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Social IssuesPhuzzums/r/MensRights21/07/16 11:17 PM
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From her biased perspective as someone who works in a women's shelter it seems like a valid question. She is going to see a disproportionate amount of female victims, both of which were abused without retaliation and those that retaliated to the abuse but a very limit number of female victims with female abusers and even fewer male victims, if any, to recount their experience of being victims of female abusers. The problem is, given her situation and the context of the question, she wasn't askin…
/r/MensRights23/07/16 08:34 AM
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Which is why they get up in arms about discussing male issues that don't affect them in any way, like circumcision. Yeah, I see that a lot... "Infant circumcision is wrong, infant boys have a right to body autonomy" followed shortly by "Yeah, well FGM is so much worse! You are a misogynist for complaining about this when girls have it so much worse!" as if saying one is wrong makes the other any less wrong. How about both are wrong, but at the moment one is illegal in first world nations and one…
/r/MensRights28/09/13 12:24 AM
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1:30:20 Question: If a men's rights group existed that was just trying to speak to men's issues and wanted to do so in a civil way, and wanted to discuss things in terms of issues relating to whatever problems men may have, would that be okay or would you prefer that those issues be handled by feminism? 1:31:18 Answer: I think that those <spaces where men's issues can be discussed> are welcome by most feminists that I know. What the key is, when Jeff opened he was talking how the oppression that…
/r/MensRights27/09/13 04:24 AM
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Let's not forget that SRS has its origins at SA. Exactly this. The same radical gender feminists are trying to do the same thing with reddit and 4chan, subversively trick admins into giving them power so they can destroy communities that don't agree with their views. It's seen many subreddits being taken over and defaced and deleted, and there are attempts to do the same on 4chan (SRSers/SA feminists trying to take control of or delete /pol/), but 4chan couldn't give less of a shit about it, eve…
/r/MensRights10/09/13 04:26 AM
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My understanding is the hospital has a vested interest in having boys circumcised. They make money on the deal. Going to a hospital to get the pros and cons of getting a circumcision for your son is like going to a used car salesman to get the pros and cons of owning a car.
/r/MensRights03/09/13 09:35 AM
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Very curious about the circumstances now. My father was in auto insurance so I know there is pretty much never a case where no one is at fault, the few being natural occurance like a landslide or hail. Unless there was an earthquake or tornado that smashed one car into another, I don't know how there can be a no fault fender bender.
/r/MensRights31/08/13 12:52 AM
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That read exactly as I would expect a harlequin romance novel to play out. I can only imagine the backlash if there was an advice article advising women to act like an actress from her husbands favorite porno. I don't want some dumb, submissive bimbo who only cares about my needs at the expense of her own. I want her to be her own person, someone I can trust, be best friends with and have fun for as long as we are together. I cannot fathom women wanting a man who is nothing but a two dimensional…
/r/MensRights20/08/13 10:24 PM
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Very weird where they didn't understand what the guy was talking about the fact that if there is one woman in power it doesn't mean that the male leaders in other countries are going to do anything differently, and thus nothing really changes. They all assumed (I'm guessing because he's a man saying it) that he was making some kind of snide comment about women being incapable of being leaders. Then he tries to explain it again, relating a woman's leading style as "maternal" (which is essentially…
/r/MensRights16/08/13 08:23 AM
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This killing (besides the posting to facebook, seriously what the actual fuck???) sounds surprisingly similar to this woman killing her abusive husband and being acquitted. Domestic abuse does not warrant being killed, and I believe Medina deserves to be punished for killing his wife, I'm just confused how the woman who killed her husband didn't have to answer for the cold blooded murder she committed.
/r/MensRights08/08/13 11:21 PM
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Anyone who says something like this is equating "disagreeing" with "hatred" and "feminism" with "women". It's kind of like saying anyone who disagrees with PETA's methods is abusive to animals. That isn't to say there aren't some men who hate women who attach themselves to men's rights, just as there are some women who hate men who attach themselves to feminism. They are a very small minority though, and generally called out by others in the group for their sexist views.
/r/MensRights08/08/13 02:40 AM
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Not sure, but I'm guessing these are the same types of douchebags that are in a constant state of trying to pick fights with other men. I just kind of assume bad parenting, maybe mommy and daddy didn't love them enough, who knows, but while women get whistled at, guys get their own brand of harassment from these types of guys. For example, imagine you are walking down the sidewalk and a couple guys are walking towards you. One of them looks at you with a smirk on his face. As you walk towards hi…
/r/MensRights03/08/13 12:21 PM
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I don't see a problem with it, it's not like the parent gets to choose for the child, in every case of someone being trans, regardless of age, there is a lot of psychological counselling and a long wait period before transition drugs are given. If you end up with some sick rare case where some parents are trying to mold a child to be trans it will very likely be discovered during couselling. There are psychological differences between trans and non-trans people, things that can't be faked by a c…
/r/MensRights01/08/13 05:57 AM
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So... WGTOW?
/r/MensRights31/07/13 05:56 AM
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I'm not lying about what I said. I don't even know why anyone would ever want to lie about that, it's definitely not some badge of honor or anything. You inadvertently hit the nail on the head it seems. Many of the tumblr 'activists' do wear their victimhood (whether it be rape, obesity, sexual orientation, gender identity, or whatever else) as a badge of honor. It's a key for them to use to get into their victim clubhouse, and whomever has the most keys to the most clubhouses wins the power to …
/r/MensRights26/07/13 06:21 AM
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Are you talking about male or female circumcision?
/r/MensRights21/07/13 04:59 AM
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At least you realize what you did was wrong and are remorseful for doing it. Your family members sounds like complete psychopaths though. How they can have such hatred for the male gender is beyond me. All I can suggest is you never let your children around them ever, the abuse and neglect they could potentially inflict on your sons or the hateful grooming they could put your daughters through would be devastating.
/r/MensRights19/07/13 06:10 AM
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I'd say the major difference is that fact that zimmerman knew he was doing something that a reasonable person would consider dangerous as shown by his decision to bring a gun along. The only way the two can be comparable in my opinion is if you believe a reasonable person would also consider a woman going out to be an activity dangerous enough to warrant bringing a gun. I do think an interesting thought though is to question whether the outcome would have been different had trayvon been a woman.
/r/MensRights09/07/13 10:53 AM
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The situation like that sucks, but seriously, it is her decision. If she's adamant about getting rid of it then the best he can do is leave her now, move on and never look back. I'm personally far more concerned about the other way around, where she wants to keep her little accident and he doesn't but he's still legally on the hook to pay a fortune for her unilateral decision.
/r/MensRights05/07/13 12:55 AM
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I don't want women to be the same as men (or vice versa). The reason I said that is because of statements like this. OP may not have intended it to be, but it makes it sound like he finds issue when a woman is masculine or a man is feminine, or that they aren't worthy of the same respect as those who tend toward their gender norms. Now, maybe OP meant it different, something more like "I don't want women to (be required to) be the same as men (or vice versa)", but I have seen much more clear sta…
/r/MensRights21/06/13 08:05 AM
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This seems to be some weird point of contention. Feminists seem to want men and women to be the same by downplaying or ignoring the differences between the genders, and a lot of people on this sub seem to want men and women to be different by pointing out the differences while downplaying or ignoring the similarities. Why not just a middle ground where people can be who they want to be, and if men on average tend to be more masculine, and women on average tend to be more feminine, that's fine, b…
/r/MensRights21/06/13 06:05 AM
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Would affect women more than men, but yes it would certainly affect men. It would also affect society as a whole. Sex is going to happen, pregnancy is going to result. You could manage it in a few ways. Force couples who become pregnant out of wedlock to marry against their will Punish (imprisonment or execution) couples who become pregnant out of wedlock Force manditory sterilization of children against their will and reverse it (if possible) when they marry Unless you do something like that yo…
/r/MensRights19/06/13 11:18 AM
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I don't think me should have a say in whether an abortion happens or not, I think he should have a right to be informed about it I suppose, but still I firmly believe that since it is the woman's body it is entirely her decision whether to abort or carry it whether the father agrees or not. That being said I also believe men should have every right to decide whether they will be a father or not. He may not be carrying a baby for 9 months but he will be using his body and time to provide for it f…
/r/MensRights19/06/13 10:21 AM
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You'll definitely see the bias more often when you know what to look for, you'll even sometimes try to deduce if there is any bias in something you may not have seen the first time. I just try not to leave it at just anti-male bias though, I also tend to look for anti-female bias and pro-male/female bias in things. For example, while I'll regularly see commercials and shows making fathers out to be bumbling idiots who couldn't figure out which end of the baby to put the diaper on, I'll also see …
/r/MensRights17/06/13 07:59 PM
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Every time I hear "patriarchy hurts men too" I can't help but imagine a academic feminist grabbing hold of a man's arm and repeatedly smashing his own fist into his face while yelling "STOP HITTING YOURSELF! STOP HITTING YOURSELF!" while he does nothing to stop her for fear of being called a misogynist.
/r/MensRights17/06/13 07:35 PM
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http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/xwj1r/rmr_poll_results/ That was from a while ago, but I think it's probably still pretty close to the current make up of this sub.
/r/MensRights15/06/13 05:49 AM
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I was using the term as meaning "those identified by society or the courts as being troubled youth". You are right though, it could be that society and the courts have far less tolerance for what may be normal behavior in boys than it has for normal behavior in girls. I look at it kind of like a suburban family getting a herding dog and keeping it in a kennel 23 hours a day. The dog will go insane and the owners will think it's just behaving badly when in fact they causing the behavior by restri…
/r/MensRights11/06/13 07:39 AM
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Sorry, I meant 89.1% male victimhood instead of 92.4%.
/r/MensRights11/06/13 01:43 AM
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It's more a matter of the ratio of male and female victims. The population of those in the study, youths in juvenile facilities, ie "trouble youths". The population of the sample was 91% male, which is another discussion in itself as to why 91% of troubled youth are male. Still, given a 91% male population it isn't necessarily surprising to see a 92.4% 89.1% male victim result. The result of it being overwhelmingly female abusers is still surprising to me, though, as you said, it could also be a…
/r/MensRights11/06/13 01:10 AM
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I think she got a lot of flak for what she wrote about guys so she decided to even it out by writing one about women too. Funny part is the entire women's article is written in a tone of "Yeah, college girls are the worst, but college guys are just as bad. Don't forget that college guys are bad too, not just the girls." Oh, and there's a good smattering of "girls who put out lots are sluts". I’m sure you’re familiar with the “make out whore” of your social circle, or maybe the girl who’s just a …
/r/MensRights31/05/13 10:06 AM
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I'd have probably inquired if it were possible to make a complaint about being harassed myself by this unnamed female co-worker. Since policy seems to be to take the word of the victim without question or evidence it should be no issue for them to take your word, as a victim of harassment, without question as well. They wouldn't need to disclose her name, just keep the complaint on file. If they have any standardized procedure at all that will at the very least get it on paper that you denied ev…
/r/MensRights29/05/13 03:38 AM
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If he did rape her then he's a rapist, but the OP still assaulted the guy and is also a criminal. The fact is we don't know if the guy was a rapist or not at this point, but we know for certain that the OP committed a crime. If you think it's okay to beat someone over the head with a bat for raping someone, as in the person doing the beating should have no repercussions or be seen as a hero, then I ask you what you would think if the events were reversed. What if the OP's ex-girlfriend had beate…
/r/MensRights20/05/13 08:23 AM
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Pretty sick thing to do, but not sure how it can be classified as first-degree murder. Definitely a charge equivalent to what would be given for poisoning someone and causing bodily harm for sure, and likely the maximum allowable sentence for it given the circumstances, would match the crime. If they do end up classifying it as first degree murder they sent a scary precedent that killing a fetus is murder. To be clear, I'm not concerned about this sicko being charged for first degree murder, I'm…
/r/MensRights18/05/13 08:20 AM
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I kind of feel like a more fair solution to something like this (assuming they want to have a more even-split crowd, which I can understand) would be to sell only a limited amount of tickets to each gender. Have 500 people at the event, sell 250 male tickets and 250 female tickets. Then you have a balanced crowd and neither gender is getting charged unfairly, guys just might have to buy their ticket a little faster before they run out.
/r/MensRights18/05/13 06:47 AM
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I don't think it's derogatory, but it can definitely be used in a weird and awkward way. Using 'female' or 'male' as the noun of a sentence instead of 'woman/girl' or 'man/boy' makes it sound like it's meant for a biology class, like you are removing the entire human element from whomever you are speaking about. Just a little example: "I'm going to hang out with some female/male friends" (used as an adjective to friends) "I'm going to hang out with some women/men" (women/men used as a noun) "I'm…
/r/MensRights17/05/13 07:08 PM
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EDIT: Upon review, there is a troll facebook account (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Amys-Baking-Company/) where the OP's picture was taken so it is not actually real. The real facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/amysbakingco) isn't that much better, but is still not the source of the picture. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjgHEctcy0 I'm thinking this. A while ago would would have had my doubts about a woman marrying a much older millionaire man and having everything, including her busines…
