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I've been in therapy for a couple years now for severe depression following the death of my father. It has helped but not quite in the ways I expected. I expected to learn techniques to manage my issues. Instead, I learned my self management was good, but that I needed help identifying patterns of behavior and causes that were not obvious to me. I admit I would probably not still be in therapy if I was single. I stay in mostly because of the encouragement of my partner and to support them also c…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/03/23 10:14 PM
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I argued against the white supremacists and begged people to keep the movement politically neutral like it was. I got overrun.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/03/23 05:19 PM
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That's true, but that is not why it changed. I know because I was there.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/03/23 06:41 AM
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It changed because white supremacists and/or far right fascists started using it to recruit vulnerable young men.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/03/23 07:16 PM
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I'm going to copy an old post of mine from a few years back about young men committing suicide. Imagine being a little boy. Your dad is your hero. He is who you want do grow up to be. Then your parents get divorced and you cant see him as much. Your mom is mad at your dad. You're too young to know that she is hurting. The ways you constantly remind her of her ex husband through your habits or inherited similarities irritate her. She has less patience for you. You hear her friends talking with he…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/03/23 03:26 AM
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"I don't have a girlfriend, but I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that." Mitch Hedberg
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/02/23 08:55 AM
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It isn't the facts that are offensive, but the framing. Think of people saying that most murders are committed by men. That's true, but if it is used to prove it even imply that men are inherently bad or inferior that is offensive.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates06/02/23 09:31 PM
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I've been poly for 15ish years. You can do just fine without being a feminist. Most are pretty receptive to the idea that society as a system hurts men too. Just don't waste time arguing the "why" and keep your feelings on the matter to yourself.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/01/23 07:02 PM
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United States
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/10/22 09:36 PM
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We live in a city in a residential neighborhood two blocks from the beach and near a university. She was going down to the corner store for something. It's not like we don't have people coming from the beach in their swimsuits or college girls dressed for bar-hopping in the neighborhood all the time. My partner looked hot, but was definitely not the most revealingly dressed person out there. For better or worse, she is just one of those people who is a magnet for attention.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/10/22 08:57 PM
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My partner experimented with going without a bra this summer. She didn't even make it a block without a woman approaching her to angrily call her a slut. No men said anything.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/10/22 04:56 PM
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Unfortunately the gender of a brain isn't as clear as that. For a while we thought it was, but upon developing a larger sample set, it became clear that the variation of brain structure was much wider than expected and gender could not be determined reliably through brain scans. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00677-x
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/06/22 04:12 PM
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I didn't have so much of a problem with Mitoza. I was thinking of a particular user whose name I don't recall who used to make blatantly white supremacist arguments and post neonazi sources. Edit: Didn't realize there had been such a big mod overturn over there. Only one I recognize is tbri.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/04/22 01:41 AM
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Rabinowitz concludes, "There are places online where people who strongly disagree, up to a point, can engage productively. What those groups have in common is substantial rules and heavy moderator enforcement." I completely agree with this conclusion. The problem with it is it relies on fair moderators who won't let their personal opinions and biases affect their decisions. They need to stick to the rules and apply them evenly to everyone. Probably the best example I have seen of this is /r/femr…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/04/22 05:30 AM
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Just saw a post about a conservative rep writing about setting up a Christian theocracy and killing all males who didn't comply, so yes. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/414450-fbi-investigating-washington-state-rep-for-manifesto-urging-all-males/
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/04/22 06:31 PM
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Behavioral reinforcement works just as much for humans as animals. There's a great book called "Don't Shoot The Dog" written by a dolphin trainer that does a great job explaining how it works. The advice in it works for both people and animals.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/02/22 09:48 PM
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Thanks for talking about your experiences. I think the more people like us share, the more people like us stop being invisible.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/02/22 09:44 PM
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At least for me, I tell them about my abusive ex. Every time I said something she didn't like, she would slap me. For a good three or four years after we broke up I flinched any time any woman raised their hand above shoulder level near me due to PTSD from the experience. I put up with it because I had never been taught men could be the victim of domestic violence. I tell them, no matter who, nobody deserves to be treated like that and everyone needs help escaping abusers and recovering from tre…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/02/22 02:56 AM
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To quote Oscar Wilde, "Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power."
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/02/22 02:28 AM
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Somewhat complicating this is the fact that oftentimes the women are just as rich or richer than the men due to inheritances. Money marries money. A lot of the "household" stuff for the rich is maintaining a network of connections by which favors get done as well as managing antiques, artworks, valuable Persian rugs and the like that are very much a generational investment separate from a traditional stock portfolio. You are right that some of the new money, the wife is essentially a trophy the …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/01/22 09:08 PM
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Oh absolutely. If they have kids, the nanny takes care of them. The wives often are heavily involved with charities, have part time work from home jobs, or have vanity projects (like one woman has a little purse dog she trained to do all sorts of tricks for commercials and events).
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/01/22 10:06 PM
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I work for a bunch of really rich people and there is an interesting reinforcement of toxic masculinity at that end as well. They are still rich enough to maintain the traditional man as provider, woman as homemaker dynamic. There is also a sort of performative aspect to being considered "high class". Networking is really important at that level, so you have to belong to the right clubs (tennis, yacht, charitable, etc) and be seen at the right social events (opera, orchestra, balls, etc). A lot …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/01/22 07:50 PM
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I fully admit I am a snarky asshole. Doesn't make the fact that conservative economic policies are shit for poor people any less true.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/12/21 09:53 PM
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Little of the conservative view is in good faith, so it shouldn't be expected in return.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/12/21 09:03 PM
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Yeah, you can smoke weed with your gay husband and still hate the poor.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/12/21 05:06 PM
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Scholars as a group tend to lean left, so it's to be expected.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/10/21 11:06 PM
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That's not going to happen. Transferring the fetus would involve surgery, so feminists will shoot that down (and win) I'm not so sure. A lot of the arguments around abortion being legal revolve around the balance between the woman's rights and the potential child's rights. I could easily see a modification of the principle established in PP v Casey that prohibitions on abortion in the third trimester are permissible under the justification of fetal protection, as long as the life of the mother i…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/09/21 10:32 PM
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One thing people against legal parental surrender never think about is the future. Scientists estimate about 10 years before we have an artificial womb capable of gestating a human. They already have successfully gestated a lamb. What happens to abortion and child support law when this becomes a reality? A woman can say she doesn't want to carry a baby. The man can then say he does want the baby and have the fetus transferred to an artificial womb. Then the woman is stuck with child support. Tha…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/09/21 10:09 PM
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What has worked for me has always been having women as friends. Either the friendship turns into romance, or I meet one of their friends who is interested. Women are always more receptive to a guy if he had another woman's approval. The one major warning is don't go into a friendship with a woman expecting a relationship and then ditch them if it doesn't work out. It's shitty and it makes the woman feel like their only worth is sexual. Yeah, it sucks bottling up your feelings for someone , but i…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/09/21 12:51 AM
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As far as arguments for abortion rights go, the misogyny argument is definitely one of the reasons IMO, but it doesn't resonate with the conservative ideology many anti-abortion people have. I've made a couple think twice by pointing out that this is a terrifying amount of power for the government to have. If they can force a person to carry a baby, then can force you to take a vaccine, donate organs, or even worse. Its government overreach of the worst kind.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/09/21 08:44 PM
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One element of this is adolescent brain development. While men and women's brains end up in the same place by around the age 22-24, the way they get there is different based on the effects of different developmental hormones. In boys/young men, the ability to fully comprehend the consequences of their actions develops far later than girls/young women. This is where the stereotypes of young men being reckless and young women being manipulative come from.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/07/21 01:50 AM
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Yes, absolutely.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/06/21 12:13 AM
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I'm arguing in good faith. I think you are Miss by my point because you assume you already know what I think. Where did you get the impression that women are being discriminated against in the hiring process of tech jobs, or did you come to that opinion by hearsay? Like I said, the discrimination starts in education and upbringing (and it happens to men too). More women in tech helps with things like mentorship, establishing corporate policy (parental leave, etc.), and targeted recruiting. This …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/06/21 01:08 AM
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What do you mean by "correcting past discrimination"? Catching things up to where they would be without interference from social forces. Do you believe (a) discrimination against women in the past should be compensated or (b) past discrimination lead to a bias in today's hiring process? Yes to A, though by compensation I mean removed by systemic barriers that still exist as remnants from a more directly sexist past. B is related to that and my answer is sort of maybe. The bias is more an educati…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/06/21 02:07 AM
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Faith enough. It does say applications are closed. This however does not prove the ludicrous claim that the fund was ended "before white men could be given a chance". Here is the list of funded companies. Just a few down is #MYBLUESKY, LLC which as listed as being owned by a white male. So once again, what you are saying is false.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/06/21 01:39 AM
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Also, what do you mean by "nurture"? Nature/nurture is another common way of describing the influences from biology and society. Do you mean that women are hired less because the people hiring have a bias towards men, regardless of their skills? Or do you mean that women are taught by society that they shouldn't go into technical roles? And that men are taught to sacrificee their health and wellbeing to be a provider. And thaten are discouraged from pursuing "softer" interests like the arts or c…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/06/21 01:00 AM
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I gave a concrete example of a case where diversity indisputably had value. Removing unearned privilege isn't discrimination. It is correcting discrimination. Men face plenty of real problems and this isn't one of them.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/06/21 12:35 AM
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Once again false. The fund still exists and you can still apply and read application requirements here: https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options/restaurant-revitalization-fund
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/06/21 12:31 AM
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At this point, it would be dishonest to not concede that these differences are to a not insignificant part biological As would it be dishonest to concede that these differences are not to an insignificant part social. The inability to see a gray area between the nature/nurture argument gets old. Quotas as high as 40 to 50% might not ever be achievable, especially not without extreme discrimination. Depends what you are talking about. In most cases I think it would be 50/50 since very few jobs re…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/06/21 02:31 AM
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That is false. It prioritiezed other groups over white men. They were still included, just at a lower priority.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/06/21 01:59 AM
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Doesn't mean it's biological either. It's likely a combination of these and other reasons.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/06/21 01:22 AM
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And anyone has access to these jobs. It's just that some have easier access (like people with no legs get wheelchairs paid for in part or in full by the government).
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/06/21 01:21 AM
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Past discrimination was based on race and sex, so compensation will be too. Might as well complain that they only give wheelchairs to people without legs.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/06/21 01:01 AM
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That is your assumption. Do you know of any studies or data that support this claim? I have just as many studies and data to support this as you do to support your assumption that is all biological. Similarly, why don't we have quota for men in female dominated fields? We should. Early childhood education especially needs more men. It would dramatically improve the success of young boys in school. Additionally, if this is a temporary problem, why are there no plans to remove these quota from the…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/06/21 12:44 AM
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If the goal is not to hire women, then sure. The point is that diversity has inherent value.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/06/21 12:30 AM
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one of the places where they are doing the most to decrease socialized gender roles I don't agree with this premise. They have decreased socialized gender roles for women, but nowhere in the world has it been decreased for men to a fraction of that degree. I don't think men and women are the same. I just don't think that biological differences alone explain more than a fraction of the difference of the outcomes.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/06/21 12:24 AM
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I don't expect every job to be 50/50. Biological traits do have some effect, but I believe it is far more minor than is represented by demographics. Do you really doubt that men are discouraged from taking childcare roles or are socially indoctrinated to sacrifice their health and wellbeing in support of their family? That isn't biological, it is social and it had HUGE impact on career choices.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/06/21 12:19 AM
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Some statistical variation is expected, but that severe of a variation is based on sexism. Doesn't matter if it is firefighters or kindergarden teachers.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/06/21 12:15 AM
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White supremacists argued that it was natural that white people ruled over blacks. It isn't any more true in this case than that one. Natural differences may exist but they are inferior to societal influences.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/06/21 12:10 AM
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You would lose that bet.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/06/21 12:06 AM
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So is having an entire industry be 90% one gender. That doesn't happen randomly. It is engineered, so a fix has to be engineered.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates31/05/21 03:53 PM
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Look into the motion sickness problems with women in early VR development. Developers didn't realize that men and women react differently to VR because all the early devs were men. Diversity was needed to recognize and solve the problem. Edit: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2014/04/03/is-the-oculus-rift-sexist.html
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates31/05/21 03:51 PM
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It is literally impossible to correct persistent inequalities created by past discrimination without discrimination in the opposite direction. It's like trying to make a 3 foot rope and a 7 foot rope the same length by tying 5 foot ropes to each.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/05/21 05:59 PM
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I would argue that the policy is egalitarian. It is helping correct existing inequalities based on race and sex.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/05/21 05:53 PM
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The right wing doesn't stand up for men. They stand up for the status quo. That includes men being thrown into the meat grinder of war.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/05/21 05:48 PM
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That the white supremacist Trump toadie Stephen Miller is behind this lawsuit and brought it before an extreme right leaning judge to get the ruling should make every left leaning person cheering this ruling take pause.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/05/21 02:16 AM
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There is relief available to everyone. This is just extra on top of that because the past inequalities still have effects that persist today. That's why black men on average earn less money, have less education, and are more likely to be incarcerated. Complaining about this money is light right wingers complaining about how poor kids get free school lunches while kids from affluent families have to pay for lunch. Equality does not exist in our society now. I hope we can agree on that. If we give…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/05/21 11:01 PM
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The idea that white men are losing out to women and minorities when in reality past inequalities are being rectified to create a level playing field is white supremacist propaganda whether OP knows it or not.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/05/21 01:10 AM
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I'm not trying to be obstinate and argue with you, but I just want to fully explain myself (which I admit I should have done in the original comment). I should have pointed out the research recently published by Robert Pape. He investigated the motivation behind more than 380 people arrested for the assault on the Capitol building. They are predominantly middle-class to upper-middle-class white men who are worried that, as social changes occur around them, they will see a decline in their status…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/05/21 12:25 AM
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Rule 2. Egalitarian values Racial supremacy of any kind is by definition anti-egalitarian. Rule 7. Avoid personal attacks on other users. I didn't attack the user. I attacked the article the user posted.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/05/21 11:40 PM
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Treating feminism as an enemy hasn't worked and won't work. They are too big, popular, and established. We have to position ourselves as a compatible but separate movement. They fight for women's issues, we fight for men's issues, and together we both make things more equal. I'm not saying we become them or join them. Just that we play nice and stay out of their way whenever possible at least until we shake the image we have now as an anti-women movement. We will never win the radicals, but we c…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/05/21 12:16 AM
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The largest inequalities men face are old. The draft, circumcision, homelessness, and working more physically demanding dangerous jobs for longer hours. Many of the new inequalities I would argue are due to the monopoly feminism has with the gender dialog. If men gained a seat at the table, those would fade quickly.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/05/21 11:50 PM
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It is much easier moderating left wing subs in regards to hate speech and calls for violence because it is infinitely more rate than with the right. Including the right in any discussion adds more violent rhetoric and degrades the community's ability to discuss issues based on objective reality.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/05/21 11:40 PM
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Women weren't sent to war, homeless, etc because of traditional gender roles. They were expected to have little education, be homemakers, and have children. If they were married, then jobs related to childcare and homemaking were acceptable like being a maid or a nanny. That was the role that was enforced on them like the role men were forced to take as laborers, soldiers, etc. While a lot of gay men and transmen do appear to adhere to traditional male roles, I don't think it necessarily follows…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/05/21 11:34 PM
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I would argue that women are prioritized, not because it is intrinsic to the left, but because feminism has been allowed to be uncontested as the voice of gender equality. That can be changed. A men's groups could put out all those same tweets because they are nongendered and the last could be spun to be nongendered too. The LGBTQIA portion of the left would be all over keeping things more gender neutral (well, maybe not the L). For all the left gets criticized for running on their feelings, the…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/05/21 11:19 PM
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Becoming unchanging means death. Without change we can't evolve. Evolution demands constant adaptation. Even a perfect society can grow. That requires a willingness to accept change.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/05/21 03:20 AM
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Men as an exploited class is entirely consistent with socialist/class warfare ideology. They are and always have been the majority of the proletariat. Feminism's disproportionate focus on gender has long been used as a tool of the upper class to divide us. There is no choice in US politics besides right and left The equal rights amendment, championed by the left would be a huge success for us. It would give us a huge microphone for our issues through the court system. We would be able to prove u…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/05/21 03:15 AM
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Continued inequality and bigotry are a result of an inability to change. The overwhelming majority of those preventing this change are conservatives. You're in the wrong sub if you think the perfect society is conservative. That idea horrifies me.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/05/21 03:03 AM
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The worldview you describe is a result of decades of the singular influence on feminism on the left. It can be changed unlike the intrinsic traditionalism of conservatism.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/05/21 01:53 AM
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Also the oppression of gay and transmen through gender essentialism and strictly enforced gender roles, the death and maiming of men through rampant militarism, the suffering of homelessen due to a lack of a social safety net, and the exploitation of men as laborers through unrestrained capitalism.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/05/21 08:15 PM
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Our enemy is things staying the same, which is the core of conservatism. If we position ourselves on the left and parallel to feminism, not in opposition to it as is perceived now, we can find greater acceptance and support.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/05/21 08:12 PM
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It should be bipartisan or nonpartisan but it can't be. I remember when /r/mensrights was nonpartisan and how easily it was infected by far right extremists/white supremacists. Conservatism is ultimately incompatible with men's rights because the ideology is centered on maintaining traditionalism and the status quo. We need to change and move on from the past, not preserve it.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/05/21 08:02 PM
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We need to fully accept that conservatism is the enemy of men's equality and fully align ourselves with progressivism. Nearly all other parts of the men's movement are infected with the lunacy that conservativism has become. They are targeted by white supremacist extremists as recruiting grounds. We need to explicitly reject that and active fight those ideas.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/05/21 01:56 PM
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You make a good point that there is definitely the caveat that the method I suggested. Shy, more traditional women will not respond, but more assertive, less traditional women definitely will. I wouldn't recommend going after shy, unassertive women if you are struggling with romantic interactions since that is hard mode. If that is what you are into though, you might be stuck and have to do it the hard way.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/04/21 11:48 PM
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I've never dated a woman I wasn't friends with first. You meet wherever and however you normally make friends. If there's potential for something more, she will make it known. If there isn't, you're just friends (at which point you will meet her other lady friends who might be interested). I know how hard it is when you are starved for romantic attention, but you can't push it. Don't read too deep into this analogy, but it's like trying to pet a skittish dog. If you try and reach out too quick, …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/04/21 01:30 AM
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His son is transgender and told the courts they preferred male pronouns. The court ordered the father to use the child's preferred pronouns and he violated the order while in court. Because of this he was jailed for contempt of court. This idiot thinks he knows better than his ex-wife, his son, and multiple doctors what is best for his child. The only danger to the child is having a father who tries to force them to live in a way that makes them miserable.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/03/21 12:48 AM
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That is definitely a potential problem, but our girlfriend is very careful about treating us equally and fairly. It's not the kind of thing everyone could do, but it absolutely can work.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/02/21 12:52 AM
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I am. Just haven't found anyone I have connected with but I'm still looking. I'm not the type for one night stands.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/02/21 11:44 PM
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You might surprise yourself. A good buddy of mine and I have been in a relationship with the same woman for a decade now. She's bi but he and I are strictly heterosexual. We never have had a threesome or anything like that. I was poly before but he wasn't and it surprised him how well it worked for him. We both want our girlfriend to be happy and we each make her happy so there has never been any jealousy. We don't feel we lose anything by this arrangement, only gain. We make her twice as happy,…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/02/21 12:18 AM
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Go far enough left and you hit polyamory. That fixes a lot of these problems.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/02/21 05:24 PM
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So no proof of your claim then? That's what I thought.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/01/21 01:43 AM
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I proved my point. The burden of proof is on you to prove yours. So far all you have done is asset your opinion to be fact without a shred of evidence. Nobody cares about less male nurses, secretaries or daycare workers. Totally separate argument.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/01/21 01:01 AM
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Black businesses in say NYC, do just as well as white businesses in NYC, comparing like and like. So yea, I win. Black-owned businesses account for just 3.5 percent of all firms in the city, despite an overall population that is nearly 22 percent Black.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/01/21 12:55 AM
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Except in places I'm talking about they don't fail to compete. We are talking about businesses and I proved black businesses do not. Similar proof is readily available for most historically disenfranchised groups. Your analogy is irrelevant.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/01/21 12:33 AM
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I disagree. I think it is more patronizing and humiliating to blame historically disinfranchised groups for their failure to compete with groups who aren't discriminated against.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/01/21 10:46 PM
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Discrimination and marketing aren't the same as much as you pretend they are. Marketing usually targets specific demographic, whether it is white men 18-34, or black women. It is no different and there is nothing wrong with it. Nobody is banned from buying the product based on protected class.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/01/21 10:39 PM
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If this is what customers want, they will make money, if not then they won't. Vote with your dollar. Nothing else to do about it. Personally, I see nothing wrong with consumers preferring to spend their money with historically disadvantaged groups to help correct persistent economic inequities. For example, 13.4% of the US is black but only 2.2% of us businesses with employees are black-owned. There are simply far fewer black owned businesses due to this county's history of discrimination. There…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/01/21 04:25 AM
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It isn't discrimination, at least not by the company. Consumers are the ones who discriminate, which is in no way legally actionable.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/01/21 03:21 AM
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Basically, treat the relationship like you both have different religions. Let her have her beliefs and keep yours to yourself. Accept that gender issues are not something you will ever see eye to eye on and are not up for debate. Trust that she wants equality the same as you, just that she uses different language and has different priorities when it comes to the most significant issues for her. What matters is that you treat each other fairly and lovingly.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/12/20 12:08 AM
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I guess dream me is a slut.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/12/20 10:12 PM
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I had an ex call me at 3AM, mad at me because she had a dream I cheated on her. Not all feelings are justifiable.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/12/20 02:28 AM
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Yes, I am sure. I have been a part of the men's rights community for at least a decade. I saw the change myself.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/10/20 10:41 PM
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I suspect the Russian trolls could have also had a hand in posting extremist media there. go down this list of alt right white supremacists and a shocking number of them come up on a search of the men's rights sub, especially around the time of the last election.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/10/20 09:52 PM
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Your statement being true doesn't preclude my statement from also being true.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/10/20 09:47 PM
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I was part of the community through it. It happened. Posts from alt right speakers started popping up like Milo Yiannopolis (or however the fuck it is spelled), Roosh V, Vox Day, Gavin McInnes,Mike Cernovich, and others. Basically go down this list of alt right white supremacists and a shocking number of them come up on a search of the men's rights sub, especially around the time of the last election. The Proud Boys entire gig is co-opting men's rights positions and language while injecting a wh…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/10/20 09:44 PM
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It wasn't just that. It was intentional recruiting men's online groups by the alt-right/white supremacists.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/10/20 02:43 AM
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The argument goes something like the Patriarchy encourages a dominance-based social/economic structure that creates an overexploitation of nature which dramatically increases the exposure of humans to zoonotic pathogens.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/09/20 09:35 PM
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I'm all for it. The more women we have as politicians, the more people will realize that women can be just as awful as men.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/08/20 11:01 PM
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I literally could not care less. This is whining about a splinter when other people have a bullet wound.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates31/07/20 03:25 PM
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None of the leaders suggest eliminating the police without replacing it with equivalent services enforcing the law. They just want to rebuild the system from scratch. They don't want anarchy as you imply.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/06/20 07:59 PM
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So exactly the behavior of the police now?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/06/20 07:54 PM
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Defunding the police does not necessarily mean getting rid of the police altogether. Rather, it would mean reducing police budgets and reallocating those funds to crucial and oft-neglected areas like education, public health, housing, and youth services.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/06/20 12:14 AM
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See #15 "We demand autonomy be given to the people to create localized anti-crime systems." Also known as, police.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/06/20 11:17 PM
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Defund the police does not mean abolish the police and shut down STEM does not mean bringing down science. If you had taken even a minute to look at the goals of these movements you would know that.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/06/20 04:39 AM
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It is worth mentioning that men simply have less prolactin than women. That is the hormone that enables lactation by stimulating fluid production in the body. It also stimulates the glands that produce tears. https://www.yourhormones.info/hormones/prolactin/
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates06/06/20 05:11 PM
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How about we just have the government fund higher education for everyone who has the ability?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/05/20 01:54 AM
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In the past it has been referred to as sex negative or sex critical feminism. It was more popular in second wave feminism. Third wave feminism was generally more sex positive but there are hold-overs.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/04/20 07:54 PM
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Sex work(er) exclusionary radical feminist.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/04/20 11:51 PM
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You can complain about bad Christians without thinking all Christianity is bad, can't you?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/04/20 05:18 PM
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I've been a part of various male advocacy subs for more than a decade and people are always sure censorship is coming. It never does. You've bought into the right wing propaganda (Maoist? Really?).
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/04/20 05:22 PM
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Personal insults are not an argument. They are evidence of a lack of one.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/04/20 04:02 AM
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No. Because he was a professional athlete, not a medical professional So it is absurd to pay him more than a medical professional since what he does has less utility. Fuck off with this logic. Logic doesn't care about your feelings. No billionaires earn it. Considering how much he has invested towards philanthropy, your arrogance is deafening. Philanthropy that would not be needed if funds had been distributed equitably from the start. Yeah, no... I don't agree with equality of outcome. And nor …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/04/20 12:06 AM
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So, yeah, he did work for his BILLIONS, in my opinion. He worked, sure. Never argued otherwise. But that work is not worth billions. Did he produce more utility than the man who cured polio? Did he produce more utility than a teacher who has educated hundreds of students? I would say clearly not. Fuck no. Pay Michael Jordan 200K a year to play basketball? Are you insane? We aren't talking about what he would be paid but what he would accept. If nobody offered him more than 200k when he got out o…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/04/20 04:55 AM
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No, Michael Jordan didn't work for his millions. You don't think he would have happily done the same job for $200k a year? Of course he would. It's better than any job he could get with his BA in geography. Jordan's pay scale is the opposite of free market. It is teams paying an inflated value to claim a monopoly on him.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/04/20 10:28 PM
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No one works for $100m. No job is that useful.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/04/20 12:02 AM
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She is onto something with the having to pee on the bus analogy. She just thought of the reason as a woman, not a man. The "having to pee" bit isn't so much about loneliness (although that is a problem) as it is about men's much higher libido. Especially young men have a an intense, sometimes all-consuming biological urge for sex. This is not to excuse sexual assault or rape. That is unacceptable. However we do have to recognize the very real suffering cause by this unfulfilled urge. Men can't f…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/04/20 07:17 PM
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Attractiveness is less relevant for men. Purely mechanical stimulation is usually enough to reach orgasm. With most women, purely mechanical stimulation isn't enough to reach orgasm without psychological arousal. And psychological arousal is less about looks as it is about attitude and ability to mentally stimulate a woman.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/04/20 12:43 AM
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When compared to a free, legal option this is less appealing.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/04/20 12:40 AM
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And they serve more men than women.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/04/20 12:38 AM
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Women do generally enjoy sex for the sake of sex. They just don't need to pay for it because men's average higher libido gives them more options. A big difference is that while an orgasm is pretty much guaranteed for a man, it is not for a woman. To get a good experience, they have to be more selective.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/04/20 05:12 AM
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It's not about the accusation so much as it is a tool to put Biden on the defensive and make him look weak. Trump doesn't have to defend against the accusations. None of his supporters care. Biden's potential supporters do. Trump's goal is not to get their vote but to get them to stay home on election day.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/04/20 08:06 PM
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Trump would have beaten Biden easily before this came out. Now Trump would demolish Biden. He needs to drop out of the race and let Sanders take the nomination because Bernie has the best ability to beat Trump.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates31/03/20 04:33 PM
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While I agree with the greater point you are making, avoiding what will almost certainly be an argument with a family member where neither side is likey to change their mind is probably good advice. There is a lot more to lose than there is to gain.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/03/20 09:58 PM
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I wonder which gender is more likely to have a job that exposed them to conditions which can cause long term respiratory damage.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/03/20 07:52 AM
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Not if that intervention is funding the construction of highly advanced sex robots.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/03/20 01:21 AM
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I prefer cult to religion. Calling it a religion implies it should receive certain legal rights and protections.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/03/20 09:33 PM
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It strikes me that for all the effort feminists put into pointing out flaws of men's rights groups, they never ask themselves where feminism failed so that these men sought out another gender rights movement. It seems they think the more they berate us, the more likely we are come to their side. The idea that they might have to change never occurs to them.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/03/20 07:23 AM
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You might as well say 'no u'. That has been your entire side of this argument. You have failed to provide any evidence or coherent argument this entire time. You aren't here to argue just to sperg Pretty shitty to use ableist slurs to insult someone due to your lack of an argument. Look at the humans rights record if the USSR. They violated free speech, free movement, property rights, discriminated against gay and lesbians and Jews and black people, took political prisoners. Please learn some hi…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/03/20 10:44 PM
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Seems like women have a hard time "dating down". They want their guy to be taller, smarter, and more affluent than they are.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/03/20 09:25 PM
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It's literally all you knew when this discussion started and you assumed it. Incorrect and dishonest. Because you haven't proven anything you are just triggered and throwing shit against a wall. Incorrect, dishonest, and projection. Dude the evidence is right there in your own article. You should have read it before you posted it. Incorrect and dishonest. It's not even comparable. Prove it. Why would you thank Sanders? He wanted us to learn from them, not the other way around. Incorrect and dish…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/03/20 03:46 AM
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Pretty much just an example of a bell curve. The best and worst of every group tends to be male because we have a wider bell curve.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/03/20 03:01 AM
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And you think I'm dishonest because I disagree with you. That is a dishonest statement. You have repeated falsehoods several times. Why would I admit to something I'm not? You haven't admitted when you have been proven wrong numerous times. You are dishonest. Read your own article. You have repeatedly failed to provide proof for your statements, because you know you're wrong, because you are dishonest. Except one side really was that bad and we have the human rights violations to prove it. Both …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/03/20 02:48 AM
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To piggyback on your comment, there is also this idea that semen is disgusting. It is considered a fetish for women to like it, indicating that dislike or ambivalence is normal. I was sexually active for years before I encountered a woman who didn't act like it was some kind of toxic waste. I have talked to a lot of men with similar experiences. Considering how ejaculation is mostly equivalent to orgasm with men, it isn't a far jump to feel like your partner feels like your orgasm is disgusting.…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/03/20 02:21 AM
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Right you assumed I was being dishonest from the get go. This is bias. Thanks for admitting it. Yes, I am biased against dishonest people. Thank you for admitting you are dishonest. He toured with a bunch of other politicians, none of them felt the need to praise an authoritarian dictatorship for the sake of politics. Prove it. Say what you like in private, but this was a US braodcast, Russians weren't really going to see it. He was saying this to the US population. Fucking duh. After decades of…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/03/20 09:46 PM
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There is clearly a dogma to feminism that is not acceptable in a scientific discipline. Dogma cannot be questioned and in science all premeses must be able to be tested. I wouldn't go so far to say that no useful science comes from feminism. For example, intersectionality is an interesting theory that may be the best behavioral model of it's kind so far. I'm always an optimist, so I haven't given up hope that one day feminism can be transformed into a more egalitarian, less dogmatic, and more sc…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/03/20 03:17 AM
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If you didn't know which one it is clear you assumed the context was wrong before knowing what was being talked about. That's bias. No, that is experience talking to dishonest people. I said his statement would be logical if he accepted the practices of the system that provided it. You do understand that a basic concept in politics is you have to pretend to be nice to others to stay on their good side, right? He was trying to help end the cold war by improving US/USSR relations. Look at Saudi Ar…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/03/20 02:25 AM
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Because I assume you had already seen it based on your earlier comments. It seems this was wrong. You were accusing me of getting it wrong before you'd even seen it. Which demonstrates an immense bias you clearly hold. You said yourself, Sanders has said similar things several times. Don't blame me for not reading your mind on which quote you were thinking of. I fully admit bias towards truth and honesty, one which you clearly do not share. It's perfectly reasonable if you support the practices …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/03/20 12:04 AM
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You still neglected to post a source, but I was able to find one based on the information you gave. Like I thought, you are misrepresenting what he said out of context. This quote is from a 1988 trip Sanders took to the Soviet Union with a delegation attempting to foster peace between the two nations. This is during the period of Glasnost and Perestroika where the Soviet Union was trying to open itself to the world and American politicians were trying to make peace. Properly considered in that c…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/03/20 03:11 AM
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How about you post what Sanders said without editing it along with a source so we can verify he actually said it?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/03/20 01:52 AM
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Besides, the economic system during enslavement wasn't capitalism. Lol. Okay troll.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/03/20 10:40 PM
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Except that isn't what Sanders was saying at all. You either didn't understand his point or are intentionally misrepresenting him. Even the worst regime may have things that were done well and that we can learn from. To ignore a good idea because of who came up with it is foolish.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/03/20 09:30 PM
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Pointing out blatant hypocrisy is different than whataboutism. Whataboutism is used to deflect from your own misdeeds. You are the only one deflecting here.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/03/20 02:36 AM
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The US enslaved millions of black people and committed genocide against the native American population. That men's nothing good we have done matters to you, right?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/03/20 02:08 AM
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Ancient Greeks fucked underage boys. Guess we have to give up on democracy, right? After all, a culture can't both have good points that we can learn from without supporting the bad.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/03/20 01:48 AM
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Every relationship has a few things where you just smile and nod. Feminism is no different. I've been dating a feminist for 8 years. The occasional comment about toxic masculinity or whatever is worth being with a woman who carries her own weight.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/03/20 01:03 AM
