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My best guess is that they hope to change people's ideas about the world by pushing a new vocabulary on them. Nevermind that this has been shown to NOT be how the mind works, they're going to try it anyway. If they can change what people mean by some word, then (they think) the idea behind the word will change with it. Change the word "racism" to something else and the very concept of racism will change in people's heads. That's not the way it works.
/r/MensRights23/03/15 01:03 AM
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When I was in college, a room like this would have been great. In fact, I think there was one similar at one point, during finals. In and of itself, that's fine. But it's not a "safe space." It's not a place to go to hide from the world. It's a place to (indeed) relieve stress. But if hearing opinions that you do not agree with causes you stress, you need a lot more than a room full of puppies and play-doh. You need serious therapy. Sorry, but college just isn't for you. College is a place where…
/r/MensRights23/03/15 12:43 AM
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Because feminism helps everybody. This is a person whom I can best explain as "drank the kool-aid." Not bad people, not stupid, just too emotionally invested in their belief system to dare ever question it.
/r/MensRights23/03/15 12:14 AM
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This is almost too crazy to be real. I wouldn't be surprised, but is there any confirmation of the claims made here?
/r/MensRights19/03/15 04:05 AM
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I think the comparison to anti-vaxxers is better. They have some explanation for everything that just very neatly supports the idea of a global conspiracy against them.
/r/MensRights19/03/15 03:48 AM
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True believer feminists actually believe that any time a man disagrees with a woman, it's harassment. It's never about whether the issue at hand is being presented truthfully, it's about men trying to shut women up. Even if a woman is wrong, men are supposed to simply accept her words because anything else is harassment.
/r/MensRights19/03/15 03:40 AM
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Agreed. It's progress, though. It's the first honest piece that's been let stand by a major gaming website, even if it's still trying to steer the narrative.
/r/MensRights02/09/14 03:56 PM
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To be fair: http://www.ign.com/blogs/robojules A blog piece criticizing IGN on an IGN page.
/r/MensRights02/09/14 03:38 PM
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Agreed; that was the point I was trying to make. The vast majority of rapists know perfectly well that their are forcing an unwilling participant into a sexual act.
/r/MensRights01/09/14 05:41 PM
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You said it better than I did. The corruption of journalism evident here is way beyond what one person does. Even if it turns out she's been entirely manipulated the whole way doesn't mean the censoring and silencing of dissenting views isn't still the main issue.
/r/MensRights01/09/14 05:02 PM
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Here's the nickel rebuttal to the individual statements. Basically false. Only the fewest people are somehow unaware of the legal and moral reality of rape and sexual assault. Again, basically false. Stranger rape is fairly uncommon. Still false. Coercion can take many forms. For example, "I'll tell them you raped me," is a serious threat female rapists make. This one is actually very much true. Rape and sexual assault are most similar to theft, the victim being forced to render services instead…
/r/MensRights30/08/14 12:16 AM
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I can't watch this with a straight face after hearing about the "very realistic" depictions of rape. If you're getting polygon glitches in your bedroom, something very strange is going on.
/r/MensRights29/08/14 11:12 PM
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Anybody who hears of a criminal allegation should think, "potential criminal incident, evidence needed."
/r/MensRights29/08/14 05:14 PM
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I face the same difficulty. As much as my goals are aligned with Liberals', I find their tactics and approach appalling. Personally, I no longer really call myself a liberal, only, "liberal-minded." The same political group that only a few decades ago pushed for tolerance and cooperation despite differences is now preaching intolerance and exclusion. What used to mean "progress" now just means "my ideology instead of their ideology." in any case, I stick around with the liberals. There's a lot o…
/r/MensRights17/08/14 01:04 AM
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The problem is that many women, even those who believe in real equality and don't engage in man-hating, think of Valenti as a role model and representative of women as a whole.
/r/MensRights17/08/14 12:56 AM
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No, no, I think these women are not pretending to hate men. They do. Of course, they'll claim they don't hate men, just "the patriarchy." And all that hateful stuff they do isn't because they hate men, they're just being misunderstood and fighting oppression. And when somebody points out that even if they were just joking, it's still a legitimate reason to criticize feminism.
/r/MensRights16/08/14 04:48 PM
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Thunderf00t has done a good job dealing with this in videos. I'd have nothing to add.
/r/MensRights11/08/14 05:49 PM
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Feminism had that effect. Otherwise nice, smart people turn absolutely horrible when you criticize their religion. Or in this case, identity ideology. As far as their beliefs are concerned, any disagreement you have on the issues is considered a personal attack on their very being. This is a very effective way of isolating (cult) members/believers from outside ideas that may weaken the cause.
/r/MensRights11/08/14 05:18 PM
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Not a strawman. The only discrimination women face for bad jobs are that they don't meet the job requirements. Women do not face discrimination on the bases of their sex for the vast majority of jobs. A statistical imbalance between the sexes does not represent sexism. Sandy Miller Gearhart suggested a balance between the sexes of 10% male, 90% female. Catherine Comins has expressed the view that false rape accusations may be beneficial for them. There is no lack of examples of feminism justifyi…
/r/MensRights05/08/14 11:30 PM
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The MRM is different from feminism in that it sets particular goals. Granted, not all MRAs will agree on the goals or their priority, but there is little discussion of what those goals mean. Equality is very well defined for the MRM. The MRM would like to see proportionally equal services for both male and female victims of domestic abuse. The MRM would like to see the same police standards used in cases of domestic violence between men and women. The MRM wants the same standards set for both me…
/r/MensRights05/08/14 01:45 AM
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Install this and visit tumblr.
/r/MensRights04/08/14 10:24 PM
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"He was black and she was white. I have no problem with him being arrested. "
/r/MensRights01/08/14 02:31 PM
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The concept of liability crimes is there to ensure people don't willfully neglect safety measures that could harm other people. Basically, you have to do your due diligence. Thing is, for statutory raps laws, they tossed out the due diligence part. You're automatically liable, end of story. So yes, the legal system is a joke in this way.
/r/MensRights01/08/14 02:28 PM
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The NBC news report I read explained that the male in question was arrested for something entirely unrelated to the girl in question. Not that I would put it past the police to simply make up charges that sound good to get somebody they don't like. At the very least, he was not arrested in connection with her accident, right or wrong.
/r/MensRights01/08/14 03:36 AM
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Well, I don't think anybody expects there to be a one-to-one translation from Marxism to feminism. Feminists took the parts they liked from Marxism and applied it. Then there's also the question of what Marxism is in theory versus how it's been applied, the latter being noticeably closer to feminism. So no, they're not exactly the same thing. However, describing feminism as cultural Marxism gets you 90% of the way to a solid explanation. If you want to get into the details later you always can. …
/r/MensRights01/08/14 03:31 AM
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And I, for one, agree with him. There is most definitely a moral issue of making cosmetic medical decisions for somebody who can't understand the process, let alone consent to them. However, as a practical matter, the average effect of genital mutilation on men who have had it done to them is much less than for women. You are free to disagree on this matter, and I have no doubt that you can make very good arguments as to why they may be equally bad. But it depends on which metrics of harm you va…
/r/MensRights31/07/14 10:06 PM
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No, I think Dawkins is in total agreement with the MRM here. In the context of the whole post, genital mutilation is bad, and it doesn't matter which sex suffers worse from it. You should be able to always discuss it, debate it, and talk about it. Assuming FGM is worse than MGM, debating the matter between honest and civil people will only strengthen the argument by understanding how FGM is worse than MGM.
/r/MensRights31/07/14 10:01 PM
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Well, in this case, the risk of death for organs is 25%, whereas if I'm that sick and do nothing, I have something like a 99% chance of death.
/r/MensRights31/07/14 09:58 PM
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It's a pretty broad range for me. Also, comparing written descriptions by both male and female, is say I often orgasm a bit harder than average. Could just be me.
/r/MensRights30/07/14 01:49 AM
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As an aside, haven't many feminists been claiming rape is a spectrum ranging from bad to worse? Maybe he should have said, "eye rape is bad. Vaginal rape is worse."
/r/MensRights30/07/14 01:46 AM
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You may want to talk to a doctor about that. Can't speak for anybody else, but I orgasm pretty hard. And I'm happy circumcised. Could be something else that's reducing your pleasure.
/r/MensRights29/07/14 01:45 AM
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I think most MRAs, in so far as this sub is a representative sample, don't particularly care about their partner's sexual history. They generally do care about finding a partner with compatible sexual interests. What a couple does with each other matters a lot more than what they've done previously.
/r/MensRights29/07/14 01:27 AM
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I would just have replied along the lines, "Good idea. Let's tie all girls' tubes and make them apply for having that undone when they're 18, too. Gotta be consistent, right?"
/r/MensRights27/07/14 10:38 PM
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Anecdotally, the time between relationships for women I know is much shorter than for men. On a more objective scale, look at how many establishments go out of their way to cater to women. Women have broad choices and people compete for their attention. Men meanwhile generally have to go out of their way to even be noticed by a woman. Now I'm not saying it's easier for a women to find a desirable relationship (romantic or otherwise). But they do have vastly more options.
/r/MensRights27/07/14 08:09 PM
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I edited the above reply to partially answer that question. In short, it doesn't matter much either way, because they're much more important aspects to relationships and marriage. As for most people here, I would guess they feel largely the same way. What draws a lot of people to the MRM, or at least this subreddit, is the idea that women and men are both responsible individuals capable of making their own choices, and that they should be judged for those choices only where such choices are dire…
/r/MensRights27/07/14 08:04 PM
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No, not at all. For me, personally? A woman who has had lots of sexual experience can probably do things for me in bed that a virgin couldn't. So yeah, totally fine with it. EDIT: I would point out, should it not be obvious, that no one issue should decide the decision to marry another, and that a person's prior sexual history is fairly close to the bottom on the list of important things to have in a partner for me. And I'd recommend anybody who places that issue high on their list to really thi…
/r/MensRights27/07/14 07:46 PM
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The issue for a lot of men is not so much sexual but romantic. Many more women than men could find a new romantic relationship immediately or almost immediately should the current one end. So a woman who has slept with a lot of men could either simply be very sexually liberated and exploring her desires, or she could be staying in relationships only until the next better man becomes available. Not that women don't face this fear as well, especially as they age. And it's certainly never fair to a…
/r/MensRights27/07/14 07:43 PM
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Women are independent individuals responsible for their own actions. If they find men who are interested in them sexually and wish to explore that mutual interest, they are free to do so. As men and women are both sexual creatures there is no reason to criticize a woman (or man) who aims to sleep with a large number of other consenting adults. So long as she does not emotionally manipulate the men (or women) she's sexually interested in there's nothing to complain about. When the sex becomes a m…
/r/MensRights27/07/14 07:29 PM
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I'd like to know if she faces any sanctions from her employer.
/r/MensRights27/07/14 05:29 PM
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Homophobia comes from many sources. Some people just can't fathom two penises together in a sexual way in the absence of a woman. Some of it is religious in nature. Sometimes it's just fear of the unknown. If it were the 1950s, I think the idea that a man behaving in a feminine way, because "that's not how men are supposed to be" would be a legitimate complaint. The overwhelming majority of western civilization no longer ties sexuality to a person's manliness. The particular issue at hand is tha…
/r/MensRights27/07/14 05:22 PM
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Screencaps are a good solution, though not always worth the effort.
/r/MensRights27/07/14 05:16 PM
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Yes. To get right to the point, the Men's right movement operates under the premise that adults are by default capable, responsible individuals who make their own decisions and carry the burden and benefit of those choices. A man who chooses, for any reason, to engage in homosexual activity or lifestyle is free to do so, and furthermore should be able to do so unless his actions in some way demonstratably cause actual harm (the hurt feelings of homophobes does not count). The only point of conte…
/r/MensRights27/07/14 04:26 AM
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One of the reasons I don't like to associate with liberals as much as I agree with their general political leaning. "What about the criminal's rights?" Criminals have rights because the courts must make sure that innocent people are not punished. Their right to life and safety was left at the door of the home they broke into and at the moment they decided to inflict serious bodily harm against the victim.
/r/MensRights26/07/14 08:10 PM
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Another "everything is rape" style article. I'm largely preaching to the choir here, but... All the problems here fall into two categories. One, women get treated just the same way men do, but some women view this as sexism instead of just general human douchbaggery. And there are a lot of gamer douchbags. If you've been taught to view yourself as a victim, male or female, you'll view everything bad that happens to you as oppression. Or if you've been taught to view douchbaggery for what it is, …
/r/MensRights26/07/14 05:28 PM
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The mods of r/feminism are there to protect the ideological purity of their sub. People get banned from there all the time for using the wrong words. It's not worth thinking about.
/r/MensRights26/07/14 05:11 PM
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I think that's a pretty good summary of the legal issues at hand. For me the point that the were no longer in the home is pretty important. If they were inside the home still, I'd say it's clearly self defense, even if shot in the back. Legal issues aside, I have no sympathy for the dead. She gave up her right to safety when she broke into his home and assaulted him. Even assuming that she was carrying a child AND that the death of an unborn child can be considered murder, it's her responsibilit…
