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A man wearing a skirt doesn't get laid. That's not true at all, you know.
/r/MensRights03/03/15 05:43 AM
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Women in prison: It is equality to treat female offenders differently to men And, in related news, war is peace...
/r/MensRights29/01/15 11:50 PM
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I know, right? Man, I was going about this all wrong.
/r/MensRights07/11/14 03:27 AM
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They also straight-up murdered a puppy right there in the middle of the bar. Totally.
/r/MensRights12/10/14 07:06 PM
12

elect/nominate a class representative to bring issues to the tutors if someone doesn't want to raise it up personally. This is an issue, isn't it? If you wanted to be class rep, then you can act as one and bring up the issue.
/r/MensRights12/10/14 06:24 PM
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feminism decided to change the word "transphobia" to "transmisogyny" Did it? I don't think I've ever heard the latter word before, to be honest.
/r/MensRights06/10/14 11:17 PM
1

I am designing an app intended for use by all humans. I am very credible in what I'm building because I am in fact a human. Give moneys
/r/MensRights01/10/14 12:18 PM
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/r/StarTrek is not a default sub.
/r/MensRights05/09/14 12:03 PM
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the ratio is currently hovering right around 50-50. Source on that?
/r/MensRights26/08/14 01:55 AM
1

But the band member's own reply betrays the similarity. "In psychology, an understood prerequisite to violence is [dehumanization]." Boys are stupid, i.e. sub-human. It's exactly the same thing!
/r/MensRights23/01/14 04:13 PM
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She had become an angry hammer in search of nails. What a wonderful turn of phrase.
/r/MensRights23/01/14 06:29 AM
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Yeah, but no true feminist would fall into the No True Scotsman fallacy.
/r/MensRights23/01/14 12:25 AM
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"Political blind spot" indeed.
/r/MensRights22/01/14 09:45 PM
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Brigading exists, yes. I doubt you're being brigaded from outside this sub in this instance, though.
/r/MensRights22/01/14 09:10 PM
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*Brigade more bigots. Cool it with the persecution complex, bud. This sub of all places knows the importance of innocence until proven guilty.
/r/MensRights22/01/14 09:04 PM
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Couldn't you just snag a motel room somewhere nearby and sleep it off for a night?
/r/MensRights20/01/14 12:25 AM
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This is the same reason insurance companies can't charge asian women extra for car insurance, even if there is a stereotype/statistic that may show they are worse drivers. It's racist. But charging men extra for car insurance is just fine and dandy, I guess.
/r/MensRights17/01/14 10:07 PM
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You say you don’t like tattoos. She does. He gets the tatt. Why doesn’t he just go the whole hog and get her name on the tatt as well? How dare he decide what to do with his own body? His body, your choice! Such unforgivable infidelity.
/r/MensRights17/01/14 10:04 PM
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Not all liberals are hardline communists, you know.
/r/MensRights17/01/14 08:34 PM
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A study done in 1987 by Furstenberg, Morgan, and Allison, found that children who had not seen their father in 5 years did significantly better than those who had spent 1 through 13 days with their father in the previous year. A single study in 1987! Well, how can we resist in the face of such overwhelming conclusive evidence?
/r/MensRights17/01/14 05:30 PM
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mfw someone calls Christian Bale fat Seriously, dude was skeletal in The Machinist, and then he got super buff for Batman. He's exactly the weight that he needs to be for the role he's currently playing, that takes a huge amount of dedication. It's nonsensical to talk shit about him for that.
/r/MensRights17/01/14 01:07 AM
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The difference being, all of those have at least some medical justification.
/r/MensRights13/01/14 08:18 PM
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FTC: This is a classic misogynist view of the world that cannot have women rate more importantly than men in any social context at all. This is just awful. So apparently not thinking women are more important than men is misogyny now. How 'bout that.
/r/MensRights12/01/14 07:10 PM
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This wouldn't bother me too much, but i'd immediately I think she's developing sexuality much too quickly. A girl wants a military action figure and your first thought is she's getting turned on by it? What the fuck, man.
/r/MensRights12/01/14 06:03 PM
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Where does it assert that her lot is worse than her dead husband's? As far as I can tell, it doesn't at all touch on whether it's worse or not, only that it's difficult, which is certainly true. And the claim that the story at all supports the sentiment that wives are just their husbands' property is blatant nonsense. You can be intimately emotionally invested in someone without being their fucking property.
/r/MensRights12/01/14 04:42 PM
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The person in the OP's picture is a strawman? He seems pretty existent to me.
/r/MensRights08/01/14 09:31 PM
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Are you saying fictional stories can't involve characters going to jail for things they do within the context of the story?
/r/MensRights08/01/14 07:01 PM
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The tumblr post has 1 note and the tweet has 2 retweets. This... does not exactly seem to be widely disseminated.
/r/MensRights08/01/14 07:00 PM
76

Next is the part where she takes responsibility for punching someone in the face entirely unprovoked by going to jail, right? ...Right?
/r/MensRights08/01/14 06:57 PM
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In a restaurant? What's in the food that it makes runs on the bathroom like that?
/r/MensRights08/01/14 01:47 AM
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Want to understand the male psyche, its anxieties and inadequacies? Just look at the cars disproportionately driven by men I'm sure it couldn't be that, y'know, driving nice cars is enjoyable. Nah, absolutely not; those fellows at Top Gear are clearly the most insecure and inadequate men on the planet. Also, fucking lol at Tesla being on that list. Clearly a person driving an electric car must be compensating for something. lol ok
/r/MensRights31/12/13 03:15 AM
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would you really want a girl slamming you up against a wall and squeezing your man titties? That'd be kinda hot, actually. Just sayin'.
/r/MensRights29/12/13 03:36 PM
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Guess you aren't truly interested, then.
/r/MensRights26/12/13 05:40 PM
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If you care more about the lack of ugly women in Hollywood than you do about men disproportionately dying in the workplace or being denied access to their children or having their lives destroyed by the prison system (this last is pretty intersectional, to boot) then I guess there's nothing more to discuss. If you truly are interested instead of just trying to troll, there's more than enough sourced facts in the sidebar.
/r/MensRights26/12/13 05:25 PM
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Even the prime minister stepped into the debate, saying the proposed guidelines, which have since been withdrawn, were "not the right approach". The elite all-male Oxford club of which both he and the chancellor were members was presumably the perfect approach. What the hell? That was completely uncalled for, and baldly unprofessional. "Haha, these guys must be sexist because... uh... fuck it, I don't even have to give a real reason, because they're men!"
/r/MensRights25/12/13 08:08 AM
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Fuck off, asshole. Men acting exactly like however they damn well please is a men's right. Nobody's saying that this is the only way you can act if you want to be a good man. But them acting like this doesn't mean they're any less of a man.
/r/MensRights22/12/13 08:53 PM
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Very true. It's not like people wake up one day and think "You know, I think sexism is awesome!" It comes about because of ignorance and lack of critical thinking, both causes célèbre of idiots.
/r/MensRights22/12/13 08:13 PM
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Could you provide examples of feminists excommunicating from their camp, or even speaking out against, other more radical feminists? It would be neat if that happened but I'm not familiar with many, if any, instances.
/r/MensRights22/12/13 12:43 AM
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edtastic isn't fighting against the concept of white privilege at all, what are you talking about?
/r/MensRights21/12/13 08:31 AM
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I don't think anybody's doing that, though?
/r/MensRights21/12/13 05:52 AM
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Surely you don't want to deny that both white men and white women are less likely to be jailed than men and women of color, respectively? Clearly not, but the fact remains that white men are more likely to go to jail then black women which is kind of the point. There's a lot of attention being paid to racial bias in law enforcement, which is good because it deserves attention. But where is the attention towards gender bias, which is apparently even stronger?
/r/MensRights21/12/13 05:42 AM
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And the award for completely missing the point while being deliberately obtuse goes to...
/r/MensRights21/12/13 05:39 AM
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Using the words "allegedly raped" anywhere in the entire article instead of repeatedly calling it a relationship would be nice, for starters.
/r/MensRights19/12/13 04:26 AM
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For the most part I like rationalWiki... can we fix this? Hopefully.
/r/MensRights19/12/13 04:24 AM
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None of that is an assertion that she allegedly raped him. It's simply factual reporting that she is going to be tried on charges of rape. There's a big difference. And given that the story maintains that difference throughout, it gives off the impression that the reporter feels that what she did was not in fact rape despite the charges, but instead a sexual relationship.
/r/MensRights19/12/13 12:07 AM
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Not really sure why you're asking me that, but $420 a month is significantly more than nothing as far as supporting a child goes. Considering that even if the stepdad weren't part of the equation, he only should have to pay half of the cost of raising the child; the child would then have $840 a month going towards him... which is actually more than the dad has to support himself. So, yeah.
/r/MensRights18/12/13 08:39 PM
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Indeed. Nowhere in the article does it state that she raped him; it only says she's been charged with rape, for allegedly having a sexual relationship. Never once were her actions actually described as rape. That's definitely more wishy-washy than OP's title would indicate.
/r/MensRights18/12/13 08:30 PM
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It doesn't matter what the child's stepfather makes, he is not the child's father. It is not his responsibility to pay for the child. Clearly he is, though, if she's using the child support money for tithing. So what if she gives the church a lot of money? Because she's not using child support for supporting the child? It's really not that complex.
/r/MensRights18/12/13 06:32 PM
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Well, feminists don't have sweet dual energy blades, I don't think.
/r/MensRights18/12/13 03:22 PM
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Assault victims? The only victim I see in this story is the one whose life was ruined, not by assault but by a system ostensibly set up to support victims, not create them.
/r/MensRights17/12/13 08:12 PM
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No, please look it up before you make such assumptions like that. It's basically a hostel for people down on their luck. http://columbiachronicle.com/hidden-hotel/
/r/MensRights17/12/13 02:01 AM
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"No men in this hotel" Well...
/r/MensRights17/12/13 01:29 AM
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If you want to call an entire nomadic tribe collectively shepherds, okay, I guess. Have fun asking misleading questions then acting all arrogant when the obvious question is answered, rather than your secret ulterior one.
/r/MensRights10/12/13 08:25 PM
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Hunter-gatherer tribes, including those who also practice primitive forms of agriculture, rely on the food that women produce for the majority of their calories, while the foods protein-rich foods that men acquire through hunting provide highly valuable and highly prized dietary supplementation, necessary to maintain long-term health. I neither said nor implied otherwise, so I don't know why you're waving this around as some sort of gotcha. Neither form of labor is easy and both males and female…
/r/MensRights10/12/13 08:23 PM
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Not that guy, but I'm 5'8" and around 120~125. It's not really unhealthy, I just have a very slim build compared to most guys. It's basically a female body type with less hips and tits, and wider shoulders.
/r/MensRights10/12/13 05:37 PM
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So would I, but that doesn't have much bearing on anything. You likely wouldn't have had much of a choice either way.
/r/MensRights10/12/13 02:29 PM
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First result on google... Shepherds also lived apart from society, being largely nomadic. It was mainly a job of solitary males without children, and new shepherds thus needed to be recruited externally. Shepherds were most often the younger sons of farming peasants who did not inherit any land. such research, so difficult
/r/MensRights10/12/13 02:27 PM
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The aboriginal hunter-gatherer societies that form the basis for our evolution (pre-agrarian) the women gathered roots and berries (majority of calories consumed) and the men hunted. Even with agriculture and herding there's no strong reason why subsistence work was divided on gender lines. Oh, so they just divided subsistence work on gender lines for shits and giggles, then? Right. Anyways, the gathering being the majority of calories consumed bit is just misdirection and your standard gynocent…
/r/MensRights10/12/13 02:15 PM
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Deters argued that thedirty.com was different from other websites like Facebook because Richie has admitted to screening submissions and adding his own comments, rather than other people posting their own comments. Because Zuckerburg doesn't have a Facebook account and Facebook has zero moderators and never deletes anything, right? Got it. That said, what the actual fuck.
/r/MensRights09/12/13 02:12 PM
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Going to the preponderance of the evidence standard is a move towards justice? One can only wonder what further steps down that road would be. Perhaps no evidence at all, have the standard simply be an accusation is its own proof? How terribly just.
/r/MensRights09/12/13 06:02 AM
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I can't even begin to imagine why someone would claim it could emasculate men. If you don't want to lose your virility or whatever shit you've worked yourself up into idealizing, then just don't take it? It's another option available to people, that can only be a good thing.
/r/MensRights08/12/13 06:36 PM
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Hon, if a person doesn't want to be a parent, they're not going to be a parent whether or not they're being forced to pay someone else because of it.
/r/MensRights08/12/13 03:11 PM
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Not having the article at hand (and it being the daily mail) makes it somewhat hard to determine, but Children brought up only by a single mother have a higher risk of developing ‘deviant behaviour’, including drug abuse, new research suggests. seems to imply that the research was only done on single-parent vs both-parents households, and as such doesn't have any relevance to two-same-gender-parents households.
/r/MensRights08/12/13 03:10 PM
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As a quick note, fiancé is used when your partner is a man, and fiancée is for when your partner is a woman. I was a bit confused at the start of this story.
/r/MensRights07/12/13 05:53 PM
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As far as I'm aware, being a piece of shit is not illegal.
/r/MensRights07/12/13 04:44 PM
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It's still a little bewildering how people have such an utter lack of morals as to wholly embrace their bigotry in misandry. It kinda makes you wonder how long it'll be before we start seeing burning crosses in peoples' yards.
/r/MensRights06/12/13 07:19 PM
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It's apoplexy either way, so at least they're somehow consistent.
/r/MensRights03/12/13 10:34 PM
1

I take it you regarded the African-American Civil Rights Movement similarly because the Black Panthers existed?
/r/MensRights03/12/13 02:38 PM
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Good god, those comments. I don't understand why the mother would let her go off with an adult man in the first place, unless it's a relative that you know very well it's not OK. Men try to gain trust of other people so that they can have access to the children. I'd rather the cops err on this side than do nothing and we all have heard of the thousands of missing and dead children. I have no words.
/r/MensRights03/12/13 04:52 AM
5

