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And it's especially irritating that Colbert would humor her after he himself got lambasted by Suey Park such a short time ago And there's your answer for why he would do this: damage control. Who is Colbert's target-audience? "College liberal" types and those adjacent to such stereotypes. The whole Suey Park thing involved an attack from his target-audience. Something like that could destroy media personalities if it actually went anywhere. And the weird SJW-vein of the left does seem to be gain…
/r/MensRights01/11/14 03:26 AM
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Let their advertisers know about all of the good-will being spread by MJ editors: http://mediakit.motherjones.com/mk/testimonials Ecover Walk Free Humane Society of the United States Goddard College Credo Mobile New Society Publishers Martini Media Country Home Products Trinity University Press Watershed Online Fundraising & Advocacy Talk Back Tees Donor Digital Inner Traditions/Bear & Co
/r/MensRights31/10/14 05:42 PM
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Let me preface this by saying that I am with Gamergate in spirit. However, they seem to have a lot of assholes (eclipsed only by the assholes on the other side). People see the shit that's happening and they become reasonably concerned. I don't think what she said was particularly outrageous. Read her actual post, rather than this partisan clickbait nonsense from Thinkprogress. She's not a Gamergate supporter...but that's not a good enough reason to attack her. She's being honest about the effec…
/r/MensRights26/10/14 08:42 AM
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So complain about "bigotry" and "hatespeech".
/r/MensRights26/10/14 05:50 AM
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Read this: http://www.mensrights.ca/feminism-and-antifeminism/ After you recognize that feminism is about elevating women and/or lowering men...you'll have the answer to your question.
/r/MensRights24/10/14 06:09 AM
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The FGM you are describing is not what is practiced in Africa and the middle east. Its a Westernized version to appease people who want it done because of their culture. And? The point was that there are different types of genital mutilation. FGM is not entirely comprised of the extreme examples, and MGM is not entirely comprised of the version you and I had. There are different types of varying severity, and there are definite parallels between the severity of such procedures regardless of sex.…
/r/MensRights24/10/14 06:08 AM
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There are different types of MGM and FGM. FGM includes procedures which are much less damaging than the routine circumcision performed on male infants. And MGM includes procedures which are much more damaging (link NSFW) than the sorts of FGM held up by those criticizing it. All forms of medically-unnecessary FGM are illegal, when performed on a child. Ritual MGM, however, is perfectly legal...including the extreme type I mentioned.
/r/MensRights22/10/14 07:49 PM
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Sarkeesian has a reputation for faking shit like this. I'll believe it when they arrest someone other than her for the threat.
/r/MensRights15/10/14 05:47 AM
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I also told her point blank if she quits her job she is on the clock and I will divorce her if she tries the working-husband retirement plan that so many women love. I can not see that going over too well.
/r/MensRights14/10/14 10:33 PM
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I know it seems very unlikely that the American Association of University Women was ignorant of this term's very specific definition...but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. A) I suspect many of those involved are Gender Studies majors (and/or GS-adjacent), and B) it comes off as petty to assume malice when there's a reasonable chance it actually is just ignorance.
/r/MensRights10/10/14 04:30 AM
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Regarding #1, you should read this: http://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/full-time-year-round-worker/ I wrote it back when that white paper was published. Basically, they pretend to account for hours worked while grouping everyone working 35+ hours a week together as "full-time". Yet men work an average of 41.3 hours a week, while women work an average of only 35.6. They outright claim their cited studies control for hours worked, yet they do not. They provide no context for what "full-ti…
/r/MensRights08/10/14 06:58 AM
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No, that's not it at all. Equality and equity aren't opposite of one another. And the opportunity/outcome thing is completely separate. Read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_and_gender_feminism Equity feminism is a term coined by CHS, to describe the colloquial understanding of "feminism" and distinguish it from the man-hating female supremacists who spread their hate in the name of "feminism" (which she termed "Gender feminists"). Equity basically means "fairness", so she was implying…
/r/MensRights07/10/14 10:46 PM
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Being a child-molester is ridiculously worse than secretly recording your partner during a therapy session. The way you worded your post, it makes it seem like you think they're on par. "She's a murderer. Period. But he's also a terrible person for stealing candy." See what I mean?
/r/MensRights07/10/14 07:30 PM
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1) the term you're looking for is equity feminists. 2) No, we aren't anything. There are feminists and anti-feminists within the MRM. 3) Many of us disagree with feminism itself, at a fundamental level and for good reason.
/r/MensRights07/10/14 06:38 PM
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When men reach out for help, their hand is slapped down. Other men see that and realize they'd be better off not reaching out at all. It's not just suicide, it's rape, abuse, etc. Suicide is just the most obvious symptom. As feminists do, you can call that "gender roles". But that's little comfort when the same people blaming "gender roles" for these problems are reinforcing them by slapping down those hands too. "Male tears", "what about the menz", "man up"...those slogans all reinforce the sam…
/r/MensRights29/09/14 04:24 PM
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I'm not all that familiar with the Gamergate thing, but the advice posted seems fairly reasonable (based on my limited understanding of their movement). For us though, the lack of leadership is an impossibility. This movement was primarily borne from the voices of certain leaders like CHS, WF, EP...and though I'm reluctant to admit it...Paul Elam. It's a bit too late for us to go back and downplay those prominent voices, and so far we've managed to weather the attacks on them pretty well. For us…
/r/MensRights29/09/14 04:07 PM
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Do you want to know why people aren't focusing on the big serious issues? First, there's no real agreement on how to fix it. We're excruciatingly polarized with one side advocating more comprehensive social programs and cracking down on corporate greed, and the other side advocating a shrinking of the government and deregulation of the private sector. It's pretty hard to demand everything be fixed when you can't even agree on what "fixed" vaguely looks like. Second, we were failed by OWS. Adbust…
/r/MensRights27/09/14 05:51 PM
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Ask yourself, considering the above factors, would you be okay with condemning this 13-year old to death? I support the death penalty for especially heinous crimes...as long as we are certain the individual committed the crime. This appears to be an especially heinous crime, and no one seems to deny that he did it. There is an issue with kids in that their brains aren't developed enough for them to fully understand the consequences of their actions. But A) 13 year olds are still old enough to un…
/r/MensRights24/09/14 08:23 PM
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Richard Dawkins trumps everyone you listed.
/r/MensRights23/09/14 08:43 PM
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They had me until I got to the email. After reading that, I'm thinking this has to be a troll. I've dealt with crazy feminists, I've dealt with stupid feminists, and I've dealt with those feminists who were both stupid AND crazy. One of them might bring vagina-cookies into a class of second-graders...maybe. But that is just not the way they talk. And the type of feminist who would bring in such cookies is also the type who would be so steeped in their insanity that they would talk like the rest.…
/r/MensRights23/09/14 03:36 AM
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If you're serious about doing this, see the comment I made here: https://np.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/2h28yu/feminists_get_black_game_developer_fired_because/ckpf89f
/r/MensRights22/09/14 04:48 PM
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If you have less than 15 employees, you aren't subject to federal discrimination laws. It doesn't matter anyway, because this would fail before it got anywhere near that. I've run a few businesses and have crafted the identities for countless startups. The story of a company is very important for a startup...and an MGTOW story isn't going to appeal to anyone but MRA-types (which isn't an especially lucrative market). Before anything else, you would need a completely different story. Big companie…
/r/MensRights22/09/14 04:43 PM
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Heads up: what happened to me didn't really bother me...in fact it was kind of flattering. I'm 30, and a few years back I was in AC with some of my buddies for a night of fun. It was getting late and the casinos were emptying...but we're night people. The night isn't over until the sun is coming up. So, most of us are out of gambling cash. I personally was done...after losing about $650 playing roulette (I was doing the "bet on red and double-down until you win" method of going broke). But a few…
/r/MensRights20/09/14 01:43 AM
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Yeah my confidence was destroyed by her. I still, to this day, assume the people I interact with have disgust for me...because I see myself as an unlovable piece of shit (thanks, in large part, to her). I realize it's irrational, but it's fucked me over A LOT. Relationships are fucked for me. My first two girlfriends were stalkers. They were obsessed with me and would follow me/secretly watch me...so I at least knew they actually liked me. The rest were fucked up situations in different ways, bu…
/r/MensRights18/09/14 08:12 PM
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To them, you represent their husband's last wife, Yup. Except my parents never married. As for joint custody, I don't think mine was really joint custody. It was every other weekEND. I wasn't really around enough to become friends with kids nearby. And honestly, everyone lived so far apart (despite being right outside of a densely populated major city), that it wasn't even really a "neighborhood". I didn't really grow up feeling like that was my home...I felt more like I was an unwelcome guest i…
/r/MensRights13/09/14 07:13 AM
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I have a similar, but slightly different mixed-class thing. My mom was working/lower-class, and my dad was from a solid middle-class family. They were together for like a month after I was born. My dad wound up marrying a rich divorcee (she became rich by divorcing a rich guy, but was from an upper-middle-class family to begin with). To her, my dad was basically a "cabana boy"...a younger good looking guy (blah blah blah mindbleach). She hated me and abused me, but that's a story for a different…
/r/MensRights13/09/14 06:41 AM
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Don't make it overtly anti- anything or you'll bite yourself in the ass. Define it by what it supports. Also consider making it a gaming news site, since THOSE are what seem to be overrun with SJWs. You can do that easily with one of the many free CMSs that are out there (e.g. Drupal, Joomla, etc.). There are bunch of ad networks out there which you can use to cover the costs of hosting/etc. Google's Ad Sense should be okay for when you're just starting out, but as you get bigger, you'll be able…
/r/MensRights29/08/14 07:34 PM
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I am drunk right now, so I shouldn't be commenting on Reddit right now.
/r/MensRights29/08/14 03:23 AM
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The SJW nonsense is more harmful to society at large than any of the shit Anita is whining about. Remember the "Dear Colleague" letter from the OCR? Yeah, that shit didn't come from the "objectification of women in video games", it came from SJW bullshit. I dare Anita or any other SJW douche to show anything near the level of INSTITUTIONAL BIAS caused by fucking video games.
/r/MensRights28/08/14 09:15 PM
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Why is this idiotic SJW nonsense always coming out of Toronto?
/r/MensRights26/08/14 07:18 PM
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Yeah I walked away after that. Until I ran into her last week, I hadn't even seen her in almost a decade.
/r/MensRights26/08/14 05:44 PM
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Young girls lie like crazy. When I was around 17, I was walking home from work in the middle of the night (maybe 1AM) and I come across a car on the side of the road. It's the girl who lives down the street from me. I was their paperboy when I was like 14 and other than that, only really knew her from seeing her at the bus stop when we were kids, and I think I may have bought crappy weed off of her once. I help push her car into a development and get it started, so she gives me a ride back to ou…
/r/MensRights25/08/14 07:01 PM
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Read the linked NP article, because it clarifies the wrong impression given by this headline (and the CAFE article). These aren't being sold in like Walmarts and such. It seems the area where she committed the crime attracts a fair amount of murder-tourists. A shop in that area has commissioned these in order to have something to sell those tourists. They make crap like that for Ted Bundy too: https://www.etsy.com/listing/176796472/ted-bundy-valentine-card-love-heart This is a non-issue.
/r/MensRights24/08/14 04:36 AM
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First things first, you sound like you need a vacation. it doesn't need to be a whole family thing (and probably shouldn't), you just need some time to decompress and relax a bit. As far as the kids go, maybe try making them earn...EVERYTHING. Oh, you need $300 for a new jacket? Do some work around the house for minimum-wage and earn it. Re your wife, your best bet is probably counseling. You'll need to do some research on the therapists in your area, because many of them are definitely biased a…
/r/MensRights17/08/14 09:03 PM
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I've seen a lot of rhetoric suggesting support for AA/quotas when the topic of college-enrollment comes up.
/r/MensRights14/08/14 04:39 PM
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You can't deny the fact that there are innate biological differences which result in both genders generally making different choices in certain areas (e.g. career). As a result, they tend to congregate in different areas. Generally, you'll have more men in STEM fields, and more women in Liberal Arts fields. Left to its own devices, a culture will arise (within any group of people) which is heavily influenced by traits shared by its majority. If the majority in a club are geeks, you'll see more g…
/r/MensRights14/08/14 05:13 AM
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I agree with your sentiment. It's extremely tasteless and disrespectful to glom on to every tragedy in the news to push an agenda. However, I don't have a problem with discussing these issues in the light of MRM-issues (which is what I think OP was trying to do). There's a fine line between the two, and there are definitely people here who would like nothing more than to say "X tragedy wouldn't have happened if everyone supported my agenda!!!" As such, reminders like yours are sadly necessary.
/r/MensRights12/08/14 04:35 PM
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How’s that work? How can I hate men and still like men, and even more, have the men (mostly) LIKE that I hate men? I have black friends, therefore I can't be racist!!! How can men not just find my misandry jokes funny, but take them to be genuinely good news? There's a good chance they're just cosigning your bullshit in the hopes of looking like totes progressive guys (i.e. they are trying to get laid). I had a male friend — not a humorless weenie but a person I cherish even though he sometimes …
/r/MensRights11/08/14 05:18 PM
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Edit: WHEN I hold the door open for people, I tend to just stick my arm out behind me, so that the door closes slower. That's the same thing I do, but that's not what I mean when I say "opening the door for people", and considering the reactions people say they get from others, it's not what I imagine they're talking about either. Instead, I strongly suspect they're talking about standing out of the way and holding it open. That's why I said "I don't really hold the door for people. I'll just ho…
/r/MensRights11/08/14 04:53 PM
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In my area, people aren't all that condescending (excepting, of course, the upper-middle-class transplants). I find that sort of thing to be more prevalent with people from the west coast, upper-middle-class suburbanites everywhere and, well, a surprising number of Canadians (no offense to you personally). Most of it absolutely is a cultural thing. What's considered "rude" might actually just be "neutral" or even sort of "polite" elsewhere. But I think overtly disrespectful behaviors (e.g. conde…
/r/MensRights08/08/14 10:54 PM
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As far as the East-Coast rudeness...it's really not actual rudeness. We're just known for it because people from overly-friendly places come here and expect the same over-friendliness they get in flyover country. In reality it's just a matter of minding your own business and not wanting to be bothered when you're just trying to get to work/etc. And in the US (in my experience), it's limited mostly to the major Northeast cities. Things seem to move much faster up here, most use public transit, th…
/r/MensRights06/08/14 12:23 PM
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My response to that would be, patriarchy, and the resulting disparity in gender inequality, may be better in Western culture than it was 200 years ago, but it is by no means dead. The definition of "patriarchy" varies depending on who is saying it. When that definition makes falsifiable claims, it is falsified. The rest of the time, it remains unfalsifiable through the use of vague terms which don't even relate to the etymology of the word (e.g "a system that is unjust to women"). Those sorts of…
/r/MensRights05/08/14 12:54 AM
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I'd say you're not much of a skeptic if you believe in patriarchy theory to begin with. Beyond that, I'd say that anything can be rationalized as "patriarchy" if you jump through enough mental hoops. As far as the feminist movement encompassing the MRM, I'd suggest perhaps you aren't quite familiar with what feminism is, and would suggest you read the article I've previously written on the matter. Feminism isn't just belief in equality.
/r/MensRights04/08/14 10:33 PM
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As a person from a major northeastern-US city known for rudeness, I don't really hold the door for people. I'll just hold it open for a few seconds behind me as I'm walking through so it doesn't slam in your face. If you don't speed up a bit or reach to grab the door from me, I'll let it go. This applies to men and women...but I will say younger white women seem much less likely to actually grab the fucking door. They'll just walk up like it's going to magically stay the fuck open for them...wtf…
/r/MensRights04/08/14 02:50 PM
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Miss Cunningham, who lives in Leeds, said her breast operation was needed because she had 'no breast tissue at all'. And she said she needed taxis for the school run rather than taking the bus because she feared abuse from strangers. The mother of boys aged six and three, who said she had worked from the age of 15, said: 'I got my taxi funded by Leeds City Council for a short period because I'm suffering with severe anxiety, which is something a lot of people go through. I don't blame her. She's…
/r/MensRights30/07/14 09:05 PM
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This is all going to be a bit jumbled/disjointed. I wrote it sort of stream-of-consciousness and should probably edit it to more clearly convey what I'm trying to say...but I'm also reminded that this is just a Reddit comment, so I'm reluctant to take it so seriously. If it becomes an issue, I may just rewrite it. ...anyway, here you go: I am talking about it peaking a few years back actually. Before r/MR, the MRM barely existed. It didn't barely exist because it was more or less abrasive...it b…
/r/MensRights26/07/14 02:53 PM
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You are clearly new to the MRM. Years ago, the MRM was way more abrasive. We have toned down the abrasiveness and it has helped alienate the extremists. That in turn allowed NORMAL people to see that the MRM isn't as bad as the opposition makes it seem. And the more NORMAL people you get in a movement, the more mainstream it becomes. Conversely, feminism has become more abrasive. And in doing so, have ensured that criticisms of the feminist movement will enjoy more charitable considerations from…
/r/MensRights26/07/14 02:01 PM
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Wow, those responses... These people really can't accept that a guy may have been treated poorly by the female staff at a clinic. And they just love exaggerating what he said so they can more easily dismiss it. It's transparent and pathetic. I also love the one claiming he must be an MRA because he shared his story and suggested there might be a bit of anti-male bias. I wonder if they realize that, by acting like an ass and using MRA as a pejorative against someone, they're just pushing that per…
/r/MensRights25/07/14 04:38 PM
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That sounds more like a tequila than a conspiracy theory. How about "maluminati"?
/r/MensRights24/07/14 08:55 PM
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In order of importance to me: Stop with the anti-male hate-speech. Stop attacking the MRM's right to exist. Acknowledge that, in the west, men and women both face legitimate issues and neither is more "oppressed" or important than the other. Oppose the instances where women are granted preferential treatment, at least where those instances carry the force of law. Equality means equal rights AND responsibilities. Stop with the intentionally misleading advocacy research and misrepresented statisti…
/r/MensRights22/07/14 12:26 PM
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Some jackasses from /r/anarchism invaded a thread I was in to come screech at everyone. I went back to check out the hellhole from whence they came, and they were all bitching and moaning about /r/mensrights. That was like 5+ years ago.
/r/MensRights22/07/14 11:57 AM
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The people typically using "liberal" to describe Marxists are those on the far-right looking to demonize actual liberals and those on the far-left looking to push their views into the mainstream. You're not a liberal.
/r/MensRights19/07/14 03:01 PM
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You're committing a genetic fallacy No, I'm not. And had you both read beyond the first sentence of my other comment and actually understood what the hell a genetic fallacy was, you would realize this. but I'm the ignorant one, eh? Yes, as evidenced by the rest of your comments here. YOU CLEARLY DIDN'T READ WHAT I WROTE. Go read it and actually think before you kneejerk again. Anyway, now that I've wasted 10 minutes on you, I'm gonna need you to suck my dick, as thinking clearly isn't your stron…
/r/MensRights19/07/14 02:53 PM
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Marxists aren't liberals.
/r/MensRights18/07/14 10:40 PM
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I'm registered "Democrat"...but I consider myself more of a social democrat/welfare capitalist. EDIT: Basically I'm on the left, and I support more comprehensive social programs, but I don't think we're ready for true socialism...and I'm not sure if we ever really will be.
/r/MensRights18/07/14 10:34 PM
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Nice posturing, bro. Next time you should try reading beyond the first sentence before you reply. Otherwise, you might make yourself look lazy and ignorant...again.
/r/MensRights18/07/14 09:23 PM
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I'm not just guessing, this is from an actual study; plus, included is the scientific breakdown of attractive/unattractive. First, that isn't a study...generously I would call it a white paper, but it looks more like a blog post. Treating it as a white paper, it's important to remember that white papers such as this are generally made to support policies. And, as a result, they frequently involve a fair bit of cherry-picking when it comes to the studies they reference in support of their preferr…
/r/MensRights18/07/14 02:55 PM
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No, there isn't. But the opposite of normal isn't deficient, it's abnormal. That isn't inherently bad. "Abnormal" is frequently used as a synonym for "deficient", so it frequently carries the connotation, even when it's not intended that way. For that reason, many take offense at being implicitly described as "abnormal", even if it my be the technically correct term to describe the transgendered.
/r/MensRights18/07/14 02:28 PM
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When discussing the transgendered, there was need for a term to describe the non-transgendered. The natural inclination is to use "normal", but many in the trans community take offense to that as they believe it carries the implication that they are somehow deficient. So, one member of the trans community borrowed the term "cis" from organic chemistry, and it kind of just stuck. I dislike how some people use it (e.g. "cissies"), but otherwise don't really care. If you have a better term, feel fr…
/r/MensRights17/07/14 11:19 PM
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Baseline, I'm a good looking guy. I'm tall, naturally very muscular, great bone structure in my face, etc. When I was younger, I went through a body-building phase and was under 10% bodyfat (never quite hit 5, but I hovered around 7/8). During that time, random women would literally stop in the street to stare at me...not even trying to hide the desire written on their faces. I also went through a long period of depression and gained nearly 300lbs (I don't even know what the BF% was then...70 ma…
/r/MensRights17/07/14 06:12 PM
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This sounds like absolute bullshit. What's the plan, get some idiot to say "HURR DURR FUCKIN WIMMIN!" so you can cherry pick it for some anti-MRA blog? And if someone doesn't make a juicy enough comment, I guess you'll just create another sockpuppet and make your own, right? Whatever. On the extremely off chance that this isn't complete bullshit, your wife is insane and you should get your son the fuck out of there. What she's doing may or may not legally be considered "child abuse", but it sure…
/r/MensRights17/07/14 04:57 PM
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I'm fine with this and don't think it should concern the MRM. They have a guide that they hand out to pregnant women. So, they know that the audience is entirely going to be future moms. In this guide, they previously mentioned "dads" when referencing the other half of the couple, but some of those moms were in lesbian relationships, so they replaced it with "partners". I think it's perfectly reasonable for them to try to be inclusive of everyone in their intended audience.
/r/MensRights14/07/14 03:07 PM
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I agree that there's no point in continuing this conversation...because you are being willfully obtuse.
/r/MensRights13/07/14 07:54 AM
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This is the same guy that went all SJW and removed the word "rape" from CAH, even though murder/genocide/etc. were all fine...right? Well, people like him pandering to the SJW-types is exactly the reason false accusations like this are so damaging. And judging by his tirade against "rape culture", it seems he's not going to learn his lesson from this incident. It sucks and all, but I'd rather it happen to someone like him than the random guy who didn't contribute to the problem in the first plac…
/r/MensRights12/07/14 11:36 AM
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if you think I'm wrong you got to do better than laugh and insult me. You don't get to high-road me after calling me an idiot. Fine. Then list what aspects of "Marxism" you think feminism has. I already have. The basic ideology of feminism itself is that women are oppressed/men are privileged, and that to bring about equality, this disparity must be rectified (raise women up / bring men down). This is not Marxism, but it is a class-view of the genders, and it enables the borrowing and repurposin…
/r/MensRights12/07/14 10:44 AM
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Why did he bother stooping down to debate this kid in the first place?
/r/MensRights11/07/14 11:56 AM
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Which is just a meaningless sentence because you don't actually know anything about Marx or what he says about the classes beyond "rich vs poor". Ideologues always fall back on the "you don't know anything about my ideology" in response to legitimate criticism. Well, I'm probably more familiar with Marxism than you are. For years I would carry around a copy of the manifesto in my back pocket. And, though I didn't finish Das Kapital, I've actually read a fair bit of it...unlike the vast majority …
/r/MensRights11/07/14 09:47 AM
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I'm not a Libertarian, I'm basically a Social Democrat...and I'm telling you that much of feminist theory is just Marxian class dynamics with the traditional classes replaced by gender. Ever heard of the Frankfurt School? They were a group od Marxist social theorists who fled Nazi Germany and came to the US. One of their most notable concepts is Critical Theory, which essentially looks at EVERYTHING through a Marxian lens, not just economic issues. And this idea gained a great deal of popularity…
/r/MensRights10/07/14 10:17 AM
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It's pretty off-topic, but I always thought it was interesting...I only ever get injuries on the right side of my body. Broken finger/ankle/toe/wrist, stabbed through the hand, stabbed in the leg, went blind in one eye for a bit, got a big ass abscess on my leg, infected wound on shin, lost a tooth, ripped my hand open...all on the right side. Aside from that I have all manner of cuts and scars...all on the right side. Come to think of it, the only thing I had wrong on the left was a botched roo…
/r/MensRights08/07/14 08:47 AM
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I think, like the US, it's going to have places that have more SJWs and places that have more shitkickers. In general, the average Canadian does probably lean more left than the average American, but not that far left. As far as feminism goes, they had that one anti-feminist school shooter back in the 80s which likely makes many Canadians a bit more pro-feminism than most Americans, well beyond any left/right issues. But it's definitely not what I would consider a "bad place for men"...at least …
/r/MensRights07/07/14 04:05 AM
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Hey man, I wasn't sexually abused as a kid, but I was tortured from before I can remember until I was about 8/9. It can be really hard to deal with that shit, and if you let it, it will fuck you up. I don't know if it will work for you, but here's what ultimately worked for me: Accept what happened and mourn the loss of your childhood/innocence I had a nervous breakdown and was going to kill myself. It was set off by other shit, but the childhood stuff was a huge underlying factor. In that time,…
/r/MensRights02/07/14 08:53 AM
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: I Went On A Date With A Democrat, And He Assaulted Me When I Wouldn't Have Sex With Him By: Anonymous, republicanblog.com Yes this is totally believable. It's not like it's an anonymous accusation on a feminist site leveled against people they view as enemies. Nope, no reason to lie at all.
/r/MensRights28/06/14 07:01 AM
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That's actually a more difficult question than it seems at first glance. It really depends on how you look at it. I'm from the US, so everything I say should probably be prefaced with "in the US/west". If we're talking about what are the biggest and most obvious infringements of male rights? I'd say: routine infant MGM criminal sentencing disparities Bradley Amendment If we're talking about what are the biggest root causes of MR issues, it's more like: the anti-male "gender war" pursued by many …
/r/MensRights17/06/14 08:19 PM
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It wasn't the MRM, it was 4chan parodying SJWs. http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/2836yj/no_feminists_are_not_trying_to_endfathersday_its/ If memory serves, they were also behind the "solidarity is for white women" thing too.
/r/MensRights17/06/14 07:45 PM
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Here's some articles I found after Googling: http://www.webmd.com/depression/news/20120627/vitamin-d-deficiency-linked-to-depression http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23377209 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2796.2008.02008.x/full And here's some evidence to the contrary: http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/03/20/evidence-fails-to-support-vitamin-d-supplements-for-depression/67365.html http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/201/5/360.short There is no consensus on whether supplements he…
/r/MensRights13/06/14 02:45 AM
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I've been saying it's not a left/right issue for years, and that's not what I mean. When I, and others, say it's not a left/right issue, the point is that there's no fundamental belief at the core of this movement beyond "men have issues in some way or another"...and that is not inherently a left/right belief. The MRM itself lacks any real overriding ideology. Because of that, a left-wing person can be an MRA without any need for hypocrisy or mental gymnastics, just the same as a right-wing pers…
/r/MensRights13/06/14 02:30 AM
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Weird suggestion here, but consider getting a blood-test. A lot of people are deficient in vitamin-D, and it can cause and exacerbate depression. I've been depressed since I was a little kid too. About a year and a half back I started taking D supplements, and it made a huge difference. I'm not a chipper asshole or anything, but I don't constantly tell myself I'm a piece of shit anymore. Anyway, it might be something to look into.
/r/MensRights12/06/14 09:08 AM
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When people go on diets, one thing they're told is to take a "before" picture. It's useful because, while losing the weight, you can start to feel like you're not really making any progress. Having a reminder of where you were, can really help keep you motivated. I don't know how long you've been here, but I found the MRM about a year after this sub was created...about 5 years ago. And I sometimes feel like we're not making much progress too. I don't have a picture to remind me, but I do think b…
/r/MensRights12/06/14 09:02 AM
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The history of that term is actually kind of murky: Nonetheless, belief in the existence of a "rule of thumb" law to excuse spousal abuse can be traced as far back as 1782, the year that James Gillray published his satirical cartoon Judge Thumb. The cartoon lambastes Sir Francis Buller, a British judge, for allegedly ruling that a man may legally beat his wife, provided that he used a stick no thicker than his thumb, although it is questionable whether Buller ever made such a pronouncement.[11] …
/r/MensRights11/06/14 08:52 PM
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OP is ridiculous for a number of reasons: 1: believing their group of jackasses have a right to claim ownership of something that, by its very design, can not be owned. 2: believing the above, AFTER being part of the group of jackasses that co-opted it from the original group calling themselves Anonymous. 3: believing that Anonymous still actually fucking matters in 2014, after it became nothing more than a label Tumblrites use to feel tough. 4: getting angry that someone is using the Anonymous …
/r/MensRights10/06/14 05:59 AM
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I personally dislike him, and point that out whenever he comes up. However, I think most people don't seem to understand the game he's playing. He is a controversy-whore. He intentionally says horrible things to rile up the crazies on the other side. Their outrage effectively spreads awareness about the MRM, getting more people to pay attention to the shit we're saying. When more people then look into the MRM to see what the fuck is going on, they find a lot of legitimate issues, and some of the…
/r/MensRights09/06/14 09:46 PM
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Absolutely, and that would be great. Most likely, nothing serious will happen. But many of the other shooters wouldn't have been considered a "threat" before their shootings, and there appear to be a lot of people who legitimately want to hurt MRAs. I just think the organizers should keep the (very real) possibility in mind and take whatever precautions are feasible. And the organizers probably are taking those precautions...but I really don't know that for sure (and know from history that it's …
/r/MensRights07/06/14 05:26 PM
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a bunch of spoiled white teenagers, Spoiled white kids have been behind a whole bunch of shootings (and attempted shootings) in recent history. truly the end of the MRM. I'm not concerned about this being the "end of the MRM". I'm concerned someone might get shot by one of these crazy fucks.
/r/MensRights07/06/14 05:01 PM
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I'm not a fan of AVFM/Elam, but I really hope everyone stays safe. I'm reading through these threads in AMR and /r/anarchism and they're definitely coming, and definitely planning on "fucking shit up". That might just mean pulling fire alarms and shit, but a red flag goes up when I see people saying shit like this: Good luck. Make them afraid to organize or attend these events in the future. I don't think I can link it here, but it's an /r/anarchism thread titled "A Voice For Men is having their…
/r/MensRights06/06/14 11:10 PM
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I'm a liberal...social democrat/welfare capitalist. I'm done voting for Democrats and Republicans. I'd rather throw my vote away on a 3rd-party than be complicit in putting either of those groups of assholes into power again. I'm not a Libertarian, but I agree with them on certain issues and, as far as 3rd-parties go, they seem to have the most support...so in general I'll probably be voting for them from now on.
/r/MensRights18/04/14 05:53 PM
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I live openly as a lesbian, and I find that some people (male and female) will sometimes automatically assume that I am a certain type of angry man-hating feminist. Back in the 70s there was this movement within feminism called "Political Lesbianism". The idea basically boiled down to straight women becoming "lesbians" because they hated men. I suspect the influx of angry man-hating straight women is at least partly related to that assumption. This horrifies me. Denying or minimizing crimes agai…
/r/MensRights13/04/14 02:37 PM
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Nah, we should let her in. Americans are strong enough to tune out whatever bullshit the crazies want to spew. Hell, we let those other crazies protest the funerals of our soldiers! If we can handle that, we can handle another dumbass D-list actress spewing her half-baked musings on gender issues. Honestly, we probably shouldn't give her any attention. She's trying to be a celebrity...she probably thinks she can Sarkeesian herself into a decent role.
/r/MensRights04/04/14 10:06 PM
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What the fuck, dude? You'll fuck her up as bad as the radfems fuck up their sons.
/r/MensRights04/04/14 09:57 PM
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She's in the UK and has done a handful of UK shows. Too bad she's not in the US, one of the few places left where her ilk haven't yet managed to criminalize hurt feelings.
/r/MensRights04/04/14 05:44 PM
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If it actually happened, then it's disgusting. I hope it turns out to be bullshit.
/r/MensRights27/03/14 07:03 PM
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All problems for men are caused by the patriarchy Feminists lobbied for and achieved enactment of the Tender Years doctrine, the lingering effects of which are the ultimate cause of the custody disparity. Prior to their efforts, men received custody by default. Feminist groups also fight against any proposals for a presumption of shared-parenting. Feminists created the Duluth Model of DV and fought for its inclusion across the country, which is the ultimate cause of "primary aggressor" laws. Fem…
/r/MensRights27/03/14 06:36 PM
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I did not mean to imply you were fear mongering, apologies if it came across that way. I meant the fear mongering by the media and social structure. Ahh, okay. Sorry for misunderstanding. As for the dogs, the point is not if they acted that way, it is THAT they act that way. They don't seem as threatening, but they should, because they are, equally, in a different way. They're not equally threatening. A small dog is going to have a hell of a time mauling/killing you. A large dog isn't. And becau…
/r/MensRights27/03/14 02:57 PM
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I agree that this is part of it. But men are generally much larger and stronger than women. Take away the screeching and there's still a huge natural disparity there which does affect how threatening something is. Most people don't grow up hearing how all big dogs will maul and kill you...yet a big dog acting aggressive is still more threatening to most than a little dog doing the same. I think the fear mongering is doing the most harm, especially because you can make statements like that in thi…
/r/MensRights26/03/14 06:35 PM
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What would you say are the five pillars of your ideology? The MRM has no overriding ideology beyond belief that men are disadvantaged in one way or another. It's not an "ism". There are beliefs that are more popular in the MRM, like anti-feminism, but there are MRAs who hold the opposite position as well (e.g. feminist MRAs), and they're just as entitled to the label "MRA" as anyone else. MRA stands for "Men's Rights Advocate/Activist" (I prefer the former). It's a description of your actions, n…
/r/MensRights26/03/14 06:26 PM
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I don't mind getting my ass grabbed, The very few times it happened to me, I found it extremely flattering. It's an absolute confirmation that you're attractive. A random woman saw you and thought you were hot enough to just reach out and grab. IDK, maybe I just have self-esteem issues. The hypocrisy of how it's treated by most people is a bit fucked, but I think generally it is a bit different for women. If a random average woman grabs my ass on the street or wherever, I'm not really seeing her…
/r/MensRights26/03/14 05:47 PM
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It's sexist but a lot of things are sexist and aren't really that big of a deal. I believe this is one of those instances. Cultural ideas of professional appearances for men and women vary. For women, earrings aren't viewed as unprofessional, but they are for men. It sounds like they just want their employees to look professional. You have gauges...which are those stretched holes, right? I don't think that would be very professional for either sex. Do you see women coworkers wearing gauges? If s…
/r/MensRights26/03/14 04:54 PM
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Assuming she did her research right She didn't. she was apparently asking for industry standard pay. ...not for an assistant professor's starting salary at a liberal arts college.
/r/MensRights18/03/14 11:34 AM
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Is she? Yes.
/r/MensRights18/03/14 11:31 AM
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She's demanding superior pay too.
/r/MensRights18/03/14 07:03 AM
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Slate isn't usually this bad. Maybe you're confusing it with Salon (which actually is almost as bad as Jezebel)?
/r/MensRights18/03/14 07:02 AM
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An increase of my starting salary to $65,000, which is more in line with what assistant professors in philosophy have been getting in the last few years. Starting salary for an assistant liberal arts prof. is around $50k, so she's asking for MORE than most people make. This is not a bad strategy in and of itself, but her implication that they are offering her below market value would be a horrible idea if the original offer was around $50k. It shows that she's not very informed about her own car…
/r/MensRights18/03/14 06:55 AM
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Okay. http://i.imgur.com/ZHwF3ND.jpg
/r/MensRights11/03/14 09:16 PM
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Were you late for work this morning? Did you grab something out of the fridge for breakfast as you rushed out of the house? And did you eat it on the Tube as you made your way to the office? If so, there’s an increasingly likely possibility that someone surreptitiously took a photo of you eating on your commute and then posted it online. Oh, and one other question: are you a woman? If the answer to that final point is “no”, you can ignore all of the above, as none of this is likely ever to happe…
/r/MensRights11/03/14 09:06 PM
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liberal agenda You're probably not wrong, but I would strongly suggest avoiding terms like "liberal agenda". The term entered the popular lexicon because idiots were using it when facts contradicted something popular on the right. As a result, when you use that term, a lot of people will just lump you in with those idiots and tune you out...ignoring the substance of your argument. Obviously you can say whatever the fuck you want. But if you wanted to get the same point across without being lumpe…
/r/MensRights11/03/14 05:29 AM
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DO NOT TAKE A PLEA BARGAIN
/r/MensRights11/03/14 04:40 AM
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Your transparent posturing doesn't even make sense anymore. Maybe it's time to fuck off back to whichever sewer birthed you.
/r/MensRights11/03/14 04:37 AM
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Many feminists have a tendency to interject feminism into everything they touch. In doing so, they make that thing "preachy". And preachy comedy is not funny. You may be hilarious, and because of that you should check out amateur night at your local comedy club to see if you have what it takes...but if you're preachy, you'll probably only get laughs from the people who already agree with you. And honestly, many of them probably won't laugh either. If you actually do want to do standup, and other…
/r/MensRights10/03/14 03:27 AM
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Meh. It's basically free publicity on a major TV network. Some of those people will look into the MRM a bit further and some of those people will become MRAs once they see that we stand for legitimate issues and don't support the type of bullshit they made up for the skit. Overall it's actually great for the MRM.
/r/MensRights10/03/14 03:13 AM
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http://i.imgur.com/qu4EdaO.gif
/r/MensRights10/03/14 03:07 AM
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http://i.imgur.com/Nm8hbZ7.gif
/r/MensRights08/03/14 02:05 AM
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http://i.imgur.com/LGGxuCx.gif
/r/MensRights08/03/14 02:04 AM
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http://i.imgur.com/69GnZea.gif
/r/MensRights08/03/14 02:01 AM
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Uh, no. "Okay" is very definitely not a register of disagreement. I'm actually pretty baffled as to how you're managing to misunderstand incredibly simple language on such a fundamental level. Suuuuuure. http://i.imgur.com/69GnZea.gif http://i.imgur.com/jdNbB7D.png http://i.imgur.com/1dkYaCO.gif http://i.imgur.com/XvFZyet.gif http://i.imgur.com/LGGxuCx.gif Given that you're having such difficulty even at this very elementary standard of communication, I'm not sure there's really any point in my …
/r/MensRights06/03/14 10:53 PM
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What exactly is ambiguous about "okay"? I'm baffled that such a straightforward and unequivocal word has spawned so much anger and confusion. It's a register of disagreement without any explanation as to why you disagree. This leaves the reader to rely solely on assumption about the very core of your disagreement. Or, you know, the writer. The writer what? Acts as an ink-blot for the biases of the reader? That doesn't make any sense. This is the sort of ambiguity I'm talking about.
/r/MensRights06/03/14 10:29 PM
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Then maybe you should actually explain your position instead of relying on ambiguities like "Okay?" and "Not Really?" which rely on implication due to their lack of any elaboration. We're all biased, and when you rely heavily on implication to make your point, you'll find it acts more as a sort of ink-blot for the biases of the reader.
/r/MensRights06/03/14 10:16 PM
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The implication is that Pinker is in some way an ally of the MRM. That isn't true. No, that's really not the implication. The implication is that Steven Pinker has an insight into the motivation of ideologues which MRAs may find valuable. Anything you're seeing beyond that is likely a manifestation of your own biases. Not everyone has to agree with you 100% for there to be value in what they're saying. I would strongly recommend you take a break from the MRM if you can't handle the fact that man…
/r/MensRights06/03/14 09:48 PM
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Assuming you're not on mobile, if you're ever wondering about cross-posts, just check the "other discussions" link at the top of the page. For this one, you can see it was originally posted to /r/atheism (20 hours ago there, only 4 hours ago here).
/r/MensRights06/03/14 09:31 PM
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I'm not "dismissing" him, I'm saying that the reality of his own views makes OP's framing of this statement very misleading. Did you read the statement? OP is taking a quote from Pinker on the religious and prompting the reader to apply the same argument to feminists...particularly those in places like AMR and SRS. It shouldn't be misleading to anyone possessing basic reading-comprehension skills.
/r/MensRights06/03/14 09:22 PM
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Not really? Yes...really. Either way, he identifies as a feminist, which puts the OP in a very different light. I'm an antifeminist and I have a lot of respect for Pinker, Sommers, Paglia, etc. too. If it puts OP in a "different light", then it puts me in the same light too. If you need to dismiss what someone says just because they identify as a "feminist", then I'd say you're the one with the problem. The labels one gives oneself is a hell of a lot less important than what they're saying. If y…
/r/MensRights06/03/14 09:01 PM
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It's pretty relevant when the whole point of him saying that was to soften his criticism of feminists.
/r/MensRights06/03/14 08:39 PM
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Christina Hoff Sommers is a feminist too. There are a few feminists that really resonate with r/MR, and he's one of them. Frequently those feminists are hated by other feminists...like CHS, Camille Paglia, and Steven Pinker. Also, you're leaving out the rest of that quote. Immediately after "science." he says: But it is crucial to distinguish the moral proposition that people should not be discriminated against on account of their sex — which I take to be the core of feminism — and the empirical…
/r/MensRights06/03/14 08:30 PM
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I think feminists psychotically attacking us (e.g. the CAFE protests) has helped more than anything like RegisterHer or "Bash a Violent Bitch Month" ever could. Controversy does draw attention...but you need to be smart about the controversy you court. You need to realize that the vast majority of people won't look past the surface...and at that surface-level, you want the other guy to be the one who looks like an idiot, not you. Andrea Dworkin was intentionally provocative too. You may disagree…
/r/MensRights04/03/14 10:14 PM
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I agree with you as well. He says and does some pretty horrible shit under the "MRA" label. Previously he has argued that he is intentionally provocative in order to get more attention for these issues. And while he does seem to draw attention to the MRM, I think ultimately it's counterproductive because it gives these people a very easy way to dismiss the MRM and the issues it raises. He's our Andrea Dworkin.
/r/MensRights02/03/14 08:34 PM
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I generally agree with your underlying sentiment (that this can't be entirely laid at the feet of feminism), but I suspect that the rise of feminism did play at least some role. You point to economic factors, yet there's not a comparable jump in male suicide rates after the 1929 stock market crash (which was way more devastating than the recession in the 1980s). Also, the suicide rate rises most dramatically during prosperous times. You point to the overall environment, and though I don't really…
/r/MensRights01/03/14 04:04 PM
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Stupidity's a hell of a drug!
/r/MensRights01/03/14 03:06 PM
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They appear to be insane. I remember some crazy from about a week ago claiming that the MRM was some sort of front to turn kids gay so that we could rape them (or something along those lines). Judging by the last paragraph, I think it might have been this person. EDIT: I found it! Okay, so it's from this thread but all the comments were deleted by the mods. But if you check the userpage for /u/CRPMalta, you can find the bit of crazy I mentioned: the cdc has no agenda. gay men say they aren't ped…
/r/MensRights24/02/14 10:00 PM
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Maybe if you provided the Farrell quote, we'd be better able to pinpoint whatever study he was referencing. Some of us haven't read/don't have the book, but have scoured a lot of studies on the topic and something in his phrasing might ring a bell.
/r/MensRights24/02/14 09:46 PM
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The Amazing Atheist Is not an MRA. He doesn't call himself one and he doesn't advocate for any MR issues. The quote in question was from the one and only time he ever visited this subreddit (where, I believe, he again said he wasn't an MRA) right around the time he was doing a video on the Toronto anti-MRA protest. He was then dogpiled by a bunch of SRSers. He argued with them about "triggers", insisting that he didn't believe in them. One of the SRSers who was harassing him then said they were …
/r/MensRights23/02/14 03:30 PM
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Go back to /pol/.
/r/MensRights20/02/14 02:11 PM
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I am honestly at a loss as to how any man can come to believe that women are not discriminated against and that men are in our society I don't believe that women are not discriminated against. I believe that the discrimination women face is comparable to the discrimination that men face. However, I believe a lot of what's called "discrimination" or "sexism" by the feminist movement is either blown out of proportion, a misrepresentation/misunderstanding of the facts, or both. For an example of wh…
/r/MensRights13/02/14 12:47 AM
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I think they should do something similar with politicians.
/r/MensRights12/02/14 01:47 PM
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I'm happy to elaborate on any of this. Anyway, I'm sorry for the abrasive tone, and I'd like to continue this conversation. I'm just very angry. I like how a few hours after posting this, you linked it on /r/againstmensrights. I don't care if you're a feminist. I'm not, and if it really bothers you so much, I suggest you read up on why I'm an antifeminist before jumping to any conclusions. I care if you legitimately support the handful of issues which represent the MRM. Do you support an end to …
/r/MensRights08/02/14 02:58 PM
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The idea behind the commercial is that women's lives are obviously MUCH harder than men's, yet men only look more stressed because we're too stupid to use Nivea products.
/r/MensRights08/02/14 02:36 PM
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/u/wayfarin ...stranger?
/r/MensRights08/02/14 01:07 PM
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Your unsolicited advice is based on incorrect presumption, sanctimony, and an inability to mind your own fucking business. You can go ahead and shove that advice back into the same place from which you pulled it: your ass.
/r/MensRights08/02/14 01:02 PM
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First off, it's not your place to tell me what the fuck to do with myself. If I wanted to drink 50 bottles of soda each day, that's my own damn business, not yours. Second, your math is fucked. Go to a 7-11 and tell me how much a cold 20oz bottle costs. Now add up 2 of them a day, about every day, and see what you come up with for the annual cost.
/r/MensRights08/02/14 02:54 AM
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"All oranges are fruits"...here's an orange that's not a fruit.
/r/MensRights08/02/14 02:47 AM
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You could have found a plethora of links talking about it if you simply put in the negligible effort required to Google it. It's been national news for months. The policy went into effect Jan 1.
/r/MensRights04/02/14 10:29 PM
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They accept gay scouts now. The policy-change went into effect at the beginning of the year.
/r/MensRights04/02/14 09:55 PM
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I was also raised by a single mother, as were a bunch of my friends and cousins. A lot of those moms had horrible taste in men too. /u/Clauderoughly has no idea what the fuck he's talking about, and neither do you apparently. All oranges are fruits, but not all fruits are oranges. This is basic logic 101. You've got to catch up. The "logic" you've set up would immediately be invalidated by the existence of a male feminist raised by both parents or by their father. And with one name it all comes …
/r/MensRights04/02/14 09:50 PM
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I drink a buttload of Coke Zero (~$1000 a year), and this doesn't really bother me, so I'll keep drinking their soda. If they started some women-only programs in the US, then I might consider a boycott. But as it stands, they're a global company talking about a global supply-chain. A lot of the countries in that supply-chain are pretty horrible about women...and adding a few jobs for women in those countries isn't something I'd consider to be bad.
/r/MensRights04/02/14 07:42 PM
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This article is from 3 weeks ago.
/r/MensRights04/02/14 07:33 PM
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It's pretty funny that a spokesperson for the face of global capitalism would unironically paraphrase one of the most recognizable faces of communism ("women hold up half the sky" -- Chairman Mao).
/r/MensRights04/02/14 07:19 PM
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Everything else aside, if you're drinking every night, then that can easily become a big problem on its own. I don't have PTSD, but I have some depression/anxiety issues and I wound up drinking every night because I couldn't sleep either. I'd lay down physically exhausted...but my brain would go over all sorts of things that would keep me up. Drinking shut that part of my brain down. The problem is that the more I drank, the more fucked I'd be the rest of the time. It started as me drinking befo…
/r/MensRights02/02/14 07:20 AM
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Are your parents divorced? If so were you raised by your mother, father, both or other? Your options for this presume everyone is born into a married family. I was not.
/r/MensRights30/01/14 01:26 PM
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As others have said, get a lawyer and a paternity test. But before you actually throw in the towel, consider going to couple's therapy. Do your research and make sure it's not some man-hater or anything, but it's possible you could work things out and might just need a professional to offer some advice. And if it doesn't work, it'll still show the judge that you tried to be responsible. The paternity test may not actually protect you from child support if it's not your kid though. In many places…
/r/MensRights29/01/14 11:15 AM
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Welcome. The fact that you identify as a feminist won't be popular around here. But the MRM is a big enough tent that it can include anyone who actually does advocate for men's rights, and that includes feminists. Unlike many who self-identify as "feminists", you seem to be aware that a foundational concept of feminism is that women are an oppressed class, while men are a privileged class. Judging by the name you used at the bottom, I suspect you are either from a non-western culture, or have st…
/r/MensRights29/01/14 10:22 AM
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I shouldn't have been arrested. It was at the height of the Columbine paranoia, and if they arrested me for that today, I would probably sue them. Now, that sort of thing is handled by the FBI, not local law enforcement, and you just get a knock on the door and they ask you a few questions. I'm sure it's still a bit scary, but at least you don't have to sit in a cell without any shoelaces or belt to hold up your pants. Regarding the person above, it's pretty clearly sarcasm. But it's sarcasm tha…
/r/MensRights28/01/14 08:02 AM
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I hate the /s tag. It just looks so cheesy, especially when the sarcasm is obvious. I realize it's not obvious to a lot of people, which can cause confusion, and I don't have a better solution to that problem, but it just bugs me. Granted, I was actually arrested for a bit of online sarcasm (I sarcastically said I would shoot up a school when I was 14...the DA recognized it as sarcasm and dismissed it, after I left 1st period in handcuffs and spent 4 hours in a holding cell on "suicide watch"). …
/r/MensRights28/01/14 05:35 AM
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Generally, you did a very good job. And I hope you keep up the good work. I just have one little nit-pick: you didn't explain sentencing disparities well and might have given the false impression that it was mostly attributable to men committing worse crimes (and that you were just hand-waving that bit away). It's a complicated topic that requires a great deal of explanation...so if you don't really have time for that, you might want to consider just referencing this white paper [PDF] while poin…
/r/MensRights28/01/14 05:09 AM
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Routine infant circumcision is a problem because a child can't give their consent for it, it is not medically-necessary, and because it causes irreversible physical harm. That harm can range from the decreased sensitivity experienced by most circumcised males (exposed flesh naturally becomes less sensitive than covered flesh), to accidental disfigurement (do an image search for "circumcision accident"), and sometimes even death. Read up on David Reimer.
/r/MensRights25/01/14 09:21 AM
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Social Democrat here, and I basically agree with you. The left has become particularly fond of snarkiness and appeals to ridicule, and I suspect it stems mostly from the Bush-era and programs like the Daily Show. Bush invited ridicule (e.g. by saying things like "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"). And "comedy news" programs jumped on that with a winking smugness. But there's a huge in-group bias at play here. They're a bunch of idiots who deserve nothing but ridicule; we'…
/r/MensRights25/01/14 07:14 AM
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If you haven't already, please read the full text of the comment she claims is so horrible (courtesy of /u/femdelusion). The blog post linked by this author as if it were a refutation, was pretty worthless. In fact, one of the links she uses as evidence against the original comment actually supports it (pointing to the work-life-balance issue). However, she did have one potentially worthwhile link. It wasn't quite the refutation she thinks it is, but it does raise an important question. If names…
/r/MensRights22/01/14 06:30 AM
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Those don't appear to be in the Alaskan constitution (which I linked, in its entirety, above). That sounds more like individual laws which were passed by your state legislature. You should be careful saying you're opposed to the rights granted to women by your state's constitution, because that could easily be construed as "I oppose women's suffrage" (etc.).
/r/MensRights21/01/14 07:44 AM
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I have a hard time seeing the connection between counselling and sexism The connection isn't between counseling and sexism. The connection, specifically, is between those aspects of counseling which overlap with the "Critical Theory" portions of the sociology department. The closer you get to that, the more you'll see the craziness (which is not just limited to sexism).
/r/MensRights21/01/14 07:42 AM
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In Alaska women were given an inordinate amount of power by the state constitution. Care to elaborate on this? Because after a cursory glance, I don't see anything in the Alaskan constitution which grants women an inordinate amount of power. http://ltgov.alaska.gov/treadwell/services/alaska-constitution/entire-constitution-text.html
/r/MensRights20/01/14 12:24 PM
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It's not about how many women are in the class, it's about the proximity of the class to the sociology department. The closer you get, the crazier it gets. Counseling has a lot of overlap with social work which is pretty heavily tied to the sociology department. If your major is related to counseling, you should expect to see a lot more of this sort of thing. Good luck.
/r/MensRights20/01/14 12:09 PM
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It is when you're talking about the philosophy behind a religion.
/r/MensRights16/01/14 05:59 PM
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Objectivism is more than a political philosophy. It is a philosophy with a political component but it isn't solely about politics. In the context of my original aside, and my clarification thereof, this is not a reasonable criticism. To put it bluntly: you are being nitpicky.
/r/MensRights15/01/14 02:59 PM
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You're assuming that the ethics are the more fundamental parts of philosophy. They aren't. When the issue in question is the overlap between a religion and a political philosophy, they are.
/r/MensRights15/01/14 02:42 PM
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I get what you're saying, but the differences are pretty minor when you take both as a whole and look at their essentials. Philosophically, Satanism is the bastard child of Objectivism. The cornerstones to both -- what Rand calls "rational self-interest" and LaVey more bluntly calls "selfishness" -- are basically the same thing. Hell, I think LaVey himself even once said something along the lines of "I'm just giving people Objectivism with a bit of dogma". EDIT: for some fucking reason, Reddit k…
/r/MensRights14/01/14 04:20 PM
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"If you could be a flower, which would you be" It's been a long time since I've had to deal with job interviews...are they seriously asking questions like this now? If an interviewer sprung that on me, I'd probably say "I don't know...the only flowers I know of by name are like roses, tulips, and poinsettas. None of them seem even remotely related to me. What about trees? If we can be trees, I'd probably be an oak."
/r/MensRights14/01/14 04:11 PM
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So he's a Satanist Feminist? Putting aside the fact that LaVey's rebranded objectivism is essentially the antithesis of feminism, you should Google the author's name. He looks exactly like you would expect.
/r/MensRights14/01/14 12:21 AM
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Was it at least good whiskey? It was rockgut. But it's strong. Like you said, Principle Of Charity. POC is about assuming what was written/said was done in the best possible way. It doesn't really extend to assuming they meant something completely different than what they wrote. That guy said: I can't help but feel that this shows which of us has some genuine issues. meaning group A has fewer genuine issues than men. This was immediately followed by: If women were so oppressed and help was unava…
/r/MensRights13/01/14 02:29 PM
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I agree. I just think that you're perhaps being excessive in reading weakness into things. You make a good point, I just think that you're exaggerating the problem. Dude, you know I wrote the original post after drinking half a bottle of whiskey, right? I think that the point behind this line is to highlight the difference between how seriously men's issues are taken vs. how seriously women's issues are taken. I think the quote makes it pretty clear that he's saying women's issues are less "genu…
/r/MensRights13/01/14 04:00 AM
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The post you linked to seemed to really be about frustration at men's issues getting so little attention, as opposed to an attempt to argue that men are the oppressed class and women are the privileged class The post I linked is an example of fetishizing male-victimhood while denying female-victimhood. That's best captured from this line by the OP: I can't help but feel that this shows which of us has some genuine issues. If women were so oppressed and help was unavailable, where are their horro…
/r/MensRights13/01/14 01:29 AM
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if there are no universal virtues then why is "strength" good in the first place? If strength is a subjective idea than how can "it" be ultimately beneficial to society even though being subjective it can't be specifically described? It's subjectively good and subjectively beneficial. In other words: I like it and like its effects on society. We aren't promoting a reversal of gender roles. I've been here for nearly 5 years. In that times I've come to see that there are all sorts of various compe…
/r/MensRights12/01/14 11:20 PM
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What I am saying is that your understanding of "strength" seems unjustifiably narrow. I think you're assuming an awful lot about who I am and what I believe in order to more easily dismiss what I'm saying. And honestly, I don't think I should be expected to constantly correct you when you do this. The Principle of Charity exists for exactly these sorts of scenarios. I don't believe there exist any universal virtues. Strength is a subjective idea, but it's one I believe is ultimately beneficial t…
/r/MensRights12/01/14 09:13 PM
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http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1uy4ar/its_not_about_being_feminine_its_about_weakness/cen7a4e
/r/MensRights11/01/14 10:25 PM
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Only if you equate strength with the mold of "manliness." Like I said, I think that mold has an irrationally narrow view of strength. Though I wrote it while drunk, I think the point of my original post was pretty clear...though you seem to have missed it. We've traditionally expected men, as a class, to be much stronger (emotionally/physically/etc.). And I'm saying we should DE-gender strength. It shouldn't be considered "masculine". But that doesn't mean we should encourage men to be weaker. I…
/r/MensRights11/01/14 10:19 PM
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I'm too drunk for a wall of text argument.
/r/MensRights11/01/14 08:26 AM
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It's the blog for this subreddit...I figure anyone there will already know what the MRM is. Honestly, I'm too drunk for a Q&A. But my views re feminism are outlined in the article. I disagree that it applies to the west, but think it still has a place in other places. Without a strong feminist movement in the west, I think the MRM no longer has a reason to exist. Instead we should have a general "egalitarian" movement. But as long as the scales are stacked to the right, we'll need some weight ad…
/r/MensRights11/01/14 08:25 AM
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However, are we really "encouraging weakness" here? Sometimes. I'm concerned that, as we try to break the mold of "manliness", we'll encourage that weakness even more. Second, crying is not necessarily weakness. Crying in public is. If someone's kid is run over, it's understandable why they would cry, and I probably would too...but at it's root it is an inability to compose yourself, and that's weakness. I would cry if I had a kid and they were killed. I'm not saying I'm stronger than that, and …
/r/MensRights11/01/14 08:02 AM
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Article I wrote on the ideology of feminism: http://www.mensrights.ca/feminism-and-antifeminism/
/r/MensRights11/01/14 07:52 AM
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Just wanting to see your thoughts on this. I think when you try to argue that your side has it worse, you're setting yourself up to lose that argument. Men and women both have legitimate issues...just leave it at that. Once you start playing the "my side is oppressed, while yours is privileged" game, you're basically just creating your own version of feminism.
/r/MensRights09/01/14 03:56 AM
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It sounds like she picked him up at a Walmart, took him back to her house (which is likely in the middle of fucking nowhere), and then told him she wouldn't take him back unless he fucked her without a condom. I'm not sure if that's technically illegal, but she is basically coercing him specifically because she wants to get pregnant...which makes it pretty rapey.
/r/MensRights08/01/14 09:30 PM
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stoning women to death for adultery or marrying very young girls
/r/MensRights08/01/14 09:30 PM
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I would like to get your opinion on the matter. Does such a thing appear misogynist to you? From what I've seen, the more stringently people adhere to Islam, the more oppressive they appear to be towards women. The same can be said of Judaism and Christianity, however you don't really hear of either of those extremists stoning women to death for adultery or marrying very young girls. Whether it's fundamentally rooted in hatred for women, or not, is only relevant as a matter of semantics. In prac…
/r/MensRights08/01/14 04:49 PM
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You know , silly things like putting up decorations and planning some function that nobody wants to go to in the first place. This, and some other bullshit, were the primary reasons I quit my office job and started my own business. Money isn't steady anymore, but I don't get talked to like a dog, and never have to deal with that soul-crushing PC-sanitized saccharine bullshit these people feign. P.S. don't just quit your office job and "start a business". I had to live on couches for the first 2 …
/r/MensRights06/01/14 06:23 PM
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But upon actually checking out the SPLC "Intelligence Report" that deals with the MRM (link provided below), I found no such denunciation. http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/spring/a-war-on-women That's not the source for the claim that the SPLC labeled us a hate-group. This is the source for that claim: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/spring/misogyny-the-sites What, besides their shoddy and confrontat…
/r/MensRights06/01/14 04:16 AM
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I agree that in most of the world, women tend to have it worse than men (at least rights-wise). I just think that, in a lot of places where feminists have amassed a lot of political power decades ago, things have changed drastically and it's not really so clear as one side definitively having it worse than the other anymore.
/r/MensRights05/01/14 08:07 PM
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You live in South Africa. The vast majority of these issues apply to the US/EU/UK/CAN/AUS..."very high" HDI places where feminism has already achieved its primary goals and has maybe gone a bit too far in some places. There's going to be some general overlap (e.g. circumcision), but for the most part you're living in a completely different world. I don't think it's reasonable to expect the issues you see highlighted here to apply to your life.
/r/MensRights05/01/14 05:32 AM
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Hey I'm a bit loaded (thanks bourbon) right now, but yeah sorta. As a guy who grew up as a white working class boy, we tend to make some stupid ass decisions re college, because out parents didn't go and had no idea how to navigate all of thsat stuff. Anyway it's a similar issue that other "minorities" face, so if they're going to give them some help they should give younger versions of me help too...cause we/they fucking need it. P.S. I'm not exactly an alcoholic, this is just my "it's okay to …
/r/MensRights04/01/14 08:27 PM
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Shhhhh...it's a secret.
/r/MensRights03/01/14 03:15 PM
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I'm at work right now and can't be arsed to find a link, but research the definition of "full-time, year-round worker" and you'll find it isn't really either and does not really control for hours worked. I believe it's a BLS definition, BTW. EDIT: it turns out I wrote a blog-post about it a while back: https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/full-time-year-round-worker/
/r/MensRights03/01/14 03:14 PM
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I prefer the holodeck version of you that agrees with everything I say and doesn't try to politically correct my speech.
/r/MensRights02/01/14 10:16 PM
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We couldn't have hoped for a better reaction. Not only does this mean the MRM is gaining enough traction to necessitate acknowledgment from the largest and most powerful feminist organization in the world, but they've also engaged in the most obviously flawed arguments known to man. They didn't just compare us to nazis, they straight up claimed Hitler was one of us. And this was, as you said, done by their legal advisory committee. These aren't anonymous internet commentors, they're ostensibly e…
/r/MensRights02/01/14 02:39 PM
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Yes. Feminism itself is basically just the belief that inequality is the result of women being oppressed and men being privileged. I disagree with that assessment of the situation (I think it's much more complicated than one gender being oppressed and the other privileged, at least in the west), and I oppose a lot of policies/etc. predicated on that belief, but there are a lot of feminists I respect and admire. I may disagree with Christina Hoff Sommers and Camile Paglia on the fundamental cause…
/r/MensRights01/01/14 05:01 PM
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He signed some document (other than the birth certificate) that basically said he was the father and the sole financial support. He did this before the kid was born. I tried telling him to be careful (because she was already known to be a piece of shit), and he insisted he'd be smart about it. Well he didn't. They got married, and long story short she wouldn't let him talk to me anymore so I haven't seen him in a few years.
/r/MensRights01/01/14 04:55 PM
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There's a comment below that one where they say some shit like this: Here's the scenario I think is much more common. You've got your average guy who fits your description, a person who feels powerless, frustrated, unhappy. This guy might've thought about unfair gender roles, but probably not too much. Then this guy sees some feminism, somewhere they consider safe, let's say a post on Kotaku, talking about gender roles, the patriarchy, institutional bias. I'd like to talk about my own history wi…
/r/MensRights31/12/13 06:15 PM
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I have no idea why anybody would be opposed to accusations of racism or sexism in political circles, whether they be academic, grassroots, or policy-making ones. If something's racist... that's a big deal. I agree that racism/etc. IS a big deal, that's why tossing those accusations around so cavalierly is also a big deal. Kritik-style arguments level accusations of racism/etc. against, well, pretty much anything. Capitalism? Racist/sexist/homophobic/etc. Farm-subsidies? Racist/sexist/homophobic/…
/r/MensRights27/12/13 03:19 PM
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Let me preface this by saying I've been drinking. I'm not loaded, but I've had about half a cup of vodka so far, and counting. So I'm not in the mood for a lot of bullshit. 1 insofar as 4-sentence paragraphs are walls of text, sure I've been in enough of these to know where it's heading. You make a bunch of points I disagree with, so I respond to them. I make a bunch of points you disagree with, so you respond to them. It just gets bigger and bigger and bigger until we're each writing 7500 word …
/r/MensRights20/12/13 10:00 PM
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You seem interested in a wall-of-text argument. I'm not. I have a job, and my free time is precious to me. What do you mean by "conflict theory" though? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_theory I'm confused what you mean that "it" is rooted in conflict theory - what's "it"? SJW bullshit. For example, redefining racism/sexism so that racism/sexism is impossible against whites/men. You didn't respond to my earlier comment Because I was commenting entirely on you invading a thread to defend CT.…
/r/MensRights20/12/13 02:14 PM
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That's how a lot of fights start. My first fight was some kid who got pissed about something I didn't even do waiting for me outside the lunch room then running up behind me and "clubbing" me with his cast (he had a broken hand/wrist).
/r/MensRights20/12/13 02:08 PM
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We now know the priorities of Sweden: Man Tax > outlawing peeing while standing > "feminist" snow removal > banning MGM
/r/MensRights20/12/13 02:03 PM
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Lots of men I know have been involved in physical altercations. I have a slightly misaligned joint and a chipped tooth due to being attacked. Is it really so uncommon now that it's not assumed most guys have at least been in a fight? What the fuck happened?
/r/MensRights19/12/13 09:59 PM
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First, I'll say that you didn't respond to anything I said. Because I was calling you out for invading another thread. especially when people go so far to insinuate that Critical Theory is "what feminists believe" Critical Theory underlies the craziness we see from the SJWs. Feminism itself is an ideology rooted in a victim complex, which lends it especially well to meshing with shit like CT. And though most every SJW is a feminist, not all feminists are SJWs. CT, however, is exactly what laid t…
/r/MensRights19/12/13 09:42 PM
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I like your user history that includes no participation in r/MR until this thread, along with a lot of participation in CT subs like /r/askcriticaltheory and /r/criticaltheory, not to mention /r/feministtheory. So which brigade are you part of?
/r/MensRights18/12/13 11:10 PM
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It's all from CT though. They took Marx's Conflict Theory and started applying it EVERYWHERE. Bourgeoisie? How about men/whites/straights/able-bodied/Americans/Europeans/First-world-nations/corporations/etc./etc./etc. It's like academic Mad-Libs.
/r/MensRights18/12/13 11:05 PM
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AVFM runs (or used to run) a site called "Register Her", where they created their own sort of "sex offender registry" but focused on women, and included shit like false accusations and people they decided were "bigots". It's pretty fucked and very controversial here, so maybe that's what they're talking about. But as far as I know, it never included any phone numbers/addresses/email addresses or anything like that.
/r/MensRights18/12/13 12:01 AM
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You should talk to her. It sounds like she's overestimating how "tough" you are, and just trying to be playful. I've sort of been on both sides of that. When I was a kid, I used to jokingly punch a friend of mine in the arm whenever he was jokingly talking shit. I've always been a big guy, and apparently I was hitting a bit too hard for him. So after a while he had to ask me not to hit him so hard because it was starting to seriously hurt him. I stopped hitting him after that. When I was in my e…
/r/MensRights17/12/13 02:17 PM
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Critical Theory is the bit of bullshit pseudo-intellectual nonsense that spawned all of the SJW shit you see today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_school Ever heard of "cultural Marxism"? Critical Theory is what they're talking about.
/r/MensRights17/12/13 01:49 PM
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Maybe.
/r/MensRights16/12/13 01:40 PM
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but I sure won't break bread with them at my table... Because we'll be battling the very next day. Maybe. Or maybe you'd find that you both agree on a lot of other issues as well.
/r/MensRights15/12/13 03:04 PM
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If someone reacted similarly to the man-hating literature at some of those feminist bookstores, these same people would be bitching and moaning about how their rights were violated.
/r/MensRights12/12/13 10:53 PM
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Oh, but there's also the huge one smack on my elbow crease. Lost at fencing? Fell in a wood chipper arm first? Attacked by a rabid wolf? Naw. Had a brush with poison oak when I was a little kid out picking blackberries, and I scratched at it. I have a HORRIBLE scar on my right-hand ring-finger. It's about 1/4" wide x 5" long, jagged, and goes from the palm to the finger-tip. It looks severe. Do you know what happened? I just cut it open on a fence. Nothing life-threatening or anything...pretty m…
/r/MensRights12/12/13 10:26 PM
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I'm sorry you weren't allowed to cry as a kid. Kids, regardless of gender, should be taught to express their emotions appropriately, and shouldn't be told to "man up" or anything like that. With that being said, I don't want to live in a world where everyone's crying over every little frustration. I want to live in a world where people have enough control over themselves to suck it up when they have a bad day. If you're an adult, and you start crying in public over something minor, I think you'r…
/r/MensRights05/12/13 02:32 PM
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BULLSHIT. I have fairly large hands (glove size L/XL) and can't use the vast majority of phones. They're designed to be usable by the largest number of people, which tends to mean children, women, and men with small to medium hands. People with large hands get excluded on just about every phone but the "phablets" they've recently started making, and do you know who is ridiculously more likely to have large hands? Men. But it's not even a sexism thing. They aren't explicitly trying to exclude men…
/r/MensRights15/11/13 01:48 PM
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Through fucking a coloured woman, the white man transcends his 'whiteness' and innocence, moving into more experienced and dangerous territory. I've slept with a few black girls and never "transcended my whiteness and innocence". Maybe I've been doing it wrong? How 2 transcend whiteness and innocence? PLS ADV!
/r/MensRights15/11/13 01:30 PM
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Yeah, as the stooge from AMR noted, it's on page 342. On that page, we see that the only time they count as "work" is "Market Activities", "Cooking and Cleaning", and "Care of Children". They specifically exclude the housework traditionally done by men, like yard work, home repairs, vehicle repairs, etc., while going out of their way to include housework traditionally done by women. If you look at the US, it claims total hours worked for women and men are at 8:06 | 7:54 (W | M). If you look at "…
/r/MensRights08/11/13 12:04 AM
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I'm done. I'm not reading any more of your inane bullshit. Learn to make your point succinctly, or don't randomly reply to others expecting them to actually read it. Go annoy someone else, because I'm setting RES to ignore your crazy ass. Oh, and it's pretty obvious that you're voting up your own comments as this is an old ass thread. Get A Fucking Life
/r/MensRights04/11/13 03:56 AM
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Your 17 timepoints of when a human life begins is just 17 points along the human development cycle that has no relevance to when human life begins. You clearly did not read the article. Are you actually aware that you just linked to something that snarkily stated that human life doesn't begin until at least after puberty Because you skimmed the article instead of actually reading it, you've made obvious errors like this one. Bernard Nathanson, co-founder of NARAL and pro-abortion advocate wrote …
/r/MensRights03/11/13 08:05 PM
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Your general attitude, and the information you're presenting as if it's undeniable fact, leads me to suspect you're getting most of your information from pro-life propaganda. I'd strongly recommend that you expand your horizons beyond that which is trying to overtly manipulate you for political ends. It's not much of a philosophical question, really, more of the end result of decades of dehumanization campaigns fuzzying up the answer itself. If this were the early 1900s, there'd be as much so-ca…
/r/MensRights02/11/13 07:20 PM
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I don't think outlawing abortion would solve the problem. I wish more pro-life people echoed that sentiment.
/r/MensRights02/11/13 06:43 PM
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I disagree with you, and probably won't change your mind as ultimately this comes down to the philosophical question of the point at which sperm and egg become "human". But I will implore you to recognize that this philosophical question, being the crux of the disagreement between pro-life and pro-choice, is not something which has a conclusive answer for one side or another. And barring that, one adopting either position must do so on at least some faith. With that in mind, I would argue that o…
/r/MensRights02/11/13 07:46 AM
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Speaking of men's lack of social rights, I watched my dad work his butt off to get custody of my younger brother after my parents divorced last year. My father was a stay-at-home dad too, so if he was a female the custody of my younger brother would have been a no brainer for the judge. I think that's the sort of thing most people here would say falls under "legal rights". Specifically it'd be the right to be treated the same by the courts regardless of your sex.
/r/MensRights31/10/13 03:50 PM
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Did this ever end badly for the drivers? If a hitchhiker killed the driver, they probably wouldn't know it had anything to do with hitchhiking by the time they found the body. They'd just say something like "motorist found dead", because there are so many possibilities. And that's only if they find the body. Nearly a million people go missing in the US each year. Who knows how many of them are murdered. I doubt hitchhiking-related murders would make up a significant portion of that (as it's not …
/r/MensRights31/10/13 03:47 PM
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I agree with everything in your post but this: Picking up "ugly guys" hitchhikers - because no one else will. It's 2013...don't pick up hitchhikers, and don't hitchhike. In the 70s, when hitching was common, TONS of serial killers found a steady supply of victims because of hitching. Hitching isn't common anymore, but those people are still out there and you won't know they're dangerous until it's too late. That applies to ugly guys and cute girls. People are fucked, stay safe.
/r/MensRights31/10/13 04:51 AM
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They're usually pretty cheap compared to B&Ms. You can find better deals online for the good stuff, but if you're looking to pick up a bunch of cheap knives to resell, they sell sets like this.
/r/MensRights30/10/13 02:25 AM
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You can buy the knives online here: http://www.smkw.com Just search for "prostate cancer" and they'll show up.
/r/MensRights29/10/13 07:49 PM
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Avoid talking about feminism in your posters. Stick to the issues which are least controversial and most obviously pressing. If the issue is raised by others, speak the truth about it...just don't lead with it. Because most people just assume feminism is "women's rights" and they'll likely misunderstand what you're saying and assume you're a bigot. If the feminists protest you, make sure you point to the fact that your group is just about addressing those particular issues...maybe turn it around…
/r/MensRights28/10/13 06:06 PM
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Does anyone have a concise, sourced, factual refutation of the existence of a patriarchy in first world countries? There's this: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/e2vme/im_trying_to_put_together_a_solid_refutation_of/
/r/MensRights24/10/13 02:02 PM
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I wrote it. I wanted to retain my anonymity, so Sillymod and I decided to use the name of this account for my account on there. This account was started a while ago as a joke to respond when feminists were blaming "patriarchy". It eventually became my anonymous MR account on Reddit, after I was doxxed and harassed by feminists on an old account.
/r/MensRights19/10/13 02:24 PM
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Janitors don't yell houskeeping when they go into bathrooms In some places they do. I used to work near the bathroom in an office, and the guy would knock and yell in "janitor" before entering both bathrooms. Then he'd prop the door open and leave one of those big yellow "floor is wet" placard things in the doorway. Well, I worked for fast food, and had to clean up the bathrooms. My first job as a kid was for Burger King and I had to mop the bathroom along with the rest of the store. Those were …
/r/MensRights11/10/13 09:55 AM
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Complain about what? That she announced herself before entering to do her job, and then knocked on the stall doors to make sure no one was in there? She shouldn't get in trouble for that, and neither should a male janitor.
/r/MensRights10/10/13 07:12 PM
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I do not support feminism. Feminism, as an ideology, is actually something reasonable people should support in countries like Saudi Arabia...where women are not equal to men. I wrote this a while ago to explain my own antifeminism, but I think you should probably read it: https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/why-im-an-antifeminist/ and "feminazis" make me ashamed of my gender. Never, ever, ever feel that you are responsible for the behavior of others just because you share some innate qu…
