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Thank God that the law protects me and my daughters from people like you.
/r/MensRights18/09/18 01:04 PM
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There is a big difference between "ya done fucked up, now you need to put yourself 110% into making the best of the situation for your child" and "you are not worthy of forgiveness."
/r/MensRights18/09/18 01:00 PM
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If you don't understand that a child is vastly better off living with both their parents, then you don't understand anything about children. Sometimes, breakups need to happen. People who have so misjudged themselves and/or their partners that they break up shortly after conceiving a child have failed their child badly, and need to acknowledge that fact and do everything they can to minimize the harm done.
/r/MensRights18/09/18 10:46 AM
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I figure that if a baby's brain can tolerate the stress of full-time daycare, it can tolerate the stress of being handed back and forth between mom and dad. The small amount of research that has been done on this indicates that very young children do better with week-on, week-off shared custody than daily switches. It's not ideal, but nothing about the parents of an infant splitting up is ideal.
/r/MensRights18/09/18 10:42 AM
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The correct approach is to stop exploiting men, not start exploiting women.
/r/MensRights18/09/18 10:38 AM
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The more you talk about this, the more clear it becomes that you really do feel morally entitled to force women to continue unwanted pregnancies. So yeah, we're done. Thank God the law protects me and my daughters from people like you.
/r/MensRights18/09/18 10:37 AM
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A neonate who is breastfeeding should not be seperated from the lactating parent for more than a few hours until lactation is well established and formula supplementation can be introduced without significant risk of compromising the milk supply. How long does that take? It's variable. There should probably be guidelines at the federal level that address the median range of cases - i.e., a healthy baby who is gaining appropriately is ready to be separated overnight at 6 months or so. I am a vora…
/r/MensRights17/09/18 11:28 PM
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A girlfriend refused to be your brood mare. You had no right to the use of her body, and were were deprived of nothing that you were entitled to have. You eventually had children with a woman who wanted to start a family with you, rather than being a single parent to a child whose mother did not want them. This ex-girlfriend that you are so angry at made a responsible choice that has benefitted you, your wife, and your children tremendously.
/r/MensRights17/09/18 11:16 PM
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Yes.
/r/MensRights17/09/18 11:11 PM
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Abortion is a responsible reaction to an unwanted pregnancy. That's exactly what happened. I understand that it was not the outcome you hoped for, and if you tell me that you would not have forced this ex-girlfriend to carry a pregnancy to term and give you the baby if the law had allowed you to do so, then I believe you. I'm sorry that you think of this terminated pregnancy as "your first child." I hope that your actual first child isn't aware of this.
/r/MensRights17/09/18 10:07 PM
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You say that as if it were a bad thing, that men cannot force women to gestate. I care very much about leveling the playing field in the matter of reproductive rights to the greatest extent ethically possible, which is why I support the option of legal paternal surrender when men conceive a child they do not want, and shared custody when men separate from a woman who bore a child that they did want. But forced gestation and forced abortion are not on the table as options, because they violate th…
/r/MensRights17/09/18 05:03 PM
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But because I had no say in the matter I had to helplessly stand by why my baby was ripped from me before he/she ever had a chance to truly live. Can you understand why I took this statement to mean that if you had a "say in the matter," you would have forced this woman to continue an unwanted pregnancy?
/r/MensRights17/09/18 04:58 PM
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No, I would not. Forcing boyfriends to pay child support is every bit as despicable as forcing girlfriends to gestate.
/r/MensRights17/09/18 04:55 PM
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Being forced to gestate against your will is a pretty shitty feeling as well. I'm sorry that you still feel sad about your ex-girlfriend's choice, but would you really have wanted to be able to force another human being to be your brood mare? Because that's way fucked up.
/r/MensRights17/09/18 03:00 AM
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How old are your children from your first marriage now? Do you have any contact with them? The reason I ask is that you are talking about re-entering the modern economy with a presumably large debt, and that is going to be a massive, massive hassle. I don't know if Australia arrests people who reappear on their radar after abandoning kids - but I don't want you to find out the hard way. It won't help your older kids if you go to jail now, and you'd just end up abandoning a third kid in Thailand.…
/r/MensRights04/09/18 10:38 AM
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I have a son this age. If he successfully solicited a prostitute, I wouldn't be mad at the prostitute. I'd get him tested for STDs and take away his Internet access for a year, because he would have shown me that he was not ready to communicate with the whole wide world without physically and emotionally endangering himself. We are diluting the definition of sex crime until no intelligent person can take it seriously.
/r/MensRights03/09/18 07:23 PM
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I'm very impressed with the way other actors are rallying around this issue. People have such weird ideas about the profession.
/r/MensRights03/09/18 05:01 PM
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I'm so sorry for your trouble. I hope that this incident scares your wife into getting some professional help, if that's what she needs to get her drinking under control. Even if she isn't willing to do that yet (nobody can fix an addict until they are ready to get fixed), you two can set some ground rules to reduce the risk of another incident in the future. No more vacations where you sleep within sight and hearing of strangers, for example. Go home. Your kids need you.
/r/MensRights03/09/18 01:23 PM
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Hey, you were dumb enough to believe it was an Office reference and I was dumb enough to go along with that premise. We should both be ashamed, young padawan.
/r/MensRights03/09/18 01:31 AM
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Oh, Star Wars! Another poster is claiming that it's an Office reference, which made no fucking sense to me. I do recognize the Star Wars reference now that you have pointed it out, thank you. This is utterly anti-Semitic. I'm not offended, this kind of thing gets tossed in my direction on the daily, because it's currently fashionable on the Internet to rehash the tired old Jews Control The Media bullshit. It worries me very little that this asswipe tossed it out here. It worries me far more that…
/r/MensRights02/09/18 11:35 PM
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You can be taught not manipulate the ((media)) so that you can get away with terrible abuses of power, but only by a Jewish person. A "goy" is a non-Jewish person.
/r/MensRights02/09/18 11:26 PM
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I understand that you sincerely believe that this is nothing but an Office reference.
/r/MensRights02/09/18 11:23 PM
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Did your wife actually make a false accusation against you, or was she just drunkenly angry and incoherent while they picked her up and carted her away? If it's the latter, GO HOME TO YOUR KIDS and have a serious talk with your wife. You have both seen what can happen if you get into a drunken fight at a caravan park. Her choice to get sloppy drunk in a public venue was a poor choice. Your choice to leave your children in the custody of a sloppy drunk person in the middle of the night was a poor…
/r/MensRights02/09/18 07:38 PM
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A rambling anti-Semitic slur is the best thing you've seen on Reddit lately? That's pretty sad.
/r/MensRights02/09/18 07:22 PM
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If you're willing to vote in politicians who support family leave, that's enough for me. Everybody chooses their areas of activism, and this doesn't have to be yours. This will remain an area of activism for me, because what I see happening is men particularly and Americans in general being fed a line of total bullshit about what it means to be a good worker and a responsible citizen. Competence and responsibility are absolutely real things - and a competent, responsible worker should demand rea…
/r/MensRights02/09/18 05:51 PM
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The first female-only music festival was the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, which was held annually for forty damn years. It ended in 2015, and I was glad, because I find the entire concept irritating. But it was a private event held on private land, and if there was enough interest in it to sustain it for four decades, then the organizers correctly identified and served a consumer desire.
/r/MensRights02/09/18 11:49 AM
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So what's your plan for changing our laws and corporate culture to make sure that family leave is universally available and that workers are not punished for utilizing it? If you just say you want your kids to have something in your ideal world, but aren't prepared to take action to create the needed changes, your words aren't worth anything. In the world as it is, your sons will be wage slaves. They will be lucky to get a single day off for the births and deaths that affect them most closely. H…
/r/MensRights01/09/18 08:55 PM
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Our society doesn't collapse in 30 years if not enough people go on ski trips.
/r/MensRights01/09/18 11:18 AM
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Refusal to accept responsibility for the continuation of our society, either directly by raising children or indirectly by supporting the efforts of those who do, is something called "freeloading." We are all interdependent. The false perception that individuals/families can provide for all their own needs at all times if they just work hard enough leads to various self-destructive choices. These days, some of the more popular ones are opposing universal healthcare, opposing tax increases to imp…
/r/MensRights01/09/18 11:16 AM
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I actually do mind that men die earlier. I wish that they'd access more healthcare, insist on better working conditions, and close that gap. If I were a gynocentrist, then I'd be largely OK with the current status quo for middle-class women in America, and would be focused on expanding their privileges to poorer women. Since I'm an egalitarian, I find myself facing the much larger problem of male exploitation at every level of society. You can see that you are being exploited. You clearly resent…
/r/MensRights01/09/18 11:05 AM
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Your dead weight will be lifted and your dumb ass wiped by an underpaid woman in your old age. You won't deserve it, but you'll still get it, and I am glad of that. A society is judged by how it treats its most marginal members, not by how it treats its most functional citizens. ETA: and even if you sincerely (if insanely) believe that the only parents who are providing for your future by raising the next generation are the male parents, how in the hell can you justify freeloading off them by de…
/r/MensRights01/09/18 01:55 AM
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My sex isn't relevent here, and neither is yours. Your sexist beliefs would be just as moronic if you were a female. You would fail your husband, his parents and your children just as terribly, and your coworkers would find you equally irritating.
/r/MensRights01/09/18 01:49 AM
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No woman is "your" woman. All procreating adults (working dads too!) are people doing something you desperately need done, if you want our society to not collapse.
/r/MensRights31/08/18 11:22 PM
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I wish she had made a different decision.
/r/MensRights31/08/18 11:20 PM
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I feel very sorry for your children, your parents, and your wife. If you don't get your head screwed on straight, you'll fail them terribly. I don't feel nearly as sorry for female engineers, because they don't have to live in a house with you and are free to ignore your dumb ass outside of professional situations. You are doubtless an irritant to the women in your workplace, but ultimately, everybody has to deal with assholes at work.
/r/MensRights31/08/18 11:16 PM
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If you don't think the birth and proper rearing of our next generation is your business, then you are social dead weight. Don't worry, the responsible citizens raising children now will make sure you are cared for in old age. At least pay your taxes without bitching, so you'll be slightly less of a freeloader overall:-)
/r/MensRights31/08/18 03:36 PM
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Because only pussies would ever want to take care of their newborn baby, or their dying parent, amirite? Asshole. Greedy corporations love mindless little worker bees like you.
/r/MensRights31/08/18 11:02 AM
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Good point. I am not a psychiatrist, just a crusty oldster who really wants people who are having suicidal thoughts to see one immediately before they make a mistake that they can't ever fix.
/r/MensRights29/08/18 07:53 PM
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Actual, literal chattel slaves did not typically kill themselves. Nor did Russian peasants. Nor did WWI conscripts. I am NOT saying that life is fair, that men aren't often screwed over with regard to divorce or their reproductive rights, or anything like that. I am saying that offing yourself, or somebody else, is a symptom of an untreated mental illness. Because I want these preventable deaths to stop, it really bothers me when the cause is misattributed. A guy experienced a situational stress…
/r/MensRights29/08/18 07:50 PM
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Jesus Christ, what nonsense. Most people who end their lives are internally motivated to do so. They have an untreated mental illness. Blaming other people in their llives for that is disgusting. Divorce sucks. It typically sucks disproportionately for men. But responding to that situational stress by killing yourself or others is the act of a miswired brain.
/r/MensRights29/08/18 11:09 AM
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Honestly, I think that what's "best" is for divorce to be unthinkable during childrearing unless one of the parents has lost their shit so extremely that the other parent needs to protect the kids from them. In which case 50/50 wouldn't be the goal.
/r/MensRights29/08/18 10:22 AM
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You're projecting a lot of stuff that wasn't remotely on my mind. I'm not talking about who should be the SAHP for little kids, I'm talking about the fact that parents have a deep-seated need to live with their children and that children need to live with both their parents. It has nothing to do with the level of trust between the parents, or with whatever you seem to be gleaning from mommy blogs. When two normal people create a family, and then destroy that family and live separately while thei…
/r/MensRights29/08/18 10:18 AM
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I hope you never, ever find how how horrible it is to be separated from your children. 50/50 is the best solution in most cases when a family is destroyed by divorce, but everyone involved suffers. If you are going to raise children with a partner, you need to commit to keeping their home safe, healthy and intact until they are grown up.
/r/MensRights28/08/18 11:48 PM
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My dad was a high-IQ Vietnam draftee. This explains some of the stories he told that would make the older veterans in the family call bullshit.
/r/MensRights28/08/18 02:59 AM
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I think they're both guilty of being horrible people. But I trust my own judgement way more than the media's judgement or Hollywood's judgement or Twitter's judgement. I do not assume a person's guilt because the mob has turned against them. For godsake, they've turned Garrison Keilor into an unperson.
/r/MensRights28/08/18 02:52 AM
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Are you kidding? The presence of absence of proof has very little bearing on the public's opinion of a person accused of a sex crime. Never assume that person who has not confessed or been convicted is guilty simply because they have been socially punished.
/r/MensRights27/08/18 10:35 PM
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If I could rewrite the laws governing sex with minors and providing alcohol to minors, I would: Estsblish FEDERAL laws governing the age of consent. All Americans would be subject to the same laws. Set an age limit of 14 for mandatory prosecution, and allow DAs to use prosecutorial discretion for cases involving minors ages 14-18. I want human beings making individual decisions about individual cases. The 28 year old high school soccer coach needs to go to jail for screwing a member of the JV te…
/r/MensRights26/08/18 08:55 PM
1

Luc Besson is doing OK, and he made a movie inspired by his creepy-ass relationship with his second wife. She was 12 when they met, 15 when they started dating, 16 when she had his baby. Twenty when he left her and their child for Milla Jovovich.
/r/MensRights26/08/18 10:27 AM
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Correct, under California's laws, this alleged incident is statuatory rape. It is also illegal to serve alcohol to people under the age of 21, so there's another law allegedly broken. As in every other case like this (17 year old, no use of physical force alleged), I hope that the district attorney will use their prosecutorial discretion to decline to press charges.
/r/MensRights26/08/18 10:19 AM
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I'm not defending the violation. She's a fucking predator. But this is not rape, and the law that classifies it as rape is a stupid law. Far more men than women have been harmed by the state of California's insistence that 17 year olds are not developmentally capable of consent.
/r/MensRights25/08/18 10:37 AM
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We've talked a lot in this sub about how California's statuatory rape laws are absurd. I'm sure I'd hate a man who behaved this way just as much as Asia Argento - and equally sure that I would not change my mind about the legal aspect of the situation.
/r/MensRights25/08/18 10:30 AM
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Agreed. She's disgusting. Massive social penalties should apply. Still not rape.
/r/MensRights24/08/18 11:26 PM
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I do. But what I am trying to say is that this kind of situation is not rape. Rape is a word that lost its meaning, and that horrifies me, because rape is a terrible crime and rapists need to be dead or in cages. We cannot kill or jail all the sexually unethical and opportunistic people in this world, nor should we.
/r/MensRights24/08/18 10:36 PM
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America's age-of-consent law for drinking also stupid. I hate this woman. I hate what she did. But our inconsistent and puritanical laws on these kinds of issues have hurt more teenagers than they have ever helped.
/r/MensRights24/08/18 10:10 PM
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Hi, I'm 40 years old. Not a hag, if you care, and I have never and will never engage in sexual relations with a much younger person. I don't think you sound jealous at all... but I do think that you are wrong about these kinds of encounters automatically being classed as rape. There are all kinds of ethically appallingly things that are not rape. When I was 17, I was capable of consenting to sex. So were you. So was this young man. He consented to a sexual encounter that he later regretted. This…
/r/MensRights24/08/18 10:01 PM
1

How about we just blame the murderer for this terrible murder?
/r/MensRights24/08/18 08:20 PM
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Huh? I hate MGM. I didn't do it to my sons. But I assure you, misogyny and sexual dysfunction are not more prevalent among Jews than among other groups. MGM is wrong because it is inherently wrong, not because it creates men who fear and hate women. It needs to end because men have the right to bodily integrity, not because they are more likely to mistreat women if they are subjected to MGM as babies.
/r/MensRights24/08/18 08:17 PM
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I'm not interested in anybody going to prison for having consensual sex with a 17 year old. California's laws are stupid. I cannot pretend to agree with them just because I loathe Asia Aregento.
/r/MensRights24/08/18 08:09 PM
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I don't think my husband ever signed a birth cert application - the states the kids were born in did not have that option. You are still going to be listed on the actual birth certificate as the father. But yeah, it's a stupid change. The husband (or, in the case of unmarried mothers or LGBT relationships, the other parent) should have to sign the birth certificate in order for their name to go on it. As a married woman, I legally could not put down anybody but my husband as the father. As a sin…
/r/MensRights24/08/18 10:26 AM
1

If you two both agree that 50/50 physical custody is best, it will be easy to achieve. No lawyer necessary. You will probably not be able to afford to keep the house, bevause two households are far more expensive to maintain than one household. A year from now you will both be living in apartments in the same school district, coparenting successfully. If she would prefer to have primary physical custody and remain in the home while you move out and pay child support, and she's not a drug addict …
/r/MensRights23/08/18 02:26 PM
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Wow. That's impressively misogynistic AND off-topic.
/r/MensRights22/08/18 06:36 AM
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Agreed. Helping male victims in general is something we fail at, and even more so when the perpetrator is female.
/r/MensRights22/08/18 06:34 AM
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Sexual abuse survivors are much more likely to become perpetrators later on. I loathe Asia Argento, but that's a reality.
/r/MensRights21/08/18 10:18 PM
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Highly unlikely. They want to clear the case. If their system works such that the issuance of a bench warrant gets this off their caseload and onto the criminal side, then that is good outcome for them. Judges are frequently known to put the smake down on bureaucrats who behave this way. Your friend's relatives need to go to the court day with documentation that he is in ICU.
/r/MensRights21/08/18 10:09 PM
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I just don't get it. Bill Gates is a smart man. How did somebody manage to convince him that MGM was the best use of his public-health-promoting dollar?
/r/MensRights21/08/18 11:10 AM
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A "living trust" will will also not entitled your surviving boyfriend or girlfriend to your Social Security benefits. You can put your house and other assets in various kinds of trusts if you wish to pass them to an unrelated person upon your death. I'm glad that you can afford to buy insurance on the private market now. When you are older, or if you develop health problems, insurance very often becomes unaffordable. This is one of the things people think about when they decide to enter into a l…
/r/MensRights20/08/18 10:43 PM
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From my perspective, if you want a family and aren't having one for that reason, you have loaded your own gun are shooting yourself with it. The state can't ruin your life, you'll do it before they even have a chance! It's very different when people simply prefer to remain single and childless.
/r/MensRights20/08/18 08:45 PM
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That's totally your call. Nobody is obliged to marry or have kids.
/r/MensRights20/08/18 08:38 PM
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Alimony is a valid concern (although it's awarded far less now than even ten years ago), but my stance is that if you're willing to risk the person you love being screwed over in their old age with regard to Social Security, inheritance etc., and your adult children being screwed over right along with them because their surviving parent now needs their financial support, that's not the person you want as a life partner and coparent.
/r/MensRights20/08/18 08:32 PM
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"Living will" to give a girlfriend or boyfriend survivor benefits and nontaxable inheritance status from the federal government? A living will is a medical document. "You can buy insurance?" Have you ever tried? Private-market insurance (insurance outside an employer's group plan) is utterly unaffordable for most people. You have to have some level of knowledge about this stuff if you want to discuss it seriously. As I keep saying, responsible people who are starting a family and have looked int…
/r/MensRights20/08/18 08:26 PM
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If this is a permanent relationship and your GF is going to benefit from that eventual income, then yes, she should understand that the medical school debt is HOUSEHOLD debt, to be paid back as a household. But if you guys have not yet decided to spend your lives together, then obviously she shouldn't be responsible for your debt, nor you for hers. You are boyfriend and girlfriend, not a family.
/r/MensRights20/08/18 08:19 PM
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There are a lot of people here who have had bad experiences with failed marriages (their own or their parents'). It's one of the things that draws folks to the MRM. I have plenty of serious complaints myself, about how the family courts work when families are breaking up. I just don't think the risk of an unpleasant breakup is a good reason to never establish a family.
/r/MensRights20/08/18 08:12 PM
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In many states, the putative father of an illegitimate child has NO CUSTODIAL RIGHTS. We can talk all day about how that's wrong, but that's the current reality. Deliberately conceiving a child out of wedlock is a good choice only for men who would want to maximize their chances of paying child support while having sporadic contact with their children. Inheritance rights, such as the right to collect survivor benefits from Social Security and private pension plans, are not trivial to most people…
/r/MensRights20/08/18 08:02 PM
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I am so sorry for your trouble. I agree that that you have made the correct choice for your circumstances - a life-limiting medical condition, no children and no intent to have any, no signficant Social Security benefits coming, and medical debt incurred thanks to our shitty healthcare system. She knows that you'll outlive her and she wants you to move on with your life without encumberance, and that's admirable.
/r/MensRights20/08/18 06:45 PM
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The people who are forward-thinking enough to do those things are generally people who realize that everything they can do separately does not add up to the legal protections of marriage, and choose to get married if they want children. Exceptions exist, but that is the norm among responsible people. The norm among the human race is to not plan for any of this, in any way at all.
/r/MensRights20/08/18 06:38 PM
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If you had ever known a long-term unmarried couple where one parent died or became disabled, I suspect you'd have a more nuanced view of this issue. It's a logistical nightmare, and the survivors usually lose out on significant benefits that would automatically be granted to a widowed parent and their children. Should people think about this stuff, and understand that having children outside of marriage is stupid? Yes. Do they? No.
/r/MensRights20/08/18 04:55 PM
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Men attracted to emotionally unstable women, preferably no older than 18, studies show. If studies actually showed that, maybe I'd worry. But I'll be damned if I'm going to worry about the trends observed in surveys of people who are trying to hook up online.
/r/MensRights20/08/18 09:28 AM
1

My God, that's awful. I'm so sorry.
/r/MensRights19/08/18 09:54 PM
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There is a nice middle ground between recruiting and excluding. It's called neutrality. Let individuals who are interested in a certain career obtain the qualifications for that career to the best of their ability. Ignore their race, sex, and ethnicity.
/r/MensRights19/08/18 01:21 PM
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I may disagree with this woman more profoundly than with any other person I have ever encountered who was not a neo-Nazi.
/r/MensRights16/08/18 07:04 PM
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I'm not comfortable employing people who refuse to adhere to secular and egalitarian social norms in the course of their business in a secular, egalitarian country. I think that an argument can be made in either direction as to how the courts ruled in the matter, but as a private citizen, if somebody wanted to work for me as an interpreter (or doctor, or lawyer, or driver, or travel agent, etc. etc...) would not shake hands with me or meet with me unchaperoned or whateverthehell gender-weirdness…
/r/MensRights16/08/18 03:41 PM
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He makes his living off it, it's a business. He can choose not to work with females, Muslims, Black folks, whatever... but his consumers are entitled to object to that policy and stop giving him the views he needs to make money. How is this confusing for you?
/r/MensRights16/08/18 02:17 PM
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Yes, those would be the kind of sexist assumptions I'm refusing to support.
/r/MensRights16/08/18 11:45 AM
1

In a marriage of convenience, both parties understand the terms of the arrangement. What you're engaged in is a con job. You are stealing years of another person's life and hundreds of thousands of dollars of their money. It's not a game, you're not a player. It's real life, and you're a disgusting human being. It's like you looked at what family courts sometimes do to noncustodial parents and thought "wow, how about I do something like this but even worse?" I would not be crucifying you if you …
/r/MensRights16/08/18 11:44 AM
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Yes, those would be the kind of sexist assumptions I'm refusing to support.
/r/MensRights16/08/18 01:04 AM
1

Yes, "the system" is responsible for your terrible mistreatment of another human being. You are not culpable for knowingly exploiting her because reasons. Many men have dealt with injustice in family courts. Few have knowingly hurt a blameless third party over the course of years to ease their path in life. Most bottom-feeders don't start sucking up the scum until they feel some pressure. You would probably never have done this if personal misfortune hadn't tested your character. Your character …
/r/MensRights16/08/18 12:18 AM
1

Yes, those be the kind of sexist assumptions I'm refusing to support.
/r/MensRights16/08/18 12:12 AM
0

This vendor isn't refusing to work with feminists or SJWs. He is refusing to work with females. That's my problem with him.
/r/MensRights15/08/18 10:25 PM
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Slender, happily married, happy mother. If sexist businesses do fine without my patronage, so be it. But I would never knowingly patronize a racist or sexist vendor.
/r/MensRights15/08/18 10:22 PM
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You are exploiting your second wife and plan to abandon her. How you can justify this in your mind is beyond me. I do not know why you would post this here and expect to gain sympathy from men who have been exploited. I hope that your children realize what kind of man you are, and end their relationship with you at the same time you end your relationship with their stepmother who you have used for a paycheck. Seriously, you wanted APPROVAL for this disgusting behavior?
/r/MensRights15/08/18 10:12 PM
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Jesus Christ. Crawl back under your rock. Any person who has spent the smallest amount of time researching family law issues realizes that female lawyers and judges are a huge boon to the system.
/r/MensRights15/08/18 10:05 PM
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Yup, you're definitely not a raging sexist. /s
/r/MensRights15/08/18 09:58 PM
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People who won't do business with "my kind" (females) don't get my business. I despise sexists less than racists in our current political climate, but I'm not going to pay them to be sexist.
/r/MensRights15/08/18 08:38 PM
1

Yup, you're definitely not a raging sexist. /s
/r/MensRights15/08/18 08:20 PM
6

We're around the same age. I have single friends, married friends, friends with high-powered careers, friends who are SAHMs. None of us are suffering from broadened shoulders, deepened voices or any other biological change related to marital and career situations. Nor did the pressure of college studies harm our reproductive systems ;-) I know that this is the Internet and one post does does reflect the full nuance of your thoughts on this matter, and I fully agree with you than women who want c…
/r/MensRights15/08/18 06:17 PM
-2

Congratulations, you have just noticed that different standards apply in the public and private spheres? Don't want to date women? Not my business. Don't want to work with women? I won't patronize your business. This guy's Twitch streams are a business for him.
/r/MensRights15/08/18 02:45 PM
-2

Context is terribly important, sweetums, which is why I consider sexism a lesser moral offense than racism in this particular scenario. But because players are singled out for this discriminatory practice solely on the basis of their sex, it is definitely sexism.
/r/MensRights15/08/18 12:32 PM
-5

This is literally sexism. He is discriminating on the basis of sex. If he refused to stream with Black players, he'd be discriminating on the basis of race. Is it easier to justify sexism than racism in our current social climate? I think so, yes. As a consumer, this policy would be a dealbreaker for me, but I'm not going to go picket this guy's house. I hope this will be a conversation-starter about the toxic "shipping" culture among those who do consume this kind of content. The endless drama …
/r/MensRights15/08/18 11:44 AM
-2

Her shoulders have broadened? I mean, all of that is spiteful and pathetic and reflects your own insecurities, but most of it is at least a possible real-world outcome for all the women who have rejected you as a mate over the years.
/r/MensRights15/08/18 11:35 AM
1

I am guessing that getting CPS involved in the right choice, but I want OP to talk with a lawyer first. Once you ring the CPS bell, you can't unring it.
/r/MensRights14/08/18 09:32 AM
1

If you are on the birth cert and she was not married to another man at the time of the birth, I'm pretty sure you are the legal father in all 50 states already. Get a lawyer, tell him the whole story, follow his advice.
/r/MensRights14/08/18 09:29 AM
1

If he didn't work with Black or gay people as a matter of preference, would you be OK with consumers complaining to his sponsors?
/r/MensRights13/08/18 04:30 PM
2

Clearly you've never worked with at-risk children. My reaction was "Oh, shit... oh wait, thank God, it's weed." Child services needs to get involved here, but unlike a meth situation, I'm not worried that the kids are going to die while child services is figuring out how to rehabilitate their idiot mother and which relative to send them to meanwhile.
/r/MensRights13/08/18 10:19 AM
8

He's absolutely entitled to stream with whoever he wants to. He's an entertainer producing media for public consumption, and if the public doesn't like his choice to exclude female gamers from his product, he might make less money. I don't see the problem here - he's got the right to free association and so do his customers. Having watched a few Twitch streams with my teenagers, I do think this issue might be less fraught if the people consuming the content didn't act like a crazed, salivating m…
/r/MensRights13/08/18 10:08 AM
2

Considering that the story was about a young man who was actually beaten for dancing, I think your attempt to make that particular point falls flat. I do understand why you found that page as a whole infuriating, and I thought most of your comments were very reasonable.
/r/MensRights11/08/18 06:58 PM
0

Beating your son because he wants to be a dancer is not "masculine" behavior. It's abusive behavior.
/r/MensRights11/08/18 02:38 PM
8

I would never say this directly to that guy - but he's lucky. She didn't take the kids with her when she left, and he's already pursuing alimony and child support. Things are going about as well as any SAHP who gets ditched by their spouse can expect. It still sucks, because having your spouse walk out on you simply sucks - but he didn't lose his kids.
/r/MensRights11/08/18 11:55 AM
1

Her husband? How about the principal of the school?
/r/MensRights11/08/18 11:47 AM
1

Actually, most parents are good parents, which is why they're so effing tired when their kids are little. Parenting-done-wrong gets all the attention on social media, whereas parenting-done-right is boring and thus largely invisible.
/r/MensRights11/08/18 11:41 AM
4

Our profound disagreement on this issue is outside the scope of this sub.
/r/MensRights08/08/18 09:07 PM
5

They had a choice to make a reasonable profit rather than an obscene profit. Our government was clearly wrong to leave that choice to them. I look forward to the abolition of for-profit healthcare systems in my lifetime.
/r/MensRights08/08/18 08:13 PM
1

It wasn't mandated away by the ACA, it was taken away by our shit-eating private insurance companies when ACA mandated that women receive better coverage. The ACA should have protected men as well, and the insurance companies should not have tried to fund their mandate for women by mistreating men. We had vasectomy coverage for a decade prior to the ACA, it was a standard thing that high-cost plans covered. They colluded, and stopped covering it.
/r/MensRights08/08/18 08:08 PM
1

My state does not have a separate infanticide statute, but as I said, ridiculously lenient sentences for bioparents who brutalize their offspring. A woman or man would see the inside of jail cell here for shaking a baby to death, but not for very long. People get longer sentences for nonviolent drug offenses.
/r/MensRights08/08/18 08:03 PM
0

I'm going to take a huge guess that you are a galloping racist.
/r/MensRights08/08/18 07:59 PM
4

We have the same issue. Vasectomy coverage disappeared the year my husband decided he wanted one.
/r/MensRights08/08/18 07:45 PM
2

My sad experience is that both fathers and mothers get ridiculously short sentences for serious, ongoing abuse. Most of the time, their "punishment" is being seperated fron the child they have brutalized. As a county solicitor (assistant DA) said to me once, "No dead baby, no jailtime. The juries think these monsters care that their children have been taken away."
/r/MensRights08/08/18 07:39 PM
3

That would be a fairly long sentence in the US, for either a man or a woman, if the child they exploited was their own biological child and the child did not actually die as a result of the abuse. There is a very deeply ingrained notion that children are parental property, and abuse of "your" child is punished much, much less harshly than abuse of another adult's child.
/r/MensRights08/08/18 11:48 AM
1

You are truly, functionally deceiving yourself. You have rights, you are choosing not to exercise them. You have responsibilities, you are choosing to avoid them. You are cheating your child and cheating yourself, over a matter of wounded feelings towards your child's mother and the man she chose over you many years ago. I've spent years working with low-income, typically uneducated fathers who want a relationship with their kids. Your story is not terribly uncommon among that group. Nor is your…
/r/MensRights08/08/18 11:42 AM
1

I've met so many losers like you over the years. Always an excuse as to why they don't acknowledge their children, or support their children, or even see their children. Fatherhood is special, fatherhood is sacred, fathers are important... but in their case, for XYZ ego-related reasons that have nothing to do with a child's fundamental right to know their parentage, some other man should take care of their offspring, or the mom should do it alone. It's beyond pathetic. 12 is late, but maybe it's…
/r/MensRights07/08/18 07:50 PM
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He listed 4 things, alimony was one of them. I am not privy to the details of this divorce and couldn't begin to guess if the alimony arrangement is reasonable, but regardless, the other three things are good reasons to work, and whining about the need to take lucrative acting jobs... I mean, seriously?
/r/MensRights07/08/18 03:04 PM
16

That's why one-size-fits-all guidelines don't result in fair outcomes. The judge needs to understand how the family functioned before deciding how to orchestrate its dysfunction. There are fair rulings with zero alimony and fair rulings with lifetime alimony.
/r/MensRights07/08/18 12:43 PM
-46

Uma Thirman is solely responsible for health insurance and tuition for their children? What an odd notion. Should she also work to support the charities Hawke contributes to, so that he need not sully his hands with "commercial" acting jobs? Regardless of how you feel about alimony, this is an insanely privileged person whining about doing a job that thousands of other people would kill to get.
/r/MensRights07/08/18 12:40 PM
1

