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The bear is the logical choice, as it's alone in the woods with and it's a random man and a random bear. Most bears avoid humans at all costs and so the bear would probably just leave. Any human is more likely to harm you than a bear
/r/MensRights07/05/24 03:07 PM
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The woman who created mother's Day has tried to get rid of it...
/r/MensRights17/06/20 01:28 PM
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I always celebrate that day and always have. It tickles my fancy that it's also international men's day... I happen to have been born on November 19th
/r/MensRights25/03/20 04:53 PM
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No, she meant to say listen to the actual victim, the one with actual evidence. She meant to say that and she said it
/r/MensRights09/02/20 11:34 PM
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I think you missed the point. Depp is the victim, he has proof. She's literally saying listen to victims not accusers.
/r/MensRights09/02/20 11:30 PM
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Yeah, being homeless here in winter is unbelievable. I did it thirty years ago, I remember breaking into places just to stay warm
/r/MensRights06/11/19 04:44 AM
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I would count modern neo-nazis as Nazis, but that's because they are literally following the original Nazi beliefs and trying to bring back that particular brand of fascism
/r/MensRights24/10/19 08:55 PM
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Also, as I pointed out when my ex was on trial for DV, if you don't stop someone from hitting you, the odds of you getting injured go way up.
/r/MensRights08/10/19 11:37 AM
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Thank you. It was obvious satire and it made me sad that people were approaching it as if it was not
/r/MensRights12/08/19 12:14 AM
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No. Sorry, incorrect. Fundamental research actually tends to happen in the public system. Productization happens in the drug companies. There are exceptions of course
/r/MensRights21/05/19 06:30 PM
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No, it doesn't... Because the outcomes aren't the best in the world. At the moment health tourism actually involves a huge amount of leaving America and going to other countries. The truth is that America has some areas of excellence and a lot of areas of mediocrity/poor performance. You know what? So does everywhere else. When your country has the highest infant mortality if all industrialized nations it doesn't get to claim bragging rights
/r/MensRights21/05/19 06:28 PM
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We don't have insurance,.not the way you do. We pay less for healthcare and receive a better product
/r/MensRights21/05/19 06:19 PM
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Shots are overpriced? You know that we pay less for them than you Americans do right?
/r/MensRights21/05/19 06:18 PM
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Define acceptable physical limitations. Include situations that would prevent you from applying for relief in advance such as natural disasters, medical situations, hostage situations, things like that. The insurance industry seems to manage it...
/r/MensRights19/09/18 10:24 PM
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It's easy to see many cases where this law would cause suffering, and modifying it to account for those circumstances is possible if not simple. Why not advocate for changes that would have prevented those kinds of issues, or even define an acceptable standard for physical inability to pay
/r/MensRights19/09/18 06:58 PM
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Why do you believe this? I feel like the time I spent volunteering at homeless shelters might qualify
/r/MensRights23/01/18 02:30 AM
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Clearly she hasn't thought this through. Some of the men who lose their jobs may be financially supporting women. I mean it's obvious when think about it, the real victims of false rape allegations are the women and girls who now have less money. Won't somebody think of those poor women?
/r/MensRights25/11/17 06:17 AM
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A kick to the balls is terrible advice. Relying on pain for self defence doesn't work. You have to use mechanical disabling, take the person and remove their ability to act. Takedowns, blows that cause damage, not pain, mechanical joint locks like arm and knee bars, that sort of thing. For me, a takedown or a mechanical lock is the best option, even defending myself I don't want to cause damage if I can avoid it...
/r/MensRights10/09/17 02:21 PM
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College, here in Canada it's different. Think trade school, not university (source: am a college prof in Canada)
/r/MensRights28/05/17 03:45 PM
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That's being pedantic about language. I think you know the numbers quoted are revenue minus expenses, which can absolutely be a negative.
/r/MensRights01/04/16 11:56 AM
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I think it's because the US is kinda racist...
/r/MensRights09/03/16 03:11 PM
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I addressed that right after that paragraph. See, two related thoughts in a single paragraph form a single set of ideas... I absolutely pointed out that it's not just men, which makes sense since I have been the victim of sexual assault by a woman.
/r/MensRights12/02/16 11:53 AM
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That's pretty much my point. Anywhere the taboo isn't found don't have the hangup (I used to live in the Solomon Islands...). Those people might have the same media though. I've also seen kids who grew up with the taboo but without much access to media (religious upbringing) carry the same emphasis... so I think the media might be a small part, the simple lack of normalization is the bulk of it.
/r/MensRights11/02/16 04:15 PM
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Nope. It's not the media generating an exaggerate breast obsession, in fact by exposing breasts more frequently the media reduces the obsession. It's the taboo that generates the obsession. Also, while tit's aren't sex organs they are in fact genitalia... which means features specific to a gender.
/r/MensRights11/02/16 02:09 PM
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I used to live in a country where women routinely went topless. It took me two days after arriving to stop caring. It wasn't even that I stopped looking at breasts, or that nobody else looked at them, it was just that they were looked at the same way we might look at a nice pair of legs (either gender looking at the other gender). So, here's the thing... I don't live in that country anymore, instead I live in a country where women cover up. Here breasts are given a great deal more emphasis. It's…
/r/MensRights11/02/16 02:06 PM
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Why do you assume that the article is saying the woman shouldn't dress like that? Maybe it's saying that if you dress with cleavage showing it's likely that people are going to look, and that you shouldn't automatically judge the people who look? That if men dress the same as those women, women will look. I'm a bit older now, but a few years ago I was running and literally had a woman stop her car next to me and tell me to keep running, because it was working for me. The look that woman gave me …
/r/MensRights11/02/16 02:00 PM
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In the nineties I was considered a feminist (I'm male). My views didn't change, but now most feminists hate me as soon as I tell them my views. For example: Instead of teaching men not to rape, teach women self defence. See, there will always be men who don't give a fuck about the rules, about the education, etc. They are criminals, and rapists. A woman can never be completely sure she will be safe from those men, but if she can look after herself she has agency and can defend herself. It doesn'…
/r/MensRights11/02/16 01:52 PM
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Fair. I know some of both, including myself (male).
/r/MensRights09/11/15 12:24 PM
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Tech CEO's often embody traditional masculine qualities without being physically strong for the most part. Stoicism, drive, experimentation, self sacrifice, that sort of thing. All of that is common in IT
/r/MensRights30/08/15 06:45 PM
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A trad-con by any other name... I'm not here to try and bring us back to unsustainable gender roles that should have been discarded centuries ago, but to talk about how the laws have changed in ways that sometimes remove men from civil rights.
/r/MensRights18/08/15 06:14 PM
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That is intensely annoying. Unbelievably annoying. I suspect that in real life that girl would be out of there in about two minutes...
/r/MensRights10/08/15 02:23 AM
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Simon Baron-Cohen (Sacha's cousin) is a major researcher, and he's the guy who did the definitive work on this to date. He studied toy preferences on children who were less than a day old, based on focus and attraction. it was pretty marked that boys preferred toys that were mechanical, while girls preferred softer human shaped toys. The colour thing is complete bullshit. A hundred years ago pink was a masculine colour.
/r/MensRights10/08/15 02:09 AM
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In my life I have faced the accusation that I am a robot because I don't show emotion much. I grew up in a very, very feminist household and was encouraged from a very young age to go counter to societal gender norms. In the end I'm just not an expressive person by nature. That is what I have been chastised for, not for being too emotional. These days that is common... The hormone responsible for crying is simply not as prevalent among men as it is among women, so we often cry less naturally, an…
/r/MensRights07/08/15 01:58 PM
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This could be because you are generally attracted to folks who are less attracted to you, which is common. A lot of the bullshit pick up artists spout works because it is about using that tendency. Girls tend to go for guys that don't show strong interest and vice versa. Of course that's an interesting minefield for guys, because we generally are expected to make the approach, but we can't seem too interested.
/r/MensRights07/08/15 01:17 PM
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A big part of it is simply that women being the majority of new grads is a recent development. There is a lag between new grads being mostly women and professors being mostly women.
/r/MensRights07/08/15 12:48 PM
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They already have kids.
/r/MensRights19/07/15 10:09 PM
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If you read her quotes you can see that she also says that it should be either compulsory for all or voluntary for all. I think that the rest of it is simply for the benefit of the suit.
/r/MensRights17/07/15 06:44 PM
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The actual legal definition is often a more sensible one. Incapacitate, not intoxicated. Nobody is going to charge a person who has passed out from drinking and is put in a car by their friends without even the physical ability to operate it. In the eyes of the law, if you are incapable of speech (or at least coherent speech) you are probably incapable of consent. If you are just drunkish you are probably all good.
/r/MensRights13/07/15 01:52 PM
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Remember, what makes reddit relevant to anything (and make money) is the userbase. Remove the userbase and you end up with a very expensive pile of pretty mediocre code. There are more people on reddit who care about censorship than there are SJW's, even though the SJW's ended up with all the power (over a mediocre social media site, so congrats on that). Everything that makes Reddit worth anything is going away soon, and reddit quickly becomes digg.
/r/MensRights12/06/15 03:24 AM
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.SpaceMonkey.Boats&hl=en at this point it's android only.
/r/MensRights12/06/15 02:14 AM
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Yeah, I installed the app three days ago. It worked great the first day...
/r/MensRights12/06/15 01:56 AM
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Boats for voat. Right now it doesn't work that well due to the servers getting slammed with new users. The app seems fine, just the servers causing the issues.
/r/MensRights12/06/15 01:38 AM
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I suspect we are not on the next round. Too many folks who will still freak out. We're probably five or six rounds in. By then the user base will be so completely SJW that nobody will care.
/r/MensRights12/06/15 01:33 AM
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voat.co However right now voat is getting slammed with traffic. Seems like a huge number of folks are coming to voat right now, almost like reddit is experiencing a mass exodus.
/r/MensRights11/06/15 03:30 PM
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But the point is that you have to prove that it was an intentional false allegation. Simply not having enough evidence to convict the accused rapist can't be the standard, because that would really have the chilling effect that feminists are afraid of.
/r/MensRights19/05/15 12:06 PM
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I'm pretty big on the idea of not differentiating bathrooms... especially if there are stalls. The worst is places that have individual bathrooms but still gender separate them. It drives me crazy to wait for the mens room because it is locked and get inside, and lock it behind me. Only one person can be there, who cares what gender that person is?
/r/MensRights07/05/15 05:19 PM
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Then why have differentiation? Why not just have unisex bathrooms everywhere?
/r/MensRights07/05/15 05:17 PM
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There is a predominantly lesbian bar near me, and the bathrooms are entirely unisex...
/r/MensRights07/05/15 05:17 PM
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The article mentions that women only make up 30% of the tech industry, and are actually lower than that in tech roles. It doesn't mention that women make up less than 30% of graduates in the tech industry and in fact are represented at a rate higher than their graduation rate.
/r/MensRights24/04/15 06:00 PM
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Honestly, I never found any resources other than Glenn Sacks blog back in they day, and, eventually, here. That lack of resources was part of what drove me to the MHRM.
/r/MensRights26/03/15 03:36 PM
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http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/NISVS_Report2010-a.pdf The actual chart is on page 38.
/r/MensRights26/03/15 12:16 PM
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I remember when I started talking about my own experience with my ex wife. Suddenly I realized that most of my male friends had been in or were currently in abusive relationships. There were very few that had never had a girlfriend hit them, and not a single one of them had hit her back, because if you hit back you have just hit a woman... some it was fear of the police, but for most it was just the enculturation of the idea that men don't hit women for any reason. As a result of my marriage, if…
/r/MensRights26/03/15 12:09 PM
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Never? I outweight my ex wife by a fair bit, and am a lot stronger than she is. She however used to beat the crap out of me. In the end I walked out on her when she was attacking me one day, and she kept hitting me in the back of the head as I walked away. I restrained her but didn't hit her back, and she decided to call the police and accuse me of hitting her... I spent the night in a cell, and things would have gone very poorly for me had a random stranger not seen the whole thing and come for…
/r/MensRights26/03/15 11:40 AM
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According to the CDC in 2010 5,365,000 men were victims of IPV. In the same year 4,741,000 women were victims of IPV (in the US, apparently the UK skews more female perpetrator than the US does). So, that's the domestic assault numbers - specifically it's a chart of violence perpetrated by a domestic partner, and that's the physical assault portion. There's a rape portion (we won't even start on the ways the stats on rape by gender are messed up in this chart, but the fact that the made to penet…
/r/MensRights26/03/15 11:36 AM
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They do. In 2010 according to the CDC men were victims of intimate partner physical violence slightly more frequently than women. It's not a big margin, but it's still far from what the media reports, since men are the majority of victims and women the majority of perpetrators.
/r/MensRights26/03/15 11:25 AM
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Regardless of his site, the 12 month estimate for physical violence (only IPV is considered in this estimate) shows men as being victims in larger numbers than women. Men are shown as being less frequent victims of stalking and there is no data on rape in that chart. It's http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/NISVS_Report2010-a.pdf on page 38. This is the CDC's data, so probably not biased in the same was saveservices might be (and I will check out your claims as to the president of the orga…
/r/MensRights26/03/15 11:22 AM
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I suspect he didn't circle the last line because for most men who are being abused they would not have made it past the lines above...
/r/MensRights25/03/15 07:22 PM
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As someone who was the victim of domestic abuse during my marriage, and who consistently got mistaken for the abuser... yes, this pisses me off.
/r/MensRights25/03/15 06:51 PM
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http://www.saveservices.org/2012/02/cdc-study-more-men-than-women-victims-of-partner-abuse/
/r/MensRights25/03/15 06:14 PM
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http://www.saveservices.org/2012/02/cdc-study-more-men-than-women-victims-of-partner-abuse/ apparently a lot.
/r/MensRights25/03/15 06:13 PM
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Um... no. Look, women abuse men slightly more frequently than men abuse women (although women do tend to take more damage when they are abused). Now, if you are a man who is being abused (and in this case I'm coming from the perspective of a man who was abused) you are never going to get to the end of that paragraph. You are going to give up and shut down even more.
/r/MensRights25/03/15 06:11 PM
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Why is it okay to highlight men's anger counselling and include the fact that there is help available as an afterthought? Men are abused in similar numbers to women (in fact according to the DOJ and the CDC men are abused slightly more frequently than women at this time).
/r/MensRights25/03/15 06:09 PM
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That doesn't really do the trick. If your main point is that men can call if they are worried they are going to beat a woman, a man who is being abused might not actually read the whole thing, instead giving up in disgust.
/r/MensRights25/03/15 06:03 PM
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I was under 18. Jail was never going to happen.
/r/MensRights02/03/15 10:40 PM
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Yeah, probably. It was more than twenty years ago and I still feel guilty about it. There is no question it was wrong and stupid. I was young, and dumb (very dumb). I will say in my defence that I have grown up a great deal since then, and that I had some fairly severe issues at the time (which I have spent decades working on). Doesn't excuse it however, and I would have no idea where to find that guy again to give him the opportunity to take a shot. Also, and trust me on this, I have received a…
/r/MensRights02/03/15 06:17 PM
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There was a case where a woman accused a cab driver of rape to get out of paying for her ride. Luckily he was filming the whole time.
/r/MensRights01/03/15 04:46 PM
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Friend of mine falsly accused someone. I found out years later. She regretted sleeping with the guy. A bunch of us kicked the crap out of him.
/r/MensRights01/03/15 04:41 PM
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Well, if we are talking about Islamic society it actually matches both definitions. I'm not a feminist, and am in fact a big fan of yours. Been part of the MRM for a lot of years... however I do believe that women in Islamic societies genuinely could use a bit of feminism (or something).
/r/MensRights28/02/15 05:18 PM
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It is both. There is no question that the middle east is patriarchal. It is also authoritarian. A patriarchy doesn't mean all men have it good, but it does mean that all authority is tied to masculinity. In every social strata men have it much, much better than women.
/r/MensRights27/02/15 08:41 PM
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Here's the thing: yes, there are some MRA's who do that... but most of the guys who have those attitudes specifically exclude themselves from the MRM (often calling MRA's unflattering names and the like). It's actually quite rare to get serious TradCons in the MRM and TRP folks generally dislike us.
/r/MensRights25/02/15 01:45 PM
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He doesn't cheat on her in the song... that's kind of the point. She's a psycho... she accuses him of cheating no matter what. This isn't that song.
/r/MensRights24/11/14 10:30 PM
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Thank you. I actually view the Taylor Swift video as being saying that women can be completely nuts and violent (somehow I don't think the line "Darling I'm a nightmare dressed as a daydream" is excusing her behaviour in the song). I actually view this song as being something that we should as a movement be supporting. It's the opposite of the usual perfect woman, horrible man narrative. In the end of the video she replaces the guy with another identical one who she then proceeds to abuse exactl…
/r/MensRights24/11/14 10:18 PM
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There's a few things there... first, he probably won't make any money as even consensual sex that causes bodily harm is illegal (I disagree with this). Second, they are a media company and if what he is doing has bad enough optics they could fire him. Now, I'm not claiming one thing or another, merely that given the information available to me (and I believe I have pretty much what the general public has available to them) he should not have been fired. CBC may very well have more information th…
/r/MensRights29/10/14 11:34 AM
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I don't disagree, but I also refuse to decide on someone's guilt when there are questions. I'm a better to free a hundred guilty than punish one innocent kind of guy, and very much believe that the principle of innocent until proven guilty is the single paramount principle of our legal system. I also believe in that for public discourse, as someone's life can be ruined by people jumping to conclusions, just as surely and completely as if they were incarcerated.
/r/MensRights28/10/14 05:25 PM
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But if this is a long term pattern, why are there no arrest records and no hospital records? You don't always have a choice about laying charges (anything domestic abuse related is automatic) and going to a hospital would trigger that process pretty much instantly (his alleged victims would have to lie to the police). If they didn't go to the hospital, and he was punching a lot of different women with a closed fist in the head, well, apparently he doesn't have much of a punch. I'm not saying he …
/r/MensRights28/10/14 04:09 PM
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No, there is no investigation or charges. All 4 women involved claim that they want to stay out of the public eye, they all refuse to be identified.
/r/MensRights27/10/14 09:14 PM
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That's the 1-4 during college.
/r/MensRights27/10/14 09:13 PM
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Why?
/r/MensRights27/10/14 08:41 PM
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1: Not that rare - in fact higher than for most crimes, only counting the ones that get reported to the police. 2: What is the relationship between the 4 women? He has implied that the three of them are in contact with each other. If that is true, the odds of 4 women colluding are much higher. 3: The xojane piece - he basically tried to hold her hand, gave her a hug, and a peck on the cheek. Had it been a "date date" in her mind nothing he did would have been particularly untoward. She assumed h…
/r/MensRights27/10/14 08:28 PM
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Keep in mind: second to last paragraph actually addresses the idea that men can bring charges on the same grounds... I agree that the language is too gendered, but like I said, some decent info on what actually constitutes too drunk for consent, something that often people on the internet get very wrong.
/r/MensRights02/10/14 04:09 PM
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Did you read the whole thing? It's not presented as being a legal scholar, it also talks about the law being explicit... but that the laws do vary by jurisdiction. The main complaint is that the university process is far, far too vague and that universities aren't addressing this. She's actually pretty good, given that it's being presented in lay terms (which is good, you want something like this in lay terms). The whole point of the article basically mirrors what you are saying in your post, no…
/r/MensRights02/10/14 11:49 AM
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Try the sidebar of this subreddit for actual links. Look, citations are great for academic studies, and some degree of backup should be demanded even for casual conversations. Having said that, the standard of evidence should be much lower for a casual internet conversation than for a formal academic setting.
/r/MensRights01/10/14 10:25 PM
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Yeah, I had a couple of incidents when I was young... spent most of the rest of my life in martial arts, not saying I'm a badass, but I certainly spent a lot of time trying to become one. I get crazy competitive in sparring (which is interesting because other than fighting I'm one of the least competitive people around) and to this day I always carry some sort of weapon. For years most of my friends were women, and I still get along better with women than I do with men. I guess that shit stays w…
/r/MensRights01/10/14 10:22 PM
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Not a great article, but some good information... specifically around dispelling the myth that any amount of alcohol means you can't consent.
/r/MensRights01/10/14 10:08 PM
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All fictional characters. Just make lists with only the names of fictional characters on them. Nobody real suffers and maybe people see how ripe for abuse this is.
/r/MensRights23/09/14 10:46 PM
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The code of chivalry included it. To respect the honour of women is one of the items included (as is defending the weak and helpless, which women were considered).
/r/MensRights16/09/14 12:04 AM
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Wow... I wonder how Dal Med feels about that. It's slightly embarrassing to have one of the better med schools in the country co-exist with that poster. I assume this is mostly upper campus?
/r/MensRights10/09/14 11:44 AM
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Yes, absolutely... that's why claiming one is idealization and one is sexualization is silly. It depends entirely on the audience. To a heterosexual male Superman might be idealization, while Henry Cavill might be sexualized by a heterosexual female.
/r/MensRights25/08/14 06:59 PM
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However, the guys on the cover of romance novels look a heck of a lot like male super heroes in terms of physique don't they?
/r/MensRights25/08/14 05:57 PM
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I don't think it's the answer, or that those spaces shouldn't have been opened up, but I do think it would have value to have some sort of safe space to replace them, and I don't know of one. I actually would be highly unlikely to go to a mens only bar or a mens club, I generally like being places where there are women.
/r/MensRights21/08/14 12:43 PM
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I think that badly coded anything becomes unmaintainable quickly. As you can probably guess I like Python a lot, but I've had to tackle a 20,000 line python file (single file, I shit you not) and try to make it into usable code. I've also seen Java where someone never refactored, just kept abstracting functions until there was literally a dozen steps where all it was was a call to a single other method and a return of exactly what that method returned. The end program would have been identical i…
/r/MensRights19/08/14 09:00 PM
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One interesting thing is that when you give women more choice of jobs they are less likely to join the STEM professions. I think that has a lot to do with quality of life. Quality of life is something that a lot of women value, and something the STEM fields seem to treat as inherently useless. Sleep? That's for the weak.
/r/MensRights19/08/14 02:10 PM
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I actually disagree that Java is more maintainable and scalable. I think it's that Python is particularly good for an intro language because it takes syntax mostly out of your way, and presents you with a much easier way to learn programming concepts (for the record, I teach programming for a living). It's actually really easy to teach someone python and then go on to teach them other languages... as to maintainability and scalability, Java manages those things by being very strict on how things…
/r/MensRights19/08/14 02:06 PM
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Python is a better intro language than java, hands down. I would love to see more women in IT, but I really don't want the one area where guys like the ones that are often in IT are able to work to go away. What do the geeks who not only don't have social skills, they don't want them do if the IT industry starts to be a place where you have to have social skills?
/r/MensRights19/08/14 01:54 PM
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Actually I was saying the opposite of wanting women to go back to their roles from the 50's. In the 50's men told women what they thought they needed, and the 60's changed that. Women started telling men what they needed. That was a good thing. Women didn't need to be taken care of better, they told us they needed more opportunity to take care of themselves. The MRM is men saying "Okay, now that the world has changed these are the things we need". Yes, the idea that men should provide for women …
/r/MensRights19/08/14 01:21 PM
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The child support laws however vary wildly, and alimony is almost unheard of. In fact at this point the child support laws where I live are semi-reasonable. Not great, but so much better than when I was fighting for custody of my son. Of course I still suffered under the old laws, but at least they did change.
/r/MensRights19/08/14 12:50 PM
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You know that Alexa is incredibly unreliable right? It biases heavily towards the stupid...
/r/MensRights19/08/14 12:40 PM
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Here's a funny thought... what if masculinity in and of itself isn't actually a problem? It can be taken too far, turned toxic as it were, but the term toxic masculinity is really really over used. I have seen it recently in regards to the War Machine/Christy Mack situation. War Machine doesn't suffer from "Toxic Masculinity" he suffers from a massive untreated mental illness (he once beat up a dozen cops at a party and went to prison for it, but he still didn't get any form of mental health tre…
/r/MensRights19/08/14 12:38 PM
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Gold diggers usually means a relationship where the woman (usually, sometimes it's reversed) is pretending to care about the guy to get money. The mutual relationship is usually a sugar daddy/sugar baby relationship... they aren't all that common (in fact I find the financial dom relationship much more common and I have known a number of women who do that with men).
/r/MensRights19/08/14 12:26 PM
