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| 1 | Do other men feel dismissed by healthcare providers?Maybe, it's just luck. I guess I was trying to say that it seems possibly gendered. But it could just be that doctors can be dismissive of anyone and how they choose to express that is gendered. (Also it is true that hypochondriacs exist and doctors probably have to find ways to filter them out. But I think there are probably kind ways to do that.) | /r/MensRights | 04/07/26 02:29 PM |
| 2 | Do other men feel dismissed by healthcare providers?I feel that as a man, if I go to the doctor with possibly concerning symptoms that could be serious (but could also be no big deal), I’ll be dismissed and sometimes get a comment implying that I’m wimpy or something. That could be gender related. Men are supposed to be tough and not get concerned unless symptoms are clearly serious. That said, I have heard women complain that doctors dismiss some of their concerns as crazy or irrational. | /r/MensRights | 04/07/26 02:53 AM |
| 3 | Older men don't understand how undesirable they are to younger womenThe Donald Trump example seems poor. I’d agree that it appears that his wife is not attracted to him. However, I also suspect that his personality is unappealing. It seems like he is narcissistic, vindictive, impulsive and not too bright or empathetic. Plenty of women would still find him unattractive if you put his personality into a 30 year old man. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/07/26 11:50 PM |
| 1 | Montreal's shooter - "Incel" ManifestoI don’t think that’s common. But to me an appropriate response in both cases is. Criticize the violence. Figure out ways to prevent further attacks In the background, work on ways to fix injustices. Don’t tie this work too closely to attacks as you don’t want to encourage them. But there should be public efforts to fix injustices, no matter the victims | /r/MensRights | 24/06/26 12:51 PM |
| 11 | "Women and girls."Is that phrase supposed to replace "women and children"? My feeling is that sometimes you need to talk about people of one sex or the other (including both adults and children), and traditionally we've used "females" and "males" for that purpose. For one reason or another, a lot of women now complain about "females", so that leaves people searching for alternatives and "women and girls" seems like the most natural one. (Albeit awkward as it is 3 words when one used to be sufficient) | /r/MensRights | 31/05/26 01:56 PM |
| 8 | Four male students presented a financially stronger business strategy and lost to a feel-good “brand awareness” pitch that made EPS worseI agree with your complaints, but who did the picking? Professors or the class? Or random students? Seems inexcusable that a professor would make that decision, but students might not be very discerning. Also, it’s not too healthy to still be ruminating about a rigged decision 13 years earlier. Hopefully you’ve let it go! | /r/MensRights | 26/05/26 09:15 PM |
| 8 | In Canada, it’s okay for a woman to call for rape (women can be disgusting)Yeah. I think it was a foul thing of Belleau to say, but it seems like her point was more like: residential schools were horrible for many Indigenous children Belleau attended a residential school herself (maybe she was traumatized personally?) Widdowson has been vocal about the claims of buried bodies not being proven Belleau says that she wishes that Widdowson had to go through a set of traumatic experiences like the Indigenous children to understand what it was like. Ultimately it probably so… | /r/MensRights | 19/04/26 01:07 PM |
| 6 | The gender disparity in crime isn’t a conspiracy against menI mean that’s a potentially valid point. My concern though is if the argument is used selectively depending on one’s beliefs. Total respect to someone who argues that not every factor can be controlled for in a study about criminal sentencing and it also applies to differences in pay between men and women. If someone argues that only one or the other has the methodology issue, I’d argue that they are being biased. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/12/25 02:19 AM |
| 3 | How many men are attracted to childrenThanks for coming to my defence. However, even your comment seems to suggest that the cutoff for pedophilia has changed. It hasn’t. 18 is the legal cutoff in some states. But the law isn’t defining pedophilia, it is banning sex with minors. Pedophilia has always been a clinical term, not a legal term. And the definition is that it involves being attracted to children before puberty. Sometimes for convenience, they may use a cutoff age of 13. https://www.msdmanuals.com/professional/psychiatric-di… | /r/MensRights | 20/11/25 08:29 AM |
| 14 | How many men are attracted to childrenVery rare for true pedophiles (attracted to prepubescent children). But a lot of people misuse the word to mean attracted to anyone under 18. Being attracted to a 17 year old at some point in your adult life is extremely common. | /r/MensRights | 20/11/25 05:23 AM |
| 13 | NHL says world junior players acquitted of sex assault ‘ineligible’ to playI don't think this is something to pin on Canada. The Canadian judge ruled pretty heavily in favour of the accused players and against the complainant E.M “I do not find the evidence of E.M. to be either credible or reliable. "Although the slogan ‘believe the victim’ has become popularized of late, it has no place in a criminal trial. To approach a trial with the assumption that the complainant is telling the truth is the equivalent of imposing a presumption of guilt on the person accused of sex… | /r/MensRights | 27/07/25 11:15 PM |
| 4 | NHL says world junior players acquitted of sex assault ‘ineligible’ to playIt's the offseason right now. I'm hoping they are just taking a bit of time to review the case and figure out a way to communicate a terminated suspension to minimize public blowback. The NHLPA has said they will fight for these players right to be signed. | /r/MensRights | 27/07/25 11:09 PM |
| 2 | What event in your childhood/youth made you aware of anti-male discrimination?Honestly, that is something I occasionally see in mixed gender sports. Men not thinking women are good and therefore never passing to them. If a woman works to get open and available 10 plays in a row and never gets the ball, it is very discouraging. It is something worth fixing, but this was a clumsy attempt. Better rule IMO: "Each individual player can only score once." And maybe the best idea is to explain the problem thoroughly and encourage everyone to pass to players who are open. | /r/MensRights | 14/01/25 01:35 PM |
| 0 | Female commentatorsThere’s no reason that women can’t be as good commentators as men. IMO, the women seem to be a little worse right now. But I think that’s largely because the pool of women commentators is smaller and broadcasters sometimes prioritize diversity over competence. But more and more women are trying to be commentators so that may change in 10 or 20 years. | /r/MensRights | 01/09/24 07:36 PM |
| 34 | The frequent claim that lesbians commit the most DV is a lieIt sounds reasonable. I suppose I have to ask: 67% of 43 is 30 so you can see that 30% of lesbians report being abused by women. As the rate for heterosexual women with male perpetrators is 35% you can see that lesbian relationships have lower rates of domestic violence than heterosexual ones. Did you remove the heterosexual women that had been victims of women? I'd assume it would be low, but would be necessary for a fair comparison. I suppose my more general point though would be: If the numbe… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/05/24 01:34 AM |
| 1 | A man was acquitted of molesting a woman on a flight after a judge found the woman's testimony unreliable.That's what I'm saying. There's a reasonable chance he did nothing wrong. There's also a reasonable chance that he more or less did what he was accused of. It's a he says/she says situation and the judge said that he was required to find the accuser's testimony to be unusually compelling in order to convict. The judge did not find it to be unusually compelling and in fact he found a couple of things surprising (eg. not alerting the cabin crew) Obviously in such a case it is important to not conv… | /r/MensRights | 30/04/24 11:33 AM |
| 2 | A man was acquitted of molesting a woman on a flight after a judge found the woman's testimony unreliable.Sure, makes sense. Don't publish the accused's name. | /r/MensRights | 30/04/24 12:57 AM |
| -5 | A man was acquitted of molesting a woman on a flight after a judge found the woman's testimony unreliable.Having read the story, I don't think this was necessarily a false accusation. I've traveled on airplanes and I'm not sure I'd remember the "help" button for cabin crew. Nor does it seem completely impossible for a man to move his hand up from the knee, up the thigh toward the groin. It sounds like a good thing that was he acquitted since it isn't clear beyond a reasonable doubt that he was guilty. But it's also not clear beyond a reasonable doubt that he was innocent. The truth is unclear. There… | /r/MensRights | 29/04/24 11:36 PM |
| 28 | UN study finds almost 90% of men and women are biased against womenIf you accept that people can be biased against men and biased against women (in different ways), then yeah I suppose it is true. Just be aware that I'm pretty sure that you could also select a set of 7 questions that would indicate that 90% of people are biased against men. eg. "Men are more likely to participate in criminal activity than women" or "Men are less likely to be responsible caregivers for children." | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 31/12/23 09:30 PM |
| 3 | Please tell us. CEOs explain why single women in the US own more homes than single men — even though they “still earn less.”Yeah, that's the real reason. Women live longer. There are way more single women senior citizens than men, and older people are more likely to own a home, https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/08/PSDT_08.19.20_dating.relationships-015.png Note that men are much more likely than women to be single in the 18-29 age group. Women are much more likely than men to be single in age 65+ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1036066/homeownership-rate-by-age-usa/ | /r/MensRights | 18/11/23 01:59 AM |
| 5 | Killed a man speeding in residential streets, lied to the police. 2.5 years.I think she was treated leniently due to her sex, but there is also a general feeling that driving sentences resulting in death are too short. This is the most recent example I was thinking of. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/former-raiders-wr-henry-ruggs-iii-sentenced-to-3-10-years-in-prison-stemming-from-fatal-dui-crash/ | /r/MensRights | 18/08/23 12:11 PM |
| 3 | She admits to making up kidnapping story. Tell me again why we must believe all accusers.Look - I agree that intentional lying should result in punishment. It causes serious damage to the wrongfully accused and should be discouraged by law. That said, there is some logic to the resistance. We know that courts make mistakes and innocent people end up in jail. There is some possibility, however small, that someone who makes a good faith accusation will be found guilty of intentionally lying. That possibility may be enough to deter some people of making good faith accusations. (As an e… | /r/MensRights | 25/07/23 07:36 AM |
| 9 | 15 year old boy 'comes close to rape prison sentence' after 12 year old said she was 14, and texted him I want d**k'Fair enough. It's completely possible she knew but was in denial and somehow hoped the whole thing would go away magically. | /r/MensRights | 15/07/23 02:12 PM |
| 8 | 15 year old boy 'comes close to rape prison sentence' after 12 year old said she was 14, and texted him I want d**k'Well she was 12, so she probably had not been having her period for long. | /r/MensRights | 15/07/23 02:03 PM |
| -6 | Kevin Costner's ex-wife rejects $52,000 per month child support offer and demands six-figure monthly payment. It's never enough for modern women, no matter their background or class.I agree the figure seems way too large, however if it is truly about giving the kids a similar lifestyle as they have had in the past, she may have a point. I don't have much sympathy for her, but the children should not find themselves substantially worse off because of the divorce. According to the article, she is not saying that she can't provide a good home/environment for them with that amount. But she is saying that she can't afford to give them the life they are accustomed to. She is argu… | /r/MensRights | 07/07/23 01:10 PM |
| 21 | Prosecutors: Former Bills punter Matt Araiza wasn't present during alleged gang rapeI think that that is a good point. However, Araiza is a pretty bad candidate for that I think. He was basically cut before the start of his 1st year, so he probably doesn't have much money to fund a suit. Plus I suspect that there will be a team signing him now. He has the prospect of a long and lucrative career still ahead of him. I think that if he filed a lawsuit, he'd probably be forever out of the league. Of course, if he doesn't get a job this year a lawsuit makes more sense. But really, t… | /r/MensRights | 09/05/23 03:33 AM |
| 6 | “Study Reveals Queens Were MUCH More Willing To Pursue Violence Than Kings - Domestic Violence Awareness Australia”. Imagine my shock.The paper has 29 of 193 rulers as queens. Not amazing, but large enough. And besides, I don't think the real claim should be that queens start more wars than kings. Simply refuting the idea that queens start fewer wars than kings is sufficient. | /r/MensRights | 08/05/23 01:11 PM |
| 3 | Missing, murdered Indigenous men and boys need to be part of the discussionIt definitely is progress to see this article on a mainstream news site. | /r/MensRights | 19/04/23 09:19 PM |
| 1 | NY Times yesterday: A study finds that 10.76 millions U.S. homes were owned and occupied by single women, while 8.12 million owned by single men. Portrayed as an accomplishment. Feminism, does, not, want, equality. Feminism, is, chauvinism. Female, anti-male chauvinism.OK - why don't you help me understand where you are coming from? The title was festive, "Single Women Own More Homes Than Single Men". Why do you think that is festive? If it said "Single Men Own More Homes Than Single Women" would you also consider that festive? If not, why not? No discussion of the reasons for the gap or calls for action are offered, as would have been done if the sexes in this title were reversed, but, the following: "Here's a look at where the ownership gap is greatest and s… | /r/MensRights | 05/02/23 05:07 PM |
| 1 | NY Times yesterday: A study finds that 10.76 millions U.S. homes were owned and occupied by single women, while 8.12 million owned by single men. Portrayed as an accomplishment. Feminism, does, not, want, equality. Feminism, is, chauvinism. Female, anti-male chauvinism.I agree with most of your points. Equality should mean equality. The wage gap (at least how it is portrayed) is a myth. However, I think you are reading a lot into this article. It seems like a factoid, and I don't really see it as saying "this is an accomplishment". In fact, the sub-title is "A look at where the ownership gap is greatest and smallest across the U.S." can be interpreted as saying the gap is not a good thing. Also I have to give the article a point for saying "pay gap" rather tha… | /r/MensRights | 05/02/23 01:49 PM |
| 1 | Does anyone feel like suicide is called selfish cause of misandry?That makes a lot of sense. That said I always thought part of the reason for it was sort of a disincentive campaign. ie. Most people recognize that life sort of sucks and see suicide as a somewhat appealing option. But we want to encourage people to choose life. So if you know that people will say bad things about you if you kill yourself then you are less likely to do it. The same reasoning might have been the case behind the Church's idea that if you commit suicide you cannot go to Heaven. | /r/MensRights | 22/11/22 05:32 PM |
| 1 | My gender studies course required us to write about the wage gap, and I pointed out that empirically it is complete nonsense. My professor more or less told me I shouldnt use empirical data to determine the wage gap or issues of gender inequalityYou're never going to get a really good mark arguing against the wage gap in a gender studies course. If you want to be contrarian, keep it simple, be even-handed and well-sourced. Make limited claims and back them up. You might still be able to pull off an 80%. As for her comment, I don't think she is quite saying what you think she is saying. I think she is saying that discussing whether the wage gap is "real" is okay to discuss. However, even if you think the wage gap is not interpreted prope… | /r/MensRights | 29/10/22 03:54 PM |
| 2 | The '1 in 17 Men Reproduced' Thing May Be MisleadingAhh, good point! | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/09/22 02:25 PM |
| 32 | The '1 in 17 Men Reproduced' Thing May Be MisleadingPeople don't understand the math behind the original claim. I believe the original research was that for every man that has descendants alive today there were 17 women that have descendants alive today. But just because you don't have descendants alive today doesn't mean that you didn't have any descendants. You could have had two kids, and 3 grandchildren. But if your grandchildren all died as children, then you'd have no living heirs. It's really hard to communicate this idea in a reddit post,… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/09/22 02:48 AM |
| 5 | All women that said "no uterus, no opinion" and are now begging for mens support on abortion can go shove it.I mean, it's not egregiously wrong. Look at the Gallup data. Yes 33% of women identify as pro-life in 2022, but basically over the past 25 years it was in the 40-50% range, hitting 51% in 2019. It's possible that the debate this year has changed some minds towards pro-choice. From a statistical lens though, it seems reasonable to think that the sudden change from 2021-2022 might be statistical noise/sampling error. And if you look at the chart asking if abortion should be always legal/sometimes … | /r/MensRights | 25/06/22 03:14 PM |
| 1 | Did Feminists actually shut down shelters for men?Well my comment was from 7 years ago. Not sure what article I linked. Maybe one of these? https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/privately-run-shelter-for-male-victims-of-domestic-abuse-forced-to-close-its-doors-due-to-lack-of-funding https://nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-male-victims-of-domestic-abuse-continue-to-suffer-in-solitude https://nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-our-male-victimizing-myths-live-on | /r/MensRights | 19/06/22 05:27 PM |
| 1 | Why do people get so upset by the word "female"?It doesn't really make much sense, but I've seen two rationales: Men and women imply humanity, while (in their minds) male and female imply animals. I don't really think this makes sense, but it is true that we don't call dogs or pigs men and women but we do sometimes call them males or females. It falls into the sex/gender thing. Some people say that man and woman refers to gender while male/female refers to biology. So a transwoman would be a woman but not a female. In any case, I don't like t… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/22 05:27 PM |
| 6 | "It is really important for all of us to accept the biological differences in the workplace"My company gives people 10 paid personal emergency days per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 15-25 vacation days. I think that works better. | /r/MensRights | 05/03/22 05:03 PM |
| 4 | For every 100 Ukrainian men forcibly required to stay behind , 0 women will face the same requirement.I'm not wishing anything bad to happen to anyone. I guess I'm just more of a belief than most that sometimes war has to happen, even if you don't want it. If my country was invaded by Putin/Russia, I would want people to defend it - and that means putting people in dangerous situations. I was approaching it from the standpoint that someone has to go into danger, and the leadership should be unbiased in terms of who is sent into danger. | /r/MensRights | 26/02/22 05:15 PM |
| 2 | For every 100 Ukrainian men forcibly required to stay behind , 0 women will face the same requirement.So if your country was invaded, you would not send anybody men or women into danger to defend it? I guess that's fair, but I don't really think that most people would agree with that stance. And yes, obviously the ideal situation is no war at all. But sometimes your enemies don't cooperate. | /r/MensRights | 26/02/22 04:41 PM |
| 15 | For every 100 Ukrainian men forcibly required to stay behind , 0 women will face the same requirement.The reality is that men are used as cannon fodder. I wasn't suggesting that anyone should deliberately choose women to be sacrificed, just be neutral about who to sacrifice. Since you seem to be someone who thinks its ok for men to be cannon fodder but who thinks its not ok for women to be cannon fodder, you make a good example of the propaganda value. Presumably if you see a bunch of male combat deaths you are unfazed. If you see a bunch of female combat deaths you think "This is unacceptable a… | /r/MensRights | 26/02/22 01:22 PM |
| 117 | For every 100 Ukrainian men forcibly required to stay behind , 0 women will face the same requirement.As a matter of fairness, both sexes should be required to fight. While I agree that men will generally be better fighters, I do think having women fight would actually serve a real purpose. Ukraine doesn't have the people or resources to repel a full invasion. Their best shot at success is to win a propaganda battle. And having a lot of female combat deaths could sway opinion. Russians would feel less comfortable with the war. NATO would feel more pressure to support Ukraine. | /r/MensRights | 26/02/22 12:46 AM |
| 3 | Why do you think men are more right wing than women?Money and security. If you are in a more secure situation, conservative policies are better for you as you can look after yourself and benefit from low taxes. If you make less money and are less secure financially, then you benefit from left wing policies and may not have that much money to tax. Married people make more money and they have the security of having another person they can lean on in hard times. Single people make less money. And generally women make less money than men. And while t… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 05/02/22 07:29 PM |
| 2 | I work in consultancy, women wanted to be treated with equal rights and when I do treat them like equals as such they get angry, what should I do?Look, I agree they are being hypocritical. Most people mistakenly think that men always have more rights than women, so if women ask for equal rights they think they are asking for everything to be better (or at least the same) for women. But men are treated worse in many ways, so equal treatment will be bad for women in many situations. That said, I don't really see the point here. You want to communicate effectively. If you are not critical enough, people might ignore your point. If you are to… | /r/MensRights | 29/01/22 02:46 PM |
| 1 | Did Feminists actually shut down shelters for men?Sorry - are you wanting to re-engage on a comment from 6 years ago? You’re obviously never had a conversation with a feminist. False. I highly doubt you’ll find anything to back up the claim that they’re getting them shutdown. I didn't claim that. In fact, I said "I don't know if they actually shut any down." Unfortunately, the article I linked to six years ago seems to have disappeared but I suspect that it provided some support for the claims that I did make. Not 100% sure which article I link… | /r/MensRights | 29/11/21 02:14 AM |
| -2 | My college has a women's weightlifting club and rejected my request to start a men's lifting club.I'd bet 95% of the members would be men. | /r/MensRights | 13/11/21 04:45 PM |
| 1 | Misogyny, racism, gatekeeping and hypocrisy have no place in the men's movementAbsolutely, the MRM should not include racism or misogyny. Good for you to point this out. | /r/MensRights | 10/11/21 04:00 PM |
| 11 | So apparently just because I'm a male I have to pay more for car insurance than a female?Well, the issue with insurance is that the cost to provide the service depends a lot on the client. Take life insurance. Men pay more than women because they tend to die earlier. This is a massive oversimplification, but: Suppose a fair price for life insurance is $10k per year for men and $5k for women. Company X comes along and says "Forget that, we're going to offer all policies at $7.5k for both men and women. No discrimination." What happens? All the men buy their policies with Company X si… | /r/MensRights | 29/10/21 09:43 PM |
| 13 | They're not even trying to hide it anymore: gleeful BBC article "Iceland elects Europe's first female majority parliament"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58698490 I don't really see any problem. The ratio was 52% and it was the first time a European country reached 50% women. 33 out of 63 elected were women. I think it would be quite reasonable for someone to have a hope that 50% of legislators would be women and to celebrate this as a mark of progress. It's unrealistic to have a goal of 50% but to never ever exceed 50%. Yes, it would be a problem if it was 80% women and that was being celebrated as progress.… | /r/MensRights | 26/09/21 01:57 PM |
| 1 | Is it possible that hypergamous selection patterns are at least partly responsible for why so many feminists believe in the patriarchy theory?I guess this is the curse of reddit. I never said that obese women never benefit from female privilege. But suppose an unattractive or old woman only gets 30% of the benefit of female privilege. They might conclude that they would benefit if everyone was truly treated equally. Similarly, a below-average man might only get 30% of the benefit of male privilege. They might also conclude that they would benefit if everyone were truly treated equally. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 12/09/21 01:46 PM |
| 1 | Is it possible that hypergamous selection patterns are at least partly responsible for why so many feminists believe in the patriarchy theory?What you are saying is definitely true. That said, I do think it's fair to say that in some ways it goes the other way too. When men talk about female privilege, very often they are thinking about young, pretty women. I'm sure that obese, unattractive women often think that they benefit very little from being a woman. They might not have people rushing in to protect them from harm. They might not be able to flirt their way out of a traffic ticket. They might not get the shorter prison sentences … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/09/21 05:35 PM |
| 0 | Hygiene argument.Trial and error? | /r/MensRights | 26/06/21 09:28 PM |
| 9 | Hygiene argument.Well, according to the Bible, God made circumcision a key part of his covenant with Abraham. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+17&version=NIV Obviously I don't expect you to believe that story, but it does seem consistent with following the old Testament. | /r/MensRights | 26/06/21 09:20 PM |
| 3 | Q4M: Can you post examples of photos of an average guy?Yeah. A big part of being attractive is not having abnormal facial features. If you average a bunch of people, you remove all such abnormalities and the result is an attractive person. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/05/21 03:43 PM |
| 3 | Q4M: Can you post examples of photos of an average guy?Yeah. Probably about 60% of guys are "average", and in this chart they are mostly in the 4.0 row. (Maybe a few in the 4.5 and 3.5 rows also qualify as average.) | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/05/21 03:41 PM |
| 8 | The Sexual Revolution Was a Complete FailureI don’t think it was about prepubescents. But there were people that thought that age of consent was just another artificial rule. My guess is that a lot of people would have thought that 15 yr olds and adults would be considered completely acceptable by now. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/03/21 02:23 PM |
| 2 | Unattractive nerds should try to hit on intelligent womenWho said anything about demanding? He just has to find someone that either: a) sees him as a 5 or b) is also a 3 that he sees as a 5 | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/03/21 02:49 AM |
| 3 | Unattractive nerds should try to hit on intelligent womenHow high are high standards? Like to me, I think that it's fair if an unattractive person only wants to be with someone they are attracted to. What's the point of being with someone who repulses you? I'd say if an unattractive dude is open to being with 50% of women that's fine. He just needs to get out there, and find someone in that 50% that likes him. Most won't, but a few will. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/03/21 06:45 PM |
| 2 | Unattractive nerds should try to hit on intelligent womenI'm not sure that popular girls is opposite intelligent girls. I'd agree that pursuing intelligent girls is a good strategy though. The main thing is avoiding any women that disdain intellectual pursuits. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/03/21 06:35 PM |
| 1 | People who are using tinder to find dates are idiots. It's a hookup app. Stop using it to "observe female nature".I know that women face social pressure to be "proper". But assuming that a woman really is looking for a hookup with a strange guy, what would be the advantage of lying? If she said she was looking for a hook-up, wouldn't she have more options? And she'd never see the guy again anyways. Or are you saying that she is lying to herself? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/03/21 01:07 AM |
| 2 | A report from Australia shows about 30% of people think “Men and boys are increasingly excluded from measures to improve gender equality”It looks like it is something like 37% for men, 23% for women. Mostly men but there's still a lot of women that feel the same way. | /r/MensRights | 03/03/21 05:54 PM |
| 4 | A report from Australia shows about 30% of people think “Men and boys are increasingly excluded from measures to improve gender equality”They do break down the results by generation. "Gender equality strategies in the workplace do not take men into account” Not a clear trend. Millennials are most likely to agree. “Men and boys are increasingly excluded from measures to improve gender equality” Younger generations more likely to agree. | /r/MensRights | 03/03/21 05:47 PM |
| 11 | A report from Australia shows about 30% of people think “Men and boys are increasingly excluded from measures to improve gender equality”Sounds like they are like the lay people in this study that think that men rejecting benevolent sexism means that the men are misogynists. https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/6958/Yeung_Amy.pdf | /r/MensRights | 03/03/21 05:42 PM |
| 0 | Do you believe that *everything* that people do, is to attract the opposite sex? That opposite-sex attention is the only thing that matters in life?I'm not saying that getting sex is the conscious reason people do this. However, many behaviors are caused by a natural drive to survive and reproduce. And so, all these things have something in the background that relates to reproduction and survival. People also do stuff to support their parents Having a strong social network makes you more attractive. Caring for others makes you more attractive. Helping others when they are in need means others are more likely to help you when you are in need… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/03/21 08:47 PM |
| 3 | Do you believe that *everything* that people do, is to attract the opposite sex? That opposite-sex attention is the only thing that matters in life?I think the idea is generally that due to the way evolution works, people/animals have been selected for eons to replicate and survive. If particular genetics don't tend to lead to survival and replication, they don't tend to propagate. Thus most of our DNA and most of our instinctual impulses we have tend to support survival and reproduction. Obviously, it doesn't apply to everything. Or everyone. We can override our DNA when we make choices. Or in certain cases our DNA is not telling us to sur… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/03/21 05:37 PM |
| 2 | Feminist in a science sub-reddit claims that men are physically bigger and stronger than women because 'of an innate desire to rape' !For the most part they are fantasizing about men they'd like to have sex with on some level. But usually there is some psychological mechanism that makes it less fun to just imagine a consensual scenario. eg. I'm not a slut and it's important that I not act or think like a slut. So how do I imagine having sex with that sexy guy without feeling bad about myself? | /r/MensRights | 25/02/21 11:11 PM |
| 1 | Feminist in a science sub-reddit claims that men are physically bigger and stronger than women because 'of an innate desire to rape' !It's incredibly stupid, but did she suggest how this could be tested? Are rapists bigger and stronger than non-rapists? Do boys that attend feminist "teach men not to rape" sessions end up smaller and weaker than ones that don't? | /r/MensRights | 25/02/21 11:02 PM |
| 3 | 84% of working women told ForbesWoman that staying home to raise children is a financial luxury they aspire to...more than 1 in 3 resent their partner for not earning enough to make that dream a reality.That tends to happen when universities are conducting the test. Not general polling. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/02/21 01:18 PM |
| 11 | Aquaman 2: Amber Heard Firing Confirmed And Her Replacement Is Emilia Clarke - if this is true, it's amazing news.They seem to be some of the most guaranteed money makers though. For whatever reason, it feels like more people are willing to go see a boring and predictable superhero movie than an original movie. Maybe the game will change due to the pandemic. | /r/MensRights | 21/02/21 11:01 PM |
| 7 | Q4M: Would you date a woman who is taller than you?I understand that, and I agree it is not common. My point is that the poster probably wasn't implying that that height/weight/body shape is common. "girl next door" probably means cheerful, kind, low maintenance, down-to-earth, middle class family, appreciates the simple things in life, doesn't need the most expensive fashions, doesn't wear much make-up etc. It's a bit of a hard concept to pin down, but here's a few definitions. None of them mention average looks or body shape. Typically a girl … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/02/21 06:04 PM |
| 30 | Q4M: Would you date a woman who is taller than you?Often people use girl next door to describe personality and wholesomeness. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/02/21 04:33 PM |
| 8 | Q4M: Would you date a woman who is taller than you?I'd date taller women, and I am attracted to taller women. I'd be less likely to initiate anything though, because I'd feel that my chances of success would be small. And I prefer not to be rejected, so I try to choose women where my chances of success are higher. Based on that, I'd encourage any tall women that are actually into shorter dudes to be aggressive in pursuing them. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/02/21 04:29 PM |
| 3 | CMV: Men don't care about women's careers. But class definitely plays a role when it comes to datingI think North American men don't literally care about class. But they do care about things that are highly correlated to class. So, suppose we have a pretty woman with no job or a minimum wage job. If she happens to be well-spoken, well-read, able to mimic upper class social norms, able to have an interesting and intelligent conversation, then she would be able to marry up. She would fit in with a higher social class, even if she wasn't born into it. However, most lower class women cannot (or do… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/02/21 04:18 AM |
| 1 | How sympathetic are men to women’s loneliness?Not really familiar with the subreddit. Who specifically is it mocking? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/02/21 12:18 PM |
| 1 | How sympathetic are men to women’s loneliness?Well, that group is not very kind or empathetic. That said it seems like it is a subreddit designed for mocking women with relationship issues. So you're going to get a very particular group commenting. So where does it come from? My guess is that some people are just sociopaths. Others have been hurt badly and build up walls and mock others to help themselves feel better. It's not very convincing logic, but some people think there is poetic justice in the idea that a picky woman who rejects cou… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/02/21 12:06 AM |
| 1 | It's cognitive dissonance for TRP men to be Pro Life while wanting to engage in casual sex with as many as women as possibleI don’t think that there are a lot of people in the group you describe. That said, if you believe abortion is murder, then that has to be a priority in your belief system. You can want to sleep with many women and choose to limit your children in other ways (condoms, the pill, oral and anal, etc.) | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/02/21 02:34 PM |
| 2 | Tennessee Bill Would Allow Fathers to Veto AbortionsTo me, I think it's obvious that your position on this will follow your opinion on abortions. If you think that a woman's bodily autonomy means that she has an absolute right to terminate a pregnancy, then obviously you can't support this. If you think that a fetus's right to life supersedes a woman's right to bodily autonomy, then this is a step in the right direction even if it doesn't go far enough. Some fetuses will be saved. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/02/21 08:04 PM |
| 3 | What proportion of the self improvement you do is solely for purpose of getting opposite sex attention?I agree that a lot of people lie to themselves and say it is for themselves when it really isn't. However, there are people that have a strong enough self-image that they really are just doing it for themselves. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/01/21 02:22 PM |
| 4 | UK: Stopping men wearing shorts to work but allowing women to wear clothing that stops above the ankle IS sex discrimination, judge rules at tribunalI agree there is something unprofessional about them. But I work at an insurance company. Not sure what is appropriate in a warehouse that has a heating problem and gets too hot. Also, I think there is a grey area where no one will actually send you home or discipline you. But they will make a note of it and it will hurt you as you try to advance. | /r/MensRights | 08/01/21 02:39 AM |
| 25 | UK: Stopping men wearing shorts to work but allowing women to wear clothing that stops above the ankle IS sex discrimination, judge rules at tribunalI think the definition of shorts must be different in the UK. "three-quarter length black cotton trousers" and "ankle grazers" would not normally be called shorts in Canada anyways. | /r/MensRights | 08/01/21 02:14 AM |
| 69 | UK: Stopping men wearing shorts to work but allowing women to wear clothing that stops above the ankle IS sex discrimination, judge rules at tribunalI got the opposite message It is therefore not surprising that the respondent replaced this dress code in 2019 with the standard Boots dress code which allowed employees to wear tailored shorts | /r/MensRights | 08/01/21 02:11 AM |
| 1 | Tx. Woman Who Tied Husband up in Bed and Stabbed Him 193 Times in 2003 Is Released from PrisonI sort of agree. She shouldn't have received a lighter sentence than a man, and her murder was worse than most. However, I don't think there is much point in jailing anyone longer than 16 years. 16 years is long enough to learn a lesson and to deter other people from doing the same thing. The only reason for making it longer is if you think the person has really learned nothing and will do it again. | /r/MensRights | 03/01/21 08:02 PM |
| 1 | The vast majority Girls in their teens and early 20s don’t want and aren’t attracted to men 30+Doubt it. I suppose they assumed I had a normal income for an adult, but I'm definitely not flashy with money. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/01/21 01:08 AM |
| 3 | The vast majority Girls in their teens and early 20s don’t want and aren’t attracted to men 30+I'm not sure how prevalent it is, but it's not always true. In my life, the women that have thrown themselves at me the most are young women (around 20), when I was in my thirties. Now it could be that women who are into older guys feel like they need to be aggressive because they can't count on the older guys to pursue them. Or maybe I look a bit younger than my actual age (disadvantage in my 20s and an advantage in my 30s). That wouldn't fully explain it though. Anyways, the point is that it h… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/01/21 10:17 PM |
| 1 | Wikipedia: Men have a higher retirement age than women in 35 countries. Women have a higher retirement age than men in 0 (zero) countries.Not sure. I'd be interested in knowing. I'd guess two things: Women tend to marry older men, so having women retire earlier means their retirements can coincide better with their husbands. Women traditionally have had more career interruptions and made less money. So they were owed smaller pensions and it wasn't a big deal to give women an earlier retirement benefit | /r/MensRights | 01/01/21 04:23 AM |
| 5 | Society does not and will never care about incels and TRPers "opting-out"I'll agree that those are big assumptions. Some people seem to have a natural drive to make a lot of money. How widespread that drive is would be interesting to measure. Maybe it is rare, maybe it is common. I also think we have different ideas of opting out and the type of people who would opt out. My friends from university got degrees in math/engineering/computer science and are generally capable of earning over $100k income. Most do not have wives or girlfriends. I think a lot of them are qu… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 31/12/20 06:20 PM |
| 13 | Society does not and will never care about incels and TRPers "opting-out"I think you have some valid points, but you are attacking a straw man here. I think the general idea is that: Many men are capable of working hard and earning substantial incomes. However, most men would rather work less or do more fun (but lower-paying) jobs if all they are worried about is themselves. Men are willing to work harder if it means that they can get a girlfriend/wife or support a loving family. Society has made it so the connection between earning more money and achieving a loving … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 31/12/20 05:52 PM |
| 54 | A big fuck you to anyone who thinks a man is an idiot because he is manly.There's lots of possible explanations. It could be true they are ignored because they are women. It could be that they aren't ignored more than anyone else, but they take every brief instance of ignoring as anti-woman sexism. It could be that they are ignored more than others, and they take it as anti-woman, but really it is only one woman (possibly due to their personality). It's hard to take an anecdote and assume it is the first problem. To be honest, I felt the stereotype in school was that … | /r/MensRights | 30/12/20 03:09 AM |
| 3 | No issue with feminism fighting for these stupid things, and no reason for it to look at mens issue.... the problem however, is the fake narrative they have created "WoMeNZ OpPreSSEd" and also redefining gender equality to mean women's issues, instead, of you know, gender equality.I'm not sure exactly what statistic you are looking at. But even if the issue is purely genetic, you could still argue that it means that boys need some more support. | /r/MensRights | 29/12/20 01:39 AM |
| 1 | Men and women can be friends, the only reason you don’t think so is because you aren’t willing to be friends with someone you aren’t sexually attached to.I don't agree that women and men can't be friends. However, I will say that liking a person in a general way is a huge component in both friendship and sexual attraction. And at least for guys the threshold for being sexually attracted to a woman isn't that high. (Depends on the person, but 50% of age-appropriate women might be a decent guess.) So a huge percentage of the women that you like in a general way are women that you'd be sexually attracted to. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/12/20 11:02 PM |
| 1 | Are you willing to happily sacrifice your career in order to support your more successful wife?I would be willing. I don't judge my self-worth on my career. However, I would be concerned that my wife would think less of me because of it. So I'd require some reassurance on that front. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/12/20 03:31 PM |
| 1 | What does it mean for someone to "live life on easy mode"?I'm sure it happens. But I'm pretty sure it happens less for boys/men. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/12/20 02:31 AM |
| 1 | Why do some beautiful women become sex workers instead of marrying a rich provider?Maybe I'm just getting hung up on the word beautiful. I tend to see that as meaning exceptionally pretty. The type that makes you think "she could be a model". Personally, I'd consider over 50% of women to be good enough looking to date. But many fewer would be beautiful. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/11/20 11:53 PM |
| 1 | Why do some beautiful women become sex workers instead of marrying a rich provider?Fair, but what percentage of women are "beautiful"? More than 5% of women are attractive or cute, but beautiful seems rarer than 5% of women. (There may be some confusion on my part because I see the op said "pretty" in the text. I'd say that more than 5% of women are pretty.) | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/11/20 10:01 PM |
| 1 | Why do some beautiful women become sex workers instead of marrying a rich provider?Depends on what you mean by "rich". If you need to have $10 million, then sure. I think there are probably enough "well off" men though (the type that earn $150k plus per year). | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/11/20 09:51 PM |
| 2 | How often do you see a handsome man with an unattractive woman?It's fairly rare. It does happen though. I think the idea is more that it is very common in casual sex. Not so much for LTRs or marriages. I guess some celebrities where the guy looks better might include Hugh Jackman, Keanu Reeves, Clive Owen, Pierce Brosnan, Kurt Warner. Of course, those cases are notable for their unusualness. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 27/11/20 11:01 PM |
| 12 | Unmarried Ontario couple had no children and no house but man must still pay support, appeal court rulesThe point is that there are no clear rules and the courts will use any grey area to declare support is required. | /r/MensRights | 12/11/20 02:06 PM |
| 10 | Unmarried Ontario couple had no children and no house but man must still pay support, appeal court rulesI doubt the court would accept that. Maybe if you spent some time dating someone else during the break. | /r/MensRights | 12/11/20 01:16 PM |
| 5 | The only reasons girls like older guys is for money. Nothing else.It's probably delusional to think that you are getting more physically attractive in your 30 and 40s. However, I will say that the number of young women that have come on to me has only increased as the years go by. There could be any number of reasons for that, maybe money is one of them. I like to think it is more mental maturity, better social skills, things like that. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/10/20 04:19 PM |
| 7 | Unpopular Opinion: Whoever asks the other person out should pay for the date, regardless of genderThat's fair, but if you hold that opinion you should be doing at least half of the asking. Otherwise, it is pretty self-serving. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/09/20 01:14 AM |
| 24 | Do y’all like women?Yeah, given that the "women are wonderful effect" is common to most people, people who treat women and men the same tend to be viewed as misogynists. pdf https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/6958/Yeung_Amy.pdf | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/09/20 04:49 PM |
| 4 | Is it the same group of men who simultaneously look down on women for having casual sex yet also expect sex within the first three dates?I don't think that women should be shamed for high n-counts. And I don't think women should have sex in the first three dates if they don't want to. And it's definitely reprehensible if you have casual sex with a woman and think less of her because of it. However, I do think that many guys do feel like they are special if a woman never has casual sex but they made an exception for the guy in question. I think it's sort of like a guy who has a "go to" super romantic date plan. And to the woman it… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/07/20 03:59 PM |
| 4 | Pregnant women are more likely to die from murder by partner than anything else.Well, given your link says, "Victims are predominantly younger and people of color.", my guess is that it has to do with poverty. Some people are quite poor, barely surviving as it is, and then having to support a child could seem impossibly daunting. Obviously murder is not justified, but perhaps better social programs would help reduce the issue. To investigate this, it would be interesting to compare the rate to wealthy countries in Europe with generous social benefits. From the same article:… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/07/20 04:09 PM |
| 1 | Woman, 22, who had 'sexual contact' with a boy, 14, avoids jail. Can you think of a single case similar to this with the genders reversed?14 is still the age of consent in several countries, so yes men sometimes get away with it. (I think 16 is more appropriate.) | /r/MensRights | 01/07/20 04:58 PM |
| 9 | (A) Female-only scholarships outnumber male-only scholarships by a ratio of more than 11-to-1. (B) Female-only scholarships were established to address gender imbalances in colleges. (C) Women earn 57% of all bachelors degrees.They list the numbers for 85 schools here: http://www.saveservices.org/equity/scholarships/ It's worse at a lot of schools. Take the first one on the list, Auburn. 67 scholarships for women, 1 for men. | /r/MensRights | 20/06/20 08:10 PM |
| 29 | (A) Female-only scholarships outnumber male-only scholarships by a ratio of more than 11-to-1. (B) Female-only scholarships were established to address gender imbalances in colleges. (C) Women earn 57% of all bachelors degrees.I was a little surprised there were any male-only scholarships. At first, I thought maybe they were counting sports scholarships. But that doesn't appear to be the case. I imagine that prior to the 1960s, there were cases of people leaving money in a will for a perpetual scholarship for a "young man studying at University of Northern Iowa" or some such thing. As the person is already dead, the rules can't be updated. | /r/MensRights | 20/06/20 02:07 PM |
| 4 | Not hate speech at all according to Twitter. The city of Melbourne just provided her with a grant to support her next book.Sure. Don't mention that you are American though. They'd take locals more seriously. | /r/MensRights | 25/05/20 01:04 AM |
| 1 | Clementine Ford's apology is awfulThe thing is that if you joke about people on ventilators dying from COVID 19, you are punching down. Or is she saying that she would switch places with a man in such a situation? | /r/MensRights | 24/05/20 10:36 PM |
| 3 | Women gaslight men by pretending all we want is sexThat will still be stigmatizing. Because being gay is somewhat stigmatizing (it shouldn't be, but it is) Because it is untrue (people don't like untruths told about them) Because people think you are being secretive, and obviously something shameful is going on even if they don't know exactly what. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/05/20 04:20 PM |
| 2 | "I suck with women because I get high math grades" has got to be the stupidest cop out in the history of PPDI don't really agree with the OP, but I'm trying to interpret his argument generously. As someone who got bullied at school and got great grades, I took pride in my intelligence. I did poorly socially, I wasn't good at sports even though I enjoyed playing them. I was prone to low self-esteem, but having that one thing I was excellent in kept my self-esteem close to average. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 05/05/20 01:02 AM |
| 1 | USWNT Loses Entitlement for the Privileged Pay LawsuitI mean what you are saying is true in a common sense way. But where in the judgement does the judge talk about how much each job is worth? | /r/MensRights | 03/05/20 12:43 PM |
| 1 | USWNT Loses Entitlement for the Privileged Pay LawsuitSo you are agreeing with me? My larger point was that there are a few things to consider here: money paid to players money brought in by players skill levels of players (is winning the Women's World Cup the same work as winning the Men's World Cup?) As far as I can tell, the ruling only talked about issue #1. The women were offered the same deal as the men, so they were treated fairly. However the poster above me started talking about issue #3 (skill level). I don't think the judge made a commen… | /r/MensRights | 03/05/20 01:38 AM |
| 1 | USWNT Loses Entitlement for the Privileged Pay LawsuitObviously people aren't understanding my original point. My point is that the judgement only considered money paid out. It did not consider money brought in. So bringing up the fact that the men's World Cup pays more is beside the point as far as what was in the judgement. | /r/MensRights | 03/05/20 01:36 AM |
| 0 | USWNT Loses Entitlement for the Privileged Pay LawsuitObviously people aren't understanding my original point. My point is that the judgement only considered money paid out. It did not consider money brought in. So bringing up the fact that the men's World Cup pays more is beside the point as far as what was in the judgement. | /r/MensRights | 03/05/20 01:36 AM |
| 0 | USWNT Loses Entitlement for the Privileged Pay LawsuitNo it isn't. The USSF offers bonuses to the teams based on performance at the World Cup. Now it's also true that FIFA offers prize money to the federations for performance at the World Cup. And the men get larger prizes. But when the judge says the women were offered the same deal as the men and they rejected it, it means that the women would have had the same bonuses as the men for performance at the World Cup and other tournaments. | /r/MensRights | 03/05/20 12:07 AM |
| 2 | USWNT Loses Entitlement for the Privileged Pay LawsuitTrue. I think we can say that the women are established power. The women are probably about as popular as they'll ever be. But the men have a lot of room to improve and generate more revenue. If they became a regular in final 8 of the World Cup it would be astronomical progress. | /r/MensRights | 03/05/20 12:05 AM |
| 2 | USWNT Loses Entitlement for the Privileged Pay LawsuitI mean it's completely obvious that the men are faster and better. I agree with you. What point were you trying to make? | /r/MensRights | 03/05/20 12:02 AM |
| 1 | USWNT Loses Entitlement for the Privileged Pay LawsuitWhere does it talk about that in the judgement? | /r/MensRights | 02/05/20 07:04 PM |
| 10 | USWNT Loses Entitlement for the Privileged Pay LawsuitIt's generally true that women generate far less revenue than men. I'm sure that's true in 99% of cases. But US soccer might be the one exception. The US women's soccer team is usually the best in the world. Winning the women's World Cup is expected. Finishing 2nd would be a disappointing result for them. The US men's soccer team is not great when compared to European and South American teams. I think they are normally ranked somewhere between 20th and 40th in the world. Finishing in the top 16 … | /r/MensRights | 02/05/20 12:54 PM |
| 8 | USWNT Loses Entitlement for the Privileged Pay LawsuitYeah, but to be fair I think athletes are different than other professions (both men and women). If for some reason a top-tier men's international soccer team sued their federation and lost over pay, they probably wouldn't all be permanently banned. They might do it if it was one guy, but not the entire team and not if any superstars were involved. | /r/MensRights | 02/05/20 12:45 PM |
| -9 | USWNT Loses Entitlement for the Privileged Pay LawsuitThat's true but this ruling doesn't even consider that. If the USSF offered the men $40 million for winning the World Cup, they would be expected to offer the women $40 million for winning the women's World Cup. | /r/MensRights | 02/05/20 12:41 PM |
| 2 | Are there actually that many women who "rode the CC" without relationships and waited until their 30's to think about settling down?I think it's the ratio of upvotes to downvotes, though they penalize posts with only a few votes. I probably didn't get many downvotes. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/05/20 11:20 AM |
| 17 | Are there actually that many women who "rode the CC" without relationships and waited until their 30's to think about settling down?They definitely don't think of themselves as doing that. They think of themselves as looking for a marriage partner. But they select so heavily for a physically attractive man that they never find a marriage partner. To be fair, I don't think this is typical but it's not rare either. I know several women that were like this in their 20s: Quite pretty, but not particularly well educated or intelligent. Able to find very attractive men for short term relationships with lots of sex Average guys ask… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/04/20 12:17 AM |
| 6 | Why are the caring loving fathers against their daughters being a housewife and dating an older man?How does this answer the question? Are they against their daughters being with any men? Or are older men more depraved than same-age men? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/04/20 10:50 PM |
| -2 | This is what honestly makes me angry about feminists equating men nothing other than an ATMWhat's the evidence that this woman is a feminist? | /r/MensRights | 23/04/20 02:03 AM |
| 2 | About the double standards of Reddit (the "what if we reversed the genders" case)Well there was an interesting re-enactment of Trump vs Clinton debates with the gender reversed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yC7-JsR2Fk https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2017/march/trump-clinton-debates-gender-reversal.html | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/04/20 10:24 PM |
| 1 | Why is nagging considered an issue?Who decides what you are supposed to do? What if the nagger and naggee have different ideas about what is right? What about a man who nags his wife and daughters to dress conservatively? Yes, in your examples the nagging was probably necessary. However, what if someone nags a kid to clean their room every day, but the kid does it themselves twice a week? What if the man has a mild cold and the wife is nagging him to go to the doctor? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/04/20 08:52 PM |
| 0 | Feminists: "Women only act 'catty' because men indoctrinated them to through TV shows". | We often say that feminists always avoid being responsible for their actions and instead blame men for everything. It's actually very true.No person is an island. Men act in certain ways to deal better with women and other men. Women act in certain ways to deal better with men and other women. | /r/MensRights | 16/04/20 05:13 PM |
| -4 | Feminists: "Women only act 'catty' because men indoctrinated them to through TV shows". | We often say that feminists always avoid being responsible for their actions and instead blame men for everything. It's actually very true.I don't really agree with her theory about tv shows being the cause. Maybe just a little bit. But I am willing to admit that there is interaction in society. Women act the way they do partially because of other women and other men. Men act the way they do partially because of other men and other women. Basically I'd be willing to say that women's "cattiness" is partially the fault of men, if men got the same consideration. If more men commit crimes, can we blame tv shows for usually showing male… | /r/MensRights | 16/04/20 11:43 AM |