/r/MensRights16/05/13 04:45 AM
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Teaching them about consent and what is and what is not consent is worth teaching them, both so they know when someone else is giving consent and how they can convey consent or denial clearly to their partner. It would also be worth teaching to a daughter as well as many girl don't understand that guys can say no and don't understand how to be clear about their own consent or denial. Teaching "not to rape" however would probably lead to a fear of sexual encounters in your child. If all they know…
/r/MensRights15/05/13 11:22 AM
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I really wonder what would happen if they study results were basically "in order to reduce the pay gap women must be willing to take more risk, put in more hours and deal with less desirable work environments to the same degree as men."
/r/MensRights11/05/13 10:39 AM
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Her story doesn't sound like a "had sex, regret it the next morning" kind of story, it sounds more like she was drugged. I don't think 3-4 drinks over 2 hours can possibly bring anyone to blackout levels of drunkenness. It's best for the investigation to believe what she says and assume the guy's innocence as well, then look to where the evidence points. If the blood tests come back positive for a date-rape drug and physical evidence of this guy having had sex with her then it corroborates her s…
/r/MensRights10/05/13 09:09 AM
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Pretty sure every man, straight, gay or otherwise, has felt vulnerable many times in their life. They might not admit it but if they'd never felt vulnerable I'd seriously question their mental well-being. So don't feel bad or ashamed of feeling afraid or vulnerable, accept that it's normal for anyone to feel that way, and if it's a deeper issue like depression then speak to someone about it. Other than that, don't let your sexuality define you. It's just one part of who you are, there is a lot m…
/r/MensRights10/05/13 08:50 AM
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TL;DR: would this woman also be in favor of "what's best for the child" if it meant mother's biological relation to a child didn't matter as well? I suspect not. As odd as it is, and even though I fervently disagree with this woman's position, I can kind of follow her logic, even if I don't think she's in genuine in her reasoning for it. It's clear that she "wants what's best for the children", and yeah, having a father that is better able to provide for a child is better for a child, but there …
/r/MensRights06/05/13 08:28 PM
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Start of the talk was all about how terrible male violence is, how much it hurts women and girls^<sup>and</sup><sup>boys</sup><sup>and</sup><sup>men.</sup> Then the talk tapers off a bit to a talk about how the discussion needs to stop being a gender binary, how it needs to stop being about abusive men and victimized women, or abusive women and victimized men (interesting how he hesitated on the abusive women part), that the talk needs to be about abusive people and their victims and how to fix …
/r/MensRights05/05/13 07:07 AM
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On one hand, I realize that it is meant to make an eye catching headline to pull in readers. One there hand, it makes disheartened to realize that male deaths are so normalized and accepted that specifying female and child victims is necessary to create shocking headlines.
/r/MensRights03/05/13 06:08 AM
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I am genuinely surprised by those findings. I had no doubt that boys were sexually assaulted but I would have never guessed that the rates would be so close let alone boys having a greater rate of sexual assault than girls. The rates when it was "severe forms of sexual abuse" were even higher for young boys. Out of the total child respondents, 20.90% were subjected to severe forms of sexual abuse that included sexual assault, making the child fondle private parts, making the child exhibit privat…
/r/MensRights24/04/13 09:36 PM
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If there is a policy in place where one is paid on a scale between "pay level 1 and level 10" and each employee moves up one level per year worked then it makes sense that there is something going on for this man to have started on level 9 where as she was started on level 1. Given the supervisors were reprimanded for bringing up the discrepancy I'd venture to guess that this particular employee has some kind of inside relationship with those that hired him. Inside relationships allowing higher …
/r/MensRights10/04/13 03:40 AM
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Just to make a little more sense of it, /r/feminisms (with an 's' on the end) is essentially a front for SRS. You will not find anyone willing to discuss gender equality there, only bigots and trolls. /r/feminism (without the 's') is more of what you would call moderate feminism. They would be willing to discuss issues that they may not agree with but the mods have decided that in order to make the sub more 'tolerable' for feminists who have a hard time when faced with criticism that all discuss…
/r/MensRights06/04/13 05:52 AM
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You will have your own lawyer to approve the pre-nup so that it is written fairly. An example of an unfairly written pre-nup would be one where she gets to keep all her money if a divorce happens but you are left responsible for half her debt you said she is bringing into it. You lawyer would point that out and say that the debt is her's and you have no responsibility to pay for any of it.
/r/MensRights03/04/13 03:50 AM
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Well, explained as much as you can explain it. I suppose it's more like the story of how SRS came to be and how it became what it is. It doesn't make sense of every post made there but instead gives a history of the subs inception and growth.
/r/MensRights31/03/13 10:01 PM
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Yup. It's long but here's SRS explained. Essentially it started as a joke purely for fun to laugh at the ridiculousness of social justice warriors. It is quite a lot like /r/pyongyang and /r/murica making a over-the-top satirical discussion about some quirky part of society. What happened though was it got popular. Actual social justice warriors found out about it and were no longer happy with just having their tumblr blog, there was a place where they could really let their discontent loose and…
/r/MensRights31/03/13 06:46 PM
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This man knows men don't cause rape. Rapists cause rape.
/r/MensRights29/03/13 06:02 AM
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"Western women's issues" are not of the same caliber of immediate importance as middle-eastern women's issues, and treating them through the lens of combating western misogyny is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Western misogyny is not an issue, and anyone who tells you otherwise is not getting the bigger picture. Though western misogyny is not a good thing, it is not the most present danger. We can work on that when women in the middle-east have their own rights. That's really all I could t…
/r/MensRights24/03/13 08:56 PM
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Had a similar situation with a friend of mine. There is one girl in our group of friends that is really clingy to him and he has told me many times how she would never have a chance with him and that how she acts is honestly really creepy (she will sit on his lap unannounced, she's grabbed his hand and put it on her tit, she's grabbed his crotch out of nowhere many times), but he kind of plays it off because he knows how people will react if he rejects her directly. One night after drinking with…
/r/MensRights22/03/13 08:18 PM
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He messed up, and while not intentionally or without remorse, he still chose to cheat. While it may have lowered his inhibition, alcohol isn't an excuse for his behavior, he was still aware of what he was doing and who it would affect the whole time. It's a good thing that he feels ashamed of what he did, it shows he knows he did wrong not because it hurts him (he could keep quiet and no one would ever know) but because he knows it will hurt his wife and kids. He needs to tell his wife what happ…
/r/MensRights19/03/13 03:27 AM
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Fighting for the same thing doesn't necessarily mean fighting for the same thing, it all depends on context. For example, feminism tends to fight for equality of outcome (when all is said and done, there are an equal numbers between the sexes, races, sexualities, etc in every niche of society), while men's rights tends to fight for equality of opportunity (all people are given equal opportunity, and depending on how they use that opportunity, the outcomes may or may not differ between sexes, rac…
/r/MensRights19/03/13 02:53 AM
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"No teen" may be a little exaggeration, but the ones that will care are going to be a very small minority. The vast majority won't get pregnant but it won't be because of the payout at 21. The ones that would be getting pregnant in their teens (the ones this idea was supposed to affect) are still going to get pregnant. It doesn't matter what the rest do, as long as that minority want to have sex and not be careful about it, the money incentive doesn't mean a thing. You will just end up spending …
/r/MensRights16/03/13 08:09 AM
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Well, it did say right in the video that the idea was to pay teens, male or female, for not impregnating someone or getting pregnant. Really dumb idea though, no teen is going to give a crap if you pay them a few thousand dollars when they hit 21, certainly not the ones that are likely to get pregnant or impregnate someone. Fact is, teens are going to have sex. The more you make sex out to taboo or bad, the more they are going to want it. If they don't want teens getting pregnant they need to te…
/r/MensRights16/03/13 07:45 AM
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I skimmed through it and wasn't really sure if the pictures he was talking about were pictures of real boys or if they were illustrations. If they were real pictures then the response was an underreaction (at that point you want to go to the police about it), if they were illustrations (thus no victim), then the response was probably appropriate (discuss it with her, break up if you aren't comfortable). If it was a man I have no doubt the response would have been "go to the police and get the fu…
/r/MensRights16/03/13 12:05 AM
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Can't say for sure because I didn't do the study, but a possibility is women being more likely to choose a job that is more "comfortable". Doesn't really mean anything as it's just one example, but my sister is an engineering graduate, top 10% of her class at one of the best universities in Canada. She had job offers in northern Alberta (oil fields) starting at near 6 figures immediately after graduation but she chose to live more locally to be near friends and family and took a near 40% pay cut…
/r/MensRights08/03/13 08:36 AM
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That's what I was going to say. Pornography with a child is illegal because the child cannot consent, not because it's porn. Even porn with adults is illegal if the adults don't consent. Porn with consenting adults should not be illegal.
/r/MensRights07/03/13 04:02 PM
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What you're doing now is appealing to what is popular, and not to an actual logical argument. What I'm appealing to is the fact that there has always been and always will be a demand for pornography. There is literally nothing you can do besides entirely redesign human sexuality from scratch to change that. So the decision comes down to criminalizing it and allowing the demand to be supplied by criminals who will expand their illegal sex trade to subsidize it, or keep it legal and regulate it so…
/r/MensRights07/03/13 08:46 AM
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Prohibition on alcohol worked pretty well. Prohibition on drugs seems to be working well. Why not try prohibition on pornography as well, right? /s What makes them think for a second that banning legal porn is going to protect women? Porn is going to happen whether it's legal or not (just like drugs and alcohol, and for that matter abortion as well). The only difference is when the only source of it is criminal productions and underworld trading then there is no government regulations to protect…
/r/MensRights07/03/13 06:19 AM
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Not sure if it's relevant to the picture, but the fine print says "Adult minimum wage workers are individuals 20 and older who make the federal minimum wage or less."
/r/MensRights05/03/13 11:28 PM
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I've seen similar posts of overweight men showing a picture of themselves, but while the response is different, they aren't necessarily shunned. The responses (at least the ones without the purpose of outright trolling) to the picture of an overweight woman who is praise and admiration for her fearlessness to post the picture accompanied by affirmation that she is beautiful no matter what her physical appearance may be. The responses (again, at least ones that are not trolling) to the picture of…
/r/MensRights01/03/13 06:48 AM
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Normally I'd tell you to move 4chan posts to /r/mensrants, but no, this time I'm just going to tell you this sexist garbage doesn't belong anywhere. You want to disprove the wage gap, great, go ahead, there are lots of facts to back up that argument. Asserting that women have no place in business is not one of those arguments.
/r/MensRights01/03/13 04:13 AM
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subscribing to a "women are wonderful" worldview Attach to that the idea that seems to be perpetuated that men always want sex regardless of circumstances. If a woman believes that men always want sex she will see any offering sex to a man as a gift or opportunity for him. If said man says no to the gift she doesn't think it's because he doesn't want it, she thinks he's essentially saying "no, don't worry about it, I wouldn't want to trouble you".
/r/MensRights28/02/13 11:46 PM
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Do labels really matter that much? He makes good points and injects them into his comedy routine and some people see that what he's talking about actually has truth to it instead of just being a punchline. I just don't think peoples' individual views can be summed up in a label, and it's asinine to try and shove everyone in a little box that defines them according to a generalized overview of their beliefs. So, is Bill Burr an MRA? Who cares? He's concerned with the state of men and boys in soci…
/r/MensRights26/02/13 06:36 AM
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When she said "women have it worse than men", instead of automatically dismissing it ask her why she thinks that. She gives you examples of the type of societal pressure put on women, and then you give her examples of how men feel pressured by society. There will probably be a few examples from her that you won't understand because of perspective and there will be a few she won't understand because of perspective. The key is to avoid dismissing her examples or trying to explain why they may not …
/r/MensRights20/02/13 10:56 AM
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I don't know why you seem to think because a system punished one set of people unfairly that it can be fixed by either removing the part that treats that group unfairly OR making it so the other group is treated just as unfairly. Cut off the nose to spite the face and such. Also, it's not the laws that ruins someone's life when they are falsely accused, it's the people that hear about it and come up with their own verdict despite having none of the facts. That's exactly why the accused's and the…
/r/MensRights19/02/13 08:42 AM
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Probably also worth adding that it should only be convicted false accusers be named, those that were found guilty of making a false police report or slander or whatever else relating to the accusation. A not-guilty verdict for someone accused of rape does not automatically mean the accuser is a false accuser. It needs to be proven that they knowingly and intentionally made a false accusation the same as any other crime.
/r/MensRights19/02/13 08:03 AM
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You could tell her how you feel, whether you never want kids or you just don't want them now. If you get it out in the open how you feel about kids it will probably save you a lot of trouble. If you never want kids and she currently looking for someone to have kids with eventually maybe being together isn't the best idea for either of you (unless you are both looking for something temporary, then at least you know what you are both looking for). If you do want kids some day but just not right no…
/r/MensRights17/02/13 05:24 AM
7