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Yeah, there is some of that... ironically you and I are more likely to be the victims of violence than these women are. I personally think that the fear, fear, fear message women are fed all the time is a huge issue, and that teaching them to fight back is one of the fixes, but also, dropping the message that everyone is out to hurt them (since we clearly aren't).
/r/MensRights05/08/14 08:22 PM
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Yes and no. Had I done something the giant bouncers would have smashed my face into the pavement outside of the bar... the girl herself was someone I could have easily handled. As to the girl in the car, I view this as the equivalent of someone calling out from a construction site or something. Rude but not potentially harmful
/r/MensRights05/08/14 07:52 PM
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It's interesting... the beauty queen on the subway, who basically implied that because one person pushed against her and put his hands down his pants she is not safe on the subway... I have had worse done to me on a subway, and in a bar, and on the street. For the record, I'm male. Some of the people who have done worse have also been male (I'm hetero) and some have been female (equally unwelcome for the most part). I remember one time I walked into a bar after work and a girl ripped my shirt co…
/r/MensRights05/08/14 07:41 PM
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Renouncing US citizenship however is probably a good idea if you don't plan to live in the US. The US is one of the only countries that taxes non-resident citizens.
/r/MensRights01/08/14 03:12 PM
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Or for those of us who are at work and can't watch a video with sound. I'm teaching a class right now, and it's a work period. My students are writing code, so I have to be listening to help them if needed, but I don't have to do a damned thing unless they ask for help. That means that I sit here reading reddit... this sort of thing is super useful for me right now.
/r/MensRights31/07/14 06:27 PM
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When I was arrested for DV I talked to the cops. It helped in my case. Might be rare but not impossible.
/r/MensRights27/07/14 03:16 PM
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Where I live they are obligated to help you get your stuff if violence is at all a possibility.
/r/MensRights27/07/14 03:13 PM
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I used to be dangerous and violent. I collected knives. I got therapy, sorted out my issues, had a kid, developed a career. Decades passed. I still collect knives. They are tools that can be used as weapons, but for many people the tool comes first.
/r/MensRights22/07/14 08:01 PM
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I know that twelve steps says that spirituality is a good complement to detox, but there is little to no evidence supporting this (the recovery rate for twelve steps is indistinguishable from the spontaneous recovery rate). For anyone who it actually helps, great, but OP, if it's not your thing, don't worry about it.
/r/MensRights17/07/14 07:31 PM
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It was a rumour, there is no evidence that I have seen that he was the source of the rumour, also, it is entirely reasonable to posit that the lawsuit (and her admission as a result of it) might have saved him from being dropped from his label. Not saying it's true, but not in any way inconceivable.
/r/MensRights17/07/14 12:46 PM
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I think that this is too PC for 4chan. This is 4Chan we are talking about, trying to get a completely anonymous message board that is often described as the abyss to use a more PC phrase seems like an impossibility. Also, this phrasing predates 4chan, hell, it predates the web. Also, the shock value of there are no women on the internet is why it is used. Nobody goes on /b/ and says "As a man" but people do go on and say "As a woman". In some cases they are simply trying to show that they have a…
/r/MensRights17/07/14 12:19 PM
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I've been on the Internet a very, very long time... and Tits or GTFO has always meant this, as has there are no women on the internet. Lots of newbs don't understand this, and take it to where you are thinking it stems from, but back in the day (I'm talking IRC before there was a web to have sites on) that's what it meant. Now, it's taken to the most offensive extreme possible, which is unsurprising if you are familiar with the groups involved...
/r/MensRights17/07/14 12:13 PM
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And yet it is very much supported by the stats, both the social ones (men being at the top and the bottom, living shorter, etc.) and the biological ones (men vary more by IQ for example, being more likely to be on the high and low end of the scale). Please do post the article, I would like to read it.
/r/MensRights16/07/14 02:07 PM
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13% are single women. The homeless families also trend male, as there are in fact resources for single mothers that simply don't exist for single fathers. It's 44% single males, and the families aren't broken down at all (it will contain both women and girls, but will trend to men and boys).
/r/MensRights16/07/14 02:05 PM
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I don't think so, the guy in question ran a porn site (I used to work for him, this incident was one of the reasons I stopped) and was not exactly an upstanding citizen. I suspect that if he thought it was roofies it probably was.
/r/MensRights14/07/14 07:22 PM
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I read it on /r/mensrights a while back, they had a link... I didn't saved it. Sorry, that means you can accept it for what it's worth. I could be completely wrong...
/r/MensRights14/07/14 07:20 PM
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Weird... you haven't actually pointed out why this is wrong at all. You have said that it's strawmanning the slogan (maybe the intended slogan, but if most people are taking it literally, and at least many are, you need to react to those people) and you have said that the car analogy is stupid (it isn't, your objections to it demonstrate a lack of understanding of analogies). You also argue with every single person in the thread. Now, you have a couple of somewhat valid points as well, if you co…
/r/MensRights14/07/14 03:50 PM
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Police report? This was a bunch of punkers getting wasted in a shitty apartment above a stereo store. I wasn't one of the people out front putting the boots to the guy, but there were guys doing that. I think that if we had called the police all of us would have ended up charged with something (well, I wasn't doing anything worse than drinking, but I was at a party where ounces of weed were floating around publicly and who knows what else was there, not to mention at least two of the people drin…
/r/MensRights14/07/14 03:41 PM
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Nobody would ever use that slogan with regard to prison rape, or at least they would never be taken seriously. The analogy would however work if they did. Abstract thinking is involved here.
/r/MensRights14/07/14 02:44 PM
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Well,that's the word he used when pushed.
/r/MensRights14/07/14 02:41 PM
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It isn't actually foolish in the context of prison rape, other than because there is literally nobody saying don't tell prisoners how to dress, teach the other prisoners not to rape. In fact anyone who even tried to suggest that prisoners shouldn't take precautions to help prevent prison rape would be viewed as an idiot. That doesn't make prison rape okay by the way, but yeah, when talking about prison rape it is in fact a given that you would take precautions to protect yourself from rape in pr…
/r/MensRights14/07/14 02:33 PM
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Roofies. Not sure the exact chemical, just trying to drop white powder into a girl's drink without her noticing.
/r/MensRights14/07/14 02:28 PM
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I just figured this out... you have no idea what an analogy is. I have been reading your comments in complete bafflement for months, and this just hit me now. Arguing with you is like playing chess with a pigeon, it will simply never work because you don't know not only what the rules are, but that there are even rules to work with. Hopefully the explanation of an analogy elsewhere in this thread has fixed this situation.
/r/MensRights14/07/14 12:13 PM
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I know of one actual incident where someone tried to spike a girls drink. He was caught in the act and beaten on the sidewalk in front of the party. That party was a bit off.
/r/MensRights14/07/14 12:02 PM
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Well, from what I read (on here) not too long ago the stats actually bear out the idea that women who dress for attention are actually at lower risk than women who dress more conservatively. That's my point. I don't think he was ill intentioned, merely that he was working at cross purposes to his goal.
/r/MensRights14/07/14 01:55 AM
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The cop was wrong, what women wear does not affect their odds of rape the way it is commonly thought to (in fact it's the exact inverse of what many people think, rapists tend to target women who aren't getting a lot of attention, as it makes it easier to separate them from the crowd).
/r/MensRights13/07/14 11:24 PM
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I see the term empathy come from feminists a lot. Most of them don't seem to have a very clear grasp on empathy, and usually want sympathy and not empathy. You in particular seem to be very guilty of this. Empathy is not a panacea, it does not mean that I approve of what you do, it means that I understand how this thing made you feel. That does not mean I don't have any critical thinking skills left, or that I automatically drop into sympathy mode (where my focus is on how you feel and trying to…
/r/MensRights13/07/14 11:09 PM
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You haven't actually done what you think you have. Perhaps (since I have seen this same argument from you many times) if the information you are attempting to convey is largely not being conveyed you need to change the way you present that information, in order to make the meaning clearer to people.
/r/MensRights13/07/14 11:02 PM
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There isn't an explanation at the end of that link. There never is. You should probably stop now, since in all the time I have been seeing your posts you never actually make a concrete point (okay, you do keep saying that we should stop worrying about rape prevention...)
/r/MensRights13/07/14 10:57 PM
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If that's not what you were saying then why comment on an article expressly about that?
/r/MensRights23/06/14 09:42 PM
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Well, because I think people should be free to explore their sexuality as they please. Why do you think women should be discouraged from looking at men?
/r/MensRights23/06/14 08:05 PM
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What I said was wrong was that women are appreciated for beauty while men are not and that his is biological. I am talking about thousands of years of history and many, many cultures. Not that men were necessarily selected as mates primarily based on appearance (they obviously weren't) but that the masculine form wasn't celebrated (it clearly was, and in many cultures still is). Hell, when I talked about ancient Greece I wasn't talking about sex with boys, I was talking about classical sculpture…
/r/MensRights23/06/14 06:51 PM
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It is her saying that the article was severely negative, so I think that yes, on the whole it was a pro male article.
/r/MensRights23/06/14 06:48 PM
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Of course. This isn't the point there though. The point there is that a newspaper saying that men's bodies are the stuff of nightmares is probably less than ideal.
/r/MensRights23/06/14 05:12 PM
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I agree with you, however I will go so far as to say that A: this is changing and B: what is sexy from a man is different than what is sexy from a woman. A pose that emphasises waist/hip ratio is going to make a man look strange, while it will make a woman look sexier, on average.
/r/MensRights23/06/14 05:11 PM
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Yep, every individual is completely entitled to decide if they want to look at any different body. For example, a gay man might actually find it quite distasteful that women run around half naked. A newspaper article saying that women's bodies were the stuff of nightmares would generate a huge outcry, and it damned well should. You don't have to want to look at half naked men, it doesn't do anything for me personally (although since I was raised by hippies it doesn't offend me in any way), but t…
/r/MensRights23/06/14 05:09 PM
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I guess the two sources I tend to see Guardian articles from are not going to tend to showcase those articles. I usually see them coming from this subreddit, which tends to focus on the negative, and from my facebook feed which has a large (I mean large) number of third wave feminists on it. Ironically most of my facebook friends know of my stance on gender stuff and have no issues with it. The odd on that does tends to unfriend me, which is alright.
/r/MensRights23/06/14 04:59 PM
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That's your right as an individual, but it's a different thing when it's a major new publication saying that. At that point it's no longer an individual choice, and should be called out. For someone who is anti-nudity in general, that's one thing... but to shame men for clothing that would celebrated if it was a woman doing it, well, that's a different issue.
/r/MensRights23/06/14 04:20 PM
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Yep, that's absolutely true. For the most part the guardian is pretty firmly entrenched in feminism. Shouldn't we try and praise them when they do something right? Get those articles broad based coverage and refuse to promote the ones that are bad?
/r/MensRights23/06/14 03:58 PM
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I disagree, I think that the way men are perceived is actually very much a mensrights issue. Not that I favour making laws to force women to find us sexy no matter what or some such bullshit, but promoting the idea that we have just as much right to dress however the fuck we want without getting shamed for it is something worth at least bringing up every once in a while (not that it's on the same level as some other issues, but all of it together matters, at least to me).
/r/MensRights23/06/14 02:55 PM
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Yeah, that's why I was so surprised that there was an article that was actually somewhat pro-male (or at least mad about shaming men's bodies).
/r/MensRights23/06/14 02:42 PM
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I see where you are coming from, but she does have a point there. Look, men as a whole do think it's okay to look at women (hell, I do) and I don't think that's a bad thing. I also feel like as a whole women have historically been discouraged from looking at men (although that is changing now, and quicker than people think). So, on the whole not a perfect article, but shaming a publication for shaming men seem to be a good thing from my perspective.
/r/MensRights23/06/14 02:19 PM
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Sorry, not how I read it. Seems to me she's saying that men should be able to seen as sexy or hot, and to me that's a good thing.
/r/MensRights23/06/14 02:05 PM
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Something positive and pro male from the guardian.
/r/MensRights23/06/14 12:58 PM
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Nope. It is deciding that characteristics apply universally to one sex or ethnic group. You could treat a group extremely well, but if that treatment is based on group membership then it is prejudice. If that group is identified by skin colour then it is racism. If it's by genitalia then it's sexism.
/r/MensRights22/06/14 08:06 PM
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Again, Chomsky defended a Holocaust deniers right to speak. I may argue with you... but I won't try to stop you from speaking. It's one of my more extreme beliefs, that all speech be allowed no matter how personally distasteful I find it.
/r/MensRights13/06/14 06:54 PM
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Interesting. I'm an extreme leftist and I am strongly pro free speech. Noam Chomsky has defended holocaust deniers right to speech. I think that historically the right has a worse record in this area, but modern feminism does seem to be playing catch up.
/r/MensRights13/06/14 06:30 PM
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We interacted earlier about a related issue. You are bad (very bad) at analogies. Also, you don't seem to have a very good grasp of why this is an issue. You are coming off as combative and pedantic. This approach (much like those posters) will fail to convince anyone. Try educating yourself first, so you are arguing from a point of knowledge, not a point of ignorance.
/r/MensRights29/05/14 07:17 PM
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I used to teach women's self defence, so it's a topic I care about. However it's also a topic that unlike a lot of people I'm educated in.
/r/MensRights29/05/14 02:51 PM
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Yep. And? However I am also fighting against people who try to claim that women should dress a certain way to avoid rape.
/r/MensRights29/05/14 02:21 PM
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Really, I think the opposite. I think that if you want to reach people you have to reach them. If you alienate people most of them will not listen to what you are saying. I think I have had more success with fighting that attitude than those posters have, and I haven't reached that many people (I was the photographer for a few slutwalks over the years, and I talk to people without belittling them every chance I get).
/r/MensRights29/05/14 01:38 PM
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But could there be a better way, a way that doesn't demonize a whole gender? Also, does it do what it's supposed to do? I don't think it does, I think it increases polarization, when we really need to stop polarizing and instead try to share, try to see things from each others viewpoint.
/r/MensRights29/05/14 01:16 PM
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It says teach men not to rape... you don't see a problem with that at all? It's actually a major problem. It doesn't move the onus to rapists, it moves it to men. Rapists are A: not all male and B: not most men. I absolutely fight against anyone who tries to police women based on what they wear... but that doesn't mean I'm willing to allow my entire gender to take the blame for a few people.
/r/MensRights28/05/14 05:58 PM
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Are these the ones that reverse traditional rape tips and apply them to men in order to make a statement about how the culture is depicted to women and how they are advised to be on constant rape prevention schedule instead of the primary focus being on rapists? No, it's the ones that say "Don't teach me what to wear, teach men not to rape." This isn't entirely different from teaching men enthusiastic consent, its the same thing but applied to both men and women. No, it isn't entirely different.…
/r/MensRights28/05/14 04:22 PM
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Okay, there have been a number of posters around teach men not to rape. The meme is in fact based on them. It's supposed to be a way to teach men something, but it's actually just getting in the way of communication. It's creating resentment and animosity instead of empathy. I don't even slightly get why that's a good thing. As to consent, I think we have to start approaching that entirely differently, and not making boys the only focus. Girls need to be taught about consent as much as boys are,…
/r/MensRights28/05/14 02:05 PM
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Canadian here... our current government is doing the best it can to kill tje awesome.
/r/MensRights28/05/14 01:36 PM
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I mean the posters that say "teach men not to rape", and other similar campaigns. I mean the whole idea that men need in our society to be taught not to rape. If you want to talk about consent the conversation has to not start by alienating a huge portion of your audience. That is what teach men not to rape does, and even though some (only some) odmthe campaigns are intended to discuss consent many women don't take it that way and very very few men take it that way. They take it literally, as if…
/r/MensRights28/05/14 01:21 PM
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I agree actually. That might have something to do with the fact that I used to teach women's self defense, or that I've spent most of my life in martial arts. I do hink that a lot of feminist responses to rape prevention are equally poor. Realistically the teach men not to rape campaign is poorly thought out and more than a little offensive(which I would overlook if it was effective). Understanding how to set limits, not leaving yourself vulnerable, and most importantly realizing that taking rea…
/r/MensRights28/05/14 12:54 PM
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Nope. Was part of the movement before that incident, there were already people giving rape prevention advice. For the most part the advice was better back then. Also, I don't necessarily agree with everything every MRA has ever said and done.
/r/MensRights28/05/14 11:58 AM
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This movement has basically been saying women should be constantly on guard and that "its only common sense" for a few years now. You sort of contradict yourself here Well, there's many different views in the men's rights movement. I tend to say that women should take normal common sense self protection (if someone asks you if this rag smells like ether take it as a warning sign for example) but that for the most part the rape paranoia is stupid. Yes, common sense self protection, no, you don't …
/r/MensRights27/05/14 11:28 PM
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Yep, I'm not saying that common sense protection isn't a good idea (I am saying that dressing provocatively is not a cause for rape, simply because all the evidence says that in fact rapists tend to target women who don't stand out, dressing provocatively actually is safer, not less safe, so it's a bad argument). I believe women should be taught some basics about self defence, that sort of thing. I also believe that telling women to follow simple common sense rules isn't a bad thing...
/r/MensRights27/05/14 11:09 PM
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There is some stuff that is complicated about consent... for example, how much alcohol is okay before sleeping with someone? I know where my line is, and it's at the point where that person is incapable of understanding what they are doing. Basically if you are puking and passing out, that's too far and even if the other person is coming on to you, you should probably say no. Now, if both people are in that state, fuck it, it's a wash. Sure, you should have said no, but you were too fucking drun…
/r/MensRights27/05/14 11:04 PM
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My own blog, hope you guys don't mind. Anything stupid, call me on it.
/r/MensRights27/05/14 07:19 PM
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Someone had tried to hit my son when he was little and I probably would have over reacted as well.
/r/MensRights25/05/14 10:10 PM
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Okay, in the case of the National Socialist Party... it did have a very specific meaning, and they fit it. It actually means a society that is ruled explicitly for the benefit of the military, or military rule, with a strong leader (who was also the direct leader of the military). The rest of it is window dressing, even if the rest of it might in fact be what people mean. The root is the fasciculus, which is a symbol for military dating back to Roman times.
/r/MensRights16/04/14 04:43 PM
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No... Fascism has a strict and meaningful definition, and the Nazis fit that definition.
/r/MensRights16/04/14 03:23 PM
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So... 40, extremely left wing, but yeah, I'm white, male, and an atheist. Also pro pot legalization even though I don't partake
/r/MensRights15/04/14 06:23 PM
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Making you a classical liberal.
/r/MensRights15/04/14 06:10 PM
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If you truly believe that white males conservatives are the most hated group you obviously aren't paying attention. Yes, there are some issues that white males face as a result of being white and male, but on the whole it is actually easier than being non-white (and being male has it's own special set of issues, I personally don't feel I have it worse than women, I just don't feel I have it better, and that while I recognize their issues they often are unable to recognize mine). As to being a co…
/r/MensRights10/04/14 01:18 AM
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That's a really poor choice of words. Lets look at it another way: many of the soldiers who die in most wars do so from one of two perspectives, either trying to protect their home and the lives of their loved ones, or because they were drafted and literally had a choice of server and risk their lives or don't serve and be imprisoned, and possibly (depending on the country) be killed. I know a lot of soldiers, and while I don't agree with their conclusion (that the work they are doing in fact he…
/r/MensRights10/04/14 01:07 AM
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Well, the rate of survival of women in steerage was higher than the rate of survival of men in first class.
/r/MensRights07/04/14 11:21 PM
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Yep. Pretty much no way around it...
/r/MensRights13/03/14 05:44 PM
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Thing is, I'm not even going to try and say that black girls could use some more support, even gender specific support. I don't know enough (and there isn't enough info in the article) to make that judgement. I am going to say that slamming a program that supports black males because it isn't predominantly aimed at black females is all kinds of bullshit.
/r/MensRights13/03/14 05:44 PM
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I find this article incredibly frustrating. It is basically a call to not support black men and boys because black women and girls are being underserviced. I posted a couple of comments basically saying that instead of opposing positive programs for boys, how about adding to the programs...
/r/MensRights13/03/14 05:30 PM
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I was positing something that might be a contributing factor, not claiming that was the be-all end-all of things.
/r/MensRights05/03/14 02:36 PM
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Actually properly collecting evidence makes false accusations less likely and harder to get away with. Proper evidence collection is a good thing for everyone.
/r/MensRights01/03/14 01:55 PM
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Drugs became much, much more prevalent.
/r/MensRights01/03/14 01:50 PM
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Might also have to do with increased drug availability, social upheaval, etc.
/r/MensRights01/03/14 01:49 PM
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Yes, and if the criteria for rape culture is indirect ways that rape becomes more likely or that rapists are indirectly supported that argument makes sense, but if universal condemnation of all rapists still constitutes rape culture then the idea of fighting rape culture is asinine... I don't think that's how most feminists are using the term.
/r/MensRights05/02/14 11:12 PM
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Yes, but as I said... that makes the idea of rape culture and normalization so nebulous as to be meaningless. If total societal condemnation is as much rape culture as total societal acceptance and every stance in between... then there is simply no reason to even discuss it.
/r/MensRights05/02/14 08:50 PM
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No, but it's common for the subject to come up. Every time it does, some men talk about ways to prevent rape... every time that happens someone accuses them of blaming the victim. That's the context I see the rich man in the bad neighbourhood argument trotted out. Then things devolve from there. Look, this is a classic case of an academic term (I accept that sociology might use the term normalization in this manner - I also think that makes it meaningless) being used in a non-academic context. I…
/r/MensRights05/02/14 08:04 PM
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Never, I have heard the argument that telling someone to avoid a high crime area isn't saying he deserved to be mugged, and that telling a woman some ways she could protect herself is not blaming her for getting raped...
/r/MensRights05/02/14 07:54 PM
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Typically incapacitated from this perspective means basically unable to walk, talk coherently, etc. It's not quite passed out, but close enough to make no appreciable difference. If you are capable of saying yes and walking under your own steam most courts in most places in the western world won't consider it rape.
/r/MensRights17/01/14 01:52 PM
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To me, we simply don't have the facts here... so I reserve all judgement. The idea that the guy doesn't know he's a rapist bugs me quite a bit, since generally if you don't know you are a rapist then you were working on the impression of consent. This sometimes happens because a makeout session goes further than one party meant it to, but they don't indicate that they don't want this to happen. In this case, I do not consider it rape. If you initiate an encounter and then decide you don't want t…
/r/MensRights17/01/14 01:41 PM
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The link between HIV and circumcision is currently highly controversial, with more recent studies contradicting the early favourable results. I have never heard of reducing the risk of penile cancer... then again, what is the actual risk of penile cancer? Testicular cancer is common, and circumcision has no effect on that. Finally, shouldn't that be a decision made by the individual in question as an adult? Also, there are forms of male circumcision that have significant death tolls, although th…
/r/MensRights28/12/13 02:02 AM
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If I could upvote this a hundred times I would. We are not a broken version of a girl, we are different. Hell, we have our own separate chromosomes and everything.
/r/MensRights19/12/13 08:46 PM
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None of those people qualify as people see, so they don't matter at all. /s
/r/MensRights17/12/13 06:00 PM
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No, that's true. However I think that left unchecked the current security complex could reach that point in a far shorter time than you imagine. I also could see it being an endgame that they are pursuing (not mass graves, but that level of repression/social control). I think they are going more Huxley and less Orwell though.
/r/MensRights17/12/13 05:54 PM
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Here's the thing: most of the rank and file of the German army in WWII didn't know about the atrocities, but they did blindly follow orders, even if the orders were wrong from every objective perspective. From the perspective of history it seems like the two groups are very different (although who knows what it will seem like in fifty years) - but the average German soldier probably didn't think of themselves as any different than the average TSA agent sees themselves.
/r/MensRights17/12/13 02:29 PM
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Yes, but if the idea is a fallacy (in this case the core idea is that because other people suffer the suffering of the one person doesn't matter) then the argument is faulty. It's like saying that an argument being a strawman doesn't mean that the argument is invalid. It does. Now, using a strawman in an argument doesn't automatically invalidate the argument, and using the idea that some people have things worse as a supporting statement doesn't mean the core argument is invalid. When the core i…
/r/MensRights13/12/13 03:13 PM
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There is no clear indication of cause. If his GF had stabbed him in the wrist with a knife would that be cause for concern? There is no way to A: tell how deep that wound was, or B: accurately determine the size of the original wound. Keep in mind, the scratch theory was put forward by one of the tumlrtards, it's not from the OP.
/r/MensRights13/12/13 02:48 PM
2

