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SwanOfAvon22/r/MensRights13/06/13 08:49 PM
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SwanOfAvon22/r/MensRights29/03/13 01:45 AM
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Take the top 20 hs teams in California alone, and you are looking at a massive advantage in height, speed and strength for the men. You could probably do top 50, actually. And that's just California. Texas & Florida would each have similar contributions. There are about 5-10 (forgot exact #) women in the history of the WNBA who have dunked in a game. Would you care to guess how many 14-year-old boys in America are dunking right now?
/r/MensRights29/01/16 02:28 AM
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There are hundreds of high school boys teams in America that would wipe the floor with a WNBA all-star team. I went to a division 3 school in Connecticut and regularly scrimmaged with UConn women's players. Trust me when I say the athleticism gap, especially in an athletic sport like basketball, is massive
/r/MensRights28/01/16 08:23 PM
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If you admit that there are biological differences between men and women, you have to consider the possibility that not every difference in life outcome can be blamed on society/sexism/men. Feminists would rather not lose their victim card, and hence sex differences have to be denied. Except, perhaps, when they favor women, in which case you'll hear all about how much more community-oriented women are, how much less likely they are to start wars or resort to violence.
/r/MensRights19/01/16 10:51 PM
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"UN" and "experts"...ha
/r/MensRights16/12/15 06:27 AM
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Milo wields facts like a bushido blade, dodges attempts at character assassination with a smile and disarms even his most rabid opponents with charm. He is kryptonite to social justice warriors.
/r/MensRights02/12/15 10:29 PM
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This isn't a critique, it's a smearing, and it says all I need to know about you that you would equate "Admires Margaret Thatcher" with "supports Pol Pot and fascism."
/r/MensRights01/11/15 11:24 PM
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The filmmaker has already addressed this. The term "red pill" predates /r/theredpill and has a different connotation in the eyes of the general public, who don't know about these corners of the Internet. In fact, AVM had "Take the red pill" as the slogan on their website for a long time. So it's not at all about equating the MRM vs the TRP crowd, though I can understand why those familiar with these terms might think that. But put yourself in the shoes of John/Jane Q Public
/r/MensRights01/11/15 08:57 PM
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Bring on the rants. Bring on the public meltdowns and UN "cyberviolence" committees. Bring on the draconian sexual assault laws and kangaroo courts. Sanity will eventually prevail, and the faster they out themselves as fanatics and fools, the faster sanity can be restored.
/r/MensRights09/10/15 07:04 AM
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Dean, we seem to be talking across purposes. I do not idolize Dawkins, or view him as infallible, and I am grateful to you for pointing me to Margulis and her criticisms, but none of this changes the fact that your characterization of The Selfish Gene is unfair. It is not a book that ignores altruism; it is a book that seeks to explain it. You are free to take issue with his explanation but that doesn't give you license to pretend he doesn't believe altruism exists, or that it is an unnecessary …
/r/MensRights10/09/15 10:44 PM
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That may be, but your paragraph doesn't convey to me that you've understood or even read The Selfish Gene, as it creates a false dichotomy between competition, on the one hand, and synergy and cooperation on the other, as if The Selfish Gene somehow ignores or downplays synergy and cooperation when it is in fact seeking to explain it.
/r/MensRights09/09/15 07:44 PM
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I generally like Dean, and I'm sympathetic to a lot of what he's trying to get at here, but this was a rambling, borderline incoherent read, filled with sweeping declarations like this: Richard Dawkins’ “Selfish Gene” hypothesis is Kindergarten simple on human biology. Lynn Margulis was right: evolution is as much about synergy and cooperation as it is about competition, and both of those are found in wonderful abundance in humans. That make me lose any confidence that he knows what he's talking…
/r/MensRights07/09/15 06:08 PM
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Wow, Valenti is entirely outclassed by McElroy. This should be widely viewed
/r/MensRights27/08/15 05:31 PM
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Oh yes. Search "UofT feminists" on YouTube for a lovely demonstration of their work there. Or search "Janice Fiamengo" and see what she's had to put up with. We Canadians have drunk the feminist Kool-Aid
/r/MensRights17/08/15 04:36 AM
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White privilege isn't a myth. Having white skin or being male isn't a privilege. How do you not see those two as contradictory? You are aping the same group labeling theory as feminists, but trying to apply it to a wider context. "White privilege" is a meaningless term, as is "male privilege," as is "female privilege." If there is invidious discrimination against group A, it doesn't grant a privilege to group B; the absence of a negative isn't, by default, a positive. And the entire concept beco…
/r/MensRights10/07/15 08:44 AM
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But by the dictionary definition, being white, male or able-bodied is not a privilege. It is you that is similarly distorting words, only to suit a definition different than the one given by feminists. If a Muslim fundamentalist says "freedom" means not criticizing Allah, you get to hold a dictionary aloft and cry "bullshit." But if you say that being white is a privilege, you're adhering to their playbook and you lose recourse to the dictionary, to the actual meaning of words.
/r/MensRights10/07/15 07:21 AM
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Are you really unaware that you're using a definition of privilege that is completely distinct by how it is used by feminists and progressives? They do not accept that there is such a thing as "female privilege." To them, privilege is a one-way street. If you want to counter this, I wouldn't recommend doing it with their own terminology. How about we treat people as individuals?
/r/MensRights10/07/15 05:38 AM
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It won't get better and you're kidding yourself if you believe that. Get out and don't look back. Check out http://shrink4men.com/ for advice/empathy.
/r/MensRights24/06/15 04:20 PM
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Use these please: https://archive.is/p1BII
/r/MensRights18/06/15 04:45 PM
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God, they are petulant children. I can't even fathom how delusional and self-centered you have to be to blow whistles in the ears of the elderly and still feel smugly satisfied that you're morally untouchable.
/r/MensRights06/06/15 12:40 AM
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In the distant (hopefully saner) future, we're going to look back on this entire episode and excoriate the media, the feminists and the politicians that fed this woman's hysteria and obvious mental instability.
/r/MensRights05/06/15 05:46 AM
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Absolutely adore Paglia. She is the cure to this nonsense
/r/MensRights02/06/15 03:16 PM
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Geez, it really has become impossible to parody feminism
/r/MensRights31/05/15 03:37 AM
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I think you're probably closer to the mainstream of the /MR/ subreddit than you realize. The reason we are maligned as right-wing (and I'm not one to consider that an insult, but it's still a mischaracterization as far as I'm concerned) is because feminism as an ideology is overwhelmingly liberal. It predominates in the universities and in the media, has little patience for religious or conservative women, and makes claims about the world and people that accord with a far-left worldview. Spend s…
/r/MensRights25/05/15 04:54 AM
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This is nothing new. All those people who graduated from humanities departments post-1960 are slowly making their way into the positions of influence in the media. Though now we get to see the blank slate vs human nature debate writ large: will Maxim's inclusion of women of all ages and "fuller bodies" be as popular with men as their previous focus on female beauty?
/r/MensRights19/05/15 02:51 AM
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The Daily Show is a comedy show. They are not at all accountable for what they broadcast, even when they purport it to be newsworthy. You should see how they treated Warren Farrell...
/r/MensRights11/05/15 09:05 PM
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100% agree. Marriage in our current climate, within its current legal framework, is something to be avoided. But that doesn't mean that the ideal of marriage should be abandoned. I think you're too optimistic about our chances of re-organizing society. Either we will right this ship, repair male-female relationships and give marriage its due respect as a foundational aspect of human society, or we will slowly dwindle into economic and social oblivion.
/r/MensRights11/05/15 05:20 AM
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No, but you might want to check your privilege and say seven "Hail Gloria's" just in case.
/r/MensRights11/05/15 04:42 AM
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That's the case in much of Europe, where birthrates have been plummeting for decades. The fact that we can have two-parent families without marriage or that we can have single-parents raise children without issue doesn't mean that the general trend hasn't been disastrous.
/r/MensRights11/05/15 12:52 AM
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I'm sorry but I think this is hopelessly naive. We have study after study showing that two-parent families are lightyears better at raising children than any other arrangement. We now have record lows in birthrates, to the point that the only Western country replacing its current population with new births (rather than immigration) is America. We have widespread social dysfunction as a result of children raised without the bonds of family. I think the conditions that made marriage the bedrock of…
/r/MensRights10/05/15 09:47 PM
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Yes, if two people get very drunk and sleep with each other than either they have raped each other or there was no rape. But if you purposefully manipulate someone with alcohol or any other drug or purposefully take advantage of someone who is under the influence of a drug, that's a big problem. And that's often a fuzzy line that you can't prove. But that Big Bang episode was way out of line. If two people get very drunk and sleep with each other, I don't see how that can be considered rape. I d…
/r/MensRights27/04/15 03:48 AM
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I'm very happy to discuss/debate with anyone on any subject, so feel free to stray wherever. I'm going to take your comments point-by-point. 1 Regarding rape culture, if you believe that getting someone very drunk to sleep with them is rape, than yes, we do have one. And if you don't believe that's rape, than we have a... sleazy manipulative sex culture. And to be clear, this is not a gendered, issue, as I have twice gotten very drunk and had regret sex, which most feminists would say is rape. B…
/r/MensRights27/04/15 01:44 AM
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First off, thanks for debating and sorry for the gratuitous downvotes being thrown your way. I think it's counter-productive and that you've come here in good faith and therefore should be engaged with. One thing I would say is that you may be right about one proposition, that the "explicit/implicit hate" is "largely isolated to a loud minority," and feminism could still qualify as a hate movement. For my part, I don't think the majority of people who call themselves feminists hate men. I think …
/r/MensRights27/04/15 12:06 AM
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I have a liberal arts degree and even I would have trouble with this one
/r/MensRights18/04/15 04:06 AM
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It's like Christmas morning every time I learn Karen has released a new video.
/r/MensRights10/04/15 06:31 PM
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Sorry but this is not a good article and this author is either incredibly stupid or incredibly dishonest. Lying by omission is still lying, after all. What caused society to establish gender roles? In hunting and gathering societies, women couldn’t be excluded because of the small groups, but around 12,000 years ago, there was a big increase in population density. People settled down and started farming, and the result was that men could exclude women from decision-making and specialized in role…
/r/MensRights05/04/15 06:11 AM
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This is honestly a good thing. The more they overreach, the more they alienate, the more people see through the rhetoric. Gamergate was a massive win for sanity, even if the mainstream media still clings to their false narrative.
/r/MensRights27/03/15 08:10 PM
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I think I was responsible for the creation of the original reading list but I've read so much since then that I'd like to offer some expansions: Thomas Sowell's A Conflict of Visions, Intellectuals & Society, The Vision of the Anointed Matt Ridley's *The Red Queen Daphne Patai's Professing Feminism (co-written with Noretta Koertge) and At What Price Utopia? Susan Pinker's The Sexual Paradox Robin Baker's Sperm Wars Eric Hoffer's The True Believer (excellent insights into the fanatical mind) Cami…
/r/MensRights27/03/15 10:25 AM
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This is unbelievable. They've abused the institution of marriage to the breaking point and they're still pushing for more.
/r/MensRights11/03/15 02:48 PM
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aw shucks :)
/r/MensRights27/02/15 07:54 PM
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This should be stickied for at least a week. These websites (HuffPo, Jezebel/Gawker, Buzzfeed, Vice, Cracked – all of them) thrive on outrage. Outrage generates page views, which generates advertising income for them, which only encourages them to drum up more outrage. We can't control how other people share their drivel but if we're going to engage with it at all, we shouldn't be paying them for it.
/r/MensRights25/02/15 09:49 PM
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It's poorly written and poorly argued, and was universally denounced. The "writer" was even forced to apologize, though I question the sincerity of a forced apology.
/r/MensRights24/02/15 04:18 AM
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Total BS.
/r/MensRights13/02/15 03:43 AM
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The fine is the standard fine for criticizing the officiating. What is ludicrous is how few people were willing to admit that the ref in question did a terrible job that game. CP3 had a reason to be upset.
/r/MensRights08/02/15 06:18 AM
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I first thought this was a joke. Or a hoax. Holy shit, this is next-level indoctrination.
/r/MensRights07/02/15 07:02 AM
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You are just showing your clear biases. I never said Karen was above criticism. I said you are blaming Cenk for just about everything, and you didn't criticize Karen once. I never said you said Karen was above criticism...I just think that whatever "mistakes" she made in that interview, they pale in comparison to "yadda yadda yadda," "then go make me a sandwich" and "then you're just a radical," all of which would have been avoided if he was actually listening to her rather than waiting for his …
/r/MensRights04/02/15 10:06 PM
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That was at the very end, and he did that because Karen was going off on long tangents that really didn't answer Cenk's initial question. He never gave me the impression that he was actually listening to her when she spoke, just waiting for his turn to talk. And he literally said, on more than one occasion, "yadda yadda yadda." I get that, as you've said, it's his personality, but frankly his personality is at fault. I find it neither entertaining nor effective, and not just in the context of th…
/r/MensRights04/02/15 09:24 PM
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You don't find common ground by going "yadda yadda yadda" when someone is talking. If he had actually listened to what she had to say, he might have been able to understand the point she was trying to make. Instead he worked himself up and then exploded on her, all while she maintained her cool. And, as you said, she did say she was in favor of women's right to vote, multiple times. She was responding to his claims about women not having a voice and not being able to own property, and she gave a…
/r/MensRights04/02/15 08:42 PM
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Which is emphatically NOT what she was saying. She was trying to convey a nuanced position, which is that men having the right to vote was contingent on their having greater responsibility to society. Cenk wouldn't listen, literally spoke over her, and then dismissed her as a radical.
/r/MensRights04/02/15 07:52 PM
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If you're being downvoted, it could be because this same video has been posted two or three times already, and has been discussed in other threads. It could also be because anyone who watched it probably came away with the conclusion that Cenk is a raging asshole who ended the interview by strawmanning Karen and dismissing her as a radical.
/r/MensRights04/02/15 06:17 PM
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That's not what it mandates. It just mandates proportionality. So if you have an all-male football team, you can have an all-female volleyball team. The problem is that, even then, you still have more men than women interested in playing sports, and sports like wrestling, which have very few female aspirants, end up suffering. It's yet another bullshit "equality" mandate predicated on the false idea that men and women would have an equal desire to play sports.
/r/MensRights04/02/15 06:23 AM
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What a fucking joke. How he has such a high opinion of himself I will never understand. He "yadda yadda yadda'd" through everything Karen said and then dismissed her as "radical" because she didn't concede to his uneducated opinion about voting rights. And I loved his casual sexism: "then go make me a sandwich." He had his mind made up prior to this interview, put his fingers in his ears throughout everything she said and then blew up at her. And she still somehow managed to keep her cool.
/r/MensRights04/02/15 02:03 AM
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Guys, I took the title from the YouTube video's subtitle. Not trying to defend the "feminism" brand. It's CHS, aka Based Mom. Just watch! :)
/r/MensRights28/01/15 10:23 PM
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DAMN am I tired of figthing this battle that was supposed to have been won by my mother's generation. I'm afraid women don't all agree with your assessment that "universal access to abortion is a non-negotiable women's health issue." As this article should make clear, abortion is an extremely divisive issue among both genders, and it is by no means clear that women, as a group, share your view that it should be "non-negotiable." And I say this as a pro-choice man.
/r/MensRights21/01/15 05:15 PM
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Mansults are worse than insults because each one is another brick being added to the fortress of the patriarchy that surrounds you every day no matter how hard you try to fight it with hashtags on Feminist Twitter. Ohhhhhh my god! SHOTS FIRED.
/r/MensRights21/01/15 03:31 AM
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Jesus, this is actually vile.
/r/MensRights16/01/15 05:47 AM
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In before the inevitable "Doesn't she own a dictionary?!" backlash.
/r/MensRights13/01/15 11:19 PM
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Um, I would say that evo psych as it is practiced by amateurs on the internet is "90% bullshit science." That's probably fair. Otherwise I'd have to agree to disagree with that characterization. I would certainly concede that it's a tool that has to be used sparingly and with unusual scrutiny, since it's often just tossed out as an ex post facto rationalization for any specific human behavior. But the actual premise is very far from junk science... As to your second point, which I think is more …
/r/MensRights12/01/15 01:06 AM
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Don't consider myself "red pill" but I think the overlap has a lot to do with their understanding that, contrary to feminist theory, gender roles are not in fact socially constructed. Feminists adhere to this belief because they want to be able to "reconstruct" gender along more equitable lines (equitable as they define it, of course). In practice, this means the abolition of gender-specific pronouns, "toxic masculinity," "teach men not to rape" and a lot of other junk. I can say all of that and…
/r/MensRights11/01/15 10:33 PM