/r/MensRights26/09/13 02:07 AM
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I wrote some stuff which I think might be useful to have on the r/MR blog: https://femintology.wordpress.com/ Let me know if you want to repurpose any of it.
/r/MensRights14/09/13 07:48 PM
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Oh we can't really have meet-ups on this sub. r/MR has some crazy enemies who would love an opportunity like that to harvest PI...or worse. It's a nice sentiment though; maybe we could do something like that once we're not quite so controversial.
/r/MensRights10/09/13 12:29 PM
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Just watch out for those tiny bones.
/r/MensRights09/09/13 07:15 PM
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Hey, welcome to r/MR. Ever do any salmon fishing? I haven't gone since I was a kid, but we used to go up to Pulaski every year for some fly fishing. I don't really have the patience for fishing, but there really is nothing like fresh-caught wild salmon.
/r/MensRights09/09/13 07:04 PM
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About 10 years ago, I had a friend who was an "escort". She asked me to be a "bodyguard" while she was working -- basically she paid me $25 an hour to look scary and sit at a nearby Denny's in case she needed me while she did her job. I never really had to do anything major. Once, some skinny hipster wouldn't pay, so she called me, I showed up and right when he saw me the guy bitched out and paid her. That was the biggest thing I ever had to do...and I literally just stood there. Anyway, I think…
/r/MensRights04/09/13 05:54 PM
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When I was in school, all students were required to take either African American Studies, or Women's Studies. I took WS. Long story short, I had a similar exchange with the prof after class (over Viagra). She just disregarded actual facts with some bullshit as well. I don't know how common it actually is, but your experience resonates with my own. For what it's worth, this doesn't mean you'll fail the class...I wound up with an A. Just parrot whatever bullshit they say and you'll be fine. For th…
/r/MensRights31/08/13 12:39 PM
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I totally understand the fear of being used/getting betrayed. That's the same sort of thing I was talking about re being a divorced slave. I wouldn't want to be that guy whether he's actually divorced, or still "married" but still just a paycheck. But I don't mind being the breadwinner if it's necessary. I'm not opposed to the idea itself, just being pushed into it unnecessarily...of being used. As someone who has pretty much run from responsibility his entire life, I can relate to the desire to…
/r/MensRights30/08/13 07:27 PM
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This should be the top comment.
/r/MensRights30/08/13 05:23 AM
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I'm 29 and it's a mess. A huge part of me really wants to settle down, get married, and be a "family man". It took me a long time to realize that, but there it is. I'd rather share the earning/raising duties, but I have no problem being the breadwinner if that's what needs to happen. I'm not concerned about the responsibility bit. However, I really do not want to end up as one of those sad and lonely divorced guys who only exists as a source of income for the family that abandoned him. I've gone…
/r/MensRights30/08/13 05:11 AM
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https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/why-im-an-antifeminist/
/r/MensRights25/08/13 05:50 AM
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Manboobz doesn't matter...at all. Just ignore his catty backbiting and let him fade into obscurity like the eschatology troll.
/r/MensRights23/08/13 05:42 AM
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No offense, but you're a feminist SRSer who views us as "bitter", not an MRA. You're known for being fairly reasonable and all, but I think you should probably at least mention that you're not an MRA before proffering your opinion in a thread specifically asking for the opinions of MRAs.
/r/MensRights17/08/13 02:06 AM
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Many of the issues we discuss can (and likely will) affect you. And it's good that you're making yourself aware of them because maybe you can avoid falling into one of the many traps you'll eventually encounter down the road. But A) everyone deserves to enjoy their teenage years, and B) there are traps here too. Any group centered around anything even remotely political will have certain problems. You'll find manipulative people who distort facts to suit their agenda. You'll find well-meaning pe…
/r/MensRights10/08/13 07:23 PM
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I don't know, but I doubt it. If you're concerned with the way others view the MRM, then try to represent the MRM as best as you can. Sometimes that might mean speaking out against some of the crazier voices that have attached themselves to the movement. Other times that might mean just being a decent person and acting as an example that "not all MRAs are like that" to the people you encounter. Honestly, we're not in that bad of a position any more. I've been involved in the MRM for nearly 5 yea…
/r/MensRights03/08/13 04:52 PM
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A lot of people in this thread are mistaken. The MRM is not a subset of egalitarianism. It has no overriding ideology, and egalitarianism is most definitely an ideology. While I believe most of us are also egalitarians, not all MRAs subscribe to those beliefs. The only prerequisite for being a men's rights advocate is that one advocate for the rights of men. You do not need to be an egalitarian to do that. And there are definitely MRAs who do not support equality. They aren't that common on this…
/r/MensRights03/08/13 05:06 AM
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He seems to think I will be paying child support based on my 185,000 salary and that it would look like I was being intentionally underemployed to avoid the larger child support burdens. Yeah, he's right...look up "imputed income". They'll say you can earn more, so you should. Congratulations, your life is no longer your own. You are about to begin your new life as a de facto indentured servant.
/r/MensRights01/08/13 07:35 PM
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I grew up raised by a single-mother, living with her, my grandmother, my aunt, and my aunt's girlfriend. Growing up, I never really encountered any of the crazy feminists we see here, and just generally viewed it as a good thing. Then I went to college. Honestly, I'm not about to give a life story here, but I encountered a bunch of the crazy feminist types in college and in the workplace. It soured me on the whole thing a bit, but I still considered myself vaguely supportive of "feminism". About…
/r/MensRights01/08/13 02:42 PM
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These people are not worth convincing. They're clearly not all that bright, or sane, and they marginalize their own voices the second they open their mouths and start spouting their views beyond bumper-sticker slogans. They're VERY useful to point to, so brighter and saner people can see that these people actually are out there causing problems...but that's about it. There's a saying I heard a while ago: you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. I think that …
/r/MensRights31/07/13 01:38 PM
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A lot of things in life are unfair. If you can't change it, then you have to just accept it for what it is and deal with it however you can.
/r/MensRights17/07/13 04:56 PM
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Any tips on how handle her and the situation that I don't tank my friends relationship and/or end up losing him as a friend, but manage to defend being a MR advocate? Figure out what's more important: your friendship/etc., or defending the MRM to some random asshole you can't stand. I personally would value the friendship more. If you do too, then just don't bring it up around her. If she starts going off on a feminist rant, and you really really can't stand it, then just excuse yourself and wal…
/r/MensRights17/07/13 12:45 PM
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Did you not read the post? Or my edit? Or the whole thread? Do you mean the post that originally read: I don't get you people. At all. ...or are you referring to the one you edited an hour ago to read simply: I don't understand.* ...? http://www.reddit.com/r/MRSelfPostCopies/comments/1huav7/copy_what_is_the_point_of_this_subreddit/ Go troll elsewhere, because you're clearly not competent enough to troll r/MR.
/r/MensRights08/07/13 06:37 AM
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Years ago I set one up and forgot about it because a girl I was seeing suggested it. Then it started sending me these weird "do you know this person?" emails with pictures of an ex that was like re-opening a wound for me. And it kept fucking sending them like every few days. AND one of my stalkers from high school found me on there and tried to message me. I noped the fuck out and deleted my account. After that I heard all of the other employer-related horror stories and knew I made the right ch…
/r/MensRights01/07/13 04:14 AM
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What I'm saying is that these links don't exactly paint the dramatic picture you described. ...because usually, scientists who are worth listening to, are extremely measured in their proclamations. In the link you gave, there's an interview with Cordelia Fine right above the review. She says something about her taking issue with gender differences being assumed or taken for granted, not the idea that there are or could be gender differences. And he takes issue with her dismissing the importance …
/r/MensRights25/06/13 05:07 PM
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you would naturally expect any bias to be on the side of men. If all else were equal, you would. But it seems that men are generally more sympathetic towards women, and less sympathetic towards other men. When factoring that in, you would expect to see some bias against men in certain matters. You might expect to see, for example, sentencing disparities in criminal cases. EDIT: you would also expect to see bias against women as well in other matters. For example, women wouldn't be viewed as bein…
/r/MensRights25/06/13 03:14 PM
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How do you interpret one (apparently infallible) person criticizing a part of her book as being "torn apart by actual well-respected scientists working in those fields"? Why do you assume that, because I only linked to a single well-reasoned criticism, there exists only 1 criticism from a well-respected scientist? Here is another one...from the former president of the APA. He sounds pretty defensive, and, if you look at the interview with Cordelia Fine above, he misrepresents what she says. Link…
/r/MensRights25/06/13 03:07 PM
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Ahh, okay. I knew they did it for child support and had just assumed they did it in alimony too.
/r/MensRights23/06/13 08:29 PM
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I've never seen that ever. I don't even know how that would work. imputed income
/r/MensRights23/06/13 07:34 PM
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The book she referenced was celebrated by left-wing political assholes, and torn apart by actual well-respected scientists working in those fields. You're right that she walked away when she realized she was wrong. That happens a lot with the indoctrinated. They'll run away the second they're confronted with a reasonable voice, yet argue for DAYS with an obvious troll. You can hope that the doubt she feels will lead her to question the bullshit a bit more, but it probably won't. The reason they …
/r/MensRights23/06/13 10:49 AM
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However, a lot of threads on here are tantamount to slut shaming It's a place for open and basically unmoderated discussion. You will see all sorts of comments. Some of them great, some of them horrible. But that horrible shit tends to get downvoted here. So I hope you'll take that into consideration next time you see such comments. Also i love the 'I find attacking your character to be really un useful however you're ignorant.' It was done to illustrate its lack of usefulness.
/r/MensRights21/06/13 05:50 PM
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I think you're making a pretty huge assumption about me (one which happens to be untrue). I could just as easily say you take issue with us because you're ignorant and easily misled by ideologues. But attacking the character and motive of the person on the other side isn't really useful for much other than polarizing the onlookers. And, considering you're in a sub populated by people who probably already disagree with you, that doesn't seem like it would benefit you too much. But let's put that …
/r/MensRights21/06/13 05:03 PM
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I've seen it. I'd like to refer you to this article. The popularity of something has no bearing on whether or not it's true (unless the something is a statement like "this statement is popular").
/r/MensRights21/06/13 04:27 PM
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This subreddit is the laughing stock of a lot of communities Have you actually looked into those communities? Because they tend to be populated almost entirely by feminists. Real feminists, not the "I've confused egalitarianism with feminism" people. Their opinions of a largely anti-feminist group is to be expected. it's just a forum of rape apologists What gave you the impression that we're rape apologists? and lonely men wanting to feel like they are being oppressed in some way. It's a place f…
/r/MensRights21/06/13 04:21 PM
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https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/348063371905597440 I like how you and /u/m0by_duck come to the conclusion that MRAs are cowards because, when corrected, a user said "Fair enough. I stand corrected. " instead of arguing with you all. Admitting that you're wrong is not even remotely close to cowardice. But talking shit on Twitter...well, that's a lot closer. If you want to argue, then fine; let's hear your argument. Or you could just run back to Twitter and hide behind some more snark.
/r/MensRights21/06/13 03:59 PM
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That isn't Graham Linehan's Twitter account. This is his account (@Glinner). The account you linked is just some random blogger. In short: he doesn't really matter.
/r/MensRights21/06/13 03:08 PM
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Or maybe a stupid joke in a comment on Reddit is extremely trivial and not worth getting worked up over.
/r/MensRights20/06/13 11:36 AM
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If they're following you around and harassing you, then contact the cops and get restraining orders on all of them. They would do it to you in a heartbeat, so fuck em. Also, if they're ever doing shit like that, just pull out your phone and start recording. They'll likely back the fuck off right away. But if they don't, you'll be able to press charges and win. Regarding the email thing, speak to someone at your university and explain what's up. Get them to give you a different account and ask th…
/r/MensRights15/06/13 08:27 AM
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I don't really know enough about them to have much of an opinion, but from what I've seen they appear to be extremists on par with radical feminists. They don't represent my values. But I'm sure there's overlap between them and us. The MRM doesn't have any sort of overriding philosophy/ideology, so it's impossible to exclude anyone on those grounds. If you advocate for the rights of men, then you have as much claim to the label "MRA" as anyone else...and that necessarily means sharing it with pe…
/r/MensRights11/06/13 03:17 AM
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Y, N, belief in equality, Y, Y, Y, Y, Y These are not very interesting questions. If you had just looked up the definition of egalitarianism, you could have answered all but the first two on your own.
/r/MensRights09/06/13 09:33 AM
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At my old school, you had to take either Women's studies (Critical Theory on gender), or African American studies (Critical Theory on race). Either way, it was mandatory for everyone to take an SJW indoctrination class.
/r/MensRights07/06/13 09:04 AM
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Contact the higher-ups at your school. Because based on what you said, it sounds like a woman wearing a tank-top threw you out on the grounds that you were a man wearing a tank-top...which has to be against some sort of rule.
/r/MensRights07/06/13 08:59 AM
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Yeah it's annoying...but you'll encounter that sort of thing in any moderate-sized subreddit. The bigger this sub gets, the worse those problems will become.
/r/MensRights31/05/13 07:57 AM
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Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJxUVJ8blw It's all a bunch of "OMG MEN ARE HORRIBLE VIOLENT RAPISTS!!! AND ANTI-FEMINISTS ARE HORRIBLE VIOLENT RAPISTS TRYING TO PROTECT THEIR PRIVILEGE!!!! FEMINISTS PROTECT WIMMIN N' CHILDRINS AGAINST DA EVIL MENZ!!!!" The whole thing is part of a TEDx for "women's issues".
/r/MensRights30/05/13 10:44 PM
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If I disagree with anything (or even a few things) in this subreddit am I against MR? Probably not, unless you're disagreeing that men deserve equal rights. With that being said, we have our assholes who may claim you're anti-MR for such a thing. Are there any Men's Rights activists who are married? If so did your role as a Men's right activist conflict with your decision to be married? There are many, and there are many who are divorced too. I'm not one of them, and hope to never be one, but th…
/r/MensRights22/05/13 05:16 PM
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Maybe you should talk to your doctor about going off the T supplements. I used to take this drug to quit smoking (Wellbutrin), and it was known to cause violent and suicidal shit. I started noticing I was becoming more and more of an asshole and was worried it might make me hurt someone I cared about, so I stopped. If you're having homicidal thoughts, that's a really really really bad sign.
/r/MensRights18/05/13 11:53 PM
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The shop sounds pretty cool. My ex's step-dad had a shop on his property (he processed his own lumber from trees he harvested on his property). He had this weird industrial furnace to heat it and would burn shipping pallets as a free source of fuel. It sounds way more ghetto than it actually was...TBH it was actually pretty nice. Throw in some running water and it'd definitely be habitable. Anyway, I don't know if you use Sketchup or not, but it's perfect for those sorts of projects. It's a 3D m…
/r/MensRights18/05/13 11:50 PM
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Project cars are a great hobby...and can be pretty lucrative My dad is married to a crazy woman and before they moved into a weird authoritarian 50+ community, he would spend all his time working on project cars that he'd re-sell (the last one was some super-tiny black MGB). It kept him sane and happy. Personally, I'm not really a car guy (moved back to the city at 18), but my mom was obsessed with her Trans Am growing up, so I developed a healthy respect for Pontiac.
/r/MensRights17/05/13 07:42 PM
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There's always FWB. It can get complicated, but if you're clear from the beginning and avoid the crazy, it can work out pretty well. I had an arrangement like that for 3 years, so it doesn't have to be a short-term thing. As to the T thing. I don't know if mine's actually low, but I was looking into ways to increase it previously, and there are some T-boosters out there that you can get OTC that people swear buy. The most popular one seems to be Blue Up. I haven't tried any yet, but it might be …
/r/MensRights17/05/13 07:29 PM
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There is a list right in the side bar of this community It's listing ways people believe men are disadvantaged. Being an MRA is not contingent upon agreeing with anything on that list. Where it is appropriate or inappropriate to interject my opinion is also just an opinion. Indeed, but I think most people would say it's inappropriate to start shit like this in the thread of someone who appears to be suicidal and is asking for help. Imagine if the tables were turned. Imagine it was an MRA saying …
/r/MensRights16/05/13 06:45 PM
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From what I have seen it has never been the position of this movement that it's understandable or acceptable to mistrust men for the deeds of a few bad guys. This movement doesn't have a position on anything. This isn't feminism. There isn't some particular ideology behind anything here. This is just a collection of people working on issues related to the rights of men. And this subreddit specifically is just a place to discuss that shit. Certain positions may be popular and others unpopular, bu…
/r/MensRights16/05/13 05:02 PM
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It would be understandable, but not correct. That's all anyone has been trying to say. And here you are, coming over from SRS to nit-pick anything you possibly can into a weapon, in a thread where all anyone's trying to do is help a severely depressed person. Are you proud of what you're doing with your life? Are you proud to be a petty asshole who attacks others over trumped-up nothings? Fuck you. Go back to SRS.
/r/MensRights16/05/13 04:12 PM
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Don't live under a bridge. You have so much time left and you're just now waking up to the fact that the shit you've been fed is, in fact, shit. You are single now, and you're still young enough to enjoy it! Don't get yourself stuck into another long-term relationship. Just mess around with random girls and/or hire hookers. Yeah, you need emotional support in general, but you can get that other ways. It sounds like you need a friend...a real friend not some internet shit. So start going to your …
/r/MensRights15/05/13 11:34 PM
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the CDP had a population of 420 That's a ridiculously small number of people...too small to imply anything about anywhere outside of that ridiculously small town.
/r/MensRights13/05/13 06:14 PM
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That's pretty funny. I just threw them up there because I was tired of making the same argument over and over and over again, so I figured I'd just link it and save myself the trouble.
/r/MensRights13/05/13 06:02 PM
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What is your definition of feminism? Feminism is the belief that women are disadvantaged relative to men, and that, in order to achieve equality, women must gain advantage and/or men must lose advantage. Basically: feminism = egalitarianism + believing we live in a "patriarchy". What makes someone a feminist? Believing something roughly equivalent to what I just wrote above. Gender inequality is a disparity between individuals due to gender. Do you believe that gender inequality persists today? …
/r/MensRights08/05/13 02:03 PM
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And other sources show that it's pretty common. Not to mention the fact that a great deal of damage can be done for accusations which don't escalate to the level of police involvement...people have been beaten and murdered before over such unofficial false accusations. Also, the Guardian is basically the UK-version of a left-wing FOX News. Of course they would blindly cling to any side which was vaguely "feminist". The newspaper's reputation as a platform for liberal and left-wing opinions has l…
/r/MensRights08/05/13 01:21 PM
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Egalitarianism: support for/belief in equality Gender-Egalitarianism: support for/belief in gender equality Men's Rights Advocate: one who advocates for the rights of men Women's Rights Advocate: one who advocates for the rights of women Feminism: the belief that women are disadvantaged relative to men, and that, in order to achieve equality, women must gain advantage and/or men must lose advantage MRA is not the male version of feminist. MRA is a description of what you DO. Feminist is a descri…
/r/MensRights08/05/13 08:05 AM
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http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html
/r/MensRights08/05/13 07:37 AM
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This is the only MRM-related thing I've seem outside of the Anglosphere and Europe. And I don't think it's going to really go anywhere because of how much shittier it still is for women in India. Why is it relegated primarily to US/EU/AUS? Mostly because these are the places that first embraced feminism. Some of it has to do with the fact that, before feminism, women really did have it much worse, so it'd be kind of shitty to focus on men's problems back then. But a lot of it also has to do with…
/r/MensRights06/05/13 12:35 PM
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So you're referring to this? As long 80% of suicides are committed by men, I support men’s rights. http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1dczmx/a_friend_of_mine_submitted_a_list_of_reasons_why/ They're not implying any sort of conspiracy. He's basically just saying that the extreme disparity in suicide reflects a problem with the way men are treated by our society. The suicide issue is multifaceted and relates to the MRM in many different ways, so he could have had any number of those issu…
/r/MensRights30/04/13 08:57 AM
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It's just that some times its brought up in a way that seems out of context. As if it proves that there is some sort of conspiracy against men. It doesn't sit well with me, but I'm the first to admit it may be because I'm not as well informed as I could be. Could you provide a few examples to illustrate what you're talking about? Because I don't recall seeing anything like that, and I've been reading r/MR for about 4 years.
/r/MensRights30/04/13 07:13 AM
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You're arguing with a troll. ...it's not even a feminist troll, just a run of the mill low-effort troll. You're wasting your time writing walls of text that few people will read because they realize the other guy is a troll, and he's just making snide comments to piss you off so you'll waste more of your time writing walls of text. Just walk away and save yourself the frustration and possible embarrassment.
/r/MensRights27/04/13 09:55 AM
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I don't think they needed any sort of response to that. They showed the calm, soft-spoken, and rational discussion taking place about legitimate issues. Then they mention some women being afraid and cut to some GUY opposing the event and claiming it's all "LET'S GO RAPE WOMEN!!!!!" and shit. He just looks crazy as hell (not to mention the whole free-speech thing they brought up with him).
/r/MensRights18/04/13 04:29 AM
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OP is a troll trying to make r/MR look bad. Check their user-history. Downvote and move on.
/r/MensRights13/04/13 03:41 AM
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Looks like he posted it yesterday! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRWff4gCwTw
/r/MensRights09/04/13 02:23 AM
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I think it's great. The more they fight us, the worse they look and the better we look. With that being said, we need another video like we had for the Warren Farrel protest...something professional that explains what the hell is happening in a way that is easier to understand for those not involved.
/r/MensRights06/04/13 04:50 PM
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The judge would decide that you could earn more and would order that you continue paying the same amount. http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/calculating-child-support-faq-29150-4.html
/r/MensRights30/03/13 03:38 PM
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It seems pretty obvious to me that they're sarcastically referencing the event.
/r/MensRights23/03/13 06:25 AM
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Congratulations for being so awesome!
/r/MensRights05/03/13 01:38 PM
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Apparently that's the woman responsible for that horribly misleading infographic that was going around last month: http://theenlivenproject.com/the-truth-about-false-accusation/
/r/MensRights19/02/13 11:02 AM
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I'd like to get married and have kids one day. I have to sort some things out in my life before I'm ready for that (i.e. grow the fuck up), and given what I now know, it's not something I would jump into (i.e. I'm thinking 3 years of living together before marriage would be best to ensure compatibility/non-vindictiveness/etc.). But with that being said, A LOT of guys get screwed over by marriage. The laws we've created surrounding marriage are a major factor in making it such a risky prospect. A…
/r/MensRights18/02/13 05:53 AM
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It's depressing. Hearing all of the horrible stories is depressing. Trying to argue against the dominant narratives (e.g. feminism, patriarchy, etc.) and dealing with the "true believers" is depressing. Hearing about the petty bullshit the opposition engages in is depressing. The fact that said petty bullshit actually works is depressing. It's depressing, but it's useful. It shines a light on problems a lot of people would rather sweep under the rug. It shines a light on the glaring deficiencies…
/r/MensRights13/02/13 08:08 PM
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As defined by Merriam-Webster ...as defined by Wiktionary: A social theory or political movement arguing that legal and social restrictions on females must be removed in order to bring about equality of both sexes in all aspects of public and private life. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/feminism I've written about the definition of feminism previously, and that might clear up some confusion for you. Please read this: https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/feminism/ Long story short, based …
/r/MensRights08/02/13 02:32 PM
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Some things that may help: Develop a productive routine for yourself. If you're unemployed, each day spend 2 hours sending out resumes/filling out applications. If you're out of shape, set aside an hour each day to exercise. etc., etc. Keep at it for about 2 weeks and it will turn into a routine and will be easy to stick to it. Every night, create a checklist for the next day of shit you need to do. Having a checklist will keep you on track, and will make you realize what you've accomplished eac…
/r/MensRights02/02/13 01:20 PM
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Friends with benefits ;p
/r/MensRights02/02/13 01:01 PM
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Platonic refers to emotional ties officially. I linked the definition in the above comment. Platonic explicitly means non-sexual and non-romantic. Not sexual in nature; platonic love. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/platonic Here's another: of, relating to, or being a relationship marked by the absence of romance or sex http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/platonic and another: purely spiritual; free from sensual desire, especially in a relationship between two persons of the opposite sex. h…
/r/MensRights01/02/13 07:29 PM
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I'm in a platonic sexual relationship with a very close guy friend ("friends with benefits") and we are both still able to regulate emotional ties - although I've been told this is the exception You're not in a platonic relationship...you're in a sexual relationship. I tried the FWB thing when I was your age and thought it was the greatest thing ever...then after a few years it got a bit weird. It's REALLY hard to not develop romantic feelings for the person you're basically living with most of …
/r/MensRights01/02/13 12:22 AM
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Agreed. I just think it's important to mention that (generally) men may not express their emotions the same way as women. Though socialization may play a role in that, I sincerely doubt it's ENTIRELY a matter of conditioning. So, take away that conditioning, and I still don't think you'll see guys crying as much as women. I'm 6'5 and built like a linebacker and I feel uncomfortable walking home late/etc. Some people are horrible, and it's perfectly reasonable to be wary. However, some people tak…
/r/MensRights31/01/13 08:44 PM
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Okay, this guy is fucking awesome.
/r/MensRights28/01/13 04:51 PM
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I wrote some stuff on this a while back: https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/feminism/ https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/antifeminism/ https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/why-im-an-antifeminist/ Long story short: Feminism is the belief that women (as a class) are oppressed, men (as a class) are privileged, and that equality can only come about by addressing this disparity. In practice, this would mean raising women up and/or bringing men down. In the west/first-world…
/r/MensRights20/01/13 09:02 AM
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A place for tools.
/r/MensRights19/01/13 03:10 PM
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http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/e2vme/im_trying_to_put_together_a_solid_refutation_of/
/r/MensRights18/01/13 11:01 AM
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No, that appears to be a financial audit...this would be more of a "sexism audit".
/r/MensRights13/01/13 01:20 PM
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No you don't. The situation you're describing appears to involve a lawsuit. I'm talking about auditing them for the sake of reporting on shitty behavior. However, it would be a good idea to send in people who do actually need help. That way we aren't unnecessarily wasting the resources/time of those shelters which aren't engaging in shitty behavior.
/r/MensRights13/01/13 01:15 PM
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Secretly audit shelters/programs receiving federal funds. Those which are shown to be discriminatory should face penalties up to and including termination of funding. As regular people, we could establish a private group which does said auditing. We would need to create some guidelines to ensure the validity of our results (lest they be disregarded). We couldn't impose any real penalties, but we could provide a rating system which would be helpful for those seeking help. We could also put togeth…
/r/MensRights12/01/13 09:13 AM
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Fuck it, here's one made using the MOST extreme estimate: http://i.imgur.com/Bmuqv.png I made this just to highlight how misleading their infographic is. Don't use this to actually claim 90% of accusations are false, because the study that produced those figures was not reliable (putting it on par with whichever study came up with 0.2%). Most studies produce an estimate between 8% - 20%.
/r/MensRights08/01/13 03:38 AM
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My question to you guys is, when is it okay, in your opinions (yes, I'm asking for opinions), for a parent to lose parental rights? When they are a danger to the children (e.g. negligent, violent, etc.). Based on what I've heard, it sounds like he's a bit more authoritarian than you (which kids might interpret as "mean"), but it also sounds like he loves the crap out of his kids (e.g. Skyping every day...for comparison: my parents split when I was young and I only saw my dad every other weekend.…
/r/MensRights07/01/13 04:48 AM
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Title IX is most commonly used against sports programs, which also do not receive federal funding, but because the schools receive said funding and are offering/facilitating the sports programs, they fall under Title IX's purview.
/r/MensRights06/01/13 05:58 AM
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I unpacked the misleading RAINN numbers here: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics/comments/160r7y/rape_math_all_factors_considered_us_has_3x_the/c7rvnsg
/r/MensRights06/01/13 05:55 AM
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You should file a complaint, as I'm pretty sure that does violate Title IX: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/howto.html No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance, except that [...] [bunch of stuff that doesn't apply here] [...] http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/cor/coord/titleixstat.php
/r/MensRights04/01/13 11:44 PM
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I've heard of all the ties to libertarianism and AnCapism You've probably heard lies spread by people looking to discredit us. The MRM is neither left nor right, it's just people who advocate for various rights of men. There are all sorts of different MRAs with all sorts of different political views. There are socialists, anarchists, libertarians, democrats, republicans, etc. I, for example, am a social democrat. If a woman is raped and she enjoys it, is it illegitimate rape and therefore not ra…
/r/MensRights03/01/13 06:24 PM
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people will see this shit and assume that this is how we think. Those people will assume that anyway. But it's pretty hard for them to convince others of that when their only proof is an obvious troll post sitting at -7. I'm not saying don't comment at all...I just think it's a waste of time trying to reason with/engage trolls like him. If you bother, you'll probably just end up getting more frustrated...which is what he wants.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 09:56 PM
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Don't feed the trolls.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 04:03 PM
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http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/e2vme/im_trying_to_put_together_a_solid_refutation_of/
/r/MensRights20/12/12 08:35 AM
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A man who sleeps with a lot of women is called a "womanizer".
/r/MensRights20/12/12 03:01 AM
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There wasn't a specific moment. I had a lot of shit in my past that led me to where I am. REALLY long story not-so-long, I was like most people and viewed feminism positively. I thought it was just "equal rights" and blah blah blah...then I went to college. The school REQUIRED that we take either a Woman's Studies course, or an African American Studies course. I took the WS course and was shocked to find it was little more than a weak attempt at indoctrination. That, and a plethora of other expe…
/r/MensRights18/12/12 02:24 PM
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I'm surprised they hadn't done this sooner.
/r/MensRights18/12/12 01:25 PM
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2/2 You can ask for the “person in charge” and will likely be greeted by a member of your sex Again, is this 1960? Because that's really not true anymore. Most of the time, when I ask to speak with a manager, I get a woman. As a child, you were able to find plenty of non-limiting, gender role stereotyped media to view So did girls. Shit generaly fell into 3 categories: Boys, Girls, Neutral. The stuff for boys was along the lines of Thundercats, TMNT, Batman, etc. Basically, it pushed self-sacrif…
/r/MensRights17/12/12 07:19 AM
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If you have a bad day or are in a bad mood, people aren’t going to blame it on your sex Bullshit. Plenty of women blame every single character flaw/deficiency/etc. in a man on "men". What you probably won't see very often is other men blaming everything on "men". So, unless you really mean "men" when you say "people" (thus dehumanizing all women everywhere), this is bullshit. Just because you only notice the shit directed at your sex doesn't mean there isn't other shit directed at the opposite s…
/r/MensRights17/12/12 07:19 AM
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I saw the story and it bothered the hell out of me too. Unfortunately, right now I don't think there's much that we can do. From what I understand, it's a relatively wealthy community, so they probably don't need any donations. Perhaps when more information comes to light, there might be something we can do. It's horrible...but tragedies like these do remind us to cherish the people we love. So hug your kids, call your parents/friends, cuddle up with your SO, etc., but above all else remember to…
/r/MensRights15/12/12 06:16 AM
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Read this: https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/feminism/ As I've shown, feminism has two explicit central beliefs: men and women should be equal women, as a class, are disadvantaged (i.e. oppressed), while men, as a class, are advantaged (i.e. privileged). ...and one implicit central belief: equality can be achieved by giving women advantages and/or taking advantages away from men. There are all sorts of different variants of feminism, but they are centered on what many in the MRM have …
/r/MensRights14/12/12 03:59 AM
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/r/feminism is MRA-tolerant from what I understand. That's why you don't see MRAs being bashed there. If you want a feminist subreddit that isn't MRA-friendly, try anything in the /r/shitredditsays "fempire" (e.g. /r/SRSfeminism). Or You could try /r/feminisms, though they tend to avoid any conflict with us. Also, when looking at any subreddit, you need to take into account the size of the readership. Subs with a lot of readers will tend to pander to the lowest elements more than sparsely popula…
/r/MensRights12/12/12 05:51 AM
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I lost a job under similar circumstances a while back. As a result, I started my own business, so fuck them. The person who fired me probably still has to get up at 7AM every day to go to a bleak office building and work with assholes. Me? I get up whenever I want (unless I have a meeting) and get to chill with my dog while I work.
/r/MensRights10/12/12 07:48 PM
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It matters because what exactly are men's issues? If you really wanted an answer to that question, then you should have actually gone to the lecture about exactly that instead of blocking the entrance to it. Men have dominated EVERYTHING for hundreds of years Let's unpack that a bit, shall we? Until recently, it was royalty who dominated everything. Most men didn't dominate anything because they were peasants...or soldiers sent to the meat-grinder if they were lucky. So really, when you say shit…
/r/MensRights10/12/12 01:23 PM
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Nobody's perfect...that's not even what this is really about. But you (and apparently some of the people associated with you) do have a serious problem with criticism, it's clearly not an isolated incident, and I'm not the only one to notice it. No one would care if you weren't such a vocal part of the MRM. But because you've made yourself so visible, your behavior reflects on every other MRA. And the worse we look to the general public, the less likely others are to step forward and self-identi…
/r/MensRights10/12/12 09:43 AM
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Things get heated in this business, but I have received as much hostility overall as I have taken. http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/yqogp/herald_sun_interviews_paul_elam/c5y0dw2?context=3 I politely disagreed with your tactics and you immediately responded with hostility. You receive hostility because you initiate it at the first sign of disagreement.
/r/MensRights10/12/12 02:27 AM
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...they don't. Her views are appalling. I've never met anyone who supported it. I guarantee more feminists support Solanas, than MRAs support Lepine...both numerically and as a percentage of each faction. Feminist Robin Morgan (later editor of Ms. magazine) demonstrated for Solanas's release from prison. Ti-Grace Atkinson, the New York chapter president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), described Solanas as "the first outstanding champion of women's rights"[58][59] and as "a 'heroine…
/r/MensRights07/12/12 07:12 PM
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Don't forget Aileen Wuornos, and Lorena Bobbit...both of whom were celebrated by some feminists as heroes.
/r/MensRights07/12/12 06:49 PM
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It's clearly satire. Here you'll acquire the confidence necessary to thwart off any male communication. Even if they aren't talking to you, they are sizing you up (probably to rape you) with their beady little eyes. [...] Simply put, he doesn't want to be burdened with you. He knows you'll likely talk about the nothingness-of-being and not really have anything important to say. Men like to converse on the phone regarding important and relevant matters and not just talk on the phone for the sake …
/r/MensRights07/12/12 09:02 AM
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TIL. Thanks for clarifying.
/r/MensRights07/12/12 08:56 AM
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Lori walked behind McClain's car to look at her license plate number. According to the warrant, McClain put the vehicle in reverse "with a big smile on her face," and ran over Lori, dragging the woman into the street. [...] McClain has been charged with aggravated assault with a motor vehicle, in addition to third-degree felony stalking, and is being held on $65,000 total bond. ~~How about attempted fucking murder?!?!~ EDIT: apparently Texas doesn't have a law for "attempted murder".
/r/MensRights06/12/12 05:49 AM
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That's pretty obviously what's going on.
/r/MensRights06/12/12 05:48 AM
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You can be an MRA and a feminist. However, if you take feminism as an absolute, you probably won't be much of an MRA. It's the difference between believing birds fly, and believing that penguins don't exist because they're birds that can't fly. Does that make sense?
/r/MensRights06/12/12 05:46 AM
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If there is to be a MRM, focusing on men's rights, it follows that it too needs counter-balancing, to ensure it doesn't swing the pendulum back the other way. A WRM, whatever you call it, is a necessary part of having a MRM. And that has existed for longer than any of us has been alive. We can support the original definition of "feminism" Feminism is not just another word for egalitarianism. It's a very specific ideology centered on the belief that woman, as a class, are oppressed, and that men,…
/r/MensRights04/12/12 11:20 PM
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It was removed by r/videos mods. http://www.reddit.com/r/SRSsucks/comments/1496jb/rvideos_post_about_the_warren_farrell_protest/
/r/MensRights04/12/12 08:36 PM
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many being articles and news type sites None of the results are actual news sites. The point is that this story wasn't covered by actual news outlets.
/r/MensRights24/11/12 10:03 AM
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I read over your post. I don't believe feminism is exclusively a belief system which is self defined by feminists. Feminism is a broad category of an extremely diverse range of opinions and ideas and it is best defined by what it is. I agree. And it IS not simply a belief in equality, but a belief in female victimhood and male privilege. Some feminists take this to a ridiculous extreme, and some downplay it, but that is the belief at its core. Find me a famous person identifying as "feminist" wh…
/r/MensRights24/11/12 09:55 AM
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or ones that were called in by family members. Some people pretend they're suicidal in order to get attention or manipulate people in their lives...like family members. Such "attempts" are not actually attempts to kill themselves, yet they would be counted as "suicide attempts" if reported by family members/etc.
/r/MensRights20/11/12 06:00 AM
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Parasuicide (Greek "παρά", para-, "near" or "resembling", + suicide) refers to suicide attempts or gestures and self-harm where there is no result in death. It is a non-fatal act in which a person deliberately causes injury to him or herself or ingests any prescribed or generally recognised therapeutic dose in excess. [...] Those who attempt to harm themselves are, as a group, quite different from those who actually die from suicide; females attempt suicide much more frequently than males do, bu…
/r/MensRights20/11/12 05:57 AM
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What I wrote was that feminism, at it's core, could be simplified as this: "women have grievances and they should be addressed" When defining things, one must reduce a thing to its essence, without being too broad. In the context of feminism, you could reduce it to the belief that "women have grievances and they should be addressed". However, that labels everyone who believes this as "feminist"...even antifeminists. It's too broad. The definition I've supplied excludes antifeminists, and non-fem…
/r/MensRights20/11/12 04:03 AM
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antifeminist != anti-woman. I use to cringe at the word feminist. Even though I am a woman. Then I discovered the definition is just wanting equal to men. Well then... yeah, I'm a feminist. No, that's what's called a persuasive definition. It's used by feminists to convince others that they should be feminists too. I wrote this article on exactly this topic, and suggest you read it: https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/feminism/ Also, check these out since you seem to be confused about a…
/r/MensRights19/11/12 09:29 AM
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Wrong, I'm not sure if you are aware of it but there are many interpretations of feminism and many varying philosophies. This is MY philosophy of feminism and I most certainly can view it this way. I've read many books on feminism and this is how I view it. I can indeed wipe away all of the drivel and view it as what it is in a very simplistic form if that is what I believe it reduces to. I'm not wrong here. Feminism is a distinct movement with a distinct philosophy. There may be subgroups withi…
/r/MensRights19/11/12 04:32 AM
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I actually think it's the apex fallacy which is the root of this. And many feminists are aware of it and continue anyway...because, as you point out: The apex fallacy (which would really be more of a cognitive bias then a fallacy in this case) may underlie the belief...but I don't believe the AF is what causes this behavior. Instead, I think it's a matter of them identifying with the label "feminist" so closely that they feel any criticism/etc. of feminism is an attack on them personally. I see …
/r/MensRights18/11/12 08:33 AM
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Just fuck off already. My argument isn't that legality = morality, and I never claimed moral authority. The end. This is fucking ridiculous and I'm done holding your hand. Go find someone else to burden with your idiocy, because I AM FUCKING DONE.
/r/MensRights17/11/12 11:09 AM
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I understood what you meant with "children". My point was that I've argued with a lot of feminists, and though there are many who argue like jackasses, there are also many who argue well. I think a lot of it ties back to new people being more prone to argue shit online...on both sides. From what I've seen, most of the feminists who go out and start arguments come off as the type that have just recently discovered it. I've also noticed many MRAs in the wild arguing MRA positions poorly as well. I…
/r/MensRights17/11/12 07:15 AM
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When I went, also a decade ago, my CC had a deal with a major public university whereby all credits would be transferable. That university even held some classes on the CC campus.
/r/MensRights17/11/12 06:50 AM
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I don't care if it's legal in your state or your country, it obviously isn't in that country. I said: I don't care if it's legal in your state or your country, it obviously isn't in that country. I said that because in response to the others that had brought up the fact that it was legal in other places. Let me dissect that for you, since you so clearly don't understand: I don't care if it's legal in your state or your country This part is me pointing out that it being legal in your state or cou…
/r/MensRights17/11/12 06:47 AM
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Yeah, but if they block you or spread lies about you isn't that worse than not engaging them at all? That depends on the context. I wouldn't suggest going to r/SRS to argue with them as they do have the power to silence you there. In terms of them spreading lies about you, I'm assuming you're doing this on Reddit, and not like on Facebook or in person. If so, just keep your personal information far away from your Reddit account and you should be fine. Some of these people will go after you in re…
/r/MensRights16/11/12 07:21 AM
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In terms of school, there's a lot of bullshit they feed to you guys that can screw you over. I'm going to give you the advice I wish I had before I went to college: Above all else AVOID STUDENT LOANS LIKE THE PLAGUE. If you can pay for college in any other way, do that because student loans are a chain around your neck that will never be gone until you pay them off. One option many people overlook is going to community college for your associate's degree and then transferring to a bigger school …
/r/MensRights16/11/12 06:59 AM
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Arguing in public? That's easy: convincing everyone else who reads the argument. If you're being reasonable, and they're acting psychotic, how do you think that looks to the casual observer? Aside from that, argument helps you better figure out where you stand on various positions and allows you the opportunity to battle-test your own ideas. A hostile opponent will find any and all holes in your reasoning...and you can patch them up for the next argument. Furthermore, it does help prevent one go…
/r/MensRights16/11/12 06:36 AM
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i concede you this: you have been right all along. you have just been terrible at arguing your point. Or maybe, just maybe, you suck at reading comprehension. This entire conversation between us has been you attributing an argument to me which I never made, me correcting you, you ignoring that and attributing the same argument to me again....over and over and over again. Finally, after what? 5 days? You've finally realized that, hey, maybe I never actually made that argument. So, instead of bowi…
/r/MensRights16/11/12 06:27 AM
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it doesn't matter what the law is where YOU live his punishment is still not fair. For the 50th or so time: I AM NOT CLAIMING THE LEGALITY OF SOMETHING DETERMINES WHETHER OR NOT IT'S MORALLY ACCEPTABLE. Also, where I live this would have been legal....so this new variation of your existing strawman doesn't even fucking work, jackass. you made 2 arguments. 1(the one i happened to quote) negate the rest of your arguments. either what i quoted all the time is wrong OR it apllies to you as well. You…
/r/MensRights15/11/12 02:21 PM
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I'm not advocating any sort of "adult/child" relationship, a 16 year old woman is miles ahead in terms of emotional development than a male, and like anyone of any age, emotional maturity varies from person to person. Just because girls go through puberty before boys, that doesn't make them "miles ahead" in terms of anything but puberty. At best, it places them a year or two ahead of boys...a distinction that is obliterated when you consider we're talking about someone 13 years older than this t…
/r/MensRights15/11/12 02:12 PM
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OP read this: http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html EDIT: in fact all of you should read all of these: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/106ftc/for_those_who_have_absorbed_the_associated_memes/c6asct4
/r/MensRights14/11/12 11:53 PM
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The Big Brothers and Big Sisters organization doesn't have massive taxpayer-funded coffers to draw on, so there's much less of an incentive for a would-be false-accuser. Just try to avoid situations that could be misconstrued, and you should be fine. Good on you for trying to give back.
/r/MensRights14/11/12 11:48 PM
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You seem to take what I say in context of a very superficial biological level. Impulses are more than mundane desires to eat, fuck and shit. They are the drive to do all those great things in life most wish they had the courage to carry through but often don't. When you feel completely at peace and your life is thoroughly pleasing on all levels emotionally, intellectually, spiritually, and physically, then chances are you're fulfilling your deepest instincts and impulses. That entails having to …
/r/MensRights14/11/12 11:44 PM
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Oh, because that argument isn't wrong. Whether or not something is legal in other countries has no bearing on whether or not an activity is morally repugnant. P.S. I can passive-aggressively downvote shit too.
/r/MensRights14/11/12 08:07 AM
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What is natural to our impulses more often than not is healthy as it's our body giving us positive feedback. ...if you exclude things like the impulse to eat and shit, then I really don't think this is true and sincerely doubt you have any way of backing up that claim. Throughout human history, this type of relationship has existed when the man cares and provides for the younger woman. So has slavery, rape, and a bunch of other horrible shit. It existing in history does not make it healthy. Rece…
/r/MensRights13/11/12 09:57 PM
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i do claim your argument is wrong. conslusion right argument wrong. Which argument? The one's I actually made, or the one's you've invented and attributed to me?
/r/MensRights13/11/12 09:28 PM
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This sort of thing happens when someone discovers some new idea that's important to them. People will take new ideas a bit too far, and go around preaching to whomever they can. It's normal and happens to a lot of people. Recognizing that you've gone a bit overboard is good. Just give the MR stuff a rest for a bit and let it all settle down. Eventually you'll find your center again and will be able to put your new beliefs in their proper, if less extreme, place.
/r/MensRights13/11/12 03:50 AM
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Whatever you need to tell yourself to feel better.
/r/MensRights13/11/12 03:42 AM
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Natural is not a synonym for healthy. Because of the disparity in cognitive faculties, it's very unlikely that such a relationship would be healthy. In fact, it could very well be pretty fucking damaging to the 16 year old. And killing someone is just as natural as anything else. It's neither healthy, nor is it something I would consider "good", but it is VERY natural.
/r/MensRights13/11/12 03:40 AM
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Singular and former. She was a model...before I met her. I suspect you have a warped view of what a model is. It's not even close to being as out of reach as a "fortune 500 CEO". Not every model is a Victoria's Secret model, or a Ford Girl. You'd probably meet them if you left your mother's basement, and tried to make something of yourself.
/r/MensRights13/11/12 03:37 AM
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and when i pointed to why you personal morality should count for anything special you called people who don't agree with you retardet. No...I didn't. Furthermore, I never said my opinion re morality was anything other than my opinion re morality. In fact, in the very first comment I said: "This is my own personal moral judgment". if it's meaningless to point out in his case it's just as meaningless in her case. ? Yes, the law is irrelevant when it comes to moral reasoning. I never claimed otherw…
/r/MensRights13/11/12 03:29 AM
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you said "I don't care if it's legal in your state or your country, it obviously isn't in that country." BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE POINTING TO IT BEING LEGAL IN OTHER COUNTRIES AS IF THAT MEANT SOMETHING.
/r/MensRights12/11/12 07:11 PM
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okay. so why doesn't it apply when it works against your argument? Because my argument has nothing to do with legality equaling morality. yes because when i used your argument against you But that's not my argument. I don't know how I can be any clearer here.
/r/MensRights12/11/12 07:05 PM
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At least my point is factual. And as I've already said: just because it's legal in other places, that doesn't make it right. Your source does NOT state that those without a fully-developed PFC are severely impaired in their ability to make decisions and think about the consequences. The source basically says the ability to make decisions and think about their consequences does not fully develop until one is around the age of 25. Saying those traits is impaired, in this context, is essentially th…
/r/MensRights12/11/12 07:00 PM
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please you must be able to back your argument up with far more fallacies than just "i'm right because i say so". See my link re the prefrontal cortex. you are so caught up in being right that you don't even notice i'm not even arguing that point rather i'm argueing that your arguments are horrible since they are nbothing but a long line of fallacies and anything but rational. If that were the case, I'd have about 8 assholes listing all of those fallacies. But do go on, outline the fallacies in m…
/r/MensRights12/11/12 06:48 PM
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you wrote this this. I know what I wrote. This was in response to the people saying it was legal in other countries, as if that somehow made it okay. my only argument is that this argument that you made IS WRONG!!!! And you're apparently mistaking my argument for some strawman you've created in your head. neither am i. i call you a moron because you shoot you in yourself in the foot and make your main argument defeat your own argument. But you did write: "YOU MADE THE ARGUMENT YOU MORON!!!".
/r/MensRights12/11/12 06:43 PM
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I've never noticed anything like that, but it sounds plausible. You should consider doing an informal study on the issue. I don't think it would be that difficult to perform. Just create a survey for parents, and have various statements like "girls receive more support for post-secondary education than boys" and have the "strongly disagree, disagree, don't know, agree, strongly agree" answers. Also ask about how many children they have, and of what sex. Then you can compare the various groups (e…
/r/MensRights12/11/12 06:37 PM
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Wow, and you do all of that from your mom's basement? She must be very proud of you! Good job!
/r/MensRights12/11/12 06:25 PM
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Looks like you're too fucking stupid to read your own source. It looks like you're grasping at straws.
/r/MensRights12/11/12 06:23 PM
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some people would say there's something wrong with you if you can't see that it's clearly wrong to have sex with someone you are not married to. openions come in all flavors buddy and just because you have yours doesn't make everyone who doesn't share it wrong. Yeah, you've already said pretty much this exactly (replete with creative spelling of the word "opinion") in this comment. People are free to think sex outside of marriage is immoral. I disagree with them, as the reasoning for such things…
/r/MensRights12/11/12 06:21 PM
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YOU MADE THE ARGUMENT YOU MORON!!! I didn't argue that legal = morally right. I argued that it being legal in other places is irrelevant...and that I thought it was morally wrong, for the reasons I've already stated. you are fully entiteled to your openion. so is everyone else funnily enough even if they don't agree with you. people can think unmarried sex is the same kind of morally bankrupt that you consider having sex with a 16 year old is and they are no more wrong than you are when you have…
/r/MensRights12/11/12 06:08 PM
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Not proof of that, proof of this:Not proof of that, proof of this: Read the bullet points I conveniently quoted for you. Specifically, bullet points: 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, and 11. LOL are you serious? Fuck me, you're stupid, aren't you? Says the guy who's to stupid to read some fucking bullet points.
/r/MensRights12/11/12 06:02 PM
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If a women was in the house, and a man came up with 2 children and she denied them, Except that's not what happened. Her story changed and now it seems her children were already gone before she even got to that guy's house: Fearing they might drown if they stayed put, the desperate mom took the kids out of their car seats and tried to make it to higher ground. But before Moore could reach safety, the boys were torn from her arms. https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/staten-island-brothers-killed…
/r/MensRights12/11/12 11:58 AM
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Proof please. I linked to that already: The prefrontal cortex is one of the last regions of the brain to reach maturation. This delay may help to explain why some adolescents act the way they do. The so-called “executive functions” of the human prefrontal cortex include: Focusing attention Organizing thoughts and problem solving Foreseeing and weighing possible consequences of behavior Considering the future and making predictions Forming strategies and planning Ability to balance short-term rew…
/r/MensRights12/11/12 11:55 AM
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i see nothing wrong with having sex with a 16 year old. And I do...for the reasons I've outlined above and in response to other comments flooding my inbox with inanity. you are the one who said "I don't care if it's legal in your state or your country, it obviously isn't in that country." it's not my fault that the same argument aplies to her punishment. In response to the people claiming it's legal in other countries/states/etc. It being legal in European countries doesn't make it morally accep…
/r/MensRights12/11/12 11:49 AM
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It's also perfectly natural to murder anyone that gets between you and food. Just because something is natural, that doesn't make it good, nor does it mean one is incapable of overcoming any baser urges for such "natural" things.
/r/MensRights12/11/12 11:45 AM
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She's being punished for having sex outside of marriage. I see nothing wrong with unmarried people fucking.
/r/MensRights12/11/12 04:43 AM
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16 is the age of consent in my state. However, I don't fully agree with that. Like I said, I support Romeo and Juliet laws. I believe that, for those under the age of majority (in this case: 18), there should be a 3-5 year age-window in which sex is legal. 10 years is a bit harsh, but not ridiculously...at least not when compared to sentencing for other crimes.
/r/MensRights12/11/12 04:40 AM
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FACTS PLEASE. The facts, as I've already mentioned, are that a 16 year old (unlike a 29 year old) does not have a fully developed prefrontal cortex. This means their ability to make decisions and think about their consequences are SEVERELY impaired. This same deficiency is, in essence, what underlies the very concept of "adulthood", and is why we don't let 16 year olds enter into contracts on their own. This disparity makes it very easy and very likely that the adult will take advantage of the c…
/r/MensRights12/11/12 04:33 AM
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Not that it's any of your business, but I'm a 28 year old guy, and my last serious relationship was with a former model...we we're considering marriage. If you're near your thirties and you think it's normal to go after 16 year old girls, then there is something seriously wrong with you and I'd say you need to get the fuck out of your mom's basement.
/r/MensRights12/11/12 04:21 AM
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She confessed "to having sex with the 29-year-old after her family pressed charges against the young man. The man was convicted of having sex with a minor and sentenced this week to 10 years in prison, according to Fuck off troll. EDIT: I don't care if it's legal in your state or your country, it obviously isn't in that country. More importantly, 29 is way too old to be fucking 16 year olds. This is my own personal moral judgment based on the fact that a 29 year old has a fully developed prefron…
/r/MensRights10/11/12 11:39 PM
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Because GLadOS might make her neurotic.
/r/MensRights09/11/12 03:25 AM
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I agree. This guy sounds like a great dad.
/r/MensRights09/11/12 03:22 AM
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I don't understand the difference between a hate group and a woman hating group I have two examples of the SPLC explicitly saying we weren't labeled a hate group/movement. You have an instance where they vaguely refer to "other woman-hating sites". Here's what they had to say about us: Reddit: Mens Rights A “subreddit” of the user-generated news site Reddit, this forum describes itself as a “place for people who feel that men are currently being disadvantaged by society.” While it presents itsel…
/r/MensRights09/11/12 03:20 AM
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bullshit. Clearly bullshit, and they would have known that had they done any research whatsoever. For example, this story was pretty easy to find: A teenager said to have been bullied on the social networking site Bebo has been found hanged in his bedroom. Sam Leeson's family say the 13-year-old was picked on by other users of the site because of his 'alternative appearance' and his taste in music. Blaming Bebo for his 'utterly pointless death', Sam's mother said the family discovered the extent…
/r/MensRights08/11/12 07:52 PM
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Why Reddit's r/MensRights is not a hate group [...] We reached out to SPLC Intelligence Report Editor Mark Potok. Here’s what he told us in an email: "It's false. We wrote about the subreddit Mens Rights, but we did not list it as a hate group . . . "In almost all cases, we list hate groups at the end of each calendar year when we publish lists. I very much doubt we would ever list the Reddit [r/MensRights] in question—it's a diverse group, which certainly does include some misogynists—but I don…
/r/MensRights08/11/12 07:46 PM
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In fairness, I'm sure every group seems a lot friendlier to the people that agree with them.
/r/MensRights07/11/12 02:58 PM
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BEHOLD THE POWER OF IDEOLOGY. Yes...that is a transgendered feminist throwing their fellow transwomen under the bus in favor of feminist nonsense.
/r/MensRights07/11/12 02:56 PM
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In the future, you might want to just link to this explanation. In this instance, I took the liberty of doing that for you. I hope you don't mind.
/r/MensRights07/11/12 02:48 PM
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When I was 13/14 I went to a party at some girl's apartment. I got really drunk and was barely aware of what was going on. Her fat friend decided to sit on me and force me to make out with her. She gave up because I didn't really respond at all and announced something to the group about said lack of response. She gets off me, I go to the bathroom and try to puke, but can't. I go outside to get some fresh air. Someone talked to me...I think some punk-rock guy, but who knows. I head back in...puke…
/r/MensRights06/11/12 04:30 PM
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Thanks. It's good to know my wall of text wasn't a complete waste of time.
/r/MensRights05/11/12 03:30 PM
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In your view, which areas that the feminist movement consider to be (important) feminist issues, do you consider either 1) not issues at all, or 2)issues, but which has nothing to do with any sort of gender bias ect. And why. I could list a bunch of shit and still not cover it all. I would suggest you read "Who Stole Feminism?" by Christina Hoff Sommers, as it outlines most of the failings of modern day feminism. She terms it "gender feminism", and refers to normal people who just believe in equ…
/r/MensRights05/11/12 04:16 AM
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I am 100 percent suicidal Please read this: http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/
/r/MensRights03/11/12 01:44 PM
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I think it's important to keep kids in the same general area, but I don't think the same house is a big deal. My parents split up when I was still an infant, so maybe it's a bit different than having your parents together for a few years. However, we did move A LOT. Like fuckyeahshallots, there was a point where I basically lived at 3 houses (Dad's, Mom's, Grandma's). Anyway, like I said we moved a lot...in fact, until I was in my twenties, I had never lived in the same place for more than 3 con…
/r/MensRights03/11/12 01:27 PM
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This person is a troll. Check their history.
/r/MensRights29/10/12 06:45 AM
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redditor for 16 hours
/r/MensRights29/10/12 06:43 AM
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http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/Eyewitness-Misidentification.php EDIT: also all of you should donate to The Innocence Project...they do good work. https://secure.innocenceproject.org/donate
/r/MensRights29/10/12 06:25 AM
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Of course it's normal to have violent thoughts when angry. What's not normal is writing a book trying to justify those violent thoughts as if they were somehow righteous.
/r/MensRights28/10/12 03:52 AM
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I am wńting this essay sitting beside an anonymous white male that I long to murder. We have just been involved in an incident on an airplane where K, my friend and traveling Companion, has been Called to the front of the plane and publicly attacked by white female stewardesses who accuse her of trying to occupy a seat in first class that is not assigned to her. Although she had been assigned the seat, she was not given the appropriate hoarding pass. When she tries to explain they ignore her. Th…
/r/MensRights27/10/12 07:23 AM
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their problems are caused by patriarchal gender roles- women getting custody of children in divorces Women almost always getting custody is a result of the tender-years doctrine, which was lobbied for by...feminists. Originally, back when we actually lived in a patriarchal society, men got custody automatically. That is what a patriarchal society looks like...not the opposite of that. A presumption of joint-custody is what most MRAs seek. This means that, unless one parent is actually unfit, or …
/r/MensRights26/10/12 04:55 AM
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The pay gap - which is usually measured by comparing the average hourly wage of women who are working full time to the average hourly wage of men working full time That is not how the pay gap is usually measured. Usually it's measured by taking either median yearly or median weekly salary. The rest is your prof blaming women's choices on "society" and dismissing their agency. Ask him/her to watch these videos (all 7), and to check out this experiment, all of which directly addresses their theori…
/r/MensRights25/10/12 06:11 AM
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I am not a lawyer, but you should probably avoid talking to him and handle it through the courts. What if he recorded you saying something like that? He might be able to claim that you hate him for some other reason and are just lying to get him in trouble. Go to the cops, insist that you want to press charges, and file for a restraining order. In the mean time, just stay as far away from him as possible.
/r/MensRights25/10/12 05:45 AM
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After my last meeting of the IOWBPM (International Oppression of Women By Privileged Males) club , we also resolved to start informing all female children that Santa Claus is dead and rotting in the ground . I love IOWBPM. Did you go to the convention last month? I really loved that panel on oppressing women in the digital age...it was very informative. I just wish they wouldn't schedule these things back to back. I really wanted to check out that presentation by Mitt Romney, but I had to skip i…
/r/MensRights24/10/12 02:45 PM
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That must be relatively new then...perhaps they added some crazier mods in response to the campaign mentioned above, IDK...but this is what happened
/r/MensRights24/10/12 01:12 AM
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If you live with her, you'd probably be better off just pretending you agree with her until you can move out and support yourself. Good luck.
/r/MensRights23/10/12 02:54 PM
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No, it's not controlled by MRAs. Long story short: the moderators don't censor dissent like /r/feminisms and /r/shitredditsays, so SRSers try to direct discussion to the subreddits which DO control the discussion in this way. They claim it's run by MRAs to scare stupid people into fleeing. EDIT: long story slightly longer: It was an unmodded subreddit for a while, so a lot of people would go there to discuss feminism and feminism-related issues. Then a troll (/u/cliffor) tried to gain control of…
/r/MensRights23/10/12 09:26 AM
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People believe in all sorts of different things that are wrong. However, I don't think most feminists believe that. Most, I imagine, probably haven't actually given it much thought and generally just parrot whichever catch-phrase feels right. Now it gets more complicated when you start looking at the feminists that actually think about their positions. Amongst them, I've seen two primary groups which I'll term "pragmatic feminists" (PF) and "theory feminists" (TF). PFs, in my experience, are act…
/r/MensRights23/10/12 09:07 AM
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It would be nicer if it were in English and not Marxist Theory Sure, but I think it's useful to have someone on the far-left explain why it's a shitty definition. If I linked to an article written by someone who could in any way be interpreted as even vaguely right-ish, they'd dismiss it without thinking.
/r/MensRights22/10/12 01:35 PM
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Use a throwaway email address and don't supply any PI until you're confident they aren't going to misuse your info. You can create a throwaway here, just remember to log into it every so often, or they'll delete the account due to inactivity. If you need a phone number for something, you can pick up a burner at a 7-11 for pretty cheap and use that to communicate with them.
/r/MensRights22/10/12 09:03 AM
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Whenever someone trots out the SJ-definitions of "racism" and "sexism", just link them to this article which investigates the origin and strength of the "racism" definition (which was more recently repurposed for "sexism" as illustrated here). Spoiler alert: it was specifically created so that anti-white racists could excuse their own racism.
/r/MensRights22/10/12 08:11 AM
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You need to speak with the cops about this shit ASAP...especially the shed thing. I mean, seriously, that's like future-serial-killer behavior right there. In terms of moving past the issues with men, I think a big part of that would be seeing this guy get locked up for fucking kidnapping and raping you. But, once that's dealt with, it would probably help to spend time around regular guys...you know, the kind that wouldn't lock you in a shed/etc. Do you have any brothers or male cousins you can …
/r/MensRights21/10/12 09:52 PM
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The biggest would obviously be allegations of impropriety. I'm not an educator, but based on what I've heard/seen, it sounds like you can minimize the chance of this sort of thing happening by keeping a safe distance between you and the students, and taking some other basic precautions. For example, if you're speaking with a student in your office, make sure you leave the door open so others can see nothing is going on. Another example might be not giving out your phone number or Facebook info t…
/r/MensRights21/10/12 09:21 PM
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Feminism is the belief that women are disadvantaged relative to men, and that, in order to achieve equality, women must gain advantage and/or men must lose advantage. https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/feminism/ It's my experience that many "feminists" claim that feminism simply means "gender equality". This, however, is what's known as a "persuasive definition" and doesn't accurately describe the actual philosophy.
/r/MensRights18/10/12 03:29 AM
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http://www.reddit.com/r/C1RCLEJERKERS/comments/11if7s/his_name_was_michael_brutsch_his_name_was_michael/c6msi9y?context=3
/r/MensRights17/10/12 08:53 AM
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http://articles.cnn.com/2009-07-15/justice/georgia.child.support_1_child-support-deadbeat-jailed?_s=PM:CRIME Frank Hatley Jr. He was forced to pay child support for kids that weren't his, even though the court KNEW they weren't his. When he was fucking homeless, and broke they still demanded that he pay the full amount...and he did. When he literally couldn't afford to pay the full amount, because he was homeless, they threw him in jail. After pressure from the public, they finally released him …
/r/MensRights17/10/12 05:51 AM
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Why is an SRSer commenting in r/mensrights? Fuck off back to your safe-space.
/r/MensRights17/10/12 05:04 AM
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I have no idea who either of those people are.
/r/MensRights17/10/12 04:51 AM
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Or just poop in the mail.... I'll just leave this here: http://poopsenders.com/
/r/MensRights17/10/12 04:43 AM
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I made it as a response to all of the "check your privilege" bullshit.
/r/MensRights16/10/12 05:04 AM
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I actually made something like this a few years back...only I didn't try to downplay the effects of wealth and massively exaggerate some other shit. http://i.imgur.com/zrj5j.png
/r/MensRights16/10/12 04:51 AM
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I love how, when all else is equal, the middle-class male would still have 25 more "privilege points" than the billionaire female. EDIT: also, it's literally impossible to have positive points if you are trans, blind, "institutionalized", or live in either Africa or the Middle East. I guess it's hard out there for a Sheikh.
/r/MensRights16/10/12 04:39 AM
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I agree. However, I think this is a symptom of two larger issues. The first issue is that, through a combination of social factors, and biological predispositions (which reinforce one another), men and women are different and have different interests (i.e. men and women will still congregate in different fields even in a truly equal and fair society). The second issue is that a large group of people want simple solutions to simple problems and blame everything on "sexism", while dismissing expla…
/r/MensRights15/10/12 12:25 AM
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I suspect it's related to this mentality which was posted here just 1 hour before you made this post. When you lower standards for women to achieve X (e.g. affirmative action, quotas, etc.), people will assume that women achieving X are less capable than men achieving X. It is discrimination and it is gender bias...but more quotas/affirmative action/etc. probably aren't going to fix it.
/r/MensRights14/10/12 08:51 PM
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This is not a men's rights issue. Except for the part where a woman hit a man, he hit her back, and the talking-heads both went on and on about how the woman who initiated the violence was the real victim. Back in 2003/2004 I was in a similar situation. I was riding the bus home minding my own business when a girl like that and her little boyfriend started talking shit to me. I talked shit right back and the guy shut the fuck up...but the girl just kept going and going and going and going. When …
/r/MensRights13/10/12 05:25 PM
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There's also the issue of locking people up for DEBT. And the issue that family courts have a problem with ignoring changes in income, claiming the person should be able to earn more when they're broke. And then there's also the issue of the Bradley Amendment disallowing any revocation of unjust debt associated with child support. Oh, and let's not forget the issue of men not having the ability to opt out of parenthood post-conception...unlike women...ensuring that many men are pretty much force…
/r/MensRights12/10/12 11:10 PM
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We don't want to ban all circumcision...just routine infant circumcision. Once the individual is old enough to make the decision for themselves, we're generally fine with it. Aside from that, we're generally not against it when it is medically necessary. You don't really have to worry about STDs until they're old enough to be sexually active. Once they are old enough, they'll also be old enough to understand the need for condoms (this is another reason "abstinence only" sex-ed is detrimental). T…
/r/MensRights12/10/12 10:56 PM
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Someone did basically this to me and they used something called "re-mail". I'm not really sure what that is, but apparently it makes them anonymous...you can't really sue an anonymous person.
/r/MensRights11/10/12 02:47 AM
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I'm aware: http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1198zm/rcreepshots_has_been_removed_due_to_doxxing_of/c6kjiie
/r/MensRights11/10/12 02:28 AM
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I don't think he was actually a pedophile. From what I gathered he was just a drama-whore who liked to test Reddit's boundaries. Some people on one of his subreddits supposedly discussed sharing nude pics of a 17 year old or something via PM, so it was shut down.
/r/MensRights10/10/12 09:19 PM
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They could contact your employer/clients/family/etc. and claim you're a pedo/rapist/etc. just to fuck you over.
/r/MensRights10/10/12 09:15 PM
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Just create a special r/MR account. I pissed someone off under an old account and they went after my career, and after fixing everything so they couldn't hurt me I just created 3 new accounts. One account for regular use (without sharing any PI), another for business-related stuff (e.g. commenting on my field, promoting my business, etc.) the other account for r/MR stuff (which can in no way be tied to my real life). I've had no problems with doxxing/etc. since. People on both sides of gender is…
/r/MensRights10/10/12 09:04 PM
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MRA folks have done that too Where do you think we learned that rhetorical technique? Putting that aside, there are MRAs who legitimately believe men have it worse. However, unlike feminism, the MRM lacks an overriding ideology. If you advocate for the rights of men, you have as much a right to the label "MRA" as any of us. So you will see some MRAs arguing the same basic shit as feminists, but with the genders reversed. Make sense? afterall, it is easier to change laws than it is to change soci…
/r/MensRights07/10/12 12:49 AM
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To answer your headline: You can be a feminist and an MRA, but feminism is essentially the belief that women are disadvantaged relative to men, and that, in order to achieve equality, women must gain advantage and/or men must lose advantage. So, feminism itself is ambivalent -- if not somewhat opposed -- to men's rights. Essentially, what I am asking is- do you think that there is no sexism against women in our society? Do you think sexism against women doesn't matter? Of course there is sexism …
/r/MensRights06/10/12 11:22 PM
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With the financial abortion, you're still walking away while it's a fetus. It ultimately comes down to this: women have the right to avoid parenthood after sex, while men do not. This is not limited to abortion, as women can birth the child and leave it at the hospital with no legal consequence, thus avoiding the obligations and rights of parenthood. Men can not do this either1 . If you oppose the financial abortion on the grounds that "it is giving up a fetus vs. giving up a human", then you sh…
/r/MensRights06/10/12 10:58 PM
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Wow they literally reduced his charge because the victim had a penis. Sweden: totally not a sexist country! /s
/r/MensRights06/10/12 01:16 PM
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They violate Zazzle's TOS...did you even bother reporting them before posting them to r/MR? Anyway, I reported them. If they don't take them down, maybe someone should make the female versions and link to the originals to point out the double standard during the inevitable shitstorm.
/r/MensRights06/10/12 12:45 PM
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I think women MRAs are integral to the success of the MRM, for a few reasons. The most obvious being that they show it's not just a bunch of angry bitter men...a characterization favored by our opposition. But more than that, women can offer a unique viewpoint on a lot of issues, and this diversity of viewpoints can act as a counterbalance against extremism. Here's an excerpt from a great article which touches on the inverse of this: I was looking at a Java applet which demonstrates the use of e…
/r/MensRights04/10/12 11:24 AM
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I did read a bunch of that/listen to a couple of youtube videos. I don't think I would characterize it as an attempt to "co-opt the skeptic/atheist movement" as much as "a particular incident exposed a community to a bout of lunacy that it had previously been fortunate to not have experienced". I disagree. There had always been a few feminists in the skeptic movement, but they weren't trying to co-opt anything. After the reaction to the whole elevatorgate controversy, especially when respected p…
/r/MensRights01/10/12 02:33 PM
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If I didn't already know about all of the stories you mentioned, I wouldn't see how problematic they were. You might want to throw in some links to those stories and consider rephrasing it for better effect. For example: I also found a story of a man who was told to shut of his cell while working on a roof. Could get the message across better with something like: I also found a story of a man who was told to shut off his cell while working on a roof because he was near a school and presumed to b…
/r/MensRights30/09/12 11:18 AM
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Oh shit, welcome back man!
/r/MensRights30/09/12 11:12 AM
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Interesting. My view is that DV is generally closely tied to family court. (You get a lot of similar bullshit. Guy is always wrong.) With regards to DV/rape/etc. a component of those issues are the legal inequalities facing men so sure they would be closely tied to any other legal inequality facing men...but they're not family court issues (aside from accusations associated with a custody battle). In my reading and following of men's rights off and on for about 15 years, I have seen many that ha…
/r/MensRights30/09/12 10:51 AM
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I think you generally hit the nail on the head, but as Ig said, there are other avenues leading to the MRM aside from family court. Feminists themselves actually push people towards the MRM. For example, if someone starts looking into "feminist theory", sees it as bullshit, and then starts seeking out voices critical of various concepts like "patriarchy" they'll likely come across MRAs making MR-related arguments. Another big road leading here comes from men who have been victimized in other way…
/r/MensRights29/09/12 09:31 AM
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Cool, she violated Facebook's TOS: Finally, you may not publish other people's personal information. https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards Report her and get her banned from Facebook.
/r/MensRights26/09/12 06:13 AM
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Not seeing this article, this version of it as a mens rights issue It's not. They're trying to encourage more women to participate on Wikipedia, so they're holding an event where a bunch of women will go through historical archives to flesh out some low-importance articles to show them that it's easy. There's nothing nefarious about it, it has nothing to do with feminism, nor does it have anything to do with men's rights. OP's title is horribly misleading.
/r/MensRights25/09/12 08:08 AM
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One of the protesters, Kristen Williams, 47, of Colts Neck, said Escandon ordered her to pay $3,700 to her ex-husband for child support, and then threatened to jail her if she didn’t come up with the money. Williams said she was arrested, but avoided jail only after scraping together $1,350 to pay to her former husband. “Don’t you think that’s a bit harsh?’’ Williams asked. “There are men who don’t pay child support for years and years, and he (Escandon) lets them out (of jail after paying) 50 b…
/r/MensRights25/09/12 07:53 AM
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Rape (this is intercourse without consent despite your explicit refusal to believe that it could be so. Sex without consent IS forced sex.) No, rape is sex taken by force (and this is reflected in their definition too, BTW). If someone agrees to have sex with you, it's not taken by force. But lets see if there are any other places you could categorize this event It's a survey on victimization, and if they weren't victimized you wouldn't be able to categorize it on that survey. Someone changing t…
/r/MensRights24/09/12 08:49 PM
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This is the form to find out what kind of victimization. Again, none of that says says that changing your mind mid-fuck without saying "stop" -- or anything like that -- is rape/sexual assault. Because forced vaginal penetration is actually an ATTACK. And nothing in there claims this is forced. In fact they repeatedly ask: "Do you mean forced or coerced sexual intercourse?" ...to make sure they're not marking shit down incorrectly. People are not qualified to be their own judge and juries to det…
/r/MensRights24/09/12 07:51 AM
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Is that not a drawback of the NCVS? It's a drawback of all surveys. When I say "A drawback of walking is that I could be murdered", this is technically true in the sense that you could be murdered while walking. However, I'm also implying that walking carries a greater risk of murder...which is untrue and misleading. Well is it? Only if the person questioned responds with a lie. Otherwise, it shouldn't as it is neither forced, nor coerced. (it is) I linked to the 900 page manual for surveyors, a…
/r/MensRights23/09/12 09:20 AM
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Can you point out an asinine criticism I made of the precious NCVS? How about this: One of the main drawbacks to the NCVS is the surveyors ask people if they are victims of this or that. Then if they dont know they ask them if this or that happened. or this: And thats about where we are with these surveys and with rape. Sex is now rape if during the middle of sex the woman changes her mind but makes no act or sound or words to express that change. See to prove you didnt rape someone, youd have t…
/r/MensRights23/09/12 05:10 AM
1

