claytonkb Archive

Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)
2	The Liberdade: Family man, the missing alternative		claytonkb	/r/MensRights	30/09/14 04:33 AM

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1	Circumcised son, he is now 4, and I feel regret and guilt in my choice. ^^ THIS 1) Stop feeling guilt, guilt can do nothing to change the past OR the future! 2) Don't bring his circumcision up with him. Ever. Especially since you're his Mom. He will be quite enthusiastic about his member and entirely without any idea that anything would have been different. 3) Do express your own opinions on the general subject when he is of an appropriate age and you fee like talking about the topic or it came up. More important than "I don't think parents should circumcise", howev…	/r/MensRights	23/10/14 05:07 PM
3	I hit my boyfriend this morning and it has changed my view on the men's rights movement. This is a courageous confession. It sounds like you two should probably take a cool-down period to reevaluate the relationship. Even his act of restraining you was a legal risk for him. In fact, even if he came nowhere near you, he was at risk because you could have tripped and hurt yourself while raging around. If the neighbors had called the cops, and there's a mark on you, it doesn't matter whether you say you did it to yourself and he's innocent, they are required by law to arrest him in som…	/r/MensRights	01/10/14 07:46 PM
1	The Liberdade: Family man, the missing alternative This is good to hear.	/r/MensRights	01/10/14 06:21 AM
1	Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape In general, being fucked is a receptivity... but it is not the absence of agency, since choosing to receive energy is no less a choice than choosing to give energy. And, of course, a woman can fuck as well as be fucked, but for most women this is the exception to the rule.	/r/MensRights	30/09/14 08:24 AM
-1	Question from a woman about circumcision I'm equally puzzled. I've debated the issue of circumcision here on /r/MensRights and keep running into MRMers who insist that "feminists denouncing only female genital mutilation but not male genital mutilation" is some really horrible thing that we should be all up in arms about. What difference does it make if feminists do not denounce MGM? Lots of people in the world who are not feminist don't denounce MGM because... well, who knows why, they just don't care about the issue or they have much…	/r/MensRights	30/09/14 08:10 AM
1	Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape Don't put words in my mouth - I said nothing about agency. Fucking and being fucked are different, that's what I said and if you'd like to dispute that, I'm happy to have that debate.	/r/MensRights	30/09/14 07:59 AM
2	Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape That's the difference between what feminists want and what MRA's want. Count me skeptical of these kinds of contrived disputes ... divide et impera, said Caesar. There is no necessary reason that one sex or the other has to have "dominance" in defining rape - rape is a crime committed by an aggressor against a victim. Make up a new word for women basically doing the same thing to men and you will make sure that it is never taken as seriously as rape of women by men. But it's not basically the sa…	/r/MensRights	30/09/14 06:11 AM
2	Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape <sigh> - this discussion has been flogged to death... I think that definitions matter, that defining "rape" as "sex lacking consent" is too loose a definition for something as legally momentous as rape. What is sex? What is consent? As far as being "attached" to the legal definition, the point is that at least there is a legal definition, whereas the proponents of redefining rape to include everything under the Sun - whether feminists or MRMers - are implicitly granting the point of the feminist…	/r/MensRights	30/09/14 04:29 AM
2	Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape The law shouldn't be doing this at all. I agree with you, believe it or not, but I generally avoid talking about it because there's no point getting into this kind of discussion as long as we are stuck with the current legal system. There are lots of "objective differences," such as whether an act was performed inside or outdoors, that are never taken into account because they don't matter. Well, as long as we're talking about the very foundations of law, I'll explain my PoV. Law has nothing to …	/r/MensRights	30/09/14 12:31 AM
1	Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape I've already explained there are at least two ways that women can commit rape, as that word traditionally been used. Furthermore, women are absolutely capable of sexual violence and we are beginning to raise awareness to the real magnitude of this shameful problem that society has largely ignored through history. But we don't need to redefine words to begin this discussion and it is my view that it is extremely unwise to allow the redefinition of words, willy-nilly. That is the feminists' game -…	/r/MensRights	29/09/14 09:18 PM
1	Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape Rape is a word that has been around for a very long time. Men and women alike have been victims of rape, throughout history. This is well understood. Men have been the primary perpetrators of rape. This has never been controversial and I think MRM are deeply misguided in choosing to die on this hill. I think that what MRM are really trying to start a discussion on would be better termed sexual violence. Women are absolutely capable of sexual violence. The emotional harm of sexual violence when p…	/r/MensRights	29/09/14 09:04 PM
1	Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape Feminists have already redefined rape and sexual assault, so I'm not sure where the force is behind your argument. Um, that we should roll back the redefinitions and go back to a sane legal system where words have defined meanings, guilt is not presumed on the basis of accusation alone, and so on. Anyway, the current wording of the legal definition of rape is based on the idea that only men rape. When a woman rapes a man, there is unlikely to be penetration because her sex organs aren't designed…	/r/MensRights	29/09/14 08:53 PM