My thoughts are that no one should have to sign up to be sent away kill or possibly be killed against their wishes. It's stupid that men are obligated to sign up for such a program and it would be just as stupid to put the same obligation on women. Best case, voters are shocked by the possibility of having to forcefully send not only their sons but also their daughters into combat. Obviously their sons are disposable enough to not be too concerned, but will still be comfortable with selective se…
/r/MensRights09/02/13 05:37 PM
1

Fix her car, do not give the mother money. Thiiiissss. If your daughters car is broken down arrange to take it into the shop for her, bring her along, maybe it's something that she was doing wrong that she could learn about to prevent it from happening again, like forgetting routine maintenance or something more. My truck broke down while I was in school and went to my dad for help. We went to the shop to find out the fuel pump was dead and I learned it was likely because I let the fuel get so c…
/r/MensRights09/02/13 04:03 AM
3

I haven't ever heard 1 in 3 before though The figure is taken from a true statistic but is represented incorrectly. The 1 in 3 figure is the number of women that will be "physically or sexually assaulted in their lifetime". What they've done is start up removed the "physically assaulted" from the statement and then taken the "sexually assaulted" and assumed it to be synonymous with rape. If you were to do the same with men you would probably end up with somewhere around a 1 in 2 stat (probably h…
/r/MensRights07/02/13 03:35 AM
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I think saying men's rights is about equality for all would be disingenuous, possibly even hypocritical given how we scoff at feminism's claim to fight for equality for all while only fighting against issues women face. Pro-equality, sure, but it does not fight for equality for all, it fights for men's equality specifically. This a community and movement dedicated to raising awareness for and fighting against inequality and discrimination men face. That doesn't make it mutually exclusive to figh…
/r/MensRights06/02/13 12:52 PM
5

I have no studies to back it up but I really wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't necessarily a decrease in male attendance, but instead and over inflation of female attendance as programs dominated by women expanded at a much larger rate than those dominated by men. Possibly also from women being encouraged to traditionally male dominated areas while there has been no such encouragement for men to join traditionally female dominated areas. Also, kind of off topic, but there is also this kind of s…
/r/MensRights05/02/13 08:07 AM
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A day when couples can celebrate trust, love and companionship, which can often be taken for granted. Like Thanksgiving is a celebration for everything you have, the family you have around you, etc except specifically celebrated for the bond between two people. I think people are free to think whatever they want to think about it. It may be commercialized, maybe it has even gone as far to being a holiday about primarily acknowledging the female partner in a relationship, but you can choose not t…
/r/MensRights05/02/13 07:56 AM
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I've no issue with a woman who wants to choose to be a mother or not. As the OP said, his girlfriend is in the last years of law school and under a lot of stress. A pregnancy and child would divert her life in a direction she does not want to go. It is her body and I think she has every right to do as she pleases. What concerns me is when the situation is reversed, where a couple has agreed before hand that if they get pregnant that it will be aborted and then a pregnancy happens and all the sud…
/r/MensRights03/02/13 12:01 PM
2

The best way I find to raise awareness without getting scoffed at is to separated myself from the issue entirely and to bring it up in a way to promote discussion. Instead saying "I think [issue] should be addressed" I'll say "Did you know that [issue] happens?" Possible responses to "I think [domestic abuse against men] should be addressed" are either agreement or disagreement and it either ends up with no discussed if they agree (cool, I agree, what now?) or hostility if they don't (men aren't…
/r/MensRights01/02/13 08:49 PM
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So they are encouraging young women to enter engineering by... giving them a completely misrepresented, fairytale version of what engineering is? Somehow I think this would only do more harm than good. Either is gives girls the idea that engineering is a bunch of pointless, boring garbage making them more disinterested in the subject or it does gain their interest but when they actually enter an engineering program in college they find out it's absolutely nothing like the demonstration they were…
/r/MensRights31/01/13 01:41 AM
7

She's allowed to feel as uncomfortable as she wants. At the same time, your boss is perfectly in his/her right to not employ her if she won't do the work required. In the end she's only hurting herself with her irrational androphobia, and if there was some cause to it, her being abused to molested or otherwise wronged by a man or men in her past, then she should seek help for it because it is having a detrimental effect on her ability to live and work.
/r/MensRights30/01/13 11:10 PM
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It is so sad that this kind of stuff actually has to go through the minds of people entering marriage, that the legal system is so broken that a divorce is grounds for legally robbing someone for everything they are worth. I can't really give any advice but I know if I was in your situation I would probably just not get married. Honestly, what is marriage other than a threat of legal action if the relationship goes sour and possibly a tax break? If it's about the wedding, just have a ceremony an…
/r/MensRights30/01/13 08:49 AM
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Oh, the old "patriarchy is the cause of all the injustice in the world" argument. Funny that the author talks about victim blaming and then uses a term that blames men for their own suffering. And yes, I'm aware that "The Patriarchy" may or may not be synonymous with "Men" but the word is and many feminists take it as such and, instead of blaming some shadow idea of cultural gender roles, blame the men around them every day further perpetuating the gender divide instead of fixing it. Just for co…
/r/MensRights30/01/13 08:32 AM
1

The clitoris might be "kinda similar" to removal of the entire gland, but it would not cause sexual impairment. Certainly not to the same degree. I don't know, who's to say whether the sexual impairment is worse than another. I'm sure a penis with the glans entirely removed would still be able to achieve orgasm, perhaps requiring prostate stimulation. I don't see there even being a point in comparing the two organs anyways. Like I said, the point is no whether one sex fairs worse than the other …
/r/MensRights28/01/13 09:35 AM
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Anatomically, the male foreskin is comparable to the clitoral hood, not the clitoris. A full removal of the clitoris in a female circumcision would be analogous to removing the entire glans from a penis. That said, the point behind saying that circumcision is wrong when done on a male or female is not about the relative damage it does, it's that there is damage being done for no reason other than ritual tradition. It doesn't matter which between MGM or FGM is more damaging, what matters is it is…
/r/MensRights28/01/13 07:56 AM
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"The feminist movement won’t be hostile to the film as feminism is more rational now." Yeah, I nearly spit my drink all over my keyboard reading that. Sure, the majority of feminists won't have a problem with it but I would not be surprised at all to see UofT style protests popping up over a film depicting the crazy nature of fringe feminists.
/r/MensRights27/01/13 09:50 PM
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I can only assume that regulations like that will put a lot of hairdressers out of business as they will only have the option to decrease prices for women instead of increase prices for men. If they try to increase prices, men will just go somewhere else, possibly a barber who specialized in only men's haircuts and charges based on that skillset. I'm sure women would be perfectly free to go to a barber instead of a hairdresser but I don't know how pleased they would be with only having the optio…
/r/MensRights24/01/13 06:17 AM
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It's not good news that they may have to register for the draft, I don't know how you can see putting others in a bad situation makes it better for those that are already there. Hopefully what does come from this is a revaluation of the draft as a whole to determine whether it is feasible to discontinue the whole thing for everyone.
/r/MensRights23/01/13 11:39 PM
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I think that's the point of it, the person who made this is trolling, they are trying to get you to react. Someone could just as easily make a flowchart to determine if a woman is "crazy" by putting in a common example of ways a woman could be controlling, manipulative, emotional, needy, etc at every step in such a way that by the end of the flow chart 90% of the female population would be classified as "crazy". In place of a fedora you could put in cats. It wouldn't prove anything but it would …
/r/MensRights23/01/13 06:52 PM
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I definitely felt like she was just getting frustrated and giving up. Pretty much exactly what I saw from that. Her excuse for not wanting to discuss it any more was that you're arguments had no more coherence, yet every one of your replies was a response to her grasping at straws. If your responses had lost coherence it was only because the straws she grasped for has little coherence. Also interesting was the accusation that you couldn't understand the any perspective except your own while ever…
/r/MensRights21/01/13 07:11 AM
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There are a few "a 'real' man would get tested" responses, but I think in this context the responses would be the same whether it was a man or a woman. If it were a woman being defensive when asked to be tested I suspect the responses would be things like "get out now" or "run. fast". If your partner get defensive at a request to get tested I think that is a valid reason to be wary. It's their right to not get tested, but it's also the other person's right to refuse sex until they do get tested.
/r/MensRights19/01/13 06:04 AM
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Can't really say which is more common, but you can say both exist. The major difference I'd say is that misogyny is recognized for the bigoted filth that it is while misandry is still mostly viewed indifferently until it reaches levels bordering on genocide, and even then likely being viewed as a hyperbolic joke or instance of poe's law in action.
/r/MensRights17/01/13 05:22 PM
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they blow me off with some pretentious attitude and say I'm being ignorant and that what I'm saying doesn't apply or that it's a bullshit argument or something. Attacking or dismissing the person making a claim instead of arguing against the claim is an admission of no-contest or a clear sign of ignorance. You cannot debate ignorance so it isn't worth the attempt. Find the open minded people around you and associate with them instead of the ignorant ones, but remember to keep an open mind yourse…
/r/MensRights17/01/13 04:49 AM
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Oh, sorry, I assumed incorrectly from your original post that you had no intention of being a part of the child's life since it wasn't your decision and was forced on you. Since you do intend to be a part of the child's life, maybe the military isn't the best option for you though, you can't really be a part of her life if you are on the other side of the world.
/r/MensRights16/01/13 11:53 PM
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That to me reads as though it is saying only single parents who have custody or joint custody of the child are denied (ie they don't want to ship someone who has a responsibility to a child overseas when they may be needed at home to take the child). From what you've said it sounds like you don't have custody, and therefore no need to be around to take physical care of said child. It also sounds like there might be some kind of loophole in there in which you can marry someone other than the moth…
/r/MensRights16/01/13 11:32 PM
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Have you considered of getting in touch with the DJ? Bands/DJ's have been known to cancel or that force the venue they where going to play at to change or fix the problem. This right here. Usually it is the venue discriminating and the artist knows nothing about it. Most artists wouldn't be too pleased to know that their name is being attached to discriminatory pricing strategies.
/r/MensRights16/01/13 11:31 AM
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First, there is a policy of no linking to SRS affiliated subs. Second, most of them seem to be agreeing that vigilante justice is wrong, as indifferent as the discussion may be.
/r/MensRights13/01/13 11:26 AM
2

I don't have a problem with men embracing feminine traits, the problem I have is the vilification of masculine traits to the point where men are becoming afraid of embracing their masculinity.
/r/MensRights12/01/13 07:18 AM
2

There is nothing secret about some women enjoying being dominated during sex, but you can't make some generalization about "the truth about women's fantasies". Each woman has her preferences so trying to draw some scientific conclusion from a survey about men's experiences with women is meaningless. If are interested in individuals' sexual preferences or fetishes you'd be better asking on /r/AskReddit or /r/sex
/r/MensRights11/01/13 11:32 AM
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I think it can be argued that they just used the masculine form symbol out of convenience. I agree, kind of like traffic signs will generalize a "person", say for a crosswalk, as the generic male picture. I've seen infographs, for example this one, shows all the generic male picture until it gets to the bottom for the gender break down. Nurse practitioner is obviously a very female dominated job but it is still represented by the generic male picture because for the purpose of the infographic it…
/r/MensRights11/01/13 10:52 AM
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NOW doesn't seem to have an issue with the gender inequality in their own administration. Warren Farrell is the only male to have been at any noticeable level of leadership. Sounds like they choose the best candidate for the job instead of choosing based on equal gender numbers. Interesting that they think the government should be different.
/r/MensRights11/01/13 02:30 AM
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I'm not surprised by this, what else do you expect when girls are put in an environment where they are essentially told that all men are predators and they should live every day in fear of men. It's a reaction to what they've been taught.
/r/MensRights10/01/13 09:06 AM
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So I tried to put a little bit more reliable statistics in this one. I also put into perspective with the whole population since it is quite clear this graph was intended to perpetuate "fear of men". The original graph is disingenuous because: It ignores the entire population that are not rapists and by doing so tries to portray the entire male population as rapists, most of which are some shadowy unreported ones lurking around every corner. It separates the falsely accused from the "reported", …
/r/MensRights08/01/13 01:33 AM
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The two statements don't go well together because they seem to be trying to compare them in the same way. For the women's statement, it's saying that women showing weakness are given great empathy and protection by society. In many instances it is in a woman's best interest to be or act helpless and in need of assistance, therefore, women gain advantage (or strength) from weakness. For the men's statement it is the other way around and doesn't make sense in the context of the quote. A man does n…
/r/MensRights06/01/13 03:30 AM
1

Hmm, I don't see that being much of a problem, security had full access and responded to pretty much everywhere in the building within a minute, plus it was a hospital so they would be literally 30 seconds from medical attention. The issue would be that it was a pretty secluded hallway, like I said, so if someone was in there alone someone would have to be walking down the hallway to hear them yelling for help.
/r/MensRights05/01/13 09:31 AM
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Never seen this before, only time I ever see the doors held open is when they are being cleaned. I did, however, work at a place before that did have a key card lock (key cards were used everywhere for other doors) on a female staff washroom though but not on the male staff washroom beside it. The lock was specific to female employee key cards only. Tried to let my friend in when she forgot her card but mine wouldn't work. I didn't have any issues with it but I found it kind of weird that they w…
/r/MensRights05/01/13 01:50 AM
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From a business point of view it makes sense, they know their primary demographic is mothers so they play up the confirmation that "You moms are so awesome, let us pat you on the back a whole bunch! Oh, and remember to buy our products because we stroked your ego so much!". It's essentially the opposite of beer and sports car commercials.
/r/MensRights30/12/12 08:07 PM
0

