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Let me repost some words from COTWA that I first brought up in a similar post on /r/FeMRAdebates: A rape witch-hunt is never justifiable. But rape hysteria is sometimes fomented over a legitimate perception that rape is tolerated. ... Ironically, one way to minimize rape hysteria is to insist that prosecutors diligently and fairly prosecute rape cases. If the public perceives that rape is taken seriously, the chances of a public outcry about rape that tempts prosecutors to charge innocent men is…
/r/MensRights23/05/15 05:35 AM
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From another thread on this article, you find a link to a January 2014 report at McMaster on whether or not a gender-based wage gap exists which, as the commenter mentioned, notes: The results from the regression and decomposition analyses both suggest that at the 5 percent significance level, there is insufficient evidence to reject the Null hypothesis. Accordingly, there is not enough evidence to support a conclusion that the observed pay difference between male and female full-time faculty is…
/r/MensRights29/04/15 11:02 AM
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Emily Yoffe's review at Slate is worth reading - though it focuses primarily on other failures of the documentary those the OP is arguing are present. (She's also the author of The College Rape Overcorrection - another piece worth reading).
/r/MensRights25/04/15 11:17 PM
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And yet they don't link to the study. ... I don't see how they come to this conclusion without actually you know, showing us the study. They at least give you the name of the journal it was published in though so meet Early sexual debut: Voluntary or coerced? Evidence from longitudinal data in South Africa – the Birth to Twenty Plus study which is free to download. Males reported earlier sexual debut, with both voluntary and coerced sexual experience, than females (p<0.0001). Sexual coercion at …
/r/MensRights19/04/15 07:50 AM
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What in this story led you to that conclusion?
/r/MensRights12/04/15 11:35 AM
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This doesn't seem to go 100% along gender lines. e.g. social worker (described as 21% male) shows the second-highest premiums in the list in the article?
/r/MensRights11/04/15 04:05 AM
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This sub's suggested reading list (in the sidebar) consists of books offered by Warren Farrell, Christina Hoff Sommers, and Steven Pinker. The latter two self-identify as feminists. i.e. The relevant question would seem to be what the person in question means by feminism.
/r/MensRights06/04/15 11:48 AM
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Every time I've spent time staring at something Michael Kimmel I've found his work more or less an exercise in missing the point. He's the prototypical male feminist - to quote the abstract of a review of one of his earlier books: Michael Kimmel's Guyland depicts young men as entitled sociopaths. His writings are deeply misandric and represent the current dogma of male feminists. This article breaks down his argument in Guyland to show that it is deeply misandric, poorly argued, and ideologicall…
/r/MensRights02/03/15 05:15 PM
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The SPLC supports RadFemHub, which AVFM described as "the underbelly of a hate movement" Top comment on that link to a post here in /r/MensRights suggests that the "support" is limited to linking to them and that the same guy has previously posted links to AVFM and the False Rape Society.
/r/MensRights11/02/15 08:37 PM
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I'm not sure about the 100% figure, but, e.g., the BBC article here talks of "boys" and "teachers" - I can't find a reference to any female students there. A South African newspaper article mentions: The dead included 123 male students, as well as nine staff members, including a female teacher, Feroze Shah, a local government spokesman in Peshawar, said. The gender of the victims doesn't seem to be mentioned in most articles - but I suppose that that's exactly the angle that the OP's link is arg…
/r/MensRights03/02/15 05:25 PM
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Over time, existing in a state of hypervigilance has a negative impact, and leads to a higher level of psychological distress So don't go looking for traces of any hidden microaggressions in other words?
/r/MensRights03/02/15 05:09 PM
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"Default" in this case means the men who did not show up for their court date, and were hence declared the father by default. I explained this in more detail above. The article says: unknowingly (default) named as fathers. Many of these default cases wind up in the courts... i.e. default as used in the document seems to mean more "unknowingly named as the father" rather than "men who did not show up for their court date". I think /u/DudleyDoRght and /u/atheist4thecause agree that paternity fraud…
/r/MensRights25/01/15 03:50 AM
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this does not mean that the 80% figure is faulty. But it forces you to ask what the original letter means by "their default cases" - is that all cases in the particular county or merely a subset which is tested which again would mean a non-representative sample. I'm guessing that the latter is true particularly in a relatively high-poverty area. Is there any evidence of any region testing 100% of its presumed paternity cases?
/r/MensRights25/01/15 02:34 AM
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if you look at the language around the 1/3rd statistic, they are using this as a bottom-line number For "presumed to be fathers and tested for paternity" to quote the letter - which is basically what /u/DudleyDoRght is arguing makes it a non-representative sample of those "presumed to be fathers" (and where I happen to agree).
