Tech_Itch Archive

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2	5 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die So, did a quick calculation on that sex slavery claim. If the claim of 200,000 kidnappings per year was true, that means that one in roughly 220 girls under 19 years of age would just disappear into slavery every year. And nobody would notice? EDIT: Actual statistics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_person#United_States http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ncic/ncic-missing-person-and-unidentified-person-statistics-for-2012 The FBI files 700,000ish missing persons reports every year, which inc…	/r/MensRights	02/09/14 11:53 PM
1	Amy Poehler explains how men are never expected to do and be everything like women are. Quite genuinely "you wouldn't understand what it's like to be a woman". The comment wasn't directed directly at you. It was pretty much for all the people in the thread suddenly minimizing her career as a comedian, or making even harsher comments, now that they've heard her say one thing they disagree with. FWIW, I disagree with it too. And, I don't see what fictional characters have to do with anything. They're called fictional for a reason.	/r/MensRights	30/08/14 06:57 PM
10	Amy Poehler explains how men are never expected to do and be everything like women are. Quite genuinely "you wouldn't understand what it's like to be a woman". Or maybe she's just wrong about one thing, and not a completely worthless person because of that? I keep noticing this same theme in all of these "gender advocacy" groups, both feminist and men's rights. People who express a contrary opinion about a single thing get completely denounced, and their worth as a person invalidated. People should really stop doing that. It's irrational, cultish and ultimately drives thinking people away.	/r/MensRights	30/08/14 06:19 PM
2	Amy Poehler explains how men are never expected to do and be everything like women are. Quite genuinely "you wouldn't understand what it's like to be a woman". I'm pretty sure they just both pointed out what being a human is like, while thinking it's somehow specific to their gender, or a new thing. We all get conflicting expectations, and have conflicting expectations for ourselves. You're suppose to be all of the things, but not too much of them. And everyone you meet has a different definition of "too much".	/r/MensRights	30/08/14 06:03 PM
7	I am a woman who got tired of Tumblr's bull, and made this little post in favor of men, which now has over 100,000 notes Thankfully, we have men's rights, TRP, MRA, and other people fighting the good fight. What? How is TRP fighting any kind of "good fight"? Those people are toxic, and harmful to pretty much everyone, including themselves. It seems that only gender can have solidarity at a time. I don't believe that at all. Every action has a reaction, and feminism went too far in some respects, while doing plenty of good too on the way. But that will correct itself. The vast majority of people will eventually com…	/r/MensRights	03/08/14 01:15 AM
47	I am a woman who got tired of Tumblr's bull, and made this little post in favor of men, which now has over 100,000 notes The fact that it isn't viewed as common decency is exactly the reason why it is a men's rights issue. Or are you saying that real men's rights issues don't exist in general, and this one only effects men, but isn't one?	/r/MensRights	03/08/14 12:54 AM
2	A young man asks (Finnish only) Eva Biaudet, running for presidency, if she, as an activist, thinks it's right that the compulsory military service applies only to men. She thinks it's OK because women can do military service if they want to and only a few hundred per year does. Insane? Yes. Morality prevents war by eliminating the state. I sympathized with your position for a good while, until you went off to who knows where. If you truly think humanity is in a position where it's possible to get rid of nations as an existing construct, and take that as your approach to this particular problem, I'll have to assume that no fruitful conversation can be had with you.	/r/MensRights	25/07/14 09:31 PM
2	A young man asks (Finnish only) Eva Biaudet, running for presidency, if she, as an activist, thinks it's right that the compulsory military service applies only to men. She thinks it's OK because women can do military service if they want to and only a few hundred per year does. Insane? Yes. This needs the slight addition that you have the option to do "civilian service", where you work for basically the same pay you'd get in the army, doing something you have previous expertise of. Generally in hospitals, other public sector jobs, or perhaps non-profits. Or if you don't have any, you'll be doing janitorial stuff, etc. This civilian service lasts for slightly less than 12 months. And if you refuse from both the military and civilian options, that results in the already mentioned 6 m…	/r/MensRights	25/07/14 08:47 PM