Stockholm Syndrome anyone? Sounds like he's a prisoner in an emotionally abusive relationship and instead of leaving he's justified it as being his fault and now sides with his captor.
/r/MensRights29/12/12 09:14 PM
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Don't particularly care whether PMS is a thing or not, if a woman can't control her emotions while there is a normal, natural fluctuation in hormones then she needs professional help, possibly medication, to manage it. The same goes for anyone with a condition that makes them emotionally unstable. "That time of the month" is not an excuse to be physically or emotionally abusive to those around you. I don't know what's so hard to understand about that.
/r/MensRights24/12/12 01:07 AM
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The way I understood it she was saying the woman was responding incorrectly, instead of communicating with her partner that she didn't enjoy it she instead tried to make her partner uncomfortable with it by trying to humiliate him further. That doesn't work though, the man enjoys being humiliated and thinks she's doing it to pleasure him. Think of it like this. A woman tells her partner she likes being eaten out, he agrees to give it a try. He finds he doesn't enjoy it but instead of communicati…
/r/MensRights23/12/12 08:42 AM
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Did the discussion just turn to calling tolerance of being cheated on a way of abusing the cheater? What she's saying makes sense in this context though. Instead of viewing the "cheating" (it's not really cheating, it's requesting your partner sleep with someone else) involved as cheating in the normal sense, view it instead as a sexual act such as performing oral or role playing. If you take a situation role playing where one partner enjoys it and the other doesn't and there is no communication…
/r/MensRights23/12/12 07:51 AM
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Cuckold as a fetish is different than cuckold in the sense of a woman tricking a man into supporting a non-biologically related child. It's submissive fetish, like like wanting to be tied up in bondage. Cuckold fetishism is to paternity fraud as bondage is to kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment. She just explaining that a lack of communication when participating in a cuckold fetish can lead to problems, but that's no different from any sexual act.
/r/MensRights23/12/12 07:11 AM
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I believe that's all women vs all men (including adults and seniors), at least that's what I remember reading. I was speaking specifically about young men (under 25) and from my understanding young men, on average, have more accidents as well as more fatal accidents than young women. If I'm wrong, let me know. I'm just going off memory and may have misread it.
/r/MensRights21/12/12 02:41 AM
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The messed up thing here is they are so concerned about this young female safe driver having to pay more but they literally could not give less of a shit about the majority of young males who are safe drivers who have to pay more. If they want to go by statistics, yes, young men have more accidents, but I'm sure you could find that some ethnicity groups also statistically are more likely to be an accident, but people would be outraged if there was race bias in insurance rates, and rightfully so.…
/r/MensRights21/12/12 12:05 AM
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I think the point he was trying to make was, while you've encountered pro-circumcision and anti-circumcision men and women, have you ever once in your life encountered someone who was openly pro-female circumcision? Essentially, it is still socially acceptable in America to disregard a infant male's right to bodily autonomy for the purpose of a unnecessary, traumatizing ritual cutting while if you were to even breathe anything but a strong anti-female circumcision (of any form, ranging from full…
/r/MensRights20/12/12 08:26 AM
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I think he's a jerk for trying to coerce her into getting an abortion, I firmly believe that it is a woman's right to choose to have an abortion or not and no one has the right to tell her otherwise. If all he'd said was "if you have this baby I'm leaving the country and not supporting you or the baby" I say he was completely justified. It leaves the decision, and responsibility, in her hands without giving her an ultimatum of "have an abortion or else". The problem he has isn't with her, in my …
/r/MensRights19/12/12 02:08 AM
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I won't deny that, but that's a matter of biological difference that is unavoidable. That doesn't detract from her being a great player who is getting deserved attention.
/r/MensRights18/12/12 06:01 AM
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I'm talking about the average adult, not the professional football player. I'm not talking about average male in his physical prime either. I'd be surprised if the average adult could complete a 100m sprint without near collapsing at the end.
/r/MensRights18/12/12 02:57 AM
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Pretty shit what happened to Keeling, told he can't do something he loves and that he's good at because not enough boys want to do it as well. Even if he was playing against other boys he'd probably dominate them as well but he doesn't get that opportunity. As for Sam, she deserves the recognition, I don't think it should be a matter of her being a girl in a boys league, it should be about her being an amazing football player. She's 9 or 10 and she looks like she could easily destroy me (and I s…
/r/MensRights18/12/12 01:17 AM
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There's the obvious, but less common, drugging or taking advantage of an intoxicated man. Seen many a story here and on other boards (askreddit, relationships) where a man was almost completely out of it, sometimes completely passed out, and had a woman get him aroused and have her way with him. There is also coercion by authority. Teachers taking advantage of students, bosses taking advantage of employees, etc. Essentially the man is in a position where he can't refuse without repercussion. Mor…
/r/MensRights15/12/12 01:57 AM
1

You are ignorant if you don't think women don't have a sense of reluctance to enter a work environment that is dominated by men. The same goes for men. It less to do with being told they can't and more to do with seeing 90% of their co-workers being the opposite gender and questioning whether they can fit in. I'm not saying there is anyone stopping them from entering those fields, but when they see the workplace environment it looks foreign like they can't relate to anyone. Same goes for men loo…
/r/MensRights11/12/12 01:11 AM
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Can't speak for anyone else but I don't deny that. My issue is that no matter what you say (social pressure making women work less/men work more, women taking time off work for family/men taking time away from family to work) the feminist solution to the problem is "well, if you just pay women the same amount as men regardless of choices then the problem is solved". No, it isn't solved by just paying women the same as men. If you do that you just end up with men being paid less for equal work or…
/r/MensRights08/12/12 11:27 PM
1

Age of consent is not around to stop kids from having sex or relationships, it's to stop the consequences of that sex or relationships that society believes those kids aren't ready to deal with. Domestic violence, emotional exploitation, controlling partners, coercion etc aren't that uncommon. The difference between it happening to an adult who has the capacity to understand what is happening and remove themselves from the situation is very different than when an adult exploits a child that has …
/r/MensRights08/12/12 10:04 AM
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Best logical argument I know in response to being called a misogynist, woman hater, woman beater, etc for not supporting feminism is... Utterly fucking idiotic. That's like saying if you hate PETA then you support animal cruelty. Agreeing with a groups of people's stated goals doesn't mean you have to agree with their methods. -/u/Eulabeia I fully support women's rights, I just completely disagree with feminisms methods of blaming every wrong suffered by women on men and of portraying every woma…
/r/MensRights07/12/12 03:45 AM
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When you've been told your whole life that it is your duty to think of the women around you first, the women beyond you second and yourself last, it can be difficult to accept a notion that thinks of men as equals to women. No one said the red pill was always easy to swallow.
/r/MensRights07/12/12 03:27 AM
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Yeah, I've only seen him a couple times, and his bias always comes through very heavily. I can understand a journalist covering stories important to them, but when you write or broadcast it your own personal biases should be removed. Also didn't like the "I apologize on behalf of Canada" at the end. Canada has nothing to apologize for, the bigots blocking the doors do.
/r/MensRights07/12/12 03:12 AM
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Feminists thinking womens' achievements are due to feminism is like a superbowl winner thinking his achievements are due to god. It belittles the individual effort put in by those women (or football player). Feminism (and god) may be an inspiration to some people, but it isn't responsible for the achievements.
/r/MensRights02/12/12 09:34 AM
2

I don't doubt it gets them profit, most of theatres income is from concession purchases. The cheaper tickets for women is intended to bring in more customers who will in turn by more concession items. My point is that while this female only thing may bring in more women with cheaper ticket prices, reducing priced for women AND men would bring in even more, especially with a fun theme to it. If this was a bar or club I can understand the reduced female pricing because it's the women that attracts…
/r/MensRights02/12/12 07:27 AM
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Why make it exclusionary though? Making a night specifically for women is stupid, it's just as stupid to make one specifically for men, especially as some kind of spite tactic. It isn't the women making the theatre do this, it's the theatre's management thinking they can capitalize on being discrimination and general "women are wonderful" mentality in society. Most women aren't mortally terrified of men and prefer to go to inclusive events.
/r/MensRights02/12/12 06:58 AM
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I would seriously inquire about having a beer and wings night where the tickets are $5 for everyone. Let the ladies have their night, but make this beer and wing night inclusive of both men and women. The theatre will see how the beer and wings night gets far far more attendance, ie. profit, and decide that an exclusive business plan isn't that great. Maybe beer and wing night will be so popular that women that only seeing one movie every week or two will opt to go to the one where all their fri…
/r/MensRights02/12/12 04:44 AM
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Yeah, seen this one in action. Acquaintance of mine going 140km/hr in 90km/h zone, gets pulled over (her and 2 of her girlfriends in the car). What should be a $600 ticket, impounded car and suspended license turned into a $75 citation for one of her headlights being burnt out. Only reason I learned about it was because they were joking about getting out of it on facebook afterwards. I have one speeding ticket on my record, I was going ~93-95km/h in a 90km/h zone. The cop called me a "fucking id…
/r/MensRights02/12/12 12:26 AM
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I don't think it's misandric to appriciate when someone pays for a date's dinner or gifts, but I think saying that someone isn't a "real man" for not paying is. I also kind of see the general expectation that the guy pay for the date to be on the same level of weirdness as expecting the girl to put out if her date was paid for. I seriously cannot understand how anyone would get offended or think less of someone for wanting to split the bill, or at least have the other party pay next time. If I'm…
/r/MensRights01/12/12 01:48 AM
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Problem wasn't the joke, the problem was Watson saying that women who act like that, with total disdain for men, is a "confident" woman. I can't even tell if she was joking or not because she literally laughs at every single thing she says. I don't know if she thinks everything she says is funny or she's just subconsciously knows most of what she says is laughable.
/r/MensRights29/11/12 04:32 AM
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I was expecting something that would be more skirting the issues to try and not offend anyone, but was surprised that it really got straight to the point. Well done by the author and well done by the editors to approve it. Hope to see more, possibly even from other publications.
/r/MensRights28/11/12 04:27 AM
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Utterly fucking idiotic. That's like saying if you hate PETA then you support animal cruelty. Agreeing with a groups of people's stated goals doesn't mean you have to agree with their methods. -Eulabeia Well said.
/r/MensRights25/11/12 08:33 PM
1

A huge range of people and ideas from those that support equality for all people regardless of sex, religion, race, etc all the way up to the chauvinist bigots advocating societal eugenic programs to reduce or eliminate the male population. I don't have a problem with feminism, I have a problem with the hateful bigots and their cronies that use the name of a movement that should be for a good cause and twist it to meet their own personal agenda. They then strong arm actual feminists that have go…
/r/MensRights25/11/12 08:32 AM
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But after decades of browbeating the American male, men are tired. Tired of being told there’s something fundamentally wrong with them. Tired of being told that if women aren’t happy, it’s men’s fault. While this statement I can agree with, the rest of the article seems to be advocating a shift back to the 50s where the assumption is every woman should be happy with popping out babies while her man goes to work so he can buy her little trinkets. Men aren't turning away from marriage because "wom…
/r/MensRights25/11/12 03:07 AM
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It's not worth arguing with people that are so ignorant that they see men as nothing but objects of oppression and evil and women as nothing less than living angels and models of empathy and integrity. No matter what you say all they see is the object of their hatred and resent, not because you personally wronged them but they've been indoctrinated with the idea that men are not capable of more than what they've been taught. This goes equally for anyone that is so unquestioningly indoctrinated i…
/r/MensRights25/11/12 02:12 AM
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Feminists like to say that masculinity is trained behavior caused by the social conditioning called "Patriarchy". I find it kind of ironic that the way they view men and masculinity as wholly and entirely negative and predatory (unless said man has submitted to feminism and repented for the sins of all men who live, have lived and every will live) is also caused by the social conditioning called "Feminism". I guess the only real difference then is that you can't get a diploma in "Patriarchy Stud…
/r/MensRights24/11/12 11:04 PM
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Get a consult with a lawyer, then you can determine what you can do, how much it will cost etc. Probably also a good idea to talk to someone about the abuse, verbal and emotional abuse is still abuse. Can't really say who to talk to, but you could try a DV shelter and see if they will help men. If it gets really bad then also consider documenting as much of it as you can and call the police.
/r/MensRights24/11/12 02:34 AM
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Rarely. I can understand it if it's a rental house and 2 or 3 female or male roommates are looking for a same-sex roommate to fill an open room. If it's a renter renting out a place I believe (in canada at least) that it's illegal to discriminate based on gender. Only thing they are allowed to discriminate on is renting history (if you damaged previous properties) and financial situation (whether you can afford to pay or not). Not sure where a basement suite thing falls since the renter would be…
/r/MensRights22/11/12 07:58 AM
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I think it custody should preferably always be joint custody, but if that's not possible it should go to the most parent that offers the most balanced life (enough financial support and parenting time combined). I can see how, for the female hygiene thing, people think a mother is pretty much mandatory, but I think it's just further perpetuated by that train of thought. I don't see what the problem is with father learning about it and giving advice on it, even if he needs to ask a female friend …
/r/MensRights21/11/12 05:49 AM
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Can't say for him specifically but I've had a manager that found it more productive to give men criticism and women praise. His reasoning was men will generally strive to do better if they aren't currently the best, it's a challenge, but if they are praised it "goes to their head" so to speak and they are satisfied with their level of work. Women, on the other hand, will generally do better if they get praise because they increase their level of work in order to increased the amount of praise th…
/r/MensRights21/11/12 04:24 AM
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I genuinely hope all these guys transfer schools and bring all future sports prospects, including those on other male sports teams that didn't get cut, with them. On the subject of title 9, I've heard they want to expand it to STEM programs, but I wonder, why stop there, why not expand it to the arts and humanities? 200 women vs 20 men applying for women's/gender studies majors? Sorry, 180 of you women, you are going to have to find another field, this one is full due to quotas.
/r/MensRights20/11/12 06:31 AM
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It's like going to a breast cancer run and having a hot-or-not contest with the runners. What exemplary people these must be.
/r/MensRights20/11/12 12:02 AM
6

