TheRedArchive

~ archived since 2018 ~

adelie42 Archive

View 2 posts and 423 comments by adelie42 on TheRedPill subreddit and various other subreddits related to The Red Pill community.
Search in:
In subreddits:
More
Filter by year/month:
Upvotes Comment on Subreddit Date (UTC)
2

Bard is an absolute dumpster fire and always has been. My suspicion is that Google is making the minimal effort to appear relevant by "doing AI stuff", but not actually making any significant effort or contribution. They are doing far more to aggressively advertise that they have an LLM model than actually building anything worth looking at. The one exception, NotebookLM is a genuinely descent product. But it isn't growing and getting better. You can now tune it more than before, and don't want …
/r/MensRights25/07/26 02:26 PM
13

I know. On the plus side I learned to recognize the signs and got two people out of the situation to safety. Not long after I stopped hanging out at bars.
/r/MensRights24/07/26 04:07 AM
35

I never thought much of the double standard, as a guy. My view was changed when I went to a bar and had one drink. At the time I could easily drink a lot more and took pride in how much I could drink and be fine. Well, this one drink and vaguely remember briefly feeling completely shit faced not long after, then blackout. I woke up in the morning at an unfamiliar house on the floor of a living room, naked, getting a blowjob from someone not my girlfriend. I felt like absolute shit and was very u…
/r/MensRights24/07/26 03:49 AM
-3

This isn't really a space to discuss AI so much, but what should be the take away here is that understanding and taking responsibility for alignment is essential.
/r/MensRights22/05/26 04:50 PM
15

I recently discovered estrogen is necessary for getting erections. Touch counter intuitive there. Edit: typo
/r/MensRights18/05/26 10:41 PM
0

Completely self imposed. It changes when you choose to believe differently. Unless you are getting this from your friends are mistreating in front of, then it is time to get new friends to masturbate with.
/r/MensRights19/03/26 07:19 AM
11

I appreciate this is plausible and has a convenient narrative to it, but by far the argument best supported by empirical and historical evidence is wealth. The world over and throughout history stress encourages breeding. As wealth rises and people get comfortable, there is reduced biological imperative. Your hypothesis does nkt account for the fact that under the harshest conditions across the planet you see the highest birth rates. As people feel safe from war and famine, people have fewer kid…
/r/MensRights16/03/26 09:17 PM
12

Warm suggestion, it is a little weird continuing to use the term "mainstream media" to refer to a group of people with, universally, no respect or ratings. They don't just have no integrity but everyone knows it. They are dinosaurs. It is more appropriate to call them the corporate media or legacy media. "Mainstream" is podcasts and YouTube.
/r/MensRights10/03/26 12:10 AM
-1

Ok
/r/MensRights09/12/25 05:08 AM
-3

When you say "blaming the females", you kind if undermine your entire argument. Also, blaming half the world for your problems, on either side, is dumb.
/r/MensRights08/12/25 09:30 PM
1

Or anyone dating with their Prefrontal Cortex
/r/MensRights03/06/25 02:38 AM
2

There was a great ted talk on hacking dating websites. It essentially came down to being more than honest but a balance of traditionally attractive and unattractive traits. The reason is that people don't want perfect, they want perfect for them. Thus, if people like your traditionally good traits and don't mind or actually like the traditionally negative ones, that's the best match. This, this will help everyone. George Castanza might get fewer matches, but the quality is going to go way up. Pe…
/r/MensRights02/06/25 03:20 PM
19

People who ask "why do all" anything need to go touch grass. It communicates nothing except living in a bubble and a complete lack of self awareness.
/r/MensRights20/05/25 09:41 PM
-7

I think this is part of "the patriarchy" less often talked about; women being treated like disobedient dogs. If a dog attacks someone, the dog isn't held liable, the owner is, because dogs lack agency in the legal sense. What could be more anti-feminist and sexist to treat women as though they lack agency?
/r/MensRights15/05/25 11:25 PM
3

The fact incels don't want to fuck each other says enough. It is a complicated, layered issue.
/r/MensRights24/04/25 01:24 AM
1

I have no problem with you disagreeing with potential insight. I wasn't there. Best luck!
/r/MensRights22/04/25 05:40 AM
1

My apologies if it came across as a fierce accusation. It is kind of a meme when people collectively refer to women as females. It has such a close association with rather unpleasant comments it raises an eyebrow. And to my point, I don't think it is ever intentional, but I'd argue nobody ever intends to be toxic, so it takes some introspection. If it doesn't resonate with you, no worries. If it gives you something to think about, great. In my linguistic experience, "females" is reserved for ani…
/r/MensRights22/04/25 01:21 AM
1

Ok. Then 1) why did you ask, and 2) if someone was being weird or creepy, do you think they would have the self-awareness to notice others' perception of their behavior, let alone modify it if their first reaction is "I didn't do anything wrong"? Completely anecdotal, but I have never even remotely experienced what you are talking about, but I have seen it happen to other people and there is always something going they don't notice.
/r/MensRights21/04/25 06:35 PM
1

No, but calling them "females" like a Ferangi is. A little more depth: body language can communicate a lot. Do you open / hold the door for everyone, or just "females"? I'm curious how much you are consciously thinking about how nice or kind you are by doing this. To put it differently, how much are you up in your head while holding or opening the door? By default, I'd say/think nothing of it. People are weird, and you don't know what other people are dealing with. But again, the "females" thing…
/r/MensRights21/04/25 05:05 PM
1

Feminism is heterodox with a range that spans "opinions women have". No hate, but the term is beyond meaningless till you get into names. For as huge as the names Anthony, Beauvoir, Wollstonecraft, and Goldman are, the only thing they really had in common was being female authors. I find it low key offensive their work was defined by their gender even if gender was a big focus of their work. Their actual suggestions regarding gender wildly conflicted.
/r/MensRights27/03/25 04:44 AM
0

It's all made up. What qualifies as real in this context?
/r/MensRights09/03/25 11:16 PM
0

Some are replays from 2016. I think a lot of Democrats are having mixed feelings, understanding the neocons are out of power. If you were a hard-core Obama supporter in 2008, this is a victory. But a very confusing one.
/r/MensRights07/11/24 05:17 AM
3

Cause what even are adverbs?! M'rite?
/r/MensRights07/11/24 03:02 AM
85

I like Dave Smith's take: Trump doesn't deserve to win, but the Democratic elites absolutely deserve to lose.
/r/MensRights07/11/24 01:38 AM
2

Nothing is unbiased. There is only perspectives. But people have opinions about perspectives, and details about perspectives can be unknown in complex and dynamic ways.
/r/MensRights06/11/24 05:38 AM
1

It is amazing how tone deaf people can be. Joe Rogan has the highest ratings of anyone by far. Not everyone has to love him, but those that don't understand his draw in a positive way don't get it. Or they are lying.
/r/MensRights21/10/24 06:02 AM
3

"Convince" is quite the overstatement. I think you mean confirm whatever bias they already have.
/r/MensRights09/08/24 08:22 PM
2

B ecause that it the narrative they have adopted for one reason or another. To be clear, I don't mean for that to be a dismissive take, but much of therapy, particularly trauma informed practices, are all about identifying harmful narratives and rewriting them.
/r/MensRights13/06/24 03:21 AM
4

I think it is just "the man" trope, the message from femmanist that your average male stranger (or any man for that matter) would take advantage of that situation presumably sexually. It seems to be a very common theme among certain groups that disproportionately occupy online spaces. Women, and men for that matter, that don't share this view refrain from engaging in this narrative because there is nothing to gain and they know better from engaging in debate with such individuals. But I can appr…
/r/MensRights13/06/24 03:18 AM
4

The real flip on this question: Would you rather share your feelings with a woman or a tree?
/r/MensRights22/05/24 12:52 PM
2

This is like asking if books can help. It is a tool. It is all how you use it. If you believe it can or believe it can not, you are probably right.
/r/MensRights20/04/24 04:43 PM
3

My issue with the term is that it typically describes a feral male boy with no positive male role models and (intentionally or not) puts all the blame on non existent people while holding harmless the people actually in the child's life. Not to say anyone needs to shift from pointing the finger at one group to another, it is just a shit narrative that does nothing to address the underlying issues in a constructive or empathetic way.
/r/MensRights09/04/24 03:00 AM
1

There is a strange brand of feminism that denies women's agency. They fight for women's rights in a way far too similar to animal rights.
/r/MensRights25/03/24 01:48 PM
3

This is offensive to men and women because it assumes women have no agency.
/r/MensRights22/02/24 03:44 AM
9

And I would expect this leaves a kind of permanent scar.
/r/MensRights03/02/24 04:58 PM
5

The first several hours of life have a dramatic impact on brain development. All their senses come online in a new way and set the foundation for many things, particularly empathy. Newborns should just be held skin to skin and kept safe. Not the opposite.
/r/MensRights03/02/24 04:53 PM
1

I think there is a certain irony that so many men exhibiting "toxic masculinity" have only ever had female care givers and role models.
/r/MensRights27/01/24 08:46 PM
7

Nah, ask it why an embargo against a country from medical supplies, bombing water treatment facilities, and the subsequent million dead from lack of drinking water after shititng themselves to death isn't terrorism.
/r/MensRights04/10/23 06:41 AM
5

It's all about what they don't say: "We are going to make a greater effort to support male social emotional development and provide resource to teachers and social workers to ensure all boys are able to develop healthy attachments/ attachment styles leading to greater empathy for all because a that can love himself is best equipped to love others in healthy ways that foster peace and stronger communities" They kind of said the opposite.
/r/MensRights25/04/23 04:55 PM
2

Is the trend that everyone is capable of being a moralistic douche destroying great companies and countries and has nothing to do with people's genitalia?
/r/MensRights11/04/23 05:08 PM
19

They can get away with anything under the guise of "correcting a deformity" without a medical justification.
/r/MensRights06/04/23 01:22 AM
9

Personally, the emphasis on men's oppression versus women's oppression is intentionally designed to keep the underclass fighting amongst themselves. It has always been a tiny fragment of less than 1% against the rest of society. The vote one of many sophisticated modern approaches to "bread and circuses" to keep slaves happy and working. It has been transformed for the industrial, technological, and information eras to be more efficient and productive than traditional depictions of slavery.
/r/MensRights23/03/23 06:44 PM
1

Just because someone keeps saying something over and over doesn't make it true.
/r/MensRights18/03/23 04:57 PM
2

Validation, poor sense of self-worth, co-dependency issues, mal-adaptive behavior in response to childhood trauma, masochism... Oh, wait. You meant good reasons.
/r/MensRights28/01/23 03:35 AM
8

Personally, I don't care about the opinions of people I don't like. Similar, I've been told "a lot more women prefer clean shaved over beards" and every time after the first my response was, "I'm not looking for the most women, I'm looking for one and I prefer the ones that like beards by far". The best you can ever do trying to please women you don't like is to end up with one. Like, it is literally rhe goal. Who wants that?
/r/MensRights26/01/23 04:23 AM
-18

FGM is still normalized and practiced in the US wrapped up in pseudo-science. It just can't be done for religious reasons. For example, if a newborn baby girl has protruding labia or clitoris they will each be cut out in the interests of making her "look normal for her future husband" despite ZERO medical justification. Note, the nerve fibers that support the pleasure of the clitoris often run through the labia minora meaning that despite leaving the clirotis in tact, removing the protruding lab…
/r/MensRights07/01/23 12:47 AM
12

The studies on "preventing infection" are bullshit because they are conflated with the benefits of sex education and access to condoms that were done along with the mutilation of study participants.
/r/MensRights07/01/23 12:27 AM
2

I agree this is often the opposite of feminism.
/r/MensRights21/08/22 11:41 PM
0

And you can be certain this argument has only worked on pro-choice men.
/r/MensRights27/06/22 12:03 AM
16

Modern American circumcision is far more deeply rooted in quack Progressive medicine and the eugenics movement than religion.
/r/MensRights10/05/22 01:53 AM
6

Before modern theory of disease, it was theorized that all illness, physical and mental, was caused by masturbation. Thus, if you mutalate people enough so they can't masturbate, then all disease would be cured! They were wrong. Super wrong. Yet, some people keep trying for some reason. Insanely stupid.
/r/MensRights12/12/21 01:00 AM
2

I don't understand how that conclusion is drawn, though I agree it is a common belief. But isn't that just getting gas lit? I have the opposite belief: consistently and universally promote consent across all aspects of society. When this is the cultural standard, violations of women's rights and things like FGM will be even more offensive because they are inci sistent with the cultural standard. So long as they are treated as pocket issues kept in little bubbles separated from the rest of cultur…
/r/MensRights03/12/21 03:28 PM
8

It is about as funny as a drunk girl getting gang raped in a bathroom. Just different people laughing.
/r/MensRights02/12/21 10:32 PM
0

To be fair, people excuse it all the time as long as you make sure to burn the entire child and call it nation building.
/r/MensRights02/12/21 10:29 PM
2

You are too kind. And I'm going to stop there before I say something worth a permaban.
/r/MensRights02/12/21 10:28 PM
3

Why couldnt he just lure them in with a puppy, molest them, and silence them with some candy like a normal pervert?
/r/MensRights02/12/21 10:25 PM
1

