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| 12 | [Social Issues] Why the task of the M(H)RM is such a hard one. An anecdote. | Muesli_nom | /r/MensRights | 20/06/16 12:56 PM |
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| 7 | Boys might read more if we give them books they want to read — The Centre for Male PsychologyI got to read Huck Finn as a kid, Karl May (German author who wrote adventure books set in the Wild West [and actually portrayed Native Americans as equal], Middle East and South America), Prince Valiant, Tolkien, everything Discworld, the Edda, Greek myths, E.A. Poe, and others like that. By 15, I didn't have a room, I had a library. School almost managed to stamp out my love for reading, even back then - simply because they didn't even try to have one or two books on the curriculum that were r… | /r/MensRights | 01/09/22 07:08 AM |
| 3 | I’m a woman and the worst type of women to deal with are feminists.And breaking up the familial union cuz women care more now about having PHDs and SJWs than being a mother To be honest, I am mixed on that line of thinking. On the one hand, I have personal, immediate experience with the destruction "everything for the nuclear family" can bring, e.g. a mother being destroyed because she stays in an abusive marriage 'for the children'. On the other hand, I am witnessing how familial bonds are currently supporting a single mother, enabling her to do everything she… | /r/MensRights | 21/08/22 09:03 AM |
| 76 | "Straight men, if you want to find love you’ll need to do better"This expectation that men are the only ones who need to step up when you're just not compatible is telling. I still remember talking with my sister about her relationship troubles, how she had this long laundry list of all the things she expected from her partners (some of which were mutually exclusive), and how not one of her exes met them all (which made them exes). I also remember the look of sheer stupefied confusion on her face when I asked her what she brought to the table. Turned out that… | /r/MensRights | 20/08/22 08:06 AM |
| 3 | Women who are proven to have lied about rape should be required to register as sex offenders.I’m actually shocked this isn’t a thing already. Honestly, to my sense of justice it would be appropriate that anyone who is shown by clear and convincing evidence to have invented a crime to pin on someone else, and have the justice system punish them, should serve the sentence meant for that crime, and in addition also be sentenced for any 'ancillary' crimes perpetrated to get an innocent person convicted (e.g. perjury). | /r/MensRights | 21/07/22 02:10 PM |
| 77 | Circumcised male here, why do people hate circumcision?The cleaning arguement is a load of horseshit. It's on a similar level as "If I rip out all of my nails, I'll never have to clean them again." As a fellow intact guy, I've never had any issues either, and in fact: Knowing what I have by being intact, all I can say that someone else cutting it off of me for their own (inane) reasoning is nothing short of monstrous. | /r/MensRights | 05/07/22 08:33 AM |
| 6 | (MULTIPLE STUDIES) People stigmatize autistic men more than autistic women and less willing to hang out with autistic men than autistic women.There is a general sense in autistic communities that women have it worse because they aren't diagnosed as readily as men. There even has been a slight undercurrent of resentment as it being seen as "male disorder" in some places I visit (I have autism), and special care and consideration is demanded (by some) for autistic women. | /r/MensRights | 12/06/22 07:12 AM |
| 5 | Male domestic violence survivors say they feel the Depp-Heard trial is a turning pointShe should demand a salary from him. I'm sure he would be happy to pledge her any amount she asks. | /r/MensRights | 25/05/22 12:21 PM |
| 8 | Male domestic violence survivors say they feel the Depp-Heard trial is a turning pointbut defamation cases are incredibly hard to win. That is true, and that is why lawtube initially gave Depp little chance to win the case: The standards of proof for Defamation are just damn high. As it stands now, they have changed their assessment; they still think he may lose, but they also think a win for him is in the cards now - which is a huge shift. | /r/MensRights | 25/05/22 09:04 AM |
| 1 | "Amber Heard jobless... but Johnny Depp has potentially scored a new role in Sherlock Holmes 3"That decision has not yet been rendered. That is true, but in this particular case, there is one material context that should be counted: The trial at the moment is public. Everybody can watch and inform themselves. I watch the entire thing (while doing drawing exercises - my free-hand circles are pretty great by now) because I want to be able to make up my own mind. Just look at the twisted tales a lot of media still weave. So, if an ongoing employer of Heard or Depp decide they want to let the… | /r/MensRights | 21/05/22 09:22 AM |
| 5 | Dr. Shannon Curry deserves awards and mad respectIt's really quite amazing how thoroughly Heard's own testimony substantiated the claims of her opposition's expert witness (Curry), and through this managed to demolish her own expert witness (Hughes) as well. edit: Is this a Critical Failure (a game play feature of old D&D, mostly for homebrew and house rules) in real life? | /r/MensRights | 11/05/22 12:50 PM |
| 2 | Believe all women? Even Amber Heard? The Johnny Depp lawsuit raises questions about our approach to assault allegationsThe principal issue with "Believe all women" is that it takes a legitimate problem and framing ("Take allegations seriously - don't laugh them off or ignore them"), and casts it into an gender-locked absolute, which pretty much achieves the opposite of what it ostensibly was meant to do: To have allegations of domestic violence be treated seriously. Which would mean that instead of blindly believing or discounting reports, we fucking do our due diligence and investigate them. | /r/MensRights | 11/05/22 12:14 PM |
| 25 | Feminism tackling the important issuesThe more I find myself confronted with the usual feminist talking points, the more I have to ask myself if feminism as a whole isn't just one giant manifestation of the Dunning-Kruger effect that is allowed to metastasize only because society is too polite to call out women on their bullshit. | /r/MensRights | 08/05/22 08:08 PM |
| 75 | #MenToo and #AbuseHasNoGender is trending, and this is a HUGE step in the direction of mens rightsFor the UN, the ACLU, and - most important of all - L'Oreal. | /r/MensRights | 05/05/22 01:08 PM |
| 1 | Who's side are you on?but isn't he also a drug addict? Yes, he is, and he knows it. In addition (and I wasn't aware before the trial - I don't follow celebrity gossip myself), large parts of his addiction seem to stem from an abusive childhood; He doesn't take drugs to get high and rowdy, he uses them primarily as pain relief (e.g. he calls them "numb-numbs" in some texts, iirc). In my perception, it's a maladaptive behaviour he's been using since childhood to cope with the immense stress of being the whipping boy to… | /r/MensRights | 29/04/22 10:18 AM |
| 15 | Who's side are you on?Can't happen, because that is completely beyond the scope of the law suit. Best case really is that Depp wins his damages, and Heard's career grinds to a halt until she's made full amends. | /r/MensRights | 28/04/22 07:55 PM |
| 38 | Who's side are you on?I'm not a fan of tribalism (let alone a fan of celebrities), so I do not consider myself on "Team" anything. However: I have watched large parts of the trial so far, and from what I have witnessed, my opinion is the following: I have newfound respect for Mr Depp, and wish him all the best, including him winning the suit and restoring his reputation - not just for his sake, but also that of his kids. That is, unless the Defendant's side can bring earth-shattering new evidence. I do not think that… | /r/MensRights | 28/04/22 06:45 PM |
| 74 | Petition To Remove Amber Heard From Aquaman 2 Has Hit 2 Million Signatures Amid Defamation TrialLast I checked (which was last about half a minute ago as of the writing of this post), Heard still is a UN Human Rights Champion and L'Oréal "Modern Superheroine". ...I mean, granted, according to L'Oréal, their ambassadors/spokespersons "echo the values of feminism", so a violent, Histrionic domestic abuser with unregulated BPD fits right into their portfolio. edit: Just to make an explicit statement: I am not a fan of cancelling anyone, and that includes Miss Heard (of whom I entertain a rath… | /r/MensRights | 28/04/22 10:29 AM |
| 11 | Petition To Remove Amber Heard From Aquaman 2 Has Hit 2 Million Signatures Amid Defamation TrialThink there''ll be a Pirate's Cut with Heard edited out? | /r/MensRights | 28/04/22 10:22 AM |
| 2 | Amber Heard Officially Diagnosed With Personality DisordersIt's just the notion that you can't make a mistake that I find highly dangerous. Of course, everybody can make mistakes, and it's certainly possible in this instance. However: It's not a basis you should necessarily apply to a court hearing without actual cause. I say that as someone who went through pretty much the same thing as Miss Heard: I made claims of a medical/psychological nature in court. It was then the court's obligation to put those claims to the test through an expert witness (in f… | /r/MensRights | 27/04/22 09:56 AM |
| 29 | Amber Heard Officially Diagnosed With Personality DisordersIf you followed the testimony: Heard did try to game the test. It's just that, well, psychologists are aware that some people try to game the tests and build them accordingly (in fact, as someone who was subjected to a psychological examination through an expert witness myself, I can attest that they do account for various ways you might want to play them, .e.g the tests they use often camouflage their actual goals) In essence, this isn't just testimony that Heard has Histrionic and Borderline P… | /r/MensRights | 27/04/22 12:36 AM |
| 10 | The Johnny Depp case opened my eyesThe issue is that this suit is about Depp claiming defamation in a specific instance, i.e. it's not even about her committing violence - that is just a 'side show' that may help solidify his claim - but that ripped off finger, the cigarette burn, the slaps (I did nawt punch you, I did naaahwt! Oh, hi Mark.), the withholding of medication during withdrawal, the grumpy, the constant verbal abuse and putdowns? None of that is (unfortunately) being decided about. Nevertheless, I think that Depp may … | /r/MensRights | 21/04/22 03:42 PM |
| 1 | Name some laws in your country that benefit women at the expense of men.To be fair, I find it cowardly to compromise your stance on standing up for human rights for children just so you aren't called a mean word. As I just wrote in another response, three quarters of Germans opposed the bill granting genital mutilation an exception if it was done on boys. This really was done out of fear by a few people in power, and fear is rarely a solid foundation for a law. | /r/MensRights | 01/04/22 11:13 AM |
| 1 | Name some laws in your country that benefit women at the expense of men.Correct. About three quarters of German citizens opposed the law allowing little boys to be genitally mutilated - didn't faze our lawmakers, whose main concern really did seem to be not to be seen as antisemitic, because parts of the Jewish community threatened another diaspora if they weren't allowed to continue this abhorrent practice. | /r/MensRights | 01/04/22 11:08 AM |
| 15 | Name some laws in your country that benefit women at the expense of men.does that apply only to genital mutilation under religius pretenses? Or does that distinction actually apply when there is intention of boduly harm. The law is written in a way that allows male genital mutilation of minors as function of parental duty of care, i.e. if the parents want it regardless of reason, it's legal. As an example, lets say a woman throws boiling water on her husbands genitals That's assault/causing bodily harm, and is illegal. If sentenced, punishment ranges from a fine to … | /r/MensRights | 31/03/22 08:58 PM |
| 135 | Name some laws in your country that benefit women at the expense of men.It just a weird distinction to make. Germany has a few of those weird distinctions. There are three laws about bodily harm: Causing bodily harm is punishable by fine (lesser cases) or jail time (up to five years). Genital mutilation of women is especially heinous bodily harm, and thus punishable in excess of the general law (between 1-15 years in prison, cannot be reduced to a fine). Even if the act is committed in another country, the law applies. Genital mutilation of male babies is totally ok… | /r/MensRights | 31/03/22 11:59 AM |
| 16 | Dear Society, you made it clear you don't care about men. So I'm going to stop caring about you.It's like slavery After I had been drafted (we had mandatory military service for young men when I was at that age; Nowadays, the legal framework is held in abeyance), I had the same line of thought: Wait, isn't this at least forced labour? So I looked forced labour up in our encyclopedia, and it explicitly mentioned that conscription/draft was kept out of the definition. No reason given but, (paraphrasing) "forced labour is when someone is not willing to do the work, but they are made to do it … | /r/MensRights | 25/03/22 10:59 AM |
| 4 | I’m an MRA and people say I hate my own genderBy your logic you are a misandrist because you are a feminist. The thing is... Yeah, a surprising number of actually "active" feminists seem to be. It's one of those cases that scream "projection", as in: We generally assume that other people are like us when assigning them motives and goals, because we can only know our own. It takes experience and reflection to be able to assign unfamiliar thought patterns to people, so many people just copy/paste their own. So if a feminist says "If you advoc… | /r/MensRights | 02/10/21 08:56 AM |
| 20 | So it turns out the new Bond film, partly written by a man hating feminist, is basically a nearly three hour long film of apologising for being male...men will be blamed and called "sexist" for not wanting to see it. And just like Ghostbusters 2016, nobody outside a very core Twitter bubble will actually believe that. | /r/MensRights | 02/10/21 08:29 AM |
| 5 | People think women have it so much harder in life and that's ridiculousKeep in mind that there are people that think French Food being seen as fine dining is a sign of white supremacy. It boggles my mind how one and the same person can first laugh their ass off how anti-vaxxers are so gullible and dumb, and then turn around and tell me how "the patriarchy" keeps women down via "the pink tax", or how fatness it good because of "euro-centric beauty standards created to prey on vulnerable humans". Riiight. | /r/MensRights | 13/08/21 12:09 PM |
| 7 | Probably the most fragile people on Redditr/mgtow was not the best of the sub. This is actually what bothers me about this situation: I see a lot of comments that the sub was full of "incel misogynist hatred", and I do not know if that is true (because some people actually do espouse such views, and I've met at least a few self-described MGTOWs with pretty poor views on women), or if it is this blanket accusatory statement a lot of people use for people that say things they don't like (because many MGTOWs I know actually are decent peop… | /r/MensRights | 05/08/21 06:42 AM |
| 18 | r/offmychest BanOffmychest is so evidently discriminatory against some demographics that r/trueoffmychest has been a thing for quite some time. | /r/MensRights | 04/08/21 11:22 AM |
| 9 | [Serious] People Who Think Men Are The More Privileged Gender, Why? What Privileges Do They Have?I don't know what you count as dominant or in charge. How about "in charge of the household budget"? How about "in charge of who we have over for guests"? How about "in charge of which friends the kids may bring over"? How about "in charge of what's for dinner"? How about "in charge over how the interior is decorated"? How about "In charge if any pets join the family"? How about "in charge about when and how long the husband may have time to himself"? How about getting to decide if the men even … | /r/MensRights | 03/08/21 08:01 PM |
| 6 | 'America's daughters shouldn't be drafted against their will': Conservatives blast proposal that would require women to register for the military draft alongside menHow about: "I don't want either men or women drafted or conscripted into mandatory service, but unless we get women drafted too, we'll never get there, because nobody gives a shit about the draft unless it affects someone humanity cares about, and that's plainly not men"? | /r/MensRights | 26/07/21 09:33 AM |
| 3 | 'America's daughters shouldn't be drafted against their will': Conservatives blast proposal that would require women to register for the military draft alongside menwomen worked alongside the men. I've worked in the military, I've worked in construction; Women were beyond scarce there, and women holding their own were practically unicorns. The 'fun' thing in the military was that most men in my unit worked off their mandatory military service, while any and all women were there on their own free will and choosing. 130 men, 2 women (both officers in training, because if you have the option, why go for anything less?). The best part? Those women were neither … | /r/MensRights | 26/07/21 09:30 AM |
| 1 | 'America's daughters shouldn't be drafted against their will': Conservatives blast proposal that would require women to register for the military draft alongside menThe most inane defense of the status quo I have read was "sharing the pain is not the kind of equality we should strive for!" ...I mean, at least they admit that what society expects of, and forces men into, is pain. They're just not even lucid enough to even get that they just admitted that, so focused are they on keeping women comfortable. | /r/MensRights | 26/07/21 08:59 AM |
| 28 | r/FemaleDatingStrategy is a manipulative, misandrist femcel echo chamber and should probably be bannedthey literally call males as ''scrotes'' Well, they're right flaps then, ain't they? | /r/MensRights | 15/07/21 02:00 PM |
| 56 | How does it sound now?I found reversing the genders to get a more holistic perspective on an issue to be a valuable tool. Not only to suss out how "equal" we're treating each other, but also to get a bit of an in as to the why when we hold people of different sexes to different standards. | /r/MensRights | 08/07/21 09:27 AM |
| 2 | Why are so many women unaware of the emotional weight of actual labor. You know the type that built the world around them.highly upvoted posts which serve as nothing but an opportunity to bitch about how men suck. ...is why I moved that sub out of my subscriptions (It's a standard one - or at least it was) and generally ignore anything that comes from there. It's also why the frequency of it appearing on crossposts to subs I do visit is starting to annoy me. Yeah, it's a miserable sub; Let's not let it spread that misery around too much. | /r/MensRights | 04/07/21 08:14 AM |
| 2 | A realisation I had about “did you get home safe?” messagesBut statistics would show that men are actually more likely to be attacked on the street. I had this conversation with a relative a few years ago, the whole "Your opinion on this is worthless, because you're a man, you are safe on the streets" thing. I recounted how my flat mate had been mugged in a street just a few months prior, and how basically every assault I know about in my social circle had been against men. She actually had witnessed me being unable to speak at one time after I had had … | /r/MensRights | 03/07/21 08:21 AM |
| 1 | "r/mensrights is a woman hating cesspool of incels." Also subs for women:Fascism is the political "philosophy" of "You'll do what I want, because I'll make you". It's the use of force as a political instrument. Comes from the Roman fasces, bundles of sticks tied around axes, and a symbol of power of the lictores, basically spelling out "By stick or by axe, we will make you comply". Thus, compelling speech, or throwing people out of political discussions by force (e.g. by banning them for their views instead of their conduct) because their point of view is not welcome… | /r/MensRights | 26/03/21 02:48 PM |
| 0 | "r/mensrights is a woman hating cesspool of incels." Also subs for women:with a racist British but I didn't got banned surprisingly. When racists are acting less fascist than your own "tribe", it may just be time for a little bit of introspection. | /r/MensRights | 26/03/21 01:37 PM |
| 21 | Double StandardsIt HaS To Be ThEiR mIsoGynIstIc NaturE. They're akin to narcissists in that way: Completely oblivious to their own conduct and the effect it is having on people around them. And when those people are turning their backs and leaving, it is, of course, always clear where the blame lies: everywhere but them. | /r/MensRights | 21/03/21 10:52 AM |
| 15 | I’m not and anti-semite for saying circumcision should be illegalI've never heard of any other Jews thinking that's anti-semitic. Look up up the reaction of the Jewish community towards the decision of a minor German court (Landgericht Köln/district court Cologne) that circumcision was in fact a form of physical violence, and thus, illegal. They as good as pressured our legislators into making a special law to make male genital mutilation legal by threatening another diaspora. edit: They called the decision to class MGM as violence/illegal a threat to the Jew… | /r/MensRights | 01/01/21 10:39 AM |
| 2 | This was on the front page of Reddit, of courss there wasnt anyone bringing up the much larger issus of circumcision in the comments...Absolutely - I just thought it worth mentioning that we, at least in this case, have the backing of the overwhelming majority. | /r/MensRights | 27/06/20 04:23 PM |
| 5 | This was on the front page of Reddit, of courss there wasnt anyone bringing up the much larger issus of circumcision in the comments...Germany passed a law in 2012 that explicitly made MGM legal on babies (while also having a law that punishes FGM harder than "usual" cases of physical violence). A poll at the time showed that 3/4s of Germans did not agree with that law, and wanted to make MGM as illegal as FGM. Shame our politicians aren't known for listening to the people. | /r/MensRights | 27/06/20 09:25 AM |
| 2 | 17 year old boy commits suicide after rape accusation. Her response: If he couldn't the handle the pressure, it's not her fault.And now let's imagine an actual rapist use "If (s)he can't cope with it, not my fault." as an actual attempt of defending their actions. | /r/MensRights | 07/05/20 01:31 PM |
| 7 | German states announce new hotline for male victims of domestic violencethe media is feminist infested I stopped watching TV decades ago, but I'm in a living situation where I just passively absorb it from time to time. I absolutely boils my piss how one-sided the media portrays so many things I just happen to know particulars about; I feel like I'm living under a real life Ministry of Truth, only it's not a state-run ministry, but rather the media (both private and public). In this case, I'm just waiting for the shoe of "government misspends tax money on superfluou… | /r/MensRights | 25/04/20 01:59 PM |
