aluciddreamer Archive

Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)
27	Young Woman's Infant Son to Be Circumcised Against Her Will - Her Family Started a Petition, But They Need Signatures by 7/12/2016		aluciddreamer	/r/MensRights	11/07/16 01:41 PM

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3	9 Female Empowerment Quotes with Genders Reveresed So for example, men are expected to be logical, cold, and stoic, and women are expected to be gentle, warm, and caring. Men are expected to be bold, and strong, and protective, while women are expected to be meek and passive. Halafax pretty much nailed it, and I would strongly encourage you to interrogate this narrative by talking to feminists who support the efforts of NOW to fight a contestable assumption of shared custody. You will hear a lot of rhetoric about how 50% of men who fight for cus…	/r/MensRights	01/01/19 02:10 AM
5	it really grinds my gears how no feminists ever talk about male issues Feminists and MRA's tend to have wildly different ideas about what men's issues actually are and how society ought to go about addressing them. I couldn't care less that feminists don't give a shit about men's issues unless they can frame them in such a way that men are to blame. I just wish they didn't pair the attitude that feminism is a gender-equality movement "for everyone" with the idea that men ought to get their own movement. Pick a narrative. If you can find someone who supports a conte…	/r/AntiFeminists	21/12/18 05:41 AM
1	Please tell me her kind is rare. She is rare, insofar as she is honest about her motives. Not sure if that will give you much consolation, though. You cannot oppose a contestable presumption of shared custody on the grounds that it's all about "the best interests of the child" and be for gender equality. One of these positions is about maintaining a legally-instantiated privilege, and one of these positions is about dealing equitably with men and women. You can't insist that "toxic masculinity" is a serious societal problem, de…	/r/AntiFeminists	16/12/18 04:56 AM
3	An alienated dad reaches out every day. I don't know the finer points of their arrangement, but as I understand it, he only has her for a day or two every pay-period, so she jerks him around by trying to reschedule one of his days within what would ordinarily be a reasonable timeframe. Except he works so often that it's very difficult to accommodate her. It might be that this isn't legal, and I'd be interested to learn if there's anything he can do about it, but I'm getting most of this information secondhand. His most recent attorney…	/r/MensRights	06/07/18 06:12 AM
2	An alienated dad reaches out every day. I will. He's a pretty stand-up guy, and he has people in his corner.	/r/MensRights	06/07/18 06:00 AM
2	An alienated dad reaches out every day. I could ask him about it. He's a pretty quiet guy, and sometimes I feel like it's better to just not bring these things up, but I don't think either of us would know the first thing about how to file a malpractice complaint. The whole situation is fucked.	/r/MensRights	06/07/18 05:59 AM
180	An alienated dad reaches out every day. One of my co-workers has been working overtime for the last seven years. At least once a year, his ex (the mother of his child), takes him to court and tries to raise child support. Every year thus far, the judge has listened to his ex complain that he hasn't been seeing his daughter and that he isn't paying enough. The judge then looks at his income, sees the amount of overtime he made in the interval between now and the last time he was in family court, and awards her more money. He has attemp…	/r/MensRights	05/07/18 07:13 AM
3	Feminists Are Not Even Hiding The Hate Anymore: If you're a woman and are currently pregnant with a baby boy... do us all a favor an take a trip to planned parenthood Yes, this single tweet completely proves all feminists hate men. Nah, just 782 of them.	/r/MensRights	26/11/17 10:45 AM
2	Masculinity is just a daft stereotype. It doesn't mean anything to be a 'man'. What does it add up to apart from advertising that you are Not Woman. What does it add up to apart from advertising that you are Not Woman: not walking like this or talking like that? That you are aggressive, brave, stoic, steadfast, strong, that you refrain from violence due to your self-discipline but are able to be unflinchingly violent if the situation required it, that you protect the ones you love, that you afford special consideration to women and children--we can object, but that's a dimension of masculinity in our culture that we're held to whether we lik…	/r/MensRights	31/08/17 03:00 AM