/r/MensRights26/07/14 04:50 PM
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Unfortunately, people respond to emotion and rhetoric, not logic. As silly as people here generally understand it to be to think that a women presenting an argument should make a lick of difference, feminists especially go by how they feel. When a man speaks out against feminism, it's misogyny. When a woman does it, it's "internalized." But that latter argument is a lot harder to support the more she is self-confident, self-reliant, and happy with herself.
/r/MensRights25/07/14 10:26 PM
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The age of the students shouldn't play a role here. Had they all been 18 and her students, it's still coercive sexual activity.
/r/MensRights24/07/14 10:16 PM
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A lot of this comes down to different understandings of equality. A man and woman getting paid the same for the same work is not equality for some people. For them, ALL women must be paid the same as ALL men, regardless of statistical differences.
/r/MensRights24/07/14 03:57 PM
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I agree with you entirely that feminism is very conservative movement. Yet the more radical feminists become the more they identify with the far left. That the liberal left should give a home to such a conservative movement should be a warning to them, but sadly isn't.
/r/MensRights24/07/14 03:40 PM
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At the same time, I see more and more liberal/progressive people starting to distance themselves from feminism. Unlike in the past where "liberal" and "feminist" went hand in hand, today moderate liberals/progressives are rejecting feminism because it doesn't fit in with their progressive idea of equality. So while you're 100% right in what you said, feminism is also moving so far to the left that that it's appealing is waning amongst moderates.
/r/MensRights24/07/14 12:03 PM
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I agree that the vast majority of people who identify as feminist actually do want genuine equality between the sexes. The problem is in how they go about it, which in turn is rooted in problems how they are taught to think about it and how they view the problems. Feminist theory revolves around "the Patriarchy," and people who would normally be what's best described as an egalitarians only ever get the message that "the Patriarchy" is the source of all social gender problems. They are given a w…
/r/MensRights23/07/14 03:43 AM
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I personally believe that since the 80s feminism has become so rotten it is not worth saving, and only an extreme change would ever make me support it. I support equality. I am egalitarian. It's a fundamentally better movement than feminism. But that said, here's some things that are necessary but not sufficient. One, abandon the idea that feminism and gender equality advocacy are the same thing. Being anti-feminism does not mean being anti-equality. Two, stop using bogus statistics to try to ju…
/r/MensRights23/07/14 03:32 AM
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For one, feminism has placed itself in peoples' minds as the one and only solution when it comes to any kind of gender issue. Even those who don't consider themselves feminists tend to think of feminism as the only social gender issue. The idea of men's issues being social issues is, if nothing else, hindered by feminism hogging the spotlight. Feminist theory pretty much boils down to "masculinity is bad, femininity is good." This approach preemptively shuts down any non-feminist approach to dea…
/r/MensRights23/07/14 03:20 AM
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Get a lawyer now. Do not comment on the issue and explain that given the fact you are facing serious criminal accusations, people should direct their questions through your lawyer. You may need two lawyers, first a civil suit lawyer to help you draft a cease and desist letter, and a second you may not need to hire yet, a criminal defense attorney. Find one, give them the info, keep their number handy. You generally won't be charged to explain the situation and get the lawyers option. You pay whe…
/r/MensRights23/07/14 03:08 AM
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This is so badly written I can't figure out the author's position.
/r/MensRights19/07/14 11:48 PM
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I think most people here would agree that all people, regardless of their sex or surgery deserve the same rights, including safety of person. This is independent of the claim that transgendered people are more likely to be attacked than any other group. No group should be attacked, period. The relative severity doesn't change this. The question of transgender rights is a separate question from Men's Rights, though there is a degree of overlap. The MRM doesn't try to tackle specific transgender r…
/r/MensRights19/07/14 11:41 PM
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Collecting child payments isn't as easy as becoming an organ donor while getting a driver's license. You have to go through a bit of legal footwork to make it happen. Even if the court has required it, forcing somebody to pay can be damn near impossible. Depending on the jurisdiction, first you have to sue. If the guy doesn't ever show up, you have to go to court several more times to get a judgement in your favor. Then you have to do more work to find assets, location, etc. Then more paperwork …
/r/MensRights19/07/14 02:27 PM
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Their treatment of both is based in class ideology and postmodernism. They view race and sex as classes divided by "object" and "subject," for whom different rules apply, because people in these classes are fundamentally different. Why do you feel the SJW approach to race is different than with regards to sex?
/r/MensRights18/07/14 12:48 PM
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I would argue that the discrimination against "straight white men" is a Men's right's issue. Wether or not you want to attribute it to mainstream feminism, there's a clear vilification of men for being men by the social justice movement. The fact that they give homosexual men a pass (kinda) or non-white men a pass (again, kinda, it's more like a longer leash) doesn't mean it's not targeting men in general.
/r/MensRights18/07/14 12:45 PM
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It's for the Atheism+ community. It would fallacious to claim that Atheism+ isn't "really" atheism, since they don't believe in any religion. The larger atheist movement distances itself from them, though, because for most atheists atheism is tied together with humanism and skepticism. The Atheism+ community values humanism and skepticism about as much as Fox News values "fair and balanced" reporting. The "RationalWiki" isn't rational at all as it sets out with a priori conclusions.
/r/MensRights18/07/14 12:32 PM
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We know that not all feminists are like this. However, if you feel that distortion of facts (or outright lying) and discrimination against men are things that should not be part of feminism, it is upon you to take a clear stance against it. There are a lot of feminists who claim to be for equality and yet gladly accept everything they claim "isn't real feminism" as part of the same movement. All the negative associations of feminism are entirely reasonable until feminists interested in actual eq…
/r/MensRights18/07/14 12:26 PM
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Get a lawyer. Also, he should have absolutely NO contact with her. Unless it interferes with his job, he should also avoid contact with her friends and family, as well. He shouldn't talk with anybody about the case except through his lawyer.
/r/MensRights18/07/14 12:20 PM
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You may not like how it was managed, but the men's rights conference just took place last month. The MRM put forth a reward for information leading to the arrest of a (possibly fictional) assailant who targeted a woman for holding feminist views. Various talks supporting the MRM have provided a sense of identity and validation to a number of men who were emotionally lost due to events and environment. It may not be the way everybody wants to move forward, but it is something. As much as I'd rath…
/r/MensRights17/07/14 10:36 PM
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To be fair, she seems to know a fair amount of feminism. She's talking about a lot of it's problems, correctly. I understand your disagreement with her, but I'd give her the benefit of the doubt. Women have faired better recently, not because they are superior, but because the kind of jobs they hold are not as subject to the effects of recession. And she's entirely right about feminism not knowing what is in a woman's best interest. Feminism says sex is good, sex is bad. Traditional roles are go…
/r/MensRights17/07/14 12:29 AM
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Modern feminist theory explains that masculinity is inherently bad, driving men to do bad things. When men do good things, it's a result of rejecting masculinity and accepting femininity. This is entirely bullshit but it's quick and easy to swallow. The real reason men have taken the place in history of the greatest achievers for both good and evil is simple. Until only fairly recently survival required a lot more effort. Men tended to work very long hours, women took care of home and children. …
/r/MensRights15/07/14 09:23 PM
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Men who wear makeup often do a good job at it. Just like women. And just like women, if they do a bad job at it, they are apt to ridicule. Sure, some people, men and women alike, will ridicule a man just for using makeup. But they shouldn't. in this respect, the MRM is more progressive than a lot of society, if you consider dismantling of sex-based social norms progress. I do. As far as promiscuity goes, it's a double edged sword for everybody. For the most part, people who are not particularly …
/r/MensRights15/07/14 09:09 PM
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All men and women should be free to adopt any personality traits they wish. From what I can tell, the MRM views men and women of any sexual orientation as adults who are free to make their own choices. Some men display a lot of machismo. They are free to do so just as anybody else is free to prefer people without such a trait. These traits have virtually nothing, other than historical context, to do with femininity or masculinity. People who do not like trait X in a person generally dislike X fo…
/r/MensRights13/07/14 10:42 PM
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but third wave feminism is the one that crows about the wage gap and rape culture, right? We don't need that. Then again, just because that's what people who call themselves 3rd wave feminists talk about doesn't mean they know what they're talking about. They claim that feminism is about equality, too.
/r/MensRights13/07/14 07:28 PM
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The police, judges, and lawyers often can't handle assault cases fairly. What makes anybody think college administrators can?
/r/MensRights13/07/14 02:36 PM
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Because if I can establish a dialog they'll abandon their asinine ideas.
/r/MensRights13/07/14 02:25 PM
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In what way does the world need feminism? If you're talking about places such as the Middle East where women actually are oppressed, I'll totally agree with you. We need the Men's Human Rights Movement because there are serious ways in which being male puts one and unreasonable disadvantage. The MHRM aims to solve those issues and then fade away. The goal is an egalitarian society. There are also similar issues for women, and if feminism were a movement that dealt with women's issues in egalitar…
/r/MensRights13/07/14 02:22 PM
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I saw a feminist complain about how these women didn't know their place. The irony quite obviously missed her.
/r/MensRights12/07/14 11:37 PM
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I'm just thinking of somebody going into a movie theater and asking, in turn, "Who here is christian?" and then "Who here would like to come help feed the homeless tonight?"
/r/MensRights12/07/14 02:45 PM
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I don't know if I ever considered myself a feminist, but I was under the illusion that feminism was a movement for equality up until PZ Meyers and Rebecca Watson came along. They made me realize that the difference between moderate and extreme feminism is only in the degree to which men are viewed as undesirables. It even took a while to realize that their brand of crazy wasn't unique to them, but that feminism (at least modern feminism) was built upon a fundamentally bigoted foundation of pseud…
/r/MensRights12/07/14 02:30 PM
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In addition, I have found that the feminist logic of claiming that "anybody who agrees that women are humans is a feminist" is exactly the same logic that transphobic people use when they say that "anybody who is born with male genitals is a male and anybody who is born with female genitals is a female". The logic behind those is entirely different. The first conflates the idea that support for humanism and equality with the idea that a particular movement is the one and only right way to achiev…
/r/MensRights12/07/14 02:24 PM
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This is the way real research works. Or real journalism. They go together. That's not to say Thunderf00t isn't baised, but he is fair. He takes her claims, analyzes them, and provides counter examples of why what she claims simply isn't true. It's almost exactly the same as dealing with climate change denialists. The effort it takes to spew the bullshit is minimal and the effort it takes to debunk it is a lot higher, but once that's out there, anybody can see it. When it comes to rationality ver…
/r/MensRights12/07/14 02:13 PM
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Unless this man is going to be a father figure for your daughter, it really doesn't matter. If he is, you may want to sit down with her mother and this new gentleman and talk about your goals in raising the child. Parents, all three of you potentially, need to set consistent rules and expectations. If he's going to play a big role in her life, he may want to know you well enough to have a good relationship with your daughter. For that matter, the step-siblings may be in your care at some point, …
/r/MensRights06/07/14 11:20 PM
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They view the world as fundamentally different. They view whites (or men, are heterosexuals, etc) as belonging to a different class for whom different rules apply.
/r/MensRights06/07/14 10:41 PM
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Equality is everybody having the same rights and responsibilities. Unless there's some law being broken, yes, the tranny nun shouting obscenities is indeed equal to a man of "honor and morality." As long as the two are held to the same standard and face the same consequences for the same actions, that's equality. Neither deserves special privileges or protections. The tranny doesn't get to claim to be a victim of a hate crime because somebody stole his purse. Unless it's done because he's a tran…
/r/MensRights04/07/14 07:15 PM
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Many common feminist goals include the following. Elimination of the pay discrepancy between men and women. It doesn't exist. Reduction of the chance of rape for women down from the very high 1 in 4. Which isn't that high. It's well below that number. 24 out of 25 will will never experience rape in her life. 1 in 25 is still too high, but nowhere near the 1 in 4 figure often stated. Equal representation of women in positions of power, such as politics and business. This is a reasonable goal but …
/r/MensRights04/07/14 12:54 AM
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On top of that, the goals of feminism are to replace the patriarchy with a matriarchy, replace misogyny with misandry, and prevent sexism against women but allowing it against men. Feminism's goals are are not meant to help men.
/r/MensRights03/07/14 11:04 PM
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Regarding p1, the statement made is demonstrably false. Whether having a completely incorrect understanding of rights is different from redefining rights is a question of semantics. The author is presenting rights, by whatever definition, as a male-centric thing. Re p5, This is exactly trying to redefine "employment rate" as "hours worked" instead of "people working." Re p7, It's neither masculine nor feminine to be a good parent. It's human nature. If tomorrow everybody agreed that a word means…
/r/MensRights03/07/14 11:00 PM
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I remember that right when feminism was starting to really poison gaming, some new game trailer came out where a dude beat and killed a bunch of female assassins. Feminists had been complaining and complaining about how women don't get equal roles to men in games. Now these weren't some scub assassins, they looked pretty damn cool. These were powerful women, no question asked. And like any similar case with male assassins, the main character kills them off and escapes. Oh boy, equality did not s…
