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We'll see how things go with the service. Most start ups fail anyway. It may not be her version of the service that works, but it could be another company that allows gender selective driving preferences that makes it work. We will see when it actually happens.
/r/MensRights29/12/14 01:31 AM
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If her business model exclusively relies on having only female drivers then she an try for an exemption.
/r/MensRights28/12/14 06:54 PM
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You don't argue against it. You don't put the fight into terms where they have the power to define terms. The second we start using any portion of their narrative is the second that they decide the rules of interaction. Keep it civil and talk about the issues themselves. If approached by a gawker idiot to talk, keep it civil but keep it at a neutral place and don't use insults.
/r/MensRights23/10/14 01:55 PM
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From what I gathered reading the article: There has been a report made by a scholar about the way men are treated when they report or attempt to protect children in instances where the perpetrator is a woman or the person aiding the perpetrator is a woman. The report found that men in these situations were often harassed or arrested and no action was taken against the person assaulting the child. The report went on to say that many children will not step forward to help prosecute their abusers b…
/r/MensRights28/08/14 12:07 AM
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Here's a question: how is rape defined in New Zealand? Under this system could men bring charges as well or is rape written in a way that only women can be victims and all other cases falling under sexual assault?
/r/MensRights08/07/14 02:40 PM
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Could you post the full context of the quote and give it some background?
/r/MensRights29/06/14 06:59 PM
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Confirmation bias. They want to believe something, or they think they've seen something in their results that confirms their already held opinion.
/r/MensRights26/06/14 07:07 PM
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If I'm understanding Kuro correctly he's saying that if we look only at the beginning and end of the data, not the entire graph, then there has been no change between 1974 and now. It's basically a way of very narrowly interpreting the data. Another way of saying it would be, our rate of rape now is the same as it was back in 1974. It's a factual statement that is backed by the data, but doesn't represent the data. Also, do you have the dates that the UCR data changed its definition of rape? If …
/r/MensRights26/06/14 05:45 PM
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Ask the mods of Bestof and see what they have to say on the matter.
/r/MensRights20/04/14 03:44 AM
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Then submit a formal complaint to the school detailing your feelings on the issue. Then see if any of your friends, people in the area, and so on feel the same. The most people you have contacting the city the more people will interact with the idea that there's some horeshit going on.
/r/MensRights20/04/14 03:43 AM
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The intent of bestof is to show high quality well articulated posts. However, what happened was that there were several posts in a short period of time that were linked and then massively upvoted. It was artificial rather than organic.
/r/MensRights20/04/14 03:39 AM
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The problem was that there was a pattern of new posts being pushed to the front page in a way that wasn't characteristic of the regular pattern. Artificial inflation rather than natural interest. Then the post would be linked here and it would exacerbate the problem further.
/r/MensRights20/04/14 01:50 AM
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The bestof mods are concerned about brigades. The last few posts from mens rights that have been taken over to that sub had a disproportionately high amount of upvotes in a short time.
/r/MensRights20/04/14 12:22 AM
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First things first, focus on moving forward and your choices for doing so. You need to disprove some of her allegations. Not all of them. Gather character witnesses, friends, family etc who will make statements for you. She's making accusations so over time people should have seen something. Did you make any reports to the police about her actions? Can you disprove any of her claims by showing there was no way you could have been there when she claimed they occurred? If you can disprove a few of…
/r/MensRights14/04/14 06:33 AM
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If you aren't able to make contact with the corporate office you may want to consider making an anonymous complaint against them to the EEOC. Their website here They can't discriminate based on race/gender/etc and if the EEOC audits their hiring practices then they should see that they're discriminating.
/r/MensRights09/04/14 07:03 PM
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They may have apologized to get the woman out of the office. I've seen the tactic more than a few times when the administrator doesn't think there's a problem but can't get the person to leave otherwise. It's a pretty easy, though not really correct, de-escalation tactic.
/r/MensRights07/04/14 05:56 AM
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If someone identifies as Jewish, then I am not going to demean them by denying that their personal identity exists. I see no difference here.
/r/MensRights01/03/14 02:07 AM
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Cis and Trans are actually from Latin. Chemistry adopted them.
/r/MensRights28/02/14 09:48 AM
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Cis is actually Latin, as is Trans. They mean as was mentioned elsewhere in the thread, to be on the same side as or on the opposite side as.
/r/MensRights28/02/14 09:47 AM
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Six months for a contempt of court charge though? That seems rather extreme to me.
/r/MensRights08/01/14 06:44 PM
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Depending on the city or state the number of employees needed to nullify the law may be much lower.
/r/MensRights27/12/13 06:28 PM
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If I only ask women if they've been raped or use definitions of rape that preclude female rapists then I'm only going to have female victims of rape. The same can be said for DV and other statistics that gather or attempt to enumerate the number of victims of the crimes you listed above. If we refuse to acknowledge a crime or the victim never reports it then the date will not be an accurate representation of reality.
/r/MensRights26/11/13 03:34 AM
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Let's not forget potential arrest or fines for not signing up.
/r/MensRights25/11/13 03:44 AM
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She hasn't been charged with a crime so the press can't release her name.
/r/MensRights08/10/13 03:50 PM
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Not really. Circumcision has been occurring back before the rise of Christianity.
/r/MensRights30/09/13 01:47 AM
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The answer has changed over the years. Kellogg originally said that it should be done to prevent masturbation. Later after the sexual puritants started falling aside it became, to look like their father. Then it became, it prevents urinary tract infection, following by the most recent one, it reduces risk of HIV infection. It's a social norm that is being justified again and again.
/r/MensRights29/09/13 04:38 PM
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Gender studies is diversifying and branching out. It's bleeding itself into obscurity by trying to mesh into every other field it can. However, it's not working very well.
/r/MensRights26/09/13 09:51 PM
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There are sites that can be used to make fake facebook posts. This may be from one of those sites.
/r/MensRights20/09/13 06:00 AM
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To borrow your quote areas of male-perpetrated rape Will a similar study be done on female perpetration of rape?
/r/MensRights12/09/13 03:14 PM
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The troll that posted it wants to be taken seriously. That way their bullshit spreads further.
/r/MensRights21/08/13 03:58 PM
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Poe's Law.
/r/MensRights21/08/13 05:29 AM
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I think the bot had preprogrammed lists. Also censoring them serves no point. They are shooting themselves in the foot with this tactic.
/r/MensRights20/08/13 04:29 PM
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Doesn't thunderfoot have a video on exactly this occurring? Mass flaggings using a bot to trick and force the removal of content through the youtube automated removal system?
/r/MensRights20/08/13 06:50 AM
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I'm worming my way into social work through the back channel routes.
/r/MensRights19/08/13 02:03 PM
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Because they're working off the assumption that the groups that these people are related through, via gender and skin color, mean that society holds them to different standards.
/r/MensRights19/08/13 06:49 AM
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The definition that's being used is an academic definition related to another academic definition. Your SO's Best friend learned the term in as it is used as Jargon in Sociology. Not necessarily as it is applied in real life. Unfortunately, this definition is also the one used in the study of sociology, unless the writer chooses to use a different definition, much like Warren Farrell did in a Myth of Male Power. Sociology, my major in college, has a lot of interesting social phenomenon that it h…
/r/MensRights19/08/13 06:30 AM
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Perception is 9/10ths of the game. These are women that have been told they're oppressed by XYZ for their whole lives. They've also been given more "reasons" they're oppressed. It's a qualitative question not a quantitative one.
/r/MensRights15/08/13 02:45 PM
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The real men memes are generalizations. They're attributions about a social norm or belief about a social norm that may not even be truly accurate. Rather, they're based on a perfect picture that has been for lack of a better phrase, shopped over and over again. This leads to the creation of a stereotype that's repeated outside of the context of a given situation. "Real Men don't hit women." Tell that to the guy who's defending his kids. Tell that to the guy that's defending himself. Society has…
/r/MensRights07/08/13 11:19 PM
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Your instructor is likely incorrect. The fair housing act does not allow for discrimination based on gender. If anyone advertises for or against a specific gender they are breaking the law. There are very few exceptions to this. Mostly in cases where the owner is going to be living on site and can provide good reason for not having one or the other gender on site. It has to be a damn good one.
/r/MensRights16/07/13 09:21 PM
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I'd like to see the sources incorporated more into the actually infographic. X number of studies by Y group doesn't stand out as a good way to source things to me because I can't read their studies myself.
/r/MensRights16/07/13 06:29 PM
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The phrase you're looking for is spurious correlation. A link that exists because an underlying factor has yet to be examine. This causes an unrelated event to appear correlated when it isn't, or can mask correlated events.
/r/MensRights15/07/13 03:46 AM
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Which laws did you use as examples? The draft depending on framing could be considered something that discriminated against women. /devil's advocate.
/r/MensRights14/07/13 07:53 AM
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I'd be curious to see your source on this. Also are you implying causation where it isn't warranted?
/r/MensRights14/07/13 07:51 AM
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It's satire. He's poking fun at David Futrelle with the account to start with and always, well almost always, makes outlandish comments.
/r/MensRights11/07/13 12:29 AM
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Manhood Academy is a group that pushes a certain type of masculinity. They have a certain perspective that they push relentlessly while at the same time encouraging violence and disrespect. Their comments have ranged from telling men to put women in their place to use of sexual slurs repeatedly to insult and demean rather than to argue. I'd call them the worst of the worst kind of PUA, but that's an understatement.
/r/MensRights09/07/13 02:38 AM
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You forgot hetero and white in there.
/r/MensRights08/07/13 07:44 AM
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Is this where I pretend to agree with you about disagreeing while making a sarcastic comment about echo chambers?
/r/MensRights07/07/13 10:38 PM
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It's not needed here. You can ask a question in the general sub and it will be answered. You will also have a wider variety of answers because we're not an echo chamber. We have disagreements with each other and in general.
/r/MensRights07/07/13 08:25 PM
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Mostly because they don't have a real argument. They have an assertion and a belief system. If challenged they yell slurs and laugh. They aren't worth arguing with or really discussing. Though, sometimes it is fun watching then creating prerecorded shit storms.
/r/MensRights07/07/13 07:32 AM
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Every time I see that post it gets edited and more elaborate.
/r/MensRights07/07/13 07:23 AM
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It's not, nor has it ever really been, an accurate representation of society. It came from, and has a bias, omits information, and so on. However, it's still where the second shift mythos started. Understanding it, and the underlying ideas behind the perception is important to understanding your sister's stance and arguing against it logically.
/r/MensRights04/07/13 09:13 PM
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The Second Shift is an actual book. I would suggest starting there and looking at what is omitted from the questions and narratives in the book. It looked at traditionally female tasks in the home while ignoring the traditionally male tasks in the home. This created a disparity in the data. But again, I suggest reading the book itself.
/r/MensRights04/07/13 08:50 PM
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This is true. It could also be compared against other strata that have religious backgrounds or received counselling.
/r/MensRights02/07/13 11:48 PM
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By turn though there are Atheist rape victims that did not commit suicide. There are also people that have committed suicide without any outward indication as to why they did so. Without asking that person directly we are inferring their intent. We are attributing, without finding out specifically, that X led to Y.
/r/MensRights02/07/13 11:27 PM
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It's a sampling bias issue more than anything else. You can't ask the dead how well they like being dead.
/r/MensRights02/07/13 10:03 PM
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More than likely by only looking in refugee camps and places where non-combatants are able to escape to if they can't be used by the military or local militia group that popped up.
/r/MensRights02/07/13 09:36 PM
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http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/government-tyranny/primary-aggressor-listings-by-state/ This link and subsequent links inside might be of interest to you. Keep in mind, this is some of the state laws, not all. It also doesn't cover practical application of the various rules and regulations by local police departments.
/r/MensRights30/06/13 07:16 AM
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Movement. Sometimes it's also referred to as the Men's Human Rights Movement, or MHRM.
/r/MensRights29/06/13 10:10 PM
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Depends on how it was ruled. Attempted first degree murder tends to be pretty bad.
/r/MensRights29/06/13 07:16 AM
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Here's an interesting question to ponder as an addendum to this: How much of the life expectancy gap is caused by suicide?
/r/MensRights29/06/13 05:46 AM
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Because Title IX looks at admittance percentages and not at overall potential applicants. There is rough parity, last I looked, in the rate at which men and women are accepted into college but not in the percentage that apply. To look at this another way, if 1000 women and 800 men apply, then 500 women and 400 men get into college, 50% of the applicants for both genders were successful in their application process. However, the population of the college is now skewed towards women as a whole. If…
/r/MensRights28/06/13 01:39 AM
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Kind of surprised your program doesn't look at social cognition at all. It's an interesting bridge point between sociology and psychology.
/r/MensRights26/06/13 11:23 PM
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Question : even if men and women built muscle at the same rate and with the same capability, wouldn't differences in bone structure between the sexes result in different specialized muscle groups? Also, wouldn't thinks like child birth, or carrying a child to term effect localized muscle groups in the back, hips, abdominal area and legs for women? Depending on these questions, even if muscle develops at the same rate, wouldn't different kind of muscle form do to external circumstances aside from…
/r/MensRights23/06/13 06:43 AM
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She's misusing Cis.
/r/MensRights23/06/13 06:24 AM
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Best interest of the child tends to trump damn near everything. Whether it's rape of a minor or a blow job baby.
/r/MensRights22/06/13 04:49 AM
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Diversity of viewpoints isn't a bad thing. It's just backfired in this instance.
/r/MensRights18/06/13 07:51 AM
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While the MRM tends to rely on facts as much as possible it's distinctly possible to be an MRA and ignore logic and rely on ethos and pathos for making arguments. In the short term these are the individuals that, IMO are most likely to explode. In the long term they're more dangerous because they introduce emotion driven narratives irrespective of empirical data. Anecdotes are fine as examples, hut one anecdote does not a trend make.
/r/MensRights18/06/13 07:50 AM
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Stems back to the era where socialism and communism were considered the same thing and the Red Scare ran rampant.
/r/MensRights14/06/13 03:01 AM
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This is why I'm glad I keep my emails separate and don't use my name on anything other than my business email.
/r/MensRights11/06/13 09:29 PM
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Sorry, was typing on my phone at the time.
/r/MensRights10/06/13 02:04 AM
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An infertile woman would likely be stigmatized for being barren. That said, depending on the social context they could also raise the village orphans or still participate. If you have a chance you should look into two spirit people. It's an interesting part of the native cultural narrative that we don't hear much about.
/r/MensRights09/06/13 06:42 PM
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On our end, VAWA and the ACA both need to be rewritten to be inclusive for both genders. Currently men get the short end of the stick when it comes to both.
/r/MensRights09/06/13 06:32 AM
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Have fun sleeping it off.
/r/MensRights09/06/13 12:56 AM
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I don't think this girl really knows how Seattle dating tends to work. Bars really aren't the place to find a date up here. Social events are. She also doesn't seem to be willing to engage a man in conversation. That and she seems genuinely uninteresting. I wouldn't have the slightest idea what to do with her when I spoke to her.
/r/MensRights09/06/13 12:25 AM
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If she has twitter linked to her email it might notify her if she is tweeted. Depends on how she set it up I think.
/r/MensRights08/06/13 03:31 PM
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This is an avoiceformen article. However, it's a direct copy paste of an article written by Murray Strauss, a Sociology professor who works heavily in the area of IPV/DV. Even in instances where there is evidence that women are doing harm, feminist organization will still push to avoid speaking about the subject This is to the point where they'll use political pressure rather than forming or using a study to challenge the idea. They call it a form of abuse rather than trying to refute it scienti…
/r/MensRights08/06/13 02:25 PM
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Varies by state.
/r/MensRights07/06/13 11:53 PM
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Sorry I haven't responded, I'm at work right now. Once I'm home I'll provide some of the sources from Murray Strauss regarding academic suppression of data about DV by feminist academics. Ill also find some other examples.
/r/MensRights07/06/13 08:06 PM
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Lets start with feminism, more specifically Patriarchy theory. When empirical evidence shows up that challenges the tenets it's attacked as antiwoman before being challenged academically or rigorously. People's personal belief, their ideology gets in front of their skepticism.
/r/MensRights07/06/13 03:33 PM
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Other ideologies, that are founded on, or make rigorous use of post modernism.
/r/MensRights07/06/13 02:10 PM
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Post modernism and skepticism don't mesh well. One is reliant on having facts and examining them, the other takes certain facts as being self-evident and doesn't explain their interaction. In a community where skepticism is the heart of discourse post modernism is the exact opposite of the approach that formed the community to begin with.
/r/MensRights07/06/13 01:50 PM
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John the Other is usually pretty explicit about what he says and means in an article. If he used an innuendo, it was probably intended, but has been lost to time because we lack the context within which the article was written.
/r/MensRights06/06/13 07:58 PM
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It may also be more accurate to say that it's post modern atheism.
/r/MensRights06/06/13 03:42 PM
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I've read the article already. I was just speaking about it in the context of people knowing or hearing about it.
/r/MensRights05/06/13 10:32 PM
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He responded above to another commenter. I don't know if the comment will be deleted by the time you read this response. They're usually deleted on sight.
/r/MensRights04/06/13 08:25 PM
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The 1 in 4 thing isn't really looked at outside of the current college generation. People don't hear it often and its disconnected from their everyday life. Crime data though shows up on the news more often. The last thing is that the college can compartmentalize the information about sexual assault on campus etc by having their own police department. They can avoid lying by telling a more specific truth. They can omit certain data, like crime in the surrounding area not related to a college stu…
/r/MensRights04/06/13 03:13 AM
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Because universities don't want outside entities interfering with the campus life. They also have their own rules and regulations that they want to enforce. Make no.mistake though, the primary reason is image control. Half the shit that gets you a reprimand at college isn't illegal but is politically incorrect. If people start seeing that a school has a Rep for rapes, sexual assaults, student misconduct, etc then they're going to not be considered safe for college kids to go to.
/r/MensRights03/06/13 11:29 PM
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That won't prevent skepticism and vilification. I'm just hoping that they can recoup the damages if wrongly accused.
/r/MensRights03/06/13 07:27 PM
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It's also possible that they were listed as a victim in one of the crimes. Why or for what I don't know. I haven't followed the story.
/r/MensRights03/06/13 07:20 PM
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Poe's Law and cognitive dissonance. Also, probably just a regular tv junkie. Doesn't know the difference between shit, horse shit, and happy horse shit.
/r/MensRights02/06/13 06:15 AM
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By itself, I agree. However, looked into as a part of corporate culture there's a definite difference in the narrative of men keeping women out, and what this article represents.
/r/MensRights01/06/13 08:07 PM
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If I remember right she's saying they canned her for being a whistle blower while they're saying that she can no longer function as a bridgebuilder for the company.
/r/MensRights31/05/13 08:40 PM
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Yeah, didn't see that when I did the original skim.
/r/MensRights31/05/13 04:54 PM
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It's accurate to a degree. It leaves out Richards being fired and also doesn't discuss her firing with the company she worked for and the fallout from that. She was supposed to handle developer outreach. She can't do that job anymore because most developers don't feel comfortable with her. She torpedoed her own career while trying to make herself a martyr. She got her 15 minutes of fame and I'm hoping she just vanishes.
/r/MensRights31/05/13 04:01 PM
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She has a pending lawsuit against her previous employer from what I understand. That's why we haven't heard anything on or about her. Lawyers got involved and everything's gone quiet to avoid legal experts from firing shots because of their client's stupidity.
/r/MensRights31/05/13 03:59 PM
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I think it's from the Myth of Male Power. Not sure though. I know that I've heard it on his youtube videos talking about the book.
/r/MensRights31/05/13 02:58 AM
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Manhood academy is an appropriation attempt. They try to market a kind of toxic and honestly, misogynistic view of how men should interact with women. Their common line, as far as I have seen, is to use "Keep the bitches in line" usually with an image of a woman that has either a black eye, or who has been beaten. They openly encourage violence rather than seeking to speak about anything of substance. They also tend to resort to ad hominem attacks rather than actual discussion. Attempts to hold …
/r/MensRights31/05/13 01:41 AM
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Because I don't see a 3 year old going fishing workable.
/r/MensRights21/05/13 09:15 PM
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If I might make a suggestion, if you can, try placing your son with his mom for the day and go out with your dad. Go fishing or something like that.
/r/MensRights21/05/13 09:01 PM
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Extremism is innevitably the same thing packaged to help.a different group at the cost of the other groups that it doesn't represent.
/r/MensRights21/05/13 12:13 AM
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Because turning a group into a list of political buzz words is condusive to having a discussion.
/r/MensRights20/05/13 10:58 PM
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The logic behind respecting innocent until proven guilty has been flushed put with a lot of examples here. Most people assume that the people are guilty because they don't understand the legal system. They're hyped up on law and order and CSI. They don't know about the gray and there's active groups discouraging the gray from being spoken about. Emotions are also running rampant most of the time. That the victim is someone's sister, mother, cousin, has been driven home. I deliberately didn't inc…
/r/MensRights20/05/13 09:49 PM
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Hacktivist I've heard before. Usually it refers to anonymous or some other group that does some from or another of social championing through black hat hacking.
/r/MensRights20/05/13 06:48 AM
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They're trying to exclude your point of view because it doesn't fit their narrative on and of oppression. If they keep shouting endlessly and no one shouts back, then their message is the only one heard.
/r/MensRights20/05/13 12:01 AM
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Dude, you're walking into a relationship where she's just informed you nicely that she's not going to respect what you feel. She doesn't need your love. She needs counselling.
/r/MensRights19/05/13 06:16 PM
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That mod also asked a number of questions about being male a while back. Those threads has some good reading material in it.
/r/MensRights14/05/13 04:01 PM
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Regarding the 80/40 numbers. You may have found an academic woozle. These are situations where a researcher creates or uses a number and people start citing it without ever finding the original source.
/r/MensRights11/05/13 02:49 PM
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The first one that comes to mind is paternity fraud. She claimed to be pregnant to extort an office. It's not the kind we're used to but still fraud. Then there's the emotional yo-yo that she kept these people on. Emotional manipulation like this can be classified as DV depending on local rules and laws. Likely she will be charged with fraud, though I doubt they'll press a DV charge. It's a cleaner case without it.
/r/MensRights11/05/13 06:48 AM
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Smells like a hostile workplace lawsuit to me.
/r/MensRights10/05/13 01:43 PM
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Familial status is a protected class in the US. However, it's easy for the employer to explain why the person got lower pay without bringing up familial status.
/r/MensRights10/05/13 01:40 PM
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Sorry, I'm not saying to not use the Real situations. I'm saying that using them when speaking about the issue as one example when you're just trying to do an overview might be inappropriate and derailing.
/r/MensRights07/05/13 07:45 PM
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Personally speaking, I would read over the Erin Pizzey IAMA. That should give you information from someone that has walked the path that you're looking at following. Next, keep your facts, well, factual. Don't add appeals to emotions or use rhetorical questions state your case clearly and evenly. Start by examining general perceptions of DV then explain where the stereotypes end and reality kicks in. Find the basis of the stereotype and explain how it came about and why it isn't actually accurat…
/r/MensRights07/05/13 08:18 AM
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While I understand that there are going to be physiological differences I think that it's important to note the value of a hip check versus a shoulder check. That aside, if physical difference is the only reason to exclude them, then any girl that met the same physical standards should be excluded as well.
/r/MensRights07/05/13 12:25 AM
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I agree with you. Taking away something that someone enjoys because of their sex or gender is fucking stupid and wrong. Let them play, let them compete, or provide them access to another league for the sport.
/r/MensRights06/05/13 06:52 PM
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Inclusion of one at the exclusion of another isn't equality. If we're going to kick boys off of teams when there isn't a team or league for them to play on we're simply denying them the ability to participate.
/r/MensRights06/05/13 04:45 PM
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You're probably seeing a lot of US centered content because this sub has a high proportion of Men from the US. If we were in or from India, then we would have more experience with the systems and laws there and probably have more content related to that.
/r/MensRights06/05/13 06:45 AM
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They tthink the venue is breaking the law by removing their booking. Their lawyer has provided this information to the venue. They also blame MRE (men's rights extremists) for their loss of booking.
/r/MensRights05/05/13 10:24 PM
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Realistically that's what he's levied against the bill. The veto sends a message. The local houses can either change the bill or try to ratify it without him. If he had pocket vetoed it then I would give up hope.
/r/MensRights04/05/13 09:06 PM
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I believe this poster is referring to the transgender community and the people within it that don't identify with either of the traditional genders.
/r/MensRights04/05/13 05:00 AM
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Did anything positive come out of calling the police in the short or long term? Were your legal options to.press charges explained or were you offered the chance to.contact a lawyer?
/r/MensRights01/05/13 06:55 PM
1

Most of the.time when the MRM refers to feminists they refer to the active arm, or more accurately, gender feminists within feminism. The ones that are pushing policies through advocacy and actually have the power to make decisions and cause mobilization. Most everyday feminists don't have that kind of power.
/r/MensRights30/04/13 08:09 PM
2

Anti-woman or anti-feminist? Also, if you see it call it out. There is vitriol. I'm not denying it. If you see a generalization call it out and enter the discussion. Upvotes and downvotes mean little and can be gamed. The discussion is.what matters.
/r/MensRights30/04/13 05:46 PM
1

This doesn't surprise me. This sub seems to have a lot of people present that are venting or angry because of something that has happened to them. Anger doesn't create completely rational responses. Some piggyback off the rage to try and stir up shitstorms. Others try to find out why something happened and what enabled it. If you don't think something is related to the MRM, then ask how it is. You'll likely get a slew of different answers from different perspectives. Most content may not appear …
/r/MensRights30/04/13 05:11 PM
3

The "I got mine " mentality us a driving factor behind the lack of trust in the modern day. People really don't look out for each other like they used to.
/r/MensRights30/04/13 05:04 PM
2

Most of the MRM is against the practice in that it is performed on non-consenting children for mostly cosmetic reasons. In the US we have the tools to combat any and all the negative effects that uncircumcised children will face. However, instead of employing them we go for the most extreme response first. Once the child is 18, let them choose. Let them have the option of informed consent. Either that or apply the laws for FGM to both genders and be done with it. Double standards under the law l…
/r/MensRights29/04/13 04:50 PM
2

Title IX cash grab ahead?
/r/MensRights28/04/13 03:34 PM
1

My first question is, was she on the lease? If he files a police report as soon as he found out about this he may be able to break the lease and stick the damages on her without it effecting his rental history. I'm also seeing a couple grand worth of damages and cleaning, assuming everything has to be sanitized. The drywall patching would also probably eat some change. Most of the rest, while completely disgusting can be fixed relatively easily. It's an issue of time and money. That and a profes…
/r/MensRights27/04/13 04:30 PM
7

I sent in an email. Just talked about his shelter being closed and how it was the only one of its kind in Canada. Then I asked now what.
/r/MensRights27/04/13 04:02 PM
3

Whatever you think will help. If the name Earl Silverman pops up enough we can at least create some interest.
/r/MensRights27/04/13 04:00 PM
1

I think they're objection is to "frothing fornication mouth".
/r/MensRights24/04/13 10:04 PM
4

They originally were meant to be a project to discuss the goods, the bads, and the everyday ins and outs of being a man. Then they got taken over by one extreme and the owner of the house, founder of the project really, got kicked out and the locks were changed.
/r/MensRights24/04/13 04:01 PM
1

This strikes me as more of a sound bite law. It looks good on paper once signed, but won't really effect much beyond that.
/r/MensRights24/04/13 08:05 AM
3

The problem though is in the context of the flyer itself. This is addressed specifically towards men's sexuality. Then later they say any friend. I would like to actually see the presentation before going further with criticisms but this strikes me as very similar to the white ribbon campaigns to end rape.
/r/MensRights23/04/13 08:06 PM
3

Ignore the conclusions of the articles that are heavily biased and try looking at their data or methodology. You can show bias or make a strong criticism by showing common flaws in research from a certain perspective. EX: Choosing to not ask men the same questions as women when asking about sexual assault occurances or using different definitions that are exclusionary. Defining rape in terms of penetration with a penis for example.
/r/MensRights23/04/13 07:13 PM
1

People have already mentioned the EEOC. He may also want to drop an anonymous line to the company's HR division if the EEOC can't move forward on the complaint. The stink that can be raised by a single email can leave a lot of people with whiplash.
/r/MensRights23/04/13 06:50 PM
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That male sexuality is the cause of rape. Or that men, once sufficiently stimulated can't stop.
/r/MensRights23/04/13 06:42 PM
1

I was speaking for physical anatomy. I was using Men as a sex and not as a gender. Edit: Thinking about this further, I don't think it really works with the intent or inclusiveness that I wanted from the original statement. Transgendered and transexual individuals deserve and should have equal rights. That is a simple truth. What the MRM focuses on, specifically, is the rights of all men. Sometimes that effect is disproportionate towards one subset, and if it reaches the point that one specific …
/r/MensRights22/04/13 01:14 AM
3

Might be a local thing. The area I live in has a rather substantial transgender community and is also immediately next to a national college. The groups change year to year, but a lot of the student body lobbies for inclusive rules and regulations to prevent the transgender community from being ostracized or otherwise harmed.
/r/MensRights21/04/13 06:08 AM
3

