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Actually I suspect it is a gendered phenomenon, but with enough overlap (like many gendered differences). Men and boys tend to be more engaged with objects and constructs, women more engaged with people. Basically, Mansplaining vs gossip. Men are on the whole more fascinated with facts, taking things apart and putting them back together, testing theories to see if they work and have future applicability. Women on the whole have more interest than men in people, feelings, and relationships. As in…
/r/MensRights08/04/17 07:15 PM
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"Endless stream of useless facts" I'm tickled by the brazen honesty here. Feminists, you're not supposed to admit that facts are useless to you.
/r/MensRights08/04/17 06:13 PM
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It is from her 1975 book Against Our Will, I imagine the source is given there. I don't believe it is. This book did however wind up being the end-point to most references when a group of folks tried to play "the citation game" and actually track down where that statistic comes from. Lisak 2010 found 6% false accusations on a campus, and accepts the 2%-10% range. He comments on some other studies, particularly Kanin 1994. Easy reading. Do you find Lisak's study to be a credible reinforcement of …
/r/MensRights02/03/17 10:47 PM
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By the way, the 2% number is an unsourced quote from a Susan Brownmiller book which has been cited back and forth so many times that it's now just part of the feminist stew. It's not from a study, or from crime statistics of any sort. It appears to be made up, since she's been asked about it since and failed to provide any attribution.
/r/MensRights01/03/17 10:24 PM
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Went over to look at the photos, now am hungry for a baked russet potato. What's going on?
/r/MensRights13/01/17 05:49 PM
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=men+and+women+in-group+vs+out-group+preference
/r/MensRights13/01/17 05:40 PM
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How is this a men's rights issue?
/r/MensRights06/01/17 03:26 PM
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Please don't forget her enthralling performance in Transylvania 65000.
/r/MensRights23/12/16 04:59 AM
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You don't need 20 minutes to dismantle these. They're essentially ad hominem attacks. They are saying that one side in a disagreement shouldn't have their arguments examined; not because the arguments lack merit but because of who is making them.
/r/MensRights15/11/16 09:56 PM
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Having had one, I can tell you that it describes the very concept you seem so eager not to consider, and which other posters in here have tried to enlighten you towards: Guilt or innocence in a court of law is not a binary yes/no proposition. It is a matter of threshold. In most criminal courts, the standard of evidence is "beyond a reasonable doubt". This could be thought of as 97% convinced that the defendant is guilty. The evidence and testimony are strong enough to show that the defendant is…
/r/MensRights12/11/16 09:52 PM
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No, they only say "guilty" or "not guilty". The "beyond a reasonable doubt" bit is left to be intuited and understood by folks, assuming that they've had the benefit of a 5th grade civics class.
/r/MensRights12/11/16 08:25 PM
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Well then you're not being entirely honest when you ask us to show up as "neither" pro-Trump or anti-Trump. Clearly you were hoping to put together a contingent of MRA's as specifically Trump supporters.
/r/MensRights12/11/16 08:09 PM
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No. Not guilty = not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Also, guilty = guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Jury verdicts are about threshold of evidence rather than a binary guilty/innocent proclamation.
/r/MensRights12/11/16 07:49 PM
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Really? Because you posted another thread in r/LosAngeles specifically calling for MRA's to show up as Trump supporters. Right here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/5cj2k2/introducing_mens_rights_la_the_new_mra_group_in/
/r/MensRights12/11/16 07:47 PM
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I don't think that either pro-Trump or anti-Trump protests are appropriate fodder for this sub. We're about men's rights issues and I think it's too early to say how these will be affected by a Trump presidency. If you are genuine, please stop trying to conflate Men's Rights with support for Donald Trump or indeed any particular candidate or party; it is a disservice to the diverse range of people, ideas and politics here. If you are not genuine, please stop. We've had people in here before atte…
/r/MensRights12/11/16 07:34 PM
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She's right. Defendants accused in court are found to be either guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, or not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Juries do not issue verdicts of "innocent".
/r/MensRights12/11/16 07:12 PM
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It's for this reason that I recommend that young MRA's (and specifically ones who are subject to school policies and rules) refuse to be alone with a girl in a sex-can-happen situation unless both can agree on safe words. Both should text in clear English to each other: Their chosen safe word. Their promise to use it if they feel the need to halt any sexual or romantic activity. Their promise to respect the others' use of a chosen safe word. I believe that this is a good solution because it work…
/r/MensRights10/11/16 02:06 AM
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If the only stipulation is the requirement to use gender neutral pronouns, it might be fun to start referring to every single person as "it".
/r/MensRights08/11/16 10:13 PM
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Here's a response that might serve: The study actually found, that overall (when compared within career paths, and majors – not just comparing lawyers with librarians) women earn approximately 82% of what men earn. This is actually the same type of misrepresentation of statistics that plagues nearly any feminist or feminist-inspired analysis of gender-based income disparity. When well-intentioned feminists read this, what they see is "fine, you want an apples-to-apples comparison? Here's one, wo…
/r/MensRights03/11/16 03:38 AM
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Oh my god, a major news magazine actually takes a look at the statistics and asks the same question we have been for some time: And now the real surprise: when asked about experiences in the last 12 months, men reported being “made to penetrate”—either by physical force or due to intoxication—at virtually the same rates as women reported rape (both 1.1 percent in 2010, and 1.7 and 1.6 respectively in 2011). In other words, if being made to penetrate someone was counted as rape—and why shouldn’t …
/r/MensRights03/11/16 12:41 AM
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I'm not suggesting it include entire reviews, just choice quotes. Part of the movie's narrative is about how unfriendly traditional media and funding structures are towards the MRM. I think this would be underlined beautifully for the viewer if, immediately after watching an objective documentary, they're treated to the harsh words of critics, often failing to respond to the points actually raised in the movie or basically saying "yea yea sure, BUT feminism feminism patriarchy"
/r/MensRights22/10/16 08:01 PM
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I raised a number of points about the ethical problems with subjecting a non-consenting child to a form of ritual injury, and you respond with an accusation that I must be an anti-Semite. I believe that you are either a zealot or someone deliberately trolling this subreddit. Please notice that despite your active disagreement with so many of the subreddit members here as well as your unwillingness to engage on the argument points raised, you haven't been banned from here. I invite you to compare…
/r/MensRights22/10/16 06:20 PM
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This interview fails to address the biggest question I would ask of Mark: Throughout your ordeal, your name was shared via media as an alleged sexual molester. Despite the lack of any corroborating evidence, and the presence of exculpatory evidence (the CCTV footage), your accuser has remained anonymous. Would you like to state the name of your accuser on-camera, for the benefit of the public record? If not, why? Would you be subject to criminal prosecution or lawsuits if you did name the person…
/r/MensRights22/10/16 06:01 PM
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What is the morality of a covenant between your god and someone who the covenant was forced upon? I'm serious about this. A baby has neither the ability to form an opinion on agreeing to the covenant, let alone consent to it. I have no interest in being a Jew. Would you have a moral problem with me being kidnapped, restrained and forcibly circumcised in order to be given the supposed gift of this covenant? We have no problem with Jews getting circumcised, if they're adults and choose to. Why do …
/r/MensRights22/10/16 12:32 AM
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"If you won't keep silent about my plans to have my child's genitals cut, I will compare you to Nazis and bring out my Holocaust pass. It states RIGHT HERE ON THE PASS that the murder of people generations ago exempts me from criticism on religious matters. I even had it laminated, on account of how often I find myself making use of it." It's interesting that you mention a star on your chest. That's just a piece of cloth. I think a better example would be a number tattooed on your arm, marking y…
/r/MensRights22/10/16 12:21 AM
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Ok, look- I get it, seriously I get it. Oh dear. No, I don't agree that you get it. I seriously don't think that you do. You guys are not Jews and part of your dick was cut off as baby's by your parents for no reason and your mad about it. Actually, I'm not seriously mad about it, not in the personal sense. My parents had me circumcised at the advice of their OBGYN. It was a medical decision, not a religious one, and it wasn't something which required a lot of introspection or debate on whether …
/r/MensRights21/10/16 11:30 PM
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It's true, though I don't recall the name of the government program it was intended to cut down on the number of deadbeat dads. In theory it seems reasonable: The federal government remits the equivalent of 10% back to the states who are trying to collect child support... the money is intended to allow the states the means to hire more personnel to enforce collection orders (the new debtor's prison, but that's a discussion for another day). However, there's no absolute stipulation on how the sta…
/r/MensRights21/10/16 05:47 PM
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"Yeah, his salary has increased and her costs have increased so her alimony check should increase." "...and oh let's not forget that our state gets back 10 cents on the dollar for every child support order, which goes towards paying my salary and those of my clerks and bailiffs."
/r/MensRights21/10/16 12:47 AM
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Panty Peeler wasn't even that great a beer. I think that if they conducted a blind taste test, many of these ladies would prefer one of the hard cider varieties from the Dickens Beverage Company.
/r/MensRights07/10/16 09:22 PM
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Don't forget that her acts of phone harassment are while blackout drunk, thus rendering her free of any responsibility for her actions. If you can't remember it girls, it's as if you never did it, amirite?
/r/MensRights07/10/16 09:19 PM
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I think that by and large the MRM is trans-friendly... at least in the sense of libertarian ideals, "It's your life, if you're not hurting other people, etc etc." I would temper your expectations of this community though, if your definition of "trans-friendly" requires an affirmative belief among us that a person who suffers from gender dysphoria is whatever gender they claim to be despite genetic test results. My impression is that a good many MRA's (certainly not all, perhaps not the majority)…
/r/MensRights30/09/16 07:16 PM
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"It drew criticism from transgender community who said the medical procedure should not be used as a sensationist plot device..." (Unless your last name is Jenner)
/r/MensRights16/09/16 10:16 PM
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This is not pussy pass denied material. Please wait until their trial is finished, and then compare their plea bargaining and sentencing to males charged with similar crimes before determining if they have indeed redeemed their pussy pass. PUSSY PASS UNDETERMINED
/r/PussyPassDenied09/09/16 03:34 AM
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LOL Trollsylvania Six-Five Oh-oh-oh
/r/MensRights30/08/16 08:51 PM
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Imagine, if you will, a world in which Female Genital Mutilation is finally brought under control. A coalition of majority-Muslim nations led by Saudi Arabia introduce criminal penalties for subjecting girls to removal of their clitoris. More, anyone found guilty of doing so are to be denied access to Saudi Arabia, specifically the city of Mecca, making pilgrimages impossible for violators. Under the new laws introduced in these countries, female circumcisions will actually become more prevalent…
/r/MensRights29/08/16 07:54 PM
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"Man-splaining" is essentially an ad hominem attack. "Your argument should be discredited and ignored, not because of facts but because it came from a man."