/r/MensRights25/01/15 02:01 AM
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A process server turned in paperwork to the court saying Carnell had been notified of the paternity hearing. The paperwork said the notification happened at a house in Highland Park. Because on paper he had been given notice, when he didn’t show up at court, he was legally listed as father by default. 7 Action News found out there must have been some mistake. On the day Carnell was allegedly served at a house in Highland Park, the Michigan Department of Corrections says he was actually incarcera…
/r/MensRights24/01/15 01:40 AM
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"Some white guy stepped on my foot … and yelled at me and told me to go back to my country. And then I was thinking, 'Oh wait, this is my country, I was born here,'" Sang, an Asian-American senior, said in the report. So their most overt example of discrimination is against someone of Asian ancestry and they begin to talk about microaggressions - not too surprisingly though they don't bring up that affirmative action programs tend to penalize Asian-Americans.
/r/MensRights18/01/15 07:53 PM
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Aren't nerds by definition a socially devalued class? Dictionary.com has a bunch of definitions for nerd in its various dictionaries: "a stupid, irritating, ineffectual, or unattractive person." "an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit:" "a boring or unpopular person, esp one obsessed with something specified: a computer nerd" "a stupid and feeble person" "U.S. student slang, probably an alteration of 1940s slang nert "stupid or crazy person," itself an…
/r/MensRights17/01/15 08:29 PM
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Well, to be fair there are some calling for female plumbers: ‘And plumbers too - we need more women plumbers. Those women who do go into being women plumbers find that they can be very successful because there are quite a lot of customers who rather like having a women coming to help them out with their plumbing.’ Preferring a male plumber would be sexist but preferring a female plumber on the other hand ... When feeling slightly less sarcastic I'd also point out, e.g., Australian mining compani…
/r/MensRights14/01/15 07:43 AM
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Compare the numbers 1 in 68 (CDC) 1 in 68 (study) Well, they are using the entire male population born within a certain timespan as their study population, so it shouldn't be too surprising they arrive at a rate similar to that in the overall population. How I came to agree with you that this study is probably bunk is detailed in another comment here - as the rates match in Denmark and the US despite dramatic differences in circumcision rates between the two countries, which is not what I'd expe…
/r/MensRights11/01/15 09:38 PM
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Still as far as /u/CraftyDrac's criticism goes, one angle not explicitly brought up but which could be drawn from the data presented and which would validate the criticism is that the US and Denmark have dramatically different circumcision rates. If the pain of circumcision is a major factor in autism you'd expect to see a significantly higher rate of it in a country with a 90% male circumcision rate than one with a male circumcision rate of less than 2% (Denmark).
/r/MensRights11/01/15 09:35 PM
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She should be required to start at a mens shelter. No thanks. Would rather keep those with a track record of abuse out of the shelters aimed at accommodating those who belong to the same group as their victims.
/r/MensRights08/01/15 08:33 PM
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if you read their tweets they're well into man-blaming e.g.?
/r/MensRights06/01/15 01:22 PM
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Not all STEM fields are the same. The same guy has also presented the same data in reverse, with some interesting commentary (including some examples of anti-male discrimination): Why do we disproportionately focus on majors where women are underrepresented, when there’s a much larger set of majors where men are vastly outnumbered by women? Especially given the fact that women earn 60% of all college degrees in the U.S., there seems to be some severe reporting bias going on here. ... Gender equa…
/r/MensRights02/01/15 11:40 PM
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Did you read your link? The Government of Canada has provided over $146 million in funding through Status of Women Canada to support more than 720 projects since 2007. This includes more than $54 million invested in projects that promote women's economic security and prosperity. Of this amount, over $9 million has been for projects which address women's entrepreneurship. Billions seems to be the estimated contribution of female-owned businesses to the economy whereas government support seems to …
/r/MensRights02/01/15 11:31 PM
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There's little left to the imagination. See Salon Writer Accuses "White Guy" of Racism after He Tried to Sit Next to her on Crowded Train
/r/MensRights20/12/14 09:58 PM
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From the CDC: Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM)a represent approximately 2% of the United States population, yet are the population most severely affected by HIV. In 2010, young gay and bisexual men (aged 13-24 years) accounted for 72% of new HIV infections among all persons aged 13 to 24, and 30% of new infections among all gay and bisexual men. At the end of 2011, an estimated 500,022 (57%) persons living with an HIV diagnosis in the United States were gay and bisexual m…
/r/MensRights11/12/14 11:30 AM
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As clickbaity as Jezebel can be admitting to being wrong is a thing I'd be willing to actually give them some pageviews for.
/r/MensRights07/12/14 07:05 PM
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Well, to be fair the shelter had a men's section - they just wouldn't let the kid into it. they said he's too young to stay on the men's side in case some pervert wants to do whatever This was the toughest part to read: ... after that, the Salvation Army did take the family in—minus the teen boy. ... He's not sleeping on the streets. He's now in a mental health facility. He had a breakdown, his dad says, because he thought it was his fault the family was turned away from shelter.
