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Not married, no problems, feminists came up with common-law marriage : Common law marriage antedates feminism, so this makes no sense.
/r/MensRights01/07/22 07:55 PM
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I'm also going to note that Reddit is not a place for kids. If someone is too young for sarcasm, then they really shouldn't be on this site.
/r/MensRights12/05/22 02:48 AM
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we have to CLEARLY let little boys know they matter and equality includes them They also need to understand what their culture means when it uses particular words. Using sarcasm highlights the underlying intent of other speakers.
/r/MensRights12/05/22 02:40 AM
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The "may not be able to cope with it" seems to go more to whether a woman is able to do the job at all. I think the injury part is closer what I'm thinking of. For example, a business (via its managers) might believe as a rule that men are more physically resilient than women and because of that place a lower value on women's labor as a way to offset its perceived risk of having to compensate women for injuries sustained on the job.
/r/MensRights17/02/22 03:05 PM
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OP's argument assumes that companies have roughly the same willingness to pay for men's and women's labor. It is at least possible that companies would value men's labor more highly and do so for sexist reasons. EDIT: Downvoters, I'm curious what your counterarguments are.
/r/MensRights16/02/22 04:04 PM
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Yes, if it was particularly convincing, and generalized and not localized. I'll leave that point for someone who has more resources handy to argue. I did find this interesting though. Found random articles while searching, but a lot of it seemed a bit older. I should update my knowledge on this issue at some point... women have fought so far ahead I think this discounts the help they got (scholarships, support groups, changes in curricula, diversity and inclusion efforts, etc.) to get there. Do …
/r/MensRights10/01/22 11:57 PM
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especially when your problems aren't even related to institutional prejudice Would you change your mind if there was evidence of institutional bias against boys in education? is that women are actually out there trying to improve their condition Two questions: 1) why do you think women collectively try harder? Is there any evidence that women try harder? 2) isn't it likely that level of individual effort is also related to the systems at play? For example, people may try harder when they believe…
/r/MensRights10/01/22 11:31 PM
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It's suggesting that the gender imbalance in college performance is indicative of gender prejudice--it's not. Men simply aren't performing as well as women in college; is that a men's rights issue? No--not at all. "Men simply aren't performing as well as women in college." Here you kind of just accept it as a brute fact, but earlier you blamed patriarchal values and men's individual choices. There are presumably many different theories for why this is happening, and the actual answer may be high…
/r/MensRights10/01/22 11:09 PM
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while fighting for a social narrative that that does not constitute as a right. What does this even mean? but rather men ourselves, and the traditions and belief systems that lead us to being relatively in incompetent in a changing world-place. Is it men, or is it the systems? Also, how do you know it is the traditional part that is dragging men down and not the newer beliefs that conflict with tradition? where as men (in the U.S.) are deathly affected by homophobic sentiments--which does grow o…
/r/MensRights10/01/22 09:41 PM
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No, so there should be fresh evidence. Using old examples is suggestive that it has changed.
/r/MensRights14/12/18 12:19 AM
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On the one hand, reposts do allow visibility to newcomers. But it's been two years now - more current content would be better in my opinion.
/r/MensRights13/12/18 10:52 PM
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To me the right choice is to make mental health care more like regular physical health care. No one says you aren't manly for getting a cast, or for getting anesthesia for surgery, or for getting regular checkups. Why then should mental health treatment make you less manly? The problem is with the context.
/r/MensRights20/11/18 04:10 PM
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Yeah, I've noticed way more of it too. Honestly makes me want to participate less. I am not feminist, but I don't approve of actual misogyny either. There may need to be places where people can vent frustrations, but mixing venting and serious sociopolitical commentary is dangerous so this isn't really an appropriate sub for that, in my opinion.
/r/MensRights12/11/18 03:03 PM
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You need to pick better women to be around. There are a lot of women with good sense out there.
/r/MensRights12/11/18 05:30 AM
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That's true, but that also says something about the staying power of communist regimes. The fascist regimes collapsed or were destroyed while the communists took longer to fail (and in some cases are still around, there are 5 still going, depending on how you count it). Brazil and Spain were fascist longer and thus worse off, but I still think they are either comparable or better than similarly long communist regimes.
