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The fact that SJW is a term on Reddit shows the economic status of the young men who populate this community.
/r/MensRights26/09/18 11:36 PM
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The state funded is the only thing I take issue to. What works in Germany is not going to work in the USA or elsewhere. It's like comparing apples to oranges.
/r/MensRights12/06/18 07:23 PM
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Not defending the person, but replying to the title of the original post: Prosecutor is trying very hard not to charge her with a crime This actually draws attention to one of the biggest problems with the American justice system.... at least in the case of district attorneys, who will bring cases forward in certain situations. Elected district attorneys are a plague on the USA. In Germany, I talked with a person who had served in this role and she pointed out that district attorneys there are l…
/r/MensRights21/05/18 06:35 PM
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I like how you think.
/r/MensRights10/05/18 09:48 PM
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Tone police are "trolls?" Oh REALLY?! So, you think that anyone who looks like he's stringing platitudes together in an effort to get people to get along better is not being honest in how he approaches an internet community? Wow!
/r/MensRights10/05/18 09:48 PM
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I've done my part with a couple.
/r/MensRights10/05/18 09:44 PM
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It's hard not to be cynical when you have no hope of changing things. I like how you think and talk. You strike me as a very smart person who has a lot of potential in life. I want to tell you simply that there are places in the world where men support each other more, and which have a healthier sense of masculinity. THE USA You sound rather young, so I don't know if you will have noticed this, but I've seen a huge change in the overall health of masculinity in the USA over the past four years o…
/r/MensRights10/05/18 09:39 PM
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There are individuals who study people in order to figure out how best to profit from them and keep problems out of their lives. There are also individuals who study people in order to facilitate them and help them achieve what they want to, in life. I think that it's important to appreciate when a person of the latter set is talking to you and trying to give you advice on how to make an effective social movement.
/r/MensRights10/05/18 09:26 PM
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I think mensrights needs to focus on masculinity in general. "How can we be better men, together... supporting each other?" That's my two cents, there. We need a more robust positive and proactive vision for what we represent... not a reactive forum where everything is about the horrible wrongs done to men.
/r/MensRights10/05/18 09:23 PM
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There is value in providing some weight in the scales against radical feminism... but copying radical feminism's hyperbole in a push for masculinism also has its problems.
/r/MensRights10/05/18 09:19 PM
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If you want an effective movement... you might want to consider how you come across to the world that you are trying to talk about your issues to. It's up to you.
/r/MensRights10/05/18 09:18 PM
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Well, OK... let me flesh this out and say that whenever anger and complaint are the main order of business it does not make this a fun forum to spend one's afternoon at. I don't think that I need to give any examples of those things, do I? These kinds of posts are pretty common on the front page of the subreddit.
/r/MensRights07/05/18 10:49 PM
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You're not going to even want to read this, but, I'll lay my heart out anyway... and kind of discuss the background ideas I have about this problem. It's hard, isn't it? There are two ways to be a keen analyzer of people. One way is that you do it in order to fence off problems from your life, and profit from them in your business. The other way is that you do it in order to do what you can to facilitate them or others like them. I had the insight that this is the key difference between my broth…
/r/MensRights07/05/18 10:44 PM
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Nope... The beauty of every day human interaction is that you discuss things without resorting to external references to prove your point.
/r/MensRights07/05/18 10:26 PM
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I think that if you want to be an effective movement, you earnestly need to police yourselves for tone. However, it only means that a group becomes a more emotionally supportive community focused on proactive rather than reactive discussions.
/r/MensRights07/05/18 10:10 PM
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It's very interesting to me to see this universal condemnation of Trump over a couple tweets about a woman... as compared to how there has been a far less emotional response over far greater sins of his. My sense is that it's because men listen to their wives' anxieties and complaints more than they would think things through and take a stand for more well thought-through reasons. How does this happen? The reason is that girls have been raised in glass houses, and people who live in glass houses…
/r/MensRights01/07/17 12:52 AM
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The male gonads are designed with a complex mechanism to help dissipate heat. The optimal temperature for sperm production is actually a few degrees below body temperature. In an ideal world, we would be walking around naked, so that the breeze could wick away heat and moisture from that part of our anatomy. Lacking that, however, it's very important to have creative types of posture in order to dissipate heat and move the lymph around in the hips.
/r/MensRights09/06/17 09:31 PM
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Obamacare seems to me like a solution to some serious problems that will satisfy no one, exactly because there are winners and losers. Perhaps, the end result will be a move toward something like a single payer plan a few years down the line? Or will it be extreme regulation of procedure costs, like in Japan?
/r/MensRights08/11/13 04:08 AM
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May I ask, which language? That is interesting.