/r/MensRights24/08/16 04:37 PM
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This is not a pussy pass being denied unless she is charged, convicted and sent to prison for lying to LE or for perjury. If (as I suspect will happen) she isn't charged at all, her pussy pass is in full effect here folks; committing crimes and not being held accountable for her actions.
/r/PussyPassDenied17/08/16 10:21 PM
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This is one of those no-lose PR moves for feminism. If nothing else happens, yay, what a win for fighting against The Pay Gap. If the males of this company rightly sue on grounds of discrimination, boo, look at how patriarchal oppression fights against equality for women.
/r/MensRights25/05/16 02:15 PM
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How do we know these are sjw's as opposed to garden variety dumbasses?
/r/MensRights30/04/16 09:25 PM
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Honestly I wish that nothing about Ghostbusters showed up in this sub. The movie looks set to bomb and when it does I'm expecting to hear that "Men's Rights Activists largely responsible for boycott of new Ghostbusters film... why do men hate to see women succeed, in earnings, in politics, and even in entertainment?" Remember, just like when we supposedly tried to campaign against Mad Max Fury Road?
/r/MensRights30/04/16 01:20 AM
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Wow. To paraphrase: When men get accused, arrested or charged of a crime they didn't commit, it's not an attack against men (collectively or individually?). Also, we're ignoring the real victims.... the women who weren't accused, arrested or charged for criminal offenses, but who are suffering from being objects of patriarchal oppression.
/r/MensRights21/04/16 12:51 AM
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What would it take for the contents of this deposition to be made public? Specifically, factual statements about whether she did or did not lie about having been raped?
/r/MensRights09/04/16 01:35 AM
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Well having a checkbox for "female" might be a start.
/r/MensRights10/03/16 11:34 PM
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This infographic seems to be counting incidents of rape as a percentage of overall student population, including males. In the interest of accuracy it should only be counting the numbers of female students, since it is attempting to debunk a 1-in-5 claim of female victims. This would result in a higher rate of victimization but still ridiculously low number compared to the original 1-in-5 claim. Also this seems to be showing single-year stats of recorded rapes, and therefore would only represent…
/r/MensRights16/02/16 05:21 PM
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Take it down and save it. Our side of the debate is gaining traction and years from now feminists will try to deny that (against the best available evidence) they portrayed men as perpetrators and women as victims nearly unilaterally. Show it to your kids someday, they'll be shocked at how far the pendulum swung against men in college environments in the early 21st century. Make sure to teach your kids that the proper response to this is NOT to swing the pendulum back in the other direction but …
/r/MensRights12/02/16 06:53 PM
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Questions with Dr. Lisak's study aside, I don't think that Mary (1-in-5-are-victims-of-sexual-assault) Koss is the person you approach to address and fix problems with poor research methodology. It's like asking Kim Jong Un to review and improve upon Josef Stalin's human rights record.
/r/MensRights09/02/16 10:21 PM
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She's had more offices with desks in Washington than the amount of visits to Washington that most Americans have made.
/r/MensRights06/02/16 06:50 PM
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/u/girlwriteswhat talks a bit about the child support issue and the disconnect between society's accusations against "deadbeat dads" and the actual likelihood of men vs women failing to fulfill court ordered support obligations as well as the likelihood of being held accountable. The child and spousal support issue is one which I'd love to see examined more in light of claimed income inequality between sexes. The wage gap, often touted as an example of discrimination, seems to be largely down to…
/r/MensRights17/12/15 05:06 AM
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Someone who is 68 with a 35 y/o daughter no longer has parental authority over them. An adult is an adult.
/r/MensRights20/11/15 01:50 AM
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Anyone want to link a citation for studies which show the benefits of involved fathers in the lives of children? Some of the audience members really seem to want one.
/r/MensRights29/10/15 01:56 AM
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I love the idea of the documentary but the prices they're asking are frankly unreasonable. $25 for a digital copy of the documentary, with no promises of drm-free. $50 for a dvd of the documentary? Who pays $50 for blu-ray movies these days, let alone dvd's unless it's for a full season of a tv show? Like it or not, gender issues documentaries like this are a niche interest. Even something which supports the popular paradigm of "wicked men and victimised women" like The Hunting Ground didn't ach…
/r/MensRights24/10/15 04:56 PM
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The group, who were allegedly protesting against domestic violence against women, threw themselves onto the red carpet and laid there in protest... Protesting domestic violence against women? Wow, I'd have expected them to be protesting male-only conscription. Since, you know, men's right to vote is tied by Supreme Court decision to their civic/military obligations, while women were given the vote with no reciprocal responsibilities. And feminism is the movement of equality and all...
/r/MensRights16/10/15 08:40 PM
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Fortunately this doesn't apply to girls, because even if they grow up to force or coerce men into sex it won't be called rape unless she inserts something into them.
/r/MensRights26/08/15 05:58 PM
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areyouputtinguson Yes. Yes, you are putting us on.
/r/MensRights25/07/15 09:13 PM
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Would you make the same argument for a woman who wishes to abort or adopt out? "You should have kept your legs together, hon." I'm of the opinion that men should be given a similar level of post-conception options for saying "no" to parenthood that women have.
/r/MensRights17/07/15 03:30 PM
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Crazy question: Is it legal for the state of New York to hold college students to a different standard of consent than the general population?
/r/MensRights10/07/15 03:35 PM
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If she had blacked out and fallen to the floor I would think the force was a little excessive. More excessive than when she assaulted him over a disagreement? Prior to her assault of him, the most harm done was words.... "sticks and stones", etc. The truth is the majority of men are stronger than the majority of women, so a woman going ham is very different than a man going ham. Morally speaking, how is it different when a smaller weaker woman "goes ham" (haven't heard this expression before but…
/r/MensRights09/07/15 05:45 PM
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I'd say I'm an egalitarian Sure, it would have been overboard of she had actually blacked out What would be different about the situation if she had been knocked unconscious? For the sake of argument, imagine that the fight had instead been instigated by a guy of similar height and weight to the girl who instigated this fight. If someone, guy or girl instigates a fight against a superior opponent and gets hit back, is that assault or self-defense?
/r/MensRights08/07/15 11:47 PM
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I think this is worth pointing out, apologies if it's already been covered: The date stamps in the breitbart photos are 8/27/2012, exactly the date of her alleged rape at the hands of Nungesser. I think it's safe to say that this isn't a new project, it's a continuation of "Mattress Project", or perhaps each is a chapter in a larger project. Is she alleging this to be video evidence of being raped by Nungesser? Is this a reenactment of events? EDIT: She's apparently claimed that this was made du…
/r/MensRights06/06/15 07:10 PM
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I think that one great question for Reddit's interim CEO (who banned salary negotiations at Reddit) would be "On the record, did you engage in negotiations for your salary or accept the first employment offer that Reddit tendered to you?"
/r/MensRights28/05/15 09:57 PM
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Non-Post links, which I believe are the only type of reddit link that this sub allows, begin with "np.reddit.com/r" and don't allow you to contribute to the conversation that you're linked to. This is largely to help mitigate brigading.
/r/MensRights16/05/15 08:14 PM
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Does this also affect no-post links?
/r/MensRights16/05/15 05:28 PM
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Stolen blatantly from a Karen Straughan speech: "Last I checked, feminism was optional. I didn't opt in. Why not ask me why I'm not a Republican, or a vegan, or a 7th Day Adventist?"
/r/MensRights13/05/15 08:59 PM
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The difference between us and most of feminism is that rather than trying to lay claim to victim status in whatever way possible, we're just looking to change policies and mindsets to have equality and equal treatment under the law. You don't owe it to us to apologize for the way the world is, especially at the young age of 18 since you had almost no hand in any of it. Most of us would probably say that you only owe it to yourself (as all of us do) to try and see the world fairly, and work for a…
/r/MensRights13/05/15 05:28 PM
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Though... I fail to see what being valued less in conversation has to do with starting a fight... That's because you didn't really stop to consider the implications of what I suggested.... which is that most societies around the world, and both men and women, tend to infantilize women. We treat women somewhat like teenagers.... less accountable as you say than adults (men). Less likely to have expertise, or leadership potential. Which is bad, if you're a woman aiming for corporate promotions or …
/r/MensRights09/05/15 08:58 PM
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I don't have studies at hand for this, but as a tangent: When feminists bring up the argument that women are not taken as seriously as men in informal evaluations of competence, please note that while true, this is not the whole picture. Yes, it may be true that women aren't treated as competent in a boardroom or marketing meeting setting, they are taken extremely, overly seriously in other areas: Specifically when a female raises her voice in distress, and most especially when the perceived sou…
/r/MensRights09/05/15 03:48 AM
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Fox is reportedly just one of a number of people who have come begging to Robertson, and issuing threats, since he landed the unexpected windfall. Like crabs in a bucket.....
/r/MensRights18/03/15 05:40 PM
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Since they had to resort to actually paying actors for their viral video, I can't help but wonder whether there was an earlier, scrapped version. Did they try to stage a similar video using only a seemingly drunk girl and expect that lots of predatory men would take advantage of her, only to discover that guys in public are often polite and helpful?
/r/MensRights20/02/15 02:07 AM
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First Principles, man. If you're going to have an argument about feminism and provide definitions that you yourself choose, set out those definitions and agree upon them at the outset. Neither side can logically "win" an argument if each is using a different meaning for one of the argument's key terms.
/r/MensRights18/02/15 05:47 PM
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Female guards have the same amount of power imbalance with their inmates that male guards do. It's interesting that the word "rape" doesn't occur once in this article. I wonder if that would still be true if this article were about male guards and female inmates.
/r/MensRights12/02/15 10:57 PM
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Here's I think a really good question about exactly how calculated her "art project is." If any professor dared to grade Emma Sulkowicz's performance art thesis poorly, what kind of effect might it have on their career? What would happen if a professor charged with the responsibility of grading Emma's project began asking questions about where life and art intersect? If her art project was entirely about the victimization she felt or sought after an alleged rape, wouldn't it be prudent to also e…
/r/MensRights12/02/15 10:29 PM
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I won't pretend to speak for the subreddit, but I think some might agree with me that we need more data in order to put this in perspective. When it comes to data or statistics coming from the Feminist camp, there's a tendency for a very select portion of the relevant information to be presented. If I were particularly interested in Anita's assertion of twitter harassment, I'd ask for the following: Are these tweets verified? Can the accounts of these tweets be tracked? Are they throwaway accoun…
/r/MensRights28/01/15 10:21 PM
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Too bad, because i was hoping for an incisive tweet about toxic feminity from Anita. She really knows how to boil down gender issues into 250 characters or less.