| 3 | Radicalizing the Romanceless a peek into the ego and entitlement of the clueless "nice guy"That quote doesn't resonate with me. I can imagine some people trying to insinuate it. But I'm pretty sure the adults I had heart-to-heart chats with didn't mean that. I suspect that my parents wanted me to be quiet and nice in large part because it made their lives easier. Not necessarily maliciously - I think they were oblivious to the costs. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/04/20 10:37 PM |
| 1 | Radicalizing the Romanceless a peek into the ego and entitlement of the clueless "nice guy"Not sure what you are saying, but in case my point was unclear: Suppose you are "nice" nerdy teenager. You recognize that being nice as a teenager isn't getting you the social success that you want. But suppose you are trying to figure out what will work best as a 25 year old. It's not 100% clear. Yes, being quiet and nice is worse than being loud and obnoxious as a teenager. However is it clear that it is still going to be worse as an adult? You don't know that many adults and your parents and … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/04/20 08:59 PM |
| 1 | Radicalizing the Romanceless a peek into the ego and entitlement of the clueless "nice guy"The other point of view is that children are idiots and make better decisions as adults | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/04/20 08:05 PM |
| 3 | Radicalizing the Romanceless a peek into the ego and entitlement of the clueless "nice guy"I will add that the nerd is extremely intelligent, has a very well-known blog, is a psychiatrist and has a diverse set of intellectual interests. He may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but saying his only positive quality is niceness is inaccurate | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/04/20 08:03 PM |
| 1 | An even better analogy to “women can always get sex”I guess different people have different ideas. It would be interesting to know how widespread this feeling is. If it's rare, then I think the analogy holds. I'm pretty sure that there exists some women that just really enjoy casual no-strings attached sex. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/04/20 01:13 PM |
| 2 | An even better analogy to “women can always get sex”Well I think you are misunderstanding the claim. I mean it's blindingly obvious that if you don't want sex with a person then having sex with the person has no value to you. Maybe I'm misunderstanding how often women want to have sex with a man. Are only 1 in 1000 men attractive? 1 in 10000? This link describes an experiment where an average looking woman walks around campus and asks men to sleep with her. 75% said yes. Are you saying that none of the 75% are attractive to women? Are you saying … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/04/20 03:17 AM |
| 0 | An even better analogy to “women can always get sex”I don't think the claim that men make is that women can always get sex - but only from an extremely unattractive man. It's that most women can always get sex from a moderately attractive man. Now of course, it may turn out to be a negative experience. Say that surface-level moderately attractive man is rude, selfish and ghosts her the next morning. She feels used. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/04/20 01:43 AM |
| 4 | An even better analogy to “women can always get sex”I sort of like the analogy. However, theoretically the sex that women have can be enjoyable. But being "used for money" is not enjoyable. Better to describe something that could be enjoyable for the man. eg. Men can always find a woman who will accompany him for a $200 dinner. You can imagine that a man might not enjoy the time and feel used, but there is the possibility of it being good. Of course, is it actually true? If a typical man invited ten women to go for an expensive meal with him, wou… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/04/20 12:53 AM |
| 1 | Unfortunately for you, equality means you get the GOOD and BAD. Welcome to the real worldI'll agree that the author is wrong. Whatever the rule is for men should also apply to women. But to be fair, she is basing her article on the rumored 140 million out of 190 million. ie. She is saying that giving the guy over 70% of her money is unfair. Now it's a bit silly to accept these rumored numbers as fact. But no one (man or woman) should have to give up over 70% of their wealth in a divorce. | /r/MensRights | 09/04/20 09:48 PM |
| 1 | Are the majority of men's problems also caused by men in the first place?I'd say that both women's and men's issues are on society to fix. Yes men can say stupid stuff like "lucky teen". But I think women also tend to think that it's less serious when an adult has sex with an underage male than an underage female. Women can say stupid stuff that affects women: making fun of a girl who is doing computer code or who doesn't look pretty enough. Men might partially miss out on intimate friendships with other men due to it not being seen as manly. However a lot of women w… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/04/20 06:43 PM |
| 2 | Lisa Britton nails the gender wage gap mythI think that's a separate argument. I'm pretty sure that given how hard it is for new teaching grads to find jobs that there are a lot of candidates around who would be high quality. However I also know that the teacher's unions are quite strong so it is difficult to get rid of poor teachers. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/20 04:32 AM |
| 5 | Discussion: But seriously, why isn't anyone dispensing red pill dating advice without the over the top craziness? You know, do the same fundamental thing, but like a normal personIt's because almost all ideological communities become more extreme over time. It's a lot easier for people to gang up on someone who isn't extreme enough than on someone who is too extreme. People don't want to be ostracized so they avoid being moderate. As everyone avoids moderation, then the people who were only somewhat moderate now appear to be the moderates. They start getting criticized - so they either shift their opinions or leave. In any case, the average opinion just gets more extreme… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/04/20 12:40 AM |
| 2 | Lisa Britton nails the gender wage gap mythIt is an important job. However, at least in my province, there are too many teachers trained and the new teachers have trouble getting jobs. To me that says that they could lower the pay a little and still fill all the positions. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/20 12:34 AM |
| -1 | Lisa Britton nails the gender wage gap mythI think the idea is that they had to work all of 2019 plus 3 months of 2020 to earn what men did in 2019. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/20 12:32 AM |
| 4 | Lisa Britton nails the gender wage gap mythThat argument never really seems to convince people. I think they'd say that sexist employers think women are only doing 78% of the work, so are worth 78% of the pay. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/20 12:30 AM |
| 2 | Despite each of our issues, how many of you are willing to admit that you would HATE to be the opposite gender?Definitely wouldn’t think it sucks. There would be pros and cons. I do admit that when talking about life as a woman, men tend to think of attractive women. So it’s not obvious who has it better. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/03/20 05:25 PM |
| 23 | Why is it some big societal problem if every single man can't get sex?Well, sex is arguably just about the number one motivating factor for men. What if 80% of men can't get sex? Those men will generally be unhappy. Surviving, but unhappy. If those men come to the conclusion that it is hopeless, various unfortunate things could happen: men could downgrade their lifestyle (stop trying to make as much money and try to make themselves more happy with more free time and more meaningful work). This would mean fewer things would be created and built and an economic slow… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/03/20 07:27 PM |
| 1 | Are men just not that attractive?Well, there is no such thing as objectively physically attractive - it's always subjective. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/03/20 11:36 PM |
| 4 | CMV: Women aren't "naturally red-pilled". Most women have rosy view of men until their negative experiences with men accumulate.From what I remember of grade school, boys and girls largely self-segregated. And there were a lot of insults back and forth: "smelly boys" "Girls are from Jupiter where they get even stupider" etc. I think it's pretty clear that girls in grade school think girls are "better" than boys. I don't think the attitude is something that suddenly develops around age 20. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/03/20 11:52 PM |
| 22 | I was reprimanded by HR after coworker complained that I gave her a bad annual review.I think the idea of giving everyone extremely good reviews makes sense. | /r/MensRights | 10/03/20 09:57 PM |
| 4 | How can a woman respect men knowing that they all want to fuck her?This is ridiculous. Just because men want to have sex with women doesn't mean they only see them as "a masturbation aide" If you have a friend that you often go see movies with, do you only see them as a "cinematic prop"? If you have a friend that you often play sports with, do you only see them an "athletic performance enhancer"? If you have a friend that you often drink wine with, do you only see them as "alcohol imbibing accessory"? If there is a woman that like spending time with, that I car… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/03/20 04:41 PM |
| 4 | Are men taught that they can be loved/wanted without trying?No men are not taught they can be desired no matter how they appear. However, most men are taught that it is unmanly to worry much about your appearance. So these men are caught in a double bind. Not good enough looking to pursue the women they are interested. Worried about losing their man card from putting effort into their appearance. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/03/20 06:37 PM |
| 1 | Men only have other men to blame for the difficulty of dating appsTo be clear I meant the number as a "total package" type thing. Not just looks. But if a woman could have multiple 8s at once, she would. True, but I think my comparison is more realistic. A single high quality person or multiple lower quality people. Let's assume that everyone would happily have a harem of rich, intelligent, fun, caring, supermodel wives/husbands if they could. So in the extreme case we're all polygamous and all hypergamous. What I'm saying is that men have a slightly higher pr… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/02/20 03:47 AM |
| 1 | Men only have other men to blame for the difficulty of dating appsI think the idea is that a 7 woman would rather have an 8 guy than have a harem of men who are 6s. Whereas a 7 man would rather have a harem of women who are 6s than a single 8 woman. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/02/20 03:15 AM |
| 10 | [Rant] I'm a lesbian and I realize that this subreddit makes lots of valid points.It sucks that those things happened to you. I hope that you found some friends that were more supportive, or at least a psychologist to talk to. As far as your larger point goes, I definitely agree that men grabbing or doing non-consensual sexual things is considered bad, while women doing the same is considered harmless or flattering. I've had women at bars grab my dick through my pants and it's considered funny or lucky. I can't help but think if I did that to a woman I'd be charged criminally… | /r/MensRights | 28/02/20 12:00 AM |
| 2 | Why is it so common for men to think that if a girl is nice to him, she must want him?Obviously men can fathom being nice to someone they don't find attractive. But admittedly, there is a correlation. And given that, isn't it more likely that women who are nice to you would be open to dating you than women who are not nice to you? If you are going to ask people out, doesn't it make more sense to ask people who are friendly to you than people who are unfriendly? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/02/20 01:07 AM |
| 2 | Why is it so common for men to think that if a girl is nice to him, she must want him?Exactly. Why can't they just say "no" and the continue to be friends? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/02/20 01:03 AM |
| 2 | Why is it so common for men to think that if a girl is nice to him, she must want him?Personally for me the women I want to date are also the ones that I want as friends. I don't think I've ever claimed that a woman "led me on" though. Nevertheless, it hurts to lose a friendship because a woman rejected you as a dating partner. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/02/20 09:24 PM |
| 4 | What are some things women think men like but are very wrong about?how much importance are placed on large breasts. Personally I like slightly larger breasts than you'd expect for a body type. But in terms of looks I like slimness and a cute face more. Anyways, I've just found it bizarre when women IRL have pointed out a cute woman with normal sized breasts and a fat, ugly woman with large breasts and asked who was more physically attractive. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/02/20 07:45 PM |
| 11 | [Violence Against Men] Amber Heard's Firing From 'Aquaman 2' Being Actively Discussed By Warner BrosShe's not a huge star and she's in her mid-30s. It would be easy for the industry to move on from her. | /r/MensRights | 08/02/20 11:55 PM |
| 2 | American dads "babysitting" their own kids and not changing their diapers, not paying child support, etc. Is it cultural that Americans expect less effort/responsibility from fathers than from mothers?I doubt there is anything particularly American about it. People expect fathers to parent (though some tasks are stereotypically for mothers.) If that sort of talk is more common in the US, perhaps it's partially caused by the high rate of single parent households. Are you from a country where every thing is shared 50/50? Diaper changing is 50/50? Consoling a crying child is 50/50? Buying clothes is 50/50? In the US, it's more common that a woman does those things, but men certainly do them. I h… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/02/20 01:03 AM |
| 1 | Patriarchy is a Scheme for Low Quality Males to Get Sex Without TryingHmm, I think that might be a middle ground there. I think that virtually everyone realizes that forcing anyone to have sex against their will is wrong. But I think that a tax reduction would reduce the number of such men that think "this non-traditional society is unfair". Of course, administering it would be really tough (Could people just lie about not having a girlfriend/boyfriend?) and I suspect that many people would point to other have-nots in society that they feel are more deserving. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/02/20 07:08 PM |
| 1 | Patriarchy is a Scheme for Low Quality Males to Get Sex Without TryingWell, first of all I don't think the "average redditor male" wants a traditional setup (women not working, only one sex partner for life, etc.) But for those that do, sure I think you are a bit right. I think that subset generally thinks that it will benefit them. That said, suppose you were an ugly male redditor with a high income and no romantic history or prospects. You feel like you aren't getting what you want out of life and you feel like society doesn't care about you. Yet society sees yo… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/02/20 06:32 PM |
| 5 | Student's Union that repeatedly banned the establishment of a men's issues group now deemed so corrupt & incompetent that Ryerson University will no longer recognise itNo, the US equivalent of a Canadian college is more like technical colleges or community colleges. That said, many of them offer some 4 year Bachelor's degrees. And they can be competitive with universities for practical fields like nursing. Here's a fact sheet for Humber college that gives an idea of what Canadian college is about. https://humber.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/humber_fact_sheet_nov_2019.pdf | /r/MensRights | 25/01/20 04:08 PM |
| 6 | Why are men always expected to prioritise women's comforts over theirs.oh ok. That seems like even less of an issue. Also, how is her seat worse than the one behind the driver? | /r/MensRights | 19/01/20 09:23 PM |
| 29 | Why are men always expected to prioritise women's comforts over theirs.It's unclear. I think there was a driver. I'm going to guess she could either sit in between two people in the front or in between two people in the back. And she probably chose the back. So I do sympathize. The middle seat is always the worst. But typically women are shorter, so if you were to go by size the woman should have to take the cramped seat. If you just treat everyone the same, then sure she could have grabbed one of the other spots. But someone would have had to get the bad spot. Why… | /r/MensRights | 19/01/20 07:30 PM |
| 1 | Why do there seem to be so many female teacher/male student sex scandals in the US?I don't think there is really evidence that it is more common in the United States than other countries. If there is, let me know. The United States is large. Larger than all of Western Europe in terms of population. And articles are usually in English, so highly-upvoted on reddit. But that may not give a proper perspective. It would be a bit hard to study as well. I think that in some countries you might hear about it less because it happens less. But in some countries, it might be the case tha… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/01/20 05:11 PM |
| 31 | Why do men on TRP argue that women have less morals when they have a plethora of advice on how to cheat on your spouse/ gf?Does the red pill really condone cheating? I got the impression it was often about "spinning plates" or getting casual sex without a serious relationship. But do they tell people to get married or find an LTR and then cheat on the side? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/01/20 08:55 PM |
| 2 | Waiting for sex: research agrees with FDS women that it is associated with better LTR outcomes.I'm not sure people have no idea what quality their relationship is early on. But sure, I would agree that if they don't know then they shouldn't have sex. Maybe the advice would be different for, say, people that have been good friends for years who decide to start dating. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/01/20 02:15 AM |
| -9 | So a feminist research team suggests a 34 hour work week for women, and 47 hours for men. For equality.Maybe looking after the kids? | /r/MensRights | 07/01/20 01:30 AM |
| 2 | Do women "really" hit the wall at 30?Of course, it's not a "wall". That said, a woman's looks are sort of like a man's athletic ability. Pro athletes usually peak in their mid 20s, and after that there is a steady decline. Most of the world's top athletes are in their 20s. Some are in their 30s. Once in a blue moon, a top athlete is in his 40s. Now it doesn't mean that men can't jog, lift, be active in their 40s 50s and beyond. Just that their athletic prime has past. Women's looks typically start to decline starting sometime in th… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/01/20 01:16 AM |
| 4 | “I want a woman but I don’t like people”So how would they go about getting this evidence? Wouldn't the motive be to recreate this scenario as much as possible? Well, I guess I'm thinking mostly of the "fearful" subsection. They would gather this evidence by observing other people (either interacting with themselves or with others - though interacting with themselves is probably more important) I suppose in one way the motivation would be to have as many interactions as possible in order to find people who pass the test. However, there… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/01/20 04:33 PM |
| 3 | “I want a woman but I don’t like people”I was thinking a little about attachment theory, and that these people would have a "negative model of others" Often times they may have been abused or bullied as kids. As such, their default is to assume strangers are unlikable people. With enough evidence, they learn to like some particular people. So going into a crowd of strangers sounds unappealing. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/01/20 02:51 PM |
| 4 | “I want a woman but I don’t like people”Well, I imagine there are people who only like, say, 10% of people. Such a person might think that they could find a girlfriend that they like. After all, there are some people that they like. They liked 2 or 3 people in most of their classes growing up. They were able to find a few friends. However, when it comes to an activity or event with a dozen people or more, they may recoil. Chances are they will be spending the time with mostly people they don't like. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/01/20 02:37 PM |
| 1 | Why do men who want women to have casual sex with them slut shame those who do?Sour grapes? Also, to some extent the men who slut shame are not the same who want casual sex. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/12/19 02:17 PM |
| 11 | [Q4W] Can you link the image of a man with a 5/10 in appearance? Whatabout a image of an average looking man?I don't think that first guy is average. I think he weighs more than 198 pounds. Or at the very least he has more fat and less muscle than most men who weigh 198 pounds. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/12/19 04:36 AM |
| 2 | When is it okay for unattractive men to approach women?I just think you try to treat people well (and fairly). That means not punishing men without proof, and believing women. In some cases those two things contradict and you have to compromise. But in this case, I don't see any man being hurt, so why not be kind and generous to the woman making the claim? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/12/19 06:59 PM |
| 6 | When is it okay for unattractive men to approach women?If a particular man is accused of rape, he shouldn't be thrown in jail without a proper investigation. It would be unfair to the man. But if someone claims they were raped by an unnamed person, you believe them and support them. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/12/19 06:43 PM |
| 2 | Correlations between when people thought sex should start in a given relationship and when they actually began was very low for men but very high for women meaning only women decide when sex occursIt was at Penn State. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/12/19 03:20 AM |
| 35 | Women throws blind man to ground after he accidentally enters a women's only subway car in MexicoPeople complaining about men groping women in crowded cars. To be fair, no one should be groped. I just don't think that this is an appropriate way to correct the problem. | /r/MensRights | 18/12/19 12:09 AM |
| 5 | Men work more than women, women most affectedusually the writer does not write the headline | /r/MensRights | 16/12/19 01:28 AM |
| 2 | Waiting for sex: research agrees with FDS women that it is associated with better LTR outcomes.Fair enough. But there are two interpretations: 1) Delaying sex causes relationships to improve 2) Delaying sex means that bad relationships are culled early. The implications are different. Under the first interpretation, delaying always makes sense. Under the second interpretation, if you know that you have a great relationship, then you may as well have sex early. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/12/19 06:48 PM |
| 3 | Waiting for sex: research agrees with FDS women that it is associated with better LTR outcomes.https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Attachment-style-categories-and-model-of-self-and-other-adapted-from-ref-19_fig1_11445825 secure = you have high self-esteem and think other people are usually pretty good as well. You develop healthy relationships generally. anxious = you have low self-esteem and think other people are pretty good. You get clingy. dismissing-avoidant = you have high self esteem and you tend to think other people are not very nice. You tend to avoid relationships because you d… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/12/19 08:07 PM |
| 3 | Waiting for sex: research agrees with FDS women that it is associated with better LTR outcomes.Sure it was, but schools taught that anyone could get AIDS through unprotected sex. (And they could. Just some activities were riskier than others.) After a bit of thought I think there is a difference between people who were in their 20s in the early 1980s and people who went to a sex ed class between 1985 and 2000. The first group would have relied on media stories that probably did not mention heterosexual sex . The second group would have experienced paranoia, but would have clearly got the … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/12/19 07:50 PM |
| 0 | Waiting for sex: research agrees with FDS women that it is associated with better LTR outcomes.I thought it was number, but maybe it's notch. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/12/19 07:46 PM |
| 3 | Waiting for sex: research agrees with FDS women that it is associated with better LTR outcomes.To what extent is this based on a selection effect? ie. if there is a somewhat negative relationship, but both partners enjoy the sex maybe they progress to LTR and ultimately divorce or have low satisfaction. But if people have a poor relationship and sex isn't happening, they never become an LTR. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/12/19 07:45 PM |
| 2 | Do Red Pill Liberals Exist?Let's be real, in his own mind Donald Trump is the most red pill alpha male chad to have ever walked on the face of the planet I don't know if that's true. It's tough to know what is going on in his mind. But there are certainly times where someone insults him or something and he just loses it on twitter. (eg. SNL doing sketches mocking him) Usually when someone is so emotionally reactive, it's a beta tell. An alpha wouldn't let it phase him. Maybe he'd react with amusement, or "agree and amplif… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/12/19 05:22 AM |
| 3 | Men's problems are the fault of men, Women's problems are the fault of societyI don't think it's really ignorance. I think almost everyone recognizes that a salad is healthier than a cheeseburger. I think it's more that fast food and junk food is relatively cheap, easy to get/prepare and it tastes really good. My guess is that poor people tend to feel bad, and eating unhealthy but tasty food can improve their mood in the short-term. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/12/19 11:29 PM |
| 5 | Men's problems are the fault of men, Women's problems are the fault of societyThis sub is not a microcosm of society though. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/12/19 11:25 PM |
| 2 | Women aren't shooting out of their league; "Chad" is not hooking up with ugly women.Usually those assortative mating studies are conducted on married people, or at least people in LTRs. And I think it's true that married people tend to be of similar levels of attractiveness. But married studies aren't really contradicting the red pill. They are saying that men tend to have more appetite for one-night stands or other short sexual relationships. And because a ONS doesn't take people off the market for long, you can have a situation where a single 9 or 10 man pairs up with multipl… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/12/19 04:26 AM |
| 1 | are women uninteresting?Obviously it’s a big generalization and there are a lot of interesting women out there. That said I run into more women that seem intellectually incurious. Two hypotheses: more women coast by on looks than men. Or perhaps, I give vapid women a much bigger rope than vapid men (eg. giving a pretty woman the benefit of the doubt, but steering clear of men I suspect of being uninteresting. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/12/19 06:34 PM |
| 1 | Women are’t less violent; they're simple weakerI agree that there are probably other contributing factors. However, in the case of spontaneous anger and an unplanned attack, there often is not a usable weapon lying around. But for many men, simply using fists is enough to cause serious damage. So men, but not women might be tempted to lash out physically in the heat of the moment. There's probably also times where something like a baseball bat is around and most women wouldn't trust themselves to win the fight. Even for something like a gun,… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/12/19 12:22 AM |
| 1 | Why are Men more affected by the "Society lied to me" Issue than Women?Neither. The occasional girlfriend but all were far more likely than not to be single at that age. And no, the group was not ugly. I’m not saying they were models, but if you had a room of 100 men, the group would be somewhere in the 30th to 70th percentile | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/11/19 11:02 PM |
| 4 | Why are Men more affected by the "Society lied to me" Issue than Women?I disagree. I figure we won't end up agreeing on this, but for me I started looking for dating advice on the internet in my mid 20's. Most of my social group were men that succeeded at university, got professional well-paying jobs, were fit, dressed averagely and seemed to have huge problems finding women. I can't say I have the answer to fully explain the phenomenon, but I can say that fatness wasn't the problem. I can say that laziness wasn't the problem. I can say that pursuit of career goals… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/11/19 06:26 PM |
| 8 | Why are Men more affected by the "Society lied to me" Issue than Women?Why do you think "being nice" = fat, lazy, sloppy and poorly groomed? I think a lot of people are led to believe that being average in most ways (average weight, average job, average clothes) plus being nice should be enough to get you an average dating life. And I think that might be true at many ages. But it's not usually enough for men in their teens and early twenties (as women in their late teens and early twenties are very in demand) | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/11/19 04:48 PM |
| 2 | Why Conventionally Attractive Women in "Male Entertainment" MatterI was throwing them a bone. Almost everything is aimed to some degree to both men and women. So the number of movies/tv shows/games aimed exclusively towards men is near 0. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/11/19 11:43 PM |
| 1 | Why Conventionally Attractive Women in "Male Entertainment" MatterI was throwing them a bone. Almost everything is aimed to some degree to both men and women. So the number of movies/tv shows/games aimed exclusively towards men is near 0. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/11/19 11:43 PM |
| 2 | Why Conventionally Attractive Women in "Male Entertainment" MatterDid you even bother looking into it? Did you even click on the link I included, where the M/F ratio was calculated by show? It's from 2010, but I doubt that things are much different today. Maybe we're using "mostly" in a different manner. Almost all shows had more women than men watching. In some cases, not by much. Regardless, if 55-60% of the tv viewing audience is female, it seems quite questionable to say that tv is primarily made for men. PS. I tried looking at your link, but it was asking… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/11/19 06:09 PM |
| 6 | Why Conventionally Attractive Women in "Male Entertainment" MatterAlmost all tv shows have mostly women watching though. https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/featured/ladies-night-few-broadcast-primetime-shows-draw-more-men-than-women/ So I suspect that most television is not made primarily for men. If most television is made for men, why would that be the case? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/11/19 05:39 PM |
| 19 | Why Conventionally Attractive Women in "Male Entertainment" MatterI agree that anything that is exclusively aimed at men continues to have conventionally attractive women. I do think that things that are aimed at both men and women have had some changing standards. I guess ultimately it's a business decision - do you get enough extra women to watch to make up for the men that you are losing? To be honest, I'm not really sure that the typical woman prefers watching an overweight woman on screen. As a guy, I don't like it more when the lead male actor is overwei… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/11/19 04:30 PM |
| 10 | that whole "well maybe if you didn't have such a low view of women you'd actually get laid" is the most annoying thing blue pillers say. i mean what's up with that perspective, it's such provable horse shit.You're right. It's more like: Person 1: "I'd really like a job, but I never get interviews. I don't know what I'm doing wrong." Person 2: "It's because you hate employers. Employers have a sixth sense about that sort of thing." Person 1: "Umm, what? I didn't think I hate employers, but if you say that maybe it's true that I dislike them subconsciously?" | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/11/19 01:45 AM |
| 1 | Crazy new "Consent" law proposal in Australia?I don't think you need a divorce, but yeah I think they force you into a 50/50 split. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/11/19 11:57 PM |
| 2 | Crazy new "Consent" law proposal in Australia?recognizes long-term cohabiters as married even if they aren't married. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/11/19 10:48 PM |
| 1 | Honestly, I'm horrified by what MGTOW says about women, anyone else?I think there is a lot to your post. Those posts don't reflect reality. Many of the guys probably have never had any relationship with women. At most some atypical unhealthy ones. However, it definitely isn't as simple as "talk to a woman". Everyone occasionally talks to women. I think most such men are caught in a psychological vicious circle. It starts with a belief that "most women are like that" (possibly because some key women in their lives were like that). This causes the men to talk to w… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/11/19 11:40 PM |
| 1 | Why is no blame put on the men who leave their families, resulting in single moms?Because people are assuming that the women left the men not vice versa. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/11/19 03:29 PM |
| 1 | As the average American female is a whopping 171lbs at 5'4, is wanting a girlfriend under 140/150lbs now considered "high standards"?I was trying to say that usually women try to "date up" in terms of income level. So it makes sense for men to try to "date up" a little bit in some other way. Often in terms of looks. I'll agree that gross disparities don't make sense, but it's more the overall package that should be equal. Not equal in each of dozens of categories. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/10/19 11:17 PM |
| 1 | As the average American female is a whopping 171lbs at 5'4, is wanting a girlfriend under 140/150lbs now considered "high standards"?Would you say that women should go only after men that make the same amount of money as them? And that it would be ridiculous for a woman to want a man who earns more than her? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/10/19 10:37 PM |
| 1 | As the average American female is a whopping 171lbs at 5'4, is wanting a girlfriend under 140/150lbs now considered "high standards"?I think that's mostly true. The average man is 198 pounds and usually that means fat. However, I think it is somewhat more likely that a 198 pound man is in good shape (mostly muscle) than a 171 pound woman. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/10/19 10:34 PM |
| 2 | As the average American female is a whopping 171lbs at 5'4, is wanting a girlfriend under 140/150lbs now considered "high standards"?It's a lot easier to be 150 pounds overweight than 150 pounds underweight. To me the direction of the skew makes a lot of sense. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/10/19 10:30 PM |
| 62 | As the average American female is a whopping 171lbs at 5'4, is wanting a girlfriend under 140/150lbs now considered "high standards"?The 20-39 age group comes in at just 167.6 pounds though! | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/10/19 12:28 PM |
| 7 | Why do mothers pressure their sons into having beta bux male qualities, knowing how they abuse their provider?Because most women don't consciously think that "reliable, polite, nice, generous" means sexually unattractive. She probably thinks that those "good guy" traits are positively correlated with attractiveness. At best, she thinks there is no correlation. Because having a well-behaved son makes their lives easier as mothers. Because overall society benefits from having more people that are "reliable, polite, nice, generous" | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/10/19 02:58 PM |
| 1 | This is what the average Redditor looks like. Keep that in mind when they talk about the dating marketThere is probably a difference between the people who use reddit and the people who attend meetups. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/10/19 09:24 PM |
| 4 | Swedish sex survey seems to confirm RP basic conceptsI think that 80/20 thing is really only for single young adults. And it's particularly focused on casual hookups. What's the satisfaction rate for single men in their 20s? For all men aged 16-29, it's 32% according to the report. Take out the married men, homosexual men, asexual men and men with strong religious beliefs and maybe the number is even closer to 20%. Anyways, I think the 80/20 rule makes sense if you are talking about picking up women at the bar and having sex that night or shortly … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/09/19 09:08 PM |
| 16 | If traditional gender roles were so good for women, how come it is almost exclusively women who want to abandon them in favor of equality, while it is mainly men who support them?You're right that technology has improved. But I think it's the same things as at work. Computers make people way more productive. It doesn't mean that employees only have to work 5 hours a week and spend the rest of the week relaxing. Employees are expected to get more done. Same thing with cleaning. Your house is supposed to be cleaner/tidier than homes in the 30s. You are supposed to provide more learning opportunities for the kids and ferry them to all sorts of activities. As certain tasks b… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/09/19 11:44 PM |
| 8 | Female comment outlines the double standards and hypocrisy that exists in today’s social structure in regards to what women want and how they want to be treated. No wonder men have no idea what’s okay and what’s not anymore.I think it does, if she is legitimately supportive. However say a woman is annoyed with her man spending time doing something (perhaps creating a product and bringing it to market), and she frequently complains but doesn't leave him. That is not being emotionally supportive. Even so, I suspect that in many cases such a woman might think she made sacrifices and deserves some credit. | /r/MensRights | 16/09/19 12:38 PM |
| 4 | Women have deeper friendships than men do.Hmm, it might be just that the only people who bring up the topic are whiny feminists. Women who are ok with it don't say, "I really like helping my boyfriend when he's feeling down." So maybe I'm overgeneralizing from whiny feminists to women in general. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/09/19 01:55 AM |
| 9 | Women have deeper friendships than men do.It's funny that you mention men complaining about being "emotional tampons". There seems to be a thing nowadays where women complain about doing "emotional labor" for men. Not entirely sure if men or women are doing more complaining about having to meet the emotional needs for their partners. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/09/19 12:47 AM |
| 2 | Do you wish you could be 100% provided for by your partner?I’d love it. Maybe it’s my personality, but I never get bored at home. I occasionally get bored at work | /r/PurplePillDebate | 05/09/19 09:06 PM |
| 2 | Suicide prevention should be more focused on men than women because that's where the problem isI agree that men might not have as many "saviors" around. Depressed men tend not to have wives/girlfriends. Depressed women are more likely to have husbands/boyfriends. So even if men and women used the pill method, women are more likely to have someone checking up on them. | /r/MensRights | 27/08/19 12:51 AM |
| 5 | Suicide prevention should be more focused on men than women because that's where the problem isI'd be careful with taking this too far. This is anecdotal, but my Mom twice tried to kill herself with pills. Both times my Dad found her, rushed her the hospital, had her stomach pumped and she survived. A few months later when my Dad was out of town on a business trip, she hung herself and died. I have trouble saying that her initial attempts with pills were half-hearted attempts. My guess is that she wanted to die. On the third attempt she clearly had learned from her previous attempts and d… | /r/MensRights | 26/08/19 09:43 PM |
| 1 | What is the honest male 'equivalent' of women's feelings about unwanted attention from men?Disagree. First of all if men could overpower women to a sufficient extent to rape in only 25% of random man-woman pairings, rape would still exist (but the average man might not be strong enough to overpower am average woman). Secondly there are all sorts of ways to rape without overpowering someone. eg. drug someone, threaten someone | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/08/19 11:41 AM |
| 2 | What is the honest male 'equivalent' of women's feelings about unwanted attention from men?Can they? I'm not so sure. But in any case according to this study of average differences in strength https://www.livescience.com/52998-women-combat-gender-differences.html " Women also exhibited about 40 percent less upper-body strength and 33 percent less lower-body strength, on average, the study found. " That translates to men being 1.5-1.67 times stronger. So the 1.5 times his strength was supposed to reflect that. Maybe 1.67 is more appropriate since upper body strength would be the primar… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/08/19 02:49 AM |
| 3 | What is the honest male 'equivalent' of women's feelings about unwanted attention from men?Sure, I guess it conveys the idea. It sounds extreme though because: I don't think that most men weigh twice as much as most women I don't think that most men are twice as strong as most women "Unwanted attention" may be perceived as overt and sinister, but at least in my case any unwanted attention I've directed at women has not been intended as sinister. (I'm more or less defining unwanted attention as making a pass at a woman that turns out to be not attracted to you.) There seems to be a cat… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/08/19 02:38 AM |
| 9 | Fragile FemininityThe article references the author 's high school class in the 1990s. https://qz.com/823162/a-new-study-shows-how-star-trek-jokes-and-geek-culture-make-women-feel-unwelcome-in-computer-science/ | /r/MensRights | 06/08/19 01:06 AM |
| 14 | Fragile Femininitylooks like here: https://qz.com/823162/a-new-study-shows-how-star-trek-jokes-and-geek-culture-make-women-feel-unwelcome-in-computer-science/ | /r/MensRights | 06/08/19 12:49 AM |
| 12 | Why is the message given to men and women completely different? Men are told to improve themselves, women are told they are perfect just the way they areI'll agree that that is part of it. But I also think there are huge swaths of men/boys who get the message that they need to be perfect. And kind of caught in a double bind where if you admit your insecurities you lose "manliness points". If you use a product to improve your look you lose "manliness points". I'd say that if 80% of women need a reassuring message that they are ok as they are, there is probably 60-70% of men that feel the same need. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/08/19 07:12 PM |
| 8 | CMV: I think the 'manosphere' is tempting for guys because people shame guys for asking how to get laid" Asking for sex advice in a travel sub is like asking for financial advice in a sex sub, or asking for legal advice in a cooking sub. " Nah, they are definitely related. However obviously a lot of people on a travel sub aren't thinking at all about random hook-ups. I'd say it's more like asking for advice on how to flip homes in a financial advice sub or asking for cooking advice in a health/wellness sub. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/07/19 09:18 PM |
| 5 | "Miss Bond doesn't have the same ring to it!" - First ever black James Bond girl blasts casting of actress taking over as 007, saying iconic code name was meant for a manI agree that makes more sense. But my understanding is that James Bond retires and this new agent assumes the 007 code name.. So I'm not sure that this is too much different. They probably think they can score more points with SJWs by doing it this way. | /r/MensRights | 20/07/19 01:52 PM |
| 5 | not a pedo?It does seem a bit harsh. Probably giving a consistent sentence of 10-12 years or so would be enough of a deterrent. According to this, murder is about 23 years in Florida and sexual offences are about 12 years. http://edr.state.fl.us/Content/resource-demand/criminal-justice/reports/criminal-justice/cj25.pdf That said, the boy was only 13 and she was in a position of authority as a teacher. She should probably get close to the maximum for statutory rape. The only people who would deserve… | /r/MensRights | 16/07/19 01:30 AM |
| 1 | It sad how true this isWell, the women make more by winning than losing. They have small bonuses. But what I'm saying is that the women make the same as the men if they each play 20 games and lose them all. If the each win 1 game of 20 the women get a small bonus, the men get a large bonus and there is a small gap in pay. If they each win 2 games out of 20 the gap widens. If they each win 20 the gap reaches it's maximum. Normally if someone takes the security of a base salary they expect a trade-off. They make less th… | /r/MensRights | 13/07/19 05:22 PM |
| 2 | Woman actually gets depressed because r/r/mensrights has subscribers, and questions how mens "rights" can be taken seriouslyAt the time, only wealthy, landowning men could vote. 90% of us men couldn't vote either. Did they fight for voting rights for all? Please, look it up. But I will give the short answer: no. They wanted voting rights for women and wealthy land owning men. Obviously, this would mean women, as a whole, would run the country. Lawmakers just went ahead and made it universal, and feminists took credit for universal suffrage. Again, don't believe me; feel free to look this up. My understanding is tha… | /r/MensRights | 13/07/19 12:23 PM |
| 1 | It sad how true this isAgain my argument is not that the women deserve more. It's just that there are plausible arguments for it. I also want to point out that the Washington Post article says: If both teams lost all 20 games, the players would make the same amount. That’s because the men earn a $5,000 bonus when they lose and the women have a $100,000 base salary. I generally agree that if you take a safe salary instead of a bonus structure you should expect to be paid less. You are forcing the employer to take… | /r/MensRights | 13/07/19 01:40 AM |
| 0 | It sad how true this isLook obviously the women are far inferior players. If they were men of equal ability they would not be able to play professionally. But I think you are incorrect about the views being higher for the men. (Again limiting ourselves to the United States) The women's final in 2019 had 22% higher viewership than the men's final in 2018. https://www.businessinsider.com/womens-world-cup-final-tv-ratings-bigger-than-mens-nielsen-2019-7 Here are the highest rated US team soccer broadcasts in the … | /r/MensRights | 13/07/19 01:32 AM |
| 1 | It sad how true this isProbably not. But I'm not sure that there is a neat relationship between profit and how much employees deserve. Some pro teams lose money. Does that mean none of their players deserve to be paid? If you play 20 more games, don't you have an argument to be paid more not less? FWIW, the major North American leagues with salary caps (NHL,NBA,NFL) have collectively bargained that roughly 50% of revenue goes to the players. | /r/MensRights | 13/07/19 01:17 AM |
| -2 | It sad how true this isLimiting things to the US, the women's team earned more revenue for the USSF. My understanding is that that is a combination of the women's team playing more games than the men and having pretty good attendance. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/19/us-womens-soccer-games-now-generate-more-revenue-than-mens.html U.S. women’s soccer games have generated more revenue than U.S. men’s games over the past three years. That’s according to audited financial statements from the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) o… | /r/MensRights | 12/07/19 04:06 AM |
| 2 | It sad how true this isI'm not too sure what your point is, but the women would have earned more under my plan in the most recent cycle. They would have had equal base pay. The men would have received no World Cup bonuses. And the women would have had maximum World Cup bonuses. The women's total pay would have been higher than the men's. | /r/MensRights | 12/07/19 12:25 AM |
| 2 | It sad how true this isI mostly agree with your post. Most of the issue is related to the USSF and revenue earned. It seems like the women's team does pretty well filling stadiums for friendly games, so based on revenue earned the women have a case for more pay. That said, FIFA prize money will play a role in determining what sort of bonuses are payable for progress in the World Cup. I believe I read that the winning federation gets $3 million from FIFA for a women's World Cup but $40 million for a men's World Cup. If… | /r/MensRights | 11/07/19 11:53 PM |
| 4 | It sad how true this isDempsey is retired now, but his MLS salary was around $4 million per year for several years. The $400k would have been for national team duties. The women have a league (NWSL) but it is overall unprofitable. Typical attendance is 4000-5000, though the Portland team gets around 17000. Those attendance numbers are decent, but considering the US is a vast country there are a lot of travel costs. I think the max salary is $46k. The national team members make more (maybe $200k, depends on bonuses… | /r/MensRights | 11/07/19 11:38 PM |
| 2 | Thought this belonged hereIt's sort of the opposite. The women's team gets a salary for being part of the team and small bonuses for playing in games. The men's team gets no salary but large bonuses for playing in games. | /r/MensRights | 09/07/19 01:08 AM |
| 2 | Thought this belonged hereThanks for saying this. It's definitely a complicated issue. I agree that generally women asking for equal pay as men in sports when the men generate so much more revenue is silly. But the US women's soccer team may be a special case. Because they are so much more successful than the men they seem to generate more revenue. Perhaps the women actually deserve more than the men? That said there's a lot of complicating factors. My understanding is that the two groups collectively bargained agr… | /r/MensRights | 09/07/19 12:56 AM |
| 2 | Study shows that people who identify as feminists are more likely to sacrifice men.I agree with you. Looking at table 2, it seems when exposed to stereotypes, feminists sacrifice men at a high rate (2.38). But when exposed to counter-stereotypes, feminists sacrifice men at a low rate (1.77). Non-feminists sacrifice men at low rate when exposed to stereotypes (1.77). But at a high rate when exposed to counter-stereotypes (2.24). Rates of sacrificing women don't change much, but they range from 1.97 to 2.10. I don't think that you can get too angry with feminists here. It's … | /r/MensRights | 06/07/19 02:26 AM |
| 11 | Discussion: are men “emotional gold diggers?”I'm not sure. There seems to be a lot more women complaining about men not having sufficient support networks and too much "emotional support" falling to women. But I also think there are a lot of complaints in culture about men "never being around" or being selfish for having guy's night too often. Until recent years, I think those were far more prevalent complaints (think of Marge complaining about Homer going to Moe's). Anyways I think this should be quantified properly and studied, but I'm… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/06/19 03:38 AM |
| 1 | Why do people believe what the TV says when growing up? Isn't TV fake?I definitely agree that having many examples of relationship behavior would help a kid sort things out. I know that I had a lot of trouble growing up because I didn't have a typical relationship to observe. I was the oldest kid so I didn't have siblings to look at and my family moved to a new city so they lacked in terms of family and friends. Plus my stepmom seemed to have a personality disorder and spent most of her time raging at my dad and me. I knew my parent's relationship wasn't normal, b… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/06/19 12:16 AM |
| 1 | Why do people believe what the TV says when growing up? Isn't TV fake?People see all sorts of things on tv. Some of it is terribly fake, some of it is quite true. The more life experience you have, the easier it is to discern. For instance, you might see a strange animal on your screen. You've never seen an elephant in real life. But you learn that an elephant is large, has a long trunk etc. There's a big dose of "truth" in the image. Now maybe the animal in question is domesticated and has a trainer and is fed by humans. That's unusual for elephants so you coul… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/06/19 11:28 PM |
| 5 | Men should apologize just for existing, I wonder how people would feel if you replaced men with blackhttps://www.victimsweek.gc.ca/res/r512.html You seem mostly right. "Male victims were most often physically assaulted by a stranger or by someone else outside of the family. In 2008, men were the victims of 80% of all reported attacks by strangers. " | /r/MensRights | 24/06/19 03:34 PM |
| 1 | Discussion: men and women alike do complain about the difficulties of modern dating. To what degree are these issues caused/exacerbated by a majority of adults being above a healthy weight?I think it's a factor, but I actually think it goes more the other way. Person with normal BMI can't date successfully. That leads to depression. That leads to overeating and obesity. (And of course that leads to even more difficulty in dating) | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/06/19 01:28 AM |
| 4 | Could we say that men’s obsession with “n count” is not based on “studies about promiscuous women” but their own egos.I think it's actually pretty similar though. Men being a virgins beyond a certain age can be indicative of psychological issues, low self-esteem, poor socialization and an inability to bond properly. Women having very high n counts can be indicative of psychological issues, low self-esteem, poor socialization and an inability to bond properly. There are obviously exceptions for both men and women. Psychologically healthy male virgins and psychologically healthy women who sleep around a lot. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/06/19 06:18 PM |
| 2 | CMV: Reddit is mostly low SMV people, and this sub is no differentI'll agree that reddit probably has a slight bias towards geeky, introverted, physically unattractive people. (Though probably some positives too - eg. intelligent, educated and high income). I think you are overstating things though. Maybe in real life you have 4 attractive people, 12 average people and 4 unattractive people. On reddit maybe that shifts to 2 physically attractive people, 11 average people and 7 unattractive people. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/05/19 12:16 AM |
| 16 | CMV: Reddit is mostly low SMV people, and this sub is no differentIn the same spirit, the people who show up to reddit meet ups might be a poor sample. Maybe people with active social lives have enough time to contribute to reddit (eg while taking the train to work or what not), but a day spent with real friends sounds better than a day spent with other redditors. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 27/05/19 11:38 AM |
| 4 | 'Girl power' is great, but it shouldn't give girls licence to bully boys | CBC NewsFWIW, it looks like all their articles are closed for comments after a day or two. And this one is from about 3 weeks ago. | /r/MensRights | 25/05/19 05:28 PM |
| 9 | 'Girl power' is great, but it shouldn't give girls licence to bully boys | CBC NewsI don't know. The article is from 3 weeks ago and they left comments open for a day or two. Pretty much all the articles have their comment sections closed after a day or two. Maybe all of them. Presumably because they only have so much moderating capacity. | /r/MensRights | 25/05/19 05:24 PM |
| 13 | 'Girl power' is great, but it shouldn't give girls licence to bully boys | CBC NewsI see a lot of negative comments here, but I think it is a pretty good article and makes the point that women attacking men is not taken seriously in our society. Keep in mind it is on a mainstream left-wing site, and many people reading it would be initially hostile to the idea of "men's rights". I think this is exactly the type of article that would get people to re-think some of their positions. If someone came out and delivered 100% MRA-approved doctrine, it wouldn't change many minds - it w… | /r/MensRights | 25/05/19 12:25 PM |
| 1 | School proposes punishing boys by taking away part of their recess on International Women's Dayyou know, I think it might make for an okay lesson if the boys were "punished" one day and the girls were "punished" another. Or maybe people with last names from A-M one day and people from N-Z another day. | /r/MensRights | 17/05/19 11:45 PM |
| 22 | After being asked if sexism against men would be included in Mastodon's latest efforts to stem bigotry, @MastodonProject writes, "Of course not. Get your head out of your ass."Funnily enough women are the majority of voters. So you could make a good case that women have more power than men. | /r/MensRights | 17/05/19 12:56 AM |
| 1 | Why doesn’t the manosphere ever talk about the father who abandoned the single mother?Yeah, deadbeats should be shamed. That said, there is some sympathy for guy's in fairly extreme situations: A man loses his high-paying job and he is working a lower paying one. He is still required to pay lavish child support in line with what he made at his old job. Because of that he is significant debt. A man tries to be an involved parent, but the woman does everything possible to prevent it. But she still expects the child support payments. It's a misguided but natural reaction to try to p… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/05/19 07:32 PM |
| 38 | Discussion: "women are feeling increasingly burdened by unpaid emotional labor", particularly in the context of emotional relationships (Harper's Baazar)Are women really doing 90% of the emotional labour? Or are they just unaware of the emotional labour that men do for them? Typically surveys where they ask people what percentage of the chores they do, it adds up to way more than 100% (eg. Women say they do 75%, men say they do 50% and probably the true amount is in the middle). And with the chores there is a bit more of record of what has been done (the dishes are washed or they are still sitting in the sink) I think emotional labour leaves eve… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/05/19 06:24 PM |
| 1 | In an attempt to reduce false rape accusations, the UK government now requests alleged rape victims to have data taken from their phones for inspection - victim blaming or a good deterrent?The comment to which I was replying referenced convictions. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/05/19 09:54 PM |