I think I facepalmed so hard I left an imprint.
/r/MensRights21/04/13 12:54 AM
3

The moderators did an iama some time back if I remember right and covered this question. Besides, as much of a piece of work as futrelle is, that kind of dishonesty seems beyond the effort he would put in. He likes easy targets. He's a Skimmer more than anything else.
/r/MensRights21/04/13 12:03 AM
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It also had one saying "I approve this message". They're a troll subreddit. One that knows that they're taboo and plays with it. After violentarcez was doxxed they had all kinds of fun with people saying "they'll be next." As far as I'm aware they're very careful to keep their subreddit within the bounds of the rules but out of the bounds of political correctness.
/r/MensRights20/04/13 10:22 PM
1

There aren't any conflicting IPs on my network so I'm not too worried about it.
/r/MensRights20/04/13 10:00 PM
1

i think this might be a sarcastic post.
/r/MensRights20/04/13 08:57 PM
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The MRM is for the rights of men. If they identify as men, were men, or are men, then we want to see them have legal equality and social understanding. That said, the transgender community has strong advocates already so the MRM will likely not focus on transgender specific issues.
/r/MensRights20/04/13 06:35 PM
2

My IP changes damn near every time I reset my router. I don't have a fixed IP. I have a range that are pretty much randomly assigned to my computer.
/r/MensRights20/04/13 05:40 PM
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I find the comments somewhat more interesting than the article. Revealing someones personal IP in a retort is kind of odd to me. Seems kinda like a veiled threat.
/r/MensRights20/04/13 05:30 PM
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So I started looking late last night into if there is a difference in the male and female stress response. There does appear to be one. For men, Fight or flight holds true, though that is actually extended to fight, flight, or freeze. For women there's a separate response called Tend and Befriend. Most of the scholarly articles I've found are either incomplete or behind pay walls so I can't look into it too deeply. This is for a stress response. I haven't been able to find anything specific to i…
/r/MensRights17/04/13 03:04 PM
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Haven't had a chance to look yet.
/r/MensRights17/04/13 01:00 AM
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This post makes me wonder if anyone has studied the fight or flight response in men and women.
/r/MensRights17/04/13 12:27 AM
0

Sorrry, misread the article.
/r/MensRights16/04/13 10:04 PM
4

It's contempt of court. The problem is in the enforcement not the legality.
/r/MensRights16/04/13 10:02 PM
2

So the crux of the paper is that they've found a potential reason why circumcised guys are supposedly less prone to infection. They claim that the bacteria present under the foreskin will increase the body's natural immune response and that during sex this response causes more cells prone to infection to be present. The study also said that proper hygiene caused a decrease in colonies of bacteria as well. It also makes an interesting note that circumcision changes the risk of infection from 50% …
/r/MensRights16/04/13 08:33 PM
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Increased safer supply at better purity administered by people that have been shown how to.properly do so. There would be regulations for it and the sale of product, but we could also funnel money from prisons into rehab programs.
/r/MensRights15/04/13 07:03 PM
3

Same source, different lenses. Sorry for the mobile link. This is a matter of the authors' perspective and the bias of the newspaper.
/r/MensRights15/04/13 04:38 PM
2

One of the key things brought up in the wiki article is that people transition between roles depending on the situation. One person, at any given time, could fill any of the three roles. That said, it seems like a model that is incomplete. It acknowledges motive but doesn't really build off why motive is important and how different roles tend to follow through on their intents.
/r/MensRights13/04/13 11:35 PM
1

The cynicist in me has to ask, what reason does modern feminism have to elevate the lower and middle class women? There's no payoff for the upper echelon within the movement who are, coincidentally, the most vocal about where change should happen. More government and more board positions just shifts means the passing of more rules to regulate board positions and government positions. This is while more funding is diverted towards programs that feminists already run. I'm being highly cynical here…
/r/MensRights13/04/13 04:03 PM
4

A lot of the articles material and linked material looks to be from 2008.
/r/MensRights13/04/13 03:42 PM
2

He has no say in who represents her.
/r/MensRights11/04/13 04:39 PM
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Or it'll turn into a pissing match between people that may only know the guy superficially and have had opposite reactions. It's also something that would be pretty easy to turf over.
/r/MensRights11/04/13 04:33 PM
2

Don't let her claim causation without proof of her own!
/r/MensRights10/04/13 09:36 PM
1

They don't. My point though is that you should have access to the resources to actually see the laws.
/r/MensRights10/04/13 07:21 PM
1

Is this a formal school policy or is it the teacher allocating time? In my state I would ask to see the school's RCW, short for residential codes of washington. These are the laws that apply in a given situation. Your school may have them on file at the school. Just ask them to point out which ones allow for separate time allocation on the basis of gender/sex. If there's a program later for boys to do the same thing ask why it isn't implemented now? What you want to do is simply even things out.…
/r/MensRights10/04/13 07:02 PM
1

As someone else has said, contact the local lawyer's guild or the state bar in your area. You may have luck through them.
/r/MensRights10/04/13 05:09 PM
2

Get a lawyer, file a contempt of court motion and go from there.
/r/MensRights10/04/13 08:08 AM
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Police will say that it's a civil issue and that they can't enforce it without a judges order to enforce it.
/r/MensRights09/04/13 07:39 PM
1

Your request for privilege exemption has been denied based on grounds: male privilege not applicable. Please refer to section 2d of the Patriarchy and Oppression hand book for a list of acceptable positions for application of: male privilege exemption.
/r/MensRights08/04/13 06:25 PM
1

IMO they're two arms of the same problem. First we have incentives to convict, not incentives to give a fair trial. Second we have people that are morally ambiguous or completely amoral in positions where they can cause a world of harm. We rush to close cases, not to find answers.
/r/MensRights08/04/13 05:45 PM
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It doesn't matter if you win a debate if the only ones listening think you're an asshole. Getting into an argument with now or feminist groups is about six shades of fruitless. Why? They really aren't interested in talking to us. If you want to talk to people then talk to people and not organizations.
/r/MensRights07/04/13 06:18 AM
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Keep the response. If the data isn't presented when the new reports come out send it to local media and national media.
/r/MensRights07/04/13 03:31 AM
2

Thank you for the information. Now I have to go.correct the HR professor. This should be interesting.
/r/MensRights06/04/13 11:45 PM
1

I believe that it's on the employer to first prove their method is impartial. Then the accuser can attempt to show that the method discriminated, then the employer can try to refute the employees claim. In ledbetter's case the employer changed their defense during the appeal from "we didn't discriminate" to "she failed to report the incidents of discrimination in a timely manner."
/r/MensRights06/04/13 10:23 PM
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Ledbetter did win her initial case though. She argued that she had been discriminated against but the supreme court ruled that previous events were beyond the statute of limitation and in accordance with that her case did not have enough to prove that ongoing discrimination was occurring.
/r/MensRights06/04/13 05:17 PM
1

That's final restraining orders as well. I don't know if that includes initial temporary orders.
/r/MensRights06/04/13 06:34 AM
1

I'd like to point out, on page six and seven, the definition of rape or questions in this case is given. It does not appear to include forced envelopment.
/r/MensRights06/04/13 06:27 AM
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First, try to contact the baby sitter. If the child really has been there for a week, you may be able to file for emergency custody. I'm not a lawyer, but finding out where she is, either from the mother or by going their yourself is the first step.
/r/MensRights04/04/13 06:12 AM
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It's not a matter of screwing you over. If you both don't have separate lawyers the judge can and probably will junk the pre-nup.
/r/MensRights03/04/13 06:32 AM
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They target it, but they still use it. It's a convenient stereotype. "She can't have been the aggressor. She can't have tried to slit his throat. He must have done something to her to make her do it." Feminism uses the appearance of female powerlessness as a powerful tool quite frequently.
/r/MensRights03/04/13 04:24 AM
1

I'm going with Poe's law on this one.
/r/MensRights01/04/13 09:17 PM
4

The idea that men can be victims of DV isn't one that many people really have put much thought into. The voices of male victims are often drowned out by people that say it can't happen. There's also proxy violence versus direct violence to consider as well. The sad truth is that we do little to protect our men from DV because we think they can't be victims of it.
/r/MensRights01/04/13 08:34 PM
1

Koss's questions, at least as far as I have seen, can also include events that are not legally considered rape or would be considered rape of both parties. In some of her works she also failed to sample both genders using the same questions.
/r/MensRights01/04/13 03:47 PM
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That is the crux of my statement, yes. It relies entirely on the victim's memory to form the answer to the question asked. A person in an abusive relationship for example might not see the relationship as abusive while in it, but once time has passed they might see it as abusive. The saying hindsight is 20/20 comes to mind. In this case though I can change the lens from "we had rough sex" to "I was raped" and if people don't know that what happened to them was rape, they might simply write it of…
/r/MensRights01/04/13 01:38 PM
2

It does in that when discussing issues surrounding rape and sexual assault people have a certain perception of the event. A stereotypical model if you will. If I say date rape, that can illicit a different idea than rape or sexual assault. Under the law these can also be treated as very different crimes. If someone feels they've been victimized because someone put their hand down their pants or they were groped those are still going to be recorded. When looking at the numbers how would we classi…
/r/MensRights01/04/13 05:33 AM
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Sorry, I think I failed to specify. I'm not just talking about rape. I'm also referring to things like sexual assault and instances that would be considered a sexual.crime, but not fall under the legal definitions of rape.
/r/MensRights01/04/13 05:18 AM
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I think one thing that was not discussed in your post is that, the "perpetrator" may not have known they were committing a crime. Instances where they did not stop the sexual action fast enough, or where the victim believed consent had been retracted, but communication was not clear. There's also the issue surrounding alcohol and parties having sex, who raped whom? Self report victimization surveys are a good tool, but often don't get both sides of the story.
/r/MensRights01/04/13 04:54 AM
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Severe or noticeably malicious. With a lot of crimes in the US, I'm unsure about elsewhere, you have to be able to prove intent. The cases that were brought there would have to be substantial proof of malicious intent.
/r/MensRights01/04/13 04:43 AM
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It's violence but it's not the kind that will sell a story.
/r/MensRights30/03/13 08:44 PM
1

There are a number of things that I think need to be brought up is that: early cleaning isn't that difficult for uncircumcised children. Most people just don't know how to do it. You simply wipe the junk away. You don't want to try to pull the foreskin back because it's still connected to the glands and will be for another ten to twelve years. At that point the child can simply pull the skin back and clean under it themselves. You're also talking about leaving an open wound in a potentially soil…
/r/MensRights30/03/13 06:46 PM
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Circumcision in phimosis cases is should be treated as a last resort. There are stretching exercises, steroid creams, and less invasive and damaging surgery options available.
/r/MensRights30/03/13 06:55 AM
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Cisgendered means literally that you identify as the gender you are born as. It's an attempt to skirt the idea of something being normal because of the trauma inside the transgendered and transsexual community regarding that term. It's not really annoying to me. It's part of how I identify. That people have weaponized the term however is annoying.
/r/MensRights29/03/13 04:56 AM
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Sorry, I was unintentionally unclear. I like the idea of the video on feminism's use of FeSME. I just think a few videos on the history of the term are important as well.
/r/MensRights28/03/13 02:35 AM
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I can understand the need for a narrative. When you brought up the men and boys dying at almost 80% while women weren't harmed, if you had mentioned that women were the limiting factor in reproduction and must be protected, then added "This is an example of FeSME." Then that logical jump wouldn't have happened. In regards to the next video, I would actually wait to flush out what feminism has done to use this concept and focus more on what it is in modern society. Yes, Feminism does use it. Howe…
/r/MensRights27/03/13 06:02 PM
1

The thing is the idea of male disposability is one that many people are somewhat familiar with, or have heard of but don't have strong examples of in their head. So when this vlogger is talking about the concept it's more jargon than laymen's terms. People that are familiar with it and examples are able to fill in the logical gaps. Those that aren't may be able to but not very precisely.
/r/MensRights27/03/13 07:12 AM
1

How familiar are you with the topic of male disposability though? As far as my comment regarding I responded to Avery17 with why I originally felt that he was invoking the same concept as Patriarchy. He doesn't explain all the causal links and uses FeMSE to fill in the gaps. The problem is he doesn't explain why or how it fills in those gaps.
/r/MensRights27/03/13 06:59 AM
1

Would you have understood it the first time around without having been exposed to the concept prior to seeing the video? As far as the Patriarchy thing, I will admit, it's a rather superficial look at the concept, but it seems to also make leaps in logic. Again, this is because the concept isn't really tied together well in the video. "X is FeMSE" is repeated several times. I understand what he's saying, but there isn't much explanation of why it is. For me, he's telling not showing what is goin…
/r/MensRights27/03/13 01:03 AM
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Every time the vlogger said FeSME, my first thought was Patriarchy. I would have loved to see an expansion of how it actually came to exist and why it was important. It seemed somewhat rushed when the history and importance of Female Safety was brought up. It was also used as an explanation for the basis for a number of actions, and preconceived notions, but doesn't really explain the relevance of those associations to the topic.
/r/MensRights27/03/13 12:12 AM
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I would imagine that if he gets a female survivor he would probably offer immediate assistance while trying to place her at a clinic that is better situated to help female victims.
/r/MensRights25/03/13 06:48 PM
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The number could be extremely small, say 2% or daunting at 60%. It depends on which study you look at and how much grew you're willing to assume falls in either direction.
/r/MensRights25/03/13 05:10 PM
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If the jury came back with a finding of not guilty we don't know if he would still take the plea. It's distinctly possible he would have let the not guilty decision stand.
/r/MensRights24/03/13 06:08 AM
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Have you requested documentation from a physician on this and was the employer aware of it at the time? If you have the paperwork then it might be worth talking to a lawyer. I don't know the specifics of your case nor the position you were in so I am by no means qualified to provide examination beyond the most basic implementation of the law. I am not a lawyer.
/r/MensRights23/03/13 09:58 PM
2

Weight isn't a protected class under the law though. Gender is. It would be on the OP to prove disparate treatment or disparate impact if multiple men have been hit like this.
/r/MensRights23/03/13 09:43 PM
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I stand corrected. It appears to have been a policzoy at the place I worked. The OP can request a copy of his employee file. Some federal agencies are also required to give notice for discplinary action. Federal contracts may also require it. That's where I came into contact with the notice issue. All notices of disciplinary action had to be witnessed and signed by the employee they were against. That said the OP should request his reason for termination and to view his employment file. That he …
/r/MensRights23/03/13 09:17 PM
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I think it's reversed in this case. The OP is the one that's making the claims.
/r/MensRights23/03/13 08:25 PM
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Bring her info on who initiates divorce and why. Bring information on legal parental surrender and the putative father's registry. Info on men being charged for non-pyament of child support is also an option. Highlight that these men are being penalized and losing further potential revenue even when they attempt to pay. Highlight cases where men are ordered to pay beyond their earning potential, or lose their means of employment for nonpayment. If she says that it's their fault for not paying th…
/r/MensRights23/03/13 08:24 PM
2

I find myself wondering more and more how these studies get approved to begin with. These are pretty glaring flaws in the methodology yet here we sit dealing with the fallout. It's a load of happy horseshit that this made it through peer review.
/r/MensRights23/03/13 07:46 PM
1

Their mobile site is redirecting to a third party site. Does anyone have a copy paste of the story?
/r/MensRights23/03/13 07:39 PM
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If you think you were terminated based on your gender then you should contact the EEOC. Gender is a protected class under federal law. If the company you worked for had any kind of federal contracts then you will end up dealing with them. If not, contact the attorney general's office. They may not help you directly, but they may be able to send you to someone that can. Also, contact any of the male employees you know that have worked for this company and see if they have similar stories. If you …
/r/MensRights23/03/13 05:10 PM
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If you were terminated as a disciplinary action and they didn't inform you prior to this, in writing, that your actions were an issue then they've broken Washington State Law. I don't know about Oregon, Idaho or Alaska on that though. I stand corrected. The employer may not have broken washington state law. However, depending on internal policy implementation they may have inconsistently applied rules.
/r/MensRights23/03/13 04:23 PM
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The dongle one I haven't been able to find. The forking one was along the lines of "I'd definitely fork his project." Which to the group of friends meant use the project as the base for another project. To the outside observer sounds like a sexual innuendo.
/r/MensRights23/03/13 05:02 AM
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Necessary force ends at the point where you escaped or have neutralized the threat. Where I live self defence is defined as using enough force to.effect your retreat. Anything beyond that is a crime. If someone pulled a knife on me and I knocked them out I could make a case for self defence. If I pummeled them on the ground then I'm committing a crime.
/r/MensRights23/03/13 02:28 AM
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It also doesn't mean that we're accurately measuring what power one has in a given situation. Adria proves that circumstances determine who has power as much as anything else. It took a photo and a comment to create a shitstorm that ended with multiple people being fired and several services taking flak. Power isn't always overt.
/r/MensRights23/03/13 02:03 AM
1

In action or theory? In theory they should be close to synonymous. In action feminist groups tend to oppose actions like presumption of shared parenting or barring non-medically necessary circumcision. Then there's the issue with advocacy for female victims while encouraging the man as abuser stereotype. I could go into more detail on why the theory of feminism and egalitarianism differ as well. The key thing here though is that feminism claims to be egalitarian but tends to forget that claim wh…
/r/MensRights22/03/13 08:58 PM
2

Targeting the demographic most likely to identify with you isn't new. That's all this really is, an attempt to make more people think they're feminist when they're actually egalitarian through play on words.
/r/MensRights22/03/13 07:05 PM
3

This sounds more and more like an intellectual apartheid.
/r/MensRights20/03/13 09:17 PM
2

The language will change once we start pushing more reality into this subjective political narrative.
/r/MensRights20/03/13 07:11 PM
5

What annoys me with this piece is that she encourages men to inject themselves into potentially violent situations, but doesn't actively encourage women to.leave them. I understand that it wouldn't be topical in this piece but we don't hear any of the dialogue about women not drinking too much or going out with a drinking buddy. We don't hear any common sense things that can be done to recognize abusive relationships or the like. We see nothing to encourage mature responses to difficult or dange…
/r/MensRights20/03/13 06:24 PM
3

Likely these events were spaced out over the course of a number of years. Evictions, in Washington, take some time to actually go through. Assuming that the person knows what they're doing, once the rent is late they have to file a 10 day notice to have the person pay. If they pay in that timeframe then the notice is satisfied. If they don't then they can start the eviction process. If it's contested then a court date is set. On the interim the person still gets to reside in the house. Now add t…
/r/MensRights20/03/13 12:08 AM
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I don't think it'll be thrown out in this case. My reasoning for this thought is that the text would be directly related to this case. It would also be related directly to this accusation. They aren't attempting to bring in her past sexual history with other individuals.
/r/MensRights19/03/13 05:45 AM
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Her past sexual history may be inadmissable in court.
/r/MensRights19/03/13 05:43 AM
1

Ten years. That's a long time. It's time spent growing up and time spent learning who you are. To miss that is a travesty for any parent. To have it stolen is much worse. I hope he finds her and I hope that he gets to have a brighter future with her.
/r/MensRights18/03/13 04:28 AM
3

Keep detailed notes of what goes on at the meetings. I know this can be hard especially during debates or discussions, but those notes are your paper trail. It keeps people from saying something happened that didn't. Encourage debate and discussion through use of logic. The club is your forum to discuss ideas. It is also a place where you can create activism. Keep the topics school appropriate. Don't censor opinions and if something comes up organically fine, but remember you're likely going to …
/r/MensRights17/03/13 10:06 PM
0

You could talk about early feminist lobbying to.prevent the equal rights amendment, or drawing a connection between suffregates and the white ribbon campaign during world.war I.
/r/MensRights16/03/13 03:09 AM
1

My understanding of the term may also be incorrect because of seeing it repeatedly misused.
/r/MensRights13/03/13 06:42 PM
2

I remember a study done on nursing students a while back that compared the damage from sex (rough sex?) to the results of rape kits. They were almost the same in most cases. It would be impossible to really tell them apart based on vaginal tearing. I'll provide a link to the study when I get home. It might already be up in /r/mrref.
/r/MensRights13/03/13 02:31 PM
1

Depends greatly on how radical the person you're talking to is.
/r/MensRights13/03/13 01:57 PM
3

The phrase often used to explain it is benevolent sexism. We oppress other men for our own sakes, any benefits that women get are a byproduct of powerful men trying to hurt other men. At least that's how I understand it.
/r/MensRights13/03/13 07:29 AM
2

Please don't cite rainn when it comes to rape stats. They base their data off of UCR reports. That's not a bad thing in and of itself, but they don't differentiate between unsubstantiated reports and substantiated reports which balloons their numbers.
/r/MensRights13/03/13 07:13 AM
1

I was never "beaten". I was abused. Mental abuse was my grandmother's favorite weapon of choice. That and the hall closet.
/r/MensRights12/03/13 01:28 AM
13

Does the left own feminism or does feminism own the left?
/r/MensRights12/03/13 12:38 AM
4

The quote is about useless without the context of the piece it was written in. It can mean anything depending on how you read into it.
/r/MensRights11/03/13 12:05 AM
5

I meant self exam for testicular cancer. Thank you for making me laugh.
/r/MensRights10/03/13 09:04 PM
12

This is one of the easier to use home security camera. Have it delivered at work and once it's there set it up after she's gone to bed. It's a wifi camera so very few wires and.I believe video can be backed up off site. Try to get her threats on camera. Also talk to a lawyer. An immigration as well as divorce lawyer may have valuable information you can use. If you have a smart phone there are aps that act as digital recorder. Keep your phone in your pocket, if she comes in, turn it on. I'm not …
/r/MensRights10/03/13 08:02 PM
2

My rationale for saying that he messed up, or where, is because it's something that can be thrown back at him later. It's something that has to be accounted for in any action he takes in the figure regarding this issue. There's an electronic paper trail now that his lawyer will need to know about.
/r/MensRights10/03/13 07:44 PM
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I was glad to see my cynicism wasn't accurate here. Thank you for posting this nd giving me a happy moment today. Also, regular self exams and prostate exams should be matter of course for men. If something doesn't feel right get it checked. If your family has a history get checked regularly.
/r/MensRights10/03/13 06:39 PM
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Do not contact her. If she contacts you let it go to voice mail. If you run into her in public then start recording. Phone, digital recorder whatever. You've already made a number of mistakes, including trying to contact her. What I would do at this point is write everything down and talk to a lawyer. Your bridges are burned. You've got a he said she said case. Talk to a lawyer and start applying to other schools. You may also want to seek redress for the assaults.
/r/MensRights10/03/13 05:47 PM
2

You're probably going to have to look outside of Reddit to find a strong feminist community that is moderate in both policy and action. Most of the fempire subreddits are, like any sub of sufficient size or polarization, going to be drawn towards a dominant ideology.
/r/MensRights10/03/13 08:23 AM
8

I lost my grandfather to lung cancer last year. I watched him die in hospice in his own home but not his own bed. For the last month of his life he slept in the spare bedroom in a hospital bed. He had gone through enough hell and died holding my father's hand. Cancer isn't something to joke about or compare to a cold. It changes lives and steals the vitality of thousands each year. If I get sick, if I get the flu, I stay out of dodge. I work in a location where I can spread it very efficiently. …
/r/MensRights10/03/13 08:17 AM
1

Is there a more modern version of this report? I haven't leafed through it fully, but I'm hoping something has changed in nearly seven years.
/r/MensRights10/03/13 07:49 AM
3

Her questions and comments seem kind of strange to me. They strike me as a means to try and silence the speaker rather than an attempt to converse with him.
/r/MensRights09/03/13 07:21 PM
2

Depends on the measurement device. If I'm looking at household income in the US, then the mean will be dramatically skewed by outliers. If I'm looking at crime statistics then my measuring devices change and become less susceptible to outliers. A more representative number in the case of house hold income would be the median, though, I'd probably take a box plot to illustrate it.
/r/MensRights09/03/13 08:50 AM
4

Good luck.
/r/MensRights09/03/13 05:20 AM
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If you get the chance I suggest both of you put down new roots elsewhere. You might burn bridges doing so, but those are bridges that are likely already rotten. Good luck, and I hope that should the ex contacts you or him in the future you record it. Advise her she's being recorded and if she calls you or him, or shows up don't answer the door or phone. Cut the cancer out of your lives and live your life.
/r/MensRights09/03/13 05:13 AM
2

Not ignored, just not admissible without strong proof.
/r/MensRights09/03/13 03:24 AM
1

I swear comments like this need to be included on the high risk divorce cheat sheet for men. It's sad that it's needed.
/r/MensRights09/03/13 03:22 AM
6

Credit, marriage, filly rich heiress. The thing about statistics on spending, or income, in the US is that they're extremely easy to skew.
/r/MensRights09/03/13 03:04 AM
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The great and horrible thing about this statistic is that it creates the question of why. It doesn't explain why men are less likely to own a home. It does however give the uneducated ammo for their own beliefs. That's why I dislike seeing statistics in newspapers. They're great jumping off points, but horrible for everyday people who won't research beyond their own beliefs.
/r/MensRights09/03/13 02:58 AM
0

Personally speaking, I don't think silencing comments is really going to help with anything in regards to a healthy discussion because the comments are a part of the discussion. They're part of the ongoing narrative that surrounds this whole mess. That people will troll the comments, organize voting, or simply tell someone else to go fuck themselves is pretty common. It has different words depending on the gender/sex of the person, but doesn't change that "tits or gtfo" and "Man up and grow some…
/r/MensRights08/03/13 09:16 PM
2

Looks like pretty standard 4chan invasion comments.
/r/MensRights08/03/13 05:44 PM
3

I think I phrased my statement poorly. The need to connect the character through writing changed once people could see someone similar to themselves on the screen. Once we reached the point where characters became obviously human the back stories started falling away, the development of characters fell away. The development at the heart of good writing stopped in favor of flashy animation. Now, regarding your point. I do think we need better quality writing in video games. We need people that ar…
/r/MensRights08/03/13 03:33 AM
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I don't know if you realize it or not, but you are a symbol of hope. I wish you luck with your future court actions. If you need emotional support, or need to vent, feel free to post here. You may also want to look at /r/mensrightslaw. It's not the most active sub, but may be a good place to post once you have time to sort things out.
/r/MensRights08/03/13 01:04 AM
2

That could be stagnation in the writing though. As tech has improved it has become easier to.visually immerse people in content. High quality.writing isn't as needed as it once was to achieve the same level of immersion. Another possible explanation is that during the content cuts towards the end of production or revamps of systems certain content had to be removed. Because it wasn't causing growth of the main character it may have been cut. I do think there's a certain amount of laziness in the…
/r/MensRights08/03/13 12:29 AM
1

This might be a feature of the Reddit enhancement suite. Not sure. It also doesn't track overly far back.
/r/MensRights07/03/13 08:16 PM
1

This article is behind a subscription wall for me. Can anyone post a brief of, or possibly the entire article?
/r/MensRights07/03/13 07:58 PM
6

Found guilty is actually pretty far into the process from accusation to trial. If he refused to cooperate, or the police weren't able to find sufficient evidence then there is no guarantee that things would have gone forward. Likely, she was arrested, but never charged for the first attacks. It would show up in the system, but be recorded as unsubstantiated or something similar.
/r/MensRights07/03/13 12:18 AM
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They have to be able to prove, at trial, that she did it. If he refused to cooperate, and there were no other witnesses, then the entire case could have been dead on arrival.
/r/MensRights06/03/13 10:32 PM
1

Im not the person you responded to. However, I would probably just move the time of the potluck back a half hour or so. Either that or just tell everyone I'm likely to be late from work.
/r/MensRights05/03/13 09:51 PM
1

Depends on if I'm right and what their other sources of data are or were. If all they had access to were divorce filings then their findings are going to be equally as limited.
/r/MensRights05/03/13 08:40 PM
2

Men's sexual appeal is linked to their ability to provide resources.
/r/MensRights05/03/13 07:49 PM
2

Or they'll turtle and claim we're intentionally trying to.provoke them without due cause. Either way, it's PR.
/r/MensRights05/03/13 07:23 PM
3

More than likely a challenged custody request. That's the thing about these numbers, they're making a statement and the author is inferring why.
/r/MensRights05/03/13 07:21 PM
4

An adage about poking hornet's nests is coming to mind right now. That said, taking.advantage of their zealotry sounds like a fun idea.
/r/MensRights05/03/13 07:19 PM
4

As fond as I am of the possibility of creating a strong centralized hub for discourse on men's issues I would rather see small fires everywhere rather than a large easy to contain one.
/r/MensRights05/03/13 07:13 PM
5

It was likely already planned, this event is just more.salient because of the protest that happened at the Warren Farrell lecture.
/r/MensRights05/03/13 07:10 PM
8

They probably looked at unchallenged custody requests during divorce.
/r/MensRights05/03/13 07:04 PM
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I don't know of any recent studies on custody by gender. However, for social stats if they're more than five to ten years old they are often out of date and no longer representative of modern society.
/r/MensRights05/03/13 07:03 PM
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Hashtags #, indicate a topic. If your tweet includes that tag it'll be added to that ongoing conversation. @ tags represent users. If I tweet @blank then it would send the message to that person.
/r/MensRights03/03/13 10:14 PM
1