/r/MensRights02/12/14 11:51 PM
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An English article: Is there more to Rohtak sisters' story than they claim?
/r/MensRights02/12/14 05:53 PM
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Matriarchy? Patriarchy? Can't we all just be egalitarians instead? I never said that a patriarchy (or a matriarchy for that matter) was better than a more egalitarian system. It's that latter type of system I'd prefer moving us towards. I think you're confusing categories here - observation vs. assessment or aspiration.
/r/MensRights29/11/14 08:03 AM
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It seems fair to me to label a society in which men hold most of the most visible leadership positions as a patriarchy even if in it women hold a substantial bit of soft power. That said, I consider the definition of patriarchy that gender studies people like to use - which seems to look at it as a system of men oppressing women - as something basically BS. This more or less just brings back the classic definition of patriarchy which has been around a lot longer than the gender studies version a…
/r/MensRights28/11/14 09:14 PM
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Try this quote in an interview with an author who's an academic and from an interview discussing a book that also hit the #1 bestseller position on the New York Times list if you're looking for a decent argument for gender-specific safe spaces: I was able to have a phone conversation with Brown, and I asked her to explain how shame and vulnerability manifest differently for men and women. She told me that "messages of shame are organized around gender." For women, she said, there are whole const…
/r/MensRights28/11/14 04:47 PM
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About 61 cases [of 136] were closed by investigators without being directed to prosecution or disciplinary action. These cases were mostly abandoned as a result of insufficient evidence, especially after a complainant stopped cooperating with investigators. It's possible, although not proven, that some of these cases could have turned out false after further investigation. In other words their 6.8% seems to be a lower bound. Also worth noting, their rate at which cases proceeded to prosecution o…
/r/MensRights19/11/14 09:40 PM
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Last I heard most cooking techniques don't require a particular set of genitalia. I'd be a fan of getting food more heavily emphasized in schools though and this seems like something there's quite a bit of support for almost all respondents believe that it was important to teach children to cook; 98.5% of women and 95.3% of men thought it fairly or very important to teach boys to cook and 99.2% of women and 97.6% of men were similarly in favour of teaching girls to cook.
/r/MensRights06/11/14 09:36 AM
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Let me leave this NPR piece here: 'Mischievous Responders' Confound Research On Teens and note that there men tend to overreport their heterosexual partners while women underreport. I'm pretty skeptical as to the accuracy of these results.
/r/MensRights05/11/14 03:36 PM
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The article is talking about Australia not the UK. Guessing there's likely to be about 250-300 homicides / year in Australia based on these stats.
/r/MensRights03/11/14 03:02 PM
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Stupid paywalls. I like to actually read stuff before I cite it : Not that hard to find a non-gated copy.
/r/MensRights12/10/14 05:03 AM
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I'm a woman, but there are millions and millions being raised evey year for breast cancer in women (for example, CIBC Run for the Cure riased 25 million last weekend in Canada alone...that is just one event), which is wonderful, but how about for the men? Isn't there enough being raised for reasrch and support for breast cancer in both men and women? The survival rates aren't great but the odds of encountering the disease indeed seem low enough that it seems to make more sense to focus most rese…
/r/MensRights08/10/14 05:29 AM
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I'd much rather deal with a person willing / able to learn from their actions than one who won't. Does this help to change her views more permanently? Does she try to make amends - e.g. replacing that coffee pot, seeking help for anger management issues, and so on and so forth?
/r/MensRights02/10/14 06:38 PM
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It looks like they've just updated their website. You can get that study here, here, or here for example.
/r/MensRights19/09/14 07:08 PM
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From the article: Perry said she was aware of only one negative incident in which a female partygoer licked a model’s stomach. “We don’t want people who see it as a power thing,” said Perry. “Usually the people we have a problem with … a lot of the time, it’s actually women.”
/r/MensRights10/09/14 02:16 PM
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I've been pondering this article for a while. I woke up the next morning feeling frustrated with my fellow divinity students. What did it mean that we spent so much time in seminar challenging each other over increasingly subtle concessions to the kyriarchy, but retreated when confronted by an honest-to-goodness Neo-Nazi? What if well-meaning academics had made this Neo-Nazi feel vilified and ashamed, driving him into the arms of the white supremacists? Seems to have parallels here.
/r/MensRights10/09/14 02:12 PM
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Although it has been proven that the majority of sexual assault in the military is against men she puts it in the specifically women So women account for ~46% of military sexual assault victims while making up about 14.5% of the military. Those figures would seem to suggest that the per-capita risk is quite a bit higher for women. (Nothing here requires ignoring male victims though).
/r/MensRights10/09/14 03:28 AM
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He's gay, and so was his accuser. Citation?
