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| 5 | Intactivist Jonathan Conte dead at 34 - A gay San Francisco man who for years spoke out against male circumcision killed himself last week, according to his partner.Gosh, I hate being a citizen of a country which has to have martyrs before it will cool its emotions and start taking notice of the seriousness of issue being discussed. We shouldn't build our country's future over the blood of these sorts of gentle and caring souls. | /r/MensRights | 19/05/16 08:51 AM |
| 13 | Dad's are just as important as mom's.Germany's experiencing a big "importance of fathers" movement, right now. It's very inspiring to see. | /r/MensRights | 19/05/16 07:08 AM |
| 2 | Back in September I reported anti-male Facebook groups, and every single page request was ignored. After several emails, they're finally revising the decisions!I fully disagree. You and I may be able to tolerate rancor in public, and make our own little social bubbles with like-minded people. However, I would say the majority of people need a civil structure to how their society works in order to thrive. Currently, I'm vacationing in Canada, and I'm seeing that people are much smarter and more cheerful because of the sensible form of discourse that forms their milieu. And no, it's not because of ethnic homogeneity. Canada's cities are some of the most … | /r/MensRights | 14/11/13 06:26 PM |
| 2 | If Your Son Is Not Circumcised... Beware the Well-Baby CheckLegal right to use force? Are you proposing that people should physically assault the doctor? That's not the way problems are handled in my part of the country. | /r/MensRights | 11/10/13 07:42 PM |
| 4 | If Your Son Is Not Circumcised... Beware the Well-Baby CheckImportant info. Thanks. | /r/MensRights | 11/10/13 07:24 PM |
| -12 | I am a queer man. Explain how Men's rights actually help me in any wayI suggest that instead of walking into a group and announcing your presence so rudely Look in the mirror. | /r/MensRights | 11/10/13 02:07 AM |
| 6 | US Government shutdown produces 50% boost in women, especially single mothers, signing up to ‘Sugar Daddy’ dating sites.Search "Sugar mama Canada" on Google. Here's an article and video about students at Guelph University using seekingarrangement.com: http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/guelph-students-among-top-users-of-sugar-baby-dating-website-1.1130212 | /r/MensRights | 10/10/13 09:50 PM |
| 17 | US Government shutdown produces 50% boost in women, especially single mothers, signing up to ‘Sugar Daddy’ dating sites.In Canada, there's been a trend of college guys signing up on sugar momma dating sites. There's equality for you! | /r/MensRights | 10/10/13 03:41 PM |
| 1 | Streaking: a woman's prank is a boy's sex crimeYes, that would be very sensible, but in many Anglophone countries and in various regions, a man donning a kilt causes as much consternation as a man shaving his head into a mohawk, and making it rainbow-colored. You spend a lot of social capital in order to diverge from the norm. Maybe opening the eyes of people around you is a good thing, and worth the investment. Personally, I'd rather discreetly use a cold pack on that region of my body when I'm out in public. It doesn't work nearly as well,… | /r/MensRights | 08/10/13 04:19 PM |
| 3 | There seems to always be a well-upvoted but anally pedantic and pointless red-herring in any given thread on this sub. It smells subversive. How paranoid am I?I think that there is maybe a certain personality type that you don't like (I'm guessing those you consider to be impractical and narcissistic and insincere), and you get a bit suspicious about that kind of person because you don't trust them? Maybe you feel you've been burned by such people in the past? In the early days of the /r/mensrights subreddit, I did see people such as those you are talking about. What I would look for to know the difference is whether the people give credence to the th… | /r/MensRights | 08/10/13 03:29 PM |
| 2 | There seems to always be a well-upvoted but anally pedantic and pointless red-herring in any given thread on this sub. It smells subversive. How paranoid am I?I think that what you consider to be indicative of insincerity is kind of the opposite of what looks like insincerity to the OP. He doesn't seem to trust those who criticize snarky comments. | /r/MensRights | 08/10/13 03:29 PM |
| 31 | Streaking: a woman's prank is a boy's sex crimeDidn't you get the memo that women's middles are luscious and desirable, whereas men's middles are dirty, threatening and scary? It's ironic, because the breeze is very important for the cooling functions of the scrotum to work properly... and yet in our society moving air can never get to those parts. | /r/MensRights | 08/10/13 04:29 AM |
| 1 | Arrested for Zero-Tolerance: By all accounts Kyle Thompson is a normal 14-year old kid .. [after holding onto a note, he] is now spending the year under house arrest."It's definitely a problem that our American society has this fetish for thinking about aberrant people... and then guarding ourselves against them - and yes, it's invariably men who fall victim to this thing. How the American news media reports on crime mirrors how Hollywood puts together its stories and characters. It's entirely fictional and unrealistic. Naturally, this perception of the world around us gets firmed up in middle class America... and people end up instituting very stupid and cal… | /r/MensRights | 05/10/13 02:09 PM |
| 1 | Misandry in stereotypically misogynist cultures around the world?I saw a documentary a few months back about these women who were taken from a small bedouin community in Syria (I think it was - it would have been filmed before the war) to participate in a program in India which trained women to be entrepreneurs in selling solar equipment. It seemed to me that whereas the men were made to believe that they were supposed to be in control, it was the grandmother who was really calling the shots, and was telling the woman's husband to voice disapproval to the wif… | /r/MensRights | 04/10/13 02:57 AM |
| -1 | Boy suspended after using finger as pretend gun. The pathologizing of boyhood continues.I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but I think that it's a fair limit to place on children to not allow even imaginary gun play of any kind on the playground, if there's a problem with periodic school shootings in various parts of our country. Firmly instilling in children the idea that guns are never to be pointed at people is an effective way to make certain that they don't do crazy things with guns in the future. I somehow doubt this child would have been suspended for a single … | /r/MensRights | 03/10/13 09:33 PM |
| 4 | Man-Hater and Former Australian PM Man Julia Gillard Victim-Playing and Blaming the Evil Patriarchy AgainThe difference between Gillard's character and Kevin Rudd's character is that he (to this day) shows a generosity of spirit toward her, even as she and her clique bear ill-will toward him. That group's sin seems to have been that they felt justified in dealing with personality conflicts by constantly ragging on the person amongst themselves (not telling him, nor the public). Through this mental exercise, they convince themselves of these things they imagine to be wrong about his character. Then,… | /r/MensRights | 02/10/13 01:46 PM |
| 2 | Man-Hater and Former Australian PM Man Julia Gillard Victim-Playing and Blaming the Evil Patriarchy AgainThe interview | /r/MensRights | 02/10/13 01:21 PM |
| 2 | Not All MRAs Are Like ThatThe thing about holding other people to social standards, is that folks from different backgrounds and regions will have differing expectations about how one ought to converse and socialize. Can one have a large set of social standards for everybody, when everybody grew up with a different set of ideas for what this means? Personality conflicts can certainly surface quickly... and I think that could be one of the reasons that Reddit, in general, has evolved into such an abrasive and bitter envir… | /r/MensRights | 30/09/13 11:01 PM |
| 1 | Not All MRAs Are Like ThatI just wanted to make sure it was clear what you were on about. I'm one of these "ciphers," according to you? That choice of words is a very interesting one. | /r/MensRights | 30/09/13 10:24 PM |
| 1 | Not All MRAs Are Like ThatTL;DR: Abrasive discussion good. Complaint and rancor good. Do not disturb. | /r/MensRights | 30/09/13 07:35 PM |
| 1 | Not All MRAs Are Like ThatIt seems to be a very common problem that social movements choose not to distance themselves from the ideas and rancor of the angry fringe. In nations where there isn't a reasonable, even-tempered discussion about public issues, people may deem it necessary to align themselves with rancorous individuals in order to make their political statements heard. We saw this when Christians refused to summarily call out the religious-right political movement here in the USA in the 1990s - even though they… | /r/MensRights | 30/09/13 04:24 PM |
| 2 | Father who filmed mother trying to force son out of car, now raising legal funds for custodyFamilies that have domestic abuse problems will never be your perfect suburban Wonderbread families. Both the man and woman will likely have their little idiosyncracies, and their unique personal convictions about the world that you or I might not agree with. Those things, however, are entirely beside the point. What we need to look at is the youth's wishes, his statements about what happened to him, and hear with whom he doesn't want to be, and why. Cross check that once with the reactions and … | /r/MensRights | 29/09/13 05:21 PM |