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To whom it may concern, I am writing in response to Intel's recent partnership with Feminist Frequency, ostensibly to pursue greater diversity in the tech industry. I consider this a laudable goal but Feminist Frequency is not a means to that end. They represent the worst of an irrational, often hateful brand of third wave feminism that has demonized masculinity, insulted large swaths of the gaming world over, to put it mildly, trivial and often fabricated grievances, and actively pursued the ce…
/r/MensRights09/01/15 09:32 AM
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VICE knows a little something about misrepresentation. After all, they're bloggers masquerading as journalists.
/r/MensRights06/01/15 04:01 AM
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Pierce, at the risk of sounding patriarchal, you are the fucking man. Your blog is our best chronicle of the crazy we're fighting against and I just wanted to say I'm grateful to you for all the work you do.
/r/MensRights31/12/14 10:45 PM
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Phenomenal. Karen is a warrior
/r/MensRights19/12/14 06:30 AM
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Do you support woman's suffrage (aka the right to vote)? Yes. Unequivocally. Do you accept any opinion that disagrees with the norm? Accept? No. Entertain? Give it a fair hearing? Yes. Are there any feminists in the twenty first century that you guys agree with? Daphne Patai, Christina Hoff Sommers and Camille Paglia all still call themselves feminists, and they are all awesome. Lastly are you uptight about males fitting gender roles? Nope. I disagree with the feminist belief that gender roles a…
/r/MensRights16/12/14 03:42 AM
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The video has been listed as private :( Is there another link?
/r/MensRights28/11/14 04:01 PM
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This is absolute gold.
/r/MensRights23/11/14 03:21 AM
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He embarrasses himself every time he writes a column.
/r/MensRights12/11/14 06:11 PM
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Working long hours may be both socially and biologically masculine, but when it results in a heart attack it becomes toxic. It's hard to label that "toxic." A man working longer hours is a better provider for his family. In fact, provisioning for his family has traditionally always been the main motivation behind men's hard work. You're using "toxic" to be synonymous with "deleterious," and once again I think the term is simply inadequate to that. Unequivocally "toxic" behaviors include bullying…
/r/MensRights03/11/14 01:49 AM
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Nothing is unequivocally a positive, I suppose. Men working longer hours is a net positive for the economy but often leads them to be alienated from their families, or to early heart attacks. I think the explanation for why men work longer hours is both sociological and biological, but it's hard to reduce that to "toxic." The draft appeals to masculine ideals of bravery and self-sacrifice, certainly, and it leads to a lot of male suffering (see Vietnam) but military conscription of men is also h…
/r/MensRights02/11/14 11:39 PM
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It's simply a smear used to paint all men with a broad brush. Any good social scientist has to account for why men are more likely to commit crimes, but if you reduce that down to "toxic masculinity" you're pushing an agenda, not honestly approaching a difficult and nuanced topic. A great example of the agenda-pushing is Anita Sarkeesian's latest Twitter ranting about how "toxic masculinity" was responsible for the most recent school shooting. What % of men shoot up schools? Sure, a majority of …
/r/MensRights02/11/14 10:42 PM
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The Dems have been pushing the feminist agenda for a while now to distract from, well, everything else, so it hardly surprises me, but this piece is pure equivocation. The size of the pay gap depends on how you measure it. The most common estimate is based on differences in annual earnings (currently about 23 cents difference per dollar). Another approach uses weekly earnings data (closer to an 18- or 19-cent difference). Analyzing the weekly figures can be more precise in certain ways, like acc…
/r/MensRights25/10/14 04:25 AM
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Jesus, just when I thought this couldn't get more awful. Thank you for linking.
/r/MensRights24/10/14 06:16 AM
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I'm a big reader and have been heavily invested in this stuff for a few years now. The best books I've read to undermine feminism and feminist theory rarely are explicitly written for that purpose. Men really do "objectify" women in the sense that we really do care a great deal about women's youth and beauty. But women "objectify" men in other ways that are never spoken of in feminist circles (social status, wealth, popularity, career prospects, etc). Here's a short list of the best books I've r…
/r/MensRights23/10/14 08:02 PM
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God, Fiamengo is such a boss. There's a lot of footage here I'd never seen before and I really can't fathom how she managed to keep her cool. Great piece.
/r/MensRights21/10/14 09:55 PM
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Well, since neither # is correct, it's also still bullshit, if that's any comfort.
/r/MensRights21/10/14 03:56 PM
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“I do think that he is engaging in hate speech as opposed to free speech.” Thanks for clarifying that, professor! I will make sure to check with you in the future on what is and is not "free" speech.
/r/MensRights20/10/14 05:33 PM
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In the same way that undergoing gay aversion therapy doesn't cure homosexuality, and therefore "proves" that homosexuality is not a choice or social construct. But boy oh boy does the person undergoing that therapy suffer like hell.
/r/MensRights20/10/14 05:36 AM
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This is where the relatively harmless stupidity of "gender is a social construct" passes over into child abuse. If that kid grows up like the vast majority of men to be heterosexual, he's going to enter into a male world, with male problems, and he will find himself totally unequipped to handle it. Approaching women, dealing with rejection, navigating social circles as a man -- all of these things require different skills than what life as a woman demands, and to deny him that training or aliena…
/r/MensRights20/10/14 02:54 AM
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Removal of due process rights on college campuses Systematic denial that men are victims of domestic and sexual abuse, with the result being that male victims are underserved and the general public has little to no awareness of the problem Lying about the "wage gap" for the better part of half a century, with the consequence that affirmative action laws, preferential hiring policies and quotas are put in place, all while nobody discusses the price men pay for their larger incomes (longer work we…
/r/MensRights15/10/14 09:00 PM
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About damn time. Dershowitz has written an op-ed or two in the past about the campus witch hunts but we are way overdue for this kind of stand.
/r/MensRights15/10/14 01:47 PM
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Ironically, both the writers attend the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where the one-woman wrecking ball Daphne Patai teaches. http://www.umass.edu/spanport/people/profiles/patai.html Highly recommend her - she's been cutting down feminist hysteria and the politicization of universities for decades now.
/r/MensRights14/10/14 02:48 AM
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Jesus. Just want to give that guy a hug
/r/MensRights04/10/14 10:19 PM
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I'd recommend not arguing against True Believers, unless you can do so in a neutral forum where you have the chance to sway open-minded people. This person has imbibed all the standard SJW BS and, frankly, every point they make is laughable, from the wage gap to men being overwhelmingly privileged throughout history. Absolutely none of this stuff holds up to scrutiny, or even the most basic knowledge of human history, but that doesn't mean you can take it away from them with logic and evidence. …
/r/MensRights27/09/14 03:28 PM
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Holy crap that's ballsy of him. Incredible to see how far universities and administrators will go to infantilize women
/r/MensRights24/09/14 05:09 PM
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I swear to god there is a post like this once every week, at a minimum. Try to advocate for men's issues on college campuses. Try to bring attention to domestic violence research that shows that men, too, suffer. Dare to breath a word about the family court system. At best, you will be told these are issues caused by "the patriarchy" and that "feminists are working on it! So you should be a feminist!" At worst, you will be silenced, shamed or called a misogynist. Feminism owns the discourse on g…
/r/MensRights24/09/14 02:59 AM
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"Patriarchy hurts men, too" in a more marketable form.
/r/MensRights24/09/14 02:18 AM
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Girl Writes What is one. Her name is Karen Straughan and you can search her YouTube channel for "most watched" videos. I'd also recommend the rest of the Honey Badgers (Alison Tieman and Judgy Bitch/Janet Bloomfield) as well.
/r/MensRights23/09/14 11:54 PM
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If you think the people who believe those things are the "negatives" of the movement, who the hell is left? Feminist academics, politicians, Gloria Steinem, Susan Faludi, Naomi Woolf -- good god, can you name a single prominent feminist who doesn't subscribe to those theories? I don't think MRA= men's rights, or rather I don't think you have to call yourself an MRA to argue for the rights of men. I don't call myself an MRA. I call myself a humanist. But so far as I am aware, and I've been lurkin…
/r/MensRights15/09/14 06:09 PM
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Feminism ≠ women's rights. Feminism = patriarchy theory, "gender is a social construct," rape culture, "teach men not to rape," etc. etc etc etc. No, I am not a feminist, nor will I ever be.
/r/MensRights15/09/14 04:01 PM
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The argument that women need greater representation in video games is the least contentious of Sarkeesian's claims. The real problem is that she explicitly links the portrayals of women in video games to their real-world treatment, something that has absolutely no factual backing whatsoever. She's also a true feminist in that she manages to find the depictions of a handful of "damseled" female video game characters "problematic" but it's apparently a-ok that every anonymous henchman or bad guy t…
/r/MensRights12/09/14 07:18 PM
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There isn't, that I'm aware of, an MRA orthodoxy that any of us can just refer to to answer your question. I like this place because despite its seemingly narrow focus, you will encounter a wide range of opinions. I don't think pornography should be illegal and I don't think pornography is degrading to all women. I think some pornographic movies certainly make the degradation of a woman the central attraction, but there are types of pornography for all fetishes. I do, however, think that porn is…
/r/MensRights09/09/14 11:28 PM
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Great piece, Pierce.
/r/MensRights05/09/14 01:59 PM
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We're more likely to be doing dangerous, risky things, in dangerous, risky places. It's not like the sharks intend to chomp on more men than women. Another way to look at it. Sensationalist headline: "More men than women get promoted in tech firms!" Truth: The applicant pool for tech firms is already mostly male to begin with.
/r/MensRights04/09/14 05:02 PM
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In suggested reading, I see it links Pinker's book, which tells me men's rights advocates are against the "sex is a construct" argument. If I may provide a counter to discuss, even if sex is biologically ingrained, ought we still allow all sexes to do what they choose? No one argues that women shouldn't be able to do what they choose. Least of all Steven Pinker. All he and other evolutionary biologists say is that men and women are innately different, have different average talents, inclinations…
/r/MensRights04/09/14 12:30 AM
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I find Amy Schumer hilarious, and I defend her right to offend as much as I defend Daniel Tosh's. Great skit
/r/MensRights02/09/14 04:37 PM
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I, too, went to an extremely left-wing liberal arts college. The only serious piece of advice I have for you is this: do not major in the humanities. Seriously. I was an English major. I love English literature and would encourage anyone interested to pursue their study of English outside the modern university. Same goes for history and sociology. If you're not majoring in the sciences, you will have SJW bullshit crammed down your throat in classes and majors that only pretend to be about histor…
/r/MensRights31/08/14 09:20 PM
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Denouncing extremists isn't accepting the other side's position, it improves outsiders view of us, something you (may?) be hurting. 1 - You couldn't have found a worse person to say this to. GWW is probably the single most visible spokesperson for men's rights/anti-feminism, and has singlehandedly brought more people to this sub than anyone with her YouTube videos. 2 - You're either trolling or deeply confused. The "extremism" the MSM/feminists denounce in our movement is not The Red Pill, or wh…
/r/MensRights27/08/14 04:19 AM
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Be careful how openly you voice your dissent. If you don't already have tenure, the path you're going down can and probably will damage your career. I'd highly recommend you read Noretta Koertge and Daphne Patai's Professing Feminism – if for no other reason than that you'll discover that you're not the only sane academic.
/r/MensRights16/08/14 09:23 PM
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I don't feel that we should keep women from roles they're qualified for... I just don't feel that we're qualified for those roles, if that makes sense? It's basically impossible to make that statement from any datasets I've ever seen. I could, for example, say that "women aren't qualified to be lumberjacks because they lack the upper body strength." I'd be right in 90% of cases, but there are always exceptions. Nobody here wants to deny women access to any specific career; we're just tired of th…
/r/MensRights16/08/14 12:39 AM
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I used to be very anti wage gap, but recently I've started thinking that maybe we women don't need equal pay if we're working in fields where we shouldn't. What does that even mean? What fields "shouldn't" women be working in? And would that mean there are fields that men shouldn't be working in -- childcare or nursing, I'm guessing? Women already have equal pay. They've had it for some time, in fact. But being paid equal rates is no guarantee of equal incomes, particularly when men work longer …
/r/MensRights15/08/14 10:05 PM
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For the record, I quoted that passage due to its terrible grammar, which undermined the point it was trying to make, but there is actually a large body of evidence to suggest that women do have greater verbal and linguistic skills than men; it's the same evidence that suggests men have better analytic and mathematical skills than women. And I'd have to respectfully disagree with your assessment as to why that is. it wouldn't be because of some innate/genetic difference between men and women but,…
/r/MensRights12/08/14 08:38 PM
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Women have better verbal and can communicate better than most men. Sounds about right
/r/MensRights12/08/14 05:56 PM
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It's actually refreshing to see them be honest, for once, in what they want. Behind every "we just want equality!" cry of modern feminists is couched that implied proviso: "and equality comes from destroying what we perceive as the socially constructed masculine identity."
/r/MensRights11/08/14 05:10 PM
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Men think they have the right to shout sexual slurs ("it's just a compliment") at any woman they fancy. No, "men" do not think this. A subgroup of men with no manners do this. Most men do not, as most men do not rape. They shout "BUT MUH FREEDOM!" the moment someone suggests they don't have a right to women's bodies, to have themselves pleasured whenever they wish. (Why yes, I am anti-porn and anti-sex-trade.) This isn't even coherent. How do men act like they "have a right" to women's bodies? W…
/r/MensRights10/08/14 04:33 PM
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You're entitled to think that, but you're not entitled to tell someone what they can and can't do with their body. There's a world of difference between an adult choosing to have a circumcision and someone forcing that on a child.
/r/MensRights08/08/14 01:09 AM
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Did you keep reading or stop there?
/r/MensRights07/08/14 09:51 PM
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I don't care that you're circumcised either. I have nothing whatsoever against circumcision and as far as I know no one on this board does. What we do have a problem with is infant circumcision and a disrespect for men's bodily autonomies. You are allowed to be happy with your circumcised penis but many, many men are not.
/r/MensRights07/08/14 08:18 PM
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WOW. This needs to be promoted, heavily. What a fantastic speech. She's fair-minded, charming, disarming and armed with the kind of truth that makes a mockery of feminist rape culture hysteria. Great post!
/r/MensRights07/08/14 05:08 AM
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This is excellent! Thanks for sharing
/r/MensRights05/08/14 11:45 PM
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He was a bestselling author and leading biologist well before he ever made any overtures to the atheist community.
/r/MensRights31/07/14 01:01 AM
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I for one am amazed that one of the smartest men on the planet is foolish enough to engage with these people on Twitter.
/r/MensRights31/07/14 12:33 AM
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Every time I get bummed out I watch a GWW/TyphonBlue video, or read the Women Against Feminism blog, or talk to any of my amazing female friends, or my genius sister who laughs at feminism as she out-earns me in a male-dominated industry. It's good to unplug from Reddit and this board. Part of the reason the Tumblr feminists are so hysterical is they live within their bubble 24/7.
/r/MensRights30/07/14 03:46 AM
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This is dumb even by the standards of the trolls we usually get.
/r/MensRights29/07/14 03:08 AM
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wow, she did indeed kill it. JB knows no fear
/r/MensRights28/07/14 01:50 PM
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I'm not sure I understand your post? Did you think I was "splitting issues along the lines of sex"?
/r/MensRights25/07/14 01:43 PM
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It's so fucking amusing to me that the most vocal anti-feminists are women, and yet the public at large still thinks anti-feminism = misogyny.
/r/MensRights25/07/14 04:31 AM
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This is already enshrined into US military policy. Any male "combat age" civilian is considered an enemy combatant. So if you're 18 and on a date with your 18 year old girlfriend, and a Hellfire missile happens to take both your lives, there was only one civilian casualty. http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/militants_media_propaganda/ It's unbelievable to me that we can talk about a war on women when policies like this exist and get no public outrage whatsoever.
/r/MensRights24/07/14 04:17 PM
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There are plenty of excellent women's advocacy groups, and women's advocates. There are even some amazing women's advocates who self-identify as feminists. Christina Hoff Sommers continues to call herself a feminist, for example, even as she criticizes mainstream feminism. Unsurprisingly, though, she's been deemed an "anti-feminist" by the feminist mainstream, and even been called a "traitor to her sex."
/r/MensRights22/07/14 08:52 PM
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But these individual women aren't all malicious people. They're just inured in feminist theory. If I really believed men had oppressed women throughout history, if I really believed there was a "patriarchy" that privileged the male at the expense of the female, if I really believed I was oppressed by the media and that sexual images of women were contributing to a "rape culture" that tacitly condoned or excused rape, I would behave the exact same way they do too. If you want to excuse feminism, …
/r/MensRights22/07/14 08:29 PM
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feminism isn't this terrible thing See, this is the point of departure. Yes, it is a terrible thing. Feminism ≠ women's rights advocacy. It's more accurately "Women's rights advocacy within a Marxist political framework."
/r/MensRights22/07/14 04:34 PM
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You're getting downvoted because, no lie, this question is posted at least three times a week. Often by trolls. Read the sidebar. Women also have issues too Absolutely no one here will deny that
/r/MensRights22/07/14 06:54 AM
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hahaha i had to adjust the volume multiple times