/r/MensRights08/09/14 11:36 AM
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pretty sure you're comparing apples with oranges I agree that the categories aren't quite the same though I think they're close enough for comparison. In trying to analyze a situation it generally would be nice to have more data but you need to make do with the data you have.
/r/MensRights06/09/14 09:41 PM
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Is it that far from what we see for rape cases (in both instances due often to a relative lack of evidence)? From The Guardian: The conviction rate for rape is 58%. That bears repeating. The conviction rate for rape, is 58%. The conviction rate for reportable crimes of all types is 57%. I know you will have heard the figure of 6%. Everyone has. That figure is actually an attrition rate, not a conviction rate, and even as an attrition rate it is wrong – the attrition rate for rape is in the regio…
/r/MensRights06/09/14 03:57 PM
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I generally dislike AMR, but it seems one of the AMR folks managed to dig up a case suggesting this isn't quite as gender-specific as sometimes argued here. A McCurtain County judge granted custody of a child to the 45-year-old father, even though the child was conceived as a result of second-degree rape. ... In his ruling, McCurtain County Associate District Judge Michael DeBerry found that Melonie Hamm Knutson had indeed been the victim of second-degree rape by John Keith Tucker, who was about…
/r/MensRights06/09/14 07:44 AM
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It seems to me that "Rotherham" vs. "Jennifer Lawrence" would be a fairer way to compare these two. That said restricting the search to just "Rotherham" also brings up 0 results.
/r/MensRights03/09/14 06:46 PM
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I also think having people from different backgrounds is critical ... because people from a broad range of backgrounds all think differently and can contribute different ideas. Or it's a cargo cult thing. I'd expect an organization that minimizes discrimination on the grounds of gender, race, etc. in a society that does discriminate would look a bit more diverse than a typical organization. In such a context the non-discriminating company you'd expect to have a competitive advantage - this is on…
/r/MensRights26/08/14 06:58 PM
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For example, that Goldiebox thing that came out a while back was really cool! One thing a lot of people neglected to notice there though is that they seemed to be basically pinkified Tinker Toys. Tinker Toys actually has had one of the less gender-specific marketing campaigns out there - see, e.g., this box. Last time I'd checked of 8 current boxes, 4 showed a boy on the front playing, 3 showed a girl playing (wherein one of the 3 was a bit pinkified), and 1 showed nothing but tinker toys. Now t…
/r/MensRights26/08/14 06:46 PM
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Seems pretty far over that borderline to me
/r/MensRights18/08/14 11:32 PM
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In the news the day after the original story made CNN: Chad security forces free majority of boys abducted by Boko Haram I seem to recall that it took a couple of weeks post-kidnapping here for the "bring back our girls" campaign to arise. There seems to be a much quicker time-to-rescue here.
/r/MensRights18/08/14 07:49 AM
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Sounds like the child lost too. Based on the article also mentioning that the judge apparently required the removal of the daughter's notes from Facebook it certainly sounds like the daughter's against it.
/r/MensRights18/08/14 06:36 AM
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Per an article in The Hindu it seems as though such cases may make up about a quarter of sexual assault claims. Regarding the claims it states that 25% dealt with “breach of promise to marry”
/r/MensRights02/08/14 05:39 PM
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Or that more recent Sudanese case: Mrs Ibrahim's father is Muslim so according to Sudan's version of Islamic law she is also Muslim and cannot convert. She was raised by her Christian mother and says she has never been Muslim.
/r/MensRights26/07/14 09:12 PM
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Someone should talk to the article's author (who seems to speak English based on the contents of her twitter account - a link to which is at the bottom of the news article). (Link to her twitter account not provided due to this absurd policy. There's a massive distinction between malicious linking to twitter and non-malicious.)
/r/MensRights25/07/14 12:08 AM
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To make that work I think we'd first need an English-language article on the case. (That's Rule #9in /r/nottheonion). Can anyone find any English-language news reports on this? The Google Translate is rather rough.
/r/MensRights24/07/14 11:51 PM
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Wikipedia is actually a bit behind the times then. Read the source: This bibliography examines 286 scholarly investigations: 221 empirical studies and 65 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 371,600. (It's a collection of studies that's been updated a number of times).
/r/MensRights22/07/14 06:04 PM
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At the same point though this is the first bit of the top definition there for antifeminist: A realist. Someone who realizes men and women are not created equal and social expectations of men and woman evolve from simple biological truths. This is opposed to a feminist, who lives in a fantasy land where men and women are exactly the same and should be treated as such. Antifeminists do not wish for woman to be "enslaved". This is an appeal to fear by many prominent feminist who would like to igno…
/r/MensRights20/07/14 05:23 AM
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depending on the political pull of women it may not matter much the percentages of representation of men; if they're beholden to women for reelection, then women's interests will be represented. As they are: Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870–1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government exp…
/r/MensRights16/07/14 03:54 PM
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Hmm... faced with the rise of a more palatable men’s rights movement in Canada, it might be time to dispense altogether with the term “equality” in feminist discourse. For it is indeed this language—of freedom of choice, of equal opportunity—that has allowed the men’s rights movement to advance their misogynistic cause within a broader community. If we want things to be truly equal, organizations like CAFE argue, then we ought to provide everyone with the opportunity to succeed upon the individu…
/r/MensRights11/07/14 03:25 PM
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I disagree with your justification here I'm not claiming that this is why the law exists, but rather than there are health-based distinctions between types of sex acts that might justify such a policy (at least where no condom is involved).
