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| 5 | Electronic billboard near where I workIt would seem that British law governs in this case, and we don't have anything equivalent to the 1st Amendment. cc u/See-9 | /r/MensRights | 28/07/17 02:31 PM |
| 2 | Electronic billboard near where I workVisiting the website mentioned on the billboard redirects to the website of London artist Martin Firrell who also owns a UK limited liability company (equivalent to a US C-Corporation). The legal ToS linked make it clear that this is his project also. Based on information from various public records, both domains are registered and hosted in the UK. It's tempting therefore to wonder whether such billboards would come under the purview of the UK Advertising Standards Association or whether they'd… | /r/MensRights | 28/07/17 02:27 PM |
| 1 | Strong rise in so-called "fake cases" - 30 and 50% could be false accusations, experts estimate (Germany)The "8%-12%" of FBI/CPS stats refer to provably false. Right, 8–12% is a base line, a minimum. Undoubtedly the true figure is higher, but I don't think it's possible to say how high with any confidence, nor am I sure that it ever will be. About 10% of claims are provably true and about 10% are provably false; the remainder are ambiguous or unfounded, with about half probably false. Operative word being 'probably' (emphasis mine). I don't see the value in speculating on whether any individual cas… | /r/MensRights | 17/07/17 05:00 PM |
| 1 | Strong rise in so-called "fake cases" - 30 and 50% could be false accusations, experts estimate (Germany)So, the reason you wish people would stop conflating false allegations involving mistaken identity with those involving knowing and malicious false statements is because you are focused on the mens rea of the complaining witness in making a statement and whether or not they should be prosecuted. One more thing: Years ago, before the trend you mentioned began, I was the jury foreman in a rape trial in which (I suspect) the complainant was either coerced into laying a complaint, or else the compla… | /r/MensRights | 10/07/17 06:55 PM |
| 1 | Strong rise in so-called "fake cases" - 30 and 50% could be false accusations, experts estimate (Germany)Unless I somehow missed it first time around, this seems like a ETA: Listen, I'm talking about 30-40% of allegations where a case where the case wasn't tried, the Accused was not charged, the Accused received no adverse administrative action against him. I get it, but people get arrested and maybe even charged only later for the charges to be dropped all the time and for all sorts of reasons. For better or for worse, it's how the system works. And I think you're focusing on the wrong target: if … | /r/MensRights | 10/07/17 06:20 PM |
| 1 | Strong rise in so-called "fake cases" - 30 and 50% could be false accusations, experts estimate (Germany)So, the reason you wish people would stop conflating false allegations involving mistaken identity with those involving knowing and malicious false statements is because you are focused on the mens rea of the complaining witness in making a statement and whether or not they should be prosecuted. Pretty much, yes — and so should anybody who cares about actual justice, not merely what is in the interests of their client, special interest group or whatever. I'll repeat: prosecuting complainants won… | /r/MensRights | 10/07/17 05:57 PM |
| – | Strong rise in so-called "fake cases" - 30 and 50% could be false accusations, experts estimate (Germany)Of course, feminists want the rate to be below 10% because the standard is "better that ten guilty men go free, than one innocent man be imprisoned." I don't think Blackstone's Formulation was intended be taken so literally, not that that would stop people inclined to that way of thinking. So, its okay if only one innocent man goes to jail to get 50 guilty guys, right? (2% rate) Except the frequency argument doesn't work if applied consistently. DV affects only about 1% of the population in any … | /r/MensRights | 10/07/17 04:31 PM |
| – | Father's Day cards banned in Scottish schools - TelegraphEven if the OP is a rather outdated article, the point remains (and I'm unsure there's good reason to imagine that matters have improved since), two implicit points stood out to me: What of the sensitivity toward the same-sex families that happen to be male? What an astonishing indictment on society that single-parent families are now presumed to be the norm, or common enough to be a significant consideration. | /r/MensRights | 10/07/17 02:53 PM |
| – | Strong rise in so-called "fake cases" - 30 and 50% could be false accusations, experts estimate (Germany)Yeah, false accusations are a big problem but I do wish people would a) quit conflating mistaken allegations with maliciously, knowingly false allegations and b) quit extrapolating studies of limited scope to the wider population. The OP doesn't seem to indicate or comment on how the statistical increase was arrived at. It only cites police data in aggregate and doesn't break down by demographic or region. If it is connected with increased immigration into Germany, then it says little to nothing… | /r/MensRights | 10/07/17 11:35 AM |
| 1 | CNN and doxxingOption 3, on the basis that: CNN is a big organisation and though its management clearly did a poor job, banning CNN altogether would unreasonably penalise other parts of the org (down to and including individual journalists) for the incompetence of one specific part of the org. CNN is a noteworthy source in a way that Gawker is not, at the very least to illustrate how not to do journalism. In any case, if CNN is so bad then they will naturally continue to be a subject of scrutiny. Or Option 2. … | /r/MensRights | 09/07/17 02:20 PM |
| 1 | Subtitles for TRP movie?You can write your own subtitles and add them to a local copy of the film, but it's a tedious process and not especially user-friendly process. If you do that, maybe it's worth finding somewhere to share subtitles. Though she almost certainly won't use them directly because she has no way of verifying their accuracy, I'd write Cassie and offer them to her all the same. Perhaps she might host them on an 'unofficial' basis. | /r/MensRights | 09/07/17 02:13 PM |
| 1 | So this is a hate sub?Being in a Christian nation The US is not expressly a Christian nation in the way, say, the UK is, even if many who live in it are religious and the dominant religion happens to be Christianity. The UK, by contrast, has an established church, the US doesn't. Our upper chamber (House of Lords) even distinguishes between the 'Lords Temporal' and the 'Lords Spiritual'. The irony is that people here don't generally give a shit about religion. If you're a believer, fine, if you're not, also fine. As … | /r/MensRights | 26/06/17 07:43 AM |
| 1 | So this is a hate sub?Starting at birth ~50/50 m/f In fact, there are about 106-108 live male births for every 100 live female births. This is a ratio consistent throughout the world (except where social policy interdicts) even though some families have mostly or all children of one sex. Nobody knows entirely why this should be, but it's assumed that there are some evolutionary advantages. Could be because of higher male mortality, could be because the male of the species is disposable even at the biological level. C… | /r/MensRights | 26/06/17 07:33 AM |
| 2 | Seven forces Facebook to remove Sunrise interview with The Red Pill director Cassie JayeYou're welcome. NB: I'm not a lawyer, but a reasonably informed layman. As usual the law makes sense when looked at in enough detail. Occasionally, yes ;) IP and defamation law are both insanely complex in the US because of the 1st Amendment and I've really only scratched the surface here. The two might not immediately seem related, but it turns out that they do interact somewhat as illustrated by the OP. When somebody who feels slighted† reproduces the offending speech in rebuttal, IP law can b… | /r/MensRights | 24/06/17 11:26 AM |
| – | Seven forces Facebook to remove Sunrise interview with The Red Pill director Cassie JayeInfringement of intellectual property (copyright, in this case) is an entirely separate matter from how alleged infringements are handled, and FaceBook is an American company, therefore US Federal law governs (even if the IP owner resides outside of the US). Copyright infringement trumps news value. FB has no choice but to take it down if there is a complaint. Well, they do, but they risk a lawsuit if they opt not to take it down. That lawsuit is probably not very likely in cases like this much … | /r/MensRights | 24/06/17 07:35 AM |
| 2 | Cassie Jaye - My hard away from feminism to realityI don't think you've giving enough weight to the difficulty of this proposition. Because I'm not fighting for an extreme, I argue towards the middle. That means I don't have anything to bargain with. Ever. Listening to what they say and accepting it are two very separate things. If you listen to what they say, articulate your understanding of what they said in your own words, they know you've both listened and heard. Then you can proceed to deconstruct and reject their premises and propositions … | /r/MensRights | 30/05/17 03:23 PM |
| 2 | Cassie Jaye - My hard away from feminism to realityYeah but, as a rule, we aren't talking to those leaders. We talk to the rank and file, who are responsible for spreading most of the hatred and lies about the MRM. Just look at the history behind the Australian screenings of TRP. My point was that Cassie's message about listening cuts both ways. | /r/MensRights | 30/05/17 11:10 AM |
| – | Cassie Jaye - My hard away from feminism to realityAll anti-MRA arguments are straw-men resulting from misinterpretation, whether wilful or otherwise. Exactly, but I'd say that the charitable interpretation is that most of those who argue against MRAs do so genuinely believing that they know what we think and argue, but in fact are responding to what they heard rather than what they said, for which reason— Overcoming this communication problem will be key to men's rights being understood as pro-equality and feminism being understood as anti-equa… | /r/MensRights | 30/05/17 10:59 AM |
| 1 | For my final in debate class, I wrote a presentation about the problem with feminism and about men's rights, and I was verbally attacked.u/its_840, recordings are a good idea in public spaces, but check the law before you bring a recording device into school. Even a state-run school is not public space (even if it is a 'public accommodation'), which changes what laws apply. Also bear in mind that even if lawful, it may be against school rules/policy, in which case you could find yourself getting into legitimate trouble despite the problem not being of your own making. | /r/MensRights | 27/05/17 05:41 PM |
| – | It's TimeYour OP and responses to others' comments show you to be a woman of empathy, self-awareness and sufficient integrity to publicly say that you got things wrong in the past (and who hasn't? but you're being specific, which is a different level altogether). You've also got the courage and willingness to want to do something about it. Men and, frankly, women, need more women like you. I like a lot of the suggestions others have made, particularly talking to other mothers and those in your immediate … | /r/MensRights | 26/05/17 10:31 AM |
| 2 | A Professor Is Now Sharing Men's Personal Info Online To Harass ThemDo you have any knowledge about the legality of doxing people when all she has is their Facebook account, which uses either: a) their real name or b) a pseudonym or partial name? First, it's a dick move whether it's lawful or not. Second, even if not a tort, it may be a violation of that service provider's ToS and/or state law where the alleged victim of doxing lives. Third, if she gets it wrong, then she might be opening herself to a defamation tort suit if the plaintiff can show that she was n… | /r/MensRights | 23/05/17 04:45 PM |
| – | A Professor Is Now Sharing Men's Personal Info Online To Harass ThemIANAL, but the US doesn't have much in the way of privacy law and the 1st Am. constrains a great deal of what limits can be put on speech (setting aside non-disclosure agreements which fall under contract law). If she is publishing emails she received with names attached then, by definition, she's making true statements ("this person said that thing to me") so it's almost certainly not defamation. AIUI, malicious intent can be grounds for litigation, but that's a very high bar to establish. That… | /r/MensRights | 23/05/17 11:26 AM |
| 1 | Finished watching The Red Pill last night...wow.Yeah, the way a lot of feminists react to Men's Rights is pretty shocking I'm not in the remotest shocked or surprised. Without suggesting that the trouble-makers represent all feminists or feminism in general, there are enough of that type who justify MRA stereotypes of feminism. The obvious question is whether there are enough MRAs to justify the feminist stereotype of us. I doubt that's possible to evaluate objectively, and in any case it's largely irrelevant. Bad MRAs are bad; bad feminists … | /r/MensRights | 18/05/17 02:04 PM |
| – | Finished watching The Red Pill last night...wow.how many people on this subreddit have taken the time to read a book or watch a documentary on feminism, I would personally expect many people here to dismiss the idea of watching a feminist documentary. I think the MRA side is also guilty of just assuming we know what feminists are trying to say, whilst judging them by the most extreme members (much like a lot of feminists judge the MRA side by the very vocal misogynists). There is something to what you say, however it's worth pointing out that… | /r/MensRights | 18/05/17 11:28 AM |
| 1 | Finished watching The Red Pill last night...wow.never seen such a hostile reaction from fellow liberals (who call themselves feminists) over a video simply discussing issues men face. Unless that attitude changes nothing will change, so give a little mention about it the next time you think of it! Not only that, but in the future it may be those self-same liberals under threat whose point of view is actively curtailed. They might then not be so quick to condemn opposing points of view. | /r/MensRights | 18/05/17 11:13 AM |
| – | Finished watching The Red Pill last night...wow.Legal options outlined at http://theredpillmovie.com/screenings/buy-rent-stream/. Do the decent thing and compensate Cassie for the amazing work she's done and her unwavering commitment to balanced commentary and free speech. | /r/MensRights | 18/05/17 11:10 AM |
| 2 | Just wondering...Demand is the reason anything exists in the quantity it does. If you have any minuscule understanding of microeconomics Economic forces of demand equilibrium were precisely why Title IX was enacted in the first place. Essentially, US colleges were offering sports scholarships to young men who could make the college look good (supply) and there were plenty of young men more than willing to take up such scholarships (demand). But either colleges were not offering such scholarships for women (lack … | /r/MensRights | 20/04/17 11:35 AM |
| 4 | Red Pill banned by U Sydney Union because it's "anti woman"I tried to post a comment, but naturally they've got everything on full premoderation and don't appear to be posting any comments. Here is what I posted: I've seen this film. USU misrepresents it, either because they have not seen it (in which case the decision is negligent) or they have (in which case their statement is either highly subjective opinion or dishonest). The USU taking an adverse opinion is perfectly okay so long as it is not passed off as anything other than opinion, but it is not… | /r/MensRights | 15/04/17 11:06 AM |
| – | Cassie Jaye's response to the University of Sydney's decision to ban The Red PillShe'd be suing in Australia, as the suit usually happens where the offence took place. Of course. Even if you could persuade a US court to hear the case (and I've seen occasional cases of US courts hearing extraterritorial cases, but now can't find reference to them again), it seems unlikely that there'd be any way to enforce the judgement if it went Cassie's way. I actually think she does have a case for injurious falsehood. Injurious falsehood perhaps, but not defamation. Even then, I think sh… | /r/MensRights | 14/04/17 06:03 PM |
| 3 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.as if they'd be afraid of their own wheelchair-ridden grandmothers No. Male victims of DV are afraid of the law that will get them arrested if they call the police or especially if they defend themselves. And with good reason. Now, troll, the door is that way. → | /r/MensRights | 14/04/17 04:24 PM |
| 7 | Cassie Jaye's response to the University of Sydney's decision to ban The Red PillOfficially, I don't think they've even acknowledged receipt of Cassie's remarks. | /r/MensRights | 14/04/17 02:39 PM |
| 7 | Cassie Jaye's response to the University of Sydney's decision to ban The Red PillAlso the title of this post is misleading. The film wasnt banned, the screening was just cancelled. The title said that U. Sydney banned it which is not quite right, it was the students' union, and USU's statement was pretty clear: This decision means that no screening of The Red Pill may take place in a USU-managed space on campus As far as I'm concerned the film brought this upon itself by not taking the balanced approach that it claimed to. Oh, victim blaming? (/s, sorry, couldn't resist!) Se… | /r/MensRights | 14/04/17 02:39 PM |
| 1 | Cassie Jaye's response to the University of Sydney's decision to ban The Red PillSome states (CA and NY come to mind) allow for defamation per se' claims where the plaintiff needs not show damages. Quite right, though defamation per se is a rather specialised class of tort and is not in question here. Even in such cases, truth is still a defence. I was speaking in general terms; defamation law is far too complex to cover all its permutations because then I'd have to mention Sullivan, Hill, Gertz, Cox, Falwell and doubtless many other products of case law! :) | /r/MensRights | 14/04/17 02:07 PM |
| – | Cassie Jaye's response to the University of Sydney's decision to ban The Red PillThe University of Sydney is in Australia. I realise that, but Cassie (who was the one to first use those specific terms) is an American with, presumably, an American understanding of defamation. You'd think that, as a journalist and documentarian, she'd have at least some idea of what US law has to say about the subject. My point was that it would be difficult to prevail in a USU-like situation in the US, that if she knows what she's about wrt defamation in the US it's surprising that she should… | /r/MensRights | 14/04/17 01:54 PM |
| – | Cassie Jaye's response to the University of Sydney's decision to ban The Red PillUh, maybe, but I think it's more likely that they've just been lucky. These are not the sort of people who're accustomed to being told 'no' and anyone capable of researching the law well enough to know what they can get away with would also be smart enough to realise that making a fuss only draws attention to a thing, that forbidden fruit tastes sweeter and the best thing to do is just to shut up and let it 'die in ignominy'. Instead, they're doing a bang-up job on the advertising front. After a… | /r/MensRights | 14/04/17 11:20 AM |
| – | Cassie Jaye's response to the University of Sydney's decision to ban The Red PillShe has been harmed. The show was cancelled and the people that would have seen her work missed it because someone told big fibs about it. The law interprets words like 'harm' differently from the common vernacular meaning (c.f. 'rape'. The law has a very clear idea about what rape is, but the word gets widely abused and overused to refer to things that the law would just laugh at). All that matters, from the pov of litigation, is whether Cassie has been harmed sufficiently and in the right way … | /r/MensRights | 14/04/17 10:14 AM |
| – | Cassie Jaye's response to the University of Sydney's decision to ban The Red PillI did notice she used the words "libelous" and "defamatory". Defamation is an extremely high bar in the US because of the 1st Amendment. Truth is nearly always a defence to defamation (not applicable here). You must show damages consequent to a false utterance (loss of future income can be presumptive damages), and you have to show negligence (ought to have known it was untrue) or, depending on who the allegedly defamed party is, 'actual malice' (actually did know it was untrue or acted wreckles… | /r/MensRights | 14/04/17 09:12 AM |
| 1 | I backed myself in a corner with a school project on men's rights.Lots of good advice here. I especially endorse avoiding confrontation with feminists. Nothing good can come of it and it is very easy to inadvertently hand them ammunition. Check the laws in your state: if you can't avoid these feminists, wear some form of discreet body cam and/or voice recorder — but only if it is lawful in your state. Always be recording, if permitted. Caveat: even if it be lawful, it may not be permitted by school rules, therefore you should probably approach your school prin… | /r/MensRights | 13/04/17 02:21 PM |
| 1 | I backed myself in a corner with a school project on men's rights.Don't do this. It makes you sound idiotic. Its an example of reductio ad absurdum, a means of showing the fallacy of another argument by substituting different subjects and objects into the same logical framework. It might look him look idiotic, it might not. It all depends on how it is done. | /r/MensRights | 13/04/17 02:02 PM |
| 2 | I backed myself in a corner with a school project on men's rights.Definitely watch the Redpill movie, it provides real stories and examples of the way men are mistreated in today's society This. u/robodwarf22, you can find viewing options at http://theredpillmovie.com/ | /r/MensRights | 13/04/17 02:00 PM |
| 3 | Some assistance in finding a comprehensive post detailing men's statisticsNot what you asked but, in theory, the purpose of AVfM's Reference Wiki is supposed to be a repository for such information. Anyone can get an account and update it to their hearts' content, so maybe that might be of some use, too. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/17 12:07 PM |
| 1 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.Good one, yes, I'm sure she probably did. | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 08:54 PM |
| – | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.It can very much induce gender dysphoria. u/GOT_DAMN_MURKAN, if you doubt it, read the case of David Reimer | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 06:52 PM |
| 1 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.I'm not 100% sure, but I think she also sunk a lot of her own personal money into it. I can confirm it. She said so in many interviews. She only went to kickstarter when she had no alternative. I appreciate that you are trying to spread the word, but please consider giving back to the film maker. Cassie Jaye has stuck her professional neck out so far that her future is uncertain. She certainly deserves to recover her costs, and doubtless deserves to make a profit. She's a professional, after all… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 06:49 PM |
| 1 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.Astutely put. | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 06:37 PM |
| – | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.She likely tells herself that it's ok to lie and distort because her goals are so worthy. I've never been able to work out whether the likes of Spillar have persuaded themselves so convincingly of their own politics/PR that they don't realise that they're lying, or whether they know full well that they're lying and do it anyway. I tend to the former, because I'd have thought that any sane person would guess that, eventually, they'd be caught out in their lies. But perhaps that's naïve: liars lie… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 06:35 PM |
| 1 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.(BTW, paragraphs would make your post much easier to read.) Half the sob stories are men not using their rights, probably because it's not a "manly" thing to do. It's a bit hard to exercise rights you don't have. Obviously, this varies by jurisdiction but it's commonplace enough for men who complain to the police about DV end up getting arrested even though they're the victims. Even in jurisdictions where there aren't primary aggressor laws, most men don't believe they'll be believed. Put togeth… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 05:22 PM |
| 0 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.I doubt it because that's too hard to quantify. Also, probably not very relevant from the point of view of public policy. My guess is that if male victims got taken seriously, violence by proxy would be less of a problem because men would be able to get help before things escalated to that degree. If not, first things first: get adequate support for male victims and then see what else needs to be done. | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 04:11 PM |
| 3 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.As in there are more men who abuse women. Agreed, although the more that the definition of DV is broadened to include psychological abuse (of which women are equally capable), that may decreasingly be the case. As in the level of abuse is often more extreme However, this is a subjective claim and one not in evidence. How do you quantify suffering? How do you differentiate the 'level' of abuse by gender given the subjective nature of suffering? Do we even need to? sure we can pretend abuse is equ… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 03:16 PM |
| 1 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.As a Court-martial defense attorney What I have found in my 9.5 years of service, both as enlisted and as a JAG Officer What's your experience/opinion of the VLCO in all of this? | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 03:03 PM |
| 8 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.The probben is that this domestic violence situaton usually happens to low IQ, subprime beta males, which coincidentally are the same demographic who ARE responsible for wife beating. This, indeed the whole comment, reads like a caricature of what feminists think MRAs think and say. We don't. Grow up. | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 02:57 PM |
| 4 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.That being said, male on female violence is statically more significant Source? I don't think 'statistical significance' means what you think it means. I think you mean that there's more male on female than there is female on male, but the difference is closer to 60-40 than it is 99-1. Even if it were, 1% of DV cases is still a large number, and therefore cannot be ignored if equality and justice mean anything at all. | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 02:54 PM |
| 2 | U.K. Court Upholds Fine for Dad Who Took Child From School for Disney Trip: a vast overreach by the “nanny state.” “You are not the final arbiter of what’s right for your child,” he said. Peasants need stay as ordered by their betters.Human Rights Act can be repealed by a simple parliamentary majority. Yes, but since we are also a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights (which, as I've said, is an entirely separate thing from the EU), we still have legal obligations under that treaty. It doesn't matter what acts Parliament enacts or repeals, a district or high court would immediately grant an injunction against the execution act to allow time to hear a challenge under the ECHR. Eventually, the litigation would en… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 02:49 PM |
| 5 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.Oy vey. To whoever it is that is consistently downvoting every comment in this thread, you only prove Georger R R Martin's remark: When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say. | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 01:53 PM |
| 3 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.Will this red pill documentary help me or anger me? Possibly both. Anger you that this and so much more is ignored. Help you realise that you're far from alone. | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 01:52 PM |
| 1 | SNP's Nicola Sturgeon Speaking NONSENSE About 'Gender Equality'When has Sturgeon ever said anything that wasn't nonsense? | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 01:48 PM |
| 3 | SNP's Nicola Sturgeon Speaking NONSENSE About 'Gender Equality'she seems unusually determined to try and drag Scotland into the EU The irony of rejection of Westminster (where SNP MPs actually do have power; for non UK readers, see the West Lothian Question) in favour of rule from Brussels (where Scotland would have even less representation than they currently do via UK MEPs) apparently is lost only on Sturgeon and a few of her hangers-on. I think the rest of the UK, including most of Scotland, can see the craziness in this. she's not only a typical hypocri… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 01:46 PM |
| 8 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.I see. You don't hate all women, just the ones who aren't your subservient slaves. There are plenty of female MRAs and female supporters of the MRM, none of whom are required to be and none of whom are "subservient" to male MRAs. Some of them are prominent, some less so according to their preferences. How do they figure into your belief that MRAs want to subjugate women? Fully one third of the speakers at the first International Conference on Men's Issues in 2014 were women. There were more wome… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 01:35 PM |
| 3 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.Infographic with sources based on Australian data. From everything I've read on the subject, the proportion seems to range between 30–45% victims are male. | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 12:41 PM |
| 2 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.She shouldn't be given a platform to say shit like that. She's got a much bigger platform than the film in which she appeared! She's the exec head of Ms Magazine and The Feminist Majority foundation. | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 12:34 PM |
| 6 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.Good for you for speaking up, but especially (as u/lethn said) for recognising the problem and doing something about it. If only there were more people like you. Sounds like your husband made a wise decision. | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 12:19 PM |
| – | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.I absolutely don't doubt that there is roughly parity with people hitting each other, but is there research on the physical intensity of the abuse? Government are available to demonstrate this. From this infographic, it would seem about 40% of DV homicide victims are male and 60%. If memory serves, one woman is killed in Australia by their intimate partner every 7 days and one man is killed by theirs every 10. Doubtless you can find similar figures for other countries. The UK British Crime Surve… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 12:17 PM |
| 12 | I recently watched The Red Pill. As a male who had an abusive girlfriend in college, this quote really struck a nerve.We don't hate women, whatever gave you that idea? Some MGTOW might, but they're a distinct group from MRAs who are the subject of The Red Pill movie. Lies about us told by liars are still lies. Most of us are anti-feminist because we are pro-equality. If you watch the film, you'll see that we've never asked for anything more than that. Also: 'Feminist' is not a synonym for 'woman'. For that matter, feminism has no monopoly on equality (and many feminisms don't even seem to care much for equality… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 12:08 PM |
| 1 | U.K. Court Upholds Fine for Dad Who Took Child From School for Disney Trip: a vast overreach by the “nanny state.” “You are not the final arbiter of what’s right for your child,” he said. Peasants need stay as ordered by their betters.Right. He broke the law, one that is not even unjust, and he was held to account for it. The only way this could remotely be an MR issue is if you could demonstrate that women are routinely allowed to get away with it but even then, the issue would not be the court's decision in respect of this father, but rather the inconsistency with which the law is enforced. | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 12:00 PM |
| – | U.K. Court Upholds Fine for Dad Who Took Child From School for Disney Trip: a vast overreach by the “nanny state.” “You are not the final arbiter of what’s right for your child,” he said. Peasants need stay as ordered by their betters.Parliament has no boundaries. Parliament could literally pass a law to have Jon Platt executed. There are conventions that it won't but nothing actually preventing it from doing so. That's not really true. Yes, they could pass a bill that ordered the execution of an individual but obviously it would be challenged all the way up to the Supreme Court who would find it in violation with domestic and international law (notably the ECHR, not to be confused with anything to do with the EU) that is leg… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/17 11:58 AM |
| 3 | As "The Red Pill" come do define Men's Rights more and more, what are the most useful and productive issues to focus on?but he's not the ONLY voice, and AVfM not the only website. Not only that, r/TRP developed almost contemporaneously with the filming and production of TRP movie so there's the other meaning of "Red Pill" which is hard to separate out. | /r/MensRights | 09/04/17 03:29 PM |
| 1 | I'm politically on the left. How can we show people men's rights aren't a counter-wing response to liberal feminism?Saved. Much obliged, thanks. | /r/MensRights | 09/04/17 12:08 PM |
| 2 | I'm politically on the left. How can we show people men's rights aren't a counter-wing response to liberal feminism?Making the MRM partisan is the worst possible thing we can do. This! This! It's a false equivalence to try to map gender politics onto party politics. Men's issues affect all men across all axes of society, so it's a strategic mistake to artificially create links where none otherwise exist. | /r/MensRights | 09/04/17 11:58 AM |
| – | I'm politically on the left. How can we show people men's rights aren't a counter-wing response to liberal feminism?There have been enough polls about this sub. The active members are dominantly on the liberal left of the political spectrum. Ooh, do you have any links to support that? I ask because this might come in useful in the future to counter the very claim that the MRM is intrinsically right-wing. | /r/MensRights | 09/04/17 11:55 AM |
| 3 | I'm politically on the left. How can we show people men's rights aren't a counter-wing response to liberal feminism?It's not an assumption if it's generally true. Yes, it is. If it is only "generally" true, then it follows that sometimes it is false therefore it's only not an assumption if you know it to be true for a given case. There are a few right-wing feminists (e.g. Julie Bindel) From what little I know of Bindel, I would not describe her as 'right wing'. She's not a Tory, at least. There are a few left-wing MRAs (e.g. Paul Elam) I've met Paul several times (conferences, TRP film screenings etc) and hav… | /r/MensRights | 09/04/17 11:54 AM |
| – | Uber rewards driver who suffered passenger from hellSo basically, Uber still thinks this incident is a pretty funny joke? There really isn't much more they can do. They can't sue the woman (they don't have standing wrt what happened to the driver and have suffered no direct or consequential damages themselves). They can't prosecute her criminally. What else do you expect them to do? | /r/MensRights | 08/04/17 05:17 PM |
| 2 | SEE IT: Uber rider threatens to accuse driver of rape (GRAPHIC)If he's not Islamic by faith he is undoubtedly from a Muslim culture FWIW, many if not most Muslim countries/cultures have minority Christian populations eg the Coptics and probably also Jewish (all of them, after all, are Peoples of the Book, a Qur'anic term), though I grant that, more likely than not, chances are he's a Muslim if he's from a Muslim country. That doesn't make him an observant Muslim, of course, and Muslims, as people, are just as varied as Christians. There are some bloody awfu… | /r/MensRights | 07/04/17 08:01 PM |
| 1 | SEE IT: Uber rider threatens to accuse driver of rape (GRAPHIC)Yeah a black Muslim in America telling a woman she needs to respect him. Not great optics. How do you know he's muslim? So what if he is? A few Christians are more psychopathic than your average muslim. I mean that bitch is a psycho but he was egging her on whether intentionally or not. Bullshit. She and only she is responsible for her behaviour. He was a complete gentleman and did nothing to provoke her (apart from not having a phone charger, apparently). | /r/MensRights | 07/04/17 09:11 AM |
| – | SEE IT: Uber rider threatens to accuse driver of rape (GRAPHIC)She's an idiot. He kept his cool amazingly well. | /r/MensRights | 06/04/17 10:34 PM |
| 2 | SEE IT: Uber rider threatens to accuse driver of rape (GRAPHIC)Actually, good point. I live in the UK, so I thought nothing of it. But if you look at the footage, you'll see that shop signs are backwards. Somehow the video got mirrored on the vertical which would explain why it looks like he's driving right-seat (as we do). | /r/MensRights | 06/04/17 10:34 PM |