If it is appropriate to teach consent, it should be appropriate to apply that logically to things being one very narrow application of what was on that person's mind when they advocated for it.
/r/MensRights17/09/21 05:38 PM
1

Thanks for asking. >Why do people automatically identify the topic of "gender equality" exclusively with feminism? No matter how popular this opinion might be, it is an opinion. It is an opinion about what views we think other people have. What is a red flag for me is that it is an opinion about what is in the mind of presumably everyone in the world, including the person making the statement. The speaker is implying that it should not be this way; they want to not have the opinion they hold. Th…
/r/MensRights11/01/21 07:17 PM
1

This implies your view and choice are shared by the rest of the world, bit you do not have that data, thus it must be a projection, no matter how much I or anyone else may agree with you. This, as you imply, you think things should be different, I imagine the first person you need to convince is yourself. Second, what is the point of determining "who has it worse?". Why not just different and leave the judgement out of it. Equal wouldn't be better if the means were making things worse for some p…
/r/MensRights11/01/21 05:54 PM
17

Bigotry of low expectations
/r/MensRights16/07/20 03:53 AM
1

Imho, it is a profoundly anti-woman / anti-empowwrment message. Women being abusive towards male partners is treated the same way an aggressive dog is treated; the guy's choice. If a guy has an aggressive dog and gets bit, nobody makes the dog responsible (not to be confused with facing consequences). A potentially empowering message for men, but it puts the women in the place of a disposable accessory to the man's lifestyle. Denying agency is a double edged sword.
/r/MensRights28/05/20 11:24 PM
-11

Why are we gatekeeping words here? It's not like nobody means that when they say it, otherwise why mention it? People could also just as well mean neither of those things things. Like, if someone says it in the context of sexual assault, they are likely excusing it imagine some blame sharing. If the context is goofing around, then yeah, probably nothing sexual. That said, this post would make a lot more sense of one were trying to argue that in the context of sexual assault that saying "boys wil…
/r/MensRights03/05/20 12:23 AM
1

I had to read the title several times, and each time was just a worse "wtf?" Then I clicked the post, and it all made sense. Thanks for the question Carol Baskin.
/r/MensRights14/04/20 04:34 AM
2

Yup! Though not sure sarcasm is quite the right word; just that I know there are white knights (maybe women too?) out there that target people that post or comment on this sub. Is being attacked for association with MRA no longer a thing? If so, that's awesome. My warning was I have been attacked (not that I cared much), and finding it somewhat amusing I am being attacked for it.
/r/MensRights13/04/20 04:13 PM
11

I think you misread, but I agree with your assessment of people that make that argument. On rare occasion I will be on another sub and someone will copy and paste stats from a chrome extension that informs people what "hate" subs someone has been on. I haven't seen it used in awhile, but it was used to attempt to shame people for where they would post. I by no means meant to discourage posting, or think you should give a shit about people that judge what subs you visit. Still laughing my ass off…
/r/MensRights13/04/20 01:56 AM
-9

For some you are already labeled a "hate sub contributor" just for posting here, even if it is to tell everyone they are secret woman hating poop head.
/r/MensRights13/04/20 01:44 AM
3

Agreed. Cancel culture.
/r/MensRights31/03/20 04:02 AM
1

"Their subs"?
/r/MensRights31/03/20 03:20 AM
0

Are you differentiating between suppression and ignoring?
/r/MensRights31/03/20 02:22 AM
8

I don't think it is suppression because third wave Feminism is less about recognizing the equality of men and women and that society as a whole has choice over the value of the genders (see: Simone Bouvoir, The Second Sex) and instead about fair treatment of a weaker, victimized class that deserves more representation. This is why third wave and second wave are fundamentally incompatible. Also, anyone that embraces the idea they are a slave is not going to be concerned with, or see it their plac…
/r/MensRights31/03/20 01:48 AM
1

Umm... Do we agree this is satire?
/r/MensRights21/12/19 02:36 PM
1

Voter literacy tests are fair by the same standard as well.
/r/MensRights25/09/19 01:17 AM
1

Everyone is equal, but some people are more equal than others.
/r/MensRights25/09/19 01:08 AM
5

It really sucks for the Irish. In Darwin's theory of race, the negro was the lowest among the human races, but Irish were considered tool using primates. Pseudo-science to support long standing hatred for Irish. But now that it is cool to say White people are evil, now the Irish are white. FUCK!
/r/MensRights10/09/19 02:51 AM
2

I'm confused. Is this saying intersectionalism is total bullshit? Who am I supposed to believe?
/r/MensRights10/09/19 02:48 AM
2

Peak Poe and Godwin all in one.
/r/MensRights01/09/19 05:49 PM
2

This might be the wrong place to fight the haters. I don't expect many people have much experience with the porn industry outside the end product, much like anything. Also, the girl is a predator only in so far as the guys willing to support her hobby completely lack agency. That's BS. And knowing people that love nude artsy stuff, I've never seen a double standard. If you want to draw nudes as an excuse to see people naked without further hidden motives, that's pretty much everyone that gets in…
/r/MensRights13/08/19 03:03 AM
1

Please tell me this is The Onion. I know many women that love Star Trek and in STEM. Was their sample size greater than one?
/r/MensRights06/08/19 04:48 PM
2

Firefighters are overwhelmingly Irish. Darwin's Race Theory may have put "White people" at the top and "black people" at the bottom, but he said Irish were not humans and more akin to took using monkeys. It was also common in colonial times to hire Irish to do work too dangerous to put slaves at risk. Finding meaning in dividing and judging people by "race" is fundamentally racist, which for the most part is entirely bullshit.
/r/MensRights30/06/19 10:23 PM
9

You forgot Brenda Spencer. And Grace O'Malley, depending on your view of history. Some serious soft bigotry oflw expectations. "Women can do everything a man can do, except bad things". Huh?
/r/MensRights29/06/19 10:36 PM
2

Yeah, I want a mutual understanding of no meetings completely alone 1:1. Everything in business should have at least one witness.
/r/MensRights13/06/19 04:17 AM
2

Soft bigotry of low expectations.
/r/MensRights21/05/19 10:48 PM
3

Wonder if Biden will get the #BelieveWomen treatment.
/r/MensRights12/04/19 02:43 AM
1

I'm OK with people believing people that make claims of rape without evidence. I take issue with no due process in requests for a third party to lock the accused in a cage for it. That's the line.
/r/MensRights12/04/19 02:38 AM
1

But if he were a she, and NZ has been left a baren wasteland, they would be celebrating.
/r/MensRights16/03/19 09:34 PM
1

You nailed what I was getting at. Nothing special about "Standard", that's still sad. I love Beauvoir, and 3rd wave is a real betrail of of her contributions and many others.
/r/MensRights15/03/19 06:49 PM
1

Two writing promps: Earth good? Earth bad? Why not something of substance? Feminism is effectively the school of philosophy "anything written or said by a woman".
/r/MensRights15/03/19 06:38 PM
4

I say there are people and views. Accepting an argument starts with a frame and once you accept the frame the conclusion is inevitable. Thus, "sides" is misleading as the linear assumption of a side itself is itself a frame.
/r/MensRights15/03/19 03:45 PM
15

Disney used to steal everything and built an empire on it. They lobbied to ensure nobody else could do the same. Now they can't do it either and we are stuck with the same recycled meaningless crap forever. Burn in hell Jack Valenti.
/r/MensRights05/03/19 07:34 PM
9

I still think his "endorsement" of HRC was the funniest thing ever.
/r/MensRights02/03/19 01:03 AM
9

You might imagine that from the name, but it is more of a "I'm not like normal girls" sub.
/r/MensRights24/02/19 06:26 PM
13

It's not hate when you are a victim /s
/r/MensRights24/02/19 06:25 PM
0

Thank you for the insight.
/r/MensRights14/02/19 03:22 AM
7

Depends on who you ask, unfortunately.
/r/MensRights14/02/19 03:18 AM
2

/r/trashy
/r/MensRights14/02/19 03:16 AM
24

/r/menkampf
/r/MensRights14/02/19 03:13 AM
19

To be fair, that does make me feel a little better. She is just playing to her tribe. If it were a dude, that's a serial killer in the making.
/r/MensRights07/02/19 02:06 PM
11

Collectivist projection.
/r/MensRights07/02/19 02:04 PM
10

It seems peculiar that the term "toxic masculinity" is used to describe the behavior of boys/men raised primarily by women.
/r/MensRights30/01/19 11:05 PM
1

/r/wallstreetbets
/r/MensRights26/01/19 07:35 PM
1

Troll? She is using victim centered language, but to be fair, I don't know the context this came up in. This is not the way aggressors frame their own actions. To clarify, stuff like what she describes happens all the time, guilt free, and will even brag, but the exact word choice here is suspicious. Edit: I didn't notice the name. Now I'm less sure but curious what others think.
/r/MensRights14/01/19 04:49 PM
1

I also like the line, "we'll be keeping our entire child, thanks".
/r/MensRights07/01/19 03:19 AM
2

At least a dozen times.
/r/MensRights06/01/19 08:51 PM
4

The only question we were asked more than once, and was asked by nearly every person that interacted with us, "verified" that we didn't want our son cut. If I wasn't more interested in enjoying the experience of my new born I wouid have filed a formal complaint. I did "casually" mention it at length and in detail of the annoyance and the overall barbarism of the practice to the midwife.
/r/MensRights06/01/19 06:47 PM
5

Too often feminism, while talking about how high women can work up to, starts with putting them in a rather low place.
/r/MensRights28/12/18 11:31 PM
1

Sucks when people are feeling angry and their immediate response isn't to take full responsibility for their experience as a perfectly enlightened individual in the way we always expect of ourselves.
/r/MensRights26/12/18 05:10 PM
15

One can be critical of feminism without hating women. For me it is a special case of collectivism.
/r/MensRights16/12/18 06:27 PM
6

Restating the comment in the vernacular of Elmer Fudd isn't an argument. Maybe start from saying that the change in meaning aligns with a change in cultural standards. Argue the new stahdard is better. Previously under the law and culturally "spousal rape" wasn't a thing. Couldn't happen. Similarly, women couldn't be rapists. 60 years ago alcohol consumption was considered consent! How about give a llttle credit to the ways the changes have had a positive effect? How insulting to those that work…
/r/MensRights02/12/18 06:47 PM
1

I was agreeing and pointing out how there is a better argument exposing how stupod the stat is. The most popularized "gender pay gap" is based on total amount of money made by all men vs all money made by women. It is arbitrary tribalism causing people to come up with imaginary conclusions that jst make the conversation worse. If it came across as condescending, my apologies; that was the opposite of my intent but I can see it now.
/r/MensRights30/11/18 11:13 PM
-12

People. Are. Not. Their. Tribes.
/r/MensRights30/11/18 08:22 PM
2

It is all women vs all men. It is just a stupid stat if you look at what it measured.
/r/MensRights30/11/18 08:21 PM
3

women have been through so much This is such a great example of the toxicity of a collectivist mindset.
/r/MensRights24/11/18 02:22 AM
5

If I wanted to parody the bullshit of tribalism and over represent a radically predatory minority, I don't think I could compete with this. Ugh, and reading Hoppe right now doesn't help (he argues that giving more people temporary predatory privileges is not superior to a few in a hereditary line lawful right to predatory practices, if we must have such people)
/r/MensRights15/11/18 12:27 AM
1

Is suicide so well understood that treatment for men and women are substantially different? Is human suicide not bad enough? Also, I couid probably find it with some work, but I'd be curious what the differences are excluding police and veterans. People should oy be divided into groups according to how that might guide help and support (for example, veterans need empathy from other veterans).
/r/MensRights24/10/18 02:31 AM
1

I didn't take it that way, after rereading it a couple times ;)
/r/MensRights14/10/18 03:49 PM
2

I simply misinterpreted the title and thought others might too, missing out on what looks like a good read. I'm with you on all your points.
/r/MensRights14/10/18 12:40 PM
1

I read it as 35 total. I was wrong. It looks like a good read, but don't think the title was great. Thought pointing that out might get it more attention.
/r/MensRights14/10/18 12:33 PM
1

Maybe they think the stats of 50% of all black babies being aborted, making up 90% of all abortions in America (when blacks are only 12.3% of the population), makes it hard to pretend it is all about women's rights? They just want to balance things out so it doesn't look like they're targeting anyone.
/r/MensRights13/10/18 10:01 PM
2

Anyone can claim to represent anyone. The fact that not every minority is going to spend their life saying "you don't speak for me" to the point where their voices are heard as equally as MSM doesn't mean they don't exist. Just look at how pissed Donna Brazile is at Kanye is for daring to leave the plantation. It is only newsworthy because of the power Kanye has as a celebrity. Also, /r/RightwingLGBT is at least one community that is outspoken about not having other people speak for them. Is the…
/r/MensRights13/10/18 08:43 PM
2

