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1

Well, that's disappointing to hear. Good on you for trying to build good community though, we need more of that. I don't have a clue myself.
/r/MensRights31/05/23 01:33 PM
1

You're from Russia? That explains everything! To an American, your post reads as a Category Error. Our society has gotten very tribal and antagonistic, and it's hard to imagine a real person self-identifying as a feminist and not being fairly radical.
/r/MensRights31/05/23 01:09 PM
17

I'm in the same boat, 100% agree. It's really awful what was done to us. Would never, ever inflict that on another person.
/r/MensRights17/05/23 07:39 PM
18

What I assume is that same study had to be retracted due to a coding mistake. Found the link elsewhere in the comments, but it needs to be repeated. I hadn't heard about it either.
/r/MensRights22/04/23 06:11 AM
2

Science is affected by culture and politics whether you like it or not. Many disgusting things have been done in the name of science, until we knew better. I believe circumcision is one of those disgusting things we are slowly learning the truth about. I doubt I will ever change your mind though, so good day to you.
/r/MensRights25/05/21 08:52 PM
7

I'll just point out that most of the world has no reason to circumcise at any age, and they're doing just fine.
/r/MensRights05/06/20 11:07 PM
54

I don't see how the higher court can square, "which no reasonable person would expect could result in pregnancy" with dismissing the fraud and theft. I can only guess, 'because the man should always have to pay for the kid, that's why'. It's maddening.
/r/MensRights16/01/20 11:02 PM
9

It really is as simple as leaving the choice to the child whose body it belongs to. Many of us hate that we were cut, and dearly wish we had been given the choice.
/r/MensRights18/12/19 02:32 AM
18

Yeah, because that happens all the time /s
/r/MensRights18/12/19 02:30 AM
3

It's not exactly a conversation I'm likely to have with friends over some beers...
/r/MensRights07/08/19 11:19 PM
1

I see. I'm glad to hear you can be okay with it yourself and not want to cut your children. It just seems to be a minority viewpoint. Hopefully I'm wrong.
/r/MensRights07/08/19 11:18 PM
4

Sorry, kind of a weird question to ask. You're the second person to say "later in life" when meaning still in your teen years. Not like 50s or 60s. I'm happy that everything has worked out for you, just know that for some of us the pleasure is not amazing and/or has complications.
/r/MensRights07/08/19 11:16 PM
7

Because we found out and accepted the truth. It's not "just a little snip". It's a rather large piece missing, which substantially alters how the penis operates. Not all of us have plenty of pleasure from sex, or even pain. Sometimes we have weird shit wrong with our dicks like skin bridges or meatal stenosis. In my case done for bullshit cultural reasons, and without my consent. I can't ever truly know what I've lost (though I can read about it), and that just kills me.
/r/MensRights07/08/19 11:10 PM
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Yes, because in the properly done circumcisions the baby happily "goes to sleep" as their dick is getting cut? We've certainly heard that one before...
/r/MensRights07/08/19 09:53 PM
6

I think if I was uncircumcised I'd want to be And you could be. Those of us unhappy being circumcised can't get it back.
/r/MensRights07/08/19 09:50 PM
4

If we are prickly about it, it's because we hear so many people happy with circumcision claiming they are definitely going to do it to their boys. If they see no problem with it, why not?
/r/MensRights07/08/19 09:43 PM
6

I don't know about grown men, but you're not supposed to do anything special with infants. You're absolutely not supposed to rip the foreskin back to clean inside.
/r/MensRights07/08/19 09:33 PM
3

Define "later in life".
/r/MensRights07/08/19 09:15 PM
48

Sorry to be that guy, but: WomEn JFC
/r/MGTOW18/07/19 03:55 AM
26

Male circumcision prevents a lot of pleasure too.
/r/MensRights20/03/19 10:29 PM
4

I hate to think how bad a parent your ex must have been to leave you with sole custody. At least you can raise your daughter right.
/r/MGTOW13/12/18 06:37 PM
7

Gendercide IMO.
/r/MensRights05/12/18 06:48 PM
2

Cis is the opposite of trans, i.e. you're okay with the sex you are. Ace - you got me...
/r/MGTOW25/08/18 07:17 AM
1

It was also surprising to me the sheer number of sex offenders nearby when I started looking. After all the stories I've read around these parts I have to wonder how many of those are BS. Not saying sexual predators don't exist, but the legal system isn't super trustworthy either.
/r/MensRights06/05/18 02:43 AM
3

The article seems to assume that being openly emotional is the way for men to fully express their gender. What if it isn't?
/r/MensRights22/02/18 11:12 PM
6

That's really all any of us want--choice over our own bodies.
/r/MensRights07/11/17 12:12 AM
2

Wikipedia doesn't seem to think being Catholic is a reason for circumcising. In fact, it used to be a reason not to.
/r/MensRights06/11/17 08:51 PM
6

How Stone Age blades are still cutting it in modern surgery Obsidian -- a type of volcanic glass -- can produce cutting edges many times finer than even the best steel scalpels. If anything, they used a better blade than usual.
/r/MensRights06/11/17 08:40 PM
11