| 29 | Father who filmed mother trying to force son out of car, now raising legal funds for custodyWell, I'll take a shot at it. I didn't watch the whole thing, but I eventually decided to scan through the thumbnails and tune in when there was an obvious change of the cast of characters. Basically, this father has lost custody of his five(?) kids. This is him returning the last boy - who is 14 years old - after the once-a-week 24 hours of visitation between the children and their father. The rest of them apparently have already gone back in the house; however, this teenager does not at all wa… | /r/MensRights | 29/09/13 09:27 AM |
| 38 | Father who filmed mother trying to force son out of car, now raising legal funds for custodySome people would (mistakenly) say it's sexist for me to point this out - but some women like her never grow up. They think that they can throw tantrums when they're not getting their way, and that it is a workable way to navigate the worst moments of adult life. These women have apparently never gone out and stood on their own two feet. They go from one man to the next, if the first doesn't work out. I would think that if the woman had to work for a living and support herself, she would quickly… | /r/MensRights | 29/09/13 08:44 AM |
| 5 | Father who filmed mother trying to force son out of car, now raising legal funds for custodyAnyone want to talk about the highlights of the 72 minute video? | /r/MensRights | 29/09/13 08:12 AM |
| 1 | Circumcision is contrary to the human rights of children - Swedish Newspaper (google translate)That's one area where Canada and the USA shine beyond most other Western countries - we are successful multicultural societies. It's been fascinating to watch the reaction as the sensibilities of France try to get themselves sanctioned in Quebec with a new proposed constitutional thing that limits the wearing of religious symbols by government employees. It's met a swift rebuke from prominent people of all political persuasions in Anglophone Canada. It seems to me that institutionalized racism (… | /r/MensRights | 29/09/13 02:50 AM |
| 1 | Any news from Toronto?but they were mainly just a nuisance I imagine that in some crazy way, being forced to pay for the childish actions of others might make people more sanguine. I know that when I correct a child, and she or he throws a tantrum I just get calmer and more smug. I know what's best. | /r/MensRights | 29/09/13 01:57 AM |
| 3 | Circumcision is contrary to the human rights of children - Swedish Newspaper (google translate)Continental Europeans (and Anglophone expats who live there) tend to talk about things with more rationality, less social drama and less hyberbole than you'd see in the average American discussion. This is one of the differences that caused me reverse culture shock when I returned to the USA after a year abroad in Germany. I must admit that seeing a new way of thinking and doing things really has jaded me ever since, regarding my own country. I lost the appreciation I formerly had for the sillin… | /r/MensRights | 28/09/13 07:37 PM |
| 2 | Raven Moon Dragon: Don't Sexually Objectify Women!Well... the physical aspect is just an expression of the larger friendship. It's a way of communicating, and expressing your fondness for one another, as well as your commitment to nurture each other. Men are starved for physical affection from the day they are cut off from it at early puberty, so yes they do get kind of obsessive about it. | /r/MensRights | 17/09/13 07:57 PM |
| 2 | People need to stop being dicks on the subway by taking up way too much space. Oh wait. No, just men need to stop doing that. More equality!Men need to air their privates to cool them. It's a simple fact of male health. | /r/MensRights | 17/09/13 03:02 PM |
| 2 | Raven Moon Dragon: Don't Sexually Objectify Women!I find it ironic that women complain about men "objectifying" them. I honestly see this argument as primarily consisting of psychological projection. Women are the ones who more often view dating as a way to gain access to resources. Men generally just want a close friendship. | /r/MensRights | 17/09/13 03:00 PM |
| 1 | The Glass Ceiling?Excellent little film. Thank you. I swear, the UK is the only anglophone nation where the man on the street will produce this sort of extensive analysis and prove something patiently, point by point. The rest of us often get stuck just mucking about with hyperbole and silliness and meanness - trying to "win the debate" by any means possible. | /r/MensRights | 16/09/13 01:34 PM |
| 1 | Is this subreddit appropriate for a men's health discussion? Cooling the family jewelsOK. Thanks for the heads up. | /r/MensRights | 14/09/13 10:13 PM |
| 1 | Is this subreddit appropriate for a men's health discussion? Cooling the family jewelsThank you. I will. | /r/MensRights | 14/09/13 09:46 PM |
| 2 | False rape accuser sentenced to 5 years in prison (german newspaper, google translated)Germany tends to be a country that acts progressively when all the rest of the world is only talking about it. It's a fascinating effect to watch over the years. It means that they push the envelope, when things are only fads... and it also means that they're the first ones out of the starting gate in case of a real sea change in the way things are thought about and done. Also, it's worth noting that Germany's court system is really deliberative and fair (heck, they even employ anthropologists t… | /r/MensRights | 14/09/13 03:01 AM |
| 1 | "No Respect For Men" - Nice to see this on the second biggest newspaper of Switzerland (Translated by Google)I doubt you'd see a lot in a Teutophonic country. German speakers, it seems to me, tend to discuss things reasonably, rather than with hyperbole. There's less drama, in other words. | /r/MensRights | 01/08/13 01:49 AM |
| 6 | "No Respect For Men" - Nice to see this on the second biggest newspaper of Switzerland (Translated by Google)It's interesting to see how these trends of thought jump from country to country. | /r/MensRights | 31/07/13 12:50 PM |
| 2 | The masculinity debate: no wonder men stay out of it | Jack O'Sullivan | Comment is freeThank you. This author gets it. | /r/MensRights | 22/05/13 12:47 AM |
| 1 | Feel like I'm subconsciously being accused of paedophilia just for being a guy...I have made several forays into working with children over the years, here in the USA, and I have found each time that over the long term, the very thing you're describing happens. There's a "glass ceiling" - so to speak - for men working with kids in this nation. It's a very similar social effect that women face as they go into jobs which are primarily done by men: A person of a different gender is going to have to have a different approach to their job... and that can cause misapprehensions. W… | /r/MensRights | 04/05/13 03:01 AM |
| 3 | This sub spends too much time complaining about feminism and not enough time pushing forward men's rights and changes in the treatment of men.Sending me aggressive personal messages is unnecessary. Downvoting every comment I've ever made is silly. If you encourage the misapprehensions of people on Reddit, you'll get upvoted, if you confront folks' misguided attitudes, you'll be hated. Welcome to Reddit. That's how "karma" works, here; it's all about who can praise the cesspool the most enthusiastically. | /r/MensRights | 01/04/13 02:38 AM |
| 1 | As a 22 year old male, I am deciding not to have sex for the forseeable future.That's been my decision, too - although it isn't really a conscious decision day to day. When the opportunity has presented itself, I will start feeling a bit weird about the whole thing for the reason you mention, and I don't pursue it. | /r/MensRights | 20/02/13 12:53 AM |
| -3 | The Futurist: The Misandry BubbleUmmm. No, I think you're wrong there. Even if you disagree with the first paragraph, skim down to the main body of the text and you may see many things that you agree with. | /r/MensRights | 19/02/13 01:36 AM |
| 2 | PSA: Please report inappropriate posts and comments to the moderators"Russell" has two ls. Corrected. | /r/MensRights | 18/02/13 11:12 PM |
| 2 | PSA: Please report inappropriate posts and comments to the moderatorsWell, the original post by "Dear Occupant" has been removed... but in it, he described what he believed was an agent provocateur talking glibly about violence against women. The notion was that this poster was trying to bring the men's rights subreddit into ill-repute via trying to insert these kinds of vulgarity into the discussions here on the men's rights subreddit. If this is true, such people cannot be compared to those people like Russell and Socrates and Galileo. | /r/MensRights | 18/02/13 11:05 PM |
| 1 | PSA: Please report inappropriate posts and comments to the moderatorsBeing foul is equivalent in your mind with thinking outside the box? | /r/MensRights | 18/02/13 10:15 PM |
| 1 | PSA: Please report inappropriate posts and comments to the moderatorsI see that you have an idealistic bent, but I still think it's obvious that while there are many things in any given society which are considered beyond the pale to talk about - and some of them would get you killed or imprisoned - only a subsection of those things tick the boxes that I mentioned above. | /r/MensRights | 18/02/13 08:51 PM |
| 1 | PSA: Please report inappropriate posts and comments to the moderatorsSocrates and Galileo weren't disturbing the peace by promoting violence or hatred, or by throwing tantrums, or by spitting on their fellow man. There's a big difference. | /r/MensRights | 18/02/13 08:35 PM |