Im not sure where your disagreement is. Because you said it was a drawback of the NCVS...when it's a drawback of ALL surveys. If you want to discuss that you feel RAINN I'm not talking about RAINN, because they have absolutely nothing to do with this discussion. We're talking about the NCVS, and your criticisms of it are asinine. OR if you want to discuss the Koss study This has nothing to do with the Koss study. Lack of consent IS forced sex No. That is the feminist re-interpretation, not the g…
/r/MensRights23/09/12 02:44 AM
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I'm pretty sure you don't know what you're talking about here and have only responded because I'm concerned that you will confuse other people who may read this. One of the main drawbacks to the NCVS is the surveyors ask people if they are victims of this or that. Then if they dont know they ask them if this or that happened. That is a drawback of ANY survey. The NCVS is a better survey than just about ANY survey on rape/sexual assault. Here is their manual for interviewers: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj…
/r/MensRights22/09/12 11:21 PM
5

black people engage in tons of behaviours to make white people feel safer. We do this all the damn time. We make accommodations in speech, behaviour, dress, mannerism, conversation topic – a wide diversity of adjustments that we make in the presence of our white friends. And the point is that demanding that black people tip-toe around white prejudices like that IS FUCKING RACIST. If an individual black guy wants to tip-toe around said prejudices for one reason or another...IT SHOULD BE HIS CHOIC…
/r/MensRights22/09/12 10:59 PM
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NCVS: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=2224 UCR: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ucr#cius The NCVS is a big-ass survey done every year that encompasses crimes which are both reported to the police and those unreported. It's laid out nice and clear making it easy to compare one set of factors to another. It tracks "rape/sexual assault" grouped together unlike the UCR, which has historically allowed it to also count male victims. The UCR is a huge compilation of data from po…
/r/MensRights22/09/12 02:21 AM
3

