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| 11 | Average feminist interaction:Actual privilege is always individual and contextual. And, yes, depending on the situation virtually every person has some context within which they will be privileged by some un-earned aspect they have. While that same aspect will be a serious drawback in another context. I'm beginning to think that even aggregating it into surveys and statistics is caustic to many peoples capacity to think and reason around it. It seems like it's just too hard to refactor the aggregate into the contexts where … | /r/MensRights | 21/11/22 07:37 AM |
| 2 | Feminists say that a women's achievements will always be overlooked because women are always sexualized. But David Beckham, footballing/soccer legend always gets sexualized. (I'm not complaining I'm just pointing out a double standard)Meanwhile, all you need as a woman to have your accomplishments totally ignored is to have some accomplishments. ... as demonstrated by what research? Lots of men feel their accomplishments are ignored as well, but such anecdotes don't exactly demonstrate an actual objective reality. The OP points out that humans can be sexualized and objectified without it leading to their accomplishments being ignored (by most people). Beckham is hardly a rare example, there's widespread sexualization of men i… | /r/MensRights | 15/08/17 12:00 PM |
| 1 | In Australia there is no difference between "living together" and "being married"As far as I can recall in the Swedish debate, no, not really. They were enacted to counter what was regarded as economic unfairness at separation, when many couples did not get married, yet essentially lived as married, got children, etc. So, the important thing is to get a prenup either way and decide how to deal with money and property issues should you break apart, while you're still friends... | /r/MensRights | 02/12/16 06:30 AM |
| 4 | Men call Sweden's mansplaining hotline to mansplain why they don't like it!Of course, the definition of 'mansplaining' is someone with less knowledge explaining something to someone with more knowledge. As the reception of the campaign clearly demonstrates that the people behind it have no idea how to run a campaign for equality, they're not actually being 'mansplained' to, they're idiots who are so indoctrinated they can't tell reality and fantasy apart and thus will think the friendly advice is 'mansplaining'. | /r/MensRights | 24/11/16 04:45 PM |
| 5 | If Male Privilege is real, why is the number of M to F trans 4x higher than the number of F to M?I've seen some preliminary steps toward research indicating that there might actually be two independent main variables behind the weirdness of the debate. If you don't specifically study transsexuals, but instead question cis-sexuals, it appears that there's a significant difference in how many experience their own gender identity. Some cis-sexuals feel that they're in the 'correct' body, that it 'fits' them. However, a significant subset also doesn't seem to feel any attachment at all in that … | /r/MensRights | 25/09/16 08:27 PM |
| 9 | Questioning circumcision is common among young Jews in AmericaNot for no reason. I can think of few ways more effective for establishing control over families than having the parents being complicit in mutilating their childs genitals. It creates a huge psychological barrier against questioning their religious leaders, and at the same time, the social pressure against any child feeling violated is enormous; to question their parents on that choice would be prohibitively socially damaging. It's heartening to see Jewish community members question the practic… | /r/MensRights | 31/07/16 08:55 PM |
| 0 | Why does this subreddit appear to agree that "Milo" is an MRA?I have to agree with Lethn here. Much as we would like all non-norm sexualities to be as easy as others, the fact is we're not there yet. Milos comments mostly sound like he has a realistic view of the complications it brings and thinks there's an argument that it would be easier if it were possible to change. To some extent I can even agree; I'd certainly prefer if I could modify who I'm sexually attracted to (preferably pansexual), but shrug. Either way, it's quite a stretch to call him homoph… | /r/MensRights | 24/07/16 03:44 PM |
| 1 | Twitter Permanently Suspends Conservative Writer Milo Yiannopoulos: Why is the twitter safety council such a hotbed of anti-gay bigotry?A full frontal lobotomy? Seriously though, for there to be alternatives, I think there'd have to be a service that has a future. Twitter has lost money since day 1, they seem to be shedding users fast and I'll bet it's going to speed up now. I think the format simply isn't something that will survive; I suspect the problems of global platform reach and the limits on more useful messages means it's bound to end up as nothing but a global shouting match, useful only for creating drama. I can't thi… | /r/MensRights | 20/07/16 06:16 PM |
| 1 | Why was manspreading ever even an issue?If I was conspiratorically minded I'd say it was probably an MRA black flag operation to make feminism look slightly more retarded than it manages on its own. But, more likely, it's just a result of the echo-chamber culture within feminism today basically functioning as an amplifier for cluster B personality disorders, and nobody daring to object. If lack of space on public transport was actually the issue, they'd be campaigning to get more space on public transport. As they're not, and as there… | /r/MensRights | 16/07/16 08:04 PM |
| 1 | A man who has to give police 24 hours notice before having sex is to go on hunger strikeOh, and don't get me wrong, I think it may very well be the rather fucked up interpretations of human rights in some circles that cause the issue, but the very existence of SRO's without due process means that it's a thing the British government and judiciary would like to get away with, and barring the ECHR or other enforcing institutions, probably would get away with. | /r/MensRights | 02/07/16 01:52 PM |
| 1 | A man who has to give police 24 hours notice before having sex is to go on hunger strikeThis, for example: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/25/uk-must-leave-european-convention-on-human-rights-theresa-may-eu-referendum There are many articles similar to that one, and it's usually framed in wanting to avoid being overruled on questions pertaining to the human rights of real asses, but the end goal would seem to be to avoid being held to those standards whether one likes the outcome or not. Hehe, this sketch was somewhat amusing as well ( it seems a bit off at the start, … | /r/MensRights | 02/07/16 01:35 PM |
| 1 | A man who has to give police 24 hours notice before having sex is to go on hunger strikeMaybe you can explain this to me; when I read articles about British law vs human rights, one thing that stands out is that there seem to be a lot of objections within the UK to courts like the ECHR going in and actually enforcing things like due process. I mean, cases like this would be quite typical where it seems to fall afoul of the european convention on human rights, so the specific purpose of the right to self-governance seems to be rather the opposite of what you seem to hope for. Am I m… | /r/MensRights | 02/07/16 12:06 PM |
| 1 | The Drugging of the American BoyI'm not disagreeing that it's being misused, and if a kid is getting medicated just for being outgoing then it's definitely misused. It has a place when someone is actually suffering from the effects, such as trying to get their homework done, but getting angry and frustrated because they just can't do it, or trying to follow in class but just zoning out, time after time. I mean, it's the difference between being a rebel and being a rebel who fails at rebelling because they just can't focus enou… | /r/MensRights | 29/06/16 12:56 PM |
| 1 | The Drugging of the American BoyOn a medication level or on an abuse level? There's a huge difference in dosage, you know. | /r/MensRights | 29/06/16 10:54 AM |
| 4 | The Drugging of the American BoyThat's your prerogative. But the millions for whom stimulants turn a crippling handicap into a manageable condition and allows them to function nearer their actual potential don't agree with you. That said, like any medication it shouldn't be prescribed to people who don't need it, as there could potentially be some effects that haven't been discovered in the 80+ years of use, but compared to the very real risk of failure in school, at work, depression, drug abuse, risky behaviour, etc, it's a m… | /r/MensRights | 28/06/16 07:26 PM |
| 0 | The Drugging of the American BoyMost stimulants are very short acting with normal doses working a few hours, and extended release versions lasting 5-10 hours. So they'll know themselves 'undrugged' most of the day, and many don't medicate during weekends. And stimulants aren't particularly mind altering either. They're a tool that will make it easier for some to retain attention and do the things they have to do, boring or not, but they're simply not something that will change who you are any more than drinking too much coffee… | /r/MensRights | 28/06/16 04:20 PM |
| 1 | Feminist thoughts regarding MRAsTechnically you don't get disenfranchised by not signing up for the selective service. But indirectly, as failing to register is a felony, and many states disenfranchise felons, you can still have your right to vote removed specifically for being male in the US. | /r/MensRights | 27/06/16 11:33 AM |
| 1 | Arresting Violent Women Is WrongOh, I agree. Just pointing out that over the longer term it will also punish the weaker party, as their violence problem guaranteed to get them beat up. So it's both unfair and counter productive. | /r/MensRights | 19/06/16 10:16 PM |
| 2 | Arresting Violent Women Is WrongIt's also utterly idiotic. As most domestic violence is reciprocal, what do they think will happen to this woman if the doesn't figure out that what she's doing is going to get her beaten into a bloody pulp when she lets herself run amok with someone who doesn't call the police? I mean, how far out of control was she if the boyfriend felt he had to call the police to handle her? The vast majority of people would never hit anyone unprovoked. But once it's about self-defense, it's a whole differen… | /r/MensRights | 19/06/16 07:33 PM |
| 1 | 3 positions for women only at Melbourne uniWhat do you mean it's not as prestigious to be a Wofessor from Melbourne U as a professor elsewhere? They worked as hard for their Vagina in Math as anyone with a PhD in math. Well, maybe not at the math part specifically, but do you understand the effort required to get born with a vagina? I can only assume that the failure of the female professors in the article to understand basic statistical distribution in the context of groups with differing variance on specific relevant traits means the a… | /r/MensRights | 20/05/16 09:19 PM |
| 2 | Married geography teacher, 27, SCREAMS as she is jailed for 12 months for having sex with a 16 year old pupil during a six month affair. 12 months is very lenient compared to Adam Johnson's 6 years.I don't think it would have had too much of an adverse affect on me. Probably not, especially as the vast majority of teachers have a sense of ethics and understand the issues, which means they'd take care to minimize the risks. But it's one of those situations where irresponsible behaviors go hand in hand, so the cases with the highest chance of adverse effects are the ones most likely to happen at all. The problem I have with this line of reasoning is that it essentially means that a 16-year-o… | /r/MensRights | 20/05/16 12:37 PM |
| 2 | Married geography teacher, 27, SCREAMS as she is jailed for 12 months for having sex with a 16 year old pupil during a six month affair. 12 months is very lenient compared to Adam Johnson's 6 years.Well, one line in the article, "Parents said Cox was well known for her 'forward' manner with boy pupils.", rather suggests there might very well be other 16-year-olds. But, hey, dailymail. If the article is correct otherwise, I think her behaviour is unethical and systematically so to such an extent that the jail time is certainly reasonable. If she's serially abusing a position of trust and authority, marrying a boyfriend while actually having an affair, and so unable to control herself that s… | /r/MensRights | 20/05/16 08:01 AM |
| 1 | Now legal for single women in Sweden to get government funded insemination. I wish it was a joke.Children need many strong male (and female) role models, one isn't nearly enough. The traditional extended family provided a plethora of role models and social support, but the last century two parent standard is already so defective from that point of view that it sorely needs as many extra (minus one, if you happen to be really lucky) male (and female) role models as the single-parent family. In fact, I think the best 'common' situation today is actually divorced and remarried parents, as thei… | /r/MensRights | 01/04/16 06:28 PM |
| 1 | Now legal for single women in Sweden to get government funded insemination. I wish it was a joke.The child has the right to find out who the donor father is at 18, or at least I haven't seen anything about it working differently with the single women inseminations. Frankly, I don't think it will change much. The option to get artificially inseminated in neighbour countries has already been available, and the option to get someone to do it has always been available. The modern 2 parent family isn't really aimed at producing kids with a wide social support network of relatives anyway, so whil… | /r/MensRights | 01/04/16 08:29 AM |
| 1 | Another UK woman caught pretending to be male to sleep with 12 year old girls. Perhaps we need social campaign to teach women its not OK to rape just because victims gave mistaken consent? Wonder what feminists would make of 'Is this what a rapist looks like?'Here it's illegal to fail to inform a partner about carrying some specific communicable diseases, including several STD's of which HIV is one. There's been some debate around it as some feel it stigmatizes carriers unfairly, and that there's the risk that some may avoid getting tested so they won't be liable. Personally, and that's considering that I've actually had a relationship with someone who had HIV which I went into knowing about it, I disagree with removing the legal information requirem… | /r/MensRights | 25/03/16 12:59 PM |
| 2 | Another UK woman caught pretending to be male to sleep with 12 year old girls. Perhaps we need social campaign to teach women its not OK to rape just because victims gave mistaken consent? Wonder what feminists would make of 'Is this what a rapist looks like?'The only situation I can think of where I would consider mistaken consent to be a credible argument would be if the person convincingly impersonated someone else with whom you had an actual relationship, ie, essentially only something identical twins could engage in. Outside of that, like you say, you consent to what's in front of you. If that's not something you want in itself, then say no until you're sure what you want. And of course, the issue here isn't her lying about her sex, it's about h… | /r/MensRights | 24/03/16 02:30 PM |
| 2 | Feminist "scientist" doesn't understand basic math when it comes to menProbably media spin. The actual reality is that in most economies women don't carry anywhere near their own weight, largely tied to the luxury of choosing jobs they 'enjoy' and working fewer hours, combined with a longer life span. Maybe it's time to start increasing taxes on women until they actually pay their fair share. Or die trying, thus solving the life span issue. | /r/MensRights | 07/03/16 07:49 PM |
| 1 | Lena Dunham: The Expression ‘TMI’ Is Sexist. old but still good. a reminder of the true feminist mentality.The difference between a personality trait and 'crazy' is when it's actively harming you or others or preventing you from making what you want of yourself. Heck, even cutting is a perfectly natural but somewhat maladaptive way to handle anxiety; endorphin release through pain is quite effective, it's just that cutting can cause undesired complications. Maybe your relationship with the girl kept the anxiety at bay for a year, so she could do without it, but either way it's not strange, just that … | /r/MensRights | 03/03/16 09:47 AM |
| 0 | Are we hypocrites if we don't acknowledge and shun the bad parts of our movement?Nah, I think it shows a fairly healthy attitude. Well, apart from the specific source of criticism. However, I think the men's rights movement is fairly good at delineating itself against the various aspects that others try to conflate with it. I think most will argue that men's rights is not red pill is not mgtow, etc. Some will be parts of multiple groups, but there are clear lines between. Compare with feminism that mostly won't even distance itself from psychos like Valerie Solanas, making t… | /r/MensRights | 01/03/16 07:55 AM |
| 3 | Australians are being told that gender inequality is the root cause of domestic violence. But is it?Of course it's not, gender inequality has pretty much nothing to do with the causes of domestic violence. Which is both known from research and easily demonstrated by things like the high levels of domestic violence in same-sex couples. What is somewhat interesting is the fact that feminists are apparently very happy to let men and women continue to get abused by not addressing the actual causes of domestic violence. For example, the high level of reciprocity in domestic violence, the significan… | /r/MensRights | 22/02/16 11:27 AM |
| 1 | Campus zealots hound student out of lectures and bars with shouts of 'rapist' after he dared to question the effectiveness of rape 'consent workshops'.Well, considering that describing an outclassing victory as 'raping the competition' is reasonably common, then the winner in such cases could be described as a "rapist"... arguably, we don't even need to wait a few years... | /r/MensRights | 23/11/15 04:57 PM |
| 6 | Metro journalist reporting on "The Red Pill" documentary thinks /r/theredpill is a "hardcore men’s rights activists" subreddit.TRP makes some decent, if cynical, points, but it has nothing to do with the mens rights movement, and to some extent conflicts with mens rights. MGTOW and TRP may be part of the loosely defined 'manosphere', but that's not the same thing as the MRM. | /r/MensRights | 11/11/15 08:25 AM |
| 2 | Is It OK to Convince Someone They Have Been Raped?No, I don't think it's anywhere near ok, and I think that actively causing psychological damage that way should be strongly discouraged. A closely related issue is false memory syndrome where the only abuse may actually have happened in a therapists office. In those cases, as the entire harm is caused by the person convincing them harm has been caused, I think there should be legal consequences of a level appropriate for such harm. | /r/MensRights | 01/11/15 09:27 AM |
| 3 | UK Google boss: 'Volkswagen scandal wouldn't have happened if more women were in charge'You need the HQ in Ireland to work the double Irish/dutch sandwitch 0-tax dodge that Google and the rest use. The setup is so well known it's even described on wikipedia... | /r/MensRights | 17/10/15 01:05 AM |
| 1 | A guy wanted a paternity test, to be sure. Everybody is telling him he's an assholeIt may very well be that he meant something else, but I looked up the actual post and it explicitly says "She asked me if I was accusing her of cheating. I said yes.". Call it an emotional IQ issue, autism spectrum disorder or a stress induced complex partial seizure, but there are some questions that have a right and a wrong answer depending on what you want the result to be, and if 'staying together' is the desired result on that one, then 'yes' is the wrong answer, no matter what. As you say,… | /r/MensRights | 21/09/15 08:36 AM |
| 1 | A guy wanted a paternity test, to be sure. Everybody is telling him he's an assholeHonestly though, it sounds like he actually came out and did accuse her of infidelity. Which can easily be interpreted as 'I want to break up'. Heck, I'd break up at an accusation like that myself. Asking for a paternity test, even if specifically for your own piece of mind rather than for the rights of the child, can be done by admitting to your own insecurities, the importance of a good start to your relationship with the child, etc. But actually accusing the mother of infidelity is outright s… | /r/MensRights | 20/09/15 12:02 PM |
| 5 | A guy wanted a paternity test, to be sure. Everybody is telling him he's an assholeI'd like to see paternity tests be made mandatory mainly for the kids sake. They should have the right to be aware of their biological heritage, both for medical reasons, and for the future possibility of knowing relatives. When in a relationship where pregnancy could occur, I make it clear that there will be a paternity test, because my trust for the mother should not risk negatively affecting the child. | /r/MensRights | 20/09/15 11:12 AM |
| 2 | A guy wanted a paternity test, to be sure. Everybody is telling him he's an assholeThe government isn't out to get you, but it's often out to get someone. So, what about when someone else commits a crime and leaves your DNA behind? What about when someone out of the several people who will have matching DNA for the specific loci that are tested commits a crime? What about when a crime gets committed where you've left your DNA? Because of the tendency to use DNA dragnets and some prosecutors desire to convict someone rather than the right person, it might not matter that you're… | /r/MensRights | 20/09/15 10:55 AM |
| 11 | Went over to /r/feminism and nearly spit my drink out.I don't quite get how the picture is related to the content in the ad. Was the woman cat-calling the white man? Or was it entirely unrelated? Neither the apparent location nor the involved people seem to be even remotely likely to be part of any demographic that would actually cat-call, but the woman would probably be the most likely to do it. Shouldn't they have a picture with working class people of non-white ethnicity? Or are they avoiding that because it would make them seem like the classis… | /r/MensRights | 17/09/15 10:16 AM |
| 11 | Why is MRA such a bad word for feminists? (shoe-on-head video)It's always great to see brilliant women like this demonstrate that men and women are indeed equally capable, when feminists constantly inundate us with the idea that women are useless whiners who couldn't achieve anything unless they're given a position through a quota... most of us know it's just (some) feminists who are useless whiners, but it's good to be reminded. If more female comedians were like ShoeOnHead there wouldn't be a gender imbalance in comedy. And frankly, I think her youtube p… | /r/MensRights | 17/09/15 08:42 AM |
| 2 | Sexbots: Why Women Should Panic (by Milo Yiannopoulos)Milo is hilariously offensive, and considering he is a gay man, it's of course entirely possible that he's using this marvellous wit for such articles in the hope of sex with men. I mean, seriously... there is a certain uncanny... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAiI9z7X2_c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l0m0NGsw0Y | /r/MensRights | 17/09/15 06:57 AM |
| 6 | Sexbots: Why Women Should Panic (by Milo Yiannopoulos)Oh, I don't think this will be interesting for the majority of men, but it will be interesting for more men than women. As humans are balanced to be about 50/50 in sex distribution, it doesn't take a large shift in partner availability to force a quite massive shift in behaviour related to mate selection. And of course they are self centred and petty. This is about women not wanting to compete with more women for a partner, as that might mean having to grow up and become a somewhat pleasant pers… | /r/MensRights | 17/09/15 06:42 AM |
| 2 | I'm pretty much done with this.Yeah, I think it is a quite large phenomenon. I suspect it has something to do with the difference between male and female in-group social control, where female groups may tend to be slightly more vicious, tolerate less dissent and be more authority(popularity) oriented. This in combination with the higher incidence of cluster B personality disorders (and acceptance of connected behaviour) among females can create a highly toxic environment if things go bad. How it evolves will indeed be interes… | /r/MensRights | 13/09/15 11:14 AM |
| 7 | Watching porn does not cause negative attitudes to women, study finds. "From the University of the bleeding obvious".Ah... does 'actual sex' mean the woman laying back and relaxing while the man gets to be responsible for both getting off? And does 'real woman' mean 'I'm going to let myself go, do nothing to keep your interest and behave like spoiled brat in the rest of the relationship'? Yeah, I think porn is preferable... but actually drawn stick figures would be more interesting than that. | /r/MensRights | 13/09/15 10:39 AM |
| 1 | Watching porn does not cause negative attitudes to women, study finds. "From the University of the bleeding obvious".Are you sure? Many addiction opponents seem to project their personal failures onto others and seem to believe that their experience is universal. | /r/MensRights | 13/09/15 10:34 AM |
| 2 | Better that five innocent students get expelled than one guilty student stay enrolledWell, if 80% of them are innocent, maybe that will change. Sounds like a great thing for actual rapists, they can stop worrying about consequences as they'll just be most likely not guilty in such a situation. | /r/MensRights | 13/09/15 09:17 AM |
