The_McAlister Archive

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-11	Fewer Men Graduate College: Obama says it’s a “Great Accomplishment.” Fortune actually did a study on this that is the first I find credible. Men are less willing to take on the heavy debt loads that are increasingly required to complete a college degree. When they reach the point of owing $12,500 in school loans, men "are more likely to be discouraged" than women -- and to decide it makes sense to leave school and start working full-time. It turns out that persistent wage gaps in the labor market play a big part in motivating women to finish school. In the short …	/r/MensRights	11/10/13 01:03 AM
2	Florida man denied mammogram because of gender Please refer to my post above explaining why women don't get free screening for certain cancers that we get much less often than men.	/r/MensRights	10/10/13 05:03 AM
4	Florida man denied mammogram because of gender More precisely, Obamacare has provisions requiring that preventative care as recommended by the National Institute of Health must be provided without copay. They rely heavily on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force created in 1984 to provide recommendations on that topic. The hope at the time was that the recommendations would be followed voluntarily but that didn't happen so here we are. All preventative items that get an A or B score from the task force are covered without copay. That way t…	/r/MensRights	10/10/13 04:44 AM
1	I'm probably not the first to come up with this, but aren't a lot of feminist concerns really just humanitarian concerns arbitrarily applied to females only? Discrimination against people of color are also just humanitarian concerns arbitrarily applied to minority people only. But its the people doing the discriminating that are being arbitrary. The reaction to the discrimination would be ignoring the problem if they pretended it was a general thing rather than a specific thing. Words like "feminism" and "racism" will go away when the people discriminating against various groups either go away or lose the power to harm the people they don't like.	/r/MensRights	10/10/13 03:09 AM
-8	“We’re calling you out.” An article from my university that calls on men to not only stop raping, but to stop letting other men rape women. Here is an exercise for you. Remove women from the question entirely. The scenario is drinking, roofies, and a male victim. Imagine I'm watching this. Would you think it cool for me to do nothing? I doubt it. How about if I refuse to testify at a future trial? Or what if I and the rapists regularly tell jokes involving sodomizing men we don't like? I didn't do anything, so I'm OK, right? Like if I saw someone robbing your house and didn't call the police or come over to testify when the police c…	/r/MensRights	22/09/13 10:04 PM
-2	Baffled by teen boys, experts keep trying to turn them into girls. Surprise — it’s not working. Can you guys please explain this to the conservative/patriarchs that are constantly in a state of moral panic about how successfully boys are being feminized by modern civilization? Let em know there is nothing to worry about so they can chill?	/r/MensRights	27/08/13 04:19 AM
-6	Why is it ok for feminists to say "Men's issues are because of other men - male judges, politicians etc - and not our problem", but not ok for men to say "Most slut shaming is from groups of women to other women, not our problem"? You don't see slut shaming or virgin/whore mythology in societies that lean matriarchal. The clearest indication that a society leans matriarchal is when it is matrilineal and status/property/family travels through the female line. For example, the Mosuo of China are matrilineal and don't have marriage as we understand it. Each woman owns her own house and periodically invites a man who has caught her eye to sleep over. If he's interested he accepts. Whom she sleeps with, how often, and how many…	/r/MensRights	23/08/13 04:28 AM
-10	Why is it ok for feminists to say "Men's issues are because of other men - male judges, politicians etc - and not our problem", but not ok for men to say "Most slut shaming is from groups of women to other women, not our problem"? Ummm ... you are misquoting us. In order to shit on people you have to have power. The halls of power are full of men. Patriarchs. Ergo, if someone is making problems for other people it is probably a guy. So lets take an MRA issue. MGM. Who was it that popularized and spread MGM again? THats right! The male-only priesthoods of the religions of the Book. Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Mohels are all dudes, dude. These bastians of masculinity threaten people with damnation if they don't cut off th…	/r/MensRights	23/08/13 03:48 AM
