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I see you read my post history - I'm flattered! But really, I was genuinely looking for a reply. I couldn't find anything about an HB6 gene and the way you said it seemed to indicate it was common knowledge. Are happily-married ugly chicks not welcome here? I have read the sub's rules and have abided by them.
/r/TheRedPill23/07/16 06:55 PM
6

Could you elaborate on that "genetic inferiority" part? I searched up HB6 but I only got results about some kind of hair keratin gene.
/r/TheRedPill23/07/16 06:29 PM
2

She says in the article that she didn't even want a kid until an older friend came by and cried about it. I assume she did her traveling before that point, when she didn't want a child.
/r/MensRights31/12/15 02:59 PM
3

"I feel like this must be true, therefore it is true."
/r/MensRights27/12/15 02:46 PM
4

You doubt that one man did something so heinous, but you believe that 40+ women would do something equally as awful?
/r/MensRights20/10/15 02:30 PM
13

IUDs last 12 years and don't cost much more than the copper used to make them, and yet they're the most widely-used birth control on the planet. Implants and injections are pretty popular, too - and they last 3-5 years, the equivalent of thousands of pills. I don't really think many women even use the actual Pill anymore. That seems to put a hole in your theory about "Big Pharma" having it out for treatments that don't need frequent refills.
/r/MensRights18/06/15 11:45 PM
2

Do you have this position about all the benefits you're receiving from taxpayer money? I didn't check your history, but something tells me you probably don't have any comments fretting about all these "free" roads you're driving on.
/r/MensRights18/06/15 11:42 PM
2

So, if a woman is having sex with her husband in a dark room, and he takes a bathroom break, anyone can just pop on in to the wife while he's away? Are you really suggesting that as long as someone is willing to have sex, they're willing to have sex with anyone? Consider the husband in that scenario - he's consenting to sex, right? So does that mean that I can wander in while he and his wife are having sex, and stick my dick in his ass? He consented to sex, right? That means I can fuck him.
/r/MensRights26/01/15 01:27 PM
1

Could you elaborate on why? I don't see how it's any different from Ted slipping into her room and having sex with her while she was asleep. She didn't agree to have sex with Ted.
/r/MensRights25/01/15 09:31 PM
1

Bill, the first guy, is the fraudster. Ted, the second guy, is a rapist - the woman did not and could not consent to having sex with him.
/r/MensRights25/01/15 07:09 PM
1

A woman might be at her hottest when she's younger, but that doesn't mean she's best suited for marriage or even a long-term serious relationship. I assume you wouldn't pick the mother of your children based purely on how hot she is; you probably care about her personality, her choices in life, her emotional fitness to be a partner. A hot 24-year-old will be plenty attractive a few years later. Besides, a woman could start a relationship when she's young, and get married a few years later. I dou…
/r/MensRights11/01/15 01:31 PM
1

Personally I think everyone should build careers and delay marriage.
/r/MensRights10/01/15 03:58 PM
2

Benedict Cumberbatch is a ginger and he's all the rage right now. Your time is coming.
/r/MensRights10/01/15 03:52 PM
2

Ha! Same story. I would type those little programs in, run em, sit back and think of myself as a future video game company tycoon. I would love to meet someone who had a hand in that magazine - I would buy them some seriously fancy beers. That magazine changed my life.
/r/MensRights11/07/14 01:43 PM
2

Just because your coworkers are a different sex does not automatically mean they will want a romantic relationship with you or anyone else in your office.
/r/MensRights11/07/14 01:40 PM
4

Are you arguing against me, or arguing against the concept of men's rights in general? Comments like this make me think it is the latter: This is the thing. Mens behaviors used to BE the roles we performed. Good leader/un-emotional wall of decision making. Hunter/mans up and gets it done, despite the self danger/stress. The things those aspects/behaviors have been useful for have expanded over thousands of years, but they remained useful and genetically favorable/selected traits by females, over…
/r/MensRights23/04/14 11:25 PM
9

How can you tell that they don't want to "be" men if you weren't enforcing your own concept of masculinity on others? Eddie Izzard didn't cut his dick off or change his name or renounce his masculinity and demand to be addressed in female pronouns. He simply chose to wear a garment that didn't have a seam between the legs. The horror!
/r/MensRights23/04/14 05:52 PM
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I disagree. In the last few generations, women have been able to pretty much overcome all gender policing when it comes to clothing. If you saw a woman wearing a man's clothing today, you probably wouldn't bat an eye, and you definitely wouldn't harass her about it - pretty much nobody would. I don't think it's any surprise that this shift happened at the same time that women demanded more rights and equality across the board. These things go hand in hand. So it's not out of bounds to suggest th…
/r/MensRights23/04/14 05:48 PM
8

The evidence from MRI data is hardly clear - none of those studies have been able to prove much of a biological basis for those differences. So far most of those differences can just as easily be attributed to culture. If, for example, you had been raised your whole life to think that you weren't very good at math, so nobody ever taught you much, and everyone was always calculating tips and such for you, we would not be surprised to find that the parts of your brain that light up during math tas…
/r/MensRights23/04/14 05:39 PM
4

Uh... Kilts look a little chilly too.
/r/MensRights23/04/14 05:31 PM
6

"Very common" is the sort of statement that really needs to be backed up with a citation. I have gone to school and worked with women all my life and I've never seen such a thing.
/r/MensRights07/04/14 05:51 PM
3

When someone protests that they "hate drama," I take it in the same way as if someone felt the need to tell me that they weren't an axe murder and hated axe-murdering. They're probably an axe-murderer.
/r/MensRights28/03/14 03:57 PM
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But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these: Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor'd with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To mai…
/r/MensRights03/01/14 07:28 PM
14

Don't be intentionally obtuse, please. Not all women support these kinds of policies, and some men do.
/r/MensRights01/01/14 04:02 PM
5

I'm sure people who are into female genital mutilation have a nicer name for it, too.
/r/MensRights01/01/14 03:52 PM
9

Some people have religious beliefs that tell them to cut off a baby girl's labia. The girls don't lose sexual function (for the most part), and it's probably easier to clean. How do you feel about that? I know you wouldn't do it to your kids, but would you be okay with your friends doing it to their daughters? Would you be okay with it happening to your little sister? Sometimes we normalize things that, when you take a step back and think about it, really shouldn't be normal.
/r/MensRights01/01/14 03:48 PM
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Sweet! So I can kill any man I want now, and I can say he was abusing me - and there won't be anyone left to contradict me? I guess Jodi Arias should have just waited until the guy was asleep.
/r/MensRights11/12/13 01:53 PM
1

Well, you made a specific claim that egalitarians believe that gender has a direct correlation with how people should act. I was hoping you could back up that claim or elaborate somehow.
/r/MensRights06/12/13 06:06 PM
1

How do egalitarians believe people should act according to gender?
/r/MensRights06/12/13 03:11 PM
2

How so? Why would a belief that people are free to define their own gender roles ever have any overlap with a belief that says that gender roles are predetermined and inflexible?
/r/MensRights06/12/13 01:17 PM
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Yeah, but when you bought your car, you didn't produce a brand-new human being with its own needs and rights. Not saying that I agree with how this case might go down, but the State's interests here are greater than they would be if a car was involved rather than a child.
/r/MensRights02/12/13 12:58 PM
4

A dozen women wanting to marry a convict is not enough evidence to expand your generalization to all 3.5 billion women on the planet.
/r/MensRights02/12/13 12:47 PM
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What, seriously? You're saying that a woman deserves to be harassed and threatened because some other women were mean to some other men? Does not compute.
/r/MensRights02/12/13 12:41 PM
1

Who is advocating for aborting fetuses against the will of the person who owns the womb it lives in? You can't "tear a child" out of a father's womb, obviously. I don't recall hearing about any campaigns to force-abort women, so I don't know where you're going with this exactly. And how would you enforce such a notification law? There's not really any practical way to prove who the father is, so when you're standing over the woman listening to her phone call, how do you ensure it's the actual fa…
/r/MensRights11/11/13 07:46 PM
1

I was taken off my previous hormonal birth control because of complications. I was considering my options at the time and thought that condoms with spermicide were enough. Plan B isn't fail safe. I guess I had ovulated that same day.
/r/MensRights11/11/13 12:45 AM
2

I really don't think that scenario would play out as you think it would. It's like saying that, until racism is well and truly dead, you're going to beat the shit out of every whit person you see until the racist white people stop being racists. I don't think it would go over very well, or have the intended outcome.
/r/MensRights10/11/13 06:00 PM
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I'd be upset with my sister, too, but you can't apply your personal feelings to other people. I'd be upset if my sister cheated on her boyfriend, but I'm not going to use my disgust to rally for a law that says cheaters have to go to prison. Nor would I advocate for a law that forced women to be pregnant against her wishes, just because someone wants to use her body to incubate a fetus they have an interest in. Ideally, no child would be born unless both parents wanted it. We don't live in an id…
/r/MensRights10/11/13 05:56 PM
7

You can't force a woman to use her body to sustain a pregnancy against her will - that's slavery. And an un intended consequence of such a policy would certainly be more false rape claims from women desperate to not be pregnant. Being pregnant isn't a fun 9-month adventure. It can do significant long-term damage to a woman's health, can destroy her sexual pleasure for life in some cases, and even in the modern world, can and does sometimes result in the death of the mother.
/r/MensRights10/11/13 05:51 PM
1

My condom broke with my husband. I took Plan B the next day, and it didn't work. Would you say that I should not have gotten an abortion, even though neither my husband nor I wanted a child?
/r/MensRights10/11/13 05:46 PM
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That sucks, dude. I'm a female ally, and I had an abortion. It wasn't just a decision I made to benefit myself - my husband also did not want a child, and would have been burdened by it. You'd have all three of us (including the unwanted child) suffer because some other people with the same genital arrangement as me wants to deny you rights?
/r/MensRights10/11/13 05:39 PM
3

It's funny that they want to make sure you're mature enough to not have children, but if you wanna pop out 6 before you're thirty, nobody bats an eye.
/r/MensRights10/11/13 05:32 PM
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The problem is that if you "punish" single mothers, the punishment really falls on the child. If we're going to keep having a child support system of any kind, we need to do a better job of making sure the child benefits, rather than the mother getting new shoes every month.
/r/MensRights10/11/13 05:30 PM
1

Around here, the state runs the lottery - so there wouldn't be any company to tax.
/r/MensRights10/11/13 05:12 PM
1

I've used some large phones that were a bit unpleasant. With my iPhone, I can use it one-handed for pretty much anything - but make it a few cm bigger, and all of a sudden I have to use two hands. It's the epitome of a first-world problem, but it is irritating.
/r/MensRights09/11/13 03:37 PM
1

Most pens fit within the comfortable range of my slightly-small hands. Devices, though, do sometimes seem inexplicably large. My gigantic husband has no trouble with our first gen PSP, but for me the buttons are spaced just a bit too wide for my comfort. Weird, since I'm certain that my hands are probably larger the average Japanese person's hands. I have some complaints about things in the world not being "designed" for me, but they pale in comparison to my husband's issues with being 6'5". Eve…
/r/MensRights09/11/13 03:33 PM
8

I figure it'll blow over eventually. I haven't actually met anyone like them in the course of doing my job. I'm here to work, not to go tilting at windmills.
/r/MensRights17/10/13 03:34 PM
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I'd wager that the rank-and-file women in tech (like me, and many of the women I know) are annoyed at these stories, nothing more. We certainly didn't choose these people as our representatives. I've never felt like this was coming from within tech - it always has seemed like an invading foreign agenda.
/r/MensRights17/10/13 03:08 PM
2

Please remember that women are not a homogenous voting block, and do not all have children. Additionally, many men vote against the interests of other men.
/r/MensRights15/10/13 02:26 PM
2

Maybe you can swing an extra $100, but where's the line? $500? $10,000?
/r/MensRights15/10/13 02:25 PM
1

Seriously? Women aren't "the same" anywhere. Neither are men. Jeez.
/r/MensRights12/10/13 03:09 PM
3

I think the only reason "women get off easy" is because there really aren't any women in the plot - aside from Amanda and some other minor bit players. I would have loved to play as a fucked-up meth-cooking scary-ass bag lady. Maybe next time.
/r/MensRights29/09/13 03:17 PM
3

Perhaps I wasn't clear - of course I need my husband. I need my husband for emotional reasons - intimacy, shared history, someone to experience life with. However, I do not need him to provide for me. That's what I meant by being self-sufficient. I think a relationship is much stronger when the people in it genuinely want to be together, rather than one of them needing the other for a meal ticket.
/r/MensRights22/09/13 03:48 PM
3

I don't need a man. I provide for myself, and rely on my own skills. I wanted a man. One man in particular - my husband. I made my career a priority, because being self-sufficient is my priority. I didn't do it to prove anything. Your post makes it sound like the only reason to want a man is to have someone to provide for you - surely that's not what you intended?
/r/MensRights21/09/13 04:45 PM
9

Right. This graphic would work just as well if you substituted "jocks" for "women" and changed all the references to CoD and FIFA.
/r/MensRights14/09/13 03:36 PM
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I'm a gamer from childhood and I have lady parts - and I do appreciate playing a female protagonist. I also enjoy playing sneaky skinny guys and old gnomes and hideous ogres. I get a little tired of the standard female tropes: the magic-caster is a sorceress with her tits hanging out, the female sidekick is a "strong female" who doesn't need no help from anyone, until she does... Etc. But I'm not tired of it because I'm offended. I just want more variety in the characters I play. I'm sure a lot …
/r/MensRights14/09/13 03:32 PM
4

Personally I'm glad to see fewer teenagers and early-20s getting married. They don't know their asses from a hole in the ground.
/r/MensRights13/09/13 01:33 PM
15

Are You Writing The Title of a Newspaper Article or Is This Just How You Type?
/r/MensRights20/08/13 02:53 PM
8

