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Bluntly, because teenage boys are horny, and these people are honest enough to admit it. That's the part the Junior League crowd never seems to understand; there's nothing "sick" or "perverted" about it. They've got hormones that would kill an adult flowing through their bodies, and many will take whatever they can get. They also don't attract pedophiles, who are attracted to CHILDREN, not minors; nature cares about its own laws, not human ones, and if you're physically capable of reproducing, y…
/r/MensRights20/10/23 12:10 PM
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Ah, yes, because less compassion and more selfishness is EXACTLY what the world needs.
/r/MensRights20/10/23 11:52 AM
1

You're assuming that women simply pop into existence psychologically fully formed. That's not the case. It's VERY much a negative when it's the way children who don't understand the world and how it works are treated. Being taught, from the moment you're born, that your actions don't matter is not exactly conducive to intelligent moral reasoning, regardless of the level of power you seek. This hurts women, too- let the victim complex go.
/r/MensRights20/10/23 11:49 AM
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Um, hypergamy evolved as a result of natural selection- a force that we've all but eradicated, at least for humans. Stephen Hawking lived into his 70's, for Pete's sake. The pursuit of high-status males with lots of resources isn't new; it's OLD.
/r/MensRights20/10/23 02:21 AM
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Comments like "[MGM] is a well established medical procedure to ensure long term health for men", which ignore not only the enormously damaging potential side effects, but the damaging purpose of the procedure? I'll bet the guys with ED or other related sexual dysfunction just LOVE hearing that. Here are some other well established medical procedures that "ensure[d] long term health": -female genital mutilation -footbinding -eugenics -lobotomy -trepannation -direct consumption of mercury The rig…
/r/MensRights20/10/23 02:19 AM
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But they're NOT treated as VIPs; they're treated as incompetent children. Less is expected of them, but less of what comes from them is taken seriously.
/r/MensRights20/10/23 02:10 AM
2

Um, what challenge? We're just being blamed. And pain is nature's way of telling you to stop doing something; moving into it doesn't lead to enlightenment, but injury.
/r/MensRights19/10/23 01:35 PM
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Mark Twain wrote "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics". Evidently, the nineteenth century was a more honest time, because somewhere along the line, a fourth kind was invented: euphemisms. "Conscription" is a fancy word invented by the powerful to conceal their sins. Call it what it is: battle slavery.
/r/MensRights19/10/23 01:33 PM
1

So did Ned Kelly.
/r/MensRights19/10/23 01:31 PM
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As someone who IS an English speaker- well, now you know how we feel when you people tell us that tables and chairs and mustaches are "feminine". ;)
/r/MensRights19/10/23 12:37 AM
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Because women are degraded by it, too.
/r/MensRights18/10/23 08:51 PM
9

As someone who's half woman on my mother's side, I agree. As someone who's staunchly meritocratic and thinks we're going to need every capable person if we're ever going to turn the world into a place people would choose to live in, I agree even more strongly.
/r/MensRights18/10/23 08:50 PM
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Can I believe it? Of course- that's how it's been my entire life. Probably long before it, too. How can this continue to surprise you? Maybe that's not fair; you could be younger than I am, or just less aware of these things. But yes, we're only seen as having value for what we do, not what we ARE- to the world at large, at least.
/r/MensRights18/10/23 08:48 PM
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Durden was a hormonal lightweight who couldn't hold his testosterone. Too afraid to confront the realities of his own mind, he pushes outward instead, lashing out without thought or even intended direction besides "away" like a spoiled child. Kind of impressive for a guy who doesn't really exist, I suppose, but it's exactly the kind of thing that modern men don't need. I'll never understand why that movie has the popularity it does- unless, of course, it's just the exact same glorification of th…
/r/MensRights18/10/23 08:45 PM
1

And by what means do you propose to keep it limited to foolishness? Shame and stigmas are what gave us pogroms.
/r/MensRights18/10/23 08:34 PM
1

There's that, too.
/r/MensRights18/10/23 03:32 AM
2

Nor is it particularly reasonable to expect it, given how instinct and social training both women to avoid situations where that might be an issue. If we expand it to simply taking risks, rather than guaranteeing death, the floodgates open up. The Siege of Weinsberg, if nothing else.
/r/MensRights18/10/23 02:36 AM
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Mohels. And yes, Catholics don't- whether they're priests or otherwise. That was MY point- that and that LateralThinker is probably Catholic-bashing without giving it enough thought to realize that's one thing they emphatically don't do.
/r/MensRights17/10/23 11:32 PM
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Since it's the month of Halloween, I've been reading (well, listening to, via Librivox) the four nineteenth-century books that defined the vampire as we know it today; Dracula (an excellent book), Carmilla (solid, much shorter, and WAY less about homoeroticism than people think), Polidori's The Vampyre (which I haven't gotten to yet), and Varney the Vampire (which I'm almost finished with, but is longer than War and Peace). It's funny how society idealized this form of conspicuous consumption, t…
/r/MensRights17/10/23 10:14 PM
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Politics doesn't come from a vacuum, though; it emerges from the results of culture and circumstance. Yes, women are more prone to group think; that doesn't mean they're incapable of standing against the crowd. Encourage more independent thought in them when they're girls and you'll see better results when they're women.
/r/MensRights17/10/23 10:01 PM
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It's neither politically correct nor polite, but it's the truth, so I'll come out and say it: pretty much the core of American medical culture was established by Jews, who saw it as a part of normal practice. Maimonides acknowledged that it was just about reducing masturbation, and was basically the last person to admit that. Graham and Kellogg certainly didn't. I don't say this as a crazy racist rant- you'll get no cries of "The Jews ruined Hanukkah!" from me- but they ARE where the idea came f…
/r/MensRights17/10/23 09:57 PM
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Well, they're pedophile priests, so presumably he means Catholics... whose faith specifically prohibits it (and is the one that does, so far as I'm aware). I always find it funny how the Catholic Church's ACTUAL sins get ignored in favor of half-imagined ones...
/r/MensRights17/10/23 09:54 PM
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I'll second this; we need to move past these cultural obstacles if we're going to see people get the help they need. I'd offer what I know of resources available to help, but I don't even know what's available in MY country. Good luck, sir!
/r/MensRights17/10/23 09:50 PM
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If that were true, we wouldn't have a 50% divorce rate and thousands of such stories of women (and men) engaging in such crappy behavior. Please, enlighten us as to your secrets of mind-reading.
/r/MensRights17/10/23 09:46 PM
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Nor do they accuse people who make mistakes of not being "real men".
/r/MensRights17/10/23 09:45 PM
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It's really very simple: they love their children, they want to do what's best for them, and they have basically zero capacity for self-reflection.
/r/MensRights17/10/23 11:55 AM
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Demonstrably, no, you aren't. You make an assertion, it gets challenged, you react as though attacked, and then try to play victim- but insist on having the last word. It's not going to work.
/r/MensRights16/10/23 10:22 PM
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That doesn't mean they shouldn't get the equipment they need. Persecution complexes are no more appealing here than from the Feminists.
/r/MensRights16/10/23 10:14 PM
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Bluntly, then, why are you even ON Reddit?
/r/MensRights16/10/23 10:12 PM
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Clearly you aren't, or you would have. It was the clearest and most efficient way to illustrate what I was trying to say, so no, I'm not going to do otherwise.
/r/MensRights16/10/23 10:09 PM
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What I am "accusing you of" is misunderstanding human psychology- since you explicitly demonstrated that in what you posted, I don't NEED to know you, any more than I would when correcting a mistake in your mathematics. It's a misreading, not a moral failing.
/r/MensRights16/10/23 12:54 AM
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Of course you can win. WOPR had it sideways; it said "the only winning move is not to play". This is true, but no more helpful than "the only winning move is not to juggle rubber chickens". The only winning move IS to NOT play. Stand on your own, and damn the torpedoes. Insulting someone by calling them "neckbeard" is like insulting someone by calling them "chesttits". The human beard is supposed to extend down to one's neck. Likewise, "celibate" doesn't mean "devoid of sexual partnership", it m…
/r/MensRights16/10/23 12:51 AM
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No, I think that it's you who does that- a man's far more likely to simple check out- either socially or physically- than to turn and fight back.
/r/MensRights16/10/23 12:46 AM
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Can we get a more descriptive title next time, please?
/r/MensRights16/10/23 12:44 AM
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Yes, it is. That's the organization that oversees and maintains the files that would be, and have been, used in it. It has literally no purpose otherwise. That's like saying "the Post Office isn't the mail".
/r/MensRights15/10/23 02:10 PM
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As a better option: prepare for it. If they have to beat you senseless to bring you in, they'll be you senseless, and then bring you in. They're military; their entire JOB is administering suffering (much as many would like to pretend otherwise). Running is a far better option, and that's not going to work if you don't have multiple places in mind, and several ways to get to each.
/r/MensRights15/10/23 02:09 PM
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Sure, just like how "there will never be a major international war ever again" after "The War To End All Wars". If it was "political suicide", Jimmy Carter would've been hung from a lampost and Ronald Reagan shot for dereliction of duty.
/r/MensRights15/10/23 02:04 PM
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First off: calm down. Yes, this is a scary situation, put panic isn't going to help you. It sounds like you've got a lot more than battle thralldom on your mind, and not without reason. So first, the good news: you're 25. Here in the US, the SS only keeps your file until you turn 26; then you're too old for them- so you'll probably be okay. Second the country isn't at war- while there is indeed a "draft" going on, that's in Ukraine, Russia, and Israel (and South Korea, etc., but they're not real…
/r/MensRights15/10/23 02:02 PM
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It's basically the equivalent of "communist" back in the 60's, or "nazi" in the 90's; a way to end an argument when you have nothing to say to reason against them.
/r/MensRights15/10/23 01:45 PM
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I don't think so either. But still...
/r/MensRights15/10/23 01:37 PM
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Yeah, India's interesting in a LOT of ways, and is one of the better candidates for eventual superpower status, especially in the long term.
/r/MensRights15/10/23 01:37 PM
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I don't know- but why would they be telling the truth? That'd be BEGGING for a lawsuit, especially in the US. Given the number of men who'd ignore a condition that isn't painful or keeping them from living life as they chose, the company would lose more on legal frees from a single suit than they would treating every man who made a claim about it.
/r/MensRights15/10/23 02:58 AM
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Neither is making more victims. Also, the word is "assailant".
/r/MensRights15/10/23 01:54 AM
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The idea of encouraging people to open up about sexual abuse that they've suffered is a far cry from "believe women". Accusations being accepted as guilt is why Emmett Till died- that people were believed without evidence and innocents suffered for it lead to a breakdown in due process, and by extension, liberal democracy, that harsh as it sounds is WORSE than sexual abuse. We nearly saw a Supreme Court position not filled because of the damned movement.
/r/MensRights15/10/23 01:22 AM
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That... that doesn't make any sense. I think you're being lied to. Can you tell me the name of the condition?
/r/MensRights15/10/23 01:13 AM
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Remember how much of the audience of Titanic was horny middle-aged women fantasizing about Leonardo DiCaprio? And how those same women look at him when he only dates women much younger than him?
/r/MensRights15/10/23 01:11 AM
3

True- not that that stops it from happening- but for some strange reason, the UK thinks it doesn't have to obey US laws.
/r/MensRights14/10/23 09:42 PM
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The whole "voluntary self-identification" business is utter nonsense; the only reason that could possibly matter was if you intended to discriminate on that basis, which is explicitly illegal. I'm starting to think there needs to an Anti-Purge; one day where EVERY law gets enforced. Speed cameras go up in work zones, the leadership of the Boy Scouts of America get arrested, and everyone speaking English in Illinois gets a ticket. As an added bonus, we'd get a LOT less by way of stupid laws.
/r/MensRights14/10/23 09:41 PM
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Good question. I think it depends on who, specifically, does it- Japan outpacing us (um, again) would be less of a concern than China, say. Kazakhstan would be... surprising, to say the least, but at least they have a cool flag.
/r/MensRights14/10/23 09:31 PM
2

Liberalism is an ideology, not a group. The problem isn't its presence, but its lack. "Toxic masculinity" all over again.
/r/MensRights14/10/23 09:28 PM
2

Yeah, I guess it's pretty important to keep some perspective, isn't it? This situation sucks, but it could be worse. Much, MUCH worse.
/r/MensRights14/10/23 02:36 PM
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It WOULD be like trying to force men into childcare- if being male in childcare didn't carry the enormous stigma of "OMG he's a pedophile!".
/r/MensRights14/10/23 02:35 PM
8

Inosfar as there are more women than men out there, you don't have to be gay- or white, for that matter.
/r/MensRights14/10/23 02:33 PM
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The Spanish empire collapsed largely because of the vast influx of gold from the New World, which added enormous quantities of money to the empire, not much actual wealth (since the real value of gold is the working, not the metal), causing hyperinflation to kick in (though their military incompetence didn't help). They basically succeeded their way into failure. Asians in American have gone a similar route. Bluntly put, you'd reached the point of being "white"- at least for social and economic …
/r/MensRights14/10/23 02:33 PM
4

Liberalism is the political place that egalitarianism comes from; complaining about discrimination while saying "it doesn't make sense when applied to the real world" is pretty damned disingenuous- to say nothing of using racial slurs. Are you applauding this bigotry?
/r/MensRights14/10/23 02:20 PM
2

Oh, I don't dispute the validity of the disparagement and whining (and the anti-woman crap I increasingly see here), but the general state of day-to-day life and the progress of men's issues are separate points. There's definitely some overlap, though. But I was being sincere: there HAS been progress made on some fronts, if not as much as we'd like.
/r/MensRights14/10/23 02:14 PM
1

We were asked for evidence, not proof.
/r/MensRights14/10/23 02:11 PM
0

I don't think he meant news media.
/r/MensRights14/10/23 04:27 AM
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That's not an example.
/r/MensRights14/10/23 03:57 AM
4

Will you be satisfied with positive changes, or do you require that the movement be credited?
/r/MensRights14/10/23 03:55 AM
0

Rhetoric isn't evidence.
/r/MensRights13/10/23 11:31 PM
4

We were asked for evidence, not slogans.
/r/MensRights13/10/23 11:30 PM
9

Forget Amber Heard, look at the response to Valerie Solanas.
/r/MensRights13/10/23 11:28 PM
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"Mobilization evaders". Mobilization evaders. They have to wring every last DROP of humanity from their slaves, don't they?
/r/MensRights13/10/23 11:24 PM
1

How very fortunate, then, that I have never said "Most women are good, therefore It's okay that they aren't kept accountable", or anything like it. I have said "women are human, and capable of moral agency". The implication is that we should judge them based on their actions, not their gender. You seem unable to grasp that, which is unfortunate. But your bigotry is, ultimately, your business, and your unwillingness to confront it is clear. So in the interests of saving time, I'll simply say "I t…
/r/MensRights13/10/23 12:05 PM
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Well, that makes sense; a big portion of Israelis speak English. But again, how much of that is intended (to whatever extent) for international consumption- and how does that influence how it's written?
/r/MensRights12/10/23 11:50 PM
2

Yeah. It's important to remember that no matter who you are or how smart you are, you're not immune to propaganda, or to being manipulated. Sometimes all you can do is admit that you don't know.
/r/MensRights12/10/23 11:48 PM
1

I appreciate the effort; unfortunately, this place is increasingly infested with this kind of thinking. As to what I meant, the claim the jackass was making is that women's instincts point them towards the best protectors and providers, which I don't dispute; that's pretty much what natural selection would tell you to do. The equivalent for men would be the most healthy and fertile women. But he claimed that women are unable to control their actions, and are (apparently) unthinking beasts, not p…
/r/MensRights12/10/23 11:47 PM
1

...And so you blame the people warped by the system for the system itself? This is like blaming Patty Hearst for the SLA, dude. Beyond that, how, exactly, are women unique in "being statistically be inclined to follow their natural instincts"? I refer again to my previous question: do you abandon your women the moment their fertility drops below peak? If not, is that simply because there's a system in place that would punish you? You're claiming that women are incapable of choosing to act like a…
/r/MensRights12/10/23 11:41 PM
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Oh, I'm not disagreeing with you- just pointing out that other places likely have different cultural and media biases, and that those should be taken into account.
/r/MensRights12/10/23 11:37 PM
1

The cure for bad speech is more speech, not censorship- why are you not talking to her about this?
/r/MensRights12/10/23 12:26 PM
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Genders don't "carnally work". Instinct pushes people; it doesn't control them. Why is it so hard for you people to understand that women are HUMAN, and are just as capable of looking past their instincts as men are? Or do you all abandon your women the moment their fertility drops below peak?
/r/MensRights12/10/23 12:24 PM
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A valid point- but that doesn't answer his question. How centralized is the Israeli media? Does the English language stuff carry a different bias than the Hebrew? You may know these things; I certainly don't- and knowing them might come in handy later on. His question is valid too.
/r/MensRights12/10/23 12:15 PM
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Nor, for that matter, have YOU offered any justifications or explanations as to why alternatives would be better; you simply come in and say "capitalism bad!" and then get surprised when people who know better- who've seen the alternatives, sometimes firsthand- don't take you seriously.
/r/MensRights11/10/23 11:03 PM
9

Straw is a hell of a lot more durable the mindset that claims capitalism impoverishes people, friend.
/r/MensRights11/10/23 10:55 PM
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Imagine being so ignorant of history to think that it's not. I'm truthfully creeped out by the levels of narcissism that modern pseudo-intellectuals have to think that modern civilization just "happens".
/r/MensRights11/10/23 10:17 PM
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"Having nothing to lose except your chains" is the biggest form of naivete humanity has ever come up with. Make no mistake, the instability of modern society is NOTHING on what most of history consisted of; our current peaceful, stable times are an anomaly, not the norm.
/r/MensRights11/10/23 10:07 PM
1

It's not about cloning, it's about passing down YOUR specific genes; that's literally the entire point of evolution. Consequently, genes that supported your siblings reproducing wouldn't be passed down, since, again, they don't reproduce. Also: -late, not -cy. While I'm probably the last person on Earth who should object to someone lying about their age to access parts of the internet, since I was doing it before most people reading this were born, you don't WANT to look like you're five.
/r/MensRights11/10/23 09:47 PM
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It was a contract men "agreed to" because they were being held at spearpoint.
/r/MensRights11/10/23 12:51 AM
5

I think it would be more accurate to say "Autistic men are seen as the losers in society, AS they generally have no power or influence"; status (earned or otherwise) plays a HUGE role in how people see you, and is something autists generally don't pay the slightest bit of attention to. I'm sure you've seen it yourself: the sneers and derision you get from other people when you sit down to learn from the wise master, just because the wise master happens to be six years old. For all people claim t…
/r/MensRights10/10/23 09:57 PM
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The next evolutionary step is people who (functionally) don't reproduce? I'm glad you think so highly of our abilities, but we can't change the fundamental realities of how cause and effect work. There would be a LOT more chocolate milk in this world if we could. Probably also more crying, but definitely more chocolate milk.
/r/MensRights10/10/23 09:52 PM
1

Yes, because I'm human. Try to keep up.
/r/MensRights10/10/23 09:47 PM
-3

"Random guy on internet accuses UK government of horrible human rights abuses!". Do you have any evidence of that claim?
/r/MensRights10/10/23 12:17 AM
1

I think that "a man is much less likely to view himself as a life-long victim of them, and more apt to take action to improve his situation" is applicable to areas that extend WAY beyond finance, and is the root of a lot of unnecessary female misery.
/r/MensRights10/10/23 12:13 AM
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Insofar as the entire reason this subreddit even exists is complaining about a lack of empathy for men and men's issues, my point is the exact opposite of moot. Your preference for an echo chamber does not override the correctness of logical consistency.
/r/MensRights10/10/23 12:10 AM
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Why do so many of you have trouble understanding this? I'm not "demanding" anything. I'm pointing out that it's not fair to demand equal treatment and then be unwilling to extend it to others yourself. This place gets worse every damned day. Nothing but bigotry and victim complexes.
/r/MensRights09/10/23 11:51 AM
1

Basically, yeah. Let me make it clear that I'm not endorsing the idea, just explaining it.
/r/MensRights09/10/23 11:42 AM
-1

Why...? TO SAVE A HUMAN LIFE. Do you really not understand why that's important, or is self-righteous sanctimony all you have to contribute?
/r/MensRights08/10/23 09:11 PM
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Then you forfeit your right to complain about Feminists not doing the same for you.
/r/MensRights08/10/23 09:11 PM
9

And how, pray tell, is that different from anything else a person might want? When is the idealized fantasy not better than the reality?
/r/MensRights08/10/23 07:59 PM
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Thanks for transcribing.
/r/MensRights08/10/23 07:41 PM
4

Um, Yale is in the US, and receives federal funding. That means it's not "they don’t have to provide accused males with due process", but "they have to NOT provide accused males with due process", as per Biden's "Dear Colleague" letter.
/r/MensRights08/10/23 07:37 PM
2

And what genocide ("ethnic cleansing" would be rounding up the undesirables and forcibly bathing them; let's not hide behind euphemisms for the sake of the feelings of mass murderers) is this, now?
/r/MensRights08/10/23 07:31 PM
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Because it gave us an enormous survival advantage. Loyalty to the tribe, even at the expense of others, gives your tribe an edge, and a better chance of survival when the lean times come. Compassion inspires compassion- but when things get REALLY bad, and stay that way, greed wins out. The violence of the hostility, too, has evolutionary explanations: the humans who didn't have a primal urge to kill their rivals were killed off by the ones who did.
/r/MensRights08/10/23 07:29 PM
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As I said before: to save a human life. This isn't like flirting with a woman or even stopping to help someone up who's fallen down. CPR only comes into play in life-or-death situations. There ain't no point in the day, end or otherwise, when most people are going to be selfish enough to ignore that.
/r/MensRights08/10/23 07:18 PM
2

Wait, what? That's not... are you using the original Sholes layout? I'm not usually to insist on things being on the bleeding edge, but dude, get with the 1890's.
/r/MensRights08/10/23 05:02 PM
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Yes, they'll think twice- and that's one of the attitudes that needs to change. The world doesn't need MORE selfishness, from anyone; we have rather too much already.
/r/MensRights08/10/23 04:01 PM
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It has nothing to do with CPR, but it has everything to do with the fact that LAWS DON'T COVER EXTRALEGAL PUNISHMENT. If the law protects you from being arrested, but you still become the victim of a massive social media backlash, get forced out of your job, and wind up attacked on the street, it's still not safe. The laws made it illegal to murder Emmett, too- that didn't save him. Also, "Good Samaritan" comes from the book of Luke, written over eighteen centuries before Emmett was even born, a…
/r/MensRights08/10/23 04:00 PM
3

oriole face Um, was this a typo, or do you have REALLY odd-looking black people where you live?
/r/MensRights08/10/23 03:53 PM
5

It's almost like having a wider bell curve means your bell curve is wider. Imagine that!
/r/MensRights08/10/23 03:52 PM
1

That's not how humans work.
/r/MensRights08/10/23 03:46 PM
10

Arguably, that was the whole point of Die Hard; Bruce Willis didn't have the physique of Rambo.
/r/MensRights08/10/23 03:46 PM
1

True- and logically, there are going to be points where it's debatable whether saying something negative is honesty or carelessness. But by extension of that, there needs to be tolerance for good-faith errors.
/r/MensRights08/10/23 03:43 PM
1

Daylight Saving Time doesn't move the sun. If every last person in the US (outside of Arizona and wherever I happen to be) agrees at noon that it's one o'clock, that doesn't change what time it actually IS. Likewise, everyone in the world agreeing that you're incorrect doesn't make it so; do not let the prevalence of Internet-thought make you deny the existence of objective reality. That's how we get quite a bit of the current misery afflicting humanity. If you're a hater, you're a hater; if not…
/r/MensRights08/10/23 03:41 PM
6

Because if we didn't grade the value of human life, we'd have to walk away from Omelas. Go through media coverage of disasters, and you'll notice how victims who are women are "women", but if they're men, they're "miners" or "sailors", or whatever they happened to be doing that placed them in danger. It's the same reason an Israeli/Palestinian life is seen as worth more than a Malinese or Myanmar...ish? ite? a Burmese life, anyway.
/r/MensRights08/10/23 03:25 PM
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Why take the chance? To save a human life. Look, the laws and social attitudes are in serious need of change, but let's not forget that there are reasons to built society into something better.
/r/MensRights08/10/23 03:19 PM
20

The law protected Emmett Till, too. Look how well THAT worked out.
/r/MensRights08/10/23 03:17 PM
1

Yes, you clearly do. If you leave the skins on, potatoes contain every single nutrient you need to survive. You can live, and fairly healthfully at that, on potatoes and water. Malnutrition is a helluva lot worse for you than overindulgence. But go ahead and revel in your self-righetousness; just don't come running to me when the lean times come and you learn just how wrong you are.
/r/MensRights07/10/23 06:57 PM
0

You needn't try to gussy it up, dude; Aesop gave us the story of the fox and the grapes 2600 years ago. You failed; it happens. You didn't toss in after-the-fact justifications.
/r/MensRights07/10/23 05:39 PM
0

He probably doesn't. As someone who's been through poverty-induced malnutrition (to the point of waking up to find cockroaches crawling over my hands, and having my first response not be revulsion or despair, but JOY, because they represented a free source of calories), I've learned that VERY few Westerners have any real understanding, or even appreciation, of food. When you've looked down at the pigeon you've caught and realized that in your weakened state, the diseases it's carrying might actu…
/r/MensRights07/10/23 05:37 PM
1

...Never be poor, dude. You wouldn't be able to handle it.
/r/MensRights07/10/23 05:31 PM
3

Sure- just as soon you explain why you make a post with a title like that and not have it be about Freddie Mercury in the Purple Rain! /s. /mostly,anyway. It's pretty simple: titles don't have a specific authority handing them out; every monarchy does things in its own way.
/r/MensRights07/10/23 05:27 PM
1

How often do you see someone who's 100% consistent with all their beliefs in ANY category?
/r/MensRights07/10/23 03:05 PM
8

Forget the Olympics, wait until we have mixed chess! FIDE is excluding MTF transsexuals from women's tournaments there, too. Yes, for CHESS. Ever played chess? Some of those pieces can weigh upwards of three quarters of an ounce! Surely, no woman could be expected to lift THAT.
/r/MensRights07/10/23 05:31 AM
5

Losing a discriminatory advantage given to you on the basis of sex isn't being "sidelined", it's being FAIR. Do you really think women are unable to compete on a level playing field?
/r/MensRights07/10/23 05:29 AM
3

A lack of inclusivity is what created the space; it's hardly fair to blame the non-binary people, when simply allowing everyone in would have had the same result.
/r/MensRights07/10/23 05:27 AM
2

It's possible for a woman to be anti-Feminist- or at least egalitarian- in the same way it's possible for a high-status man to: by way of possessing interpersonal empathy and awareness that world extends beyond them. Morality, in short. Asking for a little human decency is not requiring "the objectivity of a supercomputer"; these are women, who are people, not unthinking beasts controlled entirely by their instincts.
/r/MensRights06/10/23 11:09 PM
6

I'm not familiar with any of those characters, but I don't see a villain be relatable as an inherently bad thing; it's often a sign of good writing. Of course, I'm not very familiar with Youtbe or TikTok, so I'm not sure how widespread this idea is.
/r/MensRights06/10/23 11:01 PM
4

Whining about its bad choices, natch. But given how much of what gets talked about here is "I went to a Feminist forum and found them talking like Feminists", we're not really in a position to complain.
/r/MensRights06/10/23 11:33 AM
17

Yes, and I understand that making a local law or two is a far different affair than changing a Constitutional Amendment, which is what gutting the fourteenth like you're proposing would require. And no, I understand just the opposite- that discrimination is discrimination, no matter what euphemisms you try to hide it behind. I also understand that that's exactly what history shows: that short-term treatment differences never stay short term, inevitably leading to entrenched bigotries that stand …
/r/MensRights06/10/23 02:23 AM
1

