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I hate this kind of argument. With this case, they are openly and even unabashedly admitting to engaging in discriminatory hiring, so there's really no hiding it, or pretending it's some other motive or even just the market. They are totally out there with their intention. But there's vastly more male directors than female directors, so you don't have to engage in any discriminatory practice at all and you can still end up with an entirely male slate. If only 7% of directors are women, as Slate …
/r/MensRights24/10/16 12:52 AM
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Intentionally hiring only women is every bit as odious and ridiculous as intentionally hiring only men. Cross yet another Marvel product off my list.
/r/MensRights23/10/16 09:48 PM
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That's a lousy analogy. If you can afford those $500 shoes, you're not being a hypocrite. If you can't afford those $500 shoes, you most definitely are being a hypocrite.
/r/MensRights22/10/16 11:55 PM
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And to keep them for at least the statute of limitations. Jesus, 40 fucking years ... My very first long-term girlfriend was a total sexpot who had had 60+ lovers before we met (she was 18 at the time we met). She'd done everything and everyone, and she had a total rape fetish. She wouldn't warn me, but we would be making out and getting all turned on, and she'd suddenly starting pushing me off her and wiggling to get out from under me, with this panic face going on. Of course, I'd back right of…
/r/MensRights22/10/16 11:52 PM
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Yeah, don't know why you got a downvote, but someone was butthurt, clearly. Once a show illustrates that they have an agenda, whether that agenda is feminist, to one side of the political spectrum or another, etc. my interest drops right off. I watch the show to get more information about the topic or to be entertained. I don't watch it to get moralized to, hectored, lectured or otherwise indoctrinated into any given ideology. So, SJW shit in comics? Checked out. Girl power BS with Rey in Force …
/r/MensRights22/10/16 11:43 PM
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Ummm, the charity that quit was the charity that had the bravery to put a man on their board in defiance of the edict for women only boards. I don't want to see them go, at all. It's the despots that instituted the all female board rule that need to get turfed.
/r/MensRights22/10/16 11:34 PM
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Well, the argument in the Canada subreddit on the topic of the U of T prof showed that there's some pretty wide divergence of opinion on exactly how damaging those 3rd person pronouns can be. To someone like me, who has been mistakenly called Miss, Ma'am, etc. and even whistled at from vehicles while I'm running because I'm smaller, the fact someone mistakes me for female is a minor, minor annoyance, at best. Even if someone did it to my face, repeatedly, in an attempt to piss me off, I could st…
/r/MensRights22/10/16 11:21 PM
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Either we're looking at the Reddit effect, or NOW NYS has taken down that page. Back in 2011, it became fashionable to quote NOW and their various public opposition statements on shared parenting, using those statements to prove that they really weren't advocating for equality when they could provably be shown to be lobbying against equality. Then, in early 2012, every time an article came out that cited a NOW document, within a few days that document was pulled down and scoured from the web. It…
/r/MensRights22/10/16 11:04 PM
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I had this argument the other day with some female friends of mine. They argued that it's not good enough to just point out that women don't choose to enter these professions, but you have to look at why! So, I gave them my stock response. Are you adults? You can all join the military? You can all vote? You can all sign every sort of contract from the smallest cell phone contract on up to incorporation papers and mortgages on property? You can all choose your own food, clothing, vanity purchases…
/r/MensRights22/10/16 08:55 PM
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Wow. They are not her biological children and she is not a legal custodian. Unbelievable.
/r/MensRights21/10/16 06:18 AM
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Why are you unsure? If the sentence is too lenient, in your opinion, you owe nothing to this man. We are not some club. There will always be lenient sentencing, no matter the gender. The difference is in the rate.
/r/MensRights21/10/16 06:09 AM
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The BC government was sued in 2004 because it specifically directed police forces across the province to consider the male the aggressor in DV cases. The minute that policy got on the books, officially, men's arrest and incarceration rates relative to women started climbing. An unfortunate side effect of this spike was that the arrests and incarcerations themselves became the justification for turning the screws even more on men. What? 90% of the people in prison for DV are male? FUCKING MEN! Th…
/r/MensRights21/10/16 02:09 AM
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They are absolutely identical at the level that's salient. Whether you generalize from a tiny percentage of the population of women that dump babies in dumpsters to women at large, or you generalize from a tiny percentage of the male population that engages in domestic violence to men at large, you're making the same basic mistake - the generalization. If the vast majority of the people in the pool have measurably not engaged in the behavior, you're smearing them unfairly.
/r/MensRights21/10/16 12:00 AM
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"Improper intervals or units[edit] The intervals and units used in a graph may be manipulated to create or mitigate the expression of change.[11]" Right from that page.
