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I'm not sure you'd have a contract with child custody services as such. The government can contract whatever private services they like to administer things like payment services. I don't think that changes anything about court orders and contempt of court.
/r/MensRights22/07/19 01:02 PM
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Loophole is you can go to prison for contempt of court, which can occur when you don't comply with the judge's order to pay alimony or child support. Technically, you are not enprisoned for debt.
/r/MensRights19/07/19 06:51 PM
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Ah well, such is life.
/r/MensRights27/05/19 09:52 PM
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Yeah, I did say it's very last resort. I only ever used this in a public setting once, with a drunk guy that was having a jealous angry pushy thing at me. I kept the hand low. It became a quiet thing between him and me. He raised his other fist. I twisted the hand a little further causing him to rotate away. He opted for discression. A woman might just scream, then you're in the shit I suppose.
/r/MensRights27/05/19 09:46 PM
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You have an escalation problem, with a boundary condition that you can't cross because you never want to look like a big tough guy beating up on a drunk woman in a bar. When all of your verbal rebuffs and warning are ignored, there's a fairly passive looking control technique you could apply, but this is seriously last resort ... Say they're rubbing their right hand on you, and you're trying to peel that hand off you ... What you do is, using your own right hand over the top of theirs, place you…
/r/MensRights27/05/19 05:50 PM
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How about, "You only act upset like this when I make valid points that you have no answer to. I would feel ashamed if I were you."
/r/MensRights27/05/19 05:06 PM
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He told me when he was growing up his mom told him on multiple occasions to man up and stop crying. Maybe that has something to do with his lack of variety of emotions. Hopefully I don't get my man card taken off me for telling you the following... Near as I can tell, there's a three level thing going on here. YMMV. 1. Biological Firstly at a biochemistry level, testosterone has the effect of making you more stoic as a default setting. When stress ramps up, it's like a focused calmness settles o…
/r/MensRights13/05/19 06:22 PM
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Nice. I might watch a few of his videos. Since you liked that music, you will probably like this one too: https://youtu.be/58NqTpUL2rw The reverb is amazing.
/r/MensRights11/05/19 05:40 PM
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OK, fun video. Music to code by is an interesting topic. Personally, I find that something repetitive, but with a sense of progression works really well. A favourite is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydRAb9cwHnA I know someone who insists that listening to chip tunes is the only way to go, but he's crazy.
/r/MensRights11/05/19 05:17 PM
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The Systems Architect says no.
/r/MensRights11/05/19 05:28 AM
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Honestly the only skill you need to become a programmer is the ability to sit in front of a computer for several hours at a time. Hahahahahahahaha. Oh dear.
/r/MensRights11/05/19 04:13 AM
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Aka: Orderliness.
/r/MensRights11/05/19 04:11 AM
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Some of the most outspoken men's rights advocates are women. Women have father's, husband's, son's etc, that they care about. Here's some women in Men's rights: Karen Straughan (very down to earth perspective): https://www.youtube.com/user/girlwriteswhat Christina Hoff Sommers (aka the Factual Feminist via the American Enterprise Institute, very academic perspective): https://www.youtube.com/user/AEIVideos Janice Fiamengo (Academic/legal?) https://www.youtube.com/user/StudioBrule Camille Paglia …
/r/MensRights09/05/19 04:22 AM
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No surprise that Spain has one of the lowest birth rates in the world.
/r/MensRights02/04/19 04:36 AM
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Careful there. That leaves 1 in 10,000 who would murder you for not going out with them.
/r/MensRights27/02/19 12:18 AM
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Yeah, I dunno, it might backfire on them badly if they do manage to take credit. Public opinion won't look kindly on the notion of sending young women off to war. Women will be looking a feminism, thinking "...but we just wanted the good stuff. I don't want to do war stuff. Feminism sucks."
/r/MensRights25/02/19 02:02 AM
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Yeah, my two kids have both finished high school now, in Australian public education, which has historically been generally quite good. Years 10, and 12 have an annual award night for best students in subjects etc. I've been to 4 of these award nights now. The students receiving awards would be packed into a third of the hall, with their proud parents seated in the other two thirds, cameras and smartphones poised. The boys and girls have different coloured uniforms, so it rather stood out that a…
/r/MensRights25/02/19 01:56 AM
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Some of the best MRA and related content actually comes from women. Here's some of their YouTube channels: Karen Straughan (very down to earth perspective): https://www.youtube.com/user/girlwriteswhat Christina Hoff Sommers (aka the Factual Feminist via the American Enterprise Institute, very academic perspective): https://www.youtube.com/user/AEIVideos Janice Fiamengo (Academic/legal?) https://www.youtube.com/user/StudioBrule Camille Paglia (Here with Jordan Peterson, old school feminist disgus…
/r/MensRights14/02/19 01:32 PM
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I read through her history of Reddit posts recently (sort by Top). It's an education.
/r/MensRights14/02/19 03:17 AM
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Hi /u/vicsj If you want to see how far down the rabbit hole this thing goes, go have a long read of your fellow honey badger... /u/girlwriteswhat Is Karen Straughan
/r/MensRights13/02/19 09:29 PM
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Good job man. Short and to the point, and pitched at a level that the general newspaper reading public probably needs.
/r/MensRights01/02/19 02:28 PM
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That's somehow even more bizarre.
/r/MensRights28/01/19 04:19 AM
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Stoicism (the personal affect, not the philosophy) is specifically a male trait, mediated by testosterone. More testosterone means more stoicism. Trans men often have interesting stories of the ways these aspects of their personalities change as they start getting testosterone treatment, like a quiet, more focused feeling of calm strength settling over them and a quieting of the background chatter.
/r/MensRights28/01/19 01:46 AM
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Police have the discretion not to prosecute and will take into account issues including whether it would be in the public interest and what supervision and support the children have available. What a strange statement. I mean, in particular, the bit at the end. Like if the boy has a lack of supervision and support, then they're more likely to prosecute? So, if his life is already a bit fucked up, then we'll fuck it up a lot more, but if he's got a nice supportive family, then he gets off? Is tha…
/r/MensRights27/01/19 09:59 PM
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Except queens. Yes, but unlike the other categories, it is an exception. Women were somewhat occupied, what with an average of 6.6 children, 40% infant mortality rate, lack of sanitary products, no labour saving devices and rampant war, crime, disease and poverty, where were you going to fit in a political career. It worked with queens because they were born into it, and had servants. It worked for exceptional men who achieved great things, and then for their children, grandchildren etc if they …
/r/MensRights01/01/19 09:29 PM
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You might consider that intersectionality just doesn't go far enough. The range of factors is so great in practice that we should just subdivide the population all the way down to the individual, and treat each person as uniquely valuable, then discard the notion of division as problematic.
/r/MensRights01/01/19 04:55 PM
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Political offices is another matter, though. Except queens. They were a thing. They also managed to initiate more wars of aggression across Europe than Kings did.
/r/MensRights01/01/19 04:39 PM
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Oh, and I almost forgot Diana Davison. Look at her earlier videos for an expose of her thinking, but more recently she seems to be really active in helping to defend people against false accusations. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVRQqUgDRBevsDGOeE1DL3A
/r/MensRights01/01/19 01:15 AM
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Glad you like my list. Here's one more with quite a feminine perspective on MRA things: ChristyOMisty: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFPg_8UWITUFlCzdF598fjA ​
/r/MensRights31/12/18 06:04 PM
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Wikipedia standards are slipping. Declaring something or someone to be alt-right is like a nonsense claim that is supposed to mean you are bad people, but it's such an I'll defined term that it's effectively meaningless. They may as well have just said we don't like MRA's, they are yucky.
