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Spend some time working at any licensed drinking establishment, and you'll see abundant examples of women who decide that there are no limits at all on their behaviour, so long as they can blame it on the mai tais the next day. (Source: Spent a couple years working the door at a couple clubs)
/r/PussyPassDenied20/10/17 06:39 PM
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Oh, you know, the average person on the street...
/r/PussyPassDenied20/10/17 06:37 PM
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You gotta understand, that shit is fucking confusing.
/r/PussyPassDenied20/10/17 06:31 PM
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He showed exceptional patience. You could see him building up for a full minute before he ultimately ended the situation one single, controlled punch. Frankly, given the situation, she's lucky she got away with just that. A man less in control of his shit could have unleashed a haymaker and laid her flat.
/r/MensRights01/10/17 10:55 AM
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I have a bunch of feminist activists on my friends list and have intellectual debates with them every week Teach me your ways, because invariably when I do even a bit of pushback on things like facebook, they melt down. Few of these ideas stand up to scrutiny, and as a result they generally "defend" with ferocious feels before blocking or deleting.
/r/MensRights14/08/17 09:26 AM
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I find this particularly interesting. This is a complete 180 from what it's like post breakup when in your teens and 20s. As she explains, part of the issue is that when divorce strikes, men and women react in different ways. Men’s relationships frequently overlap; they won’t leave one partner until they find another, so they are never really single. By contrast, women take longer to recover from a break-up. They often step out of the dating ring completely, sometimes for many years, to rebuild …
/r/MensRights07/08/17 01:21 AM
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!!
/r/MensRights26/07/17 11:00 AM
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Ha.
/r/MensRights26/07/17 10:32 AM
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"Why the one clown?"
/r/MensRights26/07/17 10:27 AM
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Yes, it's much better to have a massive overreaction to every rando who makes a personal rant subreddit. I see no flaws with this plan.
/r/MensRights24/07/17 03:56 AM
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Allow me to retort. In general, most women like men and masculinity (almost too much because less masculine men are left behind, but that's another story). Those women who don't like men become feminists. :) I'd like to believe you, but judging from... well, every bit of mass media around today, that doesn't seem to be a position that's particularly well represented. The dominant narratives in media today have men as idiots, evil, doormats or in one of those jobs where injury or death is commonp…
/r/MensRights21/07/17 11:07 AM
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Only while railing him from behind. That's their private biz though.
/r/MensRights08/06/17 02:32 PM
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Well, if Laci was 13 it would be. She hath not seen the change of fourteen years. Let two more summers wither in their pride. Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride. (Act 1 Scene 2)
/r/MensRights08/06/17 01:50 PM
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It can work both ways, depending (I suspect) on whoever is the more stoic. I expect Steve Shives didn't start out as much of a pusillanimous jackhole as he is now. A lot of what comes out of his (weird, always slick-with-spittle, oddly slug-like) lips I expect is done with his wife/gf's hand firmly shoved up his ass working his jaws like a ventriloquist dummy.
/r/MensRights08/06/17 01:49 PM
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lose Please accept a complementary upvote for the correct spelling of this word. It happens so rarely I'm compelled to reward it when it does. :-D
/r/MensRights08/06/17 01:45 PM
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I'm not a fan of LG and I can't see myself ever being one tbh, because I remember her early days. I can't see myself ever coming to respect someone who made videos talking about how much fun it was breaking up other peoples' relationships deliberately by enticing them into sex, and that's before we even get into the damage she's done over the long term with her balls out promotion of identity politics. I do respect her attempt, if it's legitimate, to build bridges though. I'm still dubious about…
/r/MensRights08/06/17 01:41 PM
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Yeah, it's an unsigned ssl cert. Hit advanced and allow it, or switch to http. I think http works too. Edit: Ah, it just forces you to use HTTPS when you try.
/r/MensRights30/05/17 01:19 PM
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Ask, and ye shall receive: https://www.ceddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6e2xvf/_
/r/MensRights30/05/17 01:14 PM
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I'd be somewhat more concerned about us suddenly only having 10-15% of the nuclear energy engineers myself.
/r/MensRights20/05/17 10:16 AM
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That's a weird statistic. 6.7% of all women? All women in country xyz? All women who enter college/university? I mean, it's shitty that ads pop up on our lock windows now generally, but this is shitty and needlessly ambiguous (unless the whole point of it is the "Only LOW_PERCENT% of SPECIAL_INTEREST_GROUP can get DESIRABLE_THING" formulation of outrage generation... which case mission accomplished I suppose...)
/r/MensRights20/04/17 10:42 PM
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“That’s one of my biggest gripes against men, none of them know how to eat a girl out.” To be fair, if you're one of these people, time to figure your shit out. It's $CURRENT_YEAR, learning how to go down like a boss should be standard issue.
/r/MensRights18/04/17 07:10 AM
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When I pressed the issue and pointed out her inability to refute what I said, she said she had no reason to talk to someone so sexist. Can I make a suggestion? Before you invest huge amounts of time into debating a particular topic, ask them how deeply they believe in (insert topic here) and what it'd take to make them change their mind. In my experience, you'll generally get one of three different categories of answers. Category 1 - Someone will give clear indications of what would invalidate t…
/r/MensRights18/04/17 01:34 AM
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To be fair, the biggest, blackest thing in that movie was working for the Empire. Clearly gentrification.
/r/MensRights18/04/17 12:46 AM
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Soylent Soap, in this case.
/r/MensRights18/04/17 12:44 AM
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Awesome. New copypasta. X-D
/r/MensRights18/04/17 12:24 AM
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You haven't presented any arguments, only slurs... and unless you were born in the 1960s or earlier, you're "kid" to me. I'm going to presume you have nothing actually useful to add from here on in, so... yeah.
/r/MensRights17/04/17 11:53 PM
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Heh, I outgrew anarchism decades ago, kid. Nice try tho, have a great day trying to smash the system and whatnot. ;-)
/r/MensRights17/04/17 11:18 PM
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Palahniuk's characters aren't trying to create some wacky untenable political system, no vision of fully automated luxury space utopia, just simple cause and effect: Tyler sees materialism as preventing people (specifically, men) from being their authentic selves, therefore destroy materialism... in part as an exteriorized metaphor for the self-destructiveness of the narrator. Palahniuk himself says that despite the extremes his characters go to, it has nothing to do with anarchy, but rather: I'…
/r/MensRights17/04/17 11:14 PM
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Fight club is about a bunch of different themes, rejecting materialism being one of them. I'd say that the overall arch is that of a warning: try too hard to change the essential nature of people, repress too hard and allow for no constructive outlet for natural urges, and rebellion in some form is inevitable... and you may not like it when it comes.
/r/MensRights17/04/17 06:31 PM
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Well hey, if we're going for augmentation...
/r/MensRights17/04/17 06:16 PM
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On the plus side, we're not being overrun with 'refugees', so there's pros and cons I suppose.
/r/MensRights17/04/17 08:20 AM
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Don't you have "innocent until proven guilty" here Effectively, no. Since the adoption of the "preponderance of evidence" standard and most adjudications being done by people thoroughly indoctrinated by gender studies / critical theorists, men go into the situations heavily disadvantaged and with a defacto presumption of guilt that must be shown to be false. Tricky, unless he gets lucky enough to be accused by a woman with really poor abilities to manufacture and maintain the lie.
/r/MensRights17/04/17 08:10 AM
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Huh.
/r/MensRights13/04/17 08:15 AM
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Or perhaps men should only be permitted to drive in the presence of a woman? Or only allowed in a car when a woman is driving? This all sounds remarkably familiar...
/r/MensRights13/04/17 04:04 AM
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Robot Girlfriends lolwut
/r/MensRights12/04/17 10:18 PM
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I've heard Kipling described in many ways, I honestly can't say I've heard him described as 'mediocre' before.
/r/MensRights12/04/17 07:24 PM
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Ave.
/r/MensRights11/04/17 09:19 PM
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Ahh k. North or south of Hadrians wall? ;-)
/r/MensRights11/04/17 09:14 PM
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Off-topic: SPQB? Senatus Populus Que Brohamus?
/r/MensRights11/04/17 09:07 PM
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Good luck. For men to be respected they have to be respectable, by whatever means. Coming from a rich/powerful/famous family is a short cut to that, and that's not likely to change any time soon. On the plus side, there is more than one way to be respected. Rudyard Kipling has some helpful tips.
/r/MensRights11/04/17 09:05 PM
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Yeah, but how is dropping cash on a kid who, say, has been chronically underfed his entire childhood going to result in equality of opportunity? He'll still be shorter, he'll still have the psychological and neurological effects, just with a fatter wallet. It may help in some small way because those effects can result in him having less earning potential today, but it's not a solution, only a band-aid (and one that doesn't really band-aid particularly well either). This is the point I'm trying t…
/r/MensRights11/04/17 08:30 PM
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Fair enough. I wasn't trying to get it taken down or anything, just registering my reservations with the concept overall. Edit: Weird day. One post gets gold, the next gets dv'd to -10. Go figure. ;-)
/r/MensRights11/04/17 08:21 PM
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The problem I have with it isn't that it's a meme, is that it's incorrect. To have equality of opportunity, one has to have equality of outcomes of the things leading up to the opportunity. Consider two children, one born to a poor family and one born to a rich family. The rich kid, broadly speaking, will likely have superior access to a stable home, nutritious food, more-than-adequate lodging, more likely to have a stay-at-home parent or more time to interact with parents in general, reliable t…
/r/MensRights11/04/17 05:21 PM
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Two simple suggestions that may help: The first go-to by most feminists is to label you as some kind of -ist when you disagree with their narrative. Sexist, racist, misogynist, etc. This is done to try to "poison the well" against you and set you up in a kafka trap (a situation where your protest of innocence is taken as proof of your guilt). The most effective counter is to call out the attempt for what it is and dismiss it as only being in her opinion. Related to 1, often these labels or other…
/r/MensRights10/04/17 07:07 PM
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Effective.
/r/MensRights07/04/17 04:44 AM
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TL/DR - Don't try to blame me for the lifetime of astonishingly shitty behaviour I'm going to engage in. It's all his fault. (If you want to talk about "mid-level manipulation", this 'letter' is an excellent example.)
/r/MensRights06/04/17 08:29 AM
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Nope. In fact, there's been situations where the people who profess a vested interest actually became hostile rather than helpful. At the end of the day, while it may be a nice thing that occasionally some people manage to spare a fuck or two for dudes, it doesn't seem likely that significant and comprehensive aid for men in distress will become a policy in my lifetime. Figure out how to solve your own problems gents, 'cuz the cavalry ain't coming and they pretty much don't care.
/r/MensRights01/04/17 08:09 PM
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Why do people call them "2-way mirrors"? Wouldn't that imply that BOTH sides are mirrored? "One way mirrors" or "One way glass" seems to be much more accurately descriptive.
/r/MensRights24/03/17 12:52 AM
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"Rods from the Gods". Seriously though, to "drop a rock on the earth from the moon" would require a dV of about 2700m/s. To give an idea of what we're talking about, the muzzle velocity of a 5.56x54mm round is around 1000m/s. Essentially, you'd need to accelerate the object to 'faster than a speeding bullet', aimed retrograde to the moon's orbit, to make it fall to earth. We have the means of accelerating projectiles to those velocities but they are invariably very small projectiles... so anythi…
/r/MensRights20/03/17 09:05 AM
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More that she doesn't understand how angular momentum works, but that's a relatively common problem I expect.
/r/MensRights20/03/17 09:04 AM
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TL/DR - Arbeit macht Frei.
/r/MensRights20/03/17 12:09 AM
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lolwut
/r/MensRights14/03/17 03:56 PM
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Looks like some typos that can easily be fixed with a black sharpie. Jes' sayin'.
/r/MensRights13/03/17 08:48 PM
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we should also shame men every minute of the day Read the Guardian / Gawker / HuffPo / et al lately?
/r/MensRights12/03/17 03:56 PM
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Pity it was CTV. CBC I could easily see doing that, I thought that CTV had a bit more integrity.
/r/MensRights12/03/17 03:53 PM
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Or: How to destroy a society in one easy step.
/r/MensRights26/02/17 10:59 AM
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I'll just leave this here.
/r/MensRights18/02/17 04:02 PM
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Please don't link direct to FtB. Writers there have a depressing habit of throwing around rape accusations of men they consider ideologically inconvenient.
/r/MensRights30/01/17 12:04 PM
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Is there a non-private version? I'd like to see this.
/r/MensRights25/01/17 11:07 AM
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For context, he's talking about Elizabeth Sheehy, who is a professor of law at U of Ottawa.
/r/MensRights14/01/17 12:22 AM
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Translation: Will pander for dollars. Enquire within. It's a clever strategy really. With more and more women finding themselves a single in perpetuity, it was inevitable that an organization would try to pop up with appeals to that market niche as an attempt to acquire some share in an already saturated market. Remains to be seen if their planning advice is substantially different than the standard financial planning strategies of course.
/r/MensRights11/01/17 12:23 PM
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Enh, I think I'd need something a bit more substantive than "this thing was linked and was downvoted, therefore stormfront".
/r/MensRights07/01/17 09:55 PM
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But now we have some people who think that false accusations are only bad when they happen to white men Can you provide an example of this? Admittedly I don't slavishly read every comment so I might have missed this, but I've never seen anything like this here at all ever.
/r/MensRights07/01/17 04:58 AM
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Yeah, I saw this too. In some unsuspecting places too... New York Times had a sort of mea culpa for instance. Never thought I'd see that. ... but as you say, unfortunately it looks like instead of self reflection they've decided "Nope, it's the world that's wrong!" and gone with doubling down.
/r/MensRights30/12/16 02:21 AM
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Right? "Well, okay, a woman was behaving badly in this one case, but look at all these bad men! Don't forget!" The question is though... are they doing it because they truely believe there's a need to 'balance', or are they doing it because they know they'll be savaged by the hoi polloi if they don't?
/r/MensRights23/12/16 06:19 PM
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Dem "More" links tho.
/r/MensRights22/12/16 09:14 PM
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Welcome to two months ago.
/r/MensRights22/12/16 07:23 PM
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Or the brainwashing will be partially successful, as most are, resulting in epic amounts of both self-loathing and resentment against his mother. My money's on los dos.
/r/MensRights22/12/16 09:22 AM
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Either her kid is going to hate himself, or hate her. ¿Por que no los dos?
/r/MensRights22/12/16 07:57 AM
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Oh man, is she going to be in for a rude surprise. I forsee an endless parade of her gendered presuppositions being shattered one after the other as her kid grows up.
/r/MensRights22/12/16 03:20 AM
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That one black comedian from MTV did a show talking to clansmen. It was actually kind of interesting to watch.
/r/MensRights27/11/16 05:09 AM
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Does Men's Rights censor or ban Feminist? Not for being feminist. The odd one or two gets the boot, but from what I've seen it's not because they're feminists, it's because they're assholes.
/r/MensRights27/11/16 05:07 AM
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Enh... it's really hard to see how feminist men can do much of anything useful. Yes, I know that seems like merely knee-jerk demagoguery, but I actually do think it's true from an entirely pragmatic perspective. Feminist men are routinely ignored, marginalized or otherwise considered inferior and subordinate to their own self-identified group. It's hard to see how even the most earnest of their lot could achieve any sort of cachet with their own "side" when their side barely tolerates their pres…
/r/MensRights27/11/16 05:06 AM
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Liberal here. Last I heard, the bulk of us are. We're a big tent with similar goals in a relatively narrow band of interests, but outside of that band our politics diverge. Which is fine by me. The stuff we talk about and which needs changing affects us all regardless of our political leanings. Of course, people that would try to find any reason to discredit us will do so by all means necessary, including broad brush smears and guilt by association.
/r/MensRights27/11/16 04:58 AM
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The mods there explicitly adopted the SRS model of "ban on any hint of dissent", I believe. I recall a discussion about it a while ago.
/r/MensRights21/11/16 06:33 PM
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I hear that. I mean, I'm not happy that Trump won, but I'm not sad that Clinton lost.
/r/MensRights18/11/16 06:44 PM
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That SJW he has on panel sticks tight to that script.
/r/MensRights18/11/16 06:17 PM
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I'm sure this event was $100% true. ... and the name of the person who reported on this attack? Albert Einstein.
/r/MensRights15/11/16 04:49 AM
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Best part -- she's not even american. She's from Nova Scotia.
/r/MensRights10/11/16 06:43 AM
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I recall that clip, of her thinking "This wasn't supposed to happen here! It was america! They're the racists! We're good people!" Well, happened in the US too so... guess she wasn't wrong about "where it was supposed to happen", although I have serious reservations about her evaluation as to why.
/r/MensRights10/11/16 06:42 AM
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Ah yes, the revolutionary fervor of your average Halifax, Nova Scotia resident. Truly a fearsome thing to behold. Quake before its might, mortals, for you have unleashed the wrath of the bluenoser!
/r/MensRights10/11/16 06:37 AM
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Warren would have been a vastly superior candidate to Clinton, even if she's a bit "out there"... and surely there's other women who could make a serious stab at it as well. Is this the future of the dem party though? All female candidates until eternity? I can't see that being optimal, frankly.
/r/MensRights09/11/16 05:59 PM
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S0H's evaluation of Noah is 100% on point. The dude is the anti-funny. I wonder if Trump wins, if they could lure Stewart back into the big chair for another few seasons. Surely it would be like a golden age for him.
/r/MensRights06/11/16 12:19 AM
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Ew. Don't link to manboobz direct. Archive link or get it gone.
/r/MensRights17/10/16 08:10 AM
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Economics: The dismal not-a-science?
/r/MensRights15/10/16 08:18 PM
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If the article is to be believed, it basically just adds a layer of red tape before discarding old rape kits.
/r/MensRights08/10/16 06:45 PM
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If you really must know, this is futrelle ... Oh. Yeah, I probably could have gone longer not having seen that.
/r/MensRights07/10/16 10:11 PM
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$20 says that Pony guy is manboobz, or has at some point touched his peen. Suuuuper salty.
/r/MensRights07/10/16 10:10 PM
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I know that's supposed to be satire, but man that thing went about 6 times longer than it needed to be. Maybe instead of Swift, the OP should have read a little more Hamlet: Brevity is the soul of wit.
/r/MensRights05/10/16 05:53 AM
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Or 433% more likely to report, which is probably an actual effect.
/r/MensRights04/10/16 11:44 AM
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Yeah. There may be a bit of anxiety in some quarters, depending on how tuned-in / paranoid they are about us. Also, am I the only one slightly annoyed by the name? As if there wasn't enough hassle separating MRA from red pill/pua people as it is...
/r/MensRights03/10/16 05:03 PM
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there's something about Shives that really gets on my fucking tit ends. It's probably the smug. I notice it too, although in the case of Shives it's hard to take him seriously. I really can't give too much weight to a guy who wears a baseball cap all the time trying to hide his hair loss. Give it up, Stevie. We all know. Embrace the scalp. Maybe it'll reveal a third emotional state to you so you're not constantly waffling between "super smug" and "hugely buttmad".
/r/MensRights02/10/16 10:53 PM
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The timing of this is interesting, given the movie that's coming soon.
/r/MensRights01/10/16 03:31 PM
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What's the word you'd use to describe this... "clever", I guess?
/r/MensRights01/10/16 04:36 AM
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Please archive FTB links. Now that Brayton has abandoned ship, revenues from clicks go to people like PZ Meyers who have no qualms about throwing around unsupported rape allegations against people who are "problematic".
/r/MensRights28/09/16 03:01 AM
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No war, strife or terrorism in this little man's world. He's too busy making gainz.
/r/MensRights23/09/16 09:18 AM
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Men in their 40s would have started working in the mid-90s to early 2ks. Did anyone aside from exceptionally privileged rich kids ever enjoy the illusion of a "long straight line peppered with green lights"? I don't recall the late 90s being a hugely pro-male time where men owned all the workplaces and stood astride them like colossi. Maybe some dudes in Silicon valley, less so other places. Is this gormless twit entirely unaware of the deep fear of automation, of globalization, of outsourcing a…
/r/MensRights23/09/16 09:13 AM
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From the looks of it, this is basically just a woman making complaints about the things some men in her personal life do that she's unhappy about... stretched out to 500 words in order to meet a minimum for a column. As for "Humour"... well, I guess that's a relative thing. To me it just seemed like a rant about pet peeves thinly veiled as an extraordinarily detailed and point specific elevator pitch that went a minute too long to actually be a good as an elevator pitch.
/r/MensRights20/09/16 07:53 AM
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Pretty much this. It's probably the only part of the SRS subs that gets any real traffic these days, unless you factor in their colonies in SRD and broke.
/r/MensRights20/09/16 07:23 AM
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And "intelect".
/r/MensRights17/09/16 04:06 PM
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Why the hell is it NEVER about them getting a man's "enthusiastic consent"? To be fair, she is talking to her boy and his male friend, not to girls. Would she have the same talk to girls? Well, that's anyone's guess. I mean, I know how I'D guess, and I'm guessing you'd guess the same, but it's still anyone's guess.
/r/MensRights17/09/16 04:05 PM
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Klein bottle feminism? Surface discontinuity is patriarchy!
/r/MensRights17/09/16 04:00 PM
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No matter how often my sons remind me that they are good men, they don’t understand that being “good” is an action. No, being good is a state of existance. DOING good is an action.
/r/MensRights17/09/16 03:59 PM
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Are you the only person at the venue? When I've worked the door back in the day, there were always more than one of us. And not for nothing, that answer of "probably nothing" is where everything fell down for you. You may not have much authority, but what authority you do have is over that specific situation. Grab your balls and exert it IMO.
/r/MensRights04/09/16 11:32 AM
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I expect there's a fair bit of at least atheism and liberalism, as liberalism is essentially a prerequisite for the other. I'm talking small-l classical liberalism nee libertarian here, not feels-over-reals Liberalism as north america knows it. Many people in the skeptic community, for instance, identify as both atheist and libertarian.
/r/MensRights02/09/16 07:25 AM
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Apparently, atheists hold that crown.
/r/MensRights02/09/16 02:22 AM
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You're Canadian, so you'll probably recognize the additional irony of his statements when it comes to our social programs. Women, particularly women with kids under 13, are first in line for every social program, from subsidized housing all the way down. If there's a limited quantity of some good or service administered by our government, men are generally last in line to scramble for the scraps best they can. Of course, that may be well why he said it. In the end there'll be little to no altera…
/r/MensRights26/08/16 07:20 AM
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I know! I've been giving it some thought. I'm thinking maybe I'll leave it as-is, like a reminder of days gone by. Edit: Oh, and this video here is the one I was referring to, though I was more curious about the conditions that might change someone's mind more than the things that actually do. In my experience I've found that people who hold a belief dogmatically/emotionally have a very hard time imagining conditions where that belief would be considered invalid.
/r/MensRights13/08/16 03:53 PM
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Here comes the pineapple jihad... All shall submit before the will of Pineappallah! OLIVE ACKBAR!
/r/MensRights12/08/16 10:59 PM
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Thanks for doing the AMA and your videos. Sadly, we men have somehow been maneuvered into a giant societal kafka trap, where protesting our innocence to the charge of being the source of literally every woe on the planet is considered proof of our guilt, voices like yours are incredibly valuable.
/r/MensRights12/08/16 10:13 PM
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Is that Xerxes? I have a sudden urge to scissor something.
/r/MensRights12/08/16 10:02 PM
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Sh0e -- A two parter, if I may... a softball, and something I hope will challenge. Softball: What was your original motivation in starting up your channel and taking on these topics, and what personal prices have you had to pay for doing so? (edit: I see someone already softballed the 'why did you start', so if you can just comment on the personal cost, that'd be fine) Not so softball: There was a video posted recently of a woman who had spent a couple years being roughly your counterpart on the…
/r/MensRights12/08/16 09:59 PM
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Ah, fair enough. Wasn't sure if you were just going to run it here or what the dil was. I can repost.
/r/MensRights12/08/16 09:42 PM
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Sh0e -- A two parter, if I may... a softball, and something I hope will challenge. Softball: What was your original motivation in starting up your channel and taking on these topics, and what personal prices have you had to pay for doing so? Not so softball: There was a video posted recently of a woman who had spent a couple years being roughly your counterpart on the 'other side', ie. pro-feminist content, who had completely given up and now actively rejects feminism. What would it take to make…
/r/MensRights12/08/16 09:26 PM
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For some reason, society has led us to believe that children are their mother’s responsibility. That'd be the Tender Years doctrine. Prior to that, all children born under wedlock in countries operating in british common law were legally considered the responsibility of the men, and in dissolution of marriage almost always children were placed with the father. Within 50 years of the TYD being put in force, it had completely reversed and almost all children were placed with the mother. Most place…
/r/MensRights28/07/16 11:05 AM
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I could have been more precise. I was more thinking of the perhaps-too-comfortable western world, as opposed to places where life is a bit more precarious. ... and like I said, I'm not married to the idea, just mulling the possibility that as we lose natural means of differentiating, we tend to create artificial means.
/r/MensRights25/07/16 10:00 PM
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Here's a thought I've been mulling over. To be clear, I don't 100% buy into it, it's just something I've been rolling around in my brain. What if behaviors like this is our society's way, spontaneously manifested, of "culling the herd" of its weakest members because there are so few other ways for it to happen in our modern, safety-obsessed lifestyle? Very few people die to war, disease, famine or a hostile environment these days. It wasn't more than a couple centuries ago where a leading cause …
/r/MensRights25/07/16 10:21 AM
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If you listen to any of his commentry during his Dangerous Faggot tour, he says explicitly "I am not an MRA, but they're the only people who are talking about this stuff and they largely get it right." So no, he's not, but he recognizes what we're saying. That alone conflates him with us in the minds of people who only know "us vs. them".
/r/MensRights25/07/16 03:43 AM
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Honestly, this movie is going to die of its own weight and mediocrity. Stuff like this can only increase its exposure... and really, the problem with it is less about the movie being sexist and more about the people pushing the movie being sexist.
/r/MensRights16/07/16 05:20 PM
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I get that the OP is trying to put a spotlight on the shit sandwich we're collectively being fed, but this just comes off as shitting on trans people for being "a phase". Yes, yes, I know there's some 'trans trenders' out there. They're not the people I'm talking about. I'm talking about actual FtM who experience the above and are now basically being told, in essence, to go back to F. Not cool, and horribly counterproductive imo.
/r/MensRights16/07/16 08:46 AM
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So have the courage of your convictions, put your money where your mouth is, and fund it yourselves. Surely a cutting edge, widely popular and important message like "girls rule, boys suck" will easily make back any money invested in its creation... right? Or here's another possibility -- Studios don't do it because they know it won't make back your money. YOU, Mr. Feig, won't do it because you know it won't make back your money. So instead you latch on and piggyback off the work of superior fil…
/r/MensRights14/07/16 08:59 PM
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Ouch. :-/
/r/MensRights04/07/16 08:24 PM
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Funny you should mention this. I had pretty much the same thought track a couple months back. In these types of stories, I like characters who start out mediocre, modest, or otherwise unexceptional who, over the span of the story arc, learn and grow and developing into something extraordinary. It's cool if they have total badasses around them (as foils, as mentors, as whatever) but if they start out as total badasses, there's really no place for them to go.
/r/MensRights10/06/16 10:19 PM
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There's always been substantially more pro-bono legal service available to women than men in Canada. All this does is unify it, really. In a way it's a good thing. Another thing we can point at and say "... so where's the free legal advice just for dudes? Aren't we the ones who need it way way more?"
/r/MensRights29/05/16 07:37 AM
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I knew someone who had a similar experience. He wasn't going to off himself (I don't think, who really knows in those situations?) but he was kind of the chubby nerdy kid in Jr. High that noone really liked. One day he was being harassed by a couple random douches and a popular kid intervened, telling the bullies to fuck off and I expect more importantly, telling the chubby nerd that he didn't ever need to take that crap from anybody. The transformation in the following year was pretty dramatic.…
/r/MensRights10/05/16 04:26 PM
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To be (and commenting entirely off the title alone) that's we've never needed linguistic ambiguity for people to think foolish thoughts. We just have more and easier means for today's fools to share their foolishness for everyone to see.
/r/MensRights01/05/16 04:22 AM
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In this case it seems pretty straightforward. Your supervisor sexting you and unbuttoning your clothes... that'd be a human right tribunal fast-track if the genders were swapped.
/r/MensRights28/04/16 01:54 AM
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We're talking about two different issues that interface in this particular way though... one, the idea that men can't be sexually harassed, the other that men are so routinely denied even casual compliments to such an extreme that they'd honestly welcome even harassment as (weird, fucked up) form of external validation.
/r/MensRights27/04/16 04:55 PM
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Seems like this would be a good place for this... <sup>Edit</sup> bah, last link prohibited from being linked offsite.
/r/MensRights24/04/16 11:17 PM
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Dear women, Ever hear of Narcissus? What gender was that person? How long ago was that? A few moments of thought. That's all we ask for. Just a few, before you start spouting nonsense.
/r/MensRights20/04/16 06:54 PM
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My prediction: Light sentence for 20y/o woman, suspended sentence for 15y/o girl Both men will get 10+ years, probably closer to 20. 15y/o will be knocked up within a year or two and spend the rest of her days a single mom on the government dole
/r/MensRights13/04/16 10:14 PM
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So, middle-ground it: Make student loans viable to be absolved in bankruptcy after 10 years from the date of issuance. That's however long for the degree (3-4 years) plus another 6-7 years out of school and "building a life" in the workplace... for people who have something better than absolute shaite to show for going to school. If someone's still bumming around with joe jobs in their 30s even after getting a degree, then they could probably use the help 'cuz they dun goofed.
/r/MensRights10/04/16 10:00 AM
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You think a little needle is painful? Try 18+ years of child support painments. You don't know pain son, you don't know it at all. I'm guessing that you will though. You will.
/r/MensRights10/04/16 09:51 AM
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Ah... my situation was over 2 decades ago, in a place I no longer live, and had nothing to do with school. Were it otherwise I may have done so, but it's not really an option in my case. I was just commenting on how saying "no" and getting a subsequent accusation isn't a new phenomenon.
/r/MensRights08/04/16 03:22 AM
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That's when it happened to me. I told her that her services were no longer required and that transformed an event where she called me up, came over to my place, put the condom on me, grabbed my dick and guided it into her various orifices into a heinous crime... against her. I've had a few people say "well, she was crazy", but we've seen time after time accusations that are used tactically as a form of retribution against a woman scorned.
/r/MensRights08/04/16 12:21 AM
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At one point, I'd think "whelp, she's nuts". Now I'm not so sure. I mean yeah, she's extreme and willing to bleed for her beliefs (although what she was hoping to accomplish by ginning up anti-white sentiment with this little stunt was is anyone's guess) but she's definitely not the first person caught manufacturing evidence to further a narrative.
/r/MensRights02/04/16 06:52 AM
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Legal aid probably won't be of much help. This is a time critical issue and legal aid has a backlog as long as your leg. You're going to have to bite the bullet and hire a pro. Talk to your parents, explain the situation, maybe they can help out... but don't delay. You needed to have a lawyer on your side the moment that first post came out. The sooner you get one involved, the more damage can be avoided and mitigated and the cheaper it'll be in the long run.
/r/MensRights29/03/16 12:47 AM
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GET. A FUCKING. LAWYER. Jesus christ, does she actually have to be successful at destroying your life before you take this seriously? Look at the posts above! How many times have people said "get a lawyer?" Take the hint! Get a lawyer! This is not a game, this is not a test, there's a person actively trying to directly destroy your life, GET A LAWYER. Y'unnerstand?
/r/MensRights28/03/16 11:54 PM
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Off the top of my head, libel, defamation and tortious interference... but again, your lawyer would know the best way to proceed. That said, you're not going a lawyer to haul her ass to court, you're going to a lawyer to shut things down before it gets to that point, AND to have your ducks in a row if it goes that far. Chances are it won't, though. Never underestimate the power of a legal nastigram to effect a quick change of attitude.
/r/MensRights28/03/16 11:40 PM
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Don't try to "discredit" her in any way. That will almost certainly be spun as you attempting to defame her, and only pain lay down that road. Do not attempt to contact, make no comments to mutual friends/acquaintances about the situation, and call a lawyer. It'll be worth far more than the money you spend to hire one.
/r/MensRights27/03/16 11:18 AM
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Absolutely do not do this. Optimally you will never talk to her again except through legal counsel. That contact attempt can and likely will be spun as an attempt to "harass", "coerce" or "silence" her. The last one is of course correct, and it must be done through precise legal means.
/r/MensRights27/03/16 11:12 AM
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Save screenshots. Call a lawyer first thing tuesday morning. Do not delay, do not fuck around. You need to contain this and an immediate scary-as-fuck threat of legal smackdown is the best way to go about that. Yes, it'll cost you some money, and it'll be worth far more to pay than to not pay.
/r/MensRights27/03/16 11:09 AM
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Well, at least there's no artifice about it. You always know where the players stand in something as blatant and cynical as this.
/r/MensRights26/03/16 09:32 PM
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The problem isn't that Ghomeshi likes to engage in rough sex, it's the potential that he may (or may not) have a history of bringing unwilling / unaware partners into his fetish. I happen to agree with your opinion that the mob looking to destroy the personal and private lives of anyone deemed "unclean" is not just, and for similar logic that you apply... but that doesn't mean that Ghomeshi didn't do precisely what he's being accused of doing. The only thing that this trial has called into quest…
/r/MensRights26/03/16 05:25 AM
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There's been a repeating theme in the comments of these articles excoriating the Crown prosecutors for "not doing their jobs", not realizing that the Crown was essentially in a no-win situation: If they go entirely on the word of the accusers, they're open to being blindsided by newly revealed information and unable to defend against it, leading to accusations of incompetence. If they push hard in pre-trial to ferret out every last bit of information (which in this case would include the informa…
/r/MensRights26/03/16 05:19 AM
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I don't necessarily agree with SS here (I have seen both apparently happy and obviously unhappy marriages in progress, so it's not quite as stark as all that), but only one of these states is actually a stereotype so solid and enduring that it's literally been a staple of film and TV reference since shortly after their invention. It's a state so ancient that we know imperial Rome imposed bachelor taxes because too many men were shunning marriage (or more precisely, shunning creating children, wh…
/r/MensRights26/03/16 04:53 AM
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This in no way incentivizes levelling accusations of sexual assault. I can see absolutely no flaws with this plan.
/r/MensRights26/03/16 12:04 AM
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Looks like maybe... what, 3-4 dozen protesters? I was surprised while watching the verdict on CBC that there seemed to be more reporters than protesters on the street. Given that Toronto is home to the more virulent strains of anti-male sentiment (and brewhouses of same) you'd think they would have been able to get more boots on the ground. Of course, there was also some inclement weather, and if there's one thing we can count on it's that delicate hot-house flowers hate to be uncomfortable. Tha…
/r/MensRights25/03/16 03:30 AM
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Barry Cotter "Yer a judge, Barry! And a thumpin' good one I'd wager, once yer trained up a lil'!"
/r/MensRights24/03/16 07:34 AM
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That depends. We know they're an also-ran in a fairly densely populated field of gender-baiting one click outrage (see: xojane, feministing, the guardian, et al). Without the rest of gawker propping it up, would it have enough traction on its own to survive? Magic 8-ball says: Answer unclear, ask again later.
/r/MensRights22/03/16 11:56 PM
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Ah. I'm not sure. The stuff I saw briefly before it went byebye was him posting an image of some other woman calling him "disgusting" and another image calling that first image poster the actual "disgusting" one. He also mentioned that the accuser seems to have managed to circle a small wagon train around her to feed her narcissism and tell her it's totes not her fault that she left an innocent man to twist in the wind for a year+ because it might prove inconvenient to her love life. Edited for …
/r/MensRights21/03/16 06:48 AM
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Oh... well, details are spotty due to a shit-tonne of stuff being deleted, but basically a guy and a girl stopped seeing each other and in the wake of that some rumors got started about the guy raping her that she couldn't be arsed to put a stop to by saying "no, that didn't happen". So after a year of him living under suspicion of raping this girl, she tries to re-friend him on social media because she "doesn't like drama" and admits that she could have said something but didn't because her cur…
/r/MensRights21/03/16 06:35 AM
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An admin seems to have taken personal interest in this issue.
/r/MensRights21/03/16 05:59 AM
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Let's be honest, people who churn out that much misandric tripe would do it for free. All I want is for them to be permitted to pursue their hobby unfettered by the constraints of compensated employment. O:)
/r/MensRights20/03/16 05:44 AM
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Heh... well... uh... "God speed"?
/r/MensRights15/03/16 08:11 AM
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Does anyone outside of spammers actually get banned from CA? I've seen people flame out in spectacular fashion there and they're still around.
/r/MensRights15/03/16 08:01 AM
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Censorship has its own message.
/r/MensRights15/03/16 07:04 AM
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BTW, here's a candid photo of /u/whitey_sorkin and some co-conspirators taken in between posts.
/r/MensRights15/03/16 07:02 AM
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I'ma guess you got banned by IdesOfLight or whatever his/her latest incarnation is, yeh? I think it's IrbyTremor now. Keep in mind, if so, that you're talking to a genuine, unapologetic racist. The kind of person who writes blog posts apropos of absolutely nothing saying that his/her "hate of white people is messing up my day". That kind of racist. As such, consider the context in which your banning for "promoting a hate sub" has happened.
/r/MensRights15/03/16 07:01 AM
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Keep in mind this is a calculated decision. They understand that it's going to piss some people off, but given that the donator base is predominantly female it makes more sense for them to pander and try to extract more funds from the larger pool of existing donors. Personally, I'm more fond of MSF.
/r/MensRights11/03/16 05:01 PM
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Men - who largely run the criminal justice system - should know, as Orange Is The New Black writer Piper Kerman revealed, that women get handed harsher sentences than men for minor crimes. And that women - particularly Indigenous women and women of colour - are the fastest growing prison demographic. .... aaaaaand we've gone fully into bullshit woo territory. There's not a single metric of measure of any criminal justice system anywhere in the western world I'm aware of where men aren't subject …
/r/MensRights11/03/16 04:26 PM
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Family law is a racket. We've known it for a while, it shouldn't come as a shock that those who profit from it the most would take whatever steps they can to protect it.
/r/MensRights11/03/16 04:19 PM
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Not for nothing, but the architect wasn't a dude either. The presentation of the architect is just an avatar for a machine intelligence that wouldn't give the slightest of e-fucks about gender aside from how it's useful to mess with their batteries to get a few more joules out of 'em.
/r/MensRights11/03/16 03:18 PM
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The fuck do I care? The first Matrix movie still rocks, the other two... ennh, less so. Although Monica Bellucci's chest 2 stories tall on the big screen was, and remains, a glorious thing to behold.
/r/MensRights11/03/16 03:16 PM
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What's that saying? "Think what you want, talk like everyone else?" Maybe good advice. It'd suck to lose a job over pointing out the fragile sensibilities of brittle people. (PS - think she ran out to puke because you asked the question?)
/r/MensRights07/03/16 05:33 PM
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I don't know if it'll bomb, but it's hardly going to be a blockbuster. My guess is it'll pull in some Uwe Boll style money (just enough to justify its own existence, maybe a little bit extra) and that's where it'll live, left to slowly accumulate tepid profits in blu-ray and streaming. We'll know how crappy the movie is when it comes up to a couple weeks before release. If we see a commercial for it every time there's a station break on every damn channel on the TV, we'll know they're going all …
/r/MensRights06/03/16 03:08 PM
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Nah. They're already trying to make its failure all about the ebil menzes. And maybe it'll even be a teeny tiny bit to do with that. But anyone who is honest in their evaluation will know that it's because some schmuck decided to repackage one of the best thing to come out of the 80s into a tired, retread, cliched chick flick. Badly. Even if every man on the planet was a card carrying member of N.O.W., a movie like that is going to do mediocre in the box office at best. Anyone who is honest, tha…
/r/MensRights06/03/16 12:59 PM
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Try /r/AskFeminists instead. That, allegedly, is the place where people can go to ask questions like this.
/r/MensRights05/03/16 05:51 PM
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O noes!
/r/MensRights02/03/16 12:23 AM
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So long as men are given the same opportunity for breaks every month, I don't see a problem with it. I suspect it'd make the company in question less competitive overall. but if so that's something the market will sort out.
/r/MensRights02/03/16 12:21 AM
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I keep on keeping on. It's not my fault or my problem if someone gets nervous for my doing so.
/r/MensRights02/03/16 12:06 AM
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A good marriage is a wonderful thing. A bad marriage is like hell on earth. You've sadly been roped into the latter. The extent to which your scenario is related to Men's rights is when marriages do go bad, Men are at a legal disadvantage in most western nations due to the long-lingering effects of things like the Tender Years doctrine and widespread bias of soft expectations w/r/t women's earning potential. TL/DR - No, it's not slavery, you volunteered to get into a shit situation without aware…
/r/MensRights01/03/16 04:20 PM
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It ain't much, but it's a start. Good on ya guys. Any details on how the money will be spent? "Making a safe space and increasing awareness" is a little vague.
/r/MensRights24/02/16 06:38 AM
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Satire. Admittedly difficult to discern from not-satire without the clear label of "this is satire" at the bottom of the page, but deffo satire.
/r/MensRights23/02/16 01:46 AM
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I thought it was a decent reboot, although I felt it didn't have enough Max in it. I like the aesthetic though, I hope to see more movies set there (preferably with a bit more Max as protagonist, as opposed to Max as "guy who is in a place when things happen".)
/r/MensRights20/02/16 08:13 AM
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Annnnnnnnnnd here we go. I had a feeling that gay men would be the next ones targetted by the Sisterhood of Perpetual Outrage. Anyone who doesn't lionize the almighty vag has to be suspect, after all.
/r/MensRights16/02/16 08:51 PM
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Well... yeah, duh? ... and chase it with a bill mandating always-on body cams for cops.
/r/MensRights14/02/16 06:41 AM
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A long winded rant about a dude who wouldn't go down because "reasons". Okay, we get it, he's a selfish lover and you didn't get off. Kick him to the curb, drop some fresh D-cells in the vibrator, take care of business and move on. Oh, and protip to the guy: Learn to use your tongue, sir. Despite "common knowledge" to the contrary, women do talk about their sexual exploits. Getting a reputation as the guy who'll put in that extra 10 minutes of effort to rock her world pays back big later on. Ins…
/r/MensRights13/02/16 07:22 PM
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Well... that was a lot of words to say pretty much fuck all.
/r/MensRights13/02/16 05:41 AM
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HAHAHA!! Sounds hilarious, doesn't it? That's because it's BULLSHIT. Yes, because the boundaries of our knowledge a century ago haven't changed at all. I'm sure there's just all sorts of discoveries being made in basements the world over though. I'm not angry with women You're clearly angry with many, and apparently entirely dismissive of the rest. I talk to them all the time- some of the most intelligent women there are- female business owners, female doctors, attorneys female administrative st…
/r/MensRights12/02/16 02:19 AM
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She's lying to you. She really isn't. I've known her for years and I know the tale and seen the progress. Hate to pop your bubble. And yes, most research is done as a part of a team. That's how most science is done. Business owners may be relatively few, but you may want to check your stats as to how many women doctors and lawyers are out there. Also, just because someone's a secretary doesn't mean they can't also have interesting things to say. I get that you're angry at women for some reason. …
/r/MensRights12/02/16 12:06 AM
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Something that improves the quality of men's health?
/r/MensRights11/02/16 12:23 PM
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Yes, they bravely hid the fact that they either solicited Ghomeshi for sex / had sex with him after they were 'victimized', penning long hand-written love letters talking about how much she 'loved his hands'. Or, you know, just used her hands on his peen. Such Brave. So victim. Wow.
/r/MensRights11/02/16 05:10 AM
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Just some of the conversations I've had so far this month has included some fascinating stuff. One is a researcher whose team is working on a new way to halt the progress of Alzheimers, another is a grad student working on her PhD in astrophysics planning on doing her thesis on accretion disc formation following the birth of a new black hole. Of course, I'm a fan of science so things like new research is something I'm going to take an interest in. Business owners, doctors, attorneys, all these p…
/r/MensRights10/02/16 03:47 AM
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Excellent comment from that link: After some time I managed to find the abstract online - big shout out to the Independent for reporting on a study in their own words without actually sharing the research. Way to buck the trend of bad science reporting, guys. Turns out the study was actually investigating the effects of 'psychological distance' on our judgments about other people - that is, whether the tangibility and immediacy of a person affects how we rate them. They weren't studying the inte…
/r/MensRights10/02/16 01:59 AM
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The whole "threatened by intelligent women" idea always sounded extremely suspect to me. There are some people who are intimidated by the intelligence of others, no doubt, but it never struck me as probable that there was an exclusively-gendered version of that, so widespread as to be noticable as a social phenomenon. Far more likely it's a sort of "sour grapes" thing: oh, he won't commit? He's just threatened by your intelligence! (or maybe he's just not that into you...) Personally, I've found…
/r/MensRights10/02/16 01:47 AM
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I consider myself on the left (my political compass core has hovered around -5, -5 solid for at least the last decade) and I know feminism is a problem, or at least modern incarnations of it. That said, my form of leftie-leaning tends towards the libertarian than the authoritarian. Sadly, the dominant form of lefty politics these days seems to be progressivism which is far more authoritarian and dismissive of basic liberal concepts like freedom of expression.
/r/MensRights09/02/16 09:30 PM
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Interesting how the trial is only a "fiasco" now that things look like they're not going to go the way she expected.
/r/MensRights09/02/16 07:04 PM
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Seems to me that Roosh is basically the PUA equivalent of Sarkeesian. A person with, let's face it, niche appeal that most people have never heard of. How to change that? Well, go out of your way to piss off an immense amount of people. Sarkeesian trolled 4chan to kick the hornet's nest, Roosh trolled feminists. Useful idiots group A. The ultimate target of exploitation is useful idiots group B, the ones who will react against group A to send money, give attention, whatever. Sarkeesian's ultimat…
/r/MensRights08/02/16 11:35 AM
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Hm, they're going a little hard with playing the "gender traitor" card. It's still relatively early in the primaries. That said, this is not unexpected. Remember the bitterness of the hillarybots and clintonistas when Obama drank her milkshake 7 years ago.
/r/MensRights07/02/16 08:54 AM
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You're in the wrong sub. /r/TheRedPill is that way. ---->
/r/MensRights06/02/16 09:34 PM
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Not that strong. ;-)
/r/MensRights06/02/16 08:56 PM
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What it is, 'cuz. What it is.
/r/MensRights06/02/16 08:56 PM
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[–]budnutter [S] H 1 point 5 minutes ago You think your better thun me? Better?
/r/MensRights06/02/16 08:52 PM
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[–]budnutter [S] H 1 point a minute ago Tbh, you is a little ass bitch. I was holding back but I gotta say it. People like you should fucking die In a whole. I don't give a fuq if your playing or not. Fucking mocking me like I'm a piece of shit, and telling me too fuck off earlier. You've gotta be kidding me. And forreal if you wanna say something, say it too my clinched fist. lol k
/r/MensRights06/02/16 08:43 PM
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[–]budnutter [S] H 1 point 10 minutes ago Kid you know nothing of the real world do you, first of all you can't own a gun till your 18, 21 if you want a handheld, second, if you shoot me and kill me your fucked because the bullet taken out of my body has bullet markings which leads to the gun that was bought, which means they'll know it was you and you'll be played behind bars for the rest of your life, but let's be real here, YOURE NOT GONNA DO SHIT, because you're a kid trying to act tough onl…
/r/MensRights06/02/16 08:39 PM
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[–]budnutter [S] H 1 point 16 minutes ago No, you leave. You don't have the fucking right to tell me not to post. The fact that you think you do is telling in and of itself, you vainglorious egotistical jackass. Fuck you. Fuck you. You don't like me? Fan-fucking-tastic, I don't care. Report and downvote all you fucking want, but I love this sub and I love talking about this sub and I love sharing creative works from this sub and no amount of your harassment or petty bullshit antagonistic petulan…
/r/MensRights06/02/16 08:28 PM
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Seek professional help. If this isn't le Epic Tr0le, you are seriously fucked in the head.
/r/MensRights06/02/16 08:21 PM
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Not for nothing, but... the fuck you going to school in Halifax for anyways? Isn't that the place where they tried to railroad some dental students over some lockerroom chatter on a private facebook group? Edit: Oh derp. Mount A is in New Brunswick. I was thinking Mount Saint Vincent, which is another school with apparently just a redonkulous male/female student ratio. Worst in the country, in fact, if the Macleans survey is reliable. Anyways, my bad.
/r/MensRights06/02/16 11:22 AM
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There's no absolute rules, but generally you want to be honest, be direct, and be kind. When you talk to him, give him a moment to prepare for bad news. Something as simple as "I'm need to tell you something you're not going to like. Take a moment to prepare. Okay?" I've found that giving people a chance to emotionally steady themselves helps them receive that information. Also, make sure he knows that it's not a situation he can change if he tries to do x, y or z. It's done, and he needs to rec…
/r/MensRights06/02/16 07:02 AM
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You should listen. I watched it and my thought was "she has a voice like someone chewing glass". It's not fair, of course. My visceral reaction to her presentation shouldn't matter in how I view her platform, but it does and I can't deny it. I'm not american, I have no "dog in this race", but I do try to stay abreast of the big issues in US politics. If she won, I expect I'd not listen to another SOTU speech for the next 4 years. I just couldn't tolerate the voice... and that's saying something,…
/r/MensRights06/02/16 06:39 AM
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I really don't know how "PUAs" were lumped in with MRA-ism. They both focus on men. Outside of that, not much... but there's plenty of people who don't let facts get in the way of a good hate and lumping everyone who doesn't put women first into an amorphously defined "other" (aka the 'manosphere') is useful in that.
/r/MensRights05/02/16 05:12 AM
2