If he truly is my son, he will figure it out and start asking questions, if he doesn't, that's fine. I'll leave him alone. What the actual fuck. No, your biological child will not somehow prove his worthiness by instinctively knowing that the adults in his life (his mom, his legal father, and you) have all conspired to lie to him and deprive him of knowing his origins. You do have rights. You are choosing not to exercise them. You are letting two people you despise be solely responsible for a ch…
/r/MensRights07/08/18 12:36 PM
-20

Huh? I did not suggest that she should not also work to pay the bills - and she does.
/r/MensRights07/08/18 12:28 PM
-73

But I'm 47 years old. I pay my alimony with my acting. I pay my kids' health insurance with my acting. I pay everybody's tuition with my acting. I'm helping various charities with my acting. I've become a professional, and I never wanted to be a professional. I kind of hate professionals.' I have heard a lot of gut-wrenching alimony stories. This is not one of them. It does not break my heart that Ethan Hawke has to actually work at his job in order to pay his bills.
/r/MensRights07/08/18 10:26 AM
5

Oh, totally true. Women who don't want to fuck you are literally Hitler. /s
/r/MensRights07/08/18 10:18 AM
1

Wow. You don't just think he is yours, you are virtually certain. And you not talking care of him, rather, you are allowing another man to be cuckholded and to spend his finite time, energy and money raising your child. You do plan to disrupt this family eventually by revealing yourself to the child - but only after the real father (as opposed to you, the negligent sperm donor) has done your job for 14 years or so. You. Are. Scum. You do not deserve to raise children, and I sincerely hope that n…
/r/MensRights07/08/18 10:11 AM
0

Of course you cannot "rip the child away" from his mother. You are a stranger to this child, first by her sick choice if you are actually the father, and now by your mutual sick choice. You have been informed that you may be the father, and you did not pursue the matter legally, and she is not pursuing the matter legally. You would absolutely not be committing a crime if you formally requested a paternity test through the court system. You are choosing not to do that. Why? You want a son so badl…
/r/MensRights07/08/18 02:49 AM
0

Of course it was. All your fantasy-talk about "your son" who you might have someday if you can bring yourself to marry a nasty icky slutty female, and you may have an actual son who you are not involved with? Jesus Christ. Please take responsibility and find out if you are the father, or at the very least, stop lecturing other people about how to conduct themselves ethically. That poor, poor, kid. Two irresponsible parents for sure, and one of them might be you.
/r/MensRights07/08/18 01:35 AM
1

They might get high off the greeting cards. No, really. Read the article. I'm pretty sure that the problem of Fentanyl-soaked colored paper could be addressed in some less draconian way, but where's the private-sector profit in that?
/r/MensRights06/08/18 03:24 PM
1

No, this is women paying to talk to destitute men. They are spending their discretionary (and not-so-discretionary, read the article) income on something that should be included in the costs of incarceration and provided to all prisoners as a matter of course.
/r/MensRights06/08/18 03:21 PM
3

This would actually be more a case of mothers, wives and girlfriends lining the pockets of the companies that exploit their desire to communicate with their men.
/r/MensRights06/08/18 11:38 AM
1

I am staying with a friend who watches Sam Bee. What can I say? When you're right, you're right, and she was pretty close to right IMHO.
/r/MensRights05/08/18 06:01 PM
2

The term midwife means "with woman," and is entirely appropriate for professionals of both sexes.
/r/MensRights05/08/18 05:57 PM
1

Fair enough, as long as you don't then expect women to focus on your reproductive-rights issues. Apparently the OP expects this.
/r/MensRights05/08/18 05:55 PM
3

Wow. This explains a LOT about your posts.
/r/MensRights05/08/18 05:05 PM
1

Yes, make sure that echo chamber is sealed tight. You wouldn't want to develop any nuance in your worldview.
/r/MensRights05/08/18 05:00 PM
3

You may be right. But still, FAR MORE SIGNIFICANT than disobeying the court and moving frequently is depriving a child of a fit and loving parent, and I wish the judge had led with that.
/r/MensRights03/08/18 07:54 PM
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Even more significant is trauma these children have been subjected to as a result of many shifts from residence to residence." Um, no. Moving around a lot is not a more significant trauma than being deprived of your father for three years.
/r/MensRights03/08/18 12:16 PM
1

It goes in fits and starts. Right now, we have a relatively high number of posters who think that misogyny or "traditionalist" i.e. male-supremacist arguments are compatible with a modern civil rights movement. Just wait them out. They always get bored and toddle off eventually. Even when the asshole tide is high, it's still a very small percentage of those who read the sub.
/r/MensRights02/08/18 09:44 PM
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I'm under the impression that we had a turf war with the Chinese that resulted in the drawing of a wholly artificial boundary through an ancient society composed mainly of peasant farmers. Have the people on the "South Korean" side done better than people on the "North Korean" side? For sure. But that's not why we fought that war.
/r/MensRights02/08/18 06:33 PM
-19

She's a jerk, but you clearly know jack shit about the Korean War.
/r/MensRights02/08/18 03:06 PM
1

I'm not surprised at all, having seen what single dads have to do to get custody, compared to what single moms have to do to lose custody. Kids are resilient - put them in a decent situation and they'll usually get better.
/r/MensRights02/08/18 08:16 AM
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I think it's probably due to the fact that women can have kids, and retain custody of them, with practically zero effort. A single man who becomes a custodial parent usually has to show some pretty serious initiative to get in that position. The guys who would be marginal parents don't show that initiative, and our system leaves thevkids with a marginal mom, dumps them on grandma or auntie, or puts them in foster care.
/r/MensRights02/08/18 07:50 AM
3

He may have had a treatable mental illness, or he may have been a born sociopath. In either case, the kind of peer support you hope to offer fathers in your situation (sane people who are coping with parental alienation) would not, could not, have prevented this tragedy. This is major-league crazy. This is the kind of case people cite when defending mothers who take children away for specious reasons.
/r/MensRights01/08/18 08:50 AM
3

Even if you can't bring yourself to feel bad for the first wife (and I think her decision to flee while pregnant and file for divorce may have been justifiable, given what ultimately happened), how on earth could the child and the second wife deserve this? The rarity of domestic murder-suicides is NOT a testament to male self-control, just as the rarity of rape is not a testament to male self-control. These crimes are rare because they are absolutely unthinkable acts for mentally healthy people.
/r/MensRights01/08/18 08:20 AM
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There is nothing that you could have done for this man. Don't carry that guilt. The vast, vast majority of noncustodial parents absolutely can benefit from a supportive community, but somebody this intrinsically defective isn't going to be dissuaded by social outreach. He murdered his ex, his child, and his current wife before cutting his own throat and shooting himself. They found two Glocks and SEVEN MAGAZINES, plus additional rounds. Thank Christ that he decided that murdering his family was …
/r/MensRights01/08/18 05:50 AM
1

I get it. If you'll read the article, it seems that this old lady doesn't get it.
/r/MensRights31/07/18 01:33 PM
2

Best of luck to you! I will advise you one more NOT to bring your wife to the visitations, or to mention her to the people running the visiting program. You can bring her along on the journey, spend your time with her outside of the visits, and have her emotional support in that way. But the visits themselves are for you and your son, and what the observer will be looking for is a dad interacting with a small child competently. You aren't expected to show zero emotion, but the emotions you show …
/r/MensRights31/07/18 12:51 PM
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I'm not saying that there isn't a problem, I'm saying that the problem hasn't destroyed social relationships and fun. People dated in Auschwitz. They're definitely flirting in the #MeToo era. This old lady means well, but if you read the article, she's definitely internalized the basement-dwelling virgin stereotype.
/r/MensRights31/07/18 12:42 PM
3

Tell that to the short-order cook who made me breakfast yesterday ;-) I mean this in a hopeful way - normal life is still happening.
/r/MensRights31/07/18 06:42 AM
4

Came here to say this. Of course, most people aspire to be considered much less nutty than Dennis Rodman...
/r/MensRights31/07/18 06:39 AM
1

I'm glad you found this helpful. The reason it looks bad to involve your wife at the outset is that absentee fathers often seek visitation after years of no contact at the instigation of a new partner (and then drop contact when that relationship ends). It's a pattern so common as to be a stereotype. I understand that this is not your situation, and that you have been trying for years to see your son - but I'm not the person you have to convince. And no, they will most definitely not expect you …
/r/MensRights31/07/18 06:33 AM
1

Huh? I said that NYC can easily identify more than five women in all their history who legitimately deserve statues. How did you get from there to the notion that women have made an equal number of "breakthroughs," however you are defining that? You are arguing a point that I was not remotely making, and missing the point that your reflexive objection to altering the 5:150 ratio makes us look petty and insecure.
/r/MensRights31/07/18 06:12 AM
1

"Pettiest, most insecure bullshit" is very different from "biggest bullshit." You're free to take a remedial reading course if you experience this sort of comprehension trouble frequently.
/r/MensRights31/07/18 06:04 AM
2

Three year olds (Even daughters! Wow!) are very cognitively active, and they need to have relationships with both their parents if at all possible.
/r/MensRights30/07/18 03:14 PM
2

Toys, books, pictures, pictures in an album to take home of you, his grandparents, his cousins, etc. Pictures of you at age 3 that you can tell stories about are great. NO PICTURES OF ANYBODY WITH A CRIMINAL RECORD OR DOCUMENTED SUBSTANCE ABUSE HISTORY. Healthy snacks (no-spill cup), pull-ups, wipes. If he has a potty accident the supervisor will expect you to change him. Basically, show up with a full diaper bag of the stuff an attentive parent would bring for a day out with a three-year-old. B…
/r/MensRights30/07/18 03:12 PM
1

Actually, these public art installations are going to be selected and installed by the municipal government. The awareness has been raised, the legwork has been done, and the only whining involved is coming from people like you. This is some of the pettiest, most insecure bullshit I have ever heard.
/r/MensRights30/07/18 12:10 PM
3

My bad. I have heard one too many people make that remark seriously. It's always people who were born after Western society fully desegregated the white-collar workplace. I doubt many people who actually lived in a society where their smart and motivated sisters faced serious employment discrimination would think that was an acceptable sacrifice in order to increase the marriage rate.
/r/MensRights30/07/18 04:08 AM
8

Are you seriously suggesting that only five women have ever made statue-worthy achievements in New York City? Pretending that women were not previously denied equal acknowledgement in the public sphere is one of the worst rhetorical mistakes that MRAs make. If you want people to believe you when you say that it's essentially over in the Western world, then it really helps to admit that it used to be systemic.
/r/MensRights30/07/18 12:31 AM
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Nope. Nobody is to blame. Everybody is entitled to work at jobs they are qualified for and support themselves to the best of their ability. Nobody is entitled to marriage, and people who cannot find a partner they are happy to spend their lives with should not marry.
/r/MensRights30/07/18 12:14 AM
1

Oh, go put on Mommy's hijab and fantasize about the good old days when Muslim women couldn't get divorced.
/r/MensRights29/07/18 01:36 PM
2

This is a human rights movement, not a tree fort. I wouldn't dream of pretending to be a man.
/r/MensRights28/07/18 08:50 PM
1

Teresa May's evening gown is not equivalent to a tank top and shorts, and you know it. Not as comfortable, not as informal. I cannot imagine why judges allow you to appear before them informally attired, but if they do, more power to you - you're right, suits are stupid, and while Trump wearing one at a state occasion doesn't bother me, a lawyer wearing one every working day of his life is unnecessary torture. Conservative attire for court will always be appropriate, but the definition of "conse…
/r/MensRights28/07/18 02:01 PM
2

Some babies (not all) are chronic droolers when their teeth are coming in, and a bib can be great for preventing/minimizing chest rashes.
/r/MensRights28/07/18 01:50 PM
1

IQ is a necessary but not sufficient condition for this kind of accomplishment. All ethnic groups produce biological "sports" with supernormal intelligence. Culture is what makes college professors out of that raw material.
/r/MensRights27/07/18 08:10 PM
1

Me either. But looking at something like the list of Nobel recipients and deciding that it represents a fair assesment of human potential based on inborn traits doesn't work, either. For the majority of the time we've been handing out that prize, the social barriers to those career tracks have not been open to all.
/r/MensRights27/07/18 05:53 PM
2

Socialization has been a profound factor historically, and we need to either acknowledge that when it comes to things like the Nobel Prize, or just decide that Jews are inherently superior. (We're not, we just have a culture than promotes higher education and rewards intellectual accomplishments even when they are not tied to immediate $$$.)
/r/MensRights27/07/18 04:49 PM
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Yeah, I've never understood why this is a problem for anybody. In the developed world, we've made tremendous strides towards ensuring that exceptional human potential is not stymied by any condition of birth. We need to do more for the other half of the bell curve, but we're still doing better than we were a century ago. We'll get there. Most people are just normal. The subnormal need to be cared for so they don't die of self-neglect, and the supernormal need to have their gifts nurtured so they…
/r/MensRights27/07/18 04:46 PM
4

Why does everybody seem to have such trouble with flawed heroes? Thomas Jefferson is one of my heroes. He participated in chattel slavery. Margaret Sanger is one of my heroes. She believed in (pre-Nazi) eugenics. You don't have to like everything an historical figure did or believed in order to admire them in the context of their times.
/r/MensRights26/07/18 08:44 PM
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No, we do not. Take that crock of shit back to the terper sub where it belongs.
/r/MensRights26/07/18 07:37 PM
2

If a man had formally separated from his wife in 2015 and been told by the courts in 2018 that he would not be granted a divorce until 2020 because he hadn't yet PROVED that the marriage was functionally over, I imagine that the comments would be fairly similar. This case is going to end similarly to most divorces among the elderly - they'll divide the marital assets and die shortly thereafter, leaving their estates to their children. If the husband wants to stay in this farce of a marriage for …
/r/MensRights25/07/18 11:08 PM
1

This franchise has shown female Predators before.
/r/MensRights23/07/18 05:45 PM
2

Right you are.
/r/MensRights23/07/18 01:02 AM
1

If you had a truly unstable ex and NEEDED to gain primary physical custody in order to protect your children, then you have my sympathy and I am glad your kids are safe. But this kind of sub is going to attract a lot of men who are trying to emulate the worst behavior ever typically displayed by sane woman, i.e. the marginalization of the other sane parent. The vast, vast majority of divorce cases should end with joint physical custody. Divorce deprives children of the right to one safe and stab…
/r/MensRights22/07/18 08:19 PM
11

"Games" in this context means emotional manipulation, not video games.
/r/MensRights22/07/18 08:06 PM
2

My sons both reddit a little bit, but I don't think they have ever tried to identify me or looked for my posts. They are teenagers, nothing is more boring to them than what their stable, happy parents think about stuff :-) My daughters are younger, but I've never said anything on Reddit that I would not say right to their faces. You should be self-conscious about some of the stuff you post, especially about a young daughter seeing it and connecting it with you. You paint females with a very broa…
/r/MensRights22/07/18 08:02 PM
2

Two teenage boys, three younger girls. And I'm launching them into a very odd time in Anerucan history. Not the oddest (I mean, we had chattel slavery once), but odd.
/r/MensRights22/07/18 05:13 PM
3

Oh, OK. Thanks for clarifying. I have posted here for several years with zero private nastiness and am so glad it's not starting up :-)
/r/MensRights22/07/18 02:56 AM
1

Somebody PMed you about me? That is legitimately creepy. I do not have private conversations with anybody on Reddit, and nobody IRL other than my husband knows my username. Every piece of information I have ever shared with anybody on Reddit is in my public post history. If the info in that PM was a doxxing attempt, please forward it to the mods. We don't do that here.
/r/MensRights22/07/18 02:46 AM
2

As I told you the other day, I have five children. I was surprised to find out you were in your thirties, a lot of your more bombastic rhetoric is more common in very young men.
/r/MensRights22/07/18 02:35 AM
3

I was interested in egalitarianism before my sons were born, and aware that we were having an odd cultural shift at the college level towards authoritarianism in a liberal guise... but having sons definitely means that I've never lost interest or had another kind of activism take over my limited time and energy. It also "helps" that my society has gotten notably, obvious more hostile to boys during my adult life. Tends to hold your attention. I have found that my empathy levels towards people ve…
/r/MensRights22/07/18 02:32 AM
4

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/us/emmett-till-death-investigation.html https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2018/0712/FBI-reopens-Emmett-Till-murder-case-in-light-of-possible-new-information Looks like the Aussies picked it up from our MSM.
/r/MensRights21/07/18 01:51 AM
3

Also, that human-relations, feeling-heard-and-validated stuff ISN'T trivial. It's a major factor in a person's emotional well-being. It's not as emergent as getting mistreated by the cops, but it's definitely important.
/r/MensRights21/07/18 12:54 AM
3

The ABC is absolutely a mainstream media source.
/r/MensRights21/07/18 12:50 AM
20

Yeah, this is a legitimately funny anecdote being horribly distorted.
/r/MensRights21/07/18 12:28 AM
1

Examples of unparliamentary language spoken by Senator Hanson-Young that she was asked to withdraw included calling then Immigration Minister Peter Dutton a “racist bigot”, telling Nationals senator Barry O’Sullivan he was “corrupt” and accusing Liberal senator Jim Molan of “supporting white supremacists”. Maybe this is against the rules in Australia, but it seems pretty normal to this American. Certainly not misandrist.
/r/MensRights20/07/18 01:12 PM
8

"Please don't discuss your bodily processes with me. We don't have that kind of relationship. If you are sorry that you were being mean to me, for whatever reason, just say so and that's the end if it." Your sister is a borderline case, it's far more acceptable for people in your household to know the schedule of your bodily functions. Your classmates are being wildly inappropriate and need to get that message now, while their ideas about proper social boundaries are still being formed. As to ho…
/r/MensRights20/07/18 01:06 PM
1

I don't think this would hold up in court - the judge is going to follow the law, period. Frankly, getting a postnup drafted after years of marriage might make you look like a spouse who was planning a unilateral divorce and talked their partner into making a decision against her own best interests in order to circumvent the state guidelines. Ask a lawyer in your state, I may be wrong. That doesn't mean you shouldn't talk specifically about this with your wife, and draft a statement of mutual in…
/r/MensRights19/07/18 07:43 AM
1

You need a source to back up the assertion that divorce impoverishes children unless one of their parents is wealthy? Look to your own budget. Now imagine that the same amount of income is supporting two households. We have all these culturally ingrained notions of men being deadbeats, women misspending child support money - but the average case is more like two people who both love their kids coping with plain fact that their expenses went up and their combined income didn't rise commensurately…
/r/MensRights19/07/18 07:27 AM
1

I'm not mad at you, either. Adultery among married people in France really, truly is a normalized behavior. Discretion is part of it - you're not supposed to talk about your lover, and you are not supposed to let your extramarital relationship interfere with your home life. If you are 17 and have never heard of this, then the adults around you are behaving appropriately according to the cultural standard. And not all married French people do this - only around half. https://www.1843magazine.com/…
/r/MensRights18/07/18 12:48 PM
1

Yup.
/r/MensRights18/07/18 12:41 PM
1

If the two people were the same size (i.e. guy much larger), I'd probably cut him less slack for the degree of response, but still some.
/r/MensRights18/07/18 12:22 PM
-2

Have you ever heard the phrase "l'heure bleu?" Getting mad at me because I know that adultery is normalized in French culture is like me getting mad at you for saying "my God, Americans are fat!" You're not a cheater, I'm not fat. Your culture condones one kind of harmful excess, mine condones another.
/r/MensRights18/07/18 11:44 AM
-2

If you’re gonna stop watching the show because of this change, then I feel like you’ve missed what the show has been trying to say for the past 50 years. Exactly. I've watched DW for years, have never minded that the character was played by a dude, do not mind having having a woman Doctor now. I can relate (or fail ro relate) to this ancient alien in either guise. I also don't see John Wayne or Sylvester Stallon as "toxic," so you and I may simply have vastly different tastes in entertainment, o…
/r/MensRights18/07/18 11:32 AM
5

I love how they STILL aren't expanding their hiking, camping and woodcraft offerings. Wake up! My daughters are going camping with Scouts USA next month, tenting with the other female Cubs, under the supervision of a female pack leader. They'll sleep and bathe separately, but otherwise, they'll be doing all the troop activities. The troop leader is thrilled - the sisters and daughters of troop members have been participating unofficially for years already, now they can be formally recognized.
/r/MensRights18/07/18 04:01 AM
0

A fictional alien who regularly regenerates into different bodies doing a stint in a female body is your idea of "a knife in the gut?" What a charmed life you must lead.
/r/MensRights18/07/18 03:38 AM
6

Agreed. I was shocked by this headline. Japan does NOT hand their citizens over.
/r/MensRights18/07/18 12:39 AM
3

I'm not pretending, it's been extensively studied. Wealthy men do pay ridiculously high amounts, but child support orders in the US are tied to income and most American men are not wealthy. Once their living costs are deducted, even at a penurious rate, the maximum allowable amount of child support is not enough to pay half of a typical child's expenses. Divorce impoverishes children, unless one or both of their parents are wealthy. I think that this 18 months of jailtime option is an urban lege…
/r/MensRights18/07/18 12:36 AM
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You have read a lot of bullshit. Most child support orders (in the US) do not cover half the actual cost of raising a child.
/r/MensRights18/07/18 12:19 AM
15

You don't know much about France. Adultery is their national pastime, and men and women participate with equal avidity.
/r/MensRights18/07/18 12:14 AM
4

Vaginal steaming?
/r/MensRights17/07/18 03:58 PM
-10

A supervisor who treats their employees differently based on their race, sex, creed, nationality etc. is a huge liability for their company, and needs to be put on a performance plan to correct their discriminatory behavior, or gotten rid of if they refuse to obey the law. If a company wants to allow their higher-ups to refuse private meetings with ANY employee, that's certainly a reasonable position, and chaperonage can be arranged. But saying "no, I won't be alone with females, so you are bein…
/r/MensRights17/07/18 03:56 PM
2

My problem is more with France's centuries-old adultery culture than with the government's pragmatic response to it. I don't like the law, but I know which came first.
/r/MensRights17/07/18 03:44 PM
0

Absolutely. The parking lot, while clinging to your child and filming the drama, is not the right place to look for that support. This guy and his extended family are making things 1000% harder for that kid because they need to emote immediately and publicly. He may well be the more fit parent, none of us can know that either way (although plenty are ready to assume based on their ingrained bias against mothers). All the video shows us is that he lost it at the courthouse, in front of his kid. I…
/r/MensRights17/07/18 11:31 AM
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Yes, it is, and yes, it's OK to have single-sex areas for breastfeeding. Men do not breastfeed, and many nursing mothers prefer not to expose their breasts to strange men. BUT, if this is the only facility offered to sit quietly in a rocking chair and bottlefeed, or to change a diaper, then the OP is right to be pissed off about it, because if he's out with his baby, he needs those accomodations.
/r/MensRights17/07/18 11:20 AM
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I was a guardian ad litem, representing children who were in foster care or were at risk of being placed in foster care. My practice focused on working with poor fathers seeking custody - I was allowed to choose my cases and that's what I chose. If I have a bias, it's a pro-dad bias. And I am telling you, people who act like this (and film it, and put it on social media, jesuschristwhatthefuck) are not typically the safer and more stable parent.
/r/MensRights17/07/18 11:13 AM
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We know for sure that the adult filming is such a stupid piece of trash that they considered it appropriate to post this video on social media.
/r/MensRights16/07/18 11:34 PM
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I've sat through dozens of these kinds of cases, knowing the backstory, having done my own investigation into both parents. The side of the family that cries in the most affecting manner at the courthouse is generally the crazier side. Not always. But generally. And either side of the family can make a child that age cry. Children were not allowed to be present at family court proceedings in my previous state of residence, precisely to avoid their the situation where their trashy-ass family (mat…
/r/MensRights16/07/18 11:27 PM
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A little excessive, but I tend to cut people some slack when their immediate response to a physical assault is to escalate. It's not like she hid behind his car and beat his ass 20 minutes later.
/r/MensRights16/07/18 09:31 AM
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Yeah, this just isn't complicated. Of course nobody can force a woman to gestate, and of course a man might choose to end a relationship with a woman who did not want to continue a pregnancy. The scenario the OP in that thread described was abusive as fuck, and I hope she went home to her family.
/r/MensRights16/07/18 09:26 AM
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Dads going off to work isn't "natural" either. Humans evolved in small, mobile groups where children spent all day surrounded by their adult relatives. Also, gay men are not more likely to molest children.
/r/MensRights16/07/18 09:18 AM
1

Are you insane? http://abc7news.com/society/black-woman-says-cvs-manager-called-police-over-coupon/3768508/
/r/MensRights16/07/18 09:09 AM
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I love stuff like this. Revenge, served ice cold. I hope Uncle Lyle gets a similar obituary.
/r/MensRights16/07/18 09:02 AM
1

The last time I was in a server room, I spent the next 15 minutes shivering uncontrollably. Thank you for your service ;-)
/r/MensRights16/07/18 08:59 AM
0

Respecting your parents isn't a Mexican thing? Wow, TV has lied to me. Also every Mexican person I have ever met in America. I worry way more about my sons picking a bad wife than my daughters picking a bad husband. At least I could help my daughters get out of the situation without losing their kids.
/r/MensRights16/07/18 01:14 AM
1

OK, why not? Taking advice on women from women might be a dubious proposition if the advice comes from a blog or a magazine, but taking advice from somebody who has exactly what you think you want is generally not a terrible idea. I wanted to marry younger than is normal in America, to a man who despised divorce as much as I did. I wanted to marry a man who was willing and able to make enough money that the size of our family would not be constrained by finances and I would never have to put my …
/r/MensRights16/07/18 12:13 AM
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Ban my brothers, my uncles, my grandpas, and half my cousins. WTF.
/r/MensRights16/07/18 12:03 AM
1

I am a happily married woman with five children. My husband and I have no children from previous relationships and neither of us are ugly, so I guess I looked for the same things you looked for and found them? The reason I keep mentioning daughters is that I want you to think about whether or not you are able to care for a daughter as diligently as for a son. If you can't, then getting a woman pregnant in the natural manner is unethical. If you can, best of luck to you.
/r/MensRights16/07/18 12:00 AM
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Sorry, I should have said, you will eventually meet a respectable woman who is willing to have children out of wedlock. This is the 21st century, that's normal now. What about your daughters? Can you be a good father to daughters? It's really not ethical to conceive a child if there's only a 50% chance you will want to take care of it.
/r/MensRights15/07/18 11:48 PM
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I'm glad that this is finally being studied, instead of people just trading anecdotes. If men like it at 71 and women like it at 75, why not set it to 73 and tell both sexes to make whatever changes to their outfits they deem necessary in order to function at 73? The women can wear cardigans, the men can wear short-sleeved Oxford shirts. Everybody will look dorky, but somehow, this will not prevent the constant sexual intrigue.
/r/MensRights15/07/18 11:41 PM
1

OK, that's a little bit clearer. Women are also very interested in having biological continuity, but it's so easy for us that it's not a big topic of conversation. I'm thinking of this from the perspective of your future child, who you want to conceive naturally with a woman you are dating. Lots of people who don't like kids think that "it will be different" with their own, and generally, they are either correct about that they suck it up and act appropriately. So that's fine. And you'll probabl…
/r/MensRights15/07/18 11:30 PM
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Your wish is granted! Adopt a son. ... but of course, you don't actually want a son, since you hate children. What you want is to perpetuate your genetic line. It would be deeply unethical to get a woman pregnant if you were not able and willing to raise a child of either sex, because you do not get to choose the sex of the child she conceives. There are certain artificial methods that allow for sex selection, but they are expensive and possibly illegal. I don't know anything about Mexican repro…
/r/MensRights15/07/18 08:38 PM
0

I'm not angry, but I'm honestly confused about the future you are envisioning for yourself. Being a good parent is NOT easy. It's achievable for any sane person who is willing to make it their first priority, but it's not easy. If you actively hate children, you probably need to take your family's positive assesment of your good-dad potential with a grain of salt. If you don't want the mother of your children to be your wife or girlfriend, why on earth should it matter if you're attracted to her…
/r/MensRights15/07/18 08:34 PM
1

You know, there are non-damaged women out there who you could be honest with and end up conceiving a child (not necessarily a son, so you'd have to do the emotional work to be a fit father to a daughter before getting anybody pregnant). Lesbians, foreveralones, women who don't wish to marry but still want to have kids- the Internet is a great place to meet other socially marginalized people who want to be parents but cannot or do not wish to enter into a traditional romsntic relationship with th…
/r/MensRights15/07/18 03:08 PM
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Do not lie to a woman to persuade her to conceive a child with you. Make it clear upfront that you can never offer her marriage, love, trust or respect. If you are willing to tell lies of that magnitude in order to get what you want, then YOU are the monster that you imagine all women to be.
/r/MensRights15/07/18 01:38 PM
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I want a son and I need a woman for that. You are not a fool for wanting to have children. You are worse than a fool if you are considering natural reproduction when you know that you would not be interested in raising a girl child.
/r/MensRights15/07/18 01:33 PM
2

Why not just wait the two years and then divorce? It's not like our pre-VAWA laws trapped immigrant spouses forever. There was always a reasonable path to divorce for non-abusive marriages.
/r/MensRights15/07/18 01:29 PM
2

Maybe Portugal does it differently, but in America, the injured party has a choice to file a civil suit and the state decides whether or not to press criminal charges separately, often against the wishes of the victim. We file civil suits to get money, divorces, child custody, return of our property, etc. The state files criminal charges to put people in jail. In the situation you describe, your ex and her thug friend have done something that merits criminal charges brought by the state. If the …
/r/MensRights14/07/18 12:03 PM
2

Right!?! The way that this kind of stuff is being reported in the mainstream media is really changing. It's only a first step... but it's the kind of thing that started happening around marriage rights 10 years ago, and look how fast the majority of Americans converted on that issue.
/r/MensRights14/07/18 11:51 AM
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Extremely low likelihood. Not that it really matters. Just because you come home from the war with your limbs intact doesn't mean that going to war wasn't a tremendous sacrifice.
/r/MensRights14/07/18 12:42 AM
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Is there is anything more pathetic than a person who by the grace of God has NOT had to defend their homes and families from conquering invaders disparaging the bravery of those who have? Oh, right. It's even more pathetic to describe noncombatants in occupied countries as "cowards." People who smuggled foodstuffs, hid Jews and other targeted groups, passed information to resistance networks, or simply survived and helped their neighbors survive under occupation, were brave in a way that you cle…
/r/MensRights14/07/18 12:39 AM
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Thanks for explaining. It's always interesting to find out how other countries do things. What bothers me about this is not having a cap per se, but that the benefit does not extend to both parents and is generally awarded to the mother in a single/divorced parent situation. This lady gets her benefit for her two kids, but her ex-boyfriend, who may well have been a fit and loving stepfather figure to these children that were born before he met their mother, loses the privilege of getting the ben…
/r/MensRights13/07/18 10:59 PM
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If he was actively planning to conceive children than he intended to use welfare to support, I'm pretty sure he was well-matched with this lady in terms of sheer dumfounding entitlement. Or does "benefits" mean something different in the UK?
/r/MensRights13/07/18 05:47 PM
1

It's interesting about the briefcase part. I didn't include it for the reason you state (the risk of an assault charge), but if I chose to intervene in an assault by a nutter on the subway, I personally, would probably use the object in my hands rather that whaling away with my fists. I'm small, and not a trained fighter. I would need to use whatever advantage I had in order to discourage the assailant, and because I am a white woman, the police would support my choice ex post facto. It's also i…
/r/MensRights13/07/18 05:38 PM
2

1) His rampant, nigh-hysterical homophobia 2) His freakishly deepset eyes Obviously, 2) is no big deal and 1) makes him unfit to hold any position of responsibility in an egalitarian society
/r/MensRights12/07/18 08:44 PM
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"If you were so scared is one thing but one of you had a briefcase and could have helped me and both of you could have pulled the chord from the safety of the next carriage that you left me for. I would never in my life do that." This perspective is legitimate. The men who fled the altercation don't have to care what this woman thinks, but it's not man-hating or gynocentric to be more pissed off at the apparently-well men who couldn't even be arsed to pull the safety cord after fleeing than at t…
/r/MensRights12/07/18 08:37 PM
2

Look up the word "comparable." It does not mean what you seem to think it means.
/r/MensRights12/07/18 12:44 PM
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Rosa Parks was the key player in a well-planned, well-orchestrated act of civil disobedience. Emmett Till was a lynching victim, one of dozens that year in the Deep South. The two situations just aren't comparable.
/r/MensRights12/07/18 12:57 AM
4

In other breaking news, water is wet and the earth revolves around the sun.
/r/MensRights11/07/18 01:18 AM
1

I am very sure that the gentlemen on the constructions sites have no expectation of sparking a conversation. I wish their foremen would tell them to shut up. But honestly, give me three construction crews in a row over one group of drunk twentysomethings.
/r/MensRights09/07/18 09:28 PM
1

I am a woman. I generally enjoy compliments from strangers, because I don't take being attractive for granted. I recently moved back to the city after years in the burbs, and Jesus Christ, there is such a thing as too much. And I'm old now. I can see why younger women get all pissy about it. It probably shouldn't be illegal, but I think employers should insist that their employees not engage with passers-by in a sexual manner while on the job.
/r/MensRights09/07/18 06:07 PM
5