/r/MensRights22/07/14 03:14 AM
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Jesus we really need to sidebar a response to this type of post. There is minimum two or three a week just like it. Feminism ≠ women's rights. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali woman who has been critical of Islam's treatment of women, of arranged marriages, child brides and infant genital mutilation, is NOT a feminist, despite the fact that she gets called that by the media. Ditto Christina Hoff Sommers, Camille Paglia, Daphne Patai, Noretta Koertge, Barbara Kay, GWW and a thousand other brilliant wo…
/r/MensRights20/07/14 05:45 PM
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I think this video is great. Unlike your trolling
/r/MensRights19/07/14 02:57 AM
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This is frightening.
/r/MensRights17/07/14 05:39 PM
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At least you're a funny troll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q18RRxEMaos
/r/MensRights16/07/14 08:38 PM
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You're getting downvoted because you think anti-feminist = anti-women. We don't think that. The most vocal and best-loved MRAs are all women. We dislike feminist ideology. We dislike and disagree with rape culture, patriarchy theory, the duluth model of domestic violence, the tender years doctrine, the gross oversimplification that is "male privilege." We are for things like free speech and the rights of the accused, which feminists, no matter what they might say, oppose in action and legislatio…
/r/MensRights13/07/14 07:17 PM
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God, this was juvenile. Binder was not a worthy opponent and that should have been obvious before the debate ever happened. He's nearing 30 and he debates like a petulant child.
/r/MensRights11/07/14 12:19 AM
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Do the intellectually honest thing and watch the videos in full. They're all available on YouTube and, unlike this video you're linking to, the ratings and comments are not disabled.
/r/MensRights10/07/14 06:45 AM
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I would mostly agree with one minor quibble. Most progressives are uncritical of feminism because they have not been exposed to any contrary opinions that would challenge it. And what they have been exposed to (including my self until recently), especially data-wise, tends to support a more denatured feministic view point (IE coffee-shop feminism.) Agreed entirely. I just can't believe how credulous the left is. And I consider myself of the left. How does no one bat an eye at "1 in 4 women will …
/r/MensRights10/07/14 01:36 AM
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Thanks for the clarification. I will check out Sam Seder, as I'd never heard of him either. the MRA movement should find very fertile ground with Progressives. They do tend to be more given to evidence and reason, or at least when compared to conservatives. This has not been my experience. The most vocal anti-feminist women all tend to be conservatives or conservative-leaning (the Independent Women's Forum, for one). And most of the "progressives" I know are highly uncritical of feminism.
/r/MensRights10/07/14 12:32 AM
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I think I'm out of the loop, but who the fuck is Matt Binder and why is he relevant? His tone of voice is enough to make me mute him
/r/MensRights09/07/14 11:57 PM
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That woman is Joan Didion, one of the best essayists of the 20th century. And you're right. She's writing in the early '70s and she's still able to see so clearly the problems of the women's movement.
/r/MensRights08/07/14 05:34 PM
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Forty-five percent of schools with over 1,000 students, in fact, report zero rape cases for the entire year. I'm sure some might read this data as reassuring. However, since one in five women will be sexually assaulted during their time at college, it's actually deeply worrying Holy crap! This is a mind utterly incapable of dealing with contradictory information. "Some people say that 2+2 is 4, but since 2+2=5, this is deeply worrying." She doesn't even attempt to reconcile the dispute in facts.…
/r/MensRights08/07/14 04:28 PM
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This is an insult to real victims of torture. Statutory rape is similar to having your fingernails pulled out? Surely there is a broad spectrum here. At least rapists are partially motivated by sexual need. Torturers are truly off the charts of normal. I didn't mean it that way. I agree with you 100%, just didn't have the time/couldn't be bothered to go into the "degrees of rape." The second you do that with the disingenuous rape culture crowd, you're labeled a rape apologist :)
/r/MensRights07/07/14 01:44 AM
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Rape is uniquely awful in that it's both an assault and a form of torture. Most people classify it as second only to murder as the worst thing that can happen to a person. I tend to agree. Now, many feminists and both women and men I know will regard this man's crime of rape as a special crime. An extra bad crime, that is special in its evilness. That he ruined her life completely and some even argue that she can't recover or her chances of recovery from psychological trauma are small. These are…
/r/MensRights06/07/14 10:37 PM
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Good. The more dissenting voices, the better.
/r/MensRights04/07/14 09:59 PM
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Statements like this "This movement is going nowhere fast and will stay this way if we do not fix ourselves." Who are you to say it's going nowhere? And who are you to say what "fixing" ourselves entails? I don't know what you mean by "sob stories." If you mean "a Facebook friend said this outrageous thing!," then I agree with you. But not a day passes that you don't get some guy freaking out about losing custody of his children, or an allegation of sexual assault, or a friend committing suicide…
/r/MensRights04/07/14 06:51 PM
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I think you're a troll, but if you're not a troll, you'd do well to actually inform yourself about our positions rather than position yourself as an expert from whom we should be taking advice. The men's rights movement isn't doing anything to help it's cause. I think we should understand attacking feminism won't get us anywhere When we hold conferences on university campuses, we're protested with impunity, fire alarms are pulled, attendees are harassed, and the university administration tacitly…
/r/MensRights04/07/14 06:39 PM
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I don't have a problem with male circumcision either -- provided it's performed on a consenting adult. A thought experiment: are you ok with parents deciding to pierce their infant daughter's ears? Interestingly, when polled, a clear majority of Americans are against this. A further thought experiment: would you be ok with female "circumcision" if all it involved was a small, ritual cut to the labia, one that had no lasting consequences whatsoever? Imagine a cult sprung up tomorrow with such a p…
/r/MensRights04/07/14 04:45 PM
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She was amazing! Thanks for posting this -- I wasn't able to find a working version till this one.
/r/MensRights04/07/14 03:46 PM
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Just wanted to thank you for posting this. Beautiful piece. Unfortunately I don't think many people are going to take the time to read it, but they should. This is exactly the type of content this sub needs in greater abundance.
/r/MensRights04/07/14 05:03 AM
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You're not crazy. In AskReddit, thin people say much the same thing: people apparently feel entitled to make fun of their thinness but if that same person told an obese person to lose weight or "watch what you're eating" everyone would freak out. I think it's for similar reasons too, ie society reacts to groups that were "oppressed," or perceived to be oppressed, with hypersensitivity, unaware that they might be perpetuating that same behavior with new targets. That having been said, this is pro…
/r/MensRights04/07/14 02:35 AM
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Evolutionary biology will sound the deathblow to feminist theory. Feminism is on a collision course with the truth.
/r/MensRights03/07/14 09:07 PM
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For the exact same reason it hasn't discredited the idea of God. People want to believe things, need to, even, and that ends up taking precedence over their reason.
/r/MensRights03/07/14 03:48 PM
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No one here is against women's rights, nor are we against women's rights organizations, least of all one dedicated to stopping human trafficking or providing shelter for victims of it. Rock on. Feminism/feminist theory is another issue entirely. Not sure there's any conflict here.
/r/MensRights03/07/14 12:31 AM
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From the comment section of The Nation's article on the study: The study is fundamentally flawed by assuming crime statistics and enforcement are uniform nationwide, completely dismissing the ability of local police departments to make specific crime reductions. What the study did was say that historically, murder and rape rates are correlated. Then it examined individual cities, and found cities where the correlation held, and then found a bunch of cities where it did not. In those cities where…
/r/MensRights02/07/14 01:49 AM
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The International Conference on Men’s Issues was originally scheduled to take place at a Doubletree in Detroit, but organizers moved the event to a suburban Veterans of Foreign Wars outpost. They said it was a more appropriate and masculine location. (Fabrizio Costantini/For The Washington Post) Even in a hit piece, that was particularly laughable
/r/MensRights01/07/14 02:13 AM
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The Honey Badger Brigade is so aptly named, god damn.
/r/MensRights30/06/14 02:59 PM
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I'll tackle three of your questions. I don't think the average age or skin color of people here is very relevant, particularly considering the most vocal spokespeople for men's rights are often women, and Erin Pizzey certainly qualifies as an elderly woman. 1) Why is there constant mention of women thinking all men are rapists? Google "Schrodinger's rapist" or look up "teach men not to rape" on google. This, apparently, is a core component of feminist anti-rape policy: men need to be taught not …
/r/MensRights28/06/14 06:55 AM
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I'm actually more offended that this passes for journalism than I am by anything in the piece itself.
/r/MensRights27/06/14 10:38 PM
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There's something about Sargon's voice that is just so perfect for these videos. Never fails to make me laugh. Thank you
/r/MensRights24/06/14 04:36 AM
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You could argue that the Fifa World Cup is also ageist and disablist (footballers are doomed to retire as soon as their wisdom teeth fully descend and disabled people are tacitly excluded Holy fucking shit. This is really where we're headed? Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" as playbook for public policy.
/r/MensRights24/06/14 02:12 AM
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Anyone who approaches the site with a modicum of intellectual integrity will discover a thousand amazing pieces before they have a chance to be offended by some poorly written satire. As someone else pointed out in this thread, it's simply a losing gambit to try to appeal to the sensibilities of our enemies. They can and do take offense at everything.
/r/MensRights23/06/14 06:29 PM
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From the video: "Check your facts, not your privilege." Gotta love her
/r/MensRights23/06/14 02:03 PM
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AVFM is a platform for a lot of different writers, not all of whom agree on every single issue. Say what you like about Elam, he's single-handedly assembled most of the internet's best MRAs/anti-feminists/whatevers under one roof, making the group stronger than it would have been had they all remained separate. And guess what? The MSM has taken notice. They've been forced to by the site's success. This is unequivocally a win. How does the saying go? First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,…
/r/MensRights23/06/14 07:46 AM
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Maya Angelou said something along these exact lines: (paraphrasing) "It leaves no room for love." That's one of the most evil things about feminism, frankly: it has quietly erased from history male sacrifice to better women's lives.
/r/MensRights18/06/14 11:40 PM
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We need to crack down on this. It really drags down the sub and its quality of discourse.
/r/MensRights16/06/14 02:29 AM
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BOOM! Well played, George Will.
/r/MensRights14/06/14 08:26 PM
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It's Farrell. He's spoken about how, once he started deviating from the feminist party line, his income (book deals/speaking engagements especially) plummeted.
/r/MensRights14/06/14 08:07 PM
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Apparently calling these people "mentally ill" is stigmatizing to the mentally ill, who are "far more likely to be victims of violence than to commit violence." Fucking astounding, because men are "far more likely to be victims of violence than to commit violence" as well. Waddya know?!
/r/MensRights12/06/14 10:34 PM
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Honestly, your entire posting in that thread reads like you've spent about 5 minutes engaging with "MRAs." And then sentences like this: Because if you think men are equally as oppressed as women, you aren't really paying attention, and it just smacks of antagonizing feminists rather than cooperating with them. are kind of laughable, mostly because they shut down debate by presupposing information that should, as a matter of course, be in contention. If you're actually interested in debate or di…
/r/MensRights10/06/14 05:13 AM
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She's incredible.
/r/MensRights09/06/14 06:54 PM
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My understanding is that the whole reason that the site has gone in a different direction since then is because people found that article so alienating
/r/MensRights08/06/14 03:00 PM
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Speak to 50 different feminists and you will get 50 different versions of patriarchy theory, and that is not just true of tumblr feminists. This isn't because patriarchy theory is like string theory and "difficult to grasp." It's intentionally designed to be a canvas onto which women can project their insecurities, pains and frustrations.
/r/MensRights06/06/14 06:41 PM
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This is hilarious
/r/MensRights05/06/14 04:50 PM
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I welcome this. It's going to take something this insane to get the wider world to take a closer look at what's been happening inside higher education.
/r/MensRights04/06/14 07:45 PM
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I personally think the most parallels are to Christianity. Privilege is our sin, one we have to constantly "check" or guard against. It's also an Original Sin, in the sense that we were born with it; we exist in a fallen state, and only through the grace of god/feminism can we hope for salvation. There are also prophets, people who have a greater claim to knowledge simply because of the way they were born. We don't get to question the will of the prophets. That would be like contemplating the mi…
/r/MensRights03/06/14 05:49 AM
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It's demeaning to how horrific rape is that "rape apologist" is trotted out against anyone, man or woman, who dares to question the feminist orthodoxy. Have an issue about how rape statistics are tabulated? Rape apologist! Don't think it's fair that, when both man and woman are drunk, the man is the default rapist? Rape apologist!
/r/MensRights02/06/14 05:28 AM
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Stick with it. I binge-watched all four seasons just last month, and it actually manages to touch on a surprising array of men's issues, including false rape accusations and abusive/violent women.
/r/MensRights01/06/14 05:07 AM
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I wasn't claiming that biology explains everything.
/r/MensRights31/05/14 09:54 PM
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Long, shiny hair is an evolutionary indicator of good health. Hence long hair becomes a symbol of beauty in women. I'm being overly simplistic, obviously; there are certainly cultural factors that come into play, and always have. But most of what is part of a woman's daily beauty routine is designed to give the appearance of youthfulness (and thereby fertility).
/r/MensRights31/05/14 03:12 PM
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100% agree with you. Again, I quoted the word "traditional" because that's the word used by the study and because it has its own connotations.
/r/MensRights30/05/14 10:34 PM
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ah, we've already debated this :) http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/24k7a8/steve_davis_the_snooker_player_says_women_will/
/r/MensRights30/05/14 06:43 PM
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Absolutely. I used the quotes around "traditional" because that was the wording in whatever study I am recalling. I think parents very often find, however, that despite their best efforts, their boy children want to play aggressively and their female children enjoy playing with dolls, but you're right to say that that isn't, by itself, evidence of innate differences.
/r/MensRights30/05/14 06:30 PM
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Well-written, lucidly argued and unimpeachably moral. Kudos!
/r/MensRights30/05/14 05:38 PM
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Interesting little factoid for you: people who grow up with opposite-sex siblings are more likely to hold "traditional" views about gender. Thanks for this!
/r/MensRights30/05/14 02:53 PM
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Of course, though I also had in mind interpersonal relationships. There's a beautiful Warren Farrell quote I always repeat: "Women's strength is their facade of weakness; men's weakness is their facade of strength."
/r/MensRights30/05/14 01:40 PM
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It's honestly, in my opinion, the area that will finally break feminism. Evo psych and neuroscience are growing exponentially as disciplines, and for feminists to continue to maintain that "gender is a social construct" in the face of what is overwhelming evidence to the contrary will one day catch up to them. But the convo re: human sexuality is an extremely delicate one, liable to offend a lot of people, and difficult to have with people who delight in taking offense.
/r/MensRights30/05/14 01:39 PM
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I have done so many of these lately, as have many here, and I'd say half of them end up being trolls. That having been said, I'll wade in. Thanks for taking the time to write. Every answer I give will reflect my opinions; I don't think there are too many "consensus" responses to many of your questions. Do you think that Men have less political power than Women? Why? I think "political power" as a concept is poorly understood, at least when it comes to discussions about gender. Men dominate in th…
/r/MensRights29/05/14 08:32 PM
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the idea that before we speak about misogynist extremism we should take men's feelings into account and make sure no man listening to that conversation feels threatened or has his ego bruised, that's really really dangerous, that's a language of silencing. Dear god, the irony. It burns.
/r/MensRights28/05/14 04:05 AM
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Since you've actually taken the time to engage with people here, I'm going to operate on the assumption that you're not a troll. Unfortunately, we get a lot (a LOT) of people coming here feigning an interest just to provoke this kind of rise out of people. Assuming that doesn't describe you, welcome. To your points: 1) I don't know what hateful groups you're referencing. I've heard of the term "incel" but am not aware of any message board for them. If you spend a lot of time here, there inevitab…
/r/MensRights27/05/14 05:25 AM
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ah haha, figures. thanks
/r/MensRights27/05/14 03:15 AM
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ah ok, my apologies. Thanks for clarifying. I'm still curious as to what they meant by "mister" haha
/r/MensRights27/05/14 02:28 AM
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I'm confused by your post. Are you the author of all of this or are you quoting someone else? One thing I haven't made judgement on is whether he was a mister. He refers obliquely to talking to other people about theories he had, and as I said above, takes more time and effort to list popular media than what ideas he had and where he got them. What is a mister? Do you mean miscer? the BB.com forums? However, what I do believe is important is this whole notion that the manosphere has a right to s…
/r/MensRights27/05/14 02:24 AM
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Great article, and brave of her to write it.
/r/MensRights21/05/14 07:54 PM