Heh, okay. You have fun with that.
/r/MensRights05/02/16 03:35 AM
4

Buying into labels is just another manifestation of identity politics. It only gets in the way of achieving pragmatic solutions to problems. If there's people willing to help insure equal treatment under the law for men, to help confront and alleviate the problems of suicide and friendlessness, of workplace injury and death, of low and sinking educational accomplishment et al then what label they wear is irrelevant. MRA, feminist, pragmatist, humanist, none of the above... it doesn't really matt…
/r/MensRights05/02/16 03:27 AM
2

Who cares about the label. What's important is that things get fixed.
/r/MensRights05/02/16 03:17 AM
37

O noes.
/r/MensRights05/02/16 12:19 AM
3

Spillover from hiphop culture, although it may be aided by the lack of an effective moderating influence by male family members who may be few, rarely available or entirely nonexistent. If the only strong male role model you see is singing about "Bitches ain't shit but hos and tricks" (with all apologies to Dre), that's probably going to leave its mark.
/r/MensRights02/02/16 01:51 PM
10

Unequal treatment under the law is the most harmful imo. It's going to be extraordinarily difficult to fix social issues without first at least getting men and women treated the same by the police and the judiciary.
/r/MensRights01/02/16 04:48 PM
3

Bernie Bros seems to be the same basic "Point a finger at the worst member of a group, accuse entire group of being the same as the worst member" style smear campaign as was done to GamerGate, and previously atheism. I guess they figured if the tactic worked well getting black people lynched back in the day, it'll work well trying to get politically inconvenient people lynched now.
/r/MensRights31/01/16 04:28 PM
5

Agreed. Replace the "Feminism is a hate movement" (which is one of those statements that will immediately turn off a reader's brain) with citations from the source materials and it'd be something with some actual use.
/r/MensRights30/01/16 03:33 AM
1

Interesting. I've not heard of this before.
/r/MensRights30/01/16 02:31 AM
13

Possibly. It's also entirely possible that it's legit. I've had feminists (specifically, some twits over at AMR) take shots at me when I posted about the events in my past, and I've had people (well, feminists) IRL get very agitated when I've talked about it. Probably safer to presume this particular instance as a trolly fake, but I know from personal experience that there are people with those attitudes about.
/r/MensRights29/01/16 11:33 AM
4

What... the shit... Divorce. Immediately. Take the kids and fucking run. This person literally sets people on fire out of boredom.
/r/MensRights29/01/16 07:26 AM
2

I believe you have my stapler.
/r/MensRights28/01/16 09:35 AM
2

First I've heard of it, but I'm entertained by the possibilities it contains. I'm intrigued by the potential of a bottomless pit of mineable quotes that accurately and in-context show how much crazysauce these people peddle.
/r/MensRights28/01/16 02:51 AM
1

Please don't link directly to FtB. It supports genuinely heinous people, people who like to throw around accusations of sexual assault and whatnot.
/r/MensRights27/01/16 10:34 PM
1

Honestly, this is just silly. She didn't assault anyone. The idea that she should be prosecuted criminally is beyond rationality. Yes, she's a horrid person. Yes, she's got ugly ideas. Yes, she most certainly should be removed from any positions of authority that would enable her to indoctrinate her ideas into impressionable minds. ... but charging her with assault is basically saying that acting like an asshole is worthy of a criminal offence. That's just wrong, and frankly something that prett…
/r/MensRights27/01/16 10:30 PM
5

Ah, I missed the stage it was in. Somehow I'd interpreted it as being the last stage before signing. Thanks for the context, much appreciated.
/r/MensRights27/01/16 09:49 PM
6

Whoah whoah whoah... did I just read this correctly? Did a bill in Florida just pass where courts are being directed to consider equal time shared parenting the law of the land? If so, then... Wow. This is a saga that has been running for literally decades now. It ended so quietly.
/r/MensRights27/01/16 09:30 PM
3

The rape kit thing is a red herring. Many jurisdictions require kits to be accumulated. Most of those kits are untested because there's no need to test them -- either the accused admits to having had sex, or some other evidence disproves the accusation or is stronger evidence than the kit could provide, etc... the kits aren't automatically destroyed when something else causes a case to be dropped or an indictment to move forward. It's a great item on which to base an emotional appeal though. "ZO…
/r/MensRights26/01/16 11:57 PM
2

^ Came here to say exactly this. Give us the C+H!
/r/MensRights06/01/16 03:19 AM
1

I suspect substantially less in overall volume, due to relative size of mras vs. feminists. But on a per capita basis, I'd say so yeah.
/r/MensRights23/12/15 08:30 PM
2

So many words, so little actually communicated. Here's the Cliff notes version to save you all some time: OP's TL/DR - I don't like the way people think about beauty and it's all men's fault. (To anyone who actually could wade through this pseudointellectual tailings pond, did it not seem weird that the op would go back to Ovid to make a point but completely ignore Narcissus, the guy whose name is literally the term for "unhealthy obsession over beauty"?)
/r/MensRights14/12/15 10:30 PM
2

what's so great about the average woman? nothing. What are people told is so great about the average woman? Literally everything. This is where things fall down. Women get lionized so heavily with no real counterbalance that young men lack a solid basis on which to communicate. This leads to either wildly inappropriate attempts or shutting girls out, both of which are framed as "men are evil". It's a recipe for learned helplessness. I'm not at all a fan of the pick-up people, but given the deep …
/r/MensRights10/12/15 09:12 PM
8

Well over a year old. I'm not seeing the legals prowling outside the archive.is door.
/r/MensRights08/12/15 09:23 AM
1

You're reaching dude. If you can bench 300lbs then you can bench 300lbs regardless of whether you have a cock. On the whole, men and women aren't equally strong. Physiology matters. But individual women can most definitely be as strong or stronger than individual men... and that's exactly what's being said here "I am not strong for a girl, I am just strong."
/r/MensRights07/12/15 11:49 AM
1

As an aside, that list of 15 things is just fine. Nothing wrong with any of that and I'm a bit confused as to why it was included as an example of wrongthink. The "real men do x" stuff though, they can shove that straight up their collective asses.
/r/MensRights02/12/15 07:32 PM
1

TL/DR - Some AMR twit feeds Futrelle some angry potential sock-puppet poster child for what AMR thinks MRAs are like, he spills 3000 words in digital ink to an audience of... anybody? The time where this guy had any relevance whatsoever has long since past. Let us know when the harpies he's aligned himself with turn on him 'cuz that'll be worth some lulz, but until then he's just pink noise.
/r/MensRights23/11/15 07:06 AM
3

Jesus, that's fucking creepy.
/r/MensRights20/11/15 01:49 PM
1

I suppose that's true, although it doesn't seem like quite the same manifestation even if it is a similar mental state. I could understand someone lying/faking for a short-term personal gain, like to draw a penalty against the other team or to avoid getting shot, and I find it entirely credible that men and women both have that capacity. Any kid with a sibling caught stealing a cookie could claim that they were forced to do it by their brother/sister and it totes wasn't their fault. It feels a b…
/r/MensRights19/11/15 07:34 AM
2

Of course. I'm not talking about this specific instance, but rather in broad terms. I should have made that more clear. If this particular person is genuinely disturbed and suffers suicidal ideation then I hope she gets all the help she needs, even if the means she went about obtaining help were... unorthodox.
/r/MensRights19/11/15 07:12 AM
6

I don't think it's fair to assume she's an asshole trying to get men arrested. She might literally have mental issues. FWIW, these two things are not mutually exclusive.
/r/MensRights19/11/15 07:03 AM
19

I'm genuinely curious, and if anyone can tell me I'd love to know... Why are these "false flag" scenarios so often apparently carried out by women? Is it primarily a female thing, an attempt to "game" the system to gain some sort of advantage from victim status, or are we filtering out similar setups by men? Do men even do these things? If they do them, is it a case of noone really giving enough of a crap to report? Basically, it seems to me that every time there's someone being fake assaulted (…
/r/MensRights19/11/15 07:03 AM
11

Feminists aren't all batshit. Hell, my mom is a feminist, an old school one, probably best described as an "equity feminist" by today's standards. She also thinks that 3rd wavers, despite having some reasonable points (eg. feminism has always been about affluent white women) have turned into hypersensitive brittle bitches who seem to live to give and take offense at the slightest provocation, and she can't stand to be around them. TL/DR - my mom is awesome.
/r/MensRights13/11/15 10:11 AM
5

I don't think it's postmodernism that's anti-humanist, it's the identity politics that subsumes the individual in favor of the collective that ironically leads people of that mindset to ignore the individual and presume the collective's traits (which is almost invariably all the traits associated with predatory evil, if the collective in question is not one which enjoys in-group protected status.) Post-modernist thinking can lead to weird and fucked up mental states, but it's not inherently dehu…
/r/MensRights13/11/15 10:06 AM
4

Doesn't mean we shouldn't stop trying. Progress can still be made even if the ultimate goal is never realized.
/r/MensRights13/11/15 10:02 AM
1

Stay safe. We've already seen that these people have no qualm "leaning" on people they don't like, and I'm guessing you're the new #1 disliked person once this video gets around.
/r/MensRights13/11/15 10:00 AM
-6

In the back of my head, I'm thinking this is some masterful social ju-jitsu. Let's be honest, most STEMmy fields are pretty male-dominated, and most STEMmy gatherings from those fields are 100% cock farms with attendees not minding terribly if there were a few women around to spice things up some. What's the best way to get someone to want something? Tell them that they're prohibited from having it. I'm not saying this is so, I'm just saying that if it was planned this way... well played sirs, w…
/r/MensRights13/11/15 09:58 AM
7

Holy crap. A mainstream news article about the MRM that isn't massively off-base or overtly hostile? I can honestly say that a part of me had deep doubts it might ever happen. Today is a good day.
/r/MensRights13/11/15 01:36 AM
1

It is. Gives you some idea of how well her attitude interfaces with the rest of the world.
/r/MensRights12/11/15 11:24 PM
2

He's trying to remain relevant by being a "journalist", spilling buckets of digital ink over at salon while somehow managing to say basically nothing.
/r/MensRights12/11/15 11:23 PM
1

99.99% of people today: "Who?" The idea that this person was ever relevant is mildly astonishing.
/r/MensRights12/11/15 11:19 PM
3

Beware the whole rescuing of damsels-in-distress thing. The last fight I got into was my intervening in a situation where a guy was literally smacking his gf around on a public street. Crown prosecutors charged him on my behalf (I was informed about that later, my input wasn't required but "was appreciated") and when the court date arrived the gf testified that I was the one being aggressive and I should be the one going to jail. No good deed goes unpunished, better to not waste good deeds on th…
/r/MensRights10/11/15 11:50 AM
2

Something something weird bedfellows something.
/r/MensRights10/11/15 10:52 AM
–

A large percent of modern war far has absolutely nothing to do with strength. So that excuse has been out of date for the last few decades. Try humping a pack that's half your body weight through 5 miles of scrub, then reevaluate. Not everyone enjoys a comfy ride in mechanized infantry.
/r/MensRights09/11/15 06:50 PM
2

They weren't treated particularly well when agitating for the vote, but then feminists were wont to try to burn things when they didn't get their way too. Things like... towns.
/r/MensRights09/11/15 06:43 PM
10

Agreed. There was someone on KiA that pointed out that the fracture points online seem to be less and less about fiscal policy (eg. left vs. right) giving away more and more to social policy (eg. authoritarian vs. libertarian). Personally, I'm a life-long leftie, and disagree in a major way with most of the ways people like Milo view the world politically, but in this one area specifically involving the online environment his views closely mirror mine despite we'd likely disagree anywhere else.
/r/MensRights09/11/15 07:04 AM
24

It'd be nice if they could get someone who isn't on the political right to engage as well. The dismissal of men's rights as "right wing bafflegab" is a narrative that needs to die.
/r/MensRights09/11/15 06:38 AM
6

I would love to see serious responses to this, because I've been asking some of these questions (specifically "what is patriarchy") for a long time and I never get the same answer twice, to the point where the only real answer seems to be "whatever the person you're talking to thinks it is in the moment, but mostly whatever pisses a woman off."
/r/MensRights09/11/15 06:22 AM
0

The moment I see the phrase "Real men do x", my brain immediately switches into rebellion mode and requires a force of will to overcome. My guess is that there's lots of men out there who have a similar reaction. End result is despite good intentions, a counterproductive product that'll likely reinforce alienation for more than welcome those most in need.
/r/MensRights09/11/15 03:07 AM
2

Oh wow... Things have been afoot while I've not been paying attention I guess! Now if we could just get some popping up here in Canada...
/r/MensRights08/11/15 08:31 PM
11

The Men's Shed idea is excellent and they need to be everywhere. Sadly they don't seem to have a lot of traction outside of Australia and NZ.
/r/MensRights08/11/15 08:08 PM
3

... and the name of that cashier? Albert Einstein.
/r/MensRights08/11/15 11:28 AM
3

While I'm not super enthused about the idea that more qualified people are being passed over (whether or not that's the case is questionable... almost all of the liberal MPs are young guns with minimal experience), after having nearly a decade of what I can only describe as dedicated, deliberate malfeasants running the show I'm far far more concerned that people with an actual interest in good governance are in the slots.
/r/MensRights05/11/15 07:15 AM
5