| 6 | "Women have always been the primary victims of war" - Hillary ClintonSome young men are/were actually quite keen on fighting - at least before they'd seen any of it. It's one of the uses of propaganda to basically ingrain the idea of "glorious warriorhood" in boys and teenagers. It's a lesser-noted corollary of nationalism ("defend your country, your girlfriend, gain glory and recognition for your service, return and start a happy family", yaddayadda. You know, all the pretty little lies you are fed when warm bodies are needed.) If you know the film "Die Brücke" … | /r/MensRights | 12/03/20 01:30 PM |
| 0 | Google discriminates against males and you should avoid them and their productsYou're not building Rome, you're trying to break Rome down. It's still standing, last I checked. | /r/MensRights | 08/03/20 10:51 AM |
| 1 | Google discriminates against males and you should avoid them and their productsAlso everyone has responsibility of their own actions. Additionally: If you're only doing this "for the greater good", you have already lost. I avoid google where I can, but it's more because I personally cannot stomach what they do. Like that dude that used an app to log his bike rides, and because google had collected that data, and it put him near a crime scene, the police came knocking on his door? That's exactly the shit why I don't even own a smartphone. I do this for me, so I can lead a l… | /r/MensRights | 08/03/20 10:39 AM |
| 12 | Warms my cold heart to see stuff like this.This is a brilliant idea. I've been planning on getting a dog for years now (basically since I talked with my then-therapist about the benefits for autism, anxiety disorder, and depression), and since I just won the legal dispute about my own house, I can finally get one (a dog needs room). | /r/MensRights | 23/02/20 01:35 AM |
| 1 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.Don't expect a reply, though. I actually hoped that you were done making an ass of yourself, but just like you, I hoped in vain. Since you aren't going to reply by your own words, a sincere advice for the road: Work on your anger issues. You are doing no one favours by going off unhinged at others - not you, not other MRAs. | /r/MensRights | 13/02/20 01:43 PM |
| 1 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.No. I just have a knack for spotting when someone is so blinded by needing an enemy that they stopped thinking and started foaming at the mouth. Goes for a lot of feminists, and, as we can see demonstrated by you, sadly also for some men's rights activists. If you read closely, you had other people appreciate my explanation, so I'm pretty sure in this case - it's you. Nice ad hominems, though. | /r/MensRights | 11/02/20 10:44 PM |
| 0 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.Yeah, but what can you do? I mean he/she doesn't even accept the explanation given. If I had a bit more patience and wasn't quite as cynical, I'd attempt another go at reason, but eh. Not going to convince people that do not want to be convinced. | /r/MensRights | 11/02/20 02:25 AM |
| 65 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.Because I have seen men participate, and I know women who would not be caught dead doing something like that. Thus, this isn't "a female problem", just as violence isn't a male problem just because most perpetrators and victims are male. Plus, I am generally a fan of the idea to hold individuals accountable for their actions, not whole groups of people for something some (or even many) of them do. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/20 01:20 PM |
| 170 | /r/Feminism started removing or downvoting all articles about Amber Heard after Depp came forward with his new evidence.but to flat out reject or acknowledge that you were wrong is pretty pathetic. I'm living with a bunch of women at the moment, and I'd like to offer one possible explanation: Admitting you are wrong gives certain people a "handle" on you, and they hit you with it any time another disagreement comes up. Acknowledging that you are wrong is a good move in an adult atmosphere, not so much with people who still mentally haven't outgrown puberty. edit: And I'm not saying that this is only women, or all… | /r/MensRights | 10/02/20 10:43 AM |
| 6 | Found in the wild. Thought you all would enjoy this refreshing change of pace. Two women supporting intactivism and a woefully ill informed man.Wouldn't it be in a man's interest to not have a permanent procedure performed without consent? "But it saves time washing, and you do not remember it when you get circumcised as an infant, so it's better to do it then". Not making this up, that is the actual position someone backpedaled to after pointing out that circumcision in essence is genital mutilation without consent, and with no medical benefit. | /r/MensRights | 14/12/19 01:13 PM |
| 11 | TIL about The Grievance Study Affair. Two professors changed the text of Mein Kampf replacing the word "Jews"with "the patriarchy". It got published in an academic journal.There is a sub called r/StormfrontorSJW precisely because of this. | /r/MensRights | 18/11/19 02:01 PM |
| 9 | November 25 is the International Day to End Violence Against Women. Here is what one man had to say about it.Other than it runs on men? (And I do not mean that as "Men run society", but indeed as "Society runs on men like a car runs on fuel") | /r/MensRights | 18/11/19 09:12 AM |
| 7 | Netflix speaking the truthThere seems to be this barrier. Definitely. My mom died last year - I was grieving for weeks, but actual crying? Once, for half a minute, when I escorted my grandma - her mother - from the death bed. | /r/MensRights | 07/10/19 03:16 PM |
| 13 | Netflix speaking the truthHas anyone here ever been told (directly or indirectly) that they're not allowed to cry? Yes. The expression used was "Indianer kennen keinen Schmerz.", literally "Native Americans do not know pain." Said any time I was in any way looking for comfort because of a hurt (emotional or physical): "Just grit your teeth and power through". That said, as far as I am aware, men do tend to cry less than women, it's apparently just a physical thing that men find it less easy to tear up. That doesn't mean … | /r/MensRights | 07/10/19 02:46 PM |
| 4 | Mother circumcises her child, and she regrets nothing"I regret nothing". Your son will. | /r/MensRights | 05/10/19 09:22 AM |
| 3 | Not sure who made this - But this person is spot on!I feel it's a very big ask Well, I didn't write this to all men, I wrote it to this particular man in an effort to show a more positive perspective. I know that it would a lot to ask of all men, and it's not a universal command to "just do yourself, everyone". But if, like me and him, you've been at a point where you go "Fuck this execrable shit, why do I fucking bother, it's a shit-covered hole all the way into the diarrhea center! What is the pooping POINT?!", this may help you; It's not about… | /r/MensRights | 09/09/19 02:41 PM |
| 24 | Not sure who made this - But this person is spot on!Take a look at the other half of the equation: Men mostly can do what they like (until they negatively impact someone else) without being bothered and fussed about. So go hiking, go biking, go motorcycling. Learn to dive, or to parachute, or to weld. Get yourself a dog, get tattoos, grow a big, bushy beard - and relish in the feeling of almost no-one caring enough to sit you down about it. I am not saying "men have it better" (if I were, I would probably not be here), but I find it useful to loo… | /r/MensRights | 09/09/19 07:11 AM |
| 109 | Not sure who made this - But this person is spot on!that’s kinda weird tho because they value a dog more It's the same concept as with women: Women and pets are valued for being, men are valued for doing. This leads to men being sent off to war (or maybe it's the other way round - since we need men to do the dying, we can't attach as much value to them because of the sorrow that would bring), while women stay at home. Of course, this has as corollary that men aren't bothered when they do stuff alone, i.e. they tend to have less supervision, while… | /r/MensRights | 09/09/19 06:57 AM |
| 3 | German court rules circumcision is 'bodily harm' - BBC NewsThey would adapt. Penn and Teller did an episode about male genital mutilation, and they interview a rabbi who clearly states that being cut or not has no bearing on you being Jewish. Of course, there are those who are just as convinced that if you're not cut, you can't be Jewish. This approach was mostly what led to the German government caving: Prominent Jews were threatening another diaspora because "Germany was at it against the Jewish faith" again. | /r/MensRights | 07/09/19 07:35 AM |
| 8 | Women who have a child against a man's will should be liable for damages. Essay by me, a man who was forced into fatherhood at age 22.But it will become one. The issue of "when is it a child, really" is at the center of the debate, but as said: The causality is there - a fertilized egg will, without interference, grow into a child. So if you're arguing with the interests of the child, it has to count both ways. Or you can say "Well, without a child - because it's just a fertilized egg - the man is not a father yet, so he should be able to step away from it entirely. Just like the mother can step away from it entirely at that p… | /r/MensRights | 04/09/19 08:59 AM |
| 5 | Women who have a child against a man's will should be liable for damages. Essay by me, a man who was forced into fatherhood at age 22.The child's interest is at play and can't be ignored. True, but from your chain of events, the same would be true for abortion: The fertilized egg would become a human child, so if we go by the "child's interests", the woman should not be allowed to abort, because that would also be against the future child's interests. | /r/MensRights | 04/09/19 08:42 AM |
| 19 | Women who have a child against a man's will should be liable for damages. Essay by me, a man who was forced into fatherhood at age 22.My wallet my choice. Also, since the vast majority of men have to earn the contents of their wallets by working, it's not just "my wallet, my choice." It's "My life, my choice." | /r/MensRights | 04/09/19 08:35 AM |
| 12 | Gillette Concedes They Got Woke Went Broke, CANCELS Social Justice AdsTheoretically, alienating your old customer base to get hold of a new, bigger customer base can work. The issue more and more businesses are being made aware of is that the people that profess to adhering to "woke" values aren't, for the most part, interested in being customers, i.e. they say they need a product changed to appeal to them, and when it is changed, they continue not buying it. Kinda like many preachers in a way: Do as I say, not as I do: "I don't do as I say". | /r/MensRights | 23/08/19 07:38 PM |
| 6 | Take that, girl who made the "manspreading chair"Exactly. That's why I try to look at the actions of people instead of what they say. Talk is cheap. As is divvying up factions into "good" and "bad" guys. Reality is complex, and mostly not accurately represented as soon as you think in terms of "good people" and "bad people". | /r/MensRights | 24/07/19 12:34 PM |
| 6 | Take that, girl who made the "manspreading chair"The winner of a war determined who's good and bad Sure. Because they tell a story about what they did and did not do. Does not change that their actions often do not match their self-awarded status. | /r/MensRights | 24/07/19 11:14 AM |
| 32 | Take that, girl who made the "manspreading chair"The irony being that many seats on a standard subway already have enough space below them to actually stow most bags. | /r/MensRights | 24/07/19 10:37 AM |
| 38 | Take that, girl who made the "manspreading chair"The point is that clear demarcation into "good guys" and "bad guys" does not apply in wars (or most anywhere outside of stories, really), as there usually are atrocities committed by both/all sides. There is a reason why the Geneva convention came to be. | /r/MensRights | 24/07/19 10:36 AM |
| 4 | What if we said the same or similar about females?Gonna chime in, I was not offended when I read that. Stupid people say stupid things all the time. I was a bit disheartened to see the attitude in itself, but as said, the statement is so obscenely dumb that I can't take it seriously as an offense, merely as a reflection of the person making it. | /r/MensRights | 22/06/19 10:30 AM |
| 1 | The EU is consulting the public for gender equality, let your voice be heard, fill out a questionnaire, last day is May 31Done. Jesus Pogosticking Christ, what a shitshow of a questionnaire. But it provides an "in" to criticize the entire approach of the EU towards "gender equality" for its ludicrous lopsidedness: "Hey, yo, at least one of our member states explicitly legalized the genital mutilation of newborn boys, but let's talk about if we should force our citizens to take mandatory workplace education that explains to them that more women need to be in CEO positions". So, thank you for the sticky. I am pretty … | /r/MensRights | 31/05/19 07:58 AM |
| 25 | School proposes punishing boys by taking away part of their recess on International Women's DayAh, celebrating something not by lifting it up, but by tearing things down that aren't like it. I guess this is saying enough about the cause and how worthy of celebration it is. | /r/MensRights | 17/05/19 02:09 PM |
| 10 | Charlize Theron: My Seven-Year-Old Son Is Really A GirlMy niece is in that phase now, and it's exacerbated by her mom liking her long, blond hair. Which my niece hates, because it gets in her face when she's climbing trees and racing her bike (she races anything and everyone to any destination). There's no faster way to get her mad than to call her "princess" - "I'm not a princess, I am going to be a scuba diver! And an astronaut! And for Christmas, I want a drum kit!". I'm still pretty sure she doesn't want to be a boy. She's just a pretty unstoppa… | /r/MensRights | 20/04/19 07:55 AM |
| 16 | Circumcision - One Baby's ExperienceNo but it is my kid right? It is "your kid" as in "it is your ward", i.e. your responsibility to see that it gets the best start into life you can offer. It is not "your kid" in the sense of "it's yours to do with as you please", i.e. like you would say "but it is my cake". Unless there's an actual medical necessity to lay hands on your kid, it just is not your decision to make - and even in the case of an actual medical necessity, the only reason you get to decide is because the kid cannot yet … | /r/MensRights | 18/03/19 09:12 AM |
| 2 | German man sues town for discrimination over ‘woman-only’ parking spacesDas wurde mir alles in der Fahrschule (Hamburg) beigebracht. Dann warst Du auf einer besseren Fahrschule als ich... Zwischen Frauenparkplätzen und Behindertenparkplätzen haben die uns keinen Unterschied beigebracht. | /r/MensRights | 28/01/19 11:10 AM |
| 19 | German man sues town for discrimination over ‘woman-only’ parking spacesThe interesting thing is that as a German, I did not know that those parking spaces for women were "just a suggestion" instead of something legally binding, and judging from how my social circle took the news, I am not the only one (btw. they're all pretty okay with this ruling, and understand that males are helped by those well-situated parking space sometimes just as much as women). | /r/MensRights | 28/01/19 09:47 AM |
| 1 | Let's make #boycottgillette trend across the Internet.Maybe I'll get brave enough to try it. It's not magic, but you do need to pay attention and have a bit of know-how how the edge works. I mean, I've been shaving with a cut-throat for a decade at this point, and what do you know, didn't pay attention while stropping it a week back, blade lightly touched my fingertip, nicked myself pretty good. Lesson learned (again): Respect the blade; It doesn't care how used to it you are, it's still a razor's edge. | /r/MensRights | 15/01/19 12:17 AM |
| 11 | Reddit User Claiming to Be Google Insider Describes How the Tech Giant 'Screwed Over' James DamoreTo be honest, the way this "confession" is written does not sound like the real deal to me. There's too much language in there that is self-accusatory to the point of self-flagellation and -condemnation. Who says things like "To quell dissent we did X", "we did nothing", "we manipulated", "looking for an excuse to fire him", "we needed to make an example out of him"? Such wording makes them out to be the bad guys, makes them seem positively villainous. No person that doesn't view themselves as E… | /r/MensRights | 11/01/19 10:37 AM |
| 7 | Woman attempts to kidnap a baby, dad goes after her, she yells that a man is trying to kidnap her baby. Everyone goes for the dad, while the woman tries to flee the scene. Police question the dad about what he did for thw woman to kidnap his baby. Luckily, the baby is okay and with his parents.The culprit is gone, and all they know of them stems from the questions they're asking. I've been questioned in similar circumstances by law. I understand the need to get a clear picture of both sides; For example: Even when you go to the police to tell them that you were just assaulted by a stranger, they'll ask you if you defended yourself, and how, and if you at any point give the impression that you weren't just blocking - for instance, you grasped the attacker's arm in an attempt to stop th… | /r/MensRights | 11/01/19 02:46 AM |
| 169 | Woman attempts to kidnap a baby, dad goes after her, she yells that a man is trying to kidnap her baby. Everyone goes for the dad, while the woman tries to flee the scene. Police question the dad about what he did for thw woman to kidnap his baby. Luckily, the baby is okay and with his parents.I think it's interesting(and shameful) that the police asked the dad about what he did to make the woman think that he wasn't the baby's dad, impliying that she was "rescuing" the baby. The (current) top post on the original thread starts out as "Damn. That woman is frightening!", and while I concur with the assessment, it comes a distant third to "Damn. That behavior by the police is horrifying!" and the close second "Damn. That mob behavior has me feeling queasy just from reading about it!" fo… | /r/MensRights | 10/01/19 04:57 PM |
| 50 | Lecturer at university where feminist threatened to paint over war mural of white men is arrested for keeping white male slave in garden shed of her £1.2m home for years with no toilet or bedAssuming the allegations are true: *sigh* Reset the clock. | /r/MensRights | 16/11/18 12:41 PM |
| 2 | We should do our version of mainsplainingI find it petty and whiny when someone uses "mansplaining" unironically, maybe even stupid and condescending. In any way, it doesn't say anything good or valid about that person or their cause. Ergo, I see no need for anyone else to mirror the term, unless they want to discredit themselves. | /r/MensRights | 08/09/18 08:33 AM |
| 1 | Things I'm Tired Of Hearing As An MRADo SJWs/feminists legitimately think that? that's asinine to the extreme. I doubt that a significant majority would hold this specific view, but after half a decade of dealing with such people, the straw men they erect and actually believe you to hold as genuine opinion sometimes does have me shaking my head. The only reasonable explanation for this, in my opinion, is a full-blown persecution complex. | /r/MensRights | 16/07/18 09:52 PM |
| 20 | Why isn't "fat acceptance" simply dismissed with "nobody owes you sex"?It's not necessarily about pettiness. Talk to medical professionals who have to care for morbidly obese people, or have to operate on them. (Morbidly) obese people take up more space in hospitals. They require special equipment because "normal strength" simply breaks, and that special equipment often takes time to organize and move (or to move the patients to them - MRI scanners often are too small for morbidly obese patients, or not powerful enough), meaning that obese patients also take up mor… | /r/MensRights | 13/04/18 02:21 PM |
| 5 | Yes! Friends star David Schwimmer slams #MeToo 'We shouldnt conflate all claims-What concerns me is the disregard of facts, context & evidence. In this climate, condemnation is merciless. This is why the ‘witch hunt’ phrase is used'It depends on who you think it should work on, I would say. The people being sexist usually are so caught up in their "I'm right regardless" approach to anything and everything that you could tell them that water is wet, and they would gainsay you merely on the grounds that you don't hold their opinion on another matter, and their opinion is right. And if they're right, you must be wrong. For possible witnesses of the exchange, however, the approach often does work. In fact, if the sexist then "… | /r/MensRights | 12/04/18 01:40 PM |
| 9 | Yes! Friends star David Schwimmer slams #MeToo 'We shouldnt conflate all claims-What concerns me is the disregard of facts, context & evidence. In this climate, condemnation is merciless. This is why the ‘witch hunt’ phrase is used'Maybe it's time to rebut that assertion with "Did you just invalidate a person's opinion on nothing but their sex? That's sexist, you know?" I mean, you are right - I've seen the cry of "toxic masculinity!" happen too many times, just as I've witnessed the gender-flipped "internalized misogyny!" when a woman speaks out on behalf of men. Thing is: Both the "toxic masculinity" and "internalized misogyny" angle are deeply sexist and deny the speaker a mind of their own. I think this should be point… | /r/MensRights | 12/04/18 08:50 AM |
| 15 | What Circumcision and 'Religious Freedom' Have in CommonIn classic ways of thinking, the proposed legislation is an attack on religious freedom. I don't know which classics think that way, but in any rational legal system (so, ostensibly, all of the Western ones - in theory), it never was an attack on religious freedom. I've written this before, but rights are personal, i.e. your religious freedom always has ended where any right of another person began. My right to freedom of movement ends at the property of another person. My right to swing a fist … | /r/MensRights | 05/04/18 09:19 PM |
| 25 | Scotland Yard abandons policy of automatically BELIEVING rape complainants as commissioner Cressida Dick says 'a clumsy misunderstanding is no police matter'the feminists can't as easily scream misogyny about it. Well hello there; Let me introduce you to my good friend, Internalized Misogyny. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/18 09:11 PM |