93	Is this normal? He is SCREAMING bloody murder and shaking after his circumcision. They told me he wouldn't feel a thing! Circumcision is often performed on infants without anesthetic or with a local anesthetic that is ineffective at substantially reducing pain (Lander et al., 1997). In a study by Lander and colleagues (1997), a control group of infants who received no anesthesia was used as a baseline to measure the effectiveness of different types of anesthesia during circumcision. The control group babies were in so much pain—some began choking and one even had a seizure—they decided it was unethical to continue…	/r/MensRights	02/07/17 11:11 PM
1	You're Not Allowed to be a Victim I wouldn't call it a patriarchy, either, but I think it takes a staggering degree of ignorance to claim that men are oppressed by anything remotely resembling a matriarchy. Granted, problems which affect women are regarded by society at large as "real problems," and tend to command far more attention than men's problems, regardless of how much worse men's issues happen to be. A lot of feminists seem to be aware of this, but dismiss it as "benevolent sexism," and erroneously attribute it to the w…	/r/MensRights	26/11/16 07:02 AM
2	You're Not Allowed to be a Victim Yes actually. Personal stories describing situations just like you outlined above, are quite common here. Sure, and those stories would be evidence of a double standard. Nevertheless, even this would not constitute evidence we live in a "matriarchal society" of any kind. I sincerely doubt these stories would reflect the opinion of most feminists today, although I'll grant you that as long as feminists like Mary Koss wield academic influence, that may not matter. Do you agree that white men are t…	/r/MensRights	22/11/16 10:00 AM
1	You're Not Allowed to be a Victim Why do you and many other white men feel like victims of a matriarchal society? I can appreciate that there are a number of double standards working against men, and I would even agree that many feminists have worked to uphold them, but this is not an example of a double standard. You're claiming to be oppressed on the basis of two identities which they regard to be at the root of the systemic oppression of women and people of color. How would you expect them to react? How do you imagine your fr…	/r/MensRights	22/11/16 06:44 AM
1	Feminist Clementine Ford thinks her online abuse of a severely Autistic man was totally justified. Oh, and it's all the fault of men, of course It's worth noting that abortion isn't being questioned in other western countries, so the need for feminism comes down to that 1 issue in 1 country. Well, this and laws which prohibit women from being able to breastfeed their children in public or even go about the street topless if that’s what they want to do. But just as these things don’t hold equal moral weight in most of our minds, I think it’s worth noting that this one country isn’t some insignificant little island paradise. There are sev…	/r/MensRights	14/10/16 02:17 AM
2	Feminist Clementine Ford thinks her online abuse of a severely Autistic man was totally justified. Oh, and it's all the fault of men, of course Does that not approach the No True Scotsman? No, I don't believe so. I think you’d have a better case for hasty generalization - for instance, you could argue that AVfM is only a small contingent of the MRM and that their views aren't representative of the movement as a whole - but I don't think that's entirely accurate. Not to say that AVfM is the MRM; rather that its founders have had a profound influence over the shape and growth of the men’s rights movement as we currently know it, so I thin…	/r/MensRights	14/10/16 12:41 AM
2	Feminist Clementine Ford thinks her online abuse of a severely Autistic man was totally justified. Oh, and it's all the fault of men, of course My point is that we, speaking about the MRM, don't share your view, even if we - you and I - agree that banning dissent is more often than not unproductive.	/r/MensRights	13/10/16 07:54 PM
0	Feminist Clementine Ford thinks her online abuse of a severely Autistic man was totally justified. Oh, and it's all the fault of men, of course I'm going to play devil's advocate with you, so try to bear with me. Since women already have equality to men in most areas of western society, and superiority in the remainder, then there's no longer any need for it. Granted, it goes without saying that women have greater reproductive rights than men in every respect, yet this in no way mitigates the need for planned parenthood, nor the right to have a licensed medical professional safely action women's right to bodily autonomy. I tend to favor…	/r/MensRights	13/10/16 07:23 AM
3	Feminist Clementine Ford thinks her online abuse of a severely Autistic man was totally justified. Oh, and it's all the fault of men, of course For a brief time i assumed that it only made sense to call myself an MRA, but I've come to see that while there is a small core of real and important issues that could be the heart of the MRA movement, most of the participants are hateful, chauvinist men... What are you basing this on? ...and that the movement as it is practiced by the majority of its supporters is reactionary against feminists rather than being for men. I could almost be sympathetic to this point if you were to look at this sub…	/r/MensRights	13/10/16 06:16 AM