/r/MensRights13/10/18 10:26 PM
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I can't find any source quickly on Catalonia. I really don't think Japan and being treated as a second class citizen is at all comparable to what China is doing. Arrests and possible killings of religious minorities, widespread censorship, single party control. . . . Still better than NK (but who isn't?) Poland has some issues (recent judicial crisis over separation of powers). Lithuania is doing fine from what I've read. East Germany has been reunited, so it's not really the same. Ukraine is do…
/r/MensRights13/10/18 09:29 PM
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Under which metric is Spain doing well? They're basically on the verge of an armed uprising! Spain has been doing worse, though I haven't heard anything like an armed uprising. Catalan secession questions seemed to be mostly peaceful so far as I knew. And by which metric is China doing poorly? They're becoming the defacto major Power in Africa. China has done well economically recently, though it depends a bit on the metric chosen. Per capita it's not that great. GDP per capita is 108th. I'd poi…
/r/MensRights13/10/18 08:10 PM
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That is true that they received economic support, so that is a reasonable counterargument. Although the communist bloc I think deserves a bit more credit for its economic power at its peak. Today, China and Vietnam are doing fairly well economically. However, the former fascist nations also have much better human rights records than their former communist counterparts. A simple "who are the good guys now" comparison between, say, Germany and Russia or Japan and the PRC pretty much favors the for…
/r/MensRights12/10/18 10:24 PM
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Yes.
/r/MensRights12/10/18 09:24 PM
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No. Try to use better reading skills. My argument is that I'd prefer fascism to hard left because long-term results (i.e. regime collapse or destruction and eventual replacement) turns out better historically. Both are bad, but if forced to pick, I'd go hard right because at least there would be more hope for the future.
/r/MensRights12/10/18 06:53 PM
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Hard Disagree. Former fascist nations seem to be doing better: Germany, Italy, Japan, Portugal, and Spain are all pretty good countries now despite their fascist turns. A more exhaustive list is here. Leftist countries such as China, Russia, former Soviet satellites (e.g. Belarus), Cuba, North Korea, etc. generally fell into worse systems after the decline of communism. I'd rather my country fall to fascism than to the far left because under fascism I'd have more hope for the future.
/r/MensRights12/10/18 06:38 PM
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You were friend zoned. Ouch. Most women I do not want romantic relations with, so this isn't really a problem. I'm not sure I buy your point on affability. While it doesn't necessarily add to sexiness, I don't think it necessarily detracts either (or at least I haven't seen any evidence of that). Other features are just more important. When I say women BTW I mean women that are appealing to most men. I have no idea what you are getting at here. Are you suggesting that attractive women are more b…
/r/MensRights12/05/18 09:26 PM
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You were the one making a claim about "the large majority of women." My anecdotal evidence does serve a purpose in that it seems to make your claim less likely to be true (of course, I could just be an incredibly lucky guy that I keep running into interesting women.) I doubt the "easy to please" explanation since my friend groups tend to be balanced or female majority (if it was just a low threshold and men were more interesting, then you would still expect more men than women, since more men wo…
/r/MensRights12/05/18 08:01 PM
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You need to find better women to be around. I have lifelong female friends who are funny, interesting, and make fantastic company without any sexual tension needed. My closest friend in law school basically kept me sane through humor, encouragement, and deep conversations.
/r/MensRights12/05/18 07:11 PM
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You are absolutely right; I think the matter is too complex to put in "x is loved conditionally, y is loved unconditionally" terms.
/r/MensRights16/04/18 03:33 PM
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Someone could argue a distinction between attraction and love. Women have to be attractive at the start of love, but as they age and lose that initial attractiveness men tend to stay with them. On the other hand, men have to provide more than just the initial attraction; they have to provide ongoing utility. Women leave unemployed men. (It's oversimplified, but I think it's at least a partial response)
/r/MensRights16/04/18 02:18 PM
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Here's a decent piece that I think is on the friendlier side. One of the bolded statements I think reflects the attitude I described. "In order for fathers to be considered equally worthy caregivers in the eyes of the court, they must first be equal caregivers within the home." For the author, the solution is equal marriages. That is, men have to change their role. Men have to act a certain way to have an equal shot at custody. The author doesn't seem to follow that through though when it comes …
/r/MensRights15/08/17 08:12 PM
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Not really. Of course parenthood entails way more than the enumeration of basic rights. I'm discussing the legal status of parents, not what makes a parent a good one.