-28	#Wagegap factors - Men, on average, spent more days working, and spent more hours on the job than women. See "working" line. And even after you account for that a wage gap still exists though it does shrink to a more manageable 10% or so. The question is, how do you want it closed? We can close it by raising female salaries or reducing male salaries. Both achieve equality. Most of the progress so far in closing the gap has been reduction of male income. IE mancessions etc. As purses get tight the "overpaid" men were the first to be let go. Then re-hired at lower, female, wages. Is a race to the bottom of the wage barr…	/r/MensRights	22/08/13 02:04 PM
1	Just more feminism double standards Of course the response is different. The situation is different. The fantastical body image standards were set and aggressively evangelized by one gender then applied to both. The gender being told constantly to aspire to be pleasing to the other gender rather understandably doesn't like it when they fantasize about unhealthy things. This is wildly exacerbated by the loudly fantasizing gender controlling most of the countries wealth/media outlets which puts some teeth behind it. When men fantasi…	/r/MensRights	04/08/13 04:12 AM
-1	Just more feminism double standards You know, PETA is working right now to encourage animals be ethically treated rather than working on your issues. I bet you hate those guys! HOW DARE THEY have priorities other than your own. Dude, seriously, if you are going to build a straw-feminist to beat up rather than do anything to actually help men ... at least built a big scary one. Complaining that she isn't fixing your problem fast enough to suit you is really milquetoast feminist bashing. Now I know helping men is hard. We live in a …	/r/MensRights	04/08/13 02:40 AM
1	Just more feminism double standards Both toys perfectly exemplify patriarchal gender roles. Everything feminists oppose. We know. Whats your point?	/r/MensRights	04/08/13 02:09 AM
-5	Just more feminism double standards Careful, you are crossing the streams with some other MRA posters. You guys can't argue that feminists don't think its a problem and that feminists think it is yet another reason patriarchy is bad at the same time. It's like a no-choicer organization claiming that abortions are only had by sluts who have abortion after abortion as birth control and also that abortion makes you sterile so if you have one you'll never have kids. Takes like two seconds to realize these can't both be true.	/r/MensRights	04/08/13 01:45 AM
-2	Just more feminism double standards Please link a citation showing that feminists created He-Man. You see, here is the problem. Things like Barbie and He-man are not created by popular vote. They are created by people who own factories. These people are rarely feminists and even more rarely women. What takes away the agency of women is our under-representation in the board rooms where these things are designed. I can describe representations I want to see and it doesn't happen. The people who told Joanne Rowling that her Harry Pot…	/r/MensRights	04/08/13 01:29 AM
1	Just more feminism double standards I've never seen a female idol that matched my power fantasies as a woman. I have never in my life fantasized about being able to wiggle my hips and send someone else to do something cool. I always fantasized about doing cool things myself. A lot of feminist effort is in trying to create a variety of female idols so that every little girl can find one that suits her as a unique individual, which is more like what boys have. In real life there is just as much diversity among women as there is amon…	/r/MensRights	04/08/13 12:40 AM
-2	Just more feminism double standards It's the difference between asking you what you want to be and making a toy like you asked for and completely ignoring what you want and telling you that you have to like what you were given. My husband and I at one point in Everquest decided to make a pair of casters and roleplay them as an old couple. We had to abandon it because while you could make an old man in several races ( not elves, obviously - and with trolls who can tell ) you couldn't make an old woman. We tried again with no luck i…	/r/MensRights	04/08/13 12:08 AM
-9	TIL that there is an organization fighting for male contraception options for men -- the Male Contraception Information Project -- and it was founded by a woman -- Elaine Alice Lissner Cause all our medical technology can't figure out how to re-hook up a tube ... nope. We never re-attach things in the human body. never ever ever. Don't know how. It is a mystery. Most places that do Vasectomy reversals have a greater than 90% chance of success on the first go. And if they mess up ... they can fix it on the re-do. Furthermore, you don't actually need the vas reversed to be a dad. Male infertility is a completely solved problem. Sperm can be extracted directly and artificial inse…	/r/MensRights	30/07/13 04:08 AM
3	TIL that there is an organization fighting for male contraception options for men -- the Male Contraception Information Project -- and it was founded by a woman -- Elaine Alice Lissner The vas is dead cheap .. the reversal is a few K but if you can't afford it how are you going to afford a child?	/r/MensRights	30/07/13 03:52 AM