I'm afraid that you're going to need to be more specific. You may have also posted this in the wrong sub, but I'm not sure on that. r/Mr gets a lot of trolls. It's the nature of the beast.
/r/MensRights03/03/13 06:53 PM
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Cynical sarcasm tends to be.
/r/MensRights03/03/13 06:36 PM
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This doesn't look to be an isolated incident in regards to dogs doing serious damage to individuals. That said, ordering an attack on someone that wasn't a risk to the cop or others is just horrid.
/r/MensRights03/03/13 06:35 PM
1

Yeah, I see your point. In the US the goal is to prove intent in a crime. Unfortunately, the laws and legal actions available to prosecutors are often exhaustive and will wear down even the most seasoned defense team.
/r/MensRights03/03/13 06:13 PM
8

Does anyone have an update on the case? This piece was written almost two years ago.
/r/MensRights03/03/13 06:04 PM
1

From how I read things you were suggesting narrowing definitions but increasing the number of crime types. This would include multiple kinds of rape. We have currently, where I live; rape, sexual assault, sodomy, sexual battery, and statutory rape on the books as crimes. Each of these can be used to describe the same event, but carry different sentencing requirements. They also have different definitions. If we go to, say, Sweden we can increase this list by adding sex by surprise among others. …
/r/MensRights03/03/13 05:47 PM
1

The problem with creating additional definitions of rape is that it changes the word and its use. In the 1970s here in the US the definition of rape was expanded. If you look, the year that it was expanded rates of rape jumped dramatically. It created a hysteria that took years to blow over and we're still feeling the effects of today. While I am sorry to hear about your experience, I would avoid changing the definition of rape unless it is to make the matter gender neutral.
/r/MensRights03/03/13 05:01 PM
2

There are differences that really do effect outcomes. The problem is separating those that are cause from those that are salient, but not directly related to.outcome.
/r/MensRights02/03/13 05:25 PM
1

If the.male candidate continues to be harassed you should talk to them about possibly filing a report with local equality offices. The vote schema seems very.dangerous to me and is possibly grounds for a discrimination lawsuit.
/r/MensRights02/03/13 05:09 AM
1

Benevolent sexism is the term often used.
/r/MensRights01/03/13 07:28 AM
1

Or they don't discuss how the privilege is paid for. If I'm more likely to be hired, or more likely to make more money, then I'm also more likely to not see my kids or family most nights of the week.
/r/MensRights01/03/13 02:40 AM
2

You could try final fantasy 7 and 10, though those might not be perfect. The depth of character in the final fantasy games can be good. Final fantasy 6 is another example. The characters have a depth to them that you explore throughout the story line. I mean, and this is a spolier, with Yuna being willing to sacrifice herself or Lulu showing her vulnerability those are things that are incredibly powerful in the game. With final fantasy six the characters take a bit more time to develop and grow,…
/r/MensRights28/02/13 08:28 AM
2

He didn't win his case. Hooters argued that allowing him to bus tables would be a major change to their business model and cause undue duress on the business. They had to change their tip system but they didn't have to change the bussers.
/r/MensRights27/02/13 03:54 PM
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On a different note, how are you today? Also are you planning to do any of those fun gender and society questions any time soon? I'm somewhat bored.
/r/MensRights25/02/13 08:25 AM
1

To add to this, if we included cheerleading as a sport then Title IX would come into effect. Title IX is a driving force behind the slow death of college athletics. Yes, that is an overly dramatic claim.
/r/MensRights24/02/13 03:48 PM
1

The judge might be able to rationalize or explain the choice to not follow the law though by appealing to another standard. In this case, best interest of the children comes to mind. If the judge had ruled to cut the child support, then it would not be in the best interest of the child. By maintaining it, they maintain the best interest of the child mentality.
/r/MensRights23/02/13 11:03 PM
3

Do you think it's sexual harassment? That's the metric in most cases.
/r/MensRights23/02/13 01:04 PM
3

The judge's hands were tied by state law. He sided with the marine on moral grounds, but couldn't on legal ones.
/r/MensRights23/02/13 12:43 PM
1

I would go to a lawyer and talk to them honestly. You need to at least figure out what your options are in regards to the restraining order. It might hurt your case for a long term order if you don't press charges. I'm not a lawyer though so I'm not certain.
/r/MensRights22/02/13 09:43 AM
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Is this a high school or college? If it's a college get permission and post the piece you linked in poster form around the school. If you're in high school then take it to the english and social studies teachers. They're more likely to be able to work the material into their lessons, though civics and debate might also be willing if they're offered.
/r/MensRights21/02/13 11:20 AM
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If you can contact the police officer she attacked and then file for a temporary restraining order. Use their statements to make the case for the permanent one. You need to get out of the relationship. You need to stop seeing her as your girlfriend. If she's emotionally, or physically abusive then she isn't someone you want to have a long term relationship with. She's also a danger to you and others. Protect yourself and if you're given the chance, file charges.
/r/MensRights21/02/13 11:16 AM
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You may want to post this in /r/mrref. There may also be studies you can use there.
/r/MensRights21/02/13 10:13 AM
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You could test the idea through modeling hiring practices. I think a few audit studies were done some time back looking at the perception of Married fathers versus Married mothers. They compared the potential hiring biases for each. Maybe, set up the men like they did the mothers in the audit study. Make it sound like they're active fathers, but include something to indicate that they're single fathers.
/r/MensRights21/02/13 10:10 AM
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Writing things that may be offensive to others is going to happen regardless. There's politically charged content and socially charged content on this board. I wouldn't worry about pissing people off. I would worry about using your honest opinion.
/r/MensRights20/02/13 07:56 PM
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Depending on the state if she goes on welfare or public support at all, she will be forced to name the father. If she names you then they will attempt to contact you with a court date. Often times the paperwork arrives after the court date. It's ruled in absentee and you're garnished for the next however many hears and are on the hook for the money the state put towards her welfare.
/r/MensRights16/02/13 10:45 PM
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Citations citations citations. If you're going to compile a list in response to something you need to make yours both better and more accurate. Provide links to scholarly articles or a bibliography. Either way, this seems reactionary and doesn't provide much meat to chew.
/r/MensRights16/02/13 11:34 AM
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I'm not a lawyer. However, from what I've seen, most of the arguments hinge on the idea of intent and recognition. If the child sees this person as their father, and the man believed himself to be or took an active role in raising the child, most states consider him to have a vested interest in the child. This is usually enough to get child support.
/r/MensRights15/02/13 09:18 PM
3

It's sad in a way. The creation of the demons that plague young boys and men stem from the creation of a movement whose primary concern is preventing the creation of those same demons as a means to protect women.
/r/MensRights15/02/13 10:57 AM
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The problem with saying 4chan, or general internet places, need to be more accessible is that in how they developed. They're a niche, a well known one, and one with a lot of connections outside, but they're still a niche. If she can't acknowledge that, or wants all spaces to be inclusive, then she clearly doesn't understand the concept of safe spaces at the very least. The more general concept is also probably lost.
/r/MensRights15/02/13 08:05 AM
2

Labeling theory. This isn't new.
/r/MensRights14/02/13 03:22 AM
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/r/daddit would probably want to see this.
/r/MensRights12/02/13 12:24 PM
0

The Bro Code is an unofficial set of norms about how men interact with other men. It ranges from rules about dating to how and where we have each other's backs. Some of it is light hearted. Some of it is meant to keep us from ripping each other's throats out.
/r/MensRights12/02/13 12:16 PM
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If she brings up the tropes vs. Women stuff, ask her if she's spoken to the character creators and designers that worked on the content. I sincerely doubt she will have done so.
/r/MensRights12/02/13 04:49 AM
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My thought here is that she's probably going to end up over expanding the themes in the game to the point where you can't see the direct connection to it anymore.
/r/MensRights12/02/13 04:48 AM
2

Of course Masculinity is a precursor to rape. We don't have data that says otherwise because all the god damn fucking studies are written to consider men that were raped as sexually assaulted. Not raped. Well, unless another man was the rapist.
/r/MensRights11/02/13 10:38 PM
6

So in short removing the foreskin actually removes one of the barriers of HIV transmission instead of impeding it.
/r/MensRights08/02/13 09:13 PM
2

My opinion is that I am egalitarian. I have chosen at this time to fight for the rights of men. In the future once legal equality is reached I may end up fighting for the rights of women.
/r/MensRights08/02/13 08:24 PM
4

The mechanism, as far as I understand it, is that the foreskin has a high density of cells that are prone to HIV infection. Again, that's just from what I read in the original studies as an explanation for the effect. I don't think it's the case.
/r/MensRights08/02/13 08:12 PM
1

My point was for general kits, not necessarily this instance.
/r/MensRights05/02/13 05:37 PM
3

If you get a chance look into the concept of "tracking" when it comes to the public school system. Also look up the 100 girls project. I'd provide links but I'm on my phone at the moment.
/r/MensRights05/02/13 10:53 AM
3

There is a history in the feminist movement of tarring and feathering those with opposing views before casting them out.
/r/MensRights05/02/13 10:33 AM
3

Different question: Has your experience with the MRM changed how you perceive this kind of interaction?
/r/MensRights05/02/13 01:44 AM
2

They also collect hairs from clothing, or in the surrounding area.
/r/MensRights04/02/13 10:31 PM
6

Internet cafe, charging laptop at the mall/stores. There was an IAMA from a homeless kid some time back that went over the strategies.
/r/MensRights03/02/13 03:49 PM
7

The problem, as I see it stems from the fact that when we're teaching "tell men to not rape" stuff we aren't teaching things about healthy sexual relationships. We're also pandering to a stereotype. One that on this sub is often called shrodinger's rapist. Pretty sure I spelled that wrong. It creates fear. I would argue needless fear as well that goes beyond what is needed to produce caution. We should be teaching people to recognize unhealthy pressure and to act to protect themselves. These "me…
/r/MensRights03/02/13 10:24 AM
2

Another way to shame straight males...
/r/MensRights02/02/13 01:56 PM
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I would say yes. However, I'm not willing to let that fear rule my life.
/r/MensRights02/02/13 09:39 AM
2

If I remember right there's a Canadian star here in the US that will be arrested and jailed for nonpayment of child support if he goes back to Canada. His incomes was set when he had hit a major role on a hit TV show.
/r/MensRights02/02/13 12:03 AM
1

Preferential treatment based on sex or gender at the exclusion or deliberate detriment to the other sex or gender. All this stuff about power comes from the academic definition of sexism. Discrimination under the academic definition is power and prejudice where power is the ability to make others do as you want.
/r/MensRights01/02/13 11:50 PM
2

How much of this do you think is also related to the parents and how they interact with the school district? My experience has been less than grand with the public school system. Hell, it's a mess. I was one of the ones that you said could "game" the system. I was the teachers pet, yadda yadda. I was glad to get out of the schools and into community college as soon as the opportunity opened up. I probably would have flunked out otherwise.
/r/MensRights01/02/13 11:40 PM
1

There are a number of things in child support laws that are difficult. One of the more annoying ones is the use of imputed income. If the judge thinks you're earning below your potential they can compute the child support award based on what they think your income should be. If you fail to make payments then you can be arrested and jailed for contempt of court. Because it's a civil issue and not a criminal one the state isn't required to provide you an attorney. You're in until you pay up or unt…
/r/MensRights01/02/13 09:53 PM
20

Watson makes money by being a victim. It drives people to her blog, it increases her notoriety.
/r/MensRights01/02/13 09:48 PM
14

If I remember right there was a demographic survey done of this subreddit a while back. We had a high percentage of gay/bi/lesbian individuals that were taking part in discussion. It exceeded the percentage that makes up the gay/bi/lesbian population outside this forum.
/r/MensRights01/02/13 09:44 PM
3

She ran a few pieces on male victims of sexual assault/rape if I remember right. They didn't conform tobthe typical narratives.
/r/MensRights01/02/13 09:01 PM
1

Keep in mind the concepts of Cognitive Dissonance and Halo Effect. Cognitive dissonance is the process by which people reinforce their beliefs when challenged rather than changing them. It's easier to reinforce a belief, to turn something into an exception or trivialize it, than to lend it credence and true examination. A Halo effect is a positive stereotype. For example, since we're talking about feminism (I'm choosing to use feminism as an egalitarian movement as an example), let's say that I'…
/r/MensRights01/02/13 10:46 AM
3

Take a look at Naomi Wolf, Christian Hoff Sommers, Erin Pizzey, and Warren Farrell. Those are people I know of that have either identified as or consider themselves to be feminists, but have been driven out of feminist groups because of their political views. Farrell for example was a chair person at NOW for some time.
/r/MensRights01/02/13 10:36 AM
2

That's, unfortunately, the academic definition used. Discrimination is Power + Prejudice where power is the ability to make others do what you want. Most isms are a form of discrimination. Ablism, sexism, racism and so on. They suggest that people that are discriminated against don't have power or have lower power than their counterparts. Then they add things about being based on groups instead of individuals. It gets somewhat messy there which is why I think Warren Farrell has a better definiti…
/r/MensRights01/02/13 09:29 AM
2

The definition for discrimination is prejudice + power where power is defined as the ability to make others do as you want. This is usually taken to a group level as a means to explain why women don't have power. They aren't in positions of power as frequently. It tends to ignore smaller uses of power.
/r/MensRights01/02/13 09:25 AM
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To add to this, that's just the long haul drivers. Short haul are often put into split shifts and have had their unions pretty much decimated.
/r/MensRights01/02/13 05:44 AM
3

Seems like an odd subject to be sprung on someone though, and then have them come around with the "hate group" rhetoric. I'm also kind of glad that the Professor that was overseeing the group didn't jump in and present the opposing view. It would have created problems with Authority positions and biasing.
/r/MensRights01/02/13 02:11 AM
3

I would agree that they were ill-prepared. They probably only did preliminary research and found the blog articles about us being a hate group.
/r/MensRights01/02/13 01:05 AM
2

At the end of the day we might disagree on the premise of people's ideas. We might disagree on what a solution is. However, if we simply ignore other's opinions then we are doing exactly what we have always fought against. That and honestly, I think most of the people here are genuinely happy to have a place where they can discuss their issues. Even if we disagree we've seen, through the stories of people going through hard times, that we're on the same side. You know that these people for bette…
/r/MensRights01/02/13 01:01 AM
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If we fail to verify the validity of a claim about a country, a place, an organization and take it simply at face value then we run the risk of spreading false information. Once it has spread false information is very hard to contain and correct.
/r/MensRights31/01/13 11:57 AM
3

But isn't it also possible to hold different levels and different kinds of respect? What I want to see is everyone having a baseline amount of respect for others simply because they're human. Denying people that respect without reason closes the door, in my opinion, to seeing those people as fully human.
/r/MensRights31/01/13 11:36 AM
5

Unfavorable or uninformed?
/r/MensRights31/01/13 11:05 AM
3

Save that one for April 1st
/r/MensRights31/01/13 10:40 AM
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All people are deserving of respect until they prove otherwise. Gender or sex is not a part of this equation. It should also not be a part of the equation to define what is masculine or "Manhood". Framing the arguments about what is man based on the presence of women is irresponsible and as far as definitions go a poor one. What is man, what is human, what is male and what is female are things that shouldn't be dictated to people. If we don't let people explore their identity and form it, if we …
/r/MensRights31/01/13 09:08 AM
5

For some reason quotes about people using enabling or inhibition lowering substances to commit crime are coming to mind right now.
/r/MensRights30/01/13 07:03 AM
3

A letter from the Department of Education, the "Dear Colleague" letter made part of college funding contingent on if they followed a certain set of guidelines in regards to Title IX. This means that schools that fail to use the new standard set by the DOE will essentially be killing itself. Edit: schools also have their own codes of conduct that students most abide by. In those codes are rules regarding sexual assault. Essentially if the school doesn't have the code they.can be sued for negligen…
/r/MensRights29/01/13 12:54 PM
1

The big things that come to mind are complications. Roughly 100 boys a year die in the US from circumcision. Next is scarring. This can cause problems with erection. Next is brain development. Certain areas of the brain are under developed compared.to uncircumcised males. Then there's the possibility that they cut off too much skin or not enough and have to do corrective surgery later. Then there's the correlation between circumcision and erectile distinction. I can probably add another five or …
/r/MensRights29/01/13 11:39 AM
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Differential access to sex might have something to do with it. Please note, that this comment is not meant to be sarcastic, but a relatively serious answer to your question.
/r/MensRights29/01/13 10:22 AM
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It's happened. cotwa.info has more information on various cases where false accusations have occurred.
/r/MensRights28/01/13 06:08 AM
2

Here's a question that I think might be important to this entire thing, do women accurately remember the pain from childbirth? We're told quite frequently that child birth is one of the most intense pains people can go through. However, now as you mentioned in regards natural birth, we have tools to mitigate the pain significantly.
/r/MensRights27/01/13 03:51 PM
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It's an unknowable statistic. We know instances of reported rape. We have suggestions on number of unreported rape. We have some knowledge of likelihood of stranger rape/acquaintance rape/other (I'm not sure what to call this category because of things like mutual drunkenness etc). All of these things would need to be accounted for before even making a guess at number of rapists out there. Then there's false accusations that range from 2% at the most conservative up to 60% or more depending on w…
/r/MensRights27/01/13 09:57 AM
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Have you ever watched a young child have to pick between something they really love, and something they don't understand but are told they should like? The authority figure is issuing them a statement. Do this, you'll like it. It creates an almost disheartening look in the child's face. They want to do that thing they like, but don't want to make their parental figure angry by not doing it. Now take that feeling of anguish and apply it slightly differently. There's a monolithic group, one that y…
/r/MensRights27/01/13 06:38 AM
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In some cases it take multiple victims to actually establish enough evidence to indite. That is, as far as I'm aware, one of the reasons why names of accused are published. It's a mean to encourage other victims to come forward. That said, I think that it biases the trial significantly and creates too much of a black mark. Social justice is often much harsher than legal justice.
/r/MensRights27/01/13 02:10 AM
13

If there's anything I've learned recently it's that you can turn anything into a negative trait.
/r/MensRights27/01/13 02:05 AM
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I think the push behind the idea of using "So called free speech" when referring to MRA comments and the MRM is to shift the perception of what is being said towards hate speech. Many college campuses ban hate speech from being viewed or posted on campus. As the MRM grows and enters the college environment one of the key places for the propagation of feminist myths disappear.
/r/MensRights25/01/13 09:37 AM
1

I think you meant raped instead of rapists in your first paragraph.
/r/MensRights25/01/13 05:24 AM
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Get out of there. If you have to stay while you get things set up to leave then get an audio recorder. Always be recording.
/r/MensRights25/01/13 01:11 AM
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The problem is that the definition has shifted with popular use. While I know a lot of words that are used in social science tend to have definition shifts, this expansion is pretty far and beyond the traditional shift. It is worrying to me because this shift, as far as I have seen, occurred in a little under two years.
/r/MensRights24/01/13 05:32 AM
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Oddly, looking up micro aggression I am finding an odd shift in tone about it, and what it includes, compared to how the concept has been introduced and explained to me previously. This is vexing. The term itself seems to have undergone expansion lately, at least compared to when I was introduced to it. The new form has been shifted from a group interaction level to an individual interaction level based on stereotypes.
/r/MensRights24/01/13 05:18 AM
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The FBI definition is the one used for the Uniform Crime Report, so even if the state classifies it one way, they still have to report it based on the FBI definition. Some cities that refused were not included in the data. If I remember right, Chicago was one city.
/r/MensRights24/01/13 04:56 AM
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I would say that it is a very real thing, but has a different meaning than what it is usually used for in a social, person to person, context.
/r/MensRights24/01/13 04:52 AM
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Isn't this partially why PUA culture started to form? Men that found "acceptable" means of courtship were useless ended up finding what worked and running with it?
/r/MensRights24/01/13 12:03 AM
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Usually micro-aggressions are painted as systemic in nature and presented at a group level. Ex: how many Native Indian tribes exist that aren't federally recognized. Not recognizing them is a micro-aggression.
/r/MensRights24/01/13 12:01 AM
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MGTOW is more of a spectrum of behavior rather than anything else.
/r/MensRights23/01/13 12:16 AM
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Perhaps instead of legitimacy the phrase, changing the focus on said group would be better. Instead of focusing on incarceration rates in the black community, they focus on single motherhood. Both are legitimate problems but each carries a very different target group and very different overall approach to solving their issues. To further this, fixing one problem may actually cause problems in the other end of the advocacy setting.
/r/MensRights23/01/13 12:14 AM
1