No, you don't; you're just trying to convince yourself that your hatred is justified. It isn't.
/r/MensRights06/10/23 12:42 AM
1

Two problems with that: 1. Emmett Till didn't rape anybody; as per your proposed idea, he'd still be killed. 2. They DIDN'T rape a child- they're just sexually attracted to them. Desires don't deserve death, dumbass.
/r/MensRights05/10/23 11:16 PM
1

It has seriously detrimental effects on children even when those children are elephants. That's not fat-bashing; I mean literal elephants. Wade Horn's "Of elephants and men" addresses this very point. Interestingly, there's even evidence that it negatively affects children who are CROCODILES.
/r/MensRights05/10/23 11:15 PM
28

No, we don't. That's pretty damned contradictory to egalitarianism and also (in the US) straight-up illegal.
/r/MensRights05/10/23 11:06 PM
1

If you're old enough to reproduce, you're not going to attract pedophiles; that's what the word MEANS. At any rate, a Federal law stating that would be struck down as a tenth Amendment violation; it has to be from the States.
/r/MensRights05/10/23 11:03 PM
1

And I really hoped that valuing human life and keeping kids from being sexually abused was more important than feeling like a badass; I guess we're both disappointed.
/r/MensRights05/10/23 11:01 PM
3

Good point.
/r/MensRights05/10/23 11:00 PM
-8

Murdering people because of their sexual orientations isn't cool, dude. Neither is encouraging demonization of it, because a big enough stigma prevents research into helping the people who, again, were born this way. They can't come forward for fear of their lives, so they DON'T come forward, and no one's willing to risk being tarred with a label that could get THEM killed, so no therapies are developed, and ultimately, MORE kids are victimized, simply so you can indulge your primal urge to "fee…
/r/MensRights05/10/23 12:25 PM
8

Hermesmann V Seyer set the precedent- but that was only for Kansas. After that ruling, several other states went and deliberately created laws to punish male rape victims by forcing them to pay child support for children they didn't agree to have sex to create.
/r/MensRights05/10/23 12:20 PM
1

No, not really- well, not the "sole the Colonel's beard"; they just had a similar style. But yes, Ho wanted to create a free, democratic society that happened to be Communist. Vietnam had been a French colony before WW2, and the Vietnamese fought bravely during that war, having been promised their independence afterwards. The war ended, and De Gaulle said "No"; their subservience was too important for France. Ho then wrote to President Truman, asking him to pressure France to honor their promise…
/r/MensRights05/10/23 11:52 AM
6

Internet culture is best expressed by a combination of five words, that together form a pattern that exploded into a phenomenon that no rational mind can comprehend; one that would've set this place on fire, had it existed back then. I will not tell you what the words mean, because you wouldn't believe me; but I'll tell them to you, and you can look for yourself- but know in advance that I weep for your sanity. Go to your search engine of choice, and enter the following phrase, in whatever the "…
/r/MensRights05/10/23 02:17 AM
3

That would be a "hoe"; a "ho" is the guy who thought that stealing the beard of Colonel Sanders would give him the power to create a Communist society with American ideals of free expression.
/r/MensRights05/10/23 02:12 AM
21

"Making women feel safe" isn't a skill; it's a process that begins with deprogramming them Feminist and Tradcon nonsense. It requires: -teaching them to accurately assess the world around them, and the dangers present in whatever situation they may happen to be in. -teaching them how and when to defend themselves, and how and when to run away. -encouraging them to take accountability for themselves and their situations, because abdicating that power means having abnegating control over your feel…
/r/MensRights05/10/23 02:09 AM
3

What about when it starts to try to sell them products, and they realize that they've been duped into paying to be marketed to?
/r/MensRights05/10/23 01:55 AM
2

It's not about "toxicity"- at least, not inherently. It's a matter of seeking every possible competitive edge; of making the game psychological as well as, um, whatever the adjective for "actually playing the game" would be. It's very much the behavior of an asshole, but it's not gendered- demonstrably. All that is is the specific tactics used.
/r/MensRights04/10/23 08:36 PM
-26

Ah, but fixing the Girl Scouts won't matter unless they're given the same legal privileges the BSA has, like illegally discriminating against homosexual leaders.
/r/MensRights04/10/23 08:33 PM
1

The asses sitting that made you HAVE a nonexistent army. You've done a bang-up job since the invasion started; no one can argue that. But if you'd been visibly able to defend yourself, you might not have been invaded in the first place. And while that may have been excusable in 1994, it wasn't twenty years later when Russia violated its agreements with your government and stole Crimea. You were offered NATO membership and turned it down- well, okay, maybe that particular option was seen as too i…
/r/MensRights04/10/23 11:19 AM
2

And that would be very valid- if it were true. But it isn't. You gave them up in exchange for guarantees that none of the signatories would use nukes on you (except in self-defense), would seek immediate UNSC action if you were invaded, and wouldn't invade you themselves. The UNSC couldn't do squat if one of its members invaded you, since it'd just veto any proposed action, and while it was only naively optimistic to assume Russia wouldn't come knocking, it was criminally insane to assume they w…
/r/MensRights04/10/23 01:45 AM
0

The verb is "simper", not "simp"- and for that matter, is completely unrelated to the discussion. More to the point, the sour grapes around here doesn't exactly make the point of "laws are unfairly biased against men and need to be changed" seem reasonable.
/r/MensRights04/10/23 01:35 AM
17

Well, it's more "she defied the orthodoxy", since she 1. openly admitted that many of the abused women she was protecting were psychologically damaged and needed help to be able to live normally again (i.e., they weren't all perfectly innocent victims), and 2. she wanted to open another shelter, to help battered men. Every faith is harder on heretics than heathens; Feminism isn't an exception.
/r/MensRights04/10/23 12:12 AM
4

In reality: the system of governance by high-ranking officials in Orthodox Christianity (all the sects of it I'm familiar with, at least). In Feminist theory: a magical bogeyman that protects women from the horrors of personal accountability.
/r/MensRights03/10/23 10:39 PM
27

Erin Pizzey had the same problem; she got driven out of her country over it. She later went back, because she's a badass like that. Good on you for doing the right thing, in any case. Like Emerson said (he was, nominally, talking about men, but it applies to everybody): "If I can be firm enough to-day to do right and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now. Be it how it will, do right now. Always scorn appearances and you always may".
/r/MensRights03/10/23 10:33 PM
15

I don't disagree, but I'd argue that the harm there isn't coming from the woman, but from the social and legal standards that hold her to a lower level of accountability. Not everyone who benefits from a bad thing is bad themselves.
/r/MensRights03/10/23 10:26 PM
7

It wasn't Feminism that motivated President Johnson to push his welfare reforms that got "the [racial slur about black people] vot[ing]e for us for the next 300 years". For that matter, it wasn't Feminism that consequently made so much progress in destroying the black family as an institution, though it certainly helped. Take care that you don't start seeing every problem as a nail.
/r/MensRights03/10/23 11:48 AM
0

And why, exactly, should OUR money be spent to prop up a state that can't protect itself? Russia violated its treaties with you in 2014, and in response, your government did... what, exactly? Joining NATO is too much trouble and would pretty much guarantee an invasion; fair enough. So instead they opted to... sit on their asses and hope that NATO would come to the rescue anyway? Why should we? Do you think that because your government spends lives like pocket change that EVERY government should?…
/r/MensRights02/10/23 09:31 PM
3

If their country is still enslaving its own people, then clearly they didn't do enough for it.
/r/MensRights02/10/23 09:26 PM
26

...Right, because everyone of the same gender and ethnic background has the same experience.
/r/MensRights02/10/23 12:04 PM
2

That's my point- Tradcons AND Feminists want the same thing from men; they just want different things from women. And it's always been against male wishes. That's why the social schemes to get men to do it anyway are so elaborate.
/r/MensRights02/10/23 11:56 AM
3

No. Remember that men are only half the population, and that while the net results for us (at least for the bulk of us), the results are pretty similar, they differ markedly for women. Tradcons favor restricting women to more biologically-derived gender roles; Feminists favor restricting women to more socially-derived gender roles.
/r/MensRights02/10/23 02:30 AM
1

Oh, definitely- I'm not defending it in any way. But the only way to improve it is to call it out, and I think you can imagine how THAT goes down.
/r/MensRights01/10/23 10:28 PM
7

Better yet, imagine having an entire holiday celebrating a revolt kicked off by your refusal to allow your conquerors to force you to stop mutilating your babies. Obviously, the causes of the Maccabee rebellion were more complex than that, and even today, many of the staunchest opponents of MGM are Jewish themselves, but still...
/r/MensRights01/10/23 10:23 PM
3

Because for the most part, men don't WANT to go through the insane effort needed to reach high levels of fitness, fancy dressing, and- well, okay, we DO want cool cars; I'll give you that one, but not all you have to do to PAY for them. When women say "we don't wear makeup for men; we wear it for ourselves", they're not lying. They're not correct, exactly, but they're not really wrong, either: their brains reward them for doing things that attract men, in order to prompt them to do those things,…
/r/MensRights01/10/23 10:22 PM
4

::Laughs in John Henry::
/r/MensRights01/10/23 10:16 PM
5

They don't leave them alone because the entire point of the saying is to shame men into doing what they're told, regardless of whether it's in their best interest. I mean, if YOU had an exceptionally effective tool for manipulating people into sacrificing themselves and their comfort, security, and happiness simply to please you, would YOU be willing to lay it aside, or at least refrain from using it when not absolutely necessary? If so, then congratulations! You're a decent human being! But mos…
/r/MensRights01/10/23 10:06 PM
0

You did- by using terminology from the field of biology. Or misusing, in this case. Who said anything about society? I'm using "society" to mean "the collection of all objects currently covered in pickles". Do you see the problem here?
/r/MensRights01/10/23 09:57 PM
1

And some people think that lack of progress will somehow to lead to progress. Relative to our biomass, we have one of the LOWEST levels of impact on our environment- all due to the rising population that's somehow going to doom the planet, despite being the best chance we have to save it. I have no trouble believing such a mind would be boggled by the idea of following evidence.
/r/MensRights01/10/23 09:52 PM
0

Only if we're disciples of Malthus- and that requires levels of self-delusion and ignorance of history that even Feminists balk at.
/r/MensRights01/10/23 02:34 PM
6

But it's not- "devolution" doesn't exist. Evolution doesn't produce life forms that are "better" in any absolute sense; it produces life that's better adapted to its environment. Change that environment, and you change what it means to be better adapted.
/r/MensRights01/10/23 02:32 PM
3

Or not 2B, that is the quest- oh, wait, this is a ROBO-brothel; you can have BOTH! (I haven't played the game, so I apologize if they made that joke already).
/r/MensRights01/10/23 01:14 PM
1

No- Republicans enabled it to continue, because it's about being seen, not making actual changes.
/r/MensRights01/10/23 12:20 AM
3

More "any disparity, regardless of direction, is the result of bias against the group I'm a part of".
/r/MensRights01/10/23 12:20 AM
10

Dip your toe into the autism community, and you'll find something similar: -Autism diagnoses are 3-1 male, which is true. -This is due to symptoms manifesting differently and more subtly in women (true), more research being done on men with autism (also true; see previous clause in this sentence for an explanation of why), and discrimination against women (total horseshit). BUT! -Autism is (proportionately) diagnosed far more often in ethnic minorities than in white people. -This is due to discr…
/r/MensRights30/09/23 11:18 PM
9

No- TALKING happened. Words were flung around, and voters were mollified, since "something is being done". After Marc Angelucci was murdered, the NCFM lawsuit could have gone to the Supreme Court, but Biden told them "Don't bother; we're going to settle this ourselves".
/r/MensRights30/09/23 11:09 PM
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Also, this article is from two years ago- so you can see very well what happened.
/r/MensRights30/09/23 03:35 PM
17

This happens every few years; it's nothing new. Democrats propose it, knowing it'll be killed by Republicans; then Republicans kill it. The Democrats want to be seen making legal strides towards equality, but aren't willing to actually do it; the Republicans want to be seen as defending traditional values, and (in this case) actually DO. Curiously enough, the one recent(ish) attempt to get rid of the SS altogether was made by Fred Upton (who became my least favorite member of Congress after Jess…
/r/MensRights30/09/23 03:35 PM
1

Let's be realistic here: if the US starts a war (whether as an aggressor or otherwise), the UK will almost certainly be joining in. The last time we fought a war you weren't involved in (not counting Vietnam, where your involvement through Australia and New Zealand makes claims of neutrality kind of dubious) was when we fought Spain.
/r/MensRights30/09/23 02:01 PM
1

True- but basic evolutionary theory also shows us differently. Human babies, born as late-stage fetuses, require an enormous amount of care and attention; fathers who paid no attention to their babies had fewer surviving children. And although it wasn't much (which is odd, for him), Chesterton (who grew up in Victorian England) had some things to say on the subject.
/r/MensRights30/09/23 01:51 PM
19

While I'm not familiar with the original New Yorker cartoons (and so don't know what they were like), I find it funny that the Addams Family went on to defy- retroactively- the trope so powerfully. Gomez and Morticia are madly in love with one another, and don't insult or condescend to one another. Whether it's John Astin or Raul Julia, he's a wildly passionate man whose interests, while kind of childish and silly, aren't seen as something that lessens him as a man. Neither he nor his wife hate …
/r/MensRights30/09/23 01:47 PM
-2

Suffragette bombings probably delayed women getting the vote in the UK; they weren't very fond of terrorists.
/r/MensRights30/09/23 01:33 PM
-4

Opposing protecting children is pretty damned antagonistic. Refusing to hold open a door (you didn't say a thing about "going out of your way" to do it) simply because a person's a woman is the exact definition of antagonism. The anti-woman bias here gets worse by the day; this place is becoming exactly the sort of echo chamber it criticizes.
/r/MensRights30/09/23 01:32 PM
-18

That demograhpic-based antagonism isn't going to help now any more than it has before.
/r/MensRights30/09/23 03:40 AM
11

Not to sound harsh, but- you were using Youtube. What exactly do you expect? As far as Google is concerned, there are two types of people: the first group, they needn't worry about offending, because they've shown they'll stick around no matter what the company does. The second group, they needn't worry about offending, because they've already stopped using it (or never did in the first place). The net result is not hard to figure out. Never trust a company that can't spell its own name correctl…
/r/MensRights29/09/23 11:20 PM
2

The term "childfree" suggests that kids are some kind of plague; it sees children not foremost as people, but as an obstacle to the aims and goals of their would-be parents. No one who thinks that way should have any. Also, and here I am being an angry old man, it's hyphenated incorrectly- but even I won't pretend that's really important. Malthusianism is just as (factually) wrong today as it was in Malthus' time, but we're doing okay; if children aren't the joy of your life, you probably should…
/r/MensRights29/09/23 12:10 PM
7

Oy gevalt. So, for those of you who don't know, the US Capitol building was finished in 1826. It's also huge- more than sixteen acres across five floors. It's also in the American South, climate-wise (geographically, it's basically ON the Mason-Dixon line, which means they had a lot of fun during the civil war- and that's "fun" in the Dwarf Fortress sense). How much money is wasted in cooling it every year, when we could just have Congress dress for the weather? How much energy is wasted? Most p…
/r/MensRights29/09/23 02:57 AM
2

I agree that killing spiders is disgusting, but you can always refuse.
/r/MensRights28/09/23 11:52 AM
1

Oh, I wouldn't call that weird; it's exactly what you'd expect from a culture that represses its sexual impulses- they get worked out in a different way.
/r/MensRights27/09/23 12:09 PM
0

Oh, do- it's just a short story; it won't take long to read. Pretty much anything by LeGuin is worth a look.
/r/MensRights27/09/23 12:08 PM
-20

Come on, it's not THAT bleak. This is much more inertia and ideological laziness than malice, at least from the rank-and-file of humanity. Give women a little credit.
/r/MensRights27/09/23 03:41 AM
9

Or are just into older women.
/r/MensRights27/09/23 03:07 AM
2

Ouch. But as you've probably already gathered, anyone who says that another person's "views are a danger" is a person best avoided. Even the most backwards cultures on Earth stopped killing heathens long ago. Heretics, on the other hand...
/r/MensRights26/09/23 10:46 PM
1

Or mosquitoes. After dealing with enough of those, I suspect the people wouldn't seem nearly so bad.
/r/MensRights26/09/23 10:41 PM
3

Yeah, this is a cultural thing. The US has a long way to go to shake off its Puritan attitudes, and a huge chunk- actually, several huge chunks- of the population don't WANT to shake it off. And the big phrase to fear discussing this kind of thing with Americans is "sex-positive" (with or without the hyphen). If someone describes themselves that way, RUN. While you still can.
/r/MensRights26/09/23 10:40 PM
3

I have a physique best described as "lumberjack hobo yeti", and I look like I could eat the things that haunt your nightmares- and that I've probably already eaten three or four. I don't need to avoid people; they avoid ME. Except small children and babies, who're too ignorant and wise to be afraid; they love me. But even if that weren't the case, I'm not going to live my life terrified of every bad thing that might happen to me. And I'm definitely not going to be so damned sexist that I avoid a…
/r/MensRights26/09/23 10:37 PM
77

How many of these men being "ruined" are those who faced constant rejection from women? How many are those being insulted by the cries of "where are all the good men?"? I can't say definitively, but I suspect most of them. So if they wouldn't actually be able to get a physical girlfriend, what exactly are women losing? Well, some of the benefits of a civilization built on the backs of men overworking themselves (though that's hardly unique to women). It really shouldn't surprise anyone when the …
/r/MensRights26/09/23 10:18 PM
43

Because they've been raised to think themselves inconsequential- what they do doesn't matter; they're just a woman. The tradcon tells them "It's wrong to hold you to the standards that a man would be held to; you're just a woman, and therefore not as capable". The Feminist tells them "It's wrong to hold you to the standards that a man would be held to; you're just a woman, and therefore an oppressed victim". The Egalitarian says [CENSORED FOR MISOGYNY]. The result is not hard to predict.
/r/MensRights26/09/23 02:46 AM
2

There is a traditional Irish sport called "hurling". No, I don't mean vomiting; it predates Christianity, let alone English. It's basically a cross between field hockey and street brawling, and holds the Guinness record for "fastest-moving sport in the world" [I'm not sure why; I'm pretty sure jai alai moves faster]. The reason you haven't heard of it is that no one outside of Ireland is insane enough to play it. In the early 21st century, the GAA (which regulates it) introduced a rule saying th…
/r/MensRights26/09/23 02:41 AM
5

He's not glossing over it- that's what happens when people with a victimhood complex and pride in whatever status gives them victimhood points finally gain power.
/r/MensRights25/09/23 09:05 PM
7

Don't forget the prison gap- that's a LOT bigger.
/r/MensRights25/09/23 08:59 PM
37

When I think of societies that celebrate public lynchings and have very high rates of authoritarianism, calls for murder of people with different religious beliefs, governments that ban the sale of alcohol, and laws that deny basic civil rights to women, I don't think "moral". If your definition of morality begins and ends in the bedroom, you don't have one.
/r/MensRights24/09/23 10:54 PM
2

Only when there's enough phlogiston in the aether.
/r/MensRights24/09/23 08:26 PM
10

The title hardly inspires confidence in its reasoning, but you can't complain about it without having read it without doing exactly the same thing.
/r/MensRights24/09/23 02:25 PM
5

Not just free thinking, but free will. It's all about unfalsifiable claims to make girls and women see themselves as helpless victims with no ability to affect their world or even improve their lives, since the only thing that can do that is the Movement.
/r/MensRights24/09/23 02:22 PM
5

Mech himself admits his research was flawed. Speaking of "betas" and "alphas" has all the legitimacy of speaking of "guys with the correct phrenological profile".
/r/MensRights24/09/23 02:09 PM
5

Correlation implying causation is the entire basis of observational logic. It doesn't EQUAL causation, but it absolutely implies it.
/r/MensRights24/09/23 12:18 AM
5

There is absolute truth in the quote "women die in men's wars". And "men die in men's wars". And "women die in women's wars", and "children die in women's wars", and every other permutation.
/r/MensRights24/09/23 12:18 AM
17

Good on you for admitting that you were wrong and apologizing- but I have to add that associating that kind of maturity with masculinity is going to push society in exactly the wrong direction. Don't admit your mistake and apologize because you're a man, but because you're an adult.
/r/MensRights23/09/23 01:29 PM
1

...I'm guessing there's a Youtube link here, and this isn't just a statement with nothing backing it up, but even without knowing that, I'm going to explain how to debunk this in nine words: have her insult a twelve-year-old boy's mother to his face.
/r/MensRights23/09/23 12:58 AM
1

Even if they do enjoy it, orgasm doesn't mean consent any more than arousal does.
/r/MensRights23/09/23 12:55 AM
7

MODERN video games. X-Com and Betrayal at Krondor* and Ultima and Dark Forces and Freespace are just as good as they've ever been. They're also a helluva lot cheaper. *:Antara, too. It's overshadowed to an excessive degree, I think. Krondor was, overall, a better game, but Antara's underrated, especially in light of the fact that a whole new world and mythology had to be created for it.
/r/MensRights23/09/23 12:53 AM
5

You're not wrong, but- for what country is that NOT true?
/r/MensRights23/09/23 12:49 AM
2

Such is the indoctrination (though as this illustrates, it's not just about sexism) that you think a man is his 30's can't be wise. Look at the leaders who, explicitly or otherwise, approve of this: how many are of whatever age you'd consider past the threshold of wisdom?
/r/MensRights23/09/23 12:48 AM
10

The appropriate response is to hand them a pocket knife and ask them to cut off their pinky. When they balk (and they will), tell them it would be so much worse to cut off their whole hand, and clearly a little mutilation is okay. If that doesn't cause some reflection, point out that they're an adult making that decision, and if it's STILL wrong, then it's obviously wrong to do to a baby.
/r/MensRights22/09/23 01:09 AM
11

No he isn't- he's pointing that the enormous number of current and historical doctors in the primary funding nations of the WHO who were and are Jewish alters the lens through which the organization views health. The same is true of any other ethnic (or, more relevantly, cultural) group.
/r/MensRights22/09/23 01:07 AM
12

I'd point out that several Popes actually specifically forbade it- to the best of my knowledge, Catholicism is the only faith that flat-out bans infant genital mutilation- but every branch of Christianity that regularly practices it would see thwarting the Pope as a positive thing. Because it's not like another religion could have good ideas that are worth copying, or anything.
/r/MensRights22/09/23 01:05 AM
1

Well, try talking first; some people are amenable to reason. But that's if it's brought up as a talking point; a "do this or I'm gone" is best replied to with "bye".
/r/MensRights22/09/23 01:02 AM
3

But 90% of the population with 14 times the arrest rate would mean men are getting SHORTER sentences. Or that women are only be imprisoned for truly heinous crimes that warrant long ones.
/r/MensRights22/09/23 12:59 AM
1

Good! And think about this, too: the biggest reason empires (and kingdoms) fall is not because of invasions or conquest, but because of famine; cities, almost by definition, can't feed themselves and are net importers of food- and since they're pretty devastating to the local ecosystems, it's not like you can just grab your spears and nets and go hunting in your neighborhood. But big technological and cultural innovations require (with a few occasional workarounds) the population concentration t…
/r/MensRights21/09/23 12:34 PM
25

I guess the whole "no free man shall be taken, imprisoned, or in any other way destroyed, except by the lawful judgement and consent of his peers" thing is old-fashioned, eh? Gotta go with more modern, youth-friendly stuff like the Star Chamber. Better warn any witches you know, UK folks; they're probably next.
/r/MensRights21/09/23 01:21 AM
3

By his own logic, he wouldn't be able to absolve women, saying they're not as responsible for the bad things they do, since he's not a woman. If understanding a person's culture and background is key to understanding their actions and motivations, then you can't praise OR condemn them. A more sensible position would be to say that lack of knowledge of a person's specific situation and background means you can't fully appreciate the intricacies of their actions, and that would also stand for know…
/r/MensRights21/09/23 01:16 AM
3

Or the Khmer! Angkor Thom was supposed to be HUGE; I'm rather disappointed it's all gone. Khazaria's pretty cool, too; a kingdom of Jews (religiously, not ethnically) in central Asia in the tenth century. Or the Aztecs, who went from a wandering tribe of nomads to ruling basically the biggest empire in the new world in less than a century, with NO draft animals whatsoever, and almost no metal. Or if you're in to something a little vaguer, the Tryptillians; not one but THREE cities of over ten th…
/r/MensRights21/09/23 01:09 AM
1

It's fiction, but isn't this kind of what Ethan of Athos was about?
/r/MensRights21/09/23 01:07 AM
8

Thank you. Using the Gregorian calendar without admitting is a feat of both mental and moral bitchassitude; if measuring from the life of Jesus is such an affront, then use a different calendar. There are plenty to choose from.
/r/MensRights21/09/23 01:00 AM
4

Oh, Crusader Kings is wonderful- and I believe 2 (the base game, at least) is free to play. To give you an idea of the weird and wonderful things that can happen in that game, one of the threads on the Paradox forums had what is quite possibly my favorite title of anything, ever: "I accidentally impregnated the Pope". In-game, the Papacy is a king-tier title, and children get claims to titles their parents held. Not an issue for Popes- unless they have bastards, which apparently happened in this…
/r/MensRights21/09/23 12:59 AM
2

Username checks out.
/r/MensRights21/09/23 12:53 AM
1

Well, no, it wouldn't be; you wouldn't have the frustration in the first place. Removing the desire wouldn't bring the satisfaction of satiation, just the ending of the desire. The net result is pretty much the same, granted, but you're denying yourself happiness in the name of expediency. A life like that hardly seems worth living.
/r/MensRights21/09/23 12:40 AM
8

Suppose you were sitting at your desk and I handed you a glass of water. You'd think it fairly unimpressive; it's not BAD, but it's just water. But if I gave it to you after you'd run five miles, you'd think it fantastic. After ten miles, you'd call it the nectar of the gods. The pleasure derived from something isn't entirely, or even mostly, due to the thing itself; far more of it comes from the desire being fulfilled, the thirst being quenched, the hunger sated. To cut yourself off from that i…
/r/MensRights20/09/23 02:31 AM
1

Good on you for asking! I did mean what I said in the other thread, by the way; it wasn't sarcasm. And to answer your question: kind of annoyed, actually. Today is September 19th, and I go to work in fully prepared- only to not interact with a single customer all day. So many prepared jokes, gone to waste.
/r/MensRights19/09/23 10:34 PM
4

Call a lawyer. It probably won't amount to anything, but the only viable alternative to taking legal action is taking much harsher action- getting whatever self-defense weapons ARE legal in your country and fighting back.
/r/MensRights19/09/23 10:30 PM
8

I've wondered how much of the anti-crossdresser hysteria (which, in retrospect, seems almost quaint) was about women panicking when they realize that MEN, too, might be wearing the same outfit they were.
/r/MensRights19/09/23 10:27 PM
-2

Despite its always recruiting, the Junior League has NEVER lacked for members. The Right hates porn because tradcons want men forming families, regardless of the benefits and costs to said men; the Left hates porn because bitching about it gives them a chance to pander to victimhood worshipers- and there are a LOT of victimhood worshipers out there, since it allows you to refuse responsibility for what happens to you. Do you know who actually KNEW about the porn habits of the general population,…
/r/MensRights19/09/23 11:51 AM
8

And hope you're in a country that doesn't have extradition treaties with France.
/r/MensRights18/09/23 11:50 PM
1

Has there been any evidence put out, or just accusations? If the former, we should analyze and discuss it. If the latter, we should wait and see what happens.
/r/MensRights18/09/23 11:46 PM
7