2	Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape I have said nothing about relative importance, except that copping a feel over clothing is definitely a less extreme crime than forcing them to penetrate. As for "emotional impact", this is inherently subjective and, thus, an insoluble dispute. Before the law tries to sort out relative emotional impact of different kinds of actions, those actions have to first be taxonomized on the basis of their objective differences. Thus, penetrative sexual assault is objectively different from non-penetrativ…	/r/MensRights	29/09/14 08:50 PM
2	Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape I'm not smart enough to decide if the two should be treated differently. In general, the reason you want to treat different crimes differently is summed up by David Friedman in the first paragraphs of his wonderful book Law's Order: You live in a state where the most severe criminal punishment is life imprisonment. Someone proposes that since armed robbery is a very serious crime, armed robbers should get a life sentence. A constitutional lawyer asks whether that is consistent with the prohibiti…	/r/MensRights	29/09/14 08:44 PM
2	Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape They are not entering the extents of your body, they are not invading your body, no. Invasion occurs when something is pushed or penetrated inside an orifice - mouth, vagina, anus, etc. I will grant that sexual assault of the form discussed in this article is much more extreme than, say, copping an uninvited feel over top of clothing. I don't know exactly how the criminal code classifies sexual assault but I would imagine that it might be based on whether there was skin contact, genital contact …	/r/MensRights	29/09/14 07:06 PM
-1	Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape Women don't have fingers? They can't use inanimate objects?	/r/MensRights	29/09/14 07:02 PM
-4	Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape The legal definition of rape involves forcible penetration of the victim (however slight) as a necessary element of the crime. I think this is a correct definition and I think that we are doing a disservice to try to remap the word to include random other things that people want to call "rape". I agree that membranous contact with the genitals is an extreme form of sexual assault - imagine a victim that has had forcible oral sex performed on them... this crime could be committed by a male or fem…	/r/MensRights	29/09/14 06:11 PM
-1	Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape Yes, I really do think this. Precision in language is important. Feminists want to loosen the word "rape" to cover all sorts of things that are not rape. Regret = raped is really what they're after. But MRM must be consistent - if rape means rape, then it means rape and not sexual assault. The reason we put penetration of the victim in its own category is precisely that it is literally invasive of the body. Whether the perpetrator uses a penis, fingers, inanimate object or whatever, the violatio…	/r/MensRights	29/09/14 06:01 PM
-6	Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape I think we should classify this crime as sexual assault, not rape. The word "rape" has a very specific meaning that always involves penetration of the victim, whether male or female, however slight. I know it's nit-picking but when it comes to language, it is important to prevent vagueness and conflation of words because confused language is one of the major ways that activists of all stripes push their agenda. In other words, if you're opposed to feminist activism against men's rights, you shou…	/r/MensRights	29/09/14 04:06 PM
1	Male Circumcision IS comparable and equitable to female circumcision. Sure, I can agree with you that providing information to people with a casual view of MGM is a good idea. Just show one of these people a video clip of a real live circumcision being performed (it is still commonly performed without anesthetics, even in the developed world)... if they can get through that without flinching, then they need to have their head examined.	/r/MensRights	28/09/14 08:02 AM
0	Male Circumcision IS comparable and equitable to female circumcision. No need to start swearing - We can agree with the feminists that there ought to be laws in every country banning "genital mutilation", period, and that any surgical operation (cutting of human flesh, in any context) must be held to the same standards as any other. In fact, I think the medical route is the most promising - let's just submit "circumcision" - that is, MGM - to the same medical standards as any other procedure. You can't just have your kid's little toe take off as a "preventive meas…	/r/MensRights	28/09/14 12:39 AM
2	‘Date Rape’ on Campus – LewRockwell.com Rothbard kicks ass...	/r/MensRights	27/09/14 11:46 PM
1	Male Circumcision IS comparable and equitable to female circumcision. I guess we'll have to disagree, as your approach is the one that is naive, in my estimation. When you allow someone else to set the overall arch of a discussion/debate, you have ceded your point before you've even spoken a word. Feminists who want to make circumcision a gender issue are misguided and their narrative happens to dovetail quite nicely with the agenda of the pro-mutilationists. By treating them as an bona fide opponent, you are lending power to their misguided narrative, rather than…	/r/MensRights	27/09/14 11:41 PM
3	Male Circumcision IS comparable and equitable to female circumcision. IMO, getting into any discussion about which is worse is just ceding the argument from the outset. Then, circumcision is "a minor problem which we'll eventually get around to solving." That is not acceptable. Genital mutilation of children and babies is a crime, plain and simple. If someone wants to say, "yeah, but female genital mutilation is even worse", I don't care. Murder is bad. Saying "but female murder is even worse" isn't going to bother me, as long as you're not denying that murder is …	/r/MensRights	27/09/14 11:36 PM