The former, sadly.
/r/MensRights09/07/18 04:48 PM
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Actually, Ottavia loves to travel. It was a nice gesture - of course he'd leave his wealth to his only child rather than either of his exes or any of his former girlfriends.
/r/MensRights07/07/18 08:39 PM
2

[The woman involved] herself told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that she was not interested in being associated with any further coverage of the story, and asked that her name not be used, and that she not be contacted again. It happened twenty years ago. Nobody got raped. She doesn't want to talk about it. This wasn't brought up to further the agenda of feminists, women in general or this woman in particular - it was brought up by one man (Kinsella) who is pissed off at another man (Tru…
/r/MensRights07/07/18 11:24 AM
0

Try reading the comments. I was referring to the OP's thread title.
/r/MensRights06/07/18 10:35 PM
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I was referring to the OP's thread title.
/r/MensRights06/07/18 06:52 PM
1

This is what we have noticed with our teen boys. They encounter the stuff (good and bad, moderate and extreme) on both sides of the gender-politics coin. I'm more worried about real life than what they pick up gaming or on YouTube.
/r/MensRights06/07/18 12:14 PM
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I think Asia Argento is repulsive. I was a longtime fan of Anthony Bourdain. But because I was a longtime fan of Bourdain's, I cannot agree that her behavior, or anybody else's, "triggered" his suicide. That dude started making self-destructive choices around the time I was born. He was fundamentally unstable.
/r/MensRights06/07/18 12:09 PM
4

Foster children are pathologized to an awful degree. Serious behavioral problems are one possible result of trauma, but the truly bad stuff manifests in a tiny minority of all the kids in care.
/r/MensRights03/07/18 12:03 AM
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Our first foster-adoption was a school-aged boy. An astounding number of people, including some close relations, worried that he would rape our daughters. It's insane.
/r/MensRights02/07/18 01:25 PM
7

Exactly. I said let them wear skirts, not make them wear skirts.
/r/MensRights02/07/18 04:33 AM
3

Sure, but somebody else being shitty just has no bearing on how we should behave. "Women are bitches" is not a statement that should be made in this sub without being corrected.
/r/MensRights01/07/18 03:46 PM
2

It doesn't matter if other people act like bigots. We don't.
/r/MensRights01/07/18 03:34 PM
7

Came here to mention MichFest. Had no idea it recently shut down. Good, it was a hotbed of crazy.
/r/MensRights01/07/18 03:29 PM
14

Why not just let the boys wear skirts?
/r/MensRights01/07/18 03:27 PM
1

My inconvenienced cousin really isn't the issue. People who are sent back to El Salvador to be murdered by a gang are the issue. I mean, I like my cousin, but he was doing OK working for a finance company in London. He had a desire to emigrate, not a life-and-death need. I'm all for a merit-based system when evaluating the applications of people like my cousin. But the brutalized poor people on my own continent don't need to be competing with him to obtain one of a ridiculously low number of slo…
/r/MensRights27/06/18 09:50 PM
7

You've identified the central issue. Other than a modest tax credit, American society provides essentially zero social support to middle-class families with young children. We allow our companies to demand more hours/week of labor, on a less predictable schedule, than is legal/customary in other developed nations. We do not subsidize childcare. We do not have high quality standards for childcare. Nobody can HAVE IT ALL, but a middle-class French family can have excellent and affordable childcare…
/r/MensRights27/06/18 10:36 AM
2

Bully for you. An effective public health program needs to be aimed at the entire population, not just you.
/r/MensRights25/06/18 07:27 PM
2

Every straight man I have ever met has cared what women think of his penis. We can argue all day about whether or not they *should* care, but if the goal is to eliminate MGM, buy-in from straight women really is an important step - just as the cultivated willingness of Kenyan men to marry intact women is an important aspect of the fight against FGM in that country.
/r/MensRights25/06/18 11:49 AM
3

Wow, it sounds just as stupid when you flip the genders.
/r/MensRights25/06/18 11:46 AM
1

That will teach me to watch the video, rather than just glancing at the poster's history. I guess he's a tradcon mgtow. Didn't know that was a thing.
/r/MensRights25/06/18 11:40 AM
5

No problem. I'm sorry for your trouble. Restraining orders are highly overused during divorce proceedings.
/r/MensRights24/06/18 05:58 PM
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Asking your boys where they have been, who they have seen, et cetera, is an excellent way to get that restraining order expanded to include them. Ask YOUR LAWYER to inquire of HER LAWYER if there has been a change of address. Have your lawyer specify IN WRITING that the sole purpose of the inquiry is to avoid an unintentional violation of the court's order. Ask for a five-block radius to avoid.
/r/MensRights24/06/18 05:17 PM
2

Why is r/MGTOW leaking so badly this week?
/r/MensRights24/06/18 05:08 PM
3

When you've had the same problem with a sucession of different people, you need to consider whether or not your own behavior is a contributing factor. Your contempt for your bosses is clear in this post, perhaps they have picked up on it IRL?
/r/MensRights24/06/18 11:03 AM
1

We've been installing NEST around the house, and it has occured to both of us exactly how much an asshole partner/ex could fuck with you if they were the only one familiar with the system. Spying included. Very creepy. But rather than harping on the fact (not in dispute) that abusers act abusively, why not link people to resources for addressing the problem?
/r/MensRights24/06/18 10:37 AM
1

You've made no case. You've shared your belief that people who respond illogically to information that contradicts an ingrained belief "can't be smart" and that this is some sort of predominantly female trait. I have shared my belief that an initially illogical response to having a culturally ingrained notion challenged is a common human trait and not indicative of a lack of intelligence. I'm not disagreeing with you because I am a woman. I'm disagreeing with you because your opinion doesn't squ…
/r/MensRights24/06/18 09:56 AM
3

This is the tough question. Does impregnating a woman, in the absence of any other legal or social tie, create an essential relationship with the resulting child? If so, biological paternity matters greatly and LPS is wrong, because your kid is your kid and they need you, and abandoning them would hurt them. If not, then single men chasing down ex-partners and demanding custody of their babies is wrong, because our society has decided that biological fathers are not immutably tied to their offsp…
/r/MensRights24/06/18 01:56 AM
1

I honestly thought the redpill sub had also been banned. If you got some sort of incel insinuation from my post, it was 100% projection. That's textbook insecure behavior, but neither feminine or masculine. Human beings are universally prone to insecurity.
/r/MensRights24/06/18 01:40 AM
3

Paywall.
/r/MensRights23/06/18 02:08 PM
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I have read several articles that included direct quotes from this father. I honestly don't get the impression that he feels his child was maliciously stolen from him. I get the impression that he hopes his child is permitted to immigrate to the USA. He wasn't willing to undertake the journey himself, but understands his girlfriend's choice to do so.
/r/MensRights23/06/18 02:07 PM
3

That would probably prevent a lot of pain and suffering all around. Not that you have to marry every person you have sex with, but if they are blatantly unqualified as a life partner right out of the gate, why (particularly if you are a man) give them such power to alter your life?
/r/MensRights23/06/18 11:07 AM
1

Well, just for starters, I have noticed that the world is chock full of people whose apparent intelligence does not prevent them from being grossly illogical (at least initially) when an issue comes up that challenges their socialized beliefs. Men, women, old, young, liberal, conservative - this is a human trait. I'm honestly sorry that they closed down your sub, but you can't have this one. The redpill agenda and the MRA agenda are fundamentally at odds. Take it elsewhere. Voat?
/r/MensRights22/06/18 08:35 PM
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Oh. My. God. ETA: All right, all right, it's a complete jerk move just to laugh at you without explaining. Eggs travel from one of the ovaries (typically alternating monthly) through a Fallopian tube, into the uterus. If they encounter spermatoza in either the tube or the uterus, they may become fertilized. If fertilized, they may implant into the uterine wall. If implanted, they may begin to develop into embryos. At no point does a human ovum get anywhere near the barrier contraceptive method k…
/r/MensRights22/06/18 08:15 PM
-1

Thankfully, he's a Mexican national and nationalist, and will not be joining us up North.
/r/MensRights22/06/18 06:15 PM
0

People who are doing well in the countries of their birth, and intend to stay there, really have no stake in the United States immigration debate either way. Why not focus on maintaining your own borders, if you are so offended by illegal crossings? We're currently dealing with tens of thousands of Central American migrants who were neither deported nor processed as refugees or asylum-seekers by the Mexican government. If you're concerned about strained relationships with your neighbor to the no…
/r/MensRights22/06/18 03:30 PM
1

Oh, are you the special lucky boy of parents who immigrated legally many years before the current crisis? Or just some gonif who goes through the border all the time on business and enjoys spreading disinformation about what's happening there? The people who want/need to enter the US now are not less human, less good, or less worthy than your own immigrant relatives (or mine). They certainly are not "traitors." Get a grip.
/r/MensRights22/06/18 03:04 PM
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Read his recent post history, wherein fetuses are human beings, and the termination of an unwanted pregnancy is an "atrocity" - while actual human beings, commiting the misdemeanor offense of crossing our border illegally, are "traitors" who deserve to have their children (actual children) taken away. He has no well thought-out or consistent argument, and has displayed no character. He does provide a pretty stark example of the fallibility of our immigration system, though. The government made a…
/r/MensRights22/06/18 02:56 PM
-2

He hates other immigrants and luuuuuuurves embryos. This guy is the whole package.
/r/MensRights22/06/18 10:52 AM
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I agree with your central point, but DAMN I'd like to see you make a sketch of the female anatomy. LMFAO
/r/MensRights22/06/18 10:51 AM
9

It is extremely difficult to enter the US legally with the right to work unless you have a sponsor. I have a cousin by marriage, white guy with a college degree, who spent years being denied for no reason anybody could fathom, and was not put on track for permanent residency until he married a citizen. For him, it was an inconvenience - he had to keep working in the EU and toss a bunch of money at lawyers. For a Central American peasant, legal immigration to the US is essentially impossible in m…
/r/MensRights22/06/18 10:46 AM
1

Nobody is quicker to dehumanize the current wave of immigrants than the previous wave. Your family got what they needed, slam the gates, all of the people who matter to you personally are safe or dead! It's an eteneral feature of American politics, and it's pathetic. Our ports of entry ARE turning asylum-seekers away without so much as an interview to assess their situations. As long as we continue to do that, we'll have people committing the misdemeanor offense of crossing our border illegally.…
/r/MensRights22/06/18 10:01 AM
10

Actually, you've both got the wrong idea. Little girls AND little boys are entirely safe in public restrooms if supervised by a competent adult. The men's restroom IS "the safest choice" for your daughter when you are taking her to the bathroom and cannot find a unisex family facility - because the men's room is where you are socially expected to be, and where you will not be distracted by other adults as you fulfill your responsibility to supervise your child. I'd leave out the other hypothetic…
/r/MensRights21/06/18 09:11 AM
-3

... says the terper.
/r/MensRights21/06/18 08:58 AM
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I think that's a different case. In this case, the dead man's parents support the girlfriend in her posthumous pregnancy. I believe that all three of these people are truly grieving and want something of their loved on to live on. But still, NO. He committed suicide and left no objectivobjectively verifiable statement of consent or desire to reproduce. He was not killed in an accident while in the midst of fertility treatments with his wife. This was a ridiculous decision by the courts.
/r/MensRights20/06/18 08:39 PM
4

It really is horrific. I am completely comfortable with my spouse owning my dead body, with being used as a vessel if I became braindead while pregnant, etc. I can see using already-frozen embryos or even extracting sperm if a husband died before his family was complete according to the plans he'd made in life. But holy shit, your girlfriend should not be able to raid your corpse.
/r/MensRights20/06/18 08:34 PM
5

I'm all for encouraging humane impulses wherever they occur.
/r/MensRights20/06/18 07:41 PM
1

That guy wasted his own time, don't apologize. Whatever his "real" degree is in, there was definitely no social-skills component.
/r/MensRights18/06/18 11:39 AM
13

Fair enough. This was posted in the MensRights sub and is getting wider attention, so I wanted to make it very clear that MRAs do not advocate for forced birth.
/r/MensRights17/06/18 10:28 PM
55

MRAs advocate for legal paternal surrender, not forced gestation. Your body, your choice. You should not be forced to labor for 18 years to support a child you do not want. But at the same time, you have no power over what your former sex partner does with her body - she can end the pregnancy or continue it.
/r/MensRights17/06/18 09:55 PM
5

I'm married, so I won't be fucking this guy - but he does not strike me as the kind of man who can happily patronize hookers as a substitute for a real relationship.
/r/MensRights17/06/18 09:50 PM
133

It's just you. MRAs advocate for legal paternal surrender, not forced abortions.
/r/MensRights17/06/18 09:44 PM
8

Well said.
/r/MensRights17/06/18 09:42 PM
7

This was totally unfair, and needs to be reported to the principal. Either everybody gets a single-sex changing area or nobody does. As a self-preserving measure in case your school does not resolve this issue before you are back on that bus, wear a T-shirt and boxer shorts under your marching band uniform the next time you travel, and bring gym shorts that pull on quickly. Share this advice with any other bandmates who ended up exposing themselves while changing. My son has to change in a coed …
/r/MensRights17/06/18 11:03 AM
1

LOL, that was my first thought. I literally could not care less what the Cambridge fellows wear to their banquets, but I momentarily cringed at the idea of what the Adonis-like acolytes of the New American Prudery would say about her body. It's a lovely body, but not model-thin.
/r/MensRights17/06/18 09:16 AM
2

Not to mention, the cops wouldn't do anything and would be irritated with you for wasting their time. Most harassment (sexual and otherwise) doesn't rise to the level of a crime. It is always very unpleasant and can be very scary, but essentially, it's a social aberration that requires a social correction - what OP is calling "creep shaming" and I think of as "a sharp set-down."
/r/MensRights17/06/18 09:10 AM
1

I DID like your post. It's an important topic that most Westerners don't know anything about unless they have family or close friends who have pursued marriage in India as an NRI. And even then they might not know, because most of those marriages result in the Indian spouse emigrating and any problems in the marriage being adjudicated by the court system in the NRI spouse's home country. What I didn't like was your refusal to discuss something you had decided to contribute. If you just want to w…
/r/MensRights17/06/18 08:57 AM
1

See my reply to /u/Lethn above.
/r/MensRights17/06/18 02:39 AM
1

It's not an objective fact, it's an opinion that is very unlikely to be true (i.e., all of the women in this field are almost certainly not hired only to fulfill quotas). But the truth or untruth, reasonableness or unreasonableness, of this man's politics is not really the issue. He could be a Nazi on the internet and still employed at a kosher delicatessen, if he had protected his anonymity. Instead, spouted this crap on company time and got caught. HR's job is to protect the company from lawsu…
/r/MensRights17/06/18 02:38 AM
1

If you don't want to discuss your ideas, don't post them here.
/r/MensRights16/06/18 09:10 PM
0

Thank you for the links. When you post on a public forum, you can expect to hear from other regular posters to that forum. You'll hear from me again the next time you post a topic that I'm interested in. Feel free to stick your fingers in your ears and chant nyah nyah I can't hear you if my questions make you uncomfortable or somehow complicate your worldview :-)
/r/MensRights16/06/18 07:37 PM
2

It does get better over time. I lost some friends over our diverging gender politics and it was very painful, but over the long term, I am much happier not being close to people who think that society is arrayed against them when it just isn't. Being a victim is fucking exhausting.
/r/MensRights16/06/18 07:23 PM
1

Of course. I thought you posted this article because you were interested in the topic of Indian family law, and might have some ideas to share. If you think this legislation is flawed apart from the passport-revocation aspect, I'd like to hear why.
/r/MensRights16/06/18 07:16 PM
0

This is a men's rights discussion board, not your therapist or your personal diary.
/r/MensRights16/06/18 05:03 PM
0

Are you going to answer my question, or do you just want to whine?
/r/MensRights16/06/18 04:14 PM
0

Nobody's debating. I'm asking you to tell me in what ways you think this law would be abused, and what alternative legislation you propose to reduce the possibility of such abuses. Women and men are both capable of abusing the laws, which is why it can be so difficult to write laws that will do more good than harm.
/r/MensRights15/06/18 09:17 PM
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If you are at your job, using your work computer, posting on the internet about how the women/men/blacks/gays/Asians/goblins in your field only get hired to fulfill diversity quotas, and you get caught, HR is right to fire you. You are a liability.
/r/MensRights15/06/18 06:03 PM
0

Do you mean "lack of concern?" I'm somewhat familiar with the various abuses made possible by Indian family law, but in this specific case, I do not see what else the court system could do to resolve cases where one spouse is an NRI and refuses to return home to appear in court. The marriage must be dissolved and the marital property assigned. As I said, I think revoking the passports of NRIs for failure to appear in a civil case is excessive.
/r/MensRights15/06/18 05:56 PM
0

I'm not debating, I am sincerely asking how you would manage it differently. Obviously, nobody wants a person with dual citizenship to get married, flee the country and refuse to deal with their legal affairs in the country that they have fled. But it happens everywhere. How should the court system respond when a citizen appears before them seeking to dissolve a marriage on the grounds of abandonment?
/r/MensRights15/06/18 03:03 PM
2

How would you suggest dealing with nonresident Indians who refuse to obey court summons? Granting the divorce in absentia and awarding the marital property to the spouse who appears in court is what happens in America when one spouse leaves the country and will not return to participate in the divorce proceedings. What else can you do? Revoking the passports of nonresident dual citizens is a bridge too far, I agree. Your misbehavior in your marital relationship has nothing to do with your citize…
/r/MensRights15/06/18 10:58 AM
2

I don't know anybody who wants to work like a Russian peasant.
/r/MensRights14/06/18 12:35 AM
1

This is the most balanced examination of the incel phenomenon that I have ever read. Who says romance novelists don't understand real-world sexuality? Thank you, Jack!
/r/MensRights11/06/18 12:53 PM
1

If the (at the time) child did initiate all of this due to issues stemming from her parents' divorce, and the teacher was receptive, that's about a million times worse. Vulnerable students are not potential sexual partners.
/r/MensRights11/06/18 12:05 PM
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These comments are equally full of cancer, in the opposite direction. Obviously nobody should commit an act of violence, but the OP's plan is entirely appropriate - inform the school district of the affair, take her daughter out of town for a bit, and let Dad make contact with Mr. Smith and his wife. What happened was maybe not illegal (depends on the girl's age when the sexual relationship started), but this man has exhibited a fundamental lack of integrity as both a teacher and a husband. The …
/r/MensRights11/06/18 12:02 PM
1

Got it. Thank you for clarifying. I thought the article was totally ridiculous.
/r/MensRights09/06/18 05:03 PM
1

I tell everybody who wants to have kids to establish a legally defined household with another adult and commit to maintaining that family unit unit at least until their children are grown up. Most people who share my values on this issue seem to choose marriage.
/r/MensRights09/06/18 11:17 AM
3

Hi! I have sons your age. Other people have already given lots of good advice, but I'd add this: be a real friend to boys. Be a safe person for them to express their feelings to. Put time and energy into non-romantic relationships with members of the opposite sex, and don't stop doing that when you meet your life partner and have your children. Many men, even very happily married men, do not develop/maintain close emotional ties to other adults apart from their parents and their wives, and the l…
/r/MensRights09/06/18 10:59 AM
1

Absolutely.
/r/MensRights09/06/18 02:58 AM
2

I understand that the people in your department who are rational actors with regard to your broken vacation system are women. Rather than being angry at them for doing what is required to get vacation requests approved, why not 1) address the flaws in the system or 2) fill out your own damn form in advance and submit it as soon as the window opens? I hate this particular method of vacation assignment, but I know a lot of people, male and female, whose companies do it this way. Those who need to …
/r/MensRights09/06/18 02:57 AM
1

Total sexual liberation means that a large portion of men will wind up ostracized and that's a massive problem. That's a very useful distinction. There has always been a largish slice of poor and working-class men not selected for marriage, but the absence of any durable social institution outside of courtship/marriage/fatherhood is a new problem. Everybody needs to feel invested in something.
/r/MensRights08/06/18 12:09 AM
1

It's a choice for everybody, you just realized that and took responsibility for your choice and its consequences.
/r/MensRights07/06/18 11:56 PM
0

Did the poor widdle boy just find out about culturally defective white people? Somehow I doubt it.
/r/MensRights07/06/18 08:20 PM
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You have an HR problem, not a woman problem. Talk to HR and tell them that first-past-the-post vacation reservations are not working.
/r/MensRights07/06/18 07:17 PM
0

My statement is that you are a touchy little asshole with a chip on your shoulder about your cherished whiteness. Pretending that white trash doesn't exist is painfully stupid. The evidence surrounds you. White people aren't lesser human beings, but we're not exempt from mass cultural collapse, either. Visit Appalachia and then tell me that I'm wrong.
/r/MensRights07/06/18 07:14 PM
1

Feels before reals? Not helpful in most scenarios. Certainly not helpful to men who are trying to find constructive and self-affirming ways to cope with not being selected for reproduction.
/r/MensRights07/06/18 07:20 AM
0

I wouldn't make any sort of racial reference about a group I didn't belong to. That's just rude. But yes, worthless trash exists in every variety of human. I'm sorry if that offends your delicate feelings about your cherished whiteness.
/r/MensRights07/06/18 07:16 AM
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I support honesty. Some people are worthless white trash, and it's not an insult to all white people to speak plainly about that. I have also been known to tell another Jewish woman to "stop acting like such a fucking JAP" when she was, in fact, acting like such a fucking JAP.
/r/MensRights06/06/18 04:59 PM
0

whitenesssofragile
/r/MensRights06/06/18 03:44 PM
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I see no point in pretending that there are not particular types of socially unacceptable behavior associated primarily with my race. If it bothers you, though, just think of this woman as "trash."
/r/MensRights06/06/18 01:36 PM
1

Mary Anne Layden of the University of Pennsylvania warned of the culture of porn and the violent "sexual tsunami" coming out of this. "Sexual Tsunami" is a great title for a porno.
/r/MensRights06/06/18 09:59 AM
0

I suppose we could just call this woman "trash" or "hyperentitled trash" or "vindictive hyperentitled trash," but I think that the ethnic reference adds another level of meaning. Pennsyltucky culture is broken in a very particular way. We could say "hillbilly," I guess, if the explicit reference to whiteness triggers you.
/r/MensRights06/06/18 01:19 AM
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I have an insistence on differentiating between white trash gossip and actual, demonstrable guilt. This stance generally benefits males more than females, because males are the group most often victimized by unsubstantiated allegations of sexual impropriety. If a parent with an axe to grind had told that cheer coach that a male student was "a rapist" and must not touch her precious princess, I would expect the cheer coach to tell her that princess wasn't welcome on the team.
/r/MensRights05/06/18 12:41 AM
1

Any reason under the sun. If you think somebody or something is worth avoiding, then YOU do the avoiding.
/r/MensRights01/06/18 09:17 PM
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You're projecting a lot of assumptions about this situation that I'm not making either way. It actually sounds like the girls were among many tumbling class participants interviewed as part of an investigation, rather than the initiators of an accusation, but that's irrelevant. If you don't want your child associating with another child, for any reason under the sun, then you do not enroll your child in activities with them. Normal people know this. They understand that their right to free assoc…
/r/MensRights01/06/18 07:15 PM
1

I have been assigned a male nurse on three separate occasions, and have had intimate care provided by them. It is utterly normal for male nurses to be assigned to female patients.
/r/MensRights01/06/18 12:13 PM
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"I went to the superintendent and said, ‘I don’t understand what the problem is because my son shouldn’t have to be benched because I don’t want him to be touching these girls.'” This boy's mother may be the dumbest person alive. She knows that two members of her extended family were allegedly molested as children, by a grown man. Years later, when these girls are young teenagers on the cheer squad, she decides she doesn't want her son to touch them. Instead of telling her son to choose a differ…
/r/MensRights01/06/18 12:04 PM
1

I don't know how many times I need to explain to you that it is utterly normal for male nurses to be assigned to female patients. There must certainly be women who complain about it when it happens (just as white patients sometimes complain about being assigned nonwhite nurses or doctors, the assholery of the human race is truly boundless), but I have never met a woman in real life who told me that she had refused care from a nurse on the basis of his sex. I've run into a few women on the intern…
/r/MensRights01/06/18 11:51 AM
1

Somebody who forthrightly disagrees with you and explains, repeatedly and in detail, how their own life experiences have caused them to take an opposing position on a social issue, is not exercising any sort of cunning, deceit, or manipulation. If that's the lens through which you view women, that's your own baggage and I'll thank you not to dump it on me. Your nurses in hospital would be similarly grateful not to have your emotional baggage dumped on THEM. If you need to be hospitalized in futu…
/r/MensRights31/05/18 12:02 PM
1

Yes. You could create a trust to be accessed by your spouse in the event of divorce in lieu of ongoing alimony payments. You could put your marital home in trust. You could ask your parents (and/or her parents, who ever you expect to inherit from) to leave their estate to your kids with you (or her) as the trustee, rather than making the inheritance a marital asset. I'm no expert on trusts, though. Lawyer.
/r/MensRights30/05/18 07:35 PM
1

If you've not directly experienced or observed something, it must not be true? Get over yourself, snowflake. The world is a lot bigger than your tiny individual experience. Please don't subject medical professionals to gender discrimination. Also, PLEASE LOOK UP THE MEANING OF THE WORD "SLY."
/r/MensRights30/05/18 07:30 PM
2

I understand your objective. You do not understand the full range of how trusts operate. Lawyer.
/r/MensRights30/05/18 05:20 PM
4

Oh boy. You need to go talk to lawyers.
/r/MensRights30/05/18 04:52 PM
1

as ppl naturally prefer to live by reality than by smoke and mirrors. This has not been my experience.
/r/MensRights29/05/18 11:22 PM
1

Weird. I have only ever been to Kensington as a tourist, but they did not strike me as anti-cyclist. Rich and stuffy, yes.
/r/MensRights29/05/18 09:49 PM
0

I love Morgan Freeman's work. I has no expectation that he was a flawless human being, and have no intention of erasing him. But this analysis is bullshit. The backgrounds of these two people are not relevant. If any man, any age, any color, any level of "privilege," had looked my 6-months-pregnant body up and down and said any variation of "I wish I was in there," I truly believe I would have struck him (which would have been wrong, you should not hit people for verbal offenses) and then told t…
/r/MensRights29/05/18 03:21 PM
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If the article wasn't complete shit, it would have pointed out that adding bike lanes. etc. in certain parts of the city primarily benefits the existing cycling demographic, and that expanding the cycling infrastructure to other areas might encourage wider adoption of cycling - which is the goal. But if you just said that, without this degrading "Mamil" bit, then the story would not be very compelling, because nobody remotely disagrees with the idea of adding more bike lanes and encouraging more…
/r/MensRights29/05/18 03:09 PM
1

It's a good question. Any uncensored forum will attract some people like that, but Voat really is a hotbed. Perhaps because there are so many European users?
/r/MensRights28/05/18 04:07 PM
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Voat is pretty seriously Jew-hating. I approve of uncensored forums, but that's not something I can wade through on a daily basis.
/r/MensRights28/05/18 04:01 PM
2

When I see a beautiful woman what I think in my head is "oh, god damn". But there is a filter between my brain and my mouth. I hate being untrue to myself and not saying anything. The brain-mouth filter is not a bad thing. In our current social climate, Becky from accounting could subject you to vigorous unwanted advances whereas you are expected not to harass her, and that's unfair. But just as your social filter reminds you not to tell Becky that she is ugly, or that you disagree with her reli…
/r/MensRights25/05/18 05:25 PM
2

They never specify where it is ok to make sexually suggestive comments btw, it seems you can't make them anywhere. Except to your girlfriend or wife in private. That's a pretty good guideline. Make sexually suggestive comments to your sexual partner when you can't be overheard by others. Do not make them at work. And actors at a press junket are definitely at work. They are promoting their movie as specified in their contract. I adore Morgan Freeman's films. I knew his boundaries were pretty shi…
/r/MensRights25/05/18 11:45 AM
1

I address this issue wherever it comes up, and it happened to come up here.
/r/MensRights25/05/18 11:33 AM
1

Yes. By me. Equality, baby.
/r/MensRights24/05/18 11:59 PM
5

Be honest, the men who are trafficked for labor cannot be reached via posters in public restrooms. It's not a lesser problem, but it is a different problem.
/r/MensRights24/05/18 02:02 PM
1

I answered your questions repeatedly. Apparently a list format was required to overcome your limited reading skills. Again, I encourage you to look up the definition of the word "sly." Male nurses are most certainly assigned to female patients, just as female nurses are assigned to male patients. Have you ever been a patient in a hospital? Female nurses are the majority, but male nurses are not actually all that rare these days. Any patient of either sex who refuses care based on nothing but the…
/r/MensRights24/05/18 01:18 PM
2

You didn't ask politely ;-) (This is all just a joke to me, I hope that's clear.)
/r/MensRights23/05/18 06:24 PM
2

Only if your last name is Bator.
/r/MensRights23/05/18 03:57 PM
1

I am encouraged by some of the language in the article. But it's all in how the law is applied...
/r/MensRights23/05/18 12:58 PM
1

Stay safe, and alone, and be a genetic dead end. I can understand the argument against legal marriage under the current system, but this seems excessive. Like cutting off your own leg to avoid the risk of an involuntary amputation.
/r/MensRights23/05/18 12:57 PM
2

Well, whatever you do, don't call a person "it." That's just escalating the stupidity. I'll use variant pronouns when asked, if I remember. I've never had the experience of somebody asking me to buy into their squirrel delusion, and I hope I never do.
/r/MensRights23/05/18 11:40 AM
5

That's not what cultural appropriation is. I think cultural appropriation is a bullshit concept, but that doesn't even meet their own bullshit definition. When a person who identifies themselves as "they" speaks, refer to them as "they" (not "it") and get on with your life. This dumbass trend will pass. There will always be a small number of people who truly suffer from body dysmorphic disorder, but the thousands of young idiots who are perfectly typical in mind and body and doing this genderflu…
/r/MensRights23/05/18 10:57 AM
1

No excuses intended. When a woman does this for any reasons other than concealing a rape or avoiding further contact with a violent man, it's a absolutely despicable. And even when I can sympathize with her predicament, it's still my job to find out who the father is if I possibly can.
/r/MensRights21/05/18 05:27 PM
1

You have got to look up the word "sly." I've answered all your questions directly several times. To reiterate: Yes, I have been assigned male nurses in hospital. Yes, they have touched my genitals. I've never had a bed bath from a nurse of either sex, but I have had a catheter removed and my vaginal sutures examined by a male nurse. Yes, I would (and do) say to women that it is sexist and neurotic to object to receiving care from a male nurse. "Expertise" is not a quality confined to doctors. Nu…
/r/MensRights21/05/18 03:09 PM
2

I couldn't agree more - but by the time I get involved, the sex has been had, and what's left to do is figure out if either or both of the parents are actively dangerous. When it comes to the violent ones, I don't see a lot of outright rape, but I DO see a lot of very young moms who entered into relationships with much older men - another thing grandma used to put a stop to.
/r/MensRights21/05/18 10:57 AM
1

Hating MGM hasn't somehow made me love Nazis.
/r/MensRights20/05/18 09:34 PM
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In my experience in family court, women almost always have a very good idea of who has gotten them pregnant, even if they were promiscuous around the time of conception. If they won't tell the courts who the guy was, there is a compelling reason. Sometimes it's a very self-centered reason (the guy is their sister's husband and they don't want trouble with their family) and sometimes it's a very child-centered reason (the guy is violent).
/r/MensRights20/05/18 08:55 PM
6

I've seen a similar setup in many small businesses - a unisex/family single bathroom and a ladies' with several stalls. It's probably not what I would choose to do as a business owner, but it's also not a fictional notion that women's facilities are often in higher demand. I've never been to a theater that didn't have a larger women's room than men's room, and that reflects the demographics of their audience. I don't get pissed off about it as long as everybody has a place to use the facilities …
/r/MensRights19/05/18 12:00 PM
0

Bingo. Charismatic figures from all over the sociopolitical spectrum have monetized their Internet following and built up armies of supporters who are waaaaaaaaaay invested in their particular worldview. Would I rather deal with a Peterson acolyte than an Infowars fan or one of Spencer's white knights? Yes, obviously. Peterson doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Alex Jones. But total immersion in any victimhood ideology makes me nervous. People who have convinced themselves tha…
/r/MensRights19/05/18 11:53 AM
1

You are really doing some mental gymnastics here..I've explained this clearly several times, but I'll give it another shot: Women choose their OB/GYNs. There are many female obstetricians, we don't select a male doctor out of necessity. I have personally selected four male obstetricians to handle childbirth, well-woman care, and a minor surgical procedure. I've also sought care from a couple of midwives. They all put their hands on me in ways that you'd probably faint to contemplate. It did not …
/r/MensRights19/05/18 11:22 AM
1

The Family Court may well agree with you. Or they may decide the situation is such a clusterfuck that the child is better off being adopted by a waiting family.
/r/MensRights18/05/18 03:24 PM
16