Talking about Men's Rights without talking about Feminism is like talking about the war in Ukraine without talking about Russia. But to answer your second question: right now. You want to start some more positive conversations here? Great! Go for it! There's nothing stopping you from starting those topics.
/r/MensRights18/09/23 11:44 PM
1

Biological reductionism and tradcon logic in the same package; how efficient of you!
/r/MensRights18/09/23 11:42 PM
2

::Laughs in Edward Snowden::
/r/MensRights18/09/23 11:51 AM
1

Certainly. -They had, back when they got seriously started, some very legitimate complaints about the treatment of women in society, and while most of those complaints have been long since resolved, there are still some issues, and they keep those problems from recurring (well, mostly). -They're generally honest and straightforward; there's something it's hard to... well, not hate, that's easy, but to lack respect for, about a person who openly tells you that they hate you. It's still appalling,…
/r/MensRights18/09/23 01:53 AM
15

That's actually a very sensible and logical thing. Good for her!
/r/MensRights18/09/23 01:48 AM
27

And how many of them are given advice about improving their communications skills, or doing personal research to improve their sexual experiences, vs those who just get told "it's all his fault; he sucks, and not in a good way"? Don't answer that; I prefer my self-abuse to be of the old-fashioned and masturbatory kind.
/r/MensRights18/09/23 01:47 AM
2

Exactly.
/r/MensRights18/09/23 01:45 AM
6

Being challenged on using a word in Scrabble counts.
/r/MensRights18/09/23 01:42 AM
5

I haven't been- I've been using it in conversation for multiple decades now. Perks of dictionary ownership.
/r/MensRights18/09/23 01:42 AM
13

If women were more at risk of being sexually assaulted, they'd make up the majority of sexual assault victims. They don't.
/r/MensRights17/09/23 06:37 PM
59

Because that's seen as a form of personal accountability, which is anathema to them. Woman equals victim in the Feminist mindset, and any challenge to that idea is a direct threat.
/r/MensRights17/09/23 06:36 PM
3

At the start of the American Revolution, only about a third of the populace supported the rebels. Had the king stepped forward and just given them some seats in Parliament, the whole crisis might've fizzled away. Now, England had just had its own revolution a few decades earlier, and his hold on the throne was shaky, and the thought of Catherine or Frederick negotiating with a mob of rebels was laughable; any concession would've been seen as a sign of weakness, so it's understandable that he did…
/r/MensRights17/09/23 06:34 PM
9

Very true- but where is the country that doesn't?
/r/MensRights17/09/23 06:28 PM
7

It's not about insecurity, it's about ensuring that the entrenched power structures remain entrenched. I turned eighteen just as my country was gearing up to go stomp on Iraq again. I'd like you to consider the previous sentence. Put aside the "again", and the specific number of years I'd've had (given that I'm alive to be writing this), and how many different countries could I be from? How many different lands have gone on stomped on the Mesopotamians over the centuries? See, I didn't just thin…
/r/MensRights17/09/23 06:28 PM
6

Well, yeah, but we're talking about Fantasy Football. It's just D&D for the guys who bet up the D&D players in high school. Mockery is usually reserved for higher tiers of nerd.
/r/MensRights17/09/23 03:46 AM
1

Well, "celibate" means being unmarried, not not having sex, but that's not the issue. What is? Well, mental illness probably plays a part, but the bigger part is both simpler and deeper. Suppose you had to climb Mount Everest. That's a long process- not only do you need to make sure you're medical fit and a skilled enough hiker, you need a bunch of money, and to fill out a zillion or so forms. It's crazily risky, and if something goes wrong and you don't catch it in time, no one will be able to …
/r/MensRights17/09/23 03:09 AM
4

No, they have separate cars for women because of fear- just like they had separate parts of the bus for black people because of fear. You can hide from intelligence all you want, but the bottom line is that you're supporting exactly the same kind of discrimination blacks faced back then, and for exactly the same reasons. It doesn't become less bigoted just because it's a group you like.
/r/MensRights17/09/23 02:49 AM
5

So discriminating against black people, who have a much higher crime rate than other ethnicities, is "different" from discriminating against men, who have a much higher crime rate than the other sex? Bigotry isn't less ugly when it's yours.
/r/MensRights17/09/23 02:45 AM
-5

Are you seriously claiming that defying openly sexist discrimination is being disrespectful? Was Rosa Parks in the wrong for refusing to leave her seat when a white guy demanded it? How dare the man claim it's wrong to be discriminated against on the basis of sex! IN JAPAN. Next thing you know, he'll be saying Korean people have human rights too!
/r/MensRights16/09/23 08:52 PM
27

How do you figure? It's discriminating on the basis of an uncontrollable demographic characteristic that has no direct impact on the other people involved. Seems pretty damned similar to me.
/r/MensRights16/09/23 08:44 PM
16

Ah, thank you. Not sure why someone downvoted you just for giving a source. Anyway, that article takes a pretty damning tone- but anonymity of accusers and claims of "we've seen the evidence, but we can't show it to you" don't exactly impress me (even if I DO understand the reasoning for the latter). And of course, if it's all true, he's a pretty scummy guy- but then, that's a big if. What most caught my eye, though, was the reference to "freedom of information" requests. Does the UK have a FOIA…
/r/MensRights16/09/23 08:26 PM
6

And I'm glad to see I'm not the only one! It seems that people these days think that you what you stand against is more important than what you stand for. I guess Chesterton was right again; people don't differ much about what's evil, just about what evils are called excusable. Or what targets of evils, at least.
/r/MensRights16/09/23 08:00 PM
8

No. That has nothing to do with it (and is a Youtube link, but that's beside the point). The problem with McCarthy wasn't that his accusations were inaccurate, it was that he was calling for punishment with absolutely no due process; a direct repudiation of everything the Constitution- and the country- was supposed to stand for. McCarthy ought to have been driven from office, if not put on trial for treason. He was the embodiment of every negative thing said about conservatives of his era, and i…
/r/MensRights16/09/23 07:55 PM
2

In ads for plus size men's clothes. Fairness, now: how often do you see REGULAR-sized male models? They're out there, obviously, but men aren't valued for their looks the way women are, and consequently don't get as much of the same kind of attention. Though that may not be the case if you are, or hang around in the circles of, horny women.
/r/MensRights16/09/23 05:04 PM
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Having read the article, I have no idea what the accusations even ARE- the article doesn't say. And the article that it's quoting seems to be down (or just runs HTML 5 EMEs; can anyone else confirm?). So, what exactly is he supposed to have done? Congratulations, UK; you're worse than McCarthy. He at least SAID what horrible thing people supposedly did.
/r/MensRights16/09/23 05:01 PM
6

"When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression". It's funny how so many Feminist talking points apply primarily against themselves.
/r/MensRights16/09/23 12:02 PM
2

Yeah, there are pretty much NO circumstances where "blanket immunity to lawsuits" is a good idea. Doesn't matter where you agree with an individual situation or not. Checks and balances, people.
/r/MensRights16/09/23 12:01 PM
15

Well, yeah- they can't let any men have any of the precious victimhood points. And Feminism, you'll find, is all about misogyny; its core tenet is that women must be shielded from the horrors of agency.
/r/MensRights16/09/23 11:56 AM
1

...and you start with the perfect example: the bulk of the "Spanish" flu's victims weren't killed by influenza, but by bacterial infections caused by those damned masks they wore. For bonus points, guess who wrote what's widely considered the seminal paper on the subject: Anthony Fauci himself. But go ahead: keep telling yourself that cutting business hours and forcing everyone to shop at the same time will check the spread of a respiratory virus; that a disease that spread to humanity from anot…
/r/MensRights15/09/23 11:51 PM
3

Because the vast majority of people are heterosexual. It's become trendy to identify otherwise, but saying something doesn't make it true. And if, as the experts tell us, absolute heterosexuality is rare, well, that doesn't mean that most people are gay, just that they have some (usually quite minor) level of attraction to their own sex. It's a pretty far cry from that to absolute 50/50 bisexuality. Given that teachers presumably have some idea of the risks they're running, they're not likely to…
/r/MensRights15/09/23 12:14 PM
2

Because they're constantly told that Feminism wants to help men- and few people question it. Few people question anything that gets repeated often enough; just look at the Covid response. The parallels actually run pretty deep; doubting the declarations that centuries of understanding of medical science suddenly no longer applied got you harsh rebukes at best.
/r/MensRights15/09/23 12:11 PM
1

Whether it's "much" or not does not concern me. Whether it's "fair" does- and it isn't.
/r/MensRights15/09/23 01:46 AM
1

Oh, most likely she IS, to be sure- but it's not fair to condemn people for what they MIGHT be. That she's female doesn't change that.
/r/MensRights15/09/23 01:46 AM
2

Very true- but let's be fair; it's not like we know her attitudes bias her work. Minimum_direction (and many of us here) just suspect it.
/r/MensRights15/09/23 12:25 AM
5

The appropriate response is "Hamburger isn't a hill I want to die on, and to ensure I don't, I need men's rights". Probably too late now, though.
/r/MensRights14/09/23 11:32 PM
3

The word "ally" is a key part of the ideology: it's used to make them seem more sympathetic by spreading the idea that they're under attack.
/r/MensRights14/09/23 11:30 PM
2

It IS ahead of its time- if the future is so damn bleak and bigoted that I, for one, would be HAPPY to be dead. And it's useful to those who make a meal ticket out of it, much like the "anti-racist" people who were unwilling to let racism finish off its slow, agonizing death, since it meant they'd have to get real jobs. And that illustrates the problem with your penultimate sentence: it IS possible- you just have to be indoctrinated enough to not see calls for genocide as hatred. To see bigotry …
/r/MensRights14/09/23 11:29 PM
3

We don't have to- she already did. Those are the words that end the movie.
/r/MensRights14/09/23 12:50 AM
-4

None. Why? -Boycotting a helluva lot more than just not doing business with them; it's also not talking to them, not assisting them in any way, even to piss them out if they're on fire, and extending your boycott to anyone who does. It's not "not giving them money", it's a complete socioeconomic blockade (you may find it interesting, if depressing, to read up on conditions in Ireland at the time). That is NOT sustainable with companies like these. -These companies are enormous. Expecting them to…
/r/MensRights13/09/23 11:17 AM
5

No, even those that end in divorce mostly don't involve horrible child abuse.
/r/MensRights13/09/23 03:25 AM
9

Don't hold your breath. Remember the response to Valerie Solanas, who straight-up tried to murder a man for the terrible crime of... refusing to produce a play she had written. Solanas was clearly insane, so I don't hold her ACTIONS against the Feminists; any movement, grown large enough, will have its share of crazies. But look at NOW's response. Look at Steinem's. It's a hate movement, pure and simple.
/r/MensRights13/09/23 03:23 AM
1

And come to think of it, yes, Facebook IS better- or at least less bad. Social media's damaged individuals and the ways we communicate with each other digitally; Google's crippled the whole damn internet.
/r/MensRights12/09/23 09:54 PM
1

Dude, if you have to be explicitly told "this is not the only sign of trouble"...
/r/MensRights12/09/23 09:52 PM
3

In the sense of "suicides"? No. But if you mean "people who feel empathy for the experiences and struggles of others", then yes, I very much do. Men and women alike.
/r/MensRights12/09/23 11:14 AM
1

A rule of the modern world that no one seems to mention is to never trust a company that can't spell its own correctly. That includes "Googol", "Chick filet", "Flicker", "Tumbler", and a host of others, including "Tick Tock". You're well rid of them all, believe me.
/r/MensRights12/09/23 11:11 AM
5

In the sense of "suicides"? No. But if you mean "people who feel empathy for the experiences and struggles of others", then yes, I very much do. Men and women alike.
/r/MensRights12/09/23 11:06 AM
11

Probably worth making a complaint, then.
/r/MensRights12/09/23 11:01 AM
1

They think justice was done. So did the people who killed Emmet Till. The difference here is that Masterson can still appeal, and if- and I stress "if"; I don't know what happened- he wins, can be released. So the horrific destruction of due process we're living through is still a step forward. ...and that's my "depressing shit" threshold for the day; I'm off to look at pictures of cute dogs.
/r/MensRights12/09/23 01:03 AM
2

Tens or hundreds of millions dead over thousands of years says otherwise. Shouldn't? Absolutely. But not can't. Want to know how willing people are to defy authority figures when told to engage in illogical actions that openly, covertly, directly AND indirectly hurt them? Go back to March of 2020 and start questioning the narrative.
/r/MensRights12/09/23 12:58 AM
20

Um, forgive an internet stegosaurus, but is your school's "community page" something the school itself makes, or at least controls? Because this is body shaming at best, and hate speech at worst.
/r/MensRights12/09/23 12:54 AM
14

That's actually pretty universal for soldiers (regardless of branch). People continually blow sunshine up their asses, and continually vote for people who spend their lives like pocket change.
/r/MensRights12/09/23 12:47 AM
4

No kidding. It's really more "I need to know you're not a catastrophically inept serial killer". I mean, from an abstract perspective, I suppose I can understand preferring to be killed by a competent one, but I'd personally prefer to avoid it altogether.
/r/MensRights11/09/23 10:58 AM
9

I'm inclined to agree, but "there was an article or something" isn't exactly evidence. Nor is a woman outperforming a man evidence that bias against women doesn't exist, merely that it's not insurmountable. I'm pretty sure that, say, Mother Theresa would do better than Jeffery Dahmer.
/r/MensRights10/09/23 11:54 PM
29

This is just Malthusianism- a doctrine that's been preached for over two centuries- with a fresh coat of bioethicist paint. Putting aside the fact that Malthusianism has been disproven more thoroughly and continuously than tabula rasa, the justifications offered spring from exactly the same mindset that lead to the rise of eugenics in the nineteenth century. How about we just skip the horrible inhuman atrocities this time?
/r/MensRights10/09/23 01:30 PM
2

I agree wholeheartedly. In fact, given the way these things chain together, I'd say it could create positive change in most people's lives.
/r/MensRights03/09/23 03:16 PM
5

"Nothing but anecdotes"? Dude, I'm no fan of the tradcons, but capitalism, for all its many, MANY flaws, has produced more prosperity and stability than humanity has even known before. Socialism, for all its supposed virtues, has produced more misery and suffering than humanity has ever known before. Your "but it'll be different this time!"s have nothing but self-delusion to back them up. My assertions, on the other hand, have a century and a half of hard evidence-and on the pro-capitalism side,…
/r/MensRights03/09/23 02:10 PM
1

And that's a very odd choice, when you actually think about it: what is a rhino? A unicorn with bad PR. Well, the Javan ones, at least.
/r/MensRights03/09/23 02:03 PM
2

LGBT types aren't destroying the country; that honor goes to those who insist on abandoning the extremely left-wing ideals of free expression, due process, and meritocracy. That THEY have lost track of how minor the importance of one's demographics is doesn't mean that you should. This is "toxic liberalism" all over again.
/r/MensRights03/09/23 02:00 PM
9

Capitalism, like democracy, is the worst possible system- except for all the others. The sooner more socialists wake up to this, the sooner we can start confronting the problems with real solutions, instead of simply pretending that the fundamental realities of human existence will change if we want them too badly enough.
/r/MensRights03/09/23 01:55 PM
2

I see what you're saying, but I disagree- complex, widespread social change is necessary, but that doesn't mean individual suffering can't be alleviated by having better interpersonal connections and relationships in the meantime.
/r/MensRights03/09/23 01:51 PM
3

Ah. That would explain it.
/r/MensRights03/09/23 01:48 PM
2

Dude, control of the centralization of information is an "absolutely everyone" problem. And since what I'm doing is asking for clarification, bragging that I don't understand you isn't exactly a winning move. You don't gain points by being incoherent. So one more time: what are you trying to say?
/r/MensRights03/09/23 12:54 AM
8

But that's NOT hypocritical. This woman and those women are different people. Do you not understand they aren't a hive mind?
/r/MensRights02/09/23 11:57 PM
2

No, you are TRYING to make a point by linking to a youtube video to a guy whose browser doesn't support HTML 5 EMEs. The equivalent would be me linking to a Usenet post and assuming I'd won the argument. So, again, what are you trying to say?
/r/MensRights02/09/23 11:51 PM
1

Actually, no, they can't. Thanks to Biden's guidance from 20..11, was it? Anyway they're literally NOT ALLOWED to grant the accused basic due process rights, or they lose federal funding.
/r/MensRights02/09/23 10:02 AM
0

Browser restrictions sucked in 1995 and they suck now, dude. What are you trying to say?
/r/MensRights02/09/23 10:01 AM
35

So, it's not just Biden anymore. How the hell did "basic due process rights" become anathema to these people? I miss the days when McCarthyism was seen as a BAD thing.
/r/MensRights02/09/23 12:02 AM
10

"There would be consequences"? Not "Look, I know you had plans, but this is important to me"? Not "I don't want to take away time with your friends, but please come back with me now"? And that's on top of expecting you to pay for everything in a society where paying her less and/or refusing to hire her based on her sex is literally illegal? That's a level of disrespect I wouldn't tolerate from my arch-nemesis.
/r/MensRights02/09/23 12:00 AM
5

I would also clarify that it's "the only way to win is to not play", rather than "the only way to win is not to play". Yes, yes, I know; I've seen the movie, too, but if we're going for accuracy, rather than catchiness...
/r/MensRights01/09/23 11:51 PM
28

"Servant of the People"? Since when do your servants enslave you?
/r/MensRights01/09/23 12:18 AM
19

A noble idea, but, um, don't wait. It's been a hundred thousand years, and it still hasn't happened yet.
/r/MensRights01/09/23 12:17 AM
4

Other way around- Bar Mitzvah is for boys, bat for girls.
/r/MensRights01/09/23 12:13 AM
1

An implication doesn't mean much when it's coming from your political enemies.
/r/MensRights31/08/23 11:56 PM
11

It's not just division and bigotry, it's a call for genocide. It's no less a death threat than an SS uniform or a KKK hood. Frankly, it should be treated as such.
/r/MensRights31/08/23 10:58 AM
6

That's not an argument; that's a question. The answer is "then there will be a man in the women's bathroom". The idea is that this is somehow harmful- not that it gives the OPPORTUNITY for harm, which I suppose it does, but that it is actively harmful in and of itself- which is not only misandric, but misogynistic as well, since it's predicated on the idea that the mere proximity of testicles damages women.
/r/MensRights31/08/23 10:49 AM
-6

No, I've got the point down just fine. I'm not saying that men are angry, I'm saying that YOU are angry- or at least, that's how you come across. When you say " women are super picky and will almost subconsciously reject a ton of guys for the most minor and unexpected plethora of things" and "Women have become spoiled too spoiled and the concept of responsibility and handling rejection is foreign to them. This is why no matter what you say or do, women don't admit their own faults because they l…
/r/MensRights30/08/23 02:49 AM
-22

Yeah, it's almost as though they think someone prone to resentment and bitterness might not be fun to be around! If you're feeling that angry toward them, you probably shouldn't be looking for women right now. Do something else for a while; clear your head. Women have different biosocial drives, but they're people, too, not instinct-driven herd animals incapable of thought.
/r/MensRights29/08/23 10:47 PM
1

That... actually sums it up quite succinctly. Well put!
/r/MensRights29/08/23 12:00 AM
27

It's the same old idea: lack of accountability. It's just taken to a level so fundamental that I'm honestly waiting to hear someone complaining that their man won't even breathe for them, and they have to work their own lungs.
/r/MensRights28/08/23 10:39 AM
1

Ordinarily, that's what I'd assume, too, but I've seen far too many cases of patterns having purposes that no one knows about because they've been long forgotten to let it go unquestioned. One of the perks AND one of the downsides of autism.
/r/MensRights27/08/23 11:39 PM
1

Thanks. As you might imagine, this is a matter of absolutely no real importance; it's just sating my idle curiosity.
/r/MensRights27/08/23 11:38 PM
2

Actually, IS that normal? I don't mean to be dismissing your point and coming to grips with something irrelevant, but are men's bathrooms in Malaysia usually on the left? Here in the US, it's usually the right, and I've found myself wondering of late why that is; if it's subtle political statement or something to make it smoother for blind people or what.
/r/MensRights27/08/23 01:55 PM
3

So it's not something about female violence against men that you hate (or, rather, not that you're complaining about here; I doubt you're a fan of the thing itself), but the discussion around it. That seems like an important distinction to me.
/r/MensRights26/08/23 11:29 PM
1

...because a change in selective pressure is always permanent, and nothing ever changes back to the way it was before. Why don't you go ask some Denisovans their opinion on the matter? Oh, wait.
/r/MensRights26/08/23 02:27 PM
12

If he says the former, ask for some women's issues and return the favor; if the latter, ask him when.
/r/MensRights26/08/23 02:26 PM
1

And staying silent WILL destroy your life, unless someone speaks up. It's a question of math, not sociology. What would I do? What I did- spoke the truth and damned the torpedoes. Paid the price, and would do so again, because basic right and wrong don't depend on convenience. In my case, it wasn't about Feminism, but it WAS about bigotry, and if it ever gets stopped, I get to know I actually helped stop it. Give action a try before you knock it; you'd be surprised at how comforting it is- espec…
/r/MensRights26/08/23 02:24 PM
-1

Of course we have control- you can hide, never leave the house, and refuse to interact with anyone under any circumstances ever. Is that really the kind of life you want to lead?
/r/MensRights26/08/23 01:50 AM
1

Evidently, this was in Ukraine.
/r/MensRights25/08/23 11:18 PM
-4

Safe? How? You DO know you could be struck by lightning at any time without a moment's notice, right? Shot by a lunatic, blown up by a terrorist, hit by a meteorite... Avoiding one danger doesn't mean they all go away.
/r/MensRights25/08/23 11:16 PM
3

Um, because those things are traditionally seen as unfeminine, and so girls tend to have less of a reason to get into them? Not every woman is out to get you and destroy everything you love.
/r/MensRights25/08/23 11:13 PM
9

A man's world, perhaps- but not a men's world. It's about wealth and power, not gender.
/r/MensRights25/08/23 11:34 AM
2

It's basic Newtonian physics, dude: an object in motion will tend to remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. Are you going to call it out and BE the outside force? Are you going to rally your coworkers, call it out collectively, and BRING the outside force? Because if you sit idly by and let it happen, taking no action except bitching about it behind its back, you really have no room to complain.
/r/MensRights25/08/23 11:32 AM
1

Manos: the hands of fate was a particularly awful movie from 1966. It was featured in an early episode of MST3K, and was what I thought of when I first heard the term "Manosphere".
/r/MensRights25/08/23 11:27 AM
7

Sure there is- sales, property, licenses and permits... there're PLENTY of ways you'll pay taxes, even if income isn't one of them.
/r/MensRights25/08/23 01:34 AM
37

That actually sounds like a good idea.
/r/MensRights25/08/23 01:33 AM
17

Um, the people on this sub are (mostly) opposed to traditionalism, at least as far as men and expectations on them go. That's kinda why we're here. Me personally? Every last one of us is a joint project between a man and a woman, and it makes sense we'd have some combination of masculine and feminine traits. Usually one side is stronger than the other, largely, but not extremely, and usually, that's the side matching the sex you were born as. Sometimes those things aren't the case. It's foolish …
/r/MensRights25/08/23 01:32 AM
1

But not The Hands of Fate?
/r/MensRights24/08/23 11:05 PM
7

Why would the length of his hair have anything to do with it?
/r/MensRights24/08/23 11:03 PM
1

Well, if you wish to become "a better man", what are the areas you want to improve in? Money? Fitness? Knowledge? Art? Philosophy? How is it that you've reached adulthood and have nothing to for it? You don't have much money, okay, but have you learned nothing? Accomplished nothing? Never walked through the woods, or read In Search of Lost Time, or painted a portrait of yourself playing chess with a dragon? There are many here who will tell you to not focus on money, and then give you TONS of ad…
/r/MensRights23/08/23 09:15 PM
1

Yes, and the reason marriage is still pushed is because, quote "it can be absolutely fantastic when it works well". It offers GREAT stability, WHEN IT WORKS WELL. Lousy odds don't change that. Did all you people have your basic logic turned off or something? Do you know how you'd feel if you missed breakfast this morning?
/r/MensRights23/08/23 09:04 PM
1

The decline of Javascript lead to security risks in many web sites; the replacement settled on was encrypted media extensions (or EMEs), the basic upshot of which is that if you're not running Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, or Chrome, website functionality is reduced or absent. Microsoft tried the same thing back in '95, and the backlash was enormous, so they caved. By 2015, however, the tech literacy of the average internet denizen had fallen so far that websites no longer felt the need. B…
/r/MensRights23/08/23 09:00 PM
3

Man, a lot of people seem to be struggling with this assertion. I'll rephrase: winning the lottery makes you a lot wealthier; that's why people buy tickets. The odds of your winning a minuscule, and you'll usually end up poorer for it, but if you DO win, you'll have lots and lots of money. Marriage is kinda like that: the odds are against you (though for reasons far more complicated than mere math), but success is fantastic. Does that make it clearer?
/r/MensRights23/08/23 08:53 PM
1

Very true. You also don't need a fishing rod to catch fish.
/r/MensRights23/08/23 08:51 PM
1

As Noisy Corgi said below, it provides stability, the benefits of which are pretty self-evident. That it, in its diminished modern state, fails to do these things is a perfectly legitimate reason to avoid it, but to pretend these benefits don't, and never did, exist is just disingenuous.
/r/MensRights23/08/23 08:50 PM
1

Perfectly true. Why do you think it was established in the first place? Why, more importantly, do you think the outcome of a divorce reflects negatively on a marriage when it works well? If it's working well, the people don't GET divorced.
/r/MensRights23/08/23 08:49 PM
0

Have an explanation for those of us who don't play with EMEs?
/r/MensRights23/08/23 02:46 AM
1

Oh, absolutely- but not many women see it that way. And not without reason; society comes down much harsher on women who buck that trend. It's for them, not for men.
/r/MensRights23/08/23 12:35 AM
15

Um, menstruation isn't an "issue", full stop. It's a bodily function.
/r/MensRights23/08/23 12:02 AM
7

As others have noted, we're collectively not very conservative; we oppose much of modern liberal insanity, but we oppose much of modern conservative insanity, too; it's just quieter, given the platform. And on an individual level, we're a politically diverse bunch. To answer your question: the delineation between masculine and feminine in clothing is entirely artificial. I'm opposed to men "wearing girly clothes" when that means I'm expected to work in an overheated office with women a third of …
/r/MensRights23/08/23 12:00 AM
3

Split the difference: girly clothes with pockets! Having the option (well, having it socially acceptable) would make women a LOT happier. I don't know if you've ever seen a woman who's just gotten a new dress that actually has pockets, but every one I've ever encountered will gleefully run around showing them off to EVERYBODY. It's adorable, and is done even by the kind of women who'd beat the snot out of you if they learned you called them "adorable".
/r/MensRights22/08/23 11:56 PM
41

Because it can be absolutely fantastic when it works well. Because it benefits society, which does not give a damn about the people it hurts when it doesn't work well.
/r/MensRights22/08/23 11:52 PM
6

This crime has mostly male victims; women most affected.
/r/MensRights22/08/23 11:08 AM
1

No, I would ask for more information and seek to find the truth- and refrain from making ad hominem attacks. Not everyone's as cynical- or as stupid- as you are.
/r/MensRights22/08/23 01:43 AM
10

Because different cancers have different fatality rates, spread speeds, treatment options... A diagnosis of cancer is not a death sentence. Being killed IS.
/r/MensRights21/08/23 11:49 PM
5

Stupid people. Less plastic, more lead paint.
/r/MensRights21/08/23 11:37 PM
2

For those who aren't: if you really want to mimic the experience of being over six feet, then get yourself one of those drying bars you hang laundry on and put in a doorway at the level of your forehead. Then repeatedly walk into it while playing a looped recording of someone asking you to get something from atop the refrigerator. That's most of it.
/r/MensRights21/08/23 11:36 PM
1