| 5 | Woman is for circumcision because "men already enjoy sex more than women" and implies that an intact male will just "be even more aroused" Point: male sexuality is feared or at least looked down on.My right to my body is not trumped by other rights. This is an aspect that doesn't get the attention it deserves, I think: Rights are personal and inalienable (that means they cannot be taken away or pass to another person). This means that the argument about "right to religious freedom versus right to bodily integrity" doesn't apply in the first place: The right to religious freedom is, like any other right, personal: You may chose any religion you wish, but you cannot force anything about your… | /r/MensRights | 01/04/18 07:20 AM |
| 11 | Because there's definitely nothing wrong with thisNo one is sexually oblivious at 16. That's not the issue. The issue is that it's a) a teacher, and b) someone with a vastly better grasp on what sex in that constellation means, and how to coerce and/or manipulate someone without that experience into it. A bit more general: It's about the power differential between the participants. | /r/MensRights | 21/03/18 10:56 PM |
| 1 | "We call on lawmakers to immediately rescind this miserable piece of legislation and continue supporting Jewish life without limits." - Rabbis react to Iceland suggestion to ban male infant circumcision.This story is about Iceland, I don't care about Germany. Grasping at straws, aren't you? Your question was about "If harming people is against the law then why aren't people getting arrested for circumcision? ". Nothing about Iceland there. And circumcision was against the law, which you seem to cherish so, in Germany, and people were getting arrested. I don't know if anyone specific in Iceland was arrested for it, but that's a pointless cop-pout on your part. Unless Iceland has a vastly differe… | /r/MensRights | 02/02/18 06:51 PM |
| 3 | "We call on lawmakers to immediately rescind this miserable piece of legislation and continue supporting Jewish life without limits." - Rabbis react to Iceland suggestion to ban male infant circumcision.If harming people is against the law then why aren't people getting arrested for circumcision? Err, they were. How do you think the Cologne case came to be? | /r/MensRights | 02/02/18 06:25 PM |
| 3 | "We call on lawmakers to immediately rescind this miserable piece of legislation and continue supporting Jewish life without limits." - Rabbis react to Iceland suggestion to ban male infant circumcision.It had yet to pass into law No, it did not. Again, there already is a law that says "harming people is against the law". Per your own "the law is more important than actual logical principles", circumcision already was and is outlawed in Iceland, and cannot be made legal because allowing it would be to go against an already established law as well as their own constitution. Not that circumcision is bad, it's that disobeying the law is bad. Yeah, who cares about morals or human rights, or logical… | /r/MensRights | 02/02/18 06:04 PM |
| 7 | "We call on lawmakers to immediately rescind this miserable piece of legislation and continue supporting Jewish life without limits." - Rabbis react to Iceland suggestion to ban male infant circumcision.Please don't put words in my mouth. The thing is that you're contradicting yourself. You say "follow the law" and then go "but exemption for Jewish practices". "Exemption" means "does not have to follow [the law]". If something is made into law we have to follow it. Harming people already is against the law in Iceland. That Iceland feels the need to explicitly and specifically regulate circumcision is because religion tends to get a free pass "because tradition". So if your line is "if there's a… | /r/MensRights | 02/02/18 05:34 PM |
| 6 | "We call on lawmakers to immediately rescind this miserable piece of legislation and continue supporting Jewish life without limits." - Rabbis react to Iceland suggestion to ban male infant circumcision.So what you're actually advocating is religion standing above law, if I understand you correctly: If there's a law against it, it's illegal - but if religion says it's okay, then the law does not apply, and it's perfectly okay. | /r/MensRights | 02/02/18 04:15 PM |
| 21 | Redbubble, one of the most heavily trafficked online clothing stores, has this as their flagship shirt on their new advertisement.I'll take "I don't have a hubby to divorce, so I'll divorce myself from reality" for 500, please. | /r/MensRights | 02/12/17 04:14 PM |
| 25 | Have you noticed the sea change?I'd second that assessment; The first paper to heavily moderate, and then disallow comments (save for "safe", preselected topics, three per day) in my area is one with a distinct feminist bent, and its comments -while mostly civil - had taken them to task about the bullshit they were (and still are) pushing. | /r/MensRights | 29/11/17 02:14 PM |
| 8 | Verified Twitter Account: “If you have a penis, you probably deserve murdering.”And a small step at that. | /r/MensRights | 24/11/17 10:11 PM |
| 22 | Innocent men are innocentPaying prices that don't cost you isn't much of a statement anyhow - except in showing how much of a self-absorbed egotist you are. | /r/MensRights | 24/11/17 03:44 PM |
| 3 | After talking with a mod of r/hatesubsinaction they have changed men’s rights activists to anti-feminist and included TERFs in their quick list of hate movements. It’s definitely a step in the right direction for them.You see a step, I see lip service to get you to stop bothering them. "Men's Rights", by necessity of feminism actually informing legislation that negatively affects the rights of males, at some point has to be anti-feminist. This does not mean that MRAs necessarily are against any and all feminists, it means that we have to object to feminism as an ideology because it is one of the main reasons why the MRM exists in the first place: It is the instigator of anti-male legislation and sentiment all… | /r/MensRights | 15/11/17 07:01 AM |
| 5 | Fat women are "plus sized" but fat men are "overweight"I'm 5'10'', and I weigh around 155 lbs. My ex also called me her "stove", because most men naturally are a bit warmer than women (more muscle mass that's also easier gained, and we're often more physically active). Fat insulates, if anything. | /r/MensRights | 08/10/17 01:54 PM |
| 17 | Fat women are "plus sized" but fat men are "overweight"How do you know how much I eat and for that matter what it would take me to loose weight without dying? Because it's physics: You consume more than you burn, you gain weight. You consume as much as you burn, you hold steady weight. You consume less than you burn, you lose weight. Sure, there are some factors that make it harder to consume less (like being denied certain foods because of allergies, or conditions that increase the feeling of craving - just to take two possibilities), but in the en… | /r/MensRights | 08/10/17 01:47 PM |
| 1 | I may have PTSD from being falsely accused of sexual assault. I need advice.I guess my question is, how do I get over this. As someone with an anxiety disorder, this sounds very familiar (got so bad I actually blacked out when getting mail, and found what I thought to be lawyer correspondence in it). Medium to long term, I'd suggest you get therapy (not a lawyer, but maybe there's some form of compensation you could sue for, to keep costs down?). Short-term, if you don't already do it, an exercise routine helps you build up endorphins, which help combat the anxiety. It … | /r/MensRights | 27/07/17 12:51 AM |
| 2 | A blunt, unapologetic rant on Twitter by a guy who's clearly sick & tired of being shamed & hated just for being maleI saw the controversy sure, but only ever people being angry what a few very far off people were saying. See, I don't care if I meet those idiots in person, because, well, they're idiots, and as long as they're talking to me, they don't damage anything (maybe my patience, but, eh, I got a three-year old hyperactive niece, they'd be mostly background buzz). What I care about is that whole bunch of influencers and decision makers do listen to those "few far off people", and that some even work in … | /r/MensRights | 24/07/17 11:46 PM |
| 8 | A blunt, unapologetic rant on Twitter by a guy who's clearly sick & tired of being shamed & hated just for being maleI don't know maybe I just haven't found any militant sjws yet. Maybe they haven't gotten to your hobby yet. Ask gamers how they like being told that they're racist misogynists because it's either "Lara Croft's tits are too big, that's sexist, because objectification" or "Lara Croft's tits are too small, they're suppressing her femininity", and at any rate, you're all just wailing crybabies that can't get laid. | /r/MensRights | 24/07/17 07:56 PM |
| 7 | Just your daily reminder that you can never make feminists happy, they're too skilled at twisting everything into "women are oppressed"Let's not forget women and children first into life boats. Duh, that's just because you think they're too weak to swim the twelve miles to shore, and fully deserve your soggy knees for that piece of abominable sexism. | /r/MensRights | 22/07/17 05:31 PM |
| 2 | Feminism as FascismFeminists and Liberals aren't leftists - they are closer to fascists as the author is saying. Personally, I don't wed "fascism" only to the right; Going from its etymology, it means "rule by force"; Fasces were the weapons of the lictores in ancient Rome, and symbolized their license to mete out both corporeal and capital punishment, basically telling you "by switch or by axe, I will make you obey". There's an added possible meaning in that it was a bundle (a faggot, if you will) of switches: A … | /r/MensRights | 20/07/17 12:45 PM |
| 6 | An interesting opinion on how Feminism and MRA could come together and become something better than both. Hint: dialectic.If you had continued you would have also found this Which still suffers from the same "birth defect" of dichotomizing the issue into black and white "privilege" and "oppression", which necessarily influences any attempt to fix the issue. Thing is: We disagree on the base level of the entire premise, which makes discussing anything beyond that futile, because in order to "adopt the concept", we'd have to agree with it. It's like a Christian saying "If they only accepted our concept of God, atheis… | /r/MensRights | 17/07/17 10:58 PM |
| 3 | Changing genders of popular male lead characters like in Dr Who and Ghostbusters gave me a great idea...I never got that obsession with taking an existing male character, and demanding to pin tits on them, as if that somehow made them "strong females". Good characters are good characters, regardless of sex. Brienne of Tarth is a powerful character, and I enjoyed reading her chapters immensely (yes, talking about the books, not the series). Would it have made her any more relatable for men if the series had pinned a beard on her and called him Brian? I'd feel so eye-rollingly ludicrous if someone m… | /r/MensRights | 17/07/17 07:07 PM |
| 7 | Discussion under the youtube video: "The Real Reason You're Circumcised - Adam Ruins Everything" Thoughts?Couldnt you also say: "His brain his choice of education" and let kids decide if they want to get education? It's an apples and oranges comparison: Education is a necessary part of growing up. In fact, a child's brain is in "learning mode" anyhow, so unless you completely deprive it of any interaction (and as experiments have shown, this is a bad idea), it's gonna educate itself just by watching what happens around it. I mean, look at how kids learn to speak. You're not sitting there, teaching t… | /r/MensRights | 16/07/17 06:05 PM |
| 3 | Shoe commercial promotes female on male violence and drops the facade of equal pay by openly stating women deserve more money than men for equal workI took it more as an advertisement telling women to try for more not to demand it. That's why they're sitting down and say "let's get a coffee and talk about how I deserve more", instead of hurling those coffee mugs in men's faces, stomping on car hoods, throwing shoes around, and acting generally maniacal. Oh, wait. I think I get where you're coming from - let's not overreact. And I'd agree with that. But let's also not disregard what the ad actually shows just so we can remain stoic to it. Nop… | /r/MensRights | 16/07/17 10:05 AM |
| 3 | Cracked tries to silence the Men's Rights Movement by calling us "insecure", "sad" and "depressed guys".They're still breathing? Huh. | /r/MensRights | 05/07/17 09:14 PM |
| 3 | Is this sub just a retort to female rights' modern movement?Can't you just ignore it and not punch back? The issue is that feminist dogma keeps many of our issues from being addressed - like domestic violence. Science has long known that it's a generational issue, that DV rates are pretty much equal between men and women as perpetrators (men are reciprocating to female-initiated DV less often than a woman reciprocating DV initialized by a man, though). Feminist dogma, however, informs law enforcement in a way that still has men arrested in most DV cases,… | /r/MensRights | 05/07/17 12:49 AM |
| 59 | Feminists discuss intactivism. Apparently it's just a bunch of neckbeard bullshit and male circumcision is good.Nothing says "I'm a decent person" like permanently harming a baby as a fuck you to someone with a different opinion than you. /s | /r/MensRights | 04/07/17 10:19 PM |
| 645 | Oh silly me. I thought she had raped him. With him being 11 and all.interests of the child. Or, in some cases, the younger child. | /r/MensRights | 28/06/17 04:07 PM |
| 4 | Would anyone here be willing to have a civil conversation with me about men's/women's rights issues?If feminism got rid of 'patriarchy theory' in all it's forms, then I suspect the MRM would be much more open to feminism. "If Christianity got rid of God and Jesus, I suspect the Atheists would be more open about it." What does feminism have if it gets rid of Patriarchy Theory? This imagined all-encompassing, one-sided power differential between the sexes seems foundational to their entire mindset, to everything they affect. And that's not a rhetorical question. I really do wonder what would hap… | /r/MensRights | 17/06/17 10:06 AM |
| 6 | PerfectLegally we all have equal rights. Unless we don't. Men in the US still don't have access to the same rights and programs (driver's license, state or federal employment, FAFSA) unless they sign up for the draft. Women, on the other hand, have all those rights from birth. It's worth noting that failure to register is a felony, which, if convicted, means you also lose the right to vote in many states. Women also have the innate 'right' to be absolutely sure that their kid is actually their offsprin… | /r/MensRights | 13/06/17 09:17 AM |
| 2 | PerfectLet's fix what's wrong in our society, not bicker about who's group is right. The problem with this is that factions of one those groups actively hinders fixing attempts because of the core world view they hold. We have to address this, or we'll be doing the equivalent of band-aiding a wound without first cleaning it. Sure, it'll look pretty and neat at first, but you just wait until a few days in, the smell starts, and your arm falls off. | /r/MensRights | 13/06/17 08:54 AM |
| 14 | PerfectI got told feminism is a terrorist organization for saying that the goal of feminism is gender equality. Was "terrorist organization" the word used, or are you paraphrasing? Because while I've seen a few extremist views on feminism (so it's entirely possible this was a word-for-word quote), the over-all vibe on this sub isn't expressed this way. The view I come across more frequently is one of "Feminism as an ideology has a deleterious effect on society, and its male members in particular. That … | /r/MensRights | 13/06/17 08:50 AM |
| 12 | PerfectThere have been attempts to pass the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) for the US constitution since (afaik) 1923. It reads: Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification. Every time it was voted on, it failed to pass… | /r/MensRights | 13/06/17 08:26 AM |
| 5 | Botched circumcision: ‘I don’t want to lose my penis'I've never met a man with a foreskin say he is pro circumcision "Men with a foreskin" are only a subset of "most men", though. And I've certainly had more than a few conversations with cut men that ranged from "I don't see what you're whining about" to straight-up "I'll be cutting my boy, and there's nothing you can do to stop me. Suck it, weirdo!" In fact, when I encounter someone defending the practice, they're belonging to at least one of the following categories: Muslim, Jew, US citizen, cut… | /r/MensRights | 12/06/17 02:18 PM |
| 2 | Tolerance: Feminist YouTube Star Laci Green Harassed for Dating Political OpponentSorry. This is 100% bullshit. Is it? My grandmother's generation still wore head scarves, pretty much like the feared burqa, until they were married - as sign of decency. My own grandmother didn't get her driver's license ever, because she had her husband (and later, her son) to drive her everywhere. They couldn't open a banking account without their husbands co-signing, either. That wasn't Teheran - it was Germany. I'm not saying gender roles in Islam are exactly the same as they are in the Wes… | /r/MensRights | 09/06/17 06:28 PM |
| 5 | Tolerance: Feminist YouTube Star Laci Green Harassed for Dating Political OpponentJeez, years and years of reasoning, and suddenly she changed her mind as soon as she started a relationship with an anti-sjw man? The causality just isn't that clear to me. I mean, how many SJWs do even start talking with anybody not SJW? They're the most actively exclusive grouping of people I know - they rejoice in blocking people. Every time I hear someone leaving the cult, it's been a "I just felt that I'd lose all my friends if I spoke up and stopped toeing the line" rather than "Gee, all I… | /r/MensRights | 08/06/17 09:10 PM |
| 10 | Tolerance: Feminist YouTube Star Laci Green Harassed for Dating Political OpponentI'm not downvoting, but it might be because of the "accept the intellectual superiority of the right man" bit as an explanation for Laci's change in attitude. It smacks of traditionalism to me, which is something many MRAs don't particularly agree with (me included). I'd like to think Laci came to her present position because of logical reasoning and facts, and not because she's hypnotized by a throbbing dick. Though I think your comment was tongue-in-cheek; Tone is notoriously hard to discern i… | /r/MensRights | 08/06/17 02:44 PM |
| 2 | Tolerance: Feminist YouTube Star Laci Green Harassed for Dating Political OpponentBut does The Wife call him mittens? | /r/MensRights | 08/06/17 02:30 PM |
| 1 | Evolving feelings on male circumcision.But you said it has more than the clitoris so you need to have numbers to compare it. Or what makes you say that? I am just curious. As I said, I was going by the numbers I remembered - about 4-8K for the clitoris, about double that or more for the foreskin. And, again, as I said: You do have a point here as it's hard to get a solid basis for those numbers. There's some medical work dating back half a century, but I'm loath to rely on that. Over-all, the purpose of the comparison to the clitoris… | /r/MensRights | 06/06/17 03:16 PM |
| 1 | Evolving feelings on male circumcision.I couldn't find a single study that said the general foreskin has xxx nerves, if you had success I would love to see that study. I didn't say "the foreskin has XXX nerves", either. I said that it's densely packed with nerves, which you could have checked simply by going to the wikipedia page about the foreskin; It reads "The highly innervated mucocutaneous zone of the penis occurs near the tip of the foreskin. The foreskin is mobile, fairly stretchable, and acts as a natural lubricant." This stu… | /r/MensRights | 06/06/17 01:37 PM |
| 6 | Evolving feelings on male circumcision.Cripples him sexually, come on I think you clearly went too far there. I certainly don't feel that way about myself. The foreskin has sexual functions, like providing a 'stopper' during vaginal intercourse that keeps the lubricating fluids inside, making it more comfortable for both partners, while the glans of a circumcised penis functions more like a scraper that scoops it out. During intercourse, the foreskin also provides an additional moving element that further cuts down on friction and ac… | /r/MensRights | 01/06/17 01:32 PM |
| 2 | Judge tells fraudster: I hate jailing women (Metro)Which is strange as it's usually theft and fraud when women are most reliably jailed. Is there data for that? Because just yesterday, I read an article about a whole organization of thieves stating that "the group used young women to carry out the burglaries because they were discreet and less likely to face jail." (Source) I'd like to know if that "reliably jailed" is "compared to other offenses committed by women" or "compared to jail sentences against men". | /r/MensRights | 24/05/17 01:38 PM |
| 2 | Female genital mutilation is a religious right claim lawyers in first US case on the practice. Will this help the fight against male circumcision?Anyone's rights end where those of others begin. This means that there simply is no right of the parent to cut off a part of their child, and cannot be, because allowing for such a right would go against the very base of our judicial system. The only even vaguely fitting concept in law to hand parents this decision would be that of guardianship, which allows for some decisions that a child cannot do on its own to be made by the parents. This, however, is curtailed by the proviso to have those de… | /r/MensRights | 23/05/17 03:15 PM |
| 14 | Female genital mutilation is a religious right claim lawyers in first US case on the practice. Will this help the fight against male circumcision?I don't consider it mutilation if it is done right. A healthy and functional body part of a person is removed. What is your definition of "mutilation" that circumcision doesn't fall under that "if done right"? I know this sounds acerbic, but I am genuinely trying to understand how people do not see this as mutilation. | /r/MensRights | 22/05/17 03:16 PM |
| 19 | Female genital mutilation is a religious right claim lawyers in first US case on the practice. Will this help the fight against male circumcision?This is of course one of the main arguments put forward for male genital mutilation — that it's a "religious right". The argument of "religious right" conveniently forgets that rights are personal: You have the right to believe what you want, and you have the right to inflict damage to your body if you want. This right does not extend to other people: You have no right to force another human to have a certain religion, because, see above: Every human has the right to choose their religion -or la… | /r/MensRights | 22/05/17 03:14 PM |
| 9 | This is what we fight against; racist professor tells white men to quit or to take a demotion.Could someone please get Michael Kimmel's take on this, or has he already quit his job? | /r/MensRights | 20/05/17 10:22 AM |
| 1 | innocent question - reasons for being anti circumcision?Sorry for the late reply - am away for the weekend and just got a few minutes of free time to answer. A very short tl;dr would be: Circumcision violates human rights - regardless if we're talking girls or boys. It should be every single human's own decision if they want it done to them; As such, it has to be illegal to be done to children, and parents should not be given the right to sign that choice away, unless there is a pressing medical reason that has no other treatment. | /r/MensRights | 14/05/17 08:42 AM |