Chance of the same thing happening for car insurance: not hardly
/r/MensRights02/12/13 05:06 AM
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Cut the bullshit. It ain't cute.
/r/MensRights02/12/13 12:24 AM
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Not really sure if you know what "organize" means, but it doesn't solely mean "came up with the idea ten years ago."
/r/MensRights02/12/13 12:00 AM
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"They don't organize prostate cancer awareness events..." "Yes, they do." "OH WELL LAH DEE DAH" Oh, you.
/r/MensRights01/12/13 10:57 PM
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Meanwhile, the reports to Twitter about abuse by their users - including rape threats, death threats, doxxing, and other harassing behavior - are dismissed with alarmingly regularity Solution: Threats of doxxing and harassment. Ingenious!
/r/MensRights01/12/13 01:35 AM
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Yeah, there's probably some component of that involved, but it sure as shit doesn't make up for 100% of the difference.
/r/MensRights30/11/13 09:56 PM
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oh and angry men are innocent? Where, pray tell, did you get that from, exactly?
/r/MensRights27/11/13 11:11 PM
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It very much seems like it should be, but it's definitely played straight.
/r/MensRights25/11/13 01:15 AM
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Wait... what? I legitimately thought it was supposed to be showing the moustached coat-droppers as foolish and overly-eager without reason. I mean, the absurdity of like 5 dudes tossing their jackets in the mud for no reason seems patently absurd (yes I know it's supposed to be a thing, but just walk around the damn puddle, you're not a child) but apparently it's something to be emulated. Alllrighty.
/r/MensRights25/11/13 01:15 AM
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Here's the full quote. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to forment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation. So, no.
/r/MensRights25/11/13 12:56 AM
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Joint custody of some sort is the obvious ruling here. Across the country? I don't think that would be feasible.
/r/MensRights24/11/13 08:37 PM
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He absolutely no right to keep her from moving He didn't. She moved to New York; clearly he didn't prevent her from doing so, because she did so.
/r/MensRights24/11/13 08:33 PM
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It sounds like this is the case, yeah. 'When I started getting pains in my groin I was told to march through it, even when I was carrying a heavy pack which was almost the size of me. ‘I trusted the medics to know better than me so I carried on marching.
/r/MensRights24/11/13 04:03 PM
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A sucker punch is a disproportionate response to a sucker punch? Interesting.
/r/MensRights23/11/13 08:07 PM
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Or Ian Anderson!
/r/MensRights23/11/13 07:26 PM
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It very well could have been a boy in the news Let's not kid ourselves here.
/r/MensRights21/11/13 04:11 PM
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You're still ignoring the fact that nobody's complaining about the legislation itself, just that nobody seems to care much about boy's suicides, especially in relation to girls'. Yes, it'll help both, but why did we have to wait until a girl did it when many boys were in need before that?
/r/MensRights21/11/13 03:50 PM
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Fact of the matter is that this legislative proposal only came to be because a story was highly publicized in the news. Amanda Todd was a massive story on both mainstream news and social media. And the reason that it was a massive story was in no small part because she was a girl. When was the last time you saw a boy's suicide become such national news? It's quite similar to the pretty-young-white-girl abductions/disappearances/murder cases that are extremely newsworthy relative to pretty much e…
/r/MensRights21/11/13 03:28 PM
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Male disposability, further exacerbated by the fact that they've lived out their usefulness to society. If you think that means we can just ignore them and leave them to die, then fuck you and fuck the guy who wrote that article.
/r/MensRights18/11/13 02:34 AM
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If there's one cure that's worse than the disease, it's telling women to "cover up," like they were the fucking Elephant Man. The best example of this is another convention, a video game one in this case. I was told to cover up or leave by a security guard at a convention, even though my cosplay was within the rules outlined by the convention. Where's my article and outrage, eh?
/r/MensRights15/11/13 04:20 PM
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First, keep in mind that making a demonstrably false accusation is liable under the law. That is, if you make false statements to the police, you've committed a crime. So it's not like a woman — or man — can use this shield as a weapon. It boggles the mind. If people didn't do things that were illegal, then we wouldn't have any sexual assaults to begin with!
/r/MensRights15/11/13 03:59 PM
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saying things like: "Women should be terrorised by their men; it's the only thing that makes them behave better than chimps" (a quote from Men's Rights Activism's Ferdinand Bardamu's charmingly titled essay The Necessity of Domestic Violence) A few paragraphs later... Men's rights activists love to quote Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto, which called for gendercide against men, but Solanas was clearly off her rocker, so she's a bad example. How droll.
/r/MensRights15/11/13 05:22 AM
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Insurance itself, the very concept of it, is wealth transfer. For example, car insurance: it transfers money from the people who don't need it (people who didn't get into a car accident in the past week) to people who do (people who did). That's its sole, explicit purpose. So, then, what exactly were you expecting?
/r/MensRights14/11/13 11:08 PM
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Buy large smartphone, complain about smartphone being too large. Sexism!
/r/MensRights14/11/13 08:03 PM
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being born male or female should not change what insurance costs. That is different from charging more for someone who gets into lots of car accidents. Funny, I don't recall getting into lots of car accidents, yet I pay more for my car insurance because I was born male. That's an interesting definition of "different" you got there.
/r/MensRights14/11/13 05:27 AM
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It's not a 1.1% difference between the two, it's a 20% difference. If one group was victimized 0% of the time and the other was victimized 1.1%, would you say that's about the same? It's about the relative difference, not absolute.
/r/MensRights12/11/13 09:37 PM
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Nothin' says MGTOW like making babies with women!
/r/MensRights12/11/13 08:06 PM
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Hm, I don't think that's the case. In your example, the belief is that it will not rain tomorrow where you live. But it's not a fact that it won't rain tomorrow, it's just a fact that you believe that's the case. The belief and the fact are different things.
/r/MensRights12/11/13 08:01 PM
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Not nearly as commonly and not in the front lines.
/r/MensRights11/11/13 11:11 PM
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Yes*, and that's just Japan being Japan. It's definitely the case that men in Japan are collectively withdrawing from relationships.
/r/MensRights11/11/13 09:57 PM
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Beliefs are also facts. ...huh. This explains quite a lot.
/r/MensRights11/11/13 07:44 PM
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Brevik was in no sense an MRA (there's a difference between hatred of women and advocating for human rights, shockingly), and it's rather bewildering how they have the gall to assign the label to him outside of any reason or sense. You can ascribe any number of horrible atrocities to any group as long as you feel free to assign that group label to whoever you damn well please. "Hitler was a feminist; feminists are literally Hitler."
/r/MensRights11/11/13 05:29 PM
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That is what he said, yes.
/r/MensRights10/11/13 12:25 AM
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No brigade, you're just an idiot. We don't need content like this.
/r/MensRights08/11/13 09:59 PM
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Not sure if you're aware of this but there are still wars being fought today.
/r/MensRights07/11/13 09:41 PM
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Don't expect special treatment. ... If you want to be a feminist, you have to be prepared to give that up. d'ohoho
/r/MensRights07/11/13 09:19 PM
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Clearly she was lying when she said she wasn't, and not lying when she said she was. After all, victims of abuse must always be speaking true, which is why the first claim was true; if the second claim were true, then she wouldn't be a victim of abuse and thus cannot be believed. The paradox resolves itself in the first configuration. QED /s
/r/MensRights06/11/13 07:18 PM
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Ah, hello again. I have spent most of my life in an academic environment and even there the "top" consists of those who are the loudest and most connected. As you say, the exceptionally loud, and the exceptionally well-connected. That is exactly what I said; I said nothing of deserving-ness or intelligence, just exceptionality. And it's not projection when I'm clearly being neither crazy nor aggressive.
/r/MensRights06/11/13 07:14 PM
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It probably is a men's rights issue but this is clearly a men's human rights issue. Is there a difference?
/r/MensRights06/11/13 06:01 PM
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Would he? http://thepolicenews.net/default.aspx?act=Newsletter.aspx&category=News+1-2&newsletterid=39962&menugroup=Home Interestingly, this was the only article I could find about a boyfriend running over a girlfriend with his car. Most of the others resulted in fatality or were the reverse direction.
/r/MensRights05/11/13 05:44 AM
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If you want to demonize men, you are not a feminist. I suppose you'd be not a true Scotsman either, eh?
/r/MensRights05/11/13 02:19 AM
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I wish it were socialism. At least then we'd be like most every other modern first-world country and actually have real universal health care, rather than this bastard child of insurance companies and unsatisfying compromises.
/r/MensRights31/10/13 12:13 PM
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Fuck off.
/r/MensRights31/10/13 12:05 PM
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Also, I would like to know how "sex ratio at birth (female/male)" is a relevant indicator of a gender gap One thing that comes to mind is selective fertilization/abortion in China, among other places.
/r/MensRights31/10/13 04:20 AM
1

The Wikipedia link on domestic violence gives you a flavor of it, though beware of the possibility of bias in Wikipedia, too. Wikipedia is explicitly unbiased. It's literally the second fundamental rule of Wikipedia, right after "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia." What she really means here is "beware the lack of feminist bias in Wikipedia."
/r/MensRights27/10/13 11:22 PM
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We need a "lady" monster so we can boss it around. It's uttered by a mad scientist who's explaining to his dull-witted lackey the kind of DNA they need to make their Frankenstein-like monster out of a deranged toilet. If it's a lady, he says, "she'll wash our dishes and iron our shirts." If you can read that and take it at its face value calling misogynist, you've probably spent too much time steeped in feminist dogma. Couldn't have been more obvious if it had an /s on the end. Edit: Read a bit …
/r/MensRights27/10/13 02:40 PM
1

How does it compare to Jack Nicholson and, say, Lara Flynn Boyle?
/r/MensRights27/10/13 03:24 AM
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They give an emotional outlet to men who need one and can't let it out in other areas. /r/MensRants exists for exactly that reason. That's its sole, explicit purpose.
/r/MensRights26/10/13 04:21 PM
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You didn't understand what I meant. Posts about MGM, false accusations of rape, and the wage gap are meant to showcase inequalities and injustices under the law, and help spread activism to motivate people to change that. Posts about women behaving badly, where the law does its job, have no purpose other than to show that it is possible for some women to behave badly sometimes.
/r/MensRights26/10/13 03:52 PM
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The perception of women as harmless doves, beyond reproach, and men as sex-crazed violent cretins is a Men's Rights Issue. The perception that women are the only "safe" caregivers for children is likewise, a Men's Rights Issue. I don't think anybody in this subreddit is under either perception, and as such there's really not much point in posting stories just to go "Hey, look! This one woman behaved badly! See, it's possible!" We all know.
/r/MensRights26/10/13 03:39 PM
15

Women behaving badly is not a men's rights issue. Women behaving badly then getting a lesser sentence then a man would have is a men's rights issue. Women behaving badly in a way that the law allows them to do can be a men's rights issue. But women behaving badly by itself, when the law does its proper job, is not a men's rights issue.
/r/MensRights26/10/13 02:57 PM
7

It's important to note that this is a TA at a university, so she's probably not much more than a year or 3 older than the students, and she's in more of a peer mentor role than an authoritative teacher role. It could've been a lot worse, really.
/r/MensRights24/10/13 06:25 PM
13

Right, and WW1 was the War to End All Wars. We haven't had a single one since!
/r/MensRights24/10/13 02:39 PM
37

Apparently anything related to sex is now rape. "Goes down easy" means consent is freely given, that's the opposite of rape!
/r/MensRights22/10/13 06:27 PM
19

'This is an example of how benevolent sexism is an insidious set of ideas which appear to exploit "niceness" to encourage women to hold more sexist beliefs.' haha what
/r/MensRights22/10/13 05:41 PM
8

Pretty much. You'd probably consider getting into a fight with someone twice your size if they'd been conditioned from birth that to defend themselves against you is morally reprehensible.
/r/MensRights22/10/13 12:46 AM
10

Snarky comments, mostly.
/r/MensRights22/10/13 12:37 AM
0

"rape" is the legal term for violation of that consent (by penetration). By any forced sex.
/r/MensRights21/10/13 02:38 PM
2

Somewhat limited in that it only examines insertive anal sex, whereas MGM advocates (such as they are) are mainly concerned about heterosexual sex, w/r/t AIDS prevention. Still, it's definitely something to think about, and keep in mind. Anyone know of any similar study in western nations for heterosexual males?
/r/MensRights20/10/13 08:18 PM
0

How do you figure that some of that shaming comes from the lgbt movement? I don't see it. One would imagine that both gay men and women would have little interest in men's sexual behaviors towards women.
/r/MensRights20/10/13 08:15 PM
3

Men's rights is in an unfortunate position politically, being fought against both by hardline feminists on the left, and traditionalists on the right.
/r/MensRights20/10/13 08:13 PM
1

Thank you for this. I knew there was something about that campaign that didn't quite sit right with me, but I couldn't pinpoint what. You got it perfectly.
/r/MensRights20/10/13 07:16 PM
1

Please false flag/troll somewhere else. Thanks.
/r/MensRights19/10/13 04:28 PM
1

Asking congress to stop pandering? Not bloody likely.
/r/MensRights17/10/13 03:09 PM
5

I'm just gonna leave this right here.
/r/MensRights17/10/13 03:12 AM
-1

That's amusing but this sub is not "things that mention feminism in any way, in any context, no matter how tangential."
/r/MensRights16/10/13 08:57 PM
13

The world just isn't as black and white as that, I'm afraid.
/r/MensRights16/10/13 08:55 PM
1

That is compared to 90,479 rape cases outside of prison. Some 91 per cent of the victims were women and 99 per cent of the perpetrators were men. No.
/r/MensRights16/10/13 05:58 AM
7

I'm sure the thousands of migrant workers breaking their bodies in the fields right now for barely minimum wage would wholeheartedly agree. /s
/r/MensRights15/10/13 01:10 PM
2

Do you want to go dutch? Is this person serious?
/r/MensRights14/10/13 05:10 AM
12

So, by Schrodinger's Rapist, this is basically all men. Hm.
/r/MensRights09/10/13 09:17 PM
8

Blue is an expert on constructive dialogues, clearly.
/r/MensRights09/10/13 05:50 PM
25

Eh, all of the men involved are above 20 years of age. There's a pretty big difference between that and 14-15.
/r/MensRights09/10/13 05:06 PM
26

Her reaction to the suggestion that men can be raped by women was a smirk and a dismissive sound. That's pretty overt, I think.
/r/MensRights07/10/13 11:33 PM
1

Fairly informative read. I'm having trouble figuring out who the target audience is. People who desire to be informed about various Men's Rights activists?
/r/MensRights04/10/13 04:19 PM
3

It’s unlikely that any college commencement speaker will mention the significant, and growing, gender imbalances in America’s higher education system. On the contrary; I wouldn't be surprised if the gender imbalance was mentioned in glowing terms, praising inequality as if it's a great victory.
/r/MensRights02/10/13 05:48 PM
2

I know it's a bit trite at this point to say "what does this have to do with men's rights," but... no, really, how is this relevant?
/r/MensRights02/10/13 01:59 AM
5

Oh man, that camerawork. "We all know that you guys are a fascist Nazi group..." camera zooms in on Soviet hammer and sickle worn prominently by many
/r/MensRights01/10/13 08:47 PM
4

One thing to note, though - doing surveys via Mechanical Turk is going to heavily skew your statistics. It's not a random sample at all; the Mechanical Turk demographics is very much not representative of people as a whole.
/r/MensRights26/09/13 08:27 PM
19

Loving women is the same thing as hating them, right?
/r/MensRights26/09/13 04:52 AM
10

Her son starved to death in her care. Neither the prosecution nor the defense is contesting that fact. There's not really any allegation qualifier there.
/r/MensRights25/09/13 06:45 PM
4

Of course! Multi-dimensionality in the main villain is always a plus; Saturday morning cartoons-style cacklin' evil gets pretty banal after a while. And seeing as how there are so few female villains to begin with, there's definitely a lack of multi-dimensional female villains. Let's see... the BBEGirls I can think of are The Boss from MGS (I haven't actually played this game so I don't know much about her, but from what I can tell she's as close to the above concept as I know of), Veran from Or…
/r/MensRights25/09/13 06:06 PM
4

I, uh... huh. That does explain rather a lot, doesn't it?
/r/MensRights25/09/13 05:58 PM
5

For instance, we might see a rise in female villains because women in power tend to be viewed this way. Hm, you think so? I don't really see that as happening; I can count the number of female primary antagonists in video games that I know on one hand. It's especially telling when you see stuff like that gender-swapped Legend of Zelda pitch, with Link as the prince and Zelda as the hero... and Ganon still the BBEG.
/r/MensRights25/09/13 05:18 PM
2

according to research such as this[1] you will see that the higher healthcare cost is not from use, but simply living longer. If men lived as long as women, the costs would be roughly the same. That's not what it indicates at all, though. It directly says that only 2/5 of the difference between men's healthcare costs and women's is due to the longer life expectancy. That means three fifths are due to other factors, including childbirth and the tendency for men to avoid going to the doctor as oft…
/r/MensRights25/09/13 01:52 AM
5

Ah, apparently I can't read and it was an hour and ten minutes, not 10 minutes. Still, things can take a while to get started on this sub; if nobody's looking at new, it'll be a bit before it gets to the front page of the sub.
/r/MensRights24/09/13 11:16 PM
3

It was submitted (an hour and*) 10 minutes before you made your comment. Chill.
/r/MensRights24/09/13 09:49 PM
-25

Right, and that rape victim's fault for wearing such a short skirt? You can fuck right off with that.
/r/MensRights24/09/13 06:07 PM
16

Wonder if we'll see something like "Men's supremacists hire armed guards to intimidate protesters" coming from the other side pretty soon.
/r/MensRights24/09/13 06:06 PM
22

Hate speech = power + hate speech... so power is nothing? Hm.
/r/MensRights24/09/13 05:43 PM
9

It never hurts to have extra eyes on multi-million dollar game projects, in other words, unless you like the idea of mowing down roving bands of disgusting, mutant women. Yeah, who would want to play that? Ugh. Much better to mow down bands of faceless uniformed men, in pretty much every military shooter ever.
/r/MensRights24/09/13 03:59 PM
80

There is no female equivalent. Because telling people how to handle their sexuality and conduct themselves in consensual situations with the opposite sex is misogynistic slut shaming! Oh wait, that's only for women. m'bad
/r/MensRights24/09/13 12:20 AM
2

Hm. Attend the rally, but dress as a homeless person, then? That'd be a message to convey.
/r/MensRights23/09/13 11:32 PM
12

There's absolutely nothing to indicate anything like that so it makes no sense to assume that's the case.
/r/MensRights23/09/13 11:22 PM
8

I'm not really seeing how a difference in rights comes into this. A difference in expectations, sure, but rights?
/r/MensRights23/09/13 11:21 PM
17

Police don’t say “don’t be violent” No, I'm pretty sure there's a law to that effect somewhere.
/r/MensRights23/09/13 09:53 PM
5

I know I never care to bring my keys, wallet, and cell phone when I head out the door.
/r/MensRights23/09/13 05:27 PM
46

Hah. Even so, the wording is quite gender neutral, so I would be surprised if it wasn't intentional to have it in the men's room.
/r/MensRights23/09/13 03:51 PM
9

Yeeeah... that kinda stood out for me as well. Somehow, I don't think it quite happened as described.
/r/MensRights23/09/13 05:22 AM
3

You just won't be able to pull it off Hoh!
/r/MensRights23/09/13 02:59 AM
9

Why not both?
/r/MensRights22/09/13 10:17 PM
15

Wait... huh. This went into the wrong thread, didn't it? Shoot. Now I'm confused why it was upvoted a lot.
/r/MensRights22/09/13 08:10 PM
1

Most people would the consider the statement:- She is sexist as she hates men and will not hire them. to be correct usage of the word 'sexist'. I don't disagree. However, it's still the case that the majority of the time when sexism is discussed, it's re: sexism against women. People understand at a basic level that sexism can happen against men, but unfortunately it really doesn't get talked about much.
/r/MensRights22/09/13 07:46 PM
1

They're not the same mental disorder at all. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
/r/MensRights22/09/13 05:39 PM
1

Ooh, haha, I accidentally a word. Meant to say there's no such thing as reverse sexism, not just sexism. There's definitely such a thing as sexism.
/r/MensRights22/09/13 05:37 PM
2

I'm sorry, but if you put people who wear girl's clothing sometimes into the same category as child molesters, then I have zero interest in taking you seriously either.
/r/MensRights22/09/13 05:01 PM
0

Dictionaries simply reflect a language as it's used by the people. The vast majority of the time, when most people say sexism without qualifying it as reverse sexism (whatever the hell that means), they are referring to prejudice against women. Rather than getting upset over the dictionary doing its job, we need to get society to wake up to the fact that there's no such thing as (whoops, reverse) sexism, and misandry can and does exist, so that they start using it in a more gender-neutral fashio…
/r/MensRights22/09/13 04:55 PM
89

Circumcising Your Son Is Nobody's Business But YOURS Pretty sure it's your goddamn son's business, too.
/r/MensRights22/09/13 04:50 PM
1

Yep! Happens even if you're the president of the united states. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/20/obama-todd-akin-rape_n_1812140.html
/r/MensRights22/09/13 04:47 PM
11

Well, there's a lot more carbon in us than copper, that's for sure.
/r/MensRights22/09/13 04:39 PM
25

Ah damn, wish I'd known this was a thing. I was just signed up for selective service instead... boy do I feel silly.
/r/MensRights21/09/13 04:31 PM
5