| 2 | In an attempt to reduce false rape accusations, the UK government now requests alleged rape victims to have data taken from their phones for inspection - victim blaming or a good deterrent?There are scenarios where it could make a difference. eg. Woman says that she went on a date with some guy and she was raped. She suspects that she was drugged because she didn't remember that night. However her phone was in frequent use during the alleged blackout period telling her friend that she was having a great time and the guy was really great in bed. Then for a few days she texted the alleged rapist saying what a great time she had and wanted to meet up again. If the above was the case,… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/05/19 12:20 PM |
| 1 | CMV: Red Pill is teaching manipulation which is already a built in feature in women. Red Pill is men acting like women.You're right that hotness is not the only factor. If you are a hot woman and act like a reasonable, normal woman though, you'll be high status. You can lose the high status by acting ridiculous, stupidly or trashily. If you're not a hot woman, you have to obtain high status in another way. Acting like a normal woman is not enough. Also a lot of male sports stars marry the IG thots. I suspect it's a less true for men who earn their money as lawyers or doctors or through finance or other field… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/04/19 10:29 PM |
| 12 | Already deletedYeah, they should try re-posting in the political megathread. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/19 11:51 PM |
| 20 | (discussion) Why is this so ignored when discussing promiscuity/hook ups?Maybe the guys are mentally ill too. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/04/19 08:58 PM |
| 7 | amber heard/Johnny Depp domestic abuse case just got even messierThey still technically have to prove the abuse in America. That said, police have rules to follow and usually that means arresting the man if there is any doubt as to what happened. It's only in court where the abuse has to be proven - and there are some very biased judges. | /r/MensRights | 26/03/19 11:45 AM |
| 10 | Why do people have their sons circumcised other than for religious reasons?Because their dad was circumcised, and a circumcised penis looks normal to the parents. Not wanting their child to look different Some social pressure (eg. a nurse scheduling a circumcision, and its easier to just go with the flow) generally medical associations in North America have said that circumcision is recommended Worry that the boy will want to be circumcised later on and wanting to spare the older boy the pain that would mean Belief that it makes a penis easier to clean Also it's psycho… | /r/MensRights | 25/03/19 01:24 AM |
| 11 | Discussion thread for The Simpsons S30E18 - "Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy"Just watched the latest Simpsons. MRAs were mocked a bit in it. Milhouse leads a group of BRAs (Boys Rights Activists) that are upset that Itchy and Scratchy have been rebooted as female characters. I wouldn't say the criticism was scathing, but the general tone was that the BRAs were whiny crybabies. | /r/MensRights | 25/03/19 01:12 AM |
| 3 | Is a woman who aspires to be a great wife and homemaker, but has no interest in a career, acceptable to you as an LTR prospect?I know. And if it was a guarantee that things would stay that way forever, she'd be a dream woman. In real life, I would be skeptical that things would always remain that way. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/03/19 02:36 AM |
| 3 | Is a woman who aspires to be a great wife and homemaker, but has no interest in a career, acceptable to you as an LTR prospect?I'd be very interested. If she stays as described it would be a dream come true. It could be a disaster if she turned into an unpleasant, nagging person - but definitely worth the risk. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/03/19 12:40 AM |
| 7 | Teacher obligates students to do this project and explain why everybody should be feministGiven that it is an 'English' assignment, I doubt the OP would take much of a hit in grade. I'm sure the majority of the marks in the grading scheme would have to be about the use of English. Although I suppose the instructor could say that the OP didn't understand the assignment... | /r/MensRights | 15/03/19 01:19 PM |
| 2 | Is it sexist to ask people to "smile more?"As other people noted, it's somewhat rude either way. However, I'd only classify it as sexist if it's something that is mostly done to one gender. ie. If 90% of the people that are asked to smile are women, then it can be considered a sexist behaviour. If 50% of people that are asked to smile are women and 50% men, then it's rude nut not sexist. If 90% of the people asked to smile are men, then it is sexist against men. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/03/19 11:29 PM |
| 2 | Is it sexist to ask people to "smile more?"I agree, it's only sexist if it's men asking women to smile more and not more or less equal. If I had to guess, I'd say that women get asked to smile more. But has a study actually been done? I don't know. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/03/19 05:11 PM |
| 1 | Q4RP: Would you give up The Red Pill for your dream girl?The answer seems to be an obvious yes. But I suppose it depends on the length of time that you are with your dream girl. If you live happily ever after, then yes. If you are "with" her, but as soon as the magic happens she comes to her senses and dumps you, then no. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/02/19 12:23 AM |
| 1 | [Discussion] Gay men have spousal homicide rates far higher than every other type of coupleIt's probably worth discussing. It actually coincides with two general facts about murder. 1) Men are more likely to be murderers. 2) Men are more likely to be murder victims. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/02/19 01:06 AM |
| 28 | CMV: Most women don't have 'rape fantasies'Maybe the studies have been limited, but here's just one with 355 women. 62% of them have had rape fantasies " using a fantasy checklist that reflected the legal definition of rape " https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19085605 To get to 62% they combined a number of categories. However, 32% of women reported that they sometimes have fantasies of "being raped by a man". I'm not sure how you can argue with that. Do you think those women are lying? Fantasy Percentage of women who have at lea… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/02/19 03:21 AM |
| 2 | Discussion - Study shows that women, even feminists, are attracted to men who are benevolent sexists.I think benevolent reverse sexism is the proper term. The way you said it could be confusing! | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/02/19 12:59 AM |
| 1 | Discussion - Study shows that women, even feminists, are attracted to men who are benevolent sexists.I think it used to be more prevalent. And probably if you went to certain traditional subcultures, there'd be a lot of support for statements like "Only men should serve in the army." And often times, the statement might not appear quite so harsh. Maybe it would be, "Being in the army is dangerous and dirty work. I would be so concerned if my daughter was in the army. No parent should have to worry like that. Only men should serve in the army." I think probably the red pill sub would come down o… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/02/19 06:27 PM |
| 2 | Discussion - Study shows that women, even feminists, are attracted to men who are benevolent sexists.Yes that is the hostile part. I sort of meant it from the perspective of a woman who wants to be in the army or a firefighter. And she is told, "Sorry. No women allowed." If a country forces men into the army - but not women, I would argue that is benevolent sexism. Basically any sexism that is experienced negatively is hostile sexism. Any sexism that is experienced positively is benevolent sexism. So hostile sexism is doing things like: refusing to work for a woman, refusing to hire a woman, ca… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/02/19 06:20 PM |
| 3 | Discussion - Study shows that women, even feminists, are attracted to men who are benevolent sexists.Fair enough point. However, even if men only did these things for women that they liked, there would still be an imbalance in the amount of suitcase-carrying going on between the sexes. I would say that in order to combat this benevolent sexism, feminists should ensure that they are doing as much for men as men are doing for her. eg. For every guy who carries your luggage, she should carry the luggage of some guy. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/02/19 01:32 PM |
| 10 | Discussion - Study shows that women, even feminists, are attracted to men who are benevolent sexists.Actually studies tend to show that hostile sexism and benevolent sexism are correlated. The same men who offer to carry suitcases also think that women should be barred from the army or as firefighters. I think they call it ambivalent sexism. (In any case, I think it makes sense. If you think women are less capable but you also don't have any dislike of women then your sexism will tend to come out in different ways. Sometimes positively. Sometimes negatively.) | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/02/19 01:27 PM |
| 1 | Is there a cause and effect relationship in the following statement:I'll agree that this is part of the issue. I've made the same point myself. If men are more likely to be mugged on the street, walking alone at night, is it because muggers prefer to mug men? Or because there are more men available as targets? However, I would still say that it is inappropriate to provide special protection for women from muggers. (eg. Giving muggers a larger sentence when the woman is the victim. Or a university providing a "Walk Safe" program for women only.) Likening it to th… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/02/19 01:44 AM |
| 5 | The Gender Inequality mythTrue. But it is a bit hypocritical to denounce the feminist image as being misleading propaganda, and then post an inaccurate graph. After all, I'm sure many feminists justify saying inaccurate things because they are "more impactful". | /r/MensRights | 24/01/19 02:13 AM |
| 5 | Why is it argued that a high n-count only affects women's ability to bond?I'm not saying that women aren't shamed for their choices. They hear, "Why are you with him? He's too old for you.", "Why are you with him? You can do better.", "Why are you with him he's such a geek/loser etc.?" But if a woman said, "I wouldn't want to date that guy. Every weekend he's picking up a different woman from the club and bringing her home." Would she be shamed for that? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/01/19 04:24 PM |
| 4 | Why is it argued that a high n-count only affects women's ability to bond?It's probably true that a high n-count affects a man's ability to bond. But men are often shamed for stating that they have a preference for low n-count women. I suspect that few women are shamed for preferring low n-count men. If I'm mistaken, let me know. But if that is the case then men have to provide a justification for their preference. And women are rarely required to provide a justification. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/01/19 03:50 PM |
| 1 | What does RP think about psychological therapy?I think in general, a one-on-one therapist is going to work to understand where you are coming from and try to help you achieve what you want to achieve. Or even "group therapy" where everyone is there individually for something like depression or social anxiety. I haven't been to "marriage counselling" or anything like that, but I suppose I would be concerned about being treated fairly if I were in a conflict with a woman and we were trying to resolve our differences. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/01/19 06:09 PM |
| 2 | Men are more disadvantaged than women in the UK, US and most of Europe, scientists claim | Metro NewsThere's all sorts of social aspects that play into that. What if society thought it wasn't important to research women's or men's health? If there weren't so many advances in protecting the mother during childbirth, perhaps life expectancy would be a lot closer. There's the type of research that is funded. There are social influences that cause men to go to the doctors less. There are social factors that affect behavior and that leads to different health outcomes. | /r/MensRights | 05/01/19 02:25 AM |
| 1 | Men are more disadvantaged than women in the UK, US and most of Europe, scientists claim | Metro NewsYou can definitely tell a story that faults society for that. Probably doesn't fully explain it, but societal attitudes influence that. Men and boys are trained to not show weakness. They are trained to think that their lives and health are less important than women and children. Is it a surprise that men don't go to the doctor if they aren't sure anything is wrong? A man might fear "looking like a wuss" for going to a doctor for something that might be nothing. And then if it is something, mayb… | /r/MensRights | 05/01/19 02:18 AM |
| 0 | Q4Men: Wouldn't it be ideal if you were hypnotized like Jack Black in 'Shallow Hal' movie and saw kind but fat/ugly girls as gorgeous and mean girls as ugly?yeah, it would be great. I only watched a part of that movie, but I remember thinking that the Gwyneth Paltrow character wasn't obviously kind. She seemed normal with low self-confidence. Wasn't sure how her "inner beauty" made her a 10. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/01/19 04:33 AM |
| 14 | Why is RP obsessed with borderline personality disorder?Look, you don't end up in the red pill sub unless you've had some bad experiences - often with parents. If you have a mom with a Cluster B personality disorder, that scars you and typically you don't emerge as a healthy adult. You tend to find relationships challenging. You may end up as a red piller. On the other hand, if you grew up in a better situation, maybe you develop normal relationship skills and you end up with a healthy relationship with a woman naturally. You never go looking for the… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 31/12/18 01:13 PM |
| 21 | Women to Crazed Feminists: We Will Fight You To Defend Our MenIt sounds like this woman might support accused anonymity, so I'm not going to complete dismiss her. She seems to think that the idea of "believe all women" is inappropriate. However, there are a few lines that make me think she supports traditionalism, so it makes sense to be wary. Also, personally I think many women might support equal sentencing if only because they think it would benefit women. | /r/MensRights | 31/12/18 12:51 AM |
| 3 | Amber Heard received death threats and was 'blacklisted' after accusing Johnny Depp of abuse | Actress who went public with a false accusation is shocked to discover her lies have negative consequences - for her, not for Depp.In the absence of evidence, we should give both of them the benefit of the doubt. Depp shouldn't be assumed to be an abuser. Heard shouldn't be assumed to be a liar. Admittedly, they can't both be true. However, it is the only fair way to treat people. | /r/MensRights | 20/12/18 02:19 AM |
| 16 | One major reason women struggle with online dating is because they think they can treat the top 20% of guys, as if they are part of the bottom 80%.Usually they don't struggle with finding sex. But they do often struggle finding a decent match for a long term relationship. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/12/18 01:53 PM |
| 1 | The "only 2% of reported rapes are false" statistic commonly cited by feminists is misleadingOK, maybe there is a need for two different terms. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/12/18 02:32 AM |
| 1 | The "only 2% of reported rapes are false" statistic commonly cited by feminists is misleadingI'll agree that that is likely high. I used it based on the list of studies in that wikipedia article (I omitted the 90% study). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_accusation_of_rape#Estimates_of_prevalence Personally I view the 2-10% studies as ludicrously low. The 20-25% studies are probably about right. The 40-45% studies are probably biased to find false reports. But if 2% is used in the range of possible numbers, I think 50% should also qualify. Again, "false reports" doesn't necessarily m… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/12/18 01:56 AM |
| 1 | The "only 2% of reported rapes are false" statistic commonly cited by feminists is misleadingI'll agree that the crime requires intent. However, imagine a rape occurred by a stranger and a woman mistakenly (but honestly) identifies the wrong man. From the perspective of men who are concerned about being falsely accused, that would qualify as a false report. It's not a crime, but from the perspective of a man who wants to know his chances of being falsely accused of rape, it is relevant. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/12/18 12:44 AM |
| 1 | The "only 2% of reported rapes are false" statistic commonly cited by feminists is misleadingTo me the issue is that people who are saying 2-10% are false. It seems more true to say that 2-50% are false. If I were to take a stab at a "best" methodology it would be to only look at cases that were false beyond a reasonable doubt or true beyond a reasonable doubt. See what percentage of those were false. Ignore the large number of cases that are possibly true and possibly false. (In the most cited studies the "maybes" are assumed to be true.) Of course, there are still big problems with … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/12/18 12:38 AM |
| 3 | The "only 2% of reported rapes are false" statistic commonly cited by feminists is misleadingYou may be different, but some women/people seem to thrive on drama and attention and sympathy. I also think you are overestimating the cost of reporting a rape. Probably if you make a public accusation against a celebrity you'll face plenty of criticism. If you make a claim against a non-celebrity that seems to be contradicted by the evidence, then you'll face criticism and lose friends and support. However, if you make a credible claim that seems at least 50% likely to be true, then I think yo… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/12/18 12:54 PM |
| 1 | Q4MEN: Is it difficult to work with young attractive women?It's not difficult to not hit on her. I guess when I was younger I might have felt nervousness around her. I don't think that it would be harder for attractive women to voice their opinion. Normally people would want to be supportive. That said, if you have a crush on a woman and then she pointedly embarrasses you in front of a group that would sting even more than usual. So I could see someone getting slightly more defensive with their crush than another person. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/12/18 12:30 PM |
| 5 | Wtf sexism is sexism no matter to whomNone of the dictionaries use "power" as a key part of their definition. They do say things like "typically against women" since that's how it tends to be used. But the definition is not prejudice+power. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sexism https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sexism https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sexism https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/sexism | /r/MensRights | 02/12/18 06:14 PM |
| 6 | Can we talk about /r/WhereAreAllTheGoodMen and related subs?Umm, perhaps the guy making the demand is blond, is sexually insatiable and has man boobs? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/12/18 06:49 PM |
| 18 | Women are being asked to record ‘consent videos’ before sex by men who are afraid they’ll be accused of rape or assaultAgreed that people should be considered innocent until proven guilty. And he wasn't proven guilty. | /r/MensRights | 01/12/18 02:44 PM |
| 25 | Women are being asked to record ‘consent videos’ before sex by men who are afraid they’ll be accused of rape or assaultWell, I agree that he shouldn't be called a rapist. However, he wasn't found innocent. | /r/MensRights | 01/12/18 01:40 PM |
| 1 | The nation's capital of canada biggest college is now enforcing holding spots for women in engineering studies over qualified males.I agree the biggest reason for the disparity is that many more men than women apply. And yes. If only 100 men apply and there are 200 spots, then every man will get in. However, if that's the case, then what is the point of this program? To me, having read the article, it seems like: - there are official minimum standards (like a grade). Say it's 70% (this is not a university) - normally there are more applicants who meet the minimum standard than there are spots (If there are 200 spots maybe 30… | /r/MensRights | 27/11/18 01:43 PM |
| 1 | The nation's capital of canada biggest college is now enforcing holding spots for women in engineering studies over qualified males.I agree that this is a bad policy. But I do want to point out that colleges in Canada are a distinct tier compared to universities. Generally colleges are more technical and less prestigious. More focused on practical skills. Like air conditioning technicians, dental hygienists, culinary skills, auto service technicians, tourism and hospitality etc. Obviously valuable, but the people who are graduating from this program aren't going to get the highly-paid engineering jobs that students from Univ… | /r/MensRights | 27/11/18 04:06 AM |
| 2 | The nation's capital of canada biggest college is now enforcing holding spots for women in engineering studies over qualified males.Well the idea is that only some of the men who meet minimum standards will be accepted. But every single woman who does will be accepted. So assuming the applicant mix remains unchanged, there will effectively be lower standards for women. | /r/MensRights | 27/11/18 03:52 AM |
| 1 | CMV: High casualty jobs being primarily occupied by men is not evidence that men have it unfairWell, the idea is that if we use outcomes to determine who is oppressed disadvantaged then this one metric where men are disadvantaged. Men are more likely to die on the job. Women are more likely to make less money. It's plausible to believe that both outcomes could arise if everyone is judged as an individual but men and women tend to have different traits and interests: men being more physically capable and therefore better hires for some jobs men and women having different interests and desi… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/11/18 04:23 PM |
| 0 | Why Don't Men Value Success In Women?I think most men are okay with a comfortable, median income. Making much more than that is more of a status thing. All else equal, men would prefer a woman that makes more money. But a pretty young woman is far more important to the man than a woman who makes a lot. And the hot wife is also a status symbol for the man. So if the man was making twice what he needs to be comfortable, and "throwing away" half on a pretty woman - he's basically trading a bit of material comfort for better sex and th… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/11/18 05:11 AM |
| 4 | Boys left to fail at school because attempts to help them earn wrath of feminists, says UK ex-University Admissions Chief.I think there are problems, but bringing women into the workplace has increased the economic power of Western countries. The issue is that we need to give all students the help and opportunity to be the best they can be. And then we need to hire the most capable people to actually do the job. Open to all races, genders, etc - but no artificial quotas either. | /r/MensRights | 17/11/18 01:54 PM |
| 1 | Q4W: Would you rather be a man? Would the promise of male privilege push you toward a "yes" answer?A lot of the answers are missing the point. (Would I still be the same height and weight? All my friends are women so it would be weird if I was a man. Etc.) I think a better question is this: Suppose reincarnation is real and you are about to reborn as a random person. Would you choose to be born as a boy or a girl? Possibly you'd want to specify that the person would be born in the first world. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/11/18 01:22 PM |
| 4 | Scientists conducting the world’s largest study of sex differences in the brain have found that men and women think differently. Men and women are different. They have different skills. They are biologically attracted to different jobs. Deal with it.Could you provide links? | /r/MensRights | 14/11/18 01:08 PM |
| 15 | Scientists conducting the world’s largest study of sex differences in the brain have found that men and women think differently. Men and women are different. They have different skills. They are biologically attracted to different jobs. Deal with it.Sure, but you can't expect people doing the hiring to not demand a certain gender. If I'm hiring someone to play Abraham Lincoln in a movie, I'm going to choose a man. If I'm hiring people to pose in bikinis in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, I'm going to choose women. Doesn't mean that many women aren't great actors or that men can't be great models. Just that they can't really do the particular job. | /r/MensRights | 14/11/18 01:04 PM |
| 2 | CMV: Women lie about the reason they don't like "nice guys".Well, that's fair enough - but I'd expect consistency from people. I have a suspicion that many of the same people who talk about entitled men are the same people who complain about unfairness in the job market. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 31/10/18 01:37 AM |
| 1 | Research into hypergamy doesn’t replicate. Original researcher declares his own theory is probably not true and that the studies based on his theory are now garbage.A more analogous claim would be: "All these people claim that just because I am rated as racist on an implicit association test, I am subconsciously racist. But I'm not. I don't even see color. I just don't like thugs whatever race they happen to be. If I was being racist, I'd notice it. Can't believe that people think they know what's going in my mind better than I do." | /r/PurplePillDebate | 27/10/18 12:30 AM |
| 5 | More than 75% of Americans Think Women Are Making False #MeToo ClaimsNo, I'm not saying that. I'll edit to make more clear, but my line of logic was: 76% of Americans think false claims are a problem (minor or major) If people believe that every claim is true, then they wouldn't be worried about false claims and wouldn't define it as a problem. Therefore, we can reasonably infer that at least 76% of Americans think that at least some women are making false claims. Thanks for clarifying your objection. | /r/MensRights | 08/10/18 11:08 PM |
| 1 | More than 75% of Americans Think Women Are Making False #MeToo ClaimsNot sure what you are saying. | /r/MensRights | 08/10/18 08:54 PM |
| 6 | More than 75% of Americans Think Women Are Making False #MeToo ClaimsAccording to a new poll of 6,251 adults released by the Pew Research Center on Wednesday, 31% of respondents say that women making false claims about being sexually harassed or assaulted is a major problem in today’s workplace. Another 45% think baseless allegations are a minor problem. Add the two together and you get 76% that think false claims are at least a minor problem. Which only would be a problem if there are at least some women that are making false claims. EDIT: Since people presumabl… | /r/MensRights | 08/10/18 08:05 PM |
| 1 | Carlos Ramos receives apology as figures emerge showing male tennis players are penalised more often than women for bad behaviourI think they are talking about violations. Not just full-blown disqualifications. | /r/MensRights | 15/09/18 01:58 PM |
| 3 | Carlos Ramos receives apology as figures emerge showing male tennis players are penalised more often than women for bad behaviourI agree. It's like someone claimed that women unfairly are paid more than men for their contributions. Then someone points out the flawed pay gap/ earnings gap data to show that the bias is the other way. This would cast some doubt on the original claim, but wouldn't disprove it. Similarly these stats do cast doubt on the assertions that women are punished more. But it doesn't completely disprove it. Men get 4 times as many punishments for verbal abuse. But what if men actually commit verbal abu… | /r/MensRights | 15/09/18 01:49 PM |
| 5 | The Umpires Strike Back - Serena Williams, a petulant crybully who thinks she stands above the law, with the full backing of the social justice machine, but is the Force With Her?So you think that it's irrelevant that she was playing against a female player? Fine. We agree. I thought you were suggesting that charges of sexism made no sense given that she was playing against another woman. Sometimes I assume that people writing jokes are trying to make a point of some sort. You were not. My misunderstanding. | /r/MensRights | 13/09/18 12:15 AM |
| 8 | The Umpires Strike Back - Serena Williams, a petulant crybully who thinks she stands above the law, with the full backing of the social justice machine, but is the Force With Her?Well, I think she is wrong about it being because she is a woman. Women tend to be babied by justice systems. I'm sure men are treated more harshly on average. But I still think that you can have sexism when you only have male-male matches and female-female matches. Suppose someone said that swearing is unladylike and means a forfeit. But swearing okay for men, and no punishment. That would still be sexism even if women were the beneficiaries of the forfeits. Or to put it in another context. S… | /r/MensRights | 12/09/18 09:59 PM |
| 1 | Police ignore male victim of abuse, because perpetrator was female. She later kills him after being empowered to commit violence against men.I guess if you are economically illiterate and unaware of inflation, ten pounds sounds like a slap on the wrist. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/18 10:15 PM |
| 1 | Children with Older Fathers at Increased Risk For Mental Illness/Genetic DiseaseNo great solution. Making sure that all children are raised so that they have every opportunity to have their material and psychological needs met could help the next generation. But that would be hard to implement, and doesn't really help young adults now. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/08/18 08:46 PM |
| 1 | Children with Older Fathers at Increased Risk For Mental Illness/Genetic DiseaseOK. A few confounders there. One, the mother is also older. Two, there could be birth order effects. But another question: What are the relative sizes of the effects? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/08/18 08:44 PM |
| 1 | Children with Older Fathers at Increased Risk For Mental Illness/Genetic DiseaseTo me it seems like the major explanation is not that the man's sperm is genetically weakened. It's that psychologically healthy people tend to be married at a younger age to someone fairly close in age. Psychologically unhealthy women are more likely to want to marry someone much older. Psychologically unhealthy men are more likely to not get their life organized til they are much older. This poor psychological health is transmitted to the children (either by genes or the environment). So… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/08/18 12:09 PM |
| 2 | Teacher punishes 10 year old boy for calling her "ma'am", and threatens to throw something at him.I'd like to hear the teacher's side but as reported this is a horrible teacher. | /r/MensRights | 26/08/18 10:18 PM |
| 2 | So apparently around 27% of women actually reach climax during encountersWell obviously if it hurts, she should stop. It shouldn't be seen as a moral failing of the woman if the guy doesn't get off. But I think by the same token, it shouldn't be seen as a moral failing of the guy if the woman doesn't get off. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/08/18 02:27 AM |
| 3 | So apparently around 27% of women actually reach climax during encountersAnd I think that makes sense. But I think it might be interesting to look at how long each gender is willing to perform oral sex before giving up. Suppose for example, 75% of men would still keep giving oral to their partner beyond 30 minutes and only 60% of women would do the same. But simultaneously many more men than women achieved orgasm. In that case I think you'd have to question the conclusion that women are more interested in providing better service. You'd have to look at some alternati… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/08/18 12:30 AM |
| 6 | So apparently around 27% of women actually reach climax during encountersHonestly, I'm not sure men and women are different in attentiveness. If a man doesn't orgasm during a blow job, how many women are willing to keep going 20 minutes or 40 minutes or an hour? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/08/18 09:46 PM |
| 10 | #MeToo is unraveling after its two biggest proponents, Asia Argento and Rose McGowan, have been revealed to be huge hypocrites.No, I don't think you are missing something. Reading her tweet in a charitable way probably would lead to your interpretation. I think that in the past though anyone saying "slow down... let's figure out what happened before responding" to the #metoo movement would have been subjected to severe criticism. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/08/18 02:33 AM |
| 8 | #MeToo is unraveling after its two biggest proponents, Asia Argento and Rose McGowan, have been revealed to be huge hypocrites.I'll agree that sometimes people should go to bat for their friends. This doesn't mean that Metoo is without merit. But I think your "Nos" are incorrect. Is she saying the accusations against Asia Argento are false? No. That she shouldn't be held accountable? No. She is implying that the accusations are false. " None of us know the truth of the situation and I’m sure more will be revealed. " And she is implying that she shouldn't be held accountable. "Be gentle." | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/08/18 09:37 PM |
| 2 | Blame male privilege for women being shitty to one anotherAt this point it is caused by society as a whole. And in a fuzzy way it always was (politicians and voters weren't totally insensitive to the opinions of women). But I'm saying that in 1917 it was a legitimate men's rights issue. And simultaneously if someone said that it was men inflicting conscription on themselves at that time, I'd have a hard time arguing against it. Voters and politicians were men. Military leaders were men. Again, there's a certain fuzziness because men are influenced by t… | /r/MensRights | 12/08/18 02:02 AM |
| 11 | Blame male privilege for women being shitty to one anotherYou know what, I originally thought this complaint was ridiculous. Women do it to themselves (through social pressure among women). But there are things that I consider legitimate men's rights issues that are really things men do to themselves (largely through social pressure among men). eg. Men having weaker support networks because they can't be as open with other men about their feelings/ weaknesses/ issues. This can lead to things like suicide, homelessness, substance abuse, etc. Or historic… | /r/MensRights | 11/08/18 10:53 PM |
| 3 | Woman was "completely blindsided" by the way her ex husband went after her money. He hired a lawyer and pursued a percentage of her earnings, including her future assets! She worked years for that money.I'm not sure the article is as hypocritical as we're making it out to be. Did the article suggest that the laws should be changed? Or that it's unfair that men are receiving their share of the assets? Sure, I guess one woman was "completely blindsided" but I'm sure you could find many men that might also say the same thing when their ex goes after their money hard. I took it as more of a "lifestyle" article that basically says this is the reality of divorce. And overall, I think it's a positive … | /r/MensRights | 09/08/18 11:51 AM |
| 2 | UK: Young mother, 21, who took a 13-year-old schoolboy’s virginity on her kitchen floor avoids jail - but judge warns her not to invite ‘teenage lads around for parties’. This is outrageously lenient.I guess, but honestly I just want a consistent application of the law for boys and girls, men and women. I wouldn't support a law where having sex with a 13 year old boy was considered more serious than having sex with a 13 year old girl. I want them treated as equally severe. | /r/MensRights | 01/08/18 01:42 AM |
| 3 | UK: Young mother, 21, who took a 13-year-old schoolboy’s virginity on her kitchen floor avoids jail - but judge warns her not to invite ‘teenage lads around for parties’. This is outrageously lenient.Well apparently she was 19 at the time of the offence. But yeah, I'd agree that 19 and 15 deserves leniency. I think a lot of jurisidictions have Romeo and Juliet laws that cover differences of 4 year or less. 19 and 13 - no. | /r/MensRights | 01/08/18 01:35 AM |
| 2 | Wow. Female contestants of reality TV shows such as Love Island regret their decisions. Who knew!?You know what, reality tv shows suck and I want less of them. They are bad for society. I'd be totally fine if they made them more expensive to make by requiring the shows to provide 5 years of free counselling to every contestant. | /r/TheRedPill | 30/07/18 10:15 PM |
| 5 | Henry Cavill says he's worried he'll be called a rapist for approaching women because of #MeToo, and then has to apologiseI imagine that some celebrities are asked about it point blank though. "No comment" isn't a great response. I guess the best response is a vague statement along the lines of, "It's important that rape and sexual harassment be taken seriously." | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/07/18 12:00 PM |
| 1 | Study finds women -- including feminists -- are more attracted to 'benevolently sexist' menI'm not saying it's widespread. But I think the occasional person does think that way. There are security guards at the office building where I work, and some of them are women. There's been a few guys that have made comments to me that they couldn't imagine the security guard being able to do anything if physical force was required. | /r/MensRights | 10/07/18 06:52 PM |
| 1 | Study finds women -- including feminists -- are more attracted to 'benevolently sexist' menI thought it was obvious but there is an implied "suppose" in that statement. | /r/MensRights | 10/07/18 05:46 PM |
| 1 | Study finds women -- including feminists -- are more attracted to 'benevolently sexist' menBeing forced to do a physical job is oppression. Not being forced is a privilege. Not being allowed to do a physical job when you want to do it and capable of it is oppression. | /r/MensRights | 10/07/18 05:45 PM |
| 3 | "When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10%, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas…once that number grows above 10 %, the idea spreads like a flame."I agree as well. Just based on this framework though, I could see MRM ideas reaching a critical mass within right-wing parties. In left-wing parties though, feminism has long passed that 10% critical point. Maybe there is hope with a center-left party in a multi-party system. | /r/MensRights | 10/07/18 03:02 PM |
| -1 | Study finds women -- including feminists -- are more attracted to 'benevolently sexist' menI agree that is part of the motivation. Many, if not all, benevolently sexist actions can be seen as hostile sexism against men. However, most benevolently sexist actions will tend to result in hostile sexism against women. eg. (Edit: Suppose) everyone holds doors open for women and only women. That teaches people that women are less capable than men. And therefore, people will be less likely to hire a woman for a mildly physical job. (Of course the holding door policy hurts men too. Men are see… | /r/MensRights | 10/07/18 02:59 PM |
| 3 | Study finds women -- including feminists -- are more attracted to 'benevolently sexist' menYet another study that shows that women prefer benevolently sexist men over non-sexist men as relationship partners. (Also to a lesser degree as professional colleagues.) And feminists are just as likely as non-feminist women to have these preferences! To me it just reinforces the notion that sexism is incentivized through an interconnected web of actions and preferences. Everyone (both men and women) is somewhat responsible for this climate. Straight women actively encourage men to be benevolen… | /r/MensRights | 10/07/18 02:41 PM |
| 2 | Eurydice Dixon: ‘Rape culture’ facts just don’t fit | Former forensic psychologist debunks a favourite feminist myth.I think they are rare, but I've heard a handful. eg. http://www.all4humor.com/jokes/dirty-jokes/superman-and-wonder-woman.html TV shows sometimes too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhjsafZcrXA Usually a man being raped. This article lists some jokes about women being raped: https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/columns/the-sexist/blog/13118027/five-rape-quotes-not-to-tell-if-you-want-a-future I think I've heard a variation on McCain's in real life: Did you hear the one about the woman who is att… | /r/MensRights | 08/07/18 04:02 PM |
| 3 | Feminist favourite, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, learns the hard way that-even if youre a White Knight-somewhere, somehow, there'll always be an offended feminist who can take you down, as he's accused of 'groping'. Ahhh, the irony.....He taught a bunch of subjects including math, french, drama and social studies. | /r/MensRights | 07/07/18 12:28 PM |
| 3 | Feminist favourite, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, learns the hard way that-even if youre a White Knight-somewhere, somehow, there'll always be an offended feminist who can take you down, as he's accused of 'groping'. Ahhh, the irony.....I'm not sure of the legalities, but generally Canadian politicians don't seem to pardon a list of individual people like the US does. Usually when I hear of a Canadian pardon in the news, it's a mass pardon to overturn some (real or perceived) historical injustice: eg. Pardons for all people convicted of homosexual acts, grain farmers who sold grain in the US, six Tsilhqot'in chiefs from an 1864 skirmish, pot possession* Occasionally, it's used for particular historical people: eg. Viola Desmond… | /r/MensRights | 07/07/18 12:23 PM |
| 1 | If Men's Rights is so critical - why are there no actual MRA groups protesting on the frontlines, causing civil disobedience, really making their voices heard? Why is MRA limited to sullen bitter internet forums?No, things are rarely easy. However, a rational person makes decisions based on a variety of factors: what are the personal costs? do I have a group of like-minded people that agree with me? how likely is it that I will succeed in creating meaningful change? For a variety of reasons, an MRA taking a strong public stand is likely to be fairly ineffective and isolated. FWIW, I have taken MRA stands at work, and seemingly convinced most of the women there of the logic. If every MRA convinces 10 wom… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/07/18 03:00 AM |
| 1 | If Men's Rights is so critical - why are there no actual MRA groups protesting on the frontlines, causing civil disobedience, really making their voices heard? Why is MRA limited to sullen bitter internet forums?I don't know. Men who are beaten down and have no self confidence? Men who value being accepted by their friends and family? Men who have legitimate concerns about keeping their job? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/07/18 02:28 AM |
| 1 | If Men's Rights is so critical - why are there no actual MRA groups protesting on the frontlines, causing civil disobedience, really making their voices heard? Why is MRA limited to sullen bitter internet forums?I didn't make the original comment, but the point is that black men could march for civil rights and if they were told they were being selfish, they could say: "This isn't just for me. This is for my wife, my daughters, my mom, my sisters, my sons, etc." Having women be among the victims made the movement seem more just and necessary. Many of the more galvanizing moments had women as victims. Rosa Parks. The four little girls in the church bombing. Somehow the photos of the black students enteri… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/07/18 01:42 AM |
| 1 | If Men's Rights is so critical - why are there no actual MRA groups protesting on the frontlines, causing civil disobedience, really making their voices heard? Why is MRA limited to sullen bitter internet forums?My point is that Atlas_B_Shruggin objected to the idea that Civil rights benefited women. And I think it's obvious that black women benefited as well as black men. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/07/18 01:29 AM |
| 0 | If Men's Rights is so critical - why are there no actual MRA groups protesting on the frontlines, causing civil disobedience, really making their voices heard? Why is MRA limited to sullen bitter internet forums?No one is saying that civil rights only benefited women. Only that black women were among those who benefited. Do you deny that black women benefited from the civil rights movement? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/06/18 02:09 AM |
| 7 | I am a woman and this shit infuriates meYeah, that should be called out more. | /r/MensRights | 23/06/18 03:35 PM |
| 3 | Confession: I Was A Female IncelI disagree. Take a quite attractive woman (an 8). Add 50 pounds. She's probably a 4. Reverse the process and you go from a 4 to an 8. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/06/18 01:45 AM |
| 38 | The Misunderstanding of Data Regarding Male AttractivenessYou might be on to something about the distribution being skewed. But by definition 50% of men are above the median and 50% of men are below the median. Median doesn't mean take the average of the highest and lowest values. It means find the man right in the middle (if you ranked men from 1 to 3.5 billion) So mathematically your argument makes no sense. It would work better if you were saying that due to a skewed distribution 80% of men are below the mean/average. And that when people complain a… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/06/18 06:19 PM |
| 1 | Are single men and women are making politics more extreme?Yes, people consider how policies will effect their entire families. So someone with a family of four will want policies that balance the interest of the husband and wife, daughter and son. Likely something moderate. Someone who is single votes for a policy that benefits themselves. And that could very well be extreme. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/05/18 01:26 AM |
| 1 | CMV: You can't have a sexually adventurous woman in bed who doesn't have a past which involves having the same sex with other men.Maybe she just had a lot of fun with the Holodeck/virtual reality/sex robots. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 27/05/18 08:07 PM |
| 3 | How do men reconcile hating sluts but wanting lots of sex??This may be something that is going on in my head then. If someone says, "I hate her, she's such a slut." I think "slut" isn't really such a bad thing, so obviously he hates her because of some other reason like: she cheated on him she dumped him she was unkind to him she spread lies about him But maybe the man really just hates her because she is a "slut". | /r/PurplePillDebate | 27/05/18 08:00 PM |
| 4 | How do men reconcile hating sluts but wanting lots of sex??Can you explain? Who hates sluts? What sort of things are they saying? The most I've heard are things where a woman chooses another guy over him or something, and the snubbed guy might say "Dodged a bullet, she's kind of slutty." Something that is obviously driven by a need for the guy to feel better about himself, and better about not being with the woman in question. I've seen similar things with almost any insult - eg. women calling other women fat because they did something annoying. I feel … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/05/18 03:54 PM |
| 1 | Do you think the average man struggles as much romantically as some RPers claim?Men with poor mental health struggle. I'm thinking of thinks like depression, anxiety disorders, or just low self-esteem. That's probably not your average guy, but I wouldn't be surprised if 20% of guys have those issues. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/05/18 12:25 AM |
| 4 | Headline: "Nearly half of stray bullet victims are women, study shows" ..... So you're saying that more than half of the victims are men?But those men who were intended targets wouldn't be included in the study at all. They are only talking about stray bullets. | /r/MensRights | 22/05/18 11:45 PM |
| 2 | Over at /r/AskMenOver30, on the affects that abusive Mothers have had on Mens dating lives.They probably have. That said, they also ban feminists and such. Posts from redpill,mgtow,mra,and other similarly affiliated people are not welcome here. Post from incels, foreveraloners, and other similarly affiliated people are not welcome here. Posts from extreme feminists, PC types, and other people with agendas are not welcome here. | /r/MensRights | 09/05/18 01:16 AM |
| 1 | There is no grand conspiracy. CMV.I don't know. What country are you in? It's probably only some guys that do this. I don't. Although I do try to let women off the elevator first if we are both in similar positions. Not because I want to say anything about men and women. Mostly because I don't want to appear rude or be judged negatively. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/05/18 11:39 AM |
| 1 | Proposition: Theories about "sluts" "losing their ability to pair-bond" and notions of "used up vaginas" and "women would be happier under traditionalism" are nothing more than "cope"Why did you have sex with an unattractive man? I can't say I have a strong opinion about this subject, but I don't think the idea is that any schlub will seem like a dreamboat to an inexperienced woman. I've always understood it to mean that the woman is attracted to the man at the time (the man is perhaps in the top 10-20% of men from the women's perspective). And provided he doesn't start doing things that knock him out of the top 10-20% of men, she'll continue to have stars in her eyes. But e… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/04/18 11:58 PM |
| 23 | I guess this where we’re at now. “Men are scary. End of story”I disagree (that MRAs can't be social liberals). Suppose someone argues that: more health spending should be on men men deserve reduced prison sentences because there are so many men in prison already men should be more positively portrayed in media (no more idiot fathers in sitcoms) I think that person is an MRA. But they arguing for the types of things that social liberals usually argue for. If someone was making the same points with women or blacks replacing men, they'd be considered social l… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/18 10:33 PM |
| 7 | Do men complain too much?It's easier to complain on the internet. Complaining in real life is considered somewhat shameful (especially for men). Online you have a veil of anonymity. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/04/18 03:48 PM |
| 1 | CMV: The wage gap exists primarily because women "marry up", instead of putting in the work themselves to make the same money that men makeThere's always exceptions to every trend. If women make less than men how do you explain Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer and Meg Whitman (wealthy CEOs)? Fine and performing arts degrees seem to be around 65% women, so while men do pursue them, the fact that women pursue these degrees more means that it could contribute to the earnings gap. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/04/18 10:29 AM |
| 1 | Man wins $390000 gender discrimination lawsuit after a woman gets a promotion he was more qualified forI'll agree. It probably translates to something like: 53% chance the man is a superior candidate to the woman. | /r/MensRights | 24/03/18 12:05 AM |
| 7 | Man wins $390000 gender discrimination lawsuit after a woman gets a promotion he was more qualified forWell, there's at least a clear rating system to base the lawsuit on. I suspect in most cases it's a lot more qualitative and harder to prove that a man was a superior candidate. | /r/MensRights | 21/03/18 11:13 PM |
| 2 | Man wins $390000 gender discrimination lawsuit after a woman gets a promotion he was more qualified forThis is in Austria though, so won't apply to every country. | /r/MensRights | 21/03/18 11:11 PM |
| 3 | Growing Up As A Man In A Female Empowerment ClimateI mean, only 4 comments and 3 posters. You could probably make a comment there and have it be the highest rated comment. | /r/MensRights | 18/03/18 12:37 PM |
| -1 | US universities are now blatantly funding social justice and radical feminist ideologyHow is it used properly? His mom slept around, but Justin is Pierre's genetic offspring. | /r/MensRights | 14/03/18 11:02 PM |
| 1 | Men and women weren't designed to compete with one anotherI agree that we probably need some sort of objective study to measure actual behavior and measure actual responses from others to really know if women are unfairly called bitchy. Maybe it's already been done? I will say that on my co-ed sports teams, the ones who tend not to be able to maintain their composure are men. They aren't called bitchy, but usually something like asshole. And I have seen women called bitch when they are measured and level. Usually it's when the other person has been emb… | /r/MensRights | 11/03/18 03:05 PM |
| 1 | Male feminists get the taste of their own medicineI agree that that's what he means, and what people always mean when they say that. I was mostly just goofing around. If I had a serious point, it's that perhaps Arel can delude himself into thinking he is being consistent. @xiaxue is clearly lying. Therefore, she is not a victim of rape. Therefore, Arel not believing her is not a contradiction of his statement that he "believes victims of rape" | /r/MensRights | 11/03/18 02:45 PM |
| 1 | Male feminists get the taste of their own medicineI'm being a bit silly here, but he didn't actually say "I believe all accusations of rape". He said he believes victims of rape. So maybe he is omniscient and he knows who is an actual victim and who is not? And then he believes actual victims. (Although if you're omniscient, you don't really need to believe people. You'd just know the truth.) | /r/MensRights | 11/03/18 01:22 PM |
| 3 | Why A Woman's Sexual Past MattersWell, you're right it would be hypocritical to care about some red flags and not others based on stats. And I do think the motivation for avoiding high-n women is usually some deep-rooted ick factor, rather than a rational thought. But I think you would be justified in following either path to resolve the hypocrisy: keep looking for low n-counts, but also look for all traits that lead to longer marriages, including more education, age, less neuroticism work on getting over the high n-count hangu… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/03/18 03:44 PM |
| 6 | Why A Woman's Sexual Past MattersWell, the stats presented say that women with fewer past partners are much less likely to divorce and more likely to be in a stable marriage. It seems reasonable to tell people to strive to get over their reflexive prejudices. But since the stats say that getting married to someone with fewer past partners means you are much more likely to have a stable long-term marriage? It's harder to tell people they are being unreasonable. (To be clear, I'm not saying that people should be mocked or shamed … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/03/18 02:51 PM |
| 2 | White knight's pandering is crushed spectacularly by a feminist woman - some good info hereI'd be interested in knowing how she feels about things like the prison sentencing discrepancy between men and women. If she says, "Women are not angels, and they should serve sentences of the same length as men," then I think she could be a valuable ally. Someone who recognizes that both men and women suffer from sexism, and that both types of sexism are a problem. If she says that prison sentence discrepancies aren't a problem or that women should be even less likely to go to jail, then I'd ha… | /r/MensRights | 25/02/18 06:47 PM |
| 1 | EU Parliament Member: It’s Time for Evidence-Based Gender PolicyShocking she could be so transparent about it. Did she send you the transcript because you insisted on it, or did she send it to everyone who was interviewed? If she sent it to you reluctantly, it seems like she purposefully lied. If she just sent it to you as part of her regular procedure, maybe an assistant transcribed it and it was a sloppy but unintentional mistake? | /r/MensRights | 24/02/18 01:04 PM |
| 1 | What I found today on TwitterReally? I was trying to list a mix of solutions that would appeal to both right and left wingers, because the particular solutions weren't that relevant. My main point was that school shootings can be reduced. So it seemed useful to list potential solutions that have been floated by both sides. You probably should have noted that one of the issues that I noted was that guns were too accessible. FWIW, I think giving guns to teachers is a bad idea, just because it seems more likely that they will … | /r/MensRights | 23/02/18 09:55 AM |
| 5 | "Guys are not allowed to ask girls contact information, but girls are allowed to ask guys"I could see a rule that no one is allowed to ask for contact info. But not a sexist rule. | /r/MensRights | 23/02/18 02:47 AM |
| 5 | What I found today on TwitterYou can reduce the likelihood. Suppose that in order to have a school shooting you need most of the following: mentally unstable individual individual hasn't been taught to do good in the world lack of help and support to improve mental health of the potential shooter individual hasn't been able to create an achievable plan for a rewarding life relatively accessible firearms lack of teachers with guns lack of people willing to potentially sacrifice themselves to stop the shooter lack of investig… | /r/MensRights | 23/02/18 02:40 AM |
| 2 | Went on a date with a Red Pill man, here’s my takeawayI think your use of diminishing returns was more than acceptable. However, I think it usually refers to the period of time where the returns are getting smaller, but still positive. It sounds for much of your date there were actually negative returns. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/02/18 12:16 AM |
| 2 | Can't wait for Men's Rights Monday from SpotifyNormally I hate this line of reasoning, but the rock stations I listen to are 90% men. I'm not sure that I'd notice a Men's Rights Monday playlist. Could be different in some other genres. | /r/MensRights | 17/02/18 12:43 PM |
| 4 | Will there be repercussions for this ? Probably notDoug Ford. Rob Ford is deceased. | /r/MensRights | 15/02/18 12:51 AM |
| 1 | It’s ok to objectify men because they have all the power.I think you could argue that Hollywood celebrities (both men and women) have power. | /r/MensRights | 13/02/18 01:38 AM |
| 2 | Is there a "Patriarchy"? If there is one, who does it hurt?There is a system of prescribed gender roles that is enforced by society. Certain behaviors and traits are acceptable in men, but not women and vice versa. (eg. Men don't cry or wear dresses. Women don't go around topless or work 80 hour weeks while ignoring their kids) It hurts men who don't fall in line with prescribed male gender norms. It hurts women who don't fall in line with prescribed female gender norms. Some people would be willing to use the word patriarchy to describe that, but to me… | /r/MensRights | 11/02/18 06:11 PM |
| 1 | Why do people not seem to grasp the concept of a "financial" or "paper abortion" for males?Honestly, I've never heard the term outside of gender-related online forums like this. I have heard "same-sex marriage" countless times in real life. And same-sex marriage is kind of self-explanatory. It describes a literal marriage. A financial/paper abortion doesn't describe an abortion, it describes something that can be seen as analogous to abortion. So some explanation is justified. Feel free to explain it in a super simple way. Most people will appreciate it. If someone thinks you are bein… | /r/MensRights | 11/02/18 06:04 PM |
| 2 | Woman fired for sexual harassment then rehired, men demoted.I was confused at first, but this Stuttgart is in Arkansas. | /r/MensRights | 11/02/18 01:34 PM |
| 4 | Judge overturns 'incomprehensible' conviction of Mustafa Uruyar for alleged sex assault of Mandi GrayThere has to be a functioning mechanism to remove judges like Zuker though. (That said, he is now retired so maybe the mechanism worked.) | /r/MensRights | 11/02/18 01:24 PM |