/r/MensRights15/08/17 06:37 PM
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The best piece of evidence I can think of is that feminists generally do not find fault (or at least I have not heard them do so) with the presumption that women ought to retain children in custody disputes unless there are compelling reasons not to. They might argue that it is the Patriarchy's fault that men don't do enough to earn the right to be a father, but it is ultimately cast in a light that men have to do something to justify themselves. The reverse is not suggested, that career-focused…
/r/MensRights15/08/17 06:35 PM
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Because there is a strong tendency within feminism to see fatherhood as a privilege and motherhood as a right.
/r/MensRights15/08/17 06:14 PM
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No, it is not a privilege, it is a right. A privilege is "a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor." Fatherhood and motherhood and the rights associated should be by default, not "peculiar benefits, advantages, or favors" that are "granted" by some entity. They are natural rights arising from the relationship between parent and child and high standards are necessary for taking them away (e.g. abuse or neglect).
/r/MensRights15/08/17 04:34 PM
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Where in my post did I blame anybody? I in fact argued that simple binaries of blame were unhelpful. And poor decisions probably shouldn't ruin people. I'm sure you also tell single mothers that they should own their mistakes and that they didn't HAVE to have children. Do you tell domestic abuse victims that it's their fault for having poor judgment?
/r/MensRights15/08/17 02:48 PM
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Dang, thinking people either have to be complete victims or complete perpetrators is a hard habit to shake. I like how you assume that the reason people like celebrations of fatherhood is because they are whiney and think they are blameless. Also fatherhood being a privilege is the most feminist thing I've read. No right to your kids, just a privilege if you have enough good boy points (maybe sworn off your toxic masculinity?).
/r/MensRights15/08/17 01:52 PM
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I think a return to patriarchy is probably inevitable anyway. It's how humans as animals work. Feminist societies have dismal birth rates, so they'll probably just get replaced once their ideological conversion rate drops too low.
/r/MensRights19/07/17 07:35 AM
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Whiteness is never actually mentioned. The focus is entirely on culture and geography. And it never suggested only white countries did great things. Contrary to modern belief, it actually finds value in European culture.
/r/MensRights10/07/17 02:03 PM
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Not necessarily. Humans aren't completely rational. You can bombard them with facts and it will do nothing as old beliefs harden and repel new ideas. One way to get around that is to humanize the new idea and make it sympathetic. That opens people up to the facts. For example, one of the striking features of the movie is that the feminists interviewed routinely mischaracterized MRM claims or downplayed suffering as unimportant. To see how a guy's life was ruined by some policy, and then feminist…
/r/MensRights24/06/17 05:40 PM
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I see what you mean, but I actually liked the narrative focus. Often it isn't facts that change people's minds, but relatable stories.
/r/MensRights24/06/17 04:43 PM
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lol, men aren't human, of course they don't have needs. Filthy oppressors already have everything they could possibly want. /s just in case
/r/MensRights24/06/17 04:38 PM
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Eh, the fallacy of false compromise is a common trap. I don't think it's great evidence of lack of intelligence.
/r/MensRights29/05/17 08:58 PM
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You, uh, okay there dude?
/r/MensRights09/01/17 08:17 PM
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With the way the U.S. is going, I'm highly considering leaving in a decade or so for a more traditional society.
/r/MensRights30/10/16 09:03 PM
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There is only penance to be made by submitting yourself to the altar of woman. And, just like with trying to achieve righteousness before God by our works, it will never be enough. Feminism will always have more for men to do, more for men to give up for themselves, more for men to give to women. And it will never, ever be enough. Because there is never forgiveness or a promise of unity at the end. "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ…
/r/MensRights17/09/16 04:05 PM
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I'm more disturbed about the way you guys treat bloody cartoon porn, you claim you're against the idea of jailing someone over drawing Mohammed for instance yet some fanatics of yours have gone and made some niche laws where you treat hentai for instance as 'child pornography' even though it isn't even real and people can actually and have gone to jail for simply having it on their hard drive. Yeah, that's all kinds of messed up. It completely misses the point of banning of child pornography. ri…
/r/MensRights17/09/16 03:49 PM
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I've still got a bone to pick with you guys about gays and attitudes towards sex, relationships and porn in general And always feel free to criticize, we don't even agree among ourselves and it's helpful to have outside opinions at times. For example, a distressingly high number of my conservative friends think we should outlaw porn while I think that is absolutely crazy. Would lead to hilarious prohibition stories though.
