boozooboo Archive

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1	Saw this on /r/TrollXchromosones and it just doesn't make sense that some women actually believe they have such little freedom here in the U.S. and it's the opposite for men. Sorry you're offended by the word "conspiracy". I didn't mean anything by it. I meant the word conspiracy in the sense of "people conspiring together". I interpreted what you said as the funding for men being lower because of a willful act rather than just something incidental. Sorry if I misunderstood. It was an honest question. Almost all the healthcare spending I see on women is in relation to their reproductive health. Prostate cancer is the second most well funded per death cancer and there…	/r/MensRights	01/07/13 05:56 PM
1	Saw this on /r/TrollXchromosones and it just doesn't make sense that some women actually believe they have such little freedom here in the U.S. and it's the opposite for men. I think gendered conscription is wrong as well. I don't see what it has to do with women dying from pregnancy. This isn't a game of tit for tat. I'm curious. What's the evidence of a conspiracy to prioritize women's health care outside of pregnancy?	/r/MensRights	01/07/13 04:58 PM
1	How to Get More Women (and Men) to Call Themselves Feminists - Christina Hoff Sommers Thank you for those references. Do you have the authors and the dates at which they were written? After doing some reading over the weekend, most definitions of patriarchy agree with the version I quoted. At the very least, it appears that there's some disagreement in feminism over this.	/r/MensRights	01/07/13 04:08 PM
1	Saw this on /r/TrollXchromosones and it just doesn't make sense that some women actually believe they have such little freedom here in the U.S. and it's the opposite for men. The theories of conspiracy are because it's feminists and also most women think that men don't understand what it's like to be pregnant. Pregnancy can lead to life-threatening complications. It's less likely now than in times past, but the potential is always there. I don't understand what banning potential life-saving abortions has to do with conscription and the subsidization of female healthcare. They seem to be separate issues to me.	/r/MensRights	01/07/13 03:49 PM
1	How to Get More Women (and Men) to Call Themselves Feminists - Christina Hoff Sommers Sorry went away for the weekend. Just because men deal with shit doesn't mean that women don't deal with shit as well. This isn't a competition to be "won". Fixing the problems faced by men without tackling the problems still faced by women will result in a reverse of today's situation. The MRM may not be a 'mirror' of feminism, but someone who as a rule thinks that women are weaker and lazier is.	/r/MensRights	01/07/13 03:38 PM
1	How to Get More Women (and Men) to Call Themselves Feminists - Christina Hoff Sommers Why should I? :) The Feminism 101 blog is supposedly a primer on feminist theory. Besides, it's said by feminists all the time- "patriarchy harms men as well". This statement wouldn't make sense if patriarchy was viewed by them as a privilege of all men. Although I will gladly recant if you can provide me with 10 feminist sources, written by feminists themselves within the last 10 - 15 years, that say otherwise. :)	/r/MensRights	27/06/13 09:20 PM
11	Saw this on /r/TrollXchromosones and it just doesn't make sense that some women actually believe they have such little freedom here in the U.S. and it's the opposite for men. Right, it isn't banned in the US and most of the Western world. I was just explaining why feminists act like politicians who try to ban abortion are trying to physically harm them. It comes from their fear of pregnancy and childbirth complications. And I too feel that women should be allowed abortions. Hopefully some day we can save the young fetus as well.	/r/MensRights	27/06/13 09:11 PM
1	How to Get More Women (and Men) to Call Themselves Feminists - Christina Hoff Sommers I agree that gender politics are poisonous, and hopefully they will go away some day. Certainly that time isn't now. Men are treated poorly in some ways. Women are treated poorly in other ways. We need to do something about the way both sexes are depicted in the media. I agree with Sommers that feminism still has some work to do. I hope feminism can change. If it cannot, then equality between the genders will always be a pipe dream.	/r/MensRights	27/06/13 09:02 PM