To note, the article is talking about 35 specific cases, not giving a statistic.
/r/MensRights13/10/18 08:09 PM
0

better This assumes one size fits all. Feminism isn't for every woman any more than it is for every man. extremism I would prefer we don't conflate extreme with wrong. Extremism, when it isn't being used like a blunt instrument to shame people out of their beliefs without making a real argument, is no different than being "consistently principled". Taking an idea to its "extreme" is merely a test of those principles. If an extreme test of those principles proves them bad, then that means somethi…
/r/MensRights13/10/18 08:05 PM
3

I shared an incident with a coworker some time ago where I was raped by a woman (possibly drugged, not sure). I would have let it go, but walking home I ran into a cop and I started uncontrollably crying. Cop asked, I explained. We went back to her house and following a brief exchange of "I didn't want that" and her saying "I'm sorry", cop asked if everything was fine. A bit bewildered, I said yes. The cop left me there. I walked home. Coworkers response: that's how those types of situations sho…
/r/MensRights09/10/18 06:33 PM
2

Thank you.
/r/MensRights09/10/18 06:26 PM
22

The oppressor/oppressed way of looking at the world is a major turn off for me. I would prefer the message be about the benefits of setting boundaries and getting consent to the message of "men need to be taught not to rape". They were short lived relationships, and maybe somehow I was attracting them, but too many times have I known women to not only treat sex like a commodity, but would "express entitlement" to sex when they desired it. I'll skip the details, but I imagine a big double standar…
/r/MensRights09/10/18 02:31 PM
20

The sentiment for me is that #metoo perpetuates the idea that women are victims and men are aggressors; oppressor/oppressed. Please please please tell me I am wrong, but male victims of female sexual assault and abuse do not fit the narrative are not welcome. Maybe it is statistically insignificant, but I don't think it is. Tell me my experience is insignificant, and I'm going to say, "have a nice day, good luck with your movement". I'm not going to say #fuckmetoo, but I can appreciate the senti…
/r/MensRights09/10/18 02:20 PM
1

29 vs 34 isn't that much of a split. Noteworthy, but gives more support to "MSM is a bunch of liars" than anything else.
/r/MensRights09/10/18 01:51 AM
-2

The soft bigotry of low expectations: If there any other way to reconcile it? What can you say about how men are affected by this that doesn't cast women as inferior? Why can't men and women have feelings about such acts across a spectrum and be validated?
/r/MensRights04/10/18 10:44 PM
2

It is, or at least become, an ideological campaign slogan and nothing more.
/r/MensRights26/09/18 03:34 PM
6

There is a good argument for saying that all violence is a tragic expression of an unmet need for empathy. But there is a loss in translation were I to call a violent act "toxic empathy". Being aggressive towards people because one is insecure would better be described as narcissism. It doesn't need to be gendered even if there are gender differences in the manifestation narcissistic behavior.
/r/MensRights25/09/18 08:38 PM
13

If there were no word for that concept I wouid call such behavior "tragic expressions of masculinity" following the Marshall Rosenberg model of feelings and needs: "I need my masculinity validated, so I am going to be be aggressive" is rather similar to "I need someone to understand how much pain I am experiencing, so I am going to punch someone in the face". It's all tragic. It would be nice if "toxic" was treated as a modifier to "masculinity", an otherwise not pejorative word, but in writing …
/r/MensRights25/09/18 08:26 PM
1

True; I was only addressing the immediate question.
/r/MensRights07/09/18 10:30 AM
1

Didn't Milton Freedman testify about this before congress, making the argument that a draft ultimately hurts the war effort through economic decline via loss of morale? And why there hasn't been one since?
/r/MensRights07/09/18 10:23 AM
33

Because they are not exclusive to men?
/r/MensRights07/09/18 03:28 AM
2

All of them, potentially.
/r/MensRights07/09/18 03:27 AM
23

Not preferred, but it was popular during the eugenics era. Masturbation was believed to be a cause of mental illness. Parents were motivated and even today people think do tots know everything.
/r/MensRights04/09/18 01:28 AM
13

Law and Order: Special Victims Unit had an episode where Robin Williams plays a character Dr. Milgram. His wife (the character) long ago was having complications with her pregnancy. He KNEW something was wrong, but instead listened to the "authority" of the doctor that barely looked at her and did nothing. Mother and baby died and fueled a whole revenge / "wake up sheeple" thing. Great episode and amazing performance from Robin Williams. It can not ever be another person's responsibility to asse…
/r/MensRights04/09/18 01:26 AM
1

And then kick her sorry ass to the curb.
/r/MensRights30/08/18 03:28 AM
1

Most stores sell at least some food in cans. Typically a good selection though the quality can be questionable. Good luck!
/r/MensRights20/07/18 07:58 PM
1

Nah, there's a good chance it will get flagged as hate speech before anyone sees it and then nobody will unfriend you.
/r/MensRights20/07/18 01:33 PM
1

creating an understanding or teaching men it's alright to be men. Welcome to /r/NVC. Another way to explain NVC is as the science of empathy according to Marshall Rosenberg; human emotional needs, understanding them, listening for them, and communicating understanding. My only recommendation is to read the book given that it is by default a space for practicing the book's teaching. It might appear odd otherwise to the uninitiated, but it is by no means a requirement. In person practice groups ar…
/r/MensRights07/07/18 11:05 PM
13

True, in many states consent is not a defense against battery, bodily injury, or mayhem. But I don't get how that is an argument against the comparison, it rather reinforces the point. If an adult chooses to engage in body modification such as penile bifurcation, castration, Prince's Wand, branding, or other extreme and permanent body modification either common, religious, or completely unique to a particular artist, I don't necessarily have a problem with it. Doing it to children crosses a line…
/r/MensRights07/07/18 07:02 PM
6

By this logic if a rapist uses a condom and GHB, then it isn't really rape. Not sure if you are just sharing the absurd levels of shitty science used to justify sexual mayhem... Poe's Law strikes again.
/r/MensRights07/07/18 03:57 PM
6

It seems benign enough, but something is creepy as fuck about the Mission Statement that I can't quite finger. Maybe something about how exclusive their inclusivity is? I see big grins and a very bloody ban hammer.
/r/MensRights07/07/18 03:46 PM
17

Do you read Harvard Business Review? Vague Feedback Is Holding Women Back More related to business advancement than relationships, but thought you might be interested in a source that supports your argument.
/r/MensRights23/06/18 02:53 PM
2

I like to think of pain as a muse or inspiration. I am skeptical that it can be a substitute for study. Stoicism was developed for war and the writings and reflections on it are ubiquitous. For another view I would recommend Warren Farrell's Myth of Male Power. He looks at how men are treated as disposable in society, and trained from birth to fulfill that role. Also, it is less important that on average women are marginally dominant in the emotional realm; that's just an outcome. What is more i…
/r/TheRedPill17/06/18 09:47 AM
3

Bear in mind, as I am sure you encountered, that Stoicism was developed to ignore the reality of war so they could keep killing people without one's pesky consciousness or humanity getting in the way. Buddhism in my view is opposite. It isn't about "getting hard" so nothing effects you, but allowing yourself to be present to allow your experience to flow. For example, something makes me mad, then I may go through a whole turmoil about how I felt about getting mad, intellectualizing and analyzing…
/r/TheRedPill17/06/18 09:27 AM
17

Jiddu Krishnamurti writes about this not in relationship to love, but everything; "strife" being caused what he calls "idea", looking at the world from how we imagine it instead of as it is. First And Last Freedom was a really great book of his discussing this issue.
/r/TheRedPill17/06/18 09:13 AM
2

In Missouri the penalty for "overtaxing" (collecting more taxes than given to the department of equalization) is forfeiture + 100% + legal fees + civil penalties. The word "tax" carries a particular legal authority for which the people allowed to "tax" take very seriously. In the extreme, "taxes" going to another group of people other than the State communicates something to the State you probably don't want to be saying.
/r/MensRights14/06/18 12:34 AM
3

I always come back with "not washing your dick is gross no matter how much of it you cut off" and things about the 20 minutes a day the typical boy will wash their penis in the shower.
/r/MensRights12/06/18 03:12 AM
3

"Soft" bigotry of low expectations.
/r/MensRights07/06/18 02:26 PM
3

Best "I fucked up" ever.
/r/MensRights23/05/18 01:56 AM
8

www.pinkpistols.org www.agirlandagun.org www.blushandbullets.com www.thewellarmedwoman.com www.meetup.com/Gun-Powder-Gals-Fayetteville/ www.divawow.org More and more all the time. The funniest part is that the media can't even talk about it because it would fubar their narrative. Side note to any leather workers out there, there is a growing demand for high quality holsters for women There is a significant gender bias with regard to how people like to CC, but not many companies accommodating. So…
/r/MensRights22/05/18 06:16 PM
1

Even if more hours (which I am skeptical of) there are almost no dangerous jobs and absolute poverty (which would be similar to what you seem to idealize) has been almost entirely eradicated. The race in capitalism has been to figure out what to do with all the free time when so few people need to work to provide nearly the world over in a higher standard of living of the wealthiest kings of merely 200 years ago. But "oh no, if I get saved from a life threatening injury or disease it's gonna hur…
/r/MensRights14/05/18 12:25 AM
2

I've just gotten so spoiled by them I've gotten more addicted than that time I tried meth in middle school.
/r/MensRights14/05/18 12:08 AM
2

Thanks relevant_username! Hmm... Any chance you have Ikea-like instructions to demonstrate?
/r/MensRights13/05/18 11:36 PM
1

Sweet! What can it do?
/r/MensRights13/05/18 11:25 PM
1

Doing my part by ignoring the "gender gap" almost entirely! What do I win?
/r/MensRights13/05/18 07:00 PM
1

School shooting are near the scariest thing imaginable. And they happen. And yet they never happen. And on one side I can appreciate the need to do something. Mourning is probably the most important thing. If you want to save lives, this wouldn't even make the list of things that even make sense to talk about. But if you need to think about it, imagine Pax Americana with a disarmed citizenry. That should scare the shit out of every person in the the western world.
/r/MensRights27/03/18 12:47 AM
1

Sure, you just make the criteria convoluted enough till you hit the right target (of 1-3 per year) and you'd have it. The point is that either people are oblivious to risk statistics, or the tragedy is being exploited to advance an agenda that couldn't get the support necessary through honesty.
/r/MensRights24/03/18 09:43 PM
1

Not sure if this is the same thing you are saying, but I'd like to see a list of things that kill more than 1 person per year on average, but less than school shootings. Food poisoning from cafeteria food? Nope Lightening? Nope Punched to death? Nope Shark attack? Nope Polio? Nope Stress from daylight savings? Nope Falling Space debris? Nope (too rare, 1 ever) Oh snap, think I found it. School bombings. Anything else? BTW, should we count people shot in schools by US military forces?
/r/MensRights23/03/18 11:20 PM
2

Because 2A. /s
/r/MensRights23/03/18 08:31 PM
6

What happens every day isn't news. The freakish things that never happen is what gets media attention. There was a post elsewhere about how the military doesn't shoot up schools. Yeah, not your school.
/r/MensRights23/03/18 08:29 PM
2

Fragile woman looking for unlawful handout has temper tantrum following verdict busting her short lived employer with corruption. Source: Trusted fair and unbias news source.
/r/MensRights22/03/18 03:22 PM
14

MENSA itself is proof that IQ is overrated. It is novel, but the scope of its meaning is rather narrow. How many people are going to pick an asshole with no humility but good spatial reasoning skills over someone with a positive attitude and solid work ethic? It honestly depends.
/r/MensRights11/03/18 08:17 AM
7

Communicating a desire in bed, at all, is abuse? I'm very curious what this healthy non-communicative sexual relationship looks like. This is confusing on so many levels.
/r/MensRights07/03/18 05:18 PM
8

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ikd0ZYQoDko Cultural attitudes are changing. There are still a lot of people that still believe a young boy being sexually abused by an older woman is "lucky". But it clearly isn't everyone any more. Someone shared recently that more female teachers are convicted every year of sexually abusing students than male teachers, but the way the media represents it you would think it is a rare incident and when it does happen the teacher is hot. Bit sickening. I say "bit" onl…
/r/MensRights07/03/18 05:13 PM
3

This morning I heard a report about how men make more money with masters degrees than women. Not the same masters degree, just across all masters degrees. The hosts were all saying what a horrible injustice this was. Someone please explain the logistics of "fixing" that!? Here's an idea: Cap the quota on worthless degrees colleges are allowed to sell for $50,000+.
/r/MensRights07/03/18 12:04 AM
1

I'm highly skeptical of any label given to a person that nobody gives themselves. Typically such labels are intended to be derogatory.
/r/MensRights19/02/18 02:01 AM
1

Maybe this isn't a place to worry, but too many times I try and ask questions like this and someone will say "something something that's your privilege showing!" It was my way of saying "yeah, I fucking get it! Can you answer the damn question?"
/r/MensRights18/02/18 11:41 PM
1

Well, exactly. And not to go full privilege here, but where is the line between social advantage that is exclusionary (you know, like dividing people according to check boxes) and recognizing social advantages open to everyone through education (in the broadest sense of the term)? The kind that when admired can be invitational (you know, like when a bunch of check boxes don't define you).
/r/MensRights18/02/18 03:50 PM
1