I know, right? This is the Wall Street Journal saying that. So wonderful. Also of note: We don't have an answer to this complicated and vexing problem, but we're quite sure it's not more feminism.
/r/MensRights21/09/13 03:33 AM
15

The claim that Bill Nye is keeping people out of science because of who he is is both laughably wrong (Bill Nye has done more to create young scientists than just about anyone else has in recent years) and bigoted. If being an old white guy scientist is unacceptable, should he stop being a scientist (something that I'm sure he'd object strongly to, if it were even possible), or stop being an old white guy? Or simply stop having the audacity to show his face on national television?
/r/MensRights20/09/13 06:20 PM
5

And yet, the statistic will still be cited for decades to come despite its misrepresentation and tortuous bending of facts, as with all other statistics of this nature.
/r/MensRights20/09/13 05:15 PM
1

10% is not 1 in 100.
/r/MensRights20/09/13 03:16 PM
12

Anyway, to intactivists, mutilation is mutilation; what does it matter if it’s for the greater good? Mutilation For The Greater Good. How noble! Just like those wonderful undesireables-sterilization eugenics programs. Your mutilation is for the greater good! Seriously though, what the fuck.
/r/MensRights20/09/13 05:53 AM
2

You can have black friends and still be racist, you can have gay friends and still be homophobic but you you date/marry/have sex with/love men that that means there is no way you hate them. wut
/r/MensRights20/09/13 03:20 AM
15

If the (second) best you can come up with to complain about is fucking Army Men: Sarge's Heroes, you know you're really grasping at straws. Anyways, it's hilarious how an article entirely devoted to claiming misogyny ends itself with a picture making fun of people who complain about misandry.
/r/MensRights19/09/13 03:18 PM
100

Sex-selective abortion is a negligible issue in Britain. In the countries where it is a serious concern, it's a symptom of brute misogyny. "When girls are selected for, it's not an issue. When girls are selected against, it's brutal misogyny." ok
/r/MensRights19/09/13 02:52 PM
3

claiming somebody else's achievements as your own because you share a penis with them is preposterous. That's all well and good, but that's not why this result is important. This result is important because it is very much to be expected that the people at the top of society are the exceptional ones. There are more exceptional men than women. It's an important counter to the claim that the lack of women at the top of society is evidence of sexism or patriarchy or what have you. seriously though,…
/r/MensRights19/09/13 06:07 AM
9

how is this misandry? What? Nobody said it was.
/r/MensRights18/09/13 10:08 PM
9

If the main argument you have against something is "I'm not sure why it exists," maybe you should try to figure out why it exists instead of complaining that it does.
/r/MensRights18/09/13 03:16 PM
1

It was pretty clearly meant as a segue into "if castration is illegal, why isn't circumcision."
/r/MensRights18/09/13 03:04 PM
10

Iveson said he believes the group is inadvertently creating a discussion. “All these guys are doing is shedding light on the importance of talking about violence against women and that, that’s still an issue in our community,” he said. They just don't get it, do they? They're completely incapable of understanding that rape is not exclusively caused by men and is not exclusively perpetrated against women. It's like a psychological blind spot, or something. They hear, but they don't listen.
/r/MensRights17/09/13 10:56 PM
1

They're not LITERALLY the same thing, but the two statements have more in common with each other than I ever imagined.
/r/MensRights17/09/13 10:16 PM
1

No one is saying that. . I was disenfranchised in the last election by the behaviour and policies of the major parties. It appears, as a woman, in Australia I have more in common with the women in Afghanistan than I ever imagined. I remain disenfranchised. Top comment on the article.
/r/MensRights17/09/13 06:17 PM
2

Women aren't a bloody minority. Being >50% of the population is by definition not a minority. Why do people keep saying that? It boggles the mind.
/r/MensRights17/09/13 06:15 PM
5

I still love how Jezebel's Fuck You Week is actually a thing. Couldn't get more 1984 Two Minutes Hate if you tried.
/r/MensRights17/09/13 03:59 PM
2

I didn't say their methods invalidated their message. Rather, I think that allowing their manifestos to be disseminated in the wake of their actions sets the precedent that mass murder is an effective way of spreading a message, whatever that message may be. I don't think that's a good precedent to be setting.
/r/MensRights16/09/13 08:50 PM
6

"The fact that the new Prime Minister could only find, out of his entire party room, one female member of Parliament that he regards as being meritorious enough to serve in his Cabinet is a sad indictment," he said. I don't really get this. When selecting people for a position like that, you don't just look to see if they pass some minimum standard for qualification and then go "eh, good enough," you try to find the best of the best. You can't just be qualifying, you have to be superlative.
/r/MensRights16/09/13 04:33 PM
5

isn't the only reason anyone has heard of this pathetic, narcissistic mental midget is because he mercilessly slaughtered a load of innocent people? So in what sense is he a 'critic' of anything? In the same sense that the Unabomber was a critic of technology and modern society. His motivation for what he did was to get people to pay attention to his message. (Which, sadly, people did in both cases. I never really understood that; why would you give them the satisfaction? But I digress.)
/r/MensRights16/09/13 02:34 PM
6

Very much this. Just because a person crossdresses doesn't mean they want to be or become female.
/r/MensRights16/09/13 02:48 AM
8

How do you figure she's a feminist? Just seems to be standard-issue crazy here, not really ideological.
/r/MensRights16/09/13 12:45 AM
1

Eh, that doesn't really quite work, I don't think. The Titanic was a passenger ship, and as such the majority of the people on it, women AND men, had no naval training. If it was really about usefulness/uselessness, it'd just be "passengers first."
/r/MensRights13/09/13 05:48 PM
7

Got a source for that?
/r/MensRights13/09/13 03:15 PM
0

Well I acknowledge the needs for a humans rights movement that isn't defined by gender. There are many such movements.
/r/MensRights12/09/13 06:39 PM
8

It's pretty clear that it's intentional. Things like that don't just randomly happen; if it were a glitch, it'd be far more likely to be redirected to, like, cooking, or something arbitrary like that.
/r/MensRights12/09/13 02:51 PM
6

It is pretty broad and ambiguous, isn't it? It's rather, dare I say... worrisome?
/r/MensRights12/09/13 02:56 AM
6

I dunno, doesn't look much different from Postal to me. It's classless, certainly, but I wouldn't say it's wrong.
/r/MensRights11/09/13 09:51 PM
7

Agreed; this post is bad and I don't know why it was upvoted so much. A killing without intent is manslaughter; 2nd degree murder still very much involves intent.
/r/MensRights11/09/13 02:42 PM
15

there would be no non-custodial parent and neither parent would be required to pay child support. This outcome is certainly not in the best interests of the children. So apparently, both parents sharing the responsibility of raising a child, and both parents having contact with the child, is not in the best interests of the child. what the actual fuck
/r/MensRights10/09/13 05:03 PM
2

The school that I went to [growing up] was on the school closure list this year, because at 98 percent poor and 98 or 99 percent black, they didn’t think we would fight for it. Fifty public schools in my city were just closed. There are going to be girls in that city who are now transferring schools, who are going to be crossing dangerous neighborhoods, for whom maybe education doesn’t seem like the key to anything because affording quality education is much more difficult for them. Because they…
/r/MensRights10/09/13 02:56 PM
5

And what were the response rates on those two particular questions? Almost looks intentional... Don't even bullshit, the actual paper isn't even linked in the article OP posted.
/r/MensRights10/09/13 02:11 PM
6

One would think the easier solution to avoid railway gropings would be campaigns against groping people, not campaigns against men even being in the presence of women.
/r/MensRights10/09/13 02:02 PM
35

This isn't some political awakening, it's reactionary regression towards literal fascism. literally literally Hitler
/r/MensRights10/09/13 02:59 AM
3

"Men aren't oppressed, that's why they can't be allowed to have any safe spaces ever." --thebuhlscrapes
/r/MensRights10/09/13 12:23 AM
3

Sexual orientation is not acquired through upbringing. Upon what grounds do you assert this? I don't think it's a choice, certainly, but a person's sexuality is not set in stone at the time of their birth.
/r/MensRights09/09/13 03:04 PM
9

We're using the word mansplaining for works of fiction now? Fuck's sake.
/r/MensRights09/09/13 03:02 PM
2

Well, at least MGM pretends to have medical justification, then. Doesn't matter if those pretenses are complete junk and in no way justify what's done, but hey, whatev. /s How about this: pretenses at medical justification devalue the horror of MGM.
/r/MensRights07/09/13 05:02 PM
8

What the hell? Where did that come from? So, are you insinuating you rape goats? Edit: Oh, sorry, I assumed you'd read the story. Or, y'know, the title of the post. Guess I was expecting too much, then. In his dying statement, Vishwakarma alleged that her family members demanded Rs 2 lakh from him and when he expressed his inability to do so they set him ablaze, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Makrand Deoskar said.
/r/MensRights07/09/13 04:44 PM
3

He was awaiting trial. Clearly the authorities had already been contacted and the process started. people don't usually set people on fire over lies, bro... People don't usually set people on fire at all. It's not unheard of to set fire to someone you feel owes you money who doesn't want to pay up, though.
/r/MensRights07/09/13 02:43 PM
56

That's a bit narrow. Every way in which female rape can happen is a way in which male rape can happen.
/r/MensRights06/09/13 11:23 PM
0

So it's alright for businesses to not hire black people? For schools to not hire male teachers?
/r/MensRights06/09/13 08:48 PM
14

Your first step is to accept that “a hatred or intolerance of another race” is not the definition of racism. The dictionary is wrong. Get over it. wonka.jpg
/r/MensRights06/09/13 06:51 PM
-4

And there it is! Right on cue.
/r/MensRights06/09/13 05:42 PM
8

But what's really uncomfortable about this, is that you're denying your children a chance to be men. They're not doing that at all, though. The boy has the chance to be a man - he's just not taking it, and they're fine with that. It's abusive. When you leave it up in the air and try and play it by ear you're essentially saying "you aren't a man. there is something about you that makes it so you aren't a man the way you are. you could dress and act like a girl and no one would question it or thin…
/r/MensRights06/09/13 05:15 PM
3

In many jurisdictions, there are indeed laws against relationships with an imbalance of power. (e.g. teacher/student, superior officer/recruit, caretaker/caretakee?)
/r/MensRights06/09/13 12:16 AM
24

Has anyone in the history of humankind ever worked at a job like that? Punch in, punch out, zoom, you’re climbing the ladder of success and no one ever looks at your work…or the color of your skin or the kind of genitals you keep in your pants… honestly I'd kinda prefer a job that doesn't take looks at my genitals, thanks
/r/MensRights05/09/13 12:24 AM
2

The "vast majority" of rape is not against women, not by a long shot. If you include prison numbers, men are actually the majority of victims; even if you don't, it's pretty close to par. The fact that almost all campaigns about rape focus only on women exacerbates this mistaken view.
/r/MensRights04/09/13 01:58 PM
2

Yeah, UMich is pretty good about gender-neutral language in things like this. Here's the text appended to a sexual assault crime alert: Sexual assault is any sexual activity that occurs in the absence of consent. Most perpetrators assault someone they know. Sexual assault occurs in all communities and people of all genders can be survivors. Responsibility lies with the perpetrator, not the survivor -- no one deserves, asks for, or provokes sexual assault. Sexual assault can include sexual activi…
/r/MensRights04/09/13 05:16 AM
13

I never understood why women are considered a minority. It's not even remotely true.
/r/MensRights04/09/13 02:56 AM
153

“For every horror story that you can come up with about a support obligor, I can come up with 10 for an obligee who can’t make ends meet because her post-divorce standard of living has so drastically dropped.” TIL women being unused to having to live within their means is comparable to near-literal slavery.
/r/MensRights26/08/13 02:51 PM
2

Mary Bousted, ATL general secretary, said: “It may be that the rise of ‘girl power’ in qualifications is down to a more measured way of assessment, of which coursework is a part.” At least they're not trying to hide the fact that the goal is female superiority, rather than gender equality.
/r/MensRights25/08/13 04:34 PM
35

Maybe they mean, like, a super power.
/r/MensRights23/08/13 05:08 PM
0

He's complaining about them regarding his opinion as coming from a white guy, while simultaneously grouping them together by the color of their own skin. Lamenting racism with one hand while espousing it with the other.
/r/MensRights22/08/13 04:52 AM
11

her bigotry don't equate it with racism I don't get it. Bigotry based on race is the very definition of racism.
/r/MensRights21/08/13 10:52 PM
2

Guess why I don't discuss Trayvon Martin with the blacks in my neighbourhood? Because no matter what I say, to them it'll be a white man saying it to them. Please, re-examine this sentence and find the cognitive dissonance inherent in it. It'll do you some good.
/r/MensRights21/08/13 10:33 PM
2

If the message you got from A Clockwork Orange was "we should do it this way," you should really re-read/watch A Clockwork Orange. Because it was as much of an instruction manual as 1984 was.
/r/MensRights21/08/13 10:27 PM
3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk
/r/MensRights21/08/13 07:08 PM
8

Well-behaved [people] seldom make history.
/r/MensRights21/08/13 02:50 AM
2

They're forced to pay child support, naturally.
/r/MensRights20/08/13 06:15 PM
12

she had written "Will you go to winter formal with me?" If the gender roles were reversed, I would have gotten into trouble for harassment. What. No.
/r/MensRights18/08/13 02:18 AM
7

10 years old is really not that young. 5th graders are reasonably self-aware, and certainly know the difference between right and wrong.
/r/MensRights10/08/13 12:51 PM
78

Wow, that Myers shit... an accusation I can’t personally vouch for, except to say that I know the author, and that she’s not trying to acquire notoriety (she wants her name kept out of it)? As if the only possible ulterior motive is notoriety. (But I thought making a rape accusation was a terrible re-victimizing ordeal that nobody would ever want to go through if they hadn't actually been raped? Never mind that it's not possible to re-victimize someone who was never a victim in the first place.)…
/r/MensRights09/08/13 12:17 PM
8

Yeah... it kinda reads more like a condemnation than a celebration.
/r/MensRights09/08/13 03:59 AM
27

BUT THEN Soner decided that just getting away with it wasn't enough Getting away with it? Getting fucking away with it? Getting away with what, doing his job and not having his life destroyed for petty change in the process? Yeah, real fucking greedy of him to want more than just getting away with that.
/r/MensRights09/08/13 02:36 AM
2

Cain Velasquez is the "male power fantasy". Hmm, I'm not quite sure I'd say that, though. Ripping muscles are not fully practical, yes, but it's a fantasy after all - it doesn't have to be entirely physically accurate. I'm not saying we're talking Fabio here, but some appearance of muscles more obvious than those is probably part of it.
/r/MensRights05/08/13 04:07 AM
7

It just keeps repeating that it must be a man, over and over. 13 times that it referenced "his" gender, which stands in pretty stark contrast to the 0 evidence that it actually is a man.
/r/MensRights04/08/13 11:56 PM
2

Can you read? It's right there. (a) A person commits an offense if the person with criminal negligence sells an alcoholic beverage to.. an intoxicated... person.
/r/MensRights04/08/13 04:12 AM
1

(sorry, boogeypeople) Nope, you got it right the first time.
/r/MensRights03/08/13 06:14 PM
6

He starts it with that. Twitter runs posts bottom-to-top, chronologically.
/r/MensRights03/08/13 01:37 PM
4

The manager at @worldmarket asked my wife I WASN'T doing it, why did I leave so quickly. Holy shit. Seriously?
/r/MensRights30/07/13 12:31 AM
3

"Chattel"? Really now?
/r/MensRights28/07/13 02:26 PM
37

Hm... is it a Babelfish?
/r/MensRights28/07/13 04:36 AM
3

So they're now straight-up saying that sexism is good when it's against men. At least they're honest about it.
/r/MensRights27/07/13 06:21 PM
54

Is this some sort of satire, or are we really saying that Roger Ebert was less influential than some dude who made a shakycam video back in the 90s that only 10 people ever saw?
/r/MensRights26/07/13 03:00 AM
11

I don't know if such a thing even exists, and if it does the people who made it are just ignorant. So, what you're saying is, you're ignorant as to whether or not a thing exists, but based on your ignorance, you come to the conclusion that whoever is involved with the thing (which you know nothing more of than two offhand sentences in a much larger segment) must be ignorant? Hm.
/r/MensRights23/07/13 11:42 PM
3

Fair enough. It's definitely a shitty and tragic situation for everyone involved, most of all Martin.
/r/MensRights18/07/13 11:34 AM
5

when in fact it may not be. "Maybe" isn't proof beyond a reasonable doubt. That's not how our justice system works, nor should it be. The bottom line is, if you made up your mind about Zimmerman's guilt before the trial where all the evidence was presented and legal arguments were laid out, you don't get a say in the justness of the ruling.
/r/MensRights18/07/13 11:24 AM
8

How do you know how it went? Were there any witnesses other than Zimmerman and the dead boy? This is an argument for his acquittal, not for his conviction, you know. You're literally saying here that there is a reasonable doubt.
/r/MensRights18/07/13 11:17 AM
3

That bit really makes no sense at all in the context of the opening of the article, too. Men find it bullshit that the campaign assumes that all men rape, which is pretty understandable - also, all men do rape? There really is no way to reconcile that.
/r/MensRights16/07/13 12:43 AM
6

if privilege is defined as artificially constructed headstart in a given area. Why would you define it like that? Doesn't really have to be artificially constructed at all.
/r/MensRights14/07/13 01:59 AM
2

What the fuck, no. A slap to the face is not even remotely on the same level as snapping someone's arm, that's a horrifying escalation.
/r/MensRights11/07/13 11:10 PM
13

Mens' Rights Edmonton causing a HUGE Splash with Posters That's why.
/r/MensRights11/07/13 01:31 AM
7