Warren Farrell has an interesting quote that goes something like this, "Women's greatest strength is their facade of weakness. Men's greatest weakness is their facade of strength." Beyond that I can't expand on his points or claims.
/r/MensRights23/01/13 12:12 AM
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Isn't an open forum a place to gather such information? Someone else may have already done the legwork. News of attacks or about the case may have also run in local papers but not provincial ones.
/r/MensRights22/01/13 10:44 AM
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Depends a lot on the people. Yes that's a cop out answer. Instead I'll add this, around 20% of high conflict divorce involve demonstrably false claims of ipv in the US. I can't say for Canada. Further, there were laws on the books that allowed foreign women to get citizenship by claiming they were victims of abuse. I say were here because I believe the primary one was VAWA, but am not certain if other laws contain this information. Then there's just the nature of divorce court. There was a case …
/r/MensRights22/01/13 10:39 AM
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Because that's not humiliation. He's asking for verification of information. They're also adding some personal conjecture, but nothing that is beyond the scope of the claims.
/r/MensRights22/01/13 10:29 AM
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While inebriated you are considered unable to give consent. This is a rule that usually isn't equally enforced across sexes but may have to do with reporting of rape. At this time I can't make a strong claim on causation.
/r/MensRights22/01/13 06:03 AM
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Encourage the staff to look after each other's mental and physical well being. They're going to be in a grueling place. Try to set up spaces where men with young children can go that are separate from the group living areas. Many people in abusive situations won't leave because they're afraid that their kids will be abused as retaliation. Try and have an off duty cop you can call to take pictures of bruises etc. This can make the difference between someone's case falling through or not.
/r/MensRights20/01/13 02:33 AM
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That's how we understand it. However, was the practice going to follow it? As much as the code of chivalry was obeyed, it was also ignored. In any case, knightly comportment was reserved for the gentry. A knight extended his chivalrous courtesies only to a member of his class; and his ethereal devotion to his lady did not bridle his predatory advances toward women of the lower class. page 81 has the text in question if you want to look. The site you linked, while it does have the code, doesn't d…
/r/MensRights19/01/13 09:18 AM
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This link was submitted a few months back. It looks at the Women and Children First Phenomenon. In regards to the old code of chivalry, as far as I can find and I can't find solid sources on this, the protections of chivalry that you note only applied to Ladies. This meant that peasant women and children weren't considered protected.
/r/MensRights18/01/13 09:14 PM
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That's fine, however, there are probably more effective examples.
/r/MensRights18/01/13 03:08 PM
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As far as I am aware, "women and children first" is actually relatively new and came about because of the sinking of the Titanic which romanticized the idea. I'll see if I can find the article, it was posted on this sub before, once I get up tomorrow.
/r/MensRights18/01/13 10:29 AM
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Just to add a bit to this, what's on the cover of romance novels? Insert random well dressed guy holding swooning woman + or - shirts on the guy.
/r/MensRights18/01/13 10:24 AM
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How many people are going to actually check to see if what they're reading isn't what they anticipated? I'm asking this because of a test I saw some time back involving word recognition and color recognition. See one thing, read the other, and you brain will fill in what it anticipates rather than what it actually is.
/r/MensRights18/01/13 06:36 AM
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I'm not discounting the value of older data. In context with the report that was given it's very valuable. However, just by itself in the infographic my first thought was: "This data is too old to be relevant in modern society." Usually, in the social sciences if you're going back more than 10 years the data, unless you're using it to demonstrate an immediate trend, isn't necessarily going to be reflective of modern society.
/r/MensRights18/01/13 01:42 AM
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Could you change the green color to red please? Also, maybe change the color on the statistics so they pop out from the page more.
/r/MensRights17/01/13 10:55 PM
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There have been some instances where the online petitions have created pressure on organizations. However, the petitions didn't necessarily cause the change in stance.
/r/MensRights17/01/13 10:51 PM
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I have a concern regarding some of the data that's presented in the image link. First, a lot of the data is old. In some cases more than twenty years. Others as much as 30. The most recent study is from 2007. The oldest is from 1975. While this is good information and should be accounted for, it doesn't show what the modern trends are. More recent data would be a good addition to this piece. Without the context of the study I would have probably dismissed the image itself. So thank you for that.…
/r/MensRights17/01/13 10:42 PM
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You're underestimating the power of confirmation bias. Even if presented with the facts afterwards, if time has passed, people are more likely to still hold a belief that is inline with their own. Giving people time for the bad information to grow is like planting a seed of destruction.
/r/MensRights17/01/13 09:38 PM
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We're put under the same umbrella as them, PUA, true misogynists and the line. The MRM is often attacked using comments from the surrounding communities in the male blogosphere. Whether they're actually related to the MRM is debatable at best.
/r/MensRights17/01/13 11:33 AM
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What your running into is something called cognitive dissonance. These people you are talking to are trying to protect their belief system, not necessarily challenge the accuracy or validity of your claims. Chances are if you're arguing with people that are dismissing your arguments they do not care what you're saying. Combatting cognitive dissonance is hard. It often takes a significant event to happen to the belief holder for their.beliefs to be challenged.
/r/MensRights17/01/13 11:25 AM
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Social justice can be much harsher than legal justice.
/r/MensRights17/01/13 01:54 AM
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Two reasons immediately come to mind. First, most members of congress are going to be with someone almost 24/7. On the instances that they aren't with people they're movements are going to be accounted for or known. While they will have privacy, it won't necessarily be in regards to their location, or who they're with. Attempting to employ a false claim will cause extensive digging into the past of the person that made the claim, and depending on if black mail or something like that is attempted…
/r/MensRights16/01/13 11:21 AM
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I saw, I just wanted to make sure since there was no guarantee that people would follow the link if they chose to comment.
/r/MensRights16/01/13 10:35 AM
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Link to the full study here. There is a PDF link on the page where one can download the entire thing.
/r/MensRights16/01/13 08:29 AM
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Did some light research and found this article looking at the effects of parent incarceration on children. I haven't had a chance to read it fully, but it does look at a number of theories regarding how children turn into criminals themselves and attempts to link parental incarceration to this. Keep in mind, I haven't fully read this piece yet.
/r/MensRights16/01/13 08:22 AM
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It might be worth calling the Refuge and seeing if they can recommend a service to you. There may not be much, but a place to sleep may be worth a hell of a lot right now.
/r/MensRights16/01/13 08:09 AM
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Then honestly, you're on the right path. At least in my opinion.
/r/MensRights16/01/13 01:09 AM
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You're fighting an uphill battle and I thank you for doing so. When I was a student some time ago I sought out mental health and wellness assistance on my campus. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was considered depressed. Most of the signs I typically associated with depression weren't the ones I was experiencing. As far as I am aware the symptoms do differ between genders. Offer support and counseling for men who have been the victims of abuse. This isn't just IPV/DV, this is childhood ab…
/r/MensRights15/01/13 11:05 AM
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The reports are meant for those that won't research what is happening. In the age of the internet though, with information becoming more rapidly accessible, a group that cannot support its claims will lose. The question then becomes; how does one support their claims? NOW has failed to adequately support its claims by rejecting reality and injecting their own conjecture and beliefs. Beliefs are all find and good, but when the belief is at odds with what people experience, then that belief will l…
/r/MensRights15/01/13 10:55 AM
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Way off or potentially worse, too accurate. What I mean here is that the problem may be too specifically geared towards solving a subsection of the issue which goes back to the issue of misidentifying. If we are talking about rape but preclude female on male, female on female, or male on male then the results or solutions offered will be like the shelters that don't help half the population.
/r/MensRights14/01/13 06:53 AM
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If you have time read up on the concept of cognitive dissonance and what happens when deeply held beliefs are challenged. The process by which people move to defend their beliefs is interesting as is the process needed to overcome cognitive dissonance.
/r/MensRights14/01/13 12:29 AM
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Professional victims, victim's advocates, etc. They aren't working to improve anything, they're worming to keep their jobs. If they stop or women start waking up then the services are going to shift. Money is going to go away from areas that are heavily influenced by women's studies towards more general applications. It kills their death grip on violence shelter funding, their legislative power etc. It could also cast a rather black mark on the history of feminism. As Nixon once said, "I won't b…
/r/MensRights13/01/13 10:34 PM
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My theory on this is that it makes women dependent on the things that keep feminism going. By making sure there are always people that see themselves as the victim it's easier to make them swallow the blue pill.
/r/MensRights13/01/13 03:36 PM
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Often times to get into the better classes or programs in a school there are extra fees. These fees are used for: external testing, newer material, transportation costs, etc. However, if quality of education is based on money paid beyond taxes then I think that it is definitely an issue, especially as population density and students in the classroom increase.
/r/MensRights13/01/13 06:20 AM
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Because by depriving them of responsibility they also deprive them of agency.
/r/MensRights13/01/13 12:24 AM
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It could also be that they're banking on programs that are designed to help women into employment opportunities, or they're working off the idea that since a lot of reddit is male, including their gender may influence their job offers.
/r/MensRights12/01/13 10:14 PM
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In this era of electronic interaction I think we've missed the value of face to face interaction.
/r/MensRights12/01/13 09:31 PM
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To add to this, more screening for male signs of depression. They do differ across genders ad far as I have seen. Increasing the number of acceptable emotional outlets for men, and possibly an increase in spaces dedicated to men just to be men.
/r/MensRights12/01/13 12:11 PM
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If you're going to audit you have to actually be a victim at the time of audit. There was a court case some time back, I think a year or two ago involving a man that did exactly what you're suggesting. He had been a victim previously, but because he wasn't a victim at the time he attempted the audit the judge threw his case out.
/r/MensRights12/01/13 09:42 AM
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You may also want to differentiate between attempted and successful suicides. Women tend to attempt suicide more while men tend to succeed more. This might be of use to you. It has some more sources on suicide as well.
/r/MensRights11/01/13 12:12 AM
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Usually sarcasm is tagged /s. It's something that's developed here because there are times when Poe's Law is just too outlandish to apply.
/r/MensRights10/01/13 11:18 PM
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I think the major problem with creep shaming isn't necessarily that the person doesn't feel safe, it's that they've labeled an action you're taking as somehow wrong. It doesn't tell you which action, or why and is entirely subjective which makes it difficult to self-analyze. I agree that your approach is the best one when it comes to these things.
/r/MensRights10/01/13 10:47 AM
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First off, here are a few things you can do to combat the bias in the school system that he will face. First, be active in his school life. Volunteer at his school frequently. This has the advantage of letting you know what the content of his courses will be. It also lets you know what his homework is. This is a good means to get to know his teachers and learn which teachers at the school are better than others. Not all teachers are created equal. Some will be better at teaching individually. Ot…
/r/MensRights10/01/13 09:04 AM
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When asked the author pointed me to another piece previously written on his site. Here it is it sources his claims via hyperlink. Edit: read the comments as well.
/r/MensRights09/01/13 01:29 PM
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Apparently not. The author is looking at a eurozone agreement that was passed as the basis for the 1 year comment. His article on the EU bill that was passed. It has a few hyperlinks in the article pointing to newspapers looking at the law. It also draws connections between an anime translator in Sweden? who was arrested under a similarly worded law.
/r/MensRights09/01/13 01:27 PM
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It wouldn't surprise me if someone was prosecuted for it. The question becomes on what grounds and under what laws. Also, what was the actual picture in question?
/r/MensRights09/01/13 11:55 AM
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I'm going to take this with a grain of salt. I haven't seen the law that was used.
/r/MensRights09/01/13 11:34 AM
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Current US population is 311 million roughly, per a quick google search. 31.1 million people report being the victim of a false accusation. Save was the source for the 10% claim Link to their results Link to their method It doesn't specify entirely, or rather directly what their sample size was or what their confidence intervals were. It looks like for the first survey 2660 people stayed on the line for more than 10 seconds, 1330 roughly answered at least one question and about 1100-1200 complet…
/r/MensRights09/01/13 08:28 AM
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Read ThumbtacksHurt's comment above. He adds some relevant details to the case.
/r/MensRights09/01/13 07:37 AM
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Kids weren't in school, police increased patrols, increase in late night and party activities, any number of things. If you want to have fun look at rape stats uptown and then after I believe 1973. The definition of rape in the US was changed to include date rape that year.
/r/MensRights09/01/13 06:52 AM
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The original infographic was bad because it didn't show it's sources, didn't explain what came from where and oversimplified the issues. If you want to really fix this info graphic then there should be Cases not investigated Cases investigated but charges were withdrawn Cases where the victim refused to cooperate with the prosecution Cases where there wasn't enough evidence. Cases proven false Cases unable to be proven or disproven Cases that led to arrests Cases that led to arrest but prosecuti…
/r/MensRights08/01/13 01:00 PM
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On a different note, How long ago were false accusations of rape not talked about at all?
/r/MensRights08/01/13 04:49 AM
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It's a self report survey. That means it's reliant on the participants accurately remembering events. It is also reliant on the participants choosing to respond. This is the actual survey. There are a few supplemental surveys as well, here.
/r/MensRights08/01/13 04:03 AM
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I know. I also know the biases that are baseline with the ncvs.
/r/MensRights08/01/13 03:26 AM
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Talk to the moderator and see what they want. It's a good topic and needs more light, but we shouldn't take over the space especially since it's a very small sub.
/r/MensRights08/01/13 03:21 AM
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Falsely accused to the police and falsely accused to their social circle may also be something to consider. Even if someone doesn't file a report, that doesn't mean that they won't tell friends, family, or others that they were raped or taken advantage of. Unfortunately, it's damn near impossible to find accurate data on False accusations in general, let alone information on those that never have a charged levied against them.
/r/MensRights08/01/13 12:39 AM
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Did some back tracking to their site. Their primary source is one of the federal victim self report surveys. I haven't been able to find more sources they're using beyond that.
/r/MensRights07/01/13 11:18 PM
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Someone want to send him a link to cotwa?
/r/MensRights07/01/13 12:06 PM
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Unless there's another specific kink in here I don't see how this applies. If they're in a Dom/Sub relationship his trust was likely violated when she posted those pictures. If you can't trust your partner then there is no relationship.
/r/MensRights07/01/13 12:00 PM
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It might be better to speak to an attorney yourself regarding this. It sounds to me like the DOE is just shelving your case.
/r/MensRights06/01/13 10:29 AM
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I make no claim that it was. She said she would "claim" that he raped her.
/r/MensRights06/01/13 12:29 AM
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Or it could have been a casual hook up and one decided they wanted to date and the other didn't.
/r/MensRights06/01/13 12:19 AM
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They don't anticipate the drop in their sexual capital as they age.
/r/MensRights05/01/13 11:22 AM
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It's actually a reference to a retired Senator. I forget who off the top of my head. He was talking about how the modern version of politics has become too encompassing. How the congress people no longer put down the ideology after they ended the session of the day and moved back to having a drink and being regular people at night.
/r/MensRights05/01/13 07:02 AM
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I should have provided more context for my points rather than jumping into them like I did. That's my bad. I do hope that they can perform as suggested. That they'll be able to push politics back into arguments on the Congressional floors with poker games with the other side at night.
/r/MensRights05/01/13 06:44 AM
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They aren't my words. They're our congress people's. Feinstein said that women are more effective working in Congress because of these traits that they bring to the table. "We're less on testosterone," Feinstein said. "We don't have that need to always be confrontational. And I think we're problem solvers, and I think that's what this country needs." Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, agreed. "Maybe it is the testosterone that you speak to, Dianne, or the ego that is attached there. But I look at wh…
/r/MensRights05/01/13 06:12 AM
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Men and women have different approaches to conflict. Predisposition is roughly the same. In regards to the comment on Ideological conflicts, I should have said people. Attributing success or failure based on a gender is a part of Men's Rights. Why? It's stereotyping. Saying women are better at achieving a compromise and then attributing it to the women in congress is a fallacy. It takes a prescribed positive trait about a group and applies it to an individual. Whether this holds true of not on t…
/r/MensRights05/01/13 05:29 AM
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I'm going to contest this. When a state of mind or possible positive outcome is suggested just because of the gender of a group, then there is a social underpinning here that needs to be addressed. In this case there is a stereotype, or a halo pending how you look at it, that says that women are more likely to compromise and more likely to negotiate. I haven't seen a study that proves this. I've seen studies that suggest that men and women have different approaches to conflict. Men tend to be mo…
/r/MensRights05/01/13 04:40 AM
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It'll be filed, sorted, and an intern or something will send a generic reply letter.
/r/MensRights04/01/13 10:09 AM
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Different means same result.
/r/MensRights04/01/13 09:42 AM
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IMO it would depend on the method of passing on the lie. From parent to child is a much easier means because parents have the authority to say X is the truth. However, between adults peer groups would be a better means because it invokes peer pressure and insures conformity that way.
/r/MensRights04/01/13 09:13 AM
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I'm sure they'll enjoy the trash collector positions.
/r/MensRights04/01/13 08:58 AM
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I should have phrased it "tell a lie often enough, long enough...." because the idea is make other people say it. The more people you have saying it, the more likely it is to stick because it's hard to get people to look at complex information to refute the lie.
/r/MensRights04/01/13 01:56 AM
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Tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth. Tell the truth often enough and you become a liar.
/r/MensRights03/01/13 12:10 PM
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I hate to say it, but tone doesn't matter in context of Reddit's stated policy on doxxing. If they are both links from external websites, then they must be treated the same.
/r/MensRights02/01/13 12:42 PM
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The ugly side of marriage is divorce. While many men are interested in going their own way, there are men like myself that are interested in trying to have a family and keep it. For those that have chosen to go their own way, hopefully before having children, the need for articles like this is somewhat lost. However, I'll take any leg up I can get to try and improve my chances of staying happily married when the time comes.
/r/MensRights02/01/13 06:43 AM
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As someone who's had this conversation IRL you made me laugh and face palm at the same time. Thank you.
/r/MensRights02/01/13 06:38 AM
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I would guess tat most MRAs that started as feminists were taught from an early age that feminism was an egalitarian movement made to challenge classist, sexist, and racist systems. Then this idea was reinforced in history courses and required readings. It wasn't until they started looking that they found tgr ideology and history they were taught didn't match the actions they see.
/r/MensRights01/01/13 12:20 PM
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Patriarchy is a catch all for damn near anything that can be said to be systemically negative when it comes to women. This includes things that inhibit their growth in the professional field but does not include the benefits ascribed to women, the hidden privileges. It discounts choice in favor of saying social pressure is the only determinant not part of the determinant of action. On the whole, it is a means to rob women of agency and perpetuate a simple, easy to control, victim mentality.
/r/MensRights01/01/13 12:33 AM
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Advise him to choose a profession and work towards it. Degrees are all well and good, but if he's choosing a hyper saturated market or program he won't be able to support himself later. Become active in clubs and groups on campus. These are means to network and also provide people for him to study with and give him an alibi. Talk to your professors. Seriously. The teacher's assistants and professors see maybe one or two.students a day during their office hours if that. Swinging by and talking to…
/r/MensRights31/12/12 12:19 PM
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University of Toronto protest, Warren Farrell. If you google that you should get some information including some videos on the subject. The author of the comic paraphrased. It's much worse.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 01:38 AM
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Most of the Elevatorgate stuff has been shifted to favor watson in the searches I've done regarding it so links from the MRA perspective might be relatively buried.
/r/MensRights30/12/12 09:30 AM
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Have a link Evil posted it as a separate thread.
/r/MensRights30/12/12 05:49 AM
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So we ha e another website selling people fear and uncertainty in relationships for a quick Buck. Sounds wonderful.
/r/MensRights29/12/12 10:47 AM
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I've read through some of your comments, and I have to ask, have you sought professional help regarding this specific issue in regards to your sex life? I know you mentioned that you couldn't really bring yourself to have sex, but at the same time have the desire to do so. This to me speaks of extremely deep psychological scarring. You also mentioned the creation of the "other" person for the events. I would definitely bring this up. If you're sexuality is tied to this "other" then unraveling it…
/r/MensRights28/12/12 10:59 AM
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I hope things get better for you once you're able to move out. Edit: A closet metaphor would be somewhat apt right now.
/r/MensRights28/12/12 12:36 AM
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Someone else already commented on the longer history so I thought I would fill in the modern version to help with perspective.
/r/MensRights26/12/12 11:18 PM
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This is a segment of a longer video that was posted on youtube. When Warren Farrell came to speak people that were attempting to enter were blocked for roughly an hour. Those that tried to enter were harassed and slandered. Why? In some circles Warren Farrell is considered a Rape Apologist. He is considered as such because of some of his quotes that are used without context. Regardless, because of the nature of college campuses, and the fear of rape as well as the push to support rape victims, t…
/r/MensRights26/12/12 09:11 AM
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I think your grandmother would probably have been given lifetime alimony here in the US given the number of kids. Also, the child support would be pretty substantial. All that said, different eras probably also play into this.
/r/MensRights26/12/12 07:28 AM
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Keep in mind, they'll be bound by confidentiality laws. Also, their knowledge of resources and programs may also be specialized. A hospital social worker has to work with very different issues compared to a school or mental health specialist.
/r/MensRights26/12/12 07:23 AM
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If you get a chance ask a social worker what they think of the welfare system and how it works. You'll get an earful.
/r/MensRights26/12/12 07:04 AM
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I know, the problem comes from the way the system actually functions and not the underlying goal.
/r/MensRights26/12/12 06:39 AM
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Not sure I like this analogy, but a lot of the public assistance stuff that we do in the US is very much like a drug. We provide it relatively easily to people that need it. They get used to having it, plan on having it almost, then when it's gone they don't know what to do without it. They falter and go through a withdrawal period where their life goes to hell in a hand basket, and then are back to square one.
/r/MensRights26/12/12 06:07 AM
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The programs should be weening people off, not just cutting them off cold.
/r/MensRights26/12/12 05:27 AM
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The problem with a lot of welfare programs isn't that they don't function well, it's that they function well but stop prematurely. So a person is caught in a cycle of going on and off of welfare every three to six months.
/r/MensRights26/12/12 05:19 AM
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Most people in this.forum would agree. It depends a lot on the individual. Some see no value in it because it was a personal choice. For me, I would say that the person should be provided roughly four years based on the amount needed to rent a modest apartment and put food on the table. They should also be required to work at least part time and modernize their skill set. In short, they should be able to almost complete a bacholars degree. Note that the loans taken out would be their debt not th…
/r/MensRights26/12/12 04:48 AM
1

Could be arrears checks from alimony collections that the Ex was unable to pay.
/r/MensRights26/12/12 04:24 AM
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Alimony was meant to compensate the partner that stayed home and damaged their career to make sure the family could function. Usually, this was the mother, but in some cases the father. It was also originally instituted before no fault divorce. To get a divorce during that period you had to show that the marriage was essentially broken, IE one party broke their side of the marriage contract. Most states are No Fault now, so there is no requirement that the Marriage contract be breached.
/r/MensRights26/12/12 04:21 AM
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Take care of yourself first. There are enough of us here that we can muster on. If it helps talk to friends and get in contact with people you haven't seen in a while. Decompress. I wish you luck and suggest looking at or cuddling with a kitten.
/r/MensRights24/12/12 11:11 AM
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Okay, then in this case I don't think there's much that you can really do because both of you violated the court order. I don't know the specifics of your order, nor am I a lawyer, but I don't think that you can file a contempt motion unless it's in violation of your court order.
/r/MensRights24/12/12 02:57 AM
1

I would talk to your lawyer if you have one and get the dates for holidays set in stone.
/r/MensRights24/12/12 02:53 AM
1

Do you already have a pre-existing agreement on parenting time in general?
/r/MensRights24/12/12 02:47 AM
4

Agreed, we can find correlated events and commonalities. The biggest issue though is distinguishing what events are truly a result of the crime rather than an external circumstance. Losing one's job because of the financial collapse would have a very different ramification for research than say losing it because you were suffering major depression brought on or stemming from a crime.
/r/MensRights23/12/12 12:59 PM
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Empowering women would mean feminism would have a logical end point. I have yet to see a logical end point out of modern feminism. There are a lot of goals, bit they're mostly abstract or unachieveable in nature.
/r/MensRights23/12/12 12:23 PM
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Yes, but with the things you listed it could also fall into social damages as well, especially if we can't discern the cause for why they ended up in a situation. The crime is A the intermediate variable is B and C is the outcome. We don't know what B was though that lead to C.
/r/MensRights23/12/12 12:20 PM
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As an additional part to this, have them photograph any bruises he's received. They won't be able to do much with it unless he can bring her up on assault charges, but showing is a hell of a lot better than telling.
/r/MensRights22/12/12 03:03 AM
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He needs to get an audio recorder, preferably a digital one. If he's in his own residence he should be able to record without needing her consent, however, this may not be the case. It varies by state. Whenever he's around her he needs the recording device on. End of story. This should give him evidence that she's threatened to lie to the cops about him.
/r/MensRights22/12/12 02:39 AM
1

Different though somewhat related question. Is he up for election next year? I'm guessing so, which would mean that this statement on his part is probably pure politics, especially given the target.
/r/MensRights21/12/12 08:48 AM
3

Cruel and unusual punishment I think would only apply to the criminal justice system. Alimony is considered a civil issue.
/r/MensRights21/12/12 05:29 AM
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They would label it as domestic violence more than likely. It would be billed out as a way of controlling and punishing a woman or women as a group.
/r/MensRights20/12/12 11:35 PM
1

Or refusing offers of sex from attractive individuals.
/r/MensRights20/12/12 12:22 PM
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Any survey that uses uniform crime report data or police arrest data is going to be problematic. Exclusion based on definitions, biased arrest patterns, the whole nine yards all play into why that sampling device is ripe for misinterpretations and other issues.
/r/MensRights20/12/12 11:49 AM
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And most researchers that use this survey device would probably know the criticism and ask questions regarding who how and why. I would say that a bigger criticism is that it's a self report study which can be inherently bias by nature of sampling method.
/r/MensRights20/12/12 09:52 AM
1

Fair enough. Anyway, it's been fun talking with you about this. Perhaps at some point we'll have an answer.
/r/MensRights20/12/12 09:22 AM
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The sources you mentioned regarding her relationship status. I didn't mean to text you. My mind is usually really active this time of night. Also, when I start talking about certain subjects my mind kicks into overdrive. Lastly, you'd be surprised how many things people consider to be "no shit" subjects that took forever for the mechanisms or the conceptualization of the subject to be flushed out.
/r/MensRights20/12/12 09:12 AM
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Depends on the demographic that the appeal is designated towards. Different political groups with different beliefs or different ethnographic groups might see the appeals differently. Without running an actual study on the subject I would hazard that people towards the extremes on both ends would favor the relationship while people that are more towards the middle wouldn't. Now, my reasoning for this comes from two very different perspectives. First, there's going to be people that are relativel…
/r/MensRights20/12/12 08:52 AM
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The school has already said that the actions taken were unacceptable. They haven't issued reprimands though. If they try to talk out of both sides of their mouth on it, more than likely whoever receives a reprimand, especially for something similar can claim that they're being discriminated against based on political ideology.
/r/MensRights20/12/12 12:33 AM
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My first response when someone attributes something wholly to a single source or cause is to think Spurious Correlation. It's like the wage gap myth. People attribute it to discrimination, but the amount that is actually discrimination is almost nill when all information is accounted for. You're going to have to reference me the videos regarding her subs being based on gender. I loosely remember it, but I don't trust my memory when I'm at a point of questionable coherence. Lastly, I don't know t…
/r/MensRights20/12/12 12:13 AM
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Gives students that are reprimanded for other events an interesting leg to stand on.
/r/MensRights19/12/12 10:36 AM
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That's a very fair point. Unfortunately, those pushed to the extreme are usually those that are first willing to speak out about what's going on.
/r/MensRights19/12/12 09:33 AM
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With the other people I usually don't see them posting videos as often or for that matter, as frequently on reddit. It may be the fact that she is known that is helping create her increased subs. As far as her personal life goes, I don't know the details, and I'm not going to dredge it up. I'm also not going to pin this on gender just yet. The mechanism by which she gets subs may be related to the amount of already existing content, or her connection to other vocal MRAs. It may also be that a lo…
/r/MensRights19/12/12 04:31 AM
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It could also have to do with the fact that GWW is a well articulated and well spoken individual. I can respect both her ideas and her logic. She is also very blunt, and seems to be able to balance what's she's saying with what she's feeling, a skill most orators tend to overlook.
/r/MensRights19/12/12 12:51 AM
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And the principal was within her legal right to order the search. As another poster pointed out, qualified immunity. I think it's fucked up regardless of gender. Also pending state law that may not qualify as sexual assault or be exempted because there was reason otk believe the child had stolen property. Should the principal have done the search? No it should have been a police officer or the parent. That however is a separate issue. What is at issue is if this is sexual assault. Without the in…
/r/MensRights16/12/12 01:06 PM
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There is no evidence that this was sexual in nature. Yes the child was strip searched. However, we can't prove that the person was intending anything sexual through those actions. Here I do acknowledge that the search was needlessly intrusive and bordered on sexual assualt. The last sentence in the article is worrying, but it isn't enough to prove a sexual assualt actually happened. If the witness, the school custodian comes forward and brings up more information, then the case may differ. I hat…
/r/MensRights16/12/12 12:35 PM
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You would have to prove intent though. While they might try to charge her with Sexual Assault, it more than likely wouldn't stick.
/r/MensRights16/12/12 03:22 AM
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As far as I've seen it is mainly used because of a bill in Michigan(?). The first bill would require a script to get the pill. The law that was introduced after required a full doctor's physical to get viagra. Now, the female version of the bill was meant to be very invasive and discourage abortions etc. Viagra was chosen primarily to target the legislative body to show how abusive and intrusive the bill was through satire. Unfortunately the connection stuck and has been used since then.
/r/MensRights15/12/12 11:13 AM
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It's because they're told that they are in the hot seat of social change. It creates people that want change but don't understand what they're fighting for.
/r/MensRights15/12/12 07:39 AM
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Honestly I would say roughly two to four hours in large active subs. Or potentially a certain number of comments. The problem with using comments is that people jump in and join into circlejerk chains.
/r/MensRights15/12/12 01:49 AM
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At this point, the post has been removed, or appears to have been removed. In the future I'm just hoping that if we are going to inject ourselves into the discussion we do it when the discussion has had more of a chance to mature.
/r/MensRights15/12/12 01:43 AM
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Had it happened later I would be inclined to agree. As it stands I think that the influx of MRAs directly into the topic while it's still new is going to prevent people from voicing their opinion if they aren't galvanized one way or another.
/r/MensRights15/12/12 01:08 AM
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I know, but what I mean is that I don't think the conversation will develop organically now.
/r/MensRights15/12/12 01:02 AM
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Unfortunately I think the damage might already be done. A lot of posters, myself included, have already taken an active part in the conversation.
/r/MensRights15/12/12 12:59 AM
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I would change "If you change your mind" to "if you tell us to stop". Otherwise I like it.
/r/MensRights14/12/12 07:41 AM
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It's more acceptable for women to be mentally ill so they can get help before it drives them to living on the streets. They're also more likely to come back from war without major or disfiguring wounds that can put people off. There are more resources designed to put women back to work if they lived on the streets as well as specialized shelters and boarding houses. The list goes on.
/r/MensRights13/12/12 05:04 PM
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Then allow me to rephrase, there is no Just reason for it to exist.
/r/MensRights13/12/12 10:45 AM
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If you hadn't signed up for the draft then federal financial aid could and probably would be withheld and you would also be ineligible for benefits in the future. It seems like a small thing, but it can dictate a great deal about someone's life. Also, the draft was originally compensated by the right to vote. The privilege to vote was paid for with the knowledge that if you had to, you could be pulled to fight for your country. Now men are paying the price, but the right has been transferred to …
/r/MensRights13/12/12 10:16 AM
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The article the OP linked suggested that the person has such extreme PMS that it was causing mental health problems and had to be medically corrected.
/r/MensRights12/12/12 10:54 PM
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This seems like something that follows an insanity plea but without the defendent being institutionalized. It also seems too easy to abuse. Lastly, couldn't it almost be called reckless endangerment on the part of the woman if she knew she was having medical issues but never saw a doctor? Hazy memory and unusually aggressive behavior strike me as unusual and are marks of mental health problems.
/r/MensRights12/12/12 11:31 AM
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Co-opting groups with social agendas is politics 101 unfortunately. If you can galvanize people to your side then you have a voting block that's relatively hard to alienate.
/r/MensRights12/12/12 09:44 AM
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Political conservatism in the modern era, Neoconservatism? is a very different creature from being conservative. Conservative, in the traditional sense, means leaving most things to the states and that the states should for the most part stay out of people's business. It also tends to mean being fiscally conservative and not putting undue pressure on the local community. A lot of older MRAs have had the system rammed down their throat and up their ass. It's not clean, it's not nice. To be clear,…
/r/MensRights12/12/12 09:02 AM
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More of an attempt to co-opt the movement as far as I've seen. There tends to be a fair amount of conservatism in the MRM though. Probably because of how the system works more than ideology.
/r/MensRights12/12/12 07:14 AM
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You know what I hate about this? That it takes all the issues and makes them seem simple. That it makes the dialogue sound like we can just shove the extremes off and let the majority of people that give a damn about these issues do it. If that was the case we would be a much more active society when it came to moving towards social equality. The problem is that the extremes both poison the well and dictate a lot of the THEORY that underlies the belief systems that are in place. Assuming that th…
/r/MensRights12/12/12 07:08 AM
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The only thing I've seen our Extremists put forward is ultra conservative notions about what women should do. IE: 1950's stereotype that, actually if you look at history, doesn't coincide well with reality of the 1950's.
/r/MensRights12/12/12 07:01 AM
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Failure to articulate properly on my part. The point though is that the originally blog post linked does not show both sides of the issue, nor for that matter do either of the two posts that the blogger linked to. They strike me as reliant on ignorance of the events that happened at U of T and hide behind the positive perception of feminism held by a large portion of the general public.
/r/MensRights11/12/12 12:44 PM
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Eh.. I would argue that by not providing the video the readers are being artificially biased against Paul Elam. This is because it's not showing the entire issue. He also doesn't explain why, just tosses out a few links to another site which aren't likely to be followed unless you're already emotionally vested.
/r/MensRights11/12/12 12:15 PM
1

Just something regarding your last point. It's against the Reddit ToS to not block or blur the profile pictures.
/r/MensRights11/12/12 10:58 AM
1

Might be referring to a medical condition where the foreskin is too tight and can cause pain during an erection. I forget the name off the top of my head. Also note, there are a number of.options to fix this issue ranging from massage and stretching to.full circumcision. The range is.rather large and includes several minor surgeries that won't remove the foreskin.
/r/MensRights09/12/12 12:18 PM
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There is actually a fair amount of pressure inside the Jewish community to stop ritual circumcision. Also depending on the person that performs the right there may be less intrusive and body altering options available that still satisfy the religious and spiritual intent. Further there is no guarantee the child.will be Jewish or marry a Jewish woman as an adult. Faith should be something for the individual to decide. Pushing it down his throat and altering him to fit one's own perspective or bel…
/r/MensRights09/12/12 12:13 PM
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That's part of my point. I remember a lot of the kids shows I grew up with had a lot of hidden content that was geared towards my parents. Grandpa in Rugrats for example. How many adult humor jokes were hidden in that show? Then there's the PPG. I remember them because they were different than most of the shows, even as a young boy I had no issue watching them because they were actually interesting. The content was more mature than the character design illustrated.
/r/MensRights08/12/12 09:46 PM
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Two things: The experience that you have gone through is in many ways comparable to what happens with domestic violence. Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today’s warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children. Women are again …
/r/MensRights07/12/12 09:21 PM
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What constitutes an even playing field? Everyone reaching the goal at the same time doesn't imply the field.is even. In fact it stifles those with the.greatest athletic gifts. Then perhaps giving everyone the same grade? Well, different people will perform to different ability levels. Subjectively tweaking the criteria to make the outcomes match isn't fair to those that are attempting to succeed to the best of their ability. For the playing field to be even we cannot move the goal posts everytim…
/r/MensRights07/12/12 12:42 PM
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Sex of a trained parrot is irrelevant to it's ability to say bullshit.
/r/MensRights07/12/12 12:22 PM
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Great, just what I need. Another reference I understand that further darkens my view on humanity.... /s Very accurate comparison.
/r/MensRights07/12/12 12:18 PM
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I think most of the hate, as far as I've seen irl comes from people that have no idea what the new my little pony covers. They remember the old mindless drivel rather than the new one. Similar to powerpuff girls in a way. Also makes me think of rugrats. Written for kids as a target audience, but with hidden nuances so adults and people outside the target demographic can enjoy it.
/r/MensRights07/12/12 12:13 PM
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Here is the actual speech that the quote comes from. Personally, I think the quote is being used in poor form, but the quote itself is also somewhat objectionable. The context is missing which is very important to why the statement was made and who it was made to.
/r/MensRights07/12/12 12:01 PM
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I hate to.say this, but weren't most of.avoiceformen's posts direct links to the avoiceformen site? That may fall under the spam category and has gotten other accounts shadowbanned in the past. I don't know if things had changed regarding the posting style for avoiceformen, but it doesn't seem that far out there for this to stem from that.
/r/MensRights07/12/12 11:47 AM
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Thank you for the response, and I like stories.
/r/MensRights06/12/12 10:22 PM
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You make an interesting point. Many some are being held hostage under the guise of helping them. This though is, I think, why so many women are rejecting feminism. They are taking the portion of the label they want and denouncing or refusing to take part in that which shackles them. They are also more informed and more educated that ever before. Much of feminism, as far as I've seen, is based on or around creating fear and making women feel marginalized. It removes their agency by saying that th…
/r/MensRights06/12/12 10:17 AM
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Probably not Anon, just some jackass with enough knowledge to set up a redirect.
/r/MensRights05/12/12 08:14 AM
1

The effect being smaller could also be because single men are marrying later and having kids later so their mobility is roughly the same?
/r/MensRights04/12/12 10:29 PM
2