Other than the MRI, this was normal circumstances for infant circumcision.
/r/MensRights06/11/17 08:35 PM
1

Interesting. I guess there's more variety than one might imagine.
/r/MensRights20/06/17 10:46 PM
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Woops! I read your question completely wrong. I thought you were asking about uncircumcised penises.
/r/MensRights20/06/17 08:47 PM
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Yes. The foreskin rolls up and down over the head of the penis.
/r/MensRights20/06/17 07:38 PM
4

Lordy. Talk about misandry...
/r/PurplePillDebate28/04/17 05:22 PM
4

Can you not see the difference in how we protect girls from genital surgery but find endless new reasons to violate boys' bodily integrity? That we have these sorts of blind spots when it comes to male issues is what this sub is about.
/r/MensRights29/03/17 08:00 PM
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There is a double standard to be seen here. We in the western world find it abhorrent to cut off parts of a baby's genitals--but only if they're a girl. It's a kind of empathy gap (very on-topic for this sub) crossed with a cultural myopia (chiefly here in the US) which makes it hard for folks to see just how comparable (and wrong) these procedures are.
/r/MensRights29/03/17 07:54 PM
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What person would actually want to make that choice once they're an adult though? Yes, exactly. Circumcision isn't wholly beneficial with no downsides. Understand that, and you will see why we keep making this point.
/r/MensRights12/03/17 12:57 AM
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The big deal is that the foreskin has most of the feeling parts of the natural penis. It will become quite clear if you study the history of circumcision in the US that the doctors were knowingly removing the best feeling parts to try to discourage masturbation. It's also worth pointing out that we in the western world don't for a minute consider defending not cutting off part of our baby girls' vaginas. It's universally reviled. The male foreskin was put there for a reason leave it alone.
/r/MensRights05/03/17 02:55 AM
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Good luck getting anyone to stop objectifying each other as vehicles for sex; it's kinda how that all works. It's just that our society is loathe to admit it.
/r/MensRights22/02/17 07:37 PM
1

And they say women don't know how to negotiate their salaries... :-P
/r/MensRights22/02/17 07:20 PM
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At least then we'd have the choice.
/r/MensRights20/01/17 09:08 PM
3

AFAIK, we have little to no control over this part of the judicial system. No voting bad judges out, and plenty of corruption. It's a real shit show, and I'm not sure what legal avenues we have to address it.
/r/MGTOW18/01/17 07:51 PM
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No, I "don't get the fuck"...hence the robot :-P
/r/PurplePillDebate16/01/17 09:00 PM
1

Short answer: yes. Just how much AI are we talking here? I don't need to have a wide-ranging philosophical conversation to get my rocks off. Something to pull out of the closet and get down to business. Very little autonomous behavior lest it seem like more than a machine. Otherwise I would feel like a gigantic creep for keeping such a thing in my closet.
/r/PurplePillDebate16/01/17 08:55 PM
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They are somewhat phallic I suppose...
/r/MGTOW02/01/17 10:36 PM
1

If you can get over your fear of penile shrinkage, you should give shooting a try sometime and see what you're missing out on :)
/r/MGTOW02/01/17 09:06 PM
5

Muslims too, man. Malaysia is majority muslim.
/r/MensRights28/12/16 06:23 AM
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Unlikely that it was done because of a medical problem. As with other parts of the islamic world, circumcision is a common coming-of-age ritual in Malaysia.
/r/MensRights28/12/16 06:21 AM
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Look. As soon as you limit things to objective "reasonable terms and bounds" you're no longer talking about individuals' feelings. Feelings aren't rational. A reasonable expectation of safety (a rational thing) is just not the same as a (legal?) right to feel safe (an emotional thing). The latter is what we're arguing against.
/r/MensRights18/12/16 08:30 PM
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Stop playing oppression olympics. It's wrong in either case, and how "fucked up" it is on your personal scale is not especially relevant to the practice as a whole.
/r/MensRights07/12/16 06:00 PM
1

That looks like a circular argument to me.
/r/PurplePillDebate06/12/16 07:36 PM
1

If only...this is Australia, mind. Rather famous for their gun control.
/r/MGTOW06/12/16 07:27 PM
4

Bringing it truly close to home, a guy attempted to intervene in a domestic argument happening right across the street from me. The boyfriend stabbed the white knight :(
/r/MGTOW06/12/16 07:23 PM
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Yes, unfortunately a lot of people like to tell others how they should live their life (even when it isn't hurting anyone else). Sometimes enough people agree that we make laws against such things. Is someone else's freedom to do sinful things so disgusting to you that you* need to ban it? Why do you* hate freedom? * I realize ThatZenoGoddess isn't taking a position here, I'm addressing those who would ban things because they see them as immoral.
/r/MensRights25/11/16 05:39 PM
1

It's not like their side hasn't said similar things before...*ahem* edit: bah, formatting
/r/MGTOW17/11/16 06:22 PM
1