Challenge the idea that "if you believe in equality you're a feminist". It's a common tactic to try to absorb people into the cult, and it works by confusing people with the (ostensible) goals of feminism with the beliefs and processes of feminism. The stated normative goal of feminism (well, most feminisms, because there's 2938423 varieties) is equality. This is a fine goal and one I support, but wanting equality isn't enough to make you a feminist. Lots of groups want equality. Secular humanis…
/r/MensRights05/11/15 06:48 AM
7

I honestly don't care, so long as they can do their jobs creditably. If they're installed in those positions because they're competent, then fine. If they're installed in those positions because of genitalia, then that's not good for the country no matter what "message" it sends.
/r/MensRights05/11/15 05:49 AM
11

Not if you have insurance.
/r/MensRights02/11/15 08:27 AM
9

Feminism in its modern incarnation can be very unhealthy, but suicidal ideation predates it by millenia. While I'm sure the unwashed masses of fragile trigger-warning obsessed nitwits may contribute to the problem of boys and men contemplating a premature end, not every problem men face can be laid at the feet of feminism.
/r/MensRights02/11/15 08:23 AM
16

Whenever you see one of these results, you should keep in mind the silent suffix of "... and are willing to admit it to a stranger."
/r/MensRights02/11/15 08:17 AM
7

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
/r/MensRights02/11/15 08:16 AM
2

Latin is flexible on such things, but the original quote has Iacta first.
/r/MensRights26/10/15 07:09 PM
5

This is the problem with unleashing internet mobs on people - there's no way to stuff the genie back into that bottle. For good or ill, mostly ill, once the mob is given a casus belli they're going to go to war. Witch girl unwisely escalated the fight from mere words to existential threats against income, not recognizing that tf00t's "militia" was a vastly superior force. The results, ugly as they are, were inevitable. As expected when someone has no other options left, those in the war zone do …
/r/MensRights26/10/15 10:30 AM
24

We need a tagger to go up there and put #NotAllMen on it.
/r/MensRights26/10/15 09:27 AM
4

"No."
/r/MensRights21/10/15 06:53 AM
1

Indeed. We don't know enough about any of it to draw any conclusions, aside that it's a tragic event when toddlers are dropped out of windows regardless of the why. I hope the little one didn't suffer, ultimately.
/r/MensRights17/10/15 02:17 AM
1

If I recall correctly, men's attendance is staying relatively flat while women's is growing dramatically. Both are still growing, but women's are growing much faster. If I recall correctly, this has been a trend since at least 1990, but has accelerated in more recent years.
/r/MensRights16/10/15 10:22 PM
1

^ This. The DA's office is probably scratching their heads trying to figure out exactly how to proceed. On its face it looks like a mental health issue.
/r/MensRights16/10/15 10:11 PM
6

Someone needs to learn about the Tender Years doctrine.
/r/MensRights11/10/15 05:31 PM
1

Content of the article aside, am I the only person who has difficulty reading an article when there's a million excess commas and other grammatical nonsense all over? Or am I just a grammar snob who needs to GTFO it?
/r/MensRights10/10/15 05:01 AM
33

Hopefully the first domino to fall.
/r/MensRights10/10/15 04:46 AM
1

I hear you. I won't deny I'm feeling a bit of schadenfreude as well, but I'd still argue that despite how much the situation makes me giggle in ironic glee it's still a bad thing overall and that society would have been much better served by her being permitted to speak. Freedom of expression isn't much of a right if it can be discarded just because someone you don't like is saying something you like hearing.
/r/MensRights09/10/15 09:48 PM
2

In my case I lost my job, the place I was staying at, a number of people I called "friend", had some people unwisely attempt to confront me and forever terminated my prima facie assumption of honesty whenever a woman claims to be a victim. From what I understand, my situation is unremarkable in all of the above.
/r/MensRights09/10/15 09:45 PM
9

She's heinous, but it's more heinous that the public was denied the opportunity to witness how heinous she is first-hand. The harm in censorship isn't just in the silencing of an individual, it's in stripping away our rights as the public to hear and evaluate what now cannot be said.
/r/MensRights09/10/15 09:39 PM
1

She was a better actress than a musician imo. She was pretty fierce in Conan and Shaka Zulu.
/r/MensRights04/10/15 07:21 PM
1

People would think the man was really, really gay. To be fair, musicians have a history of uttering things some might find extreme for their art. (If the end of the song I linked into isn't sufficiently out there to make you think "well some people might find this extreme", keep listening.)
/r/MensRights04/10/15 07:17 PM
6

The Oxford Union situation is actually one example of a larger, explicitly stated policy of discrimination they call "No Platforming". You can read more about it here.
/r/MensRights29/09/15 02:40 AM
18

That cop is super reasonable. Smart of them to send a black guy too. Remove some of their oppression points.
/r/MensRights27/09/15 08:05 PM
1

And contrary to what this sub believes, changing ones mind after sex is not sexual assault. I suspect most of the sub agrees with you. It's the girls and women changing their minds after sex and trying to push it as sexual assault who need to be told that, explicitly and officially., along with striking down legislation that enables that sort of behaviour with no risk to them (e.g. "yes means yes" bills). If a woman said in court "I consented to the sex, but regretted it the next morning". A jud…
/r/MensRights23/09/15 11:09 AM
12

This is just awesome. Well done, and good luck to Rodney. Hopefully he'll have as warm a welcome waiting for him as the send off!
/r/MensRights19/09/15 06:37 AM
1

Oh, moi aussi!
/r/MensRights12/09/15 09:50 PM
1

When people cry it's seen as a sign of weakness or helplessness or being overwhelmed, a biological mechanism to get other people around to help solve the problem being faced. As we've come to discover, a weak or helpless man has little to no value whatsoever in our society.
/r/MensRights11/09/15 07:39 PM
10

I wasn't aware that people on ships in international waters get so much paternity leave. ;-) Or perhaps interplanetary space?
/r/MensRights11/09/15 04:45 AM
6

What country is this in?
/r/MensRights11/09/15 01:44 AM
6

Hm. For a while now I've been saying "The only promise love can deliver on is pain." Inevitably, if you love, you will feel loss. The trick is to get enough positive out of that love to make the inevitable pain worth it.
/r/MensRights09/09/15 02:12 AM
2

Proof of adultery was one of several legal ways out of marriage in the past. It didn't seem a particularly onerous task to prove infidelity back in the day, but I suppose it would depend on standard of proof required (eg. preponderance or clear & convincing). I'm not so convinced that no-fault divorce is a good thing. There should, I think, be a sort of "divorce with prejudice" in cases where one party is being demonstrably horrible to the other... although given the current system of justice, s…
/r/MensRights07/09/15 05:37 AM
3

I enumerated some other flaws below to an apparently salty dude who immediately downvoted me on posting. Onoes. :-D
/r/MensRights03/09/15 12:27 AM
9

Let's see if I can enumerate SOME of the problems: Study not linked, was there even a study done? Without a link, it's a bald assertion with nothing backing it. Presuming there was a study done, it appears to be of a very specific demographic, that of men in long-term relationships. Given that we're now in an age where more people are unmarried than married (first time in recorded history!), that demographic, while significant, is hardly the go-to for gauging the reaction of most men. Poll the g…
/r/MensRights03/09/15 12:25 AM
4

Here's the money quote: 11% of British men in long-term relationships would take a male contraceptive pill if it becomes available in the future. Emphasis mine.
/r/MensRights03/09/15 12:03 AM
6

If you dig into the stats, you'll see that only a portion of those were involved with the university in any way (women who happen to be going to UK, but not assaulted by a UK staff member or student). The number the executive summary says is UK related is around 3%, although it's buried on a later page. Still, that's 1 in 33. Still not awesome, but a far FAR cry from 1 in 5, and not the sort of number that might spur third parties to support the elimination of due process and presumption of inno…
/r/MensRights02/09/15 09:18 AM
3

It seems like some of the high profile false rape accusations have driven a fair bit of traffic here (specifically UVA's "Jackie" and the Sulkowicz "Mattress protest"). For a population like Reddit's and the median redditor being a college aged male, that seems to resonate and get people more interested. Plus, with SJWs running out of topics and defaulting to saying "MRAs are evil", every now and then people break free from the narrative to find out whether or not we actually are, and when they …
/r/MensRights14/07/15 12:32 AM
2

One does what one can!
/r/MensRights13/07/15 05:22 PM
3

"Moderator of /r/weakdefense". Yes, yes you are. :-D I wish I could upvote you twice.
/r/MensRights13/07/15 03:15 PM
5

The law sisters of Dewey, Screwham and Howe?
/r/MensRights13/07/15 03:09 PM
4

An earlier conversation heard in /u/domaa's mother's basement... "North Korea is a democracy!" "What? No it's not. It's an authoritarian shithole with the ruling junta handing down control from family member to family member." "You're wrong! Look, it's right there in the name! The People's DEMOCRATIC Republic of North Korea!" "Oh, well, if it's in the name, it must be that way! Hooray for North Korea!" Someone inform /r/Pyongyangites.
/r/MensRights13/07/15 03:06 PM
3

Well done! That's another karma point for you.. such delicious outrage! Huh, maybe you are an SJW after all. Keep it going, let's see how far down the rabbit hole you go! :-D
/r/MensRights13/07/15 03:01 PM
2

Police (v.) 1. to supervise the operation, execution, or administration of to prevent or detect and prosecute violations of rules and regulations Action (n.) 1. the bringing about of an alteration by force or through a natural agency Police Action (n.) 1. Engaging in a war when you lack the fortitude to actually declare it a war.
/r/MensRights13/07/15 02:57 PM
3

Maybe you should go around telling more people that "SJW isn't a thing!" so they can learn about it? :D Yes, at this point, I've started openly mocking you. There's nothing more of value to be extracted from this conversation aside from the lulz. Go on, thrill me with more confident assertions and informed opinions! Dance, monkey! (PS - I promise I'll upvote every morsel of hilarity you provide. I've made a deposit to your karma bank in the previous post. I look forward to a long and fruitful bu…
/r/MensRights13/07/15 02:52 PM
3

I suppose this could be interpreted two ways - One, a newspaper with readership in the millions and which is (ostensibly) charged with informing the populace about things they've not heard of yet... you know, the news, has just informed the wider population about SJWs as 'a thing' and what that thing is. I mean, their job is to let people out of all other loops what's happening in the loop. Another way of looking at it is that SJWism is enough of a thing that it had a movie made about it, which …
/r/MensRights13/07/15 02:36 PM
3

Is that a fact, now?
/r/MensRights13/07/15 02:24 PM
12

Yes, you do. You seem to be blissfully unaware of the context in which the term "social justice warrior" is used in most contexts. Some examples: Someone interested in social justice will work towards building bridges between the races, exhorting us to get beyond our superficial differences and work together for everyone's benefit. A Social Justice Warrior decides that "racists are bad" and does everything they can to destroy the personal and private lives of people they deem unclean... and thei…
/r/MensRights13/07/15 01:38 PM
7

There's a world of difference between people interested in genuine change for the improvement of society as a whole, and "Social Justice Warriors". You may want to educate yourself on the difference before applying the label.
/r/MensRights13/07/15 01:20 PM
17

Does that mean we get to destroy peoples' personal and professional lives with impunity when we disagree with their political positions? 'Cuz that's what I see SJWs doing on a daily basis, and I don't really see MRAs doing that.
/r/MensRights13/07/15 12:55 PM
4

Because "manosphere" is a completely artificial construct. The idea that just because there are men interested in things that affect men means they can be gathered into a monolithic entity is ridiculously reductive. Of course, some people enjoy using ridiculously reductive thinking because it's easier to build and knock down straw men based on that thinking. I'm not now, nor will I ever likely be, a "red pill" person. I know that, to an extent, some of their advice actually does work even when c…
/r/MensRights12/07/15 05:39 AM
83

11. Finds where his balls are and walks out on your abusive bullshit.
/r/MensRights01/07/15 05:25 PM
1

I came close to laughing at one point, mostly based on the sheer amount of straw in that strawman. Maybe with some patient tuition she could learn... you know, comedic timing and whatnot.
/r/MensRights26/06/15 11:16 PM
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I've voted NDP or Liberal my whole life. I have a DailyKOS account. My politics are thoroughly left. Supporting men's rights does not require any particular political lean, nor should it. On the plus side, it's hilarious watching the reactions of people who want to blindly stereotype my political stance when they find out my round peg doesn't fit neatly into their square hole.
/r/MensRights01/06/15 05:29 AM
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But you can't entirely blame feminism for the idea that men are supposed to raise money not kids, because that's been the status quo for centuries. In countries with the British common law tradition, children born in wedlock were considered the wards and responsibilities of the father, which is precisely why TYD was pressed; in the wake of the CoE granting divorces, mothers were finding themselves with no legal access to their children because fathers were considered the parent optimally situate…
/r/MensRights27/05/15 12:38 PM
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Discrimination against men in family court is directly sourced from travesties like the Tender years doctrine, which was created and promoted by women that were, in their time, early feminists. It was after 100 or so years of it women decided it was a way to "keep women in their place". "Patriarchy" did not create that bit of legal fuckery, and it would be very nice if people like you did a little research on the topic before making broad assertions like that... although I expect that'd be dange…
/r/MensRights26/05/15 03:59 PM
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Take breaks. Walk away. Do other things. Realize that thankfully only a small group of dedicated "lifers" are the people who are genuinely hateful towards men. Basically, keep perspective and don't saturate yourself. This includes reddit breaks. It's super easy to think that the freaks, misanthropes and malcontents of the reddit SJW cadre are more than the tiny fringe group of weirdos clinging desperately to safe-space subreddits they are. ... and yes, this is coming from someone named "SRSLoves…
/r/MensRights26/05/15 03:55 PM
2

Of all the things that have ever happened, this thing happened the most.
/r/MensRights29/04/15 07:41 AM
1

I have three, so I guess I have triple the cancer-detecting power! Plus, you know, dogs are just all sorts of awesome.
/r/MensRights11/04/15 10:38 PM
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Cleaner looking: Highly relative. Easier to wash: I wouldn't know. Never had mine. Decrease risk of infections: This seems unlikely. My circumcision left my foreskin so tight that I've had lacerations due to excessive "stretch" and abrasion (basically, they left me enough skin for a dude with a 4" dick and I'm well beyond that). Few things suck quite so much as suddenly feeling like you're fucking battery acid because your paper thin foreskin remnant split mid-fuck. It leaves an impression. Decr…
/r/MensRights11/04/15 05:30 AM
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This. It seems that some of the most important skills you can teach your kids is how to deal with people and situations that make you feel uncomfortable, and how to get "okay" with stepping outside of your comfort zone in order to do what's right (or to do what seems the most right in the moment - life is messy, what's 'right' isn't always obvious).
/r/MensRights10/04/15 09:10 PM
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One could probably bust out something usable in an afternoon via Phonegap.
/r/MensRights09/04/15 10:22 PM
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The database reddit uses guarantees that duplication of data will be 100%... eventually. However, while in the process of moving things around, some nodes can see some data and others not. That's why sometimes you'll see notifications of replies that aren't visible when you click on the envelope. In this case, it looks like a sluggish node update. Give it a few hours and see if the edit shows up.
/r/MensRights05/04/15 08:15 AM
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Not at all. Some might consider it brusque, personally I think it'd be great. There's been the odd one or two women in my past who had no problems absorbing my time and energy with no intent or interest in reciprocating and frankly, they suck... especially when giving ambiguous signals as to whether or not they were. The idea that someone is somehow sexist for having preferences (even if the preference is "none of the above") is some weird modern manifestation of feminism that I honestly don't e…
/r/MensRights04/04/15 10:44 AM
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I didn't. I just know my mom is way older than both of us. ;-)
/r/MensRights04/04/15 10:36 AM
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I won't tell if you won't. ;-) In the end, if you're genuinely interested in people being treated and considered equally with fairness and respect, it doesn't matter the label you take on... although as you've probably already noticed, there are some feminists who will be extremely hostile towards you if you don't and some non-feminists who will be equally hostile if you do. Personally, I recommend against adopting a label. It's easy to think of other people under that label as your "team" and s…
/r/MensRights04/04/15 10:21 AM
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Based on your description, it's unclear if you actually are a feminist. For what it's worth though, a lot of people who think they are do so because they're told "if you believe in equality, you're a feminist". Equality is a good thing, and most people are for equality, but wanting equality is not something exclusive to feminism. Secular humanists, for instance, want equality. So do MRAs, as a matter of fact. Equality is a foundational concept in most western nations constitutions and charters o…
/r/MensRights04/04/15 10:06 AM
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I'd say falling wages and earning potential plays a role, but I think the state of family law in North America is likely to be a larger issue. Are there any men out there these days who doesn't personally know someone fucked over in a divorce, or is the friend of someone who knows someone fucked over in a divorce?
/r/MensRights04/04/15 01:12 AM
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It's not at all unusual for people (often the students, but the profs as well, or TAs for the profs) to record lectures and classroom discourse. Perhaps it's not a terrible idea for you to have a video recording of everything that goes on in your class for your protection.
/r/MensRights02/04/15 11:07 PM
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The anti-ABR people seem to operate on the basis that any recording must somehow be shared with the public leading inevitably to negative outcomes. Of course that's not the case - one records for one's own security, and only brings out the recording when the potential downside of not doing so is much worse. For instance, in California (a two-party consent state), the worst case scenario is a $10,000 fine and 1 year for unauthorized recording... weigh that against the penalties for sexual assault…
/r/MensRights29/03/15 10:43 PM
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This is pure fantasy. Yes, it's a lovely dream that women be held to account to the same level as men are, but it seems extraordinarily unlikely that you'll get it in this way. For instance - for a drunk man to even conceptualize being taken advantage of by a hambeast while he was intoxicated would require an immense amount of priming to result in him considering himself a victim of sexual assault. Given that there isn't a massive network of people and institutions continuously telling men "you'…
/r/MensRights29/03/15 05:30 PM
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I'm mildly put off by the whole "let's force women into roles that have been done by men forever because PROGRESS", but I'm sure I would have survived. A good movie is a good movie regardless of the cast imo, although obviously the cast goes a long way to making a good movie. Also, if you think Kristen Wiig's most famous role is HTTYD, you're seriously misinformed. Watch Bridesmaids, which is fuckuva funny (and includes Melissa McCarthy btw). <sup>Edit</sup> They were fools not to tap Emma Stone…
/r/MensRights28/03/15 10:38 PM
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I know a man who worked as a principal for a public school in Atlantic Canada handling K-5. I asked him why so few men work as educators in those early grades, and he basically told me that the parents won't stand for it. The presumption of sexual predation is such that parents will raise a huge stink if a man is running a class, demanding their kids be moved to other (women-run) classes and creating a substantial administrative burden, which in turn generates friction in the staff room. Male te…
/r/MensRights26/03/15 12:43 PM
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HERpies.
/r/MensRights26/03/15 12:26 PM
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/r/FeMRADebates is neutral. Ish.
/r/MensRights26/03/15 04:21 AM
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And the wives will be challenged by being sent to the coal mines, the oil sands, the tuna boats I'm sure.
/r/MensRights25/03/15 09:38 AM
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We know that height preference translates to differences in pay. We know that men, on average, are taller than women. It's not unreasonable to hypothesize that some pay gap may be due to heightism, although I know of no study to confirm or refute this hypothesis. The point of him including that factoid is not to say "this IS the reason why", but to show one of a myriad confounding factors that gets in the way of people saying definitively "this gap is definitely due to gender bias."
/r/MensRights19/03/15 10:17 PM
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There's not a whole lot to this. She's basically telling a (nameless) kid who's badgering her daughter to fuck off. I'm guessing he wasn't taking the hint IRL.
/r/MensRights19/03/15 10:58 AM
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All sex? Probably not, but I'd recommend avoiding workplace or school hook-ups. Basically, the admonishment "don't shit where you eat" is going from strongly encouraged to basically mandatory.
/r/MensRights16/03/15 08:51 PM
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#ForABoy would be an interesting trend to see.
/r/MensRights14/03/15 03:32 PM
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Huh. That was the article that moved me to share my story of being falsely accused. I went by "UnjustlyServed" there. I think it's on the second comment page. Jesus, that was 2 years ago? :-/ Damn, I'm getting old.
/r/MensRights13/03/15 05:56 PM
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I really hope that was a joke, for this poor bastard's sake. Remember gents, condoms, vasectomy, or hold out 'til Vasalgel's come to a clinic near you.
/r/MensRights11/03/15 12:45 PM
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Today people get married much later in life and probably have more of their shit together. There was another post recently talking about this. 70% of men under 35 unmarried, according to these guys. And of course, this is all men's fault for not having the maturity to commit. Or something.
/r/MensRights11/03/15 04:16 AM
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Guessing blind, I'd assume they get more in because it's "sexy" compared to other areas of software engineering. Writing the next insanely fun game is much more interesting than writing control software for a nuclear power plant, and less fatal if bugs happen. It may also be a artifact of "get girls into programming by writing games" type programs and camps. It'd make sense if they're luring women to software by saying they can make a game, that those who were inspired might want to continue mak…
/r/MensRights11/03/15 04:09 AM
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Hm. Most censuses (censi? censae?) would track marital status, but you'd need data that specifically asks if one was ever divorced. While divorced is a status in the 2011 Canadian census questions, it doesn't differentiate between married or re-married, only currently married or currently divorced. I think you're going to have a hard time compiling those statistics without the country in question having some sort of question that specifically asks about number of times divorced (which would itse…
/r/MensRights11/03/15 02:50 AM
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Of all the things that've happened in the world, this happened the most.
/r/MensRights08/03/15 10:41 PM
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Not at all surprising. Most commenters here I've seen seemed left of center economically and "south of center" libertarian socially just based on what they write.
/r/MensRights08/03/15 07:54 PM
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It's crazy that men wanting to be treated equally in society is considered a left vs. right thing at all.
/r/MensRights28/02/15 07:21 AM
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Utter tripe clickbait. Suggest snapshotting to prevent them getting clicks.
/r/MensRights28/02/15 06:49 AM
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Hey Typhon, welcome aboard. Good luck ;-)
/r/MensRights28/02/15 03:06 AM
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Right in the feels.
/r/MensRights25/02/15 05:13 PM
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I scanned that list and it seems completely legit to me. Iffy on the "men need rescuing" thing, but I figure that was added on as a dramatic finish to the list.
/r/MensRights24/02/15 01:30 PM
1

Who?
/r/MensRights23/02/15 10:55 AM
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I'd love to visit this utopia of glorious inclusion you describe. I nearly had to come to blows with one busybody who insisted I had no business being "unaccompanied" at the park while looking after my kids. I seem to recall back in the 70s and 80s, prior to the daycare and satanist moral panics, that there was no problem with men being around kids. The idea that all men are potential sexual predators is a recent invention. I wonder who came up with and promoted that concept... PS - Women have a…
/r/MensRights23/02/15 07:16 AM
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I couldn't claim that across all women, but I know I've personally encountered a few where that sentiment isn't far off. Examples of men considered as a alking wallet or disposable meat puppet / beast of burden drift by this sub on a pretty regular basis.
/r/MensRights23/02/15 07:05 AM
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Trickle-down social engineering, basically. They have this idea that this all-powerful, ubiquitous and ever-malevolent force called SatanPatriarchy is the source of all suffering, and that it must be destroyed by any means necessary. Any men who endure hardship in this life only does so because "SatanPatriarchy hurts men too", so eliminating it will eliminate men's suffering.
/r/MensRights23/02/15 06:59 AM
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I tend to think it's more of a cloaked power grab, rather than people being so brittle that hearing something that offends their sensibilities results in them having to clutch their pearls and collapse on the fainting-couch (sadly, those people also do exist.)
/r/MensRights21/02/15 05:22 PM
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She wasn't a techie, she was a "tech evangelist" ie. marketer. I'm not aware of her having any actual technical skills whatsoever.
/r/MensRights21/02/15 05:14 PM
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She's a woman who went SJW avenger based on a random conversation she heard a couple dudes engage in which was basically a tepid, sophomoric joke about dongles. At one point, after siccing her 10,000+ strong twitter mob on the hapless men, she described herself as a "Modern day Joan of Arc with less burning". I'd say she goes beyond dumb and into "narcissistic loon" territory, but I leave that up to the reader to decide.
/r/MensRights21/02/15 05:06 PM
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In my opinion, free speech is only considered free when it has the potential to piss people off. If you're only saying things that others find pleasing and harmonious, there's no need for it. From that perspective, any time free speech as a concept is invoked, someone somewhere is going to be annoyed by it. That's simply the nature of the beast. The question comes down to whether or not one group's annoyance factor (or delicate snowflake feels) is more important that another group's right to exp…
/r/MensRights21/02/15 05:03 PM
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No, here I stand with Voltaire: I do not agree with what they have to say, but I will defend their right to say it without rape or death threats. I concur. There's nothing to celebrate in people being harried to the point of learned helplessness. This is not a positive outcome, even if it happens to people I find myself frequently in ideological opposition to. I will say that with one caveat - I reserve that opinion for people who were genuinely harassed to the point of defeat, not for brittle p…
/r/MensRights21/02/15 03:26 PM
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Yeah, but people were obviously not reading it that way ;-)
/r/MensRights21/02/15 02:41 PM
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I've met a number of great, smart, capable women in IT and software engineering. The great, smart, capable ones all seem to have worked out how to fit into a primarily male environment without friction, though. This latest crop aren't like those original women-in-tech. This crop wants everything to change to suit them, as opposed to adjusting their own attitudes to suit the environment they're in. Stuff like this is inevitable when you have the attitude that everything has to change to suit you.
/r/MensRights21/02/15 02:40 PM
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There's always been limits on speech. As big a fan as I am of free and unfettered speech, I've always known that there must be limits at the edges where genuine harm is being done to others (eg. shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre, libelous/slanderous rumor mongering, etc) What the SJWs seem to want to do is limit any speech that might cause people to feel uncomfortable, as though someone feeling sad or frustrated is equivalent to putting someone in mortal danger. That's a limit too far, in my …
/r/MensRights21/02/15 02:38 PM
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Here ya go: http://np.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2vy29i/iama_extra_from_law_and_order_svus_gamergate/
/r/MensRights21/02/15 05:47 AM
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Ah, I see you found it already.
/r/MensRights21/02/15 05:45 AM
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At a guess, the implication that AIDS is a "black disease". Maybe further implication that she wouldn't dream of having sex with a black person. It's low rent, I don't think anyone's disputing that. Being low rent is sufficient to get the baying pack of wolves looking to destroy your personal and professional life these days, apparently.
/r/MensRights21/02/15 05:32 AM
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Pegged my irony meter.
/r/MensRights21/02/15 05:30 AM
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Are we archiving Atlantic articles now? I must have missed that memo...
/r/MensRights21/02/15 05:03 AM
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Because feminists now run the show in their anti-abuse department. Yes, really.
/r/MensRights21/02/15 04:16 AM
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Some women seem to consider them as decorative flesh-toned wind chimes. There's a serious dearth of proper oral sex training in some of today's women, it seems. :-/ Too many guys just overjoyed having a mouth on their peen to give any serious advice about how to do it right, I guess.
/r/MensRights21/02/15 12:31 AM
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ethergy? Effigy? And I disagree. I think Sargon woulda been fellating him directly, while lovingly cupping the balls.
/r/MensRights20/02/15 11:56 PM
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One of the extras did an AMA, apparently the script engendered some eye-rolls during read. I don't hold the actors in a shitty episode of some show responsible for the shittiness of the episode.
/r/MensRights20/02/15 11:55 PM
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Better than nothing. I'd hate for perfect to be the enemy of the good. Any progress would help.
/r/MensRights20/02/15 06:27 PM
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And Somalia: Libertarian Paradise.
/r/MensRights20/02/15 06:23 PM
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Given that the vast majority of reported sexual assaults are a) when the accused is known and usually on friendly terms with the accuser and b) is nonviolent and c) often involves intoxicants, handing out guns seems like about the exact wrongest thing to do... like, ever.
/r/MensRights20/02/15 06:23 PM
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Then I'm an asshole. So be it. I'd rather be an asshole and correct than be a nice, safe, proper little go-along-to-get-along twit that accepts every shit sandwich without complaint so's to preserve some imaginary "safe space".
/r/MensRights19/02/15 11:52 PM
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Interesting. I hope the OP talks about #GamerGate and how that ties in with the whole shebang. Hers is by no means the first story about pro-sarkesian (or more broadly, pro-ProfitVictim™) thugs that's out there either. Hope she's got her ducks in a row with documentation and examples. Countdown until the usual suspects lose their collective minds, T-minus 3... 2...
/r/MensRights19/02/15 10:19 PM
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It's a compelling title, true enough ;-)
/r/MensRights19/02/15 07:23 PM
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There's not a single white male justice on the California supreme court. How's that working out for them?
/r/MensRights19/02/15 12:00 AM
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Women have problems, men are problems. Didn't you get the memo?
/r/MensRights18/02/15 11:21 PM
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What do you think? You think Hollywood is forcing acceptance of womens' philanderings upon us? Three words: Eat. Pray. Love. 'Nuff said.
/r/MensRights18/02/15 11:20 PM
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Indeed, but there's purported to be evidence the schools gather that shows once you get to around a ratio of 2 women to 1 man, enrollment for both curtails apparently pretty sharply. Allowing men in with lower grades is, one might assume, their way of trying nudge revenue to the peak combination of those two curves.
/r/MensRights18/02/15 03:11 PM
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That thread is 9 months old... you maybe linked the wrong one?
/r/MensRights18/02/15 08:37 AM
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That's probably a reasonable caveat. In the same way that some higher-than-50% number of men gain custody when it gets to court because the process of getting to court weeds out all but the very best, those women who lose would be more likely to be from the bottom of the stack.
/r/MensRights17/02/15 09:35 PM
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Respect isn't something that gets handed out like hallowe'en candy. Respect must be earned. I will be congenial and benevolent to people without knowing who they are, just because that's the sort of person I am... but my respect is reserved for those who have demonstrated they deserve it.
/r/MensRights17/02/15 09:23 PM
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Indeed. That's not even touching on the substantially higher per capita default on child support payments. Women are, according to the statistics I've seen, far more likely to be deadbeat mothers than men to be deadbeat fathers, it's just that they're less likely to lose custody so you don't hear as much about them. One wonders exactly how many men are in jail for nonpayment due to circumstances beyond their control. Are there any women anywhere incarcerated for nonpayment? Have there ever been?
/r/MensRights17/02/15 08:54 PM
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Ah, that's a good distinction to point out.
/r/MensRights17/02/15 03:27 AM
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I urge you (and David, obviously) to talk to a family lawyer in the trenches to get the scoop first hand. IANAL and my points are from my brief personal experience and anecdotes I've gleaned over the years, but the information is out there. If one was looking for an idea for a show, getting a family law lawyer on the air to ask questions, skewer misconceptions and so on would probably be compelling listening to a lot of people, not just men. Jes' sayin'. For instance, this guy talks about family…
/r/MensRights17/02/15 02:33 AM
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Talk to a family lawyer so you can get this first hand and quotable, but in many cases men are discouraged from proceeding for a combination of reasons: It's expensive. For some men, prohibitively so. We're talking 10s of thousands, more if the woman in question is particularly pugnacious about it. When I was looking into it, the lawyer flat out asked me "Do you have $30k on hand?". That was more than a decade go, so more like $40-50k now. And that's just for the retainer for his lawyer. It's ve…
/r/MensRights17/02/15 02:15 AM
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Welcome aboard. Good luck. ;-) Keep the tastiest death threats on file and let us get a chuckle out of 'em every now and then.
/r/MensRights17/02/15 12:01 AM
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This is an important read. Not just for SJWs but for us too. This is the sort of thing we need to be very vigilant about when evaluating our own behaviour. It's easy to get sucked into that sort of thinking if you immerse yourself in a continuous stream of "group <x> is bad people"... you're basically self-radicalizing at that point. Personally, when I find my thoughts trending in that direction, I just take a break from reddit and find other more productive things to do with my time. I'm glad t…
/r/MensRights16/02/15 01:10 PM
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Agreed, valued and valuable voices... hear hear!
/r/MensRights16/02/15 05:14 AM
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There's not a single bit of feminist legislation passed, policy adopted or resolution resolved that didn't depend on men at some or all stages.
/r/MensRights16/02/15 05:09 AM
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Men are ignored unless we start burning things. When women talk, people listen.
/r/MensRights16/02/15 04:59 AM
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It'd be nice if this is the start of a trend. I've noticed the odd one or two voices telling people that shitting on boys 24/7 yields bad results. Sadly, I think there's going to have to be another half-generation or so of suboptimal results before people really pick up on the message... by which point, who knows where we'll be.
/r/MensRights14/02/15 01:27 PM
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No, you weren't raped. You were just made a sucker by a selfish woman. I hope you froze her out. Something pretty spectacular would be required for me to re-open communication if someone had pulled that shit on me.
/r/MensRights14/02/15 07:15 AM
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It hasn't been hijacked, it's was created by, for and in service of white middle-class women. I will admit though, I do like this line: To paraphrase bell hooks: there is little point making women equal to men when not all men are equal.
/r/MensRights14/02/15 07:07 AM
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I guess I'm lucky in that regard. I've never felt invisible. At 6'2" and 26" across the shoulder, the only way I could "blend in" would be in the locker room of a professional football or hockey team. Everywhere else, I'm the huge hulking monster looking for prey... or at least so it would seem to others.
/r/MensRights12/02/15 07:49 AM
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Good poster, solid action, well done sir. All props to you, keep it up!
/r/MensRights10/02/15 03:39 PM
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Ugh. The solution to inequality between the way FGC and MGC is handled isn't to make both fine and dandy, it's to make neither fine and dandy.
/r/MensRights10/02/15 06:46 AM
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I can. As a site it's... modest. Still, who knows. Could be a monster one day.
/r/MensRights09/02/15 08:09 AM
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It's not so much a dispute (at least from my end) as a desire to not see another back-door SRSing/subversion of a forum. While Voat isn't exactly huge today, there's nothing to say that it couldn't get that way in time. I know I'd personally feel more confident with parallel ownership between here and there (the rest of the sub will have their own opinions of course).
/r/MensRights09/02/15 06:33 AM
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I'm not pissed. I was, once, but it was clear that SRD was in a downward spiral. I got over it, I moved on. I have no interest in SRD politics and no desire to get involved in them whatsoever, aside from using their history to inform present decisions. What I am now is concerned that something similar will happen here, or the "here" equivalent at Voat. It seems extremely unlikely that you the individual has not been influenced, presuming you're not simply lying out your ass. Even if we do believ…
/r/MensRights09/02/15 05:45 AM
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I did understand your point. I don't think you understood mine. SRD once had a wonderful, vibrant, irreverent and fun air. Now it's a SJW circlejerk on par with any other SRS property. You made decisions about what's right not for the community that was, but the community you (the generic you) decided it should be. That's not acting in whatever is "right for the community", it's declaring by fiat how the community shall be and alienating all who don't fall in line. <sup>ETA</sup> Yes, all modera…
/r/MensRights09/02/15 05:16 AM
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The future is now. Give it to whoever /u/nicemod's alt is over there. Shouldn't be an issue if you're ok with handing it over to another top mod.
/r/MensRights09/02/15 04:43 AM
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I'd say you already have proven it with actions. I hold SRD as a prime example of how this "apolitical skill" has been heavily politicized under your care, among others. You might have been able to convince some rube who hasn't seen the moderation of SRD shift and steadily degrade over the years. Empty rhetoric won't erase that. You are not worthy.
/r/MensRights09/02/15 04:39 AM
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He's an SRD moderator. Been to SRD lately? 'Nuff said.
/r/MensRights09/02/15 01:24 AM
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You're an SRD moderator. To say that you'd be a decent moderator for anything that disagrees with l'air du temps of SRD (that is, SRS-lite... no, don't bother trying to deny it, some of us here remember what SRD was before SRS colonized it) is disingenuous at best. So thanks, but no thanks.
/r/MensRights09/02/15 01:23 AM
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So long as it gets more money to study of the causes, mechanisms and treatment for heart disease, then fine by me. Surely we've noticed that people are far more likely to pay attention to a problem when women complain about it than when men do... might as well use it to our advantage, no?
/r/MensRights08/02/15 11:22 PM
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It's not really a thing so much as a small group of people trying to make it a thing. They think it's fetch and miles ahead.
/r/MensRights07/02/15 12:18 PM
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Solid lefty here. I'm just not the sort of crazysauce lefty that thinks gender politics trumps everything. Some take it to such an extent that it leads to claims that a homeless white guy has more "privilege" than Oprah. Nutty.
/r/MensRights07/02/15 12:16 PM
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Dean, regarding Myer's overall "goodness" as a prof... take a few extra moments and look at the ratings of the rest of the department. I did it a year or so ago and at that time, he was something like 14th of the 16 profs on file. Presently it appears that he's 8th of 15 with most of those ranking lower having few reports (perhaps also being newish profs). He's pretty thoroughly lacklustre, hasn't had a published work in close to two decades, and has clearly abandoned any pretense to empiricism …
/r/MensRights06/02/15 08:26 AM
2