/r/MensRights31/12/18 08:32 AM
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Hi. 8 brothers! That must have been interesting. Some of the best MRA and related content actually comes from women. Here's some: Karen Straughan (very down to earth perspective): https://www.youtube.com/user/girlwriteswhat Christina Hoff Sommers (aka the Factual Feminist via the American Enterprise Institute, very academic perspective): https://www.youtube.com/user/AEIVideos Janice Fiamengo (Academic/legal?) https://www.youtube.com/user/StudioBrule Camille Paglia (Here with Jordan Peterson, old…
/r/MensRights31/12/18 07:16 AM
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Victims Accusers Abusers
/r/MensRights05/11/18 05:33 AM
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Victims Accusers Abusers
/r/MensRights05/11/18 05:32 AM
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We have a name for women who trade sex for value. They're called whores. It's has a nasty vibe to it because they are turning something that usually either creates life or cements our pair bonding in a healthy relationship, into a cheap transaction. If that's the way it's going to be, she may as well just put on the red light.
/r/MensRights04/11/18 09:40 PM
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Karen Straughan But like you, I don't call myself an MRA. I just try to deal with the issues impartially.
/r/MensRights02/11/18 11:39 AM
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/r/rbomi Take your pick from there.
/r/MensRights31/10/18 09:57 AM
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People have to take responsibility for their own decisions.
/r/MensRights24/10/18 10:10 PM
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Ok, well I guess humans will just have to die out. No sex for you.
/r/MensRights24/10/18 12:50 PM
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Just trawl through /r/rbomi Or their blog at: http://becauseits2015.wordpress.com
/r/MensRights24/10/18 12:20 PM
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Someone should create an encrypted video app, with a 2 of 3 part key. The three signatures would be the state (pre-signed in app), and one from each participant on the special occasion. Record the whole sex act encrypted, but the only way to view it is with two signatures. Both people could view it together if they just want to see each other doing it, or either one, in cooperation with the state in the event that they are claiming rape or sexual assault. Once you have the keys setup, you could …
/r/MensRights24/10/18 11:46 AM
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I'm wouldn't equate the transexual and trans-racial situations. Amongst people with darker skinned genetic heritage, I have definitely seen tendency to lighten up their skin, often just by strict avoidance of sunlight, through more rarely by medical intervention. The rationale you describe most likely applies. I don't think transgender works like that though. It's not so much a choice, as something you have to live with. Being born as physically one gender but knowing inside that your SELF doesn…
/r/MensRights13/10/18 11:21 PM
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Whilst acknowledging that there is considerable diversity of opinion within the set of people who label themselves "feminist", the large majority of those I have known or listened to believe in social constructionism ... like as if their very lives depend on it being true. For example, take a look at what happened to James Damore. It may just be all the left leaning feminists. Hard to tell because you so rarely hear from right leaning feminists, though there are a few speaking out lately.
/r/MensRights13/10/18 10:36 PM
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Ah yes, Mr. Lister. Total nerd, but the guy had an energy about him. Before class, he'd be sitting outside watching some grown up vaguely educational content on a TV he tolled out each morning, and he'd actually care about it. His focus was outward, toward things that happened in the real world and why it mattered, while all the female teachers just looked inside the class, the students, the curriculum etc and how they felt about things, and implicitly, how you were supposed to feel too. Apart f…
/r/MensRights12/10/18 11:24 AM
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I would ignore it. Fuck that. Having said that, it might be the best thing that could possibly happen for men's rights. Suddenly, there would be widespread acknowledgement of men's rights issues.
/r/MensRights03/10/18 12:56 PM
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This kid is going to be so fucked up if he reaches his teen years.
/r/MensRights22/09/18 12:52 PM
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Try /r/FeMraDebates They actually intend to have such discussion.
/r/MensRights22/09/18 12:38 PM
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That's just insane.
/r/MensRights22/09/18 12:09 PM
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That simple strategy may be enough for you to just live your life. That's your call. You may want to go deeper and try to understand why you get screwed over every time you work with women. Based on your description, it seems like women are not valuing you. Women mostly have different criteria for who they assign value to than men do. Our very PC world has made this into something that's often considered rude to talk about, but that doesn't change the reality. I don't particularly agree with the…
/r/MensRights20/09/18 11:06 PM
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This was not that that that case.
/r/MensRights20/09/18 10:33 PM
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Typo: "that that"
/r/MensRights20/09/18 11:14 AM
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That's simple then. Joe hates men Don't vote Joe.
/r/MensRights20/09/18 11:01 AM
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The simple recurring pattern in your story, is that when you work with women it goes badly for you, but when you work with men, it goes well. Maybe you should learn from that. Work with men more. Work with women less.
/r/MensRights20/09/18 03:49 AM
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A man doing that is in fact a subplot of the movie Titanic; a movie that women seem to find romantic, despite all the men dying.
/r/MensRights19/09/18 06:29 AM
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Jessica will always get the hots for Chad, because Chad is demonstrating that he has the resources that Jessica wants. This is not new, and it's not going away. Feminism is the collective Jessica wanting the resources of the collective Chad. They're not interested in what Nigel has to say about it. Like, "Shut up Nigel, you're a misogynist."
/r/MensRights27/08/18 11:14 PM
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This is true. What the communists lacked though was thousands of years of accumulated social, ethical and organisational structure. They were trying to do it from scratch.
/r/MensRights29/07/18 09:58 AM
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Big picture ... If you consider that the purpose of life is to create and maintain order from the chaos of the universe that surrounds us, then feminine and masculine roles take on distinctly different aspects of that purpose. Masculinity looks outward. It explores new territory, it expands civilization, it invents, it creates new possibilities, and it stands guard on the boundaries of civilization. Look at history, or even modern times, the explorers, the soldiers, the fire fighters, the police…
/r/MensRights29/07/18 09:53 AM
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OK, well that's interesting. I'm a fairly staunch atheist myself, but I find Peterson to be one of the very few, possibly only, speakers on the subject of religion that I've found worth listening to. His position seems to be that religion was what we needed to tell us how to behave in the absence of any better explanation for the universe at large. He has a thing about the divinity of the individual, but mostly as a practical matter. The world works better when we act as if individuals have some…
/r/MensRights29/07/18 09:00 AM
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I find I mostly agree with the things Peterson says, though I've never been much of a follower so I'm always wary of anybody that gets too popular. Can you elaborate in any specific way on the ways in you find him unwise or unintelligent?
/r/MensRights29/07/18 08:15 AM
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There's only been two occasions in my life where I've 'ghosted' a woman, though as a culture, we hadn't verbed ghost at that time. On both occasions, the woman in question was extremely self centered, controlling and manipulative. Everything was about her, and any attempt to address this was countered by her just doubling down on the same behaviours. The only sane choice remaining was to just walk away, cutting all ties.
/r/MensRights29/07/18 08:08 AM
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Are you trying to make a case for all intelligence being a social construct, formed by education? I mean, I take your point that such test aren't going to apply well to someone raised by chimps (for example), because they're just not going to relate. The language independent tests are generally used to avoid bias between people from different native language groups rather than people with little to no language at all. Either way, the tests in the article posted by OP are not trying to do anythin…
/r/MensRights28/07/18 01:32 AM
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The Norwegian study looked like the best controlled, in that there was a step function in education of an additional 2 years of schooling. It was measured to have added 1.5 points to the average IQ. Like I said, no significant effect. I don't mean statistical significance. It was distinguishable from background noise, but is not of sufficient scale that you'd really notice working with someone. The other links were flawed exactly in the way described by the second link, in that they fail to dist…
/r/MensRights27/07/18 04:09 PM
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What was the "legitimate point" of which you speak? I went back and looked, but still don't see one.