| 9 | innocent question - reasons for being anti circumcision?It's because it is interfering with the bodily integrity (a human right) of a child that cannot consent to it. That alone makes it unacceptable. That alone should be enough to have it be illegal - just as cutting off a finger is illegal, or slicing off an eye lid. Furthermore, it harms the child - a few boys each year die from it, many need corrective surgery after it, and/or they develop complications, many also are irreversibly psychologically harmed by the experience - even if they cannot rem… | /r/MensRights | 11/05/17 08:23 PM |
| 12 | Do you think the MRM is gaining traction?Seeing sooooo much of feminism retardation. Selection bias, I think. For years and years, the topic of male victims of DV wasn't talked about at all in my hemisphere. It was 100% slamming men as perps. A year or so ago, I noticed the first article that even offered the thought of "is it possible there are male victims?" And today, there's an article by a (probably feminist) journalist whining about the fact that the topic gets such an amount of press. Same with MGM. In the last week alone, I not… | /r/MensRights | 06/05/17 11:16 AM |
| 4 | BBC Circumcision Debate - Should Human Rights Outweigh Religious RightsFalse equivalency out of the gate. Rights are personal. You have a right to choose your own religion, you have the right to a whole and hale body. What circumcision does is break the "personal" part of both human and religious right by giving control over both to another person. It's just that the violation of the religious right is fully reversible (you can leave your faith) but the violation of your human right lasts your entire lifetime. | /r/MensRights | 04/05/17 07:02 PM |
| 2 | A little good news, for once: A woman who got pregnant after having sex with a male escort in a German hotel has failed in a legal battle to find out his name. The man's right to privacy outweighed the woman's claim for child support payments from him, the ruling said.Disclaimer: IANAL with no experience on either end of that arrangement. Same here, but my brother is on the hook for child support in Germany, and I sat in a few sessions with his lawyer. They described it pretty much the way you did. Mind you: The average dude in Germany does not know this unless they are already getting legal advice, and the payments the Jugendamt (youth welfare office) confronts you with often exceed the amount you actually legally have to pay. Usually, it's because the mothe… | /r/MensRights | 03/05/17 09:27 AM |
| 2 | A little good news, for once: A woman who got pregnant after having sex with a male escort in a German hotel has failed in a legal battle to find out his name. The man's right to privacy outweighed the woman's claim for child support payments from him, the ruling said.I never considered the scenario of a male sex worker According to this article, it's described as an "affair". It also uses the word "Begleiter", but while that can be translated as escort, it also means companion. Usually, when you mean escort in Germany, you do use "Escort", so I am not so sure he is a sex worker. Might be, might not. | /r/MensRights | 03/05/17 09:17 AM |
| 1 | A little good news, for once: A woman who got pregnant after having sex with a male escort in a German hotel has failed in a legal battle to find out his name. The man's right to privacy outweighed the woman's claim for child support payments from him, the ruling said.Germany is big on privacy Maybe a bit bigger than the US, but it's far from as foregone conclusion. Just this February, De Maiziere (Minister of the Interior) stated that there is no basic right to your data, and that the assumption that the slogan "my data belongs to me" is false. | /r/MensRights | 03/05/17 09:12 AM |
| 5 | "Equality"... or, "When was the last time a feminist..."Hmm. So, for all practical purposes it's gender-based slavery. If you tried to dodge your conscription (that also goes along with a lengthy and humiliating physical exam, btw), you could and would be incarcerated. So, it is. Funnily enough (you know, you laugh or or scream until you pop a blood vessel, that kind of funny), one definition of forced labor I ran across was " any labor against one's will, except conscription". There was no reason given why conscription was excepted. "It's not forced… | /r/MensRights | 01/05/17 05:35 PM |
| 5 | "Equality"... or, "When was the last time a feminist..."In the US it's outright fucking illegal to discriminate based on veteran status You still have to prove the discrimination. I only know this because the EIC told me quite some time after he'd hired me, and I'm quite sure he didn't go around telling people "I am not hiring dudes that are ex-military". If my application had been declined, I'd not even thought that my status as ex-soldier could be the reason. I'm sure there are very personal reasons sometimes why companies hire or don't hire people… | /r/MensRights | 01/05/17 01:08 PM |
| 11 | "Equality"... or, "When was the last time a feminist..."The fact that males who've completed military service get networking/career opportunities that are not afforded to females. Even that one is two-edged. The field I wanted to work in after my conscription has a strong anti-military bias (press; they're left-leaning, and as such very much on the "Soldiers are murderers and/or mindless drones" bandwaggon), and even the EIC I got my first job with later told me that he initially had discarded my application as soon as he read "conscripted". And, of … | /r/MensRights | 01/05/17 10:44 AM |
| 22 | Many feminists argue that since transwomen are women, their rights are women's rights. But what about transmen and the men's rights movement. Do you agree that the rights of transmen is something MRAs should stand up for?I can safely say most here don't care about identity groups the way feminists do. I'd second this. The entire reason I'm interested in Men's Rights is because my perspective is "don't treat anyone worse because of some quality about themselves they cannot change". The MRM is not the flip side of the coin called "feminism", its approach to equality is based on an entirely different world view; One that does not dichotomize the world by sex lines (and doles out protection and incrimination based o… | /r/MensRights | 01/05/17 10:21 AM |
| 17 | Circumcision To Only Be Done When Boys Are Able To Consent, Says Medical AssociationWhen it comes to basic human rights that doesn't matter. Says you, says me, says three quarters of the German population. Still didn't stop our Dear Leaders from shaping laws in a way that gives FGM a more severe sentence than "mere" "causing bodily harm" laws already covered, while at the same time legalizing genital mutilation on baby boys for whatever reason. As much as I am loath to say it, this was in large part due to pressure from certain religious groups. "You don't want Jews to flee Ger… | /r/MensRights | 30/04/17 11:26 AM |
| 4 | Interesting: Don't mess with a queen! Female rulers over the past 500 years have waged war more often than kingsThat was my first impression as well - it's particularly blatant with the phrasing of "win new territory". If it had been a man who done did it, it would have been spun as "territorial aggression and appropriation". Sounds like they won the territory in a raffle - no harm done to anyone, aye? | /r/MensRights | 29/04/17 11:24 AM |
| 3 | Angela Merkel refuses to label herself as a feminist at WOMEN20 SummitSome time ago he "interrupted" a lecture of Schwarzer and called her out on her bullshit. If by "interrupted" you mean "waited until the Q&A portion to pose a question" ;-). | /r/MensRights | 26/04/17 07:51 AM |
| 7 | "Feminism is the idea that we can make both sexes equal by focusing solely on the issues of one of them."How often do you hear feminists actively supporting and seeking solutions for men's issues (such as more women in college, young women making more than young men, longer prison sentences for men for similar crimes, more male suicide, more male under-reported rapes and domestic violence, more male homelessness, and etc.)? Even when they do address those issues, they do so from a point of view that intrinsically holds men in disdain. For example: Men kill themselves because they're suffering from … | /r/MensRights | 25/04/17 12:15 PM |
| 8 | Can we, as a men's rights movement, not make the same mistakes Feminism did?And we'll leave it up to who to determine the difference between "provocative" and "douche"? It's not that hard a distinction, I think. If all you do is call someone a name, you're going after the person. That's "douche". If you go after their argument, it's "provocative", even if you call them an idiot in the process - because then it's not just an insult: You give reason for doing so by having dismantled their argument before. If you call someone names before making your argument, you may not … | /r/MensRights | 24/04/17 03:00 PM |
| 5 | Judge Judy has spoken. Get it together, you Cucks.In my eyes, it's a word that is used as such, but at the same time, it seems to be used by a specific kind of people (immature trolls that are out much more to get a rise out of you than to get a discussion going), making it a signal that "If someone uses 'cuck', you can safely discard whatever they say". Kind of like most people tune out when someone insults them as "cis-het" or "fucking white MALE!", or uses "hetero-normative patriarchy" unironically: Sure you know what they mean, but by the w… | /r/MensRights | 24/04/17 12:51 PM |
| 4 | Judge Judy has spoken. Get it together, you Cucks.Having an idea what other people think is generally not a bad thing. You don't have to agree with it, but going "Finger in your ears, lalala" only works as long as the people you are ignoring cannot affect you. I kept an eye on various subs whose focus I did not necessarily agree with before the last presidential election, and found myself in the position of going "Why is media so unilaterally calling it for Clinton, running with 90+ percentages of chances of her winning? I don't see it. For me,… | /r/MensRights | 24/04/17 12:45 PM |
| 3 | So this actually happened. And they wonder why people think feminism is failing.Even as an autistic dude, I apparently have a better grasp on the concept of semantic transferal ("how metaphors, similes et al work") than Miss Ford. Hanlon, I beseech thee! Tell me if this is ignorance on her part, maybe even willful ignorance, or if she should get tested. edit: She also should brush up on politics. My very own Minister of Defense (or maybe Ministress) is Ursula von der Leyen - mother of seven kids. Elite class of men my burly behind. | /r/MensRights | 21/04/17 11:48 AM |
| 10 | Young men giving up on marriage: ‘Women aren’t women anymore’r/mgtow is leaking More like coughing up dust, seeing as the article is over four years old. | /r/MensRights | 20/04/17 08:57 AM |
| 3 | Doctor faces life in prison for circumcising girls. Wouldn't face charges if she had cut buys.I get it better now why my philosophy teacher said once that we trust science too much nowadays and sometimes we should simply decide on doing a thing or not based on its moral principles. The problem with this is that we often have to rely on science to even suss out which way "moral principles" apply. I mean if you look at surgery: You are cutting into a human body, which severely damages a body in itself, but you usually do it because it helps prevent even more damage in the long run, and we … | /r/MensRights | 14/04/17 11:08 AM |
| 14 | Doctor faces life in prison for circumcising girls. Wouldn't face charges if she had cut buys.How can MGM remain legal when this shit happens? Ask German lawmakers. Until the Cologne ruling of 2012, we mostly relied on the general law about bodily harm to deal with genital mutilation: Genital mutilation was "simply" "causing (grievous) bodily harm". With the Cologne ruling, politicians were suddenly woken to the fact that, OH MY GOD, that protects boys, too! ...So they scurried to make two new laws. One that states "...circumcision on male infants is a-okay! You don't even need a reason.… | /r/MensRights | 14/04/17 11:00 AM |
| 7 | Does anyone else feel uneasy about associating with women?Depends. I've forgone any romantic relationships for half a decade now, and am not actively looking to start one in the foreseeable future. I've seen too many men I personally know screwed over in family courts, and I've seen what it does to them. I've also been 'fortunate' enough to witness how ruthless some women get when it's about their (or their kids') bottom line. I'm aware that there's a lot of women who are not like that, but owing to the fact that I'm autistic to boot (and as such have … | /r/MensRights | 13/04/17 01:01 PM |
| 18 | A quick word on MGMCutting off a healthy, functional part of the body is mutilation by definition. I get that it makes you feel weird, but that doesn't change that it's a fact: They amputated a part of you that did not need amputation. hey apparently it even makes me last longer in bed That's an interesting way of spelling "I don't feel very much down there any more". less chance of diseases You mean like that HIV study, where they included the convalescing time when monitoring for new cases? You know, like "They … | /r/MensRights | 29/03/17 01:36 AM |
| 4 | Saddest thing about our gynocentric culture?"You should treat women with respect and be caring, genuine, etc" I wouldn't call you a cuck, and it's not just because I loathe that word; But I would have to ask: Why the focus on women? Why not "treat people with respect"? (Also, I take it that by respect you mean 'basic human decency', because respect as in "high esteem" has to be earned, in my view) The saddest thing for me about gynocentric culture is how it silently treats men as more disposable and simultaneously less worth of compassion… | /r/MensRights | 25/03/17 11:20 AM |
| 6 | "Oh. That's okay then".There is nothing attractive about cut penises. I think it's a case of socially learned preference. I've heard that in the US, an intact penis is seen as "gross" by many, and cut as "clean". Contrasting that, I cannot watch porn with cut penises in it any more, because it's like watching amputee sex - a total turn-off. | /r/MensRights | 23/03/17 12:36 PM |
| 3 | "Oh. That's okay then".When something keeps getting signals from the nerves the brain begins to ignore them to a degree. Add to that the (very slow) process of keratinization: The glans is made of material that isn't designed to be out in the open (kind of like the inside of your mouth). With the foreskin removed, however, it loses its protection; It becomes leathery, negatively impacting sensitivity as well. | /r/MensRights | 23/03/17 12:13 PM |
| 5 | Infant penis care - circumcised vs intactGet over yourself mate. "Rip" foreskin off? That's quite literally how circumcision on newborn works. The foreskin is fused to the glans of the penis for the first years of life, and only detaches later. "Amputated genitals"? It's a medical procedure not some barbaric 15th century Eastern European method of torture. You cut off a healthy body part that serves a distinct function. Amputation is a perfectly applicable descriptor for circumcision. And as for the "barbaric method of torture": Babies… | /r/MensRights | 22/03/17 11:49 PM |
| 3 | Infant penis care - circumcised vs intactAll the pros and cons for each way seem silly to me though In the end, I think it comes down to what you value most, and how society around you views the issue. If you value freedom and human rights, you will never cut and rip your son's foreskin off. You will leave that choice to him. You will not take away his human right to a whole body. If you're preoccupied with his mental well-being and social acceptance in a society that views amputated genitals as normal and whole ones as gross, you migh… | /r/MensRights | 22/03/17 02:25 PM |
| 2 | Humongous News! Internet Legend ‘Hugh Mungus’ Is Running for Seattle City Councilbut seriously, wasn't it taunting? There's a video interview with Hugh (I think by h3h3) where he talks about how he perceived the situation. According to him, he just wanted her to go away and to get out of that situation himself, and also thought that giving her his real name would come to bite him in the ass - so he went with Hugh Mungus, because that (apparently) was the first thing to come to mind for him. His repetition of the name, if I interpret from that, would be more about not giving … | /r/MensRights | 21/03/17 06:06 PM |
| 2 | MRAs in Europe, what's the situation like in your country?Both military and social was 9 months. In the last years of service. I still had 10 months, and my dad had 18. I got paid 280€ a month (owing to the fact that I was stationed near enough my home that I could weekend there). And, as pointed out, pregnancy is voluntary - imagine if the state forced women to get pregnant the moment they finished school or their vocational education and assessed them into tiered 'quality classes' to be inseminated. Pretty horrific, if you ask me. At least for me, mi… | /r/MensRights | 21/03/17 12:09 AM |
| 5 | MRAs in Europe, what's the situation like in your country?interestingly -if i remember right- without the ones belonging to "Die Linke" As far as I remember, Die Linke ("The Left") was the only party where more than half of its present members voted against making MGM legal. All other parties of the Bundestag voted heavily in favour of mutilating baby boys. i don't know of a single party that actually wants to criminalize MGM. Neither do I. The only party presently in the Bundestag that does not flat-out stigmatize Men's Rights topics as "ultra-right-w… | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 11:54 PM |
| 9 | HeForShe: Emma Watson's empty promise that when women's problems are solved, men will be free tooWestern feminism today is like an officer stumbling into a sick bay, demanding that the entirety of the medical personnel attend his ingrown toenail right now!, insisting that in doing so, they'll also help the dozen men awaiting triage for blown off limbs. I know most people on this sub know this already, but this is for the few feminists who wonder why they're facing such a backlash. This is how far removed from any reality you appear. | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 03:39 AM |
| 8 | Just saw The Red Pill. Stunned more than anything by Karen's appearance...It was a strange kind of funny because I got no release of enjoyment from it. This is known as sardonic laughter. | /r/MensRights | 16/03/17 04:16 PM |
| 3 | The difference between Milo Yiannopolous and Lena Dunham"I have seen things that beggar belief. [...] There were some very young boys around. There was a lot of drugs, and a lot of... [Rogan cuts in with "Twinks"] ... of Twinks taking drugs and having unsafe sex with older men and some of those boys were very young." ...But, sure, let's go with "he just saw young boys present". | /r/MensRights | 28/02/17 01:02 AM |
| 5 | The difference between Milo Yiannopolous and Lena DunhamGermany's age of consent is 14. Is Germany a country that condones hebephilia? This only applies if the person the 14-year-old has sex with is also at least 14 and 17 at most. If one kid is 12, the other 14, it's sexual abuse. If both are 13, same. If one is 14 and the other is 18, it's similarly illegal. It's a R&J law, and Germany does not condone hebephilia. Perhaps milo is wrong, but to be excoriated for questioning the scope of age of consent laws seems like people who don't like Miko were … | /r/MensRights | 28/02/17 12:56 AM |
| 3 | The difference between Milo Yiannopolous and Lena DunhamThere's a lot more to such a power dynamic; Adults drive cars, have disposable income, can get alcohol, sign contracts and a host of other stuff kids cannot do. Every one of those things influences such a power dynamic. To say nothing of an entire different, more complete understanding of the world. I mean, there's a reason kids can't enter into contracts (and those they can enter into from a certain age usually have some 'pocket change' limitation, so they can buy sweets, but not a PC): They la… | /r/MensRights | 28/02/17 12:47 AM |
| 2 | The difference between Milo Yiannopolous and Lena DunhamDoes him not doing so absolve Milo of not doing it? | /r/MensRights | 28/02/17 12:42 AM |
| 2 | The difference between Milo Yiannopolous and Lena DunhamCan you give proof of that Proof of what specifically? That he talked about being present at a party where he saw sex with minors go down? https://youtu.be/6vZsbpvhn5Q?t=711 (I've bookmarked the time; if it doesn't load correctly, it's from about 11:51) | /r/MensRights | 28/02/17 12:42 AM |
| 1 | The difference between Milo Yiannopolous and Lena DunhamI believe that displays a lack of imagination and basic ignorance about life more than anything.... I think your comment demonstrates a basic unwillingness to understand my argument. But hey, why try to understand that if you can prance around on the most literal interpretation and infer "basic ignorance about life" on my part. Much easier, and manages to make you feel superior as well. Win-win, aye? | /r/MensRights | 27/02/17 06:56 PM |
| 3 | The difference between Milo Yiannopolous and Lena DunhamIt's not much of a nit-pick though, since I go on to state the power differential. In fact, in a recent post, I point to R&J laws myself. I was just too lazy to repeat myself here - mea culpa. But to work it out a bit more: The reason why sex with minors is generally taboo is because of the power differential between the participants. Even when the minor does show an interest in sex, the difference in maturity, in experience and so on to the adult is simply too big for consent to be achievable. … | /r/MensRights | 27/02/17 04:04 PM |
| 36 | The difference between Milo Yiannopolous and Lena DunhamMilo also mentioned being present at parties where apparently "very young boys" were being used for sex by adults in a podcast with Joe Rogan. Did he say anything? Go to the police with an anonymous tip? Nothing of the sort. All he does is mention it on that podcast, not wanting to name names. He also does say that thirteen-year-olds can have consensual sex with adults, and there's simply no context I can think of that makes that a rational, defensible argument. Yes, it's not pedophilia in the s… | /r/MensRights | 27/02/17 03:37 PM |
| 24 | Should One Close the Door And Throw Away The Key?[...] all men are in control of a woman's choices. Exhibit A nicely showcases the core issue in modern feminist thought processes: They are dominated by an externalized locus of control, itself indicative of learned helplessness, that does not align with reality. If this is truly how you see the world, you do not need feminism. You need a therapist. | /r/MensRights | 26/02/17 03:34 AM |