2	A young man asks (Finnish only) Eva Biaudet, running for presidency, if she, as an activist, thinks it's right that the compulsory military service applies only to men. She thinks it's OK because women can do military service if they want to and only a few hundred per year does. Insane? Yes. It's easy to make absolutist statements when you don't consider all the nuances of the issue. Especially if you live in some other country that's in a geopolitical position where it can maintain a volunteer army. Of course it's immoral when viewed completely separately from any context, but the actual dilemma is if we should tolerate one case of immorality to prevent greater ones. To quote a variation of the Trolley problem from Wikipedia: As before, a trolley is hurtling down a track towards fi…	/r/MensRights	25/07/14 08:23 PM
3	A young man asks (Finnish only) Eva Biaudet, running for presidency, if she, as an activist, thinks it's right that the compulsory military service applies only to men. She thinks it's OK because women can do military service if they want to and only a few hundred per year does. Insane? Yes. Having gone with the coercively discounted labor option myself, I'm still not completely opposed to the current system as a whole. There are valid points both for and against the system, though if it is to remain in place, it should be applied to both men and women equally. As the geographically observant among us might have noticed, we're situated right next to Russia, the predecessor of which we've had some slight conflicts with in the past. And which has a massive army. We need to have a siza…	/r/MensRights	25/07/14 06:30 PM
77	A young man asks (Finnish only) Eva Biaudet, running for presidency, if she, as an activist, thinks it's right that the compulsory military service applies only to men. She thinks it's OK because women can do military service if they want to and only a few hundred per year does. Insane? Yes. Translation: Question: I'll be joining military service in next January. As you're known as an advocate of equality, I'd like to ask you how the principle of equality is actualized in the fact that compulsory military service is required only from men, and not also women?" Answer: "Tough Question!" "Yes, nowadays also women have the opportunity to participate in military service, and I know there has been discussion that it has however been made fairly difficult for them. For example, the medica…	/r/MensRights	25/07/14 01:17 PM
19	A young man asks (Finnish only) Eva Biaudet, running for presidency, if she, as an activist, thinks it's right that the compulsory military service applies only to men. She thinks it's OK because women can do military service if they want to and only a few hundred per year does. Insane? Yes. Interestingly, Paavo Arhinmäki looked troubled by Biaudet's answer, but couldn't really say anything, since the question wasn't directed at him. Also, the clip ended just as the host asked the audience if the system should be changed. We unfortunately didn't get to see the answer. Also interestingly, the host phrased the question as "Does anyone think the system should be changed?" And yeah, I agree that it's insane that women are exempt from national service just because "there's no interest fr…	/r/MensRights	25/07/14 01:01 PM
2	Mens rights is not a right wing (only) group. Please read Thank you for the well thought out answer. It should also be noted that every attempt in the real world to implement a form of government derived from Marxism (yes, these weren't orthodox implementations but that's a different issue) resulted in an hierarchical totalitarian state, yet no one argues that Marxism is right-wing because of its outcomes. The same courtesy should be extended to classical liberalism. That's a very good point, and I'd have to agree on that specific point. As far as I kn…	/r/MensRights	14/06/14 02:15 PM
3	Mens rights is not a right wing (only) group. Please read I mean, some people argue that classical liberalism and fascism are both right-wing From wikipedia: "Right-wing politics are political positions or activities that view some forms of social hierarchy or social inequality as either inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable" Beyond that, I can see how one could argue that classical liberalism in it's current form of libertarianism is very right wing, given that it's difficult to see anything else than totalitarianism, or very close to it, as the e…	/r/MensRights	14/06/14 12:30 PM