/r/MensRights17/09/16 03:31 PM
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I'm a Christian, on the right, and I just want to say that at least we have grace, forgiveness, and a general understanding that we all mess up sometimes. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast." (Ephesians 2:8-9). Contrast this with, "And in this broken system, anyone who isn’t with us is against us. Particularly, and especially, men. Even my own sons — even yours. It’s not enough to …
/r/MensRights17/09/16 03:04 PM
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Even if someone gives express verbal consent, why is that better than the usual extremely obvious body language? It seems to miss how human communication works generally.
/r/MensRights17/09/16 02:53 PM
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As a religious person, I'm glad these people are moving on to the ideologies du jour.
/r/MensRights17/09/16 02:36 PM
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But how will we keep all the rapey cishet men out?! /s
/r/MensRights21/08/16 07:28 PM
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As a white American man on the world scale I'm a great catch. When I first read this I reflexively cringed, but then I realized it's actually pretty accurate. Right now I get bombarded with negative messages about privilege and how terrible my culture is and how everything bad is because of people like me. And then I meet people from outside of that intellectual bubble, and it seems in their view I'm alright.
/r/MensRights08/08/16 04:40 PM
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She makes some great points, but I highly disagree with some her conclusions. I don’t believe that the enemy that we’ve all sought out in each other all these long years is gender related, or religiously related, or sexually related, or environmentally related or anything at all to do, with anything other than the attitudes of power hunger, greed, control and hierarchies, that started to hold sway around 2,000 years ago, using many different vehicles, but the main one being the body of the Roman…
/r/MensRights19/05/16 04:11 PM
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Groups don't have to pay for someone's welfare in order to tell them not to kill someone else. That said, there are religious communities who do try to support women who are struggling with the choice to abort or not.
/r/MensRights14/03/16 01:55 PM
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/r/MensRights25/02/16 06:17 AM
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/r/MensRights25/02/16 06:02 AM
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If Reddit threads critiquing a government agency are enough to be prosecuted, then good grief you live in an Orwellian world.
/r/MensRights25/02/16 05:34 AM
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I wonder how much of this is because of class issues. The amount spent is probably heavily influenced by income.
/r/MensRights25/02/16 05:25 AM
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uBlock Origin all the way! Sorry ads are causing a problem, apparently the algorithm just picked you out as the perfect audience =/ Generally it picks new commercials after spamming the same one for a while, so hopefully it changes soon.
/r/MensRights25/02/16 05:23 AM
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So whenever I hear someone say that violence never solves anything, I find very hard to not say anything. I think it's good to point out that sometimes violence is the right choice. I think it's dangerous to learn this idea that they shouldn't defend themselves. To me, the right of self-defense is the possibly the most fundamental right. So, one day I waited until I saw the instigator go to the bathroom, alone. I followed him, and beat him up then and there. He never touched me again after that.…
/r/MensRights19/02/16 01:24 PM
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I wondered if it was a troll account, but I decided to address it seriously because I know people who think that way. Maybe I could give something valuable to the audience, if not the parent commenter.
/r/MensRights11/02/16 08:02 PM
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I understand what you're saying, and there is a risk of going too far, but I don't think the comic goes there. But what your suggesting is pretty much men still dictating what women can and can't wear. Women are free to wear what they want to. However, clothing is partly used for social signalling, and society does dictate what is appropriate. If I go to an interview with a big firm in a pair of sweatpants and a T-shirt I can guarantee I won't get the job. Clothing can also display something abo…
/r/MensRights11/02/16 06:20 AM
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To be clear, I'm only talking about looking. Glancing at a woman's cleavage is harmless. The natural biological urge to find a woman attractive certainly does not excuse rape or sexual assault, which is very harmful and is one of the worst crimes that exist. It utterly baffles me how otherwise reasonable people cannot see that involuntarily checking someone out is very different from assaulting them. If there is a line to draw, it is between glancing and staring or leering (when looking becomes …
/r/MensRights11/02/16 05:47 AM
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Haha, I gotta learn to double down; "I was only joking!" "'Twas merely a jest!" But seriously, thanks!
/r/MensRights06/02/16 01:33 AM
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Whelp, that's what happens when you don't read the link. The way he phrased it made it sounds like new info. Aaaand now I look like an idiot. Thanks for the clarification!
/r/MensRights06/02/16 12:48 AM
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Woah, do you have a source for that? Because that sounds really intuitive and would make an excellent piece of evidence.