So much this.
/r/MensRights05/02/15 09:37 AM
2

Karen, if you're reading: As amusing as it was to watch Cenk have his little hissy-fit, it probably would have be useful for viewers that you spell out that you're not disagreeing with the idea that early feminists contributed to women's suffrage, but with the idea that it came about solely or largely due to their efforts. Pointing out that the current narrative of "feminism got women the vote" is massively oversimplified and over self-congratulatory by feminists, along with details of how, coul…
/r/MensRights05/02/15 08:26 AM
1

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
/r/MensRights04/02/15 05:34 AM
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Much like labour laws that only got changed when then-current working conditions disadvantaged women, child support and alimony laws will only be changed when they disadvantage sufficient women. It seems like the only way to get fucked up things fixed in society is make it so that a woman somewhere is inconvenienced by it. Let's get some women coal miners down in the shafts, maybe there'll be some improvements in mine owners following safety regulations.
/r/MensRights24/01/15 02:52 AM
6

"Remember to never talk to a girl unless she talks to you first. Saying hello to a woman you don't know is a form of harrassment and oppression (this is the late 80's and early 90's, so this line of bs has been around a long time)" Since Victorian England, in fact. Probably earlier. Way to reinforce "patriarchy" there mom. "If you were ten years younger I would just smother you with a pillow and do some good for the world. You're too big now, so I'll just have to live with my mistakes." Dude. Th…
/r/MensRights23/01/15 05:53 AM
1

For the record, if the female superior is hot, I'm totally down with going totally down. But yeah, I checked out at Dworkin. At that point you know you're not dealing with a rational mind. Beyond that point I can only assume it was through the looking-glass.
/r/MensRights22/01/15 10:35 PM
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Managed to read up to the point where she favorably cited Dworkin. You know, that hardcore man-hating feminist who thought that all penetrative sex was a violation, and whom all modern feminsts say they ignore and don't pay attention to and has no real influence over modern feminist thought. Yeah, that one.
/r/MensRights22/01/15 10:32 PM
2

TL/DR - Because "no scrubs" seems to be rigidly enforced. Crappier economy, fewer "carnivores", more men who just give up on the idea that they'll ever get laid so fuck it and play ren'ai.
/r/MensRights22/01/15 09:05 PM
1

There are some feminists who claim that they're working in the interests of men because they're "working to dismantle patriarchy", which would have as an incidental effect some benefits for some men (specifically, those men who were marginalized or oppressed by whatever aspects of "patriarchy" women decide are wrong and want to change to more effectively benefit women). It's basically the sociological equivalent of Reagan era "Voodoo" or "trickle down" economics. Of course, we saw how well (not!…
/r/MensRights22/01/15 08:18 PM
1

Shirts for the 3edgy.
/r/MensRights22/01/15 08:25 AM
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Well, at least if it's going to be an overt quid pro quo of financial compensation for sex / attention, at least they're putting it towards an education.
/r/MensRights22/01/15 08:24 AM
2

Who's this "we" you refer to? It certainly isn't any feminist I've been introduced to. It's a little hard to believe that you think feminists are trying to help men when they're the ones actively working to strip men of rights when they're accused of sexual assault in college settings. I'm going to have to see some evidence in support of your claim.
/r/MensRights22/01/15 07:58 AM
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I could swear I saw something similar from a Centenarian man who said "avoid women" a while back. If you consider the amount of stress a bad relationship can generate, she's not completely out to lunch.
/r/MensRights21/01/15 06:30 PM
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I think feminists like to claim the MHRM is somehow hostile to LGBT issues because we don't put LGBT concerns ahead of issues that concern all men (including GBT). I've encountered a couple situations where I've tried to patiently explain that we're still small and have to "triage" where our efforts go, but that seems to fall on deaf ears. Err... eyes. :-/ Like you, I've supported LGBT causes through other frameworks (marching in pride parades, donation, etc). At this point in time, they're bett…
/r/MensRights21/01/15 04:26 AM
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Banned from here? Unlikely. We've got plenty of LGBT members. ... and while I can't speak for everyone, I suspect most (if not all) of us support the rights of trans men, gay men, any men. Trans, gay and straight women too.
/r/MensRights21/01/15 02:45 AM
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I'm going to have to see a citation that supports anything being lower than Gawker.
/r/MensRights19/01/15 11:36 PM
1

The feminism / gender whatever aside, that's a great way of describing the difference between normative and positive. I'm totally stealing that.
/r/MensRights16/01/15 10:47 PM
1

I think it's fair to question whether or not a grad student can be considered a "legit scientist", and I suspect the determination is best done on a case-by-case basis. Some clearly and demonstrably are (like the grad students working on Illustris), some... less so. ;-) So in this particular case of the OP's research, given the nature of the study and the way the data was accumulated, even if you think the results are suspect or the methodology dubious, I don't think anyone can reasonably dismis…
/r/MensRights16/01/15 07:56 PM
1

You're correct in that, although in many fields a masters is the end goal unless you want to go into theory - for instance, many engineers get M.Eng and don't go the full PhD route. ... and yes, many who want to do research (at least in academia) go PhD, but the boots-on-the-ground for most of the research that gets done is, yes, horrendously underpaid and overworked grad students. That poor schmuck taking readings in the snow at 3am on a sunday morning? Grad student. That pale-going-on-transluc…
/r/MensRights16/01/15 09:46 AM
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Given the fact that the show straight up supports rape, I'm surprised it isn't banned everywhere tbh. ... and not in that "oh, someone made a joke about sexual assault raaaape culturrrrre" type support, I mean there's a line in there (and a scenario that leads up to it) which reads, verbatim: "If it was rape, it was a good rape."
/r/MensRights16/01/15 12:52 AM
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Ah, that was my reaction when I learned about it as well; being more free with expressing my approval when things are done to my satisfaction.
/r/MensRights15/01/15 11:49 PM
1

Hm. In most of the sciences, in the hard sciences at least, when it comes to doing research in academia, grad students are the eternally overworked and underpaid "oompah loompahs of science"... that is, the people actually doing the work and compiling the results under the watch of a post doc. CS I think is a bit different when it comes to research.
/r/MensRights15/01/15 11:46 PM
1

What is a thesis but the first paper you'll write in a career track where "publish or perish" is the touchstone?
/r/MensRights15/01/15 11:40 PM
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Because it reveals weakness that will be exploited at a later date by people who are less-than-scrupulous.
/r/MensRights15/01/15 11:23 PM
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There was a study I saw a while back that showed that men can often go long stretches of time without external validation or encouragement, on the order of months between compliments, and for some people years or "indefinite" periods (ie. so long they can't remember the last time when). It seems like that's just what we expect; the knowledge that the job has been done well is its own reward. I've mentioned this on occasion to women I've known, and their reactions range from disbelief to horror. …
/r/MensRights15/01/15 11:17 PM
2

Post-modernism in a nutshell.
/r/MensRights15/01/15 11:04 PM
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Here's the thing about making tasteless jokes. You know they're tasteless, she knows they're tasteless. To sell a joke like that, you have to commit to not only making the joke, but taking it overboard so that you're obviously being satirical. You can't immediately walk it back with a "lol! kidding!" Basically, it comes across like "I'm so edgy he he please don't hurt me". She's completely off-base about a lack of gendered jokes against men, but I suspect at this point things are in meltdown mod…
/r/MensRights13/01/15 01:12 PM
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Awww man, for all the press it gets, I was expecting to really cash in big. I had big plans. BIG PLANS. Not getting cat-called. Pfft. Everyone gets that, it's called getting old. Some benefit.
/r/MensRights13/01/15 06:36 AM
2

I'm still waiting on my patriarchy kickback. Who do I have to send to in order to submit a change-of-address form? Or is the patriarchy like the illuminati and they'll just know?
/r/MensRights13/01/15 05:47 AM
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Seems entirely reasonable. Better than trying to swap out a diaper on the slick, dubiously hygienic sink countertop.
/r/MensRights13/01/15 05:42 AM
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Burning, as in chemical burning, alas. :-/
/r/MensRights11/01/15 10:21 PM
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I haven't read everything, but this statement stood out and I wanted to voice my strong agreement: We should watch using wrong information in our fight. We have to be better than them. Could not possibly agree more. Always check and critically evaluate your information sources. If the source says something you agree with, check it twice. There's no more seductive misinformation than the misinformation you want to believe.
/r/MensRights11/01/15 08:22 PM
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Yeah, I know, it's usually a good idea to get out, explore your options, etc etc. It's not completely unheard of though, so the possibility of the OP being stuck in a hostile environment for 4+ isn't entirely out of the question.
/r/MensRights11/01/15 05:22 AM
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Hm. That's not indicated from that page, which seems very standard-issue woman's center. It's going to be an issue though, if even in your early days you're picking up hostility. Keep in mind that you're going to be there likely for 4 years, more if you want to go past an undergrad degree. Have you considered any alternates, or is there something specific to this one school that compels you to stay?
/r/MensRights11/01/15 02:29 AM
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You're ill because your university has a women's center? Suggestion: Take a dramamine and learn to live with it.
/r/MensRights11/01/15 02:15 AM
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Someone needs to teach women who say it that it's intended to be sarcastic, maybe.
/r/MensRights10/01/15 08:37 PM
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Heh, this person is hilariously malinformed.
/r/MensRights10/01/15 03:38 PM
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Nifty. I can honestly say you're the first person I've encountered who knows such people. Aside from situational conditions (like the aforemented she-works-he-schools type deal) there's not a single person in my circle of friends, acquaintances or (to my knowledge) their acquaintances who are in this state, so I'm curious as to the details. Thanks for filling me in. What's your degree in btw?
/r/MensRights09/01/15 11:30 PM
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really nice guys I've seen this phrase used as code for "unassuming, non-demanding, passive, accomodating" etc. Are you using it in this way? (not that it matters, just for sake of clarity) most believe that the men make the money and the women are just along for the ride Hm, would you say this is because of general expectations, or is the the way the couples present themselves? Also, are there any "kept men" in the bunch where he's a stay-at-home dad or full time student or similar?
/r/MensRights09/01/15 11:25 PM
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I've been toying with a hypothesis that many SJWs go SJW-y because they're essentially useless people ("useless" in the sense of having no purpose or utility that society finds particularly valuable, not that they're worthless people innately). People seem to feel a need to invent a purpose if they can't find a worthy pursuit, and some of them go down the rabbit hole of continuous outrage addiction to SJWism. From what you just described, I think we've both come to the same conclusion.
/r/MensRights09/01/15 11:02 PM
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Hm, I suppose so. One would have to be a serious zealot to be that involved though. It still belies a life pretty empty of other options for things to do I think.
/r/MensRights09/01/15 10:50 PM
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Heh, well, I'll admit that I've not been exactly supportive of the concept of marriage to my kids. I haven't told them "don't do it", just encouraged them to look around, listen to the stories of men who've been married and whose marriages didn't end up with people living happily-ever-after. They don't seem super keen on the idea but they're their own people, so I guess we'll see. I agree though that marriage essentially cuts off that essential negotiation element at the knees, although obviousl…
/r/MensRights09/01/15 09:59 PM
1

It's really not, although it can sometimes feel like it in the moment. Believe me, you end up FAR deeper on the negative side being locked into a long term relationship with a soul-sapping shrew than you would enjoying the freedom (and yes, the loneliness) of a single life. There's a lot of relationships on this planet where everyone involved would have been happier if someone said early on "Nope, this isn't going to be rewarding. I'm out, have a nice day."
/r/MensRights09/01/15 09:32 PM
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Sounds like you've done some Negotiation 101. A lot of people (in particular men, and specifically in the context of relationships) don't realize that the only real power in any negotiation is the power to walk away.
/r/MensRights09/01/15 09:30 PM
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I have seen many a mismatch couples marry where the woman is making more and providing more. I've always been curious about the men in those situations. Are there any common attributes in these men you can identify? If we all just wanted to be gold diggers why would we get degrees? If I were the sort to play devil's advocate, I'd point out that there's only so much gold to be mined... and the more miners there are, the less incentive for the vein to be tapped. ;-)
/r/MensRights09/01/15 09:18 PM
2

There were, at one point, some people who jumped ship and went to /r/antisrs that were originally SRS but got chased out by the sheer insipid peurility of it all. That happened more than a year ago though... maybe they were the last? Sorta like dolphins singing "So long and thanks for all the fish" as they got beamed into space?
/r/MensRights09/01/15 05:37 PM
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I love learning new things. :-D
/r/MensRights09/01/15 05:34 PM
2

... and the following year will probably see a dramatic uptick in STDs and downtick in abortions and unplanned pregnancies. ;-) (Let's be real, you know there's gonna be some barebackin' going on.)
/r/MensRights09/01/15 04:52 PM
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There's a great example of it going on with Brianna Wu and Chloe Sagal right now actually, although that's obviously an intragroup scuffle. Check out the progression of comments and see how Sagal goes completely off the rails when her request is denied and declares she's the victim of Wu's oppression. It'd be hilarious if it wasn't for the fact that so many people take these fucking nutters seriously.
/r/MensRights09/01/15 04:40 PM
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We've been hearing this for a while now. Sounds great, just... you know, roll it out so we can use it and we'll be a bunch of happy fuckers (literally) :-D Sometime between now and when I'm dead would be great. Mmkay?
/r/MensRights09/01/15 04:32 PM
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Who gives a fuck about whether or not feminists want to talk about it? Clearly if anything's to be done, we're going to have to be the ones to do it. Edit Oh, this looks like another troll post. At least this one isn't as incredi-shitty as the other one.
/r/MensRights09/01/15 04:26 PM
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I accept the possibility that a reasonable member of SRS might exist, but one has yet to be produced for proper examination. I look forward to witnessing this elusive creature one day with my own eyes.
/r/MensRights09/01/15 04:19 PM
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Troll rating: 1.5 / 10 Grade: F Comments: Low quality, extremely obvious and sophomoric effort. Failed utterly. 1.5 points given purely for relative lack of spelling and grammatical mistakes.
/r/MensRights09/01/15 04:16 PM
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They get spanked periodically, it's just that the spanks have no force. Offenders get their accounts SB'd, they make new accounts, lather rinse repeat.
/r/MensRights09/01/15 01:35 PM
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"Reasonable members of srs".
/r/MensRights09/01/15 01:23 PM
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SRS theme song.
/r/MensRights09/01/15 01:19 PM
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That's because AMR is SRS, and brigading is what SRS does. It's "empowering" or something.
/r/MensRights09/01/15 01:17 PM
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I don't even have to read the article, all I have to do is look at the URL and recognize it's Dave Futile going on another one of his meltdowns before moving on to more useful things. For future reference, here's a handy TL/DR of literally every one of Futile's posts - RANT RANT FULMINATE RANT LIE ABOUT SOME SHIT RANT RANT STRAWMAN SOME OTHER SHIT RANT RANT SUCK FEMINIST DICK RANT RANT NON-SEQUITUR CONCLUSION TIME FOR BEER PRETZELS AND COMPULSIVE MASTURBATION.
/r/MensRights09/01/15 11:43 AM
1

I think it's more than that. I think they're a "drug circle". You know that group of friends and acquaintances you tend to accumulate around your favorite poison (stoner buddies, drinking buddies, etc)... that's SRS. Their addictive drug of choice is "outrage".
/r/MensRights09/01/15 10:04 AM
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Jesus. Seriously, if nothing else, someone get this woman into some sort of anger management or something. Those poor fucking kids. How long until they start beating on others or self-harming? Am I the only one WTFing about the complete about-face in demeanor in the span of seconds? That's some crazy steroid abuse level rage-snap shit.
/r/MensRights09/01/15 07:53 AM
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Surely there's other, better, more rewarding ways to socialize...
/r/MensRights09/01/15 06:30 AM
2

The only thing I think of when seeing this is "That's life in the big apple."
/r/MensRights09/01/15 05:35 AM
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Huh. I had this schmuck at -8. I guess what he was peddling wasn't that great.
/r/MensRights09/01/15 05:20 AM
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My interpretation of horseshoe isn't that the motivations start blending, only the trend towards Machiavellian (ends justifying means) solutions to perceived obstacles that get increasingly authoritarian. From the wiki: Proponents of the theory point to similarities between the extreme left and the extreme right. Specifically, the two ends share an authoritarian element and a desire to greatly increase the size of government in order to advance their respective objectives. Given that the extreme…
/r/MensRights09/01/15 03:39 AM
2

Hells yeah. The more I think about this idea, the more I'm a fan.
/r/MensRights09/01/15 03:32 AM
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Hey, at least we wouldn't be shat on for "manspreading". I say we go for it. :-D
/r/MensRights09/01/15 03:31 AM
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I find it endlessly fascinating that, despite the countless TV channels, videogames, friends, family, communities online and off, the nigh limitless panopoly of options for interaction and entertainment available at their fingertips, on demand and at a moment's notice... that doing stupid shit like that is their very best choice of something to do. How unimaginative and incurious must someone be to pick "trolling an online forum" as their prime option for entertainment? Just makes me feel bad fo…
/r/MensRights09/01/15 01:23 AM
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Hm. I coulda swore that number was 1 in 9 before. That means it's going up, right? ;-) </s>
/r/MensRights04/01/15 04:55 PM
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Considering there's substantially more trafficking of men (for labour and sex) than there are of women, it's proper there should be mention made. Now if that focus could only extend to physical and sexual assault when it comes to things like VAWA...
/r/MensRights02/01/15 12:00 AM
1

Disbarment in 3... 2...
/r/MensRights01/01/15 11:19 PM
2

There's no such thing as "reverse discrimination"... it's just "discrimination". </pedant>
/r/MensRights31/12/14 11:01 PM
0

Can we have one where a GMC ad exec is crying because someone accidentally dropped him feet first into a wood chipper?
/r/MensRights31/12/14 12:55 PM
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Damn, this one just unloads: indianhistorystudent -> imeaniguessobvious . • 2 months ago your answer is quite rude and YOU need to actually start doing some research on feminism, especially feminism and so-called third world women. Learn about the history of feminism, its ideology and ACTUAL practice before you attempt to school anyone. I would strongly suggest YOU consult Antoinette Burton's Burden of History: British Feminists, Indian women and Imperial culture; Uday Metha Singh's Liberalism a…
/r/MensRights31/12/14 12:45 PM
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Things like [...] teenage boys being turned out of shelters onto the street [...] seem like huge issues to me, and are blatantly unfair, AND can be addressed much more easily without needing to confront feminism. Considering it's feminism that has worked diligently since the 1970s to label all men as potential sexual predators, and explicitly rejected research that showed men and women suffer roughly equal amounts of IPV victimization, it is explicitly feminism that is in the way of getting teen…
/r/MensRights31/12/14 10:20 AM
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I like your post and agree with it completely. That sentiment is not echoed in the large majority of comments I see on this subreddit.I like your post and agree with it completely. That sentiment is not echoed in the large majority of comments I see on this subreddit. Then you should read the stuff that's being said that you seem reluctant to see, in addition to the stuff that you do seem to want to see. So long as feminists are only working on areas where women are not yet equal to men, they're…
/r/MensRights31/12/14 09:21 AM
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Feminism's only real tool is weaponized shame. It can't effect people who refuse to be shamed.
/r/MensRights31/12/14 12:20 AM
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Jesus fuck. :-( May this woman never know a moment's peace the rest of her life.
/r/MensRights30/12/14 07:01 PM
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Things rapidly go off the rails unless they excise any dissenting opinion with extreme prejudice. Keep in mind that some of these are people who literally think that the idea of unfettered free speech is an objectionable and harmful ideal, and actively agitate to limit speech whenever they can.
/r/MensRights28/12/14 02:01 AM
2

Clerks reference?
/r/MensRights28/12/14 01:57 AM
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It's been proven so damn many times to be 100% due to women's and men's choices rather than due to discrimunatuon that it's not even interesting anymore when that gets reaffirmed over and over again. This is just wrong. We periodically hear of studies that do show a gender-based discrimination in certain areas. Saying that it's 100% due to choice is just flatly wrong. Choice makes up a great majority of overall earning gap (expressed in total hours worked, specializations chosen, risks taken, op…
/r/MensRights27/12/14 10:46 PM
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Herein lies the problem with being a man who has problems. Whether you agree with it or not, men are looked at and presumed to be the ones to be capable and resilient. If you are not capable, you're useless. If you are not resilient, you can't be trusted to bear up when the chips are down. So we're in a catch-22. The men who are least likely to need help are the ones who people would be most accepting of asking for it. The ones who most need the help are considered unworthy of receiving it. Thus…
/r/MensRights27/12/14 10:08 PM
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They wouldn't, you say? ...[F]emale suicide bombers often were "grieving the loss of family members [and] seeking revenge against those they feel are responsible for the loss, unable to produce children, [and/or] dishonored through sexual indiscretion. Anything more empowering than lethal amounts of ordinance used to blow apart your enemies, I wonder...
/r/MensRights27/12/14 08:16 PM
1

Fair enough. I was reading your comment in the context of the original article, where it seemed out of place. My personal normative goal is equality of access and opportunity irrespective of gender, in which equality of treatment, both pro and con, under the law is an essential part. The idea is that if you put everyone on equal ground to compete, people rise and fall on their own merits. That may be a utopic goal; it could be that there's no meaningful way to ensure equality of access to all th…
/r/MensRights27/12/14 07:53 PM
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Not everything in quotes is a direct quote. As to paraphrase and contradiction... well, no it isn't, and no I don't. As I explicitly said, it's about considering all peoples as equal under the law, with the same rights and responsibilities, subject to the same prohibitions and penalties. Whether or not an individual A or group A is superior in some way should be irrelevant to how they're treated under the law. ... and yes, it does have to do with rights, responsibilities, prohibitions and penalt…
/r/MensRights27/12/14 06:01 PM
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People are not equal - this is a hard truth we don't see discussed here often enough. Some people are stronger in areas, others weaker. It's not a question of whether person A is better than person B, or group A is better than group B. It's about considering all peoples as equal under the law, with the same rights and responsibilities, subject to the same prohibitions and penalties. If your attitude is "some people are just better than others so they don't need to be treated the same", then you'…
/r/MensRights27/12/14 05:04 PM
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Ia! Ia! Dworkin fhtagn!
/r/MensRights26/12/14 08:52 PM
3

TO MAKE OFFICIAL NUTSO® TROLL HOUSE® COOKIES INGREDIENTS 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened 3/4 cup granulated sugar 3/4 cup packed brown sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 large eggs 1 cup chopped nuts 2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) NUTSO® TROLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Idiocy Morsels INSTRUCTIONS PREHEAT oven to 375° F. COMBINE flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mix…
/r/MensRights26/12/14 03:06 PM
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So, just as I went to agree with him. You're a tool. Kindly run along and play hide-and-go-fuck-yourself.
/r/MensRights26/12/14 02:56 PM
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You're seriously trying to talk up a fucking wartime atrocity as a positive thing? Get the rocks out of your head.
/r/MensRights26/12/14 02:54 PM
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Image quality is shaite, but from what I could make out it's deffo an improvement! I'll be honest, I'm mildly shocked. For the longest time not only did noone give a fuck, the attitude seemed to be that if you complained you didn't deserve help. It's astonishing to me the turn-around in attitudes over the last 20 years, and I like to think it's people like us raising objections to relentlessly one-sided studies that helped in part to bring male victims of sexual and interpersonal violence into p…
/r/MensRights26/12/14 02:31 PM
2

Any sort of stress will generate an increase in cortisol. Unless abuse situations generate cortisol levels entirely outside those otherwise experienced by stress, it seems unlikely.
/r/MensRights24/12/14 10:49 AM
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$20 says this is some feminist douche trying another false flag.
/r/MensRights24/12/14 06:39 AM
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I'm mildly astonished he hasn't found his car ablaze, tbh.
/r/MensRights24/12/14 06:38 AM
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I think Maisie Willams is an excellent actor regardless of her political views. I think Emma Watson is as well. It's somewhat disheartening to see how much "weight" is given to people who are famous as though their attitudes are more informed or wiser than anyone else... but I suppose that's part of the human condition, that presumption that fame = importance = better. Honestly, people need to meet a few movie stars to realize how mediocre many of them are outside of their acting skills.
/r/MensRights24/12/14 06:33 AM
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Assuming each does the job to the same capacity, of course. Why is this even a question? Edit Also, OP (I presume you wrote that because of your name), please please please stop spreading misinformation by saying the 77/100 thing (82/100 these days, btw) is for the same job. It's not. It's aggregate earning by all men vs. all women in full time jobs, which is defined as people working more than 30 hours a week. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
/r/MensRights24/12/14 05:27 AM
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In my opinion they're proposing the exact opposite of what I'd like to see. Rather than both people being required to abort, I'd prefer EITHER person be able to... or if requiring abortions are an offense to the physical dignity of the mother (I would suggest it is) then providing a means where men can legally detach himself from any association from a mother and child that, presumably, he didn't want and never asked for. In my opinion, a great many social ills are bourne of the poor handling an…
/r/MensRights23/12/14 01:30 PM
3

Anyone who thinks this is anything but early electioneering and positioning of the Democrats as the "pro-woman" party for the upcoming silly season, you've got a very rosy interpretation of US politics. ;-)
/r/MensRights23/12/14 10:52 AM
1

From a health care delivery standpoint, it's actually cheaper for smokers to smoke and die early than live long healthy lives... so there's a perverse incentive to not do so. I don't think that's actually why, just pointing out that in terms of overall cost to HC, dying of some disease caused by smoking at a young age is considerably less expensive than treating the plethora of shit you accumulate when you hit old age.
/r/MensRights23/12/14 10:50 AM
6