I've been there a few times and check in every once in a while.
/r/MensRights20/09/12 12:00 PM
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So I started reading these (just finished 5), and I wasn't expecting to be so interested in some random Livejournal blogger's thoughts, but he's drawn me in. He's pretty fucking brilliant, and everyone needs to read this.
/r/MensRights20/09/12 10:22 AM
2

You're not going to get a definitive answer because we don't know enough to say definitively whether it's X, Y or Z. With that being said, I think there are two primary reasons. Before I get into this, I'm speaking broadly about men and women (there will always be outliers, but WRT to OP's question, outliers aren't all that relevant), and this is just my own speculation...in no way should it be viewed as an assertion of fact. The first, more obvious reason is that men are physically stronger tha…
/r/MensRights20/09/12 08:19 AM
1

And what if those Muslims knew that there was a lot of food out there that contained bacon even if it wasn't visible on sight, and that it's frequently given out for free in bars? It's not rape unless you've explicitly been deceived. Incorrectly assuming someone is X, whatever that X may be, and sleeping with them DOES NOT MEAN THEY RAPED YOU. If they tell you they are X and you sleep with them, then maybe it's rape (depending on the circumstances). Anyway, I'm done here. I've made my point a fe…
/r/MensRights17/09/12 05:06 AM
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/21/arab-guilty-rape-consensual-sex-jew
/r/MensRights17/09/12 04:40 AM
2