I'm bothered by the quote and I would also never say or think such a thing about men. The solution to stereotypes is not more stereotypes.
/r/MensRights12/08/13 03:09 PM
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I've been a "geek" all my life, and only recently was I made aware that it was a male-only "safe space." Since when, exactly? It sure wasn't when I was playing Nintendo with the kids in the neighborhood in the 80s. It wasn't when I was in Chess Club in second grade, or Anime Club in college, or the entirety of my time in my computer science degree program. When I was younger, "geek culture" wasn't a thing, it was a dumping ground for a rainbow of smart, awkward people who didn't fit in anywhere …
/r/MensRights11/08/13 03:58 PM
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If this was a woman telling this story, NOBODY would be telling the OP to talk about her feelings with the attacker - that's insane! OP, do not ever be alone with this woman again. Also consider the possibility that she make make a rape claim against YOU to protect herself. You need to be reporting this to the police, for your own sake. Even if they don't take you seriously, make them file a report so that there's a paper trail if she tries to say you raped her. I'm so sorry you went through thi…
/r/MensRights10/08/13 05:33 PM
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In a perfect world, the fetus would be surgically transferred into the body of the father. Since we can't do that yet, the desire of the person carrying the fetus wins. It sucks, but you can't force someone to be pregnant against their wishes just to give you what you want.
/r/MensRights23/07/13 01:38 PM
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You're a little hyperbolic in your description... More women than men would restrict civil liberties, by a healthy margin, but there are still plenty of men who would, too, and plenty of women who wouldn't. It's not as stark as you paint it, although it is worth talking about.
/r/MensRights12/07/13 01:24 PM
1

In every place I have ever worked it would be considered very taboo to be talking about how wealthy my coworkers were, regardless of their sex...
/r/MensRights12/07/13 01:03 PM
5

My personal opinion is if the victim doesn't feel like they've been raped, they haven't been raped. This seems to invite a corollary: "If the victim feels like it was rape, it was rape."
/r/MensRights08/07/13 01:09 PM
1

I don't get that perspective, personally - I'm very impressed by lawyers, particularly public defenders. This woman in particular is helping a man in a classic MRA situation, so I can't see any reason to denigrate her.
/r/MensRights07/07/13 02:47 PM
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That woman does - what about the woman lawyer who is protecting his rights? I could find a hundred examples of douchebag men. Does that mean that men make terrible human beings?
/r/MensRights07/07/13 02:26 PM
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Freudian anything is generally considered pretty sketchy these days.
/r/MensRights07/07/13 02:20 PM
1

The reason the Y chromosome is less "robust" and can't trace back too far is simple - women are born with their eggs and create no new ones in life, while men create new sperm, with copied DNA, every single day. So for the female mitochondrial DNA to be copied 1000 times takes 1000 women over 1000 generations. For a dude it takes, like, a week.
/r/MensRights07/07/13 02:17 PM
1

I agree! I think nobody should have nonessential surgery performed on them until they can provide their own informed, adult consent. I was just trying to point out that many circumcised men are perfectly fine with it and would do the same to their sons, so making it "father's choice" is not as good an idea as simply not mutilating anyone's genitals until they themselves ask for it.
/r/MensRights05/07/13 09:14 PM
0

No, of course he doesn't owe her children - I never said anything like that! All I am saying is that she doesn't owe him a continuation of the marriage, since the situation is no longer what they both agreed to, and will not make her happy. If they could be happy together without children they would be childfree - obviously, she is not and never presented herself as such.
/r/MensRights05/07/13 09:07 PM
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A relationship should not survive when it requires one partner to give up something so important and so wanted, something that partner entered into the relationship for the express purposes of achieving that goal. I suspect that if the genders were reversed, you would not be taking such a strange position - unless you believe that nobody ought to get divorced for any reason. For the the record, I am married and childfree. But I recognize that for most people, child-rearing is the primary driver …
/r/MensRights05/07/13 08:42 PM
1

A wife should not be allowed to overrule her husband's decision because only a man who has been cut can know if it's what he wants for his son. That's a poor precedent to establish. What if the father is pro-circumcision and the mother isn't?
/r/MensRights05/07/13 08:18 PM
1

That works for some people, sure - but she went into the marriage saying she wanted kids, he said he did too, then he changed his mind. By your logic, you could just as easily say that he should just give in and have kids - after all, shouldn't staying together be more important than not having kids?
/r/MensRights05/07/13 08:10 PM
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Really, that's the conclusion you came to? If one partner doesn't want kids and the other does, that's the ultimate dealbreaker. It doesn't matter which gender is which (although if it's the woman who wants the child, she's got a limited amount of time to find someone). I'm curious - if they don't divorce, what would you recommend they do?
/r/MensRights05/07/13 07:57 PM
1

What is a "real man"? Did you decide the qualifications on your own? Is there a minimum testicle weight required to comply?
/r/MensRights05/07/13 07:42 PM
5

Why did you assume she was under duress? I would be on high alert if a strange car pulled up next to me at night, when I was alone.
/r/MensRights05/07/13 07:40 PM
2

It is possible to be both scared and stupid.
/r/MensRights05/07/13 07:39 PM
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It's a hard line to walk. If you take too many precautions, are too paranoid and untrusting, you miss out on so much. On the other hand, if you take no precautions and something happens people will ask why you didn't have your guard up, will say you were too trusting. But I don't think that concern is unique to women; striking a balance between protecting yourself and engaging with the world is something everyone has to figure out.
/r/MensRights05/07/13 07:37 PM
1

Everyone in the story was within their rights as a human being. Everyone also came of like an asshole.
/r/MensRights05/07/13 07:34 PM
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It's not entirely clear that she heard what he was yelling about. If I was alone on a dark street with two young drunk people yelling unintelligible shit at me... Well, I don't know that I would have called the cops, but I would have been scared, and people act unpredictably when scared.
/r/MensRights05/07/13 07:25 PM
2

Well, I enjoyed the repartee! Thanks again.
/r/MensRights03/07/13 04:24 PM
2

I gotta be honest, I wrote you off as a troll initially - but be really enjoyed this conversation and I really appreciate that you keep coming back to continue it. I apologize for my initial assessment of you. I may disagree with some of your conclusions, but I fervently believe that in order for a person to consider themselves rational and fair, they must first acknowledge their own biases. Stuff like this, while uncomfortable, helps me to do that - so you have my genuine thanks.
/r/MensRights03/07/13 04:09 PM
1

The details of the study that I read only referred to experiments that felt with word-gender association and attitudes toward parents by gender - not any other group. Forgive me - did I miss something?
/r/MensRights03/07/13 03:41 PM
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So I found a little more on the article, including some details about the methodology: Http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/2004/041213.Goodwin.gender.html Basically, subjects were asked to associate genders with words like "good" or "slime" or "grief," and as you mentioned, women were significantly more likely to associate the "good" words with women and the unpleasant words with men. However, that's where your claim and the study diverge. You said: "Women are predisposed to interpret everythin…
/r/MensRights03/07/13 03:39 PM
1

Ah, very good! I don't understand why you couldn't have linked to the article initially, since you were already copy-pasting from the abstract, but I'm glad you posted it. It is unfortunately behind a pay wall (not your fault, they're all like that), so I need to dig around a little bit to find the full text, since there's not much more in the abstract beyond what you already mentioned. I'm intrigued, and I'm always interested to learn more about our own innate predispositions and logical fallac…
/r/MensRights03/07/13 03:25 PM
2

Fair enough. Here is a list of 872 peer-reviewed international journals compiled by ProQuest, a portal for research articles: http://www.csa.com/factsheets/supplements/paispeer.php An article supporting your claims, from any one of those papers, would be more than acceptable.
/r/MensRights03/07/13 02:45 PM
0

I am not responsible for proving your claim - but I'm not trying to set you up or trap you, I would honestly like to see more information. You made a pretty extraordinary claim about most women and all men, so I don't think asking for a little evidence of your claim constitutes fightin' words. I don't need a thousand-subject research study in Nature. Any source with a decent scientific methodology will do fine. Edit: I see you changed your post from what I had responded to, specifically the part…
/r/MensRights03/07/13 01:38 PM
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Do you have anything to back this up, or is it just your gut feeling?
/r/MensRights03/07/13 01:21 PM
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Ugh, really? Please do not conflate /r/feminism for all (or even most) women. There are many female supporters here, and no shortage of women in the general public capable of rational thought.
/r/MensRights03/07/13 12:44 PM
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Probably. It's very difficult to anesthetize an infant (so they often don't), and an adult man can tell you when something doesn't feel right and report on his own recovery, unlike a baby.
/r/MensRights28/06/13 06:34 PM
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Women shouldn't be nice to men so that "good men" will protect them. We should treat men as equals because they're human fucking beings, irrespective of their perceived utility to others.
/r/MensRights28/06/13 06:31 PM
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Referring to Psychology Today is about one jot more reliable than citing the Daily Mail or a story you heard from a guy once. Anyway, you lobbed a bunch of accusations and got very defensive, but you never answered the question. What is the truth about women that you were originally referring to? If your experiences with women have uncovered a morsel of truth about all women, wouldn't it benefit people to share it, instead of coyly alluding to your discovery?
/r/MensRights26/06/13 02:46 PM
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I never suggested that women were in any way better or worse than men - simply that you cannot draw a conclusion about all of them from interactions from a few of them. It's clear your interactions have largely not been positive, and I'm sorry.
/r/MensRights26/06/13 01:19 PM
2

It's pretty sexist to assume that all women will have children; even more so to act as if no man was a father.
/r/MensRights25/06/13 10:42 PM
1

Oh boy, projecting? Yes, women can be shitty people, just like men can. But OP's experience with one woman out of three billion surely isn't enough from which to draw any kind of conclusion that could be applied to all women, ever.
/r/MensRights25/06/13 10:39 PM
1

The nature of women? Pray tell, what is the nature of women?
/r/MensRights25/06/13 04:49 PM
1

Maybe it wasn't the best message, but please don't treat it like an"isolated incident." Rape is definitely a major issue in India - boys get raped in droves as well - and there are some serious discussions that need to be had in that country, gender being just one of the many topics that need to be focused on.
/r/MensRights23/06/13 05:02 PM
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Personally, I'm not for criminalizing adult behavior - even when feelings get hurt. It sucks that lady got an STD, but the choice to have sex (with that guy or anyone else) was hers to make, and diseases are a known possible consequence. I don't think getting the government more involved in personal relationships between adults is a good idea.
/r/MensRights06/06/13 02:39 PM
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What you describe is crappy, sure - but rape it ain't.
/r/MensRights06/06/13 01:45 PM
3

That's still a depressing statistic. :(
/r/MensRights04/06/13 01:02 PM
5

It's no excuse, but you might have been there on Abortion Day - typically PP has one day a week where they schedule all the abortions. So the mood may have been heavy for other reasons.
/r/MensRights01/06/13 05:59 PM
11

Injustice, yes, but rape? Don't you think you're being maybe a tad hyperbolic?
/r/MensRights01/06/13 04:01 PM
3

Talk to another lawyer. You may have to go through a few before you find one who actually intends to defend you.
/r/MensRights01/06/13 03:41 PM
4

If she makes more than you, you may be entitled to alimony. In any event, you should fight for the kids - she will be required to provide child support. Your eldest might even be old enough to choose which parent she wants to live with (depending on the laws in your area).
/r/MensRights01/06/13 03:40 PM
2

Of course not! Why would anyone voluntarily read something that didn't confirm their existing beliefs??
/r/MensRights01/06/13 01:28 PM
1

As a childfree female, I HATE that "women at work" is automatically conflated with "women with children at work." I imagine that working fathers get a similar bad taste in their mouths.
/r/MensRights28/05/13 01:45 PM
1

Aaaaaaaabortion!
/r/MensRights28/05/13 01:41 PM
4

She really glosses over that part. Why doesn't the husband take more time to spend with the kids so she can focus on her career? She dismisses his feeling of "being glad he dropped off the kids" as not being parental enough, since she feels stronger emotions when she drops the kids off. Isn't that the answer right there? She feels more strongly connected to the kids & family deal - so why doesn't she do that, instead of working a job that keeps her from her children? Instead of coming up with a …
/r/MensRights28/05/13 01:40 PM
2

I don't even know what we're talking about anymore. I just want cake :(
/r/MensRights28/05/13 01:36 PM
6

Ding ding ding! This is the correct answer. Nobody needs to have kids - it's a choice made by the parents to create a human being and invest time raising it. I think the attitude among some parents is that they're doing the world some huge favor by bringing their sprog into it, so we should all be giving them high-fives and kissing the ground they walk on. To me, having children is no different from any other time-consuming, personally rewarding hobby. Can you imagine if people demanded that lea…
/r/MensRights28/05/13 01:34 PM
19

Never shot a layup in her life!
/r/MensRights27/05/13 01:26 PM
9

I think the common element is that the women all picked you. There might be a commonality to that, in the same way that pickpockets and muggers have an uncanny way of picking their targets based on cues most of us would never notice. I have noticed that "crazy" women can smell a stable man a mile away. Douchey bros have the same sense when it comes to girls with low self-esteem and daddy issues. I think it's a talent possessed by a certain type of manipulative, self-serving person, and I do thin…
/r/MensRights23/05/13 04:10 PM
8

Giving someone drugs without their knowledge can have effects as serious as being kicked down the stairs. Luckily for her, that particular drug doesn't really have a lot of dangerous side effects. But that guy wasn't a doctor, he probably didn't know that. For all he knew, it could have caused terrible bleeding or an infection from an incomplete abortion or a serious complication from another drug she was taking or another condition she had. Murder it ain't, yeah, and the situation for men in hi…
/r/MensRights16/05/13 11:14 PM
3

How so, exactly?
/r/MensRights16/05/13 08:37 PM
2

It would only be equivalent if she got an abortion without informing him first... and he was actually the pregnant person. Which is nonsense. This is one of those situations where there can be no equivalency, because it's an inherently unfair setup to begin with.
/r/MensRights16/05/13 08:36 PM
8

The issue arises when you seek out Scandanavian women exclusively, on the assumption that all Scandanavian women do those things. It's like a woman who only seeks out "Latin Lovers" - as soon as she sees a dark-skinned man, she begins to fetishize him instead of seeing him as a person. She assumes he speaks Spanish and dances salsa and cooks great fish tacos - and she assumes that about EVERY Latin male she sees. She doesn't care about the actual human male - she just wants the exotic fantasy sh…
/r/MensRights12/05/13 02:38 PM
11

It's not an issue to like Scandanavian women. It's an issue when you only seek out Scandanavian women because you assume that all Scandanavian women are the same, or if you only want one because you assume she'll always wear traditional dress and chop logs and serve you lutefisk. It's an issue if, every time you see a Scandanavian woman, you say, "Mm, you look really Scandanavian. I bet your lutefisk is great. You know I like that." If you see every blond woman as a potential Scandanavian stereo…
/r/MensRights12/05/13 01:44 PM
18

