marbledog Archive

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11	Front page of /r/Feminism: Feminist attacked by Red Piller, blames MRAs, provides photographic evidence that she's lying, my comment is deleted. The (very) short version. Assume that all of gender politics is one big game. The game is rigged. When people notice this, they tend to react in one of the following ways. Feminists: The game is rigged against women. We should fix this. MRA's: The game is rigged against men. We should fix this. Egalitarians: The game is rigged against everyone. We should fix this. Radical feminists: The game is rigged and cannot be fixed. We should all give up and play a different game. Men Going Their Own Way (…	/r/MensRights	28/06/14 07:11 AM
16	What's the real reason why men have higher car insurance costs? There's numerous studies out there that show women get into more car accidents per mile, and that men drive more often. As far as I understand it, women get in more accidents, but men have a much higher payoff value per accident, making them more expensive to insure overall. This makes sense when we look at the driving patterns of men and women. Men tend to have longer commutes, and occupations that require road travel for work are overwhelmingly staffed by men. This means that men, on average, perform more long-distance, high-speed driving. By contrast, women still do most "domestic driving" (driving around town…	/r/MensRights	05/05/14 05:04 AM
13	Domestic Violence groups in Australia - ""Men need to wake up to the fact that it is a men's problem. It is perpetrated by men who use their power and control over women" I think everyone here realizes that beating women is wrong. We just happen to think that beating men is equally wrong, not irrelevant. The important question is, "What is the best way to reduce domestic violence?" I think that the best way to do that starts with a realistic understanding of the problem. I haven't seen statistics for Australia, but government studies from the US and the UK have shown that there is strong parity between men and women in Western nations when it comes to domestic vi…	/r/MensRights	05/05/14 04:39 AM
1	Could you recommend any MRA books? The Second Sexism by David Benetar makes the basic case for the need for men's rights activism. It's a bit dry and academic, but Benetar makes a truly iron-clad case. The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers is the book that first got me interested in men's rights. The information in it is a bit dated (it was written in 2000), but it's a great book.	/r/MensRights	03/12/13 05:22 AM
0	Why does breast cancer receive so much attention while prostate cancer goes virtually un-noticed? As other users have pointed out, breast cancer is simply more marketable than prostate cancer. To put it bluntly, boobs shift more product than assholes. If marketers can make you think about breasts while considering their products, you will be more likely to buy their products. (see: every beer commercial ever) Breast cancer "awareness" campaigns allow marketers to attach that mental image to products that can't generally be sold on sex appeal (breakfast cereal, diapers, etc.) It allows them t…	/r/MensRights	31/10/13 05:40 PM
4	Do men have the right to judge feminist theory? Of course men have a vested interest. Women have an equally vested interest. This has nothing to do with whether feminist theory is either factual or moral. The willingness to put one's vested interests aside and engage with a subject objectively is the hallmark of rational thought. I'm not equipped to determine whether debating feminism is offensive, since such things are subjective. Personally, I'm not generally offended by open inquiry. Regardless, claiming offense is an even more obvious dis…	/r/MensRights	13/09/13 02:15 AM
1	Great gender-neutral anti-rape campaign [X-post from /r/feminisms] There's no doubt that many do. In particular, radfems and Socialist feminists hold that there is no real-world distinction between patriarchy generally and the Patriarchy, specifically. The link you provided shows examples of feminists arguing that position and feminists arguing the exact opposite position. Which is exactly my point. What is labeled "feminism" is so broad and diverse that to call a person a feminist doesn't accurately convey very much information about their actual beliefs, in t…	/r/MensRights	11/08/13 02:45 PM
2	Great gender-neutral anti-rape campaign [X-post from /r/feminisms] ?	/r/MensRights	11/08/13 11:10 AM
0	Great gender-neutral anti-rape campaign [X-post from /r/feminisms] I believe you are misinformed. There's no such thing as Patriarchy Theory. Seriously. It just doesn't exist in feminist literature. What does exist is reference to patriarchy or the Patriarchy. It's worth understanding what these terms actually mean. Patriarchy is simply a social structure in which positions of overt power (social, economic, political, etc.) are reserved for men. All societies, throughout history and worldwide, have displayed varying degrees of patriarchal tendencies. The Patria…	/r/MensRights	11/08/13 09:21 AM
1	Video in description. Female student assaults male she doesn't agree with by continuously pressing her body against him, he tries to push her away, she screams "get your hand off my breast now" and pushes him over a ledge. Good point.	/r/MensRights	07/08/13 11:49 PM
1	Video in description. Female student assaults male she doesn't agree with by continuously pressing her body against him, he tries to push her away, she screams "get your hand off my breast now" and pushes him over a ledge. As far as I understand, slander is not a crime. It's a tort, and the victim would have to seek a civil remedy. Had she actually filed a false report or lied to a police officer, that would be a different matter.	/r/MensRights	07/08/13 11:48 PM
