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| 3 | Congrats, guys: You just confirmed every worst stereotype about MRAs and set back the Men's Rights movement by several years.Thanks for the heads up. It's ridiculous that there's an egalitarian and an egalitarianism, and they're almost the same size. | /r/MensRights | 21/12/13 09:19 AM |
| 3 | Congrats, guys: You just confirmed every worst stereotype about MRAs and set back the Men's Rights movement by several years.Appreciate the input. I'm not saying I didn't see any issue with the form--if it had been purely for the purposes of gathering statistical metadata then surely it wouldn't have needed a name field--but the reaction to it was ultimately far more harmful than helpful. In response to your point about credibility... I would submit that feminism has significantly more historical credibility and mainstream acceptance, mostly by virtue of being around longer, so that incidents like the U. Toronto prote… | /r/MensRights | 21/12/13 09:13 AM |
| 3 | Congrats, guys: You just confirmed every worst stereotype about MRAs and set back the Men's Rights movement by several years.Yes, I'm using internet points because in this case they fucking prove that what you just said is wrong, you dolt. What's more likely: That I'm actually a deep-cover feminist troll operative who participated in this sub for months, making posts and building karma, just so I could eventually turn around and criticize you guys? Or that I have a legitimate interest in Men's Rights, want to see it succeed, and am disgusted by what happened here the other day and the people (like you) who are defendi… | /r/MensRights | 21/12/13 08:45 AM |
| 2 | Congrats, guys: You just confirmed every worst stereotype about MRAs and set back the Men's Rights movement by several years.What the fuck are you talking about? And WHY ARE YOU YELLING? This was not a 'small fault in the voting system.' This was an organized act by members of this group that ended up destroying the credibility of the group at large. If you're ok with what happened, that's of course your right, but then in my opinion you're part of the problem. The moderates (not moderators) need to take back the MRA narrative from the zealots/extremists, and the only way to do that is by having more moderates speak u… | /r/MensRights | 21/12/13 08:35 AM |
| 3 | Congrats, guys: You just confirmed every worst stereotype about MRAs and set back the Men's Rights movement by several years.I clearly showed that I'm not against Mens Rights at all. If that were the case, then how come I've got more karma from submissions to this sub than you do? | /r/MensRights | 21/12/13 08:31 AM |
| 1 | Congrats, guys: You just confirmed every worst stereotype about MRAs and set back the Men's Rights movement by several years./r/egalitarianism maybe? I'm similarly at a loss. | /r/MensRights | 21/12/13 08:27 AM |
| 1 | According to Slate, men are supposed to cross the street to stay at least half a block away from women at night so they won't be afraid. Imagine the shitstorm if this advice were directed at men of color.An advice column exists to give advice not just to the reader submitting the question, but also presumably to the readers who might find themselves in a similar circumstance. Many readers submit questions, but only the questions most interesting and relevant to the audience get a published response. She absolutely is telling other people, besides the guy asking the question, what she thinks they should do. | /r/MensRights | 30/10/13 03:20 AM |
| 2 | According to Slate, men are supposed to cross the street to stay at least half a block away from women at night so they won't be afraid. Imagine the shitstorm if this advice were directed at men of color.I'm not advocating against vigilance, and I'm not advocating against men giving lone women a wide berth or otherwise signaling their non-threat status at night on a lonely city street. I just think the idea that men should be crossing the street out of consideration for women's fears is a bridge too far, and actually makes things worse in the long run because then it trains women that any man within a half-block must be intent on harming them, and trains men that all women are delicate waifs who… | /r/MensRights | 29/10/13 01:44 AM |
| 8 | According to Slate, men are supposed to cross the street to stay at least half a block away from women at night so they won't be afraid. Imagine the shitstorm if this advice were directed at men of color.Your point is valid, but let's try to have a discussion about men's issues without resorting to misogynistic name-calling. | /r/MensRights | 29/10/13 12:17 AM |
| 8 | According to Slate, men are supposed to cross the street to stay at least half a block away from women at night so they won't be afraid. Imagine the shitstorm if this advice were directed at men of color.I see the distinction you're making but I think it's splitting hairs in this case. He asked what he should do in that situation, and she advised him to cross the street. And she did not point out that it's "not something you're supposed to do." She gave the advice and termed it something nice to do. I consider "nice to do"/"should"/"supposed to" as essentially synonymous in this case--distinct, certainly, from "required to." Urban etiquette involves lots of "shoulds" and "nice to's" of varying i… | /r/MensRights | 28/10/13 10:59 PM |