If they were smart enough to realize that, this list wouldn't have been created in the first place.
/r/MGTOW07/11/16 11:30 PM
0

lolwut
/r/PurplePillDebate07/11/16 07:40 PM
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There's nothing "logical" because you haven't made an argument, just an unsupported assertion. Sorry.
/r/PurplePillDebate07/11/16 06:42 PM
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With any luck, "anti-semitic" will get so overused it will have as little power as "misogynist" and "racist" are coming to have. As-is, they've all moved into thought-terminating cliché territory, IMO.
/r/MGTOW31/10/16 08:01 PM
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FWIW, the way I was raised, selfishness was equivalent to immorality. Not sure how common that is, but it's hard to shrug off sometimes.
/r/PurplePillDebate21/10/16 07:17 PM
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I suppose so. It's not often I get to say, "being introverted makes this part of life easier."
/r/MGTOW12/10/16 03:25 PM
3

This is one part of being American I really, really hate >:E
/r/MensRights11/10/16 11:27 PM
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And that's an *additive* procedure!
/r/MensRights11/10/16 11:24 PM
2

Should've had more details on "Little Brother's Con Game".
/r/MGTOW11/10/16 04:22 PM
1

If I've learned anything in my thirty-one years on this earth, it's that God is one sick SOB with a shitty sense of humor.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/16 03:07 PM
1

If I'm leery of those pushing "self improvement", it's because I'm afraid they want to use me for my new abilities. Personal baggage I guess. There's clearly nothing wrong with self improvement for one's own benefit, which is surely what we're talking about in this sub.
/r/MGTOW10/09/16 08:23 PM
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With these statistics, we can confirm that more and more women have become independent, successful ,high achievers and rightfully, expect the same from their male counterparts. I really want to see her back up this assertion that this is a rightful expectation and not just barely-concealed hypergamy. The hamstering would be amusing. Especially when she goes on to say: The world women are living in now is one that doesn’t require the lifeblood of a man to sustain it This article was more fun to p…
/r/MGTOW10/09/16 06:30 PM
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Hear hear. We'll never break the hegemony if you're stymied by "throwing your vote away" on a third-party. You're doing that anyway if you're voting for the "lesser of two evils" if/when there are better options out there. This is why we can't have nice thingpoliticians.
/r/MensRights09/09/16 10:03 PM
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They can't handle being called out on it either I see.
/r/MensRights08/09/16 11:00 PM
4

Uh...yeah it does imply that.
/r/MensRights08/09/16 07:33 PM
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As I recall from filling out the FAFSA, your eligibility is based in part on your parents' income, implying that the government expects parents to help with their kid's tuition.
/r/MGTOW23/08/16 08:25 PM
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Disposable income. edit: speling
/r/MGTOW23/08/16 08:14 PM
1

Hah! We should indeed have a conversation about why so many think a female CEO is the solution to a failing company. If we run the numbers and they really are worse than men, it would be good to Let It Be Known. But I suppose that doesn't matter when it's an unquestionable good to have more women at the top, consequences be damned...
/r/MGTOW22/08/16 07:11 PM
2

Probably. I think I bought into this sort of advice in my 20s so much that I didn't really try. Now in my 30s I can't summon the motivation if I'm not coming from a place of shame, which is neither healthy nor motivating for very long. *Shrug* Not really complaining, just saying.
/r/PurplePillDebate21/07/16 06:49 PM
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Let me tell you about sex. I've had plenty of sex before (indeed, I'm a recovering sex addict) so I've learned quite a bit about it by now. How to do it, how to get it, et cetera. And let me tell you how that's like. Whatever else you say, no matter how true or relevant is going to sound like a fat-ass American explaining to the starving African why food isn't that big a deal. Is sex pleasurable? It is. Is sex unique? It is. Is sex better than masturbation? Holy balls it is. This really isn't he…
/r/PurplePillDebate21/07/16 06:20 PM
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Deciding to permanently alter your child's sexual organ is morally indefensible, IMO. It trumps the medical justifications in any event because your child is not having sex! All the same, I've seen some stats on circumcision's affect on HIV contraction but I'm still not swayed due to one glaring problem: if it were really so efficacious, why don't we see a radically lower HIV infection rate in the US where we circumcise so much compared to other western countries?
/r/MGTOW14/07/16 06:44 AM
2

Stefan is my favorite YT person to listen to and disagree with. Not everything, but it does make me think. It's worrying how much he sounds like a preacher in this video though.
/r/MensRights04/07/16 08:48 PM
1

It's an interesting point. I think most of us define "progressive" relative to recent history though, not such long spans of time. In fact, it strikes me as a conservative position to look back that far. I'm glad to have such a discussion, since the progressives" are looking more like the "regressive left" these days. The noisiest, most radical progressives, "SJW"s seem to have gone off the rails compared to classical liberalism. They're authoritarian, and it's hard to characterize what they sta…
/r/PurplePillDebate28/05/16 07:34 PM
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Doesn't seem like it. He's married with kids and is mostly a normal guy afaict. In our context, he has good sense and won't accept feminist or SJW nonsense.
/r/MGTOW10/05/16 10:34 PM
1