| 1 | PSA: Please report inappropriate posts and comments to the moderatorsOf course, you can... but the question is "Will people actually see the agent provacateur for what she or he is?" There are a million costumes that people like that can put on.. and some of them can evoke sympathy. The motive, however, is to bring ill-repute on a community that they hate. I think that anyone who's recklessly disturbing the peace of a forum needs to have her comments deleted. | /r/MensRights | 18/02/13 07:49 PM |
| 12 | PSA: Please report inappropriate posts and comments to the moderatorsLooks like the trolls have assigned themselves the task of trying to bring the mens' rights movement into ill-repute. Kick 'em out! | /r/MensRights | 18/02/13 02:59 AM |
| 5 | Apparently, if men want to enjoy life, have non PC discussions, score with women, and fight for their human rights it = fascismMisconceptions are rife on the internet, and that brother sure has bought into a doozy. | /r/MensRights | 17/02/13 10:08 PM |
| 1 | The bonds between men and childrenThis comment is also intended as a response to you. And no. I would not call myself a feminist, but rather a masculinist. I am male, BTW, too. | /r/MensRights | 05/01/13 04:28 AM |
| 1 | The bonds between men and childrenIt's certainly your prerogative on a rambunctious site like Reddit to take umbrage at whatever person's thoughts you'd like to react to. I did, however, myself grow up in the Pacific Northwest, and thus I speak from first hand experience. I also speak from third hand experience, now that I'm an adult watching my nephew grow up in that region. It's a cultural thing I'm pointing out. I have worked extensively with children in other parts of the USA, and their demeanor and their way of bonding with… | /r/MensRights | 05/01/13 04:23 AM |
| 3 | Having just discovered SRS/SRSWomen, this is how I imagined the posters."Shit Reddit says" | /r/MensRights | 21/12/12 02:33 PM |
| 1 | I realized something subtle about gender perception today on the bus.Yeah... the biggest danger of this kind of social dynamic is that a man starts to doubt himself. | /r/MensRights | 22/09/12 02:54 AM |
| 1 | When females complain about double standards....I agree with you... everyone has their problems and certain difficulties can be specifically linked to gender relations... but I think men do generally get the short end of the stick in life in our society. Men are the workhorses, and women are the delicate little flowers - the aesthetes. | /r/MensRights | 03/09/12 03:00 AM |
| 28 | I can barely contain my rage. Been treated as if I was a paedophile.That's a bit of a digression, but yup, you might agree with me that the most cruel thing which happens when women teach boys to mistrust the affection of men... is that those boys when they go through adolescence will themselves develop a sense of self doubt, and unfounded shame, just for being male. | /r/MensRights | 03/09/12 02:16 AM |
| 19 | I can barely contain my rage. Been treated as if I was a paedophile.Since this is the 4th incident it sounds like the child safety officer job rules are conflicting with your own job rules. Bingo. | /r/MensRights | 03/09/12 12:41 AM |
| 5 | I can barely contain my rage. Been treated as if I was a paedophile.I think that if you're that passionate about fixing the problem of these types of interactions with the "child safety officer" group... you'll need to spend some time researching a bit about that organization's policies, and the rhetoric behind those policies. You have a pretty small sample size of incidents from which you're drawing a pretty broad conclusion about prejudice toward men. Perhaps you're exactly right, but on the other hand, perhaps people in this (informal?) association just don't… | /r/MensRights | 03/09/12 12:38 AM |
| 1 | Commercial in Sexual assault in Canada.Canada isn't Switzerland, is it? | /r/MensRights | 24/08/12 04:19 PM |
| 4 | Uncircumcised Penises Might Be Costing Us BillionsHow did the advocation of male circumcision become deemed a feminist issue suitable for inclusion on jezebel.com? It has nothing to do with women. | /r/MensRights | 22/08/12 02:56 PM |
| 5 | Dude throws tantrum on account of ‘sexism’; feminists laugh their faces offWell the sad fact is, that a lot of times when people start feeling that they have a bone to pick with how another culture or subculture works - they're actually projecting their own subculture's faults onto the wider world. | /r/MensRights | 21/08/12 09:32 AM |
| 2 | The right to physical affection - is the market for this being manipulated?Well, I'm very happy with what I am. If you are not happy with what I am, then perhaps there is nothing more to be spoken between us. Suffice it to say that I really appreciate the blog post that you asked me to read. Good on you, for writing it. | /r/MensRights | 17/07/12 05:08 PM |
| 0 | The right to physical affection - is the market for this being manipulated?You've totally misconstrued me. I will reluctantly digress from the topic at hand to address your personal criticism of me. I can't let that kind of thing slide. You seem particularly resistant to people who build their models about the world through induction. I'll just note that because of that, you might find that your sensibilities are a much better fit for Canada, than they are for Australia. ;-) I'm surprised that as a person who has lived in Germany (I read that blog post) that you don't … | /r/MensRights | 17/07/12 05:03 PM |
| -1 | The right to physical affection - is the market for this being manipulated?I wouldn't call it stereotyping to acknowledge that there is a common sensibility among people in a group. It's stereotyping when you see people in a shallow way, and judge from first impressions - for example, the first thing that many Americans note about Australians is that they seem rather coarse and vulgar. To stop there and to form a broad-based conclusion would be stereotyping. However, when you dig a little deeper, you see that Australians are especially good systems-thinkers. This has t… | /r/MensRights | 17/07/12 04:35 PM |
| 0 | The right to physical affection - is the market for this being manipulated?Oh, I see some big differences in gender relations in Australia. For one thing, women tend to be much more inclined to make their own way in the world, over there. They have just as much knack for putting together small (and large) businesses as men do. (The richest woman in the world is an Australian, in fact - Gina Rinehart). The personality differences between men and women are probably less stark as well. Part and parcel with taking on more responsibilities is the stress that comes from that… | /r/MensRights | 17/07/12 04:14 PM |
| 1 | The right to physical affection - is the market for this being manipulated?Would you be willing to live with a less attractive woman if they were rich? A less physically attractive older woman would mean needing to redefine your sensibilities about what romance is, overall. Also a love of autonomy is very much at the heart of what maleness is, in our society, so meshing yourself up with someone else's program (as young women do with older men) might be difficult. do you think there is individual skill in dating? There is certainly skill involved in finding people who w… | /r/MensRights | 17/07/12 04:02 PM |
| -2 | The right to physical affection - is the market for this being manipulated?People ARE very different when you cross an international border, believe it or not. Australians are very much inductive thinkers who know how to individually assess the systems of the world around us. They have an entirely different set of standards for how their legislators should form public policy. Canadians are also unique in a very different way. I actually suspect that the thing I was discussing in this post is a uniquely American phenomenon. Americans' rugged individualism means that the… | /r/MensRights | 17/07/12 03:07 PM |
| 1 | The right to physical affection - is the market for this being manipulated?are you saying you are jealous of your brother because he is more financially stable and has a wife/children, while you have to pay for prostitutes? Please read it more closely. Others were able to see what I was saying. I am certainly not jealous of my brother. I think I have a happier life than he has, overall... because I've chosen to live a lifestyle that suits me really well. I would like to raise a family someday, but I think that I may have to move to a different country (eg. Australia) t… | /r/MensRights | 17/07/12 02:52 PM |
| 1 | The Bigotry of Anti-Circumcision ZealotsIt's interesting that the writer doesn't have an argument. | /r/MensRights | 08/07/12 07:11 PM |
| 2 | TIL men should avoid doing something nice when it involves helping a childThat's exactly how it happens, yes. | /r/MensRights | 06/05/12 06:20 PM |
| 1 | TIL men should avoid doing something nice when it involves helping a childThat's terrible advice. You raise suspicion if you refuse to be transparent about what's happening when a police officer walks up to you and starts asking questions. | /r/MensRights | 06/05/12 06:19 PM |
| 0 | TIL men should avoid doing something nice when it involves helping a childRemember, it's South Carolina. You've got to put yourself in the shoes of the mother and remember the moral panic about stranger abduction which is the filter through which people see events. She may well have glanced over and seen the OP walk up to her son, address him and lead him off somewhere out of sight. The reaction is rather predictable. | /r/MensRights | 06/05/12 04:10 PM |
| 1 | Explain it like im five: Why is everyone against circumcision??"Because the USA is not the only English speaking country." | /r/MensRights | 01/05/12 03:59 PM |
| 2 | Female dentist rips the teeth out of her former boyfriend's face.It's the United Kingdom, man. | /r/MensRights | 28/04/12 04:16 PM |
