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I'm not trying to convince you to to stay anywhere. But if you're going to say you're going to do something, just do it, or else it's just cliche. I moved out of the country because I didn't feel like having my tax money go to the military, wars, go to bailouts, go to unsustainable public spending, and any of the other myriad of ways the federal government wastes money. I have no need for parasites who think I owe them something either. There's a growing culture of entitlement with Americans, pe…
/r/MensRights31/08/12 08:46 AM
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Rolling out Sweden too? You are aware this is another cliche, right? ... Tell ya what. What industry do you work in? And how much experience do you have?
/r/MensRights31/08/12 08:09 AM
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Yes, in your interest. Because prison.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 08:03 AM
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There's a very good chance he'll get elected, but where people should really be focusing their attention on is the senate. If R's control both houses, Obama has his hands tied entirely. And it looks like that's a very likely scenario. But the whole, "I'm gonna move outta the country" is so 2004.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 08:03 AM
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A good idea to register - if you don't like a 5 year prison term and $250,000 in fines. See also: Coercion
/r/MensRights31/08/12 06:39 AM
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Registering for the Selective Service is just something we are forced to do, and it's not a big deal unless you don't, in which you are imprisoned for a length of time equal to someone who distributes child pornography, a fine which you will never pay off, and a federal offense on your record, essentially destroying your ability to have a good life.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 06:27 AM
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People still say this? Come on.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 06:24 AM
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civilian standards are pretty damn pitiful. God damn right.
/r/MensRights31/08/12 06:23 AM
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that the men here thought all women were immoral pieces of shit who took advantage of men and unfair laws at every opportunity. Madam, many of us are happily married. To women even! I would expend no effort in lambasting the entirety of your gender. For what is done, is done by the few individuals, thus it would be errant to blame the majority. Collectivist thinking is a quick road to sexism, among other faulty generalizations. So many posts there are about girls getting sexually assaulted or ju…
/r/MensRights22/08/12 02:28 AM
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It's akin to posting facebook screencaps. Younger people here seem to be caught up with minutiae like this.
/r/MensRights17/08/12 05:32 AM
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Yeah, it was just wordplay mate ;)
/r/MensRights16/08/12 04:12 AM
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Yes, I'm reminded of things like this. An interesting parallel, no?
/r/MensRights16/08/12 04:09 AM
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Hey now - you didn't make it. No worries.
/r/MensRights16/08/12 03:59 AM
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Don't you dare cut hair or become a teacher.
/r/MensRights16/08/12 03:57 AM
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Feminists advocate for Sharia law Not literally, I take it.
/r/MensRights16/08/12 03:56 AM
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I'm all for more equity!
/r/MensRights16/08/12 03:53 AM
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How can this be at all serious? There is no difference between this and someone mocking feminism. Irony shares the same grave as intellectual depth, and in their stead is tragic absurdity.
/r/MensRights16/08/12 03:50 AM
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Well how about that. Thanks for the link!
/r/MensRights13/08/12 04:00 AM
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Remember when Jezebel accused Jon Stewart of sexism?
/r/MensRights13/08/12 03:47 AM
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I didn't find this picture on purpose, but I'll share it.
/r/MensRights03/08/12 02:13 AM
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Men in general Men in general, where?
/r/MensRights01/08/12 04:13 PM
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Yeah, a variation of the trolley question.
/r/MensRights27/07/12 12:10 AM
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Hear hear! We don't need to see facebook screen caps of ill-informed teenagers' myopic cliches riddled with spelling and grammatical errors.
/r/MensRights26/07/12 04:11 AM
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I was going to say something very similar to this. I'm personally quite happy to be proven wrong, and I've been wrong before. I'm positive I'll be wrong about many things in the future. I would gladly talk to any feminists that might come here so long as they bring the respect that they expect to be returned to them.
/r/MensRights24/07/12 05:31 PM