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I think your post would be more helpful if you included specific examples of what you see as being indicative of this subreddit becoming more "feminist." I tend to agree with you, or at least with what I think you might mean. When I see random Facebook posts, or Yahoo answers replies, or, perhaps worst of all, 4chan posts, getting a ton of upvotes, that upsets me. I think there's a lot of whining here about specific and often trivial incidents of female-on-male sexism that should be directed pro…
/r/MensRights20/05/14 06:45 PM
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It's amazing that we have so much free speech, we can even have a debate by not having it! bahaha! That's very well put! Thank you for the chuckle!
/r/MensRights15/05/14 07:40 AM
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hahahahahaha. Oh man. It's one thing to hear a random SJW warrior say "no true feminist..." but to hear it come from a professor on a televised debate is truly something. Bless you, Janice. edit: and oh god, the lady in orange claims to teach John Stuart Mill....he'd be rolling in his grave.
/r/MensRights14/05/14 10:16 PM
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I think you have a right to call yourself whatever you like, but I have to ask: do you believe in patriarchy? Do you think society has been set up to privilege men and disadvantage or even oppress women? A whole lot of people who call themselves feminists believe that, and it is for that reason that the very idea of there being "men's issues" is treated with ridicule at best and scorn at worst. If you don't believe that, try contradicting or challenging a feminist in that belief and see what you…
/r/MensRights12/05/14 02:30 AM
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I guess it makes sense that if all men can take the blame for a subsection of men, then a subsection of men can apologize on all men's behalf. Pretty big if...
/r/MensRights11/05/14 04:02 AM
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I'd like to see this happen, actually. They're pretty pointless and detract from the quality of the sub, and tend not to foster the best discussions. What's worse, they're often voted to the top of the page over much more substantive content.
/r/MensRights10/05/14 11:24 PM
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal.
/r/MensRights09/05/14 01:59 PM
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If they are calling to actually ban bossy as you think, where is the legislation, technology or punishment? Show me something other than a slogan thats supposed to discourage parents from calling their female kids bossy. Really? The campaign is called "ban bossy," they sell t-shirts with the word bossy crossed out, and they non-ironically call for the word to be banned in their promotional video. If I am misinterpreting their intentions, so too have most newspapers, magazines and websites, wheth…
/r/MensRights08/05/14 10:03 PM
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It calls for banning the word bossy... and I think it's hard to take it as tongue-in-cheek given the commercial's tone. It's not just that they're a part of rape culture; it's that they explicitly call for an end to rape jokes entirely. Again, nuance seems to be something you're bad at. "I dislike all the jokes about bumbling fathers on television" ≠ "No one should ever joke about bumbling fathers on television." From Adria Richards and Pycon, to Tosh's standup, to Scotland's Fringe festival, to…
/r/MensRights08/05/14 06:04 PM
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It isn't just "some SJW" that claims rape jokes should be banned. The "Ban Bossy" campaign had Beyonce, Sheryl Sandberg, Victoria Beckham and Jennifer Garner, on top of some high-up in education. The existence of rape jokes is a part of what is called "rape culture" and consistently decried by modern feminists.
/r/MensRights08/05/14 05:29 PM
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I can't agree with you. There is a very important difference between saying "I personally take offense to rape jokes" and "Rape jokes are never funny and should be banned." When MRAs point out the bumbling dad trope, it isn't in the spirit of "in a free and just society, nobody would ever make fun of dads." It's more like "why are we bombarded with this cultural message when it has become unacceptable to portray women in the same light?" You really don't see a difference there? To take another e…
/r/MensRights08/05/14 05:13 PM
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I'm sorry but can you be specific? There's a big difference between pointing out the "bumbling father" trope in commercials and sitcoms and trying to ban people from making jokes about rape. When that shitty SNL sketch depicting MRAs as people who want to roll back abortion rights came out, we all decried the unfunniness of the sketch and pointed out how dishonest its representation was, but nobody argued that SNL had no right to make jokes about MRAs.... That's the totalitarian aspect of modern…
/r/MensRights08/05/14 04:23 PM
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Some things are so stupid as to not warrant a response. And then there's that whole, "don't argue you with an idiot; they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"
/r/MensRights05/05/14 04:11 AM
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Fair enough. I'm all for attempts to get more women into science, but there's no shortage of those. Bring on the call to increase male enrollment in university or male literacy! I won't hold my breath though -_-
/r/MensRights04/05/14 12:53 AM
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I'm not sure I'm making myself clear. I agree with you about the limits of using IQ to predict success in any given field. But where we disagree is that, in many fields, a higher-than-average IQ is a prerequisite even for entry. What Charles Murray has called the "cognitive elite" doesn't apply solely to potential Fields Medal winners; it applies to the people who can do the kind of mathematics or computation required to succeed in the programming and engineering fields. And the IQ distribution …
/r/MensRights03/05/14 10:48 PM
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No, but the IQ test is very, very good at predicting who will and who won't be good at advanced mathematics, and I feel extremely comfortable predicting that no one in the 85-115 range will ever, ever win one.
/r/MensRights03/05/14 08:59 PM
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I'm not sure I understand you. I think the IQ distribution can explain, for example, the fact that no woman has ever won a Fields Medal, but I don't think it explains why there aren't more women in science. But there are other differences between the male/female brain that are better predictors of scientific aptitude, and I imagine those end up mattering a great deal. I also think your second paragraph is a bit of a non sequitur. Extremely high IQ doesn't guarantee or even accurately predict sci…
/r/MensRights03/05/14 07:46 AM
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You're absolutely right. A high IQ is a good but imperfect predictor of life success. It isn't enough to guarantee achievement, and things like hard work, ambition and the ability to delay gratification all count for quite a lot as well. But high IQ still matters a great deal. The best analogy I've heard comes from sociologist Steven Goldberg: IQ plays about the same part in your future success as being tall does in becoming an NBA player, or having a large frame does in becoming a lineman in fo…
/r/MensRights03/05/14 05:09 AM
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I don't know what you mean by "this isn't a perfect scientific experiment." Not sure what the "it" is. I don't think we have much to disagree on. I am all for encouraging women to enter fields they currently are not in. I am all for special funds or "task forces" targeted towards improving black education in America. What I have a problem with are quotas, affirmative action and the unchallenged presumption that a disparity in a given field is de facto evidence of sexism. There was plenty of sexi…
/r/MensRights03/05/14 04:08 AM
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It isn't really a response to what I said. I am all for attempts to get more women in science or engineering, though you still have to ask yourself why. Why is that an inherent good? And if it is an inherent good, is it an inherent bad when women dominate in other professions (HR, veterinary medicine, nursing, primary school education)? There are a whole lot of people asking "how can we get more female scientists?" and they've been pouring a whole lot of money into that for decades now, but nobo…
/r/MensRights03/05/14 02:48 AM
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Saying men are inherently better at, or more inclined to do, a certain activity doesn't mean women should be banned from doing that activity. That would be a total non sequitur. And as it stands, there is compelling reason to believe men are more inherently violent (physically) than women. That doesn't mean all men are violent or that no women are. Where this type of argument becomes necessary, to my mind, is explaining why we have so many male engineers and so few female engineers. Why women in…
/r/MensRights03/05/14 12:33 AM
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I think the belief that the genders should have equal opportunity and equal treatment before the law is a moral proposition that transcends any single political movement. Spend enough time here and you'll encounter people from all over the political divide. That's one of the things I like most about this place.
/r/MensRights02/05/14 05:16 PM
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It was a stupid decision for a number of reasons, but dear god the comments... a beautiful woman does have a measurable impact on a man's cognitive function. We know that because, ta-dah, we can measure it. Saying that doesn't mean men are slaves to their penises or lack the ability to control themselves, and it sure as hell isn't "misandric." I swear, the ease with which people take offense to the most trivial things...
/r/MensRights30/04/14 10:32 PM
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sigh. Sorry, I didn't realize you were a troll. Have a good day
/r/MensRights29/04/14 05:39 AM
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Well the discussion is, in large part, about the nature of that word "equality." But why are they not feminists? Who are you to say they are or aren't? They were there on instruction from their feminist professor. They are all members of gender studies classes. They all use feminist terms like patriarchy and rape culture. What makes you so confident in saying that they're not feminists? Or consider another example. People like Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Sommers and Daphne Patai, all intel…
/r/MensRights29/04/14 05:28 AM
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You asked a question that I attempted to answer. You say that "in the real world" feminism is about equality, and I've given you a real world example of how that is simply not the case. And rather than discuss it, you're retreating. In fact, in this entire thread you've offered absolutely nothing concrete for anyone to disagree with. All you've done is make assertions unbacked by any specific claims. For all I know, you and I agree on everything except the feminist label. Best of luck getting an…
/r/MensRights29/04/14 05:14 AM
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Listen, I can appreciate that you're probably responding to 10 different people at a time but if this is the best rebuttal you can offer me than I'm going to bow out. I didn't say "Feminism is a made up issue." I said the gender wage gap treated as evidence of widespread wage discrimination is a made up issue. You're free to disagree with me if you like, but every major study conducted by a non-feminist organization, including the single largest study ever conducted on men, women and the economy…
/r/MensRights29/04/14 05:02 AM
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Ok, let's take a real world example, shall we? Men and women and the economy. If you're an American, you've lately witnessed both your President and your White House Press Secretary, as well as a whole slew of political leaders and senators, tell a bald lie: that the pay gap between men and women is due to discrimination. It's not due to discrimination. It has everything to do with "real world" choices men and women make, particularly the choice to have children and to stay at home, but also wha…
/r/MensRights29/04/14 04:47 AM
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Feminism is the belief that women and men should have equal rights. No, it's not. It may say that in the dictionary, and that may be what they espouse, but in theory and practice it is a Marxist ideology that has so far lost touch with reality that it has lost any pretense to equality. Feminism is about as concerned with women's advancement as Stalinism was with Russian peasants. historically, women have had worse treatment than men. A wonderful example of the failings of feminism's class-based …
/r/MensRights29/04/14 04:35 AM
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Common sense. Yep, seriously. There are the occasional sexist or hateful comments here, but give it a few hours and you'll find them downvoted to oblivion. There are many wonderful people writing about men's issues and exposing feminism (two sides of the same coin, in my humble opinion). Try Christina Hoff Sommers, Barbara Kay, James Taranto, Camille Paglia and Cathy Young, to name just a few.
/r/MensRights28/04/14 02:15 PM
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Equality of opportunity and equal treatment before the law.
/r/MensRights28/04/14 02:10 PM
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I've toyed with this for a while. My own personal definition of a feminist, based on much experience: "A feminist is someone who is outraged to hear any good news about women's place in society."
/r/MensRights26/04/14 03:09 PM
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I didn't mean to give offense. I would most definitely have sex with someone for a million dollars. I was only pointing out that this woman was, by her own words, putting a monetary price on her companionship.
/r/MensRights24/04/14 07:53 PM
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"Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?" "Absolutely!" "Would you sleep with me for $1?" [Outraged]: "Absolutely not! What do you think I am?!" "We've already established what you are; now we're merely haggling over the price."
/r/MensRights24/04/14 04:15 PM
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This was heartbreaking.
/r/MensRights24/04/14 01:24 PM
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Honestly, being called a rapist/rape apologist is a sign that you've dissented. Anyone who deviates from the party line opens themselves up to that lovely attack, women included (ask GWW).
/r/MensRights24/04/14 06:53 AM
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He has a book called Intellectuals And Society. I would also highly, highly recommend A Conflict of Visions -- Steven Pinker called it the best overview of the left/right divide ever written, and I have to agree with him.
/r/MensRights24/04/14 04:24 AM
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It's funny to see the difference between Sowell today and Sowell 30 years ago. Then, he was an eloquent and well-spoken economist and arguably one of the greatest young minds writing on economic policy. Thirty years later he's no less brilliant but quite a bit more acerbic, probably because the man has been dead right for 30+ years and no one seems to listen to him.
/r/MensRights23/04/14 08:35 PM
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Fiamengo missed out on a great response: "If I was praising the importance of mothers in their children's lives, would you still be accusing me of being heteronormative?" Incidentally, I've read some interesting studies that found that, among same-sex parents, one will often take on a more nurturing role and another a more (for lack of a better word) masculine role, in which the nurturer leans more towards being protective while the other person encourages taking risks.
/r/MensRights22/04/14 06:36 PM
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This isn't really a case of self-selection, is it? For example, when feminists issue a "survey on sexual assault," the people who volunteer answers will be disproportionately people who have been or know victims, whereas non-victims might not give it a second thought. I don't see how self-selection could bias a demographic poll for this sub. I was really just referring to extrapolating from 600 answers a meaningful idea of the demographics of this sub at large. I, for one, have missed all of the…
/r/MensRights16/04/14 06:19 AM
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There are 88,486 subscribed to this sub, and that poll you're linking to had only 600 responses. That alone creates a huge margin of error
/r/MensRights16/04/14 05:31 AM
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Christina Hoff Sommers has integrity. She may call herself a feminist but the mainstream of feminism has labeled her "anti-feminist" and basically ignore her.
/r/MensRights13/04/14 03:29 PM
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Really and truly great post. This sub needs more positivity and this delivered for me in a big way. Thanks
/r/MensRights08/04/14 05:17 PM
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Dear lord, $125k in salary. Academia has truly gone insane
/r/MensRights08/04/14 05:06 PM
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Eh? Very likely a riff on the "grown men don't cry" proverb.
/r/MensRights07/04/14 04:16 PM
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You don't see a difference between making laws to keep people out of a profession and being unable to interest another group of a people in a given profession, despite masses of scholarships and promotional campaigns and affirmative action hiring?
/r/MensRights07/04/14 02:06 PM
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I'm not sure I understand. I am a male poetry lover and have been since I was 10 years old, and this doesn't offend me in the least. I actually think it's an admirable project: it humanizes great men (Hitchens, Dawkins, Heaney) and might even get people to crack a poetry book once in a while. What's not to like?
/r/MensRights07/04/14 02:03 PM
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It would be disingenuous to place all of the blame on feminists, as these trends have multiple causes, but here's a nice little primer: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/659dkrod.asp If you make "equality" the goal of your economy, and you begin with an economy in which men make considerably more money than women, you have two options to attain your goals: improve women's incomes or diminish men's. No feminist is actively campaigning to diminish the income of men,…
/r/MensRights06/04/14 02:04 AM
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As can anything else.
/r/MensRights29/03/14 02:27 PM
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In my experience, there's a cognitive dissonance people use when addressing this issue. When a woman is pregnant and wants to have an abortion, it's a fetus or a zygote but never a child. But when a man gets a woman pregnant and doesn't want to be a father, the argument begins nine months after conception: "Think of the child!" They totally pass over the fact that they have given the woman final say in whether or not a child is born. The woman loses all accountability for her choice to have a ch…
/r/MensRights20/03/14 03:34 PM
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A little background info, for those who may not be familiar with Roth: he is considered the male novelist of the 20th century, not because he's supremely gifted but because he writes unapologetically from the male perspective: frequently men who are out of place, sexually inept, emasculated or unsuccessful -- precisely the type of men feminism has such contempt for and whose plights feminists have been ridiculing or erasing for decades now. Rather than fold under the constant accusations of miso…
/r/MensRights17/03/14 04:09 AM
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There's a chapter on this in Christina Hoff Sommer's Who Stole Feminism? They asked boys and girls at a certain age what their career aspirations were, and the girls answered with realistic choices (nurse/teacher/lawyer etc) whereas the boys said things like "professional athlete! movie star! President!" To paraphrase Sommers, the girls simply mature more quickly...she called it a "reality gap"....
/r/MensRights16/03/14 03:48 AM
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I feel sorry for this girl. She's been sold a pack of lies on which she's based a major life decision with long-term repercussions. But this is most definitely not the place for efukt links.
/r/MensRights15/03/14 02:28 AM
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This is wonderful: RAINN’s recommendations pointed to research that suggests that more than 90% of college rapes are committed by about 3% of college men (reliable research about female perpetrators is harder to come by). That's right. 3% of men. A clear minority, for which the majority have been made to suffer "teach men not to rape" nonsense. I can't imagine a bigger 'fuck you' to the rape culture bs.
/r/MensRights14/03/14 03:30 AM
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Except none of those things means "I don't believe men have had it bad either." Please do your homework and actually read his books. The Blank Slate is a great primer, as he spends a good 100 pages being critical of feminism and its pernicious influence on science edit: from Wikipedia: "Pinker identifies himself as a feminist, specifically an equity feminist, and in The Blank Slate defines equity feminism as "a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empiric…
/r/MensRights06/03/14 07:20 PM
