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| 1 | Vice article documents the legal battle in the U.S. over banning all forms of FGM, even the "ritual nick" version, while completely glossing over the hypocrisy of allowing that, while permitting the far more dangerous and harmful foreskin-removal of MGM.> There's just no sense to it. So it is for all religious activities. I think it is fair to delve into quantifying the harms. If they are almost none, and the people choose to participate in religion despite (or maybe because of!) the ritual in question, who is to say it does more harm than good? Religion is weird. There is no logical way to come to terms with humans' tendency toward religion. Better to understand it than to try to ban it. Banning religion, IMO, is super duper bad. (Religion is … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/08/19 08:17 PM |
| 1 | Philadelphia and VW ads banned over gender rulesI saw the cream cheese ad, and it wasn't very good. Sure as heck didn't make me want to buy their cream cheese. The VW also wasn't great, and either my tablet was up-scaling the video weird, or the car drives by and ripples a random woman's shirt, like with CG. I found that offensive, unecessary and an uninspired ad. I believe they were trying to bait folks to start a discourse and get free publicity IMO. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/08/19 07:27 PM |
| 1 | Let's brainstorm: How do we sell male advocacy to the left?Another breakthrough idea IMO (a lot of potential) is the idea that men need help/buy-in from others on their social/mental health needs being important. When we invest in men, they become happier, more resilient, and frankly less unstable. That means men aren't a threat to anybody --> not a threat to women --> many feminist concerns are pretty directly addressed by this. (I am not blaming men here, I am blaming a society that has mythologized away men's feelings. That has failed to imagine or o… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/08/19 07:19 PM |
| 2 | Vice article documents the legal battle in the U.S. over banning all forms of FGM, even the "ritual nick" version, while completely glossing over the hypocrisy of allowing that, while permitting the far more dangerous and harmful foreskin-removal of MGM.Glad to hear the perspective of another circumcised person. Yeah I think you pretty much have it. It is convenient that the baby doesn't remember, so the social disruption and (lasting) personal trauma IMO is minimal. But these are just reasons why it's less bad, not why it's particularly good. Perhaps it should be phased out. I find it hard to argue it should not be delayed until 18 or older as well. It's worthwhile having an informed debate (especially with someone who has first-hand experienc… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/08/19 06:48 PM |
| 1 | Let's brainstorm: How do we sell male advocacy to the left?Well I may not be helping with my above comment, but airing all the difficulties up front is part of having clear eyes when starting out. I suppose Men's Rights needs some breakthrough arguments it can make direct to the public. That positions Men's Rights folks as part of the solution (truth tellers) not part of the problem. (Factoring the difficult social context, it needs to be palatable to progressives/liberals, while being plainly true to most or all people. I do think child custody bias is… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/08/19 06:44 PM |
| 1 | Vice article documents the legal battle in the U.S. over banning all forms of FGM, even the "ritual nick" version, while completely glossing over the hypocrisy of allowing that, while permitting the far more dangerous and harmful foreskin-removal of MGM.Shoot, I tried to edit and hit delete. Re-typing my comment now. Basically I read a bit of the article and WTF. They are doing this on young kids (8-year-olds) and without anaesthesia, and without explaining any real reason for why it's happening. This should not be done on kids, for one thing, and if someone were to forge ahead and do this on a kid (which they should NOT), it should never be done on a kid without anaesthetic. The Jewish male tradition is to do it when the person is still a baby… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/08/19 03:10 AM |
| 1 | Vice article documents the legal battle in the U.S. over banning all forms of FGM, even the "ritual nick" version, while completely glossing over the hypocrisy of allowing that, while permitting the far more dangerous and harmful foreskin-removal of MGM.I was an infant once, and I turned out fine. Essentially the entire Jewish male population is circumcised. I leave it to people who feel more strongly about it to wage the debate. I don't think we should be doing the kinds of FGM that interfere with function, health, or the comfort of the individual. I am not expert enough to know what the consequences tend to be. I know the more extreme kinds can be really bad, and basically remove sensation in the glans, which is beyond the pale. If the adult … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/08/19 02:51 AM |
| 1 | Vice article documents the legal battle in the U.S. over banning all forms of FGM, even the "ritual nick" version, while completely glossing over the hypocrisy of allowing that, while permitting the far more dangerous and harmful foreskin-removal of MGM.I am circumcised and I don't think foreskin removal has much of a detrimental (or noticeable) effect. I think the ritual nick thing, in a cultural vacuum, sounds pretty harmless. I have to assume a clitoral hood removal would be just about as significant as a male circumcision. The problem is, FGM often involves damaging or removing the glans, the primary sensory part of the clitoris. No male circumcision would/should even slightly cut the glans (at least not intentionally). Cutting or damaging … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/08/19 11:01 PM |
| 1 | Sign petition to get "made to penetrate" added to the definition of rape.Edit: The definition is only used for sorting incidents, for data collection purposes, for the Uniform Crime Reporting program (UCR). https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/violent-crime/rape The definition is out of touch IMO, but good data science is different that who is guilty/not guilty of a crime. The stakes are a lot lower than implied IMO. --- It should be broadened to making sex happen without the other person's consent. Here's the "FBI definition of rape" quot… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/08/19 09:56 PM |
| 1 | So, what's the update on the draft?Male-only selective service was determined to be unconstitutional by the courts. (See the links posted by serpentineeyelash for the details). Government hasn't really moved to replace the old system with a new one yet. So it's pretty much decided, but in procedural limbo until somebody passes a new law in line with the court ruling or the executive does something about it, etc. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/08/19 09:42 PM |