/r/MensRights03/07/14 10:50 PM
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Paragraph 1: Redefining rights. In the western world, men and women by law have all the same rights, with a few given to women but not men (draft in the US, rape in the UK, etc). Paragraph 5: Redefining sexism so that when men lose jobs, it's because society devalues women. Paragraph 7: Trying to redefine manhood. When women are expected to be stay-at-homes to care for children, it's sexism against women. When it comes to custody, that stereotype is entirely acceptable since women are better at …
/r/MensRights03/07/14 10:43 PM
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My response to that is to ask why the radicals, the extremists are leading the movement. The idea of extreme equality is oxymoron. The idea of an extreme feminist is not. Even moderate feminists gladly condone the actions of extremists; just because they wouldn't go that far themselves doesn't excuse them of condoning it. Moderate feminists also gladly accept the dogma/theory radical feminists espouse. Sure, not all feminists are man-hating bigots, but they are really the most honest part of the…
/r/MensRights03/07/14 10:38 PM
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I'm loathe to support anything done by "family values" groups but I can't disagree with their goals in this case. The left and right these days differ largely only in the particular flavor of ideology they wish to impose on the world.
/r/MensRights03/07/14 10:25 PM
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If I saw this panel and was told there was controversy, I could really only guess that the issue at hand is sex after encouraging the consumption of alcohol. Of course, that doesn't matter a bit to SJWs. Only men can rape, according to them, so the idea of a woman getting a man drunk for sex (which in many cases is still entirely consensual, though not all) is AOK.
/r/MensRights03/07/14 10:16 PM
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Feminism is a strange flavor of Marxism. Men and women are not individuals, but classes. Anything that is against feminism is therefore against women and pro men.
/r/MensRights03/07/14 09:51 PM
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Sexism is unwarranted discrimination on the basis of sex. In the real world, that is. Feminism has taught people that there's no difference between warranted discrimination (person A is better qualified than person B, A just happens to be male) and unwarranted discrimination (women gossip at work, so let's hire the man).
/r/MensRights03/07/14 09:50 PM
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Nobody's religious views have any bearing on anybody else's medical decisions. Those kinds of contraceptives are part of a basic level of medical care required to sustain human dignity. You are free to argue that certain things are not necessary, but again religion plays no role in that discussion.
/r/MensRights03/07/14 06:00 PM
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I don't particularly care if some lady gets knocked up somewhere. Rather, I don't care if that's a problem for her or not. I am, however, happy to help pay for medical care, including contraceptives, for her as a matter of policy. We have a large number of unwanted births as it is. Even the wanted children cost money to educate, feed, clothe, etc. They are for a long period of time a burden on society. Many will return that investment several times over. Many will not. Even if all children turne…
/r/MensRights03/07/14 05:55 PM
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Just hide their posts from your timeline. It's what I do for all the feminists I know. Some of them are otherwise good people, so I don't want to cut ties completely. As for feminism itself, one of its central tenants is that any criticism of feminism is an attack on women. The feminist worldview splits things into us versus them. Any feminist theory is correct and true, because it's created by "us." Anything that contradicts it is false, because it's created by "them."
/r/MensRights03/07/14 05:35 PM
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You can do the numbers yourself. They're claiming almost 1,000,000 unreported rapes per year (of women, of course, who cares about men). Currently accepted statistics place the lifetime chance of rape at about 1 in 25. Too high, but a believable number. Add in an additional million rapes per year, that number jumps to 2 in 5. Even the highly flawed Koss study didn't find a number that high. Others have presented the details elsewhere, but it's often worth looking at a broad picture first. If I t…
/r/MensRights02/07/14 02:17 AM
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Because of their idea of a class structure, when they exhibit bigotry it's acceptable. But bigotry is not acceptable in other classes.
/r/MensRights02/07/14 02:09 AM
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You make a perfect point. This approach assumes that only those who are truly disturbing the peace are actually arrested. Of course, the police today don't need to resort to "disturbing the peace" to arrest somebody they don't like. They just do it and cite some much more serious crime.
/r/MensRights02/07/14 02:08 AM
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Well, yes and no. The feminist worldview doesn't view people as equals with the same social rights and responsibilities. It views people primarily as elements of a class. Generally as elements in the class of men or class of women, but also sometimes as the class of homosexuals and heterosexuals. However they cut it, the class has a single, common will. Classes are in a strict hierarchical order, dividing the oppressors from the oppressed. So in their mind, the fact that 77% of women do not cons…
/r/MensRights29/06/14 11:19 PM
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I'd like to see public nuisance laws actually used. Protesters have the right to be whereever they want on public property. They do not have the right to prevent anybody from going on with their own personal business, regardless of if it's with the clinic or not. If I stand in from of 7-11 and scream about monkey poo filling up the library, I get arrested for disturbing the peace.
/r/MensRights29/06/14 11:12 PM
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Good pair of comments: "Women should have the same responsibilities." And reply: "Especially if they're going to vote- otherwise they may make decisions regarding the draft that people affected by it wouldn't make." Equality means equal rights and responsibilities, not equal representation.
/r/MensRights28/06/14 04:08 PM
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Not that being better than CNN, MSNBC, and Fox takes much, but I expect better journalism from Al Jazeera.
/r/MensRights28/06/14 07:57 AM
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A lot, actually. Social work is a very important field. As great as the hard sciences are, more people are effected by social workers than engineers and scientist (at least directly). Social workers are the people who help out those otherwise left behind by society. Their needs and the appropriate solutions need to be addressed. Leaving it all to many of the lowest-qualified individuals capable of doing social work is detrimental. Now keep in mind that, because men have a larger variation in IQ,…
/r/MensRights26/06/14 10:47 PM
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How does adulthood matter here? The very same act, committed by the very same people, under the vary same circumstances, with ONLY a change it geographic location, would be completely legal, and in many places considered entirely normal. Had he been 15, would that fundamentally change the nature of the act? Would she still be a victim? If she is, why not him? Do you feel she is at more risk from a 19 year old male than a 15 year old male?
/r/MensRights26/06/14 10:37 PM
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and even two individuals who are both under the age of consent If this isn't inherently obviously absurd I don't know what is. Guess what? You're a rape victim and rapist due to the same event.
/r/MensRights26/06/14 10:33 PM
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This graphic would be a bit more meaningful if normalized for the expected ratio based on IQ. At high IQ ranges, there's a natural overabundance of men (and likewise at low IQ ranges -- it's at the average that there are more women than men).
/r/MensRights26/06/14 10:21 PM
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Need some help here. Is that video satire? Or not? Okay, it's obviously satire, but it's not clear if it's actually supposed to point out the stupidity of "enthusiastic, repeated consent" or not.
/r/MensRights26/06/14 09:49 PM
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Long and short, that claim is made any time sexual assault comes up. So often that people who want to believe it will without question. When you do point out stats, it either becomes 1 in 4 is sexually assaulted, to the point of including the dreaded "male gaze" as a type of sexual assault. It's a big, bad bullet point, and feminism cares about how people fear something instead of their actual rate of victimhood.
/r/MensRights25/06/14 10:39 PM
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To be fair, the idea of a women giving birth to children she is not genetically related to is very new. Furthermore, environment is very important, sometimes moreso than genetics. How much motherhood is implicit in carrying and birthing the child is not clear. That being said, a woman unable to carry her child, but otherwise carrying usable eggs, and her sperm-donor and/or husband would be placed on the birth certificate. Lesbians have done similar successfully, too, I believe. The idea that men…
/r/MensRights23/06/14 08:54 PM
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As much as I agree with the quote itself, what is the idea of womanhood that the pope has? Are women to embrace their position in the world as cooks and nannies (which I would strongly disagree with), or are women fully realized individuals whose interests and abilities are as diverse as mens', and as such deserve the right to find their own meaning in life (which I would agree with). Honest question. I'm not at all a fan of religion, particularly not the Catholic Church, but I'm willing to give…
/r/MensRights23/06/14 08:47 PM
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The MRM and feminism have much different approaches to social problems. Feminism views all social problems as class-based. All problems faced by a women (or LGBT person) is ultimately due to discrimination by men (or heterosexuals). There is an a priori conclusion that sexism (or homophobia) is the problem and feminism is the solution. The Men's Rights Movement views social problems as violations of individual rights. The MRM views people as fundamentally equal and without inherent membership in…
/r/MensRights23/06/14 03:25 AM
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Women tend to get lighter punishments and fewer convictions for committing crimes in the exact same circumstances. Do you think that first-time offender options are not also likewise skewed?
/r/MensRights23/06/14 03:08 AM
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The postmodernist mindset dictates that what matters are the words and how one feels about them. What they actually mean doesn't matter. It's basically Humpty Dumpty: the words mean whatever I want them to mean. They believe that if they change their definition of the word, they actually change the events that happened. If, on Friday, "hot" means a temperature above 100 degrees, and then on Sunday means a temperature below 32 degrees, then on Sunday, the statement "I was burned by a hot iron on …
/r/MensRights22/06/14 08:52 PM
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"When you make assumptions about me because of my sex/race/etc, that is bad. When I do it to you, it's acceptable because you oppress me." These people harbor a worldview in which people are fundamentally different, divided into oppressed and oppressor. The rules that govern them are entirely different. There is even different logic and science for the oppressed and oppressors.
/r/MensRights22/06/14 08:43 PM
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Sure. I think there are bigger, non-gendered issues that would benefit all people more than solving the gendered issues. Poverty, crime, hunger, education, environment, etc. Those all have an impact on equality that is independent of sex. But, some people feel the issues women face are more important, or that at least they can help more in that area. Likewise for men. Or for topics like car safety or local politics. it's useful to have different labels for those things.
/r/MensRights21/06/14 05:57 AM
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There's a bigger difference than the particular problems Men's Rights advocates and feminists. The Men's right's movement has no particular ideology or dogma. It is simply the common belief that men face discrimination unique to men on the basis of being men. Feminism, at the very least in it's modern incarnation, is not the female analog. Feminism is a movement with an ideology that in short states that masculinity is a social problem to be defeated. It's rooted in a strange Marx-like model of …
/r/MensRights21/06/14 04:52 AM
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I consider myself a humanist and egalitarian because I don't particularly care what sex a person is. If they are being deprived of fundamental human rights, they ought to have them restored. But there's no one-size-fits-all solution to thing. Think back to the 1960s. The issues men faced that deprived them of fundamental rights and the issues women faced that deprived them of fundamental rights were much different. You need different solutions. So you need different approaches.
/r/MensRights21/06/14 04:39 AM
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Let me get this straight. This administration has a "Council on Women and Girls" which is to address issues specifically facing females, and will be creating one for racial-minority young men. But 1,000 signatories are concerned that women and girls aren't getting enough attention in the male version of their own council? Are they basically complaining that in a public building with an equal number of male and female bathrooms, excluding women from the men's room is discrimination?
/r/MensRights21/06/14 03:27 AM
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Dumb rehash of the same stuff you find everywhere. It's basically all sortable into two categories. Things that are good idea for any kind of interpersonal relationship, regardless of sex or romance, such as "get vaccinated," and overtly sexist feminist talking points, such as "make sure a women is giving an opinion." Here's one I found really funny: "Challenge people who make, say, or post sexist things on the Internet, especially on social media." Well, this I agree with, though I have a feeli…
/r/MensRights20/06/14 04:05 AM
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The idea is that criminalizing the selling of sex would push it into a criminal arena, placing prostitutes at greater risk for exploitation and customers are greater risk for violent crime. Of course, if you can only sell your services to so-called "criminals" then that kinda doesn't help anymore. The concept of removing the practice from a criminal area is good, but the execution is bad.
/r/MensRights20/06/14 03:35 AM
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It almost all comes down to male disposability. The loss of a woman (or child) is considered a great loss, whereas the loss of a man is considered bad only in so far as it hurts the people he leaves behind. To be fair, there's biological origins to this. If half a tribe's male population is killed off, in 20 years things are back to normal. Kill off half the women in a tribe, and in 20 years the tribe is probably gone. Our modern ultra-politically correct society refuses to consider biological o…
/r/MensRights17/06/14 12:43 AM
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If you have people you expect to get violent or disruptive, keep a camera on them at all times. Most conferences have videos of all panels anyway.
/r/MensRights17/06/14 12:32 AM
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Same here. I agree largely with the stated principles of the left. However, their methods have driven me away. Their embrace of the extreme left has, too. That all said, Men's Human Rights issues are not inherently a right or left issue.
/r/MensRights14/06/14 01:09 AM
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I'd say yes, pay the same. All employees should have apple paid time of for personal affairs. If somebody needs three days off a month to deal with menstral issues, they should have it in addition to regular vacation. Others can use the time for other health issues. Those who wish can use the time to learn job related skills or work extra hours.
/r/MensRights13/06/14 07:58 PM
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I stopped reading at "gendered knowledge." Is the fact that 2+2 = 4 male or female knowledge? Does a women who knows this hiding the fact that she's a man in disguise? Or can both sexes have separate male and female knowledge? Can I use two bits of male knowledge to derive new knowledge? Or can only the combination of male and female knowledge produce new knowledge? If something was discovered by a woman, does that mean women can understand it, but men have to discover it on their own?