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I am going to copy a post I made about male suicide rates that also applied to guilt. Imagine being a little boy. Your dad is your hero. He is who you want do grow up to be. Then your parents get divorced and you cant see him as much. Your mom is mad at your dad. You're too young to know that she is hurting. The ways you constantly remind her of her ex husband through your habits or inherited similarities irritate her. She has less patience for you. You hear her friends talking with her about ab…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/02/20 03:11 AM
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I really wish they would crosspost this to /r/amitheasshole
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/02/20 02:06 AM
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Sexual harassment is natural human behavior. Acting to attract a mate is natural behavior for all sexually reproductive species. Humans, having a more complicated social structure have more complicated rules for what mate attraction behavior is attractive and what isn't. The behaviors are pretty much the same across cultures, but the reaction to various behaviors is culturally dependant. What isn't attractive in a certain culture is labeled sexual harassment.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/02/20 01:23 AM
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Men and women have different demand and supply on average, differing base attractiveness, and differing distribution of attractiveness (with women having a more or less normal curve, and men being quite skewed). There is definitely a lot of complexity to it, but the end result isn't as different as you would expect in spite of the variables. One thing a lot of guys will attest to is that in a monogamous relationship, independent of sexual and relationship satisfaction, a woman's sex drive tends …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/01/20 11:59 PM
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This is where the economic analogy falls apart. 0 aren't products that are produced. There isn't anyone saying to make X products of Y quality with Z features. Also in a relationship, a person is simultaneously the consumer and the product. People only realistically have relationships with others of comparable attractiveness. There isn't any risk of the highest attractiveness people monopolizing all the partners because they are only interested in people of relatively comparable attractiveness. …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/01/20 09:51 PM
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Demand is fixed in the sense that pretty much everyone wants at least one person to love. That sets a minimum demand. Eliminating exclusivity destroys supply for all but the most attractive. This is not what we see in practice and not an accurate assessment at all. It shows a fundamental lack of comprehension of non-monogamy. Supply essentially becomes infinite, so it is impossible for the finite number of highly attractive people to consume it all.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/01/20 04:17 AM
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One factor that seldom gets addressed in this type of discussion is the increasing popularity of various forms of non-monogamy. I see it as a good thing that alleviates the social stresses caused by hypergamy. Demand for partners is essentially fixed, so eliminating exclusivity functionally increases supply. I have been polyamorous for well over a decade and it is well understood within the community that women have a much easier time finding partners than men. The idea that prime men "hoard" wo…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/01/20 09:26 PM
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Also the discrimination lawsuits under California's Unruh Civil Rights Act.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/01/20 03:31 AM
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I think it is less that black men are intimidated by successful women and more that black culture still has a strong attachment to traditional gender roles. It is no wonder, after generations of being called "boy", that black men especially value asserting their masculinity. An educated black woman is less likely to take a subservient role and indulge traditionalist masculine pride. For the same reason, there is also increased shame for black men who earn less than their partner. They are failin…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/01/20 01:56 AM
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This raises some important questions regarding medical marijuana. New York allows the prescription of medical marijuana for PTSD. If someone uses marijuana prior to having sex due to a history of PTSD from sexual assault, is it counted as rape because they are impaired or is it acceptable because they have a prescription? If it is the latter, does the same marijuana use prior to sex without a prescription then considered rape? What if one person has a prescription and shares the marijuana with a…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/12/19 10:09 PM
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Asian isn't a race. It is a description of a wide range of races with the common origin of the continent of Asia. You are welcome to celebrate being of European ancestry all you want. That would be the equivalent. There are no common "white" racial interests outside of finding the best sunscreen.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/12/19 11:50 PM
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No they don't. Your confusing ethnicity with race.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/12/19 10:46 PM
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Nobody cares about a group being explicitly Irish, Swedish, Polish, etc. The only reason black people in America get a pass on explicitly racial associations is they usually cannot say they are Senegalese or Nigerian or whatever because their ancestors were taken as slaves and had their culture stripped from them.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/12/19 08:49 PM
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I'm basically agreeing with you by pointing out the root philosophies of what you are talking about.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/12/19 09:40 PM
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What I am saying is that while feminism is a liberal movement there exists within it an ideological divide between authoritarians who prioritize order and prioritize the group over the individual, and libertarians (not the political party) who prioritize free choice and prioritize the individual over the group.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/12/19 09:09 PM
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An authoritarian vs libertarian axis exists independent of the liberal vs conservative axis.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/12/19 06:25 AM
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asked you for proof that the free market has failed to produce technological innovations to combat it and that the government is the solution. If the free market produced sufficient innovations to combat climate change, there wouldn't be climate change. There is so they didn't. The logic is quite simple. If you have a third option besides the free market and the government which has the power to make the necessary changes to stop climate change, I am open to suggestions. Nope, I'm remarking on t…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/12/19 04:08 AM
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I don't need to provide evidence that the sky is blue and you are the one gaslighting by asking me to prove it is.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/12/19 04:03 AM
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Your mistake is thinking my goal is to change your mind. It is obvious that facts hold no importance to you. I just don't want others who read your words to mistake your lies for truth by letting them go uncontested. I have accomplished my goal.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/12/19 01:44 AM
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I'd ask you to prove your claims, The proof is that climate change is still happening and the US is still contributing to it. Here is proof Eco-fascists like you are only out for control, you're not looking to fix the problem, you're looking to blame. Personal attacks and projection. I just don't want the human race to go extinct while small minded people squabble over worthless pieces of paper. As I said, the government was unable to protect children from a fucking loser shooting up their high …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/12/19 01:39 AM
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The sky is blue and think tanks hire based on ideology. Both are facts that are obvious to the point of not requiring proof in as part of honest discourse.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/12/19 01:21 AM
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We have known about climate change for at least 30 years. The free market has had every opportunity to make adequate changes to deal with climate change. It has failed to do so in spite of having every opportunity to act. Their failure has made government action the only remedy.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/12/19 01:05 AM
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I can't prove anything if you deny basic reality. I won't waste my time proving to you the sky is blue.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/12/19 10:51 PM
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Taxing greenhouse gasses is incentivising technological innovation in the free market.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/12/19 10:50 PM
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Want me to prove the sky is blue for you too?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/12/19 10:38 PM
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convincing argument for why giving more money to big brother is going to fix climate change. Corporations aren't going to cut their production of the gasses that contribute to climate change out of the goodness of their hearts. They will do what is more profitable. I hope we can at least agree on that. Increasing taxes on greenhouse gas production is about shifting the math so that it becomes more profitable to not produce them. That doesn't sound reasonable to you?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/12/19 10:04 PM
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Because someone's employer is totally representative of their political stance, When it is a think tank it is, especially a Conservative one. Ideological alignment is a prerequisite for the job.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/12/19 09:50 PM
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A while back a friend of a friend on Facebook went on a rant about how Facebook treated "men are trash" as hate speech after getting a previous post removed. She and several of her friends proudly said "men are trash". I fully admit I took great pleasure in reporting them. The posts got deleted and she got a temporary ban for repeat offense.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/12/19 09:57 AM
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Gender rights movements outside feminism are still potentially valid and men deserve the same ability to sustain a gender rights movements as women. Misandrists should not be allowed to use feminism as a weapon and should not be enabled by feminists who protect them. Equal responsibility is just as necessary as equal rights.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/12/19 11:39 PM
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In that case it shows complete ignorance of our goals. We don't want to stop social progress, we want to be included in it.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/12/19 08:47 PM
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Why do you people always think calling us reactionary is some great point? All rights movements are reactionary, i.e. they are a reaction to their rights being denied.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/12/19 04:16 AM
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But the thing is, you only care about this sort of speech when it is discriminating against minorities. After all this talk you still dont fucking understand my core argument. It would be no more legal to advocate for whites or Christian's to lose their rights than black or Muslims. Doesn't matter. Yes it does because your argument is irrelevant and has nothing to do with what we have been talking about this whole time. You're wrong. Have the balls to admit it. And you are suggesting criminalizi…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/11/19 10:34 PM
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Between speech and action? Again are you serious? Yes, go ahead and tell me where the dividing line is. Speech is action when your speech tells others what to do. That is why ordering a hitman to kill someone is still murder and why the president ordering others to break the law is still impeachable. I think it is more evil to take away somebodies right to speak, than to speak about taking away somebodies rights. You are making the same fallacious argument. Nobody is having their right to speak …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/11/19 01:39 AM
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If it is a serious and immediate physical threat. And you say my ideas are too subjective. You can be a radical and believe in violent revolution and advocate for that. You just can't threaten people in that pursuit. When that revolution explicitly includes oppressing or killing certain specific groups, what is the difference? just because I don't censor somebody doesn't mean I support them All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. It makes me wonder if you believe in free …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/11/19 10:19 PM
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If it was in the context of a comment about his policy and not a legitimate threat it would be free speech. People do actually say things like this fairly often. It's fine as long as it isn't a legitimate threat. So you are okay with limiting free speech of people only if people are serious about what they say? It is if it is political speech. So I have to ask you again now, why not just allow all types of political speech? Wrong. Threats of violence based on politics is terrorism and that is il…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/11/19 02:24 AM
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I wouldn't call that political speech Provided it was expressed as a reaction to the president's political actions and not personal reasons, it absolutley qualifies. In any case, this sort of speech is not protected by the 1st amendment in order to protect a more important right, the right to life of an individual. So you'd be ok with white supremacists arguing for taking away the civil rights act all together? If so in what way are protecting minorities from discrimination? Yes, I would be okay…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/11/19 11:11 PM
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Conservatives are wrong about almost everything and when they arent wrong, it is totally accidental and not derived from good judgement.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/11/19 04:20 AM
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It all comes down to the problem of bias of the judge, jury, and prosecutors. I wish we could develop a system where justice was truly blind where decisions about guilt and punishment were made without the courts knowing the defendant's race, sex, sexuality, or religion.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/11/19 04:15 AM
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It's nice to hear a feminist acknowledge that femsplaining is real. I had a feminist friend argue with me that a mineral mentioned on a tv show wasnt real, while I insisted it was real. I have a geology degree and she does not. All I could think is that if the roles were reversed, she would be tearing my head off about not respecting her expertise because she was a woman.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/11/19 03:52 AM
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Why don't you just not restrict anybodies political speech? Should I be able to threaten to kill the president? How could I argue against the 19th without arguing that a group should be allowed to be discriminated against based on protected status? Because arguing for the removal of that amendment would affect the sexes equally. Same with civil rights. The law protects all equally and arguing for its removal would affect all equally. Now of you said the civil rights act shouldn't apply to white …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/11/19 03:00 AM
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Except the people you are explicitly taking it away from. Because they are taking it away entirely from others. You missed that part. Slightly restricting one group's free speech to protect the entirety of the rights of another group is the lesser evil. Right so why should we allow you to argue against the 1st amendment, but not people to argue against the 19th or the civil rights act? That is not at all what I said. You can argue against the 1st, 19th, or any other part of the Constitution. You…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates06/11/19 09:10 PM
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And there is no exception for what you are arguing for either. Hence why you are arguing against the 1st. I am arguing for preserving the 1st for everyone, not just the majority like you are. And there is no exception for what you are arguing for either. Hence why you are arguing against the 1st. Correct. You just couldn't argue that black people, Asians, Jews, etc should be excluded from protections of the act. You are arguing in favor of censorship and taking away people's free speech. Paradox…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/11/19 03:21 AM
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Which this isn't. Didnt say it was. That is one example of many exceptions to free speech. You are saying it should be illegal to argue for legal discrimination against people due to protected class status (sex, race, religion etc.). That is making it illegal to argue against the 19th, no matter what you are discriminating people from (other amendments included). Incorrect. The 19th is gender neutral, so opposition to it would not qualify as discrimination based on sex. You don't think your argu…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/11/19 02:18 AM
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No it isn't. Did you forget what the 1st amendment is? Yes, it is. The 1st protects minority voices from being silenced by the majority. Like all amendments, the 1st has exceptions where it cannot be used to infringe on other rights. For example free speech rights do not protect threats of violence. You just restated your position without answering the question. Why should it be illegal to argue against the 19th amendment and not the 1st or 2nd? I restated my position because you clearlyndidnt u…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/11/19 09:50 PM
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I don't think I am, the issue isn't that you are trying to make all racist speech illegal but that you are trying to make any speech illegal for being racist. I'm not trying to make speech illegal for being racist. I'm trying to make it illegal for the majority to deny the rights of a minority. This is entirely consistent with the purposes and ideals of the rest of the Constitution. I mean if arguing against the 19th amendment should be illegal why not the second? You misunderstand me. I am sayi…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/11/19 07:39 PM
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Also, a law mandating the imprisonment of anyone based on political affiliation would be an infringement of the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and possibly 13th amendments. Didnt stop Mccarthyism. My point was that including political affiliation in a freedom of speech restriction, could prevent people from speaking out against policies of one party or another, as well as the members of that party. My central argument is that it is a paradox of free speech that protecting free speech necessitates preventing…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/10/19 07:27 PM
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A racist's speech is protected and is a right we afford every individual. You keep failing to engage with my argument and setting up your own strawman. I am not and never have been talking about making all racist speech illegal. Should that make advocating for gun restriction illegal? If it is based on restricting it based on race, sex, sexuality, or religion, yes.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/10/19 07:12 PM
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Would protections based on political affiliation be the worst? Should a law mandating the imprisonment of Republicans, communists, etc be acceptable? Would such a thing not infringe on 1st amendment rights far more than a restriction on advocating for such a law?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/10/19 07:47 PM
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You are advocating for restricting a consistutional rights of a group, because they are advocating for taking away the rights of a group. Not due to race, sex, sexuality, or religion. Just seems like you don't really care about universal rights, you just want to protect certain groups rights above others. Not all groups are protected equally by the Constitution. It isnt possible. Are murderers rights being infringed when we punish them for killing? Every right has restrictions to protect other r…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/10/19 07:41 PM
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From what I understand, supreme court rulings over abortion have mostly revolved around the right to privacy via the due process clause of the 14th amendment. There isnt a direct right to abortion in the Constitution, so it largely comes down to interpretation. Arguing for different interpretations is one thing, but arguing for a complete or partial removal of explicit Constitutional rights like the right to privacy specifically for one gender is another.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/10/19 07:06 PM
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The entire Constitution is a subjective interpretation of what is acceptable. That is the point. As I said, I am only arguing in favor of a restriction against advocating for the removal of constitutional rights of a group due to their race, sex, sexuality, or religion. I would argue that this defends the 1st Amendment more than your position does.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/10/19 10:23 PM
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Like I said, I support restricting the first only with the very specific restriction of prohibiting advocating for the removal of constitutional rights of a group due to their race, sex, sexuality, or religion. You can be sexist or racist all you want. You just cant argue we should make black people slaves again or that women should have their vote taken away. What purpose does that serve other than to subvert the purposes of the Constitution and democracy?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/10/19 10:15 PM
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I agree with restricting hate speech provided that the type of speech is very tightly defined. I dont think advocating for the removal of constitutional rights of a group due to their race, sex, sexuality, or religion serves any purpose deserving of protection under the 1st Amendment. This is consistent with the application of the fighting words doctrine established in Chaplinski v. New Hampshire in 1942 which held: There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the preve…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/10/19 02:02 AM
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I'm more speaking along the lines of changing broad social assumptions. The assumption now, whether based on preconceptions or experience, is that men don't care about giving their partner pleasure and/or are not proficient in it. I can think of a lot of little ways that society as a whole could portray the message of emphasizing women's pleasure in sex in a more significant way than it is now.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/10/19 07:49 PM
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A desire for monogamy is fine but not without significant negative consequences. Jealousy, possessiveness, and telling person what they can and cannot do with their body do not become virtues simply because they are done in the name of love. I think a lot of people would find great satisfaction with nonmonogamy if they were open to it. Society reinforces the idea of monogamy as a natural fact much in the same way that people are raised indoctrinated into a religion or believing that homosexualit…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/10/19 01:21 AM
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The difference between 5/8 and 6/8 is small, but it's still 12 more orgasms out of 100. Not to sound heartless, but I'm not proposing these changes to help women (although they will). I am proposing them to make sex more accessible to men. Almost everyone will agree that willing women are the limiting factor here. Anything that can be done to make women more willing is going to help matters. No one move will fix things, but a lot of small changes can make a big difference.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/10/19 09:13 PM
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Wrong. Lack of monogomy means that the most desirable people ('top' 20% men and 'top' 80% women) can sleep around providing less potential partners to the bottom group. Your logic is flawed. If there is no monogamy, people having sex doesnt reduce the pool of potential partners. Even assuming this Redpill 80/20 hypothesis is true (which I seriously doubt) the top 20% of women would be infinitely available to the top 20% of men, so why would they bother with the other 80%? There are no barriers r…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/10/19 09:01 PM
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Socially enforced monogamy is a huge part of the problem. If people were not monogamous there would be more potential partners for everyone. That's step one. The next step is to lower the social barriers that make women less likely to pursue sex. This includes eliminating slut shaming, virginity worship, and and the idea of sexual purity in general. Another barrier for women being more sexually open is the orgasm gap. It's an unfortunate reality of biology that women's orgasm is more difficult t…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/10/19 08:03 AM
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How many men must we kill until patriarchy sits across the table from us and says, "OK, stop. What must we do, so that you can stop this culling?" More than the amount you would have to kill for men to decide that this equality stuff isnt working and that women cant be trusted not to be under the total control of a man.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/10/19 01:47 AM
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That policy is totally valid to criticize and I agree that it is sexist. Warren is completely embracing the type of feminism that is for increasing female privilege. I just havent seen evidence of it coming from a place of misandry, like it did with Hillary for example. It's a fine distinction, but an important one IMO.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/10/19 09:28 PM
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I think it was less her assuming the person in question was a man and more of her setting a hypothetical situation she could then follow up on with her joke. Reading the situation any other way seems unfairly critical. Imagine if she'd said, "I'm going to assume this was a Black person," This analogy doesnt work because the point had nothing to do with race but it does have to do with gender.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/10/19 08:42 PM
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I'm no big fan of Warren, but this is really grasping at straws and looking for reason to be outraged.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/10/19 12:02 AM
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The opposite of feminist is not sexist, not just for the obvious reason that a person can be not sexist and still not identify as feminist but also because identifying as a feminist does not make one immune to being sexist.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/09/19 09:29 PM
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At least your victim blaming is equal opportunity I guess.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/09/19 11:07 PM
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So when a woman feels obligated to never refuse sex to her husband because that is what she was taught was her job as a wife, it's not abusive for him to completely ignore her feelings on the matter?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/09/19 09:40 PM
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Feminism did a good job of identifying the problems with traditional gender roles, however they were invested in constructing a scenario where women were always the victim and never the perpetrator. This leads to an incomplete and essentially flawed understanding of the complex origins of these problems. Women and men both perpetuated and benefitted from traditional gender roles equally, though not in the same ways. The dedication to women as the victim prevents feminism from analyzing the way w…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/09/19 01:18 AM
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Forcing the rich to pay taxes is fiscal policy, not social policy. The very concept that certain forms of consensual relationships qualify as "degeneracy" is conservative, authoritarian, and anti-equality.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates06/09/19 10:02 PM
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Forcing your own social values on others has no place on the left either.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates06/09/19 07:24 AM
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There are a LOT of contributing factors. The way the brain develops during adolescence is different in boys and girls, where boy's sense of the consequences of their actions doesnt become fully developed until late in the process compared to girls. Boys raised by a single-parent are more likely to be raised by an opposite sex parent and lack that same sex role model. Social pressures push men to take the provider role, resulting in them committing more violent crimes furthering theft/black marke…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/08/19 12:43 AM
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There is a very good reason for the anti feminist sentiment from egalitarian. A huge portion of feminists treat feminism as if it had the sole right to a valid opinion on gender issues and maintain an attitude that anyone who is not feminist is sexist. This is detrimental in itself, but it also shields feminism from having to address criticism over many of the harmful attitudes and actions it is responsible for. You say egalitarians are standing on the sidelines and that just isnt true. We are j…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/08/19 03:18 AM
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It isnt because of feminism. It's because of the internet. More people can read about the experiences of people different from them and empathize. If anything, feminism is delaying progress because it is blocking the creating of an actual egalitarian gender movement.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/08/19 02:14 AM
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Many of those complaints have been valid, the culture has listened and changed.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/08/19 01:34 AM
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It's not cultural appropriation for women to join games, get upset by the barrage of harassment and sexism, and then speak up about it. It is cultural appropriation when people who dont belong to a culture insert themselves to take the enjoyable products of a culture without appreciation for the hardship from which it originated. A bunch of people decided geeks were making cool stuff, butted in, and started to change things to make themselves comfortable at the cost of the people who built the c…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/08/19 01:08 AM
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"Men need to learn to express emotions other than anger." Man cries "I'm not attracted to you any more."
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/08/19 12:59 AM
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Look at it this way, taking circumcision for example. It is currently entirely illegal on girls but legal on boys. It is ripe for challenge once the ERA is signed. The ERA without a stipulation for not removing rights for women would mean the options are a total legalization for both, a total ban for both, or a ban with religious exemption for both. An ERA stipulation that rights for women cant be removed would mean that the only choice would be a total circumcision ban for all. Given how many s…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/08/19 12:41 AM
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The trope is not reality, it is prejudice. Geek culture has always been a reject community. We were always cultural minorities. It's not gatekeeping to defend against appropriation. Gamergate came from outside the culture just as much as the people clashing with it.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/08/19 11:56 PM
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Revenge of the Nerds is about as accurate of a depiction of geek culture as John Wayne movies are accurate portrayals of Native Americans. Citing it as evidence is proof of your total ignorance of geek culture. Geek culture is resistant to cultural genteification which is precisely what most of of the feminist attempts to change the culture are. Women have always been part of geek culture and there are valid complaints, but those must come from geeks, not outsiders.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/08/19 10:45 PM
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Some people will always see this as a list of tactics instead of errors to avoid.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/08/19 04:51 PM
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One of the common themes of modern feminism is that men need to be aware of how their presence affects women. How mens size and strength could make women feel in danger. At the same time any suggestion that women have any responsibility to be aware of how their presence affects others is seen as misogyny.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/08/19 07:29 PM
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This type of attitude from feminist sources is hurting us all. Not just men, but society. They will be the first to say "not all feminists" and "feminism is not a monolith" but they happily lump vastly different men's groups together. Its blatantly dishonest and hypocritical. Men have problems that exist because they are men. Feminists keep insisting that they are adressing them and there is no valid reasons for a mens movement. This leaves men with no guidance when they need help. White suprema…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/08/19 05:14 PM
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He was but his political ideology does not appear to be part of the motivation behind the shooting. He struggled with mental illness, had been bullied, and had fantasies surrounding violence and rape. It is also worth nothing that his brother was in the closet about being trans and was the first victim of the shooting. Nothing conclusive has been found about that last part but it seems like an awfully big coincidence.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/08/19 04:30 PM
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I think we would be best served to stick to 3 points regarding feminism. 1) No sociopolotical movement is infallible nor incorruptable, including feminism. 2) Criticizing feminism is not the same as criticizing women. Not calling yourself feminist does not automatically mean you are a misogynist. 3) Feminists do not have the sole right to develop valid gender theory.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/08/19 10:23 PM
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I think that story speaks to the importance of positive male role models. It helps so much to have the advice and example of someone who has earned your respect by living the lesson. When someone who has been addicted to drugs tells you to stay away from them, their words carry more weight. When someone who has experienced the violence of war tells you to value peace, you know that lesson was learned the hard way. I remember vividly the few times my father really talked about the Vietnam War. It…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/08/19 09:49 PM
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I think we need to discuss another axis of the political spectrum besides left and right, the authoritarian/libertarian axis. We are used to libertarian referred to with the Libertarian party which is much more far right than libertarian. Left, social libertarianism is very different. Extreme authoritarianism is totalitarianism or fascism, extreme libertarianism is anarchism. Your proposal here leans towards the authoritarian axis, putting social order over personal freedom. Myself and others le…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/08/19 09:27 PM
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What we also need is to shame the practice of women sleeping around when they are young but settling down when older. This is demeaning and represents a death of love. What we need is a return to socially enforced monogamy. What we need is almost the exact opposite of what you propose. Restricting socially acceptable avenues of sharing sex and intimacy will never solve the problem of people lacking access to sex and intimacy. We need to destigmatize people having sex with multiple people. We nee…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/08/19 09:57 PM
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A non-insignigant number of the surveyed could feel they aren't politically active/engaged enough to merit the description. Along the same lines, I wonder what the results would be if, as a follow up question, the people who call themselves feminists were asked how many classes on feminism they attended and how many books on feminism they have read.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/07/19 01:58 AM
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I was comforted instead of shamed for crying as a boy. It didnt help. I grew up and found society has no room for men's emotions. They get in the way of our utility.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/07/19 05:22 PM
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Maybe its changed. I havent spent time there in about 6 months because I got sick of arguing with Trumpers.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/07/19 12:17 AM
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It is very different than it used to be. Around Trump's election the extreme right infected it with their extremist, white supremacist rhetoric. It is lost.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/07/19 12:09 AM
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Back then people got married at a young age, they were true life partners They got married before they knew who they were and what they wanted and then were socially trapped regardless of how unhappy they were with the situation. Now people sleep around, or aspire to, when they are younger, "settle down" with only one person when older, and divorce on a whim. Now people have some fun while learning what they want and find and partner who really suits them. The divorce rate has been dropping for …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/07/19 07:30 AM
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See, that's where I think a lot of folks here go wrong: there's no such thing as "the mainstream feminist view." Disagree. Every movement has a mainstream. Feminism is no exception as much as you would like it to be. Also, I wasnt cherry picking. I basically just posted the first page of search results for toxic femininity (excluding MRA sources). The majority consensus among all schools of feminism is that toxic femininity doesnt exist and if it does its because women are victims of the patriar…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/07/19 11:31 PM
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And I dont know how you can ignore the rest of most proving that the mainstream feminist view is that toxic feminist doesnt exist.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/07/19 09:16 PM
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Biology is undoubtedly a factor but it is a factor we can account for. Let me preface this by saying these are generalizations that apply to people on average but do not apply to every person in every situation. Sexual arousal is more receptive in women than men. Women are less likely to think "I want sex" independently from outside factors than a man. Women generally need stimulus to get in the mood for sex. Women need to understand this about themselves and be open to the experience and men ne…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/07/19 09:11 PM
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That's an amazingly solid list. I identify with every one of those concerns. I've run into pretty much all of them in a lifetime of relationships and ended those relationships if too many of these issues persisted too long. As a men's movement, I think we need to address dating and relationship issues. These issues bring to light a lot of the broader privileges of women and responsibilities of men.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/07/19 05:52 PM
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From a pragmatic point of view, we are not going to get people to give up on feminism. It's too popular and has too many adherents while we are unpopular and have vastly fewer supporters. The moment we set ourselves up against feminism we are guaranteed to be crushed before we can make any progress in actually helping men. We can sway people to our side by sticking to the message of equality, helping men, and fighting traditionalism.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/07/19 07:48 AM
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I wonder how I got the idea that feminists dont want to talk about toxic femininity? Probably articles like this: If you think "toxic femininity" is real, you are part of the problem... Or tweets like this: Toxic femininity doesn’t exist as a parallel to toxic masculinity. There are no elements of traditional femininity that encourage violence or oppression of men because traditional femininity is a male ideal. It is toxic only to the extent that it’s expectations marginalize women. Then there a…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/07/19 11:29 PM
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I think this is dead on correct. The best example I can think of is HeForShe which is essentially a movement supporting the traditional gender role of men protecting women with a thin veneer of feminist paint over it. Feminists resist any honest discussion of toxic femininity because that would mean giving up the parts of traditionalism that are beneficial to women like not needing to worry about being drafted, keeping custody of kids, and not facing consequences for abusive behavior.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/07/19 12:56 AM
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I work at a a job where a lot of the customers are basically former trophy wives and sexual harassment is a daily thing. They are always touching me, getting way too close when talking, and asking too may personal questions. Just yesterday I had a older black lady delivery driver ask me if I "wanted some coffee with my cream" and if I wanted her "dark chocolate". At least my regulars arent usually that crudely direct.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/07/19 09:17 PM
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Women would be burning their selective service registration forms on the steps of Congress.
/r/MensRights01/01/19 02:44 AM
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I don't deny it's a problem. I just think this sort of unbalanced analogy or comparison makes look petty and hands ammo to our opponents.
/r/MensRights04/06/18 09:43 PM
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Oh, don't get me wrong, thousands of men die every year from suicide because our society refuses any empathy or assistance to men in need. Virtually every generation sacrifices thousands of male lives to wars. We don't need to wait for lynchings. The suffering is here and now. But a parking space isn't it.
/r/MensRights02/06/18 04:08 AM
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Sorry, but that is fucking stupid. Of course there is better and worse discrimination. Being denied parking is not anywhere near as bad as being murdered. Have a little perspective. Arguing stupid shit like that is why people think we are a joke.
/r/MensRights02/06/18 03:38 AM
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Its absolutely discrimination, however pretending there aren't differing degrees of discrimination are dishonest. Clearly selective parking is less severe than Jews being gassed to death to use an absurd example.
/r/MensRights02/06/18 01:24 AM
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The women-only parking is bad, but it's not whites-only bad. If a guy parks in this spot he is at worst going to get nasty looks, not literally lynched.
/r/MensRights02/06/18 12:29 AM
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It gives men grounds for loads of lawsuits for unequal treatment. It will be a nightmare for feminists.
/r/MensRights01/06/18 02:04 AM
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Add artificial wombs to that and the future of gender relations looks even more chaotic.
/r/MensRights24/05/18 01:09 AM
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There are plenty of women out there who don't want to get married or have kids and won't fuck you over if the relationship doesn't work. Sure, some do, but they are no reason to be alone the rest of your life. If you don't think with your dick you can see the bad ones immediately.
/r/MensRights19/05/18 02:26 AM
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Don't fall into the trap of thinking all women are shitty. Women are no worse and no better than men. There are plenty of good, loyal women out there.
/r/MensRights19/05/18 02:16 AM
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No matter how much you love your career, it isnt worth sacrificing your happiness in every other facet of your life. If you end up in the hospital, your boss isn't going to be there holding your hand all night. As long as you don't date coworkers or clients, you'll be fine.
/r/MensRights17/05/18 12:50 AM
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There is a tendency of some people, not just women, to nullify their ex as a way with coping with a breakup. It can sometimes be as simple as "I feel bad, so somebody must be at fault". Other times it is a means of coping with still loving someone you are no longer with. The only way they can find to stop loving someone is to hate them.
/r/MensRights01/05/18 10:03 PM
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It's never about convincing feminists, just everyone else.
/r/MensRights01/05/18 02:58 AM
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Write "sexism" on a piece of paper and draw and arrow pointing to them. Just sit there and hold it quietly and calmy.
/r/MensRights28/04/18 02:52 AM
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I was literally taught ad a child by my father that one day when I have a wife and children, their lives are more important than mine and that I had a responsibility as a man to be prepared to give my life for theirs. I know a hell of a lot more men that were raised like me than men that were raised like Terry Crews.
/r/MensRights25/04/18 01:35 AM
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If they are loud, smelly, or obviously homeless. Otherwise, no.
/r/MensRights21/04/18 04:04 AM
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I observed at a few high schools for my education masters a few years back and in the decade or so since I was in high school, I was shocked by how much it had changed. When I was in school, not a single person was openly gay. There was no LGBT club. When I observed though, there were gay couples walking down the halls holding hands, multiple LGBT clubs, and those kids were extremely popular. I'm sure it may be different in poorer or rural schools, but things are changing rapidly .
/r/MensRights21/04/18 03:01 AM
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I've sat in businesses without being a customer hundreds of times. Nobody cared. But I'm white.
/r/MensRights21/04/18 02:52 AM
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Women just want the same pay while working less hours, taking less risks, and making less sacrifices. Is that too much to ask? /s
/r/MensRights21/04/18 02:39 AM
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The thinking at play here doesn't care about equality or protecting children. All it cares about is retaining the privilege of women to keep full control of their children. It doesn't matter if the woman abused her husband and children. They don't believe that happens in spite of mountains of evidence othwrwise.
/r/MensRights11/04/18 03:22 AM
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Feminists claim to be for equality. They chose to make their shelters for women only. They are sexist liars.
/r/MensRights07/04/18 04:35 PM
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I mean there were no shelters or services at all before feminists created them. And there was no democracy before men created it. Doesn't mean men don't deserve criticism for excluding women from the vote.
/r/MensRights07/04/18 04:07 AM
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It's like public school is designed to let children fail. It is. There has been a concerted effort by certain politicians for years to make public schools perform as poorly as possible so they could justify making all schools for-profit.
/r/MensRights07/04/18 03:05 AM
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It was a decade ago and am in a wonderful relationship now, so all is well.
/r/MensRights07/04/18 02:59 AM
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I was a feminist once upon a time. Then, I experienced domestic violence from a girlfriend and went to feminism for help. Every feminist refused and I was banned from multiple groups for "derailing" or misogyny. They proved to me without a doubt that all the feminist talk of equality is absolute lies.
/r/MensRights06/04/18 02:03 AM
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If windows in the student center is one of the biggest social justice problems on this campus that means they have run out of actual problems to address and the organization serves no purpose.
/r/MensRights14/03/18 09:02 PM
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0.05% is a global rate for intersex. That is not comparable to the sickle cell rate in just Nigeria. That is some serious cherry picking of data.
/r/MensRights14/03/18 02:42 AM
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Wow, the advertisement immediately after the article ends has a picturebof two women high-fiving.
/r/MensRights13/03/18 05:15 PM
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In contrast, male and female point to a distinct physical reality. That is sex, not gender. There is no definitive biological test to determine gender. You have to ask the person. Sex and gender have a high degree of correlation but it is not 100%. Most people are taught that you have to be one or the other but that is where socialization and anthropology comes in. When people are not held to the binary, some develop other identites,. Intersex people are not common enough or essential to human f…
/r/MensRights13/03/18 12:08 AM
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Your friend is right. Sex and gender are different, although they match in most cases. Sexuality is a third axis of identity. Intersex people do not fit the requirements of being male or female biologically. They may have both sex organs or neither and their genetics gets complicated. On the other hand, more often than not intersex people have a gender identity of male or female, but some feel they are not entirely either. Sex is able to be determined externally, but currently gender can only be…
/r/MensRights12/03/18 11:08 PM
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If you look at the matter from an anthropological perspective, the matter is often highly dependant on the time and culture you are talking about. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/content/two-spirits_map-html/ If you look at the matter from the perspective of genetics, there is more to it than just XX and XY. Intersex people naturally do not physically fit into the categories of male or female and often have other combinations of genetics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
/r/MensRights10/03/18 03:11 AM
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If it is anything like the US, it can be incredibly difficult to get a job if you don't have ID, a permanent address, or even proper clothing. There are a lot of barriers and hurdles that the average person would never even consider.
/r/MensRights10/03/18 02:58 AM
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Don't be a bigot.
/r/MensRights03/03/18 04:17 PM
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Well, at least the excerpt from Valerie Solanas' Scum Manifesto remains: "Life" in this "society" being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of "society" being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male sex.
/r/MensRights01/03/18 02:52 AM
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Neonazis with better PR.
/r/MensRights01/03/18 02:47 AM
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The alt right are scum and their ideology is fundamentally mutually exclusive with being an MRA. While our focus is men, we are ultimately an equality movement. Regardless of race, sex, sexuality, religion (or lack thereof) all people should share equal protection and responsibility under the law.
/r/MensRights01/03/18 02:45 AM
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Of course, that is why being a doorman is such a highly paid and well respected position in the patriarchy.
/r/MensRights01/03/18 01:41 AM
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No, women care when a dog gets hurt.
/r/MensRights01/03/18 01:15 AM
1