1	Male Circumcision IS comparable and equitable to female circumcision. I don't know what you're getting so hyperventilated about since I don't disagree with anything you're saying... 0_0	/r/MensRights	27/09/14 09:43 PM
0	Male Circumcision IS comparable and equitable to female circumcision. Therrrrrre you go...	/r/MensRights	27/09/14 09:41 PM
3	Male Circumcision IS comparable and equitable to female circumcision. but Feminists completely ignore, disregard and make fun of male circumcision So, educate them. It's an easy debate to win... I mean, just post a video clip of a circumcision procedure being performed... it's absolutely barbaric. Case closed. and that needs to change. FGM is ALREADY BANNED. Fighting the war against FGM is like fighting against crime in a 3rd world country. There's absolutely nothing Western countries can do to stop FGM, we already have outlawed it in every civilized country. Simp…	/r/MensRights	27/09/14 09:21 PM
2	Male Circumcision IS comparable and equitable to female circumcision. Please, do call them out on the misinformation... my point is that some kinds of errors need to be corrected, while others can be ignored. I do not believe that FGM is worse than MGM... I think they're roughly comparable if one is determined to compare them... but it doesn't even really make sense to compare them, anyway. It's all bad. Nevertheless, I'm not going to argue with a feminist who says FGM is worse than MGM... if that's what he or she thinks, so be it. As long as we both agree they're…	/r/MensRights	27/09/14 09:16 PM
0	Male Circumcision IS comparable and equitable to female circumcision. Actually, non-medical circumcision is banned in some countries. In any case, your response does not alter my point one iota - we do not need to argue which is worse in order to argue that they should both be banned.	/r/MensRights	27/09/14 09:14 PM
13	Male Circumcision IS comparable and equitable to female circumcision. we are forced to provide evidence to the contrary. No, we're not... if a feminist says "Female child abuse is worse than male child abuse", I'm not obligated to try to prove "No, actually, male child abuse is worse". Both are awful! And if someone is so hung up on gender issues that they're going to interpret everything through a gender lens, then there's nothing that you and I can do about that. We just have to transcend it. "Yes, female child abuse is terrible, and even if you think it's worse…	/r/MensRights	27/09/14 05:50 PM
26	Male Circumcision IS comparable and equitable to female circumcision. And the real point is that it doesn't matter which is worse - both are unjustifiable!	/r/MensRights	27/09/14 05:35 PM
6	Male Circumcision IS comparable and equitable to female circumcision. Removing the foreskin of the penis is in no way comparable to the utter mutilation that it is to cut off or otherwise mangle the clitoris and labia. What an extreme thing to say, in no way. Even if you had a point, the phrase "in no way" would invalidate it. Biologists know that the penis and the clitoris are morphologically similar; the male and female have all the "same parts" in that area, they are just arranged and scaled slightly differently. This is why sex-reassignment surgery is possible…	/r/MensRights	27/09/14 05:24 PM
3	Can someone help me with these rape statistics? No, your math here is completely bogus. The first thing that is missing is some kind of error margin. Even if we were measuring the length of a vibrating string with a micrometer in a physics lab, we would need some kind of error margin. How much more when dealing with something as speculative and squishy as unreported rapes. Second, you are not accounting for dependency in your probability calculations - in other words, how many women are raped twice or more? We have no data on this, so this me…	/r/MensRights	27/09/14 07:12 AM
11	Anti-Circumcision is not a men's rights issue, and only furthers to discredit Men's Rights. I fail to see anything discrediting about seeking an end to genital mutilation. Thankfully, we've made progress on this issue in the last couple decades, with rising awareness of clitoral circumcision (female genital mutilation) as well as a better understanding of the many essential functions of the foreskin. You don't have to be a Ph.D. to look at other mammals and see that the penis sheath plays an essential role in protecting the penis and in its reproductive function for vaginal penetration…	/r/MensRights	26/09/14 08:48 PM
1	[Serious] Why are 91% of serial killers male? Fat tails. Seriously. Evolutionary psychologists have tackled this question and the summary is that Nature randomizes males more than females. Females tend to be closer to the average on any measure you care to choose. Males tend to be more widely distributed - their statistics have "fat tails". Thus, there are more male idiots and more males geniuses. There are more male celibates and more male sex maniacs. And so on. Looked at in this light, we can think of serial killing as "being far from th…	/r/MensRights	26/09/14 06:17 PM
1	according to this feminist the hymen is another way men are raping/abusing women Um, no. She said nothing about rape, and what she said about inexperienced men causing tearing of the hymen is true. It doesn't have to happen and it is kind of weird that there is this casual attitude toward genital violence - males have to deal with circumcision and females have to deal with this "cherry popping" nonsense.	/r/MensRights	26/09/14 03:15 AM
0	Man Decides to Become Woman (Trans) Joins MMA, Fights Female Opponent, Gives her Concussion and Broken Eye Socket You're missing the point. The MMA fight promoters don't need to render any judgment at all on Fox's "real" gender. All they have to do is decide whether Fox does or does not qualify to fight in the female category. If they decide she does not qualify - because she went through puberty male and developed male musculature and skeletal structure - as a private organization, that's their call. It's not the place of "society" or government to dictate otherwise.	/r/MensRights	26/09/14 03:12 AM