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Hey- works for me! I just couldn't do an-cap, "defense agency battles" and what have you.
/r/MensRights20/07/12 12:03 AM
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Yet 100 years old now. Prescient!
/r/MensRights19/07/12 03:11 PM
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Thought police.
/r/MensRights19/07/12 08:14 AM
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or this. :)
/r/MensRights19/07/12 07:10 AM
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kudos, man!
/r/MensRights19/07/12 05:16 AM
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I work in Singapore, you get 3 days for paternity leave here. 3 whole days. Better than nothing.
/r/MensRights19/07/12 02:33 AM
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Sincerely speaking, you warm my heart.
/r/MensRights19/07/12 02:29 AM
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Economically: Austro-libertarian. Politically: Nozickian minarchist. Also, since we're not all American, "liberal" as used by the American left is the opposite of what it means in the rest of the world.
/r/MensRights19/07/12 02:25 AM
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I also don't live in America, and the questions about "society" are too general. e.g. how would you rate women or females in terms of their current rights or privileges in society? Which society? North America? Europe? The most privileged women who have ever existed? Or Saudi Arabia, where they're still forced to live in the 10th century?
/r/MensRights19/07/12 02:17 AM
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Yes, some people on facebook say abysmal things. Moving on.
/r/MensRights19/07/12 02:11 AM
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Since when does the German government care about "self-determination", is this a soft euphemism for individual liberty?
/r/MensRights16/07/12 06:22 AM
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"found themselves" in a strip club? I hope the writer means "had a religious epiphany" because they weren't transported there by fairies. Or were they? Ba-dum tss. I kid I kid.
/r/MensRights14/07/12 05:58 AM
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Oooh ok. Yeah. Thanks! What little Spanish I remember has been replaced by Filipino anyway.
/r/MensRights11/07/12 03:32 AM
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[ahem] Estoy molestando mi madre. Me gusta a molestar mis amigos. Pardoneme, me gustaria a molestar un perro. Ok, I got what I need.
/r/MensRights09/07/12 02:57 PM
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Hahaha. That would be silly. BRB, gotta call the Chinese communist party and tell them white men hold the power over them and the people's liberation army.
/r/MensRights09/07/12 12:39 PM
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That's fine, and in context with a vast majority of the world, and a vast majority of history, every able-bodied person born in the US is born extraordinarily privileged. Does this mean sexism and racism don't still exist? They do, but let's not pretend opportunities (what I would classify as privilege) to excel don't exist - even for immigrants with a terrible grasp of English.
/r/MensRights09/07/12 10:44 AM
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That's the one where the announcer goes: GOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!! Right?
/r/MensRights09/07/12 10:23 AM
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And you can qualify what you mean and generalize all you like. This is why any scholarly works are very specific to times and places. "A study of gender bias in the mining industry in post-apartheid Africa". Or "A study in racism in Victorian England". What's true in post-apartheid Africa or Victorian England may not be true in other situations. It's ultimately meaningless because of context. You're taking blobs of idealized people, in no specific place in time, in no specific place in the world…
/r/MensRights09/07/12 10:20 AM
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That's a good one, same goes for a homogeneous population here in Asia. It's men forced to be in the military, men sleeping in the street; men in the office towers, men in parliament.
/r/MensRights09/07/12 09:53 AM
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TIL: Even if you live under a Stalinist dictatorship, so long as you're a hetero white male, you're privileged.
/r/MensRights09/07/12 09:42 AM
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Since I personally hold no power and I'm but a tiny minority (1% caucasian population) where I live, that means I can be racist then (or rather can avoid being called racist?) I've joked about this before, but this must logically follow according to their definition.
/r/MensRights09/07/12 09:33 AM
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We're talking about power structures, not situations. The context wasn't defined. What is the difference between "power structures" and "situations"? A power structure is a situation. What exactly is a "power structure"? Political power? If that's the case, how does this explain the amount of women in power in countries throughout the world? How do you even average this out? By what metrics? This generalization doesn't even hold up to scrutiny if you count how many female political leaders there…
/r/MensRights09/07/12 09:06 AM
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Blast! Foiled again! ಠ_ಠ