What was she getting from it when penetrating you? There is more to sex than pure physical stimulation. She found the experience psychologically arousing. Plenty of people seek the same psychological arousal from oral sex their partners. Or perhaps each person has their own preferences and not everyone, male or female, likes having something put up their bottom? Preferences are fine, but most complaints I hear break down to complaints about having to actually put in a little effort to please the…
/r/MensRights19/02/18 09:31 PM
4

So I'll be the one to say it. I've had a girlfriend fuck me with a strap-on in the past. She was always game for anal, so I figured fair is fair. It was fun, but the only thing it taught me about women is that the ones that complain about anal are whiny princesses.
/r/MensRights18/02/18 09:55 AM
0

Title IX doesn't begin to make up for the men (and women) who will die and suffer because of his policies. You are the blind one.
/r/MensRights15/02/18 10:45 PM
1

I was referring to the responses to the articles, not the articles themselves. They provide dozens of links worth of evidence.
/r/MensRights15/02/18 10:43 PM
1

By booming economy, I guess you mean the stock market plummeting 1100 points in one day?
/r/MensRights15/02/18 10:42 PM
0

Evidence of Trump's criminal collusion with Russia Evidence of Trump's money laundering Trump's impeachable offenses Trump's lies
/r/MensRights15/02/18 12:41 AM
-3

Which is why you need to do your own research. If you research Trump, he is a lying thief whose policies harm men.
/r/MensRights14/02/18 05:43 PM
-16

No, it isn't. Everything he touches is poisoned. The public will be against this just because that fool said it.
/r/MensRights14/02/18 05:41 PM
2

Trump is bad for men. Less funding to shelters means more homeless men. His strengthening of the failed drug war means more men in jail. His inept economic policy means men struggling to support their families. Less funding for mental healthcare means more dead men. His emphasis on military force means more dead men. His destruction of environmental oversight means more dead men. His archaic insistence on coal means more dead men.
/r/MensRights14/02/18 05:38 PM
1

My ex girlfriend tried to stab me in my sleep. I will never forget the sight of her silhouette in the door holding a knife. No man is so tough that he is immune to something like that. It is sheer luck that I survived without injury. I wasn't asleep like she thought and she was blind coming into the dark room from the lighted hall. I was able to surprise her and take the knife from her without either of us getting hurt.
/r/MensRights08/02/18 04:17 AM
3

Is it still a swimsuit issue if they are all naked?
/r/MensRights08/02/18 03:59 AM
16

Female genital mutilation is a religious right claim lawyer is first US case on the practice. This sort of thing ultimately may benefit men as it is extremely difficult to legally justify a ban on even the least invasive forms of female circumcision without addressing male circumcision.
/r/MensRights08/02/18 03:20 AM
2

The most minor form is a ceremonial pinprick or cut which leaves no lasting damage. The next step up is the removal of the clitoral hood which is comparable to male circumcision. The next step up after that is the reduction or removal of the labia minora as well which is similar to labiaplasty performed by western plastic surgeons. The more severe forms carry significant risk of loss of sexual function or even death, so they are performed less often.
/r/MensRights08/02/18 12:52 AM
5

The Monarchy took it. Sometimes it was a Queen, sometimes it was a King. Men as a class did not take the vote from women.
/r/MensRights07/02/18 04:13 AM
1

Just an FYI, if you see someone say "Men are trash" on Facebook, it is a violation of their community standards and they will remove it most of the time if you report it.
/r/MensRights07/02/18 03:56 AM
13

Only the most severe forms of FGM (and therefore most rare) do that.
/r/MensRights07/02/18 03:51 AM
20

Maybe its just me, but it seems like people care a lot more when the harasser is famous rather than the victim. Seeing a man with power taken down is exciting to them.
/r/MensRights07/02/18 03:45 AM
5

Greece is very traditional for the most part. It has one of the largest gender employment gaps and one of the lowest amount of women in government in the EU. It is also highly religious, with women overall being more active in the church than men. This combined with the expectation that men are to be the breadwinner means that the bulk of charity is done by women. Feminism as a movement is fairly weak in Greece, so there is little indoctrination to hate men.
/r/MensRights02/02/18 04:21 AM
6

How the fuck do you shoot four people unintentionally? That is some Kennedy magic bullet shit. If she through a gun to school, that sounds pretty intentional to me.
/r/MensRights02/02/18 04:00 AM
1

Where and why? There is a federal court ruling that says otherwise That only applies in the 7th circuit court, not nationally. I can rent or not rent as I wish, no? No, you can't discriminate against a renter due to race, color, disability, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin. It is against the Fair Housing Act, part of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. So I can make a muslim bakery bake me a cake with a Mohammed Caricature on it? Or do these rules not apply equally? You can refuse to…
/r/MensRights01/02/18 03:44 AM
1

This is why polyamory can work so well.
/r/MensRights01/02/18 03:04 AM
1

This may work out in men's favor. When the BBC recently audited itself for equal pay, they found out that more men than women were getting paid less than they deserved. The perception of women being oppressed is often a projection of peoples biases rather than the reality.
/r/MensRights01/02/18 02:45 AM
0

In a large part of the US it is perfectly legal to fire an employee (or simply refuse to hire someone) because they are gay. There is no federal law preventing people from denying an apartment rental or house sale to someone because they are gay. The Republican government is trying to make it legal for businesses, including doctors and hospitals, to refuse someone service because they are gay. Many states used to have sodomy laws which were used to prosecute gay people until such laws were deeme…
/r/MensRights01/02/18 02:29 AM
1

It has been a long standing policy of the GOP to be against marijuana an in favor of the drug war. It excuses militarizing the police, it keeps black people down, it fills the prisons where their cronies can skim profits, and it pleases their pharmaceutical industry donors. So far all Trump has changed is to ramp up drug raids as a combo with immigrant raids so he can more easily portray them as criminals.
/r/MensRights27/01/18 03:24 AM
1

Nope, Sessions terminated the drug policy that let legal weed flourish. https://www.apnews.com/19f6bfec15a74733b40eaf0ff9162bfa
/r/MensRights26/01/18 09:44 PM
1

I think this is a good idea. Men's and women's issues are inextricably tied together. One cannot be fixed without the other. A rights movement helping women that does not include the concept of patriarchy would not need to treat men as the enemy. It would provide an alternative for women who do not hate men. Dilute the feminist power structure and we remove the largest stumbling block to addressing men's issues.
/r/MensRights25/01/18 04:20 AM
2

The Republicans want to continue the drug war which puts thousands of men in jail. They want to cut mental healthcare funding which will lead to more men killing themselves. They want to roll back corporate regulation which will lead to more men dying in workplace accidents. They want to cut funding to homeless shelters which leads to more men sleeping on the streets. Republicans are no friend of men.
/r/MensRights24/01/18 02:17 AM
1

Trump doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself. If you think he is on your side, you are a fool and a sucker.
/r/MensRights19/01/18 03:16 AM
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Hey now, maybe his huge size and bulging muscles made her fear for her safety if she tried to leave.
/r/MensRights16/01/18 02:03 AM
1

Brian Banks, Gary Dotson, Richard Alexander. Just search "rape exoneration" and you will get pages of results.
/r/MensRights12/01/18 08:37 PM
2

Its not a big deal really. I just keep some opinions to myself. She was raised feminist the way some people are raised with religion. Its something she believes on faith, not fact so I know there is no changing her mind for some things. She is willing to change her mind if I convince her it fits with feminist belief. For example I got her to become anti-circumcision by framing it in the feminist language of bodily autonomy.
/r/MensRights11/01/18 09:53 PM
2

She said outright that she would break up with me if I ever became an MRA. I was one long before we met. She buys the worst of the fake feminist propaganda about the MRM like we all want to put women back in the kitchen and make rape legal. Absurd stuff. In spite of that, we treat each other as equals and always show each other respect. We have both been abused in past relationships, so we work extra hard to treat each other well. Our relationship is by far the best I have ever had and our 6+ ye…
/r/MensRights11/01/18 01:52 AM
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Facebook just deletes what is complained about for the most part. I reported a few people saying "men are scum" last week and 3/4 of the comments I reported were deleted.
/r/MensRights30/12/17 04:54 PM
0

I absolutely agree that the law needs facts it can prove. It is not up to the complainant to collect these facts, they only need to report the crime. Then it is up to the law to determine the facts.
/r/MensRights26/12/17 09:08 PM
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It's not illegal if you have a reasonable expectation that you will record evidence of a crime.
/r/MensRights25/12/17 07:19 PM
1

Did you miss the part where he was completely passed out when this happened?
/r/MensRights25/12/17 07:18 PM
1

Strip away most of the feminist buzzwords and I agree with most of this. The only hangups are 3 and 5. With 3 I need her to be equally willing to recognize the negative consequences of the traditional female gender role. She is going to have to offer the same respect she requests. As for 5, I cannot claim to understand the situation in Israel well enough to have an educated opinion and I think few people who haven't lived there do.
/r/MensRights12/12/17 03:45 AM
1

