Matt5sean3 Archive

Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

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1	Complex problems deserve complex answers Okay, you might want to put "no being condescending" as a rule if you want to take moderation action against it. Or maybe you don't, whatever.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	28/09/22 11:58 PM
1	Complex problems deserve complex answers Okay, I'll break it down for the kids in the back. On slide four Feminist research reiterates that domestic violence is a consequence of patriarchy. Is pointed to by Patriarchy is consistently presented as the root cause of all domestic violence. Where this doesn't work is that saying A is a consequence of B does not actually imply that B is the cause of all A. For example, if Dieticians reiterate that getting fat is a consequence of eating too much cake. That would not imply Eating too much cak…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	28/09/22 04:17 PM
-1	Complex problems deserve complex answers There's plenty to quibble over here, but domestic violence is a consequence of patriarchy As a statement does not actually imply that patriarchy is the cause of all domestic violence. That's very logic 101 sort of stuff just as not having cake is a consequence of eating cake, but the cake going moldy in the fridge is also a cause of not having cake.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/09/22 08:12 PM
1	Talk or shut up, which one do you want? I don't CARE about what someone has to say if they can't even be bothered with basic manners! How does this sub call itself left wing even in the milquetoast liberal sense? Oh, right, "respectability politics," is how this sub makes itself feel milquetoast liberal, there it is. Privilege works the same way as original or ancestral sin, which it does not Then how does it work? Go read a book. Failing that, privilege has multiple mechanisms, such as norms in which two male colleagues can go out so…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/09/22 11:00 AM
4	Talk or shut up, which one do you want? tl;Dr we're saying calling out Jordan Peterson is bad? We're saying calling out a Tory at Princeton is bad? We're saying that questioning whether Brett Kavanaugh ought to be on the SCOTUS is bad!? How does this sub call itself left wing even in the milquetoast liberal sense? There are details. The details speak to there being less contradiction than the slides suggest. The article titles (on slide four) are tied to real articles. The "men need to talk" is specifically about mental health. The "m…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/09/22 05:32 AM
2	The reason people cannot empathize with men on dating apps You're the one severely narrowing the scope of the thread. OP for the whole thread was very broadly talking about men on dating apps and the only narrowing I took from there is that the experience of frustration on dating apps as a man is not universal. You don't have to reach middle age to hit that frustration. That very much sounds like there are deeper issues there that dating difficulties are more the result of than the cause of. How would success in dating resolve an inability to maintain f…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	15/01/22 05:52 AM
3	The reason people cannot empathize with men on dating apps If they don't stay single into middle age and seniorhood, then it doesn't count. Why does it not count? That's like saying a prisoner has not coped with prison unless their sentence is at least a decade long. So okay. If you're so knowledgeable about such people, surely you're also knowledgeable about the various extreme disadvantages they face in life, right? You're the one asserting extreme disadvantages, so why don't you mention some rather than being utterly vague about it. And surely you mu…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	15/01/22 01:56 AM
5	The reason people cannot empathize with men on dating apps Are you joking? Not only do they exist, they're more common than you might think. The opposite case of every guy who is not in a relationship long term being utterly miserable is a hard sell. Granted, such people also don't necessarily stay single forever because not having an air of desperation around you makes for more successful dating. It's not necessarily a binary either. There are plenty of people who most days are chill about being single, but occasionally have a bad day and feel some des…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	14/01/22 07:06 PM
12	The reason people cannot empathize with men on dating apps a lifetime of working for others interest feels like. The toll it takes on you. The desperate desire most men have to simply be wanted without having to initiate, to want someone else first and hope they might want you back. In short: well, there's your problem, and I would challenge the assertion that most men actually live like that, but let's break this down. There's a paradox that most men have to live with under current norms. The expectation is that a person needs to be able to be happy an…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	14/01/22 05:15 AM
1	"Feminism has done more for men that MRA's ever did" Sure, but most things that happen politically happen with a coalition. To say that there is no credit to feminism on these would be like saying there should be no credit to socialists in establishing the 40 hour work week.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	14/07/21 01:45 AM
-1	"Feminism has done more for men that MRA's ever did" More liberal societies don't just happen. People put in the work to change laws and change norms. The people who spearheaded the work to make society more liberal on those issues were feminists.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	14/07/21 01:20 AM
1	"Feminism has done more for men that MRA's ever did" Sort of, especially when it comes to marriage, but that doesn't mean the MRA movement is irrelevant. For example, normalizing divorce is pretty beneficial to both men and women. Being legally tied to someone you're miserable with is really terrible on both sides. Yes, divorces can suck, but the alternative is that one, the other, or both are held captive to the other until the other dies. The same can be said of marital roles more broadly. Normalizing delaying marriage and normalizing premarital…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	13/07/21 07:26 PM
1	My argument to those when I say I don't support feminism Did they shut it down, though? Contemporaneous sources seem to say that the talk actually proceeded.	/r/MensRights	12/07/21 03:46 PM
1	My argument to those when I say I don't support feminism So, no MRA was arrested or otherwise harmed for what they were saying and in fact the police pushed the MRA speaker's opposition out of the way? Sure, that's exactly how a group that does not have freedom of speech is treated.	/r/MensRights	12/07/21 03:23 PM
1	My argument to those when I say I don't support feminism shutting down free speech That's a bit of a bold claim. Can you show me an example of someone has been imprisoned or even just fined for speaking against feminism?	/r/MensRights	12/07/21 12:16 PM
-9	My argument to those when I say I don't support feminism Feminism isn't an organization the way that Green Peace or PETA are. This would make sense if you said you support feminism, but oppose NOW for supporting the Iraq War or defending Bill Clinton against sexual harassment accusations. As it is, the analogy doesn't hold up.	/r/MensRights	11/07/21 02:13 PM
1	A group of female friends last night told me they genuinely feel entitled to be bought drinks at the bar by men. the term “toxic femininity” refers to the gender expectations that keep women subservient, quiet, and submissive to men's domination and aggression. With a wider view of this as a component of a larger norm and system, this actually does seem to fall within that definition.	/r/MensRights	13/06/21 11:19 PM
3	In an office in India Because of the lasting impact of British imperialism	/r/MensRights	13/02/21 01:54 AM
2	The flaw with these quotas is it classifies rich, middle class women with parents as professors, drs etc as "oppressed" over homeless boys where no one in family has ever gone to university Yes, women are the majority when STEM is aggregated, but maybe STEM is too broad a grouping in that respect. Men are certainly over-represented in engineering. What is engineering that biology is not? A well-paying field reliably in demand with only a bachelor's degree. Biology, broadly speaking, requires a graduate degree to reach higher earning positions. Having been to engineering school, I know that a lot of people are there because whether middle class or upwardly mobile they want access to…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	04/01/21 10:38 PM