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As the number of partners increases, the chance that there's not some underlying problem causing the rapid exchange of partners drops pretty quickly to zero.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/07/26 11:08 PM
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Yes. A whole collection of mental health issues can contribute to hypersexuality, which leads to high numbers of partners. Even without a specific issue, a stable person with reasonable actions and expectations will tend to be in a few long lasting relationships and have a smaller number of sexual partners. Note that this is not gendered.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/07/26 10:55 PM
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In the article they got the captions for the images back to front. That was a very interesting read though. I didn't realise that Japan had a thing about circumcision or that it had such a long history.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/04/26 05:35 AM
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The emotional heart of the movie was very much the interactions between Bowser and Bowser Jnr, and I think that hamstrung the movie in general. The part with the biggest emotional impact deals with characters that are not given the majority of the screen time because they're not the "main characters". More Bowser + Bowser Jnr interactions would have improved the main story over some of the product placement they were doing. That said, both the first and second Mario Bros movies feature some impr…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/04/26 05:15 AM
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My immediate assumption is that the causation is backwards. Countries with more precarious circumstances push their men harder which creates stronger precarious manhood beliefs.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/03/26 06:47 AM
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Remember that if this is a political thing, you don't just have to sell the policy to the voters, you also have to sell the policy to billionare doners and party machinery. It's a hell of a lot easier to convince them with "If we spend this money here, you can make more money over there".
/r/MensRights10/12/24 03:42 AM
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It is important to note that Kamala Harris herself was far better for this than Hilary Clinton was. The Democratic Position in general has been dismissive of young men, but Harris did not campaign on that. Her choice of Tim Walsh as a deputy was also the sort of choice that could have spoken to young men, and Tim Walsh is the sort of person that you can hold up as an example of positive masculinity if that was the way that you wanted to appeal to men.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/11/24 08:54 PM
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The problem is that me breaking free of gender expectations puts me in conflict with capitalism, and I kind of like having a roof over my head and food to eat.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/10/24 10:24 AM
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Because that's what they spend their time doing. I've spent probably 40 hours these last two weeks on reddit, and I've spent 45 hours playing videogames. Both of these are obviously things that don't give me opportunities to sexually assault women. Now imagine if I had spent the same amount of time out in bars, pubs and clubs, surrounded by women. I'd have way more opportunities. And this goes further when you consider occupation. As a miner, I spend all my work time surrounded by men (manly men…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/09/24 05:26 AM
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I think that some of your examples (particularly South Park, Family Guy, and Rick and Morty) should be considered separately because they are part of shows that make a point of crossing lines for humour/shock value. It's not good that these acts are used for comedy in those shows, but it's not as impactful on general beliefs as the same things appearing in more typical shows.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/11/23 09:50 PM
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They're production maximisation systems. They will exist until we no longer require human production to sustain ourselves.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/10/23 07:55 PM
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Except it's the opposite that is happening. The men most likely to withdraw are those who are more caring and respectful, because they are more hurt by the false allegations (not specific allegations, but the general "all men are arseholes/rapists") and care more about doing what women want. The people who stay in are the arseholes, because they didn't care what women wanted in the first place.
/r/MensRights11/10/23 10:59 PM
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I read it quite often, normally at the same time as this one. Firstly, it is very important to know what your enemies are saying about you. Secondly, they do have good articles, even if you don't agree with them. Thirdly, I have watched the place become much better over Covid (not related to Covid, just happened at that time). There's been definite shifts in the wording around some issues, there's been more recognition that the majority of Feminism downplays men's issues and there's been major p…
/r/MensRights01/10/23 12:25 AM
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You mean 'vicious' 'Viscous' is a chemistry term referring to a particular type of liquid flow.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/09/23 09:39 PM
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The research on rapists shows that they are almost entirely people who have regular access to sex, and higher than average numbers of sexual partners. The reasons why those things get more complicated, but men don't rape because of a lack of sex.
/r/MensRights19/09/23 06:37 AM
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(Americans decided to call these "western" culture, despite coming from Europe) Well yes, because the divide between "Eastern Culture" and "Western Culture" is based on a line in Europe. France, Italy, Germany and England are west of this imaginary line, while Arabia, India and China are to the east.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/08/23 09:21 PM
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Congratulations. You're a minority of a minority trying to extrapolate your experience to everybody.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/08/23 11:21 PM
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Mate, your words are getting further and further divorced from any resemblance to reality. Just admit that you've got no idea what you're talking about and move on with your life.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/08/23 11:11 PM
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Yes, those ones. The ones that I personally know 6 women who write. And no men.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/08/23 10:44 PM
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(Yes, erotic novels are usually written by men) No they're not. I review and edit webnovels for fun. I write some of my own. I review meatspace novels as well, which brings me into contact with the traditional publishing industry. Some 75% of the traditional publishing industry is women. A majority of authors are women. In all likelyhood, everybody involved in one of those romance novels, from the author to the agent to the editor to the marketing team to the cover artist right down to the sales…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/08/23 10:37 PM
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And a lot of physical attractiveness is obvious representations of health. Better facial symmetry indicates a better childhood, height is at least partially dependent upon how well fed you were during your teenage growth spurt. The most attractive waist/hip ratio is a sign of hips that are easier to push a baby through. Then your body is a reflection of what you do with it. Healthy weight and muscle development shows self-control, good dietary practices and exercise, all of which are things that…
/r/MensRights24/06/23 09:40 PM
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My housemate is gay. They've offered. I'm not interested. Neither are any of the other people I know who are straight. No, there isn't some great undercurrent of flexible sexuality in men. Most of us like to fuck women and don't like to fuck anything else.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/06/23 04:41 AM
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Our complete lack of discussion of men's pleasure and interest in sex is a separate issue.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/06/23 04:24 AM
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I think that it's not, and the social pressure to conform for men is mostly a reflection of the way other men's sexuality works. Sure it doesn't work that way for you, but you are the exception, not the rule.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/06/23 04:24 AM
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If you and the person you married can't come to an agreement on family planning, you need a divorce, not a sterilisation. This goes for any arrangement of people in the marriage.
/r/MensRights13/05/23 08:58 PM
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The one that I think has the biggest effect is related to your "leavers" concept. Men were the risk takers. They were more disposable, so there's a whole collection of social forces pushing them to take more risks (which involves leaving home). And sometimes taking risks pays off, can pay off massively.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/04/23 12:12 AM
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A way I like to describe it is that identities are forged, not found. It's not a gentle process, and it's not a passive process.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/04/23 10:46 PM
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The fun thing is that it doesn't even have to be about the money itself. I vastly outearn most of my friend group. I'm also much more attractive than my friend group. Because my money allows me to own my own home, to cook my own food, to pay for sporting memberships, to pay for healthcare, to buy well-fitted and well made clothes.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/04/23 12:58 AM
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There's been a general attempt to conflate "sex positivity" and "socio-sexually permissive" by the people who are socio-sexually permissive. Because those people are generally outgoing and charismatic they have an outsized effect on what we consider "normal". You can be positive about sex, thinking that sex is a good thing, that sexual desire is normal, that wanting another person sexually is not an attack against them as a person, and that attempts to control who is valid to have sex with are w…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/04/23 02:05 AM
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I think that was season 3 of Underbelly (Underbelly was a series of mostly true tales about Australian gangs and crime)
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/03/23 08:31 AM
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Nice use of the Aboriginal Flag colours on slide 8.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/03/23 08:24 AM
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That's because they're for a cause, not a party. I can say "Vote for the environment", but I can't say "Vote for the Greens Party"
/r/MensRights24/03/23 11:07 PM
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The Spectator is a right-wing online news source. Sky News for the online generation. This whole article is written to make people as angry as possible. Not saying that everything in the article isn't mostly true, just it's presented in a particular way.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/03/23 08:37 PM
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With difficulty. I've seen other research suggesting the same thing (I hadn't looked at colarrary deaths or law enforcement deaths) but it starts by looking at those suicides that there is definitive evidence for (usually notes or previous discussions by the suicide victim), working out what proportion of the attributable deaths are due to that cause and then expanding that out to all suicide deaths. The biggest problem is that suicides usually have multiple contributing factors. Intimate Partne…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/03/23 08:36 PM
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Gender roles are production maximisation systems. They existed because they increase the output of the society in total. The reason why men's gender roles have not had the same weakening as women's gender roles is that because through automation and increased healthcare, the highest possible rate of childbirth is no longer a limiting factor on a society's power. Men doing dirty and dangerous jobs, and working themselves to death at jobs, are still important for maximising total productivity. So …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/03/23 11:50 PM
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I've read the book. I'm not saying that being a man is a pleasant experience. I'm saying that in this case the negative experiences of being a man combined with the requirement to lie to herself (and everyone around her) to significantly worsen the effect on her mental health.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/03/23 04:06 AM
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I do think that's more of an after-effect of the radically different identity that she had to present for the time of the experiment than anything specific about being a man.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/03/23 10:50 PM
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For the objectification one, if you were arguing it with somebody I would ask "Were slaves objectified?" They were bought and sold, transported against their will, valued only for what they could do. Sounds very much "treated like an object" to me. Most slaves were men. Why? Because they could work harder. Once you've got them to agree that 'objectification' can mean more than just sexual objectification, then it's really easy to show how men get objectified.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/03/23 08:14 PM
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Sunscreen also being the most useful cosmetic product you will ever use as well.
/r/MensRights04/03/23 10:30 PM
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How did you get the (A) and (B) symbols?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/02/23 10:29 PM
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The ideal solution is something short term, quick acting, and can be done at home. There's actually two systems that have (very) early positive indications. One was a design of underwear that prevented the testicles from maintaining their temperature, the other was an ultrasonic bath that damages the tails that sperm use for mobility.
/r/MensRights26/02/23 02:51 AM
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That's just because we found hormonal contraception and figured that was "the way" and then tried to apply it to a system that it doesn't work on. Because the testicles are outside the body, there are two systems with high effectiveness in early tests that can be used to damage sperm during production. One was a set of underwear that prevents the testicles from regulating their temperature, the other was an ultrasonic bath that damages the thin tails that sperm use to propel themselves. Long ter…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/02/23 12:02 AM
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There's also issues with how people like things to be done. If one partner has much stronger preferences on how the cleaning is to be done and repeatedly criticises the other partner for not doing it their preferred way, the criticised partner is highly likely to step away from cleaning entirely. If they are going to be yelled at any way, might as well be for doing something they enjoy.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/02/23 03:00 AM
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Now I want to find a Feminist and use the pick up line "Are you the Patriarchy? Because I'd like to smash you."
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/02/23 10:19 PM
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No it happens specifically because courts favour mothers more. Say we have two populations (men and women) who are equally likely to abuse, but the abusers can be identified. One of those populations is held to a higher standard before they can take care of children, and so less of them take care of children and those that do are better. Of course the other population has higher abuse rates. It's not that they are more shit, it's that more of the shits ones are being allowed to care for children…
/r/MensRights23/02/23 04:18 AM
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A counter-argument to his line that it doesn't affect men as much: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-06/australian-boys-calling-national-helpline-sextortion-increasing/101929164
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates06/02/23 06:10 AM
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'Game' is a term from the very, very start of the Pick Up Artist community. Almost pre-internet days. It comes from the title of one of the first books, 'The Game'. Basically, Game is the ability to present yourself as sexually valuable to a partner. It's a combination of body language, having discussion topics ready, being able to read their body language to know when to escalate, knowing how to escalate and how to minimise things that would normally be concerning. It is an active skill that ca…
/r/MensRights03/02/23 10:06 PM
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It's about building systems that support people finding good relationships. So one of the things that has to change is updating women's porn so that it contains better examples of relationships and doesn't glorify women's lack of agency and men's abuse. Another thing is breaking down the systems that cause men and women to hate each other, so that in-person interactions don't start with an assumption that one of the parties involved is going to attack the other. And another is increasing interge…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/01/23 03:56 AM
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I'm active in cosplay and historical re-enactment groups. All of the overweight and big-boobed women in those groups love their corsets. They provide back support, they contain the stomach or at least change the lines to make it more flattering, and they take the entire weight of the breasts and distribute it around the torso rather than hanging it off the shoulders. They are quite simply a more functional garment than a bra, for the tradeoff that they are massively more expensive.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/01/23 03:24 AM
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Something like 90% of the time that men in America apply for sole custody of children, they get it. So there's a first pass look that really men get their own way and so all those men who didn't get custody just don't care enough to fight for it. But the result comes from the opposite case. Men are much less likely to be believed or to succeed in court, and all the involved lawyers know that. So the lawyers will recommend that the men don't fight the court, because it's just a waste of time and …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/01/23 03:20 AM
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After all, porn itself turns those engaged in it into an abstract object used for sexual gratification by total strangers, and that seems degrading to me. It's absolutely objectification, but we objectify people through their work all the time. Do you actually care about the bus driver's hopes and dreams, or do you just want them to get you to your stop on time?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/01/23 12:01 AM
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Why not both? My main problem with this is that most jobs are degrading. Most jobs involve you selling your body in order to get money. Few of us find life satisfaction in our work (I do, but I'm pretty lucky with where I ended up). If pornography has problems with degradation and workplace harms, that's a sign of poor workplace health and safety protocols, not something that's different about the job. There's also a very important statistics thing here with Feminist theory around this. There ar…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/01/23 11:57 PM
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While it's called Toilet day, it's really about the whole large scale sanitation and waste management systems that reduce disease in our cities. Which is pretty important.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/01/23 10:53 PM
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I've actually got a very interesting book that provides evidence for women having control of domestic finances. It's a cookbook. Now it's a very fancy cookbook, first printed in 1864 in the UK. It includes advice on kitchen gardening and on seasonal produce, and splits it's recipes by what produce would be available at the time. But the interesting thing for us is that it includes costs and budgeting advice, not just for food but also for household servants. Now why would a book for women includ…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/01/23 10:35 PM
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You know, the only way I could interact with a woman without deploying my gender would be to spend the interaction pretending to be a woman. If that interaction ended up in sex, that would then be Rape by Deception.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/01/23 01:10 AM
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You know, I can't give you an exact reference on the Greek one, but it's not the first time I've heard it. For example, Greek art of MEN (not just males, but their idealised expressions of the male form) like depictions of the Olympics or what naked male statues exist will downplay the penis. It's there, because these people are men and men have penises, but it's minimised in the artwork. The reverse is seen in Satyrs and Centaurs, both of which have big dicks (a Satyr's is supposed to swing dow…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/12/22 05:14 AM
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And then lost a fight against the primary antagonist (who cut off his hand), and then goes and does more training and planning (compare the Luke who rushed to Cloud City with the Luke who visited Jabba's Palace) and comes back as a much more convincing threat who still fails to kill the big bad of the series and instead uses the power of love to convince the primary antagonist to help him. It's almost like his strength in the force wasn't his most useful tool for solving problems.
/r/MensRights18/12/22 10:54 PM
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The thing that everybody forgets is that your appearance isn't just your physical attractiveness. Your appearance is a statement about who you are and what you consider important. So working out in the gym makes you stronger, and generally more attractive. Part of that is because the strength itself is attractive. Suits make you more attractive not just because they show off the male form well, but because they are a statement about your social status and your wealth. Even things like posture is…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/12/22 10:03 PM
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I've seen the same thing as a first responder to Motor Vehicle Accidents with the rescue teams. Single vehicle accident, late night, young man driving, nobody else in the car. No skid marks, car goes straight for the tree. But he's got alcohol in his blood and was going over the speed limit, so it's another "dangers of driving while drunk and speeding" and put down as an accident. But was it really? Did that young man, in the moment, want to hit that tree?
/r/MensRights13/12/22 10:41 PM
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The pill stuff came earlier. The Red Pill as a movement named itself from the first Matrix movie, taking the 'red pill' and waking up from the Feminist framing of society.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/12/22 09:00 PM
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It's called the Euphemistic Treadmill. The concept behind the word is what they find offensive, so they call the word offensive and say to use a different one. But the new word refers to the same concept, so they eventually find that one offensive too. And so they come up with a new new word.
/r/MensRights10/12/22 01:08 AM
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They hate it so much, that they signed up in large enough numbers to crash the testing company's application process. Men love the idea of non-barrier contraceptives that they get to control. Some of it's because condoms suck. Some of it's because they want the control. Some of it is because they don't want their partners to suffer from the effects of hormonal birth control. But overwhelmingly, men want this.
/r/MensRights27/11/22 06:33 AM
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They run a dating app. They want people to use their app, not talk to others in meatspace.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/11/22 01:53 AM
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I disagree. Gender roles are older than human society, and they will only disappear when we have artificial wombs and so are no longer dependent on women giving birth to perpetuate our existence.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/11/22 10:20 PM
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Ethics are a luxury that we can afford because we are not in immediate danger of our existence ceasing. Your argument, while morally correct, is meaningless.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/11/22 12:12 AM
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Something the whole movement (us and Feminism) does very badly is ask "why gender roles?" Because if we did, we would discover that a lot of the rhetoric about destroying gender roles is completely useless. Those roles are the only reason we as a culture exist. They are Production Maximisation Systems. They don't maximise happiness, or self-actualisation, or health. They maximise the number of surviving grandchildren. Societies that do not maximise this get outcompeted by those that do. Now ther…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/11/22 10:53 PM
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A separate cause for men's higher fatality numbers in driving is suicide. It is unknown how many because many of the front line services involved will actively look for reasons to call something not a suicide, but when I was working road crash accident it was known among the older members that several of the single male fatality events we attended were "call of the void" rather than an accident.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/11/22 07:36 AM
1