Yes, but an argument that is based on a logical fallacy is wrong. Having a logical fallacy and relying on one are two very different things. This is the latter.
/r/MensRights13/12/13 02:46 PM
1

Depends where you are. In the Solomon Islands it is used for both diapers and hair, but it's hair that is unwashed and disgusting, whether it be white person hair or black person hair. My step mother would tell me to "go wash my nappy head" frequently.
/r/MensRights13/12/13 02:43 PM
1

I understand some people don't care about their appearance, but that doesn't make it okay...
/r/MensRights12/12/13 09:20 PM
1

Usually when I wear my Trilby it's with a narrow, fitted suit and one of my more tailored overcoats. I don't presently own a full brim fedora (although I do want one), which I would wear with a less fitted suit.
/r/MensRights12/12/13 05:19 PM
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Nope... see, that's how we have to present to the world. If we show actual emotions, well, that's just not on. Man up, stiff upper lip, etc.
/r/MensRights06/12/13 01:49 PM
2

When I lived in the Solomon Islands there was a family of Tasmanians who lived near me. The father used the word cunt as a generic descriptive and it featured in almost every sentence.
/r/MensRights05/12/13 04:10 PM
1

I'm neither opposed to or in favour of gender roles, I just believe they will tend to happen no matter what we do,
/r/MensRights22/11/13 10:44 PM
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Thing is, statistically women are more likely to get elected if they run. They just mostly don't run.
/r/MensRights13/11/13 10:01 PM
2

I know a woman who in her younger days was a good fit for this sort of thing, but she actually became a firefighter and a stunt woman, packed on 40 or so pounds of muscle... she's incredibly jacked now, but not the most feminine of women.
/r/MensRights08/11/13 09:17 PM
3

"Walked"... and that guy wasn't very big. To be fair, I know a lot of women who wouldn't have an issue with that test, but they tend not to look that good on TV...
/r/MensRights08/11/13 02:43 PM
1

Well, the social justice movement is, at least from what I can tell, not in the least concerned with any kind of actual justice. I want to take the ideas from that movement, see if they hold any water at all, maybe come up with alternative ideas where it makes sense, that sort of thing. It's basically a place to talk about ideas like systemic racism without buying into the modern tumbler SJW concepts of them.
/r/MensRights24/10/13 04:03 PM
1

Well, that's true... however those developmental landmarks are how we judge someone to be developmentally mature in this society. They also stop growing a little bit earlier. In the end I do think that our entire way of dealing with males is crap (as a male), and that we are a society that's in serious danger of destroying itself as a result. This was a minor technical point...
/r/MensRights24/10/13 01:29 PM
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Mature faster isn't a value judgement in this case. They are at slightly different stages of neurological growth than we are, and that's just what it is. It doesn't mean they are better, smarter, etc. It merely means that they hit certain developmental landmarks on average slightly younger than men do. What that means is very much up in the air (I've heard the argument that it's because they are simpler, which isn't one I personally believe, but some have argued it).
/r/MensRights24/10/13 12:45 PM
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I'm purely writing to support you... in fact I have noticed that most victims of sexual violence aren't looking for someone to fix their problems. It's generally feminists who are not in fact victims who are looking for the grand societal protection. Hell, I've heard women say that having people tell them the things they could have done to prevent the situation make them fell more empowered, and make recovery much easier... but we must be "victim blaming" right?
/r/MensRights22/10/13 01:50 PM
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But we do teach boys not to rape. Very strongly in fact. As to more effective prosecution of rape, the rates of conviction are actually very similar for all violent crime, including rape... however it turns out when we see the work of the innocence project, that rape is actually the one crime where false conviction is most common (the sheer quantity of false conviction in rape cases is staggering, almost all of it has come to light due to the existence of DNA evidence). How should we make that b…
/r/MensRights22/10/13 01:44 PM
1

Define patriarchy. As to women being punished for leaving the house: this is also in societies where a man can be put to death for being raped by other men... not the west. You simply can't say that sexism is a huge problem in Saudi Arabia so we need to dismantle the patriarchy in Canada... it doesn't make even a small amount of sense. Also, the problem as far as I can see in most societies that are restrictive towards women is religion. Remove religion and all of the reasons for sexism against …
/r/MensRights22/10/13 01:24 PM
1

I got Men should: all die that's pretty high up there.
/r/MensRights22/10/13 01:12 PM
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So, the bad news... under Nova Scotia law you in fact owe child support, right now. If the mother ID's you to the court, they will go after you, they will handle getting the proof, etc. There just isn't a thing she would have to do other than say your name in an official situation. So long as she doesn't you are fine. Given that, you probably have nothing to lose... although I would check with a local lawyer. Having said that, Dave Foley doesn't set foot in Canada anymore because he owes so much…
/r/MensRights12/10/13 10:34 PM
1

Trust me on this one, our family court system would do all the work for her if she identified him... there would be literally nothing required of her at all.
/r/MensRights12/10/13 10:21 PM
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It would be your income then, when the kid was born. If you want pm me and I can send you contact info for a good local lawyer who specializes in this sort of deal, at least for a quick consult.
/r/MensRights12/10/13 09:35 PM
2

I think that's a discussion you have with her. Might be that meeting half siblings is a great thing for her and fifteen year olds travel better than four year olds.
/r/MensRights12/10/13 09:31 PM
1

Yes... it's the province that the custodial parent is in. I'm in the same province as the ex. Our child support laws are stupid and unfair (I have stories I could tell) but they have almost no power outside Canada.
/r/MensRights12/10/13 09:28 PM
2

It's by province in Canada. Ontario would be irrelevant here.
/r/MensRights12/10/13 07:03 PM
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Yeah, you don't really have much in the way of legal worries unless you come here. I'm in Halifax, NS and while our maintenance enforcement program is messed up, it's way better than what people tell me about the US. also, as I said, it's very common for kids in their teens to want a connection. Unfortunately my biological father was an asshole, however I get a much more positive vibe from you. Talk to the kid... at least if you get proof.
/r/MensRights12/10/13 07:02 PM
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When the kid was born.
/r/MensRights12/10/13 06:49 PM
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In Nova Scotia support is set based purely on the non custodial parents income, at the time of the obligation. If you were to pay back child support it would based on your income 15 years ago, not now.... and her income would not be relevant.
/r/MensRights12/10/13 12:59 PM
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Is this Nova Scotia? If so, you won't be jailed for child support here ever. They can be assholes, will garnish wages (but only where they have jurisdiction) and suspend drivers licenses (they can't touch cop's). Source: divorced dad in Nova Scotia
/r/MensRights12/10/13 12:47 PM
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My mother didn't contact my biological father until I was 10. Never asked for a dime. Also, OP is the one seeking proof of paternity, if the mother was just seeking money, it would be easier to go through the courts. Fifteen year olds who don't know their biological parent are likely to have questions. Also, I missed anything that says the mom lied about paternity.
/r/MensRights12/10/13 12:40 PM
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Most of those countries actually allow for men to be imprisoned or executed if raped by a man.
/r/MensRights24/09/13 02:36 PM
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Some do, even if the guy is asleep after a party... it's a perfectly valid reason to wake the guy with some oral sex... when you are a casual acquaintance of theirs and not in any way an intimate partner. I say this because I have been on the receiving end of it.
/r/MensRights24/09/13 02:34 PM
1

The incredibly bizarre idea that men who go to strip clubs are also men who rape maybe? Maybe it's the even stupider idea that men going to strip clubs encourages rape. I mean, here's the truth... rape went down, access to porn went up, strip joints increased in frequency.
/r/MensRights24/09/13 05:52 AM
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It is catchy and poppy, and kind of stupid fun. The popularity went way up because of the controversy.
/r/MensRights15/09/13 02:50 PM
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Ironically if women did start walking around topless it would change men's behaviour, and not in a bad way. I have lived in a country where women are usually topless, and you never stop appreciating a beautiful woman, but breasts quickly become just routine. Sure, you notice an attractive pair, same way you notice nice legs in north America. Weirdly enough there was no cat calling there.
/r/MensRights13/09/13 01:01 PM
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However saying what terrorizes in men is different from saying kill men. This is fear based rhetoric, but that at least was not a call to violence. The seventies were different and feminism had some valid points back then (it still has a few... they are just overshadowed by bullshit)
/r/MensRights09/09/13 05:30 PM
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It looks like it pretty much is. It's most likely largely determined in the womb. Probably as a result of testosterone levels in the womb.
/r/MensRights09/09/13 04:38 PM
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Again, I agree. In this case I was trying to get people to understand how fucktarded it is for a female reporter to complain about locker room behavior in a locker room.
/r/MensRights05/09/13 12:01 AM
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I agree with you, but I can see both sides, hence banning locker room interviews (also, I'm more comfortable being nude around women, and not really that cool being nude around cameras owned by broadcast media... I feel that some athletes might prefer no cameras in the locker room).
/r/MensRights04/09/13 11:59 PM
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I was arrested for domestic abuse once. My ex attacked me from behind and after I restrained her she kept attacking every time I tried to leave. We were both charged despite the physical evidence (bruising on her knuckles and the back of my head for example). In the end I was saved due to an impartial witness. She got a little community service.
/r/MensRights04/09/13 10:26 PM
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Small correction: Joe has black belts in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and taekwondo, not judo.
/r/MensRights04/09/13 10:13 PM
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And they do. I was saying that a woman being offended by male nudity in a locker room is like a man being offended by female nudity at a strip club. A man being offended by a female reporter in his locker room seems more like a stripper being offended by a man in the dressing room, although the case is that a lot the time there are men who work for the club in and out of the dressing room all the time.
/r/MensRights04/09/13 07:21 PM
1