/r/MensRights15/12/14 06:57 PM
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Now all we have to do is hold our breath until the DOJ shows an interest in accurately measuring the rate of false rape claims. I'm sure it'll happen any .....gasp..... time...... gasp......now.........
/r/MensRights12/12/14 04:35 AM
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I love this bit: Alex Pinkleton, a close friend of Jackie’s who survived a rape and an attempted rape during her first two years on campus, said in an interview that she has had numerous conversations with Jackie in recent days and now feels misled. ...instead of printing "a close friend of Jackie's who claims to have survived a rape and an attempted rape..." So let's see... Rolling Stone prints a fantastical story about gang rapes on campus without fact-checking the credibility of the story. UV…
/r/MensRights05/12/14 07:34 PM
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This is the wrong time-stamp to link to. Turn the video back to about 25:00, and you'll be treated to Adam making some really great comments about how hate speech in online gaming is just plain unacceptable..... before saying "and one more thing..." and then proceeding with hate speech against a fairly diverse group of people who happen to have Men's Rights issues in common.
/r/MensRights05/12/14 12:24 AM
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They absolutely do have the authority to approve what groups they'll fund and support. The only argument is what level of responsibility they have to make the process fair and impartial.
/r/MensRights23/11/14 05:17 PM
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I think you may have a misunderstanding on what's going on here. Nothing is preventing groups of students from forming interest groups among themselves and meeting up at public locations. It could be argued that it's never been easier for students (or anyone) to do this, with the advent of social media platforms like Facebook, Meetup or even Reddit. The difference is whether these groups become officially recognized by the university that the students belong to. Universities often give funds to …
/r/MensRights22/11/14 11:27 PM
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Actually, this may be the one of the first opening salvos in a new race to populate North American campuses with men's groups and centers.... ones which are "feminist-informed". It's disturbingly clever; if a Mens Rights group wanted to form a center or student club, they might be refused "fairly" due to the prior presence of a feminist-informed men's group.
/r/MensRights22/11/14 01:38 AM
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I don't believe the Democratic party deserves endorsement or support from the Men's Rights corner. That isn't to say that I would tell another guy that he shouldn't be a Democrat... only that the party's recent history is peppered with pandering to female voters and against men. A longer comment on this cut from elsewhere: It honestly seems that a major trend of the Democratic party is pandering to women, with the following formula: Identify a trend of something bad which happens to women but wh…
/r/MensRights21/11/14 11:32 PM
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How's this? I'll answer your question after Anita Sarkeesian posts the police report number from the supposed incident in which she and her family were so threatened that they needed to leave their home, and a police officer supposedly questioned why she'd do the things she does if it invites such hatred? I think this was in August. Hint: No one else can find a record of it including her local police department, and the crowdsourced detectives from #Gamergate have sure been trying hard to. With …
/r/MensRights15/11/14 10:36 PM
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Oh I don't think it's so much that men having emotions terrifies people... it's more along the lines of looking for any reason NOT to listen to an opponent's argument. So we end up with ad-hominem attacks like "Check your privilege" or "Mansplaining", or a refusal to consider positions because of an opponent's tone rather than his/her rationale.
/r/MensRights15/11/14 09:04 PM
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You heard it hear folks, FEELINGS and TONE are more important than valid points. Or facts, or accurate statistics, or sound methodology in studies on gender differences.....
/r/MensRights15/11/14 07:50 PM
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It's called creepshaming. If you wanted to do a male version of a slutwalk, you'd need to focus on all the kinds of socially awkward male things that women like to denigrate guys for. Fedoras! Fedoras everywhere!
/r/MensRights15/11/14 04:13 PM
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This relates to the Pick Up Artists community, which is often incorrectly and deliberately conflated with Men's Rights by our opponents. This guy is being protested because of his PUA activities, I don't believe this has anything to do with Men's Rights.
/r/MensRights12/11/14 12:46 AM
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2 main reasons: Men who complain are seen as "less manly". Men aren't supposed to complain, they're supposed to either solve problems on their own or put up with things as is. There is some irony in this because complaining about problems or lack of rights is actually breaking a gender role for men, but the feminists who are supposed to be all about breaking out of gender roles don't like it when men complain. Feminism isn't (despite its self assigned definition) just about equality. It's also l…
/r/MensRights08/11/14 05:28 PM
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This video's not awful, but I don't think it's a fair representation of "on the street". It seems that a fair amount of the women he's interacting with are on the clock, and would therefore be tuning their responses towards customer service and representing their employer well. Most folks who have worked retail are used to having to smile and shrug off odd or uncomfortable customer behavior.
/r/MensRights07/11/14 02:34 AM
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Rutgers is also currently one of the universities conducting a survey to determine the frequency of sexual assault on campus. I don't know the contents of the survey, but it's unsurprisingly using self-selection instead of random sampling, which means it's already garbage in terms of actually measuring the rate of sexual assault. I wouldn't be surprised if, like so many other surveys we've seen, it asks leading questions and then assigns "rape/sexual assault" to yes answers even if the responden…
/r/MensRights06/11/14 11:39 PM
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Well I'll give her this, at least she has the balls to give voice what the "wage gap" proponents have only been hinting at.... that equality isn't enough for feminists.
/r/MensRights05/11/14 05:12 AM
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Guy seems like kind of a douche. First submission ever, no comment history OP. Nice attempt to paint this sub with the misogyny that you probably believe thrives in here.
/r/MensRights02/11/14 07:56 PM
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Regarding "no" vs safe word, safe word is better because studies show that a fair percentage of women use "no" as a token form of resistance even when they want sex, because they don't want to seem slutty or want their partner to take charge or use charm to overcome their initial objections. Simply put, with some people "no" isnt an unambiguous lack of consent. Agreeing on a safe word is specific, unambiguous way for two people to communicate consent or the lack of it, while still allowing for t…
/r/MensRights02/11/14 06:15 PM
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Actually, the BDSM community has quite a bit to offer to college age males facing the prospect of sex and social life on the modern college campus. More so than feminist-inspired talks on consent and campus safety like "She Fears You". Specifically, the use of safe words. College males particularly should be encouraged to use a safe word with all their partners, and to walk away from sexual encounters unless their partner first texts them with "I choose (x) as our safe word, and I promise to use…
/r/MensRights01/11/14 10:24 PM
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In all honesty, I think the kinds of people who donated to her have received exactly what they wanted: Reinforcing a preconceived narrative of female oppression and toxic masculinity. A vague feeling of "girl power" because this poor harassed girl was able to emerge victorious despite her online bullies and succeed in meeting her kickstarter goals. Satisfying a hominid urge to protect females and children from outside aggressors.
/r/MensRights01/11/14 05:40 PM
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I'm aware of this, but don't let it about too widely, that would disrupt the narrative that Gamergate is about misogyny in the gaming community.
/r/MensRights01/11/14 12:05 AM
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Want to take odds on whether disabling the comments was a prerequisite from her for being interviewed? Besides disabling the comments on her own videos, she seems to be quite careful to only do keynote speeches and soft interviews with few real questions. I don't think she wants to actually be challenged (for example) to check the achievements in her XBL account and see how many games she's actually played from the huge stack which were donated to her kickstarter.... or to ask for the police rep…
/r/MensRights31/10/14 10:07 PM
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I'm glad I wasn't the only one noticing. In the past say, 20 years, can you think of other examples of this that I've missed? I'm specifically interested in examples where a downtrending something-that-hurts women is latched onto, hyped up, and then "addressed" with laws. A similar example which has nothing to do with women's issues specifically is the Clinton era Assault Weapons Ban, which: Dealt with the scary looking kinds of weapons which the government's own stats showed were hardly ever us…
/r/MensRights31/10/14 08:46 PM
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It honestly seems that a major trend of the Democratic party is pandering to women, with the following formula: Identify a trend of something bad which happens to women but which is on a statistical downtrend. Fund methodologically flawed research showing that (issue X, Y, or Z) is actually much worse than we imagined, and shout the results of said research in the typical echo chambers (NOW, Women's Studies departments, feminist interviewees on news shows) until they become part of the common co…
/r/MensRights30/10/14 11:20 PM
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Well she's giving an interview now, so you see if it's HER side of the story we need to hear it. And see those tears because if a girl is crying, her distress is a call to arms for us all. People, we can help make Zoe happy again. We CAN help her to wipe away those tears, if only we can stop talking about: how she slept around on her partner how she seemed to choose her partners in infidelity specifically from among those who could advance her career how she torpedoed a women in gaming fundraise…
/r/MensRights30/10/14 10:37 PM
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Since your event will be during Movember, I recommend something for Prostate cancer. I'm sure others in here could recommend the best charities in this area, but I'd give strong preference to an organization which passes on the highest possible amount of donations to direct research funding, rather than expensive CEO salary and claiming victory for "raising awareness".
/r/MensRights30/10/14 04:22 AM
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Thanks for the input, and it's an unsurprisingly close correlation.
/r/MensRights29/10/14 03:49 AM
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Sigh.... if you want to have fun with a feminist, challenge them to name 3-5 ways that society disadvantages men WITHOUT mentioning "men aren't permitted to show emotion and be soft". Freedom for men, from a feminist perspective, inevitably means freedom to express emotion more readily. From a MRA perspective, freedom takes on a much more practical perspective, as in "fewer males jailed for crimes." Women are, on average, sentenced to 66% the amount of time that men are, for the same crimes. We'…
/r/MensRights29/10/14 03:32 AM
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If she brings up the under-representation of women in STEM fields, you can bring up the fact that (I think this is a US stat, so check for Canadian equivalent) 135 females now graduate with a college degree for every 100 males. Now tie this back in to the dictionary definition of feminism, a movement of equality for men and women. Question to ask: When a "movement for equality" sees in imbalance such as this, is it morally obligated to take corrective action? To (for example) advocate that a por…
/r/MensRights29/10/14 02:43 AM
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I think the best response to this video would be to track these little girls as they grow up and get older. With every parking ticket they get, every job or promotion they apply for, every ladies night at a bar they attend, will they insist that they be treated as the equals of men because they're not little princesses? Will they ask men out on dates and then pay for them? When they reach driving age, will they insist on paying the higher insurance rates they'd be charged if they were men? If an…
/r/MensRights24/10/14 10:59 PM
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I think that if you asked different people to rank how bad Eron's public outing of Zoe's bad behavior was on a scale of 1-10, you'd get a variety of answers. What I'd find more interesting would be if you asked the same people to rate how bad his actions were (publicly outing her infidelities and her tendencies to sleep with people who could benefit her career advancement), and then asked the same people to rate how bad her actions were. From my perspective, she's ethically and morally much more…
/r/MensRights24/10/14 10:00 PM
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Typhon Blue has repeatedly stated that being given a book titled "The Princess at the Window" by her mother helped to inform her about gender issues and curbed her teenage self from growing into a feminist. Perhaps she could comment on whether the book is as applicable 20 years later.