Quick question, do you know of any studies that compare childless men to fathers income wise? I've heard of fatherhood premiums before and I'm wondering if that also isn't a factor.
/r/MensRights04/12/12 10:52 AM
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If you're still looking for people send me a pm. I'm heading for bed ATM but will respond to your questions when I get up.
/r/MensRights03/12/12 11:36 AM
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This strikes me as talking out of both sides of its mouth.
/r/MensRights03/12/12 12:39 AM
1

Depending on the age of the account it may have been hit by the no tolerance policy.
/r/MensRights02/12/12 05:01 AM
1

If she's being specific to a religion or region ask if those laws can actually be generalized outside of the religion or culture that explicitly mentions them.
/r/MensRights01/12/12 12:36 PM
1

In places that had laws histlrically that denied women certain things in society, men were the ones liable for the "crime" that occurred. If a woman went into.debt the man was the one imprisoned. If he was unable to control his wife he was ridden around town on a donkey for everyone to laugh at. Men were punished for their wife's actions.
/r/MensRights01/12/12 12:33 PM
1

No profit margin. There are specialized companies make the high heels men wear for these events. They're sold at a huge mark up because it's a guaranteed market.
/r/MensRights01/12/12 01:51 AM
1

In my opinion the MRM should not be fighting for the rights of women. Why? The MRM has a relatively specific set of goals and intents. Most of these are in line with correcting bias in the legal system, and addressing situations where equality of outcome has started to trump equality of opportunity. The caveat to this is that the MRM specifically focuses on men's side of the issues. We do not claim to want to be the definition of equality. We're an advocacy movement. If we spread our definitions…
/r/MensRights30/11/12 10:23 PM
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Register-her is a direct parallel in a way to sex offender registries. Also, to be placed on the registry is actually relatively hard. There has to be sufficient evidence of bigotry, or abuse of the system to warrant being placed on the registry. It also runs parallel to websites that advocate not dating certain guys, however those don't have criteria for addition.
/r/MensRights29/11/12 10:50 PM
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Save that another court already overturned the verdict against him. That said, what stands out to me is An Absolute Pardon is rarely granted because it is based on the belief that the petitioner was unjustly convicted and is innocent. An absolute pardon is the only form of executive clemency that would allow you to petition the court to have that conviction removed from your criminal record. I'm just hoping that in this case he is able to receive and absolute pardon and have it stricken from his…
/r/MensRights29/11/12 09:55 PM
1

I would disagree. During the article several pretty typical statements were made that play to the stereotype women good. Not necessarily men bad. When the defense attorney claims that no mother would harm their children, this goes against empirical data on child abuse. Even cases like this, which are outliers on the whole, can still contain specific double standards and stereotypes that need to be addressed and challenged. What makes this case an outlier is the punishment that was received. The …
/r/MensRights29/11/12 09:53 PM
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Of the women behaving badly posts this is a rare exception though. In most cases rather than the woman receiving a full punishment under the law in proportion to their actions, they will receive a drastically.reduced sentence. This case is an outlier. All that said, people have gone back and forth a number of times on the necessity of or foolishness inherent in women behaving badly posts. Mostly following the same objections you've made. Sadly they tend to point at ugly double.standards in the l…
/r/MensRights29/11/12 02:38 PM
2

I'd say tradition, but that would probably be a bad argument. There are definitely.items differences between the sexes when it comes to strength, speed, endurance, center of gravity, etc. Mixing these together can create unfair advantages in favor of one sex especially if quotas are implemented. Recreational co-ed soccer near where I went to school required the number of girls on the field to match. There were also special rules about who.was allowed to mark who. Co-ed leagues and sports are gre…
/r/MensRights29/11/12 12:14 PM
2

RW follows a sort of pattern take something seemingly clandestine, use it to make an outlandish statement, divide a community along newly created lines manipulate the side that supports her while further attempting to.create a wedge. She had the atheist community going down party lines for a while. She also takes cheap shots at the MRM when she can, and claims to be victim to rape and death threats. All told she is an attention hound that seems very good at getting into the limelight long enough…
/r/MensRights29/11/12 10:20 AM
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Depending on the pardon, it might allow him to expunge the event from his criminal record and have it sealed. From what I can find, a Conditional Pardon is what Jonathon Montgomery qualified for under Virginia law. As far as I can tell, at least from the reading I've been able to find on it, there aren't riders.
/r/MensRights29/11/12 09:51 AM
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I think the argument is that extreme haircuts distract other students. However, I don't think a rat tail is extreme. Six inch Mohawk spikes, now those are another matter.
/r/MensRights29/11/12 06:28 AM
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If you widen the definition enough almost any crime can be attributed to someone. In this case, in their lifetime is a fucking long time, and people tend to forget this.
/r/MensRights29/11/12 03:18 AM
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I was able to find this on Vogue's site it seems incomplete.
/r/MensRights29/11/12 02:04 AM
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I read it. Then I remembered pushes around the world to release female inmates from prison, including those that had done very violent crimes. This includes in the UK and California. She may also appeal the case and have the sentence overturned. We are still very early in the trial.process.
/r/MensRights28/11/12 08:34 PM
0

We'll have to see if and when she gets out.
/r/MensRights28/11/12 05:15 PM
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My cousins actually went through a rather hellish case like this. Their mother (my biological aunt) passed and their father, (divorced) sued for custody. The judge tried to award custody to my grandparents. In my state there is no such thing as grandparent's rights. Needless to say it took nth girls claiming to run away and a request for a new judge to prevent them from being awarded to my grandparents.
/r/MensRights28/11/12 05:57 AM
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Most people here are egalitarian, they just don't agree with the current methods of achieving equality and what the end result of equality should be. Equality of opportunity is very different from equality of outcome.
/r/MensRights28/11/12 04:51 AM
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The primary goal of posts like this is to show a double standard. In cases like this a number of gender specific legal defenses can be used. There are also a number of social sort of biases as well. One of the big ones is attempting to pin blame on someone other than the perpetrator of the crime. Battered women's defense can be an example of this, especially if there isn't evidence of abuse. In short, it highlights a number of social and legal issues that underpin discussion of the article. Howe…
/r/MensRights28/11/12 04:26 AM
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Not a lawyer, however in my state you have the right to use sufficient force to effect your retreat. This means that if they aren't blocking you from leaving you can't use any force to move them. If they slap you, and you don't have a reasonable avenue for escape you have the right to retaliate using as much force as is needed to get them out of your way. Nothing more. Knocking them out would be out of proportion.
/r/MensRights28/11/12 03:13 AM
1

Blank slate would be interesting, but as the criticisms point out there are just too many problems with it. Also, if you follow social cognition at all, blank slates aren't really blank very long. It's almost impossible to erase them as well.
/r/MensRights28/11/12 01:11 AM
2

At what point can nurture overcome nature seems to be what you're asking. I think once we know that question the world will either go to hell, or change fundamentally for the better.
/r/MensRights28/11/12 12:10 AM
2

This seems to be a general trend in feminist spaces. White males specifically are selected to not speak or if they do speak up are often chastised. What's interesting here though is that it isn't a question of suppressing a minority voice as much as suppressing those that are willing to speak. Those that are in a position to look below the surface are the ones being told to shut up. Those with experiences that contradict the feminist narrative are being told to shut up. You are right, the majori…
/r/MensRights27/11/12 10:00 PM
2

Sounds like a play for an emotional or ethical argument to me. He can't have done x because his background is y. She on the other hand she has w reason to lie about doing x. It's more to play to public opinion and try to gain popular support than to properly present the facts of the case as far as is known.
/r/MensRights27/11/12 11:12 AM
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It's a distraction. By characterizing the movement as being Predominantly white, rich, etc, he creates a dichotomy. This group is X, no one else takes part. In group, out group etc. This then allows him to challenge the legitimacy of the group without actually challenging the claims by asserting that we are coming from a false premise. By doing this he doesn't have to actually talk to us, but can project a belief system onto us. This allows him to avoid situations where he would have his own bel…
/r/MensRights27/11/12 09:10 AM
3

I wonder how many of these would pan out if researched thoroughly.
/r/MensRights27/11/12 03:36 AM
2

If I recall correctly SRS has a ban bot that will hit anyone that posts in /r/mr and a number of other subs.
/r/MensRights26/11/12 11:01 PM
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The point of pulling the race card is the same as pulling the sex or gender cards. It's to create or invoke a dichotomy and make someone defend against something unrelated to the topic at hand. Rather than addressing issues, dismiss the sources.
/r/MensRights26/11/12 10:52 AM
3

Throwing accusations back and forth doesn't open the way to discussion. Then again, if people are tossing accusations around then discussion is a luxury that's already been forsaken.
/r/MensRights25/11/12 11:17 AM
2

You may want to add something on it being noticeably disabled individuals. People like me, with issues with our eyes that can't be corrected with glasses but have no deformity can 'pass' for normal.
/r/MensRights22/11/12 09:10 PM
0

Actually, there wouldn't be many gay or lesbian individuals in areas that were strongly in favor of heterosexuality unless they moved there. Then with time their preference might change. Pray the gay away programs would have too short of an effect to really be attributed if we're talking about social pressures shaping individuals. Just to clarify: one problem with gender as a construct is; if there's no one to learn it from how do people pick it up?
/r/MensRights22/11/12 05:16 AM
1

The theory that runs as an explanation is that as someone gets older their investment in society increases. Having a family, work, children, etc reduces risk taking tendencies making the person more conservative in terms of society and money. So as some becomes more socially vested, ie has more to lose, they move more towards being conservative. Please note, this doesn't mean like the people in washington DC right now. They're not really fiscal conservative. Social conservative has a lot of diff…
/r/MensRights22/11/12 05:14 AM
1

Old school, fiscal conservative.
/r/MensRights22/11/12 03:45 AM
3

It's one of the double standards we hear a lot. The ones that stand out are teacher student statutory rape cases. Women usually get markedly lower sentences and will often be thought of as a fantasy being acted out rather than a betrayal of trust and abuse of power. To further this the "he wanted it" or "he's a guy so it's different" tend to pop up q lot in the comments of the articles. Mostly this is from people trying to rationalize their beliefs that men can't be victims.
/r/MensRights22/11/12 02:06 AM
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When special courts are convened to uphold special rules for prosecution of crime then there is something missing. It's the promise of innocent til proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
/r/MensRights21/11/12 03:36 AM
5

You might like typhonblue and girlwriteswhat. I know that gww has a YouTube channel and many videos that demonstrate many of the deficiencies in the discussions about men.
/r/MensRights21/11/12 01:15 AM
1

I implore you, when your son or your children for that matter get into school be active in their classroom as often as you can. This will let you stay involved and up to date on your children's homework, provide opportunities to explain difficult concepts and most of all reduce the stress on the teacher and your children. Even if you're only working with your son and the other kids near him then that's less kids for the teacher to watch and more time to actually teach. 40 kids in a class with on…
/r/MensRights20/11/12 11:25 PM
2

Domestic violence or intimate partner violence aren't very well defined and actually cover everything from screaming at or ignoring your partner to bludgeoning them half to death. If they used Uniform Crime Report data then it will be based off of arrests which are highly suspect and almost definitely biased. If they used a victim self report survey the results may be closer to reality, but pending how questions are worded may hide a large portion of victims who never "felt" threatened. Until yo…
/r/MensRights20/11/12 10:51 PM
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If enough people pull statistics out of their ass, eventually we'll be a society of goatse enthusiasts.
/r/MensRights20/11/12 10:42 PM
1

These are also English speaking countries. Most of this sub is posted in English, though some translated articles appear. I imagine if we had a wider variety of languages we would see more cases.
/r/MensRights20/11/12 10:09 PM
1

Not doubting that. However, what I'm looking at is their position as a status symbol, not their history as innovators.
/r/MensRights20/11/12 12:42 AM
1

Lambo/Ferrari are more a status symbol than anything else. They're a marker of someone's income and future earning potential. It's kinda like having a nice car in high school.
/r/MensRights20/11/12 12:39 AM
2

I contemplated it a lot. To the point where I was an active tutor at some of the local schools in my area. Then one of the fathers made an allegation of inappropriate conduct against me. Nothing ever came from it, but I was essentially blacklisted from the school district.
/r/MensRights19/11/12 10:06 AM
3

The wording is key here. Commit a crime versus those that have been prosecuted for a crime. If we're only looking at if a crime was committed then it's possible. However, convictions for those crimes may be different.
/r/MensRights19/11/12 04:24 AM
3

I thought they dismissed his claims because he didn't have an overly strong case. He didn't go through the entire class, but rather dropped it shortly after the term started after looking through the material. This, on top of the fact that he was representing himself and failed to present his case well shot him in the foot.
/r/MensRights18/11/12 09:20 AM
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Do what you need to do to.keep your life intact. If that means taking her to court do it. If that means getting the charges.expunged.immediately then do so. Do whatever it takes for you to walk around holding your head up high.
/r/MensRights17/11/12 01:01 PM
2

And in the future I imagine this shop will keep one person that isn't barred for religious reason on staff at all times. This whole case seems frivolous to me. The shop offered to give her a cut at another time by a person with no religious conflict. That should have been the end of it. Just because your feathers are ruffled doesn't mean that you should.create a stink.
/r/MensRights16/11/12 02:11 AM
1

I think part of it is that people are reclaiming words that were used as insults before. Common ones used to insult those within the culture, queer, gay, etc are often taken up as part of the culture itself. This holds true for a lot of subcultures. Even those that aren't marginalized tend to take the labels ascribed to them and make them their own. Once the word has lost its power, then people will seek to create the same effect through use of new words. They become more vague and have less mea…
/r/MensRights14/11/12 09:56 AM
2

Two things of note, the use of "We" and the place it's written. I'm guessing, that the writer of the quote is female and a lesbian. That is why the We was used. Second it's cosmo. Cosmo makes no money by giving actual sound dating or sexual advice. It gets money by getting people to keep reading their stories and content. They're using sex to sell and trying to appeal to people's (women's in this case) sense of victimhood as a tool to do so.
/r/MensRights14/11/12 09:10 AM
2

If you get a chance I would look at talking to an attorney with your partner and file your wills, power of attorney etc. It probably won't help much but it can give you some legal standing in court.
/r/MensRights13/11/12 11:04 PM
1

Most academics haven't reached the point where they are willing to ask men, "why are you avoiding marriage?"
/r/MensRights13/11/12 11:01 PM
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Piggy backing off this because I think it's a good constructive criticism. Maybe create a series of.images like the first that are set to rotate. His football, her soccer, their music concert etc, to showcase different functions of the site? Sorry for typos. My phone isn't cooperating.
/r/MensRights10/11/12 05:57 AM
2

It sounds like an issue that needs to be addressed at the company, not at a government level. At least not yet.
/r/MensRights09/11/12 10:35 PM
1

What is the name of the class? Also, bring in some evolutionary biology. Your Prof should know about that in regards to how.societies construct themselves. Also, your Prof probably either picked the book or as an agreement with the publisher isn't allowed to say otherwise. Edit: you could also add queer theory and information on biological determination of gender.
/r/MensRights09/11/12 09:57 PM
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As someone that's studied sociology, this analysis is a crock of shit. It excuses actions based on variables that it fails to identify or realistically control for. The model is also outdated and doesn't reflect modern stats. Willful ignorance has no business trying to solve social or societal problems. Edit: I am referring to the model.
/r/MensRights09/11/12 01:19 AM
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Is any of this being recorded? Seriously, male victims, including the ones in your class should Sue. They're belittling victims of crime because of their personal biases. I would also talk to a lawyer yourself and see what they think.
/r/MensRights09/11/12 12:06 AM
1

I did as well, it was just something that stood out to me as being odd. Usually questions like that have a non-applicable bubble or an indicator to skip them.
/r/MensRights08/11/12 10:01 AM
1

You might want to tweak some of the text in the future if you reuse or rehost the survey. Include things about leaving boxes blank if you don't have children etc.
/r/MensRights08/11/12 09:32 AM
3

Depending on the area it is a felony. In my area it's punishable with a fine and jail time.
/r/MensRights06/11/12 11:29 PM
1

If you go to a strong empirical school in general, the soft sciences tend to focus more on reality than pure theory. That said, research the department itself before you apply at the school. You might also want to look at a Social Work school rather than pure Psychology. Social work is considered a protected professions in varying states. You will do essentially the same work, but also have access to different certifications aside from pure Psychology.
/r/MensRights06/11/12 09:01 AM
1

It's also damn near impossible to get accurate statistics on. We can't get data on countries that don't report to the UN, or on countries that are effectively war zones. It would be damn near impossible to tell who was killed by whom.
/r/MensRights05/11/12 09:37 PM
1

Depending on the personal policies of the teacher, completion of homework may factor in on what final grades are. Ex: one of my teachers had a strict three strike policy. If you didn't hand in three assignments then he would lower your final grade by. 5 grade points. This could happen up to three times. If you struck out three times then either you had to do a nasty make up assignment or have a damn good reason for why you struck out three times.
/r/MensRights05/11/12 12:34 PM
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That's because it is pandering. Also, I am not aware, at this time of any male only groups on Xbox live. It wouldn't surprise me if they started popping up or came into existence for reasons other than the ones you listed. As far as people posing on the met goes, there are going to be people that abuse this system. That's another reason why I want to see a system where if it was implemented, players would be moved to different servers. Also, the accounts reporting would need to be monitored to s…
/r/MensRights04/11/12 12:10 PM
0

This is potentially a case where belief is trumping understanding. Also, potentially, where the perception of the culture has warped the interpretation of the culture itself. All told, I think this is a knee jerk reaction. I hope that Microsoft doesn't go through with the program, because this kind of program is purely reactionary. With a little forethought and proper implementation Microsoft could easily split the chaff from the wheat without damaging their sales. Further, they probably already…
/r/MensRights04/11/12 10:39 AM
2

While I understand this argument, I don't think people outside the gaming environment will really understand it. It doesn't explain why this process will be detrimental to Microsoft. First, is this actually enforceable? A ban specifically for sexism seems like it's going to be something that's extremely subjective. Unless Microsoft is keeping audio logs then in game harassment will be almost impossible to track. If it's in the mailing system, then it's better to remove the person's ability to se…
/r/MensRights04/11/12 08:57 AM
1

I know, I'm just piggybacking off the suggestion above to try and think of a more.eloquent solution.
/r/MensRights01/11/12 04:03 PM
2

Or create a shadow list that redirects banned players to servers with other banned players. Let the people that want to antagonize go after those that do the same.
/r/MensRights01/11/12 10:19 AM
1

You might want to consider filing with a putative father's registry in your state That link is just general information on the Registry. Talk to a lawyer before filing. In some cases it may be seen as having a vested interest in the child, which means the state can go after you even if you aren't the father.
/r/MensRights01/11/12 03:50 AM
1

If it's a high conflict divorce all communication should be through set emails and attorneys. No direct contact unless it's to drop off/ pick up the kids. That should be done at a police station.
/r/MensRights31/10/12 08:32 AM
1

Someone asked for verification earlier, send a picture of the receipt, with physical information about you blacked out and that should be enough to verify you.
/r/MensRights30/10/12 10:26 PM
3

Is this the result of the written laws in your area or a result of public policy and interpretation of the laws?
/r/MensRights30/10/12 10:16 PM
2

Personally, I would like to see it legalized and regulated. I think it is currently a dangerous profession both for those seeking to buy and those wanting to sell. If we can provide a safe place to actually perform the transaction for both parties then all the better. I would be curious to know what specific charges are usually brought for soliciting a prostitute and the effects are.
/r/MensRights30/10/12 03:03 AM
3

Using or allowing the use of Patriarchy is a bad debate move. It is too poorly understood as a concept and relies on emotional acceptance rather than logical understanding. It also plays into their hands because the definition and expression are so easy to manipulate.
/r/MensRights28/10/12 06:28 PM
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Reddit hides actual vote counts on threads so that it's more difficult for botters to figure out when their accounts have been found and marked. Also, you're in r/Mr. Damn near every post will get hit with a downvote just by being here.
/r/MensRights28/10/12 08:45 AM
1

Insurance. Acidity of Tabasco denatures sperm in condoms. Add a few drops when you take the condom off. Tie the condom and flush it.
/r/MensRights26/10/12 06:27 PM
1

I believe there have been some articles about this posted on this sub and others. The problem here is that there is a real lack of content. It's a completely open topic that isn't necessarily going to be grounded in reality.
/r/MensRights26/10/12 07:57 AM
1

Im a fan of Tabasco sauce personally. Couple.drops, good swirl and you've denatured the sperm.
/r/MensRights26/10/12 07:15 AM
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I can't confirm or deny this claim. Sarcasm aside, I don't see the point the OP was trying to make. Was the thread spiked into oblivion? Is is Reddit fudging votes on threads? Is there another explanation?
/r/MensRights26/10/12 06:51 AM
0

My primary reason for asking is because the thread itself doesn't make sense to me. I don't see a real claim, just something that suggests another. No overt argument or statement.
/r/MensRights26/10/12 06:45 AM
2

Grab some articles and examples? Rather than creating a straw feminist, give us direct quotes or literature to work with.
/r/MensRights26/10/12 06:40 AM
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So you're claiming that we're being downvote brigaded?
/r/MensRights26/10/12 06:35 AM
1

I was trying to make the case for why you could br paying such a high amount in child support. Railroad to me suggested unions, which meant benefits, which meant paying in to get the benefits. As one of the people I was talking to mentioned, there is a percentage cap on how much they can take. You need to go before a judge and get it reduced. I sincerely doubt your present circumstances were taken into account.
/r/MensRights25/10/12 04:35 PM
1

I agree we probably won't. I would rather offer support to people in a bad spot than cast doubts though. I know there are trolls that will take advantage of this, but it isn't for them. It's for everyone in a similar circumstance looking for a place to vent and find advice. Maybe this will fade into the background, maybe it won't. I just hope that the OP isn't jerking chains and is able to get the help he needs.
/r/MensRights25/10/12 01:58 AM
1

Are you factoring things like union dues, medical insurance deductions, local and federal taxes? There's also the possibility that he hasn't reached top of scale and top of scale was the amount used as his income.
/r/MensRights24/10/12 10:29 PM
1

Did you calculate it assuming that 2400 was his before tax income or after tax income?
/r/MensRights24/10/12 10:21 PM
3

I would argue the opposite. There are a fair number of high profile cases involving imputed or potential earnings. Depending on the claims made by both sides in court the judge may have decided to use an imputed income rather than a current one. Also, depending on if the OP is union, hasn't reached top of scale, is applying for a more lucrative position etc, imputed income may have been a more appropriate measure. Again, that is an unknown. There is real possibility that this post isn't being co…
/r/MensRights24/10/12 10:12 PM
3

I totally agree. Unfortunately state programs are measured by the.money they bring in rather than their quality of service.
/r/MensRights24/10/12 09:35 PM
3

I see your point. Thank you for point that out. I would also point out that, section 14. We also don't know what the OP's profession or income are. Nor do we know the previous agreement. OP claims that this is taking more than 50% of his take home income. Child support is calculated based off of before tax income. There may also be a maintenance payment included that he lumped in as child support. Lastly, the amount he's paying may include a retroactive order. OP mentioned a relatively large dif…
/r/MensRights24/10/12 09:09 PM
3

Exemption only applies to dependents. OP has not stated if he is married to and can claim the children on his taxes which is how dependents are determined. The PDF states that orders may be made to pay for nonmarital children. It doesn't mention reductions for nonmarital children.
/r/MensRights24/10/12 08:51 PM
3

As I said rarely. I'm not ruling out that it happens, however, I've seen more instances of dead beat dads being chased down than dead beat moms proportionally.
/r/MensRights24/10/12 08:31 PM
5

Yes it is. Also depending on the state many men can be sent to jail for non-payment. It is a contempt of court charge, which is a civil issue. Because it's a civil issue the men don't get free legal representation. They are jailed until they can make payment or until the spouse allows them out.
/r/MensRights24/10/12 08:10 PM
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If they added his current partner's income to the amount then it is possible that he could be making enough for that cap. Also “Income imputed based on earning capacity” means the amount of income that exceeds the parent’s actual income and represents the parent’s ability to earn, based on the parent’s education, training and recent work experience, earnings during previous periods, current physical and mental health, history of child care responsibilities as the parent with primary physical pla…
/r/MensRights24/10/12 07:55 PM
5

Title IV-D of the Social Security act allows states to receive funds from the federal government based on money gained through garnishment for child support purposes. It also allows them to get money based on spending for tracking down deadbeat dads. (I am choosing to gender this because programs rarely go after deadbeat moms.) It's to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars a year or more. I would have to read over the law again.
/r/MensRights24/10/12 07:51 PM
3

Capital P patriarchy is different than lowercase p patriarchy. Capital P refers to a system designed to oppress women to improve the standing of men. Lowercase refers to a society where inheritence and head of household are usually male.
/r/MensRights24/10/12 05:02 PM
2

No problem and as an askmenion I want to also say thanks for helping keep the dialogue between sexes open.
/r/MensRights24/10/12 05:32 AM
3

Thread was removed. No point validating idiocy.
/r/MensRights24/10/12 05:21 AM
3

It might have been brought up to them by a poster here. I frequent askmen a lot and often end up reading content from askwomen. It wouldn't surprise me if other readers of this board do the same.
/r/MensRights24/10/12 05:00 AM
1

Girlwriteswhat might have a video that would interest you then. The video, if I recall correctly is titled: "riding the donkey backwards". It goes into detail regarding the trade offs men had for the role they filled. That said, I think historical patriarchy as you're referring to did exist, but what we're informed of in regards to it is also limited. The picture isn't complete which creates problems with using the term patriarch in the modern form. Edit link from my phone
/r/MensRights24/10/12 03:49 AM
1

Patriarchs in the instance you're reference.Cingular are the male heads of the family. In a small family.unit it might exist like that. However, on a societal level the power of an individual man differs a lot. In fact most of it is vested in positions rather than people directly. Obama is the president of the US. However, his power comes from his position that society has vested in him. The ability to use power is also a very important thing to consider. Individual power structures differ and a…
/r/MensRights24/10/12 03:30 AM
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Yes, and rich land owners were the only ones that could afford the pole taxes to vote. You're also making a claim about suffregates, a potentially separate group from first wave feminism, and a number of.other claims. Upon seperation during coverture the husband did get the wife's property but was also required to keep the wife in the lifestyle she'd grown used to. Aka alimony. Other question, during the industrial revolution, the period in question would women have wanted to work in steel mills…
/r/MensRights24/10/12 02:53 AM
2

Could you provide more specific examples? Your claim is rather vague.
/r/MensRights24/10/12 02:13 AM
2

When their primary means of argument is slinging insults "Mangina, faggot," etc they aren't even attempting to have an argument. The MRM is a tool, a means to spread their message and collect funds. Nothing more and nothing less. Add to that the posters and images they post to "keep a bitch in line" advocating violence, I can't and won't view them as anything other than sensationalist pricks trying to co-opt the message of Men's Rights.
/r/MensRights21/10/12 06:23 AM
0

Honestly, I would rather be blunt than play a game of polite niceties. Especially when someone is masquerading as something they're not. Manhood academy is trying to sell a product and is using this board and by extension the MRM as a tool to do so.
/r/MensRights19/10/12 07:23 PM
2

Still can't view your comment history etc. Page not found.
/r/MensRights19/10/12 06:53 PM
1

Depends on the way the school functions. Mine favored quantitative over qualitative research.
/r/MensRights19/10/12 06:13 AM
2

One of my sociology professors fell out of his.chair.laughing when someone brought up the post modern critique. He then went on to explain is excruciating detail why relying on emotion or downplaying logical understanding will get you flunked out of his class. Gotta love tenured old professors.
/r/MensRights18/10/12 10:46 PM
3

Then be sexist. Objective reality shows differences physically and emotionally in the genders and sexes. Ignoring that leaves gaps in the safety of those these programs are trying to protect.
/r/MensRights18/10/12 09:59 PM
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If you didn't add the manhood academy link it would have been a great post.
/r/MensRights18/10/12 09:50 PM
2

Try to find out why men were excluded. If you can pin that down, preferably recorded or on paper you can show discrimination.
/r/MensRights18/10/12 09:48 PM
7

Shift from a manufacturing based economy to a service based one could explain it. Also the breakdown of unions could add to it. Unions kept wages up for those in industries that had active unions, even if you didn't take part. Also keep in mind, earning have barely kept up with inflation since the 70s. Lastly, a shift in accessibility in employment options for women may also influence it.
/r/MensRights17/10/12 08:32 AM
0

I'm waiting until November 5th. My checks are tied up through the end of the month.
/r/MensRights17/10/12 12:19 AM
1

Yeah, I just like to cover my bases on this kind of thing. Money tends to disappear into the wrong pockets when people think they're being helpful without enough scrutiny.
/r/MensRights17/10/12 12:07 AM
2

I would also link her to the threads in question so that she or VA can comment to make the verification known. There is no point in letting others make money off their suffering.
/r/MensRights16/10/12 11:46 PM
4

Ask the wife to simply verify that it is his email. Give her an email address you made up and have her have VA send you an email from that account. A picture of him that hasn't been released would easily work.
/r/MensRights16/10/12 11:33 PM
2