| 3 | Atheist community would appear to be split on men's rightsI'm an electrical engineer (4 year version of your 2 year electronics engineer degree) I love how you assume so much about the extent of my education. FWIW, which isn't much (because education is no substitute for common sense and the ability to apply what one has learned), my bachelor's degree was 4 years (with honours, a 1st, FWTW) at a non-American university (so all papers related to natural sciences, no humanities nor arts) and I've just about finished my PhD (which is pure research, no cou… | /r/MensRights | 05/04/17 08:42 PM |
| 4 | Atheist community would appear to be split on men's rightsHumans are approaching the capability to accurately simulate a world within a computer program. I'm a computer scientist and electronic engineer with a background in chemistry and a smattering of physics. We are not remotely close to being able to model a world. Not by far. Hell, it's bad enough trying to model complex digital circuits (ie, ICs) where you can take all sorts of shortcuts. Oh, we can make approximations, but approximate is not close enough for these purposes. Solving the three-bod… | /r/MensRights | 05/04/17 08:14 PM |
| 4 | Atheist community would appear to be split on men's rightsAll you can do is push back against it with reason. Why don't you believe in god, but you believe in this obviously false claim (feminism)? "You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themselves into". (variously attributed) | /r/MensRights | 05/04/17 07:22 PM |
| – | Atheist community would appear to be split on men's rightsBetting man's take on God. Aka Pascal's Wager which is not a very rational position to take (IMO), even if it may be a shrewd one. There's a third option: if there is a god, then none of the world's religions has got it even remotely right and chances are, a being capable of creating Creation is so far beyond human ability to grok that there's no point in trying (or rather, try, but don't claim to have any answers). A person who follows this line might not qualify as an atheist, but they can leg… | /r/MensRights | 05/04/17 07:14 PM |
| – | Atheist community would appear to be split on men's rightsA couple of years ago there was an outbreak of SJW:ism within many atheist communities (at least online) - it was called Atheism+ SJWs were deeply entrenched long before A+ came about. The rot set in probably somewhere around 2010, maybe a bit before but certainly no later than 2011 when the whole elevatorgate thing went down. Something similar has happened to many open source developers' communities with their 'inclusive' codes of conduct etc. I could find links galore, but I've still got work … | /r/MensRights | 05/04/17 07:05 PM |
| 1 | Atheist community would appear to be split on men's rightsAtheist are supposed to be reason-oriented people, people who apply skepticism to everything, and accept facts only with verifiable evidence supporting them. Well, take away one religion and another will grow up in its place, at least, for some. One day I might get around to reading Michael Shermer's The Believing Brain. | /r/MensRights | 05/04/17 07:02 PM |
| 1 | Who will stand up to insanity at universities and colleges?I don't think you are "real women". Uh, I don't think that was the point of the article. The point was, in fact— But don't thought police me. which is exactly what those who objected to Murray speaking were trying to do. This article is evidence of a growing backlash in Britain against the "diversity" nonsense which is everything and anything but diverse. | /r/MensRights | 04/04/17 05:36 PM |
| 20 | I have to do a Research paper on a Controversial topic for school. Should I do mens rights? is there enough information to fill ~10 pages?Go watch The Red Pill movie as something of a primer. That's a 2 hour film that barely scrapes the surface and you have just 10 pages. But at least it'll give you an idea of what (some of) the issues are. The film goes into some areas more than others. It's been a few months since I saw the film, but I don't remember it going into the whole Title IX debacle and the condition of male students at colleges in all that much detail. That might be an area of particular interest at your stage in life..… | /r/MensRights | 03/04/17 08:52 PM |
| 1 | Got kicked out of class todaySounds like an eminently reasonable and plausible academic argument the likes of which should be perfectly acceptable in any properly functioning academic environment. u/somelikeitinthetwat, I see absolutely no justification for OP's ejection given that his view was expressed in response to solicitations from the students present. | /r/MensRights | 30/03/17 03:36 PM |
| – | Got kicked out of class todayI wasn't there. The situation could have easily been "the prof is a moron and a disgrace" to "OP was being an asshole". Well, u/d3northway was. d3northway, did you use derisive or abusive language? I note that d3northway's OP said (emphasis mine): During the discussion I said that I believe the gap doesn't exist (bringing up the basic refutation points) and that forced equality is false equality, nothing more than a participation award. A few students agreed, but the professor got mad and tossed… | /r/MensRights | 30/03/17 03:00 PM |
| – | Got kicked out of class todaySure but, by the same token, there isn't a lot to debate when it comes to spdf orbitals, kinetics and phys-chem etc. It's a 101 class, it's uncontroversial ground work. At third year level questions about lab technique and how to manage yields in synthesis such as Grignard etc, it becomes a different story. Then at masters and PhD level where there are debates about research methods and hypotheses of mechanisms etc, it's yet another story, both in terms of group size and degree of interaction. B… | /r/MensRights | 30/03/17 12:23 PM |
| – | Got kicked out of class todayLectures are one way flow of information from the teacher to the students. Classes where students participate are usually called "discussions" (at least at the school I went to) This is academically and intellectually (and morally) bankrupt. Freedom to criticise and offer rebuttal is (or, at least, always was) a core academic value, as fundamental and sacred as plagiarism as amongst the worst of academic offences. Any university who operates on the principle that a lecturer may not be challenged… | /r/MensRights | 30/03/17 10:42 AM |
| 2 | As a female who has subscribed to this subreddit for a few years now...I now know not to take everything on here so personally as I can understand the generalisations being made. I guess what I'm saying is that I'm grateful I've had the opportunity to see into the mind of men and see you describe how sexism affects you. It's funny, but Cassie Jaye has said somewhat similar things about how making The Red Pill documentary changed her perspective on men, and also her relationship with her boyfriend (for the better). Kudos to you, it takes a degree of empathy to see t… | /r/MensRights | 29/03/17 10:30 AM |
| – | Car makers Holden and Kia are pulling advertising from YouTube Because Women's Rights Groups Are Offended By Men's Rights Videos, For Example, 'Feminism A Mental Disease MGTOW'5.7 litre car... @.@ \^_^ Mind you, it was pretty heavy so its pick up didn't feel as fast as lighter cars. The difference was that when accelerating from 30 mph to 65 up a reasonably steep hill, this car didn't notice and kept on accelerating where other cars would begin to run out of legs by 50 mph. The only car I drove that felt faster was the Mitsubishi Legnum (Galant, I think) 2.5L V6 high flow injector twin turbo which itself was no light-weight. That thing fucking guzzled the gas, though.… | /r/MensRights | 28/03/17 11:21 PM |
| – | Car makers Holden and Kia are pulling advertising from YouTube Because Women's Rights Groups Are Offended By Men's Rights Videos, For Example, 'Feminism A Mental Disease MGTOW'It's pretty funny because if I'm right, their slogan is "wir leben autos" Perhaps it ought to be "wir leiben deine Geld". French cars suck compared to the competition. And I'm French. Won't buy anything peugeot/Citroën soon... Snork. We currently have a Renault Clio. An odd-ball model that seems to be a transition build between two other models so we've had our fun with maintenance of that. It seems random luck which model to order parts for! Soon I'll be looking to buy another car. I'd love to … | /r/MensRights | 28/03/17 07:49 PM |
| – | Car makers Holden and Kia are pulling advertising from YouTube Because Women's Rights Groups Are Offended By Men's Rights Videos, For Example, 'Feminism A Mental Disease MGTOW'So I believe, in Europe, however that doesn't mean Opels elsewhere in the world come from the same stable. If Opel has a bad rap in Germany, it's just conceivable that it's because it's foreign competition, not because it's actually a bad brand. | /r/MensRights | 28/03/17 04:09 PM |
| – | Car makers Holden and Kia are pulling advertising from YouTube Because Women's Rights Groups Are Offended By Men's Rights Videos, For Example, 'Feminism A Mental Disease MGTOW'Conventionally: Holden (Australia, New Zealand), Vauxhall (UK), Opel (Europe) and GM (US) are regional names for the same fleet of models. Ed: Spelling of Opel. | /r/MensRights | 28/03/17 03:04 PM |
| 1 | Charities?the government won't ever give a single penny and instead gives it all to a feminist organisation which mainly deals in perpetrator programmes. Is there money actually earmarked for male victims of DV? If so, then perhaps a complaint to the Charities Commission is in order if we can prove that men are not being treated the same as women. This organisation refuses to believe the men calling the helpline are actually victims and instead screens them first to weed out liars they can then refer to t… | /r/MensRights | 27/03/17 10:07 AM |
| – | Charities?ManKind Initiative (UK, DV services for men) | /r/MensRights | 26/03/17 10:26 AM |
| 1 | Red Pill director says men's rights issues being drowned out by mudslingingThe Red Pill being made didn't coincide nearly as closely with Elam's entrance into the MRM (which is a decade or so old IIRC) as it did with conservative news outlets picking up MRM stories. I take it you haven't seen TRP yet. If you had, you'd know that when Cassie Jaye began her research in March 2013 (ish), it was Elam's website A Voice for Men that piqued her interest. She reached out to Elam to find out what all this was about, and it all went from there. Nobody's saying that AVfM is the l… | /r/MensRights | 23/03/17 09:14 AM |
| 1 | Men can't call domestic abuse helpline.who refuse to take their own goddamned side. Because it's really all about "sides" and in-group preference, equality be damned, isn't it? Sound like any political ideology you know of? Slow clap As far as I'm concerned, the MRM could well do without people like you who put tribalism before equality and who fail to recognise that equality is what the MRM is all about. So, if that's you, buh-bye. Your "contributions" won't be missed. You can't bitch about the disadvantages that boys and men face w… | /r/MensRights | 22/03/17 12:30 PM |
| 2 | Men can't call domestic abuse helpline.Erin's even got video footage of battered women admitting that they were as violent (or more violent) as the men they had escaped. Some of it appears in The Red Pill. | /r/MensRights | 21/03/17 02:39 AM |
| 2 | Men can't call domestic abuse helpline.I'm not that guy who you replied to btw. My profound apologies, I am/was dealing with a security incident and didn't check the usernames. (You may well ask why I'm dicking about on reddit in the middle of this, but there's only so many log files you can go through before going cross-eyed.) It doesn't have to fully serve but they should don't them to men's groups. They do exist btw however Agreed, although I couldn't find any in Australia. | /r/MensRights | 21/03/17 01:48 AM |
| – | Men can't call domestic abuse helpline.Good grief. So this doesn't trouble you at all that the help for domestic violence [without specifying which particular help "the" refers to] doesn't consider men? Yes, it does trouble me. But that's not the same as saying that all DV helplines must serve all clients. It bothers me that there isn't help for men. It doesn't bother me that a charity called "Women's Aid" doesn't service men. It does bother me that there isn't a "Men's Aid" or equivalent and, more to the point, no money to establish… | /r/MensRights | 21/03/17 12:41 AM |
| – | Men can't call domestic abuse helpline.Of course it fucking does, don't obtuse. | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 10:35 PM |
| – | Men can't call domestic abuse helpline.No, because it's not ipso facto a double standard. No charity does everything. Even if there were the money, there isn't the expertise within a single organisation to service all possible clients as I tried to explain already. Single-sex charities or services are just fine by me (and let's see if bold gets it through this time) provided there are other, proportionately well-funded charities that provide the equivalent service for the other sex. Single-sex isn't the problem, the lack of funding f… | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 10:34 PM |
| – | Rape victims to be allowed to give pre-recorded evidence to avoid the trauma of cross-examination after cases of victims killing themselves to avoid courtIn common law and as protected by the European Convention on Human Rights. Well, there is that. I can't see how this measure (if as advertised, and fair point about the DM) would stand up in the ECHR. The defence will still be able to cross-examine the complainant, but it will be pre-recorded and played to the jury rather than taking place in the courtroom. So, what, the defence counsel will be able to cross-examine the witness also recorded? Why bother, in that case? Why not have the witness ap… | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 09:48 PM |
| – | Rape victims to be allowed to give pre-recorded evidence to avoid the trauma of cross-examination after cases of victims killing themselves to avoid courtI think you've misinterpreted slightly. Possibly, however— We have a similar right 'to examine or have examined the witnesses against' you. We have a common law right but, as I said, statutory law takes precedence over common law so common law rights are not enshrined or absolutely protected. This reform doesn't impact on that. Cross-examination will still take place. How, if the alleged victim's testimony is pre-recorded, can it be cross-examined unless she is there by video link or physically … | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 08:22 PM |
| – | Men can't call domestic abuse helpline.If a men's group is doing the same thing to woman that doesn't make it ok. That's two groups doing a horrible thing. Why ever not? You can't be all things to all people or you'll serve nobody well. You've got to specialise because the needs of men are so different to the needs of women (starting with, "will I be believed?"!) The alternative is telling private organisations how to do their activism. I wouldn't tolerate that, so neither should feminist or women's charities. I have zero problem wit… | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 07:22 PM |
| 1 | I often hear feminists say that MRAs shouldn't exist because "Men already have every advantage over women." Can anyone point me to some quality resources (particularly research) that support this statement? Or the converse?I understand that there are limitations when one generalizes the vocabulary. Which is exactly why feminists do that. The question then remains, there must be scientific evidence one way or the other for their general ideas to have become accepted in the pseudo-scientific gender studies community, and among other respected people (many white knights are highly educated in other matters). Must there? You're assuming they're being rational rather than allowing constructive thinking and confirmation… | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 07:17 PM |
| 1 | MRAs in Europe, what's the situation like in your country?It's all there in that PDF. 4–9 years with possibility of life given sufficient aggravating circumstances. | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 07:06 PM |
| – | Men can't call domestic abuse helpline.Given Erin's comments on Refuge and Women's Aid, hardly surprising. Though I would point out that the remit of the charity operating it does stipulate that they're for women, which is no less reasonable than MRAs focusing on men in need. | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 05:46 PM |
| – | MRAs in Europe, what's the situation like in your country?In the UK, women raping men is classified as a form of sexual assault, and carries the very same penalties as rape. Can carry the same penalties, can. Official sentencing guidelines allow for a sentence ranging from a community order to life. | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 05:41 PM |
| – | I often hear feminists say that MRAs shouldn't exist because "Men already have every advantage over women." Can anyone point me to some quality resources (particularly research) that support this statement? Or the converse?It's a bit difficult to produce evidence one way or the other when the question is based on a faulty premise in the first place. Define "everything". Does it include the worst of life as well as the best? Ditto "advantage". Define "men". If it's just all (for the sake of argument) with a Y-chromosome, isn't that overaggregating in much the same way that "all the Western world" does — and if not, why not and what justification is there to lump the poorest of men with the wealthiest? IOW, you can … | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 05:34 PM |
| 1 | Rape victims to be allowed to give pre-recorded evidence to avoid the trauma of cross-examination after cases of victims killing themselves to avoid court(since e.g. the Stern Review amongst others). Can't emphasise the importance of that report enough. It even criticises "those" who muddle the matter by reporting a conviction rate of 6%. | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 01:17 PM |
| 1 | Rape victims to be allowed to give pre-recorded evidence to avoid the trauma of cross-examination after cases of victims killing themselves to avoid courtthe UK government is doing everything in its power to increase the incarceration of supposed rapists. They are desperate to get the conviction rate up. DPP Alison Saunders pledged to increase rape trials by 30%. I know a guy who works in the CPS (though not terribly well) who told me that the CPS has a separate division for handling sex cases which operates under its own rules (and presumably its own funding). This policy I think could back fire. I doubt any jury will be convinced by recorded ev… | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 01:15 PM |
| 3 | Rape victims to be allowed to give pre-recorded evidence to avoid the trauma of cross-examination after cases of victims killing themselves to avoid courtRape shield laws don't prevent cross examination of the witness in facts directly material to the allegation. (eg "where were you when it happened" vs "how many people have you had sex with in the past".) | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 12:59 PM |
| – | Rape victims to be allowed to give pre-recorded evidence to avoid the trauma of cross-examination after cases of victims killing themselves to avoid courtas an American, do I have to worry about this sort of thing happening here? I very much doubt it because— Isn't the right to face one's accuser part of the 6th Amendment, so our congress couldn't ever make this legal here, right? basically, yeah. AIUI and IANAL, but the 6th Am. is clear enough: in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right…to be confronted with the witnesses against him. There's more to it than that, but that's the essence of it. Alas, we (Britons) have no such… | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 12:58 PM |
| 1 | 11 facts about women-run businesses that prove the future really is female.I think we pretty much concur on all points of substance. But there are nowhere near as many as there are men, particularly at the higher levels of business achievement. The fact of that is not in dispute (by anybody, so far as I can tell). The question is why. Feminists say it's sufficient evidence to proved discrimination. Naturally, we disagree. Pretty much most CEOs of even medium sized companies have no life to speak of. They're workaholics. They have to be, 'cos there's always someone belo… | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 12:23 PM |
| – | 11 facts about women-run businesses that prove the future really is female.Okay, two separate issues here: First, it's quite telling that about half of the names you listed are all tech-related, and most of those made their money from (or were helped by) Internet technology. TCP/IP has existed since about 1981, the web not until '94-ish and in any case, large scale roll-out of the Internet didn't begin to take place until the mid to late '90s. For commercial purposes, we're talking about an industry not more than 20 decades old, well within the working lifetime of one … | /r/MensRights | 20/03/17 11:30 AM |
| – | 11 facts about women-run businesses that prove the future really is female.Of course. And I wrote: (There are probably a couple, but the point is that they're rather the exception than the rule — and such that do exist are probably quirks of technology and fate.) Which of those that you found were not tech-related? It's not improbable that a single person could start a company in a nascent industry and end up, 30 or even 15 years later, near the top of the pile. In an established industry? Much less likely. | /r/MensRights | 19/03/17 10:06 PM |
| – | 11 facts about women-run businesses that prove the future really is female.Of course. But u/furchfur implied the possibility that women — anyone — could have created an S&P 500 company ab initio by themselves. If men couldn't do it, why should anybody expect women to? | /r/MensRights | 19/03/17 09:54 PM |
| – | 11 facts about women-run businesses that prove the future really is female.not one company in the S&P 500 was started and grown by a female. How many of them were started and grown by a single man, ie not inherited or grown up from an older company? (There are probably a couple, but the point is that they're rather the exception than the rule — and such that do exist are probably quirks of technology and fate.) | /r/MensRights | 19/03/17 07:37 PM |
| – | 11 facts about women-run businesses that prove the future really is female.I love how, after giving all these statistics about the success of these women-owned businesses, its 12th, un-numbered point highlights the fact that there are all these— grants, programs, and accelerators dedicated to helping women access resources that historically were only available to men. As if there were ever a magic cash machine or special resources available only to men. | /r/MensRights | 19/03/17 07:05 PM |
| – | Petition: Publicly Apologize and Resign for Slandering Cassie Jaye's Documentary "The Red Pill"You make a valid point, but there's a fine distinction between politics (which is inherently subjective interpretation of objective reality) and teaching things as fact. If holding the wrong political opinion is grounds enough to lose one's job then, regardless of whether your speech is merely mistaken rather than political, your speech can be deliberately misconstrued as political and therefore provides a ready-made excuse for firing somebody if the employer can be put under enough pressure. By… | /r/MensRights | 15/03/17 05:56 PM |
| – | Petition: Publicly Apologize and Resign for Slandering Cassie Jaye's Documentary "The Red Pill"Tbh, I don't want Sullivan to lose her job any more than I want MRAs to lose their jobs for their political inclinations. A better petition would call for her to express contrition and retract her blatant lies. a) that'd be far more effective than her sliding off into obscurity and b) it'd show integrity (or not, should she refuse to retract), which is a lot harder for her to do. | /r/MensRights | 15/03/17 04:25 PM |
| 4 | Domestic violence: Theresa May to oversee new law - BBC NewsAmazingly, the BBC even quotes recent victim data from the British Crime Survey via the Office of National Statistics: In the year ending March 2016, 1.8m victims, of which 1.2m women and 0.65m (=36%) men. Although perpetrators weren't reported by the BBC, 36% male victims is fairly consistent with 1996 data in which 42% of spouses or ex-spouses were men. Because same sex marriage wasn't introduced until 2013, that means the perpetrator in those 42% of cases must have been women. | /r/MensRights | 18/02/17 04:21 PM |
| 9 | Saw this at my school todayActually, I once met a transwoman who really doesn't fall in the gender binary, but she's a rather unusual case. Doesn't even try to pass as female. Born intersex, had/has substantial congenital endocrine problems that meant her body didn't respond properly to either sex hormone. Got SRS aged 5 or something fucked up like that. So it seems possible that a few people who don't identify as either male or female might be legit, but then this person doesn't positively identify as anything weird and … | /r/MensRights | 17/02/17 11:48 AM |
| 2 | Emma Watson fell into sulk over feminism backlash: Harry Potter star admits she has a lot to learn and isn't an 'expert' on the subject: I wish her good health.that can be psychologically stressful and I would guess most people could not handle it. Precisely; I could not, which is why I would not exchange privacy and freedom for lots and lots of money. Don't get me wrong, if I could be rich and anonymous? Why not! I'd love a fleet of jet aircraft and an ATPL like Travolta. And I suppose that, with enough money, you can buy a lot of privacy depending on how you came across the money. But for A-list actors, anonymity is probably permanently gone. And wor… | /r/MensRights | 16/02/17 11:30 PM |
| – | Emma Watson fell into sulk over feminism backlash: Harry Potter star admits she has a lot to learn and isn't an 'expert' on the subject: I wish her good health.Acting is a difficult skill. The days can be long. A good actor deserves our praise. That said, acting isn't hard. On the crew alone so many people work harder. Grips, set dec, camera, catering (real MVP). With the right training, I think I'd make a far better grip, focus puller, camera operator, electrician, lighting or sound engineer than I ever would an actor. It's a matter of aptitude. I couldn't act my way out of a paper bag or do set design to save my life, but I'm good with a variety of t… | /r/MensRights | 16/02/17 06:43 PM |
| – | Emma Watson fell into sulk over feminism backlash: Harry Potter star admits she has a lot to learn and isn't an 'expert' on the subject: I wish her good health.Keep in mind that Watson decided to "take a year off" from acting to focus on Feminism. A colleague of mine once told me his objective was to get rich enough to have "fuck you" money. He enjoyed his work, but he didn't want to be under his employer's thumb. Another colleague at the same company did very well out of the dot-com era (before it esploded), and he did have "fuck you" money. So, at one point, he upped and bought a boat and went sailing around the pacific for a couple of years. Both of… | /r/MensRights | 16/02/17 06:11 PM |
| 3 | Emma Watson fell into sulk over feminism backlash: Harry Potter star admits she has a lot to learn and isn't an 'expert' on the subject: I wish her good health.Film acting involves a lot of "hurry up and wait" Standing around doing nothing (waiting), is not work So are you saying that defence personnel aren't working? "Hurry up and wait" is an old military phrase. The first person perspective of the actor is irrelevant, it's up to the guy behind the camera, who is in the position of their intended audience to decide. Of course, where did I say otherwise? Reptition of acting out certain scenes with interludes to take advantage of fantastic on set cateri… | /r/MensRights | 16/02/17 01:32 PM |
| – | Emma Watson fell into sulk over feminism backlash: Harry Potter star admits she has a lot to learn and isn't an 'expert' on the subject: I wish her good health.Next time you see some guys on a road crew digging a ditch, pull up and ask them whether they would prefer an acting job over what they are currently doing. I never said that acting was as hard a job as manual labour, only that it is no walk in the park and, by any reasonable measure, is a "real job". Being a CEO is also hard work. In some (note: some) ways, it's harder work than digging ditches. Not physically, granted, but at least you get to put your shovel down and leave work behind. C-level… | /r/MensRights | 16/02/17 01:18 PM |
| 5 | Emma Watson fell into sulk over feminism backlash: Harry Potter star admits she has a lot to learn and isn't an 'expert' on the subject: I wish her good health.I suspect that Emma Watson is just a useful idiot for feminism. She's been used, yes. The biggest shame is not that she let it happen, but that she doesn't seem to have twigged that she let it happen. | /r/MensRights | 16/02/17 01:06 PM |
| – | Emma Watson fell into sulk over feminism backlash: Harry Potter star admits she has a lot to learn and isn't an 'expert' on the subject: I wish her good health.never had a real job in her life Uh, acting is no picnic. Film acting involves a lot of "hurry up and wait" and a lot of repetition even when the take seems good (to you, anyway). And the larger the role, the more often you have to be on set, so the more hanging around there is. Actors who have to wear substantial prosthetics (presumably not the case for Hermione Granger) can spend hours in make-up before. TV series acting requires being a quick study and the ability to learn lines fast. Whateve… | /r/MensRights | 16/02/17 12:10 PM |
| 2 | Actual censorship of /r/MensRightsIn fairness, Spez isn't the owner, just CEO. For now. This commentary suggests that Spez may have exposed Reddit to liability that they otherwise would have been protected from under 47 USC §230. Chances are, no-one will do it again and even Spez himself admitted that he screwed up over that incident. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/17 06:16 PM |
| 2 | Men's rights and conservatism (anti gay, anti trans, etc)Sure. Like others, I'm pro GLB rights. I don't see how anybody who has a thorough understanding of the medicine, endocrinology and embryology can reasonably object to trans issues, although it's perfectly valid to question whether all cases have equal medical merit. Like others here, I'm socially libertarian. I don't care what surgeries or lawful sexual activities people have. The abortion issue is, frankly, nobody's business except the mother and father concerned. Religion and faith are two qui… | /r/MensRights | 09/02/17 02:32 PM |
| 2 | The Film Industry Recognises Cassie Jay and "The Red Pill" with three historical awards.Refusing to sell them advertising space is not so much about hating the film, as pandering to the prejudice of their own customer base. Usually in business, when you don't want the job or the custom, you price yourself out of the market. Cassie gave the impression that they would not accept the ad for any price, which suggests to me direct animus. It's just an ad, after all, and VV already made their position clear to their regular readers so I don't think that running a small ad would have made… | /r/MensRights | 29/01/17 11:29 AM |
| 3 | Does anyone else have the suspicion that modern feminism is more of a front for socialism?No. They share a lot in common and feminism has borrowed heavily from Marxism (NB: not the same as socialism), but that doesn't mean that they share a common antecedent. The (in)famous feminist Seneca Falls convention took place in 1848, same year as Marx published his Communist Manifesto, which means feminism was well established by then. In fact, feminism is much older than Seneca so it can't be regarded as even protofeminist. Modesta di Pozzo was a 16th Century (proto)feminist who wrote, Don’… | /r/MensRights | 26/01/17 11:23 PM |
| 1 | Where can we get the Red Pill Movie online for free or not?That last is the only way the red pill will get to your chain multiplex - it has to somehow become a hit on the alternative circuit first. You can also do it via Tugg. | /r/MGTOW | 26/01/17 07:58 PM |
| 1 | Where can we get the Red Pill Movie online for free or not?Due out on US NetFlix on March 7. Also probably available on vimeo though it doesn't yet give a price. u/WebSummol | /r/MGTOW | 26/01/17 07:56 PM |
| – | My first assignment of the semester at my extremely liberal universityI will look back at this comment in the future and take action if need be. Reddit has a handy little 'save' link which you can use to curate useful comments and later find them in your profile. I do this with some of my own comments where I've put in some effort in researching data (usually on economics) for my own reference, to save me having to do the research again. I'm going to suffer through and do what I need to do until it gets completely unbearable. In most humanities faculties at most i… | /r/MensRights | 23/01/17 08:01 PM |
| – | My first assignment of the semester at my extremely liberal universityAs an academic, I would take issue with the way that bit was phrased. It reads as if the intention was to combat Plagiarism from the Internet, which is a huge problem for people who run undergrad courses (and, increasingly, graduate level courses). That much is fair enough. But there is no material difference between gathering data from suitable primary sources in the library vs online, so I'd be tempted to ask the person who set the assignment whether research using reputable, scholastically re… | /r/MensRights | 23/01/17 05:38 PM |
| 2 | A conversation I hadYes. The attrition rate is very high (for all sorts of reasons). Only 19 of ever 100 cases reported come to court in the first place, according to Baroness Sterne. That report also explains where feminists get their infamous 6% figure from. It's true, only 6 in 100 reported cases result in direct conviction. And another 6 result in conviction for a related offence. But to say that only 6% (or even 12%) of rape cases result in conviction is completely misleading when only 19 come to trial in the … | /r/MensRights | 23/01/17 04:00 PM |
| 7 | A conversation I hadAs an example, one corporation owns the building and machinery, the other company ”rents” from it, so that if they get sued they won't lose the ability to continue to produce product. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. Your in-laws need to get advice from a qualified attorney in corporate law, particularly with respect to 'piercing the corporate veil'. That sort of insulation used to work, but not so much anymore. TL;DR- if one of the entities gets sued because it really… | /r/MensRights | 23/01/17 11:02 AM |
| – | A conversation I hadAs of 2010, conviction rate for rape and related crimes was about 60% (of those cases that actually made it to court). (Source: Sterne Report, Baroness Sterne, 2010) | /r/MensRights | 23/01/17 10:45 AM |
| – | The Film Industry Recognises Cassie Jay and "The Red Pill" with three historical awards.I don't think it's historic for a controversial film to win an award because that happens all the time. Granted, but I think the political element of The Red Pill is sufficiently significant that this case sets it apart from other controversial documentaries. How many of them, for example, have been subject to protests and shut-downs because of pressure brought to bear by politically powerful groups? Of course, I do recognise that I am biased in respect of TRP. Because the wording used by the OP… | /r/MensRights | 22/01/17 06:14 PM |
| – | Bad moms movie: Uncircumcised men are grossI know it is illegal in Germany (for non religious reasons) I understood that the ban was later reversed. This article says nothing about it being permitted only on religious grounds. That makes sense to my mind, because there's no effective way of proving that the procedure is being done for bona fide religious reasons. (IOW, non-religious people only need to assert that they're Jewish or Muslim and clinicians would be on very dangerous ground, viz. religious discrimination, to gainsay them.) | /r/MensRights | 22/01/17 05:48 PM |
| 5 | The Film Industry Recognises Cassie Jay and "The Red Pill" with three historical awards.I don't even support the film. Why not? | /r/MensRights | 22/01/17 01:25 PM |
| – | The Film Industry Recognises Cassie Jay and "The Red Pill" with three historical awards.It is when you are calling them "prestigious" and the win "historical", or one of the "highest honours in the Industry". This is what is getting carried away. Oh, right. I think it's fair to call it 'historical' because the relative obscurity etc of the festival doesn't detract from the fact that this is the first time anybody, obscure or well-known, has been willing to give any sort of official recognition to material that deals with men's rights. I'd love to know what the Oscars' judges privat… | /r/MensRights | 22/01/17 01:23 PM |
| – | Bad moms movie: Uncircumcised men are grossThat is open to argument. Yes, and it is an important argument to have. Mutilating babies is a crime. It should be, but I have yet to see any compelling legal argument with supporting citations to persuade me that MGM is illegal and I've even read some case law that rather strongly suggests that it is, indeed, legal. If there is any decent legal argument that MGM already is illegal, I want to know about it. I just haven't found it yet. Just to be clear: I think MGM is a violation of personal aut… | /r/MensRights | 22/01/17 12:46 PM |