-10	Politifact on the gender wage gap: "Mostly False" That's not how unconscious, irrational, biases work silent. If you sincerely believe, for example, that women are inherently better at teaching then you will willingly choose a more expensive female teacher over a cheaper male one as long as you can afford it. Because she's worth it. A lot of people wrongly believe that men are better lawyers. This bias is false. So the firms hiring the most female lawyers ... are making the most money. Women are gaining ground at firms with high profits. Of 18 …	/r/MensRights	29/07/13 04:20 AM
-4	Politifact on the gender wage gap: "Mostly False" Chocoboat's title: Mostly false. The politifact article was about a guy who cited 77% as the wage gap for same job. That is the wage gap overall. For same job its more in the 8%-15% range depending on field. So his statement was incorrect. Implying that politifact denies the existence of the wage gap for the same work is ... well its exactly the kind of falseness that he is attempting to mock. When comparing apples-to-apples in the same job Politifact cites this study which does show a wage gap …	/r/MensRights	29/07/13 03:20 AM
-12	Why can't paternity tests just be a matter of law in hospitals when a baby is born. Sooooooo .. um ... are you suggesting that if I get pregnant I can send the police around to take blood samples from any man I want to annoy? Whose the dad? Oh .. maybe its MaxxedMen, no? Well, science doesn't lie. How about that guy who keeps insisting that circumcision is a femminist plot even though feminists started the intactivist movement and male genital mutilation has been pushed primarily by patriarchal preisthoods? No? Not him? Well you took his blood so you must be right .... Or I kno…	/r/MensRights	28/07/13 07:23 PM
-8	Why can't paternity tests just be a matter of law in hospitals when a baby is born. ... you seem to be implying that men who are named as father's don't have access to paternity tests and that this proposal therefor addresses their unmet need for one. I've never heard of a man who wants a paternity test done being denied one. Citation?	/r/MensRights	28/07/13 07:16 PM
-3	A new law in California may be the best piece of mens rights legislation you will ever see from such a liberal state They aren't punished. Schools are simply required to run an equal number of teams for both genders so that everyone can have athletic opportunities whereas pre title-X schools sank all sorts of resources into athletics that only boys benefited from. Athletic training and competition is valuable for everyone. And the point of offering athletics in a school situation is for the benefit of students. Not for your benefit as a fan/observer. Only offering athletics to boys is absurd. Imagine if a scho…	/r/MensRights	05/07/13 05:46 AM
-4	A new law in California may be the best piece of mens rights legislation you will ever see from such a liberal state Sports are good for everyone. You guys hate fat girls right? Well where do you think thin fit athletic women come from? SPORTS. Duh. Talk about shooting yourselves in the foot ...	/r/MensRights	05/07/13 05:26 AM
-1	A new law in California may be the best piece of mens rights legislation you will ever see from such a liberal state that do not offer boys teams FTFY Or you could change "girl" to "women". But referring to teams for students of the same age as "girl's" and "men's" is silly. Or do you believe that men become adults at a younger age than women?	/r/MensRights	05/07/13 05:23 AM
6	Feminism killed chivalry Chivalry hasn't died. Some people just get very confused about it and don't understand what it actually is. Hop into the way-back machine and dress appropriately. You've got a corset, a bustle, your clothing is rigid and restraining and your skirt bells around you. This makes getting through a door or into a carriage awkward. A little help is appreciated. In essence, your wardrobe means your hands are always full even when they aren't. Take a look at some period gowns. And remember, corset. What…	/r/MensRights	03/07/13 03:46 AM
-3	"Forced motherhood is a form of violence." What about forced fatherhood? Well I don't deny women or men the right to control what happens inside their bodies. But as soon as we're talking about a live birth we're talking about two other people who are intrinsically involved in the adoption question. FTFY	/r/MensRights	02/07/13 06:11 AM
-1	"Forced motherhood is a form of violence." What about forced fatherhood? Your beef is adoption, not forced gestation. It is the fact that she can turn custodianship over to the state and walk away while you can't unless she lets you. This is a real thing, a real unfairness. Addressing it has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with abortion or bodily autonomy or the violence of forced gestation. Its non-violent paper pushing that allocates people's time, not their blood. Nothing that happens prior to birth matters to anyone but a misogynist in our current system. At …	/r/MensRights	02/07/13 06:07 AM