"I remember my Burns." "I remember my bruises." "I am a male victim of domestic violence." "I am forgotten." "I thought if I left it would be over. I found out I had no where to go." Insert stats about domestic violence shelters for men in the US "My silence doesn't make me less of a victim. My gender doesn't either." "I am a male survivor and I need your support too." "My strength shouldn't be needed to suppress pain. That's what I tell myself around the ice pack." Just some thoughts for things…
/r/MensRights16/10/12 10:08 PM
12

You're a more convenient enemy than their own beliefs are.
/r/MensRights16/10/12 09:51 PM
1

This chart seems very superficial. As someone who grew up with and still has a disability I find it annoying to say the least. Moreover, this doesn't explore or explain any of the "privileges" that are held. The fact that it's damn near impossible for women to break even.is also a strong indicator of bias to me. It's like saying a group has something so you should too, then being told not to generalize or stereotype others.
/r/MensRights16/10/12 07:51 AM
4

I hate to say this, but it will depend a great deal how far and if an investigation happens involving criminal charges. I havent seen the content he created nor do I know the scope of it. He was probably skirting legality as was with some of his content. I don't think we've seen the full extent of this play out on Reddit or off it.
/r/MensRights16/10/12 01:39 AM
5

You need more questions. Your current ones don't really answer anything. It looks primarily like a simple measure of hostility. Nothing else. This is also not a great place to post the survey. Simply put Reddit is a bad place to gather population based data that includes race age and gender. It's biased from the start. Also, the mods have population data I believe. You might be able to get it from them.
/r/MensRights15/10/12 09:32 PM
5

When I get home I'll see if I can dredge up a flow chart about active versus passive thinking and the steps it takes to actively overcome schematic thinking.
/r/MensRights15/10/12 06:55 PM
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While I appreciate the statement of this flow chart is an appropriate submission to this sub? I know recently there have been potential issues related to SRS, but is a post like this challenging their view points? It seems like just another "confirm what I think" post. Those usually end up as circlejerks. Sometimes rightly, sometimes not.
/r/MensRights15/10/12 09:11 AM
1

Depends on the definition you used. Statistically, men are a minority. Women are actually the majority population on the planet. Now we can start hashing out percentages to figure out who is where race wise, but race as in skin color, can actually be a very poor indicator of race. Racial identity is a whole other issue as well.
/r/MensRights14/10/12 10:06 PM
1

They don't care the Kloo hasn't been an active mod here in months. I sincerely doubt they will care if he "takes back his theory". Also, it doesn't look good for them to redact their statements. Their entire premise is that we aren't credible in anything because we hate women or are against feminism. Painting us as outlandish brutes serves them better especially if they don't care about actual honesty.
/r/MensRights14/10/12 09:59 PM
0

It's currently flagged for deletion. We shall see if they're consistent in regards to this situation.
/r/MensRights14/10/12 09:19 AM
1

Or manboobz_ if I remember right.
/r/MensRights14/10/12 06:49 AM
4

It.might be viewed as a culturally acceptable program, but still be illegal. Things like this are banned in a few.states, but many don't explicitly deny lady's night style programs.
/r/MensRights14/10/12 06:43 AM
1

They probably using priming and response as a means to figure out if a reaction is correlated
/r/MensRights14/10/12 02:16 AM
2

If you have the inclination I would look at the family court system. There is a lot of information there that you can look at. Depending on how much you break it down you're going to have literally hundreds of potential subjects to talk about.
/r/MensRights14/10/12 01:24 AM
3

In the US if they can prove that the hiring practice is vital to their specific business model they can discriminate. This is why there are no male waiters at Hooters.
/r/MensRights14/10/12 01:11 AM
0

First, the assumption is that he knew a child support obligation existed. Second, all we know right now is that he was arrested for non-payment. The family court and child support system are far from perfect. Until we hear more we don't have much to really go on.
/r/MensRights13/10/12 02:23 AM
0

Check intact America's Facebook page.
/r/MensRights12/10/12 08:55 AM
2

And BTW, power as they define it is the ability to make others do as you want. Usually on a group to group level. I really hate how definitions are co-opted.
/r/MensRights12/10/12 08:03 AM
2

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but I have to ask, what about use of power by proxy?
/r/MensRights12/10/12 07:44 AM
0

Ultimately they are an interesting topic to say the least. Perhaps they exemplify best the effect of a dry vocal minority on a partially sensitive majority. In the end, as a social experiment I don't doubt that they will fail. However, on the interim there is no doubt that they've changed Reddit as a whole.
/r/MensRights11/10/12 08:17 AM
4

Pretty sure /r/4chan wouldn't find it lulzy enough to be worth it.
/r/MensRights11/10/12 08:12 AM
1

Given my posting history it could interfere with my ability to find a job in the long term. Especially given the field I'm working towards.
/r/MensRights10/10/12 11:12 PM
3

Another potential issue that runs tangent to this is; how many men are innocent but a rape did occur. Example: a man is arrested for matching the physical.characteristics of the rapist. He did not commit the crime but is unable to get a good lawyer to handle the case. Case either goes to trial or a plea deal is offered and the man ends upin jail and later prison. Because of no drop policies these events happen more frequently than is want. This is why the innocence project is so important.
/r/MensRights09/10/12 09:23 AM
-5

We're treading the ground between religious freedoms, personal freedoms and looking at different contexts. Saying that "It's this damn simple," tramples on people's choices. I wish it was that cut and dry. Edit; just to be clear, I think Circumcision is wrong.
/r/MensRights08/10/12 12:27 AM
-1

I do acknowledge that previously that there was a reason to circumcise. Currently, I think it should be a choice of the son when they reach their majority. Too many kids choose a different religion than their parents and pushing the belief down their kids throat. By turn, I think that banning circumcision entirely, meaning including after the child reaches their majority, is overstepping and trampling on individual rights. I think that's something that I should probably have clarified more.
/r/MensRights07/10/12 11:44 PM
-1

Nice strawman.
/r/MensRights07/10/12 11:35 PM
-4

Which goes back to my original point about memes being a great and horrible thing at the same time.
/r/MensRights07/10/12 07:53 PM
-9

No, but it is relevant to the entire argument against circumcision.
/r/MensRights07/10/12 07:38 PM
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Because the meme took all arguments surrounding "his body, his choice" and condensed it into a singular point. It's like reading a brief of a study and not looking at the data. You get the idea, but not why the idea is there or what it represents.
/r/MensRights07/10/12 07:36 PM
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Partially, the beliefs of those that perform circumcision (MGM) as part of their religious upbringing. This is part of why I said that the scriptures need to be reinterpreted. I am against the practice. I am happy that there are religious groups that are fighting to change the practices within their own religions. It needs to end or be moved to the point where the child can make an informed decision.
/r/MensRights07/10/12 07:30 PM
1

I compared the decline of the Feminist movement to the death of Genghis Khan and the dissolving of the Mongol empire after his untimely death. This was done under a specific circumstance assuming that feminist movements would galvanize under a single leader.
/r/MensRights07/10/12 07:21 PM
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The great and horrible thing about memes is that they simplify complex arguments. Unfortunately, they sometimes lose the nuances along the way. That said, I would rather be intact and think that people should have the right to have the procedure done when they're of legal majority. Perhaps it's time for a new interpretation of the scriptures governing this practice.
/r/MensRights07/10/12 07:01 PM
3

If we were fighting with rational people I would agree. We aren't though. What we're fighting is an extension of human greed and social othering. There are many people on the in-between. I know this, but what we're challenging is an artificial fear that has been drilled into society for more than half a century, we are also fighting those that blare using that fear to keep their bellies fed and their pockets lined. It is not a simple matter of simply changing labels. It is a matter of overcoming…
/r/MensRights07/10/12 06:11 PM
6

If he's still in high school you could see if there is a program to enroll him at a local.community college mostly on the district's dime. That's what I did. I probably would have flunked out of school if I hadn't.
/r/MensRights07/10/12 05:56 PM
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We will see backlash regardless of if we claim to be a special interest group or egalitarians. We, as it stands right now, are rejecting major social theories on societal structure. This puts us at odds with groups that em race those same social theories.
/r/MensRights07/10/12 05:48 PM
1

To borrow from history, feminism won't fall until it is galvanized under a single leader and then that leader passes without a clear heir. Look at the Mongol more specifically.
/r/MensRights07/10/12 05:43 PM
3

First he needs to talk to a lawyer. They will know if there is a putative father's registry in the state. Then he should push for a paternity test. Until he can confirm the child is his he should not sign any.legal documents or allow his name to be put on the birth certificate.
/r/MensRights06/10/12 09:22 AM
0

If his choice does not directly deny her the option to terminate the child then I would say no. She has, after the child is born several other options to remove herself from the responsibilities related to that child. If she choose to keep the child and is informed that the father has no legal or social interest in the child in a timely matter, when it is still possible to safely abort the child, then it is her choice to bring that child into the world. What many men want or are seeking is a for…
/r/MensRights06/10/12 09:07 AM
0

Primary caregiver invokes a false dichotomy. Both parents bring different skills and tools to a relationship. Stating one was X while the other was Y overly simplifies the tradeoffs made by both parents. Assuming that the children would benefit from one parent or the other also assumes that the contributions of one parent are easily handled by the other partner or not valuable enough to be helpful to the child. Any one or the other arguments in regards to child custody or presumptive custody mus…
/r/MensRights06/10/12 05:48 AM
1

Time to find a picture of a woman dressed in a conservative suit yelling at the top of her lungs?
/r/MensRights05/10/12 10:12 PM
1

Micro implies person to person levels of interaction. Unless we can find a way to eliminate othering processes, and in-group out-group preferences then the chances of micro-scale gender equality tend to fall apart. Also, we must embrace that people are difference. If we simply treat everyone the same and don't acknowledge skills that do set people apart, then we aren't creating equality. We're enforcing it at the cost of our own agency and humanity.
/r/MensRights05/10/12 07:55 PM
10

Ask the teachers to make statements about what they see as well. Try to.get reports at a consistent time each week. Talk to the principal and maybe think about storing a change of cloths at the school for her. Have it set so that if the clothing is used, the reason is written down with a time and date stamp.
/r/MensRights04/10/12 10:30 PM
2

It's interesting how his sexual history is admissibile in court. I'm assuming of course that the alleged victim in this.case will not have any of her history added.
/r/MensRights03/10/12 06:10 AM
1

At which points do rights transition to protected privileges as well?
/r/MensRights02/10/12 10:01 PM
3

Being accused of oppression olympics is primarily because, simply put, acknowledgment that these things can happen to men or do happen to men disrupts the monologue. It also disrupts funding. If people start having sympathy for men then there will be a need for funding for services for men. If this occurs then that money has to come from somewhere. More than likely it would come from making VAWA gender neutral. That would mean literally millions of dollars lost for Women's organizations. Unfortu…
/r/MensRights01/10/12 10:31 PM
2

It's the NAFALT claim packaged in different terms. Usually when I run into these my first reaction is, "Well if it's not your brand of feminism, that is moot. Your definition of feminism isn't what's creating the impact. If you want to apply power dynamics, their definition of Feminism is oppressing yours." That usually causes some interesting cognitive dissonance.
/r/MensRights01/10/12 07:53 AM
3

When the lens you look at the world through creates black and white without any gray, then what you expect to see is all you can see.
/r/MensRights01/10/12 04:17 AM
2

Even of it is addressed at that school his team would still need people to compete against.
/r/MensRights28/09/12 08:50 PM
3

They're basing their definition off of an academic definition. Discrimination is power and prejudice. In this case, sexism a form of discrimination, is impossible for men to experience. Why? Because according to their theory those that are prejudiced against men don't have enough power to create a systemic form of discrimination against men. Any discrimination men may feel or face is because of the social system creates by men "The Patriarchy". Because misandry is not systemically ingrained into…
/r/MensRights27/09/12 10:55 PM
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Unfortunately, it seems you spend a lot of time trying too hard so the sarcasm is really easy to pick up. You could always try the dead pan approach.
/r/MensRights27/09/12 09:52 PM
1

Just read title IV-D. It's all there.
/r/MensRights26/09/12 12:33 AM
1

And at this observation they try to switch from person to groups. As a group x is powerful.
/r/MensRights25/09/12 10:13 PM
1

Just keep in mind, IANAL. I don't know what of that piece is still legally relevant.
/r/MensRights25/09/12 08:09 PM
1

Check page 4, PDF warning. The relevant part starts after the bolded question. The cases may be old or out of date, I don't know enough about researching legal precedent to claim that this is the current implementation.
/r/MensRights25/09/12 08:00 PM
3

Yes, I'm trying to find the news article on this now, but I think next year there is going to be a switch in the system. Veteran's disability checks are going to be electronic transfer only. What veterans were doing was, get the check, pay fifteen dollars to cash it and then use cash to pay the bills. That will be gone. Edit: I found an interesting bit on how VA funds can be used for child support. It starts on page 4. PDF warning
/r/MensRights25/09/12 07:50 PM
1

The check itself is exempt. Once it's in the bank, it is just another asset.
/r/MensRights25/09/12 07:31 PM
5

Because it's very easy to switch IP by going through a proxy. The shortest route to solving the potential problem is to eliminate the ammunition for the problem.
/r/MensRights25/09/12 04:44 AM
1

I'm just thinking about cultural.perception.
/r/MensRights24/09/12 04:31 PM
4

It may also be seen as how men and women are sexually viewed. Men sexually are.seen as always seeking it. Therefore, he is just getting what he asked for. Women that put themselves on display are doing it because of some kind of external pressure. By posting they're caving to this pressure and men are lapping it up and encouraging it. That's how I see the argument going at least.
/r/MensRights24/09/12 10:36 AM
2

Perhaps it's a failing, but many of the subjects on thus board tend to move in cycles. Subjects regarding things from subtle misandry and overt cruelty tend to flow. However, one thing remains constant, a link to what feminism has done to oppose equal treatment for men, rather than aid it. Opposition to shared parenting is one such example. Feminism puts forward the Duluth model for domestic violence. A model that essentially states that men are always the aggressor and women always the victim. …
/r/MensRights24/09/12 09:50 AM
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A step closer to Gattaca. Would be interesting to say the least. We also don't have the ability to create sperm or eggs yet. There is a massive amount of sperm stored, but I don't know of many eggs that are stored. There is also the possibility that embryos once fertilized could be selectively grown in these producing numerous children from two parents. This potentially could reduce the diversity of the gene pool, though it would take a really long time to do so.
/r/MensRights24/09/12 07:35 AM
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If I recall correctly it was a direct knock on the Soviet union.
/r/MensRights22/09/12 07:32 PM
2

I just don't see how these questions can even be tied to a variable, or what variable they're trying to.operationalize. the questions are all empty and the results can be read damn near any way.
/r/MensRights22/09/12 07:27 PM
5

Those are some of the worst questions I have ever read. They lead so much they might as well hold your hand.
/r/MensRights22/09/12 03:23 PM
6

This is also high school graduates. We also have to figure in drop out rates.
/r/MensRights22/09/12 04:44 AM
6

The event is actually paired with a mother-son softball game if I remember right. I wonder if they cancelled that...
/r/MensRights21/09/12 06:26 AM
2

Against minors as minors themselves or against minors as grown adults? I think this is an important distinction that isn't really covered.
/r/MensRights21/09/12 06:09 AM
1

Age of consent varies by state. Also different situations may cause pressure to file claims to avoid risks with the parents of either child.
/r/MensRights21/09/12 06:04 AM
1

End goals and end results can often be met at different points in the timeline of an event. The end goal is to maintain the victimhood motif, the end result well, we're really still trying to reach that.
/r/MensRights20/09/12 05:42 AM
1

Is there a modernized version of this piece with studies that aren't 10-20 years old? It makes very good points and modern research might cover it in greater detail or show the ramifications of this social/cultural shift in definition.
/r/MensRights19/09/12 04:50 AM
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Creep or creep shaming are silencing tactics. By inferring that something is making a person uncomftable but not defining the characteristic it leaves no room for response or rebuttal. It is not logical, it is an emotional argument based on a perspective.
/r/MensRights18/09/12 10:55 PM
1

But there may be more effective ones based on center of gravity, or ones that may work better on unstable platforms (heels).
/r/MensRights15/09/12 05:43 PM
1

I would inquire into the content first. The self defense moves taught may not be suited for men to use because of different centers of gravity.
/r/MensRights15/09/12 05:17 PM
4

It's high school ball, so it may not be televised. May I suggest approaching the high school football officials in your area and suggesting the same?
/r/MensRights14/09/12 07:37 PM
4

The therapist is violating a number of guidelines defining the relationship with him and his patients. Your girlfriend could easily have his license revoked.
/r/MensRights14/09/12 07:47 AM
3

Might be a combination of activity in the sub at the time of selection and activity outside it. I doubt the people selected were chosen to be representative of MR if you're actually familiar with it, but chosen to project an opinion held by MR as the generalized view held here. Meaning, in conjecture with other comments made by the user and activity, those that look deeper wouldn't find an accurate perception of the MRM as a whole. Also, notably I didn't see pierceharlan on the list.
/r/MensRights13/09/12 05:52 AM
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From what I've seen it's very similar to the normal process, save that their samples usually have inherent bias. "I'm going to study domestic violence..." gets sample from women's shelters.
/r/MensRights13/09/12 05:38 AM
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I'm not on it either. I think they're afraid of moderate tone of voice.
/r/MensRights13/09/12 05:36 AM
1

Keep in mind that restraining order will cause there to be a court hearing. If the child is close to their majority, then it may not help. Consulting a lawyer is probably the best options.
/r/MensRights11/09/12 11:09 PM
3

Your oldest may want to file a restraining order against the mother. This could do two things, create legal pressure to investigate, and aid a push for custody on your part if possible. Also, it might lower your child support obligation if you can show the child is not living with the mother.
/r/MensRights11/09/12 05:51 AM
1

I guess I should have been more clear regarding the mask analogy. My coping mechanism for dealing with emotional issues wasn't exactly stoicism. Rather, I emulated the patterns of those that I saw as being healthy. I created a theater of sorts and it took me some time to role shift out of those and find the person underneath it. In regards to the suicide question, it was on a questionnaire that I was given at the beginning for intake purposes, but I wasn't explicitly asked until after I had stop…
/r/MensRights11/09/12 05:27 AM
2

When I sought mental help I was never asked if I was suicidal. It wasn't until I'd talked to a therapist several times that the strings were tied together. I can understand people projecting a mask of being healthy when it's a lie. I did it for a long time. A very long time.
/r/MensRights11/09/12 04:39 AM
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Yes, but elevator gate shows the point where the atheist community started rejecting the feminist monologue. Instead of allowing Watson to use what she felt, it judged the events based on what happened and what happened after. Now this wouldn't be that significant, but a lot of people started seeing the femtheist movement as being dogmatic, placing belief above provable reality. For those that grew up theists and became atheists later, it was Deja Vu. Which caused them to see the femtheist as th…
/r/MensRights11/09/12 12:14 AM
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I would like to see roughly four to six years. Long enough for the person to finish a bacholars degree or update their skills. Even then it should be capped based on tuition and possibly funds needed to stay alive.
/r/MensRights10/09/12 11:33 PM
4

It's an emotional plea. Emotional pleas do two things, they solicit aid from those nearby and they shift the argument type from rational to emotional. Once it has been established that emotion trumps logic, then it doesn't matter who is better at arguing, but who is better at approaching and getting sympathy form those nearby.
/r/MensRights10/09/12 11:00 PM
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It is my opinion that your father should get support long enough to either be retrained or update his certifications. The length that would take is arguable. However, of he were to go back for a four year degree in a field like computer science, then he'd have a marketable degree and theoretically be able to bring home enough to support himself. The guidelines would have to be adjusted to handle separation involving young children etc, but alimony should do something or have a purpose beyond cha…
/r/MensRights10/09/12 10:37 PM
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The femtheist groups are a split from the mainstream atheist movement. The split occurred because of real or perceived problems with how male atheists interact with female atheists. See elevatorgate for more on that. The atheism+ or femtheist movement is an attempt to carve out a female safe space within the atheism movement. This safe space, is also heavily influenced by feminist beliefs and theories. This is primary because those that are advocating for the safe space are also feminists. The o…
/r/MensRights10/09/12 10:26 PM
2

Either that or a network of people that have been threw the court system and can point people in the right direction for handling claims. I know a few people in my area that only use the lawyers to sign off on documents that way they can minimize the bill.
/r/MensRights10/09/12 02:07 AM
5

I knew it was bad, but fuck...That is just insane. Have you tried writing to your local representatives to look into the issue? You should have enough documentation from the case files (if you can get a hold of them) or from testimonials from others who have been screwed to at least have an investigation opened...
/r/MensRights10/09/12 01:33 AM
3

I am presently dating someone and am quite happy to leave it at that for the time being. She knows my stance and that I'm an MRA. If it progresses to the point where I am considering marriage I will take the steps to protect myself and move forward with that formality.
/r/MensRights10/09/12 12:03 AM
1

/r/MRref has some links that you'll be interested in. I'm trying to find an annotated bibliography right now that has more information on IPV. IPV annotated bibliography
/r/MensRights09/09/12 07:15 AM
1

You're equating having sex to having kids. You're also taking my argument and making it into a strawman. Humans are not infallible creatures. The assumption that a protective measure, or multiple measures for that matter won't fail is an assumption that ignores reality. Yes, if birth control is use PERFECTLY, it has a near 100% success rate. However, it isn't used perfectly.
/r/MensRights08/09/12 08:37 PM
0

Assuming perfect use and extremely high effectiveness, then it is plausible that your system could work. However, it doesn't solve the issues surrounding cuckolding, nor does it solve the issues surrounding retrieval. It also doesn't answer literally dozens of problems within the foster care system and funding for the system. As has been seen with the female pill, the effectiveness will drop under certain circumstances. Including the use of antibiotics, and not using it at the exact same time ea…
/r/MensRights08/09/12 08:06 PM
1

I'm not saying that condoms weren't used. I'm saying that people retrieved sperm and used it to inseminate themselves. It's something that professional athletes are warned of, but there are other instances where sperm was retrieved after being frozen, or after a blowjob and the woman inseminated herself. Are these cases common, I don't know. They're apparently common enough that it's something that professional athletes need to be warned about. There's also the real possibility that the person s…
/r/MensRights08/09/12 07:55 PM
0

You are aware, that people will lie about birth control, and have in instances inseminated themselves without their partners knowledge of consent?
/r/MensRights08/09/12 07:31 PM
2

On the simplest level, the existence of the MRM creates cognitive dissonance and challenges more than a century of social engineering. It flies in the face of feminist theory that men can be oppressed. That we can and do claim to be the victims of discrimination runs counter to popular cultural theory within powerful organizations. This then leads people to challenge our legitimacy. That legitimacy though isn't something that's hard to fight logically because we can prove why we need to exist. S…
/r/MensRights08/09/12 04:22 AM
5

I have family members that are gay. I like being able to talk about issues within the gay community, because it's one I interact with routinely. Staying informed is important. That said, if I remember right, the mod that stepped down in /r/lgbt appointed their replacement who turned out to be more draconian than they were. Or perhaps I'm misinterpreting your question.
/r/MensRights08/09/12 04:13 AM
2

Report it to facebook for advocating violence?
/r/MensRights07/09/12 04:59 AM
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If we're courteous it's because want to be. We'll call bullshit where we see it. Most of us are willing to argue our points without antagonizing the people we're arguing with. We know when to cut our losses. Political correctness isn't high on our list of priorities.
/r/MensRights07/09/12 04:58 AM
5

It might also be good to point out that at this point they've also spent most of their sexual prime on investments that won't ever be returned.
/r/MensRights06/09/12 03:56 AM
6

It feels like the article had some major selective editing done to emphasize the Christian bent. It also seems to lose substance between some of the claims and leaves a great deal unsaid in regards to what the interviewee feels about the darker side of feminism. Perhaps, half the article is probably missing.
/r/MensRights06/09/12 03:39 AM
2

Also, the trend, I think, is for men to kill themselves in the process of denying whatever the resource or object is. Not necessarily to kill their estranged spouse or ex. That said I'd have to research.more to see if this isn't just a superficial trend.
/r/MensRights06/09/12 01:25 AM
5

It could also be inexperience with sex causing damage. Men who have only seen sex in porn or have had very few partners might not recognize that he's causing damage. We do a very poor job of teaching people about the mechanics of sex in the USA. You're expected to pick it up as you go.
/r/MensRights05/09/12 10:45 PM
2

You're welcome, and good luck.
/r/MensRights05/09/12 09:01 PM
2

Sorry it took me so long to respond. Bullies are going to look for something to target. If they pick him, then they're going to antagonize him regardless until either a new target comes along or he stands up to them. Bullies like easy targets. If a target demonstrates social savvy, or is well liked by other students then he's less likely to be picked on. This is because picking on him will draw the ire of the rest of the students. If the bully starts to pick on him or tries to recruit him for pi…
/r/MensRights05/09/12 07:38 PM
3

Fanaticism scares me. Whether it is in the name of a deity or to challenge the existence of one is moot when the weapons used are the same.
/r/MensRights05/09/12 08:36 AM
1

It's politically good to say even if it isn't true because it appeals to the ego and mobilizes a significant voting block.
/r/MensRights05/09/12 04:55 AM
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And rapist, though that seems somewhat counter intuitive give the other insults.
/r/MensRights05/09/12 02:39 AM
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I'm not a lawyer, but you may be able to claim sufficient parental interest to remain in the child's life. This is doubly true if the child sees you as the father. You should talk to your lawyer and cover all the possibilities. I would take the test and prepare for a fight. If you take it and the child is yours you can probably fight for additional access, if it's not you can argue that you have enough vested interest, and have played an active enough role in the child's life to retain access. T…
/r/MensRights05/09/12 02:24 AM
3

Be involves at your son's school. Both you and your husband should have a good working relationship with the teachers that he interacts with regularly. Offer to spend a day or two a week tutoring in the class. This gives you a chance to know what material is being covered and opportunities to spot holes in his education. Do not get into shouting matches with the teacher. This will lead to your child being passed simply to get rid of you. This is not conducive to quality education. If they try to…
/r/MensRights05/09/12 02:07 AM
1

So apparently I don't exist.
/r/MensRights04/09/12 10:04 PM
1

I would say the legacy is already pretty damaging as it stands now. A disfunctional disenfranchised generation of young people with a disconnected sense of identity being thrust into a world where they're expected to define themselves, but denied the tools to do so is how I would describe my generation and the one following mine.
/r/MensRights04/09/12 09:49 PM
1

Feminism as it stands now is for women to make decisions as long as they follow the feminist ideology. Said ideology prescribes breaking all old sex norms no matter the cost or impossibility to the individual person. Seems somewhat sad in a way.
/r/MensRights03/09/12 06:20 AM
2

IMO call the police on the non-emergency line and have them send a notice to this person or the organization they work with.
/r/MensRights03/09/12 05:40 AM
2

While this is true, the simplified version of Schroedinger's paradox doesn't necessarily apply because it defines two specific outcomes. Now if we get into the theory behind the paradox it gets infinitely more accurate.
/r/MensRights02/09/12 09:18 PM
1

Forgot to add, I found this in /r/Documentaries
/r/MensRights02/09/12 07:23 AM
0

As much as I want to agree with the use of Schroedinger's paradox on this one, I don't think that is quite accurate. Using the direct analogy, of existing in one state or another doesn't necessarily apply to sexuality. People tend to fall along a spectrum rather than at the ends.
/r/MensRights02/09/12 07:20 AM
1

DNA tests have to e approved. They considered a medical procedure. That means the mother can block them until there's a court order and sometimes after. Then there's the risk that the state will simply decode the.man has taken a vested interest in the child. Even if it isn't his they will consider him to be the father figure in the child's life. So he'll still have to pay. And there's also the possibility that the agency taking support won't stop garnishing. Any debt he's built up to the child s…
/r/MensRights01/09/12 04:16 PM
1

Thank you for the lead. I'll see if I can dredge up something more the next time I hit the local library.
/r/MensRights01/09/12 07:40 AM
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Or ease of production. There are probably dozens of colors that schools could choose. However, as far as I've seen, schools tend to have a color coding system for paperwork. It would also make sense to use pink for a paper that is referred to often because it's easier to spot compared to green or blue. Then again, that's probably my opinion speaking, I would have to ask to find out.
/r/MensRights01/09/12 12:15 AM
2

That may be a good question to ask the mods in mensrightsmeta. I think they have those stats.
/r/MensRights01/09/12 12:07 AM
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Probably pink paper. Schools seem to have inexhaustible amounts of it.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 11:15 PM
1

Or she can claim another man is the father and go after him for child support and get a default judgment because cases tend to resolve before the advisement of the case arrives. Assuming it arrives at all.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 10:12 PM
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I never met her personally so I can't say much about her character.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 09:58 PM
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I don't know enough about Eve's culture to make an evaluation. However, I know that my friend refused and was shortly outed as being "a gay prick" to the rest of the guild. Of course the rest of the guild knew the tank was female and this caused all kinds of hilarity. Shortly after that happened she moved to a top tier guild on the server and got geared out. Apparently several of the women in that guild didn't like her because she kept trying to get their husbands to cyber with her. That girl en…
/r/MensRights31/08/12 09:34 PM
5