| 4 | Female California lawmaker behind #MeToo push is accused of groping male stafferThis article expands a little on the accusation and includes some collaborative info. (Another accusation and a couple of confidants that heard the story from Fiero immediately) https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/08/cristina-garcia-california-metoo-398985 Fierro said he never reported the incident, which occurred years before the current #MeToo movement and new whistleblower legislation to protect legislative staffers. But after he mentioned the issue last January to Calderon, his former bos… | /r/MensRights | 11/02/18 12:54 AM |
| 5 | Is rape more about power than sex?Aside from the potential of people lying, one source of bias is that these rapists are self-identified rapists. I think that a fair number of rapists don't see themselves as rapists. Could those people have a systematically different goal? ie. People who rape, know they rape and have admitted it to themselves. Why would they keep doing it? Probably because they want to hurt others. On the other hand, if someone repeatedly pressures women for sex and crosses a line, maybe their goal is actually j… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/01/18 11:30 PM |
| 1 | Is rape more about power than sex?OK, fine maybe some rapists would be happy to confess their feelings under an anonymous handle. But I feel like there is an order of magnitude more people willing to make up stories to further a political agenda. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/01/18 11:27 PM |
| 5 | Is rape more about power than sex?The victim perceives it as about power. From the perpetrator's point of view, depends on the rapist, but probably more about power than sex. That's less true with more ambiguous cases. And less true for horny teens. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/01/18 11:25 PM |
| -2 | UK: Female Journalist: Pity the MeToo gang can't admit women DO use looks to get aheadI agree that women purposefully using sex to get ahead is part of the problem. Because, in one way, a male boss who has sex with a female employee in exchange for a promotion might be considered win-win if everyone is happy. Why discourage it? However, if some women want to use sex to get promoted and others do not, and sleeping with the enthusiastic ones is not considered a problem, then inevitably a male boss will ask a woman if she is interested. If she is not interested, then that makes for … | /r/MensRights | 28/01/18 04:14 PM |
| 6 | Feminists naively believe that men can just go out and build a rape / DV shelter for themselves with no feminist push-back. The ignorance of what they do to the Men's Rights movement is staggering.http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/need-knows-no-gender-8599208.html I'm not sure that there have been cases where men's shelters have been literally shut down by feminists. But generally feminists argue that there is a lack of need for men's shelters and/or men's shelters are run by misogynists and that tends to have the effect of minimizing available funding. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/leah-mclaren-are-men-really-the-victims/article23426535/ https://www.xojane.… | /r/MensRights | 21/01/18 01:00 PM |
| 1 | Keanu Reeves was sued by a woman who suggested that he used hypnosis and impersonated her ex-husband to impregnate her. She sought $3 million in spousal support from the actor, and $150,000/month, retroactively, in child support. DNA test proved he was not the father and the suit was thrown out.You raise a decent point, but he moved to Canada early enough to attend kindergarten in Toronto. And he was still in Toronto when he ended his high school days. He dropped out at 17 and headed to LA at 20. Maybe it's because I watch so much sports, but there is generally an understanding that it's the city or country where the person spent most of his/her childhood years that gets to claim the person. If he played hockey (and Keanu was a goalie), Canada would generally claim him. That said, due … | /r/MensRights | 18/01/18 12:34 PM |
| 8 | ‘Hatred of men won’t help’: French actress Laetitia Casta speaks out against #MeTooThey speak a different language, and most of the time they aren't consuming English media, so Anglosphere ideas don't necessarily become widely accepted in France. I wonder if the same point of view would be prevalent in other large non-English speaking countries. eg. Italy/Spain/Germany/Russia. | /r/MensRights | 14/01/18 03:51 PM |
| 1 | QForMen: What are females suppose to call males “creepy” or “creep” for?Maybe it's better to say "he creeped me out" than "he's a creep" when it's plausible that the man was well-intentioned. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/01/18 03:03 PM |
| 3 | BBC article: "Deneuve: Men have right to hit on women"That, I can agree with. I definitely would dislike "Eww, no" as an initial response. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/01/18 12:01 PM |
| 1 | Parents Lose Son at Water Park; Son Drowns; Stepdad Gets 7 Years; Mom Gets 8 MonthsThis was in the UK. I don't think they have "three strikes" laws. And in the US, no three strikes laws often don't apply to only repeated crimes of the same kind. It depends on the state, sometimes it's three felonies, sometimes it's three felonies or misdemeanors. Until about 5 years ago, there were a lot of California stories of people being sentenced to life for things like stealing a jack from the back of a truck, shoplifting a pair of gloves or passing a bad check. That's changed somewhat. … | /r/MensRights | 22/12/17 12:10 AM |
| 4 | Parents Lose Son at Water Park; Son Drowns; Stepdad Gets 7 Years; Mom Gets 8 MonthsYes, that is a generally accepted rule. The more times you break the law, the more extreme the punishment becomes. At an extreme, we have "three strikes laws". There are a lot of goals of a criminal justice system, but two of them are: taking offenders who are likely to offend again off the streets rehabilitating criminals into productive and law-abiding members of society Having many past convictions means that one is more likely to re-offend in the future. Thus there is more incentive to keep … | /r/MensRights | 21/12/17 12:59 PM |
| 10 | Parents Lose Son at Water Park; Son Drowns; Stepdad Gets 7 Years; Mom Gets 8 MonthsAssuming they were both equally at fault for the drowning, I think it's fair that he gets a greater sentence. The stepdad has 28 past convictions. The mom had none. Dunn, aged 28, who lived with Smith, 36, in Glascote Heath, Tamworth, had no previous convictions and Smith had been convicted of 28 offences in the past, including domestic violence, indecent assault (sexual assault), theft and burglary. I think there is a decent chance that mom has learned her lesson. The stepdad seems incorrigible… | /r/MensRights | 21/12/17 12:58 AM |
| 2 | Does removing "men are scum" but not gendered slurs and abuse against women constitute a sexist double-standard by Facebook?Sounds like someone should do a controlled study. At the moment, I think a far more likely explanation is that there will be inconsistencies in Facebook's approach and any group (men, women, whites, blacks, Asians, gays, straights, trans, cis, children, dotards, Peruvians) can find "evidence" of bias against their group by focusing on the worst examples that make it through by other groups and the mildest examples by their group that are banned. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/12/17 11:55 PM |
| 6 | Differences in mens vs womens work preferences - it's very obvious where the gender earnings gap comes fromThat's an important point that they are looking at kids that were in the top 1% of math ability. The results may not generalize. However, these are exactly the people who may end up being tech and corporate leaders. So it could be very on point when someone is talking about the high percentage of men at Google, say. | /r/MensRights | 09/12/17 02:11 PM |
| 2 | What can be done to differentiate r/mensrights from completely unrelated subs like r\theredpill and r\mgtow?Both groups were part of the manosphere. (Basically any site targeted towards men which said that the common consensus on gender relations was deeply flawed) There were popular blog aggregators that linked to both types of sites, so you ended up with a lot of overlap in the commentary. Both groups used the red pill metaphor. (A Voice for Men used it, the Cassie Jaye movie used it) Some MRAs continued to use it long after it became more associated with theredpill sub. At several points, there wer… | /r/MensRights | 03/12/17 01:00 PM |
| 0 | Denzel Washington says upbringing and LACK of FATHER figure, NOT the justice system, is to blame for many young MEN ending up in jailSource? I did some googling and found some things that were somewhat supportive of your position. But I think there is still some effect of socioeconomic status. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2016/07/20/economics-culture-intersect-shape-asian-americans-academic-advantage "Overall, the link between socio-economic status and academic achievement was weaker for Asian American students than for white students." To me that means that the link is weaker, but that it is still there. | /r/MensRights | 25/11/17 08:54 PM |
| 28 | Denzel Washington says upbringing and LACK of FATHER figure, NOT the justice system, is to blame for many young MEN ending up in jailI think people should be more open to the idea that things can have multiple causes. I think a lack of father figures and broken homes is a big part of the problem. But there are other causes too: poverty, a culture that doesn't put enough emphasis on academics and intellectualism, and yes a biased justice system. | /r/MensRights | 25/11/17 04:21 PM |
| 13 | If you need more proof of her hypocrisy, arch-feminist Lena “women never lie about rape” Dunham just accused a woman of lying about being raped by one of her writers.If someone makes up a story out of the blue, then you can still be accused. And if you don't have an alibi, then you could still face legal trouble. I think false accusations happen, but I imagine that most of the deliberately false ones come from someone who dislikes you. Is it possible that if you avoid women completely, then you will actually be increasing the number of women who dislike you? | /r/MensRights | 18/11/17 12:48 PM |
| 14 | Why doesn't the incel ban extend to MGTOW?I haven't read either of those subs. But wasn't the official reason that there were posts advocating violence on r/incels? Are there an equal number of posts advocating violence on r/MGTOW? You seem to imply that the ban was for posters exhibiting incel-like behavior. But obviously it wasn't otherwise /r/IncelsWithoutHate wouldn't still be around. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/11/17 03:51 PM |
| 1 | Women being less happy despite women's rights doesn't mean muchThere's probably not as many studies in Canada. And probably not as comprehensive a study, trying to match men and women on as many variables as possible. I believe the numbers are likely similar though. Raw numbers suggest that women are treated more leniently. https://inequalitygaps.org/first-takes/gender-roles-of-women-since-1945/female-offenders-and-the-law/ A decade later in 2003/2004, fewer females than males received prison sentences despite how severe the crimes they committed were. For … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/11/17 12:43 AM |
| 1 | Women being less happy despite women's rights doesn't mean muchWell in Canada it means that employers are required to proactively work to increase representation of four groups: women, people with disabilities, visible minorities, and aboriginal people. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/11/17 11:34 PM |
| 1 | Women being less happy despite women's rights doesn't mean muchI'm not exactly sure where you are coming from. But I think that making an arbitrary rule to address this issue should be equally acceptable as affirmative action rules. ie. If you support an arbitrary rule to advantage women and certain races in hiring or university admissions, then you should be okay with a rule advantaging men (and First Nations peoples / African-Americans) in prison sentencing. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/11/17 01:10 PM |
| 3 | Women being less happy despite women's rights doesn't mean muchWell, I'd mostly agree with you. But then we have to recognize that what we should be striving for is equal rights and equal responsibilities. In many cases, this won't make women happy. And therefore we can't assume that things that make women unhappy are unfair or wrong. eg. Men tend to get 60% longer prison sentences than women for the same crime. If we instituted a program to correct this, by giving men shorter sentences or women longer ones or some combination, many women would get upset an… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/11/17 12:44 PM |
| 1 | The stupidest feminist argument I’ve ever heardIt almost sounds like she might have been trolling. Saying something untrue in a deliberate effort to provoke you. She may have intended it as a reversal of various times when men have said things like "cat calling isn't a big deal, most women like to be whistled at". | /r/MensRights | 08/11/17 01:51 AM |
| 3 | Men pay more than women for car insurance despite EU gender rulesI'm pretty confident that men cost more to insure. So if women are in more minor accidents it's more than offset by the men's accidents being more costly. There are hundreds (probably thousands) of companies that offer car insurance. All of them charge men more (assuming they are legally allowed to do so). If men aren't actually more expensive to insure, then it would be a path to huge profits to simply charge men less, and steal all the overcharged men away from other companies. It's pretty har… | /r/MensRights | 16/10/17 12:00 AM |
| 3 | Men pay more than women for car insurance despite EU gender rulesIt could be substantially different. eg. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/health112e-eng.htm http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/health112f-eng.htm Men in Canada seem to cause death in car accidents about 10x per 100,000. While for women it's more like 4x per 100,000. If that was the only type of accident, then men should cost about 2.5x as much to insure. I agree that £400 to £1300 makes no sense. And I also agree that the rules should be consist… | /r/MensRights | 15/10/17 02:10 PM |
| 2 | Men pay more than women for car insurance despite EU gender rulesAgreed. | /r/MensRights | 15/10/17 02:07 PM |
| 0 | Men pay more than women for car insurance despite EU gender rulesEvery auto insurance company in the world has stats that prove that. I can't find an awesome source for the costs to the insurance companies. Most online sources just seem to compare prices for men and women. These ones are exceptions. https://www.thestar.com/business/personal_finance/retirement/2012/02/28/why_women_pay_less_for_insurance.html Tickets or automobile-related convictions are one factor that influence the cost of auto insurance. When people asked for insurance quotes on the kinetix.… | /r/MensRights | 15/10/17 01:56 PM |
| 2 | Men pay more than women for car insurance despite EU gender rulesObviously less serious accidents cost less. If they need to pay $1000 for some damage to the bumper, then it costs $1000 (plus probably a few hundred to pay people to administer the claim). If you have a terrible accident you could have one or more cars as complete write-offs. (Could be $100,000). Maybe someone has a life-altering injury (loses a limb, brain damage, or dies). I've definitely heard of $10 million awards when someone is at fault and the victim ends up with severe brain trauma. Wom… | /r/MensRights | 15/10/17 01:47 PM |
| 4 | Men pay more than women for car insurance despite EU gender rulesYou're right that profession will often give a good proxy for gender. They don't actively "want" to stereotype though. They simply want to price accurately. Men, on average, end up submitting more expensive claims than women. Do they use profession for things like health insurance too? Could women be paying more there? It's definitely unfair if the regulations clearly work to eliminate gender pricing in one direction but not the other. | /r/MensRights | 15/10/17 01:37 PM |
| 0 | CBC job ad for a new President comes right out and says in the ad you have a better chance of getting the job if you're not a white maleTo a large extent this is mandated by law. The wording changes, but all jobs from large organizations (private and public) tend to say something like it. "Employment equity, as defined in Canadian law by the Employment Equity Act, requires employers to engage in proactive employment practices to increase the representation of four designated groups: women, people with disabilities, Aboriginal peoples, and visible minorities." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_equity_(Canada) If I were a q… | /r/MensRights | 26/08/17 12:20 PM |
| 1 | Slate Equates Men's Rights Activism with Nazism and White SupremacyWell, he wrote for "A Voice for Men" so it's probably pretty accurate. https://www.avoiceformen.com/author/christophercantwell/ https://archive.is/47W1S | /r/MensRights | 19/08/17 03:20 AM |
| 1 | Slate Equates Men's Rights Activism with Nazism and White SupremacyThis article is actually from Salon though. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/17 03:16 AM |
| 1 | 'Google Moves Into the Business of Thought Control' Bloomberg ViewMaybe there's more options now? Back in the day, there might have been a handful of fields with a lot of women. There might have been a reasonably large percentage of women who weren't able to find an interesting career from within those fields. Such women might have been willing to push into male fields and their numbers might have been large. Nowadays, lots of fields have plenty of women. Maybe almost all women can find an interesting career in a field with plenty of women. So the number of wo… | /r/MensRights | 17/08/17 11:30 AM |
| 2 | 'Google Moves Into the Business of Thought Control' Bloomberg ViewI don't think you really refute the notion that "women continue to face barriers to making successful careers in engineering". You make a good case that hiring practices favor women. But hiring is just one part of a lifetime. Do boys get more opportunities to build things than girls? (Maybe we buy blocks more for boys and dolls more for girls?) Do we get boys to solve more of their own problems than we do for girls? (Bias against boys, but would teach boys problem-solving skills) Does a mostly m… | /r/MensRights | 17/08/17 01:31 AM |
| 9 | When Statistics Speak Louder Than Bias & Pay Gaps Defy Denial.I think the big thing is that earning a big salary makes men significantly more desirable as marriage partners. Women earning a big salary has little effect on their marriageability. And so the pool of never-married men is disproportionately lower paid. Compare a group of low-wage men to a group of average women, and the women will earn more. I do think there is something to your theory though too. Never married women probably expected a man to help support them, so when that doesn't happen they… | /r/MensRights | 17/08/17 01:05 AM |
| 3 | Australian Defence Force bans male recruits, slashes fitness tests to 4 pushups + 20 situpsMaybe they just strap into a virtual reality machine and there is a robot actually doing the lifting and fighting? | /r/MensRights | 11/08/17 11:27 PM |
| 19 | Male only barbershop under fire for refusing to allow women insideI may not have been clear. I'm saying something like this: $20 for men using the co-ed side $20 for women using only the co-ed side $20 for women using only the women's side $25 for women using both sides. It's hard to spin that as discrimination against women. | /r/MensRights | 07/08/17 09:37 PM |
| 10 | Male only barbershop under fire for refusing to allow women insideIn my ideal society, they allow everyone in. However, if women-only spaces are permitted, then men-only spaces must also be permitted. | /r/MensRights | 07/08/17 04:02 PM |
| 13 | Male only barbershop under fire for refusing to allow women insideMake a new post about this if you want. The connection between an art prize and a barbershop is very tenuous even if they are both Australian. Also your post sounded like you are promoting the event, not complaining about discrimination. | /r/MensRights | 07/08/17 04:00 PM |
| 29 | Male only barbershop under fire for refusing to allow women insideYeah, they should charge $X for men who use the co-ed side, $X for women who just use one side, and more for women who use both sides. My gym is similar, and mostly the co-ed side has everything I need. However, I do the fitness classes and I do find myself annoyed that women get to choose between two different exercise classes, while I have one choice. | /r/MensRights | 07/08/17 03:56 PM |
| 2 | Student Accused Of Rape Could Still Be Expelled Despite Vid Showing The “Victim” Was The True Aggressor: He needs to be expelled for undermining the narrative. The truth will not be tolerated.Yeah, that definitely should be part of the investigation - of both a potential rape and a potential false report. It sounded like he was arrested only a few hours after the encounter. It sounds like they had an opportunity to do a breathalyzer, test the complainant for drugs, and interview both the complainant and the roommate. I assumed that they did and the evidence was consistent with her being raped (they mentioned that the police concluded that she was incapable of consent) - but if they d… | /r/MensRights | 06/08/17 03:41 PM |
| 3 | Student Accused Of Rape Could Still Be Expelled Despite Vid Showing The “Victim” Was The True Aggressor: He needs to be expelled for undermining the narrative. The truth will not be tolerated.She filed a report and said that she couldn't remember anything from that night. And that her roommate walked in on her having sex. I have no problem with her saying that she may have been raped and that she wanted a police investigation. I do have a problem with the police charging him. They should have to find corroborating evidence beyond a woman saying she doesn't remember. Perhaps surveillance footage of him drugging her drink, perhaps 3rd party witnesses, etc. Drunk people black out all th… | /r/MensRights | 06/08/17 01:02 PM |
| 6 | Student Accused Of Rape Could Still Be Expelled Despite Vid Showing The “Victim” Was The True Aggressor: He needs to be expelled for undermining the narrative. The truth will not be tolerated.All she said was that she doesn't remember anything. Which may or may not be true, but it happens and is possible. I think the problem is more the police behavior. They should have fully investigated, realized a charge was unfounded and not arrested him. | /r/MensRights | 06/08/17 12:36 PM |
| 4 | Student Accused Of Rape Could Still Be Expelled Despite Vid Showing The “Victim” Was The True Aggressor: He needs to be expelled for undermining the narrative. The truth will not be tolerated.Well, he probably expressly accepted to have his face shown, and if so I don't blame them for showing it. Maybe the publicity is part of his strategy to avoid being expelled? As for the woman - it seems very unfair. My guess is that the lawyers said that the court found that he wasn't guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. But maybe a court would find her claims true based on a "preponderance of evidence", and so if they showed her face they would be opening themselves up for a civil suit. | /r/MensRights | 06/08/17 12:30 PM |
| 0 | Feminist bullshit isn't subtle anymoreIs this a place where tips are expected? No one should ever deliberately patronize that cafe, but if you ended up being surprised by the bill, you could just forgo the tip and explain why. "I don't tip at establishments that discriminate against men." | /r/TheRedPill | 05/08/17 06:55 PM |
| 1 | Men's view of women's competencyI'm sure you can find an outlier somewhere. But much in the same way that climate scientists agree that global warming is real and caused by humans, psychologists agree that WAW exists. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/07/17 12:14 AM |
| 1 | Men's view of women's competencyNo, there are studies that show that men are viewed as more competent. There are no studies that I'm aware of that show that generic men are more liked than generic women. I doubt that any substantial number exist, since the psychology community is in agreement that WAW is robust. Men being viewed as more competent helps in many domains (getting jobs, becoming leaders, more money etc.). Women being viewed as more likable helps in many domains (less likely to go to jail, more likely to receive he… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/07/17 12:02 AM |
| 1 | Men's view of women's competencyWell, I don't think it means that the whole world is stacked against men. Obviously men are advantaged in many ways. But it seems to be a real prejudice. Dozens (hundreds?) of studies show that women are viewed positively and men are viewed negatively. This is across cultures, and across the last several decades. The exact same techniques seem to show that whites are viewed positively (vs blacks), able-bodied people are viewed positively (vs disabled people), straights are viewed positively (vs … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/07/17 11:50 PM |
| 1 | Men's view of women's competencyWell, I'd give a few possible explanations: Maybe it's just something about your school (probably not, though I do remember girls being president when I was in school) Maybe boys are seen as better leaders. (likely IMO) Maybe the most popular students are boys, but also the least popular ones. So some boys could win the popularity contest, but the average popularity for boys is lower. (also likely IMO) Think about it. If you had to spend 30 minutes eating lunch with a randomly selected student, … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/07/17 01:14 AM |
| 3 | Men's view of women's competencyWAW has a lot of support by dozens of actual academic psychological studies. It's real and not a delusional belief. That said, it doesn't mean that women are seen as better at everything. There's a lot of stereotypical male things where men are perceived as better (like science, business, engineering, math, athletics and politics). WAW means that people like women more than men, and perceive women to be more caring, nice, loving, kind, supportive etc. Women are more associated with rainbows, sun… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/07/17 11:39 PM |
| 1 | Barbara Kay: Misandrist mother sure to damage her vulnerable sonsWe've seen this story before, but it is noteworthy to see it in a national newspaper. | /r/MensRights | 18/07/17 11:46 PM |
| 1 | Change gendersphere phrases to be less offensive and more accurateIs it? If a high status man has a few mistresses (who are attracted to him due to his wealth, status and power), aren't the mistresses being hypergamous? I think by the red pill definition, they are. I understand there is an official sociological definition that requires marriage - but even there couldn't it include polygamous arrangements? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/07/17 11:01 PM |
| 3 | Change gendersphere phrases to be less offensive and more accurateIt's a PDF. I edited the URL a bit to remove some extraneous stuff. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/07/17 01:32 PM |
| 1 | Change gendersphere phrases to be less offensive and more accurateOverall, I'd agree. We'd have a healthier and more productive discourse. But I think that the feminist terms are deliberately chosen to highlight the view that men are the problem (as opposed to men and women both being the problem) And the red pill terms are deliberately chosen to be dismissive of the feelings of women. I'm not sure there is motivation on either side to change things. Also, regarding hypergamy, I'm not sure that you understand it. It doesn't really equate or contrast with monog… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/07/17 01:28 PM |
| 3 | Change gendersphere phrases to be less offensive and more accuratehttps://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/6958/Yeung_Amy.pdf PDF | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/07/17 01:10 PM |
| 1 | Q4ALL: Is everything as gloomy for men in the dating market as some people say it is?Well, I think everyone agrees that fun, energetic people do better than boring people, all else equal. And everyone agrees that being an Eeyore is a problem. Nevertheless, I have doubts it is a bigger problem than people care to acknowledge. Certainly in individual cases it happens, but overall? Based on "fundamental attribution error" ideas, likely the Eeyore hypothesis is under-recognized by people who are incels. And likely it is over-emphasized by people who are not. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/07/17 06:31 AM |
| 3 | Q4ALL: Is everything as gloomy for men in the dating market as some people say it is?There's some truth to it, in many cases. Obviously people don't want to be around Eeyores. But there are many men (most men, IMO) for whom that isn't really the problem, and the poster is making it seem like it is always the case. It seems to be a form of a bias that we all have that people get what they deserve. The "Just World Bias" or "Just World Hypothesis". https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/nov/11/oliver-burkeman-just-world-bias | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/07/17 11:51 PM |
| 3 | [social issues] TIL women are a minority groupAt the very least, it should be men being treated as a minority in female-dominated jobs and women being treated as a minority in male-dominated jobs. It doesn't make sense for women to be treated as a minority across the board. | /r/MensRights | 10/07/17 02:02 AM |
| 8 | [social issues] TIL women are a minority groupThis is pretty clearly a Canadian company. Many employers are required by law to pro-actively attempt to increase the representation of those four groups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_equity_(Canada) I think, in practice, a company will give a second look to a resume of anyone in those four categories. So it isn't really equal opportunity. | /r/MensRights | 09/07/17 11:41 PM |
| 1 | [social issues] TIL women are a minority groupThose are the four officially designated groups in Canada for employment equity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_equity_(Canada)#Designated_groups | /r/MensRights | 09/07/17 11:37 PM |
| 7 | Woman acquitted after raping a 14 year old boy because the victim looked matureTIL. However, I think most people would be like your guy and decide to not apply rather than admit to an indictable offence. | /r/MensRights | 09/07/17 10:44 PM |
| 2 | Woman acquitted after raping a 14 year old boy because the victim looked matureI suspect it's more limited in scope. Facial hair might be the criteria. | /r/MensRights | 09/07/17 09:08 PM |
| 27 | Woman acquitted after raping a 14 year old boy because the victim looked matureAccording to the documents, George did not realize how old he was until several months later, when she applied to become an RCMP officer. One of the questions on the questionnaire asked if she had ever had sexual activity with someone under 16. After checking with her son about the age of C.D., she answered the form in the affirmative. That led to an RCMP investigation and subsequent charges laid against her. Putting aside morality, how dumb do you have to be to do this? | /r/MensRights | 09/07/17 09:06 PM |
| 2 | Why is there so much crossover between feminism and the LGBT community?I think there is a bigger crossover between lesbians and feminists than gay men and feminists. Say that feminism is about two things: breaking down social norms concerning gender increasing the power that women have Self- interested lesbians would support both those things. Self-interested gay men would support the former item. And, at least in the romance department, they would be unaffected by how much power women have. For example, gay men would not be negatively affected as a group by re-wri… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/07/17 03:36 PM |
| 9 | Barbara Kay: Canada’s new sexual assault law is a ‘catastrophic attack’ on the rights of the accusedI agree that in some cases it could work out okay. Sometimes the judge will just quickly approve the texts. Sometimes the judge will quite reasonably exclude texts that don't have any bearing on consent, and simply smear the accused. But there's two issues: Some judges will unreasonably exclude texts. (I guess at times now jurors are told to not consider certain evidence. But we all know that jurors are still influenced.) The Crown (prosecution) and the accuser will be tipped off on the defence … | /r/MensRights | 07/07/17 12:25 AM |
| 2 | When I ask women why girls get much better grades in school, they usually say they are just naturally better at studying etc. When I ask women why men earn more than women, it's discrimination.Fair enough. What would you say about someone making this argument then? Girls doing better in school is clearly discrimination against boys. When school is done, men make more because they actually do better and more work and deserve to be paid more. How the hell are girls doing better than boys in school when boys are better workers? Must be discrimination. The societal discrimination against boys diminishes after school because employers benefit from higher quality work. The marketplace deman… | /r/MensRights | 17/06/17 09:55 PM |
| 2 | When I ask women why girls get much better grades in school, they usually say they are just naturally better at studying etc. When I ask women why men earn more than women, it's discrimination.I know that boys do better on standardized tests than on school grades, while the reverse is true for girls. So it seems quite possible that what you are saying is true. Are there any academic studies that have actually demonstrated this though? | /r/MensRights | 17/06/17 09:16 PM |
| 2 | When I ask women why girls get much better grades in school, they usually say they are just naturally better at studying etc. When I ask women why men earn more than women, it's discrimination.I agree with you. (Well mostly. I think grading bias can be worth 3-4% in classes like math where you have objectively wrong and right answers and maybe 10-15% in classes like English where you are grading an essay.) But in the end, the students who produce the best work almost always get the best marks. What's funny is that I also agree with the comment you were replying to. I simply interpreted his comment as "Grades in school aren't a perfect measure of academic capability or achievements. It… | /r/MensRights | 17/06/17 09:09 PM |
| 1 | CMV: Most alleged cases of women’s hypocrisy arise from men confusing the behaviours of distinctly different womenI mostly agree. I would say it goes both ways though, and many of the complaints that women have about men involve women conflating various men who might individually have reasonable and consistent positions. eg. "We're supposed to be thin. We're supposed to have a little meat on our bones. Guys have impossible standards!" Maybe different guys have different preferences and you can't expect to be appealing to everyone? The positive flipside is that most women will be appealing to at least some s… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/06/17 12:11 PM |
| 2 | What are your thoughts on feminist claims that most if not all men are closeted pedos?I haven't heard that claim before. I think there is truth that men tend to be attracted to younger post-pubescent women. Not pedophiles though. And I do think that some men will give a more societally acceptable answer. eg. If a 35 year old man says his ideal mate's age, he might say 32 when it's really 27. So: the tiniest grain of truth distorted to an extreme degree. | /r/MensRights | 14/06/17 11:13 PM |
| 1 | What exactly is the purpose of r/againstmensrights/ subreddit? Is that some kind of joke or are they serious?They are serious, they think the MRM is misogynistic, and they think it should be eradicated. Stylistically they try to be very "jokey" and frequently attack MRAs through mocking. | /r/MensRights | 14/06/17 10:52 PM |
| 1 | Why do white knights deny being white knights?I don't know - I don't really agree with it. But a lot of people think that treating men and women equally is sexist against women. https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/6958/Yeung_Amy.pdf;jsessionid=FB488C1B98BC7A23439F156E7F99D5C1?sequence=1 In Study 2, low benevolent sexism male targets were judged to be low in hostility towards women only if they explicitly stated that their low benevolent sexism was motivated by egalitarian values, otherwise men’s low benevolent sexism was ass… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/06/17 02:38 AM |
| 2 | Why do white knights deny being white knights?Umm, because they aren't consciously being a white knight. Even if the term actually describes their behavior, they see themselves as treating women fairly. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/06/17 09:48 PM |
| 5 | Girls do not give a fuck about their orbitersI think it can happen too with a domineering mother and a weak father. | /r/TheRedPill | 10/06/17 06:55 PM |
| 1 | Maybe it was just that the Ghostbusters remake fucking sucked?Supposedly it is distinctly better than other DC movies. Although to be honest I think Dark Knight is the best superhero movie ever. I guess it doesn't get counted as part of the DCEU though. And I thought Suicide Squad was okay. I thought Enchantress and her evil plot was a bit boring. But there were some fun moments featuring the squad (particularly Harley Quinn). | /r/MensRights | 08/06/17 11:26 PM |
| 1 | Is Donald Trump supposed to be sexually attractive according to TRP?It would be interesting to hear what Trump-voting women think. It seems like no one should find him attractive. But it also seems like he shouldn't have gotten anywhere near the presidency. That said, I think Trump has a better shot at picking up a 35 year old woman than most other 70 year olds. Maybe the truth is that he's polarizing? Absolutely repulsive to many, but attractive to some? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/06/17 10:26 PM |
| 9 | Feminist version of equality.Wonder Woman is DC not Marvel. But you are right that women are a little less interested in comic book characters and Star Wars than men (though maybe the gap has closed a lot in the last 15 years). Probably a more comparable thing would be a man-only screening of a drama, romance or maybe a Disney-style animated movie. | /r/MensRights | 01/06/17 12:09 AM |
| 6 | Wage Gap is a MYTHWell, supply and demand for wages suggests that if you have an increase in supply (lots of women entering the field), then wages will decrease. Although wages are sticky, so the more usual situation is that they stagnate for 20-30 years until inflation corrects the problem. Conversely, if women refuse to enter a field then the supply of workers remains low and wages continue to increase with inflation. Someone could look at that and say that women's work is devalued, but it is more easily explai… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/05/17 12:18 PM |
| 3 | Why are people having sex less?I guess I'd agree that club-joiners are more likely to have active sex lives. My thought might have got muddled because originally the point behind that paragraph was that even people with partners might find their night times more filled up than in previous generations. You're more likely to have sex if you are at home with your partner at 10pm on a Tuesday than if you are out playing sports at 10pm. Assuming you have a 9-to-5 job, you probably want to go to sleep as soon as possible after your… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/05/17 07:57 PM |
| 23 | Why are people having sex less?Less trust. Crime is lower now. I think other anti-social behavior is also lower now. But people are more afraid of what might happen. Also, it was said elsewhere but being solitary is more appealing now than it used to be. Video games, internet, way more television options. In the 1960s, there was none of that except 5-6 local tv channels. (And honestly, how often would you find something worth watching if you had to choose between what NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox and PBS are showing right now?) And por… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/05/17 01:07 PM |
| 1 | Boys are more likely to be bullied online over their body image than girls, study findsI think the key takeaway here isn't that boys are bullied more. The numbers are close and some other studies show that girls are bullied more. However, there isn't good evidence that girls are bullied more, and we should help provide equal help to boys and girls to avoid bullying and minimize the impact of bullying. | /r/MensRights | 22/05/17 12:48 PM |
| 1 | Boys are more likely to be bullied online over their body image than girls, study findsSeems like all the sources are basically saying the same thing. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/boys-more-likely-to-be-bullied-online-over-body-image-than-girls-cyberbullying-poll-reveals-a3544631.htmlt http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/807589/cyber-bullying-online-bullying-online-abuse-parenting-danger-children http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/one-gender-more-likely-taunted-10461938 | /r/MensRights | 22/05/17 12:45 PM |
| 1 | I acted as a man to get work - until I was accused of rapeI think this is a different type of false accusation. The actual rapists falsely accused an innocent person of committing the crime. | /r/MensRights | 16/05/17 12:07 AM |
| 2 | ShitRedditSays women have a meltdown over The Red Pill documentary getting high upvotes in r/DocumentariesComplaints about "both sidesism" has often been applied in the past to things like the global warming debate. Should newspapers give equal time to scientists who claim that humans are contributing to global warming through greenhouse gas emissions and scientists who think they aren't? If you think that humans are the major cause of global warming and the science overwhelmingly supports that, then you would probably believe that mainstream climatologists should be vastly more represented in the m… | /r/MensRights | 15/05/17 11:56 PM |
| 1 | Men hate women that "challenge" them and love women that support themAre too. Here's an article talking about how "woman" is demeaning and "female" is a safe descriptor. https://newrepublic.com/article/119954/woman-female-or-lady-which-term-appropriate draws upon this: https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/oct/17/women-doctors-women-mps-women-bishops-mind-your-language | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/05/17 03:19 AM |
| 1 | Men hate women that "challenge" them and love women that support themYou are badly mistaken. No matter what you call someone, there is a chance that you will offend. And males/females are not offensive terms to the vast majority of people. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/05/17 03:15 AM |
| 1 | Men hate women that "challenge" them and love women that support themIf all you see when someone says females is biology functions, that's your issue, possibly caused by a mix of misunderstanding the word and/or your own psychological quirks. As I showed before, the number one definition in the dictionary is a person. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/female Now, I actually do try to avoid females when either girls or women is appropriate. But if neither is, I'll use females. BTW, you can't always please everybody. Some people think "women" is demeaning and "ladie… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/05/17 03:09 AM |
| 2 | Men hate women that "challenge" them and love women that support themGirls is the word for female children. Women is the word for female adults. There's no one word that means female humans. And your argument is nonsense. Just because a term can apply to non-humans doesn't mean that it is disrespectful to humans. If I said you have a brain, is that disrespectful because non-human animals also have brains? If I said that you're a fast runner, is that disrespectful because non-humans can also be fast runners? I would say neither of those things are disrespectful. A… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/05/17 02:58 AM |
| 1 | Men hate women that "challenge" them and love women that support themThe thing is that there is no word for "girls and women" or "boys and men". That's why people use females and males - because you're trying to capture all ages. And yes, people use "males" just as they use "females". https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=males%2Cfemales&year_start=1900&year_end=2016&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cmales%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cfemales%3B%2Cc0 Note that the number one definition of female and male refers to a person. http://www.dictionary.com/b… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/05/17 12:33 AM |
| 2 | Why are Red Pill men so obsessed with their woman submitting to them? Why are they so afraid of an equal woman?I'm not sure that red pill men find egalitarian relationships undesirable per se. I think that most red pill men want a submissive women because they believe that women are only actually attracted to dominant men. If you accept that, then the choice is between: having an egalitarian relationship where the woman is not really attracted to you (And that implies greater chance of divorce, less sex, more conflict, etc.) having an unequal relationship where the woman is strongly attracted to you (and… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/05/17 12:44 PM |
| 1 | University of Central Missouri showcasing their fight against Men's RightsNot sure how I got upvotes, but I meant the same logic that leads on to be pro-life leads one to believe that other people have a say. And the logic that leads one to be pro-choice leads one to believe that only the mother has a say. So it isn't really an effective argument at convincing anyone in the abortion debate. It's just a way for pro-choicers to justify ignoring pro-lifers. | /r/MensRights | 05/05/17 09:19 PM |
| 5 | University of Central Missouri showcasing their fight against Men's RightsEven just on the abortion issue it's pretty circular logic. Virtually everyone who is pro-life believes that there are at least two people involved - the woman and the unborn child. So the idea that only women have a right to an opinion seems obviously flawed. Other people have the right and obligation to speak on behalf of the unborn child. And most people who are pro-choice think that only women need to be consulted. So they might agree with the poster, but they wouldn't be the voices that are… | /r/MensRights | 04/05/17 11:31 PM |
| 3 | How feminists describe the "pay gap."I think calling it an "earnings gap" would be more clear. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/04/17 08:15 PM |
| 1 | Professor says she felt raped by white male student's paper touting men's rightsI did follow the link to the blog post. I don't think it's saying that this student made those claims. I think you are describing this part: Such students may make claims like the following, among others: In response to discussions about the fact that what a woman is wearing does not give someone license to rape her, nor does the rate of sexual violence have anything to do with clothing choice: “But don’t you think what she was wearing is at least a little important?” In response to conversation… | /r/MensRights | 28/04/17 11:52 AM |
| 1 | Professor says she felt raped by white male student's paper touting men's rightsWhere did he say that a woman shouldn't get drunk? There was a section in which the prof claims that some students might make claims like that. But in her specific example, she said this: He started by citing an example of a case he read in the news media in which a woman on a college campus raped a man and the institution responded poorly. However, I first felt a twinge in my spine when I looked up the source of his story and traced it back to a men’s rights advocacy group. “OK,” I thought to m… | /r/MensRights | 28/04/17 11:29 AM |
| 1 | Why is it always assumed that a white is "Nagging" just to be a bitch when it's quite possible she's understandably upset about having a shitty husband?Usually if a friend confides in you, you are generally supposed to support your friend - especially if their complaint is plausible. If someone privately says their spouse "nags" you assume they are describing the situation accurately and support them. If someone privately says their spouse is lazy/messy etc. you assume they are describing the situation accurately and support them. If a couple both complains to you in the presence of the other, tell them that you aren't a marriage counselor. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 27/04/17 12:03 AM |
| 1 | Men getting "raped" by womenWell, firstly, it's not the case that the crime is milder for every man. There are some men who will be impacted severely, and some women who won't be impacted severely. More generally, we have "equality before the law", which is considered a cornerstone of liberal democracies. Suppose that you took a strict utilitarian view. We decide that rich people have lives well worth living, and poor people have lives that are barely worth living. Does it follow that the penalty for murdering a rich perso… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/04/17 10:24 PM |
| 2 | Men getting "raped" by womenI think most men would actually not be greatly bothered by your examples. Some men would a lot. But if the only type of rape that ever occurred was female-on-male, I think rape penalties would be pretty mild. Certainly less of a penalty than sucker punching someone. However, it's important that laws be written and enforced in a gender-neutral way. If society decides that you can't fondle a woman's genitals while she sleeps (and we should ban that!) then you can't fondle a man's genitals while he… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/04/17 12:21 PM |
| 55 | "Manspreading" has found its match in what I call "Bagspreading"I'd say "inconsiderate behavior" is more descriptive but "rudeness" works too. | /r/MensRights | 19/04/17 10:16 PM |
| 2 | Im 23 and a 17 year old wants to be fwb with me, what do I do?It's 16 in many jurisdictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_America#/media/File:Age_of_Consent_-_North_America.svg | /r/seduction | 19/04/17 01:21 AM |
| 1 | Im 23 and a 17 year old wants to be fwb with me, what do I do?Moral reasons? The risk of hurting his reputation? The risk of an angry relative coming after him in some manner? | /r/seduction | 19/04/17 01:19 AM |
| 1 | The wage gap is real, and isn't because women are less capable.Almost no one thinks that women being "less capable" is the main factor in the earnings gap. (I think most people would agree that men tend to be stronger than women, so men are generally more capable at certain physical jobs. But that isn't the main source) That women work fewer hours and in lower-paid fields is the biggest thing. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/04/17 10:10 PM |
| 7 | Are women really justified to feel much more unsafe than men when they walk alone at night?If the stats don't back your fear up, then it's a little unfair to think that society should work especially hard to make the world safe for you. I think white people are more likely to experience fear walking in a poor, predominantly black area. But most of the victims in such an area are actually African Americans. Would it be reasonable to have a "Take back the night" march to protest assaults on white people? I'd say that such a march would be an example of white privilege. White people are … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/03/17 11:56 AM |
| 9 | Are women really justified to feel much more unsafe than men when they walk alone at night?I agree that men are far more likely to be assaulted by strangers than women. Because of that, I think it is messed up that society concentrates so much on women as victims of stranger assault. It should be treated as a gender-neutral phenomenon. That said, it's also clear to me that men are far more likely to walk alone at night than women. I think it is possible that if men and women were equally willing to walk alone then women would be the more frequent victims. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/03/17 11:39 AM |
| 12 | Affair? Hmmm.... apparently gender and age matter in rape cases.Well statutory rape is in the books to apply to otherwise "consensual" situations. If an adult man was "holding down" a 14 year old girl that is rape by any standard. You don't need an age of consent law to prosecute. | /r/MensRights | 23/03/17 12:49 AM |
| 1 | What makes someone believe in TRP?I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people who think most red pillers hate women, or are at least sexist towards women. I doubt most of those people take the time to evaluate every single red piller as a person. If you take the time to evaluate every red piller and blue piller as a person, good for you. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/03/17 12:24 AM |
| 2 | What makes someone believe in TRP?I'd agree somewhat. But so what? If low emotional intelligence people are trying strategies to overcome their issue, what's the harm? Isn't it something to be applauded? Suppose someone is in school and takes the "basic" calculus course instead of the "advanced" calculus course. Yeah, they probably aren't naturally skilled at math. They may have low mathematical intelligence. But isn't it good that they are studying at a level they can process (rather than not studying calculus at all, or failin… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/03/17 11:51 PM |
| 5 | What makes someone believe in TRP?You could be against "the users" by imagining them all as a certain negative stereotype. It doesn't mean that any particular user was memorable. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/03/17 11:46 PM |
| 1 | Men do not show appreciation towards their (female) support systemI don't think a blanket statement is valid. I can definitely think of many men thanking women in their lives. Maybe someone could review speeches at major awards ceremonies. Do women thank more people? Or do men thank more people? Also, one has to control for the amount of help that each gender gives. It's probably about equal overall, but I wouldn't be surprised if, say, men gave women more gifts and women gave men more encouragement. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/03/17 11:02 PM |
| 9 | So out of 1500 acid attacks, 1050 victims are male, but check the headline. Trigger-Warning - Rabid Feminist StatisticsSome women throw acid on men for breaking up with them, or refusing a marriage proposal or what not. http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/crime/180117/jilted-woman-throws-acid-slashes-boyfriends-face-in-bengaluru.html It's not "for going to school" but it's also not the fault of the victims. | /r/MensRights | 18/03/17 08:46 PM |
| 11 | So out of 1500 acid attacks, 1050 victims are male, but check the headline. Trigger-Warning - Rabid Feminist StatisticsDo you have a source on that 85%? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_throwing#Gender A 2007 literature review analyzed 24 studies in 13 countries over the past 40 years, covering 771 cases.[12] In the cases studied, men were more frequently victims in every country, with the exception of Bangladesh and Taiwan, with a male/female ratio ranging from 0.15:1 in Bangladesh to 6.14:1 in the UK. However, according to the London-based charity Acid Survivors Trust International 60 percent of acid attacks… | /r/MensRights | 18/03/17 08:36 PM |
| 1 | How do MRAs explain this study revealing gender bias against women in STEM?It's unclear to me that John vs Jennifer is an unfair comparison. But you could definitely say that John vs Laqueesha or John vs Luanne would bring race and social class into it. | /r/MensRights | 15/03/17 10:26 PM |
| 1 | Sign the petition in the comments!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iSmsO_Sz20&t=0s | /r/MensRights | 15/03/17 12:04 PM |
| 1 | Sign the petition in the comments!Karen Straughan writes: Anyone wanting to give feedback to CBC can leave their remarks at this link: http://www.cbc.ca/news2/feedback/index_typo.html As always, please be polite, concise and factual, and leave the headline or url for the article in the subject line. | /r/MensRights | 15/03/17 04:57 AM |
| 7 | How do MRAs explain this study revealing gender bias against women in STEM?Well, personally I'm willing to believe that there is a 2 or 3 % bias in the wage gap. And for a particularly "male" field like STEM, maybe it's larger. Say 5%. I think that both men and women have advantages and disadvantages in life. Just because I'm an MRA doesn't mean I think that women have no disadvantages. About this particular study? I wouldn't put great weight on it. Maybe John is seen as a smart name and Jennifer as a dumb name. Would the results have been different if it was Justin an… | /r/MensRights | 15/03/17 04:50 AM |
| 1 | Feminists are redefining what "respect" means nowI don't like it when people say "Respect must be earned." Yes, it's true if you are talking about deep admiration or holding someone in high esteem. But there is "basic respect" which entails simple things like: respecting others property, respecting others privacy, respecting others right to speak, etc. That doesn't have to be earned, it should be the default. The statement is vague and very likely to be misinterpreted. | /r/MensRights | 15/03/17 04:32 AM |
| 2 | Male emotion?Sure I think men should be willing to show more emotion. But I think that most men are punished socially as they grow up from showing too much emotion. Boys are taught not to cry, or not to be afraid, or not to be angry, etc. This attitude is taught by parents, male peers, female peers, just society at large. To some extent, that's good. We don't want temper tantrums from grown adults. But there should be more equality in how boys and girls are taught to express their emotions. | /r/MensRights | 14/03/17 11:01 PM |
| 1 | While the Protesters of Portland's Women's March Want Even More Female Privileges, the Homeless Men beneath Are Really SufferingThanks for the detailed explanation, and I'm sorry that you are blind in one eye. If that was preventable (and it sounds like it was) then that is a messed up situation. | /r/MensRights | 14/03/17 09:49 PM |
| 1 | While the Protesters of Portland's Women's March Want Even More Female Privileges, the Homeless Men beneath Are Really SufferingI think you may have a point here, but you could have presented it clearly and with less blame if your goal was to get people to listen. I'm not from the US so I don't pay that much attention to Trumpcare or Obamacare, but this is what I'm gathering: Previously Medicaid was for individuals at extremely low levels of income (ie. close to 0). But also for many families with income below the poverty line. Most of these families are headed by women. Individuals with low incomes were excluded from Me… | /r/MensRights | 14/03/17 11:56 AM |
| 2 | [Q4all] Who is Stacey Hugetatas? How does she behave? Can you guys post a pic of how she's supposed to look?Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought "Stacy" was the name that a blue piller gave to the female equivalent of "Chad". She thought that all the boys lusted for her in the same way that girls lust for Chad. Basically a physically attractive woman that can get what she wants even if she doesn't necessarily treat people well. EDIT: Not misremembering. Here's the link. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/03/17 02:41 AM |
| 22 | [Discussion] Man signs letters with his female colleague's name for two weeks and finds out clients have less respect for a woman's authority.This is a horrible experiment. He's the manager. She works for him. People probably are more willing to listen to the manager, regardless of gender. Are they the same age, the same race, the same years of experience? All sorts of variables change besides gender when you only use two real names. Not clear that gender is the one that makes the difference. Non-blinded study. Experimenters knew exactly what was going on here. So their perceptions of what was happening were measured in a biased way. … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/03/17 01:15 PM |