| – | The Film Industry Recognises Cassie Jay and "The Red Pill" with three historical awards.On the contrary, the mindshare and marketshare of this festival don't matter in the slightest. There was decent competition, and Cassie bested them all and took two other awards. She won on merit but more than that, the judges had the guts to give public recognition to a politically controversial film. Both are huge achievements in their own right. | /r/MensRights | 20/01/17 05:58 PM |
| – | Bad moms movie: Uncircumcised men are grossConsent to circumcision is undoubtedly the primary issue, but there is another implicit, less obvious assumption in the clip — that women's opinions on the appearance of our genitals matters one whit. It does not. Imagine the outrage if anybody were to advocate labiaplasty on the grounds of men's aesthetic preferences. A similar argument applies to pubic hair, but at least that grows back. My penis is first and foremost mine. Excepting STDs, which are another mater entirely, its health and funct… | /r/MensRights | 20/01/17 05:48 PM |
| – | Bad moms movie: Uncircumcised men are grossIt might sound trite but yeah, my body, my choice. I was circumcised without my consent, and that was a violation of my body. I forgave my parents that decision because I know they didn't do it out of malice and did not understand the nature of consent (which, to be fair, was simply not a question of significance back then). But it is 2017, now just over a sixth of the way through the 21st Century, and the principle of consent in respect of bodily autonomy is now well understood and there is no … | /r/MensRights | 20/01/17 05:31 PM |
| 3 | Isn't it illegal to refuse service based on gender? (my experience with waxing salons)You're probably right, but the conflict of rights and interests between equivalent/comparable cases (different members of the public in this case) in contrast with business-customer rights wrt discrimination are two very different legal arguments. I would expect a court not to penalise a business when, through no fault of their own, could not comply with the law no matter what they did because of circumstances peculiar to the case. That doesn't undermine Unroh, but tort cases are about compensat… | /r/MensRights | 20/01/17 04:00 AM |
| – | Isn't it illegal to refuse service based on gender? (my experience with waxing salons)u/user1492 said pretty much what occurred to me. [Federal] Title VII (Civil Rights Act) prohibits discrimination on the grounds of sex for employment but does provide for very narrowly construed exceptions, and customer preference is generally not one of them (ie not sufficient to establish a Bona Fide Occupational Qualification under the Act). I'm unsure how this maps on to customers. For example, there was that case where a man with breast cancer was denied MedicAid coverage solely because he … | /r/MensRights | 20/01/17 03:15 AM |
| – | The Red Pill takes *three* awards — including "Best of Festival" — at Idyllwild FilmFestnice to see the organisation didn't let itself get picked on by feminists. They probably didn't know about it until it was all over. | /r/MensRights | 18/01/17 12:00 AM |
| 1 | This ad currently airing on TV in Victoria Australia.It is. | /r/MensRights | 17/01/17 11:13 PM |
| – | This ad currently airing on TV in Victoria Australia.You're quite right in what you say, of course. Would it change your thinking at all if you knew that it was VIC state government policy to assume that male "victims" (their scare quotes, not mine) are, more often than not, perpetrators looking to cover up their crimes? Because that's exactly the case: Family Violence Risk Assessment and Risk Management Framework, pp 40–41. | /r/MensRights | 17/01/17 06:11 PM |
| 1 | Netflix shows March 2017 release date for Cassie Jaye's The Red Pill in my queueI made a mistake in comparing EU membership fees with exports to the EU, so I've updated my post to fix those. I should have listened to myself when I thought it odd that the impact factor was only about 2x when the population difference is a factor of 10x. | /r/MensRights | 17/01/17 10:31 AM |
| – | 13-Year-Old Says Mom Will Do Anything To Stop Her From Having Fun: children from fatherless homes are more likely to be poor, become involved in drug and alcohol abuse, drop out of school, and suffer from health and emotional problemsstop making damn excuses for this piss poor mother. What part of "It's clear that the mother is as violent as the daughter" is making excuses for her? | /r/MensRights | 17/01/17 09:34 AM |
| 3 | 13-Year-Old Says Mom Will Do Anything To Stop Her From Having Fun: children from fatherless homes are more likely to be poor, become involved in drug and alcohol abuse, drop out of school, and suffer from health and emotional problemsOh hell, yes, you're absolutely right! An acquaintance is a retired head mistress (primary school), and she once told me that some of the reception kids are still in nappies/diapers. Teachers routinely cop shit, both from their management and from parents (who swear, sometimes literally, that their precious little Johnny wouldn't hurt a fly!) I slandered teachers as individuals somewhat, but— Today's society enabled this. there's more to it than that. As a profession, particularly with prevailin… | /r/MensRights | 16/01/17 11:28 PM |
| – | 13-Year-Old Says Mom Will Do Anything To Stop Her From Having Fun: children from fatherless homes are more likely to be poor, become involved in drug and alcohol abuse, drop out of school, and suffer from health and emotional problemsIt's clear that the mother is as violent as the daughter, but the daughter didn't get it all from her mother. She certainly didn't get that street patois or accent from her mother. Whatever her faults, the mother is trying to impose some discipline on her daughter but there is nothing that she can do, and the girl knows it. The same would be doubly true of her father, even if he were around. Can you imagine? He'd have a DV conviction in no time. "Controlling behaviour" DV and all that. Even if t… | /r/MensRights | 16/01/17 05:36 PM |
| 4 | The Red Pill - An uncomfortable but important conversationShe doesn't appear to be very well versed in the role feminists have played in creating many of these negative outcomes for men and boys. Most feminists aren't. | /r/MensRights | 16/01/17 03:02 PM |
| 5 | The Red Pill - An uncomfortable but important conversationBloody hell, that's a good review. She really put some thought into it and - full credit to her for this - she was willing to examine her own beliefs and biases from a fresh perspective. If more feminists were like her, the ideology would not have done a fraction of the damage it has. This! And the rest of your comment, too. | /r/MensRights | 16/01/17 03:00 PM |
| 1 | Netflix shows March 2017 release date for Cassie Jaye's The Red Pill in my queueGlad you found it of interest; none of it is original to me, of course, I'm just distilling stuff I've read and heard. If you want to find out more, look out for Mark Blyth's lectures on YouTube. I linked one of them in my last. He has quite a lot of interesting things to say about the €Z, austerity policy and the relationship between labour and capital (citing two economists in particular, Michal Kalecki who predicted, in 1943, the labour strikes of the 1970s and Thomas Picketty whose R > G hyp… | /r/MensRights | 16/01/17 02:35 PM |
| – | Netflix shows March 2017 release date for Cassie Jaye's The Red Pill in my queuethey have to keep printing more Euros for all the piss poor countries they are bailing out Hah! Yeah, and it's Germany that's affected the worst because they're the strongest Eurozone economy. Actually, the biggest threats are the larger €Z economies with highly leveraged banks, France and Italy in particular. Across the €Z, the total (public and private) debt to GDP ratio is about 3:1. France is 4:1. The US is about 1.2:1. If any of the big €Z banks esplodes, there may not be a big enough print… | /r/MensRights | 15/01/17 06:54 PM |
| – | HBB had a major victory in court today, but we are not done.Oh, that sounds familiar. Then there was some fuss over the name under which it was registered, none of which holds any water, either. | /r/MensRights | 15/01/17 05:35 PM |
| – | Netflix shows March 2017 release date for Cassie Jaye's The Red Pill in my queuewhy the money has so much value if it doesn't really go farther. The "value" of GB£ (or any other currency) is pretty much exclusively a function of foreign demand for the currency, not economic activity within the country (although that may affect foreign demand for the currency). Because of our finance sector, there is more demand for Sterling than might otherwise be the case. That's partly why the £ dropped from ~US$1.50 to US$1.30 after the Brexit vote, and why it has since sunk to around US… | /r/MensRights | 15/01/17 03:47 PM |
| 2 | Netflix shows March 2017 release date for Cassie Jaye's The Red Pill in my queueThat's a common complaint. There are at least three contributing factors to this: Labour costs more in the UK, and there may be import or service tariffs because there's no free trade agreement between the US and the UK US NetFlix quoted prices probably don't include sales tax because there are some 7,000 sales tax jurisdictions across the US. Las Vegas has four! Whether sales tax is levied depends on where the consumer is and where the vendor is (and with which jurisdictions they have a tax nex… | /r/MensRights | 15/01/17 03:35 PM |
| – | HBB had a major victory in court today, but we are not done.also i think there was a small gamergate logo on some of the booth artwork, and this was used as grounds to accuse the HBB of 'harassment' and creating an unsafe space etc. I don't recall if they were ejected for speaking up during the panel session — at the invitation of the panel, mind you, so I can't see what anybody has to complain of there — or the booth art. Or maybe both. u/NSAspycam | /r/MensRights | 14/01/17 11:54 AM |
| 9 | How about a website that lists and profiles women that are false rape accusers.Falsely accusing an individual as a false accuser would be just as a moral as a false accusation. ^ this. | /r/MensRights | 10/01/17 04:52 PM |
| 1 | Intel has partnered with a sexist, racist, hypocritical, lying con-artist in their initiative to promote diversity in tech"intel goes 'Full McInt..." This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Rene Caron. And not 24 hours later, the video is taken down because of a copyright infringement claim. I wonder who Rene Caron is and what claim s/he has to that video's copyright? Because I'm quite sure it's not the actor. Things that make you go "hmmmm....." | /r/MensRights | 09/01/17 02:19 PM |
| 2 | Intel has partnered with a sexist, racist, hypocritical, lying con-artist in their initiative to promote diversity in techI think it's been more a matter of the priorities of the different chip manufacturers over time leading to different implementations rather than inherent, unsolvable problems. Sure, and legacy compatibility has dogged Intel since the 8086 in '78 — both in the processor architecture and the host system architecture. Remember A20 gate hack? I may be showing my age! http://research.cs.wisc.edu/vertical/papers/2013/hpca13-isa-power-struggles.pdf I only read the abstract and conclusion but my first a… | /r/MensRights | 09/01/17 02:18 PM |
| 1 | Intel has partnered with a sexist, racist, hypocritical, lying con-artist in their initiative to promote diversity in techbut do not seem to either know or care very much about the STEM fields Ah, gotchya. As I said, so much is lost in short segments of text. | /r/MensRights | 09/01/17 01:54 PM |
| – | Intel has partnered with a sexist, racist, hypocritical, lying con-artist in their initiative to promote diversity in techto work with filthy gallium-arsenide, whatever the hell that stuff is Not entirely sure if you're being sarcastic or not (text sucks, not enough context) but assuming not: Doubtless you know that most of the electronics you use are made from silicon. Silicon is the semiconductor substrate used to make those integrated circuits. Galium-arsenide is another semiconductor substrate that is faster than silicon and also has the ability to emit light (eg LEDs) where silicon doesn't. It's also a lot mor… | /r/MensRights | 09/01/17 01:24 PM |
| 1 | Intel has partnered with a sexist, racist, hypocritical, lying con-artist in their initiative to promote diversity in techWaiting for someone to act as though such a corporation wouldn't have a marketing or PR division capable of social media influence.... Rather more to the point, Intel care about exactly one thing: profitability (share price being a function thereof). This move, two years ago, suggests a cynical ploy on their part or abject desperation to contain haemorrhaging P/E ratio. | /r/MensRights | 08/01/17 11:52 PM |
| 1 | Intel has partnered with a sexist, racist, hypocritical, lying con-artist in their initiative to promote diversity in techOr bad drivers or faulty peripherals. | /r/MensRights | 08/01/17 11:44 PM |
| – | Intel has partnered with a sexist, racist, hypocritical, lying con-artist in their initiative to promote diversity in techPerhaps so, but you're still stuck with the power consumption of legacy overheads of x86 architecture so windows mobile on x86 seems rather pointless. | /r/MensRights | 08/01/17 11:42 PM |
| 5 | Intel has partnered with a sexist, racist, hypocritical, lying con-artist in their initiative to promote diversity in techthey know being the best powerful PC processor is a dying market, it's all going to mobile. Right, but there several good reasons for this, none of them especially technical. Modern desktop architectures have so much more processing capacity than is necessary for most purposes (other than to drive bloated modern operating systems). Mobiles and tablets represent a cost effective, pocket-sized platform that will do most things that most people want most of the time with the added bonus that they u… | /r/MensRights | 08/01/17 11:38 PM |
| – | Intel has partnered with a sexist, racist, hypocritical, lying con-artist in their initiative to promote diversity in techThey spent billions in R&D and nobody bought their mobile processors. It's unlikely we'll ever see an x86 based phone And for good reason: x86 is a terrible instruction set architecture, no sane person would start a new ecosystem based on that. Yes, x64 is somewhat better, but there's still a great deal of legacy crap in those cores that you simply don't need in embedded devices. Also, Intel doesn't exactly have a good track record bootstrapping new ISAs. When was the last time you saw an Itaniu… | /r/MensRights | 08/01/17 08:11 PM |
| 5 | Intel has partnered with a sexist, racist, hypocritical, lying con-artist in their initiative to promote diversity in techData FTW, but there's another consideration: Intel don't, as far as I know, license the Atom as IP (maybe they do, but I've never heard of it) whereas ARM exclusively licence their cores as IP. That means there's a huge advantage in ARM to anyone doing embedded devices like phones etc, even if the pJ/op is comparable. In fact, given the power used by IO structures (the actual pin drivers), Atom has to do substantially better than ARM if you can only buy Atom as a discrete device. u/recoveringPHP… | /r/MensRights | 08/01/17 08:06 PM |
| – | Intel has partnered with a sexist, racist, hypocritical, lying con-artist in their initiative to promote diversity in techBlame Microsoft for that, or else get a Mac (still Intel hardware) or use Linux. | /r/MensRights | 08/01/17 07:56 PM |
| 10 | Intel has partnered with a sexist, racist, hypocritical, lying con-artist in their initiative to promote diversity in techUh, that video is about an event now over two years old. There was other yt coverage about it at the time, eg Mundane Matt. Here's some slightly more recent coverage (ie, 2016). I haven't seen anything more recent (not that I've looked very hard). Intel may have quietly dropped it, or may still be pushing ahead in some form or another. Given Intel's CEO's complaints about their share price, it's an awfully convenient cover to slash $300m off their budget, though that represents only 0.5% of thei… | /r/MensRights | 08/01/17 07:55 PM |
| – | Man asks for legal advice after slapping his physically abusive girlfriend, comments section accuses him of beating his girlfriendWhat is it now - probably or definitely? Few things are definite in law (other than that it is expensive and complex), that's why lawyers seldom give definitive answers. The only answer that matters is the jury's (or judge's, as the case may be). Because I'm sure somebody could make a case for fight or flight and at the very least argue for mitigating circumstances. Is there really no chance of that? During sentencing, yes; but I'm unaware of any means, in law, that the circumstances would allow… | /r/MensRights | 07/01/17 03:33 PM |
| – | 1 in 6 - that is 15 per cent, or up to 300,000 - New Zealand males have experienced sexual abuse in their lifetimeit uses surveys instead of court records Surveys aren't automatically bad and, if anything, are probably a better reflection of the truth than court records because, as I said, the latter only reflect what gets prosecuted. Anything that isn't seen as criminal won't get counted (even if it actually is, or should be). But the questions asked and how they're interpreted make all the difference between a good survey and a bad one. GOOD, innocent until proven guilty is the only way to reasonably make… | /r/MensRights | 07/01/17 10:51 AM |
| 1 | 1 in 6 - that is 15 per cent, or up to 300,000 - New Zealand males have experienced sexual abuse in their lifetimeAgreed. I don't see where they get this 1 in 6 statistic from, but I only scan read the report. | /r/MensRights | 06/01/17 12:29 PM |
| – | 1 in 6 - that is 15 per cent, or up to 300,000 - New Zealand males have experienced sexual abuse in their lifetimeUh, you do realise they're talking about male victims of sexual abuse, not perpetrators, right? It's unusual to see any mainstream publication acknowledge male victims much less the extent of the problem. let me guess, study is bullshit due to how they calculate victims (survey) instead of actual court cases. But court cases don't tell you much, either. They set a floor, to be sure, but they don't tell you anything about the true incidence because to count among court statistics the police and p… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/17 12:25 PM |
| 1 | Police investigate gun-related threat at the screening of controversial movie The Red Pill.Yeah, CJ started filming in around 2013, maybe late 2012 and finished in 2014. The delay to screen was caused by problems funding post production. | /r/MensRights | 05/01/17 08:59 PM |
| 1 | It was disappointing to see this sort of response to the announcement of a screening of The Red Pill in Brisbane. While we do not believe this represents a threat we have advised Queensland Police.It isn't incitement to violence, but then bringing up GG isn't germane to this post. As I recall it, GG was accused by aGG of harassment, threats and incitement to violence including "I hope you get raped" which makes it germane if the tweet mentioned by OP is incitement to violence. If it is not, then GG is irrelevant. | /r/MensRights | 05/01/17 08:56 PM |
| – | Police investigate gun-related threat at the screening of controversial movie The Red Pill.The title was decided on before SRs like TRP came to prominence. I guess they could have switched title but, given all the other stressors they were dealing with, that was one thing of many that was never done. | /r/MensRights | 05/01/17 12:24 PM |
| 1 | Police investigate gun-related threat at the screening of controversial movie The Red Pill.so far as i know, disqus does not let you premoderate on an article-by-article basis (although that could have changed since i last looked), and it doesn't have a mechanism to moderate specific people or newbies. I conclude that they have their entire site in premoderation, surprising as that seems. | /r/MensRights | 05/01/17 12:23 PM |
| 8 | I work for a child support agency and I'm ashamed of itIf your state's wiretap laws allow it Note that recording telephone conversations and conversations in person aren't necessarily the same thing. Again, u/childsupport-throw, get legal advice first. | /r/MensRights | 04/01/17 04:25 PM |
| 5 | I work for a child support agency and I'm ashamed of itI highly encourage you to gather as much documentation as possible. Print e-mails from your supervisors, get copies of documents, record conversations on your phone, and so on. u/childsupport-throw if you can, do this — but take legal advice first. If you get caught before you can blow the whistle, you risk being done for theft as a servant or similar malfeasance. | /r/MensRights | 04/01/17 04:24 PM |
| – | Man asks for legal advice after slapping his physically abusive girlfriend, comments section accuses him of beating his girlfriendDo you not have any grounds for arguing for his state of mind being literally in a situation of assault? Seriously? I find that hard to believe. In criminal law? Probably not. You might be able to argue diminished (but non-zero) liability on the grounds of diminished responsibility because the circumstances were so severe, that the defendant's (ie the subject in this case) balance of mind was disturbed. But severity is the key, and I don't think this case meets that standard. Person A does not g… | /r/MensRights | 04/01/17 03:57 PM |
| 1 | Man asks for legal advice after slapping his physically abusive girlfriend, comments section accuses him of beating his girlfriendI used to work retail At least in this country (UK), it is so common place for retail stores to offer much more generous returns policy than obliged by law that a lot of people end up assuming that they have such rights in law — and then get a nasty shock when some small retailer refuses to refund a purchase because their returns policy, while legal, isn't as generous. I've never worked retail but I have a lot of sympathy for those who do. They must have the patience of a saint! for some reason … | /r/MensRights | 03/01/17 09:51 PM |
| 1 | Man asks for legal advice after slapping his physically abusive girlfriend, comments section accuses him of beating his girlfriendLook at their rules. The mods aren't following the rules of their own Subreddit. Perhaps they are but, giving their sidebar a quick look, I didn't see any obvious rule-breaking by the mods. Just because there isn't an express rule about locking posts doesn't mean to say they're being capricious when they do lock a thread. One of their rules is that threads that are substantially political are off-topic. Given that this sub linked theirs (albeit with np.), I'm unsurprised that they preemptively a… | /r/MensRights | 03/01/17 05:07 PM |
| 1 | Man asks for legal advice after slapping his physically abusive girlfriend, comments section accuses him of beating his girlfriendThat's awfully cynical, but I can see why you might say so. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/17 03:55 PM |
| – | Man asks for legal advice after slapping his physically abusive girlfriend, comments section accuses him of beating his girlfriendThere is much more information out there that could have been explained, and the post should not have been locked. So to answer your question directly, I want them to keep the post unlocked, which I don't think is asking too much. Though I can see some reasonable reasons why they locked the post, I would not have done so were up to me. But their sub, their rules, I guess. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/17 03:54 PM |
| 5 | Man asks for legal advice after slapping his physically abusive girlfriend, comments section accuses him of beating his girlfriendBe specific: His actions probably don't meet assault wrt the GF, but his actions wrt phone guy probably do. He's neither wholly in the right nor wholly in the wrong, and nothing in law obliges him to leave the scene rather than defend himself. That would be an abridgement of his rights in law. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/17 03:30 PM |
| – | Man asks for legal advice after slapping his physically abusive girlfriend, comments section accuses him of beating his girlfriendThey also claim proper legal advice has been given, but I don't see much legal advice at all. I'd say it has been — even if it's not advice any of us or the OP would like — particularly by Lithorien, who provides a link that gives a) the definition of assault in CA and b) statutory defences against same. What else do you expect them to do? They're not the OP's defence attorneys, after all. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/17 03:16 PM |
| – | Man asks for legal advice after slapping his physically abusive girlfriend, comments section accuses him of beating his girlfriendIt's just that when somebody anonymously writes something like "I have a right to privacy in public" you have to suspect trolling. I don't see why. Lots of people have completely unrealistic ideas about the rights and obligations in law. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/17 03:10 PM |
| 1 | Man asks for legal advice after slapping his physically abusive girlfriend, comments section accuses him of beating his girlfriendI thought most of those people used throwaways? Especially in an environment like that if the guy's regular account gets used in a geographic sr. Use of a throwaway doesn't signify much in the circumstances, IMO. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/17 03:09 PM |
| 3 | Man asks for legal advice after slapping his physically abusive girlfriend, comments section accuses him of beating his girlfriendI broadly agree with you except your remarks about self defence: and no you don't get to claim selfdefence when the video of the attack is somehow able to show only you attacking. because that fcuking proves a lack of imediate danger. Even if true [that the video didn't show her hitting him], in order for the video to prove lack of assault (which includes "unlawful touching", see below) enough to warrant use of force in self defence, it would have to show both subjects continuously in the frame … | /r/MensRights | 03/01/17 03:05 PM |
| – | Man asks for legal advice after slapping his physically abusive girlfriend, comments section accuses him of beating his girlfriendHas it occurred to you that when you're an actual abuse victim and then are confronted with the added threat that you might be prosecuted simply because the only witness just happened to video the one time you defended yourself, that it might be asking a little too much to be completely level headed in such a situation? Of course it has, and yes, it's hard, but legally (and we are talking about a legal advice SR here), he was both victim and perpetrator in two incidents which, though related, ea… | /r/MensRights | 03/01/17 02:38 PM |
| – | Man asks for legal advice after slapping his physically abusive girlfriend, comments section accuses him of beating his girlfriendI suggest that this is a case of SIWOTI, but if it means that much to you... it's about the forum's response, and their response wasn't "oh, you assaulted phone man so I don't trust you you must be an abuser covering yourself" otherwise you'd have something resembling a point. Actually, some commentators more or less did make exactly that point, and said that he basically had no useful rights that he could use to stay out of trouble because of how he behaved toward phone man. Had he ignored phon… | /r/MensRights | 03/01/17 01:31 PM |
| 1 | Man asks for legal advice after slapping his physically abusive girlfriend, comments section accuses him of beating his girlfriendSeriously, video HELPS his case. Ordinarily, yes. But video of the dude walking up to the cameraman, making unreasonable demands (eg not to be filmed in pubilc) and then assaulting the cameraman when he doesn't get his way... That will not help this dude, and that is (one reason) why he got a hostile response in r/LA. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/17 12:57 PM |
| – | Man asks for legal advice after slapping his physically abusive girlfriend, comments section accuses him of beating his girlfriendHow in the fuck does the headline misrepresent OP? Because it gives the impression that the subject is entirely without fault and was abused by the readers of r/legaladvice without any merit whatever — and that's not the case. The subject did do something wrong and the readers of that SR aren't there for tea and sympathy when you fuck up. At least half of what the subject was asking was how to cover his arse for assaulting the neighbour/guy with phone-camera. In the circumstances, why are you su… | /r/MensRights | 02/01/17 11:15 PM |
| – | Man asks for legal advice after slapping his physically abusive girlfriend, comments section accuses him of beating his girlfriendIn fairness, u/eratow, your headline rather misrepresents the OP. Even if you accept that slapping the girl was proportional self defence (and I would accept that), the guy in question had absolutely no legitimate reason to assault the guy with the phone (and that was assault) nor snatch it away from him. He can ask not to be filmed in public, but that's all. Even on privately owned land, you can't just snatch a camera away from someone: you must instruct them to stop and warn them that if they … | /r/MensRights | 02/01/17 08:36 PM |
| – | It was disappointing to see this sort of response to the announcement of a screening of The Red Pill in Brisbane. While we do not believe this represents a threat we have advised Queensland Police.Philosophical question, just to play devil's advocate: in what way is this tweet different from "I hope you get raped?" If the OP tweet is an example of incitement to violence, does that not lend strength to the allegations made by feminists of routinely receiving rape and death threats? If not, why not? I didn't follow GG all that closely, but it seems that a lot of GG's rebuttal to allegations of threats revolved around similar lines, in which case it would seem that feminist protestors could … | /r/MensRights | 02/01/17 05:08 PM |
| 2 | Sign guysbut rape by envelopment is still not termed 'rape', it's just 'sexual activity without consent'. And therefore recorded differently in the statistics, artificially inflating the ratio of female to male victims of »rape«. | /r/MensRights | 02/01/17 04:43 PM |
| 1 | 'Ban 'mansplain' from the feminist vocabulary' - Not much, but it's a start fellas...Good article and amusing — even encouraging — as far as it goes (though, sadly, not nearly enough people who need to read it will). Beyond that, how about we don't ban anything? Banning words, ideas and even documentaries didn't exactly work out too well for feminists. I'd rather see less policing on both sides, not more. | /r/MensRights | 01/01/17 11:44 AM |
| – | Entitlement on display at NYT: Feminism Lost [the election]. Now What?Democrats are, slowly but surely, winning the war of ideas I wouldn't be so sure of that... Even as feminism, as a label, loses market share, feminism, as a series of ideas and policy platforms, enjoys wide-spread support. nor that, depending on your definition of 'feminism'. | /r/MensRights | 31/12/16 11:19 PM |
| – | Entitlement on display at NYT: Feminism Lost [the election]. Now What?The degree of entitlement on display in this OP is breathtaking. Just one example: In these postelection conversations, the rawest wounds were expressed by black women who felt betrayed by white women’s support for Mr. Trump. [...] building bridges across racial and ethnic lines requires white feminists to understand that their experience is not universal, Professor Manigault-Bryant said. And it means defining women’s issues as broadly as possible. Here's an inductive proof that feminism is a cr… | /r/MensRights | 31/12/16 01:41 PM |
| 1 | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsCheers! | /r/MensRights | 29/12/16 02:38 PM |
| 1 | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newssucking up all the wealth into the top .1% is also a REALLY bad idea! Your conclusion is a good one, but not for the arguments you give (which range from fair to bad). If you give lots of people a good amount of money there will be lots of risk takes and lots of people out there generating new ideas and innovations. When those risks fail it won't have a major impact on the economy, and when they hit big it will be a HUGE boom! Except most of the world's economy depends on the mundane trade of go… | /r/MensRights | 29/12/16 02:13 PM |
| 1 | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsWho uses a tv aerial these days though? I do, and I see lots of aerials on houses nearby. Terrestrial broadcast is still the most cost-effective and easiest way of receiving TV. Sure, you can get the equivalent of terrestrial free-to-air by cable or satellite, but the law that requires a TV licence still obtains because the cable/satellite providers include BBC channels. As I said, the better question is not whether detector vans are real, nor even what coverage they achieve, but whether there a… | /r/MensRights | 29/12/16 12:24 PM |
| 1 | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsAnd privately run media is? | /r/MensRights | 29/12/16 12:12 PM |
| – | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsCan't force someone to study something they don't want just for numbers. But you can coerce them by telling them they'll get a scholarship but only if they take $subject regardless of aptitude, or face a life of poverty in the developing world. When I was working for a university research group, I did a bit of private tutoring. Most of the students I saw were from developing countries and were at this institution because of this sort of policy and they were utterly miserable because they couldn'… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 07:40 PM |
| 1 | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsdoes it work? yes! who cares about validation. When you have an arsehole boss breathing down your neck because his arsehole boss is breathing down his, you end up highly motivated to err on the side of 'fuck it! ship it!'. Shit flows down hill, as they say. Besides, what benefit in valid markup if browsers coughIEcough aren't standards compliant? If your reaction is that that's the browser's fault and user's problem... well, ultimately, if it doesn't work, then it's not fit for purpose. (I'm a h… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 07:15 PM |
| 1 | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsI'd rather listen to BBC Radio 4 than read the Graun any day. | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 07:04 PM |
| 1 | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsWell, it depends a bit on what you call a conspiracy. The Five Eyes' SIGINT services are pretty open about what they do, just not how they do it. FWIW, it's not just FVEY that have that tech, but I oughtn't be specific. However, knowing what I do, it's not difficult to make educated guesses about their capacities. I'd say, for example, that it's a fair bet that if you are a person of interest, not even a VPN will save your arse. And one way to become a person of interest is to talk regularly wit… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 06:53 PM |
| 3 | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsIT is not meritocratic at all, what with rampant, industry-wide salary fixing. I promise you, it is far from industry wide. It might be common amongst the big corporate players, but there's a very long tail of smaller companies which pay according to ability to negotiate rather than their actual value to the company. IT desperately needs to be unionised Hrm. I generally support the idea of unions, but I generally oppose the way they practise. I think unions would need reform before I could get o… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 05:49 PM |
| – | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsOne axis that really does separate men from women is appetite for risk. Men take more risks so more men make it big like Jobs, Gates et al. Nobody seems to notice the thousands of others who were bankrupted by the risks they took, even by relatively conservative risks. | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 05:46 PM |
| 5 | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsPrecisely. A mate of mine who is a professional developer and I were talking the other day. I said, you should probably care about this, because sooner or later they'll destroy a project you actually do care about. He was non-committal, but he has a very nihilistic outlook on life. I can't say as I especially blame him. | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 05:42 PM |
| – | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsOr they could just check your browsing history... #snooperscharter Funny you should mention that, because it's much worse than many realise. It's perhaps one of those few times the tin-foil hat brigade was half right. In any event, that's why they'd image your disc, to see your browser history including deleted entries. (It's not that simple, but meh.) | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 05:40 PM |
| 5 | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsFair enough. This is the way an ethical person and an ethical company hires for their team. One would think so and hope so, but it would seem that hiring managers aren't always given the discretion of their conscience. One hears anecdotes, for example, I recently read that a white male manager which had a team of 10 had the budget to hire 3 more and was told that they all had to be 'diversity hires', meaning not white men — despite none of the 10 existing workers being white but one, and that on… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 04:00 PM |