/r/MensRights27/07/18 03:28 PM
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Education makes no significant difference to IQ test results. If anything, the education system acts more like a IQ filter, except that it also builds a common knowledge base in the students. There seems to be an independent variable in relation to linguistic vs. maths/logic. "Emotional Intelligence" however, has no consistent basis for measurement. IQ test results also correlate quite well with density of white matter in brain scans.
/r/MensRights27/07/18 03:23 PM
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I'm sensing a lack of receptiveness.
/r/MensRights27/07/18 03:06 PM
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FYI, reliable IQ tests have also been created that do not even require a written language. Just pattern recognition of various complexity.
/r/MensRights27/07/18 02:38 PM
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Think again. The concepts of fluid and crystalized intelligence are not fanciful concepts. They relate to obvious expressions of intelligence if you just think about it a little. If you do hard intellectual learning for a long time, you build up a lot of integrated knowledge. This is obvious, and it's what is meant by crystalized intelligence. If you deal with highly complex/abstract problems easily, that is what is meant by fluid intelligence. These things are not hard to understand. They are a…
/r/MensRights27/07/18 02:33 PM
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There was a 10 year delay between 30yo women getting the vote and 21yo women getting it, because with so many millions of men having died in WWI, it was felt that it would have flipped the vote too suddenly.
/r/MensRights27/07/18 01:41 PM
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Holy fuck, that guy just seriously spoke truth to power! Good on him.
/r/MensRights27/07/18 01:35 PM
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IQ has two separate characteristics to consider. Fluid and crystalized intelligence. Fluid intelligence is like raw active cognitive capacity; the ability to deal with complex problems in the here and now. Crystalized intelligence is the integrated cumulative knowledge you have to draw on. The two are related, in that continuous application of strong fluid intelligence over time will produce a large crystalized intelligence. Using something like SAT scores means the results are a blend of the tw…
/r/MensRights27/07/18 12:33 PM
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Another form of systemic bias... In Australian hospitals, if a woman turns up at a hospital with any injuries, she will be discretely separated from family members and questioned about the causes and whether she is safe at home. That's actually great so far as it goes. Of course they should do that. But, they don't do the same when it's a man. This is a systemic practice, actually written down in hospital policy and procedures manuals across the country. They don't say not to do it for men, it's…
/r/MensRights24/07/18 10:11 PM
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Yeah, the more juicy details like the filtering of interviewers and the anti-discrimination commissioner permission to employ only women to the role of interviewers came from private conversations with insiders, though the latter should be a matter of public record somewhere.
/r/MensRights24/07/18 09:53 PM
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http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/Lookup/4906.0Explanatory+Notes12012
/r/MensRights24/07/18 01:23 PM
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Most of that can be read in ABS's own description of their survey method. It might take some rummaging, but I can probably find it.
/r/MensRights24/07/18 12:58 PM
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Did you notice how the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures on DV were gathered? Initially, they only collected data on female DV victims. For a few years, despite parliamentary request, they did nothing, but once the government pushed the issue, they started sampling men as potential victims, but in significantly lower numbers so they got to avoid publishing half the male aggregate figures (as not statistically reliable), but they also used 100% female interviewers. They had to get spe…
/r/MensRights24/07/18 11:47 AM
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Yeah, good. You be you. You are enough. The feminists you are having problems with sound like they suffering from ideological possession based on group identity and extreme social constructivism. They have a problem, not you. I hope that in time that expressions of that kind of identity politics will eventually come to be recognized as equivalent to the simple sexism and racism that may occur between individuals. The truly perverse thing about that way of thinking, is the way they justify it. It…
/r/MensRights23/07/18 06:34 AM
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I am a mansplainspreader. I have balls. Sitting with my legs together is uncomfortable. I explain shit sometimes, while male. It's better when we all explain our understanding of things rather than sit in our isolated ignorance. I sometimes even explain shit with my knees apart. It's better than ignorance and achy balls.
/r/MensRights02/07/18 10:52 AM
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The men and women are touching! That can't be right.
/r/MensRights02/07/18 10:29 AM
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This may be relevant: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/conservation_of.html "Conservation of Threat" "what people considered "threats" depended on how many threats they had seen lately."
/r/MensRights02/07/18 07:01 AM
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There is nothing wrong with "feminine". The problem is at the intersection of two feminist fundamentals. 1. Social constructivism - asserting that male/female differences are primarily socially constructed. 2. Toxic masculinity - asserting that masculine characteristics as bad. Both are badly wrong. In combination, and applied to school children, their wrongness crosses over into evil. Innocent young boys are being treated like poorly socialised girls, that are also presumed to have no inherent …
/r/MensRights29/06/18 10:59 AM
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Actually, there is something holding men back from choosing to be a teacher. School environments have become hostile to men.
/r/MensRights29/06/18 10:32 AM
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When 20% of boys can be described as fitting a psychiatric profile like this, it's not a defect; it's part of normal. Deal with it. The condition is basically that they have a higher threshold for stimulation to hold their attention than the rest of the population, but less often mentioned, is that when something has their attention, it is more intense. Like, watch what happens when you put ADHD kids in front of a computer game - hours of intense focus. Understanding it like this, also explains …
/r/MensRights29/06/18 10:20 AM
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People who rape, with only very rare exceptions, already know they are not supposed to do that, but they do it anyway. The world is not perfect, so take sensible precautions, and stop being so delusional.
/r/MensRights19/06/18 02:28 PM
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That's going to make presentations awkward. Don't look at the speaker! People are going to get whiplash in crowded rooms.
/r/MensRights16/06/18 11:28 PM
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There's quite a lot to learn and probably even more to unlearn, given 7 years of feminism followed by 2 hours of the red pill movie. Give yourself time to absorb the new reality. With friends, you can start by just not supporting anti-male positions and any feminist propaganda that you know is actually based on false information. It's a passive initial stance. From there, as you gain knowledge, you can simply ask questions of people that are making bad ideological assumptions. Like, "Are women r…
/r/MensRights16/06/18 04:49 PM
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Stumbled on a video by Karen Straughen.
/r/MensRights14/06/18 10:04 AM
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I agree with what you have said above. However, I would add, that such emotional skill is what we should expect people to acquire during the process of their education and transition to adulthood. Adding safe spaces like that into universities is encouraging exactly the opposite kind of development. Doing this specifically for women is infantalising them. Young women in universities should be deeply offended that their universities think they need such things. It's truly institutional sexism. We…
/r/MensRights14/06/18 08:44 AM
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How about suspending your emotional response until you have some facts to emote over? Having a emotional response to something that is probably not real is just a dreadful waste of emotive capacity.
/r/MensRights14/06/18 07:27 AM
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Those authoritarian countries are examples of what happens when you impose Marxist ideas in real places, on real people. Collective ownership of the means of production requires authoritarian control to be established and maintained, resulting in lousy centralised control of everything, no effective actual collective anything, and no personal responsibility for anything. Like the Russians during the cold war period used to say, "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work." It's a fucking dis…
/r/MensRights12/06/18 08:07 AM
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I don't think this is relevant to men's rights at all, but I watched it yesterday, and if you are philosophically inclined, it's a great conversation to listen to.