/r/MensRights07/11/13 10:58 PM
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Well, the problem is that people have different social standards depending on where they grew up, where they live, and whom they associate with. It's very nice to believe that everybody pretty much agrees on what is "crossing a line" and what is not, but as is evident from those things which appear as non-offensive and natural which are being reported as "creepy," that is not the case. In my country - the USA - personality conflicts seem to me to form the bulk of interpersonal problems. It stuns…
/r/MensRights07/11/13 10:55 PM
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However a sincere guy with a poor delivery will most likely be branded "Creepy" for something he never intended on being so. "Creepy" is one of my least favorite words. It's one of those ways in which people judge personality, when they don't have anything substantive or solid about a person's behavior that they can point to, when criticizing them. Any needy man looking for friendship, intimacy or love will be called creepy when he tries to find some of these things.
/r/MensRights07/11/13 04:48 PM
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Men's penises come in all shapes and sizes, just like women's breasts and labias. How interesting that women are so concerned about female body image, but think nothing of dissing men because of their genetic variation.
/r/MensRights07/11/13 04:43 PM
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Well, in my guesstimation, places with more balance in the distribution of gender in various sectors of the workforce and in government are going to experience far less animosity between the genders... which is what we all want, isn't it?
/r/MensRights10/09/13 11:25 PM
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Well, you might look at Norway or Denmark... if you've learned some Swedish, your language skills ought to transfer pretty well.
/r/MensRights19/08/13 02:07 AM
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American woman, get away from me / American woman, mama let me be
/r/MensRights14/04/13 03:17 PM
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Anything that creates an air pocket around my scrotum is a problem. The one thing that seems to be generally ok is something called a "bikini brief," where the fabric rests squarely against the skin of the scrotum. However, I can't very well go around town wearing one of those without shorts as well. I agree that lighter weight materials do make a difference.
/r/MensRights08/04/13 01:33 PM
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I agree with you that having an open fly is a wonderful feeling. Having cool air circulate in to your crotch is great. It is ironic, isn't it, that it is not socially acceptable in public, whereas low cut shirts are seen as fine for women? I imagine a woman's breasts also ideally need to have air circulation around them.
/r/MensRights08/04/13 01:30 PM
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Yes, I think publicly winning that kind of large sum of money might be incredibly scary for that very reason. There's a reason why people who are wealthy think it's a taboo to talk about their income or the exact amount of wealth they have.
/r/MensRights09/01/13 12:09 AM
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Humility is certainly more endearing than arrogance, yes.
/r/MensRights06/01/13 05:58 PM
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And yet, that man never realizes that what he actually is pining for is a daughter.
/r/MensRights06/01/13 05:56 PM
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Brazil, where women are all Amazonian tigers.
/r/MensRights06/01/13 05:40 PM
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Yes, that's the counterargument, and it's the one I personally would side with.
/r/MensRights06/01/13 03:27 PM
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Well, what I'm talking about I wouldn't want to put into the frame of reference of "parent issues." Rather, I'd say that everybody wants affection, love, and emotional support once they have a taste of it. Given the ideas with which men are inculcated with here in the USA as they're growing up, it's easy for us to get confused when we are trying to seek those things out. We can end up sacrificing our own dignity and parts of our personal well-being in order to get a modicum of this support that …
/r/MensRights06/01/13 03:25 PM
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Yup, and interestingly enough, the very predilection for analyzing shared patterns of behavior leads anthropologists to discard stereotypes right and left as they get to the meat of the issue. This is more than can be said for their academic cousins over in the sociology department, where folks tend to build their models from the ground up using stereotypes (mainly with ones which deal with the notions of class struggle).