| 2 | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsAnd what is "A television receiver" defined as? A device that can receive and decode a television signal, presumably. The precise definition is usually at the discretion of a judge hearing a case if it is not spelt out in legislation. Considering some of the perversions of English jurisprudence, there is probably not much that a court does that would surprise me. For example, an indecent photograph of a child on paper is classified as possession (6 months jail, IIRC) but it is classified as manu… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 03:53 PM |
| – | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsWhere are all those great applications written by women? [...] There are plenty of them, working in a largely anonymous but productive way in development teams, just like the male coders. Right. I never got any public credit for the work I've done for my employers. Why would women? | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 02:48 PM |
| – | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsIT Manager checking in here Have you ever experienced any pressure, or are you aware of colleagues who have experienced pressure, to comply with affirmative hiring policies which call for hiring a female or minority candidate over a white male candidate when equally qualified (which is pretty rare, all things considered) or even when less qualified than the white male? I keep hearing about how women are discriminated against in tech, but I just haven't ever seen it. My guess is that the claim mi… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 02:46 PM |
| 2 | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsyou do not need a TV license if you only watch (non-BBC) on-demand material That is most probably true, de facto... even if you are watching it on a TV with an aerial plugged into it. ... but you might be on dangerous ground there. I've already cited §363 of the Communications Act (2003) which says that if you have a "television receiver" (which doesn't mean display, just "receiver", ie the RF TV decoder that counts so computers with DVB-T cards would most likely count, whether the computer had … | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 02:37 PM |
| – | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsThat is the much more reasonable interpretation of the law, but TVLA would most likely be granted a warrant to image your computer's disc to see if you've ever consumed BBC content should they ask for one. /u/all-round-good-egg | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 02:26 PM |
| – | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsthey have a website where you can opt out. Interesting! Got a link? | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 02:22 PM |
| – | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsYou do not need a TV license merely for owning a device capable of receiving a live broadcast Communications Act (2003) §363 says otherwise. Clause 1 reads: (1) A television receiver must not be installed or used unless the installation and use of the receiver is authorised by a licence under this Part. If you want to be strictly pedantic about it then no, you don't need a licence if the TV is packed away. But if it is "installed", then the law says it must be licensed. As a practical matter, a … | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 02:19 PM |
| – | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newssince the whole "detector van" thing is bullshit It might be bullshit in practice, but there's perfectly good physics behind the idea and anybody can do it. All that is needed is a high-gain UHF aerial, a wideband, low noise RF amp and a spectrum analyser and understanding of how a superheterodyne receiver works which probably sounds a lot more complex than it really is. Pretty much every radio for the last few decades and more before use it, and the idea will have its centenary in 2018. Super T… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 02:04 PM |
| – | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsI vaguely remember that article. I'm in the IT industry (albeit an obscure part with a very high bar to entry) and I would not say that I have noticed much in the way of sexism within the specific circles I move, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Simple fact is that most men can't write good code either, so why anyone (who actually knows what good code looks like) thinks that women should be any better at it is a complete mystery to me. The IT industry is one of the most meritocratic out … | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 11:58 AM |
| – | BBC admits its viral “women write better code” story was fake newsRemember that the BBC is a behemoth of an organisation. Undoubtedly there are a lot of sexist staff and that sexism toward men doesn't get called out within the BBC as it would the other way around (in fact, I strongly suspect that many within the BBC are too afraid to speak out against such) and therefore it's probably going too far to declare the whole of the BBC an irredeemable den of misandry. Still, it's worth pointing out sexism within the BBC when it manifests, so OP is very much worthwhi… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 11:53 AM |
| 13 | Get the Honey Badgers to their trial! Spread the word and/or donate if you can.Since I assume HBB announced these figures somewhere, it would seem they're committed to full transparency at the very least. Had they wanted to inflate their legal fees or something else, they could have made it look other than what it is. So that's a point in their favour, at least. At the very least, it demonstrates that this is no scam as u/Karissa36 insists it is. In respect of the wisdom of sending 12 people to the hearing, it would rather depend on the nature of the hearing and who's goin… | /r/MensRights | 28/12/16 11:41 AM |
| 1 | "MR Activists Support Prostitution"?As others have said, I don't think prostitution is a men's rights issue but since you brought it up... I happen to think that the state has no business telling men or women how they can use their bodies. That covers surrogacy, prostitution and a large swathe of other areas where the law regulates what informed, consenting adults may and may not do up to and including drug restrictions (both recreational and therapeutic). As others have pointed out, decriminalising prostitution means that sex wor… | /r/MensRights | 25/12/16 06:44 PM |
| – | The Guardian thinks it is a disgrace that men are allowed to defend themselves when accused of abuse.Threatening someone in the workplace for refusing to date you is definitely sexual harassment. If you don't know that you don't know much about this field. I guess not, then. So far as I know, threatening behaviour is threatening behaviour and has nothing to do with sex, sexuality or sexual behaviour. Sexual harassment would be repeatedly asking you out on a date after being told 'please stop asking', or else making sexually suggestive remarks or dressing or acting provocatively in the hope of e… | /r/MensRights | 25/12/16 06:24 PM |
| 1 | Stop telling men to show their emotions.Toxic masculinity is just bullshit feminists pulled out of their arse They didn't pull it out of their ass. You're both right. As is usual, they move the goal posts to suit the current situation. To be most comprehensive about it, there's toxic humanity, which covers every sort of demographic you can think of. All of them. The problem is that enough feminists do use the phrase 'toxic masculinity' in the sense of painting all men with the same brush that one can never be entirely sure whether a g… | /r/MensRights | 25/12/16 04:25 PM |
| 1 | Stop telling men to show their emotions.never show your emotions because biology As applied to human behaviour, "X because biology" is always a terrible argument because we have the capacity for executive cognition... the ability to override our instincts and our biological heritage. (There might be other reasons for X, but it isn't biology alone.) | /r/MensRights | 25/12/16 04:07 PM |
| 1 | Stop telling men to show their emotions.Upvoted because it's an important message, so is the rest of the video in question. Go watch it, then cogitate on it. | /r/MensRights | 25/12/16 03:58 PM |
| – | Get the Honey Badgers to their trial! Spread the word and/or donate if you can.This person is a troll. Clearly, and she's going out of her way to spike coverage of your case. Anyone who thinks we're "making money" from this has never been through a lawsuit. [...] It's $300/hour or more just to get your lawyer to type up a brief letter. Don't I know it. I've never been directly involved in actual civil litigation, but I've been close enough to those who have and to attorneys in matters outside of the court to know how expensive they are. That's why I said that HBB won't mak… | /r/MensRights | 24/12/16 11:24 PM |
| – | The Guardian thinks it is a disgrace that men are allowed to defend themselves when accused of abuse.She explicitly threatened me for refusing to date her in an email. That's sexual harassment. It might be extortion or blackmail, but I don't see how that constitutes sexual harassment. When I refused to date her again, she made a transparently complaint of sexual harassment against me. I can't see how your refusing to date her could constitute sexual harassment either. My employer assumed my guilt (I'm male after all) and aggressively pursued her complaint against me but refused to investigate m… | /r/MensRights | 24/12/16 11:20 PM |
| 2 | Are male and female circumcision morally equivalent? – Brian D EarpYou're kind of missing the point. Well, I'm being a bit pedantic — I'll admit to that — but I do think I get the point all the same. In this case, the OP is an ethicist and Earp's article itself dealt with the relative ethics of circumcision in both sexes given the prior that it is an accepted practice in many places. His article doesn't make sense outside of that given prior. His conclusion is that if it's unethical for girls, then there is no rational reason it oughtn't be unethical for boys a… | /r/MensRights | 24/12/16 08:27 PM |
| – | Are male and female circumcision morally equivalent? – Brian D EarpOld guys and the Orthodox are far more likely to have had the more minor procedure It was my understanding that milah went out around 2nd Century CE but perhaps orthodox communities kept the Abrahamic practice. But the last couple of generations have mostly had the drastically mutilating hospital procedure, and suffer all the same side effects as gentile children. Since it was Kellogg who advocated priah to counter masturbation (even though it never worked) back in the 19th C. CE, I'd expect tha… | /r/MensRights | 24/12/16 05:47 PM |
| – | Are male and female circumcision morally equivalent? – Brian D EarpHe's coming at it from the wrong direction Not really. Earp analysis the ethics of the practice. Absent the practice, there is no ethical question to argue. So it makes sense to start with the assumption that it happens, all other considerations aside. What bemuses me most is was this bit: Canadian ethicist Margaret Somerville began to speak and write critically about the non-therapeutic circumcision of infant boys, she was attacked for even addressing the subject in public. In her book The Ethi… | /r/MensRights | 24/12/16 05:16 PM |
| – | Are male and female circumcision morally equivalent? – Brian D EarpFirst, one has to assume that circumcision/genital surgeries are being done to babies of both sexes, otherwise the question makes no sense. Arguendo, therefore, let us assume that both happen (and both do happen, even FGM in the West despite being illegal). Second, one has to distinguish between the different types of genital surgery for each sex. The WHO has a scheme of classification for FGM and for MGM, there is no equivalent formal classification so, instead, let's use the Jewish terms. Ther… | /r/MensRights | 24/12/16 05:10 PM |
| – | Get the Honey Badgers to their trial! Spread the word and/or donate if you can.NB: I am not a lawyer, I am in no way associated with The Honey Badgers and I am not especially well acquainted with the facts of the matter in dispute, so there is a degree of speculation on my part here. The Mary Sue did not publish anything until after they were kicked out and so can't be liable for that. Right. The only real exposure to TMS would probably be libel, and depending on Canadian jurisprudence and what TMS actually wrote, that's a fairly high bar. Negative and derogatory opinions … | /r/MensRights | 24/12/16 02:06 PM |
| 8 | Get the Honey Badgers to their trial! Spread the word and/or donate if you can.There is not a snowball's chance in hell they will win this lawsuit. I wouldn't lay money against them winning. I haven't read their attorney's brief, obviously but, from what I know of the case, at the very least they have a decent case of material breach of contract with consequential damages (though whether they'll be awarded the latter is another matter). I would agree that a case based in discrimination would be a bit iffy because I'm guessing (CBA to look up Canadian law) that political be… | /r/MensRights | 24/12/16 01:10 PM |
| – | Feminist Jessica Valenti in a nutshellAnd then there's "rape threats" and meaningful intent to rape or cause other material harm. I'm not saying that "I hope X bad thing happens to you" is even okay, only that it isn't cause to have fear for one's physical safety. But Valenti sure can damsel when it suits... /u/omegaphallic | /r/MensRights | 23/12/16 07:36 PM |
| – | The Guardian thinks it is a disgrace that men are allowed to defend themselves when accused of abuse.[I'm not a lawyer but I have to deal with legal matters from time to time and I've also acted as the foreman of a jury in the past.] There's a difference between confront and personally interrogate though. So there is a real problem That's as may be, but the reason both parties have the right to cross-examine evidence is to try the veracity evidence (strictly speaking, it's the evidence on trial, not the person because he is innocent until the evidence proves otherwise). As such, there isn't muc… | /r/MensRights | 23/12/16 02:44 PM |
| 1 | The Guardian thinks it is a disgrace that men are allowed to defend themselves when accused of abuse.It's even better than that: Since 1760, the government pays the expenses and stipends of the immediate members of the Royal Family in return for receiving all revenues from the Crown Estate(s). Last I knew, the revenues from Crown Estate (which is now an corporation in its own right) were such that the royals pay for themselves four times over. If we abolished the monarchy, those revenues would revert to private hands (because they are the personal property of the royal family, not of the Crown … | /r/MensRights | 23/12/16 02:13 PM |
| 3 | “I’m dreaming about keying every inch of paint off your car” - Melbourne Wedding Venue Under Attack By Feminists Over The Red Pill Screening.Easily the worst abuse these venues get is in private. That puts the public stuff to shame. Why in private? 'cos to do it in public would destroy their victim narrative. I wonder if Ultima and their staff are developing any sympathy for the film given how hateful these bigots are or if, by some magic, they somehow interpret the subjects as the source of the hatefulness. | /r/MensRights | 23/12/16 01:42 PM |
| – | How do I get to show "The Red Pill" at our local art theatre.http://theredpillmovie.com/see-the-film/host-a-screening/ tl;dr- theatre hire plus licence fee of $500 if you don't charge for tickets, $1000 if you do. Or use Tugg if available, but that doesn't guarantee the showing. | /r/MensRights | 19/12/16 10:25 PM |
| 1 | I'm getting more and more impressed with Philp Davies. I think, one day, men and boys may even get equality.since most employers (being greedy scum who ony care about the bottom line) would happily get away with paying as little as possible. Have you ever actually run a business or been responsible for the finances of an organisation, particularly one that hires people? Do you have any idea how much of a nightmare employment law is, particularly in the UK and Europe? Undoubtedly, some (many?) employers are unscrupulous and are perfectly happy to screw over employees to improve profitability but, ultim… | /r/MensRights | 18/12/16 04:45 PM |
| 1 | Bitter and biased BBC repeatedly smears Philip Davies MP after his election to Equalities CommitteeThere's loads of competition. You still have to pay your TV licence. That's the law. Do people want to change it? Of course. Strangely, nobody feel sufficiently strongly about it to campaign on it and get rid of it. The reasons for that are complex, but it is what it is. | /r/MensRights | 15/12/16 02:32 PM |
| – | Bitter and biased BBC repeatedly smears Philip Davies MP after his election to Equalities CommitteeAlas, the BBC are funded by TV licence payers who, by law, must pay the BBC even if they never consume BBC channels. There is no opt-out, and little funding at government level to pull (excepting grants for individual programmes, which don't really count). | /r/MensRights | 14/12/16 02:07 PM |
| 2 | What legal impact has the MRA community had to make legal stuff better for men?Laws largely follow popular opinion (though lobbyists frequently drown it out), not the other way around. Nowt will change until social attitudes change, and the MRM is only now breaking out into mainstream consciousness. It'll be years before our ideas gain much traction. It took 4 or 5 decades to get to this point, so the damage won't be undone in just a few years. That said and as others have pointed out, NCFM has done some sterling work in the legal realm. So have FIRE. | /r/MensRights | 12/12/16 03:19 PM |
| – | Apparently I have the mind of a Rapist. NSFWHrm. I'd call that pretty marginal, so all the better to confirm the no-contact request. | /r/MensRights | 09/12/16 12:34 AM |
| – | Apparently I have the mind of a Rapist. NSFWThat should only be true if she has already signalled a wish for no further contact. In the case of no-contact request, do not contact that person. But that's okay because the no-contact request is enough to accomplish the ends of explaining why OP won't respond any more. Otherwise, absent a no-contact request and all things being equal, I can't see how one, short, polite note issuing what amounts to OP's own no-contact request should be a problem. Everybody has the right to issue no-contact req… | /r/MensRights | 08/12/16 06:30 PM |
| 1 | Julian Assange says texts show he is 'entirely innocent' of rape;The accusations against him have been widely disseminated in public. That's true and my remarks weren't limited to Assange's evidence. Point of pedantry: accusations are quite a different thing from evidence. You can't cross-examine accusations, only evidence in support of allegations. As it happens, specific evidence against Assange has also been circulated by the media, which IMO is no more justified. | /r/MensRights | 08/12/16 03:48 PM |
| 3 | Apparently I have the mind of a Rapist. NSFWOP, You're not a rapist. (By definition, that is a crime which requires mens rea, the intention to act against consent, and you've demonstrated you had no such desire.) Others have explained the nature of PTSD. They're right, especially u/chocoboat. No need to repeat them except to point out that they're almost certainly dead right. Those saying the problem is hers and can only be fixed by her alone are right. You cannot help her, and you should not try. Those saying you should document as much … | /r/MensRights | 08/12/16 03:45 PM |
| 2 | Apparently I have the mind of a Rapist. NSFWNext time, tell her that you feel abused by her and any contact from her is triggering a PSTD. Only if you want to antagonise her. | /r/MensRights | 08/12/16 03:43 PM |
| 1 | Apparently I have the mind of a Rapist. NSFWIt's really unlikely that you are at risk here... false accusations are terrible but they're also not very common. ^ This. | /r/MensRights | 08/12/16 03:33 PM |
| 3 | Apparently I have the mind of a Rapist. NSFWIt's good to apologize for causing any unintentional harm, but that's it. In any civilised, sane world, I would agree. However, we don't live in a sane world. I would not apologise for anything for exactly the reasons insurance companies tell you never to apologise after an accident — it can be construed as an admission of fault. u/KillYouFoFree | /r/MensRights | 08/12/16 03:32 PM |
| – | Apparently I have the mind of a Rapist. NSFWAll good advice, however, Do not ever communicate with her ever again. I see no harm in one more communication provided it is recorded and datestamped explaining that you (u/KillYouFoFree) will not respond to anything further communication and why. Keep it simple and unspecific, something to the effect of "In the circumstances and after what happened on X [day], I feel that it is best if we have no further contact. I wish you well and hope you find healing." If you're going to, it's better to do… | /r/MensRights | 08/12/16 03:21 PM |
| 5 | Apparently I have the mind of a Rapist. NSFWIn a sexual situation, when someone says "No" - stop right there. This. Actually, that should be the case even in non-sexual situations. Do not touch another person in any way without their permission. | /r/MensRights | 08/12/16 03:04 PM |
| 3 | Apparently I have the mind of a Rapist. NSFWIt is not your duty to fix her. I'd go further than that and say that duty or not and regardless of current political climate, nobody unqualified should try to 'fix' anybody else, even if if they ask for fixing. Be as supportive as you like, but you can make trauma (of any type) worse if you don't know what you are doing. Leave that shit to the professionals (although I admit, many of the "professionals" are as bad or worse than useless also). | /r/MensRights | 08/12/16 02:54 PM |
| 5 | Julian Assange says texts show he is 'entirely innocent' of rape;Agreed. It shouldn't be this way, but if the other lot won't play by the rules, neither can you (and survive). | /r/MensRights | 08/12/16 01:39 AM |
| – | Julian Assange says texts show he is 'entirely innocent' of rape;In fairness, public media is not an appropriate venue to disclose evidence because it cannot effectively be cross-examined by the other party. That said, all of this nonsense could have been defused years ago by guaranteeing Assange immunity from extradition. The fact that this has not happened is enough to persuade me that even if Assange is, in fact, guilty of rape, there is more at play here than just crimes against the person. If Obama (or Trump) granted Assange a pardon in prospect, then As… | /r/MensRights | 08/12/16 12:54 AM |
| 1 | At the closing scene of The Red Pill, Cassie Jaye states: “I am not a feminist.” - "I witnessed the more than 400 people who attended the screening at the University of Toronto on December 3 meet this statement with resounding applause."I wouldn't protest war at a veteran's funeral, and rightly so, however and don't think it's appropriate to be a voice of dissent at an MRA celebration first, it's neither a celebration nor a bereavement, it's a documentary that is supposed to invite debate and discussion and it's pointless to debate with people who always agree with you; second, why ever not? There's nothing wrong with respectful dissent. This is another bias, I would suggest, that reflects on the feminist mind set. We're not af… | /r/MensRights | 07/12/16 12:03 AM |
| 1 | At the closing scene of The Red Pill, Cassie Jaye states: “I am not a feminist.” - "I witnessed the more than 400 people who attended the screening at the University of Toronto on December 3 meet this statement with resounding applause."the limited screenings are definitely a men's rights space. I feel it would be antagonistic for feminists to go to the local premiere of such a film. That may be more a reflection on the feminist attitude toward ideological spaces than it is MRAs'. As others have pointed out, feminists (who don't disrupt the viewing) have been welcomed to screenings. I certainly would welcome you there. In fact, I'd enjoy going with you and discussing it afterwards. I know for sure that MRAs showing up in femini… | /r/MensRights | 06/12/16 11:41 PM |
| 1 | At the closing scene of The Red Pill, Cassie Jaye states: “I am not a feminist.” - "I witnessed the more than 400 people who attended the screening at the University of Toronto on December 3 meet this statement with resounding applause."Modern feminism is a lot more moderate than you would expect if your average day to day reading talks about feminists as being misguided idiots protesting a film. Perhaps in the broader sense, but not so much where it comes to policy and those with institutional power including and especially journalism and academia. Tell me that Clementine Ford is either not a ("true") feminist or that she is in any way moderate. | /r/MensRights | 06/12/16 11:33 PM |
| 1 | Is Homophobia a Type of Androphobia?I was talking about reasons for believing things or feeling certain ways. That's what this conversation is about. Okay, but that's a different matter from formal logic because reasons for believing and feeling things don't have to be logical. In fact, they can be completely irrational (as are most beliefs when you get down to it. If you believe otherwise (hah) try asking yourself 'Why?' enough times and eventually you'll get stuck). In fairness, it was somebody else who introduced formal logic i… | /r/MensRights | 06/12/16 02:16 PM |
| 1 | Are there left leaning MRAs? Are there any of them that are YouTubers?Decades back, when people believed things called "certainties" existed, perhaps this left vs right divide had some grounds and purpose. Haidt says that when political parties were more diverse, ie there were conservative democrats and liberal republicans, each party had enough of both so that a person could reliably find a home in one or other party. Sure there were differences between the GOP and Dems, but they weren't so extreme and they were more grounded in philosophy than partisanship for p… | /r/MensRights | 06/12/16 01:10 PM |
| 1 | Are there left leaning MRAs? Are there any of them that are YouTubers?Yup and yup. | /r/MensRights | 05/12/16 08:19 PM |
| – | Are there left leaning MRAs? Are there any of them that are YouTubers?To echo u/splodgenessabounds and u/BDMR_lurker, there are plenty of liberal, left-wing, otherwise left-leaning MRAs out there (however you define 'left' which, as has already been pointed out, is a bit woolly. So is 'right', FWIW.) By US standard's I'd probably be considered fairly heavily left. Naturally, I don't buy into SJW nuttery yet I support single-payer healthcare and good education as public goods that should be funded by society and a number of other policies that would broadly be cons… | /r/MensRights | 05/12/16 02:41 PM |
| – | Are there left leaning MRAs? Are there any of them that are YouTubers?Also, no side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on fairness (term needing definition) Right, and Jonathan Haidt has some excellent material on youtube on the notions of fairness and righteousness and how both ends of the political spectrum can, by their own lights, be fair and good even though the results are mutually contradictory. | /r/MensRights | 05/12/16 02:28 PM |
| – | Is Homophobia a Type of Androphobia?have you actually met anyone who is (A & B)? No idea, I don't go around asking whether people have a problem with gays or what their views on anal sex are. I can't say they do exist but, given the variety of human thought, culture and attitudes, it seems unlikely that they don't. As to why somebody might be A&B, motivations don't really enter into the logic involved. D would probably also be true (has a problem with lesbians), which negates the entire point of the discussion. I don't see how: yo… | /r/MensRights | 05/12/16 02:12 PM |
| 1 | Is Homophobia a Type of Androphobia?Last I knew, the role of the SRY gene, testosterone and Müllerian-duct Inhibiting Hormone etc are pretty well established in embryological development, so I think multiple peer-reviewed journal references would be needed to overturn what is now pretty much received knowledge. FWIW, men can lactate, too, given the right stimulation (usually, hormonal). Some cancers can cause lactation in men also. | /r/MensRights | 02/12/16 01:01 PM |
| 2 | Will The Red Pill go to Netflix?I believe so, in the next 2-3 months. | /r/MensRights | 02/12/16 04:00 AM |
| 8 | Men are now the downtrodden sex: Feminist (and mother of a son) reluctantly admits women's fight for equality has gone too far - as two men reveal how they were pushed to the brink of suicideIt's just sad, and tough on CJ that she found out the hard way. She was warned, and perhaps that's what made her all the more determined to go through with it. I can just imagine her thinking, "Who're they to tell me what subjects I can and cannot document? Fuck that noise." | /r/MensRights | 01/12/16 06:18 PM |
| 2 | Men are now the downtrodden sex: Feminist (and mother of a son) reluctantly admits women's fight for equality has gone too far - as two men reveal how they were pushed to the brink of suicideThere's probably a lot to what you say. 3rd wave didn't start until some time in the '90s, and it took a decade or so to build up enough momentum to become mainstream. I'm old enough to remember '80s style feminism, more or less. Though political correctness was strong in the '90s, I had largely thought that feminism itself had dwindled until about 2011 or 2012, and was rather horrified to see the manner and vituperation with which it returned. | /r/MensRights | 01/12/16 05:25 PM |
| 2 | Men are now the downtrodden sex: Feminist (and mother of a son) reluctantly admits women's fight for equality has gone too far - as two men reveal how they were pushed to the brink of suicideI don't think equality of outcome would do this if it was actually applied absolutely everywhere. It can, depending on the metric of outcome. Haidt cited an example where the OCR (?) applied Title IX in respect of race and equal rates of punishment that resulted in differences in treatment of misbehaviour based on race in order to achieve the outcomes they were instructed to achieve. An ostensibly just objective resulted (and could only result) in injustice. And you can contrive any particular c… | /r/MensRights | 01/12/16 04:48 PM |
| – | Is Homophobia a Type of Androphobia?Strictly speaking, you're right, but this isn't formal logic. As you know, informal language includes implicit intention and/or statements of various sorts that don't exist in formal expressions of logic. You will also know that ¬A⇒C is false (where C is "speaks negatively about anal sex") because ¬A could merely mean "does not hold an opinion either way" (or, if you want to be especially pedantic, merely "does not speak" whether holds an opinion or not). In this case and when combined with fac1… | /r/MensRights | 01/12/16 04:13 PM |
| – | Men are now the downtrodden sex: Feminist (and mother of a son) reluctantly admits women's fight for equality has gone too far - as two men reveal how they were pushed to the brink of suicideFeminists still control the mainstream media Yeah, but things are changing — and rapidly. Can you imagine a self-professed feminist publishing such a piece even a 12-18 months ago? | /r/MensRights | 01/12/16 03:55 PM |
| – | Men are now the downtrodden sex: Feminist (and mother of a son) reluctantly admits women's fight for equality has gone too far - as two men reveal how they were pushed to the brink of suicideEquality can only go too far if you have an unequal definition of "equality". or fail to distinguish between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. As Jon Haidt points out, the only way to achieve the latter is with more injustice. | /r/MensRights | 01/12/16 03:54 PM |
| 18 | Men are now the downtrodden sex: Feminist (and mother of a son) reluctantly admits women's fight for equality has gone too far - as two men reveal how they were pushed to the brink of suicideI met Kelsey (the author of the OP) at the London showing. She seemed pleasant enough though she seemed to be wearing a frown throughout most of the film. She also seems unable (or unwilling) to appreciate the differences between the feminism she adopted as a 17 year old and the feminism of today, and therefore she doesn't understand why people attack modern 3rd wave feminism. She describes antifeminism as a 'mistake'. Even 2nd wave feminism had its problems but at least its goals were measurabl… | /r/MensRights | 01/12/16 03:52 PM |
| – | Is Homophobia a Type of Androphobia?I'd say that's a lousy correlation, not least because I'm a counter example: I'm fine with gay and trans people (sexual orientation and identity are also about loving relationships, not just sex) and yet the idea of anal sex (between whatever genders) is just revolting to me. But that's just me. I also take the view that as long as it's hurting no-one and (ideally) the act is loving, what business is it of anybody else's what two consenting adults do in privacy? | /r/MensRights | 29/11/16 04:44 PM |
| – | Is Homophobia a Type of Androphobia?Right, hence my 'ew' reaction, but the point is the difference between how hetero- and homo-sexual anal sex is treated which proves that it isn't anal sex alone and that there are other factors involved. | /r/MensRights | 29/11/16 04:21 PM |
| – | Is Homophobia a Type of Androphobia?Another speculative but plausible explanation concerns the physiology of how men develop in the first place. Most probably know that all embryos start off as "proto-female"; but for the intervention of androgen hormones at the right times during gestation, you get an apparently female baby regardless of genotype (c.f. complete androgen insensitivity syndrome). It is possible that the same process that virilises the brain to set a heterosexual preference for women also instils an aversion to sex … | /r/MensRights | 29/11/16 01:13 PM |
| – | Is Homophobia a Type of Androphobia?There's one problem with that: anal sex is hardly unknown amongst hetero couples. It should be no less gross when a female anus is involved than a male, yet it's treated as "adventurous" rather than disdainful. (Personally: it's still 'ew' to me.) | /r/MensRights | 29/11/16 12:36 PM |
| 1 | Perspective on The Red Pill — Who's the bad guy, anyway?The problem is all in how you define the word 'feminist'. What you say is certainly true for some definitions. There are others who might better be described as egalitarians but who nevertheless identify as feminist solely based on the dictionary definition (viz. equality). Often, they simply aren't aware of the man-hating because they aren't terribly well informed about the theory that underpins feminism. Unless this egalitarian type of self-identified feminist is distinguished from the hateful… | /r/MensRights | 27/11/16 07:22 PM |
| – | Perspective on The Red Pill — Who's the bad guy, anyway?I often see is people pointing at such men on the fringe of the MRM as if they were the counterparts to the core thinkers, policy-makers and lobbyists at the heart of feminism, who weave their prejudices and anger into the feminism that affects such things as domestic violence campaigns, policies and training. You're right that fair-minded feminists might be fringe, but when you point out the seriously unhinged and deranged feminists the reaction is always and immediately, 'oh, you can't judge u… | /r/MensRights | 26/11/16 12:43 PM |
| 1 | Perspective on The Red Pill — Who's the bad guy, anyway?And most of the time, that anger goes away after they find a place that allows them to vent without telling them that they are everything wrong with the world. For the remaining few percent, they can't let go of their anger and it stays. Right. Anger and hatred are two different things, but one can readily lead to the other if not vented. Many find catharsis in venting but, as you say, a few let that anger ossify into hatred — and that's when they become a problem. To some extent, which happens … | /r/MensRights | 26/11/16 12:33 PM |
| 2 | Perspective on The Red Pill — Who's the bad guy, anyway?Actually, a lot of what feminists do follow quite logically from the premise — if taken at face value — that society is set up by men exclusively for the benefit of men at the expense of women. Ditto radfems with their notion that gender is a social construct. The problem is, both propositions are false, and so nearly everything they do ends up going bad. And so many people really believe this stuff! That's why, in philosophy, the right answer arrived at for the wrong reasons is still the wrong … | /r/MensRights | 26/11/16 12:25 PM |
| – | Perspective on The Red Pill — Who's the bad guy, anyway?I don't see the feel-good polite pretense that they are equivalent to be helpful at all. I see many of feminism's fundamental premises to be false and its core proponents to be acting in bad faith, having no intention to fair to men I don't think anyone here, including /u/sillymod, is suggesting that feminism and the MRM are equivalent, equal-but-opposite, having the degree of merit from their respective points of view, are equally matched or are equally supported by data or anything like that. … | /r/MensRights | 26/11/16 12:22 PM |
| 1 | Talking about banning people from conferences for wrongthink - "I have a friend with MRA views who keeps them to himself, is that ok?" "No, I want to feel safe, ban him"It's not partisan or gender politics, but it's politics nevertheless and shares the same characteristics of vying for power, dominance and/or control. The only variable is what is the subject of control. | /r/MensRights | 26/11/16 12:02 PM |
| – | Perspective on The Red Pill — Who's the bad guy, anyway?Crap. I did repost it, did the repost not show up? If not, it's lost. | /r/MensRights | 25/11/16 11:24 PM |
| – | Perspective on The Red Pill — Who's the bad guy, anyway?I've changed the link to its long form and reposted, did that work any better? | /r/MensRights | 25/11/16 11:21 PM |