Thing is, it's not just the guy getting interviewed. The rest of the team is there as well, and they may be less alright with being seen. I agree that if men are allowed to do locker room interviews women also need to be, but that any form of nudity you see in there is something you should deal with. Same as if you go to a strip club during business hours you can't complain about seeing naked women.
/r/MensRights04/09/13 04:38 PM
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What if, as a player, a given man was extremely uncomfortable being naked around members of the opposite sex? He now has the choice of changing around women or giving up his career. I personally think locker room interviews should be banned completely, but having women in a men's change room (which is really what a locker room is) is kind of odd.
/r/MensRights04/09/13 03:44 PM
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I was passed out after a party (16 at the time). Woke up with my cock in a girls mouth. Not my gf (was single at the time). Not into that girl at all.
/r/MensRights04/09/13 04:18 AM
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Run. If she was between me and the exit, hit her as hard as I could (probably a push kick due to reach) and then run.
/r/MensRights04/09/13 04:09 AM
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The point being that being naked in a locker room should be assumed, and if you enter a locker room you are signing up to see nudity. If a guy pushes that, it could just as easily be a statement that he should have the right to change how he wants to in a room designed for that purpose. Personally I think locker room reporting is stupid and should go away.
/r/MensRights04/09/13 03:50 AM
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Yes and no. Men wouldn't be allowed in a women's locker room because it's a women's locker room. You get changed in there.
/r/MensRights04/09/13 03:41 AM
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How long have they been the majority of graduates? How many leave the workforce for quality of life reasons? How many simply work less hours?
/r/MensRights03/09/13 07:34 PM
2

My only problem with that video is that the one doing the falsetto kind of sucks.
/r/MensRights03/09/13 02:32 PM
1

Ironically I spend a great deal on physical fitness. My gym membership, Taekwondo membership, testing fees, shoes for Parkour (it wears through them crazy quick). I'm male. I also spend a fair bit on clothes (Calvin Klein suits are not cheap).
/r/MensRights18/08/13 11:45 PM
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By the time I found out I had no way to contact the guy.
/r/MensRights14/08/13 10:21 PM
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I have posted this story a bunch of times... but will give a quick overview: when I was uoung and stupid a female friend claimed that she had been raped. A bunch of us freaked out, found the guy, beat the crap out of him. Found outblater that she lied...
/r/MensRights14/08/13 09:57 PM
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Not meaning to crap on you, it's just that I've seen that article a number of times, and it's not the issues I'm facing. There is nothing there that personally I relate to. I want to not be told that the aggression I naturally feel is fine, so long as it's channeled non destructively, not that it's okay for me to cry. I want people to acknowledge that the sparring I do every week is a fine way to deal with stress, and is my therapy. The mens rights issues I foxus on are around child custody, equ…
/r/MensRights06/08/13 04:26 PM
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Long story, I can't really say it's nobody's fault, but it's equally both of our faults. I did some rather stupid shit, so did she, we started fighting about it... I ended up sleeping on the couch for close to a year, then we split. We are friends and train Taekwondo together four days a week. She is not a bad person, but she did do some negative things (as did I). In the end, both of us reverted to old patterns that were unhealthy (lack of responsibility on my part, addictive behaviour on hers)…
/r/MensRights25/07/13 12:35 AM
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You have no idea... but seriously it was a very serious relationship. We bought a house, got a couple of dogs, got engaged, etc. I spent most of the nine years more or less sober. Guess good things can come out of sex while intoxicated.
/r/MensRights24/07/13 08:02 PM
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Real conversation from my past: "I don't sleep with drunk girls" "Is that a hard and fast rule" "Well, if I've had a few my judgement might slip" "How many drinks would that take?" "About one more" "Bartender, can you get this guy another vodka lime?" I ended up living with that girl for 9 years by the way.
/r/MensRights24/07/13 05:26 PM
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I have a very good friend who considers herself anti feminist but can't bring herself to support the MRM (even though she agrees with many of it's points) because of all the assholes. Maybe it's not the feminists thatbwe need tobworry about but the non-feminists whobget turned off by things like this.
/r/MensRights22/07/13 01:58 PM
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Thing is, last week I was at the gym and I was being checked out in a massive way by a women. Now, in this case she was very attractive and I didn't mind, but that doesn't mean I would never mind (and to tell you the truth I may have worked harder than was strictly a good idea in an effort to impress...)
/r/MensRights21/05/13 05:46 AM
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Where I live a men's only fitness facility is completely legal, not sure why that is when other men's only facilities are not legal... I also think that fitness facilities occupy a different space for men and women. Men don't tend to want a men's only fitness facility, but a lot of men would love a men's only club where they could have a scotch and hang out with other men (simply to be able to have the comfort of not watching themselves as they do around women). I think that this would be the ro…
/r/MensRights21/05/13 05:43 AM
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In a lot of these countries women are far more than half the population... pesky menfolk keep dying and shit.
/r/MensRights01/05/13 05:05 PM
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And again people are talking about paedophilia with this case... it isn't paedophilia if the girl in question if post-pubescent. It can be sexual assault, rape, statutory rape, all kinds of things, but it simple isn't paedophilia... it isn't a markedly different form of sexual attraction from the one for adult women.
/r/MensRights01/05/13 04:21 PM
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At the same time it's somewhat hard to argue that there is not a large potential for harm with both substances (or that legalization would not in fact reduce that potential for harm...). It doesn't change the fact that many of the men who do roids are putting themselves at increased risk of health problems in order to look a specific way.
/r/MensRights01/05/13 04:14 PM
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I mostly stopped getting bullied around 13, for me it was much younger than that (by 13 I learned that knocking the door off a locker with my forehead and kicking people a lot while not showing up for class almost ever and usually being drunk when I did was a good way to not get picked on... before that I remember crawling through a vacant lot on my hands and knees in order to avoid being caught by TJ Flint, who would hold me down with a bunch of his buddies and smash me in the face, never mind …
/r/MensRights01/05/13 03:36 PM
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Nope... it's just that there are many people who don't have those symptoms who are also roid users. I know a few guys who are heavy users who fit that to a t, and didn't before they got into it. I could say the same thing about junkies, but there are so many who do fit the stereotype...
/r/MensRights01/05/13 03:24 PM
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There are lots of men who use steroids for muscle growth, and it's an increasing trend among celebrities (do you really think Jay-Z got that build by hitting the gym all natural? How about Carrot Top?). Anorexics don't look good to most men, so there's that as well. It's an over reaction to what society considers good looking. It's also insidious. Hell, I'm not there, but I have a girlfriend who tells me I'm really good looking, but consider myself a bit overweight... I guess that hit home yeste…
/r/MensRights01/05/13 03:21 PM
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I know heroin addicts who have a pretty decent handle on it and are completely functional. Doesn't mean heroin isn't a dangerous drug, merely that some people can deal with that level of danger. This is true of HGH, and it's true of people who are all natural who are addicted to the gym. The point is that some men are completely obsessed with body image, to the point of risking harm to themselves and their life.
/r/MensRights01/05/13 03:14 PM
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Well, that's what I get for trusting my high school history teacher... won't be making that mistake again, Mr. B. you bastard.
/r/MensRights13/03/13 10:29 AM
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First. if I thought you were stupid it wouldn't hurt me. There are flashes of understanding in other of your comments in this thread, but a level of obtuseness that is staggering at times as well. Second, I can't read your comment another way. I've tried a few times... I just can't parse another meaning out of it. Perhaps that's a failing on my part. You seem smart, just confused.
/r/MensRights13/03/13 01:51 AM
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That says a great deal about your critical thinking. There is a narrative here that females are represented as damsels, which most people in this thread have ably refuted. Your point (the one I replied to)was that women play games so the industry should cater to them, or at least that's how it parses. My point was that most people who play are actually cool with what is basically an avatar of either gender, and that your point doesn't stand up to the evidence. It hurts me on a deep level to keep…
/r/MensRights12/03/13 08:37 PM
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Resources are limited. You need everyone able to do the job. Take that argument to it's logical conclusion, if a quadriplegic wants to be a firefighter, should we modify the test so it works for him or her? That's ridiculous right? You need people who can do the job, and in a major city fire department that job is grueling.
/r/MensRights12/03/13 08:15 PM
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No question. Also, I'm an MRA, have seen false accusations destroy people, just value truth over my own opinions.
/r/MensRights12/03/13 07:51 PM
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Yep, that's where I was going with that...
/r/MensRights12/03/13 07:28 PM
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But his entire post was used to support his claim about what she was saying... you didn't refute anything he said... that's how it works. He has an argument, you posit a counter argument... you made an empty claim, he offered examples of his claim, you claimed he ignored you. It's arguing in bad faith... I'm not asking you to prove a negative, I'm asking you disprove his hypothesis about the central thesis of the video. You can do this by providing an alternate central hypothesis. Edit: or put a…
/r/MensRights12/03/13 07:26 PM
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See, here's the thing... it doesn't matter if they are more or less heroic. A firefighter has to be able to carry a 250 pound person in a fireman's lift, and get them into that position. They have to be able to then make it down a flight of stairs. Places that have changed the qualifications for women have lowered that limit to 150 pounds for women. That means that if I'm passed out and the woman who tops out at 150 pounds is the one who comes to save me, I'm fucked. I weigh 185 and am by no mea…
/r/MensRights12/03/13 07:21 PM
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It's not, at least in the case of firefighters. They apply in small numbers, and usually drop out to physical failure. I mean complete physical failure. I read an article on it recently, where they followed the only three female applicants to pass the initial physical to be LA firefighters. All three failed, all three blamed it on complete and total physical fatigue, and none of the three were mad at their male counterparts.
/r/MensRights12/03/13 07:04 PM
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90% to 95% of workplace fatalities are male. It was long thought the firefighters were sexist, and women were being excluded intentionally. The reality is that in most major North American cities women are actively sought out as firefighters, but make up a vanishingly small percentage. This is due to a high dropout rate due to physical fatigue during training. The job requires a great deal of physical strength, to ignore that is to ignore reality. Truth is, men tend to have more of it, so more o…
/r/MensRights12/03/13 07:02 PM
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Actually, from a casual read it seems like you are the one doing the ignoring, not the one being ignored. He may be wrong about what she is saying, but he is making the claim that this is what she is saying, you are providing nothing at all to counter that.
/r/MensRights12/03/13 06:56 PM
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Have you heard the real story? There was no romance between her and Captain Smith. Also, later she was sold into slavery, ended up in England and died there as a domestic servant.
/r/MensRights12/03/13 06:53 PM
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But why do women like video games and which ones do they like? Do they prefer Tomb Raider over Halo because Tomb Raider has a female protagonist? Are guys unwilling to play Mirror's Edge because it has a female protagonist? Or is that all kind of just bullshit?
/r/MensRights12/03/13 06:50 PM
1

Yes. In New York state so long as you are not too intoxicated to speak in a legible manner you are able to give consent. Statute 130 of the New York State Sexual Assault Reform Act.
/r/MensRights12/03/13 03:58 PM
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Well, in this case we just don't know false accusations... DNA tests just prove that whether it was rape or not, the men who got locked up weren't the guys who did it... all are misidentifications, some may be intentional (fucked one guy, blamed it on another), some are probably honest mistakes. It doesn't prove much of anything about false claims either way, just about how aggressively rape is prosecuted (very, very).
/r/MensRights12/03/13 12:55 PM
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No, you don't. It also doesn't prove false accusation. It has no bearing on total numbers... that's actually my point.
/r/MensRights12/03/13 12:42 PM
1

No. Clearly lack of knowledge is valid. However if someone does know, that's an entirely different story.
/r/MensRights12/03/13 11:36 AM
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Actually that depends on jurisdiction. Some it's grey, some it's clear.
/r/MensRights12/03/13 11:31 AM
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Not to me. A severe unmedicated schizophrenic is what I mean by unmanaged schizophrenia.
/r/MensRights11/03/13 08:21 PM
1

Being intoxicated doesn't make you unable to consent, being intoxicated past specific and varying thresholds means you are unable to consent. Anti depressents don't qualify as intoxicants.
/r/MensRights11/03/13 08:19 PM
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The thing is, misidentifications are clearly likely to be the majority of these cases, not false accusations, since there was DNA evidence that someone else was the actual guilty party (or at least allegedly guilty party). These may all have actually been rapes, just rapes where the wrong person was convicted. It does tend to support the idea that rape is prosecuted much more strongly than other crimes however.
/r/MensRights11/03/13 04:23 PM
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Not arguing, merely discussing finer details...
/r/MensRights11/03/13 04:14 PM
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I personally have never been accused of wrongdoing (other than by one depressed ex of "pressuring" her, but not any kind of rape accusation of the like) by any of the women in my life. I was involved in an unfortunate incident where someone else was accused of wrongdoing falsely and suffered a great deal for it... however every woman I have been with has been okay with it afterwards. I'm friends with almost all of my ex's. Irony abounds here, as I'm kind of a selfish asshole in relationships and…
/r/MensRights11/03/13 04:08 PM
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Your examples of course, are a different issue. Unmanaged schizophrenia or mental retardation absolutely should be considered grounds for making somebody a no-go, but depression really shouldn't. At least, not until it reaches institutionalization levels. That would not help anyone at all, most of all not the individuals suffering from depression.
/r/MensRights11/03/13 04:04 PM
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My ex was depressed (diagnosed). She accused me of constantly pressuring her to have sex if I ever, ever was the one to make the approach. I mean, at all. She actually said some things like the poster did (such as that if I asked for sex and didn't seem happy when she said no it would make her think that I was going to leave her or cheat on her). She also once said "okay, it's been a long time, guess I have to". Needless to say that relationship ended in frustration and anger.
/r/MensRights11/03/13 03:56 PM
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Interestingly that would mean that any sex with someone who has a mood disorder would be rape. Do we really want that to be the case? If that's the case, depression will be a bitch to get rid of (sex is one way of re-engaging with the world, and can assist with overcoming bouts of depression, provided it's done sans any force at all).
/r/MensRights11/03/13 03:53 PM
0

It doesn't work. It hasn't worked. It will never work.
/r/MensRights08/03/13 01:30 AM
1

You do realize it's a joke... highlighting the uselessness of an action like this.
/r/MensRights08/03/13 01:30 AM
1

No. This is simply wrong. You simply can't remove demand with regulation... in fact it tends to do the opposite. The war on drugs, US prohibition, etc. You can't make it work because it is too widespread. Porn still happens in Saudi Arabia for fucks sake. Drugs are still sold in record amounts, and tons of laws are in effect trying to arrest people for use.
/r/MensRights07/03/13 06:08 PM
2

I don't think that's true. So long as there is a combination of demand, international communication, and places where it's legal to produce adult content, it will still get made and distributed. In fact, I think if this goes through I will set up a special tor package, optimized for file size channel, maybe 20 euros a month... that seems decent.
/r/MensRights07/03/13 05:26 PM
2

I'm mixed on this decision, on the one hand killing freedom is terrible, on the other hand as a porn producer I could make a fucking killing (I'm in Canada, so have to establish channels for getting it in country, but I have enough resources to do that).
/r/MensRights07/03/13 05:21 PM
12

Atheism+ is an attempt to make atheism a subset of feminism, and yes, feeling are more valuable than facts. If you post facts that are make someone feel bad, you will be banned. They have actually cross pollinated with SRS.
/r/MensRights26/02/13 02:11 AM
87

I see that as a poke at atheism+, not at women. Atheism+ is deserving of ridicule.
/r/MensRights25/02/13 02:14 PM
9

I agree, they seem borderline insane to me, and not in any way legitimate. They are the reasons I have read however...
/r/MensRights20/02/13 07:37 PM
29

There are numerous theories about it. The most common stated one by feminists is that men are simply too irresponsible to take a pill every day. Other ones include the money being better spent on women's health needs, real diseases, etc. None of it makes any sense at all. The most common MRA theory is that it gives men too much reproductive autonomy.
/r/MensRights20/02/13 07:21 PM
1

It's pretty common, and a surprising number of teenagers are involved with Martial Arts. The women's provincial BJJ champ here was a teenage girl for a long time. All the women roll with men, because there are only about twenty who train BJJ in the entire province, and that is spread over a number of different dojo's. It seems highly, highly unlikely that any standard bit of wrestling would result in any kind of charges, despite touching areas that would get you in trouble in normal circumstance…
/r/MensRights31/01/13 04:27 PM
1

Well, yes... but the reality is that this has not happened in mixed sex grappling almost at all. There is simply an understanding that some degree of touching has to happen. Trust me, I have an ex who I'm still quite close to who rolls BJJ all the time, both female only and mixed gender. She gets touched all the time, in all sorts of ways, as do all the other women who roll. It's just a known, and nobody bitches about it. There is no way to do North South position without getting a little beyond…
/r/MensRights31/01/13 02:18 PM
1

True, the point is that in reality it's incredibly unlikely that you will get in trouble wrestling a girl and touching glute or breast, provided you are honestly wrestling. It would have to be a very, very blatant copping a feel for you to get in trouble.
/r/MensRights30/01/13 10:04 PM
1

You won't accidentally touch a girls butt during a takedown. It will be intentional, and it's part of the takedown. Basically if you are dealing with anyone even remotely sane, this will be a non-issue.
/r/MensRights30/01/13 09:42 PM
0

So, you have lived my life? I defend saying cis... when I would say trans. In cases where gender doesn't matter I don't say either. Yes, saying die cis scum is bullshit. I don't give a fuck that you don't think it is, it is. You don't know my life, you don't know if death threats are something I saw for the first time that day, or if it's been a thing I have seen a hundred times, or a thousand (credible ones? No more than a half dozen, only one that actually involved someone point a gun at me an…
/r/MensRights21/01/13 09:21 PM
3

There is a > 0 chance it is owned by the Hell's Angels. They own a number of strip clubs, all of which they run as legitimate businesses. They are very, very careful not to mix the legal and illegal bit of the business. they also usually own the clubs via a number of corporations and the like, so it's somewhat hard to say which ones they own. Of course that's actually true of the holdings of just about any large organization. Having know a few strippers, most are happier working in an angels aff…
/r/MensRights21/01/13 06:57 PM
1

Take it how you want to. The thing is, I am saying that a trans person is not the same as a cis person of the same gender. I am not saying they are inferior in any way. I am very much trying to say that if you are trans, you should embrace everything that means, not be ashamed of it at all, and not even concern yourself with trying to be the same as a cis person of the same gender. Hell, to me the word gender just doesn't work for this. If you classify male and female biologically then trans peo…
/r/MensRights21/01/13 06:36 PM
-3