| 1 | Intelligence for a woman is a double edged sword.If this is true, I have a feeling this might be one of the things that only affects the extremely intelligent. Pretty sure I've read studies that show that having a high IQ is correlated with all sorts of good stuff: more friends, happier with life, mentally healthier, etc. The thing is that those studies look at everybody. And it makes sense that people with IQs of 110 are going to be substantially better off than people with 90 IQs. I remember looking at a scatter-plot though and noting that w… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/03/17 12:40 AM |
| 2 | What if Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had swapped genders?Well, I actually think she'd have a smaller issue to overcome than what Trump had to overcome. Almost everyone would be willing to write it off as a joke. Whereas for Trump, only some people wrote his comments off as "locker-room talk". | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/03/17 12:12 AM |
| 2 | Feminist "Mansplaining" Video Backfires; Reporter BTFOEhh, not sure it backfires. It certainly didn't prove her point. She doesn't seem introspective. But it is possible that people collectively deny a real problem. Suppose I made a video asking people if criminal courts are biased against men, and they all said "no" saying things like, "Well, when women commit crimes it's usually because they have to," or "Men are more likely to be criminals but when women commit crimes they are punished more harshly." I wouldn't change my opinion at all and would… | /r/MensRights | 09/03/17 11:25 PM |
| 1 | The Reality is Patriarchy: Indoctrination at Ryerson UniversityIf that's what people are saying, then fine. I usually get the impression that people are complaining about overt pay discrimination in the work place. (Which probably accounts for a few cents of the gap at most.) | /r/MensRights | 09/03/17 10:43 PM |
| 2 | The Reality is Patriarchy: Indoctrination at Ryerson UniversityMRAs have supplied reasons why women might be less interested in high-paying jobs. They don't need them as much as men. Usually high-paying jobs have some negative aspects attached. Possibly including long hours, less interesting work, more physical work, less safety. Men often expect to support a family on their salary. Women rarely expect to be supporting a husband and kids on their salary. Men get more of a benefit in the dating market from making money than women. Both sexes care about looks… | /r/MensRights | 09/03/17 01:14 PM |
| 1 | The Reality is Patriarchy: Indoctrination at Ryerson UniversityRyerson isn't a liberal arts school though. It used to be called Ryerson Polytechnic Institute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryerson_University Ryerson University is home to Canada's largest undergraduate business school, the Ted Rogers School of Management,[8] and Canada's third largest undergraduate engineering school, the George Vari Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science, as well as the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Communication & Design, Faculty of Community Services, and the Facu… | /r/MensRights | 09/03/17 01:04 PM |
| 5 | The Reality is Patriarchy: Indoctrination at Ryerson UniversityEveryone agrees that there are less women in high ranking management positions. If that's all one means by glass ceiling, then sure it exists. But what is a lot more controversial is why this happens. Is it discrimination? Or is it because women have different priorities in life? | /r/MensRights | 09/03/17 12:57 PM |
| 1 | The CDC states that females ages 20-24 have a median N-count of 2.6. Do you believe this is correct?OK well, on that question teens lie more. (Maybe because a 30 year old married woman falsely claiming to be a virgin won't get the same social approval as a 15 year old girl claiming the same?) | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/03/17 01:13 AM |
| 1 | The CDC states that females ages 20-24 have a median N-count of 2.6. Do you believe this is correct?Maybe you should state clearly what you are trying to say. I assumed that you were saying that teens are likely to lie about their number of partners, but older women were not. I disagree with that, but maybe that is not what you are trying to say. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/03/17 12:27 AM |
| 1 | The CDC states that females ages 20-24 have a median N-count of 2.6. Do you believe this is correct?Well, that's true but I'm not sure that the same trend would hold for # of sexual partners. Maybe the most socially acceptable answer for a 15 year old is 0 partners. And maybe the most socially acceptable answer for someone in their twenties is 1 or 2. It could be that 15-16 year olds are "lying" and saying 0 instead of 1 or 2. And that 20-24 year olds are "lying" and saying 2 instead of 3 or 4. The "lies" of the 20-24 year olds wouldn't show up in your table because anyone who has more than 0 … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/03/17 10:31 PM |
| 1 | The CDC states that females ages 20-24 have a median N-count of 2.6. Do you believe this is correct?Well, higher levels of reported sexual activity for people who were asked more privately. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/03/17 12:44 PM |
| 1 | The CDC states that females ages 20-24 have a median N-count of 2.6. Do you believe this is correct?Did the majority lie? I don't think they know that. It just seems that on average women lied. People were only placed in one of the three groups, so they didn't get some people to answer semi-privately, then get them to answer privately, then answer with a lie detector. Since people were assigned randomly, the true number should be about equal for each group. But it is possible that the women in the lie detector condition actually did have .3 or .4 more partners than the other groups (just by ra… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/03/17 05:05 AM |
| 1 | The CDC states that females ages 20-24 have a median N-count of 2.6. Do you believe this is correct?This is what it said in the link: Methods—Data for 2006–2008 were collected through in-person interviews with a national sample of 13,495 males and females in the household population of the United States. The measures presented in this report were collected using audio computer-assisted self interviewing (ACASI), in which the respondent enters his or her own answers into the computer without telling them to an interviewer It's not 100% clear that people felt their answers were private, but it s… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/03/17 03:42 AM |
| 1 | The CDC states that females ages 20-24 have a median N-count of 2.6. Do you believe this is correct?That's a bit of a high estimate, but it's not ridiculous. https://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/sexsurv.htm In general, the researchers found that women who thought their answers might be seen by others tended to give answers that were more socially acceptable than did women who thought they were connected to a lie detector. For example, women who thought their answers might be read reported an average of 2.6 sexual partners. But those who thought they were monitored by a lie detector reported an… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/03/17 01:33 AM |
| 2 | The CDC states that females ages 20-24 have a median N-count of 2.6. Do you believe this is correct?Mostly believable. There's been studies showing that women will tend to give slightly higher numbers when they think they are connected to a lie detector. https://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/sexsurv.htm For example, women who thought their answers might be read reported an average of 2.6 sexual partners. But those who thought they were monitored by a lie detector reported an average of 4.4 sexual partners. Women who were not attached to the lie detector, but who had privacy during testing, gave… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/03/17 01:31 AM |
| 3 | You can't make this shit upI'm not sure about that. Dictionaries seem to specify "adult". https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woman https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/woman http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/woman | /r/MensRights | 07/03/17 10:53 PM |
| 6 | You can't make this shit upCompletely agree. I avoid female when women or girls is appropriate. But I'm not going to use three words when one will do. If people don't like the word "female", they should start popularizing another word. | /r/MensRights | 07/03/17 12:58 PM |
| 14 | Men 'bullied' out of generous divorce settlements by breadwinning wivesAre you talking about the men who declined to ask for maintenance/alimony? Based on the article, it attributes that idea to lawyers. There's nothing wrong with a third party speaking up if they think they see an injustice. And that doesn't make anyone a whiner. | /r/MensRights | 05/03/17 09:08 PM |
| 1 | Discussion: 75-year study finds "The Secret to Happiness"Men who had “warm” childhood relationships with their mothers earned an average of $87,000 more a year than men whose mothers were uncaring. That's a pretty shocking result. Even if you were convinced that it makes a huge difference in life outcomes, I don't think anyone would predict that "unloved" boys would make $20,000 and "loved" boys would make $107,000. Yet that is the type of result we're seeing there. Being an unloved boy leads to a far bigger wage gap than being of a minority race, or … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/03/17 07:31 PM |
| 2 | Discussion: 75-year study finds "The Secret to Happiness"The Study basically concludes that ~drumroll~ lifelong healthy supportive relationships are the secret to a happy successful life, for men at least. (bluepill confirmed????) Not sure how that confirms the blue pill. I think most people want a lifelong happy supportive relationship. The question is what to do when such a relationship doesn't seem to be available. The blue pill response seems to be to marry someone who is not capable of such a relationship. The likely result? You get abused, you d… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/03/17 07:24 PM |
| 8 | LAWSUIT: Female rapes disabled student then gets him expelled, university fires his dad - The College FixGood advice and it probably does reduce your risk, but no matter how you act you're not immune to a false accusation. We've seen stories where someone is falsely accused of rape and they end up having an airtight alibi dozens of miles away. | /r/MensRights | 03/03/17 12:03 AM |
| – | Men outraged over paying child support for kids who are not theirsThat probably is unfair much of the time, but I could imagine it being fair in some situations. eg. There's a biological father who had no interaction with the kid. The woman marries another guy and he agrees to treat the kid as his own (Child is 1 at this time.). The couple gets divorced 10 years later, and the kid thinks of the 2nd man as "Dad". And the 2nd man wants to continue spending time with the kid. In my opinion having both men pay 50% child support or something might be appropriate. (… | /r/MensRights | 26/02/17 03:17 PM |
| 1 | No more Game of Thrones: Why I've banned TV shows featuring violence against women: "The difference, though, is that men are often victims of violence because they choose to put themselves in violent situations."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbLKCd_8Iqg&t=0m27s | /r/MensRights | 18/02/17 08:56 PM |
| 12 | Do many RPers still support Trump after the last few weeks?http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/21/democrats-running-for-president-2020/95651728/ Most Democrats want someone new and don't want Clinton again. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/02/17 11:12 PM |
| 1 | CMV: Men perceive the loss of their own privilege as a sign that women have now 'out-privileged' them.No. If that were true, you would expect that men would have had greatly better quality of life measures in the past. And now men would have slightly better quality of life measures than women or they'd be equal. That theory doesn't really seem to fit. Women used to live about 2 years longer than men. Now women live about 5 years longer. Men used to be more likely to get university degrees. Now women are substantially more likely. Men used to make up the vast majority of convicted criminals. Men … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/02/17 11:37 PM |
| 8 | Red Pill Truths in ClassWell, to be fair I think you have to observe their actual behavior. (Tough to do for someone you might only see in class.) I do think that there is a tendency to just agree with the prof (maybe social pressure, maybe a desire to get a better mark.) | /r/TheRedPill | 12/02/17 10:54 PM |
| 2 | 12 year old uses adult dating site says she's 18. Meets a 25 year old, he touches her in his truck, next day she calls sexual assault. Thoughts?He should be treated somewhat more leniently than someone who knew that the kid was 12. But really this doesn't seem like an honest mistake. He had a duty to verify her age. | /r/MensRights | 11/02/17 07:26 PM |
| 1 | How this feminist found herself sympathising with the men's rights movementFWIW, these are the early results from a poll posted to the mensrights subreddit: http://i.imgur.com/cfGRPbr.png http://i.imgur.com/RpeCFwF.png | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/01/17 07:06 PM |
| 2 | How this feminist found herself sympathising with the men's rights movementWell, it's early days for the poll, but these are the results thus far: http://i.imgur.com/cfGRPbr.png http://i.imgur.com/RpeCFwF.png | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/01/17 07:05 PM |
| 2 | Poll of MRA worldviewI intended the poll to be quick and simple. I think the results are predictable for MRAs. I think they might be surprising for non-MRAs. | /r/MensRights | 29/01/17 06:47 PM |
| 2 | How this feminist found herself sympathising with the men's rights movementI think you are mistaken, and I think the author of that article is mistaken (perhaps through miscommunication or ideological bias). The author suggests that Goldberg's MRM work and men's lib was separated by "not basic differences of ideology or analysis, but rather of emphasis and focus". To me that doesn't imply anti-feminist. It just means that they are talking about a neglected part of gender equality. I also disagree in a few parts with that text where it talks about spousal violence being… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/01/17 06:44 PM |
| 2 | Poll of MRA worldviewThat is a flaw in the poll. I was imagining Westerners talking about their own country. So if you are in the West, please indicate which option applies to your country. | /r/MensRights | 29/01/17 06:33 PM |
| 2 | Poll of MRA worldviewI definitely didn't set anything to intentionally track IP addresses. As far as I know, the data is anonymous for respondents. This is MisterPoll's privacy statement. http://www.misterpoll.com/privacy.html "No personal information is ever gathered from visitors who simply read messages, view polls, or vote in then." | /r/MensRights | 29/01/17 06:09 PM |
| 6 | How this feminist found herself sympathising with the men's rights movementWell, I'd agree that MRAs do little for women. I don't think that is seen as part of their purview though (because feminism already exists). I'd be pretty shocked if most MRAs say that only men face disadvantages though. Maybe I'll post a poll. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/01/17 05:05 PM |
| 4 | How this feminist found herself sympathising with the men's rights movementI wholeheartedly disagree. I don't see anti-feminism as the core of the MRM. Many (probably most) MRAs say that they are feminists by the dictionary definition (ie. gender equality). Obviously there is a lot of anti-feminism* on MRM groups. (By anti-feminism* I mean opposition to feminism as practiced, not against gender equality.) The reason for this is because the MRM believes that men are disadvantaged in many areas and women are disadvantaged in many other areas. As such you combat inequalit… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/01/17 02:03 PM |
| 3 | How this feminist found herself sympathising with the men's rights movementIt's a confusing name for the movie, because it is about MRAs not about the red pill subreddit. I think there was more overlap at one point, and both groups liked the Matrix analogy. But they have diverged significantly now. If you read MRM stuff, it's generally against traditionalism. MRAs love to talk about issues that are caused by traditionalism and how many men's issues go back centuries. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/01/17 03:55 AM |
| 6 | How this feminist found herself sympathising with the men's rights movementI think that most MRAs think that men and women both suffer significant disadvantages. (Not all do, but the majority.) I think that most MRAs would be prepared to accept that helping men in some areas is only fair if we also help women in other areas. My impression is that few online feminists are willing to accept the reverse. Maybe it's a bit different in real life, or if we surveyed less vocal feminists. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/01/17 03:47 AM |
| 1 | CMV/CHALLENGE: men who claim that constant attention paid to females by unsuitable men is an "advantage" should all go to a gay bath house or "judy garland park" tonight and put their money where their mouth isFine, having 100s of unsuitable people attracted to you isn't an advantage. (There's some mild positives and negatives, but the net effect is roughly neutral.) I don't think that is really the common red pill assertion though. It is an advantage to have lots of people attracted to you, even if most of them are unsuitable. Because it implies that there is a stronger chance that the people to whom you are attracted have a reciprocal attraction. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/01/17 04:32 AM |
| 1 | In South Carolina 13% to 16% of the jailed population are lower income father who cannot pay child support.It does say it in the article. "In South Carolina, where Michael Turner was incarcerated, child support obligors imprisoned for civil contempt comprise approximately thirteen to sixteen percent of the jail population." It would be nice to see where that stat comes from, but the footnotes were omitted. The article was published in an academic journal however, so I'm inclined to believe the number. | /r/TheRedPill | 24/01/17 03:46 AM |
| 2 | Question for men: What, if any, fictional characters have you been attracted to?Becky from the Simpsons Cheryl from Archer Amy from Futurama Alissa Strudwick from 3rd Rock from the Sun I'll agree with the Buffy people | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/01/17 07:35 PM |
| 3 | "Feminists care about the environment". Here's what they left behind after their protestsWell, to be fair, I have never seen MRM groups claim that environmentalism was a part of the movement, or that the MRM and environmentalism were mutually reinforcing. There's ecofeminism, but no eco-MRM, AFAIK. I don't think this post is fair to the marchers. Not all feminists claim to be environmentalists. Probably not even most of them. And maybe putting all the signs in one spot was supposed to aid clean-up - or at least send a message to people walking by. (Some people would have missed the … | /r/MensRights | 22/01/17 05:55 PM |
| 1 | Redpill is associated with the right wing while bluepill with the left, but when it comes to the sexual marketplace it is the complete oppositeNot sure that earlier marriage causes divorce. To me a plausible explanation is that highly educated people are less likely to get married early and less likely to get divorced. (I would guess that a lot of the people currently getting married at 20 are people who don't go to university.) With regards to a "bleak future", sure maybe a world war. I guess I was thinking a little bit more along the lines of a world where energy resources were depleted, or there was catastrophic climate change. But … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/01/17 06:37 PM |
| 2 | Redpill is associated with the right wing while bluepill with the left, but when it comes to the sexual marketplace it is the complete oppositeI'm not advocating for any of those changes, but since you asked: The abortion issue isn't settled, and I wouldn't be shocked if the majority of society became pro-life in the future. Arranged marriages will probably never happen, but I could imagine society encouraging people to get married at 20 rather than 30. People won't argue that women shouldn't be permitted to work. But support for affirmative action could drop. Assuming a bleak future, there could be an increased focus on manual labor, … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/01/17 05:44 PM |
| 1 | Redpill is associated with the right wing while bluepill with the left, but when it comes to the sexual marketplace it is the complete oppositeAll of these have changed over time: arranged marriages or not degree of social shaming for sex before marriage availability of contraception availability of abortion legality of prostitution degree to which women are able to earn money in society | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/01/17 12:38 PM |
| 1 | BBC impartiality..Agreed. And men should also be able to wear what they please. I definitely think the patriarchy term is misleading. I think really, we have a system of gender norms that is enforced by both women and men and that both men and women can be harmed by it. I guess I was choosing to be charitable in accepting that as "patriarchy" (even though that term seems to erroneously imply that it's men enforcing and benefiting from the system) | /r/MensRights | 15/01/17 06:09 PM |
| 2 | BBC impartiality..Yeah I agree, that the BBC isn't always impartial, but I don't have a huge issue with that tweet. Women should be able to wear dresses or pants as they please. | /r/MensRights | 15/01/17 05:40 PM |
| 2 | Why is the concept "respect women" received in such a hostile way by red pill men and MRAs?Obviously the same for her money. I guess the thing I was thinking about in my mind is my brother, whose girlfriend recently ordered a $800 dresser for him, without discussing it with him and expecting him to pay for it. In that case, it was clearly his money - although I'm pretty sure they do expect to get married some day. When my brother complained about it to our family (in a mild way), my mom and sister took her side. To me, that sort of thing shows a lack of respect. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/01/17 01:23 AM |
| 2 | Why is the concept "respect women" received in such a hostile way by red pill men and MRAs?I'm not sure what a normal reaction means. I could be wrong, but I feel like if a woman grabbed a guy by the penis, and he loudly and angrily said, "Get your hands off me.", people would think he's the bad guy. He should chill and relax and not be so dramatic. Really he should appreciate it. People would think he had mental issues. If a man grabbed a woman by the crotch and she said loudly and angrily, "Get your hand off of me.", then everyone would think he was the bad guy. Probably someone wou… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/01/17 12:45 AM |
| 2 | Why is the concept "respect women" received in such a hostile way by red pill men and MRAs?I think it's closer to 1 in 3 gropees are men if we define it similarly. ie. I think you'll see a big gender disparity if you ask people if they've been sexually assaulted. but you'll get something like the 1 in 3 if you ask people if they've been subject to unwanted touching of their genitals, chest or rear without consent. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/01/17 12:33 AM |
| 6 | Why is the concept "respect women" received in such a hostile way by red pill men and MRAs?OK, maybe I guessed wrong. I assumed that most women would have a somewhat negative reaction to such a list. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/01/17 12:26 AM |
| 4 | Why is the concept "respect women" received in such a hostile way by red pill men and MRAs?I'm pretty sure that men grope other men sometimes. Guys occasionally smack other guys on the rear - have you seen a football game? Social conventions prevent men from complaining. I'm sure gay men sometimes assault other gay men. And lastly, lots of hetero women grab men without consent. I've had my genitals grabbed by women at a bar. I think women just assume it will be welcome. And men are taught they should like it. So even if a man doesn't like it, it's expected that they'll go along with i… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/01/17 12:19 AM |
| 0 | Why is the concept "respect women" received in such a hostile way by red pill men and MRAs?Obviously it's a disconnect in communication. No reasonable person thinks that groping is acceptable or that No's should'nt be respected. However, most men already do that. And most men think that most other men already do that. So if they hear a generalized "Men have to learn to respect women" then it's assumed that the person is talking about something else (eg. not asking women for their opinions enough). You wouldn't hear much push back to the statement, "Men who grope have to learn to respe… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/01/17 12:11 AM |
| 15 | Why is the concept "respect women" received in such a hostile way by red pill men and MRAs?Fair enough. But what would your knee jerk reaction be to an article saying treat men with respect or treat white people with respect? eg. Treat men with respect: Make eye contact when talking. Allow him to speak. Assess your attitude towards men. Mind your manners. (Avoid obsessive swearing, passing gas, burping, etc. ) Ask for permission before spending your husband's money (understand that “No” does mean no) Be mindful of comments that affect his confidence Know when to leave a man alone. Avo… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/01/17 12:06 AM |
| 2 | That's 7665 days.Yeah, but she claims that he did rape her. Her admitted lie was that she claimed she hadn't had sex before Franklin, when in fact, her father had been abusing her repeatedly. This meant all of her genital trauma was attributed to Franklin. What she did was wrong, but I have to think a lot of people could justify it to themselves with some "ends justify the means" logic. If she knew that Franklin raped her, then she probably felt a lengthy prison sentence was deserved. | /r/MensRights | 05/01/17 01:12 PM |
| 2 | That's 7665 days.Yeah, but she claims that he did rape her. Her admitted lie was that she claimed she hadn't had sex before Franklin, when in fact, her father had been abusing her repeatedly. This meant all of her genital trauma was attributed to Franklin. What she did was wrong, but I have to think a lot of people could justify it to themselves with some "ends justify the means" logic. If she knew that Franklin raped her, then she probably felt a lengthy prison sentence was deserved. | /r/MensRights | 05/01/17 01:11 PM |
| 1 | That's 7665 days.Yeah, but she claims that he did rape her. Her admitted lie was that she claimed she hadn't had sex before Franklin, when in fact, her father had been abusing her repeatedly. This meant all of her genital trauma was attributed to Franklin. What she did was wrong, but I have to think a lot of people could justify it to themselves with some "ends justify the means" logic. If she knew that Franklin raped her, then she probably felt a lengthy prison sentence was deserved. | /r/MensRights | 05/01/17 01:10 PM |
| 1 | That's 7665 days.It's not that clear-cut. She still says that he raped her, but that by lying about being raped by her father, all the genital trauma was attributed to Franklin. If I was her, and I absolutely knew that I was raped by Franklin, then I would be tempted to say that justice was served. (Of course, it wasn't her right to game the justice system that way) | /r/MensRights | 05/01/17 01:05 PM |
| 13 | That's 7665 days.She had been raped repeatedly by her father. She also says she was raped by Franklin. Her admitted lie was that she claimed that she hadn't had sex other than with Franklin, so genital trauma that may have been caused by her father was attributed to Franklin. I have to admit that, if I were the 13 year old girl and I knew definitively that I had been raped by Franklin, I might be tempted to lie to ensure that he was convicted. It's not right, but this isn't one of those cases where someone clear… | /r/MensRights | 05/01/17 12:50 PM |
| 6 | RPs pessimistic view on women is more about their social class than womenThere's something to what you are saying, but it isn't a clear cut class divide. I think it's mostly a situation where people who grew up with dysfunctional families or lived in dysfunctional social environments gravitate towards TRP and people who didn't gravitate towards TBP. Class is a risk factor for dysfunction, but it's only a partial correlation. Incidentally, your post reminds me of Scott Alexander's thrive/survive hypothesis: My hypothesis is that rightism is what happens when you’re op… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/01/17 04:50 PM |
| 4 | How can physical beauty possibly be a woman's greatest asset?I'll agree that beauty isn't the only thing. If a woman is beautiful, but incredibly stupid, uncouth and mean, then she isn't going to get very far. I still think a beautiful woman who has an average IQ, who is kind and pleasant, and has a job like nursery school teacher is probably going to get more of what she wants from life than an ugly and cranky woman with a PhD and a good paying job. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/12/16 02:34 AM |
| 3 | Are men bad at getting gifts? If so, why?There's huge individual variations within each gender, but I would agree that men are worse at buying gifts than women. I think it's mostly because men tend to dislike shopping and women don't. Many women seem to enjoy browsing and that makes it easier to find a gift. Many men seem to want to have an idea, go find it and buy it. I was speculating that men are easier to buy for than women, but I don't think that's true. As a man, I find it easier to buy a video game, Star Wars merchandise or an N… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/12/16 12:43 PM |
| 1 | Q4MEN What is, in detail, the problem you have with us feminists and feminism in general?Personally, I think that men and women are treated differently. Probably 100 years ago, women had more disadvantages than men, but nowadays I think there are relatively equal advantages and disadvantages on each side. So I think there are two fair ways of approaching this: 1) Treat men and women exactly the same in every single way. This means that both women and men lose their advantages, but no longer have to deal with their disadvantages. 2) Keep a somewhat traditional system. Maybe like toda… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/12/16 05:25 AM |
| 17 | Man served 21 years in prison, off a false rape claim by a 13 year old. Comments section defending the girl.Even the newspaper headline is misleading in this case. "Former Fort Worth police officer who served 21 years in prison for raping a 13-year-old girl is found not guilty in re-trial after victim admits she made it all up" | /r/MensRights | 18/12/16 01:08 PM |
| 37 | Man served 21 years in prison, off a false rape claim by a 13 year old. Comments section defending the girl.To be fair, the title of the article is misleading: "Former Fort Worth police officer who served 21 years in prison for raping a 13-year-old girl is found not guilty in re-trial after victim admits she made it all up" | /r/MensRights | 18/12/16 01:05 PM |
| 4 | "Lived experiences": a feminist justification for TRP's field reports and personal experiences?Well, I will say that the lived experiences probably have some value. And if people are testing out ideas rigorously and reporting back that improves the value. But the big thing is susceptibility to bias. Here's some types of bias that are creeping into the reporting mechanism: selection bias: Are the people who choose to get involved in TRP/PUA communities representative of all men? Maybe these men have certain quirks that make methods work well for them, but work poorly for others. reporting … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/12/16 04:53 AM |
| 20 | "Lived experiences": a feminist justification for TRP's field reports and personal experiences?I think it's fair to compare the two. However, "lived experiences" is a bad way of gathering data for both feminists and the red pill. Actual science is far superior. Individual reports are susceptible to all sorts of biases. There are certain types of field reports that get written and others that don't (at least not as often). Then on a platform like reddit, some get a lot of attention and others don't. The reports that people see are quite unlikely to actually be representing what happens in … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/12/16 11:49 PM |
| 1 | "Lived experiences": a feminist justification for TRP's field reports and personal experiences?Do you mean nonsensical? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/12/16 11:44 PM |
| 8 | Anti-male hate group CBC is at it again: inquiry into Indigenous women should resist calls to include menThere's some truth to that, but the Robyn Urback piece brings some balance to their coverage. | /r/MensRights | 17/12/16 06:25 PM |
| 5 | Amanda Knox pens essay claiming 'women confess to crimes under police interrogation because they are conditioned to please men'. What utter bollocks.Maybe that's true, maybe it's not. But I think society should be consistent on this issue. If women are easily coerced, then sure, maybe we should be extra careful in reviewing criminal confessions by women. But, then, we'd have to conclude that women, on average, would be much less capable as lawyers, police officers, CEOs, agents, etc. You're not going to negotiate the best deal if you are a malleable people-pleaser. Those fields should remain dominated by men. The fair thing to do is assume t… | /r/MensRights | 17/12/16 12:47 AM |
| 4 | What Women Really Think of Men - ArticleI think the OP's statement is wrong. But white women voted more for Trump than Clinton. 52 to 43. http://www.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls/national/president White men were 62% for Trump. In order to have equal white women as white men voting for Trump there would have to be 19.2% more women than men voting. For that to be true 54.3% of white voters would have to be women. The number I'm seeing on the web is 53% (although that is for all voters). So probably more white men voted for Trump … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/12/16 05:42 PM |
| 3 | Study shows that the 80/20 rule is more of a 66/33 ruleThe thing about those studies though is that they measure the relative numbers of men and women who have descendants alive today. If you have descendants alive today, then obviously you reproduced. But if you didn't, it doesn't mean you didn't reproduce. And it certainly didn't mean you didn't have sex. Suppose a poor man had 8 children, 6 of whom died as children. Then they had 3 children who survived til adulthood. Then they had no great grandchildren (maybe war or disease or no mate). Obvious… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/12/16 05:06 PM |
| 4 | Trailer for new feminist MTV show has women stabbing and beating up men because equalityIt's because English guys were proud of England and named things after cities, towns and places in England. I know it can be a bit odd though. I'm from Canada and the city of Ontario, California always sounds weird to me. But again it's because it was named by a Canadian engineer. Obviously you guys have it happen far more often. | /r/MensRights | 10/12/16 02:48 PM |
| 7 | 8000 years ago 17 women reproduced for every one manThere's a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison here. 17:1 probably isn't the true ratio of men who were reproducing to women. The article says that 17 women still have descendants alive today for every man that still has descendants alive today. So if a man from 8000 years ago had 8 children (two lived to be adults), and 3 grandchildren (1 lived to be an adult), and 0 great-grand children, he would be considered someone who didn't reproduce (to have descendants alive today). But of course he s… | /r/TheRedPill | 07/12/16 01:47 PM |
| 2 | National Post: MRAs "really aren't so scary after all."I think that's a poor characterization or at least poor phrasing. But from a certain point of view he's right. MRAs want men to get equal custody after a divorce. If that happens men will be more like women (more parenting, less providing.) MRAs want men and women to be treated equally with regards to domestic abuse. If that happens men are treated more like women. MRAs want workplace fatalities minimized, and shared more equally with women. If that happens men and women will probably have more … | /r/MensRights | 07/12/16 05:34 AM |
| 1 | Why did I always hear guys say "I'll give it a try with her, she's easy?"I thought "easy" just meant that she liked more guys than you'd expect. If a girl is an 8 you might expect her to sleep with guys who are 8 or higher. But an easy girl who is an 8, might just really like sex and even if the guy is a 6 it would still be fun for her. So it would make sense for guys who are 6s to ask her out. It's not like she isn't deciding for herself whether she wants to have sex. And she probably still has standards - she'd say no to 3s. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/12/16 04:24 PM |
| 3 | are women naturally predisposed to believe the apex fallacy?Lol | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/12/16 08:06 PM |
| 2 | This is Why Guys Give up on DatingI don't really know the guy, I just googled his images. I think he probably looks "average" in a lot of them. eg. http://1.images.comedycentral.com/images/shows/tds/videos/season_17/17065/ds_17065_04_16x9.jpg But his stand-up clearly played up his awkwardness. http://media.avclub.com/images/articles/article/52231/steph_jpg_627x325_crop_upscale_q85.jpg Lastly, I'll note that he is apparently 6 foot 7, so that works in his favour. She's apparently 5'11", so maybe his height is particularly appeali… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/12/16 04:59 PM |
| 1 | This is Why Guys Give up on DatingI'll agree that if the person is holding out for Christine Marzano or higher, then they are being ludicrous. However, most people want someone they are attracted to at least somewhat. If a somewhat unattractive man held out for a woman that he considered to be among the more attractive 50% of women, I don't think he's being unreasonable. (To be clear, I'm not just talking about looks here, a kind woman could make the grade with sub-par looks.) For one thing, people evaluate people differently. S… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/12/16 04:51 PM |
| 6 | are women naturally predisposed to believe the apex fallacy?I'd say yes, women are naturally biased to this way of thinking. People are prone to think of the examples that are available in their mind. Not only will women naturally tend to spend more time thinking about attractive men (who tend to be higher status), media also plays into this. Celebrities worth $100 million are on tv all the time. Homeless men are not - even though homeless men are far, far more common. So in a sense women "know" the celebrities better than the homeless men, and they are … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/12/16 04:37 PM |
| 1 | CMV: Red Pillers should be less hateful of feminism because it helps them get laid!It's pretty possible that everyone getting married earlier would mean more sex. http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2011/8/18/who-has-the-busier-bedroom-single-people-or-married-couples.html Research shows that married couples actually have sex with much greater frequency than single people.1 For instance, just consider single guys between ages 18-24. What percentage of them report having sex more than 2 times per week? Just over ten percent. How about married guys in the same age range? … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/12/16 04:00 PM |
| 3 | Canadian Theatre cancels showing of men's rights documentary The Red Pill due to complaintsIdeally the sponsors that complained could be identified, but maybe there's only 4-8 of them. They can all be emailed (at least until they speak up and say, "Hey we have nothing against this screening.") | /r/MensRights | 03/12/16 01:28 AM |
| 3 | Canadian Theatre cancels showing of men's rights documentary The Red Pill due to complaintsI guess people can write an email to the sponsors of Mayfair Theatre and let them know that they will no longer be patronizing them because they are associated with the Mayfair Theatre. Who are those sponsors? Not sure, but someone can probably grab a paper copy of the Mayfair Theatre's and identify 4-8 sponsors. | /r/MensRights | 03/12/16 01:25 AM |
| 1 | The World Health Organization declares being an incel is a disability.Several countries (mainly in Europe) do reimburse people for IVF treatment - but just for women who can't conceive naturally. http://www.ivf-worldwide.com/education/introduction/ivf-costs-worldwide/policy-of-reimbursement.html My understanding is that this change would probably lead to IVF reimbursements for women who can't conceive because they don't have a partner (at least in those countries where physically infertile couples are reimbursed) I agree that the OP stretches things. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 27/11/16 01:19 AM |
| 0 | The World Health Organization declares being an incel is a disability.No one is suggesting that they get disability checks. People who are physically infertile right now don't get disability checks. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 27/11/16 12:13 AM |
| 6 | The World Health Organization declares being an incel is a disability.Usually when we hear "incels" we think hetero men. But this is more aimed at women (both hetero and lesbians). You still need a uterus for in vitro fertilization to work. (Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not sure how this applies to men) So I don't think this signals more concern for men's rights. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/11/16 11:08 PM |
| 4 | Feminist lies do real damage: Mexico transit department fires all of its men and replaces them with women because "women less corrupt than men."I could see women being less corrupt because of gender roles (not because of women being more moral). Making good money is relatively more important for men (Society deems wealthy men worthwhile and datable/marriageable). Women with low salaries are still considered datable/marriageable if they are pretty and kind. It's a big reason why men are more ambitious to get high-paying jobs, and why men are more likely to be criminals. There's more incentive for men. | /r/MensRights | 26/11/16 07:06 PM |
| 1 | why do fair skinned women go sunbathing accelerating their wall hitting process?I'm not sure if it actually is considered more attractive or if people just think that others find it attractive. But I'm pretty sure that lots of women tan because they think it makes them more attractive to others. It could also signal things like looks good in a bikini, has time to have fun at the beach, etc. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/11/16 12:45 AM |
| 1 | MILO Offers to Pay for Lena Dunham’s One-Way Ticket to CanadaThis is obviously more contentious and less obvious than I thought. That said, 67% of Hispanic respondents consider Hispanic a race. (More like 77% if you ignore the 13% who answered that they didn't know) http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/06/11/chapter-7-the-many-dimensions-of-hispanic-racial-identity/ Granted, most also consider Hispanic an ethnicity but there's no reason it can't be both. Maybe you should learn to respect Hispanics and let them decide if Hispanic is a race. | /r/MensRights | 13/11/16 05:54 PM |
| 1 | MILO Offers to Pay for Lena Dunham’s One-Way Ticket to CanadaThis has nothing to do with my feelings. There is a standard way of reporting race in the US. Hispanics are broken out into a separate group. Google "racial demographics in the United States" and you get these as the top results: http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/distribution-by-raceethnicity/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762156.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethn… | /r/MensRights | 13/11/16 07:23 AM |
| 1 | MILO Offers to Pay for Lena Dunham’s One-Way Ticket to CanadaFine, you win. Lena Dunham isn't being hypocritical. | /r/MensRights | 13/11/16 06:25 AM |
| 1 | MILO Offers to Pay for Lena Dunham’s One-Way Ticket to CanadaObviously francophones are a minority. I've never heard anyone suggest they not be considered "white" before. | /r/MensRights | 12/11/16 07:17 PM |
| 1 | MILO Offers to Pay for Lena Dunham’s One-Way Ticket to CanadaCompletely arbitrary? I guess you are one of those "race is a social construct" people. Yes, I agree that there is an element of social construct to race. But, francophone Quebeckers have always been counted as white in Canada. In most demographic surveys in the US, Hispanics have been broken out as a separate race. Maybe you can make a case that that is unreasonable, but that's the way it's been done. | /r/MensRights | 12/11/16 07:01 PM |
| 1 | MILO Offers to Pay for Lena Dunham’s One-Way Ticket to CanadaYes, they are counted as white. Interesting idea you have. That said, I think francophones are recognized as a founding people in Canada, and so aren't really seen as "changing" Canada's character. I don't think that's the case with light-skinned Hispanics. To some extent they are seen as foreigners. | /r/MensRights | 12/11/16 06:10 PM |
| 1 | MILO Offers to Pay for Lena Dunham’s One-Way Ticket to CanadaYes, Vancouver and Toronto have insane house prices. Most of the rest of the country is reasonable though. http://www.livingin-canada.com/house-prices-canada.html http://www.crea.ca/housing-market-stats/national-average-price-map/ | /r/MensRights | 12/11/16 04:42 PM |
| 1 | MILO Offers to Pay for Lena Dunham’s One-Way Ticket to CanadaWhites constitute the majority of the U.S. population, with a total of about 245,532,000 or 77.7% of the population as of 2013 That is probably is counting most of the Hispanic people as white. | /r/MensRights | 12/11/16 04:31 PM |
| 3 | MILO Offers to Pay for Lena Dunham’s One-Way Ticket to CanadaAre tunnels a viable thing? What about people visiting legally and just never leaving? I think the law should be enforced somehow, but I'm not convinced that a wall is the most cost effective way. | /r/MensRights | 11/11/16 11:59 PM |
| 11 | MILO Offers to Pay for Lena Dunham’s One-Way Ticket to CanadaNot sure the taxation rate is that different. There's a couple of brackets where the income tax rate is better in Canada than the US. https://www.irs.com/articles/2015-federal-tax-rates-personal-exemptions-and-standard-deductions $37,451 to $90,750: 25% $90,751 to $189,300: 28% http://www.taxtips.ca/taxrates/canada.htm over $45,916 up to $91,831: 20.5% over $91,831 up to $142,353: 26% Some adjustment is needed for the exchange rate, and the basic personal amounts, so the Canadian numbers should … | /r/MensRights | 11/11/16 11:55 PM |
| 17 | MILO Offers to Pay for Lena Dunham’s One-Way Ticket to CanadaIt's wrong. In 2010/2011 it's 78% white in Canada and 64% white in the United States. 10 page pdf link below http://environicspr.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/US_Canadian_Diversity.pdf That said, Vancouver and Toronto have more diversity than other areas. | /r/MensRights | 11/11/16 11:49 PM |
| 1 | Chelsea Clinton is the living proof that the 'all girls can look pretty if they just take care of themselves' theory is false.Ehh, he has some decent photos too. I'm not going to say he's a male model or anything, but my guess is that he's a little better looking than average. http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/100714/GAL-10Jul14-5144/media/PHO-10Jul14-238135.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.forward.com/images/cropped/chelsea-clinton-marc-wedding-1454501765.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/06/21/article-0-0CA8246200000578-426_468x647.jpg Add in his $2 million a year job and many women would… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/11/16 12:48 AM |
| 2 | Chelsea Clinton is the living proof that the 'all girls can look pretty if they just take care of themselves' theory is false.The idea is that she can find guys to sleep with her, not that she will be a knockout beauty. http://29wyu31qhvsjwj4mf2oi5lg1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/chelsea-clinton.png As far as I know, she hasn't had problems finding guys to sleep with her. She's married and has two kids. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/11/16 01:08 PM |
| 1 | Why do men push for, encourage or even ‘demand’ early or casual sex only to later demonize or punish women for giving in?Pretty sure the complaint is when women have sex quickly with other guys. They like it when a woman has sex quickly with them. There's probably situations where a woman quickly has sex with a guy and then she dumps him. Or maybe he discovers that she is way too selfish or boring or something and he dumps her. The guy might retroactively impugn her character (at least in his mind). But that's just after the fact rationalization. He's invested in making her out to be a bad catch, so he'll grasp at… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/11/16 03:52 PM |
| 3 | If feminists only want to vilify men why do they praise "The Neon Demon"?Having not seen the movie, I assume it still reinforces the idea that the world is a dangerous place for women and society needs to protect women more. You'd probably get some positive feminist response for a male-on-male victimization (describing the problem of entitled men and that even men can be hurt by it in some cases). I'd be a quite surprised by positive feminist responses to a movie depicting a woman victimizing a man though. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/11/16 12:30 PM |
| 5 | Doctor sues gay friend for child support, 16 years after he first donated sperm to her.OK, that's a reasonable perspective. But if that's the case, then no one would ever agree to be a sperm donor. Meaning that a whole bunch of children would never be born. If you had a choice between never being born and being supported by just one parent earning $250K per year, I think most people would prefer to be born. Lastly, maybe some wording needs to be adjusted in contracts, but couldn't you just say, "Jane agrees to fully reimburse John for all child support costs." In that case, the ch… | /r/TheRedPill | 29/10/16 12:31 PM |
| 8 | Doctor sues gay friend for child support, 16 years after he first donated sperm to her.I've read some other sources on this. I'm pretty sure they are both Canadian dollar figures. The thing is that she lives in Ontario so she is actually paid in Canadian dollars. He doesn't, so his salary was converted to Canadian dollars for comparison. | /r/TheRedPill | 29/10/16 12:25 PM |
| 1 | Hundreds of obese, older women march in neighborhood of man who said women over 20 shouldn't wear yoga pantsI guarantee any time a man is pictured in a Speedo, women (and men) will tell him to cover up. If he's overweight or old, he'll be body shamed. If not, he might be branded as trashy, creepy or slimy. There might be a bit of a gender issue here, but most of the problem is a human problem. Frame it as a human problem, and you'd end up with a lot more allies and make a lot more progress. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/10/16 01:21 AM |
| 1 | Do women have "social skills"?Okay. But then the true reaction these guys are inducing is forced laughter and discomfort in others. People with better social skills do that less often. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/10/16 09:05 PM |
| 1 | Do women have "social skills"?Overall, women have strong social skills. I'd argue that women have better social skills than men in some ways and worse social skills in other ways. But, I find it bizarre that you don't think social skills exist. Doesn't it seem obvious to you that some people are better conversationalists, or seem to have more friends than you'd expect based on looks, wealth etc? If I were to guess I'd say that more men than women are able to converse with you about the things you want to talk about. But not … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/10/16 02:55 PM |
| 1 | Why is it that most guys I know are single while most girls I know have a boyfriend?I think women dating older might explain part of the difference. It's tough for college guys to date high school girls (due to lack of interaction and societal norms). But if your school skews significantly female, that would more than cancel out the "dating older" effect. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 05/10/16 04:19 AM |
| 1 | Have you ever seen or known a 40+ year old man go out with or hookup with a 8/10, or very attractive girl in college?I think it happens more often than people think. First off, there are enough 40 year old guys that look like they are 30. If they are out with a 24 year old woman, no one looks twice. They assume it's a 30 year old and a 24 year old. (Of course, some 40 year olds look 50 - but they are much less likely to have young girlfriends) Secondly, I've frequently seen significantly younger women hit on older guys when age groups are mixed. I'm thinking co-ed sports (because I play a lot of co-ed sports).… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/09/16 12:40 AM |
| 2 | Should incels and the reasons they exist be discussed and taught in sex ed in public schools?I don't think that incels know in their teens though. A 15 minute conversation about incels would be pointless and annoying for most teens, but could actually make a huge difference to the future happiness of a small percentage of people. Arguably it could help society too if people are contributing to their full potential (which is difficult to achieve for incels). | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/09/16 11:59 AM |
| 6 | A feminist's two sons reject her lies about rape culture etc and she's very pissed off about it: "My teen boys are blind to rape culture - The Washington Post"They should also refuse to do anything that they aren't enthusiastically consenting to. | /r/MensRights | 17/09/16 11:48 AM |
| 2 | CMV:Being an incel is a mental health condition, not a state of poverty or destitution.Obviously "state of mind" plays a big part in the problem, but I don't think that is particularly different than financial poverty. The majority of people who are so poor they can't get enough food could actually earn minimum wage with the right state of mind. They wouldn't be well off but basic food and shelter needs would be met. Take a guy on the street. He could spend his days investigating various social programs available to him. He could use such services to clean up, find a place to live… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/09/16 01:28 AM |
| 2 | TFW your own national leader doesn't know the actual statistics of his pet cause.15% of women are below the poverty line, and 11% of men. That's a significant difference in my opinion. (By my count women are more likely to be poor in 48 out of 51 states/districts. And there are 3 ties) Of course, poverty line is not the only way to measure this. Homelessness might be a better way and that stat makes men seem worse off. | /r/MensRights | 29/08/16 07:46 AM |
| 5 | Everything is misogyny! Naked statues of Donald Trump? Misogyny!First off, I hate the way misogyny doesn't mean "hatred of women" anymore. It is used to mean anti-woman sexism. I don't mind someone saying that there is some anti-woman sexism in the message. I think there is some. If you say Donald Trump is not masculine enough to be a leader that implies some negative things about women and their capacity to be leaders. But it has to be balanced. There is some anti-woman sexism - but there is also a ton of anti-man sexism in the Trump statues. Why is that ne… | /r/MensRights | 27/08/16 07:59 PM |
| 5 | If feminism is good for men, why are so many men against it?It's a bait-and-switch tactic. Equal opportunity, responsibility, etc. for all would be good for most or many men and most/many women. But in practice feminism is about fixing real or perceived injustices against women. Fixing injustices against men is seen as unnecessary at best and misogynistic at worst. And so men gain little from feminism (as practiced). It's sort of like a political party talking about tax cuts for the rich and how that will help everyone - rich or poor. "A rising tide lift… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/08/16 12:29 AM |
| 2 | Do women life life on "easy mode"?Some things are easier for women, some things are harder. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/08/16 03:27 AM |
| 0 | Do women life life on "easy mode"?Definitely agree. Women are judged more on looks than men. Men are judged more on accomplishments. It's easier for a woman to have a good life without working hard to achieve it (if she has the right genes). But men have more opportunity to improve their lives by accomplishing things. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/08/16 03:23 AM |
| 152 | Sports star worth 65k a week finds out his wife is cheating with a forestry worker who earns £200-a-monthYeah, he might be "trying to make it work" because he thinks he'll lose the kids and have to pay alimony and child support. In cases like this, he should be able to divorce her, keep the kids and pay her nothing. | /r/TheRedPill | 07/08/16 08:00 PM |
| 2 | Isn't Evolutionary Psychology just pseudoscience?Maybe I'm wrong, but the example you cited seems almost more like just general evolution than evolutionary psychology. Does it mean that evolution is pseudoscience? Anyways, I'd say that evolutionary psychology is a soft science and that it's hard to test the hypotheses. But it's nevertheless possible. Take your example. Figure out what areas had cold, white environments. Figure out what areas had people with black and brown animal skin coats. Is blonde hair more prevalent in areas where people … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/08/16 03:08 AM |
| 2 | If all you need is cheap social verification, why not just get a wedding ring?You'd probably have more women checking you out and feeling attracted to you. Doesn't mean that you'd find it easier to sleep with these women. I suspect that for most men, lying in a big way is going to negatively affect your confidence, body language, etc. So for these people will the net effect even be positive? Lastly, this pretty much ends the possibility of more than a ONS. Maybe for a mildly sociopathic man spending one night out of town on a business trip at an airport bar, this could be… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 05/08/16 11:38 AM |
| 2 | Teacher restricts boys from playing with legos, only allowing girls the cognitive benefits to 'close gender gap'.This is ridiculous. Possibly reasonable? Having one Lego set for boys and another Lego set for girls. BTW, by telling boys they'll have their turn and never doing it, she's actually teaching boys that women can't be trusted. Pretty sure that's not what she wants. | /r/MensRights | 25/07/16 03:00 AM |
| 3 | Christie Blatchford: Judge’s florid ruling seems an attempt to blow up so-called ‘rape myths’I hate the judges ruling. I don't think it's at all clear what happened. And his wording seems to show clear bias all the way through. One issue that lends credibility to her story though is this text sent by the accused to the accuser a few days after the event: "I am sorry things went as they did. I shouldn’t have said and done some of the things I did. I was upset and felt wronged by you but that does not excuse my own mistakes." I'm not sure why he would have sent that as an apology for brea… | /r/MensRights | 23/07/16 07:50 PM |
| 3 | Empty cinemas in Ghostbusters opening week. Constantly attacking your audience with vile insults doesn't seem to be a profitable strategy after allYeah, we'll have to wait and see. But Secret Life of Pets will probably win Sunday due to Sunday being a "family" day. | /r/MensRights | 17/07/16 01:16 PM |
| 2 | Empty cinemas in Ghostbusters opening week. Constantly attacking your audience with vile insults doesn't seem to be a profitable strategy after allI think it's a combo of tickets that were sold on Friday, tickets that were bought in advance for Saturday and Sunday, and the number of theatres and seats dedicated to the movie. Usually they are reasonably accurate. I'd be surprised if the final number is outside the $40-$50 million range. | /r/MensRights | 17/07/16 01:14 PM |