I was talking with someone a couple days ago and it is what they mentioned as a hope for feminism. I had never heard the term before. Where they got their impression, I have no idea. And I am certain they would not have described what you are saying as "hopeful". I should probably just find some reading on the subject, but first impressions, isn't the idea of reducing people to a series of check boxes the opposite of "fluid"? Also, in what way is that anything new?
/r/MensRights18/02/18 03:30 PM
2

Ew. Oh well.
/r/MensRights18/02/18 05:46 AM
8

Hopefully.
/r/MensRights17/02/18 06:52 PM
1

1) I am getting the impression this is what intersectional feminism is about, exposing the bullshit of taking one or even several labels and thinking you can conclude a thing about a person's life. People are not just numbers to be counted towards the size of a collective. This includes cis gendered white men. 2) Warren Farrell talks about how women's liberation wasn't a liberation from oppressive men but lifestyle expectations that are outmoded in our abundant and diverse society. It was a libe…
/r/MensRights17/02/18 06:50 PM
1

One BS study advocating sadism that, in your own words, doesn't justify anything but causes you to conclude people should mutilate children's genitals. I can only hope you are a troll. But it does make me sad think this is probably Stockholm Syndrome; your paradigm that everything is fine and nothing needs to change is rather safe. The alternative is not only rather sick, but leaves you relatively powerless. Not newborn baby powerless, but you get the idea.
/r/MensRights17/02/18 03:08 PM
1

That would be giving your ignorance too much credit. What else troll?
/r/MensRights17/02/18 04:14 AM
1

Oh, you're a Progressive. Got it. Your version of what once got away with being called science is thankfully dying.
/r/MensRights17/02/18 03:34 AM
1

Personal observation doesn't count as real? You seem to want to rule with your feels of apathy from total ignorance or something else. At this point you just seem to be trolling making neither a point nor listening. And you are the only Trump fan I see.
/r/MensRights17/02/18 02:55 AM
1

Go watch one sometime. Might feel different.
/r/MensRights17/02/18 01:21 AM
7

The facts are that it is pseudo-scientific horse shit dressed up as an excuse to mutilate people. It is legalized sadism no matter what continent it takes place on. And the bias in practice is geographical, not racial or SES. And Africa has enough problems brought over from America; doesn't need a weird sex fetish on top of everything else it fucked up.
/r/MensRights14/02/18 07:37 AM
3

There are the studies and then there is the commentary from the people doing the study about what we think the data should mean. And while you can use that argument to raise skepticism about anything, the data supporting genital mutilation has always been pathetic at best. I am with you on the body autonomy, but there is something to be said for exposing fraud in science that has doctors profiting from the sexual mayhem of children.
/r/MensRights14/02/18 07:23 AM
2

To the idea that "man", memetically, means blank human with no traits or characteristics yet assigned, one that is simply a "man" whether gender specific or not is worthless until otherwise noted. A human culturally advances from birth from a degree of collective worthlessness into something of worth as qualities of their character are assigned to them. Beauvoir introduced this idea in "The Second Sex", females are not born "women". Woman is a cultural archetype that is developed and instilled. …
/r/MensRights13/02/18 11:39 PM
4

Huwomyn
/r/MensRights13/02/18 06:29 AM
13

If being genderless defaults to male, how is that a compliment? One could just as well say (and it has been said by Farrell, Sommers, and others) that our culture considers you nothing until you learn to express the qualities of being female. Hell, even Beauvoir made the same argument, females are not born women but must grow up to become women. How is that flattering to men, let alone an expression of cultural dominance?
/r/MensRights13/02/18 06:28 AM
-2

But wermen being nothing special, do they really need their own pronoun? 'Woman' explicitly stated as necessary and 'other/not specified' are the only two ideas that ever need to be communicated.
/r/MensRights13/02/18 06:21 AM
6

Sounds like you have solved your own problem. Congratulations.
/r/MensRights13/02/18 06:09 AM
0

I agree they were and still are required in many areas for specific jobs in specific fields. I was stating the half that often isn't said and that you seem to agree with, overall value has declined, particularly straight ROI. Schools sell degrees the same way dealerships sell cars and while the school's narrative isn't a lie it isn't the only way to go. Schools are rightfully bias. If there is a specific career that you are passionate about that requires a specific degree, get the degree. That d…
/r/MensRights03/02/18 07:55 PM
-3

Maybe the declines are appropriate given the decline in value of a university degree, let alone what they call education?
/r/MensRights03/02/18 02:24 PM
2

I've been sexually assaulted by men and women. I consider myself straight. I don't understand why necessarily, but the differences across the torrential feelings of self-loathing and anger don't break across a gender bias. Part of me still feels like they should.
/r/MensRights28/01/18 05:31 AM
13

Yeah, that was my clue this is fake.
/r/MensRights24/01/18 08:44 PM
5

I've heard similar stories about Klansman getting really obsessed with wanting to be super racist, so they study everything they can. Then they quit once they really get a full understanding of what they are supporting. To be fair, I'm sure it has happened with every idea or belief. These are just the more interesting ones.
/r/MensRights31/10/17 12:09 AM
1

I'll add to that, there is nothing you can do with any kind of intensity for 15-20 minutes that will burn more calories than moderately paced walking for 90 minutes. Go somewhere nice and just keep putting one foot in front of the other. Just imagine you are training for a long romantic walk on the beach with the most interesting person in the world. What kind of endurance would you like to have? Walking in sand is quite intense.
/r/MensRights08/10/17 11:10 PM
1

That's the group I was looking at! I tried joining the mailing list and got a 404, or similar error. The only forums I could find had no updates since Conte's funeral. If you could share an updated link, I would greatly appreciate it.
/r/MensRights30/08/17 11:32 PM
5

When my son was born, every fucking person that came into the room asked, some asked more than once. Iirc, no other question was asked more than once by everyone combined. The last person to ask about it as we leaving I gave an earful. There used to be a protest group in my area until the leader, a local that had been horribly mutilated, committed suicide. Nothing seems to have happened with the group since.
/r/MensRights30/08/17 05:50 AM
2

I love the concept / phrase "the 3x5 card of allowable opinion", idea that despite the "encouragement" of discourse and open mindedness and such by some that in reality you can sum up what people are allowed to think (without banshees screeching at you for how stupid, racist, outdated, privileged, whatever your ideas are) onto a 3x5 index card. It is also the tag line to Tom Woods book Real Dissent: a Libertarian Sets Fire To The Index Card of Allowable Opinion. As far as the crazy circle jerk, …
/r/MensRights12/08/17 07:56 PM
2

As far as "the healthy dose of independent reasons", everybody and everything has things that run contrary to their expressed beliefs and can be rightfully criticized. Some names carry more baggage than others. I can imagine that was the intent behind the creation of a seemingly objective lost of "hate groups", but what I see is not critical thinking, a sharing of food for thought, but a dog whistle for additions and subtractions from the 3x5 card of allowable opinion. That being said, I do not …
/r/MensRights09/08/17 10:16 PM
1

I had my wife read the memo. She didn't like it, as I kind of expected. When I mentioned that the guy that wrote it got fired over it, she basically said, "I disagree with the guy, but that's a bunch of fucking bullshit, it only proves exactly what he was saying".
/r/MensRights09/08/17 07:48 AM
4

I agree with you on everything else, but SPLC generally regards anyone not thoroughly vetted as obedient to the dog whistle of the left to be a hate group. They are a fairly extreme hate group themselves and I would encourage you, because the science regarding youth trans is not common knowledge at all, to make your argument stronger by not making reference to them. Just my opinion.
/r/MensRights09/08/17 07:31 AM
2

But he also said that this freedom has grown for women at a greater rate than men. This aligns with my understanding of Warren Farrell's work; relatively, men are still doing "men's work" while the concept of "women's work" has been broken. As such, the growth he describes is uneven and this unevenness could be corrected by reducing the shame / increasing the acceptance of men entering fields traditionally dominated by women. Does that make sense? It is like drawing a relation between divisions …
/r/TheRedPill07/08/17 05:35 PM
0

Are they seeking the black face equivalent for gender or Russian style revisionism?
/r/MensRights21/07/17 06:53 PM
1

I would be inclined to agree if this were a charter bus, but a public transportation system goes against that already. Even if you are the only person on the bus, bags shouldn't go on seats. Put it to a vote or leave it to the bureaucratic administration and you may or may not get policies like this. This one did. Thankfully I have no problem inviting people to move their bags (if I want a seat), but that isn't everyone.
/r/MensRights06/07/17 04:36 PM
2

There isn't exactly one circumcision procedure for boys or girls. For girls it is sometimes only a mild abrasion. It is rare to remove the clitoris entirely. In boys it can range from removing a little or a lot of the tissue. For some there is no movement, and trying to jerk off without lube causes tearing and inflammation. Uncommon today, but in the past much of the head of the penis would be removed. I'm happy everything works well for you, but I would encourage you to consider that your case …
/r/MensRights03/07/17 05:11 AM
1

And muscle and nerves. It isn't "just skin".
/r/MensRights03/07/17 04:59 AM
23

"it's just skin" If you think labia, cheeks, and eye lids are just skin, sure.
/r/MensRights03/07/17 04:52 AM
1

Anything works when it is really a mythical boogeyman. "Capitalist" works too as it was the mythical boogeyman of Marx Das Capital. Just because there was an attempt in the early 20th century to change the meaning to represent pro market ideas doesn't mean people don't continue to use it that way. The point, as discussed further down the chain, is that empty rhetoric is easily identifiable by substituting loaded words or boogeymen with other words to reveal the content of the statement outside t…
/r/MensRights23/06/17 03:51 PM
3

Sure, thank you for the opportunity to explain. In my view, which is hopefully as open to change as I believe it to be, "buying a senator" is not as quid pro quo as it is made out to be by the media. Instead, there are a couple institutional issues in particular that have a corrupting influence: There are not very many senators. With ~350 million people, they are each roughly responsible for the voice of 3.5 million people. And not really just their voice, but their best interests. What people t…
/r/MensRights22/06/17 09:59 PM
3

I think you underestimate what jews were accused of. They were the bourgeoisie, according to propaganda, including the poor ones. The word bourgeoisie isn't used much today, but that's just semantics. It is the same rhetoric. Also, as far as I can see, people with money control both sides of the debate, pro and con everything.
/r/MensRights22/06/17 08:55 PM
10

I started doing a similar thing when people rant about "the rich". I substitute the word "jew" in my head. Typically the statements don't sound particularly original. The oppressor/oppressed model is so blatantly toxic, I don't understand why it is so popular -- Somebody or some group is the victim and another person or group is the enemy. Do people find this simplicity elegant? Sometimes it makes sense, but as an entire worldview for all social ills?
/r/MensRights22/06/17 02:48 PM
2

I have some hope that The Red Pill might be able to provide that perspective to a broad audience that may not otherwise ever get to see.
/r/MensRights17/06/17 07:00 AM
21

Still sick, but that explains things. That wiki article isn't pulling any punches when it comes to explaining their bias.
/r/MensRights17/06/17 06:56 AM
1

Same way male combat death bias just shows how the military discriminates against women!
/r/MensRights03/06/17 04:27 AM
1

I would like to read more negative opinions about the mask you wear. Could you point me in the right direction?
/r/MensRights29/05/17 11:54 PM
5

More of that would be a step forward from my perspective. By contrast, "The Mask You Wear" was some toxic hateful shit pretending to be helping men. If "negative and scary stereotypes" about men are "toxic masculinity" then "negative and scary stereotypes" about women should rightfully be called "toxic femininity". I don't accept that as useful language. The director of The Red Pill, despite some patronizing aspects I didn't really identify with till you pointed it out, I think we're merely l re…
/r/MensRights29/05/17 05:41 PM
5

In context it sounds like you are justifying his denigration because he is paid well and you wouldn't find the work difficult.
/r/MensRights27/05/17 04:07 PM
1

I don't have a problem with feminists, I just disagree with their world view. I am friends with and have family members that are feminists, and I deeply cherish them as as wonderful and loving human beings. Most of them have very busy lives and their framework for dealing with the world is a positive one. I think they may credit feminism for playing a positive role in the good they in turn give to the world but they lack the interest or time to make a critical and comparative assessment of the i…
/r/MensRights16/05/17 04:39 PM
3

Isn't there some component where if you have a complaint you need to bring it up during trial and give the judge am opportunity to resolve the issue, otherwise you forfeit? Which I bet could be brought up tactfully in a side bar, not in hysteria.
/r/MensRights24/04/17 11:40 PM
6

Also, if I understand correctly, the trial isn't necessarily the time / place to make a case for prosecutorial misconduct.
/r/MensRights24/04/17 04:56 PM
2

Similarly, I've known women to be in very abusive (physically and blatantly manipulative) relationships. Bit at the same time I can't possibly imagine the abuser receiving any kind of legal punishment. But similarly, I can also see such victims turned away from domestic abuse shelters because of "insert gay stereotype".
/r/MensRights21/04/17 06:12 PM
2

Would it make a difference if you were in a minority statistical group?
/r/MensRights21/04/17 06:04 PM
11