No, gender is not totally separate from the sex of your body. A trans-person does not have the same experience as a cis-person of the same gender, and not purely for societal reasons. There are simply experiences (biological ones) that a trans person does not share with a cis person of the same gender. I don't think that means they are less in some way, but they are different. Denying that is actually doing yourself (if you are trans) or trans people a disservice. Acknowledge the differences, ac…
/r/MensRights21/01/13 12:42 PM
0

I have had cis-gendered used as an insult a number of times, however I can't really track them down because all were in /r/atheismplus and my account there has been deleted for a long time. One was "Die cis scum". Yeah, I know the argument... guess what? It's bullshit. There is no circumstances where saying someone should die based on their gender is okay. Having said that, in any conversation where I would say trans I am fine with saying cis. It's a case of if gender is relevant to the conversa…
/r/MensRights21/01/13 12:32 PM
6

Rape is sex and power. If it was just power it wouldn't be rape.
/r/MensRights11/01/13 01:10 PM
1

The stats show that being scantily clad does not increase your risk of assault period. Dressing wealthy in a crap neighbourhood might, but the whole making women dress a certain way to avoid being assaulted is really silly. There are many, many stats out there, but I'm at work so won't be able to look up sources until much later, and probably won't unless someone asks for citations.
/r/MensRights07/01/13 03:30 PM
3

But when someone I knew went down a dark alley in a bad area and got robbed everyone who knew him thought that it was a predictable result. Not that he deserved it, but he could have prevented it.
/r/MensRights07/01/13 02:09 PM
1

There is no evidence that dressing slutty (I hate that word but it gets the concept across) increases risk of sexual assault. Most rapists seek easy targets, which tend to be women who avoid attention. Staying out of compromising positions is a different matter. Don't get really drunk at the frat party, maintain situational awareness, learn some self defense, etc. edit: typo due to typing on my phone while on a bus.
/r/MensRights07/01/13 02:04 PM
6

I think it might have more to do with the fact that PNG is just fucked... my dad likes to tell a story about when he first got there. He's from the east coast of Canada, so pale white at the time. He was driving through the highlands when a group of tribal warriors crossed the highway. One of them stopped right in front of the jeep, a spear through his thigh, and looked at my father and said (translated into English) "Are you new to Papua New Guinea? Welcome and enjoy your visit." He then contin…
/r/MensRights07/01/13 12:34 AM
0

I believe I ran into him a few years ago and said "What the fuck?" and then blocked him out.
/r/MensRights01/01/13 11:51 PM
0

Yep. I've been part of the MRM for quite a few years now, and my issues are around things like false rape accusations, child custody, equality of sentencing, male victims of DV
/r/MensRights31/12/12 09:17 PM
-2

No, equal rights creates equal rights. It's just not what mainstream feminism is seeking.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 09:13 PM
3

He is not an MRA... but he is what the MRM is seen as in feminist circles. I was astonished to find someone who actually embodies the straw MRA... even if he isn't an MRA.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 09:12 PM
2

Turns out he isn't... but he is what feminists think we are, which is just ridiculous...
/r/MensRights31/12/12 09:11 PM
0

and yet he is the common feminist idea of what we are.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 09:10 PM
2

Watched the video... also acknowledge that there are real genuine gender differences, doesn't mean that we should go back to a traditional model.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 09:09 PM
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Might be my bad, I saw him identified as an MRA in the link to the video. I should have done more research. edit: having said that, I think it's even more funny that someone not in the movement embodies the common feminist perception of the movement.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 09:08 PM
0

So, I might get some hate from this... but to me this exemplifies what's wrong in the Mensrights movement. I am fighting personally to get equality for all, and this kind of thing just irritates me.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 07:02 PM
2

Look, I'm sorry... he didn't win convincingly, and from your own comments it sounds like he might have earned those fouls. Just because they might not have been called in another match doesn't mean they shouldn't have been called in another match. It sounds (from what you said) like he lost pretty much fair and square. As to the general situation: in both sports I train right now there is no actual competition cross gender, but I spar with girls all the time... sometimes I get my ass kicked by t…
/r/MensRights31/12/12 02:51 AM
1

So, women don't wear cups while wrestling? What the fuck. Also, no. That won't happen, not really.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 02:40 AM
1

My main sport is Taekwondo, and I fight women all the time. I have also been in BJJ matches against girls. I have lost (I'm pretty new to BJJ and my ex is very experienced, she trains with a lot of girls who are all quite good). You will not be able to call sexual assault in a wrestling match unless it really, really, really crosses a line (I think it would require actual penetration or at least be incredibly clear cut). Simply put, it's not a real issue and it's kind of sexist to think it is.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 02:39 AM
1

I fight girls all the time (TKD), and I get my ass kicked fairly often. This is not because I am taking it easy on them, it's because several of them are better than me (I am better then several of them as well). We all fight full out, and that's universal, all the guys and all the girls fight full out.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 02:32 AM
1

Well, I don't see any that don't exist right now, but I'm thinking mandatory STI exams would be a damned good thing for working girls.
/r/MensRights28/10/12 12:28 AM
1

Well, no. Tell the truth you don't pay for sex if you have a decent option that's free. I don't know that it would get cheaper if it was legal, but I would never want to see it completely unregulated (of course that's a side effect of being illegal).
/r/MensRights28/10/12 12:21 AM
1

Thing is, that's part of the equation. Escorts tend to be the better looking women, but many of them also have diseases. One girl I know started out as a corner girl, moved up to an escort, but by then had Hep C. Obviously by that point she was condom only. Kind of a decent story in fact, as she's now out of the business, making good money in a legit career. Edit: She did always say that she liked her work the whole time though, and only regrets the one incident (which legalization would have pr…
/r/MensRights28/10/12 12:04 AM
1

Most corner girls go for far less than that.
/r/MensRights27/10/12 11:55 PM
1

Define artificially. The fact of the matter is that there is no shortage of prostitutes, even when it's illegal. However there are a number of factors that play into it (does the price of the dominant form of illegal narcotics play a role?)
/r/MensRights27/10/12 11:33 PM
5

Law of supply and demand. If men will pay that much, women will charge it.
/r/MensRights27/10/12 08:04 PM
2

You probably have an advantage when it comes to tech then. It's where all the anti-social weird people are, and you tend to fit in better if you are a bit odd. Having parents who disapprove is par for the course.
/r/MensRights22/10/12 02:12 PM
4

Many MMA fans do fit that stereotype, many don't. Personally I come from a traditional martial arts background, and enjoy subtleties of technique more than anything else. Of course it means that a lot of fights the tapout guys find boring I find incredibly exciting and a lot of fights the tapout guys think are exciting make me want to take a nap (I can't stand two guys standing in the middle of the cage punching each other in the face, just being tough is limited and boring to me). Also, Miesha …
/r/MensRights19/10/12 08:40 PM
6

I lived in a country where that is still true as a teenager.
/r/MensRights19/10/12 06:25 PM
10

Miesha "Cupcake" Tate on violence against men. If I didn't already love her, this might just have put me over.
/r/MensRights19/10/12 04:56 PM
0

A lot of rednecks are extremely proud of it.
/r/MensRights18/10/12 02:57 PM
0

To be fair, her focus on women is the theme of the article, and on a feminist site you would find the same article focused on men. Having said that, I do feel she leaves this one a bit vague, which is a pretty common complaint I have with GWW. She usually backs stuff up when pushed however, so I tend to give her a bit of the benefit of the doubt. She also takes EvoBio as too much gospel sometimes, not looking at other possible options.
/r/MensRights18/10/12 02:55 PM
1

Yeah, that's my dad's age range. He was a hippie (okay, maybe I shouldn't use the past tense, he lives in a grass hut in a tropical paradise these days)
/r/MensRights18/10/12 01:24 PM
0

Stock photo? Not sure what you mean. I actually agree with most of what you write, I simply don't think it's as simple as anyone on either side (why are there sides?) makes it out to be. There is nuance in everything.
/r/MensRights18/10/12 01:23 PM
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Mostly because it's about choice and cost. Now, if you are a woman and you decide to be a doctor, great (I personally go to a female primary physician and also went to a female surgeon for my recent ACL repair, in both cases because they are the best available option). I have no issue with that at all. I have an issue with someone claiming that a statement backed up by facts is bullshit. Can you make an argument that the spouses of those female doctors should be spending more time in childcare? …
/r/MensRights17/10/12 08:06 PM
1

Really? I'm close to 40, and my dad has talked about things like that happening to him (to be fair, he is a very handsome man).
/r/MensRights17/10/12 05:03 PM
1

I've had my shirt ripped open (all the buttons popped off, it was very cold outside) at a bar. Had women grab my ass, my crotch, etc. No, I wasn't into it every time.
/r/MensRights17/10/12 05:02 PM
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The irony here is that if I posted something like this (an obviously angry, antagonistic, and opinionated rant) on somewhere like SRSDiscussion or Atheismplus I would be banned (in fact I was banned from atheismplus for my tone, not my contend... in other words a tone argument, no explanation for my ban from srsdiscussion). You haven't been banned. Your ideas are pretty much hollow, as they don't reflect the reality of the situation. There is a bit of a crisis in healthcare right now, specifical…
/r/MensRights17/10/12 04:44 PM
3

Thing is, yeah, sexism was a huge component here. Sorry, but that's pretty obvious. Now, it's as much at work when it's a boy who is being beaten for not being into sports, both are horrible things. To deny this is slut shaming or to blame Amanda Todd for the ways she was victimized is pretty poor form. Look, I thought we pretty much agreed that there is in fact sexism against women in several ways, it's just that this doesn't make sexism against men okay... we could do the victim olympics, but …
/r/MensRights17/10/12 03:29 PM
1

[Trigger warning: content] should pretty much cover it based on that list.
/r/MensRights16/10/12 02:25 PM
2

As a photographer (it's a hobby, but still...) I use facebook to co-ordinate most of my shoots, interact with models, etc. There simply isn't anything else that is as good for this (since a lot of models have ditched Model Mayhem for facebook)
/r/MensRights16/10/12 02:10 PM
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Troll. Also clearly not familiar with MR.
/r/MensRights15/10/12 08:24 PM
1

First: I'm not American. Second: The US is actually worse than my country for stuff like that, although we seem to be racing to catch up. I didn't say he didn't have training in de-escalation and conflict resolution, I just don't assume that he does either. I would like to see it be part of the standard for public transit workers, and if it is in Cleveland, well, then he should clearly have paid more attention. I also think that there is a possibility from the video that the two of them have a h…
/r/MensRights15/10/12 01:27 PM
1

Are you certain that's true in every jurisdiction? It isn't where I live in fact (my GF worked for CRA in a public facing role and didn't ever get training in customer service let alone de-escalation, and I have friends who are bus drivers, not a single one of them has ever received this sort of training). You are assuming a great deal, I would like to have more info.
/r/MensRights15/10/12 12:52 PM
2

I agree that a cop would have restrained her, but they are trained for that, this guy isn't.
/r/MensRights15/10/12 10:12 AM
2

She did in fact hit him, I don't think it was a good hit, but it was a hit.
/r/MensRights15/10/12 10:12 AM
0

I thought about this a bit more and decided to give a more detailed response: There are two parts to this question really, the first is whether or not Mr. Hughes was justified in the punch itself after being attacked. I believe that he was. To me it meets the standard for a reasonable action, as she had in fact hit him first. Now, the second part is about de-escalation and should he have handled that part differently. I believe that ideally, yes he should have. Does this transit authority provid…
/r/MensRights15/10/12 01:21 AM
0

Actually, she did. He was seated and she hit him in the face. Now, it's very easy to judge a situation when you weren't there, but if someone hits you in the face that changes things, a great deal. I'm not saying he should be emulated, I'm saying that his reaction was a reasonable and understandable one in the situation.
/r/MensRights15/10/12 01:05 AM
1

He should not have matched her level of force. To defend yourself you should escalate instantly to the maximum point you are willing to reach, otherwise you simply have an escalation on both sides. What if he had slapped her as hard as she punched him? She would have merely been enraged, and that would have escalated the conflict while endangering him. He responded to the point that she was unable to retaliate, and I'm not sure a lesser response would have achieved that.
/r/MensRights15/10/12 12:47 AM
1

It doesn't make sense to respond in kind in real life. You slap me, I slap you back? Fuck that. That puts you in a position to escalate. I would also hesitate to try and call the police with someone right on top of me like that. He prevented her from continuing without using deadly force. You lose the right to fair when you throw the first punch.
/r/MensRights15/10/12 12:44 AM
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No, there isn't. You don't know where the other party will go, and once you hit me, all bets are off. Until then, I won't hit you... but you cross that line and I'm justified in knocking you the fuck out if I can.
/r/MensRights15/10/12 12:41 AM
2

A police office would have either put her in restraints, or tazed her, or pulled a gun, or hit her. They have training in dealing with situations like this, and would still act this way. If she had been male, this would have been everyone talking about the driver being a hero.
/r/MensRights15/10/12 12:40 AM
1

She in fact punched him. Read it all, not just some of it. She punched him while he was seated.
/r/MensRights15/10/12 12:39 AM
-1

Have you ever been hit in anger? Have you had someone stand over you and punch you? Yeah, I would have done the same thing in his shoes.
/r/MensRights15/10/12 12:38 AM
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Have you ever been hit? It's just not that easy to not hit back... She was hitting him, he stopped her and he made sure the situation was over.
/r/MensRights15/10/12 12:37 AM
0

No. The point is that it would have been justifiable were it a man, therefore it is still justifiable when it is a woman. Yes, she was smaller. She punched him, he stopped the bus and smashed her. Yeah, he was right. Not because she was a woman, but because you can't just hit people and not get hit back, no matter who the fuck you are.
/r/MensRights15/10/12 12:35 AM
1

I take the tack that being as accurate as possible is the best route.
/r/MensRights13/10/12 07:50 PM
1

Minimum wage laws have been shown to have no effect on total employment, while allowing people in the minimum wage sector to eat and have a roof over their head. As to social programs... it's really too shallow an analysis to base anything on. There can be low hanging fruit, easy social improvements that result in a rapid increase in social standing... and when those start to get used up the rate slows massively. Not saying that happened, but I would have to get more information. Hell, it could …
/r/MensRights12/10/12 08:50 PM
2

Also, I stopped getting beaten up after being terrorized for years... sure I got suspended - a lot, but at least I got less head trauma.
/r/MensRights12/10/12 08:32 PM
5

Thing is, it's the same for guys in tech... most of us don't want to be part of the normal world. I kind of wish more people realized that most people who go into tech do so because we want the hell out of the mainstream. Trying to coach us into giving more presentations and the like? Not why we are there... sorry, personal pet peeve.
/r/MensRights12/10/12 08:06 PM
0

Nope - all sex contains elements of power. It isn't a power struggle, necessarily, but it is an element of sex. I'm pretty much banned from the entire fempire thanks... hell, I started a petition to ban SRS from reddit yesterday (which I don't want to succeed, I was trying to make a point to them about censorship and mob rule). When I say sex contains elements of power and trust, so do all relationships in life... the answer isn't to force it all into balance, it's to at least gain a basic under…
/r/MensRights12/10/12 06:26 PM
1

Well, most of them are actually middle class white males...
/r/MensRights12/10/12 04:50 PM
1

Because it needs to be done. He did nothing illegal, and even if I do not agree with what he says, I will defend to the death his right to say it. Look, dude's a bit of a scumbag... but so what? He didn't break rules or laws, just taste. Since taste is personal...
/r/MensRights12/10/12 04:47 PM
1

So, I watched a few more of her videos... holy fuck. One that pissed me off was "The Real Reason Guys Should Hate Twilight". No, you don't get to decide that for me. If I don't like because I think the cinematography was weak, or the stupid sparkle effect was lame, or vampires should be badass, or I don't like Robert Pattinson's stupid fucking hair. Nobody gets to decide that for me.
/r/MensRights12/10/12 04:24 PM
1

Tried to make that point on the video...somehow I don't think it will pass the approval filter.
/r/MensRights12/10/12 03:50 PM
2

Yes, I Saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus is supposed to be about the dad being dressed up as Santa Claus and the kid's misinterpretation of the event. It's supposed to be cute, and kids won't get it (because it's never spelled out) but actual adults are supposed to understand. I do have a soft spot for the joke title "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus So I Blew His Head Off With a Twelve Gauge". I hate the Mariah Carey song, mostly because I can't stand Mariah Carey, Christmas carols, or sappy love so…
/r/MensRights12/10/12 03:50 PM
2

The irony. In grade 6 I was regularly beaten up by a black student. I tried to go to the teachers for help and was ignored. Finally I snapped and fought back - and was suspended for being racist. By grade 7 I just decided fuck it all and fought with anyone I could anytime I could... at least that way I couldn't be accused of doing it based on race.
/r/MensRights12/10/12 03:28 PM
2

I went broke fighting criminal charges (yes I could have had a free lawyer, but my odds of going to jail would have been really high then) and didn't have enough left to fight for custody or to fight against the child support order. This is in Nova Scotia. Now, thank god I spent the money on the lawyer... I won (thanks to an overwhelming amount of evidence that my ex attacked me and I didn't defend myself other than restraining her - including an impartial witness that neither of us had ever eve…
/r/MensRights12/10/12 03:11 PM
2

No.
/r/MensRights12/10/12 02:59 PM
1

Rape is sex. All sex involves elements of power, trust, control, etc. If rape wasn't sex it would just be assault. The claim (oft repeated) that rape is not sex is bullshit. It isn't consensual sex, but that isn't part of the definition of sex. Yes, rape is often about getting off, in fact it's pretty much an essential part of it. I think the claim that rape is not sex is part of the naturalist fallacy (or an extension of it). I think that part of the lack of understanding here is an innate misu…
/r/MensRights12/10/12 02:50 PM
3

That is something that I have had in the back of my head but really haven't articulated, even internally, until I read it here... women who are cut out for programming and tech work are also probably going to be women who are far enough removed from social approval to no longer expect it. I suspect some of those women might even find a bit of refuge in the company of other programmers, since we will tend to place similar value on social niceties (little to none) and appearance. There was a woman…
/r/MensRights12/10/12 02:32 PM
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I ended up on creepshots as a result of the SRS protest... I went through it to see what the reality was. I was unable to find the kind of content you state is there... I have worked as a journalist. I would not have pursued that story, because it wasn't a story... it was a shitty thing to do, and you are an asshole. Jailbait didn't have nudity, at least not most of the time... when the mods stopped policing well enough nudity made it in, and then it was shut down. Saying otherwise doesn't chang…
/r/MensRights11/10/12 11:48 PM
1

Requesting access.
/r/MensRights11/10/12 11:41 PM
12

Actually, I'm the kind of person who refuses to shut up when I see injustice... hence I'm arguing with you despite the complete lack of possibility that you will see reason. So, first I will tackle the CP allegation: /r/jailbait did not allow nudity. Understand that? That means it wasn't child porn. They never made any bones about the age of the models, they didn't allow porn, or erotica, or anything that you couldn't get out of a catalog. When that stopped being true they were shut down. Creeps…
/r/MensRights11/10/12 11:21 PM
1

But they didn't respect feelings, they respected the feeling of those who were from acceptable groups...
/r/MensRights11/10/12 11:05 PM
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Funny, that's not what gawker says in fact. It says the images were legal... however when actual illegal images started trading reddit dumped the site. Doxing means finding information about someone's offline identity from online sources. That is what Chen did. Now, both things you have posted have been wrong... please feel free to shut up anytime you want.
/r/MensRights11/10/12 10:55 PM
5