| 7 | Empty cinemas in Ghostbusters opening week. Constantly attacking your audience with vile insults doesn't seem to be a profitable strategy after allI think the 17.2 million was for Friday night sales. $45 million is the weekend estimate (based in part on the Friday sales). | /r/MensRights | 17/07/16 01:12 PM |
| 6 | Empty cinemas in Ghostbusters opening week. Constantly attacking your audience with vile insults doesn't seem to be a profitable strategy after allIt's a horrible result for Ghostbusters. Spy opened to 39 million, so a good Ghostbusters with proper marketing should have hit 65-70 million. But that said, 45 million doesn't mean empty theaters. | /r/MensRights | 17/07/16 01:10 PM |
| 2 | If women are happier in a patriarchy why does a form of feminism often rise eventually, even in ancient societies?Well, I think the idea is that between patriarchy and 100% equality (both the upside and downside), most women prefer patriarchy. Some women would prefer 100% equality, but not most. So, firstly, maybe there is always a large enough minority of women that want true equality, that some sort of feminism will always emerge. But secondly, as mentioned repeatedly, popular feminism seems to be about getting equality for women when it helps women and preserving traditional gender roles when it helps wo… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/07/16 10:04 PM |
| 2 | Q4RP: Is it in men's nature to destroy each other? If so, why should women and/or society care?I was going to wholeheartedly agree with you. I was writing this: It's 51 boys : 49 girls at birth. It's about 50:50 by age 30. But with senior citizens it can be 45:55. Shouldn't this mean that elderly women would be killing each other more than elderly men if sex ratios matter so much? But after looking at some numbers I only tentatively agree with you. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/legal10a-eng.htm Men are far more likely to be homicide victims than women in the 1… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/07/16 01:13 AM |
| 3 | Q4RP: Is it in men's nature to destroy each other? If so, why should women and/or society care?I'm not following your train of thought. My answer wasn't the pure red pill perspective, and I suspect the most extreme red pillers think that genetics almost completely explains the observed differences between men and women. Maybe you're implying a contradiction between violence and honor? Those things aren't necessarily in opposition. If a husband encounters another man mocking his wife and upsetting her, the honorable thing to do would be to put an end to that. There's a possibility that tha… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/07/16 12:55 AM |
| 4 | Q4RP: Is it in men's nature to destroy each other? If so, why should women and/or society care?Obviously men have agency. I'm not sure why you think they don't. And I'm not sure what logical fallacy you're talking about. You'll have to be more specific. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/07/16 12:47 AM |
| 15 | Q4RP: Is it in men's nature to destroy each other? If so, why should women and/or society care?Society teaches men (and women) to care less about other men. Evolution is part of it, but society exacerbates it greatly. You could make similar arguments about other things: eg. More men than women work long overtime at the office. Obviously women don't care about becoming CEO. Why should society care? More African Americans commit crimes than others. Obviously African Americans don't care about staying out of jail. Why should society care? My view is that the two preceding arguments are bunk,… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/07/16 11:44 PM |
| 3 | Blatant sexism from my required Sociology course.Well they are both pronounced the same, so it's not easy to notice. Same as brunet and brunette. | /r/MensRights | 25/06/16 11:29 AM |
| 1 | Isn't it the men who usually want to give a free pass to female teachers who have sex with students?I don't know if it's women or men who minimize more. I do agree that it's usually men in the comment sections saying the boy got lucky. But I think that it's usually men commenting on anything in comment sections. You might get different results with an anonymous questionnaire. I agree that it's traditionalism that causes the mindset. Feminism deserves some blame though for claiming to be about equality and not really addressing the problems of boys and men. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/06/16 06:09 AM |
| 1 | Evo Psych explanation for pedophilia?I don't think pedophilia is common. I'm pretty sure that it has always been maladaptive. 1) You're not creating kids. 2) Even if you viewed it as a chance to pair with a girl who would eventually become a desirable mate, chances are that she would have been psychologically damaged - meaning that she wouldn't actually be a desirable mate or mother in the future. 3) Other people view pedophilia as abhorrent. So a man who is with a prepubescent girl would be at high risk of being killed or maimed b… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/06/16 05:59 AM |
| 3 | Is "mansplaining" the result of the burden of performance?How gendered does it have to be? Just a personal impression, but I'd guess that condescending explanation goes something like this: Man explaining to woman: 35% Woman explaining to man: 25% Woman to woman or man to man: 20% each At least at an individual level, I'd expect more change by telling someone they've been inappropriately condescending rather than telling them they've mansplained. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/05/16 12:36 PM |
| 2 | Canada Environment Minister: Climate Change is SexistGood to see the writer didn't let the statement go unchallenged. 16 paragraphs debating its veracity is impressive. | /r/TheRedPill | 16/05/16 11:16 PM |
| 2 | Judge says four students wrongly accused of raping woman at college ball can pursue £221,000 costs and blasts detective who 'got too close' to her and didn't understand his own jobPersonally I want heavy penalties where the accuser is proven by others to have made the whole thing up. I'm a little less sure about situations where the authorities are buying the false story, and the only reason the accused are found innocent is because the accuser has a change of heart and tells the truth. I don't have any real sympathy for such liars, but I'm considering incentives here. I'd rather that such people go to the authorities and tell the truth. If they know that they'll get 10 y… | /r/MensRights | 10/05/16 01:37 AM |
| 0 | Another delusional feminist claims: facts about male suicide are "socially constructed"Every statistic has an element of judgement in it. Would you say there is no such thing as a homicide statistic? After all, there is often plenty to debate. was it an accident? was it someone being reckless but with no intention of killing someone? did the person do it to themselves or did someone else do it? did the person who did it intend to kill them, or did they intend something more minor (like scaring them, or injuring them)? was it done in self-defense? did the person doing it have the i… | /r/MensRights | 08/05/16 04:42 PM |
| 1 | Another delusional feminist claims: facts about male suicide are "socially constructed"I think that's probably a key reason. Some of the other reasons that I've read or thought of: men simply have more access to guns or other more reliable ways to die (sounds like it shouldn't matter but if it's an impulsive decision, and I think a lot of times it is, it does matter) men don't care as much about leaving a "pretty" corpse men don't want to be perceived as weak, so attempting suicide and surviving might seem humiliating to men women have larger social networks and more people checki… | /r/MensRights | 08/05/16 02:39 PM |
| 3 | Another delusional feminist claims: facts about male suicide are "socially constructed"I imagine that women will tend to do something like take a lot of pills and put themselves in a position to be saved. (eg. knowing their husband will be home in 30 minutes, or immediately after getting off the phone with someone) Now why would that be? Do they really not want to die? Maybe in part. But I think it is clear that someone who does something like that is not mentally well and deserves some help and support. I do know it's not a complete game though. My mom actually attempted suicide … | /r/MensRights | 08/05/16 01:01 PM |
| 1 | Another delusional feminist claims: facts about male suicide are "socially constructed"I don't understand green's point. An elaboration is required. That said, there is a socially constructed aspect to suicide. How do we classify people who try to kill themselves in non-obvious ways? suicide by cop driving off a bridge indulging a reckless drug habit getting in pointless fistfights with strangers To be honest, I think a lot of such people would be men, so maybe 78% underestimates male suicide. On the other hand, how do we compare suicide attempts with actual suicides? Women attemp… | /r/MensRights | 08/05/16 11:41 AM |
| 1 | The last great masculine delusionYes, the author realizes it. He is explicitly criticizing Perry for not acknowledging it. "For the exact same reasons we (as a society and individually) tend to fail dismally in recognising that the exact same is true of men. Men are not masters of their own destiny. We cherish the delusion that men are in control of their own destinies, when by and large they are anything but." | /r/MensRights | 07/05/16 02:53 PM |
| 0 | The last great masculine delusionI think it makes sense to do that with biased articles against men. But I don't mind giving pageviews to a reasonable article at a typically hostile website. It's a way of saying "You'll be rewarded for publishing more articles like this one." | /r/MensRights | 07/05/16 02:50 PM |
| 3 | RED PILL TRANNIESI was thinking of genitals in particular. I was imagining that creating a penis would be tougher and more expensive than creating a vagina. But I hadn't considered "passing", and you make a good point there. | /r/TheRedPill | 30/04/16 10:49 PM |
| 1 | RED PILL TRANNIESI think it's highly suggestive, and worth thinking about. But there are several things that prevent this from being a good experiment. (Not that you could conduct a "good" experiment.) Most notably: a non-random sample of people. These weren't ordinary people. They were people who transitioned and who felt compelled to share their story on a front page Askreddit. I think it's likely that people who transition frequently find themselves in positions where they don't feel they can "be themselves" … | /r/TheRedPill | 30/04/16 08:16 PM |
| 7 | RED PILL TRANNIESI agree somewhat, but there are other potential explanations: eg. Men are bigger risk takers. Or M->F surgery works better than F->M surgery. | /r/TheRedPill | 30/04/16 07:48 PM |
| 1 | Girl Pretty and Guy Pretty? Can a girl be beautiful to other girls/women and hideous to guys/men?I suppose that could be somewhat the case. FWIW, the model in the image is pretty-ish. Could be really pretty with the right haircut. I suspect something else is going on, and different standards would only be part of it. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/04/16 12:22 AM |
| 4 | New parental leave rules may mean dedicated time off for dad - CBCEhh. It's a good policy. Maybe it's done for the wrong reasons, but it's still a win. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/16 11:26 PM |
| 3 | CMV: Wife goggles are inconsistent with red pill theory.It doesn't seem that far-fetched to me. It could easily be psychological conditioning. You've learned to associate her with sexiness, and so you still associate her with sexiness (even if most people wouldn't). Or simply that you have come to appreciate things in her character (things that you could only see by spending a lot of time with her) And it could be evolutionarily selected for. Having a father that sticks around and looks after his kids is good for the kids and makes them more likely t… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/04/16 12:40 AM |
| 2 | Swedish Feminist Loses Her Job Because Of Her Man-Hating Facebook VideosI'm okay with people being fired for hate. But who defines "hate"? A lot of people think that any support for men's rights is hate. I think this is a dangerous path. | /r/MensRights | 12/04/16 12:31 AM |
| 1 | CMV: Natural alphas do not treat women the way TRP proclaims alphas should treat womenI think there is some truth to what you say, but you may be missing one crucial distinction. The natural alpha has already "earned" admiration and attraction from women. The red pill stuff is designed for men who have not reached that step. And so it has to include elements that raise the man's status. As such, I wouldn't expect TRP recommendations to completely mirror what you see from natural alphas. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/04/16 11:59 AM |
| 3 | Is man wrong for not helping a woman who rejected him for a date?Why did she call this man? Did he happen to live really close by or something? Anyways, he doesn't owe her anything. And he's not wrong. Personally though, I think it's fine to do one nice thing for another person. Someone has to go first. The problem is more when one party does three or four nice things and the other doesn't ever reciprocate. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/04/16 11:45 PM |
| 1 | Are women happier as housewives? Science says no.Well, I'd agree that it's not a great comparison. But remember my point was just that increased choice doesn't always lead to increased happiness. I'm not saying that increased life choices in this situation definitely leads to more unhappiness. My point was more that you actually have to conduct research because the common sense belief that more choice equals more happiness seems to fail in at least some situations. The arranged/ love marriage comparison is likely more pertinent. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 05/04/16 12:05 AM |
| 1 | Are women happier as housewives? Science says no.There are many different types of careers. And there are different ways to spend one's time as a SAHM. If you start to really break things down, there are way more than 50 ways that you could structure your life. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/04/16 09:39 PM |
| 1 | Are women happier as housewives? Science says no.Hmm, that contradicts what I've read before. I think the study I was referencing (recalled from a textbook) was the one that produced the chart in this blog post. http://whywereason.com/2011/09/10/the-psychology-of-marriage-choice-or-arranged/ But maybe this refers to the research that you mean? http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/21.02.07.PR0.110.3.915-924 https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-love/201208/arranged-vs-love-based-marriages-in-the-us-how-different-are-they It does … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/04/16 09:37 PM |
| 8 | Are women happier as housewives? Science says no.You'd think so, but it's not always true. For example people are usually equally happy in arranged or non-arranged marriages (after a certain amount of time - I think it's 6-10 years) And I've read studies where too much choice in consumer products causes unhappiness. 5 jam choices is better than one. But 50 choices is worse than 5. People feel reasonably confident that they chose the right one when they had only 5 choices. With 50 choices, they might have 8-10 serious choices and if they pick j… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/04/16 12:10 AM |
| 1 | Is it important to have evidence for your beliefs?Hmm, I think a big part of the issue is that some people read that stuff in a generous light and others in a critical light. Obviously women are capable of empathy. When I read Fakefalse's comment, I'm interpreting him as admitting that the woman is giving him a bj because it makes him happy and that she can derive happiness from that. And that he was wrong to have overlooked that. For the second comment, I'm not really sure what it means. Is he saying that the woman enjoys giving a bj because s… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/04/16 08:55 PM |
| 2 | Is it important to have evidence for your beliefs?I meant empathic/empathetic when I said sympathetic. Sorry for the confusion. But yes, I am seriously suggesting that women could be more empathetic in some situations than men and men could be more empathetic in other situations. The following is all speculative, but it could be the case: Maybe it's easier for people to imagine themselves being another person of the same sex rather than another person of a different sex. And so people could be more empathic with people of the same sex. Maybe it… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/04/16 08:02 PM |
| 3 | Is it important to have evidence for your beliefs?The table formatting was fine on my computer. I added "Category" in case that was the problem for you. Anyways, the data was made up and supposed to be illustrative. The actual numbers don't matter that much. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/04/16 07:50 PM |
| 9 | Is it important to have evidence for your beliefs?Yes, it is extremely important to have evidence for beliefs. It's important that your beliefs conform to empirical reality. That said, I'm not sure that you have evaluated these beliefs fairly. For example, empathy. I believe the science shows that women are more empathetic. But how is this measured? And when the red pill talks about empathy, they are often talking about things like successfully attracting a woman. Suppose the reality is that women are more empathetic in many situations (eg. mor… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/04/16 05:44 PM |
| 4 | "Man up and do it for her!"Alright we'll have to agree to disagree. I find it wrong to go into someone's home, take a picture, put it online and write a caption insulting that person. But I understand that not everyone feels that way. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/16 01:48 PM |
| 4 | "Man up and do it for her!"It sounds like you want to impose moral training on the girlfriend and the woman who wrote "man up". Why are they fair game and not the man who posted the picture? | /r/MensRights | 02/04/16 01:32 PM |
| 1 | "Man up and do it for her!"If it's her house and their relationship is minimal, then he shouldn't be putting up pictures of it on social media. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/16 01:19 PM |
| 0 | "Man up and do it for her!"It probably is supposed to be humorous, but it can be interpreted in multiple ways. Personally I wouldn't appreciate a picture of, say, a messy room (ironic in some way) and a caption of "my lazy boyfriend everybody..." | /r/MensRights | 02/04/16 01:16 PM |
| 1 | "Man up and do it for her!"I don't want to say it's gendered work. If she is the one who wants it done, she should do it. If he is, then he should do it. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/16 01:10 PM |
| -6 | "Man up and do it for her!"I don't hate "man up" in this instance. I don't like the phrase "man up", but the idea of telling the man that he should do it himself seems appropriate. Because the unopened box seems to bother the man who posted the picture. It would be more productive to actually start putting the furniture together than to post about it online (and shame/embarrass his girlfriend). This seems a little like a woman who complains about a man who doesn't clean to her tastes. Usually I defend the man, saying that… | /r/MensRights | 02/04/16 11:53 AM |
| 1 | Domestic Abuser Hope Solo to sue over being paid less for doing less work and earning the team less moneyI think this might be a case where the women deserve the money. If they are generating more ticket and television revenue than the men, then they deserve it. I've argued against females athletes making as much money as male athletes in the past. But that was because the men were getting a lot more attention and paid spectators. If that's not the case, then there isn't a reason for inequity. There's some complicating issues though. The US Federation runs the women's league and there are very low … | /r/MensRights | 01/04/16 04:28 AM |
| 9 | Ghomeshi's defence lawyer gets grilled by CBC for "Betraying Sisterhood"You're probably right, but CBC is publicly owned. Things are less straightforward in this case. If they lose out on web revenue, they'll probably just get more money from tax payers to make up for it. | /r/TheRedPill | 30/03/16 11:24 AM |
| 1 | Jian Ghomeshi trial: History & Judge's verdict today.There are definitely "conservative feminists". Obviously fewer than liberal ones though. Here's a list of conservative feminist movements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conservative_feminisms And for a particular example, Sarah Palin. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0514/Sarah-Palin-feminist-first-tea-partyer-second Sarah Palin, it is now clear, is a feminist first and a “tea partyer” second. | /r/TheRedPill | 30/03/16 11:18 AM |
| 23 | Gawker media on men vs. Gawker media on women. A double standard we cannot be ok with.Yeah $140 million is more than a kick in the ass. It's possibly a fatal blow. There will be an appeal though. And even if they lose that, there will be another group taking over the companies, so there is likely a future in some form. | /r/MensRights | 22/03/16 01:46 PM |
| 1 | The Guardian, where women being abusive is the same as arguingIt may take a while. I think there is some sort of extension that mods of some subs use. Basically, there is a database that is maintained of people who post to a variety of non-PC subreddits. If you are on the database, your postings will be marked. If the mod sees you posting on their sub, they'll ban you. The reason it may take a while is that I have no idea how often the database is updated. Maybe it's only updated weekly or even less often. Secondly, it's likely that you have to make a post… | /r/MensRights | 21/03/16 03:26 AM |
| 2 | Are most men bothered by sexual comments from women they don't find attractive?I think women do it more than people think, but usually it's interpreted positively or neutrally so it usually isn't a big deal. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/03/16 12:24 AM |
| 2 | Question for RP: Why do men use violent terms to describe sex?Not every man is like that. I'd also guess that the less successful guys are particularly unlikely to say anything like that. I think some men talk like that because they actually feel that way. They feel little connection, lack empathy and feel like they won a competition. Sex is about power, not shared intimacy. Maybe they actually feel like their attraction to women is out of control, and so stating things in these terms makes them seem "in control". Others (maybe most?) do because they are e… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/03/16 01:55 AM |
| 14 | Men and "touch isolation."It's possible there is a parabola. When homosexuality is not tolerated at all, men are okay with intimacy because people won't even consider the possibility that they are gay. When homosexuality is more accepted but still stigmatized, men don't touch as much because people perceive that they are possibly gay and being gay is bad. When homosexuality is completely accepted, men might be okay with more touching. People might wrongly assume they are gay, but if so what's the big deal? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/03/16 02:57 AM |
| 13 | If being a woman was half as fun and easy as redpillers make it out to be.... well that would be fantastic.As a man, if you get knocked back, more the jokes with your friends. I don't think that is true of most men. I think most men feel crushed and won't joke about it unless they have to. Some men will engage in face-saving behavior to make light of it - often because their buddies know they struck out. It doesn't mean that the guy isn't hurting inside. He just knows he'll lose even more respect from his friends if he shows that it bothered him. There are probably some men who have extremely high se… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/03/16 04:00 AM |
| 5 | When women ignore or say no, these are the responses they get #ByeFelipeYou make a reasonable point. There are potential downsides either way. Flaking is rude. But occasionally a "No" leads to violent behavior. On the other hand, there are people killed for stupid reasons. People have been murdered for not sharing their Cheetos, for not agreeing to change the tv channel, for an argument over loud music, for parking badly, for farting, for unfriending someone on Facebook. Now suppose someone always says "yes" when asked to share food or change the channel simply beca… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/03/16 01:57 AM |
| 4 | When women ignore or say no, these are the responses they get #ByeFelipeObviously responding aggressively/violently to a "No" is a problem. It shouldn't be tolerated. Everyone can agree that you shouldn't throw bowling balls at people (especially for something as innocuous as a rejection). But typically, when someone is making a point like this they are trying to make some larger point. It's often something like "Women have a lot to fear from men. Women face constant danger. Men don't. We need to do things to make the world safer for women, and only women." And that… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/03/16 01:22 AM |
| 1 | You were never really attracted to her, it was just validation.I have a similar issue, but I think of it slightly differently. I seem to subconsciously think that anyone that is worth dating is too good for me. So if someone is interested in me, it means they aren't actually too good for me. Therefore, they aren't actually worth dating. Therefore I lose attraction. I'm trying to change my unhealthy belief. The core of my belief is low self-esteem. Maybe yours is too? EDIT: Another possibility is that it is a protection mechanism. I expect others to be hurtf… | /r/seduction | 01/03/16 08:22 PM |
| 6 | The lead Red Pill mod's stance on Purple Pill Debate - thoughtsWell, I agree it's a problem. We should be teaching people in schools to debate regularly and feel comfortable arguing ideas with others. People should know that you can disagree with each other, argue about it, and still be friends afterwards. When people use ad hom attacks, we should criticize that (even if it is an ally). | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/02/16 05:50 AM |
| 10 | The lead Red Pill mod's stance on Purple Pill Debate - thoughtsI don't like anyone just dismissing competing claims but every single movement has people who do this. The groups that are polar opposites to TRP are just as bad, if not worse for censoring and attacking people for their potential motives rather than their arguments. So yeah, it's a mild black mark. I don't think it should shift anyone's perspective from red pill to blue pill though. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/02/16 05:21 AM |
| 3 | If TRP isn't misogynistic, why aren't they officially against hate speech?This sounds like George Bush "You're with us or you're with the terrorists" logic. There were people that were against terrorism and against the Iraq war. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/02/16 03:23 PM |
| 1 | Self-identified "incels" and childhood developmentI may have been partially influenced by alizarin_warrior's comment. The person he knows doesn't have a neglectful parent. It is tough to raise a kid properly. That said, I think researchers usually classify 50-60% of parents as "authoritative". So more parents do a good job than not. My guess though is that the academically successful people that are incels tend to come from authoritarian families. Kids don't usually get 90% grades unless they have some push from their parents. Kids don't usuall… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/02/16 02:04 AM |
| 5 | Self-identified "incels" and childhood developmentI think that is partially true. But I think you can end up being incel for a variety of reasons. And the solutions will differ depending on the causes. If you look up parenting styles, there are four main ones: http://discipline.about.com/od/typesofdiscipline/a/Types-Of-Discipline-Strategies-And-Parenting-Styles.htm authoritative (the best one) authoritarian permissive neglectful All (except for authoritative) can have adverse effects on child development. And adverse effects on emotional intell… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/02/16 08:19 PM |
| 2 | 15 year old boy charged with raping 47 year old woman. He reportedly "coerced" her.I don't know what coercion means in this case. But suppose the 15 year old had a gun, and threatened to shoot the woman or one of her family members unless he had sex with him. If that happened, then she shouldn't be responsible for statutory rape, regardless of their ages. I think something smells fishy here, but I don't have enough info to know for sure. | /r/MensRights | 24/02/16 07:55 PM |
| 1 | White college male writes that black chicks "aren't hot" on anonymous chat app. Gets suspended for 6 months. Thoughts?Have a preference? Cool. Keep it to yourself. I found this funny. It sounds like someone saying, "It's okay to be gay, just keep it out of sight and behind closed doors. I hate it when gay people are all in your face about it." I do agree that what he said was stupid and wrong though. It hurts people's feelings for minimal gain. Just not suspendable. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/02/16 04:01 PM |
| 2 | The Blacklist art dealerMystery solved. Thanks. | /r/MensRights | 21/02/16 11:23 PM |
| 1 | Study: Men think their male classmates are smarter, even when they're notInteresting. My guess is that it's a combination of sexism and the manner in which women and men tend to talk. I can think of more men that will be arrogant and flat out say that someone else in wrong or mistaken with confidence. An equally smart woman might be a little more diplomatic. She might say, "Are you sure about this? I thought I read this alternate explanation. Should we double check the book?" There's probably a psychological effect that leads to people thinking the arrogant man is ex… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/02/16 01:38 AM |
| 5 | Restrictions on "financial abortions"....Would you prefer that or the current set up where you aren't required to do any of those things because you have no reproductive rights here? Obviously having an option is better than no option. It would be unpleasant to jump through hoops, but it would be a couple orders of magnitude less unpleasant than supporting an unwanted child for 18 years. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/02/16 05:54 PM |
| 1 | Girl who cried UVa. gang rape pretended to be her rapist to win a boy, lawyers say. Hundreds of fantasy, fake texts. You couldn't make it up.And I have no idea what point you are trying to make. I think you just inserted yourself into a conversation and began arguing. Special pleading? That makes no sense at all in the context of this conversation. My point was that women aren't the only people who refuse to take "no" for an answer, and women aren't the only people who engage in deception. I'm not saying that it's better or worse when a woman does it versus a man. Both are equally bad. I have a problem when people say that only women… | /r/MensRights | 13/02/16 01:04 AM |
| 4 | The biggest losers in the Ghomeshi debacleI didn't have such a negative reaction to this as others. Yes, she says a few gynocentric things. But I feel like she is using gynocentrism to further MRM goals. She says flat out that Ghomeshi is a big loser (even if the trial probably went as well for him as possible) she points out that police and prosecutors didn't do their job by searching for holes in the stories she points out that public outcry meant that Ghomeshi had to be charged (and that didn't serve sexual assault victims) she point… | /r/MensRights | 12/02/16 10:06 PM |
| 5 | The biggest losers in the Ghomeshi debacleThe Globe and Mail closes comments on every Ghomeshi story. More generally, I think they close comments on any criminal case in a Canadian court room. But yeah, they are likely pretty happy not to have people talking back. | /r/MensRights | 12/02/16 08:39 PM |
| 0 | Girl who cried UVa. gang rape pretended to be her rapist to win a boy, lawyers say. Hundreds of fantasy, fake texts. You couldn't make it up.The issue is that the only reason why Jackie was newsworthy is because of the Rolling Stone stuff. If she had just pretended to be Haven Monahan we never would have heard from her. I prefer to think men and women are equally capable of bad behavior unless presented with solid evidence to the contrary. Jackie pretending to be Haven does not show that women are likely to act that way and men never do. Maybe the Manti Te'o catfish thing would have been a better example of men playing games? http://… | /r/MensRights | 12/02/16 07:02 PM |
| 1 | Girl who cried UVa. gang rape pretended to be her rapist to win a boy, lawyers say. Hundreds of fantasy, fake texts. You couldn't make it up.I didn't assume that serial killers are male. What I did was think about famous examples of men not taking no for an answer and Castro was the first to came to mind. I'm having trouble thinking of a man who did the "Haven Monahan" thing. I'm sure one exists, but he's not necessarily famous. My point wasn't that men are worse. My point to was refute the notion that men are always willing to take no for an answer. | /r/MensRights | 12/02/16 04:20 PM |
| 5 | Feminists, if the Men's Rights Movement is toxic, how would you suggest men's issues get resolved?A lot of Americans are in favor of infant circumcision. Therefore, according to your logic it should continue here in the U.S. Maybe I wasn't clear. Of course, FGM should no longer be practiced. If the test was "Do people of the affected sex within the culture support it?", then FGM would continue in Africa and the Middle East. That tells me that the test is inappropriate. You need to take a step back and think about issues of consent and issues of benefit/harm. Now if that test is inappropriate… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/02/16 04:13 PM |
| 14 | Feminists, if the Men's Rights Movement is toxic, how would you suggest men's issues get resolved?The point of the comment is that every time the MRM tries to do something positive in the real world you end up with feminist groups sabotaging the effort. I don't enjoy complaining about that. But your test is very unfair. This is the cycle. Group plans to do something to help men. Group gets shut down by feminists and doesn't get off the ground. Group complains about the feminists who shut them down. Feminists say, "See I told you so. They don't care about men - they just want to bash feminist… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/02/16 05:52 AM |
| 7 | Feminists, if the Men's Rights Movement is toxic, how would you suggest men's issues get resolved?Most Western women are not in favor of FGM. But if you ask women in Sudan, women are the ones performing the procedure and women are more in favor of continuing the procedure than men. https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/2707101.html Overall, 67% of respondents in Haj-Yousif, 56% of those in Shendi and 4% of those in Juba support continuation of the practice; more highly educated and economically better off women are less likely to be supportive in the two high-prevalence areas. Social cust… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/02/16 05:38 AM |
| 18 | Feminists, if the Men's Rights Movement is toxic, how would you suggest men's issues get resolved?I feel like CAFE and men's university groups are the type of thing that fits your criteria. Yet they still get shut down/opposed by feminist groups. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/02/16 05:12 AM |
| 12 | Australian senator calls out feminist for using the word 'mansplaining'To be fair, other than femsplaining those would be worse, since they are built on top of other slurs. Mansplaining is bad, but at least "man" isn't a slur in and of itself. | /r/MensRights | 12/02/16 12:07 AM |
| 0 | Girl who cried UVa. gang rape pretended to be her rapist to win a boy, lawyers say. Hundreds of fantasy, fake texts. You couldn't make it up.I'm not sure what your point is. You seem to be off on a tangent. My point was that there are both (rare) men and women who won't take no for an answer from a prospective date. The poster I was replying to said that some women can't accept a no but he's never heard of a man who can't accept a no. I'm saying that both exist. Castro was an extreme example of a man who didn't accept no for an answer. | /r/MensRights | 11/02/16 04:06 PM |
| 1 | Red pillers- please clarify your position? Not sure I understandYeah, I wrote that thinking no sex completely. I think the fact that you are willing to accommodate your man in some ways means that that 5-15% estimate was way too low. I think a lot of men would still feel wary, but assuming you create a strong connection and healthy, happy relationship in other ways then probably many men would find you to be a good partner. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/02/16 03:05 AM |
| 1 | Girl who cried UVa. gang rape pretended to be her rapist to win a boy, lawyers say. Hundreds of fantasy, fake texts. You couldn't make it up.No, he wasn't. I think there might be some miscommunication here. | /r/MensRights | 11/02/16 12:00 AM |
| 9 | Girl who cried UVa. gang rape pretended to be her rapist to win a boy, lawyers say. Hundreds of fantasy, fake texts. You couldn't make it up.Ehh, Jackie is an unusual woman. I think that crazy immoral women sometimes make up crimes. But crazy immoral men sometimes do things like lock up women and keep them in a basement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Castro_kidnappings Neither Ariel nor Jackie represent their gender. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/16 07:15 PM |
| 1 | Discussion: Men's rights meet ups canceledYes, there are definitely huge issues of mainstream acceptance. And many people will often reflexively think "misogyny" when they hear an MRA talk. The common link is that both groups think that the common wisdom about gender relations is inaccurate. MRAs think gender equality is a worthy goal, but that men and women both enforce social norms, men and women both benefit and suffer from social norms (in different ways). And thus, to achieve equality you need to help men with their problems, just … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/02/16 03:48 PM |
| 1 | Discussion: Men's rights meet ups canceledExcept Roosh claims he's not an MRA, and doesn't share the goals of MRAs. MRAs don't see Roosh as an MRA. Roosh doesn't see himself as an MRA. Roosh and MRAs have wildly different political views. Check out all the links in this comment. https://www.reddit.com/r/FeMRADebates/comments/44d7ro/sick_and_tired_of_seeing_roosh_labeled_as_a_mra/czpe4g4 | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/02/16 03:33 PM |
| 4 | Red pillers- please clarify your position? Not sure I understandWell, that is a problem for most men. Many men might consider "no kids" a benefit, but if sex is off the table completely that would be a deal breaker. She would have to be upfront about her phobia and willing to work on it with a therapist. Maybe there's 5-15% of men that would be okay with no sex. Closeted gay men, asexual men, men who were sexually abused, men with a physical disability that prevents them from enjoying sex, men with extremely low self-esteem that don't think they can get a be… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/02/16 05:09 AM |
| 3 | Red pillers- please clarify your position? Not sure I understandAs others have mentioned MRAs are pretty different from red pillers. There's a branding issue where the red pill was originally used as a metaphor for the entire manosphere (basically the portion of the internet for men where people think the common wisdom about gender relations is wrong in some way.) Over time, MRAs and redpillers have diverged somewhat, though some MRAs still use the red pill metaphor. MRAs are anti-feminist in the sense that they think feminism is doing gender equality wrong.… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/02/16 05:01 AM |
| 3 | Regarding Steinem's remarks on young females.Well, I'm going to say you live in a bubble if you don't hear everyday people say females and males all the time. And I've never encountered anyone who thinks that men and women are different species. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/02/16 01:31 AM |
| 5 | Regarding Steinem's remarks on young females.Well, I think that she may have been talking in part about youth organizers. You have to be 18 to vote, but you can still be politically involved as a 15 or 16 year old. You can tweet, talk to people over the phone or go door-to-door. After all, she did say "where are the boys?" and that's something that sounds more girl-like than woman-like. Do you live in North America? I'm wondering if there is some language or regional issue here, because 98% or more of the time when I hear people say males … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/02/16 01:12 AM |
| 3 | Regarding Steinem's remarks on young females.You say "women" when talking about women and girls? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/02/16 01:01 AM |
| 7 | Regarding Steinem's remarks on young females.Many/most people use it as a noun. Just as people use males as a noun. That's why the first definitions listed are the noun sense and then the adjective sense. It's not an obscure usage, and personally I don't detect any negative connotation when I hear the term. It's particularly useful when wanting to use a single word for "girls and women" or "boys and men". Obviously it bugs some people though. Do you have an alternative word that substitutes for "girls and women" | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/02/16 11:03 PM |
| 7 | Regarding Steinem's remarks on young females.He or she is probably using the first definition in the dictionary and referring to people. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/female a person bearing two X chromosomes in the cell nuclei and normally having a vagina, a uterus and ovaries, and developing at puberty a relatively rounded body and enlarged breasts, and retaining a beardless face; a girl or woman. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/02/16 09:32 PM |
| 7 | Regarding Steinem's remarks on young females.It shows a lack of respect for the intellect of young women who support Sanders. It's pretty lazy anytime someone accuses someone of supporting a political position because they want sex or companionship. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/02/16 09:29 PM |
| 1 | Man "brushed by" woman in train station, she claims she was penetrated; Crown Prosecution charged him anyway.It looks like an area of the subway station where people are going in various directions. You always try to avoid bumping into people, but in a crowd where people might be going right, straight or left there will be moments where you end up walking close to someone else. If you get too close, you normally mumble "Sorry" and move on. | /r/MensRights | 07/02/16 07:14 PM |
| 1 | Is it unmanly to try to avoid confrontation?It's unadultlike not to stand up for yourself if something is bothering you. It doesn't mean you have to be violent or loud or aggressive though. You can confront someone, and come to a fair and amicable resolution through discussion. On occasion, you might even end up conceding that the other person had a legitimate reason for doing what they were doing. But I think it's unadultlike to be angry about something and stew about it without discussing it. | /r/seduction | 06/02/16 09:30 PM |
| 1 | If Trump is an alpha, and women like alphas, how come Trump is polling overwhelmingly better with men than with women.He has some alpha qualities, but he also could be seen as using a beta bux strategy. Probably a hybrid. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/02/16 06:27 PM |
| 5 | Is it wrong for a woman to expect a man to be nice to her if she has sex with him?It's a trap question. Basically, guys are told (by some people) that if you are nice to a woman and expect her to be nice in return then you are entitled asshole. And you weren't actually nice in the first place if you expected niceness to be reciprocated. So if someone who argues that says "yes" to this then it's a gotcha moment. I'm sympathetic to the OP, but obviously there are some major differences between gift-giving, having sex, kind words and agreeing to be a couple. So it's something to… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/02/16 11:07 PM |
| -1 | CMV: The idea that nice guys are evil and manipulative is spread by narcissistic and entitled women.Why not use something more descriptive then? eg. Women don't like "manipulative selfish passive aggressive emotionally immature name-calling men who pretend to be nice for a brief period of time". The way Nice Guys (TM) is used online seems designed to shut up both legitimate nice guys and Nice Guys (TM). | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/02/16 06:39 AM |
| 3 | CMV: The idea that nice guys are evil and manipulative is spread by narcissistic and entitled women.Why not call them something more descriptive then? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/02/16 06:26 AM |
| 2 | Canada is fucked.It's one of those traditions that has been going on so long that no one can really change it. I think there would have to be some sort of catastrophe for people to be willing to change the system. It also helps that there are deputy ministers. Those are senior public servants who don't change when a new minister is brought in. The way I see it, the minister brings a vision of what they want to see happen, and the deputy minister is the person with the expertise to make it happen. Or if the advic… | /r/TheRedPill | 01/02/16 07:07 PM |
| 2 | Canada is fucked.If you were simply hiring someone from the community at-large to be "Minister of Finance" or "Minister of Foreign Affairs" you'd hire someone with an extensive academic background and 20+ years of relevant managerial experience. But in Canada, about 30 ministers are chosen from MPs affiliated with the governing party. (I'm assuming you are American. It would be like if Obama named 50 ministers and he had to select from Democrats elected to the House of Representatives). There's almost never 30 f… | /r/TheRedPill | 01/02/16 06:24 PM |
| 30 | Canada is fucked.It's likely that every person appointed has some qualifications for their cabinet position. But assuming that the average male and average female MP are equally qualified, you'd expect the "most qualified" cabinet to reflect the MPs elected. There's about 3 male Liberal MPs for every 1 female Liberal MP. So you'd have to expect about 3 men in cabinet for every 1 woman if you just chose the most qualified. So, I think you must conclude that merit took a back seat in the appointments. That said, I… | /r/TheRedPill | 01/02/16 04:50 PM |
| 1 | University Refuses to Grant Recognition to Men's Issues Group after Feminists Say it Makes Women Feel UnsafeI think that your message could have been phrased better, but I agree with you that combating sexism against men with sexism against women is just stupid. Obviously the goal should be to combat all sexism. I'm not convinced that most feminists would treat MRAs much differently. Generally I've been impressed by what CAFE does and says and they still incur a lot of wrath from feminists. | /r/MensRights | 29/01/16 04:25 PM |
| 10 | University Refuses to Grant Recognition to Men's Issues Group after Feminists Say it Makes Women Feel UnsafeThere would be a good argument. Even better to point out actual feminist groups engaging in violence (rather than women in general). Here's a tale of a Colombian feminist group that threw an explosive potato at a university administrator and it sounds like she ended up with permanent hearing loss. http://honeybadgerbrigade.com/2016/01/22/feminist-acts-of-violence-in-colombian-campus/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1PBDM9LApI&t=1m10s EDIT: Including a more official link. http://www.elpais.com.co… | /r/MensRights | 29/01/16 03:44 AM |
| 1 | You can't wreck a happy home. True or false?False. You can wreck any home. It's just a lot tougher to wreck a happy one than an unhappy one. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/01/16 02:36 AM |
| 15 | Men who spin plates shouldn't be bothered by women who do AFBB and women who do AFBB shouldn't be bothered by men who spin plates...right?Well, you're right. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. But some people might be imagining a prisoner's dilemma scenario. A red pill guy might think the best scenario for everyone overall is no plates and no AFBB. But since he can't magically make AFBB disappear, he'll spin plates as that makes him better off. Same idea (in reverse) for the women. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/01/16 06:16 PM |
| 10 | Canadian feminists block creation of on campus center to provide counselling and support for men.Not 100% sure if this is the same thing, or if two separate proposals were made. But here's some documentation on a men's issues group that was rejected in November 2015 at the behest of Ryerson's Feminist Collective. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/ryerson-mens-issues-group-says-student-union-shutting-out-male-voices/article27180128/ http://theeyeopener.com/2015/11/community-reacts-to-mens-issue-group-at-ryerson/ http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/robyn-urback-why-exactly-is-… | /r/MensRights | 27/01/16 04:21 AM |
| 2 | Why is there so much struggle with consent?Now the boys have a similar problem. They are around women who say no and mean yes. The boys also have a problem because they don't pick up on soft no. Boys won't understand when a woman says, "I have a really early day at work tomorrow," that she actually means, "No, please stop. I don't want to go home with you." The boys aren't trained to hear that. The boys just think they need to keep pushing and eventually they'll get what they want. I think you are wrong about this. I'd bet a large majori… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/01/16 04:40 PM |
| 4 | Gay Men Touch Vaginas, Male feminist Calls it MisogynyI think your comment was judged unnecessarily harshly. I think it would be more accurate to say that men have more sexual freedom in some ways and women have more sexual freedom in other ways. And probably the same thing can be said for sexual expression. For instance, men feel more free to walk around bare-chested than women. | /r/MensRights | 25/01/16 06:39 PM |
| 20 | Normalizing feminist hate: Why Am I So Sad About Having a Boy?I think she is only partially aware of her own sexism. However, she outright admits that she is sexist against boys. In a world that rarely accepts that such sexism can even exist, I think she does deserve some credit. | /r/MensRights | 25/01/16 04:01 PM |
| 7 | Normalizing feminist hate: Why Am I So Sad About Having a Boy?It's unhealthy, but I think it's pretty common. | /r/MensRights | 25/01/16 03:55 PM |
| 1 | If the threshold for proving rape was much higher, would more men rape?Well, it happens. I'm saying it would happen more. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/01/16 04:06 PM |
| 1 | If the threshold for proving rape was much higher, would more men rape?Most people want to see themselves as good people. Most men don't rape because they know it is wrong and hurtful. I think that rates of "stranger behind the bushes" rape would not change a whole lot. Probably, as other have suggested, the biggest increase in rapes would be gray areas. Anything where the rapist could convince themselves that what they did wasn't really rape. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/01/16 05:47 PM |
| 16 | Gregory Elliot found not guilty in Twitter harassment caseBecause society has granted women that power, so some feminist women will use it. Women are allowed by society to deem something threatening, and their feelings are taken by many as objectively true. Power corrupts, so some women abuse this privilege. Same thing happens with some men who are strong enough they can win arguments through violence. | /r/MensRights | 22/01/16 06:52 PM |
| 2 | Gregory Elliot found not guilty in Twitter harassment caseThere will likely be full articles out later today. But for now, the live postings by Michelle Cheung here seem to describe a bit of his thinking. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/twitter-harassment-trial-verdict-1.3415112 | /r/MensRights | 22/01/16 06:40 PM |
| 8 | Gregory Elliot found not guilty in Twitter harassment caseFor context, http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/11/19/a-life-ruined-by-feminists-and-the-state-only-the-internet-can-save-gregory-alan-elliott/ http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2014/07/23/twitter_harassment_trial_tweets_not_harassment_just_a_different_political_view_defence_argues.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/twitter-harassment-trial-verdict-1.3415112 | /r/MensRights | 22/01/16 04:06 PM |
| 8 | Do you think there is a prevailing belief among people that the average guy is lucky to be with an average girl?Some quick googling suggests that obesity rates are the same for men and women. The overweight rate is higher for men. Thus more women than men are considered underweight or normal weight. Of course, BMI is used for this determination. I think you could make a good case that more women than men are obese, since BMI just considers weight and height. Whether that weight is muscle or fat doesn't matter. But in any case, I don't think that the scourge of being overweight is really a gendered thing. … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/01/16 03:47 AM |
| 5 | Do you feel sorry for women in abusive relationships?I'll admit that this could be a myth. But a quick Google search seems to support my belief (that victims of abuse tend to have low self-esteem). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2793428 http://bknation.org/2013/10/domestic-violence-self-esteem/ Do you have studies that show the opposite? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/01/16 07:41 PM |
| 1 | Do you feel sorry for women in abusive relationships?I agree with the cycle bit. But I think it's more that people who were abused are much more likely to become either: abusers victims willing to put up with more abuse http://www.menwebjournal.com/ArcherSexDifferencesMeta-AnalyticReviewf2000.pdf | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/01/16 06:45 PM |
| 19 | Do you feel sorry for women in abusive relationships?Yes, I feel bad for them. Typically it means a lack of self-esteem and a history of abuse. So, yes, the woman "chooses" but she has been set up for that choice through a bad upbringing. She may not believe she has options (even if she does). There's a bit of learned helplessness involved. I extend the same sympathy to men. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/01/16 06:43 PM |
| 8 | Feminists are trying to invade a hobby group I'm a part of. How can I stop them?Is this an open group? Is it invitation only? In what way are they stirring things up? Are they trying to change the way your group acts and interacts? Are they simply launching into unsolicited political discussions? Are they asking that women be treated with basic respect and common courtesy (or are they asking for special privileges)? | /r/MensRights | 15/01/16 06:40 PM |
| 1 | [Montreal Canadiens Forward] Alex Galchenyuk doesn't need to apologize [for being a domestic violence victim]For me it wasn't so much the spitting, it was the incredible escalation of punching her. You can defend yourself, but things have to be proportional. It seemed to me that Ray Rice bumped up the violence by a factor of 50. | /r/MensRights | 15/01/16 03:20 AM |
| 7 | Men are By Some Distance the Majority Perpetrators of Crime, Violence and Sexual AssaultYou are right that men commit more crime in most situations. Does that mean men are powerful or powerless? More powerless, IMO, at least when we're talking about the underclass. Consider that typically the races that commit more crimes are underprivileged races. Underprivileged people will tend to commit more crime because there is a lack of opportunity to meet life goals in a legal way. Regarding domestic violence in particular, most of your numbers seem to come from police arrests. Those are s… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/01/16 12:48 AM |
| 2 | [Montreal Canadiens Forward] Alex Galchenyuk doesn't need to apologize [for being a domestic violence victim]To be fair, didn't Ray Rice's wife feel the need to apologize? That was wrong and unnecessary as well. But anyways, good on the Montreal police for arresting women who commit domestic violence. They arrested Emma Roberts as well in 2013. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stargazing/2013/07/17/emma_roberts_arrested_in_montreal_for_domestic_violence.html | /r/MensRights | 14/01/16 11:53 PM |
| 2 | Why are men who do traditionally "women" things (like wearing skirts, painting nails, using purses) looked down upon, and how can we as Men's Rights Activitsts help fix this sexist aspect of society?OK. Then, speak up, if you see some guy getting mocked. | /r/MensRights | 10/01/16 11:12 PM |
| 1 | Male suicides outnumber female suicides across the board, LA Times focuses on "staggering" levels of female veteran suicide anywaysI was responding to the part about "even if it didn't mention male suicide". I wasn't saying that there should be no articles written only about female suicide. I was saying that if you have a plethora of such articles (and they don't mention male suicide rates) you could be misled into recommending inequitable solutions. ie. If someone only saw the rates of female suicide, they might suggest "Regular visits with a therapist for all female military members." or "Regulations that drill sergeants … | /r/MensRights | 10/01/16 05:48 PM |
| 2 | Male suicides outnumber female suicides across the board, LA Times focuses on "staggering" levels of female veteran suicide anywaysI probably took your comment too strongly. For some reason I got it in my head that you thought suicide rates were the best metric. I think that suicide is not that clean either (since you have the attempted suicides versus actual suicides debate). But without a doubt, wages are a highly flawed metric. Life expectancy is pretty good - but then you'll get people saying that women just are genetically programmed to live longer. Total resource consumption would probably be a good metric. (That way … | /r/MensRights | 10/01/16 03:57 PM |
| 3 | Why are men who do traditionally "women" things (like wearing skirts, painting nails, using purses) looked down upon, and how can we as Men's Rights Activitsts help fix this sexist aspect of society?Genuinely befriend a man that does something traditionally feminine. This will help to remove the "yuck" in your head if you have it. And it will provide the man with social support (he probably lacks that). | /r/MensRights | 10/01/16 03:24 PM |
| 3 | Male suicides outnumber female suicides across the board, LA Times focuses on "staggering" levels of female veteran suicide anywaysIt's a bad metric for that. Suicide is complicated. I think it shows that men get less emotional and social support than women. But take a look at race data. Whites, Asians and Native Americans commit more suicide than Blacks and Hispanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_suicide#Race_and_suicide http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/native-american-youth-suicide-rates-are-at-crisis-levels_560c3084e4b0768127005591 I'd have a lot of trouble saying that African Americans are the most p… | /r/MensRights | 10/01/16 03:10 PM |
| 2 | Male suicides outnumber female suicides across the board, LA Times focuses on "staggering" levels of female veteran suicide anywaysYes, it definitely plays into an MRA narrative. Men commit suicide more often because they lack emotional and social support. Treat women just like men, and women's suicide rates will rise. Of course, there is also the possibility that women do have additional stressors in the military and men and women aren't being treated the same. | /r/MensRights | 10/01/16 03:00 PM |
