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1	"What Will We Concede To Feminism": UPDATE they’re clearly not as disadvantaged as I’ve seen many MRAs claim – bandying about the “over 80% of mothers win custody cases” figure without mentioning that fathers usually just don’t ask. My whole point is that the question of whether or not they asked isn't really probative to the question of disadvantage. I don't ask for blowjobs from total strangers I find attractive. It's not because I don't find the prospect desirable sometimes. It's because I'm pretty sure it isn't going to happen, and t…	/r/MensRights	09/07/13 02:17 AM
1	"What Will We Concede To Feminism": UPDATE First off, I disagree with your assessment that the reaction to a man wearing certain types of flashy earrings that women can wear would be the same as the reaction to a woman wearing simply the wrong color earrings. I think the reaction to a man would be more severe. Second off--well, I hate to repeat myself, but the issue is more vs. less restricted, not restricted vs. wholly unrestricted in any way whatever. Your anecdote does not undermine my original thesis that women have more ways to expr…	/r/MensRights	05/07/13 05:43 PM
1	"What Will We Concede To Feminism": UPDATE Citation? I have some personal knowledge of this from my occupational background. I can even explain one major reason the custody system favors women that isn't related to anti-male bias. That's the "possession is 9/10ths of the law" principle. An attorney will advise a male client inquiring about custody that courts favor awarding custody to whoever the primary caregiver already is. There has to be some good reason for a court to want to break up that established relationship. And because women…	/r/MensRights	05/07/13 07:25 AM
1	"What Will We Concede To Feminism": UPDATE But this isn't the USA, but a forgotten eastern european country. Well, and even if this happened in America, the fact that there are some restrictions on female self-expression does nothing to undermine the proposition that there are fewer restrictions on female expression than on male expression. Certainly women can't expect to parade around in their underwear without social repercussions, for example. But neither can men. And just to illustrate my point: what do you suppose would have happene…	/r/MensRights	05/07/13 06:07 AM
4	"What Will We Concede To Feminism": UPDATE Fathers get custody of their child/ren 50% of the time... when they actually ask for it (they frequently don't, which is why women get custody in the majority of cases). It's case selection. The same reason prosecutors almost always win criminal cases even though they bear a much higher burden of persuasion than defendants. Men don't ask for custody because their attorneys advise them that seeking custody would be a wasted effort. When they do ask for custody, it's because they have exceptionall…	/r/MensRights	04/07/13 03:55 AM
2	"What Will We Concede To Feminism": UPDATE I just cannot agree. Right-wing institutions in America do the same thing, if in different ways. American movement conservatives love to depict themselves as "misunderstood rebel outsiders" fighting against a leftist behemoth they imagine controls government. Conservative Christians ceaselessly cast themselves as victims of "persecution." In a society that's still over 80% Christian! In Tennessee, they claimed with no hint of irony that they were being percecuted because the First Amendment forb…	/r/MensRights	03/07/13 10:23 PM
9	"What Will We Concede To Feminism": UPDATE Unfortunately, there's no scale where we can precisely weigh the value of different social institutions relating to gender equity. But in the United States, at least, it's less than clear in moderate to progressive parts of the country whether various gender inequalities favor men when viewed in the aggregate. 1) Family courts still heavily favor women. And they do so in ways that leave many many fathers feeling officially devalued by the state. 2) Assigned gender roles restrict men more than wo…	/r/MensRights	03/07/13 06:20 PM
2	"What Will We Concede To Feminism": UPDATE They are also the ones most likely to be corrupt on a day to day basis. Agreed. Never mind that American politicians openly practice what amounts to legalized if regulated bribery. That b*tch down at the DMV who gave me attitude when I complained about slow service poses the real threat to government integrity. /end tone of irony used to sarcastically convey contemptuous disagreement here.	/r/MensRights	03/07/13 05:38 PM
3	"What Will We Concede To Feminism": UPDATE Now, is it just left wing organizations concerned only with maintaining power for themselves? Because mysteriously, you've managed to identify only power seekers associated with the left. Are corporations (who collectively wield massively more power than worker unions) and churches (also more powerful than unions) too virtuous for mention?	/r/MensRights	03/07/13 05:31 PM
2	"What Will We Concede To Feminism": UPDATE Marxism has always spoken of capitalism and revolution in global terms. Hence, "workers of the world, unite." In fact, when some crazy guy with an infamous porn mustache talked about "socialism in one country," it created quite a row among the Bolsheviks over whether it was conceptually possible. Globally, the "huge capitalist-government industry" remains alive and well, still undermining the people. In their view, anyway.	/r/MensRights	03/07/13 05:24 PM