What does this have to do with men's rights? It's just a picture of a happy kid and her dad.
/r/MensRights12/05/13 01:33 PM
4

You can usually assume that when someone says "vast majority" that the rest of the argument is similarly inflated bunk. It is not standard policy in the US to allow people to kill robbers. Self-defense means exactly that - you are allowed to use force or kill only defend your own life or the life of another. Not your stuff, not your car, not your business, not your cash. Life. Of course, the laws vary by state, but I'd be very surprised if there were any states that allowed killing to defend pro…
/r/MensRights05/05/13 04:12 PM
7

Once is one time too many to threaten to stab someone in the eyes, while actually holding a knife.
/r/MensRights01/05/13 01:17 PM
1

Fair enough, but bear in mind that no women complained about this event, afaik... No players complained either, it was all Cherry.
/r/MensRights29/04/13 07:46 PM
17

He's right, in a way - if male reporters can't go into the women's lockers, then the reverse ought to be true as well. It's his reasoning that's screwy - he doesn't want women in there because he worries that it degrades women somehow, even if the woman in question had no issue with it and seemed to be acting professionally. He didn't care about men's privacy, he just has an image in his mind of women as pure and virtuous and far too delicate to see random wangs, and he was uncomfortable with ha…
/r/MensRights28/04/13 06:34 PM
2

Not all women are pro-circumcision... In fact there may be female allies in this very thread ;)
/r/MensRights27/04/13 03:19 PM
3

We're pretty civilized here in the USA and more male circumcisions are performed here than in Europe. I suppose Europe has a few hundred years of culture on us, but should we really have to wait that long to find out if your theory is true?
/r/MensRights27/04/13 03:08 PM
5

Well, that's your choice, I guess. But perhaps consider that that's your own cultural frame of reference - if circumcisions were not common, if you weren't already used to the concept, you would probably be pretty horrified if you heard about someone doing it to their helpless infant son. In fact, this is exactly how FGM persists (including the worst types) - people are familiar with it, it's part of the culture, it doesn't seem that bad because everyone they know does it. So why would anyone in…
/r/MensRights27/04/13 02:55 PM
11

Would it be okay if FGM just sheared off the inner labia? What if it was just a lil' snip off the clitoral hood, nothing major? Personally I don't think we should be looking to justify mutilating babies' genitals, regardless of how "minor" it is. The parents might have important religious reasons to slice up their kids' junk, but babies don't have religion - or the ability to consent.
/r/MensRights27/04/13 02:42 PM
3

I go to conferences like that, and it really sucks to know that would-be male friends might avoid me out of fear that I might claim they're sexually harassing me. All this Adria Richards/Defcon shame cards/etc stuff has done is to make it harder for decent people to make friends. Geek culture has always been a pure meritocracy, where anyone could fit in as long as they had something to bring to the table. Now we're turning against each other and segregating ourselves and it's destroying an incre…
/r/MensRights24/04/13 01:14 PM
143

You don't have any obligations here, but to be honest you're part of the problem - you complain about this situation, but in the next breath you say you don't want to complain to anyone or file a lawsuit. So the next man that goes in to that bar will be illegally rejected, and the next, and the next, because nobody spoke up about, nobody tells people like that manager that they're wrong, nobody makes bigot employers suffer for treating people like that. You don't have to be a vigilante, but plea…
/r/MensRights14/04/13 07:03 PM
-1

Cool story
/r/MensRights06/04/13 02:14 PM
8

There's a mounting heap of evidence to suggest that older fathers aren't doing their offspring many favors, either.
/r/TheRedPill05/04/13 07:33 PM
-7

Get out of here with your level-headed realism!
/r/MensRights04/04/13 03:20 PM
1

That's weird - I didn't bold anything, and it looks fine to me... Reddit's had some issues today, I wonder if it bugged out while I was posting.
/r/MensRights01/04/13 06:27 PM
20

Sadly, the whole military culture is focused on getting 20-year olds to marry and pop out kids. You get better pay, get to live off-base, (theoretically) have someone to hold down the fort while you're gone, etc etc. Honestly, it would be difficult to design a better system for fucking over young people.
/r/MensRights01/04/13 03:33 PM
34

There is no insinuation in that phrase whatsoever. YOU insinuated it, because you have a default position of seeing men as creepy and sexually depraved. This is all on you, coming from inside your own mind - I wish there was some way to make you see that, but of course it is very difficult to separate our perceptions from reality.
/r/MensRights31/03/13 04:23 PM
52

I don't think it's creepy for a heterosexual male to say a little girl looks like a doll. I think you're projecting your own beliefs about men. Saying "the cute little girl looks just like a doll!" does not also imply "...and I want to put my penis in her!" but that's what you hear. Why is that?
/r/MensRights31/03/13 03:48 PM
55

Mmmhmm. I'm pretty sure that, as a woman, if I said, "Oh that little girl is so cute, she looks like a little doll!" not one single person would bat an eye. Nobody would say it was creepy - unless I was a man.
/r/MensRights31/03/13 03:35 PM
2

Best advice in the thread.
/r/MensRights31/03/13 03:20 PM
9

That's what I thought. Is that any different from women deciding not to talk to male colleagues because they might get raped? What a shame. You hit the nail on the head with the feminism bit - I was trying to put my thoughts into words, but you did it better. Part of the problem in these discussions is that everyone means something different when they use the word "feminism," and you pretty much have to have a Ph.D in Women's Studies to know all the sub-types, waves, and what-have-you. The word …
/r/MensRights29/03/13 05:01 PM
133

I'll confess that I actually did receive some special treatment for being a woman, although I didn't get any scholarships or go to "women in technology" conferences or anything. It was the typical white-knight stuff you find anywhere - I could have easily gotten guys in the class to do my homework for me, I could have done a half-assed job in school and then gotten a "diversity hire" job on graduation. Thankfully I was too oblivious to realize all that at the time - it's only in hindsight that I…
/r/MensRights29/03/13 04:53 PM
16

I'm not sure what your thesis is, exactly...? Of course I've taken advantage of benefits brought to me by feminism (whatever "wave" it was, I don't know). I just happen to think that everyone ought to be able to benefit from an expansion of gender roles. What are you suggesting I (or perhaps you were referring to male readers) "withdraw" from?
/r/MensRights29/03/13 04:47 PM
12

I giggled at how the author just assumed that a 21-year-old man would be disgusted to date a 22-year-old woman. It just isn't done!
/r/MensRights29/03/13 03:45 PM
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I wish these people would just come out and say it: offending a woman is sexism. There can be no other reason for holding this event up as evidence of misogyny. Adria Richards got offended by something, therefore the tech world is sexist and exclusionary. Well, fuck those people. I am a woman in technology, and they don't get to speak for me. I gravitated towards this field precisely because it IS a meritocracy. When I was hanging out with my nerd friends as a kid, we could have been mistaken fo…
/r/MensRights29/03/13 03:18 PM
2

I actually think that the "privilege" concept can be a fantastic tool. Ask a feminist to "unpack her privilege backpack" for you - she will know exactly what you mean, and if she's open-minded and up for debate it can be pretty enlightening.
/r/MensRights27/03/13 08:42 PM
3

Seriously? You're advising that he make a big stink and invoke some legal right not to be offended by his classmate? Sure, she's an idiot with a stupid opinion, but she didn't hurt him or infringe on a single one of his rights.
/r/MensRights27/03/13 08:40 PM
4

Exactly it! If anything, as a woman, I probably received more encouragement and assistance to get into a computer science career than a man in a similar position.
/r/MensRights20/03/13 02:23 PM
1

God, what a wet blanket.
/r/MensRights20/03/13 02:19 PM
18

I am a woman in computer science, and I fucking detest women with this attitude, because it causes men to treat me exactly as you describe: afraid to make jokes, afraid to even hang out with me. I am frankly SHOCKED that at the mention of a "dongle" only two people in the entire room were giggling.
/r/MensRights20/03/13 02:18 PM
1

I assumed that the author meant that they both had jobs but she did all the cleaning as well. I guess I only assumed that because I couldn't even conceive of a person actually complaining about not having to go to work.
/r/MensRights19/03/13 01:44 PM
3

I don't deny that there are fewer women in technical jobs - but your original comment stated that women don't do technical jobs as if it was fact, as if there were none whatsoever. There is a non-trivial number of women in technical IT fields. That's all I'm saying.
/r/MensRights14/03/13 03:22 PM
6

That's a pretty small sample size to be making such an indiscriminate generalization. I am a female web developer and have been at it for a decade. I know plenty of successful women in IT who are not in sales or management - not as many women as men, of course, but plenty enough to contradict your supposed fact.
/r/MensRights14/03/13 01:45 PM
4

If you depend on your resume to get a job in this field, you're not doing it right. Thankfully the most self-teachable job in the world is also the easiest job in which to prove your competence by simply pointing to your own work.
/r/MensRights14/03/13 01:42 PM
1

Uh yeah, that's generally the case - you can't force a woman to bear a child she doesn't want.
/r/MensRights13/03/13 12:56 PM
1

That's not how it works.
/r/MensRights12/03/13 01:10 PM
1

This would never fly. Imagine the headlines: "Mothers sent to jail by the hundreds, families broken, pictures at 11!"
/r/MensRights11/03/13 07:10 PM
2

It's different for everyone, but here are some "tells" I exhibited after the fact: A little druggy from the Demerol, lasted the rest of the evening (she will not be allowed to drive herself home, so you should ask who's doing it for her) Soreness and discomfort - sitting down, walking around, etc. I wasn't in a good mood, I wasn't dancing around. Bleeding over the next few days - they'll probably tell her not to use tampons for a while, so there should definitely be some bloody pads in the trash…
/r/MensRights11/03/13 04:57 PM
1

Yeah, might work... I actually don't recall being given any sort of paperwork that could have "proved" that I'd really gotten one, except possibly a credit card receipt.
/r/MensRights11/03/13 03:15 PM
8

Verify with her doctor? What country do you live in where it's okay to walk up to some doctor and ask details about someone else's medical treatment? I am absolutely flabbergasted that this has been suggested so many times. Furthermore, how easy do you think it is for a single male to get inside of an abortion clinic and walk straight up to an abortion doctor? Those places are locked down tight - at least the one I went to.
/r/MensRights11/03/13 01:18 PM
2

How exactly would he get this "paperwork?" Walk into the clinic, be like, "Hey I know that chick getting her uterus vacuumed, why don't you hand me that folder over there?"
/r/MensRights11/03/13 01:14 PM
13

From my experience, it really doesn't work like that. The place I went, you couldn't just walk in - you had to wait in an airlock to be buzzed in if you had an appointment or someone inside asked for you. Inside, there's a waiting room and then another secured back office area that the doctors never come out of. There was definitely no way to just walk in and ask some random doctor if a random woman's abortion was legit - they'd probably just kick you out.
/r/MensRights11/03/13 01:09 PM
6

Evidence? What evidence? Women are humans, with human brains and bodies. They can build things and create things and operate machinery and make plans just like any human being. Sorry to have interrupted your trolling, please do carry on.
/r/MensRights09/03/13 04:45 PM
2

If all the men in the world suddenly vanished, female humans would probably do alright, despite the lonely emptiness of their wombs.
/r/MensRights09/03/13 03:54 PM
2

International Steak and Blowjob Day!
/r/MensRights09/03/13 03:53 PM
1

It's your prerogative, of course, but that seems to be a fairly irrational response. This women is a psychopath, yes. But that hardly means all women are. You may as well say that since white people are over-represented in serial killings, you're not going to hang out with white people any more.
/r/MensRights09/03/13 03:22 PM
2

You believe she made the decision out of spite. I believe that it's just as reasonable to assume that she made the decision because she didn't want to be a single parent. The article does not support your conjecture (or mine, for that matter). It simply says "an abortion soon followed." It does not say that it's because she was mad at him (although it is certainly one of several possibilities). That's the part you filled in, in your own mind. Neither of us knows which answer is true. It's true t…
/r/MensRights08/03/13 09:49 PM
2

There's nothing in the article that said she got an abortion to spite him. It simply stated a course of events: she found out she was pregnant, she apparently decided to keep it at that time, he came clean, she decided not to go through with it. Nowhere is spite or malice of any kind mentioned, so I submit that you may be projecting your own feelings onto the story. I am too, of course. I can totally see how a person could go from being excited about raising a child with their partner, to being …
/r/MensRights08/03/13 08:59 PM
2

Morally reprehensible for what, exactly? She didn't do anything - it was her boyfriend who poked holes in the condom to get her pregnant without her knowledge.
/r/MensRights08/03/13 08:42 PM
2

Well, that's wrong. But it's not germane to this particular case.
/r/MensRights08/03/13 05:10 PM
1

I can't really parse what you wrote.
/r/MensRights08/03/13 03:30 PM
16

I don't pity anyone for getting punished for a crime of deceit. What that guy did was wrong, full stop. Your view is kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy, innit? If you're convincing enough, and everyone believes you, then you're right - change will never come. But if people like me and the rest of the people in this thread can spread our point of view, then change will come. It already is coming, and it's simply because one person after another changed their minds.
/r/MensRights08/03/13 03:27 PM
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I think maybe a decade or two ago, this wouldn't have been treated as a crime, no matter who did the poking. I'm glad this story worked out the way it did. It might not be an ideal example for MR's purposes, but I think the more we talk about how it is totally not okay to deceive someone into being a parent, the more people will begin to see how grave a violation it is, no matter which sex the victim is.
/r/MensRights08/03/13 01:12 PM
21

He has been convicted of a crime, and she was the victim. Criminals don't get privacy - I'm okay with that.
/r/MensRights08/03/13 01:09 PM
7

She even stabbed him - multiple times! - in the back, which is about as far from self-defense as you can get.
/r/MensRights03/03/13 03:30 PM
4

Wtf? Medication for Aspergers? I didn't even know you could medicate that...
/r/MensRights02/03/13 03:50 PM
15

Brings a whole new dimension to the "white weenie" deck.
/r/MensRights02/03/13 03:49 PM
3

