| 5 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."MRA's are still thought of as and labeled angry white men The article links to whitepridetv.com and blames gay people for the potential downfall of the USA. Articles like this only reinforce the perception of MRAs as "angry white men". | /r/MensRights | 04/02/12 11:48 PM |
| 5 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."anything that criticizes any part of the gay movement Nope. The things I'm labelling as homophobic, such as considering gay people a threat to the stability of the USA are intrinsically different from mere criticism of the "movement". They are prejudicial towards being gay, not mere criticisms of the "movement". | /r/MensRights | 04/02/12 11:46 PM |
| 7 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."Nothing in that article indicates the author is "scared" of homosexuals He thinks they are a potential cause of the collapse of the USA! If that's not an irrational fear of gay people, what is? | /r/MensRights | 04/02/12 11:44 PM |
| 2 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."I don't deny that some of the things said in the article could be construed as "homophobic" "Could be construed"? Please argue in good faith or there's no point in replying to you. You know damn well it's homophobic. | /r/MensRights | 04/02/12 10:59 PM |
| 4 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."Stop lying troll. And I never said you posted in SRS, just that you're a feminist shill. I can confirm that ~worsethanrape originally accused ~drinkthebleach of being an SRS troll. If you check their comment, you'll see an asterisk indicating they've edited their comment. ~worsethanrape is quite obviously a troll, don't respond to them any further as it only encourages them. | /r/MensRights | 04/02/12 10:44 PM |
| 6 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."They believe that every time a homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender student commits suicide or uses drugs or alcohol, that it is the fault of a gay hating population. Of course, they neglect to mention that these LGBT youths are mentally unstable in the first place. Calling homosexuality a mental illness is homophobic. Rather than setting these kids free from a burden of abominable sin Calling homosexuality "abominable sin" is homophobic. Now it is more likely that a queer is teaching t… | /r/MensRights | 04/02/12 10:41 PM |
| 4 | What they're learning at school: "stand up for homosexuality or share the guilt."What the fuck is this homophobic bullshit? Being gay is not "a burden of abominable sin". Get the fuck out. Edit: Once more, an attempt to inject American conservative politics into the MRM. This was also submitted to the following subreddits: Conservative, alternative_right, rightist, tea_party, and new_right. It also links to whitepridetv.com. | /r/MensRights | 04/02/12 10:02 PM |
| 4 | Should I give up on trying to have a normal relationship with my daughter?Don't give up. Your daughter deserves a relationship with her father. I suggest drawing up a schedule for when you have your daughter and discuss it with the mother. Try to figure out how you can make it more appealing for her - less money spent on baby sitters if she wants to go out, etc. Find out if there's anything specific bothering her about you having your daughter and see if you can work that out. If that fails, take it to a lawyer. They will be able to give you better advice than Reddit … | /r/MensRights | 03/02/12 10:43 PM |
| 1 | Women ‘need to be drunk to have sex’ – studyThis "article" is basically a re-wording of a press release. It's part of a PR campaign to make FemFresh look like a more credible brand. | /r/MensRights | 03/02/12 01:25 PM |
| 5 | Ten years before I became an MRA, I correctly described the personalities and motivations of most college womenYou can't assume any up votes are coming from /r/MensRights because SRS moderators are telling people to up vote the bad stuff. Good job in giving /r/MensRights an irrefutable excuse, SRS! | /r/MensRights | 03/02/12 01:14 PM |
| 2 | Some of you said it wouldn't work...As I've said previously: how many sexual assaults perpetrated by women does this cause by teaching people sexual assault is something only men do? If you continuously reinforce this idea that it's something only men do, some women will never realise that they can cross the line too. They won't even see the line. | /r/MensRights | 01/02/12 06:27 PM |
| 5 | Out of curiosity, why is it okay for MRAs to generalize feminists, but not the other way around? I want to learn!I don't see much vilification of woman-haters here. I don't see much woman hating here. When I do see it, it is usually heavily down voted. But do MRAs support women's rights? There was a fairly popular post this month distinguishing a woman's rights activist and a feminist, and holding the former up as laudable. There's a handful of traditionalists who would like to enforce rigid gender roles who you could describe as not supporting women's rights, but for the most part MRAs support women's rig… | /r/MensRights | 31/01/12 06:38 PM |
| 3 | Out of curiosity, why is it okay for MRAs to generalize feminists, but not the other way around? I want to learn!Please read my comments before replying to them. Edit: And don't edit existing comments to substantially change the content of them without noting so. For the record, your original comment asked me why this didn't apply to MRAs, indicating you hadn't read my comment that explicitly stated it did. I don't identify as MRA or feminist for precisely this reason. I identify as egalitarian. | /r/MensRights | 31/01/12 05:39 PM |
| 10 | Out of curiosity, why is it okay for MRAs to generalize feminists, but not the other way around? I want to learn!The one thing you can generalise about all feminists is that they think it's okay to identify as feminist. That means they are willingly uniting themselves with the chauvinist feminists. A feminist can hold many worthwhile opinions and do many worthwhile things, but that alone is harmful for a variety of reasons and is worthy of criticism. And yes, this applies to MRAs too. If you don't want to associate yourself with and legitimise chauvinists, there are better labels, such as egalitarian. | /r/MensRights | 31/01/12 05:32 PM |
| 3 | Housing Discrimination?If I recall correctly, the last time this came up, somebody said that it was legal to discriminate if the landlord would be living there as well, but illegal to discriminate if the landlord wouldn't be living there. | /r/MensRights | 31/01/12 04:56 AM |
| 2 | Housing Discrimination?It depends on where you are. You haven't said what country you live in. Different countries have different laws. | /r/MensRights | 31/01/12 03:38 AM |
| 4 | And MRAs have the audacity to say violence against women - simply because they ARE women - is not a global epidemic.I fail to see how I'm trolling. I don't believe for a second you didn't pick that headline intentionally to annoy people. If you aren't a troll, delete and resubmit with a title that isn't intended to irritate. | /r/MensRights | 30/01/12 06:29 PM |
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