/r/MensRights13/06/14 03:01 AM
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Meh, I'll deal with this one. Not exactly challenging. Feminists support an agenda that considers men inherently evil and the cause of all social problems. Play semantic word games about how that doesn't constitute "hate" but it's clear that there is an extreme dislike of a whole segment of the species on the basis of sex. More hypocrisy. Feminist don't complain about benevolent anything. They enjoy it, and often demand it. MHRAs generally feel all socially imposed gender roles are restrictive, …
/r/MensRights13/06/14 02:55 AM
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Always be recording. If you have a video of yourself leaving class, going to the library, studying in the library, then going to your dorm room, then you have evidence you did not actually rape anybody. Well, don't let it show your face, since you know, you can rape women just by looking at them.
/r/MensRights13/06/14 02:15 AM
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I think the author doesn't know that feminism considers holding a door open, paying for a meal, beating a woman, and raping a woman to differ only in the degree of oppression they represent. It's nothing new.
/r/MensRights04/06/14 12:43 PM
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Don't have a mirror, but I recommend a VPN service. As for the content, basically Colbert said that it's okay for white people to be afraid of black people. Sure, just 0.009% of the black population is dangerous, but why take that chance? It's really upon the black community to change their image so white people don't fear them. Now change "black" to "male" and "white" to "woman."
/r/MensRights04/06/14 12:35 PM
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There's no double standard once you've had "an olympic pool of kool-aid." People are fundamentally either oppressed or oppressors. Everything else is a result of that. Judging Arabs by what a few Arabs did is prejudice. Not because being Arab has nothing to do with being more or less violent, but because Arabs are oppressed. Judging women by what most women do is also prejudice, because it doesn't matter what women actually do, only that they are an oppressed group. Judging all men for what a si…
/r/MensRights04/06/14 12:21 PM
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There's important information on how these statistics were collected that you should know. It was a telephone random sample. Only about 30% participated, which skews the numbers towards people with something to tell. Victimization was not determined by interviewees' own assessment, but by the researchers'. In many ways, it's similar to the Koss methodology, which is extremely dubious. They extrapolated numbers from their sample to the whole country. As already mentioned, this greatly inflates nu…
/r/MensRights03/06/14 09:41 PM
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"Rape apologist" oaf just an euphemism for "heretic," one who questions orthodoxy. Modern feminism is like a cult or religion. Calling somebody a sinner or pagan or apostate isn't libel.
/r/MensRights02/06/14 05:32 PM
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Gender studies is just an epithet for "women's studies." There's nothing wrong with studying the female side of things in particular, as long as it's balanced. However, the existence of gender studies was due to political pressure brought on by feminists. In their view, women were equals who needed reparation for an essential eternity of oppression by men. The goal of gender studies was to highlight the oppression of women by men. This a priori conclusion shaped the whole field of study. It's an…
/r/MensRights21/05/14 02:55 AM
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No, a gay man in a wheel-chair still has 10% more privilege than a woman does. That's how great it is to be male.
/r/MensRights08/05/14 01:59 AM
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Those positions aren't "traditionally female" solely on the basis of social expectations. Women tend to prefer very social, very personal, very intimate activities, moreso than men. Men tend to prefer very goal based, very individual, very abstract activities, moreso than women. If you look at some of the countries with the highest degree of gender equality, you find that women gravitate towards typically female jobs, and men likewise. Compare this to countries with low gender equality. Women th…
/r/MensRights08/05/14 01:56 AM
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Isn't this the guy who promoted the idea of "being a guy is like playing the video game of life on easy?" I think he's actually commented here (r/MR) before, but I could be mistaken. In any case, he's just trying the same old tactic of framing violence as a male-on-female problem. (1) He ignores the fact that internet threats are almost entirely empty. (2) Tries to hold men collectively accountable for the small amount of men who actually do make serious threats. It's like a guy holding all wome…
/r/MensRights08/05/14 01:47 AM
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The studio can offer men-only, women-only, and co-ed yoga.
/r/MensRights08/05/14 01:43 AM
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Check your low-tempurature privilege, gooooooooooosh. You can't erase us polyphasic individuals who don't need no fluid state.
/r/MensRights07/05/14 02:00 AM
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Various polls suggest that it is women, not men, who are the deciding factor when it comes to opposition to abortion. This would explain a few things. One, why even though more women than men vote, laws are often passed limiting abortion rights. (How would the majority female electorate feel about paper abortions, though?) Two, how, despite a total majority of people being in favor of abortion rights, the law is often still hostile when it comes to those rights. Three, that's it's not men inflic…
/r/MensRights07/05/14 01:50 AM
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Feminist "theory" presupposes that any and every statistical deviation from numerically equal representation is due to discrimination. It's essentially a religious creed. Anecdotal evidence is the highest form of evidence, trumping all others. Any evidence to the contrary therefore must be flawed.
/r/MensRights06/05/14 02:47 PM
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This is from the same report that states 1 in 5 women have been rape victims. That number is high, based on classifying many things the victims would not classify as rape, as rape. This should cast doubt on the whole study. However, this is the same metric used to count female rape victims for almost 30 years now. If you use the same basic metric for men, you get the same number of male victims. For all the flaws of the study, which basically mean that rape rates are estimated about ten times to…
/r/MensRights05/05/14 11:27 PM
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Ignore the question of the particular crime for a moment. A major part of the court system is plea bargaining. This spares all parties (including tax payers) lengthy court proceedings. Sometimes a crime is committed and there is so little evidence that the prosecutor will decline to press changes. Other times the evidence is so clear the prosecutor will just throw the book at them. Most of the time, evidence isn't so clear. By offering or accepting a plea bargain, the state obtains a certain deg…
/r/MensRights05/05/14 11:18 PM
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You sound like an egalitarian. You may be what people call a liberal feminist, which is basically an egalitarian with a focus on women's issues. Contrast this with gender feminists, who believe men and women to be in eternal conflict with each other, unable to find mutually beneficial social arrangement. I don't know that I'd agree with a lot of your opinions, but from what you wrote it seems you reached them by careful thought, not adherence to social pressure. That would make you wired right, …
/r/MensRights03/05/14 04:41 PM
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Transparency is a good thing. In a truly fair legal system, being accused would mean nothing more than just that. The media would not sensationalize things and leave people judged by public opinion before given a chance to even know what they're accused of. People would accept the courts' decisions, understanding that even if "not guilty" doesn't mean "innocent," it's better to let a few criminals go free than imprison an innocent. In reality, any accusation of a serious crime is already a form …
/r/MensRights03/05/14 04:19 PM
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Her analysis is petty good. Rapes is not as common as thr report indicates. Most of the problems with the report are related to the nature of the survey. Yet there's a large symmetry between male and female victims. It's possible that most men had drunk sex and most women were raped. It's also equally possible that most men were raped and most women had drunk sex. The data supports both conclusions equally, given the broad nature of the definition. This is the same standard used for the alarmist…
/r/MensRights01/05/14 04:47 PM
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"research that clearly shows that men and women are equally likely to be arrested in such incidents" I'm curious about this claim. I don't care much for the vague "as long as the circumstances were similar". Where's the actual data? How is severity measured? I'd be really glad if the Duluth model was being abandoned. If this is one less thing to complain about, I think most people here would be happy.
/r/MensRights01/05/14 02:08 AM
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I wouldn't necessarily agree with the above comments, but there is one simple fact. You can't change her behavior, only yours. But if you give her reason to think you've changed, she may at least stop harassing you. You shouldn't have to live a lie, but as a practical matter you have to figure out if jerking off and fucking are more important to you than your privacy. Then when you get your own place you'll have an excuse to fuck your brains out.
/r/MensRights29/04/14 10:53 PM
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Depending on the state, she can easily call the police on him for that. If it's her home, she has absolute right to every part of the domicile. Locking her out is comparable to illegal detention. They'd probably just tell him he can't do that, since it's not worth their time to fill out the paperwork for such a simple issue. But it's not a good long-term solution. Until he's got a solid thing lined up to get out, it may do more harm than good. only he would know his mother well enough to make th…
/r/MensRights29/04/14 10:50 PM
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I think this talk is perhaps the single most important discussion of sex differences. It explains a vast amount of how the fairly simple differences between men and women lead to very different behaviors and statistical outcomes. Those of us who are concerned about how sex should influence modern life need to understand where these differences come from if we want to "correct" them, if they even should be corrected instead of embraced as diversity.
/r/MensRights29/04/14 10:46 PM
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This was done at "Division of Intramural Research at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine." It's part of NIH, but this sounds a bit fishy to me. Also, this clearly needs a double-blind trial.
/r/MensRights29/04/14 02:52 AM
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Rather mimics real life. Men do all kinds of things for women they don't do for men. It's a double-edged sword. If you want attention, you get it. If you don't want attention, you get it.
/r/MensRights29/04/14 02:39 AM
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Men generally don't whine about it because they recognize it for what it is. Generally wanna-be tough-guys most of whom would shit themselves if they actually tried any of that away from the keyboard. Yet feminism has taught women that they should feel violated, assaulted, and be in fear from the same kind of behavior.
/r/MensRights29/04/14 02:35 AM
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The problem is that feminist discourse places the blame for all bad behavior done by men on all men collectively. People wouldn't have to point out "not all men" if they accusation wasn't made against all men. You're to blame if you're male, either because you did something bad, or because you enable men to do something bad.
/r/MensRights29/04/14 02:28 AM
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For the most part, even if they did, most would realize that they have the choice between living in fear and letting that fear hurt them more than an assailant, or to just go on with their lives as best they can.
/r/MensRights28/04/14 09:47 PM
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This driver did exactly the right thing. He defended himself when attacked, but avoided escalating the situation by stopping any physical confrontation once he was on no more immediate danger.
/r/MensRights26/04/14 04:53 PM
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I don't know if you mean to say that because it's anecdotal it doesn't carry any weight. Maybe it's just the people I know, that's true. But I have a feeling a lot of people are in a similar situation. The feminists they know, who actively promote feminism for whatever reason, are not out to hate men for the sake of hate, but because they are part of essentially a cult that makes them unable to see the failings of their ideology. It's hard to deal with them, because they may actually listen to y…
/r/MensRights25/04/14 05:36 PM
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I know a lot of feminists who are very helpful, friendly, caring people. Unless it comes to feminism. Then they become angry, spiteful, and hateful.
/r/MensRights25/04/14 05:20 PM
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I have no problem with sex-based jokes. It's a joke. I feel no offense at playing at a male stereotype for the same reason that women should feel no offense at playing at a female stereotype. It's a joke. It's the people that take this as "evidence" that are the problem.
/r/MensRights25/04/14 05:19 PM
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Neither movement is made of homogenous groups of people. Many feminists actually do support rights for men and support real equality. Many feminists dislike dishonest statistics like the 1-in-4 rape statistic or the 77 cent wage statistic. If there are real problems, fighting imaginary ones won't help. Feminism, however, is a movement, lead largely by radical feminists. Most social movements try to distance themselves from the radicals. Feminism largely supports even the most radical feminists, …
/r/MensRights25/04/14 05:11 PM
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Downvoting bots? Isn't that against the TOS? Any way to automatically detect them?
/r/MensRights25/04/14 04:55 PM
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The central idea of the progressive approach is that advances in science, technology, and general knowledge can improve humanity. This strong tie to science (instead of ideology) cultivates an objective approach to solving problems, as opposed to politics which is often a solution in search of a problem. That's not to say that there's not a lot of people who call themselves progressives who are really regressives. Their concept of progress is simply a move towards their own ideology. It's a diff…
/r/MensRights22/04/14 01:09 AM
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It's about as useful as asking guys not to screw any chick that's got a pulse and a vagina. It's got its merits, but it's not a practical solution. The theoretical "best" solution is useless if you can't obtain it.
/r/MensRights22/04/14 01:05 AM
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I'm sorry you had bad experiences with some users here. Many of us who campaign for equal treatment of men absolutely do not condone that kind of behavior. Just because somebody sports the same goals does not free them of criticismfrom the rest of us. Actually, I want to be one of the first to tell them their behavior is unacceptable. That is not the behavior men's human rights activists encourage. This subreddit accepts all who are willing to debate in good faith. This will lead to disagreement…
/r/MensRights19/04/14 10:02 PM
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Journalistic integrity. The news should exist to investigate all claims made by social movements and politicians. To ask the hard questions. To foster real, good-faith debate. Not earn clicks.
/r/MensRights19/04/14 09:45 PM
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How so? The progressive approach is to place results first, politics second.
/r/MensRights19/04/14 09:23 PM
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My goal is to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies by the largest amount for the least cost. If that's done by subsidizing only women, I don't care. If it's by subsidizing only men, that's fine, too. The most cost effective way is probably to also provide condoms to everybody, period. Given how much cheaper they are, they're probably the more cost effective measure. But again, I care more about what gets the job done rather than I'd it is "fair." The additional benefit of preventing disease…
/r/MensRights19/04/14 09:22 PM
4