| 1 | As a man, how does it feel to sexually objectified and to see billboards and commercials of men in tight underwear and other things that are promoting sexual objectification of men?I don't care; They're not me. And as long as my own brother does his best to drink himself to death because his ex-girlfriend dangles his daughter in front of his nose like a carrot to make him jump through hoops, and CPS is patting her back for withholding his daughter even on court-mandated visits, I could not care less. | /r/MensRights | 25/02/17 05:48 PM |
| 1 | Open discussion- Trump has been a massively failed opportunity and image disaster for antifeminism and the MRMSeeing as Trump has no ties (I know of) to either antifeminism nor the MRM other than "feminists don't like him", I would ask you to elaborate. I mean, I think feminism is a scary cult and I align to a lot of MRM talking points, and I also am not in favour of Trump (or Clinton.) | /r/MensRights | 23/02/17 01:03 PM |
| 3 | I'm noticing a bad trend in this sub, and I don't like the direction in which it's going.Third wave feminism is united in their misandry, rape culture hysteria, and pay gap lies They have their internal feuds as well; Notice how the Women's March explicitly excluded anti-choice/pro-life activists? here we are divided over Milo Yiannopoulos, MGTOW, and the extent of female privilege You call it division; I call it cultivating an open mind and allowing open discussion. What you are in essence proposing is a sort of safe space: Let's just not talk about controversial stuff any more. Le… | /r/MensRights | 23/02/17 12:41 PM |
| 17 | Men are always at fault - Shower thoughtMen are always at fault Capacity for fault presupposes the capacity for responsibility: Only if you are responsible for your actions can you be faulted for them. If you take a look at our society - who gets jail time? Who must pay child support, alimony, the blood price in conflicts? Who is held responsible, must take responsibility? It's men to a much larger degree than any other group; If a woman does something abominable, society will look for ways to find responsibility elsewhere, just like … | /r/MensRights | 22/02/17 01:52 PM |
| 2 | No place to debate?feminuts Your honour, I humbly submit the petition to refer to ex-feminists as "femibolts" from now on. | /r/MensRights | 21/02/17 05:21 PM |
| 10 | "It is likely that we collectively experience ‘male gender blindness,’ which makes it more difficult for us to see male suffering than female suffering".Than what's the point of men's rights activism if you're working against human nature? Human nature is not immutable, and as epigenetics hint at, even 'evolution' seems to have a speed setting. Apart from that, humanity as a whole tries to leave the world a better place for every next generation. That's enough for me to advocate for humanity to recognize men as just as valuable and human as women and children. It's not about undoing eons of evolution and social conditioning in five years (though… | /r/MensRights | 18/02/17 02:24 AM |
| 1 | This double standard infuriates meI just said that one has to try to do it And that remains plain wrong (especially since you wrote that the parents are supposed to pull it back). I don't know if you took any child care classes or read up on that, but again: The only person that's supposed to do anything to their foreskin is the boy it's attached to. Reason being that foreskin and glans are fused together with a membrane (the synechia), which dissolves with time. If you mechanically try to separate foreskin and glans before the … | /r/MensRights | 10/02/17 03:48 PM |
| 3 | These guys, at the Superbowl.Hearing repeatedly that your penis is "disfigured" gets old. I get that. I'm disabled - also gets old really fast, especially when people treat me like I was made of sugar. To be honest, I'm in a constant struggle with myself between "calling it like it is and how I see it", and being aware how that must make the people affected feel. My resolution to still go at it comes from the hope that I can spare the next generation this whole thing by simply leaving the choice to every individual: If we d… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/17 09:30 PM |
| 1 | These guys, at the Superbowl.there's a reason why european countries start banning this procedure Except Germany. They explicitly made it lawful at the ass end of 2012. Way to light a fire for future generations, oh fatherland of mine. (That's sardonic, just in case it doesn't translate well) | /r/MensRights | 06/02/17 09:09 PM |
| 8 | These guys, at the Superbowl.Sorry, no. Mutilation and unnecessary cosmetic surgery are two different things. I agree it's unethical to do it to infants, but the hyperbole used to get the point across is staggering. Let's look up a definition of "mutilation": "To make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts", "to deprive of a limb or essential part". (dictionary.com, Merriam-Webster's definition is similar) That is literally what circumcision is: A healthy, functional part of the body is permanently removed, the… | /r/MensRights | 06/02/17 09:00 PM |
| 13 | General Strike? - A Day Without A Women? One Has To Ask, Why Do These Misandric Idiots Think Men Won't Cope Or Enjoy The Peace And Quiet?Yeah, I remember that. I think the first time I heard it was by Judgy Bitch, though. She'd opined that the world would do just fine if women collectively went on strike for a day - mostly minor inconveniences - but if men did, society would grind to a halt. Here it is: http://judgybitch.com/2013/09/17/what-would-happen-if-no-men-showed-up-for-work-today/ | /r/MensRights | 06/02/17 07:25 PM |
| 13 | General Strike? - A Day Without A Women? One Has To Ask, Why Do These Misandric Idiots Think Men Won't Cope Or Enjoy The Peace And Quiet?I wonder if they realize what they'd be ultimately be proving if such a day went ahead, and women simply went on strike for a day. | /r/MensRights | 06/02/17 07:21 PM |
| 8 | Just stumbled upon in comment section of a genital mutilation awareness video. When it happens to men it's no big deal at all.they aren't really comparable. Comparable by which measure? There are different types of FGM, from a cliterectomy to a simple prick of the clitoris with a needle. They're all illegal. There are also different kinds of MGM, from an incision to the foreskin to slicing open the entire length of the shaft along the urethra. So if you really need to compare like with like, you gotta start by understanding that there is not one kind of either procedure. Fortunately, you don't even need to compare. Bot… | /r/MensRights | 02/02/17 12:08 PM |
| 7 | Another great video by Karen Straughan and her unique ability to deconstruct Feminism and to demonstrate its false notions and intellectual dishonesty.Part of what makes those assertions hard to deal with is how they are rarely stated explicitly, but hide in plain sight. The following is something I would encourage anyone in any debate to familiarize themselves with: Enthymemes. That's what you call those assertions and premises that remain unstated, yet are necessary for an argument to be logically sound. If, for example, people talk about the gender pay gap, one unspoken assumption is that money is the only, or at least most important factor… | /r/MensRights | 01/02/17 05:01 PM |
| 3 | This double standard infuriates meMy only concern is that a lot people I've talked to don't even realize that there are medically valid reasons for the surgery, and just want make sure it gets out there. Agreed. It tends to get lost in the discussion - there apparently are legitimate reasons to get the foreskin removed before adulthood, and especially when you're an adult, you do you anyway (i.e. your body, your choice). The reason why the legitimate reason don't get talked about much is because there are pretty few cases where … | /r/MensRights | 31/01/17 09:52 PM |
| 6 | This double standard infuriates meUm. No. That's flat-out wrong. You are not supposed to pull the foreskin back when it's still attached. In fact, doing so can cause problems in itself (like infection because you're in effect ripping off skin). It requires no special care from parents at all, and the only person to pull the foreskin back should be the dude it's attached to. Jesus. | /r/MensRights | 31/01/17 08:06 PM |
| 6 | This double standard infuriates meMay well be dominant (at least in the way that it surfaces in a lot of possible genetic mutations). In any case -I would try to get more info, maybe by consulting a specialist, before actually committing. As I said: I think if it's medically indicated, cutting a foreskin off should not be condemned - but before you get the blade ready, make sure that it is medically indicated. In the end, it's not you yourself that has to live with the consequence, but your son. And as far as I've read you, that… | /r/MensRights | 31/01/17 06:24 PM |
| 5 | This double standard infuriates meMy son will be circumcized at birth. Is the condition recessive or dominant? Because, as much as I get the reasoning of "I don't want my son to have to through this when he's old enough to remember", I also think that if it's just a chance instead of a (near) certainty, I would definitely think twice before committing to it. | /r/MensRights | 31/01/17 06:04 PM |
| 29 | This double standard infuriates meI feel like uncircumcised penises look weird As an intact dude, watching porn with cut penises is like watching porn with amputees (total turn-off). Bring on the downvotes, doesn't make it less true. I know it hurts for the people who had no say in that matter, and I offer my apology to them. I still stand by this statement, because the "ground floor" of the debate seems very much enamored with "circumcised is normal" as an unstated (and therefore little challenged) premise. I hereby issue a cha… | /r/MensRights | 31/01/17 05:58 PM |
| 20 | This double standard infuriates mePhimosis And in most cases, phimosis can be treated without surgical means (salves, for example). Never mind that for the first few years of life, the foreskin is fused to the glans, and isn't even supposed to be pulled away. So, yeah, not really an argument to keep circumcision a routine procedure for babies, in my book. | /r/MensRights | 31/01/17 05:52 PM |
| 6 | This double standard infuriates meThanks for typing that out - it especially amazes me how number 3 still sticks around, despite STD rates in Europe being equal-to-lower than in the US. Which couldn't be the case if foreskin removal helped prevent the spread, because the EU is largely intact. Well, penis-wise. | /r/MensRights | 31/01/17 05:43 PM |
| 49 | This double standard infuriates meIt turns-out that fathers, overwhelmingly, didn't want it done to their daughters and husbands, overwhelmingly, didn't want a wife who had had it done to them. Fun correlation to abortion: More men than women are in favour of it (in the US), and at least in Britain, women are far more likely than men to endorse shorter limits on it; 49% of women want shorter abortion term limits, compared to only 24% of men. You know, "Patriarchy". | /r/MensRights | 31/01/17 05:35 PM |
| 4 | #FeministToDoList is trending on Twitter, and it's hilarious.They forgot "Blame men for attractive women". | /r/MensRights | 23/01/17 11:48 AM |
| 1 | W-What?Because part of men and womens rights are speaking their mind. "Feminism" and "Women's Rights" are not the same thing. I know a lot of people have come to think of them as synonymous, but they really are not. Their goals may have been aligned at some time in the past (when there were still rights that women did not have), but today's feminism has squat to do with equal rights. They tell you that they're all up in that good equality shit (just look to the dictionary definition of feminism!), but … | /r/MensRights | 23/01/17 11:39 AM |
| 2 | A few issues as a women...First off, glad to have you here! Secondly, let's go down the list: Ya, pretty much. It's not only within feminist circles, it's just how Western society functions: If a man has a problem, it's his to solve. If a woman has a problem, it's society's to solve. If you want to discuss this further, I'd be glad to, but I tend to ramble, so let's move on. Their hang-up is to see "accuser" and "victim" as being the same thing. Basically, they are operating on the notion that accusers never lie, which i… | /r/MensRights | 23/01/17 11:13 AM |
| 5 | Denmark's 29,000 Doctors Declare Circumcision of Healthy Boys an "Ethically Unacceptable" Procedure Offering no Meaningful Health BenefitsThe following is pretty plain talk about the realities of sex, and as such is NSFW. Just as a heads-up. It's not only about men, either. Having a skin "tube" that allows the man's penis to act like a piston inside it also affects his partners. For example, in vaginal sex, there's usually no need for artificial lubrication since the foreskin acts as a seal that keeps the fluids inside. Circumcised penises, on the other hand, have an uncovered glans that, due to its shape, tends to scrape those fl… | /r/MensRights | 21/01/17 03:17 PM |
| 6 | Denmark's 29,000 Doctors Declare Circumcision of Healthy Boys an "Ethically Unacceptable" Procedure Offering no Meaningful Health BenefitsThey aren't the same. Depends on which perspective you have. Do the exact same parts of the body get removed? No, that's not possible, since the genitals are what differentiates men and women on a fundamental level. You can try and draw equivalencies as to how much sensation is removed, but again: that's really hard to compare since the base "structures" affected are not really comparable. On a purely physical level, they are not the same. On the meta level of human rights, however, they are: Ev… | /r/MensRights | 21/01/17 02:54 PM |
| 4 | Denmark's 29,000 Doctors Declare Circumcision of Healthy Boys an "Ethically Unacceptable" Procedure Offering no Meaningful Health BenefitsIt's a thing of perspective. You are informed about the sad reality of MGM and what it entails, thus calling it "torture" seems appropriate. But there's a huge knowledge differential from you to the uninitiated. For most of them, MGM isn't bad at all. It's neutral, or even good. They have no headspace yet to even consider that it might be not what they think. Try to think of something you regard as something good, and now imagine someone calling it the vilest practice ever invented. Chances are,… | /r/MensRights | 21/01/17 02:42 PM |
| 6 | Denmark's 29,000 Doctors Declare Circumcision of Healthy Boys an "Ethically Unacceptable" Procedure Offering no Meaningful Health BenefitsIt's absolutely not different and it is a big deal for a lot of young mothers and fathers, so I hope you can take some solace in that. I do, actually. As u/Machnow points out: We can't even trust our politicians to give everyone equal protection of their human rights under the law, so the "social" option to make people aware of just what exactly they're doing when they have their baby boy "snipped" is the only way I see left for us. I mean, I live in Germany - a country that has severe penalties… | /r/MensRights | 21/01/17 02:19 PM |
| 5 | Denmark's 29,000 Doctors Declare Circumcision of Healthy Boys an "Ethically Unacceptable" Procedure Offering no Meaningful Health BenefitsIt always seemed weird why in American teenage movies, everyone always used lube when jacking it. Lubrication isn't really needed when uncut, since the inside of the foreskin is smooth. I had always wondered what that "lube" was everyone kept talking about (as in "gotta hide lube and tissues"). It took me years to make the connection, because, honestly, I did not know that so many American men (where most of the pop culture here comes from) were cut, or that circumcision was seriously still a th… | /r/MensRights | 21/01/17 02:03 PM |
| 3 | Denmark's 29,000 Doctors Declare Circumcision of Healthy Boys an "Ethically Unacceptable" Procedure Offering no Meaningful Health Benefitsit's a bigger deal for an adult man than it is for an infant. While I get your position: How do you know that? There's evidence that amputations on newborns cause irreversible changes to the infant's brain because of the pain involved. At least as an adult, you can get anesthetics. I don't want to make light of foreskin amputation as an adult (just thinking about having it done on myself wigs me out), but: Your condition probably wasn't diagnosable as an infant, or if it was, it wasn't discernib… | /r/MensRights | 21/01/17 01:50 PM |
| 5 | Denmark's 29,000 Doctors Declare Circumcision of Healthy Boys an "Ethically Unacceptable" Procedure Offering no Meaningful Health BenefitsFirst off: Yes, there are conditions where some form of circumcision is medically indicated (i.e. the best or even only form of treatment). However, those very rarely manifest in baby boys, to the best of my knowledge. For the first few years of life, the foreskin is supposed to be fused to the glans - it detaches only later. That also means that only kids above a certain age (around 5,6 and up) even can be diagnosed with such conditions (such as phimosis that can't be treated with less invasive… | /r/MensRights | 21/01/17 01:40 PM |
| 2 | Understanding MENS human rights.so does everyone else. "I don't like you" != "everybody hates you". | /r/MensRights | 20/01/17 10:48 PM |
| 3 | Understanding MENS human rights.https://www.spd.de/partei/organisation/das-grundsatzprogramm/ Go to "Das Hamburger Programm in englischer Sprache", that's the English version, and download the .pdf. It's on page 23, last sentence. In full: "If we want a humane society we need to overcome the male dominated society." edit: Mind you, the original is "Wer die menschliche Gesellschaft will, muss die männliche überwinden." There's no modification to "male dominated", it literally reads as "male society". | /r/MensRights | 20/01/17 05:36 PM |
| 6 | Understanding MENS human rights.The fact the majority of recorded history has had an absence of war rather than the presence of it is one major clue men aren't innately violent. That presupposes that German children are in possession of such facts, that they're either sufficiently motivated and able to find out such things like "the majority of recorded history has had an absence of war" or that it's at least taught to them. Alas, have you experienced German history lessons? It's 50% "look at what atrocities your grandpapas co… | /r/MensRights | 20/01/17 04:05 PM |
| 3 | New to /MR sub and philosophy. Naturally, it made me more aware of feminism's "claims" (I am afraid to use that word...) Did I just discovered something after 30+ years?Are like 95% of women getting attacked on a regular basis? In my world view, it's a non issue. Women are being told to fear those attacks a lot more than men are, so that colours things. Generally speaking, women are also physically weaker than men - another brick in that wall that seems to constitute this "unreasonable female fear", because it's a power differential that we cannot really get rid of. Then, consider that men and women have different hormonal makeup. As far as I am aware, testoste… | /r/MensRights | 20/01/17 02:24 PM |
| 10 | Understanding MENS human rights.What has it been like for you? Do you know Doris Lessing's quote about the state of classrooms in Germany? If you don't: "I was in a class of nine- and 10-year-olds, girls and boys, and this young woman was telling these kids that the reason for wars was the innately violent nature of men. "You could see the little girls, fat with complacency and conceit while the little boys sat there crumpled, apologising for their existence, thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives." Lessing s… | /r/MensRights | 20/01/17 01:41 PM |
| 6 | BBC impartiality..Why would they? As long as there's a crowd cheering them and and showering them in money for doing it, why would they fight real fights if mock ones will do? | /r/MensRights | 15/01/17 09:50 AM |
| 2 | (CMV?) A specific movement for men's rights is useless, and all gender issues can be solved with feminismWhat i'm saying, essentially, is that feminism isn't perfect, the basic principles of it, however, are. Okay, I'll bite. What are those "basic principles of feminism" that are, apparently, "perfect"? Because from my understanding of feminism, it's rotten at its very core (->patriarchy theory), which is exactly why it is a particularly poor choice as a movement for either men's or women's rights: An ideology that has such a dichotomous view of the sexes cannot be in charge of treating them with e… | /r/MensRights | 13/01/17 11:46 PM |
| 6 | Denmark’s 29,000 Doctors Declare Circumcision of Healthy Boys an “Ethically Unacceptable” Procedure Offering no Meaningful Health BenefitsPoliticians just don't want to deal with all those Holocaust 2.0 accusations... Ja, seems to be the main reason why our dear leaders tucked tail and sacrificed human rights on the altar of tradition. Though I have read one interview where a member of the Bundestag claimed they had not been informed about all medical consequences. Which, if true, is still such a cop-out. I mean it's not as if the internet wasn't a thing, and anyone with an interest in the topic could inform themselves. | /r/MensRights | 13/01/17 12:30 AM |
| 20 | Denmark’s 29,000 Doctors Declare Circumcision of Healthy Boys an “Ethically Unacceptable” Procedure Offering no Meaningful Health BenefitsThere's been polls in Germany (the country just south of Denmark) after genital mutilation of newborn boys was legalized. Over 70% of citizens polled favoured a ban as well. It's just that our politicians didn't listen. And that's still a big part of the issue: The citizens of most countries don't make the laws. And the people who do make laws more and more often do not represent the country's citizens interests. | /r/MensRights | 12/01/17 08:11 PM |
| 1 | Crazed trans-woman who used an axe to split open the skulls of two random shoppers at Australian 7-eleven is a FEMINIST who was featured on "FeministsOrganizedNow" (screenshot of proof in comments). Unlike Elliot Rodgers, this psycho is an activist -- but of course the media will hush it up.What you've written shows a fundamental lack of understanding what you're talking about, I am sorry to say. You're focusing on surface level similarities. If you were an ophthalmologist, you'd be stating that "all blindness centers on the eye's inability to see. To look at any other area than the eyeball would be insanity", and completely disregard any vision impairment that's caused by something else (e.g. cortical VI). There's a fundamental difference between OCD-related body image problems an… | /r/MensRights | 12/01/17 06:08 PM |
| 2 | Crazed trans-woman who used an axe to split open the skulls of two random shoppers at Australian 7-eleven is a FEMINIST who was featured on "FeministsOrganizedNow" (screenshot of proof in comments). Unlike Elliot Rodgers, this psycho is an activist -- but of course the media will hush it up.I don't really see a big difference between gender dysphoria, species dysphoria, and anorexia. Gender dysphoria: There's a very plausible theory how it comes to be and evidence for that to be actually the case keeps growing. Species dysphoria: The entire base structure that makes gender dysphoria a real diagnosis instead of a "pity towel" doesn't apply to species. No imbalance in your prenatal hormones, no abnormal function of your own neonatal hormone system makes a human have a horse's brain, … | /r/MensRights | 12/01/17 03:04 PM |