| 1 | Perspective on The Red Pill — Who's the bad guy, anyway?It's not bad, though I took issue with some points in my comment. InsideMan tends to 'curate' comments on their articles, so sometimes they delete comments — but mine appears to be there to stay. Edit: Having now interacted with Glen a bit, I've changed my opinion (for the better) on the general tenor and direction of his OP. He's moderate and non-ideological, and he doesn't reject anti-feminism as such, even if he thinks that it's not always helpful. In fact, he considers feminism and anti-femi… | /r/MensRights | 25/11/16 11:20 PM |
| 1 | Perspective on The Red Pill — Who's the bad guy, anyway?As a moderator of this subreddit, I am quite well aware of the dark side of the MRM. This. Those who've never had any sort of moderator role don't see the work that goes on behind the scenes to filter out the crazy. | /r/MensRights | 25/11/16 09:41 PM |
| – | Talking about banning people from conferences for wrongthink - "I have a friend with MRA views who keeps them to himself, is that ok?" "No, I want to feel safe, ban him"That's why politics matter, because people make them matter. Anyway, politics (of the more general sort) have always existed in tech. People can attain religious fervour over the silliest of things. | /r/MensRights | 25/11/16 03:06 PM |
| 3 | Talking about banning people from conferences for wrongthink - "I have a friend with MRA views who keeps them to himself, is that ok?" "No, I want to feel safe, ban him"Perfect summary of SJW incursion into tech. | /r/MensRights | 25/11/16 03:04 PM |
| 3 | Talking about banning people from conferences for wrongthink - "I have a friend with MRA views who keeps them to himself, is that ok?" "No, I want to feel safe, ban him"MRA views? Like gender not being a qualification? Like shared parenting being the standard? Like alimony reform? The "bad guys/bad views", y'know? | /r/MensRights | 25/11/16 03:01 PM |
| 3 | Talking about banning people from conferences for wrongthink - "I have a friend with MRA views who keeps them to himself, is that ok?" "No, I want to feel safe, ban him"Palone is apparently a transwoman who is active in the tech/web dev world, out-and-out SJW and close-minded and prejudiced as any other SJW. The only context is in the series of tweets. No idea who Zuber is or why he was asking, but evidently he also is in web dev and was asking about a guy whom he knows to have sympathies with the MRM but who otherwise never talks about it — and whether merely thinking the wrong thing should be grounds for banning from (whatever). For completely mysterious reas… | /r/MensRights | 25/11/16 03:00 PM |
| 0 | Talking about banning people from conferences for wrongthink - "I have a friend with MRA views who keeps them to himself, is that ok?" "No, I want to feel safe, ban him"Since @mcpalone is a trans-woman, that is unlikely. She's probably just your average SJW bigot. | /r/MensRights | 25/11/16 02:50 PM |
| 6 | We've been branded rapists with no evidence whatsoever': Two men cleared of sex attack on married British woman in Dubai reveal their relief as case collapses.She has no anonymity from Dubai. It's not the press refusing to name the accuser. Nobody wants to find out the hard way that the UK Sexual Crimes Act (2003) didn't apply to a given case. | /r/MensRights | 25/11/16 01:21 AM |
| 4 | We've been branded rapists with no evidence whatsoever': Two men cleared of sex attack on married British woman in Dubai reveal their relief as case collapses.Quoting the value of subjects' homes is a running joke with the Daily Mail (at the Mail's expense). It rather highlights the emphasis put on material wealth by the middle class and, in particular, the success (or otherwise) of the owner/provider. /u/cthulu2013 | /r/MensRights | 25/11/16 01:14 AM |
| – | Talking about banning people from conferences for wrongthink - "I have a friend with MRA views who keeps them to himself, is that ok?" "No, I want to feel safe, ban him"I tried engaging with @mcpalone, but she blocked me immediately: @paulhammond @ag_dubs @nodejstweet @mordzuber @nodejs feel free to be an mra or a nazi. Your right. Our right to shun you for that. @mcpalone Instead of shunning us, how about talking to us instead? You might be surprised at how much we actually share in common. In case you actually would like to talk, follow me back (if necessary) and I'll DM you my email address. The worst thing about gender politics is the walls it sets up that … | /r/MensRights | 25/11/16 12:56 AM |
| 3 | How to talk to your family about men's rights this ThanksgivingAlso when people are throwing out words like feminist, it is important get them to define that word for you. It is! I tried that with a journalist the other day, and she wouldn't do it, and then suggested that antifeminism was a 'mistake'. | /r/MensRights | 24/11/16 02:32 PM |
| 1 | New to MR...semi rantChristina Hoff Sommers' book 'Who Stole Feminism?' might be worth a read (I haven't); Warren Farrell's book 'Myth of Male Power' is definitely worth a read; but slogging through books like that is not my idea of fun, and I prefer to get a diverse perspective on any given subject (eg what is patriarchy). If you prefer video format, Janice Fiamengo's videos are worth if an academic perspective is to your taste; if not, Karen Straughan's videos are excellent (actually, she's excellent anyway). If y… | /r/MensRights | 24/11/16 01:41 PM |
| – | New to MR...semi rantMost female authors cannot write convincing male characters. The opposite is not true. Ah, but if you are male, how can you know whether female characters are convincingly written? [Somewhat tongue-in-cheek.] | /r/MensRights | 24/11/16 12:56 PM |
| – | New to MR...semi rantWhat bothers me about the argument is that feminists presume that what's unique to women is something men don't see (which is at least partially true) but then go on to presume that, because they don't see such problems for men, they must not exist. That very point was made in The Red Pill (I forget by whom). /u/cymrich | /r/MensRights | 24/11/16 12:54 PM |
| – | New to MR...semi rantI actually am not particularly politically minded....I'd prefer to not learn either side! This is about your personal values. Do you care for actual social justice — by which I mean people in pain and disadvantage, not the tainted, faux-social justice of the Social Justice Warriors? If yes, then you should learn about gender politics. The fact that you posted this question suggests that you do. Do you want to do anything about it? If yes, then there are any number of ways to become an activist, … | /r/MensRights | 24/11/16 12:50 PM |
| 3 | Another positive review of The Red Pill — Sp!kedI saw the film last weekend. Let's just say that none of the feminists interviewed covered themselves with glory. They didn't even reach the heights of 'merely bad'. | /r/MensRights | 23/11/16 11:59 PM |
| 3 | Another positive review of The Red Pill — Sp!kedDoes Spillar even know what her organisation exists for? I expect so, but when one's perspective is so confined and limited that it is impossible to conceive of the world other than through the ideology that define one's career (and without which she'd be dead to her friends and her business)... I imagine it's pretty hard to 'shed' (Cassie's word) that perspective. | /r/MensRights | 23/11/16 11:09 PM |
| 2 | Phillip Davies MP is very admirable for his tenacity when pushing men's issues in the international men's day parliamentary debateIt's the same dynamic behind the complaints of sexism preventing women from becoming CEOs when nobody cares about female janitors. Farrell's 'glass cellar'. Labour Party has affirmative action that discriminates men so women are given, rather than earn, diversity. Yep. Personally, if I were a woman I'd refuse to be on an all-female shortlist, because I couldn't be sure that I won the constituency party's nomination on merit. | /r/MensRights | 19/11/16 10:47 PM |
| 1 | Philip Davies accused of "mansplaining" during International Men's Day debateNow, these politicians are congratulating him on 'securing the debate' I think that's a matter of Parliamentary form and convention, and what else they have to say proves they don't mean a word of it. | /r/MensRights | 19/11/16 10:40 PM |
| 1 | Application to conduct female-only gym (Australia)It encourages segregation and makes a bigger divide between the sexes. 'Segregation' implies enforced separation, and that definitely is bad, but freely choosing to associate only with only one sex for some of the time is neither a good thing nor a bad thing. It's a neutral matter of personal preference, and there is no good reason why it should exacerbate the divide between the sexes. In fact, it can't exacerbate the divide except to the extent that people let it. Case in point: women-only inst… | /r/MensRights | 19/11/16 10:35 PM |
| 2 | Application to conduct female-only gym (Australia)you have to realize that most of the people who enforce the idea and 'safety' of women's only spaces, DON'T USE NORMAL LOGIC I do realise that, but I don't see that faulty reasoning by a very small but vocal minority is a sound basis on which to form public policy. The sooner society stops caring about what such people think, the sooner this will become a non-issue. the people in power Hardly surprising, considering that more women vote than men (IIRC). Certainly there are more eligible female v… | /r/MensRights | 19/11/16 10:28 PM |
| 1 | Application to conduct female-only gym (Australia)the reverse has been banned. So far as I know, private male-only clubs are still legal (even if now uncommon), but any place of public accommodation, discrimination on the grounds of sex is generally illegal so yes, there's a double standard there. | /r/MensRights | 19/11/16 10:15 PM |
| 1 | Application to conduct female-only gym (Australia)So I gather. | /r/MensRights | 19/11/16 10:13 PM |
| 3 | Application to conduct female-only gym (Australia)But there are no remaining men-only spaces, besides locker rooms and bathrooms. That's not quite true, but it's close enough that it may as well be. Some religious orders are sex segregated, and the Freemasons (which are sort-of-but-not-really religious) have managed to keep women out. I gather there are still a few male-only gentlemen's and golf clubs. None of those are open to all-comers. For legal reasons, that is probably a necessary criterion. Some are more exclusive than others, though. Th… | /r/MensRights | 19/11/16 10:12 PM |
| – | Application to conduct female-only gym (Australia)There is some demand for these spaces because and only because feminazis have been telling people that all men were rapists for so long. Bullshit. There has been demand for single-sex institutions for both sexes, both formal and informal, for centuries and probably a great deal longer. If you don't have a problem with it, well, I do. Why should you care what other people (women, green people, whatever) do if it doesn't affect you or your rights? Who are you to object to somebody else's choice of… | /r/MensRights | 19/11/16 09:52 PM |
| – | Application to conduct female-only gym (Australia)Precisely, which is why I say that women-only gyms serve as a useful precedent. Those who protest men-only spaces must either protest women-only spaces also, admit that they believe that equality is unimportant or admit hypocrisy. | /r/MensRights | 19/11/16 11:37 AM |
| – | Application to conduct female-only gym (Australia)Don't be so wet. It's called freedom of association and self-determination, and if we insist on these for men, then women get to have them, too. | /r/MensRights | 19/11/16 10:40 AM |
| – | Application to conduct female-only gym (Australia)I don't see the basis for objecting to women-only spaces, any more than men-only spaces. Women-only gyms etc do no harm and set useful precedents. | /r/MensRights | 19/11/16 09:42 AM |
| 7 | International Men's Day 2016: I'm a feminist and yes I do support the dayOr else, it is what feminism should be and what egalitarianism is. NAFALT, yes, and we so rarely hear from those that aren't that there is a tendency to assume the worst of them when we do. The MRM is only a counterbalance to feminism, a means to the end, namely egalitarianism. If we do our jobs well, the MRM won't be needed any more (unlike feminism, which can never accomplish its goals because it doesn't have any seeks only power). | /r/MensRights | 19/11/16 09:39 AM |
| – | Politics vs Men's Rightsu/sillymod, I agree with the general sentiment (because partisanship is a constant and insidious distraction from men's issues, naming no names) but, with the best will in the world, partisan political content is going to dominate for a couple of months after the election because of the way gender was brought into the pre-election campaign and the quiet coup gender feminism has accomplished over the longer term against the political left (c.f. /u/Mens-Advocate). A fair bit of content of, shall w… | /r/MensRights | 19/11/16 09:25 AM |
| – | "Spiritual" Deepak Chopra hating on men and demeaning them.There are differences besides the obvious between women and men, but both sexes are subject to the same frailties, even if they're expressed differently. IOW, women are not 'wiser' than men any more than men are (psychologically) 'stronger' than women. Nor are they more peaceful. A quick survey of female national premieres is enough to prove that. Chopra is pedestalising women, setting unrealistic expectations just make them look bad when, after all, they turn out to be just as human as men. But… | /r/MensRights | 19/11/16 09:09 AM |
| 1 | Belinda Brown: The Red Pill is a film that could finish off feminismWell, sure. The most obvious spoiler one could give is the film's conclusion (if it even has a conclusion). That's pretty widely known by now, including the answer to the question 'Is Cassie Jaye still a feminist?' There are plenty of other, more minor amusing details, however, which might be considered spoilers also. | /r/MensRights | 19/11/16 08:23 AM |
| 1 | Phillip Davies MP is very admirable for his tenacity when pushing men's issues in the international men's day parliamentary debatebecause it's not going to happen now. It won't if the Scots have any sense about them, and they're a canny lot. But The Fish Sturgeon is crazy, and there may be enough crazy idiots to believe Scotland can stay in the EU by splitting with the UK. God help them if they do, but God knows we're sick of hearing the Scots bitch about how they get such a bad deal. I opposed the 2014 referendum but, by now, I'm 'fuck it, let them leave if they want'. After all, if independence is good enough for the res… | /r/MensRights | 18/11/16 10:38 PM |
| – | Belinda Brown: The Red Pill is a film that could finish off feminismCaution: one or two spoilers in it but, otherwise, excellent review. | /r/MensRights | 18/11/16 06:10 PM |
| – | Phillip Davies MP is very admirable for his tenacity when pushing men's issues in the international men's day parliamentary debateI'd like to think that a party I would vote for would not have such a striking lack of diversity of opinion regarding an ideology that has nothing to do with their raison d'etre. We are talking the SNP here... (Scottish National Party, whose primary raison d'etre is to break up the Union which, ironically, was first formed with Scotland by a Scottish King, James VI of Scotland, James I of England), so I wouldn't expect much else from them. | /r/MensRights | 18/11/16 05:59 PM |
| – | Philip Davies accused of "mansplaining" during International Men's Day debateHere's the Hansard (transcript) of the debate. The worst of them were Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh (who speaks with a broad Scots accent) and Paula Sheriff. Men are not likely to open up and express themselves while some MPs are banging on about White Ribbon, which contradicts their lip-service "men are DV victims, too" by saying that men are the problem. Way to go to miss the point, ladies. As for female representation in parliament, nobody addressed the implicit assumption that gender parity in Parlia… | /r/MensRights | 18/11/16 02:49 PM |
| – | Phillip Davies MP is very admirable for his tenacity when pushing men's issues in the international men's day parliamentary debateHansard (transcript) of the debate. The worst of them were Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh (who speaks with a broad Scots accent) and Paula Sheriff. Men are not likely to open up and express themselves while some MPs are banging on about White Ribbon, which contradicts their lip-service "men are DV victims, too" by saying that men are the problem. Way to go to miss the point, ladies. As for female representation in parliament, nobody addressed the implicit assumption that gender parity in Parliament rather… | /r/MensRights | 18/11/16 02:39 PM |
| 2 | Database launched for specifically hiring women for Director of Photography roles. Is this legal in the UK ?Maybe not legal for an employer to use it exclusively to find applicants. Actually, since the Equality Act (2010) only says you can't discriminate on the basis of sex against candidates who have applied, it probably is legal for employers/contractors to only look at one database; however, if a man were to apply and turned down because he didn't come from the database, that would be illegal. Knowing about the job would be the problem, though. And although universities and other large organisation… | /r/MensRights | 18/11/16 12:24 AM |
| 1 | Clinton lost because the left wasn't interested in debate but in reducing opponents to vile caricatureThe thing that gets wrongly assumed away is that just as many products get made/sold when they double in price. Obviously, they won't. That's why I said that distribution and retail would be the same per unit of trade regardless of whether the goods sold were imported or manufactured domestically. People in both countries get poorer, and so overall lower economic output results. Right. I never said that trade tariffs would preserve current levels of collective wealth, only that tariffs encourage… | /r/MensRights | 17/11/16 07:28 PM |
| – | Clinton lost because the left wasn't interested in debate but in reducing opponents to vile caricature2/2. That's not actually the right way to look at it. You're right, my analysis was extremely superficial, but this is an extremely complex subject and this is just reddit. To address your points: 100B exports and $140B imports is a lot better for the economy and people than $50B of each. There's $50B more production, and $90B of consumer value. Distribution/retail jobs as well. Forget distribution/retail. That'd remain the same (per unit of trade) whether the goods were manufactured domesticall… | /r/MensRights | 17/11/16 06:26 PM |
| 1 | Clinton lost because the left wasn't interested in debate but in reducing opponents to vile caricatureSince OP has been deleted, I guess it doesn't matter if we go way off topic. Will have to be in two parts. 1/2. I'd expect they raise prices, people buy less, and profits just go down a modest amount. Not that I'm especially qualified to comment, but I think the smart move would be to recognise that every other competitor along with every other US retailer is in the same boat, and leave prices alone — take the hit to dividend yield and rely on the fact that there is basically nowhere else to whi… | /r/MensRights | 17/11/16 06:26 PM |
| – | Love or hate him, Piers Morgan nailed it: welcome to the real world, my delicate little Instagrammed snowflakes.The very same. Guess it just goes to show that being wrong about one issue doesn't make one wrong about every issue, even if that one is a first class pratt. ('strewth. A Brit going to live in the US then pontificating about the fundamental constitutional basis of his adopted country. If he didn't like the 2nd Am. so much, why'd he leave the UK? And FWIW, I'm a fellow Briton calling him on that.) Anyway, all that's an aside: /u/Lethn nailed it: Wow, when even Piers Morgan attacks SJWs you know t… | /r/MensRights | 17/11/16 04:04 PM |
| 1 | Love or hate him, Piers Morgan nailed it: welcome to the real world, my delicate little Instagrammed snowflakes.Yeah, basically. It's indirect, but the same triggered snowflakes who protest MR events are now protesting the election result (because my soggy knees etc) and finally, somebody from the MSM is telling them to grow the fuck up. | /r/MensRights | 17/11/16 12:34 PM |
| – | Clinton lost because the left wasn't interested in debate but in reducing opponents to vile caricatureYour 4 hypotheticals are all things Republicans have vowed not to do. Yes, and I said as much. My point was that tax cuts in the American system need not, of necessity, disadvantage the poor. net decrease in revenue. Cuts in medicaid/medicare are not going to make the poor richer. Absolute revenues matter a good deal less than the nation's Profit and Loss Statement, ie what it costs to deliver existing services. Since the older cohorts of voters, the ones that tend to be most reliable at the bal… | /r/MensRights | 17/11/16 12:19 AM |
| 1 | Another TRP screening in dangerIn addition to /u/AloysiusC's observations: never in the past has the economy looked like this. The post-globalist world, economically, is nothing like anything ever seen before. | /r/MensRights | 16/11/16 06:55 PM |
| 1 | Another TRP screening in dangerIt's more like Brexit than like [previous elections] ^ This. For the same reasons, a vote for Trump can't be disambiguated from a vote against Clinton. | /r/MensRights | 16/11/16 06:52 PM |
| 3 | Another TRP screening in dangerThe real heat is applied behind the scenes. The petitions and protests etc are just window dressing. The vile abuse the two venues for ICMI '14 received had to be seen to be believed. One buckled, the other dug its feet in the worse it got. | /r/MensRights | 16/11/16 06:50 PM |
| – | Clinton lost because the left wasn't interested in debate but in reducing opponents to vile caricatureThe loss can only be blamed on one thing. Low turnout. That is a fair remark: both Clinton and Trump were a major turn off for many voters, so they just didn't bother. Or else they voted 3rd party (and in at least two cases, namely MI and NH, votes for Jill Stein deprived Clinton of those states). you have to push back forcefully that a tax cut agenda can only increase poverty and desperation, while increasing inequality and division. Given the way American politics works, that does seem fairly … | /r/MensRights | 16/11/16 06:40 PM |
| 1 | Clinton lost because the left wasn't interested in debate but in reducing opponents to vile caricatureGreat writing as ever, Pierce, but I'm unsure what millennial idiocy has to do with what I wrote. It doesn't follow from the emasculation of millennial men by the left that the right has figured out that it has work to do, or needs to. Furthermore, it's oft been noted that people tend to become more conservative as they age. It's not a rule, by any means (there are conservative millennials and middle-aged liberals), but it certainly does seem to happen. | /r/MensRights | 16/11/16 05:48 PM |
| 2 | Clinton lost because the left wasn't interested in debate but in reducing opponents to vile caricatureWe saw the same anti-democratic spazzing out from the Left and allies after the Brexit vote. If that experience is anything to go by, it'll settle down into a quiet grumble within 4-6 weeks, with a few idiots still trying to throw a spanner in the works. But, the Electoral College convenes in a little over a month, and inauguration is a little over a month after that. By then, they'll quit whining about the result and resort to passive-aggressive sniping from the cheap seats for the next 4 years… | /r/MensRights | 16/11/16 05:25 PM |
| – | Clinton lost because the left wasn't interested in debate but in reducing opponents to vile caricatureI'm getting kind of tired of this sub aligning itself with Republicans. Men's rights was extremely fringe before Obama took office in 2008. Just watch how quickly this sub turns on the GOP when it starts pulling misandrist shit over the next 4–8 years, 'cos they're no more friends to men than are the Dems. but the problem is that the right fights against a lot of what this sub stands for Precisely. Despite doing so well in POTUS and congressional races this year, the GOP as a party have yet to f… | /r/MensRights | 16/11/16 05:21 PM |
| 2 | Clinton lost because the left wasn't interested in debate but in reducing opponents to vile caricatureThat Pie vid is awesome. I like Pie. (Of both sorts). | /r/MensRights | 16/11/16 05:15 PM |
| – | If Donald Trump successfully swings SCOTUS to overturn Roe v. Wade, how will that affect your views on child support?if Roe v. Wade gets overturned sometime in the next four years, how would you guys feel? If SCOTUS overturns RvW (which is a huge 'if'), then the question devolves to a matter for states to decide so such a result is not the same as suddenly making abortion illegal. Therefore, from the point of view of men's rights, the same issue remains: Women still have the option to terminate their parental duties before birth where men don't. That's true even in states where abortion is is banned unless all… | /r/MensRights | 16/11/16 04:56 PM |
| – | I've transcribed the lyrics to the Red Alpha song “Think About It” (from the Red Pill documentary)? Put on somebody ??? (kicks?), The song writer confirmed that this first line is "Put on some borrowed kicks", as in walk in someone else's shoes. | /r/MensRights | 10/11/16 02:35 PM |
| 1 | What changes would it take to kill the MRM?This. Unless there are measurable goals, unless you can answer the question "what would equality in the rights of men look like", there can be no "okay, we're done, what else needs doing?", and the movement will find ever more trivial matters to campaign on to justify its existence. That benefits nobody in any way. | /r/MensRights | 08/11/16 05:28 PM |
| 1 | London Screening of TRP 19th NovemberNo, not after r/ TheRedPill. Cassie already answered this question. | /r/MensRights | 08/11/16 04:14 PM |
| 2 | Marin filmmaker Cassie Jaye's new film, 'The Red Pill' is a bitter one for feminists to swallowThat is correct, she lives in Marin County, CA. | /r/MensRights | 05/11/16 02:50 PM |
| 1 | Marty Nemko reviews The Red Pill in Psychology Today: "Dispirited Men"I doubt it. I think the OP is confused with the general online release and DVDs. | /r/MensRights | 05/11/16 01:51 PM |
| – | Social Justice Warrior Superstate: Is Australia the Worst Place on Earth to Be Male?A dag. | /r/MensRights | 05/11/16 12:33 AM |
| 4 | Marty Nemko reviews The Red Pill in Psychology Today: "Dispirited Men"falls flat on its face due to poor writing and author bias. So interested parties (who naturally have bias one way or the other) shouldn't write on the subjects of their interest? That logic taken to its inevitable conclusion, why even have an /r/MensRights in the first place? Bias is only a problem if it's unacknowledged or left unchecked, and as you pointed out, Nemko acknowledges his interest by disclosing his involvement in the rejected White House Council on Men and Boys. As any proper scie… | /r/MensRights | 04/11/16 07:11 PM |
| 2 | Bettina Ardnt: Cassie Jaye's Red Pill too truthful for feminists to tolerateAn unfalsifiable hypothesis is nowt but dogma. | /r/MensRights | 29/10/16 05:41 PM |
| 0 | The Red Pill Movie screeningsWho said anything about a DVD. Get with the times, asshole. I said nothing about using or screening CJ's work. You might want to consider that Cassie Jaye's film, The Red Pill, and possible screening arrangements including licence was the context of this discussion before arguing that you don't need a licence before you call anybody who argues with you an 'asshole'. Hey ho. Let others decide for themselves (since you promised not to read this). | /r/MensRights | 29/10/16 05:41 PM |
| 3 | Bettina Ardnt: Cassie Jaye's Red Pill too truthful for feminists to tolerateIt'll be available online, probably later this year, perhaps early next. Keep an eye on the film's website for details. | /r/MensRights | 28/10/16 10:10 PM |
| 1 | The Red Pill Movie screeningsThe copyright registration on my wall says I don't need to pay a damned penny to show my own movie. You don't need to register copyright to accrue rights in law for creative works. Registration only makes it easier to resolve a dispute over the identity of the true originator in cases where it might not be otherwise. You do, indeed, have the rights to distribute content on which you own the copyright. That's what copyright means. If you have a licence to distribute, or if you own the copyrights … | /r/MensRights | 28/10/16 03:10 PM |
| 1 | Melbourne cancellation of TRP hits MSM: Heat StreetI doubt they'd particularly be willing to do that because they're getting free publicity, even if only by accident. Regardless, the MSM will still misrepresent us whatever we (or r /TRP) do or say. | /r/MensRights | 28/10/16 02:48 PM |
| – | Bettina Ardnt: Cassie Jaye's Red Pill too truthful for feminists to tolerateFull text in case you hit the paywall: — “The Red Pill: The movie about men that feminists didn’t want you to see.” This was the provocative headline that ran in Britain’s The Telegraph last November, a teaser for a documentary made by a feminist filmmaker who planned to take on men’s rights activists but was won over and crossed to the dark side to take up their cause. Despite a ferocious campaign to stop the movie being made, it’s finally been released and the Australian screening was due next… | /r/MensRights | 28/10/16 02:08 PM |
| 1 | Stop the censorship of "The Red Pill" filmIIRC the Kickstarter was for the editing, ie the movie was already in the can by the time Cassie asked for money from the public. That's right. The KS was for post production (only part of which is the final cut), but how the film is edited (even the sound track, which was not yet done prior to the KS) can have a huge impact on the tone and direction of the film. She made it very clear from the very beginning Kickstarter donors will have no editorial influence on the movie, in fact Kickstarter's… | /r/MensRights | 26/10/16 03:59 PM |
| 2 | Stop the censorship of "The Red Pill" filmRemember that CJ started the project in 2013 or before, about the same time TRP subreddit was founded. Regardless, it was clear that CJ became aware of it in time, but didn't change the name of the film. See her explanation from her AMA. | /r/MensRights | 26/10/16 03:55 PM |
| 2 | Stop the censorship of "The Red Pill" filmSee Cassie Jaye's explanation from her AMA. | /r/MensRights | 26/10/16 03:45 PM |
| 6 | Vice do a hitpiece on Cassie Jaye, Red Pill the movie and Paul Elam while virtue signaling all without citationsI actually laughed, they're not even being subtle in hiding their hatred for MRAs anymore Thing is and if memory serves, VICE was one of the few rags that published half-way decent coverage of ICMI '14. Can't find the article anymore, alas, and it wouldn't surprise me if they pulled it since. That said, they've published more anti-MRA content than even neutral, so I guess VICE still pretty much hates men. | /r/MensRights | 26/10/16 03:40 PM |
| 1 | Feminist petition demanding censorship of the Red Pill movie succeeds, Melbourne screening cancelled[URL deleted] because the site doesn't look finished yet. /u/WillMeatLover | /r/MensRights | 26/10/16 03:30 PM |
| 1 | Feminist petition demanding censorship of the Red Pill movie succeeds, Melbourne screening cancelledThere is nothing condescending about her email, unless you are the sort of person who needs trigger warning posted on everything before you read it. Update 18 wasn't condescending itself, but Cassie and Nena's follow-up comments (posted as comments) were. (IMO.) Otherwise, agreed with everything else you said. | /r/MensRights | 26/10/16 03:21 PM |
| 0 | The Red Pill Movie screeningsI wouldn't live in any of the cities you mentioned. Nor would I, but larger population centres → bigger potential audience → more likely to get enough in to cover costs (such as licence fee). No license fee. It is MY movie. The law says otherwise. Good luck persuading a judge of that. Also: way to go to repay (or not, as the case may be) Cassie for her sacrifices. She deserves to at least break even, which she won't do even that with attitudes like yours. You realise that such attitudes are prec… | /r/MensRights | 25/10/16 11:39 AM |
| 0 | The Red Pill Movie screeningsHe said hotel ROOM. Rooms at e.g. Embassy Suites are pretty big, can probably get 20-30 people in the front room if you move tables! Actually, no, he didn't; he said "hotel meeting room". If you show the film: in a room intended for accommodating half a dozen or fewer and the hotel finds out, they will kick you out if only because of fire regulations. without a licence from Jayebird Productions, then you are breaking the law and violating Cassie's copyright and the licence terms of the source me… | /r/MensRights | 25/10/16 11:30 AM |
| 1 | Heat St: "Rolling Stone UVA ‘Fake Rape’ Story Defamation Trial Gets Ugly"And they're moronic for trying, because once you assume such responsibility, you assume liability. The only reason they're doing these kangaroo courts is because of the OCR's dear colleague letter unlawfully used to effect policy without the statutorily required consultation period. It would have been cheaper (and a lot more just) had all the universities and colleges gotten together and sued the OCR for their breach of administrative procedure, and gotten a declarative judgement that universiti… | /r/MensRights | 23/10/16 12:47 PM |
| 1 | Heat St: "Rolling Stone UVA ‘Fake Rape’ Story Defamation Trial Gets Ugly"It's not hard to find, but nor would it be important but for RS's article. So RS and Erdely are the primary bad guys here. | /r/MensRights | 23/10/16 12:43 PM |
| 1 | Heat St: "Rolling Stone UVA ‘Fake Rape’ Story Defamation Trial Gets Ugly"I get where you're going with this — data protection/privacy laws in the US range from 'suck' to 'nonexistent' — but there are several things people should know before using an LLC. Annual registration fees. The existence of an LLC alone is costly, and it probably won't even keep your name out of the public record. Most or all states keep a public register of the names and addresses of the Managing Member(s). Yes, you might be able to use a PO Box for some purposes (ETA: but you still need a reg… | /r/MensRights | 23/10/16 12:30 PM |
| 1 | Cassie Jaye Confirms "The Red Pill" to be available on Amazon and other Digital Platforms soon.See Update 18 (backers only, so you have to be logged in). In short, we don't know, but it will be close to general digital release and not before all VOD contracts have been sealed. I'm guessing December, possibly late November. | /r/MensRights | 23/10/16 11:54 AM |
| 1 | Cassie Jaye Confirms "The Red Pill" to be available on Amazon and other Digital Platforms soon.If feminists have any sense, they'll keep as quiet about it as possible. Notice how little media coverage there was? Most of the usual suspects stayed quiet, or else panned the film hard as they could. Shame if they've suddenly grown a brain. Notice there were no protests at either NY or LA screenings? It remains to be seen whether there are protests at other licensed screenings, but I'm thinking they won't, for the most part, because controversy only generates interest. | /r/MensRights | 23/10/16 11:52 AM |
| – | Cassie Jaye Confirms "The Red Pill" to be available on Amazon and other Digital Platforms soon.Given TRP cost 3.5 years and a buttload of cash to make, and the kickstarter paid only for post production, 'most of the financiers' (by cash invested) would be Cassie. She has to recoup her costs at least. Plus, posting on youtube is a bit degrading given the amount of work she invested. People tend to value something more if they've actually paid for it. That all said, it would be convenient to be able to refer people it online. But I guess nobody gets everything they want. | /r/MensRights | 23/10/16 11:50 AM |
| – | Heatstreet reviews "The Red Pill" (Some spoilers)[Cathy Young] is very much a subscriber to the idea of the "golden mean". There is nothing wrong with the idea of the golden mean, but to apply the Aristotelian Golden Mean (which deals with extrema on a spectrum) to gender politics is to misunderstand either or both of the subject field or the Golden Mean in the first place. The MRM and feminism aren't opposite ends on a spectrum, not any more than there is a continuously varying path from football to cycling (between which the only thing in co… | /r/MensRights | 21/10/16 09:59 AM |
| – | Heatstreet reviews "The Red Pill" (Some spoilers)One of the comments on OP put it well (probably wasn't there when you posted this): Every wave of feminism has some degree of misandry or perceptions of misandry. I don't think it's very surprising to find misogynistic statement on MR reddit or AVfM forums. In some ways, it is predictable, particularly in support networks that include angry men, many of whom lost custody battles, etc. I think that it's understandable that some misogyny exists in the movement, but it's outright pale and almost un… | /r/MensRights | 21/10/16 12:31 AM |
| 1 | The Red Pill Movie screeningsI won't ask what city. I can tell you that anywhere within a 50 mile radius of the beltway/I-495, in or around Baltimore or Houston, TX or even Detroit, MI is expensive. You'd need a minimum of 4 hours (hour for setup and getting seated, 2 hours of film, an hour to clear out and clean up) to avoid getting stung penalty fees, and I don't believe that you can get a room seating 30-40 people for $25/hr including a projector (never mind a decent one). Not at a commercial hotel in any city of any siz… | /r/MensRights | 16/10/16 03:52 PM |
| – | The Red Pill Movie screeningsUh, I don't know what hotel you're talking about, but hotel conference facilities are more expensive than that. Especially once you include the projector and screen. Leastways, in any city of any size. Also, /u/GingerJack76, don't forget you need a licence from Jayebird Productions to show the film (regardless of source) outside of private homes. (You probably knew that, but just saying for the sake of completeness.) | /r/MensRights | 16/10/16 03:11 PM |