No disrespect to the legal father, who is being very decent about all this, but hadn't they better attempt to identify the biological father? This child may have an entire paternal-line family who are also decent people and are willing to take him in.
/r/MensRights18/05/18 11:34 AM
2

I'm surprised it's only 64.6% percent. I would have guessed 80 or 90 percent. The majority of shelter beds in Seattle are designated for men, which makes sense - but I'm not sure that a regular shelter qualifies as a "homeless solution." It's better than freezing to death. When it comes to private charities, I don't feel entitled to tell them how to direct their efforts. But single-sex homelessness solution bother me in general, because they break up kinship arrangements that vulnerable people o…
/r/MensRights17/05/18 05:34 PM
2

I did not mean to be evasive - let me try again. In situations like this one at the dermatologist's office, choice exists on both sides. The practice can "fire" a patient, the patient can "fire" the practice. If an individual practice allows patients to request same-sex or same-race providers, I'm fine with it. If their policy is to terminate their relationship with a patient who discriminates on the basis of sex or race, I'm equally fine with that. A hospital situation is different. The patient…
/r/MensRights17/05/18 03:20 PM
1

This poster had a choice. He chose to undergo the examination. The answer to "what else am I going to do?" is obvious. He could have told two medical professionals that he did not want them to see his genitals because they were female, and rescheduled his checkup. If the embarrassment of doing that seemed greater than the embarrassment of being examined by a dermatologic nurse practitioner and her assistant, then I think society is sending the right messages about the difference between medical …
/r/MensRights17/05/18 12:28 PM
1

It's pretty clear that you have very little experience with being hospitalized for a condition that involves your genital region. That's reasonable, you've never had a baby. But rather than accuse me of lying or being "sly," why not consider that your ideas might not align with reality? You are seriously misinformed on several points. Obstetric examinations are in every way as intimate and invasive as the related nursing care. They put their hands up inside you. They place and remove stitches in…
/r/MensRights17/05/18 12:19 PM
1

Have. Not a problem.
/r/MensRights16/05/18 10:46 PM
-4

Only for you. She had absolutely no interest in your pee-pee beyond making sure that it was free of STDs.
/r/MensRights16/05/18 10:45 PM
1

Knowing that you shouldn't be bothered is the first step.
/r/MensRights16/05/18 10:43 PM
2

Nope, meaning male nurses and techs as well as doctors. Although I do not make the distinction that you make - I do not regard doctors as lofty beings somehow above gender and nurses as earthy, gendered creatures who may not view or touch my lady bits unless they also have lady bits. Get over yourself, snowflake. Your assigned nurses, be they straight male, gay male, straight female, or gay female, have no prurient interest in your ailing carcass.
/r/MensRights16/05/18 10:41 PM
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Can you read? I have accepted the entire range of nursing care, from dinner trays to catheter removal, from nurses of the opposite sex. I don't know if you are familiar with catheters, but I assure you, it makes a bed bath or a visual exam pale into insignificance. I have never been ill enough in adulthood to require a bed bath from anyone. Many of the care providers who have examined my genitals have been male. It didn't bother me, because I am able to distinguish between medical and social int…
/r/MensRights16/05/18 09:11 PM
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It's a very complex issue. I wouldn't feel morally comfortable telling my male nurse that he could not manage my cath, etc., solely because he was male. I'm not going to screw up his whole shift to accommodate my neuroses. But my genital suture removal has always been done by a care provider of my choice. I do not choose these people on the basis of their sex, but I can see how it would be reasonable to do so if you were willing and able to wait until a same-sex provider was available.
/r/MensRights16/05/18 09:06 PM
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I do have more sympathy for that scenario than for people who refuse care based on the race of the provider. But you also were not in hospital, had not been assigned to a nurse, and were making a request in advance that could be accommodated without screwing up the entire shift. That seems very different to me.
/r/MensRights16/05/18 06:37 PM
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I'm not avoiding anything. Because I am not a moron, I have accepted the entire range of nursing care, from dinner trays to catheter removal, from nurses of the opposite sex. If you have an issue with the sex/race/whatever of your care provider in the hospital, that's your own personal problem to deal with. Don't screw up the ward schedule by acting like a snowflake.
/r/MensRights16/05/18 05:31 PM
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The same standards should always apply in such situations - but I want sane standards across the board. Increasing the scope of circumstances in which medical professionals are expected to tolerate discrimination is a step in the wrong direction.
/r/MensRights16/05/18 05:27 PM
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I am absolutely prepared to tell hospital patients that they may not request a change in caregivers based on the race, sex, ethnicity or religion of the caregiver assigned to their case. If you are sick enough to be in hospital, you are too sick to be spewing that bullshit. Concentrate on getting better, not on what is between your nurse's legs. Selecting a personal physician or therapist is an entirely different matter - they're not obliged to take you on as a patient, and you can apply whateve…
/r/MensRights16/05/18 03:59 PM
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I have had several male nurses in the course of my various births and other hospitalizations. Because I am not a moron, I did not regard it as humiliating to be cared for by a member of the opposite sex. Respect is a two-way street. Why not show the medical professional attending you the respect of understanding that the contact between you is not sexual? There is definitely a problem with coddling neurotic, entitled women who disrespect male doctors and nurses by reducing them to their genitals…
/r/MensRights16/05/18 03:52 PM
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I have had several male nurses in the course of my various births and other hospitalizations. Because I am not a moron, I did not regard it as humiliating to be cared for by a member of the opposite sex.
/r/MensRights16/05/18 03:48 PM
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The only way for male medical staff to be equally valuable as female staff is for men to request male staff for intimate procedures. Really? The only way is for the general population to start behaving in a completely arse-backwards manner towards medical professionals? My gynecologist is a man. I have seen women in hijabs in his waiting room. I don't deny that there are religious idiots out there who fail to distinguish between medical and social contact, but I certainly don't intend to sink to…
/r/MensRights16/05/18 11:52 AM
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I cannot imagine refusing the care of my assigned nurse base on their sex/race/ethnicity. The hospital is no place to play at identity politics. Now, indicating on my exit evaluation that I'd like to see more male nurses and techs? Can do, have done. But I'm not throwing a wrench into a busy shift and insulting the nurse assigned to me to make some sort of rhetorical point.
/r/MensRights16/05/18 11:38 AM
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YOU NEED A GUARDIAN AD LITEM. Ask the judge to appoint one. YOU NEED A LAWYER AT THIS HEARING. If your lawyer doesn't think s/he needs to be there, you have an idiot for a lawyer. The judge literally could not care less about your ex's love life. You are not married, she is not cheating. Nor is the judge interested in your theories about your ex's mental health. What the judge needs to see is that you have been the primary caregiver for a significant period of time, and that you provide a safe a…
/r/MensRights15/05/18 10:42 PM
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We have three biokids and two adopted. There are some people who are very hung up on passing down their DNA, some who are neutral, and some who actively don't want to. We both wound up being neutral on the issue. It's an issue where reasonable people can disagree.
/r/MensRights15/05/18 10:27 PM
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Understood.
/r/MensRights15/05/18 04:05 PM
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How is this relevent to OP's question? I'm not insisting that you get married, just pointing out why smart women who want to be mothers do not waste their fertile years in relationships with men who don't want to be husbands.
/r/MensRights15/05/18 02:17 PM
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If you are a woman who wants to have children, wasting your fertile years in a relationship with somebody who doesn't share that goal is just stupid. In America, women (and men) who want the best outcomes for their children get married before they have them - legitimacy is a huge predictor of a child's future success. That may be less true in Germany, I wouldn't know.
/r/MensRights15/05/18 08:28 AM
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I really don't mind hearing what you think. I'm a woman, yes, but I don't feel threatened by non-egalitarian ideas. I'm not seriously worried about having my civil rights taken away. ... it's not normal to have 25-35% (who knows when the rate of foreveralone stops increasing) of men as forever alone due to women's hypergamous tendencies. I think that might be normal. I'm not overjoyed by that thought, as I share your enthusiasm for pair bonding and have sons whom I hope will have children, but I…
/r/MensRights15/05/18 12:27 AM
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I do want to know. Seriously. Both why you are convinced that there is a solvable problem here, and what kind of damage you'd be prepared to do to in order to create reproductive access for marginal males. I agree with Jensen's analysis and with the way you've framed it. 25% of the men in Sweden are not being selected for fatherhood. Is this a problem that needs any sort of a solution? What I know of human history tells me a significant population of males not selected for reproduction is a recu…
/r/MensRights14/05/18 06:51 PM
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Wait, are you actually a white supremacist/separatist? I just figured you didn't mind being taken for one by leftists, which is a sentiment that I can sympathize with. I'm going to leave that bit alone, and leave you with this: you are absolutely correct that the commingling of cultures increases the probability of social conflict. What you're failing to see is that such conflicts are not the destroyers, but the creators, of human progress within a particular group. Insular cultures die out. Exp…
/r/MensRights14/05/18 04:53 PM
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I took a class on this as part of my ongoing training requirements. I decided to remain a volunteer GAL and stay away from divorces. I don't actually think that the laws (in my state) are unfair - you have to pay your lawyer and your GAL, the ultimate consequence of refusing to do so is prison, and everybody knows this. But I didn't want to be in a position where my clients' parents were paying me. I wish that we had some sort of national fund to compensate GALs at a reasonable rate, so that the…
/r/MensRights14/05/18 11:28 AM
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He can petition the courts for shared custody, yes. He just can't expect the courts to enforce a contract that he knew was unenforceable when he signed it.
/r/MensRights14/05/18 11:06 AM
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Of course. It's legal in the US. Don't you want to have the right to decide who is allowed in your hospital room?
/r/MensRights14/05/18 11:04 AM
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All of those cultures have their roots in immigration and ethnic comingling, yes. Slavs, Danes, Celts, Angles, Gauls, Franks, Saxons, Visigoths... actually, the same is true in Japan, although it's a bit difficult for racists to notice since all Asians tend to look the same to them. Personally, I'd argue that none of those cultures are as sturdy as American culture these days. They've got glorious and fascinating pasts, but they aren't expanding anymore. Our approach to immigration may be the re…
/r/MensRights13/05/18 10:52 AM
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I guess it would be less of an odd sentiment coming from a European. Immigration and the comingling of different ethnic groups created those cultures, too, but it happened long enough ago that racists can pretend it didn't.
/r/MensRights12/05/18 05:10 PM
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Do you think the warden gets gina-tingles too, shithead? It was her job. She was paid for it. She believed that capital punishment was just and she was willing to work in the system that enacted it.
/r/MensRights12/05/18 02:30 PM
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Again, a very odd sentiment for an American.
/r/MensRights12/05/18 08:36 AM
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Racists do tend to die off. But no, I don't want Japanese culture to become extinct. I want it to become viable again. Whether they decide to breed or decide to start integrating significant numbers of gaijin, or both, makes no difference to me.
/r/MensRights12/05/18 01:51 AM
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What an odd question for one American to ask another. Mass immigration built our country and keeps our population stable and our culture strong and adaptable even today. Would you rather have been born in Japan?
/r/MensRights11/05/18 11:21 PM
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Mr Kato said that when he gives wedding speeches he tells the bride and bridegroom to produce at least three children. "We need three or more children from those people to make up for couples who cannot bear a child no matter what they do," he said. I'd be saying the same thing, or moving heaven and earth to change my country's insular and/culture and encourage immigration, if I were a Japanese politician these days. They need more people.
/r/MensRights11/05/18 07:54 PM
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Our limitations with respect to the educational pipeline for doctors are entirely self-imposed and correctable. The correction in this market will not happen overnight, but it's not some sort of fantastic dream either.
/r/MensRights11/05/18 03:55 PM
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I realize that you are coming from a sincere place here, but I think you fail to grasp the degree to which the scarcity of doctors is an artificially created situation. Even before women were significantly represented in the profession, the training bottleneck and the culture of overwork were serious issues. We (as a society) got away with it by assigning high social status to doctors, paying high wages to the senior members of the profession in partial recompense for prior and ongoing exploitat…
/r/MensRights11/05/18 12:13 PM
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No. Drugging women without their consent and raping them has never been considered normal sexual behavior. People getting wasted together and screwing like rabbits has been normalized in various places at various times, but that's a vastly different undertaking and the difference is clear.
/r/MensRights11/05/18 11:20 AM
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Same reason we (the US) do - they don't train enough doctors.
/r/MensRights11/05/18 11:16 AM
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It's a wakeup call, is what it is. It's always been easier to blame the segment of the workforce that is demanding better treatment than to demand better treatment oneself - but that's the way forward here.
/r/MensRights11/05/18 11:08 AM
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Thank you. I can see how my scorn for the male-disposability framework could come across as scorn for the victims.
/r/MensRights11/05/18 11:04 AM
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BSA knew it was coming, yes. I think that female Scouts are their plan to make up for the Mormon Scouts they knew they would eventually lose when they accepted homosexual Scouts.
/r/MensRights10/05/18 10:56 AM
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"Conspiracy" implies that people actually sat down and worked out a plan to extract the most labor at the lowest cost. That has certainly been true in some professions, but not medicine. The exploitation in the medical profession is more insidious - we convince trainees that they are super-smart, super-special, and owe it to humanity to behave more like a priest with a vocation than a highly trained specialist with a valuable skill set. A specialist negotiates fair pay and reasonable working hou…
/r/MensRights09/05/18 06:29 PM
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We don't have a disagreement about gender issues, just about the nature of the medical profession. Residency does not need to be grueling in the way it currently is, nor does it have to be cruelly undercompensated, nor do fully trained doctors need to be chronically overworked. We do it this way because we can get away with it, not because it is necessary for people to be exploited to make them into good doctors. Blaming female doctors for refusing to be mistreated deflects attention from societ…
/r/MensRights09/05/18 02:02 PM
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Hospitals and medical schools need to get themselves into a position where they can produce enough doctors so that no doctor is overworked. The talent pool is there, and the expense of educating a doctor is more than justified by their lifetime output on a non-exploitative basis (40 hours/week). I see female doctors as the canary in the coal mine in this situation. They know the situation is for shit, and they have husbands bringing in household income, so they can get off the hamster wheel and …
/r/MensRights09/05/18 12:06 PM
1

I prefer that comedians make fun of everybody's looks.
/r/MensRights09/05/18 10:33 AM
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That's a very poetic way to justify exploitative labor practices. Doctors are not priests, nor poets, nor mad scientists. They are highly skilled professionals who have trained in a very interesting and important specialty - but it's a job. They are employees, not votaries. They should be able to work their 40 hours/week and participate in life outside their workplace.
/r/MensRights09/05/18 10:24 AM
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I don't know how you could get that from what I said. No, obviously, the people who have been socialized to accept exploitation are not at fault. The buck stops with the general public, who could demand and get more medical training capacity if we were willing to pay for it. But it's cheaper and easier to overwork our healthcare providers.
/r/MensRights09/05/18 10:19 AM
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It's not a question of fault. I'm saying that I want the system to change and be less exploitative, not that I blame the people currently being exploited.
/r/MensRights09/05/18 10:13 AM
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... like a good little slave. He would have worked himself into an early grave and missed out on raising his children, and been grateful for the opportunity, because his socialization taught him that his happiness did not matter and his life was disposable.
/r/MensRights08/05/18 11:35 PM
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Artificial bottleneck. Training enough doctors so that all of them can have a decent work/life balance would cost money, whereas casting aspersions on female doctors who leverage their social privilege and decline to be worked like mules is free.
/r/MensRights08/05/18 11:31 PM
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I have had a front seat to a few of these negotiations. What I've noticed, among the middle-class people that I know, is that the separated couple realizes that they will both be poor as hell if they try to establish separate households, plus their anger cools, and they decide to try to make the marriage work again.
/r/MensRights08/05/18 06:05 PM
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Think about everything you just said. You are defending a system that required objectively unreasonable sacrifices from you (years of income, for instance, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt). It's perfectly understandable that you would go through that experience and think of yourself as a picked man, three standard deviations above the mean, survivor of the trial by fire, etc. etc. The entire system is designed to inculcate that mindset. Doctors need to be smart and conscientous - an…
/r/MensRights08/05/18 10:48 AM
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I can't speak for Canada, but in America, any pressure against the artificial bottleneck in medical training absolutely warrants a "woo." Our medical culture has deliberately created a small group of overworked people who are given near-godlike authority and get their jollies hazing their trainees. It's a broken system that leads to bad outcomes. These are human beings, not robots who can be worked to the point of failure and then discarded. Female doctors in America often have the social privil…
/r/MensRights08/05/18 12:10 AM
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The wage gap issue is tough for a lot of people because it's objectively true that men earn more than women in the same demographic over the course of a lifetime. There IS a gap - but it's an earnings gap driven by the decisions women (and their partners) make about how to structure their lives, not a gap in what employers are willing to pay people based on their sex. I tend to start with people by saying "yes, the gap is real" and then talking about the reasons that I believe it exists, and the…
/r/MensRights07/05/18 10:46 AM
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Misleading title. There is a fairly large difference between marrying somebody younger than YOU and marrying somebody younger than YOUR CHILD. Both are legal, but the latter is rare and most people find it off-putting. I wonder why so many of the comments in that thread got deleted...
/r/MensRights07/05/18 08:29 AM
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You know, when I read about a terrible crime committed by a man, it doesn't even cross my mind to associate his anger, violence and obvious brokenness with every other man in our society.
/r/MensRights07/05/18 08:20 AM
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All healthcare is rationed healthcare. In the US, we ration it out by price.
/r/MensRights06/05/18 12:21 PM
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"Editor reads article about study that strongly correlates poverty and social inequality with worsened health outcomes for children, decided that headline should excoriate individual mothers rather than highlight the UK's failure to address these structural social issues."
/r/MensRights06/05/18 12:19 PM
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Wow, that author thinks her geeky shit don't stink.
/r/MensRights06/05/18 11:58 AM
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Well, I'm new to the BSA and only spent a year dealing with the GSA, so my experience is obviously limited. But the reason my girl is switching over is twofold: 1) not enough badgework of the type she is interested in and 2) all this "Girl Power" crap. It's not just cookies, but the offerings for summer camps and weekend events are fairly fucking girly - our current council runs a weeklong Spa camp but no weeklong survival skills camp, for example. This varies from region to region, and it's pos…
/r/MensRights03/05/18 10:17 AM
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Bingo. I was on the phone a few days ago with the BSA troop leader in the area where my daughter will be a Cub next year. He was beyond thrilled to hear from me..he has four other female Cubs signed up already, and an experienced BSA mom to lead their den, and what we all have in common is the belief that selling cookies is bullshit and survival skills are equally useful for males and females. He said he has been hoping for this change (integration) for 20 years.
/r/MensRights02/05/18 11:56 PM
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It's like going to a 70 year old woman who has faced discrimination in the past and telling her: "We're going to make it up to you! From now on, your grandson has no chance!" That is pure rhetorical genius.
/r/MensRights01/05/18 09:16 PM
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In 1994 when it was first passed, there truly wasn't much awareness that men were victimized by DV. Then came the Internet. Now we know better, and we need to do better.
/r/MensRights01/05/18 05:15 PM
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_Against_Women_Act Tl:dr from my perspective as somebody who works with at-risk families: before VAWA, we did not have a coordinated legal and social service response to violence in the home. This has been extremely useful when one of my clients has a mom who is being beaten or otherwise terrorized by a romantic partner - the cops, the social workers, and the medical establishment all have a way to work together to disrupt the cycle of violence. I even hav…
/r/MensRights01/05/18 11:00 AM
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No, most Tumblrinas don't know what that means. Non-morons of all political stripes who are focused on gender issues in America all know what it means. My answer is that if my magic powers did not extended to seeing VAWA's provisions applied equally to male victims, then yes, I would choose to make it disappear.
/r/MensRights01/05/18 10:48 AM
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I feel like an idiot for never posting this here. Thank you.
/r/MensRights01/05/18 12:29 AM
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The redress might be to offer a Men's League. My dad plays on a public golf course and the segregated leagues are both allowed and enjoyed, alongside many co-ed events.
/r/MensRights01/05/18 12:28 AM
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Your spelling would have been equally incorrect, and your agenda equally naive, if you were female :-)
/r/MensRights30/04/18 09:08 PM
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My sons were not required to be vaccinated, but it was covered by insurance and encouraged by their GP.
/r/MensRights30/04/18 09:06 PM
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It's spelled "petri." And you might want to consider that your choice of words affected how your message was received. But in truth, there is nothing you could say that was going to stop people from having oral sex, because oral sex is awesome. We are going to have to solve this public health issue with medicine, just like every other sex-related public health issue we have faced before.
/r/MensRights30/04/18 09:00 PM
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Oh, God. People come to this sub because an actual men's rights issue bites them in the ass in real life, and they see this incel bullshit, and we lose them for years if not permanently. AAAAAARGH.
/r/MensRights30/04/18 08:51 PM
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She's on the spectrum. She's OK.
/r/MensRights30/04/18 04:28 PM
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I have more luck with this line of argument when I phrase it as "men are more likely to be total geniuses or total morons, but when it comes to normal people, sex is not a factor in their general intelligence."
/r/MensRights30/04/18 02:52 PM
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Shout out to my homegirl Rebecca Wald!
/r/MensRights30/04/18 01:11 PM
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Stop projecting. I don't actually think any of this qualifies as oppression, compared how things used to be. But I should have been more specific. This is how it's always been in the post-industrial white-collar Western workplace. It will never change for any of us unless we muster the political will to demand change.
/r/MensRights29/04/18 10:16 PM
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Yup, this is how it's always been. Now it's happening to men as well. Whether or not things change, or whether educated men who need reasonable schedules become SAHPs or enter the public sector the way educated women typically have, depends entirely upon what we a society decide to demand of employers.
/r/MensRights29/04/18 12:02 PM
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I'm pretty sure it's also a problem if you think of your spouse as a bitch and want to disinherit them - but I agree that the majority of the estate should pass to the adult children upon the death of either one of the parents, if you are the kind of people who are lucky enough to have an "estate" in the first place. That's how we set it up in our wills - assuming we have anything significant by the time we are old, it goes into trust for the kids when one of us dies and the surviving old person…
/r/MensRights29/04/18 11:56 AM
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But... what if your child is female? She'll probably be an adult when you die, so doesn't that make her just another "bitch" like your wife?
/r/MensRights29/04/18 07:15 AM
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These modern applications of common-law marriage also function to give fathers custodial rights equal to those of married men.
/r/MensRights29/04/18 07:11 AM
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I cannot bring myself to worry about the future of a child who is literally a prince. He gonna be alright.
/r/MensRights28/04/18 11:27 PM
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She should stop doing that, just like you should stop giving advice on diapering little girls if you can't be arsed to learn the basics of female anatomy.
/r/MensRights28/04/18 11:18 PM
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Or, you know, it's not possible to get good outcomes when working with an incredibly inadequate budget to serve an at-risk clientele with severely outdated infrastructure and the the kind of clinicians who can't get hired anywhere else.
/r/MensRights28/04/18 11:49 AM
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Oh,the irony. OP contributed this gem to that thread: None of this is true. Infant foreskins are not retractible, and you only are supposed to wash the outside. Cleaning under a baby boy's foreskin is like spreading a baby girl's labia to clean her. /u/MenDeseserveRights, perhaps you shouldn't be assessing the childcare knowledge of other people if you are aren't spreading your baby girl's labia to clean her. For pity's sake, man, THEY GET POOP UP IN THERE.
/r/MensRights28/04/18 11:42 AM
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Are the laws pertaining to custodial rights for unmarried fathers misandric? In most cases, yes, I think they are. It it misandric for me to point out that you are wrong in your belief that the law grants unmarried fathers equal custodial rights in the absence of a court order? No. If OP or another man in a similar situation took some of the appalling advice you have offered in this thread, they would expose themselves and their children to the risk of police involvement and an extended court-or…
/r/MensRights25/04/18 03:22 PM
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Have you ever stopped to wonder why the reality you create in your head frequently clashes with reality as others experience it? I honestly hope that your wife one day finds out that you planned to divorce her if she had a miscarriage, leaves you, and is able to spend the rest of her life without the burden of a mentally ill spouse.
/r/MensRights25/04/18 12:22 PM
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Reality oppresses me! People who share facts with me that contradict my internal narrative must HATE me and all other members of my sex, and should just shut up! REEEEEEE! Are you sure you aren't a third-wave feminist?
/r/MensRights24/04/18 07:05 PM
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Nope. Should be, but isn't. The custodial rights of men vary widely among jurisdictions and depending on their marital/residential status. Simply repeating your wishful thought over and over again will not make it true.
/r/MensRights24/04/18 04:42 PM
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This is very probably not true. You know how some people think they have an intrinsic right to own guns, but they are not following the rules in their state for gun ownership? In most cases, I believe that they are morally in the right - but I don't delude myself that the government is going to treat them that way if they are in breach of some state statute.
/r/MensRights24/04/18 01:44 PM
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You have an idea about how things should be that I largely agree with, but this conversation is about how things are and what OP should do to maximize his chance of a good outcome.
/r/MensRights24/04/18 01:23 PM
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He's mad at me right now because we disagreed on another thread. He was telling us how he worried that his wife might get an abortion when she was pregnant with their planned and wanted child, and I pointed out that this worry was as irrational as me worrying about stranger rape. Objective risk assessment is misandric, apparently.
/r/MensRights24/04/18 01:20 PM
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This is a circular conversation. It's by arrangement in most states if they were married and he is on the birth cert (although I wouldn't trust a pack of cops to see it that way). If they were unmarried, the mom is the custodial parent by statute in every state that I am aware of. The court will almost certainly accept his claim of paternity and grant him some degree of custody, but he has to go to court for that to happen. When OP does get in front of the judge, he can ask that transportation r…
/r/MensRights24/04/18 01:14 PM
1

Again, OP specifies that mom is the custodial parent.
/r/MensRights23/04/18 11:57 PM
1

Gee, I wonder why women all seem to think there's something amiss with you...
/r/MensRights23/04/18 09:38 PM
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If they are divorcing, then his legal position is very different - although it's still dangerous as hell to give the woman a reason to call in an abduction. I do not get the impression that they were ever married, and my advice is based on that assumption.
/r/MensRights23/04/18 09:11 PM
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It is legal and customary for the courts to award custody to the grandparents who are under their jurisdiction. It is also legal in most countries for those grandparents to transfer custody to the other grandparents. The money thing? Meh. Perfectly legal and reputable if the money was put in escrow to be used for visitation, and that is what an American or UK court would insist on. Chinese culture is much more "cash on the barrelhead," and while I can certainly see why the UK grandparents view i…
/r/MensRights23/04/18 08:59 PM
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Please listen to me. You do not understand how family law works. Prior verbal agreements are NOT binding in any aspect of a family court case. A judge can consider them when formulatimg the orders of the court, or they can ignore them. Unmarried putative fathers do NOT have equal custodial rights in any state prior to the court hearing. In some states, they have NO custodial rights and would be technically guilty of abduction if they attempted to keep the child from the mother. I'm not trying to…
/r/MensRights23/04/18 08:49 PM
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I agree with you in theory about verbal agreements, but in practice, what I have see is that judges could give a fuck about any agreements outside what they choose to put in their order. As to custody/visitation rights prior to the court hearing - holy shit, dude. That kind of wishful-thinking-based advice will get a man killed. I do not think that this couple was ever married ("ex" is being used as shorthand for "ex-girlfriend") and while he may have custodial rights prior to the court hearing …
/r/MensRights23/04/18 07:35 PM
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Your ex is not obliged to facilitate transport for your visitation in the absence of a court order. She's absolutely right (even if an absolute bitch), to tell you that you need to handle pickup and dropoff if you want to exercise visitation. And unless you two live more than an hour apart, the court will probably tell you everything she just did. Now, you are not obliged to pay child support in the absence of a court order - but you're damn smart to be doing it voluntarily, since you are about …
/r/MensRights23/04/18 04:31 PM
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Implied, hell. The document was soliciting anonymous (and therefore unverifiable) accusations of an extremely serious nature.
/r/MensRights23/04/18 11:43 AM
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Parents of either sex almost never do jailtime for simple neglect. Their punishment is losing their custodial rights. I am actually OK with this as long as no serious harm came to the kids as a result of the neglect.
/r/MensRights23/04/18 09:57 AM
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I know a woman who received this document and was asked to add to it. I have rarely seen somebody more angry. During the New England witch hunts, one's accuser had to appear in court, identify themselves, and make a specific accusation. We are literally doing a worse job of handling this than a group of fungus-crazed Puritans.
/r/MensRights23/04/18 09:13 AM
1

Tl:dr: "China is a shithole, we should have our grandchildren because we don't live in yucky awful China. The other grandparents don't mistreat the children, but they are nasty illiterate poors, and poors shouldn't be raising children." Good God. This is the Daily Mail, so no telling how much the narrative has been distorted to fit its ethno-nationalist agenda - but that article makes me understand why some countries are doing away with international adoption. These kids are Chinese nationals, b…
/r/MensRights23/04/18 08:44 AM
-2

Fair enough. I trust a lot more than 20 people enough to take their initial assessment of a stranger's character seriously, but I agree that the word of random people isn't worth much.
/r/MensRights22/04/18 12:42 PM
3

Men-only gyms are legal in the USA. If there were a sufficient market for them, entrepreneurs would open them. Incidentally, women did not invade "your" gyms, or take "your" jobs, or start attending "your" colleges, etc. etc. Lots of businesses and institutions used to exclude people on the basis of their sex, race or religion. As a society, we decided that wasn't OK. You didn't lose anything you were entitled to, and in fact, I'm guessing this all happened before you were born. Imagine how you'…
/r/MensRights22/04/18 09:36 AM
0

But don't you, though? If the man is somebody you trust and the woman is a stranger? In the absence of direct experience that would allow me to form my own opinion, I default to trusting the judgement calls of people whose judgement I have generally found to be trustworthy.
/r/MensRights22/04/18 09:20 AM
1

You're not worse than a paranoid, dysfunctional, narcissistic woman. You're the equivalent.
/r/MensRights20/04/18 01:35 AM
1

Foremost? Children are people, not property. Neither of the adults who created them, nor any other adult involved in caring for them, comes first in decisions about their welfare. You are probably a nice, normal person who would never abduct a child or attempt to keep a child away from one of their parents without an extremely good reason that you'd be happy to explain to a judge, so this is something you'll not face in your life. Good for you. Family court is a hellhole frquented by people of b…
/r/MensRights19/04/18 09:26 PM
1

I'm a realist, and no friend to special snowflakes of either sex. Your wife didn't end her planned and wanted pregnancy, and I've never been dragged into the bushes and raped. That doesn't make either of us lucky - these are expected outcomes. The termination of an early pregnancy by elective or spontaneous abortion is NOT equivalent to the loss of a newborn child or a fetus late in gestation, and your slimy, pathetic attempt to associate yourself with men and women who have actually suffered th…
/r/MensRights19/04/18 06:57 PM
1

[https://www.webmd.com/baby/tc/pregnancy-your-first-trimester#1] (basic explanation of the trimester model) But this isn't actually about what women think or feel when they experience pregnancy loss or choose to terminate a pregnancy. As I explained before, different people react in different ways at different points on the continuum. It's about you, and an irrational, narcissistic ideation that you indulged yourself in while your wife was pregnant with your planned and wanted child. Your counte…
/r/MensRights19/04/18 04:55 PM
1

So did I. Poe's Law to the max.
/r/MensRights19/04/18 11:46 AM
6

My brother did this with his then-girlfriend. They eventually married and had a child, but they both preferred the arrangement during their trial period as a family.
/r/MensRights19/04/18 01:04 AM
1

13 weeks is the second trimester. Again, please educate yourself about gestation if you want to discuss it with me, and certainly if you want to opine about how women should should manage the process ethically, legally and emotionally. Here, I'll get you started: pregnancy is a continuum. Pregnancy loss/termination goes all the way from failure to implant to full-term stillbirth, from a normal and undetectable event to the death of a newborn. It's a big range. Different people react differently …
/r/MensRights18/04/18 09:34 PM
1

Both abortion and miscarriage are almost entirely confined to early pregnancy. You must realize this. If not, please educate yourself. Abortion in the second trimester is performed in rare cases, usually for lethal fetal anamolies. Miscarriage beyond the second trimester is similarly rare - and thank God, because those miscarriages can be fatal for the woman if she cannot access competent health care. A woman died of sepsis in a Catholic hospital a few years back, because her doctor was not allo…
/r/MensRights18/04/18 12:45 PM
1

Again, early pregnancy loss is normal among sexually active women. I'm fairly certain it has happened to me (it was quite early, so not 100% sure). It's something that has happened to most of my friends. It's something women discuss a fair bit among themselves. If I can trust your description of your own state of mind, you managed to work yourself up into state of distress over something that was less likely than stranger rape. Why did you do that? Why do you expect other people to tell you it w…
/r/MensRights18/04/18 12:16 PM
1

I'm not avoiding the question - I am explaining to you that it is a stupid question, untethered to reality - much like like your worry that your wife would end a planned and wanted pregnancy for any reason other than serious fetal anamolies. But since you insist on a answer, the answer is yes. If I lived in a place where rape was legal, I would still walk down the street. And you know what? If rape was legal, it would still be a rare occurrence, because the desire to rape is a rare pathology. I …
/r/MensRights18/04/18 12:05 PM
1