A more accurate example would be if I were at a bar or something, and walked up to a random stranger and asked them if they wanted some of my food, which happened to contain bacon. If that stranger happened to be muslim, but just said "sure" and ate the food, they would have violated their religion's dietary restrictions, not me. I'm not psychic. I can't know that they would have a problem with the bacon unless they told me. If they did tell me it was a problem, and I let them eat it anyway, I w…
/r/MensRights17/09/12 04:39 AM
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It's definitely worth a shot.
/r/MensRights17/09/12 04:17 AM
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They're not violating shit, you are. If I open up an all you can eat buffet filled with bacon, and a devout muslim chooses to eat that bacon they have violated their religion's dietary restrictions, not me. I would only have violated their beliefs if I had claimed it wasn't bacon.
/r/MensRights17/09/12 04:16 AM
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If you meet someone in a bar and have consensual sex with them, it doesn't become rape if you find out they were a man any more than if you find out they aren't a natural blonde...unless they explicitly lied to you about that shit in order to fuck you. It may be a more extreme difference, but it's not rape. If you're so worried that you might accidentally fuck someone who's transgendered, then don't fuck random strangers. That, or you could awkwardly ask whoever you're about to sleep with if the…
/r/MensRights17/09/12 04:09 AM
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It'll be hard to figure out who posted them though.
/r/MensRights17/09/12 03:56 AM
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If you figure out who posted them you can probably sue them for libel as AVFM was not declared a "hate group". On the other hand, you could just post your own lies against them...or even just fucked up quotes from famous feminists. For example you could print out a flyer reading: "I am writing this essay sitting beside an anonymous white male that I long to murder." -- Bell Hooks, author of "Feminism is for Everybody" ...and put it right below their "feminism is for everyone" sign. If they want …
/r/MensRights17/09/12 03:53 AM
0

By the way, I'm a US citizen, I just happen to live in a "shitty country" (which is not actually "shitty", it's just poor, mainly because "your privileged country" essentially beats the people here into economic submission). What country?
/r/MensRights15/09/12 02:02 PM
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This subreddit is concerned primarily with the west, which you would have known had you read our FAQ in the sidebar: What about the oppression of women (and men) in other cultures? Many cultures still oppress men and women in very classical ways, but these are not the in the purview of r/MR or the MRM, nor does their existence in any way affect the prevalence of the MRM. The existence of male and female oppression in other countries has no effect on the existence of male or female oppression in …
/r/MensRights15/09/12 01:46 PM
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Clearly you don't understand the MRM if you think that article describes the MRM and feminism. We aren't the George's of the world. We aren't angry that there isn't some 2-D housewife to coddle us with a smile. We're angry that we're held to different standards because of our sex. We're angry that we're not granted the same legal protections because of our sex. We're angry that serious issues facing men are ignored in favor of addressing trivial issues facing women. It's a recognition that there…
/r/MensRights14/09/12 03:35 PM
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This is a guy whose blatantly hit on her since she started seeing him. He used his position as therapist to try to convince her to break up with me. She lied to him to get him to stop. Since then he got even more aggressive. This sounds like it should be an ethics violation. She should look into filing a complaint with the APA: http://www.apa.org/ethics/complaint/index.aspx
/r/MensRights14/09/12 02:19 AM
2

I was never banned from r/circlejerk.
/r/MensRights13/09/12 04:15 PM
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I don't know. My guess would be it scraped the names of people who have posted here...but I thought Aerik was banned years ago and it's not an old list since none of my older alts are on it.
/r/MensRights13/09/12 04:08 PM
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I'm not on there either, nor is Ig, or Gareth...I take that to mean they found it too difficult to make us seem crazy.
/r/MensRights13/09/12 03:54 PM
2

Aerik is on that blacklist for some reason.
/r/MensRights13/09/12 03:49 PM
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I'm not sure what feminspire is, but I've seen enough to know that Jezebel is a fucking joke. Here's an example: http://imgur.com/a/6GkdM#0 Note the two hypocritical Jezebel articles.
/r/MensRights13/09/12 03:45 PM
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I don't see much talk amongst MRA's as to appropriating or critiquing this term though. Because most of us have already researched it, classified it as "bullshit" and moved on. Ultimately, it comes down to falsifiability and the plethora of definitions used for "patriarchy". When it's defined clearly, and in such a way that it can be falsified...it gets falsified (hey look: that's r/MR discussing "patriarchy"). To counter that, a lot of feminists will use vague and unfalsifiable definitions of "…
/r/MensRights13/09/12 03:20 PM
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Ask her if she also agrees that women should be educated about not murdering their children.
/r/MensRights12/09/12 08:16 PM
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She touches on this in her issues page. Also, she's doing an AMA right now, so you could ask for more info there.
/r/MensRights12/09/12 08:10 PM
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JTO, you're more patient than me. I'm not sure how I would have reacted, but I do know it wouldn't have been anywhere near as calm/productive. Good job, man.
/r/MensRights11/09/12 11:47 AM
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I'm probably going to vote for Jill Stein, because she supports medicare for everyone, the Equal Rights Amendment, gay marriage, legalizing weed, opposes NAFTA, and wants to repeal the PATRIOT Act. She's not going to win...but I'm tired of choosing between blue asshole and red asshole.
/r/MensRights11/09/12 10:51 AM
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Meh, she made some valid points...GWW did sometimes treat the "may"s as if they were "are"s. I'd chock that up to her being a human being and, like most other humans, we tend to not think 100% straight when we're under stress...and people using dirty tricks to silence you is pretty fucking stressful.
/r/MensRights09/09/12 12:17 PM
1

Look on /r/feminisms R/feminisms has had SRS-style moderation for years before SRS even existed. Another subreddit you'll find similar bullshit is, ironically, /r/anarchism. Incidentally, many of the "true believers" in SRS come from those two subs. I'm glad r/mensrights seems to welcome discussion with people who have differing opinions. Well...there's a bit of controversy over that here. Some people want to use r/MR to spread white-nationalist and anti-gay bullshit. The mods don't let them, so…
/r/MensRights09/09/12 12:13 PM
2

I personally am happy with the variety of men's clothing. The only think I have a problem with are the ridiculously restrictive dress codes for men at most offices.
/r/MensRights08/09/12 01:13 PM
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I know some lawyers will do payment plans, so if he has steady income that might be an option. It's also possible that some might offer a sliding-scale which might help as well, if he's not doing too well money-wise. It never hurts to ask, and many do offer free first-time consultations, so it's something he should definitely get on ASAP. Also, it goes without saying that he probably shouldn't tell her he's seeing a lawyer just yet, otherwise she might start making shit up/etc. to preempt any ac…
/r/MensRights08/09/12 12:45 PM
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He's going to have a hell of a fight on his hands when it comes to getting custody. If I were him, I'd be talking to a lawyer NOW, before the kid is born.
/r/MensRights08/09/12 09:38 AM
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Hah, I was just going through and reading his conversation because I hadn't seen it the first time around. He was the top mod at SRS before they started calling themselves "archangelles", but he seems a hell of a lot more reasonable than their current leader (AADworkin). I'm kind of curious about his views on the current incarnation of SRS...but I doubt we'd be able to get any real criticism out of him as he'd surely be harassed by more than a few psychotic SRSers if he said the wrong thing. He …
/r/MensRights08/09/12 06:49 AM
3

Put simply: r/masculism was started by a guy who had good intentions, but aligned himself with the wrong people. Read all the drama here: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/ko6al/a_new_space_to_discuss_mens_rights_rmasculism/ Pay special attention this this thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/ko6al/a_new_space_to_discuss_mens_rights_rmasculism/c2ltoya as it details some shady connections to SRS.
/r/MensRights08/09/12 06:13 AM
0

Yeah, hold a: LEGALIZE MARIJUANA and ban MGM fund-raising party for charity.
/r/MensRights07/09/12 07:23 PM
5

The A stands for "activist" or "advocate" depending on who you ask. I'm one of the people who prefer "advocate" since it better describes what most of us actually do.
/r/MensRights07/09/12 01:53 PM
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Long story short, when I was around 18 I was at a party at some girls house, got really drunk, got into an altercation with a friend, got pissed that she took his side, and left to go walk it off. While walking in the middle of the night, I came across a bat and started swinging at shit because I was drunk and angry. A cop showed up, treated me decently, and even gave me a ride back to near the party (I wasn't about to bring a cop to a house full of underage kids getting loaded).
/r/MensRights07/09/12 01:47 PM
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I'm okay with no prosecution for the first 2 incidents, but not the 3rd. I support Romeo and Juliet laws...but someone who's 18 just seems way too old for someone who's only 13. I don't want to see this kid thrown in prison for life over this...but he should have known better, and I think some punishment would be justified.
/r/MensRights06/09/12 06:14 PM
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I don't pay attention to the conventions because they're all a joke anyway. However, if the Dems trotted out the 77% myth again, then yes, I'd have to say I'm surprised. Why? Because Politifact already debunked that, and the Dems tend to rely on Politifact a lot. I would expect them not to adopt such an easily attacked position. I'm not surprised that they're spreading feminist bullshit...it's what they do...I'm just surprised they would be so foolish about it.
/r/MensRights05/09/12 08:23 AM
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There's more and (so far) it's all just as good. Here's part 2/7, the rest can be found linked on the video page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EnZOwG4p1o
/r/MensRights05/09/12 08:06 AM
1

1 in 4 originally comes from the Koss study, which had an assload of problems, not the least of which being that many of the women interviewed disagreed that they had actually been raped. If you do the math1 based on real numbers it's something like 1-in-13 women and 1-in-30 men will be raped/sexually assaulted in their lifetime (in the US, not counting prisoners of which about 5%-10% are female). __ 1 - extrapolate an estimate based on those figures over the span of an 80-year life, accounting …
/r/MensRights03/09/12 07:28 AM
1

As others have said, if you aren't up to no good, then they can't do anything to you. It sounds like your problem is mostly with dirty looks from parents/etc., so glare back at them with a "you're a fucking idiot" face. If a cop is eying you, just give him a head nod so he knows you're not up to no good. After that he probably won't eye you. If you see him a few more times, say hi/make small talk/etc. Eventually you might even make a new friend. Despite what Reddit would have you believe, most c…
/r/MensRights03/09/12 06:30 AM
1

Without the varnish it'll run only a little bit more than regular printer paper. With the varnish it will be better than printer paper (assuming it's applied properly).
/r/MensRights02/09/12 10:06 AM
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If you print them on crack n peel, they won't be able to tear them down so easily. http://www.amazon.com/Sheet-Diagonal-Compulabel-313053-Compare/dp/B003WZA4B0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346488693&sr=8-1&keywords=crack+n+peel You can get it at any office supply shop. It's basically a big sheet of sticker paper. The downside is that it runs when it gets wet. If you're concerned about that, you could probably spray on a coat of clear varnish after you print them. http://www.amazon.com/Krylon-6-Ounce-…
/r/MensRights01/09/12 08:43 AM
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r/LGBT is run by SRS-types so that's not going to happen. You should check out /r/ainbow for something more up your alley.
/r/MensRights01/09/12 05:51 AM
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It doesn't say you have to be from Philly, and their description is gender-neutral. With that being said, sexual abuse is a bit different than sexual assault (which is what a single incident of attempted rape at 19 would be). The whole thing was inspired by the Sandusky case so I think they're looking more for victims of childhood sexual abuse...but they aren't excluding people who victimized as adults...it would just have to be sexual abuse though.
/r/MensRights01/09/12 05:47 AM
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but being pretty much all single mothers are a bullet at needs to be dodged. Oh god, you're fucking annoying. I didn't say "pretty much all single mothers are a bullet that need to be dodged"...I said he probably dodged a bullet by not dating a single mother. Is English not your first language, or are you just trying to intentionally misinterpret what I've said? Here, I will spell it out for you, in needlessly detailed language: Based on what OP has described of this woman, it seems like he coul…
/r/MensRights31/08/12 12:35 PM
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Here's an example of exactly that happeniong.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 12:33 PM
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not all single mums are bad people (hell, it's easy to say most single mums are good people, how can that even be argued against?) therefore The_Patriarchy's stereotype of single mothers is incorrect. lol I wasn't saying single mothers were bad people. Therefore you're talking out of your ass.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 11:28 AM
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You can't just make sweeping generalisations about single mothers I said "probably" for a reason. But there are some pretty major risks associated with dating a single mother. Not the least of which is child support...yes, child support. In some places, if you move in with her and shit goes south, she can sue you for child support...and if the court decides you took on a "parental role" for the kid that isn't yours then you'll be liable.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 11:26 AM
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It sounds like she was interested in you...probably not anymore though. It's cool; she's a single mother so you probably dodged a bullet anyway.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 07:22 AM
1

Paper is obviously not stronger than drywall, but it lacks the resistance needed to transfer that energy into it. Yeah this is wrong. The paper, being loose, absorbs and transfers the energy...that's why it will move when you hit it. Ever play with a Newton's cradle? It's basically the same thing. It's not important, but if you're going to be a smart ass, I will too! ;P No, it's not important.
/r/MensRights30/08/12 04:17 AM
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Ahh, okay, well throwing out as many issues as you can is definitely your best bet there. For something like that you don't have to limit yourself to parroting statistics. You could just repurpose one of the various lists of issues facing men with a big eye-catching headline/graphic. Good luck man.
/r/MensRights30/08/12 03:18 AM
1

The pain is caused by pressure...whether that be from a kick or a squeeze. If you doubt this, then flick your balls. It'll hurt in the same way a kick or squeeze would, but to a lesser degree.
/r/MensRights30/08/12 03:12 AM
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Oh, I don't know...perhaps it's this: It has become apparent that will all the new activity and growth in the men’s movement that a new subreddit, one that focuses a great deal on activism - and that is largely free from feminist and white knight derailing, is called for. [...] A couple of things to consider: Dissent, especially that which serves to further the improvement of the men’s movement, is welcome and appreciated. But if you want to post here, as a supposed MRA, telling others what is w…
/r/MensRights30/08/12 03:10 AM
1

I'm trying to put testicular trauma into perspective, if to you that sounds like I'm downplaying other pain, then that just proves why my statement needs to be made. No, it sounded like you were saying that getting hit in the balls is worse...but that it just doesn't last as long. THAT'S why it sounded like you were downplaying other shit. I don't know why people thin a steel toed boot makes things worse Because a sneaker or pretty much anything else is softer and absorbs more of the shock. A st…
/r/MensRights29/08/12 01:07 PM
3

PW is one of the free newspapers in Philly. A LOT of people read it because, when you're on the bus/train/el/etc. you frequently need to distract yourself, and the free papers fill that niche well. It's been struggling to compete with the Metro (an international daily free paper) and other public-transit distractions (e.g. smartphones/tablets/etc.); as a result of this, it has gotten thinner and thinner over the years, and filled up with more and more ads, displacing actual articles. However, be…
/r/MensRights29/08/12 10:15 AM
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As for your mother, is she in the most pain imaginable, or is she still functioning? From what she's told me, the pain is absolutely horrible. Not trying to belittle her pain, but put pain on the whole into a larger perspective; the only reason being hit in the balls is not higher on the list is duration. I've been hit in the balls (with steel toed boots) and it hurts, but I've had things that hurt worse and didn't last as long, and things that hurt worse and lasted longer. For example, I accide…
/r/MensRights29/08/12 09:59 AM
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blunt testicular trauma can cause torsion, which is in the top three most painful things a human can experience I saw that Venture Bros. episode D: the other two are slipping a disc My mom has a herniated disc in her c-spine (bonus guilt points: it's my fault!). I didn't know it was in the top 3. Now I can feel extra bad!
/r/MensRights29/08/12 09:16 AM
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I agree that it can be, but it's not always sexual assault. When I was younger...I was kind of an asshole. I was chasing this other kid over something stupid I don't remember exactly why (he probably just talked shit or something), but I know my intention was to hit him. Long story short, I pulled him through a window and cornered him...and in the process he kicked me in the nuts with steel-toed boots. I deserved it. It wasn't to abuse, humiliate, or any of the other reasons listed above...he di…
/r/MensRights29/08/12 08:57 AM
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You might be able to find some useful stats at /r/mensrightslinks. I am looking for critiques/comments/assistance on it as well as advice on the best route to increase awareness of MR's. It might be worthwhile to just pick one or two issues that you are most passionate about and focus on them. If you come at people with 1 issue but have a ridiculously strong case for it, it's more likely to gain traction. Hitting them with an assload of issues all at once might cause a sort of overload and they …
/r/MensRights29/08/12 08:40 AM
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Did you seriously start a redundant splinter subreddit because I pissed you off? Wow that's just...wow.
/r/MensRights29/08/12 08:10 AM
1

Equal rights -- equal opportunities -- equal responsibilities
/r/MensRights26/08/12 07:48 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmRDUcbx9tw
/r/MensRights26/08/12 07:45 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwYn6EWUpFU&feature=player_detailpage#t=75s EDIT: Oh, sorry, I guess a bit of Paul's ego must have rubbed off on me. Please accept this goat as an apology.
/r/MensRights26/08/12 07:00 AM
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I'm watching that interview now...it's great. She's trying so hard to make him look horrible and he's just making her look like an ass through his reasonableness
/r/MensRights26/08/12 06:56 AM
2

What? Firkser came over a month ago and told me you sent her to pick that shit up. I gave it to her, along with the $50 I owed you from that time we went to AC. Remember? I saw you a few days later and said something like "so we're cool about AC, right?" and you told me we were!
/r/MensRights26/08/12 06:53 AM
2

I'm fighting against censorship No you're not. If this was really about some principled opposition to censorship then you'd be just as obnoxious about Reddit banning r/jailbait, and r/MR banning the pro-pedo bullshit, and banning SRSers who come here to troll. You're pissed that your views lie just outside of what most people here consider acceptable...and you've aligned yourself with people whose views are even further beyond acceptable. Feel free to respond, but I'm just not very interested in…
/r/MensRights26/08/12 06:48 AM
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Look, I don't have a week of free time to devote to Paul Elam's ego and the walls of invective it shits out to insulate itself from reality. You are an insufferable self-important asshole. Acting like an insufferable self-important asshole when called out on it only provides more evidence of your self-important assholishness. If you actually cared about this movement, instead of boosting your own ego, you'd shut your fucking mouth until you were capable of speaking without making MRAs look like …
/r/MensRights26/08/12 06:36 AM
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Oh yes, you are quite the expert. Well that's not really fair. I mean, compared to you a toddler with some crayons would be an expert. The "kid" that posted those posters is in his forties was with Greenpeace for a number of years. He also knows a little about activism as well. The fact that a guy in his 40's is posting your flyers around random college campuses actually makes things worse. Which explains your role on the sidelines fitting so well with your experience. lol You do realize this is…
/r/MensRights24/08/12 02:39 PM
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The problem with armchair quarterbacks like you, other than being armchair quarterbacks, is that you don't know fuck all about what you are talking about. Except I do. For 3 years I co-owned a company specializing in the management of certain...individuals. A large part of my work involved PR bullshit...writing press-releases, doing interviews, creating intricate public images for those that we managed, etc. For the past 4 years I've been running another business where I do a lot of that same sh…
/r/MensRights24/08/12 11:12 AM
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members of the media that have no intention of listening to anything, and are ONLY there for a hit job. And you discerned this based on a single email where he asked you why you started the site and if you anticipated that some people might take offense. Paul, I never knew you were psychic! You should be careful who you tell...otherwise the feminists might burn you at the stake for witchcraft! So I suppose that we can each do our own interviews our own way. That's unfortunate, because clearly yo…
/r/MensRights24/08/12 10:28 AM
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I don't understand why you had to start off so damn hostile towards him. Sure he asked a loaded question, but you could have used that as an opportunity to change his mind and positively impact whatever article he's writing. For example, you could have done something like this: Are you surprised that women have found the website offensive? Are you surprised that women have found your articles offensive? I'm not surprised that some people, whether they be men or women, take offense at anything...…
/r/MensRights24/08/12 07:55 AM
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Cool, be sure to give a stranger an awkward sleepy hug for me. And don't forget to pick a fight with a friend over that time they dd that thing to you that you've never forgotten but never mentioned to them.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 06:20 AM
2

In fact, they are blatantly pushing an agenda NO ONE here agreed upon but them. They had a big discussion on how this sub should be moderated...it is linked right there in the sidebar specifically because people like me were calling for tighter moderation (as a result of the SPLC bullshit). So, no, a lot of us not only agreed with it, but insisted upon it. Furthermore, this isn't a democracy. You, a random user, don't automatically get a say in how they run THEIR subreddit just because you post …
/r/MensRights24/08/12 06:15 AM
1