0	Mens rights is not a right wing (only) group. Please read i think the main problem is liberals want to help others, but are ignorant of the facts. That's an awfully broad statement. And I'm pretty sure it's a classical logical fallacy of some kind. Other people would of course agree with you if they only knew the "True Facts"? Could it be, that people simply have a different interpretation of the facts, or that they have some other facts that you yourself hadn't come across? I'm what you would call a "liberal" in the US, and I certainly believe men get…	/r/MensRights	14/06/14 12:17 PM
3	Mens rights is not a right wing (only) group. Please read Speaking as a foreigner, I find this tight association of radical feminism and leftism primarily an American idea. And I'm having some difficulty deciding if it's an actual thing, or a bit of successful political propaganda by some right wing organization. I come from a port town in a Nordic country, with lots of manufacturing industry, and it has been traditionally Social Democrat(though that has changed slightly in the last decade), with people being fairly active in left wing politics. Yet, w…	/r/MensRights	14/06/14 11:54 AM
1	Mens rights is not a right wing (only) group. Please read the Left If you're wondering why people are downvoting your, it's because they're a part of the left, and aren't recognizing themselves in your text. Your usage of "the left" sounds just like radfem blanket denounciations of "men" or "the Patriarchy". You forget for one thing that this is a global forum, and many people have experience of leftist ideas working in actual reality, and rarely is the word "the partriarchy" heard. There's a group of leftist university feminists that likes throwing ar…	/r/MensRights	14/06/14 11:23 AM
1	America's First Lady would do well to remember that Boko Haram targets boys as well as girls. And perhaps she should look at the plight of young men closer to home too How is it any less ambiguous? "Negro" just means black in Spanish and other latin-derived languages. So instead of black, you call them black, but using a word that, when used as a loan word in English, has the additional baggage of being associated with past injustices, like slavery. I personally rarely see anyone else than people who think things were better back then use the word.	/r/MensRights	13/05/14 05:58 AM
3	America's First Lady would do well to remember that Boko Haram targets boys as well as girls. And perhaps she should look at the plight of young men closer to home too This smells like an elaborate troll, but I'll answer seriously. Are you honestly not seeing the difference between Lyndon's and Bundy's comments? The difference is the conclusion they draw from the same data. Lyndon makes a completely fair point that black people in the US are societally disadvantaged, especially men, and they should probably get some positive attention from the administration. He doesn't judge the black men affected, but only points out their current problems. Bundy on the othe…	/r/MensRights	12/05/14 07:36 PM
7	America's First Lady would do well to remember that Boko Haram targets boys as well as girls. And perhaps she should look at the plight of young men closer to home too The word "negro" has been dead in adult, public discourse for decades. There's very close to zero chance of a mainstream journalist using it, and being worried that this particular one will use it seems just odd. Or are you implying that since he's an older white man, he's obviously at least inwardly racist?	/r/MensRights	12/05/14 06:51 PM
0	Update on the Men's Pride club at my school. The reason that there are gay pride and black pride things is that those population groups have been publicly perceived as lesser, needing to "know their place" or having to hide their existence. Now they're demonstrating being proud to be themselves in public. That's what the word "pride" is about in that context. Despite some people loudly claiming so, being male, or white in western society, has never had this stigma. So it can and will be perceived as being dismissive of the problems minorit…	/r/MensRights	01/04/14 07:26 AM
0	In response to a petition from /r/MensRights, Goshen College removes apparently discriminatory page "and are assessing improved resources for our students to help them reduce sexual violence against a American Medical Response Academy of Management Review Advanced Meat Recovery Advanced Manufacturing Research Atlantic Missile Range Alternative Medicine Review Association of Muslim Researchers Amelia Motor Raceway Asia Market Research Alopecia-Mental Retardation Syndrome Advanced Material Request Advanced Modular Radar Army Management Review Associated Measurement Reports Aircraft Mishap Report Assistant Manager for Research Agent Master Record Addition, Modification and Replacement AIM Messag…	/r/MensRights	07/03/14 12:14 PM