Most people don't understand there's a filtering mechanism at work here. Girls are more clustered towards average. So at the very high and very low ranges you have more boys. Since below a certain level of performance children cannot participate in normal schooling, for the most part it's largely boys that are eliminated from the pool. This shifts the balance upward for boys WHEN COUNTING only those in school. My guess as to why certain Nordic countries have more equality here is that in their s…
/r/MensRights19/04/14 01:35 PM
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Nordic countries instituted a very liberal (as in, a lot of it) work policy. Citizens there have much more time outside of work to spend with family, hobbies, community, etc. This means men and women can both pursue their interests. The need for high success in the workplace is eliminated. Ultimately, this means men and women choose somewhat sex-typical activities and careers.
/r/MensRights19/04/14 01:30 PM
2

I agree with you completely except on the issue of progressiveness. If your metric of hobbies is the score, the progressive goal is to increase that number as much as possible. If the number of hobbies goes from Boy:5, Girl:3 to Boy:7, Girl:4 that's a desirable outcome. The total number of hobbies has gone up. The girl is now in a better "hobby" position.
/r/MensRights19/04/14 01:28 PM
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I don't mind subsidizing womens' medical care. It's cheaper for me to spend a bit of money on getting them birth control or if needed abortions, than to have them pop out kids every year or two. This is especially true for lower-income women, who are more likely to have many children and more likely to have those children grow up in subpar conditions. They are likely to grow up to continue a cycle of poverty, which robs the society of capable workers and productive citizens. Instead, give them t…
/r/MensRights19/04/14 01:24 PM
1