/r/MensRights24/10/14 08:42 PM
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Honestly, given her efforts at persona-building as "Zoe Quinn, the girl developer who suffers from depression", I'd predict any book deal or speaking tour to be preceded with a suicide attempt, from which she'll heroically recover. The suicide attempt will be mostly reported not as a publicity stunt or poor decision making on her part, but rather as the predictable result of all the misogynist online bullying she's received from the gaming community.
/r/MensRights24/10/14 08:25 PM
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Out of curiosity, which folks involved in the gamergate mess would you most compare to the kind of mindset that you witnessed? The ones who are insisting that #gamergate is misogynist backlash against the increased presence of women in the gaming and development community.... or the ones who insist that #gamergate is about extremely poor journalistic ethics and the colonization of spaces by the social justice types?
/r/MensRights24/10/14 01:30 AM
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These surveys routinely get brigaded by folks from SRS and related subs, specifically to make us appear young, Republican evangelist Christian, and ill-informed. I propose that an effective survey of users in here would take account of who is banned and how much they've posted in here.
/r/MensRights14/10/14 10:56 PM
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One point I don't see anyone making is the presence (or lack thereof) of agency in the females from the videos. Lacy doesn't seem to pay much attention at all to the question of whether this Sam Pepper kid had signed releases from the girls in his videos. If he did, then they consented to their appearance in the Youtube videos, even if they appear uncomfortable in them. If they consented, then they're Ok with their portrayal. Do women have agency, or do they not? I don't watch Lacy's videos myse…
/r/MensRights03/10/14 05:32 PM
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If only they had mutilated the kid in the manner she preferred, rather than mutilating him in a way she didn't approve of...
/r/MensRights02/10/14 11:45 PM
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If he had called the cops on me I don't know what the penalty would have been... I probably would have been charged As part of your inauguration to the Men's Rights Movment, I invite you to do some googling on "Duluth Model" or "Predominant Aggressor" policies for law enforcement. Assuming that you live in the US, many police departments use this style of policing when dealing with domestic violence calls. Rather than tasking the responding officers with investigating "who hit who first", and th…
/r/MensRights01/10/14 10:35 PM
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Relevant quote (emphasis added): "I am never opposed to accurate videotape evidence, as it often helps resolve difficult factual disputes," says professor Rory Little of the University of California's Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, who, by example, cites police officers wearing "bodycams" and police cars sporting traffic-stop cameras. "However, I think we need to be extremely cautious about competing privacy concerns. ... Almost nothing is more private in our culture than sexual r…
/r/MensRights30/09/14 04:07 PM
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Interestingly, if the company employs only female drivers, they're going to also have a lower incidence of false rape charges. Like this one Or this one Or this one Or this one Or this one Or this one ...etc, etc
/r/MensRights28/09/14 04:27 PM
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libel, like slander, is only libel if it's untrue.
/r/MensRights14/09/14 09:16 PM
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"I have no effective response to your arguments, therefore I ask that our audience disregard them... not because your arguments lack merit, but merely because of who or what you are." "Mansplaining" is an ad hominem attack by another name.
/r/MensRights07/09/14 02:39 AM
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I wouldn't hold it against him if he responded by issuing press releases left and right about the situation, including his identity and his accuser's.
/r/MensRights05/09/14 12:01 AM
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If she claims to have received rape or death threats, I'd say that we're ethically obligated to ask for evidence and offer to help report the crimes to any and all appropriate authorities.... Reddit admins, police, FBI. If she doesn't want to file an official report with authorities or show evidence, I'd say we're ethically obligated to treat her claims with a wry smile and a healthy sense of skepticism.
/r/MensRights03/09/14 10:25 PM
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Yes, but if he's going to be honest, he should always prepend the title with "Probationary".
/r/MensRights27/08/14 02:09 PM
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This is true... I think that in a prosecutor's mind, the evidence for a false rape accusation should have to meet the same level of culpability that they would use to prosecute an actual rape charge. That should include, however, the victim testimony of the falsely accused.
/r/MensRights24/08/14 09:17 PM
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Feminism, like the Roman Catholic church, protects its flock from heathens. Excommunication is generally only for heresy, minor ("The developed West is not a rape culture") or major ("Our government's limited social services funding should be split proportionately between men and women in need of help"). Unlike the church, there's no mechanism in place for correction and penance of minor sins against its principles. I have no idea how serious miss Quinn's depression is, but it's interesting that…
/r/MensRights21/08/14 05:12 PM
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Realize that although females are capable of objectifying men based on their sexual/physical attractiveness, there is an entire other dimension to female objectification of men: Objects of utility, of security and power. Henry Kissinger I believe is quoted as saying that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac, and I think that as honestly homely as he is he probably could offer some thoughts on why he could easily have his pick of younger, quite attractive female partners. I don't think it's a coinci…
/r/MensRights08/08/14 09:26 PM
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A Voice For Men could do worse than to denounce this. "Whether this was started by feminists looking to manufacture more victimhood or by anti-feminists looking to stir shit, #FeministsAreUgly is childish. Please, if this kind of nonsense is the best you have to offer to gender issues debates, take a seat and let the adults have the floor. The MRM has bigger fish to fry than what our opponents look like."
/r/MensRights08/08/14 03:36 AM
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It's always gratifying to see a woman like Whoopi stand up for fairness even when it's against her own self-interest. Who wouldn't want to be treated like an adult when they apply for a job but treated like a child when they hit someone?
/r/MensRights03/08/14 03:44 PM
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Good god this is begging for a youtube rebuttal
/r/MensRights03/08/14 12:23 AM
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Great post. I'd also love to see this pointed out more often: Women, our older feminist sisters helped get us the right to vote, the right to choose whether to be a parent, the right to equal pay for equal work. We are and should be the equals of men. Guess what happens if a 5'4", 140lb man slapped or kicked a 6'1, 220lb man? He'd likely get beaten, badly, and told that he invited it. Our size difference isn't why men get arrested if we hit them and they hit us back.... it's because we're women.…
/r/MensRights03/08/14 12:09 AM
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I think our best unrealized opportunity for selling swag is to sell realistic looking foam "bricks of logic" to metaphorically smash feminism in the face.
/r/MensRights02/08/14 03:46 PM
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Probably not WomenAgainstFeminism, but I think that the enthusiastic involvement of female spokespersons like GirlWritesWhat, TyphonBlue, Christina Hoff Summers and Dr. T were the tipping point. I'm quite ambivalent about this. On the one hand, it's great to see intelligent, passionate women talking about men's issues and especially dissecting feminist talking points. On the other hand, it's really disheartening to know that, for a large portion of our potential audience, women will be the ONLY …
/r/MensRights30/07/14 12:27 AM
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I'd have to ask what you think are the pressures of the Hero Myth? I don't know if this answers your question, but I think that there's 2 main draws to videogames from the perspective of a male brain, particularly in adolescence. On the one hand, it's escapism, it's a way to live through experiences that are beyond ordinary. I think that many especially story-driven games appeal to the same sort of people who would in prior times have relied on books to encourage their imagination. Especially we…
/r/MensRights29/07/14 06:42 PM
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Sort of. It's not so much that it counteracts the message of men being expendable. I think it would be more accurate to say that games filled with danger and adventure and the potential for violence are a sort of catharsis. Players of these games are able to experience fictional versions of being exposed to danger, of risking themselves often in order to save others. What I'm suggesting is that rather than being a training ground for later real-world violence, video games present a way for their…
/r/MensRights26/07/14 05:08 PM
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I didn't state that violence was the goal, but it is often present in games, especially in "hero's journey" type games. Even cartoonish games like Super Mario Bros has you as the hero meting out violence to large amounts of opponents, and frequently risking your virtual safety jumping over deep pits, past spiked obstacles, and over burning lava. Even the "deaths" that the player experiences represent the all-too common ends for would-be heroes. It's only by experiencing these deaths virtually...…
/r/MensRights25/07/14 11:20 PM
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It could be argued that the popularity of videogames, especially violent ones in boys and men is because these games allow the player to fight through and overcome their own disposability, without either harming others or risking death or bodily injury.
/r/MensRights25/07/14 10:54 PM
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"Mansplaining" is an even simpler concept than that. "I have no good answer to my opponent's evidence and arguments, so I ask that you disregard him; not because he presents poor arguments or bad evidence, but simply because of who he is." See also "Check your privilege"
/r/MensRights18/07/14 11:00 PM
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Also, it should be noted that if the accuser was in fact sexually assaulted by the accused, they too have been let down by this college's adjudication system. This is not necessarily due to malfeasance on the part of the college's employees, but rather because any tribunal that lacks criminal investigation expertise, or lacks authority to issue warrants and subpoenas, is rendered incompetent to determine questions of fact. We seriously need to get colleges to take a 3-tiered approach to accusati…
/r/MensRights16/07/14 06:45 PM
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Worth pointing out also: While John Doe vehemently denied the sexual assault allegation, he acknowledged that he was struggling to come to terms with his own sexual identity and that he had been using alcohol to suppress and avoid these feelings. Feminists love to paint the MRM as a bunch of privileged straight white males trying to fight against a loss of that privilege. COTWA's coverage of this shows something of the dedication the MRM has to fairness and justice, for men of all kinds. Does an…
/r/MensRights16/07/14 05:45 PM
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It's actually a pretty clever appeal to the MRM's collective vanity. By suggesting that the MRM requires female leadership, the author not only undermines the MRM's seeming credibility but also sets it up so that the only way to set the record straight is to in some form distance ourselves from our ahem female leaders. I think that the 2nd annual Men's Issues conference should sponser a "media-spin bingo" game, boards handed out to attendees to be played in the week or so after.
/r/MensRights12/07/14 11:51 PM
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I totally get what you're saying, but I think the point of this thread was "Hey, although Feminism says that it's the movement of capital-E Equality, it's actually only (as its name implies) a women's interests group who showed no interest in men's issues when I tried to raise them." Feminism bills itself as a non-partisan movement interested in equality for everyone, male, female, whatever. Folks who agree with this sentiment willingly start wearing the badge, only to find out that Feminism as …
/r/MensRights13/06/14 06:09 PM
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But to be fair ... what did you expect? I think the point of his story was that he genuinely believed the sales pitch that "Feminism is about equality, feminism is for everyone, feminism cares about womens and mens issues". What did he expect? The same level of compassion for young boys that we give to young girls. That's what I would expect from a movement for equality.