/r/MensRights11/06/18 01:42 AM
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The presence of guns makes a bad situation worse, but they're also a distraction from getting to the root cause. Guns have been around for a long time, and this didn't use to happen in USA. There are countries like Switzerland where there is a gun in every house because of national service, and this doesn't happen. The only attempts at explaining the perpetrators behavior that I see are attempts to externalise it, like "It must be violence on TV or Video Games". I never see anyone seriously aski…
/r/MensRights20/05/18 07:16 AM
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This is a subject that never seems to get discussed and is definitely never broached by the MSM. To get to the point where you are prepared to gun down your fellow students and most likely die in the process, would require years of gradual descent into a state of utter despair and just grinding disgust at the state of humanity that surrounds you, without anybody caring enough to notice or do anything about it. ... and nobody wants to ask how this can be so common in USA 2018, probably because to…
/r/MensRights19/05/18 11:07 AM
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There's a lot more discussion here than there was there. In fact, most of the comments there were by people from here.
/r/MensRights06/05/18 11:14 AM
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Did you notice that the comments were closed for "legal reasons"? Like, how offensive could anybody actually find that article?
/r/MensRights06/05/18 10:58 AM
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The female contraceptive pill simulates pregnancy, thereby stopping the ovulation cycle. It adds estrogen, enhancing the feminine. This new male contraceptive reduces testosterone. "No serious side effects" will include becoming weaker, reduced libido and reduced drive. Basically losing your mojo, because that's what happens when men's testosterone is reduced. So, fuck that.
/r/MensRights23/03/18 11:18 AM
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I'm waiting for them to start talking about yellow privilege. Nah - they'll just incorporate asians as the new white because they have internalised whiteness.
/r/MensRights23/03/18 10:26 AM
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So the feminists have started noticing the #metoo blowback. They don't understand the male condition or the male perspective, so I really doubt they'll understand why these same guys will just quietly stop meeting with women at work, including them in projects, or choose to employ the male job candidate over a woman. Men may not generally exhibit in-group bias, but once we establish a common understanding of a common threat, collaboration against it requires no more than a look and a nod. So has…
/r/MensRights01/03/18 12:18 PM
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Actually, as I read through this little exchange, it struck me how similar the situation is to the game theory staple known as "The prisoners dilemma", for which the solutions are well known. Skip this bit if you are already familiar... The Prisoners Dilemma is a situation where two people involved in a crime are arrested and under separated questioning conditions are each offered a deal. Rat out the other person and you get reduced sentence. If they both refuse, they both go free. If only one r…
/r/MensRights28/12/17 02:28 PM
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Sam Harris provides ever finer philosophical distinctions in an effort to always be more right than his philosophical opponents. That can be entertaining, but ultimately i don't find it very useful. Gad Saad seems to spend a lot of time pitting himself against his ideological opponents. He stands for good things like freedom of speech, so I approve of his efforts, but it's ultimately just Gad vs. the bad guys, whomever they may be from time to time. More taking sides in a world that badly needs …
/r/MensRights03/09/17 02:36 PM
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Jordan is more worth listening to than just about anybody else on YouTube at the moment.
/r/MensRights03/09/17 08:58 AM
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Puppetry of the Vagina: https://youtu.be/SGpHqpnruc8 Kinda pointing out that they didn't get the joke really. I'm sure it's a metaphor for something, but I'm not sure what.
/r/MensRights02/09/17 11:45 AM
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I'll just leave this here: https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different.html
/r/MensRights02/09/17 07:28 AM
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There was Puppetry of the Penis. https://youtu.be/MA6lFmIM_mM Kinda surprised that stays up on YouTube really.
/r/MensRights02/09/17 06:59 AM
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Yeah, both sides of politics get this wrong. One side says get an education, work hard and then everything will be great, but they can't and it won't. The other says you should just be supported by the state and then everything will be great, but then they have no positive purpose in life and either get led astray or they get deeply and chronically depressed. Look for the correlation between opiate or prescription painkiller dependence and purpose-lacking people. I don't really know what the goo…
/r/MensRights31/08/17 02:59 AM
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I haven't seen good data on exactly why those countries have such high numbers. My best guess, is that it derives from their lack of a broader social security system. Families are paying to put their children through higher education if they think they are smart enough, and they expect a return. If their kid can't get into law or medicine, then engineering it is. I.e. it's an economic decision imposed by family, rather than a personal interest decision. Greater freedom to choose leads to a maxim…
/r/MensRights31/08/17 02:31 AM
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Also, following on from your point about IQ distribution, look down too. In the same way that distribution has the majority of geniuses as male, it also has the majority of morons as male. Our society has no role for low IQ people. This goes some way to explaining the wildly disproportionate level of men in prison. Then add the sentencing bias and it's mostly explained.
/r/MensRights30/08/17 10:31 PM
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On the question of STEM field participation by women, I suggest this as a light starting discussion: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/why-brilliant-girls-tend-favor-non-stem-careers They include links to the relevant academic literature to back up their points. More generally, it can be seen that despite more than a couple of decades of institutional attempts to convince women to join STEM fields, it has gone backwards, and more so in the most egalitarian countries, whil…
/r/MensRights30/08/17 10:10 PM
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If you want to find a well known and influential feminist who does have a well balanced view, incorporating men's issues, then check out Christina Hoff Summers ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Hoff_Sommers. She refers to herself as an "equity feminist". Also, check out her YouTube channel, "The Factual Feminist" at FACTUAL FEMINIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLytTJqkSQqtr7BqC1Jf4nv3g2yDfu7Xmd
/r/MensRights30/08/17 09:44 PM
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IMHO, you are describing the position of a great number of women. I don't know anybody that actually thinks men and women should not be treated equally, especially not here. The snag comes when it gets into politics. Facts and evidence go out the window. Everyone has empathy for female suffering. It's innate. At an interpersonal level, this is mostly all fine and dandy, but at a political level, it's widely abused. Many organizations are funded based on playing this game. Over time, the claims b…
/r/MensRights30/08/17 01:06 PM
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I would expect it to depend whether you achieve that diversity by equalising opportunity or outcome. If you equalise opportunity, then you increase the pool of potential candidates. If you then continue to select the most qualified people from that pool, then on average you will do better, simply because there are more people to choose from. If you just equalise outcome, by applying "positive discrimination" (aka. discrimination), then you reduce the effective size of your pool of candidates, an…
/r/MensRights22/08/17 07:26 AM
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How bizarre? Their list of Men's Rights subreddits doesn't include /r/MensRights. Could it be that they don't want people actually understanding?
/r/MensRights19/08/17 01:13 PM
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Taking a diversity of opportunity (as distinct from outcome) approach is optimal I think. It maximises the pool of people you have available to select from, and thereby increases the chances of you finding the best person for the job. It also avoids conflict and morale issues in the workplace, and doesn't require use any discriminatory hiring practices. Really, it's about as simple as that.
/r/MensRights16/08/17 12:57 AM
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Did anybody else notice this line: "Two years ago, Ms Saunders introduced new guidelines which meant men accused of rape had to prove that a woman had consented." How the hell would you prove that, and doesn't that fundamentally reverse the burden if proof?
/r/MensRights09/08/17 01:57 PM
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Judgmental even ...
/r/MensRights09/08/17 01:33 AM
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I think the answer to this operates on multiple levels concurrently. Externally, corporations see government anti-discrimination laws targeted at discrete groups (sex, gender, race etc.). They need to comply or else expensive litigation and bad publicity. More complex interpretations don't fly well in the court of public opinion, because the be public (by definition) has only an average intelligence. Strategically, corporations recognize that having a larger pool of employees to choose from incr…
/r/MensRights09/08/17 12:13 AM
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But why what? Ur question's lacking precision.
/r/MensRights08/08/17 10:32 PM
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"appeal to authority" refers to a type of logical fallacy. We shouldn't believe someone just because they are a noted authority, but our confidence in their assertions should increase when they present evidence of their assertions and of many others having independently reproduced the same evidence. Take a look at the 4 scientist post. They declare who they are, their experience relevant to the topic, they provide their professional opinions, and importantly, they cite relevant research.