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He is not a feminist by the feminists' own definition. If you read The Blank Slate, there is an entire chapter devoted to gender, in which he clearly labels himself a humanist and specifically aligns himself with Christina Hoff Sommers, a person the mainstream feminists have openly dubbed "anti-feminist." edit: right, downvote but don't rebut. I will upload a photocopy of the relevant chapter if you like. Not only does he align himself with Sommers, he openly criticizes the feminist treatment of…
/r/MensRights06/03/14 07:14 PM
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I look forward to watching the same people he's placed his faith (hehe) in turn around and eat him for writing an article about the dangers of false accusations.
/r/MensRights04/03/14 04:13 PM
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My god. This NEEDS to be put on the sidebar. Really brilliant stuff. Take the time to read it, people. Major props!
/r/MensRights28/02/14 07:24 PM
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She's so saccharine it made me cringe.
/r/MensRights24/02/14 04:17 PM
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Karen's facial expression says it all. Bless you for fighting the good fight but boy does it seem like an uphill battle.
/r/MensRights24/02/14 04:15 PM
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I think crying after an athletic defeat is one of the only times when it's socially acceptable for a man to cry. That and death of a parent.
/r/MensRights21/02/14 12:34 PM
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I can speak only for myself but I'd never argue that women aren't disadvantaged in certain ways in society. I think, to name two examples, they face difficulties with representation in the media and advertising and difficulties in more competitive careers (finance and film production, for example) owing to their challenges being taken seriously as leaders. Though I part with feminism on why this is so, and how best to deal with it... But my list of complaints against feminism: 1) Anti-intellectu…
/r/MensRights12/02/14 09:43 PM
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I think they are correct in their general premise that men and women are biologically different and, as such, have different sexual strategies. They're understandably upset, imo, when they "take the red pill' and realize that the dating advice the Western world has given them has been a path to failure with women.
/r/MensRights03/02/14 02:28 PM
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I swear, if it wasn't for Christina Hoff Sommers, I would start to question my own sanity. It's a banality to say that politicians lie. I know this. I just didn't know how credulously the public swallows their lies until I started to learn about the history of the supposed "wage gap."
/r/MensRights01/02/14 09:57 AM
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My god, I am continually astounded at the cognitive dissonance. “Brocialists,” she explains, are “guys who are so enamored of their own radicalness or progressiveness or whateverness that they are convinced they can do no wrong.” Hmm: 95% of the "socialists" I've met are "so enamored of their own radicalness or progressiveness or whateverness that they are convinced they can do no wrong." And probably 99.5% of the feminists...
/r/MensRights17/01/14 07:09 PM
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Taranto should be read regularly by every subscriber of this subreddit
/r/MensRights16/01/14 04:28 AM
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As if feminism has never directly hampered the manufacturing sector, by, for example, co-opting stimulus spending. Oh, wait... http://www.aei.org/article/society-and-culture/race-and-gender/no-country-for-burly-men/
/r/MensRights10/01/14 09:07 PM
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This has no place here
/r/MensRights04/01/14 04:23 AM
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All due respect, but you've come to a place where patriarchy theory is laughed at. I take it about as seriously as I take Christian science. You've also asserted something ("Patriarchy theory in no way implies that men cannot be abused or negatively impacted in today's society") that flies in the face of the experiences of most men here in dealing with feminists or in trying to get male issues noticed. For your consideration, please watch this video http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-cycle/52812016#…
/r/MensRights20/12/13 06:00 PM
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That is the dichotomy created by sociologists and feminists, in a vacuum. Go tell a neuroscientist that "what you feel like in your head" has nothing to do with what's between your legs and see the laughs you'll get. You need to stop confusing ideology with science. It's particularly ironic to me that you'd bring up transexual people, as feminism has a long history of hostility towards trans women. Still does, in fact. If you want an explanation for why someone with one set of sex organs "feels"…
/r/MensRights17/12/13 04:08 AM
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Except that the baseline standard for behavior in young boys is the behavior of young girls. "Oh, Jimmy can't sit still? He's rambunctious? Seems off-the-wall energetic? Likes to play roughly with friends? Let's try dosing him with..." Direct consequence of the "gender is a social construct" faery tale and a disproportionate amount of women in primary school education.
/r/MensRights16/12/13 05:47 PM
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I thought this was funny... There's really no female equivalent of Bernie Madoff. (Don't talk to me about Madoff's wife, either; she couldn't have swindled $2 out of Martha Stewart at a fundraiser for abandoned Labradoodles). Given that Martha Stewart was jailed for insider trading
/r/MensRights07/12/13 06:31 AM
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wow, I did not know that. Thank you!
/r/MensRights02/12/13 04:22 AM
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I really, really love Stephen Fry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq5dNcrHE8w
/r/MensRights01/12/13 10:13 PM
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My sympathies to Paul. Not his best performance (as he's already admitted) but I think we all know what it's like to be called a misogynist for being even slightly critical of feminism. Extend that frustration over 60+ minutes and I'd get a little pissed off too. Clymer made a fool of himself
/r/MensRights27/11/13 03:18 PM
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I'm as offended by the idea that this is what passes for poetry in universities nowadays as I am by the content.
/r/MensRights21/11/13 05:10 AM
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I find these posters to be a funny and clever parody of the feminist "teach men not to rape/don't be that guy" posters.... I also think they're counterproductive and contribute nothing more than negative press, and at a time when it's no longer so easy for us to say "any press is good press." To the wider world, who are not exposed to our arguments and have beed fed exclusively the saccharine side of feminism, this makes us look bad.
/r/MensRights30/10/13 04:36 AM
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Oh the ironies of feminism. On the one hand, they claim men get respect as men, regardless of what they do or who they are, and on the other they act shocked when a good man (smart, kind, good husband and father) like Walter White receives no respect from society and even his wife (recall the opening birthday handjob scene, my god). The truth is that men learn from an early age that the path to respect is through money, power and status, not kindness, intelligence and whatever other innate quali…
/r/MensRights29/10/13 09:13 PM
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Thunferf00t is excellent. Pretty much singlehandedly worth more than the Atheism+ crowd combined...
/r/MensRights27/10/13 05:43 AM
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Jonathan Rauch is incredible. Kindly Inquisitors is a must-read, especially for anyone affiliated with or sympathetic to the MRM. Here is his video for FIRE where he discusses the ideas in this article in a condensed format: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cITDCwKzGBM
/r/MensRights26/10/13 08:28 AM
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Not my joke, but the two job titles I see thrown out most often are "Privilege Inspector" and "Patriarchy Fighter"
/r/MensRights05/10/13 01:06 AM
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Got to hand it to them: they're really good at re-framing men's issues as really being the product of sexism against women. It's almost like they went to school specifically to spin things that way.
/r/MensRights04/10/13 06:47 AM
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Love all of you. Much appreciated
/r/MensRights04/10/13 02:42 AM
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She is absolutely right. The problem for feminists is that this "do away with thinking one form of representation can fight sexism" removes their biggest critical complaint about pop culture. If you look at non-Hollywood movies, movies made not to entertain or to make a buck, there is no problem representing women as human beings. It's the action blockbusters that tend to rely on stereotypes, and when they do, they stereotype men and women. Natalie Portman's career proves my point. In Thor and V…
/r/MensRights01/10/13 05:10 PM
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I'd love one :) Thanks!
/r/MensRights27/09/13 02:37 AM
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Hear, hear. I am thankful to the small handful of critics I've come across who have fought, and continue to fight, this cultural shift, but it is an opportunity for those of us fortunate enough to have found the higher beauties, and it will be the project of my life to right the ship, so to speak. Very happy to come across someone similarly disaffected!
/r/MensRights26/09/13 10:12 PM
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I cannot tell you how happy I am to read this here. The destruction of the humanities is my casus belli and I couldn't have phrased it better myself. This is absolutely a men's rights issue, and perhaps the most unsung one at that.
/r/MensRights26/09/13 06:37 PM
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There is plenty of excellent research into nature/nurture. Twin studies, for example, gives an incredible insight into how much our personalities are shaped by our DNA.
/r/MensRights23/09/13 07:12 AM
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Apologies but I'm not at my home computer. Melissa Hines, of Cambridge, has done excellent work into testosterone exposure's impact on human development, beginning in infancy http://drlouann.ning.com/profiles/blogs/how-does-prenatal-testosterone http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/bul/118/1/55/ (evidence for testosterone's impact on how children play and how aggressive they are) As I mentioned before, Simon Baron-Cohen does a great deal of research on childhood brain development, as does Susan Pinke…
/r/MensRights22/09/13 02:35 AM
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For the record, I did not downvote you and I am upvoting you for the sake of discussion. If I come off as sure of myself, it is only because I have studied this exact topic fairly intensively for the last two years. Apologies, though: skepticism is always warranted and I do not wish to shy from discussion with you. That only shows you differences - not how they came about. To show that they're innate, you'd have to do that with infants within hours after birth. After that, environmental influenc…
/r/MensRights22/09/13 02:02 AM
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I'm not sure I follow your argument. I am in no way trying to demean the humanities; as I said earlier, I am a student of the humanities and think they are vitally important. One of my biggest beefs with feminism is how it is cheapened the study of literature, history and philosophy. That having been said, when you look at what men and women demonstrate preferences and innate abilities for, in other words, when you examine both groups' strengths and weaknesses, it should surprise no one that man…
/r/MensRights21/09/13 12:01 AM
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"The point is you cannot know the extent to which it is biological..." Yes, actually, you can. You can monitor the human brain when we get angry and see which regions light up and compare them in men vs women. Moreover, you can autopsy the brains of men and women and discover the physical differences therein. You can determine to what extent testosterone impacts aggression and risky behavior and monitor the effects of low and high testosterone on both men and women. How do you think you can expl…
/r/MensRights20/09/13 11:49 PM
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Yes, sorry, we have. Look at twin studies. Look at zoological findings such as male upper body strength. Look at neuroscience, hormone levels, testosterone and testosterone receptors, etc etc etc. Our upper body strength evolved as a result of a male vs. male aggression selecting for it. And that evolutionary step is congruent with how our brains evolved for us to be less empathic -- because empathy is a hindrance when your survival depends on your ability to kill. You can also observe marked di…
/r/MensRights20/09/13 09:38 PM
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I think you're being willfully contentious. Women predominate in the humanities because they have a demonstrated aptitude for language. I am myself a student of the humanities... Nor am I trying to put down men, who disproportionately make up the best of the writers, painters, composers etc etc of history. But that has less to do with the natural disposition of the male brain and more to do with men predominating at the extreme tails of the intelligence spectrum.
/r/MensRights20/09/13 09:35 PM
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Men are more likely to commit violence and we are biologically programmed to be the more violent sex. Zoological giveaways include greater upper body strength, canine teeth and the clenching of fists in anger or frustration. The reason we predominate in fields like math and engineering is the same reason women predominate in the humanities: men are, in general, more prone to "systematizing" and women more prone to empathy and building social relationships. This really needs to be understood (stu…
/r/MensRights20/09/13 03:06 PM
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Wow, gotta love this one: http://np.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1maqj9/this_proves_sexism_exists_if_these_were_boys/cc7lozf Men are apparently responsible for creating jobs that are physically demanding.... I shit you not: if women had ruled the world, firefighting would have looked very different....
/r/MensRights14/09/13 05:30 AM
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Holy.crap. It's unbelievable that this is what passes for morality. Young boys. Children. And their only response is to point to a tiny minority of successful men. It makes me want to pull my hair out.
/r/MensRights14/09/13 05:19 AM
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Brilliant! Satire has always been the best weapon against absurdity and the tone of this is perfect
/r/MensRights08/09/13 01:39 AM
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I am a huuuuge fan of Pinker's (read almost all his books, most of his published articles, even trying to arrange a lunch with him through mutual friends) but I can promise you that the gender theories crowd is totally impermeable to reason and evidence. When I initially started becoming anti-feminist, I thought "oh, hey, look, these gender theorists just need to be exposed to the competing claims and they'll amend their theories," and then I learned how often these criticisms had been made and …
/r/MensRights18/08/13 02:13 AM
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I find it really amusing that this already embarrassing article was published on a website with a "Woman" tab, and that when you see what's included under that tab you get the typical "diet, health, beauty, celebrity" bullshit.
/r/MensRights14/08/13 05:46 AM
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Does anyone know if Thunderf00t posts to reddit? Or know of some way I can contact him? I want to express my admiration and gratitude; he does great work
/r/MensRights12/08/13 05:13 AM
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Allan Bloom's is most general and least accusatory of feminism, largely because he was writing it at the exact point that the transition was being made and so didn't have the benefit of hindsight. Either the Sokol or Gross book would serve as a great primer; I recommend them to otherwise intelligent people who have been so inured in the system as to have trouble being critical of it. I'm also a big fan of Milan Kundera's The Joke. He saw firsthand the abuses of communism, the way politics infest…
/r/MensRights11/08/13 09:03 PM
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Another apt quote: "The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie" (Joseph Schumpeter). My arrival in these forums began with a terrible experience in a liberal American university where feminist dogma was actively shoved down my throat in the most unlikely of classes. I've since come to understand the nature of this takeover of academia and some of the consequences it will have/has had on society, chief among which is this preference for feelings over facts. Some excellent primer material…
/r/MensRights11/08/13 06:41 PM
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There's a great quote I love by Christopher Hitchens: "The struggle against totalitarianism has always been the struggle between the literal and ironic mind." These people, so-called skeptics, have no idea that they've joined a cult. The very same people who most claim to reason and doubt are actively mocking reason and doubt if doing so flatters their ideological preconceptions about the world. A child could see the irony in this but they cannot. You just can't make this stuff up.
/r/MensRights11/08/13 04:23 PM
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I saw "NationalPost.com" and immediately knew who the author would be. We really should find some way to thank Barbara Kay...she's a warrior
/r/MensRights30/07/13 06:08 AM
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Anyone seeking to understand the disparity between diagnostic rates of BPD for men and women and things like autism should google Simon Baron-Cohen and watch his presentation on "the male brain."
/r/MensRights15/07/13 02:56 PM
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My guess, from what I know about GWW, is that she had quite a bit more to say that was conveniently edited out for tv audiences -_-
/r/MensRights11/07/13 05:00 AM
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what the actual fuck
/r/MensRights16/06/13 03:46 AM
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Best comment from YouTube: Trash talking between guys = lol grow a pair Trash talking between guy and girl = omg he's talking about rape, he's raping about rape, rape's raping rape
/r/MensRights10/06/13 09:12 PM
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Huge respect for him. I can't imagine how difficult living with bipolar disorder is...
/r/MensRights06/06/13 03:17 PM
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I really, really love this woman. Every article she writes is a lucid defense of classically liberal values and a controlled evisceration of whoever she happens to be criticizing.
/r/MensRights05/06/13 07:27 PM
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Excellent. So good to hear a voice of reason in a major newspaper
/r/MensRights01/06/13 01:27 AM
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Really well argued by Paul. He called the interviewer on his biases and cognitive dissonance and did so with class. Bravo sir
/r/MensRights29/05/13 04:48 AM
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So much respect for Dawkins. Might even be worth joining Twitter to defend him....almost...
/r/MensRights24/05/13 10:30 PM
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Pleasantly surprised
/r/MensRights14/05/13 04:05 PM
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You don't need our approval or advice on this one. If your ex doesn't want to see your son, your son is probably much better off not having any contact with him. We support those fathers who want to be fathers and are denied that right, or who don't want to be fathers and aren't given the choice. But a bad father is a bad father is a bad father, and your son is much better off with only a loving mother at his side than a loving mother and an uncommitted father.
/r/MensRights11/05/13 06:39 AM
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ah ok! thank you
/r/MensRights09/05/13 03:33 AM
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Wait, what? sorry, can you expand on that? I don't think I got the metaphor
/r/MensRights09/05/13 03:13 AM
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You are awesome. Thanks for taking the time to post
/r/MensRights02/05/13 04:23 PM
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WOW. Gotta love those hateful comment sections
/r/MensRights30/04/13 03:35 AM
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You don't. That's the whole point of this 'theory': it's a catch-all, unfalsifiable way of blaming everything on men. Sexism in favor of men is male privilege/Sexism in favor of women is 'benevolent sexism.' Millions of boys and men died in combat in WWI/II alone? That's because of the sexist notion that women aren't men's equals and aren't allowed to fight. Sexism against women! If you're talking to someone reasonable (and usually reasonable is a factor of how little exposure/indoctrination the…
/r/MensRights26/04/13 02:26 AM
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Typhonblue is a huge credit to this movement. Props to her
/r/MensRights22/04/13 03:30 PM