-1	Feminist Clementine Ford thinks her online abuse of a severely Autistic man was totally justified. Oh, and it's all the fault of men, of course I don't know about banning him (isn't that what we critique the 'other side' for doing?) I do, and I suspect there are a number of us in the anti-SJW and anti-feminist camp who do as well, but I think it would be inaccurate to characterize the MRM as a whole in this way. If you ever get a chance to scope out A Voice for Men and you have a few minutes to spare, check the comments section. People get banned left and right, and when other people chime in to object, the mods ban them, too.	/r/MensRights	13/10/16 05:26 AM
1	Fury as women are BANNED from 'men-only' sessions at Luton's taxpayer-funded Olympic swimming pool 'for cultural reasons' and segregated in smaller community baths Eh, it sounds like a legitimate grievance. I was listening to Sargon's interview with Cassie Jay earlier this morning, and she recounted that one of the National Coalition for Men's many unspoken achievements was to successfully sue a domestic violence shelter for excluding men. We won was because it was funded by taxpayers. I suspect that if taxpayer dollars are funding a public place, the public has a right to access it, but it would be another matter if this were run by a private organization…	/r/MensRights	04/08/16 05:53 AM
1	Why do women think there is a rape culture? If there was, all women globally woukd be raped daily by every man and not just the morally corrupt. Just stumbled on your post. I appreciate what you have to say on this subject, but I wanted to raise a contention with this last point: Since the majority of people do not _, a _ culture does not exist. This is a common colloquialism we use to describe subcultures, and it has been my experience that feminists will hijack this term and use it to describe an entire culture. It may be true that there are rape cultures in the United States, but not that the United States is a rape culture. In the sa…	/r/MensRights	12/07/16 07:31 PM
1	Young Woman's Infant Son to Be Circumcised Against Her Will - Her Family Started a Petition, But They Need Signatures by 7/12/2016 They said the circumcision was halted, so I'll take that for what it's worth.	/r/MensRights	12/07/16 06:52 PM
1	Young Woman's Infant Son to Be Circumcised Against Her Will - Her Family Started a Petition, But They Need Signatures by 7/12/2016 No idea.	/r/MensRights	11/07/16 04:09 PM
1	Young Woman's Infant Son to Be Circumcised Against Her Will - Her Family Started a Petition, But They Need Signatures by 7/12/2016 They haven't given a lawful reason. It looks like one of her family members uploaded a livestream, so I'll provide a link to that and to the facebook page for this event above.	/r/MensRights	11/07/16 03:42 PM
1	Young Woman's Infant Son to Be Circumcised Against Her Will - Her Family Started a Petition, But They Need Signatures by 7/12/2016 I couldn't suss that out from the article, but there's more than one, and the family has a Facebook page specifically for this cause. You can reach them from the link to the petition, but I should have offered it up in the description. This was a bit of a knee-jerk reaction on my part.	/r/MensRights	11/07/16 03:16 PM
4	Young Woman's Infant Son to Be Circumcised Against Her Will - Her Family Started a Petition, But They Need Signatures by 7/12/2016 As a circumcised person who who would much rather have kept his foreskin, I have a hard time turning away from this case. Circumcision isn't the only issue, though. The Alabama HRD has detained the mother, her son, and IIRC, her brother; another article reported that the living conditions are deplorable, and the above article explains that she has been separated from her family. Social workers are waking her up every two hours to feed her son in what the author described as an effort to get her …	/r/MensRights	11/07/16 03:08 PM
1	Young Woman's Infant Son to Be Circumcised Against Her Will - Her Family Started a Petition, But They Need Signatures by 7/12/2016 Looks like they're at 6,698 signatures out of 10,000.	/r/MensRights	11/07/16 02:48 PM
6	Young Woman's Infant Son to Be Circumcised Against Her Will - Her Family Started a Petition, But They Need Signatures by 7/12/2016 Then don't call it activism. Call it advocacy, if you like. Edit: I don't mean to sound like a prick, but I don't know this baby from Adam, and I'm losing sleep trying to get this message to catch across every social network I can get my hands on. If you don't think signing a petition is enough, feel free to do more. If you have a worthy charity you want to put forward or a way to get boots on the ground wherever else they're needed, I'm all ears.	/r/MensRights	11/07/16 02:37 PM