To my knowledge, there is no place in the world where it is actually legal for a stranger to drag me into a bush and rape me. Now, the chance of a stranger rapist who targets me at random being caught and punished has been extremely small on most streets I have ever walked down. Yet I keep on walking, all by myself, without even a rape whistle or a canister of pepper spray to ward off the violent beasts. An embryo is not a child. I absolutely do not want my children killed, but I recognize the d…
/r/MensRights18/04/18 02:13 AM
1

OK, a spontaneous abortion six months along is seriously rare and seriously traumatic. It's basically a premature birth where the baby does not survive. I apologize for my incorrect assumption about what has happened in your family. Grief is appropriate and necessary. I am glad you SIL survived the ordeal. What has happened in your family really, truly, has fuck-all to do with the biologically normal event of early spontaneous abortion, or the socially normal event of early elective abortion. Yo…
/r/MensRights18/04/18 12:29 AM
2

I've had three babies. I certainly sympathize with a woman who is aware of experiencing the spontaneous abortion of a wanted pregnancy (that's a commonly accepted medical term, not something I made up), but our culture's strange insistence on eqating this common biological event with the loss of a child causes a lot of unnecessary suffering. Spontaneous abortion in the first trimester happens to most women who attempt to have more than one child. Sometimes it happens so early that the woman thin…
/r/MensRights17/04/18 11:27 PM
4

Hundreds of years from now, I hope that the long, exhausting slog to keep people like you from forcing women to gestate to gratify your fantasies about pregnancy will finally be over. Roughly a third of pregnancies spontaneously terminate in the first trimester. Are you deeply grieved by this? If so, seek help, because the biological reality of the human reproductive process is clearly too much for you to handle. Pregnancy =/= birth. It never has. It never will. Now, it may be that spontaneous a…
/r/MensRights17/04/18 09:40 PM
1

No excuse is required. It's my legal and moral right to decide what happens inside my body.
/r/MensRights17/04/18 09:26 PM
3

I see it. I just think it's narcissistic and irrational.
/r/MensRights17/04/18 09:17 PM
0

That would be a very interesting thing to study - how caloric restriction and limited water affect performance, broken down by body size, sex, race, age etc.
/r/MensRights17/04/18 09:16 PM
1

Act like what? Like an embryo is the equivalent of human infant? Like the decision about whether my body will be used for gestation should belong to ANYBODY but me?
/r/MensRights17/04/18 09:14 PM
0

I don't worry about getting raped. And legal or not, rape would still be a terrible experience. I don't worry about my husband changing his mind about wanting our children, either. Seriously, you might as well not go swimming because you might get attacked by a shark. Also, if your wife HAD decided shortly after becoming pregnant that she did not want to have the baby, why the hell would you have wanted her to continue the pregnancy? 30% of early pregnancies miscarry spontaneously. How would it …
/r/MensRights17/04/18 08:39 PM
1

If your opinion is that a doctor should be legally obliged to seek you out and inform you about a medical procedure undergone by a woman you had sex with, then your opinion is disturbing. If you think that you should have some legal means of interfering with the medical decisions of a woman you had sex with, then your opinion is frankly terrifying.
/r/MensRights17/04/18 07:41 PM
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A man being "painfully aware" that his wife might theoretically choose undergo a non-therapeutic late-term abortion of their planned and wanted pregnancy is even less rational than a woman worrying that she will be dragged into the bushes and raped by a stranger. I refuse to coddle that kind of masturbatory victimhood fantasy.
/r/MensRights17/04/18 07:39 PM
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Sort of disturbing that you think an embryo is a child, and that you feel entitled to participate in the medical decisions of other adults.
/r/MensRights17/04/18 05:23 PM
1

In fact, most things aren't.
/r/MensRights17/04/18 05:08 PM
3

Something like "two birds with one stone."
/r/MensRights17/04/18 05:08 PM
4

Judaism is so old that we used to be considered pussies for not engaging in human sacrifice. No culture can survive that long without the ability to adapt.
/r/MensRights17/04/18 02:18 PM
0

Holy shit. I had never thought about that before, but it makes total sense. Smaller-framed men would probably also be better suited to a mission where the astronauts need to bring all their food along with them. Females and Asian dudes to Mars!
/r/MensRights17/04/18 01:49 PM
14

I know a lot of people who believe some version of this - that our culture and civilization will cease to perpetuate itself if we stop practicing MGM. I honestly don't get it. Thousands of years of persecution and repeated exile, several ambitious attempts at genocide, a full century of routine intermarriage and cultural assimilation - none of this has come remotely close to snuffing out Judaism, but moving beyond our Bronze Age dick-snipping will bring it all crashing down? To me, it's like say…
/r/MensRights17/04/18 08:37 AM
3

Wow.
/r/MensRights17/04/18 08:27 AM
2

He should be able to get custody regardless of whether or not he is paying support. In fact, in almost all cases, he should get custody and support his child by taking care of them half the time and buying half of the things they need INSTEAD OF paying support.
/r/MensRights17/04/18 08:24 AM
1

And then she meets her hookup in heaven, instead of her husband. I'll give her a pass on everything that happened on the boat. Teenagers should not be pressured into marriage by their parents. Decades later, she has no fucking excuse.
/r/MensRights17/04/18 01:26 AM
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No. What the fuck is wrong with you.
/r/MensRights17/04/18 01:07 AM
-2

Unmarried fathers absolutely have parental rights, in every state. In many states including mine, they do not have custodial rights until and unless they petition the court. It's a complicated situation, but consider this: do we want a man who had casual sex with a woman once to be able to show up at her house and take the baby nine months later, and have that be totally legal? In the age of extramarital sex, the system is trying to cope with adults who do completely irresponsible things. There …
/r/MensRights17/04/18 01:01 AM
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Neither menopause nor Down Syndrome are likely in a 40 year old woman. In reaction to the failure of the public health system to be honest about the risks of waiting too long to have children, over-40 pregnancies have been cast as rare or dangerous. They are neither. Having healthy babies after age 40 is entirely normal among couples who do not use contraception. But still, if I were 40 and childless, I'd be warming a barstool at the midget bar. This woman is in no position to be choosy about su…
/r/MensRights17/04/18 12:53 AM
2

I don't actually think it says much about credibility either way, when a person plays down an incident like this in a memoir. She didn't owe anybody the truth when she sold that book, and somebody who gets downgraded from rapist to "guy who made a pass at me" hardly has anything to complain about. She owes all of society the truth when she takes the stand.
/r/MensRights14/04/18 01:18 AM
5

Well, a rape victim being compelled to allow visitation between her child and her rapist is pretty horrible as well, and it does happen.
/r/MensRights14/04/18 01:07 AM
2

I thought peak fertility for both sexes was in the late teens? It's irrelevant, though, because teen motherhood is not appropriate in modern society. If we want children born to educated married women (and sociologists assure us that we do), then 25 is about as early as we can expect them. I used to think 35 was way too late to start, but I do see people succeed with it if they have supportive partners and have taken reasonable care of their bodies.
/r/MensRights12/04/18 02:05 AM
1

How nice for the desperate people in those states who are able to obtain that information.
/r/MensRights10/04/18 05:22 PM
4

This child is in the custody of Social Services and will be adopted by a waiting family or by his relatives if they can be located, are safe people, and want to adopt him (rare in cases of baby-dumping, but it does happen). Neither biological parent will pay child support. They are looking for the woman to make sure that she doesn't die of blood loss or a postpartum infection, and possibly to put her in foster care herself if she is a minor and a victim of abuse, neglect rape or incest (common i…
/r/MensRights10/04/18 11:16 AM
1

It's definitely not OK - but you could do it, and I hope that you would do, if that's what you needed to do in order to see your kid.
/r/MensRights09/04/18 08:16 PM
3

It's probably a Family Court charge, not a criminal charge. The prosecutor probably told him (correctly) that he was going to be found guilty of "substantial risk of abuse and neglect" regardless of what he said in court, and that if he kept it out of court by agreeing to the finding, they would not put him on the central registry of child abusers. You might want to reach out to your friend. He almost certainly has a parenting plan he can work - classes and counseling and such - and when he has …
/r/MensRights09/04/18 06:39 PM
1

Greetings, sister. :-)
/r/MensRights08/04/18 09:31 PM
8

Something was wrong with the Penguins, the incoming class of toddlers at the Seafarer’s Preschool, in a wooded suburb south of Stockholm. The boys were clamorous and physical. They shouted and hit. The girls held up their arms and whimpered to be picked up. The group of 1- and 2-year-olds had, in other words, split along traditional gender lines. And at this school, that is not O.K. You know what's not OK? Institutional care for toddlers. I realize that it sometimes economically necessary, but W…
/r/MensRights08/04/18 09:26 PM
1

Be his banker. Keep it way low-tech - tell him to mail you cash in small increments, and stick that money in a shoe box. Every single one of the many possible bad outcomes here will be made easier for your cousin if he has some ready cash.
/r/MensRights08/04/18 12:27 PM
1

The vast majority of private health plans do NOT cover the full range of sexual health medications, devices and procedures. Male options are least likely to be covered. The vast majority of sexually active adults are STI-free serial monogamists who do not use condoms for the majority of their sexual encounters. This is a hugely important issue, and pretending that it's not is socially irresponsible. If you want to sound off about health care, educate yourself first. We are failing at this, badly…
/r/MensRights07/04/18 11:22 PM
2

https://goo.gl/images/lUzzmh
/r/MensRights07/04/18 09:36 AM
2

Hi! Female here. Also a Sanders supporter and NPR listener. What keeps me going is talking to my kids about the (many) true things the media shares with us along with the (many) bullshit spins they put on the information they are sharing. I'm old enough to remember Fox News starting this ideological infotainment schtick, and it made big $$$, and now it's the norm across the political spectrum. It's a weird time to be alive. But a minivan full of kids who reflexively say "who gives a fuck?" when …
/r/MensRights07/04/18 09:13 AM
1

... and my point is, the existence, nature and intensity of such double standards varies significantly by location.
/r/MensRights07/04/18 09:00 AM
2

If you don't understand that not having to worry about pregnancy and not wrapping your genitals in rubber are key factors in pleasurable sex, then I don't know what to tell you. You might say that Viagra enables more consequential sex, since it restores PIV as an option. But I don't consider that relevent - all of these therapies enhance people's sexual health, and the only problem is with fundamentalists who manage to keep some of them outside insurance coverage despite overwhelming demand for …
/r/MensRights07/04/18 12:19 AM
1

ED is vanishingly rare among the population of men seeking to conceive a child. Viagra is prescribed to enable more pleasurable sexual activity - just like the Pill.
/r/MensRights06/04/18 10:52 PM
2

It's a bullshit correction. Doctors prescribe Viagra for ED and insurance pays - which would be fine, if they also paid for other elective medications and treatments related to sexual health. My husband can get Viagra for free but has zero coverage for vasectomy.
/r/MensRights06/04/18 10:39 PM
3

I'm going to an anti-circ protest tomorrow. If it's a typical turnout, there will be more female protestors than male. (
/r/MensRights06/04/18 10:32 PM
1

You must not live in the Bible Belt. I assure you, many men here feel very free to hold forth with their opinions on both abortion and female contraception, and are sincerely shocked to discover that anybody would find their opinion irrelevant based on the minor detail that they are incapable of having either babies or abortions.
/r/MensRights06/04/18 10:30 PM
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Read your own post history. Feel free to masturbate to it, I'm sure it won't be the first time. If you actually want to stop doing this and become a credible anti-circ activist, then read your own post history, realize that I am a regular human being just like you who is also opposed to MGM, and try to understand why I have an issue with your hyperfocus on a very small segment of the MGM battle in America, and your assertions that Jewish ritual circumcision is sexually gratifying for the adults …
/r/MensRights05/04/18 10:20 PM
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My problem is with this particular poster, who has seriously fucked-up ideas about Jews and is not shy about sharing them. I am Jewish. I did not mutilate my sons, and I have never attended a bris. I am in the 99th percentile of anti-circ activism in the Jewish community. But this guy is not not right in the head. He has found himself a socially acceptable way to be a Jew-hater and he revels in it.
/r/MensRights05/04/18 10:01 PM
1

Oh lovely, Stormfront is leaking again.
/r/MensRights05/04/18 05:50 PM
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Enough with the Jew-baiting. Seriously. Almost everybody who posts here, myself absolutely included, is opposed to MGM. Your fixation on Jewish ritual circumcision, including your truly disturbing assertion that mohels perform the procedure for sexual gratification, has destroyed your credibility as an anti-circ advocate. Please stop with the Jew-baiting. It makes the real work harder.
/r/MensRights05/04/18 05:49 PM
5

The Forward is a Jewish newspaper.
/r/MensRights04/04/18 10:44 AM
-2

For real. That guy loudly begged society to punish him, and society obliged him.
/r/MensRights03/04/18 09:20 PM
5

Only in America.
/r/MensRights03/04/18 09:17 PM
1

We're a lot like people that way ;-) But seriously, I know a lot of Sephardis who do not present as white in America, and are not treated like white people - although they'd be "white" in Spain or Israel. "White" is a very amorphous notion.
/r/MensRights02/04/18 02:47 PM
3

Neither one is OK in my opinion, but what this gonif was saying is that Jews are not white. It's a really common belief among the proud members of master race. "White" isn't actually an ethnicity, of course.
/r/MensRights01/04/18 03:04 PM
15

Go peddle that bullshit elsewhere.
/r/MensRights01/04/18 01:30 PM
1

You know what your child needs. There is no excuse for not providing it. Stop whining and get a new doctor.
/r/MensRights01/04/18 12:44 PM
1

Should the NHS being doing a better job? Yes. Does their failure excuse parental failure? No.
/r/MensRights01/04/18 12:42 PM
1

Lie. I've been in that situation, with foster kids. If the current doctor isn't up to snuff, then as the person responsible for the child, you need to do the necessary to get a better doctor. The buck stops with you.
/r/MensRights01/04/18 12:24 AM
1

I understand. I am sorry that the NHS is being so recalcitrant. But my point stands - parents, not the government or the insurance company or the doctor, are responsible for getting their sons immunized. Should the NHS being doing a better job? Yes. Does their failure excuse parental failure? No.
/r/MensRights31/03/18 09:38 PM
4

Get another doctor. You know what is needed, stop making excuses and get it done.
/r/MensRights31/03/18 09:35 PM
2

HPV, not HPC. My sons received the vaccine at age 12, at the recommendation of our state's board of health, completely covered by insurance. Even if we'd had to pay for it, the cost was not very high. The main roadblock to HPV vaccination for boys is parental ignorance.
/r/MensRights31/03/18 06:48 PM
2

This was not a foster care situation, and as far as I can tell, there is no evidence of a sexual relationship prior to the age of 16 (which is the age of consent in Ohio) or during the time that the adult taught at the school attended by the teen. However, it is illegal to have sexual relations with a child in your custody, and the teen's mother granted her partial legal custody, so in this case, we get the satisfaction of seeing the creepy adult prosecuted.
/r/MensRights31/03/18 11:51 AM
3

And an acquittal doesn't mean that the accusation was false, merely that the DA did not establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. In a not-guilty sex crimes case, I'd prefer the court records to be sealed and the government never to reveal the names of the parties involved.
/r/MensRights31/03/18 11:38 AM
3

Thank you for making it clear that you are not a person who deserves another second of my time. Contraceptive options WILL improve, the legal designation of paternity WILL change, and abortion WILL become truly accessible everywhere. Feel free to sit at your keyboard and fantasize about forced pregnancies while the grown-ups do the hard work in the real world.
/r/MensRights26/03/18 09:44 PM
5

There is one thing I find extremely newsworthy about this incident - Daniels claims that she was the subject of a Mafia-style threat, years later, while standing in a parking lot with her infant daughter. If that is true, then I want to see Trump hounded out of office over it. That is not behavior that I am prepared to tolerate. Full transcript of the interview here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/stormy-daniels-describes-her-alleged-affair-with-donald-trump-60-minutes-int…
/r/MensRights26/03/18 08:58 PM
0

Take that shit elsewhere. Most women are not histrionic, just like most men aren't rapists.
/r/MensRights26/03/18 08:46 PM
3

I am a passionate advocate of increasing men's contraceptive options to reduce unwanted conceptions, and legislative options so that men may avoid being legally designated as the parent of a child who was gestated without their consent. When people like you cavalierly claim that forced gestation is not "something that needs to be fixed," I honestly question if I have made a mistake in deciding that the defense of women's rights have enough advocates on the job and men's rights should be my focus…
/r/MensRights26/03/18 08:40 PM
-2

Attitudes like yours are a big part of the reason that this kind of grandstanding has any appeal among voters. Pregnancy termination is an aspect of female health care. This should not be debatable issue among reasonable people. Fundies gonna fundie, but on this particular issue, the general population is willing to be very passive as the fundies pursue their forced-birth agenda. Every bit of this is a waste of time and energy on a legislative issue that should have been put out to pasture a lon…
/r/MensRights26/03/18 06:57 PM
1

Read the article. That person is crazy.
/r/MensRights25/03/18 10:18 PM
6

Ancient Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times."
/r/MensRights25/03/18 06:04 PM
-1

Read the actual posts. This is not a suicidal person. And whatever flaws a parent may have, murdering them in the hope that their child will receive a better raising in foster care (or by relatives) is an exceptionally stupid plan. As is "demanding some fragmentary semblance of justice from the universe." The universe does not exist to avenge your perceived slights.
/r/MensRights25/03/18 05:10 PM
21

Yes. Maturity. You can be mad as hell at a person who has done you wrong, and still understand that the actual problem is the system that enabled them to wrong you. You can understand that even if you hate your child's other parent, any harm you do to them is harm done to your child. This guy married two seriously unstable women - one of them suicided, and the other beat him up and absconded with their young child. Adding more craziness and violence to that history probably has zero appeal to hi…
/r/MensRights25/03/18 04:30 PM
11

Thank you for adding that last paragraph. I'm a happily married female, I have no concerns about being screwed over in a divorce. The bugout plan is for the stuff that is even worse than divorce, where I don't have to extricate only myself, but also my family.
/r/MensRights25/03/18 04:23 PM
1

What did those parents do wrong, to have two daughters who were complete nutjobs on opposite ends of the sociopolitical spectrum?
/r/MensRights25/03/18 12:53 PM
0

Well, I suppose I'd want the additional legroom afforded by the aisle seat anyhow.
/r/MensRights23/03/18 08:20 PM
1

He should have. I'm sorry.
/r/MensRights23/03/18 08:18 PM
3

Can I suck them in the window seat?
/r/MensRights23/03/18 08:16 PM
1

Clearly, this was a conversation about social conventions in developing nations. /s
/r/MensRights23/03/18 12:16 PM
2

If my doctor asked me about sexual trauma every time he gave me an exam, I'd find a new doctor. Now, my doctor DID take a social history when I started with his practice, that included questions about my (thankfully nonexistent) sexual trauma history. Did your doctor do that?
/r/MensRights23/03/18 12:14 PM
1

Fresh air? What do you travel in, a stagecoach? I'm sure that there are some tall people who legitimately prefer the window, but I happen to be married to one of those who likes to be able to splay into the aisle a bit while the vehicle is in motion. Sorry if that doesn't fit seamlessly into your oppression narrative.
/r/MensRights23/03/18 11:57 AM
2

FWIW, I always sit at the window so my husband can have a little more room during the trip for his shoulders and his legs. But I think your observations are generally correct - and that this kind of chivalric ritual was even MORE prevalent when women were politically disenfranchised.
/r/MensRights23/03/18 12:26 AM
1

At this point in the development of this technology, that is surely the sanest option.
/r/MensRights21/03/18 11:10 PM
1

It's equally important to have a plan for while you are living your life as a finite, imperfect being - your coparent. If you do not want that relationship, you should not undertake to create a baby. It's unethical.
/r/MensRights21/03/18 08:32 AM
1

Thank you for removing yourself from the gene pool.
/r/MensRights20/03/18 11:17 AM
4

You should be able to file for TPR based on abandonment and failure to support, if you decide that you want her out of the picture legally. But that usually only becomes a priority in situations like yours when a stepparent wants to adopt - and some states don't allow the TPR unless you have a adoptive parent lined up to step into the legal role.
/r/MensRights20/03/18 11:11 AM
1

Choosing between the legal options that exist, even when you'd prefer some other option, does not negate consent. Everybody makes such choices. Outlawing abortion and forcing a woman to continue a pregnancy either inside or outside of her body (i.e., using the force of law to insist that her embryo be gestated) is a really disgusting notion, but I am not seriously worried about it. If one of our more backwards states passes such a law, I think that private groups will organize civil resistance (…
/r/MensRights20/03/18 11:03 AM
1

Actually, ethical standards for the various medical specialties are determined by the governing boards of those specialities, with legislators intervening if they don't think the doctors/hospitals/clinics are adequately self-policing. This is why it is illegal to buy organs.
/r/MensRights20/03/18 10:48 AM
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You didn't have an inherent right to obtain any particular medical procedure. You could die of kidney failure tomorrow, waiting on the transplant list, with 1 million dollars on hand to purchase the kidney of a poor person who was eager to sell it to you, and your death would not be the result of any wrongdoing by your doctor. I happen to believe that stem cell therapy is ethical, and I hope that the US changes its laws. But I hope that organ-buying remains illegal, no matter how many people wou…
/r/MensRights20/03/18 01:49 AM
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Not for you, and not for the vast majority of people who would ever want to use this technology. But if you re-read this thread, you will see several posters positively salivating at the notion of forcing women to undergo an embryo extraction and continue the pregnancy with a Biobag rather than having an abortion.
/r/MensRights20/03/18 01:41 AM
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Do you mean artificial womb? Anyhow, no, I am not afraid that artificial womb technology will make female humans irrelevent. Only misogynists believe that women have no worth beyond their wombs. I am worried that in the absence of ethical constraints on the use of this technology, the cohort of fucked-up single people deliberately creating children will grow larger.
/r/MensRights20/03/18 01:36 AM
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This bodily autonomy thing is really messing with your head.
/r/MensRights19/03/18 09:16 PM
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The difference is consent.
/r/MensRights19/03/18 09:13 PM
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Me too. And single mothers. You can do everything wrong in your life from a sociological point of view - be young, be poor, be uneducated, pick a terrible person to reproduce with, etc. etc. and still do an amazing job as a single parent. I absolutely support any person who is doing their best with the situation life handed them (in part shaped by their choices) and is putting their child first. Single people who want to use assisted reproductive technologies have not been handed anything except…
/r/MensRights19/03/18 09:10 PM
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I'm all for radical changes in the current law - as long as they don't involve any forcible medical procedures.
/r/MensRights19/03/18 02:02 AM
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I understand that you sincerely believe that. I hope that you will be open to the experiences in life that will help you understand why any children you may have deserve to know and love their mother, and why you NEED a coparent to do a good job raising a child, even if that person is not your romantic partner or your children's biological mother.
/r/MensRights19/03/18 01:58 AM
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The position I am standing by is that any person whose PLAN is to create a child that has only one legal parent needs a therapist, not a fertility clinic. One parent is better than no parents, so adoption of waiting children is an ethical choice for single people. But infant adoption and assisted reproductive technologies should not be available to single adults. The adoptable infants have two-parent families lined up around the block to raise them, and half-orphans created with purchased gamete…
/r/MensRights19/03/18 01:52 AM
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As I said, I'm happy to shovel your horseshit in exchange for having this technology to help premature babies. If you ever manage to stop focusing solely on yourself and actually think like a fit parent, you will understand why your dream of deliberately creating a half-orphan is so repellent to me. Who am I to make that call? A parent who knows that children deserve better than the kind of feeble narcissist who would choose to be a single parent.
/r/MensRights19/03/18 01:44 AM
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Have you noticed the number of men in this thread who seem to enjoy the notion of forcing a sex partner to decant an embryo into a Biobag rather than having an abortion?
/r/MensRights19/03/18 01:37 AM
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I'm a social liberal. Arguments such as the one you are making is what led the assisted-reproduction industry to allow single women to purchase gametes and raise half-orphans. Access to elective medical procedures is not now, and has never been, a matter of right. When an elective procedure results in the creation of a child, the doctor is ethically obligated not to accept patients who are demonstrating an inability to prioritize the needs of a child.
/r/MensRights18/03/18 01:16 PM
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Depriving a child of a second parent so that you may have exclusive ownership/control is abuse, yes. ALL single mothers are certainly not guilty of this abuse - there are the rare cases where the father is dangerous, and the more common scenario where they do not want to parent with that particular woman at that particular time. With natural reproduction, you have to judge on a case-by-case basis. But ALL single women who choose a sperm donor with no legal rights and also choose not to have a co…
/r/MensRights18/03/18 01:09 PM
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I'm far from a "rad fem," and it seems obvious to me that forcing anybody to participate in an artificial gestation is not OK. This technology is being developed to help premature babies. It will probably also be used as an assisted reproductive technology, starting with a fertilized embryo. Nobody is going to be strapping women down and decanting their unwanted embryos so that their ex can can grow himself a baby...I hope. I've learned not to underestimate the power of crazy.
/r/MensRights18/03/18 12:03 PM
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Imagine a day when people stop fantasizing about coercing other people into producing offspring with them.
/r/MensRights18/03/18 11:54 AM
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No, no, don't complicate his smug assurance with biological realities!
/r/MensRights18/03/18 11:51 AM
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I'm working on it right now - but regardless, "I should get to mistreat my children because the courts often allow women to get away with doing so" is not a cogent argument.
/r/MensRights18/03/18 11:50 AM
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Yes. Having seen the damage it does, I'm obviously not interested in misusing a new medical technology so that even more children can be victimized.
/r/MensRights18/03/18 11:47 AM
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I missed that bit. OK, conflict resolved, this has GOT to be illegal. Right? Canadians, is this illegal?
/r/MensRights18/03/18 11:45 AM
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Access to assisted reproductive technology is not a right. Even people with actual medical issues that preclude normal gestation are in no way entitled to ART. Deliberately creating a half-orphan is an act of supreme selfishness. We need to stop allowing single women to exploit our existing technologies to buy legally fatherless children, and make sure that emerging technologies are not similarly abused. If you want to exclusively own another living being, get a dog. If you want to make a baby, …
/r/MensRights18/03/18 01:39 AM
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So how about we fix that, rather than allowing more children to be hurt by a selfish person who sees them as something to be owned?
/r/MensRights18/03/18 01:15 AM
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Both of these people are wealthy, IDGAF if they sign a prenup or not. As Chris Rock says, "... if you have 10 million dollars and she wants 5, big deal! You ain't starvin'." ... It's the guys making 30 thousand that I worry about.
/r/MensRights18/03/18 12:51 AM
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I am torn between "private philanthropists can focus on any group they wish to, and anybody who has a problem with it is welcome to set up their own philanthropic operation" and "holy shit, women do not make up the majority of the unsheltered homeless in Vancouver, this is an ass-backwards program."
/r/MensRights18/03/18 12:39 AM
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I hear you. I don't object to a hardass on triage. But so often, those initial decisions are never meaningfully revisited, and even when they are, the chronic shortage of beds leads to the hospital shrink overruling the jailhouse shrink on a case where they both know that the patient is not safe and is also endangering the corrections staff and the other prisoners.
/r/MensRights17/03/18 07:58 PM
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The dad had legal custody and left the child in her care, after resuming his relationship with her and allowing her to move back into the home following her most recent incarceration. There are exceptions, but the general rule in social work is that people who are unfit to parent are drawn to each other as if by magic, are incredibly fertile, and make decisions with/about each other that normal people cannot fathom.
/r/MensRights17/03/18 07:53 PM
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This is amazing technology. I hope that our physicians will develop robust ethical guidelines to prevent fertile single people from exploiting this therapeutic intervention to deprive their biological offspring of a mother or father. I am fairly confident that our federal courts will quash attempts by the more backwards states to force pregnant women to gestate externally rather than ending their pregnancies. ... but really, dealing with that happy horseshit is a hassle I would be thrilled to fa…
/r/MensRights17/03/18 07:45 PM
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Here's an article from a real newspaper, and the situation is even more horrifying for both prisoner and staff than the tabloid let on: https://www.google.com/amp/amp.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/investigations/article205363229.html This guy was in jail, instead of a mental hospital, for FIFTEEN MONTHS. He couldn't stabilize and they weren't qualified (or budgeted) to safely care for an unstable schizophrenic. There was a terrible crime here, but it happened way over the heads of the employees w…
/r/MensRights17/03/18 07:29 PM
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People are often incensed when child services refuses to get involved in civil custody disputes. I'm often incensed by this myself - there's an existing order, signed by a judge, why the heck is one of the parents allowed to violate it without the state intervening? This NC clusterfuck is one example of why it's probably better, on balance, for child services to keep strictly away from prior CVAs and open a new case unrelated to any previous civil action.
/r/MensRights17/03/18 04:07 PM
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It was a rhetorical question. We all realize that there are some actual sexist morons who affiliate themselves with the MRM.
/r/MensRights17/03/18 02:36 AM
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Sorry, there was supposed to be a space between two quotes. B&E plus theft will apparently get you probation, while snatch-and-grabs during business hours of goods valued at less than $500 will get you a ticket and a fine.
/r/MensRights16/03/18 11:43 AM
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...for example, if a person with no prior convictions is accused of breaking into a store at night and emptying the cash register, he would normally face up to 14 months in jail. Under Krasner’s paradigm, he’ll be offered probation. Retail theft under $500 is no longer a misdemeanor in the eyes of Philly prosecutors, but a summary offense—the lowest possible criminal charge. Jesus Christ. I like Krasner. He really seems to understand that punitive measures don't work to treat drug addiction, tha…
/r/MensRights16/03/18 09:54 AM
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How is that unfortunate? Who the fuck cares about the gender/race/age/nationality of the author in a writing competition?
/r/MensRights15/03/18 09:50 AM
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Bingo. One of the things that makes me feel LESS jaded is the number of people I talk to these days who are not into gender politics, but have obviously internalized some huge MRM talking points. That never happened ten years ago, outside of my anti-circ activism.
/r/MensRights14/03/18 09:42 AM
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They are absolutely allowed to.
/r/MensRights14/03/18 09:38 AM
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I don't know why they're not lambasted for being homophobic or something Because jokes are jokes. SNL is definitely left-leaning in a lot of ways, but I admire their strong stance when it comes to censoring their content in the name of political correctness.
/r/MensRights13/03/18 05:34 PM
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Or, you know, we might all decide that "revenge porn" laws are a good idea in the digital age, and should be equally applied.
/r/MensRights13/03/18 05:30 PM
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Is this strictly a statutory case? Hard to tell from the article, and it's extremely relevant information. Really, they shouldn't be reporting on an ongoing investigation - she's in jail on a MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS bail, and that is suggestive of extreme malfeasance, but given today's sex-panic climate I honestly don't know what to believe. Brock Turner, OTOH, was convicted on three counts of felony sexual assault, and eyewitnesses attested that his victim was unconscious. Is Cori Beard similar…
/r/MensRights13/03/18 05:27 PM
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Frequently, on Twitter. I doubt she's listening but I find it cathartic
/r/MensRights12/03/18 05:11 PM
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I particularly enjoyed how she couldn't stick with simple sexism, but had to throw some racism in as well.
/r/MensRights12/03/18 05:10 PM
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I'm not a fella. My thoughts are that this kind of behavior is unacceptably risky in the current political climate, and that if you want multiple sexual partners (which is fine), you should cultivate open relationships with people you know, rather than attending parties.
/r/MensRights12/03/18 01:26 PM
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He advertised his wares in a statement to the press.
/r/MensRights10/03/18 11:44 AM
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We should probably also conclude that white people are less able cops. And given the behavior of the school resource officer, men over 40 are absolutely unfit to be cops. Or, you know, we could move beyond identity politics. But that would be hard, because we'd have to actually treat people as individuals are there are, like, a lot of people in this world.
/r/MensRights10/03/18 11:42 AM
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Full text below. I fucking love this. By Alice Vincent 9 MARCH 2018 • 11:53AM Celebrities tend to try and keep their high-profile divorces, with fees and settlements running into the millions, out of the public eye. Not Russell Crowe and his soon-to-be ex-wife Danielle Spencer. The pair, who separated five years ago, will finalise their divorce imminently – and are celebrating it by auctioning off their collection of movie memorabilia, guitars, furniture and jewellry at Sotheby's, in a sale call…
/r/MensRights10/03/18 11:37 AM
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A few years ago Colin and Livia privately made the decision to separate. During that time Livia briefly became involved with former friend Mr. Brancaccia. The Firths have since reunited. Do you really think these two people would have had any incentive to make this public if the ex was not harassing or threatening them? They are being blackmailed and they are attempting to preemptively discredit their blackmailer.
/r/MensRights10/03/18 11:29 AM
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He just listed all the juicy stuff he has for sale - in a public statement that was intended to portray him as a victim of a frivolous charge. I don't know anything about the Firth's marriage, but I do know that the easiest way to acquire a stalker is to get into a romantic relationship with a fucked-up individual.
/r/MensRights10/03/18 11:26 AM
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It's not a single anecdote. Activism and lobbying in my state led to the change in policy that made this preventative measure equally available to my daughters and my sons.
/r/MensRights09/03/18 05:57 PM
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As I said, the statement "still only giving the HPV vaccine to girls though" is untrue.
/r/MensRights09/03/18 12:00 PM
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Untrue, my sons have completed the series and insurance covered it 100%.
/r/MensRights09/03/18 03:25 AM
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In October, the Washington Court of Appeals heard a case in which a Vancouver police officer looked inside a man’s tent in an unsanctioned tent camp and saw a bag of methamphetamine. The man, William Pippin, was charged with possession of a controlled substance, but appealed. The appeals court ruled that the search, which did not involve a warrant, violated the man’s constitutional right to privacy because the tent was his home. This is the other side (the moronic side) of the compassionate impu…
/r/MensRights07/03/18 01:02 PM
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I meet people all the time who sincerely believe that there are no men's shelters because there is no systematic need for them.
/r/MensRights03/03/18 12:31 PM
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I disagree with the law, but mutual discreet adultery has been normalized in French culture for centuries. I can understand why the "family peace" concept and the social construction of paternity resonates with French people - but Jesus, what kind of dork (male or female) doesn't use birth control with their lover?
/r/MensRights02/03/18 11:38 PM
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No continent, and no child, needs people who refuse to take responsibility for their fertility. Baby humans are not baby rabbits. Please do not have more children than you can afford to do right by, financially and emotionally. There are plenty of Americans who mindlessly pop out kid after kid because their ideology demands it. That is not a life you want for yourself or any of your loved ones.
/r/MensRights01/03/18 10:13 AM
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I took, and passed, that Marine Corps fitness test. I really wasn't impressed with it as a combat-readiness test. There were girls who could do zero pullups who were equally well suited to combat, and guys I could way outrun who were probably better suited (depending on their temperaments, I did not get to know therm well enough to assess that). I think that a more nuanced test has been a long time coming.
/r/MensRights01/03/18 02:53 AM
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It's going to be a long fight. But every time somebody is just obviously fucking right in Judaism, they eventually become the majority opinion. I give this one another century before MGM is a practice relegated to the black hats.
/r/MensRights01/03/18 02:45 AM
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If Steve Dallas is your dream come true... damn.
/r/MensRights01/03/18 02:42 AM
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I'm old. There are way worse ideals. Probably makes sense to re-evaluate with every kid rather than committing to an even dozen before you've seen how things work with four or five 😊
/r/MensRights01/03/18 02:32 AM
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Remember, it's not OK to fuck the dog. That is actually illegal, not just stupid and immature.
/r/MensRights27/02/18 10:07 PM
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Enjoy flipping burgers. Don't apply for assistant manager until you understand that it's not OK to fuck the cashiers. This advice is equally applicable if you happen to be a female.
/r/MensRights27/02/18 08:34 PM
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Yes, the concepts of maturity, professionalism and self-restraint do appear to be going right over your head. Your beautiful-accountant fantasy doesn't hurt anybody or expose your company to liability, so go ahead and keep enjoying it. It's actions, not thoughts, that matter here.
/r/MensRights27/02/18 08:14 PM
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No double standard. Stop inserting gender into my nongendered standards of professional behavior. A person who does not understand that making advances towards (or accepting advances from) their direct reports is unethical is not mature enough for a managerial position. It isn't rape. But it needs to be the end of their tenure in that position. No boss should ever fuck their employees. Ever. It's one of the stupider things people do. It should not be illegal, but it should be socially and profes…
/r/MensRights27/02/18 07:34 PM
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It's not rape, but no boss should ever fuck their employees. Ever. It's one of the stupider things people do. If you believe that you are in with love with somebody who reports to you or to whom you report, then the chance at the relationship is worth finding another job. If it's just lust, direct your lust elsewhere. How is this difficult? Why do people decide to fuck up or down their corporate ladder, when the world is full of people they can fuck without potentially messing up their careers?
/r/MensRights27/02/18 03:34 PM
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One if the answers is literally a SAHM with a dozen kids and a breadwinning husband. What, you're not happy unless the ONLY dream of family that people have matches your own ideal?
/r/MensRights27/02/18 12:59 PM
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Home educator of five children here, I say GOOD. Formal education starts too early in general, and parents should not hesitate to delay a year if they think their kid would benefit. If I had it to do over again and wasn't worried about government interference, I would not start lessons until a child turned 7.
/r/MensRights25/02/18 12:36 PM
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Don't mince words. This piece of shit (the creator of this graphic) does terrible harm by conflating the truth (that children need both parents to thrive) with misogynist wank-off material (that woman are primarily responsible for absentee fathers, that the role of the father is to supervise the mother).
/r/MensRights25/02/18 12:26 AM
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I started at the top of this thread, thinking "I would bet $1,000 that this guy's pet issue is women who are having sex and not choosing to have it with him." DINGDINGDING!!!!
/r/MensRights24/02/18 01:05 PM
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If you really care about this, arse yourself to do your own reading. Anyhow, as you would know if you had read that article, when lethal school violence includes suicides, you get a female shooter/stabber in the stats (they don't specify if she used a gun or a knife). Statistics on U.S. School Shooters The Safe Schools Initiative report focused on behaviors of school shooters leading up to their attack. For the report, researchers from the Department of Education and the Secret Service studied 3…
/r/MensRights21/02/18 10:20 PM
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Actually, I am blaming it on a toxic social mishandling of normal, healthy adolescent male tendencies as they manifest in mentally ill adolescents. Risk-prone and consequence-disregarding behaviors are not inherently bad. In my opinion, they are can be very positive, but parents and society must provide an appropriate outlet for them, and find effective ways to deal with crazy people in this stage of development.
/r/MensRights21/02/18 07:09 PM
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I would have to know a lot more than I do about the individual case histories of our school shooters to be able to make an informed judgement about whether or not psych drugs were the "root cause" of their decision to commit mass murder. Remember, this cohort is TINY compared to the overall population. Any generalization one makes about why they did what they did is anecdata not data.
/r/MensRights21/02/18 07:04 PM
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Stop trying to be angry at me, we are on the same side here. The reflexive prescription of drugs to boys is part and parcel of the failure to effectively treat mental health issues.
/r/MensRights21/02/18 06:52 PM
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Your link doesn't work. This one does: https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/safety/u-s-school-shooting-statistics-us/ Do you want to bitch and moan about how those mean and nasty facts are triggering you by not fitting neatly your ideology, or would you like to have an adult discussion about why this is happening and what we can do to stop it?
/r/MensRights21/02/18 06:48 PM
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It lines up perfectly. You are arguing a point I am not making - I don't believe that men are inherently more inclined towards sexual misconduct or that women are systemically discriminated against in the workplace solely on the basis of their sex. For any crime, the raw percentage of offenders broken down by sex is rarely useful information - access is a huge factor. I'm not sure what your goal was in starting this thread, if you already comprehend that fact. School shootings are a little diffe…
/r/MensRights21/02/18 04:29 PM
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Not an exact parallel, since a gun is far easier to acquire than a child, but the same general idea.
/r/MensRights21/02/18 01:10 PM
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If you marry a comedian, just assume that your relationship will be discussed on stage.
/r/MensRights21/02/18 01:02 PM
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The majority of at-risk children live in single-mother homes. It's pretty hard to abuse or kill your kid if you aren't there.
/r/MensRights21/02/18 12:59 PM
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OP, something I have always wanted to have is artwork, infographics, etc. that promulgates the "fathers are not optional" message. It would be great if this message were presented in a secular way, so as to have the broadest popular appeal.
/r/MensRights21/02/18 12:56 PM
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"How I fucked up" is pretty much a classic comedy-show theme.
/r/MensRights19/02/18 10:40 AM
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I'm arguing that the assumption that Steve somehow got screwed out of a nice engagement present,or that it was tacky to give him a $10 ring as a symbolic gesture, is rather a long leap to make in the context of American sartorial culture. I would propose to a man if I wanted to, but I wouldn't buy him a piece of jewelry if he didn't like jewelry. I'd have to figure out some other symbolic gift, and it probably would not be part of my proposal if it were a set of golf clubs or a new grill or what…
/r/MensRights18/02/18 03:11 PM
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Mass shootings in schools just break all the assumptions we've made about gun violence as a society. It's not linked to poverty, intimate partner conflict or other personal beefs, it's not primarily commited by men against men, etc. I'm actually fine with saying that personal heroism at the risk of one's own life is a behavior more commonly demonstrated by males than females - but that generalization doesn't apply in school shootings, because none of our generalizations do. It's pure crazy. http…
/r/MensRights18/02/18 03:05 PM
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I'm not calling you out, I feel where you are coming from. I do want to point out that the principal at Sandy Hook, Dawn Hochsprung, literally charged the shooter as he put bullets in her. Heroism among educators during school shootings is not a gendered phenomenon. The other dead teacher in the most recent shooting, Scott Beigel, died while locking a classroom door to protect the students inside. Like Feis, he was a highly regarded instructor, coach and camp counselor. He spent his entire caree…
/r/MensRights18/02/18 01:51 AM
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It enters into my pysche... but I think of watches as jewelry. I don't know what Steve thinks. In my situation, buying any sort of precious metal adornment item would have been a sign that I knew absolutely nothing about the person I was proposing to.
/r/MensRights18/02/18 01:33 AM
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I can't imagine buying expensive jewelry for somebody who doesn't wear jewelry. The only thing that is relevent to me here is whether or not Steve adorns himself in this manner - if he does, he should get a nice ring.
/r/MensRights17/02/18 04:59 PM
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It's illegal in some countries, but not the US.
/r/MensRights17/02/18 04:53 PM
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One of my favorites as well.
/r/MensRights17/02/18 04:52 PM
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Thank you.
/r/MensRights16/02/18 10:49 PM
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Was this ever demonstrated in a credible study? I certainly believe it, and raise my daughters accordingly, but I would love to have some evidence to persuade other mothers to do the same...
/r/MensRights16/02/18 01:20 PM
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Jesus Christ, I hope you're being sarcastic.
/r/MensRights12/02/18 07:07 PM
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... that is a really smart way to frame the issue. I've been talking a lot about this with my junior-high-aged daughter, and this is a very succinct way to get the message across. Thank you.
/r/MensRights10/02/18 11:12 AM
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How about recognizing his incredible fortitude, wearing the traditional dress of his warm-climate nation in KOREA IN THE WINTER?!?
/r/MensRights10/02/18 11:10 AM
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I'm so sorry that happened to you. Asking the question without the proper training in how to respond is WORSE THAN USELESS.
/r/MensRights10/02/18 11:08 AM
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Are they aware that they exist? Do they have a conscious preference to continue existing, or are their behaviors purely instinctive? Neonates of any species, chickens, fish - not sentient. Cows - borderline. Horses - I think so. Pigs - I'm almost sure. Gorillas - definitely. I'm not a scientist. I don't kill babies and I do eat pork. This is just my opinion based on my interactions with these various living things.
/r/MensRights07/02/18 10:05 PM
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I do have kids. Neonates are not sentient. It amazes me that anybody who has ever cared for a neonate thinks of them as sentient.
/r/MensRights07/02/18 09:42 PM
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This one, I can share and hope that it will get a fair hearimg. Thank you, /u/DougDante.
/r/MensRights04/02/18 10:56 PM
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Incredibly well-written. I wish that this had been published by a legitimate journalistic outlet. I have a lot of people in my social circle who are probably ready to take HPV prevention for boys seriously - but they aren't going to give credence to anything published in the Daily Fail.
/r/MensRights04/02/18 09:28 PM
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Please don't link to that moronic site in this sub. The MRM has enough credibility problems without creating associations with the antichoice nutters.
/r/MensRights04/02/18 09:15 PM
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Definitely a concern. I was avoiding sex with drunk strangers BEFORE it was cool... but yeah, I could wish that it was still just a dumbass idea, not a dumbass idea that could ruin your life.
/r/MensRights03/02/18 05:08 PM
2