/r/MensRights20/10/16 11:41 PM
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Is there a tax difference based on gender? Yes. You cannot have a statistically measurable difference in average income and not see a difference in the taxes that get paid. More women do not work (zero tax), work more part time and fall under the base exemptions (zero tax) and work at flexible work that doesn't pay really well (minimal tax) than you see men in those categories. As you climb the tax brackets, the percentage that are men simply climbs along with it. That women pay less tax in aggr…
/r/MensRights20/10/16 07:08 PM
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Psychology. It was part of a module on how data gets misrepresented by the media or authors for the public. Wiki on misleading graphs It's mentioned part way down, but just in passing.
/r/MensRights20/10/16 02:00 AM
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That's not really a thing. We called it improper intervals or scale compression/expansion.
/r/MensRights19/10/16 11:07 PM
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There's a semi-local paper that's available free (Epoch Times) and I was reading it while eating lunch at a little café in my city. They had an article about how Canada was "lagging" at equality in the workplace because most of our companies weren't meeting some 30% standard for female board members. It noted that the US was also not meeting the quota. So, I say to my wife that this is an example of idiocy in action. Set a quota when you know there's nowhere near enough women with the kind of bi…
/r/MensRights19/10/16 09:09 PM
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Ah, yes, the classic "victimhood gap", where we remove responsibility, ethical standards and moral culpability from women in authority for no other reason than that second X chromosome. What's the standard, now? Two decades before we consider the gap wide enough for a reasonable chance at prosecution? "Women are more mature than men." "Girls mature faster than boys" ... well, until it comes time to hit court, and then they are all just vulnerable, doe-eyed innocents, ripe for the plucking.
/r/MensRights19/10/16 03:25 PM
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But how do you represent that data? Stick a gradient scale like this map has on the side of a map like this, and most people assume it's split 50/50, so colours in the top half are "more female" and colours in the bottom half are "more male". Sure, anyone that reads and understands how the ratios work gets that this scale is massively skewed because of the data, but my opinion is that data should be represented in such a way as to minimize misinterpretation. Saving a little bit of ink by choppin…
/r/MensRights19/10/16 02:59 PM
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I agree with you, I was just pointing out an additional trick they've done, which is to compress the top end of the scale. To truly represent this, they need as much of a negative scale on the female side as positive scale on the male side. They won't use any of the negative scale at all, but that's part of the reality of the data. Someone viewing this map should note that there's not a single country on the planet where the ratio ever gets as nasty for women as it does for men.
/r/MensRights19/10/16 02:52 PM
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Ah, yes, the "we'll put lots of gradation in the lower end of the scale, but lump together the top end of the scale" trick.
/r/MensRights19/10/16 01:41 PM
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it's a cult of victimhood and most people don't want to be victims. I'm not so sure about that. I'm working on a paper right now about the attention market, and the cult of victimhood is only part of a larger, very evident trend towards attention and validation seeking behavior in our society. While people in general are engaging in it, women are absolutely at the forefront of that type of behavior. Think about what percentage of nude or semi-clothed selfies are taken by women vs. men, for examp…
/r/MensRights19/10/16 01:33 PM
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Exactly. Here in Canada, the ratio of complaints made to complaints that hit court, and then the ratio of complaints that hit court vs. convictions, are virtually identical between sexual assault and common assault. Of course, there's nearly 10 common assaults for every sexual assault, but that's another story.
/r/MensRights19/10/16 01:28 PM
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Not sure, precisely, what this has to do with men's rights, but it's an interesting snapshot into the 50s, that's for sure.
/r/MensRights19/10/16 01:03 PM
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Child rearing definitely has positives, and those typically outweigh the negatives in the end, but it's not easy work, especially at the start. The best descriptor I can come up with is that it's not intellectually or physically challenging, but that's precisely why it's challenging. Keeping focus, sanity and a reasonable sense of self is really hard when your highest level of discourse is with a 5 year old every day. But, I get your point. Dad's life is hard on a whole other level and in very d…
/r/MensRights19/10/16 03:44 AM
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Taking care of little kids is a lot of work and very mentally draining, but the minute that last kid is in full time school, the clock is ticking and if you continue to use the kids as the excuse not to plug back into the workforce, you're setting yourself up for a big failure to come. You're one bad fight from being unable to put food on your table. Nothing chafes me more than women with adult kids and they have no skills. WTF were you doing when the kids were tweens and teens?
/r/MensRights19/10/16 03:30 AM
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It's like most western democracies. There's little pots of activity, like Victoria, where the SJWs have clearly gotten in far enough to push their little indoctrination program, but for the most part the examples aren't really all that common. Look, for example, at the resistance to the male privilege mandatory course. There's a lot of people that are upset about that one.