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I suppose it hinges on the extent to which she was aware how much feminist theory has penetrated university policy. Regardless, unless Paul knows more about her than can be gleaned from that article, I'm not sure his response was fair in its vitriol. Like it or not, her article had the positive impact of drawing attention to an issue that is often overlooked, and if I was someone unfamiliar with feminism and the MRM and came across Paul's piece, I think I'd find it alienating.
/r/MensRights20/04/13 06:47 AM
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She makes me cringe every time I hear her voice
/r/MensRights19/04/13 09:39 PM
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I know many women (and men) who would identify as feminist, even campaign for feminism, without knowing the full extent of what they're doing or what theories they're advancing. Part of what is so insidious about feminism is that it brazenly lies. It's impossible to attend a four-year college and not hear false statistics about rape, for example; if I was less critical or didn't stumble across the MR movement, I would've been inclined to take those statistics as accurate given the seemingly legi…
/r/MensRights19/04/13 05:38 AM
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I just finished watching it. I agree with her to the extent that the woman was being solipsistic: she clearly didn't think about men before she had a policy that was a direct result of her campaigning come home to bite her in the ass. But that's to be expected, isn't it? We spend so much time discussing why men's issues aren't taken seriously that we should be the first to understand why it took a personal incident to drive it home for this woman. And this is a golden opportunity to take what is…
/r/MensRights19/04/13 05:16 AM
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Usually a fan of Paul's pieces, but this struck me as tactless. A big part of what we're all complaining about is how these very controversial, very disputable claims and ideologies have become the standard in Western discourse, such that criticizing them is quick to get you labeled. And this woman was brave enough to speak out and express her dismay. Better to educate her than to alienate her.
/r/MensRights19/04/13 04:39 AM
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Jesus, the NYT stoops to this? "They voted for him because he's cute!"
/r/MensRights12/04/13 02:23 PM
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I assume you are trolling me, because I have a very hard time taking anything you just said seriously... I understand that rape is a concern, though it does no good to blow it out of all proportion and act like you are liable to be raped walking down the street in broad daylight. I also understand that this is largely not something I, as a man, have to be concerned about But rape is a "war" against women? Is rape coordinated? Is there an army of rapists? They have the specific goal of "keeping w…
/r/MensRights08/04/13 01:16 AM
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Her face and tone of voice..meme-worthy
/r/MensRights06/04/13 04:33 AM
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Censorship is freedom of expression. My head exploded. She was being totally sincere too. Doublespeak at its finest
/r/MensRights05/04/13 10:06 AM
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Objectively speaking, it's probably not wise to open a girl by criticizing feminism; if you've spent any time on this sub, you'd know how futile that is, and what it leads to. And Fight Club is some extremely deep movie? It's a good movie, based on a good book, but it isn't exactly beyond most people's comprehension, or at least I'd hope not. But even with that, I wouldn't say you were being a dick, and certainly not a misogynist...you need /r/seduction or /r/theredpill though; this isn't the pl…
/r/MensRights04/04/13 03:10 AM
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Just when I was giving up hope on Ryerson and Canadian universities in general...
/r/MensRights03/04/13 05:17 PM
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At my old high school, the only people who were given extra time were those with diagnosed learning disabilities or football players with too many concussions. A constant refrain we hear from feminists is that women are undermined and made to feel inferior. I wonder what taking the test with concussed athletes and the learning disabled will do to women's self-esteem...
/r/MensRights27/03/13 07:55 PM
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What a load of crap. Steven Pinker is a "pop" psychologist? He is trying to "normalize" rape? Transparent smear tactics and disingenuous engagement with his work make for lousy reading. And then he has the audacity to select rapes involving torture or committed during genocide or warfare, as if that is representative of the kind of "rape culture" feminism claims exists in Western society. As a big fan of Pinker, this made me sick to read
/r/MensRights20/03/13 08:56 PM
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I didn't know the status quo was that bad to begin with. Frightening potential for abuse
/r/MensRights17/03/13 08:41 PM
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This is ridiculous. Government overreach at its finest...I really hope there is a ton of public outcry
/r/MensRights17/03/13 04:22 PM
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I think it's hilarious that she spent a year (give or take?) making that video, with a $150k budget at her disposal, and thunderf00t tears her apart AND had equal or better production values. My oh my
/r/MensRights15/03/13 11:35 PM
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This might be one the things that most enrages me about feminism. When I look back at my grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, I see soldiers, miners, truck drivers and ditch diggers, all of whom lived miserable lives to provide for their large families. To this day, that sacrifice baffles me.
/r/MensRights12/03/13 02:20 AM
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This is unrelated to your post, but would you mind sharing what it's like living with Aspergers Syndrome? I'm not sure if you're aware of Simon Baron-Cohen (cousin of Sasha Baron-Cohen) but his hypothesis is that Aspergers and autism are extreme variations of what he calls "the male brain," which is one of the reasons they're so much more prevalent in men. If you haven't read anything about it, I suggest you check him out; there's a 45 minute lecture of his on YouTube
/r/MensRights10/03/13 02:51 AM
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I have been subscribed to this subreddit for less than 12 months, and I can honestly not remember a week passing without this exact post coming up. Tell this to NOW and the AAUW, because they didn't get the memo -_-
/r/MensRights09/03/13 11:47 PM
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I'm not talking about the feminism tag. I'm talking about the genderfluid and genderqueer tags. And I am arguing that they are there for the same reason....that patently nonsensical things get posted under their auspices. Except they do, I refer you back to the upvoted comment where someone's boyfriend though they were just "pains in the ass" Except they don't. Just like people who laugh at rape don't actually think rape isn't horrible...I can't speak to every single person or comment on that su…
/r/MensRights07/03/13 09:26 PM
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bahahahahaha. I guess the joke is on me for wasting time with a troll, but here goes... I don't give a fucking shit about Sandra Harding! Why do you keep bring her up? Because she is a classic example of why "feminism" is a good tag to search for if you're looking for crazy? Google the "sokal hoax" for a wonderful take down of the fraud that is academic feminism Well, your justification for lumping genderfluid and genderqueer people into the "tags where there be crazy people" list is that this f…
/r/MensRights07/03/13 08:46 PM
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Yes, because that's what I said. I said all genderqueer and genderfluid folk are crazy. Yup. You have good reading comprehension (No, you don't. You're an idiot....just in case you can't detect sarcasm either) Sandra Harding has said many ignorant, non-sensical (crazy!) things, and that didn't hurt her career, as it would in any serious discipline; instead, it helped it. It's something of a requirement in our post-modern academic world, but that's a huge digression. You clearly have not spent mo…
/r/MensRights07/03/13 08:15 PM
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Well, yes, how are they not? People are going, "look, the genderqueers (sic) have their own little inside joke thing, laugh at them!" No, they aren't. No one is. And the second you start to say, "You can laugh at x but not y!" you've instantly made y the funnier thing to laugh at. I don't know who you are quoting with the "What my boyfriend said upon seeing this," but it isn't me. Regardless, you are conflating them being made fun of for the patently ridiculous things they think (thin privilege?…
/r/MensRights07/03/13 07:48 PM
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Yah, because there's nothing hateful about a subreddit that counts "genderfluid" and "genderqueer" as tags that help you find "the crazy of SJA" Don't forget feminism. These things do tend to bring out the crazy in people. And there's nothing hateful about a subreddit that upvotes things that mock genderqueer people! http://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/comments/191r4j/the_genderqueers_have_their_own_meme_or_image/ Are genderqueer people above being mocked? And y'know, there's nothing hateful …
/r/MensRights07/03/13 04:53 PM
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anddddddddd my head just exploded. thank you
/r/TheRedPill02/03/13 04:47 PM
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The last time I got told to "check my privilege" was during a discussion about the wage gap. The girl's family has an apartment in Manhattan and a massive home in the Hamptons.... my head nearly exploded
/r/MensRights02/03/13 04:40 PM
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Good old feminists, managing to turn homophobia into a crime against women
/r/MensRights02/03/13 03:17 AM
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It's shit like this that makes us look bad. Facebook posts are easily edited/faked, and even if they aren't, it's a handful of crazies.
/r/MensRights16/02/13 07:30 AM
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For some reason, the link is broken for me. If anyone else is having trouble: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324162304578304052148043138.html And here is another Op-Ed he did where he calls feminism "the new creatonism." ya, I like this guy http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323596204578241691461160054.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet
/r/MensRights15/02/13 11:40 PM
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That hit painfully close to home
/r/MensRights15/02/13 11:32 PM
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"who teaches people who are afraid of other people" .... That is genuinely sad
/r/MensRights15/02/13 03:16 AM
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I'm assuming you're trolling and/or being facetious? That entire website is a mouthpiece for the most dogmatic, least informed and least rational of mainstream feminis(ts)m.
/r/MensRights14/02/13 06:33 AM
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I have no words...They are an embarrassment to journalism
/r/MensRights12/02/13 10:40 PM
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"Arguing with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." -Thomas Paine "If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to change their mind?" -Sam Harris I take comfort in these two quotations
/r/MensRights12/02/13 10:18 AM
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And what does The Louvre have to do with rape? Somewhat confused by that as well
/r/MensRights11/02/13 07:06 AM
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One guy's response: Do you seriously believe these senators really hate women? That they think violence against women is a GOOD thing? I think it is important to look past the title of the act (“violence against women”) and into the actual substance, what the act actually does. To give you a historical example, in US v. Morrison, the Supreme Court ruled that part of VAWA was unconstitutional because it allowed the United States government to seek civil remedies on the victim’s behalf. Today, rep…
/r/MensRights10/02/13 05:40 PM
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I did my "do diligence" and immediately forgot everything that guy wrote. Shit like this is really irrelevant
/r/MensRights07/02/13 01:15 AM
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This thread gets started literally once a week. If feminism is just the belief in equality for women, why do self-described feminists like Daphne Patai, Christina Hoff Sommers and Camille Paglia get called anti-feminists, have their funding pulled and are dismissed/ignored by feminist journals/news sources? Because feminism w.o the belief in the patriarchy/wage gap myths/rape culture is just egalitarianism, and wouldn't get nearly the public funding it currently gets if it was half as honest as …
/r/MensRights06/02/13 08:26 AM
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bahahahaha she managed to find the audi ad offensive? that's hilarious.
/r/MensRights06/02/13 05:19 AM
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This. What we need to do is get the larger public to see that anti-feminism does not mean anti-woman or anti-women's rights.
/r/MensRights03/02/13 09:27 PM
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It's not discussed enough on this sub, but veteran's issues - the way that returning soldiers are basically forgotten by their governments and left to languish in poverty and mental illness - should be a much greater part of our battle than it currently is. Veterans are mostly male, and it doesn't really matter what war you look at, they're given a raw deal when they come home
/r/MensRights02/02/13 06:11 PM
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I'm curious as to how anyone thought of it as one gender's problem to begin with. Until I finally saw suicide statistics by gender last year, I always assumed men and women killed each other in equal numbers.
/r/MensRights02/02/13 06:09 PM
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There are all kinds of philosophies propping up the claim that objective knowledge is impossible, and still dozens more refuting it. The difference is that only one position is actionable and forms the foundation for....science, technology, debate, public policy, etc etc etc. If we want to argue over epistemology, we can go to /r/philosophy. Here in the real world, though, I'll stick to my "dogmatic" scientific principles.
/r/MensRights28/01/13 04:02 AM
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There is no such thing as evidence, only perception. Science isn't based on truth it's based on perception. .... I don't know if you're being serious or not? If so, you would take to feminism nicely. Sandra Harding shares your beliefs, and has been deserving of the ridicule she's received for them
/r/MensRights27/01/13 11:55 PM
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This is a barely coherent, poorly written and equally poorly argued reply. I admire GWW, but I don't think she should waste her time on this tripe
/r/MensRights25/01/13 03:48 AM
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This x10000. Fuck that motherfucker. I have a sister. I have girl friends and have had girlfriends. I know people who have been raped and have seen firsthand how fucking awful that shit is, how damaging and consequential it is for that person's future chances at intimacy and trust and having a normal, healthy relationship. What you went through afterwards is a pretty normal reaction to a an atrocious crime. You are not to blame for what happened, or for your reaction. There are men who commit th…
/r/MensRights20/01/13 06:27 PM
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That video described my relationship with my ex-girlfriend pretty perfectly....she would become violent, hitting and scratching me, and I would attempt to leave only to have her physically bar the door. Speaking from first-hand experience, this is absolutely traumatizing, and the whole time it was going on (an embarrassingly long time), I was ashamed to talk about it. I am 6'0, 200lbs; she was 5'7, 115lbs
/r/MensRights17/01/13 02:11 AM
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Sorry, the "not trolling" thing was referring to PartTimeBadMan. I'm never certain whether or not people come here for honest enquiry and discussion or just to flame/troll
/r/MensRights15/01/13 12:36 PM
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Operating on the assumption that you're here for discussion and not just to troll /r/mensrights... I don't think the concept of privilege is useful. I do not deny that, due to inherent characteristics of which gender and skin color are only two examples, some people have an easier time getting along in some contexts in some societies. Easy example: Year after year, people with "non-white"-sounding names, like Muhammad or Omar or Jeeves, are passed over for people with "white-sounding" names on j…
/r/MensRights15/01/13 11:13 AM
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THIS. She even says in the video that she thinks men are largely unaware of women doing this. This is a case where no publicity is bad publicity
/r/MensRights13/01/13 04:09 AM
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Well, if you can wear a white t-shirt to a water park, what the fuck do you have to be depressed about?!
/r/MensRights11/01/13 04:30 AM
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No, that graphic assumes that it is men who cannot control themselves, rather than rapists
/r/MensRights10/01/13 06:26 AM
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wow.....scary
/r/MensRights09/01/13 06:11 PM
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Yet when I see a movement like men's rights attempting to speak for all men, it falls into its own trap the same way feminism does, by speaking for the rights and experiences of white women instead of women universally. So when is men's rights going to address issues that face men of color instead of pretending for so long like feminism that the vanguard of the movement should be about white, upper class women? Can you name issues that are addressed here that are specific to white men? Paternity…
/r/MensRights09/01/13 07:20 AM
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haha, enjoyed that, thank you
/r/MensRights07/01/13 05:08 AM
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ugh, I would beg you to edit that into paragraphs, as it was a painful read. I can't speak for everyone here, but I don't think the anti-feminist mentality that I subscribe to means that women have it easy or don't have problems. Quite the contrary. I think that gender and gender dynamics are an important topic of discussion in society, and the issues of both genders should be on the table at all times. Being an anti-feminist is not the same as being against women's rights or holding the positio…
/r/MensRights03/01/13 07:49 PM
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Agreed
/r/MensRights31/12/12 09:32 AM
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True, but very often the "women doing bad things" posts highlight how much less severely these women are treated than men who have done comparable things
/r/MensRights31/12/12 08:18 AM
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Re: the double standard I don't think it's ok or acceptable to shame people based on their sexual behavior. That having been said, calling it a "double standard" ignores the biological differences between male and female sexuality, something that is pretty standard operating procedure among feminists. Women are the sexual selectors. Men are the chasers/suitors. This is as ubiquitous a fact as any in anthropology. It is therefore much, much more difficult for a guy to get laid.
/r/MensRights29/12/12 06:46 PM
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The girl in favor of circumcision, aside from repeating nonsensical points and avoiding the ethical issue entirely, was getting very riled up whereas Georganne kept her cool. Well said by her
/r/MensRights27/12/12 06:15 AM
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First of all, there is nothing that "justifies" negative behavior. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. This is a common straw man often used by feminists to discredit the findings of ethnologists, biologists, zoologists and especially evolutionary psychologists: they argue that, when a scientist finds a biological basis for immoral behavior, they are inherently propping up, excusing or justifying that behavior. This is a non sequitur that should be called out. As for your actual question, despite what some pe…
/r/MensRights26/12/12 03:30 AM
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The more I read about Al Sharpton, the less I like him
/r/MensRights25/12/12 11:29 PM
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A thousand times THIS. He is 100% in his rights to kick her to the curb
/r/MensRights21/12/12 09:04 PM
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My guess is that, on average, women are having more sex, but only because men are over-represented at the higher and lower ends of the spectrum ie there are more many having many, many sexual partners and more men having fewer or none. I've never managed to dig up the study that supposedly found this, but you hear it said a lot that on college campuses 20% of the men are sleeping with 80% of the women and that seems to agree with my experiences. pretty hypothetical though
/r/MensRights20/12/12 05:06 AM
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That was actually an awesome speech. Kudos to her for not only being honest but developing a side of herself that isn't skin-deep. Most of the models I know are perfectly happy to fall back on their looks
/r/MensRights18/12/12 06:01 PM
2