Um, there would be a hell of a lot of problems if it were as simple as what I'm saying.
/r/MensRights21/08/23 11:31 PM
1

Yes. I genuinely believe in due process, and that accusation doesn't equal guilt. I guess I'm the only one.
/r/MensRights21/08/23 11:30 PM
37

Does it matter? Whether you're killed by a man or a woman or a rhinoceros, you're still just as dead.
/r/MensRights21/08/23 10:51 AM
10

In zero sum matters, "positive discrimination" is like "negative speed" or "twelve PM"- it doesn't exist.
/r/MensRights21/08/23 10:49 AM
-1

No. I'm talking about the tactics, not the targets.
/r/MensRights21/08/23 10:47 AM
-15

Wait- you're seeking to compile a list of people to condemn because of jobs they take portraying characters who they 1. aren't, since they're pretending, and 2. don't get to write? And then you're not even explaining why each individual is on your list? Elaborate, please- as it stands, this reeks of McCarthyist/MeToo bullshit, and we don't- or at least shouldn't- have any tolerance for that around here.
/r/MensRights21/08/23 12:38 AM
2

Ah, yes- abandon the life you have set up and create one that pleases ME, because obviously I know what's right for everyone. Sorry, dude- that didn't work for my mother, and it won't work for you.
/r/MensRights21/08/23 12:38 AM
1

Per the title of the post, yes. The comment was implying that women are more murder-prone, solely by virtue of being women. The reply was "that can't be derived from this article, because ALL [adult] females are women". No strawmen here.
/r/MensRights21/08/23 12:31 AM
1

That's not true at all. Look a few inches up your screen, dude: the comment "Not all women, but only women" was made, an ad hominem demonizing women by implying they're more likely to be serial killers. No_clothes just pointed out the stupidity of that by observing that yes, all FEMALE serial killers are, in fact, female. You can absolutely answer the sexist allegation that SpecificGlans made- No_clothes did. One of them got upvoted for the kind of bigotry we'd roundly condemn Feminists for; one…
/r/MensRights20/08/23 02:33 AM
3

Amen to that!
/r/MensRights19/08/23 10:30 PM
1

You lead rich fantasy life.
/r/MensRights19/08/23 10:29 PM
1

Very true.
/r/MensRights19/08/23 10:28 PM
1

Fair point.
/r/MensRights19/08/23 10:28 PM
10

You bring up an interesting point here- and through the one mistake you made. Orangutans don't have a complex social hierarchy, because they barely have a society to begin with. Environmental changes eons ago selected for apes living alone, aside from mothers and children, and that's how it goes today. There's almost no socialization among them once they reach adulthood (which takes longer than for every other primate, except us), especially for males (females will often seek out another mate an…
/r/MensRights19/08/23 04:52 PM
1

Changing the conditions we live in doesn't change the underlying realities, and it certainly doesn't change the PAST. You can argue that monogamy is outdated, but it's perfectly natural, and is the condition we evolved under. It's pretty damned laughable, however, to claim that play for pay is somehow a fairer system two sentences after saying monogamy's outdated because of government funding. You want prostitution, go ahead. But when she won't put out for you because the bank pays more, nature …
/r/MensRights19/08/23 04:32 PM
1

Not sure why you're being downvoted here; I don't know what SpecificGlans was expecting in a list of female serial killers. Kind of reminds of what Daryl Davis had to say. Let's take a look at how she ranks among UK serial killers as a whole. It looks like, in terms of convictions, Peter Manuel, Peter Sutcliffe, Dennis Nilsen, Harold Shipman, and the pair of Williams Hare and Burke surpassed her, so she'd rank sixth (or seventh, if you count the Williams separately). And now, having spent WAY to…
/r/MensRights19/08/23 03:22 PM
2

That they are. Of course, men aren't immune to it either, but our society really does its daughters a disservice by pushing learned helplessness on them.
/r/MensRights19/08/23 03:05 PM
7

Ever seen a king leading an army? Building a wall? Hell, volunteering at a soup kitchen? There's a reason the slogan is "girls rule", not "girls lead".
/r/MensRights19/08/23 02:43 PM
8

Agreed- but I'd add in the caveat of teaching your son to not need to belittle women. It's not like it's hard to see how anger can become resentment, and resentment hate. What's bad for the goose is bad for the gander, after all.
/r/MensRights19/08/23 02:41 PM
1

Monogamy is absolutely natural. Humans are K strategists, and our babies require an incredible amount of care and attention. Go around knocking up women, and you'll have no shortage of children, but your genes will still be selected against because they're FAR less likely to survive to adulthood. Natural selection doesn't change to suit your politics.
/r/MensRights19/08/23 02:40 PM
1

If you're looking for happiness, chasing money is even worse than chasing women.
/r/MensRights19/08/23 02:38 PM
7

Check the phone number; it's outside of the US. Different laws out there.
/r/MensRights19/08/23 02:35 PM
5

Wrong: Ukrainian men care. Very much. When all this is over, wait and see how they vote.
/r/MensRights19/08/23 02:24 PM
3

First, because the human brain is inherently wired to be discontented, to drive us to seek ever more, and secondly, because decades of Feminist indoctrination has convinced women that they're inherently victims, and anything working against that is obviously anti-woman.
/r/MensRights19/08/23 02:23 PM
1

...You should probably stop playing it, then. The game features some even nastier things later on. And you can stop worrying/hoping they'll reverse genders; the modern industry has attitudes better exemplified by the Saints Row remake, a game that thought a tire place called "Rim Jobs" was too offensive.
/r/MensRights19/08/23 12:56 AM
3

That particular character is supposed to a hot-blooded, angry psychopath- and I doubt you'll disagree that's how she comes across. If it helps, she DOES get what's coming to her in GTA 3. If it bothers you, well, that's unfortunate, but were you really expecting peaceful, respectful actions in a Grand Theft Auto game?
/r/MensRights18/08/23 11:47 PM
1

When them going topless stops getting attention. I wouldn't hold my breath...
/r/MensRights18/08/23 11:44 PM
10

Because more women vote.
/r/MensRights18/08/23 11:43 PM
6

I'm sorry to hear that. I don't have anything directly to offer, but in case it helps: when I was going through some old documents after my father died, I found a pamphlet about fathers' grief after a miscarriage (my mother'd had one three years after I was born). It mentioned that men's feelings in that situation were usually ignored, and that wasn't healthy. While I know it's not the same thing, looking into that area might point you towards someone or something that can help.
/r/MensRights18/08/23 12:35 AM
11

Strength. Have you ever tried lifting a chess piece? Some of them are upwards of three quarters of an ounce!
/r/MensRights18/08/23 12:31 AM
1

Autism.
/r/MensRights18/08/23 12:30 AM
2

I was going to say, isn't the corollary that you have to deal with men? Are you failing to see the grass on the other side as greener, lumpy?
/r/MensRights18/08/23 12:29 AM
1

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes- but then, Amazon; that's probably what you're looking for. In case it isn't, let me put in a word for the Gutenberg project, which collects copies of public domain works and distributes them freely (and legally, because they're public domain); all the great old works of literature you've never got around to reading are out there and available. And Gutenberg's sub-project, Librivox, has public domain audiobook versions, too. Those are a bit more hit-or-miss, …
/r/MensRights18/08/23 12:27 AM
4

The UK and everywhere else, yes.
/r/MensRights16/08/23 11:00 PM
9

But Scotland eroding due process is going to turn out just fine, everybody. No need to worry at all.
/r/MensRights16/08/23 10:55 PM
2

I don't think anyone advocating murder- let alone COMMITTING murder- is going to be swayed by the name of Christ, dude.
/r/MensRights16/08/23 10:54 PM
4

When I first heard the phrase "drug czar", I thought it was the leader of the opposition- that this was the President of drugs. I congratulate you, Scotland, on finding something even stupider to appoint a czar of, and you, world, for apparently having absolutely nothing real to complain about, even as economic meltdowns are pushing us toward a third World War.
/r/MensRights16/08/23 10:00 AM
27

Don't forget that she earns enough to take three-week vacations.
/r/MensRights15/08/23 10:29 AM
1

...stay rich, dude. You couldn't handle poverty.
/r/MensRights15/08/23 12:14 AM
1

Being fat doesn't make you poor. And if you think being skinny makes you rich, I suggest you talk to some homeless people.
/r/MensRights14/08/23 11:09 AM
7

You're wrong here- so wrong you're almost right. Life isn't short; not at all. It's long- the longest thing you'll ever do. And it's far, far too LONG for that kind of negative energy.
/r/MensRights14/08/23 11:06 AM
24

Tradcons gonna tradcon. What were you expecting? That it's the liberal side of society that's currently gone insane doesn't mean that's the way it always, or even usually, works, and it certainly doesn't mean that the alternative is better.
/r/MensRights14/08/23 10:58 AM
4

"Don't even bother leaving the plantation, boys!".
/r/MensRights14/08/23 10:56 AM
12

Morons gonna moron. Don't let comments on social media affect your perception of reality.
/r/MensRights13/08/23 09:47 PM
5

Are there no ex post facto protections in English law?
/r/MensRights13/08/23 02:53 PM
2

Combat it politely, but directly and unambiguously. See a posting for a "female only" job? Flag it, making a note that discrimination on the basis of sex is illegal. It goes up again? Go to the authorities. They refuse to act? Go to the press. Yes, you'll be laughed at. Yes, you'll be derided and lose friends. Yes, you may even be physically attacked. But a social trend in motion will tend to remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside force, and an outside force WILL eventually come to act…
/r/MensRights13/08/23 02:53 PM
4

"Discrimination has become unpopular again, so we need to discriminate much harder before it's seen as unacceptable!".
/r/MensRights13/08/23 02:39 PM
1

Yes, you do- you discriminate, you have no right to complain about discrimination. You don't get to say it's only bad when someone else does it, but it's okay when YOU do, because you're already a victim. You sound like a fucking Feminist.
/r/MensRights13/08/23 03:41 AM
0

That's bullshit and you KNOW it. This isn't failing to stop a widespread social problem that you have no power over, it's choosing to actively expand it by engaging in the objectionable behavior yourself. You're telling him to become a discriminating sexist, and encouraging exactly what you decry. You do that, and you forfeit your right to complain about it, full stop.
/r/MensRights12/08/23 02:11 PM
7

I don't think lack of facts is the problem- it's lack of empathy.
/r/MensRights12/08/23 12:29 AM
0

No, we need fewer trolls.
/r/MensRights12/08/23 12:20 AM
1

And as long as women are still getting raped, they'll see no problem with further eroding due process and enacting policies hostile to innocent men. You're letting the opposite sex become the enemy sex, dude. If you don't act better than they do, what grounds do you have to complain about their actions?
/r/MensRights12/08/23 12:08 AM
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And it wasn't this young woman, either. Victimizing innocent people is kinda the whole problem; doing exactly the same thing leaves you little room to complain.
/r/MensRights11/08/23 11:06 AM
-10

For what it's worth, thank you- some people spend so much time around here, they start to see anyone lacking a Y chromosome as an enemy.
/r/MensRights11/08/23 11:05 AM
1

Good to know what Jack Thompson's up to these days, I guess.
/r/MensRights11/08/23 11:03 AM
13

It's not just a hate movement, it's also a political one. Remember the Kavanaugh hearings? Actually, it's primarily a political one. It's McCarthyism in prettier clothes, and lead by the other party. You're accused of a crime so terrible that no evidence is necessary, and punishment must immediately follow, or our society is corrupt. Sound familiar?
/r/MensRights11/08/23 01:36 AM
7

Don't forget that, until 1971 (in the US, at least), military slavery kicked in three years BEFORE you got the right to vote. You had NO voice in deciding who took office. Today, you have a vote in choosing four out of the 536 people who make the laws, which is less than three quarters of a single percentage point. That this is actually vast step FORWARD should embarrass us all.
/r/MensRights10/08/23 12:15 AM
3

I think Louis Sako might have something to say about that. Francis, too. /s
/r/MensRights08/08/23 01:03 AM
3

Interesting choice of analogy- have you seen the first Rambo movie? Or read the first book? It's actually predicated around (not overtly, but it's pretty obvious if you stop and think about it) the same way men are seen as fundamentally disposable- and in pretty much the worst way.
/r/MensRights07/08/23 09:02 PM
5

The proper response to an accusation of "mansplaining" is to say "Oh, I didn't realize you were shetarded". When they balk at that (and they will), tell them to "quit ovaryacting". Put in a little forethought, and you'll find you can outlast ANY of these people in a sexist pun contest.
/r/MensRights07/08/23 08:57 PM
1

I meant WOPR, but HAL's actually a pretty good fit; too: its whole problem was that it was given two mutually exclusive instructions, and it found a way to fulfill both of them. That way happened to be "kill everyone", which leaves a lot to be desired, but it's usually condemned as evil (by people who haven't read the book or seen the second movie), so...
/r/MensRights07/08/23 06:43 AM
3

I grew up in a family that embodied the old-style Catholic family structure of a large, close-knit extended family, and reaped the benefits of it from infancy. It was a tradition dying out even then; which I lament. There's no reason it need be religious, but providing a strong family structure helps kids in SO many ways... I see no problem with permanent relationships that don't involve marriage, so long as everyone involved is upfront about it. Why so many women want marriage so badly yet stay…
/r/MensRights07/08/23 06:16 AM
2

So Google, a company that bubbles your search results, is giving you search results you don't like? And your response is to come here and complain about it, rather than just switching to another search engine? We had this problem solved in 1994. Never trust a company that can't spell its own name correctly.
/r/MensRights07/08/23 06:05 AM
1

I recall a certain computer having something to say about that...
/r/MensRights07/08/23 06:03 AM
36

This sub doesn't really have a given set of views; we're pretty diverse, perspective-wise. Just about the only thing we've all got in common is a desire for men to get a fairer shake. Funnily enough, it was while I was on a long car trip I hadn't had time to prepare for (and so didn't get to stop at the library to grab some audiobooks) and happened to be flipping through radio stations that I landed on an interview with some FTM transsexual folks on what seeing both sides of the coin was like, a…
/r/MensRights05/08/23 09:39 PM
9

The way that word gets tossed around is little short of disgraceful, and I felt that way BEFORE I was shot. Anyone else have "see someone referred to as a 'littering survivor'" on their Modern Social Bullshit bingo card?
/r/MensRights05/08/23 09:34 PM
2

It still exists because a decade or two of social change doesn't override millions of years of natural selection.
/r/MensRights05/08/23 02:03 AM
2

Because the Pax Americana the world's had for the past thirty, and arguably past sixty, years has enabled a worldwide level of prosperity unimaginable in most of human history. Bluntly, the real question is why we don't charge for it. Beyond that- contractors. I read transcriptions of vicious political debates arguing why F-35s (whose costs range from 150-350 million bucks a pop) were necessary to fight the Taliban, whose air force was so old their planes still had Soviet logos on them.
/r/MensRights05/08/23 01:58 AM
2

It's not hatred, just underestimation. Women aren't taken seriously, even as predators. The counter isn't to quibble over semantics, but to ask her what her solution is. If it's anything other than "prosecute them as if they were men" (I'm not sure exactly HOW you'd do that, but still), then she's arguing that women somehow ARE less accountable, instead of simply being treated that way. THAT is misogyny. You want women to be treated equal to men in sin as well as in virtue? Great! We could certa…
/r/MensRights05/08/23 01:52 AM
2

Funnily enough, as a long-time user of a browser with no HTML EME support (and a longer-term believer in not trusting any company that can't spell its own name correctly), I can't watch most videos online, but I've seen these things firsthand. Do female gamers face harassment? Absolutely. Do they face it for being female? Not a bit. Where there ARE some physiological advantages to being male in gaming, they're quite minor; the bigger issue, though, is that there are few serious physiological adv…
/r/MensRights05/08/23 01:46 AM
1

Once again, "The struggles of asian men are unique". He's claiming nothing BUT a higher tier of victimhood.
/r/MensRights05/08/23 01:38 AM
13

Nerd culture is a deeply egalitarian space, and she and her ilk assumed they'd be welcomed. But it's egalitarian because it's deeply masculine, and overwhelmingly meritocratic-antithetical to the whole family of ideologies Anita represents. The infestation's already deep; cutting out one source won't fix the problem.
/r/MensRights04/08/23 07:09 AM
1

...which would be a completely valid point, had he not claimed a higher tier of victimhood.
/r/MensRights04/08/23 07:01 AM
1

Wrong one.
/r/MensRights04/08/23 07:00 AM
-8

That it's a far bigger issue than just sexism.
/r/MensRights03/08/23 01:02 AM
-5

"The struggles of asian men are unique" ::Laughs in black woman::
/r/MensRights03/08/23 12:59 AM
2

By that logic, we can't claim that Asian men tend to be shorter, because that's the result of genetic programming. Reasoning only in absolute abstraction is just an evasion.
/r/MensRights03/08/23 12:58 AM
-31

Until the military arrests every member of the SS and hands them over for trial, they have no business calling themselves "defense". It won't stop them, either.
/r/MensRights03/08/23 12:48 AM
2

No- I was trying to evade it; and fight it, if necessary. She wanted me to sign up, thinking it would never come up. It didn't, but it was a close thing; had "the surge" failed...
/r/MensRights02/08/23 04:46 AM
2

I'd intended to simply not do it; had they come after me, I'd've sued. It wouldn't've worked, any more than it did in 1917, but I'd've tried. Mom simply didn't want to see me suffer any more than I had to; I pointed out that I would fare VERY badly in prison, which is where I'd end up, one way or another, if it came to that.
/r/MensRights01/08/23 07:10 AM
8

It is. Calling it "service" is like saying slaves "served" in the salt mines, or the cotton fields, or wherever slaves in your country were forced to work.
/r/MensRights31/07/23 03:56 AM
-2

Given the damage that can be done to a child raised without a father, I find it exceptionally unlikely that there aren't similar levels of damage done being raised without a mother. What plans do you have for someone to fill that role?
/r/MensRights31/07/23 03:46 AM
2

Yes, yes I do mean that about my father- he knew firsthand what it was like to live in fear that way; if his generation had half a spine, they'd've made even suggesting the idea political suicide; they didn't. Nor did he. It's one thing to underrate a danger that's purely theoretical to you; to ignore it despite having faced it requires willful denial- or idiocy. And my mother saw the letter from the SS and panicked, then open it, read it, realized it was a response to an application, and was re…
/r/MensRights31/07/23 03:40 AM
3

Because there's nothing like sexual repression and denial of reality to make you feel more fulfilled! That's why the Catholic Church has NO problems with its priests!
/r/MensRights30/07/23 06:10 AM
3

I turned eighteen as the country was gearing up to go stomp Iraq into the ground. When the SS letter came, I had no intention of registering, and had the biggest fight with my mother I ever had- enough that we were still going at it when dad got home. Dad, who'd been running up on eighteen when Vietnam ended. Dad, who'd known guys who'd been sent over and hadn't come back. Dad, who'd back me up on this. Dad, who demanded to know what was going on, took the letter I handed him, and collapsed into…
/r/MensRights30/07/23 06:09 AM
2

I'm old enough that I saw the change (well, part of the change) of the attitude toward World War one vets, from "great heroes who defeated the Huns" (who weren't actually involved in that war, since they'd ceased to exist as a cultural entity centuries earlier, but then, history is hard) to "dupes who got slaughtered over a political shit fight". It won't be too much longer before we see that start to happen with WW2 vets, and yet no one's going to learn.
/r/MensRights30/07/23 05:58 AM
5

Don't forget that when things go wrong, like Abu Grahib or My Lai, the individual soldiers are rarely the ones blamed, much less prosecuted; it's the ones in charge. The old "I was just following orders" when it's bad, but "I'm a hero!" when it's good. Being an American who neither worships nor demonizes soldiers is politically lonely; being one who points out they're just more manipulated saps is the rare statement that can turn an entire bar fight against you.
/r/MensRights30/07/23 05:56 AM
5

True, but it's naive to think that people are going to vote for something that places them in danger while there's another group who'll be forced to do it first. The ethical thing to do would be to ban the practice entirely, but that's not practical at the moment; the Russian war machine would see it as a sign of weakness (not that governments would be likely to do so when it wasn't impractical).
/r/MensRights30/07/23 05:48 AM
1

Other way around. "People" [well, "men", but the idea is the same] "of color" is straight out of Jim Crow law.
/r/MensRights30/07/23 05:40 AM
33

-Complains about black people being thought of as "lesser". -Refers to them, in the same sentence, with a racial slur. Nothing like logical consistency, is there?
/r/MensRights29/07/23 10:49 AM
3

You think that's weird? From Detroit, if you go SOUTH, you're in Windsor, Ontario.
/r/MensRights29/07/23 03:40 AM
-6

Some important caveats to what you said there, but thanks.
/r/MensRights28/07/23 03:44 AM
2

I agree. Moral panics never help.
/r/MensRights28/07/23 03:43 AM
2

In casual conversation, I fall back on some variation of "Drop that McCarthyist bullshit RIGHT NOW". It might not work outside of the US, but most of these thugs are so brainwashed with the idea of "anything conservative (or, heaven help you, Republican) is inherently wrong and bad" that it'll give them pause, and those who are more reasonable and understand that morality has nothing to do with party will pause and reflect. It doesn't have the same impact in discussions online, or more in-depth …
/r/MensRights27/07/23 10:40 PM
5

Not that I'm saying you're wrong, but do you have a source for that?
/r/MensRights27/07/23 10:34 PM
58

If your attempt succeeds, you don't make any more.
/r/MensRights27/07/23 10:33 PM
5

Thanks for ignoring the rebuttal by calling it "dodging the point'.
/r/MensRights27/07/23 07:32 PM
3

Ask Shane Seyer!
/r/MensRights27/07/23 07:03 PM
1

It's easy to understand if you let go of the idea that red flags are objective. For that kind of woman, hating Taylor Swift is a sign that you're not a good match. Better to find out early and be able to avoid one another.
/r/MensRights27/07/23 05:44 AM
3

Either lovers of terrorism or terrorist stamps.
/r/MensRights27/07/23 12:15 AM
3

Actually, men do for the same reason women do: the allure of hopelessness. Feminism's all about making women see themselves as powerless and oppressed, held down by a brutal world that wants nothing but to exploit them and make them suffer, and the only thing that can help you is... Feminism. As Miles Vorkosigan said, "If there's nothing that can be done, you don't have to feel like a piece of shit for not doing it. You can just lay there and stink in peace.". Building up physical strength is ha…
/r/MensRights26/07/23 06:11 PM
15

How, exactly, is this a loss for men if he didn't do the things he was accused of? I'll be the first to admit that a lot hangs on that word- "if"- but he was tried in court, with full due process, no?
/r/MensRights26/07/23 06:01 PM
20

Someone making an accusation on social media isn't proof of guilt; it's not even evidence of guilt.
/r/MensRights26/07/23 05:59 PM
1

No, it's NOT "essentially free". Taxes don't come out of thin air; I'm paying them. If I break my leg now, I'm not going bankrupt; I have insurance. A company that I chose out of dozens, and if they fail me, I can change it with a phone call. I can't change a government without a revolution. If the healthcare system of the US was "utterly garbage", you wouldn't have people from every other country in North America trying to get in to take advantage of it. Does it have serious problems? Yes. Is i…
/r/MensRights26/07/23 04:42 AM
0

I'm all in favor of it. I'm a big believer in the importance and value of a strong family presence in people's lives, and see no reason consenting adults should be discriminated against on the basis of sex. I do have some concerns about same-sex adoption, but that's "we should keep on an eye on the long-term effects of this", not "this is the devil's work". I also maintain that whatever harm may come from it would be mitigated by a large extended family presence in the kids' lives, which is just…
/r/MensRights25/07/23 08:07 PM
1

Then it's not free. It's actually quite expensive- government-funded programs are never cheaper, unless they're taking over from a monopoly. Even then, they don't STAY cheaper. And in light of recent government dictates, it's downright childish to say we'd do well by letting them make our medical decisions.
/r/MensRights25/07/23 07:58 PM
7

DARVO attacking doesn't work here, dude- you explicitly say that people have obligations based on their gender, then claim my pointing out your fallacies makes ME look weak. You need to reason better; this ain't TwoX. Then you claim I'm not smart enough to understand. I am; that's why I call it out. I'll admit I stand corrected; you're not letting anger blind your judgement. Just bigotry. Shame.
/r/MensRights25/07/23 04:33 AM
6

You're oversimplifying. When you're in a relationship with another person (romantic or otherwise), you give and take. You can argue about where those lines should be drawn, and how much of an obligation they should be considered; all well and good. But those obligations are EARNED. They're not handed out simply because of gender. To use your own example: if you had a son, would you tell him to hold back and let some random woman take his spot in a lifeboat? If not, your reasoning doesn't work, b…
/r/MensRights25/07/23 12:48 AM
3

Thank you.
/r/MensRights25/07/23 12:41 AM
1

Logical counterpoint: teachers shouldn't have to moonlight as beggars.
/r/MensRights25/07/23 12:40 AM
7

Yes. But they're also people, and capable of seeing beyond their own immediate interests, to see whether something is of value to society. Instinct guides you, it doesn't control you. Many are also of a conservative or religious background that values marriage, and worry about the damage being done to it as an institution.
/r/MensRights25/07/23 12:36 AM
4

Good points- mostly. I have to contest the one claiming that "American men die at an overall rate 1.4 times higher than American women"- each of dies, and dies only once. What exactly does your assertion mean? I'd rephrase it.
/r/MensRights24/07/23 07:42 PM
14

Because he's in position to now. More to the point, because he's a populist leader who's running for President, so moves like this are to be expected; they get attention, and earn you support.
/r/MensRights24/07/23 07:36 PM
7

This is why so many places have so-called "Romeo and Juliet" laws.
/r/MensRights24/07/23 01:25 AM
7

Fairness, now- if she's just been arrested, she hasn't been tried yet. It's hardly fair to expect (or even to call for) someone being punished based on nothing but an accusation, or even an arrest. In light of what's going on in Scotland, this IS getting somewhere.
/r/MensRights24/07/23 01:24 AM
48

...How long has it been since you've seen a Disney movie? This is about as "unexpected" as a lack of rain in the Kalahari.
/r/MensRights24/07/23 01:20 AM
3

Talk to her honestly- but not harshly. And don't mention Feminism. Say something like "I'm concerned about what I've been hearing from you; things you've been saying have some nasty sexist implications, and I'm wondering whether you've thought them through". If she's too far gone, she'll attack you, but if she isn't, then it's critical that you not make her feel attacked. Opening up a dialogue with her could help both of you; it'd definitely help her if she's edging in that direction. The lure o…
/r/MensRights23/07/23 02:56 AM
11

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.". That actually goes both ways, though- why are you looking for reason in TwoX? It may be that some of the people there aren't too far gone to be hoped for, but you're not going to get through in that accursed place.
/r/MensRights23/07/23 02:46 AM
2

A big part of it is the destruction of platonic relationships- obviously not in reality, but depicted in culture. The attitude that ANY level of fondness for a person must be sexual, or at least romantic, in nature has crippled young people. Attitudes toward homosexuality make it even worse.
/r/MensRights22/07/23 04:12 AM
1

I think the idea is that it's due to outside action, and not accomplishments or achievements of your own. It's also less stable, given it's, y'know, government-funded, and subject to being withdrawn or used to manipulate you into undesirable courses of action.
/r/MensRights21/07/23 07:47 PM
3

Before what, exactly? We tell them to fuck off? Most- or at least many- of us already have; we don't expect fairness or reasonability from them, any more than we would from the KKK. We just let them preach their hate, since free speech is an important social value, even more than a legal one. They're sad, hateful little-minded bigots, and refuse to try to become anything more. Let them be.
/r/MensRights21/07/23 07:33 PM
31