1	How to Get More Women (and Men) to Call Themselves Feminists - Christina Hoff Sommers Feminists actually do define "patriarchy" as "power is currently concentrated the the hands of certain men". From the Feminism 101 blog (as I've seen it quoted by feminists and seems respected by them); "Not all men are Patriarchs. A Patriarch is a man who has special power and influence over not just his family but also in society, due to privileges gathered through intersections of age, wealth, achievement, lineage, patronage and the exploitation of others. Men do not generally conspire with P…	/r/MensRights	27/06/13 05:07 PM
29	Saw this on /r/TrollXchromosones and it just doesn't make sense that some women actually believe they have such little freedom here in the U.S. and it's the opposite for men. Women think fetuses have more rights then them when abortion is banned because carrying a pregnancy to term can be life threatening. Even a healthy pregnancy.	/r/MensRights	27/06/13 04:34 PM
2	How to Get More Women (and Men) to Call Themselves Feminists - Christina Hoff Sommers Interesting arguments. I agree second wave feminism is inherently anti-male, however I believe that feminism could change. Feminism has changed radically in the past. For example, first wave feminists were frequently anti-abortion. Second wave feminists changed that. Third wave feminists have rejected some of the extreme arguments against sex made by second wave feminists. Why couldn't there be a fourth wave, a "freedom feminist movement", to reverse the anti-male bias of the second? How could t…	/r/MensRights	27/06/13 04:08 PM
2	How to Get More Women (and Men) to Call Themselves Feminists - Christina Hoff Sommers Unfortunately most feminists buy the hype that the MRM is made up completely of misogynists that want to turn back the clock on women's rights. I believe that most feminists are sincere, but completely misguided, when they lament that "feminism cares about men". The problem with telling them otherwise is that humans tend to be reflexively blind to the excesses of any movement that they align closely with. Democrats mostly care about the wrongs made by Republicans, Republicans mostly care about t…	/r/MensRights	27/06/13 03:50 PM
4	How to Get More Women (and Men) to Call Themselves Feminists - Christina Hoff Sommers While I agree that "patriarchy theory" is usually sexist in it's implementation, I don't think that it's sexist by its mere existence. The definition of "patriarchy" is a system in which power concentrates in the hands of certain men. So, at it's very core, "patriarchy" is more of an observation of reality rather than a value judgement. The problem with patriarchy theory as it relates to feminism is that feminists jump from making value judgements about the patriarchy ("One gender holding most t…	/r/MensRights	27/06/13 03:39 PM
3	How to Get More Women (and Men) to Call Themselves Feminists - Christina Hoff Sommers How so?	/r/MensRights	27/06/13 01:40 PM
4	How to Get More Women (and Men) to Call Themselves Feminists - Christina Hoff Sommers That's my point. The MRM movement is not -inherently- anti-female because it focuses on men. Feminism is not -inherently- anti-male because it focuses on women. It's much more important to focus on specific areas of feminism that we have issue with rather than simply displaying a knee-jerk reaction whenever we hear the word "feminist".	/r/MensRights	27/06/13 01:29 PM
4	How to Get More Women (and Men) to Call Themselves Feminists - Christina Hoff Sommers So if the MRM focuses on the rights of men does it 'other' women and practice misogyny? Feminism has its problems with its attitudes towards men. However it is not -inherently- anti-male.	/r/MensRights	27/06/13 01:09 PM
1	In which merely introducing yourself enforces rape culture and demeans women all over. "You are a threat, remember? You are Schrödinger’s Rapist." To be fair I don't see anywhere where the post actually explicitly says that 50% of men are rapists. (Or really, that any % of men greater than 0% of men are rapists). This post seems to be basically stating that it's unknown whether or not a man is a rapist until a women gets to know him. This seems to be pretty basic stuff. After all, trust is earned over time. We don't marry a girl until after we date her, right? ;)	/r/MensRights	25/06/13 06:10 AM
1	I am a divorce lawyer, AMA For some people its easier to get married rather than deal with all the paperwork setting up inheritances for the partner and the like. Plus, it benefits some, but not all, couples on their taxes. Namely spouses with a stay at home partner. :)	/r/MensRights	25/06/13 04:54 AM
1	I am a divorce lawyer, AMA I think it depends on whether the couple was planning marriage to begin with. Marriages where the couple starts out aimlessly cohabiting but then drifts into marriage out of convenience, inertia, or because one partner puts his/her foot down tend to end poorly.	/r/MensRights	25/06/13 04:37 AM