Ugh, this is written in a way that is reminiscent of the U of T feminists attempting to smear Warren Farrell.... I'm fine with just plain disagreeing with the guy
/r/MensRights17/12/12 01:49 AM
2

Michael Moore is an idiot. See every article Hitchens ever wrote about him :P
/r/MensRights16/12/12 04:23 PM
3

I would highly recommend Bruce Bawer to anyone here who hasn't encountered him before. Great stuff!
/r/MensRights15/12/12 08:23 AM
1

Please read the book rather than relying on other people to cherry pick quotations for you. The feminists at U of T have already shown why such a method isn't a valid means of assessing someone's stance
/r/MensRights14/12/12 10:58 PM
1

Awesome, thank you for taking the time to answer!
/r/MensRights13/12/12 08:17 AM
2

Can I ask, purely from the perspective of someone completely fascinated with what you just wrote, where you've been getting this information? From listening to your videos, I think I've read at least some of the same books you've read (Richard Dawkins and possibly Steven Pinker?) but I'd love to read more
/r/MensRights13/12/12 06:38 AM
5

Great article/post. Thank you!
/r/MensRights13/12/12 02:35 AM
10

"I'm a young white person, and my view on black people is that they are thieving, heartless and stupid criminals. I've seen statistics that show that they commit a majority of violent crime, get the worst grades/GPAs/SAT scores, and end up on welfare and other social programs rather than contribute to society. Am I a racist?" My guess is you would find the above statement about as startling as I find yours
/r/MensRights12/12/12 05:51 PM
8

This makes me seethe with anger. "Suspended with pay"... someone like that has no business in a classroom
/r/MensRights12/12/12 06:49 AM
1

My younger sister is easily the most incredible person I know. She's insanely gifted, funny, upbeat even though she has been through hell many times, and just incredibly down to earth. I always joke with her that I'm the older sibling and that she should listen to me, but the reality is since she was about 14 she's been the one giving me advice and helping me with my life in any way she can. She's one of the few people in real life I feel comfortable discussing gender issues with, and she's been…
/r/MensRights11/12/12 11:19 PM
4

This is actually the genesis of what brought me to this subreddit: I couldn't take a humanities course without having feminism and feminist theories shoved down my throat. Well said!
/r/MensRights11/12/12 09:13 AM
2

Well said :)
/r/MensRights11/12/12 09:07 AM
15

This will be HUGE for her. Tons of exposure and an audience that will listen to what she has to say. I hope she does it
/r/MensRights11/12/12 05:17 AM
3

I don't think that a minority of people here oppose feminism; I think a majority do. And if you understood what our grievances are with feminism, and the political and social influence it has been able to exercise, you would understand why "men's rights" is necessary. That having been said, I wouldn't self-identify as a MRA. I think egalitarian or secular humanist are great labels to have. There are just issues and injustices that are unique to men, and that go largely unaddressed, that this "mo…
/r/MensRights06/12/12 11:52 PM
10

lol check my post history; found that out the hard way. And no, they don't realize their hypocrisy
/r/MensRights06/12/12 08:47 AM
1

Good point :S I think the people receiving those emails don't care much either way; their minds are made up
/r/MensRights04/12/12 06:16 PM
2

Pernicious advertising strategies ≠ "a society set up to privilege men and oppress women." And if you take a harder look at men's advertising, you will see an equal focus on six pack abs, strong jaw lines and whatever other characteristics are considered attractive in men. Whaddya know, good looking people sell things. This is not oppression, and it is certainly not arranged to specifically hurt women. How do people market to men? They create a masculine ideal, a dude who is unrealistically stro…
/r/MensRights04/12/12 08:55 AM
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Spend some time here, read the sidebar links or do a search for terms like "patriarchy" and "rape culture" and you'll get a pretty good idea of our stance on those. For example, with respect to the patriarchy, nobody here denies that men hold more positions of power in politics and business. We just also point out the corollary: that men are also the majority of the homeless, the prison population, the workplace and military fatalities, and that we live in a democracy where women are a majority …
/r/MensRights04/12/12 04:28 AM
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Does your girlfriend believe in the patriarchy and rape culture? These are mainstream tenets of feminist ideology, and you will have a hard time convincing anyone here that one can both believe that nonsense and be about total equality.
/r/MensRights04/12/12 02:52 AM
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They cannot even correctly spell his name and yet they expect people to believe those quotes and accusations aren't taken out of context/total misrepresentations of him? Laughable
/r/MensRights04/12/12 02:48 AM
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hahahahaha wow... I hadn't seen such childish behavior except from caricatures of feminism before, and these people are being completely sincere
/r/MensRights01/12/12 09:13 PM
2

Biology is not the only thing that creates gender roles. I'd be the first person to stand up and say that I think much of what feminists call the "patriarchy" is a result of biological programming, but I wouldn't disagree that now the time has come to transcend that programming. Biology relegated women to primarily care-giving and parenting roles, and men to being hunters, providers and warriors. But just as not all women want to be parents or be confined to those expectations, neither do all me…
/r/MensRights01/12/12 02:21 AM
10

Looks like a beautiful car ;)
/r/MensRights29/11/12 06:00 AM
1

This should get more attention here. IMO this is the best of his videos that I have seen. Well done, sir
/r/MensRights26/11/12 02:32 AM
6

A quote from Thomas Paine I find appropriate: "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." -Thomas Paine
/r/MensRights25/11/12 05:56 AM
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I met him online, on a millionaire's website. I thought that might be a place to meet someone of a similar educational background, with similar interests and income. I was never looking to meet a sugar daddy; certainly, as a physician, I was able to provide for my children and myself. And that is where I stopped reading...
/r/MensRights24/11/12 03:08 AM
5

I was enjoying this season, and then I got to the most recent episode.....without spoilers, the reasons given for the serial killer being the way he is are so god damn cliche and over-the-top. Ruined what was, for me, a decent season
/r/MensRights23/11/12 06:19 AM
5

I am embarrassed for those women. What a joke
/r/MensRights19/11/12 06:34 PM
3

Wow, thank you for writing that out. Much appreciated. And sorry you had to put up with such hostility :(
/r/MensRights19/11/12 12:10 AM
9

Can you elaborate? You were there, I take it? I'd love to get more details but my google skills are letting me down
/r/MensRights18/11/12 03:11 AM
20

This what the first thing that crossed my mind. Every time I have ever heard Warren Farrell speak, he has come across as incredibly affable. That he would get this kind of treatment blows my mind...
/r/MensRights17/11/12 09:34 PM
9

This is disturbing... Brainwashing to a degree I cannot comprehend
/r/MensRights17/11/12 07:16 AM
2

I don't think that I am making a huge assumption. I'm sure there are people here that aren't as informed as others - or you could infer that from all of the posts mocking feminism - but when there's actual discussion had, it's most often from the perspective of someone like Christina Hoff Sommers, ie an equality feminist. GirlWritesWhat did a video entitled something like "Feminism: You have to Own this Shit" where she basically made the point that it is capital-F Feminism's responsibility to be…
/r/MensRights16/11/12 11:05 PM
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There are many forms of feminism. The mainstream, academic feminism, the one with the powerful lobby, is the one that we concern ourselves with. They believe in things like rape culture, patriarchy theory, wage gap myths, and other such claims. There are other forms of feminism that are essentially totally in line with our perspective. We call them egalitarian feminists. Unfortunately, they are the ones that are marginalized, called "dissident feminists," have funding pulled, and even receive de…
/r/MensRights16/11/12 09:33 PM
1

You quoted me. I am defining "aggression" as being non-violent. It is you who has classified it as violent aggression. As far as violence goes, I more or less agree with you, with the caveat that you are referring to two very specific forms of violence(ie female on male aggression tends to be championed or excused - "he must have cheated" and male on female aggression, regardless of who is at fault for the escalation, almost always ends up badly for the man). However, men playing violent sports …
/r/MensRights15/11/12 08:26 PM
2

Short men are among the most discriminated against in terms of hiring at jobs. There was a documentary posted on here not too long ago from the perspective of a much-shorter-than-average man, and he spoke about everything from difficulty in interviews to difficulty hailing a cab. It was very eye-opening for me
/r/MensRights15/11/12 08:22 PM
1

I think men can be aggressive with one another and assertive/dominant in social situations without repercussions (to an extent...) whereas women cannot. I am not referring to violence; I am referring to taking the lead, expressing their opinions or outright taking control of a group.
/r/MensRights15/11/12 06:09 PM
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-Women experience more pressure to start a family and are more likely to be evaluated/judged on whether or not they are in a relationship and whether or not that relationship will lead to procreation -Women are more likely to be judged based on their looks alone or judged more harshly (this is my opinion, but it I think the fact that men are also judged on their looks - in particular their height - is given little or no societal concern) -Men can be aggressive or assertive without being labeled …
/r/MensRights15/11/12 06:30 AM
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Thank you. This is exactly what I think of when I see this joke... or doing ridiculously hard manual labor.
/r/MensRights14/11/12 07:29 PM
5

I died. thank you
/r/MensRights13/11/12 07:14 PM
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It's a little simplistic, I admit, but I don't think the central premise is all that wrong.... Marriage used to be the penalty men paid for sex, and I don't think it should surprise anyone that, when sex is more readily available, marriage is delayed
/r/MensRights12/11/12 12:25 AM
2

I'm proud to say my grandfather was a veteran of WWI, and this day, above all others, makes me proud of his sacrifice
/r/MensRights11/11/12 05:54 PM
2

Please keep us updated on this
/r/MensRights10/11/12 01:52 AM
3

Sorry if this is obvious but what's the benefit to deleting Facebook? Doesn't that at least provide a recorded history of anything that might go on?
/r/MensRights07/11/12 10:19 PM
25

The latest survey revealed that most men would now ask for a contribution from a female partner on a first date with the vast majority (51 per cent) happier to go Dutch and split the bill. 51% is a "vast" majority?
/r/MensRights06/11/12 07:19 PM
2

At this time, it's best studied as a hobby rather than in university
/r/MensRights02/11/12 03:27 PM
2

god, that is fucking amazing. thank you
/r/MensRights02/11/12 02:59 AM
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Please, no. Don't judge a wonderful and important discipline by the idiotic turn it has taken in the last ~40 years. This is to descend to their level of stupidity
/r/MensRights01/11/12 11:15 PM
1

Nothing much left to accomplish here but at least we still both have the right to decide with our children. With, or for? Because that seems to me the central point of contention. Anyways, I appreciate your input and the discussion
/r/MensRights01/11/12 10:58 PM
1

1) Ok, given that you agree with me that circumcision without medical benefit is barbaric, can you then extend your reasoning to encompass WHY it is that we ever bothered to assess the medical benefits of circumcision? This is very much a case of culture influencing medicine for the worse: had there not already been a huge precedent set by a barbaric cultural influence (not only religious, but puritanical, anti-masturbation/sexual pleasure groups), then medical science would NEVER have lighted o…
/r/MensRights01/11/12 08:49 PM
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No, you are harping on my use of the word violent and ignoring the thrust of my argument. Open heart surgery is indeed violent, and we wouldn't needlessly inflict that on a child. For thousands of years, little boys have had stones or sharp knives taken to their genitals, and for thousands of years this has been a violent procedure without any medical basis whatsoever. Since it was a fait-accompli, and a widespread practice in North America before there ever was an AIDS epidemic, we examined it …
/r/MensRights01/11/12 07:31 PM
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It absolutely falls under the definition. I invite you to watch any video of infant circumcision (unedited) and make the same claim. They take a new-born child, strap him into a hold, and take a scalpel to his penis. In hospitals, anesthetic is used, but this does not eliminate the pain. In religious circumcisions, no anesthetic is used. And funny that you bring up ear piercing. What would you say to someone who pierced the ears of their newborn infant? What about cranial shaping? Ear-lobe exten…
/r/MensRights01/11/12 06:41 PM
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Have you ever watched a circumcision? You are bloodying a child. It is the definition of violence. And disfiguring...uh, how can you even quarrel with that? As for the deaths, the estimates I keep reading are 100 baby boys in North America every year. That is 100 too many for a surgery that does not have serious medical benefits that are not cancelled out by a 1$ condom. You keep comparing it to vaccinations, a comparatively harmless procedure with no lasting physical ramifications for the child…
/r/MensRights01/11/12 05:45 PM
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Many people experience medical issues from botched circumcisions. Some even die from hemorrhaging or bad reactions to the anesthetic - another solid argument for not performing an unnecessary surgery on a child. And going through it at ANY date is unpleasant. I'd rather it be chosen by an adult, who understood the risks, than inflicted on an infant, who cannot consent. It is gender mutilation. You can call it whatever you want, but it is both "violent and disfiguring." Imagine, also, how it bega…
/r/MensRights01/11/12 04:40 PM
1

Exactly -_-
/r/MensRights01/11/12 07:06 AM
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Just because it can be said to have some medical benefits (the benefits themselves - usually a reduction in HIV transmission and less chance of urinary tract infection - are contentious) does not justify a painful excision of erogenous tissue done without consent. The studies finding HIV reduction benefits are done in Africa. As every critic of circumcision has pointed out, you cannot compare first-world and third-world countries. We do not face an AIDS epidemic. We have access to basic hygiene.…
/r/MensRights01/11/12 06:38 AM
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There is nothing wrong with circumcision, if it is freely chosen by an adult. On an infant, however, it is gender mutilation.
/r/MensRights01/11/12 06:33 AM
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Nothing to see here. Just good, unbiased reporting
/r/MensRights31/10/12 08:29 PM
1

oh man. Well said. The unfortunate thing is anyone making that exact same, reasoned, rational argument on a larger scale would be labeled a misogynist/rape supporter/Hitler.
/r/MensRights29/10/12 03:54 PM
1