| 1 | Why is consent always framed into a feminist narrative as being something a woman gives to a man allowing him to do sex to her?Massage is hard work. I think a woman is as much a receiver as the man is | /r/MensRights | 08/04/12 05:36 AM |
| 1 | Shanghai Boys' School Hopes to Boost Masculinity - teaching will focus upon improving the boys' ability to learn, using techniques gathered from previous research and pinpointing known weaknesses within male study patternsOf course, more often then not, "building character" means "suppressing individuality" Well, that's how people think about it, today. And it is true that whatever the prevailing ethic about child rearing happens to be, there will be masses of inexperienced parents who err because of that idea in a certain predictable direction. In my opinion... here in the USA, parents in this era err on the side of not teaching critical thinking. This grows out of the prevalent scientific frame of reference of … | /r/MensRights | 06/04/12 02:10 AM |
| 1 | If Women Ran the WorldThank you for that video. | /r/MensRights | 05/04/12 05:05 PM |
| 1 | Shanghai Boys' School Hopes to Boost Masculinity - teaching will focus upon improving the boys' ability to learn, using techniques gathered from previous research and pinpointing known weaknesses within male study patternsWell, the lateral trend of every ideological movement affects every country differently, depending on its culture and its sensibilities. From reading this article, it sounds as if the "men's rights" school of thought is having a good impact over there. East Asian peoples have a very different approach to raising kids and educating them. the school will focus on character cultivation as part of the daily curriculum. Teaching will focus upon improving the boys' ability to learn, using techniques g… | /r/MensRights | 05/04/12 04:56 PM |
| 2 | My IamA was removed at +381 upvotes. What the fuck do I do now?The USA (at least online) seems to have become all about this kind of a culture war. People think that if they can manipulate trends of opinion in a certain way, their way of life can continue. However, if a new trend of thought starts taking root, they feel their way of life is threatened. Don't ask me why. | /r/MensRights | 05/04/12 12:35 AM |
| 5 | No Female Privilege? 3 Lesbians beat gay man, use "homophobic slurs", break his nose. Bail: $100-500 eachAnd one wonders why 93% of people in US prisons are male. | /r/MensRights | 26/02/12 04:52 PM |
| 3 | School gender achievement gap explained: woman teachers discriminate against boysThe social sciences are not well suited to traditional school system methods. Maths and sciences, on the other hand... | /r/MensRights | 17/02/12 02:35 AM |
| 1 | In Sweden its now considerd a male priviledge for men to sit with their legs apart on public transport.Wow! | /r/MensRights | 11/02/12 04:21 AM |
| 5 | In Sweden its now considerd a male priviledge for men to sit with their legs apart on public transport.Are these kinds of emotional arguments common in Sweden? It sounds like how people talk, here in the USA. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/12 07:23 PM |
| 7 | In Sweden its now considerd a male priviledge for men to sit with their legs apart on public transport.One person who was able to get themselves a segment on national news. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/12 07:21 PM |
| 10 | In Sweden its now considerd a male priviledge for men to sit with their legs apart on public transport.Oh... I wasn't asking you to go to the work of doing a complete translation. Thank you very much, though, for doing it! Hmmm... well... this kind of reminds me of conversation styles about public issues here in the USA, where people will embark on an emotional argument without realizing the fundamental facts which underly the issue. Frankly, men have the need to radiate heat from that area of their body in order to keep themselves healthy. Also, without it being socially acceptable to put your h… | /r/MensRights | 10/02/12 07:19 PM |
| 2 | In Sweden its now considerd a male priviledge for men to sit with their legs apart on public transport.Can you give us a general gist of what SVT reporters and the interviewees thought about the issue? There's no "Google Translate" for audio. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/12 06:18 PM |
| 7 | Teacher sleeps with 16 year old student and gets pregnant. The verdict? Probation and no more teaching. She also does NOT have to register as a sex offender. Bullshit!The law should treat people equally - however that needn't mean "equally harsh." We men need to work to convince our politicians that jail is not always the answer. | /r/MensRights | 22/01/12 12:10 AM |
| 2 | I guess now she gets what it's like to be a man.That's your own imagination acting up, believe me. However, I see how my quip might have prompted it to. | /r/MensRights | 25/12/11 06:50 AM |
| 3 | I guess now she gets what it's like to be a man.I'm talking about it within the context of the USA. There are huge cultural differences between the two groups. However, the nature of each, will vary from region to region. | /r/MensRights | 25/12/11 05:11 AM |
| 5 | I guess now she gets what it's like to be a man.Women tend to talk about themselves and others freely in a way that men don't. We men call this "gossip." They call it "having friends." | /r/MensRights | 24/12/11 11:35 PM |
| 0 | Japan provides refuge to parents who abduct their children after losing custodyHere's an Adobe Flash news segment out of Australia about the same topic. | /r/MensRights | 17/12/11 04:59 AM |
| 1 | Male child overheard calling female teacher cute, gets suspended for sexual harassmentIt also helps if you're in Australia. | /r/MensRights | 06/12/11 12:31 AM |
| 3 | Male child overheard calling female teacher cute, gets suspended for sexual harassmentGood looking man kisses stranger's toddler. Gets nothing but adulation and praise from her mother and from the press. | /r/MensRights | 05/12/11 10:40 PM |
| -3 | This is what circumcision is. How is this considered normal? XPOST from /r/IntactivistsIt's interesting to read this anthropological account of how kids' genitals were treated in pre-contact Hawaii. You can see how much work it was for parents and caregivers to make certain that the foreskin properly separated from the glans. They did subincise the foreskin, even in Hawaii. This probably indicates that there were enough occasional problems with boys' foreskins to warrant this. In the middle East and the West... it seems like the practice of full circumcision was probably a respons… | /r/MensRights | 05/12/11 08:06 PM |
| 0 | To Be Perfectly Frank | Dirty old men?A penis does not make a man, nor a vagina a woman. Your identity is wrapped up in the culture which you are a part of. | /r/MensRights | 21/11/11 07:09 PM |
| 0 | To Be Perfectly Frank | Dirty old men?I don't see a problem in admiring people for their cultural background. However, as you point out - it can be politically incorrect to do so - depending on the region you live in. And yes... women and men represent two very distinctive cultural groups. | /r/MensRights | 21/11/11 06:37 PM |
| 0 | To Be Perfectly Frank | Dirty old men?Would it piss a man off to be talked about the same way? | /r/MensRights | 21/11/11 06:21 PM |
| -10 | Wikipedia is like the Ministry of Truth. The truth, and history, can be edited.A bit arrogant today, hmmm? | /r/MensRights | 17/10/11 02:22 AM |
| 1 | Men want more testosterone, the world needs lessSo the very thing that makes people male, is somehow an evil force in society? Wow... that's an audacious conclusion. | /r/MensRights | 28/09/11 02:57 AM |
| 1 | Is Australia more man-friendly?The assertion that government exercises very little control over freedom of the press is quite right, and I would add an admirable goal in a democratic society and a difficult one to maintain. Britain and the USA have a very different character than Canada, Australia and New Zealand. I believe a lot of the difference has to do with the fact that the latter countries have very robust press regulations. | /r/MensRights | 05/09/11 04:31 PM |
| 1 | Is Australia more man-friendly?NSW - New South Wales (an Australian state in the southeast of the country) | /r/MensRights | 05/09/11 04:29 PM |
| 1 | Is Australia more man-friendly?You folks who want to say regulation of the press will lead to an Iran or a Bahrain are simply uninformed... you don't know what laws about the press are in place in countries like Australia and Canada and many European countries. You're exhibiting symptoms of the very thing that I was referring to - social drama. The way Americans discuss things is very much black and white - people take a side and argue it, in the process convincing themselves that the people who argue the other perspective mu… | /r/MensRights | 05/09/11 04:28 PM |
| 2 | Is Australia more man-friendly?Brunt, you're a fascinating person. How can you say that a place with regulation on the media like Canada or Australia or Scandinavian countries is somehow equivalent to Bahrain? That's not a logical assumption. Also, I must point out that every country has its strengths and weaknesses... every people has places that they need to work on. It's not bashing them to criticize them, especially if you're one of them. I'm not Australian, my man. I've spent my whole life in the USA. It's people like yo… | /r/MensRights | 05/09/11 04:19 PM |