Evidently, they've somehow figured out how to fire Nerf guns with their genitals. Which, you have to admit, is kind of impressive.
/r/MensRights20/07/23 06:16 PM
16

Inertia. An object at rest is likely to remain at rest unless acted upon by an outside force- but an idea at rest ain't gonna move without an army behind it.
/r/MensRights20/07/23 07:19 AM
20

Nothing says "emotional maturity" like self-delusion!
/r/MensRights19/07/23 05:52 PM
3

...Or they just have limited special offers at the moment. Keep things in perspective.
/r/MensRights19/07/23 05:44 PM
5

Moderation is the death of happiness.
/r/MensRights18/07/23 07:38 PM
5

I'm glad to hear you're doing okay- I want to clarify again that I don't condone killing over this; yourself OR someone else.
/r/MensRights17/07/23 06:57 AM
11

Here's the thing: sooner or later, some desperate fool is going to start thinking, and he's going to realize that there's only one way out. And he's going to kill his ex. And while I want to make it extremely clear that I don't approve of or support that in any way, when the logical conclusion is "kill this person", the system needs to change. I'd prefer that to happen WITHOUT more suffering, and with as few additional corpses as possible- but the laws are pushing towards that, and the legislato…
/r/MensRights17/07/23 03:42 AM
1

And you base that assertion on... what, exactly? Do you think Putin is outright insane? He doesn't just want the land, he wants the people- and he won't have them if they all DIE.
/r/MensRights17/07/23 03:37 AM
1

Ah, yes, the "it's okay if everyone does it mentality. I guess human sacrifice and genocide are dandy, too! And if the country WANTED to fight, the people would be fighting, and they wouldn't need slaves.
/r/MensRights16/07/23 05:20 PM
4

Any country that enslaves its own populace isn't worth saving. And yet, more money than everyone who will ever read this will pay in taxes throughout their entire lives- everyone COMBINED- is sent in to prop up a corrupt regime that couldn't be bothered find ways to protect itself even after its neighbor stole of chunk of it, simply because it's being invaded by a corrupt regime that's trying to once again build glory atop a pile of skulls. And I'll get downvoted to oblivion by a crowd of zealot…
/r/MensRights16/07/23 04:44 AM
2

It also says that you shouldn't. I'd point out that for all its flaws, Catholicism is the only religion (so far as I know) that's banned the practice outright.
/r/MensRights16/07/23 04:32 AM
3

Don't forget being straightforward and upfront in your desires, and rejecting "You should know what I want!" outright, having been on the other side of it so many times.
/r/MensRights14/07/23 08:00 PM
55

No. You're within a hair's breadth of the truth here, but you're not quite there. If they wanted, more than anything else, to be victims, they'd viciously attack any disparities that disadvantaged men, because that would make their claims of victimhood more legitimate. They want to be seen as victims. Miles Vorkosigan put it best: "If there's nothing that can be done, you don't have to feel like a piece of shit for not doing it. You can just lie there and stink in peace.". But now that victimhoo…
/r/MensRights14/07/23 07:48 PM
1

Well, at least you're putting some thought into it. But that's still not going to work; if they see you specifically not getting the door for THEM, they're going to assume bigotry (which is not incorrect), and resent you for it. If the goal is spiting women, it'll work great; if it's actually improving things, it's going to backfire.
/r/MensRights14/07/23 07:35 PM
0

Let's think this through. What proportion of women can smoothly carry hundred-pound bags of cement around? I don't know, but I'd guess it's pretty small; that's a problem for women entering that field. Okay, now why do those bags weigh 100 pounds? Because men in the industry CAN carry those bags. There's no reason they HAVE to be that heavy; it's just the breakpoint of efficiency vs difficulty that the company making them has decided on. Have women take over the world, and you'd see a LOT of cha…
/r/MensRights14/07/23 01:50 AM
3

Thank you for bringing that up; a lot of people here these days seem to be downright hostile and frankly spoiling for a fight. A voice of reason is much appreciated. That said, it may be that it was brought up in a calmer way, or even naturally from a related conversation, and Pulsar just didn't start this post that way. Let's be reasonable all around.
/r/MensRights14/07/23 01:41 AM
5

If more men were like the OP, we'd have MORE entitled women. Bringing up a conversational topic that's likely to provoke a fight is asking for trouble; bringing up one in a way that's likely to provoke a fight is begging for it. If accusatory antagonism worked to convince people, we'd all be good little Feminists. It's no better when you do it.
/r/MensRights14/07/23 01:40 AM
23

Not to mention that someone with a less sensitive penis is usually going to get less pleasure out of sex, and so be less likely to seek it out, and thus less likely to get AIDS. But if THAT reasoning's going to stand, it'd be far more moral to just buy them a D&D book and a set of dice.
/r/MensRights14/07/23 01:35 AM
-3

For me, specifically? Just fine. I live in a human-sized world and treat people with kindness, regardless of gender, race, and age. It's a lot more pleasant than what all of you seem to desire.
/r/MensRights14/07/23 01:32 AM
-9

And you think that refusing to open doors for people, or even pay basic attention to them, is going to make them hate us LESS?
/r/MensRights13/07/23 03:51 PM
1

That's my point.
/r/MensRights13/07/23 03:49 PM
-2

Want to get REAL depressed? Run it against a "days since mass shooting" counter. And then a "days since a source in the media pointed out the discrepancy" counter. Admittedly, it's easier to recover from the trauma of sexual assault than from being shot and killed, but still...
/r/MensRights12/07/23 06:10 PM
13

Of course not. Like pretty much all hate movement members, they're cowards- that's why they're hiding on social media instead of DOING something about it. Expecting logic and personal accountability from that place is like expecting it from the KKK subreddit. They're small-minded, hateful people, and telling us that they're small-minded and hateful isn't exactly news.
/r/MensRights12/07/23 06:06 PM
45

It IS- if you're willing to live humbly and, most likely, romantically alone, but with roommates. I spent years as a school bus driver, entirely self-sustaining working 4-5 hours a day, five days a week, at a job with no heavy lifting and no degree requirements. It meant renting a room from someone, and driving an old and clunky car, but it was entirely doable. If you're willing to do more and work harder, you can probably sustain a financially better existence without TOO much more struggle. In…
/r/MensRights12/07/23 06:29 AM
-1

...and that would be awful. No, seriously- how often do we see, and complain of, and suffer from, the damage suffered by children who grew up without a father? Would you really create a generation that grows up without a mother, purely out of spite for women's superior social position? Do you really not think that'd be damaging to a similar degree, if not the same way? Let's not lose sight of the victims of our would-be utopias.
/r/MensRights11/07/23 05:16 PM
2

No, just impractical. Remember that they saw firsthand how easily it could defeated when Anakin blew up the control ship in orbit.
/r/MensRights11/07/23 05:12 PM
5

You're not the only one. Looking around at the way things are now... it makes me grateful to be autistic. Epigenetics kicked me out of the dating pool before I was even born, and it's a sick society indeed where a person like me looks around at what happened to the people who weren't and feels lucky. Awful, but there's really nothing I can about it. So I'll just accompany the fiddlers on the bagpipe.
/r/MensRights09/07/23 12:23 AM
3

It shouldn't. Remember when you chose to be attracted to adults? Of course not- you didn't. And they didn't choose to be attracted to children- which, at 13, they're almost certainly not. Stigmatize a mental illness, and you not only ensure that no one's going to admit to it, and thus get the help they need, but no one's going to be willing to work on solutions for it, and thus give options to the first group. We don't need MORE needless suffering by people based on the demographic characteristi…
/r/MensRights09/07/23 12:15 AM
9

So... some people had trouble with their fathers and a bad home life, and so we try to erase the very idea of fatherhood from the world as they experience it, rather than show them a better way? Don't just run from your problems, but push everyone else into running from THEIRS? Some people object to the more limited role of women in the Church, and so rather than open up a dialogue to discuss the matter like rational adults, you hide behind anonymity and seek to de-gender everything. This from t…
/r/MensRights08/07/23 02:47 AM
2

Star Trek was an overly sanitized view of humanity's future as a glorious atheist utopia, seen through the psychological lens of a solider and police officer. Babylon 5 is a much more honest and direct view of humanity, in all of its pettiness, virtue, ignominy and glory, seen through the psychological lens of a psychologist and sociologist. Themes of "people in space" aside, they're very different shows. I rewatch it every couple of years, and always catch something I missed before. It was a ma…
/r/MensRights08/07/23 02:32 AM
2

::Sigh:: Excuse me, I need to go borrow a cane so I can shake it and yell at you to get off my lawn. Morden (referred to as "Mister" Modern, even though "Doctor" would have been his appropriate title) was a character on the TV show Babylon 5, who acted as a representative of certain unspecified and unknown agents whom he referred to "my associates".
/r/MensRights08/07/23 02:11 AM
3

Men in Ukraine are being forced to go out and get slaughtered by the Russians, lest they get slaughtered by their own government (or, if the war is lost, by the Russians). Men in Russia are being forced to go out and get slaughtered by the Ukrainians, lest they get slaughtered by their own government (or, if the war isn't won, by international sanctions). Who, exactly, respects their men more? The country that declares their lives a public resource to be spent because they're too damn lazy or st…
/r/MensRights07/07/23 10:56 PM
3

You know how some businesses insist on referring to their customers as "guests" (and yet ignore the legal distinctions that implies) and their employees as "associates" (and yet never understand when you tell them "I appreciate it, Mister Morden")? Those are the kind of business you want to stay away from; even if they're not up to anything, it makes them sound like they are- euphemizers are inherently untrustworthy. Similar are those describing themselves as "sex-positive"- but them, you want t…
/r/MensRights07/07/23 10:49 PM
5

Technically not true- you can also go to jail! Unless De Santis become governor of the UK while I wasn't paying attention; then you're screwed.
/r/MensRights07/07/23 10:46 PM
2

He can't be saying that he doesn't like decisions they make? How does that make sense? Something like "I don't like what you're doing, but I'm not going to stop you" seems like the kind of thing that kids eventually NEED to hear, if only so they understand that they have (increasing) authority over their own lives, and that not everyone will approve of the decisions they make without it being the end of the world. Him having an opinion doesn't change the length of his kids' hair; cutting it does…
/r/MensRights07/07/23 10:44 PM
2

It is, ironically, the one place where more racial diversity is actually called for. But that's because it's not about "being interracial", it's about transgressing a social taboo no one with a brain has held for seventy years. It's just porn; think about it too much and it all falls apart.
/r/MensRights07/07/23 06:00 AM
0

"No free man shall be taken, imprisoned, or in any other way destroyed, except by the lawful judgement and consent of his peers.". Does having all your money taken, even only to the extent of you not being able to access it, not count as being "destroyed"? Do they give you food and suspend your rent payments when you're accused of a crime?
/r/MensRights06/07/23 07:27 PM
1

Guess, rather. Not get.
/r/MensRights06/07/23 07:26 PM
10

I once had a temp job where I got called in to the boss's office and (politely, to be fair) lambasted for wearing shorts on "casual" Friday- by a woman a third of my size, who was wearing a skirt that showed off more skin than I'd been. Not a higher proportion- MORE. And on a NON-casual day, no less. When I pointed that out (literally, using a finger and cleared throat), she blushed- but just repeated "We can't allow shorts". I was debating getting a similar skirt and just wearing that, but they…
/r/MensRights06/07/23 07:25 PM
0

I get the whole "due process" thing is seen as old-fashioned.
/r/MensRights06/07/23 06:49 PM
7

They aren't- but they have a higher quantity of victimhood points. The only sane line of reasoning behind this that I can come up with is: 1. we pass the racist bill. 2. someone sues, claiming it violates the 14th Amendment. 3. Supreme Court says "Fucking Duh". 4. Law is expanded to include people regardless of race. But since this is the California state legislature, I doubt it's anything that planned; it's just: 1. find something conservatives would oppose. 2. propose a bill that pushes that s…
/r/MensRights06/07/23 01:28 AM
0

Nor is it wise- even if you DON'T limit it to footwear. Priorities, people. And bots.
/r/MensRights06/07/23 01:23 AM
13

Um, wouldn't violating Biden's Title 9 requirements mean they lose their federal funding? If the court overturns it as unConstitutional (which it is), that's one thing, but schools rejecting them outright would be financial suicide, no?
/r/MensRights06/07/23 01:22 AM
12

I wish I could say I disagreed, but given how often I've seen (or had) posts calling for a moderate, reasonable response to something downvoted to oblivion lately...
/r/MensRights06/07/23 01:19 AM
41

And this is legal... how, exactly? Oh, it's Australia, that's how. I guess they heard Trudeau was trying to steal the tile of "China of the Commonwealth" and couldn't let it go unchallenged.
/r/MensRights06/07/23 01:17 AM
3

Wasn't there a big furor around a leak of a bunch of Hollywood starlets' nude pictures a few years ago [AUTISM WARNING: "A few years ago" may have been 1987]?
/r/MensRights06/07/23 01:14 AM
39

And, I'd add, that the internet is finally allowing enough dissenting voices to find an audience for the message of those who HAVE broken free, and bluntly, that enough of the normies are on the internet and able to get it now.
/r/MensRights04/07/23 05:25 AM
20

Not sure; not a lot rhymes with "husband", or even "hubby". But "happy spouse, happy house" is pretty good. And apt, hopefully.
/r/MensRights04/07/23 01:03 AM
5

This is the key, right here- starve the beast. I've been pretty well (though obviously not completely) removed from the pop culture scene for a decade or so, but of late I've started heading to my library to check out all the good old movies I missed at the time; I suggest you do the same. It's so much less unpleasant.
/r/MensRights04/07/23 01:01 AM
-1

-Wants me to not be useless in real world. -Tells me to get offline. Logical consistency is hard, isn't it? But I'll humor you, since this sub talks about issues I care about. Posting here sends a message about the kind of person who cares about men's issues, and the specific issues we're concerned about. Differences in standards of personal integrity? A valid concern. A public figure being accused of rape? A valid concern. A comedian who steals their jokes? Not really relevant, but still, a val…
/r/MensRights04/07/23 12:57 AM
17

Isn't it something like 80% of rapists that turn out to be victims of sexual assault (in some form) themselves? I wonder if any of those who dismiss male victims realize that sending the message that "rape isn't a big deal" are just setting up more victims down the line. Given the cold equations of Feminism, that's part of the package, but are the rank-and-file that indoctrinated, or just that blind?
/r/MensRights04/07/23 12:37 AM
5

You can skip the "Ugh"; it's actually quite a bit like saying "all lives matter", and that isn't a bad thing. Regardless of what its original intentions might have been, BLM's main function has been to try and reframe the issue of police militarization into a racial one, by means of absolving the black populace of all responsibility for anything that happens to them- just like is for women and girls. If your only concern is about black people being killed, then it's more about black deaths than …
/r/MensRights04/07/23 12:08 AM
-5

Not nearly so weird as when you accuse me of body shaming men when that isn't something I do- but since that would be relevant to criticizing you for using ad hominems, it's still a step forward Or it would be, if it were true. Troll smarter, not harder.
/r/MensRights03/07/23 11:33 PM
-3

Bud dat donna 'fect da morality of her actions.
/r/MensRights03/07/23 11:26 PM
3

I think that was his name. It's been a while, and seeing what the place became killed any desire I had to go back.
/r/MensRights03/07/23 11:22 PM
-20

And her personal unattractiveness affects the morality of her actions... how, exactly? Ad hominems don't help, dude.
/r/MensRights03/07/23 05:55 PM
0

Somewhere, Joe Biden is smiling.
/r/MensRights03/07/23 05:53 PM
17

What finally drove me off Cracked.com (which was a fun website with lots of interesting articles in back in the day, despite having fact-checking standards that even Phillip Morris would call lackluster) was an article about that first incident, wherein the author- an otherwise seemingly stand-up guy, who wrote along and powerful piece about breaking his familial cycle of alcoholism and abuse- came to Amy's defense, saying that (to paraphrase) because the sex with the wasted guy was so lousy, it…
/r/MensRights03/07/23 05:53 PM
-12

That would be second cousins once removed, then- we do it differently here in the States.
/r/MensRights03/07/23 05:39 PM
3

Not to sound harsh, but- what else is new? What war was ever any different? Here in the USA, we teach our kids that World War 2 was "noble" and "good", fought to stop the evil racist genocidal Nazis, despite the fact that our country only declared war on the Japanese after Pearl Harbor, and NOT Germany- we only got involved on that front because Hitler declared war first. Well, stopping the evil racist genocidal Japanese is hardly abhorrent, but it wasn't Roosevelt and Churchill vs Hirohito, or …
/r/MensRights03/07/23 12:09 AM
2

If it helps- and as an Illinois refugee myself, I know it won't help much in any case- it's not wholly one-sided. There are at least as many people here who knee-jerk approved the Parental Rights in Education bill as who knee-jerk opposed it in bluer parts of the country. And let there be no mistake, it's about PARTY, not about ideology; Florida Republicans are as liberal on some unexpected (to me, at least) issues as Illinois Democrats are conservative on guns.
/r/MensRights02/07/23 01:17 AM
2

In a zero-sum process like admissions, advantaging one group is disadvantaging everyone else.
/r/MensRights02/07/23 01:10 AM
18

Or grow a brain and realize that voting along party lines is a recipe for disaster regardless of color.
/r/MensRights01/07/23 06:57 PM
5

I think they took lessons from the crazy Muslims fundies who object to the claim that their faith promotes violence by killing people who say so.
/r/MensRights01/07/23 06:54 PM
106

It's actually stupider than that; it's complaining about the erosion of an institution that they're already dissolving, in the form of getting a divorce. The equivalent would be tearing down a building and complaining, while doing so, that it being shoddily made was making the process more difficult.
/r/MensRights01/07/23 06:46 PM
31

That darned party of family values, with their... incentivizing people to stay married! The funny thing is, you could've made the exact same argument ten years ago, with the then-(relatively)-widespread opposition to gay marriage, but THIS is exactly what I'd expect the traditionalists to be promoting.
/r/MensRights01/07/23 06:44 PM
5

Um, are things different in the UK? Here in the US, the armed forces are seeing recruitment numbers at an all-time LOW. Can the UK actually afford to turn people away?
/r/MensRights29/06/23 11:26 PM
3

Thank you- good to hear a voice in this thread that's NOT bashing one sex or the other, and is taking a reasonable position instead.
/r/MensRights29/06/23 07:10 PM
3

Also, while it doesn't relate to the actual legitimacy (or Manga Carta-defying illegality) of the actions in the question, take a look at the photograph of the woman in that link. She needs to be told to take that fucking pancake off her head and go back to law school.
/r/MensRights29/06/23 06:48 PM
5

I was going to say "Actually, in the UK, you already HAVE", thinking back to the juryless trials during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, but even those, which earned the UK government the enmity of much of the civilized world, required that a crime actually be committed. Congratulations, Scotland; you've outdone Thatcher.
/r/MensRights29/06/23 06:46 PM
16

Amen to that! No more "some are more equal than others".
/r/MensRights29/06/23 06:45 PM
166

It IS blatant anti-male hate speech, dude. No less wearing a KKK robe. It gets tolerated because no one challenges it. Calling it out to a customer is likely to get you fired, but you need to discuss this sort of thing with your boss if you ever want to see it stopped. Bring it up a neutral way- "This will negatively affect business if half our customer base sees us unquestioningly serving people who are literally calling for their deaths" is pretty clear- then ask what the company policy on suc…
/r/MensRights29/06/23 12:14 AM
5

Ah, but have you ever looked across the street, at the Wife Store that opened up? It's the same basic deal: one visit, six floors, can't go down except to exit. On the first floor is a sign saying "These women are kind-hearted". On the second floor is a sign saying "These women are kind-hearted and love sex". On the third floor, the sign says "These women are kind-hearted, love sex, and like sports". The fourth, fifth, and sixth floors have never been visited.
/r/MensRights28/06/23 07:12 PM
12

A bit of a tangent, but: the Feminist (and related weakness-worshiper group) infiltration into the nerd community, while probably more forthright in intention than conspiracists would have you believe (not that that's saying much), is kind of telling in its actions: they came in because they'd heard and seen that nerd culture was famously egalitarian. And it is: as someone's who old enough to remember a time when "nerd" was unambiguously an insult, I saw it firsthand; if you knew your stuff, or …
/r/MensRights28/06/23 07:00 PM
1

I once had a temp job in an office that only interacted with customers over the phone, and got called in by my supervisor one Monday to complain that I'd worn shorts on our "casual" Friday the week before, and this was unacceptable. To her credit, she was very polite about it- at first. -I asked what the problem was, giving that the job wasn't customer-facing; she said "it violates the dress code; we can't allow shorts". -I asked to see the dress code; she said she didn't have a copy. -I asked w…
/r/MensRights28/06/23 06:43 PM
2

Sadly, DARVO attacks are pretty damn common everywhere.
/r/MensRights28/06/23 06:27 PM
2

I'd go further- the only way to win is to NOT play. Odd how WOPR never pointed that out.
/r/MensRights28/06/23 06:26 PM
0

If we're going to object to having our arguments rejected out of hand simply because of our demographics, then criticizing our opponents on the basis of their waistlines for completely unrelated things is pretty damn hypocritical. Ditch the ad hominems, please.
/r/MensRights28/06/23 06:24 PM
3

Train your sons to accept full responsibility for their actions, and your daughters to take none for theirs. Watch your sons outperform your daughters out of sheer necessity. Convince your daughters that it's men's fault they're falling behind. ??? Profit!
/r/MensRights26/06/23 07:34 PM
7

Aside from "a real man is a man who is real" or "a real man is real, and a man", any sentence beginning with those three words is an attempt at manipulation, and best ignored. The idea that women should be beyond violence from men is sexist against BOTH genders, saying that men can't defend themselves (or others, for that matter) against women, and women can't possibly be a real threat to men. Although this isn't exactly what he was talking about, I think Chesterton put it best in "The Ball and …
/r/MensRights26/06/23 06:46 AM
5

There was a time when society-at-large believed that "it's better to be a victim than an oppressor". That morphed, over time, into "it's better to be a victim than to not be a victim". Nothing good ever comes from the worship of weakness.
/r/MensRights26/06/23 06:11 AM
1

Not at all- we already ended it here once; it can happen again. But you can't ignore the current political realities of the world and still hope to succeed.
/r/MensRights26/06/23 05:55 AM
-4

No. No, it is most emphatically NOT time. Look at what's happening in Ukraine. Look at what's happening in Russia. Look at Xi Jinping, gazing at the last stronghold of the Chinese government like a slavering dog. There is no way on Earth that politicians could get away with ending battle thralldom now without sparking a war- or several. And that's what needs to be the goal- not making women suffer alongside men out of misbegotten spite, but ending the nightmare for everyone. It could've happened…
/r/MensRights25/06/23 04:14 PM
2

You're not alone; when I first encountered this phrase, I responded with "'shipping' is for cargo; people are passengers" (this was to a student on the bus I was driving, so it wasn't as out-of-place as it sounds, and just a few days before, I'd rewatched Star Wars and noted that Obi-Wan referred to the droids as "passengers" rather than cargo).
/r/MensRights25/06/23 06:19 AM
5

Why, thank you!
/r/MensRights24/06/23 04:07 AM
1

I have to disagree. "Marxism is out to get you!" is quite an apt conspiracy theory, at least in terms of attitude towards the family- it's just that it's a lousy place to stop. "Marxism is out to get you, and Weberism is, too!" is much more accurate. Whether it's in governmental, corporate, Church, or other hands, the concentration of power is ALWAYS dangerous- and a strong and stable family network is one of, if not the, best way to combat it. The State moving you hundreds of miles away from yo…
/r/MensRights23/06/23 07:34 PM
10

Glad to hear it! WAY too much of western culture doesn't take marriage seriously these days. Kinda funny that we have a massive wedding industry, that routinely releases catalogues that you need a forklift to carry, but when it comes to the actual marriage- you know, the thing that comes after the big party and is immeasurably more important?- we just get crickets. People here complain about divorce laws, and rightly so, but I think the attitudes toward marriage and family are a far bigger issue…
/r/MensRights23/06/23 07:27 PM
96

Someone else. This woman has neither the warmth or the depth, and I object to the good name of "cunt" being associated with such trash.
/r/MensRights23/06/23 07:21 PM
0

To a lot of people (who, bluntly, don't think these things through), the mere existence of billionaires is a sign that society has failed, somehow. The notion that a person would work out of sheer love of what they do is completely understandable, but you're not going to find, say, sewer workers who do that; it's generally more limited to the pleasant jobs, or people obsessed with what they do. The thought that someone would spend their life pouring hot tar over freeways in hundred-degree heat b…
/r/MensRights23/06/23 07:20 PM
2

Understandable; thanks for what you did get.
/r/MensRights23/06/23 07:07 PM
3

I've got news for you: remember that whole "free will" thing? It still exists. Our instincts don't determine what we'll do, only what we'll do if we don't choose to do otherwise. We're animals, yes, but not unthinking beasts. Dashrath Manjhi took down a mountain to avenge his wife and ensure no one else died needlessly; instinct didn't tell him to do that. It will take conscious and constant effort to overcome, but it CAN be overcome. Giving in to despair and biological determinism is working in…
/r/MensRights23/06/23 12:48 AM
15

That sounds pretty damn awful. For the sake of thoroughness, though (not that I want sound dismissive; this clearly took a lot of work on your part), do you have any information on the Muslim world outside of the Middle East? I'm curious how it compares to things in, say, Indonesia, or Djbouti.
/r/MensRights23/06/23 12:38 AM
3

...Having read all that, I can honestly say I've never so much looked forward to dying alone. It sounds like a pretty miserable experience for everyone involved; why would anyone want that?
/r/MensRights23/06/23 12:33 AM
1

Judging people by their own claimed ideas TODAY tends to end badly; far more people give lip service to the ideals of egalitarianism than would actually vote to see it practiced; look at infant genital mutilation or government battle thralldom. It's actually even stupider than that, because it's rooted in the idea that progress is always progress in a GOOD direction. Even a basic knowledge of history shows this isn't the case, and a basic knowledge of natural selection shows that what lets you s…
/r/MensRights22/06/23 05:39 PM
6

I'm not sure what "spark joy" means, but a lot of what you're referring to comes from sentiments that aren't pro-Christian so much as they are anti-Catholic. Amongst many, MANY different Protestant (and even a few Orthodox) sects, you run into the statement that "Catholics aren't Christians", which is roughly equivalent to saying "Africans aren't humans". Unfortunately, this often lead to knee-jerk rejection of anything the Catholic Church supported, like criminal due process (the Inquisition, l…
/r/MensRights22/06/23 05:39 PM
1

No part of the NATO treaty forbids other alliances, Belarus' ties with Russia could serve as a check on Russian expansionism (Putin's never tried to invade THEM, after all), and Kazakhstan's influence could even go so far as to moderate Russia's push. My suggestions are actually quite intelligent; the results of decades of study of history and psychology. If you could come to understand that Russians aren't inhuman monsters, you might be able to understand that- but then you'd need to condemn Uk…
/r/MensRights22/06/23 05:00 PM
1

"Australia issues Elon Musk's Twitter with a 'please explain' notice over surge in online hate" You might want to link to the source where it's called violence if you're going to title the thread that way. Otherwise it just looks like you're trolling (not that I think you are).
/r/MensRights22/06/23 04:22 AM
6

You've never had popcorn? Fix that first. Politics can wait.
/r/MensRights22/06/23 04:20 AM
3

Do you want them to stop? Then stop paying to see them. You're incentivizing the very thing you decry. Get a library card and check out movies from better- or at least saner- times. You'll save both money AND sanity. And if you get into making your own popcorn, we can swap notes about how to best recreate the stuff the theaters make (at this point, I'm pretty sure the key is the salt, rather than the butter or the corn itself).
/r/MensRights22/06/23 02:14 AM
5