What, tumblr and twitter feminists aren't "doing feminism" when they act like an online vigilante mob dedicated to destroying peoples' personal and professional lives when they say something "problematic"? Oh dear. The she-jimmies will be all a-rustle with this news.
/r/MensRights22/12/14 10:35 PM
3

Ask them if "no means no" when you're saying you don't want to listen to any more of their indoctrination attempts. Also, time to look for new lodgings. Seems pretty apparent this place doesn't have long term potential, or at least she's trying to get you to leave by making things uncomfortable for you. Maybe she wants to move the friend in instead.
/r/MensRights21/12/14 03:03 PM
0

Not all of them.
/r/MensRights21/12/14 01:24 PM
2

That describes me somewhat. I used to march in pride parades, added my voice to various protests and whatnot, but as time went on my priorities changed (specifically, I got real, real poor and was homeless for a time). By the time I was in a position of leisure such that I could consider politics again, the nature of the people involved had changed toward the "sinister". It's only gotten worse, although over the last few years it seems to have really accelerated what with online vigilante mobs a…
/r/MensRights21/12/14 05:40 AM
1

I can agree to that, and even alluded to it with the caveat at the end about an industrial era school system we currently find ourselves shackled to. I don't know how to implement the broader categorization you propose. Segregation by gender is pretty easy. Self-identification into different teaching styles by opt-in or "channeling" would definitely be more difficult, and possibly stigmatic when kids can't learn the "normal way" (eg. how remedial courses currently are viewed)
/r/MensRights21/12/14 03:05 AM
1

One last question and I'll stop monopolizing your answers: what's your opinion of this recent trend in law education?
/r/MensRights21/12/14 02:47 AM
2

Are you able to tell us where you practice? If not specifics, something obscure like "a mid-sized city in <some state>" would be fine. Also, could you give your impression as to the general social/economic status of the people being charged? Heh, I guess I'm still kind of on a sociology tack. Tell me to fuck off if my questions are completely wackadoo.
/r/MensRights21/12/14 02:32 AM
1

Hm, I'll try asking it another way: have you had to deal with cases where who was abusing whom was not always so clear? If so, what happens in those cases?
/r/MensRights21/12/14 02:17 AM
1

Aha, I get it. Thanks for that. From time to time we get situations reported here where men are arrested for being the abuser when they are, in fact, the victim. Have you had any cases like that referred to you? If so, how are they handled?
/r/MensRights21/12/14 02:03 AM
2

I'm sorry... "single finger case"?
/r/MensRights21/12/14 01:55 AM
1

Yeah, I thought it might have been out of your sphere, but I had to take a shot. ;-) Cheers anyways tho Can you give your impression of how judges perceive DV cases? Are they good about treating things equally irrespective of gender or are there clear biases in some?
/r/MensRights21/12/14 01:43 AM
1

I understand this may be outside of your perview, but can you give an estimate of the number of DV calls you get per capita? I'm trying to get a handle on how widespread the issue is.
/r/MensRights21/12/14 01:33 AM
2

How many DV calls / arrests lead to eventual prosecution?
/r/MensRights21/12/14 01:22 AM
2

To be clear, while there's a roughly equal numbers of men and women to develop heart disease, it tends to manifest later in life, at which point there's more women than men around... so men are more likely to develop it on a per-capita basis, but the gross numbers are similar. Per this site: Are women less likely to get heart disease than men? This is a question that has caused a lot of confusion. Women are actually equally likely to get heart disease as men. The problem occurs when at a specifi…
/r/MensRights20/12/14 08:54 PM
2

I'd be okay with it in scholastic settings. I think there's been enough objective data collected that demonstrates that there's some deep problems with the way things are going right now, at least in the k-12 level. Right now, boys are seriously underserviced in public education and we can say with certainty that girls are receiving higher quality education than boys. Is that due to gender integration? I'm not 100% sure, but I'd be open to experimentation. We do know that the teachers of integra…
/r/MensRights20/12/14 07:49 PM
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Re: #3 - I think you're off base here. There's absolutely nothing wrong with gender specific classes or even schools. Per #1 you pointed out yourself that boys learn differently from girls... why then should we force a one-size-fits-all that will inevitably short-change one or both groups? Personally, I'm more of a fan of segregated classes within integrated schools, which permit both specialized teaching and broader social interactions. Might also help with the horrible dearth of male teachers …
/r/MensRights20/12/14 06:33 PM
1

This should be hilarious to watch.
/r/MensRights19/12/14 06:53 AM
3

Oh great. So we don't have enough internet vigilante mobs diligently toiling away to destroy the personal and professional lives of anyone who dares violate feminist orthodoxy, now we're going to have internet vigilante mobs diligently toiling away to destroy the personal and professional lives of those who contribute to it. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
/r/MensRights15/12/14 03:31 PM
1

/r/guywithaccount has a 1y badge and was in this sub from before I first discovered it.
/r/MensRights15/12/14 05:30 AM
2

I'd suggest that would yield a pretty substantial sampling bias, at least if dealing with men as a group and not college men or convicts.
/r/MensRights14/12/14 04:43 PM
1

With the notable point that 6% is largely based on samples taken from college-aged men, from surveys taken of college going men. Given that, I suspect substantially less than 6% of men are perpetrators, but are in cohorts that aren't represented by the existing data.
/r/MensRights14/12/14 04:32 PM
2

Purely by coincidence, I'm watching a miniseries on the Borgia.
/r/MensRights14/12/14 03:20 PM
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This advice honestly doesn't sound too bad to me. <sup>Edit</sup> Seriously? Downvoted? How about instead of a downvote you explain why you disagree?
/r/MensRights14/12/14 10:06 AM
3

Who?
/r/MensRights14/12/14 01:32 AM
9

"Please excuse me while I tend to how I feel." (True metalheads know the disgust and rage inherent to that sentence.)
/r/MensRights13/12/14 05:14 PM
3

To be clear, there's a 93% increase in girls self-harming, and a 45% increase in boys (although they do point out that many boys may not be reporting). So yeah, it's an MR issue insomuch that boys health is involved, but considering the shockingly large number of girls in similar straits it would appear to be more a problem with kids self-harming than any one particular gender. I'm glad to see an article which focuses on the male perspective though. Little steps, but good ones.
/r/MensRights12/12/14 10:25 PM
3

I don't think MHRAs hate the feminists so much as their actions and hypocrisies. For instance, when various feminists say "Equality for everyone", and then turn around and support organizations like N.O.W. (the largest feminist organization on the planet) and their systematic attempts to quash family law reform if it could in any way benefit men, it can generate some ire.
/r/MensRights12/12/14 10:16 AM
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Because regardless if the general population doesn't adopt the label, the majority of dialogue in "serious discussion" circles (mainstream news sources, etc) is still defined by feminist terminology and feminist thinking. It's not impossible, but it's difficult, to affect a populist outreach while being stymied by that focus. The dents in the armor are there though, we simply have to hammer away at them, and in so hammering demonstrate that a) we do have a point to make and b) we're effective in…
/r/MensRights12/12/14 09:29 AM
2

Oh snap, it's the master-slave chick? Isn't she also the one who got all pissy about "male" and "female" cable ends?
/r/MensRights12/12/14 08:58 AM
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As you may guess from my username, the news of that was something I enjoyed hearing substantially. :-) Fuck the GamerHaters.
/r/MensRights12/12/14 08:13 AM
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Not an MHRM issue, just a guy being a GGG and helping out another dude who, given appearances, was being screwed over by his woman.
/r/MensRights11/12/14 09:11 PM
6

Mine was a variation of #11 - I rejected her, broke up with her and in the process told her that she was a selfish lover. She retaliated by trying to destroy my life. Hell hath no fury...
/r/MensRights11/12/14 04:28 AM
1

Is it, though? We're not dealing with a situation where there's only one person and her personal story involved. We're dealing with a situation where she used her influence and access as a writer to all but doxx a specific person from her past in terms of identification, and declaring that he committed a heinous crime against her. If this is false or heavily embellished for book sales or victim "cred", she is actively harming another person for personal gain. Now, maybe that person is a 'bad guy…
/r/MensRights10/12/14 09:41 PM
2

Yes it's a massively serious claim to make, especially when someone else has gotten hurt because of it. But I find it hard to look past the real issue, a woman was raped. Which woman? Dunham? At this point, her claim is dubious. Any time anyone claims a crime has been committed against them, the proper (in my opinion) position to take is one of "trust, but verify". Dunham was trusted initially, but the verification process has revealed major inconsistencies that cast a doubtful shadow over wheth…
/r/MensRights10/12/14 09:16 PM
1

I'd certainly like to see it. If there's already surveys being circulated that ask probing, personal questions, why not go the full monty?
/r/MensRights10/12/14 09:08 AM
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As evidenced by the #BringBackOurBoys campaign.
/r/MensRights10/12/14 09:03 AM
2

Thanks for expanding on that. Context frequently reveals the reasoning, such as it is, behind the "WTF". That sort of thinking, crying "rape" to preserve one's perceived honor/purity, is not unknown in the west either (as we've seen countless times from stories and linked articles in this sub, particularly w/r/t Title IX lately). I can see how the motivation would be much more powerful in the type of environment you described. You have to understand how severely backwards, regressive, Middle-Age…
/r/MensRights09/12/14 09:00 PM
1

I've heard about this "rape by broken promise" thing, and I find it astonishing that it could be taken seriously by any legal system, even one that's as troubled as India's. Can you expand a bit on how that came to be?
/r/MensRights09/12/14 08:28 PM
4

There may be some politicking there. Cab, limo and shuttle services in a number of countries have been losing their collective shit over services like Uber, it's reasonable to expect that there's been similar outrage in India. A convenient accusation could be just the thing to rid oneself of a headache while scoring some easy pander points.
/r/MensRights09/12/14 01:52 PM
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I mean... okay, UN politics, blah de blah. But can someone explain to me how the fuck climate change is supposed to be gendered? If the world is heating up, it's heating up for all of us, and we'll all rise or fall on that basis. I can't see plumbing having a whole lot of effect on that.
/r/MensRights09/12/14 12:45 PM
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Agreed. A reasonable policy (that some, but not all, jurisdictions follow) is no release of any names until an alleged perp is indicted. Releasing names on no more than suspicion of illegality inevitably results in some misguided twits playing vigilante in some way to "protect the victim"... whomever they decide the "victim" is in that particular case.
/r/MensRights09/12/14 12:41 PM
0

While I'm sure it's not an exact 1:1 fit, I'm willing to bet that many of the people who declare Woodley as "anti-feminist" were the same ones decrying George Bush saying "You're either with us, or with the terrorists." ... but what's a little hypocrisy compared to the necessity of maintaining the narrative that feminism is the only legitimate way of looking at the world?
/r/MensRights09/12/14 12:11 PM
1

Just FYI - Anything that's on WorldStarHipHop should be presumed as satire/parody/troll until proven otherwise. Jes' sayin'.
/r/MensRights09/12/14 10:46 AM
2

It's required by all public and private schools in California by law now, SUNY just recently announced it, and there's others. Just California alone is over 10% of all post-secondary students in the US, and it hardly seems like the policy is going to be given an abrupt about-face any time soon... numerous Title IX challenges notwithstanding. I don't think "small number" really applies, or if it does at present it won't for much longer. I don't think anyone has tried to diminish "true charges". P…
/r/MensRights09/12/14 07:15 AM
2

The thing is, people have been having the discussion about consent for decades now, and the "rules" are getting more and more draconian against the bulk of men in order to try to prevent the few from acting wrongly. We're now at a threshhold where benevolent mistakes, minor miscommunications, a missed "sign" and your life is fucked... for now, your academic life (presuming you aren't pursued by vigilantes, it's not unheard of for men to be murdered for an accusation) but in the future? It's not …
/r/MensRights09/12/14 06:42 AM
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Aye, which is what I try to do in my personal life; keep on being not-a-bastard, apologize and make amends when I am through clumsiness or occasional bouts of social retardation, and basically keep on not-being the monster so many have taken pains to tell me could be. FWIW - Unlike that other guy below, I think you do deserve a cookie for not believing all men are rapists. Sadly, we're in a world where that belief is common, and rationality should be rewarded even if it should be the norm in a p…
/r/MensRights09/12/14 06:28 AM
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Sorry to hear that happened to you. I hope you were able to find all the support you needed to help you. I'm guessing that, from your position about men and sexual assault, that you have be able to come to terms with it. While I can't speak to what others think, I don't personally think that most women think "all men are rapists". What I find personally distressing is having been treated all my adult life as though I was a hostile presence. It's a pretty isolating feeling when people edge away f…
/r/MensRights09/12/14 06:15 AM
4

Can women inseminate another woman? Hm. I think Joe might not be 100% accurate there.
/r/MensRights09/12/14 05:23 AM
2

Dat gap. WW2 did quite a number on the population.
/r/MensRights08/12/14 09:35 PM
1

I'm not in law enforcement, so I'm only going by what news sources I have available to me, plus a tiny bit of hearsay from someone I know who has worked "adjacent" to him and heard scuttlebutt... so I can't really claim to have any actual knowledge, this is entirely a guess based on the best information I presently have, combined with the present attitudes on the ground.
/r/MensRights08/12/14 01:56 AM
1

Canada doesn't have a "rape" charge, only varying degrees of sexual assault, so I suspect it'll be one or more charges of sexual assault, sprinkled with some aggravated assault for the rough aspect.
/r/MensRights08/12/14 01:36 AM
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My prediction is Jian Ghomeshi will end up being found guilty, so the countdown may be on in that case.
/r/MensRights08/12/14 01:06 AM
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Compelling? She went to complain about being "borderline sexually harassed", only to supposedly fuck her boss who explicitly offers her a sex-for-money quid pro quo To fuck her boss for an increase in pay where the increase alone is greater than what 80% of the population make in a year To fuck her boss who apparently has the resources to throw around, such that he could immediately grant a corner office and 75k a year more, in a motel. Possible? I suppose. Likely? Not so much. The comments are …
/r/MensRights07/12/14 08:00 PM
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Surely this is a troll. It looks like the sort of thing that get spawned in the mind of some lonely redditor on a friday/saturday night seeking for some "lulz". I mean, yeah, the people who are saying "never reveal" are pretty heinous, but come on. If this isn't pure troll droppings I don't know what is.
/r/MensRights07/12/14 06:53 PM
0

Susie! NOOOOOOO!
/r/MensRights07/12/14 04:07 PM
3

Every additional nail in the coffin of "patriarchal terrorism" is a good nail. Keep hammering until the hammering's done.
/r/MensRights07/12/14 04:04 PM
1

Heh, well, there is that. I guess my perspective is to lean more towards a doctrine of benign interpretation. Yes, the UVA president overreacted, but I'm also aware of the heavy pressure being put on schools via title IX to... well, to overreact to such things. The Greeks have legitimate beef to be pissed off about the situation, but from Sullivan's perspective it was likely the least-worst option. I wouldn't say I'd be sad to see her go, but I'd much rather the situation be used to demonstrate …
/r/MensRights07/12/14 11:06 AM
1

Given the relatively low number of people who adopt the label, many overtly rejecting it, I'd say quite a few already have.
/r/MensRights07/12/14 10:52 AM
1

Aye. I haven't missed an election, federal or provincial, since I was old enough to vote. I've always considered it a civic duty, as well as a "license to bitch"... if you don't vote, you don't have the right to complain about the results because you didn't even try to change things. Still, this is where I'm at... if one candidate is diametrically opposed to most of the things I consider important, and the other candidates are more-or-less representative of me but are directly supporting a toxic…
/r/MensRights07/12/14 10:49 AM
1

I don't buy into gender essentialism or consider every self-identified group as fungible units. So yes, NAFALT.
/r/MensRights06/12/14 08:12 PM
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I'm not really qualified to say, although it seems to me like the university did the equivalent of hearing that someone saw a spider in the house, and so cordoned an entire floor off the until the location of the spider could be confirmed.
/r/MensRights06/12/14 08:11 PM
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I'm pretty sure all fraternal activity was suspended, which includes sororities. Yep. The sisters got the shaft as well, at least according to WaPo.
/r/MensRights06/12/14 02:33 PM
0

To be fair, feminists aren't a monolithic bloc. Many feminists genuinely do seem to want to improve things... and many feminists genuinely do seem only interested in being combative and willing to do harm to their cause in order to score a "win".
/r/MensRights06/12/14 02:23 PM
1

To be clear, I didn't specifically call out this article as anything more than an example of the trend in media to consider older males as pedophile rapists and older women as terms considerably less demonizing. I again urge you to re-read the first several paragraphs and see whether they would appear to a "scanner" (ie. the way most people read most articles) as an even-handed handling of the situation. I will stipulate it's not as terrible as many, particularly so when you consider it's from t…
/r/MensRights06/12/14 02:18 PM
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I would suggest that Jessica Valenti, Guardian writer and founder of the Feministing blog, considers herself a true and earnest feminist. Other self-labelled feminists might disagree, on the basis that Valenti takes extreme and arguably overtly man-hating positions that they don't share. Sadly for those more moderate feminists, noone has the authority to declare anyone but themselves to be (or not be) a feminist. The best they can do is say "well, she's not MY kind of feminist". Well, that's ver…
/r/MensRights06/12/14 02:03 PM
1

Someone commenting in another place a while back said something striking that stuck in my head, about the potency of the word "rape" and that perhaps it's not a word that should be used when it came to statutory rape. The woman pointed out that statutory rape is unlike rape in that it almost exclusively happens between consenting individuals, but that one individual is deemed by law to be incapable of giving that consent. If the sex was non consentual, then it wouldn't be "statutory rape", it'd …
/r/MensRights06/12/14 01:58 PM
1

That's great. So from this article and the one from over a generation ago, we can presume that there's a widespread recognition of a huge double standard when it comes to the consideration of and reporting of sexual crimes against underaged males. That's your assertion, I assume, by showing these examples... unless you're misinterpreting me when I say "I'd love to see a single publication" to mean a single article. To be clear, I'm talking a publication - a newspaper, a magazine, or some other m…
/r/MensRights06/12/14 01:38 PM
2

Read it again, with an open mind. At every turn, it's reporting her story, in her own words, and then revealing the facts that show who she really is. An FYI - just because someone doesn't see the things you want to see in a particular article doesn't mean they were read with a "closed mind". I would contend that you read the article with an eye to how most people read most articles: by scanning the title and the first few paragraphs. Then re-evaluate. Check out the date on this one. It certainl…
/r/MensRights06/12/14 01:33 PM
2

I did, actually. At the moment I'm toying with the idea of calculating how much of the article is dedicated to denial of culpability and deflecting blame on to Akhandananda. From the 1st and 3rd paragraphs: The “handmaiden” of a sexually abusive yoga master had sex with a 14-year-old boy only because her guru ordered her to, an inquiry has heard. Shishy told the child abuse royal commission on Friday that starting a sexual relationship with the boy, codenamed APQ, when she was 25 was “the most s…
/r/MensRights06/12/14 01:05 PM
2

Remind me to avoid banging anyone in the Sahara. Tea instead, perhaps.
/r/MensRights06/12/14 12:20 PM
3

In their extreme expressions, yeah, so it would seem. Horseshoe theory in the heezy.
/r/MensRights06/12/14 02:49 AM
2

My political compass score is (-5.75, -3.95). I usually vote left-of-centre, which in Canada means NDP or Liberal. <sup>Edit</sup> Sadly, I'm watching the people on the more fringe, authoritarian left turn into these monsters of coercive political correctness and I despair that their attitudes will consume the more reasonable mainstream platforms of the parties. SJWs are something like the teabaggers of the left, and they sadly seem on the ascendant. I don't know what I'll end up doing political…
/r/MensRights06/12/14 02:39 AM
4

I've had sex on a beach blanket before. Sand gets everywhere, and it sucks balls. Why people would deliberately want to do that is beyond astonishing to me.
/r/MensRights06/12/14 01:56 AM
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I don't know about a "badge of honor", but there are certainly groups of people where if you haven't got a credible claim to some sort of victim status, they believe you have no right to speak (or that in speaking you actively continue to victimize them). As such, being a sexual assault victim is a major differentiating feature, a shibboleth, for determining whether someone is part of the ingroup or the outgroup. I would say that it's less a badge of honor than a minimum requirement for membersh…
/r/MensRights06/12/14 01:26 AM
1

I believe I read the same article. I may have it in my linkfarm somewhere, if I can find it I'll link it.
/r/MensRights06/12/14 01:09 AM
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Seems firmly established now that people, at least the people in the media who write about such things, consider female teachers fucking underaged boys as being "in a sexual relationship" and male teachers fucking underaged girls as being "pedophile rapists". At this point, each one of these posts is just supporting documentation of an established effect. <sup>ETA</sup> Thank you, unnamed gilder! :-)
/r/MensRights05/12/14 10:21 AM
1

Uh... I'm not seeing the connection. Plz clarify?
/r/MensRights05/12/14 10:13 AM
1

It's a start.
/r/MensRights05/12/14 09:42 AM
2

Vasectomy. Seriously. It ain't hard. Or hold off for a few years until either Vasalgel or this (alleged) indonesian pill comes to market. Our options may be a tiny few compared to the ones women have, but we DO have them. Exercise yours.
/r/MensRights05/12/14 08:10 AM
1

Which they have already done before and are already doing again, now. Got a link for that? Like I said, I'm going by the info I got off Leykis, and last I heard noone was looking for a penny aside from Allred fishing for shit. So you're an idiot/troll? There's the way to encourage discussion in a fair and even way. Allow me to retort in a similar mindset. Nuh-uhh poopy head! You won't defend the due process when you have already think someone is guilty. Man, you're hostile. Do you need a hug? I …
/r/MensRights04/12/14 09:25 PM
1

Meh. If target wants to make themselves lose sales, I've really got no qualms about it. Steam is faster and more convenient anyways.
/r/MensRights04/12/14 10:02 AM
8

Will believe it when I see it, will buy when proven to be effective and safe. Hell, I'll hand 'em out like M&Ms at house parties.
/r/MensRights04/12/14 08:36 AM
1

Hm. Coming fast and thick lately.
/r/MensRights04/12/14 08:19 AM
3

Henh?
/r/MensRights04/12/14 08:18 AM
3

Given the increasingly co-edish nature of the forces in many countries, the change would have to happen if they didn't want huge, well-publicized fuckups gaining attention. Good to see they're being (comparatively) proactive.
/r/MensRights04/12/14 07:42 AM
0

Reverting to form? :-/
/r/MensRights04/12/14 07:39 AM
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You didn't get immediately banned. That's progress of a sort.
/r/MensRights04/12/14 07:13 AM
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Nice. So what's going to happen as a result of these revelations? Has this penetrated public consciousness yet or is it out of sight out of mind?
/r/MensRights04/12/14 06:58 AM
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Anyone here with operational knowledge of hindu that can confirm the subtitles? There's more than a few in there where the ladies in question are saying more than what the subtitle contains. It could be that the subs are just summaries, or maybe it's not showing what they're actually saying.
/r/MensRights04/12/14 05:58 AM
9

Holy crap.
/r/MensRights04/12/14 02:49 AM
2

I'm aware, just playing with the words.
/r/MensRights04/12/14 01:25 AM
1

"False Allegations"? A weird label for this post. I don't claim to have any actual knowledge of his situation, but I gotta say I'm tempted to side with Tom Leykis on this one: from the available information, looks like Cosby's been doing some nefarious shit. The alternative explanation requires nothing short of a conspiracy of over a dozen women and their friends / associates, with no ultimate financial goal driving it. I rigorously support his rights to presumption of innocence and due process …
/r/MensRights04/12/14 01:21 AM
3

This is probably correct, when you consider the breadth and depth of all the potential ways men can experience violence. It is a massive goalpost shift though, when referring to that number while in the context of domestic violence.
/r/MensRights04/12/14 01:05 AM
4

invertebrate wanker Hard to get a boner with no bones, sir.
/r/MensRights03/12/14 11:40 PM
1

Seems pretty innocuous to me. Out of context quote is out of context. Also, I'm pretty sure she says "When you're a boy you can get beat up and it's totally fun", but it could just be low bitrate.
/r/MensRights03/12/14 09:01 AM
2

This one?
/r/MensRights02/12/14 07:29 AM
3

No fate but what you make.
/r/MensRights02/12/14 04:49 AM
1

From what (admittedly slim) literature I've seen on the topic, maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world for segregated instruction to come back. It seems pretty obvious that boys and girls have different ways of learning, and tailoring classroom style for one particular style will yield suboptimal results for the other. That doesn't need to mean that entire schools drop co-ed, just that there be boys or girls-only classes within an integrated school to maximize educational benefit while…
/r/MensRights02/12/14 02:36 AM
2

Fun fact - Atkinson was the woman for whom the term "political lesbian" was coined.
/r/MensRights02/12/14 01:33 AM
3

The way I look at it is this: I'm committed to and fully support legitimate efforts to create a society where people can expect equally of access and opportunity irrespective of biology. Insomuch as feminism is in line with that, I have no quibbles with it. Old school feminists who genuinely seek equality I can respect, even if we disagree on areas of importance and approach. The problem with modern feminism is modern feminists, who seem vastly more interested in nitpicking over bullshit, commit…
/r/MensRights02/12/14 01:31 AM
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Ahh, thank you. I was going to post specifically to ask about that outlier. The explanation makes sense.
/r/MensRights01/12/14 08:56 AM
1

The first steps down a long, long road.
/r/MensRights01/12/14 07:30 AM
2

Hmph. Show off.
/r/MensRights01/12/14 03:58 AM
1

It'd look something like this.
/r/MensRights01/12/14 02:56 AM
1

Well... SOMETHING would halt that none of us would be fond of. ;-)
/r/MensRights01/12/14 02:55 AM
5

If it were 9 women to every man, no man would have to do anything at all. They'd be rock stars.
/r/MensRights01/12/14 02:55 AM
2

I'm sorry to say, you may find gaining employment in the K-6 difficult in North America. My S/O's father used to be a principal at an elementary school, and has told me flat out that parents will demand their children be removed from classrooms presided over by men because of what they perceive as risk of sexual misconduct. I hope it works out for you, but the cards are stacked against you at the moment. Seriously consider talking to some of the people in the trenches before you complete your B.…
/r/MensRights01/12/14 02:54 AM
1

Which one is your dad?
/r/MensRights01/12/14 02:50 AM
1

I actually looked that up a while back. #1 most suicide laden industry: dental health care professionals. If I can find that link again I'll share it.
/r/MensRights01/12/14 02:49 AM
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What would be nice, infographically, is a corresponding column with median annual salary/wage for each of those areas.
/r/MensRights01/12/14 02:48 AM
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I don't think it's impossible, maybe they do have the capacity to make better story based games in the overall, but they haven't made the best story-based games. I believe Chris Avellone holds that title, with such RPG luminaries as the Fallout series and Planescape: Torment to his name. Oh, and Neverwinter Nights, the program on which the tool they were using in this article is based. Honorable mention to Steve Meretzky of Infocom for Planetfall. If you've ever played Planetfall, and remember F…
/r/MensRights29/11/14 11:26 PM
2

Shared an elevator ride with her in Vancouver back in the 90s while she was still Agent Scully. Doable then, doable now.
/r/MensRights29/11/14 08:26 PM
11

There's a wide range of salaries for doctors, based on their specializations. Women doctors tend to go primary care and stick in ob/gyn, pediatrics or family practice. These are some of the lowest paying specialties because the vast majority of physicians go into those fields. Male doctors tend to occupy the more "sexy" but demanding fields: various types of surgery (cardiac and nervous system surgeons are almost entirely men, for instance). Fewer people go into those fields, they can command a …
/r/MensRights29/11/14 07:39 PM
1

Lol, nice
/r/MensRights29/11/14 03:58 AM
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An art history major working part time is counted evenly with an engineer working over time. Just FYI - the 77c number only tracks full time work, with the definition of anyone working more than 34 hours a week considered "full time". According to the BLS, men were almost twice as likely as women to work more than 40 hours a week, and women almost twice as likely to work only 35 to 39 hours per week. Once that is taken into consideration, the pay gap begins to shrink. Women who worked a 40-hour …
/r/MensRights28/11/14 10:00 PM
1

Hey, thanks man. :-)
/r/MensRights28/11/14 09:34 PM
5

A note on the difference between "red pill" and MRHM RP and the MHRM are pretty divergent. While they're not mutually exclusive, the foci are radically different. RP'ers general approach is that the world "is what it is", that there's no point in trying to rail against it, and accepting that things are what they are is the first step to improving your lot... coming to terms with that is what they call "taking the red pill". Once that's accomplished, it's suggested that the only rational thing to…
/r/MensRights28/11/14 09:13 PM
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What's with using the Red Pill as a symbol? We don't. There's some people who have decided that any man who speaks on topics involving men are all part of one big group. Red Pill people and MHRM people are widely divergent in belief and action. People interested in Men's Rights have no required association with "red pillers", pick up artists, "traditional" whatevers or anything else... although there are some individuals who personally subscribe to such things. Are you aware that women have, his…
/r/MensRights28/11/14 08:59 PM
2

In my case, not having slept in days (I had frequent bouts of insomnia as a teenager, long enough to start experiencing some reality distortion), plus some additional mind-altering through external means. She was someone who would come around and bring me food, and kept at it despite being told "not interested" on several occasions. On that one particular evening while I lounging on my bed and drifting in and out of awareness with a rock hard "morning wood" cock, she dropped by, saw her opportun…
/r/MensRights28/11/14 08:10 PM
2

Heh, the Red Rascal strikes again! Except this time, he's in a dress.
/r/MensRights28/11/14 05:02 PM
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I wonder if the Canadian Journal of Economics supports this overt discrimination during evaluation of papers. She's clearly long gone, but if this is an ongoing thing, it needs fixing. Anyone know anyone with some journo cred willing to do a little digging around, maybe get an official position statement from the managing editor over there?
/r/MensRights28/11/14 02:22 AM
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Why am I not surprised that the uncomfortable people that the organizers took seriously were the female patrons?
/r/MensRights27/11/14 11:50 PM
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They've been colonized by SRS. What do you expect?
/r/MensRights27/11/14 09:54 PM
3

¿Porque no los dos?
/r/MensRights27/11/14 04:50 AM
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Aren't we better than this? Clearly, no. I was "lucky". The woman who accused me (for the high crime of breaking up with her and telling her that she was at best mediocre at sex) only cost me my job, my place of residence, the bulk of my "friends" and had a couple foolish twits try to "teach me a lesson". There wasn't any social media capable of permanently destroying my life.
/r/MensRights26/11/14 10:18 PM
1