/r/MensRights11/07/14 06:48 AM
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There are different risks to different types of sex acts. e.g. Here's an overview of risk from the Public Health Agency of Canada: The risk estimates for the sexual transmission of HIV, per sex act, range widely, from 0.5% to 3.38% (with mid-range estimates of 1.4% to 1.69%) for receptive anal intercourse; 0.06% to 0.16% for insertive anal intercourse; 0.08% to 0.19% for receptive vaginal intercourse (i.e., male-to-female); and approximately 0.05% to 0.1% for insertive vaginal intercourse (i.e.,…
/r/MensRights10/07/14 05:56 PM
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We also know from research that about 40% of allegations are false. No we don't. From the very article you linked: Although the FBI had set 8% as the average rate of false (actually, unfounded) accusations during the late 1990s, there is remarkable variation in the estimates of false allegations of rape found in the literature (Kanin, 1994; Epstein, 2005). A review of those studies on false rape accusations conducted between 1968 and 2005 showed a percentage range from 1-90% (Rumney, 2006). I th…
/r/MensRights20/06/14 06:29 PM
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Pink-is-for-girls is stronger than ever. Look at the things written on baby clothes. You will not find a pink onesie with "Little Slugger" or "Daddy's Tough Girl" or "Future Rocket Scientist" on them, and you will not find blue onesies reading "Let's Dance" or "Mommy's Darling" or "I Love Unicorns" on them. Gender roles are dictated from birth. It seems to me that pinkification happened alongside the movement to recognize gender as something separate from biological sex, and I wonder if there mi…
/r/MensRights16/06/14 05:31 PM
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Guessing you might find /r/FeMRADebates interesting.
/r/MensRights16/06/14 04:36 PM
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Read the story linked in the PJ Media article: Present legislation stipulates the crime of rape applies only when men force sex. In contrast, women who force an unwilling partner to have sex face charges of sexual violation. Both carry a maximum sentence of 20 years but only men can be charged with rape. The penalties for "rape" and "sexual violation" seem to be the same.
/r/MensRights14/06/14 07:21 AM
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I try to stay as non-sexist as possible. ... The one thing that I can't get over is feeling a flood of relief when it is a woman behind me at night instead of a man. Sexual dimorphism also has its exceptions. I suspect you might fear an old man slowly limping behind you or an amputee a bit less than a relatively muscular woman. To observe the existence of sexual dimorphism doesn't seem to be "sexist" per say.
/r/MensRights01/06/14 05:42 AM
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Afraid? No. Cautious and vigilant? Absolutely. Uhm... that approach seems to demonstrate fear - just a different response to it.
/r/MensRights01/06/14 05:36 AM
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Previous Dan Savage: Pretending you feel fine when you've got the flu is exhausting -- and I have the flu in a big way. ... I go around the room licking doorknobs. They are filthy, no doubt, but there isn't time to find a rag to spit on. If for some reason I don't manage to get a pen from my mouth to Gary's hands at the conference, I want to seed his office with germs, get as many of his people sick as I can, and hopefully one of them will infect the candidate. I lick office doorknobs, bathroom …
/r/MensRights18/05/14 03:50 AM
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EDIT: Tried to find a source other than NBC but its proving difficult as any search of Boko Haram is overwhelmingly about the #bringbackourgirls Wikipedia actually has a half-decent timeline of Boko Haram attacks which provides pointers to a lot more sources (BTW, it's also worth mentioning that the Nigerian military isn't exactly a great organization itself - e.g. 600 extrajudicial killings in March 2014. Also noteworthy is that the kidnappings of girls started in response to the Nigerian gover…
/r/MensRights17/05/14 01:18 AM
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You can't pay a 16 year old 7 bucks an hour and tell them their job is to respond flawlessly to every emergency. You can't pay anyone any amount of money and expect them to respond flawlessly to every emergency.