Sounds like they may have a few more members than the Association for Gay Black Jewish Architects Who Didn't Like Dances With Wolves.
/r/MensRights16/04/14 01:43 PM
2

Simple test: are the same pamphlets used for both men and women? If not, there's a problem.
/r/MensRights16/04/14 01:21 PM
1

I can't help but think of the time my high school teacher was furious that nobody stopped the fight that had happened earlier that day. Actually physical fights were pretty rare. All I could think, having seen the fight first hand, was that had I tried to stop it, I'd have been expelled, too.
/r/MensRights16/04/14 01:20 PM
1

I asked my urologist about a vasectomy. He asked the standard questions, marriage, children, etc. I only had to explain why it was important to me in that context, to make sure I was fully informed about the consequences. Once that was clear, he had no problem giving me a referral. I was unmarried and out of a relationship, and he had no problem with it.
/r/MensRights16/04/14 01:14 PM
2

They're not actually against gender roles, they're just against gender roles that don't benefit them. Like any other anti-liberal movement, it considers progress to be imposition of their preferred rules over the rules they dislike.
/r/MensRights08/04/14 02:35 AM
13

For feminism, any society that does not ensure that 100% of women 100% of the time never have to deal with any unwanted sexual topic, is rape culture. For me? Rape culture means a culture so obsessed with rape that it holds that particular crime to entirely different legal and social standards. It's one where rape alone is so vilified that even the accusation is tantamount to a guilty verdict. Where everything sexually unpleasant (for women) is considered a "kind of rape," which in turn diminish…
/r/MensRights06/04/14 02:38 PM
1

Men's Human Rights Advocates value people for their ideas, their thoughts, their perspectives, and their efforts. Your race, creed, orientation, identity, etc. are important only so far as they influence the above. In general, you're even welcome here if you're not an MRA, so long as you are understanding of the difficulties many here have faced as a result of their sex and make any arguments in good faith of learning and understanding.
/r/MensRights06/04/14 02:28 PM
2

While that statistic does show how similar male-female and female-male sexual nagging is, as well as actual assault, and as much as I'd love to hear a feminist explain why a man nagging a women for sex is bad whereas a woman nagging a man for sex is fine (*), bad statistics are bad statistics. Let the feminists toss out meaningless numbers, they're that much easier to shoot down. There's plenty of real numbers out there to make the case that men get discriminated against in many areas. (*) i'm s…
/r/MensRights01/04/14 10:52 PM
2

Thanks for the clarification. I have to wonder what the definition of "participant" is.
/r/MensRights30/03/14 08:30 PM
4

If i could snap my fingers and end domestic violence against women, I would. Domestic violence against women is a terrible thing. Just as domestic violence against men is a terrible thing. I have to encourage anything the ends violence against ANYBODY. Also keep in mind what happens to people who advocate for men's human rights. They get attacked and attacked relentlessly. Feminists call for their heads. Nevermind all the good somebody may have done specifically for women. Advocate in favor of m…
/r/MensRights30/03/14 08:28 PM
2

I am not a lawyer. In almost all US states it's illegal to record somebody in a way that breaches their privacy. What this ultimately means is up to the courts, but in general means that you can record anything you see or hear WITHOUT exceptional means. This makes a discreet recording that much better, because it's very hard to argue that a small camera placed on your person is going to be intrusive. A $10k spy camera, sure that can be made small enough, but any regular cell-phone like device on…
/r/MensRights30/03/14 08:16 PM
0

Tumblr is part of what makes modern feminism possible. It's an echo chamber where feminists are isolated from any kind of criticism or common sense. Even a well-intentioned feminist will start believing any kind of feminist dogma if it's all he hears and reads. Even if they don't use tumblr themselves, the influence is felt through those who use tumblr and share content from there to other sites. We can't do much about what is taught in Women's Studies courses, but tumblr is probably the number-…
/r/MensRights30/03/14 08:10 PM
2

Conservatives used to be considered the rational side, until they by-and-large got in bed with religious fundamentalists. As the rational conservatives refused this intrusion, the Neo-Cons arose. Liberal ideologues saw how well the fundamentalist approach worked for them, and since they couldn't turn to religious fundamentalism, found another fundamentalism to promote: social justice. Thus the Neo-Lib arose a few decades after the Neo-Con. The remaining conservatives and liberals felt they had l…
/r/MensRights30/03/14 03:31 AM
3

Misleading title, on the part of the original author. There's a key sentance buried in the end of the article. Women who do not have children are ALSO chastizing those who leave work early. Many employers will work to allow flexibility. Need to work fewer hours? Need to be home at a certain time? We won't fire you, we'll find you a task that fits your needs. Then some poeple have the gall to complain of being demoted. If you don't want to put in the extra hours, that's fine. Some people make the…
/r/MensRights08/03/14 07:11 PM
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It's the daily mail. They'd print a news article about the sky being green if somebody put a filter and took a picture of a bright sunny day. If you think this is newsworthy, post a link to the actual research. As for the claim itself, a 4 IQ point difference between averages can be explained by many factors that don't make men or women on average smarter or dumber. Men have a much bigger range of intelligences, both on the high and low side, and this has a big effect on potential bias selection…
/r/MensRights22/02/14 07:25 PM
1

You're both right. Feminists deny biology (all evidence, for that matter) where it doesn't suit them. But the question of male vulnerability is very much nature Thing is, it's not just vulnerability. More males die before procreating, but those that survive are stronger. Nature plays the dice more with men than women. A few men can keep a population going with sufficient women. But a few women can only have a few offspring no matter how many men are around. While the innate biological difference…
/r/MensRights20/02/14 02:37 AM
7

The author seems to have mis-understood the utility of academic freedom. All ideas are welcome. Those that are founded on solid evidence and analysis deserve to be considered regardless of whatever politically inconvenient. In fact, that is exactly when academic freedom is important: ideas that are unfavorable need to be given a chance to be heard on their own merits. And what about ideas that really are garbage? Put them out in the light for all to see. For all to criticize and ridicule. Honest…
/r/MensRights20/02/14 02:11 AM
10

+1 bigotry point for assuming only women make the best tweets. +1 bigotry point for justifying sexism with "but men used to be sexist against women"
/r/MensRights13/02/14 09:00 PM
0

How does the fraud compare with other government programs. It's not like VAWA is the only government program full of fraud and waste. Plenty of other reasons to criticize it that don't need to be elaborated here.
/r/MensRights13/02/14 08:52 PM
2

Sound like postmodern clap trap. Texts mean anything you want them to mean.
/r/MensRights06/02/14 04:20 PM
3

Feminism views all social interaction between men and women as a zero sum game. Men, in feminist theory, prosper only because women suffer. From this it follows that any improvement for women, otherwise a noble effort, must come by way of male suffering. This is not only bigotry against men but denies women means by which they can improve their lives though mutually beneficial arrangements with men. Anti-feminism is pro-women in many ways.
/r/MensRights06/02/14 02:38 PM
2

The feminist idea of "equality" is a strange one. It doesn't mean your sex doesn't determine your pay, your access to jobs, health care, government services, etc. In feminist theory, any way in which women as a group are in any way disadvantaged is sexism and discrimination. There's never any other acceptable explanation other than sexism. Any kind of evidence for a non-sexist explanation is actually due to sexism, just not always directly. Everything is sexism. Well, not when men have the worse…
/r/MensRights06/02/14 01:21 AM
14

Feminism has taught women to fear rape from every corner of life, at all times. How long before somebody files a rape charge against the artist for this? I mean, since men can rape women just by proximity.
/r/MensRights05/02/14 10:59 PM
2

Feminists needed a stereotype for anybody who disagreed with their ideology. So they found what is generally considered the least attractive example of their typical critic (straight white male), and decided that this is exactly what every MRA looks like. The fedora part is because a lot of socially-awkward types try to bolster their appearance by copying what looks good to them. Think of Indiana Jones, Humpry Bogart, Frank Sinatra, etc. The fedora look for a long time was associated with being …
/r/MensRights05/02/14 09:49 PM
4

"Real feminists wouldn't do this, but we're not going to do anything about all these non-real feminists exhibiting their bigotry in our name."
/r/MensRights05/02/14 09:04 PM
1

Liberalism is a political position that, for the purpose of contesting it with progressivism, is the opposite of conservatism. Progressivism is a political position that focuses on technological development and social organization as a means to better human life. Both liberals and conservatives view their political aims as what defines better human life. Progressives in contrast will choose whatever social organization best increases the quality of human life. Many liberals consider themselves p…
/r/MensRights05/02/14 08:28 PM
1

I agree.
/r/MensRights24/01/14 07:09 PM
7

"Sexual health educator Saleema Noon has been noodling the problem for years, since developing her popular iGirl workshops. "We've had so many people ask, What about our boys?" she says. "For years, girls have had so much support. I hate to say it, but it's almost to the detriment of boys."" I don't think a feminist planning to feminize boys would view the lack of support to boys as a problem. They would view this as a way to "cure" or "fix" boys. But you make a good point, and only time will te…
/r/MensRights17/01/14 08:19 PM
3

Clearly the patriarchy is just backfiring. All that oppressing must be too much for some poeple to handle.
/r/MensRights17/01/14 08:06 PM
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You beat me to it. Feminists tend to be so enamored with themselves they think they can do no wrong. Funny thing is, they are NOT progressives. The progressive approach is to avoid idology alltogether. Liberals have redefined "fairness" to mean "any differences are bad." Progressives accept the reality that poeple are different and there is nothing wrong with that.
/r/MensRights17/01/14 08:02 PM
2

This just reminds me of how many women will use their period as an excuse when it suits them, but get offended if anybody dares presume their period may affect their behavior.
/r/MensRights16/01/14 08:45 PM
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Men, especially white, heterosexual men, are a socially acceptable group to discriminate against. In the end, it doesn't matter what your sex, race, religion, age, orientation, or anything is. People are still people, and people love to hate anybody they can view as an inherently bad group.
/r/MensRights14/01/14 03:54 AM
0

Statutory rape laws exist to protect virgin womens' "value" as unmarried ladies. You'd think that if feminists actually were against viewing women as the lesser sex, this would be one of the first things they'd be against. But no, the more they can claim as rape, the happier they are.
/r/MensRights14/01/14 03:51 AM
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I'm probably in a minority in saying that I'm glad I was circumcised as an infant. I also prefer the look and feel. If I were more sensitive I doubt I could engage in sex as long as I do now. That's not to say that body modification on an infant isn't a pretty big issue and rightly so. Those who think it's an important issue should address it. I just don't think it's that much of a problem. In the end, if YOU are happy with it, THAT'S what matters. Your circumcision status is not a tool for my s…
/r/MensRights10/01/14 11:03 PM
1