Also touched on this most recent season was that Jason was raped by his high school teacher, but at the time he'd accepted it as normal because that's what was expected of him as a boy. He later has a near nervous breakdown after hooking up with his teacher again years later when she returns to town.
/r/MensRights19/11/12 11:24 PM
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As I said above... I think the perpetuation of infant circumcision outside of medical necessity needs to stop for the reasons above. Emphasis on "outside medical necessity". This applies to all kinds of surgical procedures on those who cannot consent. Circumcision done on an infant is clearly not done due to medical necessity.
/r/MensRights19/11/12 05:40 AM
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I've seen a few posts over the past 3 or 4 months of men coming in, asking what the problem is with circumcision and saying they are circumcised and see nothing wrong with it. I remember one that I can't find where he said something along the lines of "I don't like being treated like I'm a victim, I'm not a victim, I like how I am". I'm not circumcised but I can also emphasis with their situation because I've seen discussions in other places where people shame men for not being circumcised becau…
/r/MensRights19/11/12 04:10 AM
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I'm not trying to deny that it fits the definition of mutilation, I'm just saying that the word is emotional language, it paints an image that the person it was done to is now broken, damage, unnatural, a freak etc. It takes away the emphasis for why it is wrong, the lack of consent, and moves the argument to center around the missing foreskin or mutilation. Saying such also implies that all circumcision is mutilation, consensual or not, because all circumcision has the same result, missing fore…
/r/MensRights19/11/12 02:17 AM
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Infant circumcision is a medical procedure done on someone who does not have the capacity to consent to it. It is a big deal not only because it physically harms the infant, but also because it sets a terrible precedent that it's okay for parents to "customize" their child as they see fit. This particular precedent applies only to boys, which is why it is a men's rights issue, but it could just as easily apply to girls if it became common practice for parents to have labiaectomies performed on t…
/r/MensRights18/11/12 08:29 PM
4

Sounds like she's projecting her feelings of rejection and possibly a feeling that she took advantage of you. She probably doesn't have much experience with either and since it's typically the man who is the rejected or the aggressor, not the woman, the only conclusion her mind can come to is that it's your fault she feels like that. She expresses those feelings to your friends looking for reassurance that it is your fault instead of hers.
/r/MensRights18/11/12 12:58 AM
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Unfortunately I doubt she will ever see the inside of a prison cell, I think the worst charge you can bring against someone falsely accusing someone is perjury and since you never had a trial that doesn't apply. Maybe filing a false police report but my understanding is that it is a slap on the wrist at worst. I could see a financial side to it though in civil court, especially given the length of time you spent in jail. I agree with you though, she needs to learn the hard way that this isn't ac…
/r/MensRights17/11/12 09:43 AM
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It's more closely related to a religion, members don't join because it's cool, they join because they are shamed if they don't. Once they are in the group they may think it's cool because they become the ones that are "allowed" to shame others for not sharing their beliefs with the infallible doctrine that "if you don't agree then you must hate women". I find that a bit odd though, that if you don't agree with feminism, which totes itself as an equality movement for men and women (patriarchy hur…
/r/MensRights17/11/12 01:04 AM
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Interesting, I wonder what he does to avoid being assaulted because the chances he is assaulted or killed in public as a man are 3 to 4 times greater than his sister's chance of being raped in public. He doesn't do anything special you say? Could it be because he doesn't have a victim complex and live his life in fear of something that could happen but instead just takes logical precautions like being aware of his surroundings and not putting himself in a bad situation? So why is his sister in t…
/r/MensRights16/11/12 02:22 AM
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I do not envy women with families that push and pressure them trying to "subtly" get them to get pregnant and start a family of their own. There is probably a little bit of it going towards men, mothers and fathers wanting grandchildren, but I doubt it's anywhere near what some women go through. I know a woman who was shamed and practically disowned by her family because she said she wasn't going to have children any time soon. It's like parents feel entitled to grandchildren from their daughter…
/r/MensRights15/11/12 03:04 AM
2

I wonder when we will get the video for a hormone which will stop women from cheating? I suspect it would be hormones released when giving birth or breast feeding, namely oxytocin (same one that the video is talking about), endorphins and prolactin. Time for more studies!
/r/MensRights15/11/12 01:25 AM
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All this talk about men being obsolete and worthless and no one has any solutions to the problems because they are still so wrapped up on coddling women and girls. If things don't change I very much expect most men to just stop trying. Rosin likes to make the point that boys slacking off and gaming and not going to college and avoiding parenthood is an indicator of men becoming less important that women. No. That's bullshit. It's not an indicator, it's a symptom of boys growing up in a world tha…
/r/MensRights14/11/12 02:45 AM
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I feel like this commercial is trying to get across the opposite, that the men are enjoying life (albeit with a bit of reckless disregard) but it's the women that are overreacting and throwing childish temper tantrums over something that makes their partner happy.
/r/MensRights13/11/12 03:02 AM
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Stop generalizing first of all. You cannot judge individuals on the actions of others or even statistics showing a generalized group do something more or less than another group. If you assume the worst (or even the best) of everyone you run into in life based purely on their demographic you are going to, for lack of a better way of saying it, have a bad time. Meet people and view them as individuals, not statistics, not generalizations, not an amalgamation of previous experiences with members o…
/r/MensRights12/11/12 05:29 AM
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Birth control should be for men and women. Leaving the choice and responsibility of whether to have a child or not should not be left to one partner, male or female. It takes two people to have a child, both should have an equal choice in the matter.
/r/MensRights11/11/12 11:47 PM
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The male-abuser card is used to get men to forfeit themselves to feminism a lot. Essentially they get a guy to feel guilty for the actions of other bad men until they break down and see themselves as one of those bad men. Then feminism is offered as a type of "rehabilitation" for them. If the man refuses said rehabilitation he's just addicted to male privilege and power and treated like a bad and abusive person, but if he joins feminism, spreads their message that all men are bad and all women a…
/r/MensRights11/11/12 11:39 PM
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No, they do, and they know it. They just don't care. If they cared they wouldn't be making specific well-lit, close to entrance parking spots just for women, they would be mandating that all parking spots are well-lit and have surveillance and the spots in higher risk areas have security measures in place.
/r/MensRights10/11/12 01:36 AM
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Is there a guide like this to show men where these deceitful wives hide their morals and integrity?
/r/MensRights04/11/12 03:13 AM
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Maybe she's just projecting. Maybe she is just exceedingly jealous of the majestic mo's that come out at this time of year and wishes she had the same facial follicle prowess. Hmm, guess not, just some woman who think men's bodies belong to her and all men should stick to the image that she thinks is attractive.
/r/MensRights02/11/12 02:49 PM
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From nightmares to fear of men, I am forever tortured, and will never be the same girl again. I have nothing to gain from this. Sorry, Audrey, that wasn't caused by the trooper, that was caused by unquestioningly following irrational feminist doctrine and the resulting delusions of grandeur and self-entitlement.
/r/MensRights02/11/12 02:15 AM
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There's a lot of good science supporting that mastectomies prevent breast cancer, yet you don't see is suggested as a preventative measure. Also, the studies in question, at least the unbiased ones, all conclude that while there may be a very slight reduction in risk of UTI or HIV, it is still not even close to enough to consider using circumcision for preventative measures alone. These studies also disregard the benefits of the foreskin, ie additional luberication, additional sensitivity of bot…
/r/MensRights01/11/12 11:28 PM
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Because it is not the parent's decision to make. Body autonomy is a basic human right meaning no one except the person whose body it is can decide how it will be altered. This is the same reason that tattooing infants is illegal, FGM is illegal, and any other kind of body modification on someone who cannot consent is illegal. If a boy wants to be circumcised when he has the ability to consent to it, by all means allow him to have it done. Medical necessity where circumcision will remove infected…
/r/MensRights01/11/12 05:33 AM
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I wish I could grow a decent mustache, unfortunately I can't and because of that I get a lot of negative comments about it. Really a shitty situation, if I want to participate I have to accept that I will get shamed for how I look. You know what though, fuck haters, I'm doing it anyways.
/r/MensRights30/10/12 11:59 PM
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But I feel that, as men, you all don't know what it is like to be a woman. Women are inherently physically weaker and have been oppressed in most societies, either in the past or currently. I agree, as a man I have no idea what it's like to be a woman. But just the same, as a woman you have no idea what it's like being a man. That is probably one of the most frustrating thing I see from gender feminists, they claim that men have no idea what it's like to be women and them immediately turn around…
/r/MensRights29/10/12 01:39 AM
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This is just as distasteful and stupid as saying "Men age like fine wine, women age like milk". I don't think anyone would find it humorous if someone added that as an addendum on to this sign's men being wine metaphor. I certainly wouldn't, and I don't find the current form of the sign any less distasteful.
/r/MensRights29/10/12 12:51 AM
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About half way through it and I'm find it kind of funny that they are all pretty much agreeing with each other that both men and women have problems, but are disagreeing on the causes and actions to be taken because some statistic says one set of percentages and another study says the opposite. I do have one thing to ask though, and this has nothing to do with the debate. Why is the woman on the negative (correct term here? the man is debating the affirmative, she's debating the negative?) side …
/r/MensRights28/10/12 08:59 AM
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Apparently the story behind this is the guy pulled out his dick in front of them with the intent to elicit a response from them. You can see him proudly enjoying the attention he got from his stunt.
/r/MensRights28/10/12 06:41 AM
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But doesn't that make being a healer awesome? Isn't the point of playing a game for the challenge? If you do everything required of you then you can be the lynchpin of the team. It isn't the heavies, soldiers etc that make or break the game at that point, it's the healer keeping them alive long enough to get the kills. Maybe I just see games in a different light. I'm perfectly fine playing a 2-15-10 support in dota 2 if it means the person I'm supporting goes 27-2-5 and we both win the game toge…
/r/MensRights27/10/12 11:08 PM
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Luckily most games alieviate that by either giving healers relatively good damage ability. For example, my disc priest in WoW could hold his own with damage dealers in solo questing, or I could dual spec shadow. Old school support was stuff like full support priest in ragnarok online. I was a full support priest in RO for 5 or 6 years. At level 99 I had the damage output of a level 15-20 damage class. While I couldn't kill anything, nothing could kill me. I built the character around grouping, a…
/r/MensRights27/10/12 10:49 PM
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Usually it's not that guys expect her to be a healer, it's that she's not assertive when it comes to choosing classes. All the guys pick damage or tank classes while she sits back and waits for what's left over. Most often it's the healer. They could just as easily say "no, fuck this, I'm gonna be the rogue" and one of the guys would probably take the healer role. What's wrong with healers anyways, it's probably the most reactive role in the game. In easy content it's pretty whack-a-moley, but h…
/r/MensRights27/10/12 06:57 PM
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I was under the impression that men couldn't be victimized. Any feeling of victimization they feel is actually just the feeling of them coming face to face with their privilege. /s