| 0 | Is Australia more man-friendly?if you are using the ABC as an example of "typical Australian media" then you are very misinformed. Whenever a person walks down a certain valley, the mountains on either side seem mammoth. However, if a person looks down from them from the seat of an airliner, the valley looks just like many others for hundreds of miles in every direction. As an outsider, I see a civility and a depth of thought that I admire in not only the ABC, but also even in Murdoch's Australian publications. Here in the US… | /r/MensRights | 05/09/11 06:08 AM |
| 1 | Is Australia more man-friendly?My take on things is that other nations (even Western anglophone ones) are like the sci-fi idea of parallel universes. Each nation has its own very unique set of sensibilities, perspectives on the world, and approaches to life. And this is despite things seeming much the same on the surface. | /r/MensRights | 05/09/11 05:57 AM |
| 1 | Is Australia more man-friendly?Another interesting thing about American women is that they're very focused on helping out womankind, and yet they won't lift a finger to try to help the men around them. It's a fascinating social phenomenon. Also, there is a problem that females here can often grow up with a lack of a sense of personal responsibility. They've convinced themselves that men are running the world, and that women have no say in matters of import. They thus refuse to acknowledge that women have a profound influence … | /r/MensRights | 05/09/11 05:03 AM |
| 1 | Is Australia more man-friendly?Charismatic (read: "beautiful") women in the US tend to be like divas. Everything revolves around them, and in their minds men exist to serve them. Ironically, though, at the same time, they're very much secretly derisive of men. You can see it on their faces. Anything that is the least bit unusual about a man is cause for endless consternation. In this way, they have an inherent mistrust for men (which is, to be honest, really a prejudice). I once met a delightful Australian woman on a Greyhoun… | /r/MensRights | 05/09/11 04:30 AM |
| 2 | Brother and sister have consensual sex - only the man gets put on sex offender's registerMen generally tend to be more at ease with anything that has to do with promiscuity than women are. I think it's a cultural difference between the two genders. When men find their voice, they are going to promote the values that they have. Most people in Western society are a bit queasy about things like incest. However, men at least, will be less likely to hold it against people when they choose to engage in that action. | /r/MensRights | 05/09/11 03:58 AM |
| 8 | "We are wrong as a culture to maintain the gender divide that says that boys are not as emotional and relational as girls, and encouraging boys to lose their emotional language as they grow up is linked to depression and suicide."I think the article entirely misses the point. The biggest problem for teenage boys when it comes to properly knowing how to bond with other people, is the little cultural nonsense which our society believes in - that says whenever you're fond of somebody and happen to have a boner when you're in the room with them or thinking about them, that you're "sexually attracted" to them. This leads to anxiety and to no end of emotional barriers that boys begin to learn to put up. You can't be doubting y… | /r/MensRights | 21/08/11 08:44 PM |
| 1 | I am fucking tired of being perceived as a pervert for being attracted to women and their bodiesEnglish-speaking North America, in all honesty, is a very chaste society. I find it so odd that people believe that our two countries here are "sexually liberated." The values that people talk about all the time all lead back to one place - serial monogamy - and even there - there's so much social drama about breaking up with people, and implied commitment and whatever else. Young people tend to believe that everybody thinks like them, when it comes to sex, and has the same promiscuous aspiratio… | /r/MensRights | 21/08/11 08:28 PM |
| 1 | In what way is pornography demeaning to women but not men?In what way did photographs ever hurt anyone? | /r/MensRights | 24/06/11 01:17 AM |
| 1 | One for the 'Feminism fights for Equality' File: Feminists campaign for more mercy to be shown female criminals.Equality doesn't mean that 94% of people in prison should be men. That's the current ratio in the UK. In the USA, last time I checked, it was 93% male. We men have got something to fix. | /r/MensRights | 29/05/11 03:50 AM |
| 1 | Calls for MP Ken Clarke to resign for saying not all rape the same.It just blows me away that the proportion of men to women in prison doesn't come up in the conversation at all when politicians discuss this. About 95% of people in prison in both the UK and in the USA are men. So, what does it mean when a male politician says that he needs to "be tough on crime"? It means he's betraying his own gender. If men don't take care of each other, who will? | /r/MensRights | 19/05/11 02:38 PM |
| 1 | Two Swedish men have been sentenced to life in prison in the Philippines for running a cybersex brothel with naked girls for clients watching over the internet. Cybersex dens have become a growing problem in the impoverished Philippines, according to law enforcers and social workers.It wouldn't be a problem if it were legal. Making it illegal simply makes the situation for people caught up in the kind of thing worse. It pushes it underground. I think the rest of the world should follow New Zealand and Denmark, and simply decriminalize paid sex. Furthermore, I wish that people would worry about the Philippines' real problems. Often the justice system itself can be the biggest problem. | /r/MensRights | 11/05/11 08:24 PM |
| 2 | Boy wears skirt to school in protest against 'discriminatory' rules which ban boys from wearing shortsKilts, FTW! Yes, boys and men really would be happier, healthier, and would be able to concentrate better if they had more aeration in their nether-regions. It's good to see this kid taking a stand for his fellow man. | /r/MensRights | 10/05/11 11:29 PM |
| 1 | 6-year-old charged with sexual assault for consensual doctor play. Do we teach toddlers that that playing doctor is a felony? And why is the girl not charged with statutory rape?I know Denmark is nothing like Sweden and Norway with respect to Feminism but would you call the country mostly non Feminism. It seems to me that the men in Denmark are much happier than men are in any other Western country, if that answers your question. I wrote up some thoughts about this a week or two ago. | /r/MensRights | 04/05/11 05:55 PM |
| 1 | 6-year-old charged with sexual assault for consensual doctor play. Do we teach toddlers that that playing doctor is a felony? And why is the girl not charged with statutory rape?"Moralism" means that intellectuals think that they can preach their morals to other people. This is a problem in every English-speaking country. Our hangups about sexuality come from that attitude - the idea that you can micromanage a society and tell people what they should and shouldn't do, because of what is moral or immoral. Denmark doesn't do that in the same way, it seems to me. Certainly when it comes to the topic of sex... they start teaching them about it at a very young age. Sex ed st… | /r/MensRights | 03/05/11 05:01 PM |
| 1 | 6-year-old charged with sexual assault for consensual doctor play. Do we teach toddlers that that playing doctor is a felony? And why is the girl not charged with statutory rape?Ahhh... the moralistic anglosphere. Time to move to Denmark. | /r/MensRights | 02/05/11 06:11 PM |
| 1 | On the happiness of men - is Denmark better?I think you also underestimate the influence of religion in the UK.. I don't think I do. However, I think others do. You seem to have misread me. Brits seem to be shocked at the rhetoric of some religious families and people, here, in the USA. At the same time, however, they are the ones who still have church and state intertwined. We don't. I think that the reason that people in Britain aren't inclined to dive so whole heartedly into religious philosophy on a personal level like brave souls do … | /r/MensRights | 24/04/11 06:35 PM |
| 1 | On the happiness of men - is Denmark better?acting Danish In the rest of the world, we call this "acting rich." ;-) | /r/MensRights | 24/04/11 05:12 PM |
| 1 | What a Cute Baby.Young men need to realize that the nervousness of parents when others smile at their kids is partially just the parents realizing that they themselves are the ones who are being sensual with their children in private; It's not that they're suspicious of the new adult. Parents can, in this manner, have an innappropriate sense of nervousness, even though they have done exactly what they should for their child. How did that child become sensual and affectionate in the first place? It was through a … | /r/MensRights | 24/04/11 04:06 PM |
| 1 | On the happiness of men - is Denmark better?God! Are you always this way when you talk on the internet? What is it with people like yourself who are always out to combat other people and mistrust them, instead of having a constructive amicable discussion? Get a life. Look at Transparent Opal's last post on his column. Me is me. | /r/MensRights | 24/04/11 02:35 AM |
| 2 | On the happiness of men - is Denmark better?Well, all I can say is that it is awfully awkward to try to bring up concepts that are so foreign and novel to people that they don't make sense to them. Anyone can jump on the bandwagon, once there's a school of thought that's there. However, only the very daring will be the first to say that the emporer has no clothes. In 2007, for example, I was using the moniker "Transparent Opal" in this conversation with a rabid feminist. | /r/MensRights | 24/04/11 01:53 AM |