I actually played with both types of toys - I had lots of dolls, and every kind of building set imaginable - and I feel very lucky that nobody gave me any guff about it. My little brother loved to put My Little Ponies in the Barbie car and play with purses, and my mother threatened beatings if we ever said anything the least bit mean about it to him. We both grew up into wonderfully well-adjusted adults, and I think the freedom we were given in choosing our own toys and play styles as children c…
/r/MensRights24/02/13 04:03 PM
11

I'm glad that you said "in general." That's the most important detail of all this debate - we're always talking in general terms. It's okay to see the research and know that boys are generally likelier to play with cars and girls are generally likelier to play with dolls. The problems arise when we start telling the rare boy who wants to play with dolls that he can't, because "boys don't play with dolls," or tell a little girl she can't play with cars and Lego because it's "not ladylike."
/r/MensRights24/02/13 03:19 PM
13

In 1999, sex with very drunk or unconscious women was defined in Norway as a relatively minor crime of sexual exploitation and punished by an average of 4 months in prison. Today the same phenomenon is called "rape" and the usual sentence is 4 years. Uh, wait, is he arguing that having sex with someone who is UNCONSCIOUS should not be called rape? 'Cause, uh, that sounds pretty much like rape to me. It shouldn't matter what gender you are, of course; nobody gets to sex you without your permissio…
/r/MensRights23/02/13 04:13 PM
2

I think we can take men's issues seriously without making light of rape, yeah?
/r/MensRights22/02/13 01:40 PM
3

Uh yeah we tried that, didn't work out so well. Turns out that when only a small sliver of the population is allowed to vote, they tend to vote only for their own self interest. Imagine that!
/r/MensRights18/02/13 02:30 PM
3

Ah, I didn't realize you were from SRS. Carry on with your trolling, then.
/r/MensRights17/02/13 03:47 PM
2

It's fine to question details, it's just that I don't believe that's a particularly fishy one. My husband and I are in computer science, as are many of our friends. He's been making just over six figures since he was ~26 or so, and so have some of those friends. Anyway, "six figures" is a pretty vague term - he could be making 600k and jet-setting around the world, or he could be making 102k and living in an expensive urban area. It doesn't really tell us much. It's not even particularly suspici…
/r/MensRights17/02/13 03:31 PM
3

Gal, but thank you!
/r/MensRights17/02/13 03:11 PM
1

Regardless of how this turns out, take some time too review your memories from early in the relationship. Were there red flags, little things that you noticed but brushed off? Remember those things, so that you can identify them next time you see them and avoid the person they're attached to.
/r/MensRights17/02/13 03:05 PM
6

Be careful about actually proposing... I could see that being used as evidence in some kind of "presumption of fatherhood."
/r/MensRights17/02/13 03:03 PM
2

There have never been any people under 35 who make six figures, ever. Ever!!
/r/MensRights17/02/13 02:58 PM
5

Your viewpoint is formed by the time and culture you live in. Casual gay stuff was a feature in many early civilizations, and generally as log as you weren't the bottom your "manhood currency" was unaffected. Times and beliefs change, man.
/r/MensRights12/02/13 02:16 PM
2

There's no way to address a claim like that except to say that it's false - you might as well claim that all men like football. Women, like all human beings, have varying preferences in mates.
/r/MensRights11/02/13 02:11 PM
4

If you only do "polite" things because it wins you points with ladies, you're not really being polite. You may have better luck finding a woman with your values if you started treating women equally to everyone else, instead of treating them specially and expecting to be rewarded for it.
/r/MensRights11/02/13 02:02 PM
0

"Women prefer douches" is a pretty massive generalization to back up. It's also a suspect "truism" coming from a community of douches, so consider the bias.
/r/MensRights11/02/13 01:59 PM
4

Sadly, English does not have a word for "yourses."
/r/MensRights04/02/13 07:20 AM
6

Before pink was ever a "girl color," it was used for boys, while girls were dressed in soft blues. I am certain that babies from that time period would not have the color preferences you describe.
/r/MensRights04/02/13 07:18 AM
10

Personally, I don't have any less respect for a person who gets an abortion than I do for someone who chooses to have children. If you get pregnant and know you don't want to raise a child, terminating that blastocyst before it becomes a child is basically the definition of responsibility in my book. I have zero respect for those who get pregnant, know they aren't ready for a child, and figure that everything will work out - probably in the form of a man coming along and paying for everything.
/r/MensRights31/01/13 12:49 AM
9

Or it will incentivize criminals to have children.
/r/MensRights27/01/13 03:10 PM
3

You are asking her to take on a not-insignificant risk to her own life and body. Maternal mortality rates are better than they have ever been, but women still die in labor or face lifelong complications from pregnancy. On top of that, you are asking for a child to be born unwanted by its mother. And where would you draw the line? If you say the mother can be overruled by the father's wishes as early as conception - well, that's not a baby. It's not even a fetus. But you say that that's enough to…
/r/MensRights26/01/13 05:09 PM
1

Just curious - are you saying that a man should be able to force a woman to carry a pregnancy to term against her own wishes? I get the imbalance there, but that solution sounds pretty brutal.
/r/MensRights26/01/13 02:20 PM
2

That's the least-relevant anecdote I've ever heard. Because of a few shrieking women you know, all of them must be uniformly unfit for combat? I could have just as easily brought up an anecdote about how women have a higher threshold for pain because so many of them give birth. This whole argument is about exceptions. Most people are not fit for combat. Most people cannot react calmly in a crisis. Our servicepeople are supposed to be the best of the best, so a conclusion you draw from observing …
/r/MensRights24/01/13 06:37 PM
5

I would personally rather go to war than get pregnant.
/r/MensRights24/01/13 01:48 PM
2

Personally, I believe that men are also mentally better at handling war or combat, so I am glad that the women I know will not have to go through this. What do you base that on, since there are currently very few women to observe in those roles? Men don't seem to be handling it all that well, judging by the ever-increasing suicide rate in the military, the number of troops who've snapped and killed civilians when they came home, etc.
/r/MensRights24/01/13 01:47 PM
12

They are higher than the average male, too. Most civilians are soft, pasty sacks of fat, regardless of sex.
/r/MensRights24/01/13 01:41 PM
10

Talk to a male nurse and I think you'll find that they do indeed face a whole lot of sexist discrimination regarding their choice of career; the phrase "male nurse" is almost a punch line to most people.
/r/MensRights19/01/13 02:50 PM
11

No, he should get a good lawyer. Male lawyers can be lazy, jaded, disinterested, etc - just as easily as female lawyers. It is sad that I have to point that out.
/r/MensRights03/01/13 02:29 PM
2

I'm not sure what you're accusing me of. I value human life, but there are plenty of reasons why a pregnancy would be regarded as a negative situation by a woman. It sounds like you're trying to get into some kind of abortion or contraception argument, and this is neither the time nor the place. If you want women to have no choice in whether or not they are pregnant, we really don't have anything to say to each other.
/r/MensRights01/01/13 04:34 PM
10

Except babies! Oh, wait...
/r/MensRights01/01/13 04:27 PM
2

Dim? Not wanting to have children means I have some inherently negative view of human life? That's ridiculous. I can value human life without wanting to make a new one. It's a personal choice. That's like saying that if I don't personally want to be a lawyer, that means I disagree with the entire criminal justice system.
/r/MensRights01/01/13 04:24 PM
1

A pregnancy very fucking much is an illness when it's unwanted.
/r/MensRights01/01/13 04:17 PM
2

You should read the article - it answers your questions. Selfish players don't come out ahead over the course of many games, because the tit-for-tat strategy punishes selfishness. The particular competition this came out of is still going on, and there's a possibility that there are even better strategies, and that they may be selfish. It's by no means a definitive law of game theory or anything.
/r/MensRights27/12/12 09:19 PM
1

I think what you're missing is that "tit-for-tat" is a specific strategy within game theory that beats out other assumptions. If you were to participate in the sort of Prisoner's Dilemma competition that Robert Axelrod debuted his tit-for-tat strategy in, you could of course try your own strategy of measuring an initial group of results and then acting based on those results, but you would probably be beaten by the tit-for-tat player.
/r/MensRights27/12/12 09:01 PM
1

I consider myself an ally of MRA. I support the cause, I speak out about it amongst my friends, and when someone says something misandristic I call them on it and try to educate. I endeavor to be more aware of my own privilege, and consciously make an attempt not to abuse it. But now you're saying I have to take out a full-page ad in Cosmo, or I'm no better than any sexist woman? Well, fuck you. I'm not responsible for what anyone else does, regardless of how similar their genitals or skin color…
/r/MensRights27/12/12 04:07 PM
4

Actually, the tit-for-tat strategy operates on individual reputation, not that of groups. It's an interesting story, if you've got the time.
/r/MensRights27/12/12 04:01 PM
2

I'm tempted, but my comment history shows an obvious MRA bias.
/r/MensRights24/12/12 04:21 PM
4

Have you looked up your judge on a site like therobingroom.com? You might find that she has a history of bias toward wives - maybe your lawyer can do something with that. I use that site to vote for judges when election season comes around, and one of the chief complaints I've read about certain judges is that they're sexist (in either direction). I vote those slags right out.
/r/MensRights24/12/12 04:03 PM
3

They say children are born with the scars of their parents' wounds.
/r/MensRights24/12/12 03:59 PM
1

It's crazy, I've seen tons of reasoned, well-defended posts from you in this thread, and they're all sitting at -1. Do you have a downvote stalker or something?
/r/MensRights21/12/12 02:56 PM
1

There's plenty of great women paired off with loser men - what's your point? If you're saying human mating process are not perfectly efficient or ideal, I agree with you.
/r/MensRights21/12/12 02:52 PM
3

In the past, a woman didn't really have the option of forgoing motherhood, unless she was determined enough to stay celibate or join a nunnery. So you can't really point to a dearth of childless women in history as evidence of much, I don't think. I've read the same studies as you regarding unemployed men and depression, but these studies leave us with a big question: why do these men feel this way? Is it because of something intrinsic to all men, something hard-wired into their genetic code? Or…
/r/MensRights20/12/12 07:19 PM
3

I don't think we disagree on anything! For a man who wants to be a provider, that role wouldn't be slavery. But for a man who wants to be a free spirit and backpack around Europe his whole life, being forced into the traditional male role and working to support a family would be a tragedy, because that's not what he wants for his own life.
/r/MensRights20/12/12 07:08 PM
2

One way to think about circumcision is this: how do people who practice FGM defend what they do? If it sounds exactly like the defense of MGM, then something is probably awry. All of these statements could be made by a person who supports either form of genital mutilation: It just looks better The opposite sex prefers it It's a medical procedure Almost everyone has it done It's easier to clean It lowers the chances of infection The baby can't even feel it It happened to me and I'm fine with it T…
/r/MensRights20/12/12 04:28 PM
3

Except for how it tastes like acrid goblin piss.
/r/MensRights20/12/12 04:23 PM
6

He just wants all the soda for himself
/r/MensRights20/12/12 04:22 PM
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I agree with everything you said except for this: Women were never a man's slave, their role as a mother and a caregiver is something these recent generations have completely disregarded (not in all cases). Wouldn't you like to stay home all day and everyday making sure that your children grow up properly while your husband did all the work? As a man, nothing would make me more proud. That's fine for you and the woman who shares your values, but if I had no other options in life besides motherho…
/r/MensRights20/12/12 04:20 PM
4

I tried but it made my vagina hurt and then I cried
/r/MensRights20/12/12 04:08 PM
19

Plenty of people don't like pickles, either, but they don't burst into tears when they show up in a sandwich!
/r/MensRights20/12/12 02:39 PM
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Wow, dude. I know you're trolling and you want to get a rise out of me, but reading what you wrote just made me feel so bad for you. You're so dead-set on believing that all sluts must suffer, that women will eventually pay, somehow, for sleeping around. That's generally the sort of stuff you hear from people who are upset that nobody is sleeping with them. Kind of a "sour grapes" thing, right? Instead of doing any serious introspection about yourself, it's easier to tell yourself that all these…
/r/MensRights20/12/12 02:18 PM
1

Cool, thanks for replying. I actually kind of got the same vibe, but I don't have any reason not to take the author at his/her word. Plus, setting up a whole blog with the cover identity of a mother seems like a pretty long con just to get an article upvoted on reddit.
/r/MensRights19/12/12 10:01 PM
2

Fair enough.
/r/MensRights19/12/12 09:59 PM
1

That's kind of a loaded question, innit? We don't know what percentage of women support the idea of men's rights. It could be 2% or 50%. It's useless to try to guess at what the state of affairs would be if that unknown number was larger or smaller; it would just be imaginary conjecture. I don't doubt that some people don't know any women who agree with MRA, but there are plenty of people who would be hard-pressed to find a woman in their social group who wasn't in agreement. This stuff takes ti…
/r/MensRights19/12/12 06:00 PM
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It has been a very long time indeed since human beings were slaves to their biology, with no free will! Of course our traditional roles were shaped by our biology. So are all kinds of other behaviors that we've learned to manage, like the desire to burn down a neighboring tribal village or shit in rivers. It's a long stretch to say that because we are influenced by our sexual design as providers or babymakers, a women has a diminished capacity to bond with a partner if she's had sex one too many…
/r/MensRights19/12/12 05:38 PM
1

You might be experiencing a confirmation bias - not all women identify themselves as such online, and not all women you meet in real life come right out and talk about gender politics straight out of the gate.
/r/MensRights19/12/12 05:19 PM
1