Speaking from experience and hearing stories from both male and female victims, plenty of people freeze or don't fight back against perps they might have been able to overpower. Imho, the attractiveness and physical strength of the perp shouldn't necessarily be a gage of whether or not it is "really rape". It unnecessarily brings in questions that don't need to be brought up. Looking at it the other way, I can only imagine how sick a victim might feel were they to make an outcry and be told, "bu…
/r/MensRights21/04/17 05:47 PM
2

Individually.
/r/MensRights21/04/17 05:16 PM
19

As much as I am in favor of such gatekeeping, that would put a serious divide across those that self identify as feminists. From what I have seen, egalitarian movements tend to work towards making some people more equal than others. For some feminists "creating equality" exists under the narrative that men are inherently superior / run the world. From that standpoint equality is a direction to move, not a state to be achieved.
/r/MensRights21/04/17 05:13 PM
6

It is my understanding that this is the case in Canada.
/r/MensRights21/04/17 05:06 PM
19

I was in a newborn care class and the teacher took us to the room where children would be circumcised. They said, though parents were not prohibited, they recommended parents not going in because the procedure could be traumatic to watch. I wanted to scream.
/r/MensRights07/04/17 05:22 AM
1

That is terribly misleading, particularly without a source. They are always custody battles. Law also says you can be sterilized if you are considered a risk to the gene pool. Context matters.
/r/MensRights12/03/17 08:16 AM
2

Just had ours a few months ago and it was asked by every staff member that came in contact with us, some more than once. It was weird and sickening to the point I nearly filed a formal complaint. I think it must be a liberal thing, a sacrifice in the name of the state.
/r/MensRights12/03/17 08:12 AM
3

Acting this way may work, but the reasoning is off. I see a better "strategy". In simplest terms, "be yourself". We all heard it over and over. But what the hell does it mean? It means you need to be your own person with interests and desires. If your interest and desire is to completely reshape your life to cater to another person, that is a lot of pressure. It also says something about the value you put on your own life. Is it so crazy that if your life is so worthless that you would give it a…
/r/TheRedPill09/02/17 07:33 PM
1

It is great that people are expressing their opinions and non-violently fighting for what they believe in throughout the United States, but that that is a tremendous amount of control to give to another person. I hope your passion for politics isn't the only reason you would decide to be child-free. I also have a hard time putting US politics in the same ballpark as Sudanese politics. Could you help me understand your view there?
/r/MensRights01/02/17 05:39 AM
3

Bonus: My wife and I when we were dating, some conversation six months into our relationship she says she has never slept with an uncircumcised man. I'm like, "Oh? Are you sure?". She starts to insist before fully appreciating the look on my face, and says, "shit, really? ITS CAUSE YOU ARE ALWAYS ERECT GOD DAMNIT!" "No, it just likes to put on a show when it knows you might be looking at it." Anyway, six years and a child later I still love to give her shit for it at every chance.
/r/MensRights01/02/17 05:31 AM
1

Don't take this as an endorsement, just sharing what I heard on Law & Order followed up by some research: In simple terms, it is meant as a reminder not to be a slut and that the long-term security of focusing on providing for a family (and your ability to communicate that to a potential partner and their family) will benefit you in the long term over the short term or periodic and fleeting enjoyment of sexual gratification. This can be said of both "mild" FGM where only abrasion is applied all …
/r/MensRights01/02/17 05:22 AM
1

By conspiracy I only meant in the most basic sense, people working together against others. I am getting the impression that you are deducting from the present a way things came to be. I recommend reading the short essay I cited for reference. In short, the State did not come into being by imaginative wealthy intellectuals in their leisure time or by peasants in whatever manner that might be imagined, but by conquest and social evolution following such conquest. But I recommend reading the actua…
/r/MensRights31/01/17 12:09 AM
1

This really reinforces the theory presented in The Myth of Male Power, glaring example of the interchangeably disposable men. Matters not which battery powers the system once plugged in, equally disposable.
/r/MensRights28/01/17 02:09 AM
6

Anatomy of the State tells a good story. A system by the elite for the elite sounds innocently conspiratorial. More likely conquerors found slavery more efficient than pillaging and burning.
/r/MensRights28/01/17 02:05 AM
2

Or that every person that employs people is drafted into being a tax collector. Free army.
/r/MensRights28/01/17 02:01 AM
2

Not that I agree, but the rationale as u understand it (read: excuse made) is that the needs of the child outweigh the financial burden of the adult. Which adult is apparently arbitrary and capricious, "think of the children" seems to win again.
/r/MensRights28/01/17 01:59 AM
2

Sweden maybe? Some country within the past year passed some kind of safe harbor provision where men can permanently sever paternal rights and responsibilities the same way a mother can here when dropping the kid off at a safe harbor point like a hospital ER or fire station. Someone figured out what equality means.
/r/MensRights26/01/17 01:16 AM
1

This reminds me that "men" is often (though not always) gender neutral. Wo-man refers to females, but the male equivalent noun died long ago. If someone can remember the long lost term for males that prefixes -men, it would be appreciated. People generally use the term "men" when gender doesn't matter.
/r/MensRights24/01/17 12:19 AM
3

Assuming you would have it done in the hospital and not at a church (as far as I know that isn't a thing), would you opt in if it were not covered by insurance? Up to how much would it be worth to you? $500? $5000? Would you look to the black market or medical tourism if it became illegal?
/r/MensRights21/01/17 02:19 AM
29

That completely depends on where you look. FGM is normalized lots of places, and many of those have the same view of MGM that the US generally has about FGM. The fact that people think it is "normal" is exactly what needs to change (in addition to the actual practice). Isn't that the whole "rape culture" thing? Moral relativism can be used to justify anything.
/r/MensRights21/01/17 02:09 AM
47

Is she asking us to raise money for shiny new razor blades and better anesthetic?
/r/MensRights21/01/17 02:04 AM
19

The American Medical Association, while pretty good overall, is a powerful institutional and legal monopoly that can get away with a little bit of whatever they want. They support it, and there is no other voice of authority. To note, the two avenues I see causing change are 1) generational; the old people making the policy die, 2) enough scientific evidence gets insurance companies to stop paying for it. Unfortunately I hate to think how the ACA might impact that possibility.
/r/MensRights21/01/17 02:02 AM
10

Sexual mayhem of a child?
/r/MensRights21/01/17 01:51 AM
25

Lots of women have no problems too, and to be fair there are lots of different ways it can be done for both genders. Not sure if it is a compelling argument. I'm happy you are happy with your body.
/r/MensRights21/01/17 01:51 AM
3

That is a good analogy for too many things.
/r/MensRights03/01/17 06:57 AM
2

Thank you for sharing. As for my masculinity.. my dad played and important role in helping me understand the importance of a thick skin and how to build up a thick skin.. Mind sharing an example? My parents would punish me physically when I was younger. (One would hold me down, the other would "spank" me. I would always fight back.) The physical punishments continued until I fought back and ended up breaking my dad's arm. Then they stopped. My mom got into a physically abusive relationship after…
/r/MensRights22/11/16 01:31 AM
1

I would like to imagine thus sub could be a place for discussion. It is a great sub to rant, but once we have our anger out and looking for solutions, might another sub be more appropriate? Guess I don't really think of Robert Glover as Psychoanalytic, but in hind sight it makes sense. Similarly, the connections he makes between experience and self image strongly resonated with me and why I wanted to reach out. The fact that such issues can only be discussed behind closed doors in therapy groups…
/r/MensRights22/11/16 12:04 AM
2

You've totally lost me, but good luck with the new business.
/r/MensRights21/11/16 11:28 PM
1

Did my questions come across as "what's wrong with you? How were you broken?", because my intent was the opposite, despite being so personal.
/r/MensRights21/11/16 11:27 PM
12

Pretty sure those people have other things to apologize for, not their existance. Further, laying the blame of all of history at the feet of the most influential people of their time is dismissive of the role everyone else played. Worse, it excuses the behavior of people that think they have no influence in the world.
/r/MensRights21/11/16 11:07 PM
3

Trying to build clientele?
/r/MensRights21/11/16 11:02 PM
13

My apologies for the lack of context. Currently in the middle of No More Mr. Nice Guy and after defining what a nice guy is, in a positive way, it goes on to talk about the toxic side and the self image of Nice Guys. In particular, the author talks about toxic shame / self hating male image as a consequence of exactly the things I asked about, not more or less. I know his response is anecdotal, but wanted that outside perspective. I am very happy as an adult (now), but the book has been very hea…
/r/MensRights21/11/16 10:32 PM
1

Was that it? In the middle of reading "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and given positive view of himself I was curious if certain things were absent from the Nice Guy childhood stereotype. I know it is just one data point, but still grateful for the reply I got. Thanks for explaining the hate.
/r/MensRights21/11/16 10:09 PM
7

For boys that grow up with masculine father figures that demonstrate integrity, loyalty, work ethic, and honesty while being emotionally and physically available as role models, boys should be immune to that distant faceless crap. If by contrast a boy's male role models are always working, emktionally and physically unavailable, don't set boundaries, and fail to make their needs a priority then boy's are at very high risk for developing a toxic shame in place of a personal identity. The misandry…
/r/MensRights21/11/16 08:09 PM
-50

Question, as it is a subject of particular interest for me right now: Are you and your father close vs absent or otherwise emotionally unavailable? Was your mother supportive of you, being neither overbearing nor needy? Who in your life was most influential in helping you to define masculinity? How much was alcohol or violence an element of your childhood?
/r/MensRights21/11/16 07:52 PM
12

I love myself, my fellow men, and all the women in my life. Thank you everyone for this crazy adventure called life.
/r/MensRights21/11/16 07:47 PM
52

Nobody should have to apologize for their existence. Full Stop.
/r/MensRights21/11/16 07:46 PM
1

Nobody has heard of anything toll they have. I keep hearing nasty stuff about Google, but allow myself to be faithful to a lesser of evils in this case. "days" are just chances or reminders to think about things you want to think about at least once per year without worrying about. It's an excuse - - like science departments having a potluck on mole day, or eating pizza on pizza day. It should be no big deal with a small acknowledgement.
/r/MensRights20/11/16 04:15 AM
3

For the most part marketing has no goal beyond making people aware of something. The effort to make people care is much too great and really isn't possible through imagery alone. Taking something from non-existence into existance by way of awareness is all you need, plus repetition, and human nature takes care of the rest. It is difficult to care about a thing you don't know exists; the difference between being suicidally depressed and knowing you are part of an epidemic of suicidal young males …
/r/MensRights20/11/16 01:58 AM
1

Just started reading "no more Mr nice guy" and so far it just has me really angry. Knowledge is power, but sometimes it can be really depressing. Would you mind expanding on "male-issue centered depression"? They are covering this stuff in the book under the name "toxic shame", if I understand you correctly.
/r/MensRights20/11/16 01:50 AM
9

Nu short for Neutered?
/r/MensRights15/11/16 03:05 AM
5

Damn, that makes it sound like the war is more important than the cause. Makes too much sense.
/r/MensRights15/11/16 03:04 AM
11

I for one would love to see more Bear Pride. Men so masculine that they want no women spoiling their fun ever. I see a lot of unaddressed issues for hyper masculine gay men coming out of the closet because their sexual orientation is the only thing about them that is "gay" versus socially acceptable / expect affectations. Also makes it very difficult when those guys are attracted to men like themselves versus the stereotype of "traditional" gender roles being imposed upon "alternative lifestyle"…
/r/MensRights15/11/16 03:03 AM
7

"Stop complaining about what other people are doing and be the change?" Would you say that a college not censoring student actitivites is good, and which clubs are allowed is only an issue or reflection of the schools values when the college allows one hate group but not another?
/r/MensRights15/11/16 02:51 AM
5

The War Against Boys was a great book 15 years ago. I may need to read it again. I recommend it to anyone looking for a defense against this kind of propaganda. From a different angle, female sexual predators and female perpetrators of domestic violence are / seem differently motivated most of the time. Without getting into the specifics (unless someone is interested in discussing it), sexual battery is really shitty for many reasons and there is nothing so categorically different between being …
/r/MensRights15/11/16 02:45 AM
2

It is evidence of a belief in inferiority. Some people think men are responsible for the actions of women they date in the same way they feel responsible for the actions of a dog they adopt. You tell people not to abuse their dogs; nobody would say we need to explain to dogs not to bite. It is the owners responsibility to handle the situation or get out of it. Some people want equality, some people prefer women were treated like bitches. Feminism has changed the culture of a lot of men away from…
/r/MensRights10/10/16 12:15 AM
2

The "nation" isn't at war around the world already? News to me.
/r/MensRights21/06/16 02:15 AM
-2

Interesting that despite it being "proven" that drafts do net harm to a war effort, we focus on stupidity for all rather than eliminating it. Congratulations everybody!
/r/MensRights21/06/16 02:14 AM
1

Based on the reaction to the reviews (which I almost never read) I am going to assume the movie is terrible and can be skipped.
/r/MensRights10/06/16 04:19 PM
2

Also, given the survey said 96% thought the picture was beautiful means this is a non story, but the writer needed a catchy headline, so why not focus on what nobody else did.
/r/MensRights20/05/16 07:53 PM
3

To be fair, I expect anyone offended by this picture are the same kind that think breast feeding is sexual abuse.
/r/MensRights20/05/16 07:26 PM
31