1	Man Decides to Become Woman (Trans) Joins MMA, Fights Female Opponent, Gives her Concussion and Broken Eye Socket Fox should definitely also be allowed to fight in Women's MMA against other women. That decision should be left to the relevant MMA decision-making bodies. Fighting is not like golf or modeling... there are real legal and medical consequences to who the promoters allow to fight who. As Ronda Rousey has pointed out, Fox went through puberty as a man and there is no "undo button" for the male body structure he has inherited. Fox can call herself whatever gender she likes but when it comes to fight…	/r/MensRights	25/09/14 07:19 PM
2	Man Decides to Become Woman (Trans) Joins MMA, Fights Female Opponent, Gives her Concussion and Broken Eye Socket Ronda Rousey, blunt as ever, says Fox has an unfair advantage.	/r/MensRights	25/09/14 07:15 PM
1	$1.5m payout for US woman punched by police at roadside. Compensation payments to females always seem a lot higher than those paid to males. This seems quite high to me. Men bear the brunt of abuse from police; this is a men's issue Police brutality has always been a problem, but since 9/11 in the US, it's gotten way worse Civil fines and damage awards can do little, if anything, to solve this issue since it is the taxpayers - innocents in the matter - that are forced to pick up the tab Individual officers need to be held criminally liable for their nowadays commonplace acts of assault, battery and even homicide Individual officers should be held civilly liable,…	/r/MensRights	25/09/14 06:34 PM
11	Story: I'm still feeling a little sick by this. I'm a father of two (boy and girl), super clean-cut, normal looking guy... and I still get plenty of dirty/suspicious looks when I'm alone with them. I remember not long ago, if I saw a little baby in the grocery store and bent down to say googoo or whatever, the mom or both parents would beam with pride and be pleased at someone showing their baby attention. Just last year, I went to say googoo to a baby a mother was holding while standing in the checkout line and she literally turned the child…	/r/MensRights	25/09/14 05:04 PM
1	Extreme Domestic Abuse In Public! (Social Experiment) Yes, the phrase "as a rule" means "as a rule, with exceptions" or, as you said it, "in general, but not necessarily." Ronda Rousey would clean my clock, but I would not be scared to get in a fight with 90+% of women. And when I say innate, I do mean innate.	/r/MensRights	25/09/14 04:31 PM
1	Extreme Domestic Abuse In Public! (Social Experiment) I don't think this proves much, but it is unique and definitely interesting. Note how reluctant men are to get involved to defend the girl when she is being abused. In the first few scenarios, several men rise to their feet but do not physically intervene. Only in the last scenario do men intervene. The problem here is that even defensive violence against another man is liable to land a man up in jail. No guy wants to take the risk, even to defend a woman, something which he would be showered wi…	/r/MensRights	25/09/14 04:53 AM
1	What are men’s rights? The "capricious whim of the judicial system" Don't use quotes unless you really mean it. I did not say what you have put in quotes. will just be mirrored by the separate groups you're suggesting replace the judiciary. You're right, I totally missed that they're exactly the same thing ... because therapists, priests, counselors and mediators can throw you in jail for contempt if you ignore what they tell you to do. How silly of me. We also want divorces to succeed because people want divorces. So…	/r/MensRights	25/09/14 02:24 AM
2	What are men’s rights? Are you really arguing that making a branch of the judiciary obsolete would be a positive step forward? As I mention in the About page on the blog, I'm not trumpeting solutions - I'm just not smart enough to know what the right solutions are. In response to your question as to why I am critical of handling family conflict through the law courts, my reasons are given in the blog post and in the About page. Our entire law system is in big trouble, not just family law. Not only does America have th…	/r/MensRights	24/09/14 06:27 PM
2	I think it would be nice to see more in this sub doing more about men's issues, instead of being a huge anti-feminist circle jerk. The "Women Behaving Badly" posts in particular get really fucking old. +1 for that	/r/MensRights	24/09/14 03:49 AM
2	How do we prevent /r/MensRights from being colonized? Seems to me it would be easier and more direct to simply pose as MRAs and peddle extremism in the name of MRA...	/r/MensRights	23/09/14 06:47 AM
1	As a victim of a false accusation from a girl, how do I move forward? Juries don't get it right. I'm not saying they do. But a confession to the principal could very well have just turned into legal evidence against him in an eventual criminal case that could very well have been just filed anyway. There is no law preventing the principal from lying and offering not to report to the police, for the purpose of extracting a confession, and then calling the police. This is one of the oldest tricks in the book.	/r/MensRights	23/09/14 04:26 AM
11	How do we prevent /r/MensRights from being colonized? I'll address point (1) and leave 2 and 3 to the mods. I've been a moderator on other online forums dealing with highly politically-charged subjects long enough to know the basic MO of online infiltration campaigns. There are different levels of intensity, varying from "general noise-injection" to "individual-user targeted intimidation and takedown". From what I have observed on MR so far, I have seen the following tactics used: "Tell us your story of that time you (committed a crime)" - this is …	/r/MensRights	22/09/14 05:48 PM
2	As a victim of a false accusation from a girl, how do I move forward? Confess = get expelled Not Confess = get expelled and the police get involved. First of all, there was no guarantee that the principal would not get the police involved anyway. It is not a crime to lie, especially if you're doing it "for justice". Police investigators use this trick all the time: "Just sign this confession, and we'll make the whole matter go away." It's a blatant lie; the only possible purpose of getting the signed confession is to convict you with it. Second, as has already bee…	/r/MensRights	22/09/14 05:17 PM