Yes, you can be a feminist and an MRA. "MRA" implies no specific ideology.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 05:37 AM
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Did you get drunk and decide to tell r/MR that you love us? It's cool...I get like that when I'm drunk too...I'm just curious because that's the vibe I'm getting here.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 05:32 AM
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They delete/ban within reason. If you read the article, you'd see it advocates pretty much exactly that. This is one reason why it's important to be prejudiced in favor of tolerating dissent. Wait until substantially after it seems to you justified in ejecting a member from the group, before actually ejecting. If you get rid of the old outliers, the group position will shift, and someone else will become the oddball. If you eject them too, you're well on the way to becoming a Bose-Einstein conde…
/r/MensRights23/08/12 01:10 AM
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I'm curious though, why do you believe that user flair would not work? Also, what do you consider a downside to this plan? Or do you simply believe there to be no upside? I just don't think it would work for a number of reasons. People tend to suck at "playing devil's advocate" in good faith. People tend to ignore instructions about how and why they should and shouldn't downvote. Reddit is a pretty shitty platform for organizing anything (including special devil's-advocates, etc.). I don't think…
/r/MensRights23/08/12 12:57 AM
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No...not at all. SRS has a complicated history but it was never about protecting Reddit's image or playing devil's advocate.
/r/MensRights22/08/12 10:28 PM
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I agree with your central point, and have a good article bookmarked which makes the same basic argument that you should check out (it can be found here). However, I don't think the user-flair thing would work. The article I linked makes the argument that this can be avoided by not banning people who dissent (within reason)...and we're already pretty paranoid about that here, so I think we'll be okay.
/r/MensRights22/08/12 10:27 PM
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No he isn't. Just read his words. ... "[People] accuse you of being a rape supporter simply because you suggest that women take some responsibility" is clearly in reference to consensual sex painted as "rape" And I covered: Women are responsible for the life circumstances they choose to walk in to, in the same way that we are all responsible for choosing say, to walk into a high crime area at two in the morning singing about our pockets full of money. when I said " yeah it's a bit douchey, but h…
/r/MensRights22/08/12 10:17 PM
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So, I don't really like Paul Elam, but you've quoted him out of context a bunch of times and misrepresented what he's said. calling r/MR clueless: he's referring to a faction within r/MR insulting r/MR: he basically said it's an introduction to the MRM...and that's true. the pedophile thing: he's saying that sort of shit has no place in the MRM. blaming rape victims: ...he's clearly referring to consensual sex painted as "rape" more victim-blaming: yeah it's a bit douchey, but he's basically mak…
/r/MensRights22/08/12 09:40 PM
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I'm 6'4 You should check out /r/tall
/r/MensRights22/08/12 07:12 PM
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Of a crazy person. Just because someone does something shitty, it doesn't make them "crazy". If they were just doing their job then they have nothing to complain about their time being "wasted". This is asinine. Their time was wasted because someone staged a fake crime which they had to investigate. The investigation itself was the waste of time...because no crime was committed. The only way for them to know that no crime was committed is for them to investigate and, accordingly, waste their tim…
/r/MensRights22/08/12 07:08 PM
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She posted this to her Facebook prior to staging the incident: So maybe I am too idealistic, but I believe way deep inside me that we can make things better for everyone. I will be a catalyst. I will do what it takes. I will. Watch me That's not "crazy"...that's a calculated political motive. She did this in order to draw attention to her cause and to malign her opposition. If a guy did this sort of thing, few would be so quick to dismiss his agency and absolve him of all responsibility for his …
/r/MensRights22/08/12 03:26 PM
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Because I don't use the term you prefer I don't know what i'm talking about? You don't know what you're talking about because you use a pseudo-term invented by people who don't know the real term. Also, because you equate feminism with the MRM and r/2x with r/MR. Put "equalist" into a standard dictionary and you won't find anything. Type "define: equalist" into google and it'll bring up the definition for "egalitarian" in wikipedia...because "equalist" redirects to egalitarian...because it's a p…
/r/MensRights21/08/12 02:40 PM
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Yeah, I think it probably has a lot to do with marriage being less binding and us putting less pressure on people to marry/stay married to people they hate. Divorce rates have skyrocketed since the 1970's, people are less likely to marry, and when they do marry, it's generally later in life. This is for England and Wales, but it tells the same basic story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jan/28/divorce-rates-marriage-ons ...more divorces and fewer marriages with major change startin…
/r/MensRights21/08/12 01:58 PM
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The term is "egalitarian"..."equalist" is the term people who don't know what they're talking about proposed because they weren't aware of the term "egalitarian". Furthermore "feminism" is not the women's version of the "MRM"...that would be the "WRM", and r/2x isn't the women's version or r/MR. If you want to compare apples to apples you'd compare feminism to masculism, the WRM to the MRM, and /r/TwoXChromosomes to /r/oneY. Before you go around trying to merge the two movements, I suggest you r…
/r/MensRights21/08/12 01:49 PM
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I think those of us who believe in equality should start identifying as such in order to distance ourselves from the bigots. I recently proposed the label EMRA (Egalitarian Men's Rights Advocate) and think that, if more people started using it, it would have the desired effect.
/r/MensRights21/08/12 02:36 AM
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Name one leftist politician who isn't anti-men. Define "anti-men" in a way that can reasonably be falsified and I'll find one.
/r/MensRights21/08/12 02:27 AM
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Because our society has decided that a woman's body is her's to do with as she pleases, until the fetus is considered a "person" with rights of its own.
/r/MensRights21/08/12 02:20 AM
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ENTP already mods /r/blackflag (1,043 subscribers) and NihiloZero mods /r/anarchistnews (3,284 subscribers). Maybe you should talk to them about cross-promoting each other's subs.
/r/MensRights21/08/12 02:12 AM
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I think he's a fucking idiot and am not surprised that he's a Teabagger.
/r/MensRights20/08/12 05:44 AM
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A friend of mine built a laptop into his car (it was on this tray thing that swiveled out when he opened the glove box and hooked up to the car's power)...you could probably do that, and hook up a little printer, then print up custom bumper stickers on crack and peel when needed. It'd fade over time and would wash off in the rain...but it's good enough for proving a point (and if you were really worried about that you could put some contact paper over it). That, or they probably make dedicated l…
/r/MensRights19/08/12 09:53 PM
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Do you believe that men and woman face an equal amount of sexual assault and domestic violence? Sexual assault? No. However prison rapes do significantly increase the number of male victims, and male victims in general are strongly discouraged from even admitting anything bad happened so I'm not comfortable putting a concrete number on male victims. Domestic violence? Well studies do show that men and women initiate violence against one another at roughly equal rates. Men are bigger so women ten…
/r/MensRights19/08/12 09:38 PM
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Yeah, that's the one I was thinking of.
/r/MensRights18/08/12 06:33 PM
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Yeah, everyone would have me buy cigarettes for them because I looked older.
/r/MensRights18/08/12 06:32 PM
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The only difference is you used to know the guy you were strangling, personally. This is probably the best line I've ever seen on Reddit.
/r/MensRights17/08/12 04:24 PM
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There's a few in Philly. I think it's a franchise actually.
/r/MensRights17/08/12 04:16 PM
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I was gonna say something about it costing more to get drunk/high/full/etc. but I figured I already bitched about people thinking I was a criminal in the suburbs, so that's more than enough complaining for a thread where we're supposed to talk about liking shit. EDIT: also, they make high-proof liquor like Old Grand Dad 100/114 proof and it's as cheap as regular liquor (I think it might even be cheaper than JD), but twice as strong...so if you're looking to save cash, go for the strong stuff.
/r/MensRights17/08/12 04:06 PM
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Philly. The CFC I'm talking about was in SW Philly (65th and Woodland).
/r/MensRights17/08/12 04:04 PM
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You're absolutely right about the primal thing...but I also love the unexpected results. I remember seeing a fight between Kimbo Slice and this tiny guy with pink hair. Kimbo is fucking HUGE and I've seen him fight a lot before, and I knew he was tough as shit (I remember one where he made some guy bleed from his eye...HIS FUCKING EYE). So the fight starts and I just KNOW Kimbo is gonna tear this little white boy apart. Kimbo's going at him like a train and the little guy looks scared and just s…
/r/MensRights17/08/12 03:02 PM
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You shouldn't even dignify the crazies with a response.
/r/MensRights17/08/12 02:05 PM
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I'm a big scary looking guy, and used to live in some HORRIBLE neighborhoods. Despite living in really dangerous areas, people rarely fucked with me. In fact, I only had one person try to rob me, and that backfired on him. I used to go out walking whenever the fuck I wanted. If it was 1 AM and I wanted something to drink, I had no problem walking over to the Crown Fred Chicken by myself. However, I live in the suburbs now and when you look like me and walk around at night people think you're pla…
/r/MensRights17/08/12 01:20 PM
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Poe's law in action.
/r/MensRights16/08/12 12:57 PM
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And why can't I share my love of baking without getting teased? I'm assuming you're still a kid, because this sounds like a problem a kid would have. Anyway, stand up for yourself when they tease you. This may involve a fight, so be prepared for that too. Being a young guy in highschool/etc. is all about not showing weakness to other guys. That doesn't mean hiding shit you enjoy...that means standing up for yourself and not running away from conflict. In school I was one of the kids who dressed …
/r/MensRights16/08/12 12:34 PM
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Why do you have to go around acting like a dick all of the time?
/r/MensRights16/08/12 11:58 AM
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Maybe I'm in the wrong subreddit... No, you're in the right place...he's just a dick.
/r/MensRights16/08/12 11:54 AM
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what is then our motivation when we ask others to respect what we believe should be the rights of men? Many (if not most) of us do value equality...however there are those within the MRM who don't support equality. For them, I believe most of their arguments center around what they believe is best for "society". Isn't gender equality a central argument, when arguing for the rights of men? For many of us it is, but there's a faction which doesn't want equality. They are the people I'd like to dis…
/r/MensRights16/08/12 11:51 AM
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I covered this in the edit because of your comment. Basically, I agree it could be interpreted that way. However, the MRM itself is sort of "equality-agnostic" because it lacks any overriding ideology.
/r/MensRights15/08/12 07:35 PM
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It's not redundant, as "MRA" doesn't imply egalitarianism...it just implies advocacy for the rights of men (regardless of what those rights may be). I think most MRAs do push for what can be described as equality...but there are also MRAs who are explicitly arguing against equality. Some of them are even in this thread.
/r/MensRights15/08/12 07:28 PM
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The male, because everyone knows sex is something men do to women. Come on guys, this is feminism 101!
/r/MensRights14/08/12 10:31 AM
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I guess today's the day that I'm finally adopting the title "anti-feminist". Welcome to the club. There's 2-day-old pizza on the counter (though I'd eat around the bacon as I think it's gone bad), and if you get too frustrated arguing, there's A LOT of Jameson in the cupboard. Oh, and the toilet's broken...so there's a pitcher in the bathroom for...ahh, you'll figure it out. Welcome!
/r/MensRights14/08/12 10:23 AM
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She said, 'Screw you, pedophile,' [...] She was very hated towards men, like, 'You scum. I'm going to kill you all,' ...she sounds like any other SRSer.
/r/MensRights14/08/12 08:52 AM
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Radical feminism just means they're attacking what they believe is the root cause of female-disadvantage (patriarchy)...it doesn't mean they're the only feminists who believe in or spout bullshit. I oppose feminism itself (in the west), which is: "the belief that women are disadvantaged relative to men, and that, in order to achieve equality, women must gain advantage and/or men must lose advantage". I oppose it because: I believe that women, as a class, are no longer disadvantaged relative to m…
/r/MensRights12/08/12 10:47 PM
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You clearly didn't read the links I supplied clarifying my position. Read them.
/r/MensRights12/08/12 10:32 PM
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I'm an antifeminist and I support gender-equality. The two are not mutually exclusive...unless you don't understand what feminism is. Here, read some shit I've written about this previously: https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/feminism/ https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/antifeminism/ https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/why-im-an-antifeminist/
/r/MensRights12/08/12 10:21 PM
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It is very arrogant of you to think that just cause someone disagrees with you they must not understand your argument. It's very arrogant of you to assume that my thinking you didn't read it was simply because you "disagreed". I didn't think you read it because your question and general tone indicated otherwise. Why is being the same as other people an advantage? People show preference for those who are similar to themselves. This is also known as in-group favoritism. People tend to make rules/p…
/r/MensRights10/08/12 08:36 PM
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I don't think you actually read my wall of text.
/r/MensRights10/08/12 05:45 PM
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Privilege is a difficult topic because A) it sounds a lot like "you don't deserve X even if you think you worked for it", and B) some people do actually use it that way. There is such a thing as "privilege", but I think a better term than calling it "[insert inherent quality here] privilege" would be to call it "majority privilege". Imagine you had a club which was comprised of an assload of local chapters all across the country. Now, in your local club, say 90% of the members are Italian, and t…
/r/MensRights10/08/12 01:52 PM
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we've had multiple discussions about this, usually ending with her getting severely frustrated over my trying to change her mind and show her that feminism would only ever work in an ideal world If you've already discussed these issues with her, then you might want to drop it. You don't have to agree 100% with your friends to be friends...that sort of thinking is a bit cult-like and is something MRAs should try to avoid. so, what would be a more creative way to go about enlightening her aside fr…
/r/MensRights10/08/12 01:02 PM
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There's a bit of cross-pollination between neo-Marxism and Feminism. You're not wrong for noticing it...but you should be careful how you phrase it, otherwise it might sound like a conspiracy theory. There's no conspiracy. It's a result of something called Critical Theory...a school of thought which has become popular in various social sciences. As feminism expanded into the social sciences (around the same time as CT), some feminists were influenced by CT and incorporated some CT-ideas/styles/a…
/r/MensRights10/08/12 09:59 AM
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I always thought that men's rights were advocating for gender equality It's kinda complicated. The MRM itself doesn't entail any actual goal, but most of the people that make it up are striving for equality. Does that make sense? Basically, the MRM has no underlying ideology...it's just a movement of people who are arguing that men should have various rights. Not all of those people need to agree on what those rights should be in order to call themselves "MRA"s. This lack of an ideology means an…
/r/MensRights09/08/12 06:15 PM
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Then you talk to both men and women like dogs, but that's not the point. The point is that ANYTHING can be offensive, and if we're going to use "offense" to determine what we can and can't say (especially on the fucking internet), then we won't be able to say anything.
/r/MensRights09/08/12 05:56 PM
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Also, it might have been a troll: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/xxoor/big_thank_you_to_mens_rights_you_guys_have_helped/c5qhro0
/r/MensRights09/08/12 12:57 PM
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This smells like a troll. This is a brand new account. There's a certain demographic that loves to claim MRAs are all a bunch of conservatives. An MRA gun shop would suit that agenda quite well (despite there being an assload of liberals like me who support responsible gun ownership). You say you've been lurking here for "months", and that several weeks ago you changed the name of your store to "MRA" to reflect your pride...yet the ad you linked as your "latest advertisement" was posted in 2009 …
/r/MensRights09/08/12 12:56 PM
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We regularly talk about /r/Feminism doing the same thing That's because feminism claims to be for everyone, not just women. A common silencing tactic is for feminists to claim that MRAs don't need to exist because feminists are already handling these issues. Pointing out that they aren't handling these issues highlights the need for a movement that does handle those issues. Make sense? The MRM isn't a movement for every aspect of gender inequality...it's specifically to discern and address those…
/r/MensRights09/08/12 10:51 AM
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People can be offended by anything, and if I were to tip-toe around everyone's weakness, I would not be able to say anything. I think it's weird. I'm not saying the people who do it are bad people, or anything like that...I'm just saying that I think it's weird. Again, I'm sorry that you're offended (whether you try to dress up that subjective judgment in seemingly-objective language like "I find it offensive" or not), but I'm not going to walk on eggshells for fear of offending someone with a b…
/r/MensRights09/08/12 06:21 AM
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Heart-rate will affect blood-flow...but it won't direct blood-flow within the brain. Does that make sense? The theory underlying this tech is that you would use different parts of your brain when lying than you would when you're simple recounting the past. So part X would be activated when lying, and part Y would be activated when telling the truth...and this would be reflected in the fMRI. However, it's not quite ready for prime-time yet. The Mythbusters tested it out a few years ago against a …
/r/MensRights09/08/12 05:48 AM
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As I understand it, Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English are two completely different beasts. AJA is basically FOX News for the Arab world, while AJE is generally more respectable.
/r/MensRights08/08/12 12:15 PM
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FMRI lie detection doesn't detect if they're under pressure...it basically checks for blood-flow in the parts of the brain associated with lying. However, it still needs to be worked on a bit.
/r/MensRights08/08/12 12:13 PM
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I'm sorry you were offended, but I think it's weird. I'm not going to change that opinion just because you don't like it. Furthermore, the more you push me to answer for my opinion, the more I will defend it and, ultimately, I'll probably end up offending you even more.
/r/MensRights08/08/12 12:12 PM
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I agree that she was too young to know what she was doing and shouldn't be held accountable. I don't know what the solution is though, how do we stop men going to jail and their lives being wrecked like this when proof that is needed is quite erm, awkward to attain? I really hope they can perfect this technology, because it will solve these problems (and many others).
/r/MensRights07/08/12 11:19 AM
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I'm having a difficult time aligning myself with the MRM, because, while I agree theoretically with the positions, I find a lot of libertarian leanings and socially conservative leanings in the majority of the members of the movement.
/r/MensRights07/08/12 11:10 AM
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relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Seegrist But yeah, it is very rare for women to go on rampage killings/shootings/etc.
/r/MensRights07/08/12 11:02 AM
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I respect your right to do whatever you want to your own body. However, I think it's weird. You're not restoring anything...you're stretching the skin of your penis until it resembles a foreskin. If you were circumcised, then your foreskin is gone, and it's not coming back, barring some sort of foreskin-transplant.
/r/MensRights07/08/12 10:50 AM
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The MRM isn't left or right...it's explicitly apolitical in this regard. I'm pretty far left in general -- further left than any democrat -- and I'm an MRA. In fact, if you actually went and asked individual MRAs about their political views, you'll find A LOT that are on the left...and on r/mr, I think that would be nearly everyone, with a few outspoken exceptions. The difference is that the MRM doesn't kick people out because they aren't sufficiently liberal...because it's an apolitical movemen…
/r/MensRights06/08/12 03:08 PM
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I think that it's weird to look at your dick with such shame/dissatisfaction that you'll disfigure it to feel that it's acceptable. I'm not stopping you from doing it, but I do think it's weird.
/r/MensRights06/08/12 10:46 AM
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This is great. Ig, you should link it in the sidebar as an example of just how weak and disingenuous our opposition's arguments are.
/r/MensRights05/08/12 04:25 AM
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What can I say, I look around SRSD and they don't ban dissenters. Uhh, no...they ban people for dissent in SRSD: http://i.imgur.com/JXjJW.jpg You probably don't see it because they delete the dissenting comments as well.
/r/MensRights05/08/12 02:21 AM
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First off, even if they were "brainwashed" they would still be making those choices. The issue would be that those choices weren't made freely (i.e. free will), and, as a result, they shouldn't be held accountable for those decisions. As a hard determinist, I don't believe in free will. Accordingly, I don't see any decision as being the result of free will but, rather, a confluence of countless factors both genetic and environmental. Now, for it to be the result of "brainwashing" instead of stan…
/r/MensRights04/08/12 09:46 AM
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I'm not sure if a court would rule in your favor, but contact the EEOC and see what they have to say about the matter. If they agree that it likely wouldn't end in your favor, and assuming you value your job...then I would cut it if I were you. It's unfair, and the inequality shouldn't exist...but it does. When I was younger I had long hair (shoulder length). I loved having long hair, despite the problems (e.g. people confusing me for a woman from behind, ice-cicle hair in the winter, overheatin…
/r/MensRights04/08/12 06:58 AM
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All you can really do is be cautious, try to avoid situations which don't seem right, and educate yourself. You won't be able to ensure nothing bad happens to you, but you can try to avoid situations which might put you at greater risk (e.g. fucking girls you've just met...especially if either one of you is drunk/high, not wearing protection if you don't want to get that girl pregnant, etc.), and you can educate yourself about that bad shit so that, if it happens, you will be at least somewhat p…
/r/MensRights02/08/12 01:46 PM
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THIS SHIT DOES NOT MATTER, AND WHINING ABOUT IT MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE AN ASS. There are plenty of jokes just like that about women. It's pretty much fucking harmless (aside from some hyper-sensitive people getting hurt fe-fes). Get. The fuck. Over it.
/r/MensRights02/08/12 01:35 PM
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I'm also disgusted by how willing some people are to kill their pets. I'm not sure if it was in the news, or if it was someone in my neighborhood, but I remember hearing of some family that would get a puppy, keep it for a few months until it got "too big" and then they'd put it down. They had done this with like 50 innocent puppies and thought it was perfectly fine. People suck. EDIT: but that doesn't, in any way, excuse this girl's behavior. She's 15...she's old enough to know better.
/r/MensRights02/08/12 03:26 AM
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P.S. You aren't doing much to dispel that "polite Canadian" stereotype.
/r/MensRights01/08/12 10:09 PM
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It's easy to look at the MRM and feminism and think they're two sides of the same coin, but they really aren't. Feminism is a very specific ideology, and a movement surrounding that ideology. The MRM has no central ideology and is literally just a movement for (sometimes conflicting) rights for men. Feminism exists within the WRM, however feminism has grown so much that the WRM is viewed by many to be synonymous with "feminism"...when that really isn't the case. To be a feminist means that you b…
/r/MensRights01/08/12 09:30 PM
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It's a good idea, but there's a huge problem: definitions. SRS uses...creative...definitions of terms in order to "win" arguments through equivocation. I could argue their positions...but only in the same misleading way SRS argues them, because if I argued them in good faith, it would run afoul of your "no [...] intentionally arguing weak points" rule.
/r/MensRights01/08/12 08:38 PM
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lol
/r/MensRights01/08/12 05:14 PM
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I grew up in Philly.
/r/MensRights01/08/12 05:15 AM
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Yeah, I know I started really young. I didn't have any idea what it was, just that it felt good. In terms of porn, I usually didn't need it...but in 2nd grade I remember I would save portions of the bra/etc. ads when we'd do collages in class.
/r/MensRights01/08/12 05:11 AM
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Oh, no it was nothing like that. I think he's running a meth lab in his shed, and I guess he must have thought I was some sort of rival or something. It was like 4AM and I decided to take a walk. As I'm walking by, dude comes out of his shed and stares at me. We lock eyes, I keep walking. Someone is behind me. I walk up a hill and stop...waiting for him. He comes up, I see the pistol in his waistband and he starts questioning me about why I'm here, etc. I explain who I am, what I'm doing, and th…
/r/MensRights01/08/12 05:05 AM
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Now for the query part of my post, I would just like to get some insight from both circumcised and and non-circumcised men about what you think of circumcision in a strictly hygienic and aesthetic sense. How do women view your non-circumcised penis? Is it really that much of a hygiene problem? What about the sex? I'm circumcised. If I had the choice, I wouldn't have gotten circumcised. If I could magically undo the circumcision, I probably would (not that weird foreskin restoration shit). Truth …
/r/MensRights01/08/12 12:26 AM
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Yeah. I'm 6'5, large build, close-cropped hair, look Mexican, tattooed, tend to wear all black, and my default facial expression is unfriendly (I grew up in the city)....I'm pretty scary looking to upper-middle class white people in the suburbs...especially women. I once even had a guy with a gun follow and interrogate me because I dared to take a walk around my own fucking neighborhood.
/r/MensRights01/08/12 12:05 AM
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It was low way before SRD posted a link to it. http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/xcob8/a_feminist_posts_in_rmensrights_imagine_the/c5l7g1d According to that, it was at +14 when linked by SRD.
/r/MensRights30/07/12 08:47 AM
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Do those apply in his case? I don't really want to talk about him/etc. behind his back because it's rude, and he doesn't deserve that, but yes I do think that applies here. I don't think it's to the same degree as a "brainwashing", but I do think he was (still is?) in a really vulnerable state and the wrong people presented him with the wrong arguments at the wrong time and basically manipulated him/took advantage of that vulnerability (though I imagine this was not done intentionally...more lik…
/r/MensRights30/07/12 08:45 AM
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Basically; only I could see us one day becoming even worse than feminism, because guys tend to be more...aggressive.
/r/MensRights29/07/12 12:47 PM
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You don't have to do anything. I'm just saying that I think it would be better to leave him be, considering that he's not just some random asshole.
/r/MensRights29/07/12 12:44 PM
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QEP has gone through some shit and has a lot of problems...it'd be better to just leave him be.
/r/MensRights29/07/12 08:18 AM
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I agree with EvilPundit...we're doing pretty well, all things considered. If anything, I think we need to start working on a kill-switch for the MRM. Maybe a manifesto or something along those lines, outlining very specific goals that, once achieved, will negate the need for the MRM. There are important issues that the MRM brings to light...but the movement could easily turn into something horrific, and I don't want to see that happen.
/r/MensRights29/07/12 08:03 AM
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Yeah, those "skeptics" have made me very disappointed with the movement as a whole...the same goes for the crazier/bitter MRAs.
/r/MensRights26/07/12 04:42 AM
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So, I thought it was weird that you linked to a copy of this that wasn't on her page...so I went to her page looking for it. There I saw her most recent video: "Gender Differences - SkepchickCON/CONvergence panel " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5uvPhZ29fs&list=UUupX3k88Z1cRYCDuCPrmxlg&index=1&feature=plcp Which, I also thought was weird (given the views she's expressed in this video), so I checked the comments there and people are calling her out for deleting the feminism video (the one you s…
/r/MensRights25/07/12 09:32 PM
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a well-connected pedophile named Edward Savitz took me on trips from Philadelphia to TSM fundraisers. I knew the minute I got there it was a breeding ground because of Savitz’s involvement. While [Jerry] Sandusky interacted with wealthy donors, the other men were sizing-up kids. I felt like a cheap whore because I was in these naked pictures that Savitz was passing around.” Oh holy shit, Ed Savitz! I heard about this guy growing up...creepy as fuck.
/r/MensRights25/07/12 03:12 AM
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I'm a "liberal MRA".
/r/MensRights19/07/12 06:25 PM
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It could go a few ways, with the worst case scenario being it grows into something as big and entrenched as feminism. Here's what I hope for (based on what I consider to be realistic expectations): 10 - Bigger and more organized. "MRA" will be in the mainstream lexicon...mostly as a pejorative. MGM might finally be banned. 20 - Even bigger and more organized. Some major successes under our belt (e.g. something like the Equal Rights Amendment passed, lots of resources for male victims, etc.). At …
/r/MensRights17/07/12 10:43 PM
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honestly who makes up this bullshit? They're the grown-up versions of people who think you can get pregnant from a blowjob.
/r/MensRights13/07/12 08:18 AM
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one of the reasons i unsuscribed from this subreddit... Unsubscribing only helps if you stop coming to the subreddit, reading its posts, and commenting on topics...especially those topics you explicitly unsubscribed to avoid.
/r/MensRights13/07/12 08:12 AM
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Being a skeptic is a good thing...asking other people to research shit for you isn't. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+do+people+oppose+circumcision
/r/MensRights13/07/12 08:10 AM
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Oh my!
/r/MensRights13/07/12 08:02 AM
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Holy shit Paula Kirby is fucking awesome!
/r/MensRights12/07/12 06:15 AM
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The email was sent out by the HR department. If it were just some random email from an acquaintance, then you would have a point...but this is clearly the sort of shit employers should not be sending out to employees. If the genders were reversed I would have a problem with that too and, if I were that person's boss, they would have been written up...or fired if they had done shit like this before. They're the fucking HR department... of all people, they should know better. If you can't see the …
/r/MensRights09/07/12 06:09 AM
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When having an argument, I recommend stating clearly that your definition of "sexism" is discrimination based on gendered prejudices. It is a label of actual action or belief. It has nothing to do with any power status of the individuals involved. No, this is exactly what you DON'T want to do. It gives their asinine "definition" some semblance of legitimacy by making it appear as if there are multiple "true" definitions. You have to know the history of the term. Be prepared to throw that history…
/r/MensRights09/07/12 05:59 AM
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We use demographics to get an idea of what's going on. There are a lot of people who support equality. They look at the demographics and see inequality, and want to rectify this (in the furtherance of the noble goal of equality). Some people think it's a good idea to tinker directly with the demographics. These people fall into different groups, but for the sake of simplicity let's call them "politicians" and "idiots" (note: "politician" doesn't mean they necessarily occupy an elected position).…
/r/MensRights09/07/12 03:29 AM
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PZ is an asshole, just look at all of the shit he has to say about MRAs: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/?s=MRA&x=0&y=0 You're defending a man who thinks you're scum.
/r/MensRights06/07/12 12:32 AM
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It does control for the number of hours they work Where? As far as I can tell it's only taking weekly median salary by profession.
/r/MensRights05/07/12 09:48 PM
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No other crime has anonymity.
/r/MensRights05/07/12 02:02 AM
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I agree with you, but one of the biggest problems with false accusations is the damage to reputation...and this isn't a problem with the justice system so much as it's a problem with the way the media handles rape allegations. The obvious solution is to have the state mandate anonymity for those accused of a crime. However, this poses some serious problems: namely that it empowers the state to secretly detain people (i.e. something I really don't want since states tend to abuse that power). So, …
/r/MensRights04/07/12 11:29 AM
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Remember kids: Pacific Standard used to be known as Miller-McCune (they changed their name recently)...the same people responsible for this article which spread pro-circ misinformation.
/r/MensRights04/07/12 01:06 AM
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It sounds like a good idea. There are some practical issues to deal with properly, like hiding money (I realize you mentioned this, but a comprehensive plan would need to deal with this in more detail). Overall, I think it's a good start and think you should flesh it out a bit more...maybe work on drafting some sample legislation, etc. Good job.
/r/MensRights02/07/12 06:36 PM
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This only really applies to the west, because there are all sorts of fucked up countries with horrible anti-woman laws. Girls are sold on some pretty unhealthy ideas at an early age...look at the princess archetype, or makeup marketed to young girls. I think this is the root cause of most every other problem, and unfortunately it's not something that's easily fixed. It leads many of them to grow into women who are: unable to fulfill their full potential, codependent, passive aggressive, unprepar…
/r/MensRights30/06/12 08:00 AM
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Apparently black guys are affected a lot more and have a much higher death rate: http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/prostate/statistics/race.htm So that bit is at least understandable. As to them trying to distract from prostate cancer on PCAM, that's pretty inexcusable.
/r/MensRights30/06/12 07:27 AM
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Apparently it's a sizable difference: http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/prostate/statistics/race.htm Black is around 240/100,00 and white comes in second at around 160/100,000.
/r/MensRights30/06/12 07:26 AM
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Sorry, I run adblock and noscript, so I didn't see any porno-ads.
/r/MensRights30/06/12 07:20 AM
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Yes, but I don't really use it as a blog. I was just tired of wading through my comment history looking for resources and arguments I've made over and over again...so I fleshed a few of them out and sourced them. I make no money from it and have disabled comments...it's just there so I can avoid scouring my comments, writing walls of text, and repeating myself to everyone who thinks "feminism is equality!". Originally, I was going to update it every day (I have A LOT of long ass arguments)...but…
/r/MensRights30/06/12 07:17 AM
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but I don't think MRA is the perfect answer either. "MRA" just means you advocate for men's rights...it's not really a description of your beliefs, but of your actions. You can hold pretty much any belief (except that men need no rights) and still be an MRA. I recognize that both genders have issues and egalitarian is really the way to go. You can consider yourself an "egalitarian" and an MRA...I sure as hell do. "MRA" isn't the analogue of "feminist"...it's the analogue of "WRA" (which you can …
/r/MensRights29/06/12 11:12 AM
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...but that had nothing to do with the MRM. It was about the individual mandate (which negatively impacts the rights of both men AND women), and some medicare funding which was ruled unconstitutional.
/r/MensRights29/06/12 11:02 AM
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These SRS dykes Dude, there's no need to be an asshole.
/r/MensRights29/06/12 10:58 AM
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do you think feminism, first and second wave, was always "wrong"? No. First it's important to understand what feminism actually is. Essentially, it boils down to the belief that women have it worse than men, and that equality can only come about by raising women up and/or bringing men down. So, with that in mind, the "correctness" of feminism has EVERYTHING to do with location, time-period, and culture (incl. subcultures). I consider myself to generally be an antifeminist, because I don't think …
/r/MensRights29/06/12 10:54 AM
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There was once a headline in The Onion that said, "Earth Destroyed by Giant Comet: women hurt most of all." I tried to search for that article, but found nothing. If you could, I'd really appreciate a link, as I'd enjoy reading that.
/r/MensRights29/06/12 02:38 AM
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No, she's wrong. Feminists on the Critical Theory side of crazy have been trying to redefine the term: Short definition: Sexism is both discrimination based on gender and the attitudes, stereotypes, and the cultural elements that promote this discrimination. Given the historical and continued imbalance of power, where men as a class are privileged over women as a class (see male privilege), an important, but often overlooked, part of the term is that sexism is prejudice plus power. Thus feminist…
/r/MensRights25/06/12 08:57 PM
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I've sent them a message saying thanks for writing a good and useful article...and I suggest the rest of you do the same. Why? Because I'm thinking they'll get A LOT of flak from feminists, so it'll be good to show them that not everyone thinks they're evil-misogynist-patriarchs for writing this article. Contact them here: http://www.politifact.com/contact/
/r/MensRights22/06/12 07:58 PM
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You're right: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/vft7q/politifact_barack_obama_ad_says_women_are_paid_77/c547ms2
/r/MensRights22/06/12 07:54 PM
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You can get the study here: http://www.iwpr.org/publications/recent-publications And I believe it's the one titled "The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation". And that study does exactly what loose-dendrites is criticizing: The weekly earnings data in this fact sheet are based on the Current Population Survey (CPS) and refer to full-time (working 35 hours or more per week) wage and salary workers age 16 and older (excluding the self-employed);
/r/MensRights22/06/12 07:53 PM
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My thoughts are: it's a stupid joke based on a stereotype. I laughed a little bit, but I can see why it would piss a bunch of people off. It's probably not appropriate for a subreddit like r/jobs as I imagine they would want a more professional atmosphere. It's not really thought-provoking, nor does it attempt to broach the subject referenced in a productive manner. All in all, it's not the sort of content I come to r/MR to see.
/r/MensRights22/06/12 07:30 PM
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I was wondering if anyone here had developed ways to deal with such feelings in general. I can't really explain it without a chart, so basically this: http://i.imgur.com/KK6fT.png Atheism led me to moral nihilism and hard determinism, etc. Ultimately, it has resulted in me SEVERELY devaluing the opinion other people hold of me. Most importantly, it's undermined the fuck out of that little voice in my head which reminds me of all the criticisms I assume others would have. I decide which actions I…
/r/MensRights19/06/12 06:11 PM
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We didn't have any grad students, just an associate prof. It was pretty light in terms of coursework, and the class was small. I've taken some classes taught by grad students though, and generally they were better than the actual profs (with one exception1 ). 1 - He would have us write an essay (~2000 words) every week, but would only collect about 30% of them. This means most of the essays we wrote WOULDN'T be read by anyone. Aside from that, he had us "study" this stupid blog he kept about Har…
/r/MensRights18/06/12 10:26 PM
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/r/MensRights18/06/12 06:50 PM
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I think it's more obvious because feminism can be disguised as simple egalitarianism, while it's difficult to do something like that with (most) religion.
/r/MensRights18/06/12 05:49 PM
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Agreed...but with religion the subversion is more obvious.
/r/MensRights18/06/12 05:38 PM
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My experiences were different. In school, I only remember 2 profs subverting their position like that. One was the IH52 professor (it's basically an overview of western philosophy) who hated Bush and would go off on anti-Bush tirades during class (I hated Bush too...but I thought it was inappropriate). The other was the WS prof. My issue with her was primarily that she spread lies and, even when confronted with proof that she was mistaken, continued to spread those same lies. She only taught a h…
/r/MensRights18/06/12 05:32 PM
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If you're in a position of power, and try to shoehorn your political beliefs into unrelated topics, before a subservient audience, then you're an asshole. The professor's job is to teach Intro to Criminal Justice, Intro to Statistics, etc., not to surreptitiously indoctrinate their students with feminism. What I've highlighted is an example of those professors admitting that they're doing such things INTENTIONALLY. They're not inadvertently using 50 feminist statistics problems...they're doing i…
/r/MensRights18/06/12 05:24 PM
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My point is that he IS not a Feminist or supporter of women's rights NOW No, you said he wasn't a "former feminist". He was. As to whether he is currently a feminist...I doubt it, but considering that it's a philosophical position, based entirely on one's BELIEFS, I'd say he's really the only one capable of determining this. As to whether or not he supports women's rights, this is a separate issue. One doesn't have to be a feminist to support WR...one simply has to support WR. Unless you can sho…
/r/MensRights18/06/12 05:11 PM
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he continues to sell himself as a former feminist leader and current supporter/activist for both men's and women's rights when he clearly is not. No, clearly he was. Aside from being elected to the board of directors for NOW (which, alone, is more than enough to prove he was a feminist), here is an old exchange on a Women's Studies list-serv (back in 1994) where they question whether he was a feminist, and even they (i.e. mostly women's studies/sociology professors) have to admit that he was a f…
/r/MensRights18/06/12 02:46 PM
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Wireless bluetooth stereo headset. There are all sorts of unlabelled buttons, the light blinks in various ways to tell you different shit, and it beeps in different ways to notify you of shit. THAT needed a manual.
/r/MensRights17/06/12 10:43 AM
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Once upon a time it was a novelty account. When someone would blame or mention "the patriarchy" I would personify it and respond. Then my (now defunct) main account became the target of some very angry, very unstable people. They scoured it for PI and started going after my career (e.g. contacting clients and claiming I was a "rapist", etc. ...no, I'm not a rapist, it was baseless). So, I deleted that account and made this my MR (and controversial issues) account and now use another, completely …
/r/MensRights17/06/12 10:38 AM
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"it's a guy thing" really just means "it's complicated and not important enough for me to take the time to explain it to you properly, so just drop it and move on". "I heard you" really means "yes, I heard you, so just drop it and move on". "I missed you" could mean a lot of things ranging from "I missed you" to "I want you to think I was thinking about you even though I really wasn't". "I don't need to read the instructions" means "it looks straightforward enough that I shouldn't have to waste …
/r/MensRights16/06/12 03:33 PM
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If you're a son/daughter that has a poor relationship with your father, that would be interesting to hear about too. My parents split up when I was really young...like still an infant I think. My dad left my mom for some rich woman, and fought my mom tooth and nail on child support. She wanted $X, he only wanted to pay $Y (where X ~ 1.25Y), the court said he was supposed to pay $Z (where Z ~ 2X)...but she only made him pay X, because he threatened to take her to court every time she got a raise/…
/r/MensRights16/06/12 03:13 PM
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Based on what I remember from studying this issue, women are more likely to hit, but when men do hit, they're likely to do more damage...though women are more likely to use a weapon. This fits pretty well with my own experiences and observations. As to your experiences...I don't know...maybe Australia is different than the US...or maybe it's a matter of men feeling like they can/should be able to handle it on their own and not seeking help. Also, there's the issue of the Duluth model which teach…
/r/MensRights15/06/12 02:51 PM
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I view myself as egalitarian rather than an MRA or feminist I think you're confused about the meaning of those terms (as are many people on all sides). Egalitarian is a description of your philosophy...it basically means you believe in equality (in some way). Feminist is also a description of one's philosophy, and is technically a subset of egalitarianism (as it too involves belief in equality...and a bit more). MRA is a description of your behavior...it means that you advocate for the rights of…
/r/MensRights15/06/12 03:35 AM
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Feminism is the belief that women are disadvantaged relative to men, and that, in order to achieve equality, women must gain advantage and/or men must lose advantage. https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/feminism/ Read the link for my reasoning.
/r/MensRights15/06/12 03:25 AM
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You need to go to HR now...before it escalates. In some states, it's illegal to fire someone for their political affiliation...but it's not illegal in most states, so do some research first and be careful what you say. If you ARE in a state where it's illegal to fire you for political affiliation, then be sure to tell them EVERYTHING, including the bit about her knowing you're an MRA.
/r/MensRights14/06/12 12:28 PM
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it looks like the customer service rep is dealing with the spam aspect but not the misandry, or the political nature of the posts. And that's how it should be. It sounds like you want them to censor political speech with which you disagree...and that's not something I support.
/r/MensRights13/06/12 02:05 PM
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I have 2 accounts: my main account, and this one. I use my main account for news/etc., and this account for MRA-stuff and expressing controversial opinions. I check in on this stuff once a day, and try to limit it to that so I don't get sucked into some bullshit. It helps A LOT.
/r/MensRights13/06/12 01:59 PM
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I probably would have done the same thing if I had a kid and walked in on something like that.
/r/MensRights13/06/12 01:52 PM
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I basically agree with this, though I completely understand the guy's concern. I, however, was thinking he could have tried to help fix the kids bike chain instead. In theory, you should be able to make it work (albeit temporarily) with a paperclip. With that being said, if the guy drove the kid home and was falsely accused or something, there would be a cacophony of people telling him how stupid he was for taking the kid home.
/r/MensRights13/06/12 01:42 PM
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I wrote this previously addressing a specific aspect of the misrepresentation: https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/full-time-year-round-worker/ Here are additional resources on the topic: http://youtu.be/EwogDPh-Sow http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/04/16/its-time-that-we-end-the-equal-pay-myth/ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903454504576486690371838036.html http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf EDIT: also this: http://www.…
/r/MensRights11/06/12 09:36 AM
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I did it in Firebug.
/r/MensRights11/06/12 09:32 AM
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I think you're a troll and have faked incriminating screenshots. EDIT: http://i.imgur.com/SkSKa.png
/r/MensRights11/06/12 09:29 AM
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This seems like the kind of thing GoT does Yeah, I'm also gonna call troll.
/r/MensRights11/06/12 09:24 AM
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It really depends on the venue and your relationship to the people you're addressing. Sometimes, it actually helps if people get pissed off. If you're in a public forum, like Reddit, and you're reasonably presenting your case, and your opposition are acting like raging idiots, you'll have a better chance of convincing the unaligned lurkers reading the conversation. In real life, it's probably better to just mention various news stories and gauge their reaction. "Hey, did you hear about that woma…
/r/MensRights10/06/12 07:29 AM
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This is something your friend needs to discuss with an attorney, not a subreddit.
/r/MensRights10/06/12 07:06 AM
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This. If I got a speeding ticket, I wouldn't want a lecture from a friend. I'm big on loyalty. If we're friends, I've got your back even if you're wrong...and I expect the same from you. At the same time, I don't necessarily think OP is wrong for pointing this double-standard out to their friend, I just think they should have shown more tact. If a friend comes to you with a problem, you don't immediately jump to the "men have it worse" spiel...it's needlessly antagonistic.
/r/MensRights08/06/12 05:27 PM
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I consider myself to be a social democrat, which is similar to democratic socialist, except that SD generally involves reforming capitalism instead of binning it altogether. Being an MRA doesn't mean you have to subscribe to one particular political ideology over another. You will find a lot of MRAs on the left and a lot of MRAs on the right. Hell, you can even be a feminist and an MRA (though many, perhaps even most, of us are antifeminists). Side note: all of those countries you've listed (Swe…
/r/MensRights08/06/12 05:07 PM
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Would you support legislation that removes the sex directed language and instead takes a broad approach to having equal pay? Meaning, an equal pay act that is not geared towards any sex? We already have the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Discrimination based on sex is already illegal, and I support that. No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section [section 206 of title 29 of the United States Code] shall discriminate, within any establishment i…
/r/MensRights08/06/12 10:55 AM
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In fairness, NOW did oppose the draft in the 60's/70's. EDIT: and the 80's http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_mdRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=igYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3470%2C684989
/r/MensRights06/06/12 01:44 PM
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The headline WILDLY misrepresents the situation: The Maine Attorney General’s Office is seeking an injunction under the state’s Civil Rights Act against a 27-year-old man it says beat up a woman and killed her kitten. [...] “‘Every last one of you does nothing but fuel my hatred and anger towards women. I do not feel remorse and I am not sorry for the things I have done. My only regret is that I didn’t do worse to the women I assaulted.’” Drew has a history of domestic violence assaults and acts…
/r/MensRights06/06/12 01:31 PM
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I don't hate my parents/etc. because it's not really their fault. When I was born, circumcision was so routine that the hospital just did it. My problem is with the medical establishment which does it this way, not because it's good for the child, but because they earn money selling the foreskins to cosmetics companies. My problem is that our society recognizes the barbarity in FGM (having outlawed it at the federal level), but fights tooth and nail to retain the practice of MGM. My problem is t…
/r/MensRights06/06/12 07:45 AM
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I'm glad you liked my comment. Unfortunately, if you read his responses, I didn't get through to him.
/r/MensRights06/06/12 07:10 AM
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Yeah, not exactly. I'm not familiar with the Blau-Kanin study, but I'm VERY familiar with the AAUW white paper. It claims to account for "hours worked" but really doesn't. I've explained the problems with that paper here.
/r/MensRights06/06/12 07:08 AM
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I've covered some of this previously: https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/full-time-year-round-worker/ In that post, I take a white paper by the AAUW and show how they're misrepresenting the data (claiming "full-time, year-round workers" account for hours worked). Such misrepresentations are common in texts regarding the wage gap (most of which could be considered "advocacy research", and in fairness, the AAUW is less deceptive than most others...but they're still deceptive. Those other…
/r/MensRights06/06/12 07:03 AM
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I liked Carter. The character was strong but measured. I don't really see her as a feminist...just a strong female character. The only episode I could see as possibly being feminist-ish was that world where women were basically slaves, but that's just 1 episode out of 214. Vala was a decent character. I was a Farscape fan and thought Aeryn Sun was a GREAT character (one of the few really badass women in SciFi), so maybe I'm a bit biased. But, in SG-1, she wasn't made out to be a role-model/etc.,…
/r/MensRights05/06/12 10:26 AM
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ACLU Hypocrisy: Tell Your Senators to Ratify the Women's Rights Treaty The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is a landmark international treaty that affirms principles of fundamental human rights and equality for women in the United States and around the world. It offers countries a practical blueprint to promote basic rights and open opportunities for women and girls in all areas of society. [...] Around the world, CEDAW has been used to ensure p…
/r/MensRights05/06/12 04:00 AM
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Because it presents a mythical problem, the solution to which is sexism. Women aren't paid 77% of what men earn for the same work...they're paid less for choosing more comfortable fields, working fewer hours, taking years off to raise a kid, etc. Blaming the wage gap on sexism means you're eliminating the only non-sexist solution: encouraging women to work as hard as men. The only other real solution becomes paying women MORE for LESS work...i.e. sexism. The PFA itself isn't really that big of a…
/r/MensRights05/06/12 03:43 AM
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OMG A COLLEGE STUDENT MAJORING IN SOCIOLOGY FEELS SUPERIOR TO ME!! WHATEVER SHALL I DO!!!!! The people who say that shit do not matter. They will mock us regardless of what we say because our very existence conflicts with their ideology.
/r/MensRights04/06/12 09:43 AM
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The mistake you made was apologizing. Don't stop. "When they stop attacking my beliefs, I'll stop defending them." Be unapologetic, be uncompromising. [...] Be unapologetic. Make them afraid to talk shit about men within earshot of you. Quit giving them safe places to run. I normally don't agree with you on a lot of issues...but I think you've hit the nail on the head here. Publicly outing yourself as an MRA is really fucking dangerous. You put yourself at risk for A LOT of bullshit (losing good…
/r/MensRights04/06/12 09:02 AM
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Obviously you can do whatever you want, but I think you're overestimating the significance of sex. Our society generally has an unhealthy relationship with sex which seeps through a lot of our public discourse on the matter...I think it's possible (perhaps even likely) that this fucked up discourse may have given you some unrealistic expectations. It's not some magical experience where bells ring and blah blah blah...it's basically a more complicated and exhausting handshake that makes you feel …
/r/MensRights02/06/12 09:20 AM
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Afraid? No. Cautious? Yes. I'm probably going to end up dying a virgin If you don't want to be a virgin, there are plenty of prostitutes out there who would be more than happy to oblige you. In fact, this might be a good idea for you. Seeing a prostitute regularly might help you overcome some of that fear...sort of a low-end sex surrogate. Though, if you have money (and it sounds like you do), then you could probably go to an ACTUAL (i.e. certified) sex surrogate...which would probably be a bett…
/r/MensRights01/06/12 04:02 PM
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Yeah, that changes it A LOT. ...to the top with you.
/r/MensRights31/05/12 07:09 AM
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http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/e2vme/im_trying_to_put_together_a_solid_refutation_of/
/r/MensRights30/05/12 07:15 PM
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Show me a beer marketed at men that says "for the times when your nagging wife just won't shut up..." Are you fucking joking? Beer ads have been crazy sexist for a long ass time. Here are a few that focus on nagging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73ImrbEUD6A
/r/MensRights29/05/12 07:52 PM
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Some of your graphics need to be tweaked to work on the dark background. If you send me the source file for the logo (i.e. a vector file), I can put it together for you.
/r/MensRights26/05/12 05:45 AM
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They can either point to factors other than discrimination (which would obliterate their argument for the PFA), or they're admitting that they're discriminating against women...making them big fucking hypocrites. Most likely, they just won't respond to criticisms and will hope it simply blows over. ...and that's where we come in. Bring it up WHEREVER possible. If you see an article about them supporting this ridiculous legislation, make sure to leave comments highlighting this issue. If any of y…
/r/MensRights26/05/12 05:24 AM
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I just don't feel that all people would react the same. I never said they would. I think you're placing attractiveness as too high of a factor in this situation A) We're talking about an emotional reaction. You don't sit there and make a rational analysis before you react...it just happens. What you've read is the result of having 7-14 years to consider my own reaction to various situations. B) You really aren't the arbiter of what is and isn't an appropriate reaction to being sexually assaulted…
/r/MensRights25/05/12 12:03 AM
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Maybe, but non-MRAs probably aren't going to interpret it so generously.
/r/MensRights24/05/12 10:29 PM
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but I still disagree that attractiveness would really change how you feel about the situation. This isn't speculation on my part...attractiveness DOES affect how I feel about the situations. In the first situation, if it was a girl I considered to be attractive, I would have felt a sort of pride at her having molested me, and probably would have reacted better when she kissed me. Hell, I probably would have tried to find her after the party. In the second situation, if the girls were fat and ugl…
/r/MensRights24/05/12 10:26 PM
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No, I'm not. GreatBlogs4MenLoLz offered their opinion (that it's not flattering), and I offered my own (that it can be flattering).
/r/MensRights24/05/12 09:46 PM
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I look sexist? Really? Yes. When you say: Please stop coming to me with research proposals about [...] career development for women (but not men). Stop coming to me with proposals about female body image interventions or "sexism in higher education." Please stop with all of the 'female empowerment' proposals of any kind. followed by: Come to me with questions about the emotional and practical needs of your sons and husbands and fathers, who maybe you do not have anymore. And I will help you to u…
/r/MensRights24/05/12 08:50 PM
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What are you trying to say with this comment? I'm trying to say you'll probably lose your job because it makes you look sexist. I'm also saying that said sexism will probably encourage some of your students to do exactly the thing you're encouraging them not to do. Also, and this is an additional point, it's fucking hypocritical. You're claiming you don't want to help those with a "political or ideological agenda"...yet that's not really true. You just don't want to help those that don't share y…
/r/MensRights24/05/12 08:26 PM
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It can be flattering, or it can be disturbing. Honestly, it really depends on the circumstances and the attractiveness of the one sexually assaulting you. Examples: Approx age 14. At a party and really drunk. Some very ugly obese drunk girl makes me make out with her (i.e. I'm half-conscious on a chair, she sits on me and forces her tongue down my throat). I didn't want her there, but I felt I'd be mocked/called "gay" if I pushed her off of me/etc. so I did nothing...at all...until she finished …
/r/MensRights24/05/12 08:08 PM
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I think you'll probably lose your job if you share something like that with your students. Furthermore, I think it'll backfire. You might find yourself listed as an example of "sexism in higher education" in some paper...perhaps one which was inspired by your sharing these "guidelines" with your students.
/r/MensRights24/05/12 07:40 PM
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Don't sue your parents. Suing them won't undo the circumcision, it'll just increase animosity between you and them. The courts will likely dismiss it because, as it stands, MGM is considered to be acceptable and a parent's choice, not a boy's. If it actually gained any press, you'd be painted as the greedy piece of shit who sued his super-nice parents. No good would come from this.
/r/MensRights24/05/12 07:34 PM
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This debate is very much being set up as a battle of the sexes. Rather than joining us in our anti-sexism agenda The agenda which compelled you to dismiss legitimate issues facing men with hand-waving and shaming? The agenda which promotes and encourages the lie that women are always victims and men are always guilty? The agenda which prioritizes people saying unkind things about a fat actress over the documented bias against men in our legal system? Yeah, sorry, you can go fuck yourself.
/r/MensRights22/05/12 03:44 AM
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The basic point is "women won't fuck you unless you do what we want". Lol, he can just go to a hooker...and pay her less than a gigolo. WHAT NOW FEMINISTS!?!
/r/MensRights19/05/12 05:36 PM
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NOTE: Establishing one or more of the statutory grounds for termination is not sufficient to obtain an order terminating parental rights. The court must also find that termination is in the best interests of the child. Termination of a parent’s rights cannot be done to advance the interests of the parents, whether emotional or financial. In most cases, it is in a child’s best interests to have two parents. As a rule, termination of parental rights is not found by the court to be in the child’s b…
/r/MensRights18/05/12 12:48 PM
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I don't feel like repeating myself, so read these: https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/feminism/ https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/antifeminism/ https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/why-im-an-antifeminist/ Anyway, I think a lot of people call themselves "feminist" when they're really just an egalitarian. So, for those people, my opinion of them is that they're usually decent people who have simply chosen an unfortunate label for themselves. As to actual feminists, it …
/r/MensRights18/05/12 04:41 AM
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Why don't you at least watch the movie before you decide it's "disgusting and sick".
/r/MensRights18/05/12 04:24 AM
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I'm an atheist, but there's a prayer that comes to mind (though it's more of a mantra): Grant me the ability to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. You seem to spend a lot of time in hostile waters (i.e. r/askfeminists). You aren't going to change many minds there...and honestly, it's probably not worth the effort. I don't presume to know you, but have you considered that constantly arguing with those who despise you m…
/r/MensRights17/05/12 03:29 AM
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Good, I'm glad I could clarify. I hope you'll stick around and learn more about the various MR issues.
/r/MensRights16/05/12 07:11 PM
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Then I looked at the links on the sidebar. Specifically the ones about "what is r/mensrights" and "what is r/mensrights take on feminism", and it just sounds like hateful extremist ranting. Reading that makes me think you actually really really really HATE all women. If you read all of that stuff and assume "feminist" means "women" or "woman"/etc. then it might sound anti-woman...but "feminism" isn't a synonym for "women" or "women's rights". I've written some stuff on this previously, and I thi…
/r/MensRights16/05/12 06:41 PM
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But we did call out specific examples of misogyny and the threat, overt or implicit, of violence. No, you didn't. Here's what you had to say about us: A “subreddit” of the user-generated news site Reddit, this forum describes itself as a “place for people who feel that men are currently being disadvantaged by society.” While it presents itself as a home for men seeking equality, it is notable for the anger it shows toward any program designed to help women. It also trafficks in various conspirac…
/r/MensRights16/05/12 12:47 PM
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It's not like you had provided them with undeniable proof that they were wrong. Without that, it's unreasonable to demand that they agree with you. It also doesn't look like they were ignoring your points. It just looks like they weren't convinced that feminism stands in the way of men's rights. I agree that feminism can stand in the way...but that's something we have to actually show.
/r/MensRights16/05/12 11:18 AM
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I read the conversation. They were being respectful, whether they agreed with you or not, and you insulted them.
/r/MensRights15/05/12 08:01 PM
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ok, think that. You're entitled to your own foolish opinion. You jumped to insulting them when they were being respectful...that's not cool. I've written some things previously which might help you reduce the time you spend arguing certain points: https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/feminism/ https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/antifeminism/ https://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/why-im-an-antifeminist/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/e2vme/im_trying_to_put_to…
/r/MensRights15/05/12 05:01 PM
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I think men and women, as distinct classes, are equally capable (barring certain biological differences). And I believe men and women should have the same rights, and opportunities...not because they deserve anything1 , but because I believe it most benefits our society2 . 1 - I don't believe in objective value/etc. so no one really deserves anything. 2 - If more people have the opportunity to fulfill their potential, more people would actually fulfill that potential, and we'd have more scientis…
/r/MensRights15/05/12 04:45 PM
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My mom was awesome when I was growing up, so she never did bullshit like that. The closest to an invasion of privacy was when I was like 14/15 and she found (softish-core) porn I had printed up from the internet and stuffed under my mattress (this was around 1998/99...back when internet porn wasn't as great as it is now). After that, she stopped coming into my room uninvited and had her boyfriend talk to me (where he basically told me she didn't want to see that shit, so I should keep it better …
/r/MensRights15/05/12 10:30 AM
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I only had a problem with 2 profs in my school, the one I just mentioned, and the women's-studies prof. No one else seemed to use their position to push their views/etc.
/r/MensRights11/05/12 02:23 PM
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They switched everything so that what appear to be downvotes are actually upvotes, and put a fake "-" in front of everything. If something says "-20" it's actually +20. If it were negative it would say "--20". Disable custom styles and you can verify it yourself.
/r/MensRights11/05/12 09:38 AM
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I think I mentioned it on her evaluation.
/r/MensRights11/05/12 09:02 AM
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I had a prof like that. I hated Bush (I even worked on the Kerry campaign, despite Kerry sucking ass), but it made me extremely uncomfortable how my prof would use her position to push her political views. It wasn't even relevant to the class (a mandatory course on western philosophy)...she'd just go on and on about how horrible and backwards Bush was.
/r/MensRights11/05/12 08:34 AM
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I think we're starting to see hints of it (mostly because our interests sometimes coincide with the pro-business agenda) and, unfortunately, it looks like those politicians are Republicans. There was push-back from politicians against VAWA, and the new wage-gap legislation...and some of our talking points seemed to be making their way into the mainstream (esp. the wage-gap stuff). So...yeah.
/r/MensRights08/05/12 04:34 PM
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Except men support women's rights and women support men's rights. Hell, I'm an MRA and an antifeminist, but I would never vote for a politician who's trying to overturn Roe v. Wade. If we can get MR issues popular enough, maybe we can get to the point where a large number of people will reject any politician who supports involuntary infant circumcision.
/r/MensRights08/05/12 04:30 PM
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It's confusing because they call reps in the House "Congress(wo)man" and reps in Senate "Senator", yet "Congress" is both...but also sometimes used informally to refer to the HOR (possibly by people who are also confused like you).
/r/MensRights08/05/12 07:40 AM
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To your right Yes, those are a list of MR issues. Official positions? ...no. I don't think you understand the MRM...at all. I'm not your "opposition". So you came here to make a "gotcha" post...and you're supposed to be what? Our friend? By the way, male academic underperformance starts much, much earlier than higher education Hence the links in the sidebar that you clearly didn't read. and the scholarships for women are only in math/science, and other subjects in which they are definitely not t…
/r/MensRights07/05/12 07:25 AM
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Nabokob is a troll. Downvote and ignore.
/r/MensRights07/05/12 06:10 AM
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I figured you were posting this to for some more "gotcha" bullshit. Thanks for proving, yet again, that our opposition is incapable of honest debate. Isn't one of men's rights tenet problems about men increasingly falling behind in school? We don't have "tenets" you fucking moron. Male-under-representation in higher education is an issue many of us raise...mainly because women are still receiving special assistance (e.g. women-only scholarships, quotas, etc.) despite being the solid majority. It…
/r/MensRights07/05/12 06:09 AM
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Having seats for each district is a quota too...but it's a necessary quota. If you don't understand the problem with gender/etc. quotas, then google it. Here I found these in a few seconds: http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-gender-quotas-do-women-no-favours-%E2%80%93-and-undermine-democracy/ http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-if-we%E2%80%99re-going-to-have-gender-quotas-why-not-quotas-for-everyone/
/r/MensRights07/05/12 05:49 AM
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No, this would definitely be a quota.
/r/MensRights07/05/12 05:37 AM
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Quotas blow. If the people want to elect a female-majority congress, then so be it.
/r/MensRights07/05/12 05:29 AM
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WTF? No. The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress
/r/MensRights07/05/12 05:27 AM
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He's wrong though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Civilizations_map.png That's a map of civilizations. "Western" civilizations are in dark blue. Australia is in dark blue. Therefore the creator of the map (an authority on the subject) considered Australia to be a "western civilization".
/r/MensRights06/05/12 02:39 AM
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It is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Civilizations_map.png
/r/MensRights06/05/12 02:34 AM
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He's not a white supremacist, sigi11 is a troll posing as sigil1. http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/fw03a/mensrights_faq/ Scroll down to number 17 (pay close attention to 17B).... Also from kloo2yoo: As the mod of /r/mensrights I do not support racism and do not wish to have /mensrights linked in your sidebar http://www.reddit.com/r/WhiteRights/comments/ecya6/as_the_mod_of_rmensrights_i_do_not_support_racism/
/r/MensRights06/05/12 12:05 AM
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He is, said one member in the comments, a white supremacist. He wasn't a white supremacist. That "member" is a 2 hour-old throwaway posing as another user. Real feminism is humanism. So is real masculinism. No, you obviously don't know what any of those terms mean. Read this. Feminism is the belief that women are disadvantaged relative to men, and that equality can be achieved by giving women advantages and taking advantages away from men. Humanism is a philosophy which focuses on human values a…
/r/MensRights05/05/12 11:43 PM
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Yeah, we teach gender-roles from basically birth. When a baby boy is born, parents decorate their room with "boyish" stuff...when a girl is born, they go with "girlish" stuff, etc.
/r/MensRights03/05/12 01:57 PM
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A choir that is constantly expanding. In case you haven't noticed, we've gained more than 10,000 subscribers in about 8 months. There are new people reading r/MR for the first time every day. The "choir" constantly gets new members who usually go through the same basic set of realizations as the rest of us...and their posts reflect that.
/r/MensRights02/05/12 11:11 AM
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You must be new here: Domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual harassment laws, in their existence and in their application, reiterate the prejudice that women are more fragile, gentle, loving, caring, honest, and are morally superior to men. That prejudice is put forth through various means, including television commercials and movies, childhood education, women's studies departments at universities, and acts by the legislature. It is pervasive. One means of promulgating misandry is the 'b…
/r/MensRights02/05/12 11:04 AM
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It would, if that number accounted for all factors...but it doesn't. They're still not accounting for hours worked. I'm going to copy+paste a comment I made about this in a similar thread: 5% still isn't accounting for all factors. The "studies" which reach 5% erroneously claim to account for "hours worked" but in reality they're playing word games. What they do is take "full-time, year-round workers" and group them all together. What is a "full-time, year-round worker"? Anyone who is paid for 5…
/r/MensRights02/05/12 08:50 AM
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As others have already said just don't be a dick to him when you're around other people. Don't try to "make up" for that when you're alone...because that's probably impossible. Just consider him "off-limits" for that sort of shit when you're around your friends. And, if you really want to show him that you're on his side, when one of your friends gives him shit, turn around and give them shit. All of that goes out the window if he's also being a dick to you though. It wouldn't be fair for him to…
/r/MensRights28/04/12 08:27 PM
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It's okay. No need to feel stupid or anything. If you're new to reddit, the protocol and submission procedure can be confusing. I've fucked up in the past, and I'm sure pretty much anyone else who posts on Reddit regularly has fucked up as well. If you want to delete it and resubmit to /r/askreddit, just click "delete" right beneath your submission and then, when it asks "are you sure" click "yes". If you're going to resubmit it verbatim, be sure to save a copy on your computer or something, bec…
/r/MensRights25/04/12 04:48 AM
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If that's the comment that was deleted, then yeah he's gone a bit too far. Clearly they would be referring to the Duluth Model which is extremely prevalent and does push a man-as-aggressor/woman-as-victim agenda.
/r/MensRights25/04/12 04:25 AM
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I called the police yesterday after she had honked 9 times before 7:30am and they said I would need to call the each and every time it happens. This sounds like your only real option. Also, this post would be more appropriate for a subreddit like /r/askreddit .
/r/MensRights25/04/12 04:19 AM
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It's nice to have a space that keeps feminism and MR out of the debate It's not supposed to be that way. From the creator: I said it in The Rules, and I'll say it here - I'll ban anybody who engages in hate-speech. If you start a topic that says "Fuck feminists, them cunts," I'll ban you! If you start a topic that says "I have a problem with feminism" and then attempt to start an intellectual conversation, good on ya. I encourage you to do that if that's how you feel (though keep in mind that if…
/r/MensRights24/04/12 11:30 PM
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Yes. Generally this seems to revolve around attacking your career (e.g. contacting clients/your employer/etc. and spreading lies about you).
/r/MensRights24/04/12 08:01 PM
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Yeah, it's a shit situation. Many of us use alts because our opposition likes to go after us IRL, so maybe you could do that. Just have a "controversial" account you use for gender issues/etc. which doesn't include any PI or other identifying information. Then use that for all of the gender/etc. subreddits. After a week or so people won't be as prone to assuming you're a troll.
/r/MensRights24/04/12 07:20 PM
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People are going to be reluctant to comment/etc. because you're using a throwaway. We've been getting trolled a lot by throwaway accounts making self posts detailing shit they're going through, then using it to slander r/MR. If you're not a troll, then sorry for the inconvenience.
/r/MensRights24/04/12 06:55 PM
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I just read your essay, and there are some problems: Poor grammar. It may not seem like a big deal to you, but it really is important. You don't support some of your important claims very well. For example, you didn't make clear that the wage-gap can be mostly attributed to life-choices. To someone who isn't aware of this, it could seem like you're dismissing the problem without giving it much thought other than "women have the same opportunity". You paint a VERY stereotyped picture of men and w…
/r/MensRights24/04/12 06:30 PM
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Well that was one of the worst songs I've ever heard.
/r/MensRights24/04/12 05:49 PM
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OP Deleted his shit right before I clicked "Save" so I'm posting my comment here: When I was younger, I had a great office job and lost it similarly. I went to a co-worker to ask her a question about something. She proceeded to talk to me like a was a fucking dog. It was a Friday, about 30 minutes before my shift was over, and i didn't want to get into a shouting match, so I just said "whatever" and walked away. ...she complained to someone, said I "threatened" her, and that was that. I tried to…
/r/MensRights21/04/12 03:58 AM
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It confirms the statements I presented as fact. Three felony charges had been filed against Hawkins, of Wymore, including one for sex assault. They were dropped after authorities concluded that 27-year-old Jennifer Valenta, of Wilber, had lied about being attacked by Hawkins and others at Big Indian Recreation Area last November. The rest were clearly presented as inference (e.g. "to me", "I don't think", "it sounds like"). If he was suing for something abnormal, then they probably would have me…
/r/MensRights20/04/12 01:25 PM
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yer_muther already linked to that. I must also recommend this. ...but I'll upvote anyway, because everyone should read that.
/r/MensRights20/04/12 01:19 PM
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It doesn't say they prosecuted him, it says they dropped the charges...which, to me, indicates that they investigated and realized she was lying before taking his case to trial. That's why I don't think he should sue them...it sounds like they did what they were supposed to do in this sort of situation.
/r/MensRights19/04/12 09:01 PM
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I read studies/white-papers a lot (many of which I find on google scholar) and majored in psych (focusing on cognitive neuroscience). That's about it I guess. I just thought there might be some way to search/etc. to see when/if something has been cited. EDIT: Oh, and I was a member of CoSIGN ...where we would listen to speakers, and sometimes discuss specific studies. Google will tell you within the search results Ahh, okay, I never noticed that before. I see it now. Thanks.
/r/MensRights19/04/12 08:35 PM
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So basically you're saying that, if their submission section doesn't outline a rigorous process but, for example, only has a submission form, that means it's probably bullshit peer-review? Maybe I'm missing something, because the abysmal peer-review page is only showing me a form and doesn't say anything about determining the quality of your research. Also, how do we check to see if/how often something was cited? Thanks.
/r/MensRights19/04/12 08:25 PM
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Thanks for posting this...it should probably be linked in the sidebar or something. You might be interested in /r/mensrightslinks since we're collecting studies/etc. over there, and could use a critical, but supportive, eye to point out flaws/etc. so make sure peer-review doesn't mean "a couple of guys read it and gave a thumbs up." How do we do this? I mean, obviously we should look up the journal/etc., but I've seen things on arxiv that just say something like "peer reviewed". How the hell do …
/r/MensRights19/04/12 08:07 PM
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Also, this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
/r/MensRights19/04/12 07:59 PM
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The wage gap exists, but it's been shown that nearly all of it can be accounted for by life-choices. Here are some resources: http://youtu.be/EwogDPh-Sow http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903454504576486690371838036.html http://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/full-time-year-round-worker/ http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf
/r/MensRights19/04/12 07:50 PM
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If he sues anyone, it should be his accuser not the state.
/r/MensRights19/04/12 06:40 PM
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One thing you need to keep in mind for most studies/etc. is the term "full-time, year-round worker". Many think this accounts for hours worked, but it doesn't. They group together anyone working 35+ hours a week, 50+ weeks a year (including paid time-off). Say you had two workers: John and Paul. John worked 50 weeks a year, 35 hours a week, at a rate of $10 per hour. Paul put in for as much overtime as he could and worked 52 weeks a year, 60 hours a week, but also at a rate of $10 per hour. Both…
/r/MensRights19/04/12 02:16 PM
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SRS has targeted you: http://www.reddit.com/r/SRSMeta/comments/sgytf/go_to_srs_or_srsdiscussion_and_make_a_promens/
/r/MensRights19/04/12 01:59 PM
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dailydot.com/news/reddit-mens-rights-hate-group-splc/?=hahasrsinyourface
/r/MensRights18/04/12 07:06 PM
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Holy shit, why did you sit on this until now? That's some pretty damning evidence. When all of this shit was in the news, we could have pointed to this and shown that the SPLC is being misused to pursue personal vendettas over stupid internet rivalries.
/r/MensRights18/04/12 01:31 PM
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TL;DR: Cracked thinks we're poopy-heads because of the strawmen they've invented.
/r/MensRights17/04/12 07:53 PM
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redditor for 1 hour
/r/MensRights17/04/12 06:26 PM
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Commenter is subscribed to r/Obama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0
/r/MensRights17/04/12 03:09 PM
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I think it's the eschatology troll. I don't think they specifically want to fuck with anyone but r/MR. I think they simply don't care if SRSers who egged on a suicidal MRA are collateral damage (and, honestly, I don't either), whether SRS has its muddied name dragged through the mud further, and probably didn't anticipate the whole thing blowing up like this.
/r/MensRights14/04/12 12:54 PM
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I really don't think that sisterofblackvisions is associated with SRS. ...neither do I; I think they're the eschatology troll. That person doesn't seem to be associated with SRS, aside from the fact that they both hate r/MR. The only reason SRS was mentioned in my post is because the people egging on /u/Black_Visions were SRSers.
/r/MensRights14/04/12 12:48 PM
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The radfemhub shit was all over this subreddit. Someone looking to create the perfect enemy would do well to allude to another person/group in order to distract us from themselves. I think it was the eschatology troll. It's the sort of thing someone like them (someone who really doesn't understand this shit) would think up as the "perfect" collection of MRA enemies in order to distract from themselves. I think they did it in the hopes that someone would dox one of the SRSers and they could get a…
/r/MensRights13/04/12 06:32 PM
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I still think it was the eschatology troll. This happened right around the same time they were going nuts trying to deny it was them: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/s6h7a/reddit_subpoenaed_in_wrongful_death_lawsuit/c4bl89p http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/s7nzb/getting_facts_straight_on_the_recent_hoaxtroll/c4bs2hq http://www.reddit.com/user/theageofeschatology http://www.reddit.com/user/eschatology1 The troll is the subject of CONSIDERABLE scorn. Only an idiot would take…
/r/MensRights13/04/12 06:10 PM
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I was not Muckette. You claimed you were. Screenshot of the page, in case you edit it: http://i.imgur.com/9gwGl.png Screenshot of the page source, showing you linking to that submission claiming it as "my latest masterpiece": http://i.imgur.com/jq9Og.png I'm not sisterofblackvisions. Death is not something to make jokes about. uh-huh I'm not even focused on mens rights at the moment. White supremacists have begun targeting me, so I need to deal with that problem first. Suuuuure You are about as …
/r/MensRights13/04/12 12:35 PM
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It sounds like you are being abused...and it's not okay. You're not her punching bag and she's an even shittier person than before if she mocks you for not being one. You can do better than her.
/r/MensRights13/04/12 12:12 PM
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...that is nearly impossible. The man would need to basically have no sense of touch or sight.
/r/MensRights13/04/12 11:19 AM
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http://femintology.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/full-time-year-round-worker/
/r/MensRights13/04/12 09:37 AM
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Nice timeline, but you need to emphasize one thing: black_visions was probably not a troll. See my edit. So there's probably nothing ironic about the post lamenting all the trolls on r/mensrights It being ironic is because of all the trolling after his post and using his post. I edited it for clarity.
/r/MensRights13/04/12 09:34 AM
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I edited it because the original formatting was difficult to read.
/r/MensRights13/04/12 08:15 AM
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Oh go fuck yourself. Feminism is ideologically-biased against acknowledging ANY male disadvantage, and those same feminists you claim we should be "cooperating with" are the same people attempting to shut down any conversation about these issues that doesn't fit their narrative.
/r/MensRights13/04/12 07:12 AM
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where someone a) planted suicide threats and then There doesn't appear to be ANY evidence that black_vision's post was bullshit, only that the "sister's" post was bullshit...which MANY of us had already suggested.
/r/MensRights13/04/12 07:09 AM
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I really think this is going to turn out to be a hoax...and do you know who's going to be the scapegoat for all the idiots saying (maybe even doing) horrible shit in the rest of Reddit? r/MR.
/r/MensRights12/04/12 10:59 PM
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redditor for 2 hours
/r/MensRights12/04/12 10:51 PM
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You're probably right about it being a troll, but I know I've been linking to the screenshots whenever relevant...and maybe others have as well. it's possible that someone investigating the issue would come across those screenshots. example: http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/qtj4m/suicide_post_appears_in_rmensrights_user_hasnt/c40gxoy
/r/MensRights12/04/12 06:24 PM
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You probably have an interesting argument in there for a different point, but all of these studies are on wages, which don't include fringe benefits like free lunches, health insurance, etc.
/r/MensRights11/04/12 07:07 PM
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Narrated for the blind: Someone made a post entitled "How I feel hanging out with my 18yo younger bro and his cute friends" and linked to a picture of an attractive woman with a lustful look in her eye. Someone else responded asking "What would be the opposite for men?" And another person responded with a picture of some frizzy looking serial killer with a predatory look in his eye. Side note: I think it was funny, and think OP is blowing it out of proportion.
/r/MensRights11/04/12 06:58 PM
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I laughed.
/r/MensRights11/04/12 06:53 PM
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Pretty much anything that embraces Critical Theory. The more it embraces CT, the clearer the parallels become. EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAkPvgLlNI
/r/MensRights11/04/12 06:38 PM
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Why is it that "sociological" definitions seem to so frequently A) advocate a position, and B) deviate significantly from commonly accepted meanings? Perhaps it's because the "sociological" definitions are really the critical theory definitions. Feminism is more than simply equality; it also necessitates belief that women are disadvantaged relative to men. I am a feminist. If you believe that women, as a class, are disadvantaged relative to men, as a class, then you're a feminist, otherwise you'…
/r/MensRights11/04/12 06:34 PM
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There are definitely parallels.
/r/MensRights11/04/12 06:13 PM
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Steinem, who just turned 78 last month, has argued that feminism is a worldview that advocates for the complete end of hierarchy lol, good luck with that
/r/MensRights11/04/12 05:53 PM
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They're not mutually exclusive terms. Basically: A feminist is one who believes women are unfairly disadvantaged relative to men, and believes this should be rectified. An MRA is one who advocates for men's rights. An egalitarian believes people should be equal.
/r/MensRights11/04/12 05:35 PM
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Are they actually accounting for hours, or are they doing the same old "full-time year-round worker" bullshit advocacy researchers are so fond of and claiming that accounts for hours worked? Explanation of what I'm talking about: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/rsgxl/iama_mens_rights_advocate_ama/c48dord EDIT: my bad, I didn't see the study linked there. Yes...they do appear to be doing exactly that.
/r/MensRights11/04/12 03:59 PM
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Fuck off troll
/r/MensRights11/04/12 12:11 PM
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I don't have to do shit to appease a fucking troll.
/r/MensRights11/04/12 10:40 AM
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Sorry, but if you're not a troll, then it's especially bad timing: https://imgur.com/a/6GkdM http://theageofeschatology.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/mras-embarrass-themselves-againand-they.html
/r/MensRights11/04/12 10:39 AM
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redditor for 44 minutes [...] I have everything of value in my truck with me, my bugout bag, all my weapons and ammo, camera equipment, silver and gold coins, I even broke down my desktop PC. [...] She goes to leave again and I stand infront of the door so she can't. [...] You sound like a troll looking to claim "MRAs support false imprisonment" if anyone takes sympathy on you and tries to help you. If you're not...it sounds like you may be thinking about hurting yourself. If you are, you need t…
/r/MensRights11/04/12 10:02 AM
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I don't feel like arguing with an idiot. You can take this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwogDPh-Sow http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903454504576486690371838036.html http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf
/r/MensRights11/04/12 08:38 AM
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if there is one There is one, and it's almost entirely attributable to life-choices (e.g. working fewer hours, dropping out of the workforce to raise children, etc.). Generally, after controlling for the life-choice factors that we can control for. A small gap of still remains. It might be discrimination...or it could be some other non-discriminatory factor we hadn't considered. The whole premise is kind of ridiculous given what we know of private companies. We know that profit is placed above a…
/r/MensRights11/04/12 08:36 AM
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Yes, it is horrible. Elam doesn't speak for the MRM...he speaks for himself.
/r/MensRights11/04/12 08:22 AM
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It is.
/r/MensRights11/04/12 06:33 AM
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We deal with a lot of trolls here, but recently one has been putting in ridiculous effort (and certain third parties have been eating it up)...so we're a bit suspicious of new people...especially those saying things that could potentially be used to discredit us (e.g. "bitches", citing something trivial like "girl pushups", etc.). Welcome to r/MR.
/r/MensRights11/04/12 06:22 AM
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11-hour old throwaway similar username style (ineedyourhelp1234) referenced directly by the eschatology troll to discredit us Yeah, I suspect it's them stoking the fires.
/r/MensRights11/04/12 04:54 AM
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There's nothing you could have done any differently. You all deleted the posts spreading contact info and reminded people not to do this shit. I'm unhappy with the way some other MRAs handled it...not the way the mods handled it.
/r/MensRights11/04/12 04:36 AM
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http://theageofeschatology.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/mras-embarrass-themselves-againand-they.html
/r/MensRights11/04/12 04:21 AM
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I meant post them to MRLinks :)
/r/MensRights11/04/12 04:07 AM
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That's true, but that could be accomplished by listing their positions, and having a reputable and independent third-party verify that you're telling the truth.
/r/MensRights10/04/12 07:30 PM
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No, but it's pretty clear that women do have it much worse in those sorts of countries, and that they have it worse than men in western nations. If you're concerned with gender equality at an international level, and you want to help those most fucked over by gender inequality, you'd help women in those countries...which is what they're doing.
/r/MensRights10/04/12 07:21 PM
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Meh, the group appears to focus on actual discrimination against women in countries like Saudi Arabia. Also, Joss Whedon created Firefly so he gets a pass from me ever intentionally saying anything unpleasant to him...ever.
/r/MensRights10/04/12 07:09 PM
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Never, ever, EVER, underestimate your enemies. Seriously, that's like the first rule of...err...war. And you can't lord a PhD in the social sciences over anyone who isn't a complete fucking moron. In the US, it just means you're of average intelligence or above, had the time to devote to school, and could pay for college.
/r/MensRights10/04/12 06:48 PM
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Do you also disagree with the Agent orange exposure I do. Their PI shouldn't have been released to the public. The screenshots were great for the MRM, but their PI is crossing a line. I also disagree with register-her, and Elam's bounty on the identities of the SCUM video girls. There are crazy people on both sides...and we shouldn't enable them. Aside from that, it is absolutely horrible for our public image. And if something really bad happened to one of those people (like a random attack/etc.…
/r/MensRights10/04/12 06:40 PM
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Or he's baiting people like you into a headline on Jezebel about how "MRAs stalked and harassed innocent troll".
/r/MensRights10/04/12 06:30 PM
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I'm surprised you read her before all of this...she's been anti-MRA for some time and is an SRSer. We need some links over at mensrightslinks to the stats from the CDC on actual conception fraud, as well as the UK study that says 42% of women don't see anything wrong with it. If you have them, then post them.
/r/MensRights10/04/12 04:49 PM
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DO NOT DO THIS Don't go after this person IRL. First off, it's asinine. They pissed us off and made us look bad on the fucking internet. It happens. But escalating it to this sort of level is ridiculous. Second, THIS WILL BACKFIRE AND MAKE US LOOK EVEN WORSE.
/r/MensRights10/04/12 04:47 PM
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Nevermind. After dealing with him it's become clear he's another Meyers/Watson-type "skeptic". SKEPTICISM IS GOOD...EXCEPT WHEN IT COMES TO MY OWN BELIEFS!!!
/r/MensRights09/04/12 02:12 PM
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In case he deletes my comments again: http://i.imgur.com/yLNsY.jpg
/r/MensRights09/04/12 02:09 PM
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I think he's more prominent...and this bullshit might just be him accepting BS unquestioningly rather than maliciously and intentionally spreading a lie (whereas RW would likely be the latter). I left a message, so we'll see if he approves it and corrects his "error". http://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/s0fxu/socalled_skeptic_greg_laden_spreading_obvious_lies/
/r/MensRights09/04/12 06:42 AM
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He's not just some SRSer...he's a prominent "skeptic" spreading lies.
/r/MensRights09/04/12 06:23 AM
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No problem.
/r/MensRights09/04/12 04:39 AM
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Yes, and there are many. The only criteria for being an MRA is that you advocate for the rights of men.
/r/MensRights09/04/12 04:36 AM
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r/MR isn't the place for SRS posts. If you're interested, you can join us in /r/antisrs
/r/MensRights09/04/12 04:31 AM
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..the reddit links go to the comments I quoted. They are directly beneath their respective quotes.
/r/MensRights09/04/12 03:43 AM
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Germanica
/r/MensRights08/04/12 08:41 AM
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My old one had an issue with an important image being resized by imgur...so I updated it.
/r/MensRights08/04/12 03:03 AM
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Rich people problems. This is the only correct answer.
/r/MensRights06/04/12 08:43 PM
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Oh...no, not that I'm aware of. I know some antiSRSers have fake accounts that they post under in SRS to parody the crazy, but I haven't seen usernames I know to be associated with r/MR admitting as much. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen though...it might just mean MRAs are more competent WRT such trolling :p
/r/MensRights06/04/12 08:04 PM
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Just curious, do we have a history of similar stupid tactics? Yes. http://i.imgur.com/ohtr1.png http://i.imgur.com/p0HrP.png http://i.imgur.com/awoAJ.png and let's not forget: /r/mens_rights
/r/MensRights06/04/12 04:52 PM
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Take this white-nationalist trash elsewhere.
/r/MensRights06/04/12 01:30 PM
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http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/qtj4m/suicide_post_appears_in_rmensrights_user_hasnt/c40gxoy
/r/MensRights06/04/12 08:45 AM
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I heard it didn't work on win 7 X64
/r/MensRights06/04/12 06:53 AM
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It can be kind of annoying. Sometimes you just want to select a small bit and it highlights the whole thing so you have to manually resize it. Also, it can't grab really large pages (like all of the comments on the first r/MR post were too large). But yeah, it's better than the other full-page screengrab utility I used before.
/r/MensRights06/04/12 06:44 AM
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Firefox add-on called "abduction".
/r/MensRights06/04/12 06:35 AM
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I just use this: http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-mens-rights-hate-group-splc/
/r/MensRights06/04/12 06:24 AM
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I made an album of this bullshit: http://imgur.com/a/vW2X7#0
/r/MensRights06/04/12 06:08 AM
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Feminists taking a page from the ultra-conservative playbook? What a shocker: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/1/video-shows-planned-parenthood-manager-aiding-pimp/?page=all Several commenters called me out as a troll, but it's interesting no one in that thread or my subsequent follow up said unequivocally that it is not ok to hit women. Oh yeah? Definitely save the texts. Beyond that though, lawyer up... you assaulted her. http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/rolsh/my_girlfri…
/r/MensRights06/04/12 05:44 AM
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[removed] Care to repost it here?
/r/MensRights05/04/12 01:47 AM
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Let me add your name to the list of paranoid idiots who've accused me of being an enemy for expressing a dissenting opinion.
/r/MensRights05/04/12 01:46 AM
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I see ZERO reasoning. [...] I see no reasoning. Not dismissing them. ...in your words: It's not uncommon on reddit, no. [...] Posted a couple of times That's implying I'd wave them away without really explaining why I see no reason. No, it's implying that you'll not count them because you don't want to hear it. Look, I'm not saying there isn't bias at play here. I'm saying they have a defensible reason for deleting the thread. Unless we have evidence that it was removed because of anti-MRA senti…
/r/MensRights05/04/12 01:33 AM
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One would assume that being a Mens Rights Advocate is pretty uncommon in general, and I'd say it'd play a central role in your beliefs. It's not uncommon on Reddit. Posted a couple of times In other words "posted multiple times". I see zero reasoning for removing the post. You see them, you're just dismissing them because you don't want to hear it. There's a difference.
/r/MensRights05/04/12 01:18 AM
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IAmAs Should Focus On: Something uncommon that plays a central role in your life -or- A truly interesting and unique event (Ex: I climbed Mt. Everest) IAmAs Should NOT Be About: Something previously posted multiple times, or common topics [...] Average? Just want to talk? More common or casual AMAs can go to /r/CasualIAmA.
/r/MensRights05/04/12 01:12 AM
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Read the sidebar.
/r/MensRights04/04/12 04:38 PM
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A lot, apparently. Why don't you report this one and see if they react similarly.
/r/MensRights04/04/12 03:58 PM
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Yeah, yours was definitely the most popular. But the mods of the big subreddits tend to sticklers for their rules.
/r/MensRights04/04/12 03:55 PM
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It was probably removed because being an MRA isn't particularly notable on Reddit, and because there have already been AMAs from other MRAs. I wouldn't take it personally if I were you. EDIT: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/m6dws/iama_mens_rights_activist/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/hfpdb/iama_mens_rights_activist_ama/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/iuxyv/iama_33_year_old_woman_who_is_a_feminist_mra_ccw/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9slyr/iama_mra_or_masculist_if…
/r/MensRights04/04/12 03:46 PM
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I saw it when it was posted and didn't trust it, so I didn't even click the link. Google docs can be used to harvest IPs and usernames, and r/MR has some petty and vindictive enemies. EDIT: I checked OP's history and this appears to have been a different survey which I hadn't seen.
/r/MensRights04/04/12 05:26 AM
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I already addressed this. Not directly. So I guess this means he could still make his decision after the child is born...which would mean the opt-in/out period doesn't stop before the kid is born, but is instead predicated on his being notified.
/r/MensRights03/04/12 02:23 AM
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Why would he just disappear like that? It happens. My Great-grandfather bought (yes, bought) my great-grandmother, had a few kids with her, then when she was pregnant with something like the 5th or 6th kid) literally went out for a pack of smokes and never came back. He didn't die or anything like that...my Uncle went looking for him in the 70's or 80's and found him. The guy was apparently a major asshole and just decided to leave. I'm not saying everyone who disappears is necessarily an asshol…
/r/MensRights02/04/12 11:22 PM
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What if she slept with some guy, and he disappeared? She wouldn't be hiding anything from him, she just couldn't contact him. With my proposal, when he did finally find out about the child, he would still have the option of either being a father, or opting-out. I don't see how that would work for the situation I just outlined with your proposal. To me, it seems that either he would be able to still opt-in/out after the child is born (meaning the opt-in/out period doesn't stop before the kid is b…
/r/MensRights02/04/12 11:05 PM
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I think opt-out is sufficient since it more closely approaches actual abortion, as long as it's predicated on notification. A woman can become pregnant without opting-in and to remedy this, she must opt-out. Furthermore, with what I've outlined above, any child support/etc. could be challenged if the father never received notification. There's the issue of forged signatures, but our courts are well-equipped for handling that as they've been handling that for all sorts of other contracts since th…
/r/MensRights02/04/12 10:28 PM
2