| 4 | Lena Dunham poses legs akimbo as she reflects on her future in a Trump world: Shouldn't feminists be outraged she is a famous actor worthy of dignity, but is displayed in awkward positions that no man actor would ever be expected to be photographed in?It's also got a positive effect on the room temperature. | /r/MensRights | 12/01/17 11:57 AM |
| 13 | Crazed trans-woman who used an axe to split open the skulls of two random shoppers at Australian 7-eleven is a FEMINIST who was featured on "FeministsOrganizedNow" (screenshot of proof in comments). Unlike Elliot Rodgers, this psycho is an activist -- but of course the media will hush it up.It's also a disorder in the ICD-10. The reason it's classed as disorder is because of the distress it causes: "Real" transgender people feel they're born in the wrong body. There's evidence pointing to prenatal-to-neonatal factors determining your sex/gender identity, and while in most cases, they match up - a few don't. It's not about a dude who likes wearing pink. It's about feeling born into a body that doesn't fit what your brain expects you to look like. Yes, there's over-diagnosis in some … | /r/MensRights | 12/01/17 11:30 AM |
| 10 | Lena Dunham poses legs akimbo as she reflects on her future in a Trump world: Shouldn't feminists be outraged she is a famous actor worthy of dignity, but is displayed in awkward positions that no man actor would ever be expected to be photographed in?I still don't get why anyone's paying attention to her anyway. She's not remotely interesting to me. Hell, maybe I should install a 24/7 webcam live broadcasting my thermostat, it's got comparable charisma and wit. | /r/MensRights | 12/01/17 11:07 AM |
| 17 | Crazed trans-woman who used an axe to split open the skulls of two random shoppers at Australian 7-eleven is a FEMINIST who was featured on "FeministsOrganizedNow" (screenshot of proof in comments). Unlike Elliot Rodgers, this psycho is an activist -- but of course the media will hush it up.Gender dysphoria is classed as disorder, and that's in all likelihood what Evie Amati has, since she apparently is transitioning to female. I'm not saying it absolves her of anything - I'm just pointing out that this does apply in this case, and that this also makes it very easy to play the blame game into one of toxic masculinity. And, to be honest, I don't even know if feminism had anything to do with her rampage. It's notable since she apparently is a feminist activist, but it does not necess… | /r/MensRights | 12/01/17 11:04 AM |
| 0 | Doris Lessing points out there is a sick trend within modern post logical feminism and it must come to an abrupt silent end.The downvote quip was more for the others who are reading this thread since Reddit discussions aren't two dimensional and I'm getting some PMs. Reddit layout is a bitch if you try to follow anything but single strings of discussion. Personally, I stick with one string for this very reason. You coulda just CTRL+C, CTRL+V'd that. edit: Still, I don't condone either the tone nor the message of the PM. The reason I largely ignored you specifically is because of your strange shift into feminist monik… | /r/MensRights | 09/01/17 10:18 AM |
| 15 | Doris Lessing points out there is a sick trend within modern post logical feminism and it must come to an abrupt silent end.Just downvote the nasty feminist and go about your business. You know, maybe you shouldn't be so quick to assume my actions, and take a bit of time to look under your own hood. Seems like that would do you worlds more good than "writing a book". I have not downvoted you; And even if I had, you being a feminist would have nothing to do with it. It would be more about making claims that you neither bother to substantiate nor seem willing to discuss. edit: On a completely unrelated note: Would peop… | /r/MensRights | 08/01/17 02:08 PM |
| 39 | Doris Lessing points out there is a sick trend within modern post logical feminism and it must come to an abrupt silent end.but it's generally not kosher for a majority to enter a minority's space and start loudly telling them why they're wrong about their beliefs. Your premise for both claims remains unproven. Where do you get the information who's the majority that's "invading"? Also, just as quick aside: I've heard the claim that "feminism is for men, too", and "look at the dictionary - feminism only means being for equality of the sexes". How does that gel with your claim that men invade a feminist - for you appa… | /r/MensRights | 08/01/17 12:33 PM |
| 41 | Doris Lessing points out there is a sick trend within modern post logical feminism and it must come to an abrupt silent end.I get two things from this: Opinions are based on gender, so it's okay to ban people because they're male. My question there would be: How do you know that males outnumber females in a way that is a "massive issue"? Was there a study, a survey, or is it a "it is self-evident" thing? Second thing, and with that I agree: Feminism is very much like a religion: It's not based on facts and shapes their world view around it - it's based on a very particular set of predetermined rules that may not be q… | /r/MensRights | 08/01/17 11:09 AM |
| 14 | "Every Brick in every building": a reminder to the Men whose efforts built and maintain our world.There's even another angle to this, as far as I have read: Mixed teams (men and women) tend to perform markedly worse on assignments because the men in the unit tend to try to protect the women, even if it means compromising the mission: They have no problem sacrificing themselves or other men for a mission, but they will sacrifice the mission to protect women. In a broader context, humans view men as disposable when necessary - not only in the military, as 95%+ of workplace deaths are male. Thi… | /r/MensRights | 31/12/16 12:49 AM |
| 3 | SJW vs LOGIC: SMART WOMAN EXPLAINS FEMINISM | Feminist / Social Justice ...Yet another feminist trying to salvage "her feminism". This time to the beat of "it has to advocate for human rights again". The core issue she's apparently to betriebsblind to see is that feminism at its roots is incompatible with human rights - it divides humanity into distinct gender categories and treats people differently because of that categorization: Male behaviour is seen as inherently harmful and in need to be curtailed, female behaviour is lauded and to be adopted by everyone. As long… | /r/MensRights | 29/12/16 11:47 AM |
| 1 | Surgeons sever 10-year-old boy’s penis in botched circumcisionImagine this from the perspective of a cut person. As I've said: I do understand the ramifications of using certain terms in this regards. The core issue is that there are essentially two choices: Either, I obfuscate the damage being done by using "kind" wording - and undermine my own argument this way ("if there's nothing wrong, why are you complaining?"). Or I acknowledge the damage, which necessarily includes either inferring or explicitly pointing out the damage caused. Which then leads to t… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 10:14 PM |
| 1 | Surgeons sever 10-year-old boy’s penis in botched circumcisionwhat is normal? I think when we talk about normal, we often mean "usual", which is why I chose "normal": If uncut isn't usual, it should be. I could also have chosen "natural", come to think of it. But then, somebody might have been offended because it carries the implication of "unnaturality" for those cut. Which, again, would be perfectly apt from a descriptive point of view, but could potentially offend someone. But then, almost any word we use can and will offend someone who wants to be offe… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 03:53 PM |
| 2 | Surgeons sever 10-year-old boy’s penis in botched circumcisionHow does it matter if its worse for girls. Exactly. It's like saying "well, murder is worse than stealing, so why are you complaining that someone stole your stuff?" The reason they do it is because the issue at its core isn't rationally defensible (if you adhere to human rights), so all they can do is try to make the argument about something else, and try to win at least that "shifted" argument. In this particular case, the new "argumental theater" of "women worsting" has the added benefit of c… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 12:57 PM |
| 1 | Surgeons sever 10-year-old boy’s penis in botched circumcisionCertainly calling an uncircumcised dick "normal" is the wrong way to go Why is it the wrong way to go? I mean, I understand the sentiment behind it: You don't want to hurt cut people, brand them as "not normal". I get that. The reason I still use it because it's a calculation between offending people who are already cut and preventing the next generation of boys from their fate - who, if noting is said, will face the same issues two decades or so later anyhow. And so, the human rights violation … | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 12:49 PM |
| 10 | Surgeons sever 10-year-old boy’s penis in botched circumcisionI dont have the dick... I dont know if its a big deal to guys. As owner of a (normal) dick, I have one example that may tell you how important my foreskin is to me: If you were to saw-type make me choose between either having my foreskin cut off, or any other mutilation of my choosing, I would seriously consider losing an eye instead. Think about it: You only lose some vision (MGM also costs quite some feeling on your dick) and some functionality (MGM costs some functionality on your dick as wel… | /r/MensRights | 27/12/16 11:46 PM |
| 16 | Woman pretends to be man for over a year. Recognizes just how privileged she is. [18:42]See no one caring. See people rushing to her aid, asking "What's he done to you to make you slap him?" | /r/MensRights | 23/12/16 08:15 PM |
| 5 | Manthreading, mansplaining, manflu - man I'm sick of this misandrist nonsensedoes it perhaps tie into the fact that women can have children? Possibly. A fairly recent study hints that this may indeed be the case: "Because women can transmit pathogens during pregnancy, birth or breast-feeding, pathogens adapt, evolving lower virulence in women." So the thesis is not that women have better immune systems - the thesis (if I understand it correctly) is that pathogens display lower virulence in women because women have additional vectors through which the pathogen may spread … | /r/MensRights | 19/12/16 07:44 PM |
| 1 | Just started binging Parks and Recreation. Love the show but I just watched season 7 and I'm disgusted how they portrayed Men's Rights Activists.Being "extremely intelligent" doesn't stop you from being stupid. My personal take on what constitutes intelligence is that it's the ability to have a consistently high resolution of reality (i.e. high complexity) - as opposed to a black-and-white, over-generalized, very low resolution. If you can't discern that redpillers and MRAs aren't the same people, then you are either not intelligent, or you are willfully ignorant. Which is just as bad, because it's self-induced stupidity. That said: I ag… | /r/MensRights | 16/12/16 09:23 PM |
| 8 | Circumcision is Child Abuse and TorturePlease explain the difference to me, then. As I see it, in both cases, you remove an extremely sensitive part of a person's genitals, and then tell them that it's not about the physical reality of sex, but "all in the head" anyhow. | /r/MensRights | 13/12/16 10:12 PM |
| 8 | Circumcision is Child Abuse and TortureBecause sex isn't all about rubbing the body parts together. It is mainly mental. Let's flip the sexes here for a moment, and imagine you had said that to a circumcised girl. Yeah. | /r/MensRights | 13/12/16 09:57 PM |
| 7 | Circumcision is Child Abuse and TortureHaving your eye gouged out gives you limitations, but not having a foreskin doesn't But it does. It makes the entire penis less sensitive (and here). It also affects Erectile Dysfunction. Have you never wondered why the US consumes about half of Pfitzer's yearly production of Viagra world-wide, but only accounts for about 5% of its population? Or why they lobbied to get Viagra "over the counter" status in Israel? Further limitations may include the inability to masturbate or have sex without lub… | /r/MensRights | 13/12/16 09:53 PM |
| 8 | Circumcision is Child Abuse and TortureTo take it to the level of child abuse or as a human rights violation, however, is just too extreme, IMO. But it is. One part of "Human Rights" is the right to bodily integrity, and that right is being violated. I understand you are cut. I am not. And I can tell you: If someone took that "itty bitty piece of skin" away from me, I would be out for blood. It's about as "minor" as my pinky or an eye for me. I've made the comparison to gouging out an eye somewhere else in this thread. And for me, th… | /r/MensRights | 13/12/16 09:22 PM |
| 10 | Circumcision is Child Abuse and TortureYou know, I also took the choices of dropping out of school and doing drugs away from my son. Only temporarily. As soon as he's a legal adult, he's free to drop out of school all he wants. Or do any legal drug he wants. And with illegal drugs, it was never your choice anyhow - it's the state's. So fuck me, right? I'm a terrible parent. No. I think you're someone who thinks of himself as a good parent, and genuinely does his best to be one, and suddenly is confronted with the fact that he did irr… | /r/MensRights | 13/12/16 09:00 PM |
| 8 | Circumcision is Child Abuse and TortureOkay, let's play a game. Let's say your parents gouge out one of your eyes before you're two weeks old. You have no memory of the event, you can still see, you cannot develop any issues on the eye that is gone, and you don't have to care at all for an eyeball you don't have. A socket is easier to clean that an intact eye, yes? You have no memory of what it's like to have two eyes, so you see nothing wrong with having only one. Do you maybe understand with this comparison why people who insist th… | /r/MensRights | 13/12/16 08:49 PM |
| 10 | Circumcision is Child Abuse and Torturebut I've never heard of a person suffering life-long mental and physical trauma because he was circumcised as an infant. Just because you haven't hear such stories doesn't mean they do not exist. I've heard and read more than one of those. I've also read that research suggests that circumcision as an infant is indeed connected to a restructuring of the brain comparable to that of surviving severe trauma. A higher sensitivity to pain, mood disorders, attention deficit and anxiety problems have al… | /r/MensRights | 13/12/16 08:38 PM |
| 8 | UPDATE: Texas Police Open Investigation on Mother Who Horribly Abused Young Son on Video for Supporting TrumpShe has come forward and said it was a joke. I do not believe her. If your "joke" leads to a child crying in abject terror, you stop the joke right there and reassure your child. You do not - as that woman has done - carry on with it for several minutes. I've seen the original video, and that's not a mother joking and failing to realize her joke didn't land. That's an adult lashing out in impotent rage against someone who cannot defend against it, and carrying on far longer than anyone with a wo… | /r/MensRights | 17/11/16 11:53 AM |
| 2 | Lots of misinformation about male genital mutilation in the comments. Often touted as "not as bad" as female genital mutilation.Adding to that, for people that think that the removal of the foreskin is about as "bad" as it gets: At your own risk, because NSFL, google "penile subincision". | /r/MensRights | 15/11/16 01:32 PM |
| 3 | Lots of misinformation about male genital mutilation in the comments. Often touted as "not as bad" as female genital mutilation.I understand that it is uncomfortable for a lot of people to talk about "circumcision" in those terms, but from a purely factual perspective, circumcision is not merely modification, but mutilation: A healthy, functional and very sensitive part of the body is permanently cut off without medical indication. | /r/MensRights | 15/11/16 01:18 PM |
| 9 | Hillary only thanks women and girls in her concession speech. Then she wonders why so many men don't vote for her. Feminists & SJWs seem unable to learn anything.If "misogynist comments" is the most important presidential issue for you, then you probably have a pretty privileged life. To paraphrase a popular feminist comeback: "The thing about privilege is that the ones that have is usually don't know they have it." And in this case, they've actively closed their eyes to it, going "Na-na-na, I can't hear you". Little kids learn that just closing their eyes doesn't make something go away. People slaved to identity politics apparently still need to learn t… | /r/MensRights | 10/11/16 12:38 PM |
| 11 | Hillary only thanks women and girls in her concession speech. Then she wonders why so many men don't vote for her. Feminists & SJWs seem unable to learn anything.Exactly! He's so locked into his partial world view that he cannot even entertain the thought that something other than "lack of enlightenment" might have caused people to vote as they did. That seems to be the common factor of a lot of those self-proclaimed "progressive thought leaders": Whatever mindset they subscribe to, it seems to work like blinders for them, severely limiting their capability to hold views, entertain perspectives that are not their own. Which, if I am not mistaken, is a si… | /r/MensRights | 09/11/16 11:43 PM |
| 4 | [Feminism] They existed in a girls-can-do-anything world. Then Donald Trump won the White House.So, basically: "Women have to be shown by example that they can achieve something. Unless there's already been a woman that did it, women will not think they can do it, and that makes them sad. Why did you not help those poor widdle women by voting for someone who couldn't be further from a healthy role model?" Well, if that doesn't say "women are just as capable as men", I do not know what does. /s | /r/MensRights | 09/11/16 10:43 PM |
| 41 | Hillary only thanks women and girls in her concession speech. Then she wonders why so many men don't vote for her. Feminists & SJWs seem unable to learn anything.It's not just feminists and SJWs. I just finished reading an article penned by one of the self-titled "intellectual elite" (a professor of Standford) that basically tried to explain that Trump won because the, erm, "white trash" (though he would never call anyone this!) doesn't share his values: Equality of sexes and cultures, plurality of lifestyles, and resents not being valued by society for their contributions the same way his intellectual elite is. To his credit, he goes on to question his … | /r/MensRights | 09/11/16 10:36 PM |
| 1 | I got banned on r/feminism for this post.So, if I understand this correctly, you were banned because you did not take on the "feminist perspective"? Huh. And people get on my ass when I argue that "feminism means equality" is nothing but window dressing. Anyway, I would agree with the point you made: If one parent can unilaterally decide to be or not to be a parent, that should go for the other one as well. If we separate by gender, that's, well - sexist. edit: Grammar. Unacceptable! | /r/MensRights | 09/11/16 10:15 PM |
| 9 | Was referred here for help by a co worker.So she is giving me all of this guilt and I'm not sure how to deal with it. DARVO - Deny, Attack and Reverse Victim and Offender. It's textbook bullying behavior. I mean, firstly: Even if you had been talking to another woman, would she have had any right to hit you? Of course not. I mean, try reversing the genders to see what's going on here: A dude slaps (or worse) his girlfriend because he thinks she's talked to another man. Unacceptable, and how! She's trying to appeal to men's instinct to s… | /r/MensRights | 07/11/16 09:04 PM |
| 2 | Dr Warren Farrell Accused of "Hate Speech" In The Red Pill Movie.I think the "hatespeech" comments are more targeted at a chapter of one of his books. I can't, for the life of me, remember the exact wording, but I think it was taken as "rape apologia". Even knowing as little of Dr Farrell as I do, I sincerely doubt that there was any actual rape apologia going on, but protesters did try to silence him as a "rape apologist" all the same (University of Toronto in November of 2011, I think?). Or, to put it another way: His person certainly was and possibly still… | /r/MensRights | 04/11/16 03:04 PM |
| 45 | Doctor raises MGM at British Medical Association discussion on child abuse - chair instructs audience to ignore himWell, you could always ask your sexual partners to get cut for you. Don't see how your preference applies to boys. | /r/MensRights | 04/11/16 07:53 AM |
| 1 | What kind of bullshit is this?Well, that was the essence of the old version: It basically just pointed men to a "how to stop abusing your family" number. For inexplicable reasons, some people thought that wasn't fair, maybe even a little bit sexist - maybe! - so it was changed to this "Oh yeah - because people got pissy, we guess here you can get some info if you as a man get abused. Because that happens... /rolleyes" version. | /r/MensRights | 02/11/16 12:23 PM |
| 27 | What kind of bullshit is this?if you look up the url provided, it's no longer current; The bias is better hidden now behind two "click here for more information" links. Text behind the link for women: "The Women’s Domestic Violence Helpline is a state wide 24 hour service. This service provides support and counselling for women experiencing family and domestic violence. This includes phone counselling, information and advice, referral to local advocacy and support services, liaison with police if necessary and support in esc… | /r/MensRights | 02/11/16 09:28 AM |
| 13 | Obama: Sexism to Blame for Close Presidential RaceAlso, I have trouble imagining anyone saying "If you're male and don't vote for Trump, there's a special kind of hell for you!" and getting away with it. Yet the HRC campaign uses "She's got ovaries" as a valid tactic to get people to vote for her. Imagine Trump getting articles published to the tune of "if you don't elect Trump, all men should be very afraid". I agree, sexism is in part to blame for the closeness of this race. Without it, Sanders would probably be leading by 20 points by now. B… | /r/MensRights | 02/11/16 08:42 AM |
| 3 | Forced cutting of young boys’ genitals violates the most fundamental medical ethicsIt's not about winning. I'd say, if you are content with how circumcision turned out for you, more power to you (so, you know, you win in that regard :-D). It means that there's a chance for those that have to have the procedure (for actual medical reasons) have shot at having a normal sex life. I'm just trying to not let people justify circumcision in general because there's a chance it'll turn out okay. For a lot of people, it unfortunately doesn't - and if it was a medically unnecessary proce… | /r/MensRights | 01/11/16 06:11 PM |