| 3 | On the happiness of men - is Denmark better?Try to start trends. I was campaigning against unreasonable feminists years ago - before there was a men's rights movement existent. I like to think that my lengthy debates here and there on the net inspired people like those here at Reddit to start a bona-fide movement. In the same way, I'm injecting a fresh idea into the men's rights subreddit today... the idea that we as men need to better our gender, and that there might be better models of masculinity out there in various countries that we … | /r/MensRights | 24/04/11 01:31 AM |
| 2 | On the happiness of men - is Denmark better?I've never seen that video before, but I think it's a great initiative. Notwithstanding that, I definitely would have a bone to pick with a few things stated by those who made it. The entire gender is not responsible for policies of a few oligarchs at different points of history. Prisons and wars are really ways that men hurt their own gender, more than anything else. Anyone who comes fresh to the game from a different culture or gender will bring constructive things to it. For example, men goin… | /r/MensRights | 24/04/11 12:58 AM |
| 2 | On the happiness of men - is Denmark better?Anyone who wants to hold other people to standards will be seen as smug by some of those around him. However, if more men would do as I do here, and point out shortcomings in our culture and ways we can change ourselves, the outcome will be very good. Look at what women have done with their culture. These aren't the old crusty fisherladies down at the wharf in the Victorian days which you see out there, today. Women have made themselves a brand which consists of gentleness, kindness, intuition, … | /r/MensRights | 24/04/11 12:31 AM |
| 2 | On the happiness of men - is Denmark better?In order to clearly differentiate between good practices, and bad practices and to point out the outcomes from each, one needs to be quite frank. Such words will offend some people. pretending you aren't part of reddit. That sentence doesn't mean anything. If you look at my post history, you'll see that I don't insult, antagonize, deride, or do all the other anti-social things that the young American men will, when they vote and banter in the way they do on Reddit's front public page links/comme… | /r/MensRights | 24/04/11 12:19 AM |
| 2 | On the happiness of men - is Denmark better?I see humility and the ability criticise yourself and your country as being very admirable traits. Danes constantly are bemused about having been chosen as the "happiest people" in various lifestyle surveys. | /r/MensRights | 23/04/11 03:48 PM |
| 0 | On the happiness of men - is Denmark better?I live in the USA. I understand expressly what religion is in this country, and how it differs from how the custom is approached in the UK, for example. Honestly, I think that if you are looking for a country which is the least influenced by religion, you're not at all doing poorly here in the USA. Canada may be slightly better. Australia though, seems to conflate religion and ethics and they have religion classes in public schools. The UK has a special relationship between the Anglican church a… | /r/MensRights | 23/04/11 03:37 PM |
| 0 | On the happiness of men - is Denmark better?Well... actually, I think the USA is the best anglophone country in which to raise a kid... as long as you can move into the right neighborhood, and get them into the right schools. If the parents put the effort in, as I'm sure you do, they can certainly raise happy and well-adjusted boys as well as girls. The problems we have with raising boys, I think have more to do with some misguided cultural sensibilities about what masculinity is. | /r/MensRights | 23/04/11 03:18 PM |
| 1 | On the happiness of men - is Denmark better?Personally, I don't think that's going to be a problem for me. I already know German and I get the sense that I'll have a knack when it comes to learning Danish. Yes, though... I agree with you - I think it is generally seen as one of the harder European languages to learn. | /r/MensRights | 23/04/11 02:52 PM |
| 3 | On the happiness of men - is Denmark better?Uh oh... I've offended a libertarian! In the interest of keeping my thread on topic, I won't reply... though on another day in another forum I'd love to embark on a long conversation with you about this. | /r/MensRights | 23/04/11 02:50 PM |
| 0 | Swedish Feminists Gutted Good and ProperAnd they wonder why the quality of articles submitted to Reddit can be tawdry. I never submit articles for that very reason. Lots of conscientious people would love to share the little jewels they find. However, it often just doesn't work. At least the comment system seems to work consistently. | /r/MensRights | 02/04/11 04:27 AM |
| 4 | Swedish Feminists Gutted Good and ProperThat video looks like it is the best and clearest report on the issue I've seen, yet. edit: Having watched about half of the first segment, I need to take that comment back. The documentary appears to lean toward a sensationalized portrayal. However, maybe I'm wrong, and feminism really has gone off the rails in Sweden more so than in other countries. | /r/MensRights | 31/03/11 08:39 PM |
| 0 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?Well, I think that we two have irreconcilable differences in how we see things. I'm not saying boys should be girlish. I'm saying they should learn to be nice, and caring and nurturing - that they should learn to be "gentlemen." Thanks for chatting. | /r/MensRights | 12/09/10 02:31 PM |
| 0 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?My intent when I proposed this conversation was not to argue with people about New Zealand or child care or whatever. Because people brought up these topics, and passionately engaged me, I digressed and addressed them. I think very broadly about many different topics. I enjoy discussing other areas as well. However, I was shocked at the antagonism toward me as people laid into me about these various topics which came my direction. Yes, that really did sidetrack things. The discussion I wanted to… | /r/MensRights | 12/09/10 04:07 AM |
| 0 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?As I'm sure you realise, I disagree fundamentally with those ideas. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/10 07:07 AM |
| 1 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?In fact more than 100 years ago all the Chiefs had the common sense to ban the use of the language for all Maori children, and asked the education ministry to punish any Maori children who dared speak Maori in school This policy seems to have been worldwide at that time - in anglophone colonised countries. However, in other places, it was imposed by the ethnic Europeans unilaterally. Here where I live in the USA, Native Americans were taken away from their families and sent to boarding schools -… | /r/MensRights | 11/09/10 07:00 AM |
| 0 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?I'm sorry that I don't have any resources to draw on which are at my fingertips. There were a fascinating couple of black and white silent films which depicted the native american tribes of the southwest US as they were still struggling to live in their traditional ways early in the 1900s. Those films showed a very distinctive set of female and male mannerisms which seemed turned-about to my sensibilities. I don't know the titles of the films, nor do I have a link to them. While studying females… | /r/MensRights | 11/09/10 06:20 AM |
| 0 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?The lack of corporal punishment in schools have only done one thing; it has taught children that there are no consequences for bad behavior. You're an educator in which country? This kind of assertion would be beyond the pale for an educator to say in the USA. It's totally off the map of the conceptual world of educators in this country. Children do not learn self discipline by having others impose artificial consequences and punishments. Yes, adults must set firm limits - and they have to enfor… | /r/MensRights | 11/09/10 06:02 AM |
| 1 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?I'm sad that you have had this experience. You've seen a certain side of New Zealand which is very dark. Even the best places in the world have their own problems. It sounds to me as if your problems may have been specific to the location where you lived. I myself left primary school with a permanently collapsed scull, all but three of my ribs broken, my nose straight only because it had been broken so many times it had averaged out... That is certainly atypical for New Zealand - most kids don't… | /r/MensRights | 11/09/10 02:54 AM |
| 1 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?you liberal cocksuckers Lighten up, dude. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/10 02:39 AM |
| 2 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?Listen, Liverotto. If you don't wish to write up complete paragaphs about your ideas... and instead want to write in an oblique fashion - further, if you want to sprinkle such discussions with random insults of the person you're talking to, and the group you believe he belongs to - it's pretty absurd to act hurt and upset when people misconstrue you or dislike you. Learn some internet manners, sir. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/10 01:13 AM |
| 2 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?Yeah... you're joking Sigh. I thought that the men's rights subreddit might contain more rational people. People like you miss the entire purpose of what I'm trying to talk about here. You're acting like a callous fuck for a laugh - just to see people's reactions. | /r/MensRights | 11/09/10 12:51 AM |
| 0 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?Foul! | /r/MensRights | 11/09/10 12:43 AM |