All I wanted to know is why you thought the letter was written by a man. You seemed to have some unique insight that others didn't pick up on, so I asked you to elaborate. You declined, so I don't see what else there is for us to discuss.
/r/MensRights19/12/12 05:14 PM
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Thanks for responding. I disagree with you and I don't think there's enough compelling scientific evidence to back your assertion that women have some biomechanical sex partner ceiling, as if the ability to bond with someone was a hinge that could only be opened and shut a finite number of times before rusting closed. But if you really believe that a woman's chief value was her purity, then I could see how you'd arrive at that conclusion. And if you see a man's chief value as a provider, than I …
/r/MensRights19/12/12 04:51 PM
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Trick question? I'm just trying to understand you. You say you have reasons to believe that the letter was written by a man, but you decline to share any of those reasons. Why even post, then?
/r/MensRights19/12/12 03:57 PM
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How is that different from anything written online? What exactly is it about the text that makes you feel it could not be written by a woman?
/r/MensRights19/12/12 03:38 PM
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People have mistaken my gender online many times. It's easy to do when you have rigid expectations of male and female writing styles.
/r/MensRights19/12/12 03:37 PM
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How do you respond to some of the comments folks here made, that you seem to be encouraging your son to sleep around until he's 30, but then go on to demonize women who are doing the same thing?
/r/MensRights19/12/12 02:51 PM
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Yes, you missed that it was written by a woman. Women can also say the word "fuck."
/r/MensRights19/12/12 02:49 PM
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Yeah, I wasn't really clear - there does absolutely need to be a baseline of physical fitness, because they are all soldiers.
/r/MensRights19/12/12 02:43 PM
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It sounds like you're making the assumption that all women want marriage, and all men need to be "trapped" into it. Personally, the thought of using sex as a bargaining chip grosses me right the fuck out. I am glad I no longer have that power. I spent my 20s having sex when I wanted, and I don't regret any of it. I'm happily married now, and I didn't give him my "leftovers" (ew), I gave him my whole self, informed by all the experiences I had in my life, including all that great sex. He was havi…
/r/MensRights19/12/12 02:41 PM
8

I return to a bar ONLY if the drinks are well-mixed. Bartender tit size does not factor into the equation.
/r/MensRights19/12/12 02:23 PM
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Not all women are unilaterally weaker or smaller than all men - there are more than a few female Heavies out there. If we had uniform standards for men and women in the military, what you said would t even be a problem. There might be fewer women, but as long as they can pass the same fitness tests, fine! Actually, what the military really needs is to keep two separate fitness standards, but instead of dividing them by sex, they should be applied based on if the soldier has a front-line MOS or a…
/r/MensRights19/12/12 02:21 PM
2

Hear, hear! That's the kind of equality I want - not the sterile, "nobody make jokes" kind, but rather the "everyone gets someone to ogle" variety.
/r/MensRights19/12/12 02:18 PM
2

and one refused to allow gender to define the roles we were expected to fulfill. Would you mind clarifying a bit? It sounds like you were saying, "She's the woman, so expect her to have dinner ready!" but I'm guessing that probably isn't what went on, right?
/r/MensRights16/12/12 07:17 PM
1

Let them go, then. Do you want to be with a woman who sees men for what they can extract from them?
/r/MensRights13/12/12 11:06 PM
2

No, no, they've been corrupted by the patriarchy and made a slave to it, obviously. /s
/r/MensRights13/12/12 11:05 PM
1

If a dominant man wants to be with a submissive woman and everyone's okay with that dynamic, that's fine - it'll work out well for all involved. But don't take that particular successful dynamic to mean that all relationships must match that model; if you have no desire to "lead" a woman you can easily find a woman who doesn't wish to be led, and build your own successful relationship. What's good for "most" people amounts to exactly squat when it comes to the individual. You must choose what is…
/r/MensRights13/12/12 11:03 PM
2

Source? Evidence? Anything beyond your own gut feeling and personal anecdotes? No? Okay then.
/r/MensRights13/12/12 10:53 PM
2

Taking on decision-making responsibility for another adult is a choice (and vice-versa, allowing someone to make decisions for you). It may be a choice you're more predisposed to choose on account of your genetics or social conditioning, but it's still a choice you get to make. Are you going to spend your life making decisions for someone else, or are you going to search for an equal partner, someone who takes responsibility for her own life and happiness, as you do yours? Believing that you hav…
/r/MensRights13/12/12 04:56 PM
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Does a castle really need a master? Get with someone who shares your values and make joint decisions about shit you jointly care about. It's not that hard...
/r/MensRights13/12/12 03:35 PM
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If you need calculus to set a budget, you're doing it wrong. But you clearly have a point to make (several times over) about how much smarter you are than your girlfriend, so please, do carry on.
/r/MensRights13/12/12 03:30 PM
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Your lawyer sucks and is trying to get this case over with with the least amount of effort on his part. Please at least go talk to another lawyer and see what he/she says about your case.
/r/MensRights11/12/12 02:20 PM
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Exactly. If he had decided instead to gun down a group of Samoans, we wouldn't be holding that up as evidence that society was biased against Samoans, just that this dude had a particular strange hate for them.
/r/MensRights07/12/12 03:15 PM
2

Huh, that's not the way I took it. To me, it sounds like the inner thoughts of a decent, regular guy who's just considering his actions. On the one hand, he's taking the power out of a word by refusing to tip-toe around it. On the other hand, he's giving a platform to someone who disagrees with his position. He's letting us make up our mind, not moralizing on what people should or shouldn't do. I've heard people say that a mark of intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the min…
/r/MensRights30/11/12 04:00 PM
1

I am pretty sure no people in history ever got laid because they gave up their bus seat.
/r/MensRights30/11/12 02:06 PM
5

There's a really excellent scene in an episode if Louie where he's playing poker with some comedian friends, one of whom is gay (Rick). They're talking about gay sex, Nick DiPaolo is getting worked up about gay sex, and then this happened: Louie: Do you think I shouldn’t be using that word on stage? Rick: I think you should use whatever words you want. When you use it on stage, I can see it’s funny, and I don’t care. But are you interested in what it might mean to gay men? Louie: Yeah, I am inte…
/r/MensRights30/11/12 02:04 PM
1

I'm okay with that. Chivalry has no place in an equal society. We should take all the good parts of chivalry - consideration, politeness, compassion - and give those things to everyone.
/r/MensRights25/11/12 05:04 PM
1

I'm a female and an atheist and if a guy I was talking to in a bar said he was a serious Christian, I'd (politely) take my leave. That doesn't mean I'm a shit-testing female out to get free stuff from men until they fail my tests. It just means that I don't see any point in getting to know someone better if we're obviously incompatible.
/r/MensRights23/11/12 05:39 PM
1

Dude, you're hot. Maybe there's something else going on. If you have male AND female friends you can trust to give you honest feedback, ask them for their honest opinions.
/r/MensRights23/11/12 05:32 PM
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Self-posts don't get karma (although the comments will).
/r/MensRights23/11/12 05:24 PM
1

Your position is wrong because you're stating that, because there is some ancient evolutionary pressure to act in a certain way, all women will act in a certain way, regardless of their culture, upbringing, and personal convictions. I refuse to be labeled as "evil" simply because I have the same kind of genitals (or skin color, or what have you) as a person who does evil things.
/r/MensRights23/11/12 05:04 PM
1

Gender, sex, and sexuality are not the same thing. A man is a man regardless of who his dick is in.
/r/MensRights23/11/12 05:01 PM
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Let's not ignore the fact that this wasn't just a company made up of women - it was a company made up of women who explicitly signed on to work in a male-free workplace. Competent, professional women who cared more about doing good work then their coworkers' genitals (or purses or fashion or weight) were not represented in this experiment.
/r/MensRights23/11/12 04:57 PM
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I suspect that all the decent, professional women turned tail and ran when she started describing her man-free "utopia."
/r/MensRights23/11/12 04:53 PM
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This isn't good for anyone. I'm a female in CS, and I worked my ass off to get where I am now. I was lucky enough, I suppose, to have never encountered much sexism in either direction, but if people assumed that I was only in CS because I got special perks for being a woman, I would have been pissed. If there's an argument to be made about increasing diversity in certain fields, fine, so be it. But this isn't the place to fix the problems - the proper place is in early childhood development, and…
/r/MensRights23/11/12 04:42 PM
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Isn't this more how to be a good person, though? I can't think of any platitudes about being a good man that shouldn't apply equally to women, as well.
/r/MensRights23/11/12 04:17 PM
2

Even if they were burned off in a fire, you would still be a man.
/r/MensRights23/11/12 04:15 PM
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A glass of wine while pregnant won't affect a baby. We don't need cops hassling pregnant women (or women unfortunate enough to look) pregnant. But if you give birth to baby with obvious fetal alcohol syndrome, the hospital should call child protection and the baby should be removed from the mother's care.
/r/MensRights23/11/12 03:53 PM
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My parents' divorce was one of the best gifts they ever gave me. What do you think you're modeling for your children, staying in an abusive relationship, watching their parents play divorce-chicken? Your kids can have both parents. They just don't need to see them living in the same house and fighting all the time. As a parent, you're the best chance your kids have to learn how to take care of themselves and live happy lives.
/r/MensRights21/11/12 10:08 PM
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Yes, but when you go over the limit, your phone marks them as 1/2, 2/2, etc., and the iPhone sees that and sticks them back together before it shows it to you.
/r/MensRights19/11/12 03:30 PM
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I don't know about that. I listed to a friend's drunk, spoiled girlfriend go on at length about the exact $30k diamond ring she wanted and had looked at every month in a jewelry store since she was 14. She said she didn't care who gave it to her, but that any man who wanted her had to know she was worth it. Right in front of her boyfriend! Some people are just so entitled that they don't even know they're supposed to be ashamed. I could totally see her writing something like this.
/r/MensRights19/11/12 03:28 PM
2

Thanks for this! I didn't know it had a name.
/r/MensRights19/11/12 03:22 PM
2

I don't know why you're getting downvotes, you make a good point. There's not much value in a "pissing contest" of who's had it first, but it's worth noting that men started out "breadwinning" for themselves, and had the option of adding a wife and children to the mix later. The women, on the other hand, didn't have much of a chance if they went their own way - if they weren't lucky enough to be brought up with a valuable trade skill, their options for survival pretty much depended on attaching …
/r/MensRights19/11/12 03:20 PM
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Yep. That's really where the idea of a "patriarchy" falls apart for me - sure, the handful of folks at the top were male, but underneath them were all the rest of humanity, male and female, getting shit on by the few at the top. Poor men didn't get to do the secret male-power handshake any more than the women did.
/r/MensRights19/11/12 03:15 PM
3

Whoa, how did you know? I literally snapped awake in a cold sweat this morning, and the singular, terrified thought in my mind was, "I hope ross2012's dad isn't an English professor!" What that frantic dream meant, I'll never know. But I do know that it shook me to my core. Did you have the same dream?
/r/MensRights18/11/12 09:25 PM
6

Well, I'd love to reply to your concerns, but nowhere in your nonsense ad-hominem rant did you actually disagree with any of my statements, or make any cogent points on your own behalf. For someone chiming in on a discussion of how women are incapable of rational, unemotional discussion, that's a pretty amusing way to comport yourself.
/r/MensRights18/11/12 07:42 PM
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I don't agree with you. I'm not a feminist, but I'm a woman and I'm very glad for the original wave of feminism. I definitely have more choices in how I can live my live. I have the option of not being a mother (thanks to both birth control, and the people who fought for my legal right to use it). I'm far enough away from the first wave that I myself have experienced sexism a mere handful of times, and none that I took seriously. I'm an MRA because I think men deserve to have the same variety of…
/r/MensRights18/11/12 03:48 PM
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I hope you realize that there are probably dozens of female supporters right here in MRA. We engage in this debate with non-MRAs, and there's no shortage of intelligent discourse to be had. It's a shame that you personally have never met a rational woman, but please do not lump us all in with those troglodytes.
/r/MensRights18/11/12 03:38 PM
2

Weird... I guess it's been a few years now, but I took their quiz, which had a lot of vague questions about religion and spirituality, and I confirmed my completely atheist stance. At the end of the quiz, I received a message saying they were sorry, but I couldn't be matched with anyone in the system. I searched for that particular message, and that's when I found a bunch of articles claiming EH rejected atheists. Now that I'm googling for it again, I see that a lot of the articles I remember ar…
/r/MensRights14/11/12 03:48 PM
1

Whoa, whoa, I'm not a feminist. I don't know if traditional feminists even believe men can be raped by women, what with all that patriarchy they have for protection. It really seemed, from your comments, that you didn't believe guys could be raped (unless they were drugged or underage). I wasn't trying to get points on you or make you feel bad - honest! It was more like, "how can I make this guy see that men can be raped by women?" So I gave you some examples, and you were like, "Nah, that happe…
/r/MensRights14/11/12 02:00 PM
1

Eharmony will not match you if you say you're an atheist. Pretty lame.
/r/MensRights14/11/12 01:48 PM
1

Imagine all those memories you have of your hot teacher and your hot friend who groped you, and replace them with people who are not hot. A group of drunk fat girls is molesting you, and they're nasty and gross but they say if you don't let them, they'll claim you raped one of them. The teacher is disgusting and overweight. A woman who outweighs you by 150lbs. A crazy ex with a knife. Etc. You're twisting yourself in knots to try to keep believing that men simply can't be raped. But despite your…
/r/MensRights14/11/12 01:29 PM
1

Would you feel raped if: You were 15, and an older, ugly teacher threatened to hold you back if you didn't finger her? You were recuperating from surgery at a friend's house while your girlfriend was out of town, and your friend fondled you while you were too drugged-up to say no? You were at a party with a lot of women (none of who you found attractive), and you learned that after you passed out, they'd taken turns inserting objects into you, like bottles and broom handles? If you were in pain …
/r/MensRights13/11/12 07:37 PM
2

A small risk of death is still a risk. There are other risks, too: permanent loss of sexual pleasure, incontinence, weakening of the bones, diabetes, preeclampsia, prolapse, infection, pelvic girdle pain, blood loss leading to shock, etc. Yes, it's rare, and yes, maternal care is better than it's ever been in the history of mankind, but let's not pretend that growing another human inside of your own body isn't going to present some risks. Fundamentally, it's up to the person subjected to those r…
/r/MensRights05/11/12 07:56 PM
1

Anecdote, but when I got an abortion at PP. I was first counseled as to my options, which included adoption (they even had info packets for local agencies).
/r/MensRights05/11/12 07:48 PM
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There's definitely a social and genetic element to this, but I'd wager that you are part of the problem, too. For most guys, they don't tolerate the behavior you've described when it comes from men. If you had a friend that was sneaky and deceptive, you'd drop him posthaste, right? You wouldn't sneak around and start shit about him, probably - you'd just stop hanging out with him. Many men, though, will put up with an inordinately greater amount of bullshit from women, particularly those who mig…
/r/MensRights05/11/12 07:45 PM
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I don't understand why she has to limit her pool just to guys she's dated. If it's about the child's welfare, she should be able to point out any rich-looking guy on the street and demand that he pay for her children, right? I mean, think of the children!!
/r/MensRights05/11/12 07:16 PM
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My favorite technique with bigots is to reply with complete innocence, making them have to explain themselves in awkward, uncomfortable ways. Example: Co-worker: "That package is SO late! It must be a delivery MAN, right? giggle" You: "I don't get it. Are men slower at making deliveries? head cocked" Co-worker: "You know what I mean! Guys just can't do anything right!" You: "Really? Isn't your husband really good at such-and-such thing? You were just talking about him this morning." Co-worker: "…
/r/MensRights05/11/12 03:38 PM
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If your downvotes are any indication, your argument strategy is not a successful one.
/r/MensRights05/11/12 03:31 PM
2