| 11 | According to Slate, men are supposed to cross the street to stay at least half a block away from women at night so they won't be afraid. Imagine the shitstorm if this advice were directed at men of color.Relevant portion: Q. Late Night Sidewalk Etiquette: I'm a young man who works late as a bartender in an urban area. I walk home usually at 2 a.m. I often find myself half a block behind women (either alone or in pairs) going home the same route. How do I act so that they don't fear me as a potential predator? Cross the street? Slow down (looks like stalking) or greet them (equally creepy)? Help! A: There is nothing that gets a woman's sympathetic nervous system on high alert like hearing footfal… | /r/MensRights | 28/10/13 10:38 PM |
| 6 | CheckmateSeriously, can somebody start a 'women taking up too much space' blog too? | /r/MensRights | 15/10/13 12:23 AM |
| 113 | Guys this just happened.. First time I've ever encountered anything like this. Are people really this ignorant? What do I do??It's a neologism meant to apply to people who do not identify as trans* (and while we're on that subject, the asterisk in trans* is designed to be inclusive of various trans- suffixes such as -sexual, -gender, etc.). Trans* activists wanted a word to identify non-trans* people without the value judgments associated with a word like 'normal', since that implies that trans* people are abnormal. So somebody came up with the cis- prefix to denote non-trans* folks. The 'trans' prefix comes from Latin… | /r/MensRights | 06/10/13 09:50 AM |
| 3 | Women assaulting men has been on the rise in my city. I don't know how these guys don't put an end to it.Reminds me of this. This style of female on male abuse seems to be somewhat culturally specific. I honestly can't imagine seeing anything like this in the US. You certainly might see a woman berating her man in public, but generally she'll be more physically aggressive and loud, while the man will keep asking her to calm down. These HK girls seem to have a more insistent, whiny style of verbal abuse. | /r/MensRights | 06/10/13 06:36 AM |
| 154 | Guys this just happened.. First time I've ever encountered anything like this. Are people really this ignorant? What do I do??I'm pretty sure anyone who uses the term 'cis males' outside of a discussion of trans* issues is guaranteed to be insufferable. | /r/MensRights | 06/10/13 06:23 AM |
| 0 | Divorce? Okay, but you are still paying for her fertility treatments to reproduce with another guy! Beyond satire...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAmeW8bq08k | /r/MensRights | 07/09/13 06:08 PM |
| 5 | Women selling positive pregnancy tests for other women to scam men with. Awesome.I was raised in a feminist household. I was taught, and have always believed, that men and women are equal and deserve equal treatment under the law, equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, etc. (That's not to say that men and women aren't different in some very important and inescapable ways.) By definition, that makes me a 'feminist,' at least in the second-wave sense of the word. But the most currently popular (or at least vocal) strains of feminism seem to want way more than that. You… | /r/MensRights | 30/08/13 10:00 AM |
| 8 | Women selling positive pregnancy tests for other women to scam men with. Awesome.You have a point, but you chose a terrible example with which to make it; there is absolutely no justification for attempting to entrap someone else through deception as these pregnancy tests are presumably being used for. What you basically said is, "Yes, it's bad, but keep in mind..." when there is no reasonable 'but' on that statement. It's bad, and they shouldn't do it. You seem to be arguing that feminism would obviate the need to entrap men in this way, and so therefore we should become fe… | /r/MensRights | 30/08/13 01:40 AM |
| 34 | Women selling positive pregnancy tests for other women to scam men with. Awesome.Yeah, regardless of the quality of the relationship, there's no valid reason for a man not to do this. If you love each other and everything's great, you go with her to the doctor because you love her and you're excited and want to be supportive. If you hate her and everything's terrible, you go with her to the doctor because you don't trust the home pregnancy test. Everything in between... you go with her to the doctor. | /r/MensRights | 30/08/13 01:28 AM |
| 3 | 2/3 of women who offer to split the check on dates want the man to reject the offer. And almost half of women don't even offer in the first place.Apparently this makes us bad and/or evil people. | /r/MensRights | 22/08/13 05:15 PM |
| 2 | 2/3 of women who offer to split the check on dates want the man to reject the offer. And almost half of women don't even offer in the first place."If she's willing and you're willing it's optimal to split." The whole point of this original post is that 5 out of 6 women aren't genuinely willing to split. Almost half don't even offer, and of the half that offer, 2/3 are being insincere. Unless you have some way of identifying beforehand the 1/6 of women who genuinely, honestly want to split the check and won't hold it against you, then I'm just going to assume that the woman I'm on a date with wants me to pay. And that means it's a prisoner… | /r/MensRights | 22/08/13 06:18 AM |