There's two external devices that target the testicles that are currently in testing. One is essentially a hot water bath (sperm cells die if they get too hot) and the other is ultrasonic (sperm cells are smaller and weaker than structural cells). Both aim to give a few days to a week of sterility after the treatment which can be done in the comfort of your own home while not doing any long term damage.
/r/MensRights14/11/22 06:27 AM
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You can attempt suicide multiple times, but you can only succeed once. Some of the difference is in the same woman attempting multiple times with each counted as a separate attempt. What counts as a "suicide attempt" can be quite broad, with several self-harm behaviours that are not attempts to die getting counted as attempted suicides Male pre-suicidal behaviour tends to present as over-indulging in drugs or risk taking behaviour, and in picking fights. This is not considered "suicidal" behavio…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/11/22 04:35 AM
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Another one on the advertising side. The new The Little Mermaid movie has an African-American playing the titular mermaid. This may be a good move overall (the actress is regarded as competent and actually a good singer, can lean into the Caribbean implied setting of the animated movie) However, what did Disney release as a trailer? A short section that ended on the face of the actress. Sure it's an example of their water and scale animation (which are both very difficult things to get right) bu…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/11/22 02:48 AM
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No, that's entirely on expecting a pair of Hollywood hacks to extend a highly complicated story written by one of our most skilled writers.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/11/22 02:43 AM
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It's more that they constantly talked about "providing better role models for men so they grow up to be better people" and then stole the best example of their proposed role model that existed.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/11/22 11:07 PM
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The choice of a female Doctor was a massive own goal. And as much as I hate to use the term, it comes down to toxic masculinity. There are a limited number of hero characters in media these days for men and boys. There's an even more limited number of hero archetypes. Most of these characters are basically the same, and it can very easily be argued that there is an overuse of violence as a problem solving technique. The Doctor was a massive exception to that trend. He's a man, but he does his be…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/11/22 10:54 PM
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Oh look, it's an Ad Hominen attack. Play the ball, not the player.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/11/22 01:22 AM
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Women have to stop complaining about the exact behaviours that they encourage in men by their choice of sexual partners. But then you've shown no interest in self-reflection so I understand that this is a step too far for you.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/11/22 01:14 AM
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By individuals taking a look at the reasons why they choose to have sex with people. What turns you on? What do you find sexy? Not what you say you find sexy to fit in with society, but what you actually find sexy. Then look at how you meet potential sexual partners. Are they in similar venues every time? What sort of approaches work on you? Do you ever make approaches yourself? Now you have to do the really hard part, which is think about what sort of patterns you are reinforcing with your acti…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/11/22 10:32 PM
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1.) Acknowledge that men wanting sex is not entitlement. Sex is part of being human, and men should want sex. 2.) Acknowledge that an individual man's lack of sex isn't for moral reasons. As a general rule, arseholes have more sexual partners and plenty of genetic and social reasons can interfere with a man being able to find a sexual partner, particularly if that man is looking for a long-term stable relationship 3.) Acknowledge that women's choices drive who is and isn't having sex. This is a …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/11/22 01:24 AM
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Yeah, there's a whole lot more research that needs to go into this. Proportion of genders in journalism Most dangerous sections of journalism to be in Most dangerous countries to be a journalist in How does the proportion of women in those parts of journalism compare to overall?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/11/22 08:44 PM
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Wouldn't help. Incels are not after sex. Well, they're not only after sex. What they need is intimacy and value, and there's cultural narratives that men are not allowed intimacy outside of sex and they are supposed to be focused on sex. So for a group that is already emotionally stunted, they don't really have enough knowledge to identify what it is they are after. And one of the important things about intimacy is that it's only valuable if it's freely given. You can't buy it,
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/10/22 03:58 AM
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That one is poorly worded. It will be that 1.4 times as many men die in a given year than women, with the result that men survive less years.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/10/22 10:07 PM
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My take on rights in general is that you have no rights, nobody has any rights. What we have are responsibilities to the fellow members of our society. So I have a responsibility to make sure others are safe, and fed, and happy; but others have a responsibility to ensure that I am the same. And if others are not fulfilling their responsibilities towards me, why should I do so for others?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/10/22 07:28 PM
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Yes the traffic speed is greatly reduced (I can actually quote the South Australian Department of Transport regulations for speed/separation) but we don't have police presence. There's just the lollipop lady at the start of the work area.
/r/MensRights20/10/22 09:57 AM
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Yeah, but you know your mates working with you and the equipment you are working with. Provided you can control your area, the roadworks itself is fairly safe. Traffic Management has to be the first person that the traffic interacts with, which means you're dealing with people doing highway speeds and you don't have the barricades and separation that the work crew has.
/r/MensRights20/10/22 08:42 AM
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In some ways, holding the sign is more dangerous. It puts you in close contact with the driving public. Which is actually one of the reasons there's so many women doing it. After looking at the stats for a few years women got run over less.
/r/MensRights20/10/22 07:00 AM
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A serial killer that only targeted people of a specific gender would be gender based violence. War has a lot of gender based violence, as men are killed because they are men and more likely to fight back.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/10/22 07:10 PM
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I would argue that there is gender-based violence, but intimate partner violence is almost never gender based, because once you're an intimate partner your partner has plenty of other reasons to hate you.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/10/22 05:54 AM
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Alright, so to begin with you're being downvoted because you're comparing a social experience to a teaching experience. Being catcalled or slutshamed by peers is not a college thing, it's a social space thing. Where how you were treated by your lecturers is inherently a college thing, as you're not going to be taking lectures much outside college. But far more importantly, it's a central understanding of this space that much of the "Feminist" discourse and framing of society is inherently misand…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/10/22 01:27 AM
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On the upside, that's an accurate introduction to the rest of your life as a worker.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/10/22 11:53 PM
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It is worth pointing out that the default to mother's custody means that if the child is raised by a single father, that father has had to prove they are competent. I'd expect to see these numbers normalise if custody was more even.
/r/MensRights15/10/22 05:55 AM
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It's not bad, but there's a distinct part of the mindset/philosophy that they are missing. Incels are not just after sex. They're after intimacy and interpersonal value. However, the majority of people who become incels don't have the language to describe what they actually need emotionally so they fall back to 'sex' because it's what they know. Understanding that resolves some of the contradictions that the research claimed to find in the ideology. The other thing is that they talk about extern…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/10/22 12:26 AM
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Probably just money. Teaching is mostly women as a profession, so some of them are going to have to take jobs in all boys school just because that's the job they can get to pay the bills.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/10/22 09:17 PM
3

Nevermore! Actually, the Telltale Heart is probably the more appropriate story here.
/r/MensRights08/10/22 10:44 PM
1

Your genetics is wrong, but the basic concept isn't. Women are the default form for humans, and weremen are the weird ones created by a genetic abnormality.
/r/MensRights06/10/22 11:31 PM
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But it looks like I'm brazenly swaggering, because if I look like I don't have anything to fear, the things I do have to fear are going to look at me and think "he's not a good target".
/r/MensRights03/10/22 05:15 AM
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No, I've absolutely acted incompetent on purpose to either a.) protect company knowledge or b.) minimise the time I spend with a person. In the first case, I know almost everything about projects I work on. The combination of my profession, the fact that I am working both in the office and in the field, and that I am a massive gossip means that I sometimes know more about what is going on than the project managers. But if you're not part of the project, I'll pretend to be a dumb lackey who's onl…
/r/MensRights02/10/22 02:22 AM
1

If I was to define "masculinity", it would be with Striving. Men do things. Things that stand out. Things that are hard. Often these things are not done because they think it was a good idea, but simply because that thing is there to be done. Men do good things, and they do evil things. But they do things. The programmer spending all night staring at their code to get that last few milliseconds of optimisation out of it is manly in exactly the same way that the sports star running drills to get …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/10/22 12:13 AM
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No, because the gender of the role is already determined. If this was any job which didn't rely on gender and a woman got it because she was prepared to spread her legs for the employer over a more qualified male applicant, then it's an example of female privilege.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/09/22 10:39 PM
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No, he's wronging other women by making decisions about their future based on things that should be irrelevant. We should be angry about this for the same reason we're angry about Nepotism.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/09/22 10:22 PM
2

Don't. Plumbing is a shit job (pun intended) but it's constant steady work with good pay and doesn't fuck your body as badly as several of the other trades.
/r/MensRights29/09/22 11:43 PM
2