For what it's worth, it isn't entirely black and white. I agree there is a strong bias to excuse female deviant behavior, but having worked with teenagers (male and female) deemed to have diminished capacity, I've seen many cases where (whether for attention or simply not understanding that it is inappropriate) public masturbation is excused. However, I've never seen "save from public embarrassment" as the primary reason to either not prosecute or keep the name private.
/r/MensRights03/05/16 05:10 PM
2

As mentioned above, the message may be targeting exactly those people that have made up their minds that male victims of female domestic violence don't really exist. In such a case this could pierce that veil showing that there are consequences that don't fit into that convenient little container called denial.
/r/MensRights20/04/16 02:16 PM
2

I'd like to think that it is helping people understand that the consequences go beyond the isolated circumstances they are able to justify away. This does not mean those original circumstances should be justified away, but I expect the message is attempting to target those people that already have. "We" are simply not the target audience as we already understand that the primary abuse is immoral. There are just multiple levels here of a sad reality. For example, I wonder if this would have gotte…
/r/MensRights20/04/16 02:13 PM
1

It is like the opposite of a strawman, instead of easy to defeat, or is pushing a fact not in contention at all.
/r/MensRights08/02/16 06:29 PM
1

Because working to pay child support for a child that isn't a part of your life, for whatever reason, has no impact on your body? Slavery hasn't gone away, it just got weird.
/r/MensRights08/02/16 06:28 PM
1

Imo, all the important decisions are settled long before anything goes to a vote, and as some say, "devil is in the details". Voters can influence the scope of liberties taken by policy makers as trust grows or is diminished, but the playground is always very big. In other words, any change through politics is driven by someone with passion and charisma, similar to "if you want something done right, you need to do it yourself". I can appreciate people checking in occasionally to see what is goin…
/r/MensRights30/01/16 04:56 PM
1

Explain please (in this context)
/r/MensRights30/01/16 03:35 AM
1

Having been involved at various levels, committees are where all the power lies. Get involved! Public gives ideas and votes on them (survey kind of stuff) and it isn't like "that is what you have to now get done". The stuff that gets done is what people put in work to get done. When stuff "goes to voters", it is literally just a check.
/r/MensRights30/01/16 12:58 AM
-1

Not even. Men gave women the right to vote in states with few women as a marketing tool to get them to come out west. Voting is a lame circle jerk that just celebrates the establishment. Better to celebrate the right to own property. Save up and do something that will actually have an impact the on something.
/r/MensRights29/01/16 11:26 PM
1

By the same logic, women can only be raped if penetrated anally because the vaginas is designed for that, so it is really only undesired contact. If you don't understand how forced or coerced penetration is rape, you don't understand rape.
/r/MensRights28/12/15 12:29 AM
4

The 1 in 5 number I heard included "being looked at in a way that made the person feel uncomfortable". The cause is about the cause.
/r/MensRights09/12/15 08:47 PM
1

I misread it as "UN will censor Internet from feminists". Was mildly excited for a moment.
/r/MensRights26/09/15 09:26 PM
2

Because all other classes are men's studies classes! /s
/r/MensRights01/09/15 06:53 AM
1

I wasn't aware there were gendered first person pronouns. What's the weremann version of 'I'?
/r/MensRights01/09/15 06:52 AM
2

I strongly agree. One dress code fixes this shit, or at least makes it easier to tell complainers to eat it.
/r/MensRights21/08/15 06:11 PM
8

Their argument is that "excessive detail" is inappropriate for "soft core". The consequence is that no inner labia can be shown, despite the fact that just isn't typical.
/r/MensRights03/08/15 07:19 AM
1

I know something similar that happened to someone. To horrific to put in to words.
/r/MensRights27/07/15 04:54 PM
16

They are completely objectifying the woman, like some uppity slave. The humor arises from the irony of a master being a victim of his own property. If they are seen as two human beings, the "joke" doesn't make any sense.
/r/MensRights27/07/15 04:53 PM
0

I have heard two stories of role reversal. Too terrifying for words or description. But to this case, what does it say about women overall when they are not held accountable for their actions. She is treated nearly the same way as an upset dog or cat. The wife is being completely objectives here, it just happens to be in her favor.
/r/MensRights27/07/15 04:50 PM
1

Women are better at everything except wage negotiations... Or their agents. And the greedy capitalists want lots of money unless it means having to pay a woman to get it.
/r/MensRights26/07/15 02:34 PM
2

Agreed. It sounds like a ban based on mods not doing their job that arguably could have legal repercussions. Despite whatever hate may be thrown in the direction of MRA, this is a completely different fight. Not going to say I like the policy, and don't like the direction in general, but looking at what was banned and not banned, the victim card is being played a bit early here.
/r/MensRights11/06/15 04:21 AM
1

But given that it is in a respect a punishment of misbehaving admits, wouldn't it require many "people" making posts in MRA advocating for the harassment of a person AND the mods taking no action?
/r/MensRights11/06/15 04:13 AM
2

Women only? OK. Safe because no cis-men allowed? Bad message.
/r/MensRights20/05/15 08:18 PM
6

"Nobody likes your stupid kids".
/r/MensRights09/05/15 05:43 PM
1

Police doing crazy things for no reason that gets people killed I can understand. Being prompted by citizens to do their job that then results in abuse? That's another story. More seriously, I remember hearing about that now. I think I blocked it out as too depressing.
/r/MensRights07/05/15 03:06 AM
8

I thought the police had to actually witness something. One anonymous phone call can't be enough, right?
/r/MensRights06/05/15 11:38 PM
1

I know. There was a whole discussion about it. Follow the thread.
/r/MensRights13/11/14 05:04 AM
1

That's awesome! Thank you!
/r/MensRights13/11/14 12:06 AM
1

I am not aware of any case where a male successfully argued that they were the victim of gender discrimination in a Federal case, or a white person being the victim of racial discrimination. I would be delighted to know otherwise.
/r/MensRights12/11/14 11:38 PM
1

"Classifications involving suspect classifications such as race, however, are subject to closer scrutiny." Only women are the suspect class of gender discrimination just as white people are not the suspect class of racial discrimination. Type of discrimination determines the level of scrutiny, not details of a particular suspect class (there is no sliding scale of how much a particular suspect class is protected).
/r/MensRights12/11/14 10:04 PM
0

That's the US. Are you saying it is the same in Canada? The whole "you may not discriminate on the basis of X, Y, Z" only applies to the protected class in the group in the US. I do think most people don't know / get that.
/r/MensRights12/11/14 09:35 PM
-14

Discrimination law only provides relief to the protected class. A men only class would be illegal, but not women only. Black only is OK, but not white only. You must be a member of a protected class to be protected.
/r/MensRights12/11/14 06:36 PM
2

That would give women a lot more intellectual credit than the above.
/r/MensRights30/10/14 08:37 PM
3

It is possible to help people take responsibility for their shitty life choices. It is not easy. Abandoning a person is bad, and cleaning up a person's mess so they don't have to deal with anything is bad; there are alternatives.
/r/MensRights14/10/14 12:25 AM
7

Depends on the jurisdiction. We love you Canada!
/r/MensRights04/10/14 09:07 PM
4

This (the rules) are a good example of stereotyping. As the troll eludes to the rules are possibly based on the most common situation or perception thereof. But the less common is exceptionally common. The rules for fathers isn't so bad, but the fact that it doesn't apply to mothers seems bizarre. In the US, nearly 1 in 5 single family households is fathers. If they are concerned about non-custodial parents trying to flee the jurisdiction with their child, why not check everybody. Further, I am …
/r/MensRights02/08/14 11:06 PM
2

I am ok with private community standards. That is a property rights issue. My complaint was that it was against the community standards of conduct and that either the content should be removed OR the community standard should be changed. I am against arbitrary, capricious, and hypocritical community standards.
/r/MensRights16/03/14 09:02 PM
1

I am not a fan of hate crime / hate speech legislation. Private community standards I am fine with. Arbitrary enforcement I have a problem with.
/r/MensRights16/03/14 09:01 PM
0

You knew it was SNL, right?
/r/MensRights09/03/14 05:53 PM
3

Thank you for the healthy "no such thing as bad publicity" approach here.
/r/MensRights09/03/14 05:50 PM
1

So, new troll post to ignore, eh? What is this threat going to discuss instead?
/r/MensRights26/02/14 10:01 PM
2

Maybe that is just the kind you're attracted to? Something I had a hard time understanding is the difference between relationship dynamics and gender dynamics. Most of what you are describing sounds like the result of getting burned by relationships, not women. And if this isn't about you, but "everyone else", I'd recommend unsubscribing to all the drama. It really makes the rest of the world look bad.
/r/MensRights23/02/14 11:20 PM
11

Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they pay 77 cents in taxes for every dollar a man pays. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. I deserve equal tax for equal work. She deserves to have a baby without me sacrificing. A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without me running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a “Mad Men” episode. This year, let’s all come toget…
/r/MensRights29/01/14 04:44 AM
1

Canada has no Rape statute, only sexual assault.
/r/MensRights26/01/14 02:17 AM
1

My observation is that Webster's tends to track contemporary spoken use while Oxford tends to track historical literary use. Each is good depending on why you are looking a word up.
/r/MensRights26/01/14 02:14 AM
3

Humans can't abuse humans because they are both humans?
/r/MensRights12/12/13 12:24 AM
2

18 year old woman convicted of rape against a 35 year old woman. (London) Can't find anything else. Maybe worth asking /r/JusticePorn.
/r/MensRights27/09/13 05:02 PM
3

If someone said, "I am a family of one", is the statement nonsensical, or unexpected?
/r/MensRights21/08/13 01:29 AM
5

For what purpose? The point of the video is that the difference in wages is a reflection of a difference in values and choices. Again, this sounds like fancy accounting. I can see where the numbers would change, but what actual difference does it make to substitute one child care provider with another, but put a wage on it. Why doesn't the family just pay its own mother (and then of course pay taxes on that income)? I think because that doesn't make any sense either. Worst of all, this would cre…
/r/MensRights26/07/13 08:23 PM
5

Fancy accounting is always a great way to hide numbers, unless the numbers mean something and are useful in making rational choices. Even if you reject that, there is actual value in career momentum. Further, maternity leave is not the same thing as leaving the work force for 10 years to raise a family. Also, I don't necessarily see how what you are suggesting relates to any of the points made in the video other than assumptions perpetuated by the wage gap myth. If you are going to subsidize all…
/r/MensRights26/07/13 07:52 PM
1

OOOoooooh... Domestic Violence. I was so confused thinking about how that would even be possible instead of just opening the damn link or comments. This makes so much more sense now.
/r/MensRights19/07/13 11:35 PM
0

There are people reclaiming the term slut, but whether you view the word slut as a positive thing or a negative thing, "shaming" means to intentionally make someone feel bad for their thoughts or behavior.
/r/MensRights13/07/13 07:52 PM
0

You have an odd sense of "hilarious".
/r/MensRights13/07/13 07:52 PM
1

I can't find it, but I thought the infographic showing which gender/ethnic groups were seeking which gender/ethnic group was much more revealing. All I see here is heuristics about strangers. Meh.
/r/MensRights12/07/13 07:14 AM
1

It is sad not more people know, but Milton Freedman testified before Congress some time ago and demonstrated that historically a draft is so harmful to moral that its impact on productivity always outweighs the gain from the new slaves. In reality, a draft does not work.
/r/MensRights04/05/13 12:18 AM
8

Good point. Crazy is not a gender issue but a relationship issue.
/r/MensRights01/04/13 05:04 PM
1

adequate or accurate?
/r/MensRights18/03/13 04:13 AM
12

I think it is just as offensive to dismiss male victims of rape for being a minority of victims as it would be to dismiss female victims for being in a majority. There are few fucks given about statistics or demographics when you are the victim. I hope I never judge how victimized a person feels just because I could theoretically put their "incident" into some kind of box. It took me a really long time (and still working on it) to understand that nothing about what I went through is changed one …
/r/MensRights18/03/13 04:12 AM
1

Anything can be drafted into law. There is also no law against stupid laws. There is supposedly something written long ago that was supposed to put a limit on the degree or bredth of stupid laws, and though it hasn't been repealed yet, nobody really pays any attention to it anymore.
/r/MensRights22/02/13 05:12 PM
12

I thought this was all a bunch of academic circlejerk. Then I found out she actually helps draft laws! Those things are not mutually exclusive.
/r/MensRights22/02/13 06:21 AM
6

That opinion alone will the you flamed to hell on most feminist boards. My guess is that she is out living her life and enjoying love, and not on boards that will just get her flamed.
/r/MensRights13/02/13 12:59 AM
3

Weird. Pop culture would have me believe that you don't exist, and yet this matches my anecdotal experience. I love my lesbian friends, and often they express desires towards women that resonates with my own. When a woman can deeply understand, appreciate, and express love for women the way I do, it makes me feel human. I was raised with a somewhat strong dose of "men are evil" and "masculinity is everything wrong with the world" philosophy. So happy to be over that bullshit (Mostly. Still worki…
/r/MensRights13/02/13 12:57 AM
1

