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1	Don't you just love questions that answer themselves Democrats and Republicans, by and large, are about equally pro-corporation and big government as each other. The fact that Libertarians vote Republican more often than not betrays the other values Libertarians tend to hold. Anti-feminism is one of those, and it's a far right ideology. Libertarians in the US tend to overlap a lot politically with the far right, and that's largely because "far right" generally means "extremely in support of capitalism", which is what Libertarians have centered the…	/r/AntiFeminists	07/06/22 10:33 PM
1	Don't you just love questions that answer themselves Libertarians are, overwhelmingly, in support of conservative politicians who do want to control women's reproduction. One of the threads you linked was specifically about this phenomenon. Generally, libertarians (in the US) are conservatives who are for legalization of pot, but are otherwise really right wing (right wing, in the 21st century, largely refers to pro-capitalism). There are certainly libertarians who are very much pro-choice, but they tend to not have anyone to vote for, so outside …	/r/AntiFeminists	07/06/22 10:13 PM
1	Don't you just love questions that answer themselves Okay, and now apply that same empathy to the women you posted above (as hypocrites) who are obviously complaining about men who want the state to control their reproductive functions. What I was initially commenting on is how this sentiment makes total sense.	/r/AntiFeminists	07/06/22 09:44 PM
2	Don't you just love questions that answer themselves Supplying society with a steady stream of homeless people, drug addicts, criminals, and other desperate people ignored and forgotten by our system also comes with costs - and they tend to be higher costs than people in other developed countries pay in taxes. If you want to hold women accountable for... having sex when poor (really???), then maybe find some other way to do it that's not forcing into existence a child that the mother is either unable or unwilling to care for. That's already adding…	/r/AntiFeminists	07/06/22 09:21 PM
0	Don't you just love questions that answer themselves Would you be supportive of free childcare, free education, free housing, and other forms of assistance so that women who are forced to give birth can reasonably expect to do so? One of the largest reasons, throughout human history, that women terminate pregnancies, is because they know they can't afford it and that they'd just be bringing someone into life who would have to suffer and die in poverty.	/r/AntiFeminists	07/06/22 08:49 PM
-1	Don't you just love questions that answer themselves This isn't a strawman, it's just the reality. They use the state to force women to give birth, even if they can't afford children, even if they don't like children, and even if it will cause them harm in the process. The "pro-life" people want to take away the reproductive rights of a now existing human being to protect the rights of a future existing human being. I would be sympathetic if the same people were for free childcare, maternity leave, welfare, universal healthcare, public housing, or…	/r/AntiFeminists	07/06/22 08:24 PM
3	Don't you just love questions that answer themselves "You should pay for what you've done by raising a child." Seems like a good philosophy for a stable society full of responsible well adjusted people who were raised by caring parents. I sure wish my mother had to raise me as a punishment for having sex or being raped.	/r/AntiFeminists	07/06/22 08:10 PM
0	Don't you just love questions that answer themselves I'd be extremely surprised if it was that high. But it absolutely is about having the government control women's bodies. That's what is happening at the ground level. It's a theocratic ideology; the belief that the state needs to enforce morality on a population instead of letting the population be free to live their own morality. This is especially apparent when children that mothers were forced to give birth to are then abandoned by the state and those who used the state to control women.	/r/AntiFeminists	07/06/22 08:01 PM
-6	Don't you just love questions that answer themselves If your politics is that the state should have control over women's bodies, then maybe women won't like you? I don't see the hypocrisy.	/r/AntiFeminists	07/06/22 06:07 PM
1	No means no, Feminists. I wouldn't say I hand wave her away. I'd say that an effective critique against her employs feminist theory. That's why I think it's strange to criticize people like Koss for being sexist while simultaneously criticizing feminism. For example, one of the major themes in feminist critique is that the feminist limits themselves to their perspective - that is, they recognize that an "objective" position tends towards being hegemonic. So, for instance, a white female middle class person versed in fe…	/r/MensRights	27/07/14 02:32 PM
2	No means no, Feminists. I don't remember calling myself anything at all. Now, I was an academic philosopher for a time, so I've read a decent amount of feminist literature and other writings by feminist authors or intersecting feminism in general. I feel I have a pretty good understanding of philosophical feminism. As a project, that hasn't been concerned with or much influenced by people like Mary Koss or organizations such as NOW. My knowledge of those areas isn't great (I did not major in feminism after all). I just…	/r/MensRights	27/07/14 02:02 PM
1	No means no, Feminists. I'm a little confused because I wasn't the one who brought Mary Koss up nor did I state that men couldn't be raped. I was just replying to the fact that when I did a Google search, nothing I saw on the first few pages linked her to feminism other than anti-feminism sites. I didn't ever claim she wasn't a feminist. I don't even see why it matters as it wasn't ever part of the anything I said. It just seems like people picking any examples they can find of feminists or feminist organizations to sh…	/r/MensRights	27/07/14 01:21 PM
-2	No means no, Feminists. You seem to have "forgot" the other half of that sentence. Sorry for incorrectly assuming you were using Tumblr as your source.	/r/MensRights	26/07/14 09:39 PM
-2	No means no, Feminists. I never claimed that women are better than men, nor would I. You used Tumblr as an example of feminists telling people what to think. I assumed you were using Tumblr as a source for understanding feminism and implying that feminism tries to tell people what to think. You've found a paper with the author calling Mary Koss a feminist. That's something, at least. Saying that NOW isn't synonymous with feminism has nothing to do with that fallacy. After all, I didn't say that NOW wasn't a real femini…	/r/MensRights	26/07/14 09:29 PM
-1	No means no, Feminists. Ok, fine, I'll bite. Why do I want to demonize people based on their gender? I was confused by the mention of Mary Koss. I tried to find her link to feminism. All I got were anti-feminism and men's rights sites. Her academic bios and wikipedia entry don't seem to link her to feminism anywhere. Tumblr is how you're going to judge an ideology? Might as well use Facebook as a source to judge libertarianism, Reddit as a place to judge atheism, or a creation museum as a source to judge Christianity. …	/r/MensRights	26/07/14 08:54 PM
-4	No means no, Feminists. "Discussing gender issues"? Is that what this is? The top comment expressed confusion over the word "feminism" and the replies are mostly complaints about feminists rather than clarifications of definitions. Another comment states that fighting feminism is the same as fighting for male rights and nobody bats an eyelash? In fact, most of the comments are just raging against feminism without any real discussion value at all. It's just statements like, "feminists want to tell you what to think". I …	/r/MensRights	26/07/14 08:30 PM
-11	No means no, Feminists. This is the first time I've seen it, and I agree, it's rather rage worthy. I mean, the most reasonable post I've seen in this thread is by someone called YOLO_HASHTAG_SWAG and I'm not even raging over that. That's a pretty grim sign.	/r/MensRights	26/07/14 03:59 AM