2	Because male privilege, right? That's a much better description though, and you're not targeting half the local adult population anymore. Are you honestly not seeing the difference?	/r/MensRights	22/12/13 02:01 AM
17	Because male privilege, right? which means that almost all Hispanic males in the area match the suspect discription for eevery robbery, gta, burglary in the area. Why wouldnt I go talk to them? Because if the description matches almost half the adult population, it's a useless description?	/r/MensRights	21/12/13 09:31 AM
7	What dissent gets you on AVfM: You already can't change the mind of the people who hate your guts. It's all the other people you need to convince. If you seem like a yelling, venomous arsehole to people just entering the conversation(even if there's reason for the venom), they'll just think you have nothing useful to contribute.	/r/MensRights	09/12/13 10:19 AM
2	Man denied mammogram due to his sex, gets breast cancer. Waitwaitwait... "The Libertarian Republic" is outraged that a private enterprise used their freedom to deny service to an individual? /s	/r/MensRights	12/10/13 07:46 AM
-1	Another Danish political party adopts stance against non therapeutic circumcision. A total ban getting closer and closer. This is a promising development and I know you mean well, but please STFU. Blowing your own horn is aggravating when the Americans do it, and it's just as aggravating when we do it.	/r/MensRights	21/09/13 06:38 PM
4	Factual Falcon sets the record straight on Domestic Violence Progressives define it as equal outcome, rational people define is as equal rules. Got any reference that shows "The Progressives" as a monolithic group defining equal opportunity as that? "Equal opportunity" is meant to be exactly what it says. Everyone should have the opportunity to attend the same schools, and get the same jobs, if they work for it equally hard. In other words, people should not be punished for their parents' failures, or the circumstances of their birth. This will promote so…	/r/MensRights	02/09/13 04:28 AM
1	Women never have bad attitudes. Men are just weak! I'm talking from the experience of being a slim, attractive woman. Yet, despite that, I occasionally lack self-esteem from time to time, as do ALL women! Almost EVERYONE lacks self-esteem from time to time. That's completely normal and healthy. We aren't robots.	/r/MensRights	13/08/13 04:10 AM
3	Women never have bad attitudes. Men are just weak! Why the fuck would you say something like that? Have you actually talked to women? There are plenty of them with what would be considered healthy self-esteem. Considering also that nobody can be 100% sure of themselves all the time. We all have our insecurities, man or woman. You come off as just the kind of woman-hating wackjob the MRA-movement doesn't need.	/r/MensRights	12/08/13 05:57 PM
2	Women never have bad attitudes. Men are just weak! I know the implication of the OP, agree with hammytown's point in posting it. I was pointing to Modron that just saying someone is a "strong woman" doesn't actually tell you anything about them, so saying "a man who can't handle strong women is weak" is a meaningless sentence, since we aren't told what the man in question supposedly can't handle.	/r/MensRights	12/08/13 01:07 PM
6	Women never have bad attitudes. Men are just weak! Depends entirely on what you mean by "strong". The word gets used completely subjectively. To me, a strong woman has healthy self-esteem, knows what she wants in life(or knows she doesn't know), and is confident in her own decisions, yet willing to consider the alternatives. People who can't handle that are not "weak", they have other, very serious problems.	/r/MensRights	12/08/13 12:18 PM
3	Atheism+, Skepchick, FtB feminists going all out in attempt to destroy the skeptic movement: Ben Radford and physicist Lawrence Krauss accused of sex assault, Bill Nye accused of harassment, DJ Grothe accused of misogyny, Michael Shermer ACCUSED OF RAPE by PZ Myers. This is beyond fucking insane. Indeed. It does sound like she has plenty of evidence to support her allegations, which she will hopefully present to proper authorities. The examples of "sexual harassment" and "hostile work environment" she uses in her article don't however particularly help her case. The Drew Carey Show example in particular is completely daft, and I would have expected her to know better. If that kind of mildly sexual jokes, not even aimed at anyone particular, created a hostile work environment, no workplac…	/r/MensRights	09/08/13 04:57 PM