/r/MensRights08/08/17 10:18 PM
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Just added my own comment there, thoughtfully supporting the document they are trying to denounce. I'm awaiting their moderation.... Not really expecting honest consideration, but you can never tell.
/r/MensRights06/08/17 09:17 AM
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Take a read of the full actual document. It was published on Gizmido, but archived here: http://archive.is/QWLNo It is an incredibly thoughtful and well reasoned document. The author should be proud. Perversely, Gizmido touts it as anti diversity. It is not.
/r/MensRights05/08/17 11:53 PM
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Actually, he's from the"Liberal Democrats"; a newish minor party that's right-libertarian, emphasis on the libertarian. He's their only elected rep.
/r/MensRights03/08/17 10:21 PM
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I wanted to respond to this link https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/6r3m0k/are_women_paid_less_than_men_for_the_same_work/dl28cv0, about occupations getting paid less when women start doing them, but i couldn't because they locked the thread. It's a bizarre explanation that ignores basic economics. Like, when you increase the supply of workers for an occupation, there's more competition for the same jobs and the value stagnates. It's basic supply and demand. Another aspect is that…
/r/MensRights02/08/17 09:57 PM
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Sounds like they're just making up complicated sentence to try to sound like they're not being both sexist and racist at the same time, all the while doing exactly that. That's some shitty double-speak right there.
/r/MensRights26/07/17 09:33 PM
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Follow your internet sources back to their original academic or official government sources. Cite those instead. Resubmit. If your sources can't be tracked back to strong sources, find new sources. Look in the sidebar or /r/MrRef
/r/MensRights25/07/17 04:30 AM
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That was timely. I needed that. Thanks for posting.
/r/MensRights23/07/17 10:06 AM
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http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/public-servants-more-likely-to-hire-women-shock-study-results-20170629-gx1pqg.html What was really bizarre was the recommendation that they stop doing gender blind recruitment, because it wasn't producing the bias towards women and ethnic minorities that they wanted. https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21648632-recruitment-academic-scientists-may-be-skewed-surprising-way-unfairer?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/theunfairersex Similar…
/r/MensRights12/07/17 10:58 PM
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The judges rule that way because they are American judges and therefore don't really have discretion, just interpretation, unlike countries with common law courts where discretion leads to new common law as precedent. If you want those decisions to change in USA, then you have to get the laws changed. IANAL
/r/MensRights12/07/17 09:45 AM
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Men being more likely to be dangerous to children is not true, especially when it's their own children. I'm in Australia. The child protection agency here provides annual reports. The most dangerous type of family for a child to be in, is a single mother family. Has been for years. The reports are not hard to find, but you have to move past a lot of feminist inspired BS at the front before you get to the tables of raw data in the appendices to see that this is true. Women are also twice as likel…
/r/MensRights10/07/17 01:57 PM
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Maybe cop a look at this too: https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21648632-recruitment-academic-scientists-may-be-skewed-surprising-way-unfairer?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/theunfairersex Another thing to understand is that unequal outcomes don't mean you can assume discrimination by employers or any kind of structural bias against women in STEM fields. STEM fields are weird. The countries with the most equal representation of women in STEM fields are Pakistan and Iran (both around 50…
/r/MensRights10/07/17 01:13 PM
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http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/public-servants-more-likely-to-hire-women-shock-study-results-20170629-gx1pqg.html This illustrated the situation well. They made public service job applications gender blind on the premise that there must be discrimination against women and this would prevent it. When it turned out that the actual discrimination was against men, because gender blind applications led to more male interviews, they actually stopped the applications from being…
/r/MensRights10/07/17 12:40 PM
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Just need to correct a couple of factual errors here. Most of what is known in psychology has been developed by men, because we dominated the field for most of its existence, however you are correct to the extent that there's a majority of women in the field today. That could be a real problem for men seeking help from a psychologist. There's a lot of interpretation going on, and if it's something like couples therapy .... Hmmm. I'd worry a lot about in group bias and women are wonderful effects…
/r/MensRights09/07/17 09:40 AM
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Yeah, I have no idea how single mothers can deal well with the inevitable teenage rebellion, particularly with boys. You have to break out and assert your independence. Not in a nasty way. A man charts his own course and follows through. Engage with the world and learn from your mistakes. Be cool.
/r/MensRights08/07/17 09:03 AM
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It is discussed here a lot. Take another look.
/r/MensRights08/07/17 12:01 AM
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You don't even need to speculate about what it would be like. Just take a look at Spain. It already happened there: https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/3lk89v/men_in_spain_automatically_go_to_prison_if They also have the world lowest reproduction rate of only 1.2 children per woman. Nearly half of basic replacement levels. Coincidence? I don't think so.
/r/MensRights07/07/17 11:35 PM
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That's not correct. Psychopaths don't feel emotional bonds, though they might understand them intellectually and fake it for their own purposes. That's a totally different thing. What he was saying is NOT that all femininity is like that. He was saying that a pathology of femininity is to become wildly over attached like that, just like a pathology of masculinity is to become overly aggressive. Both are cases of feeling too much, not too little.
/r/MensRights07/07/17 10:30 PM
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Yeah, I think I've always known this somehow, but I only recently heard it said out loud. I have kids. They're 17yo girl and 20yo boy now, and they are so precious to me, but I'm never more proud of them than when they step out into the world and assertively do their own thing. Win or lose - doesn't matter, you have to lose a lot to figure out how to win. Odd story, but when my boy was joining preschool, my wife and I took him in there together on the first day. There was paper work to be dealt …
/r/MensRights07/07/17 10:18 PM
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I've been listening to that Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson a bit lately. One of the things he said a few times kinda of puts this sort of event into context. Paraphrasing a bit, but while psycho-pathology in masculinity tends towards outward aggression, in femininity, it tends towards over protectiveness to the extent that they feel like the protected thing is a part of themselves. They become aggressive in relation to anything that gets between them and this 'other part of self',…
/r/MensRights06/07/17 11:11 PM
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For a really well sourced discussion on the topic, check out the Freakonomics podcast on the topic at: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender-pay-gap-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/ It's mostly an interview with Claudia Goldin, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and she specialises in gender economics. Mostly, she says what we say around here, but with more nuance. A remarkably credible source I think.
/r/MensRights06/07/17 09:45 AM
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Did anybody read the comments section on that article? 100% MRA compatible responses.
/r/MensRights05/07/17 07:13 AM
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Read the comments. They read like comments that you'd expect here. There is support out there.
/r/MensRights03/07/17 03:35 AM
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My sister's husband's younger brother deliberately burned himself to death in their back yard with petrol. My wife's brothers best friend killed himself with a deliberate drug overdose. Often, if we talk about these things at all, we talk about them as a manifestation of mental illness. Although sometimes that's true, I think more commonly that it's as much a societal illness. Sometimes society just takes away everything that a man has to live for.
/r/MensRights30/06/17 04:54 PM
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Yeah, and the suicide rates are astounding. Here in Australia, and in Britain, suicide is the single largest cause of death in 18-49yo men. In Australia, that's 6 men per day and it barely rates a mention, while one woman dying of DV per week counts as a national emergency and has $100m thrown at it.
/r/MensRights30/06/17 09:30 AM
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Ask them to explain this: "Male fatality rates are vastly higher than women's Worldwide there are 107 men born for every 100 women, by age 65 there are 78 men for every 100 women, in countries like the USA & UK, its even worse, with 75/76 men for every 100 women. " What do they think, that we're privileging ourselves to death?