Well yes, because positive behaviours are where we suffer as individuals for the good of the group. It may be in small ways (the handful of seconds it takes me to hold the door open) or it may be in great ways (dying defending my country against an invasion).
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/09/22 09:09 PM
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Guilty or innocent of the charges laid against him, there is enough circumstantial evidence that Harvey Weinstein used his position and the power and access it gave him to convince women to have sex with him. Sure, many of those acts would have been consensual, in that the woman agreed and she may have even got exactly what she wanted out of the encounter (movie roles) but the point remains that firstly it's abuse of power, and secondly it's anti-meritocratic behaviour. The process we use to cho…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/09/22 12:03 AM
2

I miss the early stuff, which included things like Alpha and Beta both being positive things, and successful relationships involved being able to display both at different times and knowing when to do so. It got a lot worse after about 2012.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/09/22 10:29 PM
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I don't disagree with your theory, but I don't agree with it either. In my experience, catcalling has never been about the woman who was being catcalled. It's about showing your masculinity in front of your peers. Now I don't have any experience of being catcalled by women to contrast this with, but I find the peer-group theory to explain almost everything about how and where catcalling by men happens.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/09/22 10:45 PM
13

waves from country with a functional public health system It would cost practically nothing.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/09/22 11:55 PM
1

Was it correct? No, it shows a failure of self control. But was it rape?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/09/22 08:27 AM
2

Women should have longer sentences. Because they live longer, each day in prison is a shorter period of their total life and therefore less of an impact on them.
/r/MensRights02/09/22 05:16 AM
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Yeah, there's a definite hole in the narratives where the two sides go with the most extreme positions (fucking nobody or fucking everybody) and ignore the sensible position, only fucking a few people with whom you have a genuine connection.
/r/MensRights25/08/22 09:56 PM
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https://www.smh.com.au/national/rudds-strip-club-visit-20070819-gdqwds.html That time the Prime Minister of Australia went to a strip club and everybody at home liked him more for it. This is actually the perfect counter-example, because it's almost exactly the same thing. Leader of a country, doing a fairly normal thing if hedonistic and then suffering a major attack by Right Wing media. In Australia it was the Murdoch papers, in Finland the suggestion is that it's Russian money paying to creat…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/08/22 09:58 AM
5

Most of the men dead at the hands of an intimate partner are in the suicide statistics, not the homicide statistics.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/08/22 10:12 PM
5

For those who are just being introduced to the words, Oligarchy is "Rule by the Powerful" and Plutocracy is "Rule by the Wealthy".
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/08/22 11:03 PM
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From the accident First Responder side, we're not accurately identifying all the male suicides. I've stood at the side of the road cutting the car open to recover the body of a young man. And the older rescue worker and the police officer there looked at the lack of skid marks and the way the car hit the tree and said "this was the call of the void". But the young man had been drinking, and so the warning went out about drink driving and speeding on country roads rather than admit that this youn…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/08/22 10:57 PM
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There's also distinct selection group biases going on. The more extreme PUA techniques are optimised for short term relationships starting in a bar or a club. I've found that when you get men and women to interact in an open and equal fashion, really strong relationships can be formed. The problem is that there is nowhere left where people can meet others in an open and equal fashion, while still having enough interaction to grow the relationship.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/08/22 06:14 AM
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One of the really interesting things I have seen (being a bit older than you, and following this culture for about as long) is that many men would come into the space thinking "this will never work, these techniques are blatantly disrespectful" and then they would try a few things and suddenly women were treating them as a sex prospect rather than as furniture. Then they would try more things and get more success which led to the inevitable conclusion that women don't respect themselves.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/08/22 10:07 PM
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You know, it's hard to be emotionally open and vulnerable when you're putting all your mental effort into ensuring that you've got a roof over your head and a meal to eat.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/08/22 10:52 PM
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Doesn't change that much. Most of those homicides are still recorded as homicides. But that's missing the point. Male deaths due to IPV are not in the homicide statistics, they're in the suicide statistics.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/08/22 11:13 PM
1

It took so long to get to this one. Men as protectors, the requirement for self-determination, the way that without positive role models and spaces men will form negative groups, the various styles of interaction between men all the way to self-sacrifice.
/r/MensRights21/07/22 08:07 AM
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Alright. Lets see what I can fill in. Both South Australia and Western Australia have "brotherhood" men's groups. They are focused mainly on younger and working age men (mid 20's to 50's) and at lower socio-economic groups (Rotary and Lions clubs offer the same sort of thing for more prosperous people, and Men's Sheds are usually older). They do have a focus on men's mental health issues, with suicide being a major topic of discussion, but all sorts of things come up. There's also a strong "assi…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/07/22 11:30 PM
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I use both in my city, and support them quite heavily. Australia is out in front of many places with it's acknowledged men's groups
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/07/22 03:18 AM
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Because if you attempt suicide, you can now be identified as suicidal and provided help. If you succeed at suicide, you are now beyond help. So in order to improve overall outcomes, we need to better understand the people who are killing themselves (men) so we can identify those people before it's too late.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/07/22 06:16 AM
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Why do we care about deaths more than attempts? Because we can fix most things, but we can't fix dead.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/07/22 05:15 AM
5

It would be challenged for partisan reasons, but it would be overturned on the strength of the arguments.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/07/22 05:08 AM
1

Making himself an easy target for the invading Russians, yes. Ukraine is a nice example, because it shows how even under the best of intentions, things like bodily autonomy or in fact freedom in general are privileges that we have to earn by producing enough as a society to be able to absorb the costs of those things to the society.
/r/MensRights11/07/22 09:53 AM
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Getting out of being conscripted as a Ukrainian man requires managing to leave the country. And the military is stopping them at the border. While you're in Ukraine, the Russians are going to shoot you as an enemy combatant no matter if you're resisting or not (they're big on war crimes) so it's time to pick up that gun.
/r/MensRights11/07/22 07:17 AM
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There is at least some Apex Fallacy going on here as well. Individual women value the sexual gratification of high status men highly, because those women are selling sex to the man in order to get something out of him. Other women see that man having his desires catered to without much care for his partners and generalise that to all men. There's also some misunderstanding of advertising. There's a cultural narrative told to men that if only they were 'better' in some way they would get lots of …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/07/22 09:00 PM
5

It's called 'Strine mate.
/r/MensRights10/07/22 02:23 AM
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Women live 6 years longer out of an 80 year lifespan. Therefore, every hour of a man's time represents 7% more of the total amount of time available to him and should be paid commensurately more.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/07/22 11:22 PM
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I have had similar experiences in fandom spaces.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/07/22 03:38 AM
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There's existing research on the affect that wealth, even sudden acquisition of wealth, changes the way people think and how they see others. Wealth could quite easily be in attractiveness rather than in material goods.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/07/22 03:14 AM
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It's meant to be uncomfortable. Going the other way, many species of animal develop a theory of mind. They can self-identify as a unique individual. This would make all of them "people" and protected by the same rules as humans.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/07/22 03:13 AM
2

The most defensible point at which the child becomes a full person with it's own rights is when it develops a "Theory of Mind", the ability to tell that other people know different things to what it does. You identify this point by waiting until the child starts lying to you.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/07/22 11:00 PM
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But you don't have bodily autonomy. You've never had bodily autonomy. The whole point of the government is to make laws about what you can do with your body, because the society benefits from you doing specific things with it and so set itself up to force you to do those things. I mean, in lots of places in the world it's illegal to commit suicide. Our whole economic system is designed around forcing you to work until you die to maximise productivity. I don't have the choice to not work. And see…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/06/22 05:56 AM
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It's more accurate to say that Feminism has a monopoly on Gender Relations. Any interaction between genders and gender stereotyping is seen through a Feminist lens and no other.
/r/MensRights21/06/22 12:55 AM
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But we are the crossposted sub.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/06/22 11:40 AM
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One of the most progressive things I can think of for trans people is also one of the most horrible. It should be considered a birth defect. Instead of this big thing about breaking social norms and being special, it's just "hey, when you were conceived your brain got handed one set of plans and your body got handed the other. The dysphoria you feel is Phantom Limb Syndrome, just for your dick instead of for an arm you've had cut off. But it's ok, we can fix this with surgery."
/r/MensRights20/06/22 11:12 AM
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Yes. But I'm not being polite and respectful for their benefit. I'm doing it so that I appear as rational and correct as possible to all the undecided viewers who are also reading the thread.
/r/MensRights20/06/22 05:12 AM
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It flows through. Because we don't discuss the individual events, nobody hears about them happen to realise that this is a thing that they should be interested in.
/r/MensRights05/06/22 10:30 AM
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In a mild defense, publicising suicides increases the incidence. Almost every country has a "no reporting on suicides" policy in their media to reduce the total amount of them that happens. But that in itself assumes that suicide is an unstoppable fact of life that doesn't have treatable causes. If we publicised it more, we may get some more focus on the causes and be able to reduce the number of people who want to commit suicide.
/r/MensRights05/06/22 04:05 AM
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It's worth pointing out that Anita claimed that all of the abuse she suffered was because she was a woman. But that's provably false, because gamers treated Jack Thompson exactly the same way when he went on rants against videogames about 15 years earlier.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates31/05/22 09:14 PM
2

Catcalling is very rarely even about the woman. It's about a man displaying his masculinity in front of his peers.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/05/22 10:41 AM
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Oh I like that. I'm making notes for next time this comes up.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/05/22 02:18 AM
2

Well now it's just more depressing. So he is capable of better, he just didn't put the effort in.
/r/MensRights30/05/22 02:15 AM
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The writer of that article needs to go back to school. It reads like the kind of disjointed arguments you get when people are running stream of consciousness onto a reddit post, not an edited and clarified piece of writing that is expected from a major publication.
/r/MensRights30/05/22 01:25 AM
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Which I honestly think is a deliberate propaganda effort on the part of Feminism. If we paid more attention to the way everybody objectifies everybody, the sexual objectification of women would just be another way that we think and wouldn't be getting any attention paid to it. There's a line that gets used a lot when trying to do the very generic explanations of social pressures on men and women and how they are different but not unique, which is "Women are sex objects, men are success objects".
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/05/22 09:58 PM
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Objectification is a result of the number of people that we interact with on a daily basis. Humans are complex, and the human brain can only handle models of about 20 other fully realised human beings. Everybody outside that is built of stereotypes and objects just to save processing power for things that actually matter. Think about it, is the person who made your coffee this morning a real person with their own hopes and dreams, or are they just an object that you put money into and get coffee…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/05/22 09:44 PM
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Because more men run for positions of power. Generally, women are as likely to win in elections as men are, just they put their name forward less often. Now some of that will be driven by the party systems that choose candidates, but it's not on voters. As for laws that support women in preference to men, pretty much anything that the National Organisation for Women has pushed for. Also of interest is that women make much greater use of government support than men do. Not so much in America, bec…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/05/22 10:36 AM
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Everybody was structurally oppressed. That's how societies work. They oppress everybody into doing the things that benefit the society.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/05/22 09:15 AM
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There's more women than men. In anywhere that has a democracy, women hold more power than men. Now both have far less power than dedicated lobbyists, but Australia has just had a massive change of government driven about half by women's votes. In America, the specific voting rules and suppression men that there's far more women who are eligible to vote than men. Now if they all actually voted we might see more influence from that, but America's a uniquely stupid democracy. Many of the accommodat…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/05/22 09:13 AM
2

Chris Hemsworth doesn't enjoy being a serious actor (He can, as fat depressed Thor showed in Avengers:Endgame) and Guardians of the Galaxy is less serious than their other plotlines. This movie was always going to be full of terrible jokes.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/05/22 11:37 PM
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This is a well argued and researched post. Nicely done. I am not convinced that trying to enforce gender roles is in itself misogyny. After all, religions also have strict gender roles for men, and I believe that both sets of gender roles grew out of production maximisation systems. They're attempts to make things better for people by increasing the amount of excess resources available. The different treatment of condoms and female hormonal birth control is an interesting one. I haven't seen thi…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/05/22 10:40 PM
5