-6	"Forced motherhood is a form of violence." What about forced fatherhood? If I could force you to endure the symptoms of pregnancy for a bit I think you'd change your tune pretty fast. Doing things to your body against your will is pretty much the definition of violence.	/r/MensRights	02/07/13 05:12 AM
3	My mom is going to get social security spousal benefits even though my dad died over 20 years ago, 10 years after she divorced him. How SS works: If you are the divorced spouse of a worker who dies, you could get benefits just the same as a widow or widower, provided that your marriage lasted 10 years or more. Benefits paid to you as a surviving divorced spouse who meets the age or disability requirement as a widow or widower won't affect the benefit rates for other survivors getting benefits on the worker's record. Her disbursement negatively effects you and any potential step-mom you neglected to mention in no way whatsoev…	/r/MensRights	30/06/13 09:21 PM
3	My mom is going to get social security spousal benefits even though my dad died over 20 years ago, 10 years after she divorced him. Yep. Feminists in the 1970's got the SS language changed to be gender neutral which - among other things - made the "wife's benefit" the "spouses benefit" allowing widowers to collect it.	/r/MensRights	30/06/13 08:40 PM
6	My mom is going to get social security spousal benefits even though my dad died over 20 years ago, 10 years after she divorced him. What a wonderful argument for a public healthcare system.	/r/MensRights	30/06/13 08:25 PM
7	My mom is going to get social security spousal benefits even though my dad died over 20 years ago, 10 years after she divorced him. Thanks to feminist judges the survivors language in the Social Security statues were re-written to be gender neutral in the late 1970's so that men could get survivors benefits too. So if you marry a career girl and collect survivors benefits from SS for her you can thank Justice Ruth Ginsberg for it. [She] Changed the label “wife’s benefit” to “spousal benefit,” which makes men eligible for benefits if they earn less than their wives. And with 1/4th of married men earning less than their wives …	/r/MensRights	30/06/13 08:24 PM
14	Consent is a very important men's rights issue. I agree with what you are trying to say. Feminists have been pushing this idea for awhile - that men aren't mindless animals controlled by their dicks - but you are coming at the same idea from a slightly different angle which is great. This image, otoh, is terrible. You need to frame the picture on him while making his face clearly visible. In that shot he practically has his back to the camera, the woman is center frame facing the camera making the picture about her rather than him. It would b…	/r/MensRights	23/06/13 01:22 AM
17	Consent is a very important men's rights issue. How is it projection or rationalization? The idea is screamed from everywhere. She was told it by her mother, her father, the tv, the radio, the movies, her priest/rabbi/pastor/imam/etc, books, magazines, advertisements .... hell, in this very forum you guys have done things like pitched fits at the thought of pornography being removed from grocery stores where kids can see it. I mean, really? Why should anything beyond medical basics be at grocery stores? There are adult toy stores for everythi…	/r/MensRights	23/06/13 01:12 AM
1	Mother cuts 6-year-old son's neck, he endures it and stops her from committing suicide. Most commenters pity her ("I hope she gets help" etc) OK ... first off, the gun control posts are also de-rails. So your top quote is no more relevant than the folks using this as evidence as to why we need to build a wall at the mexican border. They are using this murder/suicide to advance unrelated political agendas. And of course someone is focusing on the mother rather than his mental illness. He's dead. There really isn't anything to be done about his mental illness at this point. Shall we psychoanalyze his corpse? =D. The mother is alive and …	/r/MensRights	12/06/13 11:06 PM
1	"Authorities in Nassau County recently humiliated 104 men for attempting to buy sex...you cannot, in fact, end demand for the world’s oldest profession. All you can do by criminalizing demand is violate men’s right to be presumed innocent, ruin lives and make it harder for prostitutes to work." You are moving the goal posts. Saying that I can't produce anything of value except sex is quite different from saying that I can do all sorts of valuable things but sex is something that only women can provide men. And you are wrong on both counts so you'll need to heft those goal posts rather further than that. Not only can I program computers well enough that multi-national corporations cheerfully bid for my services but there are entire web pages full of woman-substitutes for lonely guys so …	/r/MensRights	12/06/13 05:25 AM