11	Is this really humor Cosmopolitan? To be fair, Cracked doesn't employ salaried writers, like big magazines such as Cosmo. Anyone can get an article on Cracked, if it's at least mildly amusing and coherent. It's very hard to tell what "Cracked thinks" on an issue.	/r/MensRights	14/06/13 09:15 AM
27	Welp, I guess TED is a write off. Not that I'm defending r/anarchism, but Anarchism as a political movement is not about not having laws, it's about not having leaders or social hierarchy. The problem is, they've really never come in to a consensus about what to replace those with...	/r/MensRights	29/05/13 07:29 PM
1	Feminist journalists spread false list of pedophiles which in reality was a membership list of a Swedish fathers’ rights organization Thanks for linking to that site. They seem to have a nice and relevant-to-the-sub article on how the Indian rape cases have been publicized in the Western world: Orientalist Feminism Rears its Head in India Somehow, Mangaldas’ technically accurate comment “rapists are men” has silently shifted to “Indian men are rapists.”	/r/MensRights	30/03/13 11:51 AM
1	Feminist journalists spread false list of pedophiles which in reality was a membership list of a Swedish fathers’ rights organization She has probably publicly said something that angered the anti-immigration wackjobs that run the website. That "paper" doesn't seem to have a single article that somehow doesn't fit their agenda.	/r/MensRights	30/03/13 11:35 AM
12	Men in gaming If you look at movies for example, there are thrillers, horror films, dramas, romantic comedies, erotic movies, action movies, etc. etc. All made for different audiences. I find it strange that video games seem to be the only media that regularly gets demands that it has to cater to all audiences. There are stupid low-brow games just like there are stupid low-brow movies. Usually people know to avoid the movies they clearly won't like. Why doesn't this work with games?	/r/MensRights	28/02/13 10:17 AM
6	Men in gaming Mercenaries 2? Mass Effect? Borderlands 2? Yes, despite the "Girlfriend Mode"-fiasco, BL2 has a diverse cast of female characters who aren't over-sexualized (unless that's their thing, like with Moxxi and her "Enormous Breastibules").	/r/MensRights	28/02/13 09:40 AM
18	Men in gaming Interestingly, her version of Batman still has a body type that's unattainable for the vast majority of males.	/r/MensRights	28/02/13 09:28 AM
4	"For decades, women have been inundated with unrealistic, thin images in magazines, movies, ads and other media outlets. And now, men are also feeling the pressure for physical perfection, surrounded by unattainable images of muscular physiques, six-pack abs, bulging biceps and lean bodies." And judging from the responses in this thread: "Man up." ~other men	/r/MensRights	30/07/11 06:01 PM
6	"For decades, women have been inundated with unrealistic, thin images in magazines, movies, ads and other media outlets. And now, men are also feeling the pressure for physical perfection, surrounded by unattainable images of muscular physiques, six-pack abs, bulging biceps and lean bodies." The article's premise being that eating disorders are more common in men than it is commonly thought?	/r/MensRights	30/07/11 06:00 PM
2	"For decades, women have been inundated with unrealistic, thin images in magazines, movies, ads and other media outlets. And now, men are also feeling the pressure for physical perfection, surrounded by unattainable images of muscular physiques, six-pack abs, bulging biceps and lean bodies." Seconded. Eating disorders are a not a matter of "just getting some self-confidence". They're real psychological disorders. As someone who has gone through periods of severe depression, I'm familiar with people who pooh-pooh psychological problems as "something you get over, if you just want to". So you too feel down sometimes, but thinking about positive things helps? That's not the same as literally not being able to get out of the bed for weeks or months. So you too want to be thin, and look …	/r/MensRights	30/07/11 05:55 PM
2	Abuse is okay when it is female on male media trope Well put. I'd like to point out that chimpanzees actually do go to war between tribes, and engage in cannibalism. We at least leave the latter part off, mostly. Also, we have written more on the futility and cruelty of war...	/r/MensRights	26/07/11 02:35 PM
1	Abuse is okay when it is female on male media trope I agree completely. My other reply has more on why the above is a bit of a problem.	/r/MensRights	26/07/11 01:53 PM
1	Abuse is okay when it is female on male media trope Qualify it by saying (guessing) that it's <1% (probably much less) of species that engage in this kind of behaviour, and most of those are pure predators. No I wont. And why should I? Animals can be bastards for immediate personal gain, or for just for the hell of it. We have plenty of documented examples. Not just on that silly site. The behavior seems so prevalent, that it'd be silly to minimize it. Considering the second point: It was an example using pack animals. Obviously non pack animals …	/r/MensRights	26/07/11 01:35 PM