| 4 | 2/3 of women who offer to split the check on dates want the man to reject the offer. And almost half of women don't even offer in the first place.I could do without the condescension and sarcasm, but I'm going to explain my thought process re: the prisoner's dilemma analogy: Imagine 2 single men (A&B, who know each other) have dates scheduled with 2 single women (C&D, who know each other). These are the only eligible singles in their age range in town. The men would rather not have to pay for the women on the dates, and the women would rather have the men pay for them. If man A 'defects' by paying for C on their date, then C is much more … | /r/MensRights | 22/08/13 05:48 AM |
| 14 | 2/3 of women who offer to split the check on dates want the man to reject the offer. And almost half of women don't even offer in the first place."Pussy is all you really care about?" Uh, no. Never said that. Most men and women in our society believe men should pay for dates. You and I happen to disagree with that, but that doesn't mean we're good people and they're bad people. Are you familiar with the prisoner's dilemma? I'm just saying I'd rather not significantly reduce my dating prospects by disqualifying the 80% of women who don't want to pay on a first date. | /r/MensRights | 22/08/13 02:08 AM |
| 11 | 2/3 of women who offer to split the check on dates want the man to reject the offer. And almost half of women don't even offer in the first place.Prisoner's dilemma. I'd much rather we all lived in an equality utopia, but I'd also like to get laid once in a while. | /r/MensRights | 22/08/13 12:17 AM |
| 6 | 2/3 of women who offer to split the check on dates want the man to reject the offer. And almost half of women don't even offer in the first place.Yeah I'm actually always happy to pay on a first date, though I would like to see her offer. If she's not at least reaching for her purse by date #2, that's a red flag. | /r/MensRights | 21/08/13 09:54 PM |
| 9 | 2/3 of women who offer to split the check on dates want the man to reject the offer. And almost half of women don't even offer in the first place.To be clear, I think there are a lot of other, more pressing issues society 'needs to get to answering." For me, this is more of an "I fucking knew it!" moment. I was raised in a feminist household, and when I was a kid I was taught stuff like men and women should split the check. Then I grew up, and at some point in my 20s realized that expecting that kind of attitude from women is social suicide. I find it especially interesting that the author's mother, who presumably came of age in the 1960s… | /r/MensRights | 21/08/13 09:22 PM |
| 20 | 2/3 of women who offer to split the check on dates want the man to reject the offer. And almost half of women don't even offer in the first place.Slate's headline teaser is "39 Percent of Women Say They Don't Mean It When They Offer to Pay on a Date" but it's actually significantly worse than that. The real kicker is that two-thirds of the women who offer to pay are doing so insincerely. The link to the actual study's press release is here. I'm basing my '2/3' number on the following: "Over half (57 percent) of women claim they offer to help pay, but many women (39 percent) confessed they hope men would reject their offers to pay, and 44 … | /r/MensRights | 21/08/13 09:09 PM |
| 1 | "Male feminist" and admitted hypocrite Hugo Schwyzer opens up about Twitter meltdownhttp://btr.michaelkwan.com/2011/01/14/grammar-101-queue-vs-cue/ Interesting. I thought you were using the term imported from stage jargon, as in "Cue the music," or the wonderful line in The Truman Show, "Cue the sun." As in, 'A' just happened, and now the next thing to happen should be 'B'. If you want to tell someone to do something next, "cue" is more appropriate. | /r/MensRights | 14/08/13 04:44 AM |
| 1 | "Male feminist" and admitted hypocrite Hugo Schwyzer opens up about Twitter meltdownWhat do you mean by "it can be used in both senses"? My understanding is that "queue" is another word for lining up/standing in line, or the line itself, while "cue" means something that spurs another action, as in a stage cue, the cue ball, cue cards, or to cue something to do something. | /r/MensRights | 14/08/13 02:39 AM |
| 1 | "Male feminist" and admitted hypocrite Hugo Schwyzer opens up about Twitter meltdown(FYI that's the other 'cue.') | /r/MensRights | 14/08/13 02:16 AM |
| 16 | "Male feminist" and admitted hypocrite Hugo Schwyzer opens up about Twitter meltdownMy favorite part of the interview: Was your work designed to please a certain school of feminism but never a realistic model for men? Well, yes. I think primarily I wrote for women. I designed my writing primarily for women. One of the things that I figured out is the best way to get attention from women was not to describe women’s own experience to them because they found that patronizing and offensive. Instead it was to appear to challenge other men, to turn other men into the kind of boyfrien… | /r/MensRights | 13/08/13 05:41 PM |
| 5 | Yeah! Because death sentence is the solution!Louis CK has an excruciating, hilarious bit about child molestation that makes exactly that point. If you have Netflix, it's the opening of "Dentist/Tarese", season 1/episode 10. | /r/MensRights | 17/07/13 03:18 PM |