8	Young Woman's Infant Son to Be Circumcised Against Her Will - Her Family Started a Petition, But They Need Signatures by 7/12/2016 He's an infant, so he isn't exactly in a position to express his lawful desire to keep his penis intact. His mother is, though. The state is supposed to respect her right to refuse the procedure on his behalf, but it looks like there's financial incentive for the state to ignore it. Anyway, if he decides later in life that he doesn't want a foreskin, this would go a long way toward enabling him to make that decision. I work twelve hour night shifts. The title was hastily cobbled together.	/r/MensRights	11/07/16 02:21 PM
3	82 percent of Americans don’t consider themselves feminists, poll shows God forbid we just let issues stand on their own and address them for what they are, right? But then how would we know who to hate for being wrong?	/r/MensRights	04/07/16 08:32 AM
1	82 percent of Americans don’t consider themselves feminists, poll shows They say atheism++ I think. (Or was it a single + ?) Well, there's a subreddit called atheism+, but last I checked, it was spearheaded by PZ Meyers and run by some really warped admins who believed that atheism entailed humanism and humanism entailed feminism. Many of us have fortunately come to recognize it for the abomination that it is, but that hasn't stopped it from co-opting the American Humanist Association into separate groups. Also, there are at least a few groups created exclusively (o…	/r/MensRights	04/07/16 08:30 AM
1	82 percent of Americans don’t consider themselves feminists, poll shows That's about a perfect assessment of her arguments, to the best of my recollection. She was just throwing out any example of any form of humanitarian effort which aimed to improve the lives of women. But that's precisely how a lot of people perceive it. It's truly insidious. You can use the word "feminism" to smuggle in an almost-entirely sexist ideology -- which conveniently includes the assertion that the kind of sexism it promotes isn't sexism! -- and people will nod along as if everything it…	/r/MensRights	04/07/16 08:17 AM
2	Found this and thought I'd share with MR I just thought it was an interesting post. It caught my eye, but there was something that seriously made me cringe about it. Maybe this list is a little over the top, but I think it was at least in part an effort to figure out why I reacted the way I did and what I thought was wrong with it, you know? It did find a small audience and, hopefully, got someone thinking about some of the issues . . . Well, when they did their rounds on the Honey Badger's Facebook Page, I did notice a bit of lively d…	/r/MensRights	04/07/16 08:03 AM
0	82 percent of Americans don’t consider themselves feminists, poll shows Yeah equal rights for men and women should totally be rejected . . . I don't know if you're operating under a false assumption or you're deliberately being dishonest, but you're nevertheless attacking a straw man. I haven't said we should reject equal rights for men and women. I said we should reject the ideology which drives feminist activism. This is not an ideology which simply entails advocacy for women's rights: it's a sprawling, tangled mess encompassing flawed social models which are mani…	/r/MensRights	04/07/16 07:39 AM
5	Found this and thought I'd share with MR Okay, so I just went ahead and made a fucking list of all the shit that was wrong with these slides. They employ photo-shopped pictures of celebrities, the legal use of which has been called into question. The featured celebrities don't appear to have any connection to the hashtag or the contents of the slides. They're full of whinging, cringe-worthy garbage reminiscent of a shitposting troll in FeministCurrent's comment section. The hashtag is a shit-splattered train wreck of a portmanteau. Onl…	/r/MensRights	03/07/16 12:57 PM
2	Found this and thought I'd share with MR There are much more important men's rights issues than not getting a drink bought for you. Or not having high heels and makeup marketed specifically for your gender.	/r/MensRights	03/07/16 12:11 PM
6	82 percent of Americans don’t consider themselves feminists, poll shows It's not the ideology that should be rejected, but the current wave of 'feminists' that promote misandry and inequality. No, it's definitely the ideology.	/r/MensRights	03/07/16 12:00 PM
9	82 percent of Americans don’t consider themselves feminists, poll shows I don't know how many people here follow Sargon of Akkad, but in a debate between him and Kristi Winters a few months back, there was a point where Kristi asserted that if you're going to help men and women, you need a social framework to analyze their relationships. According to her, feminism is the social framework, and therefore all humanitarian efforts are feminist efforts. That's only relevant because, when challenged about this, Kristi turned around and snapped [something to the effect of]…	/r/MensRights	03/07/16 11:45 AM