Possibly a great establishment for men to get laid - just not by me. I'm married.
/r/MensRights03/02/18 12:47 PM
4

Yes. Cross-curricular material gone horribly wrong.
/r/MensRights02/02/18 10:17 PM
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When somebody offers you a product/experience for less than it's worth, YOU are one of the the products/experiences they are marketing. I don't give a fuck about ladies nights, as long as everybody in attendance understands what is going on. I am sure I could drink $10 worth of booze and emerge from that establishment unmolested.
/r/MensRights02/02/18 10:04 PM
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The "potential for stray" is another universal aspect of human mating patterns. Are you seriously suggesting that men select unattractive women as wives as a strategy for avoiding adultery? If this has been your observation, then you and I are living on different planets.
/r/MensRights31/01/18 01:55 PM
1

Heather Locklear recently explained this, presumably for the benefit of embittered jerks such as yourself: http://m.tmz.com/#2017/04/19/heather-locklear-david-spade-big-penis/
/r/MensRights30/01/18 11:01 PM
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I agree that it's a revelation along the lines of "water is wet, fire is hot" - but I disagree that this mating preference deserves such a negative characterization. Men want their wife to be desirable to other men. Women want their husband to be desirable to other women. We can either be mutually pissed off that beauty and social status are factors in mate selection and accuse each other of "dehumanizing," or we can work with the hand evolution dealt us and try to be decent to each other.
/r/MensRights30/01/18 10:55 PM
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This is a forum for men's rights activists to discuss men's rights issues. If you want a male-only support group, go find one. Nice try to derail our sub.
/r/MensRights27/01/18 05:28 PM
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Fair enough, that part WAS well said. Too bad he decided to keep typing.
/r/MensRights26/01/18 09:13 AM
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What part was well said? The part where he denigrated women as a group and then blamed us for the fact that a male school principal treated you like shit?
/r/MensRights26/01/18 03:10 AM
33

This is the right choice in our current social climate. It's not to protect the girls, it's to protect the men.
/r/MensRights25/01/18 12:51 AM
1

It's an interesting question. There are some things where the ability to get the answer quickly is extremely valuable. Is mathematics one of those things? I don't know, I'm just a lowly English major ;-) But given the notoriety of time pressure in this particular series of tests across all the disciplines, I'm open to the possibility that increasing the time would increase the ability of the test to measure what they are trying to measure.
/r/MensRights23/01/18 02:57 PM
1

Historically, that has been a huge part of this testing process. But I'm open to the idea that the process may require modification in order to more accurately identify the most talented students in a given discipline.
/r/MensRights22/01/18 10:23 PM
1

Again, we're not talking about passing. We're talking about getting a First - the equivalent of an "Outstanding" on your Ordinary Wizarding Levels. I would not be surprised if both male and female students score better on this test given a few extra minutes. My main question as a teacher would be, was this test badly structured before and depriving excellent students of a First that they truly merited, or does extending the time result in mediocre students receiving an undeserved First? I hope t…
/r/MensRights22/01/18 10:21 PM
1

I would't expect anything, I am not an Oxford don and haven't been anecdotally observing these students. But reading between the lines of that article, I think it possible that the maths faculty has been observing that there are fewer female students taking a First than they would expect, given the number of female students performing at a high level in their classes. If you don't think that your test is accurately identifying your most gifted students, altering the structure of the test does ma…
/r/MensRights22/01/18 12:10 PM
12

Actually, they appear to be focused on the fact that only seven women got Firsts last year. If you read the article, the dons have anecdotally observed that female students are more likely to double check their answers before volunteering them in class, while males were faster to answer but more likely to give an incorrect response. Is 90 minutes the ideal time frame in which to assess undergraduates to identify the most gifted mathematicians? I don't know, and neither do the dons. As long as th…
/r/MensRights21/01/18 10:09 PM
4

That Barbie made my mom so fucking furious.
/r/MensRights21/01/18 10:00 PM
4

I wonder if they could try him for some of the rapes he hasn't already served time for and get him back inside that way. I understand why his release might be necessary, because the parole board absolutely must follow the law even if the law has a stupid-ass loophole in it... but this guy needs to be dead or in a cage. Frankly, if they want to keep him alive, they'll find a way to get him back into his cage - he's a very extreme offender and everybody in the UK knows what he looks like. Somebody…
/r/MensRights21/01/18 01:55 AM
2

I agree with everything you are saying. Women face similar issues with regard to body shape and facial structure - some of which are far more alterable than height, and some of which are not. A bulldog-shaped woman is never going to have a beautiful figure, no matter how hard she exercises, and her SMV will always be lower than shapely women in her age/financial/personality peer group. I don't think there is anything we can do to change the human preference for tall men and beautiful women.
/r/MensRights20/01/18 04:17 PM
19

I'm not sure you should believe OR disbelieve anybody's rape story unless you know them well enough to have a decent grasp on how honest of a person they are in general. What you are doing - expressing sympathy and telling them to report the crime - seems socially appropriate in all cases.
/r/MensRights18/01/18 12:16 PM
-1

"Celibate Religious Fundamentalist Thinks His Opinions On Sexuality Are Relevant To The General Population. Also, He Spends A Lot Of Time Following Trannies on Twitter." LOL. One fucked-up dude criticizing another fucked-up dude. Jesus will totally heal what ails both of them if they just pray hard enough.
/r/MensRights18/01/18 01:51 AM
0

Nobody is forcing you to pursue women, particularly not by initiating with total strangers in a public venue. Seriously. It's a voluntary endeavor. If it's not fun for you, then do not do it. But complaining about how most women prefer this approach is like complaining about how most men men prefer a woman who can get into a rowboat without capsizing it. Human nature isn't politically correct, and nobody owes you attention of the sexual variety.
/r/MensRights17/01/18 02:52 PM
14

the problem is that it relies on couples to change their behavior and abstain from sex when the app says to do so. Or, you know, use a condom. Nothing is idiotproof and this app is no exception. Signed, The Unplanned Daughter Of A Man Who Claims He Believed That The Letter "O" On The Calender Stood For "OK To Have Sex Today"
/r/MensRights17/01/18 02:43 PM
1

I have not had any conversations with women (or men) who mistook The Handmaid's Tale for a documentary.
/r/MensRights16/01/18 07:43 PM
0

I'm not misconstruing anything. You're trying to pretend that anger and the action stemming from anger are not legitimate because the catalyst was an imaginative exercise. The power of the human imagination to create empathy for the victims of human depravity is not a bug. It's a feature. Try to cultivate that ability in yourself rather than devaluing it in others.
/r/MensRights15/01/18 08:14 PM
-1

You just noticed that the human imagination has the power to stir up strong emotions? Brother, you've been missing out. This is not a female-specific ability, although little boys tend to have it drummed out of them by social indoctrination. Give it a whirl! Maybe with something happy, though, if the experience is new to you.
/r/MensRights15/01/18 01:09 PM
1

Where a standard test had negative impacts on members of a protected group, here women, then it either needs to be changed or objectively justified.' This is the central point. The requirement that search-and-rescue dog handlers pass an endurance test is objectively justifiable - they need to be able to walk for hours at a stretch over rough terrain. The requirement that they have the strength to carry their canine partner for a long period of time is NOT objectively justifiable in the UK in 201…
/r/MensRights13/01/18 07:28 PM
2

We avoid activities like this for similar reasons - I am a mom of teen boys, happy to let them take field trips, but the other parents involved make me nuts and I am NOT interested in sleeping in a one-room cabin with a group of their age peers. They would be uncomfortable, and I would be uncomfortable.
/r/MensRights12/01/18 10:21 PM
2

I wasn't being sarcastic, I was being realistic. Same-sex chaperones are the best choice for this kind of situation, where one lone adult is sleeping in a cabin with a group of children they do not know well (if at all). Most of the volunteers will be female, which means that a few of the women and most of the boys have to do the opposite-gender thing, while the girls have plenty of same-sex volunteers to cover their cabins. OP is male, and a parent, and seems to understand why same-sex cabin pa…
/r/MensRights12/01/18 10:14 PM
2

Women face far less risk of false accusations. I don't know what the campground is thinking when they make their policies, but as a person organizing an overnight school trip, I would be far more willing to put a mother unsupervised with boys than a father unsupervised with girls, for the sole reason that the mothers are less likely to have their reputations shredded by a lying kid. ETA: false accusations, like molestation, are extremely unlikely outcomes in any scenario.
/r/MensRights12/01/18 10:04 PM
-1

Well yes, kids old enough for an overnight field trip ARE statistically more likely to be molested by a male, whereas preschoolers are more likely to be molested by a female, and most men who molest boys are straight-presenting. You need to actually read what you are citing to make sure it doesn't say the opposite of what you think it says :-) I think that's all entirely beside the point though, because stranger molestation is such a rare occurrence. Same-sex chaperonage is about protecting the …
/r/MensRights12/01/18 03:09 PM
0

"Discrimination" can be a bad word that we use to discourage people from making informed choices in social situations. OP admits that a dad supervising 11 girls overnight, sleeping in the cabin with them, isn't what he'd prefer unless he were the dad in question. He has the opportunity to allow the boy parents to be equally "discriminating" in their choice of chaperones by volunteering to supervise a boy cabin. Situations where unrelated adults supervise kids they do not know overnight on a fiel…
/r/MensRights12/01/18 03:01 PM
3

Here is my input - you just said yourself that you would not be thrilled by some random guy being the cabin parent for your daughter. They are letting moms chaperone their sons' cabins because they do not have enough dads volunteering to provide male chaperones for all the boy cabins. If you want to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem, why not volunteer to be the cabin parent for one of the boy cabins so the mom who would otherwise be stuck with that assignment (since the vas…
/r/MensRights12/01/18 03:27 AM
12

No, the sad part of this story is that an 8th grader took her own life. This is not a competition. Jesus Christ.
/r/MensRights12/01/18 03:20 AM
7

Please don't talk about serious, painful subjects that you clearly know nothing about. Religious people do it. Atheists do it. Addicts do it. Teetotallers do it. Women do it. Men do it. Mostly, people DON'T do it, because in order to fuck up this badly you need to be both seriously mentally ill and having a situational crisis, and most of us do not face those two problems simultaneously.
/r/MensRights12/01/18 01:05 AM
3

This is a cost associated with working people having children. It's not the "mythic of wage gap," it's the reality of how the next generation of workers are produced. All other developed nations have managed to handle this issue. The United States, with its corporate-fellating political culture, still allows exploitative practices such as refusing to hire interim workers when people take parental leave.
/r/MensRights09/01/18 04:11 AM
3

I agree that it's a bad idea. It's also a bad idea for the man raising this child not to be his legal father. Maybe you should offer to relinquish your rights so that his stepfather can adopt? As part of that process, you might get your DNA test - but again, I must stress, you might get a court order for child support.
/r/MensRights08/01/18 12:13 AM
8

Has this woman sought child support from you? I'm not telling you not to claim your kid, but you need to realize that if you initiate court proceedings to force a paternity test and you are the biological father, the judge can and will sock with you with 8 years of back child support, even if she is jumping up and down yelling "I don't want it, Your Honor." If you have been acting as a father to this child, or you want to take on that role, then it makes sense to insist on a paternity test. But …
/r/MensRights07/01/18 11:06 AM
5

In November, in an interview with the Swedish magazine Kvartal, Judith Butler was asked what she thought about having her work imposed on a lecturer in the name of gender equality. “I am not in favor of my work being imposed by quotas,” Butler said. “Suggestions can be made about how to expand perspectives on gender, or which texts might be useful, but the final judgment has to be made by the faculty member.” Well done, Judith.
/r/MensRights07/01/18 10:36 AM
7

If this article is correct, then the woman completed several court-ordered classes while incarcerated, and the man did not. It is very typical for judges to shorten sentences when the offender has made progress on their treatment plan. Now, the man's prison may not have offered the same level of access to classes as the women's prison, and that is both common and extremely unfair. Incarceration for either party seems excessive to me. The kids weren't hurt and they weren't starved. Taking them aw…
/r/MensRights06/01/18 01:21 PM
1

Happy New Year to you! I don't think we can expect any person to take legal responsibility for what another person might do several years down the line. Do people make stupid mate choices? Heck yeah. But if we don't have a legal mechanism for obtaining child support from noncustodial parents, then we're 1) making a social declaration that taking care of your kids is voluntary and 2) making one adult responsible for another adult's malfeasance. The "you should have picked a better mate" line of t…
/r/MensRights06/01/18 01:08 PM
1

Actual trauma.
/r/MensRights04/01/18 01:15 AM
2

Her Twitter feed has gone private. No doubt she feels horribly oppressed by all the negative feedback she received over tweeting a genocidal fantasy.
/r/MensRights02/01/18 02:59 AM
10

It took her the better part of a year to decide that every single one of us was too scary to talk to. Every. Single. One. Not the tiny minority who engage in violent ideation. Not the entire group as a whole using her real name and address. Absolutely no participant in this sub, including public figures who regularly give interviews to media outlets, was a good candidate for a safe and ethical interview by a grad student. Pathetic. Her committee should have demanded better work.
/r/MensRights02/01/18 02:34 AM
2

... and men are sexual predators. You can't trust them or understand them, because they have no code of behavior. Everything they do is ultimately focused on obtaining pussy, preferably without force but they'll use force if they have to. That's nonsense, of course, but a common attitude among female trauma survivors.
/r/MensRights31/12/17 02:58 PM
1

If the historical accounts are to be believed, most castrati demonstrated significant vocal ability as children and neither they nor their families opposed the mutilation. It was an honor, and an elevation in social status. Still not OK, obviously. But not like the forced castration of adult warriors either. A different system and a more indirect form of coercion.
/r/MensRights31/12/17 02:52 PM
12

I heard a tape recording of one of the last living castrati in high school. Remember the Diva in the 5th Element? It was like that. It was a horrible human rights violation, but I could understand why a culture that valued individual lives so little and sacred music so highly would do this thing.
/r/MensRights31/12/17 03:56 AM
2

You are really loving that meme today :-)
/r/MensRights31/12/17 03:51 AM
1

I tend to see these kinds of trends as the social equivalent of a pool vacuum. Suck up the scum (pros and johns alike) and let everybody else fish out of cleaner water. Prostitition is neither feminist nor antifeminist. It's neither misogynistic nor misandric. It's generally distasteful to people not inclined towards the lifestyle, and particularly distasteful to people who are interested in marriage and family. So let SeekingArrangenent continue to vacuum the dating pool. Who cares?
/r/MensRights30/12/17 07:11 PM
0

Presumably the johns also attempt to hide this aspect of themselves from their wives, daughter's, mothers and any other woman who they wish to have a real relationship with.
/r/MensRights30/12/17 07:05 PM
2

I know female rape victims with a very similar perspective. It's certainly their right to have that perspective, but it makes me sad for them. Such a deeply ingrained bias against half the human race is a big limitation to live your life under, even when the trauma survivor perceives it as liberating.
/r/MensRights30/12/17 03:35 PM
1

I wouldn't even call this disengaging. I have a couple of male friends who seem to have adopted this credo - they're still totally engaged with me and my family on a platonic level. Like OP though, they have kids already, and I do think that is protective against MGTOW extremism. They are still in the game in terms of wanting a decent world for their children and someday grandchildren, so the "fiddle and watch it burn" approach to social problems doesn't tempt them.
/r/MensRights30/12/17 03:31 PM
3

She either deleted it, or Twitter did.
/r/MensRights30/12/17 02:00 PM
1

It's not misogynistic, but it is pretty stupid. Men and women should obviously be allowed to pursue whatever occupations they are qualified for without being discriminated against on the basis of their sex. But expecting the gender ratio in any profession to be 50/50 is just another way of pretending that we are not a sexually dimorphic species. Will there be more females in high-risk, highly-paid professions in 100 years? Probably. Social attitudes will continue to change, and technology will c…
/r/MensRights30/12/17 01:52 PM
2

Well, sure. My mom did not find the outfit demeaning, but she didn't enjoy being required to wear a skirt, heels and pantyhose for a job that involved a lot of walking, bending, lifting, and the wiping up of shit and vomit. Scrubs were a big improvement. T I see the current male dress code for most professional workplaces as flawed in the same way - it's not demeaning to wear slacks or a tie, but it can be impractical and uncomfortable. ETA: she did find the tiny hat somewhat demeaning, because …
/r/MensRights30/12/17 01:03 AM
1

Don't people who use surrogates in the USA have to legally adopt the child, since the child was not conceived naturally? I'm not saying that makes any sense whatsoever, just that I thought it was the method all countries used to confer legal parenthood on people who paid a surrogate.
/r/MensRights30/12/17 12:58 AM
8

It's insane how much trouble MJ use causes my clients. Insane. I watched a kid get pulled from her grandmother's loving care and placed with strangers because of a tiny amount of THC residue on her clothing. Of course, we can't discount the risk to the child when MJ users start hooking to get their fix and bring johns around the house and then go on a bender and don't come home for three days... oh wait, my mistake, that's meth.
/r/MensRights29/12/17 12:55 PM
7

You have the equal right to push back against dress codes that discriminate against you on the basis of your sex. But you'll have to do the work. It takes a long time, it's not fun, and the first wave of activists are going to pay a social price for their refusal to conform. But my mother started her nursing career wearing a dress, heeled shoes and a ridiculous little hat. By the time she retired, the uniform was functional, comfortable and gender-neutral. Change is possible.
/r/MensRights29/12/17 12:45 PM
2

Are you honestly claiming someone like Milton Friedman does not have a developed political ideology? Here is a good discussion with him about Libertarianism. Most libertarians in the US do not have developed ideas and do not truly consider their beliefs. But the same is true of most people of every belief. Fair enough. Friedman is certainly more politically knowledgeable and sophisticated than I am. Of course, so was Himmler - very smart people can construct very stupid/evil political frameworks…
/r/MensRights29/12/17 02:33 AM
1

I consider it a great compliment to be held in low esteem by people who advocate for forced abortions. Crawl back under your rock now, please.
/r/MensRights28/12/17 10:43 PM
3

Did you just try to brag about your lifestyle by telling us you were playing a PC game while eating fast food? Is this some sort of meta self-deprecation?
/r/MensRights28/12/17 10:36 PM
30

Though the movement has suffered accusations of anti-Semitism, a sizable portion of it is made up of Jews. I have never seen a mainstream Jewish media outlet admit this before. Makes my goddamned day :-)
/r/MensRights28/12/17 09:22 PM
1

At least you're honest about it, unlike the other fuckwit who is pretending that kidnapping poor kids away from their families is some sort of compassionate act.
/r/MensRights28/12/17 09:16 PM
1

You are literally suggesting that the government steal poor people's children rather than providing substinence for the family via social welfare programs. Did you fall into a wormhole in 19th-century New York City and end up on the internet?
/r/MensRights28/12/17 03:45 AM
1

You are literally suggesting that the government steal poor people's children.
/r/MensRights28/12/17 03:40 AM
-10

I don't ascribe the bad actions of one person to half the human race.
/r/MensRights28/12/17 03:38 AM
0

You have serious issues distinguishing between poverty and malfeasance.
/r/MensRights28/12/17 02:30 AM
1

It's spelled "bear." Poverty is not child abuse. I'd rather pay my taxes so nobody has to starve. I'd rather you do the same.
/r/MensRights28/12/17 02:28 AM
0

Rational adults of both sexes accept the coercive power of the state to tax them in exchange for not living in some kind of Hobbesian nightmare. Adults trapped in their political adolescence (in America, we call them "libertarians") feel that taxation is akin to slavery, forced breeding, emasculation, etc. They vote their beliefs, get outvoted, decide not to leave the country, and the business of the world goes on.
/r/MensRights28/12/17 02:25 AM
1

You ignorant piece of shit. There have been times in human history where children were kidnapped from poor parents and given to wealthier families. It still happens in developing nations. But in the first world, human trafficking is generally frowned upon these days.
/r/MensRights28/12/17 02:14 AM
-1

You would rather steal poor people's children than pay welfare benefits?
/r/MensRights28/12/17 02:09 AM
2

You are a thousand times better off out of that house. I am sorry the system treated you unjustly, but glad that the abusive relationship is ending. Every DV/IPV victim I have worked with is severely traumatized by the initial separation. They know that they should be happy, but they are so enmeshed with the abuser that they can't feel that way until they get a little distance.
/r/MensRights28/12/17 01:58 AM
-10

If that is what you take from this tragic edge-case story, I am also glad you are not married to any person.
/r/MensRights28/12/17 01:52 AM
4

Did you delete the account, or did Twitter?
/r/MensRights26/12/17 05:24 AM
8

Wow. Well done.
/r/MensRights26/12/17 05:19 AM
1

I agree that jail for any kind of debt, even child support, is unethical. There are other coercive measures for deadbeats, such as paycheck garnishing, that I am prepared to tolerate.
/r/MensRights26/12/17 05:17 AM
2

Some of the loving, responsible custodial fathers I have helped in dealing with their deadbeat ex have had neck tattoos and criminal histories. Some of the loving, responsible custodial mothers I have helped have had had deadbeat exes who present themselves in court as clean-cut Christian men who are being "extorted" by the court's expectation that they should support their bastard child. Every individual is responsible for their own actions with regard to their child. When one parent is a deadb…
/r/MensRights26/12/17 03:13 AM
2