| 2 | Male suicides outnumber female suicides across the board, LA Times focuses on "staggering" levels of female veteran suicide anywaysI suppose such an article is okay. But it's a problem if it leads to a sexist policy solution. I think you could make a case that one of the reasons why domestic violence against men is not taken seriously is because there were many articles highlighting DV against women (with no mention of the reverse ever occurring.) | /r/MensRights | 10/01/16 02:57 PM |
| 1 | Male suicides outnumber female suicides across the board, LA Times focuses on "staggering" levels of female veteran suicide anywaysYes, and arguably this research plays into an MRA narrative. Men commit suicide more often, because they lack social and emotional support. If you equalize social support, then the suicide rates will become more equal. Well, in the military, you are treating women much like men. And their suicide rates rise. That's consistent with the MRA view. (Although the goal should be to provide everyone with social support - so that suicide rates are low across the board) | /r/MensRights | 10/01/16 02:52 PM |
| 3 | CMV: Feminism is simply female supremacists' way to fly under the radarThe reference was to universal male suffrage. In a typical anglosphere country, men who owned a certain amount of land and property were allowed to vote. This meant about 20%-60% of adult men were allowed to vote. Then at some point, maybe 1900, men were given universal suffrage. And then maybe 20 years later women were given universal suffrage. I'll grant that the United States seems to be an exception with white males getting universal suffrage in the early 1800s, black males in the late 1800s… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/01/16 10:44 PM |
| 1 | CMV: Feminism is simply female supremacists' way to fly under the radarI'll grant the assertion is questionable and probably not worth mentioning until more research is performed. But it hasn't been exposed as untrue many times. That's one study and only considers shipwrecks (there are other situations where "women and children" first is followed). Additionally, there are many possible reasons for why men survived more than women - even if "women and children first" was followed. Maybe men tended to be better swimmers. Maybe men tended to be able to survive longer … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/01/16 10:36 PM |
| 7 | CMV: Feminism is simply female supremacists' way to fly under the radarGetting men en masse to shame and emotionally manipulate women? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/01/16 10:27 PM |
| 9 | CMV: Feminism is simply female supremacists' way to fly under the radarI think "treated like property" overstates it. There was a very real difference between chattel slaves and wives. "Treated like children" is more accurate in my opinion. Overall, adults prefer to be treated like adults and not children. But, being treated like a child has some positives. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/01/16 10:25 PM |
| 1 | What's in it for the woman to be in a relationship with an RP guy?I probably mischaracterized that. The idea is that given a choice between feminine tasks and masculine tasks, women will tend to prefer traditionally feminine tasks. Not that doing laundry is inherently pleasurable. ie. Most women would prefer to look after children, cook and do laundry as opposed to fixing the car, mowing the lawn and going to a job as a plumber. FWIW, I personally think that sex differences in preferred tasks are small. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/01/16 03:56 PM |
| 2 | Is the advice: "Watch what she does, not what she says" useful? Or should women be trusted by what they say?You need a mix of both. Sometimes you need optimism. Keeps you mentally healthy and encourages you to pursue new opportunities. Sometimes you need reality. Keeps you from continually pursuing hopeless situations. I wouldn't hold out much hope for the girl that turned you down with an excuse and then went partying for two nights. But, who knows - maybe she had her best friends from another town traveling down for the weekend and this was her one planned break from school for the next month? I'd a… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/01/16 10:26 PM |
| 2 | PPD: Assortatively match these peopleI didn't realize these were actual couples. Anyways, one actual couple means I was no better than chance (which isn't good, unless this was an unusual sample). | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/01/16 09:20 PM |
| 1 | PPD: Assortatively match these peopleFair enough. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/01/16 06:54 PM |
| 2 | PPD: Assortatively match these peopleIt's kind of funny. I thought maybe the choice to have just white people was so that people wouldn't be biased by race. (I imagine that within-race attractiveness rankings tend to be similar, while inter-race comparisons lead to very different opinions) But the inclusion of that guy dispels that hypothesis. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/01/16 04:18 PM |
| 4 | What's in it for the woman to be in a relationship with an RP guy?I don't think the red pill advises being fickle after marriage. It's before marriage. Both parties should be quite loyal after marriage. There is a line though. Physical and emotional abuse, severe addictions, no sex for years, etc. At some point, you're being more stupid than loyal. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/01/16 04:12 PM |
| 4 | What's in it for the woman to be in a relationship with an RP guy?I don't think that's an accurate characterization of red pill ideas. But theoretically, what's in it for the women is that she gets a man she is extremely attracted to. She'll be protected and provided for. Additionally, the man takes care of masculine tasks so that women get to do what they really want to do (feminine tasks). | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/01/16 04:09 PM |
| 3 | PPD: Assortatively match these peopleAre you trying to create good matches, or just rank both the men and women by attractiveness? If you did it the latter way you might get an older woman with a young "geeky" type of guy (which wouldn't be a good match, even if their SMV was similar) FWIW, I think this would be easier if there was a page (or two) of men and a page or two of women. Anyways, here's what I have for ranks: Women Men 2H 1E 2J 3G 3H 2K 1B 1C 3D 3A 2E 1A 1D 2D 3E 2F 3B 1K 1F 3F 2A 1J 2C 2I 1H 1L 2G 1G 1M 3C 1I 2B If you … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/01/16 03:26 PM |
| 1 | CMV: What TRP offers men that conventional advice does notWho is going to spend time on the internet telling people that they tried TRP wholeheartedly and it failed for them? Some people, but it won't win you many admirers. Bluepillers will say that you are a gullible fool who doesn't seem to have qualms about mistreating women. They might be willing to quote you, but you won't be embraced. Redpillers will say that you just didn't put the effort in and that you are weak-minded, pitiable and not much of a man. I'm pretty sure the most common reaction wo… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/01/16 03:09 AM |
| 1 | CMV: What TRP offers men that conventional advice does notI agree that results are the key metric, but the issue is that it is hard to get a good read on the number of men who have tried TRP and succeeded versus the number who have tried it and failed. And how do these numbers compare to men who go to more conventional sources? If I had a diet that made 25% of men slimmer, 25% of men fatter and 50% no change, I'd have to say that it is a pretty useless diet overall. But, you could easily have the guys for whom the diet works congregate on reddit and ta… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/01/16 01:42 AM |
| 4 | Wouldn't real men just suck it up instead of bitching about feminism?Probably. A centered man would go about creating the best life for himself and close others. This man would be successful and happy, regardless of the environment. But it doesn't mean that the criticism of feminism is invalid. I'd liken it to a woman complaining about it being hard to get to the top of a company. You could argue that even with anti-woman bias, a truly talented ambitious and passionate woman should be able to quickly rise on the ladder. The women who complain about a glass ceilin… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/01/16 10:29 PM |
| 24 | Husband and wife coerce minor to perform acts on wife. Husband gets 15 years, wife only 3.5Some more info. http://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/two-accused-of-photographing-sex-with-minor/article_322e77dd-f41d-56ac-922a-ae4ca6c309f8.html http://www.kxnet.com/story/28756643/north-dakota-faces-sexual-exploitation-charges http://www.kfyrtv.com/home/headlines/Center-Woman-Sentenced-in-Sex-Crime-Case-329582351.html I know their is a persistent gender bias in sentencing, and there probably is one here. But he probably deserves a longer sentence than his ex-wife. It sounds … | /r/MensRights | 22/12/15 06:38 PM |
| 3 | Can we agree that the female alternative to incel is ‘involuntarily single’?I think a better comparison for this hypothetical woman is a man who can go on expensive dinner dates (which he alone pays for), but consistently fails to develop any rapport. The woman is dismissive of him, implies at the end of the dinner she doesn't find him attractive, makes it clear that she is not interested in sex, a relationship, or ever seeing him again. I'd consider this man to have a slight leg up over a man who can't even get a woman to accept a dinner date. But you're right, it's no… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/12/15 02:39 PM |
| 2 | Women are Responsible for Rape CultureI agree that we aren't a rape culture, but I don't agree with your logic. I think it would be fair to call American culture a "9-to-5" culture or a television-watching culture. Because 9 to 5 jobs and watching some television are the cultural norms. But technically 9 to 5 jobs are less common than they were in the 1970s. And television watching is on the decline. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/12/15 12:34 AM |
| 1 | NY nurse loses license over cell phone photo of male patient's genitalsI'm not sure why the man was in the hospital, but I think it's also possible that he had some injury to his genitals and there would be some morbid curiosity. People seem to enjoy hearing about sexual mishaps. I think there was a tv series called "Sex sent me to the ER". | /r/MensRights | 15/12/15 05:51 PM |
| 6 | Women are Responsible for Rape CultureI don't agree with the theory, but I imagine the OP would say they are part of the problem. (Although men who worked hard to keep the family together, tried to stay as involved in the kids' lives and treated everyone well would garner much less blame.) | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/12/15 10:31 PM |
| 12 | Women are Responsible for Rape CultureI'm not sure when the term "rape culture" was popularized, but most of those 1 in 4, 1 in 5, 1 in 3 type stats have been talked about since the mid 80s. I don't see any evidence that rape is becoming more common over time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Rapes_per_1000_people_1973-2003.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/BJS_Sexual_Assualt_Rates_1995-2013.png/220px-BJS_Sexual_Assualt_Rates_1995-2013.png As such, I don't think it makes… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/12/15 10:26 PM |
| 3 | Today's Women Have a Higher Average Partner Count than Men right?Others have already mentioned that the average has to be the same overall. The distribution is a bit skewed though. Maybe a group of guys will be: 0,0,0,0,1,2,3,5,8,13 (average 3.2) And a matching group of women will be: 0,1,2,3,3,3,4,5,5,6 (average 3.2) Now if, for whatever reason you don't hang out with the two dudes that slept with 8 and 13 girls you might think there is a mismatch. One thing that I think can skew things for younger age groups though is women sleeping with older men. 20 year … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/12/15 06:47 PM |
| 3 | Toronto TV interview with 'refugee' men raises questionsI think he makes a good point that these aren't the neediest of refugees. However, Levant's buying into the notion of women and children first, which is unfair. Also, I suspect these men see themselves in a protector/provider role. Go to Canada, get established, secure an income and then send for the women in the family. Don't subject the women to the toughest part of the move. I think they are caught in a tough spot, and would probably be judged negatively by Levant no matter what they did. | /r/MensRights | 09/12/15 09:11 PM |
| 6 | Better outcomes for all when mutually violent couples complete dyadic intervention program, instead of Duluth-model program. [pdf]Saw this on menslib. Anyways, this paper seems to show that when there is a mutually violent couple, it is better to treat the couple in a "dyadic" fashion rather than to use the Duluth model. This leads to fewer fights, fewer convictions, and fewer injuries in the future. Better outcomes for both the men and the women in every regard. The dyadic treatment treats men fairly, which is an obvious benefit to men. But it also benefits the women! So it seems hard to me to support Duluth model interve… | /r/MensRights | 09/12/15 06:02 PM |
| 3 | "Ben gave a great seminar today—but then his work is so much better than his sister's."There obviously is bias against women in some cases. Particularly in traditionally male endeavours (like science and the orchestra). There is also bias against men in some areas of life. That said, the Ben Barres thing is an anecdote. One person made a judgement. And potentially that person did see a Barbara presentation where she fumbled and was unable to answer fair questions. And maybe Ben, having talked about the same stuff for years, gave a polished presentation with convincing answers when… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/12/15 05:32 PM |
| 8 | Wait... don't feminists feel oppressed? So doesn't this quote prove they have equality?I'd argue that the quote partially explains why women feel oppressed when MRAs suggest removing some female privilege. The following policy recommendations could result in some women yelling "Oppression!" Realize that both men and women can commit domestic violence and investigate it properly before deciding who goes to jail Realize that men are incarcerated longer than women for the same crime, and this should be equalized. Realize that women can sexually assault men, and that should be punishe… | /r/MensRights | 08/12/15 03:57 PM |
| 3 | Wait... don't feminists feel oppressed? So doesn't this quote prove they have equality?They mean this: that men and whites are used to privilege things are becoming more equal, but men and whites still are advantaged. men and whites feel oppressed, because they are losing some privilege these feelings are invalid because men and whites are still treated better by society I actually agree with it (mostly) for whites that feel oppressed. But gender issues are a lot more complicated. | /r/MensRights | 08/12/15 03:50 PM |
| 2 | Guy goes on feminist's talk show and defends us, leaving her speechless many timesDefinitely being Asian is a mixed bag. But there are advantages. Asian Americans make more money than white Americans on average. http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-median-income-in-the-us-by-race-2013-9 Asian Americans have higher education levels than white Americans on average. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_United_States#Ethnicity_and_race Asian Americans live longer than white Americans on average http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/life-expectancy-by-re/ Asi… | /r/MensRights | 08/12/15 07:32 AM |
| 2 | TRP asserts men don't want to take care of another man's kid (a single woman's kids). But what about "abundance mentality" ?Abundance mentality means that you are valuable and you shouldn't feel the need to commit to a bad situation because there are truly plenty of fish in the sea. If you are with a woman who constantly screams at you and hits you, a person who thinks that this is the only woman who will ever be with them, might stick with it. They might think that this situation sucks, but they might think it's a better fate than forever being alone. That's a scarcity mentality and it is poisonous. Abundance mental… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 05/12/15 05:38 PM |
| 5 | If mothers love their daughters, why do they push them to have children? :'(I basically agree with you. If the parents don't think the kids will actually enjoy being parents themselves, it is selfish. However, I think it is possible that the parents think that the kids will enjoy being parents overall, and just have to be nudged. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/12/15 04:53 PM |
| 8 | Call to Action: What can we do to save a man facing 6 months in jail for disagreeing with two feminazies?Well the case has been in the courts for 2 years. If it was completely open and shut, it should have been thrown out long ago. | /r/MensRights | 01/12/15 01:58 AM |
| 10 | Call to Action: What can we do to save a man facing 6 months in jail for disagreeing with two feminazies?https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9BJexSYLKtQYkpTckg0TXVDam8&usp=sharing | /r/MensRights | 01/12/15 01:54 AM |
| 7 | Call to Action: What can we do to save a man facing 6 months in jail for disagreeing with two feminazies?https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9BJexSYLKtQYkpTckg0TXVDam8&usp=sharing | /r/MensRights | 01/12/15 01:54 AM |
| 2 | Woman who initiated sex assault against boy and held him down for 45 minutes of abuse "poses an ongoing and high level of risk to children", jailed for 4 years. Her boyfriend, found not to be a high risk to children, was jailed for 4.5 years for not intervening.I think we are thinking almost the exact same thing. Sorry if I made it sound like we disagreed. Bad communication on my part. Regarding the girl, I'd want to know her age. Another comment said the girl was 13. And I was sort of assuming that was true in my suggestion. Considering that she told her friends at school about it and used the incident to make fun of the boy, I think she was more than an innocent victim. If she was an adult, she would probably be described as the most culpable. That s… | /r/MensRights | 28/11/15 07:06 PM |
| 3 | Woman who initiated sex assault against boy and held him down for 45 minutes of abuse "poses an ongoing and high level of risk to children", jailed for 4 years. Her boyfriend, found not to be a high risk to children, was jailed for 4.5 years for not intervening.Well, they're both horrible people and the man could probably have shut it down. They both deserve significant jail time. But it is wrong to me that the man gets more jail time when he was involved to a lesser degree. IMO, 8 years for the woman, 4.5 years for the man would have been about right. And while the underage girl was a victim, she was also a perpetrator. I think some sort of mandatory ongoing counselling where it is pointed out that her behavior was unacceptable would have been appropr… | /r/MensRights | 28/11/15 05:30 PM |
| 4 | Woman who initiated sex assault against boy and held him down for 45 minutes of abuse "poses an ongoing and high level of risk to children", jailed for 4 years. Her boyfriend, found not to be a high risk to children, was jailed for 4.5 years for not intervening.Yeah, he definitely deserves significant jail time. He was a big part of it. 8 years for her, 4.5 for him would have been okay in my mind. However, the ruling explicitly says that Lawrence played a lesser role, and was a lesser threat to children. How on Earth did he get a longer sentence? "Lawrence played a lesser role and did not instigate the activity but went along with it and encouraged it by putting on pornography. Any decent person would have been horrified and stopped what was going on. … | /r/MensRights | 28/11/15 05:20 PM |
| 2 | Is it me or was The Edge of Tomorrow a anti-male film that advocates violence against men?I don't remember it being shown as "nice and fun". I saw it as hard but necessary work. It was less sad than a normal death, but since he didn't really die I think that makes sense. | /r/MensRights | 27/11/15 02:32 PM |
| 1 | Sociology Professor says that "Male Sexual Assault doesn't happen"I wouldn't get too accusatory at first. People aren't perfect and make mistakes. Who knows - maybe he actually agrees with you and felt compelled to say what he did due to political correctness? There's a good chance that you can talk with him a positive way and mention that he's probably forgetting about male-on-male victims (in society and in prison) and he may not be aware of several studies that show a lot of female-on-male assaults. With regards to walking alone at night, men are much more … | /r/MensRights | 27/11/15 02:22 PM |
| 7 | Leah McLaren: In excluding single men from their refugee plan, Liberals are playing by Tories’ rulesI think this is an example of men's rights being supported by the left. McLaren is a leftist. Mulcair is to the left of the Canadian Liberals. I think it's showing greater mainstream acceptance of the idea that it is possible to sexually discriminate against men and that it is unjust. | /r/MensRights | 27/11/15 02:10 PM |
| 9 | According to feminist research standards 50+% of women are rapistsI don't think you are accurate. Sometimes men get erections just because their dick gets stimulated by their clothing or they feel a strong emotion. But suppose it was the case that at some level their body wanted sex. That's the subconscious level talking not the conscious level talking. What's important is the conscious level. I mean if someone is drooling over food but they are trying to stick to their diet, they subconsciously want food and consciously don't want food. You aren't entitled to… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/11/15 06:00 PM |
| 1 | Arent only "beta" guys attracted to the Red Pill in the first place?I think that most people who seek out TRP are guys who are disappointed by their sex life (or lack of one). The "naturals" don't find TRP, although they usually implement several RP principles. I suspect that 80% or more of single men wish they were having more sex and/or sex with more attractive women. And that's the group that TRP will draw from. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/11/15 02:40 PM |
| 2 | Why do people think ugly men have it better than ugly women?Parasitic women exist. But the idea is that status and wealth genuinely make you more attractive to women. You might look like a 4, but if you live the right lifestyle you might feel like a 6 to women and she'll treat you like a 6. I think that's true, but I do think that women have more options to improve their appearance by using makeup and styling their hair. So maybe "who has it easier" is not so clear cut. If you expand it to who is valued more by society, then I do think ugly men have it e… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/11/15 09:13 PM |
| 16 | First Dog On The Moon on International Men's Day. Apparently, what we really need is a "Feminism Rocks Day."The thing I found amusing about it was the "i checked my privilege and it is still there" pane Apparently your privilege is a little green animal with trumpet-like ears and nose! Mystery solved. Of course, the final pane was ridiculous. I wonder what percentage of men feel that feminism questions and redefines masculinity in a supportive and caring way. I have trouble believing that even most male feminists believe that. | /r/MensRights | 20/11/15 07:42 PM |
| 4 | I find that whenever someone discusses a topic other than women's rights, they seem to emphasize that women's rights are still the priority.It happens all the time. I think it's because some people (including many feminists) see the world as a pure hierarchy rather than a complicated place. Either men are on top or women are on top, and only one side has issues. So if you say that men have issues, this group assumes you mean that women have no issues and women are advantaged in every single respect. So this group will respond angrily and denounce you as a misogynist for talking about male issues. These comments that you are talking … | /r/MensRights | 20/11/15 07:32 PM |
| 1 | Please help me with my University Educational survey on subconscious preference for men in jobsThat is a good point, but it seems possible that the survey was designed so that the learning was randomized. ie. If the learning block associated male and family and female and career for half the people and the opposite for the other half, then the effect should be canceled out. Maybe the author can comment? | /r/MensRights | 20/11/15 06:58 PM |
| 3 | South Park Season 19 Episode 8 - Sponsored Content Making fun of micro-aggressions, sex consent forms and safe spaces...South Park is really getting it right. Nice to see someone with a large audience satirizing the tactics of those who would silence us.It's the latest South Park episode. | /r/MensRights | 20/11/15 03:17 PM |
| 3 | South Park Season 19 Episode 8 - Sponsored Content Making fun of micro-aggressions, sex consent forms and safe spaces...South Park is really getting it right. Nice to see someone with a large audience satirizing the tactics of those who would silence us.Wanting equality isn't a joke. However, people have different understandings of how the world works, and how equality can be achieved. What seems like equality to one person might not seem like equality to another person. Different people can see different causes for an inequality, and thus propose different solutions. The people that annoy are those that insist that they and they alone know how the world works and how equality can be achieved. Such people will silence others who would prefer to… | /r/MensRights | 20/11/15 03:07 PM |
| 1 | SJW's posted this all over my college campus todayWell, it shouldn't. But yeah, I can imagine some people being influenced by people picketing outside. Why does advertising work? Why do referees give more penalties to road teams versus home teams? We're social animals and influenced by others (consciously and subconsciously). | /r/MensRights | 18/11/15 07:13 AM |
| 5 | Can we talk about r/MensLib?I'm subbed to it. I think it's okay. I honestly think they are more on the MRA side than not for most issues. The thing that grates me is that there are a large number of people that seem to say things like "Well this is a legitimate issue, but we can't act all angry like those MRAs". It feels like they have a warped perception of MRAs. Most MRAs don't act "all angry". Some do (and sometimes the anger is warranted), but anger isn't the defining trait. So I don't appreciate the MRA-bashing. But i… | /r/MensRights | 17/11/15 07:38 PM |
| 4 | Overweight men just as likely as overweight women to face discriminationWell it is discrimination. It could well be partially merited (eg. if more energetic employees are more likely to be thin, then all things equal the thin person is a better prospective employee). It's unfair for an energetic overweight person, but an understandable choice. And of course, even if there is no difference in employee quality, some customers will have negative perceptions of overweight people and possibly buy fewer items. I guess the reason I posted it here though was that size-ism i… | /r/MensRights | 17/11/15 07:21 PM |
| 2 | Millions of men have 'no close friends'Yeah, I think that wikipedia article has been changed a lot over the past few months. It almost seems to be 80% focused on saying why the women are wonderful effect doesn't matter, rather than describing what the effect is. Also, a lot of the sentences wrongly say that the WAW effect doesn't extend to minorities, lower class women, non-traditional women. That's not actually true. Minority women are viewed somewhat negatively, however minority men are viewed even more negatively. So I don't think… | /r/MensRights | 16/11/15 08:54 PM |
| 3 | Millions of men have 'no close friends'Well, to be clear, I think a lack of men's only spaces is real. I don't think it's the main problem preventing men from finding friends. I think a much bigger thing is the "Women are wonderful effect" I think society trains people to see women as good and men as bad. So men are approached less to be friends than women. And people are more wary when approached by a man than by a woman. All in all, men find it tougher to make friends than women. As for why I don't form a men's only meetup group? I… | /r/MensRights | 16/11/15 08:11 PM |
| 2 | Millions of men have 'no close friends'It's also about number, not just existence. I went into meetup.com and looked up "women's only", and contrasted it with "men's only". Within 50 miles of my location, I get well over 100 groups for women only (social, dining and cooking, gaming, networking, hiking, camping, poker, coders, business leaders, women of color, etc.) Many of these groups have well over 100 members. Within 50 miles I count 8 for men only. 4 of them are for gay men (which is great, but won't be of interest to most men). … | /r/MensRights | 16/11/15 07:51 PM |
| 3 | Millions of men have 'no close friends'Yeah, there probably aren't all that many female only spaces. But still there are more available for women than men. women only gyms women's sports teams meetup groups that are explicitly for women (eg. investing group, book club, games club, etc.) classes for women (eg. women's self-defense classes) a bit rare, but there are women's only restaurants I think one of the reasons why men's only spaces are good for creating male friendships is because when there are women around, men tend to spend m… | /r/MensRights | 16/11/15 07:30 PM |
| 6 | Millions of men have 'no close friends'I think it's at least partially because society trains people to see women as good and men as bad. (Women are wonderful effect). So, men get rejected more when attempting to befriend people. And fewer people seek out men to be friends with. | /r/MensRights | 16/11/15 07:20 PM |
| 2 | I think I hate my English teacher.Good point. You're definitely right that there is a lot of subjectivity in Math grading. Some students get the benefit of the doubt when they don't write down a step, others do. I still think there is more in English than Math. | /r/MensRights | 14/11/15 06:18 PM |
| 3 | I think I hate my English teacher.Fighting her is a noble idea. My opinion is that you may not be successful in fighting her, and you may just end up with a mark that is 20% lower than it should be. (There's a lot more subjectivity in English than Math grading.) If this English class will be an important mark on your transcript on your college application, then I'd advise you to record the things she says and does. Wait til you have your final mark, and then approach the principal or department head. | /r/MensRights | 14/11/15 05:02 PM |
| 4 | Telegraph: Frenchman ordered to pay wife damages for lack of sex. (Imagine the outcry had that happened to a women, which - let's be honest - will be a far more common occurrence.)I have lawyer friends People are often unaware of their own biases. I doubt people are saying "Let's screw over the guy." But take an average woman and an average man, and people will be more sympathetic to the average woman. With the MAJORITY of cases settled OUTSIDE of court! These are still negotiated in "the shadow of the law". If someone thinks they will get a much better deal in court they won't agree to the proposed settlement. If both sides expect Person A to be favored by a judge, then … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/11/15 03:39 PM |
| 1 | Men's Rights Group proposal shut down by university because of it's potential to become a "haven for misogyny and radical anti-feminism"The group should have been approved and the fears of violence are ridiculous. But, there have definitely been men's only groups who have turned violent. eg. the main branch of the KKK was men only. Prison riots. War atrocities. You would be right to argue that this campus group shares little in common with the KKK or prison rioters, but they do share maleness. It would be unfair to judge them all the same. Same thing with Muslim groups. There may be a common link through Islam, but it would be u… | /r/MensRights | 10/11/15 10:56 PM |
| 3 | Men's Rights Group proposal shut down by university because of it's potential to become a "haven for misogyny and radical anti-feminism"No one should be sending harassing tweets. But if that's the standard then pretty much every group could be banned. | /r/MensRights | 10/11/15 10:46 PM |
| 7 | Men's Rights Group proposal shut down by university because of it's potential to become a "haven for misogyny and radical anti-feminism"Two problems: Ryerson doesn't have a football team. Canadian university football is only an 8 game season plus playoffs. Most teams are no longer playing. Just eight teams are left. | /r/MensRights | 10/11/15 04:59 PM |
| 3 | Discussion: False rape claim dismissed against American sports star. If he were Joe Schmo would the results have been similar?First of all, we don't know she lied. So I don't feel comfortable accusing her of seeing dollar signs or what not. It's possible that the mom lied to support her daughter's story. That said, there seems to be huge doubt that Kane committed a rape. Kane shouldn't be stigmatized by this investigation either since there is a strong chance he is not guilty. As for your question, I think that money plays a part, yes. A poor man would have had a tougher time defending himself. A counter to this though… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/11/15 07:16 PM |
| 3 | Red Pillers, sell me on red pill strategyIf you're happy and she's happy, why change? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/11/15 02:30 AM |
| 3 | I'm often an asshole to woman, they don't fuck me, what gives TRP?Yeah, I think keeping your emotions under control is always important. There's a lot of red pill concepts that touch on the idea of being emotionally stable. (eg "amused mastery", "inner game", "nexting") | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/11/15 12:26 AM |
| 2 | I'm often an asshole to woman, they don't fuck me, what gives TRP?IMO, there wasn't a need for you to be an asshole. If she's sending you nude pics, she's already attracted to you. I think the Mystery's old pick-up method was: 1) Attraction 2) Build Comfort 3) Close/Seduce If there is no attraction, then showing confidence/ issuing mild negs can sometimes build it. She was already attracted. Your job was to make her trust you. And obviously the harsh judgment shattered the trust. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/11/15 09:10 PM |
| 2 | I'm often an asshole to woman, they don't fuck me, what gives TRP?I tell her straight up she sickens me, she should burn in hell, I hate her, I would never be with such a disgusting human being. She doesn't come running back asking for sex, we haven't spoken since. I'm pretty sure no one would want to be around you after hearing that. I always take red pill advice as "Don't be a complete doormat and don't put her on a pedestal." And did you honestly want to have sex with that girl who had a boyfriend? Either you weren't really sickened by her or you should be … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/11/15 08:34 PM |
| 1 | Female student pens scathing review of 'rape culture' for college courseProbably not. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this assignment came after the student turned it in. Instead of admonishing the student, the graduate student instructor was appreciative of her counter viewpoint. The instructor commended the student for not believing everything she hears and for providing a different take. That said, the essay seems to resemble an opinionated blog post more than an academic essay. Maybe that's what they were looking for, but I cringed at parts (eg. calling S… | /r/MensRights | 06/11/15 05:45 AM |
| 0 | Female student pens scathing review of 'rape culture' for college courseIt would be more effective if she didn't choose to be anonymous. That said, you can fully understand why she'd want to remain anonymous. Saying what she said would open her up to harassment and might even affect her career prospects. | /r/MensRights | 06/11/15 05:44 AM |
| 3 | "Reinforcing male privilege: The Trudeau cabinet, Andrew Coyne, and the mythology of ‘merit’"As I mentioned in another comment, Laxer is a vehement opponent of men's rights. I disagree with almost everything he says. However, I do have to say that almost all cabinet ministers are extremely unqualified. In Canada, there's always been an unwritten rule that you have to balance English-French, and regions BC-Prairies-Ontario-Quebec-Atlantic. Ideally First Nations and recent immigrants are represented. Basically cabinet appointments are not meritocratic now. Optics have always been the prim… | /r/MensRights | 05/11/15 09:50 PM |
| 1 | "Reinforcing male privilege: The Trudeau cabinet, Andrew Coyne, and the mythology of ‘merit’"Why did you post this? Laxer is one of the most vocal critics of MRAs and was involved in attempting to stop CAFE talks at U of T. http://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/university-of-toronto-protest-possible/ | /r/MensRights | 05/11/15 09:36 PM |
| 1 | What are your thoughts on men's ability as shown below to fuck over women's lives so easily? How would you avoid such a situation?I realized you were trying to give the red pill a taste of its own medicine (although I didn't see the particular thread you were referencing). However, I do think that many feminists believe that men as a group are fucking up women's lives (patriarchy) so I thought that you were making a point you believe in a deliberately inflammatory way. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 05/11/15 03:44 PM |
| 4 | What are your thoughts on men's ability as shown below to fuck over women's lives so easily? How would you avoid such a situation?First of all, that is some men behaving like criminals. It doesn't mean that every man is a problem. Golem effect. Some people have very negative views of men. Men internalize these negative views and live down to them. We need to flip this and have people express their deep admiration for men and boys. Men and boys should be treated as caring, loving people. The Pygmalion effect suggests that men will internalize this positive view of themselves and men will live up to it. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 05/11/15 06:09 AM |
| 17 | 42% of men aged 18-45 'have contemplated suicide'How does that number compare to women? | /r/MensRights | 02/11/15 05:44 AM |
| 1 | [Discussion] Poor white boys get 'a worse start in life' says equality reportMy explanation actually didn't posit that any race was genetically smarter than any other. I did suggest that IQ was partially heritable though, so that if your parents were smart you'd be more likely to be smart too. What this shows to me, is that there are special programs and systems in place that help minorities who are poor but we are lacking in systems to help white people who are poor. That's definitely possible. But my explanation was an alternative one. Maybe poor whites are a harder gr… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 31/10/15 01:43 PM |
| 2 | [Discussion] Poor white boys get 'a worse start in life' says equality reportIt could be that white people have an advantage in life and that causes the issue. Suppose that the bottom 20% of white people are poor and almost all of these people are poor because they don't have the brains to succeed, or they don't value education or they don't value hard work. But suppose an ethnic group is 40% poor people. Half of the poor people in that ethnic group have personal failings like the white group (not intelligent, don't value education or hard work). But the other half do (s… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 31/10/15 02:09 AM |
| 8 | We all felt alone at one point, is there a gender difference ?Women can be alone. However, an attractive women will often have a certain amount of validation from men even if she's single. Having people ask you out and then not going out has to be more empowering than feeling that you cannot find someone to go out with. Not all of a women's needs will be met, but some of them will simply by having people affirm that they are interested in her. Additionally, women tend to get more of their emotional needs met in same sex friendships. It's more acceptable fo… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/10/15 04:03 PM |
| 1 | Do men value sex more highly than other aspects of relationships, and to what degree? If so, how aware are women of this?Thanks for trying - but don't feel like you have to spend too much time on this. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/10/15 03:12 PM |
| 7 | Oscar PistoriusIt's an outlier. Sometimes guilty people of all classes get light sentences or no sentences at all. It's more appropriate to look at aggregate data. At least in the United States, men get sentences 60% longer than women on average. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2144002 And typically when the victim is white and/or female, the prison sentence is longer for the perpetrator. http://www.nber.org/papers/w7676 | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/10/15 05:30 AM |
| 5 | "Mass shootings in the United States are on a dramatic rise. And men are almost always to blame." Could the problem be linked to a loss of masculinity in the US?Yeah, it's clear that men commit most of these mass shootings. But it's not clear that "white, educated, middle and upper class, able-bodied, heterosexual men" are more likely than other types of men. Assuming that all classes of men are roughly equally likely to commit a mass shooting, I don't think privilege has much to do with it. I think it has something to do with: men are more likely to be violent in general (possibly biological, but certainly social conditioning plays a large role) men ar… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/10/15 03:35 AM |
| 4 | RPers: if you were a below average-looking woman, would you choose to have a lot of casual sex?I would get fit, dress well and marry young, possibly to an older man. The thing is that a below average 20 year old woman is physically more attractive than an above average 30 year old woman. You can play above your league as a woman, if you "lock in" at your peak beauty. So a below average 20 year old woman could score an above average 30 year old guy. (This could be a bit biased though. I'm a guy in his 30s so I can relate to a guy in his 30s better than a 20 year old guy. Not sure how true … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/10/15 05:33 PM |
| 1 | Ronda Rousey shuts down feminist about the wage gap.I guess I want to know what the men's team gets paid for national team appearances. I'd also want to know how much the Australian federation was making from the tour (and how much was kept by the US and how much was dedicated to appropriate expenses) But, I will concede that if the women's team is drawing ten to twenty crowds of 30,000 per year they should probably be earning more than $35,000 per year each. Maybe not much more though. The men's CFL in Canada typically has crowds of 25000-30000 … | /r/MensRights | 20/10/15 04:37 PM |
| 2 | Ronda Rousey shuts down feminist about the wage gap.I think they are being selective here. The question isn't how much money do the Matildas make versus Real Madrid. It's how much they make versus the Socceroos (Australian men's team), and how much money Australia makes from the two teams. FIFA earned $4.8 billion from the men's world cup and that money flows to national teams. I couldn't find a hard number for Canada's women's world cup, but the number is in the millions not the billions. That said, the viewership was high enough at the most rec… | /r/MensRights | 20/10/15 04:20 PM |
| 2 | Ronda Rousey shuts down feminist about the wage gap.If she meant that women are dumb as a group, then you are right. That's not true, or helpful. | /r/MensRights | 20/10/15 04:04 PM |
| 1 | Do men value sex more highly than other aspects of relationships, and to what degree? If so, how aware are women of this?I'm skeptical, so I'd appreciate a source if you have it. I did a quick Google search myself, and it seems that my 40 year estimate was too high - at least as an average. I saw a couple of data points from the 19th century and it seems like it was 25-30 years at that point in time. Presumably it would have been somewhat smaller in earlier centuries. One thing that I noted during my Google search was that it was often the norm in Europe for women to marry at 20 and men at 30. This would tend to l… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/10/15 03:16 PM |
| 3 | Do men value sex more highly than other aspects of relationships, and to what degree? If so, how aware are women of this?The life expectancy might have been about 40, but a lot of the early deaths were infants and young children dying. If you reached age 20 and got married, there was a reasonable expectation that you'd live to age 60. (Imagine that in a group of 10, 2 died at age 0, 1 died at age 5 and 7 died at age 60. The life expectancy would be 42.5) I'm sure that 40 years seemed like a long time to a lot of those people. I think that marriages lasted because of social mores of the time, and also because peopl… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/10/15 03:47 AM |
| 2 | Challenge my view: All hobbies are not similarly attractiveI don't think anyone thinks that all hobbies are similarly attractive. It's going to be more attractive to be a passionate and energetic guitar player than a passionate and energetic Magic: The Gathering player. More attractive to be a strong tennis player than a strong shuffleboard player. I think the idea is that it's better to be a passionate and energetic Magic/shuffleboard player than not do anything at all. And arguably it's better to be a passionate and energetic Magic/shuffleboard player… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/10/15 03:13 AM |
| 4 | OP in the OKCupid sub rejects woman after finding out she's pregnant. Commenters tell him to man up and that "you are far, far too emotionally immature to date a single mom."I didn't say anything about government not being able to keep up. People change their behavior based on consequences. If they are rewarded for their behavior they keep doing it. If they are punished, they stop doing it - or at least do it less. Collecting welfare isn't a horrible life but it's not a great life. Being a stay-at-home mom while your husband earns $100k+ per year is pretty good. If women currently expect a pretty good result (to be wifed up by a beta) when they are single moms and t… | /r/TheRedPill | 18/10/15 11:14 PM |
| 3 | OP in the OKCupid sub rejects woman after finding out she's pregnant. Commenters tell him to man up and that "you are far, far too emotionally immature to date a single mom."I think it's unclear what would happen. Obviously if stepdads weren't stepping up regularly, it would put more pressure on the government to fund the kid and mom. It's not acceptable for kids to be underfed, poorly clothed or lacking education and health care. But usually government benefits leave you with a much worse standard of living than a typical middle class income earner. I think it's quite possible that if replacement dads are scarce that women will be much more selective about who they… | /r/TheRedPill | 18/10/15 08:46 PM |
| 2 | What are common physical or emotional traits among incels?FWIW, that was my speculation about stress causing the nasal problems. I think the only solid piece of knowledge was that people who were classified as "love shy" have more nasal problems. From an 80s book called "Shyness & Love", these were survey results: "It is not unusual for me to catch a cold that lasts three or four weeks or even longer." Percent saying "true": 19 percent of the non-shy men; 44 percent of the younger love-shy men; 63 percent of the older love-shy men. "I suffer from a goo… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/10/15 03:18 AM |
| 5 | What are common physical or emotional traits among incels?I actually read somewhere that incels tend to have runny noses (even when they don't have cold). I think that would be an example of something that goes both ways though - constantly blowing your nose, or snorting, or having a congested voice or mouth-breathing would be unattractive. And constant runny noses probably have something to do with constant extra stress (the kind you have when you don't feel loved or accepted ever). | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/10/15 08:54 PM |
| 1 | What did this guy do wrong?Those are pretty extensive instructions you wrote. Nice job. I also try to do fun things in groups with lots of women, and I think it works pretty well if you get established as a regular. It's really gold when you end up in the same group as a particular woman in two different environments. And the odds of that are higher if you are a regular in several social environments. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/10/15 07:42 PM |
| 1 | What did this guy do wrong?First of all, there isn't uncontrolled female promiscuity. However, the cc doesn't say what you think it does. It says that some women choose to sleep with several attractive men who won't commit to them long term. Not all women are like this obviously, but some women are 5s or 6s. They can entice 8s and 9s to sleep with them fairly regularly but not commit to them. They could get a 5 or 6 guy to commit to them, but they reject those guys. I imagine that this is done consciously in some cases, b… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/10/15 06:51 PM |
| 1 | What did this guy do wrong?Fair enough. What should this guy actively do to create a relationship? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/10/15 06:42 PM |
| 5 | What did this guy do wrong?That comment comes from someone on reddit though. The only reason they know he is a creep is because he asked 1000 women and they all said no. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/10/15 06:32 PM |
| 9 | Question for Women: Do You Find Fat Men Sexually Attractive? Do You Burn with Lust and Passion for Morbidly Obese Men?"They exist" might mean 1 in 1000 women are wired that way. I don't deny that some men really like morbidly obese women. Maybe 1 in 100 or 1 in 1000. But it would be foolish for a man or a woman to pack on the pounds thinking that it would help them in the sexual marketplace. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/10/15 04:29 PM |
| 2 | When Jennifer Lawrence learned that she got paid less than her male costars in American Hustle, she said, "I didn't get mad at Sony. I got mad at myself."I think she makes a lot of sense here. For the most part it isn't straight up discrimination by the studio/boss that results in somewhat lower wages for women. It's women's choices and behaviors. And those choices are influenced by society a great deal. More men than women seem to be comfortable being hard ball negotiators. (Though I think that Lawrence greatly overstates the difference between men and women. Many women are willing to negotiate. Many men just accept the first offer.) | /r/MensRights | 13/10/15 08:57 PM |
| 14 | When Jennifer Lawrence learned that she got paid less than her male costars in American Hustle, she said, "I didn't get mad at Sony. I got mad at myself."She was quite prominent in the trailers - she was still used to sell the movie a lot. And that's a significant part of an actor's pay. | /r/MensRights | 13/10/15 08:52 PM |
| 1 | When Jennifer Lawrence learned that she got paid less than her male costars in American Hustle, she said, "I didn't get mad at Sony. I got mad at myself."There are many more male agents than female agents. Just because she is saying that women are worse at negotiating on average doesn't mean that all women are worse than all men. | /r/MensRights | 13/10/15 08:48 PM |
| 1 | Hope Solo to face domestic violence charges after court decision reversedExactly. As long as she is still fighting this legally, she shouldn't apologize in any specific way. | /r/MensRights | 03/10/15 12:30 AM |
| 8 | I am trans-straightFirstly, gay men can be nerdy too. There is nothing preventing you from being nerdy if you so choose. Embrace your inner nerd and unleash it upon the world. More importantly, it sounds like you are a gay man who wishes he was straight. I think the healthiest thing to do would be to learn to accept same-sex attraction as healthy and normal. Learn to love yourself and other gay men. Alternatively, if you wish to remain steadfast in your beliefs you may wish to consider conversion therapy. It's bee… | /r/MensRights | 01/10/15 11:48 PM |
| 9 | I am trans-straightI'm having trouble seeing how you need support. Please provide examples of ways you have been harmed by society. Also, please refrain from slurring gay men. | /r/MensRights | 01/10/15 10:53 PM |
| 1 | How educated were your parents?Dad and moms all have bachelor's. My stepmom has a teaching degree as well. My birth mom earned a master's. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/10/15 03:37 PM |
| 1 | Keeping your maiden nameI do have to admit that I'm a bit conflicted about this issue. Having the women take the man's name feels right to me. But that isn't a good reason to insist on preferential treatment. Maybe it's fair to link this to the engagement ring issue, maybe it isn't. So I'd leave it up to her. Having her take my name would be reassuring though (perhaps irrationally). | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/09/15 06:28 PM |
| 1 | Keeping your maiden nameWell, I think the guy buying the engagement ring is his sign of commitment. If that custom was eliminated, the man changing his name would strike me as more fair. Also, to be clear when I said I'd never take my wife's name it wasn't something particular about taking my wife's name that would be distasteful. It's changing my name that would be distasteful. I think creating a new name together would just mean that both people would be sacrificing. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/09/15 05:17 PM |
| 7 | Gender & Online HarassmentFrom the post: but women are more likely to experience stalking (9%) and sexual harassment (7%) than are men (6% and 4%). There's even a chart that shows that. Your numbers seem to be only for people aged 18-24. I had to go to the PEW survey link to find the 2.4% | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/09/15 05:24 AM |
| 10 | Gender & Online Harassment9% of women versus 6% of men (with a margin of error of 2.4%) I grant that's it's likely that women face a bit more stalking, but I think that the difference is small enough that it's better to have general anti-stalking programs than anti-stalking women programs. To take an even more skewed example, 76.8% of murder victims are men. Is it better to have anti-murder programs? Or just anti-murdering men programs? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/09/15 05:16 AM |
| 1 | Keeping your maiden nameI like the idea of having one name as a family. That said, as a guy, I'd never take my wife's name. So if this hypothetical wife didn't want to change her name, that's her choice and I'd accept it. In some ways though, I would view her changing her name as a sign of commitment from her. Maybe I'd view it the same way as a woman whose fiance bought her a super cheap engagement ring? Is she actually all-in? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/09/15 03:00 AM |
| 7 | "The Questionnaire"It's a colorful way to say that means he smells catfish. And catfish is slang, meaning pretending to be someone you're not online. So you think you've done a good job hooking a nice trout or something, but when you reel your fish in it turns out to be an unappealing catfish. | /r/TheRedPill | 28/09/15 08:37 PM |
| 2 | "Nerdy" hobbies useful for meeting women: do they exist?The advice I've always read is that it's better to be passionate about something than nothing. Enthusiasm about Magic is probably less effective in generating interest than most hobbies, but if you talk about it passionately, and frame it the right way it should be better than being a blank slate. Frame it as if it is a cool interesting activity and the thought that anyone could ever look down on it had never crossed your mind. Don't be sheepish or apologetic. | /r/seduction | 28/09/15 08:02 PM |
| 1 | "Nerdy" hobbies useful for meeting women: do they exist?No real advice here, but I always got the impression that there were certain areas of geekdom that had a lot more women than men. Cosplay maybe? Maybe play board games that appeal more to women than men? https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/24560/women-only-ratings-games-women-love-more-men Twister is a popular game with the ladies, apparently. Start a twister meetup group! More seriously, I think women tend to enjoy party board games more. I think that it would be possible to start a gaming group… | /r/seduction | 28/09/15 06:33 PM |
| 5 | "Nerdy" hobbies useful for meeting women: do they exist?It probably has to be "nerdy" because the OP likes nerdy things. If you naturally love playing guitar and would do it even if it was considered nerdy, it will be a better pickup tool than if you hate it and only do it to meet women. Your enthusiasm will show, and you'll have the motivation to actually get good. You'll just be out having a good time, showing that your life is fun and interesting - and women will feel interested. Same thing here. He has a natural interest in "nerdy" things. If the… | /r/seduction | 28/09/15 06:16 PM |
| 1 | Women and self-identified feminists less likely to vote for men with facial hairI don't know of such a saying, but the implication I got from the article was that men don't have the same bias against bearded dudes. | /r/MensRights | 22/09/15 03:12 AM |
| 1 | Same city, same year. Man has sex with 15yo girl he believed to be 19, goes straight to jail. Woman has sex with her 14yo male student, avoids jail because judge "did not believe the woman deserved to go to jail".Actually, I do think that true remorse should reduce the offence. If I truly knew that someone really regretted what they did because it harmed someone (and not because they were going to be punished) and were unlikely to ever do the same thing again, I'd be more willing to be lenient than with someone who thought they didn't do anything wrong and would do the same thing at the next opportunity. However, I think that opens the door quite a bit to anti-male bias. I think women will be perceived a… | /r/MensRights | 18/09/15 05:27 PM |
| 1 | CMV: Movies don't exist to turn men into beta bux , they simply satisfy some people's fantasiesThey are not there to brainwash someone. But they do brainwash people. It's the same thing as pretty women on magazines. It's not to make anyone feel bad or feel insecure about their body. It's selling a fantasy. Women aspire to look like that, and men aspire to fuck/marry women who look like that. But an unfortunate side effect is that it damages the self-esteem of some people. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/09/15 06:17 PM |
| 3 | Are androgynous people attractive?People should be free to like what they like. But for me, I'm a straight guy and I don't think that the women are attractive in your examples. And I think 40-50% of women are attractive in that age range. Pic#1 and #3 are somewhat repulsive to me. Pic#5 is debatable - she'd have to win me over with her personality. Of course each of the women has some rare and desirable physical features. With different dress, hairstyle, demeanor and tattoo removal I could easily find all three to be knockouts. … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/09/15 06:08 PM |
| 1 | Why are people attacked for supporting Men's Rights?But few people took MRAs seriously when they were acting calmly and level-headed. MRAs were easily ignored. Nowadays, more people are willing to talk and listen to moderate MRAs. They may dislike the vitriolic ones, but the vitriolic ones enabled the moderates to be more legitimate. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/15 10:03 PM |
| 3 | Why are people attacked for supporting Men's Rights?Men's rights makes sense to people who think that both men and women suffer sexism. (Also to people who think that only men suffer sexism). But many people think only women suffer sexism. So helping men in any way puts men further above women. The only reason you'd want to do this is because you think men are more important than women. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/15 08:53 PM |