/r/MensRights19/10/16 01:39 AM
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Family law in Ontario is very biased towards women (I am a woman) and leaves men in poverty and often it leads to depression and suicide. Yeah, don't get me started on the Ontario provincial concept of "de facto custody", which grants legal custody to women by default the vast majority of the time because they are the primary caregiver. Men, because they aren't the primary caregiver and often leave the home in the divorce, don't get that luxury. Of course, both are already custodians during the …
/r/MensRights18/10/16 10:40 PM
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linky linky
/r/MensRights18/10/16 10:28 PM
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Better hope you have roughly equal amounts of assets, then. The minute common law provisions in your area kick in, you're essentially married as per the state. In my jurisdiction, it's only 6 months.
/r/MensRights18/10/16 06:10 PM
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I don't. The point here is that self sacrifice, stoicism, subsuming yourself for others, etc. are all sold as positives when attached to femininity. I can't go a day without some meme or post about how saintly mothers are and how children should appreciate their Mom's sacrifices on their behalf. Similarly, the "good men appreciate a loyal woman" memes are everywhere, too. All human behaviours are both positives and negatives, and what determines which applies in any given situation is context. D…
/r/MensRights18/10/16 02:47 PM
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This has exacerbated in the last decade, but it's an issue that's been going on for 50 years or more. The 1985 Wolfgang study that I posted a link to a few days ago shows very clearly, across multiple crime scenarios, that crimes against female victims are considered much more severe than the exact same crimes involving other victims. You don't get that dichotomy unless we've done a VERY good job of inculcating the notion that women are ever so fragile and need protecting, clear across our socie…
/r/MensRights18/10/16 02:35 PM
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Honestly? I don't care. Men like this prove time and time again that their wealth exceeds their emotional and intellectual capacity to protect it. The minute they take that road, their only value to men in general is as a cautionary tale. What people should be walking away with is the realization that all the money and talent in the world won't buy you confidence, that there's a percentage of women that will reliably exploit that lack of confidence for their own gain, and that if you don't have …
/r/MensRights18/10/16 02:23 PM
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All I see is TL;DR. I read them, but you put those up on a wall and 99.99% of humanity is walking right on by. Posters have to be slogans. Easily memorized, eye catching, witty, and thought provoking slogans. At most, you want one line. With the absolutely perfect quote, maybe you slide that to two lines.
/r/MensRights18/10/16 01:34 PM
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I guess I've been sexually assaulted several times in my life, then. I've had four women sit on my lap without asking first, had two grind up against me on the dance floor without asking first, had three kiss me without asking first, and had two grope my crotch without asking first. When the definition includes acts that are commonly accepted as part of normal courtship behavior, and that are normally handled socially if someone crosses the line truly without our consent, then the definition is …
/r/MensRights18/10/16 01:28 PM
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So, in a he said, she said situation where the other eye witnesses seemingly support the he said side, you're still going to align with the she said? OK, your prerogative, I suppose. Everyone needs a hobby.
/r/MensRights18/10/16 12:37 PM
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20 years from now when we start to shake down the rise and fall of the SJW phenomenon, one of the key factors that will come to light is how so many educators in the humanities and gender studies retconned the definitions of common terms like racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. to insert a power dynamic criteria, so that it's only those horrible acts if you punch down, from majority to minority, from the norm to the exception, and not in the other direction. Oddly enough, you give people a semantic…
/r/MensRights17/10/16 06:26 PM
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And you don't get that these are the same agencies that trot out the concept of the gender pay gap, in the first place, and promote the idea that it constitutes active discrimination by employers? Why you'd take them at their word when they are actively misrepresenting the stats is beyond me. Of course, the largest study ever done on workplace pay discrepancies, covering 33 nations and 8.7 million people just wrapped up a couple of months ago, and simply by controlling for two factors: same comp…
/r/MensRights17/10/16 04:21 PM
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The whole mess, from when she hit him with the telescope stand to her falling is only about 2-3 minutes. From the time he puts her outside to her falling is barely over 20s of the recording. It escalated pretty rapidly. By the time he takes the elevator down to the car park and calls his Dad, the police are already there on the scene.
/r/MensRights17/10/16 03:48 PM
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I don't think you get the timeline. He put her out, locked the door, and literally seconds later she tried to climb down and fell. It's only about 20s or so between those two events and his phone captures her screams as she goes over the railing. By the time he leaves the apartment and goes to the car park to call his Dad, the police are already on the scene, presumably called by other tenants or passers by that saw her fall.