/r/MensRights09/07/12 07:02 AM
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TIL: Spanish for "Bothering" is "Molestando"
/r/MensRights09/07/12 06:55 AM
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Before you made a blanket assertion, you needed to define two very important factors for your readers for purposes of clarity: Context, and what constitutes privilege. What you said, on face value - regarding all men despite context and whatever preconceived notion of privilege is: non-defined - is by nature an incomplete, incoherent argument. It's just a specious cliche. After I refuted the idea that all white men are mutually inclusive with being privileged (which still stands, given my contex…
/r/MensRights09/07/12 06:52 AM
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Mind-blowing? How is it not relevant? It's not just about lacking money, it's about lack of opportunity, lack of freedom. The point is entirely relevant because it refutes the idea that being white or male is mutually inclusive to being privileged. And you didn't rebut this, reducing it per country doesn't make it irrelevant. It's just establishing a larger frame of reference. Fact is, it's better to be a a non-white woman in a country like the US than to be a white man in a place like Belarus. …
/r/MensRights09/07/12 06:25 AM
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It can also be used for other things: sports, chess matches, tag, cheerleading competitions. Come on now, people. Think outside the box.
/r/MensRights09/07/12 06:16 AM
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it's "people in power dictating morals to everyone else elected by people who want to dictate their morals to everyone else. social conservatives, left-liberals, and nearly everyone in between want to dictate their morals on everyone. It just so happens social conservatives concentrate on abortion. Conservatives use it as a crutch to get more votes, left-liberals use fear of losing the right to it as a crutch to get more votes. See also: tired old wedge issues used in every election in order to …
/r/MensRights09/07/12 06:13 AM
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you still have white male privilege Privilege has less to do with gender or race and much more to do with economic policies in places of origin. This fact is commonly left out of discussion due to a concentration on personal anecdote. If I was born male, white, and heterosexual in the USSR 60 years ago, what is the likelihood I'd be all that privileged? Odds are I would be born poor, live poor, and die poor, like a vast majority of Soviets did. What of East Germany and West Germany? I would have…
/r/MensRights09/07/12 06:06 AM
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I'm a white man in southeast Asia, does this mean I'm allowed to be racist? If so.. hooray!
/r/MensRights09/07/12 05:58 AM
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Personally, I'm more pro-rights and liberties than any feminist I've ever met. In fact, the predominant amount of feminists I've met have been against individual liberty and very much for the use of coercion.
/r/MensRights05/07/12 01:51 AM
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Where's the nihilist, the absurdist, or the pedant? Without these categories, why, this list is rubbish.
/r/MensRights03/07/12 04:16 AM
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Ah thank you, I was confused by the idiom.
/r/MensRights03/07/12 04:13 AM
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Hey - we are all imperfect beings. Even the most intelligent humans know only a few books worth of knowledge in the library of what can be known. If you follow my analogy. I just re-read what I had written and noticed a few grammatical errors. C'est la vie. As for writing and critiquing language, I'm helped by having read a few philosophy books in my day. Lots of good ones to choose from!
/r/MensRights30/06/12 10:36 AM
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There are too many fallacies to address all that quickly. It's a veritable mine field, some of which are fallacies built on top of older fallacies. I'm sorry, your rebuttals need a bit of work as well. From birth we’re taught that we’re owed a beautiful girl. I remember this from a cracked article recently, and it's pure pap. If I may ask in the Zen fashion, who is this "we"? I was never "taught" such drivel. The anti-intellectualism in the paragraph after this is only built upon this. Examples:…
/r/MensRights29/06/12 09:22 AM
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You're just embarrassing yourself. Your ignorance is only matched by your naivete. It's like telling everyone you know German, but really all you know are the lyrics to Du Hast. Your original argument is long gone, and your descent into juvenile behavior has only increased. This is just social contract drivel now, and you're not even calling it social contract because you don't even seem to know what that is. You quote tax statistics from the 50s as if it's some golden datapoint, you're so simpl…
/r/MensRights27/06/12 05:37 AM
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Your ignorance of economics is not mine to educate. By all means, feel free to read von Mises, Hayek, Bastiat or even Keynes. Even Keynes, the standard bearer economist of the left was largely free market. You don't care about this subject though, because if you had, you would have already researched it. And if you don't even know who these people are, that should tell you how ignorant you are. “It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one tha…