| – | "Think About It" by Red Alpha - The Red Pill Movie Anthem, Now On Spotify to share globally.I'm extremely picky about music and though it's not really my genre, I really enjoyed this. The lyrics... fit perfectly the message of the film. Highly recommended. If you don't have Spotify, I think you can buy it from iTunes. Very rough transcript of the lyrics, though I had trouble with some of it (edits/suggestions welcome): (Just think about it!) Put on some borrowed kicks hang all your notions up it's never what it is wisdom is asking what; There is another side down where the rabbit lives… | /r/MensRights | 14/10/16 11:24 PM |
| – | The Red Pill Movie screeningsPerhaps he means VFW, like where ICMI '14 was held. They're good people and you could probably set up an ad-hoc projector and PA in their main hall cheaper than you could hire out a theatre. Of course, you'd get fewer showings, too. | /r/MensRights | 14/10/16 05:22 PM |
| – | The Red Pill Movie screeningsMy guess is that CJ has been preoccupied with the NY/LA screenings until now and will have the digital distribution contracts to sort out after the LA run, and that she'll see to the London screening just as soon as she can. If I can make it, maybe I'll see you there ;) | /r/MensRights | 14/10/16 05:20 PM |
| – | Tim Hortons Wifi blocks a voice for menYou will probably find that it is neither Hortons themselves nor AVfM specifically, but that Hortons' WiFi contractor uses a "safe" DNS server such as that run by Symantec which blocks 'adult' sites. You can probably access AVfM and other such sites if you force your machine's DNS to a 3rd party provider such as Google's DNS on 8.8.8.8. I wouldn't call AVfM 'adult' in the usual connotation of the word, but it is certainly not a family site so, by default, it falls into the 'adult' class. IOW, it… | /r/MensRights | 13/10/16 10:42 PM |
| – | Advice for upcoming contemptYou might do better ask in somewhere like /r/legaladvice but really, you need to get your own lawyer who is familiar with regulation and practice in your jurisdiction. IANAL (and especially not a family lawyer), but my instinct is that the scope of the hearing is likely to be limited to your ex's alleged contempt of court and the consequences to her if found guilty. A court generally won't entertain any attempt to bootstrap another matter or claim so any remedy you seek would have to be framed i… | /r/MensRights | 13/10/16 07:11 PM |
| 1 | Reviews of the Red Pill?Yeah, the VV was a real piece of work. Honestly, if Scherstuhl wanted to inflict maximum damage, he'd have damned it with faint praise rather than completely pan it because it's as obvious as the day is bright that he has an agenda. Citing Futrelle, smh. To Cassie's enormous credit, she said she actually sympathises with Scherstuhl because he effectively had to do in 2 hours what she had 2 years or more to do. What class! I did a news search Remember that there are a bunch of criteria a site/pag… | /r/MensRights | 12/10/16 12:12 PM |
| 2 | Reviews of the Red Pill?Nailed it, as usual. There's one more that I know of not listed above, not that it adds much of interest or use. Just for completeness, though: Ralph Retort And then there's Paul's review (which, though linked above, I'm including the AVfM version for its comments). /u/shogun_starship | /r/MensRights | 12/10/16 12:04 PM |
| 1 | The "Red Pill" movie and why I think we might be getting trolled.Understood. Trolls gallery? Hall of shame, perhaps? (Screencaps, naturally, and in a separate post so the troll isn't able to engage directly and nor are people able to respond directly. Idk. The phenomenon of trolling, and especially the nature of feminist trolls, is probably not well understood except by those in the movement who have to deal with the problem directly. It might be instructive for the blue pill public to see what we're up against, and why comments ostensibly by MRAs shouldn't n… | /r/MensRights | 11/10/16 03:08 PM |
| 1 | Paul Elam reviews The Red Pill MovieWell said, that's a pretty good summation of affairs. Too bad Paul's haters can't move on and do something constructive. | /r/MensRights | 11/10/16 02:45 PM |
| 3 | The "Red Pill" movie and why I think we might be getting trolled.God, I pity the mods and their workload. | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 10:18 PM |
| 1 | The "Red Pill" movie and why I think we might be getting trolled.that wretched debacle over White Ribbon The fact that you mention it suggests that the idea achieved its ends, to a greater or lesser extent. Whether you like it — I didn't much — is a distant second consideration. Don't even get me started on Paul Elam. Okay, I won't ask, then. Pity this is about personalities, not policies or issues. (That was a general remark not directed at you specifically.) Life is complicated, people are complicated, and it doesn't all fit neatly into a reddit tag. Indeed… | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 10:17 PM |
| – | The "Red Pill" movie and why I think we might be getting trolled.Did you get a screencap of that comment? Shame the archive bot is no longer working. | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 10:12 PM |
| 6 | The "Red Pill" movie and why I think we might be getting trolled.it means they're scared From what I gather, they're scared shitless at losing control of the narrative. The majority of people are willing to spend more than 2 seconds looking at the few trolls The problem is that, as /u/ArchVileRespawned highlighted, it's enough that the BS is posted to this SR; screencaps followed by media coverage to follow. There is no room (or desire) for context for such people. In their desperation, they will try anything to smear TRP and poison the well. | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 10:08 PM |
| – | The "Red Pill" movie and why I think we might be getting trolled.One approach is community moderation. Should legit r/MR readers call out efforts that look like this sort of trolling, or keep their counsel? | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 10:06 PM |
| 5 | The Red Pill Movie screeningsIt's more common than you think, and presently the minds set is infesting management, public services and media. And STEM in general and IT in particular, which bothers me most. Never underestimate the stupidity of acolytes and the self-indoctrinated. Practically nothing they do would surprise me. Principle of low expectations I guess, which is a terrible indictment on the human condition. I guess I don't get to choose my species (please, let's not even go there with 'otherkin'.) | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 09:36 PM |
| 2 | The "Red Pill" movie and why I think we might be getting trolled.Understood. I know first hand how hard your job is (moderation), how fine a line there is to walk. So good luck and fair wind. As for the sticky, it seems to me that the attention generated by TRP Movie warrants one, but it can only be your call. | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 09:27 PM |
| – | The "Red Pill" movie and why I think we might be getting trolled.Interesting (and not surprising). Do you plan to do anything about it other than be vigilant? How about posting a notice/warning in a stickied post, just as your comment is stickied? Or, if you have the manpower, perhaps a period of pre-moderated link submissions or is the problem more in the comments? | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 05:56 PM |
| – | Paul Elam reviews The Red Pill Movieome posters here do not seem to like him. I think he's a great asset to the MR movement. Agreed on both counts, but I'm hardly impartial in respect of AVfM. As /u/splodgenessabounds says, there is plenty of history. AVfM's been around for 8 or 9 years and Paul/AVfM defend our values even when it means upsetting once-allies. You don't get to the sort of prominence that AVfM has achieved without caring too much what those who disagree with you think of you. Some criticisms of both Paul and AVfM ha… | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 05:00 PM |
| 1 | The Red Pill: NYC footage.were their any protesters? Apparently not, but I guess there's still the West Coast première. Or is this simply the calm before the storm and we'll see them all come out and go apeshit over the movie like they usually do? If they've any sense, they'll stay quiet about it and not invoke the gods of Streisand. The only other thing they can do is pressure theatres not to screen it after the NY/LA run, which I'm sure they'll do. But that'll be a harder sell after NY/LA shows that there's no harm in … | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 04:29 PM |
| – | The Red Pill Movie screeningsWhy have none withdrawn their permission to be seen on Camera? I wondered about that, too, especially the likes of Big Red and Kimmel. My guess is that they signed an irrevocable release and that they can't now withdraw permission. I was once an extra in a film, and I know I had to sign a release to that effect, and that was just as an extra. | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 04:07 PM |
| 2 | The Red Pill Movie screeningsUnderstandable, but you should not judge this book by its cover. Find out more first. | /r/MensRights | 10/10/16 04:02 PM |
| – | Possible digital distribution option for Cassie Jaye's Movie "The Red Pill"?it has been actively censored for years By whom? Yt don't take stuff offline unless it violates somebody's rights or yt's ToS, which I can't imagine MWM would have. It could have been flagged offline, but the guy behind it could have had them restored fairly easily, I should have thought. Besides, there are potentially other hosting options. If you are (or you know) the creator and want it made more available, PM me. | /r/MensRights | 09/10/16 09:54 PM |
| – | Milo Yiannopoulos' review of Cassie Jaye's The Red Pill: The Movie Striking Fear Into The Hearts Of FeministsNah, Milo is only invested in Milo (he pretty much tells you what he is in his copy), so he'd shit on it if it were a bad film or if it were in his interests. After all, he's not an MRA, even if he says we have some valid points. That said, Milo is usually good entertainment. Still, I'm excited to watch it myself. Anyone know when and where it'll be available online? Me too. None as yet, but it will be. Eventually. | /r/MensRights | 09/10/16 12:40 PM |
| – | Possible digital distribution option for Cassie Jaye's Movie "The Red Pill"?She didn't go to a job she made a movie And that's not a job? It's not salaried, but it's still work she deserves to be compensated for. In the usual course of things, that compensation would normally be commensurate with the risk and large up-front costs, but she was never going to make much money out of this film. So far few have seen it It only premièred just over a day ago so it's unsurprising few have seen it. Viewing options are limited unless you can travel to NYC or LA, and god knows whe… | /r/MensRights | 09/10/16 09:19 AM |
| 1 | Review: The Red Pill: Cassie Jaye’s Fall Down the Rabbit HoleAs explained in Cassie's AMA, the title was set long before r/TRP became a thing of note (if that it be). | /r/MensRights | 08/10/16 10:38 PM |
| 1 | #TheRedPill - If you were there, what would be your question at the Q&A?Schadenfreude is a terrible thing. snork Dammit. I saw that earlier and then tried to find it again, but couldn't. Thanks for that. | /r/MensRights | 08/10/16 04:48 PM |
| – | Feminist theory has become our new religion, writes Corrine BarracloughWomen are buying into it and end up hating men. Not that many women do. Even the HuffPo admits that < 20% of women identify as feminist. | /r/MensRights | 08/10/16 03:45 PM |
| 1 | Discussion ahead of Red Pill Movie; balanced OP but reception hostile toward Cassie and MRMUpdate: The thread was locked shortly after somebody noticed that their thread was linked from here and a certain amount of squabbling between regulars. SJWs can't help but eat their own. | /r/MensRights | 08/10/16 02:57 PM |
| 2 | Since the Village Voice refused to run Cassie Jaye's (what would have been a paid-for) advertisement, she opted for the higher priced NY Times... You Go Girl!Add to what everyone else said, VV published a highly biased review. The guy who wrote that review, Scherstuhl is also an editor at VV (although how senior is unclear), but he may have enough influence to veto it. Regardless, VV have already demonstrated antipathy toward TRP, so Cassie's report is entirely plausible. | /r/MensRights | 08/10/16 12:14 PM |
| 4 | Feminist theory has become our new religion, writes Corrine BarracloughMaybe it's a regional thing. Certainly some Muslims in the UK have tried to use the law to shut down dissent, and the PC MSM media (coughBBCcoughGuardiancough) are complicit. I'm against all religion and for calling out the bad and wrong from where-ever. Right. It's behaviours that count. I don't really care what a person believes, only what they do. But what they do is in no small part informed by what they believe (and their interpretation of external inspiration/guidance). | /r/MensRights | 08/10/16 12:06 AM |
| – | Feminist theory has become our new religion, writes Corrine BarracloughI take your point, but I'd say that the distinction is mostly a matter of perspective. Some Muslims, for example, abuse law to protect their beliefs and practices from scrutiny, but most would probably not classify Islam as a whole as a cult any more than Christianity as a whole. | /r/MensRights | 07/10/16 11:49 PM |
| 2 | Facing my fear: I wanted to have a baby. But as a trans man, I was terrified of labor: The Guardian, as ever, focuses on men's issues from a modern feminist lens.This subreddit has been fairly accepting of transmen (particularly when they speak about society's disparate treatment of women and men, from personal experience) and should take note of issues faced by transmen. I'm all for trans issues and there's definitely a place for them in conjunction with men's rights (because all trans people either are, or were, men), but I don't really see the connection between men's rights and the larger substance of this particular story. Yet, when this happens, ot… | /r/MensRights | 07/10/16 11:25 PM |
| 1 | Facing my fear: I wanted to have a baby. But as a trans man, I was terrified of labor: The Guardian, as ever, focuses on men's issues from a modern feminist lens.i do disagree with the quasi-naturalistic appeal with that line about wanting to avoid drugs and a c-section I guess that's his choice and I gather that there's a wide range of opinion about that sort of thing even among ciswomen. Some dig the idea that natural == good (cyanide and arsenic are natural, too) others, when push comes to shove (as it were) are FUCK IT! GIMME THE DRUGS! even the ones who swear beforehand they'll do without. I also wonder if making the process more medically involved … | /r/MensRights | 07/10/16 06:32 PM |
| – | Discussion ahead of Red Pill Movie; balanced OP but reception hostile toward Cassie and MRMI don't know about his hygiene and appearance If you really must know, this is futrelle. Can't unsee him, either. Imagine a the worst sort of internet troll. [...] Spends a lot of time on /pol/, stormfront, and TRP. I think he actually believes the drivel he posts rather than does it for the lulz, although yes, he also tries (not very successfully) to troll MRAs with his site WHTM (aka manboobz.com). Most know well enough to stay well away from him and his (mainly female) sycophants because enga… | /r/MensRights | 07/10/16 04:46 PM |
| 2 | California makes it a felony for prosecutors to withhold or alter exculpatory evidence: Most defendants are maleFirst thought: About bloody time [although it was already a misdemeanour]. Second thought: Wait, why was this law even necessary? What an indictment of prosecutors the US over (and, possibly, elsewhere). | /r/MensRights | 07/10/16 01:50 PM |
| 1 | #TheRedPill - If you were there, what would be your question at the Q&A?Not streamed, but I believe it will be recorded. Guess it'll be posted on yt in a week or so. Also, I gather Steve Brulé will be there in case of protests. | /r/MensRights | 07/10/16 01:22 PM |
| – | #TheRedPill - If you were there, what would be your question at the Q&A?I think I'd have to see the film before I could come up with any intelligent questions for CJ, Kimmel et al though, from what I gather, Kimmel's face during the Q&A ought to be a picture. I'd like to know how CJ is coping with the negative press, especially from the likes of Scherstuhl, but that's not a question to which I would expect an honest answer in public. I'll admit, it's a bit disheartening to see the lies and verbal diarrhoea from Scherstuhl and Futrelle's stooges. But I guess this was… | /r/MensRights | 07/10/16 01:15 PM |
| 3 | Discussion ahead of Red Pill Movie; balanced OP but reception hostile toward Cassie and MRMI suppose it's good to see people talking about the film, even if what they're saying is mostly negative. The more talk, the more will see it. (I sure hope it's released digitally, and smartly!) The OP is actually fairly decent; describes background and context reasonably well. Obviously doesn't go into film content because OP hasn't seen it. But the audience evidently has historically been hostile to MRAs and pro-feminist, so the reception it got there was inevitable. | /r/MensRights | 07/10/16 01:13 PM |
| – | Facing my fear: I wanted to have a baby. But as a trans man, I was terrified of labor: The Guardian, as ever, focuses on men's issues from a modern feminist lens.This article doesn't quite qualify as one about men's issues. It's about a preoperative trans man (albeit post mastectomy) who is talking about pregnancy, giving birth while still living as a man and the attendant (and unsurprising) anxieties, esp. wrt dealing with midwives. Every woman is afraid of giving birth the first time (and possibly every time, idk), so nothing new there. The closest this comes to men's issues is trans issues, which is tangential at best. | /r/MensRights | 07/10/16 12:51 PM |
| – | Mike Cernovich's review of Cassie Jaye's *The Red Pill*You saw that one, too, huh? I linked it in another post here, but downvotes suggest readers are confusing my post with the reviewer in question. I guess. | /r/MensRights | 05/10/16 06:18 PM |
| – | Banished to the Couch"Never let the sun go down on an argument" is good advice, but not always possible because it takes two to be reasonable and work shit out. I've been luckier than many in that respect. I would suggest that if your live-in partner/wife/gf isn't somebody who can be reasoned with, then perhaps it's time to reevaluate the relationship. But talk about it first. There's a lot to be said for drawing boundaries, and drawing them early. IME. Yes, I realise what that means if there are children involved, … | /r/MensRights | 05/10/16 05:16 PM |
| 2 | Mike Cernovich's review of Cassie Jaye's *The Red Pill*I don't know a great deal about Cernovich and what little I do know I don't much like. But I don't have a problem with him doing his thing over on his corner of the Internet, particularly when he literally put his money (and quite a lot of it, too) where his mouth is wrt freedom of speech. Cernovich pointed out that he copped some flack from his readers at the time he backed TRP who like MRAs even less than he does, but also made it clear he didn't give a fuck. So no, it's probably no surprise t… | /r/MensRights | 05/10/16 04:14 PM |
| – | Mike Cernovich's review of Cassie Jaye's *The Red Pill*Cernovich, who is a $10k backer and associate producer of The Red Pill, is no friend to MRAs and yet he still managed to post a fairly decent review about the film. Props to you, Mr Cernovich, even if I don't go along with your philosophy about masculinity. | /r/MensRights | 05/10/16 03:39 PM |
| – | Possible digital distribution option for Cassie Jaye's Movie "The Red Pill"?What, you expect her to work for free? To raise men's issues to public consciousness without compensation? The fundraiser (she says mostly not MRAs, FWTW) paid for post production. She's still got a couple of years' worth of investment prior to that to recoup. CJ deserves to be supported by buying the film in DVD or digital format. Even so, I'm quite sure she won't break even. | /r/MensRights | 05/10/16 03:09 PM |
| 1 | My college is making me take a Feminist coarse and I am struggling.Suffice it to say, I disagree. By all means disagree, but be honest about your reasons for disagreeing. You give the impression of one trying to take the ethical high road, but you have yet to explain why OP should acquiesce rather than try to insist on some degree of equality in his education. Tradition is no reason to do anything. "accepted practice" ≠ tradition. The 'hostile work environment' interpretation of Title IX is no older than 5 years, and is probably rather more recent than that. Ha… | /r/MensRights | 30/09/16 12:29 PM |
| – | My college is making me take a Feminist coarse and I am struggling.It isn't. That's my point. It oughtn't. The point is that current practice does seem to consider that a legitimate interpretation. There is nothing unethical about acting according to accepted practice, even if accepted practice itself is dubious — because it means that everybody is playing by the same rules. | /r/MensRights | 30/09/16 12:54 AM |
| – | My college is making me take a Feminist coarse and I am struggling.That would not be substantially different than claiming "These micro-aggressions are triggering me." Unless one were to actually frame it in terms of being triggered by microaggressions, yes it would very likely be substantially different. But it seems there are more honest ways of forcing them to play by their own rules. I'm thinking of a particular case at a GA university in which a complaint was made against a man that framed in terms of 'creating a hostile work environment'. (No, it wasn't m… | /r/MensRights | 30/09/16 12:45 AM |
| – | My college is making me take a Feminist coarse and I am struggling.All things being equal, I'd agree — but they're not, that's the very problem. So, you work within the system that's there, not the one that ought to be there. In which case, it seems reasonable for the OP to use the existing framework to protect his educational (and life) prospects. If equality means anything, it surely it should afford OP the same protection it affords female students? I'm all for principle, but martyring one's self serves no useful purpose, especially not when the subject of a… | /r/MensRights | 29/09/16 08:05 PM |
| – | My college is making me take a Feminist coarse and I am struggling.That's true, but Title IX is also cited in reference to creating 'hostile environments' on the grounds of gender etc. What's good for the goose... | /r/MensRights | 29/09/16 07:39 PM |
| 1 | My college is making me take a Feminist coarse and I am struggling.That sucks. I hate the way many American higher ed institutions, especially liberal arts colleges, require courses (not coarses!) unrelated to your subject of choice. Anyway, if you can't get out of this or can't prevail upon the school to let you take a different course that fulfils this requirement (would any other political theory course do?) — and I realise that this may not be a lot of comfort — perhaps the way to approach this is to see it as an opportunity to learn the feminist perspectiv… | /r/MensRights | 29/09/16 07:36 PM |
| 1 | ACTION REQUIRED: STOP THE INTERNET TAKEOVER NOW! - This is sooooooo important for the MRM as we top the list for censorship.Molyneux's video takes even longer to listen to than my comment takes to read :p Anyway, this is a complex matter and there's a lot of BS and FUD about the whole business. I guess many (rightly) just don't care enough about it to research it. But for those who do, they ought to know what they're talking about. Molyneux didn't. | /r/MensRights | 29/09/16 07:23 PM |
| 1 | Banned from /r/Feminism because I called someone dimWe have a definition of atheism. The disbelief or lack of belief of a god or gods. If disbelief is the positive assertion against the proposition, you've just articulated two mutually exclusive definitions of atheism, and you've rather nicely proved my point. What is the definition of a religion? The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. That would be a better definition of theistic faith rather than religion (especially considering that some… | /r/MensRights | 29/09/16 07:09 PM |
| – | ACTION REQUIRED: STOP THE INTERNET TAKEOVER NOW! - This is sooooooo important for the MRM as we top the list for censorship.This such a stupid, self-contradictory rant of a video and shows a profound lack of understanding of US law, how the Internet works, who owns what and the limits of their power. 0:32 The Internet does not have (and never has had) any 1st amendment protections. How many times do publishers and net geeks have to keep saying this? The 1st am. applies only to federal and state governments, not individuals and certainly not the private companies that own the components (fibre, routers, data centres, … | /r/MensRights | 29/09/16 06:32 PM |
| – | Banned from /r/Feminism because I called someone dimAtheism is as much a religion as not collecting stamps is a hobby. ... which about as true as claiming there's a single operative definition of atheism and all atheists think alike. | /r/MensRights | 29/09/16 05:16 PM |
| 1 | Banned from /r/Feminism because I called someone dimThe site-wide rules make it explicit that reddit mods have absolute discretion on how they run their sub, circumscribed only by those rules. Reddit, inc. (theoretically) don't care about content beyond that, and don't consider SR content to reflect on the company itself. | /r/MensRights | 29/09/16 03:55 PM |
| 1 | Banned from /r/Feminism because I called someone dimReligion is the corpus of practices, doctrines, dogmata, etc surrounding a given faith or belief. Depending on the form of atheism in question, it may or may not have positive dogmata of its own. Some but not all entail a set of moral values and ethics, but they're not an inevitability of atheist thought. Anyway, since many forms of feminism share much in common with religious belief (cults, even), it's unsurprising that the mod lost sight of her principles when the beliefs that make up her core… | /r/MensRights | 29/09/16 03:52 PM |
| 1 | Banned from /r/Feminism because I called someone dimEvery atheist and theist is agnostic, unless they have knowledge that a god does/does not exist. Broadly right, but slightly clumsily worded; there are gnostic theists and atheists and there are agnostic theists and atheists. All four possible combinations exist, to a greater or lesser extent. Most followers of the 'new atheism' are examples of gnostic atheists in that they claim that there is positive reason to disbelieve. Most theists, but not all, are gnostics, too. /u/bizneria suggests that … | /r/MensRights | 29/09/16 03:46 PM |
| 3 | David Leyonhjelm: It's time to admit the truth about domestic violence "The fight to end domestic violence has become a ridiculous political pantomime which we are meant to believe involves predatory, evil men who attack their helpless female victims."Here's the same article published on Leyonhjelm's own website if you hit the paywall. | /r/MensRights | 28/09/16 04:45 PM |
| 2 | Domestic violence safe house to open in regional South Australia Milli said the new safe house was due to open in October and would assist domestic violence victims of both genders, not just women. "It's men that are victims too … and they need to be believed," she said.Yeah, you're confusing support services with judicial process. There is nothing wrong with a shelter believing, largely uncritically, a story of abuse told by either men or women when considering whether to offer them a bed. But, scepticism is the name of the game in court. And getting a place in a shelter proves absolutely nothing of any consequence to a criminal or civil hearing. | /r/MensRights | 25/09/16 03:25 PM |
| 2 | International Conference on Men's IssuesThe Detroit ICMI conference happened in 2014, so this must be a very old video even though it was uploaded just this month. Also, AVfM doesn't have anything on their front page about the conference. The articles are still there, but you have to go back to 2014 to find them. The videos are still on youtube, though, as are the videos from ICMI 2016 (London). | /r/MensRights | 19/09/16 12:17 PM |
| 1 | Tickets to the WORLD PREMIERE of THE RED PILL go on sale Friday, August 26th, at 12:30pm EDT / 9:30am PDTYeah, well, I guess CJ's pretty busy with marketing and all the stuff that goes into the lead up to any premiere. | /r/MensRights | 26/08/16 06:57 PM |
| – | VA cancer patient secretly records doctor visit “Sir I appreciate that but I think you can appreciate my perspective. I’m dying of stage four prostate Cancer. I don’t care frankly sir. I just need to get the quality care, right?"Yup, which will likely only happen if you can get some form of Proportional Representation, which I don't see happening any time soon. That said, 2016 may see either or both of the major parties schism given what happened during the primaries, so it's just conceivable that you'll end up with a three party system. At least, temporarily. | /r/MensRights | 26/08/16 05:37 PM |
| – | Tickets to the WORLD PREMIERE of THE RED PILL go on sale Friday, August 26th, at 12:30pm EDT / 9:30am PDTIn her latest Kickstarter update, CJ says we do plan to have the film available online by the end of 2016 In an earlier update, she wrote: regarding Kickstarter rewards [...] The current plan is to deliver the pre-release digital downloads to the $25-$10k backers in Nov-Dec. and also we cannot release the film online until we complete our Oscar-qualifying NYC & LA theatrical screenings (we'd be disqualified from the Oscars if we released the film online before the LA & NYC screenings) Given that… | /r/MensRights | 26/08/16 05:34 PM |
| 2 | [ Australian MSM opinion piece ] why don’t MRAs fight for men’s rights?Jane Gilmore is crazy. I wrote a critique of an earlier piece, so this latest one doesn't surprise me at all. I posted the following to this latest piece: — And after articles like this, why is it any surprise that men (and especially MRAs, some of whom are female) should be angry at feminists? Gilmore's logic is, as ever, poor. The premise of this article is guilt by association with an implicit 'no true Scotsman' fallacy. Yes, there are some crazy, angry, misogynist MRAs out there. But MRAs ha… | /r/MensRights | 26/08/16 02:26 PM |
| 2 | The real reason there has been a huge rise in the number of females in prison.but it's irrelevant unless Labour caused women to be violent, which they didn't There's no apparent evidence in support of or against the claim that the 97-10 Labour government is responsible for teenage behaviour. No government can do that unless they actively encouraged it, which no government does. I think that's faulty logic. Government policy can have that effect even if it wasn't the intention of that policy. Sometimes those negative consequences take a decade or more to be come apparent. … | /r/MensRights | 26/08/16 01:56 PM |
| 1 | Sexual harassment of students by university staff hidden by non-disclosure agreementsI don't think you can, as a practical matter, forbid NDAs in such circumstances — nor is there any need. You can make their use less likely by strengthening employment protections (if that is needed, and it's not clear that it is) or improving access to employment tribunals (which probably is needed). If employers know that they'll face public scrutiny for unfair or constructive dismissal out of expedience, then they won't so quickly opt for that in the face of pressure from elsewhere. Since an … | /r/MensRights | 26/08/16 01:47 PM |
| – | The real reason there has been a huge rise in the number of females in prison."after having doubled under Labour". Labour was in power at the time that article was written and had been for the previous 12 years. | /r/MensRights | 26/08/16 01:28 PM |
| 1 | The real reason there has been a huge rise in the number of females in prison.7 year old article, BTW. Ladette culture is probably as real today as it was then, but prosecution and sentencing policies almost certainly aren't. | /r/MensRights | 26/08/16 01:26 PM |
| – | Sexual harassment of students by university staff hidden by non-disclosure agreementsIf NDAs are being used in settlements that include the accused staff member 'voluntarily' resigning, then there is another consequence: The facts of the accusation are never examined and never subject to public scrutiny, which means that NDAs can just as easily be abused to make a problem go away even when the staff member hasn't done anything wrong. In such cases, NDAs also protect those employees from discrimination by future employers on the grounds of baseless accusations. | /r/MensRights | 26/08/16 01:24 PM |
| – | VA cancer patient secretly records doctor visit “Sir I appreciate that but I think you can appreciate my perspective. I’m dying of stage four prostate Cancer. I don’t care frankly sir. I just need to get the quality care, right?"So, fix your unions. Thatcher did that in the UK 30 years ago. That might be a mite glib: I acknowledge the 1st amendment implications, but I see no reason why the 1st am. shouldn't prevent government from passing legislation regulating industrial action and giving employers some rights, which is what Thatcher did. That said, we're also talking about a country with what is probably the worst workers' rights record in the whole of the developed world. Without minimising the natural self-interest … | /r/MensRights | 26/08/16 01:13 PM |
| – | VA cancer patient secretly records doctor visit “Sir I appreciate that but I think you can appreciate my perspective. I’m dying of stage four prostate Cancer. I don’t care frankly sir. I just need to get the quality care, right?"Yeah, but American cultural attitudes to government-funded healthcare are so very different from British attitudes. We expect the government to provide a basic but competent standard of healthcare, and there's hell to pay when we don't get it. Americans expect their government to provide incompetent and poor quality services. When your government services are mediocre, nobody is surprised so nobody makes a fuss, so the government has no incentive to up their game. Your country could do a decent … | /r/MensRights | 25/08/16 11:25 PM |
| 2 | (Mods Please Sticky) Australian premiere of the Red Pill documentary will be on in MelbourneUh, it was financed in part by me, and a lot of other people. Including me but, and this is the important bit, you do understand that we have and are owed neither legal nor moral rights to the end product, right? Were it otherwise and by donating we bought some share in the end product, we'd be owed royalties. But we don't and we're not, so we have no more say over its distribution or disposition than we did over creative direction. We who contributed to make this film possible did so out of gen… | /r/MensRights | 25/08/16 11:16 PM |
| 1 | (Mods Please Sticky) Australian premiere of the Red Pill documentary will be on in MelbournePrecisely ;) | /r/MensRights | 25/08/16 06:03 PM |
| – | VA cancer patient secretly records doctor visit “Sir I appreciate that but I think you can appreciate my perspective. I’m dying of stage four prostate Cancer. I don’t care frankly sir. I just need to get the quality care, right?"Even the NHS is not that bad. Don't judge socialised or single-payer medicine based on the VA (which actually does a decent job, on occasion). | /r/MensRights | 25/08/16 06:03 PM |
| – | (Mods Please Sticky) Australian premiere of the Red Pill documentary will be on in MelbourneThere're loads of paid digital delivery options (examples include iTunes, Android Play store, probably Amazon or even UStream). As for shutting it down, it's probably too late for that. The premiere dates and theatres have been announced; if they cancel on her, they'll be in breach of contract and I'm quite sure CJ'd be awarded damages if she has to go that far. I wonder if she could get an injunction to enforce the terms of her contracts with the theatres. I can't see any theatre willingly goin… | /r/MensRights | 25/08/16 05:58 PM |
| – | (Mods Please Sticky) Australian premiere of the Red Pill documentary will be on in MelbournePlease don't. This isn't a Hollywood-backed film, it was financed by Cassie Jaye personally and every pirated copy deprives CJ of revenue to pay back her investment. That's just extra salt given what she and her team have been through already. AIUI, CJ is making arrangements for digital purchases of the film, but just hasn't yet figured out which distribution company to use yet. I doubt feminists will be able to block that but, if they do... well, let's just say I'm confident that CJ will find a… | /r/MensRights | 25/08/16 05:39 PM |
| – | Update RE Julie Bindel Hate Crime Report.On a point of law, "gender" is not a protected class. Actually, in the UK (where OP's complaint pertains), under the Equality Act (2010) per c. 15 pt. 2, ch. 1, §11 clause a) gender is, indeed, a protected class. | /r/MensRights | 24/08/16 06:42 PM |
| 6 | Update RE Julie Bindel Hate Crime Report.The British police sound very professional. They probably are, on the whole, but I'm embarrassed to have to admit that 'PC Plod' rightly earns its epithet on occasion. §5 of the Public Order Act (1986) is itself an offence to freedom of speech, yet it remains on the statutes. (We have no right to freedom of expression in this country.) | /r/MensRights | 23/08/16 01:28 PM |