No upskirt or downblouse in creepshots. They patrolled like crazy.
/r/MensRights11/10/12 10:27 PM
0

The blackmail wasn't against VA, it was against a different user.
/r/MensRights11/10/12 10:26 PM
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First: Jailbait was not a child porn subreddit, it was not porn. When it was discovered that some users were in fact trading child porn it was shut down. No, it wasn't justice department photos, it was a direct request for child porn, and someone supplying child porn, in the open, that resulted in r/jailbait being shut down. Second: Doxing is revealing someone's real identity in connection with their online identity. I personally make that very, very easy and would more than happily share my ful…
/r/MensRights11/10/12 10:18 PM
3

So, if the mods here end up being afraid of getting doxxed, drop me in as an admin, since my info is pretty much public right now. Not that I think that will be an issue, but I am making the offer if it happens.
/r/MensRights11/10/12 10:06 PM
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I subbed because of it... didn't like the subreddit much, but subscribed because fuck SRS.
/r/MensRights11/10/12 08:25 PM
2

It doesn't, although where I live we seem to be taking a different route, and just making sure that the reserves are the main form of employment, and once you are in the reserves you can be called up to active duty as needed. A lot of my friends don't seem to realize that is what they are signing up for.
/r/MensRights10/10/12 09:05 PM
1

Agreed. Unless they disagree with me, then they are obviously simple fools ;)
/r/MensRights10/10/12 12:50 AM
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Sex with students should be prosecuted as a separate thing than sex with underage people in general. Simple fact of reality is that most places has 16 as the age of consent, and 14 was really common a few years ago. If she had sex with a student, it's an abuse of power and she should lose her job, but there should be no jail time (possibly a lawsuit, but no jail time)
/r/MensRights09/10/12 08:38 PM
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Have to agree to disagree. People are already pissed, and that money isn't going to research... or at least not with that charity. Mind you, there are a lot of better breast cancer charities out there (for example ones that don't sue other charities for using the word cure in their literature...). I hope pornhub does the right thing and finds another charity to work with (or just does the donation anonymously). I would hate to think that all of TJ's clicking on breast related pron was for nothin…
/r/MensRights09/10/12 07:29 PM
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I know a huge number of women who are pro-porn, and who are consumers of porn (my site has a very small subscriber base, but it skews slightly to the female side of things...). No, pornhub is not a great organization, no they aren't particularly socially positive, but they also aren't content creators, and the money they donate is money they don't have anymore. I'm sure there's some cynicism involved in the donation, but really... it's a bit of cash. Also, I kind of feel like yeah, you should ta…
/r/MensRights09/10/12 07:15 PM
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Thing is, there has been a really strong message from the folks in Atheism+ you are either with us or you are a scumbag pariah, and then they co-opt atheist and skeptic events and organizations, setting policy and the like... while banning people left right and centre.
/r/MensRights09/10/12 06:56 PM
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I think that some porn companies are scum, and others aren't. There is a huge range, and it seems like that tends to get ignored. It really is an industry that gets better when it gets more mainstream, gets worse as it's driven underground (and never goes away, the third movie ever made was porn... and much of early photography was dedicated to porn as well). I say this as someone who runs a very small money losing alt erotica site (which was created largely to see if I could make a site that tr…
/r/MensRights09/10/12 06:38 PM
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Because that money can be used for research which could cause women to not die. I kind of feel that many women who have breast cancer would prefer to not die.
/r/MensRights09/10/12 03:31 PM
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Just because someone has a wrong (or stupid) view on something, doesn't mean you reject everything else.
/r/MensRights09/10/12 02:21 PM
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Cool, in that case I guess I have to re-asses. A bit more training than that would be good.
/r/MensRights05/10/12 05:12 PM
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Nobody will get money from this site... guaranteed. The funds will be in some other country, someplace with similar banking laws (Grand Caymans perhaps) and the operators will be behind a wall of shell companies, in the end probably won't even be in the Bahamas. The best possible result would be getting them shut down.
/r/MensRights05/10/12 01:50 PM
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In theory, no. Copyright is held by the person who takes the photo. In practice, yes.
/r/MensRights05/10/12 01:20 PM
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You own copyright to any photo you take. You can use the photograph in any artistic or editorial manner you choose, no matter who is in it, provided that you don't break the presumption of privacy (taking a photo of someone in the street is fine, taking a photo of someone through their living room window is illegal). As soon as it becomes an endorsement the rules change. Using someones photo as an endorsement requires a model release (which is why you can't just use street photos in an ad campai…
/r/MensRights05/10/12 12:55 PM
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Somewhat... however did you feel that you gained a respect for firearms and their effects?
/r/MensRights05/10/12 12:19 PM
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I would never question that... of course it does. I worry about places where a weekend course on basic gun use qualifies people. I also worry a bit about access to firearms for people who really shouldn't have access (there is no world in which I would be in favour of teenage me having a gun and I was better with one than a lot of people).
/r/MensRights05/10/12 11:06 AM
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Yes, absolutely.
/r/MensRights04/10/12 11:50 PM
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Not saying it shouldn't be out there... but in this case it really is mostly a women's issue, and to take the focus off of that seems a bit like... oh god, I can't believe I'm about to say it, derailing.
/r/MensRights04/10/12 04:26 PM
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Yeah, I guess part of my thing is that I had guns as a teenager (a .22 jennings and a .45 that I have no idea of the make of) that were stolen from people who had gun licenses. Most of the guns that my friends had when I was that age were stolen, not smuggled. Now, I knew gun safety. I had used rifles as a kid, spent a bunch of time in Northern Ontario on farms and the like. Most of my friends (remember we are talking about criminals here) had similar experiences. Most Canadians have some exposu…
/r/MensRights04/10/12 01:03 PM
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It's 0.5%, so while this is fine (I personally consider it weird, given that a few years ago Iron Man killed Captain America in the comics...) I don't think this is something that should get a huge focus. Prostate cancer, sure. Male breast cancer? Lower priority.
/r/MensRights04/10/12 11:01 AM
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Fair enough. Then I guess I have to blame the amount of gun death on the culture, not the weapons themselves. I do think that the level of training in guns (at least according to my swiss friends, not anything official) is much higher for the swiss, so that could also be a factor. Really though, I have to go with social structure and culture.
/r/MensRights04/10/12 10:56 AM
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I read a story by a women not too long ago. A group of men came into her home to rob it. From the story it sounds like they were going to rob the place and then leave (as is most common). She managed to get her gun, which resulted in a fire fight. She was not killed, and neither was her husband. I believe it was the husband who will never walk again, while she has permanent injuries. All of the robbers were killed. This story is obviously anecdotal, and I don't know how representative it is... b…
/r/MensRights04/10/12 02:20 AM
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First: long guns. Second: They don't carry. Third: Everyone is trained in the use of their gun. Switzerland has mandatory militia service and universal training.
/r/MensRights04/10/12 02:07 AM
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So you've met him have you?
/r/MensRights04/10/12 02:06 AM
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I just said that someone who has a gun is more likely to use it than someone who doesn't... I was being a dick due to some bad phrasing on your end (of course you are more likely to use a gun if you have one). The real answer is a lot more complex. Where guns are commonly available legally gun deaths are much, much higher even though many of the people doing the shooting are not legal gun owners. I will say that a crowd of people who have guns are more likely to shoot someone than a crowd that h…
/r/MensRights03/10/12 08:47 PM
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I can't find it right now, but I recently read a study that stated that castle doctrine states tend to have much higher rates of gun related death. I'm open to alternate evidence however. I will read through the sources you have posted, and I will include that evidence in future discussions (if I get my mind changed enough I usually become an advocate).
/r/MensRights03/10/12 08:40 PM
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And yet, in countries where gun's aren't common murder is far less common. Gun death is hugely less common, and gun owners are more likely to die as a result of gun ownership than other factors. Has it occurred to you that there might be alternate reasons why legal gun owners are less likely to commit murder? This is speculation, but have you correlated the stats on gun ownership with the stats on socio-economic status? How about rural vs. urban living conditions? I'm pro gun control, not becaus…
/r/MensRights03/10/12 08:18 PM
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Yes, someone carrying a firearm is more likely to use a firearm without thinking than someone who isn't carrying a firearm. Look at crime stats for countries that don't have the high level of gun availability that the US does...
/r/MensRights03/10/12 08:13 PM
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I remember sitting in a group in our local occupy chapter that was talking about banking and being told to wait while the sisters talked. Of course, I used to work for one of the top investment banks in the world, and could actually give details on how they worked... the women I was waiting for were for the most part saying things like "we need to grow more local food so banks don't get our money". It's hugely widespread. However, I have more against the moderator of that group, a man with stron…
/r/MensRights03/10/12 08:10 PM
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Yes, I am. There is a lot of evidence backing that view up (a huge amount in fact) however.
/r/MensRights03/10/12 07:47 PM
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Most places where women are displaced are having some sort of major issue like natural disasters or open warfare. Men tend to die a lot in those situations, so yeah, they are likely dead.
/r/MensRights03/10/12 07:14 PM
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I'm sorry, I really don't follow your line of thinking at all. To me, a group of people jump into a situation without thinking, they don't have guns. It makes sense that those same people might have shot someone had they had guns. Of course, I'm Canadian and we really don't tend to like guns that much as a whole... handguns are pretty rare, although long guns are common in rural areas.
/r/MensRights03/10/12 06:41 PM
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No, he's not. See... even if the situation doesn't legally justify guns, that doesn't mean they won't be used. That's the point of not trusting Joe...
/r/MensRights03/10/12 06:32 PM
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How about women start buying clothes with bigger pockets? Why should a company have to redesign electronics to be less functional when instead another company could design clothes to be more functional?
/r/MensRights03/10/12 06:16 PM
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You can train for speed as your primary goal, and end up way faster than someone who trains for strength as their primary goal. Speed largely comes from the myelin sheath surrounding nerve fibers. Strength is secondary to that (specifically reaction time that is, which is what counts in TKD). It comes from repeating the same action over and over again (a thickening of the myelin sheath). Building musculature will allow you to move quickly, but does very little for allowing you to react quickly -…
/r/MensRights03/10/12 05:16 PM
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I have gotten my ass handed to me by much smaller and weaker opponents... that's why I say it. You get the point whether you hit hard or not, so speed is way more valuable than strength. We had a guy in my class who was crazy fast and snakelike, he's won multiple worlds. He wasn't very strong, tall and skinny dude. He could do this thing where he changed the angle of his kick as it was almost to your block...
/r/MensRights03/10/12 04:57 PM
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No, TKD tournaments aren't strength based. Yes, in a real self defence situation you need to be stronger.
/r/MensRights03/10/12 02:59 PM
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When I talk about ground fighting I'm referring to wrestling or BJJ usually. The reality is that you are never going to be able to completely avoid being taken down if you fight... and knowing what to do once that happens is important. Hapkido (or Akido) for takedowns, joint locks, etc. TKD for punching and kicking range, BJJ or wrestling for ground work, is a pretty complete system.
/r/MensRights03/10/12 12:08 PM
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That's true, but it's not a huge strength advantage, and yes, epee is more strength dependent than foil, no question (and sabre even more so). TKD is not a strength based art, and you can be DQ'd for using too much force.
/r/MensRights03/10/12 12:01 PM
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Hapkido is often cross trained with TKD, and has a lot of base in Akido. They cover missing points in each other. Add a ground fighting style and you have all the important ranges covered (but not yet, give Akido a bit of time before adding a third art). Also, if any master tells you not to cross train, you should train somewhere else.
/r/MensRights02/10/12 09:58 PM
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Like I said, it takes around the same force to kill a woman that it does a man. They don't have weaker skulls or trachia's, and the one's in martial arts don't have weaker bones (the bone weakness thing tends to show up much later in life anyway, usually in their fifties and sixties...) One of the most humiliating martial arts experiences of my life was trying to hit a sixty some year old asian woman. She was my sensei and told me to try to hit her, out of respect I couldn't refuse. I don't know…
/r/MensRights02/10/12 08:53 PM
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Narrow weight classes in TKD. Odds are good it was a woman of around the same weight as the guy (within ~7 lbs). Also, what did you fence? I never found strength much of an advantage in foil, and not that many women in epee or sabre.
/r/MensRights02/10/12 08:50 PM
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I would disagree with you on boxing. If a woman chooses to box with me, then I owe her the respect to do my best - now, I might pull head shots if it was a sparring match, but I would do that for a man as well.
/r/MensRights02/10/12 08:48 PM
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Cross posted this to /r/taekwondo to see what people there think...
/r/MensRights02/10/12 08:46 PM
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Well, sometimes small regional tournaments don't have all the gear they should, however a woman isn't at greater risk of dying in a tkd match than a man (it takes about the same amount of force in either case)... I guess it's a regional thing, I'm in Canada and we are very, very strict about gear here.
/r/MensRights02/10/12 08:44 PM
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In TKD all tournaments are by weight class, and women who train martial arts or other sports tend not to have the kind of bone density issues you talk about. In fact it looks like those issues are largely caused by women not pushing themselves.
/r/MensRights02/10/12 08:40 PM
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Yes, there has to be some force to the hit, but it's pretty minimal... enough to make a solid contact but no more. There is also padding used (chest protector, cup, arm and shin guards, gloves, helmet). It's pretty low risk.
/r/MensRights02/10/12 08:38 PM
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In this circumstance that is a ridiculous argument. Hell, it's usually a ridiculous argument, but here it's completely disrespectful to the art, to the girl, to common sense. I guarantee the women I train with would be pissed at me if I treated them like your cousin treated this woman, and they aren't in my weight class.
/r/MensRights02/10/12 08:36 PM
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TKD practitioner (and founder of /r/taekwondo) here. Your cousin disrespected his opponent and should be ashamed. I spar with women all the time, and I get my ass handed to me sometimes.
/r/MensRights02/10/12 08:28 PM
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I agree completely, not trying to advocate people be assholes, just trying advocate a modicum of sanity.
/r/MensRights02/10/12 02:47 PM
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tl;dr a bunch of dumb guys kicked the crap out of someone because of a false claim. The claim was from a good friend and we thought we were doing good. We weren't. Edit: not saying don't believe, just take it easy with acting on that belief.
/r/MensRights02/10/12 01:30 PM
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So, I wrote a blog post a while ago that nicely illustrates why even in a case where it's a friend, take the belief with a bit of a grain of salt.
/r/MensRights01/10/12 09:47 PM
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He was banned, he got restored.
/r/MensRights01/10/12 08:51 PM
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Sorry, my taste for terrible puns overcame my sensitivity. Fair point though.
/r/MensRights29/09/12 01:40 PM
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See, that was my point... it's personal preference, not an absolute. To you third date may be early, to many people it isn't.
/r/MensRights28/09/12 08:59 PM
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Actually that one was pretty good, she was moving to Ecuador so we decided not to keep having a relationship. I've had some breakups that were much, much worse ;)
/r/MensRights28/09/12 08:58 PM
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I don't think I've ever had a third date that didn't end in sex (except when we've already had sex and broke up, that's happened).
/r/MensRights28/09/12 08:40 PM
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I think I like you!
/r/MensRights28/09/12 08:39 PM
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It is. Read what the OP of that comment ended up saying (that he was speaking quickly and said something stupid, and apologized). However, his central thesis is that female centred discourse tends to be less upfront, which is observably true.
/r/MensRights28/09/12 07:16 PM
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Sorry, but you don't have a very valid point here... Coercion does exist, but isn't rape. Once of the major problems with that is that many men may not be aware that they are being too forceful, and may never be. How about we teach men some about how to recognize coercion and women some stuff about how to say no? See, I know that I have always been very, very conscious of this sort of thing... and had a GF who after we broke up kept trying to hook up with me every time she was drunk. She ended u…
/r/MensRights28/09/12 07:12 PM
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Really? You think that innocent banter can throw someone over the edge to be a rapist? Do you also think that Dungeons and Dragons causes satanism and heavy metal music causes suicide? Perhaps video games cause school shootings? No, they aren't distinct situations. You are conflating the actions of a group with the actions of a small number of members of that group. It's simple prejudice.
/r/MensRights28/09/12 07:08 PM
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No. That's kind of bullshit. Saying men can prevent rape is bullshit, because men's attitude to rape as a group is incredibly opposed to it. Saying that we live in a rape culture is bullshit, because society punishes rape, very, very severely (look at what men do to other men who have been convicted of rape while in prison with them). You drew a conclusion and tried to make the facts fit it, they don't.
/r/MensRights28/09/12 07:05 PM
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It's funny, I don't really like Rebecca Watson, and I think that whole thing was abominable (after her first video, that was a bit tacky but that's about it) - however I kind of think that Dawkins acted like a dick. I'm still a big fan, but it was really a fallacy (can't remember the name, the one where because there is a worse possibility you should not take into account the current bad circumstance).
/r/MensRights28/09/12 06:22 PM
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The police officer who said something along these lines and sparked the slutwalk was in Toronto. He was an idiot, but he didn't say it to rape victims, he said it as rape prevention advice. It was stupid, but it wasn't an accusation. I do think he needs to actually read a bit more of the literature on victim profiles in rape cases however.
/r/MensRights28/09/12 02:59 PM
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I have tried to explain to my GF the way I feel about cum, even my own. She just refuses to understand. Now, in her case she doesn't do anything I don't want her to do, she just doesn't understand at all (and since she basically doesn't have limits at all it's really hard to explain to her). It's up to you to decide what to do about this, personally in your shoes I would probably do what you have stated you are going to do and walk away from her... but it is sexual assault.
/r/MensRights20/09/12 02:56 PM
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Sorry, what you just said doesn't change what I just said. Yes, it does mean that they were asking for it... that's exactly what you said. It's stupid, it's indefensible, and it's wrong.
/r/MensRights17/09/12 09:09 PM
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Where was this and what the hell is wrong with them? Sorry, but as far as I'm concerned walking down the street naked shouldn't raise that kind of defense... there is simply no valid reason for it.
/r/MensRights17/09/12 06:46 PM
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So, someone tries to figure out how to be equitable, asks the right questions, and actually takes the answers into account... and you criticize them? I would happily work for a boss with the attitude of the OP.
/r/MensRights17/09/12 06:37 PM
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The extreme stress reaction is highly unlikely to happen in a rape, and is really a pretty rare thing. It really is so unlikely that it should not be considered, ever. Women have conceived while being gang raped in the middle of an active firefight with their entire family being butchered a few feet from them. Starvation is a more common reason, but even then it's still entirely possible to conceive.
/r/MensRights17/09/12 06:36 PM
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I think a lot of women do. It's less of a common worry from men.
/r/MensRights17/09/12 06:32 PM
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Also, locked doors don't prevent theft. It takes almost no work to get past a standard door lock. Door locks make people feel better, they don't prevent theft (I'm not joking about that, when I was younger I was a criminal and I really didn't care about door locks at all).
/r/MensRights13/09/12 05:29 PM
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Here's a neat thing: I have had a beat cop tell me that locking the doors to my car is an exercise in futility and not to lock the drivers side door unless I have theft insurance. Simply put, a thief who will check more than one door is also likely to break a window, and in the case where the thief takes the contents of the car you need to repair a window as well. The only reason to lock a car is because you don't get your insurance payout if it isn't locked and the insurance company manages to …
/r/MensRights13/09/12 05:24 PM
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Dude, it really is, at least from the victims perspective.
/r/MensRights13/09/12 05:18 PM
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No, it's a reaction to a specific incident where a police officer (in Toronto) told women to dress modestly to reduce their risk of being raped. I agree with slutwalks, I don't agree with signs say "tell me NOT TO RAPE" because we don't actually approve of rape as a society.
/r/MensRights13/09/12 05:15 PM
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That is precisely the point: Rape is usually the result of opportunity and that opportunity doesn't exist as commonly for women who are the centre of attention. Women who are confident are also likely to be problematic, at least according to the study (which I also read a long time ago) that Sigil1 is referring to.
/r/MensRights13/09/12 05:07 PM
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Goth predates grunge by about a decade (semi-ex goth here)
/r/MensRights13/09/12 04:56 PM
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Thing is, stats do show that this doesn't affect a woman's odds of getting raped. There are actions a woman can take to protect herself, but style of dress simply isn't one of them. Edit: typo
/r/MensRights13/09/12 04:55 PM
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I would suggest staying out of it. Yes, the idea of telling men not to rape is asinine, but the idea of telling women what to wear is equally asinine (the stats clearly show that physical attractiveness and style of dress are not contributory elements for rape). If you do want to open a dialog about it, point out that most men don't accept rape at all. They will counter with a number of things (like the idea that many behaviours that feminists class as rape such as asking multiple times) are acc…
/r/MensRights13/09/12 04:50 PM
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Urban dictionary isn't something we should worry about. It has as much cred as encyclopedia dramatica in my opinion. Work on bigger issues.
/r/MensRights11/09/12 06:55 PM
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I would argue that the main reason for most women is that they don't want men who are weak pushovers...
/r/MensRights07/09/12 07:53 PM
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Where I live one of the reasons homeless men outnumber homeless women by such a huge margin is that there are far more resources that women can take advantage of prior to becoming homeless, at the same time there are close to equal beds for both in shelters. I know this because I spent signifigant time homeless here, and saw women's shelters go empty while I slept on a heating grate by a swimming pool.
/r/MensRights05/09/12 02:00 AM
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If you say that someone should not enter a middle class neighbourhood that happens to be predominantly black wearing certain things, then yeah, it's racist. If you say the same thing about a very poor neighbourhood then it's classist. It's also likely wrong, as the main predictor of getting robbed is walking in unlit areas and appearing to lack confidence.
/r/MensRights04/09/12 07:08 PM
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Yeah, I don't think evolutionary biology is her strongest point... I tend to like what she writes, but that's a just so story, and while possibly correct, it's only one of a myriad of possibilities for why that adaptation exists (my favourite one being "because at one point it didn't cost anything and was paired with something else that had an advantage... not that I think that is the case here, but it's probably the case sometimes).
/r/MensRights04/09/12 05:01 PM
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Lisa Lampanelli is pretty funny, largely because she is as insulting to herself as she is to others. It seems like there are starting to be more funny women who get this point overall. Whitney Cummings is actually funny doing roasts and the like, just not writing sitcoms...
/r/MensRights14/08/12 08:44 PM
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I don't argue with that at all. Hence my apology and agreement to try and be more receptive in future. I probably won't use the term cis most of the time, but I will try to pay attention to context instead of just reacting negatively to the term.
/r/MensRights14/08/12 05:48 PM
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I probably won't start using the term, but will try to be more sensitive to it. It's something that I have seen predominantly outside of that context, and usually coupled with the term privilege, which is one of the worst possible ways to argue with someone. Having said that, the responses here have shown me that there is validity to it, and that maybe I was being a jerk. Sorry.
/r/MensRights14/08/12 11:40 AM
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Alright, I give you that... I am not part of the trans community (and admit to having my own issues around the idea of sex with a trans person, although that is the only limit I would place on a trans person personally... it's my hangup and I own that). I have only run into the term cis in concert with the term privilege, which is a completely bullshit argument by the way. Not that privilege doesn't exist, but from the point of argumentation pointing it out is actually worse than useless, since …
/r/MensRights14/08/12 11:38 AM
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When some people in an industry do something wrong, why does everyone try to shift the blame to the entire industry?
/r/MensRights13/08/12 08:19 PM
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Well, I should say that I have some stuff in common with you as well (I had a couple of attempted rapes - both by men, both during my teenage years) - thing is, these policies would have done nothing to help me at all. I was helped by luck in the first case, and by a large knife in the second one. 3% was not a random number, it was me taking the stats you posted, and ignoring the reported %, instead taking the various numbers and working the math to get the numbers. Now, if these policies (makin…
/r/MensRights13/08/12 06:57 PM
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There's another side to that story by the way. I was a guest blogger on Glenn Sacks blog (very, very large MRA site) defending the need for feminism. There are a lot of men who have trouble seeing past their own pain to the larger picture, so they can't see that women still face many challenges (and in some extreme cases can't see that women ever faced any challenges). I really believe that a huge part of the issue between MRAs and feminists is the lack of ability to see each others perspective.
/r/MensRights13/08/12 06:46 PM
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I'm sorry for what happened to you, but do you really think this kind of policy will prevent harm? It's a plane, public, everyone in view. Also, child sexual abuse occurs to around 3% of the population, with the vast majority of that being by family. Stranger sexual abuse is incredibly uncommon. To balance this, you are creating an aura of fear and paranoia, which arguably will have a huge negative impact on those same children you are attempting to protect (look at my stories of traveling as an…
/r/MensRights13/08/12 06:10 PM
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I think that there is a bit of a trend for men to want to mentor boys. That comes out in trying to share knowledge and experience with them when you interact with them (I know that I do that a lot when I run into kids, actually boys and girls). I did have conversations with women as well, but they tended to be trying to find out about me for the most part, and I think I would have lost a great deal by missing out on those "single serving friends" throughout my childhood. It's a huge shame we are…
/r/MensRights13/08/12 06:01 PM
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Individual preference I guess. The woman I was talking about is mostly a really great person to talk to, and I stay away from most gender discussion. I do slide the odd thing in, subtly. It's a way to get a wedge in, that doesn't exist if I stop talking to these people. Also, I have been involved with martial arts most of my life, so we have a massive point of commonality. On a final note, her husband is actual one of the greatest martial artists I have ever had the privilege of meeting. A great…
/r/MensRights13/08/12 05:55 PM
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Here's a weird perspective. I was raised on hippie communes, predominantly by fairly extreme feminists. Most of my life, there was an assumption that straight white males were inferior to everyone else. I dealt with casual humour from basically every adult in my life degrading the things that I am (a straight white male). I also grew up poor as fuck, and had to fight for everything I have on a level that most people don't understand. I have lived in places where less than 10% of the populace had…
/r/MensRights13/08/12 05:48 PM
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I have a friend who likes to say that he doesn't demand his friend be likeable, just that they be interesting. I follow that to a large degree. One woman in particular I have a great deal of admiration for, as a martial artist. She's achieved a great deal in Jiu-Jitsu and that deserves credit and celebration. She also stopped a few years ago to build a business, and let her level of fitness go. She's the one who complained the most of everyone I know. She is also one of those people who talks ab…
/r/MensRights13/08/12 05:33 PM
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Ronda Rousey was on the cover of ESPN's body issue recently. A number of people were incensed by this, and claimed that it was sexual objectification of women. I have several feminist friends who were furious about it. The majority of the photos in the magazine are of men, and there is nothing more or less sexual about the women, or more or less revealing (okay, technically the pictures of men are more revealing, but that's purely because we have not decided to sexualize mens nipples the same we…
/r/MensRights13/08/12 04:23 PM
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Women didn't. It was appreciation of the male body. It was ancient Greece of course...
/r/MensRights13/08/12 04:18 PM
0