/r/MensRights17/10/16 03:41 PM
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Up until reading that article, I had no idea James Watson was in the poorhouse. Jesus, that just made my blood boil. State a truism of any species, that geographically divergent populations may not necessarily have evolved in lockstep and might vary in capability, and you're pilloried to the point of being run out of your career? Jesus Titty Fucking Christ that's infuriating.
/r/MensRights16/10/16 10:55 PM
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I already have. I pored through it before setting this self post up, actually.
/r/MensRights16/10/16 09:05 PM
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Can we just talk about going as close as we can to ideology free, and build structures that minimize the damage of the ideologues like this? It's not a right vs. left issue, it's an ideologue vs. pragmatic approach issue. Replacing left ideologues with right ideologues doesn't solve the problem. It just shifts which pool of people the ideologues target.
/r/MensRights16/10/16 08:30 PM
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Male privilege is little more than a secular, SJW version of original sin. It's been repackaged, aimed at a new target and narrowed in focus as a result, but it's still the concept that you were born with your sin and must spend your life atoning. I will be fucking DAMNED if I would let my son be forced through a program like that, and my opposition would be the exact same opposition the Catholic church got when they tried to tell me that I was sinful before I was born, because of the actions of…
/r/MensRights16/10/16 05:30 PM
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The myth is the human thinking is universal. Just like today, it's a ratio. The ratio may have been stronger in the direction of flat earthers back then, and considerably weaker now, but I don't know if it's ever going to be zero if a modern society with the Internet and mandatory public education still can't kill it.
/r/MensRights16/10/16 04:10 PM
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Close, but not quite. I've ready all those studies and they roughly say the same general thing, but this was a much more modern study. Thanks, though!
/r/MensRights16/10/16 03:35 PM
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He had just been assaulted with a weapon. Are larger, scarier looking people not allowed to detain their attackers, lest their size and appearance be used against them? The reality is that when he had her on his balcony, he called his Dad to ask his advice on what to do. If he really wanted to hurt her, he easily could have. Does that sound like a killer to you?
/r/MensRights15/10/16 11:48 PM
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And arrest and charges become nigh impossible if he does. Manslaughter in Queensland requires the accused to have knowingly committed an illegal act (detaining someone who has just commited multiple felonies is not illegal) and for a reasonable person to know that injury or death was a likely outcome of the act. It is not reasonable to expect that someone locked on a balcony a dozen stories off the ground is going to try and climb down when she has been detained for mere minutes.
/r/MensRights15/10/16 11:11 PM
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Why was he recording her? It is perfectly legal in Queensland for one party to a conversation to be recording it. There is no way in hell I would have a Tinder date without a recording in any state rife with SJWs and with questionable takes on sexual assault and domestic violence, and Australia definitely qualifies. ABR is the new norm if you want to protect your ass. Why put her on the balcony Because he decided that he might call the cops to press charges and didn't want her to flee? Didn't pr…
/r/MensRights15/10/16 10:58 PM
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There is literally no room in that condo where she couldn't ultimately cause her own death trying to escape in some fashion. Out the window, cut herself on glass, slip and bang her head, etc. Any reasonable reading of the law has to allow you to detain someone that you personally witnessed committing a crime (citizen's arrest) by locking them in without holding you responsible for any idiotic injuries or death from an ill advised escape attempt, especially climbing down a dozen stories or more. …
/r/MensRights15/10/16 10:29 PM
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His own audio recording has her beating him, throwing objects at him, bragging about being violent, accusing him of stealing her stuff while he's actively trying to help her find it, and that he ultimately had to subdue her and isolate her on the balcony after being beaten with his own telescope stand. While he's on the phone with his Dad trying to figure out what to do, she tries to climb down the balcony and falls to her death. He's charged with murder.
/r/MensRights15/10/16 02:00 PM
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The protection against your own past being used against you is limited to general smearing. If there's specific acts, specific methodologies and specific events that create a pattern pertinent to the case, the defense is still allowed to bring them in.
/r/MensRights15/10/16 01:51 PM
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because everything has to be seen through sex (and lately race) first, rather than as people first I've been having a very interesting discussion with some white knight friends of mine where I lead off my rebuttal of their latest "look at the women!" post that slams white men with, "Which white men?" The minute you ask that question you break the wall of the gender lens through which they are viewing everything. The fact that there might be subdivisions of white men, only some of which might be …
/r/MensRights14/10/16 06:19 PM
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IP for me means "Intellectual property", not domestic violence. I was referring to the fact the Pirate Bay founders got jail sentences longer than many violent criminals, people downloading files getting fines in the millions of dollars, etc.