In many cases, you can assume it just means "using logic and/or evidence to construct an argument."
/r/MensRights10/01/14 04:32 AM
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A woman who would use the same argument as a man suffers from internalized misogyny. There is absolutely no logical argument against feminism. Whatsoever. Anywhere.
/r/MensRights10/01/14 04:30 AM
4

There's a big difference between being coerced and making a bad decision.
/r/MensRights07/01/14 09:12 PM
1

Mentioning rape gets you page views.
/r/MensRights07/01/14 09:06 PM
1

I often ask for references so that I have the best available information to use when people who do not agree with me claim I don't know what I'm talking about.
/r/MensRights05/01/14 07:57 PM
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Look up the Sokal affair. In sociology, peer review tends to be looking for certain keywords, like "privilege, modern, interpretation, etc." Put in the right keywords and your work is considered rigorous. Sadly, it's taught a lot of sociology students that putting the right words in makes their "research" legitimate.
/r/MensRights05/01/14 05:41 PM
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Don't confuse dissent with naiveté. Just because somebody doesn't agree doesn't mean they don't understand.
/r/MensRights02/01/14 09:53 PM
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"The Penny Arcade Web comic that spawned PAX could be seen as a birthplace of gamer culture" Well, any credibility I was willing to give for the benefit of the doubt has gone. The gamer community for a long time had only one standard: can you play? Your sex, orientation, age, etc didn't matter. You were there to play. Politics, religion, etc all were for a different time and place. You were there to PLAY. Then came feminism. It saw culture with mostly males and desired it. Instead of adapting to…
/r/MensRights02/01/14 03:39 AM
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It's an essay that many people feel expresses a lot of their own thought. I don't think it's meant to be factual.
/r/MensRights02/01/14 03:28 AM
0

Unisex changing rooms. Individual stalls for all. Problem solved. Plenty of countries do this.
/r/MensRights01/01/14 07:56 PM
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Good to hear that there's others out there who understand that there's only so far you can accommodate people with different needs. The fundamental issue is that they're trying to legislate equality, which will never work. You take a transgendered man and a non-transgendered man next to each other, naked as one often is in a locker room, and you can't tell them apart. (Unless the transgendered man had MtF sex change.) To me it makes more sense to draw the line at pre/post-op.
/r/MensRights01/01/14 07:55 PM
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I've found that fairness and equality mean some very strange things to feminists. To me, fairness and equality means that a person's sex, race, etc. should not prevent them from obtaining services, opportunities, etc. Feminist ideas of equality and fairness mean that everybody should be pushed into the same mould. Any bias that favors men is only at the cost of women. They view fairness as a zero-sum game in which men can only prosper at the expensive of women.
/r/MensRights31/12/13 07:55 PM
1

No disagreement with you on that.
/r/MensRights30/12/13 02:06 AM
2

You'll forgive me, if I don't understand what you mean, but you think it's okay for others to prescribe whom people are allowed to be attracted to?
/r/MensRights30/12/13 01:01 AM
3

That's part of history I think we can leave behind us.
/r/MensRights29/12/13 10:24 PM
1

Neither do I. But it works well for a lot of people. It's no skin off my back if a woman dates an older man, a younger man, an older woman, a younger woman, is in a biracial relationship, etc. etc. Real diversity is people having very, well, diverse tastes. Telling others who they should and should not find attractive is for the ignorant.
/r/MensRights29/12/13 09:54 PM
0

I think it says something about the feminists who think this is about feminism, and think that she's entirely in her right mind attacking men and whites (the OPPRESSORS) this way.
/r/MensRights29/12/13 09:46 PM
-1

only about 1 in 33,000 people are transgendered.
/r/MensRights29/12/13 05:58 AM
1

Great video, great journalism.
/r/MensRights28/12/13 04:17 AM
2

Your work? As far as "Sucker Punch" goes, the author shouldn't make a comment about the content without having actually watched the film.
/r/MensRights28/12/13 03:26 AM
1

Do you really think I dont agree with you?
/r/MensRights27/12/13 03:25 AM
6

You're right that extrapolating from a single point to a larger region is dangerous. However, where is the data that suggests that suicides go up during holidays? All the data we have shows otherwise, sparse as it is. Is there a table of suicides by month in different locations? Snopes is more than just a fact-checking site. It explains why people believe the myths they do.
/r/MensRights25/12/13 01:23 PM
2

No, it's not. Rape is a very serious issue and can be devastating to the victim. Though I don't know how you could think that rape is being equated with "nothing." If the term "something for nothing" isn't familiar to you, it means basically "you don't get to use an argument when it suits you but dismiss it when it doesn't."
/r/MensRights25/12/13 01:20 PM
1

At best it sprang as a counter to "gender studies." "Gender studies" is just feminism or women's studies with a less blatantly sexist name. Maybe in a parallel universe where gender studies are actually studies of the pros and cons of being male or female, the MRM did spring from gender studies.
/r/MensRights25/12/13 04:53 AM
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I remember this. If anything, you should think of male as playning the game of life on HARD. If you're a woman, you have it easy. Things are given to you with little or no work. Earning stuff is trivial, you're basically given what you need. The difficulty only increases a little as you progress. And if you screw up, the game is there to help you get back to where you were. If you're not very good at the game, you won't get very far, but you'd have to really screw up to lose. Then again, you als…
/r/MensRights25/12/13 03:38 AM
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I do hope anybody who needs help can get it. I know all too well. However, I do want to point out that the increased suicide risk over the holidays is a myth: http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/suicide.asp If you EVER need help, ANY time of the year, reach out.
/r/MensRights25/12/13 03:22 AM
2

Saw this recently on facebook and the first posted comment: "Down with Patriarchy." If boys and men are having trouble with masculinity, it's probably as much to do with genuine problems of gender role enforcement as it does with modern feminism trying to feminize them.
/r/MensRights25/12/13 02:51 AM
1

At least in my experience, men tend to just put their basic feelings out and expect perspective or advice. Women tend to be more elaborate and descriptive and expect confirmation of their feelings and compassion. Not that there's anything wrong with women doing the former and men doing the latter. But there are differences. I fear that this film will advocate a feminine-only style of emotional expression. Feelings over facts, sensitivity over truth, etc. If that works for people, good for them. …
/r/MensRights25/12/13 02:48 AM
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This topic particularly annoys me. Most people feel that the needs of the child trump the needs of the parents. This is the basis for child support payments, the idea being that as a parent a father (or in some rare cases, mother) bears responsibility for providing for the child before even providing for himself. The laws allow for this and the courts enforce it. The flip side of this is that the court has to accept the possibility of a criminal father being a better parent (or being able to bet…
/r/MensRights24/12/13 10:36 PM
1

Please don't call me a feminist. It's very insulting. You agree with me more than you realize. Given what a false rape accusation can do to a man, even AFTER being exonerated (or not found guilty in the first place), a false rape accuser should have to face a punishment of lifelong burden. 25 years would not be unreasonable. My point is simple. We are currently in an environment that makes it easy for women to make false rape claims. There are likely many men falsely imprisoned. At what point do…
/r/MensRights24/12/13 10:24 PM
0

Spot on about the sides taking a zero sum game approach. And I think that's where progressives are different from either conservatives or liberals. Conservative approach is basically "this worked before, don't change it. Everybody needs to adapt to it." Liberal approach is basically "this doesn't work now, so it has to change to adapt to everybody." A gross simplification, yes, but I'm trying to contrast this with what I mean by progressive. The progressive approach is "there is a better way, an…
/r/MensRights24/12/13 10:16 PM
3

They appropriated the playbook of religious fundamentalists. Conservatives 30 years ago were considered the reasonable, rational political group. Then they got in bed with the religious fundamentalists, and were taken over by an extremely conservative direction. Liberals then became the reasonable, rational political group, but now are following the same path. Many traditionally liberal institutions, such as gay rights movements, environmentalism, etc, got in bed with feminism. Like the conserva…
/r/MensRights24/12/13 06:56 PM
0

The idea behind Title IX investigations is that the police may simply not have enough evidence to proceed with criminal complaints. Sadly, the police generally care more about their own reputation and bottom line than justice. An additional investigation with the purpose of fact-finding is a good idea. The problem with Title IX investigations is that the standard is exceptionally low for "evidence." Any testimony is considered evidence, and the law explicitly states that a preponderance of evide…
/r/MensRights24/12/13 06:38 PM
2

So some of the sex gap in educational performance is artificial. Turns out boys and girls are a bit more equal than we thought. Gosh, this is so very surprising. (end sarcasm) There's two readily visible mechanics for boys getting lower grades for the same performance. (a) Female teachers are subconsciously biased towards girls and against boys. (b) Female teachers are feminists who are deliberately promoting girls over boys. The latter case is easy to solve in principle. Teach women to grade fa…
/r/MensRights24/12/13 06:28 PM
1

I'm a bit conflicted about the punishment for lying about rape. On the one hand, it's an extremely powerful tool women have to hurt men. Fair and just would be to sentence her to the same amount of time he spent (if not more). On the other hand, I would rather see a woman come forward and admit to perpetrating an injustice on an innocent man with little consequence to herself if it means freeing an unjustly imprisoned innocent man. Ultimately, I think the responsibility lies with the state: neve…
/r/MensRights24/12/13 05:53 PM
1

Yes, they are. They've fully committed to an essentially fundamentalist worldview in which they and they alone have final say on all morals and ethics. When they do it, it's different from when others do it, because they are right, because they say so. They're exactly like the religious zealots so many of them so very despise.
/r/MensRights23/12/13 11:40 PM
3

Feminism claims to be against gender roles, which they claim comes from patriarchy. In reality, they just want society to be lead by the gender roles they favor.
/r/MensRights09/10/13 08:31 PM
1

Going into STEM studies means long hours, hard work, and the only way to get respect is to earn it. Or go into gender studies where you are coddled, any random essay with the right keywords is considered a great academic achievement, and you are told you are entitled to respect for just putting up with things you don't like. Is it that surprising so many people choose the latter?
/r/MensRights09/10/13 06:30 PM
14

"Baby, let's have sex!" "Eh, not in the mood." "Please, I've had a bad day." "Okay, but I'm not turning off the TV." this sounds fairly normal to me, but is it coersive? Maybe a little, but it's leagues different from "if we don't have sex, I'm breaking up with you."
/r/MensRights09/10/13 06:08 PM
8

Change the word "boys" to "girls?"
/r/MensRights09/10/13 06:00 PM
2

You can literally string together a bunch of random words, and to these people, so long as it is grammatically correct, it makes sense. See the Sokal affair.
/r/MensRights25/09/13 06:20 PM
1

Tell the feminists that if you have a girls-only STEM school, non STEM girls will be left awash in a male-dominated environment, which, like everything else, is RAPE. Or partriachy. Or sexism. Well, all of the above, according to them. So you'll just have to create all-boys schools to keep non-STEM girls away from RAPE. Also, RAPE.
/r/MensRights10/09/13 08:25 PM
8