Most of these words in this context just don't sound that violent to me. It seems like one of those things where men and women can get very different feelings from the same words.
/r/PurplePillDebate10/03/16 08:49 PM
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FWIW, Hillary is not anti-war. Let no one be fooled simply because she doesn't have an "(R)" next to her name.
/r/MensRights07/03/16 08:30 PM
2

Or that some dudes are so unused to touch that they pull away when a girl touches them. This is me. It sucks because it results in no one wanting to try touching me again :(
/r/PurplePillDebate07/03/16 08:01 PM
1

Male. Purple/Red Lower Introvert 0% 0% Having social anxiety, "want to spend time with" isn't quite the right definition of friends for me, but also being such an introvert, I'm not very motivated to change that.
/r/PurplePillDebate09/02/16 08:10 PM
3

One of those would be my sister. Mom OTOH read some kind of biography on Hillary about how hard her political work has been and how well she's done it. Bought it hook, line and sinker T_T
/r/MensRights03/02/16 09:04 PM
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The comparison isn't unwarranted. Heaven knows we can use all the firebrands we can get in this suffocatingly PC culture we find ourselves in.
/r/MensRights25/01/16 10:43 PM
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I hate "get snipped" too, especially since it perpetuates the fiction that circumcision is No Big Deal. American secular circumcision has been traced to John Harvey Kellog, a health-quack from the 19th century. In short, he was trying to stop masturbation ("self-abuse").
/r/MensRights25/01/16 10:35 PM
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My body my choice! And any woman who wants a mutilated dick is a woman I don't want in my life.
/r/MensRights18/01/16 07:08 PM
6

I can assure you the feeling is mutual.
/r/MensRights07/01/16 08:03 PM
6

The situation is anti-rape classes guys find themselves in at college.
/r/MensRights07/01/16 07:49 PM
0

Why wouldn't we be royally pissed off about having our dicks sliced up for no good reason before we could say "No!"? I can't think of a body part I'm less open to the amputation of. That we even talk about infant body modification as a 'choice' makes me sick.
/r/MensRights27/12/15 08:13 AM
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Sure. The CEO can hire and work with whoever she wants for all I care. I'm too jaded/cynical to bother boycotting them. But! For the record, she's the one bringing up the PC bullshit, complaining about seeing all white men on the other side of the table. The US has too many of us to expect every company you work with to be diverse. It's going to happen, and it's not necessarily because of discrimination--on the contrary.
/r/MensRights15/12/15 02:35 AM
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While not mentioning men would probably take it off topic for the channel, I'd like to think that we're sufficiently tired of SJWs whinging about diversity that we'd still have a negative reaction to it.
/r/MensRights15/12/15 01:57 AM
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First, context: I'm somewhere on the incel spectrum, so I'm not speaking second-hand; not a * piller, but I lean red rather than blue. Just an introverted, anxiety-racked 'loser'. I'm can't quite suss out what you mean by "just fun," but here goes. The examples of fun from the GoodLookingLoser.com post were interesting. More than half of them wouldn't be fun for me per se, like his traveling. They did help me remember some of the fun things I've done in the past year. I might fit into his 'avera…
/r/PurplePillDebate13/11/15 07:42 PM
1

That's awesome! Perhaps a model others can follow. Certainly easier than getting funding out of the government, but not everyone will have friends like you two :/
/r/MensRights30/10/15 10:38 PM
2

The funniest thing is that when she meets a guy that she likes, she mentions that she is not going to have sex right away and make him wait. Madonna-whore complex much?
/r/MGTOW29/10/15 07:33 PM
2

I guess I understand this is what it's about. I'm coming at this more from a gun owner's perspective. It's incredibly irresponsible to point a gun (loaded or not) at something you aren't about to shoot. We've got enough people doing bad things with guns already; I don't want to see any more if we can help it.
/r/MensRights28/10/15 04:53 PM
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A guy had a gun actually pointed at him? The rest may be stupid intimidation, but that one is outright illegal. Brandishing a deadly weapon like that is at least a misdemeanor, and a felony (read: no more guns for you) in most states. That dad should be sued, IMO.
/r/MensRights27/10/15 11:52 PM
2

I wonder if this is a nod to the idea that Chris Mercer and Elliot Rodger were 'losers' wrt their lack of a love life and blamed women for their loserdom. Rather dismissive of their problems of course.
/r/MensRights14/10/15 08:19 PM
2

ITT = In This Thread
/r/PurplePillDebate02/10/15 06:28 AM
2

The Western world roundly condemns female circumcision, and religion is no get out of jail free card. We clearly have a double standard when it comes to boys' genitala.
/r/MensRights27/09/15 02:55 PM
2