/r/MensRights14/10/16 06:13 PM
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I still don't think it justifies such a wide disparity in sentencing. I agree. I did say that it was still a quasi pussy pass. But is his harsh sentence because he's male, or because we tend to see harsh sentences completely out of line with the norm when it comes to drug offences, IP violations and other hot button topics that "officialdom" wants to focus on? Probably a bit of both.
/r/MensRights14/10/16 04:21 PM
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This isn't a pure pussy pass, more of a quasi-pussy pass. The text messages for the bulk purchase of the cocaine and cutting agent were found on the phone in Joel's bedroom in the attic. All the texts sent to distribute and sell the coke were on that phone. All the MDMA, pot, notes regarding the business and scales were found in that bedroom, too. There's at least a couple of charges she's not going to see that he will, guaranteed, like two possession charges. With him doing the bulk of the nego…
/r/MensRights14/10/16 03:03 AM
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“Anti-female bias in academic hiring has ended,” And anti-male bias in academic hiring has begun.
/r/MensRights14/10/16 12:34 AM
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It's clearly not going over well in the commentary. I suspect this program will last until the next election.
/r/MensRights14/10/16 12:28 AM
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CUNY is a public institution. It's funded by the state and a sister set of universities to SUNY.
/r/MensRights14/10/16 12:03 AM
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Its not a legislation issue though is it? Isn't it? The UK just passed a bill the year before last that mandated their shelter system adopt a gender neutral program delivery model. That had to be legislated, just like legislation had to be passed to force bars to open their doors to women in the 1920s. Private organizations never start with legislation, but there isn't a single private organization that doesn't live ultimately under regulatory frameworks that are set up by legislation, and exist…
/r/MensRights13/10/16 07:03 PM
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I really don't get this kind of comment, to be honest. Pick any situation where a group has been cut out of a service, whether we're talking because of race, sexuality, gender, etc. and look at how it was handled when the legislation finally came down the pipe to force their inclusion. Was the solution used in the end "now that you're in the game, go ahead and make your own"? It's never been that. Existing services were told to widen the net. You can't really compare a time before these networks…
/r/MensRights13/10/16 01:30 PM
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At least one province in Canada did (BC) and had institutional instructions to treat the male as the aggressor by default. The practice came under significant scrutiny in the mid 2000s because of a lawsuit against the province for the practice, and the depth of it came to light showing that men were arrested and charged at nearly double the rate of women, despite very similar reporting rates at the outset. I'm reasonably confident the practice was ended, but I haven't gone looking at their stats…
/r/MensRights13/10/16 04:12 AM
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Note the second highest rated crime in the list, that rapes are generally rated higher than similar crimes (but are certainly not atypically low, as you'd think you'd see in a rape culture), and also note the huge discrepancies between crimes with female victims and the same crimes flipped to have male victims.
/r/MensRights13/10/16 01:32 AM
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What do you consider to be impact? I've self edited to the point where I closed down my Facebook account, created an alter-ego I use on youtube and other social media that I only access via a VPN purchased in another country, for example. There's no direct penalty you can point to other than a LOT of angry people calling me names, but that's because I insulated my professional life from my activism pretty harshly. I live in the same city as a prominent female MRA, for example, but I've hesitated…
/r/MensRights13/10/16 12:37 AM
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Why don't they just refer to people collectively?
/r/MensRights13/10/16 12:33 AM
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I am mocking you using it. Academics aren't. They are simply not catering to this notion that some people have that they matter enough to dictate to those around them the general modes of address used in vernacular speech. It's not hateful, it's imply unimportant, not salient to the task at hand, and so far down the priority pole compared to the actual education everyone there paid to obtain, that it's all part of that general swirl of "don't give a shit" material. It fits right next to your fav…
/r/MensRights12/10/16 11:57 PM
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Yeah, hate speech has been defined already and tested in the courts and pronoun usage isn't even remotely going to qualify. Sorry, the state isn't going to be your collective enforcer for pronoun usage, now matter how much you call it an attack. So, m'lady, are you going to take the gender reference I just referred to you by and head off to the police to report the hate crime? We can test this right here and now if you want. Or ... are you going to do the adult thing and ignore the provocation a…
/r/MensRights12/10/16 11:20 PM
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It's a pronoun. Stop elevating it beyond what it is.