/r/MensRights13/06/14 04:55 PM
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I think that "one of their own" is perhaps not a good descriptor. Men in feminist circles seem to have at best a probationary guest pass to the club.
/r/MensRights31/05/14 06:52 PM
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I think that figuring out how fearful women are of men is only a useful metric if compared against crime statistics of the per-capita rate of female victims of violent crimes, and the per-capita rate of male victims of violent crimes. Determining how reasonable women's (and men's) fears of violent victimization are should take precedence over efforts to determine how widespread those fears are. If it turns out that women's fears of violent victimization are reasonable, then we should move on to …
/r/MensRights30/05/14 07:44 PM
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Thanks for clearing that up. I wouldn't want to learn that this subreddit was censoring discussion. The accusation seemed so at odds with the personality and culture of this subreddit that it was difficult to credit.... kind of like believing that Ned Stark would get some woman pregnant with his bastard son. (Think about it, GOT fans :P)
/r/MensRights30/05/14 05:41 PM
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Lots of folks getting stoned and hopefully more open-minded. I think a couple of GWW's videos have hit the front page again recently, it may have been one of those posts which drove some traffic in this direction.
/r/MensRights30/05/14 04:39 PM
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Sorry, I'm not sure of the context of this. My impression was that this subreddit didn't engage in much moderation of discussion at all. Does it?
/r/MensRights30/05/14 04:35 PM
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Invite her to stand outside a busy bar/club with you on a Friday or Saturday night. Ask the same question of the first 100 men and the first 100 women that you see. Agree on the phrasing of the question for fairness, but basically: "If you were/are single and wanted to pick up someone from this bar tonight, go home together and have sex, what would you say your chances are for success?" Barring some kind of disfigurement or extreme lack of looks, women can start their evening knowing that they w…
/r/MensRights30/05/14 03:35 PM
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The next obvious questions to your friend's response are: Are female fears of sexual violence from men reasonable, given the per-capita rates of occurrence of male-on-female violent sex crimes? How do the rates of violent sexual victimization man-on women sexual violence compare to the rates of of other violent crimes? Are women or men more likely to be attacked, sexually assaulted, murdered, robbed, etc? How do these rates compare against historical trends? What do these numbers say about how r…
/r/MensRights28/05/14 11:39 PM
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I think the problem is not so much defining "oppressed" as choosing an ideology predicated upon oppression in the first place. When any group manages to convince the majority that they are an oppressed class, they then become the rightful recipients of funding, studies, government programs, advocacy, etc. to correct this wrong. How then can you expect that group to adequately evaluate at what point they are no longer an oppressed class? Such a rise (drop?) in status would invite the loss of reve…
/r/MensRights27/05/14 10:34 PM
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I think this is much more enlightening than the results from that heavily brigaded survey a month or two back, which attracted feminist bloggers the way a ripe carcass attracts vultures.
/r/MensRights20/05/14 09:40 PM
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Equal in rights, or equal in outcome?
/r/MensRights28/04/14 02:42 PM
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Or how about getting more women into jobs that put them outside for arguably insufficient compensation, where more of them will die and help to achieve eqality in on-the-job casualties? Fishing, forestry, roofing and garbage collection are (I believe) all in the top 10 for job injuries and deaths.
/r/MensRights28/04/14 05:50 AM
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Although it's tempting to raise your hand and lecture the professor on why he/she was wrong in this case, a better tactic might be to ask for clarification of their bigotry. "Professor, I think I understand what you're saying, but I just want to clarify two things: Is it ethical to discriminate against anyone who you can rationalize to have a greater amount of power, or is it only ethical to discriminate based on gender? Also, do you have to say your rationalization of the power imbalance out lo…
/r/MensRights24/04/14 05:05 PM
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I don't see a Feminazi here. Sometimes crazy is just crazy.
/r/MensRights17/04/14 11:55 PM
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I keep saying this, but "check your privilege" is essentially an ad hominem attack. It communicates the idea that "Your arguments should be given less weight or ignored altogether... not because they lack merit, but because of who they come from."
/r/MensRights14/04/14 07:02 PM
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LOL, as opposed to actually setting off alarm bells when they don't want to allow opposing viewpoints to be discussed. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
/r/MensRights12/04/14 04:04 PM
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Check the numbers once again and ask some of the following questions (and fact check the answers you're given against the original reports): Is this "All men vs. All women? Feminists typically use "All married men with children" vs "All married women with children", but don't bother to say so... they just say men vs women. Why? Married women with children statistically cut back on employment and spend more time performing child care and managing households, so this very particular slice of the d…
/r/MensRights12/04/14 03:33 PM
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Typhon, did the email originate from an address that we can be reasonably certain belongs to Adele Mercier? I'd just like to rule out the possibility of a troll trying to stir up trouble.
/r/MensRights11/04/14 02:48 AM
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Yes. You're as welcome here as any straight guy. As a queer MRA, you likely face issues that straight MRA's do not, and so your input and insights can help to shape discussions about rights, equality, gender, fairness, etc. Welcome.
/r/MensRights06/04/14 05:41 AM
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I just commented on the thread where that was mentioned, and I think it's quite hopeful. Reality being what it is, I'd be surprised and gratified to see them actually change the descriptors on websites and training guides to specifically indicate that forcible envelopment = rape. Changing any official documentation for an organization like the FBI likely requires oversight and approval, and pessimist that I am, I anticipate that this will involve consultation with women advocacy groups who might…
/r/MensRights04/04/14 08:36 PM
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Wow, this is definitely a step in the right direction. I won't hold my breath but am hopeful.
/r/MensRights04/04/14 07:58 PM
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Criminal trials must show guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt,” but on campuses a higher standard of “clear and convincing” evidence has been utilized. "Clear and convincing" is not a higher standard of evidence than "beyond a reasonable doubt." It is, however, higher than "preponderance of the evidence". I think this was just an editing mistake of the article's author. Regardless, this is a win for fairness when dealing with accusations of sexual violence.
/r/MensRights04/04/14 06:32 PM
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One common rhetorical tactic used by people to minimize male victims of rape is: "Sure, lots of men are being raped, but in prison BY OTHER MEN." This is a faulty argument for 2 reasons: Since we don't count it as "rape" when a woman forces, coerces or threatens a man into having sex with her, this conversation has a dishonest starting point. Feminism claims to be all about equality except when equality means equal accountability under the law. "By other men".... what kind of argument is here? T…
/r/MensRights04/04/14 01:26 AM
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He may not be informed of the recent (2011?) FBI re-definition of rape. Prior to this, men were not counted as rape victims at all, even when penetrated against their will by objects or other men's penises. Even though this is a step in the right direction, I think it's notable that the re-definition involved consultation with women's advocacy groups and resulted in a definition of rape which specifically excludes women who force, threaten or coerce men into having sex with them.
/r/MensRights04/04/14 01:11 AM
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From a Criminal Justice perspective, she's half correct. Legally, a man can be raped if his perpetrator: a. is another male b. uses an implement to penetrate him. If it's a woman who forces, coerces or threatens him into having sex with her however, our (USA) justice system does not yet consider it to be rape. You or I might disagree and say "but it's still rape", I think MRA's should be careful to distinguish between what we consider rape and what the law does. Why? Clarity of communication. We…
/r/MensRights04/04/14 12:59 AM
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Good god, the feminists were right about MRA's being soulless all along!
/r/MensRights04/04/14 12:50 AM
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Erection, orgasm.... these are symptoms of arousal and perhaps desire, which are each distinct from consent. Laws regarding rape (in the US at least) are geared around lack of consent rather than the presence or lack of arousal.
/r/MensRights03/04/14 04:39 AM
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If CAFE is going to have an "official recording" of the event, I recommend they go with a 2 camera setup, 1 aimed towards the audience and specifically picking out the disruptive folks. Organizers shouldn't be afraid to break the 4th wall: "For our later Youtube viewers, this is an example of how feminists organize to suppress opposing viewpoints. They believe that their own freedom of speech gives them the right to drown out, to shut down, to shush people who don't agree with their construction…
/r/MensRights29/03/14 04:07 PM
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The sketch actually sets up two straw men for knocking down. The "MRA-guy" of course, but also his girlfriend. The girlfriend is sweet, pretty, liked by her coworkers.... but desperately ignorant of the culture she's moved into, and duped into financing a guy who actually should be financing her. His "job" of "grass-roots activist" is pretty clearly "unemployed and sponging off the girl he seemingly greencarded into the country." Since a greencard would naturally require a marriage, the writers …
/r/MensRights12/03/14 12:51 AM
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This is shocking to me. I honestly expected her to blame 1-2 minority men of average height/weight and indeterminate age. Oh, and a 3-state state police canvas, and a media frenzy postering the police sketches all over the place.
/r/MensRights12/03/14 12:19 AM
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I think it's likely that when situations like this come up, the owners rely more on social enforcement of the restrictions... anything from "tut-tutting" the behavior, to youtube shaming, or even keying the car of someone who brutishly took away a woman's reserved safer parking space.
/r/MensRights07/03/14 05:40 AM
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If these parking restrictions are not legally enforceable, you have no obligation to abide by them.
/r/MensRights07/03/14 12:06 AM
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I think you should broaden your definitions of "objectification" beyond the merely sexual. -Objects lack agency. They are acted upon. No one blames the boulder which rolls down a hill and damages a house. They instead ask how the boulder might have been dug up, drilled apart, maybe detonated into smaller rocks.... how could it have been prevented from rolling down the hill. Objects are acted upon. -Agents are people. Agents enforce their will upon the world around them... not always successfully…
/r/MensRights06/03/14 04:10 AM
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If she's an 18 year old, it's unambiguously her fault.
/r/MensRights06/03/14 01:35 AM
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....."When asked what if any significance there was to the near-100% fatality rate of aborted babies in both fiction and real life, she did not immediately respond."
/r/MensRights05/03/14 11:38 PM
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Cognitive Dissonance incoming in 3...2...1... From her article: The victim's refusal to cooperate is a problem endemic to the prosecution of domestic violence, as I wrote in September. In Queens, N.Y., law enforcement reports that victims recant their testimony in 9 out of 10 cases. Let's examine the same statistic but parse it differently, shall we? The victim's false allegations of domestic violence is a problem endemic to the prosecution of domestic violence, as I wrote in September. In Queen…
/r/MensRights01/03/14 01:42 AM
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1 hour was definitely not enough time for this. I'd have liked to see the panelists agree to devote 1-2 youtube videos each, continuing the debate, expanding on their points, offering rebuttals and sources, etc.