/r/MensRights05/02/16 06:04 PM
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Quite the conclusion to reach after a brief reddit exchange! But you're entitled to your opinion.
/r/MensRights04/02/16 03:47 AM
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No junior, I was appropriately "upbraiding." You trotted into this thread and decided (arrogantly) to play the "authority" based on a claim to knowledge and expertise that you DO not have, and an authority that would be relatively presumptuous to claim even if you had already finished law school AND passed the bar in any given state. Not sure what culture you come from, but in any I've been in, your actions are inappropriate. I never claimed to have knowledge or authority that I do not have. I m…
/r/MensRights04/02/16 02:02 AM
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First of all, you've been unnecessarily rude throughout your comments. You presume to know my goals, the quality of my school and the quality of my comprehension. Given that your predictions are generally false, I think I can use some inductive strategies and consider your other inferences to be likewise weak. To begin, your arguments do not address the same issue I was trying to address. The right to void or rescind your contract is not the same thing as having an unenforceable contract. All th…
/r/MensRights03/02/16 10:44 PM
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In my class we focused on the common law and UCC rules. The examples you have listed are state statutes, FTC rules, and a Home Equity federal law. In each case, the law is limited to a particular state, or in the majority of your examples, to contracts of certain types. And of course, if a contract includes a clause allowing either party to void for any reason within 72 hours, then that controls. I fail to see a generalized cooling off rule that applies to all (or even most) contracts.
/r/MensRights03/02/16 07:52 PM
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Here's the rule from the Restatement (Second) of Contracts §16 (This "restates" and sometimes recommends changes to the common law and is considered a valuable, but non-binding secondary authority.) A person incurs only voidable contractual duties by entering into a transaction if the other party has reason to know that by reason of intoxication (a) he is unable to understand in a reasonable manner the nature and consequences of the transaction, or (b) he is unable to act in a reasonable manner …
/r/MensRights03/02/16 01:34 AM
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On the other hand, voluntarily drinking and signing is likely enforceable.
/r/MensRights03/02/16 12:35 AM
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"becoming" might be generous. Numbers-wise we're already there.
/r/MensRights29/01/16 12:12 AM
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As a old-school conservative, it was baffling to watch the arguments against male reproductive choice being so similar to those against female reproductive choice. Personally, I'm against both, but it seems highly hypocritical to support the abstinence route for one but not the other. As it stands, with abortion legal, I think it is likely also fair to also give men an opt-out option.
/r/MensRights27/01/16 06:30 AM
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The Homicide victim pie chart is pretty bad. It looks a little short of 25%, not 7%. Good information, but the presentation needs help. Also, I'm not sold on the blue-on-blue motif.
/r/MensRights14/01/16 10:14 PM
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Multiculturalism cannot rationally coexist with any meaningful feminism. To say that women are in fact men's equals is to make a positive universal claim, but multiculturalism bars positive universal claims.
/r/MensRights09/01/16 04:56 PM
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Manslaughter ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
/r/MensRights28/12/15 03:48 PM
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I don't think it's a helpful or insightful point, mind. I think it's helpful in that it points out how useless the privilege paradigm is. You can cherry-pick statistics to make any group a victim of something.
/r/MensRights28/12/15 03:45 PM
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We have normalized mental illness in some very dangerous ways, including applauding sociopathy as if it were a business skill. I think part of it is the revolt against the strictures of normalcy. Once norms are removed the line gets blurry between what is "quirky" and "I was born this way" and what is a legitimate illness.
/r/MensRights18/12/15 04:27 AM
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Especially if he was with white women. Black men get a double dose of "that demographic is violent" prejudice.
/r/MensRights15/12/15 09:40 PM
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Can't give any data off the top of my head, but historically the intersection of race and male was the most criminalized. For example, rape as a capital offense ended because it was ridiculously race-based (while at the same time biased against men, but that was not recognized at the time). While I would love for the push back to be purely about these attacks on men, I think we ought to be open to pulling the same intersectionality nonsense that feminists do. If we can show it harms other minori…
/r/MensRights15/12/15 09:37 PM
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While I'm fairly confident it's true that men tend to sacrifice more, are there any good studies on the matter? I'd like to be able to raise this argument effectively.
/r/MensRights05/12/15 02:56 AM
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Basically, you need to disempower men. Fun related story, last year the LGBTQ club at HLS tried to pass a bylaw capping the number of men in leadership. The administration stepped in and said they couldn't do that because of anti-discrimination rules. Members then complained that anti-discrimination rules were sexist because they didn't let them limit the number of men. I kid you not. We have a problem here. . .