| 2 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?Things are simpler than you liberals want us to believe. Who are you calling a liberal? That word really has no definite meaning, given the different uses it has in various English speaking nations. As to the rest of your post, I really don't understand what you're saying. If you want to make it more readable, please expand it into proper paragraphs. I can't tell whether you're seriously wanting to discuss things, or are trying to crack a weird satirical joke. Actually, now that I reread your po… | /r/MensRights | 11/09/10 12:29 AM |
| 4 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?Someone as mean as you doesn't have any moral high ground to stand on. The actions of people like you ARE the problem. From your conversation here, you appear to be a man and I can tell you that you certainly dishonor the rest of us with talk like that first comment of yours - learn some civility, sir. I have been an avid compaigner in trying to start what has become the "men's rights" movement... and I have had many fiery conversations with unreasonable feminists about their bullshit. However, … | /r/MensRights | 11/09/10 12:14 AM |
| 0 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?claiming that masculinity and femininity were learned behaviors Well, frankly, I would agree that the concepts of femininity and masculinity ARE cultural concepts. Study a few unique cultures and societies from an anthropological standpoint, and you can see that these definitions can vary widely. If you study female-dominated societies, you'll see that the women have what we would call "masculine" qualities, and the men would be seen by us as more "effeminate." The Navajo and Hopi native America… | /r/MensRights | 11/09/10 12:04 AM |
| 6 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?Well... speak of the devil! | /r/MensRights | 10/09/10 11:48 PM |
| 3 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?Now it's my turn say "Huh"? Say again, please. | /r/MensRights | 10/09/10 11:12 PM |
| 0 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?Well, jackwripper, even the concept where the world is separated into "good guys" and "bad guys" is a goonish idea. In these nations that are gentler which I've studied - New Zealand and Canada - even people who do heinous crimes are humanized rather than dehumanized by journalists. A year or two ago in Napier, New Zealand there was a gunman (Jan Molenaar) who had fired on a policeman who was intent on doing a search of his house. The whole neighborhood was cordoned off during the standoff. What… | /r/MensRights | 10/09/10 11:05 PM |
| 4 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?There's no bright line between the two. However, there is a definite trend visible in both genders. | /r/MensRights | 10/09/10 10:56 PM |
| 0 | What can we do to prevent goons from pretending their actions define what "masculinity" is?The problem in general is bad parenting where parents either indulge violent behaviors or condone them through inaction. Yes. For example, boys wrestle because they want a socially acceptable way to touch each other. Yet, what does a habit of wrestling teach kids? When they grow up to be full size, the same kinds of antics that were smiled at by adults earlier in their lives are now termed "assault." Instead, boys should be encouraged to show tenderness to each other through gentle touch. There'… | /r/MensRights | 10/09/10 10:52 PM |
| 1 | Thoughts after watching a BBC historical film - women haven't been oppressed in the West since the early middle ages.Gosh, aren't you a disrespectful person? Wow. | /r/MensRights | 16/08/10 09:32 PM |
| 1 | Thoughts after watching a BBC historical film - women haven't been oppressed in the West since the early middle ages.I know it's a bit unusual at Reddit to use fiction films as a way to discuss an issue. I think that it can be very instructive, however. It's more fun, perhaps, and requires less reading than to go back to historical documents of the time. The Mary Poppins clip I gave you illustrates a social dynamic which is much more akin to an environmental activist going and doing civil disobedience in order to have an adventure of being carted off to jail for the night. If people of the same subculture see … | /r/MensRights | 16/08/10 07:24 PM |
| 1 | Thoughts after watching a BBC historical film - women haven't been oppressed in the West since the early middle ages.Since you use that slang word, I would guess you're an Aussie? I really can't speak about the social dynamic in Australia. I haven't lived there. | /r/MensRights | 16/08/10 09:20 AM |
| 2 | Thoughts after watching a BBC historical film - women haven't been oppressed in the West since the early middle ages.I don't see that, at all. Rednecks, pub-goers, and bogans might talk in that manner - but as such, it would be a fringe idea that a gentle male is of weak character. Let's look across the Atlantic; I would say we might look at how folks from the USA put Britons on a pedestal in their minds; Britain is a place where the men use a melodic tenor voice rather than an even baritone voice. | /r/MensRights | 16/08/10 09:12 AM |
| 1 | Thoughts after watching a BBC historical film - women haven't been oppressed in the West since the early middle ages.Yes, guys always argue that "women set the standards for themselves." While I agree with you other women probably have something to do with it, it still seems as if women keep doing it because they know that otherwise men won't find them sexy or attractive and thus they will end up not promoted (or even hired) in the workplace and completely alone in terms of romance. The social dynamic of bonding between younger people and older people of either gender often involves the younger person trying t… | /r/MensRights | 16/08/10 08:30 AM |
| 2 | Thoughts after watching a BBC historical film - women haven't been oppressed in the West since the early middle ages.Thanks for the conversation. They couldn't have their own checking accounts or hold property until later in the 20th century. Untrue. Single women have been able to have control over their finances, and to own property for a lot longer than you seem to realise. Just a quick reference I dug up: Single women were eligible to claim property under the Homestead Act which was a law enacted under the Lincoln administration. They could even hold property in the middle ages. However, when they got marri… | /r/MensRights | 16/08/10 08:11 AM |
| 2 | Thoughts after watching a BBC historical film - women haven't been oppressed in the West since the early middle ages.So...you gonna rip the vid and repost to dropbox? I don't know how to do that. Sorry. There must be an flv file somewhere that comes from the Iplayer. Who knows? | /r/MensRights | 16/08/10 07:54 AM |
| 4 | Thoughts after watching a BBC historical film - women haven't been oppressed in the West since the early middle ages.This is not the character of an oppressed people, in my opinion. As I see it, the main oppression in the 1800s and early 1900s was of children. It is equally important to remember this, as it is to remember slavery. I realise that a Mary Poppins film isn't an authoritative source. ;-) However, filmmakers tend to want to portray tragedies as such even when romanticising about them. An example is Oliver Twist. Edit: clarity | /r/MensRights | 16/08/10 07:41 AM |
| 4 | Thoughts after watching a BBC historical film - women haven't been oppressed in the West since the early middle ages.Men who were property owners and heads of household were only given the right to vote two centuries ago. The right to vote eventually became an individual rather than a family right. For most of the past millenium, neither women nor men had the right to vote. National governance was entrusted to a royal lineage (and conquering powers usurped this from time to time), and local governance was entrusted to the church. | /r/MensRights | 16/08/10 07:28 AM |
| 7 | The foolish feminist: Be careful who you call a misogynist, you misandristI don't see how a writer can just "get to the point" in an essay like this one. It presents a very unfamiliar idea about feminism - and that means it needs to be thoroughly put into context in all those ways. If you make an extraordinary claim, you need to be ready to explain yourself at length. | /r/MensRights | 09/07/10 07:06 PM |
| 17 | The foolish feminist: Be careful who you call a misogynist, you misandristYou could learn a thing or two about the appreciation of reading literature. I think the piece is just about the right length. He puts in plenty of context and plenty of delightful anecdotes which make his writing more approachable. | /r/MensRights | 09/07/10 05:30 PM |
| 13 | The foolish feminist: Be careful who you call a misogynist, you misandristHe's an excellent wordsmith. | /r/MensRights | 09/07/10 05:30 PM |
| 3 | Acquitted Georgia teacher files lawsuit over molestation trial against Catoosa County sheriff's department, two child advocacy centers, parents of her accusers, social workers and a child therapist.Good for her. | /r/MensRights | 25/05/10 10:36 PM |
| 1 | Once-Homeless Redditor: "I never met a woman who didn't have a building to go home to... I think it has a lot to do with the both the locations I was generally in (far from major city centers) and the fact that there are more institutional protections in place for women than men in this situation."I'd rather think of it as incredible anthropology. | /r/MensRights | 01/05/10 07:26 PM |