Probably a lot of black guys.
/r/MensRights12/12/17 03:35 AM
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Also, as somewhat related but more general advice for everyone. When beginning a secual relationahip, always have a serious conversation about contraception and what each of you expect to happen if contraception fails. Know how they feel about abortion, Plan B, and contraceptive use. They could always change their mind later, but having a previous point of agreement may help change their mind back.
/r/MensRights09/12/17 02:38 AM
4

I have had girlfriends take this in the past and they had sudden extremely bad cramps at the very least. The effects are noticeable.
/r/MensRights09/12/17 02:32 AM
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Go buy Pan B yourself. Sit her down and have a calm serious talk. Tell her that you are not ready for a child now. Tell her that you may want a child in the future with her, but that you don't feel you are old enough to properly parent and not financially stable enough. Tell her that if she forces you to have a child now that destroys any future you could have together because there would be no way for you to trust her ever again. Do not make it an ultimatum, but make her understand that her cho…
/r/MensRights09/12/17 01:08 AM
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That is almost certainly jail time and could lead to serious medical conditions or even death due to drug interactions. Do not do this.
/r/MensRights09/12/17 12:55 AM
1

I live in a city with a large gay population and I have been hit on more than a few times by gay men. I always take it as a big compliment. I thank them, say I'm straight, and that's the end of it. Turning down women is much harder. The few times I have done it they rarely take no for an answer and just keep pushing.
/r/MensRights08/12/17 02:24 AM
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I am more or less a democratic socialist. Civil rights have always been fought for primarily by the left and men's rights should be no different. The only help we will ever get from the right will be if we are a useful tool to strike against the left and we will be discarded the moment we cease to be useful to them.
/r/MensRights08/12/17 01:50 AM
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I differentiate between a person serving a customer and a business serving a customer. A person has beliefs, a business does not. A person can refuse to perform a service, a business cannot. If that particular baker doesn't want to make the cake, fine, but the company has to find someone who will take the order. Whether that means hiring someone new, contracting out to another bakery, or whatever, they have to do it. Thats how I think it should work.
/r/MensRights07/12/17 02:27 AM
2

This is the political equivalent of a soccer player throwing themself on the ground and writhing in pain in an attempt to get a foul called on the other team.
/r/MensRights07/12/17 01:54 AM
1

One of the things that feminism teaches is to recognize what is abuse and to set boundaries and not accept healthy behavior is that detrimental to your own health. Feminism may teach that to women but not to men. Feminism teachers that men can only be abused by other men, never by women. Feminist domestic violence centers tell men they are not allowed in and cannot get help. Before I became an MRA I was banned from several feminist communities for asking for help dealing with the abuse I suffere…
/r/MensRights02/12/17 03:46 AM
3

Corporate regulation and worker protections are also areas that heavily affect men where the left's position helps men a lot more than the right's position.
/r/MensRights01/12/17 10:22 PM
1

Speculation and personal experience are different things.
/r/MensRights01/12/17 09:43 PM
1

You just said threatening self harm and suicide is abuse then said women are more likely to attempt it but didn't say anything about threatening to. Read my comment again, because that's not what I said. Women are way more likely to attempt suicide to get out of an abusive relationship. That's because they feel like they don't have any other choice, but to be abusive or gain control in their relationship. This is purely speculation. I have had two girlfriends and my mother use threats of suicide…
/r/MensRights01/12/17 09:24 PM
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Threats of suicide and self harm are abusive. Actual suicide is not abusive since the dead person can't benefit from their death's affect on others. Since women report attempting suicide without succeeding at much higher rates than men, women are the primary perpetrators of such abuse.
/r/MensRights30/11/17 09:31 PM
4

50 years ago parents told their kids to go out and play and come back at sundown. Society didn't believe kids needed 24/7 supervision.
/r/MensRights30/11/17 02:41 AM
1

I disagree there: communism has far more specific requirements at its core than feminism does. Really? Patriarchy, toxic masculinity, intersectionality, female oppression, male oppressors, safe spaces, wage gap, rape culture? If you advocate for the rights of all people (including women) I'd say you are a feminist. Then you are using the definition wrong as we discussed in previous comments. You brought out the dictionary, so don't start ignoring it when it disagrees with your personal definitio…
/r/MensRights15/11/17 10:04 PM
1

Its more like saying someone who believes in sharing is a Communist. It is reductionist to the point of dishonesty. There a whole host of other dogma and ideology included with feminism. Oxford English Dictionary definition of feminist: 'An advocate or supporter of the rights and equality of women.' Egalitarian - Believing in or based on the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities. So no, I am not a feminist because I advocate for the rights opportunities f…
/r/MensRights15/11/17 01:50 AM
1

You have no right to tell people how they identify. A person is not a feminist unless they call themselves a feminist. Those that choose to call themselves feminists are responsible for associating themselves with a group that suppresses the voices of male victims of abuse. That is their choice and they should not be surprised when they are held accountable for that choice.
/r/MensRights14/11/17 09:21 PM
3

I think a big part of the problem is that society pushes the idea that someone will love you for who you are. In a lot of cases, that is a lie. You will have to change yourself to become more interesting, better looking, and more enticing. The other big part is of course mental health. Giving men the resources and encouragement to deal with depression, anxiety, anger, and low add esteem are extremely important.
/r/MensRights14/11/17 04:07 AM
3

Because men were specifically told #metoo wasn't for men.
/r/MensRights14/11/17 03:51 AM
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Tell that to George Takei. He is getting thrown under the bus with the rest of them.
/r/MensRights14/11/17 03:50 AM
4

Try swapping the term privilege with lucky. It works surprisingly well.
/r/MensRights14/11/17 03:48 AM
3

The red pill is just the male equivalent of gold-diggers. Exploiting traditional gender roles to get what you want regardless of who you hurt.
/r/MensRights14/11/17 03:46 AM
2

Nope. That is a Russian troll account.
/r/MensRights11/11/17 03:22 AM
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I think that the actual amount of serious domestic violence committed by women is understated. For example, I know of several cases where a woman killed or injured a man by intentionally hitting them with a car but it was recorded as a vehicular crime and not a domestic crime. There is also the matter of proxy violence, where a woman gets another man to enact her violence for her.
/r/MensRights09/11/17 02:29 AM
1

Birth control, sure, but tampons are not a right any more than shoes, a haircut, or deodorant is a right.
/r/MensRights01/11/17 01:25 AM
9

Why do women deal with men hitting on them every day? Because women don't hit on men every day. How do they not get this? If women pursued men more, men would pursue women less. Nothing will change until women change.
/r/MensRights01/11/17 01:07 AM
1

Nudity is far more common in other cultures and is indeed an invitation for sex. That is what you said. If it is not what you meant, perhaps you should speak more clearly. Let me be clear. If you think whipping your dick out is a suitable method of coming onto a woman, you are a sexual predator.
/r/MensRights31/10/17 11:56 PM
2

MRAs are about equality. The alt right is about white supremacy. There is no equivalency.
/r/MensRights27/10/17 12:45 AM
0

Just because a lot of right wing subs advocate violence doesn't mean they are targeting right wing subs. Besides, Mens Rights is nonpartisan.
/r/MensRights26/10/17 11:27 PM
1

I've shared rooms with both male and female friends dozens of times. On school trips, road trips, conventions, and even vacations. And keeping in mind they got physical in the end, the whole drama is beyond absurd. I don't see where it says they got physical. All I see is she said she had a boyfriend and she doesn't cheat.
/r/MensRights25/10/17 09:29 PM
1

That's a claim. Its all a claim. Maybe none of this story is true. For the sake of discussing it, I am assuming it is accurate information. Wow, you have quite peculiar saving habits, in some countries. Literally sleeping with someone in the same bed, to save costs, hotels must be quite expensive, I guess. It is extremely common in the US. Considering the popularity of hostels in Europe, which are based on room sharing, the idea is common in a lot of societies.
/r/MensRights25/10/17 09:24 PM
1

The dividing line does vary by culture, but in every civilized culture jumping naked in the shower with someone who didn't invite you and trying to have sex with them when they didn't express interest is miles away from any grey area and in full predator territory.
/r/MensRights25/10/17 02:00 AM
1

So I can go to one of these sexually relaxed parts of Europe, show up at a nude beach, and stark fucking any naked woman I see because nudity is an invitation to sex? No, you are very wrong and you need to realize that before it lands you in jail.
/r/MensRights25/10/17 01:57 AM
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Look up the history of the first domestic violence shelter in England started by Erin Pizzey. She met a huge amount of resistance from feminist groups because she recognized that most domestic violence was reciprocal and men were victims just as much as women. Her organization was subsequently hijacked by militant feminists with the aid of the Labor party. She was pushed out and services for male victims were ceased.
/r/MensRights24/10/17 09:52 PM
2

Stripping naked and getting in the shower with someone isn't "testing the waters" that is doing a running cannonball into the waters. Try holding her hand, go in for a kiss, put your arm around her shoulder. That is testing the waters. Showing up naked and trying to bang is not a normal or acceptable behavior.
/r/MensRights24/10/17 09:10 PM
1

Yes, but they also recognize that nudity is not in any way an invitation for sex. There is also a cultural understanding of when and where it is appropriate to expose yourself to others.
/r/MensRights24/10/17 09:06 PM
1

2 adults in the same room with one taking shower is quite hinting at Friends sharing a room on a road trip to avoid the cost of a second hotel room is really common. I went on a trip with my best friend 2 months ago and we shared a room. There was no sex involved or assumed. If you are sharing a room with a friend are you not supposed to shower? That is absurd. oh, how dare you enter the bathroom which I didn't even bother closing 'for some reason' Maybe she thought he had basic respect for a fr…
/r/MensRights24/10/17 09:03 PM
1

With mixed sex saunas everyone knows the deal and they choose whether or not to go in depending on their comfort level. If you read the post, they were friends on a road trip together. No sexual or romantic history was mentioned and friends sharing a hotel room for the economy is common in these circumstances. It doesn't imply sex.
/r/MensRights24/10/17 08:56 PM
2

I agree that these movies are aware that they flip the script and are commenting on men abuse power. They are revenge fantasies. Some women (not all or even most judging by the limited success of such movies) enjoy the thought of treating men just as bad as they think men treat them.
/r/MensRights24/10/17 08:47 PM
6

If you grew up in a first world nation, the culture and the law is usually the same. Intentionally looking at someone naked when they have not given you permission is called being a peeping tom or voyeurism and is illegal most places. Exposing yourself to someone who has not consented is sexual harassment or assault depending on the location and the degree, and is also illegal in most places.
/r/MensRights24/10/17 01:46 AM
3

You ask for consent before going into the bathroom where someone who hasn't agreed to let you see them naked is in the shower. You ask for consent before taking your clothes off in front of someone.
/r/MensRights24/10/17 12:47 AM
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To quote Mel Brooks, "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall down a manhole and die." This quote is accurate in multiple ways in this case. The first is that everyone knows cutting your finger is common, but many think the idea of men being assaulted by a woman is so rare as to be comical. The other is that tragedy is when something even slightly bad happens to you, but that bad things happening to others isn't a bother at all. The in-group bias of women is often so strong they…
/r/MensRights24/10/17 12:11 AM
7

As mild and reasonable as this video is, I would lose the majority of the people in my life who are closest to me if I posted a link to this. People aren't ready to listen yet. I hope they will be in my lifetime.
/r/MensRights21/10/17 02:07 AM
2

Should include men who were falsely accused of domestic violence as well. I had an ex try and turn my friends against me after we broke up by telling everyone I beat her. Luckily my friends know me well enough and didn't believe her lies.
/r/MensRights20/10/17 09:14 PM
5

Using discrimination to fight discrimination is still bad. An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. There are plenty of pedagogical techniques which guarantee everyone gets an equal chance to speak. Pick numbers randomly, or call on people round robin. This teacher needs to recognize that she is not immune from personal bias. She is basing her teaching method on stereotypes. There are plenty of disadvantages a student can have which are invisible, such as being gay, transgender, an orphan, or a …
/r/MensRights20/10/17 08:53 PM
3

This is an interesting example because in my experience of living in a city with a lot of poor and homeless, men are approached for money at an extremely higher rate than women. Without exaggeration I literally can't go anywhere without being asked for money at least once. And yet people recognize women being hit on as misogyny and/or objectification, but would never say that men being asked for money has any sexist elements. Edit: It also occurs to me that nobody ever stands around hoping to be…
/r/MensRights19/10/17 09:50 PM
2

We really do need to use archive links for this stuff whenever possible. We do it to Jezabel and other feminist sites. I don't intend to pick on the right either. Any heavily politically slanted site should be archive linked.
/r/MensRights19/10/17 09:36 PM
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Yesterday someone at Menslib suggested that program be started to recruit men to locate and stop sexual harassers. I pointed out that this is chivalry and individuals need to be responsible for defending themselves. They lost their shit, tried to argue the point, and eventually a mod deleted the whole discussing while personally insulting me. At least they didn't ban me this time.
/r/MensRights19/10/17 12:06 AM
1

I definitely feel where you are coming from. I freelance and my editor and co-authors all lean heavily feminist. I have posted minor comments disagreeing with elements of feminist posts on FB and people absolutely freaked out. So I can't really share my opinion with anyone in real life, no matter how close to me they are. It is So bizarre that I agree with 90% of what they say, but if I don't agree with that last 10% its as if I disagreed completely.
/r/MensRights18/10/17 02:25 AM
1

Well fuck, that's my union.
/r/MensRights13/10/17 03:16 AM
2

I went from abusive relationship to abusive relationship for a decade. I've had bones broken, been slapped, choked, and even had a woman try and stab me in my sleep. It just was normal to me because that is all I had ever known. It isn't normal. Better women exist. True partners who will make you feel better about yourself instead of worse. A partner who will make your happiness a priority, help you be the best you can be, and be worthy of your trust. Once you find that you will be amazed that y…
/r/MensRights13/10/17 03:15 AM
1

She is unable to care about other people unless it affects her. Textbook psychopath.
/r/MensRights13/10/17 02:52 AM
2

The link points to the Kickstarter which leads to their webpage which references their previous documentaries like Esteem which show up on IMDB. No idea if that proves anything. Just following the breadcrumbs.
/r/MensRights13/10/17 02:46 AM
4

Traditional gender roles are good for men! And that is why you are not an MRA. Traditional gender roles are why men lose their children in divorces. They are why men kill themselves so often. They are why men are treated as disposable. And you think that is a good thing. By supporting traditional gender roles you are making life worse for all men.
/r/MensRights12/10/17 02:12 AM
3

Redpillers are the male equivalent of gold-diggers. People who exploit traditional gender roles to get what they want. They actively make things worse for everyone and in my mind can never honestly call themselves MRAs. They are part of the problem.
/r/MensRights12/10/17 12:23 AM
5

Used to run a drilling rig for taking environmental samples. I haven't don't that for 8 years, but injuries from that job still affect me. Holding the controls of a violently vibrating machine for hours a day gave me constant pain in my wrist. It is mostly better now, but will act up if I do any substantial physical labor. To this day I still occasionally have to dig metal splinters out of my hands. I pinched a nerve in my back lifting sacks of concrete and it will occasionally go out and cause …
/r/MensRights12/10/17 12:12 AM
3

Let's not forget her masterpiece "made to penetrate" VS rape.
/r/MensRights11/10/17 01:50 AM
2

Feminists cause this problem for themselves by attacking everyone who says they aren't a feminist. If the options are feminist and misogynist as so many feminisys like to claim, then people are just going to lie to get by in society.
/r/MensRights11/10/17 01:26 AM
7

They assume we support white supremecists because we respect free speech and don't ban people at the drop of a hat like feminist spaces. I have seen white supremecists post here before under the mistaken assumption that we are traditionalists. They get down voted to hell, get pissed nobody agrees with them, and then they leave.
/r/MensRights10/10/17 02:50 AM
7

If you tell someone you love them and they don't reciprocate a normal person is sad. An entitled asshole is angry.
/r/MensRights10/10/17 02:39 AM
0

At least use an archive link like we do feminist sites.
/r/MensRights10/10/17 02:33 AM
4

Plenty of people have rightfully pointed out that a big part of this problem is mental health, but I think it more specifically a rare variant of suicide. From what sparse sources I could find, something like 50% of mass shooters kill themselves before capture and another unknown percentage are "suicide by cop". This nation cares so little about men that it has been fine with 80% of suicides being men. Even with mass shootings emphasizing the problem, we as a nation would still rather argue gun …
/r/MensRights07/10/17 02:49 AM
2

I'm glad you are out of that situation safe and healthy. For all the criticism this community gets, it is the only place I have found that really truly helps men get out of abusive situations. It helped me as well and I will always be grateful for that.
/r/MensRights05/10/17 11:06 PM
1

About 80% of suicides in the US are men and about 60% of gun deaths in the US are suicides. A large amount of mass shooting end up with the shooter ending their own life. Somehow nobody sees any connection.
/r/MensRights04/10/17 10:14 PM
1

Men need to think long and hard about who the monogamy part of a relationship really serves.
/r/MensRights04/10/17 02:11 AM
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He did a huge amount of work involving civil rights, gender equality, and first amendment rights. He taught generations of men not to be ashamed of wanting to look at naked women and taught generations of women it was okay if they wanted to be looked at by men. This country would be a lot more sexually repressed without him.
/r/MensRights29/09/17 02:41 AM
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That is an excellent summary and I agree completely. I obviously can't speak for all MRAs any more than you can speak for all feminists, but I think the overwhelming majority of MRAs would agree as well and don't want anyone regardless of gender to be the victim of sexual assault. So what is stopping feminists and MRAs from working together? To put it mildly, feminists hate MRAs. In my 8 or 9 years as an MRA I have been described as a misogynist, a rape apologizer, part of a hate group, and wors…
/r/MensRights29/09/17 01:23 AM
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I genuinely believe the majority of feminists want equality as well. I however think feminist theory and the execution of that theory falls far short of equality. I started writing a long, ranting explanation, but I have done it a hundred times and rarely get a response, so I am not going to waste either of our time. If you are up for it, I would like to try something new. I am going to list a few topics. Pick one and we can discuss it from both a feminist and mens rights viewpoint. We can see w…
/r/MensRights28/09/17 04:25 AM
2

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
/r/MensRights28/09/17 02:42 AM
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I think many people, especially ones on here haven't done much research on exactly what feminism is. Perhaps instead of assuming our ignorance, you should take a more humble approach and find out if we understand things you do not which have caused us to come to a different conclusion.
/r/MensRights28/09/17 02:07 AM
2

Thank you. I would be lying if I said it was easy.
/r/MensRights28/09/17 01:38 AM
2

Sections B and C. If you want it more specific, you are on your own.
/r/MensRights27/09/17 11:30 PM
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I am very lucky that someone took my mom aside years ago and told her that her divorce from my father does not change the fact that he is my father and that I would be the one hurt most if they did not learn to coexist peacefully. For all her faults, she took that advice to heart. My father is getting on in years and has had some medical issues lately. My mother took him to the doctor appointments I couldn't make it to and arranged for old friends and family to help check up on him. My father wa…
/r/MensRights27/09/17 10:36 PM
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Citation needed. There are loads of sources that should be easy for you to find if you want to know more, but this pdf is a good place to start. The rest of your post is opinion, which you are entitled to. I simply disagree.
/r/MensRights27/09/17 09:18 PM
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This exercise isn't about the answers, it is about getting students to think about the questions. If these questions make students uncomfortable in a safe classroom setting, imagine how asking them of someone involved in the criminal justice system would feel.
/r/MensRights27/09/17 08:05 PM
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Treating people as a class and not individuals has no place in our criminal justice system. I would argue that this is exactly the lesson this exercise is trying to teach. It is unfortunately common for people in the justice system to question LGBT victims about their sexuality and attempt to make it relevant to the crime of which they were the victim. The exercise seems to be intended to create empathy for these groups and make people realize that asking such questions is irrelevant and demeani…
/r/MensRights27/09/17 07:54 PM
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If you feel attacked by these questions, imagine how gay people feel when asked the inverse. It is an empathy exercise.
/r/MensRights27/09/17 02:04 AM
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Hair color isn't a protected class, sexuality is. If an individual can't set aside their personal beliefs and follow the law, they don't belong in criminal justice.
/r/MensRights27/09/17 01:59 AM
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It seems to me that the post assumes that women understand equality better than men (moral superiority). We see further examples of the assumption of moral superiority any time women commit a crime. People fall all over themselves making up excuses for why the woman acted that way. She was abused or had mental illness, or was a victim in some way rather than a perpetrator. With men, they are immediately held fully responsible for their actions. This dichotomy is evident in the legal system. Wome…
/r/MensRights22/09/17 10:13 PM
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Yes, I get your point. I agree that once someone has paid their debt to society, they should not be punished further. However, I do t think we should expect people to pretend a crime didn't happen. Organizations should have right to choose the members they believe will be a good representative of their group (as long as that criteria isn't a protected category like race or sex). The NFL is obviously okay with players with a violent past. Sports teams have a huge financial incentive to make playi…
/r/MensRights22/09/17 08:58 PM
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I don't believe that every feminist believes women are superior. That is an absurd generalization. I do however believe that there is a dominant social belief that women are morally superior and this carries over into feminism. This popped up on my facebook wall the other day from a 3rd wave feminist group. https://imgur.com/a/1TIA6 I would say that definitely is an example of some feminists showing they believe they are morally superior to most men.
/r/MensRights22/09/17 08:42 PM
1