Some years back I was watching the Brownlow medal presentation. For those who don't follow Australian Rules Football (aerial ping-pong) this is the big end of season formal dinner and awards night. This is where they all get dressed up. So there's the best of Australia's AFL players in tuxes, and the TV presentation was interspacing the arrivals with clips of these players on the field. Now there's two things here. AFL has much more cardio than other football codes while still being a contact sp…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/05/22 10:21 PM
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I think that American Individualism is a factor that makes these things much worse. There's generally less acknowledgement and respect for needing other people in American culture, and so when you apply that to a group that is already getting less support, they end up with almost nothing.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/05/22 10:08 PM
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I think it's more likely a sizing issue. Nobody ever teaches men about how condom sizing works so there's lots of people who are using the wrong size. I find that (properly sized) condoms have less effect when you're intact, because the foreskin can still move within the condom and provide direct sensation.
/r/MensRights04/05/22 08:34 PM
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Yes. Well, some are only selling your mind, but I work construction. I sell my body and my health every day to other people so that I can get things that keep me healthy. If you're not rich enough that your money makes money, you're only surviving by selling your body.
/r/MensRights04/05/22 12:18 AM
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Most cosmetics have suncreen, because doing suncreen over or under them would ruin the appearance. Foundations generally have high SPF because they are a solid pigmented layer.
/r/MensRights04/05/22 12:11 AM
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There's a deeper issue, which is the attempt to get all violence classified as abuse. Much of the violence in relationships is not abusive, but instead is simply two people with poor impulse control and poor conflict resolution skills forced into a small space. There will always be arguments in relationships and it takes skill to have those arguments without them turning violent because violence is an effective dispute resolution mechanic. Feminism likes to claim that all of that violence is bot…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/04/22 08:15 PM
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One of my favourites in 'Strayan is that 'cunt' means somebody you know well, 'mate' is somebody you don't like, 'old mate' is somebody you've just met and 'your mate' is somebody that the person you're talking to hates.
/r/MensRights25/04/22 08:41 AM
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Except the Irish. Actually, while they don't use the word 'cunt', Mandarin Chinese uses their version in almost exactly the same way that Australians do.
/r/MensRights25/04/22 05:24 AM
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One of these days I will make a full academic argument that as an Australian, preventing me from using the word 'cunt' is cultural oppression.
/r/MensRights25/04/22 03:05 AM
1

The difference in earnings between the mean man and the mean woman.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/04/22 11:06 PM
2

The men at that time would have either been in one of the State Farmer's Federations or a Union associated with their trade. The same state of Australia has Broken Hill, famous for being the richest Lead/Silver/Zinc deposit in the world and for having multi-year miner's strikes. Unions are anti-capitalist, and so have been targeted by successive governments and the CFMEU isn't anywhere near what it used to be. Oh, another thing. If you were a professional and could not join a union, you would pr…
/r/MensRights19/04/22 10:38 AM
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When many of these were started, they were examples of legitimate and useful positive discrimination. Straight cash rewards to encourage the people who are less common in an education or field to take up that field, which counteracts some of the inherent hostility of spaces that are mostly from one demographic. This isn't an anti-women thing, it's just an emergent culture thing. You'll get the same sort of shunning if you're the only guy in the office who watches the NBA and everybody else follo…
/r/MensRights16/04/22 11:49 PM
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I think /r/menslib is in an interesting place where it has a group of intelligent and interested men using it as a discussion sub, combined with a mod team that wants to use it as controlled opposition and a large group of women who just read it to feel like they are doing something for men. I've noticed in some other places that women seem to be harder on the up and downvote buttons, so the fact that the trafficking post is most upvoted is because of a mostly silent group of readers who see "wo…
/r/MensRights13/04/22 11:03 PM
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Any curated/gatekept space inherently becomes more extreme over time. With incels in particular you've got the larger social issues creating more incels, the people who do get into relationships leaving the space behind, the most extreme beliefs being shouted the loudest and then the feedback loop from external groups where they say that all incels are like the worst examples and shun/cancel anybody who even seems slightly like they might be an incel. The incel problem will only go away when men…
/r/MensRights08/04/22 11:17 PM
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Except you keep describing it as "transmisogyny", which means you haven't actually paid attention to what I said. Only a small amount of the hatred experienced by trans people is rooted in misogyny, so it makes more sense to use a generic term like transphobia.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/03/22 10:49 PM
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I fully agree with you, but you're making an argument that somebody should have made four or five decades ago when "homophobia" was starting to be used as a term for discriminatory beliefs about homosexuals. It was deliberately chosen then to steal power from the people against homosexuals (by making it about fear, which is a weak emotion) and since then has been used to describe practically every discrimination against sexual groups because it worked so well the first time.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/03/22 10:20 PM
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I feel that there are 5 main groups. Gender Essentialist Feminist: Gender is entirely a social construct that people have been raised in, therefore there cannot be transgender people. Misandrist Feminist: Transwomen are just men trying to invade women's spaces like the hateful aggressive rapists that they are, and Transmen are traitors to the cause of women everywhere Non-Aligned Gender Strength: Gender roles provide meaning and identity to my life and therefore are an important part of my menta…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/03/22 10:16 PM
2

Satyrs in Greek myth have huge cocks. They're destructive and chaotic spirits and part of that is the penises. Centaurs in Greek myth are famous for raping women left and right. To be fair, that's a lot of other things in Greek myth as well, the centaurs just didn't do anything else. I'm sure I've heard of a Polynesian example, but I'd have to go searching for that again. It's not a mythology that I spend much time with. The Australian Aboriginal version of an Ogre is known for two things. Tucki…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/03/22 07:23 PM
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There's plenty of mythological references to "male sexuality is inherently violent and destructive". They're in weird places and you have to go looking for them because Christians tended to cut a lot of the sexual references out of things, but it's definitely been a thing for as long as we've had human society.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/03/22 01:05 AM
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Nah. Lots of sites have different layouts for mobile and desktop users, because of different form factors and interaction tools between the two user types. So if I'm on my PC and I click on a link to the mobile version of a site, I get an unusable mess. That bot gives me the link to the desktop version of the same page.
/r/MensRights09/03/22 11:44 PM
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It's worth pointing out that gender pay gaps are not evenly distributed across industries. Male prostitutes and porn stars earn less, where female sportspeople are paid less. I believe law and accounting have particular problems as well.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/03/22 11:24 PM
1

Songwriting seems to be one of the few places where men can legitimately express and discuss emotions from their own perspective. People who go looking into hard rock and metal expecting it to be all about power and domination and awesomeness may be very surprised when they listen to the lyrics for "Paint It Black" and discover that it's about a young man falling into depression following the death of a loved one, or Motorhead's "One More Fucking Time" which calls out the narcissistic behaviour …
/r/MensRights07/03/22 09:22 PM
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There were existing medical practices and folk knowledge of healing, most of which worked because they'd had a lot of time to do trial and error in. But the first people to approach medicine as a science were doctors to gladiators. One of them was the guy who the Hippocratic Oath is named after.
/r/MensRights04/03/22 12:49 AM
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An interesting piece of history for this argument. The earliest Greek and Roman doctors who wrote a lot of the first things that could be called medical textbooks worked almost exclusively with men. They were the doctors to the gladiators.
/r/MensRights03/03/22 10:24 PM
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There's plenty of discussion about how flawed the Bechdel test is, but it's an interesting first pass test. The main drive for it's use was not that any individual work failed it, but just how rare it was that a work passed it. And you know, I've had an argument with another person about how Mr Darcy in the classic Pride & Prejudice is a flat character, where they said he was real because of his relationship with other people and I argued he was flat because we never actually find out what his j…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/02/22 04:01 AM
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It's a media analysis tool. "Do two women in this piece of media have a conversation with each other that is not about men or their relationships?"
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/02/22 07:15 PM
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As any discussion goes on, the people who stick around are the most passionate. In many cases, that means the arseholes. Something like that in almost any other part of reddit would have been pre-emptively locked and deleted. The mods there left it open and serious discussion took place, and then as the arseholes became the majority of the commentators shut it down.
/r/MensRights23/02/22 03:30 AM
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So you're just going to deny the existence of peer pressure?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/02/22 01:00 AM
1

Gain or loss of social standing with their peers. Desire to fit in with their group.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/02/22 11:17 PM
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Because I don't want sex. I've got two hand and an internet connection. I want intimacy and companionship.
/r/MensRights20/02/22 06:44 AM
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Which is fine. You know what you want out of a partner and out of yourself, and these things are in alignment. This isn't a value judgement against you individually or your partners But for a person who is socio-sexually restrictive, who only has sex within the bounds of a long-term relationship built on mutual respect and trust and who is looking for a similar partner for a long term relationship probably involving raising children, knowing that it's a sensible idea to avoid people with lots of…
/r/MensRights20/02/22 12:31 AM
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No, they get penalised for not putting themselves in situations that result in hookups. "Why aren't you on Tinder? Do you hate fun?" "What do you mean you haven't fucked him yet?" "You should be having a ho phase" Adding on to the direct statements are the indirect statements from those people who do find pleasure and meaning in hookup culture, where those people are outgoing, confident and obviously sexual, and for those reasons also have higher social capital. Other women see those women and w…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/02/22 09:35 PM
1