/r/MensRights30/06/17 08:45 AM
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"Political terms change meaning over time" Yes indeed. I observe that in politics, none of the names mean what they say anymore. Here in Australia, the Liberal party isn't liberal; they are conservatives. The Labour party no longer represent workers, the green party ... well, if they have environmental policy, I can't find out what it is, and the most divisive party in the country calls themselves "One Nation". What the fuck is going on? Can nobody just say what they mean?
/r/MensRights16/06/17 02:53 PM
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OK, well I'm Australian so both of your major parties look right wing to me. Maybe Sanders had an inkling.
/r/MensRights16/06/17 01:03 PM
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It's funny, liberals wanting to ban things. Wouldn't that make them conservatives, just by definition?
/r/MensRights16/06/17 12:34 PM
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Yes.
/r/MensRights14/06/17 02:01 PM
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Yes. 'girlwriteswhat' is her online name pretty much everywhere. YouTube etc.
/r/MensRights14/06/17 07:25 AM
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I think you are misinformed. Men and boys are on the receiving end of the large majority of all violence in every country, but as a society we pay far more attention to the fears of women.
/r/MensRights14/06/17 05:21 AM
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Errrr.... Did you figure out yet that you were having this discussion about Karen Straughan, with Karen Straughan?
/r/MensRights14/06/17 04:58 AM
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The Streisand effect seems to be kicking in well.
/r/MensRights13/06/17 11:45 PM
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Yeah, been watching that. Good show. Novel storyline.
/r/MensRights11/06/17 08:00 AM
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Even works here in Australia, where it's banned by so many theatres.
/r/MensRights11/06/17 03:53 AM
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It feels strangely good to find agreement with someone calling themselves Rabid_Pink_Princess. Woot! Carry on. Have a nice day.
/r/MensRights09/06/17 11:01 AM
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If there was a widespread will to work towards common ground like that, then we wouldn't need a men's rights movement. That's why I think men's rights is more fundamentally a cultural issue than it is about defining the sort of perfectly rational philosophical stance you have outlined.
/r/MensRights09/06/17 10:40 AM
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Yes. I agree 100%. There is however, one remaining angle of attack even if everyone accepted your meritocracy premise.... How will merit be defined? There's enough rope in definitions like that, to hang us all.
/r/MensRights09/06/17 09:51 AM
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Yeah, it was oddly acted. In the original, for every comedic line coming out of an actor, they neatly arranged for there to be a "straight man" (or woman) on the receiving side of the joke. That structure works. It's tried and tested. Somehow the new Ghostbusters just forgot that's how these things work, with the result that it just felt like a lot of people screaming over each other. Badly written and directed, or just bad actors? Hard to tell.
/r/MensRights08/06/17 03:42 AM
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Ideally, social security would be structured to provide a smooth ramp up into increased employment. look up negative income tax as an implementation of a basic income. It behaves like this.
/r/MensRights30/05/17 10:21 AM
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That's interesting to know. The things that had impressed me about the Finish school system when I've read about it, was the tendency to use a more integrated learning model rather than subjects in isolation, plus a reduced dependence on standardized tests, but I had not seen anything about their claims regarding gender. I've been to the last 4 annual award ceremonies at our local high school. The students attending because they are receiving awards are all seated in one area. Each time, as I lo…
/r/MensRights30/05/17 07:46 AM
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Well, I'm actually Australian, but born in England. My family history is from Britain, we inherited common law from Britain and their queen is still nominally our head of state, so for historical purposes I tend to refer back through British history. I can't really answer your question honestly about the current feel on the street s of England. Here is n Australia, I think the bulk of people try to ignore gender politics and just get on with their lives. We do have an increasingly large gap in t…
/r/MensRights30/05/17 05:34 AM
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Sounds about right to me.
/r/MensRights30/05/17 12:44 AM
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These things you are doing a great. Imagine though, if you were then biased against by your government for being efficient like this. More so if you love these people. See what I mean?
/r/MensRights29/05/17 10:31 PM
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I like it because it sets up the base historical context for gender relations, so we can move forward from there.
/r/MensRights29/05/17 10:27 PM
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I can see how that might work to open dialogue. Here's one that seems to get some traction for me. Maybe after your opening. I just keep hearing people who believe that women used to be "property", and they do mean this in regards just regular women in a marriage in a country like Britain. My response to goes like this... Property is something you can sell. You could not sell your wife. Property is something you can buy. You could not buy your wife. What did happen, at least under British law, w…
/r/MensRights29/05/17 01:43 PM
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To help clear this up a little (I'm Australian), this is specifically about Centrelink debt. Centrelink is the federal government social​ security department. Usually, they pay you. If you have a debt to them, it's supposed to be because you supplied incorrect information to them about your situation, and then later, you got caught on review. As an aside, Centrelink did recently fuck up badly by automatically imposing debts on people based on some incorrect data mining, then responding really ba…
/r/MensRights29/05/17 11:09 AM
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Hey there, When our first child was being born, we were randomly assigned a midwife for the occasion. His name was Mike and he was fantastic. He had everything under control. Everything organized, with a constant line of chatter and reassurance that just worked. Could not have asked for better. My wife couldn't shut up about how good he was. Be like Mike the midwife. Carry on.
/r/MensRights28/05/17 07:49 AM
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I think she's setting them up for disappointment. 12 is about the age where boys testosterone really starts to kick in. If they train hard with that, reaction time, speed and strength all surge ahead, and with that they also increase aggression and a stoicism that has them fighting on through pain and injury.
/r/MensRights14/05/17 09:56 AM
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But these are not even particularly good lies, if that's what they are. I mean, like the wage gap is a good lie. It's close to the truth of an earnings gap, so it takes a lot of people in. But this is just blatant BS, and anybody that watched the film will know it. Bad lies like this destroy your credibility. They must know this.
/r/MensRights11/05/17 02:50 PM
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I have watched this movie. Nobody who has actually seen it could rationally conclude that it is in any way supportive of rape or sexual violence. That is complete nonsense, and yet it is a recurring theme amongst protesters. Are they just misinformed, confused by the name, blinded by their beliefs or really just malicious? I don't get it.
/r/MensRights11/05/17 12:50 PM
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It depends on how you believe liberty should be achieved. Left leaning libertarians such as myself believe that a greater degree of personal liberty is achieved for more people if the state can help them to not starve etc. While otherwise leaving people to do as they will. Right leaning libertarians believe that a greater degree of personal liberty overall is achieved by having small government that doesn't​ interfere with your life more than absolutely necessary.
/r/MensRights30/03/17 10:08 PM
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https://goo.gl/images/4OqWOU shows this graphically.
/r/MensRights30/03/17 03:36 AM
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Nooo. Most of the extreme libertarians are hard right. It's a separate axis.
/r/MensRights30/03/17 03:32 AM
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Left and Authoritarian are orthogonal to each other. You can be Authoritarian-Left or Authoritarian-Right, though I'd prefer you choose neither.
/r/MensRights29/03/17 09:57 PM
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I'm not a follower. Knowledge is useful wherever it comes from, but judge it for yourself.
/r/MensRights14/03/17 11:40 AM
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Stefan Molyneux has a rather long but insightful video on the subject, relating it back into our current civilization. It helps that he studied history. Gives it a lot of flavor. https://youtu.be/qh7rdCYCQ_U
/r/MensRights14/03/17 08:00 AM
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As a culture, it seems we know how to deal with the thing where men get all fascist, but when women do, we have so little historical precedence that we don't know what to do.
/r/MensRights28/02/17 12:05 PM
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Order an iced water. Next grind .. oops spilled. That was just fun right?
/r/MensRights26/02/17 10:13 PM
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Apparently!