/r/MensRights27/06/12 02:20 AM
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Much appreciated. Heh. Not sure how someone so against men's rights came into this sub, but luckily I had a slow workday to spend yacking away at this sophist.
/r/MensRights26/06/12 12:10 PM
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Nope, off to jail with you, malcontent.
/r/MensRights26/06/12 11:06 AM
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The kind of education you need on economics is worth far more than the amount of time I'm willing to spend on you, especially since I'm not paid for it. You don't even read what I said correctly. Thomas Sowell on the war on poverty from Free to Choose. they are asking us to help them stop it from happening. They know how it works, they just can't afford it. This kind of tripe is just too stupid to take seriously. You don't need birth control to avoid pregnancy. No one is asking for help. They ar…
/r/MensRights26/06/12 10:24 AM
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SoepWal seems to love giving a false dichotomy, namely: either you pay for other people's lack of responsibility, or you pay for other people's lack of responsibility. Choice is all yours.
/r/MensRights26/06/12 08:27 AM
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You don't even bother asking why kids even have shitty homes, why there's welfare burden and what causes criminal behavior. Your presumption is that there's lack of even more state power in people's lives. Nonsense! Ever since "the war on poverty" started, there's only been an increase in poverty. Since the welfare state has increased in size, it has only made things worse. Single-parent homes have only increased with government programs. You are making the classic example of judging the intent …
/r/MensRights26/06/12 08:06 AM
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People here seem to forget that we humans are not merely some wildly-breeding species, they are to be responsible for their own behavior. It's not a difficult equation, to not accidentally get pregnant. It's not my duty or of anyone else, to see to it women don't accidentally get pregnant. What the hell. It's their own damn responsibility. Like hell if I'm going to pay for it. I'm tired of this nanny state horsecrap. Women want to be individuals and be taken seriously right? How can they do that…
/r/MensRights26/06/12 07:18 AM
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Yes, no one has a right to another person's service (in this case, birth control). However, they do have the right to offer to buy or sell birth control.
/r/MensRights26/06/12 07:09 AM
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It has become a far too common practice for people to vote themselves benefits, indeed this is one of the most cited reasons for having an indirect/liberal democracy rather than a direct one.
/r/MensRights26/06/12 07:07 AM
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And how could a feminist not also be an anarchist? since the most powerful force of paternalism is the state. Ironic that it tends to be feminists that vote for a bigger government.
/r/MensRights26/06/12 07:06 AM
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They are both abysmal, this is true. But they are only a reflection of our complacency, our economic illiteracy, and our hubris. No law will fix those things.
/r/MensRights25/06/12 04:56 AM
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I just laughed at loud at the claptrap remark. Nice. It really is complete rubbish.
/r/MensRights25/06/12 01:13 AM
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No, the whole party is complete shit. The "platform" is, the people are, the legislation is. Also, Warren is just another warfare/nanny statist like the rest.
/r/MensRights24/06/12 01:57 AM
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Yeah, my options in an election are: warfare state, corporatism, and nanny state or.. warfare state, corporatism, and nanny state.
/r/MensRights24/06/12 01:54 AM
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People gave that vulture money? Yes, something is definitely wrong here. I don't think it's necessarily a gender issue, but a culture of mediocre crap issue.
/r/MensRights17/06/12 11:40 PM
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My best case scenario concludes a rationality at least in motive, which I'm sure a few of us share. My pessimistic scenario does not require much more than motor functions and an intuitive (read: non-rational) response.
/r/MensRights17/06/12 03:47 PM
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Pessimistically speaking, on a long enough time line, the average quality of upvoted posts eventually narrows down to the most shallow. In the best case scenario, the average quality of the upvoted posts reflects the middle of the relative bell curve for this sub.
/r/MensRights17/06/12 12:31 PM
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I've read through this entire conversation and I'm not convinced it's a Men's rights issue either. Whinging about symptomatic affects of a deeper gender bias is intellectually trite, it's little more than eye-rolling pablum. Feminists complaining about magazine covers is even more substantive.