| 5 | Forced cutting of young boys’ genitals violates the most fundamental medical ethicsAnd I don't know why you say "yet", implying it's going to happen. Yes and no. It'll probably happen. As I said, keratinization isn't something that happens overnight. It's an ongoing process, and it's influenced by a lot of outside factors. It is, however, not something mental. It's a result of the glans, meant to be an interior organ, losing its protective sheath. Circumcised and uncircumcised people alike have a huge range in finishing that is unrelated to their circumcision status. Wishful t… | /r/MensRights | 01/11/16 05:29 PM |
| 8 | Forced cutting of young boys’ genitals violates the most fundamental medical ethicsI have any trouble finishing or notice any difference there. Well, and I know people that do have trouble finishing, or can only finish a certain way, or need lube, or a hundred others things I personally (being intact) do not have to deal with. It's not about "putting down" anyone, for me anyway. It's a counter to people, who, like you, insist that just because they don't have problems (yet), that's gotta be the way for anyone else. Keratinization does not happen overnight, either. | /r/MensRights | 01/11/16 10:06 AM |
| 3 | "Can feminist men open up a useful dialogue with men's rights activists?" | The Age - Ah, that would be a "no", you cuckYa know, the question in itself shows how utterly preoccupied at least this feminist writer is with sex as identity: They presume that the sex of the messenger has more impact to a reaction than the message itself. Lad: I don't give a toss if a feminist is male or female. I don't (apparently contrasting to you) put special value on a message just because a certain sex spouted it. A fool with an agenda is a fool with an agenda, regardless of tits or dick. It's the message that counts. And regardl… | /r/MensRights | 31/10/16 09:09 PM |
| 2 | Looks like not all feminists want equal everything only what's convenient for them.Honestly, I don't know if it's better. I have no statistics as to how many women actually want the draft for both sexes, how many want it for one, or how many want it for none. By saying "The overwhelming vast majority of women want X" you're making a declarative statement - if you get called out on it, you'd better be ready to back it up with facts. I think that most women simply never wasted a single thought on the draft until it threatened to smack them in the face. And now some are in full p… | /r/MensRights | 30/10/16 03:13 PM |
| 8 | Why circumcision is the same as FGMThe quintessential thing to take away: Don't let feminists (or indeed anyone advocating for male genital mutilation) pull you into a discussion of alleged medical benefits or the respect of (religious) tradition. If they use those, it's enough to point out they're using the same arguments as proponents of FGM do for their practice. It's moving the debate away from the core of the issue. Instead, focus on the core premise of what makes both FGM and MGM unacceptable for anyone subscribing to the i… | /r/MensRights | 30/10/16 02:06 PM |
| 6 | Need help: Debating feminists at my school over gender equality.Because we won't be equal until all men are driven from government employment. Reminds me of a newspaper headline I read some time ago: "A big step towards equality: Female students now 56% of all medical students, up from 51% last year". ...When "having more than half, and gaining" is still "stepping towards equality", your definition of equality might need closer examination. | /r/MensRights | 30/10/16 01:40 PM |
| 4 | Need help: Debating feminists at my school over gender equality.Since it's about the workplace, there's a handy imgur album detailing some statistics surrounding US workplace deaths, and how feminist spin skews them. Might be helpful if they come up with some variation of "More women are murdered in the workplace": No, they aren't. The only way to arrive at that conclusion is to neglect any surrounding data, and only look at the percentage number of "women murdered at work as compared to all others workplace deaths suffered by women", and compare it to the p… | /r/MensRights | 30/10/16 01:35 PM |
| 1 | Porn Chicks on weather they prefer circumsized or uncircumsized penises.Maybe we should start a campaign, uncircumsized for her pleasure ;p As others have already pointed out, I don't think this particular approach of "don't cut because it's the will/preference of the woman" is a good idea. But I do think that too many people (especially in the US) are still under the delusion that sex with a circumcised penis is somehow more natural or better, i.e. they think that women prefer cut penises. Which is much more of a societal held prejudice than grounded in reality. I … | /r/MensRights | 29/10/16 12:39 PM |
| 1 | Change.org petition against the Australian premiere screening of 'The Red Pill'. Can you spot the errors?It's usually hard to tell, which is why Hanlon's Razor is a thing: Don't assume malice if stupidity suffices. It's another way of framing the principle of benevolence: Rather assume someone did something out of lack of knowledge, than out of an desire to hurt you. This principle is at the core of human understanding, necessary for us to live together. It's also sadly something some people have taken out of their toolboxes for human interaction and replaced with its opposite: Assume guilt until p… | /r/MensRights | 24/10/16 02:01 PM |
| 14 | Change.org petition against the Australian premiere screening of 'The Red Pill'. Can you spot the errors?This is a disgusting film with a disgusting message. You may complain about this petition trying to censor freedom of speech, but what you don't understand is the different between freedom of speech and freedom of consequence. Freedom of speech allowed this film to be made. Mental gymnastics, grade-school level: "Freedom of Speech just means we cannot sew your mouth shut, but if we put you in a sound-proof room in solitary confinement so no-one can hear you, that's not about freedom of speech - … | /r/MensRights | 24/10/16 11:35 AM |
| 2 | A concerning trend I find on reddit/social media places...Do you, in your opinions, believe that 'toxic' (and yes, I hate the term, but I cannot describe it in any other way) echo chambers which harbour radical and dangerous ideas are good? Well, you're kind of coloring the question by infusing its subject with value judgements like "toxic", "radical" and "dangerous". Would anybody consider those "good" attributes to have? But even if you left those attributes out, my answer would have to be: "No, I do not think that isolating yourself is healthy." Bec… | /r/MensRights | 22/10/16 01:18 PM |
| 2 | Jew- Love MRA, tired of the Circumcision talkTheme the rules And now I think you're just out to troll. "Well, I'm not getting incarcerated for doing it" is not much of an argument, especially when you started out with "my faith demands it". Also, funnily enough, if you were to pierce or tattoo your toddler in my country, even if you were to deny them vaccination, you would be facing a prosecutor. Pretty much the only exception to the "every human has the right to bodily integrity" charter that's part of my country is circumcision. And that… | /r/MensRights | 22/10/16 08:11 AM |
| 2 | Men Need Help. Is Hillary Clinton the Answer?As I said: I think that's short-sighted behaviour, and I've tried making a case against it. It is your prerogative to vote whichever way you want for whichever reasoning you hold. Just don't come crying when you're stuck in the same shit (if you are very lucky) four years down the line, with still no way out. | /r/MensRights | 21/10/16 09:39 PM |
| 6 | Jew- Love MRA, tired of the Circumcision talkbut that's my right to believe I agree. But in my opinion, your right to believe ends where your son's faith (or lack of it) begins. Or, to put it another way: Your son should have the right to decide if he wants to believe in your sky-god so much that he is willing to have part of him cut off. It is not your right to take that decision from him. Also, your faith is not unequivocally behind this practice, either. There are Jews practicing Bris Shalom, and I have heard and seen Rabbis state that … | /r/MensRights | 21/10/16 07:55 PM |
| 2 | Men Need Help. Is Hillary Clinton the Answer?just so she can't win So you're taking a vote you could use to say "Yo, these are the politics I want to see enacted" and cast it for politics you do not care for instead, just so you negate one vote for politics you dislike even more. Not saying it's irrational (it isn't if you think short-term; prisoner's dilemma), but it will not help you out of that pit your voting system has driven you into. ...Just to make it clear to people voting for either Hillary or Trump on the reason "well, I really … | /r/MensRights | 21/10/16 06:39 PM |
| 11 | Men Need Help. Is Hillary Clinton the Answer?As someone outside the US, I think the best thing you can do in this election (if you are not actively in favour of either Clinton or Trump) is vote a third party. If enough Americans have the guts to vote against the two-party-system, maybe you'll have three candidates to choose from in four years time. Until then, you might as well accept the fact that be it Hillary or Donald, you're fucked either way. | /r/MensRights | 21/10/16 04:28 PM |
| 10 | Men Need Help. Is Hillary Clinton the Answer?Hillary "Women Are the Primary Victims of War" Clinton? Hm, let me think on that... Just kidding; The answer is: Not in a hundred years. Don't get me wrong - neither is Trump, neither would Bernie have been. But luring voters with false promises, that's still something Hillary and her ilk have mastered like no other. As long as the only allowed perspective on issues regarding sex is feminism, there is no help for men. | /r/MensRights | 21/10/16 04:24 PM |
| 2 | Father rescues his son from an infant male genital mutilation party in Israel. Refuses to have him circumcised. Media says he "kidnapped" his own child.I think one of the reasons it's so closely associated with Judaism is because it looks most closely linked to its religious practice, and Judaism does it to days-old boys, whereas Muslims mostly (afaik) do it when they boys are around six to ten years old. Also, Muslims are often more ready to admit that it's "just tradition" (because apparently Mohammed was cut, and so they emulate him), while Jews, as a tendency, tend to see it as a necessity of faith (the covenant with God). Now, there are Ra… | /r/MensRights | 19/10/16 12:43 PM |
| 2 | You know that narrative about train groping and women-only carriages in Japan? About that.it's a shame that 'our side' is a bit disjoined and fragmented I think of it more as a boon, to be honest. One huge issue monolithic "sides" create is that the in-group tends to enforce conformity, which stifles the free voicing and exchange of ideas and their discussions. Plus, having specialized groups for certain issues ensures that the focus remains on those issues instead of metastasizing all over the place. For example: I don't think that "video games" are of that much interest to many MRA… | /r/MensRights | 19/10/16 12:18 PM |
| 1 | I cannot find anywhere to discuss the faults in modern feminism and redpill as they both are two extremes to the issue at hand. Is this such a place?I may not have an immediate answer to your question, but you might find the following thesis useful: Some people think that the more extreme opposing political views become, the more they resemble each other. This is known as horseshoe theory. For a second point: "Middle-of-the-road" subs and places in general have a hard time existing, because the moderates do usually have little emotional investment in a particular side or view, and as such have only weak motivation for discussion. Extreme ele… | /r/MensRights | 17/10/16 05:03 PM |
| 1 | Why is circumcision defended so much?I'd say about 25 to 30 over the years, including some American ones and two or three Muslim (not devout, but grown up in Muslim countries, where cut penises are the norm) women. It's not a huge sample size, nor do I claim that it presents some average - but when you talk MGM, you have to talk about sex sooner or later; From what I learned so far, sex seems to come with fewer problems for both partners if you're intact. | /r/MensRights | 17/10/16 08:00 AM |
| 10 | Why is circumcision defended so much?I've even heard people say that calling circumcision MGM is misleading and incorrect. I would really want hear their argument on that, because "to mutilate" means "to irreparably damage", and that is exactly what is done: A healthy, highly sensitive as well as functional part of the male body is amputated. The lost appendage and its use cannot be restored. How is that not mutilation? | /r/MensRights | 16/10/16 10:12 PM |
| 2 | Why is circumcision defended so much?Ask women in Europe and they'll prefer an intact penis. Corroborating: I have not met a single woman here who preferred it cut. I have met quite a few women who had a clear preference for uncut. | /r/MensRights | 16/10/16 10:07 PM |
| 13 | Feminist mother freaks out at her daughter learning about antifeminism & men's rights: "How do I make my daughter stop watching misogynist YouTubers?"The average parent: "How can I teach my kids useful skills so they can grow into their own?" The feminist parent: "How can I keep my kids from being exposed to anything I disagree with and keep them dependent?" | /r/MensRights | 16/10/16 10:01 PM |
| 5 | Milo Yiannopoulos gives an extremely well-rounded answer as to why feminism and equality are not the same thing, and also why BLM is, in his opinion, not the way to lift up the black communityFeminism cannot be "a movement for equality between the sexes" for a very simple reason: Its core foundation is Patriarchy Theory - a theory that at its core ascribes negative and destructive tendencies to men, while holding positive, constructive traits to be female. Or, to put it more succinctly: Patriarchy Theory is sexist. If feminists were egalitarian-minded, they would have to reject that false dichotomy from the outset - how can a movement that holds such an un-equal view of the sexes do … | /r/MensRights | 14/10/16 10:15 AM |
| 1 | Girlfriend refuses marriage proposal until boyfriend gets circumcised [x-post]You need lube even just for an hand job I didn't understand the references to lube when palming one off for the longest time - until I heard a cut guy lament the fact that it just hurt too much without it. I also get that this is an area where very little sharing of experiences is done, so a lot of people may not even grasp that cut vs. uncut sex has quite some differences. And it's not just in the different experience as a male, but also for our partners. | /r/MensRights | 12/10/16 04:51 PM |
| 1 | I'm a feminist, help me out.From what little I know, and from my perspective as a coddled Westerner, I think that maybe Malaysia would benefit most from a movement that incorporates a higher regard for human rights for both sexes than it would from "just" feminism. I was scared to start a discussion because I was scared of being bashed or insulted for my opinions but I've decided that it shouldn't matter, that there will be people who are decent and willing to discuss. Reminds me of the first time I accidentally challenged… | /r/MensRights | 12/10/16 04:31 PM |
| 7 | Feminist Clementine Ford thinks her online abuse of a severely Autistic man was totally justified. Oh, and it's all the fault of men, of courseHow about we contact the debate and have her removed Two points why I don't think this is a good idea: Firstly, freedom of speech. Meaning: Everyone should be free to discuss their ideas, including the likes of CF. Secondly: The best way to discredit stupid ideas is to push them out in the open. Idiocy and cults grow in the dark, because the lack of light makes both seem as if there was more to it than there actually is. Having such a raving lunatic as CF out in the open, openly spouting her big… | /r/MensRights | 12/10/16 03:47 PM |
| 13 | Girlfriend refuses marriage proposal until boyfriend gets circumcised [x-post]Opposite experience. Was dating a girl some time back, and before we got physical she asked my if I was circumcised. Nope, I wasn't. Her reply? "Nice!" Apparently, her experiences with circumcised men hadn't been all that positive. Concerning the post itself: Was he right? I would say yes. Once the foreskin is off, there's no going back, unlike with marriage. You can divorce someone, you cannot replace the skin. Taken from an article linked a bit earlier in this sub, this is a young man who got … | /r/MensRights | 11/10/16 03:16 PM |
| 3 | I'm a feminist, help me out.I am actually more interested in understanding how things are in Malaysia, since I know next to nothing from there. I'm from Malaysia, it's a place where girls are having problems and feminism is needed to help them out. Why feminism in particular? What solutions does feminism uniquely offer to which problems? you could be shamed for not wearing the Hijab "Shamed" as in actual, legal punishment (like being pilloried), "shamed" as in "people will spit at you in the streets", or "shamed" as in "pe… | /r/MensRights | 11/10/16 01:07 PM |
| 2 | Feminists: Men are incapable of "love and intimacy"So, in short: Because it makes us more competitive as well as specialized. Sounds reasonable. Thanks for answering! | /r/MensRights | 11/10/16 08:14 AM |
| 6 | Even in Israel, more and more parents choose not to circumcise their sonsBut as a Jew I would never support any attempt to ban Jewish and Muslim practice. There are 1.7 billion Muslims in the World -- most of them devout. If I understand that reasoning correctly, you would not ban those practices just because of the number of devout Muslims and Jews? Secondly: Neither Jewish faith nor the Islam requires the genital mutilation of men for them to be accepted as Jew or Muslim. As the article points out, it's mostly done "because it's just done" or "because the community… | /r/MensRights | 11/10/16 08:10 AM |
| 3 | Feminists: Men are incapable of "love and intimacy"Sorry but that's just biology. And women can, as pointed out in the article, give birth and lactate. Also biology. But none of that is a privilege. It can't be taken away, and it can't be granted. It's innate. And using either as an argument for a "better" or "worse" sex is idiocy. If the species wasn't sexually dimorphic we probably never would have advanced past using simple stone tools. I'm just curious: Why would not being sexually dimorphic have precluded us from that? | /r/MensRights | 11/10/16 07:42 AM |
| 3 | The "Red Pill" movie and why I think we might be getting trolled.But a good answer is "When it actually has some upvotes" You can inflate your upvotes by using multiple accounts, though. If it's a concerted effort and not just one random dude trying to throw a spanner in the works, having a small upvote army ready seems like a pretty reasonable probability. Though at the moment, all I've seen so far are a bunch of no-effort trolls trying to get something rolling. | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 02:04 PM |
| 1 | The "Red Pill" movie and why I think we might be getting trolled.Fair point, but going from past experiences, unless it's only a few seconds/minutes old, people will just assume it was a legit comment, found by someone "on the ball". Prepare for a sarcastic "Well, when would a comment be deigned legitimate by you then? 'A month ago'?" | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 01:38 PM |
| 179 | Thought you guys would enjoy thisThis is how you do teaching right. Thanks for sharing, it's honestly those little good things that let me continue to think there's hope for the next generations yet. | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 12:58 PM |
| 17 | Feminists: Men are incapable of "love and intimacy"Oh golly, the Good Men project. If that name doesn't clue you in... The principal issue this article avoids like the plague is that Feminism has a core tenet of "The Patriarchy" being a thing. A thing that is present in males from birth and can only be overcome by conscious effort to abase oneself. Or to quote the article (boldening by me): Maybe it’s because because feminism challenges a sense of innate privilege, which has been a part of the masculine identity for centuries, but which is proba… | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 12:34 PM |
| 27 | The "Red Pill" movie and why I think we might be getting trolled.Normally, I would be all "Well, let's just do with it as we do with feminist bullshit: Call it out - we have the facts." But if this is a concerted effort, all it takes is one "journalist" creating an account themselves, post some insane rant here, screencap it, and show it off as "proof of soggy knees". A screencap doesn't show the account's age or history, and the amount of people who will check it for veracity outside reddit is probably minuscule. So, yeah, some action to prevent that sort of… | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 10:14 AM |
| 2 | I'm sure most fathers would agree: It's time to give single mothers strict instruction on how to raise morally upstanding sons or give custody to fathers (which is certainly preferable to a life in prison).It takes two to tango. And after the tango, only one has any more say as to the course of the dance. | /r/MensRights | 09/10/16 12:40 PM |
| 2 | Emma Watson is a Dumb SJW FeministGive the entire speech a listen. Watson is proud of the displays they made happen on Time Square, of crashing the "movement"'s website, of the over a million pledges of "HeForShe"s they got, that Bud Light now has some ad campaign for equal pay. ...Yeah, that campaign surely is focusing its efforts on regions in crisis, and not just a brutally expensive feel-good front for celebrities from Tom Hanks to Usain Bolt. Concerning the report you googled: Are you aware of the bias in reporting that ten… | /r/MensRights | 02/10/16 11:34 PM |
| 8 | Emma Watson is a Dumb SJW FeministI cannot decide if she's just so indoctrinated that she can't see anything outside her little thought bubble, or if she chooses to be so woefully malinformed. Or, to put it more succinctly: If there's a mens rea to go with the bullshit she's spouting. Instinctively, I want to go with "Nah, she just is so inundated in false information masked as objective fact", but I also know that this is an excuse for children and people that display like them (hello, neoteny!). Rationally, I have to hold her … | /r/MensRights | 02/10/16 01:03 PM |
| 2 | "Meet the Vagina Voters" "The women voting for Hillary because she's a woman are setting feminism back a hundred years."This isn't new.. people vote for who they can relate to, even more so when they know nothing about politics. It's one thing that continues to make me more furious than I rationally should be, because a vote is a vote, regardless if you vote because you've actually informed yourself on the options you can vote for, or if you vote for a party because "I've always voted this way". The ancient Greeks actually had a word to describe people uninterested in politics: Idiot(e)s. | /r/MensRights | 09/09/16 05:02 PM |