We don't have Strong AI yet. Until we do, sex robots will not be conscious in the same way that humans are. I don't see how it is any more meaningful to talk about the consent of a non-sentient robot than it is to talk about the consent of a vibrator. Or to put it another way, does your web browser consent to you using it to browse the web? What if your computer gets a virus? Does it get pissed off at you for infecting it? (No.) Even if we have Strong AI, we wouldn't have to use it in building t…
/r/MensRights15/09/15 05:53 PM
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Female circumcision in no way shape or form is done for aesthetics or has the anatomy to allow for a "circumcision" without serious sexual dysfunction. Tell that to the women in Africa who think it's cleaner and better looking. I believe they think sex is at least as good without certain of their body parts, too. Why am I even explaining this? If you think it's equivalent then try to think of dating as a circumcised female as opposed to a circumcised male. Because you think we don't understand a…
/r/MensRights19/06/15 07:12 PM
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Having a foreskin is not a diagnosis. It is not (at least outside the US) a common source of medical problems, let alone morbidity. These children coming to the ER for phimosis--how old are they? Phimosis is not a reasonable diagnosis until the teen years. The foreskin is supposed to stay adhered to the glans until it naturally separates at something like ages 5-15. It is a wide age range, and doesn't need to be forced. The only one that should be retracting a boy's foreskin is the boy himself. …
/r/MensRights19/06/15 06:56 PM
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At least in some Civil law countries, any contract that contradicts the child's rights and best interest are automatically null and void. It seemed like the judge waved away the best interest thing when a doctor said that it was possible to safely circumcise a 4 year old. That and our cultural ignorance about the value of foreskin and that argument is toast. Something like that is what he used to reject a request to appoint a guardian ad litem (third party to speak on behalf of the child). It wa…
/r/MensRights23/05/15 07:26 PM
1

The only reason it's a medical decision is US doctors are too ignorant to realize that 'possession of a foreskin' isn't a diagnosis.
/r/MensRights23/05/15 07:15 PM
1

Well isn't that handy.
/r/MensRights23/05/15 07:12 PM
3

IIRC, the mom signed a parenting agreement before the kid was even born, part of which included a provision that the father was to schedule and pay for the circumcision. It was later on (sometime before the father brought the current suit) that she decided to look into this circumcision thing, became horrified at the reality of it all, and changed her mind.
/r/MensRights23/05/15 07:03 PM
1

The reason it's come to this is that the mom signed a parenting agreement first, then found out how horrible circumcision is later on. I blame the culture here where we mostly stick our collective head in the sand. It's incredibly sad, but if anything good comes of the case, it'll be to wake some more people up to start questioning the routine practice themselves.
/r/MensRights23/05/15 06:58 PM
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There was something at http://savingchase.org/donate but they now say the legal fund is closed. Not sure why, but there was something about the judge trying to stop the mom from receiving money from third parties...
/r/MensRights19/05/15 05:39 AM
2

It seems that being far left leads to totalitarianism just as easily as being far right.
/r/MensRights15/05/15 09:52 PM
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Damn that's a thorough article. Good find. Also, my family is from Michigan D:
/r/MensRights02/05/15 08:02 AM
1

Speaking as a programmer, she looks fine. We never (used to?) have a reputation for being snappy dressers. OTOH, a mid-western company in the healthcare services industry probably cares more about that sort of thing than I'm used to out west. I'm sure there are plenty of other good reasons not to hire her though.
/r/MensRights17/04/15 04:16 PM
1

That is a very good point. IANAP*, but it sounds like narcissistic behavior on her part which is worrying no matter what he's done. If he's 'put her through hell' the last several months, wouldn't a mentally healthier person have said 'no' to the relationship, let alone marriage? * I am not a psychologist
/r/MensRights15/04/15 07:33 PM
4

Wow. I just hope you don't have any sons...
/r/MensRights10/04/15 09:25 PM
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Wait...so you're worried that lefty gun owners will vote Republican now? Republicans do have a history of upholding gun rights compared to the Democrats. If it's very important to you, why wouldn't you vote for the pro-gun Republican? Moreover, if this isn't supposed to divide us, shouldn't it not matter who we vote for? Personally, I'm a lefty who doesn't believe either major party has my best interests in mind. But I don't think this has any bearing on Men's Rights, since most politicians cate…
/r/MensRights20/03/15 05:06 PM
3

I can only understand this argument if you think the foreskin has absolutely no function. IMHO you shouldn't be so quick to 'fix' webbed toes, birthmarks, etc. Moles are more clearly bad, and clubfeet or a cleft palette are even better examples of where you're actually helping the child through medical procedures. Somewhere I think I read about deaf people not seeing the point in having hearing, and would even consider trying to make their baby deaf to match them. Circumcision seems a little lik…
/r/MensRights10/03/15 09:49 PM
11

Seriously. This is a case where legality is very much on the wrong side of morality.
/r/MensRights10/03/15 09:30 PM
3

How sure are we of the phimosis diagnosis? The boy is young enough (4) to where it's normal for the foreskin to not retract yet. I could imagine a misdiagnosis being far too easy, and could be an easy way to make it 'medically necessary' if the physician is conspiring with the Dad. Edit: wrote too soon. Reading below, it seems likely a way to make it seem medically necessary.
/r/MensRights10/03/15 09:23 PM
13

I always wonder about that 'lack of hygiene' I hear now and again. For one, it's not like the whole of Africa is a disgusting, disease-ridden backwater. Second, even where the hygiene ain't all that great, why do humans have such a problem when all sorts of mammals have foreskins and presumably little of this supposedly necessary hygiene. I'm not convinced this actually is a reasonable argument for circumcision.
/r/MensRights10/03/15 09:17 PM
3