Again...totally agree with you...and there have been articles of such things happening that I have upvoted or commented in, because, like you, I agree that that needs more societal attention....but this was a facebook post...easily falsified, entirely hypothetical and therefore without credibility. We are better than that
/r/MensRights28/10/12 07:20 PM
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To answer your point specifically: resigned the Patriot Act ordered the murder of American citizens overseas, without a trial signed the National Defense Act in 2012, allowing the military to indefinitely detain anyone, including US citizens, without a trial, basically nullifying Habeas corpus, one of the oldest and most foundational of civil liberties
/r/MensRights28/10/12 02:09 PM
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False rape is not. Facebook posts (that are easily faked, and only reveal what ONE person thinks) are. There is a comment at the bottom that is more downvoted than mine. It reads "We should put this picture in the dictionary next to: woman." It is being downvoted, presumably, because some people understand that taking one crazy person's facebook status to be representative of anything, let alone an entire gender, is absurd. That is why this does not belong here, and can only serve to induce a ci…
/r/MensRights28/10/12 02:04 PM
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Not gonna dispute your point...only going to point out that the source for this is an anonymous facebook post....not an actual case of rape being used as a weapon...a facebook post.
/r/MensRights28/10/12 01:57 PM
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I am not trying to 'hush' discussion. This is patently trivial (1 crazy person on facebook), easily faked (there are websites that allow you to create statuses/edit comments) and makes us look bad (lol@ mensrights focusing on a single crazy person's facebook post)
/r/MensRights28/10/12 01:55 PM
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This is a Facebook post...by a single WOMAN. 50,000 people should be focusing on public policy, on activism, on legal matters, on a myriad of things that aren't Facebook status updates. It honestly plays right into the hands of people who deride this subreddit as having a victim-complex or unrealistic understandings of society....things that we (rightly) accuse /r/feminism and SRS of because this is characteristic of their subreddits as well.
/r/MensRights28/10/12 05:04 AM
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It's one stupid girl though. On a Facebook post that could easily be doctored. This is what dominates SRS and /r/feminism, and we had a few posts recently attempting to make sure we don't stoop to that level.
/r/MensRights28/10/12 04:00 AM
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This is really so irrelevant to this subreddit, and only makes us look bad
/r/MensRights28/10/12 03:01 AM
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Our three biggest complaints are the SCUM manifesto and Tumblr feminists? What a wonderful straw man
/r/MensRights23/10/12 10:00 PM
1

Certainly, although it wouldn't even need to be an accurate bias to be an effective one. In other words, say a quota system is implemented to admit more female engineers nationwide. Perhaps, despite the fact that they can get in with less qualifications than their male peers, they manage to be successful and graduate every bit as accomplished as the men. This would not remove the stigma that they were given special aid. There was a very thoughtful article in The Atlantic (or possibly Harpers?) r…
/r/MensRights15/10/12 02:23 AM
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Thanks for sharing. She is unequivocally awesome
/r/MensRights14/10/12 10:34 PM
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To answer your question, any discrimination based on gender is bad. Period. We don't like it against women any more than we like it against men. There is no one here I have encountered who would give you a different answer. That being said, I've read multiple studies where gender bias against women in STEM fields was found, even among female hirers, and when interviewed or made aware of the bias, their reply was that they "perceived women as having an easier time in school." Quota systems look l…
/r/MensRights14/10/12 07:32 PM
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You are confusing their antagonism to your usage of the term "equal rights" to antagonism towards access to abortions. I cannot speak for everyone active in this subreddit, but if you polled them my guess is that the demographics would be similar to those found in the real world. Remember that there are quite a few women who oppose abortion as well. I do, however, think you will find many fewer fanatic, "your-rape-baby-is-a-blessing" types here as well. So, for the record, I am pro choice, and I…
/r/MensRights10/10/12 07:17 PM
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jesus christ. Where did I say that reproductive rights were a zero sum game? What part of "I'm pro-choice" have you been so deaf to? Why are you assuming I'm antagonistic to your cause? I'm going to proceed on the assumption that you're not a troll, but you're making that very difficult. Your most grievous assumption is that the remedy to men's reproductive rights is biological. I disagree. I think a woman deciding to have a child should require the father's consent to paternity support. It shou…
/r/MensRights10/10/12 06:48 PM
3

I happen to be pro-choice, but you will find that, among those who are pro-life, the argument is never "a woman shouldn't have control over her own body" but "the fetus has a right to life." You and I might disagree with this at conception, but when it comes to the third trimester we both respect that right to life. It's not an invalid discussion, but regardless, I am pro-choice. Your hypothetical scenario is wasted on me, since I already agree with you. Now how about this one: a couple conceive…
/r/MensRights10/10/12 06:15 PM
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I agree with you 100%. I just also happen to think that it isn't fair for a man not to have the same reproductive rights. If a woman wants to have a child, that is her decision and the man has no say. Why, then, should he be financially responsible for her decision? That is the status quo, and as someone concerned with women's rights, it should concern you too, being that equal rights also means equal responsibilities.
/r/MensRights10/10/12 05:41 PM
2

Very moving. Thank you for sharing it
/r/MensRights07/10/12 08:33 PM
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oh boy, this will stir up the pot quite a bit
/r/MensRights07/10/12 08:13 PM
1

I don't think so, but possibly
/r/MensRights06/10/12 10:20 PM
9

Great article. A campus Republican group got in trouble at my university for hosting an "Affirmative Action Bake Sale," where white students paid 2$/brownie, black students 1$ and Native American students ate for free. It stirred up a huge amount of controversy and pretty much the reaction described in that article: accusations of racism and insensitivity.
/r/MensRights06/10/12 08:34 PM
1

I have no idea why someone would downvote you. This is exactly my feeling. His behavior was clearly not ok and easily qualifies as sexual harassment
/r/MensRights06/10/12 08:19 PM
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Contrary to most of the comments in this thread, the OP has a point. Men are often faulted for their superficial valuations of women (youth and beauty being foremost) but women rarely get faulted for theirs, and height is one of those superficial things that matters much more to women than it does to men in partner selection. Incidentally, being a short man also makes life harder in the job market: numerous studies find correlations between height and salary or promotion opportunity. To me, if t…
/r/MensRights03/10/12 01:09 AM
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This. This video is frightening. It has no place here
/r/MensRights30/09/12 10:55 PM
1

I can't believe that this was made to be taken seriously.... How could a respectable, independent and critical thinking person watch that and not be disgusted?
/r/MensRights22/09/12 08:23 PM
1

extremely well said
/r/MensRights20/09/12 03:45 AM
1

I would really love that. I'm sure I could find some way to get in touch with her...
/r/MensRights12/09/12 01:22 AM
1

haha yes indeed. Here's Bill Burr talking about this, albeit long before it actually happened http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVTjhXi9CZ8
/r/MensRights10/09/12 07:27 AM
3

I'm a huge Kobe Bryant fan. Here's something a lot of you might not know: his father and he had a huge falling out over his refusal to have his wife sign a pre-nup. They didn't speak for several years over it.
/r/MensRights10/09/12 02:37 AM
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Jesus man, my heart goes out to you. I have had my own personal experiences with that, and let me just say you're lucky to have gotten out. This website was a huge help to me. Pick and choose which articles sound relevant to you http://gettinbetter.com/articles.html
/r/MensRights08/09/12 07:12 PM
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I call bullshit. Google reveals no such retractions. On the contrary, Simon Baron Cohen is seemingly only more adamant about his statements from the video. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2010/nov/15/brain-neuroscience-psychology
/r/MensRights05/09/12 04:25 PM
1

Patriarchy indeed. The whole debacle about seating men next to children on planes? Awful. Evil. Sexism at it's worst. The presumption that men are hypersexualized animals who can't help but rape and pillage? That's a PATRIARCHAL assumption, not a feminist one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shIjkXpf-e4
/r/MensRights01/09/12 12:25 AM
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This guy is a fucking moron and disingenuous in the extreme. Shine: What about sports-men are better at sports, right? D.A.: There's no question that men have larger muscles, so they tend to be better at most sports. But there are certain areas-particularly endurance sports-where women are better. Studies show that estrogen is a disadvantage for muscle development but an advantage when it comes to endurance. Another advantage for women is that their bodies more efficiently process oxygen. When i…
/r/MensRights28/08/12 03:46 PM
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Meanwhile women live longer, are healthier and are far less likely to commit a violent offense. If men were cars, who would buy the model that doesn’t last as long, is given to lethal incidents and ends up impounded more often? What an unbelievably stupid analogy to cap off an unbelievably stupid article.
/r/MensRights26/08/12 05:39 AM
7

That is actually great standup. I didn't find anything uncomfortable about it.
/r/MensRights16/08/12 09:57 PM
1

-_-
/r/MensRights15/08/12 01:55 AM
1

I would rather not disclose which exact institution, but it's one of the most expensive, most selective and most widely renowned institutions in America. I would also add that my criticisms are mere echos of those made by the late Allan Bloom (University of Chicago), Harold Bloom (Yale) and Camille Paglia (Yale), and that what I am describing is essentially the mainstream academic perspective, and has been for some time. I discuss this in greater depth in a post earlier in this thread. http://ww…
/r/MensRights15/08/12 01:47 AM
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You have no idea how much I would've liked to have had a discussion or at least some commiseration with someone like you on this exact point. It was extremely depressing to see the study of something I love so needlessly and damagingly reduced to serve an ideological end.
/r/MensRights14/08/12 02:40 AM
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But if you keep up with what constitutes "liberal arts education" in America, you'll see that all those other areas have become thinly veiled excuses to study sociology; ie take a course on Shakespeare and you are far more likely to be discussing gender roles than poetic devices
/r/MensRights14/08/12 02:09 AM
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I actually sort've understand where you're coming from and why you thought that I was implying what you're poking fun at, because it was also in the post-WWII era that we had feminists raising awareness about how one-sided and male-dominated history and social studies were. For what it's worth, I'm proud of them for doing this and happy that we've become at least slightly more culturally aware of this disparity. However, there is something about the "liberal" American education that rejects crit…
/r/MensRights14/08/12 02:02 AM
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As a student of the humanities, I want to both apologize for their "learning" and add the caveat that it is really only in recent history (post-WWII is a pretty good date) that their classrooms and institutions have been hijacked by these PC gender ideologues.
/r/MensRights13/08/12 08:23 PM
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Fellas fellas fellas. You're all totally misinterpreting this video. You see, it's because patriarchy. In an equal society, female violence would be taken seriously, but patriarchy, so instead women aren't treated as credible threats, therefore patriarchy, and do you have any idea how negating it is to have no one take you seriously when you're doing your best to hurt someone else? No? Because patriarchy. /s This is an amazing video. Very revealing and goes a long way to explaining why the domes…
/r/MensRights10/08/12 01:20 PM
8

We should really do something to honor or show appreciation for GirlWritesWhat. She nailed it with this one
/r/MensRights07/08/12 03:30 AM
24

man...it doesn't seem possible that people are this stupid...and yet...they are...
/r/MensRights05/08/12 06:18 AM
2

Admission of our own ignorance is the first step towards enlightenment. Everyone is ignorant in some areas; few people are willing to admit it. Good on you! For your questions 1) Feminism is kind've an umbrella term. There are a lot of feminists I love and support and others who are outright hate mongers. I don't know what you mean by "does wanting to end discrimination against women count." I think that ending gender-based discrimination is an admirable goal; how this is best achieved, and what…
/r/MensRights04/08/12 03:42 AM
9

This is ridiculous and a mockery of the justice system.
/r/MensRights24/07/12 09:23 PM
2

Again, I agree with you. I don't know where you see me arguing against that.
/r/MensRights24/07/12 01:13 AM
2

I don't think I am missing the point. I see what you are saying, and totally agree with you. Where I disagree is how we address this point. I don't think it is consistent with what you are saying to argue that "men are better at everything tangibly relevant to society."
/r/MensRights23/07/12 10:01 PM
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But let's not answer that with "men are the superior gender." That's just trench warfare and doesn't get us anywhere. And even if a greater # of the top ranks are men, that doesn't necessarily mean that the best will always be male. I am not qualified to speak about the other disciplines, but I can speak about literature, and I would be extremely uncomfortable with any notion that men were inherently better at literature, and this is from someone whose all-time best list is probably all male. Th…
/r/MensRights23/07/12 07:35 PM
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I find this video incredibly problematic. Why does he have to diverge from discussing men and women in higher education to argue that men are categorically better than women at...everything useful to society? It isn't a point unworthy of discussion, why so many of the great inventors, scientists, and artists throughout history are male and not female, but it is incredibly faulty reasoning to draw a conclusion based solely on this numerical imbalance that women are therefore inferior at all of th…
/r/MensRights23/07/12 05:17 AM
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This is the best exchange I have ever witnessed in 24 years of internet browsing. Kudos
/r/MensRights23/07/12 05:01 AM
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Seriously. Anonymous trolls are not worth the time or attention
/r/MensRights20/07/12 05:05 AM
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Sorry I don't think my comment was clear; I'm in complete agreement with you. I think it's pretty presumptuous of a 19-year-old to do exactly what you say, presume to understand the lives and experiences of men
/r/MensRights19/07/12 05:20 PM
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Worth pointing out that she's only 19 too.... sigh
/r/MensRights19/07/12 04:56 PM
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Please, for the love of god, don't just sit back and take this. Write a letter. Approach a dean. Do something!
/r/MensRights13/07/12 02:31 AM
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Political correctness is an insidious form of censorship. Also, it's brave of you to share your story. Thank you
/r/MensRights13/07/12 02:19 AM
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The pathology of her argument is terrifying. I'm legitimately unnerved by it
/r/MensRights09/07/12 06:22 AM
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My favorite part: "There are no known medical benefits to sucking [the blood]," he said. No shit. But I give it six months, tops, before a full study is paid for and "minor benefits" are found.
/r/MensRights08/07/12 08:25 PM
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Religious customs have to be subordinated to the laws of the land.... or maybe the children of Jehovah's Witnesses in need of blood transfusions should be allowed to die... Religious freedom can't extend to an unborn child, who cannot reason or decide for himself what his beliefs, concerning religion or his body, are
/r/MensRights06/07/12 07:15 PM
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For some people, egalitarianism means being able to poke fun of everyone equally. I am not trying to condone those subreddits; just playing devil's advocate
/r/MensRights06/07/12 05:31 AM
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He does not want outside values forced on him, but he is perfectly willing to impose his values on his newborn son. The irony...
/r/MensRights05/07/12 05:17 AM
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I have been having an ongoing debate with someone in 2x about it, and both her posts and mine are long and comprehensive, showing both sides of the argument. Check my post history if that interests you.
/r/MensRights05/07/12 05:07 AM
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The whole thing made me extremely angry, and only one person had the courage and insight to say that the proposition was chauvinistic...and that person was a woman. Really becoming a big fan of Christina Hoff Sommers
/r/MensRights28/06/12 12:13 AM
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A really good article, but it's hard to agree with her that "men have the better work-life balance." Still, poignant
/r/MensRights21/06/12 05:31 PM
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Ditto, only mine was just 3 years. So many of those hit home with me. *hugs
/r/MensRights09/06/12 06:43 PM
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This is seriously disgusting. Kudos to you for doing the right thing
/r/MensRights29/05/12 02:41 AM
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Nice work. This needs to be discussed openly, and these people discredited
/r/MensRights28/05/12 06:24 AM
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Excellent article. This conversation needs to happen more often, not just about circumcision vs uncut but regarding the body image shaming that has been used to get people to go along with it
/r/MensRights25/05/12 03:53 PM
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Well said
/r/MensRights25/05/12 03:41 PM
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Came here to post this
/r/seduction25/05/12 04:44 AM
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This sickens me. My father is 76...I would be absolutely livid.
/r/MensRights15/05/12 07:23 AM
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