What if the mother simply doesn't tell the father about the pregnancy until after the child is born?
/r/MensRights02/04/12 10:16 PM
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This is discussed fairly regularly: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/search?q=financial+abortion&restrict_sr=on So the big question I have is, should men be given this right Yes. and if so what would the parameters be? He should have 1-2 weeks after receiving notification of said pregnancy to opt-out, and married couples should be excluded from the financial-abortion.
/r/MensRights02/04/12 11:13 AM
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Ideally, you could ask for help from family/friends. If that's not an option, something that's helped me in the past (for depression and anxiety) was this little bit of CBT I picked up in college. Get yourself a journal. Every time you think something awful, you write down the date, time, the awful thought and a more reasonable thought to counter it. For example: 03/31/12 -- 5:30 AM -- "no one called me to hang out last night, it must be because I'm a horrible person and they want nothing to do …
/r/MensRights31/03/12 09:49 AM
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No, but you'll eventually find that feminism (the philosophy behind the feminist movement) is an impediment to equality when men are disadvantaged. If you advocate for MR, you'll find that feminists will either frame male disadvantage as "benevolent misogyny" or "patriarchy hurts men too", downplay the problem, simply deny it exists despite clear evidence, or attack your right to even bring it up by saying shit like "WHAT ABOUT TEH MENZ!!!". Related: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/r…
/r/MensRights30/03/12 08:23 PM
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It seems like every single main MRA figurehead I see is...very very mysogynist. The Spearhead, AVoiceForMen, GirlWritesWhat (Yes, women can adopt mysogynist viewpoints as well.) all have serious problems in my POV. Try Warren Farrell, or Christina Hoff Sommers. Or do you really think those people are respectable figureheads of your social movement? Because if so, then we are on completely differant playing fields, and we are going nowhere. They're just two blogs and a Reddit commenter who starte…
/r/MensRights29/03/12 10:58 PM
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i'll just keep judging you by the company you keep. You've seriously misjudged the situation if you think I give a shit what some troll from SRS thinks of us...I care that you spread lies about us. Believe whatever the fuck you want, but if I see you claiming we're an SPLC-designated hate-group, outside of your little "safe space", then I'm going to correct you.
/r/MensRights28/03/12 07:02 PM
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Right, because being called out by them is still a great thing for your rights movement. Oh, did I say that? No, I didn't. You don't seem to address that part at all. Because this isn't about what's good for the MRM, this is about you spreading lies and moving the goalpost when called out on those lies. In almost all cases, we list hate groups at the end of each calendar year when we publish lists. I very much doubt we would ever list the Reddit [r/MensRights] in question—it's a diverse group, w…
/r/MensRights28/03/12 06:39 PM
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So recently, there was an article published in the Daily Dot: http://www.dailydot.com/society/reddit-pedogeddon-shitredditsays/ And naturally, I took issue with this bit: If that’s SRS’s goal, they succeeded: r/MensRights was recently labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center So, I PMed the author, and let him know about the error. I encouraged him to contact the SPLC himself to verify, hoping he would simply pop a little retraction at the bottom of the article or something...well,…
/r/MensRights28/03/12 04:30 PM
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Oh calm the fuck down. Someone posted something ridiculous here and an outsider mocked it lightly. He didn't say everyone in r/MR believed that bullshit, he just said that bullshit was a "weird fantasy about alpha males", etc., and that it could be found here... which is neither unfair, nor too harsh (which is all I said, btw). Considering what his article was about, he could have easily attacked the whole of r/MR...but you want to bitch and moan that he didn't turn his comedy article (about mis…
/r/MensRights28/03/12 11:53 AM
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Right, because being condemned as a bunch of frothy misogynists by the premiere civil rights and hate-group monitoring organization in the nation in their quarterly report on incidents of hate is totally an ok thing. That's not what happened either. I don't know why you, and apparently some others, believe we added Reddit and other MRM sites as hate sites or hate groups. We did not. We simply published a story that we thought gave much insight into the extreme fringe of the MRM. We know, for ins…
/r/MensRights28/03/12 08:06 AM
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She explained that exposure to sexually transmitted infection may lead to infectious agents getting into the prostate and stimulating a chronic, inflammatory response. That response could create a hospitable environment for cancer cells. (Prostate cancer is caused by changes in the DNA of prostate cells.) If that's the case, then a condom would be more effective than surgery...and also wouldn't carry the risk of death or disfigurement.
/r/MensRights27/03/12 09:44 PM
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We're not on a list of hateful organizations. We're listed as a fairly prominent website on which the SPLC asserts a vein of misogyny can be found. The whole hate-group thing was a matter of us, and other people, initially mistaking an editorial for an official designation...and now it's a matter of those who oppose r/MR intentionally claiming we're an "SPLC designated hate group" despite being fully aware that this is not true. By supporting this lie, you are helping them slander us.
/r/MensRights27/03/12 08:06 PM
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The SPLC did not designate r/MR a hate-group.
/r/MensRights27/03/12 06:39 PM
2