Sorry, I didn't mean to be targeting you personally or suggest that you said that. I was asking it as a general question. I don't dispute any of the statements made about which gender generally prefers which toys. In these comments, we've done a lot of talking about nature vs. nurture when it comes to toys, but when it comes down to one individual child, none of that matters. One child doesn't care what the majority of the other children of his gender like. He likes the toys he likes, and his pr…
/r/MensRights04/11/12 03:56 PM
2

I mean, so what if it's male-dominated? According to your statistics, some girls still wanted to play with Lego. What's the social value in telling those girls they shouldn't? What's the value in telling the minority of boys who like to cook that they shouldn't, because most other boys don't?
/r/MensRights04/11/12 03:41 PM
1

You're being awfully coy in all your responses. Why don't you just come right out and say what you're getting at?
/r/MensRights04/11/12 03:38 PM
2

My gut take on this is that there's a chance it not yours, and she's trying to get you to back off of your own accord, so she doesn't have to come out and say it. I hope that's not true.
/r/MensRights31/10/12 11:33 PM
3

Dude, if you read my comment history, you'll see I'm a longtime member of the subreddit. I'm not a troll, or at least I don't intend to be, but it's hard not to pipe up when folks start suggesting that I ought to be silent and conceal myself when I'm enjoying my favorite pastime. I've never endeavored to manipulate another player with my gender, and I've always tried to make it on my own merits. One of the best things about video games when I was younger was the camaraderie. I've made true frien…
/r/MensRights31/10/12 05:23 AM
2

I don't frequent women-only spaces, and I'm not opposed at all to male-only spaces. I should have been clearer in my objections that if players want to form their own dudes-only guilds (or women-only guilds, or no-gingers-allowed guilds), of course I'm not against that. I'm against that idea that I need to take any special precautions to avoid revealing my gender in a public space, just because some people can't deal with it. But I know exactly the type of person he's talking about and I can't s…
/r/MensRights31/10/12 05:13 AM
3

I'm here in mensrights because I don't agree with any of that jazz. I've never voted for it or supported it, and I've taken great care (I hope) not to abuse my own privilege.
/r/MensRights31/10/12 01:12 AM
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I agree with you that what you describe happens a lot, and it sucks for everyone involved (except the attention whore). The worst part is that it creates its own confirmation bias: nobody's keeping count of all the women who aren't attention whores, precisely because they're not attention-whoring. If a player's name isn't MarksBabyHoney89 and we don't get on voice chat, nobody even knows. So then us regular chicks who just like to play video games get hit with the bitterness that behavior causes…
/r/MensRights30/10/12 06:31 PM
1

Okay, so I can't know how my male friends think or play games, despite my own observations, but you can, because you're a guy and all guys think exactly the same? Gotcha. You've managed to pull off sexism against both genders - in your mind, women are attention whores who can only be tolerated if they go out of their way to suppress any gender indications, and men are slavish drones who are powerless to stop the emptying of their bags and virtual wallets when a woman's voice caresses their eardr…
/r/MensRights30/10/12 03:50 PM
4

You followed up to that with a comment that described women as getting on voice chat and saying "Hey guys," and you said that was what pissed you off. What do you say when you get on voice chat? Do you use your own voice? By doing so, aren't you announcing your gender to everyone who can hear you? What exactly is your ideal scenario here? Do you want women and men to play separately in all games? Or do you think they should be allowed to play together, but only if women stay silent or distort th…
/r/MensRights30/10/12 03:45 PM
-1

Oh sure, I'm not debating that - I'd think you were kind of a dick for starting a male-only server, but I wouldn't try to stop you. If you have your own server and you want to demand that everyone speaks in silly clown voices all day or refer to money as "poop" that's your call, whatever you want.
/r/MensRights30/10/12 03:40 PM
3

Pretty sure that's just called "regular sex."
/r/MensRights30/10/12 03:10 PM
3

You're coming at this from the perspective that you're the default, you're normal, you're "allowed to be there" and the women are intruding on your space. Every time you open your mouth on voice chat, you are announcing that you're a man. Even before you say a word, you're likely assumed to be male. So a female comes in, has a female voice, and you get all pissed off because she shouldn't be in your space, using her female voice and probably planning to beg for free stuff and slut it up, whether…
/r/MensRights30/10/12 03:00 PM
3

You're expanding this so-called "genetic defect" you have as if it applies to all men, but I think you're just trying to justify your own personal shortcoming, something you need to work on personally. I know dozens of male gamers, and not a single one of them has any problem gaming with women. Somehow they don't instantly become mindless thralls at the sound of a siren's voice. There are separate sports where physical strength is too different to have a good game. We see this even without gende…
/r/MensRights30/10/12 02:46 PM
15

Whoa, whoa, whoa... My gender creates a problem for you, so I'm the one who has to walk around on eggshells, doing my very best not to somehow tempt you with my feminine witchery should you happen to accidentally hear my voice over Teamspeak? Yeah, no, how about fuck you. This is the same line of thinking that leads to burqas. Really, you're not giving yourself enough credit. You're not a helpless robot, nobody is forcing you to treat women specially or give them items or do anything you don't w…
/r/MensRights30/10/12 02:23 PM
3

Controlling behavior can be a precursor to domestic violence. Individually, these incidents are probably no big deal, but as other folks in these comments have shared, a little "nudge" from a sign like these might be what a person needs to start identifying patterns of behavior.
/r/MensRights30/10/12 02:03 PM
2

Ding ding! That's the right answer - do not tolerate suicide threats. As soon as a person makes a threat, call 911 immediately, each and every time. Either they'll get the help they need, or they'll learn that you can't be manipulated in that way.
/r/MensRights30/10/12 01:53 PM
6

The real shame is that currently, men choosing to be stay-at-home fathers are looked down on, both by prospective mates and society in general. If we're going to change women's roles, we need to let men into the roles traditionally reserved for women. We need to recognize that the traditional model of one working parent, and one parent at home, still works for a lot of people even when the genders are switched (or in same-gender pairs). I know I'm preaching to the choir here, it just seems so ob…
/r/MensRights26/10/12 04:12 PM
5

Yeah, agreed on all counts. The whole system should be different - people who want high-stress jobs need a stay-at-home or low-stress-work partner, regardless of gender. Parents of both sexes need time after birth to bond with the baby, and need a plethora of childcare options. More people need to be able to access medical training. People entering the field need to be made to understand the true weight on their shoulders before they make the decision to go all the way. It's sad that it took unt…
/r/MensRights26/10/12 04:07 PM
3

I'm from a planet where 3.5 billion members of the human race are women. On my planet, it's nearly impossible to generalize about either sex because each and every one of them are individuals. On my planet, there are more differences between any two random individuals that there are between any demographic groups, like race or sex. There's an old adage: "The one common element to all of your failed relationships is you." It doesn't just have to mean romantic relationships. Your perception shapes…
/r/MensRights26/10/12 03:56 PM
0

Yes, every single woman is exactly how you describe, and your inability to work with women probably has nothing whatsoever to do with you, and your preconception of every woman you meet.
/r/MensRights26/10/12 02:12 PM
15

Well, the flip side of the "women don't work as much as men" coin is that men really are more able to continue working and still have a family. They don't have to carry children, and a lot of those doctors probably have stay-at-home wives. In the future, female doctors who plan on having families should probably pair up with men who want to be stay-at-home dads.
/r/MensRights26/10/12 02:10 PM
3

Are you saying that if the woman doesn't want the baby but the father does, she should be forced to carry it to term inside her own body, against her wishes? That sounds pretty nightmarish to me.
/r/MensRights25/10/12 03:44 PM
31

I am a female in the tech industry, and I echo her comments. I know it must happen, and perhaps I'm exceptionally daft, but I've never felt as if my sex has been a handicap here; in fact, even as a fairly plain female, I've gotten the sense that my sex gave me a specialness and privilege that I have tried to be mindful of, tried not to exploit. What I really hate is this movement towards telling men in tech to check their behavior when women are around, to censor themselves. This isn't any diffe…
/r/MensRights12/10/12 02:05 PM
1

Well played, sir.
/r/MensRights08/10/12 03:07 AM
2

You're not writing a letter to the editor. You don't need to sign it.
/r/MensRights07/10/12 05:49 PM
0

Okay, well, good luck with that...
/r/MensRights02/10/12 11:38 PM
3

What's really sad and sexist is that your dad assumes he knows better than some random woman about what's right for her, despite the fact that she is presumably an adult capable of giving her own consent to participate. I would have been SO pissed if I was her - I spend years training for this, all my friends and family came out to watch me do my thing, and some pantywaist coward takes a fall and makes me look useless? What a twat.
/r/MensRights02/10/12 06:06 PM
3

Cause he's gotta fight off sabretooth tigers and roving bands of cavemen from other tribes, doy.
/r/MensRights01/10/12 01:56 PM
2

We probably won't be able to agree on anything, because you and I have a different definition of an embryo. I believe that it's human and alive, but net yet a person. You believe it's as much a child as any infant. The real problem here is that there is no fair, equitable solution. Either you have the right to force a woman to carry a baby she doesn't want, potentially jeopardizing her health and life, or the woman has the right to terminate, despite your objection. Forcing an adult human woman,…
/r/MensRights30/09/12 07:41 PM
5

Your experience isn't unique, exactly, but it's not widespread either. Abstinence-only education is all there is in some states in the US. Of course, they're the states with the highest rates of teen pregnancy too.
/r/MensRights29/09/12 02:10 PM
11

"Murder" seems a little hyperbolic for referring to a six-week old human embryo. In any event, what's the outcome you're hoping for? Men to have the right to force women to remain pregnant, against their will? I don't see that being good for anyone. Financial abortions seem to be the better option.
/r/MensRights29/09/12 02:06 PM
1

You know, I've been thinking about this since I saw your reply this morning, and I think you're wrong. Kinda. To an extent, I do agree with you. It's hard to be a good judge of character, and the more damaged a person is, the better they've learned to fly under the radar and act like a normal person. But that's true of all people - anyone who's ever had to try to make friends knows that. Stealth turds come in all shapes and sizes and genders. That said, I think there are a lot of good indicators…
/r/MensRights28/09/12 11:23 PM
3

I think both of these people sound pretty crappy, honestly, even account for her filtered representation of the guy. I wouldn't want to be married to either of them.
/r/MensRights28/09/12 12:07 AM
4

Hey, man, don't paint us all with that lady's brush! I think it would be a terrible shame if we stopped caring for each other in relationships. I'd like to see more fairness there, not a total abandonment of one of the more potentially-awesome parts of life.
/r/MensRights28/09/12 12:05 AM
2

I'm really enjoying this back-and-forth you guys have going here. A lot great points and honest assessments from both sides, with plenty of respect to go around. Shame it's buried so deep!
/r/MensRights28/09/12 12:01 AM
3

This is going to sound really shitty and I truly don't mean for it to, but did you not know about her character before you got married and had kids?
/r/MensRights26/09/12 02:28 PM
15

This whole article is a blatant ad for a spam company. Pretty cheeky!
/r/MensRights26/09/12 02:13 PM
6

I'm down, as long as people do the polite thing and put a towel down where they sit.
/r/MensRights25/09/12 01:42 PM
11

"Projecting" means to give someone a trait that actually describes you. A classic example is a person who cheats on their partner, and then starts to accuse the partner of cheating.
/r/MensRights23/09/12 09:18 AM
10

Hey now! I agree with the rest of your comment, but the idea that women can fuck with no consequences is pretty silly. Think pregnancy, STDs, and all the consequences of simply bedding the wrong person.
/r/MensRights20/09/12 01:52 PM
1

G'luck with that.
/r/MensRights19/09/12 02:01 PM
2

No need, pal! high five
/r/MensRights17/09/12 02:27 PM
2

You are assuming OP is male, but it seems they're probably actually female.
/r/MensRights17/09/12 02:16 PM
4

Applying for a job and working there and gaining the trust of coworkers and customers sounds like a really time-consuming, convoluted way to plan to rape your boss...
/r/MensRights17/09/12 02:15 PM
2

Spending $40,000 on a dress-up doll is a pretty good threshold for what I'd call "rich." Just sayin'
/r/MensRights14/09/12 10:39 PM
0

He didn't have to want it as badly as she did - he just had to not want it more than she wanted it, and be willing to deal with the fallout. Obviously, that wasn't the case.
/r/MensRights14/09/12 10:38 PM
6

Wow, that's brutal.
/r/MensRights14/09/12 10:17 PM
6

It's nice you could take a break from beating women and building up the patriarchy! /s
/r/MensRights14/09/12 10:16 PM
2

Divorce can be better for the kids - but it's all about how the parents handle it. I don't think two people who don't love each other, don't get along, don't have the same values, should stay together - what is that modeling for the children, that you should just suffer in silence for an idealized vision of "family?" I'm so happy my parents divorced early, but when I was a kid I never had the slightest inkling that they were anything but the best of friends (hah!) because they always put me firs…
/r/MensRights14/09/12 10:14 PM
6

It's a forest creature with the legs of a goat that plays haunting melodies on a pan pipe.
/r/MensRights30/08/12 02:31 PM
2

You only know those women because they announce themselves as such. There are plenty of female supporters here who don't feel the need to make their own gender an issue.
/r/MensRights30/08/12 02:28 PM
1

UTIs are bacterial infections. Anything that gets that bacteria up the tract and into the bladder is no good, right? That's why hygiene - wiping front to back - is so important. If anyone can make the argument that foreskin can trap bacteria and give it a pleasant environment to grow in, I don't see how you could also argue that the same effect is isn't caused by multiple flaps of labia skin closing off the area and making a nice, warm home for bacteria. Plus, those flaps may impede thorough wip…
/r/MensRights28/08/12 12:55 AM
-1