Meh, it's an anime con. If they ask first, I don't have any issue with it. And, conversely, there shouldn't really be any problem if you ask to hug someone (as long as you do ask before just running up and having at it).
/r/MensRights09/07/13 11:11 PM
19

Well, sure, but pretty much anyone with any physique can do great cosplays if they choose appropriate characters. I'm a pretty skinny guy, not really muscular by any means, and all of the cosplays I do take that into account to decent effect. That said, I have had my ass grabbed on a few occasions, so yeah, it's definitely not something that only happens to women.
/r/MensRights09/07/13 01:13 AM
3

A post in the negatives from one year ago is not exactly evidence that this sub bashes rape victims... Really, I'd say that it's more evidence of the opposite, if that's all you can find.
/r/MensRights08/07/13 04:01 AM
6

There's a big huge sidebar over there that nicely outlines a lot of things that would help you answer your question. It would be advisable to read that before asking a two-line question like this, yeah.
/r/MensRights08/07/13 03:42 AM
6

A spoof video has already appeared on YouTube, in which the camera pans slowly up a man's hairy legs to his baggy underpants. Yeah, those're totally hallmarks of male swimmers, hairy legs. Good call on that one.
/r/MensRights08/07/13 01:44 AM
9

Hate like asserting that no women are altruistic or have tech skills. There is no such assertion anywhere here. Try again?
/r/MensRights04/07/13 08:47 PM
7

What? None of those things are true for sleeping.
/r/MensRights28/06/13 11:20 AM
1

No, not really. Transphobia and sexism are not what I would call nice.
/r/MensRights25/06/13 11:51 AM
4

Even so, it's still not a weapon in that case. It's still a tool - one that causes significant collateral damage, yes, but not intentionally a weapon.
/r/MensRights25/06/13 11:44 AM
4

The implication in the title that society only cares about men getting raped and not women is pretty damn ludicrous.
/r/MensRights24/06/13 11:11 PM
5

This is rape culture in action. It puts the burden of proving innocence on the victim, and from Steubenville, Ohio, to Notre Dame and beyond, we’ve seen it poison cases and destroy lives. Back in the day, they called this "innocent until proven guilty" for the accused. It seems times have changed since then.
/r/MensRights21/06/13 01:17 AM
5

incorrectly says that Sarah is "...not pictured on the box..." She isn't, though. That's Ellie on the box. They're not the same person.
/r/MensRights21/06/13 12:23 AM
4

matriarchal societies from antiquity (the Amazonian's for instance) The Amazons never existed. It's a myth as much as the gods on mount Olympus is.
/r/MensRights19/06/13 12:26 AM
4

They're still pretending that the charges against Assange were anything but obviously trumped-up charges to be able to extradite him for other offenses? That's kinda sad.
/r/MensRights16/06/13 02:12 PM
2

Seriously now? That's what you're going with?
/r/MensRights15/06/13 05:55 PM
2

I know exactly 0 men that like knitting, despite how useful it probably is. I'm a man, and I've done some knitting before. It's actually not very useful at all, though; the time you spend making a scarf or sweater or something could be spent making money to buy a scarf or sweater. That's a much more efficient way of doing things. People nowadays probably don't knit because they need a sweater, they knit because it's something to pass the time.
/r/MensRights15/06/13 05:55 PM
6

We don't see people signing petitions to make a male main character in the next season of My Little Pony. Why? Because there already is one...? http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Spike
/r/MensRights15/06/13 01:06 PM
2

it pretends to be a video game about a teenager in Texas named Sarah She’s not pictured on the box, for one thing. ...What?
/r/MensRights15/06/13 01:32 AM
4

The new CPS guidelines will require all child sex abuse cases to be dealt with by specialists in rape and serious sexual offences. It... doesn't seem all that unreasonable to me? A case that involves alleged rape or serious sexual offence is now required to be handled by someone whose job is exactly that. Not really sure how that's objectionable.
/r/MensRights12/06/13 01:54 PM
18

Indeed, there is such a group, it seems.
/r/MensRights09/06/13 09:14 PM
-1

we have to believe in a failed vasectomy (almost impossible) You have a very poor definition of almost impossible. This has happened at least 60 times before, why is it "almost impossible" to think that this may have happened in this case as well? Just because something is statistically unlikely doesn't mean we should rule it out in a case study.
/r/MensRights06/06/13 12:21 PM
5

Did you read the article? It directly contradicts both of your statements.
/r/MensRights02/06/13 02:42 PM
1

You know, I may be wrong about this, but I don't think Trenticle was being 100$ serious. Just a thought.
/r/MensRights31/05/13 11:23 PM
16

Something I find rather telling is that in all these genderswaps to make a female the supposed hero, none of them feature a genderswap of Ganon(dorf). The eeeevil bad guy that you have to kill/imprison is always, well, a guy.
/r/MensRights28/05/13 11:30 PM
8

Looking for a female roommate isn't discrimination. Looking for a female tenant is, though. Are you sure you aren't seeing mostly the former?
/r/MensRights28/05/13 05:53 AM
55

I like the implication that anywhere that allows men is an unsafe place. (no wait I don't like that at all)
/r/MensRights22/05/13 12:35 PM
1

The law requires virtually everybody on a bicycle in the Western world to use the road or face a fine should they try the sidewalk. Nah, not really. In the state I live in, a bicycle can take the sidewalk as long as it yields to pedestrians and calls out when passing. It's considered a pedestrian in that case. I usually do a mix of street and sidewalk riding whenever I ride, favoring the sidewalk (and taking great care whenever I switch between the two, of course).
/r/MensRights22/05/13 12:41 AM
6

Under the title 'When Geeks Attack'. Referring to Adria herself, right? ...R-right?
/r/MensRights20/05/13 08:37 AM
2

"Fuck you, chefs, models, and musicians. Your life choices are oppressing me."
/r/MensRights15/05/13 04:02 AM
14

median is a terrible method to display statistics. The median is a perfectly fine method for many purposes, especially one such as this. If 99 people in a town are making $0, and 1 person is making a hundred million dollars, then one should hardly say that the mean income in that town is a million dollars.
/r/MensRights13/05/13 12:45 PM
5

First off she says that women are weak, and second that men are aggressive. Neither of these statements are true. It is a simple biological fact that, on average as well as at the top level of competition, boys and men will outperform girls and women in athleticism. There's only a rare few cases where this isn't the case (ultramarathoning, for one) but you're not going to see that in any of the standard sports young people do. Having separate leagues for boys and girls is a nice way to provide f…
/r/MensRights11/05/13 04:32 PM
5

In that era, girls had few opportunities to play sports and the rule was supposed to help them. God forbid it help boys sometimes too, eh?
/r/MensRights11/05/13 04:24 PM
1

Agreed. It's entirely possible to have violence without strength, and strength can be quite separate from violence. (e.g. physically-demanding jobs)
/r/MensRights10/05/13 02:57 PM
9

It's not even funny, though, is the thing that gets me. "Haha, men want to do things sometimes. Those fuckers." What?
/r/MensRights08/05/13 10:08 PM
5

It's the onion, man. It's not meant to be making valid points.
/r/MensRights08/05/13 10:07 PM
2

Upon what grounds do you assert that the person making that statement is a liberal? Edit: Hmm, seems that they have "Mr. Conservative" and "Conservative Daily" on their list of likes. How 'bout that.
/r/MensRights08/05/13 01:31 PM
27

...what. I thought for sure this had to be one of those fake Gawker articles that people make up to make them look even worse than they usually do, but... nope, this is actually on the site. I just don't even. I really have no words for this.
/r/MensRights06/05/13 06:26 PM
3

How does that in any way serve as a lesson that an assault could happen to them? That's like me claiming I've been abducted by aliens from Alpha Centauri, then when I admit it's not real still claim that it's done some good because now people are more aware that it could happen to them, too.
/r/MensRights03/05/13 02:48 PM
4

Regretting working too hard is not a bad thing - it indicates a life well lived. Not necessarily. From what the person says, it seems to indicate that they considered that time they spent working as a waste. As in, maybe they had an office job they hated, but spent huge amounts of time at it in order to care for their family, instead of spending that time for themselves. It may be a life well lived as far as society is concerned, but for the individual it could be just the opposite.
/r/MensRights02/05/13 02:58 PM
6

It's neat how she says that a couple minutes after saying "It's nice to have an open question that asks us what our goals are, instead of telling us what they are and arguing based on that."
/r/MensRights01/05/13 07:58 PM
2

Please find non-ageist ways to insult people.
/r/MensRights29/04/13 09:07 PM
9

The participation gap between men and women continued to widen over the period studied; by 2008, 55.9 per cent of Ontario females had attended university by age 21 as compared to just 38.4 per cent of males, representing a 17.5 percentage point gap. Other HEQCO research notes that despite the overall advances females have made in PSE attainment, they have not translated into full equality in occupational choices and earnings, where males have higher full-time employment levels and higher earning…
/r/MensRights27/04/13 03:53 AM
1

It's off-topic, it simply has nothing to do with the subject of this sub-reddit.
/r/MensRights25/04/13 07:38 PM
2

Ugh, the comments section in that article is a cesspool.
/r/MensRights25/04/13 01:28 AM
2

However, women’s issues cannot be subsumed into general issues the way men’s can, because women’s oppression is routinely side lined in a way that men’s aren’t. My head hurts from reading this. Actual, physical pain, knowing that some person sat down at their computer and thought that this would be a good sentence to write today. "Mens issues can be sidelined because men's issues are never sidelined." I just... I just don't know any more.
/r/MensRights24/04/13 04:35 AM
5

(+) feminine (-) femininity ...Huh?
/r/MensRights24/04/13 01:55 AM
4

This is not a gendered issue. Indeed it isn't. Where in 'cosplay is not consent' do you see gender?
/r/MensRights24/04/13 12:01 AM
18

Since their arguments are so laughably spurious, MRAs can't successfully combat feminism with facts. ...She says, completely unfoundedly. Nice.
/r/MensRights23/04/13 05:29 PM
21

"He treated her with contempt. He said if she could not afford to maintain the children, they could live with him." Asking for custody in the best interests of the children is contemptuous? What the hell?
/r/MensRights22/04/13 06:23 PM
20

Forced envelopment isn't even mentioned in the sexual assault section. Wow.
/r/MensRights21/04/13 04:45 PM
5

Really? None at all? Even in the famous pictures of Arredondo there's a woman right there. Come on. (Two in that one, even.)
/r/MensRights20/04/13 01:07 AM
16

Oh lord, that comic at the top. Wait, where's my robe and throne? I'm a man, aren't I supposed to have one? And what about that guy next to him, what's he doing besides looking angry? Maybe he's just the king's indentured servant. Male privilege!
/r/MensRights18/04/13 11:46 PM
4

So, are they saying that husbands should hide all of their wealth from their wives and force them to live in squalor? 'Cause then he wouldn't need to pay permanent alimony since she'd be used to destitution. "Husbands: If you're not an evil person, we're gonna punish you."
/r/MensRights18/04/13 08:52 PM
21

Why do you say that? Doctorates are earned through academia, which is very distinct from the real world. It's quite possible to get a Ph.D without having had a job in the industry.
/r/MensRights18/04/13 03:48 PM
4

What awful reporting and analysis. The study didn't examine HIV risk by any means whatsoever. It determined that circumcision changes the penis `biome' (which should be pretty obvious anyways), and then because that one study had mixed correlation with causation to say circumcision reduces HIV risk, they just assumed that the above must be the reason why that is.
/r/MensRights16/04/13 09:29 PM
1

"Power violence"? Really? As opposed to what, exactly?
/r/MensRights09/04/13 07:38 PM
3

Protest pornography and rape culture by stripping naked and telling people to rape. Allllrighty then.
/r/MensRights04/04/13 01:20 AM
5

Indeed. I'd say it's rather wonderfully written, and very compelling.
/r/MensRights03/04/13 04:32 PM
9

Jolly good for them. It's morally reprehensible to give children stretched earlobes at birth, too. Doesn't mean people can't do it to themselves when they're of age.
/r/MensRights03/04/13 01:43 PM
20

Human rights shouldn't be curtailed just because one is born into a religious family.
/r/MensRights03/04/13 01:41 PM
1

Pretty much the only games in that respect are RPGs, though, and that's only because male/female is an easy convenience for making stronger vs more agile character archetypes. Heck, even then, if you look at something like Fire Emblem, the characters you command are an even mix of male and female, but the vast majority of enemy units you kill your way through are male.
/r/MensRights31/03/13 04:35 PM
3

it was an invitation. Just leave. Awful peculiar way of inviting someone.
/r/MensRights31/03/13 04:31 PM
0

Wait, did you post this here in earnest, then? Oh dear.
/r/MensRights30/03/13 10:14 PM
1

Indeed. Incidentally, I assume that the song is cut from a larger song, and is "misinterpreted" lyrics. If so, anyone happen to know what the actual song is? It's kinda catchy.
/r/MensRights30/03/13 10:13 PM
9

It's considerably newer (I'm not sure when the movement started exactly, but it's definitely not been around as long as the early waves of feminism), and less organized than feminism is.
/r/MensRights30/03/13 10:11 PM
7

Are we really going to commit to something like that here?
/r/MensRights30/03/13 10:07 PM
2

nearly all trans people are feminists [citation needed]
/r/MensRights29/03/13 03:05 AM
5

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Entertainment/story?id=1526982&page=3#.UVUEZxw4t8E Not perfectly what you're asking for, but still enlightening.
/r/MensRights29/03/13 03:03 AM
6

You're looking at it from the wrong end. Nobody's going to say cis-male when they could say male. They do, however, use it when they could say "non-transgendered male" or "biological male," as cis is indeed quite a bit shorter than either of those.
/r/MensRights29/03/13 03:01 AM
115

Johnny isn't perfection, though. He skips all the leg days.
/r/MensRights29/03/13 02:56 AM
2

Paying a percentage of income as taxes which are used to fund the salaries of federal highway workers is so incomparable to slavery that making such a comparison paints you as extremely intellectually dishonest.
/r/MensRights28/03/13 02:07 PM
6

"Disadvantage" as in, remove some of the advantage that girls already have over boys in the school system? Seems fair to me.
/r/MensRights28/03/13 07:04 AM
1

Try not to break any teeth when you shove words in someone's mouth as hard as that, alright?
/r/MensRights27/03/13 09:51 PM
3

Props to the male anchor who got in a quick "Yes you are." right after she said that wasn't discriminating against men.
/r/MensRights27/03/13 09:15 PM
1

However, a preference for large and very large breasts was significantly correlated with... female objectification Shocking. Who could have predicted such a thing?
/r/MensRights27/03/13 09:09 PM
5

The second line wasn't there when I wrote the reply. I can't get jokes that aren't told.
/r/MensRights24/03/13 09:08 PM
2

I doubt he meant his list of examples to be exhaustive.
/r/MensRights24/03/13 05:39 PM
6

It's not a project for an RPG, it's a game design course. They may build an RPG during the course but it's highly unlikely that it'll be worth anything, as a week is not a long time to make a game even with the hand-holding that RPG maker gives you.
/r/MensRights24/03/13 03:48 PM
8

I can't imagine how people have the gall to say she called out sexism and/or sexual harassment. It wasn't even tangentially sexist, unless you think bodily anatomy and the physiological difference between sexes is sexist or something. And how in nine hells could it be sexual harassment if they weren't even talking to her, nor really intended for her to overhear? Unless people just have no idea what they're talking about I can't see any possible reasoning for labeling it that.
/r/MensRights21/03/13 11:29 PM
30

What? I just... I just don't understand how this is at all offensive in any way to anyone, yet one of them lost his job over it? Seriously, firing someone making a joke about a big dongle? I could maybe understand if they were joking about tying someone up and forcing themselves upon them or something, but how is making a silly lewd comment about forking a repository at all oppressive or immoral? Sex exists, and not all sex is rape. It is entirely possible to make a reference to the existence of…
/r/MensRights19/03/13 05:58 PM
3

Somehow I doubt this kind of story would make the front page.
/r/MensRights19/03/13 04:07 PM
8

This is what happens when misleading studies give wildly misleading statistics which are then taken and ran with by people with all sorts of agendas. However, OP, your title is also misleading, in a way... she's not saying that more students should be expelled, she's saying that there should be at least some. I can't imagine that in the past 10 years nobody has sexually assaulted anyone there, so she does have something of a point.
/r/MensRights18/03/13 01:54 PM
9

If I wanted the rights of a married couple, I would get married. This is exactly what it boils down to. This law came about because people complained that current laws discriminated against unmarried people, which is just plain nonsensical.
/r/MensRights17/03/13 09:02 PM
1

you also want to ensure that your population stays healthy and that there is no inbreeding. Interestingly, inbreeding can actually be good for scientific purposes. It's best to have a population of rats as genetically similar to each other as possible, so that as many variables are controlled for as possible.
/r/MensRights17/03/13 09:00 PM
15

That’s right: in 2013 there are still some people who honestly can’t see what’s wrong with mutilating a baby. Crazy to think about, isn't it? cough
/r/MensRights17/03/13 08:50 PM
1

I currently attend the U of M, and while I don't know (nor have I heard of) anyone involved in a case like this, I did notice something related to this subreddit today - one of those "abuse hurts, if you're in an abusive relationship you can find help here" displays in one of the university men's restrooms. It was nice to see. Sorry if this is off-topic for the thread, I didn't figure it warrants its own thread.
/r/MensRights15/03/13 11:26 PM
9

But there's a song in Mulan about making her into a man. literally sexist Hitler
/r/MensRights14/03/13 12:18 AM
2

...What. No, that... no, it doesn't do that at all. What the hell? Are you really suggesting that nobody is in jail for a crime they committed? Are you suggesting that the Innocence Project is supposed to be prescient and never try to clear a person who seems innocent but turns out not to be? Are you saying that the existence of times in which they were incorrect means that they're really picking a more-guilty segment of the prison population because of I don't even know why? What exactly are yo…
/r/MensRights14/03/13 12:16 AM
5