/r/MensRights28/02/14 07:49 PM
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More ironic icing for the cake: "I'll be reporting the Twitter accounts (approx 80) that have started harassing me" I wouldn't be surprised if several of the 80 or so negative responses she received could be considered harassment, but I strongly suspect the majority of them would be more accurately described as candid disagreement. The irony of course is that when she complains about people who like to police others, and folks predictably point out her glaring hypocrisy, she goes right back to p…
/r/MensRights22/02/14 07:59 PM
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Well, feminism is doing a great job of preventing us from "instrumentalizing" (or "counting", in everyday parlance) many victims by influencing the definition of rape to preclude females aggressors.
/r/MensRights07/02/14 10:52 PM
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Much like "check your privilege", it's essentially an ad hominem attack. "People shouldn't listen to your arguments; not because they lack merit, but because of who you are or what group I perceive you to be a member of."
/r/MensRights09/01/14 11:12 PM
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I'm aware of how a feminist would likely respond, but it seems to me that any rationalization of this kind of thinking is itself an indicator of flawed and biased thought processes. I wonder whether an impartial 3rd party... someone without sympathies to either Feminism or the MRA would agree.
/r/MensRights03/01/14 06:31 PM
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In fairness, I have to give the feminist movement credit for being so very good at crafting terminology. They keep saying that words matter, and they're right of course, but they follow up the sentiment with actions... as a result we see examples of crafted terminology like this come up. "Benevolent sexism" is a really great word-weapon, because it simultaneously implies that: At least when sexism benefits women, it's good and kind in intent or effect. Somehow, this form of sexism is still to be…
/r/MensRights02/01/14 11:19 PM
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Lol. From an MRA and a gamer: Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. One of the things about "gamer culture" is that it's a bunch of people willingly participating in somewhat similar activities that they find fun. If you don't find it fun any more, if you don't want to call yourself a gamer, fine. Go do something else. If you change your mind, the games and the culture will still be here. Basically, we won't miss you if you leave, and we won't mind if you come back. It's about the fun;…
/r/MensRights02/01/14 10:45 PM
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It may be a starting point, but it seems to tread fairly lightly over the concept (and bodies, and criminal convictions, etc) of men who as their part of the equation are supposed to stand between females/children and danger. I'm not at all convinced that men value female submission enough to sacrifice their bodies, lives or freedom in exchange for it. I certainly don't, and find the idea laughable. Our protective inclinations towards women (and children) are most likely instinctual rather than …
/r/MensRights02/01/14 10:33 PM
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I've pointed this out before, but hey, why not? Feminists: Why is it that when sexism advantages women, it's "benevolent", but when it advantages men, it's just sexism?
/r/MensRights02/01/14 09:43 PM
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I would LOVE to see a long-form video interview (unedited) with her and the AVFM folks, if both were agreeable to it. Maybe even if she were a feature guest with the Honey Badger ladies.
/r/MensRights11/12/13 05:40 AM
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I'm gobstopped at how feminists hate objectification but will conceptually turn another women into an object if she's not toeing the party line. "You've been brainwashed by the patriarchy, you're internalizing patriarchal norms", etc etc. The assumption is that rather than having come to her opinions consciously and rationally, she is like a ball rolling down the wrong side of a hill. If only she'd been nudged down the correct side, her thought processes would be functional.
/r/MensRights09/12/13 01:27 AM
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Am I the only one noticing that these workshops aren't examining gender in the light of methodologically sound, peer-reviewed scientific studies? I see cultural expectations, group dialogue, literature review, media exploring, journaling, rape culture, social structure of gender. I don't see anything about methodologically sound, peer reviewed studies.
/r/MensRights03/12/13 09:43 PM
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Do you know how to make this poster 100% more punchy? Start it off with the current stat for the percentage of congressmen/women: This will rope in a huge amount of feminist-leaning readers, who would find the first statement flattering to their convictions. The incongruity of the following statements against the first will tempt a more complete reading of the rest of the poster. Faced with 2 seemingly at-odds statements, I think we have an impulse to scan for more information, in order to put t…
/r/MensRights03/12/13 11:21 AM
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I think one similarity all 3 have in common is that members of all tend to be friendly towards the idea of behavioral evolution, and formulate world-views which include gender-based differences in attitudes and actions. For example: -Documented lack of in-group bias among men, and presence of out-group bias (men favor women but not men) -Documented presence of in-group bias among women and lack of out-group bias (women favor women but not men) A reasonable explanation is that this is very possib…
/r/MensRights01/12/13 07:33 AM
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This argument is not about power, but benevolence. "Well meaning and kindly" is the definition for benevolent. Why is it benevolent sexism to advantage women, but just sexism to advantage men?
/r/MensRights09/11/13 04:40 AM
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I think the best way to address a the concept of "benevolent sexism" when it gets raised by a feminist is to ask why sexism which benefits women is "benevolent" in intent or effect, and sexism which benefits men is just sexism. The very concept that it's "good" or "benevolent" because it benefits women rather than men is itself sexist.
/r/MensRights08/11/13 11:11 PM
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Hey Typhon, please give some thought to posting these with a bit more notice.... I mostly enjoy the Honey Badger podcasts but don't always remember that they're on Thursdays. Maybe post them the day before?
/r/MensRights18/10/13 01:51 AM
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Can we compile a list of prostate cancer nonprofits with a good record of donating most/all of the funds to actual research?
/r/MensRights08/10/13 11:47 PM
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From TMobile: "The Primary Account Holder can add or remove Web Guard via My T-Mobile. Yes, it's annoying to have to opt-out of a feature like this, and yes it probably doesn't censor RadFemHub similarly, but it should only take a few minutes to fix.
/r/MensRights02/10/13 11:53 PM
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SPOILERS BELOW (I don't think this subreddit supports spoiler tags) It seems that the concerned female employees were nearly completely successful in getting the company to change the game. Not only was the theme of sex-selective infection done away with, the game also did away pretty much completely with the ability of the player agent to direct violence against any humans other than men. From memory, there are 5 instances (a sixth discussed) in which women are dealt violence at the hands of ot…
/r/MensRights25/09/13 12:33 AM
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The irony of this is that many of these same women would probably complain about the so-called wage gap, even though: The wage gap figure represented most often ($0.77 on the dollar) represents only women and men who are married and have children. This gap is largely a reflection of the choices that women, men and couples make prioritizing child care, personal comfort, and flexibility with work, and specifically reflects women's priorities; personal earning potential is below other factors like …
/r/MensRights22/09/13 12:50 AM
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It's not that it would add more in-depth coverage of the articles so much as that disallowing comments is one of the hallmarks of feminist arenas including the more recently formed Atheism+ communities. Silencing commentary (especially dissent) is something you do in a church or temple.
/r/MensRights09/09/13 02:14 AM
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The problem is that the people they were mocking... were entirely deserving of it. Gabe and Tycho weren't mocking the idea of rape, or the survivors of rape. They were mocking folks who think they have the moral authority to shut down anyone but their approved licensees from using the term "rape".
/r/MensRights06/09/13 10:49 PM
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I examined the claims of the PAX organizers being unresponsive to alleged sexual assaults in this comment over in r/games. With regards to the dickwolves strip, I think it's interesting that Gabe and Tycho were being accused of bullying when they stood up for their legal and moral right to free speech, rather than immediately apologizing and ceding "rape" to the ownership of feminists and survivor groups. One group was expecting the other to shut up, and part of their shaming tactics ironically …
/r/MensRights06/09/13 10:46 PM
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Any man who not only wishes to call "bluff" on their female partner's claim of pregnancy, but tries to match it with such a bluff of their own is a poker player who's either quite brave, quite reckless with their relationships, or a combination of both. The consequences if she's not bluffing could be catastrophic to the path one's life takes from then on... not so for a woman who is bluffing.
/r/MensRights06/09/13 01:03 AM
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Hey Honey Badgers. This popped up on /r/games today and may be topical: Why I'm never going back to Penny Arcade Expo. The article discusses the now-tired "dickwolves" strip that caused so much grief a couple of years back, but also discusses allegations of sexual misconduct among attendees and volunteers, and claims that the expo organizers just aren't doing enough to address these allegations and women's safety generally. I noticed that the claims of sexual assault in this case bear a remarkab…
/r/MensRights05/09/13 09:03 PM
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I see where you're going with this, but it's a poor parallel due to the way that society handles actual pregnancy vs falsely claimed pregnancy: A woman who falsely claims pregnancy to a partner faces, at most, the loss of that partner if he discovers her dishonesty. A man who uses this paper to achieve unprotected sex with a woman faces possible child support for years after. A man who uses this paper during paternity proceedings faces the likelihood of court ordered DNA testing, rendering this …
/r/MensRights05/09/13 07:45 PM
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I'm going to make some very basic assumptions here, including that you didn't make any off-color remarks to her when you showed her the correct way to do what it was that you understood she was trying to do. If you're comfortable that your own actions would hold up to an impartial 3rd party (let's imagine that your whole interaction had been videotaped), then here's an option: "Hey boss, can we talk for a few minutes? Thanks (sitting down). I was blindsided by X's accusation of sexism earlier, s…
/r/MensRights30/08/13 03:18 PM
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My question for Paul, as well as any of the other notables in the MRM, is: Do you require a 2-way signed consent for interviews from the media? If not, why? Essentially: "Yes, certainly I'll do an interview with you, but I'll be bringing a cameraman of my own, and will put the entirety of the interview up on Youtube so that others can judge for themselves whether my statements are being taken out of context."
/r/MensRights27/08/13 06:01 PM
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The calling out of "privilege" in arguments is annoying because it's essentially an ad hominem attack. It's an attempt to foist some sort of guilt onto one's opponent and silence them while simultaneously appealing to the prejudices of the audience to give the opponent's arguments less weight.... not because the arguments lack merit but because of whose mouth they are coming from.
/r/MensRights22/08/13 03:15 PM
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DNA testing should be standard practice in hospital births, but opt-in, and state laws should not allow the "father" part of the birth certificate to be filled in unless he is present and consents to it. In cases where the mother claims that a man is the father and he doesn't wish to be listed on the birth certificate, "Father" should be left blank until court proceedings can determine paternity.... at which point a DNA test will probably be court-ordered, rather than opt-in.