/r/MensRights27/10/12 03:50 AM
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I think the world would be a better place if people stopped doing the things that make someone feel victimized more I completely agree with this. The problem is feminism keeps moving the target for what "victimized" means. Simply walking on the same side of the street as a woman is victimization to a lot of feminists. It's insane. Soon enough it's going to be victimization for men to be in public without blindfolds over their eyes, duct tape over their mouths and hands handcuffed behind their ba…
/r/MensRights27/10/12 02:17 AM
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In my experience at least, it isn't that boys aren't taught to respect girls, it's that girls are not taught to respect boys. They are taught to respect adults, elders, people in authority etc, but when it comes to boys I feel there usually isn't a direct teaching that they should respect boys. Boys are told "don't hit girls", "don't hurt girls feelings", "be gentle with girls", but I don't see the same for girls because it's assumed that because she's a girl, she's weaker and therefore she can'…
/r/MensRights27/10/12 12:28 AM
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I'll be honest, I'd probably just walk on over and grab the banana and eat it before it went bad. Possibly thank her for leaving the banana out for me and a knife to make it easier to peel. Leave the apples there for a snack later.
/r/MensRights26/10/12 12:45 AM
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There isn't really any "navigating" to consequences, they are just consequences and he and his sister-in-law will have to deal with them. They're going to have to come clean eventually and they should do it sooner rather than later. Two marriages might be ending very abruptly, but that's the price he and his sister-in-law pay for making an exceedingly bad decision.
/r/MensRights26/10/12 12:35 AM
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I probably wouldn't say anything, I'd just let them know it seems inappropriate to do that in the office. I'd do the same thing if genders were reversed. Like you said though, if it was women finding men watching what is essentially softcore porn, I suspect a lot of them would bring up a stink about it. That doesn't really effect my actions though, I personally wouldn't be offended, and I see no reason why I should act like I am just because some women would be if they were in a similar situatio…
/r/MensRights25/10/12 02:25 AM
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I think girlwriteswhat explained it pretty well here.
/r/MensRights25/10/12 12:22 AM
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No, it wouldn't say he would burn in hell, it likely just wouldn't show up anywhere in the media. At best it would be a 6th page, two paragraph article in the local daily newspaper.
/r/MensRights24/10/12 01:04 AM
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Well, I actually never will understand it from a first person point of view, but I can conceptualize it in my mind. My usually response is just to agree with them, that no, I will never understand it the way a woman understands it, but then she will never understand what it's like to be a man in a world that actively vilifies him as a sexual deviant, that views him as disposable meat for the economic or military grinder, that denies his problems and shames him if he brings them up. I also add th…
/r/MensRights23/10/12 04:54 AM
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I'm not sure if something like this would apply to you, but maybe there is a way to delay her move long enough that you could also make arrangements to move as well? I would like to think since she's the one breaking the custody agreement that she would have to do everything in her power to keep it working. If that involved her driving your daughter for over an hour to be with you for the weekends so be it. In the end, the custody agreement is about your daughter and what's best for her. What be…
/r/MensRights23/10/12 04:20 AM
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So what do you think the reasons are for them leaving out the details?
/r/MensRights23/10/12 02:58 AM
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just like the 15 year old boy arrested in Toronto wasn't rape It's a good thing he wasn't accused of rape then, so why make it out like he was and then say he's accused of something he didn't do. It's a misdirection tactic, red herring, that's why I used "as though" and then added "or what he may have done as harmless".
/r/MensRights23/10/12 02:48 AM
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You can't really say what he did, you don't have any details of what happened so trying to explain it away as though he's innocent or what he may have done as harmless is as stupid as someone assuming he's guilty simply by being arrested.
/r/MensRights23/10/12 02:30 AM
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I personally think it will be overall harmful, while it can be used to point out double standards I think it will be seen by moderate feminists (equality feminists), and even women who don't identify on either side of the equality debate, as a generalizing criticism the same way we view patriarchy theory as being a generalizing criticism on all men. Making more enemies for no reason isn't a very good strategy for trying to gain awareness for our issues.
/r/MensRights22/10/12 04:01 AM
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I'm entered comp-sci because my mother is a programmer. She was the one that introduced me to computers at an early age and I was hooked. I guess that could be considered encouragement. My sister got the same encouragement I suppose, we were both very much into technology growing up, but she ended up deciding to instead take an engineering path because she had more of a passion for building/creating while I more enjoyed logic and problem solving.
/r/MensRights22/10/12 03:54 AM
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This has no reason to be here, in fact, this kind of crap that is only harmful to a movement seeking equality. One ignorant woman does not mean all women, or even most women, are ignorant.
/r/MensRights22/10/12 03:47 AM
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I'm sure you could have come up with a better analogy here... Perhaps "you're preaching to the choir"...?
/r/MensRights20/10/12 09:29 PM
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Holding a door open for a woman is sexist, slamming it in her face is misogynist. Which one of you was this?
/r/MensRights19/10/12 05:24 AM
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Just a guess, but maybe something to do with baby boomers being born, women choosing to leaving the work place or taking part time work so they could stay home raising the kids.
/r/MensRights17/10/12 03:49 AM
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So walking into a class, separating the men and women into two groups, telling the men to leave and then opening fire on the women doesn't sounds like hatred of women to you? Sounds to me like he was trying to justify his actions as hating feminists, but I don't think he was able to make a distinction between feminists and women. If he was against feminists he would have targeted men as well or at least made efforts to determine which women were feminist and which were not.
/r/MensRights17/10/12 03:43 AM
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Yes. An extreme case would be something like École Polytechnique massacre. The killer specifically targeted women; not women who wronged him, not even women he knew, just women because they were women.
/r/MensRights17/10/12 03:28 AM
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But should i have insisted on being more "gentlemanly" myself? Something like that is the best option, but calling it "gentlemanly" is the wrong term, it's just being courteous. If you want your son and daughters to see everyone as being equal and treating others with respect, regardless of who they are and what they look like, then you should take up that same stance of being courteous to others. How can i teach my children equality across the board while still teaching them traditional manners…
/r/MensRights17/10/12 03:21 AM
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I don't think we need another word for this, in this context the word "meanie" works just fine and has for a long time.
/r/MensRights16/10/12 11:59 PM
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In Canada the earliest you can consent is 12 years old, no matter the age difference. In the US it goes state to state but mostly sticks to the 12 year old range but when that is not specifically stated they generally go by a "less than 3 years the elder" rule. In any case, legally she is a sex offender. The psycho part I added because it is pretty obvious she knew what she was doing was wrong and hurtful to him, and then took it a step further and lied about what happened so that she could push…
/r/MensRights16/10/12 03:51 AM
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Male: +25 Female: -50 Disfigured: -40 Immobile: -30 Yep, that's right, a wheelchair-bound male burn victim is better off than a woman. Well, at least until he gouges his eyes out (Blind: -750). Sorry, I kind of like to bring comedy into outlandish ideas.
/r/MensRights16/10/12 03:28 AM
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Very similar thing happened to me when I was 10 (also it was a 12 year old neighbor instead of cousin), though it was for 2 months instead of 2 years. She made sure to make sure I didn't tell any adults about it with threats of me getting in trouble if I did. I don't know what would have happened if I'd told my parents about it. I suspect it would have gone better than it did for him, my parents were always the kind that would believe me over anyone else. I still never did, and still haven't, to…
/r/MensRights16/10/12 02:36 AM
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That inappropriate guy sounds like a match made in heaven for the drunk girl. Maybe politely introduce them next time.
/r/MensRights14/10/12 06:45 PM
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You are right, I used the wrong word, I meant to say opposite gender. Fixed that. Also, not sure if I need to qualify it, but I'm not one of the people that get offended by transgendered people not identifying with their biological sex. I was just trying to put into context why transpeople may feel the need to use the word identify.
/r/MensRights13/10/12 07:08 PM
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Best I could do is show empathy to whatever situation they are in. Giving advice to actual suicidal people, other than "see a professional", when you aren't trained to do so can be really dangerous.
/r/MensRights13/10/12 06:10 PM
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Most of the uses of "identifying" as something comes from transgenders who identify as the opposite gender. The reason they say identify is because when they said "I am [the opposite gender]" people would get offended because they thought the person was "lying" about their gender because it didn't match their sex. They use "identify" as a euphemism for "to be" in an attempt to not offend people who don't understand gender dysphoria.
/r/MensRights13/10/12 05:39 PM
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Why does it even matter? If a woman doesn't trust men to take their pill she can just take her own damn pill and be protected. If there was no female pill I would completely understand women questioning whether a man was responsible enough or trustworthy enough to take his pill, kind of like how it is right now for men. Men need their own pill so they aren't forced to always be wary and sceptical of womens' motives.
/r/MensRights12/10/12 05:01 AM
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There isn't anything wrong with protecting yourself when you feel threatened, the problem is assuming that half the population is a threat. It is not men these women are threatened by, it is the extremist negative idea of men that they have been indoctrinated to believe represents all men. Being afraid and always being on edge around half the population sounds like a pretty terrible way to live as well.
/r/MensRights12/10/12 02:40 AM
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And that's why there is a long period of therapy and examination before sex-reassignment is allowed on a patient, to weed out psychological issues as the cause. Even if an individual was abused and believes they have GID it isn't caused by left-wing thinking or politics, it's caused by the abuse. My reply was not to say that "everyone who thinks they have GID obviously has GID because self-diagnosis is always right" it was "GID has nothing to do with politics", which it doesn't.
/r/MensRights09/10/12 11:47 PM
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It looks weird because that's what you've been told. Using a reason like "it's more aesthetically pleasing" could also be used for labia on women, which is generally said to be more aesthetically pleasing if the labia minora are less prominent. But if some parents demanded that their infant daughter's labia be removed for cosmetic reasons, the hospital staffs' collective jaws would break a hole to the earth's core. The point is the foreskin is there for a reason, there are no medical benefits to…
/r/MensRights09/10/12 03:25 AM
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But he said he "doesnt want his son to be mutated". Yeah, put that one up as insecurities, as in "I had it done, if I don't do it to my son I'm accepting that I'm the messed up one". Doesn't matter either way, though, he can go on liking the way his penis is and be perfectly happy with it. The point is it isn't his penis he's talking about. His son has the right to make the decision for himself. I don't know if there is any way to explain that to you brother because you have to get through his i…
/r/MensRights09/10/12 03:07 AM
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It should serve as a wake up call to Bio Intersex people (wtf is that?!?) Not sure if this is what they meant based on the context, but intersex is used to refer to someone with ambiguous genitalia, ie having sets of, or partial sets of, both male and female genitalia. I don't know how this has anything to do with intersex individuals though, they are not the same as transpeople.
/r/MensRights08/10/12 10:30 PM
5