Do you think a case could be made that since men are heavily prejudiced against... My personal opinion, I don't think that line of argumentation would get you anywhere. On the Libertarian side, I would focus less on the law and look at markets. If there are lots of well educated and skilled men in the area of education and such, I say take advantage of it. What are kids missing out on due to this discrimination? Figure that out and exploit it to everybody benefit. Win in the marketplace of ideas…
/r/MensRights10/02/13 12:17 AM
1

Add this to list of gripes, but the way civil rights legislation works is that there are "suspect classes" / "protected classes". It may say there is to be no discrimination on the basis of race, but what they really mean is that you can not use race as a determining factor in discluding them if their race is one that has been historically discriminated against. If someone hates you because you are Irish and won't hire you for that reason alone, you don't have a case because the law doesn't reco…
/r/MensRights09/02/13 10:21 AM
1

And have you tried to see what feminists think about getting rid of VAWA and having something like a VAPA (Violence Against People Act) because of gender symmetry in domestic violence and women actually being the safest demographic in society? Good luck with that one mate! In my experience, most self described feminist will concede that equal laws are superior to discriminatory laws, even if they don't think the change is "necessary". As for fixing the State, I must confess that my feelings on t…
/r/MensRights30/12/12 11:49 PM
1

revocation of your license On this issue all by itself, if a small bar owner operator loses their licence, they pretty much lose everything. I think it is corrupt / much too arbritrary. It's not pointless since they are still supporting those types of laws and in fact trying to make the laws even more ridiculous. I worry that attacking the proponent is just not the right way of going about it. Strictly sticking to the merits should suffice; no reason to go Alinsky on them. They want to bring out…
/r/MensRights30/12/12 02:46 AM
1

Sorry, that was not my intention. I was worried about the same potential problem, but I didn't mean to accuse you of bad faith. I just mean that there are a lot of feminist with a wide range of opinions. My intent was that with a source this conversation could have a path we could both be on rather than just a circle jerk. As for the specific link (thank you) I think there is a lot going on in that poster with regard to "social messages". I have a minor asthetic issue with the word "rape" being …
/r/MensRights30/12/12 02:19 AM
1

Thats nice but even if we grant them the assumption they didnt have anything to do with it Not what I said. No assuming needs to be done if we concede that the bad law was likely created in good faith with best of intentions. Bad laws are creatid all the time in good faith with best of intentions. On top of proving the law was bad, why add the extra burden of proving bad faith? Then to those that claim the law is good enough, you can ask them if they are opposed to making it better (basically), …
/r/MensRights30/12/12 01:48 AM
2

So let's just have an incredibly broad definition of rape and make men pay the price for it whenever a woman gets angry at them after sex! Not what I said. I have a problem with the leaping from "obvious problem" to "obvious solution". Are we going to pretend that feminists haven't had a huge effect on changing current laws? I think the better, more general way of looking at it is to assume the law was developed with the best of intentions with unintended consequences that need to be addressed. …
/r/MensRights30/12/12 12:57 AM
2

A link to an article relating to which part of my position? A specific self proclaimed feminist that declares from a feminist perspective that alcohol takes away power to consent to sex. I know it is out there, I just don't think the reasoning is homogenous. The best case scenario if you can prove to the judges satisfaction you were not in any fit state to sign the contract is that it is voided. My opinion, I think there should be a high burden for proving that the intoxication took away the pow…
/r/MensRights30/12/12 12:36 AM
1

I think a link to an article illistrating your point would have been more compelling, then, letting "us" discuss what the author meant. The generalizations made, imo, are too sweeping to be constructive. For example, it isn't just or all feminist that say intoxication takes away ability to consent. The law in most places say that, and it is a generally true think about contracts. This then gets applied to everything including the issue of consent as it applies to sexual activities. I think it is…
/r/MensRights29/12/12 11:55 PM
2

It has already been mentioned that there are many fashions of female circumcision, but the same is true for male circumcision. In some practices most of the head is removed. There is extreme mutilation and less extreme mutilation. Much like rape, it can be extreme or just uncomfortable. When anesthetic is used or done a very young age, person may not feel or remember anything at all.
/r/MensRights29/11/12 05:32 PM
5

circumcised penis is easier to take care of So you opted for it as a consenting adult? What is your frame of reference?
/r/MensRights29/11/12 05:24 PM
1

To be fair, doesn't seem completely irrational, just as long as they aren't going to far as trying to recruit.
/r/MensRights13/11/12 09:31 PM
1

Taking pride in having an STD, "wearing it as a badge of honor", sounds like a coping mechanism for dealing with a life long illness similar to the way a person in captivity may transform their inescapable fear into love for their captor.
/r/MensRights13/11/12 08:14 PM
0

Can't come up with your own Ad Homonym attack that you need to ask for help from the person you are trying to criticize? For the sake of argument, "murder" may not be the right term for abortion because it is legally sanctioned (part of the definition of murder is that it is unlawful), but what is so reprehensible about equating abortion with justifiable homicide? As far as the "lies", do you oppose the infliction of this philosophy upon people, or the idea that this is her personal philosophy?
/r/MensRights13/11/12 07:54 PM
3

I was pro-choice, and now just a very reluctant and skeptical supporter. I do not think the state should criminalize abortion, but the newspeak for compassionate eugenics is terrifying.
/r/MensRights13/11/12 07:48 PM
1

So does "she" believe that CommunismKills is not practicing what she preaches, taking actions that on their face are contradictory to her stated objectives, or "she" doesn't follow the line of reasoning and perceives CommunismKills as outspoken about nothing?
/r/MensRights13/11/12 07:41 PM
1

Did #6 bother you? Sounds like the core of all Communist arguments against labor, specifically the employee/employer relationship. I've known exotic dancers and sex workers (friends / acquaintances) that hate the work they do and feel like it was their only option, and others that love near every moment of it and are proud of what they do... almost like everyone else I know with a job. Given your username...
/r/MensRights13/11/12 06:43 PM
1

I still think #6 is worse. #2 just sounds like Stockholm Syndrome.
/r/MensRights13/11/12 06:32 PM
7

In that respect one might say this book could be offensive to women because it supposes that their interpersonal communication with anything different from themselves is unlikely to evolve beyond the kind of relationship they can have with a dog. The author it bringing it down to their level. I think that is more of a statement of what the author thinks of women than men.
/r/MensRights20/10/12 05:30 PM
6

I think the hypocrisy is noteworthy, but I also consider myself to be responsible for the role I play in my own life. The primary thing that makes me really uncomfortable is when I get the impression that one is not allowed to talk about the elephant in the room. But getting all pissy about it is just immature, and in my experience doesn't solve much. Nobody "learns a lesson" from that kind of behavior.
/r/MensRights20/10/12 05:22 PM
1

First, I don't argue against hoarding: that in itself is just a personal decision to postpone consumption. Strong agreement :) Second, the problem is not that they hoard, but that they spend money on status games and that money spent urges the market to produce yachts and airplanes rather than clinics and schools. That's especially inefficient when you consider that you can play status games with any amount of wealth. Firstly, I'd say that so long as the money is earned lawfully (without getting…
/r/MensRights09/10/12 09:52 PM
1

My apologies for such a late reply. Just one of those weeks. In my opinion, your logic is sound, but your premise depends on a conflation of money and wealth. Fredrich Bastiat wrote an excellent paper (well, theatical dialog rather) on this logical fallacy: What is Money? But essentially, hoarding of money does not change the demand for bread or other basic necessities. You argue that the billionare does not need what the poor could use to buy bread. But where does this bread come from? On the e…
/r/MensRights06/10/12 09:54 PM
1

I agree, though I would consider doing it if the cost of prevention were smaller than the cost of cleaning up. But liability can be a private matter. Courts might be needed for that, worst case scenario, but not police. That's questionable. Billionaires keep raking it in while all of their needs are ostentatiously satisfied. Now that gets into some interesting territory. Want/need is subjective, and, for the sake of discussion, if we are going to follow Maslow's model, the needs of an individual…
/r/MensRights01/10/12 09:16 PM
1

I agree up to the point where they negatively impact other people. I agree there is a line between vices and crimes, and definitively crossing that line is a trespass; but the corollary is that if the line has not been crossed then there has been no trespass--to justify trespass (criminalization) for a non-trespass is to replace laws with nannies. a lack of minimum wage might drive down general wage levels, not just the wages of people on the bottom rungs. In the abstract, money is a tool for ca…
/r/MensRights30/09/12 06:03 AM
1

Just throwing this out there: Let's apply this logic to politics. Stop criminalizing non-ideal choices--you know not what you do. Prostitution, minimum wage, drug use, ergonomically incorrect chair use. These things are vices, not crimes. While we should discourage with reason participation in these things (if you so believe), punishing people for their choices as if their actions are a trespass are a perversion of the meaning of a law abiding society.
/r/MensRights28/09/12 08:38 PM
1

Noteworthy: the differences between normal mutilated transmission was not statistically significant. Their data does not match their conclusions.
/r/MensRights27/08/12 11:27 PM
1

Not to change the subject on you, but have seen a similar perception by people with extreme disabilities. Most people are pretty nice, and some people are confused and curious. VERY few people are downright horrific and will say stuff that nobody should ever have to hear. Unfortunately, if you see hundreds or thousands of people per day, it takes a very small percent of the population to get extremely disparaging remarks a few times per year. But year after year it really adds up and takes a tol…
/r/MensRights22/08/12 02:47 AM
6

Isn't sports "objectifying" people? I thought the whole point of the olympics was to objectify people. Recognizing that they are also beautiful while doing it actually brings more depth to the matter than existed previously.
/r/MensRights13/08/12 10:31 AM
1

I think that is where there is real depth of wisdom lies in one of my favorite Simpson quotes: "Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" ~Homer or alternately in another episode: "Phfft! Facts. You can use them to prove anything." ~Homer The more I have come to understand (I hope) that "science", namely the scientific method, is a subset the study of knowledge. It only works to for determining the reliability of proposed causal relationships betwee…
/r/MensRights09/08/12 05:50 AM
2

As one person put it, it is a lens through which the entire world can be viewed. That in itself doesn't inalidate it, but being aware of how "facts" are sewn together to support a narrative can not be ignored. Narratives / lenses can give perspective, but just because everything could be seen through it doesn't mean it should. If it isn't empowering and just makes excuses or creates victimization, what is the point? By contrast, I have accepted that Libertarianism has its own lens. It creates a …
/r/MensRights08/08/12 11:10 PM
2

My point exactly.
/r/MensRights08/08/12 09:37 PM
1

I've heard of that being applied to statutory rape--two minors having sex both being charged with the same crime.
/r/MensRights08/08/12 02:03 AM
4

I didn't quite follow your original statement, but now that you have explained it, I think you have made an insightful observation. I think it also gives a lot of respect to Sharia Law, even if I don't agree with it.
/r/MensRights08/08/12 01:54 AM
2

Desiring compensation for inferiority is a very different thing from desiring to abolish the myth of inferiority. Strange to think these things could be conflated, but I think anyone that might consider themselves a former feminist may understand.
/r/MensRights08/08/12 01:46 AM
21

Her statement sounds much more stupid when the gender is switched. Sounds pretty equally stupid to me.
/r/MensRights07/08/12 11:36 PM
11

No physical evidence On this issue though (I thought the article was linked here) that "physical trauma" is just as common in cases of rape as consentual sex.
/r/MensRights28/07/12 10:37 AM
0

huh? By "doesn't matter" I mean that to discriminate on the basis of a person being a member of a protected class tends to be arbitrary rather than meaningful, asides from personal feelings a person may have about the class. Let me rephrase: First of all, there is nothing "illegal" or whatever about "discrimination". People discriminate all the time. Any time you pick one thing over another for a reason, that's discrimination. I think a lot of people seem to over look that. Next, the Civil Right…
/r/MensRights27/05/12 02:49 AM
3

No offense, but I think you just made that up. The entire point of anti-racial discrimination (everything in the most recent Civil Rights Act for that matter) is to eliminate it from being used in places where it doesn't matter. If you can show that it matters, then there is no violation. Further, it may be a business decision to not use a particular variable, but in general, more reliable variables in actuarial tables make for better insurance companies. The most common, and legally upheld, for…
/r/MensRights26/05/12 05:46 PM
1

So how is that whole angry and lonely thing working out for you so far?
/r/MensRights23/05/12 05:49 AM
2

While I appreciate the sentiment you are giving, I think that rightfully falls outside of the context of this situation; noteworthy in the broader scope of things, but doesn't necessarily apply here. Though I would add to the valid point you bring up, parents should be mindful of preparing their child for the real world. For example, my father rarely cursed and put emphasis upon the impression you give people when you curse. He also explained that it is disrespectful. He never made it out to be …
/r/MensRights22/05/12 05:55 PM
6

Exactly. Also learned that just because some people are crazy doesn't mean that all people of that group are crazy, or that it must be tolerated. I have a duty and a responsibility, if I wish to have healthy relationships in my life, to both filter and facilitate that happening. Sitting around complaining about how anything is anybody else's fault is a waste of time and energy, even when it is.
/r/MensRights22/05/12 03:20 AM
6