/r/MensRights17/06/12 12:18 PM
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That's my favorite easter egg from the LOTR DVD's. Ah, memories.
/r/MensRights17/06/12 11:48 AM
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This person's mom is so perfect she didn't teach him/her that it's any more - two words, not one. Seriously though, eh. This is just typical fluff, nothing to get too worked up about.
/r/MensRights17/06/12 11:46 AM
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Maybe I'm old, but these all sound exceptionally trite, boring or tedious. 10. No job, just live with parents? That sounds more like a circle of hell to me.
/r/MensRights11/06/12 05:14 AM
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For housing, yeah. Chicken rice still only $2-$3. :D
/r/MensRights11/06/12 12:15 AM
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Aye. The world out there's an expensive place. (digression: I have the cheapest 3 bedroom flat in Singapore and it's 2 grand a month.)
/r/MensRights10/06/12 04:49 PM
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Yeah, it's fiction. Nothing much to see here, fellas.
/r/MensRights10/06/12 10:54 AM
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I think this one's been posted in this subreddit before, but I mean, that's not so bad. Doesn't happen often here.
/r/MensRights10/06/12 10:51 AM
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There are a lot of passive voice generalizations being thrown around here and it is intellectually lazy, collectivist thinking. Ex. "men who X are seen as..." by whom exactly? You can find anyone who thinks anything you want them to just so you have someone to be "the bad guy", allowing the person making the assertion feel self-righteous. Whomever decides to be a stay at home dad, for example, decides it with his partner, male or female. Period. I'm sure you can find fools who deride it, or anyt…
/r/MensRights10/06/12 10:49 AM
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The best you can do is keep it rational, keep it empirical. Nothing more to add here that others haven't.
/r/MensRights10/06/12 10:38 AM
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Ah Mike, you could've done much better.
/r/MensRights10/06/12 10:37 AM
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Novelty gift, novelty website. Nothing to see here.
/r/MensRights10/06/12 10:33 AM
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Bad economic policy creates ghettos. See also: east Berlin vs. west Berlin, Singapore vs Johor bahru, seoul vs pyonyang, etc.
/r/MensRights06/06/12 01:45 AM
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"as a pop culture critic" Had to stop it right there. As a game industry professional, I don't need to listen to a parasite. Thanks, but no thanks.
/r/MensRights06/06/12 01:39 AM
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You may not be aware of this, but persuasion tends to require a little more subtlety, not behaving like an angst-ridden teenager. If you are indeed interested in promotion of Men's Rights, perhaps you should rethink your approach.
/r/MensRights04/06/12 12:38 AM
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if you're going to downvote this, at least point out if you think I'm logically errant - else, look up the definition of Democracy.
/r/MensRights03/06/12 04:03 PM
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The link isn't working, but: If abortions are legal in the US, then any reason for abortion is going to be legal too.
/r/MensRights03/06/12 09:32 AM
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Generally speaking, I'm not seeing a huge problem here. Also, passing a law by an elected parliament is by definition democratic.
/r/MensRights03/06/12 09:29 AM
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Jesus christ this is way too long. Does Jezebel have editors?
/r/MensRights03/06/12 09:25 AM
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Financial planning is important for anyone, self-reliance is also important.
/r/MensRights01/06/12 03:15 AM
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Facebook’s board of directors, she said, resembles the Backstreet Boys. So they're young, attractive, and successful while they can sing and dance simultaneously?
/r/MensRights31/05/12 09:26 AM
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I live in Singapore, I never saw the ad of the lady with the fat arm but I did see the burger king ad. The BK ad is just bad taste (no pun intended), the Duncan Quinn ad is legitimately awful.
/r/MensRights31/05/12 09:17 AM
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I don't see it as excuse-making either. It is intellectually shallow to not try to understand or explain what causes this behavior to begin with. Standing around and asserting, "See? Women can be violent, too!" doesn't address causes at all.
/r/MensRights31/05/12 09:07 AM
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I'm not sure if this is necessarily misandry, so I don't think it quite belongs here. However, it is a sad anecdote about the state of Affairs - in particular the African-American population. (It is located in the Bronx, so I can only infer)
/r/MensRights31/05/12 08:50 AM
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So the military and wars don't exist today? Gods be praised!
/r/MensRights31/05/12 08:45 AM