2	As a victim of a false accusation from a girl, how do I move forward? I don't blame OP for the confession, I have known other men who had already been the victims of bullying, who behaved in almost exactly the same way, but I could never recommend making a false confession. Agreed - I don't judge OP or anyone else for that matter, but it's still the incorrect choice. It is never the "rational" course of action to falsely confess your own guilt. Never. Look at the college rape situation in the US, if men don't stand their ground when they are falsely accused everyo…	/r/MensRights	22/09/14 05:07 PM
2	As a victim of a false accusation from a girl, how do I move forward? You mean the absence of the rule of law, because that is what modern plea-bargaining really is, the usurpation and subversion of the rule of law. Anyway, I am not incorrect - you must never confess guilt when you are innocent, no matter how terrible the short-term consequences. The long-run consequences of a false-confession are certainly worse. Without a false-confession, there is always a chance, however small, that you can get the matter corrected. With a false-confession, you are doomed. The…	/r/MensRights	22/09/14 04:42 PM
3	As a victim of a false accusation from a girl, how do I move forward? If you do not falsely confess, there is a good chance you can come back later in life and get the matter corrected even if the system goes against you the first time around. I'm not saying this because I believe in The System - I don't, I've been screwed over by it myself. Rather, I'm saying this as a matter of principle. You are incorrect that it was the "rational" thing to do - by confessing, you alienated the most important people in your life, your parents. Had you staunchly maintained your …	/r/MensRights	22/09/14 04:38 PM
10	As a victim of a false accusation from a girl, how do I move forward? Never admit fault when you are innocent. It doesn't matter how high the short-term price... the long-term price of a false-confession is always higher. I would remove all links to her social media and completely forget about the fact she even exists. It can only harm you and cannot possibly help you. You should look into some kind of spiritual practice to rediscover and reinvent yourself based on who you choose to be, rather than what all the other people in your life up to this time have define…	/r/MensRights	22/09/14 05:02 AM
0	They made it an "Us vs them" thing so I have no choice but to reluctantly join the side that doesn't actively hate and demonize me. The Internet - especially reddit - is not a representative cross-section of society. I think it's a mistake to make life choices based on the disjointed responses of radfem keyboard commandos to your questions.	/r/MensRights	20/09/14 07:00 AM
1	The Problem With Male Birth Control coitus interruptus is the least effective form of birth control, the most being abstaining. I never disagreed with this fact. Nevertheless, you are trying to broadbrush all non-PIV sex as "risky", when there is still risk of pregnancy involved with technological birth-control measures. You could conceivably flub up anal sex and some how get some semen in the vagina... but this is just as true with a condom... you could fumble when you take it off and drip something and it could go inside. As you…	/r/MensRights	20/09/14 03:26 AM
1	The Problem With Male Birth Control You didn't; and because it's not 100% effective the fact that non-technological birth-control is also not 100% effective is a red herring.	/r/MensRights	19/09/14 11:17 PM
7	Surely everyone carrying out circumcisions should be registered? No! As the law currently stands, anyone can carry out surgery on a baby boy’s penis without qualification, training or regulation. I'm much happier having this done at a moment in my life ill never remember If banning the circumcision of children (who are not legally capable of consenting to such an elective procedure) resulted in fewer circumcisions, so be it. Why do you think you would have to have been circumcised as an adult if you had not been as a child? There are just bigger issues to worry about than thousands of years of religious history to attempt to take away. About 3,000 years ago, the Ammonites worshiped a god…	/r/MensRights	18/09/14 11:02 PM
5	Surely everyone carrying out circumcisions should be registered? No! As the law currently stands, anyone can carry out surgery on a baby boy’s penis without qualification, training or regulation. I have no problems with penetration because I do the work to make sure my woman is lubricated before I go in. That's irrelevant. I was responding to your assertion that that the foreskin is "unnecessary". Not only does it perform several important functions in protecting the penis and facilitating intercourse, you won't die without it is not a justification for amputating things. You won't die without your pinky finger. But it would be a crime to amputate the pinky finger of a baby. Both pinky f…	/r/MensRights	18/09/14 10:39 PM
3	Surely everyone carrying out circumcisions should be registered? No! As the law currently stands, anyone can carry out surgery on a baby boy’s penis without qualification, training or regulation. I'm 41 and very sensitive and never died of penile cancer or caught an STD or had a penis issue, so it's working for me, Anecdotal evidence. If an unnecessary procedure harms even one person, it is not a medically safe procedure. Even tattooists have to be licensed for goodness sake. Removing a tiny bit of unnecessary foreskin False. It's not a tiny bit, the foreskin is 15 square inches in the average adult male and has tens of thousands of nerve endings. More importantly, the foreskin aids in p…	/r/MensRights	18/09/14 08:11 PM