"Online violence"? How the hell do you harm someone over the internet? I mean, you DO know that putting a bullet through someone's head in a video game doesn't hurt them in reality, right? Insofar as the linked article never once refers to violence and instead talks about hate, this just comes across as trying to demonize Australia's attitudes about free speech. They do NOT need your help with that.
/r/MensRights22/06/23 02:09 AM
1

What was Europe supposed to do when THEY were faced with Russian invasion in the years after World War 2? Form an alliance with each other and other powers of the world. And look, they did! Ukraine can't get into NATO? Then team up with Belarus, Lativa, Estonia, Kazakhstan, hell, maybe even Finland- they have EXPERIENCE fighting Russia. When there isn't a standing alliance you can join, you CREATE one- just like the NATO countries did. When you become the bad guy, you lose sympathy- this should …
/r/MensRights21/06/23 09:16 PM
3

So they need to keep the war, which they're already losing, going for at LEAST another nineteen years, and to invade Russia, which only ONE nation in the history of the entire planet has successfully done? And the alternative is gaining neighbors they don't like? ...never become poor, man. You wouldn't be able to handle it.
/r/MensRights21/06/23 05:30 PM
3

The short answer? Feminism. Oh, it claims to be about making women stronger, but it CONSTANTLY tells them that they're oppressed, weak, and powerless to improve their situation or their lives. All the world is against them and always has been, and the only thing that can save them is Feminism. Few people have the mental rigor to stand up to a long-term constant propaganda bombardment (just look at the nonsense around Covid), and most of those who do end up withdrawing from a society that ostraci…
/r/MensRights21/06/23 05:26 PM
-2

"Ethnic cleansing" would be rounded up the genetic undesirables and bathing them- if you mean genocide, then say genocide. Of course, you DON'T mean genocide, because that's not what's happening- and it's not what's threatening Ukraine, either. Even if it falls completely, it's not going to "cease to exist" except as an independent political entity. Which, granted, would suck for the Ukrainians, but they've been through it before. And when you're forced into battle thralldom, any pretense of the…
/r/MensRights21/06/23 05:01 PM
14

When it's men being used to fuel the furnace, it IS a men's issue, dude. Your life is not state property; Ukrainians, along with men (and even some women) of every ethnic and cultural stripe, fought to make that a reality. You don't get to say "Except now it is" because you have the diplomatic foresight of a goldfish. Ukraine has NO excuse for having to resort to this after 2014; their bid for NATO membership failed, and so they did... nothing. No attempted alliances with other great powers, no …
/r/MensRights21/06/23 04:57 PM
2

Ordinarily, yes- but there's another variable at work here. It's not just pre-justifying something you have planned, but distracting by deflecting the blame. Consider WHY inflation is running so rampant in pretty much every first-world country. Call attention to the harms being done to a self-appointed group of perpetual victims, and you don't have to face up to a pack of infuriated voters whose future you shredded.
/r/MensRights21/06/23 04:30 AM
5

We do, indeed, have homeless people in America. I know; I've been one of them. More than once, in fact. And it sucks- our society isn't as socially Darwinian as many Europeans seem to think it is, our social services are comparatively lackluster. And yes, some of our homeless people are women, and I doubt it sucks any less for them than it does for those who are men. I'm not sure why you bring this up, however; "equality", in this context, would mean that either men don't excluded from specific …
/r/MensRights18/06/23 06:16 AM
1

Yes, I understand that, and I don't disagree- I was simply pointing out that said people got that way by only looking at one side of the story, and that if you choose to look at only one side, you're really in no position to criticize them. Naturally, this got me downvoted; people don't like being told that intellectual honesty is the only thing keeping you out of the echo chambers.
/r/MensRights18/06/23 06:06 AM
15

If "women are equal", then where are the calls for them to submit to the SS? Or for the legalization of female genital mutilation? Where are the Feminists saying "It should be legal to discriminate against us in employment and housing, based solely on our gender"? It's not about equality, and it never has been.
/r/MensRights17/06/23 03:48 PM
-10

It all paints a pretty grim picture- and in many respects, an accurate one. But are you intellectually honest enough to make a post of those FtM folks who see it as a straight upgrade? Being a woman has some serious social downsides too, and we're not going to get much by way of empathy if we're unwilling to show it ourselves. Also, much of the Serengeti is actually quite damp; I think you meant the Sahara.
/r/MensRights16/06/23 05:19 PM
2

Mech himself has recanted, realizing the research was deeply flawed. If you're going to push ideas that have been debunked for decades, why limit yourself to this? Why not try phrenology? It's due for a revival. Or phlogiston? It's actually kind of fun to approach college students and ask them if they can think up a way to disprove the idea that doesn't revolve around citing some expert or spewing mathematics with no proven link to reality. Just skip Malthusianism. That was disproven before Malt…
/r/MensRights16/06/23 05:53 AM
-15

You're not wrong, but not all oppression is legal- and oppression on the social side of things is harder to both prove and quantify.
/r/MensRights16/06/23 05:48 AM
2

Very true- and thank you.
/r/MensRights16/06/23 05:43 AM
3

It's just a way of trying to shut them down without having to address their arguments, just like calling someone a "Communist" was back in the 60's.
/r/MensRights14/06/23 08:56 PM
2

That we will. A politically healthy society is going to have sensible, well-reasoned policies on both sides of a given issue, and while it's questionable just how close we used to be, it was unambiguously closer than the modern "end discrimination by discriminating more!" Left's policies. I've seen similar swings on the Right before, and I'm under no delusion that they couldn't happen again, but nothing so FAST.
/r/MensRights14/06/23 08:41 PM
6

I don't remember exactly when it was (so I obviously don't know the issue), but I remember reading a TIME article some years back decrying meritocracy, due process, and free expression- you know, the fundamental bedrock of a democratic government AND a democratic society- as being objectionable. Not just claiming "these things open to the door to forms of abuse that wouldn't be possible if they were restricted", but "these things are bad, full stop". I lost all respect for the publication then a…
/r/MensRights14/06/23 05:05 AM
2

The woman who learns a bit more about men to help her understand her man better and improve her relationship is a woman who's less likely to turn to TikTok influencers again; healthy and happy relationships are bad for business, and business takes priority over greater social cohesion and stability. I suppose it's useful to have the odd reminder that Capitalist bastardry can be just as bad as the Communist kind sometimes. And I learned just now that my browser's spellchecker doesn't recognize th…
/r/MensRights14/06/23 04:58 AM
1

Well, I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree, here.
/r/MensRights14/06/23 04:52 AM
21

I would disagree: the government declaring your life and body to be public property is inherently a problem, above and beyond any given set of circumstances or details. Making it gender-neutral would just be less sexist.
/r/MensRights12/06/23 07:54 PM
11

I've thought for years that we ought to add to our high school requirements a semester on the opposite sex's psychology; even if you don't want to date them, you're going to be dealing with them your entire life, and while it may not always help, having a better understanding of how they think ain't gonna hurt. But society prefers confrontation, and teaching girls that a man who's not much of a woman is a lousy man. "No, don't communicate with him to let him know how important remembering specif…
/r/MensRights12/06/23 07:51 PM
4

Frankly, absent legitimate medical need, I think it should be illegal. Here in the US, openly expressing such sentiment is seen as being "racist" against Jews and Muslims. Neither of those is a race, but I'd appreciate that religious bigotry is still bigotry- except that an 8-day-old boy (the traditional age) is not a Jew. He is not a Muslim. He is not a part of ANY religion, organized or otherwise. He is a baby. Funnily enough, most of the objections to the practice I've heard have been FROM Je…
/r/MensRights12/06/23 07:39 PM
4

They're safe from the SS, at least here in the States. One more isn't MUCH more, granted, and this is only one country, but still.
/r/MensRights12/06/23 05:02 AM
1

Well said!
/r/MensRights10/06/23 03:37 PM
32

It was a decade and a half after the book came out, so it wasn't a direct thing, but I remember reading that she had some issues with treatment-resistant depression, and the strain of pretending to be what she wasn't for so long certainly wouldn't help with that.
/r/MensRights10/06/23 03:34 PM
2

What they think is that nerd culture is egalitarian, and so will welcome them. This is why the usual suspects have moved on to decrying nerds as "misogynistic", both in culture and academia. Thing is, nerd culture isn't egalitarian because it sets out to be; it's egalitarian because it's deeply meritocratic, and I don't think I have to tell you how the "I'm a victim of everything, praise me!" crowd fares in THAT kind of situation. That's why the anger is so intense, too- they thought we were dif…
/r/MensRights10/06/23 01:32 AM
4

Ah, but now you're getting dangerously practical. Almost every one of the great social divisions of the current day- men vs women, black vs white, liberal vs conservative- is really, or is a distraction from, rich vs poor. Well, more broadly I'd call it powerful vs weak, but money's usually the most relevant form of power.
/r/MensRights10/06/23 01:04 AM
4

As a society becomes more partisan, it becomes more anti-intellectual. This has been going on for quite some time, and in far more areas of disc- well, far more areas of screaming argument, at least, then just this one. Look at the madness around Covid. This isn't new, it's just ramped up in last decade or so.
/r/MensRights09/06/23 09:22 PM
3

Hatred of torsos?
/r/MensRights08/06/23 08:15 PM
2

What makes you think the Secret Service would have anything to do with terrorists taking down the power grid, or planning a national invasion? They're not the CIA. The SS (no, not the Nazi bastards OR the Virginian bastards, the Secret Service) is about two things: stopping forgery and protecting the President. The last guy to try to kill a US President (that I'm aware of, at least) did so because he desperately wanted Jodie Foster to date him. He watched Taxi Driver dozens of times and became c…
/r/MensRights08/06/23 01:45 AM
38

It shouldn't be. Their whole doctrine is based around making women feel terrified (and men feel congenitally guilty); few people can endure hearing dogma propagandized at them for their whole lives without succumbing.
/r/MensRights08/06/23 01:40 AM
8

The question here is "where?". And, to a lesser extent, "when?". I think the vets coming back from Vietnam and being spit on and denied service would dispute the "we never faced a backlash" point, but I'm not aware of anywhere in the West where the allegation of being a veteran was EVER enough to get you disowned by your family and drummed out of your job. It's almost like we should be kind to one another regardless of our respective demographics, but I guess that's just too hard.
/r/MensRights07/06/23 06:27 PM
2

That it makes them feel uncomfortable. Of course, feelings are just feelings, and a responsible person, regardless of gender, would see remedying that situation as their responsibility, and move away or say something, but a lifetime of inundation with the drumbeat of hopelessness has taught people (especially but not exclusively women) that they have no power to affect their lives, and consequently, no responsibility to do so, and so the "appeal to authority" approach becomes ever more common.
/r/MensRights07/06/23 06:23 PM
1

Given that the alternative is the status quo continuing forever, yes, you are. Given that women are capable of logic and reason, however, you're not just irrational,but hideously sexist. This is exactly the kind of thinking that MRAs are always accused of doing, dude- please stop being a caricature.
/r/MensRights06/06/23 03:07 PM
2

So... a society that treats women as irresponsible children suffers from a lack of female accountability, and you decide to work against this by agreeing completely and not even trying to motivate them to act like adults? And then you call them irrational?
/r/MensRights05/06/23 09:42 PM
2

Well first off, I don't judge entire demographic groups by the actions of individuals. Women are pushed by their instincts, just as men are, but they're no more controlled by them than men are- declaring a person untrustworthy because of their chromosomes is the very definition of sexism. Women are people, too, and any given women is wholly capable of telling her hypergamous instincts to shut the fuck up because SHE is the one who makes the decisions. Most won't- society discourages it, culture …
/r/MensRights05/06/23 03:51 AM
22

I turned eighteen as the country was gearing up to go to war with Iraq. For bonus points, guess which war. For BIG bonus points, guess which country. I've always felt sympathy for the people of what's now Iraq, since it seems like that area gets invaded pretty much every century, sometimes more than once. But we were obviously preparing to go to war, and it was obviously a bad idea. I hit eighteen and fully intended to refuse to sign up, and my mother and I got into the longest, most intense fig…
/r/MensRights05/06/23 03:33 AM
-2

Because those roles aren't arbitrary; they're a naturally developing result of the conditions we evolved under. Egalitarianism doesn't mean forcing people out of a given pattern of behavior any more than it means forcing them IN to one. I mean, you can say they're restrictive, and the are, unquestionably. You can say they're excessive, and I wouldn't argue. But the sensible response to that is to dial it back, rather than abandon it entirely. Tablua Rasa is an extremely popular idea, but it's as…
/r/MensRights05/06/23 03:15 AM
5

The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence. The demands that society places on women are different than those it places on men, and while I'd say that those we get are probably bigger in total, we also get a LOT more leeway in choosing which of them we disregard. Women don't get that, and there're quite a few categories of nonsense I don't have the patience for. I wouldn't do well as a woman. I'll admit I did very briefly entertain the idea, but that was only in the first mome…
/r/MensRights24/05/23 03:54 AM
1

Laws being overturned is just an opinion, now? That laws are created without requiring judicial approval is why court cases are needed to review them. Do you dispute that that happens, or that laws can be overturned as a result? NOTHING that I stated was an opinion; it ALL was fact. Florida operates under the rule of law.
/r/MensRights23/05/23 04:05 PM
1

As am I. Unconstitutional laws get struck down all the time.
/r/MensRights23/05/23 05:56 AM
1

She's completely correct. Women do indeed exhibit the whole spectrum of human behavior, from the worst evils to the brightest shining examples of humanity. And yes, they should be shown as such on screen. Galbrush in a nutshell.
/r/MensRights22/05/23 09:28 PM
2

It's the same line of logic that says that black people can't be racist to whites (or any other group, really, but for some reason, those are the only two that exist in the overly-reductionist zeitgeist): the idea that it's better to be a victim than an oppressor, which gets people designated "victims" more support, and eventually leads into thinking that it's better to be a victim than to NOT be a victim. From there, it balloons into seeking out more and more ways that people can place themselv…
/r/MensRights22/05/23 04:53 PM
1

Very much so. And it's only to be expected, given how women are treated as powerless and unable to effect meaningful change in the world, or even their own lives, by both traditionalism AND Feminism. I mean, if their sins don't matter, why would their virtues? It's almost like egalitarianism helps everyone.
/r/MensRights22/05/23 01:59 AM
1

Only until the courts point out that it violates standing law.
/r/MensRights22/05/23 01:55 AM
16

The Irish have a proverb "Plenty cannot understand want". Despite what most people think, it has very little to do with money.
/r/MensRights21/05/23 06:09 AM
5

Well, no; they don't have that right- that's what the courts ruled when they took down male-only spaces. I suppose you could be claiming that they should, and that's a valid argument against the idea- but it's not the argument that the guy who wose from his grabe was making.
/r/MensRights21/05/23 06:03 AM
8

The idea that women are so unspeakably fragile that harm is caused them by the mere proximity of testicles is far more mentally ill than transsexualism, dude. Ditto for the idea that no one with Y chromosome is capable of resisting the slightest bit of temptation.
/r/MensRights21/05/23 01:21 AM
-7

It's also not to assume the worst of everyone you encounter.
/r/MensRights21/05/23 01:13 AM
1

That's hardly surprising- it's both an inherently collectivist ideology, which tend to not appeal to men much, and one that historically has sought out the socially and economically disaffected, and one of the best ways to do that is to appeal to a universal sense of egalitarianism, where everyone's treated the same. It's why even Paul Robeson went gung-ho for Stalin.
/r/MensRights21/05/23 01:12 AM
3

Nor is basing it on their orientation.
/r/MensRights19/05/23 05:32 PM
4

An object-or attitude- at rest will tend to remain at rest unless acted upon by an outside force. If you don't call it out when you see it, where's the motivation for them to change?
/r/MensRights17/05/23 01:34 AM
12

Why? Because they've been raised to see all men as potential threats and themselves as completely powerless in the face of the omnipresent threat men represent (the single biggest lie of Feminism is that it's about "empowering" women; it's about keeping them weak and terrified, so they always feel afraid, but rather than the approach of the most strident tradcons to make women dependent on their husbands, it instead makes them dependent on Feminism). As a gay man, you're seen as a non-threat, or…
/r/MensRights15/05/23 06:10 PM
1

Good to hear!
/r/MensRights14/05/23 06:06 PM
2

Nothing quite like a literal return of the Star Chamber, eh?
/r/MensRights03/05/23 06:33 PM
0

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Funnily enough, Willie Scott's constant panicked screaming and doing nothing noteworthy aside from "screaming", "being captured" and "screaming some more" was FAR more annoying than Marion Ravenwood's brusque, bitter toughness, or Elsa Schneider's conniving manipulations. Being a well-rounded, complex character makes you more interesting, regardless of sex. I think that what you're describing began as a rebuttal, not to female incompetence and powerlessness,…
/r/MensRights03/05/23 06:28 PM
2

United Steelworkers V Weber set the precedent that discrimination against white men is legally acceptable.
/r/MensRights03/05/23 05:54 AM
6

"No free man shall be taken, imprisoned, or in any other way destroyed except by the lawful judgement and consent of his peers" (italics mine, obviously). The UK should still be operating under UK law.
/r/MensRights29/04/23 09:30 PM
6

Over the course of my school career, they had me read TKAM three times, which seemed excessive, as I didn't even think it was that great the FIRST time. I did find it odd how Harper Lee kept saying "It's not about racism, it's about prejudice". Then the Kavanaugh hearings happened, and I understand now.
/r/MensRights29/04/23 09:28 PM
2

That it is, my friend. That it is.
/r/MensRights29/04/23 01:47 AM
8

Don't forget the promotion of male disposability by claiming we're "improved" by adding selection pressure. Sexist against men for claiming each of us is responsible for the state of society and expected to sacrifice our health and lives, sexist against women for claiming that they're powerless and unable to effect meaningful change, and anti-humanist for pushing Manichean dualism in the face of tens of thousands of years of direct evidence. The Tradcon mindset in a nutshell, really. I'm pretty …
/r/MensRights29/04/23 01:36 AM
6

What's that German word? Backpfeifengesicht? Something like that. It means "a face in need of a fist". Well, okay, "slap", but come on, this is GERMAN.
/r/MensRights29/04/23 01:31 AM
-4

If you're referring to Hermesmann v Seyer, you're wrong on both counts- she was sixteen and he was 12. But there's rather a notable difference between that and simply dating someone much younger than you if you're both consenting adults, no?
/r/MensRights29/04/23 01:29 AM
4

If women are paying so little attention that you can't be bothered to examine the toilet before you sit on it, then we rather owe it to them to leave it up, that they should be prompted to revise their behavior.
/r/MensRights28/04/23 11:05 PM
-15

True enough, but that doesn't justify your ad hominem attacks on the basis of gender.
/r/MensRights28/04/23 05:59 PM
-6

Um, I'm pretty sure the MAIN reason for that "talking point" is that so many more men died young without ever getting a chance to reproduce. Infidelity is secondary at best, especially in light of the fact that every woman having a baby requires a man's involvement.
/r/MensRights28/04/23 05:49 PM
12

That line is literally a call for gender-based genocide; her response to Ms. Bryant probably would've been "That's a good start, but you need to move faster".
/r/MensRights28/04/23 02:03 AM
18

Laurence Tureaud found it SO impossible to be respected as a black man that he literally changed his name to Mister T so even the people referring to him by his first name would have to call him "Mister". That was in 1970- before my time, but well within common living memory. The idea of someone needing to do that just baffles me, as it hopefully does to most young people these days. It's important to remember the progress that's been made, so you don't fall into despair at how far we still have…
/r/MensRights28/04/23 02:01 AM
3

And this person is "trusted"... why, exactly?
/r/MensRights28/04/23 01:57 AM
1

The Northern Irish Troubles began decades after the war ended, dude. If it's over, it's because the Good Friday agreement is still holding- and that was about the people of the region winning, not any governments. For that matter, ALL of Ireland belonged to Protestant Great Britain for centuries before the Republic gained its independence; would you say they'd "won" and "the war was over" after Cromwell began his genocide? I'm not saying that the rebels are justified, merely that this kind of wa…
/r/MensRights28/04/23 01:57 AM
9

That people who are themselves men fail to understand this utterly baffles me. I mean, you would KNOW that the stereotype of the pubescent boy called to solve a problem at the blackboard exists for a reason, even if it never happened to you, and I don't think ANYONE wants to have sex with algebra.
/r/MensRights26/04/23 04:53 PM
3

Black opals are neat, too. Or alexandrite; who wouldn't want a stone that changed color based on the kind of light it was in?
/r/MensRights26/04/23 04:49 PM
3

It's not about morality to such people; it's about victimhood, and the social status derived from being seen as a victim. The Overton window has shifted from "it's better to be a victim than an oppressor" to "it's better to be a victim than to not be a victim". Then came "it's better to be more victimized than less". That (coupled with the increased reliance on the movement) is why Feminism pushes for women to feel powerless; all the status points go to whoever has the biggest victimhood penis, …
/r/MensRights26/04/23 04:46 PM
15

Because nothing says "masculinity" like being screamed at while doing push-ups in the mud, then being sent to murder thousands of guys not very different from you at the behest of autocrats who'll spend your life like a coin in a slot machine. I've said it before and I'll say it again: they don't want men. They want slaves with muscles.
/r/MensRights24/04/23 05:11 PM
-5

Canadians? You did... well, relatively little that was awful in that war, but the part you played was quite minor; it was primarily the genocidal Nazis vs the totalitarian Communists in the west, and the genocidal Japanese vs the racist forced relocation Americans in the east.
/r/MensRights24/04/23 12:00 AM
23

Got it in one- it's (with some arguable exceptions) been about protection, rather than oppression, and to be protected is to be restricted (which is why you rarely see people breakdancing in plate armor). Most people would agree that the restrictions in question were sometimes excessive (though where and by how much would of course vary wildly), but there's rarely been real malice involved, and the presumption of such poisons the relations between the sexes. You can easily recognize such people;…
/r/MensRights23/04/23 10:45 PM
-5

There's an idea, commonly advanced by gun nuts, that "the only thing that can stop a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun". This is naturally utter nonsense; even a rudimentary knowledge of history will tell you that most of the time, what stops a bad man with a gun is another bad man with a gun- ever hear of World War 2? (Note that I say this as a commentary on that argument, not about gun ownership in general). Same thing here- just because she was tossed, that doesn't mean the ones who…
/r/MensRights23/04/23 10:15 PM
2

I think we do, in general, and in no small part because we're not comfortable with it. It doesn't have to be that way; growing up with Asperger's in a time when autism that wasn't life-destroying wasn't acknowledged taught me the importance of going outside of your comfort zone- and sometimes, going outside of other people's. So much of what we discuss here is horribly depressing, and I don't doubt we should be doing more to buoy each other up. A compliment isn't just a sign of approval, but of …
/r/MensRights22/04/23 07:17 PM
5

Well, you can start laying down and rotting, but you're pretty stuck doing that if you do. More practically, you can live a humbler life and focus it around things other than maximizing money. It's where I wound up, but frankly, I'd imagine it's better suited to living a fulfilling- if lonely- life.
/r/MensRights22/04/23 05:02 AM
7

Oh, just wait until the Gore and Bush legal teams get arrested; if just talking about Chads will get you put on a watchlist, then talking about HANGING Chads, well...
/r/MensRights22/04/23 12:38 AM
24

"In sickness and health, unless it gets hard".
/r/MensRights21/04/23 06:43 PM
29

Well, let me extend a "Welcome to the watch lists!" to people discussing central North Africa, then.
/r/MensRights21/04/23 06:41 PM
1

Oh. Yeah, that's the kind of bullshit that suggests entrenched stupidity.
/r/MensRights21/04/23 06:35 PM
12

My first thought is that you should've asked them what they meant. Here in the first world, the idea is ludicrous, but in, say, China, it goes without saying. Don't dismiss opportunities like that as mindless blather; take the chance and start a conversation. It's not always bigotry.
/r/MensRights21/04/23 05:58 AM
5

I didn't say that it wasn't normal, simply that it was idiotic. No matter where you live, you should be familiar with a thing called "inalienable rights". "Martial law", by contrast, is NOT a suspension of rights; it's the use of the military as a police force.
/r/MensRights20/04/23 01:00 AM
1

Calm down, dude- if my argument seems incoherent, it's because I'm not making one. Read what I wrote. Then, THINK about it. We do not have isolated populations of humans under perfectly controlled conditions to experiment on. Therefore, we have to judge the outcomes of their actions by their results. The assertion that "these are the conditions under which we evolved, so they are the conditions under which we should live now" is inherently flawed, because the results of those conditions had seri…
/r/MensRights20/04/23 12:59 AM
1

Your mistake is in assuming it was ONLY the high infant mortality that made their lifespans so short- it wasn't. While things varied a great deal by time and place, hunting mammoths with Clovis spears in Siberia is going to have a much higher fatality rate than herding bison over the head-smashed-in jump in Alberta, and even that's risky as hell next to going after white-tailed deer in 1300's Tennessee with what were almost long bows. The one thing that didn't change was the importance of divers…
/r/MensRights19/04/23 10:03 PM
1

You wouldn't feel bad about murdering someone for awkwardly hitting on somebody? I take it back- you DO deserve to have your feelings hurt. If you're that psychopathic, you clearly to need to be knocked for enough of an emotional loop to start acting human.
/r/MensRights19/04/23 09:21 PM
10

How in the stone blue fuck do you make a Constitution that can be suspended during wartime? Being THAT stupid would require having your leaders sneak into other schools to find enough history classes to sleep through.
/r/MensRights19/04/23 09:15 PM
2

Totally. I've said for years that Feminism's main focus with women is making them feel weak and helpless, so that they start to feel dependent on Feminism.
/r/MensRights19/04/23 09:11 PM
1

And you think that YOUR beliefs are attitudes are unambiguously the correct ones... why, exactly? You were made to feel uncomfortable, which is, as I said, unfortunate. You were not actually harmed in any way. You were hit on. Likewise, pinching someone is NOT "just words"; have you never heard the saying "your rights end where the other guy's nose begins"? Same deal here. Bang up job on "giving the benefit of the doubt", though.
/r/MensRights19/04/23 09:09 PM
1

I'm neither being a sick fuck nor defending pedophilia- nor, for that matter, were they engaging in it; sixteen years old would be long past adolescence even if you were a Galopagos turtle. Your discomfort does not define other people's rights.
/r/MensRights19/04/23 09:09 PM
1

It certainly would be, but that's not what I said.
/r/MensRights19/04/23 09:03 PM
2

Well, as harassment is by definition continued, and nothing you've said indicates that this was anything other than a one-off, no, you weren't- not that that makes it acceptable, just not harassment. And so I have to question why you used that term- is it a simple misunderstanding from not knowing legal minutiae, or is this a subtle attempt at justifying gay bashing? Your use of the phrase "verbal SA" rather suggests the latter. Anything to make you feel reasonable in attacking the gays, since t…
/r/MensRights19/04/23 07:49 PM
11

And now you've gone and found the very key that so many never even know to look for. The question isn't where have all the good men gone (if you have to ask that, the answer is "hiding from you"), it's why have all the good men gone. And the answer is that they've spent decades being told that they're scum that (not "who", that) women want nothing to do with, and, being good men, they've accepted that and moved on in search of greener pastures. Women, like men, instinctively search for the best …
/r/MensRights19/04/23 07:40 PM
-1

Yeah, and I can totally see homosexual men making unsolicited passes at other guys in a time and place where it was a social if not physical death sentence. Completely legit.
/r/MensRights19/04/23 07:21 PM
3

It's even stupider than that. Consider the stereotypical Catholic schoolgirl skirt- a garment seen (in countless porn and porn-adjacent movies) as almost overpoweringly feminine. Now think of the kilt- seen as staunchly masculine. Now ask yourself what the difference between them is. How far the pleats extend- that's about it. (In fairness, a kilt is typically made of heavy wool, Soctland not being exactly tropical, while school uniform skirts are usually much lighter, but you can't tell that fr…
/r/MensRights19/04/23 07:19 PM
1