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I see nothing substantive in this site at all. It bears no particular wit nor does it give any insight through intellectual depth.
/r/MensRights30/05/12 03:11 AM
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I can't say I find it disgusting, it's just typical tripe.
/r/MensRights30/05/12 03:07 AM
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I'm personally for the rights of gay people, straight people, poor people, rich people, white people, black people, American, Chinese, XX, XY, employers and employees. We're all human and we all have a right to liberty (through deontological, consequentialist, utilitarian and natural rights arguments)
/r/MensRights24/05/12 05:43 AM
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Dear CNN, We video game developers may be a motley crew, but at least we don't fail to deliver. When we do fail, we pay the price in the gaming market. We encourage hand-eye coordination, working in teams, and puzzle-solving. We also improve entertainment technology and provide employment, increasing our overall standard of living the world over. What do you do, CNN? You peddle smut you call "news" that has little or no thought about content. You encourage shallow, meaningless noise you call "de…
/r/MensRights24/05/12 05:32 AM
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I would not say "phony". Nor would I say OP is not being "deceitful". Don't give me a false dichotomy. What's your deal, do you work there or something?
/r/MensRights19/05/12 02:51 AM
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Phony as in the onion? No, it's not. I would recommend that if anyone post an article from Daily Mail, they should probably also post a complementary article from another news org if at all possible. Or something along those lines.
/r/MensRights19/05/12 02:48 AM
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How can Barack Obama win a nobel peace prize? Duh! Or Woodrow Wilson, or Yasser Arafat? Do we really need to go down a list of seemingly legit "prizes" given to people and organizations that otherwise only serve to diminish the relevance of the prize in question? Winning some prize does not negate the fact that it is not beyond Daily Mail to post dubious articles.
/r/MensRights19/05/12 02:36 AM
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Not sure why this comment is downvoted. It would seem that would logically follow.
/r/MensRights19/05/12 02:32 AM
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Ok, someone downvoted this because..?
/r/MensRights19/05/12 02:30 AM
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Except that's not a refutation. It's an argumentum ad verecundiam, also known as argument/appeal to authority. See also: The Nobel Peace Prize
/r/MensRights19/05/12 02:29 AM
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My wife uses 3 or 4 different languages to make pejorative remarks about other women, and far more graphic than any other man I've ever heard.
/r/MensRights18/05/12 05:07 PM
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Mate, I see you keep posting this as a reply, but you do know it's argumentum ad verecundiam right? "longest running newspaper in the UK" is also a fallacious argument. It's a hit and miss paper with quite a few dodgy articles, putting it somewhere above weekly world news, but probably not as reputable as the Independent.
/r/MensRights18/05/12 05:01 PM
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This syntax is barely readable, is it any surprise the reasoning is barely reasonable?
/r/MensRights18/05/12 04:54 PM
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It may be unpopular to say, but 39 years? That would be draconian.
/r/MensRights14/05/12 05:55 PM
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False. My name is James.
/r/MensRights13/05/12 04:35 PM
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Ah, I've never even tried.
/r/MensRights13/05/12 04:35 PM
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It's a little old, but doesn't mean it's not relevant. I can't listen from here though, so I can't confirm.
/r/MensRights09/05/12 10:41 AM
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Yeah, I understood it. A little hyperbole goes a long way, as I say!
/r/MensRights09/05/12 10:38 AM
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I suppose that depends on their respective relationships.
/r/MensRights09/05/12 10:35 AM
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Obama's paternalism is seriously creepy.
/r/MensRights09/05/12 10:32 AM
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well my young friend, if this is enough to make you lose faith in humanity - wait til you get to adulthood. You can't bottom out yet, you'rer still young!
/r/MensRights09/05/12 10:29 AM
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Agreed. It's just another addition to the garbage pile of mediocre books out there.
/r/MensRights09/05/12 10:25 AM
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The few times women have tried to hit me were laughable. Wing Chun has long been my friend, nothing like a martial art named after a woman to defend against women.
/r/MensRights09/05/12 10:10 AM
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Sounds like you have a superb track record and she doesn't. These things actually do matter. You've got hope.
/r/MensRights09/05/12 10:04 AM
1