Actually, I don't place all the responsibility on the man. I hold each parent equally responsible for the children they create. I have sympathy for men whose casual sex partners partners carried to term agasinst their will - but in the age of social media, I can get a pretty clear picture of how a man felt about his baby when it was born, and anybody who was excited about a newborn and is withholding support for that same child a few years later is a waste of space, food and oxygen. Trying to bl…
/r/MensRights25/12/17 09:12 PM
1

Most married people don't mistreat their children. Most divorced people don't mistreat their children. Most PEOPLE do not mistreat their children. This blogger either needs a lot more therapy or had already had too much. All I want for Christmas is for people this fucked up to refrain from giving other people advice.
/r/MensRights25/12/17 04:37 PM
2

Thank you for providing for your family. I hope that you can be with them next year.
/r/MensRights25/12/17 02:16 PM
1

Merry Christmas. If you worked with at-risk children, as I do, I think you'd probably feel exactly the same way about men who have to be forced to help support their children at the minimal level required by my state for low-income parents. I can recognize that debtor's prison is a human rights violation and simultaneously comprehend that people who do not voluntarily exert themselves to help provide for their children, even when they no longer love their child's other parent, are the scum of th…
/r/MensRights25/12/17 02:11 PM
1

Responsibility, bastard. Most of my clients were never married - they were in love, had a baby, broke up a few years later, and because the father now has other priorities, the support of the child is something the court needs to order. It's disgusting and pathetic, and a lot of good and decent men are punished with debtor's-prison policies enacted in response to deadbeat behavior. As I said, I believe that imprisonment for debt has no place in 21st-century society. But every time I am dealing w…
/r/MensRights25/12/17 03:24 AM
3

In my state, people in arrears on their support order (almost always men, although the law is gender-neutral) can be jailed indefinitely without right of representation. Their prison wages are applied to their child support debt. Now, I have clients who started getting help from able-bodied exes for the first time EVER as a result of this harsh program. The men involved weren't put in prison, either - the credible threat was enough to make them heed the court's order to help provide for their ki…
/r/MensRights24/12/17 01:31 PM
1

If your point is to denigrate female police officers, you picked a shitty example. The guy got stunned and maced and kept fighting. That's going to be a problem for most cops working without a partner. Clearly, the perp was either on PCP and wearing Kevlar, or is a cyborg from the future.
/r/MensRights24/12/17 05:08 AM
1

PLEASE DO NOT DO THAT. These allegations are from years ago. If places like this that have made the necessary changes close down due to Internet witch hunts, the children who live there are the ones who suffer.
/r/MensRights23/12/17 02:08 PM
1

I don't see social safety net programs as paying for the sex that the parent of a poor child enjoyed. That child is my fellow citizen, and he is entitled to a roof over his head, clothes on his back, food in his belly, and knowledge in his brain. Whatever selfish/stupid choices his parents may have made are irrelevent to the fact that he exists and deserves both basic sustenance and the opportunity to become a productive member of society.
/r/MensRights23/12/17 02:02 PM
1

Some of them clearly do. I am a married old lady with no special powers of perception, and HOLY SHIT the things I hear from adjoining tables in restaurants. The timid men and women connect with freaks via the Interwebs and wind up living their worst nightmare in a public venue.
/r/MensRights19/12/17 05:31 AM
1

The one actually being protected is the socially marginal person's date.
/r/MensRights19/12/17 01:39 AM
8

The point of this is to help awkward or timid people deal with a potentially difficult social situation, not to mock or dehumanize anybody else. I'm very glad this is spreading to the gents.
/r/MensRights19/12/17 01:38 AM
3

We'll, she is The Destroyer of Worlds...
/r/MensRights14/12/17 01:20 PM
2

I agree with all of that - but that doesn't excuse the contempt for secretarial work. You don't have to be a coal miner in order for your job to be legitimately useful and/or challenging. Some of these social problems are seriously exacerbated by the artificial devaluing of traditionally female jobs.
/r/MensRights14/12/17 03:39 AM
-16

Go ask yourself why you have such contempt for secretarial labor. Most men choose jobs based on the wage paid - they expect to be the primary earner. Most women choose jobs that are compatible with raising children - they expect to be the primary caregiver. There is actually nothing wrong with this.
/r/MensRights14/12/17 01:17 AM
2

And men have a built-in desire to rape. Oh, wait. That's crazy.
/r/MensRights12/12/17 01:20 AM
-1

My husband looked me right in the eyes and said "do something about it" when I was upset that he wouldn't get a job. Sounds to me like the guy wants out. Doesn't want to be a SAHD for the baby she's expecting (he has asked her to abort), and doesn't want to get a job. There is some sexism in that thread, but also a lot of pure realism - the OP is describing a shitty spouse, and being advised to leave him.
/r/MensRights10/12/17 03:45 PM
0

Go sit on a tiki torch. We will replace you :-)
/r/MensRights10/12/17 02:29 PM
-2

If you link to alt-right sources, then rational people cannot take you seriously. By your own admission, you had access to a wide range of more credible sources to link to. You chose to drag that garbage into this sub, and doubled down when the stench of it was pointed out to you. Please make a better choice the next time you have something to share.
/r/MensRights10/12/17 02:33 AM
1

Did you have a stroke while writing this post?
/r/MensRights09/12/17 08:17 PM
4

The gender of a mohel is irrelevent. Whether MGM is performed by a mohel who is not a doctor, a Jewish doctor who is also a mohel, or a doctor who is not a mohel, is also irrelevant. MGM is a human rights violation no matter who does it, and no matter what their reasons are for doing it.
/r/MensRights09/12/17 08:15 PM
2

This is insane. Parents have never, in any situation, had a LEGAL OBLIGATION to support their adult children. Disabled adults are entitled to support from the state.
/r/MensRights09/12/17 02:35 PM
1

That was my first thought as well. Because sometimes I live up to the stereotype.
/r/MensRights07/12/17 01:36 AM
23

The woman who wrote that would probably be totally fine with the gender reversal. Old-school is old-school. The women who like and repost it? Not so much.
/r/MensRights06/12/17 08:28 PM
1

I'm of 40, and most of my peers IRL are anti-MRA in one way or another, UNLESS they or somebody they love has personally experienced anti-male discrimination. If you don't have a reason to question the media narrative... usually you never do.
/r/MensRights05/12/17 07:46 AM
3

I love Chesterton, despite the many points of disagreement between us. He respected all people as sentient beings, and that goes a long way with me.
/r/MensRights05/12/17 01:40 AM
5

Most American adults don't actually want circumcision outlawed. They think of it as a personal choice, with pros and cons, that should be left up to the parents to sort out - just like spanking or religious instruction. The fact that most of the anti-circ activists I know are females and feminists doesn't mean that MOST of the people in that demographic are passionate on the issue. Most people I know in every demographic are frankly not too fussed about it.
/r/MensRights03/12/17 03:21 AM
3

Nope. Women who were pregnant with sons, spent 5 minutes Googling, and realized that MGM was a horror show. In fact, I never knew any men besides my husband who were passionate about this issue until I discovered the MRM years later.
/r/MensRights03/12/17 01:54 AM
2

It's never the biggest guys who cross the line into obvious, deliberate rudeness.
/r/MensRights03/12/17 01:50 AM
6

IGAF on public transit, because everybody needs to mind their fucking manners in that situation and take up the least space possible when things are crowded.
/r/MensRights03/12/17 12:46 AM
32

My God, that's beautiful.
/r/MensRights03/12/17 12:43 AM
3

Most of the anticirc activists I know in real life are feminists.
/r/MensRights03/12/17 12:40 AM
1

If you were actually put in the position of discovering paternity fraud, I suspect that you wouldn't find your love for your child and your sense of obligation to them destroyed. Most men don't. If you did, then of course the ethical thing to do would be to leave and never come back. It's easier on the child to process the loss of a parent in childhood than to spend the rest of their lives dealing with somebody who has decided not to love them.
/r/MensRights03/12/17 12:31 AM
2

I don't even know where to start with this dumpster fire of a post, so I guess I'll just have to pick a place: 1) People who identify as Native American have not referred to themselves as "American Indians" for about 40 years. 2) if you appeared on a talk show to speak about the MRM "on behalf of white men," it's weird that you'd expect to be perceived or treated as a Native American. 3) Professor Kimmel is a twat, but his Jewishness is not relevant to that fact 4) Nobody gives a fuck about Bert…
/r/MensRights02/12/17 03:54 AM
1

Oh, absolutely.
/r/MensRights02/12/17 03:15 AM
1

I'm an adoptive mother, I practice what I preach. But nobody ever LIED to me about the status of my biological relationship to my kids, and that's huge.
/r/MensRights02/12/17 03:12 AM
-8

Your kids are yours. That's a relationship that no DNA test can destroy unless you decide to destroy it. Now, is their mother a lying piece of filth? Probably not, but it would certainly be life-ruining for you if she was :-(
/r/MensRights01/12/17 09:38 PM
1

Totally fun to think about. I am fascinated by the idea of artificial intelligences - and weird as this sounds, anthropomorphizing the current sex dolls strikes me as insulting to the beings that will one day exist.
/r/MensRights30/11/17 07:33 PM
3

We really need to work on the language around sex dolls. People do not "sleep with" sex dolls or "have romantic relationships" with sex dolls. They use sex dolls to masturbate. The stigma against male masturbation is still significant, so I can understand the impulse to avoid putting it front-and-center in the sex doll debate. But i believe that we do more harm than good by going along with the anti-sex-doll rhetoric that humanizes these toys.
/r/MensRights30/11/17 12:35 PM
2

I don't think these kinds of studies are worth the paper they are printed on, because there is no agreed-upon definition for what counts as time spent of child-rearing. The French, for example, have lengthy and ritualistic family meals on a regular basis. It is a major component of their children's socialization. But because it is a child-inclusive activity rather than a child-centered activity, it is typically not counted as active parenting in these sorts of studies.
/r/MensRights30/11/17 12:26 PM
25

I really wish this stereotype would die. Are there ugly feminists? Yes. Are there ugly MRAs? Yes. Is sour grapes a major driving force in either ideology? No.
/r/MensRights30/11/17 12:18 PM
1

I'm all for sentient robots. I am fascinated by the concept, and I believe it to be possible. If they don't decide to exterminate us meat puppets and take over, I'll be among the vanguard agitating for full civil equality for my silicone-brained brethren. ... and this is why I am so floored by the notion that anything so far suggested as a "sexbot" could be perceived as being "good" at "sex and romance." If it's programmed to do what you want it to in the realm of intimate relations, there is no…
/r/MensRights28/11/17 12:57 PM
1

I honestly don't understand how you think it could work differently. We can sit around and sound off about how all human rights violations are equally bad, but if you are interested in actually doing something, the first thing you do is specialize, because trying to do accomplish everything simultaneously ultimately results in accomplishing nothing. You and I have chosen to specialize in men's rights activism - not because they are the only problems worth addressing, but because this is where we…
/r/MensRights27/11/17 03:21 AM
20

Right?!? You read about 50 of her tweets and realize that she is actually, literally mentally ill. Getting upset at what she says is like being angry at a poo-flinging chimpanzee. But the 782 people who clicked "like" on the pro-androcide comment... terrifying.
/r/MensRights26/11/17 12:42 PM
-31

Jesus Christ. Keep that shit out of this sub. Sincerely, A Jewish Female
/r/MensRights26/11/17 12:40 PM
1

Again, our disagreement transcends this issues discussed in this sub. "Everyone or no one" doesn't work at the strategic level, so I am OK with targeted activism. Berating activists who are focused on the rights of pregnant prisoners does precisely nothing to help male prisoners. Nor is such a focus "mothers and children first" in a way that devalues men - any more than activists working to improve access to prostate cancer screening are somehow devaluing women or children by working on a specif…
/r/MensRights26/11/17 12:35 PM
0

We appear to have a disagreement that transcends our shared commitment to the MRM. I'm in favor of targeted approaches to all kinds of human rights activism, because I think that activists generally get better results when they specialize. Some people focus on kids, some people focus on women, some people focus on men. Some people focus on first-generation immigrants or specific ethnic or religious groups. Etc. If you don't think that a preventable miscarriage is the loss of a potential life and…
/r/MensRights26/11/17 12:13 AM
0

I don't think women are the only prisoners who suffer from a lack of medical care. How could you possibly get that from what I said? I think that prenatal care for imprisoned pregnant women is a legitimate area of activism within the larger issue of prisoner rights, and that derision from other human rights activists is sadly misplaced.
/r/MensRights24/11/17 09:07 PM
3

If you're 17 when you do it, I am going to place most of the blame on the married adult.
/r/MensRights24/11/17 08:56 PM
1

If the dad was noncustodial and the relationship was actually "on-again, off-again" as described in the article, then it's not all that strange that the teenage girlfriend wasn't introduced to the child until she was older and the relationship had stabilized. Regardless of whether or not this woman was preyed upon as a teen, it's not acceptable to turn around and repeat the cycle. A sentence of six months seems appropriate to me for a purely statuatory offense - and yes, a man would have gotten …
/r/MensRights24/11/17 04:56 AM
0

I totally agree that it should all be fixed. Every single bit of it. But when I consider what actually can be fixed in the current political climate, I can see how a bill being messaged as a lifesaving measure for unborn children might make it through Congress when almost nothing else related to prisoner rights will. I also happen to believe that it's a top priority ethically, for the reasons mentioned above. Ethics and political pragmatism dovetail nicely for me in this instance.
/r/MensRights24/11/17 02:38 AM
3

Denying prenatal care should probably be classified as a separate offense. All of these conservatives who don't care if prisoners of either sex die from lack of medical care can't stop telling us how much they loooooooooove the unborn. Let them prove it. A miscarriage at 20 weeks outside of a hospital setting seriously endangers the life of a prisoner, just like any other major medical problem. Additionally, a potential life is lost - a child, grandchild, and sibling of people who have commited …
/r/MensRights24/11/17 12:37 AM
0

Back to /r/mgtow, there's a dear...
/r/MensRights24/11/17 12:24 AM
-9

The perp in this case was 17 years old when an adult mnan with a nine year old child started fucking her. Now she is 28, and fucking his now-teenage son. Both of these adults are absolute trash and I feel terribly sorry for the teenage boy.
/r/MensRights24/11/17 12:21 AM
-17

Better analogy: a single mother with a 9 y.o. son starts dating a 17-year-old boy. Years later, the cycle of statuatory rape repeats itself. Would the man get more than six months in jail? Probably. But his lawyer would have one hell of an exculpatory story to tell to the jury.
/r/MensRights23/11/17 09:08 PM
0

... and male prisoners should have thought about the possibility of anal rape before they sold those drugs or jacked those cars Oh, wait. That's insane.
/r/MensRights23/11/17 08:58 PM
-14

Male prisoners routinely suffer miscarriages while lying on the floors of their cells after 14 weeks of medical neglect? This is a legitimate grievance, specific to female biology, and shouldn't deserve to be dismissed by any free person. The other stuff in the proposed legislation also addresses legitimate grievances, but isn't specific to female biology and shouldn't be enacted only for incarcerated women.
/r/MensRights23/11/17 08:55 PM
16

And a bigger problem than rudeness! What if the next Tinder chat session results in a 15-year-old sending you nudes? Please be more careful about your online social connections, OP. Men go to jail over this bullshit.
/r/MensRights23/11/17 12:51 PM
10

What's your point? The devastating effects of rape and the failure of the justice system to take it seriously are obviously of interest to MRAs, regardless of the sex of the rapist.
/r/MensRights23/11/17 12:48 PM
6

I think it's fairly sad that any parent would need to be told this. We are old-fashioned, authoritative parents. Our children are expected to adhere to high standards of behavior at family gatherings. But forced embraces just make the kid even more hostile towards their weird/old/stinky/loud/bearded/whatevertheheck relative. It is counterproductive to insist on hugs.
/r/MensRights21/11/17 09:49 PM
1

You tell people that you are recording them because it's the ethical thing to do, not because you are afraid of getting in trouble at some later date for your cache of secret recordings.
/r/MensRights21/11/17 09:43 PM
6

I am a children's advocate, focused on working with low-income custodial fathers. Yes, this stuff happens. I have never seen it happen to this degree - most social workers actually don't sit around thinking up ways to screw their clients over. But sexism, racism and bigotry against nonChristian parents are all things I have encountered, and the consequences for being this kind of asshole are practically nonexistent. That's my biggest issue - you'll always have a few bad apples in every barrel. I…
/r/MensRights21/11/17 07:11 PM
1

Sleeping rough is incredibly dangerous, and unacceptable in a civilized society. Defensive architecture + regular patrols to collect people attempting this method of slow-motion suicide + way more shelter beds + way more free mental health and drug rehab services = problem solved. So of course, we do only the first part, because we are not a fully civilized species.
/r/MensRights21/11/17 01:42 AM
2

Patients of both sexes die from nursing home neglect all the time. It rarely gets any press at all.
/r/MensRights20/11/17 01:10 PM
4

The sex of the care providers is also irrelevant. I suppose we should just be grateful that OP didn't come up with a racist title, merely a sexist one. A sexist title is less likely to get us featured ShitRedditSays.
/r/MensRights20/11/17 03:19 AM
3

If your body is in somebody else's seat, you are not accidentally touching them. You are doing it on purpose, because you feel entitled to invade their personal space. When there is enough room on public transport to avoid touching your fellow passengers, anybody who thinks that shoving their leg or side meat into their neighbor's seat is something they are entitled to do is simply an asshole. Gender is irrelevent - some of the worst offenders are large women who allow their bodies to droop into…
/r/MensRights20/11/17 12:14 AM
5

Maybe by SJW standards. Here in realityland, taking up two seats on a crowded bus with your one body is appallingly rude. It's not illegal, but the person you're taking advantage of by intruding into their space isn't obliged to pretend that your behavior is OK. Stand in to doorway, right next to the lady with the stroller who is ALSO not entitled to block a second seat.
/r/MensRights18/11/17 03:19 PM
-26

Hooray, another deliberately created half-orphan, with bonus trauma of being removed as a toddler from the only parents they have even known. I hate surrogacy, and all other forms of reproduction where one of the adults involved in creating the child is legally erased from the picture. As you can imagine, our family court system is a never-ending source of rage bait for me.
/r/MensRights18/11/17 01:18 PM
-1

OK, if you know for sure that you cannot fit in one seat and you feel that flopping into the aisle is not a better solution, why don't you stand when there clearly isn't room for you to take up an extra seat, and get two people off their feet and out of the aisle? You're right that there is no cosmic justice in terms of how much you pay versus how much space you get on most public transit. I have often trundled a stroller onto a subway, I didn't pay extra for that stroller. But I could, and did,…
/r/MensRights18/11/17 01:06 PM
1

Was any part of your body in her half of the seat? If so, you were in the wrong. She paid the same price as you for a seat and neither your knee nor your sidemeat should cross the demarcation line. My husband is 6'3" tall and manages to not flop into the seat space of his fellow passengers. If you kept your body on your half of the seat and she bitched anyway, then she's a bitch and I'm sorry you had to deal with her. I am a tiny lady, and when obliged to take a seat next to a very tall and/or o…
/r/MensRights17/11/17 11:41 PM
0

Wow, for sure. The goal of parenting after divorce is to inflict maximum lifelong punishment using your children as pawns, even into adulthood! /s
/r/MensRights17/11/17 12:33 PM
-1

Men in my demographic cohort are not dropping out of marriage. Celebrating sexual dimorphism in the private sphere makes life more fun for both men and women, and is not incompatible with social and professional equality. Well-raised and well-educated people understand that.
/r/MensRights17/11/17 02:15 AM
-2

This woman isn't miserable. She just realizes that she gave something up in order to live in a truly egalitarian society. The impression I get is that she feels that what she gained is more valuable than what she lost. Now, me, I'm a natural optimist. I think we can have egalitarianism in the public sphere without giving up la difference in our social relationships.
/r/MensRights17/11/17 01:25 AM
10

I'm so grateful that you took the time and energy to do this. I got about 8 pages deep in that sub the other day, didn't see a single thing from us, but sure did get reminded how much some people hate Jews :-(
/r/MensRights15/11/17 02:29 AM
1

/u/girlwriteswhat, how do you reckon your hands would rate in this survey? Mine are pretty masculine by their definition.
/r/MensRights13/11/17 08:29 PM
9

I'm a female. My sons, also Jewish, are not circumcised. My mom said "fuck this Bronze Age bullshit" when my brother was born and ended the cycle of abuse for our family.
/r/MensRights13/11/17 08:25 PM
7

I'm Jewish. You've got all the room in the world from me, as long as you don't advocate circumcising minors.
/r/MensRights13/11/17 05:30 PM
1

Lots of women who have trained for a profession they love will choose to put in 40 years of fulltime work. But the age group you are interacting with mostly hasn't had baby #2 yet, which is the point at which a lot of couples realize that paying strangers to raise their kids so Mom can make money that they don't need is not actually how they want to live their lives.
/r/MensRights13/11/17 11:01 AM
5

I'm sure the potential to earn that much is there, but these economists are crackers if they think that a bunch of women married to men making 100k/yr aren't going to choose to raise their kids instead of working full-time from age 22-65.
/r/MensRights12/11/17 01:47 PM
4

Eh. That doesn't cross my personal line into assault. If you do what he describes in the context he describes, you are sexually aggressive, and that is not a crime.
/r/MensRights11/11/17 09:19 PM
9

He categorically denies the allegations.
/r/MensRights11/11/17 04:48 PM
-1

Are there Black people in your restrooms too? How can you possibly piss while standing next to a wog? How terrible this must be for you. /s Seriously, mind your own business while doing your business. Use the stall at work, and stop staring at the the other people in your gym's locker room. ETA: this post was a quagmire of typos, and also I think we got trolled.
/r/MensRights09/11/17 07:16 PM
3

Have you been talking to my clients?
/r/MensRights09/11/17 06:45 PM
1

Fair point.
/r/MensRights08/11/17 01:58 AM
2

Anybody who hires Black Cube to investigate their accusers is either very, very innocent or very, very guilty. In this case, I'm going with guilty.
/r/MensRights07/11/17 10:41 PM
1

Read the articles you post. Successful men and women are marrying at the same rate they always have.
/r/MensRights07/11/17 12:58 AM
4

What the data shows is that "wise" men continue to marry DESPITE an unfair divorce system, if they want to be fathers. I'm sort of uncomfortable with the word "wise" as placeholder for college-educated, fully-employed, and relatively wealthy. I have met plenty of morons who can tick all three of those boxes. But I hope you take my point.
/r/MensRights06/11/17 09:47 PM
38

Amelia Bassano was descended from Sephardic Jews on her father's side, but was baptized in the Anglican church. She was very cool, very interesting, and possibly the source of some of Skespeare's background knowledge for his Italian comedies. She was not of African descent. Jiminy crickets.
/r/MensRights05/11/17 07:33 PM
6

There really isn't enough information here. Did this couple have separate retiremmemt accounts and she wanted half of his on top of her own, or did they have one account intended to support them both in old age? We have the latter arrangement. If we divorced, we'd split it 50/50. I've been encouraged repeatedly over the years to get my own IRA, but it seems stupid to make a financial plan for a divorce I don't intend to get.
/r/MensRights05/11/17 09:03 AM
2

No problem. I really hope that you're right, and that John Grissom is telling the story himself as a darkly funny cocktail party anecdote, a year or so from now.
/r/MensRights05/11/17 08:57 AM
4

It's not funny. For the rest of his life, the author John Grissom is going to be waylaid by angry strangers who think he hurts children.
/r/MensRights05/11/17 01:39 AM
6

I never hope that, for any divorce.
/r/MensRights03/11/17 12:55 PM
1

I was thinking that as I was typing. But I'm commited to the concept, even during times when our execution of it seems pretty bleak.
/r/MensRights03/11/17 12:49 PM
2

The primary purpose of education is not to benefit future employers. It is to have a society composed of educated people who are able to participate competently in their own governance.
/r/MensRights03/11/17 02:33 AM
4

The cocksucking thing is a very fringe practice. I doubt that Mr. Weisel ever saw it done. The Lubavitchers don't do it. I hate all forms of ritual genital mutilation. I don't practice it and I don't excuse it, and it is obviously not central to my own Jewish identity. But the idea that it is bad is a pretty new one, weird as that probably sounds to a gentile. Eli Weisel and Menachem Schneersohn (the Lubavitcher rebbe) may well have lived their entire lives without hearing an argument against MG…
/r/MensRights03/11/17 02:28 AM
1

Not sure about "shaming." What I was trying to say us that this woman and I make decisions veeeeeeeeery differently, and OP should not assume that her intent is the same as mine would be. I do think it's possible, though.
/r/MensRights02/11/17 05:47 PM
3

Those guys, I'm happy to see condemned.
/r/MensRights02/11/17 05:44 PM
10

Holy shit, Eli Wiesel? That seems like one instance where you might choose to keep your mouth shut. Actually, I'll expand on that. If the man is dead and can't defend himself, and it was only groping, not rape, the good you might do for society by coming forward is outweighed by the harm you are going to do to his loved ones.
/r/MensRights02/11/17 01:43 PM
0

For what it's worth, I'm not crazy and I've never pursued a man for child support... and I would contact a hookup to let him know what I planned on keeping the baby we made. I'd give him a chance to express interest in being involved. OTOH, I don't go to Burning Man and fuck strangers.
/r/MensRights02/11/17 01:48 AM
3

Greetings, fellow old person. I have also made many exciting discoveries involving the Internets, despite my advanced age ;-)
/r/MensRights01/11/17 03:14 AM
1

I tried. Didn't accomplish anything beyond pissing off a postal clerk. It's actually an amazing feeling, imagining my daughters being able to perform this routine but integral act of adult citizenship.
/r/MensRights31/10/17 12:47 PM
4

Not two generations of adult careers. I think there there will always be a disparity between the sexes in certain traits associated with entrepreneurship, but 500 years from now it probably won't be nearly as wide.
/r/MensRights31/10/17 11:59 AM
10

Not seriously threatened by any one incident, but it's the death of a thousand cuts. I have always assumed that men who are sensitized to gender politics were having a parallel experience - every groping (or worse) story with a male victim, every divorce in your social circle where the mom gives the dad a tough time by exploting her privilege in court, every "men are bumbling idiots" anecdote - none of that may be personal to you, but it doesn't exactly make your day either.
/r/MensRights31/10/17 11:57 AM
1

My great-grandmother drove an ambulance in NYC. Before Pearl Harbor, she was a wealthy middle-aged woman with a chaffeur to drive her to her ladies' luncheons. Didn't stop her being truly useful in the war effort.
/r/MensRights30/10/17 08:24 PM
3

"Picking one" is NOT THE FUCKING POINT OF THE DRAFT. I'm not picking shit. The military will pick, and I would want them to use my children in the most efficient way to save our country. Both of my sons are healthy and strong, and if they are young when WWIII starts, they are likely to be assigned to combat roles. My daughters are also healthy and strong, but they're not exceptional female specimens. I don't want ANY of my kids to go to war, but if we have to fight for our survival, we need to f…
/r/MensRights29/10/17 03:55 PM
1

Apparently he's gay. Congrats, Gay Guys Of The World, this prize is setting his cap for one of you!
/r/MensRights29/10/17 03:50 PM
3

In the situation where we actually need to draft a huge army to fight for our nation's survival, FUCK ANYBODY "GETTING A BREAK." My sons are going to the front lines if that's where they are needed, perhaps along with my daughters who are all naturally athletic. My old ass is going to work 60+ hours/week to fill the gaps left by drafted young people. My mother's ancient ass will be hoisted up out of its rocker to become the primary caregiver for her great-grandchildren. That's how you win a real…
/r/MensRights29/10/17 12:57 PM
3

They don't require anything near the level of fitness that wildland firefighters must demonstrate. Being a wildland firefighter is far more dangerous and physically difficult than the vast majority of military positions.
/r/MensRights29/10/17 12:50 PM
4

Well, there's an interesting twist on the equality-of-outcomes canard.
/r/MensRights29/10/17 12:47 PM
2

LMFAO
/r/MensRights29/10/17 12:45 PM
1

Because most people are assholes, especially in the year following a divorce. From an old woman ;-)
/r/MensRights29/10/17 03:33 AM
2

Well,he definitely wasn't talking about men who want their children. That was you. And it was irrelevant to the topic.
/r/MensRights29/10/17 03:02 AM
2

Me too, and I'm a woman.
/r/MensRights29/10/17 02:15 AM
3

My particular area of activism is to work with low-income men who are attempting to assert their parental rights. They aren't the first group of people to fight for justice from a position of social and legal disadvantage, and they won't be the last. I have seen this situation improve in my lifetime.
/r/MensRights29/10/17 02:12 AM
3

men who don't support their children that they don't want
/r/MensRights29/10/17 02:07 AM
1

That's certainly the impression you would get on the Internet, but it's not true. Fathers (especially unmarried fathers) are not treated equally by most family courts, but they do have rights conferred by the mere fact of biological paternity, and it is possible to assert these rights against the wishes of the mother.
/r/MensRights28/10/17 10:11 PM
3

The question the OP asked is why "feminists" decry legal paternal surrender while supporting legal maternal surrender. One reasonable answer to that question is that the two things produce vastly different outcomes for both the individual child and society at large. I'm familiar with the Emanuel case - I live in an adjoining state and have worked with (or gone to court to fight with) several of the people involved, including the piece-of-shit Christian agency that facilitated the whole mess. It …
/r/MensRights28/10/17 10:07 PM
3

The ends do NOT justify the means, which is why I support LPS even though I know it will harm children and society in a way that maternal surrender to adoptive parents does not. The issue of equal parental rights for men is an important one, but not relevant to this discussion. LPS may ultimately aid the cause of men who want to raise their children (they'll be able to credibly threaten to walk away if they are not given equal parental role), or it may harm the father's-rights cause (courts may …
/r/MensRights28/10/17 09:00 PM
10

Well, a surrendered infant has people lined up around the block to adopt it, love it and pay for its raising in a stable two-parent family, thus producing an upstanding adult citizen. I am a nigh-fanatical supporter of legal paternal surrender. But I won't pretend that it wouldn't cost society in ways that infant adoption does not.
/r/MensRights28/10/17 06:13 PM
4

I know other people who have handled their coparenting this way after a breakup. Remember, the people who DON'T feel screwed over by their/their parent's divorce aren't generally talking about it online.
/r/MensRights28/10/17 01:58 PM
-11

Please, take yourself out of the dating pool. You don't like women. That's your right, but it's unethical to consume the finite time, attention and energy of people who are seeking emotional intimacy if you know you can't give it to them because you fundamentally don't respect them. Stay at home, watch porn, and wait for your sex doll.
/r/MensRights28/10/17 01:51 PM
1

That's a matter of opinion, but the fact that it was staged makes it a very uncontroversial from a consent perspective. All three of the subjects were adults and were clearly on board with it and knew it was for public distribution, and that's my moral line for whether or not virally distributed salacious photos are OK.
/r/MensRights28/10/17 01:44 PM
3

Exactly.
/r/MensRights28/10/17 01:05 AM
3

True.
/r/MensRights28/10/17 01:04 AM
13

Lookee no touchee (without consent), and all adults take care not to make attractive minors feel uncomfortable. It just doesn't seem that difficult to me. Isn't this what normal people already do?
/r/MensRights27/10/17 06:27 PM
20

Well, this woman is ready for a truce.
/r/MensRights27/10/17 05:47 PM
2

OK, it's official, I am saying "no" to those Shawn Mendes tickets.
/r/MensRights27/10/17 05:45 PM
48

I'm fucking hating it. That is an hilarious, clearly staged pic. Why should we be happy to have even more fun sucked out of this shitty world?
/r/MensRights27/10/17 05:42 PM
3

Having kids is kind of de rigeur for closeted homosexuals of Dr. Tyson's age. Beyond that, hot women regularly report that Dr. Tyson's eyes light up at the sight of them. But this is the first time I have ever heard of a woman complaining about his attentions. Given that he's interacted with (perhaps literally) a million young women over the years, it just seems like interested parties like us would have run across a few rumors by now if he was an habitual offender...
/r/MensRights27/10/17 09:38 AM
1

LMFAO. "While venturing into the Dark Side, our hero takes note of a new device that may be usefully employed by adherents of the Light Side..."
/r/MensRights27/10/17 09:32 AM
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How could this accusation be considered more credible because it so closely resembles the Cosby allegations? #copycat #shittyjournalist
/r/MensRights27/10/17 09:28 AM
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Word on the street is that he likes the ladies. His accent and mannerisms are atypical for a Black man, but much less atypical within the subset of Black men who pursue careers in academia. Professors tend to be weirdos ;-)
/r/MensRights27/10/17 09:26 AM
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This is a pile of lawyer's hogwash. I cannot draw any conclusions from that article other than the obvious one - the lawyers for both sides were absolutely shitty. I'd really love to read the case file and the court transcripts, just to know what really happened here. Could be a baby-snatching, could be a recalcitrant asshole who wasn't working his case plan but could and did hire a lawyer to drag the case out, and the foster parents got fed up and tried to protect the child by hiring their own …
/r/MensRights27/10/17 09:14 AM
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I'm pretty sure my mother would have assaulted me if I had ATTEMPTED to mutilate my sons.
/r/MensRights27/10/17 09:05 AM
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I read the same thing (awkward joke to conceal handicap) and it seems credible to me. The security detail and the rest of the Bush family should have redirected GWB into a more appropriate way of dealing with the situation - seriously people, protect your demented old person! - but anybody who gets the context of this situation should realize that they were not assaulted and back the fuck off and go enjoy their able-bodied life.
/r/MensRights27/10/17 09:01 AM
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I'd be open to trying that. I haven't used Voat for about a year, glad to hear that the slugs have largely crawled back under their rocks. I really, really prefer uncensored forums. But life is too short to spend in arguing with people whose fundamental premise is so fucking stupid.
/r/MensRights26/10/17 05:47 PM
22