-1	Video in description. Female student assaults male she doesn't agree with by continuously pressing her body against him, he tries to push her away, she screams "get your hand off my breast now" and pushes him over a ledge. Thanks. MR is getting a lot more hive-mindy lately. I'm crossing my fingers that it's just summer reddit.	/r/MensRights	07/08/13 03:30 PM
6	Video in description. Female student assaults male she doesn't agree with by continuously pressing her body against him, he tries to push her away, she screams "get your hand off my breast now" and pushes him over a ledge. All assault is deliberate. It requires criminal intent. There is no such thing as accidental assault. Practically any assault could result in death if the circumstances are right. If you punch someone in a parking lot, they could crack their head on the concrete and die. I've known people who did time for exactly that scenario. Nonetheless, if we put everyone who starts a barfight in prison for three years, we'd need a prison on every corner. If the victim had been seriously injured, this would …	/r/MensRights	07/08/13 02:01 PM
18	Video in description. Female student assaults male she doesn't agree with by continuously pressing her body against him, he tries to push her away, she screams "get your hand off my breast now" and pushes him over a ledge. I doubt that he needed to be screened for a concussion, as he didn't sustain a head injury. He probably should have gotten a chest x-ray, though. At 24:45, he tells the medic that he landed on his chest when he hit the trashcan. He complains of pain in his chest, but denies any other complaint and says that he didn't lose consciousness. He refuses ambulance transport at around 29:30. I don't know how the court came up with the $80 figure, but I assume it was a medical bill. It could be an ER cop…	/r/MensRights	07/08/13 12:07 PM
-13	Video in description. Female student assaults male she doesn't agree with by continuously pressing her body against him, he tries to push her away, she screams "get your hand off my breast now" and pushes him over a ledge. Honestly, I think it's a reasonable sentence. It was a simple assault with minor injury. There's no sense in filling jails with shit like this. She made restitution to the victim and the community, and probation ensures that she'll do jail time if she pulls some shit like this again.	/r/MensRights	07/08/13 10:39 AM
23	I was told that I only support mens rights because I am not getting laid right now. How do I respond to that? You don't. Ad hominem attacks are just attempts to make you mad enough to distract you from your argument. Stay on target. "You can criticize my sex life if that makes you feel better, but that doesn't answer my argument..." (lather, rinse, repeat)	/r/MensRights	06/08/13 01:12 AM
88	Why is Warren Farrell called a rape apologist? Farrell has acknowledged the phenomenon of "token resistance" in his writing and lectures, and he argues that we need a more nuanced understanding of sexual relations, especially between young people. Some feminists have strawmanned this stance into a defense of rape. From The Myth of Male Power If a man ignoring a woman’s verbal ‘no’ is committing date rape, then a woman who says `no’ with her verbal language but ‘yes’ with her body language is committing date fraud. And a woman who continues t…	/r/MensRights	21/04/13 06:32 PM
2	TGMP publishes guide to humiliate boys in restrooms. Boys "are very lucky to be able to stand up to pee" but too dumb to figure out that urinal cakes "are not edible." "Female teachers noted ... useful for ... adult males as well." Thanks for the shame sandwich, TGMP. "Redditor for 5 hours." Obvious troll is obvious.	/r/MensRights	14/11/12 12:15 AM
4	Feminism Cannot Prevail in an Environment Which Includes Significant Number of Masculine Men \| A Guide for a Young Patriarch Lemma 1 is, to put it in technical terms, all fucked up. Equivocation: "Masculinity" may mean "the biological traits of males" or "the socially-determined idea of maleness". These different definitions are related, but not the same. You cannot use them interchangeably. Excluded Middle: You fail to consider the dominance may have other causes in addition to testosterone. You also fail to consider that masculinity has causes other than testosterone. Genetic Fallacy: It may be true that "masculinit…	/r/MensRights	28/10/12 04:52 PM
0	False Rape Accusations: Feminism encourages False Rape Accusations as a way to punish innocent men for the "crime" of being male. While this woman's remarks are deplorable, there is a pretty big difference between "Feminism" as an institution and "an assistant dean of a liberal arts college".	/r/MensRights	25/10/12 11:06 AM
8	Victim of domestic violence I've been there. Fortunately, I didn't have a child to worry about. Unfortunately, I was foolish enough to put up with it for over a decade. Since then, I have learned a lot about abuse. Here's my (unsolicited and completely biased) advise. GET. THE. FUCK. OUT. Leave her. If you don't, she will continue to hurt you. She will not change. It will not get better. Every second that you spend with her is more damage that you will have to repair later. It doesn't matter where you go. Stay with a frien…	/r/MensRights	14/09/12 08:32 AM
-2	My recent discovery within Patriarchy theory. In my experience, idiots blindly reject ideas that make them uncomfortable and use ad hominem attacks in place of reasoned argument. Your experience must be different.	/r/MensRights	13/09/12 12:52 PM