Who woulda figured, eh? Intactivism makes for strange bed fellows, I guess...
/r/MensRights10/03/15 09:07 PM
3

I used to watch that show, but I saw them upping the misandry every show at some point and stopped in disgust. Not surprised it's come to some sort of 'meninism' clap trap. I take some comfort in Leslie Knope being a dysfunctional mess at least on par with all the dumb men stereotypes on TV.
/r/MensRights08/03/15 02:37 AM
2

No idea how old you are, but I was born in 1980, and was 100% publicly schooled. We had recess twice a day every day through 5th grade, even in the cold. In middle school and high school we had an hour long lunch to get whatever we needed out of our system. Nothing ever organized by teachers, but we didn't need that anyway. Lately I've been mentoring, i guess, this 14 year old boy. Mostly we do woodworking but he's been having trouble getting down to business after being pent up all day. He seem…
/r/MensRights26/02/15 09:02 PM
15

Go educate yourself on the functions of the foreskin. Also, it's an amputation that we didn't consent to. Many of us would rather have all of our body parts, not just the ones deemed socially acceptable
/r/MensRights22/01/15 09:49 PM
4

I've been reading about this sitting to pee thing for a long damn time. It took me a few years to accept that it was actually real and not an urban legend. As an American it sounds completely ridiculous. I understand that German toilets don't have the pool of water quite like ours do, so you're pissing all over an otherwise dry porcelain shelf and urine can splash all over. It's a reason, but the sitzpinkler thing mostlyly seems driven by subtle misandry.
/r/MensRights22/01/15 09:00 PM
1

Since you're all about medical evidence, I think we ought to get some support for the claim that infant circumcision is safer and more effective than leaving it until the adult man can decide for himself. The explanations I've heard weren't backed up by medical research or academic literature, and I've got my own anecdotes that infant circumcision is probably more deadly than we realize because the death could be recorded as hemorrhage or septicemia which were in fact a complication from the cir…
/r/MensRights08/01/15 01:06 AM
2

First of all, who is choosing here? My body, my penis, no? Second, not only humans but other animals have foreskins on their genitalia. Given our understanding of evolution (I.e. non-beneficial things don't last), the ones who would choose to cut them from others' bodies need to show why it is okay to routinely deprive boys of a healthy body part for what seems to be no good reason. To me, your argument sounds a lot like, "prove to me god isn't real" whereas atheists believe the god claim is the…
/r/MensRights07/01/15 09:51 PM
5

Don't forget that plenty of us circumcised guys aren't happy about it. I reckon we're the more vocal ones bothering the cut-but-okay-with-it camp. We're pissed off that so many (here in the US anyway) try to minimize our feelings of loss and violation. We're talking about one of the most intimate parts of our body for heaven's sake. It's extremely hard not to get emotional, defensive, angry, etc. Telling us that we need to be more 'adult' (or better yet, shut up about it) because it makes you fe…
/r/MensRights07/01/15 09:14 PM
2

If I had one upvote for ever point made here... As a fellow sometime intactivist, I could not have said it better myself, nor have much to add. Bravo.
/r/MensRights07/01/15 06:51 PM
2

I'm not sure what you mean, but FWIW: AVFM uses "red pill" in a way different from /r/theredpill. They mean something like, "hey, feminism ain't what they said it was, guys."
/r/MensRights06/01/15 01:10 AM
5

If porn is an adequate substitute for marriage, maybe there's something wrong with marriage...but I'm just preaching to the choir. As a follow on, I'd like to see a study on how good marriages are that came about because the poor bastards just wanted to fuck already. Especially since that's the world they want to go back to.
/r/MGTOW18/12/14 05:40 PM
1

Seriously. That sort of question mark abuse reads like, "gawd, shouldn't you know this already?" to me, making it even more assholish than it already was. Signed, old fuddy duddy who still remembers some gradeschool grammar.
/r/MensRights22/11/14 12:54 AM
1

If you're going through Harvard Business School without ensuring that your career is the one that will take precedence over your spouse's, you're probably Doing It Wrong. I also love how this article implicitly confirms what we've been saying for a long time: women usually try to 'marry up'. A woman 'marrying down' when she wants the ambitious career instead of the man--this is what equality looks like.
/r/MensRights19/11/14 09:03 AM
2

I'd really like to understand why it's riskier as the kid gets older. It doesn't follow my 'common sense' understanding that it's less risky to slice into a larger kid than a tiny infant at least from the stand-point of blood loss.
/r/MensRights11/11/14 12:23 AM
3

That's a terrible reason, IMO. How about leave him his whole body, and if he feels terrible or is embarrassed, he can choose to undergo the procedure himself. You can't un-amputate body parts.
/r/MensRights11/11/14 12:10 AM
3