| 1 | 10 ways you can tell if you’re a ‘feminazi’1 . Calling a picture stunning is not necessarily a comment on someone's appearance. I could easily call a professional profile picture of a man 'stunning' and refer to the quality of the picture itself and the persons ability to choose a highly appropriate picture for such a situation. Personally, I wouldn't, but that's because I don't give a shit and in my profession looks and professional presentation aren't that important. The fact that she reacts the way she does means she's unemployable in… | /r/MensRights | 12/09/15 04:49 PM |
| 1 | Colorado Rep. Jared Polis needs to resign: he wants to expel innocent students merely accused of sexual assaultIf 80% of the accused are innocent, then why not take online courses and assault anyone when you feel like it? If innocence is no defence, apart from for those of us who are saddled by a conscience and empathy, there's no value in being innocent. This idiot does not understand why it is so important to ensure that the innocent never get punished. That way lies the destruction of the social fabric of society, something legal scholars understood well hundreds of years ago. | /r/MensRights | 12/09/15 04:06 PM |
| 7 | Dem Rep: Expel Accused Students, Even if 80% Are Innocent | MediaiteI don't think he understands why it is important to protect innocence as a defence. To quote John Adams: “It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as tha… | /r/MensRights | 12/09/15 09:59 AM |
| 9 | I'm pretty much done with this.Welcome. I'm a humanist and egalitarian. I don't consider myself a feminist for much of the same reasons that you've noticed, as well as having a serious dislike for sex-negative feminists. Frankly, the way I view feminism these days is that it has a vision that one day all humans are part of the movement to help a clique of popular cis females, and screw anyone else. Pretty much high-school female socialization taken to a world-wide scale. A bunch of groups are going to feel they're getting inc… | /r/MensRights | 11/09/15 12:53 PM |
| 2 | Will you circumcise your son? Why or why not?That's cool. If you're interested in testing the other side of the experience, I suggest you try eating about 150-300mg venlafaxine for a few weeks, then try again. As it's likely to cause significantly reduced genital sensitivity, if it still works, I'd love to hear about any mentality that can overcome genital anaesthesia, and I think a lot of the medical profession would love an easy way to help people with such problems. | /r/MensRights | 10/09/15 09:09 AM |
| -1 | Saw these guys at Dragon*ConThanks for sharing, I really appreciate it. Every experience adds to a much more complete picture. There have been many times that I was not successful at this To be honest, getting a circumcision might not help with that, as the foreskin is rarely where after-dribble is actually coming from. Due to the design of the male urethra there's a significant amount of piping where urine can remain after urination. Things like elastic from briefs pressing against the urethra while emptying can cause it,… | /r/MensRights | 10/09/15 08:24 AM |
| 1 | Help me design condoms to educate young men on the legal risks of sex on campusOh, you're absolutely right that it would be rape, but as you say, it'd be extremely hard to convict and impossible to tell apart from false reports. And basically the only somewhat practical ways to deal with it is to reduce the chances of it happening (such as only having sex with people you know you can trust) and to minimize the damage when it does (such as mainly concentrating on dealing with the trauma when prosecution is futile). Which, unfortunately, the current narrative is very opposed… | /r/MensRights | 09/09/15 03:43 PM |
| 1 | Help me design condoms to educate young men on the legal risks of sex on campusThat makes sense. I just imagine most consent videos are "we're agreeing to have sex," high five, cut -- which doesn't say much either way. Entirely possible, but then a court should treat it as neither more nor less than an indication that fairly 'average' sex was initially consented to. I'm in a committed relationship and have been for a while; so maybe I'm wrong about that. Mmm, I come from the BDSM side of things, so I tend to take consent as a much more complex and detailed thing that shoul… | /r/MensRights | 09/09/15 02:23 PM |
| 3 | Saw these guys at Dragon*ConI've actually looked for people who feel harmed by not being circumcised and they are a very rare breed. And while they do exist, they can get circumcised, easily and cheaply, while someone can't get uncircumcised. So the point stands. It is predictable that there is basically no chance that you'll harm your child by not circumcising them, while there is a not very large but very real real chance you will permanently harm your child by doing it. | /r/MensRights | 09/09/15 12:03 PM |
| -2 | Saw these guys at Dragon*ConWell, there may be several reasons for feeling that way. If you're aware of the background of circumcision in the US, you'll know that a significant part of the reason it became prevalent was to prevent masturbation. Had I been circumcised because my parents let a fundamentalist impose his ideology on my penis I'd be furious. Not due to the circumcision itself, but because of what it represented. Were I circumcised for a religious reason, if my parents were Jewish or sometimes Muslim, and then I… | /r/MensRights | 09/09/15 09:37 AM |
| 4 | Saw these guys at Dragon*ConPretty much what jimmywiddle said. Sensitivity isn't the same for everyone, and while circumcision can improve the situation for someone who is over sensitive, the loss of sensation can ruin someone's sex life completely if they're on the lower side. Being over sensitive can be trivially fixed in a variety of ways, fixing lack of sensation is very difficult. There's no way to determine who is what without them actually engaging in some sexual activity at a grown age. The psychological experience… | /r/MensRights | 09/09/15 09:22 AM |
| 1 | Help me design condoms to educate young men on the legal risks of sex on campusWhile you have a point, as such accusations and trials often come down to credibility and who can present the most likely narrative that fits the circumstances and possible technical evidence, for a reasonable court an initial consent recording is simply a basis that presents an immutable point in the narrative. The consent recording could contain only consent to gentle vanilla sex. In that situation, if she obtains injuries from serious rough play, her narrative would be more credible. Likewise… | /r/MensRights | 09/09/15 07:50 AM |
| 7 | Saw these guys at Dragon*ConIt's those for whom it is a big thing. As you cannot in advance tell who will seriously harmed by it from those who won't and as it's very difficult to undo, the only way to ensure you're not doing serious harm is to leave it up to the individual to choose themselves. | /r/MensRights | 09/09/15 07:28 AM |
| 1 | It's 2015: Who pays on the first date?Oh, I'm not complaining about the outcome. If she'd claimed she was a pro-equality feminist I'd probably point out she seemed to have misspelled 'hypocrite', but as a simple first date it's a win-win. I have no problem with being generous, but I can't stand hypocrisy or entitlement. | /r/MensRights | 08/09/15 05:40 PM |
| 5 | "I am that guy"Or "ihavesomehardcoredaddyissuesandthinkI'mstill8soallmenshouldbemydad". | /r/MensRights | 08/09/15 12:30 PM |
| 2 | Annabel Crabb doesn't "give a toss" about the reasons why women are underrepresented as CEO, just give me quotas!"So there we have it, anti-discrimination laws have never and were never intended to achieve equality, only promote the interests of women. Yep. Of course, the appropriate reaction to quotas implemented for that reason is to change the CEO's role to mainly being responsible for arranging travel, hotels and planning meeting schedules for the executive team. Any modern corporate board also needs to include people to bring coffee, offer shoulder rubs, provide attractive visual backdrops and organize… | /r/MensRights | 08/09/15 10:22 AM |
| 3 | It's 2015: Who pays on the first date?If the woman doesn't offer to pay her half, she's not getting a second date. If there's an income difference and the choice of a somewhat expensive restaurant was up to me, I'll pay anyway, but for a burger joint I'd certainly expect her to pay. I prefer an equal partner, not a spoiled brat with an entitlement complex, and if they can't even do that on a first date then, well, thanks but no thanks. | /r/MensRights | 08/09/15 10:11 AM |
| -2 | Girl pressures boyfriend into commiting suicide, researches methods, and after his death becomes "mental health advocate." Defense attorney argues that dead boyfriend 'brainwashed...an impressionable young girl.'Someone in that state is not thinking rationally. Unless there's an actual ongoing psychosis, a depressed individual can be perfectly rational. Depression may cause specific biases and overemphasis on some perceptions, but that does not preclude rational thinking. She literally pushed her boyfriend to suicide so she could get attention. On the other hand, there's the family, friends and doctors who, over several years of depression, apparently managed to make him feel that this fucked up girl wa… | /r/MensRights | 02/09/15 08:40 AM |
| 4 | Girl pressures boyfriend into commiting suicide, researches methods, and after his death becomes "mental health advocate." Defense attorney argues that dead boyfriend 'brainwashed...an impressionable young girl.'Right, because the problem is obviously people knowing how to kill themselves, not the shit that makes them want to. Of course, it's much easier to get that feel good feeling if you don't actually have to help someone fix their life, isn't it? That approach really makes me wonder if the main purpose of 'suicide prevention' isn't actually mostly about making the preventers feel good. As long as they can tell themselves they stopped it this time, they don't have to look at the long term outcome. A… | /r/MensRights | 02/09/15 08:13 AM |
| 2 | Men still expected to pay for everything while dating.That's the definition of entitlement. Who are you? The Queen? A spoiled brat. most women dating men do want them to pay in the beginning, to set the tone for what’s to come. Oh, that's a bad sign. You have to keep paying. I'm interested in her and she's interested in my wallet... yeah, no, that's not the tone I'm looking for in a relationship. I have no problem being generous to someone I care about and will often treat friends to dinners just for the pleasure of their company. But you're not ge… | /r/MensRights | 01/09/15 09:15 AM |
| 1 | Teen Finally charged with Manslaughter after telling her boyfriend to kill himself.They can, certainly, but are not at fault for not doing so. Exactly. But most medical practices will have policies enforcing reporting of suspicion about suicidal acts, so one cannot trust confidentiality about that. The difference is, the GF promoted and probably suggested the suicide. Maybe. Some of the articles claim she'd been trying to persuade him to seek care or join her at a medical facility previously. It's at least possible that he'd managed convince her that there was no better option… | /r/MensRights | 31/08/15 08:18 AM |
| 7 | Teen Finally charged with Manslaughter after telling her boyfriend to kill himself.Point being, GF had an obvious obligation to bring the suicide revelations to the attention of his parents, a counselor, the police, a suicide hotline, health professional etc etc. And that's why suicidal people feel they can't confide in anyone and are left to decide on their own. Claiming an obligation is a cop-out. Either your loyalty is to the individual first or it isn't; if you're loyal to an individual you can do everything to convince them life is worth living and offer any aid you're ca… | /r/MensRights | 30/08/15 03:13 PM |
| 1 | Ignore Ashley Madison Stats, Women Cheat As Often As MenThe only people the AM data tells us anything about, are the people who signed up for it. While it doesn't tell us anything about infidelity levels, the tilted sign up ratio does tell us something about the gendered psychology of infidelity and there may be an interesting link to the regret asymmetry. And of course it also tells us something important about running an infidelity business; if you want to attract women in a relationship, say it's about something that will let them rationalize thei… | /r/MensRights | 30/08/15 02:08 PM |
| 11 | Teen Finally charged with Manslaughter after telling her boyfriend to kill himself.You don't coax someone into killing themselves. That takes the dedication only a family or large group of people working together can muster. According to several stories it appears the guy had already made a suicide attempt two years ago and had previously been hospitalized for psychiatric problems. That sounds like it's probably been a depression going on for years with basically no end in sight. A more interesting question is why did he feel that his sms-only 'girlfriend' was the only person … | /r/MensRights | 30/08/15 12:44 PM |
| 2 | Is it really so easy to get banned from /r/Feminism?If she seems weird about that just point out to her that her generation raised ours to expect women to be our equals, but seems to have forgotten to raise women to actually live up to our expectations That was a good line. I have nothing against strong women, in fact, I prefer them and often admire them as they usually have to overcome the infantilization and peer pressure from mainstream feminists. But as you note, there's a dearth of actual strong women and a huge glut of whining spoiled brats… | /r/MensRights | 24/08/15 04:32 PM |
| 1 | A vase and two faces - Feminism and the MRM.Yep, while allowing a lesbian abusive partner to walk right in, probably telling the victim that she must be mistaken, only men hit women... While one can understand how the shelter activist mindset came to be, it really should be dealt with as a mass psychosis and they should be kept away from abuse victims as they may damage them further. | /r/MensRights | 24/08/15 03:35 PM |
| 2 | "pedophilia rephrased as a relationship when it involves a female perp" - N.Y. art teacher had relationship with student, 16: copsThat actually varies a lot between jurisdictions and ultimately comes down to practical issues. In those where similar-age is allowed it's usually because it simply doesn't serve any purpose to hold either or both parties as accountable as an adult; the point is accountability for those who should know better, not random criminalization of teenagers doing stupid things together. | /r/MensRights | 23/08/15 03:41 PM |
| 3 | "pedophilia rephrased as a relationship when it involves a female perp" - N.Y. art teacher had relationship with student, 16: copsAs for guys, there is a slim to none chance that any guy who had sex in his teens would grow up later into a self loathing crying ball because the person he had sex with was older. If he gets an STD and ends up spreading it to others? If he ends up paying child support? The reason we have statutory rape laws isn't because such relationships are necessarily abusive, it's because many at that age are not mature enough to weigh possible negative consequences versus immediate gratification and ensur… | /r/MensRights | 23/08/15 10:33 AM |
| 2 | Feminist-leaning Libertarian destroys idea of intersectionality without realizing itIntersectionality was meant to address that - to highlight that there are various forms of disadvantage and if you combine several of them, this sucks for you. Indeed, intersectionality is 1.3% better than completely stupid. And when they add a couple of thousand more axis and realize that relative privileges on every axis vary between every context and every group of people, well, then they'll almost be back at the enlightenment and individualism. Sometimes people need to build knowledge themse… | /r/MensRights | 20/08/15 06:20 PM |
| 2 | Looking for solid IPV research, theoretical or empirical.When debunking the feminist narrative on IPV, I've found that the quickest and most thoroughly damning evidence is to just look at same-sex relationship IPV. There's even been research disproving the "obvious" feminist counter of accusing for example butch lesbians of internalising a violent male role. It's also easy to google and not as damaged by political agenda, so things like http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2013/p0125_NISVS.html will do fine. | /r/MensRights | 18/08/15 07:07 AM |
| 4 | Two Strong INDEPENDENT Feminists DEMAND men Pay for DatesBut we fought against that dark age tradition because feminists found it wrong. Apologies for nitpicking a bit, and I know you probably didn't mean it that way considering to your dark age reference, but you know how we get strawmanned. So lets not imply only feminists found that wrong, that gives them too much credit. Picking and choosing traditions is something that can be done; the really screwed up part is doing it without any consistent moral compass. You have to form a consistent ethical f… | /r/MensRights | 18/08/15 06:47 AM |
| 6 | Australia -- Feminist politicians scream misogyny over claim that women who got into parliament on quotas would not have gotten in otherwise.Is this one of these damn'd if we do damn'd if we don't situations? Not really. The reason it looks that way is because "too few" contains an unspoken assumption that there is a "right amount" of specific genital shapes. Of course, such an assumption also implies that genital shape is the most important qualification, as if competence and ability to represent the voters were the main factors, then there would be no correct amount of women or men. So Barnett is, of course, completely right, some … | /r/MensRights | 18/08/15 06:10 AM |
| 18 | Got into this discussion with a feminist about cuckoldingPaternity tests should be mandatory at birth and part of the childs rights, whether or not any father chooses to accept or refuse responsibility for parenting. Today, knowledge of your DNA heritage can be medically very important, and the child should have the right to know his biological heritage and to opt to contact biological relatives in the future. The widespread nature of the discrepancies in parenthood means that parents unfortunately cannot be trusted to correctly provide this informati… | /r/MensRights | 16/08/15 09:58 PM |
| 5 | "PLEASE teach me more about your borderline personality disorder! I just want to leeeaaarn!"Hmmm, I think you just came up with one thing feminists actually do for men. Independent research seems to be how many men and women become MRA's. | /r/MensRights | 16/08/15 04:16 AM |
| 5 | The Secret Your Son Isn't Telling You About Campus Sexual AssaultA dad sees that girls at his son's school are sending naked or "sexy" pictures on his son's phone. As a 40-something year old male, the dad is shocked Shocked? Off by a few decades, eh? Maybe if the 'sexy' pictures included the son participating in a reenactment of two girls one... (but can't help to feel a tiny bit proud and jealous. After all, in his day porn was hard to come by and it never came from someone you knew!) Proud? Well, maybe proud that he overlooked the sons discovery of the porn… | /r/MensRights | 15/08/15 01:07 PM |
| 1 | I have an opportunity to achieve something on circumcision.This is false. Read my links below. Hmm, which part? I can find refutations of the epidemological effect (sorry if I was unclear about that aspect), but not about the specific per-incidence relative risk (lots of links, so I might miss it :). I'd really love to have some solid data to counter even the personal reduced risk argument when it comes up, besides the need to use a condom anyway. | /r/MensRights | 14/08/15 05:23 AM |
| 3 | Dont marry an antifeministAnyone who knows enough about marriage law to be iffy about marrying a feminist knows enough to understand that it has absolutely nothing to do with anything the woman can say. As long as it's not possible to produce watertight pre-nups there's nothing she can say or do to counter the legal aspects that make marrying anyone a bad idea. However, as DevlishRogue points out, if she at least understands what she wants there's a basis for negotiation. Her requirements are not completely outlandish. C… | /r/MensRights | 13/08/15 06:01 PM |
| 6 | Question about feminists stating that men's issues are caused by men.As far as I can tell, genetic evidence suggests that women have historically been in control of trait selection for reproduction, in periods resulting in discrepancies up above 17-to-1 female-to-male reproductive ratio. Alternative possible explanations for such ratios such as massive cooperation between both men and women to ensure the reproduction of a single male or such a thorough inability to mount organized resistance to a single individual would seem extremely unlikely . So, if we want to… | /r/MensRights | 13/08/15 07:27 AM |
| 10 | Question about feminists stating that men's issues are caused by men.The problem of false perception of domestic violence This is actually a case where it's so bad that serious female problems get caused by feminists. DV issues are most often mutual and have their roots in psychological problems and/or substance abuse which means they fundamentally cannot be resolved without both parties getting help and/or separating. Blaming it on men ensures the cycle cannot be broken. The higher than normal prevalence of DV in lesbian relationships is of course the most obvio… | /r/MensRights | 13/08/15 07:07 AM |
| 3 | California Green Party Promotes “Free Slaps” For ‘Straight White Men’Eh, pain is pain and consensual face slapping can certainly be eroticised as well. I'd would certainly have felt quite compelled to sign up for some... ... just for the opportunity to point out that while I as a white (passably) cis-gendered straight male certainly appreciate that we now get free dominatrix services as well, it could be considered somewhat racist, sexist and anti-lgbtetc to deny the same service to other groups... see if that would get them to put some effort into the slaps. But… | /r/MensRights | 13/08/15 06:36 AM |
| 2 | Assange sex allegations to expireThe core of this case isn't about men's rights Partially it is. The prosecutor who re-instated the charges after they'd been dropped is an extremist feminist and is on record as supporting the arrest and detention without trial of men facing only accusations because it lets the woman 'feel better' if the man faces consequences even if there isn't even enough for a trial. Of course she's pretty much scored a jackpot by having Assange detain himself despite the very dubious nature of the case, so … | /r/MensRights | 12/08/15 05:17 PM |
| 1 | I have an opportunity to achieve something on circumcision.You can't refute that, because it's true. Circumcision reduces the female-to-male transmission rate by about, iirc, 50%, which is nowhere near adequate so you still have to use a condom. It makes no difference if you're wearing a condom, which coincidentally also protects from male-to-female transmission. Combine that with the probable outcome of telling people they're protected when circumcised and you're likely to end up with more transmissions even at a reduced per-intercourse frequency inste… | /r/MensRights | 12/08/15 05:07 PM |
| 3 | Circumcision in America: An Unnecessary NormThere are many who aren't bothered by it or even like it, but unless you can figure out a good way to determine who will be and who won't, or how to cheaply and effectively undo it, it's simply not relevant. The question is how you prevent it from happening to those who will end up harmed and/or feeling violated. I can't see any other alternative than requiring consent at an adult age, just as with any other body modification of largely aesthetic nature. I'd love to hear other ideas, but just po… | /r/MensRights | 12/08/15 07:21 AM |
| 2 | Amnesty International backs decriminalising all sex work in historic voteIndeed. Hooray for Amnesty, standing up to bullies and pressure is tough, but it seems they still have a spine. Time to donate some more. | /r/MensRights | 12/08/15 06:55 AM |
| 2 | Amnesty International backs decriminalising all sex work in historic voteThe point of the Swedish model is to deflect criticism while still getting rid of sex workers. They don't particularly care if they starve or get killed; promoting the idea that "women's bodys can be bought" is ideologically unacceptable to the structure theories of current feminism. There are some fairly obvious parallels to other female bullying patterns; they rarely beat their victims up, preferring to socially isolate, close ranks, turn their back, punish anyone speaking up for the victim, e… | /r/MensRights | 12/08/15 06:52 AM |
| 1 | White feminists get bashed by non-White feminists. Any strategic implications or advantages for MRM?Unfortunately, gender goes before race to a large extent, so SJW's seem to often deflect that with him being a male. Heck, at an anti-racism event here, the SJW's even beat up a romani-jewish reporter who they knew didn't agree with them. But I think it's a good idea to at least point out to men of color that, in the judicial system for example, they are discriminated worse against for being men than they are for their skin color. At the very least, the synergy effect of dealing with both race a… | /r/MensRights | 11/08/15 06:50 AM |