Also what’s wrong with husband stitch? Because it's modification of a person's body without their consent.
/r/MensRights18/02/22 07:56 PM
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If we believe that psychology is generally a field dominated by women, and that this is a problem, then anything we can find where it's not dominated by women needs to be investigated to see if there is something happening there that we should encourage in other places. That's why I asked.
/r/MensRights06/02/22 07:19 PM
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Alright, so how do you differ from the person in the article? Is this a difference between countries? Are you involved with a particular type of psychologist? Is there a change in gender ratio of psychologists by age and you're mostly seeing older ones?
/r/MensRights06/02/22 10:28 AM
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There's a lot of value in psychology. We've never seen a completely sane human being because existence itself is traumatic and scars our minds. The psychologist helps the mined to heal so that the person can return to living life. But a lot of stuff about making better minds went missing between the 60's and now. Transhumanism through better thought patterns used to be a major thing in science fiction (Frank Herbet was huge for this, but A.E. Van Vogt did a lot as well) and with that we sort of …
/r/MensRights06/02/22 10:26 AM
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No, that part's from the books. The prophecy states that the Dragon, the person who might destroy not just this existence, but every possible existence ever, is going to be a magic using man. As a defense, they will not let men use magic. Now obviously in the book series the Dragon learns magic and the whole plot happens even if it does so very slowly for a couple of books. This is all intended as a criticism of the female dominance of the society, where even though women were in charge, things …
/r/MensRights06/02/22 10:21 AM
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I don't see why you were downvoted for what you said. Yes you were less polite in how you worded things, but if you've been around this sub for a while you'll have noticed that we're not particularly polite at the best of times. You were not doing anything we don't do.
/r/MensRights05/02/22 06:51 PM
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Because less gender equality makes is more likely that the mother is a stay at home parent and has heaps of time to teach their children.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/02/22 07:48 PM
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I agree that the research should be challenged and will probably have issues, it was just clear that some of the "issues" were people just trying to discredit this because they didn't want it to be true. Having more resources, he notes, might simply mean parents have more time to socialize their children in gender-specific ways. Was particularly ridiculous.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/02/22 07:27 PM
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From what I've heard (mostly from fanfic writers discussing smut, because that seems to be the only time that they'll talk about this honestly) they're much more full body experiences and generally more pleasurable. The male orgasm itself is more like a sneeze, except the sneeze comes out the end of your penis. There's also the idea that women's are more mental, i.e. you need to be in the right place mentally to be able to orgasm. I think that's not a sex difference but rather a gender differenc…
/r/MensRights04/02/22 03:43 AM
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Isn't sex education what you do every time you get a new partner? You know, a period of learning each other's bodies and preferences so that you can make each other happy? But I've largely found women to be no help in this. I'll admit I wasn't so good at it when I was younger, but as I get older I get better about listening to other people and accepting the differences, but they don't get any better at actually using words to communicate, and doing so clearly and effectively. You are right that …
/r/MensRights04/02/22 02:32 AM
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They were scraping the barrel at the end there trying to find potential problems with the survey.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/02/22 02:25 AM
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I've read 6 of them. I've got Consider Phelbas on the shelves as well but haven't got to it yet.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/02/22 09:25 AM
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A Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism is one of the only ways to get a society with no gender roles. When production is separated from individuals providing, there will be no benefit to forcing people to produce more.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/02/22 06:32 AM
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No, because that's how you end up being Men's Rights. And we've already got one of those. The quality of Men's Lib conversations KPI should be the number of men who feel that they understand more about gender-based social issues by participating, with a sideline in minimising the number of them who feel like they are not being taken seriously or treated with respect. If a Feminist is upset by the discussions going on in Menslib, that's more a sign that the person is a bad Feminist than that the …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/02/22 02:10 AM
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I had thought that the quality of discussion in Menslib had increased recently. Glad I'm not the only one that noticed.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/02/22 01:59 AM
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I think it would have been helpful (a little bit) to have had a list of options on the page with the question about age to have a list of Australian job types (as used by the ABS) and asking the responder to pick out of them, and then a second list of hobbies that was "tick all that apply". At the minimum you would have more evidence for how representative your sample was.
/r/MensRights28/01/22 04:53 AM
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I'm a bit disappointed there's no room for further commentary or additional demographic data. I filled it out, and some of my responses are quite negative. But I have a lot of experience dealing with mental health issues in other people and I also work in mining and construction. So while I'm fine with those things in social situations, a person who is fatigued or excessively scared about work is an active risk to the safety of everybody on the crew.
/r/MensRights27/01/22 05:57 AM
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There were a series of German studies of health in Monks and Nuns collectively called The Cloister Study. It's as close as we can get to an objective look at the biological differences in male and female health. The age gap at death was 1 year, with the nuns living longer on average.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/01/22 08:13 PM
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I would expect that to be very different now. The majority of the AntiVax movement before the pandemic was aimed at mothers specifically through infant vaccinations. With fathers (for a variety of reasons) having less control over infant vaccinations, it wasn't worth the movement targeting them with propaganda. But Covid is very gender and age neutral, so it's drawn a whole collection of new people into the general AntiVax movement.
/r/MensRights17/01/22 10:38 PM
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Objectification is not some horrific evil. It's just a natural result of the number of people that you have to deal with on a daily basis. Do you really care about the hopes and dreams of the person who serves you coffee in the morning? Or are they just an object that you put money into and get coffee out of? Is the bus driver a person with their own desires, or are they just a thing that you put money into and that takes you places? We simply don't have the processing capacity to deal with ever…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/01/22 09:19 AM
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Why is your income something that should be private, particularly from other workers in your same company? It's not like it's your address, or your bank details, or your phone number. It's just a number indicating the relationship between you and your employer. Now I can see that hiding your income from new acquaintances would be helpful, particularly to separate out people who are just into you for your money. But that's not a condition I expect to apply to your fellow workers.
/r/MensRights16/01/22 11:22 PM
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There was some very specific ways it was implemented to break up African-American families. Simply making it easier to obtain the welfare payments would have reduced almost all of the negative impact. It's one of the "This is why welfare should be handled by a Universal Basic Income" examples.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/01/22 07:00 AM
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I'd be really interested to see the breakdown by state based on which states have legalised marijuana sales. If it's pain relief or a drug-fueled escape these people are after, those things can probably be provided with safer drugs.
/r/MensRights15/01/22 08:45 PM
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It's very important to say that PUA techniques don't work with everyone. However the population they are most effective with is exactly that population you are likely to find barhopping and clubbing.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/01/22 06:53 AM
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Yes, PUA is "Pick Up Artist". Specific subculture designed around getting access to sex after the traditional marriage and dating structures broke down. TRP is "The Red Pill". It's part of the Manosphere that's mostly focused on expressions of Masculinity as a way to attract and keep women.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/01/22 02:54 AM
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I see people arguing that cancel culture obviously isn't a problem because all the people complaining about being cancelled still have enough reach to complain. But they're not the people who are really suffering. The place where it's hurting is at your end, the point where new people are trying to enter the field and practice their skills. It's where a new author gets told by their editor "You need to include this, or the book won't sell". It's an animator not getting picked for a job because t…
/r/MensRights13/01/22 07:39 AM
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There's a clear feeder into TERFs from the highly misandrist part of Feminism. For a person who hates men, a person who later changes gender to a woman is not absolved of the original sin of being born a man, and a woman who changes gender into a man is abandoning the team to go and fight on the enemy's side.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/01/22 08:43 PM
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By being a space that has men discussing men's issues, it does produce good discussion most of the time. And then occasionally it hits something that the Feminist mods get offended by and whole threads disappear. It's interesting to watch.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/01/22 07:25 AM
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Mario Mario?
/r/MensRights07/01/22 10:12 PM
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I think people not treating relationships like a job is where a lot of today's problems with them comes from. Like my job, I'm expecting that I will get up every day and put work into it. Like my job, I'm not expecting to enjoy every second of it but rather for the end results and the good times to outweigh the bad. Like my job, I expect my co-workers to put in similar amounts of effort to myself.
/r/MensRights05/01/22 11:57 PM
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Where is the quote from?
/r/MensRights05/01/22 11:42 PM
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It is, but I think the arrow of causality is the other way around. People who tend to be unhappy and unfaithful in their relationships get more partners. But you can't ask a woman "do you tend to pick relationship partners who make you happy?" or "do you usually cheat on your partners?" but asking about number of partners is more normalised. So people ask for number of partners when they actually want to know about the other things.
/r/MensRights05/01/22 11:40 PM
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Past behaviour is the only guideline for future behaviour that we have. Think of dating like a job interview. I'm interviewing you for a long term (preferably rest-of-life) position. By my age, I want to see evidence that you've got experience with the commitment and effort needed to maintain such a position. I'm looking for good communication, good conflict management, and similar values. If you've had dozens of short term relationships, it's like telling a new potential boss that you either qu…
/r/MensRights05/01/22 11:36 PM
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There's three intersecting reasons why a male hormonal contraceptive hasn't been done yet. The first is that men suffer less physically from pregnancy, so there's stricter standards on the side effects. The second is that female hormonal contraception works on an existing cycle where the male side is more like a production line. It's harder to interrupt the production line. And lastly, because female hormonal contraceptives also can be used to treat or minimise other issues with the reproductive…
/r/MensRights03/01/22 12:12 AM
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But the easier your access to care is, the more use you will make of it. The study is about several things that make it harder for men to access medical care that are not claims of "toxic masculinity".
/r/MensRights02/01/22 05:46 AM
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Assigned Female At Birth. It's a weird thing, I don't know where it came from.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/12/21 09:04 PM
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/r/KotakuinAction has probably the best discussion of this currently going. But basically, the Sad Puppies won. The Sad Puppies used vote rigging to get a particular politically motivated shortlist onto the awards. The response to this was more politically motivated vote rigging. A few years of that and a whole collection of people who were not politically motivated just left and stopped paying any attention to the awards. So when the Sad and Rabid Puppies were defeated, it was just a group of t…
/r/MensRights27/12/21 02:18 AM
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Lois McMaster Bujold has one of the largest award collections of any writer in Science Fiction.
/r/MensRights27/12/21 02:10 AM
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I disagree. I believe that catcalling isn't actually about the target at all. I believe that catcalling is a process of reinforcing your masculinity in front of your peers. We're all men, we like women, we tell each other about hot women because we're sharing our hobby with others that enjoy it as well. (I should point out here that I've worked high rise construction, the classic catcalling industry) The stage where it goes from appreciation to catcalling is when you want to show your friends th…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/12/21 01:36 AM
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That's actually very surprising, because there's evidence that stressors like this do result in greater levels of domestic violence. This is the sort of success story that we need to throw a shitload of money at so we can work out how to replicate it.
/r/MensRights18/11/21 08:39 PM
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"I don't know how to do that, I'm just a girl".
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/11/21 07:23 AM
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I can give you a list of date rape drugs and how to administer them. I can teach you how to manipulate insecurities and personality problems in order to make people agree to have sex with you. I can teach you how to identify ugly women with very low self-esteem who will take whatever they can get. I can teach you what lies to use to make yourself attractive for just long enough. If your goal was purely penis in vagina sex, there are techniques for getting it. They're not moral and in many cases …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/11/21 09:57 AM
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There are things that you could change about what you are doing that would result in you getting sex. However, many of these changes would result in you losing respect for yourself, or the effort required for the act you are putting on to get sexual attention would destroy your mental health over time.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/11/21 07:51 AM
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You go to a Feminist subreddit, and make a similar post saying "I went to /r/mensrights and the top posts there were all about things that Feminism is fighting. Why don't you work together?" See how long it takes you to get banned.
/r/MensRights11/11/21 08:54 AM
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This isn't gender discrimination. This is purely money driven. You have a disease that spreads from group A to group B (and back) but not within group A or group B. You can therefore get the full benefit of herd immunity for half the price by immunising one group. Pick the one that suffers more from the disease and go hard. As we've seen with Covid, there is only so fast we can manufacture and administer vaccines. You get a better return from investment targeting the vaccines at girls in the sam…
/r/MensRights10/11/21 03:08 AM
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They're good for two reasons. The first is that they provide better mental health. So long as you're not believing strongly in something like "I should kill myself" having those beliefs gives you purpose and drive. Second is that they encourage you to change the world.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/11/21 07:23 PM
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The blog post may be written from the conference presentation, not the paper itself.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/11/21 09:11 AM
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Making a lot of generalizations here. Married men really don't get any more job opportunities then unmarried men, especially in fields where the candidate pool isn't large to begin with. Sure, when 2 people who both have careers are splitting costs like rent and utilities then yeah, there's a lot of money being saved. But as soon a kids are added to the equation the math becomes very different. This may be a cultural thing in Japan.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/11/21 09:05 AM
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People can change, but in my experience most of them don't. Particularly not by the time they're 30.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/11/21 05:12 AM
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So men with a history of failed marriages are better than men who don't? lol what? This guy is speaking the language of Gods. It's a thing that's been simplified to the point of uselessness. So if you were looking for a good, stable, long term partner there are behaviours you should avoid. * Multiple divorces is a red flag, that means a person who gets involved with others too strongly too early. * Lots of casual sexual partners is a red flag, as the person is probably not going to change their …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/11/21 07:45 PM
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It's a really good example of one. It's a compliment, but then immediately puts the receiver in the position of having to justify why they deserve the compliment.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/11/21 07:36 PM
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It gets much more extreme as people get into long-term relationships and remove themselves from the dating pool.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/11/21 05:49 AM
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Pressuring all men to be the same way has always been a good thing. The question you should be asking is "Good for whom?" And the answer to that is Society. Gender roles are not intended to make people happy. They are intended to make them productive. Once the group is no longer in danger of starving to death, freezing due to lack of shelter or being killed off by a neighbouring tribe then you can worry about things like happiness and self-actualisation.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/11/21 09:49 PM
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The World’s Most Dysfunctional People If the consequences were limited to an occasional unhinged manifesto and a few more entries in the depressingly frequent list of mass shoot­ings, we could perhaps content ourselves with occasionally mocking incels while ignoring them the rest of the time. But they are only the tip of the iceberg. Given that incels tend to be drawn from white (or white-adjacent) portions of the suburban and exurban middle class, there is a tendency to dismiss their predicamen…
/r/MensRights07/11/21 08:39 PM
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Progress or Return? It thus seems all the more curious that today’s incels would suddenly elicit such shock and cultural soul-searching, and have their predicament treated as a bizarre and recent aberration in all corners of the media. In 2018, alarms began sounding about a “sex recession,” with men reporting having had no sex in the past year at nearly double the rate of their female peers. For incels, this was a vindication of their theory that female “hypergamy,” unleashed by feminism and the…
/r/MensRights07/11/21 08:39 PM
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The Expendables The key to this problem lies in a shocking and underappreciated fact first highlighted by social psychologist Roy Baumeister and biologist Jason Wilder: the ancestors of the current human population are overwhelmingly female. This strikes many as counterintuitive. After all, it takes two to tango, and under normal circumstances the number of men and women born to each generation has generally remained equal. But there is a deeper underlying imbalance at play, rooted in the fact t…
/r/MensRights07/11/21 08:39 PM
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Copy/pasting the article because it's behind a metered paywall and so we may otherwise lose the ability to refer to it. It may seem quaint to recall the hand-wringing that accompanied the cancellation of the South by Southwest music and film festival back in March 2020. Yet one of the documentaries slated to premier there has nevertheless resonated in a post-Covid world. Focusing on five young men who channel their alienation into offensive internet humor, Alex Lee Moyer’s TFW No GF brought the …
/r/MensRights07/11/21 08:38 PM
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I want to pull out a specific comment here But when men are in undersupply, the dating culture becomes less monogamous — men are more likely to treat women as sex objects and treat relationships as disposable. I've actually read the research he was referring to here, and that was not the result. It was comparing the dating behaviour of a particular American Indian tribe between their rural/remote villages and their diaspora in the larger town. The rural areas were more male, the towns more femal…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/11/21 08:01 PM
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Only in America is "Communist" considered a political system. It's not, it's an economic system. Once I mentally corrected Kalitz's ideological mistakes, I actually largely agree with his points. Only power that is acquired with the full consent of it's source and a full understanding of where it comes from can be called democratic.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/11/21 01:09 AM
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It's alright, engineering and physics has you covered. So a Delta Male is one that's constantly changing A Pi Male is round (obese) A Gamma Male goes through a lot of other things etc.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates06/11/21 06:25 AM
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The vast majority of Australia's firefighters are volunteers in rural areas. There are no restrictions on who can join the volunteer brigades, so if they wanted to women could be half of Australia's firefighters in about 3 months, after the required training period is finished.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/10/21 08:57 PM
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Mate, don't hate on insurance. They're just doing the numbers as finely as they can to make sure that whatever happens, they still come out ahead. They're one of the least discriminatory groups that I know.
/r/MensRights29/10/21 08:18 PM
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They do. Women are the majority of the "minor ding because I wasn't paying attention or don't have accurate spatial awareness of the size of the vehicle" accidents. Men are the majority of the "lost control when going over the speed limit and wrapped the car around a tree" accidents. One of those is far more costly to repair than the other.
/r/MensRights29/10/21 08:17 PM
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The majority of Australia's firefighters are volunteers in rural areas. Those groups are generally so short of members that they will take anybody they can get. With a little bit of effort on their part, women could be half of Australia's firefighters.
/r/MensRights28/10/21 10:02 PM
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I'll give the original Star Trek a pass on "diversity". It was explicitly intended to be an ideal future for humanity, where things like racial and gender prejudices were broken down. And so choosing cast members to be diverse is part of the worldbuilding.
/r/MensRights27/10/21 09:12 PM
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I don't think that the Sad Puppies exposed the strategy, but they certainly won in that almost no men take the Hugos seriously as an award anymore. The Puppies (both sad and rabid) said that they were going to vote on ideological lines. The opposition responded to this by voting along ideological lines. The people who didn't want to vote on ideological lines walked away. It turned out there were less puppies than the opposition to them, so the puppies lost and went away. And now the only people …
/r/MensRights27/10/21 09:09 PM
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Good relationships are equally good for both partners. My parents are still going strong. Bad relationships are usually worse for one than the other, but which one it's bad for is unique to the relationship, not systematic or gendered. The gendered difference is in the external support. Women generally have better friendship groups outside the marriage that will support them through problems and help them if it collapses. Women also absolutely have legal advantages during the dissolution of the …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/10/21 05:54 AM
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The other commenter is saying that's it's acceptable to erase incel men by equating their problems to the "problems" of women who forgo sex and relationships because they dislike their options. No I'm not. I'm saying that now that we've got people admitting that lack of sex and relationships is a problem, and that there is an acknowledgement that the lack comes from systematic social issues, it's a much shorter step to get them to go "men are suffering in the same way and that's where incels com…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/10/21 08:09 PM
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You're doing the same thing that they're doing to us. You're assuming that these people are privileged, and you're also making assumptions as to why they can't find partners. Some of the things in the article given as reasons why they can't find partners were things like "I've always been ugly", "I can't make connections over phone apps" and "I don't trust bringing people straight back to my place which is expected now days". They also brought up how they get approached less often after #metoo. …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/10/21 07:52 AM
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You've got to consider the dynamics as well. Notice how most of the women in the article were 40+? That's because women get less sexual attention as they get older. So Femcels would largely be older women, where incels are largely younger men.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/10/21 07:01 AM
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Yes, some of the issues are mirrors of each other, in that men gain the attributes that make them attractive as they age while women lose them. But things like pointing out that hookup culture benefits the most attractive over everybody else, that #metoo has made men less likely to approach in general and that apps are a massive problem are all common between people who can't get the partners that they want of both genders. But more interesting I found was the comments about not wanting sex spec…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/10/21 06:01 AM
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Apart from all the man bashing (seriously, they took a break every couple of sentences just to reinforce the men=bad narrative) I quite like the article. It's an honest discussion of how changes in the dating market have resulted in groups of people losing out, and the thoughts and beliefs that go with it. Now we just need to strip all the man-bashing out and make it gender neutral, and we'd actually be getting somewhere to fixing the problem.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/10/21 04:08 AM
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Compare and contrast "Bills" by LunchMoney Lewis and "Just Got Paid" by Sigala. Both songs from last decade, both African-American artists, both in "pop" music. They're both about people having not much money and deciding what to do with it. One of these songs talks about personal responsibility and providing for others. The other talks about using money for short-term personal pleasure despite knowing that there are other necessary expenses. Guess which gender sings which song?
/r/MensRights17/10/21 10:29 PM
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Art reflects reality, and then becomes reality as people absorb it. Material like this creates our culture by creating the baseline "truth" that people compare themselves to. I'm not saying that art needs to be censored, but it needs to be approached a hell of a lot more critically than it is now.
/r/MensRights17/10/21 10:24 PM
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There are a couple of intractable problems with respect to pay. The three big ones are firstly that men are more aggressive when negotiating, which results in higher salaries. Secondly that men are more money-motivated, which means that they will take actions that lead to bonuses like working in more remote places (say if a state is paying bonuses to teachers that work in country towns rather than major cities). Thirdly, there's the lack of discussion of pay as a cultural thing, which interacts …
/r/MensRights17/10/21 10:21 PM
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This is a really negative view of a relationship. I'm not going to say it's unjustified as there will absolutely be people who will treat you like that, and those people are more likely to be looking for a submissive housewife than an independent individual. And you're making plans to get what you want out of life, which is a good thing. I'd never argue that you shouldn't be able to make your own career. But even a relationship dynamic that seems unequal can be a proper partnership if the two pe…
/r/MensRights17/10/21 05:33 AM
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It started out alright. It's important to look at what we value critically to determine why we value that and how other people value that. There was a lot of man-bashing starting at about the halfway mark and if it hadn't gone that way it could have stayed as a really good discussion of how society creates beliefs.
/r/MensRights16/10/21 11:58 PM
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Alright, so you're pre-judging the members of the community based on the stories that you have been told about the community. I knew based on your name that you were not part of our regular membership, but I lived in hope. And it's that pre-judgement that you're being downvoted for, not the fact that you called out misogyny. Had you said "Did you even read the article, this is about links between types of violence, not about causes of violence" you would have been supported and then you could ha…
/r/MensRights14/10/21 01:56 AM
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No, the study basically say "people who are violent commit violence". There's a lot of general links between violent behaviour and this is just showing that those links include mass shootings.
/r/MensRights12/10/21 12:35 PM
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I didn't expect to be saying this, but I kind of agree with you. This looks more like the general links between violent behaviour than anything specific to either mass shootings or domestic violence, and it's certainly not something that can be blamed on women. At the same time, I don't think "misogynistic mentality" is a phrase that's going to get you very far here. There are a lot of people who use claims of misogyny as discussion enders against what are supported arguments. Rather than just p…
/r/MensRights12/10/21 12:34 PM
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/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/10/21 07:45 AM
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I find the Japanese Harem genre hilarious in a meta sense, because it's a major driver for diversity in female characters in Japanese media. If you're going to have 5 or 6 different women all in love with the main character, you have to actually write 5 or 6 different women.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/10/21 07:44 AM
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Nobody shuts down harassment like Gaston!
/r/MensRights05/10/21 01:06 AM
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An action can be wrong for multiple reasons.
/r/MensRights05/10/21 01:05 AM
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Lots of statistical noise. 1.) A person can attempt multiple times, but can only succeed once. 2.) Men are less likely to interact with the medical system in general, making identification of attempts less likely. 3.) Differences in preferred methods mean differences in presentations. A person who stands on the edge of the cliff thinking about jumping is also a suicide attempt, but if they don't jump and nobody sees, it's never recorded. 4.) Some typical male suicidal behaviour can present as dr…
/r/MensRights05/10/21 01:01 AM
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I really wish you were not being downvoted, because you're not bringing up anything that's not an established problem. Basically you're not having issues with Egalitarianism, you're having problems with hypocrisy. Many systems set up around romance were set up to benefit or protect women, because they had social protection rather than the protection of physical strength or capital. That's quite reasonable. As Feminism broke down gender roles, those roles that supported women were left alone beca…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/09/21 07:03 AM
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It changes the methods used, but not the overall rate. Probably the best example here would be America vs Australia. Very similar countries economically, politically, socially, etc; but Australia has much stricter gun control. Australian men still kill themselves at 4 times the rate that Australian women do.
/r/MensRights20/09/21 11:54 PM
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If you're asking for legal advice, you'll have to give the state/country in which you live so that people can give accurate advice.
/r/MensRights19/09/21 11:54 PM
5