/r/MensRights06/01/13 03:15 PM
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No... In fact I'm very critical and I suppose even somewhat derisive of Freud's ideas. I don't use schools of thought as theoretical underpinnings for my arguments. I just draw together my own models of the world from the things I see around me. The longer one lives, the more time there is to see how the social patterns which mold society evolve. It's one of the biggest benefits about growing older, in my opinion. As far as my idea regarding the reasons men are attracted to women goes, I think i…
/r/MensRights06/01/13 03:04 PM
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It's rare on Reddit that I find someone who is so earnest in the desire to talk about how beliefs affect people's actions. Thanks for this opportunity. Yes, false beliefs change people's actions, but let's take a closer look at how this particular belief about men affects male behavior. Looking around at the men I have known over the course of my life, I see this accusation thrown in people's faces that men are by nature crass or violent or what have you - where words like "strong" are oftentime…
/r/MensRights06/01/13 02:34 PM
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Well, a false belief only has power over the mind and the sensibilities. It doesn't change the way reality exists. I was raised in the 1970s and 1980s in the USA in an era where gender stereotyping in children's schoolbooks was going out of vogue. I am a product of the USA society where this argument you speak of is a core principle in the way people see the world. I know it like the back of my hand. The reason I'm avoiding this angle of the topic that you are trying to push me toward, is becaus…
/r/MensRights06/01/13 01:49 PM
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I'm going to digress a little bit, just to try to draw together my understanding of how this misconception of masculinity has evolved, and why it really has no place in modern society. I read a nonfiction book recently written by someone who lived through the final decades of feudal Japan in the 1800s. It's interesting to muse about the society such as that one. The author talked about how there was no police force nor court system, and how neighbors would bolt the door rather than help someone …
/r/MensRights06/01/13 06:21 AM
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Sports? What percentage of men are out there on professional sports teams? An infinitesimally small number. Those who watch sports aren't "exhibiting a facade of strength" are they? They're on the living room couch, admiring the strategy and tactics of the players on the field. War? Again, I'll throw that back to you with a question. Are men warriors, or are warriors men? Just because a tiny percentage of men choose to go off in their young adulthood and train to be soldiers doesn't mean that pr…
/r/MensRights06/01/13 02:57 AM
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Which men do you know that exude a "facade of strength?" I know very few. How masculinity is expressed certainly varies from region to region... but in general I know men to be those who work hard in their life for everything that they get. They don't have the luxury to be arrogant. They don't have big muscles. They have office jobs, or they go to school, or they work at whatever local establishments they can find a job at. The women I know, on the other hand, seem to be much more inclined to be…
/r/MensRights06/01/13 01:16 AM
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Excuse me for saying it, but that sentence makes it appear as if you have a very one dimensional view of the world, and I just can't relate to that. Sorry.
/r/MensRights13/10/12 09:37 PM
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The fact that the noun "social engineering" has become a dirty word in the English language really surprises me. Everyone who works on public policy needs to be thinking about how it will affect society in comprehensive ways - how will the systems be affected? You need to call in the anthropologists and get advice from them. I know the UK is specifically leery about this idea; "the nudge agenda" of politicians has been hotly debated by pundits on the BBC. At the polar opposite end of the opinion…
/r/MensRights13/10/12 09:34 PM
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Yes. One important factor in the German-speaking countries that is allowing this push for male teachers to go forward is that the imagined spectre of child molestation by males is vanishing into the mist because of a big push by pedagogs to teach a comprehensive sex ed program even to very young children. The transparency about the topic allows young men to begin to be put on an equal footing with young women. With such openness, there's not going to be as much of an inclination in German-speaki…
/r/MensRights13/10/12 09:14 PM
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A judge has since decided that this measure had to be removed from the ballot ... From a further linked CNN article: "It's unusual for a judge to order an initiative off the ballot, but the proposed circumcision ban presented that rare case where the court should block an election on an initiative," said ACLU Northern California staff attorney Margaret Crosby in a released statement. "Not only is the ban patently illegal, it also threatened family privacy and religious freedom. The court's order…
/r/MensRights09/02/12 05:35 PM
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In fact, I've heard that statistically most kidnappings are done by members of the family. It's not the person lurking in the bushes. Moral panics can blind us to the facts.
/r/MensRights15/05/11 10:29 PM
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Ahh, what would happen to Lord Byron, today?
/r/MensRights16/11/10 07:05 PM
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The claims of those who talk about class oppression in the West are equally absurd as those who claim that there is oppression of women in the West. (I'm looking at you: 75% of Redditors!)
/r/MensRights29/08/10 12:41 AM
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I'll be watching that conversation over in r/anthropology. It ought to be quite fascinating. Nah, it won't be. I prejudiced the discussion with my phrasing. Give it time. You set the cat among the pigeons, to use an old figure of speech - which is a really good way to start a vigorous discussion.
/r/MensRights08/08/10 04:33 AM
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I realize that some might be taken aback by the contrast between my tone, and the tone of the writer of that summary. I hope that people forgive me if I've surprised them, that way. I remember studying other cultures' sexual practices in my anthropology and cultural geography courses at Uni. There was one Polynesian group where it was very much the norm to give adolescent boys this sort of introduction to the adult practices. I'm not trying to defend something that you see as indefensible, stemg…
/r/MensRights07/08/10 11:26 PM
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I don't know what Afghans generally think of this practice, however it seems like it would be ethnocentric on our part to call it "organized sexual abuse." It appears more like a cultural practice which adheres to a different set of social mores than we have in the West. I would suggest that someone take this over to anthropology subreddit to get their academic view on the matter.