I'm at work so I can't link you, but look up the Frenulum, supposedly the 'male G-spot'. I wouldn't know, because mine was ripped off as with most circumcized infants. There's also the ridged band, where a lot of the nerves in the foreskin are located IIRC. I'd say you should be outraged because someone else made a decision to cut a perfectly healthy part of your body off for no good reason.
/r/MensRights10/11/14 11:52 PM
1

I guess if 1/4 of your country is infected, 60% might seem worthwhile. According to the WHO and NIH condoms can vary widely in effectiveness, though the NIH link "suggests that condoms are 90 to 95% effective when used consistently" so I am saddened they don't seem to be working harder to make condoms available and their use common and accepted. I'd also like to point out that this WHO page on circumcision is presented with greater surety and more invitingly than the academic-oriented articles o…
/r/MensRights01/11/14 08:15 PM
2

Where to draw the line in the sand is always going to be contentious, but it's nice to know we (I'm also in Colorado) have a fairly permissive age range. And if it's non-consensual, there's always real rape to prosecute under (surely).
/r/MensRights30/10/14 07:05 PM
3

Maybe I'm assuming too much, but please consider being more accepting of other ways of expressing masculinity. The military is not for everyone, and girlfriends are a normal part of growing up. Your kid(s) will be their own people, and if you try to stuff them into your mold of ideal man or woman, they may well resent you for it later.
/r/MensRights30/10/14 06:58 PM
1

Holy crap, I cannot imagine. Any time I hear a story like that all I can think of is fighting like it's for my life, at least doing as much damage as possible to those who will be trying to hurt me. Not that any of this is really possible at the age of 10...
/r/MensRights13/10/14 07:42 PM
6

You poor bastard. I'd have literally gone insane.
/r/MensRights31/08/14 10:07 PM
3

Social Justice Warrior
/r/MensRights31/08/14 10:06 PM
2

Oh noes, you said "faggot" so now you're a terrible person too! Not defending bukkake_news here, but I would recommend restraint when policing others' language. That way lies petty tyranny. Words are hateful when they are used hatefully.
/r/MensRights28/07/14 09:39 PM
5

Thank you for explaining that. I don't tweet so I had no clue what this was about.
/r/MensRights27/05/14 05:30 AM
8

Are there any means of self-defense you guys are allowed? No wonder you call it a 'nanny state'...
/r/MensRights25/05/14 10:59 PM
9

You almost get it...
/r/MensRights01/05/14 10:10 PM
10

The problem is that there's a giant push to get more women in tech, so a lot of tech companies are hiring any woman they can to keep their PC points up. Since it's way easier to find female marketing and business types, they tend to get hired even if the original intent was to hire more female programmers and engineers.
/r/MensRights22/02/14 07:22 AM
3

We seriously need some fish on a bicycle 'mascots' for times like these. Brilliant.
/r/MensRights19/02/14 10:25 PM
2

So what you're saying is caring = weakness? Sounds sociopathic, frankly. We lose our humanity and civilization if we stop taking care of the weaker among us.
/r/MensRights25/12/13 12:35 AM
1

Huh. I never could get interested in sports. Never saw a reason to get too fussed about it either, so long as those who were into them left me alone about it. Interesting that someone could get so obsessed with sports that it feels like a harmful addiction.
/r/MensRights22/12/13 11:24 AM
1

When the system is this badly corrupt the revolution cannot come soon enough (for what other solution is there?) Not that I have much hope of this happening any time soon...
/r/MensRights19/12/13 09:29 AM
1

Not everyone can find full time work anymore :(
/r/MensRights19/12/13 09:21 AM
1

As one of the article's comments said, the gender justification seems to be constructed so as to have the moral high ground, not because it reflects reality.
/r/MensRights12/12/13 09:12 AM
7

Done. I like Wikipedia, so I donated there. This is even more important, so why not?!
/r/MensRights09/12/13 10:20 AM
3

'Ha ha only serious' humor, I'm sure.
/r/MensRights07/12/13 08:26 AM
11

You have got to be kidding me. You have no (moral) right to cry "rape" after the fact, having given the guy no indication you were unhappy and no chance to stop. If this is indeed the standard the courts use (which I somehow doubt), then the MGTOW are right--the only winning move is not to play. (But maybe that was the intention all along...)
/r/MensRights30/11/13 07:29 AM
6

Implying nothing. We simply don't know (from this hand-picked sample anyway). And that's fine.
/r/MensRights21/11/13 01:46 AM
9

I have a feeling it's so popular to piss and moan about all the problems over in Africa or wherever since it's easier than facing the real problems right in your own back yard.
/r/MensRights14/11/13 10:50 AM
-11

No. This comic shits on liberals' idea of good government, namely taking care of those in need. This of course is diametrically opposed to the conservative idea that people will become lazy leeches if we help them give them free handouts. The two sides can only rarely agree so it would be better if we kept politically divisive topics out of here when possible. I assume the OP is conservative and had no idea how controversial this would be. Speaking as a liberal, it is likewise hard to know what …
/r/MensRights11/11/13 07:06 PM
15

That's...amusing. I could swear I've read about parents fathers being considered unfit due to taking their kid to McDonald's...
/r/MensRights08/11/13 08:33 PM
2