There's some twit in Jersey that's going to try to bring the bill up. It'd be a massive can of worms, has little to no chance to survive a constitutional challenge, and it'll get shot down promptly.
/r/MensRights26/11/14 10:34 AM
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I hear you, and yeah, I've encountered that question. In my experience, that sort of presumption never comes from men... probably because each and every one of us have an experience of something like sitting in math class at the age of 13 with a rock hard dick for no reason whatsoever and being required to come to the head of the class to write down an answer. Anyone who has ever had to deal with the boner-in-class issue knows that physiological response has pretty close to fuck all to do with p…
/r/MensRights26/11/14 08:01 AM
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It's still a conclusion one must make by inference. Again, Dworkin and MacKinnon were/are both wordsmiths by trade, it's unlikely they don't have full awareness of what they're implying, but they stop short of actually saying it. Don't take my saying this as any sort of endorsement or defense of their views, I'm only against the idea of promoting the "all sex is rape" statement as being factually accurate. Simply qualifying it by saying "Dworkin and MacKinnon may not have said 'all sex is rape',…
/r/MensRights26/11/14 05:42 AM
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Sure, and as you'll see in other replies that I agree that both Dworkin and MacKinnon are overtly hostile to the idea of heterosexual sex and dance all around the statement without actually making it.
/r/MensRights26/11/14 05:33 AM
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RemindMe! 6 months
/r/MensRights26/11/14 04:41 AM
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Oh, I'm not at all disputing the idea that both were extremely hostile to the idea of heterosexual sex. That much is clearly demonstrated by their own words in other areas, and the summary that "all heterosexual sex is rape" is one that's essentially accurate... but it's also true that neither actually uttered those words. In particular, I take note of the word "violation". On an exoteric level, violation means... well, violation. A transgression of boundaries. That said, Dworkin had a degree in…
/r/MensRights26/11/14 04:03 AM
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The optics are what makes it a big deal. You're literally talking about shirts designed to make a political statement, and that statement being undermined by the circumstances behind their manufacuring. The entire story is about nothing but optics.
/r/MensRights26/11/14 01:56 AM
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Exploitation, like many things, is in the eye of the beholder. The worker is exploited in the eye of the shirt purchaser by being paid such tiny amounts for the labour. Whether or not it actually is an exploitative wage is a matter for debate, but the perception of it being so is certainly there. The purchaser is perceived to be exploited because they now find out exactly how cheaply these shirts are produced and how expensive they are to buy. Most people won't think about the raw materials cost…
/r/MensRights26/11/14 01:52 AM
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Reaching or no, this is news from weeks ago and it had a pretty substantial impact. The price differential in particular seems to have annoyed people, the 100x price markup seems to have imparted that not only are the workers being exploited to make the shirts, but the purchasers are being exploited by being massively overcharged for it.
/r/MensRights26/11/14 01:29 AM
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From what I'm given to understand, neither Dworkin nor MacKinnon actually said that quote. There was a book doing critique on both Dworkin and MacKinnon, Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales From the Strange World of Women's Studies that was paraphrasing what it considered the stance of Dworkin and MacKinnon were that seems to be the most reliable source point for that quote. It's a persistent myth that just won't die, but it is a myth. I consider it on par with people still mindlessly repeatin…
/r/MensRights26/11/14 01:17 AM
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Simple. The man gets forced into sex he doesn't want by coercion, disability, incapacitation or physical force. Same as when it happens to women.
/r/MensRights26/11/14 12:56 AM
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Both heads.
/r/MensRights26/11/14 12:00 AM
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Welcome to the last century's worth of divorced men's world, Halle. Just don't get behind the wheel, mmkay?
/r/MensRights25/11/14 08:00 PM
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At least this one had actual men there. Not like that debate where it was populated primarily by women, with two women debating. Progress of a sort? <sup>Edit</sup> This debate.
/r/MensRights25/11/14 07:55 PM
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That's actually kind of brilliant.
/r/MensRights25/11/14 07:26 PM
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What's the penalty for apostasy? Surely, as an atheist, you won't shy away from answering that simple question. Keep dreaming That's what I thought. Good luck with your "I'm an atheist who lurrrrrrrrrvs islam" cover story. I'm sure you'll totally convince people.
/r/MensRights25/11/14 07:09 AM
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This is my thought exactly: he'd have done far less time on a multiple murder beef than assault + walking off with his own offspring for a while.
/r/MensRights25/11/14 05:59 AM
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Stop it with the "Jew behind every Olive tree" stuff. Then stop blaming the problems on jews, or trying to deflect the islamic world being held to account for its bullshit by screaming "but but talmud!" It's weak tea. Have the balls to stand up for your own words and actions. You know as well as I that Dawkins and other nu-atheists/bigots spend about 100x time more attacking Islam than Judaism or animism or Hinduism etc. Of course they do. Here's a hint: you won't wake up tomorrow to the headlin…
/r/MensRights25/11/14 05:34 AM
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Am I the only person who thinks this is trivial shit? I get that post-secondary schools in Toronto are the most active gestating tanks of weaponized misandry on the planet, but is all this attention just smacking chops over the idea that we can be every bit as petty as they are by using their tools of pettiness? Maybe I'm missing why people consider this so important that it's gathering up this much attention here...
/r/MensRights25/11/14 04:21 AM
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I guess you missed the part where I explicitly mentioned the ultra orthodox in Beit Shamesh, or pointed out that christians STILL burn people as witches in some places of the world. Here, let me link that for you. But seeing how you seem super duper keen on answering for this guy, why don't you tell us the penalty for apostasy sir? Protip - All your problems aren't caused by jews... and yes, I've read the talmud and the pentateuch, albeit english translations thereof. Daddy fucking, offering up …
/r/MensRights25/11/14 03:28 AM
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It's not news because the perpetrator is female. It's news because the perpetrator is female and has been taken into custody.
/r/MensRights24/11/14 11:27 PM
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I obviously don't have any authority to speak on her behalf, but it seems to me that she's decrying not the movement itself so much as the triviality that has come to be its public face and most noticeable hallmark. She's an avowed feminist by all accounts I've seen; she's speaking as a feminist about the things she sees as counterproductive. I am not a feminist. I outgrew that phase years ago... but I'm vastly more in tune with Ali's pursuit of essential rights and dignities than western femini…
/r/MensRights24/11/14 09:15 PM
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To be fair, they're not always successful. Look at the orthodox jews in Beit Shemesh violently accosting children on the street for "inappropriate dress". We're only a couple hundred years, if that, separated from suspected witches being stoned, waterboarded or burnt by christians here in the west. Christians still burn witches in Africa. Fortunately, most have moved on from the barbarism... but the seed remains. Islam just seems to be slower than most to get on with it.
/r/MensRights24/11/14 08:04 AM
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Just one question -- what's the penalty for apostasy? Just curious. ... and maybe while you're at it, feel free to expand on the concept of taqiyya and explain why we should trust a single word you say. Or maybe bust out a stanza or two about dar al-Harb vs. dar al-Islam.
/r/MensRights24/11/14 07:58 AM
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Ali's not dismissing western feminist issues out of hand, she's pointing out that a lot of those issues are trivial nonsense. Freaking out over a tacky shirt is trivial nonsense. Going full narcissist, calling yourself a "modern day Joan of Arc" and getting some random dudes fired over a dongle joke is trivial nonsense. Losing your mind over a mediocre pop song because the phrase "you know you want it" is in it is trivial nonsense. Just a few examples of trivial nonsense in a surging sea of triv…
/r/MensRights24/11/14 07:55 AM
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They've been trying that tack for a while, but it doesn't seem to have a whole lot of gravity with the majority. Most people know her mind individually through her book "Infidel", and it's unlikely many will be swayed by such rhetoric. Indeed, it's precisely because she's lived those experiences and shared them in a powerful way why her comments are garnering so much attention from serious journalists.
/r/MensRights24/11/14 07:51 AM
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Nu anarchism is only authoritarian when they don't like what you say. That they're demonstrating the exact same sort of repression as old authoritarians are fond of is something about which they remain blissfully ignorant.
/r/MensRights24/11/14 07:48 AM
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I have relationships with many people. Not everyone knows everything about me. I like it that way, and I expect they probably prefer it that way as well. That doesn't make the relationship I have "unreal" or "fake", merely limited. Most relationships are, even marriages. Declaring that a relationship is fake because it doesn't meet your criteria is the height of arrogance. <sup>Edit</sup> PS, I noticed that you lack any sort of opprobrium towards the woman trying the ol' "whoops, birth control f…
/r/MensRights24/11/14 12:37 AM
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"Abuse" is often in the eye of the beholder. For example, take the issue of estrangement from friends. Many guys find themselves losing track of friends soon after they get into a relationship. Why? There could be a number of reasons. Perhaps he's just devoting all his time to her and lets his friendships fade. Perhaps she's nervous about him still being in touch with single people who may either entice him back into being single or try to hook up with him. Perhaps she's doing it because she's a…
/r/MensRights24/11/14 12:35 AM
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Like with so many of these sorts of issues, the question is one of magnitude and who is judging that magnitude. To any reasonable observer, the sort of scenario you describe is clearly abusive. From that point though, one must decide how abusive, and from there what sort of punishment is suitable. Deciding how much and how bad leaves things open to distressingly wide range of punishment, where there are no identifiable safeguards against someone going to jail for, say, refusing have sex with a p…
/r/MensRights24/11/14 12:13 AM
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Thats dishonest of you You're wrong. obviously he meant She. Is it obvious? Clearly not to everyone. From my perspective she's just another one of those people who thinks that the primary reason for anyone to get married is for children.
/r/MensRights23/11/14 11:52 PM
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Man never wanted to have kids: he lied to girlfriend, wastes years of her life on a fake relationship TIL the only way a relationship is "real" is if it results in children.
/r/MensRights23/11/14 10:58 PM
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Will this protect men from the far-more-common "nagging wife", I wonder? Heh, who am I kidding.
/r/MensRights23/11/14 05:45 PM
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Cue over-the-top misandry in 3... 2...
/r/MensRights23/11/14 05:10 AM
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I would suggest that of the whole of inappropriate shirts, only a tiny minority would be the sort that would create or promote misogyny. The majority of that "inappropriate shirt" circle should be outside the misogyny circle (or in Venn terms, the area of intersection should be minimal).
/r/MensRights23/11/14 04:11 AM
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As heretical as it may sound here, I don't think there's anything inherent to feminism that precludes a skeptical approach and an appreciation for empiricism. That said, a lot of feminists certainly do subscribe to the "feels over reals" approach to life, which is ultimately counterproductive.
/r/MensRights22/11/14 01:47 AM
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"Not only must justice be done, but it must also be seen to be done." ~ Lord Chief Justice Stewart
/r/MensRights21/11/14 09:00 PM
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About fucking time, indeed. PS - Don't ever stop what you're doing. You're genuinely helping to "fight the good fight". Thank you for your work and your dedication to these men.
/r/MensRights21/11/14 08:58 PM
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In defense of the swole, I don't think that's a position they advocate for, just a recognition of the situation as it currently sits de facto.
/r/MensRights21/11/14 05:51 AM
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I have no knowledge of Saudi Arabia being a hotbed of sex slavery, but the operation of Boko Haram in Nigeria is pretty widely known. Additionally, I've heard references to several "firebrand"/extremeist type Imams (Abu Hamza al-Masri, for instance) making statements to the effect that kafir women are fair game for exploitation, although of course I have no knowledge that such ideas translate into actual crimes.
/r/MensRights21/11/14 05:29 AM
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A woman was allegedly politely propositioned in an elevator at an atheism conference and she turned the guy down, who went about his business. The woman then decided to make a "deal" about it at a talk she was giving the next day, which invited a comment from Dawkins about how trivial the event was... at which point, various shits hit various fans.
/r/MensRights21/11/14 03:18 AM
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So long as the problems men faced are addressed and resolved, I don't see it as being important. Recognition of MHRM is only useful as a means to accomplishing the ends of equality, imo.
/r/MensRights21/11/14 02:25 AM
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Wow, the rough educational level of that forum I'm guessing is... what, 7th, maybe 8th grade? But they do seem to know the score of the modern legal landscape: Originally Posted by PuristBrah  not sure if srs. The guys were drunk also, then they were raped too. Women can't rape men, dip****. Men are responsible for themselves and for women. Women are not responsible for anything. Pearls of wisdom from the swole.
/r/MensRights21/11/14 01:50 AM
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Not a problem, that's why we're here. ;-) There's a lot of really useful stuff on the sidebar, especially in "Interesting Discussions". When you have some time, take a look at the various links there. Suggest going through them slowly though, give yourself some time to process.
/r/MensRights21/11/14 01:35 AM
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conveniently ignoring the fact that boys were struggling equally Given behavioral incidents, dropout rates, and lower rates of post-secondary entry and graduation, I'd suggest that boys are struggling unequally, and have been for a while now.
/r/MensRights21/11/14 01:21 AM
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A good starting point is to google about the "Duluth model" of interpersonal violence, based on the concept of "patriarchal terrorism". This is the dominant paradigm that law enforcement adopts when dealing with IPV, and largely disregards the possibility of the woman being the aggressor except in cases of extreme violence that overlap with other criminal violations.
/r/MensRights21/11/14 01:17 AM
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The Atheism+ (really, Feminism+) people are going to lose their shit over this... it's basically the same thing Richard Dawkins said about Elevatorgate.
/r/MensRights21/11/14 12:57 AM
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Thus demonstrating the need for an IMD and a frank discussion of how bigoted attitudes like that harm everyone.
/r/MensRights20/11/14 06:48 AM
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Yeah. Now mind you this is just one study so don't take it as gospel, but there is a pattern among the present literature that points to gender playing a much larger factor than race when it comes to likelihood of conviction, likelihood of receiving a custodial sentence, and the duration of the sentence imposed. The system-wide harshness of treatment against males, in all areas of western law, is my #1 go-to when I rebut a misinformed feminist's claims that there's no institutionalized discrimin…
/r/MensRights20/11/14 12:49 AM
1

Based on the climbing readership here, I presume we have a regular crop of freshmen who are just starting to "peer behind the curtain". Sidebar links are great, but putting the information in context just has so much more impact.
/r/MensRights19/11/14 11:47 PM
5

Hell, you're better off being a black woman than a white man. Yes, really.
/r/MensRights19/11/14 09:53 PM
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This article clearly states that around 7% of the allegations they explored were false. Not inconclusive, or lacking evidence, or some other "we don't really know" state, but demonstrably, provably false. 7% of accusations provably false is a big fucking deal, because that's the lower bound. The actual amount of false accusation is higher, but for lack of proof sadly cannot be determined.
/r/MensRights19/11/14 09:47 PM
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Equality in rights. Privilege in responsibilities.
/r/MensRights19/11/14 09:39 PM
3

I don't speak for all of RMR but personally I look at male-only organizations as good and useful. Men have to police every word when in a mixed-gender space, lest they be mercilessly savaged for some protocol slip or social faux pas (vis. the Dr. Matt t-shirt debacle for instance). All-male spaces don't have that "sword of Damocles" feel. Not that all male spaces are going to be perfect and without flaw, of course -- all-male packs of assholes are still packs of assholes, but that's an entirely …
/r/MensRights18/11/14 10:44 PM
1

Doh. Missed you saying this. Now that I think on it, I think you and I had this very same conversation about a year ago, and came to this same conclusion.
/r/MensRights18/11/14 07:55 AM
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I'd been thinking about this for taking more reliable surveys in another sub. One suggestion that was floated was to create a pool of authentication keys that moderators could hand out to subscribers with a post history consistent with being a member of the sub. There wouldn't be any association with the username and the key; the key would only be there to make sure that a) it was handed out through official channels (increasing quality of respondent by first-pass filtering through moderators) a…
/r/MensRights18/11/14 07:55 AM
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Just treat people as you'd like to be treated, and presume people have capability irrespective of biology. In that way you promote equality regardless of labels or associations, by demonstrating the change you want to see... and the people who don't like it, fuck 'em. Good luck.
/r/MensRights18/11/14 07:47 AM
1

I'm torn by this. On one hand, this is complete and utter dross and I'm appalled that it can asserted and taken seriously. On the other hand, the more education in the US is undermined, the better my kids will do in the global marketplace because they're not encumbered by being stuck in an educational system in which progress deliberately retarded.
/r/MensRights18/11/14 06:23 AM
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Indeed.
/r/MensRights17/11/14 01:53 AM
3

Turtles all the way down. Turtlegate.
/r/MensRights17/11/14 01:39 AM
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I used to work a job peddling drunk tourists around in a pedicab. Things that would be considered straight up sexual assault happened on a daily basis. Apparently, alcohol + lycra-clad ass peddling half a tonne of person and bike up an 8% grade = license to grope.
/r/MensRights14/11/14 10:16 PM
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The main motivation is to exploit a credulous market for maximum financial gain. Shitting on men is just a means to an end, and (for some) an added bonus.
/r/MensRights14/11/14 07:00 PM
2

Clearly, the "social experiment" was seeing how many suckers would buy into the video prima facie.
/r/MensRights14/11/14 06:58 PM
2

Feminists (well, suffragettes) at the turn of the last century were literally rioting and setting off bombs. Feminists in the 70s were writing redstockings and shooting effeminate artists. Feminists today are no less batshit today than back then... there's just more media coverage.
/r/MensRights09/11/14 05:52 AM
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Feel free to add me. Economic Left/Right: -5.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.95
/r/MensRights09/11/14 02:46 AM
0

Accusations of abuse and summary temporary restraining orders are considered the "silver bullet" to start any divorce proceeding in North America too, although it seems more a process promoted by lawyers than feminists.
/r/MensRights09/11/14 01:45 AM
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Do you really want to promote the same hyper-reactive bullshit? You're basically parroting the 1970s era 2nd wave sex-negative feminist "Male Gaze" bullshit that we all (rightly) mock. I'm all for equal treatment. It'd be better IMO if we can all equally express appreciation without some moral minority busybodies claiming that doing so is evil, regardless of the gender mix involved.
/r/MensRights06/11/14 08:55 PM
3

There's some excellent new diffusion tensor imagery (a variant of MRI imaging) showing the differences between male and female brains. In summary - women's brains utilize the corpus callosum more extensively and show more cross-hemisphere traffic, whereas men's brains are wired more "front to back". You can see it here. Edit PS - DTI is really nifty. Check out the detail it can produce. Not just useful for intracranial imaging either... check farther down the list for some of the cardiac views.
/r/MensRights05/11/14 09:49 PM
1

Regularly, when I worked the door. Less so when I was a patron but it happened occasionally. By far the most grope-y job I ever had was when I used to peddle drunk tourists around town in a pedicab. I guess alcohol + lyrca-clad tour guide's powerful glutes working furiously to haul half a tonne of human and bike up a 8% grade = free touches. We're supposed to enjoy it, though... so it's all okay, right? FWIW - the gropes frequently made me uncomfortable, but the stuff that really weirded me out …
/r/MensRights05/11/14 04:16 AM
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It's all good.
/r/MensRights03/11/14 05:33 PM
1

I got your meaning, I was just being ironic.
/r/MensRights03/11/14 05:10 PM
1

I don't tend to submit much. I tend to comment, but as you will.
/r/MensRights02/11/14 03:38 PM
1

I've been around a while, at least on here. If nothing else, you can add me as one perspective of many variations on a theme -- that anything, masculinity, femininity, being human in any of its various aspects -- can be toxic if taken to extremes or done in an antisocial way. Hell, drinking too much water can be fatal.
/r/MensRights02/11/14 02:06 PM
1

Who uses it like that? Someone trolling you from SRS? Irrelevant. SRS. Tumblr. Twitter. University campuses. Blogs. Average schmucks of all stripes. Some as trolls, some deadly serious. They would be irrelevant, if they didn't seem to be the types of people setting the agendas and doing all the talking. And in response to your edit: If I try to give a definition of something, and get it wrong for some reason - it doesn't mean there are multiple definitions of that thing. "Wrong" is only valid wh…
/r/MensRights02/11/14 02:03 PM
1

Does one need to adopt a label before one can have an opinion? There's a number of topics spoken about here that I agree with. There's a number that I don't. There's an excellent chance that self-identified MHRAs feel similarly. For what it's worth, I doubt my perspective is limited by identification (given that there's already been others saying something similar).
/r/MensRights02/11/14 01:53 PM
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Thats not what it means. Correct. But that's how many use it, or some variation on that theme. Kind of disagrees with your premise of: You aren't hearing multiple meanings, you just think you are because you don't know what it is, you are hearing different parts of the one thing. As I said, different people have different definitions. Not all of them, indeed many of them, are not your definition. Insisting otherwise doesn't change that. As to this: Im not a kid, Im prolly older than you. That's …
/r/MensRights02/11/14 01:49 PM
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I can't speak for all or, really, any MRAs... but it seems to me that any action could be toxic when taken to extremes or when applied in an anti-social as opposed to pro-social way. That's any action, not just actions traditionally associated with masculinity.
/r/MensRights02/11/14 01:00 PM
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Okay kid, whatever. If you want to go through life thinking that toxic masculinity means all masculinity is toxic (just a different part of the same thing, right?) or that you are the only person who knows what you're talking about, have fun with that.
/r/MensRights02/11/14 12:55 PM
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So I know there aren't numerous different defections in use. There's few-to-none in this sub who haven't seen various wacky, self-serving, malinformed or otherwise mongrelized versions of the term being used in the wild. The fact that you claim knowledge of what you consider the canonical "version" doesn't change the fact that other versions are in circulation. This smacks of the same sort of linguistic goobledegook that comes with defining the terms "feminism", "patriarchy", et al. I'm glad you…
/r/MensRights02/11/14 11:38 AM
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As I said, there isn't any point in your talking about something, when you don't know what it means. Nevertheless, people do. You can't know this, because you don't know what it means. This statement is wrong in a number of ways. Enumerating only a couple of them: It presumes I don't know one or more of the so-called "official" definitions It presumes that the way others use the term is the same each time, rather than every individual coming up with a new version that suits their context and pur…
/r/MensRights02/11/14 11:28 AM
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There's countless people using the term "toxic masculinity" to describe what they personally want it to describe. Whether their definition suits your criteria is irrelevant. Whether you think there's any point about them talking because their idea of what the term means is different from yours is equally irrelevant, as it won't stop them talking. Good luck in trying to get them all on your page, though.
/r/MensRights02/11/14 11:03 AM
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I don't know about the entire machine. ;-) I expect sexuality is low on the totem pole among the sex-negative.
/r/MensRights02/11/14 08:24 AM
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I think anyone who claims that anyone in the Harry Potter movie series hasn't been sexualized needs to google around and see what the tumblr slashfic people have been writing about them for the last decade or so.
/r/MensRights02/11/14 07:53 AM
1

While we can definitively say that it does actually exist, I have doubts that "political lesbianism" is that great a force, to be honest.
/r/MensRights02/11/14 07:48 AM
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We need them like a bicycle needs a fish? ;-)
/r/MensRights02/11/14 07:45 AM
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Depends on your definition of romance. If one means buying into the idea that "love conquers all", men are apparently vastly more likely to be romantics than women. I expect a historically continuous stream of stories, movies and TV shows depicting men doing goofy shit to win the love of that one woman plays a large role in that. Perhaps as more and more entertainment veers into vacuous and negative depictions of men in relationships, that romantic streak will die out. I'd suggest it already is …
/r/MensRights02/11/14 07:45 AM
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I wouldn't be. She's being honest. It basically breaks down to that 9 times out of 10 when the "creep" card is played. The same actions in the same context by an attractive man will be acceptable or desired. From an ugly man, instant "creep". How do those rules go? Rule #1 - Be attractive Rule #2 - Don't be unattractive ... or something along those lines. The problem is that it looks like some people are doing their best to make being unattractive and daring to speak to someone (for now, I'm sur…
/r/MensRights02/11/14 07:11 AM
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Indeed. There's a few feminist shibboleths that have subtle esoteric meanings (that they'll boo-hoo about and claim that everyone just "needs to be educated" when people don't go along with their definition) but deeply hostile exoteric forms. eg. Exoteric definition - Everything that's wrong in the world is due to patriarchy, and patriarchy means the men in charge. Esoteric definition - "Well, when we say patriarchy we don't actually mean specifically rule by the fathers, it's a system of blah b…
/r/MensRights02/11/14 06:55 AM
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When dealing with feminism, it's important to remember that many (most?) of their strains take a post modern/post structural approach to the world. In that approach, objectivity is a meaningless or absurd concept. The feminist answer to Pilate's famous question Quid est veritas is Nihilo.
/r/MensRights02/11/14 06:49 AM
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The term is pretty well defined. By and for a small group that seems to have little ability or interest in disseminating their (your?) definition to the wider world. Doesn't come off as particularly useful, aside from being another ivory tower shibboleth with an esoteric meaning only privy to the in-group, and an exoteric form that is interchangeable with the statement "men suck".
/r/MensRights02/11/14 06:43 AM
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I think you'd be extraordinarily hard pressed to find "objective" toxicity. Pretty much every element of masculinity derided as toxic in one context could be considered valuable or essential in another. Try this exercise - think of anything you might consider an objectively determined element of "toxic masculinity". Any one characteristic at random. Then take that characteristic and place it in a different environment -- perhaps one that's more competitive, or more resource-starved. Perhaps an e…
/r/MensRights01/11/14 07:10 AM
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Seems every bit as valid as any of the myriad "official" definitions (can there be such a thing, when there isn't even an official definition of what feminism is?) That's the problem when you try to define a term by community gestalt: the definition changes with the community, making the term essentially meaningless as a medium for information exchange for anyone not in the in-group.
/r/MensRights01/11/14 07:05 AM
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Never been much of an Elam fan, myself. I recognize his utility as a bomb-throwing Overton window shifter, but that's about it. Drama on his site doesn't affect me much one way or the other.
/r/MensRights01/11/14 06:38 AM
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I've actually heard stories similar to this from several women I've known. Sometimes, people get in situations where they kinda do and kinda don't want something to happen. This is one manifestation of the infamous "grey zone" between 100% completely consenting and 100% non-consenting. It seems to me that this push to make everything explicit is an attempt to reduce/eliminate this grey zone as much as they can, even if it results in substantially less enjoyable sex for everyone involved. The log…
/r/MensRights14/09/14 01:22 AM
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It'd be nice to see more mentorship and support like this, frankly. I'm a big fan of the Men's Shed concept and would love to see it expanded to where there's one in every city in the world.
/r/MensRights12/09/14 10:08 AM
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Sure, and there's plenty of words to be said about the deprioritizing of male safety and lives (your words included, Typhon)... but getting some attention, even if less than optimal, is better than no attention. The perfect is the enemy of the good. I'd say we much better off to have the good now, in place and saving lives, than the perfect later.
/r/MensRights10/09/14 04:30 PM
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I had been wondering where all the brittle people had been coming from. I see now that some places breed them.
/r/MensRights10/09/14 02:58 PM
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I'm not seeing where there's any focus on one gender or the other? In my opinion, any serious focus of efforts on prevention of / mitigation of suicidal ideation is an excellent thing to see. Just because men suicide at higher rates doesn't mean women aren't also susceptible. Why shit on a positive step just because there isn't a particular focus on the area you feel should be more focused on?
/r/MensRights10/09/14 01:58 PM
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We could use more of this sort of thing on this side of the pond.
/r/MensRights04/09/14 10:17 AM
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I never ended up getting to go to university, but my orientation was pretty straightforward. Probably the most shocking aspect was the "pep talk" by the guy giving the tour that we should look to our left and our right, because 2 out of 3 of us wouldn't be there by the time we would have finished our undergrad. My first introduction to undergrad attrition rates. In my case, loan didn't come through, so I was someone's left/right before I even got a chance to give it a go. Ah well.
/r/MensRights04/09/14 08:00 AM
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Congratulations, and well done! My cashflow is a bit weak at the moment, but I'll be sure to kick a few shekels your way once things pick back up. Carry on gentlemen! You're doing gods/odins/the FSM/mankind's work!
/r/MensRights04/09/14 07:52 AM
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GET TO DA CHOPPAH!
/r/MensRights04/09/14 07:49 AM
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TRP has basically nothing to do with men's rights. There may be some marginal overlap between members, but the focus between RPers and MHRAs is entirely different. (Disclaimer: not an RPer, also not a self-labelled MHRA although I strongly agree with many perspectives.) From what I've seen of red pillers, it is at its core a philosophy of self-improvement, that requires people to first recognize that what they're told about how the world works is fundamentally different from how the world actual…
/r/MensRights04/09/14 07:44 AM
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So buttery...
/r/MensRights31/08/14 09:04 AM
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Every one of these infographic style posters need either URLs and Q-codes so people can read more about the information presented. Without that, noone can research the statistics.
/r/MensRights30/08/14 08:25 AM
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Pretty cunning, doncha think? Man walks down the street tweeting that, people know he's not afraid of anything.
/r/MensRights28/08/14 09:06 PM
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This presumes that singular definition of patriarchy is the one everyone uses. In my experience, and the experience of most here I expect, that definition is used only in circles so rarified as to be essentially meaningless in the day-to-day, or so radicalized as to make the definition pointless compared to the actions of those who hold it. There are those of us who are old enough to remember a time prior to when a small but motivated group could rewrite history and definitions by firing up a we…
/r/MensRights27/08/14 11:07 PM
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When exactly did the dominant definitions of patriarchy shift from "oppressor class" to "privileged class"? I suppose it's some form of progress, albeit slim.
/r/MensRights27/08/14 09:37 AM
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To quote Jack White: To trick a woman, make her feel she did it her way.
/r/MensRights27/08/14 09:36 AM
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Oh, I don't know. If looking at the way standards of ethics and morals have shifted over the last century teaches us anything, it's that things can change. Perhaps one of those changes will be a form of feminism that prizes inclusion in fact, rather than speak about it in theory while focusing heavily-to-exclusively on women. I would suggest that we're not at that "wave" however, and perhaps given the baggage of feminism's past it may never be reached.
/r/MensRights27/08/14 09:34 AM
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Parenting. Doing it right, even when prevented from doing it fully.
/r/MensRights23/08/14 08:19 PM
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Wisely so!
/r/MensRights23/08/14 07:59 PM
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Hm. Honestly? I've never looked. I'll see what I can find. Generally, red states tend to have higher divorce rates than blue states though, so I'd say probably not Utah. I could be wrong though.
/r/MensRights23/08/14 06:41 PM
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Suggestion: Don't say "(Official Government Statistics)", include URLs and/or a Q-code that links to those statistics. Also, nailing down the actual divorce rate is tricky, and it tends to vary from year to year and location to location. Southern California appears to have the highest divorce rate, especially amongst people who got married before the age of 25.
/r/MensRights23/08/14 08:33 AM
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Really? You don't see a difference between killing someone in the heat of passion and killing someone as part of a financial transaction? I mean, most legal traditions make that distinction in charges and sentencing.
/r/MensRights22/08/14 08:46 PM
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Correction: 24% of women would admit to having a baby without their partner's consent.
/r/MensRights22/08/14 08:38 PM
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David "Nigel" Futrelle.
/r/MensRights21/08/14 03:47 AM
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Of course not. Making sure there's resources available for people who are victims of crime is (or should be) completely independent of honest and professional investigation of those crimes. Half of the problem with the way things are shaking out with the Title IX nonsense in the US is that counselors and people in support positions are being tapped for double-duty as investigators, which pretty much nullifies any possibility of impartiality.
/r/MensRights19/08/14 05:59 PM
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Hear hear.
/r/MensRights19/08/14 08:18 AM
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A man on a sinking cargo ship cries out to rescuers, "Leave me! Save my precious cargo of molases!" A man on a sinking slave ship cries out to rescuers, "Leave me! Save my precious slaves!" A man on a sinking passenger ship cries out to rescuers, "Leave me! Save my precious wife!" Only the most covetous of men would choose certain death to protect actual property... but almost every man in every recorded society was expected to protect his family with his life. It's a strange sort of property wh…
/r/MensRights19/08/14 02:59 AM
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Of course. I carefully moderated my words to leave room for those exceptionally wimpy men and exceptionally buff women, but on the average man is substantially more physically powerful than the average woman, an observation backed up by numerous empirical studies. One in particular stands out to me as an example of how our physiological differences manifest: the grip-strength of a below-average man is still more powerful than the grip-strength of an olympian woman.
/r/MensRights19/08/14 01:38 AM
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Physical strength. For the most part, anything involving raw physicality is more likely to be suited to men than women. Eg. construction, military, and especially anything where a lot of grabbing/grappling/hauling/upper body strength is involved (oil rig work, fishing, etc). We also seem to do better with long term isolation than women do, but I have no empirical evidence to back that up. There may also be a mixed-blessing scenario when it comes to financial success. There may be an expectation …
/r/MensRights19/08/14 01:19 AM
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It's also fair to expect to see some sexual discrimination in that difference as well. I think its dishonest to completely disregard it as a source of potential pay differential, and where it's discovered it should be rectified. That said, there's a big, big difference between saying "sexual discrimination may have some effect on overall pay" and "women make 77% on the dollar because SEXISM".
/r/MensRights17/08/14 05:49 AM
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Around here, the phrase we use to describe that increasingly strident strain of anti-empiricism is "Feels over reals." (Remember when the Bush 43 administration was loudly castigated for their wanton tendency to "create reality"?)
/r/MensRights17/08/14 05:45 AM
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I am aware that I have conflicted views -- on the one hand, I support the goals of pay and educational equality; and yet on the other hand, I am repelled by the unfair treatment and vilification of men and boys that liberals are employing to advance those objectives. There's nothing in conflict about that whatsoever. Both of them are about wanting what's fair, be it equality of access and opportunity, or equal treatment under the law (or in this case, under the administrative authority of higher…
/r/MensRights17/08/14 05:30 AM
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The author of this article is a well-known neuroscientist and lecturer at Stanford university. He's got an entire lecture series online about human behavioral biology that is outstanding. If you have some spare time every night and want to dramatically increase your knowledge about the biological underpinnings of a lot of what we consider "culture", I highly recommend checking them out. See them here.
/r/MensRights16/08/14 03:52 AM
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TL/DR: Always be recording.
/r/MensRights14/08/14 04:46 AM
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Huh. Purely by coincidence, earlier tonight I felt compelled to listen to some Janis. I literally just finished listening to her greatest hits compilation a few minutes before seeing this thread. The world is a strange place sometimes.
/r/MensRights10/08/14 06:52 AM
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Oh goodie. Another pointless money-sink destined to produce a crop of bitter, unemployable harpies with massive student loan debts and chips on their shoulders. I see no flaw with this plan.
/r/MensRights10/08/14 12:37 AM
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It's pretty transgressive. The photographer in question was obviously attempting to make a point... although exactly what that point was isn't clear. It'll be interesting to see how things break down, either on the side of censorship of "taboo subjects", or on the side of freedom of expression for artists.
/r/MensRights06/08/14 09:39 PM
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I'd need to see a citation about that, but allow me to tell about my experience in that area. When I went to a respected family lawyer about fighting for full custody of my daughter, one of the first questions she asked is "How deep are your pockets?" You see, in Canada (and from what I'm told, the US is similar) there's a great deal of support for women when it comes to custody battles. More than just a court system whose sitting justices were trained in the era of the Tender Years doctrine, mo…
/r/MensRights06/08/14 09:12 PM
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Fighting, as in physical violence? What sort of job was this... security work? I haven't heard of a whole lot of family women working security gigs, but I suppose it's possible...
/r/MensRights06/08/14 08:52 PM
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Is anyone surprised by this sort of thing any more? I mean, really?
/r/MensRights06/08/14 06:12 PM
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I see a business opportunity opening up.
/r/MensRights02/08/14 08:49 PM
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It's India. Might want to adjust that number upwards to "hundreds of millions".
/r/MensRights02/08/14 08:49 PM
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Well, at there's people in positions of authority recognizing how easily shit can get out of hand. It's not a solution, but the seed has been planted.
/r/MensRights31/07/14 11:55 PM
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Is the funny bit all the rubber/plastic/paint marks over the wall?
/r/MensRights30/07/14 07:46 AM
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Being aware of the risks doesn't mean you have to live in a constant state of fear about being a victim of those risks. Just be safe. Moderating your alcohol intake so you can make reasoned decisions would be a good start, for instance.
/r/MensRights30/07/14 06:33 AM
1