| 1 | Questions about Men's Rights and feminism - from a man.It's even a case of state-endorsed looterism (privateering, maybe?) - even when caught with a duffel bag full dildos and jewelery, they're often encouraged to just keep on taking. It's okay, dearie, you're just taking what should rightfully be yours! Takes some serious backbone and knowledge of facts to not take that deal when so many people tell you it's just and fair. Also, in case you read this: If you need any German articles translated, or want to have some of your writings translated into … | /r/MensRights | 28/08/16 07:53 AM |
| 7 | Questions about Men's Rights and feminism - from a man.I don't think that negates anything I've said here. Well, your entire premise seems to be that feminism represents women, and that collaboration with them would be necessary in order to bring about change. But feminism as presented in the MSM and politics does not speak for all women (I'd say not even for the majority of them). It's in essence a female superiority movement with the goal of furthering female privilege on the (unsupported) presupposition that men as a group are evil oppressors and… | /r/MensRights | 27/08/16 09:08 PM |
| 2 | German court fines model 20.000€ for making false rape accusationsWhich is all the more admirable if you consider how boldly feminists stood by Lohfink. Hell, even our Minister of Family joined "Team Gina-Lisa" that went around screaming "listen and believe!". It's actually fucking scary, having a Minister that evidently can't make the distinction between accuser and victim. edit: Family, not Justice. Although the MoJ apparently used the Lohfink case to further his rework of our rape laws. | /r/MensRights | 23/08/16 09:55 AM |
| 1 | German court fines model 20.000€ for making false rape accusationsThere should be jail time. You forget you're dealing with a woman in the judicial system here; Their sentences tend to me more lenient than for a man in the same situation. The last (and first) time I remember a woman being jailed in Germany for a false rape accusation was the case of Horst Arnold, who'd already been convicted, had served his time (with no earlier release because he insisted on being innocent, instead of "atoning for his sins"), and had died, alone, ostracized and destitute. His… | /r/MensRights | 23/08/16 09:52 AM |
| 6 | "The majority of our rapes that are called in are actually consensual sex." Why Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland's Statement About False Rape Accusations Is Extremely Important But Flew Under The Radar And Met With The Typical Feminist/Mangina Stupidity And Childish Name CallingYou're misunderstanding, I think. It's not about how fitting a term is - it's that it's still an ad-hominem (going after a person's qualities rather than their argument). Which, you know, makes it very easy to dismiss everything you say on that basis. Why do I mention this? Because it's been what the MSM has done for the last half a dozen years or so. All they need to do is to point to someone going "what a mangina", drop the "mysogynist" bomb, and go for lunch. You've done their work for them. … | /r/MensRights | 23/08/16 09:40 AM |
| 1 | Circumcision needs to be renamed Male Genital Mutilation.My first thought was "well, adding the 'male' modifier makes it clear that there's a distinction between genders when it comes to mutilation - one is allowed and condoned, the other ain't." But then I imagined a theoretical conversation starting with: "You know, I always thought we were past the Dark Ages. How is it that genital mutilation is still legal?" From which you then can shine a bright light onto the fact that it really has only made been illegal in part. | /r/MensRights | 13/08/16 10:22 AM |
| 1 | Feminists protest after a German adult model was fined €24K for false rape accusationsThough this might be because they're two separate crimes here in Holland and so this is an intuitive connection for me to make in my head. Basically, such a differentiation doesn't exist in German law. The operative word is "Nötigung", which conveys "making someone do something", and that applies whenever you are not able to exercise your will. "They roofied me, so I was unable to consent, and this is rape" was basically the accuser's line of going after the alleged rapists in this case. The inv… | /r/MensRights | 19/07/16 03:30 PM |
| 1 | Feminists protest after a German adult model was fined €24K for false rape accusationsGranting that it doesn't say so explicitly, can't it still be a legal demand for conviction? As far as I am aware, no. The legal demand is that you can show your unwillingness to participate, which is easiest when you can demonstrate that you actively fought against an action about to happen to you. But it's far from the only way to show it. For example, if you're passed out drunk, you simply cannot "violently defend", but you sure are in a "defenseless position". So if you can show that a)you w… | /r/MensRights | 19/07/16 01:31 PM |
| 1 | Feminists protest after a German adult model was fined €24K for false rape accusationsSorry for a second reply, but given that the plain text of the law is pretty awful to read as it is, I'll give you my take on the situation on a seperate reply: I'm a German citizen, and I've read a few articles, penned by journalists, lawyers and judges. Basically, the new law changes nothing because of one base of Western law, the presumption of innocence. This means that the prosecution has to make their case, not the other way around: They have to show beyond reasonable doubt that the accuse… | /r/MensRights | 19/07/16 01:22 PM |
| 1 | Feminists protest after a German adult model was fined €24K for false rape accusationsu/Muesli_Nom, could you explain your position to me given the BCC link below? Sure. To quote from your linked article: "Under the previous law, defined in Section 177 of the criminal code (in German), victims should have defended themselves for an act to constitute rape. " This just is false information. There is not one word about "victims should have defended themselves" in §177 StGB. In fact, there is not a single word about what a victim should have done in it at all. I'll try my hand at a t… | /r/MensRights | 19/07/16 01:02 PM |
| 2 | Feminists protest after a German adult model was fined €24K for false rape accusationsbecause she did not violently resist it wasn't rape, which is why the Germans have implemented that new 'no means no' law. This is wrong. The "old" definition of rape (§177 StGB) does not have "violently resist" in it at all. Sexual assault is defined as (paraphrased) "Forcing another person either through use of force, threat against bodily integrity or life, or exploitation of a defenseless position to sexual acts." If "the body is penetrated", it's rape. The need to "violently resist" isn't a… | /r/MensRights | 19/07/16 12:21 PM |
| 2 | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics: ‘Circimcision is Unethical and Unlawful’but yes Jews and Muslims will make quite a fuss I imagine. If Germany is any indication, they will. You remember the summary mentions that German courts ruled male genital mutilation unlawful, right? Well, it doesn't mention what happened next: Many Jews went ballistic (some Muslims, too, but they kept it more on the dl) and threatened a new diaspora if Germany didn't make male genital mutilation on newborn legal. ...Which Germany promptly did. On 12/12/12, a law was passed that expressly allows… | /r/MensRights | 15/07/16 04:35 PM |
| 4 | "Women, as a whole, are far less comfortable with conflict than are men. And so when women begin to dominate the social discourse, then 'who's upset' and 'who's offended' is all that matters. It doesn't matter whether something is true or false-all that matters is whether someone is bothered by it."I'd imagine it's to underline the fact that what would hurt society would be a massive failure of men as a whole in their current roles as opposed to the needed/wanted/approved throwing away of a few individual men. It's like concrete in a building: If a significant percentage of the concrete fails, the building collapses. But if only a bit flakes off, you sigh and slap on a newly mixed batch. That's how society needs men: As an, in measured amounts, expendable resource. By contrast, women are t… | /r/MensRights | 04/07/16 05:12 PM |
| 4 | "Operation: No Pay May": A Woman Attempts 31 Dates in 31 DaysIt's a form of the Prisoner's Dilemma: In the long run, Men's situation as a whole would (probably) improve if they closed ranks and said no to this kind of shit. The individual man, however, has a potentially greater reward (in his eyes, at least) to gain by defecting from the closed ranks: A chance to get with a woman. Since men apparently lack the in-group bias that women have, this is another brick in the wall that keeps a coherent "closed shoulders" front from forming. As long as there are … | /r/MensRights | 01/06/16 06:53 AM |
| 1 | German women are game for groping, forced kissing, with virtual impunity! Grope a female German police officer? 400 Euro fine. Forced kiss in subway? Police unconcerned. Rape culture has arrived in Germany.Add to that that any physical aggression is persecuted individually. Meaning even if they had, say, kept the dude from leaving, they'd be liable to facing charges themselves. It would then have to have been determined if they were entitled to those actions. If they'd done them in self-defense, they likely would - but since they've been taken on behalf of a third, things could be much less clear. So, if push came to shove, those men, had they helped, could have been saddled with assault charges t… | /r/MensRights | 02/04/16 07:13 PM |
| 1 | Saw this on my roommate's computer while he was browsing 9gagIt's not about precise risk assessment. Marriage isn't. But Russian Roulette is. The risk is 1/number of chambers. It's very binary this way. Just as the reward system is binary (none/death), and marriage's is not. This is why the equivalency is so pernicious: It takes things that appear similar on a surface level, but are not when you examine them, in order to inject the qualities of one into the other - as if the "risk factor" of a man was the same thing as putting a gun to your temple. As if … | /r/MensRights | 18/03/16 08:14 PM |
| 1 | Saw this on my roommate's computer while he was browsing 9gagSo I should not cross the street because I could die? Meaning: There is no risk-free. When does "risky" begin? 5%? 10%? Does that risk increase with each iteration (as is the case in Russian Roulette, but not in marriage)? Are there maybe additional methods I could utilize to lessen my risk? In Russian roulette, no. In marriage, yes: I can pre-select my partner for certain risk factors. Does not eliminate the risk, but makes it less likely. I can take other precautions (like ABR, or contracts) a… | /r/MensRights | 18/03/16 05:14 PM |
| 1 | Saw this on my roommate's computer while he was browsing 9gagthe same sentiment But which sentiment in particular? The assumption that it's possible to avoid risk altogether? The denial of people pre-selecting for risk factors? The denial of risk factors being discernible? The (non-)comparability of outcomes? There are a lot of things going on in that comparison, that's why I asked which sentiment in particular you find applicable. | /r/MensRights | 18/03/16 03:59 PM |
| 1 | Saw this on my roommate's computer while he was browsing 9gagThe sentiment being what? There are so many presuppositions in that false equivalency that it's hard to keep track of the sentiments that go with them. | /r/MensRights | 18/03/16 01:55 PM |
| 1 | I am a slaveAs others have written: Sounds like depression (not medical advice, just my impression. Get it checked out by a professional). The two big things about depression are: A) About 1 in 5 people go through one at least once in their lives. This is nothing you have to be ashamed about or that you need to hide from everyone. B) It's not your fault, and it isn't necessarily even caused by your particular situation. Depression is maybe the best understood psychological phenomenon, and it is treatable si… | /r/MensRights | 18/03/16 01:17 PM |
| 31 | Why has "MRA" become such a boogeyman label for people with dissenting opinions? I have been called an MRA on multiple occasions even though I am not one, and I just don't understand why.So why do MRAs seem to get blamed for like...everything? I don't get it. MRAs have a goal that would shake society's foundation at its core: Treat men with the same care and respect society affords women. I can smell the feminists reading already rolling their eyes - "Stupid cereal aficionado, dontcha know that men are valued more than women? The grass so is so much greener on your side. Hey, we don't even have grass!" - but bear with me. Who does all the shit jobs in a society? Who carries away… | /r/MensRights | 16/03/16 03:23 AM |
| 1 | I was banned from /r/offmychest for posting a link to this sub on a post about a teenage's boy's mother who claimed how he was a "natural rapist" for being a boy. Claimed that this is a hate group and compared it to white supremacy and neo Nazism, then muted my ability to message the mods.You didn't even post there and you were banned? Yeah. There's even a warning in the KiA text input field that mere posting on KiA will likely lead to several subs outright banning you. Add to that that some time ago, posting on KiA got you on some watch list. I think the people running that list tried to downvote persons on it, but seeing as I was on that list, and that downvoting had next to no impact, I'm not too sure on that. I took it as a badge of honour - saying something that upsets censo… | /r/MensRights | 15/03/16 10:44 AM |
| 3 | Mother Stabs Her Baby 90 Times With Scissors After He Bit Her While Breastfeeding Him!I'd opine it's "contrast material": Fathers often enough don't even have visitation rights to their children unless they apply to the state for them, while mothers tend to keep their child even after being horribly abusive to them. It does showcase how we, without conscious consideration, have this apparently inviolable connection between mother and child in our minds, but not between father and child. edit: I mean, look at who is now held responsible for the child's well-being - it's the uncles… | /r/MensRights | 12/03/16 01:20 PM |
| 5 | To Circumcise or Not to Circumcise: A New Father’s QuestionWhen I read that, the whole issue that some deaf people have with Cochlear implants came to mind: They have built a culture and language around being deaf, and they feel that implant would take this (in part) away from them. But would any deaf person seriously rupture their kid's ear drums just so it could better partake in that deaf culture, and not be bullied by deaf kids? I seriously doubt it. | /r/MensRights | 02/03/16 12:45 PM |
| 4 | To Circumcise or Not to Circumcise: A New Father’s QuestionExactly, male genital mutilation and heart surgery are apples and oranges. One you do to save a life, the other you do because... because what? Also, am I the only one that wouldn't even have thought to think about "what if our father-son bond is weaker because our dicks don't look alike?" Who fucking thinks that it's of any sort of import how their dick compares to their father's? I didn't have a beard, nor was I balding, and I don't think if I'd had been either, I'd have felt any closer to my … | /r/MensRights | 02/03/16 12:41 PM |
| 3 | Germany: 17-year old man/boy grievously injured by 18-year old woman for sexually underperforming.I never heard of such a case. It's because it's usually not a separate case, but "tied" into the over-all investigation of whatever happened. I know that German law is biased against men - or rather, biased towards women - because even judges admit to giving women "special treatment", and some laws (like paternity, or genital mutilation) are very much biased against men, too. My point is that this tidbit of "well, the man got charged, even though he was clearly the victim" is standard procedure.… | /r/MensRights | 01/03/16 02:33 AM |
| 10 | Germany: 17-year old man/boy grievously injured by 18-year old woman for sexually underperforming.The guy is criminally charged for defending himself This is common practice in German law, though. A friend of mine was assaulted and beaten unconscious by a group of three, but managed to get one or two blows off at one of them, which he mentioned when the police questioned him after waking up again. The first thing they did was to tell him that he would be investigated for assault as well. It would very likely lead to no conviction, but it's nevertheless a technicality: One person assaulted an… | /r/MensRights | 29/02/16 06:49 PM |
| 1 | US EEOC Report: More than half of all allegations of sexual harassment are determined to be without reasonable causeActually, I was talking about Horst Arnold, but I think I have to read up on Brian Banks now oO. edit: You're right on the money about the different legislation, though. If wikipedia is to be believed, Banks faced 41 years in prison, which is why he accepted a plea deal. I do think that the prospect of spending the rest of your life in jail makes taking a deal the better option, even if you did not commit whatever you were accused of. However, taking such a deal also implies to observers that yo… | /r/MensRights | 13/02/16 01:39 PM |
| 1 | US EEOC Report: More than half of all allegations of sexual harassment are determined to be without reasonable causeThat guy was dead by the time she got her comeuppance (socially ostracized and destitute; The state that had both employed him before and put him in jail refused to either reinstate him or pay him restitution for his imprisonment). He had also had to serve his full sentence because he never admitted to the rape, and consequently was seen as unrepentant. He was denied any appeal. It was only when the lies, discrepancies and contradictions in the life of the accusatrix continued for years and took… | /r/MensRights | 13/02/16 01:06 PM |
| 1 | US EEOC Report: More than half of all allegations of sexual harassment are determined to be without reasonable causeActually, I remember a case in Germany where a false accuser was indeed tried and found guilty on the charge of wrongful imprisonment. However, this charge was only possible because the falsely accused man had been convicted of sexual assault on her accusation and testimony beforehand and spent several years in prison for it. If he'd been found not guilty, she would have gotten off scot-free. | /r/MensRights | 12/02/16 12:27 PM |
| 4 | Dogs in Canada now have more legal rights than newborn baby boys...Equality, Canadian style. (try reading the article by substituting the words "dogs" & "pets" in the story, with "boys" and the words "ears" & "tails" with penis) ps I'm no longer proud to be CanadianFind an intact guy and ask him if he'd cut off part of his dick to be "cleaner". Intact guy here. I'd rather have my little finger cut off than my foreskin. Fore everything else, there's this ancient technique called "pulling back the hood", and if you combine that with water and a bit of soap, you're set. Also, remember that since cut men lack that "sliding bit", and the shape of the cut glans tends to scrape out fluids, that intercourse with a cut man can lead to tissue tearing, possibly leadi… | /r/MensRights | 11/02/16 02:23 PM |
| 11 | Dogs in Canada now have more legal rights than newborn baby boys...Equality, Canadian style. (try reading the article by substituting the words "dogs" & "pets" in the story, with "boys" and the words "ears" & "tails" with penis) ps I'm no longer proud to be CanadianIf cutting off a healthy, working body part is not the right context for using "mutilation", what is the right context for that word? | /r/MensRights | 11/02/16 10:23 AM |
| 6 | Why is a trans woman leading a men's rights group? She’s young, trans, and thinks feminism has a chokehold on LGBT thoughtI think there's merit in going a bit further into the "doesn't want to be a man" part, because I think a bit more nuance can be helpful in understanding trans people. It's not so much that they go "oh, being a man is gross and icky, and I'd rather be a glorious Godess". It's not a value judgement they consciously make. It's more of having a disconnect between their mind, which tells them they're one sex, and their body, which tells them they're another. It's not 100% comparable, but imagine bein… | /r/MensRights | 22/01/16 02:29 PM |
| 2 | IRL I've seen a lot of men who were hit by women, but I've never seen a woman being hit by a man. Still these absurd posters are everywhereAs far as I could make out, they attacked because of frustration. There's a lot of refugees here now, but the system that's in place to deal with them is woefully inadequate. Hell, state-run structures would already have collapsed months ago if (unpaid) volunteers hadn't stepped up to help. For a time, the biggest worry was for the refugees to have shelter for the winter (which, so far, has been very, very mild). So they mostly are cooped up and just wait, and wait, and wait until the system has… | /r/MensRights | 17/01/16 10:51 AM |
| 7 | IRL I've seen a lot of men who were hit by women, but I've never seen a woman being hit by a man. Still these absurd posters are everywhereIt's a double-standard that seems firmly entrenched (and often goes unnoticed, so deep down is it) in humanity. I think even a lot of people concerned with Men's Rights are not immune to applying different standards, at least in some respects. It's just the way our brains are wired: If a woman is threatened, we tend to emphasize more than if that person was a man. It's a necessary consequence of men being disposable for the sake of society. | /r/MensRights | 17/01/16 10:39 AM |
| 55 | IRL I've seen a lot of men who were hit by women, but I've never seen a woman being hit by a man. Still these absurd posters are everywhereReminds me of that local news story I came across a few days ago: Refugees had cornered a case worker, punching and strangling him (one from behind, one from the front, apparently). He didn't even defend himself, because those refugees were women, you know? Commenting on that news story was disabled because of "the type of comments those stories attract". My own dad slapped me bloody, but never laid a hand on either my sister or my mother. A man hitting a woman is still something I have to see i… | /r/MensRights | 16/01/16 05:04 PM |
| 3 | MRA Milo #JeSuisMilo gives a truthful definition of feminismafaik, the twitter handle belongs to Margaret MacLennan. Who, to stay true to the "je suis" motto, has named herself Milo for the day, it seems. Still, I don't know if I would label her as an MRA. She's describing herself as conservative, and very interested in media ethics (and subverting the Mainstream media narrative) - so while there's overlap, I personally would not label her an MRA. | /r/MensRights | 09/01/16 04:02 PM |
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