Sport is a huge deal in soft power. National pride, belonging to a greater part, opportunities for interaction between people, advertising your nation and that's all before we get into how particular sports are culturally tied.
/r/MensRights18/09/21 11:49 PM
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There is however a difference in that they're not banning styles of physical appearance for appearance reasons, they're doing it for safety reasons. Incidentally, from my work in underground mining I have discovered that I can get a neatly trimmed goatee or soul patch to fit completely under the respirators.
/r/MensRights18/09/21 11:39 PM
3

Flying Spaghetti Monster.
/r/MensRights18/09/21 11:20 PM
2

Incel as a term is applied to these people to minimise their suffering. It conflates their desire for intimacy and value with a desire for sex, and sex done by men to women is bad, therefore these are bad people for wanting sex. It's all quite well organised. That said, the people involved also call themselves Incels because they know what sex is and that they're not getting it. They've never had intimacy so many of them don't understand that that's what they are really craving.
/r/MensRights16/09/21 10:57 PM
1

So Incels are about to get cool facepaint?
/r/MensRights16/09/21 10:54 PM
1

That's the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Triple J is their youth focused radio station and Hack is JJJ's specific news program.
/r/MensRights15/09/21 10:29 PM
0

The vast majority of people are undervalued. That's a capitalism thing, not a gender relations thing.
/r/MensRights09/09/21 09:26 PM
18

When I get into an argument on the internet, I'm not there to convince the person I'm arguing against. Those of us who speak up are always the most extreme in any viewpoint because the extremists care. I speak to convince the silent listeners. I make my point clearly and as well supported as I can so that a later reader can follow along and understand what I say.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/08/21 06:06 AM
1

Doing night shift on roadworks before. It wasn't that common.
/r/MensRights26/08/21 10:26 PM
9

The cashless welfare card idea got trialed in Australia applied to some of our most disadvantaged people, and it was a complete clusterfuck that's only real outcome was it made them more likely to commit suicide. I can't see it working any better for child support. But requiring accounting of where money is spent, I can totally see that being useful. As the amount of money involved increases, the level of detail required also increases. But basically it would be "you were chosen as the primary c…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/08/21 05:59 AM
6

If you read the early Red Pill material, Alpha and Beta are not types of men, but rather systems that men use to display value. The most successful man is not Alpha or Beta, but the one who can display both depending on circumstance.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/08/21 07:07 AM
4

The right thing to do for the people who make the decisions would be to give up the very system that's making them powerful. Not sacrifice somebody else. But why is it the right thing for those people to do? It's certainly not because it will give them more power/resources, because it's going to do the opposite of that. It's the right thing to do because it's for the greater good.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/08/21 10:05 PM
3

The problem with this line of reasoning is the Tragedy of the Commons. There are plenty of examples of times when we do need people to suffer a little (or even a lot) in order to do a greater good. A big one at the moment is Global Warming. We need to reduce the processes that are pumping carbon into the atmosphere. This will cause harm to people who work in those industries, and to people who own production in those industries. And yet if we don't do it, we're going to kill something like 80% o…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/08/21 09:54 PM
3

Finally somebody who posts Mean, Median and Modal numbers for sexual partners. I've been looking for those numbers for so long and you know what?, they exactly confirmed what I thought, which is that the majority of people are in a small number of long-term relationships and the "average" number that people keep using to justify their own behaviour is distorted by a small number of highly sexed individuals.
/r/MensRights18/08/21 07:54 AM
11

Eton isn't a university, it's a high school.
/r/MensRights15/08/21 10:50 PM
1

If it's the guy I'm thinking of, he worked as a park ranger in an area prone to lighting storms. He wasn't doing anything wrong, but he was definitely at a far higher risk than most people.
/r/MensRights12/08/21 10:58 PM
0

Which is of course ignoring the fact that it's not Prince Andrew's fault. If she was being prostituted against her will, the person who is at fault is the pimp (Jeffery Epstein) not the client who may well believe that she is consenting of her own free will (or at least being paid properly for her services).
/r/MensRights11/08/21 08:58 AM
1

I do believe that a large part of the difficulty in this is because of social fragmentation. Now hear me out, I'm going somewhere with this. With increasing travel and multiculturalism there's been a vast increase in the number of cultures (by which I mean a common set of behaviours and beliefs) that people will be exposed to. Many of these cultures have conflicting beliefs. So in your area, there is a common culture of female subservience. You then get exposed to a lot of that, and you see that…
/r/MensRights31/07/21 10:27 PM
1

That image is meant to be about how the man is flirting by teaching her archery, but based on her form she should be the teacher. She's got everything right from the position of her drawing elbow, the hard grip over the string, the lowered bow shoulder, the bow elbow turned outwards to clear the string and it even looks like the bow hand is properly braced, or as well as you can do that part properly on a flatbow.
/r/MensRights31/07/21 04:52 AM
1

I've watched it, and the only reason I can think of to watch it again would be to make a "how to tell these jokes properly" cut. Like the scene where they test to proton packs and it's a complete disaster in the alley with the user getting thrown everywhere and smacking into the walls while everybody else calmly discusses it. The fix is very simple. The camera should have remained fixed behind the characters having the discussion. Keep the audience's focus on the normal behaviour and then tear i…
/r/MensRights31/07/21 04:33 AM
1

There's nothing unnatural about being transgender. The easiest way to look at it (not that I'd ever say this to a transgender person because holy shit this sounds bad) is that it's a birth defect. During the early stages of growth the brain got handed one gender plan and the body got handed another. Then the person grows up with conflict between the two systems. Just like Phantom Limb Syndrome there are systems in the brain that are expecting particular feedback and they're not getting that feed…
/r/MensRights24/06/21 11:32 PM
1