Sure. Whether you like vag or dick doesn't have much relevance to the kind of person you are.
/r/MensRights28/07/14 02:09 AM
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You're doing gay Jesus' work, autowikibot.
/r/MensRights28/07/14 01:12 AM
1

I... that... What?
/r/MensRights28/07/14 01:11 AM
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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." ~ William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (Act III, Scene VIII)
/r/MensRights28/07/14 01:09 AM
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"Maybe mandatory tubal ligations are a superior option. After all, while not every man who fathers a child has made a conscious choice to do so, every woman who does has made a conscious choice to do so. Seems to me the scourge of unwanted children and destitute single mothers should lay with the persons choosing to make that a reality."
/r/MensRights28/07/14 01:02 AM
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Sometimes, all a guy needs to keep on keeping on is knowing that someone actually gives a damn. Well done, sir.
/r/MensRights23/07/14 01:22 PM
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He was a scientist. Now he's a mediocre-at-best associate professor teaching 200-level biology coursework at a liberal arts college, lecturing to bored and uninspired students who give him "meh" reviews on RateMyProfessors.com (although a few enjoy him acting like an asshole in class, apparently.) Literally 7 of the 12 profs in the biology department there get better rankings. He hasn't had a published work in, last I checked, over 15 years. His academic career stalled long, long ago... part of …
/r/MensRights22/07/14 12:58 AM
1

Probably not the worst thing to give yourself a little bit of a sugar hit while fighting off a cold anyways. Besides, the code of the sicky man-child is to indulge oneself when ill! ;-)
/r/MensRights21/07/14 08:10 PM
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This man-child will self-medicate without Vicks. Tiger Balm kicks their vap-o-rub's ass anyways, and I've always opted for Halls when it comes to cough drops.
/r/MensRights21/07/14 07:56 AM
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Riiiight. Okay, well you have fun with that.
/r/MensRights19/07/14 01:35 AM
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Smart. Tell him well done. I had an ex- who would throw anything heavy or fragile (preferably both) she could get a hold on when she got pissed off, and she'd get pissed off over anything. Glad I put a stop to that, although it cost me a few scars for the lesson and motivation.
/r/MensRights19/07/14 01:32 AM
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I dunno. Seems like a lot of work when simply adopting an attitude of "Not my fault, not my problem" would largely cover it. To each their own though.
/r/MensRights18/07/14 07:53 PM
2

Isn't this just another way of letting them change your behaviour?
/r/MensRights18/07/14 07:13 PM
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I get this all the time. I've literally had people cross the street to avoid walking near me. First time that happened, I was 13 years old. Not just on the street, either. In stores, strip malls, security often gives me the hairy eyeball too. I guess I just have that "presence". It partially annoys me, partially depresses me. I've more or less taken the position that it's not my job to ease the fears of brittle people but it'd sure be nice to go someplace where I'm not considered a monster on si…
/r/MensRights18/07/14 07:12 PM
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In this week, we've seen the results of two men accused of sexual assault by anonymous women on the internet. These two men took radically different approaches. The first, the guy who created Cards Against Humanity, tried a conciliatory approach. He pointed out that despite not having sex with the woman in question, it's possible that she interpreted things negatively and was very sorry if she felt in any way abused. End result: nigh universal condemnation. The second, a famous musician who imme…
/r/MensRights17/07/14 08:51 PM
1

Doesn't work all that well...
/r/MensRights16/07/14 12:37 PM
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I grew up in Edmonton, and this was entirely normal there as well... although that was a few decades ago now.
/r/MensRights16/07/14 06:20 AM
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I don't know if cable itself would have done it, but I'm certain there's a few shows that came with cable that have materially contributed to the issue, specifically 24 cable news networks, shows like Dateline NBC and the like. Shows (or in the case of CNN, channels) that bank on "pandering" (if that's the right term) to the fears of the audience.
/r/MensRights16/07/14 06:18 AM
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I wouldn't say unconnected, it's clear that they feed each other, but I'd suggest that the stranger danger moral panic (which seems to me the instrumental factor here) was the driving force. That said, I haven't done a thesis on the topic that would pass peer review, so consider this IMO. ;-)
/r/MensRights15/07/14 10:43 PM
4

Sure you can. Haven't you heard of the expression "Halt and Catch Fire"?
/r/MensRights15/07/14 08:41 PM
2

Lighten up, Francis.
/r/MensRights15/07/14 08:40 PM
2

The park I played at was about 1km away from my house. I usually went by bike, but I sometimes also walked. It wasn't dangerous except during winter when the sidewalks could be a bit treacherous or piled with snow requiring detouring onto the road (they had an outdoor rink and we'd play pick-up hockey before school). ... and when I was 11, I got my first bus pass. I'd literally hop on a bus for an hour and go across town to West Edmonton Mall to play in the big arcade there. My mom was a bit ner…
/r/MensRights15/07/14 08:39 PM
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I played in the park while my parents were at work pretty much every day. They were a lot farther than a mile and a half, and there were no cel phones then. The simple fact is there's vastly more surveillance and communications and safety tools than there ever were when I was a kid, actual abductions have never been common, and most have been done by family members historically. The idea that an almost adolescent child couldn't operate as an independent agent at a park for a few hours is laughab…
/r/MensRights15/07/14 08:33 PM
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I don't know if you can blame feminism for this one specifically... there's definitely a "moral panic" style disproportionate response going on, though. It seemed (at least to me) to really start in the 90s with the Satanist freak-out and correspondent stranger-danger PSAs ("Shout NO! Then GO! And tell someone you KNOW!") Combine that with videogames being a super-strong incentive to remain at home, let sit for a generation and here we are: kids playing outside = negligent parenting.
/r/MensRights15/07/14 08:29 PM
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Time flies eh? ;-)
/r/MensRights15/07/14 08:27 PM
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Jeez, things have gone downhill. It wasn't more than 20-30 years ago when it was typical for parents to lock their kids out of the house to make 'em run around and play and not turn into "couch potatoes in front of the boob tube". Yes, video games and ubiquitous availability of high calorie snacks and drinks play a major role in the shockingly high rates of childhood obesity today, but the pedohysteria that has resulted in kids playing outside being equated to negligent parenting has certainly p…
/r/MensRights15/07/14 11:06 AM
2

Youth is wasted on the young.
/r/MensRights14/07/14 09:10 PM
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I'd suggest that there are still some areas of study that haven't degenerated into for-profit indoctrination. PS - your 1991 instructor would be deeply, deeply trans*phobic these days. How dare you force people into the gender binary, poop moghul!
/r/MensRights14/07/14 08:55 PM
1

Hm, interesting! Now I'm curious to see whether or not I'd picked up that usage by osmosis or if I've been grammatically lazy all this time. ;-)
/r/MensRights14/07/14 08:52 PM
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Heh, I'm just saying that if a troll (and that if seems pretty likely to me, at least) it seems to me the sort of troll a guy would do. That could be my bias showing, of course. If it is a woman trolling, then bravo to her. If it's a woman being serious, then... ugh.
/r/MensRights14/07/14 08:47 PM
2

"She".
/r/MensRights14/07/14 08:38 PM
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Hm. I'm not seeing the difference between "may" and "might" in this context. ELI5 plz?
/r/MensRights14/07/14 08:35 PM
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SRSers complaining about doxxing. That's priceless.
/r/MensRights13/07/14 08:01 AM
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Urination is also natural behaviour, yet we regulate the where and when in the interests of public health. Personally, I'm of the opinion that the boundaries of a relationship should be respected by the people within that relationship whatever those boundaries happen to be. I'm personally in a "monogamish" relationship myself and we're both fine operating within our mutually agreed upon parameters. If strict fidelity is what's agreed upon, then that should be honoured. What I'm not fine with is …
/r/MensRights12/07/14 01:34 AM
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Impulsiveness or failure to plan ahead Many people plan ahead to cheat. Women seem to be better at that than men, however. There are literally entire, massive websites set up for the monetization of planned infidelity. Callous unconcern for the feelings of others Many people who cheat feel incredibly guilty afterwards, even in situations where their partner would not credibly be able to learn of the infidelity. Gross and persistent attitude of irresponsibility and disregard for social norms, and…
/r/MensRights12/07/14 01:00 AM
1

Y'think? ;-)
/r/MensRights11/07/14 11:23 PM
1

What business do schrodinger's pedophiles have being around children, after all...
/r/MensRights11/07/14 11:22 PM
1

I don't see your point, could you please clarify? Per you: if your partner willingly cheats on you, that's not being slutty, that's being sociopathic No, it's not. Clear?
/r/MensRights11/07/14 11:15 PM
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If someone has extrarelational sex unwillingly, that's not cheating, that's sexual assault. Cheating on someone isn't sociopathic. It's merely selfish, and only requires poor impulse control (inherent or chemically promoted).... and frankly, I don't understand the weird fetish to pathologize socially uncomfortable biological drives. People like to fuck; you don't need to embody dark triad personality traits to want to get your end away.
/r/MensRights11/07/14 10:53 PM
1

In my experience, at least in the part of the world I live in, slut-shaming actions are almost exclusively done by women against other women, and often for reasons that have little to do with actual sexuality and much more to do with class differentials. Again, in my experience, men have little to no problem with women who are sexually active... although there may not be a great urge to pair up with / take those women home to meet Mom.
/r/MensRights11/07/14 10:49 PM
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Prisons are supposed to serve that function. They are called "correctional facilities", after all. Of course, there's a wide gulf between the ideal and the real.
/r/MensRights11/07/14 10:28 PM
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Indeed. Poorly socialized and with little impulse control by any label.
/r/MensRights11/07/14 10:02 PM
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Not just Ireland. There's efforts in England as well.
/r/MensRights11/07/14 09:52 PM
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Not saying this is a universal, but I've worked door at a couple places and this is something I've noticed. Take it for what it's worth. When guys are gearing up to fight, it's very obvious. We get loud, there's tense body posture, sometimes literally the thumping of chests. Things can escalate quickly, but generally there's a lot of warning... and once swinging there seems to be less tendency to progress to use of weapons or deadly violence. Women, on the other hand, explode into violence with …
/r/MensRights11/07/14 09:50 PM
1

Daenerys Targaryen at age 50.
/r/MensRights11/07/14 09:43 PM
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All jokes aside, I have nothing but positive vibes for the FeMRAs. Sadly, the way things are now, it is vastly easier to dismiss a man's concerns or cries for redress of injustice. Women can't be so easily dismissed. I don't always agree with what they say, but I will always appreciate their efforts on my (our) behalf.
/r/MensRights11/07/14 12:48 PM
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It's all you need...
/r/MensRights11/07/14 02:23 AM
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I never thought of myself as a feminist, although I was (and remain) largely positive towards the aspirational goals of feminism. People shouldn't be paid less for equal work, people shouldn't be treated unfairly by government institutions based on their gender, etc. My problem with feminism has largely been due to feminists and how incredibly shitty they feel they can be to people who are "other", and with some latter-day strains of feminism that seem to want to go beyond a desire for equality …
/r/MensRights11/07/14 12:16 AM
2

That's an amusing thought -- is it possible to hate-wank? Self-loathing self-pleasure.
/r/MensRights10/07/14 11:40 PM
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Interesting. There's a pretty massive elephant that would normally be in the room, that's missing... Hint: It involves my name.
/r/MensRights10/07/14 11:16 PM
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I came here to post this. Was disappoint, but glad to see it made it here.
/r/MensRights10/07/14 08:37 AM
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I believe the term is metrosexual ;-) But honestly though, I don't care what genitals some people enjoy touching. I've always taken something of what I call the "Heinlein approach" to life: "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a comp…
/r/MensRights10/07/14 08:05 AM
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Hm, perhaps, although for obvious reasons we're not focused on car maintenance and minor household repair... more about the whole equal rights thing. ;-)
/r/MensRights10/07/14 03:08 AM
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The knowledge is out there, but the impetus to learn it (and other practical skills) as part of being a capable and competent person is waning. Just call CAA / AAA, doncha know. We all gots cell phones these days, right?
/r/MensRights10/07/14 02:05 AM
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I'd go along with that. A 9 yard long woolen towel (or however long, they're cut to fit) <sup>Edit</sup> Hm. Now that I think on it, that "whole 9 yards" thing I was told referred to the length of a kilt seems bunk. Mine sure as hell isn't 27 feet long, not even on a good day.
/r/MensRights10/07/14 12:07 AM
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I read it. I don't agree with everything in it, but I largely agree with the overarching message -- the rewards for traditional behaviour have either been reduced to triviality, eliminated entirely, or are now treated as antisocial and have a negative effect. As such, men have no real motivation to act in traditional ways, even in those ways that were heavily pro-social and helped bind society together. The solution for this is unclear. Up to this point, it seems like the main attempt to keep th…
/r/MensRights09/07/14 10:36 PM
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Seeing as how I own one and have donned it on various occasions, I can safely say that while it's not precisely a dress, it's close enough for jazz. Regimental, of course. Go big or go home, redshanks.
/r/MensRights09/07/14 09:48 PM
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They better get used to it. The contingent of men incapable of changing a spark plug or fixing a leaky pipe is growing rapidly; pretty much every single mother household will feature a child or children who have never been shown how to change a flat tire.
/r/MensRights09/07/14 07:41 PM
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Well, you can in Scotland, but few of us have that privilege.
/r/MensRights09/07/14 07:38 PM
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All good sir.
/r/MensRights08/07/14 10:23 PM
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Engaged in? Not that I can ever recall. I might have whistled at someone when I was a teenager but it was never a "thing" I or any of my social circle did. Victim of? Yes. Although I don't know if "victim" is the right word, more like "been the recipient of". It didn't damage me in any significant way, and it was a lot less hands-on than some of the stuff I've experienced at work. <sup>Edit</sup> Unless you're referring to assaults and muggings and that sort of thing, in which case yeah, sure, w…
/r/MensRights08/07/14 09:51 PM
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The weed is everywhere. Last time I went to Jah, there was literally about a quarter in a baggie left in the room safe from the prior occupant. Rather nice gift. The guys, I couldn't tell you. I'm in the market for sun, sand and rum when I go, not Black Cock Down.
/r/MensRights08/07/14 06:54 PM
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I've been to Jamaica a few times. They call it "Rent-a-Dred" there. Quite shameless about it too. I mean, it's never spoken about out loud, but when you see a 50-something whiter-than-sour-cream hausfrau from the UK wandering about with a 20 year old Jamaican kid, everyone knows the score. Not that I care -- let 'em get their freak on, no sweat off my ass. The double standard is annoying though.
/r/MensRights08/07/14 03:41 PM
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First off, SHUT UP. Say nothing to noone. Second, consult a lawyer. Do it now. Do it BEFORE now. Third, follow your lawyer's advice to the letter. Realistically: You're going to be expelled. As things currently sit there is little practical way for a man to defend himself against even 100% entirely fabricated-from-whole-cloth accusations short of ABR - Always Be Recording. Given the hint of panic in your post, I'm going to assume that you were NOT recording. Talk to your lawyer about the practic…
/r/MensRights07/07/14 11:54 PM
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Oh, I wholeheartedly agree with respects to world population. I'm frequently reminded of Hobbes: "And when all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death." However, I specifically meant society, not just birth rates. Of course dropping birth rates will have a profound effect on society, but traditional roles are dissolving and being replaced with an enduring self-absorption bordering on solipsism on one end, a…
/r/MensRights07/07/14 11:37 PM
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There was a line one of the characters off Criminal Intent said in an episode a few weeks ago: "I tell you what, those Canadians, they seem so sweet and innocent but when they go bad they go Darth Vader bad." Couldn't really argue. I was in Vancouver when Pickton was roaming the streets (along with whatever 'help' he had).
/r/MensRights07/07/14 07:26 AM
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You're doing god's work, sugartits.
/r/MensRights07/07/14 12:07 AM
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It's a form of just world fallacy.
/r/MensRights07/07/14 12:00 AM
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I'd say that the sexual revolution has, ironically, already dramatically reduced the value differential. "Flooding the market", if you will. I would suggest that the results of doing so can be seen in very stark ways by various metrics that track relationship and family status: more people are waiting longer to get married. Partially because there's essentially no upside/immense potential risks for men to get married these days, partially because women want to "enjoy their best years" before the…
/r/MensRights06/07/14 08:07 PM
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There was a news clip I read about a week ago, but I wouldn't consider it canonical. It could have been a reporter's impression. I'm just relaying what I'd originally heard.
/r/MensRights01/07/14 04:16 PM
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Yep, decentralized information flow - some bits get better circulation than others.
/r/MensRights01/07/14 04:14 PM
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I'm fairly certain that kerfuffle about compelling an a serviceman on active duty on pain of contempt has been quietly stood-down. As I recall, the judge in question claimed that she didn't know the man in question was on active duty and implied that his ex gave misleading information about his status. Edit Yep, the hearing has been delayed.
/r/MensRights01/07/14 09:20 AM
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Amazing. Makes my experience seem so tame in comparison (my accuser was motivated by simple retribution for the high crime of my breaking up with her, fortunately for me she wasn't batshit insane like this nutbar).
/r/MensRights01/07/14 05:05 AM
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"But in the town, it was well known that when they got home at night, their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them, within inches of their lives!"
/r/MensRights01/07/14 04:01 AM
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"All genders are equal, but some genders are more equal than others."
/r/MensRights30/06/14 11:23 PM
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It's important to remember that while the ratio of women to men has skewed heavily towards women, that's mostly because massive quantities of women have entered post secondary when men's numbers have remained more or less static. Our numbers are dropping relative to population, gaining slowly or staying level in absolute terms. Still a major problem (and universities hate it, apparently once the ratio gets to about 2 woman to 1 man, enrollment for everyone goes way down) that needs a substantial…
/r/MensRights30/06/14 04:21 PM
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"We have always been at war with Masculineland."
/r/MensRights30/06/14 04:17 PM
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Start saving the bail money now. By the time your boy hits young adult age, he'll likely end up prosecuted for sexual assault for the high crime of popping a boner in class and causing distress to all that is pure and innocent. <Snark. Sort of.>
/r/MensRights30/06/14 10:19 AM
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The cunning plan is revealed.
/r/MensRights30/06/14 09:24 AM
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With Canada I have no idea - but in the US most single mothers are never-married, low income, low education, minority women, mostly black, and the reasons for single motherhood are many - not least of which the US's war on drugs which disproportionately put young black men behind bars and destroyed black communities. This seems unlikely, at least racially speaking, considering african americans are only around 14% of the population and over 40% of the children in the US today are living in singl…
/r/MensRights30/06/14 09:21 AM
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The same is true for BC pills though... Most pill failures come from people forgetting to take the pill, not because of a "mechanical failure" or slippage. Forgetting to take a pill can be remedied an hour later, not noticing that the bottom of the condom rolled up enough to permit leakage cannot. Yes, the pill is not 100% effective, but its use doesn't require constant monitoring and attention while in the act (as if the condom itself doesn't mess with the pleasure enough). I'm circumcised Then…
/r/MensRights30/06/14 02:28 AM
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condoms don't fail at much of a higher rate than birth control pills [...] ... if used 100% correctly at all times. The actual failure rate is considerably higher, because, shockingly, people in the middle of fucking aren't always fastidious with their use of barrier contraceptives. if you're having issues with sensitivity [stop jerking off] There's a WIDE disparity between experience of sex with a condom by those who are circumcised and those who aren't. I suspect you haven't been. I've been us…
/r/MensRights30/06/14 01:51 AM
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Condoms fail, and for many men eliminate most of the pleasure associated with sex. Moreover, they can be used as the mechanism in which to entrap men into forced parentage, as per the link I made above. That effectively leaves surgery or abstinence. "Get cut into, wear something that mostly works (when done right) or do without" are the options... such as they are. Privilege. We has it. I would also assert that women knowing they had no legal authority to force a man into a parental / provider r…
/r/MensRights30/06/14 01:24 AM
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All I've seen from you on this topic is how men are shit out of luck. Do you believe men deserve any sort of reproductive agency whatsoever? If not, the fuck are you even in this sub for?
/r/MensRights30/06/14 01:01 AM
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I think forcing someone to go through pregnancy and child birth is more wrong than forcing someone to be a father. Noone has claimed that. I've stated that men deserve reproductive rights, that does not equate to "if men can be forced to be parents, women should too". At any rate, cheap and easily accesible abortion should be a mensrights issue because the more acceptable it becomes for women to terminate (and the easier and the cheaper) then the fewer forced-fathers there will be. Please indica…
/r/MensRights30/06/14 12:21 AM
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but the situations are so entirely different that they're not comparable If you're talking about the period of time between -9 months and 0 months, sure. If you're talking about literally every day after that point 'til the end of days, then that's entirely nonsensical. One should absolutely have the right to determine when, where and with who (so long as it's reciprocally desired) one reproduces. Right now, women have that right, and are not even limited to reciprocal desire of same! Dismissing…
/r/MensRights30/06/14 12:12 AM
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I'm not saying that men's and women's reproductive rights have to be 100% equal, I'm saying that it'd be good for men to have some, and preferably equitable, reproductive rights. Ultimately, the society we live in currently believes it's anathema to force a woman into being a parent against her will, but that it's fine (even encouraged) to for a man into being a parent against his will. This is deeply sexist, and it needs to stop. I'm open to options as to how to remove this inequity. Making it …
/r/MensRights30/06/14 12:02 AM
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I'm a big fan of everyone having reproductive rights. My problem is that only women in my society currently have them.
/r/MensRights29/06/14 11:53 PM
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EQUALITY IS OPPRESSION! </s> <sup>Edit</sup> The hell? Why the downvotes? People don't actually think the above is serious, do they? Confused now, snark tag added jic.
/r/MensRights29/06/14 11:51 PM
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Ahhh yeah, I literally was reading that when you replied. Thanks for the heads up.
/r/MensRights29/06/14 11:51 PM
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It's all good now. Turns out I had entered a vote on a thing that was linked here and it was interpreted as "brigading". Talked to an admin, all is well. For the record, /u/nicemod and /r/ShadowBan really helped. A lot. I'd never been shadowbanned before and those tools were informative and timely. Well done and props all around for everyone involved!
/r/MensRights29/06/14 11:50 PM
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Can you record this? I think it'd be very interesting to see what passes for an "anti-rape course" for high schoolers. Verrrrrrry interesting.
/r/MensRights29/06/14 11:45 PM
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Run, sir. Your kids are grown, there's nothing cleaving you to this shrieking harridan but a history. Don't let the "comfort" of a familiar situation lock you into abuse and indignity in your last days. You deserve more. You deserve better. For the love of whatever gods you hold dear, walk away and never look back.
/r/MensRights29/06/14 06:39 AM
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The article is depressing, but holy fuck those comments... talk about degenerating into a anti-government conspiracy nut circle jerk with a quickness!
/r/MensRights29/06/14 06:14 AM
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People who believe in genuine equality seem to be few and far between, and lost in a sea of lip-service equalists or vapid "brand name" feminists with no clue about anything but "grrl power go go!"... and those who both believe and are willing to step up and call out the niggling sort of every day anti-male sexism are truly outstanding. You're a lucky man.
/r/MensRights29/06/14 06:08 AM
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I wouldn't call most of them "tiny". Jes' sayin'.
/r/MensRights28/06/14 01:36 AM
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I've always wondered, is there a similar list for men only that attempts to get men into heavily female-dominated fields (eg. nursing, childhood education, et al)? Don't get me wrong, I love lists as a general concept, but it'd be nice to have some context there.
/r/MensRights27/06/14 09:00 PM
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It's happening!
/r/MensRights27/06/14 08:55 PM
1

Who?
/r/MensRights27/06/14 06:31 AM
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Relevant.
/r/MensRights27/06/14 01:33 AM
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From someone who was once homeless, thank you. Most people don't even acknowledge the existence of the homeless. I'm talking about people looking literally through you, as though you were transparent. It's dehumanizing in ways that are hard to explain.
/r/MensRights26/06/14 09:57 AM
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How long did it take you to trust again? I'm 2 decades in and I still find myself wary.
/r/MensRights26/06/14 08:20 AM
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I'll contribute, but only by reflex.
/r/MensRights26/06/14 08:16 AM
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Costs time and money to get them overturned at the end of the term, otherwise they're just as likely to be renewed by a family court judge who rubber-stamp renews by the dozen.
/r/MensRights26/06/14 08:14 AM
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Title IX may be a misnomer. I'm referring to the building hostility towards due process and a presumption of guilt when it comes to men and accusations made against them, much of which happens under the umbrella of Title IX equal protection requirements. That may be a self-resolving problem, however. Apparently, a substantial amount of liability insurance payouts to colleges is due to the colleges being successfully sued, or the college settling, civil suits brought by students railroaded by tho…
/r/MensRights26/06/14 12:59 AM
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I've long maintained that the real violence being done with the Schrodinger's rapist meme is the violence done to science.
/r/MensRights25/06/14 01:33 AM
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My old man was off working on the pipeline most of the time. When he was around, he was an abusive alcoholic drug-addicted asshole. The day to day was all-mom, all the time. I don't think I saw a man in the elementary schools I was in except as the principal (in one) and the janitor. Again, all women all the time. At least back in the day they still let us have recess. Then I got to Jr. High and high school, and the very best teachers without question were men. I'm talking superstars. Everyone d…
/r/MensRights24/06/14 11:49 PM
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The article is good and all, but the discussion in the comments is gold. A brilliant example of intellectually honest discussion over some dicey issues and how to approach it as adults. Seriously, read the comments. In my opinion they're an excellent example of what anyone interested in an actual conversation about men and our rights should be looking to do.
/r/MensRights24/06/14 11:22 PM
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Where did this happen? There's literally two posts in there.
/r/MensRights24/06/14 12:34 AM
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Again, those issues aren't ignored; whenever they're raised, they get a fair hearing and typically support. I'm having a hard time seeing where they're "ignored", rather than you perceiving that because they're not given star billing all gay all day. ... and I'd reask the question of what the LGBT community has done for men in general. Is this an expectation of one-way support? Yay gay, everyone else meh? Also, if there is any significant problem that men as a gender face which is not being addr…
/r/MensRights23/06/14 06:20 PM
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So being less interested in exclusively gay issues than orientation neutral all-men issues is exclusionary? Edit ... and while we're on the topic, how much has the LGBT community done for heterosexual men? I've seen plenty of MHRA support gay causes, highlight stories that affect gay men and so on. What sort of buzz is there in the LGBT sphere to help alleviate discrimination and bigotry men in general face, as opposed to gay men in particular?
/r/MensRights23/06/14 06:10 PM
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The horror... the horror...
/r/MensRights23/06/14 01:17 PM
1

Valar infidelis.
/r/MensRights23/06/14 01:00 PM
1

T is for "trans*", typically.
/r/MensRights23/06/14 02:25 AM
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When you say you are focusing on men in general, and not gay men you are being exclusionary. I don't see how. It would be exclusionary if we disregarded problems you've experienced as a man due to sexual orientation. I'm not seeing any area where we talk about things in such a way as to eliminate or subordinate what gay men consider important, although obviously given the demographics we have it's not going to be 100% gay every day around here. Most of the things we talk about (eg. equal treatme…
/r/MensRights23/06/14 02:22 AM
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"Beating men at their rotten games" Translation: Because I perceive all men to be cheaters, I'm going to cheat without the slightest moral qualm and justify it by doing it to defeat them.
/r/MensRights22/06/14 10:47 PM
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I rarely if ever see MRA's actively fighting against the alienation of LGBT men in male groups, and we all know this still exists, to varying extents. It does? I haven't caught the slightest whiff of gay or trans alienation here. Is there some sort of subtle undercurrent of homophobia that we're all somehow missing? Is the fact that we focus on men (some of who may happen to be gay or trans) as opposed to focusing on gay men somehow interpreted as hostility?
/r/MensRights22/06/14 10:40 PM
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I'm Canadian. I have a hard time conceptualizing any of what they go on about, in truth.
/r/MensRights22/06/14 08:23 PM
5