8	Surely everyone carrying out circumcisions should be registered? No! As the law currently stands, anyone can carry out surgery on a baby boy’s penis without qualification, training or regulation. some diseases are prevented Amputation is an extreme medical procedure that is only justifiable - medically - to stop imminent danger, such as gangrenous infection or to remove necrotic flesh. It is never justifiable as a "preventive measure" like taking Vitamin C. I can't wait for the preventive masectomy malpractice lawsuits to start rolling in. "Hey, there's a chance you might get breast cancer one day... I have an idea, let's chop off your breasts!" and perhaps some sensitivity is lost (beli…	/r/MensRights	18/09/14 06:25 PM
24	Surely everyone carrying out circumcisions should be registered? No! As the law currently stands, anyone can carry out surgery on a baby boy’s penis without qualification, training or regulation. Requiring circumcision to be reviewed by the same medical standards as any surgical procedure would automatically result in its banning. For those to whom circumcision is an important religious ritual, you can perform a symbolic circumcision by marking a red ring around the penis with a blunted knife or, if you're very serious about the necessity of cutting around the penis, it would be far preferable to make a skin-deep incision around the penis that can completely heal, than to cut the foreski…	/r/MensRights	18/09/14 06:14 PM
2	Our radical feminist betters call for killing of 3 billion men I don't understand why the biologists haven't spoken up about the genetic implications of this braindead gibberish of "merging eggs" - if you don't use male sperm, you lose 50% of the genetic diversity in the human race. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out what ratio of parent-child inbreeding would be required to produce the same loss of genetic diversity without eliminating males. This is beyond braindead.	/r/MensRights	18/09/14 08:15 AM
-1	The Problem With Male Birth Control You imply that the risks from technological birth-control are 0%. They are not. Which is lower? That's a difficult thing to really measure, but the point is that you're engaging in the logical fallacy known as "moving the goal-posts" when you point out that there is risk of pregnancy with non-vaginal sex... there is also risk with any sex when using birth-control. Personally, I just think we need a renaissance in anal sex...	/r/MensRights	17/09/14 09:48 PM
-2	The Problem With Male Birth Control Birth control is critical to basic preventive care, The only thing it prevents is pregnancy. All that needs to happen is for seminal fluid to leak inside the vagina. That can happen from manual stimulation, dry humping, and many other things. Please do some research before you reach a sexual mature age. Yet, anal, oral, manual, frottage and any number of other forms of copulation work just fine without pregnancy. Obviously, the semen cannot be allowed to enter the vagina by any means - for examp…	/r/MensRights	17/09/14 09:13 PM
-7	The Problem With Male Birth Control Birth control is nothing to celebrate. I'm coming around to the view that maybe the Catholics had it right all along. People seem to forget that there are plenty of sexual alternatives to PIV ejaculation... these alternatives were used for thousands of years as the most direct form of birth control. The only form of sex that causes pregnancy is PIV ejaculation... everything else is fair game and it's free... no pills, condoms or other contraptions required!	/r/MensRights	17/09/14 05:50 PM
3	Has this ever happened to you? How did you react? The road to hell and all that...	/r/MensRights	14/09/14 05:20 PM
57	I'm a statistician hired by my university. One of my most recent projects was conducting a post graduate survey. In the engineering school, 0% of female graduates in the engineering field were unemplo I am a computer engineer for one of the world's largest tech companies... if you are an engineer that is a woman or equal-opportunity minority (this does not include Asians or East Indians), you basically cannot get fired short of breaking the law or committing a major infraction of corporate policy. Sorry if people don't want to believe this, but it is absolutely true.	/r/MensRights	13/09/14 11:14 PM
3	An online argument given to drop innocent until proven guilty Whether you're more interested in protecting the 2-8% of men who, according to our best statistics, have false rape allegations brought against them The principle of "innocent until proven guilty" is a lot more important than just a single statistic about a single category of crime - a statistic, by the way, which is very wobbly because there is really no reliable way to assess "true" guilt/innocence... just look at the number of death-row inmates released due to the work of the Innocence Projec…	/r/MensRights	13/09/14 10:46 PM
1	Why is there no post on traditionism??? Don't forget that the body of feminist theory has been about discarding traditional ideas of men and women, especially the ideas about the unique power and vitality of men and masculinity. Modernity is selling us these notions that gender is arbitrary, as if gender-bending might one day be a norm. LGBT individuals and other gender-bending individuals will always be a distinct minority... simple arithmetic and biology instantly shows that this is the case. It's one thing to accord them rights, it…	/r/MensRights	13/09/14 06:22 PM
1	Women, stop moaning about childbirth. Men can deal with pain, too Indeed. There is a sizeable group of - let's politely refer to them as "sexually inexperienced" - people who walk around with this hard-on for outrage at any kind of deviation from sexual conformity, where conformal sex is defined very vaguely in terms of some overheated fantasy entertained by sexually inexperienced females of "the way sex oughtta be". Women who are more sexually experienced, and enjoy sex, fully understand that sex is an animal act, in the fullest possible meaning of that phras…	/r/MensRights	13/09/14 06:08 PM
2	Women, stop moaning about childbirth. Men can deal with pain, too Can't be pseudoscience if I'm making no pretense to be doing science. Care to address the specific flaws in my reasoning, or is that beneath you?	/r/MensRights	12/09/14 11:13 PM