I'm going to guess english isn't your first language...
/r/MensRights08/10/12 08:53 PM
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They keep repeating over and over how he is hurt and keep saying "sorry" over and over but it has this attitude like they don't even really care. They are just like "well, that's part of life, deal with it." The "don't cry, little man" is pretty messed up too. Not even a week old and he's already getting signals that it's wrong to outwardly express pain or emotion. He's an infant that just got part of his penis cut off and you are messing with the bandages, of course he's going to cry you psycho…
/r/MensRights08/10/12 07:24 AM
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Probably from men having different things to worry about than women, and women finding issue with men not being as concerned about her problems as she is. The man isn't going to bring up his problems with her, he's been taught since childhood that if you have a problem you deal with it on your own, and others will do the same. The woman on the other hand has been taught since childhood to solve problems as a group, to seek help when something comes up and to help others when they are in need. In…
/r/MensRights08/10/12 05:43 AM
1

I think the majority of transsexuals in the postmodern West are the product of a sick, left-wing consumerist society In other words, most transsexuals are a left-wing conspiracy. They don't actually identify as the opposite sex, they just want to act, dress and be treated like the opposite sex for the attention they get from their left-wing social group. Sure.
/r/MensRights07/10/12 10:22 PM
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He is not saying that it is 100 percent heritable. He says that's the norm for about 98 percent of the population. It's not bullshit. And of course with terms like sex-reassignment and the possible term of sex-role we can see that the term gender never even needed to be changed. Now, either he is claiming that gender and sex are one in the same, ie sex and gender are interchangeable terms and since sex is biologically determined then gender is as well, or he doesn't have a very good grasp of wha…
/r/MensRights07/10/12 10:17 PM
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He is assuming that the sex one is born always results in the gender, or social behavior, associated with that sex. That's just completely false. He is taking what he calls "the left's theory that gender is 100% a social construct" and flipping to the exact opposite extreme and saying that the way one behaves is 100% based on biological sex. Both are bullshit. He brings up the David Reimer case and talks about the horrors of the situation that this man was put through, and I agree, what they did…
/r/MensRights07/10/12 06:34 PM
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I think it was probably a misunderstanding, when you say they are in the car they are assuming it's just you and them. Your wife, if she'd given the same kind of response ("Yeah, I just left them in the car") without qualifying that there was an adult with them would have probably elicited the same response. If she's not getting those responses then she's likely either not even bring up the situation of them being in the car or she's qualifying that they have an adult with them. "Kids in car" or…
/r/MensRights07/10/12 08:19 AM
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And so were men. Do you think men worked back-breaking jobs dawn til dusk with little to no safety measures and just enough compensation to support their family because they liked to? Hell no, they did it because it was required of them to keep their family safe housed and fed. Like I said, women over the past 30-40 years have figured out they aren't required to be homemakers and babysitters for their adult lives, they can choose to do whatever they want, which is great. The same cannot be said …
/r/MensRights05/10/12 02:39 PM
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I think it's just really hard to get a strong support base for prostate cancer. Men, unfortunately, are taught from an early age to keep all their problems to themselves, and that includes health matters. If a girl gets a bruised and bloodied she gets coddled by parents. If a boy gets bruised and bloodied it's "boys will be boys" and he gets told to walk it off. We learn very quickly that if we have a problem, keep it to ourselves and deal with it on our own. That leads to men later in life bein…
/r/MensRights05/10/12 04:13 AM
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Innocent until proven guilty. Sounds like the witnesses are saying it's a lie, not sure if there are witnesses saying it isn't a lie, but I guess the investigation will figure out if the witnesses are telling the truth or not. I do find it weird that they are allowed to publish the full name of a 17 year old boy even though he hasn't been convicted yet, only charged, and they withhold the name of the girl. I see no reason why both names were not withheld. Also kind of odd that so many are immedi…
/r/MensRights05/10/12 01:10 AM
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Who knew that telling a man he does everything wrong would make him apprehensive about doing the things you want, or rather expect, him to do? While it probably isn't great for society I think overall it's good for men. Men are figuring out that they really don't have to go about doing all those unwritten, expected things that make life easier for women and children. They can focus on themselves, what they want to do for themselves, do what they enjoy and say to hell with putting everyone else's…
/r/MensRights05/10/12 12:50 AM
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I don't know how it is mutually exclusive to have a competitive run and non-competitive run. I volunteer every year for the local "run for the cure" and they welcome everyone, men, women, young old, able-bodied and disabled, to participate. They have a run (5km) and a walk (1km) for people to participate. Many people, men and women, choose to participate in the 5km run in a competitive manner, and it is pretty fiercely competitive. That does not deny others, the vast majority, from doing the run…
/r/MensRights30/09/12 03:17 AM
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If you want to advocate for men's right to veto abortion you should instead advocate for the development of artificial wombs. To force a woman to carry a fetus to term against her will, regardless of the emotional and financial support she is given, is denying her the right to autonomy, a basic human right.
/r/MensRights30/09/12 01:04 AM
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privilege is when one group has something of value that is denied to others based simply on the groups they belong to So, stuff like being innocent until proven guilty, or not being assumed to be a sexual predator, or having equal custody and rights to your children when you are competent, or the right to deny sexual advances without having your sexuality called into question, or the right to not be charged additional fees based on your group, or right to a fair and even chance at an education, …
/r/MensRights29/09/12 07:39 AM
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If it happens.. well, I'm not really betting it will because I guess I'm more of an optimist, or at least an idealist... anyways, if it happens I expect that whatever equality women have achieved in society will be turned on its head because as rational and civilized society degrades the ones who take control are the overly aggressive and sociopathic men. The kinds that laws are built to suppress, and rightfully so. When reason and non-violent conflict resolution disappears, the people prone to …
/r/MensRights27/09/12 09:05 AM
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There is a gender wage gap, but it isn't the 78c per dollar one that is rattled off all the time, it closer to 95-98c per dollar when adjusted for personal choices individuals make like job safety, hours worked/time off, need for extended travel and general likelihood of demanding raises or higher starting salaries. Women very obviously choose careers that are safer, have less physical strain, less exposure to the elements. A job with higher risk pays more because the supply of workers willing t…
/r/MensRights26/09/12 10:39 PM
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I find people using "reduced risk of HIV" as a reason to modify/remove a part of someone's body against their will to be straight up disgusting, and I think it is a very slippery slope if we are to accept this kind of reasoning. Look at it this way. Approximately 1 in 16 men in the US will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime. Circumcision is being pushed as a way of "reducing the risk" but does not eliminate the risk. The amount of risk reduction will vary wildly from study to study. Now, if…
/r/MensRights26/09/12 12:35 AM
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I don't think gender really matters in this case, her being a bad supervisor is the problem, not her being a bad female supervisor. I'd still talk to the manager about it.
/r/MensRights25/09/12 07:11 AM
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I think it's kind of funny, obviously it was a mistake or a prank but it could be seen in a lot of contexts. One, like you said, "No men or handicapped allowed inside, exit here". Another could be "Only men and handicapped may use this fire escape, no women allowed". Another like demonspawn said, saying that men may freely use the outdoors as their washroom.
/r/MensRights24/09/12 10:49 AM
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Putting myself in the situation, if I'm waiting for a bus and a girl grabs my ass I'd put that under harassment/sexual assault/objectification. If that same girl instead said "excuse me, I think you're cute and was wondering if I could give you my number" I wouldn't think that was objectifying. In this situation the girl is respecting my personal space, she's not aggressively asserting her demands on me, she showing her interest in order to determine how I feel about it. Some radical feminists m…
/r/MensRights24/09/12 01:04 AM
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I think objectifying would be sexual attraction and advances while disregarding the persons comfort. Catcalling I would say mildly objectify the target (male or female) because it puts the person into a public spotlight that most everyone is uncomfortable being put in. Extreme objectification would be actually invading their personal space to the point where they become fearfully uncomfortable and you disregard that discomfort completely. Sexual attraction, on the other hand, has the same basis …
/r/MensRights24/09/12 12:40 AM
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Didn't see many comments in there saying it was your fault, I saw lots saying that your relationship is total shit and you should get the hell out of there. Some suggested that you are probably a contributing factor to this two person disaster that is your relationship and judging from this post I'd have to side with them. You are making a circus out of what should be a serious situation for you. You don't sound like someone who wants help, you sound like someone who wants attention and validati…
/r/MensRights24/09/12 12:24 AM
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There isn't exactly one set ideology that comes from feminism (though, that's the same for MRM too). I've had a feminist tell me she thought it was a man's duty to pay for the first date always. Her reasoning was that the man asked her out so he should pay since he invited her. When I questioned her as to why she didn't ask men out she started to say that asking a girl out was also a man's duty, but then retracted that and said she would but it just happens that men ask her out first. The idea o…
/r/MensRights22/09/12 08:53 PM
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Alternately I suppose men could just reaffirm consent with every thrust. "Do you want to have sex? How about now? Now? What about now? Still want to have sex? Have you changed your mind? How about now?..." Might seem annoying, but to stop rape I guess it just needs to happen. /s
/r/MensRights21/09/12 02:33 PM
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I agree. Yes, girls will cost more on clothes, but boys cost more in food. I had maybe a weeks worth of clothes growing up (which lasted a long time before being replaced), my sister had close to a months worth (which got replaced more frequently). Through our teens though I would eat at least 50% more than her every meal.
/r/MensRights08/09/12 01:49 AM
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Holding a door shouldn't be based on who it's being opened for at all. Chivalry is the idea that women deserve this kind of treatment while simultaneously denying the same treatment to men. By definition chivalry is sexist. I open and hold the door for anyone, regardless of gender, age, race, fitness, sexual orientation, religion or otherwise because I'm a nice person. To deny kindness and respect to anyone based on any of the above would make me a bigot, or at least a jerk if I denied it to eve…
/r/MensRights04/09/12 03:24 AM
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I feel like you are confusing being "unmotivated" with being "lazy". They are very different things. You are trying to compare lazy boys (ones that won't do the work, no matter what it is) with gifted girls instead of comparing those gifted girls with gifted boys that just aren't challenged enough to motivate them to explore their potential. What motivates girls is very different than what motivates boys. Like I said, gold stars (basically the idea that you get praise if you do well, even if it'…
/r/MensRights02/09/12 11:08 PM
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This is not about learning. This is about doing the work. But that's exactly the problem. The idea that "if you don't do the 'work', then you aren't learning" is garbage. The work is a teaching method, it is not the learning itself. Regurgitating what you read in a textbook back on to a test sheet doesn't teach you anything, it just shows your progress. School have become nothing but tests, and boys are falling behind become of it. There is no satisfaction with going into a test, or doing homewo…
/r/MensRights02/09/12 09:46 PM
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Doesn't matter in the argument that infant circumcision is wrong, it is a red herring argument. Basically you are saying "if you don't agree that circumcision is wrong then you must agree with FGM." They are both wrong for the same reason, no consent, but circumcision being wrong has no baring on FGM being wrong or vice versa. This kind of argument is one commonly made by extreme feminists, "if you aren't a feminist, you are a misogynist that thinks women are inferior to men." The two do not dep…
/r/MensRights01/09/12 04:32 AM
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The majority of those that are circumcised are perfectly pleased with their body, as they should be. Just the same, the majority of those that are not circumcised are perfectly pleased with their body. Chances are that if you were not circumcised you would be just as pleased as you are now. There are some that are circumcised that do not like the way they are and there are some that are not circumcised that do not like the way they are either. The difference is those that are not circumcised hav…
/r/MensRights01/09/12 03:35 AM
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I think it would be better managed the other way around, that the default assumption be that each person does not consent to being a parent until they confirm with each other their intent to produce a child and be a parent. This just makes more sense given the vast majority of sex is had without the intent of conceiving so it would be the best default assumption. Then there is the part some people aren't really going to be happy about. In the case where the man and woman confirm they want to hav…
/r/MensRights31/08/12 05:46 PM
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My opinion: There is a physiological difference between men and women, women carry the fetus, men do not. For this reason I believe women have every right to abort the fetus or carry the fetus to term and cannot have that right taken away from her. That's all there needs to be because it's the only part of pregnancy that is effected by that physiological difference. Forcing a woman to abort a fetus she wants to keep, or forcing a woman to carry a fetus to term that she does not want is cruel. Ju…
/r/MensRights31/08/12 02:42 AM
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Wonder what would happen if you actually got a sister, girlfriend or female friend to go do the look over and everything providing your information and then you show up to sign the papers and they all the sudden turn you away. I think there would be a pretty good case for discrimination. The only reason they can legally turn someone away is if they have reason to believe they won't be able to pay their rent or they will cause property damage. All they are allowed to ask for in official documents…
/r/MensRights30/08/12 07:27 AM
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When I originally saw the article on the front page of reddit, the submitter had titled it something like "18 men and 3 women executed in iraq". I was pleasantly surprised. Sad to see that big news organizations need to play on humanity's higher empathy toward women's and children's lives to get a few more views.
/r/MensRights29/08/12 12:47 PM
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This campaign to "teach men not to rape" is really weird. I'm pretty sure everyone in civilized society is given the "treat others with respect" and additionally on top of the most boys are taught "don't hit girls/women". I'm sure some are not told specifically "don't rape other people" but then I'm also sure some are not told specifically "don't kill other people". I don't know what leads people to rape or kill others, but I doubt a lack of being told not to rape or kill has anything to do with…
/r/MensRights27/08/12 08:19 AM
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I support more comprehensive learning styles. Same-sex schools will generally end up being better overall than simply throwing everyone together and seeing what happens because girls and boys mostly learn in different ways based highly on who teaches them and how they are taught. While there definitely is a trend that boys learn differently than girls and girls learn differently than boys, it is also true that not all boys learn the same way as the majority of other boys and not all girls learn …
/r/MensRights27/08/12 08:04 AM
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Fear-mongering is a very good tactic for gathering people to a particular cause. Just look at all the religions that use fear of eternal pain and agony in the afterlife to try and persuade people to become followers to worship some diety that will accept them into a blissful afterlife in heaven instead if only they worship and believe (and pay) enough to that diety. For feminism it's fear of men, and the only way to correct the problem is to follow feminism unquestioningly.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 06:25 PM
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Being a victim is not determined by being on the receiving end physically. A lack of consent to the acts described makes you the victim. Again, that brings me back to the part where someone gives a man a handjob without his consent. In this definition that isn't covered because only penetration of a vagina, anus (by any body part) or mouth (with a sex organ) is covered.
/r/MensRights23/08/12 11:18 AM
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The... envelopment of the penis... with any body part or object A vagina and anus (and mouth and hand) are covered under "any body part". Now here's the problem I have with leaving out the envelopment part: without mention of penis and you assume that the victim can be the penetrator or the penetrated you run into two problems. First, it can only be considered rape if it is a vagina, anus or mouth being penetrated. The penetration vagina or anus... with any body part or object... or oral penetra…
/r/MensRights23/08/12 10:44 AM
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Should be The penetration of the vagina or anus or envelopment of the penis, no matter how slight, with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim. As for confirming consent, pretty soon we're going to have to start having consent sign off forms with accompanying blood tests for alcohol and drugs from the way things are going. Scary thought. If only honesty could be legally and reliably tested.
/r/MensRights23/08/12 09:48 AM
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I was just saying, in too many words, I think you would be surprised how often is does happen and you seems to be understating how often it does just the same as feminist understating the threats men face every day. Simply put, I saw you statement saying I ride public transportation pretty much everyday and I rarely notice anything out of the ordinary or women being creeped on. being quite similar to the articles author's statement saying For men I assume that sitting on the bus doesn’t require …
/r/MensRights21/08/12 03:55 PM