What? Not even remotely. Try actually thinking about it, it makes perfect sense.
/r/MensRights13/03/13 10:46 PM
1

It's ironic how you say that ignoring the actual points brought up and only focusing on the grammar issue means the other person wins, whilst doing so yourself.
/r/MensRights13/03/13 10:37 PM
11

Ehhh... it could be much higher, but it's more likely to be lower than what the Innocence Project has found. They're (one would assume) more likely to try to clear the names of those people which there's at least something of a reasonable doubt of guilt rather than waste time and resources attempting the same for someone guilty with a mountain of credible evidence behind it. Hence, they're already working with a set of people more likely to be innocent than the average jailed person.
/r/MensRights13/03/13 10:17 PM
1

“The legislature feels that it would be inconsistent if they say we’re going to give a biological father rights to his own son even though he is a felon,” In Michigan, it has been on the books for decades that men and women who have an extramarital affair are committing a felony. So basically... give rights to mother over father, because father is a felon even though mother is every inch as much a felon because of the exact same crime. Makes sense.
/r/MensRights25/02/13 04:03 AM
6

How do you figure, exactly? From the two expressions it clearly looks like the woman is exploiting the man in that picture.
/r/MensRights24/02/13 04:38 PM
1

They are sexist stereotypes, yes. I'll freely admit that they discriminate between sexes and that they are indeed stereotypes. There is, however, a few things to keep in mind here. Number one, don't go overboard with the interpretation of it - I'm not at all saying that every male takes apart electronics more or better than every female, nor even than most females. Number two, that it is indeed based on reality. Look at any electrical engineering class and the gender ratio is very apparent. Is t…
/r/MensRights23/02/13 09:56 PM
1

What do you base this on? Pretty much every observation I've seen on the matter. Whether it be toys, movies, video games, or even just playing pretend. what about real violence? Are they also more pre-disposed to be actually violent? Is that learned behavior, or innate? It would be dishonest to claim they aren't. Simply put, due to the way our species evolved, men are genetically more likely to value strength and things of that nature, because they had to for so many thousands of years. I specif…
/r/MensRights20/02/13 06:43 PM
8

In general, drawing weapons is, and taking electronics apart to a somewhat lesser extent. It's not like those are exclusively male or anything but the percentages do lean that way.
/r/MensRights20/02/13 04:46 AM
11

It's the overreaction to and suppression of perfectly normal male traits.
/r/MensRights20/02/13 03:13 AM
6

What's the difference? The fact of the matter is, more boys than girls are drawn to weaponry and pretend-violence (emphasis on the pretend); whether that's due to social or biological factors matters little in practical terms. The point is, we shouldn't be demonizing or even criminalizing perfectly normal young male behavior.
/r/MensRights20/02/13 12:38 AM
14

Well, to be fair that analysis is very anecdotal with a miniscule sample size. But I wouldn't be surprised if that conclusion does generalize to a more rigorous analysis.
/r/MensRights19/02/13 11:15 PM
18

It's not strictly gendered, perhaps, but drawing little doodles of weapons and battles and things of that nature is something that the vast majority of boys did in school. I know I spent a lot of time idly drawing tanks and stick figures on missions and such but it didn't mean I was going to steal a tank and use it to shell the gymnasium.
/r/MensRights19/02/13 11:07 PM
3

Men can be GBTQAI. It's not unrelated.
/r/MensRights19/02/13 08:49 PM
49

More information: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/12/19/superintendent-drawings-of-weapons-led-to-new-jersey-students-arrest/ They found electronic parts and several chemicals that when mixed together could cause an explosion. Absolutely ridiculous. This could literally be as benign as a transistor radio and some hydrogen peroxide, and if was anything more than that they would probably say so to justify themselves less tenuously.
/r/MensRights19/02/13 08:45 PM
6

P.S., I didn't write this. Could you give the source, then? Clearly someone did.
/r/MensRights19/02/13 04:34 AM
-2

There's more political issues in the world than selective service. I don't think you need to get that dramatic about political party schisms over a single, not-particularly-relevant issue. (Note: I'm not saying selective service is a nonissue, it certainly needs to be addressed. However, it's not extremely pressing at this time since there isn't an active or impending draft.)
/r/MensRights19/02/13 12:43 AM
2

AK-47s don't have crosshairs, though.
/r/MensRights18/02/13 06:39 AM
2

One of the very rare times I'm actually impressed by news coming out of the Tennessee education system. And that's saying something, since my mother's a teacher in TN so I hear quite a bit.
/r/MensRights17/02/13 06:18 AM
21

If a guy can be put on the sex offender registry for peeing in public even if it's a relatively secluded place, you bet to hell this'd get him on the list for life. That said, "lewdness charges" are sex offenses so yes she could be put on the list as well.
/r/MensRights16/02/13 04:06 PM
1

I meant killing where the -fact- they are female, and have been killed, is relished. When has any video game ever done this?
/r/MensRights15/02/13 05:42 PM
8

It's really weird how it never once mentions what's on the AVfM posters, but features quotes from the usurping posters. That seems... imbalanced.
/r/MensRights15/02/13 05:38 PM
14

Two years? Because he waited two years he'll have to continue paying for another twelve years for someone else's child? What a fucking joke.
/r/MensRights15/02/13 05:35 PM
9

It's pretty ludicrous at this point. When the kickstarter was made, all of the reward tiers indicated that the first video would be released August 2012, and the entire series would be finished December 2012. Come August 2012, she backpedaled (without acknowledging it as such, I might add), saying "The researching phase has begun!" and moved the date to "late fall or early winter." Somehow, mid-February doesn't much strike me as still being early winter. Since then there's been no concrete updat…
/r/MensRights12/02/13 02:42 AM
54

You can just feel the rationality oozing out from that statement. At least I think that's what they call it these days.
/r/MensRights05/02/13 08:53 PM
4

That last quote is so ineffably wrong. She may as well just be honest with everyone and come out and say "If men and boys are to be included, care must be taken to ensure that their data are accurate counterparts of rape prevalence among women. This means that men must be only reporting instances where they experienced penetration of their vagina (or attempts)."
/r/MensRights04/02/13 08:46 PM
6

Note how she uses the word “engage”. A man being made to penetrate a woman either by force, threats or coercion is engaging in sex with her? He is the actor. Damn. It's not even victim blaming any more, she's straight-up claiming that some rape victims aren't even victims to begin with. That it's not just their fault, they actively caused it to happen.
/r/MensRights31/01/13 07:20 PM
2

Then they gave us a problem to solve. 'Oh, cool, an engineering problem.' Nope. They asked us to "come up with an app idea for the iPhone." Software engineering is a thing, you know.
/r/MensRights31/01/13 07:32 AM
8

Area 51 and most of its lightgun-game ilk. (Interesting, in that game, the "civilians" are actually fellow soldiers, though I don't think they ever actually shoot at anything.)
/r/MensRights29/01/13 04:12 PM
19

The problem is, feminism has never just been about equality. Indeed not.
/r/MensRights29/01/13 02:27 AM
26

I know, right? If you do it for religious or medical reasons, at least there's an attempt (though a misguided one) at a rational justification for it, but for cosmetic reasons? That's fucked on even more levels.
/r/MensRights28/01/13 10:01 PM
5

Consider the difference between American History X, which has a number of neo-nazi characters yet is not a movie that glorifies racism, and The Birth of a Nation, which is rather steeped in racism at its core.
/r/MensRights28/01/13 07:30 PM
5

She's not as much complaining that Dante is sexist as she is complaining that the game as a whole is sexist, because of the developers. There's definitely a difference.
/r/MensRights28/01/13 06:54 PM
6

It's highly likely she never actually played Bayonetta, though. She shows a significant lack of knowledge about what goes on in the actual game, and the majority of the video was just about an advertisement on some Tokyo subway. She even took it down because of all the quite legit criticism that was leveled against it. Check it.
/r/MensRights28/01/13 06:29 PM
6

A kickstarter that was done because she didn't actually have any video games.
/r/MensRights28/01/13 06:22 PM
3

Well, I worded that poorly. Old dante was a bit immature perhaps, certainly smug, but not exactly an asshole. New Donte is just a douche. Old Dante was smug in a "look at all this CUHRAAAAZY" way, new Donte is smug in a teenager-trying-too-hard-to-be-edgy way.
/r/MensRights28/01/13 06:02 PM
9

Here you go. It's ridiculous because the game has been railed against since literally the first teaser image that was released for it, not because of gameplay but because of the characters and characterization. I mean, if the developers don't even respect the main character of the series they're rebooting enough to not turn him into an immature smug asshole, one can hardly expect them to respect anything else, including women.
/r/MensRights28/01/13 05:31 PM
30

video game journalist Not hardly. She's a person that writes about entertainment media, not a video game journalist. She knows very little about the games she tries to talk about, as evidenced by her Bayonetta and (Zia in) Bastion comments. Her thesis was on gender tropes in movies and TV; video games are only her current topic because that's what she found got her the most attention by far. (And calling her a journalist is a huge stretch, as I doubt she cares much if any about journalistic inte…
/r/MensRights28/01/13 05:25 PM
1

Oh boy, now we can bash strawmen too while we bash feminists!
/r/MensRights28/01/13 03:04 PM
5

The boy disappeared just after arriving at his father's home Well... To be honest, that is pretty significant.
/r/MensRights27/01/13 01:23 AM
9

Did you not actually read the article or something? It very clearly states that the decision was on a case in which a woman was demanding support from a businessman.
/r/MensRights25/01/13 06:40 PM
1

You heard it here first folks, telling people you shouldn't have sex with 10-year-olds is ageism.
/r/MensRights23/01/13 07:31 PM
32

Lowrie said she has yet to hear of male needs that could be satisfied by a lounge. More likely, she simply hasn't been listening.
/r/MensRights23/01/13 07:18 PM
23

I'm sure there are real criminals in the neighborhood that you can beat up if you have the inclination. TIL statuatory rape is not a real crime.
/r/MensRights23/01/13 07:04 PM
3

But they become outraged at misleading and incorrect information, and don't re-evaluate when presented with the true facts (as per this study).
/r/MensRights23/01/13 03:54 AM
13

This is why we should absolutely not use those "switch the genders of (workplace deaths / suicide rates / etc) and try to cause people to be outraged, then let them know it was all a ruse!" graphics that started to pop up around here recently. They're more likely to cause harm than good, for this reason as well as many others. ...I can't help myself from noting with amusement that I'm typing this from my U of M research office.
/r/MensRights22/01/13 09:50 PM
2

Anorexia doesn't just mean "eh, I don't feel like eating right now."
/r/MensRights21/01/13 11:38 PM
4

Indeed. It's one thing to separate the genders because of skill, but men are perfectly capable of suffering from heat stroke as much as anyone else. Makes absolutely no sense why they wouldn't take this safety precaution for everyone.
/r/MensRights21/01/13 07:11 PM
2

Perhaps other countries had less of a proportion, or the article was originally written for a German audience.
/r/MensRights21/01/13 07:09 PM
5

I would assume that they surveyed women from 11 different countries, and of the subset of that survey consisting of women from Germany, half said they prefer tipsy sex. Seems the most straightforward interpretation.
/r/MensRights21/01/13 05:46 PM
91

These gender-flip pictures are getting worse and worse.
/r/MensRights18/01/13 03:03 AM
1

I know, right? I mean, it's already a strain on equality to just limit it to breast and cervical cancer, but they're not even pretending to be equitable about it - "fuck it, just be openly discriminatory."
/r/MensRights18/01/13 02:58 AM
3

It didn't sound nice in the first place.
/r/MensRights18/01/13 01:02 AM
16

That message seems to be written in a rather oddly vehement fashion. Projection in the first sentence, perhaps?
/r/MensRights15/01/13 08:15 PM
-4

"It's not sexism, it's just sexist comment"
/r/MensRights15/01/13 08:06 PM
1

Ah, I didn't realize that. Thanks for pointing it out.
/r/MensRights14/01/13 10:51 PM
2

It's a pretty scummy sleight of hand to refer to the accuser person who got upset one time a "victim" yet the other involved person the "accused." If you're going to call the one a victim, then you should at least have the honesty to come out and call the other a rapist, since clearly you've already judged him as one.
/r/MensRights14/01/13 05:27 PM
62

“How could the wife possibly have refused to sign under those circumstances?” She could've, y'know, not gone through with the marriage. That's... that's what contracts are for, it's how negotiation works. If you don't like the terms, then walk away. Edit: Didn't realize the contract was brought forth 16 years after they married, I assumed "marriage contract" meant prenup, which judging by the dates it was not. Article doesn't really make that clear... but yeah, that makes it considerably differe…
/r/MensRights14/01/13 05:20 PM
3

Indeed. WBB posts are annoying enough, but this shit is not only entirely unrelated but is also stupid to begin with. I really hope /r/mr doesn't devolve into things like this any more than it has already.
/r/MensRights13/01/13 04:50 PM
8

This smells pretty heavily of shitthatdidn'thappen.rtf.
/r/MensRights13/01/13 02:56 AM
1

It's important to make the distinction that this isn't, strictly speaking, unemployment data. The unemployment rate is different from the percentage of people not employed - the former only accounts for people actively looking for another job, while the latter includes stay-at-home parents, lazy NEETs, children/retired people, people with disabilities, etc.
/r/MensRights11/01/13 10:48 PM
1

her utter disgust that insurance companies in the UK aren't allowed allowed to discriminate on gender Ask her if health insurance companies should be allowed to discriminate on gender. That oughta prove entertaining.
/r/MensRights11/01/13 05:48 AM
4

No, it's not shady at all. The reason we have to be wary of false claims is not really out of a suspicion that the woman might be lying, that's just a cause, and even then only sometimes. False claims are necessary to watch out for because the person who has been falsely accused can have his life completely destroyed - a fact that is true regardless of whether the claim was out of malice or a mistake. Both are just as shitty for the innocent man. If you're worried about there not being a rapist …
/r/MensRights11/01/13 01:11 AM
17

Doesn't really matter if it's knowingly false or not for the purposes of the infographic. An unknowingly-false claim isn't really criminally prosecutable, but it's still a false claim with just as many ramifications for the accused.
/r/MensRights10/01/13 06:50 PM
4

This is particularly noteworthy because a number of measures were taken to protect the reliability and validity of the research... In addition, a random sample of cases was checked for data entry errors. ...So the researchers bothered to take half an hour to check to see if their underpaid data entry workers didn't fatfinger too many zeros or something? If this is noteworthy for false rape studies, then that says a hell of a lot about most false rape studies.
/r/MensRights09/01/13 10:55 PM
11

Well, cross country doesn't exactly require there to be a space dedicated to it. That's kinda why they call it cross country.
/r/MensRights09/01/13 10:48 PM
31

Indeed. Not sure how it's news that the people depicted in promotional posters are not always exactly what they are portraying.
/r/MensRights09/01/13 10:40 PM
8

I don't understand why he didn't. Why sue a dubious case for potential fraud from negligence when you can just sue the offending party for committing that fraud?
/r/MensRights09/01/13 05:44 PM
4

Oh boy, check out the website of the documentary he said he was a producer of. But it is important to note that fathers’ rights people are about just what they say they are about – fathers’ rights. Not children’s rights. Not women’s rights. Not human rights. TIL fathers aren't human.
/r/MensRights09/01/13 06:51 AM
4

None of you are any better than those racist and sexist people you claim to hate so much. You don’t want equality. You want anybody that shares physical similarities with “the oppressor” to feel like shit. You want people who to be looked down upon because of the their race and gender; two things they have no control over. How is that any better than someone belittling a black/hispanic/asian/etc person because of a broad and untrue generalization? Such a wonderful paragraph. I nearly cheered.
/r/MensRights08/01/13 06:20 PM
9

Treat people as individuals, except when they should be treated as members of a group because aggregate statistics.
/r/MensRights06/01/13 05:09 PM
15

Treating people as individuals is genuine equality. That means charging dangerous drivers more for insurance, and charging safer drivers less. I don't think anybody would argue with you on that. However, charging young men more than young women for insurance because statistically they're more expensive to insure is not treating people as individuals, it's treating them as members of a group they had no choice in being placed into. By all means, charge dangerous drivers more for insurance. That j…
/r/MensRights06/01/13 05:00 PM
2

Smoking and having low credit are fundamentally different from being male. The former are actions/based off of past actions, the latter is a coincidence of circumstance. Nobody would say that determining rates based on the former is acceptable, but the latter isn't acceptable because the individual has absolutely no choice regarding the matter. If it were the case that black people got into more car accidents on average, would you be in favor of having price tiers based on race?
/r/MensRights05/01/13 07:22 AM
1

So, we see that prejudice is not applicable. No, you're looking at it from the wrong side. It is prejudice, not towards men in general since that doesn't really make sense, but towards individual young men. any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable. It's very literally prejudice - the insurance company knows little about a young man applying for car insurance for the first time, so they use their preconceived opinion of men in general (formed from past experience, yes,…
/r/MensRights05/01/13 04:30 AM
5

I'm just saying that it isn't motivated by man-hate. Sexism doesn't necessarily imply hatred towards a particular sex, just discrimination. This is discrimination in the literal sense of the word, therefore it is sexism. Sexism based on data is still sexism, y'know?
/r/MensRights05/01/13 02:31 AM
18

The insurance companies are just practicing good business based on data, just like every company ever. This is incompatible with the recent mandates of equal health insurance rates for men and women. Because we have that, we must also mandate equal car insurance rates between genders. This isn't really debatable, the two are perfectly analogous. You won't contribute to these statistics and your personal insurance rates will be lower. Eventually.
/r/MensRights05/01/13 01:13 AM
3