/r/MensRights15/05/14 11:53 PM
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For example, prostate cancer gets less than 1% of the funding that breast cancer does. How many people does it kill? 92% of what breast cancer does. While I'd agree that breast cancer receives disproportionate funding I don't think that the situation is nearly as bad as you describe. Per these figures prostate cancer funding per case does indeed seem mediocre, but if you look at cancer funding per case it causes prostate is almost as disproportionately funded as breast cancer is. Rather than con…
/r/MensRights14/05/14 10:43 PM
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The sentence following that quote: ... Topics that specifically involve women - sexual violence, domestic violence, cultural practice - are given little coverage. Do the two sentences put together suggest that sexual violence and domestic violence don't include male victims?
/r/MensRights12/05/14 07:03 AM
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I've never figured out why auto-rewriting links to use np.reddit.com isn't something Reddit's done rather than this annoying shadowban thing.
/r/MensRights07/05/14 04:23 PM
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True, but if intervention is the answer now then earlier intervention might have saved both. The April 2014 kidnappings weren't the first time that Boko Haram has kidnapped girls - e.g. here's a similar story from November 2013. Perhaps if this earlier episode had drawn greater attention then they'd have been stopped prior to that February attack wherein boys were the target.
/r/MensRights07/05/14 04:18 PM
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That's awfully optimistic of you to think that they are still alive. Why? The group is claiming that the girls are being sold as slaves which I think is something they've done in the past as well as I understand it. I hope for their sakes that they were killed because you know the alternative is much worse. What you're saying here is that you'd rather be burned alive and/or hacked to death with a machete than sexually assaulted and/or forced to work? At least in the latter case there's still the…
/r/MensRights07/05/14 04:07 PM
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Stewart I tend to treat more as a plain old everyday late night show host (tending towards the left) - I'm not sure that he belongs on Comedy Central more than any of the other late night show hosts. Colbert on the other hand is at least a fairly consistent satire.
/r/MensRights01/05/14 06:51 PM
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INF because I don't know how to cook and don't plan on learning how. Fuck gender stereotypes. This one seems more delusional than most. If you look at research into people's views on who should be taught to cook you'll find that men are least likely to think that boys should be taught to cook. Support from men for teaching cooking to boys was a "mere" 95.3%.
/r/MensRights30/04/14 07:34 PM
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Depends what you mean by "violent" - which is where things get a bit dubious. I once found a Stats Can report which asserted that: The rate of police-reported violent crime against women was about 5% higher than the rate for men in 2011. The problem there is that the definition of violent included things like "uttering threats" and other related things that might indeed be crimes but not fit typical definitions of "violent". A different Government of Canada report found that "male privilege" inc…
/r/MensRights13/04/14 08:03 PM
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can I get some objective opinions? No. Not here and not there. You can only try to be aware of your own biases as much as possible. Any honest social scientist should tell you that.
/r/MensRights10/04/14 03:08 PM
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To me the issue here is primarily one of consistency. i.e. a lot of investment in "the developed world" seems to be oriented towards changing gender norms whereas in cases like this it seems to reenforce them. Would it make sense to deny women access to post-secondary science education on the basis that they currently are likely to work fewer hours and have a much higher likelihood of dropping out of the workforce? I don't seem a substantial difference in the underlying reasoning between such a …
/r/MensRights09/04/14 04:50 PM
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Another feminist advocacy study. The study above was selective. TLDR: when we exclude wrecks where women survived more, the men survived more. When something disagrees with your assumptions do you immediately assume that it's false? Their selection criteria seems reasonable: Starting from the list Some Notable Shipwrecks since 1854, published in the 140th Edition of The World Almanac and the Book of Facts (Joyce, 2007), we have selected shipwrecks involving passenger ships, that have occurred in…
/r/MensRights08/04/14 01:34 PM
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"Fortunately" for her, the Titanic's sinking seems to be the exception: Since the sinking of the Titanic, there has been a widespread belief that the social norm of ‘women and children first’ gives women a survival advantage over men in maritime disasters, and that captains and crew give priority to passengers. We analyze a database of 18 maritime disasters spanning three centuries, covering the fate of over 15,000 individuals of more than 30 nationalities. Our results provide a new picture of m…
/r/MensRights07/04/14 10:29 PM
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Interesting - this story made it to The Wire's Five Best Wednesday Columns list.
/r/MensRights02/04/14 05:26 PM
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As someone who hates Youtube video posts I figured I'd post UC Davis's news release on this study.
/r/MensRights01/04/14 10:44 PM
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In part I'd agree with other commenters that this disproportionately affects men but, like the gender wage gap, I'm not sure it's likely to disappear. By and large the pension system depends on a coming generation to sustain it and, as such, in certain ways it seems to make logical sense to charge those without children more - though it would seem to make sense to exempt non-custodial parents from that if they're paying child support. (That said, it seems like there's currently a competition bet…
/r/MensRights01/04/14 06:13 PM
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Even the cover letter seems like a cheesy sales pitch. It's roughly on the lines of "If you do this you can join our organization for only $fewer_dollars - a discount of some_dollars from the normal price of $more_dollars"
/r/MensRights27/03/14 12:05 PM
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In 1918 the Representation of the People Act was passed which allowed women over the age of 30 who met a property qualification to vote. Although 8.5 million women met this criteria, it only represented 40 per cent of the total population of women in the UK. The property qualification the story mentions certainly seems to suggest it was upper class / elite women gaining the vote.
