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Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)
22	The State more so than feminism is our real enemy	Activism/Support	Mellowmean	/r/MensRights	22/11/15 01:51 AM

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3	Strawman: "What are MRAs doing about X" I'm a recently new arrival to men's rights and I think that we need to look past (not ignore but not stop at) feminism's failure to actually do anything for men and their obvious work against us. I think we need to wage a media campaign about us. For example, last night a documentary aired on Australian TV that was about a journalsit on the front line of domestic violence. The show actually stated that the majority of violence is men against women and went on to show a couple of cases at differe…	/r/MensRights	25/11/15 07:03 AM
2	The State more so than feminism is our real enemy I think raher than taking the simplistic view that one is worse than the other it is more useful to look at how both serve the inetersts of capitalist elites, who are the problem. The state is an apparatus that has never had as its raison de etre the well being of its population, where it has benefitted them has been through huge struggle against the state and only in the post WW2 period did elites agree to let the state play a welfare role for its population (up until the late 70s) and that was…	/r/MensRights	25/11/15 06:39 AM
1	The State more so than feminism is our real enemy I don't see the division between them. Speaking out in favour of men's rights, while strategically getting into the bureaucracy aren't mutually exclusive. I think by changing our counter narrative from the simple rejection/opposition to the idea of patriarchy to include the other factors that impact on men like that aren't simply a product of feminism, eg male mortality rates, men's health, mental health, accessible health, living wage, education rates and so on and so forth, all areas where the…	/r/MensRights	23/11/15 04:09 AM
1	The State more so than feminism is our real enemy Its nit an ideal system but it is worth our while to colonise it so that it isn't arrayed against us. I'm not calling for its abolition. We can just decorporatise it and reinscribe men's rights within it.	/r/MensRights	23/11/15 02:26 AM
1	The State more so than feminism is our real enemy Apologies I wanted to write somethng about how I thought we needed a shift in emphasis towards the State as with its corporatisation and how it has become an arena in which we find ourselves pitted against women for the most basic of rights, seemd to me to serve elite interests rather than our own. That the State had been hijacked by corporate interests under neoliberalism made me ponder the risks of us getting distracted by taking on only women/feminism/feminists. I thought/think we can do both…	/r/MensRights	23/11/15 02:25 AM
1	The State more so than feminism is our real enemy Thanks for the link. I havent looked at R/anarchists yet.	/r/MensRights	23/11/15 02:11 AM
2	The State more so than feminism is our real enemy That is imperative I believe, as like it or not, unions are the only array of power that the underclasses can avail themselves of to confront the corporatisation of tje state and its subsequent algnment with elite (corporate interests).	/r/MensRights	23/11/15 02:10 AM
1	The State more so than feminism is our real enemy I thk you're step one is inherent to the first step,of what I am suggesting. By colonising the State I mean with men who are advocates of men's rghts. I suggest focis on yje state so that the movement doesn't get bogged down in some misguided misoyny or just become a venting ground of general dissatisfaction to which women become scapegoats. A men's rights agenda in primary school and highschool curriculum is one form of undertaking that would see a fruitful start to colonising the entirety of t…	/r/MensRights	23/11/15 02:07 AM
0	The State more so than feminism is our real enemy That might have been true 20 or 30'yrs ago but with the corporatisation of state forms they have become vehicles for corporate interests, as opposed to a force to mittigate the vagaries of corporatisation. You need only look at the "free trade" agreements that override state sovereignty and state "investor" disputes are resolved in extra state tribunals that are themselves populated with corporate representatives.	/r/MensRights	23/11/15 02:01 AM
1	The State more so than feminism is our real enemy Sorry wrote it as a stream of cnsciousness rather than an essay. Ive put in a few "paragraph breaks", hope they help.	/r/MensRights	22/11/15 04:03 AM
1	"He said he wasn't enjoying it but he was. He loves older girls and likes sex full stop." - 21 year old babysitter who walked free after raping 11 year old boy still doesn't think she's done anything wrong, blames victim I was looking at the bit below here from wikipedia and another article I can't find but will hunt down. It is an offence in Victoria to sexually penetrate a person under the age of 16.[22] However, it is a defence if the younger party was aged 12 years or older and the offender was not more than 2 years older than the younger person, or they were married.[23] It is also an offence for a person having the care of a person under the age of 18 to sexually penetrate that person[24] (guardian, teache…	/r/MensRights	21/11/15 08:26 AM
4	"He said he wasn't enjoying it but he was. He loves older girls and likes sex full stop." - 21 year old babysitter who walked free after raping 11 year old boy still doesn't think she's done anything wrong, blames victim If we look at the last 800yrs since the introduction of an age of consent (of 11) in the UK and track how it has changed over time and what inspired those changes there is a distinct cultural notion of men as sexually indiscriminate beings and women as needing protection from them. In The state of Victoria in Australia rape is defined as an act of penetration so women are actually unable to commit rape unless it is to have sex with someone who is in their care. The example at the begining of thi…	/r/MensRights	21/11/15 06:13 AM
1	Take control of your health Something else worth keeping in mind when visiting doctors is that they are primarily concerned with categorising things into diseases but what you "have" is the subjective experience of illness and doctors in the lower 50% of graduates will think their job is done at the point of defining your subjective experience into an objective label (disease). If you allow this to be the extent of your consult then you will be left with a substandard experience/outcome as your experience gets devalued by …	/r/TheRedPill	19/11/15 03:28 AM
8	Nobody cares about male suffering Actually dogs evolved as scavengers (naturally selected) to be able to access what was some time back the new resource of human rubbish tips around our settlements and then we started to breed them for traits we wanted eg hunting, tracking, fetching, digging, barking, fighting etc. The fact that when we pat dogs both we and they have an oxytocin rush which lowers blood pressure, stops cholesterol reabsorbtion and relaxes us and makes us feel bonded to them and them to us, is itself an unintended…	/r/TheRedPill	18/11/15 09:03 AM
1	The Handicap Principle I'm bi so I have a slightly different take on sexuality from the get go and I find what attracts me to a person is how electric it feels to interact. Rather than finding someone attractive on the physical attributes that you guys are comparing and contrasting, I get attracted to people who seem to like me. Women who flirt openly and in a more exaggerated way get me going more so than a particular look or shape etc. With guys I respond to signs that they are interested in me like the way they loo…	/r/TheRedPill	18/11/15 03:49 AM