3	Why is it that people think that male chauvinism/sexism is awful (which it is) but female chauvinism/sexism is okay? Feminists control the narrative. Currently, intersectional feminists are trying to give patriarchy theory an overhaul, but what they're replacing it with isn't a revision so much as an expansion of the same shit. They perceive injustice and inequality as imbalances in a hierarchy of identities. They determine a variety of injustices common to the demographics best encompassed by each identity, and instead of drawing attention or attempting to raise awareness of injustice, they contextualize it a…	/r/MensRights	15/06/16 02:06 AM
9	A rare honest feminist For what it's worth, I really appreciate your candor.	/r/MensRights	01/05/16 12:20 PM
28	This Woman Killed Both Her Daughters And When Caught, Said It Is To Protect Them From Sexual Abuse By Father. Police Finds It's A False Statement I don't afford compassion or sympathy to people who murder their children.	/r/MensRights	30/04/16 08:11 PM
14	This Woman Killed Both Her Daughters And When Caught, Said It Is To Protect Them From Sexual Abuse By Father. Police Finds It's A False Statement How do you think Safe Haven Laws came about? Edit: I'm not even joking. Seriously, look it up.	/r/MensRights	30/04/16 07:36 PM
1	Woman destroys the feminist myths about rape She was deterred by accounts from people who claimed to be victims of sexual assault, and whose reported experienced with the police were awful. Her account doesn't prove that these experiences didn't happen, just that they didn't happen to her. Moreover, the most contentious issues are generally about rape trials, and judging from her account, they're still investigating her report.	/r/MensRights	29/04/16 07:21 PM
1	Woman destroys the feminist myths about rape Pretty much. It doesn't imply a systemic problem, and it certainly doesn't come from some subconscious hatred of women.	/r/MensRights	29/04/16 02:35 AM
5	Woman destroys the feminist myths about rape Male victims of sexual assault are far more likely to experience negative response from police and others. If it gives you any hope, I can tell you for a fact that where I work, we are compelled to take all rape allegations seriously. This has been the case since I first started this career path, a little over ten years ago. In fact, when I was first being trained for this job, it was going around that an inmate known for a history of being housed in psych obs had alleged that he was raped by a …	/r/MensRights	29/04/16 02:30 AM
6	Woman destroys the feminist myths about rape This is a promising account, but in and of itself, it doesn't really do anything to destroy some of the concerns feminist have about rape. I've heard accounts from women who claim to have been brutally raped and in fear for their lives only to be greeted by police officers with irritation, skepticism, and a bias toward disbelief. Also, working in corrections, I have a number of co-workers who've previously served as deputies locally and in other states, who've affirmed that this was sometimes an…	/r/MensRights	29/04/16 01:40 AM
17	Training yourself to resist pretty faces and the pussy pass. Oh, come on. Don't be ridiculous. Clapping is far too violent and disruptive. Jazz hands are far more likely.	/r/TheRedPill	18/01/16 11:23 AM
2	Feminist: Why the War on Men Doesn’t Matter: "If men are frustrated by their inability to placate my anger, know that I am frustrated by your inability to placate my insecurity." Good point. I can understand racist remarks (even though black people use nigger themselves a lot [in different context of course]), but I never truly understood cunt. I think both words operate under the same principle. Imagine, for a moment, that you are a young black man. Maybe you're an extremely well-educated? Maybe you have a law-degree and a wife and kids and a house in the suburbs and you try to find ways to give back to your community by doing pro-bono work over the weekends because tha…	/r/MensRights	04/12/12 05:21 AM
3	Feminist: Why the War on Men Doesn’t Matter: "If men are frustrated by their inability to placate my anger, know that I am frustrated by your inability to placate my insecurity." So I just started looking into /r/feminism and have only recently heard about Men's Rights. But I do feel the need to point out something that I only recently learned. The argument that I see against this is frame-of-reference. Prick and cunt don't mean the same thing for the same reason that black power and white power don't mean the same thing. When you try and invent a derogatory term for a white person -- cracker, for example -- it naturally carries less weight as one than a derogatory term …	/r/MensRights	03/12/12 10:56 AM