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| Upvotes | Comment on | Subreddit | Date (UTC) |
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| 1 | This really resonated with meThank you! I was beginning to feel like I was taking crazy pills. | /r/MensRights | 19/03/16 03:17 AM |
| 1 | This really resonated with meYou need to move on, bro. | /r/MensRights | 08/03/16 11:42 PM |
| 0 | This really resonated with meOh I see. You're a troll. My apologies, I didn't realize. Carry on. | /r/MensRights | 07/03/16 04:17 PM |
| 1 | This really resonated with meIt is, and yet, the anthropological term has nothing to do with a preferred gender. If we're going to keep employing this term, then you're going to have to define it more clearly. Preferred in what sense? Preferred in the sense that they are overwhelmingly more likely to be elected and appointed to positions of power? Or in the sense that they will be the first allowed off a sinking ship? Preferred in the sense that they are often referred to as the "fairer sex"? Or in the sense that they are o… | /r/MensRights | 07/03/16 04:11 PM |
| 0 | This really resonated with meYou have become combative and incoherent. You are responding to my arguments with straw men, sarcasm, and non sequiturs. You seem to fundamentally misunderstand how logic and science work, and what faith is. I am not going to bother debating you anymore. | /r/MensRights | 07/03/16 03:25 PM |
| 3 | This really resonated with meAnd I think when you say patriarchy, you think it means "a society exclusively or predominantly made up of misogynists that invariably and exclusively victimizes and oppresses women". That's not what it means. A patriarchy is simply a society that traces descent through male lines and in which men are considered the de facto heads of their families and, by extension, tend to dominate the power structures of the society as a whole. It is entirely possible for such a society to yield double-standa… | /r/MensRights | 07/03/16 03:06 PM |
| 3 | This really resonated with meSince when has it been socially acceptable for the socially preferred gender to be assaulted? That was your claim, not mine. Because the patriarchy has never been proven, yet you are sure it exists. What exactly do you think the patriarchy is? Some mysterious force like the Force? Some intangible entity like a god? Feminists didn't invent the word. It's an anthropological term. The definition is a society in which descent is traced through male lines and in which men are considered to be the de … | /r/MensRights | 07/03/16 03:00 PM |
| 0 | This really resonated with meBut those positions of power answer to women's suffrage. That's why the US government has grown 2000% relative to GDP since women's suffrage. The men and women who vote--and indeed, who run--have all nevertheless been raised in, and conditioned by, a society that is still foundationally patriarchal. Therefore, whether or not they vote, and how they vote, and whether or not they run, and how they run, and how they are perceived when they run, and how they perform once in office, and how they are … | /r/MensRights | 07/03/16 02:47 PM |
| 2 | This really resonated with meMeaning positions of power, not the accumulative power of the vote. Look at how many more men there are and have always been in public office than women. EDIT: Also, did you miss this part? Yes, we elect our leaders, and yes, women now have the right to vote in those elections. But the effects of patriarchy extend beyond written policy. The tropes and traditions of the strict patriarchy that once prohibited women from voting or holding public office will take a longer time to completely die out … | /r/MensRights | 07/03/16 02:18 PM |
| -3 | This really resonated with meWell thought out and mature response. I like you. Likewise! Thank god there's at least one other reasonable person in this sub. But I disagree. I'm afraid I must say "likewise" to this, too. Thanks to the way third wave feminism has appropriated and popularized the term, there now seems to be a misconception among both sides of the debate that "patriarchy" means a society that is invariably and exclusively injurious and oppressive toward women. But that's not what it means. All it means is a soc… | /r/MensRights | 07/03/16 02:15 PM |
| 6 | This really resonated with meIf you read my comment again carefully, you'll see my whole point was that living in a patriarchy carries both advantages and disadvantages for both genders, not just the (as you put it) socially preferred one. The fact that it is socially acceptable for women to hit men is an example of an advantage that it carries for women. Why is it socially acceptable in a patriarchy for women to hit men? Because in a patriarchy, men are considered as adults and women are considered as children. I agree wit… | /r/MensRights | 07/03/16 01:36 PM |
| 7 | This really resonated with meThe definition of patriarchy appears to be different with every feminist and keeps evolving every year. Is there a single feminist out there that actually knows exactly what the patriarchy is? I wasn't offering a definition of patriarchy. I was merely pointing out a misconception about its implications. For the record, the definition is: a society in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line. a system of society or government in which men h… | /r/MensRights | 07/03/16 01:29 PM |
| 2 | This really resonated with meFor my thoughts on the first sentence of your comment, see my response to Lance_lake's comment above. As for the rest, in a strict patriarchy women are denied positions of power and treated as children. From a certain perspective, couldn't being freed of the burdens of power and responsibility and being indulged and protected and provided for the way children are be viewed as benefits? Not only is the claim that in order for a society to qualify as a patriarchy it must be structured in such a wa… | /r/MensRights | 07/03/16 11:52 AM |
| -8 | This really resonated with meWe've come a long way since the days when women weren't allowed to vote, or hold public office, or seek divorce--so no, there are no privileges that are officially granted men that are denied women. But patriarchy is about more than policy. It's about cultural tropes and traditions and deeply ingrained ways of thinking, so deeply ingrained that we consider them intuitive if we consider them at all. Indeed, it's in our very language. To say that because women are now legally allowed to do anythin… | /r/MensRights | 07/03/16 11:38 AM |
| -13 | This really resonated with meHere's the thing most people don't understand about patriarchies: they don't exclusively benefit men, nor are they exclusively to the detriment of women. Being allowed/expected to wield power and accept responsibility comes with certain advantages and certain disadvantages, just as being expected/allowed to forsake power and eschew responsibility comes with certain advantages and certain disadvantages. So yes, we do live in a patriarchy. It would be foolish to deny it. But it would be equally fo… | /r/MensRights | 07/03/16 08:52 AM |
| 1 | Three times the use of the phrase "man up" is decried, and three times it's because it's oppressive towards women.Now that is a damn useful site to know about. Thank you. | /r/MensRights | 28/01/15 05:37 PM |
| 2 | Three times the use of the phrase "man up" is decried, and three times it's because it's oppressive towards women.22? | /r/MensRights | 28/01/15 10:37 AM |
| 12 | Party Heat - Girl in Bikini Resists ArrestYeah, that's the ticket. You've got me all figured out, chief. | /r/PussyPassDenied | 15/10/14 11:40 PM |
| 11 | Party Heat - Girl in Bikini Resists ArrestThe fact that you think of that whiny baby voice as feminine is exactly the problem. | /r/PussyPassDenied | 15/10/14 10:22 PM |
| 1 | Wife has tantrum , husband posts on youtube, now she is divorcing himShe is not a kid. She's an adult, and they MUST KNOW, and HAVE TO KNOW how to behave. Yes, she is, and yes, she must. But so must adult men. And the adult man in this video wasn't acting very commendably, either. What if they have children? They won't. They're getting divorced. | /r/MensRights | 30/07/13 07:22 PM |
| 4 | Wife has tantrum , husband posts on youtube, now she is divorcing himAlright guys, let's be honest. Clearly neither one of them is a stellar person. The woman obviously has severe mental issues (and yes, probably was spoiled by daddy growing up), but the dude was kind of being a douchebag. I mean, he really was egging her on. Chuckling condescendingly at your wife's/girlfriend's hysterical anguish and calling her an eleven-year-old girl, however unreasonable said anguish might be, is not a good way to handle the situation. And then putting the video on the intern… | /r/MensRights | 26/07/13 06:20 PM |
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