1	Abuse is okay when it is female on male media trope Not sure whether to up- downvote. You give a convincing reason for the above, but you seem to have a Disney Channel-colored view of how wild animals behave.	/r/MensRights	26/07/11 12:50 PM
1	Abuse is okay when it is female on male media trope but we are alone in being capable of enslavement, torture, and a host of other atrocity. Sorry to be blunt, but bullshit. And there are plenty of other examples if you bother to look for them. The thing that separates us from animals, is that we can feel remorse after doing bad things, and consciously try to do better in the future. Animals will show submissive behavior if you catch them doing somethings they shouldn't be doing, and they consider you a pack leader. But they don't dwell on past b…	/r/MensRights	26/07/11 12:44 PM
10	What-About-Teh-Menz?! - Misandry: The Acceptable Prejudice A couple of weeks back, when I was walking home from work, I met an older woman and two kids, a boy and a girl of around 5-7 years, possibly her grandchildren. One of the kids had managed to throw their set of keys up into a tree, and it was hanging on a branch beyond their reach. This was right next to the apartment building where I live, so I grabbed a rake from a locked alcove where the apartment's trash containers are kept, and using it, lifted the keys down from the tree. The thanks I got f…	/r/MensRights	02/05/11 07:19 PM
5	Good work ladies! Where do you live? In most of western Europe and from what I've read, US, if a man is accused of domestic violence, both the courts, and public opinion generally assume him guilty. Also, community service, even for a "simple" assault, let alone domestic violence, seems a tad low. In any case, no crime tends to get punished unless it gets reported. So in a way him going unpunished is your fault for not reporting him. Nobody's blaming your for the violence he's commited.	/r/MensRights	28/03/11 03:41 PM
4	Good work ladies! Are we talking about the same post? He/she uses terms like "inferior races" and "inferior genders", and claims that if women's suffrage and the reduction of institutionalized racism had never happened, we'd all be better off, and be cause of them, the western society is now somehow heading for a downfall. How are statements like, to quote him: "white-males are the niggers of this sick feminist society" in anyway contributing to civilized discussion? Personally, I believe in true gender equality.…	/r/MensRights	28/03/11 03:30 PM
6	Good work ladies! What the hell? The guy's arguments are hilariously racist and sexist. A perfect caricature of a "privileged white male", that seems like it's straight from the keyboard of some feminist troll. That kind of posts are what lowers the level of discussion on this subreddit. How can you defend that post, right after you yourself called for people to "grow up"?	/r/MensRights	28/03/11 02:59 PM
3	Good work ladies! How would I argue rationally against arguments that aren't rational in the first place. Your arguments rest on the arbitrary "superiority" of one gender and one race. Plus, you seem to have sociopathic tendencies, with trouble accepting that disabled people can contribute to a society too, and have inherent value. Ironic, considering that if the inherent value of disabled people wasn't recognized by the society at large, you yourself would get put down quickly as a sociopath, and a menace to soc…	/r/MensRights	28/03/11 02:56 PM
0	Good work ladies! That's a nice example of a troll post, right there.	/r/MensRights	28/03/11 02:28 PM
0	Good work ladies! Downvoting for hivemind reference.	/r/MensRights	28/03/11 02:20 PM
3	Jailed: Girl, 18, whose rape lies led to the arrest of Afghanistan war heroes. I agree on Afghanistan. But there indeed are genuine war heroes. Sweet FSM... charging a MG emplacement is small potatoes compared to voluntarily letting yourself to be subjected to back-breaking forced labor, starvation, beatings and disease just to compile a detailed intelligence report. The communists must've buried Witold Pilecki in a strip mine just so they could fit his balls in the pit.	/r/MensRights	04/03/11 10:24 AM
5	The Agonizing Last Words of Bill Zeller, a programmer who eventually took his own life after being raped as a child What's stunning is that he said that he didn't even particularly like his chosen field. It was just a temporary escape for him. And yet he accomplished much more than many people who are genuinely interested in CS do...	/r/MensRights	07/01/11 12:55 AM