/r/MensRights25/03/14 08:43 AM
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There's certainly precendent for it ... the California Court of Appeal joined other courts across the country that have held that a male victim of statutory rape can be forced to pay child support for a child resulting from his victimization. Without exception, appellate courts have held that while the criminal law deems minors incapable of consenting to sexual intercourse, family law can hold victims financially liable for children conceived during a criminal act.
/r/MensRights23/03/14 07:31 AM
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Thinking further about this, given that resources are finite to what extent should we prioritize having no evidence processing backlog versus increasing funding to alternate areas? i.e. Any increase in police funding could potentially go to: 1. Hiring a new patrol officer 2. Hiring a new detective 3. Hiring another evidence processing technician Each action seems likely to have an impact on crime. Which of those categories an increase in funding should go to seems another question. (e.g. A detec…
/r/MensRights21/03/14 02:59 PM
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From the news reports I've seen, Detroit had a backlog of rape kits going back decades. There is every reason to believe that the kits were dumped in a warehouse and forgotten. Do we know there if it was specifically rape kits stowed away or a warehouse of all sorts of different evidence that happened to get shelved? Across the US I've only heard this backlog reported for rape cases - which is why I found that particular report suggesting a more general failure to process evidence interesting.
/r/MensRights21/03/14 01:27 PM
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To me the question is whether or not any added resources go only to rape cases or to dealing with evidence processing in general. I'd consider myself more an advocate of rational policy than a men's rights advocate per say, but if it's necessary to phrase it in those terms men are more likely to be the victims of violent crime (excepting probably rape - though that depends on how you account for prison rape). To concentrate resources on rape would mean focusing disproportionate resources on inst…
/r/MensRights21/03/14 01:13 PM
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Testing the kits in a timely fashion could have resulted in more serial rapists going to jail earlier. For the feminists, this isn't "rape culture". Everyone agrees that it was wrong to not run the tests. I suspect they'd probably have picked up a few more serial killers too. i.e. I see this as an instance of a more generally evidence processing problem - a problem worth addressing but one better described as an "evidence processing backlog" than a "rape kit processing backlog".
/r/MensRights21/03/14 01:05 PM
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I think DNA evidence is one of the most common ways that the Innocence Project gets wrongfully accused guys out of jail, IIRC. At least in the past, but now where relevant presumably they'll hopefully try to test it. If neither party involved disagrees that a sex act took place the DNA evidence doesn't really help prove the case though - i.e. there's not much sense in testing given the scarcity of $$$.
/r/MensRights21/03/14 12:48 PM
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I think this one may actually be true. The justice system gets bogged down by all kinds of shit. The question I'm trying to really address here is whether or not a "rape kit backlog" is the best way to refer to the phenomenon or whether it's just an instance of a backlog in evidence processing in general. I'm in favour of processing collected evidence when it moves a case forward. To speak of a "rape kit backlog" though seems to prioritize rape cases over homicide cases though and it doesn't see…
/r/MensRights21/03/14 12:45 PM
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Am I the only one who things the whole I-sent-off-emails-before-and-never-got-a-reply bit sounds like it'll get the letter almost immediately directed to the trash bin with the rest unread?
/r/MensRights18/03/14 06:08 AM
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I agree that there have been female serial killers throughout history - but not all serial killers are the same. I don't have the reference handy and it's been several years since I read the book - perhaps if one of you has the book handy you can dig it up - but I seem to recall him speaking of a certain female serial killer as operating in a similar matter to the École Polytechnique massacre where some nutcase went on a shooting rampage yelling about feminists ruining his life. The case Farrell…
/r/MensRights16/03/14 12:29 AM
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More interesting to me than that is the existence of a new edition (Feb 2014). For anyone who's bought it are there any major edits? (I see a personal foreword in the Kindle preview mentioning how society has changed, but have there been any corrections or modifications to the text of the book beyond this). I tend to compulsively fact-check things - I seem to remember the one big issue I found reading the book was his claims as to the existence of a female serial killer targeting exclusively mal…
/r/MensRights15/03/14 08:58 AM
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As I also said in another comment in the thread, women are more likely to attend university there (58% of the university population is female), though I certainly wouldn't want to be a woman there. Due in large part to the extensive gender segregation, the country is actually home to the world's largest women-only university
/r/MensRights14/03/14 09:31 AM
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But it is Women now account for 58% of all Saudi university students, and this rate is expected to increase. Saudi Arabia now has 300 women’s colleges in the Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia ranks 25th in the world in terms of women enrolled in universities, according to Jawhar. This September, classes started at the Princess Noura bint Abdulrahman University, the world’s largest women-only institution, able to hold up to 50,000 female students. (That said, I wouldn't want to be a woman there).