2	Mother cuts 6-year-old son's neck, he endures it and stops her from committing suicide. Most commenters pity her ("I hope she gets help" etc) I get your point. Had this been a man instead of a woman the reaction would indeed be different, Evidence? I've never read about a man ( or woman for that matter ) starting to kill their children and then stopping. I've read a lot of "man shoots family then himself" headlines but never a situation like this where a mentally ill man starts a suicide slaughter but then is talked out of it. A few minutes of googling isn't turning up such a case either. So the OP is, as far as I can tell, getting ma…	/r/MensRights	12/06/13 03:49 AM
1	Having sex with woman on false promise of marriage is rape says the Indian high court. Inciting violence is a crime so that analogy doesn't hold ... And within the context of the culture its even worse since the loss of virginity for an unmarried woman in a culture that idolizes the hymen is a big deal. The whole thing is fucked up. I totally understand why she's trying to marry a liar who beats her. Its the only option r... that culture leaves her that keeps her honor intact. Better a battered wife than an outcast whore. You'll get battered either way but at least as a wife your …	/r/MensRights	11/06/13 07:37 PM
2	Why MRA has become my 'Feminist' subreddit. Many folks don't think Martin Luther king would have gotten the time of day if he weren't the polite alternative to more aggressive groups. The Overton window is not a new thing.	/r/MensRights	10/06/13 10:41 PM
-3	Why MRA has become my 'Feminist' subreddit. An odd sentiment for a forum whose basic premise is that feminism is so cool you want your own version of it =D.	/r/MensRights	10/06/13 10:02 PM
1	I am going to go for a HIV test that obamacare gives women for free. When I am denied the same free service, I will file a federal lawsuit. There is also the issues of pregnancy. An HIV positive woman can give birth to a non-infected child but its tricky and takes extra precautions.	/r/MensRights	02/06/13 09:08 PM
2	I am going to go for a HIV test that obamacare gives women for free. When I am denied the same free service, I will file a federal lawsuit. And other things that only apply to men. It sets minimum standards of care for insurance coverage and some forms of medicine don't apply to both genders. I mean, if you went in and tried to get a pap smear where would the doctor even begin? You don't have a cervix. You can't get cervical cancer. Likewise I can't suffer from inability to ejaculate because I don't do that.	/r/MensRights	02/06/13 04:00 PM
9	If you ever hear someone say "You can't compare male circumcision to FGM!", show them this video. We are far to lax on the subject of religious exemptions to generally applicable law. Here's to all the Mohel's being restricted to working on consenting adults only. The sacrifice of ones own flesh is holy. The sacrifice of someone else's flesh profane.	/r/MensRights	28/05/13 04:08 AM
1	Guy holds door open for woman, gets an HR letter when she complains I find this subreddit kind of sad for that reason. I know some guys dealing with problems in our system an I'd like to help them. The patriarchy that is currently being dismantled gave men an overall better set of obligations/privileges and massively more freedom to ... well .. be ... but it did have various arbitrary requirements for men that only made sense in the context of the entire system. As the upsides are taken away so too should the down sides. The mother is not always the best parent,…	/r/MensRights	26/05/13 02:41 AM
-1	Guy holds door open for woman, gets an HR letter when she complains Where did the tradition of holding doors for women come from? well, if you are dressed like this having someone open doors for you is really handy. Such garb has under garments of a whalebone or, later, a steel boned corset. This kept your back perfectly straight and made holding the door wide enough to let the skirts through .. awkward. The least you could do for a woman, after demanding she cram herself into that getup, is keep the door from catching the skirt and dirtying/damaging it, no? Or …	/r/MensRights	26/05/13 12:11 AM
-2	Guy holds door open for woman, gets an HR letter when she complains Oh please. I know dang well that most of the time you guys hold a door for me you are trying to make me jog so I'll bounce like the baywatch actress. Thats why you open it while I'm still a ways away forcing me to either be rude and make you stand there or pick up the pace. You are motivated by something but it sure ain't chivalry.	/r/MensRights	25/05/13 11:54 PM
-4	Obama tells men to "man up" and take "personal responsibility" I am not normally Anti Obama, but this article made me want to vomit. If I were a guy I'd spend the two hundred for a vasectomy until I was ready then have it reversed. If you can't afford the reversal you can't afford a kid. It's only a grand or so. Total cost of ownership is the lowest of all birth control options. Lowest failure rate of all options. When it does fail it almost always fails in the lab in a follow up sperm test, not with a pregnancy test. Doesn't mess with your hormones. No maintenance. Can't forget it or use it wrong. If women had an option like…	/r/MensRights	20/05/13 03:22 AM