| 2 | The Complaint GapWhat, no, that can't be right, they said they were disliked because they were 'strong independent women'. How are they going to deflect criticism with 'men don't like us and are afraid of us because we're whining spoiled brats'? That doesn't sound as good at all. Well, back to reading articles about how men's violence norms limit womens rights as they are obviously what makes it a bad idea to voluntarily deafen yourself before jogging through a forest. So, yes. Spoiled brats, and it's certainly … | /r/MensRights | 11/08/15 06:31 AM |
| 2 | The Man Who Hates Men: Michael Kimmel starts hate program against men and boys, feminists rejoiceYep. Looks like they spelled 'emasculation studies' wrong. | /r/MensRights | 11/08/15 06:12 AM |
| 3 | Malawi: Circumcision RAISES risk of HIV infectionThe thing is that an increase in hiv infection is not so predictable. If you combine the likelihood that the claims that circumcision will protect will result in a long-term higher rate of sex without condoms (after all, what was the point of the circumcision otherwise? As far as I can tell there's no difference between circ or non-circ once actually using a condom) with the actual limited protection it affords for the male and zero protection it affords the female, I think it's quite easy to pr… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/15 07:41 AM |
| 1 | Man wakes up with someone other than his fiancee, has no memory, heart palpitations, thinks he may have been drugged, and still blames himself. A commenter asks him why he went out drinking alone. (x-post /r/confessions)Oh, it absolutely exists. But the high false positive rate means it's important to consider the alternatives as they may be more relevant. The consequences can be as bad however you got into that state; if you only consider the possibility of having been drugged, you can feel a bit less guilty, but there's not much to do about it and it's unlikely to happen again. But if you drank too much or mixed something you shouldn't have, then it's highly likely to happen again, and if shit happened the fi… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/15 07:30 AM |
| 2 | Is it possible that unsuccessful male suicide attempts are less likely to be reported, just like every other male issue, and that female attempts aren't actually multiple times more common?I think most discussion around the suicide attempt rate acknowledges that those attempts are often not actually someone attempting to kill themselves. Of course, that's also visible in the prevalent idea within the mental health profession that preventing the attempt is important for reducing suicide rates, a prevention strategy that I do see as very female centric and not particularly useful in preventing male suicide as they often actually do want to die and will ensure that outcome. Thus, in … | /r/MensRights | 10/08/15 06:54 AM |
| 1 | Is it possible that unsuccessful male suicide attempts are less likely to be reported, just like every other male issue, and that female attempts aren't actually multiple times more common?I don't think it's a crazy theory, I read a research project around here that actually put it at, IIRC, about 20% highly likely suicides (notes or diagnosed major depression combined with forensics like no break attempts, etc). There's of course another advantage with it as well; it's quite likely that an insurance would pay out to dependents. Still, modern cars make it a bit too uncertain and unless significant care is taken there's a large risk of harming others. Unfortunately it's also one of… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/15 06:12 AM |
| 2 | Is it possible that unsuccessful male suicide attempts are less likely to be reported, just like every other male issue, and that female attempts aren't actually multiple times more common?I think men escalate to those methods. Maybe some do, but personally I've always kept any exit plan 99-100% fatal. And gotten help when it starts looking all too tempting. Might as well try the options until they all stop working. Initially with the same methods women typically use, and then gradually escalating. If you don't mind me asking, why? The uncertain methods can cause a lot of damage as well and leave you much worse off. Is it that you can't quite decide and prefer leaving it to chance… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/15 05:58 AM |
| 15 | New to the sub, question about circumcision.Ultimately it comes down to everyone's right to bodily integrity and autonomy. This is one of the most fundamental human rights, and generally it's considered so absolute that only minor exceptions or emergency measures are tolerated without an individuals consent. So to judge whether the practice is acceptable first requires evaluating if it's minor and transient enough to tolerate. Evaluating that isn't particularly hard; you don't need to go further than google to note that obviously there ar… | /r/MensRights | 09/08/15 04:21 PM |
| 11 | Malawi: Circumcision RAISES risk of HIV infectionNo shit. Of all the things that will end up looking like neo-colonial abhorrent human rights violations, the circumcision campaigns and entirely predictable HIV transmission increase has to be the worst. The worst part is it's never been about HIV in Africa, it's just been a stray thread of US and EU politics surrounding circumcision. And pressuring people to get genitally mutilated by letting them believe it will let them sleep around without using condoms, just so you can deflect criticism aga… | /r/MensRights | 08/08/15 01:16 PM |
| 5 | Man wakes up with someone other than his fiancee, has no memory, heart palpitations, thinks he may have been drugged, and still blames himself. A commenter asks him why he went out drinking alone. (x-post /r/confessions)I suspect he's saying that as most antidepressants and many other psychoactive medications can easily cause the exact same anterograde amnesia in combination with alcohol as 'date rape drugs' it's highly likely that the vast majority of people who think they've been fed drugs have simply done it to themselves. Even alcohol itself can do it and it can be hard to tell an alcohol blackout from a alcohol+hypnotic blackout. I've done all of them to myself inadvertently, and frankly, apart from the ee… | /r/MensRights | 07/08/15 06:53 PM |
| 3 | Feminism isn't the problem, it's a symptom of a wider disease. Can you accept it?Well, long text. I think you get your thoughts across fairly well (although I do not agree with some of them and certainly not with the viewpoint of where your text makes me think you're coming from), but if you want some constructive criticism and it's something you want to improve to have more of an impact... Improve the language. Things like calling a newspaper a rag merely projects an image of an angry man. Rewrite the segment on Islam. Parts of it has nothing to do with moral relativism. Co… | /r/MensRights | 07/08/15 07:12 AM |
| 2 | "Free slaps for straight white men"Hmm, signed consent required, check, that's scene negotiation. Now watch how I use my cis-het white male patriarchal membership to turn your slap into my own sexual pleasure. You just can't win, can you? I really wasn't buying in to this whole cis-het white male privilege thing, but if things like free dominatrix services catering exclusively to us start popping up, then I might have to concede to a certain level of privilege. It's all in the mind... | /r/MensRights | 07/08/15 06:28 AM |
| 1 | Frankfurt airport opens women only parking.Just trying to explain why you'll actually have more people thinking it's sexist to say 'men have better depth perception' than 'men can't get pregnant'. (I'm absolutely not accusing you of being sexist, just so you know :) It's a tricky language problem because we tend to use words like 'men' interchangeably for both 'men as a group' and 'all individual men'. It's also very hard to guess what the author meant. It's perfectly fine to say that, statistically, a group can be better or worse at som… | /r/MensRights | 02/08/15 10:55 AM |
| 1 | Mens Rights are a turn off to women according to this "expert".Heh, I actually had that same question when the idea popped into my head. Apparently there are urinals you can get for ordinary homes, from some weird add-ons to the toilet to something more like just another piece of bathroom equipment. | /r/MensRights | 02/08/15 10:04 AM |
| 1 | Frankfurt airport opens women only parking.Especially one well lit up so they can carefully pick and choose victims and not run the risk of attacking someone who might look like they could defend themselves. At least in dark basements you only need to worry about Jame Gumb. | /r/MensRights | 01/08/15 05:45 PM |
| 1 | Frankfurt airport opens women only parking.Unless there's some good research showing that all men have better depth perception than all women, and that all women have better color perception than all men, then yes, actually claiming that gender is a valid determinant for judging an individuals capacity on those traits would be more sexist. Well, unless there's other research showing that the capacity to get pregnant is variable trait with a wide range and women as a group are just better at it on average, but some men are really good at … | /r/MensRights | 01/08/15 05:38 PM |
| 1 | Frankfurt airport opens women only parking.Variance in trait distribution between groups is not the same as 'facts' about members of those groups. As the group 'women' contain both individuals who are better and those who are worse than the average man at navigating cars, dedicating such parking spaces to 'women' as a group means that you're dedicating them also to individuals who are better than the average man at parking while not allowing men who are worse than the average woman to park there. If you want to dedicate parking spaces to… | /r/MensRights | 01/08/15 05:10 PM |
| 5 | Mens Rights are a turn off to women according to this "expert".10 Touching yourself in public Some expectations on people not fondling their genitals when handling other peoples food or in situations where they can be expected to shake hands are entirely reasonable. If you find your partners placement of his or her hands disturbing in private, either give him or her a better place to put them, or ensure the place where you don't want them placed is occupied. It's your partner, not your aunt visiting for tea. 9 Being completely incapable of empathizing Yes, … | /r/MensRights | 01/08/15 04:46 PM |
| 1 | Laci Green's BS, Improved With PicturesIndeed. While I have some respect for the sex positive aspects of Laci Green, objectification of women (and men) as 'sex objects' is outright benign compared to the massive and largely uncontested objectification of men as disposable meat-shields and provider-units. When was the last time someone looked at a uniformed parade and thought 'well, that guy over there looks like an interesting person that I'd like to know'. To most people they're barely human, they're a weapon, a utility for society … | /r/MensRights | 01/08/15 03:42 PM |
| 2 | Sex Workers From Around the World Tell Lena Dunham to Mind Her Own BusinessI truly hope Amnesty International is strong enough to stand their ground and defend the human rights of sex workers. The local division in Sweden caved to the sex(and sex-worker)-hating feminists, and voted to oppose the international position of Amnesty. A huge disappointment as I've always held Amnesty in a high regard, but obviously sometimes they do cave to political pressure and throw human rights under the bus. | /r/MensRights | 01/08/15 03:30 PM |
| 2 | My wife says she's afraid to walk to her car.ROTFL with tears in my eyes, thanks for that video, I don't think I've laughed that hard in a decade. I really needed that. | /r/MensRights | 01/08/15 10:57 AM |
| 2 | Are there double standards between the genders when it comes to body measurements? Female profiles included such blunt phrases as "don't bother messaging" or "don't expect a reply if you're under 6ft". Imagine the chauvinist-branding backlash phrases such as "no fat-arses", "the thinner the better".The Swedish sex work law is implemented by criminalizing purchasing of sex, largely driven by the rhetoric that men need to learn that you can't buy women's bodies. Technically it's not gendered, but in the 15 years it's been in existence, as far as I'm aware, there hasn't been a single arrest of someone buying sex from a male (and research has shown that male sex workers are fairly common). So one can draw conclusions from that... The proponents do not acknowledge the differences between differ… | /r/MensRights | 30/07/15 07:44 AM |
| 1 | Are there double standards between the genders when it comes to body measurements? Female profiles included such blunt phrases as "don't bother messaging" or "don't expect a reply if you're under 6ft". Imagine the chauvinist-branding backlash phrases such as "no fat-arses", "the thinner the better".You'd better start working harder on converting your fellow feminists then, the current trend certainly seems to move towards eradicating sex workers. In some places, being pro-sex work is no longer acceptable at all within feminist circles. The Swedish, feminist driven, anti-sex work law was instrumental in finally putting me in opposition to feminism as it is completely at odds with individual liberty and in my opinion utterly anti-humanistic, driven by a willingness to sacrifice women they do… | /r/MensRights | 28/07/15 08:12 AM |
| 7 | Why are people against MRA's?Mostly smear campaigns, usually from feminists. They like to conflate pua, red-pill, mgtow and men's rights, even though none of those groups have much to do with each other and are often at odds on many topics. Feminist tolerance for men and women discussing men's rights and roles in society is strictly limited to those who conform to feminist narrative. This is probably exacerbated by gender related traits with regards to in-group bias and group dynamics, where there's a stronger tendency in f… | /r/MensRights | 28/07/15 07:31 AM |
| 7 | "New "Male Privilege Tax" Supported by Feminists Who Want Men's Income Taxed More Than Women's!!!"Yes, there's a better case to make for increasing taxes for women as they're not quite paying their fair share. Until they actually take responsibility for their gender and work longer hours, take more dangerous and uncomfortable jobs and have the decency to die a few years earlier so they don't cost as much in retirement and health care, it would be more reasonable to raise taxes for women until they pay as much as they cost. Then again, basing taxation on traits like gender and race isn't some… | /r/MensRights | 28/07/15 06:14 AM |
| 5 | Can someone explain why this sub is obsessed with women?Like it or not, but feminism has made itself a large part of the narrative around all those issues today. Unfortunately, the fact that many variants of feminism, unlike men's rights, take a very dim view of disagreement means that pretty much any questioning of the sanctioned tribal narrative will result in ejection of the violator and sometimes that results in people moving over to the men's rights side if they want to continue discussing those issues at all. Even ignoring all the other reasons… | /r/MensRights | 26/07/15 01:20 PM |
| 3 | The cuckolded New York Magazine man who wants his wife sleeping around in the name of feminism does not existYeah, I'm inclined to agree as well. I don't think I've ever heard of a man who would consider female fidelity 'boring and lame'. I don't think even cuckold fetishists would describe it that way. Uninterested in doing anything but missionary style? That could be categorized as 'boring and lame'. Women finding the sexual conquests of the alpha to be sexually arousing though... yes, the projection is shining through clearly. That, and the gender studies language. Of course, the whole concept in th… | /r/MensRights | 24/07/15 09:55 PM |
| 2 | Feminist Author Demands that Men Pay Her for Being Their FriendBecause healthy friendships don't need to be monetized. They are an exchange of value in such a way that two people get an EQUAL amount of emotional stimulation from one another. Exactly. Part of the social rules around friendship, at least as I regard them, include not accepting more help and support than you're willing and/or capable of reciprocating without objecting. If and when close friends give me more than that, they basically have to force it on me, in which case the friend implicitly c… | /r/MensRights | 24/07/15 09:29 AM |
| 2 | Feminist Author Demands that Men Pay Her for Being Their FriendThere's a Danish feminist ex-prostitute that often figures in sex-work debates, describing how she despised every customer and hated talking to them, how there was never anything but lies. I find it somewhat ironic that she got an education and changed fields to become a therapist. Going from faking the physical parts of relationships for money to faking the emotional parts of relationships for money. I'm looking forward to her memoirs from that; I expect them to be a similar tirade about how sh… | /r/MensRights | 24/07/15 08:55 AM |
| 1 | Semen has controlling power over female genes and behaviourBut this explains so many things. For example, first we have Jessica Valenti complaining about catcalling. Then she's spotted bathing in 'male tears', celebrating their soothing effects. And now she's complaining about not getting enough catcalling. Obviously, this proves the brilliance of the Patriarchy, where millions of years of the Patriarchal selective breeding program has produced bodily fluids capable of reinforcing the Structures of society, turning the triumphant celebratory drink into … | /r/MensRights | 24/07/15 08:19 AM |
| 1 | Student Expelled for Rape Has Evidence He Was the Victim. Amherst Refuses to Review It.Because it's not drunk=no consent, it's incapacitated=no consent. If you get into a car and drive you're probably not incapacitated. If you were incapacitated and actually managed to get a car started, you'd probably swerve into the nearest ditch or building. But either way, you have a responsibility as a driver to prevent yourself from getting into that situation beforehand. Legally you can give meaningful consent even if you're blackout drunk; even if your short-term to long-term memory encodi… | /r/MensRights | 23/07/15 10:38 AM |
| 1 | Student Expelled for Rape Has Evidence He Was the Victim. Amherst Refuses to Review It.She's obviously an idiot. The answer to that one is simple. Nothing. Nothing would happen, as two incapacitated students are incapacitated. They cannot engage in sex; they are incapacitated. Passed out, puking their brains out, barely able to navigate to a bed or remove their clothes. They could neither move a finger to their nose, nor navigate genitals to any appropriate position. They should really be under care of someone as they are incapable of taking care of themselves at that point. If yo… | /r/MensRights | 23/07/15 10:13 AM |
| 2 | Student Expelled for Rape Has Evidence He Was the Victim. Amherst Refuses to Review It.Date rape convictions can happen on essentially just the finger pointing. Physical evidence is essentially useless in such cases; you can prove there was sex, which can count against the credibility of the accused if he or she claims there wasn't, but doesn't say anything about what actually happened. Bruises and tears, you'd have to be pretty excessive to get any difference between minor injuries in 'normal' sex vs rape. So it often comes down to he-says-she-says, and the attempts of the judici… | /r/MensRights | 23/07/15 09:56 AM |
| 2 | Student Expelled for Rape Has Evidence He Was the Victim. Amherst Refuses to Review It.Blackout drunk is not the same as incapacitated. Blackout drunk means you're suffering from anterograde amnesia, but the failure to transcode short-term memory to long-term memory does not necessarily mean you're unable to give meaningful consent or take decisions that you can be held responsible for. You'll just not remember doing it. So two blackout drunk persons can engage in sex and it can be consensual or it can be rape by either party, but barring actual evidence it will be hard to say wha… | /r/MensRights | 23/07/15 09:30 AM |
| 2 | My extremely liberal female coworker says you can't be sexist towards menExactly. The flaw with the "can't be sexist/racist without power" argument is the failure to understand the ephemeral nature of power. It shifts with every context, with locations, with groups of people, it even shifts with moods. Whether you have traits in common with any arbitrary group with more or less power will vary if you're at a political meeting, at work, in various areas of a city, and with that you're doing. Trying to excuse racism in some circumstances by attempting to tie it to powe… | /r/MensRights | 22/07/15 08:16 AM |
| 6 | Jessica Valenti just can't seem to make up her mind...Well, just wait 'til she finds out that it's actually because all mens monthly newsletter "Proverbs of the Patriarchy" had a picture of her beside "Don't stick your dick in crazy.". Well, that and the whole "male tears" thing she did herself. Bukkake seems to appeal to a somewhat more limited group. | /r/MensRights | 20/07/15 06:52 PM |
| 5 | How to respond to this trap: You do support feminism, don't you?That's why I skip the -ism altogether. "I support equality." is enough. Preceded by a "No, " if I want to have an argument. | /r/MensRights | 20/07/15 08:56 AM |
| 0 | Feminist outrage over new phone app which allows users to video their date agreeing to sex to protect them against rape claimsI think you have an overly hopeful view of what is regarded as proof in a rape trial. Once sexual activity has been proven, the rest can come down to completely unsupported claims. The prosecution doesn't have to prove that the alleged victim actually said 'no'. If the alleged victim is credible, it's enough that they claim they did. If you can't come up with an at least somewhat equivalent credible counter narrative, the default presumption of innocence won't be enough to win. The second articl… | /r/MensRights | 15/07/15 11:11 PM |
| 0 | Feminist outrage over new phone app which allows users to video their date agreeing to sex to protect them against rape claimsIt doesn't shift the burden of proof because the due process concerns are already there in word against word cases. Whether you have affirmative consent or not you can expect to have to account for your version of events to counter the alleged victims narrative. Technical evidence is still usually required either way to prove your presence and to some extent activities, but once it's been proven that there was sex the protections of burden of proof aren't quite as reliable. | /r/MensRights | 15/07/15 08:04 AM |
| 0 | Feminist outrage over new phone app which allows users to video their date agreeing to sex to protect them against rape claimsAffirmative, ongoing consent reverses the burden of proof and due process and requires men to read minds in order not to rape. Not in itself. Which of course makes your argument even stronger. Affirmative consent does nothing to deal with intentional rape as in a word-against-word scenario it merely means an actual rapist has to describe why the victim was consenting rather than why the victim wasn't objecting. It's not a significant difference. It doesn't in itself shift the burden of proof, it… | /r/MensRights | 14/07/15 09:32 AM |
| 1 | Feminist outrage over new phone app which allows users to video their date agreeing to sex to protect them against rape claimsAnyone can revoke consent/object at any time, with or without mandatory consent laws. But the legal system can deal with grey areas, so, legally, you'd still need to understand that the situation has changed to be liable which would mean there's some leeway for communication to happen. | /r/MensRights | 14/07/15 08:52 AM |
| 2 | Feminist outrage over new phone app which allows users to video their date agreeing to sex to protect them against rape claimsLiterally wveryone, including feminists, think it's ridiculous to withdraw consent AFTER the fact. And literally everyone, including mra's, thinks that consent should be an ongoing process while having sex and would never, ever, continue with something that someone doesn't want. Which means that for the vast majority of men, the only way that they'd ever be accused of rape would be due to post-fact withdrawal of consent, ie, false accusation or possibly some horrific miscommunication. That is wh… | /r/MensRights | 14/07/15 08:33 AM |
| 1 | This caused a bit of a problem on my Facebook last night.Yes, in most places bars should be cutting someone off long before they run any risk of getting into 'incapacitated' territory, which basically means that anyone who can legally get served alcohol in a bar is deemed capable of consent by someone who should have both training and significant experience. Driving while intoxicated is of course illegal with even minor amounts of alcohol due to the rapidly declining capacity to drive safely with alcohol in the body. | /r/MensRights | 14/07/15 08:03 AM |
| 1 | This caused a bit of a problem on my Facebook last night.Can you provide an example of any place where drunk sex is legally rape? The reason we don't see this double standard pop up a lot in legal cases is because 'drunk' isn't the issue, 'incapacitated' is. And if you put two incapacitated persons in bed you're not going to end up with mutual rape, you're going to end up with two incapacitated persons lying there and maybe waking up to puke, hopefully not drowning themselves in the process. An incapacitated person simply isn't going to rape anyone, t… | /r/MensRights | 14/07/15 07:43 AM |