/r/MensRights16/08/13 03:17 PM
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More bright side. I'm happy and a little proud to say that u/Tentacolt, the OP from that thread indicated that his/her views on the MRM were changed, at least partly. Tentacolt probably still won't identify as a MRM but he/she apparently came to the discussion with an open mind. I suspect that we have one less person who will characterize us poorly or inaccurately in public, and who may even defend the legitimacy of a MRM when they hear other detractors. And so the MRM's legitimacy moves forward…
/r/MensRights10/08/13 05:56 PM
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At least since he hitched his wagon to the Atheism+ folks. "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people too".... false dichotomies like the idea that the skeptic community has to decide whether their female members are valuable counterparts or "fuck toys for privileged white men"..... Atheism+ is basically "Skeptical inquiry in religious matters PLUS unquestioning acceptance of feminist principles". Anyone who jumps on basically has to stick their fingers in their ears, censor dissent o…
/r/MensRights09/08/13 07:59 PM
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We shouldn't find reasons to both condemn feminists when they act up at these lectures and make fun of them when they don't. How about: "Feminists plan to crash Men's Rights lecture with superior claim to victimhood, instead find something worth listening to and behave themselves"?
/r/MensRights02/08/13 03:28 AM
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Is there a podcast or youtube encapsulation of this interview?
/r/MensRights17/07/13 03:47 PM
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I disagree, and although "Men Going Their Own Way" is more bulky, it encompasses men who do opt for marriage or long-term relationships as part of going their way. One of the greatest strengths of the phrase is that it makes fairly clear that MGTOWs may share some core principles in common but choose a self-directed life that works for them. Although one symptom of the MGTOW phenomenon is lowered interest in marriage and traditional societal roles, I think it's entirely possible to be a MGTOW an…
/r/MensRights09/07/13 10:18 PM
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What Sarkeesian and other Feminist critics also ignore (to the detriment of their analyses) is that the "sexist" subtext they see in video games can be taken either way: (Feminist deconstruction): Women are overwhelmingly portrayed in games as helpless and needing of rescue by strong, capable male protagonists. The gameplay serves as an adolescent male power fantasy. (MRA deconstruction): Women are overwhelmingly portrayed in games as having such high value (social, magical or sentimental) that …
/r/MensRights30/05/13 02:11 AM
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The biggest difference between the MRM and Feminism is that the MRM does care about women's rights..... their RIGHTS, not "Equality". We want everyone to have equal rights; Feminism is so invested in a) maintaining the narrative that women are nearly universally worse off and that b) therefore, Equal Rights isn't enough. "Substantive Equality" is its goal, meaning that women need a greater hand up in order to achieve "Equality".
/r/MensRights16/05/13 10:16 PM
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Can we have a discussion about best mens-related charities to contribute to sometime before the next Movember? I'd especially be interested in charities who do NOT have 6-figure CEO salaries and who dispense well upwards of 70% of donations to the actual needed recipients and whose finances are openly audited.
/r/MensRights10/05/13 01:08 AM
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Reading the story, I missed the part where she was charged for rape. It appears she was charged with a lesser sexual offense.
/r/MensRights30/04/13 09:14 PM
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ADVICE for anyone invited to be interviewed about the MRM. Agree only if you can record the interview in its entirety and post it to a public media sharing site like Youtube.
/r/MensRights18/04/13 09:34 PM
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I'm beginning to seriously think that the men's lack of an in-group bias is as much a strength as a weakness... perhaps our greatest strength, properly applied. It's what allows us to engage in contests of physical ability (and yes, violence, destruction and war) more readily than women, and later in our species' development in contests of ideas and intellect. Our willingness to tear each other down and be torn down in the pursuit of truth, of ideals and innovation is largely what has built up c…
/r/MensRights18/04/13 04:28 AM
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Agreed. Making conciliatory gestures towards Feminism is like the Obama administration doing the same to Republicans in Congress. They're still going to call him a socialist who's ruining the country every chance they can get. If a gesture of conciliation won't buy you anything from your opponent, it is poorly spent. Being willing to shut down something like R-H in order to curry favor with the opposition is essentially saying that the website is political capital, a spendable resource. I think …
/r/MensRights17/04/13 01:58 PM
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My response in that thread, currently trending negative in votes.
/r/MensRights12/04/13 07:39 PM
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I don't know what those complaining misogynists think they're going to accomplish, Feminism has already addressed this issue with a non-binding resolution from NOW back in 1980. EDIT: Some folks didn't realize that this was sarcasm. Obviously a non-binding resolution effects zero change.
/r/MensRights05/04/13 03:41 AM
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Oh I agree, as do many reason-seeking folks. I think you'd get along with a lot of folks in here even if you never consider yourself to be personally a Men's Rights advocate. Our colleagues for equality over in /r/feminism would probably not agree that this is unfortunate, which brings me to your thoughts on equality... one thing I've noticed that seems to be one of the biggest divide between Feminism and the MRM is that both are in favor of "equality" in some form. Feminism seems to want the ki…
/r/MensRights05/04/13 02:48 AM
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The concept of "minorities can't commit hate crimes" is actually enshrined in the law. Although I don't remember the exact wording, the national hate crime legislation was worded roughly to say that a criminal act is a hate crime only if the victim is a member of a historically disparaged or oppressed group. This means that, popular opinion on hate crimes aside, if you (an african american woman) attack a white man yelling out "Death to all white devils!", it's not a hate crime legally because w…
/r/MensRights05/04/13 01:57 AM
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No, thank YOU for helping to deconstruct gendered stereotypes about rape. You're doing good work and I hope that your efforts make a difference. In 10 and 20 years these people will be the voters, poll respondents and policy-makers who (for better or worse) will be shaping national discourse on this subject and others.
/r/MensRights05/04/13 01:49 AM
1

Exactly, and it ought to be.
/r/MensRights04/04/13 05:36 PM
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Sure, on the "teach men not to rape" angle, take your pick of articles, editorials etc on the importance of improving our society by teaching males not to be rapists. Try a similar search for "teach women not to falsely accuse" (try your own keyword search if you're disappointed with the lack of pertinent results from that one) and decide for yourself the imbalance in popular opinion on the matter. If you're looking for some good food for thought on sexual aggression among men and women, you can…
/r/MensRights04/04/13 03:26 AM
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If it is fair to say "Let's teach men and boys not to rape" then it's fair to say "Let's teach women and girls not to falsely accuse men of rape". Rape is, in the FBI definition, an act perpetrated by a man and never by a woman. Your discussion should include the concept that in the US, we simply don't count "rapes" if the act is perpetrated by a woman.
/r/MensRights04/04/13 02:44 AM
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This is great and you absolutely should edit it into the main post. Getting her to the point where something was likely to happen and then leaving it up to her to come to your room was a nice touch; she probably had butterflies in her stomach as she was heading to your room and this probably enhanced things for her even more.
/r/seduction27/03/13 09:19 PM
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Did you let her know in front of the class that her speech's reception from her peers would probably not have been anywhere near as positive if her exact same speech were given by a male? Actually if the class topic is "persuasive speech", this would make a fun experiment in future semesters. Ask this girl's permission to use her speech in future classes as an example, but have it be read by a male student who agrees ahead of time to cooperate. Then by a female student in a different class. Meas…
/r/MensRights01/03/13 10:32 PM
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The club isn't supporting Men's Rights, it's supporting the free flow of ideas, and moderating an environment where people can passionately but respectfully discuss topics that are controversial.
/r/MensRights13/02/13 09:26 PM
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Presumably they'd apply this equally to newborn girls. Clitoral hood removal only, of course, we wouldn't want our Western physicians accused of female genital mutilation.
/r/MensRights11/02/13 10:05 PM
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I think that one of the best things we can do is to distinguish between "Feminists", within which there is a good deal of variety, and "Feminism" as a sort of hive-mind entity whose motivations can be deduced based on its actions and lack of action. I think there are a good deal (likely not the majority) of Feminists who aren't opposed to one or more important Mens Rights issues and with whom some common ground can be found.
/r/MensRights31/01/13 10:40 PM
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We're used to having to prove our claims, and having to prove our critiques of the opposition claims. We're still such a faint glimmer on the public consciousness that we regularly receive inquisitive visitors, many of whom have been misled to be predisposed against our claims or our platform. Much like Tourism-heavy countries whose inhabitants are used to making the tourists feel at home, there's something of a corps d'esprit among the regulars here, who would like to see people converted to fr…
/r/MensRights31/01/13 10:33 PM
1

By Tuesday morning the wall was gone, destroyed in an act of “forceful resistance,” by seventh-year human rights student Arun Smith. I think this sums up everything we need to know about the incident. Want to take odds that this student wasn't a postdoc?
/r/MensRights24/01/13 02:39 AM
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I would edit this to say that he sees how you treat each other. It's just as important for him to see Dad treating Mom with love and respect as vice-versa. It's good and healthy for you two to praise each others' qualities and contributions to the family out loud, where your children can hear it. Equally important is how you solve disagreements.
/r/MensRights10/01/13 05:51 PM
1

I disagree that this poster is part of a gender specific campaign. I'd agree with you if it said "Marriage doesn't give men the right to rape women". If you see one of these posters out in the wild and find it so objectionable, why not just draw a thought bubble around the words and then have it seemingly coming from both the man and woman?
/r/MensRights09/01/13 02:50 PM
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The picture doesn't say who the prospective rapist is. Why do you assume that the message is gender-specific? We're always on about the idea that men can be raped by women; when a gender-neutral message like this is conveyed, we therefore have the responsibility to step back and not insert into it the same stereotypes we fight against.
/r/MensRights08/01/13 09:14 PM
1

Technically, feminism isn't a movement in its own right, it's just an anti-patriarchal movement. Oh wait, that's what feminists say about the MRM.
/r/MensRights15/11/12 11:57 PM
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Write a follow-up essay and submit it to the head of your English department and the op-ed section of any local paper who will take it. Although this is Canada and not the US, FBI statistics may still help you out here. You can go down year by year showing the number of female rape victims, and the number each year for male rape victims would be "0". The theme of your follow-up essay should be: Men can't be raped. So says the FBI, who until last year have recorded "0" rape cases, and so says my …
/r/MensRights10/11/12 03:52 PM
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Your use of the word "bitch" makes me feel threatened and afraid. Mods, please add "trigger warning" to the title. Yes, I'm kidding
/r/MensRights04/10/12 07:35 PM
2

It's only awkward if you and she maintain eye contact while you and he are hooking up.
/r/seduction04/10/12 04:41 AM
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Ok, I started off just cracking jokes but I actually have to hand it to you and your mom both for frankness and an ability to compromise. Did either of you ever scrape the upper/lower limits of your agreement?
/r/seduction04/10/12 04:01 AM
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Note to self: minibabybuu's mom likes the sauce. Oh yeah.
/r/seduction04/10/12 03:27 AM
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Note to self: try to hook up with mom first to obtain a gauge on daughter's potential freakiness. For a further gauge on how freaky the daughter is, describe the conquest of mom in detail and observe for reactions.