/r/MensRights26/02/17 12:14 AM
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I expect that she was referring to the liberal, second wave feminist thing where they created no-fault divorce legislation around the world. Sure, it creates more freedom for individuals to get out of bad marriages, but it also eliminated the contractual aspect of the institution of marriage, leading to the dissolution of marriage as we've seen happen. Less people get married, more marriages break for more trivial reasons (e.g. just bored). It wasn't just individual decisions. It was policy and …
/r/MensRights26/02/17 12:13 AM
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I think you're right, in that it won't be enough in a future with a lot more automation. There would also need to be a significant upheaval in the basic principles of our economic system if the role of labour is so diminished. The question most relevant to this sub, would be: What is the function of men in this future? Certainly not "provider". As a father myself, I see men teaching our children to be outward looking, to support them to break out of the coddled little worlds their moms create. W…
/r/MensRights25/02/17 11:17 PM
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Yes, that's it. That's what feels so hurtful about the whole proposal. In that case, if they implemented this, I might start agreeing with the MGTOW. If would probably be like a tipping point for me.
/r/MensRights25/02/17 10:50 PM
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How are these officials justifying their blatantly discriminatory decisions?
/r/MensRights25/02/17 04:30 PM
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Is this in Australia that you are experiencing this? Actually, I expect it's not, since you're talking about food stamps.
/r/MensRights25/02/17 04:14 PM
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That seems pretty much like the underlying script of the left/liberal culture warriors. I don't know why. It's politically stupid.
/r/MensRights25/02/17 01:57 PM
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Good point. They probably studied the wrong degree.
/r/MensRights25/02/17 01:16 PM
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My problem with this articles suggestion is with it being so blatantly gender discriminating. Actually, UBI implemented as a Negative Income Tax looks to me like a more cost efficient way (savings in the order of $5 billion in administration) to provide a similar level of social security to what we already have here, but without the poverty traps and general humiliation inherent in the current scheme.
/r/MensRights25/02/17 01:13 PM
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Yeah, I've been pondering whether a better answer in Australia could be to just socialize child care facilities. No gender issue then. If a man or woman wants to work, then they can. If not, that's their choice. Btw, I don't think of myself as either left, right or center. It's just that some things that look like common infrastructure (e.g. Roads) socialize well while other things do not (e.g. making the things we drive on the roads).
/r/MensRights25/02/17 12:28 PM
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I understand what you're saying. I've read those stats from our neighbors in New Zealand, though I've not been able to find equivalent stats for Australia. However, I think that taking the step from the current social security system here, where it's fairly shitty support but mostly equal, to a unconditional UBI except that it only applies to women while men continue to be forced into poverty traps, is a fairly large move towards inequality from where we are today.
/r/MensRights25/02/17 12:16 PM
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Seems like she wants to shift from mothers and father's striving to pay to raise children as a family, to mostly all men striving to pay for ALL women to raise THEIR children without men. I suspect there might be a slight issue of motivation on the men's side of this deal.
/r/MensRights25/02/17 10:09 AM
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Not an MR issue but related to your question. The Australian government recently introduced legislation to the effect that when charged in court for offences involving ASIO (federal intelligence organization), neither not your lawyer get to face your accuser or even know who they are at all. They present a statement of evidence to the court and the court is required in law to accept it as prima-facie evidence (true unless proven otherwise). Kinda scary really.
/r/MensRights23/02/17 09:33 PM
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Should make another one for "This is how much a woman spends for every dollar she earns."
/r/MensRights08/02/17 10:03 PM
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They are talking about substituting the possibility of violence by someone accused of DV with a guarantee of state funded violence against the accused. If that can happen to you based on mere accusation with zero consequence for false accusations, then it's guaranteed to create more violence than it prevents.
/r/MensRights02/02/17 06:15 AM
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I thought Johnathan Pie summed it up brilliantly in this rant: https://youtu.be/GLG9g7BcjKs He doesn't pull any punches.
/r/MensRights30/12/16 09:24 PM
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Yeah, well, there are special words for reverse racism and reverse sexism. They are "racism" and "sexism".
/r/MensRights17/12/16 10:40 PM
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Oh yeah. I did not notice the sign holder in that picture. How delusional of her. Still, nice article overall I thought, on both abortion and domestic violence issues.
/r/MensRights15/12/16 12:54 AM
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Mmmm, did you read the article? Didn't mention feminists at all. Actually read like a remarkably balanced article to me.
/r/MensRights14/12/16 10:46 PM
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The comments section is amusing. Half of the people being positive, and the other half casting personal abuse at the first half. Telling.
/r/MensRights13/12/16 09:26 PM
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Sure, but I didn't pay my disproportionate share of the taxes for them to be wasted like that.
/r/MensRights09/12/16 02:28 PM
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It's interesting how they talk about all these federal equality programmes that have been running for decades with domestic violence at the center of it, but if you go and look at say, the http://www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au website, you can plot the data DV going back 20 years. Whatever they've been spending the money on has not worked. The rates of DV have been flat for 20 years, but with a curious annual cycle. They also do a map view, that shows clearly that DV rates align inversely with affluence.…
/r/MensRights09/12/16 08:52 AM
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Lesson: Don't fuck with the meritocracy, or else the meritocracy will fuck with you. The central thing that bothers me about most feminist theory, is that as theories go, it's utterly lacking in systems thinking. It's childish.
/r/MensRights07/12/16 11:52 AM
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Funny thing about that setup ... By forcing the men to compete so strongly like that, and setting lower early success standards for women, the whole setup guarantees that the eventual highest achievers will be a small group of men.
/r/MensRights06/12/16 10:31 PM
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Definitely. If fact, the gentle ribbing you describe is a huge indicator that the group accepts you.
/r/MensRights04/12/16 01:09 PM
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Yes, that's it exactly. Glad to know it's not just me.
/r/MensRights04/12/16 12:30 PM
1

Wise beyond your years apparently. Well said!
/r/MensRights03/12/16 11:01 PM
1

Ha. Nice quote.
/r/MensRights03/12/16 10:33 PM
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You're still dodging the question, but since you've raised these points, let's put them in some context. I've asserted (and you disagreed) that women are more highly valued than men, but I'm not asserting that this valuation is without cause. I've repeated it a few times from different angles: it's about continuation of the family/tribe/civilization/species. Pick a scale. The problems you listed above do not negate the assertion that women are valued more highly. They are a result of it. Conserv…
/r/MensRights03/12/16 10:30 PM
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I agree with you. I suspect that the reason many men are enticed by the broken feminist theory on this, is because it seems superficially credible, and in some totally abstract ideological sense, it sounds nice, but that's just like the empty promises of religions throughout history. The burden of proof is on those espousing the theory. If feminists want men to buy into their theory, they don't need to lead by convincing men to emote like women, they need to lead by demonstrating sustainable ins…
/r/MensRights03/12/16 09:52 PM
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Another dodge. I must be getting close. Just a little introspection required at this point redzr. You start off with slightly superficial positions, but then each time you are challenged to go deeper, you dodge. Look inside yourself and ask why you avoided actually addressing the question on each of those occasions. It might be a growth experience for you.
/r/MensRights03/12/16 09:28 PM
3

You're dodging my question. Why were they ALL "patriarchal" ?
/r/MensRights03/12/16 09:12 PM
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Come on, take one more step down the rabbit hole. Why do you think they were ALL "patriarchal" ?