| 8 | got divorced two years ago, yesterday I heard from my ex-wifeI've seen it work a few times, but only with couples far into alternative lifestyles. Basically, I think it requires that you've separated sex from the loyalty and other trust aspects already so it doesn't challenge the relationship itself. Something that isn't that easy to do unless what you call sex is already not quite what's socially regarded as part of a relationship. But it certainly isn't going to work out for the average bored housewife who just wants to sleep around. | /r/MensRights | 14/07/15 07:14 AM |
| 7 | 'Yes Means Yes' Supporters Want Students Signing Sex ContractsIt's almost comical how some hold it up as a magical bullet for shifting burden of proof so the accuser doesn't have to prove anything. In reality it merely shifts the narrative from: I didn't want anal. She certainly didn't say no, if you know what I mean. To: I didn't want anal. As I lightly touched her hips, she moaned in pleasure, arched her back, and softly whispered 'yes, fuck me in the but'. A little more explicit descriptions from the accused may be required, and maybe good lawyers will … | /r/MensRights | 07/07/15 09:50 AM |
| 3 | I was raped, and my girlfriend doesn't believe me.I'm sorry and that really sucks. Your gf should certainly support you when you've been taken advantage of like that. Unfortunately, the story you paint is all too common, and nothing would come from it legally either. Alcohol induced amnesia isn't enough to reliably prove incapacitation and thus rape (for example, if you could be held responsible for peeing in the hallway, you could have made meaningful consent, unlike if you were passed out in the hallway and peed in a puddle around you, in whi… | /r/MensRights | 07/07/15 09:06 AM |
| 1 | Estimated 6 Million Readers Affected as Reddit Moderators Revolt Against Corrupt ManagementWhich is exactly what her behaviour on reddit disproves. That she manages to incite unprecedented conflict within such a short time is ample evidence that the trial was entirely fair and that Pao entering a room will basically make people want to leave. | /r/MensRights | 05/07/15 10:35 AM |
| 3 | Women never have bad attitudes. Men are just weak!Handling a strong woman isn't a problem as a strong woman needs no special handling. Unfortunately, they're fairly rare and seem to be getting rarer. So the more common and pertinent question is 'how does one handle a spoiled brat?' . And the best advice to that is 'stay far away'. | /r/MensRights | 04/07/15 03:37 PM |
| 12 | Estimated 6 Million Readers Affected as Reddit Moderators Revolt Against Corrupt ManagementThere is some relevance if you consider the Kleiner Perkins sexual discrimination lawsuit. Part of Pao's allegations there were failure of collegiality by partners resulting in her exclusion from meetings and social events and part of the defence was that it was not because she's a woman, but that she's an incompetent narcissist who doesn't get invited to parties because she makes other people want to leave. I think she's doing an excellent job at highlighting the difference between actual discr… | /r/MensRights | 04/07/15 03:21 PM |
| 4 | Sweden announces first centre for raped men as part of a strategy to ensure "gender equal" emergency care for rape victims of both sexes. In 2014, some 370 cases of sexual assault on men or boys were reported across Sweden, although experts believe that the actual figure is much higher.RFSU (which is a sexual education organization) has been one of the strongest critics of the extremist expressions of some of the feminists. They've been opposing the politicized sex work laws as well. | /r/MensRights | 18/06/15 06:29 AM |
| 1 | Matt Haig 'crucified' on Twitter for planning book about masculinityOf the top four selling authors of all time, three are women. Well, yes, but they're not writing 3rd wave feminist literature. In fact, I don't seem to see any writer with feminist literature as main genre on the list. So obviously they don't count. But maybe if Kamila and her friends pick up a few clues from Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins about what actually sells they'll get published more... | /r/MensRights | 16/06/15 07:23 AM |
| 1 | Matt Haig 'crucified' on Twitter for planning book about masculinityI have never seen a feminist perspective on gender roles hold female adults (or minors) as being equally responsible for the enforcement of gender roles, or defining masculinity in a way that would be harmful to men and boys. And that's really the root of the problem. Female group dynamics are much more aimed at maintaining group coherency, making them a stronger contender for being the main force behind the enforcement of gender roles. Even the reactions among 'feminists' to the MRAs shows a st… | /r/MensRights | 16/06/15 07:05 AM |
| 25 | Tim Hunt: ‘I’ve been hung out to dry. They haven’t even bothered to ask for my side of affairs’No shit. I actually read a serious article asking why men didn't find it offensive to be reduced to their sex drives by comments like those Hunt made. Well, how about, most men aren't hypersensitive cunts who feel we have to regard anything said by anyone as a potential personal affront. I used to feel that having more women in my profession would be a good thing and I certainly have no fear of strong capable women. But the available material today seems to be whining spoiled brats and I'm not c… | /r/MensRights | 15/06/15 07:07 AM |
| 15 | CAFE has been banned from all future Toronto Pride events.I wonder how long it will take them before they realize that gay men are men and ask to have them excluded because they make some women uncomfortable. Well, LBTTIQQ2SA at least cuts the acronym down a bit. And TT should expect to be on the chopping block as well; either identifying as, or having been a man, can obviously be threatening. And better get rid of the B and probably the 2S, they are after all, sleeping with the enemy. I doubt there will be any allies left by then, but at least LIQQ is… | /r/MensRights | 11/06/15 07:29 AM |
| 2 | The Week has featured an article on the Men's Rights Movement. Thoughts?had no links to the MRM. Well, to be fair, the article goes on to mention RooshV who also has nothing to do with the MRM, so at least it's consistent. Consistent but wrong. You're presuming that it's a field that shouldn't be ignored post-criticism Actually, intersectionality is the one hope I have for reformation in that camp. The natural evolution of intersectionality is adding dimensions and situational factors until you reach a few trillion possible combinations. At that point, they might ge… | /r/MensRights | 08/06/15 07:16 AM |
| 1 | Why ARE so many women teachers seducing boy pupils? All child abuse has to be viewed in the same way and treated as a crime even if it’s committed by a pretty 24-year-old female teacher.There are basically two issues here, the double standard and the abuse of trust and power. For the double standard it basically comes down to the fact that we don't consider minors capable of giving meaningful consent. That they may actually want the interaction simply isn't relevant; it's considered more important that they may not be ready for the responsibility or consequences (stds, pregnancies, etc). In this, there's no difference between boys or girls; the 'lucky dude' may or may not be mo… | /r/MensRights | 05/06/15 09:18 AM |
| 5 | Return of conscription in Lithuania sparks debate over gender roles. “The Lithuanian head of parliament, Loreta Graužinienė, said that ‘women have to tend to the family and make babies, while men go to the army’ and probably die.I do know that sometimes it is needed. Needed to protect those who are in power over you. Who just decided to make you expendable slave labour. Hard to tell who the enemy is at that point really. But I agree, either conscript everyone, or serving should be a requirement to be allowed to even vote for anyone involved in military decisions. | /r/MensRights | 05/06/15 07:36 AM |
| 3 | Got this from my uni; when you see it...I'm sorry, but I don't quite see how this can be construed as transphobic, but I would be pleased to get a decent explanation on why it could be. Personally I have genitals of a specific shape that cause others to identify me as 'male'. I can't really deny their assessment of the shape of my genitals, so I will usually just tick 'male' on most forms simply because I don't particularly consider it a defining trait of 'me'. The times I won't are usually when I consider the classification completel… | /r/MensRights | 03/06/15 08:23 AM |
| 2 | [Serious] Some genuine questionsThere are 'white patriarchal ideals that spill over into the justice system". Feminism exists to combat those patriarchal ideals and ensure women get the same equality as men. Feminism is working to massively increase the incarceration rate of women? Do they have specific plans, like reaching equality in the justice system by mandatory maximum sentencing of females, or is it more to educate the judicial system about female accountability and responsibility to attempt to reach equality as a longe… | /r/MensRights | 28/05/15 08:08 AM |
| 3 | Punched in the face for cultural appropriationThere are situations when calling the cops is appropriate, but by doing that you're escalating a situation by involving a party that has the power to take actions that will permanently alter the course of your life with no guarantee that it will be in the direction that you find preferable. In a situation such as this, it would probably only have been some wasted time, but then again... do you feel lucky? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlY9C6pzxKc | /r/MensRights | 26/05/15 07:13 AM |
| 7 | Mom Who Took Son Into Hiding To Save His Foreskin Sobs In Court As She Signs Consent For CircumcisionUnless there's a medical issue it's not a medical decision. There are no medical benefits to circumcision that cannot be obtained through other means or that will become relevant until the child can make the decision for himself. And frankly, tattooing a dick on a kids forehead is probably at least as effective in preventing them from getting HIV... | /r/MensRights | 26/05/15 06:30 AM |
| 0 | Finland still not conscripting females. Ridiculous? Yes.So they'd rather rely on the fellow male soldier there against his will, who's thinking that maybe if he put a bullet in you rather than drag you out of the fire he can sneak off and nobody would be the wiser? Mmm, think I'd rather put my hope in the tiny woman who wouldn't have any doubt on where her loyalties lie. | /r/MensRights | 25/05/15 07:09 AM |
| 1 | Suicide Rate Higher for Men Worldwide. See a problem yet people?The only reason I broached feminism at all was to note that this problem/trend predates modern popular feminist thought . Indeed. But the current trend in feminism certainly isn't improving the situation. If you believe that last paragraph then I don't think you're super useful voice in suicide prevention. That's perfectly fine. I'd rather work on reducing the reasons people no longer want to live than preventing them from ending it when they can't take it any more. I've also known enough suicid… | /r/MensRights | 24/05/15 11:01 PM |
| 1 | Suicide Rate Higher for Men Worldwide. See a problem yet people?While it has little to do with equality style feminism, modern misandric feminism isn't really doing much to help with regarding men as disposable and telling them to shut the fuck up about their problems. I frankly don't see it as in any way odd that many men aren't particularly vocal about their suffering; in fact, it's quite likely the most rational option as there are fewer upsides and most likely more significant downsides for men to be open about it. To gain from being open about it requir… | /r/MensRights | 24/05/15 06:06 PM |
| 1 | Mom agrees to son’s circumcision after years-long fight waged with the boy's father, including her kidnapping her sonI don't think it's so much taking responsibility for things we're not partaking it, but taking it or assigning it collectively as part of an arbitrary group that can do neither more nor less than anyone outside the group to affect the actions of specific individuals. What collective responsibility we have is as humans and as voters; there is no law or irrefutable ethical justification for men specifically to take any action they deem necessary to protect the bodily integrity of another man. We c… | /r/MensRights | 23/05/15 02:09 PM |
| 1 | Women engage in indirect aggression and slut-shaming, even in clinical research studies.I know. It needs to be pointed out that their argument is wrong and that children in fact suffer from not having access to or even knowledge about the existence of their biological relatives, and that they may suffer actual physical harm from having an incomplete medical history. Split families on the other hand is nothing rare nor inherently bad; at best it even gives children more parental figures and a wider family support network more similar to the traditional extended family that we've liv… | /r/MensRights | 21/05/15 07:30 AM |
| 1 | Women engage in indirect aggression and slut-shaming, even in clinical research studies.That is really something that should be fought over 'for the children'. Children should have the absolute right to know (or know that they don't know) their genetic origin in order to deal with possible inheritable medical issues as well as possible. They should also have an absolute right to choose to have or not to have some form of a relationship with their biological relatives. Protecting a womans right to have sex with other people without talking to their partner about it or experiencing c… | /r/MensRights | 20/05/15 08:32 AM |
| 2 | Women engage in indirect aggression and slut-shaming, even in clinical research studies.If we were that much in control of what we find physically attractive I think I'd rather be looking at the possibilities of being physically attracted to men in long term mates. That may be a grass-is-always-greener issue though... But hey, at least it works the other way around as I'm finding myself less and less attracted to women at all; physical attraction only works up to the point where someone opens their mouth and turn out to be a spoiled brat with an entitlement complex. | /r/MensRights | 20/05/15 08:11 AM |
| 5 | So it begins... the mainstream media has set its sights on the MRM over the Mad Max "controversy" in an attempt to paint MRAs as anti-egalitarian homophobesQuite an interesting situation isn't it? Claim Valerie Solanas was a feminist, and most feminists will go ho-hum, 'but she was justified'. Few will condemn her as a headcase and say she's isn't a feminist and has nothing to do with feminism. Yet they will object when the movement is judged for including people like her as great thinkers. Claim ROK or Elliot Rogers are MRA and you cannot find a comment field that doesn't point out they're not MRA, they don't claim they are MRA and their ideas hav… | /r/MensRights | 19/05/15 06:49 AM |
| 2 | Anti-circumcision activists wearing bloodstained outfits protest in Ann ArborI think the discussions will be fairly painful. Maybe an intermediate step could be taken where parents and people involved in the circumcision are simply made liable for any costs for reconstruction and any other issues, so it was ultimately left up to the child when he grows up. That should at least re-frame the decision for parents and point out the fundamental issue; the child might actually grow up considering this abuse and a violation of their body so should we do it? But the fact is, thi… | /r/MensRights | 18/05/15 08:07 AM |
| 3 | Anti-circumcision activists wearing bloodstained outfits protest in Ann ArborIt's not that easy to find good information about it (for obvious reasons, bias may be an issue from both sides), but if you look around at brit milah and priah you'll find some sources, I found some when reading up on the Jewish anti-circumcision movement. I suspect you'd actually have to know Hebrew and read up on and understand the various religious texts to make a thorough and consistent religious argument for a reinterpretation. Unfortunately the nature of the issue will of course tend to m… | /r/MensRights | 18/05/15 07:46 AM |
| 3 | Anti-circumcision activists wearing bloodstained outfits protest in Ann ArborDon't be so harsh on the illiterate proto-Hebrew savages, from what I've seen their version was significantly less harmful than the more deliberately irreversible versions that the literate full-Hebrew religious leaders instituted when foreskin restoration became popular during some historical times. As far as I can tell there is no actual specification in the covenant on exactly how significant cut must be made; if the desire was there it would be easy to reinterpret so a minor nick would satis… | /r/MensRights | 18/05/15 07:06 AM |
| 8 | Feminist writer says it's equality to treat male and female prisoners differently, and all female prisoners should get community service. For a major newspaper, idea backed by justice ministerI don't know. I'm center-left on economic issues but far into the libertarian side on freedom, and I find myself considering voting for authoritarian right-wing parties. Not because I agree with them, but frankly I'm despairing. Maybe we need another collective lesson in totalitarianism to rearrange the political landscape again. | /r/MensRights | 18/05/15 06:48 AM |
| 1 | Police shockingly admit helping rape "victims" cover up holes in their story, while claiming false allegations are "not uncommon".At least in the UK the actual victim of a false accusation can fund a private prosecution as in the case with Eleanor de Freitas. I doubt that's going to last though. | /r/MensRights | 16/05/15 04:17 PM |
| 0 | "I can't be racist because I'm an ethnic minority woman"Reverse racism and reverse sexism would be privilege based on race or sex. And I've seen some credible arguments that puts the existence of such privileges into doubt, so she could have a point. Maybe not the one she wants to have though... | /r/MensRights | 13/05/15 06:32 AM |
| 2 | Suzanne Venker: "Why men won't marry you."There's even an instructional film! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxuUkYiaUc8 | /r/MensRights | 11/05/15 06:53 AM |
| 1 | Suzanne Venker: "Why men won't marry you."You know that a marriage license isn’t worth the paper that it’s printed on. I think that one is a huge part of it; the only reasons I hear for marrying are specific legal effects in some jurisdictions (for example tax breaks, inheritance). Commitment doesn't even come up because nobody considers marriage a long-term commitment, which makes it essentially meaningless while at the same time causing significant problems by forcing interactions between two people who no longer wish to interact when… | /r/MensRights | 11/05/15 06:45 AM |
| 2 | 7 more legal rights women have that men don’tCapable, trained soldiers in significant numbers are hardly disposable. Indeed. But a significant number of men are not either what could realistically be called 'capable' when faced with a professional army. A woman as capable in combat as men on average Average is irrelevant. As capable as the least capable man conscripted is what matters. How many women like this would you estimate there to be, able and fitting for active military duty If we start using somewhat more relevant criteria like ab… | /r/MensRights | 04/05/15 05:57 PM |
| 4 | 7 more legal rights women have that men don’tConscription is the only feasible way to ensure our defense capabilities. Well, conscription or nuclear arms. I'd put more trust in French nukes than conscripts against a significant, experienced and motivated threat. Every healthy woman capable of carrying a child deceased in the field of battle is exactly 1 family unit lost completely. And everyone not, an incubator for an invader population... Ultimately, the lack of any obligation for a female to carry a child just because she's not conscrip… | /r/MensRights | 03/05/15 10:58 PM |
| 6 | Circumcision versus ear piercingsIf society cared about men in the same way it does about women, you'd see in depth tragic stories about men affected by circumcisions every day in newspapers and on talk shows and consensus to ban it would be built in a matter of months and accompanied by an executive order to prevent it until the law could be adjusted. But male victims don't make good news, so we can go on making more of them... | /r/MensRights | 28/04/15 06:44 AM |
| 3 | There should be a modernized version of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" called "The Girl Who Cried Rape"It's not statements like this that makes people doubt any and all possible victims, it's the constant push to reduce evidence standards, the constant push to devalue the concept and the complete lack of (negative) consequences for false accusations that does that. Do note that in countries such as Sweden and Britain that have run reporting encouraging campaigns, there have been massive increases in reporting, with Sweden now having the highest rape prevalence in the world, but unaccompanied by r… | /r/MensRights | 28/04/15 06:31 AM |
| 7 | Men should start a campaign to end the working hours gap between men and women: "End working hours inequality!"It's not tax penalties, it's just that part of the leave is personal so you can't sign it over to the other parent. Personally I'd like to see a complete use-it-or-lose-it policy where none of it can be given away. Benefits usually can't be, and I see no compelling reasons why parental leave should be that different. | /r/MensRights | 27/04/15 06:39 AM |
| 5 | Male student now sues Columbia University over classmate who carried a mattress around campus and accused him of raping herIn these kinds of cases, it's simply a matter of motive and cost-benefit analysis. Accusing someone, falsely or not, carries close to no risk, it will get you social status within some circles, it can be used to get fame and now you can even get course credits for it. Rape or murder? A bit more likely to carry penalties, it's certainly not going to get you status, and you're not going to see a rapist carrying around a mattress for class. Ultimately, the fact that there are so many incentives are… | /r/MensRights | 24/04/15 07:28 AM |
| 2 | Please support this new feminist hashtag campaign, because there should be equality in every area of the society.I have a problem with the idea of equality of results but I have an even bigger problem with having the standard of equality of results only when it serves a specific agenda. Either we're aiming for equality of rights and responsibility, or we're aiming for equality of results across the field. If we we have gender quotas for corporate boards, then we should have gender quotas for prison. If we regard it as a problem that women don't make as much money and need higher salaries, then it's a probl… | /r/MensRights | 22/04/15 06:57 AM |
| 2 | Attractive young woman offers free sex to 100 men - 70% refused.You know, you don't actually have to be married to do that. Making shit up to avoid getting scammed is perfectly socially acceptable. | /r/MensRights | 21/04/15 06:25 AM |
| 2 | Are we (r/MensRights) deteriorating to feminist standards?In particular, I notice an increasing lack of nuance and of any acknowledgement that any sort of middle ground exists at all. But does it? When arguing with someone on a factual basis, it's certainly possible to find middle grounds in managing problems. But when you're arguing with a postmodernist you're arguing the nature of reality and whether or not it's their or your subjective perception of reality that is the absolute truth. It's not what is the truth, it's what they feel is the truth that… | /r/MensRights | 15/04/15 07:05 AM |
| 2 | Can a woman be a feminist and still expect a man to pay for a first date? Answer: Of course she can. Women are entitled to have a man "cough up for a couple’s first excursion, whether it costs him $50 or $500"Heh, yes, in Sweden one could always say 'sorry, you'll have to pay for your part of the dinner, it's illegal for me to pay for sex... but good news, it's never been enforced against a woman so you can pay for mine!' Well, it's not like a date where money becomes an issue is going anywhere anyway. | /r/MensRights | 14/04/15 06:29 AM |
| 2 | Can a woman be a feminist and still expect a man to pay for a first date? Answer: Of course she can. Women are entitled to have a man "cough up for a couple’s first excursion, whether it costs him $50 or $500"I might very well pay for a date if I were asking someone out. However, if they want to start off the relationship by establishing close relations with my wallet by regarding that as an obligation, well, then that relationship is going to come to a dead stop about there. Some women may think that paying the way for an entitled brat makes someone a keeper. Now, what makes that brat a keeper...? | /r/MensRights | 13/04/15 06:51 AM |
| 1 | Can a man stand up for women’s rights?Where in the west would that be? In western europe politics have traditionally been much more concentrated on class and political philosophy of the parties than on ethnicity, colour or sex. The idea that someone represents you better just because they happen to be superficially similar to you seems to be new. Personally I don't care if someone's a purple triple-breasted transsexual from Antarctica; as long as they have similar ideas and opinions to me, they're going to do a much better job repre… | /r/MensRights | 09/04/15 06:32 PM |