I hate to say this, but the term cis has become so laden with bullshit that it should disappear from all discourse forever. It's used predominantly as a pejorative against heterosexual white males (at least that's almost exclusively how I have seen it used) and it's bullshit anyway. Cis-gendered comes from a radical misunderstanding of gender and the importance of gender. It just shouldn't matter at all, and by maintaining this specific language (complete with attempts to shame hetero males for …
/r/MensRights13/08/12 04:05 PM
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As a child I flew unaccompanied minor a lot. I often sat next to male passengers (in the eighties men were a lot more likely to be flying by themselves than females). I think a large part of my intellectual development came from sitting next to an engineer who introduced me to a number of intellectual puzzles, some base concepts of structural engineering, a whole bunch of stuff.
/r/MensRights13/08/12 03:39 PM
1

Parental Alienation Syndrome
/r/MensRights09/08/12 04:59 PM
1

My family lawyer is a woman. She specializes in PAS cases (that's not why she's my lawyer, she used to be married to my little brother - once case where divorce was completely justified).
/r/MensRights09/08/12 02:32 PM
1

First: modern houses actually have lower durability. Yes, they get created faster, but then they also last less time and cost more. Our current generation of houses won't have many examples surviving in a hundred years. Food is another issue. Yes, oranges are much cheaper to buy now... but staples are more expensive. What is needed to live costs more of your income than before. Housing in particular is a major issue. While it seems on the surface that you are getting more, in the end it costs mo…
/r/MensRights08/08/12 06:12 PM
1

Shelter and food take up a much larger portion of our income. Yes, you need to work less hours to buy an iPad... but not a house or a sandwich.
/r/MensRights08/08/12 04:50 PM
1

Interestingly I never made a claim about how simple or complex it is. In fact, the basket of goods that are taken into account with regards to inflation don't include consumables such as food, fuel, or housing. Even given that, the buying power of an individual based on earnings is actually lower than it was in the seventies. We have made up for that with credit by and large, and with a large number of incredibly cheap toys. A classic example of this was an economist stating that there was no in…
/r/MensRights08/08/12 03:00 PM
2

If nothing changes and current trends continue for twenty years there is a possibility of a Muslim majority in Germany and Sharia law coming into effect. The correct path to prevent this probably isn't right wing anti-immigration policies (as those are likely to have consequences that are as bad if not worse), but instead a strong bill of rights (Germany already has it) with strongly enshrined secular humanist values and a dedication to spreading eduction to minorities. The best way to kill reli…
/r/MensRights07/08/12 04:58 PM
0

Again, not evidence... mental masturbation. It's speculation, nothing more.
/r/MensRights07/08/12 03:52 PM
2

Cross posted this here because it's specifically about men's wages plummeting. It also includes a bit about how many people were claiming that women's wages being low was artificially deflating the stats, but that the exact opposite is true.
/r/MensRights07/08/12 03:39 PM
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Do you have any actual evidence that multiculturalism is bad for society? Please try to remember that evidence is a very specific thing, and that mental masturbation isn't that.
/r/MensRights07/08/12 03:28 PM
1

I have always found it weird that American Libertarians find this hard to grasp. In Europe the idea of Socialist Libertarian is not that uncommon (it's where I sit in the spectrum).
/r/MensRights07/08/12 03:18 PM
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I'm probably further to the left of Ringside74 (I'm very far left) and have seen a great deal of fairly right wing speech in the MRM. That's an aside. Yes, voting down racist comments is a good thing to do, however the primary reason is that it conflates the two movements, which is something that is to the detriment of the MRM, as it will prevent an already somewhat fringe movement from ever becoming more than that. Basically, if you are a racist, I disagree with you, but I also feel that this i…
/r/MensRights07/08/12 03:11 PM
2

A bunch of stuff. An abusive relationship, dealing with a cross charge situation when all I did was restrain my ex (proved in court and all charges dismissed, but I still got to spend the night in Jail, she didn't and in the end faced no consequences for being found guilty). After that there was a custody battle, which I lost due to being reasonable and a bit broke. Ironically my ex is strongly anti-child support and I had to pay anyway, despite her never seeking it. I also grew up in a feminist…
/r/MensRights03/08/12 03:12 PM
4

Leave. Right fucking now. Move the fuck out and don't look back. Your stuff doesn't matter, the money doesn't matter, just get out. If you don't get harmed physically you will pay a psychological price that will last you for years. The sooner you get out, the smaller the price (trust me on this one, I've been there... fucking things up with a great woman largely because of the scars from before right now) and the sooner you can get over it. Maybe she's an amazing woman, but until she gets a hand…
/r/MensRights03/08/12 03:00 PM
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Thing is, it's a self selecting thing isn't it? His statement is true, because by definition only women who are the type to falsely accuse someone of rape falsely accuse someone of rape. That doesn't mean all women do it, just that the ones who do are likely to be sociopathic bitches who "wallow in attention and sympathy". It makes me sad that any discussion needs huge amounts of these caveats, since we never ascribe the best motivations to each other. If there are two ways that a comment can be…
/r/MensRights30/07/12 06:58 PM
3

Remember, women try to commit suicide more frequently than men, they just suck at it.
/r/MensRights27/07/12 02:37 PM
1

In my response first I defended reddit as a whole, then I explained why againstmensrights isn't a good source (since Aerik is posting on there) and that while there are assholes, mensrights isn't nearly as anti-women as people think. I don't post these things for Greg, as he isn't going to change his mind (if what's on there is any indication) but for those reading his blog with a slightly more open mind.
/r/MensRights06/06/12 04:58 PM
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These pissed my ex off to no end. She was very active her entire pregnancy and was basically rabid about how pregnant women are babied. She believed (and I think still does) that pregnant women need to be encouraged to be more active, not less.
/r/MensRights27/05/12 04:40 AM
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Sorry, this is Fiji. Anyone who claims her disability obviously isn't that severe since she was allowed to raise her kid has never been in a third world country. I agree that bringing gender into it is bullshit, but folks... she may be very badly mentally handicapped and still raising a kid.
/r/MensRights28/04/12 12:15 AM
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"Violence in self defence is not violence, it is intelligence". Malcolm X
/r/MensRights02/04/12 10:03 AM
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Some of this stuff mirrors things my mother said to me as a child. We are close now, but we can't talk about this subject at all. My mother is a fairly mainstream feminist and in her case it was mostly jokes and the like, nothing meant to hurt me. Having said that, I was surrounded by feminism from early childhood, and everything that was masculine about me was quashed. I don't hate woman at all, and am not anti-feminist... but to not see that the feminist movement has down sides is to live with…
/r/MensRights24/03/12 04:41 AM
1

It is, without question, discrimination. If you follow the logic that you can charge men more for car insurance, or women more for health insurance, you are opening yourself up to discrimination being okay when it's in the best interest of the business. I do understand charging more for women's health insurance, since women typically have higher health care costs than men...
/r/MensRights21/03/12 02:53 PM
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Clubs do it that way because if they do they make money... get more women in the club you get more men in the club. It just works.
/r/MensRights21/03/12 02:05 PM
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1) At the start of the feminist movement women were very disadvantaged. Many of the feminists in society grew up in that era. They haven't adjusted. Anger at them is misguided and detrimental. Education may be impossible. I find this frustrating on an epic level (my mother is one of these women... it gets harsh when I start citing stats at her). The best way to deal with these older feminists is to ignore them where possible. 2) I agree. However there is an element in society that is very, very …
/r/MensRights09/03/12 07:04 PM
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I did not know that... and I am very happy about it (my RL cake day).
/r/MensRights09/03/12 06:29 PM
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The roots of feminism are about addressing inequality. Much of feminism is still attempting to redress cultural assumptions about women that are harmful. Sure, there are bad bits out there (lots of them) but feminism isn't what it is often made out to be on here... just as MRM isn't what Rebecca Watson makes it out to be.
/r/MensRights09/03/12 06:24 PM
1

Girls are more likely to get off with clitoral stimualtion than with penetration. Have you never read a sex guide of any sort or talked to a real live girl about sex (one you weren't having sex with: those ones often lie to save your ego)?
/r/MensRights06/03/12 08:28 PM
1

The really funny bit about this? For most women masturbation involves a lot of clitoral stimulation and minimal penetration. In fact, when I have seen girls play with vibrators they spend more time outside thant in. Women are far more likely to orgasm due to clitoral stimulation than via penetration. This also explains the very large number of female toys that aren't penis shaped at all.
/r/MensRights06/03/12 08:25 PM
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Against Mens Rights basically said the last point as well. Here's the thing: most men don't want to use dildos. Nothing wrong with those that do want to, but male sexuality being what it is, being penetrated isn't high on most guys list, and a vibrating object against their penis is really not that appealing either. Basically, it feels good to have something surround your penis and sometimes an alternative thing is a good thing (hell, just look up "The Stranger" on urban dictionary to see how ap…
/r/MensRights06/03/12 08:14 PM
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I don't think you fully understand the difference between the definitions you posted, and how they intersect in this instance. If you have the ability to decide on sexual issues, then you are empowered and in control.
/r/MensRights06/03/12 07:55 PM
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Right, I forgot about those. Shit, my bad ;)
/r/MensRights19/02/12 05:48 AM
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That is impossible. Plain and simple. I used to have a rule that I would not sleep with a woman who I was not dating (or who I was dating but had not slept with before) if she was drinking. I was at a bar one night, I told the girl I was with about this rule. She asked if it was an absolute rule (we had been drinking) I told her that I might slip if I was drunk enough. She asked me how many drinks that would take, then bougth me drinks unitl I hit the number I had said. I was pissed drunk, she w…
/r/MensRights18/02/12 06:39 AM
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Because she isn't talking about pressuring someone at great length into something they don't want. She literally used the example of two people naked and making out in bed, and the girl changes her mind. However she doesn't tell the boy, and he doesn't stop. That's the extreme, the edge case if you will, but it does happen.
/r/MensRights18/02/12 06:33 AM
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The issue is that, like feminism, there isn't one right answer to what an MRA is. I am interested in false rape allegation stuff, child custody stuff, accuracy of information and stats, things like that. There are others in the movement who actually seem to believe that women are inferior creatures and need to be treated as such. There are people who think I'm too extreme (not many mind you, I tend to be actually very pro equality) and people who think I'm a white knight mangina. How does a grou…
/r/MensRights26/01/12 05:38 PM
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Actually I think this is great... it shows a girl attempting to rape a couple of men and a false rape allegation. Yes, it's played for laughs, but come on, it's Harold and Kumar. You will find something to be offended by in the movie. How many women do you think found stuff from the movies offensive? I mean, there is an attempted rape of a woman by a character that is probably the most popular character in the whole series a bit later. It's also played for laughs. At least there isn't a false ra…
/r/MensRights26/01/12 03:16 PM
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It's a classic revenge movie very much in the style of 70's exploitation films. If it's empowering then so is Thriller: a Cruel Picture. It is however a good movie.
/r/MensRights05/01/12 02:04 PM
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Evidence?
/r/MensRights05/01/12 01:38 PM
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No, but if you ask me to do a thought experiment positing that then I will act for the purpose of that discussion as if I do believe it... also, psychology does provide a great deal of evidence that trans people are a real thing, and that they in fact are different mentally from those who are not trans.
/r/MensRights30/12/11 02:10 PM
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I didn't make the claim, I said that I accept the claim from those that do (which includes the psychological community pretty much across the board).
/r/MensRights29/12/11 02:55 PM
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That statement doesn't accept the claim of transgendered people (the claim that they are truly of the other gender). You can choose to reject that claim, but if you accept it then you aren't looking at separating on gender, but on a biological difference that isn't gender. That's why I included the caveat about accepting the claim of transgendered people at the beginning.
/r/MensRights28/12/11 11:43 PM
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My justification for that is simple: if you accept the claim of transgendered people (personally I do) then you are using unfair discrimination against a person for an accident of birth. Would you also defend the girl guide leaders if they decided to disband their troop because they were being forced to take in members who were non-white?
/r/MensRights28/12/11 06:11 AM
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And there you have it... yet again I am made a fan. You are a great writer, and you put the need thought into your statements. Admitting to being conflicted, while giving a clear and cogent thought as to why you reached the conclusion you did. The part that blows my mind is that you are accused of being a man, or crazy, for presenting logical and well thought out arguments. On a side note, I just visited your blog for the first time in a long time. Loved the video coming out thing. Despite the r…
/r/MensRights28/12/11 06:09 AM
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First, her current husband is being forced to pay child support for a kid he shouldn't have to pay child support for, so she just sends my cheque right to that bill... it's the kind of thing that would get us all in a lot of trouble here. As to where here is... Nova Scotia, Canada. Talking to a lawyer is the best thing to do. I would do it ASAP.
/r/MensRights05/12/11 09:05 PM
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Well, I wish I knew the answer to that. My son is 19, lives with a room mate in a different town from his mother, and shares an office with me where he earns a decent living. His mother is also on board with ending child support, but the DOJ (that's who handles child support here) insists on massive amounts of paperwork to end a court order on the appointed date (over a year ago now)
/r/MensRights05/12/11 08:12 PM
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It's funny or die for christ's sake. Normally I'm not the "just get a sense of humour" guy, but just get a sense of humour. She's trying to make herself look evil for the sake of a joke... it's actually kind of a funny parody of celebrity PSA's.
/r/MensRights05/12/11 07:54 PM
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Having a vasectomy isn't really that big a deal. It takes about twenty minutes and you do it under local anesthetic only. My surgeon was talking to me the whole time (it was a bit freaky). Afterwards it takes a few weeks before it feels okay again, but now I don't notice it at all.
/r/MensRights01/12/11 06:43 AM
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Could everyone just relax a bit? It's a logo, not a change of focus.
/r/MensRights04/10/11 02:34 PM
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The thing is, for some people that's a big deal. It doesn't equate to fear of transgender people, but it is also not inconsequential. Pretending it is doesn't make it so.
/r/MensRights20/09/11 01:41 AM
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It's awesome logic too. I am male and have been on the receiving end of an attempted rape twice. After the first one (which I escaped via dumb luck) I took some precautions, and the second one was a simple non-issue, as I was prepared for it and was able to defend myself. Nobody is saying rape is okay or that it is the victims fault if they get raped. It's like getting mugged. You don't deserve to be mugged, ever, in any circumstances. Assuming it isn't going to happen and that you can walk anyw…
/r/MensRights13/09/11 11:32 PM
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So, I saw this on againstmensrights, because it hasn't gotten enough votes to make the front page on mensrights. Apparently it isn't enough to be trolls, they actually have to pick submissions that don't have nearly enough popularity to make the front page...
/r/MensRights02/09/11 03:44 AM
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Sorry folks, to me this is a major issue and one that we should be looking at.
/r/MensRights02/09/11 03:42 AM
1