What is it called when you throw so much verbal bullshit at somebody they can't possibly reforms to it all, so you can claim victory? Feminists sure love to do that.
/r/MensRights06/09/13 02:38 PM
2

An 18 year old and a 14 year old in a relationship is hardly predatory. It's two people in love, who should be allowed the same rights as anybody else. I just wish the fact that it's two females wasn't what got some people to realize there's nothing wrong going on here.
/r/MensRights26/08/13 03:39 AM
3

I do hope you're joking, but for those still unfamiliar with the Koss "study," the one-in-five number, often reported as one in four or one in six, is a fabrication. Koss withdrew it, but feminist groups have been using it with disregard for the facts for 30 years now.
/r/MensRights20/08/13 01:08 PM
2

Why do you say that? Female rape victims are about 1 in 25, and there is a ratio of male to female rape victims of about 2 to 3, so 1 in 33 sounds entirely plausible. Not that there isn't still plenty of bullshit, but I think one-in-33 may be about accurate. Though if you have better sources, I'd gladly change my opinion.
/r/MensRights20/08/13 01:53 AM
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It's called "forced envelopment," which is rape in every sense of the word. A defense used by actual rapists(*) was that a woman consented because her vagina got wet, the idea being that if she were afraid or non-consenting, she'd be dry. That's not how biology works. The body will produce an involuntary sexual reaction given the right stimuli, no matter what. This is entirely true for men, who will become erect given minimal stimulation. Once erect and forced inside a vagina, a man can have an …
/r/MensRights20/08/13 01:51 AM
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http://www.theblockbot.com/ Holy crap, for the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an atheist. Not that I really consider "Atheism+" to be a legitimate expression of atheism on account of being so similar to a religion, but still. These people are using the atheist name in a shameful way. And just as I tell feminists they should be the first to call out feminists who are extremists, I feel the need to denounce Atheism+. I just don't know what the best way is.
/r/MensRights19/08/13 11:16 PM
4

This one is just personal anecdote, but examples tend to be. I socialize in very progressive circles, so I often meet groups of friends who are a mix of all different orientations. I had become friendly with a pair of girls and a guy, who were hetro, lesbian, and gay. The gay male told his friends that because I was straight, I would try to rape them if given the chance. One of the girls didn't talk to me for more than a year and the other still doesn't. Another example: I have a wonderful lesbi…
/r/MensRights24/05/12 02:21 AM
2

First time posting, didn't see this elsewhere on r/MR.
/r/MensRights23/12/11 06:02 PM
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got mine when I was 30, two years later I'm loving it. I'm childfree, which means I never want kids. The process was quick and simple, and the security it gives me is great. No need to worry about condoms (in a presumably monogamous relationship), her remembering or forgetting the pill, etc. At 18, I'd say wait. Not because you may not know already (though if you have doubts, DEFINITELY wait), but because if at 21 you go in for the procedure and say, "I've known for four years already" it makes …
/r/MensRights23/12/11 05:41 AM
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Except that you're drawing fake lines between adolescents and adults. The real difference you describe between somebody who is 15 and 25 is still present between somebody who is 25 and 35. Adolescents have every bit the ability for rational thought and understanding of consequences. The wisdom that comes from age helps in this regard, but it is not a deciding factor. The same way you think everybody younger than yourself is dumb and naive, everybody older than you thinks the same way about you.
/r/MensRights02/10/11 09:37 PM
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I take it you would call any case of sexual behavior involving an age disparity "exploitation?" What is the damage done? Because there are plenty of cases to document how illogical, inconsistent, pointless laws DO hurt REAL people. Perhaps the best example is where two teens are simultaneously the victims and perpetrators in the same "crime."
/r/MensRights02/10/11 05:46 AM
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You didn't. Yet, your obsessed with this age issue. Why do you harp on it when it's not relevant?
/r/MensRights02/10/11 05:35 AM
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No, you're just illogical. Nobody endorses these things, but you seem to focus on age, an unrelated issue. Let me explain it in very simple terms. Exploiting others for sex is bad. When you pretend only adults can prey on teens, you're turning a blind eye to the much more common situation where teens are doing this to each other. You are chasing boogiemen who don't really exist in appreciable number. When society adopts this kind of paranoia over reality-based policy, the wasted efforts could ha…
/r/MensRights02/10/11 05:26 AM
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Our PC society considers anything critical of sexual identity or orientation taboo. A transgender person gets assaulted, and it's automatically a hate crime. Meanwhile, a black gets assaulted and it's business as usual. A transgender person gets fired, it's discrimination. Meanwhile, Joe McAverage gets fired and it's too bad for him. A transgendered person who causes a scene in a public bathroom can't be arrested or it's discrimination. A non-trans person causes a scene in a public bathroom and …
/r/MensRights02/10/11 12:47 AM
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No. Again, you're conflating issues because you have no real argument to back up your position. Killing somebody is, with only few exceptions, a bad thing. How we deal with it is another matter. Justice is not morality, and certainly not your morality.
/r/MensRights01/10/11 05:01 PM
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You're one of the few who seem to listen and respond instead of just screaming "OPPRESSION!!"
/r/MensRights01/10/11 05:14 AM
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I've been looking for a good, short way to explain that major contradiction. You can take the position that gender is a continuum between two ends, and that all people fall along that spectrum, some just closer to one end than the other. Or you can take the position that gender is binary and that it only carries meaning when things are one or the other. And yet, many transgendered people proclaim the first position, only to get offended if you use the "wrong" pronoun.
/r/MensRights01/10/11 05:06 AM
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I doubt you understand what "privilege" means, though I don't blame you. Most people don't and the word is used incorrectly all the time. Privilege is a way of viewing groups and cultures interacting socially not as the prevailing thought has been in the past of "normal" versus "lacking" but how certain groups have advantages provided to them on the basis of being part of a certain group. You don't hear much about it because it's taboo to consider which advantages people in minority groups may h…
/r/MensRights01/10/11 05:03 AM
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If an act is bad in and of itself, it doesn't matter what age a person is. You are drawing arbitrary lines around things you like and dislike and then try to justify them after the fact. You can't find any reason to justify your dislike of relationships with an age disparity, so you conflate something you merely dislike with something that can objectively be considered bad.
/r/MensRights01/10/11 04:17 AM
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Or "homophobe."
/r/MensRights30/09/11 02:46 AM
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You argue that it is bad for a person who is significantly older than the female to have sex with her because he uses influence over her to get her to give consent. You then state that it is perfectly fine for another sixteen year old to have sex with her. Are you saying that a 16 year old boy doesn't know how or won't put pressure on a girl his own age to have sex with him? Then you are woefully ignorant, but I doubt that. Are you saying that nobody should be allowed to pressure another person …
/r/MensRights30/09/11 02:12 AM
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You're basically saying it's okay if a 16 year old boy pressures a 16 year old girl into sex, but it's not okay if an 18 year old boy pressures a 16 year old girl into sex. Your intentions are probably good, but your understanding of the world is seriously flawed.
/r/MensRights29/09/11 10:30 PM
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[they] take on a more feminine, submissive vibe, which is not usually attractive to women I only have anecdotal evidence to the contrary, but my experience has been the opposite. A large number of women I know only ever show an interest in effeminate men. They are turned off by more masculine men, and instead prefer men they can gossip with, go clothes shopping with, and with whom they can disparage The Male Patriarchy. They consider straight, masculine men to be cavemen who are only going to cl…
/r/MensRights29/09/11 03:07 AM
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I highly doubt that any male will actually change their orientation. It's been tried on gay men for decades and just doesn't work. It's doubtful it would work the other way, either. Nor is it wrong for men who feel like it to be effeminate. However, I do agree that there is a kind of latent, accepted heterophobia that does put pressure on men (and women, too). Effeminate behavior is accepted in men, which is okay. If a man says, "I'm in touch with my feminine side. I want to let out all my feeli…
/r/MensRights29/09/11 01:41 AM
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This man is one of my personal heroes.
/r/MensRights29/09/11 01:27 AM
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I'm so glad the first transsexual person I met was kind, understanding, and patient. It was awkward at first, but the it was just "he's just like that. No biggie." I feel bad for all the transgendered people who have to put up with stereotypes enforced by the Transgendered Community (note the capital TC).
/r/MensRights27/09/11 12:57 AM
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It's a question of sexual preference. People should have the right to love and be attracted to whom ever they choose. It's a personal matter than only the person in question can answer. Some men may not find blonds attractive. Or short women. Or effeminate men. It's their personal choice. One's sex is a very central element of sexuality. While some people are bisexual or pansexual, a majority of people are attracted only to a certain sex. Straight men discriminate against gay men in that they do…
/r/MensRights26/09/11 11:44 PM
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Sure, some people think that genes are deterministic. I am not one of them. Even if only 99% of men had XY chromosomes and only 99% of women had XX chromosomes, regardless of which definition of men and women you use, it would be a very useful definition. The correlation is fantastic. A generous estimate is a mere 0.07%, or about 1 in 1500. Given that in more than 1499 out of 1500 cases XX chromosomes are found in females and XY in males, yeah, it's pretty good as a definition. If these statisti…
/r/MensRights26/09/11 11:16 PM
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You have a fantastic misunderstanding of science. Exceptions are just that, exceptions. The fact that exceptions exist doesn't invalidate the general rule as a useful definition. XX is a female characteristic. XY is a male characteristic. Just because not every man has XY and every women XX, doesn't mean that XX = woman, XY = man isn't a perfectly useful definition. You can make up your own definitions, and that's fine. Just don't get upset when people point out that your definitions are less us…
/r/MensRights23/09/11 03:56 AM
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You probably know not to take any one person's words at face value. The explanation you just got isn't wrong, but it's not right, either. People have a lot of emotional investment in what it means to "be" something, so I'll avoid saying somebody is this or that. So here goes. The vast majority of people fall into two distinct categories, ones called "male" and "female." A small number of people do not, and of this minority some fall into a group called "transgendered." Transgendered people feel …
/r/MensRights23/09/11 03:36 AM
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I always get confused with trans men and trans women. Trans means "across" so a trans man would be "across from man" or presenting as female. That's how I use the word and people "correct" me.
/r/MensRights23/09/11 03:15 AM
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you insist that only those sexual characteristics that can't be altered are essential to sex categorization And you insist that only ONE characteristic, how somebody identifies, is essential to sex categorization.
/r/MensRights23/09/11 03:04 AM
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transsexual individuals already have a brain that far more closely matches the sex they transition to Not true. Or at least the studies you cite do not support this. The studies report certain parts of the brain in transsexuals have characteristics of their identifying sex. Nothing more. This does not mean they have a brain that "more closely" matches the other sex. the majority [...] recognizes that they are already a different sex than their body morphology This is circular reasoning, or at le…
/r/MensRights23/09/11 02:59 AM
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