You are correct on that, but my point still stands - many of the same reasons for cutting off a boy's foreskin would equally justify slicing off a girl's labia.
/r/MensRights27/08/12 03:56 PM
5

You know, all of the reasons they listed apply just as equally to female circumcision. Women get urinary tracy infections (at a much higher rate, in fact) and are more likely to develop STIs. There's also all kinds of "cleanliness" issues. So why don't we slice both sets of labia off baby girls? It wouldn't prevent sexual stimulation, if you left the clitoris intact. It would be much easier to clean. And it would probably even look better! Just two holes, no ugly flaps to get in the way.
/r/MensRights27/08/12 03:35 PM
1

Period shits? ;)
/r/MensRights19/08/12 04:40 PM
2

I've been going to Defcon for 5 years, and I've never had a problem with men groping or licking me or anything else. In fact, I find Defcon to be the most relaxed, accepting environment I could be in - we're all just a bunch of dorks enjoying our shared culture and interests, shit-talking and drinking in the morning. Not to say that it doesn't happen, because I can't be certain of that, but I've never seen anything that would justify these cards. In fact, I would say almost the opposite is true.…
/r/MensRights19/08/12 04:30 PM
2

If there is a genuine threat to the nation, I think most people would volunteer. If they don't? Well, I suppose a nation whose own citizens wouldn't fight to save is not a nation worth saving.
/r/MensRights19/08/12 04:18 PM
2

Entirely different? Really? Our genitals are different, yeah. But both types of genitals are formed from the same original structure, both are filled with human nerves connected to a human brain experiencing human sensations. I'm sure there are differences in sensation - all men shoot something out upon orgasm while only a small sliver of women do, the penetrating vs. being penetrated sensations differ, women have a greater variation in refractory period, with some having none at all... Sure, ye…
/r/MensRights16/08/12 02:15 PM
2

Lots of women like that book. Lots of women don't give a shit about it. I don't think you can really draw any conclusions other than that it's currently a book that is selling pretty well.
/r/MensRights16/08/12 02:06 PM
2

How would you know, exactly? You've only got one or the other, most likely.
/r/MensRights16/08/12 02:10 AM
5

Pretty much all humans have a sex drive, and the strength of that drive varies for everyone, with little regard for genital configuration.
/r/MensRights15/08/12 03:56 PM
1

You can do it! I believe in you!
/r/MensRights09/08/12 03:37 PM
1

This is the last season... If you don't catch up fast you're gonna get spoiled hard!
/r/MensRights09/08/12 03:01 PM
7

I would have just been sad not to have been invited to a toke-up. If I'd barged in, though, it would have been with a grip of bagel bites or something.
/r/MensRights31/07/12 04:22 PM
2

Everyone should be personally responsible for their own birth control, full stop. That said, men really need to have a lot more options. The glue shot seems pretty nifty, but it's only a start.
/r/MensRights30/07/12 07:56 PM
1

That sucks, man. I'm on your side. Why do you want to hate on me? I would never dream of doing anything like this to anyone, but you have to lump me in with this troglodyte because we have the same genital configuration? :/
/r/MensRights30/07/12 07:53 PM
1

Welp, the girlfriend managed to pull it off.
/r/MensRights28/07/12 03:36 PM
2

Logos aren't covered by copyright law at all - it's trademark law. You cannot get away with unauthorized use of someone else's trademark, especially in a place like Zazzle where they're looking for that stuff. Fair use when it comes to trademarks is pretty limited, too.
/r/MensRights16/07/12 02:38 PM
7

She also re-posted it in 2xc after not getting the "oh you poor thing" response she was hoping for... It's worth pointing out that most people in 2xc had the same type of response: http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/wkwfv/im_scared_my_relationship_might_be_over_crosspost/
/r/MensRights15/07/12 05:26 PM
0

It might be satire, but I think you're stretching real hard to see it through your own particular lens.
/r/MensRights15/07/12 05:11 PM
1

That's not what "freedom" means at all. By your definition, people in North Korea are perfectly free - free to be exemplary North Korean worker drones, and nothing else. If that's what you wanted out of life, of course you wouldn't feel restricted or deprived of choices - but just because the nature of a restriction happens to align with your own personal desires, that doesn't mean it's freedom. If the next guy in line wants a different life but can't have it, that's not freedom, even if you can…
/r/MensRights08/07/12 05:56 PM
1

It sounds to me like you're extrapolating from your own personal experience as if the same thing was carved in stone for everyone else in the world.
/r/MensRights07/07/12 06:12 PM
1

Any woman in her 30's who is single is trouble. If she can't stay in a stable relationship by the time she is 30 the only constant is her. You know, there are probably lots of people who would say that about MGTOW at the same age!
/r/MensRights23/06/12 02:38 PM
1

If you live long enough to regret it, the longer female lifespan means that you will have no shortage of old bush to pick from in your later years.
/r/MensRights23/06/12 02:30 PM
1

And of course, females have their own individual dispositions that affect how they react to those patterns. Is there some kind of corollary like alpha/beta for women? I agree with the Parent - this stuff is really interesting and I like hearing about it here
/r/MensRights23/06/12 02:23 PM
-7

I'm thinking: airborne sterilization virus. There's a pill that temporarily cures it, but it costs $20,000 and requires a battery of tests. If the child survives to adulthood, the $20k is applied towards college tuition. I trust I can rely on your vote.
/r/MensRights15/06/12 01:29 PM
5

I think white people may also have had to adopt invasive war strategies earlier than some other people, too. While Africans and other groups had easy access to resources and little need for hugely complex military structures, white people were squished up on tiny cold islands fighting for scarce resources. I think that historical context counts for more than anything that's actually related to "race."
/r/MensRights10/06/12 01:52 PM
4

You make some excellent points. Even if the study was perfectly unbiased, there's not enough data to point in any direction very strongly. I just wanted to refute the parent's claim that there was absolutely no data whatsoever.
/r/MensRights09/06/12 10:42 PM
1

I'm not saying anything. I merely linked to an article describing the results of one study.
/r/MensRights09/06/12 05:02 PM
2

A nearly 25-year study concluded that children raised in lesbian households were psychologically well-adjusted and had fewer behavioral problems than their peers. http://articles.cnn.com/2010-06-07/health/lesbian.children.adjustment_1_psychological-adjustment-advocacy-groups-lesbian-households?_s=PM:HEALTH
/r/MensRights09/06/12 04:45 PM
8

Actually, there is data: http://articles.cnn.com/2010-06-07/health/lesbian.children.adjustment_1_psychological-adjustment-advocacy-groups-lesbian-households?_s=PM:HEALTH A nearly 25-year study concluded that children raised in lesbian households were psychologically well-adjusted and had fewer behavioral problems than their peers.
/r/MensRights09/06/12 04:44 PM
5

Wow, seriously?
/r/MensRights09/06/12 04:39 PM
6

Your children can tell when their parents are staying together for their sake. Splitting up was the best gift my parents ever gave me.
/r/MensRights09/06/12 03:50 PM
2

I was writing up a comment about how the corpus callosum part, at least, was legit - but then I looked it up on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum#Sexual_Dimorphism It seems it's on its way to being entirely debunked, but I'm not surprised that the "women have larger corpus callosums" factoid is still being taught in schools.
/r/MensRights30/05/12 04:02 PM
3

Likely not, since she was a lifelong pacifist.
/r/MensRights28/05/12 03:35 PM
5

Well of course you smell cum.
/r/MensRights24/05/12 01:52 PM
9

It's really incredible that mankind persisted after all those pinball machines and swimsuit magazines in the 70s.
/r/MensRights24/05/12 01:51 PM
9

Maybe if women started coming home in flag-draped coffins or wheelchairs or with arms missing, people would give more of a shit about horrors of war. Maybe they'd start to think about the price men have been paying since time immemorial. We should be just as horrified about men fighting and dying as this dude is at the thought of women doing it.
/r/MensRights19/05/12 03:49 PM
1

It's helpful if you can provide a link to a source that you're referring to.
/r/MensRights17/05/12 01:04 PM
0

Far be it from me to denigrate your drill instructor's knowledge of female physiology... But it seems that any evidence for the phenomenon is pretty flimsy, if there's any at all. I thought the same thing forever, but I guess if you've got a large enough sample of people doing something for a week at a time, it's easy to see patterns that aren't really there. Here's a good overview of the current state of research: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=do-women-who-live-together-menst…
/r/MensRights16/05/12 12:30 PM
-1

There was indeed an article in SciAm about it - but it said nearly the opposite of what you're saying: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=do-women-who-live-together-menstruate-together
/r/MensRights16/05/12 12:25 PM
12

That's actually a myth. Women's cycles do not "sync up."
/r/MensRights15/05/12 02:07 PM
6

"A civil matter" doesn't mean "fuck you you got no case" it means "we can't arrest her for this, you'll need to take her to court first." So get a lawyer and sue the shit out of her to get your stuff back. You can even get a lein against her personal property until yours is returned
/r/MensRights04/05/12 02:13 PM
1

Well, it depends on the steak.
/r/MensRights29/04/12 02:59 PM
10

Personally, I don't want to be revered. Do you? I just want to do my thing and live my life, same as anyone else.
/r/MensRights26/04/12 02:09 PM
1

If $100 ends your relationship, it's a bargain!
/r/MensRights11/04/12 02:36 PM
4

Well, I agree with everything you've said here, but I will point out that there are places - not first-world nations, to my knowledge - where people really do believe that a women wearing a miniskirt "deserves" to be raped, because men "can't help themselves." Some countries have gone so far as to enshrine those views into law. In that context, I think activism like SlutWalks makes perfect sense. In the radfem context, though, it's exactly as you describe.
/r/MensRights09/04/12 03:49 PM
14

That's because there isn't a singular, Borg-like "female mind" any more than there is a "male mind" shared by all 3 billion men on the planet.
/r/MensRights09/04/12 03:32 PM
3

Think she, and the commenters here, are kind of missing the point (as are some of the SlutWalkers, I bet). The point of those things is not "I'll dress as slutty as I want and don't look at me if you're creepy," it's "I'll dress as slutty as I want and I don't deserve to be raped." Big difference.
/r/MensRights09/04/12 03:31 PM
1

It tends to be co-morbid with "really fucking hot" unfortunately.
/r/MensRights02/04/12 02:16 PM
8

Story time! I used to work in a copy shop. One day I went to pull down a ream of what I thought was 8.5x11 paper from a very high shelf. It was actually the short edge of a ream of 11x17 paper, and when I pulled it off the shelf, the long edge of the ream flopped over and sort of dragged down my face. I didn't think anything of it until a customer said, "You're bleeding!" I went to the bathroom to check it out, and as it turned out, my face was covered in HUNDREDS of cuts... On my eyelids, lips,…
/r/MensRights30/03/12 02:01 PM
4

Yeah, it was pretty much just a string of weird stereotypes of men and women, one after another. Her heart's in the right place, I guess.
/r/MensRights28/03/12 02:00 PM
37

If she starts every encounter off by lying about herself right away, it's no wonder she can't find anyone. I think this lady's problems are a lot bigger than her money.
/r/MensRights27/03/12 10:38 PM
7

I don't think that "not beating the shit out of people" automatically makes a man into a woman. If you stop punching people in the face, does your dick fall off?
/r/MensRights25/03/12 03:09 PM
5

Do you believe that health care should cover prenatal care, or that healthcare should cover children's care? If you do, and if you're looking at it from a purely financial perspective, then you'd do well to note that family planning services cost a tiny fraction of what pregnancy and child healthcare cost the system.
/r/MensRights18/03/12 05:06 PM
6

I think this idea of women using abortion as birth control is a farce. I've had an abortion- it was several hundred dollars out of pocket, was pretty uncomfortable, and took me several days of recovery before I could go back to work. It's insanely inconvenient compared to all other forms of birth control. As for condoms alone being good enough for birth control? Well, a broken condom was the reason I ended up getting the abortion. I think it's interesting that you think that someone who's too ir…
/r/MensRights18/03/12 05:02 PM
-2

Stop it, you're making me blush!
/r/MensRights14/03/12 06:33 PM
3

Probably hogwash - younger people are generally better at recovering from invasive procedures, and besides all that, it seems pretty common for the doctors to just outright say they won't spit because they think the woman will change her mind/doesn't know what she wants/hasn't had enough children/ etc.
/r/MensRights14/03/12 06:32 PM
1

The fucked-up part I was referring to was that you'd have to justify a divorce to the government. What you've described is exactly how I meant it should be - that you'd divorce someone who wasn't on board with kids, rather than getting the government or doctors to force him to comply with your wishes.
/r/MensRights14/03/12 06:28 PM
1

I think he's just saying that this scenario should be added to list of reasons it's "acceptable" to seek a divorce, in states where you still have to do that, which makes sense in that (admittedly fucked-up, arcane) context. In fact, I think that "misrepresenting a desire for children" actually is grounds for divorce in some places. I'm from the West Coast so it boggles my mind that you have to ask the government's permission to dissolve a relationship. I guess if people operate from that perspe…
/r/MensRights14/03/12 04:21 PM
5

You're absolutely right that big decisions SHOULD be talked over in a marriage, but that's not for us, as a society, to enforce as law. If I wanted children and my husband did not, I would have NO right to deny him his own choice. Are you really saying I should be allowed to say, "Nope, sorry, your sperm belongs to me and I say we're having babies, whether you like it or not!" As the theoretical baby-wanting partner, if my husband chooses to get snipped, he's not depriving me of my "right" to ha…
/r/MensRights14/03/12 02:34 PM
12

Nobody should need consent from anyone else to make decisions about their own body. If making that decision torpedoes your marriage, that's your problem, not the state's.
/r/MensRights14/03/12 02:04 PM
3

Nobody's forcing you to buy a rock for anybody. If anything, you should treat a demand for an expensive bauble as a peek int the future with that person, and be thankful for the warning.
/r/MensRights07/03/12 03:09 PM
0

That is perhaps the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Good thing you couldn't be bothered to explain it further; I'm sure my head would explode from the sheer imbecility of your theories.
/r/MensRights06/03/12 01:40 PM
2

You don't think things would grind to a halt pretty quickly if all the women disappeared? Losing half the planet's population would of course be problematic for those that remain, but I don't think it has anything to do with gender, honestly. Do you really think that there's anything women (or men) couldn't do without the help of the other sex (save for reproducing)? You really think out of 3.5 billion women, nobody could figure out how to keep civilization going? I can't even think of any field…
/r/MensRights05/03/12 03:52 PM
5