I have had the experience of having a bodybuilder in a gold's gym t (male) who was a little older tell met that I was rude for not giving him my seat, as he was elderly. Truth is he could have crushed me with either arm and was without a doubt more capable of standing than I was. Last time I rode the bus I had an older woman look at me funny for not giving up my seat. Right now I have a torn ACL, MCL and meniscus. I can stand for fairly brief periods if I have my knee brace...
/r/MensRights26/08/11 11:10 PM
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Thing is, sometimes you aren't unsure, but you should be. Sometimes signals get crossed. That would be my point, and the OP's, and several others in this thread. If you have doubts, make sure. What if you don't have doubts? What if to you everything is good, but to her it isn't? It happens, and if girls in those circumstances feel that saying no is okay, they might be more likely to do so.
/r/MensRights20/08/11 04:43 AM
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No, they don't. If you haven't initiated things obviously a yes can't be assumed. At a certain point you need a clear no signal (that is, if you have received clear yes signals previously). I understand what you are saying, and I am saying that it applies to some situations and not others. I am very, very clearly stating that once a female has given consent she has to be clear if she changes her mind. That simple. Not a bad thing at all. As girlwriteswhat said, if a girl is naked in a guys bed s…
/r/MensRights19/08/11 06:16 PM
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The point is that if someone says yes and changes their mind, they need to say no... because they already said yes. Another point is that if actions lead to a belief in a clear yes... you will act as if it was a yes. If it isn't a yes, you need to be informed of this. You might miss a change in behaviour (for example the woman stops responding as physically enthusiastically) if you are worked up and a little drunk. Are you a virgin? How much sexual experience do you have? It seems like it might …
/r/MensRights19/08/11 05:32 PM
1

The funny bit about that last point is that mothers are far more likely to kill their children than fathers. In Canada male children are slightly more likely to be killed than female children, and 69% of the perpetrators are female...
/r/MensRights19/08/11 03:55 PM
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Obviously not. That is situation where consent is impossible. You are either very, very stupid or deliberately misinterpreting. I don't think you are incredibly stupid (you have a decent vocabulary for starters) so I have to conclude that you have no interest in communication, merely in getting your point of view across, no matter what. It is obvious from my comments, and from the comments of many on here, that we are talking about grey areas. Areas where consent is implied or granted and then w…
/r/MensRights19/08/11 03:30 PM
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Are you really that stupid? People are complex, situations are complex, and a standard that if a woman seems like she wants to hook up (like she goes back to your room and strips off, starts making out, etc) she has to say no to get it to stop, well, that isn't really that controversial. OP is not saying that he wants to rape women, merely that sometimes it is hard to know someone else's mind. You are positing a standard that puts both men and women at extreme risk. Men because they will make mi…
/r/MensRights19/08/11 03:23 PM
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A story from my Mom. She was backpacking across Europe by herself (it was the sixties, and yes, she is a full blown hippie). While in Italy a bunch of guys grabbed her and threw her in a pickup truck. As soon as she got the chance she started laughing. Then she told them she felt really sorry for them if that was the only way they could get layed. The drove her back into town and apologized. She was unharmed. My grade six teacher (also a hippie feminist) was in Jamaica when a man grabbed her. Sh…
/r/MensRights19/08/11 03:13 PM
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Sorry, you are an idiot. People are more complex than that. Yes, she never said no so it isn't rape is a pretty terrible standard, but a clear no needs to be presented. If a girl goes back to a guys room, removes her own clothes, etc. and never says no, well, that easily be taken as a yes. Hell, she might say yes at the bar, change her mind in the room, but at that point she has to tell they guy, and fairly directly. When you are caught up in passion you might miss cues, but the words stop or no…
/r/MensRights19/08/11 03:08 PM
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Weird, to me it seems like looking at the situation and deciding to take preventative action. Now, it can be a case of the just-world hypothesis, but it can also be a real thing. If a girl gets raped walking through darkened park late at night, well, she could have not been in that park late at night... or she could have used a higher level of situational awareness and noticed the figure in the shadows and given them a wide berth, or she could have carried a weapon, or taken self defence trainin…
/r/MensRights19/08/11 02:55 PM
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One person in the MR community using an ad-hominem attack, especially when pressed, really isn't an achievement. I conclude that you are a troll and not worth engaging. Good day.
/r/MensRights18/08/11 10:33 PM
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Is it possible that feminist theory doesn't completely match up to reality these days? Or that many women who are feminist don't follow your version of feminism? There is a school of thought that believes that sexism against men is impossible. It isn't all feminists, but those people do exist. Stop taking sociology classes and reading feminist theory and look at what is actually happening. It might surprise the shit out of you.
/r/MensRights15/08/11 03:05 PM
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If you think the left wrecked the economy you are not very observant or not very bright.
/r/MensRights12/08/11 05:51 PM
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This got picked up by /r/againstmensrights, which I think is great. Warden_05... your comment is massively douchey, but the responses to it show mensrights for what it can be. A place wiith a decent balanced view that happens to care about men's rights as a main focus. I would have posted it there, but I'm banned from that subreddit.
/r/MensRights12/08/11 05:49 PM
1

I think this is a good set of ideas. I didn't see this post when it was first put up, but I like the overall tone of it. No hate, no vitriol, no violence... just reasonably making a solid point.
/r/MensRights21/07/11 03:42 AM
2

Part of the reason for that is that so many folks who claim to be libertarians are strictly speaking anarch-capitalists. In europe it is possible to be a socialist libertarian (and by the popular definition that is what I am), however I often find myself arguing the anti-libertarian position in debates because so much of north american libertarianism has been taken over by a strictly economic definition.
/r/MensRights20/07/11 08:40 PM
1

Where do you live that you don't have those rights? I am in one of the poorer parts of Canada and for a person not to have those rights here is an appalling thought. If it's a first world country, then I am really, really disturbed.
/r/MensRights20/07/11 08:37 PM
2

The irony is that the subreddit was created with the express purpose of oppression.
/r/MensRights20/07/11 06:03 PM
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I'm some guy. For the most part the owners of the blog have been nice and some of the men coming from here have been jerks. It's not that the women in question are right... merely that for the most part they have been very civil, but that is starting to fray. So, yes, they are wrong about a number of points but the best way to reach them (and to reach random readers who stumble in) is by being civil, reasonable, and kind. Disagree where you disagree, but do it with a respectful tone since we are…
/r/MensRights15/07/11 08:31 PM
1

Wow, I was wavering on whether or not that link was satire for a bit. Unfortunately I was forced to concede that it was not.
/r/MensRights12/07/11 06:17 PM
1

From what I personally have seen. There are some exceptions I'm sure, but yeah, it does seem to happen a lot.
/r/MensRights27/06/11 01:29 PM
1

It's true, people are more likely to help out a woman than a man... which sucks. I think that's a pretty innate prejudice however, since it seems to exist in every society in history.
/r/MensRights27/06/11 01:29 PM
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I agree with all of the above (was once homeless myself for the record). However, the prostitution thing is without question a factor (I knew quite a few girls who went that route). Women only shelters don't usually apply to the typical skid, but usually to women leaving an abusive relationship. It is unequal, but the alternative isn't usually homelessness, for either them or the men in abusive relationships. As to guys taking women in, for a lot of women that is a form of prostitution as well. …
/r/MensRights27/06/11 03:38 AM
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Because the answer to the issue is prostitution. Most women are able to turn to prostitution when things get bad enough, while men can't. Women may not be homeless nearly as often, but that doesn't mean they haven't hit the equivalent point. They just have one extra option that men don't have.
/r/MensRights27/06/11 02:26 AM
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Read what she writes... she's very, very good and damned smart too.
/r/MensRights25/05/11 06:31 PM
1

I have a Girlfriend (fiancee actually). Sometimes we drink together. Sometimes after we have had a few drinks we have sex. Once she didn't remember it in the morning due to being blitzed drunk. I was in the same state, but did remember it. She did not pass out, but was very close to it and could easily have done so. We have lived together for the last eight years. Is that rape? Would it have been if she had passed out? It is an edge case, but that is exactly the thing - black and white means edg…
/r/MensRights10/08/10 01:57 PM
2

From my blog. A harrowing tale of blatant stupidity and lack of fact checking.
/r/MensRights27/07/10 05:36 AM
1

Are you unfamiliar with Glenn Sacks? It's an MRA site. The surprise here is that he highlighted a case with a woman involved instead of a man.
/r/MensRights17/06/10 01:23 PM
1

It means that any one of us could have been on the other side in that situation. At that point in my life I spent a lot of time being drunk and hooking up with random girls. I even got attacked for it once come to think of it.
/r/MensRights16/06/10 06:48 PM
1

But more than 90% of predators are family members. Also, just because the actual rapist is male doesn't mean a female isn't involved (see Karla Homolka for an example).
/r/MensRights23/05/10 02:33 PM
2

Bold claim, no citations. Women are just as likely to abduct or abuse a child as men (if you read this subreddit you should have already seen sources for this... if you insist I will try and find them).
/r/MensRights23/05/10 02:23 PM
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Be a bad boy, so long as you are also sensitive. Be a tortured artist who makes millions off of his art (I blame bad bad 80's romance erotica for this... the lead male is always some guy with long hair who never wears a shirt and lives in a converted warehouse that he owns where he does all of his sculpting with a blowtorch and a ten pound sledge. He is the only multi-millionaire sculptor in the history of sculpting and lives alone because only the special woman in the movie can draw him out of …
/r/MensRights23/05/10 01:59 PM
5

My ex wife could both punch and kick quite hard. She was strong, and did some kickboxing. When she did attack me, it left marks (thank god...). In the end, her being a girl meant that we both went to trial, and a combination of the marks and an independent witness meant she got found guilty of assault, and I didn't. The prosecutor in this case insisted on charging me, despite a complete lack of evidence of any wrongdoing on my part (I did restrain her but only after she hit me, and I kept lettin…
/r/MensRights04/05/10 09:52 PM
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Funny, I read the stats and my immediate thought was that as circumcision rates were increasing, so were puritanical attitudes about sex, and the countries with far lower rates of rape are all a lot more inclined to have a more relaxed attitude about sexuality. Personally, I think that there may be some common causal factors instead of circumcision leading to rape (which I consider to be quite sketchy as no mechanism has been identified).
/r/MensRights01/05/10 11:41 PM
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Here we have a number of women's only gym's and one men's only gym. The men's only gym was doing very badly so it tried to allow women in. Thing is, these are not equivalent. Gym's occupy a different social space for men and women. Women want a women's only gym so they have a space to relax in... great. The gym is never that for men, and by and large we are fine with women being there. What would be the equivalent (in terms of a place where women's presence is disruptive) is the traditional mens…
/r/MensRights15/04/10 10:52 PM
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Well, when I talk about unfairness in child support laws, my fiance gets angry, very angry. We have no children together, and I have a son from my previous marriage so the only direct impact fairer child support (and custody) laws would have on us would be to improve our financial situation (my son is almost 18 so the child support is almost over and my ex wife is vehemently opposed to child support on a moral basis and would return all of it to me, but her current husband is stuck with a child …
/r/MensRights20/03/10 02:25 PM
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Feminism was originally created to promote equality for women. The various white supremacist groups (note the word supremacist) were created to elevate one race above all others. As to prominent feminists, there have been some and they have been marginalized by others (Erin Pizzey comes to mind right off the bat). Your response is pretty much what the feminists on this thread are complaining about, so great job discrediting our side of things.
/r/MensRights20/03/10 02:13 PM
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The following is also from urbandictionary.com: 4. feminist 1818 up, 1405 down love it hate it A woman who wants all the advantages that men have but none of the responsibilites. Also know as a cow, ho, sucubus and bushpig. "Feminists are just a bunch of irritating double-standard malcontents." by ih8uplzdie Nov 4, 2004 share this
/r/MensRights11/03/10 01:18 PM
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between 3 and 7 times a week. That is not what I am actually at.
/r/MensRights11/03/10 03:30 AM
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No, my point wasn't to make me feel better. In fact, my point was to illustrate the stupidity of going off and beating someone up without analyzing the situation, and of believing rape claims without adequate burden of proof. Basically, you and I were making the same point, that this was people acting very, very badly. From my current perspective, we were wrong and would have been wrong no matter what the truth of the story was. This kind of violence is not something I would now support, let alo…
/r/MensRights05/03/10 04:47 PM
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The mother is solely responsible for how that money is spent, and if it benefits the child in any way. This is not a case of losing access to something you have paid for, it is simply that child support is not the morally just thing that many people make it out to be. As father, you aren't abandoning your child because you are behind in child support (full disclosure: I am currently behind in child support for my seventeen year old son, he is not having to do without as a result of it and my ex …
/r/MensRights05/03/10 06:32 AM
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Once again, promoting my own blog, but hey, I'm really proud of the writing and I think I made a valid point (I hope at least)
/r/MensRights05/03/10 06:18 AM
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Dude, the wording is ambiguous. Until you have evidence that the quote means accused, and that the wording doesn't mean those who were accused and later found guilty just please, STFU. Not to be mean, but when I try to debate against the various power feminists I know, this kind of thing always comes back to bite me in the ass.
/r/MensRights05/03/10 06:00 AM
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12 Steps Men Can Take to End Sexism Why twelve steps? Why the fuck is it that this twelve step model keeps jumping out all over the place. Don't interrupt women when they speak, control their space, or assume they need your protection. Focus on the effect of your actions, rather than on the intent. Women interrupt me when I speak, often in fact. It's a common theme when I get into an argument with the many strong feminists I know, they try to shout down conflicting opinion, also to redefine term…
/r/MensRights23/02/10 03:42 AM
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Depends on the the nature of the criticism. Sharon Astyk maintains a CSA, teaches classes on adapting in place, runs a working farm with almost no electricity and is basically one of the leading experts on how to adapt and survive post collapse. A lot of the criticism is targeted at her as an ivory tower type who doesn't understand the work of survival. It's something that is really aimed at her as a whole, not the issues with this single post (which I believe is complete bullshit by the way). S…
/r/MensRights13/02/10 08:26 PM
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I think we all have some of both sides, but there really are neurological differences. If you were to see my childhood and then see how typical I turned out in that regard, it would maybe look a lot like it might be a fundamental difference. I had thoughts and ideas that are very in keeping with a western definition of masculinity (not that I'm the most macho guy around or anything) despite growing up in something that was very, very far outside of conventional mainstream culture.
/r/MensRights12/02/10 04:45 AM
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One other thing (and I decided to post this as a separate comment to avoid confusion) is that my mother had a number of jokes she liked to tell when I was a child. The two that really stuck out for me were: A bisexual baby was born last night. It had a penis and a brain and What's fifty men under the ocean? A start. I guess what I am trying to get across is that MRA's don't have a monopoly on being jerks and saying hurtful crap. The best thing to do is to downvote the ones who suck and hope that…
/r/MensRights10/02/10 06:09 PM
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I have been involved with relationships that had elements of rape fantasy and have watched porn in the same vein. Turns out that I have a realism threshold however. If it gets too real I don't like it at all. If it stays below the threshhold, I will probably enjoy it (providing it is well done). Now, I have an old blog post that gives a far clearer idea of my views on rape and where they come from. Obviously I have very personal reasons for my views and they probably wouldn't mesh with the preco…
/r/MensRights10/02/10 05:57 PM
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Personally, I have never claimed that feminism shouldn't exist or that there is not sexism. In fact, I defended feminism in a guest post on Glenn Sacks (I wasn't all that popular that day). I think it's important to call people on prejudice, whatever prejudice it is. The line that made me have to respond was the one about masculinity being defined by not being feminine. From there it snowballed.
/r/MensRights10/02/10 01:31 PM
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I put together a bit of a response on my blog. Linking to my reddit post about my blog, not my blog itself just because.
/r/MensRights10/02/10 06:57 AM
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I admit it, this is my blog. The whole original piece just made me angry and I went off. Having spent that much time writing and not sleeping, I wanted at least a few people to read it.
/r/MensRights10/02/10 06:50 AM
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Okay, I cross posted this because I have some fundamental disagreements with Sharon about this subject. However, I think you should read a bit more about her before you start making these kinds of statements. She is a long term survivalist living on a basically self sustaining farm. They use minimal electricity and are basically a model of sustainability.
/r/MensRights08/02/10 03:08 PM
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