| 1 | Let's brainstorm: How do we sell male advocacy to the left?The quickest/easiest way to get "the left" to discuss men's issues is through intersectional/broad-tent feminism. Feminism is the big topic on the left, it is considered decidedly in-group. Those in feminism who are looking at broad egalitarianism are already trying to address men's issues. Feminism is the forum to discuss gender in the left. "Men's Rights"™ is unfortunately more appealing to the right. Feminism as the de-facto venue for egalitarianism is where it's at, if you're trying to be ex… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/08/19 09:34 PM |
| 2 | What Type of Left-Winger are you?I'm a Democrat who's been disappointed by the blind spots and hypocrisy of mainstream Dems, so I prefer a progressive like Bernie or Warren. Eurpoe looks at the U.S. and sees center/center-right (Democrats), far right (Republicans), and right wing extremists (Tea Partiers, Evangelicals, hate goups such as the K.K.K. and Neo-Nazis, etc.) We need actual progressives, not incrementalists sinking in the right-leaning quicksand that is the U.S.'s brand of "centrism." I believe in feminism, by the way… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/08/19 09:15 PM |
| 1 | Ke$ha admitted in a 2012 Rolling Stone interview that she forced all the men who came on to her bus to drop their trousers so she could emasculate them by taking pictures of their junk. Rolling Stone had no criticism for this.Come to think of it, isn't Ke$ha the one who sued her producer or someone for rape? She doesn't have a leg to stand on if she routinely sexually harasses men on her tour bus. Doing something immoral or illegal yourself doesn't mean you are no longer protected from other people breaking the law. Especially clear-cut if the two events didn't happen close together in time or place (i.e. the events are practically unrelated). | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/08/19 07:56 PM |
| 1 | The concept of "internalized misogyny" is a complete black box and not falsifiable.Telling someone they have internalized misogyny challenges them to consider whether they would put up with their current life circumstances in a more ideal world. If this wasn't the norm, would it be fair? It's a call to remove the factor of the current context, step back, and ask "ignoring everything else, is this one thing fair?" It's a conceptual tool that can be used well or misused. I personally think it contributes a lot to some important arguments. Without deconstructing the status quo, i… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/08/19 07:34 PM |
| 1 | N.O.W. opposes accused male students suing their universities over alleged anti-male bias in campus Title IX hearings, labels them "just another way to bully survivors into being silent."Why? Damage to reputation can easily result in financial loss to the victim, so why shouldn't the slanderer have to compensate them for it? Maybe lost wages can be converted to dollars. That is more apples to apples. Something that would have been dollars being converted to monetary damages is more okay to me. Just saying "emotional suffering" converted directly to dollars seems wrong, and I think there should be a different remedy. (That's my opinion of monetary damages in court cases, not spec… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 16/08/19 08:31 PM |
| 1 | N.O.W. opposes accused male students suing their universities over alleged anti-male bias in campus Title IX hearings, labels them "just another way to bully survivors into being silent."Not that I side with one or the other side of this (haven't looked it up at the moment), I think damage to him outside of the legal system (court of public opinion) is a bigger deal to him at this point than any monetary damages or remedy through the legal system could make up for. Suing her re-opens the case as hot news, meaning it's in the public eye again, meaning he is in the public eye again. Given the social climate, I think it's a very painful move for him to sue her at this point. And ho… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/08/19 05:30 PM |
| 2 | N.O.W. opposes accused male students suing their universities over alleged anti-male bias in campus Title IX hearings, labels them "just another way to bully survivors into being silent."Without an impartial and fair process, there can be no true justice. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/08/19 05:23 PM |
| 1 | I've long voted Greens, but how can I continue when they're doing shit like this?Some context: The current Prime Minister Boris Johnson is pushing hard toward no-deal Brexit, and so everyone who is against this push for no deal (quite possibly a majority of parliament) is thinking of voting no-confidence. In the event of a vote of no confidence, the Prime Minister is out and they will need a new Prime Minister to run an "interim government" until a general election can be held. Interim governments are called "caretaker governments" and are just supposed to keep the governmen… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/08/19 04:16 PM |
| 3 | Moscow Mitch never actually used a “boys will be boys” defense; AOC picked up on a sensationalist headline and retweeted it as fact, demonizing boys in the process. It’s stuff like this that alienates men on both sides of the political spectrum.She went a little hard on the young guys with the printout of her, as her laser beam of public scrutiny burns a little brighter than theirs does, but she can be mad at being printed out and mock assaulted that way. I bet she is tired of the daily threats against her person. Many of which are sexual in nature. She gets to be mad about that. And she gets to be mad at Mitch for a LOT of reasons. Kids got caught in the center a bit, and a spotlight that strong on them, with that not-holding-back wor… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/08/19 04:26 AM |
| 1 | Why should men support leftists when they so openly hate them and want them politically enervated?Errr, until there are roughly half women Members of Parliament, there is the issue that women don't have the equitable number of seats at the table. UK doesn't even have as direct democracy as the U.S. There is no primary election. Party just picks a candidate and they stand against the other parties. So what if they pick a woman to stand for a single seat. Do the math. One seat is not going to suddenly make women dominate political life. It can't. I have to disagree with the premise here. Until… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/08/19 03:49 AM |
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