| 5 | Update RE Julie Bindel Hate Crime Report.Just as in the US (you inherited much of your law from us and, indeed, US judges still cite British case law to this day) [ETA:], the accused has the right to face his or her accuser. Usually. Our jurisprudence effectively dates back to 1066, so we've had nearly a millennium to accrue stupid, inconsistent and anachronistic laws (much of it in common law, before statutory law became a thing so there's no act to repeal). By comparison, the US has existed as an independent country for a quarter of … | /r/MensRights | 23/08/16 01:22 PM |
| – | Update RE Julie Bindel Hate Crime Report.If they ask you to testify, I would ask if you have the option to testify anonymously. As far as I know, no, he doesn't. That's why the Sexual Offences Act (2003) had to make special provision for anonymous, screened testimony given by victims of sexual assaults. | /r/MensRights | 23/08/16 12:59 PM |
| – | Update RE Julie Bindel Hate Crime Report.Excellent stuff, this is activism of the first order. I was clear with her that my ideal outcome is an established case behind the scenes, and a letter from the Met explaining why words on twitter don't constitute a hate crime worth prosecuting for me to publish. Not only are you helping men (and women, for that matter) by circumscribing limits to abuse of the law, you're actually helping the police by giving them a case they can work on to set precedent for future cases, since they can't act un… | /r/MensRights | 23/08/16 12:56 PM |
| 3 | 38 Degrees response when questioned about why they deleted the petition supporting MP Philip DaviesIf the British Radfem conferences were shut down on the grounds that banning transwomen contravened the Equality Act (2010), why are 38 Degrees not in contravention of the Equality Act by discrimination on the grounds of gender (and associated politics)? c. 15 pt. 2, ch. 1, §11 clause a) says that a "protected characteristic is a reference to a man or to a woman" (emphasis mine), so the law is gender neutral. It is no more legal to discriminate against men than it is women. The Equality and Huma… | /r/MensRights | 22/08/16 10:01 PM |
| 2 | Advice, am i being honeytrapped?im in uk but whats to stop them recording me then playing the recording down the phone as if it was me ringing her? For one, phone records wouldn't match up. If you haven't already, make a note of the date and approximate time of the phone call and its approximate duration. If you received this on your mobile, your phone will probably tell you both (and also give you the number of the other party). If they want to introduce that call as evidence, you are entitled to cross examine them on its pro… | /r/MensRights | 22/08/16 05:23 PM |
| 2 | Advice, am i being honeytrapped?@ /u/StupidMan616 But most importantly keep hold of the texts. ^ This. All texts, calls, letters, emails, social media posts, interactions and many things besides are evidence. Keep careful copies of everything. Find out your state's recording laws like /u/EricAllonde said. If permitted by law, record every phone call. Regardless, keep a diary of all interactions and suspected interactions with your ex or anything to do with her including family and property, and update it as promptly as possibl… | /r/MensRights | 22/08/16 05:10 PM |
| 3 | Advice, am i being honeytrapped?Emphasis mine: dirty phone call which led to her asking to be held down etc etc and me saying yes ill hold you down use you etc etc now my fear is i was recorded and that wife would use this in court as if i said those things to her If anybody raises the subject of that call in court, point out to the judge: the clear element of consent — she asked you to do something which, kink or not, is fairly common; and that there is no question that you would do anything of the sort to your ex or this oth… | /r/MensRights | 22/08/16 05:06 PM |
| 4 | The 'One in Three' claim about male domestic violence victims is a myth: " Nor should anyone suggest that it is an excuse to ignore male victims – where they are in need of assistance it should absolutely be available to them.": By which, this editorial means almost never.While this is an older article (2015), it's consistent with Gilmore's more recent claims and demonstrates that she's constantly banging her sexist drum about how male victims of DV either don't exist or aren't worth worrying about. But the likes of Gilmore, Ford, Batty and Davies are having (alternative source) their arses handed to them, and it would seem that things are heating up down under. | /r/MensRights | 22/08/16 03:17 PM |
| 1 | Question???You are right that any given proposition has a truth value, but you are wrong to suppose that's all that matters because you're assuming that facts, alone, are enough to motivate people. People have to give a fuck about the subject before they'll act on those facts. People have to be given a reason to pay attention to the inequalities men face. Ask Janet Bloomfield: she didn't become an MRA until she gave birth to a son. When that happened, she suddenly reevaluated facts that she already knew be… | /r/MensRights | 19/08/16 08:07 PM |
| 1 | "Naked Donald Trump statue leaves New Yorkers with the giggles" - Now imagine a naked Hillary statue ...It wouldn't surprise me.... | /r/MensRights | 19/08/16 07:42 PM |
| – | Question???It's the same exact thing. So are you telling me that feminist intersectional theory is the same as labels for political parties, schools of thought or even labels for which sports team one might support? No, labels for political affiliation aren't identity politics — not unless a person lets the label become their defining characteristic, at which point an attack on their politics gets interpreted as an attack on themselves, personally. Even though that does happen, it doesn't mean that labels … | /r/MensRights | 19/08/16 02:31 PM |
| 1 | The left are angry at MP Philip Davies for saying what we are all thinkingWe're bad, but not that bad. Yet. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/16 01:05 PM |
| – | "Naked Donald Trump statue leaves New Yorkers with the giggles" - Now imagine a naked Hillary statue ...Oh dear, but NYC Parks could have chosen their words better: "NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small," a spokesperson told AFP in an email. ... or was that deliberate? hah. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/16 01:03 PM |
| – | Question???Well I personally think identity politics is retarded. I think you're confusing 'identity politics' with 'labels for political affiliation'. Identity politics is the political perspective that personal identitity (usually an intrinsic personal characteristic such as race, sex or sexuality) should inform policy (eg X identity deserves special treatment or protection because Y reasons). People who affiliate with certain political perspectives aren't doing that (unless the political perspective cal… | /r/MensRights | 19/08/16 12:19 PM |
| 1 | Question???Nothing, but that's irrelevant. The point is that he and his lot get lumped in with MRAs because it's politically convenient for our detractors to say that peaches and limes grow on the same tree and that therefore peaches are equally sour as limes. | /r/MensRights | 18/08/16 04:39 PM |
| – | Question???And feminism says it's about equality, doesn't make it so. Milo says he's not an MRA, but he does and says a lot of the same things MRAs do. Actions speak louder than words. That all said, granted, "I'm not an MRA" is a pretty good hint. | /r/MensRights | 18/08/16 03:03 PM |
| – | Question???Anybody who has the measure of politics should care. Roosh and his ilk are self-evident threats to persuading blue-pillers of the political message the MHRM has to sell. | /r/MensRights | 18/08/16 03:01 PM |
| – | Question???Roosh isn't even close to being an MRA. Even within the MHRM, there's a fairly diverse range of views on various subjects. Roosh is so far removed from any of them that, by comparison, you can't get a cigarette paper between such differences as may exist between MRAs. As for a source, you can't show evidence of a negative. Go look at his sites (including RoK), you won't find any political or moral arguments for equality between men and women there. You will, however, find quite a lot of bigotry,… | /r/MensRights | 18/08/16 11:46 AM |
| 0 | Jeremy Corbyn (leader of the Labour Party) attacks Philip Davies MP for merely participating in international men's issues conferenceJust about any current Labour MP would be better than Corbyn. Have to hand it to him, though, Yvette Cooper would be worse. | /r/MensRights | 13/08/16 01:42 PM |
| 2 | Jeremy Corbyn (leader of the Labour Party) attacks Philip Davies MP for merely participating in international men's issues conferenceAnd attack a black woman? Not likely... | /r/MensRights | 13/08/16 01:41 PM |
| 1 | How To Get Rid Of Censorship And Privacy Violating AdsTL;DR- Steemit is a yet another new fiat currency which, like everything other electronic/cryptocurrency, is backed by nothing substantial. Read the comment thread on that video; I'm not the only one who thinks this is a speculation scam and/or Ponzi scheme. As to the social media component, it sounds like it's based on the same way the git source change control software works. Could be good, too bad if you accidentally post something that's really important that shouldn't be there. — There's no… | /r/MensRights | 11/08/16 12:35 PM |
| – | Have news agencies like BBC, The Huffington Post and The Guardian become anti-male? Should men boycott these outlets and hit them in their wallet for taking sides?That won't work for much longer. There are moves afoot to require a TV licence even for iplayer catch-up. BBC's business model is fundamentally broken for the 21st C, but it'll be a long time before it is replaced. | /r/MensRights | 10/08/16 02:58 PM |
| 2 | Professional rugby player is cleared of raping his Tinder date. Another obvious false allegation that should never have come to court.When I typed and edited this the first character was a 4, but when I save it, it displays it as a 1. That's MarkDown thinking that you're starting an enumerated list, so it 'helpfully' starts at 1. Click the 'formatting help' below the text input box for more information on lists etc. | /r/MensRights | 10/08/16 11:59 AM |
| 1 | Professional rugby player is cleared of raping his Tinder date. Another obvious false allegation that should never have come to court.I'm not ignoring it, in fact I directly addressed that very point elsewhere in this thread. | /r/MensRights | 10/08/16 12:06 AM |
| 1 | Professional rugby player is cleared of raping his Tinder date. Another obvious false allegation that should never have come to court.You already posted this (though somebody deleted it) and I've already replied to it. I'm not going to repeat myself like you seem to be doing. | /r/MensRights | 10/08/16 12:02 AM |
| 1 | Professional rugby player is cleared of raping his Tinder date. Another obvious false allegation that should never have come to court.This is the problem the CPS are applying a different criteria to bring a rape charge as they are to bring a false allegation charge. That's true, but only because the standard of proof required for each makes bringing charges of perversion of the course of justice much harder. At least with actual rape, the evidence of sex satisfies actus reus (ish); in order to prevail, the prosecution need only prove mens rea. (Okay, many cases don't even have evidence of actus reus, but that's a separate matt… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/16 12:00 AM |
| 1 | Professional rugby player is cleared of raping his Tinder date. Another obvious false allegation that should never have come to court./u/furchfur has a thing about 90% of accusations being wilfully false. I don't suppose he speaks for the majority of men in this sub and I'm not going to reply to every single one of his posts. Suffice to say that extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, and furchfur has none except wishful thinking. | /r/MensRights | 09/08/16 11:45 PM |
| 2 | Professional rugby player is cleared of raping his Tinder date. Another obvious false allegation that should never have come to court.Citations required. | /r/MensRights | 09/08/16 11:43 PM |
| 2 | Professional rugby player is cleared of raping his Tinder date. Another obvious false allegation that should never have come to court.She won't face any unless police decide that her accusation was a serious perversion of the course of justice. | /r/MensRights | 09/08/16 11:42 PM |
| 1 | Professional rugby player is cleared of raping his Tinder date. Another obvious false allegation that should never have come to court.Certainly the notion of 90% is utter bullshit... beyond that, what do you mean is impossible? Impossible to know? Or that 8–12% is impossible? | /r/MensRights | 09/08/16 11:37 PM |
| – | Professional rugby player is cleared of raping his Tinder date. Another obvious false allegation that should never have come to court.How bizarre. I assume it was an automatic thing; either they didn't like me linking AVfM (but I don't recall any blacklist for avfm links), or it was because the URL was mangled (had unescaped parentheses in it). Thanks for sorting it! | /r/MensRights | 09/08/16 08:29 PM |
| – | Professional rugby player is cleared of raping his Tinder date. Another obvious false allegation that should never have come to court.If so, then fine, but I was working from a legal basis. I'm wary of excessive rhetoric in such matters because overdoing it makes our argument look as batshit as theirs. That doesn't invalidate hyperbolic rhetoric, it's just my personal pov. Just be consistent when the time comes to talk about rape statistics. This, definitely. | /r/MensRights | 09/08/16 07:58 PM |
| – | Professional rugby player is cleared of raping his Tinder date. Another obvious false allegation that should never have come to court.You're quoting the FBI figure. UK CPS says around 12% (Rumney, 2006), so I split the difference and call it 10%. Other studies show smaller and larger numbers, but I think 10% is a good figure to work with because even that alone is enough to justify change in policy. | /r/MensRights | 09/08/16 07:53 PM |
| 2 | Professional rugby player is cleared of raping his Tinder date. Another obvious false allegation that should never have come to court.Oh, sorry, about half way through the last paragraph of page 44, continuing on to page 45. | /r/MensRights | 09/08/16 07:50 PM |
| – | Professional rugby player is cleared of raping his Tinder date. Another obvious false allegation that should never have come to court.The CPS will only charge a woman with a false allegation when there is a 100% chance of conviction. Probably true, and I suspect that even then, not all such cases are prosecuted. That's suggestive of prosecutorial misconduct which has nothing at all to do with whether failure to prosecute or secure conviction means (or even suggests) that the complaint was false. In the UK there has never been a woman taken to court accused of a false allegation who has been cleared. That's a bit like saying, "… | /r/MensRights | 09/08/16 07:19 PM |
| – | Professional rugby player is cleared of raping his Tinder date. Another obvious false allegation that should never have come to court.If it's a reasonable assumption, then you can explain the rationale behind it. If you wish to assert that acquittal or non-prosecution of a complaint is evidence of a false or fraudulent complaint (implies mens rea to deceive and/or pervert the course of justice on the part of the complainant) as opposed to merely wrong, mistaken or incorrect (ie no malice on the part of the complainant), then the onus is on you to establish why with particular reference to the principles on which our justice sy… | /r/MensRights | 09/08/16 06:49 PM |
| 3 | Feminism V MRASome are. So are some feminists. So what? | /r/MensRights | 09/08/16 05:11 PM |
| – | Professional rugby player is cleared of raping his Tinder date. Another obvious false allegation that should never have come to court.That is not even a remotely reasonable assumption. Just as 'not guilty' does not mean 'innocent', failure to convict or prosecute does not mean that there was no merit to the original complaint. There are umpteen reasons why the CPS won't prosecute a given case even when there is evidence of genuine rape. Reasons include the victim's expressed wish not to proceed (or not to participate in the trial) or when there is insufficient evidence to convict. Even when there is ample evidence that somebod… | /r/MensRights | 09/08/16 05:07 PM |
| 15 | I'm a feminist and I just got banned from r/feminism by expressing concern over free speechFeminism is a label that anybody can identify with. It's not a licence that can be revoked. Same with the label 'MRA'. Some feminists, like you, believe in equality. Other feminists demonstrate time and again that they don't. At the very least, their perception of what equality looks like is warped beyond recognition by political ideology. Personally, I prefer to define a thing by what it does, not what it claims. If feminism really were about equality, then I'd be a feminist, too. In fact, ther… | /r/MensRights | 05/08/16 04:32 PM |
| 2 | Irrefutable facts: men suffer DV but not enough to bother about; instead, DV is primarily perpetrated by men.Mmm. I think the sarcasm I wrote for the link title has been missed by a few readers... See my critique of the linked article. | /r/MensRights | 02/08/16 06:08 PM |
| 2 | Irrefutable facts: men suffer DV but not enough to bother about; instead, DV is primarily perpetrated by men.Yes, girls need to be taught to be as respectful to men as boys are taught to be to women. Fathers — when they're allowed to be around! — need to set good role models for their daughters, too. Both parents influence the way children relate to their own and the other gender. But men can be just as violent, and for the same reasons, as women. The suggestion that men are not violent unless provoked is only true generally. Some men are just as damaged as some women, and they'll lash out under the ri… | /r/MensRights | 02/08/16 06:02 PM |
| – | Irrefutable facts: men suffer DV but not enough to bother about; instead, DV is primarily perpetrated by men.Domestic violence is provoked. Stop provoking men and the domestic violence stops. There's some truth to that but, according to Erin Pizzey, DV is primarily generational. Children who've experienced or witnessed DV are much more likely to be violent adults and be attracted to likewise violent adults. Even if that were not the case, provocation works both ways, so there is still no basis to treat DV as gendered. | /r/MensRights | 02/08/16 02:36 PM |
| 7 | Irrefutable facts: men suffer DV but not enough to bother about; instead, DV is primarily perpetrated by men.ETA: I'm not shadow banned there, after all. Livefyre just sucks as a commenting service. Still, I'll leave my comment here anyway because it serves as a summary and critique of the piece. — There are several problems with the thesis of this piece. First, provocation is an excuse that works both ways. If women can excuse their violence in terms of the man's provocations (abusive or otherwise), then so can men. That gets us nowhere. Second, Gilmore plays down the significance of psychological abu… | /r/MensRights | 02/08/16 02:15 PM |
| – | How do any of you guys deal with this?I'm an MRA so I have my own biases, but I think you've got a good grip on each group, particularly TRP and PUA. MGTOW, as a philosophy, has a lot to recommend it but some of the MGTOW communities have an unfortunate proportion of men who've let their hurt ossify into hatred. (I was making an indirect reference to this in my first comment.) I know for a fact there are sane women There are, and many men cohabit or are in relationships with decent, sane women. Note about cohabitation: doubtless you… | /r/MensRights | 02/08/16 12:36 PM |
| 2 | How do any of you guys deal with this?Trust yourself, and don't value yourself in terms of what other people think of you or what society expects of you. As you're young, you probably won't yet know who you are. Most people in their twenties, and many in their thirties, especially their early thirties, don't know who they are. It may help to know that many people in their forties still don't know who they are, and some never find out. Some, perhaps the more introspective ones, get lucky and figure it out early. Since trusting yourse… | /r/MensRights | 02/08/16 12:31 AM |
| 1 | Philip Davies MP speaks at ICMI16 LondonDavies' committee debate about International Men's Day (if memory serves) is a treat, too. | /r/MensRights | 01/08/16 05:00 PM |
| 2 | The Details of My Defamation Case - Richard Carrier.Ironic that a man who so enthusiastically embraced Atheism+ and their "if you're not with us, you're against us" attitude, who labelled any dissenter as "C.H.U.D." (if memory serves, Contemptible Humanoid Underground Dweller as a take off the horror film "C.H.U.D."), a misogynist and a douchebag should now end up a CHUD himself (by his own definition). Welcome to douchebaggery, I guess. As for the article in question, quoth Carrier: Had a man done all that Lane has done, people would be outraged… | /r/MensRights | 31/07/16 08:29 PM |
| 2 | [Daily Telegraph] Stop the man bashing. It’s time to fight back against feminismIndeed! | /r/MensRights | 29/07/16 08:02 PM |
| 4 | What do we think of this?It's a bad analogy because, as /u/girlwriteswhat has repeatedly pointed out, rape is the only crime that can arise from otherwise legal activity (sex) and is the only crime that depends on the state of mind of both the victim and perpetrator. (It can't be rape if the not-victim wanted sex , and it isn't rape, in the criminal sense, if the alleged perpetrator didn't have good to be aware that there was no consent. Likewise, it isn't theft if the owner gave permission to take their property.) In c… | /r/MensRights | 29/07/16 02:06 PM |
| 1 | Women are fighting back against radical hateful feminism...support is fading.This is a repost of this article but on a different website. If the person who reposted Corrine's article has permission from the Australian Daily Telegraph (or, possibly, Corrine herself) they don't say so. | /r/MensRights | 29/07/16 01:03 PM |
| – | [Daily Telegraph] Stop the man bashing. It’s time to fight back against feminismbroke and living in a bedsit? Really? Evidently, I don't have access to her financials, but I'd guess that this is pretty accurate. It's certainly consistent with what is publicly known about Erin. She was (and is) a journalist and a writer (not usually a highly-paid job). Besides that, she spent a great of time engaged in DV-related activism and research. Her wikipedia page says: She returned to London in the late 1990s, homeless due to debt and in increasingly poor health. Fighting the good fi… | /r/MensRights | 29/07/16 12:40 PM |
| – | White Ribbon Australia attacks Erin PizzeyI don't think you understand taxes. Payment of legal fees is beneficial income to Erin Pizzey and is taxable. I never claimed to be a tax accountant so you may be right. I have my doubts, but I'm not really interested in veering off into a protracted discussion about accounting standards because it's rather off topic and, given that I'm not responsible for anybody else's tax accountancy, rather irrelevant. The subject at hand is what is possible and what is likely in respect of AVfM, Erin and th… | /r/MensRights | 24/07/16 01:29 PM |
| 1 | Media blackout on ICMI 2016Don't forget, this was less than a month after the Brexit vote and in the middle of the Tory party leadership contest. The media was pretty crammed with coverage of the convulsions caused by both. | /r/MensRights | 23/07/16 09:41 PM |
| 1 | White Ribbon Australia attacks Erin PizzeyElam hasn't promised that's the only "overhead" that will be deducted from donations. Actually, he has (emphasis mine): I want to remind everyone that neither Erin Pizzey nor A Voice for Men will be keeping a single dime of the money you donate. It will go to legal expenses and actual overhead only. Any additional funds will be donated to social service organisations that deliver direct assistance to men and boys and to homeless populations. But, given how much you hate him, I don't imagine that… | /r/MensRights | 23/07/16 09:37 PM |
| – | White Ribbon Australia attacks Erin PizzeyYou expect anybody who knows anything at all about AVfM to think that Paul won't have access to this money? Can he pay himself out of his own company? Of course, but IIRC, he's on record as saying that he hasn't taken any compensation from AVfM in some time. Could he take a cut of the donations? I guess there's nothing stopping him, but I actually do take him at his word that he won't. You choose to believe otherwise but that's unsurprising your overt loathing of the man. (FundAnything site): An… | /r/MensRights | 23/07/16 09:34 PM |
| – | White Ribbon Australia attacks Erin PizzeyIn the video Paul Elam says that donations will be used for legal expenses and "overhead". Mmm. Do you think that FundAnything, PayPal or credit card companies don't take their slice? | /r/MensRights | 23/07/16 05:41 PM |
| – | White Ribbon Australia attacks Erin PizzeyNote that the requested donations are going straight to A Voice for Men instead of to Erin Pizzey. Except why is Paul Elam collecting the money at all? Why is Paul Elam in charge of distributing it? Surely they knew how to set up a fundraiser that would go straight to Erin Pizzey and/or her lawyer. Well, Paul's not collecting the money personally, his organisation is and I can think of at least three good reasons why Erin might opt to do it this way: Erin said in the FundAnything video that she … | /r/MensRights | 23/07/16 05:01 PM |
| – | White Ribbon Australia attacks Erin Pizzeythere's not a snowball's chance in hell of Erin Pizzey or anyone else winning this lawsuit. Well, as you pointed out in your quote, this matter is being heard by WIPO. They don't hear civil torts which means it's not a lawsuit (so Erin isn't liable for damages if she loses, therefore she hasn't got much motivation to fight this unless she and her attorney believe that she has a decent case). White Ribbon, like any other charity, is entitled to choose what their mission is. No-one's disputing tha… | /r/MensRights | 22/07/16 03:59 PM |
| 3 | Can you help by sharing this video and if you can donate to the Erin Pizzey Legal Defense FundYou're correct that WRA's attitudes don't of themselves give Erin any rights, but you're making a bit of an assumption that WRA has an exclusive right to the name "white ribbon" to begin with. For example, Erin has a right to be known as Erin Pizzey, but not exclusively so. In much the same way, businesses don't automatically get exclusive rights to a name or brand, that's what trademarks are for. Perhaps this earlier video might clarify a few things. TL;DR- It's not yet evident that they have a… | /r/MensRights | 22/07/16 03:04 PM |
| 1 | Institutionalized secism (dress code) at my workIn the case you cite, the Job Centre applied different standards of dress to their male and female employees — shirt-and-tie for men, T-shirt for women. That is, indeed, illegal in the UK. OP's workplace, however, appears to apply a comparable standard of dress to both sexes, albeit expressed differently for each sex according to prevailing social mores, and there is nothing evidently or obviously illegal about that in the UK given social expectations. It's true, men are somewhat more restricted… | /r/MensRights | 18/07/16 06:00 PM |
| 4 | Why Andrea Leadsom's comments about men working with children are both wrong and seriously dangerousBy me, at least, some relief that she didn't end up as PM. And yeah, there seems to be a degree of wtf? going on, but ordinary Britons aren't know for their expressions of outrage. Especially wrt men. But Theresa May and her Extremist Disruption Orders make it seem like a choice between the devil and the deep, blue sea. | /r/MensRights | 16/07/16 07:54 PM |
| – | Institutionalized secism (dress code) at my workIllegal in the UK. You are allowed to discriminate on dress but the two must be comparable. Citation needed, I think. To the extent that discrimination exists in this matter, it is the threat of dismissal if the employee fails to comply with the dress code. The Equality Act (2010) says you can't discriminate on the basis of any one of the 10 or so protected classes, in this case, sex, but I don't think it requires that the rules imposed be identical. Comparable ≠ same. Provided the rules are spe… | /r/MensRights | 16/07/16 11:09 AM |
| 2 | Institutionalized secism (dress code) at my workOff the top of my head: Sikhism prohibits cutting hair at all (as /u/WhiteThrone says). It's one of the 'five Ks' (the others including a wooden comb, an iron bracelet, a short dagger and a kind of underwear), but it's a matter of personal observation. For example, I know a Sikh man who doesn't cut his hair (so wears a turban), but does shave. Islam prohibits cutting the beard, although there seems to be considerably more latitude on that because, like nearly everything else in Islam, it is a ma… | /r/MensRights | 16/07/16 10:53 AM |
| – | Institutionalized secism (dress code) at my workWhat, exactly, is wrong with this dress code? It distinguishes between men and women, but since social norms wrt dress are different for each sex anyway and cross-dressing (for example, although it's worse one way than the other) is frowned upon, it seems pretty reasonable to me. | /r/MensRights | 16/07/16 10:28 AM |
| 4 | An apology that I wish I could deliver to the men rights activist I dismissedConsider it acknowledgement of your courage. You've done, as /u/Wanderer15 said, something that few manage. And that alone is praiseworthy. | /r/MensRights | 05/07/16 01:00 PM |
| 3 | An apology that I wish I could deliver to the men rights activist I dismissedKudos. That took courage. The good news is that courageous men and women, including yourself, come to be aware of the lies of the dominant narrative and, one at a time, come to reject them. Slowly, society heals and one day, just maybe and if enough people do what you've done, the relationship between men and women as a whole will once again become functional again. If not, our future looks bleak. | /r/MensRights | 05/07/16 12:56 PM |
| -1 | identical twin boys were raised as a brother-sister pair (botched circumcision). The truth came when the one being raised as a girl INSISTED he was a boy; the parents admitted he was the subject of an experiment trying to prove gender identity was nurture, not nature. He later committed suicide.This is an old story, but it's good to see folk reminded of it from time to time. Aside from being one of the most profound disproofs of John Money's tabula rasa nonsense (to be clear, he didn't originate it, but he was a massive proponent of it back in the day), it's also evidence in support of Gender Dysphoria and SRS as a valid treatment (where indicated, since GD is a spectrum disorder). That Reimer's gender dysphoria was iatrogenic (doctor-induced) does not detract from the fact of his GD; … | /r/MensRights | 05/07/16 12:38 PM |
| 1 | More great NZ Journalism at work: ‘Ludicrous’ alcohol limits imposed on fundraiser over concerns about female drinkersthe safe drinking limits come from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). It doesn't seem to cite specific studies and doesn't define 'alcohol use disorder' (for many clinical purposes, 'disorder' is defined in terms of the safe limits which makes it rather circular) but, being an NIH publication, I assume that there are such studies. That's not really a warranted assumption but, without doing a lit review like that consultant did, it's the best I can do. Anyway, the con… | /r/MensRights | 16/06/16 09:50 AM |
| – | More great NZ Journalism at work: ‘Ludicrous’ alcohol limits imposed on fundraiser over concerns about female drinkersYou're assuming that wine is served with every course (maybe it is, don't know) and also that everybody drinks (or even accepts) their 'allowance'. MRAs make a big deal about agency and especially the capacity of women to take responsibility for their decisions. Why, in this instance, does that suddenly go out of the window? On what grounds should patrons of this event be considered incapable of not drinking more than the legal limit if driving or, if not driving, drinking more? Or that they sho… | /r/MensRights | 15/06/16 08:18 PM |
| 4 | Debunking Feminism: Etymology of Gendered Language.'herstory' is nothing compared to 'ovular' (as opposed to seminar), coined by feminist philosopher Joyce Trebilcot circa 1982. Chapter 3, p50 Who Stole Feminism? (Hoff Sommers) begins: I am grateful ... to the students of my women's studies ovular at Washington University in the spring semester of 1982. This little acknowledgement, in the preface of a book by the feminist philosopher Joyce Treblicot, is one of the more amusing examples of the feminist effort to purge language of sexist bias. Tre… | /r/MensRights | 27/05/16 01:50 PM |
| 1 | Female Students Are More Pro-Censorship Than Male Students.Gotchya. Perhaps it should have been obvious, but it wasn't to me. :) | /r/MensRights | 24/05/16 05:08 PM |
| – | Female Students Are More Pro-Censorship Than Male Students.It's because women are more emotional than men, it's harder for them to deal with disagreement and backlash from their opponents when their ideas and opinions are challenged. Depends what you mean by "more emotional". While there's no reason or evidence to believe that women intrinsically experience more emotion than men, there's plenty of reason to think they act on it more than men — on average. Emotions are a combination of reactions to external stimuli and past experience. They come from the… | /r/MensRights | 24/05/16 04:22 PM |
| – | As a female college student, what can I do to empower my male friends who are (seemingly) very emasculated and don't stand up for themselves?I can't imagine any man not feeling emasculated by that, making the problem worse. You don't speak for me, particularly when such a defence coming from a woman directed at other women is much more powerful than were it coming from a man. | /r/MensRights | 09/05/16 09:32 PM |
| 3 | Angry Harry - a complete list of all his articles. R.I.P.The content provider should have backups, right? Hosting companies keep backups of physical media in case of hardware failures, but content backups are usually the responsibility of the content owner, and usually won't go to their physical media backups for the sake of an individual customer (mainly because it's rather time consuming and difficult to do so). Even if they would, they won't talk to anybody but the account holder should a restore be necessary. As a practical matter, it has to be th… | /r/MensRights | 15/04/16 04:21 PM |
| – | Angry Harry - a complete list of all his articles. R.I.P.Without having the ability to maintain it or fix it if it goes down? Not sure if it has any executable code on it but, if it does, then there's the risk it could get hacked. Besides, if you already have your own hosting, it'd be far cheaper to move it to that than pay for two sets of hosting. The fate of angryharry.com is in the hands of his heirs. | /r/MensRights | 15/04/16 12:34 PM |
| – | Alleged feminist censorship on facebook - what should we do about it?Right. Where it gets sticky is whether private property paid for privately and which is used to solicit business from the public constitutes "public accommodation". Evidently, the Unruh Civil Rights Act (1959) establishes that definition in the State of California. That, I guess, is CA's right to do. Though I'm broadly in favour of laws that require businesses soliciting from the public to treat all public equally (per Unruh and the "house rules" page you linked), I'm not sure I agree that legis… | /r/MensRights | 12/04/16 07:48 PM |
| 1 | Facebook has now banned A Voice for MenAll of which is true (I loathe both FB and twitter, and don't touch either unless I have to), and yet my point remains: however badly FB may be doing, however much those in touch and up-to-date know its failings, it still represents a sizeable audience not otherwise accessible, therefore AVfM has to maintain an FB presence. A lot of people find www.avoiceformen.com (which is where AVfM's primary content is and therefore where, ideally, AVfM wants them) via FaceBook, and AVfM needs exposure to th… | /r/MensRights | 12/04/16 07:06 PM |
| – | Facebook has now banned A Voice for MenI don't remember all the names; I've also seen direct evidence that she's attacked Humanity vs Feminism and Exposing Feminism, and I'm pretty sure that there were more, possibly including Antifeminism Australia and maybe others. Certainly there have been a variety of FB pages attacked, whether Garston is responsible for all of them, idk. If you keep a close eye on her FB page, she crows about her latest "victory" for a while (with screenshot evidence), but then deletes it so taking screen shots … | /r/MensRights | 12/04/16 04:59 PM |
| – | Alleged feminist censorship on facebook - what should we do about it?So, pass a state law or ordinance that forbids companies to provide social networking services that censor free speech. If you can persuade legislators to do that, then sure. But good luck doing that. But still, business owners cannot refuse to serve anyone they please. You may wish that were the case and so might I, but it's not the case. True, they don't have absolute discretion, but they have more discretion than you seem to think. See my longer reply for elaboration on that. Can you point to… | /r/MensRights | 12/04/16 03:06 PM |
| 1 | Feminism censorship campaign shows their desperationThey don't get to say "no." Of course, these are local monopolies, and they are therefore subject to special rules and regulations, but the concept is there. Where are there any energy monopolies anymore? But yes, for an actual, genuine monopoly, they generally are highly regulated about what they can and can't do (including how and whom they deny service). A good example of where private companies with "natural monopolies" are regulated is access to the "last mile" of telephone circuits. The co… | /r/MensRights | 12/04/16 02:45 PM |
