Taciturn Archive

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3	Two wrongs don't make a Right. Disney's potentially misandric underpinnings of Wreck it Ralph. One mans journey in this plot [...] is to accept his testosterone driven strength is inherently bad (Ralph). Can you explain this? The climax of the movie features Ralph using his "testosterone driven strength" to defeat the villain, something none of the physically weaker characters would have been capable of. In the denouement he returns to his previous career, which relied on his physical strength. At the end of the movie Ralph is doing the same job he was at the beginning -- the difference i…	/r/MensRights	29/03/13 12:24 AM
7	So I guess asking for specifics on a rape study is contributing to "Rape Culture"? 3% say they would rape if they thought they could get away with it. 58% say they would rape when the wording was changed to "ask women to provide citation for their statistics."	/r/MensRights	27/10/12 03:12 PM
1	Michelle Obama: "Practical" To Put Myself Highest On My Priority List They are already paying for non-essential expenses with their own money. The only vacation expenses payed for by the state are the security measures necessary to ensure the head-of-state and his family are protected when away from the White House. Unless you think their safety is non-essential? You could, I suppose, try establish the precedent that rich politicians are allowed to travel, but poor politicians have to remain in DC so their security expenses aren't declared "extraneous and wasteful…	/r/MensRights	23/12/11 10:57 PM
1	Michelle Obama: "Practical" To Put Myself Highest On My Priority List Don't they already do that by paying income taxes?	/r/MensRights	23/12/11 10:31 PM
5	Michelle Obama: "Practical" To Put Myself Highest On My Priority List How much of that money is spent on the standard Secret Service protection she requires as a relative to the head-of-state? Even the Daily Fail articles you linked admit that the Obamas are paying out of their own pocket for the accommodations and vacation expenses, and the taxpayer money only funds security and private (read: safe) transit. Keeping the First Family safe is expensive, no matter their political party.	/r/MensRights	23/12/11 04:15 PM
1	Michelle Obama: "Practical" To Put Myself Highest On My Priority List I don't understand how this is a problem. She didn't run for office or request any special responsibilities towards the American people. Surely the default position of every person is to look out for #1 first, even if your spouse has adopted other priorities? Just who or what is she obligated to consider a higher priority than herself?	/r/MensRights	23/12/11 03:22 PM
8	Calif. Gov. Brown signs bill prohibiting circumcision bans I'm not sure whether you're making the claim that practically, banning circumcision would be a tough sell to the public, or that ideally circumcision should not be banned because such a ban violates parental rights. If it's the former, I agree, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try. If it's the latter, I have to ask again about your thoughts on the 1996 federal FGM ban. This ban covers all forms of FGM, even those much less severe than cliterectomy. FGM type Ia, removing the clitoral hood while…	/r/MensRights	03/10/11 08:41 PM
7	Calif. Gov. Brown signs bill prohibiting circumcision bans You are free to practice your religion but you are not free to impose your religious beliefs on others by - for example - amputating a healthy part of their anatomy without their consent. If you believe 1st Amendment protection extends to nontherapeutic amputation performed on unconsenting minors, I'd be interested to hear your arguments about why infant girls deserve no protection from having their clitorises removed by their fundamentalist Muslim parents, or why a cultist should be allowed to …	/r/MensRights	03/10/11 08:21 PM
5	"The book includes a graphic depiction of a lesbian sex scene between a 31-year-old woman and a 13-year old girl" - This was required reading in a NJ school district You sound pretty certain about the content of a book you've obviously never read.	/r/MensRights	23/08/11 08:20 PM
5	Thanks to you, Reddit, I canceled my son's circumcision today. Not having conscious memory doesn't mean the event didn't have an effect on neural development. At 6 months old, males circumcised at birth have a measurably lower threshold for pain than females or uncircumcised males. Their brains are "tuned" to expect painful experiences. Source (abstract; paper is behind a login wall).	/r/MensRights	29/10/10 07:36 PM
6	Virginia Man to Stand Trial for Being Naked in His Own Home Except that he was in his kitchen and she was cutting through his yard when she looked in his window. If the situation was reversed the man still be on trial, this time for peeping.	/r/MensRights	18/12/09 11:54 PM
1	"Men's Rights" Groups Say Feminist Society Oppresses Men *in Western democracies	/r/MensRights	06/11/09 04:56 PM