Or driving sex discrimination.
/r/MensRights05/01/13 01:11 AM
4

They qualify both rapist and rape victim with 'alleged' each time. How is that a verdict, exactly?
/r/MensRights04/01/13 06:18 PM
2

record-high number of women senators in congress this cycle this congress was officially the least-productive session in the history of the legislature My expert studies in correlation and causation allow me to giggle wantonly.
/r/MensRights04/01/13 03:29 PM
1

I believe women actually have a slightly higher success rate than male candidates, around 5%.
/r/MensRights04/01/13 03:27 PM
7

So not only is there just one dissenting opinion, but it's in the exact opposite direction of real equality... hoo boy.
/r/MensRights04/01/13 03:18 PM
1

If you would care to look at more than the first pretty picture on the page, you will see that I wasn't talking about that guy or the interracial marriage prompt at all. http://25.media.tumblr.com/d1b41d1c2eee01d6356ba717a2c31e92/tumblr_mfv3xeuBIm1s0cjm8o1_r1_500.jpg Don't put words in my mouth then complain about it not being what was said.
/r/MensRights03/01/13 03:10 PM
1

Ah, so it's okay to sexually harass a guy for 5 minutes as long as he's gay. Now I get it! Haha.
/r/MensRights03/01/13 02:57 PM
6

Well, it does say that men have greatly outnumbered women at every instance in the past. I don't think we need to launch into hysterics about this.
/r/MensRights02/01/13 02:16 PM
17

Apparently being attracted mainly to people of your own race is racism. Is being heterosexual sexism?
/r/MensRights02/01/13 02:14 PM
5

Oh boy. appeal to tradition "It should be legal because it's already legal so that means it's okay, laws can't ever be changed" as above, but replace "legal" with "accepted by society" and "laws" with "societal views" cutting off parts of one's body without consent (or painkillers) isn't harm "some offence against some unwritten code of conduct" a.k.a. morality? Human decency? it's okay to harm someone without their consent as long as you can't sell them (seriously, wtf even is this logic) the f…
/r/MensRights31/12/12 01:47 AM
1

It's not an opinion comic, it's just a comic. She isn't trying to say NAFALT or anything like that, she's just trying to make people laugh. If you read what she says below the comic (and, I think, the picture with it) it's a bit clearer.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 01:31 AM
16

It's not really a Romeo and Juliet law as such, more of a "Juliets are exempt from rape charges" law.
/r/MensRights28/12/12 04:47 PM
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The rules say women criminals often have poor mental health or are poorly educated Yes, because surely all male criminals are of the upper crust and sound of mind.
/r/MensRights23/12/12 09:59 PM
6

Cuckolding isn't the same thing as paternity fraud at all, though. Generally it's done in the full knowledge of the husband.
/r/MensRights23/12/12 06:05 AM
3

The reason circumcisions are performed when the child is a new-born is because it's easier to perform it at the time Quite untrue. It's actually harder, as the foreskin isn't fully separated from the glans (think phimosis), and the risk is much greater as the immune system is obviously not fully developed, and the blood loss is proportionally greater. and the pain doesn't transfer on into adult-hood. Yeah, let's fucking beat our children daily before they turn one year old, they won't remember i…
/r/MensRights22/12/12 11:28 PM
1

This Administration has made combating the HIV/AIDS epidemic a priority. For women, that includes addressing gender-based violence and gender related health disparities. Oh good, that means more funding and awareness for men's health issues, to combat the sorry state of men's health and longevity compared to women, right? R-right?
/r/MensRights21/12/12 05:09 PM
8

And men don't have any social standing! Hey, now we're finding some common ground.
/r/MensRights20/12/12 06:36 PM
1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7RAPc2vg-A#t=14s
/r/MensRights20/12/12 03:56 AM
5

First of all slut shaming isn't right, obviously. But it's done by men AND women not just men That doesn't mean feminism can't address it. I see "not all women are feminists" posted around here pretty often, and that goes both ways - feminism can address the problems that affect women that women cause, not just that men cause. Now, do they? That is perhaps another story. Still, I don't think anyone's trying to say that women don't engage in slut shaming. (It actually makes a lot more sense for w…
/r/MensRights19/12/12 06:57 PM
47

So wait, they're not getting theirs despite working for it, and it's because they're privileged? Isn't that the opposite of what privilege is? Y'know, getting things without having to work for them...
/r/MensRights18/12/12 10:32 PM
13

How much better off would our society be if we had trained this generation of young men to love, honor, protect and take care of others? Given the statistics presented, the author clearly means "love, honor, protect, and take care of women."
/r/MensRights18/12/12 03:18 PM
3

I still think that "Men's Rights are Human Rights" poster that was the center of that Toronto tearings-down a while back is the best poster I've seen related to this cause.
/r/MensRights18/12/12 03:11 PM
0

I don't know if I would call black and silver gender neutral Huh? How is it not? Or, barring that, what gender do you think it is biased towards? I'm not seeing it at all.
/r/MensRights18/12/12 03:08 PM
1

Sorry, but that's not how it is under the eyes of the law. It's "assault and battery", not "assault and battery and also they got injured a bit." Making it only be a problem when injuries are involved criminalizes strength and rewards frailty. Harm minimization? How about we minimize all forms of DV, eh? THAT seems pretty reasonable to me.
/r/MensRights17/12/12 03:18 PM
10

I'm sorry that I offended people So she's not sorry she said it, she's just sorry that people got offended by it. A'ight.
/r/MensRights17/12/12 04:41 AM
1

Elam's points were more salient, though. Futrelle's claim that DV only counts if injuries are inflicted makes no sense no matter what perspective you view it from (other than the "men are evil and do all violences"). It's as if he's saying it doesn't matter if someone goes around slugging people in the chest as long as they don't bruise too badly.
/r/MensRights16/12/12 07:46 PM
1

Civilian casualties are highly detrimental to the U.S.'s reputation Not when you don't even officially acknowledge that drones exist, much less kill noncombatants. Convenient!
/r/MensRights16/12/12 05:02 PM
9

What a bullshit concluding paragraph. I can think of a number of ways to describe the courses I took designed for advanced math majors, but "sweaty locker room/dungeon" is so inaccurate and stupid it's insulting, and I'm not even a math major myself.
/r/MensRights16/12/12 05:01 PM
26

But all men above the age of majority in the middle east are militants, don't you know?
/r/MensRights15/12/12 11:41 PM
6

Maybe if you stopped PUNCHing C0CKs you'd see things a bit more fairly.
/r/MensRights15/12/12 06:21 PM
1

It doesn't seem that objectionable to me. Would you write on Facebook after the fact if you narrowly avoided getting into a terrible car accident?
/r/MensRights15/12/12 06:19 PM
5

Well, technically, editing Wikipedia is manipulating it... ma·nip·u·late: Alter, edit, or move (text or data) on a computer.
/r/MensRights15/12/12 05:13 AM
15

Oh my god, that list of controlling behavior. Let's look at a few of these gems... using angry expressions (later followed by "not expressing feelings") Criticism changing topics Using pornography being a “people pleaser” using “logic.” Yes, you heard it here first, using logic is abusive and oppressive behavior. ...I really have no idea how to comment on this.
/r/MensRights15/12/12 05:10 AM
21

How in god's name do strippers have anything to do with rape or rape culture? They're no more associated with rape than waitresses are. Do these people ever stop to think before protesting?
/r/MensRights15/12/12 05:05 AM
6

I can't say I've had any problems at all with my gender in my graduate studies... but, I'm a grad student in Computer Science, so perhaps that is not exactly unexpected.
/r/MensRights14/12/12 04:47 PM
27

Well, yes. That's why the word "heroine" exists. And that is the actual definition; are you saying it isn't like that in dictionaries? Because it is, quite literally.
/r/MensRights14/12/12 02:43 AM
1

Neither is a world free of crime and hunger, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't strive towards it.
/r/MensRights13/12/12 05:44 PM
3

I would wager that if she did try to pull him out while still telling the other guy to help her, rather than just staying at a safe distance and commanding, the guy would be a lot more likely to be snapped out of his inaction and move to help. Not to mention there'd then be two people working to get him out rather than just one.
/r/MensRights12/12/12 08:35 PM
6

I would really hesitate to label an incident in which a man was burned to death in a car crash a victory for anything.
/r/MensRights12/12/12 08:30 PM
9

Whoa, this is only tangentially related, but I just found out (out of curiosity) that apparently the false accuser in that case is now being held on charges of murder.
/r/MensRights12/12/12 03:22 AM
5

I... huh? How do you get that exactly? I'm not saying it doesn't deserve more funding, certainly it does (especially in light of the awful funding ratio there is now), but it is still less deadly than breast cancer.
/r/MensRights12/12/12 03:07 AM
4

Cancer.gov says otherwise: It doesn't say otherwise at all. 89% survivability, about 80-90%... these are both nearly exactly the same as 12% deaths.
/r/MensRights12/12/12 02:45 AM
6

Although this legendary edict was never part of maritime law, it was adhered to so strictly on the Titanic that men were actually stopped from boarding lifeboats, many of which went to sea only three-quarters full. And this is seen as a good thing? What the hell?
/r/MensRights11/12/12 06:41 PM
2

How would you separate it from the legitimate calls to the police? You can't with any certainty, really. It's like trying to make an exact count of how many allegations of rape are false allegations; there's a huge grey area between confirmed and convicted crime, and confirmed false allegation.
/r/MensRights11/12/12 04:30 PM
3

it's another to follow a specific stranger around and focus the camera entirely at them the whole time. That's cool and all, but there's absolutely no indication in the article that he did such a thing. In fact, it implies that he just stood in one place to take the photographs, rather than following her around.
/r/MensRights09/12/12 07:34 AM
3

I don't think there is any good reason to think 14 year olds are intrinsically less mature than adults. You can't be serious. I am significantly different now than I was when I was a freshman in high school. I was many things back then, but mature was not near the top of the list; same goes for most people I know. and are dependent on others Because god forbid a 14-year-old be dependent on people (like, say, their parents). But there's a problem in itself, as well; when a 14-yo has a relationshi…
/r/MensRights07/12/12 06:07 PM
9

The accused now have to defend themselves without knowing who accused them. This... this can't be real. I am incapable of believing this is seriously a thing. This is an Onion article, right? It's certainly blatantly ridiculous enough to be one. It just... defies comprehension. How would it even work? Would the accused have to defend himself without knowing where or when the alleged incident took place? If not, then how would that prevent him from knowing who accused him?
/r/MensRights04/12/12 07:09 PM
6

Prostitution is... an open door for organised crime to develop Yeah, let's just make it illegal then. Because Prohibiting things is always going to reduce organized crime, right? 'Cause that's how crime works.
/r/MensRights04/12/12 07:04 PM
3

I dislike both feminism and MRAism equally because they both exclude half the population. That's a bit of a silly thing to say. They don't EXCLUDE half the population; many men are feminists, there are quite a few women MRAs. Do you dislike LGBT rights groups because you feel they exclude 90% of the population?
/r/MensRights03/12/12 08:07 AM
1

Ah, I see. That makes more sense, then.
/r/MensRights03/12/12 12:45 AM
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The fact that gay men still can't get married in most states IS a mens' rights issue I wouldn't really say that. Gay women can't get married just as much as gay men can't get married, so it's a lot more accurate to say it's a LGBT issue than just a men's rights issue. To parse it down to just men or women doesn't really do anyone any good.
/r/MensRights02/12/12 10:49 PM
6

I know this has nothing to do with men's rights Then why post it here?
/r/MensRights02/12/12 10:40 PM
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"This view is based on the fact that women comprise 42 percent of high school sports participants and 43 percent of intercollegiate sports participants." mandate equal representation in school/university sports programs use the resulting forced equal representation in school/university sports programs to show that men and women are equally interested in sports Brilliant!
/r/MensRights02/12/12 10:37 PM
18

Can we try not to let this subreddit become WomenBehavingBadly? It's not like this is even related to any gender stereotypes; I don't think most people think women are any more or less inclined to hide guns in people's backpacks then report them to authorities than men are, it's too unusual of a crime to really warrant such a bias.
/r/MensRights02/12/12 10:34 PM
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Feminism = gender equality. Incorrect. Feminism is (quite literally) an idealism of or relating to women. In the past it was primarily focused on giving women equal rights to men (since in many ways they did not have that), and was pretty successful in that regard. However, nowadays, as that goal has generally been accomplished, it's moved on to being more than just "making women equal to men." It is no longer about equality. Equalism/egalitarianism = gender equality. Feminism = ideology of and …
/r/MensRights02/12/12 07:12 PM
7

Interesting. Does this mean that the preponderance of evidence standard will be rescinded; and if so, how long would we expect that to change? Would it even change without another direct letter?
/r/MensRights02/12/12 06:20 PM
1

Circumcision can cause anorgasmic ejaculation I may be misreading this, but does this imply that intact men cannot have anorgasmic ejaculations? Being cut, I've experienced (and can fairly easily tell the difference between) the two kinds, but I'm not sure how it could be the case that being uncircumcised would entirely prevent anorgasmic ones.
/r/MensRights02/12/12 06:12 PM
14

So they're not punishing anybody for raping people. They're straight-up saying they're punishing them for being accused of rape. Alrighty then.
/r/MensRights02/12/12 02:15 AM
6

It should be lowered for both That's not how money works.
/r/MensRights01/12/12 09:49 PM
1

The British colonists of the Canadian territories burned the White House in the War of 1812 Nah, the fleet that burned Washington wasn't Canadian in any sense, it was carried out by a fleet that sailed from Britain to wage war. They did it in part as retaliation for the burning of York/Toronto, but it wasn't the colonists in Canada that did it.
/r/MensRights01/12/12 09:40 PM
4

But he supports his assertion so eloquently. "Because I said so and if you disagree then you are pathetic. Also shut up."
/r/MensRights28/11/12 11:38 PM
0

Whoa, that's a sensationalist title. Disavowing something is very different from disregarding it. It's as far away from disregarding something as disregarding something is from, er, avowing it.
/r/MensRights28/11/12 11:33 PM
7

Oh boy, that whole blog. Do not get on this blog talking about how “Men face societal pressures too!” ...he says on a blog that is literally 100% devoted to exerting societal pressures on men. Classy!
/r/MensRights27/11/12 04:43 PM
5

Haha, oh wow. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
/r/MensRights23/11/12 03:54 AM
4

Literal objectification via the justice system. Wow.
/r/MensRights22/11/12 04:47 PM
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This reasoning might pass, but I still doubt it. If it only required the defendant to provide a "reasonable doubt" it probably would survive review. No. Consensual sex is not a crime. Rape is. By requiring the defendant to prove that the sex was consensual, and therefore not a crime, that is unequivocally removing innocence until proven guilty.
/r/MensRights22/11/12 04:44 PM
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I'm not even sure how this would work from a purely practical standpoint, if everyone follows the poster. Steve thinks Kate is too drunk to leave with Chris Chris thinks Kate is too drunk to leave with Steve Each knows that the other will rape her at their earliest convenience because the poster told him so Fisticuffs ensue to protect the honor of the fair (albeit drunken) maiden
/r/MensRights19/11/12 02:38 PM
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i have seen maybe one homeless woman vs over a 100 men. That's why awareness of them needs to be improved! ...Now that I think about it, I don't know if I'm being sarcastic or not.
/r/MensRights18/11/12 12:31 AM
4

MacKinnon also highlights how pornography reduces women to their sexual body parts (vaginas, breasts, or buttocks’). Uh... One would hardly expect a pornographic work to feature people debating theoretical physics. Is it seriously an issue that sex movies mainly feature sex parts? Nonsensical.
/r/MensRights17/11/12 07:11 PM
0

I believe that if all the wealth of society was actually counted, women would have a bigger share than men. Almost certainly untrue. Consider the much-reviled top 1% wealthiest people in america; the great majority are men, CEOs, wealthy businessmen, et cetera. The gender wage gap may be a myth, but the gender wealth gap isn't due to the significant skew from the top 1% with around a third of the nation's wealth. Median wealth? Quite probably a different story.
/r/MensRights16/11/12 04:17 AM
1

This was a recommendation of the association's fitness equipment vendor. I don't think it's too cynical of me to note that a bench press and freeweights are a lot cheaper than any of the specialized and fancy but ultimately less efficient exercise machines that will take its place... That said, seriously? How can a gym even pretend to call itself a gym without even a bench press? Even the most podunk of fitness centers has a bench press, it's one of the most basic things in there past dumbbells.…
/r/MensRights15/11/12 10:20 PM
0

There's more to it than that. When people play the "real men" card, a lot of the time they're not excluding the "bad apples" to show that their gender really is all good, they're trying to shame everyone who doesn't subscribe to their worldview into falling into lockstep.
/r/MensRights14/11/12 02:00 PM
6

Calling this "highly misandric" is a rather large stretch. Neglectful, sure, but I don't see any way you could make the case that the video presents a view that is hateful towards men. It's like saying every (what have you) a person is raped and depict an even gender ratio. That'd actually be fairly accurate; aren't the numbers of men and women who are raped pretty similar?
/r/MensRights13/11/12 07:50 PM
1

the muscle dysmorphia you talk about is not a mental illness like anorexia. With what basis do you make this claim? There are beauty pageants for women just like there're bodybuilding competitions for men, but nobody says that anorexia don't real because of their existence.
/r/MensRights13/11/12 07:43 PM
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It is - men's rates are projected to come down, though not by as much as women's are going up. But it's not like this is the fault of the insurance companies; if that's what the numbers tell the actuaries, then that's what it's gonna be. It's not like they arbitrarily assign rates.
/r/MensRights13/11/12 12:40 AM
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Or he could do it in LaTeX; now there's some real college prep.
/r/MensRights10/11/12 05:42 AM
1

Ah, this is true, and an important distinction. I usually try not to overlook it, but I neglected it in this case. Thanks for the correction.
/r/MensRights09/11/12 10:38 PM
8