Just speaking for myself, I am not against execution as a concept but realize that sometimes the law fucks up. My state stopped executing people after several people were given the death penalty and later found to have been innocent.
/r/MensRights22/09/17 07:57 PM
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The story she tells is she beat her 4 year old child severely and then locked him in their apartment alone for several days. She she returned he was dead. She didn't report it to the authorities or tell the boy's father. She then buried the body of her son in the woods. The body was never found, so it is all her word. She went to prison for 20 years but got out in less than 10 for good behavior IIRC. Feminists have been painting her as a poor victim who was denied entry into Harvard after being …
/r/MensRights22/09/17 01:43 AM
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We aren't doing what the other side does. The other side says women are better than men and men have a violence problem. This is to counter those statements.
/r/MensRights22/09/17 12:07 AM
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You interpreted this post as saying "women are evil". This is wrong. It is saying that women are no better and no worse than men. We are equal in our potential for evil. The point of this sort of thing is to counter the public narrative that women are better than men and that violence is a male problem.
/r/MensRights22/09/17 12:06 AM
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And people like Brock Turner aren't representative of men, but you wouldn't think so from the way some feminists hold him up as an example of patriarchy and rape culture at work.
/r/MensRights21/09/17 07:52 PM
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Whenever something like this comes up, I mention two quick experiences with women from the past. My first girlfriend wanted to wait until after marriage for sex. Still, we would make out, get excited, and beg me to fuck her in the heat of the moment. I always refused. I told her she would have to ask me to have sex with a clear head. Eventually we did and it was fine. No regrets by either party. Another young woman was a friend I was flirty with. She laid down in my bed for a nap and I joined he…
/r/MensRights21/09/17 12:34 AM
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Cough Phrasing. In all seriousness, it happens to most of us at one time or another. Being by betrayed by someone you trusted and who you had hung so many hopes and dreams on for the future hurts bad. It can't really be described how bad. I was with a young woman for 5 years. She had a childhood friend who was in the military. When he would come back from duty to visit she would go see him. She confessed she kissed him. I forgave her and considering how long they had friends I said it was still …
/r/MensRights20/09/17 02:47 AM
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Sadly, they aren't exaggerating in that case. Nation of Islam is fucking nuts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam
/r/MensRights14/09/17 02:50 PM
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Lots of people are telling you not to date a feminist but I disagree. I would much rather date a feminist than a traditionalist. They are more likely to carry their own weight in a relationship. Because their beliefs are so emotionally charged, it is relatively easy to convince them to mentally carve out an exception in their bias for you as one of the "good men" because that is what they want to believe. Just sit back, keep your own opinions, and don't engage when she gets into a feminist topic…
/r/MensRights11/09/17 08:56 PM
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I stand corrected.
/r/MensRights07/09/17 07:27 PM
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Cisgender is the opposite of transgender. It is a science pun as cis and trans are used to describe versions of the same molecule that are shaped differently.
/r/MensRights07/09/17 02:29 AM
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My mom did a low grade version of this. She limited time with my father as much as she could (court ordered 10h a week). She told me he was abusive, cheated on her, and accentuated his faults. Eventually I grew up and was able to judge my parents from an adult perspective. I heard my dad's side of things. She drove him away and manipulated things so she would look like the innocent victim. Parents that do this sort of thing never seem to realize that their kids will one day grow up and be able t…
/r/MensRights06/09/17 05:43 AM
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Never ever EVER fool around with people you work with.
/r/MensRights26/08/17 12:15 AM
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When watching the episode I immediately recognized Cersei forcing herself on Jamie as rape. One of the core elements of her character is the use of sexuality as a means to power. She can see Jamie is uncomfortable with her seizing the throne and she exploits his sexual attraction for her to get him back on her side. A blowjob in this scene is specifically calculated to make him more comfortable with her ruling. Then, the next morning she exposes their incest against Jamie's wishes and further en…
/r/MensRights26/08/17 12:09 AM
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Someone I know insists on being called they/them in spite being biologically female and appearing to be female. They went to a bar on ladies night and complained about being misgendered in spite of having no external signifiers of being otherwise. Of course they weren't so offended that they refused the discount....
/r/MensRights25/08/17 02:13 AM
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Here is the first result when I search "emotional expressivity by gender". http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0158666 "The findings suggest that, when watching videos that induce an emotional response, men often have more intense emotional experiences, whereas women have higher emotional expressivity, particularly for negative emotions. " There are a bunch of metaanalysis on the subject but I am having trouble finding ones that aren't paywalled.
/r/MensRights09/08/17 09:42 PM
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The first thing I noticed is that the graph is based on percentages. This doesn't tell us if the percentage of women in CS dropped because less women wanted to be involved or because more men wanted to be involved (and my google-fu failed on finding the data). The second thing I noticed was that the drop in the percentage of women coincided with the popularization of video games. This could be the social force that caused the disparity as interest in video games skews heavily male.
/r/MensRights09/08/17 09:26 PM
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That women express greater emotional expressivity than men.
/r/MensRights09/08/17 08:24 PM
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Here is a fantastic article that talks about exactly this in section IV (though the whole article is worth reading). http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exaggerated-differences/ As a rough summary, the difference is the object vs person gender difference. Women prefer to work with people, men prefer to work with objects. The more equal a society, the more options women have for careers, the more they have the choice to pick careers that pay just as well as computer science but d…
/r/MensRights09/08/17 08:07 PM
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The effects of testosterone and estrogen are extremely well documented. Read some of the experiences of transgender people talking about transitioning. The difference is real. There is no value judgement to this. Being less emotional on average does not make men better.
/r/MensRights09/08/17 07:56 PM
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It is uniform across every society on the planet.
/r/MensRights09/08/17 02:54 PM
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Look up some pictures of people from Morocco. Skin color in that region varies widely. Their skin color might not be as dark as someone from Nigeria, but it would still be substantially darker than any Briton.
/r/MensRights29/07/17 04:56 AM
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The point being, there were not an inconsequential amount of Romans who would be considered black by modern standards and it is not a stretch to say some were likely stationed in Britain.
/r/MensRights29/07/17 02:08 AM
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From the brief bits I have read, Romans learned the hard way in Germany that having local soldiers run things did not make the most loyal troops. They started making sure occupying troops were from other parts of the empire, including north Africa.
/r/MensRights29/07/17 01:03 AM
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The minimum viable population of humans is estimated to be around 10,000 (http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a10369/how-many-people-does-it-take-to-colonize-another-star-system-16654747/). The global population is 7.5 billion. That means that roughly 7,499,990,000 are equally disposable.
/r/MensRights24/07/17 09:50 PM
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"In some societies, especially tribal societies, cannibalism is a cultural norm." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism_in_humans
/r/MensRights24/07/17 09:37 PM
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To start out, my mother was emotionally abusive, so I have some vulnerabilities to that kind of manipulation that I was less aware of back then. My ex was an excellent liar and manipulator (both verbally and sexually). When we were first dating she was going to college and living in the dorms. She claimed she lost a scholarship and would have to drop out of school and move back home out of state. This was the beginning when everything was still new and exciting, so I invited her to move in with …
/r/MensRights13/07/17 08:19 PM
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I had an ex that used to threaten to kill herself if I left her. It made me stay with her until every scrap of love for her died and I genuinely didn't care any more of she killed herself. After I broke up with her she tried to stab me in my sleep. Luckily I wasn't asleep like she thought and her eyes were not adjusted to the dark like mine, so I was able to disarm her without either of us getting hurt. For 2 weeks after I slept with a chair propped against my bedroom door and waited for her to …
/r/MensRights13/07/17 01:19 AM
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The Somerset mum claims a post-mortem revealed Mikey choked in his sleep but that the cause behind it was “inconclusive”. That is what I was looking for. Nothing suspicious at all about a guy that is healthy enough to work 16 hour days just stopping breathing. No need for further investigation to look for foul play.
/r/MensRights11/07/17 10:27 PM
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Feminism teaches women that The Patriarchy(insert trademark symbol here) holds all the power, so they don't believe they have they ability to help themselves.
/r/MensRights10/07/17 11:59 PM
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Considering in the UK a woman getting a voluntary genital piercing is considered FGM...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/31938409/counting-genital-piercings-as-fgm-undermines-abuse-says-union
/r/MensRights01/07/17 03:11 AM
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I wonder if we would have any success at pushing for journalistic representation. Write opinion pieces and reach out to journalists to offer interviews. This would help counter the constant stream of misinformation about the MRM that goes on in the media. Hardly a week goes by without a new article comparing us to white supremacists, claiming we want to legalize rape, or other absurd awful things. In my experience many people are against us because all they know is from these articles filled wit…
/r/MensRights27/06/17 09:56 PM
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My dad taught me a lot by example about patience, perseverance, and responsibility. After many years my mom finally went to therapy and got the medication she needed and we have been slowly rebuilding our relationship. Every time I see a post here about a dad fighting for their children I post a bit about my dad. Even though he couldn't change my mom's behavior and couldn't have the time with me he wanted, he showed me how much he loved me through his actions and sacrifices. In the long run chil…
/r/MensRights27/06/17 07:51 PM
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At the end of my parent's marriage my mom withdrew all affection from my father. They didn't kiss let alone have sex for 3 years. She would make food for herself and me and we would eat it upstairs locked in her bedroom while he was downstairs left to fend for himself. She screamed at him to get out constantly. Eventually, my dad cheated on her. She filed for divorce, told all her friends what a monster he was, and played up her victimhood. Long story short, you are right. Abusers know how to ma…
/r/MensRights27/06/17 04:31 AM
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I don't have much advice on what to do specifically here, but I was a child of divorced parents. My mom played games and cut time from my dad as much as she could. My dad didn't fight her as much as he could have because he knew their fighting would just hurt me. In hindsight my mom probably enjoyed the martyrdom of being "deprived" her child one day a week, so it could have gotten worse. My dad always made our time together about us and about teaching me all the things he wasn't there to teach …
/r/MensRights17/06/17 03:08 AM
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I wonder if anyone has framed what she did as domestic violence? I certainly would say it falls under that umbrella.
/r/MensRights17/06/17 02:36 AM
2

Dating a feminist can work. I have been dating one for 5 years now and we get along great. I simply don't talk about gender politics. If she starts going on about it I just listen and nod. The important part is that we both treat each other as equals.
/r/MensRights15/06/17 02:50 AM
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IIRC her origin story is that she lived in Africa as a literal goddess. The local people prayed to her and she granted them rain for their crops. As long as she stays in an area she has total control of the lpcal weather patterns.
/r/MensRights15/06/17 02:37 AM
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I agree completely. Not taking a hard, publoc stance against white nationalism is just giving feminism a stick to beat us to death with.
/r/MensRights31/05/17 03:44 PM
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Asian culture tends to rely heavily on corporal punishment and emotional abuse to discipline children, so I wouldn't say there is a lack of child abuse. It is just very controlled and purposeful. It is often integrated into the culture so it isn't reported because it isn't seen as wrong. http://articles.latimes.com/1994-09-18/local/me-40145_1_asian-culture
/r/MensRights25/05/17 11:57 PM
2

Thank you for the information. I was unaware that registration was automatic when getting a drivers license. It definitely makes high school drivers ed classes seem a little sinister in purpose. I knew the system was unfair to men but I am constantly learning how deeply it is against us.
/r/MensRights25/05/17 09:49 PM
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I'm already convinced the law is discriminatory. You don't have to convince me. The people who you do have to convince are most likely going to look at this as at best a half truth or exaggeration or at worst a lie. I would argue that weakens the message.
/r/MensRights25/05/17 09:42 PM
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Like I thought, the citizenship part only applies to immigrants. USCIS cannot supersede the 14th Amendment which says "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
/r/MensRights25/05/17 01:43 AM
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Wait, so getting a voter ID would involuntarily enroll you in selective service automatically? Not that I don't believe you, but could you point me to some documentation?
/r/MensRights25/05/17 01:37 AM
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Not registering for the draft does not directly prevent you from voting. If you don't register and are convicted for it, you have a felony. States have various laws that remove the right to vote for a time, ranging from just while imprisoned to life. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement I don't think failure to register for the draft removes your citizenship although it may be a requirement of immigrants seeking citizenship. I'm not sure there.
/r/MensRights25/05/17 01:08 AM
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She is a child. She needs education. If anyone should be punished it is her parents for not raising her to know right from wrong.
/r/MensRights20/05/17 03:02 AM
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My grandfather, father, and uncle were all drafted. The last draft ended just 8 years before I was born. It is not some long ago, far away thing. As long as it is on the books, the people in power can decide to start enforcing those laws again whenever it suits their interests.
/r/MensRights19/05/17 12:33 AM
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While you are technically correct, note that failure to comply is a felony and felonies result in a temporary or sometimes permanent loss of the right to vote depending on state laws. http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/felon-voting-rights.aspx
/r/MensRights18/05/17 09:42 PM
2

You are correct in the legal sense. I suppose I shouldn't have used the legal term attempted murder because I am not talking about it in legal terms. I am talking about the reality that this woman realistically risked killing the man whether she intended to or not by drunkenly slashing and stabbing at him. She clearly intended him physical harm. The fact that it was not worse is likely luck on his part.
/r/MensRights17/05/17 11:19 PM
2

Brock Turner wasn't convicted of rape. He was acquitted of rape and attempted rape charges. He was convicted on felony sexual assault. Any time you stab someone it is attempted murder because it could potentially end in death regardless of intent.
/r/MensRights17/05/17 06:14 AM
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Then their life is not worse than death. If it was worse the fear would not stop them.
/r/MensRights17/05/17 06:09 AM
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As long as the living do not choose death life is preferable to them.
/r/MensRights17/05/17 05:45 AM
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At worst, the living can be brought equal to the dead. There is nothing worse than death because death is the end of all chance of happiness. The living always have hope.
/r/MensRights17/05/17 05:42 AM
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The living always have a chance to heal. The dead cannot.
/r/MensRights17/05/17 05:31 AM
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Being alive is.
/r/MensRights17/05/17 05:23 AM
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They are wrong. A murder victim doesn't have the luxury of agreeing or disagreeing.
/r/MensRights17/05/17 05:20 AM
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A stab in the leg could make you bleed to death very quickly. Stabbing anyone is automatically attempted murder. Murder is worse than rape.
/r/MensRights17/05/17 02:58 AM
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I'm polyamorous. There are a lot of frustrating double standards, both from monogamous people and from the community. I was at a party a while back and a woman started asking questions when she found out I was poly. It started out pretty tame, but quickly became clear she was insinuating that I just claimed to be poly as an excuse for being unable to be faithful. In the poly community, there is a common concept called a "one penis policy". It is a common mistake insecure beginners make with a pa…
/r/MensRights17/05/17 01:30 AM
2

Like many things in life, moderation is the key. Any socio-economic philosophy taken to the extreme is disastrous. Capitalist principles are desirable when innovation is necessary and failure is acceptable (tech, entertainment). Socialist principles are necessary when social stability is necessary and failure is unacceptable (healthcare, education).
/r/MensRights12/05/17 02:08 AM
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He was more of a personal anarchist that saw fascism as an inevitable endpoint of government.
/r/MensRights06/05/17 04:36 PM
2

I was talking to a Feminist friend about this last night. When I pointed out to him that a woman could have an abortion and the father could have the fetus transplanted into one of these and then stick her with 18 years of child support. The look of horror on his face was hilarious.
/r/MensRights26/04/17 10:03 PM
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I agree completely. I believe in free speech as much as the most people here, but being rude and sounding sexist simply hands feminists ammunition against us. They can point and say "see, they hate women!" and people just write us off. We have the facts on our side, we just have to get people to listen. The other big mistake of feminism we need to avoid making is political alignment. Equality for men is not a partisan issue. We could make short term gains if we picked a side, but in the long ter…
/r/MensRights24/04/17 10:23 PM
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I had an acquaintance who had something very similar to this happen. He became aware of some scams that the caretaker of his apartment building was running. Shortly after he became aware that the caretaker was watching him. Every time he left, he saw the caretaker loitering around. He started noticing marks around the lock on his door like someone tried to break in. He started noticing strange smells coming from the vent in his kitchen and strange powders near his windows. He set up cameras in h…
/r/MensRights22/04/17 04:27 AM
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Doesn't this actually help male rape victims as much, if not more than female rape victims? Female rapists are far more likely to use blackmail, threats, or coercion to prevent a man from fighting back rather than physical force. Remember the story of the military guy who was raped by a pregnant woman and didn't fight back because he didn't want to hurt the baby? A law like this would only help in situations like that.
/r/MensRights20/04/17 01:39 AM
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Men's blood sweet and tears comes from laboring in the field while women labored in the home. Men and women helped in ways that only they could and both benefited.
/r/MensRights14/04/17 11:25 PM
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In the spirit of debate, I disagree. Recycling plastic is much less harmful to the environment than recycling paper. Also, plastic can be produced from corn which is much more rapidly replenished than trees (of course hemp paper would be even better but is practically illegal due to drug law).
/r/MensRights14/04/17 11:15 PM
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On monogamy or the exceptions? If it is the exceptions, then yes.
/r/MensRights14/04/17 11:03 PM
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You are forgetting the benefit of childbirth for women. In an agrarian society, having more hands to do work means a greater chance of survival for everyone. This is especially true in harsher environments. Some of the few examples of polyandry (one wife, multiple husbands) occurred in the mountainous plateaus of Peru and Tibet where the growing season is short and more male workers were necessary to provide sufficient supplies in a short time period to survive the cold season. In short, having …
/r/MensRights14/04/17 10:59 PM
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I see this sentiment far too often around here and it is troubling. There are a ton of things in life that have associated risks that we do every day without thinking. Do you have any idea how many people are killed or crippled in car accidents every day? And yet most of us drive around without fear. This mentality is no less harmful than that of women who treat every guy as a potential rapist. Most people are not out to hurt you and there are reasonable precautions a person can take to minimize…
/r/MensRights14/04/17 10:22 PM
1

In talking big "R" Republicans, I was mainly speaking for the US. I am not familiar with any other nation's party composition to talk about them in a fully informed manner. The evangelical movement has been a big proponent of circumcision in Africa and we know how important the evangelical vote is to Republicans in the US. US circumcision may be more cultural than religious, however I suspect many conservative religious people in the US would grab onto any attempt at restriction as part of an on…
/r/MensRights13/04/17 12:45 AM
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Check out this article. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/28/the-serious-reason-boys-do-worse-than-girls/ It discusses with solid research how boys consistently do worse in school at every level and how the problem is worse with lower income children. You may be able to talk to the principal or a sympathetic teacher and arrange an after school boys study group. That would be the "change" you need.
/r/MensRights11/04/17 01:31 AM
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Aligning with any part of the right has one huge stumbling block that I see. Circumcision. It is one of the bigg r st MRA issues and it directly clashes with the Republican religious base. I sincerely doubt they will alinate their base for a few MRA votes.
/r/MensRights10/04/17 02:00 AM
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Haha. I love the MRA/Feminist boxes.
/r/MensRights10/04/17 01:27 AM
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The metric for commitment has always been marriage and the decrease in marriage correlates with a general decrease in participation in religion. Men still commit, just not by the traditional metric.
/r/MensRights06/04/17 02:17 AM
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Traditionally women were the property of their husbands Show me a receipt then. Black people were actually property and there are historical records of their sale. And still this doesn't tell me how HeForShe is doing this. http://time.com/3432838/emma-watson-feminism-men-women/ Feminists would want to protect the man going to work in a dress and makeup This is a lie. It used to be unacceptable for women to wear pants. Feminists fought for the right successfully. If feminism represented equality,…
/r/MensRights31/03/17 08:43 PM
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I would argue you have an equally unrealistic view of past gender roles that creates imaginary victimhood status for women. I'm not saying everything was perfect and rosy, but it wasn't for men either. HeForShe exploits the male gender role of protecting women, as I have said several times. It does not fight for equality. It fights for female privilege. I ask you to think of the fashion and style options offered to women. Think about all the options women have. Women have far more freedom of cho…
/r/MensRights31/03/17 02:06 AM
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I would say that the traditionalist gender role is that men are responsible for women, not that they own them. Responsibility includes being accountable for their welfare, for example alimony. I don't think women control men or vice versa. I think everyone exerts the power they have. HeForShe exploits the male gender role men have been indoctrinated into by society. If women are tasked with buying groceries and clothes for their family, no shit women do more consuming. 85% is more than just clot…
/r/MensRights30/03/17 05:17 AM
1

Power is not necessarily used primarily for the benefit of those that wield it. A traditionalist gender role for men is to care for and provide for women. Feminism has done little to weaken this and at times exploits it (the HeForShe campaign for example. Women account for 85% of all consumer purchases. Who really has more power, the one who earns money or the one who decides how that money is spent? Women also consume around 60% of government benefits in spite of paying less in taxes than men. …
/r/MensRights30/03/17 12:48 AM
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Also this: http://m.imgur.com/n7lWQ9b
/r/MensRights29/03/17 07:53 PM
1

That is precisely why I am arguing that expectations for men need to be realigned. Men having children should be encouraged to take off just as much time as their partners. That way there is no assumption it will be just the woman taking time off. When hours, position, time with the company, overtime, vacation, and all other relevant features are accounted for, there is a disparity of around 3-5% which is unaccounted for. This could be due to sexism, or some other unaccounted for variable.
/r/MensRights29/03/17 03:55 PM
2

Probably, though feminists have been busy churning out articles claiming it is a myth.
/r/MensRights29/03/17 02:18 AM
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"Decades of research confirm that women want and enjoy sex as much as men." Decades of research prove women do NOT want sex as much as men. If women enjoy sex as much as men, then why is their having fewer orgasms a problem?
/r/MensRights29/03/17 02:04 AM
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An employer is going to preferentially choose the worker who is willing to work longer, take less time off, and do more overtime. That is not sexism; that is economics. By encouraging men to put more focus on their family and personal life rather than work, men and women will be on the same footing and will be equally desirable to employers. As a bonus, men will have more time to devote to housework and childcare.
/r/MensRights29/03/17 01:25 AM
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How in the hell did you read what I wrote and interpret it as an argument for just men being the breadwinners? I'm arguing that men should seek a work/life balance more like women do, which means working less.
/r/MensRights28/03/17 09:59 PM
1

I think a big issue and help center is going to have is simply convincing men that their experiences constitute abuse. For a long time I didn't even think men could be abused. Emotionally abusive behavior was very normalized for me growing up and it was just normal for me later in life with a romantic relationship. Physical abuse was just something a man should put up with because women were weak and couldn't hurt a man. It took my ex trying to stab me in my sleep as a wake up call. What helped …
/r/MensRights28/03/17 01:58 AM
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Who has it worse really doesn't matter because both men and women have serious problems that are so tightly intertwined that trying to address the problems of one gender without addressing the other is hopeless, in my opinion. Look at the wage gap for example. Women are paid less on average, however on average men work more hours, use less vacation and sick leave, work more overtime, work higher paying jobs, and are far far more likely to be injured or die at work. I would argue the wage gap is …
/r/MensRights28/03/17 01:45 AM
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You are right, women don't have equal rights in the US, they have superior rights. If you want women to have equal rights to men, you have to remove their right to abortion, remove their protection from infant genital mutilation, remove their right to default custody of their children, make them eligible for the draft, eliminate the Department of Labor Women's Bureau, eliminate the White House Council for Women and Girls, and eliminate hundreds of women-only domestic violence shelters funded und…
/r/MensRights28/03/17 12:33 AM
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So when a 15 year old takes a video of themselves masturbating, who is the abuser?
/r/MensRights22/03/17 11:57 PM
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I don't mind you asking. I am not aware of having any kind of spectrum disorder and I don't take asking as an insult. I am a geologist by training, so I sometimes focus on small details a little more closely than most would.
/r/MensRights18/03/17 04:50 PM
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Yes, I honestly believe the things I am writing. I am honestly really confused that you think anything I have said is so unbelievable. The only other gender rights sub I regularly post to is /r/femradebates. It is a debate sub populated by MRAs, feminists, and egalitarians. The mod rules are pretty strict but applied equally to all, so feminists get dinged for insulting MRAs as often as the other way around. No personal insults and no generalizations about identifiable groups. It is the only pla…
/r/MensRights16/03/17 11:02 PM
2

We aren't talking about Jar Jar Binks here. Colossus is a human male both in the movie and in Marvel lore. The fact that the character can turn to metal doesn't somehow negate the application of the standard male gender roles or the female gender roles of the woman he is fighting with. I am being completely serious here. Is it that hard to admit you were wrong?
/r/MensRights15/03/17 09:58 PM
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This is so easy to prove and yet so viciously denied. All you have to do is look at homosexual couples in comparison to heterosexual couples. It becomes clear that the limiting factor for sex is women. Among couples in the first two years of their relationships, 67 percent of gay couples, 45 percent of heterosexual couples, and 33 percent of lesbian couples had sex three times a week or more. The numbers drop off somewhat with time: for couples who had been together 10 years or longer, 11 percen…
/r/MensRights15/03/17 02:46 AM
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More and more I am realizing that the stuff described as toxic masculinity is the same sort of stuff that in women is described as internalized misogyny. The argument is framed from the beginning to remove any culpability from women and shift it all to men. The fair way to look at it is to say that gender roles make both men and women do things that are self destructive.
/r/MensRights15/03/17 02:30 AM
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Colossus is a male hero who punched a female villain in the face. You never specified the male hero couldn't be CGI or that they even had to be human (though the character is human).
/r/MensRights14/03/17 09:43 PM
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Out of curiosity, why do you think socialism is so evil?
/r/MensRights14/03/17 01:43 AM
1

My ex tried to stab me in my sleep. I couldn't kick her out because her name was on the lease. I had to sleep for weeks with a chair propping my bedroom door shut and just hope she didn't try anything else. I really could have used a shelter.
/r/MensRights14/03/17 01:37 AM
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'Cause you never think of those other two as having their shit together.
/r/MensRights13/03/17 10:37 PM
2

When you are proven wrong in a debate it is considered poor form to add new qualifiers to avoid conceding a point.
/r/MensRights13/03/17 10:25 PM
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Never heard of him and did some research and it looks like you are right. He used to be an extremist and had a change of heart and now fights against that sort of thing.
/r/MensRights12/03/17 02:08 AM
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Colossus VS Angel Dust fight from Deadpool @2:07 https://youtu.be/FF6a-XZEm0o
/r/MensRights12/03/17 01:43 AM
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I thought this was really interesting. It definitely seems like a good example of people judging men more harshly than they do women.
/r/MensRights08/03/17 04:01 AM
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That is one theory, but I find another to be more likely. Gender roles were not dictated by the political power structure. It was the other way around. Gender roles rose out of necessity of survival and the power structure of a developing society reflected that. We forget it now that we are in the most peaceful period in human history, but politics and war are two sides of the same coin. War naturally fell under the sphere of men's responsibility because of obvious biological differences I menti…
/r/MensRights02/03/17 06:24 AM
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Without acknowledging women's history, a fight for actual equal rights becomes hypocritical. The history or men and women together needs to be acknowledged or the fight for equal rights becomes hypocritical. Men didn't have it great either. They worked in physically exhausting, dangerous ,and unpleasant jobs to provide for women. Women got screwed by biology, not men. Being on average physically weaker and smaller combined with a lack of reliable contraception made separate gender roles an effec…
/r/MensRights02/03/17 02:48 AM
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I agree completely. It is a hard sell for a lot of people. They have been taught that women have been oppressed by men for centuries, so it is impossible to conceive that there are rights men lack.
/r/MensRights02/03/17 01:33 AM
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In a sense it is a counter attack (or rather self defense). We didn't start the idea of a gender rights movement and we didn't make it just for women. We have argued a change was needed and they refused, so here we are at odds. I agree that we should remove gender from law. I think technology could make this possible in a way that it was previously not. Trials where the gender (and race) of the defendant are unknown to the judge and jury. It could be achieved through teleconferencing and voice a…
/r/MensRights02/03/17 12:42 AM
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If feminism disappeared tomorrow, I would argue that the MRM should disappear too in favor of a unified movement for gender equality. As long as feminism exists, the MRM needs to exist to maintain balance.
/r/MensRights01/03/17 11:31 PM
1

I would love for her to explain why back in the day, all doormen were slaves.
/r/MensRights01/03/17 03:27 AM
2