The one she brought up a lot would probably be best summarized as loot begging. One of the healers in the group tended to die but had an in with the GM. So she'd die and then get loot in a merit based guild. That one chafed. Another was a class leader that didn't know her shit but got the spot by being the GMs wife. Tried to force my friend to respec and regear because bear tanks weren't viable. This was during wrath of the lich king when bears were solid tanks. Another one of her gripes came up…
/r/MensRights31/08/12 09:17 PM
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Also the ones that tend to be most critical of female gamers are female gamers themselves. I've ran with the same bear tank for about three years and she always had stories to tell about other female gamers. I still keep in touch with her even though I don't play anymore, but that aspect of things hasn't changed.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 08:38 PM
1

Could you post the source for religious limitations on early voting rights? Very curious now.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 03:42 PM
2

More importantly, the results of her experiment can be recreated while using rigid definitions and processes. There is no giant vague definition to increase percentages.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 03:24 PM
2

I wish you luck with the adoption process. Our courts make money off of maintaining the system as it stands. The laws have not been updated to reflect modern culture and societal norms. This has led to the creation of demons where few or none exist.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 03:21 PM
1

There are actually a few really good low fantasy books that use this premise.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 03:16 PM
5

Asking ill informed, leading questions isn't a quiz. It's a series of statements masquerading as a potential dialogue.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 05:57 AM
8

Emotional gut response stemming from indignation and sarcasm?
/r/MensRights31/08/12 04:55 AM
2

More along the lines of a domestication joke.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 03:36 AM
1

Chances are depending on how far she's gone down the rabbit hole, she doesn't think it's possible to be racist or sexist against men or white people.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 03:26 AM
1

Thank you, what I'm wondering though is if this funding is coming from a private or federal source. If it's coming from a federal source, which law is being used to justify it? Does that law have specific clause about hate speech of discrimination or require periodic oversight? If it's from a private source does that source have a stake in the game? If so what, and why. Does it get funding from other sources like local officials to pander to this stuff? The list of questions goes on and on. Howe…
/r/MensRights30/08/12 12:17 AM
1

Does anyone have the time or inclination to back track the funding for these "training" sessions?
/r/MensRights29/08/12 11:20 PM
1

Seems like a relationship that would die by a thousand cuts. Seriously though, this entire article shows how important good communication is.
/r/MensRights29/08/12 10:02 PM
2

Phone typos. I think I'll leave it though.
/r/MensRights29/08/12 05:07 AM
2

I've read and seen too much happy horseshit for my sense of human around men's rights to remain functional.
/r/MensRights29/08/12 03:57 AM
1

Thenyou haven't heard about the woman that gave a guy a NJ, kept the sperm and used it to get preggo?
/r/MensRights29/08/12 03:44 AM
3

Stockholm syndrome at its best...
/r/MensRights29/08/12 03:42 AM
2

If his sperm is considered a marriage asset, then she could also lay legal claim to it during a divorce. That's a scary thought.
/r/MensRights29/08/12 12:47 AM
5

Damned if you do damned if you don't. Another casualty for the Dear colleagues letter. FFS.
/r/MensRights28/08/12 10:04 PM
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Dailymail. Not entirely sure this source is trustworthy or honest. Also pending how things were charged they might be skirting the legal requirements to keep things anonymous.
/r/MensRights28/08/12 04:36 AM
4

It's not about being angry at your folks. It's mostly because little boys have no say over what is being done to their bodies. The foreskin is being removed without their knowing or consent for a number of reasons. Most of these reasons can be handled with proper sex ed and proper education on hygiene, yet we're cutting off a body part instead. It's like skipping steps on the off chance you might some point in the very far future run out of time to finish something.
/r/MensRights28/08/12 02:34 AM
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Overly aggressive males tend to be arrested or creep shamed as well. Or they're labelled as stalkers, jerks, pricks, dicks, assholes or so on. They're also stereotyped as being brutish or stupid.
/r/MensRights28/08/12 02:12 AM
4

Hi J, how are you today? Anything fun or interesting to report aside from the usual trolling and pessimism?
/r/MensRights28/08/12 12:48 AM
3

Or it took a significant slap over the back of their heads to shake the cobwebs loose.
/r/MensRights27/08/12 10:04 PM
2

If you have the original image still could you alter the text color so that when it is white on white it changes to black on white?
/r/MensRights27/08/12 05:28 AM
1

Yeah, I agree. I would also cover STI prevention and transmission and proper birth control use. I would probably add a part about proper male and female hygiene too during the first courses in junior high. Once they've hit puberty they will see their bodies changing so letting them know what's going on and what will happen are important.
/r/MensRights26/08/12 12:26 AM
1

Honestly, I think sex ed should be by the time kids are becoming sexually active. Preferably by the time they're sixteen with reinforcement and information provided routinely as they get older and graduate. There is no point in keeping the populous stupid about what sex is or how it works. It just leads to a lot of people having kids when they should be getting degrees or enjoying their lives.
/r/MensRights26/08/12 12:05 AM
3

Create the right context and you can turn a demon into an angel and an angel into a demon.
/r/MensRights25/08/12 08:38 PM
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Keep copies of all your finished project. Keep track of all your evaluations. Fund what the obscure loop hole they're using is and figure out if it is an actual hole or if they're leading you on. Check your state laws and contact a lawyer. Preferably one with experience with disparate treatment or disparate impact specializations. Your best option is to get out of there and have another job before you file suit.
/r/MensRights25/08/12 06:16 PM
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She also had the forethought to have the guy sign legally binding documents stating he was the father.
/r/MensRights25/08/12 06:04 PM
4

Even if they are subbed to srs they can still read and hopefully think for themselves. Ma.y readers don't see what the MRM is about until they experience it themselves and get a massive dose of cognitive dissonance. Hence it being called.a red pill moment. That is at least what I've observed.
/r/MensRights25/08/12 04:33 PM
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An anarchist sub that's heavily moderated seems hypocritical to me.
/r/MensRights25/08/12 02:59 PM
1

It's also possible that people will file lawsuits if this kind of law is passed. It won't help immediately, but I think the precedent is there for pro abortion groups to win the case.
/r/MensRights25/08/12 02:47 PM
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Depends on the government's stance on birth control. If it's no sex before marriage, then birth control probably wont be taught.
/r/MensRights25/08/12 02:28 PM
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A lot of American women do live in a fantasy land of sorts. They were raised and consumed copious amounts of Disney romance flicks while being told they can be anything. This has created a little princess that wants to be put on a pedestal and swooned over while staying independent and free of bindings. Right now were seeing what happens when the princess finds a rogue. The rogue can charm his way into her heart, or just into her pants and get what he wants while she's setting up to groom him. T…
/r/MensRights24/08/12 08:11 PM
1

It probably started with an audit of their books. From the way the piece is written it also sounds like someone inside explained the scheme.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 07:40 PM
1

Then I will wish you luck in your ventures and hope they figure out a solution that will solve both the long term and short term problems represented.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 03:55 PM
1

Bring up how the account age rules are enforced. If it's acceptable to troll newbros then it sets bad precedent. If you or your corporation don't want people who don't meet the minimum age requirement applying then simply stating such will not prevent instances where it occurs. Actively moderating posts that break that rule would solve the issue, however, that's a discussion for your guild. Drama bombs go off, but damage control and long term problem solving aren't facilitated through trolling. …
/r/MensRights24/08/12 03:40 PM
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You're still a member and have the ability to bring it up. Also, all this oppression theater strikes me as off in general. However, the damage is more than likely done. A better solution to this kind of situation needs to be found. Otherwise it will probably devolve into another shitfest like this one. I don't play Eve, but I work with people day in and day out. And I dont think a failure to communicate is the only problem.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 03:21 PM
1

I am happy to admit my ignorance regarding Eve and its intrigue. However, other posters here have pointed out similar things to what I'm citing and do have experience with Eve. You, or other members of the sub could have just as easily declined to interact with him. Instead an arbitrary reason was selected to decline his application. This doesn't strike me as a reasonable response to either applying players or to people that were introduced to Reddit recently. Maybe it's time to change moderatio…
/r/MensRights24/08/12 03:00 PM
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His post is made in the future tense. He didn't apply yet as far as I have information of. Explaining misandry, or selectively screening individuals based on arbitrary classifications is all fine and dandy, but playing double standards and creating hostile environments while claiming to be against them seems hypocritical. Justifying bigotry by saying you're trying to prevent bigotry isn't much better. There are better ways that this situation could have been resolved, and making excuses isn't go…
/r/MensRights24/08/12 02:06 PM
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I know, but if you're going to ay the game and treat it like reality, then responses closer to realtiy are better for both consistency and time management.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 10:02 AM
5

Quite possible. The thing that annoys me is the feminist safe space remark. By defining it as such it has allowed this person to silence any opinion, including those of other feminist that disagree. Safe spaces are never good for the public to interact with. Nor are they good for private organizations. They cause intellectual stagnation.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 05:28 AM
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Honestly, this is a good chance for you to show both your business savvy and professionalism. Take the time to flush out your views and form a critique of the process you were put through as well as the responses from your "interviewer". Highlight the conviction of interest and the standoffish approach the person had in the interview process. Inform them that you felt goaded and tried to remain civil, but felt the reactions on both sides were out of porportion to the events. Then bring up a poss…
/r/MensRights24/08/12 05:19 AM
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The person you're communicating with has a chip on his shoulder. I would suggest approaching this by answering only direct questions and going above him if possible. You wont get a fair application in with these guys I think, but that's beside the point.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 05:05 AM
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Ask them if they want to be treated as a special class because of a biological difference. If they say yes, remind them that they have the privilege of control over their own anatomy while being able to control the anatomy of any man they may have slept with and conceived with. If they say no remind them that inherent differences, as they just pointed out do exist. If we aren't willing to acknowledge these differences then what is the point of bringing up "women make babies."
/r/MensRights24/08/12 04:17 AM
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Could probably be used on a.poster regarding male victims of DV.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 04:08 AM
5

Here's a question for you: how much of the gay male identity do gay men actually own? How much did they themselves dictate?
/r/MensRights24/08/12 04:06 AM
2

Massive slippery slope arguments aren't good for the health and safety of anyone.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 03:58 AM
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Write an OP ed to the.school paper. See if you can take advantage of the gender neutral or gendered.services available at the center. Highlight the mandatory fee. Title it, "Paying for my exclusion: denial of services based on gender." Watch pros shit themselves and bend over backwards to defend preferential treatment. Use their statements to prove male exclusion is sanctioned and approvied of socially even though young men suffer suicide/violence at dramatically higher rates than women.
/r/MensRights24/08/12 12:21 AM
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I would see what the duties of the women's officer actually are at the university before you make a move. I would also take the time to get involved with students.t government. That puts you in the position to both lobby for a men's officer and open dialogue about issues young men face. After a few years if a men's office isn't formed start publicly discussing it. Bring it up with relevant stats. Keep all your arguments factual and go from there. You are in the position where you can make change…
/r/MensRights23/08/12 07:27 PM
4

Better is arguable. If the name changes but the core doesn't then se have a new face for an old demon. So to speak.
/r/MensRights23/08/12 03:27 PM
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Take it up in /r/mensrightmeta. There are a lot of people that use adblock etc. However, for people like me that Reddit on their phone, as far as I've found, can't get adblock.
/r/MensRights23/08/12 03:26 PM
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FYI: If you find an article on Jezebel that you want to post, copy the text and paste it into the thread. More page views means more more.eyes for their site.
/r/MensRights23/08/12 02:34 PM
1

I wish I could tell you. All I know is that I've been blacklisted but it seems to either be lifting or related to a separate organization from the school district.
/r/MensRights23/08/12 01:13 PM
3

Studying both genders using bad lenses still creates distortions even if you call it gender studies.
/r/MensRights23/08/12 12:35 PM
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The principle theory that tells me I have no moral agency and a massive moral obligation/debt is something that pisses me off. Because I'm male, magically I have a silver platter in front of me. Yet that same platter is completely intangible. It can't be measured, it can't be understood and because of this platter I have no right to speak. My critical questions are dismissed as my hurt pride talking. My critical analysis is too biased by an intangible object to be of use. Sitting here at the ass…
/r/MensRights23/08/12 11:30 AM
4

Make the police take pictures too, that way there's an outside observer doing it, not an involved party.
/r/MensRights23/08/12 11:19 AM
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I've had enough red pill moments before I woke up that I'm pretty sure dense and obstinate apply in a very healthy manner. The one that shook me the most was one that I'm still dealing with. A few years ago I was accused of inappropriate conduct with one the students I tutor. Luckily the accuser didn't ha e much credibility, and I covered my ass by having all the tutoring done in the library in earshot of the desk. This was at a school. The librarian stood with me as well as the teachers I helpe…
/r/MensRights23/08/12 11:15 AM
1

As soon as she's preggo you're probably going to be fleeced. I know that sounds harsh, but I can't think of any other way to say it. This pre-nup is a giant fuck you. Signing it as otk sits would basically screw.you for the rest of your life.
/r/MensRights23/08/12 04:41 AM
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Wouldn't be the first time an incompetent troll has popped up spouting gender theory. Doesn't feel like game of trolls though. Too direct. Could easily be someone that's taking their first gender studies class and drank too much of the punch.
/r/MensRights22/08/12 10:44 PM
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Vaccines and removal of the umbilical cord have direct.demonstrable.effects. Circumcision, in the first world, is still highly contested and full of ideology hiding as science. The effect is questionable. It's much like the African study on HIV and circumcision, potentially dangerous whether the effect exists or not.
/r/MensRights22/08/12 04:49 PM
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Or how about we let the children decide for themselves when they can make an informed decision.
/r/MensRights22/08/12 04:17 PM
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And further in the article it highlights the opponent's point of view that invalidates those studies. So once again we have studies on both sides claiming nleffect and no effect.
/r/MensRights22/08/12 03:38 PM
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Adding more bureaucracy to a bad system does.t improve the system. It just puts more people in debt while funneling money away from people into the pockets of bureaucrats.
/r/MensRights22/08/12 12:05 PM
3

People that believe in one conspiracy complaining that other people believe in a different one? The kettle is black.
/r/MensRights21/08/12 07:29 PM
4

I think most of his links are pulled because they offer nothing constructive to the conversation and inevitably leave people frothing and stupider for their time spent.
/r/MensRights21/08/12 11:51 AM
3

When anti-isms became an industry, people had to design ways to keep the industry going. Even if it meant stepping on people's toes and creating a monster where none exist.
/r/MensRights21/08/12 12:53 AM
2

How about instead of putting "stop rape culture" form it into "stop prison rape".
/r/MensRights19/08/12 09:21 AM
3

Elaborating a little more: Girlfriend mode came from Super-mario galaxy, when a co-op mode was introduced to allow non-gaming players to interact instead of spectate. This was redubbed by the gaming community as Girlfriend Mode. The movie then shows several examples of this in the form of anecdotes. It only blew up because of how things were rephrased in the video and interview. In the end, not sure if clever marketing, or crotchety feminists.
/r/MensRights18/08/12 09:14 PM
1

The ability to command attention without having to jump around or gather eyes is nice.
/r/MensRights17/08/12 06:52 PM
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I think at the point of adoption the mother is released from all legal requirements attached to the child. We would have to contact a family law attorney to know the specifics.
/r/MensRights17/08/12 02:19 AM
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I think, and I'm not sure, but this has actually happened. The family sued the clinic and were able to take the child. I think there were a lot of mitigating circumstances in the case which fucked with everything too.
/r/MensRights17/08/12 02:18 AM
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Condoms break, and can be damaged prior to use. Pinpricks are all it takes to let the swimmers go. There are also instances of condoms being retrieved and the sperm used to conceive children. So yes, condoms are an option in a perfectly nice, happy relationship. However, that doesn't help the guy who's paying child support because of being raped, nor the one that is paying child support because of a BJ.
/r/MensRights17/08/12 12:08 AM
1

Main article: Viacom International Inc. v. YouTube, Inc. On March 13, 2007, Viacom filed a lawsuit against YouTube and its corporate parent Google for copyrightinfringementseeking more than $1 billion in damages. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court forthe SouthernDistrictofNewYork. Viacom claims the popular video-sharing site was engaging in "massive intentional copyright infringement" for making available a contended 160,000 unauthorized clips of Viacom's entertainment programmin…
/r/MensRights15/08/12 06:04 AM
1

And YouTube would not exist without the DMCA because it would have been sued and shut down.
/r/MensRights15/08/12 05:05 AM
1

When you submit the reports to the new judge itemize and sort everything. Subcategories with chronological.ordering would be the best. Request a guardian at litem. (Spelling is probably wrong there). Contact CPS the next time she threatens you. Try to get the children removed because of the drugs. Tell them that your ex is using drugs and you're afraid they might step on a dirty needle or be exposed to hazardous chemcials. Have the teachers at the children's school write reports on what they see…
/r/MensRights15/08/12 03:03 AM
2

Oh I fully agree, I'm just trying to point out why DMCA is partially good. We're on the receiving end of why it's bad right now, but without it GWW 's videos wouldn't have seen as much publicity.
/r/MensRights14/08/12 09:21 PM
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It's a double edged sword. DMCA protects tubes and tube sites from being sued, but the trade for that is removing infringing content. Net culture as we know it probably wouldn't exist if DMCA didn't exist.
/r/MensRights14/08/12 08:46 PM
2

I'm of two minds on this. First, I don't like the idea of setting up safe space style meetings with public officials. On the other hand, freedom of association. It seems like people's rights are being trampled on to give the others a privileged position in the discussion of issues.
/r/MensRights14/08/12 10:12 AM
0

Bars have been sued in the past for.charging cover. This isn't any different, however it's a socially accepted practice. Not all socially accepted practices are just practiced and it wouldn't surprise me if someone tried to Sue. However, most of the time it won't stop the practice.
/r/MensRights14/08/12 10:00 AM
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Not sure if this concept completely applies here, but I think the purpose of the pricing is to attract women to the event so that men are attracted to the event. Rather, because men are essentially paying a cover charge, the ten dollar (11 with handling) difference is meant to prevent a sausagefest while turning a larger profit. Women are the product being sold at the event as much as the event it self is.
/r/MensRights14/08/12 07:39 AM
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The poster/image is creating a false dichotomy. Creating an answer to it isn't justifiable because it's a fallacious argument to start with.
/r/MensRights14/08/12 01:53 AM
2

Maybe this is my internal cynical speaking, but it could simply b because it's an uncontrollable social experience for people. Online gaming offers a social outlet for men and allows them to release frustration, anxiety, and find people to talk to and bullshit with without having to go to bars or clubs. This is important because it allows men to create a social support network outside of their everyday life. It also creates opportunities for contact and discourse that just aren't there normally.…
/r/MensRights14/08/12 01:14 AM
1

I read your comment and the first thing through my head was "Why the hell did they put that down on paper?"
/r/MensRights13/08/12 08:41 PM
0

If someone from the company got a hold of that and sued they would win hands down. They could easily show disparate impact.
/r/MensRights13/08/12 07:28 PM
4

Comedy seems to be the only escape for the reality of men's issues.
/r/MensRights13/08/12 06:26 PM
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Why the hell is it up to women to let men be men? Why is it acceptable.for women to take away a man's balls then call him unacceptable? This is the sort of twisted and stupid question that drive me up a wall. Inevitably, articles like this say the same thing but don't ask why men aren't as they were previously perscribed. It dances around the elephant in the room leaving a major social problem unacknowledged. That problem isn't the male identity though, rather it's that no matter what men do, th…
/r/MensRights13/08/12 09:09 AM
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It could also have been removed for not accurately presenting the information in the study.
/r/MensRights10/08/12 05:50 AM
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Being accused of inappropriate conduct with a student I was tutoring. If I hadn't done all the tutoring in public I probably would have been SOL. I'm still blacklisted from tutoring and teaching in that district, though a few I have approached recently seem interested.
/r/MensRights09/08/12 09:19 PM
2

Men and women have the potentially to be equally violent. It wouldn't surprise me if many young women have done things similar to what the OP's picture states, but were never charged because of group cohesion.
/r/MensRights09/08/12 07:46 PM
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It could also be the fault of the police that handled the case rather than the prosecution. If the police aren't gathering adequate evidence, or are masking crimes for personal reasons then it is distinctly possibly that the Prosecutor's office is just the spot where the issue was spotted rather than where it originated.
/r/MensRights09/08/12 05:52 PM
1

Remorse is much more an emotional reaction than logical decision. Do bad, feel bad. We know that something wasn't right, and when a label is applied to it, it compounds creating grief and sadness. These are usually referred to as remorse.
/r/MensRights09/08/12 05:49 PM
4

Depends on how you use the phrase vocal minority. What I'm referring to is the small percentage of the 40k people that comment in threads compared to the total.
/r/MensRights09/08/12 02:40 AM
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The people who want to be heard are usually those that speak. That might be playing into it.
/r/MensRights08/08/12 11:52 PM
3

It doesn't teach women to protect themselves. It externalizes all agency. It doesn't tell women to say no and leave. It tells women, if you didn't want it afterwards it was rape. So in essence it creates victims rather than offering any kind of protection.
/r/MensRights08/08/12 05:54 AM
1

Because saying criminals rape people is a tautology. They wouldn't ha e been criminals if they didn't commit a crime. That of course is based on the assumpting that all people that commit a crime actually did it. This of course is false. There's also the question of preaching to people that don't care. Sadly, the feminist theory regarding preventing rape doesn't teach true protection. It just advocates fear.
/r/MensRights08/08/12 04:40 AM
1

Here's another tie in. Financial problems are a major contributing factor to divorce. So the stagnation or drop in male wages can be tied directly to the increase in divorce rates, among other things.
/r/MensRights07/08/12 10:06 PM
2

I'd love to hear gww on this one honestly. IMO for there to be equality of any kind both sexes have to play on equal ground. Support the other as needed based on provable information and trends. Beyond that, we'll see. I don't want the MRM to devolve into another feminism.
/r/MensRights07/08/12 01:04 AM
2

The results are highly questionable and a number of issues with the Study referenced. This is a piece critically examining the study you've cited PDF warning. The results are highly questionable. You can read for yourself and determine the validity of my claim regarding the study being invalid.
/r/MensRights07/08/12 12:53 AM
3

Quick question, aside from the traditionalism that seems to be the core of the article, why do you think this is Jeremiah?
/r/MensRights07/08/12 12:41 AM
3

Your answers to questions have direct bias. If you redo this study, you need to avoid wording answers to add caveats or exceptions. I am interested in the results, but I have questions on design and bias which will have to be looked at later.
/r/MensRights06/08/12 05:24 AM
0

I didn't see the merit in your comment, but I also wouldn't downvote based on my opinion.
/r/MensRights05/08/12 11:27 PM
1

I'd bow, but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't help And not one downvote was given that day. MR gets trolled a lot. Simple as that. As of yet, they haven't been banned. They still may be, however, they're being civil and expressing an opinion, just as you are.
/r/MensRights05/08/12 11:17 PM
2

There was a post some time ago by someone who asked /r/mr for help. Then edited their post to show something entirely different. Then another poster, at a later date, asked MR for help because he had been assaulted by his girlfriend, then turned around and said he'd raped her in one of the comments. MR is a common trolling target. However, if we turn away anyone who might be a victim of a crime then we aren't maintaining a moral high ground. No moral high ground and we, as a movement, can't do m…
/r/MensRights05/08/12 06:17 PM
2

I remember the troll and the posts you're referring to. However, not taking action to support someone in a shit situation is equally as bad. As another poster on this board has said, if we allow them to determine how we answer questions or give support then the trolls have won. If we give support and are somewhat careful, at least then we still have the moral high ground.
/r/MensRights05/08/12 04:10 PM
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B) unless someone trying to pick her up on the dance floor, you don't need to intervene. She's toasted, that's clear, and IMO you should be looking out for your friends best interests as best you can. Talk to the bartender, get her cut off. At that point suggest you take her home. If she's not immediately willing to, then offer to drive her to another bar and take her home instead. If she's looking for a rebound fuck then she can do it without you. If she comes onto you decline and just take her…
/r/MensRights05/08/12 09:19 AM
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Unfortunately, the trolls that we're "feeding" will henpeck everything about the MRM using outside voices. Unless we can establish the connections, we really don't have a way of saying "your sources are biased" intelligently. If we can't do that, then we can't enter a strong debate about the issues and the perception of the MRM becomes the victim of a false flag/smear campaign once again.
/r/MensRights05/08/12 02:01 AM
1

I'm trying to track down some research on the subject of testosterone's effect on violent behavior. So far this is what I've found. I'm still looking for more information. this one affirms the link between violence and elevated testosterone in both sexes I can keep tracking down articles and sources, but neither they, nor the author of the piece in question really answer a very serious question: how much of this is only seen because we only readily acknowledge physical violence while failing to …
/r/MensRights04/08/12 05:37 AM
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Cast the net wide enough and you can generate any statistic you like.
/r/MensRights04/08/12 04:21 AM
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Could always call it what it is, the practical application of feminist theory.
/r/MensRights03/08/12 04:49 AM
1

Saw it, but it didn't really provide anything other than the guy's assertions and his point of view.
/r/MensRights03/08/12 02:10 AM
1

So far I haven't been able to find out much about briffault's law in terms of scholarly arguments. Do you have some research you can point me towards?
/r/MensRights03/08/12 02:05 AM
3

So a fourth option, "Choose to not answer" and have it be recorded in a separate column of data?
/r/MensRights03/08/12 12:45 AM
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History of abuse? Were you abused (this includes IPV, Rape, Assault, mental and physical abuse etc): yes, no, unsure. Gender of abuser: Male, Female, N/A Earliest age at time of abuse: If multiple instances or ongoing, include more information in the comment section:
/r/MensRights02/08/12 09:58 PM
2

If you're doing a lesson plan it should be relatively specific. You've been given a lot of material thanks to other posters, shady specifically, and should focus on one subject within that. Now with the class talking about sexuality, I think the teacher is intending for it to be within the bounds for that. You could talk about male attractiveness being linked to their ability to provide, or you could send her a lesson plan related to men's expected hypersexuality. Personally, I'd give her shady'…
/r/MensRights02/08/12 09:05 AM
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Sadly. There are also more legal defenses for women than men, among other things. The legal system has literally dozens of means to control and limit legal damage done to women in terms of prosecution. I would love to see gendered defenses be thrown out of court as inadmissible. If you're legally insane at the time, then you're legally insane. Prove it.
/r/MensRights02/08/12 02:48 AM
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We hired a private investigator, who uncovered many pieces of evidence that proved the accuser wrong. But in a criminal trial with a minor, it's all inadmissible. The person to ask is the author of the article on that one.
/r/MensRights02/08/12 02:41 AM
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I never made the claim that the law makes sense. Unfortunately, I think there are many cases like this that exist but we will never hear about because they fall into a legal gray area.
/r/MensRights02/08/12 02:20 AM
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The problem is that with sexual assault of any kind, ranging from "touch" to "rape" with anything spanning inbetween, it is up to the accused to prove their innocence. They found evidence that it didn't occur, but it wasn't admissible in court because of the "victim's" age.
/r/MensRights02/08/12 02:13 AM
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Your local library will probably have a copy on microfilm if they don't have the actual paper. It should also be online if you use Google news and specify the date. The newspaper itself probably also has it.archived on their site.
/r/MensRights01/08/12 08:25 PM
1

We could call the local gay rights activists instead.
/r/MensRights01/08/12 12:03 AM
1

Going to point this out. The party is designed, more than likely, to net a profit for the student group in question. They spent 1k on kegs then charge guys 20 dollars to enter. After fifty guys have come and gone over the duration of the party, they have met the cost of the party. Anything after that is vanilla. Now fifty guys aren't going to show up to a sausage fest. So by advertising that it's free for women, they generate an attraction.
/r/MensRights31/07/12 11:00 PM
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We could apply the same logic as to why it's the parent's choice to circumcise their son, but I don't think that is a solid argument for anything. It could also be working off the assumption that the father has no vested interest in the child. Or there's the gold old fashioned golden uterus. In the end there are arguments for it, but none that reaally stand well.
/r/MensRights31/07/12 10:44 PM
2

Probably because no one's asked to have it taken down?
/r/MensRights31/07/12 08:42 PM
1