1	Ideas for Child Support System Reform Or perhaps it's just irrelevant. An important question about Southern slavery that historians have struggled to answer is this: Why did so many non-slaveowning white Southerners support slavery? The majority of these people did not benefit in any material way from slavery... they worked for a pittance often for the very same people who were slaveowners, often performing grueling manual labor. And one reason that might be argued is that it makes it a lot easier, psychologically, to cope with dise…	/r/MensRights	12/09/14 11:01 PM
1	Ideas for Child Support System Reform make it so spreading the misery has a cost associated with it It might naively seem like this would work. In reality, it never does.... this is just one more reason that history repeats itself again and again...	/r/MensRights	12/09/14 08:26 PM
3	"A man should never hit a woman" -- Why not? Are you familiar with the Non-Aggression Principle? As an adherent of NAP, I hold that no one is ever justified to initiate violence - the initiation of violence is the sine qua non of aggression (crime). Self-defense is, of course, justified, but the question "how much force is justified?" is a complex and difficult question, involving many variables. The overriding principle is that we want people to use the least force necessary in every circumstance to avoid unnecessary, irreversible damage.…	/r/MensRights	12/09/14 07:08 PM
3	"A man should never hit a woman" -- Why not? That's kind of beside the point. We have to first agree on a standard... deviations from the standard may be justified by uncertainty, but without any standard at all, there is nothing by which to make any judgment at all about anyone's response to violence. Scenario: Girlfriend finds out her boyfriend cheated on her, slaps his face. Boyfriend draws firearm and shoots her to death in "self-defense". Even in reverse, I would argue that this is probably not a justifiable response.	/r/MensRights	12/09/14 04:53 PM
6	Women, stop moaning about childbirth. Men can deal with pain, too More importantly, there are many good reasons to believe that childbirth should not be painful, as a rule. Other mammals do not undergo any extreme pain in birth (mostly just effort). The human spine and pelvis are at a unique angle versus other mammals (none of whom usually walk upright), but this is just an excuse for all that pain. Traditional midwifery all around the world has women giving birth in just about any position except the Western "on your back, feet in stirrups" position. Some wom…	/r/MensRights	12/09/14 04:46 PM
1	Ideas for Child Support System Reform Meh. "Spread the misery" strategy never works, either. I think we just need to engage more broadly with the public about this issue. There are a lot of people being crushed by the system... if they were organized, they could definitely begin to move things in the right direction. In other words, the motivation is there, we are just lacking organization.	/r/MensRights	12/09/14 07:20 AM
1	Ideas for Child Support System Reform The State should definitely not be trustee as there is a conflict-of-interest (see my post in response to OP) that nobody ever seems to notice or care about. Support could be split into two components, a rigidly-calculated "pocket support" for expenses that really are too small to be metered by a trust (e.g. buying candy or small toys for the child), and a trust for handling bigger issues, such as education and child-care. This still leaves the problem of deciding the size of the trust... there …	/r/MensRights	12/09/14 03:51 AM
1	Ideas for Child Support System Reform The biggest problem is the implicit claim of the State and the ex-wife to unlimited surveillance of the father's financial situation, including all his assets (in the event the State chooses to seize them), not just his income. In fact, this is the ultimate explanation for the existence of the support machinery... there is a confluence of interests between the State (taxation) and ex-wives (parasitism). Furthermore, the concept of support is actually taken from estate law, where support is actua…	/r/MensRights	12/09/14 03:46 AM
8	"A man should never hit a woman" -- Why not? Annnnd the correct answer is non-aggression - no one should ever initiate violence against anyone else, period. In cases where someone has initiated violence, only as much force can be justified as is needed to cancel the threat.	/r/MensRights	12/09/14 03:30 AM
2	Why does she STAY? Rage-baiting (taboo topic) Go to the police station. This can be even more dangerous, especially given the "it's always the man's fault" mentality prevalent among police these days.	/r/MensRights	10/09/14 10:37 PM
0	Feminist magazine tells men to 'use the buddy system' to avoid raping women. This belongs on /r/nottheonion ...	/r/MensRights	10/09/14 04:44 PM
-1	Am I the only one who thinks /r/TRP is a giant tumor on the Mens' Rights struggle? I'm 50/50 on it. TRP/PUA is primarily attractive to very young and sexually inexperienced men. That's not a putdown, it's just that I think most of TRP/PUA becomes intuitive as you become more experienced in dealing with women at all levels. However, just like we must all grow up at some point, I think that getting stuck in TRP/PUA is not good. We are lacking something deeper than just casual sexual connection. We crave connection on a much simpler and basic level - what we no longer have is gen…	/r/MensRights	04/09/14 07:09 AM
0	What does equality mean? As a radical philosophical anarchist libertarian in the vein of Benjamin Tucker, Henry Thoreau, Voltairine de Cleyre and Murray Rothbard, the obviously correct answer is: every person must be free to do as they choose so long as they do not aggress against the person or property of others (aggress in this def'n means "initiate violence, threat of violence, or fraud). This freedom applies to every human being by virtue of being human. Therefore, it includes males, females and other gender identit…	/r/MensRights	03/09/14 11:26 PM