| 5 | Male student elected as women's officer at University of Tasmania resigns following public backlashIndeed. He listened to Watson and got the opportunity to experience the more accurate description of reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwhI7qdrsaA&t=0m36s | /r/MensRights | 09/04/15 06:35 AM |
| 1 | Why has everyone forgotten about male suffrage? While the story of female suffrage is taught at school from a young age, few people today know the long and gruesome history of how men won the right to vote in the UK.Indeed. In Sweden, women got the unqualified right to vote first, in 1921, while men were still required to have completed military service. In 1922, the last sex related inequalities with regards to voting were removed. The period when a majority of men (80%+) actually did have a right to vote while women could not was limited to between 1909 and 1921 and was qualified with having done military service. Before that, only a minority had any right to vote at all, and that was largely tied to land… | /r/MensRights | 03/04/15 11:45 AM |
| 1 | Today's installment of BBC agenda driven anti-male porn hysteria: more of the "porn watching means more raped women" trope, and an exciting new installment of "all underage sex is evil and means the boy was really raping the girl". Plus some new fear mongering shitscience from an advocacy group!Which has nothing to do with whether or not it's normal sex or the way sex should be but with coercion and them lacking confidence and being unable to clearly articulate and discuss their desires and limits. Coerced sex is a violation no matter whether it's vanilla or anal or erotic suspension from hooks. There's a lot of valid criticism against porn, but it's not that there's too much of it or it's too weird. The biggest one in my opinion is that the actual reality around any sex acts isn't dep… | /r/MensRights | 02/04/15 06:35 AM |
| 4 | Today's installment of BBC agenda driven anti-male porn hysteria: more of the "porn watching means more raped women" trope, and an exciting new installment of "all underage sex is evil and means the boy was really raping the girl". Plus some new fear mongering shitscience from an advocacy group!That is not normal sex, but the difference is that it's not unreasonable for an impressionable kid to see that and accept that as what sex should be. Judging what is 'normal' sex is not yours or anyone else's place. As long as everyone involved is getting what they want from it and fully capable of consenting to exactly what they do, they are doing exactly what sex 'should be'. Fun, pleasurable (in their minds) and an exploration of experiences and intimacy. If watching porn beyond vanilla makes… | /r/MensRights | 01/04/15 06:08 AM |
| 2 | Feminist is on the receiving end of the victimry treatment and doesn't like it.Yeah, the difference seems to be that some don't realize that pretty much everyone is winging it. I don't know if it's always been that way, if it's different in some fields, or if everything is simply changing so fast by now that if you ever stay still long enough to get comfortable with truly being an expert at something and knowing all about what you do, then you've probably stagnated and should have moved on and expanded long ago. Or worse, you may only be feeling comfortable because you kno… | /r/MensRights | 01/04/15 05:37 AM |
| 0 | Most blatant anti-male wikipedia lie yet?Rape is an intensely traumatic experience that you don't just forget. Ah, you're thinking about rape-rape. This is the NISVS study, which is about quote-rape-quote, determined by questions such as: How many people have you had vaginal, oral, or anal sex with after they pressured you by wearing you down by repeatedly asking for sex, or showing they were unhappy? When you were drunk, high, drugged, or passed out and unable to consent, how many people ever had vaginal sex with you? (Note the use of… | /r/MensRights | 28/03/15 08:44 AM |
| 1 | Man almost dies due to a womans crazy assumptions. Another side to the date rape by drugging/spiking hysteria that really needs education and discussion.The reason it's highly likely that most 'I got roofied' incidents are self-inflicted is that there are many very common medications that can cause anterograde amnesia when combined with alcohol. Or even alcohol alone. Many standard anti-depressants can cause it, and doctors are rarely particularly helpful with warnings or even know that much about the issues. A blanket don't-drink-with-that (or at all) seems to be standard, which isn't useful as many patients wont care about such blanket stateme… | /r/MensRights | 12/03/15 07:17 AM |
| 2 | Am I crazy for finding this disturbing?While I consider MGM an abhorrent practice that should be banned and a blatant violation of an individuals right to bodily integrity, I think it's better to keep the arguments entirely factual to avoid getting discredited. Arguing that there's zero proof on transmission reduction isn't a good idea as there's convincing proof that circumcision reduces the per-exposure chance of contracting HIV. However, the reduction is irrelevant as it's equivalent with playing Russian roulette with one bullet i… | /r/MensRights | 11/03/15 07:29 AM |
| 2 | "Women are alone because no one else is good enough."The good thing with this is that she's not ruining someone else's life (and her own) by attempting relationships that are doomed from the start. So, fair enough, I can respect that. It's not a gender issue, it's the same for anyone. With the shifts in values and technical advances, the cost of not having a relationship is lower than ever before, while being in one often becomes both an emotional and economic drain for at least one if not both of the participants. So, lets not. Human procreation … | /r/MensRights | 10/03/15 07:28 AM |
| 2 | Boys are being outclassed by girls at both school and university, and the gap is wideningI think it would also help if the boys were presented with a convincing argument on what they will gain from the education. As the article states, a lot of them seem to think it's a waste of time, which the article claims is irrational as there are no jobs for the uneducated any more. Except you don't have to look very hard to find a lot of material indicating that there won't be any jobs for the educated either, which I would guess a lot of those boys figure out. If you have a somewhat supporte… | /r/MensRights | 06/03/15 07:24 AM |
| 2 | Finnish right wing party women want "men tax"The difference in life span between men and women, combined with choices in employment already means that there's a huge wealth transfer between men and women in many tax systems. If there's an argument to be made for gender-based tax-discrimination it's that unless women get off their asses, start working full time and take well paid but dangerous and uncomfortable jobs so they actually pay for their own costs, taxes should be collectively raised for women until the gender can self-finance. | /r/MensRights | 06/03/15 06:47 AM |
| 1 | Yale student: Forcing the accused to prove consent in rape cases does not violate his due process rightsConsidering that Swedish law recently acquitted the defendant in a case where everyone agreed that the accuser was clearly objecting, I doubt Valenti actually wants to hold up Swedish law as a good example (the court ruled that as even the accuser admitted to being uncertain that the defendant actually understood that the objections were not part of an act, there was no intent). More likely she wants to use suggestions from random Swedish activists as good examples. Which of course makes little … | /r/MensRights | 05/03/15 07:33 AM |
| 1 | A list of Male Privileges that will blow your mind.His. You mean his. As it sounds like he's completely clueless I'd class him as the 'trying to get laid' type rather than the 'I'm an asshole and I want to blame my shitty behaviour on being male rather than the fact that I'm an asshole'. The assholes usually have some connection to their own lived reality, but this is just so stupid that you cannot actually be male and believe even minor parts of this, which places him in the 'trying to get some bedroom privilege' category. | /r/MensRights | 03/03/15 07:45 PM |
| 1 | Does the MRM need to be "intersectional?" (discussion in /r/FeMRADebates)Intersectionality is essentially the recognition that many factors affect an individual in many different circumstances. Take that train of thought a bit further and you start looking for general theories that can apply across all intersections. And then you've caught up to the Age of Enlightenment, individualism and humanism. While I think that intersectional feminism and evolution of the 'patriarchy' ideas into 'kyriarchy' should be encouraged, the fact is that any attempt to quantify specific… | /r/MensRights | 24/02/15 07:56 AM |
| 1 | Men jailed for rape of woman who admitted to being so drunk she did not know whether she had consented to sexMost people who 'pass out' drunk don't usually 'pass out', they fall asleep and were, until the point of falling asleep, not necessarily incapacitated. Being drunk and tired doesn't mean you're incapable of consenting (or not consenting). Being incapacitated to the point where you cannot take care of yourself does. A large part of those who actually do pass out from alcohol intoxication have friends or someone else who takes responsibility for them, and helps them avoid drowning in vomit or simi… | /r/MensRights | 16/02/15 07:45 AM |
| 29 | Men jailed for rape of woman who admitted to being so drunk she did not know whether she had consented to sexIf she is so drunk that she could not remember (aka blacked out), then that is rape. The situation for that is a bit trickier these days really. A lot of the psychoactive medications (benzo's, other hypnotics like ambien, various antidepressants) that are handed out like candy these days can cause anterograde amnesia particularly when combined with even very small amounts of alcohol. But the fact that someone isn't actually encoding short-term to long-term memory isn't immediately obvious, nor w… | /r/MensRights | 14/02/15 02:42 PM |
| 13 | Men jailed for rape of woman who admitted to being so drunk she did not know whether she had consented to sexIt's not really that hard to figure out where the 'incapable' line goes. If someone is drunk enough that you should be getting them medical attention if you cannot take personal responsibility for their health, or if the police would take them into custody for sobering up, then they're not capable of consenting. If consent is given while you're legally able to give consent, should it really immediately stop once you go over the limit? In that situation? Yes, I think it should. As the limit here … | /r/MensRights | 14/02/15 02:25 PM |
| 0 | Sorority sisters at Univ. of Virginia now realize the 'war on rape' treats women like children -- they were the last to learn itRecognition of these facts of course also makes it much easier to find solutions, particularly as we have contemporary societies to which we can look. For example, some middle eastern countries seem to have found a brilliant solution to the whole female objectification issue not to mention the horrifying cat-call epidemic. If burqa was made the golden standard of female clothing we'd see a massive reduction in these problems. Well, except perhaps for those screwed up burqa fetishists, but they'r… | /r/MensRights | 03/02/15 07:13 AM |
| 4 | Sorority sisters at Univ. of Virginia now realize the 'war on rape' treats women like children -- they were the last to learn itBut that's only valid if you do not believe in empathy and compassion. Some people may 'deserve' quite bad treatment, and 'an eye for an eye' can fall within the concept of 'extremely just'. So personally, I would consider being 'extremely just' to be a vice. Justice needs to be tempered by compassion, recognition of human fallibility and channelled into productive reformation and reparation. | /r/MensRights | 03/02/15 06:45 AM |
| 1 | Feminist explains why porn ban is necessary: "A recent German study found a clear negative correlation between consumption of Internet pornography and marriage rates among young men!!!"Indeed. I think there's a reasonable case to be made for desensitization to long term sexual stimuli in general, but more likely the biggest culprit in that is monogamous relationships themselves. Many couples simply get bored with each other unless they engage in continuous renewal of their sex life. I haven't seen any compelling evidence that would place pornography in its own special category of effects on libido or the dopamine system compared to any other sexual activity. The fairly recent … | /r/MensRights | 02/02/15 08:16 PM |
| 10 | Because only males hit their spousesTo be fair, it doesn't actually say to tell the kid not to hit women. There are a few productive things that could be said that could help Jimmy; first and foremost, "don't stick your dick in crazy". Considering that most domestic abuse is reciprocal, simply ensuring those people don't get together in the first place would be the optimal solution to reducing domestic violence. Of course, as Jimmy is also more likely than July to be a victim of non-reciprocal domestic abuse, that would also leave… | /r/MensRights | 02/02/15 06:22 AM |
| 9 | Because only males hit their spousesYou know, the ad depicted in this post appears to be sponsored by some fairly mainstream organizations. Hardly fringe extremists, well, except if you call nearly all feminism today fringe extremists (which I'd admit you'd have a case for). | /r/MensRights | 02/02/15 05:58 AM |
| 4 | Feminist explains why porn ban is necessary: "A recent German study found a clear negative correlation between consumption of Internet pornography and marriage rates among young men!!!"Has anybody else noticed that anti-porn attitudes have been increasing among feminists? General sex-negative views appear to be increasing. Whether it's actual sex-negativism growing or simply the moralists and sex-haters latching on to and getting emboldened by the rape hysteria and/or random fantasies in the social 'sciences' is hard to say. Excessive porn viewing, especially extreme stuff, can cause sexual dysfunction. Any reliable sources on that? As far as I can tell, most such claims end u… | /r/MensRights | 02/02/15 05:36 AM |
| 7 | Feminist explains why porn ban is necessary: "A recent German study found a clear negative correlation between consumption of Internet pornography and marriage rates among young men!!!"So? Genetic immortality isn't any more compelling than the fantasy immortality of religion. When you're dead, you're fucking dead. To the human race it doesn't matter at all; biologically we're very well set up to managing with a single male impregnating multiple females, in fact, the depth at which male disposability seems rooted in the collective psyche indicates that it's arguably preferable from a genetic perspective. Which leaves men with the possible issue of companionship during aging. Ho… | /r/MensRights | 02/02/15 05:17 AM |
| 7 | Foreskin regeneration may be possible by 2019Ask the girl back if she's uncut and mirror her reaction? Well, maybe not, that could out you as an MRA, which might be regarded as worse than herpes. Seriously though, such a reaction from a girl is nowhere near ok. A person has a certain leeway to have preferences about their partners body, but that kind of reaction is not within what is acceptable behaviour. If she phrased it as an attractive quality that you got cut or got a genital piercing, that would be about equal to you asking her to ge… | /r/MensRights | 02/02/15 04:17 AM |
| 1 | I'm Really Depressed About Being CircumcisedI also think it's wrong of those people At the very least I consider it unproductive, but for anyone actually feeling violated, they're fully within their rights. It's the same problem with the religious aspects that tend to get emotional as well. Anyone who wants the rational discussion has to deal with it and either disengage when there's no point or be considerate enough to manage as decent an argument as can be had. Unemotionally, the level of pain obviously matters. Obviously, and it's also… | /r/MensRights | 17/01/15 03:26 PM |
| 2 | I'm Really Depressed About Being CircumcisedI posted about circumcision a few weeks ago, so if you want to hear a more in-depth argument look up Thanks, I looked it up and read through it. I understand your argument, but I don't quite agree. In most cases, to see violating bodily integrity as an acceptable action there has to be strong evidence as to the benefits, that there is an urgency, and that there is no other, less invasive way to accomplish the purpose so as to leave the choice to the individual. With circumcision there certainly … | /r/MensRights | 16/01/15 08:03 AM |
| 6 | I'm Really Depressed About Being CircumcisedI'm circumcised and to be honest, I love it. Both experiences are valid, the problem is there's no way to determine which experience any individual will have without allowing them to choose themselves. That means that out of those getting circumcised without consenting to it, some will have been mutilated, sometimes with significant physical issues and may suffer life long consequences from it. Sexually, for instance, most people who are circumcised can last longer Lasting longer may be an advan… | /r/MensRights | 15/01/15 07:33 AM |
| 2 | Someone on askreddit is claiming that MRAs don't care about trans issues, is it true? What do you guys think?Search for female only or women only and you'll find at least some tangential issues. Including this gem: "Facts about Domestic Violence .... The National Crime Victimization Survey has found that 95% of the victims of intimate partner violence are female. Men can be victims, but it is less frequent .... Domestic violence occurs at the same rate in GLBT relationships as in heterosexual relationships (1 in 4)." I don't even know how they make that work in their heads, do they think the LGBT relat… | /r/MensRights | 14/01/15 07:35 AM |
| 3 | No, we did not just learn 1 in 3 college men would rape if they could get away with itYes, but studies show that 9 in 10 feminists will call anything rape in a study if it will produce grant money or feed the desired political narrative. The study in question is of course utterly worthless. Not only does it use inherently biased measures like the hostility towards women scale (any references to at least Check or Malamuth should raise questions), the text also indicates they don't even know how to use it, which may be a typo but hardly raises confidence. | /r/MensRights | 14/01/15 06:59 AM |
| 6 | Someone on askreddit is claiming that MRAs don't care about trans issues, is it true? What do you guys think?Indeed; there are other overlaps as well, such as the rather exclusionary nature of domestic violence shelters and various other women-only spaces that tend to affect various LBTQ groups in a similar way that men are affected. Some of them areas where the feminist narrative throws non-cisgendered perspectives under the bus, even if it's not as bad as TERF. But I agree with you, while the MRM can align itself with other groups on issues that affect them as well, it's not that in to appropriating … | /r/MensRights | 13/01/15 12:57 AM |
| 2 | Police took my everything, because an underage girl said she couldn't remember her night with me.Did she drink any alcohol at all? If she did, see if you can get your lawyer to check for various prescription medications. Some anti-depressants (such as venlafaxine), most anxiolytics and sleeping pills can result in self-rufying and blackouts when combined with alcohol. For some variations it might not even be readily apparent and doctors are not necessarily particularly outspoken on exactly what can happen. For such an accusation completely out of the blue from someone, barring actual reason… | /r/MensRights | 01/01/15 05:47 PM |
| 13 | This is the type of insanity we are fighting againstThis argument has gotten so bad that the Helsinki police complained about the amount of frivolous complaints from both men and women regretting drunk sex. Here's the thing: in most jurisdictions having sex with someone who is drunk is illegal if, and only if, they are so drunk that they would be put in a cell for sobering up by the police or you should be driving them to a hospital to recover from acute alcohol poisoning. The key is being drunk to the point of being incapacitated; the person can… | /r/MensRights | 30/12/14 10:40 PM |
| 2 | A Scourge Is Spreading. M.T.A.’s Cure? Dude, Close Your Legs. - NYTimes.comConsidering the article claimed a 28-year-old music teacher considered the habit a form of sexual harassment, I'd expect them to cave to demands that they set up MTA tribunals that will convict (male) spreaders of rape on a preponderance of entitled, spoiled brat whining... i mean evidence. | /r/MensRights | 21/12/14 09:47 AM |
| 5 | Mass Rapes at UC Berkeley? Yes Means Yes chickens come home to roost.That might not have the effect they intended it to have. Continuously publishing unsubstantiated rumours and false accusations may actually make it obvious to most people reading the publications that imagined rape is a much bigger problem than actual rape. | /r/MensRights | 08/12/14 07:24 PM |
| 1 | Site compiles research concerning pornography and how it increases instances of rape and violence against women. Thoughts?Well, 5 minutes googling, looking at the Wikipedia entry on effects of pornography which cites work by Ferguson, Christopher J as criticising what appears to be the studies by Centi/Malamuth, looking at that and this is the conclusion: Bullshit. The cited researchers draw bullshit conclusions that their own research doesn't even support. To quote: "The authors state in their study abstract that the violent and non-violent pornography affected aggression but there was no difference in proclivity … | /r/MensRights | 06/12/14 01:25 PM |
| 7 | Rolling Stone retracts UVA rape storyUnfortunately, given the amount of holes in the story, I would strongly lean towards "got shitfaced drunk and acted wantonly and had sex with a bunch of guys in the same evening" Well, that's a possibility, but there's one aspect that makes me doubt that's what happened; the part of falling through a glass table and getting raped on glass shards. If that had actually happened she would have massive, permanent scars. Untempered glass and there's no way she'd be alive, tempered safety glass and sh… | /r/MensRights | 06/12/14 12:52 PM |
| 2 | Ignorant article alert - "CDC: Circumcision is a very good idea" The fight is far from over.And of course, you still have to wear a condom. Although I would guess that condoms might be somewhat hard to obtain for infants... ... who on the other hand hopefully won't be having any sex. Until they're old enough to consent to both a circumcision and having sex. | /r/MensRights | 03/12/14 05:24 AM |
| 1 | Prosecuting rape liars 'violates human rights,' and rape victims' advocates want it to stopOh, I'm certainly not excusing them, I'm just pointing why the numbers vary as wildly as they do. The fact that there is an objective reality here doesn't mean that people will discard their subjective viewpoints and argue based on those. Unless you understand how that subjectivity affects terminology and definitions it becomes very hard to refute numbers taken from seemingly serious research because you might not be aware exactly what something gets called and why in that particular material. O… | /r/MensRights | 03/12/14 05:15 AM |
| 1 | Prosecuting rape liars 'violates human rights,' and rape victims' advocates want it to stopStart out at the wikipedia entry on false rape, it has an overview of a number of studies. Many references there are available online. But be aware that you need to read some things several times and very carefully as there seems to be a lot of blurriness, sometimes it appears intentional, around the definitions. Even the related talk page on wikipedia has an ongoing debate around that exact issue. The statistics will also depend largely on exactly where in the process you measure. The no-crime … | /r/MensRights | 03/12/14 04:11 AM |
| 6 | Prosecuting rape liars 'violates human rights,' and rape victims' advocates want it to stopIt entirely depends on your definition of false rape. From what I remember: From the point of the accused, ie, are they getting accused of rape when demonstrably, no rape occured, it's 30-50% From the point of the accuser, ie, are they lying about a rape happening, it's between 2-8%. This discrepancy is largely due to the encouragement of reporting bad sex to the police which means a lot of things that get reported simply aren't rape or even illegal. Drunk sex isn't rape (incapacitated by alcoho… | /r/MensRights | 02/12/14 10:01 PM |
| 1 | CDC accepting comments on circumcision recommendation. Now is the time to tell the CDC that genital mutilation of boys is unacceptable.Removal of the foreskin is really the only definition of male circumcision. Actually, no, there are multiple varying severity levels for male circumcision as well. For at least the Jewish circumcision there are suggestions that the more severe forms (priah) were instituted because foreskin restoration became too common. The actual religious foundations (Genesis 17:10-14) do not specify any specific extent to which the foreskin should be removed and could thus easily be interpreted in much less d… | /r/MensRights | 02/12/14 07:43 PM |
| 12 | "Middle-aged men, who have the highest suicide rate, targeted in public-service ads [in the US]". Good to see.You know, much as I'm happy that they care, I tend to worry that attempts to rectify the high suicide rate in middle aged men, as is usually the case with suicide prevention, will take the form of preventing them from deciding their own fate rather than dealing with the inequities and circumstances that lead them to want to do it. Because ultimately, torture without any escape is worse than torture you at least have the power to end. | /r/MensRights | 01/12/14 07:26 AM |