/r/MensRights12/10/16 11:07 PM
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When you think that discourtesy should be illegal, you're clearly part of the problem and not part of the solution. What kind of nirvana are you envisioning, where no one is ever rude, lest we toss them in the clink? If someone calls you ma'am instead of sir, or sir instead of ma'am because you're on that line visually and they can't tell, should we chuck them in jail? If they think you're pregnant and you're just fat? If they don't like your hairpiece and make some comment? Adulthood means deal…
/r/MensRights12/10/16 09:51 PM
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Surely we can pick the best of male and female behaviours to amalgamate and not some of the worst, though, right? Think of a world where positive stereotypically male traits like stoicism, leadership, rationality, etc. were combined with positive stereotypically female traits like empathy, compassion and inclusiveness. And then think of the worst case, where we combine aggression, hyper-individuality, and dominance with social shaming, irrationality and attention seeking. I think there's plenty …
/r/MensRights12/10/16 04:21 PM
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It's a cost:benefit ratio. You see the benefit from your personal perspective, while in my industry I see the end cost, daily. I'm not surprised we come to the opposite conclusion. Let me throw this out, though ... do the gender roles really end if a percentage of the "opposite gender" adopt the behavior? If we've accepted that these roles have negatives, and I'm pretty confident we have, then why would we opt for a solution that keeps those roles going, but just changes the mix of who engages i…
/r/MensRights12/10/16 04:14 PM
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They sound like a normal cis male That was my mistake. I typod XY. It should have read XX. So, a genetic female, that is pre-op and so has female body structure, but who ostensibly intends to make the transition and so identifies as male ... would she qualify as male for the purposes of this campaign? Would the magazine ignore her genetics, ignore her morphic structure, and call her "male", and thus claim she's the first male?
/r/MensRights12/10/16 04:09 PM
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Oh, it can definitely be art. But when we're talking the biggest US Cosmetics companies that sells budget make up in drug stores, convenience stores and department stores, and their attendant magazine, we're not talking art. We're talking bulk make up sales and a gimmick. They sell insecurity and bulk make up, not art. This is like arguing Wal-Mart is a retail artist or that Subway sandwich artists are really artists.
/r/MensRights12/10/16 04:03 PM
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I'm not calling him a woman. I'm pointing out that by your use of his personal identification at the end of your sentence, you imply that this identification is the primary thing we should be concerned about in this case. Regardless of what he IS, what he SAYS HE IS, is what matters, right? That was the tone of your post. So, I tossed out a scenario where the ONLY rationale for including her on the cover would be that personal identification. Would that personal identification be enough to offse…
/r/MensRights12/10/16 03:57 PM
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Oh, good lord. How many studies have to come and go with women showing they loathe their appearance, loathe their bodies, and spent 4-5 times as much of their disposable income on beauty products before we realize that it's not a positive to jump on that train? I'm a psychologist, and I'm up to my eyeballs with depressed, bulimic, anorexic women, and the rise in all of those issues in men, largely because beauty standards are widening to them over time, isn't a good trend, in my opinion. And tha…
/r/MensRights12/10/16 03:51 PM
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I'd argue that group cohesion might be a prime goal for a greater percentage of women than men, but the SJW phenomenon where they bend over backwards into absurdity to avoid giving or receiving offense shows that it's hardly a female only prerogative. Perhaps one could argue that female domination of parenting raised a generation of boys to think like women, so now they are forming the male side of the SJW phenomenon?
/r/MensRights12/10/16 03:45 PM
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And to be honest it's nice to see men getting some equal representation in the beauty industry. For too long society has forced men to deal with their flaws instead of fixing them with makeup. Yes, because let's get men insecure, fretting over appearance, and spending a goodly percentage of their hard earned cash on beauty products to prop up an even larger beauty industry! I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or horrifyingly honest.
/r/MensRights12/10/16 03:41 PM
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Which makes me wonder ... if a genetically XY XX woman, pre-op and so appeared female but self identified as male, would she qualify for this cover as "the first male"? Something tells me that she'd be disqualified.
/r/MensRights12/10/16 03:38 PM
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The law has typically differentiated between defending yourself at the time of the attack versus going back for revenge at some later date. If you're arming someone now so that at some future event he can shoot his attacker, there's a level of planning there that's not going to incline many judges to consider it self defense. I get your point, but I don't think self defense would be a slam dunk defense in that kind of case.
/r/MensRights12/10/16 03:14 PM
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Sure it's a bad idea, but I'm pretty confident that, in a population of millions of people, the fact it's a bad idea is ultimately irrelevant, because it's going to happen - both people arguing for vigilante justice AND the actual vigilante justice itself - because both are a statistical reality in a population that large. The only way to kill it dead is to remove the actual driver, and that means prosecuting women who predate on children to enough of a degree that vigilante justice is perceived…
/r/MensRights12/10/16 02:54 PM
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But if they have a gender they identify as and you know that, but choose to refer them as a different gender, then that's fucking rude. I'll give you that, but you know what else is rude? Demanding those pronouns so heavily that you'll threaten someone's job if they don't use them. Their use is a courtesy, not a mandate, and no professor should be fired for lack of courtesy. Edit: Can you imagine if courtesy was actually mandated? Departments that tend to see brilliant but socially awkward peopl…
/r/MensRights12/10/16 02:50 PM
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There's roughly 4-5 studies that have been done on men in prison for sexual assault, and they have found that anywhere from 60-78% of them were themselves sexually abused, typically as children. Oddly enough, we care more about the women they attacked than the women that attacked them. Funny thing, that. As long as that discrepancy keeps occurring, you're going to have people suggesting vigilante justice, I think.