2	Poll on whether men's rights advocates support gender equality 1) How do you define equality? Equality is essentially legal unbias or, on a more philosophical level, universalizable rules. If it's wrong for X to hit Y, then it must also be wrong for Y to hit X. Note that I'm more concerned with the legal spher than the cultural sphere. People have all kinds of shitty attitudes and the law cannot fix that. But shitty laws will destroy a culture, no matter how moral the people try to be in their attitudes. Thus, it is of primary importance to fix the law and …	/r/MensRights	03/09/14 11:14 PM
2	Poll on whether men's rights advocates support gender equality Yes but I don't support what most feminists mean by the word "equality" - I disagree that they merely mean that "women don't deserve to be confined to the domestic sphere".	/r/MensRights	03/09/14 11:05 PM
3	What does the Men's Rights Movement hope to accomplish? [Honest Question] De-gendering of statutes De-gendering of enforcement of statutes and law Restoration of principle of universalizability in legal reasoning... that is, if a rule is just and binding, then it must be universalizable. The identifying attributes of the person it is applied to should make no difference in its meaning or application... this includes sex, race, sexual behavior or orientation, religious beliefs, and so on. I think this is what most people think of when they think of the word "equality",…	/r/MensRights	03/09/14 07:41 PM
0	Andrea Mears, a woman who sexually assaulted a young man at a beach--tearing his short off, putting her fingers in his mouth, and feeling his nipples--is sentenced merely to PROBATION and no sex offen LOL - I'm laughing at the absurdity of the situation and the immaturity of this woman. Fortunately, no one got hurt and it was more of a "catfight" than anything serious. Nevertheless, the point stands that this is a clear-cut case of double standards. If the assailant had been male, the police and courts would rightly have treated this as a very serious offense - an adult male physically assaulting a minor. Of course, men are more dangerous, so the young man would have been in more serious dang…	/r/MensRights	02/09/14 04:40 AM
3	CollegeHumor mocking the MRM: what's the best way to respond? It's really weak. It's not even a believable strawman. Ignore it.	/r/MensRights	01/09/14 03:18 AM
1	Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines": Too Rape-y? - Nah I have no opinion on any entertainer's personal life. Neither am I censorious about any art... it is a basic human right for anyone to express themselves peacefully in anyway they like. But many artists that are producing mental filth - let me be clear: shit art - are promoted to the top by the record labels for whatever purposes they have. Yes, this includes Thicke and Miley. You and I are talking about this subject right now, instead of things that actually matter. Mission accomplished.	/r/MensRights	01/09/14 12:49 AM
0	I basically wrote this for Facebook and just decided it should go here. Pleas tell me what you think and let me know if there are other arguments I should consider. Your whole approach is wrong. Feminism (Women's Liberation) began as a popular liberal movement, in the same vein as Abolition. In the mid-20th century, it was co-opted by the establishment (cf Gloria Steinem on CIA payroll) for a variety of reasons but the simplest reason is the old standby: class warfare. Turn the sexes on each other, then sit back and laugh all the way to the bank while chomping on a Cuban cigar. By engaging in the "Feminists vs. Men's Rights" narrative, you are playing direc…	/r/MensRights	31/08/14 09:01 AM
1	[false accusations] Taking a picture of your daughters in public? Sex abuser. We need to abolish the useless DHS. This is not 1930's Germany. We don't need government minders. The world is full of nosy little busy-bodies that say stupid shit and just love to ruin someone's day. Ignoring these people is just part of life. Unfortunately, once you slap a gun and DHS badge on them, you can no longer ignore them. That's the real lesson of this story.	/r/MensRights	31/08/14 08:48 AM
6	What do you make of this? It's a private business. If you don't like their policies, go somewhere else.	/r/MensRights	31/08/14 08:42 AM
1	Critical Look At California's "Yes Means Yes" Bill Looks to me like a trial balloon for planned statutory legislation. The wording is amateurish in the extreme. But then, there are many statutes just as bad.	/r/MensRights	31/08/14 08:33 AM
0	Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines": Too Rape-y? - Nah Thicke, Cyrus, Gaga and the rest of the entertainment industry's golden boys and girls are producing mental filth - the rape is in the recording industry's copyright monopoly that grants them a money fountain with which to pick winners and losers so they can impose the kind of entertainment on the public that is useful for them and their cronies. We're debating whether this worthless "music" and watered down soft porno is "rape-y"... and that's its true purpose... to keep you and I talking about…	/r/MensRights	31/08/14 08:25 AM
0	I've had it, need to vent Let's be clear: the sexes are not interchangeable. The masculine principle in nature is initiatory, energetic, proactive. Some women become offensively forward and presumptuous when they are drunk but I think that has more to do with the negative effects of alcohol than with their gender. The assumption underlying feminist attitudes (and some teachings within the PUA community) is that guys just want to get laid, and this is a false assumption. Sex is vastly more enjoyable when there is some kin…	/r/MensRights	31/08/14 08:10 AM
6	Erasing Dad, a documentary currently being censored in Argentina by feminists Wow, they really hit it on the head - "there are large number of professionals who make a living off of family conflict." That is the beginning and end of the whole matter. We need to take family conflict out of the commercial and criminal courts where things like embezzlement, fraud and murder are routinely handled and put it back into the hands of the community, whether religious or secular, where family, elders and other respected experts in family conflict can provide care in these difficult…	/r/MensRights	31/08/14 03:12 AM