Constance Grady writing for the Vox detailed the accusations that had been brought against Affleck and claimed that “hurting women often does not hurt men’s careers — not if they’re rich enough and white enough.” Bill Cosby is white now?
/r/MensRights01/03/17 03:09 AM
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There is no way this isn't a publicity stunt by some no name to use virtue signaling to score a bunch of radfem fans.
/r/MensRights23/02/17 02:18 AM
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The argument goes that with large age ranges, the potential for coercion by the older person is higher. Young people are inexperienced and easy to manipulate by older people.
/r/MensRights23/02/17 02:15 AM
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Assuming this research is correct (which I doubt) is says the men reacted negatively when people opened the door for them, not just women. One theory to explain this result would be that men are socially conditioned to be self reliant and don't like to rely on others.
/r/MensRights23/02/17 02:06 AM
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Concern trolling is just a feminist silencing tactic.
/r/MensRights23/02/17 02:01 AM
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Conservativism isn't exactly jumping to help men either. They want to ban abortion which will just cause more men to end up trapped paying child support for a kid they don't want under punishment of jail. They want tighter drug regulations that get more men thrown in jail for nonviolent crime. They want a bigger military which will just put more male soldiers into bodybags. They want to cut government regulation which will end up with more men such, hurt, or dead from workplace accidents. They w…
/r/MensRights23/02/17 01:52 AM
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Let's entertain for a moment that you are right and that what I described isn't socialistic government. It certainly isn't capitalistic government. So what is it then?
/r/MensRights20/02/17 04:32 PM
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Looping back around back to the countries with the highest standard of living, most of the ones beating the US have mixed economies that lean much farther towards socialism. Government sponsored healthcare, fire departments, retirement funds, roads, utilities, the mint, unemployment, and other things are socialized systems. Hell, even the police are a socialized system. Wealth is redistributed to a security force with a government sponsored monopoly rather than each individual hiring a security …
/r/MensRights20/02/17 07:02 AM
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By controlling means of production do you mean providing the funding to operate a wide array of social programs and mandating how they operate?
/r/MensRights19/02/17 10:19 PM
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https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/27/Appeal-to-Definition
/r/MensRights17/02/17 12:41 AM
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I can't tell if that is a crease on the sign or a bad Photoshop.
/r/MensRights16/02/17 03:41 AM
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There are no purely capitalist or purely socialist countries or purely communist countries left. As any economist will tell you, the US is certainly not a free market. Of those 19 countries in your first link, look how many have a large social safety net, including socialized healthcare, socialized retirement programs, socialized education, etc.
/r/MensRights16/02/17 02:55 AM
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So you think "providing for the common good" is a capitalist idea? Like it or not, that is socialist concept. There are absolutely no national governments that are purely capitalist or purely socialist and there will likely never be.
/r/MensRights16/02/17 12:16 AM
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Have you seen today's men? A lot of their lives don't have meaning even to themselves. I need the cause of this being very few jobs achieving anything meaningful. Making a bunch of money for someone else isn't satisfying. Men do so because they are taught their self worth is determined by their income. This is not the natural order. Self worth is determined by achievements and income is a poor scorekeeper. I took a slightly less profitable but dramatically less stressful and time consuming job. …
/r/MensRights15/02/17 10:44 PM
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Of countries with the highest standard of living in the world, 5 out of the top 10 are socialist and 4 are ahead of the US which falls at #8. You are confusing communism with socialism.
/r/MensRights15/02/17 10:28 PM
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It is a system where the government controls the production and distribution of goods and services and that relies on cooperation rather than competition as a motivator. All of my examples represent execution of this concept.
/r/MensRights15/02/17 10:19 PM
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If your life is meaningful to yourself, then you have meaning. Society's approval is irrelevant. The base reproductive worth is equal for all humans as both genders are required to reproduce. Automation will soon replace the value of women's wombs and sexual power over men. There have already been successful animal trials for artificial wombs. Sex robots are second in complexity only to military applications. What would men do when they are free to create the world they truly desire, with no bas…
/r/MensRights15/02/17 03:35 AM
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What part do you hate? The public highway system enabling the fast, efficient movement of people and goods? The police department keeping you from being robbed and beaten on a regular basis? The fire department protecting everything you own from fire? The military defending the country from foreign invaders? Social Security guaranteeing basic income and healthcare to the elderly? The EPA and the FDA guaranteeing that you can go through your day without being fatally poisoned? Public Works guaran…
/r/MensRights15/02/17 03:14 AM
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What if men didn't have to out-earn women? Automation is rapidly eliminating the industries where men's greater strength, size, and stamina are relevant. Most of the pressure of men to earn more is based on the traditionalist indoctrination of men to sacrifice for others. Women are only less productive because we let them be. Women cost more due to pregnancies, but ultimately a man who wants children benefits just as much as the woman.
/r/MensRights15/02/17 02:53 AM
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Why wouldn't a MRA be a socialist? If a woman I sleep with gets pregnant and decides to keep it, I want her to go to the government for money instead of shaking me down for 18 years of alimony. If I am working in a dangerous industry and get hurt, I want to know the government will be covering my medical care rather than a corporation who will do everything it can to avoid paying out. I want socialized infrastructure, police, and firefighters keeping me and mine safe while providing good jobs fo…
/r/MensRights15/02/17 02:28 AM
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Archive link this stuff please. https://web.archive.org/web/20170209072044/http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2017/02/08/tennesse-free-speech-campuses-bill-named-milo/
/r/MensRights09/02/17 05:08 PM
1

I was only speaking on what you told me. You have a problem that can be fixed by circumcision. On the other hand, you can't un-circumcise someone. Once it is gone it is gone for good and nerve damage is forever.
/r/MensRights25/01/17 09:59 PM
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That is actually an essay everyone here should read. If you are going to debate people and sway them to your side, it is important to know the perspective they are coming from. I have found a lot of times people are more likely to listen and agree if you use the vocabulary they are used to on the subject. It is also amusing to see how poor of a grasp of privilege many feminists actually have.
/r/MensRights24/01/17 05:03 AM
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For me it isn't painful, but rather a bit of the opposite. I had knee surgery as a teen and they damaged a few nerves in the process. One side of my knee felt a bit like when your foot falls asleep. Kinda numb and tingly at the same time. Over time, some sensation returned, but never all of it. I can feel pressure, but touch that would be pleasurable is less intense than with the same spot on my other knee. Same with pain. A few years back I suddenly realized this sensation with my knee was fami…
/r/MensRights21/01/17 03:22 AM
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Your issue can be fixed. Mine can't.
/r/MensRights21/01/17 02:21 AM
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Different sources give different stats. Where they all agree is that circumcision-related fatality odds are a non zero number while keeping a foreskin has zero chance of killing an infant. Circumcision related complications later in life are not uncommon. Personally I have a loss of sensitivity and the scar tissue can tear even during normal sex.
/r/MensRights21/01/17 02:19 AM
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Congratulations, you never had any medical issues due to circumcision. Not all of us are that lucky, including a handful of dead baby boys every year.
/r/MensRights21/01/17 12:25 AM
1

Women report having more suicidal thoughts than men. It is a small but important difference.
/r/MensRights20/01/17 02:56 AM
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It can be easy to look around and only see the bad things in life. In reality, the world is getting better. On the whole, suicide rates are consistently falling. Society as a whole may not care much about men's issues, but that won't last forever. Look at how far LGBT rights have come in just 20 years. Our time is coming and it is coming fast. When I joined this sub years ago, I would never have imagined someone would make a successful positive documentary about us. Anyway, society is at best an…
/r/MensRights19/01/17 04:14 AM
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I know. The point was that his name is lately always at the top of the list of guys people believe got away with rape (regardless of facts).
/r/MensRights13/01/17 10:14 PM
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I am consistently surprised by how many rape and sexual assault laws are vague and lacking in grades of severity. A friend just posted on facebook about an 18 year old guy who got probation for fingering two girls who were passed out drunk. I checked out the state laws on rape and there is a law for unwanted sexual intercourse with an elderly or disabled person, violent unwanted sexual touching of a person, and violent unwanted sexual intercourse with a person. To the laws credit, there is no di…
/r/MensRights12/01/17 10:30 PM
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I at least thought the microaggression one was funny, since that seems to be making fun of the overuse of the term. I was a huge Marvel fan in the early to mid 90s, especially with the X-men comics. They were always very political. The Legacy virus was one big analogy for the AIDS epidemic with the mutants playing the role of gay people. That all felt very different though. The message was ultimately to live and let live. This new stuff all feels so forced. It feels like pandering to the new gee…
/r/MensRights03/01/17 03:09 AM
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If she hits you again, walk out and don't return or have any contact with her for 24 hours. When you come back, tell her if she ever hits you again you will leave and not return. Stick to your word.
/r/MensRights31/12/16 05:46 PM
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You didn't read the article. It clearly says that the doctrine was applied until the end of the 20th century. It was applied all across Europe and the US. That covers hundreds of millions of people.
/r/MensRights27/12/16 03:39 AM
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My guess is that the post was deleted because it shows the Nursing Certification page which gives personal information. This could be considered doxing.
/r/MensRights23/11/16 09:09 PM
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Did you miss the "consent" part of the post's title?
/r/MensRights22/11/16 11:33 PM
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/r/nottheonion ?
/r/MensRights18/11/16 02:46 AM
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The opposite is called internalized misogyny and is of course painted as something affected women are victimised by through a toxic culture.
/r/MensRights18/11/16 02:42 AM
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Feminism is associated with the Democrats in peoples minds. People falsely assume we are their polar opposite and must be in league with Republicans. A lot of this is due to intentional misinformation from feminists who want to retain sole ownership of the gender rights dialogue.
/r/MensRights09/11/16 01:05 AM
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The only thing I do on Facebook is point out blatantly incorrect statistics. I am polite, nonconfrontational, and always provide links to sources. The one I stick to the most is rape stats that use the "made to penetrate" definition. Only the most insane SJW types would be willing to argue that rape is somehow less bad when the victim is a man. If anyone confronts you, always seek to hear to be the adult in the conversation. You are not trying to convince the person who confronted you. Most peop…
/r/MensRights04/11/16 03:03 AM
1

Is matronizing a word?
/r/MensRights27/10/16 10:16 PM
1

It will be a long time until robots are as good at troubleshooting as humans and power assist suits will make humans more efficient at construction. Once those become common, expect a push for more women in construction and safer workplaces.
/r/MensRights17/10/16 07:31 PM
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Well, the case in question here has a sentence of 8 years. The link I provided lists other places where such crimes have been prosecuted. I think that reducing this from rape by deception to simple fraud would have the opposite effect you are aiming for. I would think judges would be more likely to charge people with fraud than rape by deception for lies like "I will call you the next day." As it stands, consent cuts both ways. Someone can consent to sex with the expectation of a relationship, b…
/r/MensRights16/10/16 06:02 PM
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Legally it depends on where you are. Some places it is indeed charged as rape, others it is not, and some places never use the word rape in any law (e.g. sexual assault ). If you are talking morally only, I would still disagree. Consent is not unlimited. You consent to certain circumstances and not to others. The woman in this case did not consent to sex with another woman.
/r/MensRights16/10/16 05:37 PM
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_deception
/r/MensRights16/10/16 04:56 PM
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She consented to sex with a man, not a woman. Think of it like the twin swap scenario. You agree to have sex with twin A, twin B takes their place without you realizing it, then twin B raped you. You consented to sex, but under conditions that were a lie and had you known you would not have consented.
/r/MensRights14/10/16 09:38 PM
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It is definitely a hard sell either way.
/r/MensRights29/09/16 04:58 PM
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It is something like 10% of US prisoners and 32% of the single homeless population are female. Homeless estimates are very rough though, as it is larger shelter data which we know are used disproportionately by women.
/r/MensRights29/09/16 02:54 AM
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Be a woman. Sadly that is the only way you can have a voice in these issues. These people are sexist. They will ignore the content of what you say simply based on your gender.
/r/MensRights29/09/16 02:39 AM
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We have known changing genders leads to suicides from reports in the late 1970s that provide a telltale glimpse into the consequences of ignoring the science. Endocrinologist Dr. Charles Ihlenfeld warned about the suicides and unhappiness of transgender clients based on his experience treating more than 500 transgender patients with hormones over a six-year period at colleague Dr. Harry Benjamin’s gender clinic. The author is confusing cause and effect here. Suicide rates for transgender people …
/r/MensRights23/09/16 08:04 PM
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If I recall it depends on the state, but most are between 5-7 years. Several states have stipulations for child victims that the statute of limitations doesn't start counting until the victim turns 18.
/r/MensRights14/09/16 07:38 PM
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Instead feminists do the opposite. They repeat the lie that 98% of rapes go unpunished which discourages victims from reporting. They claim the process of prosecution is so incredibly traumatic for the rape victim. It is like they want rapists to get away with it.
/r/MensRights14/09/16 07:33 PM
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The amount of times they use the term toxic masculinity without a hint of irony or self awareness is depressing.
/r/MensRights10/09/16 12:17 AM
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And if you are looking for a a less volatile climate to discuss men's issues which won't ban you for not sureporting feminist dogma check out r/FeMRAdebates.
/r/MensRights10/09/16 12:15 AM
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Feminism 101: the one who identifies as female is always the victim.
/r/MensRights07/09/16 11:39 PM
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Of course he probably won't sue since he would be painted as an abuser for picking on a poor defenseless woman.
/r/MensRights07/09/16 06:29 PM
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Read on. He changed his mind and tried to leave and she forced herself on him and wouldn't let him leave.
/r/MensRights13/08/16 01:17 AM
1

The right has a different problem. They want to preserve traditional gender roles which are just as shitty to men (and women). Keep cutting funding for the homeless, most of which are men. Keep trying to eliminate the minimum wage so more men end up homeless. Keep fighting the drug war which mostly imprisons men. Keep over funding the military so more men can be sent to die in wars that only serve to make the rich richer. Keep fighting against rights for gay men. Keep fighting to force women to …
/r/MensRights12/08/16 07:52 PM
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Until they bother to ask men the same question this information is useless.
/r/MensRights12/08/16 03:55 PM
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Looks like you proved my point about both sides being shitty to men, so drop the partisan bullshit and let's work together on riding what we agree on.
/r/MensRights12/08/16 02:26 AM
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Not like the right which keeps sending men to war?
/r/MensRights11/08/16 09:31 PM
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I would assume the difference is almost entirely due to maternal mortality improvements.
/r/MensRights31/07/16 04:24 PM
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Ohsure, no doubt. I was just talking about the physiological viability of this.
/r/MensRights25/07/16 10:26 PM
2

The girl would have to have completed puberty for that type of surgery, so 10 is a bit young but I have definitely heard of girls in their mid teens getting it done.
/r/MensRights25/07/16 07:32 PM
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When the hormones are applied, puberty is triggered. They don't skip puberty, they just delay it. The benefit for someone who wishes to transition to a different sex is that the hormone replacement therapy is more effective if the body doesn't have to work to undo the changes of puberty. Their transition is more effective.
/r/MensRights25/07/16 07:30 PM
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True, but a psychologist signed off on this and I hope they would have enough expertise to spot emotional abuse or coersion witththe child. But then again maybe the mothers just went from doctor to doctor until they found one who would give them what they want.
/r/MensRights24/07/16 05:42 PM
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From what I understand, delaying these hormones isn't medically detrimental. They can be administered at a later time and the person will develop normally. I had a friend growing up that had some kind of glandular disorder where he did not enter puberty naturally. When the doctors found out, they gave him the hormones and he shot up to 6ft and looked just as mature as the next guy.
/r/MensRights24/07/16 05:37 PM
3

I don't know how anyone can disagree with you. Look at the gay community. Gay men have random hookups at bath houses and gay women have lesbian bed death.
/r/MensRights18/07/16 10:45 PM
4

I think it is reasonable to allow prisoners sentenced to life in prison to request an execution instead if they prefer.
/r/MensRights08/07/16 03:19 PM
3

Menslib didn't delete your post but they locked it and hid the comments.
/r/MensRights28/06/16 05:49 PM
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Sometimes girls think they are going to find concepts hard and this can result in increased levels of adrenalin, which can trigger an emotional response that interferes with learning. This can range from simply switching off when things seem too tricky, to an actual physical response of anxiety including dry mouth, shortness of breath and difficulty concentrating. Holy crap...
/r/MensRights28/06/16 04:04 PM
1

Too true. The mountain of research that shows otherwise is conveniently ignored or dismissed by claiming men are bigger/stronger so they do more damage. Minimize and dismiss is such a disgustingly common tactic of Feminist apologists.
/r/MensRights27/06/16 12:25 AM
1

I'm trying to remember a single line of hers from Princess Bride and I can't. I can remember something every other character said but hers.
/r/MensRights26/06/16 11:37 PM
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That is just the way statistics works. It is self-selection. People request paternity tests because they have reason to believe there was unfaithfulness. If you were to mandate universal paternity testing I guarantee that number would drop significantly. I'm not saying paternity fraud isn't a problem, just that the criticism on the statistic is warranted. I think it will be interesting to see what happens once Vasalgel goes on the market. I suspect we will see stories of women getting caught in …
/r/MensRights26/06/16 10:58 PM
5

NOW completely discredits the value of children having ongoing relationships with both their parents and zeroes in on what matters most to feminists: it’s not the well-being of children but rather the woman’s access to the man’s resources even when the relationship is over. What is even more ridiculous is the reasoning NOW gives for resisting default shared custody. They argue that shared custody allows the man to use his access to the child to manipulate and emotionally abuse the women. There i…
/r/MensRights26/06/16 10:05 PM
2

Here in Canada, we have three categories just in sexual assault alone In the US the definition used by the federal government is that penetration, how ever slight of the genitals or anus counts as rape. What is doing the penetration is irrelevant. Sexual assault can over anything from an unwanted kiss to an ass grab. Every state has their own specific terminology and charges, so things can get very confusing. I think this is part of why you calling it a "minor sexual assault" is pissing people o…
/r/MensRights25/06/16 09:18 PM
14

The ONLY change is the context, ie. consent. That is the entirety of most crimes. The only difference between a gift and theft is consent. In some jurisdictions even murder with consent is acceptable in the form of euthanasia. I absolutely agree that the death of a child is much worse than rape or sexual assault, but the psychological impact of these things should not be ignored or minimized. Shrugging off sexual assault as something she has probably done voluntarily is about as empathetic as sh…
/r/MensRights25/06/16 07:55 PM
2

The funniest part was something the person asking the question wrote. To paraphrase, Apocalypse is choking Mystique because she is the heroine, not because she overcooked his steak. How is that encouraging violence against women?
/r/MensRights19/06/16 08:03 PM
3

Acting like Bonobos certainly wouldn't solve rape. That rape each other like crazy.
/r/MensRights19/06/16 02:38 PM
26

If you watch the video, he sued over discrimination. Men and women paid the same for gym access, but because of the "women only" time, men could access the gym for less hours. He suggested charging men less since they were receiving less service, but the gym rejected that. I have heard of other gyms sued over similar policies instating a "men only" time as well as a "women only" time to avoid this imbalance.
/r/MensRights07/06/16 04:14 AM
2

And yet we have people complaining about a wage gap that is almost entirely based on personal choices. Same for women choosing STEM jobs, CEO careers tracks, political office, etc.
/r/MensRights06/06/16 06:08 PM
54

Someone hasn't read Harrison Bergeron.
/r/MensRights05/06/16 01:35 PM
4

his guilt is not beyond a reasonable doubt The jury disagrees with you. They have better access to the facts of the case than any of us, so I am going to stick with their verdict.
/r/MensRights05/06/16 01:10 PM
2

It is a relief that it is not just my imagination that they were erasing evidence of these stances. I was beginning to think I was being paranoid.
/r/MensRights26/05/16 01:44 AM
1

Feminist are too busy doing 5k runs raising money for breast cancer that the Susan G Komen foundation will then misappropriate.
/r/MensRights18/05/16 10:04 PM
1

The problem with that is that women would have to trust men to be telling the truth about using birth control, pretty much exactly like men have to do for women now.
/r/MensRights18/05/16 10:00 PM
8

You could try demanding for the superintendent to be present. That might delay matters a bit.
/r/MensRights15/05/16 02:33 PM
1

It seems like a bit of a rhetorical trick to me. Are women socialized to take lower paying jobs or are men socialized to seek higher paying jobs? A more fair way to say it is that social pressures cause men prioritize career over personal life, while women are socialized to prioritize social life over their career.
/r/MensRights03/05/16 08:24 AM
2

I watched the first 4-5 minutes and he didn't come off looking much smarter. His political views are hopelessly archaic.
/r/MensRights30/04/16 05:04 PM
7

I dont know who is the bigger idiot in this video.
/r/MensRights30/04/16 03:55 PM
1

Hispanic women are a whole other fuzzy set of statistics. Immigration messes up the data. IIRC an unmarried couple of illegal immigrants has a baby in the US, the mother gets official status but the father does not. The father is then stuck working low pay, under the table work that is not included in the income statistics.
/r/MensRights26/04/16 11:47 AM
6

I'm about as lefty as they come, but it is pretty funny that the one woman is arguing about immigrants getting paid slave wages. If they immigrated legally, the companies wouldn't be able to get away with paying them so little! Also, where is the anger directed at Mexico? After all living here and getting paid slave wages is preferable to living there for a lot of people. Yes, we should pay them fairly, but Mexico has a hell of a lot more to answer for.
/r/MensRights24/04/16 06:22 PM
24

Which is then countered with 85% (or whatever the stat is) of men don't contest custody being granted to the woman and it devolves further into complaints about men not paying alimony.
/r/MensRights19/04/16 08:21 PM
52

This argument quickly gets shifted to women being forced by the patriarchy to provide most of the childcare.
/r/MensRights19/04/16 08:10 PM
6

Isn't this the second or third time he has vetoed similar legislation?
/r/MensRights19/04/16 08:12 AM
4

What I see with this is that a lot of people believe what they are taught to believe without really thinking about why. Doesn't matter if you are talking about social justice or religion. Transgender people often exhibit physiological differences in their brain indicating it is not in most cases a mental disorder but a physical one. Since we can't alter the structure of the brain, altering the body is the next best fix. To the best of my knowledge, there are no irregularities in brain structure …
/r/MensRights19/04/16 08:08 AM
1

Uh, I was agreeing with you.
/r/MensRights12/04/16 07:22 AM
1

I am currently banned there for 3 months for having what I thought was a civil discussion of the effects of trigger warnings. The mod felt the need to insult me in the process.
/r/MensRights12/04/16 07:19 AM
1

Yup. The moment you start pointing out the fallacies of the person you are debating with, you lose the argument because you start arguing about debate and stop debating the topic.
/r/MensRights12/04/16 07:06 AM
9

Speaking as a child of divorced parents, when a kid is old enough they will know better than anyone who their parents really are. I look back at the sacrifices my dad made for me and am so very grateful that he was in my life to balance out the influence of my mother.
/r/MensRights09/04/16 06:59 PM
4

Like someone else posted on this topic, they used gay men to get equal marriage rights and now they want to dump them as long as it is no longer beneficial to have them around.
/r/MensRights27/03/16 02:24 AM
5

Fuck sandwiches. Let's BBQ.
/r/MensRights23/03/16 04:31 AM
1

Stoicism and showing emotion with men go in and out of style depending on the time and culture. The stoicism of our current culture is tied to our Puritanical roots as well as the restraint of Victorian culture. In other times and places physical nonsexual affection between men, open crying, dancing, and other emotional expressions were common.
/r/MensRights13/03/16 04:52 PM
2

The trump is stumped by a comb.
/r/MensRights13/03/16 04:11 PM
1

I think you underestimate how much Russia hates the US. There is no way they will ever side with us.
/r/MensRights13/03/16 04:05 PM
1

You could point out to her that by failing to respect your personal beliefs as a young adult she is simply guaranteeing that you will lie to her and cut her out of your personal life. Probably best to just keep your mouth shut, start lying to her, and live your life as you see fit.
/r/MensRights12/03/16 09:43 PM
2

Welcome to the club. You get elite status by bringing this up and having someone deny the behavior represents feminism and that Demmian is actually an MRA who is just faking it to make feminism look bad.
/r/MensRights12/03/16 09:33 PM
3

I don't have any evidence but I have done a good bit of searching for records on NOW's opposition to shared parenting and I have never ran into more dead links in my life.
/r/MensRights12/03/16 05:23 PM
3

Except where it says "Winner of Cultured Wit's Comedy Hack Day 10".
/r/MensRights05/03/16 12:29 AM
12

The expected explanation is that it is really sexism against women because women are not expected to achieve anything important so it is not disappointing if they accomplish little.
/r/MensRights04/03/16 05:17 PM
3

Years ago a friend found out his ex and her boyfriend were abusing his kids. He had no money. We talked to the local bar we all hung out at and convinced it to let us host a fundraiser. We called local businesses to get donations of products and services and then sold raffle tickets at the door. We raised enough money to get him a lawyer to get his kids into a safe home.
/r/MensRights01/03/16 09:42 PM
8

I had exactly the same setup when I was a kid. From age 5 to when I went to college I spent every Saturday with my dad. He missed 3 times in all those years. Twice for car problems and once when he was so sick he couldn't get out of bed. Those days we spent every moment together. He made sure that time was for me. He packed in a weeks worth of parenting into those few hours every week. Looking back I am so grateful for the influence he had on me and the sacrifices he made for me. Your daughter w…
/r/MensRights01/03/16 09:37 PM
1

I'm curious why you think soldiers March around with a 40 kilo pack on all the time when there is a vehicle nearby. They don't need to carry things like food and water all the time. They carry the tools to actually fight which is well within the capability of women to carry. Soldiers don't match from place to place all the time. They patrol in vehicles and return to protected bases when they are done. Sure, their are special missions where soldiers go far from established supply lines, but these…
/r/MensRights03/02/16 09:28 PM
1

The point I was making of course is that our military is mechanized. This isn't the Civil War. We don't go marching everywhere.
/r/MensRights03/02/16 04:56 AM
0

I hear those Humvees have a lot of trunk space.
/r/MensRights03/02/16 01:33 AM
2

Having money beyond basic survival is meaningless without something that brings you true happiness to spend it on. What you are doing is not making you happy. Do something else.
/r/MensRights02/02/16 07:52 PM
0

If they are strong enough to pull a trigger, they pass in my book.
/r/MensRights02/02/16 07:33 PM
10

I always respond that women's attempts get recorded more, not that they necessarily make more attempts. If a guy puts a gun in his mouth but never pulls the trigger, that is a suicide attempt even though nobody will ever know about it.
/r/MensRights02/02/16 07:25 PM
-2

The only survivor who saw what happened claims it was an accident. There couldn't be any possible motive for her to lie, could there?
/r/MensRights09/01/16 01:40 AM
1

Most people who murder their partner claim it was an accident.
/r/MensRights09/01/16 01:12 AM
2

Everybody who murders their partner claims it was an accident. There is nobody alive to disagree.
/r/MensRights09/01/16 12:52 AM
1

Before anyone says it is science fiction or a long way off, a goat has been successfully grown in an artificial womb already.
/r/MensRights29/12/15 03:49 PM
7

Normally I would agree, but she advised the CDC and they went with her methodology. That severely impacts the accuracy of federal statistics which are used to determine policy and funding. She has arguably done more harm to men than any feminist alive.
/r/MensRights28/12/15 12:22 AM
34

Nope, by her logic the only penetration possible for men is anal. Apparently it is the penetration part that makes rape so violating in her mind and not the whole no consent part.
/r/MensRights27/12/15 08:31 PM
107

By the standards of her research that is considered penetration. No joke.
/r/MensRights27/12/15 06:32 PM
1

The restraining order would have the effect of kicking the father out of his own house as long as the house is OP's address of record. That could be desirable for the short term but does more harm than good if long term reconciliation is the goal.
/r/MensRights11/12/15 08:52 PM
-1

Hate crimes require that the crime was intended to intimidate or threaten a protected group as a whole. That doesn't really apply in this situation.
/r/MensRights11/12/15 08:48 PM
5

I can see where you are coming from, but think how it would actually play out. "My husband/wife was killed, but my child and I need shelter." "Can you prove they weren't killed fighting for ISIS?" "Well, no, but I swear they weren't!" "Too bad, no asylum for you." Only taking whole families leaves those who have had the most tragedy out in the cold and possibly makes the next generation pissed at us.
/r/MensRights23/11/15 03:50 AM
109

Step up your game. I've been banned twice without ever posting there.
/r/MensRights14/11/15 11:35 PM
3

I don't know if it is still the law, but in many places there used to be a specific exclusion for "maiming" in self defense law. Intentionally causing permanent disfigurement was not protected as self defense except in cases of immediate threat to life. For example, if someone punches you, you don't have free reign to gouge their eyes out and call it self defense. If I recall the case, he was passed out drunk when she cut him. There is no reasonable self defense argument since she was free to le…
/r/MensRights10/11/15 05:28 AM
3