/r/MensRights14/03/14 09:26 AM
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A female patriarch is called a matriarch, which is the same as a male patriarch except female. Right, but she's talking of female patriarchs rather than matriarchs. Ergo, the proposal for a more gender-neutral term like aristocracy instead of patriarchy.
/r/MensRights14/03/14 04:20 AM
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All religions should be gender neutral. To make such an assertion seems to require you have access to an independent source of truth outside that of religions to substantiate that claim, rather than gender neutrality being an idea that you happen to prefer.
/r/MensRights07/03/14 02:06 AM
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the lack of cooperation is most evident in an area where women overwhelmingly dominate - psychology. ... Benenson says they are planning a number of follow-up analyses to find out if men in psychology are underrepresented yet somehow still prevent women from cooperating more. Ah yes... somehow the underrepresented men are still managing to oppress the higher-status women, keeping these women from collaborating with other women.
/r/MensRights04/03/14 05:59 PM
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Recognise them? Sure. But just how common do you think they are? Breast cancer in women seems to attract disproportionate attention relative to the harm it causes - to the extent that mammograms and whatnot don't really seem to pay off. Men seem to get breast cancer about 1% as often as women. Is that really a common enough disease that we should be focussing more on it? There are plenty of conditions out there more likely to kill men - it seems to me that it's those that we should be focusing t…
/r/MensRights26/02/14 12:22 AM
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Compare cancer funding per new case and per death and it seems that breast cancer is about twice as deadly as prostate cancer. (Frankly, both prostate cancer and breast cancer receive disproportionate attention).
/r/MensRights21/02/14 12:35 PM
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I think the OP's use of "male suicide" without specifying an age group - which was in the label of that chart - is what's caused a lot of the confusion here. The overall male suicide trend doesn't seem to show much change per the WHO data, but the young male suicide rates does as I discovered here
/r/MensRights13/02/14 04:53 PM
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It's pretty telling those two graphs have nearly the same exact shape, though the lack of sources on the suicide one is concerning. Found a similar chart in a published source. Judging by the other half of the page boys fairing worse as the children of divorce would seem likely to be the explanation. (It's sourced as data from a 1982 book by Herbert Hendin called Suicide in America - my university library seems to stock a copy but I think this is about as far as I'm willing to track this. The bo…
/r/MensRights13/02/14 09:23 AM
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The WHO has this chart showing US suicide rates by gender/year. Only goes back to 1950 but doesn't seem to show that same spike. (This chart comes from the WHO's website, but doesn't show the specific source of it's data either).
/r/MensRights13/02/14 01:06 AM
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secondly, I think that reporting of abuse has the opposite problem, cuch that males are much less likely to report abuse / sexual victimization. For instance Australia just saw a large uptick in males reporting that they've been sex abuse / rape victims within the last year, and the article attributed (iirc) to communication & advocacy campaigns. I'd tend to agree that a stigma exists, though the question is whether or not the people in question saw themselves as victims here or not. I assume th…
/r/MensRights02/02/14 07:07 PM
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Back in 2012 I recalled coming across a study connecting domestic violence and the world cup and managed to dig it back up. Seems there's a non-gated version of it available. Of course this isn't until long after the claims were made and it seems to me that things are still far from conclusive as far as the trends here go.
/r/MensRights02/02/14 07:00 PM
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The original link is 404ed and this one doesn't seem to contain the phrase that's in the headline. Does that mean that someone got them to change the article?
/r/MensRights02/02/14 03:36 PM
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In many (most/all?) countries there are more male teenage prostitutes than female teenage prostitutes. I agree that both of these exist, but I wonder a bit about some of the studies into this as far as their conclusions about exact numbers. Think about how women tend to underreport and men to overreport their number of lifetime sexual partners without a lie detector attached. Might a similar effect distort results here? (e.g. male humor tending to be somewhat cruder). There are certain countries…
/r/MensRights02/02/14 03:30 PM
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What does "internationally" mean in this context? Between countries or outside the US and/or first world? This paper suggests that in Sri Lanka 90% of child prostitutes are male: Cultural differences may also determine which group is most at risk in a particular country or region. For example, boys account for 90% of child prostitutes in Sri Lanka, while girls account for 90% of child prostitutes in Thailand. The above doc is as far as I've been able to track that statistic which I originally fo…
/r/MensRights26/01/14 05:21 PM
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Citations please! (i.e. Martin, Hamilton, et al, 2009 and Spraggins 2003 should translate to a couple specific documents which might make for interesting followup reading. can you look them up in your book's index?).
/r/MensRights20/01/14 10:05 PM
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