| 2 | The double life of the tragic suicide girl who accused me of rape - tycoon's son says: 'Don't judge me before you know the whole story'. Police refused to even hear his side of what happened. Media only reported her side.I would think the father, considering he 'helped' her file the complaint, deserves a mention as well. And I would bet she had several 'friends' encouraging her. All of them most likely affected by campaigns urging people to file rape complaints, false or not. This is squarely on them and the police. I don't think it was ever about money or probably even attention. It sounds more like the initial rejection when he realized exactly how disturbed she was resulted in an emotional fire storm which wa… | /r/MensRights | 30/11/14 09:03 AM |
| 1 | HERE WE GO: Germany forces a 30% female quota upon boards of PRIVATELY owned companiesJust a few seconds googling. http://ec.europa.eu/justice/gender-equality/files/documents/140303_factsheet_wob_en.pdf what appears to be fairly reasonable data and info on the growth the last few years, some of which can reasonably be considered somewhat 'unnatural' as it's under threat of legislation. | /r/MensRights | 27/11/14 07:46 PM |
| 1 | HERE WE GO: Germany forces a 30% female quota upon boards of PRIVATELY owned companiesEurope in general seems to be about 10-20% women on boards. Personally I'd say it's a bit low compared to what it should be, but more from lag between growth of wider female experience in the workplace until it gets reflected in places like boards. I don't think it's very much lower than what it should be as women as a group frankly tend to make better work-life balance choices than men, which means the best candidate women may simply tell the recruiters to piss off because no amount of money wi… | /r/MensRights | 27/11/14 07:44 AM |
| 3 | r/mensrights should be renamed.Yes, it took feminists about 50 years to figure that out, which led to intersectionality, which adds multiple dimensions of oppression. If they continue in this pace it'll probably take a century or something and they'll realize that intersectionality leads to individuality, where each individual is affected by so many factors as to give each and everyone their own unique problems and positions in an infinite amount of intersections, and that addressing problems on the basis of statistic prevale… | /r/MensRights | 27/11/14 07:11 AM |
| 9 | HERE WE GO: Germany forces a 30% female quota upon boards of PRIVATELY owned companiesAs board members are often appointed for their ability to provide a specific insight, experience, contact network or competence rather than a generic well-rounded capability it's entirely possible that those positions will merely be considered 'woman' checkboxes to tick off. To do that, you don't even need a few thousand woman. You need half a dozen women. If they provide no further value to the board they don't need to be present and a single woman can fulfill the requirement for any number of … | /r/MensRights | 27/11/14 06:43 AM |
| 3 | Why the law should be changed to allow women to be paid more than men (Australia)If the problem is that part time workers get less retirement funds, and more women work part time, what the fuck does that have to do with the shape of their genitals? If you try to pay women more, that will just mean full time women get compensated for something they're not doing and part-time men don't get shit. Just compensate the part timers extra if you really want to address the issue, and accept that GENITALS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ISSUE. | /r/MensRights | 25/11/14 10:34 PM |
| 2 | Reasons for refusing to donate to WikipediaIt doesn't take much more than reading the talk pages of the articles that do exist to understand why. There seems to be a certain imbalance in what behaviour is regarded as tolerable depending on the topic. Of course, considering the lack of scientific rigour in some social sciences and the more political ones in particular, there's not much hope that adherence to scholarly citations could even be used to improve things. | /r/MensRights | 22/11/14 07:54 PM |
| 3 | Predictably... : "Female tech writer gets death threats after criticising comet-landing scientist's sexist shirt"Fair enough. I just have a hard time actually thinking of any t-shirt material that could even be found truly offensive to many non-sjw men, barring the outright misandric 'I bathe in male tears' or 'throw rocks at them' type t-shirt that would probably result in charges getting filed if they were directed at women. I mean, even with your example, of say the head of a kindergarden wearing a shirt depicting men dropping babies on their heads, I doubt that many would find it that offensive or that… | /r/MensRights | 14/11/14 09:26 PM |
| 3 | Predictably... : "Female tech writer gets death threats after criticising comet-landing scientist's sexist shirt"Many would probably object to a head of kindergarten wearing Matt Taylors shirt as well. But would you object to a female scientist wearing a shirt with scantily clad men? Some certainly would, but at least I personally think most of the comments would be about nobody caring about the woman wearing the 'sexist' shirt when Matt Taylor got this amount of shit for wearing a shirt a female friend of his had made. | /r/MensRights | 14/11/14 08:30 PM |
| 6 | Predictably... : "Female tech writer gets death threats after criticising comet-landing scientist's sexist shirt"OMG! That shirt might make judgemental slut-shamers feel unwelcome in science! How will there be progress without a strict dress-code and the subjugation of any individual expression? Scientists need to learn to conform, without conformity and adherence to traditional values there will be no advances, we'll be mired in individuality and we may never reach any consensus on what theories feel the most right! ... yeah, that was sarcasm. If that shirt keeps assholes of either gender out of STEM, goo… | /r/MensRights | 14/11/14 08:15 PM |
| 2 | I'm well aware of the point of the "gap"...Well, he gets close enough. For Sweden the latest specific number across the workforce I've seen is that the average woman works 82% of the hours that the average man does, but there are also a few definition fudge factors that affect reality further (for example, do you use contracted hours or actual hours after sick-leave (men about 1.7%, women about 3.1% of expected hours, etc). | /r/MensRights | 13/11/14 06:08 PM |
| 5 | Call to pay women more than men for the exact same work (Australia)If they want to accomplish what they say they want I can't see why it would be hard to do in a non-discriminatory fashion. If people who work part time or take time off for children are unfairly penalized in the pension system and one wants to ameliorate that, such compensation payments could be made for anyone whether male or female who is affected. Then men who took care of children would not be unfairly penalized, and women who didn't wouldn't be unfairly compensated. Yes, women as a group mi… | /r/MensRights | 12/11/14 09:11 PM |
| 1 | Wil Wheaton: Anonymous Trolls are Hurting Women and Must Be StoppedIt would create way more problems than it solves. Yes, but it would also solve some in entirely new ways. Losing a game against a team in another country? SWAT them. Got beat by someone using unfair tactics? Well, go beat them up. Don't like the transsexual person who came out in your guild? Send some info to some in their class at high school and maybe you'll be rid of them. Fear of real-world repercussions doesn't only mean that the small number of people who are assholes but yet fear repercus… | /r/MensRights | 12/11/14 08:49 PM |
| 4 | Should we set gender quotas to make sure women are fairly represented?If equality between groups should be measured as equal outcomes and if quotas are used to ensure that, then yes, both bad and good outcomes should be measured and men as a group will need massive investments and help before the life span gap, homelessness gap, prison gap, etc, reach anywhere near parity. Of course, on that topic there's another huge inequality issue you miss. Women are not paying anywhere near the taxes that men do. To ensure that women as a group are contributing equally to the… | /r/MensRights | 12/11/14 08:13 PM |
| 1 | Swedens "solution" to prostitution - buying is illegal but selling is legal. This feels really wrong but I can't explain whyIt's pretty close to as bad as having it illegal; prostitutes still can't seek aid from the police as the police will still ruin their business, probably force them to move if they're renting and possibly monitor them and harass their customers making any repeat 'steady' business impossible. Eventually they'll be forced into a do-or-starve make-work employment program paying an hourly wage about 1/100th of what they made as a sex worker. But hey, then it's the government forcing them to do point… | /r/MensRights | 10/11/14 11:10 PM |
| 1 | Swedens "solution" to prostitution - buying is illegal but selling is legal. This feels really wrong but I can't explain whyBeing in any way nearby it is illegal; if someone like a landlord even suspects a tenant, or a neighbour informs them that they suspect someone of selling sex in an apartment you need to evict them at once or face liability for profiting off prostitution. Two sex workers cannot even work together to provide safety for each other or they face liability. Needless to say, actual sex workers don't particularly appreciate the laws surrounding sex work in Sweden. They know very well that despite the s… | /r/MensRights | 10/11/14 10:57 PM |
| 1 | U.S. Will Spend $24.5M to Circumcise Men in SwazilandCircumcision doesn't protect anywhere near as well as condom use. Which means you still have to use a condom. Which means the circumcision was pointless. Most likely it's also counter-productive as it risks reducing condom use, both from reduced sensitivity and perceived decreased risk, which will ultimately increase transmission rates. I'm sure Africa will be really grateful for this one. Both cutting their genitals and killing them at the same time, been a while since we were on that level. | /r/MensRights | 02/11/14 08:33 AM |
| 2 | When He Says “No”: Denying A Woman Sex Is RapeIf only. What then? Obviously (yes, that was sarcastic) same-sex couples must all fall into gender roles (butch/femme/etc) and the more feminine partner (even if it's shifting) is internalizing female roles and is getting abused. I have actually seen research into same-sex couple abuse and violence where they attempted to explain the similar prevalence of abuse in such relationships with, for example, a 'butch' person taking a 'patriarchal' role. Fortunately (and expectedly for anyone actually s… | /r/MensRights | 05/10/14 09:07 AM |
| 2 | Male Circumcision IS comparable and equitable to female circumcision.There are many people who enjoy expressing themselves through body modification or decoration and they should of course be free to do so and enjoy it any way they want. There is absolutely nothing wrong with them and it's a perfectly acceptable custom, preference, esthetic or experience. As long as it's the person modifying their body who is making the choice. The decision to permanently alter the appearance of ones body, particularly in a way that has social or sexual implications is not someth… | /r/MensRights | 28/09/14 08:27 AM |
| 9 | My school has female only gym hours. I would really appreciate some advice on what we should do.Because they project their own judgemental feelings about their bodies onto others and believe other people stare at them and think things about them, which makes them uncomfortable. One suggestion to address the actual issue would be free psychotherapy so they can get a healthier relationship to their body (for both men and women, of course, as it's hardly a gender unique issue in this case either and men are as usual expected to man up and get over any feelings of inadequacy). And yes, I consi… | /r/MensRights | 17/09/14 05:42 AM |
| 2 | Bye-bye Sweden, it was nice knowing youWell, the average Swedish male has a lifetime negative tax balance of about $150K while the average female gets $150K. Most of it due to a longer female lifespan resulting in far longer payouts of pensions. So to be really equal, they should pay proportionally more to offset the far higher costs they generate. Or stop mooching and get well paid deadly jobs. | /r/MensRights | 14/09/14 08:54 AM |
| 3 | Bye-bye Sweden, it was nice knowing youIt's quite easy to counter that one though. Any survivor who feels the dead men are better off can join them any time they want. Pick up a gun and just get it over with, if living is 'worse'. No? Oh, wait, maybe the dead actually are worse off, only they're not whining about it because they're dead. | /r/MensRights | 14/09/14 08:49 AM |
| 1 | Thought You May Enjoy This - Something In Between Consensual Sex And Rape?I guess i missed the part of the story where she told him no, stopped him, then left. Maybe there's a random quantum singularity punctuation that's bending light around it because I can't seem to find that part either. Two things annoy me with this article. These comments: My whole point was that there ISN’T an actual word for THIS experience, This experience is what is usually called 'consensual sex'. It could of course be described further, with details such as bad consensual sex or consensual… | /r/MensRights | 13/09/14 06:53 AM |
| 2 | How to Lose the Woman You Love... for Good. Just a woman though.... Only women feel this way.Somewhat amusing to read that in combination with this one posted yesterday: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2263518/I-left-love-life-I-thought-I-better-Now-Im-childless-42.html | /r/MensRights | 08/09/14 06:29 AM |
| 3 | Crosspost from r/feminists sort of... they would not allow me to post and the mods would not answer me when I asked why. I don't know what to do anymore.I'm sorry for your situation but you're displaying dangerous levels of naivite. If you're basing your defence on being able to tell the truth to a jury, I wouldn't bet on you winning that against Ms. Cries-on-command. You should seriously get more lawyer advice. And no, women haven't been singled out for subjugation for millennia, being subjugated has been a rather equal-opportunity past-time for humanity. | /r/MensRights | 06/09/14 07:28 AM |
| 1 | Ryerson university puts in women only gym hours.If you get challenged on looks and dress, clarify with being a transvestite transsexual. And that you don't like the way men look at you when you don't actually in any way appear to be anything other than male. And tell those cisgendered oppressors to check their privilege. | /r/MensRights | 31/08/14 10:33 AM |
| 2 | Male students create a nail polish for women to detect date rape drugs. Feminists claim it allegedly carries the message that "women aren't trying hard enough to not get raped".Well, the rarity of the ones it's likely to detect, combined with the prevalence of the actual common one makes it rather pointless as well. Unless it's going to detect alcohol in drinks, have breathalyzer capabilities to warn against too much alcohol and warn when combining other common medication with alcoholic beverages. Which would be needed to actually prevent the vast majority of cases when one ends up with reduced inhibition, bad judgement. blackouts and memory loss. | /r/MensRights | 29/08/14 09:17 AM |
| 3 | Feminist blogger says it's okay and even a good idea to assume men are evil.Well, then there's a stylized depiction of fisting on the side bar on a blog named anti-porn feminists. Irony abounds. | /r/MensRights | 29/08/14 06:52 AM |
| 2 | A Voice for Men has a new mission statement (and I think it's a good one)if one person drops out of the workforce to become a full time parent, that there is damage to their career and it may be difficult to find a new job. But does it free them from responsibility for their own financial situation? Does it inherently transfer the obligation to someone else? Yes, if you quit your job to be a full time parent, you will cause some financial damage to yourself, but it is still your responsibility to mitigate that damage. I would suggest resolving that through a contract… | /r/MensRights | 21/08/14 06:17 AM |
| 1 | Is criticizing feminism any different from criticizing a religion?With either religion or feminism, ignoring it is fine. If someone wants to hold a philosophical debate, that's also fine, it can be fun. But ultimately, they are and should be free to believe whatever they want, without any evidence for anything at all... ... until they start to feel the need to apply their religious dogma in laws affecting other people. At that point, when their beliefs start harming others, they need to be fought in whatever way possible and appropriate, from opposing their at… | /r/MensRights | 20/08/14 09:22 AM |
| 6 | Rape has fallen 80% since 1970We don't know exactly what caused it but this entire article shows more of a correlation than a causation in my opinion. I've seen some compelling evidence implicating lead toxicity due to very high levels of (delayed) correlation between drops in violence rates and the removal of lead from gasoline in several places, which in combination with the known effects of lead toxicity make it a quite likely culprit. That's the real reason it's prosecuted. In general, it's the original crime that's pros… | /r/MensRights | 20/08/14 09:01 AM |
| 2 | PSA: Men can be affected by HPV, which can cause genital warts and cancers of the penis, anus, and oropharynx. Definitely recommend getting vaccinated and spreading awareness about this.In theory yes. However, the data I've seen suggest that single-sex vaccination is only moderately successful for herd immunity (as it ignores unvaccinated females and male-to-male transmission) and takes much longer to achieve maximum coverage. The more spotty the vaccination of females, the more important it becomes to vaccinate men as well to interrupt the transmission. Sorry it's in swedish but the graphs on p.14-15 are english source . | /r/MensRights | 15/08/14 04:50 PM |
| 6 | PSA: Men can be affected by HPV, which can cause genital warts and cancers of the penis, anus, and oropharynx. Definitely recommend getting vaccinated and spreading awareness about this.Yeah, and this is really a men's rights issue as a lot of places subsidize HPV vaccination only for women. Which, while somewhat economically justifiable by the lower known frequency of HPV cancers in men, is simply idiotic from a disease eradication perspective as men are carriers anyway. And even with the lower personal risk, the fact is that many men might actually feel rather bad about going around giving STD's to partners when they could have been vaccinated against it. | /r/MensRights | 15/08/14 08:41 AM |
| 2 | You won't be able to avoid Cal's new sex consent laws even if you record...Recording for self-protection is not intent to cause distress so it wouldn't fall under the revenge porn law. It might fall under confidentiality even without that law, but that rarely seems to apply to showing a court or law enforcement as part of a defence. Either way, the appropriate way to deal with it is to get consent for the actual recording as well. That in itself should be enough to discourage any post-fact change of mind, and it's always better to avoid such a circus in the first place… | /r/MensRights | 15/08/14 08:17 AM |
| 1 | Batterers Intervention Program HomeworkOut of curiosity, why are you taking a stand in a BIP? I certainly appreciate it, and I would most likely do it myself as people trying to force me to be dishonest really annoys me and usually results in me doing the opposite thing they want, but do you see it as an opportunity to possibly effect change in that system? And are you at a personal risk beyond not getting out of the program (which might not be a problem if you're there to try to change it), that could land you in jail for failure to… | /r/MensRights | 14/08/14 06:33 AM |
| 2 | PZ Myers on Robin Williams by Richard Dawkins (just read it)I'm not sure there's any actual split; the A+ faction has less to do with Atheism than for example Buddhism. Basically a group of people want a 'religion', complete with inconsistent dogmatic beliefs that they will not have questioned, who for some reason wanted to stick atheism in their name to emphasize the least relevant part of the belief. They should do everyone a favour and just drop the Atheism from the name and call it Watsonism or something. | /r/MensRights | 13/08/14 06:13 PM |
| 3 | ‘Serious Money Troubles’ caused Robin Williams to commit suicide after divorces "from first wife Valerie Velardi in 1988, and from second wife, Marsha Garces in 2008 .. gutted his bank account"Chemical imbalances are not necessarily the cause, they can also be the effect. For example, constant exposure to stress induced cortisol will in itself reduce serotonin levels and prevent brain cell regeneration. Anti-depressants can to some extent counter the effect, but if the stress continues the damage will continue. So saying someone is depressed because of chemical imbalances is like saying that someone who hit their thumb with a hammer is in pain because he has a chemical imbalance in hi… | /r/MensRights | 13/08/14 06:35 AM |
| 2 | Men's Rights Lecture disrupted at U of T, find another room to continue, misguided Feminists still claim victoryBut hey, they get to be in papers on how men feel entitled to pussy for displaying aggression towards other men. Men like this really give some insight into where the feminists get their rather twisted ideas about male norms. These certainly seem to express a whole range of that kind of behaviour; crossing into other peoples 'safe spaces', displaying aggression, interrupting to prevent other people from participating in a conversation, entitlement, etc. | /r/MensRights | 12/08/14 06:29 AM |
| 1 | Uganda: Gulu wives reject circumcised menYeah, I'm not so sure that's the actual reason. I mean, how would you react if your partner came home and said they'd had a surgical procedure to reduce the risk of STD transmission? There is just no way that conversation is going to go well. Assuming the women in question are actually utter idiots, then I would suspect the accusation of sexual weakness is probably based on the man being less interested in sex with her because he's screwing a whole lot of other people. It just smells of rational… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/14 08:39 AM |
| 2 | Uganda: Gulu wives reject circumcised menThis article really demonstrates how sick the "circumcise against STD's!" propaganda is. The guy is married. Does his wife have an STD? No? Then how would a circumcision protect anyone? Yes? Then he needs to wear a condom and the circumcision isn't going to make any difference. Is he planning on sleeping around? Without a condom, now that he's 'protected' by circumcision? Well, then I can understand why his wife would leave him, and no, it's not because he'll be less virile. Medical personnel in… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/14 08:23 AM |
| 0 | Attorney with allegations of serious ethical violations receives lifetime ban on representing women, it's fine though he can unethically represent men!Yeah, the issue here is that he failed to adhere to standards of professional conduct. The fact that the specific violations were in regards to females is irrelevant, the fact that he will violate those standards for his own pleasure means he might violate standards when representing male clients as well. Even if he might not be tempted to make sexual advances towards male clients, what if he finds the ex-wife of a man he represents in a custody case attractive? Might he offer confidential infor… | /r/MensRights | 09/08/14 10:47 AM |
| 6 | Come on, guys, it's totally ironicaluniting with man-hating feminists intent on implementing legislation. Yeah, but it's just ironic legislation. Maybe it could be called Poe's law? I mean, just think of the irony when someone actually gets sentenced to 20 years in the tear milking factory that was ironically built. | /r/MensRights | 09/08/14 07:41 AM |
| 1 | Sex dolls for men are evil and creepy. OTOH, the castrated phalluses many women enjoy = empowerment.Perhaps it's more a question of differences in tenacity in reaching high but a bit odd goals rather than desire . | /r/MensRights | 08/08/14 09:01 PM |
| 1 | According to the CDC, a man cannot be raped by a woman.The only possible reason anyone would find this unfair is for lesbian rape. Yeah, I thought so when skimming it the first time, but it actually covers that fairly well with 'contact between the mouth and penis, vulva, or anus' and the appendage or object penetrations. The borderline cases seem to appear more if one considers things like using someone as a masturbatory aid, but that's also a bit questionable if it should be considered a 'completed sex act'. More problematic is that there is a per… | /r/MensRights | 08/08/14 08:35 PM |
| 5 | According to the CDC, a man cannot be raped by a woman.Not necessarily. The text does not define a perpetrator/victim relation and does not indicate that the person penetrating is the rapist. A hypothetical scenario of a man getting roofied, viagrad and sat on would fulfill the requirements; the act included contact between penis and vulva, including penetration, so according to the definition it's a 'completed sex act'. The act was without the mans consent, so it was rape. The phrasing would also seem to cover, for example, taking the hand of someo… | /r/MensRights | 08/08/14 07:41 AM |