Parents teach us lessons without realizing it and those are most often the most important ones. You learned from your mother, but don't miss the lesson from your father. As men get older it can be very hard to maintain a social support system. People are at their best when they have something bigger than themselves to work for. If you give it your best shot and it doesn't work out it can be the hardest thing you ever do to start over and build that again. I don't blame people for not having the …
/r/MensRights09/11/15 09:42 PM
30

I think all the articles popping up about successful women in their 30s and 40s being unable to find a man are the first glimpses of the depression stage.
/r/MensRights03/11/15 09:14 PM
3

Keep in mind that when a man is being violently attacked by a woman and he calls the cops, he is statistically more likely to go to jail than she is.
/r/MensRights20/10/15 05:24 PM
6

I think the argument goes that socialization makes people want things that are best for society and not the individual, specifically that women are made to want things that make them subservient to men.
/r/MensRights19/10/15 06:47 PM
6

To believe otherwise would force them to admit there are inherent inequalities between men and women and that the concept of 50/50 equality can never be achieved.
/r/MensRights19/10/15 06:40 PM
36

A lot of feminists don't believe much if any of a person's personality is due to nature and is mostly socialization.
/r/MensRights19/10/15 05:16 PM
-1

The previous law was overturned. There is a new version.
/r/MensRights19/10/15 05:49 AM
0

If you read farther it says a new law was passed that does the same thing without constitutional conflicts.
/r/MensRights19/10/15 05:49 AM
0

I provided a link proving my point. If you actually read the page you would realize the law applies to both public and private individuals. Provide a link proving yours point or shut up.
/r/MensRights18/10/15 07:17 PM
-1

That is true. I was just making the point that there are laws that restrict who you can photograph.
/r/MensRights18/10/15 05:18 PM
-3

Wrong. It covers everyone. Recording officials without permission just has a slightly more severe punishment.
/r/MensRights18/10/15 05:13 PM
-5

Since you were to lazy to do any work yourself, here is a link. If you want to know more you will have to do your own research. http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2014/12/illinois-eavesdropping-explained/
/r/MensRights18/10/15 04:56 PM
-1

I have no idea. This happened in Massachusetts. I just mentioned Illinois law because I know it.
/r/MensRights18/10/15 04:49 PM
0

Illinois has a two party consent law for photos and recordings. There is a stipulation for public spaces not having a "reasonable expectation of pricacy" but the state is continually butting heads against constitutional law regarding privacy and wiretapping laws.
/r/MensRights18/10/15 01:14 PM
2

You could certainly say "Hi" with one hand down your pants, but I don't think that is what she is talking about. She seems to assume the worst.
/r/MensRights13/10/15 10:54 AM
13

Well they certainly have the legal power to do so. The will is another matter.
/r/MensRights13/10/15 10:25 AM
5

Even in the 21st century the idea of needing to meet more people is very much a middle and upper class thing. Excellent point. There is also a lack of evidence that catcalling has anything to do with meeting people. In the context of the video simply saying hello is included in catcalling, so I would say that in this case at least it is specifically about meeting people.
/r/MensRights13/10/15 10:23 AM
31

I have come to realize there is a definite class element to the catcalling debate. It was traditionally only appropriate for a gentleman to speak to a lady if a mutual acquaintance introduced them. It was possible to introduce yourself if you brought a gift. This tradition carries on with buying drinks for women in bars. If the attention is not desired, the gift is rejected traditionally. All very aristocratic. Poor people cant afford to hang around in bars buying drinks for strangers. They don'…
/r/MensRights13/10/15 07:49 AM
32

So when are the police getting involved? After all, she did publicly admit to raping someone and sexually assaulting another person.
/r/MensRights13/10/15 07:19 AM
3

You don't win a war against an enemy of far superior numbers and resources by attacking head on. You go undergeound, hide in their ranks, and take then apart piece by piece.
/r/MensRights11/10/15 09:23 PM
2

What it comes down to for me is whether it is worse for a smaller number of soldiers to die but 100% of the casualties are men or a slightly larger number of soldiers die and casualties are split between men and women. I prefer the former to the latter but I understand that not everyone will agree.
/r/MensRights12/09/15 02:57 AM
0

It doesn't matter if male infantry units outperform female infantry units, it matters if female units outperform whoever we are fighting.
/r/MensRights12/09/15 12:41 AM
174

If only feminism would apply that same line of thought to the name of their own movement.
/r/MensRights31/08/15 03:26 PM
3

Think this will be counted in the domestic violence statistics? Probably not although it should.
/r/MensRights30/08/15 02:22 PM
35

Having the government provide childcare subsidies, socialized medicine, paid maternity leave, and subsidized daycare makes a huge difference.
/r/MensRights30/08/15 11:48 AM
2

But when does happiness come? When do I get options? When will I be loved? I know this isn't the answer you want, but it takes time. You seem to focus so much on your body. Your mind and soul need work too. Probably more than your body ever will. To be loved you need to be a person worth loving. You need to learn to love yourself. You need to accept who you are and be proud of that, even if it isn't what your family and society want you to be. As much as it seems like it, being alone is not wors…
/r/MensRights29/08/15 04:12 AM
2

After working for a union, it is perfectly clear to me that the way to equalize the "wage gap" is, along with raising the minimum wage, to mandate overtime pay after 8 hours of work in a day and over 40 hours in a pay period. Companies HATE paying overtime. This would encourage people to get better jobs, not work more hours at shitty jobs. It would also make it easier for men to have the work/life balance that more women now enjoy.
/r/MensRights16/08/15 04:15 PM
4

It's not really any different in the states. There is court mandated time but now really any way to enforce it. If you are rich enough to afford the child support and constant legal bills for dragging the whole issue back to court again and again until there is compliance, that is the only way.
/r/MensRights10/08/15 05:19 PM
38

As entering into a contract under duress invalidates said contract Judges used to do this all the time. That is how my uncle ended up fighting in the Vietnam War.
/r/MensRights08/08/15 04:18 PM
2

True, but I was referring more to societal support for victims.
/r/MensRights07/08/15 04:25 AM
5

Asking for equal rights without asking for equal responsibility is one of my biggest problems with feminism. When I see feminists demanding mandatory selective service registration for women or demanding that 20x more women be arrested, then I will believe it is for equality.
/r/MensRights07/08/15 01:43 AM
3

Preventing rape and domestic abuse is another good one I think. Putting things as politely as possible, I just wish Feminism was a lot more balanced in their prevention efforts.
/r/MensRights06/08/15 11:06 PM
3

It comes down to marketability I think. Stuff like fatpeoplehate and coontown are poison to investors and advertisers. Men's rights issues show up in all sorts of popular publications, even if it is not as frequent as we would like. We make for a juicy storey because we are an interesting minority opinion to a lot of people. If they can make money with us around, we are safe.
/r/MensRights06/08/15 03:07 PM
2

I think the argument goes that those things all aren't exclusive to women. A single man can even adopt a child if he wants one.
/r/MensRights02/08/15 04:52 PM
2

Haha. I was about to get pissed at whoever was calling one of my posts a strawman. But good point.
/r/MensRights01/08/15 01:51 AM
2

off the top of my head besides gunman, there is hangman, wheelman, highwayman, bagman, and hitman.
/r/MensRights01/08/15 01:38 AM
1

I think this is great. He is telling feminists to give up on monogamy as a feminist action. When the guy isn't a chubby balding middle aged dad, he will be able to get plenty of action (especially with all the other newly non-monogamous feminist women). Take sexual dependance out of marriage and women will actually have to treat their husband as equals.
/r/MensRights23/07/15 09:53 PM
2

It is not really related to family stability but more to inheritance I think. When humanity developed the concept of inherited wealth, it became important to have a way to track heirs. Without modern DNA testing, they settled on the only way they had - monogamy.
/r/MensRights21/07/15 09:32 PM
6

I certainly hope not.
/r/MensRights27/06/15 08:00 PM
46

Maybe I have watched too may mystery shows, but I could easily see this as being a scam to force the man to sell his property. I hope somebody looks really closely at the finances of the judge and whoever ends up buying the property after the man is forced to sell to keep up the alimony payments.
/r/MensRights27/06/15 06:33 PM
4

Momentarily, yes, but I can understand not wanting to feel stuck that way.
/r/MensRights15/06/15 04:30 AM
14

A lot of people don't like the term "victims" because of the implications of helplessness or weakness.
/r/MensRights14/06/15 06:08 PM
9

My parents divorced when I was young and my mother fought tooth and nail to prevent my father from having me overnight. I think it was part posessiveness, part fear of my father's influence. When I came back from visiting him, she often yelled at me for having an attitude. I think I subconsciously picked up my father's mannerisms and she hated me reminding her of him.
/r/MensRights14/06/15 03:28 PM
9

Women (and some men) who do this want the attention more than they want the problem to go away.
/r/MensRights09/06/15 04:44 PM
11

The appropriateness of the field trip aside, how the hell does a parent not know where their kid is going on a field trip?
/r/MensRights06/06/15 04:32 PM
3

A man's consent doesn't matter. That is why the draft and circumcision is okay to these people.
/r/MensRights03/06/15 04:25 PM
24

As usual, it is not reported as domestic violence when a man is a victim. The statistics manipulation continues.
/r/MensRights24/05/15 06:39 PM
2

Check out /r/Femradebates.
/r/MensRights24/05/15 06:27 PM
9

Anothet example of domestic violence against men that won't show up in the statistics because the police didn't charge it as such.
/r/MensRights22/05/15 04:20 PM
1

http://www.mentalhealth.gov/get-help/
/r/MensRights18/05/15 07:05 AM
0

Your complete lack of civil discourse doesn't deserve a response, but I will anyway. Or keep female out of the military. The military doesn't exist so that dumb feminists can pretend to be soldiers. Women can pull a trigger just as well as men. There are plenty of militaries around the world that successfully incorporate women. Men can't get pregnant so why should it be mandatory for men? Stop with your feminist idiotic bullshit. Men can get their wives or girlfriends pregnant while on leave. Th…
/r/MensRights18/05/15 12:14 AM
136

I understand many disagree with me on this, but I feel like long term birth control should be mandatory for female soldiers (and male once Vasalgel hits the market). Being a soldier is not a normal career. Being capable of fighting anywhere at any time is part of the job. Having and taking care of kids is incompatible with that mission.
/r/MensRights17/05/15 05:37 PM
3

Oh shit, they finally figured out that the wage gap is all spent on food so men can be bigger.
/r/MensRights09/05/15 08:54 PM
6

I had a drunken female friend who I was not attracted to crawl into my bed and refuse to leave. I cannot even imagine the shitstorm if a man did that to a woman.
/r/MensRights04/05/15 03:57 PM
11

Yeah, she was an important part to his success. And he was an important part of her success. It's even.
/r/MensRights11/04/15 08:48 PM
-10

Morale boost.
/r/MensRights07/04/15 09:05 PM
2

I can't see the frat suing her. It would be a PR nightmare. It would be spun as a bunch of privileged young men harassing a rape victim and just add fuel to the fire.
/r/MensRights06/04/15 04:45 PM
2

Equal rights means equal sacrifice. Women need to step up and do whatever is necessary to fulfill their responsibility in defending this country. I don't care how they do it.
/r/MensRights05/04/15 06:48 PM
-1

My opinion matters because my taxes pay your salary. You are a public servant. When war involved melee combat on horseback, your point would stand. A machine gun is just as deadly if it is fired by a woman. A Hummer is just as mobile if it is driven by a woman. You are being taken advantage of and the fact that you don't see it is sad.
/r/MensRights05/04/15 05:30 PM
1

Put 50% women soldiers out there and the suicide rate would drop dramatically, both because women are less likely to kill themselves and because he men would have someone to turn to for comfort (and I am not just talking sex). The lives saved that way would more than make up for any lost in combat. As far as losing the war, that is not how we fight. We throw material at a problem until it is solved or the politicians give up.
/r/MensRights05/04/15 05:21 PM
2

Someone has to die in a war. Women need to pull their weight. Equality and citizenship have a price.
/r/MensRights05/04/15 04:46 PM
-1

Yeah, yeah. You are all fucking super heroes with power beyond mere mortals. Most of what you do is driving around being bored. Do you know what the top 5 causes of death are in the military? Suicide 28%, transport accidents 18%, other accidents 9%, combat 9%, and cancer 8%.
/r/MensRights05/04/15 04:43 PM
1

Tell the 21 year old you will give him $5000 if is engaged for 1 year. It doesn't matter if you don't have it. You will never have to pay up.
/r/MensRights05/04/15 03:43 PM
1

NOW, the National Organization for Women (the largest feminist organization in the US claiming 3 million members), routinely opposes equal parenting laws (give each parent 50/50 child custody by default) and opposes ending lifetime alimony. Most recently this happened in Florida in 2012.
/r/MensRights05/04/15 03:34 PM
1

Sex is a weapon to some people. It never ends well for them. The best you can do is avoid them and be happy.
/r/MensRights05/04/15 03:27 PM
1

So make women only SEAL and Special Forces teams and see how they do. I don't believe for a second that the number of pull ups you can do determines how you will perform in combat. The rest of the military can just add volume to compensate.
/r/MensRights05/04/15 12:07 PM
12

If one woman isn't as effective in combat as one man then just use more women. I'm sick of men doing all the dying. Women need to pull their weight.
/r/MensRights04/04/15 11:18 PM
1

I always tell my girlfriends, if someone starts a fight with you, I will jump in and help. If you start a fight with someone, you are on your own.
/r/MensRights04/04/15 07:31 PM
2

This is nowhere near as clear as it needs to be. Women have been manipulating men with sex since the dawn of civilization, so this is definitely a problem. However, describing it they way they do makes perfectly reasonable and normal behavior abusive.
/r/MensRights04/04/15 06:18 PM
11

More on top of that, I watched my father work until his body quit on him and then his long time employer fought for a decade to avoid paying what they owed him. Why the hell would I bother trying when I know the system will fail me at every step?
/r/MensRights30/03/15 06:14 PM
3

Probably not quite the explanation you were looking for but the labor force didn't double. There were always some women in the workforce, for example the 1870 census shows women made up 15% of the workforce. Women have never made up half the workforce though. Currently 57% of women are involved in the labor force while 70% of men are involved. Source - third table.
/r/MensRights30/03/15 06:05 PM
8

She sounds like one of my exes. She said if I ever broke up with her, she would kill herself. I stupidly stayed longer because of it. When I finally snapped and broke it off, she tried to stab me in my sleep. When that failed, she took a bunch of pills and called herself an ambulance. Total attention seeking move. I left her at the mental hospital as long as they would keep her (2 weeks, no regrets about that). Realize, you don't owe her anything any more. It is over. You don't owe her any more …
/r/MensRights28/03/15 05:28 PM
4

Blackmail is a profitable business strategy.
/r/MensRights22/03/15 03:47 PM
36

When I was in school they were pushing for this, so to counter it the administration mandated writing assignments for gym. I wrote one paper about hockey. Apparently they had so many complaints from the students and faculty, the administration caved and allowed it to be taken pass fail.
/r/MensRights15/03/15 06:11 PM
1

That is why I said it is very often the case, not always the case. Other times it can be preference, sexism, religious indoctrination or any amount of other things.
/r/MensRights07/03/15 07:49 PM
5

They forget (or conveniently ignore) that equality will mean more dead women. More female suicides, more female workplace deaths, more female prisoners, more female soldiers getting shot and blown up. Nobody wants that, but it is the price of equality.
/r/MensRights07/03/15 06:23 PM
11

There is a term that isn't used nearly enough - cultural capital. It is the idea that the culture you are raised in prepares you for certain things but not others. It is talked about a lot in Education because it becomes very relevant in making fair standardized tests. For example to someone who grew up in the city, train and bus schedules are common knowledge while the care and feeding of chickens is esoteric. For someone who grew up in the country, the reverse is true. This applies directly to…
/r/MensRights07/03/15 06:18 PM
1

I think an important bit of introspection is determining where your sexual preferences come from. For a long time when I was toung, I thought busty blondes were the hottest thing. Eventually I realized I was actually most attracted to slim brunettes. I chased busty blondes because that is the stereotype of female attractiveness where I am from. The same goes for a woman having a lot of sexual partners. If she goes about it safely out of a love of sex and not as compensation for emotional issues,…
/r/MensRights06/03/15 07:45 PM
-1

You are probably right that a lot of promiscuous women are compensating for issues, but there are also women that just love having sex. That is a positive thing for a relationship. You could be passing up a great thing if you misjudge the motivation.
/r/MensRights06/03/15 07:29 PM
2

Ah, I read it as a suggestion of what schools should do, not what they should do as an individual. My mistake. Still, a less than ideal solution but better than nothing.
/r/MensRights26/02/15 06:38 PM
2

Part of the problem is there is no funding for it in most schools. That is a big part of cutting recess and gym. Besides that, making an earlier school day is a terrible idea. Multiple studies point out how students don't get enough sleep as it is.
/r/MensRights26/02/15 06:20 PM
6

Along the same lines, I have heard of numerous incidents where women intentionally ran men over with a car. I doubt these are included either.
/r/MensRights18/02/15 11:12 PM
7

One definition of slut that I really liked was "anyone who has sex you personally don't approve of". Sluttyness is based on the observer, not the actions of the person in question.
/r/MensRights17/01/15 10:03 PM
5

Even if she never sees jail time, you can bet Dershowitz will go for a civil suit which could eat up most or all of the money she makes from this book.
/r/MensRights05/01/15 06:12 PM
2

I comfort myself by thinking this is just the Overton window returning to center.
/r/MensRights20/12/14 03:55 PM
6

Injury and occupational health results would be interesting too.
/r/MensRights30/11/14 04:08 PM
11

Then the men can sue for discrimination.
/r/MensRights27/11/14 06:53 AM
10

I don't know if it is that women are more driven by emotion as much as they know they can get away with that behavior without getting beaten or arrested.
/r/MensRights16/11/14 08:10 PM
3

As someone who worked security for a short time, women are much more likely to either completely ignore requests like that or absolutely blow up.
/r/MensRights16/11/14 07:52 PM
0

No because many people believe the draft is a necessity, so you have to have that argument first.
/r/MensRights19/10/14 12:33 PM
5

The two arguments are apples and oranges. One is an argument for equal rights for men and women, the other is a national security argument.
/r/MensRights19/10/14 12:54 AM
3

My dad was the same way. Worked at sewage plant until he fell, screwed up his back, and ruptured his pancreas. Suddenly he has constant pain with his back and diabetes from the ruptured pancreas. He can't work any more and the workers comp settlement didn't compensate him for a quarter of what he would have gotten if he kept working. The company, in spite of being a state run utility, kept him tied up in court for 7 years until he had to settle. He can't drive for more than 30 minutes without pu…
/r/MensRights05/10/14 01:44 AM
17

Also it is just easier to steal something someone else made than to make something yourself.
/r/MensRights28/09/14 06:13 PM
24

Blame female victim, get fired. Blame male victims, nada.
/r/MensRights27/09/14 10:44 PM
19

Actually I was just reading a story about a judge that was forced into early retirement after insinuating a 14 year old girl had some responsibility in her statutory rape.
/r/MensRights27/09/14 05:01 PM
1

Your quotes said no such thing. He never says he would respond differently if a man or woman was charged. You can't defend your point so you resorted to name-calling. Typical.
/r/MensRights21/09/14 07:09 PM
1

Where does he say he would only do this if it was a female victim? To prove he is misogynistic you would have to prove he would act differently if it was a male victim.
/r/MensRights21/09/14 05:20 PM
1

Just because you disagree about the degree of corruption in the judicial system does not make you a better MRA. It also doesn't make him a misogynist
/r/MensRights21/09/14 04:31 PM
1

The thing about this is that the detractors of the MRM assume we are all anti-woman and must be saying all false rape charges are lying women when in reality all we care about is keeping innocent men out of jail.
/r/MensRights21/09/14 04:00 PM
1

And where in that article does he say he would vote any different if it was a woman who was charged with rape? The comment is about his faith in the legal system's prosecution of rape. It has nothing to do with gender. It is actually quite sexist that you assume that all rapists are men.
/r/MensRights21/09/14 03:52 PM
1

Do you have the slightest idea of the context of that quote?
/r/MensRights21/09/14 02:51 PM
3

I guess nobody ever told her what being career-minded actually means. It means you prioritize your job over your personal life. You can't have everything.
/r/MensRights14/09/14 02:40 PM
4

In all fairness http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/prostitute?q=Prostitute+
/r/MensRights14/09/14 02:16 PM
1

Nonmonogamous relationships are a growing trend in pretty much all developed western nations. I wouldn't discount it as a fringe variable in the future. As religion an marriage become less and less popular, people start looking for new paradigms.
/r/MensRights14/09/14 12:57 AM
0

I think you missed the point of my comment. If there are 300,000 more men, that just means 300,000 women need to have two boyfirends/husbands.
/r/MensRights13/09/14 08:24 PM
11

I also think that society is quicker to call men out, where women's feelings are generally treated more gently.
/r/MensRights13/09/14 07:06 PM
1

I agree with your conclusion but want to add another variable you may have not considered. If monogamy is abandoned as a cultural standard, most of these problems can be avoided.
/r/MensRights13/09/14 05:49 PM
1

Go bother someone else. I won't indulge your idiocy any more.
/r/MensRights31/08/14 05:35 PM
1

I looked at your comments for the past week or so. Nearly every post you made was either ignored or down voted. You are either a troll or so routinely and uniformly wrong that debating with you is not worth my time.
/r/MensRights31/08/14 05:23 PM
1

Women can be selfish, immoral, and insane like anyone else. The woman that falsely accused Brian Banks was awarded $2,000,000 in a civil case based on his conviction. As far as revenge, you obviously have never been in a domestic abuse situation (lucky you). People will do terrible terrible things to people for no other reason than revenge. This all goes back to the original law, to prove that it is useless. People lie. Any person testifying in court could be lying. That is why we need multiple …
/r/MensRights30/08/14 08:50 PM
2

Well, except rape victims, but that is not the point. The point is that the accuser' testimony is not reliable as the sole evidence because the accuser has motive to lie (revenge, monetary gain, etc) . Corroborating evidence is necessary.
/r/MensRights30/08/14 08:02 PM
2

An accuser is not a reliable witness. I shouldn't have to tell you why.
/r/MensRights30/08/14 07:30 PM
1

I don't think it is tinhat to say it is absurd that rape is literally the only crime where someone can be tried and convicted with no evidence other than the word of their accuser. He said/she said is not 50% of court cases. All other cases require evidence or witnesses.
/r/MensRights30/08/14 07:12 PM
1

People lie, so this law is useless. What's so hard to understand about that? Unless you only have sex on camera or in public, it will always be on person's word against the other's word. In a fair judicial system, that would automatically mean there is reasonable doubt, making this a pointless metric for any type of legal determination. Of course, the legal system is not fair and automatically assumes the man is always the active initiator of sex, and is therefore solely responsible for obtainin…
/r/MensRights30/08/14 05:27 PM
3

They can't exactly kick you out. However, if someone lives with you for a certain amount of time (varies by state) they will be considered a rightful resident, regardless of being on the lease or not. Then all she needs to do is get a protective order and you are effectively barred from entering your own home while she is there.
/r/MensRights22/08/14 08:10 AM
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As a 32 year old guy, it seems like sexual participation relates directly to a woman's sexual experience and somewhat to her age. Young women are generally inexperienced and take the easy way out of being completely passive. With age and experience comes confidence and less of a tendency to rely on looks alone.
/r/MensRights22/08/14 12:27 AM
2

You are definitely right that swallowing, or at the very least not acting repulsed by semen is a big deal. In a sense a man's semen is the physical manifestation of his orgasm. Rejecting it or acting like is disgusting reflects directly towards a man's sexuality and the woman's feelings towards it.
/r/MensRights22/08/14 12:23 AM
3

I post over at FeMRAdebates more often than I post here these days and she has been nothing but a thorn in my side. She is so firmly convinced that she is right and everyone else is wrong. She is disrespectful, argues dishonestly, and is a waste of time talking to.
/r/MensRights17/08/14 03:53 PM
0

IIRC the Florida bill the OP referenced also included a shared parenting amendment. It is my guess that the shared parenting par was mainly why NOW went after the bill.
/r/MensRights16/08/14 04:30 AM
2

They are probably getting extra credit points from their women's studies teacher.
/r/MensRights12/08/14 04:28 AM
0

I am just trying to anticipate how this law will be applied. We all know that the application of laws often differs from the intent. I think this law could be seen by police as an "out" in a situation where they are under political pressure to be "tough" on sex crimes. They don't want the higher-ups breathing down their necks but they don't want to send some kid to jail over normal behavior, so they use this as a compromise.
/r/MensRights20/07/14 06:33 PM
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I like this because it gives police an option besides throwing someone in jail. I can see this being particularly useful as a "slap on the wrist" kind of thing when some parents freak out about their 16 year-old daughter banging her 18 year-old boyfriend. They can't be accused of ignoring the problem, but they don't have to ruin a person's life either.
/r/MensRights20/07/14 03:32 PM
3

They may not talk to anyone else, but at least they won't fight us tooth and nail every step of the way.
/r/MensRights13/07/14 07:01 PM
1

You can argue with facts and facts alone. You have to have evidence. We win against feminists that way 9 times out of 10.
/r/MensRights13/07/14 05:50 PM
6

I disagree. I talk to feminists all the time over at Femradebates and have successfully corrected the misconceptions of some that believed the lies that are told about us. I think the average feminist just needs to talk to the average MRA and realize we aren't the boogeyman.
/r/MensRights13/07/14 05:48 PM
1

Can we just sew their heads onto the same torso and elect them both?
/r/MensRights29/06/14 04:41 PM
6

You may be right, but I still have the naive hope that honesty matters.
/r/MensRights29/06/14 01:08 PM
6

I'm still crossing my fingers that Elizabeth Warren runs against her for the Democratic nomination.
/r/MensRights29/06/14 11:54 AM
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I know it is callous, but I can't help but think that if rape were worse than murder, every person who was raped would kill themselves.
/r/MensRights25/06/14 08:56 PM
1