/r/MensRights01/12/15 12:52 AM
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Intersectionality doesn't count when it is "black" and "male."
/r/MensRights13/11/15 02:04 PM
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I find it especially humorous because despite all the talk about intersectionality, that the gender/race intersection of "male" and "black" are arguably the worst off (especially with regard to incarceration, police brutality and possibly education) leads to literally no reflection on the problems associated with being male. I'm in criminal law in law school right now and we do a great job of discussing racism, but nobody cares when I bring up that the victims of that racism are almost always bl…
/r/MensRights09/11/15 03:50 PM
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What do you mean by sexist and what do you mean by the way the Republican party treats women voters? Presumably, you are talking about anti-abortion and denial of birth control. I would agree it was sexist if the people proposing were doing it as a way to harm women. But, the people with those views generally have them because they believe abortion and the general use of birth control are moral wrongs.
/r/MensRights09/11/15 04:04 AM
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I'm partly convinced that "the Patriarchy" is a projection of how women feel about themselves. Recently talked with a feminist woman who was clearly distressed that she didn't naturally act like a man. She felt she wasn't as aggressive as men were. Idolizing aggression and failing, she needed to blame society for her shortcoming.
/r/MensRights09/11/15 03:59 AM
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Alternatively, don't go in the first place. If your actions produce a presumption of consent or intent to consent, later refusal will become more and more uncomfortable. Saying no earlier in the process seems much wiser.
/r/MensRights28/10/15 02:54 AM
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Why is wanting traditional roles inherently abusive? Is a man not allowed to make his own standards for his relationships? I get that all women shouldn't be forced to stay at home and raise babies while the husband works. But I dont see how it is abusive if a man chooses to pursue that type of relationship. Whenever I see something like this I can't help but see the damaged nature of whomever created it. The unstated assumptions are that 'traditional roles' were inherently exploitative. When the…
/r/MensRights08/10/15 07:38 PM
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The whole exercise is a trap in that sense. It's trying to build associations between things that are related, but not causal. Traditional gender roles can be a tool for abuse, but are certainly not causal. Doing the finances can be a tool for abuse, but isn't causal. The whole thing looks manipulative.
/r/MensRights08/10/15 07:34 PM
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Source?
/r/MensRights07/09/15 03:10 PM
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Both serve the interests of oppressor classes in the eyes of the social justice.
/r/MensRights06/08/15 04:25 PM
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Haven't looked at the research, but one possibility is that the number of people who identify as feminists is dropping, but the number of people who subscribe to feminist beliefs is rising.
/r/MensRights05/08/15 06:55 PM
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I completely agree with you. Sometimes I still feel embarrassed about it, though.
/r/MensRights05/08/15 04:17 PM
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The first part I'm more unsure of. According to my professor who taught medieval philosophy, the norm was to believe that men and women were equal in value, but created differently. They complemented and completed each other. There were some who believed men were superior, but they weren't the majority. Unfortunately, I was just auditing that class so I don't have a good list of references handy :( The second part is that I claimed that this belief is necessarily sexist. That is, in order for wo…
/r/MensRights05/08/15 09:09 AM
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Honestly, the idea of women and men as complements was a western one for a long time as well, the problem is that that view is necessarily sexist and held by many sexists.
/r/MensRights05/08/15 04:00 AM
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Hate crimes are already treated this way in a sense. The idea of punishing people more severely based on likelihood of future offence is already a thing. This is just an expansion of it. Just as I oppose the notion of hate crimes, I oppose punishment for anything other than the crime actually committed.
/r/MensRights05/08/15 03:53 AM
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This is what the police did wrong. It has nothing to do with women lying or not. I mean we don't know the whole story, but the police should have just said, "Look, I am sorry, no evidence, no conviction. Here is the number of a person you can talk to.". Kind of. From the line of questioning the detective was pursuing, it sounded like she was pushing for a confession that the complaint was unjustified and based purely on regret. Fairly standard police interrogation from what I can tell.
/r/MensRights30/07/15 08:04 AM
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I was surprised I didn't make the cut since I have commented in KiA, TiA and here at different times. I guess I should be glad?