You know how we get pissed when people assume someone accused of rape is a rapist? Yeah we shouldn't assume the opposite either. We don't know the truth, so let's not jump to conclusions.
/r/MensRights27/03/12 02:34 PM
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I don't think he was too harsh, or that his insults were unfair. All in all, I'd say it's better press than we normally get.
/r/MensRights27/03/12 02:29 PM
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You can call yourself whatever you want, but if you advocate for the rights of men, then you're an MRA. If you oppose feminism, in some or all of its forms, then you're an antifeminist. I'm not saying you were trolling, but MRBarackHObama claiming your subreddit as an example of feminists trying to do anything is intellectually dishonest and a weak tactic...on his part.
/r/MensRights27/03/12 02:05 AM
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I happen to think all drugs should be legalized...but when it comes to public assistance, I still think heroin/crack/etc. addicts should be treated differently than people who simply smoked some pot a few weeks back.
/r/MensRights27/03/12 02:00 AM
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Because having suggestions to reform welfare somehow means I think everything else is perfect...right. Look, I'm not interested in having a political discussion with you, nor am I interested in being proselytized to. You are not the arbiter of what I can and can not support. The end.
/r/MensRights26/03/12 02:13 PM
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I can, and will, support whatever the fuck I like.
/r/MensRights26/03/12 01:27 PM
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...and I'm going to slightly disagree with you ;) Public assistance shouldn't be predicated on clean urine. We don't want to support someone's drug habit, but we also don't want this class of feral humans living in our society robbing/murdering/etc. to support their drug habit. First and foremost, I don't think testing positive for marijuana should bar anyone from anything, because it can stay in your system for months (so a positive on a drug test doesn't indicate abuse), and it's neither addic…
/r/MensRights26/03/12 08:33 AM
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Weak. Legolas-the-elf is a fellow MRA and antifeminist, so clearly "feminists" aren't trying to do anything there. We don't need this kind of intellectually dishonest bullshit to make our points.
/r/MensRights26/03/12 07:38 AM
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I read the synopsis before and it sounded like an interesting enough story. I'll be checking it out once it's on DVD and forming my own opinion on it. Furthermore, based on the synopsis, I don't see what the hell it has to do with feminism (or the MRM), aside from it being a female protagonist. This post doesn't belong in r/MR.
/r/MensRights26/03/12 01:34 AM
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That would really depend on what you mean by "feminist" and "masculist". Philosophically speaking, feminism is basically the belief that women, as a class, are disadvantaged relative to men as a class and that, in order to bring about equality, this disparity must be addressed (i.e. give women advantages/take away advantages from men). If we define masculism similarly (with men being disadvantaged relative to women), then I'd say no...one couldn't be a masculist and a feminist. You can support e…
/r/MensRights24/03/12 09:26 PM
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Nope. It's a blessing and a curse, but there really is no central tenet other than "men, as a class, should have some right". You can believe men and women are equal, but men should have more rights and still be an MRA...though, I don't think that will be a popularly held view. Feminists can be MRAs, Masculists can be MRAs, Supremacists can be MRAs, Egalitarians can be MRAs...philosophically it's a pretty big tent.
/r/MensRights21/03/12 08:47 PM
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The MRM is an issues-based movement, while feminism is an ideology-based movement (I can clarify if the distinction isn't apparent). As someone who's called it "faith-based" quite a few times, I can say that it's generally just an insult pointing to feminism being rooted in ideology and the tendency of feminists to fit reality around their ideology, rather than the other way around. More specifically, a central tenet of feminism is that women, as a class, are disadvantaged relative to men, as a …
/r/MensRights21/03/12 08:11 PM
1

It sounds like you have an awesome mom. Remember her awesomeness when Mother's Day comes around.
/r/MensRights21/03/12 07:54 PM
1

Okay, Happy Madison movies are a guilty pleasure of mine (except for the serious ones) so...I will watch it secretly, laugh my ass off, then deny ever having even heard of it to everyone in my life.
/r/MensRights21/03/12 07:45 PM
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my standard response: Feminism is a doctrine holding the following to be true: men and women should be equal women, as a class, are disadvantaged relative to men, as a class in order that men and women be made equal, women need to be advantaged/men need to be disadvantaged support for this assertion from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. There are various off-shoots of feminism (like eco-feminism, anarcha-feminism, liberal feminsm, etc.), but all of them are predicated on the belief that …
/r/MensRights21/03/12 03:06 PM
1

Honestly, if these are the 'extremists' of MRA's of r/MR then I would say that our extremists are closer to high school boys making kitchen jokes than 'extremists'. I don't think these are jokes: yeah yeah sure sure, 99.9% of all scientific advances are driven by men there are a very small number of brilliant women, but very rare as a less-than-brilliant woman yourself, your judgment on who's brilliant is quite suspect ... Women are less oppressed than men in every society. ... The number of pre…
/r/MensRights19/03/12 01:04 PM
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I just know some people are going to take this comment seriously and add it to the reasons I'm a "feminist infiltrator". ...thanks for that ಠ_ಠ
/r/MensRights19/03/12 12:50 PM
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I think it's asinine that a bunch of people who aren't doctors are mandating procedures. If anyone should be mandating procedures, it should be a state's medical board, and it should be based on medical necessity. Shaming women out of abortion isn't medically necessary.
/r/MensRights18/03/12 01:11 PM
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/u/thingsarebad /u/jeremiahMRA /u/demonspawn They're not advocating for gender-selective abortion or anything, but they're clearly on the fucked up side of a few issues. People like you pretend that they don't exist, or you excuse them by saying "BUT DEY NOT AS BAD AS RADFEMS!!!". You're doing exactly what I outlined about...turning a blind eye to them because they're on our "side". And that's fine, but don't try to sit there and tell me that they don't exist, because I've been seeing them here …
/r/MensRights18/03/12 12:52 PM
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If you believed all white people were "on your side"...then yeah, you probably would, but the chances of you already being one of those racists (given your view of whites) would already be pretty fucking high.
/r/MensRights17/03/12 07:07 PM
1

In terms of threats to r/MR, these people offer little to none. Actual MRAs pose a greater threat than these fucks. There is no reason to be concerned that these people will do any real damage to r/MR, and absolutely no reason to think they could ever get us shut down. They are about as scary as a drop of water splashing back up when you take a shit.
/r/MensRights17/03/12 05:35 PM
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Whine about shit that never happened, then take credit for shit they never did.
/r/MensRights17/03/12 04:36 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism#Liberalism
/r/MensRights17/03/12 04:29 PM
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We all turn a blind eye to the crazies we view as being on our "side". I think that's what a lot of this probably comes down to. We've been doing that in the MRM for a while too. I'm sure most in the SPLC view themselves as "feminists" (with most of them being the type that think it's synonymous with "egalitarian"). So it'll be harder for them to acknowledge ANY bad aspects of feminism because they think it's their "side". Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingroup_bias http://en.wikipedia.o…
/r/MensRights17/03/12 02:55 PM
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Did you look at his posts from march 9th?
/r/MensRights17/03/12 02:42 PM
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It's real. We can't post PI, but you can find it if you look for it. That being said, it doesn't actually mean anything, as he appears to be linking to anything that mentions his article: http://i.imgur.com/tFYRB.png http://i.imgur.com/l6UdU.png
/r/MensRights17/03/12 02:35 PM
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Unfortunately, he also links to AVFM (which he clearly doesn't support) in his newsfeed...so it doesn't really show that he "supports" radfemhub. http://i.imgur.com/tFYRB.png EDIT: and false rape society http://i.imgur.com/l6UdU.png
/r/MensRights17/03/12 02:30 PM
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I'm aware. ...but that has nothing to do with them being able to get r/MR shut down.
/r/MensRights17/03/12 11:36 AM
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It happened in their imagination...where all of their important life-events happen.
/r/MensRights17/03/12 10:17 AM
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I'd like to see them try.
/r/MensRights17/03/12 10:14 AM
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but not all of those were in the '80s. And that doesn't matter since my original point had absolutely nothing to do with the 80's. I'm a 90's kid, and so those are the examples that will immediately come to mind...that's all. If my examples are from 1970, 208, 1994, it wouldn't affect my point (though one would expect the situation to improve as it approaches the present). maybe not scientist (directly) but definitely politics. the need to talk reason to assholes is one that transcends most prof…
/r/MensRights16/03/12 02:12 PM
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Beakman's world - male scientist doing crazy science stuff Bill Nye the Science Guy - male scientist doing crazy science stuff (also showed in classrooms) GI Joe - male soldier using advanced technology to save the world from terrorists The Pagemaster - boy becomes a hero through the power of books (or something like that) The Neverending Story - boy becomes a hero through the power of reading Are you starting to see where I'm going with this? The power of "love and goodness and happiness", and …
/r/MensRights16/03/12 01:34 PM
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http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/news/142549805.html Assuming that's the link you received, the website appears to be a normal news site. It's good that you're being cautious. If you want to check out a website, google it and you can usually determine if it's legitimate or not (e.g. if there are a bunch of news stories over the course of a few years, etc.) based on that.
/r/MensRights16/03/12 01:19 PM
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If you want more female politicians, get more interested in running and see why women aren't voting for those who do. At a young age, we do tend to push boys and girls in different directions. Growing up, I remember having all sorts of role models from TV/etc. that were defined by the things they DID (i.e. scientists, soldiers, etc.), and I remember all of the crappy stuff "for girls" which my cousin was into (she lived next door)...and they didn't really DO anything, they were defined by who th…
/r/MensRights16/03/12 12:35 PM
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but not at all with the "woe is me can't get laid" part. It's not "woe is me I can't get laid" it's "I was too afraid to be up clear about my intentions". Basically, you've jumped to conclusions and are straw-manning this guy because you're prejudiced against people who use the phrase "nice guy".
/r/MensRights15/03/12 09:14 PM
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No, I'm aware. I want NiceGuySTFU to realize that they engaged in a ridiculous leap of logic based solely on the fact that the person used the phrase "nice guy".
/r/MensRights15/03/12 09:08 PM
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Because having close friends who are women doesn't entitle you to sex, and the fact that they don't put out for you doesn't make you "nice." Where does he, in any way, even do anything remotely close to insinuate that he was entitled to sex from his friends? I really would like to see what sort of mental gymnastics one must go through in order to take this: The few female friends I’ve had, I’ve been the typical “nice guy” to, too afraid to show my intentions, so they’ve led to very little romant…
/r/MensRights15/03/12 08:44 PM
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I was fairly empathetic until he started in about the female friends and "nice guy" shit. This is the "nice guy shit" that made you suddenly stop caring about him: The few female friends I’ve had, I’ve been the typical “nice guy” to, too afraid to show my intentions, so they’ve led to very little romantic interest. ...? Why? Why would that, of all things, make you stop caring?
/r/MensRights15/03/12 08:15 PM
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why this stuff matters to the point where 30k+ people have a dedicated forum to try to "change the views of the world" That's not the point of this subreddit. Reddit is a news aggregator and discussion site. The purpose of this subreddit is to aggregate news and host discussion on issues related to men's rights, and the MRM. Why should you care? Because this shit affects you. Even if you live a life of celibacy and isolation, you could still find yourself on the wrong end of a false-accusation, …
/r/MensRights15/03/12 05:41 PM
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Something something Poe's law.
/r/MensRights15/03/12 04:02 PM
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looks like loud, emotional arguments need to be made. this is why i really dislike it when people try to control mra speech and tone it down. I think it depends on the audience. The British tend to be further left than, say, Texans. So, flawed emotional arguments would be more tolerated if they support positions popularly viewed as "left", in the UK, while they would be derided in Texas (where similarly flawed emotional arguments for "right" positions would be supported). Reddit is pretty far le…
/r/MensRights15/03/12 03:55 PM
2

What?
/r/MensRights15/03/12 03:26 PM
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Both of those are troll accounts.
/r/MensRights15/03/12 03:07 PM
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Quick synopsis: So you have a lady explaining dispassionately that women are underrepresented because qualified women aren't lining up to be politicians. She lists the high cost of childcare as being a large reason. Fleshed out, she could have made a case for it, but she was stopped by the moderator. Total time: 1:02 (first interrupted 0:38 in) The almost entirely female audience was unresponsive. Then you have a guy who dispassionately says he rejected quotas, and that the real problem seems to…
/r/MensRights15/03/12 02:30 PM
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He posted this because he decided I was a "feminist infiltrator" in this thread. It has nothing to do with new people/etc., and everything to do with him being a crazy person.
/r/MensRights15/03/12 12:28 PM
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No, you have that backwards, I'm clearly a SCUM-Feminist!
/r/MensRights15/03/12 12:22 PM
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lol. ANYONE WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE MY CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND ANACHRONISTIC VIEWS ABOUT WOMEN AND KITCHENS IS A FEMINIST INFILTRATOR!!!!!! IF YOU DISAGREE, THEN YOU'RE A FEMINIST INFILTRATOR TOO!!!!!! NO MRA COULD EVER DISAGREE WITH ME BECAUSE I AM A SUPER-SMART MEGA-MRA WHO TOTALLY DOESN'T DISPLAY PARANOIA AND DELUSIONS OF PERSECUTION!!!
/r/MensRights15/03/12 10:59 AM
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I'm not a feminist, I'm actually an antifeminist. He's trying to label me a "feminist" because I don't subscribe to his paranoid conspiracy theories and outdated view re women and kitchens.
/r/MensRights15/03/12 10:54 AM
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And people like you are the reason everyone thinks we're a hate-group.
/r/MensRights15/03/12 12:09 AM
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couldn't the argument be made that crossposting to other random subreddits where our opinion is barely heard might just sway some minds? The argument could also be made that the crazies could go over, spew their craziness, and prejudice these people against the MRM. Ultimately, it would come down to whether or not the profit outweighs the cost...when it comes to crossposts, I think the costs are usually too high.
/r/MensRights14/03/12 06:48 PM
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Almost never. If the topic of discussion is r/MR, then I wouldn't have a problem with a crosspost as it's essentially right of reply. If it's a crosspost to someone who's having trouble going through a divorce/etc. and they need help, then that's fine by me too as we're basically doing a lazy version of outreach work. But for pretty much everything else I don't think we should crosspost...and ESPECIALLY not for a person's personal account of what could be sexual assault. I think the guideline sh…
/r/MensRights14/03/12 06:29 PM
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Hey look, it's another example of why we shouldn't crosspost.
/r/MensRights14/03/12 02:51 PM
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No. EDIT: Actually, yes, for some of it (e.g. reducing men's pay, quotas, etc.), but not the extreme shit.
/r/MensRights13/03/12 05:56 PM
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Don't bother trying to engage r/feminisms. If you make a valid point, but contradict their dogma, they will delete your comment...it's pretty much what they're known for. Note the trails of [deleted].
/r/MensRights13/03/12 11:01 AM
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Complain to HR. If it doesn't stop, then buy a bunch of chocolates, donuts, etc. and put them up front for men only...with a sign saying "for men only". Make it extremely tempting (good stuff like ghirardelli). Then, if any of the women who shamed you try to take some, remind them that it's for men only (don't be a dick about it to women who weren't involved in the bullshit).
/r/MensRights13/03/12 09:13 AM
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I'd be happy to support a 25-percent reduction in pay across the board. Sure, as soon as you can show that this pay difference is the result of sexism, and not a worker's own choices. And as to equal representation in all our governing bodies, or editorial boards, or corporations, I'd be happy to get behind a movement to slash the number of seats they have by 90 percent or so and devote the redundant salaries to researching the implantation of fetuses in men. Yes, let's override democratic elect…
/r/MensRights13/03/12 08:04 AM
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Do you have a blog by chance? No, it's not really something I've ever been interested in doing. I am writing a book, though it has nothing to do with the MRM/feminism/gender/etc. Anyway, thanks. My ego appreciates the compliment.
/r/MensRights12/03/12 01:21 PM
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Feminism isn't a hate movement. It's kind of complicated but, as a movement you generally have 3 types: A) people who confuse egalitarianism for "feminism" B) actual feminists who subscribe to the philosophy C) bigots who hate men and are attracted to the over-the-top rhetoric and permissive attitude towards their bigotry. There is overlap between A and B, and B and C, but not A and C. Accordingly, it's not really fair to paint them as a "hate movement". Now, actual feminists (B) do generally (b…
/r/MensRights12/03/12 01:01 PM
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Yes.
/r/MensRights12/03/12 12:01 PM
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Men and women both experience privileges and disadvantages, based on sex. Men and women both experience sexism. These are controversial issues because most (actual) feminists assert that only men can be privileged, and that women can not be sexist against men: No, what is commonly called “female privilege” is better described as benevolent sexism. Systems like the draft and chivalry often seem advantageous to women at first glance, but when examined more closely they in fact reinforce sexist ins…
/r/MensRights12/03/12 11:18 AM
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But we're not all anti-feminists. I said I was an antifeminist; I didn't say you were, just me. She asked if we were "at all". I pointed to myself to show that there are antifeminists here (and let's cut through the bullshit: antifeminists are a clear majority of the voices here). Those will be won over eventually. There are many people who self-identify as "feminist" because they confuse feminism with gender-egalitarianism. I think it's important to show those people what feminism actually is..…
/r/MensRights10/03/12 09:31 PM
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What he said was hate speech: When you exercise your right to free speech, others may hate you for it, thereby making it hate speech because it incited hatred in others. So free speech and hate speech are one and the same. I know what you think it means, but it does not. You clearly don't understand what hate-speech is. Hate speech is, outside the law, any communication that disparages a person or a group on the basis of some characteristic such as race, color, ethnicity, gender, disability, sex…
/r/MensRights10/03/12 01:24 PM
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From there, we will march to the porn stores in Times Square and once again scream at the tops of our lungs. That sounds hilarious...can someone in NYC tape that shit and post it on Youtube? Maybe we should contact all the porn shops in Times Square so they can prepare a little demonstration of their own. Maybe we could even get the Free Speech Coalition involved. EDIT: I've just emailed the FSC informing them of the protests.
/r/MensRights10/03/12 11:59 AM
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There is no such thing as hate speech. Please stop using that term. Though you make such a compelling and thoughtful argument, the term is widely recognized and describes a phenomenon that is known to exist, so there is such a thing as hate-speech. You may not like the term, but you not liking something doesn't negate its existence. That would mean shutting down this subreddit. There is no middle ground with these people, I promise you. I've already explained how we can get rid of the shit witho…
/r/MensRights10/03/12 11:44 AM
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Thanks, that was an excellent argument, and I've bookmarked it for future reference.
/r/MensRights10/03/12 10:15 AM
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Your bot made the image before I corrected a typo. Also...thanks, I guess.
/r/MensRights10/03/12 10:02 AM
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you men (and probably some women too) aren't anti-feminists at all, are you? Yes, I'm an antifeminist. Please read this for an explanation as to why I'm an antifeminist, and why feminism probably isn't quite what you may have been led to believe.
/r/MensRights10/03/12 10:00 AM
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MR is an issues-based movement, so why not pick a particular issue? Examples: Financial-abortion (focusing on the lack of real post-conception options for men...with the ace being "safe-harbor" laws). male genital mutilation (focusing on females being protected, but not males....explaining the different types of FGM and MGM...with the ace being the illegality of "pinprick" FGM vs. the legality of penile subincision) There are WAY more issues, but they're probably a bit too complicated for someon…
/r/MensRights10/03/12 09:41 AM
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Is this related to SRS doxxing you?
/r/MensRights10/03/12 09:28 AM
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Doesn't sound like much of a solution if, by your definition, your solution to the original problem quite literally causes more problems than it solves. Only if you ignore everything else I wrote. If your room is too hot, you have 1 problem. So, you put forth a solution: you open a window. But wait! Opening that window creates 2 new problems: bugs can get in, and things might fall out the window! By your logic, you shouldn't open the window because it causes more problems than it solves. Those p…
/r/MensRights10/03/12 09:24 AM
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You asked for evidence that, as a class, women are socially disadvantaged. I provided evidence that, as a class, women are socially disadvantaged. My belief (and if you check, I did preface all of that with "I believe") that they face more social disadvantages than men is based on my own experiences. Proving that, beyond any doubt, women are more socially disadvantaged, is nearly impossible given that we are incapable of reading everyone's mind, transferring that information into a nice little d…
/r/MensRights10/03/12 08:53 AM
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Because an ever-increasing number of laws and special interest groups has worked so well for the US. Compared to places without laws and special interest groups? Yes. If you have a problem, and apply a solution to that problem, the solution may create new problems. The question is: are those new problems worse than the problem they fix? When it comes to moderating out the hate-speech, I'd say it depends on how it's handled. I believe that if we do it responsibly, then the new problems won't even…
/r/MensRights09/03/12 01:31 PM
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But you're a small site, and Reddit is massive. What works for you will not necessarily work here. Sealand may be able to get by without any laws, because the 4 people who live there can be trusted to act reasonably, but the US is so big that it needs guidelines for its 300,000,000+ residents.
/r/MensRights09/03/12 11:38 AM
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r/MR is not the only venue for discussing MR issues. If this isn't dealt with, I will simply stop associating with r/MR and will stop defending it when it's attacked by others, like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/qetep/iama_mens_rights_activist_iama_i_have_a_feeling/c3x8mrb http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/pfejx/i_love_how_the_whiny_feminist_morality_brigade/c3peqhx?context=5 http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/po73w/hey_look_every_mention_of_mensrights_…
/r/MensRights09/03/12 11:32 AM
1

Can you provide a link to the new policy?
/r/MensRights09/03/12 11:26 AM
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Here's one: This longitudinal study assessed the emergence of gender differences in over 300 children's academic competency beliefs from kindergarten or first grade through fifth grade. Children, their parents and their teachers rated the children's competencies in math and literacy and their math and literacy skills were also assessed directly. Beginning in third grade, girls rated their math competencies lower than did boys, even though there was no gender difference in math achievement or in …
/r/MensRights09/03/12 11:24 AM
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I have seen you advocate for legislation against potential "false rape accusers" You have? Then please, by all means, link to a comment where I advocate for legislation against POTENTIAL false accusers. You can't because I know I would never do that. I believe false accusers who are proven to be lying should be punished. They are breaking the law, destroying people's lives, and casting doubt on actual rape victims. I don't think anyone should be punished without proof.
/r/MensRights09/03/12 11:15 AM
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context
/r/MensRights09/03/12 11:02 AM
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Yes, let the people decide: http://www.the-spearhead.com/2012/03/04/the-problem-with-a-gay-tolerant-military/ http://www.the-spearhead.com/2012/02/15/its-time-to-shut-down-womens-day-spas/ http://www.the-spearhead.com/2012/02/09/the-evolving-western-matriarchy/
/r/MensRights09/03/12 02:07 AM
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It's always nice to hear from the mod of /r/rights4men ...a subreddit set up as a refuge from r/MR's support of LGBT rights.
/r/MensRights09/03/12 01:56 AM
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We could have that on Reddit. We could have that on r/MR even, though we'd have to deal with probably a month or so of sockpuppets...but once it's clear that they can't spread their shit here, they'd get bored. It would take a concerted effort from both the moderators and the users (we'd have to do our best to constantly call these people out and highlight the absurdity of what they're saying), but we could do it. ...we have to do it if we want to stop giving them reason to classify us as a fuck…
/r/MensRights09/03/12 01:38 AM
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r/MR has to choose between people like me, and people like you. The question is: will it be the type of person who posts shit like this, or this, that goes? One of us is going, so either way, goodbye.
/r/MensRights09/03/12 01:24 AM
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We need to do a hell of a lot more than that.
/r/MensRights09/03/12 01:03 AM
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The MRM is just a term used to describe all of the various people and organizations who, in some way, advocate/argue/engage in activism/etc. for the rights of men. A feminist can be an MRA, as can a post-feminist, or an anti-feminist. The terms aren't really comparable. That being said, most of the people who self-identify as "MRAs" tend to be antifeminists.
/r/MensRights09/03/12 12:48 AM
1

Does Gamestop not have the right to hire by whatever criteria it chooses? No, they don't. It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer - (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; or http://finduslaw.com/civil-rights-act-1964-cra-title-vii-equal-employmen…
/r/MensRights08/03/12 06:41 PM
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Cultchick
/r/MensRights07/03/12 02:44 PM
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She's publicly abandoned skepticism in favor of feminism.... ...you've already won.
/r/MensRights07/03/12 06:23 AM
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You should read the entire comment before you respond. At the bottom there, I mentioned that I did watch the video again and that, yeah, she definitely swung first. EDIT: after watching it again, she definitely swung at him first. It wasn't to protect her face. Even still, he cornered her and threatened her. It's still clearly self-defense. You also ignored this part too: But putting that aside for the moment, even if she did punch him, a reasonable person would feel they were in danger and that…
/r/MensRights07/03/12 05:37 AM
2

Don't forget the man-tax.
/r/MensRights06/03/12 01:11 PM
2

You were downvoted because it wasn't the time or place to bring that shit up. Reverse the genders and many of the people patting you on the back would be bitching about "feminists coming here to troll".
/r/MensRights06/03/12 01:01 PM
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commenters were suggesting the woman instigated and elevated the situation. How? By asking him to leave? No. He cornered her and started kicking shit. We see her put her hands up (which appeared defensive more than anything), then he starts swinging, she cries and he claims she punched him. It seems possible that, when she put her hands up, because he was so close to her, she touched him. But putting that aside for the moment, even if she did punch him, a reasonable person would feel they were i…
/r/MensRights06/03/12 12:45 PM
2

I have obviously hit a nerve Yeah that tends to happen when you call someone's loved-one a "whore" and insult their manhood for daring to love someone you've deemed subhuman.
/r/MensRights04/03/12 09:29 AM
1

reddit automatically links to things with /r/, and /u/ before it. Examples: /u/abcd /r/efgh what I typed: - /u/abcd - /r/efgh
/r/MensRights03/03/12 12:59 PM
4

I don't think you should be involved in their issues. You're their kid, let them work it out for themselves...it's not something you should have to deal with and I think it's wrong that either of them complain about the situation to you. You are not their therapist. If you value the relationship you have with both parents, you really shouldn't take sides (or be perceived to be taking sides). That sort of thing can lay the groundwork for estrangement. With all of that being said, if you're still …
/r/MensRights03/03/12 12:44 PM
3

Article text for those that don't want to see a disturbing image of a mutilated child: Editor: KILLING newborn babies should be allowed if the mother wishes, Australian philosophers have argued in a prestigious journal, however their whole argument is premised on the notion that mothers ‘own’ children, and this property is theirs solely to decide on matters as important as life or death. The role, rights and responsibilities of the fathers and other family members is ignored, perhaps denoting th…
/r/MensRights02/03/12 06:54 AM
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here?
/r/MensRights02/03/12 05:41 AM
2

There's also Alanna, and Ma99ie
/r/MensRights02/03/12 04:55 AM
1

http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?page_id=4307
/r/MensRights02/03/12 04:52 AM
0

We have -words- for Christians who do not believe the Vatican is a reliable source of information on how to live a Christian life, and we have words for those who do. "Catholic", "Protestant", and the whole myriad of terms for the different groups. Those terms relate to different interpretations of what christianity is...in the same way there are terms to refer to different types of feminists. Fundamentally though, a christian is one who believes Jesus was the son of God, and one shouldn't be ex…
/r/MensRights02/03/12 04:48 AM
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The Bible, and I believe the Koran, specifically forbids sodomy and man on man sexual activities, but is mum on women. And so, sexist laws are made. Thank you.
/r/MensRights02/03/12 04:38 AM
2

... Okay, let me try to make this clearer: I don't want to hear straw-men versions of the assumed arguments of others, I want to hear the actual arguments put forth BY those others.
/r/MensRights02/03/12 04:36 AM
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I saw that, but I wasn't interested in conjecture...I want the actual rationalization, used by supporters/etc. to justify outlawing male homosexuality, but not female homosexuality.
/r/MensRights01/03/12 08:53 AM
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I understand the mentality behind homophobia -- I think it's horrible and everything, but I can at least understand it -- but selective homophobia? Is there even a rationalization for it? What the fuck?
/r/MensRights01/03/12 08:19 AM
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I happen to think the gender/equity distinction is useless since pretty much no one but CHS and MRAs use it (i.e. no one calls themselves "gender feminists"), and because it does little more than protect feminism from criticisms of feminism...but whatever, it's better than the "feminists are evil!!!1!" shit I see pop up (not from you), and the rationalization of that. I just want the MRM to get its shit together. I'm tired of the over the top rhetoric, but I'm especially tired of us holding femi…
/r/MensRights01/03/12 07:41 AM
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When the horrible people are the leadership of your most well-funded organizations, and the academics and literary icons who conduct the "research" and are the movement's "opinion makers", then you either police them, or you do what rats do when the ship is on fire. Should Christians abandon ship because the Vatican (the largest and most well-funded christian organization) harbored pedophiles and did all sorts of other nasty shit? No. If they "abandon ship" it should be because they're no longer…
/r/MensRights01/03/12 07:24 AM
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We only need to target feminism not feminists. Exactly.
/r/MensRights29/02/12 05:43 PM
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Christina Hoff Sommers comes to mind, also ifeminists.com, the feminists who call out SRS assholes, etc. Something you should keep in mind is that the feminist-rhetoric which we tend to find most objectionable is frequently said in a "safe space", where criticisms are deleted...so if that's where you're looking for criticism, you definitely won't find it.
/r/MensRights29/02/12 04:58 PM
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np
/r/MensRights29/02/12 03:12 PM
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But there are people here on r/MR that are arguing against the crazies. That is sufficient, in my mind. And there are feminists who argue against their crazies. If it's sufficient for us, then I don't see why it shouldn't be sufficient for them.
/r/MensRights29/02/12 03:10 PM
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But we do the same shit. Sometimes we don't want to cause drama/division, or maybe it just doesn't feel like it's worth the effort of dealing with an asshole, or maybe we don't see it...but we don't (and pretty much can't) stop the crazies in the MRM, so we shouldn't expect them to stop the crazies in feminism.
/r/MensRights29/02/12 08:28 AM
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There can be no peace until feminists who claim to be egalitarian start policing their own. Not you too. Ig, I thought you were better than that. I see this argument pop up all of the time...and it's an unreasonable expectation. Look at the MRM. Look at some of the horrible people we have in it. Can you "police" them? No, so how can you expect feminists to do that for their horrible people?
/r/MensRights29/02/12 07:32 AM
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If both MRAs and feminists are fighting for equality, then why can't both groups get along? ...it's complicated. Why is there the belief that this is one or the other? MRAs tend to be antifeminist; feminists tend to assume antifeminism means anti-equality, and they generally have little exposure to MRAs re mens rights aside from arguments, so they assume MRAs are chauvinists. Feminists tend to embrace an antagonistic view of gender; MRAs assume this antagonistic view extends to the point of outr…
/r/MensRights29/02/12 07:29 AM
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What do you think the statistical probability is that someone would be an active neo-nazi in 2012, in the US, and feel that assaulting a jewish person randomly would further their fight against the evils of jews? Pretty insignificant right? But it being improbable does not make it impossible, nor does it erase the incidents where something like that happens. In other words, they might be political lesbians in the same sense they might be alien body snatchers. Except we have no evidence that ther…
/r/MensRights28/02/12 02:05 AM
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Why would lesbians beat up a gay man? Obviously both are homosexual so they can't have any reason to be violent. Well, political lesbianism is predicated on a view of men-as-enemy (in fact, the piece of literature that started the whole thing was called "Love Your Enemy?"), so it shouldn't really be that hard to see why a political lesbian might have a problem with a man...gay, or otherwise. I know! It must be because they're politically lesbian! This would explain perfectly why they'd beat up a…
/r/MensRights28/02/12 12:01 AM
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That is not what the data shows. The article is an opportunity to use words that make men seem worse. I've already covered this here. The data includes adolescents and old people. The data for the adolescents appears identical to that of men, while the data for old people is very similar to that of women (with women being slightly more cautious). The assertion IS supported by the data. Imagine I had the results of a study that said that the average age that a person loses their virginity is lowe…
/r/MensRights27/02/12 11:52 PM
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People aged 18-29 aren't adolescents. By the basic definition and usage, 18-25 could be called adolescent (as the brain is not fully developed until around 25). By the very specific definition, those 18-19 would be adolescent. Either way, the age range includes some adolescents. The assertion is supported by the data.
/r/MensRights27/02/12 12:12 PM
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Hi SRS. I thought you considered r/MR to be "low hanging fruit"? Oh well, I guess it's pretty difficult to ignore that "low hanging fruit" when it consistently makes you look like a fucking idiot. Anyway, many of you seem to think there's no such thing as political lesbianism, and are mocking JockeVXO as if this were the case. Unfortunately for you, this serves only to highlight the ignorance we've come to expect from your lot. I know it's hard to wrap your little minds around it, but, just beca…
/r/MensRights27/02/12 11:42 AM
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Nearly twice as many men as women (15% vs. 8%) regretted something they had posted. ... In this regard, men resemble the youngest users Pew polled, adults age 18-29, among whom 15% of users likewise said they regretted posting a piece of content. Among the oldest users, the rate of regret was only 5%. This assertion is supported by the data.
/r/MensRights27/02/12 11:06 AM
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So you were her pimp? lol Yes, because waiting in a car and dialing 911 in case of emergency is TOTALLY the same thing as being a pimp.
/r/MensRights27/02/12 11:03 AM
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My ex was a stripper who jerked off a few clients every night (yes, that's what they do in those little booths) and did some actual prostitution on occasion (with me acting as "security"). She was ridiculously gorgeous (she actually did some legitimate modelling when she was younger) AND she paid for pretty much everything (she made about $2k a night, while I was earning maybe $350 a week). I wasn't anywhere near desperate...at the time, I would CONSTANTLY get hit on by gay men and older women, …
/r/MensRights27/02/12 08:37 AM
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Rape is clearly a terrible thing but am I alone in thinking that working as a prostitute and not telling a partner is equally bad? Those things are not equally bad...in any way. Barring some ridiculously contrived scenario, the harm caused by being brutalized would dwarf the harm caused by emotional betrayal.
/r/MensRights27/02/12 08:16 AM
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You're probably overreacting. They have data showing X, so they say X. I agree with Caperslol that it's likely a result of fearing stalkers/etc., but that's a "smart" reason for being cautious when online stalking has become so fucking common (and yes, employers scouring their employees facebook profiles IS stalking). According to the results of the study, men are less cautious with their online shit. If you don't like that, then talk with men about being more cautious and try to change the beha…
/r/MensRights27/02/12 08:01 AM
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Because it's not motivated by hate/bigotry, but by extreme stress.
/r/MensRights27/02/12 06:54 AM
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Thanks, patriarchy. I appreciate the encouragement. No problem. I hope everything works out for you.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 10:24 PM
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Preserving original text in case it's changed. This is not meant to insinuate that you personally will change anything, it's just that some people have in an attempt to troll this subreddit and, as a result, we now preserve the text of self.posts. Full text: Dec 28th, I filed for divorce. To make this perfectly clear, I do not want to get divorced. I love my wife (despite the mistakes we've both made and how much she doesn't love me) & I dearly love my two children (ages 3 & 6). I am currently u…
/r/MensRights25/02/12 10:01 PM
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A lot of people use it hyperbolically, so the confusion is understandable. It's the same way people say things like "capitalism is slavery", etc.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 01:06 AM
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Has nobody used coerce to imply nagging or convincing? nagging/convincing != coercing I don't know how to argue it any different. Your first example is coercion, your second isn't...though it might border on harassment.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 12:19 AM
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Coercion (play /koʊˈɜrʃən/) is the practice of forcing another party to behave in an involuntary manner (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats or intimidation or some other form of pressure or force. In law, coercion is codified as the duress crime. Such actions are used as leverage, to force the victim to act in the desired way. Coercion may involve the actual infliction of physical pain/injury or psychological harm in order to enhance the credibility of a threat. The threat of …
/r/MensRights25/02/12 12:17 AM
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Yeah I used that for a while...but if you're using firefox there's a big memory problem. It starts eating up memory like crazy until FF is unusable. I'm used to leaving FF on for...days, but with RES I have to restart it about twice a day (and re-log into everything). I disabled it and FF is back to normal. They've known about the problem for months, but they can't seem to fix it.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 11:51 PM
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But then I don't subscribe to the coercion == rape ideology so that might be where we differ. Maybe you don't know what coercion means? Because you basically just said "I don't subscribe to the forcing people to have sex == rape ideology." Either you meant to say something different, or you deserve all the downvotes.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 11:40 PM
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What company was this? You should file a complaint with the EEOC.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 12:12 AM
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According to Rainn, there are 213,000 victims of sexual assault in the US every year. More than 9/10ths of those victims are women and girls. The numbers Rainn uses come from the DOJ National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). NCVS totals for rape/sexual assault by year: 2010 (most recent): 188,380 2009: 125,910 2008: 203,830 2007: 248,300 2006: 272,350 2005: 190,590 2004: 209,880 2003: 198,850 2002: 247,730 2001: 248,000 2000: 251,000 I have no idea where RAINN got those numbers, but they're ei…
/r/MensRights23/02/12 11:40 PM
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It's impossible for anyone to give all information in a single post everywhere Hence: bias everywhere. What I wanted was a fresh perspective as it pertains to my situation, Well, it seems like she's gone overboard with the feminism. I think you need to decide whether you can accept that or not. If you can't, you need to decided whether you want to divorce or work on your marriage. You might want to cover your ass in case she decides to leave you, as feminism tends to foster misandry. Good luck.
/r/MensRights22/02/12 07:35 PM
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