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Wasn't saying it did. My opinion is if the airline thinks they need to protect unaccompanied children on flights they should have staff that accompanies them on the flight. Allowing (or even demanding) women be seated next to unaccompanied children while moving men is clearly discrimination by gender. If they feel the need to protect children, they should protect the children, not persecute other paying customers.
/r/MensRights21/08/12 03:37 PM
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It happens, I've seen it happen, but I've also seen it happen to men as well. In fact, my sister on a greyhound ride home for thanksgiving had a man move from the front of the bus and sit across the isle from her, stare at her for a while. He then unzip his pants and masturbate while watching her. After finishing up, he stared at her for a while longer and then went back to his original seat. She was pretty freaked out and had taken a pen out of her purse in case she needed it but thankfully she…
/r/MensRights21/08/12 02:34 PM
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My default assumption is genderless, though if it is relevant I will search for clues to which gender the poster might be. Those clues can be based on the forums/board they are posting (whether it is a male or female dominated space), the type of language they use, and if they associate themselves with either gender ("we women/men think this.."). On reddit it's partial anonymity because everyone has their username, which is a lot of the time gender related. I chose my username because it can be …
/r/MensRights20/08/12 10:03 PM
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Starting right here Jamie goes on to try and explain how rape is worse than murder. Rape culture is just getting so far out of hand if people start believing something like this. Yes, rape is bad, but murder is beyond bad. One of them, the person will probably have a hard recovery afterward, the other is just dead, they are gone forever, they no longer exist.
/r/MensRights19/08/12 07:32 AM
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I think a big difference in this case is internet anonymity leading people to be a lot more aggressive in how they attack those that oppose them. Suffragists getting hit with firehoses is one thing, they are there, in public, you can see their face and you can also see the faces of the people shooting the firehose at them. On the internet you can get away with really nasty stuff without actually having to be there. The illusion of anonymity is given. If someone did do something they would probab…
/r/MensRights18/08/12 11:26 AM
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It's comedy, she is a youtube partner, this is how she makes money. Her videos don't have some deep underlying meaning, they are just meant to be funny. If you don't find it funny, don't watch it.
/r/MensRights18/08/12 02:12 AM
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Really disturbing that the primary argument against male contraceptives is "I wouldn't trust a guy to take a pill everyday" or "I wouldn't trust a guy who said he was on birth control". Not only do all these people seriously buy into the misandrist notion that men are nothing but sex-addicted, irresponsible idiots, but they are so hung up on denying men their own sexual freedom that they don't even realize that it doesn't even effect them. Men getting their own birth control in no way prevents w…
/r/MensRights18/08/12 01:32 AM
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I personally don't even see how it's reasonable for a child to be put up for adoption when at least one of the parents wants custody. On the topic of child support though, I believe financial abortion should be an option to men; being able to opt out of rights and responsibilities to a child early enough so the mother can choose to have an abortion knowing that she would have to raise it on her own. If the decision is held off to long so that an abortion isn't possible then I think he should be …
/r/MensRights17/08/12 03:23 AM
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I'd actually have guessed it was the opposite, that femininity is more valued and men trying to become more feminine are somehow cheating the system trying to get where they don't deserve to be. I think of it kind of like a rich person (more valued) deciding to live a modest lifestyle like someone of lower income (lower value) is possibly questioned but otherwise accepted as personal choice. On the other hand, a low income person (less valued) trying to integrate into high income culture such as…
/r/MensRights10/08/12 11:05 PM
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I assumed here that classrooms were segregated but the school itself was mixed. I should have probably explained further.
/r/MensRights06/08/12 08:03 PM
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The answers for the last question about mixed or segregated education are too narrow for me. The ideal middle ground for me would be education that adjusts itself to student needs. Mixed education the way it is now means everyone is subject to the teaching method used even if it doesn't suit them. Splitting students by gender doesn't work either because some boys learn better in environments traditionally suited for girls and some girls learn better in environments traditionally suited for boys.…
/r/MensRights06/08/12 12:19 AM
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Erin Pizzey
/r/MensRights05/08/12 05:53 AM
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Again, all the more reason to have them look at it from a different perspective. Perhaps if they take a closer look they will realize that the problems men face aren't being addressed by feminism. As for MRAs, it is certainly fine to fight for just men's rights, from our side we can see that feminism is largely ignorant to most men's issues (or worse tries to blame men for their own problems, ie benevolent sexism), but I also see a lot of MRAs minimizing the issues women face. A woman says she f…
/r/MensRights01/08/12 11:31 PM
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/r/Feminism and /r/MensRights would probably be best. SRS is feminism but to an extreme. They all seem to have closed minds when it comes to issues other than their own and see any criticism as personal attack that needs to be broadcast to the other SRSers so that "justice" can be done by harrassing and ridiculing the source of the criticism. I would hope your students aren't actually like SRS, without anonymity I don't even see how it would be possible. I don't think that a debate between membe…
/r/MensRights01/08/12 10:49 PM
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It doesn't necessarily have to come down to feminist or christian rhetoric to support their side. An atheist debating on the theist side can say things like "religion by and large gives people hope, it gives them a community to be a part of, it gives aid to those in need" etc. It doesn't have to be about saying "God is real and you can't prove otherwise", religion is a lot more diverse than simply believe God exists. Same for an MRA debating on the side of feminism, it doesn't have to be about u…
/r/MensRights01/08/12 10:38 PM
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The point of debating the opposite side of an argument is exactly that, to give you different perspective on an issue you might have bias toward. There is always two sides to a debate, one might be more popular than another but there are still two (or more) sides. A debate between feminism and men's rights is particularly important because everyone has some form of bias based on their gender. To take the issues from the other side of the debate and make them your own can really open your mind to…
/r/MensRights01/08/12 10:21 PM
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The problems go both ways. For women, they are given things even when they don't want or need it which can come off as being treated like a child that can't do it themselves. At the same time, men that need or want something are called whiners for requesting help. It's a two way street, and it's perpetuated by both men and women. I think it would be great if this whole idea of "women always need help, men never need help" was done away with, but then I think there would also be a lot of backlash…
/r/MensRights30/07/12 12:49 AM
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Possibly, but the responses he got from people saying that it was an insightful read that could help other women avoid a situation like that is pretty disgusting in itself. It doesn't help them avoid anything, it just makes them more paranoid and afraid of men in general.
/r/MensRights27/07/12 07:26 PM
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Definitely a lot of cases of guys who thought they were getting signals a girl but then when the girl resisted they stopped as they should. It's unfortunate that there has to be that stupid signal game when it comes to sex, I'd love for it to just be straight forward all the time but that really isn't realistic when it's a turn-off to most people to inquire directly to their sexual intentions. Then there is that one post by the guy who actually preyed on girls in college, went after the ones wit…
/r/MensRights27/07/12 06:11 AM
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In terms of who has a say about whether infant circumcision should be permissible I think every one has a voice. Men might have a louder voice because they may have been personally effected by it but women are surely allowed to have an opinion on whether it is right or wrong. Yes, even if they think it's the right thing to do I think they still have a right to their opinion and to voice it. Doesn't mean I have to agree with them. In terms of whether to actually circumcise a child, the mother and…
/r/MensRights17/07/12 04:31 AM
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I'd totally be there, but I'm 24/7 on-call and live 5 hours away. Best of luck to you guys and girls that are able to make it. Take lots of pictures and post them here afterward.
/r/MensRights17/07/12 04:18 AM
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Why does it have to be about teaching the girls to suspect and live their life in fear of being raped at any second and teach the boys that they are dirty little monsters if they even have a sexual thought about a girl? The damage of that kind of teaching is two-fold: It makes girls paranoid, always looking over their shoulder, never trusting their peers. That's some stressful shit, it makes them angry at society and potentially makes them see all men as nothing but monsters. It gives boys insan…
/r/MensRights17/07/12 04:10 AM
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Just two quick things. I honestly believe that viewing people as individuals rather than as groups is a fundamental part of not being a terrible person. I completely agree, it's just too bad she pretty much just called herself a terrible person. No more men would automatically mean no more patriarchy Now this is probably the biggest reason I absolutely detest the word patriarchy. Some feminists actually, truly believe that "the patriarchy" is made up entirely of men. "The patriarchy" is however …
/r/MensRights13/07/12 06:11 PM
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This has to be an office prank, there a picture of luigi, a cat image macro and ross from friends in there. Just the desktop background alone is excessive enough for me to automatically go to office prank.
/r/MensRights13/07/12 05:35 PM
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I'd say it's about as common as slut shaming. A lot of the time it has nothing to do with actual virginity just like slut shaming has little to do with excessive promiscuity. I've been virgin shamed (even though I'm not a virgin) because I refused to hook up with a girl at a party before. I suppose she was mad that I refused thinking that I was somehow insulting her attractiveness and lashed out by calling me a number of nasty names insinuating that I was a "virgin loser" and a "pathetic pussy" …
/r/MensRights13/07/12 01:52 AM
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Ideally there should be a time period where a man can opt-out financial abortion style. I think there should be a fee for doing this, there is a financial cost for abortion along with the physical and emotional cost. Putting a fee on a financial abortion would at the very least be somewhat of a deterrent against men repeatedly doing it just like there are consequences on women who repeatedly get abortions. Perhaps most of the fee should go to the woman who could use it for an abortion if she so …
/r/MensRights12/07/12 08:57 AM
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Hey, guys, don't be X, be Y instead, but don't be too much Y, you need a little X, but you also need a little Z, but again, not too much. Sorry, no, I'll just be myself, thanks.
/r/MensRights08/07/12 10:40 PM
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I think this has a lot to do with how people protest circumcision. Instead of sticking the fact that circumcision outside of medical necessity is completely unnecessary and should be the choice of the individual getting the procedure done, a lot of arguments make an appeal to emotion by putting in words like "mutilated" to describe the result. While it might be correct to consider it mutilation, those that are circumcised likely see it as degrading. They've lived their lives perfectly content wi…
/r/MensRights06/07/12 09:27 AM
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I read the charter section they referred to and it seems that is it legal for them to do it. Essentially section 1 says that no one can be discriminated against, except for situations outlined in section 2. Section 1: Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical dis…
/r/MensRights05/07/12 10:34 AM
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Is this some kind of /r9k/ invasion or something? This is mysogynist, hateful garbage. This has nothing to do with men's rights and everything to do with some angry, spiteful person trying to take their problems and blame them on an entire gender. This is the same kind of crap that we denounce when radical feminists post "This is what MRM actually is" posts filled with misandry and hate. It doesn't help with any of the issues men have, it's just meant to incite anger.
/r/MensRights04/07/12 12:40 AM
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Certainly true, but even in the picture provided you can see his hatred and spite in the title (cis scum white men) and in the last post. It might just look like sarcasm to some but if you've seen the things he posts he is using those words is hateful ways. He shows a lot of hatred towards women, not just feminists, and transgendered people, even other races at times. So while it is fine to agree with the ideas, as the ideas are not specific to him, it would probably be best to avoid posting his…
/r/MensRights03/07/12 07:15 PM
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While a lot of the points he makes are genuine issues, the guy posting it (based on reading lots of other things he posts in /pol/, /r9k/ and /adv/) is a true misogynist bigot, or at least trolling in order to look like it. I would rather not be associated with someone like him because his views are equally as extreme as radical feminists that believe all men should be castrated. If we praise someone like him it makes us look like we condone that kind of behavior.
/r/MensRights03/07/12 05:19 PM
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The guy deserves to be blamed, he was the center of the whole thing. That, however, doesn't excuse the womens' actions like this video tries to do along the way. Every time the question of "why would a woman do this?" comes up, their motives are always not-so-subtly reasoned away by saying they were manipulated by this man that they'd never met before in their lives. For every new woman that enters the picture during the investigation they have this child protective services woman come on and te…
/r/MensRights02/07/12 09:20 PM
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Very good comment on their part, this is what OPs comment should have been like, instead of saying "you are wrong, and here's why" he should have said "that is your perspective, but look at it from the other way, while you are constantly in fear of guys being potential rapists, boys are brought up to think that they actually are potential rapists if they have any sexual thoughts at all".
/r/MensRights28/06/12 12:05 AM
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What I got from this: "We need to protect our boys as well as we protect our girls, at least until they turn 11 or 12 and then we need to view them as potential sexual predators just like every other man."
/r/MensRights26/06/12 05:57 PM
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The writers are definitely trying to make a point with the character, and even though it will probably be lost to the majority of the audience I applaud their effort. This is the second time Jason has been the victim of severe issues plaguing men that aren't taken seriously by society, the first being in episode 3 of season 4, I won't spoil it, feel free to watch it yourself or read the episode synopsis to find out. There are a lot of issues covered in the show even though it might just come off…
/r/MensRights26/06/12 05:03 AM
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No one here is telling you that you are somehow broken or damaged for being circumcised. We just believe it should be the child's choice when he's old enough to make it. There are definitely guys who weren't cut and decided to get it done for whatever reason, medical or aesthetic, and most of them are happier now, and we are happy for them because they got to make that choice for themselves instead of having someone else make it for them. So, sorry if you felt like you were being attacked but th…
/r/MensRights24/06/12 01:55 AM
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I wish I could have watched this when I was 10, would have saved me from so much sadness, loneliness and self-hatred. Thanks for this, very insightful.
/r/MensRights23/06/12 03:36 AM
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It may or may not be the case, but sometimes I think all the "aggression" toward women on the internet is just typical male back-and-forth habits. I'm sure everyone is aware that we men in general act very differently when only among men compared to when women are present. Generally it's more crude, some playful insults thrown back and forth etc. It just how most guys are together, it's what we grew up with, it's just how we interact. When women are around the crudeness mostly goes away, and if …
/r/MensRights23/06/12 03:21 AM
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I thought the same thing. Had to reread it to notice it was just a poorly worded way of giving recognition to single mothers who take double the responsibility of raising kids alone just like all the single fathers.
/r/MensRights17/06/12 06:27 PM
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From the sounds of the article, it was an advanced programmer that came into a beginner or intermediate workshop and was disturbing the class by bringing up questions that had no relevance to the material being covered. It wouldn't have mattered if it was a man or woman doing it, the person regardless of gender was being disruptive and rude to the other students. The other side of the article was explaining that maybe women learn differently than men when it comes to programming, which is exactl…
/r/MensRights10/06/12 10:18 PM
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Agreed, men's rights is about breaking through the injustices and discrimination men face, not about showing women in a bad light. There are a lot of bad mothers out there, just as there are a lot of bad fathers. Bad parents should not be allowed to care for children, regardless of gender. The MRM's message should be to show that the majority of men are just as nurturing and caring for their children as the majority of women, not to show that some women are just as evil and abusive as some extre…
/r/MensRights31/05/12 02:02 AM
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There were a few point in there where I felt like he was saying women were living outside their natural gender roles, particularly the part where he says something like "they are acting like guys, like they are women with breasts and a penis somewhere down there". I don't think there is anything wrong with a woman doing what she wants in life, whether it is something seen as a more male or female traditional role or neither at all. The issue I have with militant feminists is that they advocate t…
/r/MensRights27/05/12 08:10 PM
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All the hatred, misandry and sexism the women's center is spouting is just further proof that a men's center is needed. Pure and simple, the people putting forth all these false accusations of men and masculinity are not feminists, they are female chauvinists and misandrists hiding under the guise of the feminist label. These people are the reason the phrase "I'm not a feminist, but..." is used so frequently and it is seriously time that true feminist stop tolerating it and take back their label…
/r/MensRights26/05/12 02:25 AM
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