/r/MensRights30/07/15 07:05 AM
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RIP your karma. Tough crowd haha
/r/MensRights27/07/15 06:49 PM
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Recording won't help, they can always claim it was under duress.
/r/MensRights11/07/15 01:15 AM
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I disagree. "Equality" movements are appeals to a natural sense of "fairness." If a group thinks it needs more power, it will claim to be treated unequally to gain that power.
/r/MensRights16/06/15 07:44 PM
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But what does "equal legal rights" mean?
/r/MensRights16/06/15 07:42 PM
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issues are often complex and just because the equation is complicated doesn't mean it isn't a good idea. That's the problem. Equality is an X = Y approach, an appeal for consistency. The more complex the context, the harder it is for that to make sense. A robust sense of justice has to allow for more than mere equality.
/r/MensRights16/06/15 05:33 PM
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Sometime, just for fun, I want to argue that getting men into daycare and teaching jobs is a feminist issue because it will make men more nurturing and get them more involved in home life issues so that women can be more career focused.
/r/MensRights16/06/15 04:59 PM
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I've gotten in trouble on Reddit before about this, but in my opinion "equality" is a fairly meaningless term anyway. Either it means equality in the sense "the same regardless of any difference" or "the same except in cases of relevant difference". The former is what people often claim to believe, but is actually incredibly terrible and no one supports in practice. The latter is pointless because it just forces the question of what counts as a relevant difference, which takes us back to the ini…
/r/MensRights16/06/15 04:56 PM
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My apologies for lack of clarity. I'm trying to stick to standard definitions, so violence means something like "behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something." and aggression "hostile or violent behavior or attitudes toward another; readiness to attack or confront." I'm specifically focusing on the second part for aggression, i.e. readiness to attack or confront. You are right to make such a distinction. Being aggressive, especially in the willingness …
/r/MensRights19/05/15 03:46 PM
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I don't think the gender-tailored approach has as much to do with inherent gender differences in aggression as it does to do with biological differences in strength. It's probably both. Biological differences in strength certainly will exaggerate any differences in aggression.
/r/MensRights19/05/15 06:01 AM
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Not quite. Men tend to speak more aggressively. This can include direct contradiction and rebuttal, but also the level of insults and personal attacks. Women tend to dislike more aggressive communication, tending to perceive it as more threatening than men do. Women will use logic and reason, but try to use it in a less directly threatening way. This, in my opinion, is why some feminists think that women becoming more aggressive is the best way forward to equality. Less apologizing and more inte…
/r/MensRights18/05/15 11:06 PM
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According to this study, about half are mutual, so you'd be right!
/r/MensRights18/05/15 08:23 PM
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I think there are multiple issues here. First, I think women do not receive the same "don't hit people" training that guys do because of our beliefs about men and women (whether we like it or not, most people are sexist). Because men are more naturally aggressive, they get more training in not being aggressive. Without that training, violence is more likely to be tolerated. Regarding the equality point, I think women tend to overestimate how well men treat each other. Being treated the same can …
/r/MensRights18/05/15 08:20 PM
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That could't be farther from the truth...abusive relationships are an abuser and a person who can't or just doesn't choose to fight back. From what I've read they can also be mutually abusive, but I see your point. Just like in a lot of bullying cases, the victim could "win" a fight, but they refuse to try since they want peace, not victory.
/r/MensRights18/05/15 08:02 PM
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"Which do you hate more: MRAs or the police?"
/r/MensRights06/05/15 04:37 PM
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From another perspective, distracting and dividing the masses is a safe way to maintain society. A lot of violence tends to follow from mass movements. Furthermore, those who rule are always a minority and seek to protect themselves from the majority below them. Also, many of those issues are tools for one group or another to gain power. For example, Democrats in the U.S. have long wanted to keep illegal immigration high and push for paths to citizenship in order to gain votes from a growing dem…
/r/MensRights04/05/15 03:10 PM
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I think the reason he's eliminating the third option is because it is hard to make things more in boys' favor without being labelled a sexist. Right now, pre-college education is in girls' favor (college and beyond is harder to analyze since women have such a head start), but few want to recognize the problem, let alone fix it, because shifting things away from girls feels bad. Even if we start with equality in mind, maintaining it requires constant adjustments, but some adjustments won't happen…
/r/MensRights02/04/15 10:06 PM
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Guilty until proves innocent assumes that they could be innocent, which would require doubting victims. So, yeah...
/r/MensRights04/02/15 04:44 PM
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