That's what "life expectancy" means.
/r/MensRights19/04/23 04:56 PM
1

Yes, that's what I said.
/r/MensRights19/04/23 03:41 AM
122

To point out that Wikipedia is written and edited by the masses with precious little oversight, and expecting it to not reflect the popular ideas of zeitgeist above the facts of a given situation is like expecting nuanced examinations of race relations from the KKK. When you're talking about things like the date The Simpsons first aired, this doesn't matter; for something as complex as in-depth sociological questions, you shouldn't be relying on ANY single source.
/r/MensRights18/04/23 08:46 PM
0

What on Earth are you talking about? The picture next to the headline is of Dylan. The POST was what brought her up, and my reply to it was questioning why THAT was what was being focused on instead of bigoted programs. Think before you criticize.
/r/MensRights18/04/23 06:35 PM
28

Not true- we're also boogeymen.
/r/MensRights18/04/23 05:58 PM
3

Reason isn't anyone's first language; hang around with some small children of both genders for a while, and you'll see. As to why they'd act reasonable, well, it's the same reason men would: because it's more practical for building lasting relationships, and more morally honest on top of that. It's true that women are more vulnerable to social suggestion, but they're people too; this is culture far more than genetics.
/r/MensRights18/04/23 05:56 PM
-4

Emphatically- that's exactly what I was complaining about. It seems to me that any rational person would see that as a MUCH bigger deal then appointing an unpopular spokesperson.
/r/MensRights18/04/23 05:51 PM
-3

Okay, now THAT is a legitimate complaint- assuming it's genuine; like I said, I genuinely don't know- but I doubt that's what the fuss is all about. I think almost no one complaining about it (and many people are; these things don't drift down beneath the rock I live under without a LOT of push from above) is thinking that much.
/r/MensRights18/04/23 05:50 PM
-24

Let me see if I understand this situation: Budweiser, a company that makes lousy beer, hires Dylan Mulvaney to promote its product, and this s/he (wherever you want to draw that line) is transsexual. And to many people, this is a problem, because... why, exactly? Are "rural, blue collar Americans" upset that trans people exist? Are you worried that they'll drink all the crappy beer and there won't be enough left for you? I mean, worrying about what your kids are being taught in school is one thi…
/r/MensRights18/04/23 05:35 AM
5

Amen! And don't forget "periodically examine your own beliefs and ideas"!
/r/MensRights18/04/23 02:20 AM
14

Date women who aren't shallow. They don't even have to not be into jewelry; there are plenty of cheap stones, or even plastics, that can look just as good, especially if you don't look too close. You can't fight the idea, but you CAN find people who don't subscribe to it. Remember: women can think, and reason, same as men- they're just not encouraged to do so by society.
/r/MensRights18/04/23 02:19 AM
4

How did it happen? Simple: the glorification of lies. The idea that you can only relate to people who look like you, that your self-esteem should come from external (and from socially-acceptable sources), that worship of weakness meant that being seen as a victim was a sure means of attaining social power. That's why today "sex-positive" means "even the Puritans would call me a killjoy", "social justice" means "discrimination on the basis of demographics", "empowering women" means "teaching wome…
/r/MensRights17/04/23 10:40 PM
2

Yeah, the idea that the healthiest way to go is to imitate people who had a life expectancy of 30 years never made much sense- to say nothing of the fact that people with different habitats, genes, digestive capabilities, and timeframes only followed ONE diet. The quality and success rates of the diet in question doesn't even matter at that point; no one's going to take you seriously. It's doubly insulting in light of the fact that the only reason we survived Toba was because our adaptability me…
/r/MensRights17/04/23 03:03 AM
1

...Um, are they implying they sent women alongside men to hunt mammoths and freaking saber-toothed tigers? That women's superior color perception and sense of smell (a lifesaver in the pre-refrigeration days when minor food poisoning was a death sentence) somehow only happened in the last six or eight thousand years? Look, I get it: you want to debunk the old idea that stone age women just sat around as pampered princesses. And you should- it's nonsense. They were helping feed and protect the tr…
/r/MensRights17/04/23 03:00 AM
3

Link's dead. Anyway, I'm not saying it ALWAYS turns out badly; it doesn't. It's not a matter of uniform awfulness, just of pushing luck. And adoption DOES seem the better way to go, if you're considering it- though in a lot of places, a single man is automatically ineligible.
/r/MensRights16/04/23 04:06 PM
3

Bluntly, I'd consider it borderline child abuse. If we rail against a culture glorifying single motherhood and ignoring its dangers, then it's hardly fair to turn around and do the same with the genders reversed.
/r/MensRights16/04/23 03:40 PM
4

This is the key, right here; for these people, victimhood IS status, and any threat to that is a personal attack.
/r/MensRights16/04/23 05:19 AM
0

It's not "morbidly correct"; it's the same nonsense Malthus was pushing two centuries ago, and it's been proven wrong almost every single day since then. Our standards of living and per-person impact on our environment have skyrocketed and plummeted with the rise in our population, and while there are obvious limits to how far they can go, we're nowhere near them, even if we limit ourselves to the technology of today. Claiming that humans are overpopulating the world is no more legitimate than p…
/r/MensRights16/04/23 02:55 AM
2

Stop defining yourself by your ability to beat the crap out of people.
/r/MensRights15/04/23 04:34 AM
1

As he said, for the reciprocation. It offers the stimulation of porn with the bonus of a connection. Of course, that connection is false; nothing more than an illusion created to take advantage of lonely people, but you can't fault him for having basic human desires.
/r/MensRights14/04/23 01:29 AM
19

What you're "supposed to" do is exactly what you did- feel uncomfortable about touching other people, even in completely innocuous ways, even if they're your own flesh and blood. Society (or, rather, those people and institutions who seek to influence and control it) wants us at each other's throats, fearing and resenting one another. Why do you think you there's such a tremendous fuss made around anything whatsoever to do with transsexual people, who 1. comprise a tiny portion of the population…
/r/MensRights12/04/23 10:00 PM
6

I'd argue it's more for those of the powerful classes- it's not like non-Capitalist societies refrained from war- but you're dead-on otherwise.
/r/MensRights11/04/23 03:29 AM
-1

Yeah, because it's not like stored energy and potential nutrients could possibly benefit a person, or a developing fetus, in any way. No, aesthetics are ALL that it's about!
/r/MensRights10/04/23 08:57 PM
8

AvailableCandidate expressed this pretty well; reading through it I thought I'd better add in a comment specifying that while it's harsh, what he's saying isn't an attack- but it looks like you already understand that, which is a GOOD sign. I just want to add that you should remember that you are a woman, and therefore a person. Yes, your instincts will tell you that this man showing vulnerability is admitting to a form of weakness, which makes him a less desirable partner, but it is entirely wi…
/r/MensRights10/04/23 08:56 PM
3

No, it sounds like they're actively making MORE thralls, not just forbidding them from leaving. And making them with their whopping FOUR WEEK training program. Yeah, you don't take victims for a "Spring" attack in mid-April if you expect them to survive.
/r/MensRights10/04/23 08:43 PM
1

Oh. That makes more sense, then. But was that before or after all the kids were killed?
/r/MensRights10/04/23 08:35 PM
8

Bingo. Control the discourse and you control the people. And since so much of that control revolves around fear, this'll give the media outlets a chance to decry "the tremendous increase in extremist language" they're encountering, and put people even MORE on edge.
/r/MensRights10/04/23 04:58 PM
4

As in "Oops, I'm actually an FBI employee; what am I doing wearing this ATF uniform"?
/r/MensRights10/04/23 04:54 PM
4

No, I don't think many people out there at all hate me. Most simply don't care; I'm just some guy on the street. They may fear me, since I'm of a body type best described as "lumberjack hobo yeti", and I'm clearly not "socially appropriate", but fear isn't anger, and anger isn't hate. Now, there ARE people out there who hate me, but that's because of what I've done and said, not what I AM; that's much less common than the internet would have you believe. Hatred is like anger in that it's an ener…
/r/MensRights10/04/23 04:53 PM
2

It is you who obviously can't accept reality. The sex drive isn't created by porn, and even if it WAS, there's no legitimate reason to want to subsume it- either you want to make adolescents slaves or acolytes, but either way, you're fighting biology, and that's a war you can't win. But go ahead- fight your war on porn. It'll work just as well as the war on drugs and the war on terror. Every generation since time immemorial has tried, and every one has lost, but of course, it'll be different for…
/r/MensRights10/04/23 04:46 PM
17

Ah, yes, the infamous "studies suggest"; the dire version of "they say". Do you have any actual evidence, other than cases proved in court, official recantings, or conviction rates?
/r/MensRights10/04/23 12:28 PM
3

They're not false, dude- drug addiction's real, too. It is you who obviously can't accept reality. The sex drive isn't created by porn, and even if it WAS, there's no legitimate reason to want to subsume it- either you want to make adolescents slaves or acolytes, but either way, you're fighting biology, and that's a war you can't win. But go ahead- fight your war on porn. It'll work just as well as the war on drugs and the war on terror. Every generation since time immemorial has tried, and ever…
/r/MensRights10/04/23 12:25 PM
1

"Now"? Is that a Youtube video from 1993?
/r/MensRights10/04/23 05:46 AM
4

Right back at you. Open willingness to tell an unpopular truth isn't idiocy; it's honesty. Cause and effect don't stop just because they make you uncomfortable, and sexual desire doesn't spring into existence on the morning of your eighteenth birthday.
/r/MensRights10/04/23 03:26 AM
4

Yeah, because "having reasonably accurate ideas about sex and sexuality" is TOTALLY the same as "having lung cancer and emphysema". It's not like you can keep them from learning if they choose to; all denying them information does is ensure they get it from their peers, who WILL choose to get it from inaccurate sources. This is the parental rights in education bill all over again. I don't understand how people can have so little understanding of children's psychology when they were supposedly ch…
/r/MensRights10/04/23 02:22 AM
3

And you blame social media for this... why, exactly? I've got news for you, buddy: minors were watching porn LONG before social media existed- hell, before web sites existed. There are people out there renting convertibles who weren't even born when I was lying about my age on Usenet, and kids were sneaking peaks at Playboy before my parents were born. I mean, if you want to strict about it, porn predates anatomically modern humanity, if you count Neanderthal cave art. If you're claiming that ki…
/r/MensRights10/04/23 01:40 AM
1

Because it's not sexist; Mech's work didn't make a huge differentiation between male and female wolves. It was, of course, inaccurate; wolf "packs" in the wild are just parents and their puppies, not the vast crowds of unrelated individuals people used to think they were. Mech's work explained what wolves under incredible stress in captivity would do; those who apply it to humans are admitting far more than they think they are. Mech himself has realized the mistakes he made and disavowed that wo…
/r/MensRights09/04/23 07:39 PM
2

Bingo. We may not quite be at "the worst of both worlds", but we're not far off, and getting closer all the time. It's about power, pure and simply- money is just the most efficient form of power.
/r/MensRights09/04/23 05:18 PM
1

It's a game where emergent systems lead to some truly bizarre outcomes, which, taken out of context, make you sound like a truly horrendous person.
/r/MensRights09/04/23 05:04 PM
1

There ARE loads of men in the Democratic party, dude. One of them is in the White House and hundreds are in Congress right now. A man does not cease to be a man simply because you disapprove of him.
/r/MensRights08/04/23 09:00 PM
1

Read what I wrote again- Republican sex scandals are tawdrier, not nonexistent. But it's pretty clear you've just got a hate boner for the Republicans, who are inert on men's issues, and insist on pushing them past the Democrats, who are actively hostile.
/r/MensRights08/04/23 02:18 PM
8

I guess the obvious question is to see how many genders the EU acknowledges, and how well represented they are. Failing that, make friends on the board, and get current members to change how they identify. If they're going to be stupid, use their own against them.
/r/MensRights08/04/23 01:48 AM
3

Tell the rest to hop on the Crusader Kings forums. After a few days of reading posts titled "Looking for advice on the Devil", "How can I sleep with my sister?", "Should I castrate all Muslims?" and "I accidentally impregnated the Pope", they'll ALL be on the FBI watchlist!
/r/MensRights07/04/23 09:41 PM
4

Ah, yes, because to be a REAL man means adhering to strict standards of ideological purity.
/r/MensRights07/04/23 05:37 PM
2

Once again, all you need to do is treat people equally, and all these problems go away; funny how no one else ever seems to notice that. I especially love the freaking out over women being "harmed" by biological men being in their bathrooms. Not being ATTACKED by men in their bathrooms; no, that would make sense, by their mere presence. Because women, while being "strong" and "tough" and "powerful", are SO weak and SO fragile that they're damaged by the mere proximity of testicles. Logically, I …
/r/MensRights07/04/23 05:31 PM
11

Actually, no- it's usually Feminism that's responsible when anything good happens. Making women feel like they have no agency or ability to affect the world or even their own lives is the heart of "Female Empowerment".
/r/MensRights06/04/23 10:08 PM
1

Republicans don't give a damn about offending Jews or Muslims; they've been the ones pushing MGM bans, not that any of them get anywhere. They hate men for not giving them what they want- if you DO, then you're just dandy, in Republican eyes. The Democrats don't care what you do; they hate you anyway. Likewise, it's not about getting "more wives"; any political sex scandal between two consenting adults of the opposite sex is a Democratic one. It's about control and subjugation.
/r/MensRights06/04/23 10:06 PM
2

Fair point.
/r/MensRights06/04/23 08:34 PM
1

Wow. I don't know if things are different in the UK, or if this represents a change in the narrative, but it's damned refreshing to see an organization openly speaking about the harms the lockdowns caused- and actually laying the blame on them, rather than just accusing "the pandemic" of causing harm. And given that the focus is on harm done to adult men... there'll be backlash over this, and I commend these people for their courage and dedication, if not their spelling skills. Prolonged isolati…
/r/MensRights06/04/23 05:30 PM
10

Pretty much. The standard line has gone from "gay men are all would-be child molesters" to "all men are all would-be child molesters". She's terrified of half of the species and openly calls them monstrous, and yet we are the ones thought of as bigots.
/r/MensRights06/04/23 05:19 PM
7

Rule 8: More poofters!
/r/MensRights06/04/23 05:16 PM
0

Republicans have no problem with men who toe the line they lay out- they only hate those who refuse their expected role. And they haven't hated black men in decades; it's not 1950 anymore. Democrats, on the other hand, DO hate men, but that's because they're men, not because they refuse to accept that they're inherently evil oppressors. It's being hated for what you DO, rather than what you ARE.
/r/MensRights06/04/23 05:01 PM
2

I'm desiring nothing but you understanding me, dude- please stop pretending I'm advocating child molestation. It's not like you need to spend a lot of effort to read the NEXT DAMN SENTENCE I wrote, instead of jumping down my throat over your hotheadedness.
/r/MensRights05/04/23 11:44 PM
-1

Because killing someone is automatically always justified, and nuance doesn't exist, right?
/r/MensRights05/04/23 09:43 PM
1

""Children" is a biological term, not a legal one; what we're discussing is adults having sex with minors." Are you illiterate, or just stupid? I explicitly said "That doesn't mean (per modern thinking) that you're emotionally or intellectually ready to have sex.". I'm NOT advocating for having sex with children, I clearly stated that I OPPOSE it. I simply also oppose denying biological realities for the sake of political squeamishness. Please READ what I write before you criticize me about it. …
/r/MensRights05/04/23 09:41 PM
8

I disagree- Democrats hate men, point blank. Republicans hate men only when they object to being used as work horses and human shields. We're mostly beneath their notice.
/r/MensRights05/04/23 09:34 PM
5

Ah, should've thought about the trans angle. Thanks for clearing that up.
/r/MensRights05/04/23 09:32 PM
15

Okay, now this surprises me. First, because the bill puts the date in the wrong order (unless Texas seceded again to join Europe and nobody told me), and more because it was apparently less than a month ago. In the wake of the Nagarwala ruling, many states made similar laws- but why wait?
/r/MensRights05/04/23 08:06 PM
-3

3 times IS egregious- this wasn't making sure you killed a terrorist, but removing a rapist's ability to attack you.
/r/MensRights05/04/23 08:03 PM
2

No, he's one of those "police militarization is a dangerous trend, and encouraging MORE use of violence is the last thing we need" guys. You're correct in that you shouldn't pull a gun you don't intend to use, but he's correct in saying that killing the guy shouldn't be the go-to course of action.
/r/MensRights05/04/23 08:01 PM
1

Ideally, that's true- but such judges are extremely unlikely to be appointed.
/r/MensRights05/04/23 03:23 PM
7

It's become the new "Communist", hasn't it?
/r/MensRights05/04/23 03:22 PM
1

It's most likely a Google search. They're not just regional, but bubbled- the results you get are dependent on what you've clicked on before.
/r/MensRights05/04/23 03:21 PM
0

I can see enormous issues with adults having sex with (honesty means no euphemisms) children- but that's not what we're talking about. "Children" is a biological term, not a legal one; what we're discussing is adults having sex with minors. If you're physically capable of having children, you are no longer a child yourself. That doesn't mean (per modern thinking) that you're emotionally or intellectually ready to have sex. But THAT, in turn, doesn't mean you're not capable or desiring of it. Nei…
/r/MensRights05/04/23 03:18 PM
1

Oh, I don't dispute for a single second that it's a good idea to wait; I'm just saying that the desire is there, and the desire is overwhelming, LONG before you hit the age of consent.
/r/MensRights05/04/23 03:14 PM
92

Why lie about it? To get those guys to sleep with them, obviously. Sexual desire doesn't suddenly flare into life on the morning of your eighteenth birthday; teenagers are some of the horniest people on the planet- girls and boys alike. We, as a society, have decided that it's unacceptable to have sex with someone under a certain age; what that age is varies by location. But the proportion of people who reach that age with their virginity intact is typically fairly low. Coming from an autist, wh…
/r/MensRights04/04/23 08:42 PM
7

And I'd love some of whatever's made you so deluded that you think a war isn't provoked BEFORE shooting starts; sadly, I'm stuck with sobriety.
/r/MensRights04/04/23 03:22 AM
2

There's no such thing as a "defensive war".
/r/MensRights04/04/23 03:13 AM
2

It's a tough thing to master: knowing when to call something out, when to push back, and when to let it slide is one of those things you'll probably be struggling with your whole life. I'd give you the answer if I knew it, but I still have difficulties there myself; it's a journey, not a destination. As with Christianity, it's about learning and improvement, and not succumbing to despair and giving up if you fall down along the way.
/r/MensRights03/04/23 10:25 PM
10

Well, you may face mockery, but it sure ain't gonna come from me; you see this, you recognize it, you know that it's a problem, and you're seeking help to combat it- that seems pretty smart, self-aware, and noble to me. How do you fix it? Well, the first step is to isolate yourself from these people. No, not every woman is a heartless bitch, but it very much sounds like THESE women are. You're being mistreated, maybe even outright abused (I'm not calling you a liar, but I am only hearing one sid…
/r/MensRights03/04/23 06:56 PM
-1

Fair enough.
/r/MensRights03/04/23 04:04 PM
2

There's nothing in modern Feminism that wasn't present at Seneca falls- all that's changed is the openness with which the hatred and insanity is expressed. Well, no, that's not entirely true; there were far more legitimate complaints back then, as well, but since all of those battles have since been won, all that's left is the bigotry and whining.
/r/MensRights03/04/23 04:01 PM
7

So the original post gets taken down, and you decide to repost it... why, exactly? Do you really not expect that this, too, will be taken down?
/r/MensRights03/04/23 03:58 PM
1

Then maybe you need to start hanging with a better class of women, who are actually thinking beings and not unreasoning beasts.
/r/MensRights03/04/23 02:13 AM
2

Thank you- it's nice to see SOMEONE who can think these things through.
/r/MensRights03/04/23 01:53 AM
2

Have you ever even BEEN to a bar? It ain't like a brothel, dude.
/r/MensRights02/04/23 08:36 PM
3

Do you think women have no ability to control their actions? That as soon as an opportunity arises, they'll be hit with an irresistible compulsion to cheat? That there's no reason, beyond seeking sex, that a person might go clubbing? This kind of reasoning is exactly why we get accused of misogyny, dude- because that's what this is.
/r/MensRights02/04/23 08:34 PM
6

Then they aren't fulfilling their protector role, and lose both social status and the attraction of women. I agree that's not how it should be, but it's how it is.
/r/MensRights02/04/23 04:14 PM
3

As others have said, take screenshots- and SAVE those screenshots. One hard drive can fail; back them up on a flash drive or two.
/r/MensRights02/04/23 04:11 PM
-16

So... women have to be escorted everywhere they go? How Saudi Arabian of you.
/r/MensRights02/04/23 04:03 PM
8

True- but it's not half so dangerous as thinking that you should get nothing; that your role as a human shield is simply inherent due to your demographics.
/r/MensRights02/04/23 04:03 PM
5

...did they ever hide it?
/r/MensRights02/04/23 04:00 PM
11

Pronouns are a lot like flags; they serve a useful purpose, but some people put WAY too much importance on what's really a relatively minor thing.
/r/MensRights01/04/23 10:36 PM
9

Oh, you do- you wouldn't bother trolling like this otherwise. The problem is that you don't care if I CAN foot the bill; you, and people like you, enable others to make that decision that for me. You want me, and others like me, to cover the costs of your own laziness. You want us unable to feed our families, so we grow weak and dependent on you- and you can tell us what we are and aren't allowed to do, and how we're expected to live our lives. Your tyranny is really no different from Putin's.
/r/MensRights30/03/23 11:17 PM
8

Ah, because money is all that matters; life and freedom are unimportant. NOW I understand you.
/r/MensRights30/03/23 10:13 PM
14

Say it with me: "Slavery is wrong". If your nation can't survive without forcing its citizens into bondage, it doesn't DESERVE to endure. Slavery doesn't require an outside an outside power; it can just as easily come from your own government. And refusal to fight that- willingness to accept, as you have, that your freedom, and that of your children and family, is cowardice. Bowing before a tyrant is not made better by the fact that he looks and sounds like you; it's still bowing before a tyrant…
/r/MensRights30/03/23 08:48 PM
60

Those aren't men, those are slaves. What makes it more acceptable if the invader has a job in your own government?
/r/MensRights30/03/23 06:12 PM
18

Dude- drop the persecution complex; it ain't gonna help ya. I wasn't asserting that there's no reason to question the disparities- there's quite a bit. I was saying that the DERIVED CONCLUSION- that it's all do to oppression- is derived from dogma, not logic.
/r/MensRights30/03/23 02:49 PM
128

There are three times as many boys diagnosed with autism than girls so diagnosed; many within the community view this as evidence that girls are discriminated against in autism research. I haven't been able to find exact numbers, but there are MANY more black and Hispanic children diagnosed with autism than white children; many within the community view this as evidence that blacks and Hispanics are discriminated against in autism research. The mindset views people as inherently part of an "oppr…
/r/MensRights30/03/23 03:53 AM
2

It's actually strictly prohibited by the Catholic Church (and no other religion or denomination that I'm aware of), though that naturally doesn't apply to converts; for all my grievances with the Church, their willingness to take a principled stand (if for a kinda stupid reason, in my opinion) when no one else will wins them some points in my book.
/r/MensRights28/03/23 10:25 PM
18

I think Andy Warhol might have a word for you about that...
/r/MensRights28/03/23 10:21 PM
3

Not every case, at least; I took care of mine with a set of gauge rings, like they use for those crazy ear holes. There may be cases where it's necessary, though.
/r/MensRights28/03/23 10:20 PM
107

That's what makes it so stupidly shortsighted- I've (thankfully) never been in this situation, but I've heard people express similar sentiments; I always tell them to think of the poor young woman (they're never as sympathetic when it's a poor young man, but I doubt that'll surprise anyone here) forced apart from the woman she loves because "It's just another woman; it's not like it matters". I've been called homophobic for it, too.
/r/MensRights28/03/23 10:03 PM
1

Above and beyond that, WIC is a federal program, not a state one, and less discriminatory than the name suggests. This isn't a bad thing.
/r/MensRights27/03/23 10:58 PM
0

This really shouldn't surprise anyone; the panicked Covid hysteria, and in particular the continued panicked Covid hysteria, has its roots in the same "convince the individual of their own helplessness and make them rely increasingly on centralized authority" mindset that Feminism does; there's not much difference between "you don't need EVIDENCE, you need to believe this person, because she's a woman" and "you don't need EVIDENCE, you need to believe this person, because he has several letters …
/r/MensRights27/03/23 05:14 PM
7

I think it's worse than that- not only will they not spend a day in jail, they probably won't even have their credibility seriously damaged if they accuse someone else.
/r/MensRights26/03/23 05:05 PM
37

Mental and teleological weakness, as a result of spending their lives indoctrinated by a philosophy that tells them that they're weak and helpless, unable to affect the world or improve their own lives, and that consequently it doesn't matter what they do or say, since they're powerless. This from people descended from women who shook the world as they passed through it; who endured, and even prospered, through famines and plagues and miseries almost unimaginable to modern humanity.
/r/MensRights26/03/23 03:37 AM
-1

Well, that sucks. Have you decided where you want to go in life? If you're looking for something specific to accomplish that modern politics blocks, well, there's only so much you can do, and in any case, there are probably people better equipped to advise you, but you CAN still find fulfillment, if not fantastic wealth or status.
/r/MensRights26/03/23 03:23 AM
2

Just wait and see how Bloodlines 2 is going to turn out.
/r/MensRights25/03/23 05:24 PM
13

The key is to respond, when it comes up, by asking for an explanation- pretend you haven't heard of it before. Then, when you get an explanation, calmly ask "Like Emmett Till?". Nobody has a counter to that, because it's exactly the same setup.
/r/MensRights25/03/23 05:20 PM
1

You needn't disavow it; Mech himself already has.
/r/MensRights25/03/23 12:06 AM
7

And men aren't out there waiting in dark alleys where they can sexually prey on women, either. The proportion of humanity that seeks to act monstrously is quite low; that doesn't mean we don't laws against acting that way.
/r/MensRights24/03/23 07:34 PM
7

Have you heard of these things called "weapons"? Or threats? Muscle alone doesn't move the world.
/r/MensRights24/03/23 07:03 PM
15

No, what does more damage to men's rights than anything else is the idea that men don't count as human- and that starts with boys not counting as human, and it's hard to imagine someone more helpless than a newborn baby. Yes, circumcision is left to the parents; that's the problem we're complaining about. It SHOULD be left to the person whose body it is.
/r/MensRights23/03/23 03:02 PM
15

Golly, why would you expect concern about the rights of young men in a forum to discuss the rights of men?
/r/MensRights23/03/23 01:44 PM
5

Thanks for the explanation.
/r/MensRights23/03/23 05:09 AM
0

Not unless she's in drag, no- anti-semetic is opposed to the self. You probably mean anti-semitic, which is closer, but still wrong; despite how it's frequently used, "Semite" is a linguistic group, not a religious or ethnic one.
/r/MensRights23/03/23 05:09 AM
10

An impressive thought- care to explain what specifically has been said for those of us who can't access Twitter?
/r/MensRights23/03/23 02:38 AM
6

The "/s" means that the previous comment was sarcastic; lumpynose wasn't actually calling you a sexist.
/r/MensRights22/03/23 10:08 PM
0

The exact details vary, but it almost always starts with ostracism and isolation, and builds from there. I've seen it reach full-blown boycotting- and I mean real boycotting, where it's a straight-up sociological blockade, extended to anyone who DOES deal with the woman in question.
/r/MensRights22/03/23 08:25 PM
2