/r/MensRights03/12/16 03:01 PM
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You might also ponder why it is true that in EVERY human culture throughout history, it is the men who are sent off to war. Similarly, it is also rare for a successful invader to kill all the local women. Rape? Sure, but not kill. They are valued too highly. Seriously, this stuff should be bleeding obvious to anybody with only minor leaps of comprehension. It derives from basic cultural survival mechanisms. It's not a matter of upbringing, or personal preference. It's a direct consequence of evo…
/r/MensRights03/12/16 02:57 PM
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How then, do you explain the way that this stoicism emerges as a male characteristic in EVERY culture independently? Hint: It's not a coincidence.
/r/MensRights03/12/16 02:33 PM
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Suicide is the option of final despair. If simply expressing your emotions presented a solution to ones existential crisis, then it would be a simple and rational choice. The problem, as OP has pointed out, is that men expressing their emotions in the manner that women do, rarely helps their cause. When women emote about their problems, they are offered choices because they are seen as being of inherent value as a consequence of their mere existence. It's an obvious inherent biological imperativ…
/r/MensRights03/12/16 02:17 PM
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This analysis of the situation strikes me compassionate but simplistic and naive. It doesn't surprise me coming from a teenager. They have limited life experience to go on. More interesting than the raw average numbers for suicide rates, is the age distribution. It spikes in their mid thirties. By this age, most men are usually over the superficial crap. They are independent, have a mind of their own; they value the opinions of close friends and successful coworkers. This should be the time of t…
/r/MensRights01/12/16 10:49 AM
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I wouldn't call it a matriarchy, but it doesn't qualify as a patriarchy either. There may be more men in government positions, elected by a majority female voter base (because men die earlier), but the difference is mostly one of commitment, and when they're in power, they deliver vastly more service to the needs and wants of women. The double standards are legion, and the complexity of keeping all those plates spinning at the same time is extraordinary. For example, there is no wage gap. It's a…
/r/MensRights22/11/16 11:41 AM
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Yes actually. Personal stories describing situations just like you outlined above, are quite common here.
/r/MensRights22/11/16 07:34 AM
1

WTF is "Cyber Lads"? TFA talked about it a lot, capitalised like it's a proper noun, but as far as I can tell, it's not even a thing.
/r/MensRights13/11/16 09:26 PM
2

Actually, as I understand it, although men have a higher base testosterone level just by virtue of being male, our actual levels rise and fall in response to life conditions. Exposure to high adrenaline situations such as fighting, and heavy work drives testosterone levels up. Serious weight lifters all know that doing big heavy compound exercises like deadlift drive up testosterone, forcing greater overall physical development. It's a stress response; an adaptive process that responds to harsh …
/r/MensRights16/10/16 09:48 AM
2

Great blog post. Very well written and even handed in his thinking. Good enough that I went on to read his other writings. So far, his FAQ has been the best I think: https://becauseits2015.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/a-non-feminist-faq/ His non-feminist-faq is wide ranging but comprehensive, covering many men's rights issues, while contrasting them to feminist issues in similar situations. This would be a great resource to point inquisitive feminists at if they honestly want to understand MR issues…
/r/MensRights04/10/16 07:45 AM
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You've asked this last question, as though the answer should be applicable to all history. In my view, historical gender roles existed largely as a matter of need. Stepping back only 100 years or more, and existence was considerably more dangerous. Most people died of communicable diseases. Actual violence was far more common than today. Infant mortality was at levels like we currently see in the poorest of third world nations, and the birth rate required to maintain positive population growth w…
/r/MensRights06/07/16 02:00 PM
1

How hard could it be to create a false accuser registry?
/r/MensRights18/03/16 09:31 AM
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Probably not. It's all government sanctioned ... http://www.women.anz.com/at-anz/sanctioning-our-super-special-measure
/r/MensRights11/03/16 12:44 PM
1

How about we ALL just wait until the courts have done their thing and THEN judge and bicker over the situation? Might be better all round.
/r/MensRights03/03/16 08:11 AM
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I make a distinction between a wage gap and an earnings gap. The wage gap is fiction. The earnings gap is real, because risk, because hardship, because hours worked, because choices etc. I just read through that enquiry page in some excruciating detail. I agree that there is no wage gap, but the premise of the enquiry does not ignore the difference between a wage vs. earnings gap, even though they still call it a wage gap. They are seeking submissions about reducing the earnings gap. I think we …
/r/MensRights21/02/16 06:02 AM
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This is the message to attract the regular suffering guy to MRA.
/r/MensRights22/01/16 12:28 PM
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OMG: This should be a thing. Organised Crime .eqv. Organised Nagging == Feminism.
/r/MensRights22/01/16 12:26 PM
1

OK. I'll take your word for that, but the letter you're asking people to sent here, does not make that point at all clearly. I expect the response would be "the calculation is already gender neutral", or words to that effect.
/r/MensRights17/12/15 04:02 AM
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Uhhh, I don't get it. How does this calculation preference women?
/r/MensRights17/12/15 01:22 AM
1

I don't label myself mgtow, but I wonder why you assume mgtow is not a valid way to protest for mens rights. A large number of men openly rejecting matriarchal assumptions, expressed as a relatively extreme life choice, and explaining why like this, might actually draw attention to the issues quite well. When you try to force facts onto people that conflict with their beliefs, it's hard. They tend to irrationally reject the conflicting information. We see that all the time, right? However, when …
/r/MensRights05/12/15 01:19 PM
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The first time I was ever referred to as a misogynist, I picked up on the tone that went with it. It felt hateful, but I was only citing verifiable facts. Why the hate I wondered? After a lot of introspection, I came to understand that the fault did not lie with me. Being called a misogynist in the western world today, is like being called a heretic in a religious state. It's saying that you are a disbeliever in the feminist ideology. Once you get to that understanding, it loses all power. "You'…
/r/MensRights29/11/15 07:53 AM
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There's quite a lot of good information in there, but it is badly indexed, so hard to find.
/r/MensRights22/11/15 01:48 AM
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Can you be clear about what specifically was mental about that to you?
/r/MensRights11/10/15 02:10 AM
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This article and another linked (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/02/young-men-mental-health-crisis-support-cuts) one, both say it's about mens masculine attitudes. The one I linked actually goes on to claim that it's despite women's (and LGBT) groups efforts to deconstruct masculinity and redefine the role of men. Oddly though, during the time frame when all this claimed change was going on, both the raw number of male suicides and the proportion of male suicides increased (1.9…
/r/MensRights06/09/15 01:24 AM
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No you. This is where I stop feeding the troll.
/r/MensRights27/08/15 10:10 PM
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I think you are being deliberately perverse. The key word OP used was 'much'. He said the probability was not much greater, in a population where the probability is already incredibly low, rendering the distinction useless. If you are a statistician and can't grasp this sort of practical distinction, then you need to go find a new career.
/r/MensRights27/08/15 03:01 PM
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Actually, it's you failing on probability knowledge. It's a well understood problem with high levels of false positives. Specifically, there is a relatively tiny number of people that end up killing their families in comparison to the size of the population. Even if you could afford to profile the whole population to select just the people that fit this profile, you would still likely have a million of so people to try to help because this is vague social science criteria. Then you'd have to pay…
/r/MensRights27/08/15 01:34 PM
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Could it be that they're not pretending? Could it be that their wives actually do constantly try to micromanage them and mould them into the wives concept of ideal? Could it be, that when this author actually meets these wives, they don't seem that way because they don't want to be seen that way? Nah. Too obvious.
/r/MensRights24/08/15 10:30 AM
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Just Google the article name and link in that way. It will be free.
/r/MensRights17/08/15 01:15 PM
1

OK OK
/r/MensRights11/06/15 04:21 AM
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Look at the inmate on inmate numbers in those charts. Assuming the prisons are gender segregated, the rate of women sexually assaulting each other is greater than men sexually assaulting each other.
/r/MensRights31/03/15 06:00 AM
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