| 1 | Let’s talk about those rape postersYeah I really only have a problem with the tagline. Otherwise, whatever--they're not talking to me, because I already know what rape is, and that it's wrong, because I'm not a scumbag. The tagline is what turns it into, "Hey, you're a guy so this is meant for you because we can't trust you to not be a rapist." More importantly, I'd really, really like to see the study that came up with the "48% of men aged 18-25 didn't know that sex without consent is rape" statistic that the makers of the "Don'… | /r/MensRights | 14/07/13 03:25 PM |
| 18 | "The Hunt"--about a male teacher falsely accused of a sex crime--opens today in the US and is tracking 92% fresh on Rotten TomatoesI suspect very limited. I know it's in NY and LA right now, but if it does well they could expand it. Might be on video-on-demand soon as well. That seems to be the standard operating procedure for art-house and foreign features these days. | /r/MensRights | 12/07/13 01:23 PM |
| 1 | Huffpost doesn't like sexy music videos."They're not going to release the album because they've decided the cover is sexist." "Well, so what, what's wrong with being sexy?" "Sex-ist." | /r/MensRights | 07/07/13 12:09 AM |
| 1 | "Feminists" are accusing Microsoft for making a "rape" joke on their E3 presentation, when there isn't one."You people aren't competitors. You don't even have the will to win, and because of this, you fear those of us that do." What the fuck are you talking about? | /r/MensRights | 11/06/13 07:01 PM |
| 0 | "Feminists" are accusing Microsoft for making a "rape" joke on their E3 presentation, when there isn't one.It's not about "refusing to accept" something. I know what you're saying he meant. I disagree. Have you in any way acknowledged the three separate instances that directly connect the phrase with rape that I found after literally 5 seconds of Google-ing? Explain to me how those aren't relevant. | /r/MensRights | 11/06/13 07:01 PM |
| 0 | "Feminists" are accusing Microsoft for making a "rape" joke on their E3 presentation, when there isn't one.Dude I just showed you three separate sources that connect the phrase "just let it happen" and rape. I don't know what else you want. And for the record, I think rape jokes can be hilarious when done right. But I also recognize when they're tasteless, as this one was. | /r/MensRights | 11/06/13 02:06 PM |
| -12 | "Feminists" are accusing Microsoft for making a "rape" joke on their E3 presentation, when there isn't one.Yahoo Answers (from 2010): http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101030130333AAU7TYZ Urban Dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=just%20let%20it%20happen "Rape Sloth": http://memegenerator.net/instance/28576559 C'mon guys, let's call a spade a spade. It was a rape joke. Pretending otherwise is just willful ignorance. | /r/MensRights | 11/06/13 01:30 AM |
| 2 | My boyfriend and I were fooling around consensually, and he came in his pants (seven years ago). I won't call the cops, but I want him to apologize.Thanks yeah I found that claim difficult to believe so I followed the links to the actual letter. Nowhere does she say the logo is "pro-rape" or anything like that; she's just drawing a (somewhat tenuous) comparison between the values the administration apparently holds most dearly and the values communicated non-verbally by the logo. It's dumb, but it's not nearly as face-meltingly dumb as what they're claiming she said. | /r/MensRights | 24/05/13 08:36 AM |
| 6 | This showed up on my Facebook news feed. Presents rape as a solely female issue.Oh, Jesus. That's not even remotely implied by the wording, either intentionally or unintentionally. Both men and women are raped every day, just like saying "people die in car accidents every day." This picture happens to be about the rape of women, so it's not talking about male rape, but you're clearly just looking for things to be offended by with your comment. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/12 11:40 AM |
| 3 | This showed up on my Facebook news feed. Presents rape as a solely female issue.No, it doesn't. It presents an analogy for the kind of questions that women who are raped often face. Nowhere does it say male rape isn't an issue. Correct me if I'm wrong, but male-on-male rape tends to be much more likely to be "forcible" rape, which is not what this dialogue is about, so that's not the focus. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/12 11:36 AM |
| 1 | So, this isn't rape... how, exactly?I'm right there with you... only just started reading this subreddit a few days ago and I'm still trying to determine that. | /r/MensRights | 28/07/12 05:38 AM |
| 2 | So, this isn't rape... how, exactly?Yeah me too. Alison Brie seems like an annoying art school weirdo who happens to have amazing breasts, but trying to pretend like this is some kind of sexual assault is just silly. | /r/MensRights | 28/07/12 04:16 AM |
| 131 | Never Forget: Twenty Years In Prison For Having Sex With His WifeThis is a fucked up story, but the submission headline is all wrong. He isn't in prison because he had sex with his wife. He's in prison because his wife is a liar, and he got screwed by the justice system. Spousal rape exists, and this headline implies that "having sex with his wife" couldn't possibly constitute a crime. That's wrong. | /r/MensRights | 28/07/12 04:12 AM |
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