...What? Why would it be necessary to add that adjective? Do you see men assaulting girls labeled as "heterosexual pedophile"? They don't add the word because it's entirely unnecessary. The crime is the pedophilia, not the homosexuality.
/r/MensRights09/11/12 04:36 PM
10

Women (99%) There's no possible way that's an accurate statistic. You will never see a ratio like that in any survey, much less a subjective one.
/r/MensRights08/11/12 11:37 PM
2

I believe r/MR posts are automatically mirrored by bots on POLITIC, so when you deleted the old one and reposted it, this bot saw the match with the mirrored POLITIC post. When robots go wrong.
/r/MensRights08/11/12 11:00 PM
7

They call that picture "being exposed"? Looks more like libel to me, honestly.
/r/MensRights08/11/12 05:28 PM
2

To be fair, I don't think it's common at all for people to blame guys for dressing too provocatively when and if they are raped. I haven't heard of anything like that, at least. Then again, I was told by someone that they wanted to molest me when I was cosplaying a character with pretty revealing clothing at a convention, but I'm pretty sure it was in jest, or at least nothing did actually happen.
/r/MensRights08/11/12 05:24 PM
1

One thing that really rubs me the wrong way (in a notable way, other than the obvious) is Be an ally to women who are working to end all forms of gender violence. Because apparently men can't possibly take their own initiative to end gender violence; they must only do it by helping the real movers and shakers of nonviolence, women.
/r/MensRights07/11/12 06:21 AM
2

stepping into man land The fuck is this even supposed to mean?
/r/MensRights06/11/12 11:07 PM
26

More like money-ness, from the looks of it.
/r/MensRights05/11/12 07:55 PM
6

I can't grow anything but a ratty as beard, which means I have to shave all the time... Ugh, yes, this entirely. The worst part is, I've got really fair skin, so even immediately after I shave you can still see where the hair follicles are, even if you shave so closely you threaten to take the top layers of skin off. It's a huge pain when you do stuff that requires you to have no shadow at all.
/r/MensRights05/11/12 07:53 PM
3

It truly boggles the mind how someone can possibly write something like that no less than one week after October.
/r/MensRights04/11/12 11:01 PM
10

literally Stalin
/r/MensRights30/10/12 06:23 PM
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Apparently it only costs women. The article directly says otherwise. The financial impact of divorce can be crushing for both men and women.
/r/MensRights30/10/12 02:51 PM
15

treating it otherwise amounts to discrimination against unmarried couples What the shit? This is like people whose houses get flooded suing their homeowners' insurance because it's discriminatory to people who didn't get the flood protection. The option is there, if you don't take advantage of it it's your own damn fault. Discriminatory... seriously, does that word mean nothing anymore?
/r/MensRights28/10/12 07:38 PM
7

In seriousness, though, the way I see it, the only requirements for being a man are being male (or, if you want to get inclusive, having a male gender identity) and being above the age of majority. It shouldn't be that you have to do X or be like Y to be a man. That's the kind of forcing actions and views on a person solely based on their gender that feminism was originally created to fight, and that I imagine men's rights is also against.
/r/MensRights27/10/12 06:49 PM
10

The actions here demonstrate that we can protest the idea that "women should worry about what messages their clothing or lack thereof conveys to the general public" simultaneously with believing that "men should be pilloried for the messages that their clothing or lack thereof conveys to the general public." Well said.
/r/MensRights26/10/12 07:49 PM
3

Why would they even need to do a study about that? Just ask any middle/high school gym teacher.
/r/MensRights26/10/12 02:59 PM
3

Saying that the study has been "submitted to a PRJ" is like saying... Except that's not what the article says. It says it's going to be published. There is indeed a large gap between the two, but you're on the wrong side of it.
/r/MensRights26/10/12 02:57 PM
1

I just don't think its a trivial change to the UI to display URLs before visiting them on a phone. Really all you would have to do is include a [PDF] after any link that contains a PDF, like a browser addon could. It's really not that complex.
/r/MensRights25/10/12 05:58 PM
20

If you don't want to risk accidental pregnancies don't copulate. Yeah, I think we should end abortion too, even in cases of rape and incest! After all, if they didn't want to- Wait, no, that's an awful argument. You'd think after being debunked for so long w/r/t abortion, people would stop trying to use it for the other gender, but apparently not.
/r/MensRights25/10/12 03:34 PM
1

Hey, don't assume. I'm a grad student in computer science; it'd be extremely easy to check to see if a given link has .pdf at the end or not, and do whatever it is that bot thinks people want to do in response to that. Granted, just because a page has .pdf at the end of it doesn't mean it actually links to a DPF file, but still, it's certainly a flag, so to speak.
/r/MensRights25/10/12 03:14 PM
3

I know, right? To this day I don't know if my father is cut or not, and I've certainly never actually seen it one way or the other. If you're in a situation where it could be an issue, you've got more things to worry about than everything matching. Plus, it's not like it's psychologically damaging that little Timmy doesn't have hair on his chest or doesn't have a beard like his daddy does, so why would this supposedly make such a difference?
/r/MensRights24/10/12 09:06 PM
2

Its file extension is .pdf in the link. Sounds like the smartphones could be a bit smarter.
/r/MensRights24/10/12 09:03 PM
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You're the people who tore this down, why are you helping me? What do you mean, "you people?"
/r/MensRights24/10/12 08:42 PM
1

It is based on an tendency however, unlike women's health insurance. But you yourself just said women tend to use more health care services than men. And this isn't just for childbirth and things of that nature, it also applies to general health-related visits.
/r/MensRights24/10/12 08:33 PM
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I'm not entirely sure I understand the original quote. Is it referring to people who speak in opposition to affirmative action?
/r/MensRights24/10/12 08:31 PM
1

fantasy slut league slut shaming That's not what "fantasy" means.
/r/MensRights24/10/12 03:23 AM
2

I really never thought this would actually come true, but it seems that some people have run out of both actual demons to attack as well as even windmills to tilt at. Accordingly... When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.
/r/MensRights24/10/12 03:14 AM
9

I wonder if the people decrying car insurance equalization by gender are also pushing for health insurance equalization. So few people realize equality is a two way street.
/r/MensRights23/10/12 09:06 PM
5

Wow, even just the title of the article was enough to shock me with its bullshit. Good lord.
/r/MensRights23/10/12 02:58 PM
11

Whoa, now. There's a great number of countries where women do actually have less rights then men do, and I don't think it's unfortunate that we try to equalize things in areas which need equalizing. Yes, there's such a thing as going too far, but in many foreign countries, "too far" is a very, very long way away.
/r/MensRights23/10/12 03:47 AM
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men are physically stronger than women which means they can never hit them I really don't get that. I'm 5'8" and 125 pounds, and have no upper body strength to speak of. Does that mean I can kidney punch dudes far stronger than me and expect to get away with it? They're quite clearly physically stronger than me, after all.
/r/MensRights23/10/12 03:30 AM
0

a man says that he doesn't understand why men remove hair. He then says it seems to say that women want hairless 'boys.' I can't speak for anyone else, but personally, I shave in general because I can't stand not doing it. Facial hair is really itchy, and body hair looks kinda gross. It has nothing to do with women. But maybe that's just me.
/r/MensRights21/10/12 03:15 AM
10

"Here in Australia, we don't just report on the news, we make it!" Now THAT's journalism, eh?
/r/MensRights21/10/12 02:48 AM
3

Oh boy, "research" has been done here. As per general ethical guidelines in regards to research and deception used in that research, I'm admitting to my deception and will come clean about the nature of this research. That's not how it works. You have to either obtain informed consent, or give people you deceived the option to withdraw their contribution and their records be destroyed. If you do neither, that ain't ethical.
/r/MensRights20/10/12 02:45 AM
7

Shockingly, not all sex is exclusively between a man and a woman. Especially, y'know, with relation to AIDS.
/r/MensRights20/10/12 02:38 AM
4

The weird thing about all this is, if you read the original email, it wasn't even worded rudely. Yeah, it's not really polite to tell someone they really should lose weight to begin with, but he did it as fairly and reasonably as possible. It didn't seem like bullying at all to me, but rather a legitimate concern. I mean, it's all well and good to stand up against bullying in public, but this wasn't bullying. Tasteless, perhaps, but not angry or threatening or anything.
/r/MensRights19/10/12 06:00 PM
3

To be fair, the person in question did rape a boy himself, so there's a bit of an "eye for an eye" mentality going on there. Ghandi wouldn't be too happy about that, but it's human nature.
/r/MensRights18/10/12 09:44 PM
2

You don't have to want to see it, but I don't get how that means you're disturbed that other people would.
/r/MensRights16/10/12 10:38 PM
1

and that disturbs me. May I ask why, exactly?
/r/MensRights16/10/12 09:43 PM
8

I stopped reading when he tried to say that because suicides aren't caused by a single event, it can't be because of how people treat them. As if how society treats a person is a single event. I can't even try to see where the logic is for that.
/r/MensRights16/10/12 01:31 PM
11

You have to do some serious semiotic acrobatics in order to give that as the definition of feminism. How can you claim a word that literally means "an ideology of or relating to females" be about gender EQUALITY? That's not feminism, that's egalitarianism. The word itself isn't equitable. To be fair, neither is men's rights, as such, but both are necessary in order to achieve true equality. You can't expect to bring about equality by just paying attention to one gender, that's not how it works. …
/r/MensRights15/10/12 10:18 PM
3

believe that "Men's Rights" are the foremost problem facing America today Bloody stupid. Since when does supporting a cause mean you think it is THE MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEM IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD? There's plenty of causes that deserve a lot of attention in America and the rest of the world, but that doesn't mean we only can pay attention to one at a time. It doesn't even mean that if we do only pay attention to one, that we think it's the most important; only that it's the most deserving of …
/r/MensRights13/10/12 06:47 PM
1

''That's ignorance for people to say this is a race thing,'' she said. ''It's not about race; it's about rape. He raped two girls.'' I... uh... I'm pretty sure nobody's trying to say he raced two girls.
/r/MensRights13/10/12 04:03 AM
1

I don't think the "abortion is illegal except in cases of rape" position is acceptable no matter who looks at it. If you're a person who thinks life begins at conception, then abortion in the case of rape is still murder, isn't it? You can't kill a child for the sins of the father. And if you don't believe life begins at conception, then there's no reason to make abortion illegal in the common circumstance. So who exactly thinks this is a good idea, and what exactly are their reasons for doing s…
/r/MensRights13/10/12 03:22 AM
4

That's... not what that means.
/r/MensRights11/10/12 06:15 PM
6

And that far, far more men than women are in prisons is clearly evidence that society hates women. downright incomprehensible
/r/MensRights11/10/12 06:17 AM
10

I can tell you that anyone who uses misandry in this way has no idea how the social justice movement uses the word misogyny. You can't just redefine a word willy nilly like that, and get all hot and bothered when people still use the actual meaning of the word. It's not how this whole language thing works. To be frank, there is no systemic force that discriminates against men. What we all notice is that culture values a certain TYPE of man, and that’s where men’s issues come in. However, there i…
/r/MensRights10/10/12 11:54 PM
7

Komen's version of the Cure® for Breast Cancer®. Whoa, a Jezebel article that's actually entertaining. Weird.
/r/MensRights09/10/12 11:39 PM
2

It’s this sort of rubbish that leads to people saying things like “I call myself a gender equalist”. Apparently egalitarianism, or hell, even the constitution is rubbish now. All of mankind created equal? Bah! Seriously though, putting the gender/race switch into some of these paragraphs gives some hideous stuff. “[RTN is] open to all whites and their children. It is asked that people who are not white self-exclude from the event this year. This is to stand in solidarity with people who feel uns…
/r/MensRights09/10/12 07:44 PM
0

As I said, I'm not exactly an activist.
/r/MensRights08/10/12 01:30 AM
1

A2
/r/MensRights07/10/12 11:08 PM
0

I'm about 45 minutes away, and not exactly an MRA as such, so I'm not quite there on both counts but kinda close I guess?
/r/MensRights07/10/12 10:56 PM
1

I... uh... what? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't stalking neither violent (in and of itself, though the threat of it becoming violent is often there) nor exclusively against women?
/r/MensRights06/10/12 03:51 AM
5

See the bars that offer no cover for women? Its because guys are horndogs and will go wherever there are women. sexism is okay because of this sexist reason! a'ight
/r/MensRights04/10/12 12:15 AM
11

This is from men's health? Getting hit by cars seems rather deleterious to one's health, if you ask me.
/r/MensRights03/10/12 08:53 PM
1

1/3 of your daily calorie intake is a poor target to shoot for for both lunch and dinner, since breakfast is generally a lot smaller than either of the other two meals, if people have one at all.
/r/MensRights02/10/12 10:22 PM
1

false rape accusations are about as common as being diagnosed with cancer Wha...? If they're trying to minimize the importance of considering the possibility of a false rape accusation, comparing it to cancer is not the best tactic. People give a heck of a lot of consideration to cancer, it's a pretty big deal.
/r/MensRights02/10/12 04:58 PM
2

"Don't be THAT guy" Isn't that usually used for friends who get annoying at times? Seems like a bit of an escalation to apply the phrase to someone who rapes people.
/r/MensRights01/10/12 04:45 PM
3

My comment on a similar piece is pretty relevant here too, so I'll just link it, I guess.
/r/MensRights01/10/12 01:50 AM
9

A set of... institutions that give men social and economic power over women So, uh, last I checked there was a SIGNIFICANT number of women-only associations, organizations, clubs, and whatnot in existence, while the number of such men-only groups is almost nil and getting even closer. So, what was this about sexist institutions, again...?
/r/MensRights30/09/12 10:07 PM
2

Ugh. Everyone loves to blame every possible Bad Thing in society on the Patriarchy, but nobody ever explains how exactly the Patriarchy makes men feel inconsequential or stupid. It's even more bewildering when you consider the fact that the Patriarchy, as it's generally asserted, would actually do the exact opposite of that, since if only men have all the power, that's not being inconsequential at all, and generally it's a bit backwards for leaders to say that they themselves are stupid. But the…
/r/MensRights29/09/12 10:48 PM
6

Perhaps, but it isn't wrong. Even if it were a feminist post(er), I don't see any problem with it.
/r/MensRights28/09/12 01:04 PM
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It was rather strange to see the claim that every single occupation anybody has had in the entirety of history is nothing compared to raising a child. But then I read the part where he condemns the man for even considering a divorce and then immediately advises the woman to consider a divorce. If that's not hypocrisy, I don't know what is.
/r/MensRights27/09/12 08:39 PM
6

That Jythexinvok person presents a pretty comprehensive argument against the person claiming that wrongful accusations of abuse literally never happen. It's nice to see.
/r/MensRights27/09/12 12:01 PM
4

The existence of transgendered people renders your point ineffective.
/r/MensRights25/09/12 10:28 PM
2

I'll keep this in mind next time I'm a noble member of the imperial court of Korea during the 1400s.
/r/MensRights25/09/12 06:24 PM
19

Dunno why I find that first picture so cute, but awww. He looks like an excellent dad.
/r/MensRights25/09/12 01:55 AM
22

We were told that while male circumcision was legal under all circumstances in Canada, any attempt to study the adverse effects of circumcision was strictly prohibited by the ethical regulations. What? That's the entire opposite of how ethics regulations work. If circumcision was ILLEGAL, then it would be unethical to make infants undergo the procedure in order to determine the effects, especially if they otherwise wouldn't. But if they're going to be circumcised anyways, then it should be entir…
/r/MensRights24/09/12 09:02 PM
2

If feminism is truly about equality, shouldn't it welcome this development with open arms? After all, both sexes contributing only gametes to the birth of a baby is an equalization of the sexes at their most basic purpose, so it should be perfectly in line with the push for equality. Hell, they should be campaigning FOR this technology, not against it. That is, if they truly are egalitarians, and not simply feminists.
/r/MensRights24/09/12 04:06 PM
0

I don't think anybody would claim that every person is exactly the same as every other person, which is what you seem to be getting from "created equal."
/r/MensRights23/09/12 09:23 PM
7

If we can have gender-based quotas in boardrooms, can we have gender-based quotas in prisons?
/r/MensRights22/09/12 07:49 PM
1

Fair enough, but how would you word that question to raise the issue without people claiming it's a loaded question? I mean, for example "How far has feminism come" is a vastly different question.
/r/MensRights22/09/12 03:26 PM
1

since the law does not allow them to do so, they claim it is discriminatory How is this by any stretch of the imagination discriminatory? From what I can tell, the result would be the exact same thing if it'd been a stepfather that wanted to adopt the child, not a stepmother.
/r/MensRights22/09/12 03:17 PM
1

They... they fired him? For wanting to organize a debate asking a legitimate question? What the hell. On the bright side, at least we've pretty much inarguably answered that question at this point. Seriously.
/r/MensRights22/09/12 05:19 AM
6

What, you didn't before?
/r/MensRights18/09/12 01:13 AM
1

Indeed. The argument I usually see for why articles like that belong here are generally along the lines of 'it challenges the misconception that women don't do (x).' Couple things wrong with this, though: Anecdotal evidence isn't really the best way to convince people like that, and I don't think anybody truly thinks it is IMPOSSIBLE for women to do (x) bad thing. Statistics (such as it is now true that more men in the US are raped than women) are far more convincing than "hey look this one woma…
/r/MensRights15/09/12 10:11 PM
3

Weren't debtor's prisons supposed to be illegal?
/r/MensRights15/09/12 10:05 PM
3

The implication of this quote is that females are generally good and decent while males are generally selfish and greedy. Well, if we want to judge on a standard of who does the most "good", an engineer who creates a wonderful invention that improves the lives of millions (or a very wealthy philanthropist like Mr. Gates) does the world a considerable amount more good than a veterinarian who makes some hundreds of animals a little more healthy. Just sayin'.
/r/MensRights14/09/12 02:40 PM
4