/r/MensRights12/10/16 05:19 AM
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a) In the several years I taught, I think I had to devolve to gender pronouns a small handful of times. I was either addressing a class and referred to them collectively, or I was addressing someone directly during office hours, and the pronoun in use was "you". The microscopic rate of gender specific pronouns in education doesn't even remotely warrant the inordinate effort being expended on it. It is an almost completely manufactured offense. b) Professors see hundreds if not thousands of stude…
/r/MensRights12/10/16 05:08 AM
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For my sins as a GAY Rights activist, I can see where Clinton is coming from. I sure don't. In a lot of western nations it was still illegal to be gay as little as 40-50 years ago, complete with jail sentences and forced sterilization. There's no way you'd find something similar just for being female in western society, 40-50 years ago. Then there's the rights question ... what rights did gays beat women to getting, specifically because they were gay? The US only passed federal legislation on ga…
/r/MensRights12/10/16 02:11 AM
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E) is partially true. Women dominate education right up to the university level, now, and multiple studies have shown multiple negatives for boys who have predominantly female teachers. I don't know if I would go so far as to call them all "man hating feminists", but ...
/r/MensRights12/10/16 01:48 AM
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First off ... what province? Every province has slightly different standards for how to establish custody or guardianship, and I know at least one (Alberta) where you can become a legal guardian simply by proving parentage and contact, which you can easily do. If you are lucky enough to live there, you might have a leg up you didn't expect to have.
/r/MensRights11/10/16 06:39 PM
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Nah, other way around. I'm astounded that you seem to hate everything about this, and yet you're here posting. But, then, it seems like you're just trolling, so there's that.
/r/MensRights09/10/16 02:39 PM
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Korn Hay Group Massive Study Strengths: 33 nations, millions of data points, controls to the employer and job title where most studies stop at the industry. Weaknesses: got to pay to get the white paper, I think.
/r/MensRights09/10/16 03:47 AM
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Yeah, you aren't reading motives into the studio's decision at all. You are a paragon of rationality and neutrality ... in your mind.
/r/MensRights09/10/16 02:56 AM
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You are looking to pin down terms with a constituency that broadens terms as widely as they can be broadened. There is no such thing as a firm definition in feminism, when they can't even get out of a convention without being at each other's throats over word usage. It is clear by how toxic masculinity is tossed around so freely that a healthy chunk of women consider all masculinity toxic.
/r/MensRights09/10/16 02:10 AM
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So you hate the movie, hate the film maker, and hate the studio, all at the same time? Not many shades of grey in your world, huh?
/r/MensRights09/10/16 01:58 AM
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So, because a generic "Hollywood" shapes opinions to an extent, we are going to ignore that this studio had literally nothing to do with the media's decision to go seventeen years back into Turner's past to mine a wholly unrelated event, rather than talk about the movie? The studio is an innocent actor in all this, clearly, one watching a 17.5M dollar investment go sideways through no fault of their own.
/r/MensRights09/10/16 01:42 AM
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Courts are not infallible. Absolutely true, but in a choice between a sitting judge that does this for a living, has heard dozens of similar cases, with access to all the collected evidence pro and con ... and the Internet lynch mob that is or has none of those things, who would you bet on? Who is more likely to have all the facts and make a sounder judgment? If you think the public "knows better" you are fooling yourself. The public overwhelmingly hasn't even read the original judgment. A healt…
/r/MensRights09/10/16 01:04 AM
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They are innocent in the court of law and nothing more. What kind of comment is this? He is free and out in the public, able to work, he can be bonded, he can travel ... name me one thing that he cannot do that a person who has never been involved with the law can do. He is indistinguishable from a wholly innocent man, because that is precisely what he is: innocent. You talk as if court is the least standard, one that can be easily dismissed, and it is the court of public opinion that really mat…
/r/MensRights09/10/16 12:59 AM
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Agreed. Unless we're talking deadly force, and death is an actual possibility, we shouldn't be using the term "survivor". Even phrases like, "How I survived High School" chafe my butt. It was awkward, uncomfortable, stressful, humbling and difficult, but it sure as fuck wasn't deadly.