As a sexual kink, I have no problem with it- I don't think it even necessarily reflects deep-seated psychological issues. We don't get to choose our kinks, after all, and sometimes a desire for sexual submission simply stems from a desire to set aside the stresses and difficulties of power and let somebody else take control for a while. Part of the core issue with discussing men's rights is people (and society as a whole) not seeing men as human, and denying our sexual side is part of that; I th…
/r/MensRights22/03/23 05:16 PM
11

You may be on to something there. But as to your second point, there're two important corollaries that you might've missed: 1. while women do understand men better than men do women, it's not much better, and 2. men know they don't understand women; women tend to think they have a much better grasp of male psychology than they actually do. More than once, I've thought that schools should have kids take a semester in the psychology of the opposite sex; even if you don't want to date them, you're …
/r/MensRights22/03/23 04:45 PM
2

Natural selection- you can't change biology by simply wanting it hard enough. A lot of the more... posthumanist, let's say, social and political philosophies are rooted in a desire for fairness that would require eliminating biological realities. Short of mass-scale genetic engineering, that's not going to happen, so instead they simply claim there aren't any real differences. This is ludicrous- a woman COULD, with even dedication and resources, bulk herself up to the point where she's as muscul…
/r/MensRights22/03/23 04:39 PM
8

Actually, in some cases they probably do; larger lungs would let you do more with bagpipes or woodwinds, and I've heard (I don't know if it's true or not) that skilled musicians can tell a man's playing of some stringer instruments from a woman's.
/r/MensRights22/03/23 06:36 AM
-1

Here's what tipped me off: time was, the debate over gay marriage was about just that- gay marriage. Then, not long before the ruling came, it started to be about "same-sex marriage". That seemed needlessly complex, since at no point were lesbians or bisexuals presumed to be excluded (not by anyone I ever talked to, anyway). But then, the SAME DAY the ruling came down, it retroactively became, in the discussions, about "marriage equality". It was a matter of reframing the discussion to make your…
/r/MensRights22/03/23 02:54 AM
32

I can't understand what it is that pushes people to keep going back to places like that after they've learned what they're like. I mean, how does it keep surprising you?
/r/MensRights20/03/23 04:10 PM
75

The rantings of someone who's spent so long spouting party-line gibberish she doesn't even think through what she's saying any more. What were you expecting coming from her? An endorsement of Harold Stassen's candidacy?
/r/MensRights19/03/23 11:20 PM
2

The OP didn't claim that he was- merely that lacking proficiency isn't really reasonable grounds for rejecting someone. Do you really not understand the difference? And if you think it's a solid reason to condemn someone for something they didn't say, you have enough faith in the theory to explain it yourself. What is it?
/r/MensRights18/03/23 06:49 PM
4

That... that doesn't sound like any "working man's pub" that I've ever been in. I'm not much of a bargoer, and maybe things are different in the UK (though the famous ballad of the anti-puritan says that at least they used to be more similar to ours), so it may just be a cultural thing, but still... Anyway, if she's having a good time and not hurting anyone, I see no problem here. Good for her.
/r/MensRights18/03/23 05:51 PM
5

I'm not sure what you mean by "RP perspective", but you seem to be working under the idea that a person is owed sex with a more skilled partner. It cuts both ways.
/r/MensRights18/03/23 05:44 PM
4

Interesting typo. I'm guessing you meant "none"?
/r/MensRights18/03/23 03:49 PM
4

OP's post is a complaint about disparity of social expectations. Nothing is explicitly asked for, and you're complaining about the words you've put in his or her mouth. That's not fair.
/r/MensRights18/03/23 03:46 PM
3

True. There are some exceptions.
/r/MensRights18/03/23 03:34 PM
5

...Says the man, typing away on a Microsoft or Apple operating system, running a computer with Foxcon cables, or on a smartphone manufactured with slave labor in China, onto a site run by a Chinese conglomerate funneling data to Google, who happily passes it along to the NSA. Yeah, no corporate or government control there!
/r/MensRights18/03/23 02:24 AM
7

What on Earth makes you think this is limited to feminism? The philosophy of personal powerless and ever-increasing reliance on institutional strength is everywhere. From "love it or leave it" to "none of us is as strong as all of us", with detours ranging from "keep calm and carry on" to "shelter in place", it's nigh-universal. Emerson wrote "Society everywhere is in a conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members" almost two hundred years ago. He wasn't talking about feminism.
/r/MensRights18/03/23 02:21 AM
1

But they are places where powerful figures push messages of subservience and personal powerlessness. So if they're not Western, is the same thing happening there simply not a problem? It's "only a problem" when it happens to us?
/r/MensRights17/03/23 09:13 PM
21

"Western" societies like Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia?
/r/MensRights17/03/23 07:17 PM
329

To keep them embarrassed, ashamed, and fearful of social backlash, so they'll be docile and easily controlled and won't rock the boat. Our government and corporate masters have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, and will go to great lengths to keep it from being changed. Why do you think overt expressions of masculinity are so socially frowned upon these days? Why the constant attempts to reframe it as something destructive, and the demonization of unabashed testosterone? Masculini…
/r/MensRights17/03/23 04:29 PM
10

Utter nonsense. Men (of any age) want a "young, pure woman" for the same reason women (of any age) want a hunky six foot millionaire: natural selection.
/r/MensRights17/03/23 07:48 AM
1

Tell that to Shane Seyer.
/r/MensRights16/03/23 08:07 PM
2

Clearly, you haven't read it recently enough. The serpent in Eden wasn't Satan, it was just a snake. Satan doesn't kill anyone in the Bible; he only shows up three times, and in each case, is only tempting people. Don't conflate him with Ahriman.
/r/MensRights14/03/23 05:14 PM
1

I know this may seem pedantic, but it's actually very important: people don't get to choose their orientation. Demonizing people for pedophilia just means people will be unafraid to get the help they need. Demonizing child molesters is a different story- but you still need actual proof.
/r/MensRights14/03/23 04:40 AM
7

Fairness, now- all the snake did was point out God's lies. They DID become like God, knowing good and evil, and they DIDN'T die that day. And it's not like Eve was told "Don't listen to the snake".
/r/MensRights14/03/23 04:38 AM
1

My response would be "That's probably true". It's also probably true that more women are in a position to need it. That doesn't mean that NO men are, or that we shouldn't have more options, but yeah, I imagine that women fighting harder for it IS one of causes for that particular effect. If what we want is to see men protected too, that doesn't mean we want women to lose the protection they have.
/r/MensRights11/03/23 02:29 AM
0

Every single man on Earth is the product of a union between a man and a woman- logically, each of us would have some combination of male and female traits (which we do). The same is also true of women. Usually, one predominates, but both are present; usually, the predominant one is the sex you are. Sometimes it isn't, and that's okay, too. The key to remember- in this as in most things related to the battle of the sexes- is that they are the opposite sex, not the enemy sex. Having some aspects o…
/r/MensRights10/03/23 04:28 PM
55

Nice! Always good to hear some positive news!
/r/MensRights10/03/23 04:22 PM
9

This is the sad and sorry truth of it. If you keep an eye open, you'll notice that you get treated better over the phone than you do with someone you're just talking to through text, and better still if you're together in person; the human brain simply doesn't see a voice on the other end of a machine as a person in the same way it does an actual human bodily in its presence. And whether it's through evolution or conditioning or some combination, these people don't see men as people, either- or …
/r/MensRights09/03/23 06:22 PM
4

Ask Emmett Till- he was one of its first victims.
/r/MensRights09/03/23 06:17 PM
3

Actually, no- forced relocation is a fairly recent development. Usually it ends less like the Philippines and more like Rwanda.
/r/MensRights09/03/23 06:16 PM
1

Good, good. I mention planning ahead if a move's in your future (or might be), it's WAY better have a plan you don't need than to need one you don't have (a lesson I learned the hard way). I hope it all works out for you!
/r/MensRights07/03/23 02:18 AM
2

I'm sorry to hear that happened to you; it sucks, man. I imagine it's precious little comfort, but if your friends can be pulled from you so easily, they weren't really your friends. I know how it hurts- I lost a childhood friend, who I'd thought of as a brother, over my refusal to cave to Covid madness; thirty years of love and trust, blown away in an instant by one man's stubborn refusal to put hearsay and emotionally-driven fearmongering aside. I can relate. I hate to say it, but depending on…
/r/MensRights06/03/23 09:48 PM
57

Don't forget still demanding a bachelor's degree for factory line work!
/r/MensRights06/03/23 01:59 AM
2

Look at what Feminism tells us: women are weak and incapable, inherently, of logical analysis and reasoning. Men are strong and incapable, inherently, of not abusing or exploiting women. Women are told that they're unable to improve their lives or affect the world in any way; only Feminism can do that, and if you just support The Cause unquestioningly, you'll be safe from the horrors of masculinity. Men are told that they're objectively evil, raised into a cult with a heavy doctrine of Original …
/r/MensRights06/03/23 01:56 AM
4

The anger is quite simple, and you're only step away, so I'll connect the last dots for you: they don't "nutpick" on conservatives- they do on anyone who disagrees with them. The whole broader movement they're a part of does. But like any religious faith, they're harsher on heretics than on heathens, and the backlash against liberals who don't toe their line- who are, for want of a better word, sane- dwarfs anything the conservatives get. It's just less public, and less published. It's the same …
/r/MensRights05/03/23 08:43 PM
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I disagree- I think it's mainly about controlling women. About convincing them of their own weakness and powerlessness in the name of attracting more to the movement. You're spot on about equality, though.
/r/MensRights04/03/23 04:46 PM
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And this surprises you... why, exactly? Masculinity, by its very nature, is an upsetting force; whether it's through competition or cooperation, the great movers and shakers of history have always been strongly masculine people. The owners and funders of movie studios are generally people with a strong interest in the status quo being maintained. That's not always a negative thing, either.
/r/MensRights03/03/23 08:46 PM
2

The dislike is rooted in the same mindset that calls masculinity "toxic": the idea that men should behave a certain way, and that those who don't are deficient, if not outright defective. Now you may think "But that's true of EVERY social mindset; the only difference between 'a man must like barbecue' and 'a man must not murder people' is a matter of degree!". And that's true- but the difference here is that it's not being deficient as a functioning member of society, or even as a respected memb…
/r/MensRights02/03/23 08:19 PM
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Given that a member of Congress is easily going to be in a position to have their children either medically disqualified or shifted into a non-dangerous position, I have a more... modest... proposal. Upon being sworn in, each and every member of Congress is assigned a number corresponding to that of a potential A-1 draftee (or whatever the equivalent the damnable system uses). They are not told who it is- it's a secret known only to a trusted team whose identities are unknown. If the system neve…
/r/MensRights02/03/23 03:53 AM
6

It's actually very simple: there are powers (both individuals and institutions) that scramble desperately for power, and vehemently don't want the masses turning against them. The two easiest groups of people to control are those who are angry, and those who are afraid. Anger makes you want to act and keeps you from thinking clearly; fear makes you want to hide and keeps you from thinking at all. Those last two sentences will explain 90% of politics. But since there are so many powers out there,…
/r/MensRights28/02/23 06:11 PM
3

Off the top of my head: -Self-made Man, by Norah Vincent, that they might realize that men have difficulties that women never even think about. -Pretty much anything by Warren Farrel, both for its own sake and and as a reminder that being the opposite gender is not the same as being the enemy gender. We're not going to solve anything until we can all let go of the hostility. -The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton, for reasons that aren't directly related to men's rights, but because I thi…
/r/MensRights27/02/23 01:43 AM
1

It isn't antisemitism to criticize Jews or Judaism anywhere; most Jews aren't Semites, and only a handful of Semites are Jews. "Offering criticism", whether warranted or otherwise, is also not the same thing as "firebombing". A few proposed that bills that would get laughed out of any Federal court on a first Amendment basis have are as solid evidence of your point as the fact that Illinois banned the speaking of English in 1935.
/r/MensRights26/02/23 10:19 PM
2

Where do you live that you're not allowed to criticize Judaism? More to the point, you made no attempt to connect your comment on their religion to any larger idea, leaving the implication that the powers (or at least some of the powers) behind these attempts at social control are doing it because of, or for the benefit of, their religion. I pointed out that that makes absolutely no sense, given that Jews typically fare horribly under such circumstances. Unless you're saying that Judaism somehow…
/r/MensRights26/02/23 09:20 PM
1

The big thing is this: when you see it, or hear it- call it out. Not aggressively- "knock it off, you sexist asshole" isn't helpful- but Socratically. Make them explain and justify their anti-male statements, because the horrifying truth is that your generation's been so inundated with that sentiment that they don't even think about it any more. My generation heard those same things, but we had better messages, too, so we had the knowledge to simply roll our eyes and walk away, choosing not to a…
/r/MensRights26/02/23 08:21 PM
2

Yes, because Jews typically benefit SO MUCH when societies become unstable and people are driven to desperation. ::eyeroll::
/r/MensRights26/02/23 07:59 PM
1

In the sense of "fiendish master plan to conquer the world and all within it"? No. In the sense of "gradually increasing the encouragement to conform, stamping down the masculine urges to explore, understand, compete, and build, instead pushing the masculine urges to fight and disrupt, the better to demonize them, while simultaneously discouraging feminine nurturing and leadership to push feminine fear of the unknown and defensiveness"? Absolutely. It's less an evil cabal that controls everythin…
/r/MensRights26/02/23 07:58 PM
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Um, why would we be spending money on "women's Viagra"? Are there a lot of women out there whose penises have erectile problems? Do you not understand what Viagra does, or is this some weird joke about not knowing what a "woman" is?
/r/MensRights26/02/23 12:51 AM
1

It's a topless beach. Why would you not expect to see topless women there? It's entirely the same thing.
/r/MensRights26/02/23 12:39 AM
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No- Emmett Till did.
/r/MensRights25/02/23 08:03 AM
6

Don't count on it closing before you're safe- start making plans NOW, if you haven't already.
/r/MensRights25/02/23 08:02 AM
2

You're not wrong- but neither is he. They do, indeed, have a choice- between being a slave (hopefully temporarily) and being a martyr (forever). Do you really struggle to see why so many choose the former?
/r/MensRights25/02/23 08:01 AM
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Here is all you need to know about the sensibility and logic that governs the discussion of autism in modern culture: -Autism is diagnosed in roughly three times as many females as males. There are many theories as to why this is, but pretty much everyone agrees that the symptoms are usually subtler and less disruptive, making a diagnosis less likely to be sought, and the problems more likely to be overlooked. Regardless of the reasons, as a result, some claim that autism research is biased agai…
/r/MensRights25/02/23 07:58 AM
1

Um... you're complaining about topless women on the topless beach? That's kinda like complaining about people practicing medicine at the doctor's office.
/r/MensRights25/02/23 07:37 AM
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Very much so. The thing is that while the issue of rights is laughably one-sided, that of social expectations is not- but it's also blatant enough that even die-hard Feminists aren't foolish enough to think they'd get away with claiming it's all to women's disadvantage.
/r/MensRights24/02/23 10:08 PM
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Thank you. I'm always baffled at why so many people who oppose the "suppress your emotions for the sake of female approval" crowd eagerly hop on the "suppress your emotions for the sake of operational efficiency" bandwagon. It's like choosing between working yourself to death for your capitalistic corporate overlord or your communistic government one; either way, you're still dead.
/r/MensRights24/02/23 09:51 PM
5

Public toplessness. It's not everywhere, and it's not enforced often, but there have been tickets issued.
/r/MensRights24/02/23 09:47 PM
5

Isn't it funny how many of these problems disappear when you treat people based on the content of their character rather than the content of their underpants?
/r/MensRights23/02/23 06:28 PM
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Okay, I'm going to say it again for the folks in the back: 1984 was NOT an instruction manual. That whole "No free man shall be taken, imprisoned, or in any other way destroyed except by the lawful judgement of his peers" bit, on the other hand? Yeah, that's still binding.
/r/MensRights20/02/23 04:49 PM
10

The really sad part is that it's NOT hatred- not most of the time, anyway- just disregard. Hatred means they at least care. I turned 18 at the time the country was gearing up the war with Iraq. That sentence tells you less than might think at first glance, since it not only doesn't tell you which war, but which country. Those poor people between the rivers have been getting stomped on by pretty much every major power in the history of the world, and the reaction of the rest of us when it happens…
/r/MensRights14/02/23 11:17 PM
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I'd hardly call snatching victimhood from the jaws of privilege "truth", but I can see how that'd make people angry. But when did this come up in the books?
/r/MensRights14/02/23 10:47 PM
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I see. And this has what to do with the books and/or the game, exactly?
/r/MensRights14/02/23 10:46 PM
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Ah, but see, you've actually put THOUGHT into that position- and the Party faithful (which party? Doesn't matter) don't like that. It's been a long and gradual process, but (here in the US, at least) the populace has been largely convinced that The Other Side is evil incarnate, so you HAVE to vote against them. They're not "people you disagree with" anymore. Sometimes, they're not even people anymore. Trump is easily the most liberal Republican presidential candidate of my lifetime; hearing him …
/r/MensRights14/02/23 05:06 PM
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Um, did I miss something? What exactly did she say? What part of her books conveyed this kind of bigotry? Was there some section of Harry Potter attending a Feminist rally that I somehow skipped over, and the movies cut out?
/r/MensRights14/02/23 01:53 AM
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No, we do not need to start banning people based on the ideas they espouse. We need to start TALKING with them- not to them, with them- and examine their ideas, explaining why we find ours to be superior. Silencing an idea just makes you look afraid of it- and an idea that people, especially impressionable and unmoored young men, see as forbidden and frightening to the elders and established people, is an idea that's invested with a great and glorious allure.
/r/MensRights14/02/23 01:49 AM
1

True. That's why I specified that it's more a product of the underlying ideology, that the services of a cashier are as important as, and should be paid as much as, an emergency physician or 911 dispatcher.
/r/MensRights14/02/23 01:31 AM
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Well, they're not wrong. I mean, they are in laying the blame at the feet of the "rape crisis" that Biden and his boys Gulf-of-Tonkined into existence, instead of the complex web of factors making life genuinely miserable for young people (and non-young people, for that matter) these days, but I have no difficulty believing that teen girls are pretty damned unhappy.
/r/MensRights13/02/23 11:27 PM
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By defining "equality" in terms of outcome, not opportunity. There was a time when my father was working was working as an emergency physician. That's a hellaciously tense job; one tiny little mistake, and someone's dead. And you don't even have time to mentally process it; you need to see the next patient, and do it NOW. At the same time, my sister was working as a 911 dispatcher. If she did everything right, she might have to listen to, and even SEE, someone in a situation SHE SENT THEM INTO d…
/r/MensRights13/02/23 11:22 PM
3

Hell, man, that's horrible. I'd ask yourself a question: if you did the test, and found out your daughter was the product of cheating, would she cease to be your daughter? Biologically, maybe, but even if you're not her father, would you still be her dad? Would you think of that whenever you saw her? Would you think of the uncertainty whenever you saw her if you didn't do the test? Which would eat at you more? I can't tell you how you'll feel, and from that flows what you should do- assuming tha…
/r/MensRights13/02/23 11:15 PM
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If sex is all you're after, why bother dating at all?
/r/MensRights13/02/23 05:27 PM
5

A hyperbolic joke; obviously, other people still own dictionaries. But they don't seem to read them, judging by how frequently words get misused for political ends.
/r/MensRights13/02/23 05:25 PM
0

"Raising awareness" is not the same as "sinking to the lowest common denominator". This is nothing more than social media-style mob justice, and a decent human being- REGARDLESS of gender- should refuse to have anything to do with it.
/r/MensRights13/02/23 06:56 AM
1

Whether it's rooted in egalitarianism or bigotry. Yes, really. Here's a story that may illustrate the difference: Some years ago, I went to a used bookstore. Like many others, this one also bought used books, so when I saw a guy walking toward the store carrying a large box, I realized he was going to struggle with the door. Having been raised to be courteous, I sped up, so as to reach the door first so that I could open it for him. This was courtesy- basic kindness for the sake of kindness, adm…
/r/MensRights13/02/23 06:42 AM
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It's not something I have firsthand experience with, but I CAN tell you- you probably already know, but I'll tell you in case you don't, or someone else in your position reads this- that a lot of the the louder members of that community are COMPLETELY out to lunch; you'll be missing out on MANY of the downsides if you just rely on their descriptions. About ten years ago (give or take), I was listening to the radio on a long car trip, and I the next segment was described as a discussion from seve…
/r/MensRights13/02/23 03:26 AM
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I'm worse than a mere incel; I'm the Last Dictionary Owner! And so I alone know that "celibate" doesn't mean "chaste"; it means "unmarried"- and given the current laws and culture surrounding marriage, I doubt all too many of us avoid that involuntarily. I also know that "mediocre" doesn't mean "average", but I don't think anyone else is prepared to accept that.
/r/MensRights13/02/23 03:15 AM
2

It's not whether they left, it's how much of you they took with them. Strength comes from overcoming adversity, yes, but not all adversity can be overcome- and not all people can overcome all of it. Surviving isn't the same as getting better. "Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. He sits down beside Tolstoy in the land of nothing and Nirvana. They are both helpless - one because he must not grasp anything, the other because he must not let go of anything. T…
/r/MensRights13/02/23 03:10 AM
1

I think it starts with someone seeing a need (check) and actually getting off his butt and making it happen. Do you know what it takes to run a helpline? I certainly don't. But we have internet access; we can find out.
/r/MensRights13/02/23 03:08 AM
1

Because no one has started one. Care to change that?
/r/MensRights12/02/23 10:01 PM
1

That's a fair point, too- and now that I think of it, challenging it like you did is probably the easiest way to combat the assertions that'd be made against us on that account, as well.
/r/MensRights12/02/23 04:23 PM
2

The discourse of people freely exchanging opinions, even if we disagree with them? Hell yes.
/r/MensRights12/02/23 04:08 AM
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We have every right to bodily autonomy that women do? So it's illegal to mutilate our newborn genitals? And to force us into battle thralldom? And to deny us the latter right, since the Constitution pretty explicitly says we have it, but the government says no? And to force us to pay child support when the baby is a result of us being raped? If you're saying that we SHOULD have equal rights, you'll get no argument from me- but that's not the way things are.
/r/MensRights12/02/23 04:00 AM
4

It's even worse than that: young men are told their whole lives "this is what you must do to get a woman", but when they do that and it doesn't work, they get frustrated. Very natural, but complaining about it gets them "you're not entitled to other people's affections!". Fair enough, I suppose. But young women, too, are told their whole lives "this is what you must do to get a man", and when THAT doesn't work and they get frustrated, they call the men who don't want them child predators. Both a…
/r/MensRights11/02/23 07:07 PM
9

Not if they leave you crippled and broken.
/r/MensRights11/02/23 06:25 AM
2

Dude- it's 2023. Why are you still expecting anything decent from Google? Even if they HADN'T made their allegiance clear by now, why would you expect decency from a company that can't even spell its own name correctly?
/r/MensRights10/02/23 05:43 AM
-1

Lamarck? Is that you?
/r/MensRights10/02/23 05:40 AM
5

Are we also to blame for her not knowing how to spell? Being seen as unattractive isn't an attack; you are not entitled to other people's appreciation and affection. You need less Cinderella and more Antigone, Madonna.
/r/MensRights09/02/23 06:41 PM
4

Melek Ta'us, the Peacock Angel of the Yazidi faith, was supposedly present when Yahweh created Adam, and then told the angels to bow down to this new creation. All did- save Melek, who pointed out that he was told to bow only to God. For this, he was rewarded and placed at the head of the group in charge of running things on Earth (bang-up job on that, by the way!). Muslims have their own version of the story- but instead of Melek, being praised, it's Iblis, being castigated if not cast out as a…
/r/MensRights08/02/23 11:57 PM
1

"MeToo" is nothing more than the rebirth of the mentality that killed Emmett Till. The day I found out about it was the day a great deal of my faith in humanity died.
/r/MensRights08/02/23 04:44 AM
2

Right, because war makes things BETTER. Mass human suffering and brutal destruction is GREAT at improving quality of life.
/r/MensRights08/02/23 03:48 AM
7

Ah, yes, he did: https://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/6.24.22-SB-1796-Veto-Letter.pdf Evidently, the bill would also have ended lifetime alimony payments. I don't think it was simply pandering to tradcons, though; they're generally the type that would SUPPORT things that promote marriage.
/r/MensRights07/02/23 08:01 PM
2

No, it's BETTER than you put it: voter fraud and lobbying don't mean SQUAT when it comes to the Supreme court, as they're not elected. As to not challenging it, remember how Roe V Wade got overturned? Plessy V Ferguson? Crooker v. California AND Cicenia v. Lagay? Baker V Nelson? It's happened hundreds of times, dude. Despair is the coward's way out.
/r/MensRights07/02/23 08:00 PM
1

Did he ever explain why?
/r/MensRights07/02/23 06:16 PM
2

Not at all- one can reach out to other like-minded people and bring a lawsuit against a state government, or even run for office themselves and make a new law. The odds of it WORKING aren't exactly great, but it's not so bleak as you make it out to be.
/r/MensRights07/02/23 06:15 PM
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Expecting a fair shake from such a blatantly Feminist-aligned company when it comes to men's rights is like expecting a fair sake from ISIS when it comes to the Yazidis. What did you expect?
/r/MensRights07/02/23 10:01 AM
12

All the more reason to object, then- if even the cops won't help you, who will?
/r/MensRights07/02/23 12:18 AM
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"Are these Facebook groups beneficial in some ways (like exposing men who are physically and sexually aggressive)? Sure." Dude, your story is EVIDENCE that these groups are either encouraging or actively engaging in vigilantism, which is against the law. If an anonymous accusation and possibly some out-of-context text message transcripts are enough to push someone to crime because of these groups, then they have NO place in a civilized society. That kind of thinking is what got Emmett Till kille…
/r/MensRights06/02/23 09:48 PM
4

I think you may be imputing malice where there's just simple selfishness. Feminism isn't about bring down or denigrating men; it's about advancing the Cause of women- it just so happens that the best way to do that is by bringing down, denigrating, and encouraging discrimination against men. Western society has been slowly shifting from the mindset of "it's better to be a victim than an oppressor" to "it's better to be a victim than to NOT be a victim", because victimhood is a source of social s…
/r/MensRights06/02/23 08:42 PM
2

I guess correct spelling isn't any more important over there than it is here. Then again, "aluminium".
/r/MensRights05/02/23 10:44 PM
1

Okay, fair point on that, then.
/r/MensRights05/02/23 10:43 PM
1

And "levelling", to say nothing of referring to a UK politician as "secretary" rather than "minister".
/r/MensRights05/02/23 07:07 PM
2

Telling women they have no agency, or even capacity for agency, is the heart of the female half of Feminism. Gotta keep them subservient to the movement.
/r/MensRights05/02/23 07:03 PM
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I think it's something more fundamental than a single issue, but is the entire purported purpose of the movement. They CLAIM to be about "equality", and we all know that's nonsense. But they claim (far more legitimately, at first blush) to be about advancing the cause of, and empowering, women- but then look at what they TELL them: Nothing is your fault. Nothing is your responsibility. You are a woman, and therefore you are a powerless victim. You have NO ability to change the world or improve y…
/r/MensRights03/02/23 01:09 AM
2

People hate learning that they're wrong about something they consider important, and LOATHE realizing that they've been duped. Most people, if you asked them straight-out, would say that Feminism is (or at least started out as) a good-faith effort to renegotiate the social contract. And for many Feminists, past and present, that's actually true. Around here, of course, we focus on the other side, and not without reason- but most people never see that. Making a normal person see that 1. they've b…
/r/MensRights02/02/23 06:58 PM
7

That's actually a valid point. It's demoralizing as hell, but it's true. I wonder how much of the push towards feminizing society is motivated by a desire to not see the darker works of the pushers challenged or undone...
/r/MensRights01/02/23 05:50 AM
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