-6	My recent discovery within Patriarchy theory. Great observation. I've been trying to push this line of though for a while. Patriarchal systems devalue the freedom and autonomy of women whilst simultaneously devaluing the lives and comfort of men. It is a product of evolution and is observable, in various forms, in other animals. Like all organic systems, it is largely unintentional. That is, no one designed patriarchy; it evolved as a consequence of our biology. It harms everyone, and everyone is a part of it. We all have to work together t…	/r/MensRights	13/09/12 07:10 AM
1	What is 'creep-shaming'? I agree that the definitions of the two terms are not completely comparable. This is exactly what I meant when I said that differing gender roles change the way the terms are expressed. That being said, behavior need not be actually harmful to be socially condemned. Shaming is used to condition every kind of behavior: dress, speech, food choice, music preference, etc. We can generally state that shaming is wrongful when it is used to punish behavior that does no harm. For instance, I don't think…	/r/MensRights	11/09/12 12:59 PM
2	What is 'creep-shaming'? I think that slut-shaming and creep-shaming are analogous. In both, an innocuous (or even non-existent) expression of sexuality is framed as something dangerous or immoral. Sex is a primary impulse, of course, and it can be hazardous. Sex that is manipulative, predatory, or unsafe is a certainly harmful. Shaming as a tactic of social control is older than civilization, and it has always been used to enforce socially-mandated sex practices, for good or bad. Slut-shaming is a way of framing a woma…	/r/MensRights	11/09/12 12:25 AM
2	A little annoyed. Here me out Reddit. Agreed completely. I see that I should have been clearer in my meaning. I was speaking specifically about incidents like those in the article: adult strangers encountering one another in a secluded public setting. In that context, women - by dint of their relative size, strength, and socially-conditioned reactions - are most often better targets of opportunity. I'm speaking very generally here, of course. I certainly don't mean to minimize or ignore the millions of male victims of harassment. Ne…	/r/MensRights	07/09/12 09:47 PM
3	A little annoyed. Here me out Reddit. Thanks, Octopus. That's exactly what I was trying to express with my meandering rambling, only so much more clear and concise. Spot on.	/r/MensRights	07/09/12 08:51 PM
8	A little annoyed. Here me out Reddit. I consider myself a feminist, and I try to keep up with gender-related blogs. This one started making the rounds a couple of days ago. Here's the TLDR, for those who lack the time or desire: I got on the train and some kids annoyed me. I shouted them, and they became angry. Then I shouted at a crazy person, and he became VERY angry. It's hard being a woman, especially when you're as pretty as I am. I was thinking about this post this morning on the way to work. It's quite true that women really …	/r/MensRights	07/09/12 08:31 PM
1	Girlfriend hounding me on "male privilege". Does this really hold any water? Like most people who talk about privilege, your girlfriend has a very poor concept of what it actually is. Privilege is a useful way of talking bout social inequality. The simplest way to look at privilege is as the opposite of prejudice. For instance, if a job applicant is passed over just because of their race, then the person who eventually gets that job gets it, at least in part, because they are not a member of that race. The difference between the two is that the person who is passed over …	/r/MensRights	28/08/12 01:39 PM
37	Should the MRM be more radical? Only Ninja Turtles should be radical. Everyone else should chill the fuck out.	/r/MensRights	29/07/12 09:44 AM
2	Is Men's Right's Anti-Feminist? Awwwwww.... internet blush :) I think a lot of people try to pigeonhole feminism into a very small shape. As a rule, I try to understand something before I condemn it, and I have realized that feminism is just a much broader subject than most MRA's paint it to be. It's ok. Intelligent people can disagree. Do you feel like feminism is helping men? Yes and no. I see very little activity for men's rights coming from feminist circles. Some... but not much. At the same time, feminism has laid the gro…	/r/MensRights	26/07/12 10:17 PM
0	Is Men's Right's Anti-Feminist? Feminism is much bigger than that. The feminist movement spawned the entire field of gender study as an academic pursuit. It created and compiled the massive toolbox of techniques and language used to understand and address social inequality. These tools have been used to alleviate inequalities for women, racial minorities, homosexuals, the disabled, and others. As with any large field of humanities, feminist theory is diverse and, in many areas, contentious. That's okay. Feminism is plenty big …	/r/MensRights	26/07/12 04:41 AM
13	Is Men's Right's Anti-Feminist? I consider myself both a feminist and a men's rights advocate. It seems that many people have differing opinions on exactly what those words means. I am a feminist because I believe in equal rights and opportunities for women. I am an MRA because I believe in equal rights and opportunities for men. If you have something interesting to say, and you can say it in a reasonable manner, you're not just wanted here. You're needed. Stick around and help drown out the static.	/r/MensRights	26/07/12 12:42 AM
8	Liberals, White Knights and Feminists attack writer who had the courage to ask "I hope the girls whose boyfriends died to save them were worthy of the sacrifice" Guilt-tripping people who have just lost a loved one in a national tragedy is a despicable act. You don't have to be anything but a moral human being to understand that.	/r/MensRights	26/07/12 12:32 AM
5	"that what a man looks like?" I realized a truth a couple of years ago. I can't define what it is to be a man, but I'm sure it doesn't involve being TOLD what it is to be a man.	/r/MensRights	13/05/12 08:17 AM