| 2 | Dr. Phil: (16 y/o girl willingly participates in 5-person gangbang.) Proceeds to convince her she was raped.Oh and btw, once you aren't allowed to drive a vehicle due to alcohol, you can't consent? That's bullshit. In most jurisdictions the legal line is near the 'incapacitated' state, ie, when you're not capable of making any decisions at all. The Finnish police recently happened to mention a reasonable rule to use; if someone is so drunk they should be placed in medical care, taken into custody for public intoxication, or otherwise shouldn't be let out of your sight as they unable to care for themse… | /r/MensRights | 08/08/14 07:13 AM |
| 1 | Domestic violence against men - help me out!!Well, if you want an insight that might annoy you a bit, I ran across these a while ago: Psychological Maltreatment of Women Inventory . No, as far as I can tell there isn't a maltreatment of men inventory. And yes, it appears this is actually used in 'science'. Agression: Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment pages 179-183. Several examples of grotesquely biased research instruments with strong 'feminist' criticism against the CTS which is actually reasonably unbiased. | /r/MensRights | 07/08/14 07:25 AM |
| 2 | The situation for women's refuges is desperate - but we need to start admitting men, tooI really despise the sexism inherent in women-only shelters. Perhaps one way to attack the problem would be to ally with victims of same-sex partner violence; they're as badly (or perhaps even worse) hurt by this situation as men. (Hey, it's not only sexist, it's also heteronormative!) The rationalization for rejecting men at women's shelter is that they say they want to create a safe zone for women where their abusers can't enter. That idea naturally falls apart as soon as the first lesbian nee… | /r/MensRights | 07/08/14 07:00 AM |
| 1 | Difficulty Editing Domestic Violence Wikipedia PageMaybe you can add a section on the problems of Patriarchy sneaking into lesbian domiciles, hitting one of them when they're not looking and giggling evilly as they self-defence each other? The idea that women only defend themselves displays bias to the point of ridicule of course. If there is an approximate parity in IPV, then that argument is irrelevant as men would be as much men would be as overcounted as women. If mens self defence isn't as prevalent because men are too scared (or rational) … | /r/MensRights | 07/08/14 06:37 AM |
| 3 | TIL men can't be objectified by women. It's only bad when men do it. Because reasons.I think that what this article misses, as most feminist discussions about male objectification do, is that women do not objectify men naked. But take a look at everything from formal social dresscode to common advertising with men, and it gets hard to pretend that suits, uniforms or other stereotyping elements project less sexual fungibility than low cut dresses or high heels. | /r/MensRights | 06/08/14 06:19 AM |
| 1 | Article tells women to treat their partners like "puppies", "train him", "create scarcity" to keep him chasing, etc. Imagine the feminist outrage to a reversed article?I wouldn't dispute that, there are many indicators beside trp that agree, ranging from the approximately 75/25 submissive/dominant split among women compared with the 50/50 split among men in bdsm, to the unpalatable sales numbers for things like 50 Shades, to any amount of everyday anecdotal evidence. Of course, one can be turned on by/attracted to a trait yet aware of it and react with offence to someone trying to use it as well, which does limit the appropriate use of that dynamic a bit below… | /r/MensRights | 05/08/14 07:12 AM |
| 4 | Convince a skeptic: at its best the MR movement is just espousing feminist ideals that argue against patriarchy.For kyriarchy there's at least an argument to be made, given sufficient complexity of the various intersecting multidimensional axes. For patriarchy, not so much. In it's form as an actual systemic oppression of women by men it falls apart pretty much as soon as it hits the first alternative axis such as wealth, inherited power (aristocracy), education, social status, victim status, race, ethnicity, etc, that demonstrates that sex is not at all a very useful predictor of actual relative power (w… | /r/MensRights | 04/08/14 10:41 PM |
| 1 | I wish more women would say this: Bad sex is not rape.By omission, yes, but not explicitly. She could have said 'teach people not to rape', or 'teach men and women not to rape', but the fact that she omits those more egalitarian choices of words does not necessarily mean one can assume the misandric default is her whole position. The fact, as most men and most rational women are entirely aware of, is that we do teach men not to rape (or engage in any other abuse of anyone, women in particular), and to a certain extent we teach it to women as well. … | /r/MensRights | 02/08/14 01:31 PM |
| 4 | I wish more women would say this: Bad sex is not rape.Hard to say, it's possible to read the article in the context of her trying to avoid getting run over by the rage train while still attempting to remain nominally a feminist. She comes close to crossing the rage inducing line many times by suggesting female agency when having bad sexual experiences, which will definitely be classified as victim blaming by a horde of the ragers, no matter the validity of her arguments. Here in Sweden there was a large 'twitter movement' a few years ago, encouragi… | /r/MensRights | 02/08/14 10:34 AM |
| 1 | Article tells women to treat their partners like "puppies", "train him", "create scarcity" to keep him chasing, etc. Imagine the feminist outrage to a reversed article?Oh, I understand that, and for the purpose of the red pillers it's quite productive. As long as they're aware that theory crafting about women in general based on a self-selecting group of women who respond strongly to alpha characteristics will give you an incomplete theory. Yes, the women in that group will easily fall for alpha games. The ones who don't are no longer in the room. But as the goal was getting those women, the incomplete theory still works fine. For feminists, it's less producti… | /r/MensRights | 01/08/14 11:35 PM |
| 1 | Article tells women to treat their partners like "puppies", "train him", "create scarcity" to keep him chasing, etc. Imagine the feminist outrage to a reversed article?The self-improvement aspects, taking responsibility for your own well being, goals and happiness, independence, etc, aspects are to a large extent universally attractive. Not accepting shit tests or other forms of manipulation certainly won't be offensive to many. But, for example, when you start spinning plates or start engaging in dominance aspects (like 'powertalk') in all your relationships you will be alienating some people. That doesn't mean it isn't a completely rational way to maximize y… | /r/MensRights | 01/08/14 10:41 PM |
| 3 | Article tells women to treat their partners like "puppies", "train him", "create scarcity" to keep him chasing, etc. Imagine the feminist outrage to a reversed article?The problem with the TRP view of women is pretty much the same as the feminist view of men. As many members of the actual group you apply your theories to will find such views asinine to the point they want nothing to do with you, you'll be effectively selecting and surrounding yourself with the subset the theories do apply to, thus reinforcing the theory and belief that it's generally applicable. Depending on the purpose of the theories they may still prove useful, such as for a TRPer playing t… | /r/MensRights | 01/08/14 07:28 AM |
| 4 | Feminists go after Richard Dawkins.If his purpose was to provide a demonstration of the evolution of taboo's around even the discussion of rape his words seem fairly well chosen. And quite effective, proving that point fairly well. It might not be news to anyone who's been trying to discuss rape beyond 'all men are rapists the last half decade', but it certainly displays the taboo in all its glory. | /r/MensRights | 31/07/14 07:44 AM |
| 0 | A person can support equality without being a feminist, just like they can be good without god. You can agree with some aspects of an ideology without embracing the whole thing.Considering expansion of feminist label to include the number of mutually incompatible ideas that it does I'd argue that you can't even find any feminists who embrace feminism (in the sense of the whole thing). The inability to keep anything even near a consistent set of fundamental beliefs and clearly delineating offshoots and their beliefs as specifically not part of the core belief makes the term meaningless except as a way to claim followers. The idea that 'if you believe in equality, you're… | /r/MensRights | 31/07/14 07:01 AM |
| 1 | Difference between WRA's, MRA's, egalitarians and Feminists.but it still seems like blatant cognitive dissonance and/or hypocrisy Well, I'm not sure that's the most significant source of cognitive dissonance within that specific selection of causes. Third wave feminism and the social justice theory framework is strongly invested in post-modernism which is fundamentally incompatible with rationalism and falsifiability, etc, which will make anyone trying to simultaneously actually subscribe to the A+ combination of beliefs subject to cognitive dissonance s… | /r/MensRights | 30/07/14 08:54 PM |
| 1 | This is awesome. Feminists are starting to question whether or not the Men's Rights Movement is actually behind #WomenAgainstFeminism.Yeah, I noticed. But JB taking some public credit and heat by associating with it doesn't really create a consistent connection between the women and men's rights, and doesn't significantly increase the likelihood that the signs have been systematically written by men as an organised effort. | /r/MensRights | 30/07/14 06:42 PM |
| 1 | Difference between WRA's, MRA's, egalitarians and Feminists.A certain rational approach to belief may lead many adherents of that approach to become atheists, but that does not mean atheists have to have become atheists through that approach. Considering the fact that the specific agenda of A+ believers leaves atheism as pretty much the default remaining position on the topic of religious belief which at least isn't explicitly incompatible with some parts of their beliefs means it's that or make up your own new religion. Thankfully, even the name atheism… | /r/MensRights | 30/07/14 06:26 PM |
| 6 | This is awesome. Feminists are starting to question whether or not the Men's Rights Movement is actually behind #WomenAgainstFeminism.To determine when your ideas are getting opposed by other people that don't agree with your point of view or sock puppets repeating talking points isn't always that easy. The problem, of course, being that either way, your ideas will be the common denominator, either directly or indirectly, which means that either way you're going to get a high level of overlap among any opposition. Analysis of things like the use of the word 'misandry' is just idiotic; there is basically no other useful word fo… | /r/MensRights | 30/07/14 07:21 AM |
| 1 | Here's a list of links proving "roofies" & "drink spiking" stories are mostly a myth.The risk of combining alcohol with other, even fairly common and reasonably innocuous, prescription medication should also not be underestimated. Pretty much everyone I know who uses anti-depressants, for example, has discovered the hard way that not all don't mix this with alcohol warnings are created equal. Such bad reactions from antidepressant/alcohol combos can result in major personality changes and blackouts after only a few drinks and with no warning, which could certainly make someone t… | /r/MensRights | 29/07/14 09:35 PM |
| 23 | Richard Dawkins in storm over 'mild date rape' tweetsHolly Dustin, Co-Director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, said his comments were an insult to survivors of rape. Yeah, you know, some survivors of rape may actually feel insulted that their experience is equated with that of 'I didn't even understand I had been raped until my gender studies friends convinced me' victims. “I’m not saying this to castigate and I’m not saying this to ridicule, it just needs to be said and we all need to come to a consensus about this,” she (Shami Chakr… | /r/MensRights | 29/07/14 08:15 PM |
| 5 | One of the FUNNIEST things about feminism...simply because it came from people without penises. It's not the genitals they don't have, it's the genitals they do have. I mean, where do you think feminists get their ideas about men from? Spouting ideas that make sure that you'll alienate any man who's not desperate for access to female genitals or who is a 'reformed' utter ass who actually does conform to the feminist caricature of males creates a feedback loop. Of course they'll think males feel entitled to sex because most males hanging a… | /r/MensRights | 29/07/14 07:31 PM |
| 3 | The U.S. suffers from lifespan inequality gap, Stanford researcher saysDepends on whether you support equal opportunity or equal outcome. From the equal outcome point of view, the fact that Japanese men can become 80 means that we should prioritize men's healthcare until the average male lifespan is equal to the average female lifespan. Many feminists, such as those arguing for affirmative action or legislation to ensure 50% female representation on the boards of corporations, etc, see anything other than equal outcomes as evidence of discrimination that needs to b… | /r/MensRights | 29/07/14 05:59 PM |
| 2 | Sweden, the good old man hating country: Protests from female soldiers have led to the Swedish military removing the penis of a heraldic lion.I agree. Heraldry has strong artistic connotations and a long history, so this is equivalent to other censorship on art. Censorship of both male and female genitalia is common and Sweden has had several cases of artistic depictions of female genitalia covered up in recent time, so it's more a question of censorship in general than gender related. But yes, it's very sad, whether it's done to males or females. Both as a violation on history and on artistic expression. It's also tragic that we have… | /r/MensRights | 29/07/14 06:49 AM |
| 2 | Harvard to men accused of sexual assault: Drop dead.The fact that it may very well be legal to have such a policy per se is why several cases try to use Title IX to attack the policy by alleging discriminatory application of the policy in that it is unfairly used against men on basis of their sex. It's a good strategy as it basically makes the use of such policies highly untenable; apply them unfairly and you're going to get sued and lose. Apply them fairly and the best counter strategy for men would be to develop as thin a skin and lack of respo… | /r/MensRights | 29/07/14 06:36 AM |
| 6 | Sweden, the good old man hating country: Protests from female soldiers have led to the Swedish military removing the penis of a heraldic lion.The specific symbol itself is was new at the time of castration, but the use of the lion in Swedish heraldic tradition is of course ancient. Apparently, castrating the lion also carries historical connotations including treason against the crown. Not so much a men's rights issue as an interesting anecdote about modern weird expressions of gender versus traditional weird expressions of gender. | /r/MensRights | 28/07/14 08:31 PM |
| 2 | Sweden, the good old man hating country: Protests from female soldiers have led to the Swedish military removing the penis of a heraldic lion.At the same time they also removed the first r in the name, Nordic Battle Group. Seriously though, this is fairly old news, but there's a more comprehensive discussion around it here . | /r/MensRights | 28/07/14 08:16 PM |
| 1 | Are the majority of MRAs accepting of male homosexuality?The context here is the proponents of patriarchy theory that do claim that straight men are homophobic as a function of dislike of traits attributed to gay people. I don't agree with the validity of that theory for the previously mentioned reasons; no consistent level of expression following males as a group, no biological incentives that would create or maintain such norms and no indication that concern over sexual morals in general is a typical male area of interest. This does not mean I deny … | /r/MensRights | 28/07/14 09:29 AM |
| 2 | Men Can be Just as "Maternal" as Women, According to NeuroscienceWell, yes and no. The fact that a neural network will grow and become more sophisticated as a function of increased exposure to stimuli isn't really unexpected and there's very little in child rearing that is so fundamentally unique among human activities that one sex could be expected to show a significant difference in functional capacity. Gender as a social construct would require not only the capacity of brains to be equivalent and adaptable, but also that preferences and interests were driv… | /r/MensRights | 27/07/14 09:43 PM |
| 1 | Are the majority of MRAs accepting of male homosexuality?A rich history of homophobic attacks by straight males, along with homophobia in workplaces dominated by straight males, would suggest otherwise. Men are overrepresented in attacks on perceived non-group members (particularly other men) in general. But for that to demonstrate a connection between straight males as a group to actual homophobia and isolate it from other factors you'd have to demonstrate a stability of such expressions over time and across cultures and varying status groups. The fa… | /r/MensRights | 27/07/14 08:34 PM |
| 0 | Are the majority of MRAs accepting of male homosexuality?Personally, no I don't think there's much truth to it. Gay men provide strong advantages for straight men, decreasing competition over resources for them and possible offspring, while still producing and contributing to your society. The more, the larger advantage. Most heterosexual men understand that without having to have it explained twice. Historical (and current) oppression of gay men certainly includes straight males but as a group I'd argue straight males care less about what goes on in … | /r/MensRights | 27/07/14 04:00 PM |
| 2 | Even when men are victims, it's because of patriarchyArguably many men may not have an idea of what looks good on women either (particularly in the sense of fashion, which is a high-knowledge social field that most simply aren't interested in rather than a personal sense of aesthetics). Further, commenting on women's dress is generally a minefield for men where not playing is the only way of winning. So, yes, I'll concede there are norms that reduces mens propensity to comment on dress in general, but fear of being labelled gay would be minor comp… | /r/MensRights | 27/07/14 02:09 PM |
| 2 | What do you think of #FreeToWearPink?In a friends kids daycare centre there was a group of girls going around beating up any boys who weren't wearing pink. A rather telling illustration of current social norms. But yes, surprisingly enough, they and their parents did get told that such behaviour was not acceptable. | /r/MensRights | 26/07/14 09:58 AM |
| 1 | Huff Post commits slippery slope, implies that complaining about wives leads to raping wives.Indeed. The idea of entitlement is as bad the other way around; nobody is entitled to a relationship or marriage either. I've been in situations where I was the less interested party. Guess what? I'll spend half an hour finding other ways to take care of my partners needs (even if 'less interested' for males usually means the normal equipment isn't going to be doing that job). Of course, I've also been in situations where my girlfriend wasn't in the mood. I can certainly take care of myself, but… | /r/MensRights | 26/07/14 09:34 AM |
| 3 | Even when men are victims, it's because of patriarchyIt means that men are expected to be cold, emotionless statues when it comes to things that upset them. ... It meant that men should be stupid, angry, sex-driven neanderthals who solve all their problems with their fists. Nice illustration of the double message men are (supposedly) given. Emotionless or angry, which are we expected to be again? Maybe the message is that we should be showing the emotions other people want us to be showing. Which is truly an odd idea of the concept 'emotion', so I… | /r/MensRights | 26/07/14 09:17 AM |
| 2 | Huff Post commits slippery slope, implies that complaining about wives leads to raping wives.A couple of the comments to the article illustrate your point wonderfully: A wife doesn't owe her husband sex. I don't owe a pregnant woman who gets on the bus the seat I'm sitting in. You don't owe a homeless man a couple of bucks to buy a sandwich and a coffee. Nobody owes anybody anything, but wouldn't it be great if we just did it anyway? Having sex is a lot more personal than giving up a bus seat. Don't try to compare them. You realized you just suggested people should give be willing to gi… | /r/MensRights | 25/07/14 05:17 AM |
| 1 | The Economist explains: Why Swedish men take so much paternity leaveWell, their links are horrible so lets see if this works: Swedish social insurance administration Edit: prettified link. | /r/MensRights | 24/07/14 08:01 PM |
| 1 | The Economist explains: Why Swedish men take so much paternity leaveThe man is automatically given half the parental leave. The mother cannot take them from the man without him actively signing them over to her. The uneven distribution is due active choice of signing it over to the woman, she has no legal ground to in any way coerce that; hence I don't consider it institutionalized. | /r/MensRights | 24/07/14 06:13 PM |
| 1 | Male Feminist Claims Pay Gap Is TrueRejects proof. Clings to the term "pay-gap" and tries different term with more "victim" in it. You choose X over working and there for work less hours , you will earn less, period the end. I really wish economists would get their gear in order and produce a good standardized way of measuring value derived from free time. The fact that you earn less does not mean you are obtaining less value if you value your free time more than the extra money you would earn from giving up that time. The entire … | /r/MensRights | 24/07/14 06:33 AM |
| 3 | The Economist explains: Why Swedish men take so much paternity leaveCalling it institutionalized is walking that same thin ice that many feminists do when they consider aggregates of individual choices to be evidence of systematic discrimination. There are systemic issues involved, but they're complex and tie together with things like imbalances in relationship income which makes it a common situation that the family loses less money if the woman stays home. So, yes, I'll agree that feminists were involved in creating the current legal state, but I consider the … | /r/MensRights | 24/07/14 06:14 AM |
| 3 | The Economist explains: Why Swedish men take so much paternity leaveActually, to their credit, the Swedish feminist party actually does want individualized parental leave which means half for each. Of course, due to the nature of human reproduction this potentially opens up interesting new opportunities for men wanting employment as state-paid gigolos... | /r/MensRights | 23/07/14 08:11 PM |
| 2 | Under the Swedish model, men ”are defined as morally superior to the woman,” ... “He is criminally culpable for his decisions, but she is not.”Adult women are legally unable to give consent, “just as an adolescent girl is in the crime of statutory rape.”Hypothetically it's the person paying for sex that is the criminal. In reality there have been several surveys indicating that male sex workers is at least as common as female in Sweden, yet there has been no arrests of female buyers. | /r/MensRights | 23/07/14 03:48 PM |
| 1 | Under the Swedish model, men ”are defined as morally superior to the woman,” ... “He is criminally culpable for his decisions, but she is not.”Adult women are legally unable to give consent, “just as an adolescent girl is in the crime of statutory rape.”The purpose behind the law isn't to help sex workers, the idea is to combat (what they think is) devaluation of the female body. If sex workers get hurt that's perfectly acceptable to the feminists. Pretty much good old female slut shaming, combined with sex value positioning. It's a pretty disgusting law with basis in a vile view of human beings. | /r/MensRights | 23/07/14 03:42 PM |
| 21 | Why The Men’s Rights Movement Is Garbage: Men can't be ever be oppressed, misandry literally don't real and MRA's are violent and abusive towards Feminists because they pointed out Feminist vandalism of property"Men can and do face oppression and marginalization for many reasons - because of race, class, sexuality, poverty, to name a few." ... "But men do not face oppression because they are men." Oh, right. Only asians are required to register for the selective services. And it's only legal to cut off parts of poor peoples genitals. No, wait... "Marginalizing forces like class and race, for one thing – I mean, it’s not rich white men who are grappling with homelessness or dangerous workplaces or gun v… | /r/MensRights | 23/07/14 06:16 AM |
| 3 | Finnish feminists didn't like this news at all...Interesting comment by the police that raping an inebriated person is a crime while specifically not saying that having sex with an inebriated person is rape. Followed, if google translate can be trusted, by a suggestion that if someone seems so intoxicated that you judge them unable to consent you should be calling emergency services. I think that may be the most workable definition of the too-drunk line I've seen; either you're drunk but still regarded as capable of responsibility and consent,… | /r/MensRights | 22/07/14 07:56 PM |