Voat is tough for me to use. Not because it hurts my tender feelings to be followed around by Jew-haters, but because I am constantly derailed when trying to discuss non-Jew-related issues such as men's rights. Are Steemit and Bitchute less deluged by those pests?
/r/MensRights26/10/17 05:32 PM
1

Is it on Kindle? ETA: It is! I love reading novels by people I "know." Thanks, you just made my day.
/r/MensRights26/10/17 03:54 PM
2

There is no biological change in a mans body when he has sex or doesn't... Please learn more about your own body and how it works. (Maybe prioritize that for awhile, before you go back to promulgating batshit theories of female biology on the Internets.) Lack of regular sexual intimacy has profound negative physical effects on men. It doesn't make mentally healthy men into murderers, just as childlessness does not make mentally healthy women crazy. But it's a real and serious issue. It shortens …
/r/MensRights26/10/17 01:15 PM
1

They also live longer, have more sex, and are vastly more likely to live with their children throughout their growing-up. Just sayin'. Reasonable people can disagree, but I really do believe you are not thinking it through if you don't believe that any smart man can would look at the available evidence and decide that marriage was the right choice for the person he was and the life he aspired to, even given the risks.
/r/MensRights26/10/17 01:04 PM
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Most men who don't have a lot of sex tend to become homicidal. Oh wait, that's a ridiculous thing to say, because most people of both sexes are not inherently fragile and tend to remain socially functional even if they don't fulfill every biological urge.
/r/MensRights26/10/17 01:02 AM
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She had a long history of mental illness. I am sorry she took her own life, but relieved as hell that she did not give birth or adopt or in any way put herself in charge of a child.
/r/MensRights25/10/17 11:23 PM
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My husband watched Strom Thurmond do this to a fellow student at a photo op. Nobody said anything. He'd give a lot to be able to redo that moment of his life and tell the nasty old fucker that his groping days were over. Is GWB guilty of the same offense as Strom? I don't know. Nobody I trust witnessed him doing this. But I don't find the notion incredible.
/r/MensRights25/10/17 08:49 PM
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You know, I think people who ignore the considerable evidence that marriage improves outcomes for college-educated men and women and VASTLY improves outcomes for their children are making a bad decision. But I don't think that they are "idiots," nor do I believe they are "taking advantage of" their coparents and children. It's a complex issue, and reasonable people may disagree. If your worldview doesn't have any room for that, that's your loss.
/r/MensRights25/10/17 08:43 PM
1

You are entitled to your opinion. I'm not sure what I ever ever said to make you think that I countenance divorce in any but the most extreme situations such as physical abuse or a psychotic break. As a wife and mother, I feel I am a good risk prospect. I probably shouldn't take your remarks personally - but you sure did go out of your way to make them personal.
/r/MensRights25/10/17 02:12 PM
1

Yeah, what an idiot, hashing out a life plan with his fiance prior to getting married, and learning about the laws governing division of marital property prior to paying for a prenup that wouldn't actually have protected either of us.
/r/MensRights25/10/17 12:27 PM
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My husband and I negotiated terms of a prenup, but never signed one. The terms included our right to maintain ownership of inherited property during a divorce, a ramp-up period to a 50:50 split of our assets (I think it was 10 years), and a one-time settlement instead of ongoing alimony if we divorced prior to my husband's retirement age. The main reason we decided not to get it drawn up is that we thought a court would just throw it out if either one of us decided we didn't want to honor it. We…
/r/MensRights24/10/17 06:50 PM
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Good job. You are being the change you want to see in the world. Next time, for the love of God, ask for proofreading help. 10,000 grown-ass people on this sub are available 24/7 to assist you. Your spelling errors detract from your message.
/r/MensRights22/10/17 04:01 PM
2

My city (in the USA) has a very similar charity. They are under no pressure to become gender-neutral, their public and private funding for their Responsible Fatherhood programming is secure. If I am being honest, they do a lot of good. They connect unemployed fathers with jobs, including help with transportation and training to overcome the initial barriers to employment that keep so many poorly educated men from getting a fair start in the labor market. They offer group counseling at no charge …
/r/MensRights22/10/17 11:45 AM
7

Wow. Turn off the lesbian porn and go outside.
/r/MensRights21/10/17 01:24 AM
5

They should also take great care to give Jews preference in booking. We have been trying to break into this field for years.
/r/MensRights21/10/17 01:21 AM
1

Sorry, not willing to do the kind of stuff a chick needs to do in order to star in a Sophocles production.
/r/MensRights20/10/17 09:36 PM
1

To clarify, the vast majority of at-risk children who qualify for public preschool are not being abused in any way - they're just being raised by poor, ignorant parents.
/r/MensRights20/10/17 08:45 PM
1

Well, I hope you write some immortal tragedies.
/r/MensRights20/10/17 08:41 PM
1

We prefer reality to SJW tone policing on this sub. Thug is word that refers to behavior, not race. If you knew anything about public preschool programs in America, you would have realized that they were designed to serve at-risk populations and that Family Day at any of them is generally The Thug Parade. The ethnicity of the thugs will vary in accordance with their geographic region. Thugs love their kids, too, and deserve to have opportunities to participate in their school celebrations. But I…
/r/MensRights20/10/17 08:39 PM
2

Public pre-school is NOT just for thugs, true. I have used it myself, with my foster sons (all kids in foster care automatically qualify). It's a great program. But as with all programs designed to serve at-risk kids, the parents are disproportionately likely to be people who were deprived themselves as children and are marginally functional as adults. OP confirms that this was underlying issue - trashy parents starting fights at previous Family Day events. Apparently you picture black people wh…
/r/MensRights20/10/17 12:28 PM
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Good job, Dad!
/r/MensRights20/10/17 11:43 AM
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... and then the at-risk kid never has a parent show up at a school event again. With public preschool programs, you have to meet the parents where they are at. They aren't going to magically start acting better just because their child is receiving a publicly funded intervention intended to ameliorate the effects of a deprived environment at home. It's a real shock for people like OP, who is probably low-income but clearly a stable, normal parent, when their kid qualifies for something like WIC…
/r/MensRights20/10/17 11:42 AM
1

Sexuality is not a burden for an emotionally healthy adult. If you find it burdensome, that's an issue to explore with a therapist. Sexual attraction is the low-level background noise in the human brain pretty much all the time, which I personally think makes life interesting. But being dragged into a stranger's sexual psychodrama whenever you walk down the street is NOT interesting. It is irritating, exhausting and occasionally scary.
/r/MensRights20/10/17 11:34 AM
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You are allowed to approach any adult stranger, in any context, and pursue them sexually. As long as you use your words rather than your hands, you are within the boundaries of the law. But most women find it irritating, exhausting and occasionally scary to be approached by strangers panhandling for pussy in a nonsexual social context. Any person who complains about getting hit on at a bar is being unreasonable, and should be ignored. Which means not hitting on them again. Or any of their friend…
/r/MensRights20/10/17 01:42 AM
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The mindset you're describing is misanthropic - and that's cool with me, some of my favorite people are misanthropes. One of the awesome things about them is that they never panhandle strangers for sex. They dislike being asked for emotional handouts by randos on the street, and treat other people as they wish to be treated :-)
/r/MensRights20/10/17 01:27 AM
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Wow, you took this very personally. Several replies to my posts explaining how being approached by a stranger looking for sex is a lot like being panhandled - irritating almost always, exhausting if it happens frequently, and occasionally scary. If you cannot discern the difference between a woman propping up a bar making doe eyes at the male patrons and a woman filling her cart at the grocery store or riding the subway home from work, there's not much anybody can do to help you. Think really ha…
/r/MensRights20/10/17 01:19 AM
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You're talking about a situation where you not only left strangers alone, but never made advances on women you had social relationships with who were (you later learned) interested in dating you. There is actually nothing wrong with being a virgin until age 23, but I'm sorry you missed out on the earlier experiences because YOU are sorry about that. What we try to teach our teenage sons is 1) they are not gross and their desires are not gross 2) we are living in a time where girls get way too mu…
/r/MensRights19/10/17 01:43 PM
1

You're attacking a strawman I didn't say that men don't have the right to exist or be near me or talk to me, and I didn't say that men do not face their own issues with whar we're apparently calling "street harassment" these days. What I said, and will say again, is that being panhandled for sex is very much like bring panhandled for money. Perhaps if more men understood that, they would change the way they approach women, to the benefit of all parties involved - because being rejected and/or bi…
/r/MensRights19/10/17 01:35 PM
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I'm not generally afraid. I'm very rarely afraid. I'm quite rationally irritated at times, because it is irritating to be continually be approach by strangers who want something from you. The similarity to panhandling is really striking - most interactions are perfectly safe and polite, but still take up your time and energy in a way that you'd prefer not to expend it. Sometimes the people who approach act entitled to a piece of you and turn nasty when you refuse, and rarely, but memorably, you …
/r/MensRights19/10/17 12:58 PM
1

Well, I don't think of homeless people as lesser people, so no difference there. Being approached by a stranger and asked for your number or to go out on a date is a lot like being panhandled. It just is.
/r/MensRights19/10/17 10:27 AM
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I am also interested in hearing the reason they decide to give. The real reason is that this is a public preschool, which in America is reserved for "at-risk" kids. They believe (correctly) that if they just invite families, the moms will bring a bunch of unrelated males (their current boyfriends) who are various kinds of thugs. They are right. That will happen. It would not, of course, be dangerous for these children to have a fall party with the exact same kind of young men who live in their h…
/r/MensRights19/10/17 10:16 AM
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If you get caught at the office, by one of the coworkers you are defaming posting on the Internet about how your coworkers only got hired because of their race/sex/religion/orientation, you're likely to get fired. You have just demonstrated that you are probably a bigot and definitely have poor judgement.
/r/MensRights19/10/17 10:01 AM
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Actually, she was specifically describing strangers who hit on her in public places.That's not "men talking to women." That's a very small subset of the verbal interactions between men and women. It's exhausting, and irritating, and occasionally scary. That's just the truth. And I say this as somebody who likes men, actively seeks out their company in social situations, and has the ironclad "married" excuse to deflect sexual advances without causing offense.
/r/MensRights19/10/17 09:53 AM
1

Yes, but cutting pieces off is not the solution, unless you have areas of necrotizing flesh.
/r/MensRights19/10/17 09:46 AM
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I posted about the universality of the problem and my city's lack of resources for male victims of sexual assault, and got a lot of positive feedback.
/r/MensRights19/10/17 09:41 AM
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Massive shifts in the ethnic demography of the area we now call Italy predate feminism by millennia. There are no "native" Italians, jusy as there are no "native" Americans. I suppose you could call it toxic humanity, but in my personal opinion it's not toxic at all. We are a migratory species. What I worry about is the failure of contemporary European societies to properly acculturate their immigrants.
/r/MensRights17/10/17 01:19 PM
1

Exactly. We Americans tend to speak in apocalyptic terms about social changes that other Western countries have already made and done just fine with.
/r/MensRights16/10/17 05:38 PM
1

One of my Girl Scouts has a dad and brother seriously involved with Boy Scouts, and they spend a lot of dad's parenting time doing Boy Scout stuff. She's effectively been part of the troop since age 6. She hikes and keeps up. She camps and nobody tried to fuck her. I feel like the BSA is going to survive the horror of the integration that already exists.
/r/MensRights16/10/17 11:27 AM
1

The only person thinking about Brad Pitt was you.
/r/MensRights16/10/17 11:16 AM
1

Time for my sons to get the next shot in the series! Thanks for the reminder, and hooray for BC!
/r/MensRights15/10/17 11:00 AM
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Such garbage. Give me a make-you-own-damn-lunch type over a Southern Belle any day, in terms of women I'd want my sons to try and build an honest relationship and happy life with.
/r/MensRights15/10/17 10:58 AM
1

Exactly my point. Men who bitch about being passed over for marriage by desirable women sound just as pathetic as women who think they are entitled to a ring from Brad.
/r/MensRights14/10/17 07:09 PM
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The current generation is going to be just fine. Not every individual member, but the group as a whole will manage. If you don't think you can ever make more than 40k/yr, 1) you're wrong but 2) then you don't think you can ever support a family - so why the fuck would you want to try? Live comfortably and self-sufficiently. Supporting other people's civil rights is a matter of ethics, not something you do in order to get a direct benefit for yourself. And nobody, ever, is going to lower their ex…
/r/MensRights14/10/17 07:07 PM
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That's literally what he said. The babies are still getting made, but among the high-school-only cohort they are now getting made outside of wedlock.
/r/MensRights14/10/17 08:35 AM
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Whoa. The ability to get legally married is a fundamental civil right, yes. Being selected as a marriage partner (or a sex partner, or a coparent, or a business associate, or a roommate, or half of a folk music duo, or whatever-the-hell else) is NOT a right. If you don't meet somebody you want to marry who wants to marry you, you won't get married. Nobody owes anybody else marriage.
/r/MensRights14/10/17 08:30 AM
1

I basically agree with this, although I have met many individual exceptions to the rule.
/r/MensRights13/10/17 03:45 PM
0

That's an unnecessary escalation. I don't think this poster should end his life - I'm just glad that he plans to live a life without women. He doesn't like women.
/r/MensRights13/10/17 03:39 PM
1

Gross.
/r/MensRights13/10/17 03:37 PM
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You don't have to be a feminist to object to that kind of broad-brush bigotry. I haven't been active in feminism for years, the MRM is way closer to my worldview and values - and I still realize than men who truly don't like women are no loss to the hetero relationship market.
/r/MensRights13/10/17 03:36 PM
1

The serving of scalding liquids by places of public accommodation should be outlawed, yes.
/r/MensRights13/10/17 03:34 PM
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Ooooh, the c-word! And a comment about my weight! This guy must be very confident and assured, have mad game, and be a total catch! Go your own way. You obviously don't like women as a group. A thin woman with kids (me) wishes you all the best as you forge a life path on your own terms.
/r/MensRights13/10/17 03:33 PM
1

Preventing 3rd degree burns is not a bullshit reason. There are no reasonable precautions a person can take to eliminate (or even vastly reduce) the risk of spilling a drink in the car - too many external factors. Therefore, drinks served to people in cars must be safe to spill.
/r/MensRights13/10/17 11:18 AM
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I do not know you personally, but I will bet $100 that every woman who does is desperately hoping you will move on from women. Seriously. Go be happy without us. We wish you all the best.
/r/MensRights13/10/17 11:13 AM
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Oh look, /u/deegan79 is the OP's girlfriend in reverse! Only he's much more specific and nasty in his sexism than anything OP has mentioned about his girlfriend! OP, act like an adult and protect yourself from the worst while hoping for the best. Worst is you realize that you need to proactively break up and make sure your credit and possessions are protected. If your girlfriend has an intransigently negative attitude towards men, then she's not wife material. But if anybody I knew posted that a…
/r/MensRights12/10/17 03:33 PM
3

Thanks for defending and normalizing sexual assault. Again.
/r/MensRights11/10/17 09:23 PM
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Newsflash: Normal, healthy men do not want to have their genitals fondled by strangers without a prior social interaction that establishes mutual interest. This is not an "issue around sexual assault." This is a normal human confronted with a defective human. Please do not grab the genitals of strangers. It is a pathological behavior.
/r/MensRights11/10/17 08:48 PM
2

You and I have often disagreed, /u/Tedesche, but holy crap you are 110% right about this.
/r/MensRights11/10/17 08:41 PM
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My husband sees it that way. Sometimes he's overweight, sometimes he's not, but he is always the hilarious genius who can parent better than most folks while lavishly supporting his wife and their hockey team of kids.
/r/MensRights08/10/17 02:06 PM
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I thought it was a joke too, until we had kids and tried to train our entire social circle out of the habit. As they started to have kids, it really tapered off quickly. Turns out pretty much no father of an infant appreciates being described as a "babysitter."
/r/MensRights30/09/17 11:16 AM
3

I know a few lesbian MRAs in real life. They seem to have become interested in our issues the same way most women do - a male loved one gets fucked over in family court.
/r/MensRights30/09/17 04:19 AM
1

I'm no expert in UK law, but I think this would be legal if structured as a membership organization. This woman is planning to peddle gender-segregated transport services in accordance with sharia law, which I personally find fucking terrifying. London has a serious assimilation problrm they they are refusing to deal with.
/r/MensRights30/09/17 04:14 AM
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No thanks, I don't need or want to spend hours every day with a PS4. I'm not looking to do the minimum or cut corners with my kids. Neither are you, probably, but that's not really your problem because your wife sets the standard in your household and you help out in the specific ways that she asks for. Which is actually easy, because you love your wife and kids she has learned that asking you for more than you will cheerfully give just creates a bigger hassle for her in the end.
/r/MensRights30/09/17 04:03 AM
3

You've made it clear that you don't understand the scope of the enterprise. You probably honestly believe that you are a fulll partner in homeschooling and homemaking rather than a sometime assistant, which probably causes your wife some of the same frustration that the woman who wrote that article is feeling.
/r/MensRights29/09/17 06:39 PM
2

We're homeschoolers, you dolt. The lessons are their schoolwork. And my boys are all boy. No helicopter parenting here - I don't have time for it, and don't agree with the practice.
/r/MensRights29/09/17 03:02 PM
2

Thank you for making it clear that you are the sometime assistant, not the person who has been doing the job.
/r/MensRights29/09/17 02:46 PM
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If you are lounging around hanging out with the kids, you're doing it wrong. If you're doing it right, it's still more satisfying in lots of ways than paid work, if you have the temperament for it. I chose this life, nobody coerced me into staying home, having lots of kids, or homeschooling. But you are the delusional one if you think my job isn't real because I don't draw a salary.
/r/MensRights29/09/17 01:05 AM
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This may be an age thing. Part of what I have to do is schlep them to their extracurriculars after lessons. Not a terribly hard task, but not the gym not the PS4. Or, you may find it "easy" because your wife is the one doing it and you are her sometime assistant.
/r/MensRights28/09/17 11:02 PM
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Have you ever done it? We have a large family, and that makes a difference, but there is no hour in my day that could regularly be devoted to the gym. Certainly no 4 hours to PS4. And while my husband is a highly competent parent, the fact that he doesn't have the bandwidth to work his demanding job and also keep track of any domestic need does create a lot of stress from time to time. I'm not complaining, it's the life I chose. But it's not the idyll you imagine, at least not for a large homesc…
/r/MensRights28/09/17 10:15 PM
1

I hear you. It's horribly unfair. But still, don't risk custody for money.
/r/MensRights28/09/17 08:24 PM
1

Do you want to raise your daughters, or do you want the money? This is exactly what I tell custodial mothers who reproduced with a deadbeat. Fuck the money. Keep your children safe at home with you.
/r/MensRights28/09/17 12:50 AM
0

Women are generally killed privately by their family members. Drowning in the swimming pool, etc.
/r/MensRights28/09/17 12:33 AM
1

I'm not opposed to married couples using paternity testing, but from the point of view of the legal system, they have already decided to coparent and the husband is automatically the father. I would be OK with informing the husband of the option for testing and letting him decide if he wants it. I'm not OK with that option for any rando the woman brings into the delivery room and presents as the father - that guy has no legal relationship to the baby and if he wants one, he needs to prove that h…
/r/MensRights27/09/17 10:51 AM
1

If I were in charge, I'd let married people decide themselves what to put on the legal paperwork, but tell all single people that paternity must be tested if there is to be a father on the birth certificate.
/r/MensRights27/09/17 01:54 AM
1

Embryos are not children. I wouldn't gestate a defective or unwanted embryo, nor allow it to be decanted into an artificial womb. It seems to me that my attitude towards my bodily processes is the opposite of cultish - I neither despise nor fetishize my embryos. I wouldn't force a man to sign up for parenthood because I got accidentally pregnant, and I won't allow anybody to firce me.
/r/MensRights27/09/17 12:31 AM
1

Controlling if/when they become a parent is something that I desperately want for all of my kids. Don't you?
/r/MensRights27/09/17 12:25 AM
3

God only knows what he thinks of us adoptive-parent freaks.
/r/MensRights27/09/17 12:24 AM
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Women already donate eggs - to be used in creating their own children, and to be used to help infertile couples or gay men become parents.
/r/MensRights27/09/17 12:23 AM
1

Mandatory medical testing is not, and will never be, a thing. Now, we could require testing for nonmedical aspects of birth such as filling out the birth certificate...
/r/MensRights27/09/17 12:10 AM
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I'm a parent by both birth and adoption. Genetics DO mean little, as far as I can tell. This guy correctly identifies some "delusional garbage" that I have seen play a vastly detrimental role in the relationship between parent and child. It's not relevant to the issue of paternity testing, though, because the point of such testing is to discern whether or not you live with a adulterous sociopathic liar who is depriving you of your reproductive rights. It's not actually about the kid at all. Men …
/r/MensRights26/09/17 11:58 PM
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D) All of the above. Male modesty should matter, but it's still a joking matter in our society, which is one of the thousand reasons I'm an MRA.
/r/MensRights21/09/17 05:36 PM
0

Right about what? That boys can't be taught to channel their sexual impulses in socially acceptable ways, such as looking without touching? I have two teenage boys. They attend a school with a nearly non-existent dress code. Are they destined to fail their classes and/or commit sexual assault, or are they going to be OK thanks to being taught the difference between feeling desire and taking action?
/r/MensRights20/09/17 08:45 PM
-1

All the more reason to be outraged that there was not a space for him at an appropriate facility. If they can't admit the children of single working parents upon application, they are not serving the vulnerable children in their community and they need the resources to expand their programs.
/r/MensRights20/09/17 08:38 PM
1

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that Bettina was a fundie. As far as I know, she's not. But in this case she's parroting their damaging idea that males need to be protected from the sight of appealing body parts lest they founder upon the rock and sink their ship. It's so insulting. To males, to pleasures responsibly savored, to la difference,...
/r/MensRights20/09/17 08:32 PM
2

Fundamentalists give no sane person hope for the future of gender relations. The solution is not Christian purdah for women or Christian put-out-your-eye chastity for men. The solution is healthy women liking to be looked at and healthy men liking to look, and all adults understanding the massive moral gulf between the desire and the act.
/r/MensRights20/09/17 06:31 PM
3

We need less wait-lists, because an eight-year-old needs the help now. This. The school administration may have made a calculated decision to overreact and traumatize this disabled child, because they knew that nothing short of media attention would get him into an appropriate facility.
/r/MensRights20/09/17 06:25 PM
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They were to go to the pond and fetch him back. Not call the cops. Cops are for serious violence.
/r/MensRights20/09/17 06:23 PM
1

I'm sorry you feel that subordination is normal or healthy in adult relationships. My happy 20-year relationship with 5 thriving children has always had two equal partners. We divide decision-making into areas of expertise.
/r/MensRights20/09/17 04:53 PM
1

There is nothing good about this trend. Bus service is reduced and socially frowned upon, and ungodly amounts of time time and fuel are wasted by adults sitting in lines of private cars outside of schools.
/r/MensRights20/09/17 10:33 AM
0

No, your job is to make decisions about how to run the household. You're at home, doing the work. You'd have cause to bitch at your wife if she fucked up at work and got fired, and she'd have cause to bitch at you if the kids weren't taken care of properly or the house was filthy or something actually significant like that - but no, the fact the she makes the big paycheck doesn't mean she picks the children's schools and activities and you scurry around carrying out her instructions. Nor do you …
/r/MensRights20/09/17 10:23 AM
2

When I was a little girl, the oldest living generation in my family talked about getting the right to vote. They were adults, some of them college graduates, in the 20th century, and not full citizens of their country. Now I have little girls, and the oldest living generation in our community talks about surviving the Holocaust. Grudges are never useful, but "so long ago" is actually not that long ago.
/r/MensRights20/09/17 09:49 AM
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Safe Haven, like all child services, is administered differently in all 50 states. The one universal rule is that the parents CANNOT be charged with abandonment or any other offense in connection with their proper use of the Safe Haven program. I understand your desire to have the laws and procedures neatly laid out and easily understandable, but that's not how lawyers create job security. But if your concern is for the children, then to the best of my fairly extensive knowledge, every child eve…
/r/MensRights20/09/17 01:59 AM
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... and is about something that happened 18 years ago. That legislation was a pile of fundie-appeasing garbage that would have hurt more men than it helped.
/r/MensRights19/09/17 09:57 PM
1

Good question. In every Safe Harbor case that I have ever heard of or read about, neither the mother nor the father was assessed child support. The cops and social workers like to interview the people who left the baby, and always try to find them, but the goal is not to make them raise or support the baby. The goal is to confirm the baby's identity, discover if there are any fit and willing relatives who want to adopt, and to expedite the adoption.
/r/MensRights19/09/17 09:52 PM
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I wish more people would realize this. Safe Harbor is NOT abandonment. It's an adoption pathway for families too broken to handle adoption the proper way.
/r/MensRights19/09/17 12:49 AM
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I remember when this was originally posted. My family has had several weddings where the bride's father was included despite being a deadbeat, and I think that's the mature thing to do if that's what the bride wants. But this mom and bride took it waaaaaaaaaaaay too fucking far. You can include without excluding. One of my cousins was walked down the aisle by both dads, and they were both on the invitations. As pissed as we all still were about the adultery and abandonment 20 years previously, i…
/r/MensRights18/09/17 01:03 PM
7

Yes. Hers and the guys who remained in her previous field. I'm married to a naturally inclined engineer who started in the overwork culture at age 18. There is no doubt that he loves the field - and no doubt that the 7-day workweek would have shortened his life and made our children's growing-up a blur to him if he hadn't switched gears and/or I had to work and couldn't schedule our family life around his availability. This cultural zeal to give 100% to career and nothing to personal and familia…
/r/MensRights18/09/17 09:40 AM
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So I went to business school, and eventually I landed myself in the kind of career that I was happy to do on weekends, and nights, and most of my other time. Jesus Christ. Only in America is this a happy ending.
/r/MensRights18/09/17 08:41 AM
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Philosophers love this game. My experience with neonates actually leads me to agree with those who say that a newborn is basically an extragestational fetus. They are not people in the way that toddlers are people. Anybody with a new baby, a two-year-old and the ability to internalize uncomfortable truths is likely to reach this conclusion if they sit down and ponder the differences in their offspring. I also agree that euthanasia is an appropriate therapeutic option for minors who are profoundl…
/r/MensRights18/09/17 08:35 AM
1

Did she move them in a way that will reduce your access? I ask this because the judge will ask it first thing. If you live in Texas and your ex moved from North Carolina to Georgia, then your access is not materially affected and the judge doesn't want to hear about it. Your ex will just show up and say "of course I told him I was moving, how could I keep that a secret? I didn't send an official notice because we don't have a combative relationship. He's dragged me into court on a technicality b…
/r/MensRights17/09/17 12:15 PM
1

Did she move them in a way that will reduce your access? I ask this because the judge will ask it first thing. If you live in Texas and your ex moved from North Carolina to Georgia, then your access is not materially affected and the judge doesn't want to hear about it. Your ex will just show up and say "of course I told him I was moving, how could I keep that a secret? I didn't send an official notice because we don't have a combative relationship. He's dragged me into court on a technicality b…
/r/MensRights17/09/17 11:58 AM
1

Did she move them in a way that will reduce your access? I ask this because the judge will ask it first thing. If you live in Texas and your ex moved from North Carolina to Georgia, then your access is not materially affected and the judge doesn't want to hear about it. Your ex will just show up and say "of course I told him I was moving, how could I keep that a secret? I didn't send an official notice because we don't have a combative relationship. He's dragged me into court on a technicality b…
/r/MensRights17/09/17 11:55 AM
1

Did she move them in a way that will reduce your access? I ask this because the judge will ask it first thing. If you live in Texas and your ex moved from North Carolina to Georgia, then your access is not materially affected and the judge doesn't want to hear about it. Your ex will just show up and say "of course I told him I was moving, how could I keep that a secret? I didn't send an official notice because we don't have a combative relationship. He's dragged me into court on a technicality b…
/r/MensRights17/09/17 11:54 AM
1

Did she move them in a way that will reduce your access? I ask this because the judge will ask it first thing. If you live in Texas and your ex moved from North Carolina to Georgia, then your access is not materially affected and the judge doesn't want to hear about it. Your ex will just show up and say "of course I told him I was moving, how could I keep that a secret? I didn't send an official notice because we don't have a combative relationship. He's dragged me into court on a technicality b…
/r/MensRights17/09/17 11:54 AM
1

Right?!? How much does a person have to despise men to think that a sex toy will be seen as a replacement for a life partner by any but the most socially marginal males whose options are 1) live alone or 2) live alone with a doll? Probably every man I know, if offered a chance to experiment with one of these things for free, would give it a go. None of them would confuse their zany masturbation adventure with a sexual encounter or a romantic relationship.
/r/MensRights17/09/17 11:39 AM
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When you go on TV and tell the world that you've introduced your children to your sex robot, you're going to be called a pervert.
/r/MensRights14/09/17 08:58 AM
1

The shorts and boots are a must!
/r/MensRights13/09/17 11:38 AM
2

It's occasionally exhausting being an MRA who is actually not sexist.
/r/MensRights13/09/17 12:20 AM
1

That is correct.
/r/MensRights12/09/17 07:30 PM
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That's not been my experience. There are people who will hear a reasoned argument and people who will cite "policy" and tell you to buzz off. Lower-level management tends towards to matter mindset.
/r/MensRights12/09/17 02:04 PM
2

She probably didn't "forget" a bra. She's probably just tired of wearing the nasty things, and has correctly concluded that there is no good reason to.
/r/MensRights12/09/17 11:35 AM
0

She's never heard of you either.
/r/MensRights12/09/17 11:33 AM
-34

What problem? A woman managing a gym? I don't know if you've ever had occasion to protest segregation in a gym, but this response (we open at 5) is a very standard first response.
/r/MensRights12/09/17 11:17 AM
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Loosrn that tinfoil hat a bit. I don't think you're getting enough blood to the brain.
/r/MensRights12/09/17 10:29 AM
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At last – perhaps for the first time in any Western democracy – we saw last week a woman in a powerful office of state acting, not on behalf of women’s sectional interests but neutrally, in the genderless service of justice. I feel like this is very dismissive of the hundreds (thousands?) of female legislators, judges and political appointees who have pursued justice impartially in the years since females holding such offices became a thing.
/r/MensRights12/09/17 10:27 AM
1

The clamp method, anecdotally-from-other-Jews-I-know, destroys more tissue. There's no logic in any of this, but if I were forced to mutilate my sons I'd want an old-school mohel with a scalpel. I also wouldn't want to crush any bits of my daughter's genitalia prior to having them cut off in accordance with God's will.
/r/MensRights11/09/17 05:57 AM
1

Of course not. How can you live in the state of California and not realize this? If you don't want to support children, take responsibility for your fertility and get a vasectomy. If you DO want to have children, but not yet or not with this woman, take as much responsibility as possible and use condoms that you provide and take home with you or rinse out before throwing in her trash.
/r/MensRights09/09/17 12:01 PM
2

A lot of what we look back on historically as child abuse was done by very well-intentioned people who were working off bad information about human development.
/r/MensRights08/09/17 11:55 AM
1

HRT for postmenopausal woman is absolutely "drugging women." It has lifestyle benefits that come at the price of health risks (cancer, stroke). Adult women can choose to assume the health risks - and they have much more information to inform their choice than transcurious children and their parents, since the practice has been so extensively studied. Breast reconstruction is absolutely "obfuscating a mastectomy." I've had it done, actually. I did it to restore the appearance of my body after a m…
/r/MensRights08/09/17 11:50 AM
3

Once again, the cocksucking is an extreme fringe practice. I had never even heard about it until the herpes rabbi. No intermarried couple is doing the cocksucking bit. ... If that makes any of this better. I guess not getting herpes is better. But when the absolute best thing you can say about your plan for your newborn baby is that it won't give him herpes...
/r/MensRights08/09/17 01:54 AM
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Male puberty is what happens to male bodies. Female puberty is what happens to female bodies. Drugging children so that they can more easily obfuscate their birth sex if they are trans in adulthood is beyond ridiculous. It's the opposite of self-acceptance, self-love and self-respect. It's going to be looked back on as child abuse.
/r/MensRights08/09/17 01:45 AM
38

Marijuana made her viciously abuse her toddler? That's a new one on me, and I work with abused children. Whatever happened to crazy? I'm glad she got a nice long sentence at least.
/r/MensRights06/09/17 09:36 AM
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