There are plenty of women who can fix and build things. Sure, there are plenty who don't, too, but in the scenario described, where all the men vanish, it's pretty silly to think that women would be totally helpless, that not a single one on the planet could fix a car.
/r/MensRights05/03/12 02:25 PM
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I don't know why you got downvoted. Blanket statements like "women are emotional creatures, they cannot respond to reason, it's a man's job to TELL a woman what to think" - that shit casts a shadow over the whole discussion.
/r/MensRights03/03/12 02:29 PM
0

You got downvoted because you clumsily retold a Dave Chappelle bit, intentionally or otherwise.
/r/MensRights21/02/12 02:03 PM
18

This is a horrible thing to say, and perhaps it's just my own perception, but it seems like the few women who get longer sentences for stuff like this tend to be... well... uglier than the ones who get a slap on the wrist. If that's true - it can't be true, can it? - then it means that the very same viewpoint of "teen boys would love to do it with their teacher" is in play, it's just that we know ugly old teachers are an exception to the rule, so he really must have been raped, that time. But if…
/r/MensRights19/02/12 07:05 PM
2

I'm a female, and occasionally when I post here or in a particularly male-oriented discussion I'll open up with "I'm a female," because I'm acknowledging that I'm not coming from the same place as most of the other commenters, or to clarify why I'm asking a question about how balls work or something. I don't think every man who starts with "As an XY..." in 2xc is groveling or asking permission to speak - sometimes it just makes sense to clarify.
/r/MensRights18/02/12 04:46 PM
1

What in the fuck did I just read. Man, this topic really brought the crazies out of the woodwork.
/r/MensRights10/02/12 03:17 PM
2

Yeah, White Day is a month after Valentine's Day. My husband and I celebrate a variant called Steak & Blowjob Day.
/r/MensRights06/02/12 08:00 AM
1

If you read the entire article, it states that Zollino was publicly revealed to be the girl's father several years prior.
/r/MensRights04/02/12 02:53 PM
1

That's not the whole story, though. Not everyone wants to play cartoonish examples of extreme sexual dimorphism, but that's all we get. I remember right before Blood Elves got introduced as a playable race in wow, the men were trim and lanky, like swimmers or underpants models. A few immature kids complained that the male blood elves looked "faggy", so Blizzard make them look as steroidy as all the other male toons. Games are beginning to show a range of female characters - sure, they're all sex…
/r/MensRights03/02/12 03:56 PM
2

This doesn't even have anything to do with the post. Methinks the user doth protest too much.
/r/MensRights03/02/12 03:47 PM
1

It shows up there about once a month... This is pretty old.
/r/MensRights03/02/12 03:46 PM
15

Regardless of sex, I think anyone pushing past a 62-year-old is a dickwad of the highest order.
/r/MensRights25/01/12 04:09 PM
3

I think if a discussion topic is good enough, it will stand on its own legs here. Splintering groups can kill them, and I don't think there are enough active participants here to justify the split.
/r/MensRights24/01/12 10:01 PM
4

How about we have a policy of "old, sick, and children" first, then, instead of women and children first? If the only argument is that weaker people ought to be saved first (and I agree with that), than wouldn't that be a much more logical division than sex organs?
/r/MensRights24/01/12 09:58 PM
1

Some women do! Not all women.
/r/MensRights24/01/12 09:53 PM
2

Please don't lump all women in with the sorts of knuckle-draggers you're describing. Some women actually like having sex and don't use it as a tool or a game or the carrot on the end of a stick.
/r/MensRights20/01/12 02:53 PM
5

Whoa whoa whoa, I've never heard of this before. Seriously? There are libraries men aren't allowed into? Care to share the details?
/r/MensRights15/01/12 06:00 PM
2

I think it's interesting that they concluded that just because women don't want to get down with a complete stranger, they must not really like sex. They left out a whole gradient of possibilities. Sure, we know that women are in general less desirous of sex, but sex with a random stranger is probably more dangerous for a woman than for a man, and certainly women are socialized against it. Change the offer to "NSA sex with any of your hot boy acquaintances" and I bet you'd see the positive answe…
/r/MensRights15/01/12 05:57 PM
3

From the other side, it can be rough to get on a bus and have some guy make a big deal about giving up his seat for you. You'd be amazed how many people do it without being asked, but it makes me feel awkward and put on the spot, and it's hard to gracefully say "no thanks" without coming off like an ungrateful jerkwad. Keep your seat, dude! I just want to ride the bus like a regular person and not have anyone make a big deal out of the fact that I keep my genitals on the inside of me.
/r/MensRights13/01/12 02:33 PM
5

If your friend had treated the rape like a real violent crime and reported it to the police, there's a chance that that guy might have been in jail before he committed that other rape that he's in jail for now. So, your vigilantism may actually have resulted in another woman being raped. Have you given that any thought?
/r/MensRights11/01/12 02:32 PM
21

And I'm sure you'd get to be the judge of which women are "bitchy" enough to deserve to be raped, right? Nice job in your imaginary world.
/r/MensRights11/01/12 02:24 PM
1

Well, what's your position, then? What do you think should happen?
/r/MensRights08/01/12 03:38 PM
1

Um, I don't want to stay home and raise children. Would I be forced to, in your perfect world? Strict gender roles are shitty for everyone, man.
/r/MensRights05/01/12 02:17 PM
1

Most of these are good, but 34 is flat wrong. Women get friendzoned too - or are you only considering attractive women?
/r/MensRights03/01/12 03:48 PM
2

Yeah, no. I get where you're coming from, but carrying a child to term is more than a minor inconvenience. Birth mortality stats have gotten better in developed nations, but giving birth can still kill a woman. And it can come with a whole host of other medical effects. And really, forcing a person to have a child she doesn't want can't possibly be good for the child - kids should not be a "punishment" for having sex. "The man knew what he was getting into when he decided to have sex" is one of …
/r/MensRights31/12/11 03:31 PM
3

...or masturbation
/r/MensRights21/12/11 03:33 PM
3

I think this "single mother" thing is a red herring. We know from reams of research that being raised by one parent instead of two isn't ideal, but so what? Children grow up with plenty of less-than-ideal factors, and by and large they turn out alright. If the government was really all that concerned with child welfare, child support payments would be a fixed sum that an independent body determined that all children require, rather than a percentage of the parents' wealth.
/r/MensRights07/12/11 03:47 PM
2

You'll see I qualified it immediately as "functional monogamy." InfinitelyThirsting set me straight about my factless conjecture, and in the Wikipedia article I linked to in my reply to her, I noticed the phrase "socially monogamous," which is a better way to describe the style of monogamy humans tend to take up when raising offspring.
/r/MensRights02/12/11 03:10 PM
4

Derp, I just checked the Wikipedia page on animal sexuality, and you're totally right. I guess I was thinking of elephants or something. The really interesting part of that article is where it talks about how a lot of species previously thought to be monogamous (swans, etc) are often just "socially monogamous" and still have sex with other members of the species. Kinda like humans! Thanks for edifying me :)
/r/MensRights02/12/11 03:05 PM
3

Monogamy (at least, a functional semblance of monogamy) seems to be most prevalent among species whose babies take the longest to develop, which makes sense to me. Of course, I don't have any facts to back that up or anything.
/r/MensRights01/12/11 03:14 PM
3

By turning women into the dancing monkey instead?
/r/MensRights01/12/11 03:11 PM
1

Okey-silly-dilly-dokey-oh, good luck with that.
/r/MensRights30/11/11 04:10 PM
1

If you don't want a child right now, you're playing with fire. The pull-out method is not adequate and is how a lot of folks get made parents. Get thee to the shop, and have an IUD installed! I got the non-hormonal one, which lasts for 12 years and rocks my socks. Best $350 I ever spent - the peace of mind is amazing.
/r/MensRights30/11/11 03:59 PM
1

You could make the same argument that increasing the number of African-American troops means that there will be more troops being treated for sickle-cell anemia; it's probably true, but not really very relevant.
/r/MensRights29/11/11 11:56 PM
2

I am also a woman, and have had my share of periods ranging from mild to soul-killing. What you've described is not a typical period, it's a medical condition that needs to be addressed, same as if it was a hemorrhoid or a hernia or bi-polarism. Sure, people with medical conditions that prevent them from performing their duties should be treated before they're considered for the position. But for most women, leaking some blood and feeling poopy for a week doesn't usually keep them from going to …
/r/MensRights29/11/11 11:49 PM
0

How exactly does a period keep a person from performing their duties? Stick a tampon in it, take a Midol, get back to work.
/r/MensRights29/11/11 11:31 PM
7

I don't know that it's exactly a gender issue - I think our current method of schooling works better for a certain type of student, and that type of student tends to be female for a host of reasons that we don't quite grok yet. The boys who match that student type will do well, and girls who don't fit the mold suffer like most boys do. I guess what I'm saying is that it's a subtle but different distinction, and that instead of teaching differently to boys we should really be coming up with ways …
/r/MensRights17/11/11 03:45 PM
6

There have been four women so far. That itself doesn't necessarily mean the claims are more truthful, but I wanted to clarify that point. Wait, before I hit the save button I realized that you meant only one is talking. Fair enough, but some of them had settlements that bar them from speaking about it. We'll probably never know the truth.
/r/MensRights09/11/11 10:57 PM
2

Your preferences are taken into account only when voiced through up vote and down vote clicks. That's how Reddit works.
/r/MensRights02/11/11 04:42 PM
3

It makes me sad to think that because I'm a woman, you wouldn't want to be my friend - but I suppose I can't really find fault with your analysis, since you've made it clear that your tolerance for risk is that low. I'm sorry it came to that for you, and I'm sorry for whatever happened to you that brought you to that point. It's a sad world sometimes.
/r/MensRights28/10/11 03:07 PM
2

I started coming to this subreddit to get a laugh from all the crazy MRAs. Now I'm one of them.
/r/MensRights20/10/11 03:47 PM
-1

It's actually "quit fucking talking." Dude's a troll.
/r/MensRights18/10/11 08:13 PM
1

what you said doesn't even make sense, and it's in response to an 11-day old post. learn2reddit
/r/MensRights18/10/11 08:11 PM
7

I'm pretty disappointed that the few comments so far have all accepted the article's implied premise that "women" (all of them? Lots? Most?) are like this, instead of "about 100 really damaged women that the author claims to have met." There are fucked-up people everywhere, with all kinds of genitals. Just like the rapist murderer men in prison do not represent all or even most men, the same is true for crazy women who want to fuck murderers. Geez.
/r/MensRights07/10/11 03:36 PM
0

Do you really believe there are no females on the planet capable of reason or accountability or of writing a good blog post? Not a single one? If so - that's unfortunate, because it's untrue. Edit: That said, this particular person is obviously an idiot. But please don't take that to mean that every single one of the three billion other people on the planet that share her genital configuration think the same things.
/r/MensRights29/09/11 06:16 PM
2

Lots of big words, but what are you actually trying to say?
/r/MensRights12/09/11 11:35 PM
5

Wow, you put together so eloquently a though I've been trying to put together for years. I've never understood how people making this argument - that men are responsible for their actions while drunk, and that a drunk woman is totally unable to give consent - couldn't see how obviously, plainly sexist it is. I mean, it's the crux of their entire argument! They're saying, with a totally straight face, that men are better/stronger/more responsible/whatever than women. <jackiechanface> The original…
/r/MensRights23/08/11 03:56 PM
2

There's no strong enough incentive for them not to be.
/r/MensRights13/08/11 12:04 AM
1

Sorry, I didn't realize she had been posting as male.
/r/MensRights05/07/11 07:45 PM
10

Are females not allowed to post here?
/r/MensRights05/07/11 03:05 PM
5

I guess. Do you remember the time before you existed? Would you have noticed if you had been terminated before you had a brain, or thoughts? Maybe your memory is better than mine.
/r/MensRights28/06/11 03:41 PM
2

You keep saying this, but you haven't really provided any examples...
/r/MensRights28/06/11 03:40 PM
5

Interesting viewpoint. Would you be against a pill that aborted the cells one second after the egg and sperm joined? What about a pill that blew them up one second before they joined? When people say that personhood definitely must begin at conception, and not five minutes later, or at the onset of some identifiable features, or basically without any other justification, I feel like they must have other reasonings. I'm not saying you do, but typically that other reasoning comes from something li…
/r/MensRights28/06/11 03:38 PM
0

all women I'm pretty sure nobody wants that.
/r/MensRights22/06/11 11:22 PM
2

Don't we know it, brother. ::shakes head slowly::
/r/MensRights22/06/11 10:48 PM
1

^ this dude is a spammer, downvote his comments
/r/MensRights13/06/11 03:23 PM
1

Additonally, the author seems to forget that the whole point of chivalry, of treating women extra-specially, is really to reinforce how weak and helpless they are. Any person can decide to be "chivalrous" for any reason, including that they think it's nice, but we never would have had these ideas of pulling out chairs and throwing down jackets on mud for women if women had historically been considered totally equal and capable. As a data point, if someone holds a door for me to be polite, I thin…
/r/MensRights18/05/11 12:25 AM
1

Simple questions about who would have what authority and which responsibilities belong to whom, as she sees it, have been ducked, ignored, or countered with angry changes of subject. Really. That means they want the normal arrangement, in which the husband has all the responsibility but no authority whatsoever. That's creepy. Nobody has any "authority" in our marriage; we're a team trying to get shit done for the greatest benefit to us both. I guess there are some areas we're each more responsib…
/r/MensRights18/05/11 12:15 AM
1

Domestic duties are oppression of women only when they are the only option presented to any and all women, regardless of if they wanted that life. In exactly the same way, the expectation that a man will work all day long and see his kids for like 8 minutes per day just to support his family is also an example of the oppression of men, if it presented as if it is the only option a man has. The ideal system is one in which both people in a relationship can decide which roles they want, how those …
/r/MensRights10/03/11 11:28 PM
0

Just out of curiosity - you said women have been "restrained" from doing harm to society. What restraints do you think should be placed on women, in your ideal vision of society?
/r/MensRights10/03/11 11:02 PM
3

I would refuse. Pregnancy is still a huge burden and can result in death.
/r/MensRights03/03/11 12:07 AM
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