/r/seduction04/10/12 02:54 AM
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NOW won't be helping you there. They have a non-binding resolution in support of an equal draft, so their work is done.
/r/MensRights03/10/12 11:48 PM
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This TED Talk is a good start Even if you can't convince her that the wage gap myth is largely massaging numbers to fit a predetermined narrative, you owe it to the conversation to step out into this territory: Feminism is about equality, yes? (I'd be highly surprised if she answered anything other than "yes") What would be a higher priority for you; achieving female parity in earnings, or addressing elevated occurrences of workplace injuries and deaths of women? What if I told you that 70% of w…
/r/MensRights27/09/12 03:40 AM
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"....much less paying them equally to their male counterparts. If you are really serious about the 'no work getting done', how do you think that would influence the lifetime earnings of men vs women including raises, increases in responsibility, etc."
/r/MensRights27/09/12 03:24 AM
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Actually this does have the potential to affect MensRights. It's an open invitation for people with partisan views to start a false flag operation trying to spam and cheat upvote content from Mens Rights websites in an attempt to ultimately have those sites banned for gaming the system.
/r/MensRights27/09/12 03:17 AM
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The males of this school clearly have an obligation to join and co-opt the Men Can Stop Rape club. The club's new agenda? Recognizing and highlighting the problem of men who are raped, in any circumstances, by perpetrators of any gender. Using male voices and advocacy to stop rape..... of men. Petitioning the state government and FBI to correctly define rape as including rape OF men, BY women. Getting the FBI to highlight the hypocrisy of its statistical methodology by including "0" for statisti…
/r/MensRights27/09/12 02:55 AM
1

I enjoyed especially the part where he talked about the successes of VAWA by talking about the percent increase/decrease of violent crimes against men/women, while ignoring details like the numbers of victims in each category, men/women.
/r/MensRights18/09/12 07:22 AM
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It's on NOW's website in the same manner that "non-binding resolutions" are pumped out by the UN on any number of human rights issues which it won't actually send troops out to correct. The point is that when feminist groups feel that women are being disadvantaged, there are marches, protests, appearances to discuss the issue on news programs, and pressure put on politicians. When feminist groups even see issues where men are disadvantaged, the most that will happen will be several editorials an…
/r/MensRights06/09/12 02:28 PM
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The term "Deadbeat Dad" includes fathers who never wanted to have children and who would have opted for plan B, abortion, adoption, or leaving the child no-questions-asked at a safe haven....all options available to mothers. Legal Paternal Surrender would have allowed them to continue living their lives rather than owing money to help raise a child they did not want. Notice that the subtitle indicates that the money is owed to the mother, despite the way that courts characterize child support as…
/r/MensRights31/08/12 04:49 PM
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This is the most hilariously unintentional parody of feminism that I think I've seen. It's like the scientology episode of South Park, it just needs the words flashing constantly on the lower half of the screen. "THIS IS WHAT FEMINISTS THINK THE WORLD IS LIKE. THEY ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT LIFE BECOMES MAGICALLY EASIER IF YOU HAVE A DICK"
/r/MensRights29/08/12 02:14 AM
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Would you concede that they are both forms of genital mutilation, perpetrated on minors without consent?
/r/MensRights27/08/12 08:24 PM
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Since the definition of rape by the FBI still excludes women as perpetrators, she does not require consent.
/r/MensRights27/08/12 08:14 PM
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I understand men, when it comes to domestic issues, get the short end of the stick. This isn't just because of feminism. Men are quick to blame women for cultural biases, instead of holding the other half (you) of the population responsible for also continuing those assumed cultural norms. I just noticed that I didn't respond to this, so I'll put this in separately. Again, at the risk of playing spokesman to a diverse group: No, you're correct. When men have the short end of the stick on issues …
/r/MensRights16/08/12 01:24 AM
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Your s/o is not only assumed to be competent at these things. He's expected to be. Think about that. He's also expected to see to it that you and your children are taken care of. He's expected to place himself bodily between you and harm. If you and he get into a heated argument at a bar and you slap him, none of your female sisters will pull you away from him and beat the shit out of you "because you never hit a man". If you slap him and he hits you back, he'll be lucky if the police are the fi…
/r/MensRights16/08/12 12:18 AM
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By "fair rights", do you mean "equal rights", or "elevated rights in order to correct a nebulous perception of inequality"? This is important, and a talking point for the MRM. As an example, could you name rights or services/programs that are available to men but which women are specifically barred from? If you asked folks in this subreddit to name programs/services or rights which are female exclusive, you might be surprised at how well women have things. I'm speaking as a US redditor; your sit…
/r/MensRights15/08/12 09:49 PM
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"The game will never be the same".... lol because the clever bastard who thought this up now has the full contact information for girls who consider themselves high enough on the HB scale to require these cards.
/r/seduction15/08/12 08:57 PM
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Be an advocate for equal rights. Realize that even if what you did would count as rape to feminists if the genders were reversed, that law enforcement would not register these acts as rape. Feminist organizations cheered the "victory" of having the FBI revised their definition of rape for the first time in decades, while remaining either willfully or ignorantly silent on the fact that their "victory" involved still having females categorically excluded from being capable of rape. One of the bigg…
/r/MensRights03/08/12 11:00 PM
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Did you ignore her first several calls after you texted her the picture, just to give her a taste of being incommunicado?
/r/MensRights16/07/12 10:28 PM
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Actually, this decision ALSO values religious freedom.... that of the child. No baby is attempting to cry out "Yo! I'm Jewish, respect my religious beliefs and heritage!"
/r/MensRights15/07/12 06:22 PM
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The title is incorrect, it's actually a girl being bullied by another girl (and her laughing friends, composed of both girls and boys). Presumably the stance would have to be: "When one girl bullies another girl, they are BOTH victims because even the aggressor is simply unconsciously reinforcing culturally determined norms of attractiveness and gender roles."
/r/MensRights29/06/12 01:43 AM
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I don't enjoy liking a video series so much that I get frustrated when 3 weeks go by without an update.
/r/MensRights29/06/12 01:38 AM
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I think it's possible that this could be a simple case of one project having a much better return on investment than the other. Tropes v. Women in Video Games: Pledge $25 or more: Your name in the video credits, a free high res digital download of the video series & access to some research materials. (Plus your name credited as a donor on the Feminist Frequency website and a big heartfelt thank you!) Brian Banks Story: Pledge $25 or more: All of the above, and a signed copy of The Brian Banks St…
/r/MensRights19/06/12 12:36 AM
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I'd be much more on-board with donating if the project was more on-board with distributing actual dvd or drm-free digital copies of the film to supporters. Any chance that they'll add this to the $10 or $25 tier?
/r/MensRights18/06/12 11:36 PM
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I don't think this is an apt comparison. Felines have evolved so that males have backwards-pointing barbs on their penises, which are thought to have a triple function: Scraping out sperm from any competing males Injuring the female's vaginal cavity to an extent so that she's unlikely to accept advances from other males for a period of time. Stimulating the release of a hormone which causes ovulation. When the male is pulling out from her, he's actually injuring her, which seems counter-intuitiv…
/r/MensRights09/06/12 09:31 PM
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"Men's rights" does not mean patriarchy. It means equality. At least, I think it does. I tend to think of Men's Rights as "Advocacy for equal rights, for men." To state it this way is significant in 2 ways: Equal rights does not necessarily mean equality of outcome. You can give everyone equal rights and still have vastly different outcomes in both negative and positive areas.... financial/political achievement, survival rates, likelihood of being a victim of a crime, etc. I used to argue (both …
/r/MensRights30/05/12 08:15 PM
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I seem to have missed it... who broke the press's wall of silence on naming her?
/r/MensRights27/05/12 09:31 AM
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While it might not actually provide equal rights to termination of pregnancy, it might largely solve many of the actual disputes that arise. Just to be clear: When you say 99.999...% effective, do you include this to mean "immune to tampering from wives, girlfriends or one night stands who have decided that now is the time in their lives to have a baby, men's choice be damned?"
/r/MensRights18/05/12 05:35 PM
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I'd say there's definitely room for different opinions on this one. Something just sticks in my craw a little bit when someone announces an out-of-court settlement as a victory.... not for themself, but for a larger political issue.
/r/MensRights27/04/12 12:20 AM
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Just to be clear: You disagree that he did not win the case, or with my suggestion that any gains were personal, financial ones rather than gains for intactivists?
/r/MensRights26/04/12 09:57 PM
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According to the video, he settled the case which means he didn't win his lawsuit. One doesn't win a settlement, they agree to it, and the settlement leaves the question of the case untried.... in this case whether our society thinks it appropriate and legal to perform an essentially cosmetic surgery on boys who are too young to have legal consent.... or for that matter, even say the word "no" or fight back in defense. Starting a lawsuit from a moral highground and then settling out of court for…
/r/MensRights26/04/12 09:41 AM
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Oh, I didn't take offense or take it as such... it's just that I personally prefer not to clutter up subreddits with re-posts, and it looks like this thread is a re-post. My apology was a general one for duplication of content.
/r/MensRights13/04/12 10:15 PM
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Sorry for the re-post, I actually did look under "new" before attempting to submit a new link. Edit: Mods feel free to merge
/r/MensRights13/04/12 10:06 PM
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Are there any legal repercussions for a "name and shame" strategy towards the girl, her boyfriend and the professor involved?
/r/MensRights13/01/12 12:25 AM
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Why only at this point in history? It doesn't seem that appalling for me for members of either sex to have clubs or spaces that are gender exclusive, as long as the ability to do so is applied equally.
/r/MensRights07/01/12 10:05 PM
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I'm just curious, does the Men's Rights Movement have a platform as such? Does it have a list of areas where men are not being given equality? Does it make clear how it defines equality? Are supports of the Men's Rights Movement just as open to accusations of vagueness and a failure to call out and shame its more radical members?
/r/MensRights16/12/11 06:57 PM
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I think the best response is to take the same tack as the guy who filmed himself asking anti-abortion protesters "If you think abortion should be illegal, than what should the punishment be for women who get abortions". In this case, "You're quite clear on the reasons why you don't support decriminalization of prostitution. If prostitution should be illegal, what in your opinion is the appropriate punishment for women who engage in prostitution?". I suspect that if the authors of the above comme…
/r/MensRights12/12/11 03:20 AM
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Much like Global Thermonuclear War, this is a game whose only winning move is not to play. True, she's free to break her association with anyone she pleases, for any reason. The way she did with you is clearly fishing for a response. The fact that she's so transparently trying to provoke a response from you rather than communicate with you makes it unlikely that she's worth the continued pursuit. Any response at all, even an attempt at something clever which questions why an alpha female needs a…
/r/seduction16/08/11 08:47 PM
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