| 2 | Once-Homeless Redditor: "I never met a woman who didn't have a building to go home to... I think it has a lot to do with the both the locations I was generally in (far from major city centers) and the fact that there are more institutional protections in place for women than men in this situation."Yes, that's true. And thus the problem becomes the homes that they go back to. That's why people focus so much on women when it comes to domestic violence. Women feel that they need to put up with a bad situation when they are economically dependent on the situation. Men feel that they can strike out on their own, even if it means being homeless. I think that women need to reclaim their right to be outside in public alone. They shouldn't be afraid of the night. They shouldn't be afraid to walk a… | /r/MensRights | 01/05/10 04:16 PM |
| 3 | For you never married men age 35+, how much do you think you save annually, and what do you do with all that extra time?Generally, I think that living as a single person means a life where you're poorer. If you can combine two incomes, and live in one house, you end up having a lot more disposable income when all is said and done. Furthermore, you have more hands and more time available to work on household projects - like cleaning and homemaking. My mom and my dad both found that they were much poorer after their divorce from each other. It also might be true that two people sharing a life together encourage eac… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/10 02:27 AM |
| 1 | Because men "out earn" women there's no reason to worry about boy's global education gap, right?Yes. Boys need men throughout their childhood. If we could get more men to go into early childhood ed and primary school education, it would help a lot, I think. | /r/MensRights | 31/12/09 05:31 AM |
| 5 | Because men "out earn" women there's no reason to worry about boy's global education gap, right?At least in the Usa, boys are getting utterly shafted as they are growing up. They're abused by the anti-male prejudices and the low expectations of parents, caregivers, and teachers. I was working with a group of kids, helping to direct a play this autumn into winter, and the difference in character between the boys and the girls was shocking. The boys were aggressive and the girls were sweet as pie. I thought long and hard over the factors in the boys' upbringing that turned them into such soc… | /r/MensRights | 31/12/09 03:08 AM |
| 1 | Polygamy charges in Bountiful, B.C., thrown out - B.C.'s Crown prosecutors remained reluctant to lay polygamy charges for fear they would be declared unconstitutional on the basis of religious freedom.Fascinating. That's such a different approach than south of the border in the Usa. In Canada, the laws against polygamy are considered so archaic, that it is untenable to prosecute someone based on them? Hmmm... in the video segment on the National broadcast tonight, it was said that because no one has been prosecuted under the polygamy laws for over a hundred years, the judge apparently thought that it wasn't an appropriate case. | /r/MensRights | 24/09/09 07:55 AM |
| 4 | I'm having an interesting discussion about Dworkin with another redditor.Yup, that's exactly how I feel about it. It astonishes me that some folks esteem those kinds of polemics. | /r/MensRights | 28/08/09 07:33 AM |
| 5 | Southwest Florida reporter parrots canard that women do not lie about rapeMeanwhile, in Sweden, another rape conviction is overturned because of a Supreme Court ruling that a victim's testimony, by itself, is not enough to convict a person. | /r/MensRights | 28/07/09 06:26 PM |
| -1 | Why Modern, Western Marriage Has Become A Bad Business Decision For MenThe essay seems to describe a marriage where the woman is in her early twenties, and the man ten years beyond her, in age. There is a distinct maturity gap which the author is describing. | /r/MensRights | 14/07/09 05:57 PM |
| 5 | The Pussification Of The Western MaleI think that to infer that being kind and gentle are effeminate qualities is really a slight to what masculinity ought to be. I don't believe in what political science teaches about power dynamics... and so I don't believe that you need to have one member of every household who is always trying to gain greater power, in the situations he comes into. I've written about more of my thoughts about political science as compared to synergy here. | /r/MensRights | 11/07/09 08:55 PM |
| 2 | The Pussification Of The Western MaleSince then I've gotten more and more exasperated with ideals of 'everybody is right', and that there's never reason for real disagreement. Well, one has to humbly respect the fact people's opinions will differ, if one wants to have smooth relations with them. Yet and still, you are right that facts remain facts - no matter what any of us believe. Science isn't about stories, it's not about making people feel happy... [to the end of your post] I have no idea how this relates to the topic at hand. | /r/MensRights | 11/07/09 08:51 PM |
| 1 | The Pussification Of The Western MaleAhhh... hmmm then. | /r/MensRights | 11/07/09 08:16 PM |
| 2 | The Pussification Of The Western MaleIt's called "learning how to be a gentleman," and "leaving off with being uncouth". I know that those kinds of men who toss around the word "pussification" are certainly not the type I want to spend much time around, nor the type I want to emulate. I think the author of this piece badly needs to travel overseas a bit - I would suggest he start in Britain. His idea of the "true man" is what most of us males in the West look as the joke of what a "true man" is. | /r/MensRights | 11/07/09 07:40 PM |
| 1 | Paranoia about paedophiles is stopping men working in primary schools, a UK Government advisor has said.And in other news, the sky is blue. | /r/MensRights | 28/12/08 07:36 PM |
| 0 | Stats don't lie: boys smarter than girlsIn my opinion, what folks would call "intelligence" has mostly to do with one's personal interest in independent musings, or interest in academics, or the culture one is immersed in. Canadians, for instance, are much smarter than USAers, simply because their news media synthesizes world events in a conscientious and sensible manner that gives people a decent starting point for thinking about things. | /r/MensRights | 23/12/08 05:37 AM |
| 1 | I'm in a bind here. I believe in universal healthcare, ending the war, better public education...but then there's VAWA and the rest... what should I do?What does it do for you to vent aimlessly at some person on the internet? Americans are a depraved lot aren't they? I answered your question in a straightforward manner, and was trying to be helpful. What do I get in return? Invective. | /r/MensRights | 04/10/08 02:08 AM |
| 1 | I'm in a bind here. I believe in universal healthcare, ending the war, better public education...but then there's VAWA and the rest... what should I do?Where there's a will, there's a way. Yes, there's a pretty stiff point system for becoming a citizen. I think that the requirements for a work permit are less stringent. Start here | /r/MensRights | 03/10/08 02:35 PM |
| 2 | I'm in a bind here. I believe in universal healthcare, ending the war, better public education...but then there's VAWA and the rest... what should I do?Move to Canada. | /r/MensRights | 02/10/08 06:59 PM |
| 3 | Why are the men the most upset by circumcision so often the same ones so angry at women and feminism? It's not the feminists who are lopping the skin off your penis!I think that's a pretty specious idea. A population boom and bust cycle is really traumatic for any group of animals - including humans. Massage of the genitals is more important as an action to maintain pelvic health, than as a way to mate and create babies. Realizing this may be part of why your teacher came to that other conclusion. | /r/MensRights | 26/09/08 02:44 PM |
| 5 | Why are the men the most upset by circumcision so often the same ones so angry at women and feminism? It's not the feminists who are lopping the skin off your penis!I think you haven't queried the women in your life deeply enough ;-) I was shocked one day to hear my sister talking about the negative personality traits she sees in her son and husband as "male" things. She was just as surprised to hear me say that it was untrue - only a stereotype of men. And face it, since Andrea Dworkin wrote those words, scholars have also started forming models of behavior around the outline of that stereotype. They will have the audacity to say such things as "men are ge… | /r/MensRights | 26/09/08 04:53 AM |
| 1 | Why are the men the most upset by circumcision so often the same ones so angry at women and feminism? It's not the feminists who are lopping the skin off your penis!It's not that there's a correlation. It's only that people who recognize the cruelty of male circumcision also recognize the bad effects on men created by the stereotypes which feminism promotes. Feminism is many things to many people. Some folks use it as a synonym for the word "humanism." And even in that case, it is an error to attribute all the nice qualities like gentleness, intuition, and kindness to femininity. These traits are expressed by masculinity as well - just in a different manner… | /r/MensRights | 26/09/08 04:27 AM |
| 0 | Are Boys Disappearing Because of Gender Bender Chemicals?Many people will disagree with me here, but I call this article one thing: Insidious. Better to look to nurture, rather than nature, I say. It's more wise to look for causes and effects in terms of real observable puzzle pieces which fit together to explain the mind, and the personality - rather than speculating with a data set which doesn't have as many obvious connections to the thing you are trying to explain. Furthermore, the writer of this article is using the same manner of speaking with w… | /r/MensRights | 22/09/08 07:29 PM |
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