Ok, that makes quite a bit more sense. And even if she was right about her statistics, it is an abuse of reason to argue that because of this statistic a girl would be justified in cheating on you. I'd stay away from that landmine. It implies that you are responsible for the behavior of all men. The idea that you would be responsible for the actions of any man other than yourself is absurd. It would be like taking any crime statistic and using it to justify committing a crime at a rate less than…
/r/MensRights22/05/12 03:15 AM
1

I thought the same thing when I was a teenager.
/r/MensRights22/05/12 12:25 AM
33

If I may be permitted to share my own perspective on this... What was your objective? I run into this problem with PEOPLE frequently. I love collecting random facts and I will try and make a point about something for no particular reason other than possibly a hidden desire for the person to find it as interesting as I do. It has the potential to confuse people because it seems to imply that you want them to do something, but I never get to a point. This devolves into arguing over a difference of…
/r/MensRights22/05/12 12:09 AM
3

Nice to know there is at least one safe place where he won't fuck you.
/r/MensRights18/05/12 09:59 PM
5

I agree. If you don't like an organization's rules: don't join. My father really liked the Elks Lodge, but didn't want to support an organization that historically discriminated against African Americans. But I think private clubs should be able to discriminate how ever they please and bear the business consequences (and public criticism). At very least for the same reason I support legalization of prostitution: If people that want that can't have their private establishments, then they are goin…
/r/MensRights10/05/12 05:55 AM
3

I take that as the angry and ignorant expressing themselves. Better than the subject being taboo. Just every once in awhile help to redirect people back towards sanity. People often appreciate it when you allow them to rant, but then humbly explain your less crazy point of view. Some times it makes a positive difference, or no difference at all. To me, that says keep trying. Maybe it won't strike them today or in that conversation, but I know I appreciate it when people make an effort to be pati…
/r/MensRights09/05/12 04:50 PM
1

I think the real issue is that the poster is COMPLETELY out of touch with how stuff like that does down. Glad there are laws and shit, but they are really of last resort. A better message would be to explain how horrible it is when you really like somebody and they might really like you too and the first time you have sex you are both so completely fucking trashed that you barely remember anything, it can really fuck with how your relationship develops. If something that should be fun, exciting,…
/r/MensRights09/05/12 04:40 PM
13

Lynching is similar to crucifixion where the intent of the act is to send a message to others to "behave, or else". Public awareness of the act is highly sought. Rape intends to humiliate the victim to make the perp feel empowered and in control. Public awareness of the act is avoided, though the perp may brag to an inner circle. An argument may be made that gang rape has been used politically and seeks public attention in the third world, but that is not the United States. If we are looking at …
/r/MensRights09/05/12 01:12 AM
-1

It is an abuse of reason. Or are you being sarcastic?
/r/MensRights09/05/12 01:01 AM
14

Antisocial pseudoscientist Fixed. FIXED
/r/MensRights09/05/12 12:59 AM
4

Pretty sure this is he same argument used by NAMBLA. Funny coincidence you call someone that disagrees with you a 9 year old. Just sayin'.
/r/MensRights01/05/12 12:03 AM
6

Well, an ass isn't self lubricating. Not only is a vagina self-lubricating, but you can get lube at any drug store. If people that just want to "borrow" a vagina, but return it in reasonably similar condition, then that wouldn't really be rape as it is normally defined, right? And if the person is drugged and doesn't remember anything, then it isn't rape at all? That about right? Rape is traumatizing physically and mentally. If you can find a way to get rid of the physical and mental trauma, the…
/r/MensRights30/04/12 11:59 PM
5

Those are different issues. We can get into the grueling detail of what type of sexual abuse is worse, and maybe what should not be considered a sex crime, but whatever the outcome there there should be equality under the law. Further, I do not have any compassion for people that sexually abuse children. I don't care what gender they are.
/r/MensRights27/04/12 08:36 PM
5

I think you completely nailed it.
/r/MensRights27/04/12 08:31 PM
3

I agree that registries are way over used, but take away the fact that in certain parts of the world it is accepted culturally (GM), if some guy just decided out of the blue, "Hey, maybe I should take this baby and cut up their gentiles", such a person must be sick in the head, and I think it perfectly falls under the category of sex crimes because of the nature of the abuse, not necessarily because the person derived sexual pleasure from it. To be fair, I think if rapists were into the physical…
/r/MensRights27/04/12 08:05 PM
1

I would not protest if this would put him on a sex offenders registry.
/r/MensRights27/04/12 07:22 PM
1

I can appreciate that. My "advice" (above) is that understanding the game can lead to a more desirable outcome, despite what statistics say or the default outcome can be, as you describe. So how can we go about making changes? One way this could have gone (fyi, TINLA), is for a person in your situation to request, via police non-emergency, to have an officer present when your girl friend comes and picks up her stuff. You mention you are concerned that she might get physical and that you are conc…
/r/MensRights22/04/12 08:11 PM
2

I completely agree. I'm just saying that one should 1) have a clear idea of what you want from the cops as a part of that, 2) consider the rationality you are going to use to facilitate that objective, and 3) is there someone else that might be more appropriate than the cops to get what you need. Not saying he didn't have that or consider that on top of everything else, and not saying that his concern about people listening to him fairly isn't serious. Just saying that one must always be mindful…
/r/MensRights22/04/12 07:46 AM
3

Just throwing this out there, what did you want from the cops? Cops are problem solvers and calling the cops means that there is something going on that you can't handle. What was it that you couldn't handle in this situation? If your goal would be to "get her in trouble" or "make her responsible for what she did", I think you misunderstand what the police are for and what they do. Not knowing what they are there for, and not really stating what you would want them to do anyway means that the ou…
/r/MensRights22/04/12 04:40 AM
4

I think she self describes as a celebrity. Keep in mind she did have to take down her email address because she was too controversial.
/r/MensRights22/04/12 03:26 AM
3

Well, if this guy can get work, why should she be any less entitled to a chance at entrepreneurship?
/r/MensRights22/04/12 03:09 AM
2

The weirdest part about her web site are all the references to how quirky and controversial she is. She's like a Rachael Maddow without nearly the looks or the fame.
/r/MensRights22/04/12 02:54 AM
3

Imo, girls love animals. Different types of girls love different types of animals. I think it is most revealing that the author doesn't allow people to leave comments.
/r/MensRights22/04/12 02:46 AM
6

I think the authors homepage about says it all.
/r/MensRights22/04/12 02:43 AM
2

Just because there is obvious strong gender bias doesn't mean that particular element has gender bias. Also, I'll agree with rape of women is always portrayed as unacceptable. but what do you mean by Only men suffer from rape culture in the first world Not necessarily disagreeing, I just don't understand the statement. Can you explain?
/r/MensRights13/04/12 05:10 PM
5

Which is separate from it being a gender thing. Correct?
/r/MensRights13/04/12 05:54 AM
7

Probably the plot of more than one. Several short stories too.
/r/MensRights12/04/12 11:22 PM
12

Only funny when it is ironic. I don't think anybody was laughing at the prison rapes in Shawshank Redemption or American History X. I expect that if a woman that sexually abused children were made a bitch of some woman in a prison and frequently punished for crimes as much tougher than them as she was of the children she molested, people would find it amusing. Further, if she were killed through this punishment and humiliation, I think most would say "good riddance".
/r/MensRights12/04/12 08:54 PM
24

What if it had been female on female, or male on male? What about sex crimes between prison inmates of either gender?
/r/MensRights12/04/12 08:47 PM
32

More specifically, I think the humor comes from the irony. Would it be ironic if a woman broke into a persons house, but was then raped by her would be victim? I think a lot of people would laugh, though it might be more of an awkward laugh depending on the circumstances. I don't think it is gender bias, necessarily, even if people might "feel" differently about it. I hate thieves, and while I don't would not condone or advocate the rape of anybody, I will laugh at their expense. Gender doesn't …
/r/MensRights12/04/12 08:38 PM
3

He sought to confirm what he already believed, and picked out the comments that supported that belief. I'm sure he is real proud of himself.
/r/MensRights06/04/12 03:27 AM
3

As far as the "turning out fine" part, I knew two sisters that were raped repeatedly by their father when they were infants. Neither of them have significant problems resulting from it. They don't even have any memory of it. But how about we agree that we don't need to pierce, fondle, tattoo, or cut up children, and that if they want to do something funky and cool with their body parts when they are adults, all the power to them.
/r/MensRights01/04/12 04:16 AM
19

Also true of women.
/r/MensRights31/03/12 06:20 PM
1

Not if the issue you are trying to address is a lack of egalitarianism. Questioning whether egalitarianism should be sought is a completely different issue.
/r/MensRights05/03/12 11:35 PM
4

Sounds like you understand a lot about statistics, but not a whole lot about politics. I wish it worked the way you described, but any time someone wants to make a point in politics using statistics, the data will most always be used in a way that supports the speakers thesis. To put it in less insidious sounding terms, if there is a wage gap between two classes as a whole, that supports the argument that there is a wage gap between the two classes. If by contrast you were two say that there is …
/r/MensRights05/03/12 11:33 PM
3

My question is "why don't people do it to their pets?"
/r/MensRights04/03/12 06:01 PM
0

Can you explain?
/r/MensRights01/03/12 07:16 PM
-1

Your argument only holds if you believe that the holocaust targeted "potential people". Well, lets look at that. "Potential" for what, and "people" in what respect? If you are talking about potential contribution to society, certain people were considered to "exist to be a drain upon society". One could say that a union exists between infants and [certain adults] in this respect. The difference being that, given a persons position, the greater potential lies with the infant that one day may cont…
/r/MensRights01/03/12 07:16 PM
1

I couldn't stomach reading the whole thing. As far as being "obvious", I have read the works of eugenics advocates, and this doesn't seem all that far outside of what they believe. What might prevent the invocation of Poe's Law would have been had they used more statistics on the benefit to society as a whole (utilitarian collectivism) to support their argument. Infanticide is culturally accepted in many places around the world. What is so off-beat about using science to explain to those that ar…
/r/MensRights01/03/12 06:13 PM
2

The whole "logically sound" or "scientifically sound" argument is bullshit with regard to where they want you to take it. Science is about the investigation of the way the universe operates mechanically; causality. It is "value free". Not debating that part, but it doesn't rest the argument. Framing anything in this manner definitively removes the implications of ethics. Where would we be in mathematics if we were worried about the ethical implications of using certain numbers, say, buying a bak…
/r/MensRights01/03/12 05:59 PM
2

Would you mind telling me what leads you to believe it is satire?
/r/MensRights01/03/12 04:42 PM
3

No offense, but I think you had way more on your mind than you wrote. I agree with the general theme that woman are more often sexually abusive than generally reported / believed, but that strictly speaking she really was't talking about pedophilia (sexual attraction to prepubescent children). Was this the point you were trying to make?
/r/MensRights01/03/12 07:17 AM
1

I don't think eugenics advocates think in terms of X Group as less than human, though they might agree. I think it is more a rejection of individuality and replacing it with a concept of the greater good; the human race as a single collective being to be protected. While I don't think eugenics is a tenant of utilitarianism, I do think it is a logical conclusion of utilitarian thinking. Consider the popular (pop culture) quote, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or one". Many co…
/r/MensRights01/03/12 02:16 AM
4

If you never understood why SOME people might be hard-line pro-lifers, now you know. If by contrast you find this article perfectly "reasonable", you now understand people that take the position that the holocaust was "controversial but necessary given the circumstances". edit: For what it's worth, I was thinking of the scene from "Life is Beautiful" where is the discussion of the "math problem" where there was debate about whether or not the problem was too difficult for school children. I thou…
/r/MensRights29/02/12 07:55 PM
0

I am going to guess by the way it is phrased that these things are ideal, and do not represent the role "burden of proof" plays in the legal system.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 06:57 AM
1

For the sake of argument, I think every possible opinion imaginable, and then some, is out there for sheer sake of the number of people, and at the same time the cruelest, hateful, and most bigoted opinions always stand out. So I think, at least, it is difficult to know what the "masses" think, compared to easily seeing the strongest opinions out there, especially when they are in your face. I just think that sometimes really awful people can cause us to project their feelings onto the unknown n…
/r/MensRights25/02/12 06:09 AM
2

Due process rights have no place in the court of public opinion. Further, accusations are still very stressful even if everyone gives you the benefit of the doubt. One is too many, and unrealistically low to hope for. What can you do with that but try and be pragmatic?
/r/MensRights25/02/12 05:55 AM
1

I call it being neither sexist, nor delusionally egalitarian.
/r/MensRights01/02/12 02:55 AM
2

And in the context of a fantasy novel for which a reader is going to project their secret desires, it is neither sexist nor misogynistic. The fact that a man might have different desires were they relieved of reason or accountability is a different issue
/r/MensRights31/01/12 10:00 PM
3

I think this can be individual. When I really stopped giving a shit what other people's standards of being a man were, first by men, then by women, I found 1) myself to be happier with who I was, and 2) other people to be happier with who I was. You could further substitute happy with respected. Wasn't easy. Still learning.
/r/MensRights31/01/12 09:57 PM
You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

© TheRedArchive 2026. All rights reserved.
created by /u/dream-hunter