I've asked a few people how it's at all possible that patriarchy could assert that men are stupid and incapable, when it's supposed to be keeping men in charge of everything and all that jazz. Shouldn't it in fact assert the opposite of that? But nobody's provided me with an answer, convincing or otherwise.
/r/MensRights14/09/12 02:29 PM
67

My son, who's kind of been brainwashed, says where he is is so much better. What the fuck. Apparently she disrespects her son AND her husband so much so that she thinks her son can't make his own value judgments for himself, and that she thinks her husband would fucking brainwash her son into liking France. How can you use such strongly charged language so casually like that?
/r/MensRights14/09/12 02:27 PM
8

Why are there so many pictures of the murderer on that article? I've never seen a story that's not even primarily about the person just spam itself with pictures like that. Got kinda annoying when every two paragraphs we get two-three more pictures of her. oh wait it's the dailymail, that's why
/r/MensRights14/09/12 02:00 PM
22

In hearing cases of sexual assault, the needs of the victim should be given first priority. What? What if the accused is not guilty, what if there is no victim? What if the "victim" is in fact the falsely accused? A preponderance of evidence standard would rather significantly disregard his needs, to not be expelled for something he didn't do. It's just... how can you use words like that that assume the event occurred while trying to determine if the event occurred? That's not unbiased at all.
/r/MensRights13/09/12 04:10 PM
-1

I really don't think there's anything wrong with that. A person should be able to decide who they'd like their roommate to be, considering how much of their home they're sharing with them.
/r/MensRights13/09/12 03:54 PM
1

Aw, come on, I doubt OP is the kind of person to just lie through his teeth like that.
/r/MensRights13/09/12 04:01 AM
11

Please don't talk to me because you hate women. I haven't said anything about you besides "please don't talk to me." This seems symptomatic of extreme short-term memory loss. Does anyone know if this person is okay? Maybe she needs professional help, this has got to be a difficult condition to live with.
/r/MensRights12/09/12 08:51 PM
2

I agree with her in theory, in that having the only footwear options be high heeled is pretty dumb, especially in a game about captaining large capital ships and whatnot. (Don't even get me started on characters who wear high heels IN HEAVY ARMOR, ugh.) But yeah, she's being very trollishly overbearing about her ~moral high ground~. It's just a dumb oversight, not misogyny. That Weird Al reference guy was awesome though.
/r/MensRights09/09/12 05:11 AM
5

If you're going to make such an assertion, you REALLY need to make a better distinction between pedophilia and child molestation. While the two do (obviously) share overlap, they are NOT the same thing. It's completely possible to be a pedophile and not molest a single child throughout your entire life, so saying pedophiles should be chemically castrated without saying it should be only the ones at risk of actually committing a crime is a grave injustice.
/r/MensRights09/09/12 04:51 AM
2

Good lord, some of those quotes are disgusting. Whatever happened to "rape is rape"? Is statuatory rape not actually rape any more?
/r/MensRights03/09/12 02:18 PM
6

The second could be argued for (a man glad his daughter doesn't like boys) Or, perhaps, would a parent be glad that his/her son hates girls. Though, to be fair, a lot of boys dislike girls at young ages, and I don't think anybody's especially up in arms about that.
/r/MensRights03/09/12 03:52 AM
4

breast milk is proven to lower infants’ risk of gastrointestinal and ear infections, along with other benefits. The notion that “breast is best” simply because it’s natural I... what? You just... right there... I can't even imagine how this person just went straight from "there are many benefits to breastfeeding" and then almost immediately claimed that the only reason breastfeeding is being pushed is because it's natural. Just... how? How is such a blatant cognitive dissonance possible in an es…
/r/MensRights03/09/12 03:49 AM
1

Probably because everyone's too busy piddling their free time on Reddit to do anything violent to each other.
/r/MensRights02/09/12 07:42 AM
-2

I know this is an ad hominem, but any quote that's attributed to Ayn Rand makes me want to disassociate myself with the idea presented as much as possible. Anyways, this isn't exactly salient for men's rights. I don't think anybody is particularly against men's rights, on either side of the issues. It's tangential, really.
/r/MensRights02/09/12 04:08 AM
8

In retaliation for people getting sent to jail for threats when it really wasn't a threat, the clear solution is to make ACTUAL threats. Wait, what? That's not the right course of action at all.
/r/MensRights01/09/12 02:04 PM
6

Clearly they are leaving out a important section - Misandry. Well, along that line they're leaving out cisphobia and heterophobia as well. Also, I do love that logic of "We don't need to rule against misandry, because of misandry!"
/r/MensRights01/09/12 01:51 PM
3

Er, the one OP replied with. I was referring to the middle statement, not the last one. Sorry for the confusion.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 06:42 PM
3

Which gender has never been elected president or vice president of the United States? // Which gender was not even considered worthy of the vote by the Founding Fathers? // Which gender has 7 of top 185 positions at the U.N.? This is less advocating for his "men, who needs them" diatribe than it is for a "women, who needs them" one. Which gender is subject to more than 2 million genital mutilations each year, severely damaging sexual function? Yeah, about that... Which gender is raped and impreg…
/r/MensRights31/08/12 06:27 AM
2

Oh, I'm actually an intelligent systems grad student, not polysci. Admittedly I don't know specific details about political predictors, but I'm well-versed in machine learning techniques in general.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 05:51 AM
14

It kinda makes you wonder what kind of mindset you'd have to have in order to give that reason like that. How did they not see the obvious counterargument? Ah well.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 02:30 AM
4

Thing is, only around 15% of leading researchers are women. If there's gender bias in the system, this certainly isn't the best representation of it. It should be obvious that fewer female leading researchers than male leading researchers would be asked to publish in the journal, with that kind of proportion.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 01:48 AM
3

There's a natural selection joke to be made here.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 01:46 AM
0

It would be if he had, you know, done it. You can't be serious. The campaign itself said it doesn't care whether the things it says are actually true or not, that it wouldn't let itself be dictated by fact checkers. Heck, a large part of the campaign is even based on an out-and-out lie, claiming that Obama said that small business owners didn't build their small businesses when he was very clearly talking about the infrastructure that supports those businesses. Then why did you bring it up? Expl…
/r/MensRights30/08/12 06:50 PM
3

they have predicted elections since 1980 But that's just the thing, it hasn't predicted shit yet. It was created during this election cycle, using the data from previous election cycles. They trained it on those elections, so of course they're going to accurately predict those elections. You can make an SVM or neural network or whatever they're using give you literally any sort of prediction you want on data you feed into it if you give it enough degrees of freedom (which they have). The real te…
/r/MensRights30/08/12 06:36 PM
-5

Lying out of your teeth isn't a terrible thing? Anyways, this isn't the place for this, I don't particularly want to have this discussion.
/r/MensRights30/08/12 06:08 PM
3

Look at the bright side Hoopz, I'm sure Charles Barkley's available The prophecy will be fulfilled.
/r/MensRights30/08/12 03:46 PM
6

the Collorado Uni study that has successfully predicted the outcome of elections since 1980 Ex post facto. It does that because they designed it to. And it's almost certainly overfitting the data, considering apparently it's using those 8 elections to train 7 unknowns. As a grad student in exactly this area, I can pretty much say that's crap.
/r/MensRights30/08/12 03:26 PM
-2

Yeah... Additionally, I agree with Obama on a number of other issues, and Romney is, y'know, kind of a despicable human being, so unfortunately I'll be sort of supporting this whether I like it or not this November.
/r/MensRights30/08/12 03:22 PM
3

Ah, I see. Fair enough, then.
/r/MensRights30/08/12 04:39 AM
1

What makes this especially shitty is that there's clearly not a preponderance of evidence. Xavier even says themselves "the criminal justice system uses the ‘probable cause’ standard to indict", which they did not do. If there isn't probable cause, then it's improbable that he did the crime, so it's probable he didn't do it, meaning the preponderance of evidence is in fact in his favor. The grand jury even says itself that it wasn't even close. Seriously.
/r/MensRights30/08/12 03:02 AM
8

There's no difference, though. It doesn't distinguish anything about the girl other than the fact that she's a girl. The two are equivalent in the absence of any other feature to narrow down what exactly she means by "like me."
/r/MensRights30/08/12 02:53 AM
1

If consent can be withdrawn after being given, then it can be re-given after being withdrawn. Easy 'nuff.
/r/MensRights29/08/12 08:28 PM
2

The right to wear what you want within reason without being ostracized for it isn't a right, now? Certainly women are able to wear jeans, I don't see why men can't wear a skirt now and then. you no longer believe in any difference between genders other than a penis and vagina. Well, yeah, that's what egalitarianism is about.
/r/MensRights29/08/12 08:26 PM
2

And strangely convenient for using urinals. (Well, less than knee-length ones, anyways.)
/r/MensRights29/08/12 08:25 PM
1

it seems to give legitimacy to the theory. It's not a theory, it's just semantics. It's patently obvious that it's possible to be bigoted without any power at all, and bigotry is what (I imagine) most rational people think of when they think about sexism or racism or what have you. If you WANT to define sexism as power + discrimination, then you can if you want, but that doesn't mean that even the lowest of us can't be bigoted. Anyways, as for pointing out that that definition is pretty useless …
/r/MensRights29/08/12 08:20 PM
1

that's why I'm more than sure they never have to climb upstairs in stores that have clothing for both genders..... I think women's clothing is in the upper floor of the local Macy's. (Not 100% sure, since I don't really go to Macy's that often, but at least I remember it being only women's and bedding stuff. Then again, there was women's stuff downstairs, too...) Though on the other hand there were escalators, so it's not like anyone has to climb anywhere.
/r/MensRights29/08/12 08:16 PM
13

it isn't sexist because she's a women. "It isn't sexist because of this sexist reason!" haha oh wow
/r/MensRights29/08/12 08:14 PM
3

Indeed. Just a mistaken assumption, there's nothing malicious here, at least from the author's blurb.
/r/MensRights29/08/12 03:37 AM
6

Yeah, this really makes no sense to me. According to the medical journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, women have an average of 34 more nerve fibers per square centimeter of facial skin, while men have an average of 17. New research is suggesting the fact that women tend to endure pain more makes them more immune to it. Extrapolating downwards, we find that someone with zero nerve fibers, who literally cannot feel pain, would fare the worst in a painful situation. Wait what.
/r/MensRights28/08/12 05:41 PM
16

Well, Toddlers and Tiaras is in itself creepy and weird, so that's not exactly an apt comparison.
/r/MensRights28/08/12 04:28 PM
3

By extrapolation from data via the obvious truth that correlation equals causation, of course. /s
/r/MensRights28/08/12 02:34 PM
0

little actual risk in doing so for newborns A nonzero chance of death isn't actual risk?
/r/MensRights27/08/12 06:28 PM
4

Hey, you know what reduces the risk of STDs by a far greater percent, 100%, even? Just lop the whole thing off! Seriously, I just don't get this. Reduces HIV risk by 60%, okay, but all it takes is one transmission and 60% is nowhere near sufficient to remove the risk altogether. HPV? How about, y'know, using the actual vaccine instead. circumcision helps baby boys pretty much immediately. "The health benefits of male circumcision include a drop in the risk of urinary tract infection in the first…
/r/MensRights27/08/12 02:32 PM
5

I guess you could say Utah has more-men... Heh.
/r/MensRights27/08/12 01:55 PM
11

As an egalitarian, the term "mangina" irritates me, since its use as an insult makes the assumption that men are inherently better than women, and those who show feminine qualities are to be looked down upon. It's a very Manhood Academy word.
/r/MensRights26/08/12 07:59 PM
5

A bare penis?
/r/MensRights26/08/12 07:55 AM
2

I think the main thing here is that OP doesn't mind having to pay for the center as long as he's allowed to go there and make use of it in some way. That case is not applicable because the students COULD join all of the clubs and whatnot that they were complaining about paying for, they just didn't WANT to. If OP wants to partake in whatever activities or benefits go on with the women's center but is not allowed, then there would be a problem. If someone just doesn't want to, then, well, at leas…
/r/MensRights24/08/12 06:00 PM
2

Possible witch hunts against innocent men as Detroit citizens find out there is at least "21 serial rapists" on the loose. No moreso than every man is already assumed to be a possible rapist, I'd imagine. 21 serial rapists seems like a very high number from only 200 kits. You think so? I was actually going to say it sounds like a surprisingly low number; each of those 21 would've raped (on average) 10 women each, which is pretty huge if you think about it.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 05:00 PM
18

There is no better or worse rape. There is rape. I just don't get this attitude at all. How can you look at, say, someone getting drunk of their own volition, giving consent when it might not've been the best idea, then saying it was rape, and call it "just as bad" as someone being beaten down, tied up and savaged in an alleyway somewhere? How is the latter not far more damaging, traumatic, and especially evil? In what possible mindset can you say that the two situations are equivalent? I mean, …
/r/MensRights24/08/12 03:05 PM
2

That sounds blatantly apocryphal. It reads exactly like those stories you get in chain emails that snopes takes such glee in debunking so thoroughly, that it's quite impossible to believe even for a second that such a thing happened any way remotely along those lines.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 05:52 AM
2

Which would you rather have – women’s rights or freedom of speech? But... freedom of speech is a right women have. The two aren't mutually exclusive. If we infringe upon freedom of speech, we infringe upon women's rights. just as we do men's rights. Not capitalized Women's Rights, but still rights just the same.
/r/MensRights23/08/12 02:22 PM
5

This is extremely unhealthy because these women have to fit into a male culture. TIL male cultures are inherently "extremely unhealthy."
/r/MensRights22/08/12 07:14 PM
4

Surprised nobody's said this yet... literally Hitler
/r/MensRights18/08/12 02:55 PM
1

Strangely enough, I read this post and not two hours later found myself embroiled in an argument very much along those lines. Except... I'm just gonna let this quote from the other party in the conversation speak for itself. Prison rapes do not count as a problem in society It's difficult to find the will to try to reason with these people without losing faith in humanity sometimes.
/r/MensRights16/08/12 05:59 PM
3

For thousands of years, an unpleasant alloy of capitalism and Darwinian logic has kept them in the driving seat of chariots, warplanes, and F1 cars. And you don't have to be an insurance analyst to know that men are always worse drivers than women. Oh, bloody hell. "More likely to get into a costly accident" does not in any sense equate to "worse driver." I'd say F1 car drivers are rather significantly more likely to crash over the lifetime of their career, but it's ludicrous to say someone who …
/r/MensRights16/08/12 05:19 PM
2

I for one looked for three years to find a entry level retail position in my town, while constantly getting passed on for 15 year old girls who could hardly speak correct english. It's far more likely that that's simply because they're more willing to work for less pay, than for it to be the result of anything like affirmative action.
/r/MensRights16/08/12 03:09 PM
7

Gossypol is a known toxin, and a toxic dose is less than 10 times the contraceptive dose. Some argue that this alone should disqualify it from further study. This is a pretty legitimate concern, to be honest. However, it is important in that it establishes the definite possibility of a male contraceptive pill, so further research into the area will likely prove fruitful. Now, whether or not that research will be undergone is an entirely different matter, I'm afraid.
/r/MensRights16/08/12 07:36 AM
1

I never said he wasn't critical of abuse and oppression, as obviously he wasn't. But civil disobedience is just that, civil.
/r/MensRights12/08/12 10:08 PM
6

No civil rights movement has ever achieved anything by being civil. Ghandi would be seriously displeased at this remark.
/r/MensRights12/08/12 06:03 PM
4

much more superior Not even gonna bother reading the article if he's gonna use ugly grade-school wordings like that.
/r/MensRights11/08/12 08:18 AM
15

Uh... the age of consent in Mississippi (and, indeed, in most states) is 16. The reason the situation is an issue is because the teacher is in a position of power over the student, not just simply because the student is 16. It's not even possible for it to be statuatory rape in the sense you're thinking of.
/r/MensRights10/08/12 02:37 AM
5

Gendering aside, Rum and Cola ice cream does sound pretty tasty.
/r/MensRights09/08/12 02:23 PM
12

The comparison to pierced ears is absurd, and almost offensive. Especially since the entire reason for the ruling is The child's body is permanently and irreparably changed by the circumcision. This change conflicts with the child's interest of later being able to make his own decision on his religious affiliation. Pierced ears are neither permanent nor irreparable, and certainly doesn't nearly has much of an effect on bodily integrity as circumcision. A more apt comparison would be parents forc…
/r/MensRights09/08/12 02:16 PM
6

Many parents and clinicians now reject corrective therapy, making this the first generation to allow boys to openly play and dress (to varying degrees) in ways previously restricted to girls It'll be interesting to see how the societal norms regarding such practices change in the next few decades, in light of this.
/r/MensRights08/08/12 04:07 PM
33

Indeed. Who is this mysterious mother fucker who has received this comment in his face?
/r/MensRights08/08/12 04:05 PM
5

Not a self.mensrights, therefore no rightsbot.
/r/MensRights08/08/12 02:39 PM
1

What? I love Diane Rehm's voice, it's so... so very aged.
/r/MensRights08/08/12 01:42 PM
2

I don't think anybody who is "in their right mind" would, y'know, crash an SUV through an office building. Doesn't mean they're still not responsible. That said, what does this have to do with men's rights? Insanity pleas are pretty common for both genders, I imagine.
/r/MensRights08/08/12 05:15 AM
5

These bodies are not objects, they are instruments, with inspiring stories behind them: stories of determination, of truckloads of Lucozade, of millions of mornings of getting up to swim or run or row instead of sleeping in like all the other teenagers. We are wowed by these people's stories. We worship them. I... What? Isn't she basically implying here that women Olympic athletes don't have inspiring stories behind them, that no work has been put into getting themselves into shape, and they hav…
/r/MensRights07/08/12 04:01 PM
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