/r/MensRights07/08/10 10:42 PM
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Yes, I see what you're saying. My thought was that women in far off countries like Australia look at things like the public front page of reddit, and they are very disconcerted. It's foreign to them, and they don't understand it. And they take a very simplistic view that it's men being mean to women, and they believe that women need to organize to better themselves in the face of this imagined aggression. And then these women go overseas (like this lady talked about) and speak to women in Britai…
/r/MensRights02/04/10 04:15 PM
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You know what? The woman who started that askreddit conversation actually wrote me a note thanking both me for my "levelheaded" responses in that conversation, and for starting this mensrights thread. And she rewrote her story there, in order to explain the situation better. She has no intention of leaving the father of her child... and she honestly doesn't suspect him of being a pedophile. She's just the type of person who tends to wear her heart on her sleeve a lot. It confirms what I had conc…
/r/MensRights19/10/09 10:19 AM
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It's a matter of degree. How is that not a rational line of reasoning in your eyes? A person who looks through google for porn images one day is obviously only an ordinary joe who is curious. If the guy were a pedophile - there would be years of evidence of him having been talking about his ideas and feelings with others on the net.
/r/MensRights19/10/09 03:34 AM
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You insist on an absolute defense of this man and refuse to acknowledge his pedophilia as a problem. I know it's an anachronism, but perhaps you're old enough to know what it means: You sound like a broken record. This guy is not a pedophile. A pedophile doesn't look for teen porn one day, and then leave his tracks open for someone to follow. A pedophile is a person who spends years at pedophile discussion boards, talking about his thoughts and ideas. This guy is only CURIOUS about something tha…
/r/MensRights19/10/09 03:31 AM
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To WHAT do you think I'm diverting it - may I ask? If you are going to level a personal attack at me... there is no conversation that we can have together after that point, until you retract it. How is that not clear to you?
/r/MensRights19/10/09 03:24 AM
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And that's a reason to be as rude and disrespectful as you were?
/r/MensRights19/10/09 03:22 AM
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Your consistent denial of that appears as though you support the idea of adult-child sex Hmmm... isn't it a fascinating thing that you wish to attack your conversation partner in that manner?
/r/MensRights19/10/09 03:19 AM
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I will not support a pedophile. There's no evidence that he is a pedophile. A one-time expression of curiousity does not mean a person is a pedophile. And just to add something else. I can tell you, that unlike you, I DO support pedophiles. I have read their essays, and their blogs, and their discussion forums. They are very simpatico and gentle people. And they deserve respect and consideration. Thinking is not acting. And no one should have his life destroyed because of what he was thinking ab…
/r/MensRights19/10/09 03:12 AM
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No... that's exactly the frame of reference I would reject. We men should not view eachother from the perspective that each of us is guilty until proven innocent. We should support eachother through thick and thin. We should work to encourage gentler treatment of men. Do you know that 93% of people in prison in the Usa are men? That's one of the things that happens when we don't have any loyalty to our own gender. Women, on the other hand, support eachother when one of their number is accused of…
/r/MensRights19/10/09 03:05 AM
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Scratch that... sorry about that hotheaded response... I realised that this is a different conversation. Let me try again. I frankly don't believe that images of anything should be illegal to look at or possess. I believe that images are not good or bad. They are documentation about events in our world. To say "he has child porn... let's throw him in prison!" is to say "He's thinking thoughts we don't like, let's get him!" A person may look at a picture for many reasons. I certainly don't have a…
/r/MensRights19/10/09 02:55 AM
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the problem was that her boyfriend was a pedophile I'm not convinced of that. The reason I gave that conversation as an example... was that it seemed to me to be an excellent example of women doing behind the back kinds of things that hurt other people. Women I know tell me that women "will destroy your life, if they decide that they don't like you." And here we see this very machine in motion. They have a suspicion about this guy.. and based only on a suspicion, they encourage the woman to dump…
/r/MensRights19/10/09 01:24 AM
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im pretty sure they are actually freaking out over child porn Which is just another facet of their general mistrust of men. Have you read Andrea Dworkin? I think that her ideas in those types of essays which have infused the feminist movement could be seen as one of the foundations for this moral panic over pedophiles and child porn. It's odd. Because the box that women put men into is one where they can't impress women no matter what they do or how they act. If men don't show affection, they ar…
/r/MensRights19/10/09 01:07 AM
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It is rare that one finds such a sensible narrative about romance and marriage. Most folks have their heads in the clouds.
/r/MensRights06/09/08 04:37 AM
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Oh yes. It's also very fascinating to see how single mothers often favor their daughters over their sons. Many a son ends up in a bad state in their young adult life, because they were raised by a disdainful mother. One can even look at Sarah Palin, who is the powerful matriarch in her family... and also the republican vice presidential candidate. I was so intrigued to see the difference between her son Track, and his life, and his attitude, versus her daughter Bristol. It's simply night and day…
/r/MensRights05/09/08 04:15 PM
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Gosh, I think that's the first honestly written article I've read about domestic abuse and feminism ever. I was growing up in the 1970s during the time when the author says that feminism hijacked the whole domestic abuse issue.
/r/MensRights29/08/08 05:40 PM
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