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7	MRM And The Affordable Care Act Two searches later it appears that chlamydia can cause sterility in men and HPV can cause penile cancer. There are two things (which I will paraphrase) that you've said here that make the struggle for men's rights difficult: "yeah, but it's worse for women" and "that's just what I've always heard". Not only are things that are supposedly "worse for women" usually not any better for men when you really analyze situations, but this is often used as an excuse to diminish or ignore men's attempts to…	/r/MensRights	04/12/12 05:34 AM
5	Amazing (and now Banned) Toyota commercial in which a wife screams "Take that car back right now!" and the husband says, simply "No." Conjecture to explain a statistic not brought up by the ad. I didn't say anything about women not being violent. This isn't an awareness campaign for female-on-male abuse - it's a car ad featuring stereotypically hyper-emotional women. Fighting strawmen, while effective, is ultimately a hollow tactic. The difference between "rings true" and "is true" is something you should be more aware of as an MRA. When you evaluate things based on what rings true you get laws that treat women differently (re…	/r/MensRights	04/12/12 02:48 AM
7	Amazing (and now Banned) Toyota commercial in which a wife screams "Take that car back right now!" and the husband says, simply "No." This ad has little to nothing to do with MR. It's a parody mockery of the things a MRA wants. I should hope we don't believe our happiness must come at the expense of others and that this is a good thing. It's also disingenuous to imply that the ad was banned because it showed men standing up to women. On a different note, how is "buying this car will cause strife in your relationship" a selling point?	/r/MensRights	04/12/12 12:47 AM
3	My take on SRS It should be noted that the MRM is keenly focused on legal adversities while feminism seems preoccupied mainly by social issues and perceptions of women.	/r/MensRights	03/12/12 10:22 AM
3	Examples of Feminist leaders who support restrictive gender roles for men? Watch some of girlwriteswhat's earliest videos on the youtube. She quotes and names many feminists who espouse what I can safely call androcide. I can't find the exact video where it happens, but she gives a laundry list of feminists who want to see a massive reduction in the population of males relative to that of females. So as far as "dead" is a restrictive role, you can find a number of feminists supporting it. This video gives some examples of the idea that men should be universally sexuall…	/r/MensRights	03/12/12 04:40 AM
1	National Organization for Women (NOW) pushing the Obama Administration to ensure that half his cabinet is made up of women. Here's an idea, ladies... Why don't we hire, hmmm I dunno, the MOST QUALIFIED INDIVIDUAL? The phrase "had it worse than" means many things to many people. It's not an objective fact that women had it worse than men.	/r/MensRights	02/12/12 10:33 PM
1	National Organization for Women (NOW) pushing the Obama Administration to ensure that half his cabinet is made up of women. Here's an idea, ladies... Why don't we hire, hmmm I dunno, the MOST QUALIFIED INDIVIDUAL? Back when feminism started, there was a very real patriarchy. I think a lot of people would say things were more complicated than that. I'd also posit that a differentiation of terms is needed to distinguish between the early women's rights movement and succeeding feminist movements.	/r/MensRights	02/12/12 07:48 PM
0	8 ways that women will benefit under Obama-care...benefits that don't extend to men for some reason. But don't men cost more in cardiovascular areas, for example?	/r/MensRights	02/12/12 07:12 AM
2	Found at my local movie theater. How do you even rationalize this? it's the theatre's management thinking they can capitalize on being discrimination and general "women are wonderful" mentality in society. It's probably even more purely profit-motivated than that. Like many coupons, this is intended to bring the customer in to sell them ancillary products. I'm sure it's wildly successful or they would simply not do it.	/r/MensRights	02/12/12 07:09 AM
2	8 ways that women will benefit under Obama-care...benefits that don't extend to men for some reason. What are the stats on health care costs of men vs. those of women?	/r/MensRights	02/12/12 06:53 AM
17	I Need Feminism Because... Irrelevant/Gender Neutral Problem We really should go through these one by one so it's clear where the mistake in reasoning is: You don't need feminism to force people to accept your friends - you need to surround yourself with less judgemental people. If you are unable to find clothes that fit, what are you currently wearing? Futhermore, how does feminism help you find clothes that fit? Do they send you personal tailors? Women didn't have real conversations with men before feminism? Strong mothers didn't exist before feminism? …	/r/MensRights	02/12/12 06:46 AM
9	National Organization for Women (NOW) pushing the Obama Administration to ensure that half his cabinet is made up of women. Here's an idea, ladies... Why don't we hire, hmmm I dunno, the MOST QUALIFIED INDIVIDUAL? Let's assume for a second that because of biases we live in a world where only a person matching the profile you provided has been allowed to gather the qualifications required for a job in the cabinet. Even then a policy of forced diversity would be wrong, because you simply wouldn't have the most qualified people in the position. But that's not the world we live in. Affirmative action, as both government and social policy, gives most minorities (including women, as far as education and private…	/r/MensRights	02/12/12 12:22 AM
36	National Organization for Women (NOW) pushing the Obama Administration to ensure that half his cabinet is made up of women. Here's an idea, ladies... Why don't we hire, hmmm I dunno, the MOST QUALIFIED INDIVIDUAL? That high-skilled wage gap has already come to pass. Women under 30 already make more than men. I'd argue that the end goal of feminism is to replace a feigned patriarchy with a very real matriarchy, but there's no point in getting tinfoil-y when there are more concrete agendas at hand.	/r/MensRights	02/12/12 12:03 AM
3	An experience at work Sexism doesn't have to come from men to be sexism. It certainly doesn't. It's an uphill battle trying to convince enough people of that to change attitudes and outcomes.	/r/MensRights	01/12/12 11:55 PM
2	A friend of mine is being charged with sexual assault. What can he do? I never said it did. Absence of refusal also doesn't equal refusal. Unfortunately, anything less than instant, enthusiastic reciprocation is assumed to mean utter rejection. And in too many cases even full-throated reciprocation is considered merely a result of unspoken pressures exerted by men upon women and another example of oppressive power dynamics.	/r/MensRights	01/12/12 11:52 PM
7	College administrator's Twilight Zone moment: we aren't determining whether there was a rape when we expel a young man for rape "Woman forced to attend school with alleged rapist sees him in halls, breaks down crying: no justice for our daughters."	/r/MensRights	01/12/12 08:26 PM
2	A friend of mine is being charged with sexual assault. What can he do? Look at it this way: if she was receptive to the contact at the time, but realizes she didn't really want it - he's guilty; if she was receptive to the contact at the time, but now wants to use the justice system as a bludgeon (for whatever reason) - he's guilty, because the course of the trial will be exactly the same. This is consistent across all accuser-accused dynamics (i.e. it doesn't matter whether an accusation is true or not, but whether the jury believes it or not), but in the case of …	/r/MensRights	01/12/12 08:21 PM
0	A friend of mine is being charged with sexual assault. What can he do? Women can easily be convinced by themselves or others that things they wanted or allowed with no protest were actually forced upon them. They also equate passivity with refusal. If a woman doesn't actively encourage contact, she is always, always passively rejecting it. This is a bread-and-butter issue for feminists. It doesn't matter what the facts of a situation are, but how women feel about the facts or the situation. As long as feelings matter more than facts women will be able to play upon …	/r/MensRights	01/12/12 08:02 PM
3	An experience at work man gets paid weekend hours so it's all good. You realize there are a lot of feminist circles that would crucify you for not making the biggest of stinks about such overt and confrontational sexism in the workplace. If you were a woman, that is.	/r/MensRights	01/12/12 07:46 PM