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| 2 | Let's talk about how "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists" (TERFs) are actually just misandrists who have weaponized feminism against a particularly vulnerable group of "men".I agree completely with this - and one of the things that personally turned me against the feminist label entirely was realising that the second kind of feminist, the ideological Feminist-with-a-capital-F if you will, exploits the ubiquity of feminism as meaning "equality for men and women" to dress extremism up in the language of respectability. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/10/19 02:44 PM |
| 7 | Why are you guys left wing?It's a fascinating insight into your world view that you've automatically assumed every man here must be straight. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/10/19 12:24 PM |
| 1 | "Help-Seeking Among Men for Mental Health Problems", from the The Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology and Mental Health, is free to download as a PDF until November 7th. It makes some interesting suggestions about how treatment for men's mental health should look (summary in comments).No problem! | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/10/19 11:28 PM |
| 5 | A question of pessimism.Are men detrimental to women? No. Anthropology argued for a long time over whether the very earliest human societies were patriarchal or matriarchal. That wasn't a straight split between men and women; in the 19th century you had some male thinkers who were definitely sexist against women and so assumed "primitive" society must have been matriarchal, and male dominated was a positive evolutionary development. Feminism in the '70s got very big into the idea that the natural condition of humanity … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/10/19 06:10 PM |
| 3 | Back to the ols standardsSorry; I think my rambling got away from the point a bit and took the discussion off track in parts. Just for the record I didn't think you were trying to say the '70s were great or we haven't had important changes, more just saying that I think using the language of a return to old standards invites other problems for both men and women. I think you're bang on the mark in what you're getting at. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/10/19 12:28 PM |
| 1 | U.S. Soccer says the women’s national team gets paid more than the men’s teamThis also makes for an interesting point when you're comparing the performance of the teams. Soccer is a sport that requires a lot of investment and interest if you're going to perform well nationally. Investment for player recruitment, player training, good coaching and quality facilities; interest to make sure the talent pool is there to draw from. The reality is most countries don't invest in womens' soccer on anywhere near the same scale as men because it just hasn't been seen as commerciall… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/10/19 10:24 AM |
| 10 | Don't know your opinion on Male homosexuality, but found this hate speech in r/feminism.As a bi dude marrying another dude, I think your point was bang on and in no way implied gay men are a tool for exploitation. Feminism is not an ally to, and is becoming increasingly overtly hostile to, gay/bi men, trans people and quite often bi women (unless they end up with other women). A lot of feminist ideas and frameworks have been infecting LGBT communities, especially at universities and online, to the detriment of men. LGBT communities have always had our own gendered issues to work th… | /r/MensRights | 21/10/19 12:47 AM |
| 2 | Back to the ols standardsJust jumping in to say thank you for this and the first link especially; it's insanely useful. This is all kind of stuff I knew in abstract and from snippets in other sources but didn't know had been brought together so coherently in one place. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/10/19 10:08 PM |
| 3 | Back to the ols standardsHonestly, I don't disagree with you all that much, and the original second part to my post (which I accidentally deleted 'cos I'm an idiot and I'm undone by the copy/paste function apparently) did try to caveat this by saying you can only go so far in changing things that have strong biological roots and feminism would have to confront that uncomfortable reality. I don't think we can ever escape from the fact men are much more inclined to fall into the role of pursuer for all manner of reasons. … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/10/19 10:00 PM |
| 10 | "Help-Seeking Among Men for Mental Health Problems", from the The Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology and Mental Health, is free to download as a PDF until November 7th. It makes some interesting suggestions about how treatment for men's mental health should look (summary in comments).A summary of what the authors suggest quality men's mental healthcare might look like, for anyone reading after Nov 7th/doesn't have the time: Men benefit from being able to use online and text-based services for mental health support, especially when that support is specifically tailored to men. Men are also more comfortable seeking support from helplines. Difficulty and discomfort with talking therapy can be a significant barrier for men, and offering services that allow men to talk whilst eng… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/10/19 07:54 PM |
| 2 | Back to the ols standardsExactly. It's a really, really difficult area and I have zero envy for any police team having to investigate it. There's been a scandal among feminists here in the UK recently because of the discovery that women reporting rape are being asked to let their phones be checked for messages and photographs. But the public prosecutor has pointed out that 90% of the time they are being asked to investigate alleged sexual violence from a man the woman already knows well; the contents of a phone might be… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/10/19 06:46 PM |
| 4 | Back to the ols standardsI mean, it depends quite heavily on what you mean by "prove". No one was going around police stations in 1920 surveying police officers on their attitudes to rape and then comparing them again in 1940. Our world in the last 20 years has been so radically different to anything that's come before it in terms of our levels of literacy, education, and ability to create and share knowledge. The gains we have made for equality for all people have been monumentally fast in the last 30 years. Gay rights… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/10/19 06:28 PM |
| 13 | Back to the ols standardsI'm not sure either approach is quite right. The consent conversation is messy, complicated and nuanced. Fundamentally, a lot of the problem we're seeing at the moment comes from a misunderstanding (one which certain feminist ideologues happily advance maliciously) of what it means to 'believe victims'. 'Believe victims' has its roots as a good mantra with benefits for both men and women. For much of our history in the west, we need to remember that rape and sexual assault were not taken as seri… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/10/19 01:02 PM |
| 8 | Racists Are Recruiting. Watch Your White Sons.The realisation of what ML was like was, in hindsight, a turning point for me on being able to keep clinging to the feminist label. I was like "yes! Here's the proof there's a way we can be pragmatic and still talk about men's issues and have men's spaces and define what positive masculinity is!". But...no, not really. Not fully, certainly. There was an interesting ML comment I saw the other day that got something like 70 net upvotes. It said that the people best placed to comment on masculinity… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/10/19 02:22 AM |
| 3 | "This milestone is long overdue": Fortune journalist seems to believe that female executives whose careers were cut short were the real victims of the recession, and that Wall Street's only real problem is a lack of women CEOs1million%. Modern feminism is fundamentally about elevating women at the expense of men wherever possible, and there are supposed lefties and anti-capitalists who articulate alternative visions of how to do that, but the feminist mainstream is absolutely pro-capitalism even if it likes to pretend it isn't. In practice if not explicitly in language, feminism hates no-one more than it hates the working class man. It doesn't even care much for working class women at its core, though it will if it h… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/10/19 01:42 AM |
| 4 | “Men are trash”: the surprisingly philosophical story behind an internet punchlineReally appreciate your response man! You also said "mum". UK too? I am indeed mate! Oop North. The ghosting example is a really good one, honestly. It ties in nicely in general with a point that's been made quite a lot about the dynamics of relationships: men tend to suffer the effects of romantic rejection or relationship break down for much longer than women do, in no small part because men often don't have the same kind of support networks and emotional outlets to help them cope. Larry Youn's… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/10/19 12:10 PM |
| 6 | “Men are trash”: the surprisingly philosophical story behind an internet punchlineI can't be bothered to pick through the rest of this absolute steaming cesspit of an article, but the one thing that needs to be taken note of is that throughout it, it refers to the dangers of masculinity, the threat of masculinity, the "harmful effects" of masculinity. It goes so far as saying that 'fragile' and 'toxic' are "adjectives" of masculinity. It makes no distinction between problematic aspects of masculinity as it is interpreted by modern society (toxic masculinity), and masculinity … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/10/19 09:31 PM |
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