Male identity is very much tied to what a man can do and his achievements. This makes it fairly fragile, as things like a loss of his job can strip away much of what he thinks of as "Himself". This is used as an attack surface by society to ensure that men remain as productive as possible.
/r/MensRights24/06/21 09:05 PM
2

Multiple intersecting causes. * Some chemicals used in plastics manufacture act like female hormones and attack sperm production * Lower standards of general fitness * Some types of air pollution, can't remember which ones.
/r/MensRights22/06/21 10:20 PM
4

I love that Pauline Hanson is a senator. I don't agree with her on much, but just the fact that she's there unashamedly representing a section of society makes me feel a lot better about our democracy.
/r/MensRights22/06/21 10:14 PM
1

Full Metal Jacket?
/r/MensRights23/05/21 05:55 AM
10

A possible source of evidence for this is gender non-conformance. I have stories from trans people who talked about how they went out of their way to do things typical of the gender they wanted to present as in order to ensure they were accepted as that gender. The more interesting stories were from FtM, one of whom described the conflict they felt between wanting to be manly so he was seen as a man, and having been raised being told that 'manly' things were inherently bad.
/r/MensRights16/05/21 12:19 AM
1

I have heard of them being tattooed on the chest either right on the breastbone or where the paddles for the defibrillator would have to go. That said, In Australia a DNR order is only binding in hospital. A first responder is expected to everything possible as quickly as possible to maintain the person's life.
/r/MensRights16/05/21 12:09 AM
1

Ok, see this comment? This is what victim blaming looks like. Also what not reading the OP looks like. OP was not complaining about women leaving him or not being able to attract women. He was complaining about how men he knows (including himself) are in long term relationships with women who bring nothing to the relationship or who are actively harmful because they don't have to bring things to the relationship. And it's not about him improving, it's about a statistical problem. If 30% of men w…
/r/MensRights14/05/21 10:26 PM
2

Read correctly, it would be that you can't say "She had sex with all those other men so obviously she wanted to have sex with me". A false rape accusation, particularly one like this that's been thrown out of a court, would be a criminal history not a sexual history.
/r/MensRights22/04/21 11:13 PM
1

It's not just fear of arrest. Say the sex worker comes forward and reports that the brothel they work out of is using underage prostitutes. This is a crime, the police come in, shut the brothel down, arrest the organisers, get the underage prostitutes into care and support and then when going through the records they get the details of all the clients and charge all the clients too. Now our sex worker has done the right thing, and the world is a bit better off. But said sex worker no longer has …
/r/MensRights22/04/21 09:31 PM
1

I think that we do need a definition of a Man, even if that definition requires particular actions. In the personal space because having a goal to strive towards encourages action and having that definition can be used as support for an identity which is important for mental health. But also in the social space, because the society exists because we all keep contributing to it and setting up roles that encourage (and reward) those contributions is vital to continuing to have a society.
/r/MensRights22/04/21 08:27 PM
5

It's an attempt to paint those things as irrational.
/r/MensRights22/04/21 08:18 PM
2

You're saying we need to move towards peak gay?
/r/MensRights22/04/21 06:04 AM
4

Ok, so if demand for sex wasn't heavily gendered, the law wouldn't be sexist. But a large part of the justification for it (and the reason why they can get away with implementing it) is that men's sexuality is seen as inherently harmful and so people selling sex are inherently being abused by their client. Where there may be abuse from the client, it's not the major source of abuse in the industry.
/r/MensRights22/04/21 06:03 AM
10

It's more of a thing that we need to do a better job of making sure people are compatible before they bring children into the world.
/r/MensRights21/04/21 09:53 PM
31

The discussion is based on the Nordic Model of crimialising prostitution. The basic thought process goes "Prostitution is wrong and should be criminal, but making the prostitutes criminals means that they don't come forward and hides other crimes like assault and human trafficking. So we make selling sex legal, but buying sex illegal, and then we get to have our cake and eat it too." More than 30 seconds thought will reveal that this still doesn't work, because if the prostitute in any way impli…
/r/MensRights21/04/21 09:49 PM
1

Too late, it's already been done. "Who Needs Men" by Edmund Cooper, copyright 1972.
/r/MensRights15/04/21 09:54 PM
2

Juries drawn from the public. So there's always somebody keeping an eye on them, and as soon as the trial is finished everything becomes in the public interest and can be reported upon.
/r/MensRights11/04/21 01:20 AM
0

While yes it's going to disadvantage some children, it's real power is as part of the pre-child negotiations. If the man does have power over the financial situation, they can hope to have some influence over what is one of the most important decisions that a couple will ever make.
/r/MensRights11/04/21 01:16 AM
2

It is a construct, but that doesn't mean it's arbitrary. Gender Roles are a socially enforced optimisation system, For various biological reasons (childbirth, strength differences, immune differences) the sexes are more useful to the society (capable of creating more grandchildren) in particular roles. Gender Roles are there to force people to do the productive thing and also to prepare them to be good at it.
/r/MensRights13/02/21 09:03 PM
1

I don't believe you've interpreted that right. It would be fairly easy to use the month's worth of data you describe and normalise it against the number of women in an area, or even against more detailed population statistics (like looking specifically at the number of women between 16 and 40 who would be expected to make the majority of these posts) to see how likely the women in an area are to post objectifying selfies. It's comparing the rate at which women do it in different towns that would…
/r/MensRights06/02/21 10:17 PM
1

That link did work. I run Firefox on PC with a fairly aggressive set of add-ons for culling ads, scripts and other content. I would not be surprised if one of them broke the primary site.
/r/MensRights30/01/21 09:40 AM
2

Your second link seems to be broken. None of the images are loading and trying to get to the tinmen page gives a 404 error.
/r/MensRights29/01/21 09:18 PM
2

Why stop at 3? We could have the whole Greek alphabet! I'm a Delta Male: I'm constantly changing I'm a Pi Male. Perfectly round.
/r/MensRights28/01/21 09:19 PM
2

I'm a big fan of Mates In Construction.
/r/MensRights26/01/21 10:26 PM
13

Considering how shit Sydney's high rises are, this is the last thing that needs to be reformed in that industry.
/r/MensRights19/01/21 08:49 PM
4

Everybody objectifies everybody else all the time. It's not because we're all evil people, it's because people are complicated, and there's a hard limit on how many of them we can deal with. If you know this person well, you've spent time with them and you remember how they react to things and you remember things they have told you, and you're allocating mental resources to working out how they will react to things. They're a person to you. If you don't know them, they're just an object. That pe…
/r/MensRights19/01/21 08:48 PM
2

Could you have made better choices? Yes. Could the person who forced you into sex also have made better choices and been a better person? Also yes. Don't treat your own mistakes as if they justify the shitty choices of others.
/r/MensRights17/01/21 09:07 PM
8

Some of the most powerful supporters of Men's Rights are from the gay and trans communities, those being people who have seen both sides of the gender roles that society has and can talk both personally and accurately about the differences (or lack thereof). Men's Rights also focuses on masculinity as a gender role, so your welcome within the community will be more dependent upon how you present yourself to society and the roles it tries to fit you into, rather than what is between your legs or …
/r/MensRights17/01/21 12:37 AM
2

I would suggest "The Eye In The Pyramid" by Robert Anton Wilson. It is a strongly anti-authoritarian book, not in that it promotes a revolutionary mindset, but because it is full of examples of authorities getting things wrong purely because of the fact they are authorities. A proper study of that story would leave you prepared to question everything, including if you've actually learned anything by reading the novel.
/r/MensRights11/01/21 05:33 AM
2

Technical Writing. It's the process of taking documents created by engineers and scientists and turning them into things that can actually be read. It's a full time writing position, and it's surprisingly common as a background/primary job for published authors.
/r/MensRights11/01/21 05:26 AM
8

Well yeah, people can find a reason to hate anybody. But trying to attack hatred of women isn't a useful thing, because hatred of women by individuals is just an expression of the human ability to hate things in general, and we won't stop people hating women until we stop people hating at all. And honestly, I don't think we should stop people hating. Hate is a great motivator. Treating it as a violence problem is more useful, because we're better at suppressing violence. Honestly, we're amazing …
/r/MensRights11/01/21 05:14 AM
1

I do think that a lot of the issues she had were because she was fighting against her own identity rather than anything specific to her pretending to be a man.
/r/MensRights05/01/21 11:09 AM
2

Nihilism is the philosophical stance that nothing has value and it's all worthless and irrelevant. Your initial reaction may be that this sounds dumb, but it's a valid reaction to some universal truths like the fact that the laws of the universe don't care about you. It's also very freeing, in that when nothing matters, well, nothing matters. People trying to shame you for your beliefs? Their words don't matter because nothing matters. Your car got stolen? Not worth being upset over, it wasn't w…
/r/MensRights05/01/21 06:17 AM
1

Is this your first encounter with the Nihilism branch of philosophies?
/r/MensRights05/01/21 05:57 AM
1

Don't have the right? You have no rights. Nobody has rights. What you have are responsibilities and if you cannot fulfill your responsibility to the child by raising it well, then you shouldn't have that child. I also believe that humans are all inherently worthless, but that's ok because everything else is also inherently worthless. Value itself is a social construct that we apply to things.
/r/MensRights04/01/21 09:06 PM
1

I am neither pro-life nor pro-choice, because I believe both are based on a flawed highly individualistic view of the world. The entity who should actually get a say in whether or not a child will be born in the society in 20 year's time, because that is what will be affected by the child's actions. If the child is going to be abused or cannot be properly supported during it's infancy, then it is better for all that the child be aborted or adopted. The parents do not suffer trying to provide for…
/r/MensRights04/01/21 09:41 AM
1

Strong self-identity is protective against lots of mental illnesses. Having "Masculinity" as an identity to work towards is a positive thing in the lives of most men.
/r/MensRights04/01/21 09:07 AM
2

Similar art style, but it's not SMBC.
/r/MensRights30/12/20 09:03 AM
5

No. Your bully needed a target, because having a target allows them to use bullying to establish the social order with them on top of it. The "best" target is the one that is the most different from everybody else, because that will be the person with the least allies. If he bullied one guy for having blond hair, he would be picking a fight with every blond haired guy. But picking a fight with the gay guy? Perfect target. It's a rare identity and there's outside backing for picking on gays. That…
/r/MensRights04/12/20 07:34 PM
1

You've linked to a page of search results, not to a specific study.
/r/MensRights30/11/20 08:34 PM
1

Alternately, you could update your terminology to the more neutral "Socially Enforced Gender Roles". You will probably find people much more receptive when you no longer open the discussion with pejorative language.
/r/MensRights30/11/20 08:50 AM
1

Equal and opposite reaction. The same force that the front of the key applies to the other person, the back of the key applies to your hand.
/r/MensRights30/11/20 07:40 AM
1

Good old Wordpress Web Design.
/r/MensRights23/11/20 10:44 PM
1

Why wouldn't bullying someone into committing suicide count as murder?
/r/MensRights15/11/20 10:31 PM
1

Well yes, because when you get to the extreme ends of the interactions between the sexes, physical differences between them make a big difference in how things go down. That said, the men who die as a result of an abusive female intimate partner are in the suicide statistics, not the murder statistics. It's the deaths of despair as a result of being prevented from interact with their kids, or having their home taken, or having most of the income going to support someone that they don't even like…
/r/MensRights15/11/20 09:07 PM
2

Non-American world news. It grew out of the overtaking of /r/worldnews by Americans simply due to the tyranny of the majority.
/r/MensRights05/11/20 12:19 AM
3

Looking at the actual results, I feel that the actual conclusion should be this. "Both men and women are more likely to be critical of a person who is the same gender as them. The change in men's responses is smaller than the change in women's responses."
/r/MensRights05/11/20 12:17 AM
1

Of course the people here are left leaning. Caring about rights and equality is a social justice issue so by definition the people who are here to discuss issues of rights and equality will be the same left-leaning individuals that make up the majority of Feminism. Just we got yelled out of their spaces because our issues didn't match their issues, so we made our own space.
/r/MensRights02/11/20 08:25 PM
5

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catherine_Bowen2/publication/278677161_The_Relationships_between_Longevity_and_Different_Dimensions_of_Health_Findings_from_the_Cloister_Study/links/5582ef1008aefa35fe30b087/The-Relationships-between-Longevity-and-Different-Dimensions-of-Health-Findings-from-the-Cloister-Study.pdf This is actually quite a pretty overview. Sadly it doesn't have the life expectancy numbers on it.
/r/MensRights29/10/20 05:29 AM
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There is actually a study on cloistered monks and nuns in Europe (I think it was German) which is the best possible baseline data seeing as it's two very similar groups with very similar lifestyles and the only difference being gender. The nuns outlive the monks by 1 year on average. So yes, women outliving men is natural, but by such a small amount it's practically a measurement error.
/r/MensRights28/10/20 09:49 AM
4

And I was agreeing with you in saying that her beliefs are in now way Marxist.
/r/MensRights05/10/20 10:21 AM
0