I have read that in Japanese culture, when faced with a problem, people focus on how to solve the problem, not where to place the blame. Not even wrong.
/r/MensRights22/06/14 06:33 PM
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Nothing like a little Stormfront-esque female supremacy rant in the morning to invigorate the soul.
/r/MensRights22/06/14 06:31 PM
2

Or accept the absurdity of it all, and be a fellow of infinite jest and excellent fancy. Life is beautiful.
/r/MensRights22/06/14 06:29 PM
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BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WYMONZ?!? </s>
/r/MensRights22/06/14 06:26 PM
3

You don't say.
/r/MensRights22/06/14 06:24 PM
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I hate walking down the street knowing that half of the population secretly wants me dead. I expect many/most of us here have had that experience of feeling like every person without a penis considers us a monster, but I can assure you that half the population does not, in fact, want you dead. Only the more extreme portion of half of that population does, and another marginally less extreme portion wants a "male dark ages" of a couple thousand years to "make up" for what they figure all men have…
/r/MensRights22/06/14 06:24 PM
1

Which is better: the ugly truth, or a pretty lie?
/r/MensRights22/06/14 06:18 PM
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Like most SJWs she's incapable of discerning between individual -isms and institutional -isms, and ends up playing a stupid semantics game devoid of meaning.
/r/MensRights22/06/14 11:39 AM
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Aside from the wage gap crap and "system biased against them", the article on the whole is solid and essentially gender-neutral. Almost as if the gender angle was a wedge to get otherwise rational advice to people who would only commit their attention to stories involving gender ideology . You know, like the people who end up eating Fancy Feast with their 28 stray cats when they're old.
/r/MensRights22/06/14 03:01 AM
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Not for nothing, but academics still cite Dworkin, Solanas, et al as reading material and "food for thought" in classroom settings. I've never seen any MHRA say "Here, read 'The Game' by Neil Strauss. This will help you conceptualize men's rights and spur discussion." I can't see us enshrining vicious, hateful, violent people as icons of modern gender equality <sup>edit</sup> like the way feminists do in gender studies classes. <sup>edit</sup> (realized that the way I'd phrased that could be int…
/r/MensRights21/06/14 11:40 PM
1

It's a strange irony, no? Feminism and the creation of the birth control pill literally set the stage for PUAs and extended family to blossom. I find myself saying it more and more: this world is a weird place.
/r/MensRights21/06/14 11:30 PM
2

Surely you can see that "self-improvement" implies a value system? I mean, before you can make yourself "better", you have to make some foundational assumptions about what's good and what isn't. I agree, in the case of RPers, the ultimate arbiter (at least from what I can see) is an external measure: access to and quality of sexual partners. That presumes, of course, that more sex = better. Again, I'm not suggesting I agree with the criteria on which they self-evaluate, but I can understand the …
/r/MensRights21/06/14 11:24 PM
2

The way I see it, it's not so much a matter of accommodation as recognizing that the two groups focus on largely different areas of interest. Sure there's going to be some overlap, but if one group is mostly based on self-improvement (of whatever nature) and another group is mostly focused on improving the equality of the environment we live in, those two groups don't have a lot of areas of collusion OR conflict. I'm speaking from an outsider's perspective, but I don't see RP people trying to ma…
/r/MensRights21/06/14 08:37 PM
1

I find myself in the very odd position of feeling like I should defend red pillers from your scurrilous, feeling-based attack. From what I understand, at its core, red pill is basically accepting the reality of the world as it is (as they see it) and working to maximize your opportunities for success (usually measured in sex) within that world. I may have serious disagreements about their essentialized views of heterosexual relationships, and find some of the ways they consider "improvement" as …
/r/MensRights21/06/14 07:57 PM
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While the words she uses are framed in the language of feminist style perception of oppression, I'm pretty sure this woman is actually a victim of a severe mental illness. Some of her other videos demonstrate a strong tendency towards paranoia and conspiratorial thinking.
/r/MensRights21/06/14 06:06 AM
2

Here's everything you ever wanted to know about fructose. Be warned: this guy is an advocate as much as an academic, so his language can be over-the-top at times, but from what I've been able to research (admittedly not my field) the science is rock solid. Sadly, I had to learn this lesson the hard way but fortunately caught it before too much damage was done.
/r/MensRights20/06/14 08:50 PM
3

Careful with that soda. Even if you're otherwise healthy, diets high in fructose can lead to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.
/r/MensRights20/06/14 06:24 AM
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He's always been a TradCon douchebag. It was hilarious watching him turn into a puddle of pathetic over Belinda Stronach though. You know it's gotta hurt when your woman throws you over for this guy. I'd feel bad for him, if not for the fact that he's a douchebag.
/r/MensRights20/06/14 01:06 AM
1

Ooooooooo-kay.
/r/MensRights19/06/14 06:58 PM
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My favorite quote is "Men's greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women's greatest strength is their facade of weakness." Lot of truth in there.
/r/MensRights18/06/14 12:41 AM
1

I don't think I've seen any MHRA anywhere state that he wants to remove access to any form of birth control or family planning. However, many MHRA would like to have some reproductive rights. Some say over our futures, rather than being forced by law into parenthood... by a woman who cannot be forced by law into parenthood. 98% of all women in North America are within 60 miles of a clinic that provides abortion services. Not all women are capable of reaching those clinics (due to time or finance…
/r/MensRights17/06/14 05:47 AM
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Heh, I love SRS. I mean, SRD. They're so entertainingly malinformed.
/r/MensRights17/06/14 05:42 AM
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I would say 1, 2 and 3 are the importance of equal treatment under the law (as there are many facets of law where men are disadvantaged). I'm sure others will disagree, but I think our most likely path of success, and our greatest chance of getting non-MRHA support, will be in directly tackling imbalances in our various legal systems. Sentence disparity, child custody disparity (especially in those countries where Tender Years still holds sway, but also in those where TY has fallen away but a ce…
/r/MensRights16/06/14 08:26 PM
1

Yes, I'm sure the people you've associated with are an endless source of amusement.
/r/MensRights14/06/14 12:50 PM
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Excellent, much obliged sir. So noted about the apparent bias. I'll keep it in mind as I read. Straight away some of those assumptions are no longer valid (eg. the family name surrender does not seem to be a societal expectation in north america any more, male over female progeny preference) so part of that could be an artifact of being written over a decade ago based on sources from 2 decades ago.
/r/MensRights14/06/14 12:35 PM
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You have no idea about my experience. For instance, you don't know that I've run my own small business for about 15 years, worked in management capacity (currently CTO) at a number of startups, and yes, created or enabled the creation of many jobs. I just don't think the sun rises or sets out of my ass for that, nor have I let those facts delude me into thinking I "sustain the economy". Although apparently it's of paramount importance to you personally, my experience isn't particularly relevant …
/r/MensRights14/06/14 12:29 PM
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I'd love to read that paper... is the pdf available anywhere? I don't have APA access.
/r/MensRights14/06/14 11:39 AM
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I'm not sure if you're being deliberately obtuse or simply not getting the point because of a myopic focus on what you think is most important. I'll try it one more time using short phrases. Productivity suffers when people get insufficient downtime Some companies may want to provide for gender-specific biological issues (eg. menstrual complications) in a gender-neutral way A way those companies can do that is by giving all employees some nominal amount of mandated downtime Doing so may be reven…
/r/MensRights14/06/14 11:32 AM
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Quis providebit ipsos provisor? Who provides for the provider?
/r/MensRights14/06/14 11:20 AM
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The point is that the assumption of time away from work is rest or relaxation is nonsensical. People need to travel (average commute in the US is just under 0.5 hr each way, for instance), people need to handle the trivia of life in order to stay alive and so on. Most full time workers get R&R for two-thirds of every 8-hour work day. This statement is just flat out incorrect. When it comes to the reality of living cutting into usable down-time, your desire to leave it out of the conversation is …
/r/MensRights14/06/14 11:00 AM
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I would submit that the normative goal of the MHRM is equality of access, opportunity and treatment under the law irrespective of gender. Individuals may, of course, vary.
/r/MensRights14/06/14 03:49 AM
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Most full time workers get R&R for two-thirds of every 8-hour work day Most full time workers don't commute? Most full time workers don't have to prepare for a work day, cook, clean, generally engage in the rigours of survival of life? 16 hours of the day are "rest" and "relaxation"? R&R is not equal to "any moment of the day not spent working". Or I should say, of the 15.5 hours of the day you're not working, at least if you're a full time employed male in the US., which doesn't include the 56%…
/r/MensRights14/06/14 12:38 AM
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Heh, well, first off I'd love 3 weeks of paid vacation. I work for a startup, I get bupkiss. Nor was I suggesting a universal mandate for x numbers of paid anything, but that companies who were interested (and obviously, who were capable) of instituting gender equal policies might take that route as a fair way to go. Presuming that every small business owner could float that is silly. Not for nothing, if your business model depends on 100% peak productivity from employees and has no slack in it …
/r/MensRights13/06/14 09:28 PM
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To be honest, I'm not sure. This was a while back. All I know is it made her real angry real often, and it got better once she was off them.
/r/MensRights13/06/14 09:24 PM
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"Excellent article" "Huffington Post" Two phrases I must admit I never thought I'd see uttered in the same sentence.
/r/MensRights13/06/14 09:23 PM
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His comedy is funny, but this video is pretty weak tea. ... and am I the only person who thinks everything about him, from the sound of his voice to his body language, screams "victim"? Something tells me he had a rougher past than just his self-admitted lack of sexual viability in high school.
/r/MensRights13/06/14 07:18 PM
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A while back, I was with a woman who needed to take a short, but heavy, dose of steroids to counteract a really nasty and durable autoimmune issue she developed after surgery. The transformation was initially subtle; being curt with replies, dismissive of things she didn't have time for or interest in, that sort of thing. As things progressed, she became more and more volatile and angry and had no clue what was going on. After one particularly extreme outburst, we had a conversation that went so…
/r/MensRights13/06/14 06:15 PM
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Wow. Talk about perceptual biases in action. Top comment: [–]SRSLovesGawker 219 points 2 days ago (301|82) Comment from GWW: [–]girlwriteswhatMRA [F] 12 points 2 days ago (17|5) Yes, some people are going to shit on you. I think any rational person would understand that when you're a member of groups who actively declare hatred towards us (AMR and SRS, although really they're the same people on different subs), that you're bound to get some heat in return. Despite that, there were people arguing…
/r/MensRights13/06/14 05:33 PM
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I've known some women whose TOM transformed them from generally sweet and awesome people into raging maniacal horsebeasts. While not "disabling" per se, as in incapable of functioning, it surely did impair their ability to function normally. Agreed, probably not too many women suffer in that way, but it's not myth. I've personally witnessed it.
/r/MensRights13/06/14 04:53 PM
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I'm presuming we're talking about salaried positions, as performance based pay will be... well, based on performance (duh!) and hourly would be based on hours worked (double duh!). When it comes to salaried positions, there's a lot more flexibility in terms of hours worked and effort applied, which is why there's a lot more pay variance; managers tend to look at who their best performers are and bonus/raise accordingly in order to keep them, and those who don't perform are left to languish. As s…
/r/MensRights13/06/14 04:51 PM
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I'd suggest many already are, although generally depressed scholastic achievement levels across the board for boys coming out of public schools is a major factor as well, I suspect.
/r/MensRights13/06/14 03:55 AM
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I'm positive on the idea of gender segregated learning environments generally. There's plenty of research to show that gender segregated schools yield better academic results for both boys and girls. Not as a mandate, mind you. There's definitely value to integrated learning environments... but making gender-specific schools available for those who prefer to go would be something I could get behind.
/r/MensRights13/06/14 03:53 AM
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I kind of see what you're saying, but I disagree with it. There's a reasonable comparison to be made by the wide range of options women have when it comes to reproductive rights, and the narrow range men do. It's morally egregious to me that we live in a society where it's anathema to force women into parenthood, but accepted and given the weight of legal obligation to force men into parenthood... even when its not their child they're being forced to support and parent. Deffo agree that there sh…
/r/MensRights12/06/14 09:09 PM
1

They're convinced that every man here is looking for justification to rape or batter women indiscriminately.
/r/MensRights12/06/14 08:39 PM
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A hypothesis must be formulated in a way where it can be tested against physical reality. I'd suggest that many patriarchy concepts are so broad and nebulous that they can easily be twisted to support nearly any thesis and its antithesis. At least from a physical sciences perspective, it would barely rise to the level of "patriarchy conjecture". Social sciences are a bit more liberal in what they consider theories.
/r/MensRights12/06/14 08:37 PM
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A collection of personality traits normally associated with sociopathy. From the wiki entry: Narcissism is characterized by grandiosity, pride, egotism, and a lack of empathy. Machiavellianism is characterized by manipulation and exploitation of others, a cynical disregard for morality, and a focus on self-interest and deception. Psychopathy is characterized by enduring antisocial behavior, impulsivity, selfishness, callousness, and remorselessness. All three traits have been associated with a c…
/r/MensRights12/06/14 08:34 PM
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I would suggest that considering no men currently have anything approximating reproductive rights, any woman anywhere being able to legally obtain an abortion puts her at a legal advantage. That said, it's despicable that moral minority twits are trying to force pregnancy as the "wages of sin". I don't, and I don't think any other MHRA, wants to remove or limit women's rights or access to effective birth control and pregnancy termination services. We just want to give men some options that aren'…
/r/MensRights12/06/14 08:23 PM
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"The 8 Biggest Lies Women Who Hate Men's Rights Spread About What Men's Rights Activists Believe". FTFY.
/r/MensRights12/06/14 10:43 AM
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Freeze peaches.
/r/MensRights11/06/14 10:28 PM
1

The basic concept of RP stuff, that is one of self-improvement to maximize one's happiness and opportunities in the world we live in is essentially a positive one. My problems with RP don't come from the desire for self improvement, it mostly comes from the stark essentialization of human (specifically, female) behaviour in ways that could be taken down some very dark roads.
/r/MensRights11/06/14 10:23 PM
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Simple retribution would suffice. There's plenty of "social justice warriors" crying tears of blood over the oppression they've experienced (like having to wait extra long in line at Starbucks, or getting a car towed for double parking to attend Occupy) who would be overjoyed to see an "oppressor" suffer in some way.
/r/MensRights11/06/14 08:38 AM
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I'm not suggesting anyone blow the guy, just recognize that he's stuck in the web the same as any of us. People might say he's earned his ill fortune, and maybe they're right. The way I see it, it's precisely at times like this, when a guy needs some backup after being screwed over for no other reason than being a dude (even a guy hostile to what we're trying to be and do) that's precisely when the MRHM can shine. If the ACLU can defend the KKK by virtue of knowing theirs is the morally and ethi…
/r/MensRights11/06/14 08:33 AM
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Ironically demonstrating that the community does express its views in an open manner ;) Yeah, it'd be nice if we could all just get along (sheds single tear) but let's face it, there's some people here who are angry and justifiably so. There's precious few forums in which to express that among people who can identify with the source of the anger and not immediately presume that person is just "bitter and hateful". I'd assert that sort of commentry is a minority of the content here, but if you go…
/r/MensRights11/06/14 08:27 AM
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Myers is a mediocre ex-scientist who hasn't published a paper since the 90s, is stuck in a crappy lecturing position teaching 1st and 2nd year students to middling reviews on RateMyProf, and has long since abdicated any modicum of intellectual integrity to fully embrace the "feels over reals" demagoguery he thinks will be the financial ticket to get out of his hamster-wheel career having finally realized that he will never be the sort of academic worthy of being granted tenure. It'd be a sad thi…
/r/MensRights11/06/14 08:18 AM
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The only way to prevent the "one rogue comment" thing is to adopt a draconian editing policy, which is precisely why all the subs of the fempire are stultifying circlejerk Approved Speech Zones(tm). Yeah, it sucks when some gabby twit comes in spewing nonsense, but that nonsense routinely gets downvoted. Personally, I think it's better to know that such hateful rhetoric does in fact exist, while simulataneously demonstrating that we do not approve.
/r/MensRights11/06/14 08:10 AM
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We may never know what it was specifically he was referring to, as the research was never published. "Incest" is a much wider brush than the adult-sexually-assaulting-a-minor worst case scenarios we immediately assume. So that research, now 30+ years gone and buried and originally from test subjects, is sufficient justification for assigning some thought-terminating cliches to a former director of the national organization of women in order to dismiss any uncomfortable thing he may have to say. …
/r/MensRights11/06/14 08:04 AM
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It's run by SRSers. DualPollux = TheIdesOfLight.
/r/MensRights11/06/14 07:25 AM
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I've known a few women who were sexually submissive as well, but I'm a pretty big guy; perhaps I just tend to attract women (subconsciously maybe?) who see me as someone who could help them fill those fantasies. Sadly for them, I'm not the best fit. Anything beyond issuing a firm spank squicks me out. I can push on, but it's not very fun for me at all.
/r/MensRights11/06/14 07:23 AM
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The last chapter of this story is yet to be written, I'd wager.
/r/MensRights11/06/14 07:18 AM
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It's shockingly easy for things to escalate without warning. I used to have a girlfriend who would throw things around whenever she got angry (and her anger was on a hair trigger). Mostly they hit the wall, shattered, left a dent. One day, she busted a huge glass something (pitcher or vase or something like that) over my head for I think leaving the milk out of the fridge. An unlucky impact might have had me bleed out on the dining room floor, or left me blinded for life. Fortunately, all I got …
/r/MensRights11/06/14 07:13 AM
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It was actually based on a part of an interview where he was talking about the findings of research he was engaged in; in essence, he was leaking a bit of salacious data prior to the paper publication. The taboo-monitors got so freaked out by even the mere suggestion that some of those involved with incest thought it "brought them closer to their family member" that they basically killed the research outright. It's an abject lesson to other would-be researchers - if you're going to reveal someth…
/r/MensRights11/06/14 07:06 AM
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I don't see comments here issuing orthodoxy requirements anywhere on par with the various fempire sub "toe the line or summary banning / feel lucky we don't doxx you" approach. Maybe I'm missing something?
/r/MensRights11/06/14 06:59 AM
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I'm not suggesting that he is. There's a long stretch between Elam's rants and a manifesto explicitly calling for the genocide of men, followed up with an attempt to murder a celebrity. What I'm saying is that every movement will have its "crazy uncles". We're no exception.
/r/MensRights11/06/14 06:57 AM
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Okay, whatever kiddo. Peddle your demagoguery somewhere else, we aren't buying. Have a nice day.
/r/MensRights11/06/14 01:56 AM
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Yes, I've seen GWW's video about "nice guys". She also does one on atheism. Doesn't make atheism a men's right issue, just something that GWW considers interesting enough to comment on. Fun fact - just because someone who is an avid commentator in a particular area, doesn't mean that every comment ever made must relate to that area. If in the future I make a youtube video featuring how awesome my dogs are, that's not going to make dogs a men's right issue.
/r/MensRights11/06/14 01:32 AM
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You'll probably see several results from this subreddit talking about atheism as well. Does that make atheism a men's right topic? No. No it doesn't. The fact that some people here have some opinions on the topic just means that some people have some opinions, nothing more.
/r/MensRights11/06/14 01:28 AM
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We're not without our demagogues. There are some self-identified MRAs who've held what I consider pretty abhorrent ideas. I guess it's something that's integral to any movement as it gathers steam; we're bound to eventually collect our own Solanas, Dworkin, et al. ... but if I thought that the majority of people interested in Men's rights were like that, I wouldn't be here.
/r/MensRights11/06/14 01:12 AM
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Maybe women "friend zone" judges and that's what makes their conviction and incarceration rates so much lower than men with identical crimes. Is there a video talking about that? I'll admit I didn't look too deeply at the link vomit above.
/r/MensRights11/06/14 12:38 AM
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I think you're in the wrong sub. /r/TheRedPill is thataway.
/r/MensRights11/06/14 12:35 AM
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I know some people are like "hey, fuck that guy"... but honestly, he's us. Another guy who is being screwed by the idea that all men are monsters. The fact that he's delusional and helping to feed that doesn't change that he's also a victim of it. Personally I'd welcome him to come and talk about it. Maybe he'd find out that the people he's wedded himself ideologically to are not necessarily as sweet and kind as he's been led to believe. It's kind of sad that he straight up admits that he's avoi…
/r/MensRights11/06/14 12:28 AM
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Anyone who thinks MRAs divide ourselves into "alphas" and "betas" clearly has no understanding whatsoever about the MHRM, full stop.
/r/MensRights06/06/14 12:47 AM
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Interesting that it's the feminist groups that are worried. Is NSW a place where Duluth hasn't seized the IPV consensus by the balls?
/r/MensRights03/06/14 03:17 PM
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In a perfect world we'd all have the time, energy and resources to do that sort of thing with every major influence on our lives. Sadly, that's rarely the case and one of the reasons why we fall back on our emotional states and "gut feelings" in a lot of cases. Doesn't mean that there's no value to try to be as carefully analytical about such things as possible of course.
/r/MensRights03/06/14 09:15 AM
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Leaving aside the political stuff for a minute, just... jesus fuck! What the hell??
/r/MensRights03/06/14 06:10 AM
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Rob Ford as "A shining example of modern manhood"? ... aaaaaaand I'm done.
/r/MensRights03/06/14 06:05 AM
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Aye, as you should. It's a problem over and over again. When it comes down to it, the "platform" (if you will) of most MRAs is quite straightforward -- There are areas where men, by law, are not accorded the same advantages as women. Treatment of the homeless where preference is given to homeless women is one area of an over-arching legal framework where women are systematically advantaged. You'll notice that I mention that women in these situations are advantaged, rather than men being disadvan…
/r/MensRights03/06/14 04:03 AM
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Another poster suggested that may be related to the 1.3 men to 1 woman gender demographic disparity in Korea.
/r/MensRights03/06/14 02:45 AM
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In my experience, homeless men are completely invisible. Homeless women are first in line for shelter space (indeed, there women-only exclusive shelters), first in line for governmental housing, first in line for aid, education upgrades, job placement et al. This was 20-odd years ago, so perhaps things have changed, but there was a distinct hostility towards homeless men as being "parasites", potential pedophiles etc. For whatever reason, if a man is unable to contribute to society in a tangible…
/r/MensRights03/06/14 02:40 AM
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Ahhh... excellent point. I wasn't aware of the gender demographic disparity. That'd certainly have a large effect!
/r/MensRights03/06/14 12:23 AM
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Probably. Personally I'd say the quote becomes more descriptive of the world divorced from that context. I may just be a cynical old bastard, that said. ;-)
/r/MensRights03/06/14 12:22 AM
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Yeah, that's my thinking, and the nice and smooth curve seems to support that hypothesis (at least as far as the survey results are concerned.)
/r/MensRights03/06/14 12:17 AM
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Hahaha! I always got tipped better by the girls who would get touchy when I was doing the pedicab gig! Ah well, it was a fun job and it paid well. I still think back on it as the best fun I ever had on a job, and the crew of riders we had were a great bunch. It felt like family. Sadly I can't say I've ever been groped by a playmate, but I do have fond memories of one of my more attractive fares sliding her hand down my shorts, grabbing a handful and purring in my ear that she "has a half a bottl…
/r/MensRights02/06/14 06:40 AM
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I think I'm a bit more disturbed in retrospect than I was in the moment, although some of the things that happened were REALLY egregious and made me go "whoa there" even then. There's stuff I permitted when I was young and just trying to roll with the shit life threw me that I'd never tolerate today. But then sometimes, a different girl would do basically the same thing and I thought it was the greatest thing ever. Life's weird.
/r/MensRights02/06/14 06:28 AM
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I did some time working the door too. Some of the bullshit some women pull would earn a guy a trip to the "Sex Offender" list without a question. Not very fair, but I suppose overt sexual aggression doesn't seem to get men worked up quite as much as it does women.
/r/MensRights02/06/14 06:04 AM
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Cue SRS/AMR wailing about "biotroofs" in 3... 2...
/r/MensRights02/06/14 06:02 AM
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The world would be a happier place if we were all "on each other's team", no doubt. Sadly, at least in my experience, there's a lot less willingness <sup>these</sup> <sup>days</sup> for one side of the team to go to bat for the other. Guess the best any of us can do these days is (if we're lucky) find those few, or that one, who will be on our side. <sup>Edit</sup> Missed some words.
/r/MensRights02/06/14 04:25 AM
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Well, the important thing is that you've found a way to feel superior to both.
/r/MensRights02/06/14 04:08 AM
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Hilariously aspirational domain name... sadly, not much meat.
/r/MensRights02/06/14 04:05 AM
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The most inoffensive rating for a humbly average girl is a 6, or 7. So basically what you're saying is that you didn't read the article at all, considering they directly address that the rating distribution of men's perceptions is remarkably gaussian.
/r/MensRights02/06/14 03:54 AM
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Women are really not that motivated by sex. Work at a bar or night club for a year, then come back and tell us if you feel the same.
/r/MensRights02/06/14 03:51 AM
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Perhaps, although that doesn't explain the heavy skew on women's perceptions and the almost textbook gaussian distribution on men's perceptions.
/r/MensRights02/06/14 03:50 AM
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Presuming they don't just grab on and expect you to go along. I once had a job taking drunk tourist girls around on a pedicab. Alcohol + Out-of-town + Viewing a lycra-clad ass = free grabs, apparently. Don't get me wrong, sometimes it was nice (when the girl was attractive), and there's no doubt it can give you a little extra oomph to climb a 10% grade while peddling 500lbs+ of bike and person around, but since when did paying for a man-powered tourist guide around downtown also mean free licens…
/r/MensRights02/06/14 03:49 AM
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Agreed. That'd be very illuminating, I think.
/r/MensRights02/06/14 03:39 AM
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Jesus... what the hell's going on in Greece that makes dudes so angry? Or any of those countries where there's a wide divergence in scale? Like South Korea, guys are a bit hostile, but the women are like WTF SMASH KILL.
/r/MensRights02/06/14 03:35 AM
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I understand, and I don't mean to give the impression that I think Mexico or its people are this uniformly terrible and that every step an unwary Canadian might make could be our last. I apologize if I gave off any sort of "vibe" in that direction.
/r/MensRights02/06/14 03:20 AM
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No, I'm from Canada, so while we do get a fair bit of drug war news, we mostly hear about the seemingly endless list of Canadian tourists that are either being murdered, or drugged and murdered, or tortured and murdered. There's a lot of Canadians murdered in Mexico, is what I'm saying. Admittedly, that jades my perspective somewhat, but it's still awesome that there's progress there. As a Candian, I hope there'll be some progress on the murder front too.
/r/MensRights01/06/14 07:28 PM
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Holy crap. Of the list of all the places I expected to hear something like this, Mexico was way down there. Although in retrospect, it shouldn't have been. Familia es muy importante. Good on the Mexican S.C. leading the way. Shitty that bill C-560 in Canada got scuttled for the next however many years/decades.
/r/MensRights01/06/14 07:09 AM
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Awesome that it's there. Sucks that it should have to be.
/r/MensRights31/05/14 12:02 PM
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3edgy.
/r/MensRights31/05/14 09:34 AM
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"Incel" is a complex problem, but I'd be willing to put my support behind the regulated legalization of the sex trade which indirectly touches on that sphere.
/r/MensRights31/05/14 09:33 AM
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Arguably a subset of cultural demonization, at least with much of the current media representations.
/r/MensRights31/05/14 09:30 AM
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This guy sums it up pretty well, I think.
/r/MensRights31/05/14 08:43 AM
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Some of us are intimately familiar. It's prejudicial assumptions like what you hold which are part of the problem.
/r/MensRights31/05/14 08:40 AM
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I don't have a whole lot of love for that crew, but the basic foundation on which they operate is at least logically consistent: That the world is what it is, that individuals have little opportunity or likelihood of changing the world, and that for an individual to have a happy life they have to reconcile themselves to that fact and learn how to work effectively within it. That said, I'm deeply skeptical of the means by which they learn how to be more effective (or whether or not those means ev…
/r/MensRights31/05/14 08:34 AM
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PUAHate isn't a feminist site. PUAHate was made by, and runs on the bitter tears of, former PUA acolytes who decided that the "Gurus" in which they've invested so much time and money were shysters and frauds. If you're going to troll, at least try to be less obvious about it. This isn't even a D- effort.
/r/MensRights31/05/14 08:26 AM
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Consider this - he posted it on a Friday night. Out of all the possibilities on a late spring Friday evening, of the limitless potential for entertainment on stage, screen and console, and despite fronting for the immaculate pickup artists that they claim to be... even with all that, the very best thing he could think of to do with his time is spam us. I believe the term "tragicomic" was coined for these sorts of things.
/r/MensRights31/05/14 08:22 AM
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So.... if I'm reading that graph right, it looks like we've doubled our signups per day over the last few days, and heavily increased "drive-by traffic". Nifty. Thanks for the free publicity, gender ideologues. Hope it won't hurt you too bad when we show people that we're here because we're fighting for an equality that includes men, not to Kill All Females.
/r/MensRights31/05/14 08:14 AM
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Please do, and if you happen to have any personal insights into things like how Title IX affects recruitment or quality of life on campus, I bet it'd be well-received.
/r/MensRights29/05/14 10:15 PM
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6.02×1023 males. I'm a mol man. ;-)
/r/MensRights29/05/14 08:31 PM
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It's a lovey thought that in a gender-equal world, women would solicit men as much as men might women. The problem with that is that women as a group consider most men unattractive., as in 75-80% of all men are "below average attractiveness". Talk about unrealistic expectations. I suspect that for men in that top 25% of attractiveness, being approached by some women already happens (or if not approached, then being told without subtlety that they would be open to his approach)... and while I bel…
/r/MensRights29/05/14 08:08 PM
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The first thing that may be helpful to understand is that for most men, approaching a woman is... well, terrifying. For a lot of guys, the flight-or-flight response is in full swing by the time they screw up the nerve to say hello. As such, awareness of subtleties like the so-called "slow blink" and whatnot are simply not noticed. When your mind is racing with a million barely formed simultaneous thoughts, some external inputs are going to be lost. Even men who are nominally great at reading oth…
/r/MensRights29/05/14 07:54 PM
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FWIW - for prostate cancer we do have Movember, which has been pretty darn successful. Despite being all racist and sexist and stuff.
/r/MensRights29/05/14 11:19 AM
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Not guilty or alarmed enough to stop pushing that brand of bigotry though, is he? Any bets on whether this guy already thinks the wheels have come off, but fears the savaging he'll get at the jaws of the beast he's been feeding up to this point?
/r/MensRights29/05/14 11:01 AM
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Here's a fun experiment to try one day, based on the experience of a friend of mine. When you find yourself in conversation with feminists, casually mention that you'd like to be a stay-at-home mom. Enjoy the subsequent head aslodes.
/r/MensRights29/05/14 10:54 AM
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What blew me away was when they shouted down a deeply respected civil rights leader for... what, exactly? Because they didn't want to share the spotlight? Because in their delusional self importance they felt the wisdom of someone who had fought and won might somehow corrupt the purity of their approach? Crazysauce.
/r/MensRights29/05/14 10:46 AM
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CtG was indeed pretty bad-ass.
/r/MensRights29/05/14 10:30 AM
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