/r/MensRights08/10/16 05:03 PM
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I am actually a bit sympathetic with the studio on this one. The studio didn't make the current milieu. They didn't choose to make sexual assault the most toxic hot button we have at the moment, and they didn't construct the narrative of guilty before innocent for that crime. They didn't decide that public self-flagellation was required of anyone with a grey area event in their past. That was all done by society, and the studio just lives within it and with the results. At the end of the day, th…
/r/MensRights08/10/16 01:00 PM
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But it also means they make larger, more risky and more attractive companies to venture capital. I was too wordy, but that's an important point, IMO.
/r/MensRights07/10/16 10:39 PM
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I don't think you've thought this all the way through, though. If you had a mindset, say a generally reduced tolerance for risk, and that was percolated through and inculcated into one half of your population to the point where you could see measurable differences in how that half approaches risky situations versus the other half, would that only play out in wages or earnings? Of course, it would definitely play out in wages and earnings, because going out and selling yourself is risky, and more…
/r/MensRights07/10/16 04:46 PM
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That's federally. Provincially there's a lot more leeway because it's the provincial HR statutes that matter, and none of the provinces have the same level of protection that the federal HRA and Equity Act provide. Look at the Silverman v Alberta HRC case and appeal, where all the province had to do was argue that equality doesn't mandate 100% equal treatment when the situation is unequal at the outset, point out that the police stats justify a skewed response in domestic violence programs, and …
/r/MensRights07/10/16 04:16 PM
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Of course they want equality of outcome. Equality of opportunity would mean they have to get off their asses and actually do things like apply to STEM fields instead of applying to the Humanities while whining about how under represented they are in STEM. They would actually have to put up or shut up with the latter.
/r/MensRights07/10/16 01:48 AM
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The BC claim? I saw it a few months back, but I'll see if I can find it again for you. This article details the case that drew the stats to light, plus the provincial policy that drove them, but there's no real data, so I'll try and track down the source. As for the rest, it's all memory from my Criminology courses and cobbled together from multiple sources from around North America, so there's some assumptions involved, like similar behavior across multiple jurisdictions, but I don't think they…
/r/MensRights06/10/16 11:16 PM
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The sad thing is, they really aren't. A study in BC about how police handled domestic violence calls showed that twice as many calls concerning women being violent in the home were coded as "handled without charges" than the calls where men were being violent in the home. From arrest to charges to alternative sentencing and ADR, to sentence length and parole on the back end, there's literally no step of the CJS where there isn't a measurable benefit to being female. It's not disproportionately a…
/r/MensRights06/10/16 02:59 PM
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This is precisely my gripe. There's literally no argument anyone has made for female-specific treatment in the CJS that isn't exhibited by men in the CJS, already. Over 60% of women have some form of depression or other mental disorder in prison? Well, about 45% of men do, too, and both incidence rates are miles higher than the general population on the street. Most women are in for non-violent crimes? Sure, but so are most men. Many women have children? Many men do, too. Addictions to drugs and…
/r/MensRights06/10/16 02:47 PM
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Hypocrisy, thy name is woman. Show me a list of female users of a dating site and I'll show you a list of people where roughly 90% of them use a height filter to restrict the profiles they see to the taller half of the human race. Virtually every last one sets an age bracket, too, typically leaning to a guy slightly older than they are. They will look for cues to wealth in a profile or in discourse and skew to the men who imply they have money or a more stable job. They will skew away from any m…
/r/MensRights06/10/16 04:08 AM
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So, a handful of tiny, cherry picked little groups over the years becomes "feminism" now? First off, add up every last Quaker in the US in 1914 and you'd have about the population of a small town. Of course, the fact Quakers believed in a more equal distribution between men and women doesn't automatically make them "feminists", so you're already being rather liberal with the term, but then you have to deal with the fact there was only roughly 40-50K of them in the entire US at the time. With pro…
/r/MensRights05/10/16 10:48 PM
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If it teaches them confidence, I'm all for it. If there's any sort of "manners" involved, especially where those manners include being subservient to women, protecting women, etc. then that shit can go out with the rest of the trash from the Middle Ages. Masculinity isn't chivalry, and chivalry isn't masculinity.
/r/MensRights04/10/16 12:56 PM
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I'll say the same thing about this that I say about all the Marvel and DC bullshit going on in comics: I have AGENDabsolutely no problem witAGENDA in art. Create all the AGENDA you want, create AGENDA the characAGENDA and add themAGENDA so that everAGENDA can be AGENDA. Sometimes, you just can't see past the agenda.
/r/MensRights03/10/16 07:57 PM
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