| 2 | Why are people attacked for supporting Men's Rights?I'll agree that that contributes to the problem. I myself am trying not to demonize feminism as a whole. Overall, I agree with the idea of equality. But I will also say that for the most part when MRA's were raising their issues calmly and politely they were simply ignored and/or mocked. Once anger became more common, MRAs couldn't be ignored. The angry and strident voices can make MRAs look bad, but they were/are also necessary to get MRAs a voice at the table of mainstream discussion. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/15 08:45 PM |
| 1 | We Need to Stop Telling Ourselves that Women and Children are the Only Refugees that Matter.Excellent article. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/15 12:16 AM |
| 4 | Someone said that MRAs don't understand men's rights, but Men's Lib does. What are the differences between the movements that could make someone think this?that these same people who constantly tell Men to open up, are the same ones who tell them to shut up. Anyone who does both is a problem. | /r/MensRights | 06/09/15 12:50 AM |
| 4 | Someone said that MRAs don't understand men's rights, but Men's Lib does. What are the differences between the movements that could make someone think this?The part I agree with is that if a man wants to show his emotions but can't because he's worried about how others will perceive him then that's a problem for the man. If a man naturally is stoic and wants to be stoic, that's fine by me. If a man is not naturally stoic and he constantly hears "Shut the fuck up" or "Stop whining" then that's a problem. (I'm assuming that he's only being moderately emotional and within the range of what would be acceptable for women.) | /r/MensRights | 05/09/15 11:44 PM |
| 3 | Someone said that MRAs don't understand men's rights, but Men's Lib does. What are the differences between the movements that could make someone think this?I agree that it exists and that it's a problem for men. Men are expected to act in certain ways. And men are unfairly stereotyped. However, many feminist writers seem to use the phrase to attack and blame men for various problems. So I try to avoid using the phrase since it has negative connotations for me. Here's a feminist definition of "toxic masculinity". Aside from a potshot at MRAs, I mostly agree with it. Toxic masculinity is one of the ways in which Patriarchy is harmful to men. It is th… | /r/MensRights | 05/09/15 10:28 PM |
| 3 | Are most women actually as promiscuous as TRP says ?There might be a few posters who think that, but most don't. Take Chateau Heartiste. He recognizes that 10 partners is above average, and that anyone who has 50 is small minority. The median number of sex partners for American women is 3(!). The average is 8.6. This means that there is a group of super slutty women, let’s call them “girls who live in the big blue coastal cities and work in marketing or PR”, who are shifting the average higher for all women. By these numbers, it is fair to conclu… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 31/08/15 09:01 PM |
| 2 | Using the shooting in Virginia to promote the violence against women ideology and blame gamergate, the mrm, and even Trump's recent Kelly comments. [X-post KiA]I think this is an example of toxic SJW culture. http://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-alleged-gunman-details-grievances-suicide-notes/story?id=33336339 In Flanagan's often rambling letter to authorities, family and friends, he writes of a long list of grievances. In one part of the document, Flanagan calls it a “Suicide Note for Friends and Family." He says he has been attacked by black men and white females He talks about how he was attacked for being a gay, black man He says has suffered racial d… | /r/MensRights | 27/08/15 05:32 PM |
| 1 | The "Women Are Wonderful" EffectWAW is an average. It's not that every single person cares about women more than men. It's that on average, people do. People who care about men mainly, or who care equally about men and women might be attracted to the manosphere. But if 90-95% of people care far more about women than men, manosphere ideas won't really permeate society. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/08/15 04:21 PM |
| 2 | The "Women Are Wonderful" EffectMaybe. But maybe there are 500 million people worldwide that call themselves feminists. If we take 1 million for the manosphere, that's a 500:1 ratio. Then even neutral politcians and commentators know they have to take feminism seriously. But they don't have to take the manosphere seriously - in fact, they can be actively opposed (and score political brownie points for the neutral) This might mean the effective is ratio is 2000:1. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 25/08/15 04:19 PM |
| 1 | This fucking place is an island of sanity in an ocean of crazy.There's a lot of truth to what you say. But at the same time, this place isn't the complete free speech zone that you are making it out to be. If you actually wanted to say, "Sorry, but I have to give my opinion. If you don't like it, feel free ignore and assume it is the ramblings of a incoherent idiot. Anyways I think life is all about love and kindness. Always be kind and giving. Even if people are taking advantage of you, just keep on giving. Put others first. If you are unhappy, grin and be… | /r/TheRedPill | 25/08/15 03:56 PM |
| 4 | Two underage boys and an underage girl were caught filming themselves having sex in my city by police officers. There's nothing to suggest that it wasn't consensual, but the two boys will now be prosecuted heavily by the law while the girl gets off scot-free.This article seems to be a bit more detailed. http://www.scmp.com/news/article/1851614/test-case-hong-kongs-underage-sex-law-after-boys-11-and-13-arrested-alleged It indicates that there is some awareness the law is questionable. | /r/MensRights | 24/08/15 11:51 PM |
| 23 | Two underage boys and an underage girl were caught filming themselves having sex in my city by police officers. There's nothing to suggest that it wasn't consensual, but the two boys will now be prosecuted heavily by the law while the girl gets off scot-free.Legally, I agree. I don't think 11 year olds should be having sex though, so the parents should be disciplining the kids. | /r/MensRights | 24/08/15 08:03 PM |
| 21 | Why is being a so called, 'SJW' bad?SJW refers to a subgroup of social justice. The type that combat prejudice in obnoxious ways. eg. Person: I'm not the biggest fan of the character Brienne of Tarth. SJW: That's because you are a hateful misogynist who insists on policing women's body types and keeping women subservient. Fuck off. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/08/15 07:37 PM |
| 1 | Studies find trophy wives to be largely a myth. Most people prefer to match up with others similar in attractiveness, education, or class. Also, more traditionally attractive women more likely to leverage any power looks give them into a LTR.I'm sure it's vastly different for most women. How many ranks do you have to be sleeping up to prefer one night stands to LTRs? If I had to guess an average, I'd say it would be about 3 consciously (ie. a woman would be indifferent between an LTR with a 5 and a series of ONS with 8s). In practice, 1 or 2 points because of people's capacity for self-delusion. For the conscious part though, you may as well ask women though rather than some guy. Don't take this as a negative judgement of women. Mos… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/08/15 05:24 PM |
| 6 | Studies find trophy wives to be largely a myth. Most people prefer to match up with others similar in attractiveness, education, or class. Also, more traditionally attractive women more likely to leverage any power looks give them into a LTR.Yeah, most people (man or woman) don't like to face unpleasant truths about themselves. It's psychologically easier to believe you are a 7 or 8 who is "bad at relationships" or "choosing the wrong guys" than to believe you are a 5. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/08/15 03:02 PM |
| 5 | Studies find trophy wives to be largely a myth. Most people prefer to match up with others similar in attractiveness, education, or class. Also, more traditionally attractive women more likely to leverage any power looks give them into a LTR.It doesn't say that "most people prefer to match up with others similar in attractiveness, education or class" It says they do match up with such people. And that can be easily explained by people wanting to match with someone as high as possible in attractiveness. Most people would choose 10s if they could. But they settle for people of the same rank as themselves because 10s don't want them. From your article: “Couple formation is often conceptualized as a competitive, two-sided matching proce… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/08/15 01:04 PM |
| 6 | Studies find trophy wives to be largely a myth. Most people prefer to match up with others similar in attractiveness, education, or class. Also, more traditionally attractive women more likely to leverage any power looks give them into a LTR.RP doesn't think that women want to be on the cc in an ideal situation. RP thinks that women tend to have choices: LTR with someone of matching rank cc with guys who are 2 points (or more) higher If a woman is a 9, she can find an LTR with a 9. Or she can sleep with a few guys who are 10s (and 10s are pretty rare). A 9 woman will likely choose the LTR. If a woman is a 5, she can find an LTR with a 5. Or she can have one night stands, short relationships with guys who are 7s and 8s. Now this is m… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/08/15 12:29 PM |
| 1 | redpillers: Doesn't the redpill help women improve on their shit testing skills?Not really. There are far more men than women reading TRP. Almost no women consciously think, "My life would be so much better if I just shit tested guys a little harder. But I don't know how to do that. Maybe I'll go on the internet and find out." | /r/PurplePillDebate | 22/08/15 11:48 PM |
| 5 | Why does TRP not make r/K selection theory their core concept?Alphas commit if they want to commit and find someone worthy of commitment. Alphas don't commit if they are being coerced into it. Many betas will. (That said, alpha and beta describe traits and most men have some of each. Some are more alpha and some are more beta, but people are a mixed bag. People shouldn't expect a clear demarcation between alphas and betas. It's a continuum.) | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/08/15 10:50 PM |
| 9 | Why does TRP not make r/K selection theory their core concept?No, that means that if a woman can fuck alphas but only get betas to commit, then she'll fuck alphas in her youth and eventually settle for a beta husband (with whom she'll only have occasional "chore" sex) Obviously if she can fuck an alpha and get the alpha to commit as well, then that's her preferred strategy. So an alpha's dick provides enough value in and of itself. If he can provide too, then all the better. (There may be some cases with male models who are dumb as a sack of hammers or cri… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/08/15 08:44 PM |
| 8 | Why does TRP not make r/K selection theory their core concept?I don't think that's the red pill idea. I think the idea is that women generally want money, safety, protection, emotional support from most men. Sex from some minority of men. Men who use a successful r-strategy will be able to find willing sexual partners even without providing money and safety. But money and safety are still value added to the woman, so the woman will generally accept that if the guy surprises her by offering. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/08/15 08:20 PM |
| 4 | CMV: Being a traditionalist/conservative is the only way of TRP unless you have nihilistic tendencies.Something can be good overall but have negative side effects. Providing a social safety net is a good thing overall, but it can lead some people to make riskier choices. Some people will end up relying on the social safety net even when they had the ability to avoid it. This doesn't mean that the social safety net is a bad idea. Just that there is a tradeoff. Is it better to have 10% of people need financial assistance and go hungry? Or is it better to help those people out by giving 12% of peop… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/08/15 01:06 PM |
| 6 | The Donald: Misogynist, or just an uncouth dick?I'll agree that being an overall asshole is the bigger problem. And when I'm using sexist, I'm mostly just saying that he treats men and women differently. Not that he treats women worse than men. Would women rather be called "dummies" and "pathetic" rather than "slobs" and "fat pigs"? I'm not sure. I'm sure some women might think its worse because then he could be seen as suggesting that women just aren't up to the job of politician or leader. But I do think his insults show that he values wome… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/08/15 09:00 PM |
| 11 | The Donald: Misogynist, or just an uncouth dick?Initially I thought that the sexism charges were bs. Donald Trump seems to insult almost everybody hard, man or woman. He's just a jerk and an asshole who treats everyone badly. My first impulse was that women aren't used to being insulted by politicians/businessmen, so they are misconstruing a lack of benevolent sexism as misogyny. He's a jerk but not necessarily a misogynist jerk. But after reviewing the insults, it's clear that Trump insults men for being stupid, weak, pathetic, etc. And he i… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/08/15 08:14 PM |
| 1 | After being asked whether it's easier for girls to get laid, AskWomen responds "Ugh, it doesn't count as sex if he's an unattractive beta!"It is stacked against you. You have to work for it. But obviously you can do it. Be fit, be fun, be successful, be engaging, be a leader. Some guys that are 6'4 don't have to work for it (much). | /r/TheRedPill | 13/08/15 03:10 PM |
| 1 | After being asked whether it's easier for girls to get laid, AskWomen responds "Ugh, it doesn't count as sex if he's an unattractive beta!"Can't blame the general idea. I don't want to have sex with unattractive women either. The only thing is that if you are a 250 pound woman, it seems unreasonable to only be attracted to 20% of guys. (unless she is counting all guys. If she's counting 18 year olds and 80 year olds, and most of the guys are being disqualified for age differences then fair enough) | /r/TheRedPill | 13/08/15 02:04 PM |
| 2 | Both Pills when do you think TRP is gonna be banned.It won't be banned. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/08/15 01:59 AM |
| 2 | Why are the elite, smartest college students having the least sex?No doubt they have plenty of other important things to do. But I suspect that most of them would spend more time chasing women if they were confident of a payoff in the near-future. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/08/15 09:13 PM |
| 1 | Native American inmates in Alabama lose battle to wear their long hair due to 'security and hygiene reasons' but all female inmates across the USA are allowed long hair. Blatant gender discrimination.Come on now. I suppose you're one of those people that will say, "Feminism just means equality between men and women. Go look it up in the dictionary." The meaning that I'm using (which is widespread IMO) is a policy that has a disproportionately negative impact on a certain race. | /r/MensRights | 08/08/15 03:43 PM |
| 1 | Native American inmates in Alabama lose battle to wear their long hair due to 'security and hygiene reasons' but all female inmates across the USA are allowed long hair. Blatant gender discrimination.Of course it's sexist. But it can be racist and sexist at the same time. | /r/MensRights | 08/08/15 12:07 PM |
| 5 | Sexism isn't us vs themYeah, I dislike this comic. It rightfully points out that men deal with unfair expectations. But it definitely implies that men are only hurt as blowback from anti-woman patriarchy. It completely ignores things that can't be explained by this theory. Why do men get longer criminal sentences for the same crime? (It's not because they are perceived as womanly.) It is suggesting that feminism is the path to gender equality. | /r/MensRights | 08/08/15 02:08 AM |
| 12 | Posted on Ask Men's Rights but it looked a little inactive: How does MRAs feel about the results of this social experiment and ones like it?Yes, this is a problem that should be fixed, assuming it's real. If women are doing the exact same work and getting fewer opportunities, then that is legitimate sexism and should be corrected I will say that this particular experiment is not the final say on the matter. It's possible that Catherine Nichols has a history of sending in bad manuscripts. Or she has a negative online profile. Or George is a preferred name to Catherine (but Georgia is a preferred name to Cathal). Or that this was just… | /r/MensRights | 08/08/15 01:53 AM |
| 0 | Native American inmates in Alabama lose battle to wear their long hair due to 'security and hygiene reasons' but all female inmates across the USA are allowed long hair. Blatant gender discrimination.So if there was a rule that all prisoners were forced to wear bras, eyeshadow and miniskirts that wouldn't be sexist against men? It seems clear to me that men would be much more negatively affected by that rule than women. And it would be sexist against men because of that. If you make the same rule for everybody it's not sexist/racist according to you. | /r/MensRights | 07/08/15 06:46 PM |
| 5 | Red Pill theory cannot be considered to be any more objective or enlightened a social theory than Feminism or Patriarchy since they both work off the same first premise and operative heuristic i.e. Other=Hostile Aggressor with Vested Self-Interest.There have been numerous experiments showing that primates engage in "morality". http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/19/health/chimpanzee-fairness-morality/ http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/chimps_and_bonobos_prove_that_moral_behavior_is_a_product_of_evolution/ | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/08/15 06:33 PM |
| 7 | Native American inmates in Alabama lose battle to wear their long hair due to 'security and hygiene reasons' but all female inmates across the USA are allowed long hair. Blatant gender discrimination.? I was saying that it was a gender issue and a racial issue. Things can be more than one thing at once. | /r/MensRights | 07/08/15 06:25 PM |
| 3 | Native American inmates in Alabama lose battle to wear their long hair due to 'security and hygiene reasons' but all female inmates across the USA are allowed long hair. Blatant gender discrimination.That's the stated rationale but then why are women allowed long hair? | /r/MensRights | 07/08/15 06:13 PM |
| 5 | Native American inmates in Alabama lose battle to wear their long hair due to 'security and hygiene reasons' but all female inmates across the USA are allowed long hair. Blatant gender discrimination.Yeah, it seems obvious to me that you fix this by allowing all men to have long hair if they want. Even if the rationale for getting rid of the rule is for racial or religious minorities. | /r/MensRights | 07/08/15 06:12 PM |
| -5 | Native American inmates in Alabama lose battle to wear their long hair due to 'security and hygiene reasons' but all female inmates across the USA are allowed long hair. Blatant gender discrimination.The reason it is racist is because having long hair is more important to Native Americans than others. That said, I'm not saying that only Native Americans should be allowed long hair. Everyone should if they want. Imagine if the rule was that you must be circumcised. You could say that isn't racist (religionist ?) since it's the same rule for everybody. But it seems obvious that that rule would hardly impact Jewish or Muslim people. And it would have a more severe impact on other people. There … | /r/MensRights | 07/08/15 05:51 PM |
| 6 | Native American inmates in Alabama lose battle to wear their long hair due to 'security and hygiene reasons' but all female inmates across the USA are allowed long hair. Blatant gender discrimination.Well, obviously you allow everyone to have long hair. | /r/MensRights | 07/08/15 05:41 PM |
| 95 | Native American inmates in Alabama lose battle to wear their long hair due to 'security and hygiene reasons' but all female inmates across the USA are allowed long hair. Blatant gender discrimination.Opposition to this will gain a lot more support if it is framed as racism against Native Americans. (It is that.) But it is also anti-male. | /r/MensRights | 07/08/15 02:54 PM |
| 4 | Hilarious and RP Dave Chapelle skit about the differences between Men and WomenNo doubt about it. It's hard to deny what you are attracted to when your dick keeps swelling to women only (or men only). It may not be the only reason, but it's got to be a big one. | /r/TheRedPill | 07/08/15 04:03 AM |
| 14 | Hilarious and RP Dave Chapelle skit about the differences between Men and Womenhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25desire-t.html?pagewanted=all The men, on average, responded genitally in what Chivers terms “category specific” ways. Males who identified themselves as straight swelled while gazing at heterosexual or lesbian sex and while watching the masturbating and exercising women. They were mostly unmoved when the screen displayed only men. Gay males were aroused in the opposite categorical pattern. Any expectation that the animal sex would speak to something p… | /r/TheRedPill | 07/08/15 02:33 AM |
| 0 | Guys, I am really worried we are going to be banned. If we do get banned in the near future, I just want you all to know that it's been awesome discussing these issues with you.The banned subs seem to be mostly about hate and deliberately flaunting that hate. Mensrights isn't about hate. | /r/MensRights | 06/08/15 04:54 AM |
| 1 | The cuckolded New York Magazine man who wants his wife sleeping around in the name of feminism does not existWhen I put my posts that talk about gender equality into it, I am described as likely female. When I put my posts about sports into it I'm likely male. I think the Michael Sonmore piece could have been written by a woman, but I also think a lot of men's rights pieces would be classified as "female writing" by the GenderAnalyzer. They must just look at the frequency of certain words. | /r/MensRights | 25/07/15 08:48 AM |
| 2 | How is dying alone worse than staying with a gender that will resent you by the time you're 30?Most men don't resent being with a woman "past her expiration date". They resent a woman that doesn't think he's worth the time of day prior to the "best before date" and then has a change of heart after her "best before date". I'm sure women could think the same way with a popular high school jock who ends up fat and broke in his late 30s. Maybe the woman would stand by him if he was kind and they got together when he was young and seemed to have his life together. But I suspect most women woul… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/07/15 01:28 AM |
| 6 | An open letter to the guy letting his wife sleep around on him in the name of feminism.Well, I guess one thing is that his wife suggested the idea and had to convince him. "Happily for me, she was willing to talk about it, willing to ask if I’d be open to exploring other options. We opened a bottle of wine and started talking, and talking, and talking. She didn’t present it as an issue of feminism to me, but after much soul-searching about why the idea of my wife having sex with other men bothered me I came to a few conclusions..." Then he says this: "It does work both ways and, y… | /r/MensRights | 23/07/15 08:55 PM |
| 7 | Feminization of the western world; what, why, and how?I suppose in the more distant past that might be true. Or maybe not. There wasn't school, so boys would have probably spent a lot of time learning to do the same work their fathers did. But in the more recent past (50-200 years ago)? Men used to make up a greater percentage of teachers than they do now. more and more children are being raised in single parent families and that's normally with the mom. Divorce wasn't seen as an option. when the world was more rural, fathers would often be working… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/07/15 02:50 AM |
| 3 | Student Expelled for Rape Has Evidence He Was the Victim. Amherst Refuses to Review It.I agree, it was unacceptable. | /r/MensRights | 22/07/15 01:23 AM |
| 15 | Student Expelled for Rape Has Evidence He Was the Victim. Amherst Refuses to Review It.It's much more unlikely that you would be accused. And she'd have a tough time making the accusation stick. But there have been cases where a person has been accused and they didn't even have consensual sex. For example the Duke lacrosse guys were just accused randomly. One of them could have been gay. Here's two examples of a gay man on trial for raping (or attempting to rape) a woman: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/man-cleared-of-sexual-assault-because-he-is-too-gay-9068134.h… | /r/MensRights | 22/07/15 12:07 AM |
| 2 | Question for men: would you rather date a formerly promiscuous woman who makes your heart skip and butterflies flutter in your stomach, or the virgin who you feel nothing for?The promiscuous woman - easily. There's no point being with someone you don't like (for you or the other person) However, the promiscuity negatively affects the likelihood that my "heart would skip". So for this situation to arise, you're probably looking at an 8+ promiscuous women (judged on other factors). And the non-promiscuous woman is probably a 5 or less (judged on other factors). If the women are similar in all ways except promiscuity, there is a good chance that only the non-promiscuous… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/07/15 07:51 PM |
| 5 | Jessica Valenti just can't seem to make up her mind...I don't do it. But I think they range from really offensive, to somewhat nice. And the experience is subjective. Obviously pointing to your crotch and saying "You want some of this, don't you?" is offensive to nearly everyone But if you calmly said, "That is an amazing dress. You look stunning" to a woman walking by - that could be seen as very nice by some women. | /r/MensRights | 20/07/15 09:11 PM |
| 3 | Women are nearly five times more likely to show an automatic preference for their own gender than men.Exactly. Most of their criticisms are ideologically motivated rather than scientifically motivated. If the ev psych conclusions supported feminism they'd have no problem with the field. That said, the nature of the field makes experimentation and hypotheses-testing difficult, and I think researchers are more prone to reaching incorrect conclusions than in harder sciences (or even other fields of psychology). | /r/MensRights | 20/07/15 02:40 PM |
| 7 | Women are nearly five times more likely to show an automatic preference for their own gender than men.Umm, it's not evolutionary psychology. It's social psychology. Secondly, evolutionary psychology has some issues. But not every study produced by evolutionary psychology is garbage. A lot of them have good value. The studies deserve to be evaluated on their individual merits. For the most part, the people who discredit evolutionary psychology are feminists who adhere to a blank slate view of the human mind. | /r/MensRights | 20/07/15 01:52 PM |
| 1 | Post asks women how their SO reacted to their 'high' sexual partner count. The responses are priceless.A good link and I am doubting /u/aguy01 's statement. But that doesn't really contradict him. Men have greater sex drives. But it is still possible that women are more sensitive to testosterone. Maybe guys have 16 times the testosterone but it's only half as effective - so that men have 8 times the sex drive. | /r/TheRedPill | 19/07/15 11:52 PM |
| 3 | 'Minions' Creator on why all Minions are male: “Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn’t imagine Minions being girls".I think this was mostly just an excuse. They designed the minions as somewhat male and they were called out on it by feminists. They wanted to silence the criticisms so they reframed the minions as a negative thing, calling them dumb and stupid. I guess it's a sad statement on what will be considered acceptable in society. But I'm not sure what Pierre Coffin actually thinks about males. | /r/MensRights | 18/07/15 11:14 PM |
| 9 | This is the future you chose male feminists - stay at home dad is cucked and terms it as enlightenment.Roosh's forum thinks the same thing. http://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-49136-page-2.html https://uclassify.com/browse/uclassify/genderanalyzer_v5?input=Text 84% chance female, 16% male. Also "Michael Sonmore" doesn't seem to have published anything else anywhere. I guess he could be just protecting his reputation - but I think there is a decent chance this is fake. | /r/TheRedPill | 18/07/15 02:34 AM |
| 18 | This is the future you chose male feminists - stay at home dad is cucked and terms it as enlightenment.That line makes me think the author is trolling. | /r/TheRedPill | 17/07/15 07:38 PM |
| 2 | This caused a bit of a problem on my Facebook last night.In my experience, women tend to be more affected by a given quantity of alcohol. However, men tend to drink more - thus I don't think it's the norm for the man to be less drunk than the woman. | /r/MensRights | 13/07/15 03:40 PM |
| 0 | This caused a bit of a problem on my Facebook last night.True enough. And then the other person should stop as soon as they receive the message. | /r/MensRights | 13/07/15 03:39 PM |
| 9 | This caused a bit of a problem on my Facebook last night.Obviously that's true. But didn't Josie fuck Jake too? Why is Jake presumed to be able to consent? | /r/MensRights | 13/07/15 03:33 PM |
| 8 | This caused a bit of a problem on my Facebook last night.So why do you think Jake could consent? It sounds like they are equally drunk. To me the implication is that drunk+female = "cannot consent". And drunk+male = "can consent" If the poster means to say that Jake was a little buzzed and Josie was blitzed out of her mind and unaware of what she was doing then a rape charge is appropriate for Jake. | /r/MensRights | 13/07/15 03:32 PM |
| 1 | Can we clarify the "women are eternal teenagers" theory once and for all ?To be fair, the sidebar article states that men don't catch up to women in maturity until the age of 28. So teenager is probably a bit of an oversimplification. I think the theory is somewhat true, but I'm not going to say that it is biological or anything. I think a lot of people are brought up with the idea that in a family, the man takes care of the woman and the woman takes care of the kids. In a childless couple, the man takes care of the woman. If you actually organize your life this way, … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/07/15 04:51 PM |
| 2 | What the idea of rape culture has created. (cross post)Unfortunately it's not as simple as that. Sometimes people can appear to be okay but still end up not remembering anything the next day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_(drug-related_amnesia)#Types_of_blackouts En bloc blackouts are classified by the inability to later recall any memories from the intoxication period, even when prompted. These blackouts are characterized also by the ability to easily recall things that have occurred within the last 2 minutes, yet being unable to recall an… | /r/MensRights | 11/07/15 04:28 PM |
| 5 | Two people are on a date and walking down the street. Person A, feeling romantically and sexually attracted, timidly reaches out to hold B’s hand and feels a thrill as their hands touch. Person B does nothing, but six months later files a criminal complaint. A is guilty of ‘Criminal Sexual Contact’.True, but that just shows that it's a poorly written law. Also, at some point there will be pressure for a prosecutor to bring such charges. After all, the behavior is against the law so it would be easy to complain that the prosecutor is not doing his or her job. | /r/MensRights | 07/07/15 07:18 PM |
| 0 | Is it racist for women to not date Asian/Indian men, and if so, is it racist for so many red pillers to refuse to date Black women?That's been a definition for a very long time. Maybe the problem is you for thinking that all racism is inexcusable. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/07/15 01:46 AM |
| 5 | Is it racist for women to not date Asian/Indian men, and if so, is it racist for so many red pillers to refuse to date Black women?I suppose it depends on the definition of racism that you are using. But I'm using something like "discrimination on the basis of race". Which is what's happening, you are choosing not to date certain people on the basis of race. It doesn't necessarily mean that you are a racial supremacist or you wouldn't hire someone of that race. You are using race as a selection criteria in whom to date. I suppose straight and gay people are being sexist using a similar definition. But again, it's not someth… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/07/15 12:53 AM |
| 1 | Is it racist for women to not date Asian/Indian men, and if so, is it racist for so many red pillers to refuse to date Black women?I agree. You want someone who likes you consciously and subconsciously. Not someone that has remind themselves all the time about why they are with you. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/07/15 12:10 AM |
| 1 | Is it racist for women to not date Asian/Indian men, and if so, is it racist for so many red pillers to refuse to date Black women?I'm a little confused about these comics, but this one strikes me more as someone mocking the red pill. http://redpillcomics.blogspot.ca/2015/06/someones-butthurt.html | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/07/15 12:08 AM |
| 2 | Is it racist for women to not date Asian/Indian men, and if so, is it racist for so many red pillers to refuse to date Black women?It is racist. But it's not something that is worth shaming people about. If you are racist against group X, are you really doing someone from group X a favor by dating them? People want and deserve to be genuinely appreciated. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 07/07/15 12:01 AM |
| 1 | What can American women do that men can't ?Okay, I don't know why we're arguing. Maybe your 14 year old team was better than you are giving it credit for? I'd say that Lloyd is worse than those guys in the Bury vs Morecambe highlights. (Although to be fair those are highlights, so maybe I'm not seeing the worst plays.) 99.99% or more of American men are not at the level of these Bury/Morecambe players. I guess my general point is that these women are better than a huge majority of men. It's true that if they had the exact same ability an… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/07/15 05:35 PM |
| 3 | What can American women do that men can't ?Look, I agree with your overall point, but no need to generalize. Women's teams are decidedly inferior to men's teams. Even still Carli Lloyd is a better soccer player than 99.9% of American men. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/07/15 03:48 PM |
| 6 | What can American women do that men can't ?Don't know the country referred to, but typically women's national teams play scrimmages against boys teams. Not "the local team", but a well-coached rep team. The women will play smarter, more tactically and maybe more technically skilled. But the fastest high school boys cause huge problems for the women and the boys end up winning. http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/uswnt-vs-u-17-usmnt.1939180/ I couldn't find the link but I have read about the women's team playing an U15 regional rep team a… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/07/15 03:43 PM |
| 2 | Why does MRA and Feminism spend so much time attacking each other?There's different meanings of equality. Maybe everyone gets given 10 cattle. Family 1 eats no cattle, and simply lives off the milk and some vegetables they grow on the side. They provide the cattle with hay and protect them from predators. They breed some and they now have 20 cows. Family 2 butchers and eats several of the cows. A couple cattle starve, and a couple others get eaten by wolves. They still have a lot of beef in their freezer, but they have no more cattle. What is equality? Just to… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/07/15 02:50 AM |
| 8 | Australia to give $100,000 to provide shelter for pets of women in domestic violence situations. Men still receive no funding at all for any level of help to escape domestic violence from women. In Australia men are now worth less than dogs.People try to do that but they don't get support. http://womenspost.ca/owner-of-shelter-for-abused-men-and-children-commits-suicide-after-financial-ruin-ridicule/ You need to have people see it as a worthy cause in order to get appropriate funding from individual donors and governments. And honestly, is "do it yourself" an appropriate response to sexism? If women are barred from a certain workplace, should we tell them "Too bad. Go create your own company."? | /r/MensRights | 05/07/15 10:21 PM |
| 9 | Australia to give $100,000 to provide shelter for pets of women in domestic violence situations. Men still receive no funding at all for any level of help to escape domestic violence from women. In Australia men are now worth less than dogs.Fine, be proportional. But don't dismiss stats that show it is roughly 50/50. http://www.menwebjournal.com/ArcherSexDifferencesMeta-AnalyticReviewf2000.pdf http://www.springerpub.com/media/springer-journals/FindingsAt-a-Glance.pdf http://www.vancouversun.com/news/stop+playing+gender+blame+game/7491488/story.html | /r/MensRights | 05/07/15 04:22 PM |
| 10 | Australia to give $100,000 to provide shelter for pets of women in domestic violence situations. Men still receive no funding at all for any level of help to escape domestic violence from women. In Australia men are now worth less than dogs.I don't know how many men have died this year from domestic violence. How many? I don't know what jurisdiction you are talking about and usually mid-year stats are hard to come by. If 5 women are killed, I'd guess 1-3 men have been killed. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2012001/article/11643/tbl/tbl2-7-eng.htm | /r/MensRights | 05/07/15 04:20 PM |
| 5 | Powerful men want to keep domestic violence victims quietUmm, no. Here's the meta-analysis (that is, combining 100s of studies into one pool). It's 50/50 for acts of physical aggression - though injuries are 62/38, with women more likely to be injured. http://www.menwebjournal.com/ArcherSexDifferencesMeta-AnalyticReviewf2000.pdf These findings were mostly confirmed by another meta-analysis in 2012. http://www.springerpub.com/media/springer-journals/FindingsAt-a-Glance.pdf Domestic violence is bad and should be stopped. However, there should be more in… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/07/15 02:23 PM |
| 1 | Lionesses: Our sympathy towards Laura Bassett is sexist. When Gareth Southgate missed a penalty during England’s semi-final match against Germany in Euro 96 he was vilified. There were practically calls for him to be put in the stocks and publicly pelted with rotten tomatoes.I guess Canadians deserve some credit for giving our goat, Lauren Sesselmann, a hard time. Any threats against a man or woman are wrong. But simply pointing out her repeated defensive lapses and stating that she should not have been playing is just simple accountability. | /r/MensRights | 03/07/15 04:34 AM |
| 1 | Canadian Libertarians in Revolt After Party Leadership Suspends Anti-Feminist Candidate Lauren SouthernUnfortunately, message discipline is huge for Canadian parties. MPs are told who to vote for and what to say otherwise you are tossed from the party. I wouldn't think it would be such a big deal to a party that has never come close to having an MP elected though. | /r/MensRights | 03/07/15 04:02 AM |
| 4 | Feminists interrupt a Canadian Associaton For Equality meeting multie times, chanting "we don't care what you have to say" (go to 8:40)I think there's little point to insults. People who disagree with you are not necessarily stupid or evil. I want people to actually listen to MRAs, so we should extend others the same courtesy. Calling someone "retarded" isn't cool. Some feminists do tend to use different shaming language though (eg. misogynist shitlord neckbeard virgin scum) That said, I think some more effective communication could have been used in this thread. There was a missed opportunity here. Both sides agree that the pr… | /r/MensRights | 28/06/15 07:17 PM |
| 14 | Feminists interrupt a Canadian Associaton For Equality meeting multie times, chanting "we don't care what you have to say" (go to 8:40)I'll give you an upvote because you seem to disagree with the protesters' methods. I encourage you to say, "I think MRAs should be allowed to hold meetings and speak" in a feminist space. Report back if you get some widespread agreement. | /r/MensRights | 28/06/15 04:37 PM |
| 1 | What I'd ask feminazis: why does "rape culture" exist only in the Norther America and why it sounds insane in rest of the West?They think that virtually every society in the world and in history is a rape culture. I think we are seen as run-of-the-mill evil, not uniquely evil. | /r/MensRights | 28/06/15 04:34 AM |
| 2 | Both pills: Why do single women overwhelmingly vote Democrat?The educated and the poor tend to vote for Democrats. I suspect that most single women tend to fall into one of those two categories. To a significant extent single men are the same way, but there are more uneducated men making good money through entrepreneurship or risky physical labor. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 27/06/15 06:13 PM |
| 1 | Female prof. calls for inflated course evaluations for female profsOf course. Both types of sexism should be addressed. | /r/MensRights | 26/06/15 02:22 PM |
| 1 | Female prof. calls for inflated course evaluations for female profshttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/12/professors-evaluations-sexism_n_6304880.html They used online classes where true gender could be hidden. One man taught a class as a man and another as a woman. A woman taught a class as a man and another as a woman. Both of the instructors were rated a lot more poorly when they told the class they were women. | /r/MensRights | 26/06/15 02:20 PM |
| 2 | Female prof. calls for inflated course evaluations for female profsSo what? Men in general think DV against women is a bigger deal than DV against men. In general, I'd say that both men and women see women as nicer and more deserving of protection. But both men and women see men as more capable and knowledgeable. | /r/MensRights | 26/06/15 02:14 PM |
| 3 | CMV:Why TBP and TRP cannot understand each other on equal termsNutella fudge ice cream is popular? I've never even heard of it until now (but I'm from Canada). | /r/PurplePillDebate | 21/06/15 02:24 PM |
| 2 | Today I painfully watched a bluepiller become a redpillerWomen are 3 times as likely to attempt suicide, but men are 3 times as likely to actually commit suicide. The guy should be rational and outcome independent. But it's pretty clear he's not and that doesn't mean that his life isn't worth saving. | /r/TheRedPill | 15/06/15 05:36 PM |
| 1 | Why should women get educated at all ?If your only goal is to increase the number of children, then you might be right. If you want to increase the happiness of the citizens, you are pretty wrong. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/06/15 08:40 PM |
| 1 | Red Gene, Blue GeneIsn't red pill more individualistic and blue pill more collectivist? Seems opposite to this map. https://hbdchick.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/individualism-map-2-hajnal-line.jpg | /r/PurplePillDebate | 14/06/15 08:31 PM |
| 2 | Found out a friend is a Red Piller in real lifeFair enough. I respect that you point out that he has some admirable traits and some flaws. Most people are that way. The tough thing in judging him though, is that it's probably hard to know what he would be like without the red pill. I'd guess that most people who look for the red pill aren't completely psychologically healthy. So, despite his current flaws, his pre-RP self could well have been more flawed. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/06/15 06:45 PM |
| 1 | Autism rates are 66% higher among children born to dads over the age of 50 than those in their 20s, 28% higher for dads in their 40s, 18% higher with teen moms, and higher than usual when there were wide gaps (10+ years) between parents. Thoughts?Maybe some fathers have mild autism related traits. And that causes them to figure out dating later in life. And that leads to them having a decent age gap with their wife and kids at an older age. And then they contribute their genes to their kids - and some of them have full blown autism because of those genes - not because of their dad's age. Basically I'm saying that there could be a 3rd variable that causes kids at a later age in life and autism in those kids. EDIT: I see the authors mentio… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 12/06/15 11:34 PM |
| 1 | Feminist activist women are masculinized in terms of digit-ratio and social dominance: a possible explanation for the feminist paradoxFirst off, we create a society where people can be free to choose what roles they want - even if they go against gender norms. That said, it isn't necessarily the case that the collective preferences of men and women are exactly the same. Aside from socialization, it is possible that there is a biological component that leads more men or more women to be interested in certain professions, for example. Back to the study, there was a control sample - the "women in general" groups studied by Troche… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/06/15 05:59 PM |
| 2 | Question for RPers: Why do you put so much emphasis on careers?Usually TRP says that being an entrepreneur is a better option since you are working for yourself. Just skating buy doing interesting work is a good option. But if you are going to be a cubicle drone, then do it right. Be excellent, work hard, get the promotions, become a top exec and shine. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/06/15 03:53 PM |
| 2 | Will Men's Rights Be Next?https://np.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/39bpam/removing_harassing_subreddits/cs25u4n I don't think harassing people is a regular occurrence. I think we can play by the rules. The only time I could see it being an issue is if someone posts a video of an anonymous "Big Red" type. Then people en masse decide to doxx her and send her verbal abuse that can be construed as threats. We should just criticize her ideas rather than harass anyways. | /r/MensRights | 11/06/15 01:20 AM |
| 1 | If men aren't after money why do I get more messages after changing my OKC profile to 100k?Sure. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 09/06/15 09:00 PM |
| 2 | Dating Difficulties for Men Might be related to Breathing Problems. From a little-known 1987 Research Study.Doesn't chronic inflammation mean that you have a continued, overboard immune response? | /r/TheRedPill | 09/06/15 05:39 PM |
| 14 | Dating Difficulties for Men Might be related to Breathing Problems. From a little-known 1987 Research Study.Speculation here, but I think one thing that might be happening is general stress levels. This would cause beta behavior and nose issues. If you are stressed (perhaps because of abusive parents, or maybe bullied by peers), then you might develop nose issues. Your body feels it is under attack and issues an immune response. So your body creates a lot of mucus and you have problems breathing - even if you don't have a cold. Breathing through your mouth is unattractive, so there is a direct causal … | /r/TheRedPill | 09/06/15 03:23 PM |
| 47 | Domestic abuser Hope Solo lies, blames her victims, hides behind Duluth Model tactics, and even male-bashed the police who arrested her.Maybe the OP was referencing the idea that the male is always the aggressor? Anyways, I agree that it is unclear who to believe. I tend to believe the mother and son, since: There are two people with that version versus one. The police and prosecutors largely back up their version of the story. On the other hand, they failed to testify in court - so Solo deserves the benefit of the doubt. (Just as men do when accused of DV). | /r/MensRights | 08/06/15 04:52 PM |
| 3 | Hey guys mens issues are starting to get main stream attentionI liked the article. To me it isn't saying that men are bad or boys are bad. It's saying that men and boys don't get the same comfort and support that women and girls get. There's a lot of MRA talking points in the article: "Men’s willingness to downplay weakness and pain is so great that it has been named as a factor in their shorter lifespan. The 10 years of difference in longevity between men and women turns out to have little to do with genes. Men die early because they do not take care of t… | /r/MensRights | 08/06/15 12:23 PM |
| 2 | On Individual Agency.This seems to contradict the social psychology findings of: fundamental attribution error actor-observer asymmetry Typically people are quite willing to attribute their own behavior to external factors. But when they observe the behavior of others, they underestimate the impact of external factors. eg. If you get into a car accident, you'll tend to think "Oh it's because the other driver was tailgating, or the weather was bad, etc." If someone else gets into a car accident, you'll tend to think … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/06/15 11:36 AM |
| 1 | Are women more capable of giving emotional support than men?I agree that people tend to go to women for emotional support. It may be just a stereotype though, perhaps related to the "women are wonderful" effect. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 08/06/15 02:11 AM |
| 3 | Blue Pill refuses to recognize the monster they created.Well, it's that she actually tried to test it out. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/01/22/books/cover274.jpg I think you'd get a less biased perspective by dressing and acting like the opposite sex for 18 months. Certainly not perfect. But better than not doing anything differently and just imagining what it's like to be the opposite sex. You are bound to be surprised. Vincent certainly was. And you are right that I think everyone tends to be blind to their own privilege. Both men and wo… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/15 07:00 PM |
| 3 | Blue Pill refuses to recognize the monster they created.Decent points. One particular person does not prove that much. You'd want to have several men and women repeat the experiment and compare the group of men to the group of women before coming to any firm conclusions. Still, I think her experiment is slightly more informative than someone making an assertion based on their observations. My belief is that men and women have it about equal. Both genders have advantages and disadvantages. There are plenty of things that are hard to explain if men hav… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/15 06:01 PM |
| 21 | Blue Pill refuses to recognize the monster they created.Exactly. It's been shown that not engaging in benevolent sexism is seen by most people as misogyny. That is, not treating women especially well is seen as hating women. https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/6958/Yeung_Amy.pdf;jsessionid=FB488C1B98BC7A23439F156E7F99D5C1?sequence=1 The funny thing though is that hostile and benevolent sexism work together hand in hand. They reinforce each other. So as long as people insist on maintaining benevolent sexism, it makes it harder to elimi… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/15 05:54 PM |
| 8 | Blue Pill refuses to recognize the monster they created.Yeah, in the early 90s there were debates about "nice guys" on the internet. And ladder theory. http://www.laddertheory.com/ Neil Strauss's "The Game" was published in 2005 and talked about stuff going for several years before that. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/15 04:20 PM |
| 8 | Blue Pill refuses to recognize the monster they created.A good write up, but it's a bit ahistorical to say that you saw this coming in 2010. SJW opinions were pretty mainstream at universities in the 1990s. The manosphere was already quite large in 2010. There were many, many "red pill" blogs that were all linking to each other. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/15 03:53 PM |
| 9 | Blue Pill refuses to recognize the monster they created.I definitely agree that a lot of people on both sides use extreme language. Usually the people who agree with them are people who aren't taking things literally, and just accepting that there exists a trend. The opponents are people who do take things literally. I think there would be a lot more agreement if people just softened their language a bit. (And readers tried to be generous in interpreting their opponents.) | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/15 03:48 PM |
| 5 | What incentive does a woman have to get married in modern society?Who says that a woman has to sacrifice her career? If she doesn't want to, then she shouldn't. And if she does want to, then obviously she prefers working less to making more money. So it's not really a sacrifice - it's a preference or choice. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/15 01:22 AM |
| 6 | What incentive does a woman have to get married in modern society?It doesn't seem to contradict what I was saying. In my example, her standard of living dropped from $75,000 per year to $65,000 per year. So she is worse off. The man's standard of living rose from $75,000 to $85,000. So he is better off. But it's hard to argue that the woman got a bad deal in this example. She's only ever earned $50,000 per year. She had a $75,000 lifestyle during marriage. And a $65,000 lifestyle post-divorce. She had an incentive to marry if all she cared about was money. And… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/15 12:51 AM |
| 0 | What incentive does a woman have to get married in modern society?The reason that women are presumed to have more incentive than men is that: a) Men tend to contribute more income to the family than women. Thus women will usually have a better lifestyle if they are married. This is questionable for men (if you are looking at dollars coming in and flowing out) b) Men seem to age somewhat better than women. The decline is slower. And men's peak is later. So if you lock in at a young age, women can find themselves with an increasingly attractive husband. Even aft… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/15 12:14 AM |
| 7 | What incentive does a woman have to get married in modern society?That's a misleading stat though. If a man earns $100,000 per year and a woman earns $50,000 per year, then you could say they earn $75,000 each during marriage. Now suppose after marriage the man earns $100,000 per year and the woman earns $50,000 per year but the man has to pay $15,000 per year alimony. The man nets $85,000 and the woman nets $65,000. Yes, she is "worse off" than the man after the divorce. But she is better off than she would have been if she never married the guy. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/15 12:07 AM |
| 3 | The idea that 80% of women are only interested in the top 20% of men. What's your opinion of it?I think this is supposed to apply to hooking up in bars. Only 20% of men can go to night clubs and pick up regularly. Another tier of guys can get lucky. Another tier of guys are hopeless. It's partially an artifact of men being much more willing to have one night stands. If four times as many men as women are willing to have a ONS then you'll get something like the 80/20 idea. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/06/15 06:54 PM |
| 1 | The idea that 80% of women are only interested in the top 20% of men. What's your opinion of it?Doesn't necessarily have to add up to 100%. It could be that 70% of women are interested in 40% of men. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 02/06/15 06:51 PM |
| 3 | Recommend this book for inner gameI haven't read it but shame can lead to all sorts of problems. Anxiety, depression, substance abuse, not thinking you deserve a woman in your life, not thinking you deserve good friends, not thinking you deserve a good job, etc. My guess is that if you are objectively good enough "on paper", but low self-esteem is holding you back with seduction, then it should be helpful. | /r/seduction | 01/06/15 08:04 PM |
| 3 | How The Hunting Ground Blurs the TruthThis is a great article by Slate. | /r/MensRights | 01/06/15 04:01 PM |
| 3 | What are your thoughts about the 'casting couch'?I imagine there would be some ambiguous situations too. A woman strongly hints that she'd be willing to have sex with the director. And the man seizes the opportunity. Both of them might be able to tell themselves that it was the other party who initiated. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/06/15 02:49 PM |
| 6 | What are your thoughts about the 'casting couch'?It's like bribery. Wrong to ask for, wrong to offer, wrong to accept. I have no idea what goes on in these meetings, but I'm sure the offers go both directions. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/06/15 02:33 PM |
| 3 | What are your thoughts about the 'casting couch'?He didn't say it very succinctly. But he's reading, "Women whore themselves out for power and money." as "There exists at least one woman who does that." That is certainly true. You seem to be reading it as, "all Women whore themselves out". Which is certainly false. He's saying that "Men flower arrange" is true because he is reading it as "There exists a man who flower arranges." It's certainly false that all men flower arrange. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/06/15 02:30 PM |
| 1 | How does the TRP explain this female-male friendship?Some people have morals about cheating. Some people hate rejection. Anyways, for me the idea isn't that men and women can't be friends. It's just that given the right circumstances the guy will want to have sex with you. I should also add that just because he wants to have sex with you doesn't mean that sex is the only thing he values. Maybe you are smart, funny, have similar interests and always have a good time. That's very valuable. But it would be even more valuable to have all that and sex … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/06/15 02:21 PM |
| 1 | CMV: Slut shaming is done by males who have not had sexual access to promiscuous females in their youth.If that's the way you are defining slut shaming then your comment doesn't make sense: "If I am having wild, kinky sex with a slut, I have no logical reason to shame her for her behavior, because I am getting a huge benefit off of her promiscuity." It could be quite logical for a guy to think that the woman is signaling something negative about herself. Maybe it's a sign that she might have STDs or that she would be willing to cheat on him or that he is vastly more attractive than her and he can … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 28/05/15 03:17 PM |
| 2 | If companies shouldn't hire women because they can get pregnant, and alimony is unfair, how would women support themselves?Yes, that is unfair. But I really think you need to get rid of both hostile and benevolent sexism simultaneously. Because they reinforce each other. eg. Providing alimony to capable women reinforces the notion that women are incapable. And when you teach people to see women as less capable, it makes it harder for women to get the job and salary they want. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 27/05/15 04:22 PM |
| 29 | If companies shouldn't hire women because they can get pregnant, and alimony is unfair, how would women support themselves?I think you are conflating two viewpoints. There is traditionalism and there is equality. Traditionalism says that women should be discriminated against at work, but women should be financially supported (including alimony). Equality says that women should be treated equally in the workplace and shouldn't be financially supported any more than men. I think most people support just one of the two. There may be a few that complain about both alimony and workplace egalitarianism, but the underlying… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 26/05/15 06:17 PM |
| 2 | Do you generally believe that women should be free to make her own choices?I assume that if you are forced to marry a certain person then you miss out on the highs of forming a new romantic relationship. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/05/15 04:50 AM |
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