I think targeting institutions would work better than individuals just because of NAFALT.
/r/MensRights12/06/14 01:42 AM
1

I can agree with a coordinated campaign exposing the awful things NOW does, but not using the methods that these people are using. Staying out of the abortion issue is best as well. It would be too easy to throw back in our faces as a claim that we are anti-woman.
/r/MensRights12/06/14 01:34 AM
1

I definitely disagree. We are better than them. Besides, they do more harm to their own reputation by doing these things anyway.
/r/MensRights12/06/14 01:24 AM
13

Say what you will about the MRM, but as much as we disagree with Feminists, we don't try to destroy their organizations.
/r/MensRights11/06/14 05:41 AM
5

No. I don't think anyone has done the legwork of compiling them all.
/r/MensRights10/06/14 07:31 PM
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If I recall from looking this up a while back, voting rights, drivers licenses , and state grants/loans are only dependant on selective service registration if the individual state requires it. The part about the federal benefits is absolutely true though.
/r/MensRights10/06/14 11:49 AM
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Get therapy. Couples and individual. Now. No excuses. Find discount counseling. Budget for the money. The future of your family depends on it.
/r/MensRights08/06/14 05:55 PM
2

Look at it as free advertising. I think tickets are still available.
/r/MensRights07/06/14 08:58 PM
1

Look at it this way. If a person convinces a 7 year-old that sexual things would be fun and the kid agrees to it, does it not count as statutory rape because the child wanted to? What if the kid is 10? 13? Where do we draw the line? Our society draws the line at 16 at the very lowest. There is quite a bit of science to back this up based on neurological ability to judge cause and effect and assess risks in an adult manner.
/r/MensRights07/06/14 08:40 PM
-1

You are certainly right that "game theory" applies to dating. To play a game you have to know the rules. That is the problem. They don't understand the rules.
/r/MensRights04/06/14 09:22 AM
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First of all, if women are aggressively pursued, they become less and less likely to initiate on their own. Second, if women know a certain percentage of guys are going to be dishonest in their pursuit, they are going to be less trusting with all guys.
/r/MensRights04/06/14 01:30 AM
6

That is one way of putting it. Another issue that is more practical than moral is that PUA tactics put women on the defensive and make the problem they are trying to fix worse.
/r/MensRights04/06/14 01:18 AM
11

PUA tactics are based in dishonesty and that is my #1 pet peeve in relationships.
/r/MensRights04/06/14 12:58 AM
1

I wonder how much it would cost to mount a handheld breathalyzer onto all the school bunk beds?
/r/MensRights03/06/14 04:32 AM
4

I don't necessarily agree completely, but I like the line of thinking. We often forget how much biology has shaped society in the past. Two huge things have happened in the last century or two. The first is modern medicine dramatically reducing deaths, notably the deaths of pregnant mothers and their children. This has been so effective that even the effects of the second development, reliable birth control methods, the global population continues to rise. This puts us in a position where there …
/r/MensRights01/06/14 05:16 PM
2

The dad was probably upset because he felt like you were doing his job and possibly his ex as well.
/r/MensRights01/06/14 02:58 PM
0

It is the 13-17 year olds you have to worry about. That is the age they will start getting feeling in their panties that make them want to do things they don't have the maturity to handle.
/r/MensRights01/06/14 02:46 PM
1

If I knew someone I was okay living that close to, it would be okay. For part of that stage my then girlfriend and I lived together, but we broke up and my new girlfriend and I aren't at the moving in together stage yet.
/r/MensRights31/05/14 02:25 PM
3

When I got out of college in '04 I had a good job. When the recession hit, my entire office was downsized. My particular industry has never recovered. By sheer luck, I got a job starting at $15 an hour, two days a week. I worked up to three and now 4 days a week. That is the only non-minimum wage job I can get. Now that I am 4 days a week I can finally survive without my retired father helping me pay the bills. Of course "survive" doesn't count paying off college debt or credit card debt accrued…
/r/MensRights30/05/14 11:44 PM
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I really don't think that was it. She wasn't looking for a relationship. She as looking for no strings attached sex. She clearly was physically attracted to me. The virginity issue added unwanted strings for her.
/r/MensRights28/05/14 04:42 AM
1

Because when girls go to college they're buying pepper spray and rape whistles while guys are buying condoms What does that imply other than the men are planning to rape?
/r/MensRights28/05/14 04:36 AM
3

Rodgers certainly had the resources to hire a prostitute. He probably didn't have the morals to make rape out of the question. I don't think it was just about sex for him. He wanted a woman to want him, desire him, validate that he was as great as he felt he was.
/r/MensRights27/05/14 08:04 PM
14

It certainly happens. A girl in college flat out told me she was attracted to me and would sleep with me if I wasn't a virgin. I suspect she didn't want the emotional baggage that can come with being someone's first. I think the problem with virginity for both men and women stems from traditionalist views of sex putting so much importance on virginity.
/r/MensRights27/05/14 07:52 PM
1

I can agree to that as long as it is balanced. Conservatives need to be called out for shoving religious traditionalist thought down our throats as well.
/r/MensRights27/05/14 07:18 PM
0

I don't think it is arrogant to think it is wrong and harmful to push the idea that all men are rapists.
/r/MensRights27/05/14 07:08 PM
5

I'm not a big fan of the "rarrrr....evil liberals" tone of the article, but the hashtag is pretty awful if you look at it. Some choice bits: YesAllWomen because there's never been a debate over whether or not a man means No when he says it. Because we are told that 'boys will be boys' - as if men can't and shouldn't take responsibility for their actions. #yesallwomen YesAllWomen because "whore" is an insult but "man-whore" is a badge of honor YesAllWomen because women have to avoid eye-contact w…
/r/MensRights27/05/14 10:35 AM
7

She thought I was asleep, but I was awake. She stepped into the dark bedroom from the lit hall, so her eyes weren't adjusted to the dark like mine. I saw the silhouette of her holding the knife in the doorframe. I jumped up yelling which startled her, grabbed the knife, shoved her out of the bedroom, and propped a chair against the door. I was all out of fucks to give at that point with her and I just wanted to sleep. I didn't realize later how crazy the situation was or how badly it could have …
/r/MensRights27/05/14 05:58 AM
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Except when they use guns, knives, run the guy over with a car, attack him while he is sleeping, or hire a hitman. Women know they are at a physical disadvantage and if they want to do damage, they do it in a way that gives them an advantage. Sidenote: An ex girlfriend of mine tried to stab me in my sleep.
/r/MensRights27/05/14 04:33 AM
5

I have a black belt in google-fu and I only use it for good.
/r/MensRights25/05/14 05:49 PM
1

Well, standard battery is one year, so aggravated battery is quite a bit more significant.
/r/MensRights25/05/14 05:46 PM
14

Just checked Florida Statute 784.045 aggravated battery: battery committed against a pregnant woman, battery with a deadly weapon, or battery where the defendant was caused great bodily harm. It is a second degree felony punishable by up to 15 years and eligible for mandatory minimum sentencing.
/r/MensRights25/05/14 05:31 PM
1

What app is that? I may need to switch.
/r/MensRights25/05/14 04:43 PM
1

It is the old nature vs nurture argument. There is no way to tell.
/r/MensRights25/05/14 04:01 PM
1

Reddit, YouTube, and the browser are all separate apps.
/r/MensRights25/05/14 03:00 PM
2

True, but at least for me single gifs play within Baconreader while a video requires the device loading a separate YouTube app and takes much longer.
/r/MensRights25/05/14 01:45 AM
55

A large percentage of people are on mobile devices and skip video posts. Gifs spread the content to a wider audience.
/r/MensRights24/05/14 09:30 PM
3

I still bring it up occasionally but it gets tiresome redefining it every time.
/r/MensRights24/05/14 02:15 AM
0

Men can't fix it. Only women can. The core of the problem as I see it is that women are culturally conditioned to think vulnerability is unattractive.
/r/MensRights24/05/14 02:14 AM
4

I used to refer to this as little "f" feminism and big "F" Feminism.
/r/MensRights23/05/14 10:32 PM
2

I think forcible abortion is a bit morally and legally questionable. Let the woman choose but if she chooses to have the kid it gets put up for adoption immediately and she never is allowed contact. She is a child molester after all.
/r/MensRights22/05/14 04:24 PM
16

I'm very much like that guy. My first girlfriend hit me a lot and I stayed with her due to low self esteem and being a teenager "in love". For years after, I would flinch any time a girl raised her hand above shoulder level. Even today, I still occasionally will start to react and have to force myself to relax.
/r/MensRights18/05/14 06:39 PM
2

No, I didn't. I wish I could tell you I immediately dumped her, but I was young, had no self esteem, and thought that behavior was normal.
/r/MensRights18/05/14 03:22 PM
3

That same ex thought it was funny to randomly kidney punch me as hard as she could. I explained to her how much it hurt and asked her to stop but she just laughed off that she could ever hurt me.
/r/MensRights18/05/14 02:39 PM
5

I had an ex gf calmly reach out and bend my finger back until it snapped. Relative size means nothing when you have surprise on your side and the viciousness to strike weak points.
/r/MensRights18/05/14 12:01 PM
3

If you can't find her, maybe you can find her boyfriend.
/r/MensRights15/05/14 09:33 PM
1

/r/Feminism might as well have one rule: no speaking of men or males in a positive or neutral manner. Only negative comments about men will not result in banning.
/r/MensRights04/05/14 05:11 PM
2

I knew this had to be trolling. She kept bringing up fairly good points and then drawing exactly the opposite of the logical conclusion. I knew it for sure when she said women giving up sex would end rape culture.
/r/MensRights04/05/14 03:59 PM
2

Here in the US, the Republicans have a strong religious traditionalist backing.
/r/MensRights04/05/14 03:15 PM
11

For example, even some feminists acknowledge that Patriarchy Theory is insufficient and have suggested modified or alternate theories like intersectionality or Kyriarchy. I would say further that Patriarchy Theory overemphasizes rights and privileges while underemphasizing duty and responsibility.
/r/MensRights27/04/14 07:45 PM
11

You are right. Patriarchy Theory is just like Flat Earth Theory in that it all scientific evidence points to it being an insufficient for describing reality.
/r/MensRights27/04/14 06:27 PM
5

That is one interpretation, but not the only one.
/r/MensRights27/04/14 05:40 PM
2

Actually it probably is just the actions of one person. I would bet dollars to doughnuts the mod in question is /u/demmian.
/r/MensRights25/04/14 05:38 PM
2

I'm slightly more optimistic. I do what I can to stop the world from burning and hope that there are enough people like me doing the same for it to have an effect. If it doesn't work at least I know I tried.
/r/MensRights24/04/14 08:18 PM
7

Don't do good so others respect you. Do good so you respect yourself.
/r/MensRights24/04/14 06:07 PM
2

Wow. I expected the comments under the article to be bad but these are worse than usual.
/r/MensRights22/04/14 10:50 AM
0

I say do the two years service for everyone but make people work on improving the national infrastructure.
/r/MensRights22/04/14 10:07 AM
4

I've had people tell this to me. I tell them that Selective Service was how my uncle and my father ended up in Vietnam. It isn't some historical footnote to some of us.
/r/MensRights22/04/14 10:04 AM
2

The point is, it was about making it his fault, not hers.
/r/MensRights15/04/14 10:48 AM
2

Eliminating No Fault Divorce would incentivise creating fault. When my mother wanted to divorce my dad, she withdrew all affection (physical and otherwise) and constantly screamed at him to leave. When he came home from work, she made sure to have me locked in her bedroom (he slept in the basement) so that he could not see me. My dad held out for over three years. Eventually, he sought affection in the arms of another woman (no excuse, but I can understand it), my mom declared him the bad guy an…
/r/MensRights15/04/14 10:29 AM
1

I almost feel like there's a whole other discussion here about the way traditional conservatism shames young people, and especially young women, out of living the life they want, and how this has created a horrible sex culture the world over. Another time perhaps. I fell the same way you do about this and I think it is directly the cause of what Farrell talks about. Another phrase he uses is "token resistance". I am willing to have the conversation if you are, either here, another post, or priva…
/r/MensRights15/04/14 08:48 AM
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She verbally and physically told me she wanted sex. She also verbally ,and in the past physically, had told me no sex. I had to judge whether a "yes" in the heat of the moment was more valid than a "no" with thought behind it. If I had sex with her the first time she asked, she would have been devastated the next day. She would have felt like she betrayed her faith. She would have felt like I took advantage of her and maybe even coerced her. Even when we did eventually have sex, she felt some re…
/r/MensRights15/04/14 06:55 AM
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While I appreciate the action opportunities, the post ruins them. The MRM is nonpartisan and needs to stay that way. Republican or Democrat, it is irrelevant.
/r/MensRights13/04/14 03:24 PM
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Well then the only advice I have for you is the immortal words of SNL's The Ladies Man, "Have you tried doin' it in the butt?"
/r/MensRights13/04/14 03:09 PM
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As a practical suggestion, perhaps your girlfriend could compromise (not that she should have to but I am being pragmatic) and get an IUD until she is 34 and then get the permanent procedure she wants.
/r/MensRights13/04/14 02:41 PM
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I think you may have inferred the worst possible intentions from Farrell's position. If you read the passage from the perspective of a decent human being talking to other decent human beings, there isn't much to disagree with. There is strong social imprinting for men to be sexual assertive and women to be resistant until the man has won them over. This doesn't just apply to sex, but the entire pattern of relationships for a lot of people. Even marriage proposals are arranged with the man acting…
/r/MensRights13/04/14 01:57 PM
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The point is while no one ever owes you sex, by the same token no one ever owes it to you to go by your word if your actions don't match. If a woman says she doesn't have sex on a first date, then goes home with a guy, gets naked, and things progress, he is at no point responsible for stopping her actions in respect to her previous word. Please note that I am no expert on Warren Farrell but I have read that section of his book.
/r/MensRights12/04/14 10:00 PM
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It probably won't help, but the terms of use require anyone using Craigslist to be 18 or older.
/r/MensRights06/04/14 02:48 PM
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I was disagreeing at the beginning but agreeing by the end. Societies evolve in waves, with one generation creating the rules, the next few living by them but forgetting the spirit or purpose of the rules. Eventually, the new generations go back to the drawing board and make new rules by studying spirit of the old rules. As with all things today, more people, more intermingling social structures, and more technology has made everything cycle faster. We are due for a new Enlightenment, a new Vict…
/r/MensRights05/04/14 03:20 AM
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But in 5-10 years we will have reliable male birth control, so I would expect accidental pregnancies to drop dramatically.
/r/MensRights05/04/14 02:26 AM
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I agree with you. It is just that with this sort of thing we need very explicit boundaries. The gray areas are where the trouble lies. For example, could it be said that a boss demanding sex in return for not firing someone puts you in a state where you are unable to consent? I don't think so, but this could still be considered rape. I would put the boundary not at mental state but call it coercion if the consequence of refusal is the the loss of your own physical security or the physical securi…
/r/MensRights04/04/14 11:40 PM
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I think it can be a little more complicated than that depending on how loosely you define "the mental state to consent". If someone is holding a gun to your head and demands sex or they shoot, I would consider that rape. Generally speaking, I would consider any threat of loss of physical security for denying sex to be some form of sexual assault, from physical damage to loss of employment to being kicked out of your home.
/r/MensRights04/04/14 09:48 PM
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People define coercion differently. If one partner in a relationship states to the other partner that they do not wish to remain in a relationship unless sex is a part of it, this is not coercion. This is the person stating their preference in partners, as is their right. Now if it is a boss saying this to an employee, that is a different matter since the potential consequence of noncompliance is a loss of physical security.
/r/MensRights04/04/14 09:39 PM
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I don't even need to look at it to know that this is bogus because I don't think at least 12% of women are cool with being raped under certain circumstances.
/r/MensRights04/04/14 09:14 PM
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This seems like a failure of the mental health care system as much as it is a failure of the child care system. She needs to be in a psychiatric facility for considerably longer than two years.
/r/MensRights04/04/14 08:46 PM
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I wouldn't recommend it, but if you really want to start a shitstorm, post this tumblr on your facebook.
/r/MensRights01/04/14 05:38 AM
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If you make it to the end, I think she reaches the same conclusion most of us have. Enthusiastic consent is nice in theory, but useless in practice. I do feel bad for her boyfriend though. He clearly respects her needs and boundaries, but I don't think she shows him the same respect.
/r/MensRights30/03/14 07:13 PM
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so assuming they all reproduce at the same rate And that is where the math changes. People tend to have more kids after a big war. Look at what happened after WW2. If the US has 50m casualties, then either 25m women die, or 50m men die. After a quick Wikipedia check, there are roughly 1,350,000 active and 850,000 reserve members of the military. If we increased the size of our military 10 times and they all died, we still wouldn't get half of 50m casualties. The only way this would happen is wit…
/r/MensRights25/03/14 05:33 AM
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Plenty of men immigrate now when they can get drafted. There will simply never be a shortage of women due to the draft. It is a non-issue. If both men and women are drafted equally, an equal amount will die in war. The balance will never deviate significantly.
/r/MensRights25/03/14 05:01 AM
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Luckily the US has a fairly open immigration policy and is still a preferable place to live over many other countries. We can always import more.
/r/MensRights25/03/14 04:22 AM
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They are in other countries, why not here?
/r/MensRights23/03/14 09:13 PM
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I hear about police brutality against women all the time, except it is the woman acting like a maniac, the officer using reasonable force less than what they would use against a man, and the public throwing a fit that an officer would be so rough with a lady.
/r/MensRights23/03/14 06:17 PM
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If the war is just and there is real imminent threat, there will always be people willing to join the fight voluntarily. Wishful thinking. In reality, people are selfish and hold the value of their own lives above others. Men will be shamed into dying to protect women because it is their duty. The poor who end up on the wrong side of the law will be given the choice of enlisting or going to jail. I would argue that conscription is necessary and that the alternative is even more immoral .
/r/MensRights23/03/14 06:08 PM
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Conscription of soldiers existed long before the Vietnam War. We don't need it now but history tells us there will come a time where it is needed again. When that time comes, all citizens should be eligible.
/r/MensRights23/03/14 12:04 PM
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Yes, and in that case the 24 year-old got the 13 year old drunk and coerced her. Besides, the play refers to the events as rape.
/r/MensRights18/03/14 06:51 AM
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The two subjects aren't mutually exclusive. The feminist in your link deserves to be criticized. She seems to be advocating sex with people who are neurologically incapable of processing the experience. In this case, there was a sensible judge who realized that sending a young man to jail for years would destroy his life and that a slap on the wrist was sufficient to correct the behavior. I would advocate the same thing if it was a 21 year old young lady. Once can support protecting children wit…
/r/MensRights18/03/14 06:16 AM
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Keep in mind also that for most of human history females have not gone into menarche until 15 or 16, so a 13 year old would not have been fertile Also keep in mind that for most of the same reasons, age of puberty is decreasing as well. In short, 13 year-olds today look much older than 13 year-olds 150 years ago. In the U.S., 50% of White girls now show signs of breast budding before age 10, with as many as 14% showing breast development by age 8.. The problem with thsi is the mismatch in neurol…
/r/MensRights18/03/14 06:04 AM
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I assume she is anonymous because she has not been tried for the false accusation yet. If she is convicted of that, then I assume her name will become public.
/r/MensRights18/03/14 05:05 AM
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It certainly did, but I don't think it really caused the change. It did shape it however. That is why home economics was eliminated and metal/woodshop still usually exists and is populated almost entirely by boys.
/r/MensRights15/03/14 11:43 PM
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Troll confirmed. Ignore.
/r/MensRights15/03/14 08:39 PM
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Do you have a point or do you just stroke your ego by acting superior to people on the internet?
/r/MensRights15/03/14 08:33 PM
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Partly, no doubt, but I don't know if it is the primary thing. It wasn't too long ago that all boys took wood or metal shop and all girls took home economics. The same went for segregated gym classes.
/r/MensRights15/03/14 08:23 PM
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I'm sorry, I hadn't read that science disproved the concept of camouflage.
/r/MensRights15/03/14 08:15 PM
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That is one solution. I prefer another angle. I prefer that all individuals receive mandatory long term birth control at 16 (IUD or implant for women, vasectomy or Vasalgel when it comes out for men). Birth control for males and females is federally provided, as are abortions. Legal default is non-consent to parenthood. If the improbable happens and a woman gets pregnant and chooses not to have an abortion, that is her responsibility alone by default, although the man can op in to parenthood. Th…
/r/MensRights15/03/14 07:07 PM
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It isn't victim blaming. It is cause and effect. In nature, white mice don't live long because, compared to brown or gray mice, they stand out to predators. The same principle applies to society and the two-legged type of predators.
/r/MensRights15/03/14 03:38 PM
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Schools dictating gender norms is nothing new. What is new is people challenging it.
/r/MensRights15/03/14 03:26 PM
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To your "meh" link: The rules I posted clearly say subreddits are not a protected class. There is plenty of criticism of /r/mensrights and related subs as well. I don't see how this favors MRAs. Any insults or generalizations about Feminism are removed, with the same going for insults and generalizations about MRAs. To your "another" link: Same reasoning as the above. Also, accusing someone of rape is a serious thing. A lot of the linked comments were deleted, so it is hard to say for sure, but …
/r/MensRights11/03/14 11:29 AM
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Why are there no jokes that start with "An MRA walks into a bar"? Because the bar has a cover charge for men but women get in free. Why are MRAs against the draft? If you get drafted, they will make you leave your mom's basement. Have you heard the one about the MRA who was dating a supermodel? Me either.
/r/MensRights11/03/14 10:36 AM
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There are some reasonable feminists who post there and I hope one day they will come to the realization that their movement does not reflect their beliefs. As far as the unreasonable ones, proving them wrong is good practice. It also helps me gain perspective on the mistakes the MRM makes (we aren't perfect).
/r/MensRights11/03/14 09:35 AM
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Please explain how the rules are biased in favor of MRAs. The FeMRA Debates rules are as follow: Rules: No slurs, insults, or other personal attacks. This includes generalizations insulting an identifiable group (feminists, MRAs, men, women, ethnic groups, etc), or insulting another user, their argument, or ideology. This does not include criticisms of other subreddits. It includes insults to this subreddit. No Ad Hominem attacks. Address the speaker's arguments, not the speaker themself. No ins…
/r/MensRights11/03/14 09:30 AM
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The state is under tremendous pressure from women's groups to prosecute rape charges. With a few crocodile tears and a sympathetic (or racist) jury, the man could easily be convicted. Even if a man is acquitted, that is thousands of dollars in lawyer fees later and the public will forever after see him as a rapist that got away with it. That is a lot to think about in the heat of the moment, so a guy might just give in and do what she wants.
/r/MensRights11/03/14 09:08 AM
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They have been causing problems over at /r/FeMRADebates as well.
/r/MensRights11/03/14 06:09 AM
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Got a plantar wart on your feet? Then you have HPV.
/r/MensRights09/03/14 06:58 PM
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To me, the end goal is that neither exist as they have become unnecessary.
/r/MensRights08/03/14 10:29 PM
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I can hear the feminist rebuttal now. Women are seen as inferior so dressing as one makes a man inferior, so this is really misogyny, not misandry. Women are always the victim to them, even when it is someone else being harmed.
/r/MensRights08/03/14 10:02 PM
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You dont even need to target women. Just put a poster next to it that says "72.3% of statistics are fake".
/r/MensRights04/03/14 09:14 PM
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Another thing to ask: "The same study that the 77 cent statistic came from found that Asian people are paid more than white people. Are you charging Asian people more?"
/r/MensRights04/03/14 06:47 AM
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I really do think part of the problem is that the people that push these policies really believe that sex is something men do to women, not with. They project their sexual inadequacies and fears onto everyone else when in reality they are the ones that are different.
/r/MensRights01/03/14 11:44 PM
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Women report attempting suicide more often. If a guy puts a gun in his mouth one night and doesn't pull the trigger, that is a suicide attempt though nobody will ever know.
/r/MensRights01/03/14 05:47 PM
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Dear Zachary is such a fantastic documentary. It sucker punches you and by the end you are thankful for it.
/r/MensRights01/03/14 05:38 PM
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Consent must now be enthusiastic and continuous at every stage of the proceedings. Pursuant to this, all women must wear cheerleader costumes during sex (pop poms included) and chant cheers the entire time about how they consent.
/r/MensRights01/03/14 04:39 PM
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They are unfortunately far less active.
/r/MensRights01/03/14 02:12 PM
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Women should be discouraged from making public rape accusations. They should instead be encouraged to make their report to police.
/r/MensRights25/02/14 10:49 AM
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Fanfics in particular are absolutely loaded with rape, incest, and pedophilia. It gets far more disturbing than any porn out there.
/r/MensRights25/02/14 10:17 AM
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Link this: 7 Tips for Keeping Your Man
/r/MensRights25/02/14 09:57 AM
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Doing what you are told not to, or what is "naughty", is exciting. It is the same reason so many otherwise modern and empowered women end up submissive in bed. Society is still racist and crossing racial lines is still a bit "naughty". Other elements come into play that cause this phenomena to repeat differently with men. Both men and women, while raised not to be traditionalists themselves, still find it sexually appealing. They seek cultures where this is still present somewhat. American women…
/r/MensRights23/02/14 07:30 PM
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The biggest and most significant step that could be taken would be to make 50/50 shared custody the default. The argument that this opens women up to possible abuse is a lie. The way things are now, father's take all the risk of abuse and the mothers have none. Shared custody would mean men and women have equal opportunity to abuse the system which in turn means that it will be equally possible to resist, thus reducing total abuses in the system. Any group that resists shared custody shows it ig…
/r/MensRights23/02/14 07:09 PM
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This is the first time I have read an article like this and not been disappointed by the comments. Everyone seems to agree the author is an idiot.
/r/MensRights23/02/14 05:36 PM
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allow vindictive parents to use custody as a weapon against their ex to the detriment of everyone involved Can you not see that the custodial parent (usually the mother) already has this power? Shared parenting just means that both parents have the same power, so the abuse of it becomes less possible.
/r/MensRights23/02/14 01:34 PM
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