This is a better Kay Hymowitz article than usual. I'm not getting the 'but they won't grow up into men who serve women!' vibe I usually do.
/r/MensRights01/11/13 09:16 PM
4

I like what Chris Hedges calls it: "boutique activism". It's what happens when you're out of touch with the real problems in the world.
/r/MensRights01/11/13 07:25 PM
8

That's cool. I'm circumcised too but feel the exact opposite on both of your points. Have a nice day.
/r/MensRights01/11/13 06:43 PM
7

That's a good point I hadn't heard before. I'm still happy the rates are going down!
/r/MensRights01/11/13 02:36 AM
2

In case anyone else was wondering: A lapsus (lapse, slip, error) is an involuntary mistake made while writing or speaking, something long studied in philology.
/r/MensRights27/10/13 07:24 PM
2

OMG yes. Unfortunately, the Internet seems to have forgotten that "fewer" is even a word.
/r/MensRights19/10/13 07:14 AM
4

And what amazing men's rights nirvana do you live in, pray tell?
/r/MensRights19/10/13 07:12 AM
16

The administration is pissed off, and since they don't know who's guilty, all male students is the next best (safest?) target. This eases their feelings of impotence and desire for revenge.
/r/MensRights15/10/13 06:17 PM
1

Unless it's illiquid, money is still money, and money = power.
/r/MensRights01/10/13 02:15 AM
25

After the horrible Slate article, this is wonderful, heartening news. Good work intactivists in Europe!
/r/MensRights18/09/13 11:05 PM
1

It's not just middle class young men--it's everyone. Otherwise marketing and propaganda wouldn't work as well as it does. Just another reason not to pay attention to the mainstream media, IMO.
/r/MensRights10/09/13 06:56 AM
25

Not to knock what you've written, but the reason Theglient is so highly upvoted here is that we're tired of seeing anti-'rape culture' poster campaigns that almost always single out men as the sole perpetrators of sexual assault. E.g. the recent "Don't Be That Guy" campaign up in Canada.
/r/MensRights07/09/13 11:41 PM
1

Upvote for mentioning framing and working it into a good argument.
/r/MensRights04/09/13 09:16 AM
4

Watch it. That's getting awful close to telling me how to be a Real Man[tm].
/r/MensRights25/08/13 12:24 AM
2

Better link from the other story about this, which isn't getting as much attention.
/r/MensRights31/07/13 07:07 AM
3

As a US taxpayer, I don't want my money going to this. They can pay for their own damn foolishness.
/r/MensRights31/07/13 06:36 AM
5

The biggest one for me is that it is a violation of our human right to bodily integrity, at least when it is the parents' decision. To add insult to injury, it is illegal and considered highly immoral to remove any part of a girl's genitalia, while boys' bodily integrity is up for grabs. Pro-circumcisers tend to get offended when we suggest that male bodily integrity of this kind is even a valid concept. But why should you care, even so? The supposed health benefits appear overblown, and foreski…
/r/MensRights31/07/13 06:33 AM
2

I'm not well versed, but the studies are thought to be poorly designed, executed and thus not especially trustworthy.
/r/MensRights31/07/13 06:18 AM
1

I don't think Sam hates women at all; he is quite happy to save them. Yes, it's usually women, but they genuinely need help. It's not Sam's fault that they are helpless; that's the script writers' doing. I am sympathetic to the idea that portraying women as agency-less is a form of misogyny, but put the blame where it belongs. I'm not sure what to say about your "chauvinist tone" between Sam and Al. It's clear that Al is the classic womanizer, telling of his many exploits. Sam thinks poorly of t…
/r/MensRights13/07/13 07:43 PM
17

This has nothing to do with wanting more female firefighters. It has everything to do with de-gendering the sacrifices of men. Pay close attention and you will hear of "women" and "girls" suffering from some tragedy, but rarely "boys" or "men"--they're "children" or "people"/an occupation. It's a subtle way of decreasing male humanity so we don't need to pay so much attention to their suffering. This holds for positive actions too. You often hear about a woman doing great things, but if a man do…
/r/MensRights02/07/13 05:40 AM
6

There's another one for ya'.
/r/MensRights07/06/13 06:39 AM
33

Plenty of men are happy being circumcised. A growing number of us aren't though, and the overwhelming reaction tends to be to tell us to shut up, that our feelings are invalid or don't matter. That's part of the tie-in to men's rights. The other part is that we in the western world protects girls' right to bodily integrity, but we do not do the same for boys.
/r/MensRights07/06/13 05:33 AM
1

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
/r/MensRights28/04/13 10:58 PM
12

Exactly my position as well.
/r/MensRights15/09/10 10:25 PM
2

Right. While I hardly care to call this woman who has understood our position as much as she has a dumb bitch, I agree with your point. The reason we are trying hard to earn more is because that's what we seem to need to do still to get better women. Case in point, I don't see this lady mention how she's married to or even dating a guy earning very little, or even a house husband. Also, I really can't tell if she's trying to say that $100,000/yr is plenty successful or just a little successful..…
/r/MensRights19/08/10 08:20 PM
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