| 4 | What prompted "Women are the primary victims.." Statement and why that's important. Good example of how little value the elite place on average people's livesFor anyone inclined to think that way it's usually easy to, in the aftermath of war, find an appropriate firearm and just get it over with. They can become just as little a victim as the rest of the dead whenever they want and every day they do not make that choice is a day when, no matter how bad it gets, they consider themselves better off than those who were killed. So, no, the idea is not sound. It's vile. The only reason it is utterable is because the dead will not stand up in front of some… | /r/MensRights | 22/07/14 08:40 AM |
| 3 | Excellent response when they assume guilt in a rape case and cite the stat that only 2 to 8 percent of all claims are false as "evidence"20-40% are conclusively proven as far as needed to classify them unfounded. What they said happened did happen but it was not rape or illegal. | /r/MensRights | 18/07/14 05:59 AM |
| 2 | Excellent response when they assume guilt in a rape case and cite the stat that only 2 to 8 percent of all claims are false as "evidence"I haven't seen cases without enough evidence get included in that. However, it usually does include cases where someone's feeling bad, what they feel bad about actually happened, but it was not illegal (ie, unfounded as opposed to unproven accusations). Those cases seem to be somewhere between 20-40%. | /r/MensRights | 18/07/14 05:54 AM |
| 2 | Modern "sex-negative feminist" doesn't believe women are capable of sexual consent.Well, I don't really regard the lack of responsibility as part of sex-positivism but rather one of those other aberrations that, if shut down and ejected, could actually make feminism decent again. As I see it: sex-negativist = considers sex political; for example. D/s play enforces and strengthens patriarchal norms, even if a male is submissive and a female dominant, as then the male takes a female role(!) (yes, I've actually heard that). Usually considers porn degrading (to all females), even … | /r/MensRights | 17/07/14 07:02 AM |
| 9 | Modern "sex-negative feminist" doesn't believe women are capable of sexual consent.Well, the fact that she writes "Feminists who do not identify with sex-positive ideologies are often accorded little room in discussions and spaces" does actually speak well for feminism. Now if they could only eject other equally totalitarian or misandric proponents and they could turn back into something I could respect and appreciate. Of course, in reality I'm not at all convinced that the sex-haters are that rare within feminism, and certainly not where I am. It may very well be a case of 'o… | /r/MensRights | 16/07/14 07:06 PM |
| 3 | Reason TV interviews sex worker Maggie McNeill on decriminalization. Interesting discussion that touches on many of the hypocrisies and bigotries of prohibitionist feminist dogma surrounding prostitution.There are many that believe that wage work of any kind is inherently exploitative. I can see that point as well. What I can't see is how sex work is more or less so than any other kind of labour. It appears to come from some belief that sex has some weird special position or magical essence among human activities. Perhaps, for some, it does, but forcing such beliefs onto anyone else reeks of the same odious moralistic behaviour that underlie homophobia or passing any other judgements on other pe… | /r/MensRights | 15/07/14 05:32 PM |
| 1 | Father Freed From Jail After Daughter Admits Lying About Rape Nine Years AgoI find it hard to tell if that's actually what the prosecutor said or if that's a vile and reprehensible distortion that Huffington Post made. In the tdn.com link in the huffpost article the relevant part appears to be 'Baur said Cassandra Kennedy will not be prosecuted for her apparent lies about her father, partly because prosecutors do not want to discourage people in similar circumstances from coming forward.' That may reasonably be interpreted as not wanting to discourage people who lied fr… | /r/MensRights | 15/07/14 06:16 AM |
| 1 | A Feminist Pre-Pregnancy ContractShe does, but I think she fails to recognize that the actual job description for that captaincy is something that needs to be carefully considered and discussed. It's not merely taking everything that one wishes could be done in a perfect world and dividing it equally because there simply isn't time or resources for that for most people. Some things just can't be done and a lot of things just do not need to be done. Realizing that not only dividing the work equitably but coming to an agreement o… | /r/MensRights | 13/07/14 08:41 AM |
| 2 | A Feminist Pre-Pregnancy ContractI agree, actually talking about expectations and coming to an agreement is good. However. She says 'I don’t want to be the Captain.', and seems to fully expect someone else to take responsibilities from fixing the tail on the kids halloween costume to ensuring there are paper towels. If she doesn't want to be that one, why would anyone else? The fact is, kids survived in caves, without paper towels or halloween costumes for hundreds of thousands of years, and in fact many of those 'responsibilit… | /r/MensRights | 12/07/14 03:57 PM |
| 1 | Cheap Prenuptial Agreement?I'd disagree, it's not planning for failure, it's planning for a life-long friendship. Relationships sometimes work, sometimes they don't, and most often, when they fail, both are good people who simply aren't as good together as they are apart. But taking the discussion on the division of property at that point is almost a guarantee of anger, resentment, even hate and will probably devolve the relation beyond recovery. You ruin a good and possibly very close friendship because you postponed a d… | /r/MensRights | 09/07/14 06:08 AM |
| 1 | NZ: Rape accused would have to prove consent under Labour planFrankly, I hope they do push such a law through. Personally I'm beyond tired of the constant whining about low conviction rates, and that's where we're heading anyway. Better just get it over with and anyway, watching the blow back will be amazing. Actually dealing with the problem isn't that hard; consent form and video tape would be enough for even unreasonable courts. However, most women will not actually want their sex life on tape, and it's enough that a significant minority of men consider… | /r/MensRights | 08/07/14 05:54 PM |
| 3 | E-sports league that prohibited women players reverses policyAnd is it even "equality"? The fact that a few outliers among the male sex are excessively gifted certainly doesn't make the rest of them so (and, in fact, rather the opposite in many cases). Why should the more female equivalent average male be required to compete against those outliers if there's a league where they'd be more evenly matched to their capacity? | /r/MensRights | 03/07/14 06:13 PM |
| 0 | Regarding female only video game tournaments, It's only sexist if "it's prejudice against the women"Some men are physically advantaged over many women, not all. Very few sports are actually influenced that much by the particular shape of your genitals, but more from other parts of genetic expression that happens to be more prevalent, but not exclusively so, among people of a specific sex. A non-sexist division would be having multiple leagues based on a more thorough analysis of genetic advantage or having 'handicaps' based on it, but simple divisions on sex means that some will be handed unfa… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/14 05:47 PM |
| 1 | Sorry, Arthur Goldwag, misandry isn't confined to feminist outliers like Valerie Solanas or Andrea DworkinWell, feminism is a much more split movement than the KKK, so there are subsegments of feminism that don't quite deserve the criticism that they get as a bonus for using the feminist label. The MRM suffers from the same problem to a certain extent, although that movement is even less well defined. Any movement or group that fails to expel extremist members will be judged by their actions, and unfortunately there seems to be some form of group psychology at work that restrains criticism against r… | /r/MensRights | 01/07/14 06:19 AM |
| 3 | I disagreed with a feminist when she posted the "Men who are reading about Elliot Rodger: STFU" article a while back. She deleted me and my comment and wrote this.Good for you. I wish I had the spine to voice my dissent with every misandric piece of hypocritical garbage I see floating by my FB page. I could live with getting rid of some 'friends', but unfortunately I still need to keep a civil relationship with some relatives. | /r/MensRights | 25/06/14 05:41 AM |
| 4 | "Objectification," wtf?When it comes to objectification as in treating human beings as fungible objects it's much more prevalent and thorough with regards to men throughout society. Look at dress codes for anything from social events to the business world to the most extensive like the military and you'll notice the significant difference in extent to which men are encouraged to act the same, look the same and be the same. If there's a personality or uniqueness to be expressed externally, it's limited to the pattern o… | /r/MensRights | 24/06/14 07:41 PM |
| 2 | It's no longer enough to consent. They must consent with "enthusiasm" or the 'rapist' label is put squarely on the shoulders of the man.Well, if they actually wanted to resolve this the best way would be to simply make it both illegal for a woman to have sex while intoxicated as well as for anyone to have sex with her while she is intoxicated. That's what's implicitly said anyway, it's just that it'd probably be more difficult to get women to go along with the removal of their agency if it's actually spelled out for them. Men, of course, still can as they apparently have a different level of responsibility while drunk. | /r/MensRights | 24/06/14 05:19 AM |
| 8 | "You cannot be sexist toward men."Good god, where do they get these people and who lets them actually participate in higher education? From that link: Fifth, and finally, it favors “male” ways of moral reasoning that emphasize rules, rights, universality, and impartiality over “female” ways of moral reasoning that emphasize relationships, responsibilities, particularity, and partiality (Jaggar, “Feminist Ethics,” 1992). Yeah, there's a reason why the impartial ethics have come to dominate modern thought and that's because societ… | /r/MensRights | 22/06/14 05:13 PM |
| 2 | "35 Practical Steps Men Can Take to Support Feminism" (with response)Do 50% (or more) of housework. If your housework priorities are the same and division of labour is equitable sure. If priorities are different, consider living separately instead. If division of labour is inequitable, ie, things he does are discounted because they happen to be things like 'changing tires' or mowing the lawn instead of 'washing dishes' then recalculate with an equitable calculation. Or go separate ways. Do 50% (or more) of emotional support work in your intimate relationships and… | /r/MensRights | 20/06/14 11:56 AM |
| 1 | Guys, what's the big deal with circumcision?That's perfectly fine. But there are many men who do not feel like you do, there are many who feel they have lost pleasure or identity or been abused. How do you make sure you do not abuse anyone? How can you be sure that only those like you, who won't mind, are circumcised? Ultimately, the only way to do that is to require consent and to do it at an appropriate age. At the absolute very least I would say that allowing lawsuits for malpractice and responsibility for bodily harm against parents, … | /r/MensRights | 18/06/14 05:46 AM |
| 6 | Feminist who asked for guidance...Good for you. Supporting or discussing issues that are claimed by certain groups does not mean you have to become a member of those groups and trying to be part of any group that requires strong cohesion and conformity is just setting yourself up for future conflict if you are a strong and independent individual with a sense of intellectual honesty. Build your social context from people you genuinely like and who accept you for who you are, not based on peoples ability to conform to the leaders … | /r/MensRights | 17/06/14 06:05 AM |
| 5 | Feminist here...I need help.Two people write long raving manifestos about killing everyone of the opposite sex. Then they go out on a shooting spree. One of them is accepted, idolized or even credited with instigating a movement. The other one is pretty much universally reviled and considered utterly lunatic, supported by no one. You will find no MRA's that think Elliot Rogers had any relevance at all for men or men's rights. Radfems who think Valerie Solanas was relevant and influential are hardly hard to find. I would sa… | /r/MensRights | 16/06/14 08:07 PM |
| 5 | Feminist: “I don’t want to be treated like your equal. No! I want to be treated much better than you.” That should be the ideal all women strive for in life.To be fair, apart from the headline which could have been inserted by an editor, there isn't much in her text that indicates feminism or even equality desires to any significant extent. It sounds more like a throwback who'd be fine with the old days as they were. | /r/MensRights | 16/06/14 06:32 AM |
| 1 | Men, YOU need to obtain consent before sex-having. Women? Not so much.Many of the posters actually look somewhat balanced. Unfortunately I made the mistake of getting interested and read through the FAQ section on why they think the campaign is needed and there was a lot of the same old slanted data focusing only on women as victims and men as perpetrators. If they were really balanced they would at least point out that a lot of the male victim numbers are unknown due to far lower reporting rates, some places not even counting male rape, etc. | /r/MensRights | 16/06/14 06:15 AM |
| -1 | What do you think about a parent calling a son "pretty"?Count me in with the OP. Gender roles exist, but that does not mean we need to perpetuate irrelevant values around them. Yes, kids do tend to be overly concerned with random traits, although not always along gender lines (a distant relatives daughter got into trouble in pre-school for beating up boys who weren't wearing pink). Catering to such behaviour isn't the right way to deal with it, teaching them to accept differences is. As long as the kid doesn't object to it, there's certainly nothing … | /r/MensRights | 13/06/14 05:41 AM |
| 3 | [via r/SRSsucks] Male feminist suffers cognitive dissonance after experiencing false accusationI doubt the MRA movement will ever have its own Solanas. The reaction to Elliot Rodger who is in many ways comparable to Solanas is a quite good demonstration of the difference between feminists and mens rights activists. The murdering male with the manifesto gets pretty much universally condemned as a total psycho who nobody wants anything to do with. The female with the similar manifesto and psychotic violence seriously gets considered as part of the feminist movement and is iconified by parts… | /r/MensRights | 11/06/14 05:56 PM |
| 1 | This article about the "lies men's rights activist spread about women" popped up on my news feedIndeed. And I have yet to see anyone arguing that adults should not be allowed to get circumcised if they truly feel that it's the best protection against STDs (or for whatever reason they feel like). | /r/MensRights | 11/06/14 05:15 PM |
| 2 | Upon closer examination, strange data emerges from the CDC's 2010 National Intimate Parter and Sexual Violence Survey.I haven't gone through the entire methodology of the NIVS report but it does seem relatively sound. It does specify asking outright specifically about abuse which will slant the study towards things recognized as abuse by the victim. A good approach in my opinion, but it will reduce the prevalence somewhat within certain groups. Another specific point may be the use of only women as interviewers. While that may increase reporting in some cases I haven't seen any data on whether that effect is co… | /r/MensRights | 11/06/14 06:08 AM |
| 15 | This article about the "lies men's rights activist spread about women" popped up on my news feedYet another article espousing the benefits of circumcision on the STD transferrate among the infant population. And that it's ok that some men lose sexual pleasure and are traumatized for life, as many don't and aren't. And after that it's ok that the selective service registration is gendered as there hasn't actually been a draft in a long time. Then it goes on, claiming that false rape reports are rare (2-8%) while linking to a study with a 44% 'case did not proceed' rate which includes report… | /r/MensRights | 10/06/14 09:57 PM |
| 5 | a few pictures from a Detroit protest.What, no, that's not an angry fighting fist, it's obviously a loving fist in a hole. Probably a group of proud fisting enthusiasts who've gotten a bit caught up with the wrong crowd. | /r/MensRights | 10/06/14 07:15 PM |
| 1 | #YesAllWomen comic on MRAs. I have no words...The queer section of feminism is, in my opinion, the best hope for feminism to avoid falling into the radfem sexist trap. And at least its hard for them to attack and purge queers from the group as it's hard to shut them up by calling them privileged with any form of credibility. Out of curiosity, why are you a feminist? Personally I think you're going to get stabbed in the back, as at least where I live the sex-hating factions agendas are more successful in getting policy enacted. They are perf… | /r/MensRights | 10/06/14 06:22 AM |
| 3 | #YesAllWomen comic on MRAs. I have no words...The thing is, to subscribe to the beliefs of (extremist) feminists you have to recognize something of it in yourself or your male friends. Many of those ideas and descriptions are utterly foreign to any male roles and experiences that most men would recognize as valid. Which is why many men are utterly abhorred at the things described as part of a maleness that to most feels completely alien. Now I can understand why someone who actually has had a behaviour and an idea of masculinity that fits t… | /r/MensRights | 09/06/14 05:49 PM |
| 1 | What's with the oddly dissonant views on feminists?Personally I'd love being able to call myself a feminist if the movement cleaned itself up and ejected the douches. I'm not holding my breath. The acceptance of vileness is just too entrenched; everything from idolization of people like Valerie Solanas to active suppression of facts that don't support certain goals, to bullying of disstenters, to attempts to silence opposition hints at a movement that is so rotten by now that it's beyond redemption. But please do fight them and call them out, an… | /r/MensRights | 09/06/14 06:32 AM |
| 2 | Please help me with some rational rebuttals to this article my friend postedOne of the things that annoys me most with that article is this: "I don’t know about you, but I don’t spend much of my life feeling vulnerable." The fact is, he is a whole lot more vulnerable than any woman. Men are 2-3 times more likely to be victims of violent crime than women. The fact that he doesn't feel vulnerable has nothing to do with whether he is vulnerable. "I’ve come to learn that women spend most of their social lives with ever-present, unavoidable feelings of vulnerability. Stop an… | /r/MensRights | 07/06/14 12:56 PM |
| 2 | What if we can legitimize ourselves even in the eyes of feminists?You need to understand that some modern feminism is based on post-structuralist theory. They (and various other segments of feminism) inherently reject objective qualities. In fact, they'd most likely interpret something like that as an attempt to establish power and control. Which, to be fair, does sound like part of your motivation. Just don't engage with them, there's no point. Point out errors if they're trying to trick people into supporting their agendas when they engage in the usual outri… | /r/MensRights | 07/06/14 08:42 AM |
| 1 | Sexual assault infographic breakdownEven the debunkings of the infographic usually fail to account for wrong reports, the 20-40% of reports that actually get resolved but are closed as not a crime. They are not false accusations from the point of view of the reporter as they may actually think they have been the victim of something they have not, but they are false accusations from the point of view of the accused as they are accused of something they have not done. I think those are a bigger issue than the actual false accusation… | /r/MensRights | 06/06/14 11:19 AM |
| 3 | Another fabricated "misogyny" scandal in the tech industryMrm's? Sure, some would be. Tech in general? I doubt it. The first sentence in the NPR story is what gets it all wrong: "The consequences of a dearth of women in technology are showing up again..." The correct way to describe it would be "The consequence of a dearth of easily offended asses in technology is creating an accepting atmosphere where people aren't continuosly terrified of setting someone off." Of course, in fairness to the article, due to the (no doubt patriarchy induced) higher prev… | /r/MensRights | 06/06/14 09:34 AM |
| 2 | Another fabricated "misogyny" scandal in the tech industryWell, to be fair he wrote 'Girlfriend', and I doubt most girlfriends are complaining about it. Now, had he said 'Maven is that Feminist friend i have...' | /r/MensRights | 06/06/14 09:16 AM |
| 3 | Why is real men in quotation marks?Irony? Actual real men (and women) treat humans with respect. | /r/MensRights | 05/06/14 06:21 AM |
| 4 | Verbal or Written Permission Could be Required For College Sex [Article]If claims of coercion become a problem, then require the paper to be signed by witnesses. If claims of verbal rescinding are a problem, then require the act to be videotaped. The requirement for written consent would of course go both ways; so either you have a paper signed by both or it's no different from rape today. Sure, it'll probably mean a lot fewer people have sex, but I'd rather we get there sooner and have an actual discussion on what's reasonable or actual safety from false accusation… | /r/MensRights | 04/06/14 07:01 PM |
| 1 | "Women are treated like sexual objects, not a person, in advertisement. This never, ever, in the history of always, happens to men in ads. The idea that men are treated as sexual objects just like women is insulting."For the serious objections to objectification it's not the attractiveness that is the issue but the concept that the portrayed individual is exchangeable with anyone else with similar attributes. Fungibility and commoditization. Of course, that tends to disregard the fact that men are constantly objectified in pretty much every area of life, as many depictions of men as well as actual social codes expect them to behave and look specific ways. You don't need to go any further than looking at dres… | /r/MensRights | 04/06/14 05:03 AM |
| 2 | Questions about trans men in the Men's Rights Movement.Does the MRM address trans men and trans issues? Why? Issues that you'll get specifically as a man, yes, issues related to your human rights, to some extent, issues specifically related to being trans maybe less. Mainly because it's a very broad and diverse issue in itself that isn't that easy to relate to for many. How does MRM treat trans men and trans issues? My personal feeling is that men are rarely expecting exclusionary zones free from specific genders, and I don't see why trans men shoul… | /r/MensRights | 02/06/14 09:03 PM |
| 2 | How do those who attribute differences in gender expression to social constructionism reconcile their beliefs with trans individuals and hard sciences?I'm a bit unclear on what you're trying to get at. While I agree that the biological influences on gender identity and behaviour are strong (and in my opinion largely immutable), it is also quite apparent that pretty much all expressions and roles that we associate with gender are on sliding scales and most are only attributable to a specific gender on an aggregated statistical level. Even the pure biological expressions aren't exactly binary in their nature; genital ambiguity has a surprisingly… | /r/MensRights | 01/06/14 11:58 AM |
| 2 | Men are 4x as likely to be killed by lightning than women.Actually that's rather interesting statistics. At first I figured men were outside more (victim blaming, teach lightning not to kill!), but some googling on the specific activities responsible for the highest death rate turned up statistics like this: http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st5/RecEcon/Publications/fspo44.pdf This indicates that the 7% killed vs. 25% participation rate does not completely line up with participation as an explanation. Unfortunately I can't find specific statistics on an hour… | /r/MensRights | 01/06/14 08:17 AM |
| 3 | This sub's view on rape...Rape or 'rape'? Considering a lot of what gets classified as 'rape' in statistics these days isn't even recognized as rape by the victim, the range of trauma obviously spans from none to serious. You also shouldn't underestimate the trauma of false accusations; even the most rapidly dealt with can have life defining consequences and cause many of the same psychological issues that actual rape can. It's also much harder to find ways to deal with in the future; where a rape victim can work on thin… | /r/MensRights | 31/05/14 12:19 AM |
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