Don't look at me, I love Communism. What with the "everybody gets their needed share of the output" and "nobody is above or below any other" principles behind it.
/r/MensRights05/10/20 10:10 AM
2

Alternate view that nobody supports me in but I believe I'm right anyway: You have no rights. Nobody has any rights. The laws of physics care nothing for your pitiful human norms. What you have are responsibilities and what you mistakenly believe are your rights are in fact responsibilities that others hold towards you.
/r/MensRights05/10/20 10:08 AM
1

Yeah. Marx wouldn't have put up with this. He was all about the true equality.
/r/MensRights05/10/20 09:59 AM
7

Understanding how idiots think it very important, because there's lots of idiots. There's a lot of research in the field but most of it is under the heading of "marketing".
/r/MensRights30/09/20 08:27 PM
2

It's not about physical development, it's about mental development. Dogs and cats are dead of old age at about the point that the human brain finishes developing. Most animals have much stronger instinctive knowledge where humans have to be taught basically everything.
/r/MensRights29/09/20 07:48 PM
1

If my choices are work or starve, have I really consented to work?
/r/MensRights29/09/20 10:30 AM
-2

All of society is a collection of ways that we use each other's bodies for our benefit. Other people use mine to make sure that their roads are built correctly. I used somebody else's body to make me McDonald's last night. The "economy" is simply the system we use to keep track of all these obligations to ensure that everybody does their part in maintaining the society. Which then suggests a reason why people are actually against abortion. Raising children is the only way to continue the society…
/r/MensRights29/09/20 07:27 AM
2

The human brain is far closer to a blank slate than any other species. It's why human development takes so long and why babies are so useless when born compared to any other mammal. The tradeoff is all the extra flexibility that the human brain has, able to learn how to do downright bizarre and non-sensical things like calculus.
/r/MensRights29/09/20 07:17 AM
6

MRA, Incel, Red Pill and MGTOW can all be seen as responses to the same basic truth. MRAs see that the game is against them, and set out to change the rules. Incels see that the game is against them, and rage at the other players. Red Pill sees that the game is against them, but works out how to play the game to get what they want. MGTOW see that the game is against them and so refuse to play.
/r/MensRights26/09/20 06:03 AM
2

But the disparity isn't about how much sex they do have, it's about how much sex they want to have. And on every measure that's been tested (how often they want sex, how much they're prepared to pay for sex, what they'll give up in order to have sex, how high their standards for sexual partners are) men come out as having higher sex drives.
/r/MensRights26/09/20 06:00 AM
0

Even if we look at only the small section of the data labelled "assault", there's more additional male victims than there are female victims of sexual assault. And assault includes a whole collection of life-changing events, up to being beaten to death.
/r/MensRights14/09/20 12:05 PM
0

But the statistics you linked showed that the increased incidence of sexual assault against women doesn't come close to matching the increased incidence of other forms of violence against men.
/r/MensRights14/09/20 11:50 AM
2

While I haven't worked for BHP, I've spent a lot of time in mining. The mines with the best gender equality on the tools are those with the worst living conditions that are not FIFO. If the town supplying the miners is shit you'll see more women applying to work in the mine itself and taking whatever job they can get. If it's a (relatively) nice town the women will find other jobs in town.
/r/MensRights14/09/20 11:41 AM
1

The statistic is correct, in that the median woman earns less (about 4/5ths) than the median man. The Devil is in the details. First up, there are differences in what sort of work the median man and the median woman do. The jobs that men are more common in pay better. Now there's lots of reasons for that (hazard pay, more aggressive negotiations, smaller talent pool to draw from) but as soon as you compare men and women doing the same job a huge amount of the difference between the sexes disappe…
/r/MensRights14/09/20 11:33 AM
3

The behaviours and beliefs that "toxic masculinity" refers to are better described as "socially enforced gender roles". It's generic and non-prejudical about who has these roles, who is enforcing these roles and what the outcome of these roles are. and so makes a far better place to start the discussion.
/r/MensRights01/08/20 03:24 AM
-8

Violence is never a good solution. But the world isn't some paradise, and violence may be the best of a bad set of options.
/r/MensRights01/08/20 03:12 AM
1

The whole reason for the dual chromosome system in genetics is redundancy. Even if you get a damaged version of something, you've got a backup copy of that same gene. Except for men and genes on the x-chromosome. So any change to the x-chromosome is immediately shown in the next generation of men. The most interesting thing is when you look at what is on the x-chromosome. As well as some of the gender and reproduction stuff it's a pile of genes that code for neural development. Those specialised…
/r/MensRights26/05/20 10:56 PM
1

On the upside, they are all empty.
/r/MensRights26/05/20 11:03 AM
2

It's correct use is "The chair of ..."
/r/MensRights17/05/20 01:17 AM
1

At a 1.5% mortality rate and roughly 80% of the population needing to be infected before herd immunity becomes viable, that's about 1.2% of the population that will die if no actions to suppress the pandemic are taken. In Britain that is about 800,000 (eight hundred thousand) people.
/r/MensRights16/05/20 02:46 AM
5

But has she had more guys in her than the Village People?
/r/MensRights16/05/20 02:32 AM
2

There's something like 15% more men conceived than women, but men dying more starts in the womb, with more male fetuses terminating before birth leaving it at about 10% more men born and then death starts to catch up. I believe it's about retirement age where there's more women left than men.
/r/MensRights14/05/20 05:19 AM
1

I have no idea. Just that they always happen together and rarely apart. That's most of the point. Nobody's sure which way round that cause and effect goes.
/r/MensRights07/05/20 08:08 PM
1

Did you have an erection because of an erotic dream, or did you have an erotic dream because you had an erection? During sleep the penis goes through a test cycle, usually three to five times during a night. Because of how sleep works, this lines up with when you're more likely to be dreaming, which is also when you're closest to awake. There's a feedback loop where sensations from your body affect your dreams, so if you have an erection and there is pressure on it, your brain interprets that as…
/r/MensRights07/05/20 06:31 AM
1

If you're only reading the Mod response thread, you're seeing the worst of it. /r/AskMen is one of the most inclusive and positive places for male discussion on the internet. We like having women there because they tend to learn things.
/r/MensRights06/05/20 09:27 PM
2

It's when you stop getting morning wood that you should be concerned. As for the bus thing, road vibrations.
/r/MensRights06/05/20 09:17 PM
3

The counter-argument is of course that every country is half male but among the western world mass shootings seem to be very much an American thing. As such, rejecting American cultural imperialism would be more effective then demonising men.
/r/MensRights26/04/20 01:11 AM
1

Eris' Golden Apple had "To The Fairest" inscribed on it. Nothing gender specific. Look who immediately decided it was about them.
/r/MensRights19/04/20 07:51 AM
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It was years between him being officially named as a person of interest and him "choosing" to return to Australia. Because of other changes happening at the time it looks very much like he was told to return and face the charges.
/r/MensRights16/04/20 10:11 AM
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I believe that the case against George Pell absolutely should have gone before the courts and that he is probably guilty. At the same time I understand that the available evidence is lacking. Firstly, the Catholic Church in Victoria, Australia has a proven massive problem with child abuse. Several of the members of the church who have been found guilty can be directly connected to George Pell at the time those abuses occurred. To believe that George Pell did not know exactly what was going on ev…
/r/MensRights16/04/20 05:31 AM
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They do. That's why looking at what they do write is so powerful.
/r/MensRights16/04/20 05:08 AM
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That's because the vast majority of Australia and New Zealand's cases are from travelers or direct contact with travelers. The point where those two find out how well they did is in another two weeks.
/r/MensRights16/04/20 05:01 AM
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Definitely. In men higher rates of education correlates with later first sexual experience and lower lifetime number of partners.
/r/MensRights09/04/20 07:04 AM
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When he was first convicted there was some discussion of the same things, the general consensus being that there was something really impressive in Witness J's testimony. Suggestions were things like being able to describe a birthmark on George Pell that should have been hidden by clothing at all times Witness J was interacting with Pell. So I'm not that surprised, but I am disappointed. His conviction was a statement to the Catholic Church as a whole that their behaviour towards the boys in the…
/r/MensRights09/04/20 12:57 AM
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Marriage is an incredibly useful socially stabilising tool, and that's why there's a version of it in every culture. The major benefit for men is an equitable sharing of the scarce resource of female attention. There used to be a major benefit in the task separation in keeping a home and family so that both partners could focus on just part of the work instead of having to do everything. However, after that the major benefits are actually to the society. Long-term, stable marriages produce bette…
/r/MensRights30/03/20 09:50 AM
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While I understand why you're assuming the worst of me, I'd really rather you didn't. I'm not advocating for submission of one partner to the other, I'm saying that both partners (note the fact I didn't use gender terms) should be making a serious effort to satisfy the needs of the other person in the relationship.
/r/MensRights27/03/20 10:53 AM
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I don't care where you thought you were going, I'm saving this because it's such a brilliantly contained example of how the alt-right manages to recruit in these times.
/r/MensRights27/03/20 10:33 AM
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It is part of the agreement generally. If I told a person that they can't get needs satisfied except by me, it would be abusive to not then do my best to satisfy those needs.
/r/MensRights27/03/20 10:18 AM
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This is absolutely a real thing. Testosterone weakens the immune response which means that lots of infectious diseases have worse effects in men then in women. Man Flu is a real thing. On the other hand, men get autoimmune diseases a lot less often because their immune system doesn't go off at itself so often.
/r/MensRights27/03/20 10:14 AM
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The public health statistics are quite clear. Whenever a suicide is publicised, there is a jump in the number of suicides in that area.
/r/MensRights08/03/20 06:14 AM
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A quick look at the suicide statistics shows that the person that a man is the biggest danger to after a breakup is himself.
/r/MensRights08/03/20 06:06 AM
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Something completely different from all of the other things here, is that we don't talk about specific male suicide because that encourages others to commit suicide. When it happens it becomes an option to others who are in similar situations. While this is honestly a pretty terrible way of dealing with suicide, the point remains that we don't talk about it in order to keep more people from doing it.
/r/MensRights08/03/20 04:21 AM
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Incorrect application of the statistical principle. It's that 20% of the couples are having 80% of the sex.
/r/MensRights23/02/20 11:43 PM
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There were 74 deaths due to initimate partner homicide in Australia in 2019. There were 1,184 road accident deaths. Even after adjusting for just that portion of the population in relationships, you are 5 times as likely to die on the roads then to be killed by your lover.
/r/MensRights23/02/20 10:50 PM
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I'm really not sure where he's getting that number, because the stats from the Australian Institute of Criminology say that men make up the majority of intimate partner murderers. On the other hand, they make up 75% of those as opposed to the 95% of regular murders. https://aic.gov.au/publications/rip/rip38
/r/MensRights23/02/20 10:46 PM
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No, because the person who lost is David Leyonhjelm, who is a much more terrible human being. And at the time was another senator from SA. Also, he started it. Because they are both senators, everything that they said was recorded, either by media or in the Hansard. It was one of the most clear cut defamation/hate speech cases possible.
/r/MensRights28/11/19 11:37 PM
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But if you and the two other guys in your department all know that you're earning less then the fourth guy even though you all put in the same hours at the same job, well now you've got something to take to HR next time. If you can find out that a guy doing the same job at the other company in town is paid a couple of dollars an hour more, then you can take that to HR. Or you could apply to work at the other company. It's not about men vs women or about randoms being able to see how much money y…
/r/MensRights17/11/19 09:31 AM
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If it was used in actual aviation, a collection of the fuels, cleaning and fire suppression chemicals were amazingly toxic.
/r/MensRights14/11/19 06:45 AM
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In the Australian volunteer groups? Very few. I'd say anywhere between 1 in 20 and 1 in 100 depending on the unit and the area it covers. I'd also say it's more likely at the big events like this where out of area crews are called in that the men would go then the women.
/r/MensRights14/11/19 06:04 AM
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The research data clearly shows an increase in domestic violence after major traumatic events like natural disasters. The "bullshit" part is applying it to the volunteer firefighters when none of the research includes occupation as a variable.
/r/MensRights14/11/19 06:01 AM
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Look, we can attack the person making the statements all we want, but the research is of good quality. It's mostly just statistics displaying a correlation between major traumatic events and domestic violence.
/r/MensRights13/11/19 11:09 PM
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Yes. Unless you are trying to pick up an Australian. I can only tell you what not to do in that situation.
/r/seduction25/01/13 07:44 AM
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So this article is making the rounds of reddit everywhere. It first appeared over in r/2Xchromosomes nearly 3 months ago, and recently it has appeared in r/Askmen and r/Askwomen. So somebody may have found it in r/Askmen and cross posted it to r/OneY. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/comments/16xefn/how_do_you_ladies_feel_about_this_article_why/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/16x4ua/how_do_you_guys_feel_about_this_article_why_women/
/r/seduction21/01/13 07:44 AM
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We went metric within the lifetime of most of the current Australians. Some common things such as heights are still generally thought of in imperial measurments.
/r/seduction21/01/13 07:39 AM
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