3	Facts about gender discrimination - infographic with sources A significant portion of male homicides are gang related territory battles or happen in the commission of a crime. And these do get huge attention. There is all sorts of work trying to stop gang violence. Just cause nobody calls it "stopping violence against men" and instead calls it "reducing gang violence" doesn't mean there aren't all sorts of outfits trying to do outreach to inner city male youth to turn them away from a path likely to end in a bullet. The unifying theme is patterns. Random …	/r/MensRights	20/05/13 02:49 AM
2	Facts about gender discrimination - infographic with sources pssst ... in 1987 almost half of computer programmers were women. And over a third of system's analysts. In fact, the industry was advertised as girly comparing writing a program to organizing a dinner. Are you arguing that young women brains have fundamentally changed in a mere two decades? You seriously think that this is more likely than a social phenomena? I was a girl before IT became a gendered field. Before society started throwing boys at computers while surrounding them with "no girls a…	/r/MensRights	20/05/13 12:49 AM
3	Facts about gender discrimination - infographic with sources Add a bar for attempted suicides, not just successful. In the media we portray men committing suicide by firearms or crashing their cars while women are portrayed poisoning themselves or slitting their wrists. The strategies society glorifies for suicidal males are significantly more ... successful. Brains, once blown out, can't be put back. And pulling a trigger is easy. Slitting your wrists is significantly harder and it gives you a period of time to change your mind and bind them. Not to ment…	/r/MensRights	19/05/13 11:52 PM
3	Men account for 53% of rape victims in the US military. Most of military training is not job requirements. It is pushing people past physical endurance in order to break them down mentally and then build them back up as part of a team. Literally exercise the snark out of them. /shrug The physical requirements of military combat today are nothing compared to what they were a few hundred years ago. Weapons and gear are lighter. Vehicular troop transport exists. Rations are readily available and high calorie. Some MRE's are even tasty. No eating shoe le…	/r/MensRights	18/05/13 05:06 AM
1	Men account for 53% of rape victims in the US military. So let me get this straight, upon hearing that rape culture in the military is facilitating rape of both men and women your answer is, "Get the homos out so the men won't be raped". How about we get the rapists out. /rolleyes	/r/MensRights	18/05/13 04:25 AM
1	The Cleveland kidnappings: ". . . from an evolutionary psychological perspective, it can be argued that most men desire to exert such control over women." (Hatred masquerading as science, in the name Not all mate guarding is jealousy. When a husband takes over cleaning the litter box because his wife is pregnant and cat waste sometimes contains microbes that are harmful to pregnant women that is mate guarding but it isn't jealousy. Sexual jealousy, however, is always mate guarding. Both genders do it.	/r/MensRights	13/05/13 04:54 AM
1	The Cleveland kidnappings: ". . . from an evolutionary psychological perspective, it can be argued that most men desire to exert such control over women." (Hatred masquerading as science, in the name Lets totally ignore the fact that he aborted the offspring produced by his captives and evolutionary traits have to result in competitive offspring ... Why do I never read an article about how making Mom happy is supported by evolutionary psychology because happy moms are better nurturers and produce more competitive children?	/r/MensRights	13/05/13 04:25 AM
0	so apparently the draft is discrimination against women. There is so much more to service than schlepping through mud with a big backpack. When I was in college I got a recruitment call. The caller assumed I was his targets mother and launched into a spiel about the character building awesomeness and honor of service. How it teaches valuable job skills and instills discipline and integrity. And its not just grr-thmp he-men being shot at! no! They ALSO need mathematics and physics majors like {male pronunciation of my name}! Such people are of vital im…	/r/MensRights	11/05/13 11:37 PM
-15	Colorado College: Students Found Guilty for Satirical Flyer - Two male students were found responsible for violating the school's "violence" policy for posting a flyer that parodied a flyer from the F How are men rats and how are campuses sinking ships?	/r/MensRights	13/04/13 04:15 PM