| – | Facebook has now banned A Voice for MenAVfM already has its own website. The point of a facebook presence is to reach those who would not otherwise find that website because, for some, FB is "the internet". It's the same with lots of companies. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/16 12:56 PM |
| – | Facebook has now banned A Voice for MenFrom what I know, Garston also targeted other men's rights FB pages so yes, it is a general attack on MRA sites. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/16 12:53 PM |
| – | Alleged feminist censorship on facebook - what should we do about it?I've heard of it. Question is, have enough other people? Better question: who's to say voat won't do the same thing reddit/FB/et al do? | /r/MensRights | 11/04/16 06:50 PM |
| – | Men are being driven to sex change surgery because of the rise of strong women, says author Fay Weldon. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Ms Weldon said: 'The only way men have of fighting back against the natural superiority of women is by becoming women themselves.Fascinating stuff, thank you for elaborating (and for correcting my misconceptions)! BIGFIB, that's a good one. Reminds me of the auscultation mnemonic I was taught: Prostitutes Always Take Money for Pulmonary, Aortic, Tricuspid and Mitral valves. | /r/MensRights | 11/04/16 05:41 PM |
| 1 | Feminism censorship campaign shows their desperationLoss of social media would certainly be a blow to getting the message out there but plenty of people disseminated their ideas before social media came to dominate the Internet. Google is of primary importance here, because it doesn't matter where content is published, Google will find it if it's relevant. So, as I suggested elsewhere, find prominent websites that accept submissions for publication and write something. AVfM (with which I'm most familiar) does, and it has decent page rank, too. Th… | /r/MensRights | 11/04/16 05:22 PM |
| – | Feminism censorship campaign shows their desperationThey don't get to cut the electricity to your house because they disagree with you. Correct, because that'd be a breach of contract. There is no contract between FB (or any other free social media platform) that gives content producers any rights vis. à vis their platform. And a lot of businesses, even if they are not monopolies, are required to serve customers they don't like or don't agree with. Yes, again, because of contract law. Even to the extent that there is an implicit contract and to t… | /r/MensRights | 11/04/16 05:17 PM |
| – | Alleged feminist censorship on facebook - what should we do about it?injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere. Reminds me of a quote: "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured...the first thought forbidden...the first freedom denied – chains us all, irrevocably." (Okay, just outed myself as a geek, but that is hardly news.) Reddit, at least, is open source code as well as a company. Perhaps it's time to set up an independent reddit. I know one or two who've proposed this before, and now there may be a good case for it. And yes, I… | /r/MensRights | 11/04/16 05:10 PM |
| – | Alleged feminist censorship on facebook - what should we do about it?Apples and oranges. Corporations (of which there are many different types), LLCs, partnerships and sole traders can do anything they like within the law and, beyond that, must comply with local, state and federal obligations. The OR and CO cases concerning wedding cakes you cite took place in states in which there is state-level legislation that prohibits discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, that's why they lost their tort cases. As far as FB goes, jurisdiction is a bit of a clus… | /r/MensRights | 11/04/16 05:07 PM |
| 1 | Feminism censorship campaign shows their desperationOh, I don't know about that. Personally, I tend to avoid publications that don't have comments sections because they are frequently more interesting than the ATL content. But that's just me. Yes, obviously, commentators are self-selected, but it doesn't follow that their perspectives are meaningless. Sure, they're not representative of the population at large, but what is interesting is to note the change in comments over time. Several years ago, there was scarcely anything pro-male or anti-SJW … | /r/MensRights | 11/04/16 04:48 PM |
| – | Feminism censorship campaign shows their desperationCensorship is a huge problem. It would be horrible if any agenda was able to spread via the internet unopposed. Hang on a minute, let me play devil's advocate here. Remember we're not talking about net neutrality here, we're talking about what privately owned companies do with their own properties and assets. Requiring that private organisations permit any speech would set an even worse precedent than the other way around, because suddenly organisations would have to host content that they are f… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/16 01:00 PM |
| – | Feminism censorship campaign shows their desperationIf governments and private companies have been unable to stamp out porn or piracy (or, indeed, white supremacist groups etc), I doubt feminists have any meaningful way of censoring the internet. They can perhaps censor high profile social media, to be sure, but the internet? Nope. Anybody can start a website. The trouble is getting traffic to it (and keeping it). | /r/MensRights | 10/04/16 12:47 PM |
| – | Feminism censorship campaign shows their desperationNo, feminism is not losing. It depends a bit on what your (or their) definition of success or losing looks like. From the point of view that fewer than 20% of women identify as feminist in the US (I gather the figure is around 8% in the UK), that rather does look like 'losing'. From the point of view that feminists control media, yeah, they're very much winning. The real test of whether feminism is winning is to see the extent to which current feminists topics do jour gain any traction among the… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/16 12:45 PM |
| – | I was terrified to click on this subreddit...I assure you a lot of feminists are trying to help men too. To the extent that feminism is defined by the dictionary, I'm sure you're quite right — but, since feminism is better defined by what it does and since those who identify as feminists do seem to be the embodiment of the things you mention, it's unsurprising that feminism and all those who identify as feminists (regardless of their actual intentions) get painted as they do here. Aside from yourself, where are all the "good" feminists, th… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/16 12:34 PM |
| – | Alleged feminist censorship on facebook - what should we do about it?As /u/ThePigmanAgain said, FB is a private company (albeit a publicly traded one) and is entitled, indeed, legally obliged to do whatever it believes is in the best interests of its shareholders. The issue extends beyond the corporate values of FB. If FB's interests, eg by encouraging eyeballs (for ads and 'promoted content', not forgetting user and activity metadata (eg demographics) they can sell), then that is what they'll do, regardless of what is 'right' and even what is popular (perversely… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/16 12:29 PM |
| 1 | "Please don't become a woman-hating douchebag."Dawkin's Selfish Gene ... did a lot to popularise and make accessible to the lay reader Darwinian natural selection, but neither that book nor Dawkins himself are the last word on the subject. It's a useful publication to the extent that it provides some material with which to fight creationism but, from what I understand, it's not a scholarly work and its scope is limited to the laity. (Leastways, I would expect my colleagues to be highly dubious of any attempt to reference Selfish Gene in scho… | /r/MensRights | 06/04/16 01:00 PM |
| 3 | After The Archers shocked fans with Ambridge's 'first murder', domestic abuse campaigner Erin Pizzey warns: This plot could drive more women to killRegardless of whether a fictional plot would encourage or otherwise "give permission" to act like Archers' charcter Helen, Erin's points are nevertheless sound. Real relationships are seldom as simplistic as that depicted in The Archers, and even though "Rob"s are real characters who do dreadful things, nobody deserves to be stabbed to death solely for bad behaviour (self defence is another matter entirely). DV should not be a defence to manslaughter (as Elizabeth Sheehy and the UK's Fawcett Soc… | /r/MensRights | 05/04/16 05:12 PM |
| 3 | After The Archers shocked fans with Ambridge's 'first murder', domestic abuse campaigner Erin Pizzey warns: This plot could drive more women to killwhich as we all know is bollocks Do we? How? Perhaps you're referring to the absence of a link between video games and real-world violence. If so, I'd point out that while both relate to fiction, the difference is that the character depicted as Rob exists in the real world, both in men and women, where the scenarios depicted in pretty much any video game I've seen (not that I'm an aficionado or have seen all that many) don't happen in real life. Sure, if there's an invasion of aliens, pick up th… | /r/MensRights | 05/04/16 04:10 PM |
| – | "Please don't become a woman-hating douchebag."Right. But executive decision-making is not a source of morality (and I never said it was), it is only the capacity to make decisions given information at hand — which includes social influences — including the capacity to put others before self. It is a remarkable phenomenon only observed in humans (and probably some of the great apes, though such cases are much harder to document for obvious reasons). The capacity for speech is equally remarkable, and the two may well be related (c.f. the Sapi… | /r/MensRights | 05/04/16 02:43 PM |
| – | "Please don't become a woman-hating douchebag."Executive thinking is not a silver bullet to social conditioning, genetics, environment, etc. Of course not, but nor are social conditioning, genetics, environment etc definitive or decisive factors in how people behave. The capacity for executive decision-making means it is possible to override other considerations, not that it is even likely — but, that's where social conditioning comes in. When gynocentrism becomes socially disapproved of, many if not most will choose not to show it publicly,… | /r/MensRights | 04/04/16 12:36 PM |
| 1 | University student is ordered not to put her hand up to ask a question because she would be violating her classmates' 'safe space'That's why I said, within reason, 'cos we know what some employers will do if they find out your political beliefs particularly HR departments. But, just as those "shithead millennials" are entering the workforce (it'll be a decade or three before they're in any position of power), so is tolerance for their safe-space culture nonsense waning. The social narrative is changing, in no small part because campus feminists are getting battier than ever and because of the efforts of MRAs. Just yesterda… | /r/MensRights | 04/04/16 11:14 AM |
| – | Men are being driven to sex change surgery because of the rise of strong women, says author Fay Weldon. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Ms Weldon said: 'The only way men have of fighting back against the natural superiority of women is by becoming women themselves.Thanks, and thanks for the additional detail! gets converted peripherally What, exactly, is peripheral metabolism? Metabolism in tissues other than liver or kidneys? Also, where else does testosterone/androgen get synthesized other than adrenals and gonads? Cortisol tones down the production of ACTH Cortisol sure does get involved in a lot of endocrine mechanisms... It always puzzled me slightly that cortisol is associated with stress and is also a steroid used topically to treat skin lesions be… | /r/MensRights | 04/04/16 10:35 AM |
| 2 | Men are being driven to sex change surgery because of the rise of strong women, says author Fay Weldon. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Ms Weldon said: 'The only way men have of fighting back against the natural superiority of women is by becoming women themselves.It can depend on how sensitive to testosterone you were and how old you started hormones. Right. Underdeveloped hips in the case I'm thinking of points to a degree of hypersensitivity (or AIS if XY, I don't know if he ever had a genotype done). He was certainly in his twenties or thirties when he transitioned. Hard to tell, especially after HRT. so it wasn't that hard to feminize enough to throw the expectation and recognition to feminine I guess that makes you 'less unlucky', if I can put it th… | /r/MensRights | 03/04/16 04:08 PM |
| 2 | Men are being driven to sex change surgery because of the rise of strong women, says author Fay Weldon. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Ms Weldon said: 'The only way men have of fighting back against the natural superiority of women is by becoming women themselves.Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Bingo. Always good to learn something new, thanks for that. I guess it's a lot easier to go from a readily-identifiable physiological pathology to correlation with likely consequences than to find evidence in support of a hypothetical physiological cause for a given psychological condition. They screen before hormones. And then make a follow up during hormones to see if hormones were the right choice to decide if surgery is worth going for. Yup. Some docs screen by… | /r/MensRights | 03/04/16 04:01 PM |
| – | Men are being driven to sex change surgery because of the rise of strong women, says author Fay Weldon. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Ms Weldon said: 'The only way men have of fighting back against the natural superiority of women is by becoming women themselves.I'd have said that screening was a) to confirm the diagnosis of GD (though not the underlying causes of it) and b) to ensure that the candidate has realistic expectations and is fully cognisant of the risks and consequences of going through with it, notably that sexual function of neogenitalia is simply not as good as that of naturally formed genitalia. Then there are the social consequences: there is still a great deal of discrimination, in nearly all parts of society, against transgender peopl… | /r/MensRights | 03/04/16 03:38 PM |
| 4 | University student is ordered not to put her hand up to ask a question because she would be violating her classmates' 'safe space'Same here in the UK, I think, but unless they expressly give your politics as the reason (which would be unbelievably stupid) as opposed, say, to 'creating a hostile environment', proving it is iffy at best and is not usually worth the cost of the suit. Constructive dismissal suits are hard enough, and you'd probably fare better with one of those than for the express reason of politics. Anyway, certainly American readers need to be careful, especially in at-will states. | /r/MensRights | 03/04/16 03:28 PM |
| 7 | Men are being driven to sex change surgery because of the rise of strong women, says author Fay Weldon. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Ms Weldon said: 'The only way men have of fighting back against the natural superiority of women is by becoming women themselves.Okay, so Weldon is a TERF. Next. | /r/MensRights | 03/04/16 03:16 PM |
| – | Men are being driven to sex change surgery because of the rise of strong women, says author Fay Weldon. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Ms Weldon said: 'The only way men have of fighting back against the natural superiority of women is by becoming women themselves.3.) Gender Dysphoria would not account for the fact that men transition twice as much as women do There may be a scientifically feasible explanation for this; as you (may/might/probably) know, all embryos will develop into female babies unless virilised by a variety of hormones secreted primarily by the embryo's endocrine system, triggered by the SRY gene on the Y-chromosome, but also can be influenced by maternally sourced hormones. Since there's an extra step (well, quite a few steps) in creat… | /r/MensRights | 03/04/16 03:14 PM |
| – | University student is ordered not to put her hand up to ask a question because she would be violating her classmates' 'safe space'Hrm. Certainly a moronic thing to say. I wonder to what extent Imogen actually believes what she said, or is just going through the motions, saying what she thinks she must in order to avoid getting screwed over by her students' union or her lecturers (or both). That might make her a coward but, I think Milo said it, the best thing to do is to keep your head down and not make yourself a target until you get out into the workforce. Then you can do and say whatever you like (within reason, 'cos we… | /r/MensRights | 03/04/16 01:46 PM |
| – | "Please don't become a woman-hating douchebag."Nietzsche also had a lot of critical things to say about women, similar to Hagakure or Schopenhauer. If you've read any of Nietzsches' later works, you will see cultural memes of women in his writing that read like an MRA bullet point list of whats wrong with feminism. I know little of Nietzsche himself or of his work, I only recalled that oft-repeated quote and Googled to find who said it (because I try to provide citations for any quote when I can). I was a bit surprised it was a well-known ph… | /r/MensRights | 03/04/16 01:36 PM |
| – | "Please don't become a woman-hating douchebag."Yup, because most MRAs actually walk the talk about equality. This "equality for women" thing is illiterate: you can't have equality for a thing, you can only have equality between two things. So, what goes for men goes for women as well, including recognition of agency and capacity for self-determination etc. | /r/MensRights | 03/04/16 12:07 PM |
| – | "Please don't become a woman-hating douchebag."Well, in fairness, it's not a completely unreasonable thing to say. Not for nothing did Nietzsche write, Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. As MRAs, we routinely deal with the worst of feminism† and see the worst of women's behaviour toward men, and it's easy to generalise across all women. I've seen it happen, especially in cases where MRAs arrive at the MRM because of something traum… | /r/MensRights | 03/04/16 12:04 PM |
| 2 | Father who was wrongly accused of rape says he has been left homeless and living in a tent because no-one will give him a jobAside from the prejudice against him he could, in theory, rent privately and get the Local Housing Allowance to assist with the rent bill. In practice, even if he could afford the deposit, most private landlords won't take LHA beneficiaries either because of general prejudice, or because they're not allowed to by the terms of the property's mortgage (yes, a lot of buy-to-rent mortgages forbid tenants in receipt of benefits), and consequently there is high competition for those few who do, so a l… | /r/MensRights | 08/03/16 08:16 PM |
| 1 | Hillary the Hawk does it again: Asked about her Wall Street ties, Clinton again invoked 9/11No need to 'assume' anything: she outright said she was a feminist† and yes, it's reasonable to assume that a feminist would allow her personal beliefs to influence her agenda in the same way that the religious right do wrt abortion. Neither the right nor the left give a flying fuck about men's issues; politicians of all stripes are led by votes, by money, by power and by those who have the latter two who can by the former. They care more about the rich than they do anybody else (and Clinton is … | /r/MensRights | 04/12/15 03:14 PM |
| – | Hillary the Hawk does it again: Asked about her Wall Street ties, Clinton again invoked 9/11I don't know about that. If Clinton has a feminist agenda and has a realistic shot at POTUS, that very much makes this a men's issue. | /r/MensRights | 02/12/15 09:58 PM |
| – | Hillary the Hawk does it again: Asked about her Wall Street ties, Clinton again invoked 9/11idk, have they? They've certainly pushed their agendas, whatever they were, to the extent they could (modulo realpolitik), and if that happens to be feminism in the case of Clinton? Why would you expect her not to push a feminist agenda if she's a feminist, and especially if she's elected on a feminist platform ("War on Women" etc)? The difference is that most straight white male politicians don't identify, first and foremost, as straight, white and male (whereas most feminists are all about ide… | /r/MensRights | 02/12/15 09:55 PM |
| – | Hillary the Hawk does it again: Asked about her Wall Street ties, Clinton again invoked 9/11Clinton is on record as self-identifying as a feminist and if you doubt her own word, her commentary certainly seems to support that notion. Recall her infamous quip: Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today’s warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, al… | /r/MensRights | 02/12/15 09:06 PM |
| 16 | Amnesty International won't let Justice for Men and Boys group hold a conference at Human Rights Action Centre because they're "anti-feminists" [/KotakuInAction]Interesting, but I can't say I'm surprised. I've heard rumours about Amnesty International concerning hypocrisy before, but I can't say where, when or why I heard them. Mike is very probably right: there is a good chance that AIUK are breaking the Equality Act 2010, but it'd be expensive to litigate. Pity, AIUK should be held to account for their bigotry. | /r/MensRights | 02/12/15 08:35 PM |
| – | Hillary the Hawk does it again: Asked about her Wall Street ties, Clinton again invoked 9/11Why? Can you explain to this Briton why Sanders is worse than Clinton? Sanders may be more "socialist" than is normal for US politicians, but he seems relatively normal (to me) by UK standards. He also seems to be an unusually principled politician, which Clinton is clearly not. If it had to be a choice between Clinton and Sanders, would you really take Clinton and her feminist agenda over Sanders and his socialist leanings? | /r/MensRights | 02/12/15 03:56 PM |
| – | Harvard Law Review falls prey to radical feminists voices.IIRC, the 1/5 stat comes from Mary Koss' work for the CDC and, ultimately, a survey done Koss conducted for Ms Magazine. As to the rest, even well-meaning researchers suffer from confirmation bias and don't always scrutinise their sources as closely as they should. When I say that, though, I mean peer-reviewed sources which, clearly, a WH press statement is not. You don't get much more biased than a press release from a politician. Pressure to publish has pretty much corrupted academia spectrum-… | /r/MensRights | 01/12/15 09:22 PM |
| 2 | Harvard Law Review falls prey to radical feminists voices.I guess if you remember that, to people like this, "sexism = discrimination + power" and since they believe they hold no power, they believe they can't be sexist. So it makes sense from their PoV, even if not from any objective or even vaguely sane PoV. | /r/MensRights | 01/12/15 09:05 PM |
| 1 | New Red Pill Movie stretch goal of $175,000 – Cassie Jaye explains "From Low-Quality to No Apologies"Well, it helps to have a background in still photography. I know just enough about filmmaking to know that shutter angle is a parameter that still-photographers don't have to worry about. Oh, and choice of frame frequency and format can have some significant implications. I knew that colour correction was something that had to be done so the colour is consistent across the film (akin to normalisation of audio levels — I also have some experience with live pro audio), but there's a lot more I did… | /r/MensRights | 05/11/15 07:58 PM |
| 2 | New Red Pill Movie stretch goal of $175,000 – Cassie Jaye explains "From Low-Quality to No Apologies"Even $250k seems on the low end for the true cost of post production. Everybody should remember that CJ is providing as much free labour as she can (which is only fair, because she has the most invested, both financially and emotionally). But it'd be a lot more than $250k if everything were paid for at the going rate and executed in the usual way. | /r/MensRights | 01/11/15 06:47 PM |
| – | New Red Pill Movie stretch goal of $175,000 – Cassie Jaye explains "From Low-Quality to No Apologies"Also, do you happen to remember what kind of camera she was using? I'd hope for something like this, where she's running around and shooting a convention, she'd have something small and light like a Canon DSLR (a 5D or the like). I did have a look at it and it was something very much of that sort. It might even have been a 5D (I'm pretty sure it was Canon). I'm not a film-maker, but I don't think there was anything wrong with the gear she was using. What I have learned, since CJ's KS, is the amo… | /r/MensRights | 01/11/15 06:40 PM |
| 3 | Neonatal Cutting – Think before you cut.Sexual function matters, of course it does, but parents of newborn boys don't think of their new child as sexual beings. Instead, they worry about things like SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). Since the mortality of babies due to SIDS is about the same as the mortality of circumcision (circumcision carries a very slightly higher risk, but the difference is probably within the margin of error), focusing on the scientifically proven risks is the best way to get new parents to think twice about … | /r/MensRights | 30/10/15 12:50 AM |
| – | Neonatal Cutting – Think before you cut.None of these things are particularly relevant to the scientific bases (or lackthereof) for circumcision. The site is meant to give new parents a rational basis for making their decision (viz. the harms), not talk about their boy's future sex life. Such matters would likely go over the heads of most new parents. The objective is to make their decision as easy as possible, so overloading them with obscure anatomy etc would likely be counterproductive. | /r/MensRights | 29/10/15 04:19 PM |
| 1 | Why MRAs should defend and advocate for laws against marital rape^ This. My OP was arguing against another piece published on AVfM that argued for the abolition of laws that criminalise non-consensual sex between spouses. The law is just fine as it is. But we need to get everybody from law enforcement, the judiciary, and the people from whom juries are selected, to see rape for what it is. A crime committed against the person, and that gender has absolutely nothing to do with whether a person can be a victim or a perpetrator. | /r/MensRights | 01/06/15 03:15 PM |
| 1 | Why MRAs should defend and advocate for laws against marital rapeWhich is why many rape cases result in acquittal. A jury that does its job properly will acquit when the evidence is not there to prove both the actus reus and the mens rea components required by law to establish guilt for rape (unless it's statutory rape, which is a crime of strict liability). So the problem isn't, as you say, the law, but how it's implemented by the judiciary. I addressed this in my OP. There used to be a presumption of consent within marriage. Then the law was changed to remo… | /r/MensRights | 01/06/15 03:10 PM |
| – | I own the domain MensRights101.com, but am burnt out. Never got around to finishing it. Looking to transfer it to someone who will do something good with it.It will, but it'll get spammed fast, and best case, fembots will take over. No two ways about it, this activism gig is an exhausting and time-consuming commitment. What you're proposing will require oversight from someone trustworthy. AVfM launched a reference wiki a couple of years ago.. it bumbles along, but it never got any traction, which is a pity, since a wiki of academic references for men's issues stuff would seem like a tremendously valuable source. But, one thing I've learned in my 2 y… | /r/MensRights | 13/02/15 02:23 AM |
| – | I own the domain MensRights101.com, but am burnt out. Never got around to finishing it. Looking to transfer it to someone who will do something good with it.In terms of where to host the domain, AVfM might provide you a wordpress site (similar to wordpress.com, only not run by fembots). We need not necessarily own the domain in order to do this. I don't recommend letting just anybody post on the site, however. As others have pointed out, it'll fairly quickly get overrun by spammers and fembots (pardon the redundancy). We don't have the time to manage content, but if other people are willing to step up to put content on it, then we'll probably host i… | /r/MensRights | 12/02/15 04:16 PM |
| – | Houston, we have a solution: International Conference on Men's Issues 2015 announcedIn addition to Dean's remarks, the logistics suck. It is relatively remote, which makes transport a PITA, both for people, but also supplies of whatever is needed. Not saying it couldn't be done but, as Dean said, it'd be expensive — when conferences are already expensive enough to stage in the first place. | /r/MensRights | 02/02/15 03:09 PM |
| 2 | I was denied my right to vote at my college because I'm maleYou're quite right, of course, and most organisations (including AVfM) don't publish their data. [Actually, that's not entirely true: If you click on the revolvermap (lower right corner, near the bottom of the page), you'll get these statistics — which aren't bad, but also aren't much use if other sites don't also use them.] That business about Alexa changing their sampling isn't as widely known as it should be, which is a pity because it helps to understand their plots. Oh well, it is what it i… | /r/MensRights | 26/11/14 08:57 PM |
| – | I was denied my right to vote at my college because I'm maleMeh, I don't personally put much faith in Alexa rankings (though I know a lot of people do). 100 very likely means higher rank than 1000 and certainly higher than 10,000, but whether there's a meaningful difference between 25k and 37k is less clear. Getting meaningful metrics when you control the site software is difficult enough, and we have at least two or three different sets of statistics (all of which give quite different numbers because they measure different things). Getting even ball-par… | /r/MensRights | 26/11/14 04:56 AM |
| 1 | I was denied my right to vote at my college because I'm maleThis reminds me of an old trope. Man says to a woman M: Would you have sex with me for a million dollars? W: Sure! M: How about for 10? W: [slaps M] What do you take me for? A prostitute? M: We've already established that, now we're just negotiating the price. In that sense, taxation is a bit like prostitution (perhaps in more ways than one). Assuming you accept the idea of taxation (money paid to the state in return for the state performing certain services) — and I realise not everybody does —… | /r/MensRights | 26/11/14 04:37 AM |
| 1 | I was denied my right to vote at my college because I'm maleThat's the bunny. | /r/MensRights | 26/11/14 04:24 AM |
| 3 | I was denied my right to vote at my college because I'm maleOh, you mean the d'Entrement thing? I note that neither AVfM nor any of the others to pledge bounty on the conviction of her assailant have had to pay out. Like I said, people who would peddle that sort of false connection aren't amenable to coherent thought anyway. | /r/MensRights | 24/11/14 11:14 PM |
| – | I was denied my right to vote at my college because I'm maleThe difference is that he's being taxed (viz. student union levy) without the same say in how his union is run as his fellow female students. The guy in one state doesn't have a vote in the next state's elections, but neither is he expected to contribute to their budget. | /r/MensRights | 24/11/14 09:56 PM |
| – | I was denied my right to vote at my college because I'm maleCAFE are an honourable organisation, but they don't have the reach or the traffic of AVfM. That doesn't make them a bad choice, of course, but if it's publicity you're after, AVfM would be the better choice. That said, I'm well aware of AVfM's reputation and I can quite see why one might wish to avoid it. On the other hand, AVfM's actual message is pretty moderate, even if it's expressed in intemperate language. The extreme end of the MRM (including the masculists etc) are positively unhinged by… | /r/MensRights | 24/11/14 09:36 PM |
| 13 | I was denied my right to vote at my college because I'm maleForward a copy of that email to Barbara Kay (a journalist at the NP). She has written numerous articles on gender politics and might take an interest. | /r/MensRights | 24/11/14 09:18 PM |
| – | I was denied my right to vote at my college because I'm maleEssentially, they are telling you that by virtue of penis, you can have no legitimate interest in women's welfare. If that is true, then you also can have no responsibility for women's welfare. Quite apart from the obvious sexism inherent in this (neither penises nor testicles have anything to do with cognitive faculties or moral judgement), you might like to offer that proposition and ask, as part of your complaint, whether that means that sexual harassment policies cannot apply to men or wheth… | /r/MensRights | 24/11/14 09:13 PM |
| 4 | Is this the kind of drivel that we want to be known for?? He doesn't deserve to breathe.No, it's revolting, but just because I don't like it doesn't mean I (or anyone else) have the right to actually shut them up. The best solution to bad speech is more speech, not censorship. If you want to justify silencing RoK, you must also explain why feminists shouldn't be able to shut down MHRM conferences etc. Can't have it both ways, unless you want to go for, 'but we're obviously right and they're obviously wrong'. | /r/MensRights | 16/10/14 03:51 AM |
| 5 | Is this the kind of drivel that we want to be known for?? He doesn't deserve to breathe.It's certainly vulgar and snobbish (and quite probably misogynist), but hate speech? (wtf? I never thought I'd end up defending RoK. Ew, this makes me feel dirty.) | /r/MensRights | 16/10/14 03:44 AM |
| 3 | Is this the kind of drivel that we want to be known for?? He doesn't deserve to breathe.So, is it right that feminists should shut down MRA conferences etc? | /r/MensRights | 16/10/14 03:40 AM |
| 6 | Is this the kind of drivel that we want to be known for?? He doesn't deserve to breathe.I can't stand RoK, but silencing people with whom one disagrees is feminist territory. | /r/MensRights | 16/10/14 03:33 AM |
| – | Updates and clarification on our rules for postingJust to be clear, naming this individual in our (AVfM's) comment section is likely against our comment policy. Depending on the circumstances (public interest, standard of evidence in support of the claim and how widely available the information is available elsewhere), it might be okay in an article, but naming names is ultimately at the sole discretion of Paul. | /r/MensRights | 22/07/14 06:48 PM |
| 1 | Peter Schiff: "ObamaCare boils down to free stuff for women"Yes, of course — just as women would have to pay for claims that affect men exclusively (eg prostate-related care) or disproportionately (eg hypertension, heart attack and, possibly, stroke) — because that's the way insurance works. Insurance is a bet between the policy holder and the underwriter: the former bets that s/he will have to make a claim, the latter bets that they won't. To be worthwhile, insurance depends on the majority paying their premiums and never claiming (or at least, never cl… | /r/MensRights | 04/10/13 04:47 PM |
| – | Peter Schiff: "ObamaCare boils down to free stuff for women"Sure, point is that once pregnant, it costs not insignificant cash to either abort or deal with complications which can be fatal if untreated. Oral contraceptives require a doctor's prescription. All of which, one would need health insurance, unless there is a single-payer option available. (FWIW, I think being paid for adoptions is bad policy. Some are bound to get pregnant just to get paid. We need fewer unwanted children, not more.) | /r/MensRights | 03/10/13 09:33 PM |
| – | Peter Schiff: "ObamaCare boils down to free stuff for women"Gender not being a choice is even more reason to question the idea of differential premiums. Pregnancy isn't a choice when contraception fails, and obstetrics is only part of female-specific medical care (and possibly only a fairly small part). Most women these days spend only a very limited amount of time pregnant (if at all), and the rest of the time there's breast and cervical cancer screening and all sorts of other gynaecological issues (some of which extend well past menopause). In any even… | /r/MensRights | 03/10/13 09:14 PM |
| – | Peter Schiff: "ObamaCare boils down to free stuff for women"Against the idea of permitting a premium differential, if it's okay to charge women more for their health insurance, why not charge the obese more? Smokers? Drinkers? Those who don't follow somebody else's idea of a healthy diet? Those who don't exercise? Sooner or later, every aspect of your life might be dictated by health insurance companies using the same logic. Maybe not even then, if they decide its right and legal to charge based on one's DNA profile. I grok that the nature of insurance i… | /r/MensRights | 03/10/13 07:39 PM |
| 6 | She began telling me that I was “100% responsible” for our marital problems. I believed her. There was such unbelievable anger and resentment. How could I continue upsetting her so much? I was a bad person.It takes two to make a marriage work (and a lot of hard work, patience and commitment), but only one to screw it up. | /r/MensRights | 02/10/13 05:40 PM |
| – | MR Edmonton at Toronto feminist anti-MR protest last weekend.This is advocating for mens rights in edmonton: it's raising profile of the MHRM, and of MR-E, too. | /r/MensRights | 01/10/13 07:56 PM |
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