At this time I haven't been able to find a reliable source on the issue either. Everything is written to vaguely to make a conclusion. Those sources that state otherwise don't cite their research. I was able to find some information on "No Drop" prosecution, and changes in how courts handle DV cases shortly after the implementation of VAWA and specialized courts. This was written shortly after the first implementation of VAWA in 94. So, instead of saying that prosecution has become so zealous be…
/r/MensRights31/07/12 06:55 AM
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This is why I said I would try to find better sources at home. Edit: prosecution probably refers to the process of building cases and bringing them forward. Edit 2: I'm still poking around to find more information on per prosecution funding. However I did find this notice about a Wisconsin vawa funding setup. Counties can get vawa funding to set up special units to prosecute rape and other vawa specific crimes. Prosecutors would have to to keep a metric to justify their funding.
/r/MensRights31/07/12 04:25 AM
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Send the author studies explaining problems with the idea that circumcision decreases HIV transmissions rates. Point out that there is another side to the argument and that it's not cut and dry.
/r/MensRights31/07/12 03:01 AM
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http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icjia.org%2Fpublic%2Fexcel%2FAttachmentA%2FVAWA%2FVAWA%2520Fact%2520Sheet.pdf&ei=y0MXUKfyNNSFqQHg1YDABw&usg=AFQjCNFmeuKLWY0JPeI_RZSkQMVaAMXl8Q Sorry it's messy. I'm on my phone ATM. I'll see if I can find additional sources later tonight. Also, PDF warning.
/r/MensRights31/07/12 02:36 AM
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I'll see if I can find a reliable source tonight when I get home.from work.
/r/MensRights31/07/12 02:32 AM
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What changes is monetary not necessarily social. Many states and counties get money through I believe vawa to prosecute and per prosecution of rape. Right now it's easier to sell a rape case with this system. More sales, more money, more lock us and better careers for prosecutors.
/r/MensRights31/07/12 12:47 AM
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I'm not disputing an event with unusual circumstance occurred, just not necessarily agreeing with how or why it occurred.
/r/MensRights31/07/12 12:06 AM
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And this is part of why I called it a.long sell. Age accounts, generate some karma through /aww or circlejerk then shift the target to the sell or con. Game of trolls. You're also right, setting up and maintaining fifty accounts would be a pain in the ass, kind of like generating artificial screen shots, letters, messages etc. It may also be spurious correlation. Someone could have picked one thread at random to brigade. Doubtfuo but still. The point is, there are other solutions and while Occum…
/r/MensRights30/07/12 11:41 PM
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One kid with a good script and access to a bot net could probably generate that many downvotes before Reddit caught the bots and corrected the votes. Regardless, votes by themselves, even in this quantity aren't necessarily anything more one person being an ass. If you want more info on this, you could look into thirteen downvotes.
/r/MensRights30/07/12 10:38 PM
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When he was moderating his comments better it was fun to have discussions with him, but he had a bad habit of exploding.
/r/MensRights30/07/12 10:31 PM
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This all seems like a long sell for gameoftrolls to me. They're either playing us, a popular target or SRD.
/r/MensRights30/07/12 10:29 PM
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Jeremiah is actually a poster here that's been around for a while.and been banned on several accounts for slurs and other forms of bigotry. I doubt his comment will stay around that long, but a little backstory never hurts.
/r/MensRights30/07/12 10:24 PM
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Rape culture is the belief that society approves and does not actively condemn those that commit rape. This is facilitated by making light of rape, by not punishing rapists more frequently, and by blaming the victim. This is rape culture. Men are the primary agents in maintaining this culture because it benefits them and protects them. Men are the primary aggressor, and the oppressor, and the people with power. Women are the victim of the actions of men. This is because men are members of the Pa…
/r/MensRights29/07/12 03:31 AM
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Jezebel is mainly a drama engine. That it uses misogyny or misandry to drive in views is IMHO disgusting. However, sometimes discussing their content is insightful.
/r/MensRights27/07/12 10:07 PM
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Self post, include the full body of the article or a screen shot. The more views they get, the more ad revenue.
/r/MensRights27/07/12 09:37 PM
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The author has created a perspective of Reddit based on sources that are biased against men. Then they complain that the site is antiwomen using thosesources and by quote.mining.
/r/MensRights27/07/12 08:56 PM
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I've run into the same arguments about the article informally. This was the first one I found that had solid citations.
/r/MensRights26/07/12 11:59 PM
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The African studies have a number of issues both in design and in data interpretation. There's also questions of bias. PDF warning Was able to get the link I wanted. Let me know if it doesn't load.
/r/MensRights26/07/12 10:27 PM
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I agree. My school district had a running start program that put me in a community college in my junior year. Its the only reason I didn't fail.
/r/MensRights26/07/12 04:35 AM
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Many clinics have sliding scales for payment. You could contact a few in your area and see if you can find one. Also if you're enrolled in college, most schools have programs for mental health and Wellness that include counseling.
/r/MensRights26/07/12 03:02 AM
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Get the modern marvels documentaries. How it's made, documentaries. Hell, even good eats. Engage his mind through his hands. K'ynx and legos are good toys for this. When dealing with his school, volunteer regularly in his classroom. If the teacher knows who you are and likes you, they're more likely to work with your son instead of trying to get him put in special ed. If the school tries to diagnose him with ADD take him to a specialist and have him tested. Schools rarely have the tools for accu…
/r/MensRights26/07/12 02:24 AM
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The specific reason I'm asking for formal academic writing on the subject is because until I see that, I don't think it will be that active in feminist policy and actions. Many smaller groups may claim it or use it, but their power is severely limited in scope.
/r/MensRights25/07/12 10:55 PM
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I make a point of avoiding SRS in general. However, I do know some of the basic principles of kyriarchy theory and how it lays out power structures. I'm more interested in seeing how it's used and applied in formal feminist academia.
/r/MensRights25/07/12 10:36 PM
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Anyone able to email the writer? I'm on my phone. Barrett(female) turned himself in... it's in one of the last few paragraphs.
/r/MensRights25/07/12 10:24 PM
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The problem comes from the fact that an accusation by it self is enough evidence to meet the requirement. Essentially, the guy is guilty until proven innocent in a court that might as well be the Spanish Inquisition. Unless the guy can prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he is innocent then he's screwed. There are some other articles on the site that you might want to look into that cover the objections more thoroughly. However, damning the innocent to damn the guilty seems like a poor way to…
/r/MensRights25/07/12 10:19 PM
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Any lit you can refer me too? Most of the professors that talked about feminism were still using patriarchy theory where I went.
/r/MensRights25/07/12 10:02 PM
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A lot of people seem to use the definition of sexism that you bring up. However, it's actually from a more general definition. This definition is power + prejudice = discrimination. Power is defined as the ability to make others do what you want. Sexism is then defined as oppression based on gender. Now, because of patriarchy theory, it is assumed that women have no or less power relative to men. Because men as a group hold power, they cannot be.oppressed by women, even in situations where they …
/r/MensRights25/07/12 10:00 PM
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I'm trying to find it now, but I think there was an article that covered some of what you're referring to in a rather interesting way. I believe it was either the Iraqi or Afgan women that basically begged the international community to help their men to insure that the country would have stability. The rational was that the women were getting plenty of help but the men were being left behind and this created resentment for the women and problems for larger communities. These problems stemmed fr…
/r/MensRights25/07/12 07:13 AM
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Her revocation hearing on her probation isn't until next week if I read this correctly.
/r/MensRights25/07/12 04:25 AM
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I think a specific case in regards to that is the university of north Dakota. Not sure though.
/r/MensRights25/07/12 01:21 AM
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The dear colleagues letter from the Obama administration changed the amount of evidence needed for a hearing in colleges to a prepondence of evidence from beyond a reasonable doubt. This was done under threat of cutting funding to schools that didnlt meet the requirement. Therefore, the number of convictions is going to rise because the amount of evidence needed has been lowered. There are also issues regarding how student inquiries are primed and how the cases are handled. This article highligh…
/r/MensRights25/07/12 12:30 AM
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More and more young men fall.through the cracks in primary.school because of zero tolerance programs. Now these programs are expanding into higher education. Perhaps this.will be.when society wakes up to what's happening to men. I'm not holding my breath though. Too many feel good, stay safe, protect those that don't need protection laws have been passed of late. Accordingly, only a select few men, in ever decreasing numbers seem to be entered into college. I can't see this kind of disenfranchis…
/r/MensRights24/07/12 11:01 PM
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Feminism has become an "old girl's club" if you'll accept the gender adaption. Those outside it or that do not function within its defined point of view are either under the thumb of the patriarchy or too forgettable to be valuable. Sort of like in group out group preference.
/r/MensRights23/07/12 10:19 PM
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I'd love to.see hard numbers on that. I know that female happiness has been in decline, but would love to see correlation/causation data on the subject.
/r/MensRights22/07/12 09:24 AM
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A friend of mine sent me some of her unsanitized code once. It had more pictures of dicks, swear words and numerous other profanity than I would have though possible outside of the navy. What we have here is a programmer that simply forgot to sanitize their code. Simple as that. That someone's taking offense to it is a bit of a joke to me.
/r/MensRights21/07/12 05:38 AM
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I don't like clubs. I don't like being someone else's wallet. Honestly it makes me feel dirty.
/r/MensRights21/07/12 04:47 AM
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But would you recognize that if you weren't already primed with knowledge about the original studies?
/r/MensRights20/07/12 04:57 AM
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It's easier to frame an argument by only showing one side while damning the other. Without accurate explanation of what's going on with men, and only providing negative points of view on male sexuality, the author can demonstrate more easily their point. That said, this method of argument and explanation are foolish and inevitably deceitful. However the people seeking out this kind of message have already come to the conclusion themselves. They're reinforcing it rather than seeking clarity or un…
/r/MensRights19/07/12 11:27 PM
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It's easier to hold a belief if you don't seek anything that questions it
/r/MensRights19/07/12 10:04 PM
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Or the bar was set higher then moved to allow women to enter into fields that they weren't able to previously. Specifically, the physical requirements for firefighting, police, and the military come to mind.
/r/MensRights19/07/12 09:14 PM
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Among other things.
/r/MensRights19/07/12 07:43 PM
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Under previous legal definitions, and arguably the current one, it is impossible for a man that has vaginal intercourse to be raped. So, if a drunk man and woman have sex and she goes to the police they must, under penalty of losing government funding at least investigate the claim.
/r/MensRights19/07/12 04:14 AM
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I still wish you luck. Raising the next generation in the current school system is problematic period.
/r/MensRights19/07/12 02:30 AM
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If you want to watch out for them, then become friends with your children's teachers. Also volunteer in the classroom. Teachers are often stuck in classes that are too damn large and sill remove "troublemakers". Lastly, if the school tries to claim your child has a learning disability take the kid to a specialist. The school usually, doesn't have the training to diagnose a learning disability.
/r/MensRights19/07/12 01:56 AM
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There is no way for upvotes to show more than a very general trend. second people will not fit neatly into the left/right dichotomy.
/r/MensRights19/07/12 01:52 AM
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In the blue eyes brown eyes experiment, a group was selected based on a superficial trait. For her purpose the trait was analogous for race. The people with said trait were given special treatment and allowed special privileges as well as special protections. She later flipped the subjects so the other group received special treatment. In the comparison to gender to this issue, there is research.that suggests boys aren't treated as well, are punished more often, and are scored more harshly than …
/r/MensRights19/07/12 01:30 AM
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Honestly, I would claim that there are direct parallels.between how boys and.girls.are treated in school now and her experiment.
/r/MensRights19/07/12 01:11 AM
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You might be interested in blue eyes brown eyes. I think that's the name. It shows just how easy it is to engender specific beliefs in children and the effects.
/r/MensRights18/07/12 11:03 PM
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The most direct answer to this is, depends on geographic location. But yes, in some places men cannot be physically raped.
/r/MensRights18/07/12 10:52 PM
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Frustration as a response can easily be misconstrued as anger.
/r/MensRights18/07/12 09:05 AM
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I was held back a grade in elementary because the teacher noticed, not that I didn't read but that I couldn't read. She made sure that I got the help I needed, but she was also from a different.t generation of teachers. There's a slew of things that are contributing to male disenfranchisement in education. Lack of reading material is just a small part of it.
/r/MensRights18/07/12 01:14 AM
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The subjective nature of what's notable or culturally relevant has turned Wikipedia into a battleground of sorts. The problem is that there is no quality alternative site that isn't equally biased.
/r/MensRights17/07/12 10:47 PM
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Fictional or not, they're a part of the current generation's childhood and a common ground for most school kids. It's part of a subculture where significant and regular interest exists.
/r/MensRights17/07/12 09:45 PM
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During most of my schooling I didn't talk about it. Immediately after it happened I did have counselinng. I also decided to talk to a counsular in college. For age I'm in my twenties.
/r/MensRights16/07/12 05:28 PM
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Child abuse, my grandmother was the abuser, at the time I wasn't believed it wasn't until my bother came forward to corroborate my story that I was believed. I was repeated locked in a hall closet and locked in for four to five hour periods. One of the things that male survivors need is for people to not just tell them to man up. There are scarsin my history that are ugly, and brutal. Being belittled for trying to help them heal is.not helpful.
/r/MensRights16/07/12 10:30 AM
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Most of the issues surrounding patriarchy theory and its uses are problematic. In most situations there is a ration reason why a difference exists. It isn't some boogeyman conspiracy to oppress women, it's real life choices altering real life results. Look at the wage gap for example. If we control for a magnitude of specific variables, hours worked, overtime, leave used and so on, the gap almost completely disappears to the point of being statistically insignificant. Yet, when this is brought u…
/r/MensRights16/07/12 10:16 AM
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Guessing the video is pretty heavily out of context. From what I can gather, just based on the video, the guy operates either a forum board, or several that deal with men's issues and perceptions of men. Much like this board, people enter it with a perception that men, as a group are XYZ and then try to tell men they are XYZ. When the men on said forum respond, we get the four response types listed by the vlogger in the video. Accordingly, I'm guessing the guy probably is instituting a more stri…
/r/MensRights15/07/12 06:28 AM
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Both have cultural significance. Star wars because of the movies and subsequent games. The gown because of who wore it, what it was used for, and because of effects.on fashion. There's also a question of social interest.
/r/MensRights14/07/12 04:33 PM
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The assumption here is that every case where rape isn't proven would result in the immediate charge against the accuser. This is ho estly impossible both because of the simple fact that, lack of evidence doesnt prove a crime didn't happen and because, like most crimes the prosecutors would have to choose to prosecute. Charges would probably be rare, and only in cases that are verifiably false. It might discourage people from recanting a rape lie, but under scrutiny they more than likely would fa…
/r/MensRights14/07/12 06:01 AM
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Isn't his entire argument, and example regarding masculine hierarchies based on an apex fallacy?
/r/MensRights13/07/12 11:26 PM
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The notion of equality died when people realized they could get money by taking a label and stretching it. We've had bandaids applied ever since.
/r/MensRights13/07/12 11:08 PM
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If I remever right, child support is the right of the.child. The parent doesn't have the right to terminate it.
/r/MensRights13/07/12 03:22 AM
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Please feel free to yell at them. I just prefer to yell at the right asshole for the right reason.
/r/MensRights13/07/12 02:30 AM
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Don't think that's the real one.
/r/MensRights13/07/12 02:15 AM
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I agree that B can be an affirmative. However, if you add a drop of alcohol to any of this then no. E none of the above.
/r/MensRights13/07/12 12:27 AM
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Alimony in regards to pregnancy makes no sense. It has no accountability, and right now, there is no way to insure that the fetus is related to the father. I'm working off the assumption the compulsory DNA testing won't be enforced. Therefore, it's distinctly possible that we'll see more bieber baby cases, or cases where women simply claim that one person is the father and they actually aren't.
/r/MensRights12/07/12 10:21 PM
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Just don't do that to a little kid. The foreskin hasn't completely separated from the head yet.
/r/MensRights12/07/12 07:07 PM
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Then is the father getting every third full week with the daughter to roughly compensate for time lost?
/r/MensRights12/07/12 03:35 AM
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Paranoid? Society has turned being in a public space as a man into a crime. I recall an article about men being ticketed for playing chess in central park. Something they'd done for years. There was a post on this sub the other day about a young man and I believe his niece and a good Samaritan thinking she'd been kidnapped. I recall a much older article about a man that chose not to intervene when he saw a child playing near a street because of fear of being called a Pedo. No it's not paranoia i…
/r/MensRights11/07/12 04:54 AM
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Could you please dump the personal information from your post? If I remember correctly it breaks TOS and can cause problems.
/r/MensRights10/07/12 09:58 PM
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People will rationalize things that make them uncomfirtable or challenge their belief system. For a long time men as perpetrator woman as victim has been the.publicly endorsed dichotomy on violence, any violence. When people see something that challenges this neatly wrapped statement an almost immediate rationalization occurs to explain why the previous dichotomy is still correct. Rather than taking the risk of increased cognitive load, we'll find the simplest explanation and go with it. This pr…
/r/MensRights10/07/12 04:26 AM
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Yes, and that's something that is empirically provable. It can be demonstrated that there is a definite cultural and social bias against African-Americans in the 50s. There are also demonstrable trends and no explanations for them aside from racism that are present which underscores the problem with the race example in this situation. If we look at social constraints to find oppression and only look at the constraints on women then we're going to find oppression. If we look at both genders we wi…
/r/MensRights09/07/12 06:42 AM
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You need to fix something with regards to your post. Oppression is Power plus Prejudice. Power is defined as the ability to make others do what you want. Sexism is Oppression of a sex. Under the feminist Patriarchy theory, women cannot have power because they are not vested with power by society. Rather any power they can express comes directly from another source, IE men. The force that oppresses women, strict roles etc, are enforced equally on men as women. Men just have the benefit of having …
/r/MensRights09/07/12 06:30 AM
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It sounds like your counterparts are trying to find fault with an argument that they don't disagree with. So instead of challenging it they're challenging you and placing their cognitive dissonance on your shoulders rather than letting the weight stay on theirs.
/r/MensRights08/07/12 08:30 AM
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It may also force states to kill putative father's registries.
/r/MensRights07/07/12 07:13 AM
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Most feminist spaces on the net are safe spaces for the oppressed. (Relative oppression is arguable but for the sake of this explanation it's moot). In a safe space those who are normally not heard are meant to be the dominant voice. When a member of the oppressive group speaks this is viewed as an act of oppression. Expressing dissenting opinion can also be seen as oppressive under this framework dependkng on the nature and beliefs of the safe space. This is why safe spaces are sometimes be ref…
/r/MensRights06/07/12 11:43 PM
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I imagine most people here would agree with you in that regard. It's just going to come down to bow we identify problems and the framework for creating solutions. There will be outliers that claim neither group has reached approximate parity. IMO let them keep fighting. It'll help keep the system in check.
/r/MensRights06/07/12 01:11 AM
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The fact that you're able to question both sides is probably the best thing that can happen to either movement. And you're right, men's rights does often claim to be for equality. However, we don't claim to be the solution for both genders. Nor do we claim to be the solution to all issues in regards to equality. We're seeking to improve the rights of men, either to put them on par with, or reach equity with women's rights.
/r/MensRights06/07/12 12:51 AM
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I can't view it at the moment. However, does anyone have his sources?
/r/MensRights05/07/12 11:54 PM
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If you point that out then they'll probably try to use the benevolent sexism explanation. Whereby men who feel any form of oppression feel it because of spillover from the oppression of women. Or that these men are oppressed by the social structural design of the patriarchy. Then they'll probably try to divert into either kyriarchy theory or change approach to an emotional challenge rather than an empirical one.
/r/MensRights05/07/12 11:02 PM
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Yes, but there's a difference here. Men's rights claims to be for the rights of men. We aren't claiming to be fighting for equality in all things like Feminism often claims. Nor are we pushing a theory that states that it is impossible for men or women to be oppressed. We have different viewpoints on how where and why society has done certain things, but we rarely make the claim that something is exclusively X Y or Z without at least some empirical data to back it up.
/r/MensRights04/07/12 11:31 PM
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The theory regarding if circumcision affects infection rates is still out, though the sub Saharan Africa studies have been questioned a lot more lately because of their methodology. When I get home tonight I'll post my source or you can look through my comment history to find it. I think it's about a week old and has a PDF warning attached. Found it PDF warning
/r/MensRights03/07/12 11:33 PM
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Now we just need to flip the genders and see how quickly we're called misogynists.
/r/MensRights03/07/12 11:18 PM
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Here have a source. It might help
/r/MensRights03/07/12 06:45 PM
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Schools historically, (in the US at least) have moved away from traditional methods of high activity teaching to more sit still and listen styles of teaching. This has happened over the course of nearly a century. The sit still and learn style of teaching does not sit well with boys and tends to encourage them to get distracted while it benefits girls who have a tendency to not be as fidgety. That said, there are exceptions. There always are. Now, this is a problem for a number of reasons. First…
/r/MensRights30/06/12 07:30 PM
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Simply put, it's not an issue because it's not creating huge visibility. Most guys know that a 10 inch monster slong isn't going to actually do anything other than possibly give her cervix a black eye. The other part of it is, men don't complain about body image issues.
/r/MensRights29/06/12 06:05 PM
4

Guessing genuinemra
/r/MensRights29/06/12 06:00 PM
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Because controlling the definition of victim is both a powerful position and a lucrative one. If men can't be oppressed or be seen as victims that means more funds directed towards things like women's shelters, female specific grants and scholarships, towards women's business via government programs etc. Those that control the use of language can determine almost exclusively the meaning of words and by that control public perception.
/r/MensRights29/06/12 05:58 PM
1

I work with guys in similar situations stateside. And thanks, I'll see if I can find it after I get off work tonight.
/r/MensRights28/06/12 09:45 PM
3

Harrowing? This isn't harrowing it's an atrocity! I've been reading through some of the stories, and have to wonder, is there such thing as legal neglect? These men, in the cases I read, have been harassed by the very agencies that are supposed to protect people. It shouldn't reach the point where police are threatening concerned, and rightly so, parents. Especially with the body of evidence that some of these guys have.
/r/MensRights28/06/12 09:14 PM
1

Some are addressed, others aren't. For single parent households, the FMLA really doesn't do anything, and this also holds true for households that cannot afford to take unpaid leave in general. Now, it's arguable why these households are in a situation where they're having a child and unable to take the time off to adequately care for it. There are often circumstances beyond one's control that can easily capsize many families. A child is probably one of many. I don't think the FMLA fully address…
/r/MensRights28/06/12 06:53 AM
5

My point of view on Parental Leave is that it is necessary but I don't think we've fully flushed out the issue. Right now, we have multiple kinds of family in the US, and int he world. We have, Single parent households, Married couples, extended family in the same home, and a number of other possible variants. If we look at each of these we're going to see Parental Leave rules and laws affecting each combination differently. With single parent households, the leave is almost absolutely necessary…
/r/MensRights26/06/12 07:52 PM
5

Report the posts, they'll be deleted. They're trying to sell misogyny and have found a "target" audience in the wounded men here within this sub.
/r/MensRights26/06/12 12:59 AM
1

While it's good that this data is coming out, it may not be applicable outside of Virginia where the study took place. We also don't know what the active policies were regarding testing. Also, the samples are a decade old, there's a possibility that policy has changed since the time the samples were gathered compared to how they're handled now. All that aside, I do wonder how many cases like this will show up if this program expands. Also, it might be indicative of misconduct on the part of the …
/r/MensRights26/06/12 12:36 AM
2

Some of it comes from girlwriteswhat's YouTube channel. Some of it is from my background in the social sciences.
/r/MensRights25/06/12 11:56 PM
6

Even to this day we don't acknowledge the social expectations that lay heavily on the shoulders of men, even while rhetoric about breaking social roles is spouted like verbal diarrhea from the mouths of many activists. Modern definitions of oppression operating from the preconceived notions based on apex fallacy are not accurate. They can't be. We live in a society that pins the word power to people's shirts and yet refuses adamantly to believe that the power may not be useable. Power changes ha…
/r/MensRights25/06/12 11:03 PM
5

First things first, since you've brought it up a few times already; modern society rewrites history and interprets history based on how society is now. If you or I look at medieval history we'll hear about women not being allowed to own property or dowries and things of that nature. You won't be told about men being turned into criminals for not paying debts they didn't know about, or men being paraded around town on a donkey after their wife beat them. These are things you'd have to ask a histo…
/r/MensRights25/06/12 10:26 PM
2

You don't have to produce evidence when all that's needed is fear of loss.
/r/MensRights25/06/12 08:37 PM
3

Even then it should be the last course of options.
/r/MensRights24/06/12 06:29 PM
2

If you're afraid for your health or the baby's health call the police and ask them to file a temperary restraining order. Make sure you have evidence. Recordings of her going off, yelling what have you. The sooner you assume that shit is going to go to hell the sooner you can prepare for it. When you file for divorce make sure to give your lawyer all the police reports. You need facts on your side and a spine of steel. I wish you luck.
/r/MensRights22/06/12 02:04 AM
2

A circumcised penis actually doesn't slide as well. The main issue is the density of cells prone to infection in the foreskin.
/r/MensRights21/06/12 10:06 PM
1

The article does state that both children are special needs. It also states that a couple would have a hard time caring for them under the same circumstances. A case worker was probably assigned to, and did go to this house on a regular basis to see if the children were adequately cared for. Another possibility is the wife had the children but was unable to care for them and lost custody. At which point it would have gone to the dad with routine followup. This is assuming he was found to be a fi…
/r/MensRights21/06/12 10:03 PM
2

HIV infections can happen when tearing happens during sex. Micro tears are common. The virus bleeds into the area where the intercourse is happening and enters the others body through micro tears. Then it needs to find something to infect. White blood cells are a common target, but so are various other cells. The foreskin has a relatively high density of cells that HIV can infect. The rational is that if you remove the foreskin you remove a possible hotbed for infection. Keep in my this comment …
/r/MensRights21/06/12 09:53 PM
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Are their children considered special needs? We don't have enough information in regards to what the needs of those children are. He's also turned down a dangerous surgery to prolong a possibly dangerous situation. Were he to fall while helping one of the kids then it could potentially kill the child. If there are mothers in the same situation I would definitely report it and hope that the children be placed up for adoption.
/r/MensRights21/06/12 09:41 PM
5

Biological reality and legal realities don't always line up, as I've learned from watching the abortion debates.
/r/MensRights21/06/12 06:38 PM
1

Psychology is more of the study of the individual and their mind. It takes into account local factors but not factors on a more macro level. That's what sociology is for. So yes, I think that psychology doesn't understand men's interest in porn or video games because I don't think psychology is looking at it. Once people start noticing that all these "Men not engaging" social issues psychology will notice, but until then I wouldn't hold my breath. Also, you can probably request a different psych…
/r/MensRights20/06/12 06:59 PM
1

There are a lot more consistent and well versed writers on this board than me. Girlwriteswhat, johntheother, typhonblue, just to name a few. You'll probably get better mileage following them.
/r/MensRights19/06/12 04:41 PM
1

If a criminology or sociology Prof is using feminist perspective as anything other than a possible lens to look at the subject matter they shouldn't be teaching it. The second you say that x is finite without exception in sociology you're going to miss something. It's never as simple as a singular explanation.
/r/MensRights19/06/12 03:38 AM
1

A safe space is a place where a person can come and share their viewpoints on a common subject without fear of being attacked for their beliefs. Depending on who is actually in charge of the safe space this can mean no dissenting opinions. It can also mean that certain viewpoints are excluded or certain voices marginalized in favor of others. In a female safe space, for example, the voice of men in regards to important issues is not as valued. In a feminist safe space voices that aren't speaking…
/r/MensRights19/06/12 12:34 AM
1

For that incarnation of the idea possibly? Beliefs change slowly with time and become less common. For example look at religion, Christianity has split a number of times and sects and subsects have grown. The core is the "same" I'm using that loosely, but the belief is.dynamically different.
/r/MensRights19/06/12 12:18 AM
2

Waiting for my check on the 20th.
/r/MensRights18/06/12 10:01 PM
2

My school for a short time had a program based off of if you were the first generation in college from your family. They did take parental income into account for it as well. I wouldn't have been able to go to school and finish my degree without that program. I'm still in debt from student loans, but it's about half of what it would have been.
/r/MensRights18/06/12 06:17 PM
1

It's going to depend on how she defines discrimination. If she defines it based on power and prejudice then she won't. If she's using another definition, then it's possible. More than likely though it's either a miscommunication on her part or on the part of the OP. Either that, or when confronted, the person he's arguing with will just say that the definition of discrimination he uses doesn't match hers and his is incorrect. It doesn't seem like this person is running completely off of logic wi…
/r/MensRights18/06/12 07:04 AM
1

Depending on how they define discrimination that may not be a viable way to argue. If they use the academic definition, depending on their belief set, men can't be discriminated against at all.
/r/MensRights18/06/12 04:31 AM
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Your friend is using a number of fallacies here which should probably be addressed in greater detail. First, the assumption made here is based on the academic perspective that: Discrimination is part prejudice and part power. Power is defined as the ability to make people do what you want them to do. Then, basing the assumption that we exist in a system that favors men at the exclusion of women, men have all the power. Therefore, while women can be prejudiced they cannot discriminate. Therefore,…
/r/MensRights18/06/12 04:00 AM
3

I don't think the OP was actually charged with anything, at least from what I can tell from the post.
/r/MensRights17/06/12 02:34 AM
3

Not if it leads to another arrest. This is part of the reason why I wouldn't trust police in this situation. Arresting him looks good on their books. It's justifiable because of the warning, and all it would take is for the ex to claim that she felt threatened in his presence coupled with the previous arrest to cause the OP a lot more grief.
/r/MensRights17/06/12 02:26 AM
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Do not go near her without at least one other person with you. Preferably two. Do not contact her. Get a copy of the police report. Get the full details. There should be time frames etc written up on it. You need to start applying for work. Any job right now is more money coming in than what you're making. Other than that I don't have much advice for you.
/r/MensRights17/06/12 02:20 AM
3

It may also be something related to the police department policy as well. I don't really have a quality answer here. I know that police don't like getting called out for bullshit, but by turn they do cover their asses informally and legally as much as possible. So there might be an informal rule regarding situations like this and the cop is giving him a warning in regards to that.
/r/MensRights17/06/12 02:10 AM
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Probably a temp one because of the allegations.
/r/MensRights17/06/12 01:35 AM
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