Hm. Maybe Stanko had it right back in '95. It was a different age back then. I know when I waited for my 14.4kbps modem to connect to the local bbs it give me time to reflect on Stanko.
/r/MensRights09/05/12 10:00 AM
1

Flying in a plane? Remember not to open the emergency hatch while mid-air, lest you deliver a grizzly death to everyone on board. Going hunting? Remember not to shoot anyone, unless you're Dick Cheney. Ordering pizza? Remember not to kick delivery guy in the nuts.
/r/MensRights09/05/12 09:56 AM
2

hivemind? see also r/politics.
/r/MensRights09/05/12 09:52 AM
8

Many parents just see learning music as an ancillary "method" of being better at other subjects. You know, "learn music, be better at science!" or somethinig. So the part where the parents don't care about the actual music isn't unusual. They also think the learning stops when the kid exits the lesson, when really the parents are there to facilitate practice time at home. Then they get mad at me (or the kid) for not getting any better. But yeah, the former point. I'm glad it wasn't a typical occ…
/r/MensRights04/05/12 10:53 PM
7

I was a piano teacher throughout college. I was "turned down" a few times because I wasn't a woman. One mother was afraid that I sit alone in a room with her daughter. Even though she could have just as easily sat in the studio with us.
/r/MensRights04/05/12 10:42 PM
6

Yeah, this was true for me at 14 too. Good old mid-90s.
/r/MensRights03/05/12 03:58 PM
12

Growing up, it was the opposite for me. Dad was for fun, mom was all business.
/r/MensRights03/05/12 03:57 PM
0

Sandler stopped being relevant to me in the 90s, incidentally that's when I stopped being a teenager.
/r/MensRights03/05/12 03:56 PM
1

I see. This isn't the norm, what's more is that it doesn't rebut my refutation. Also, the commenter I replied to used passive language regarding "treatment" - leading to an ultimately unclear assertion that sounds hyperbolic.
/r/MensRights03/05/12 06:38 AM
2

Collectivist thought or guilt by association is an all too common fallacy. Might as well throw in genetic fallacies while we're at it. No one speaks for an individual but an individual(or at least delegated) as far as I'm concerned :)
/r/MensRights02/05/12 11:47 PM
2

This stuff doesn't surprise me, and it's all what I expect. People assume the mom is the go-to parent for a kid. I don't think that part is particularly egregious. What strikes me as irksome is sidelining the father utterly. This is entirely unacceptable, and I'd have strict words for anyone that treated me in this fashion.
/r/MensRights02/05/12 11:31 PM
3

Respect is earned. Agreed.
/r/MensRights30/04/12 01:17 AM
2

The point was that those individuals who did all those things refutes the prior assertion. More importantly, "Gender A > gender B" is a collectivist fallacy. There is no such thing as a superior gender, race, or nationality.
/r/MensRights30/04/12 01:01 AM
1

Her post doesn't woo me. But as a response: no, I don't expect sex, so your whole post is invalid. Your move, okcupid girl.
/r/MensRights29/04/12 03:31 AM
2

I never found it embarrassing when my date offered, but.. I was a classical pianist, so.. Maybe less self-conscious? Eh?
/r/MensRights29/04/12 03:27 AM
8

women are more valuable than men Except all the men that made a vast majority of the things you enjoy: from the computer you use, to electricity generation, to your computer's operating system, to the housing you live in, the glasses you might wear, the phone that you use to communicate, the production line, flight, cars, calculus, engineering, refrigeration, plastic.. Just to name a few. Not that I'm claiming credit for any of it.
/r/MensRights29/04/12 03:25 AM
2

besides being riddled with trite, thought-terminating cliches? shrug
/r/MensRights28/04/12 03:22 PM
5

You said they had to be millionaires to be treated well, I know non-millionaires that are treated well. Anecdote v anecdote? Or hyperbole v observation?
/r/MensRights25/04/12 01:20 PM
3

You don't have to be a millionaire, I've got non-millionaire friends that live there and live well. I've been there a few times myself. You don't get treated well though if you're.. Say.. Filipino.
/r/MensRights25/04/12 01:00 PM
1

Dubai is nice, and I'd live in Shanghai too.
/r/MensRights25/04/12 12:58 PM
4

I see his CV as being a government bureaucrat for the last 22 years. Since that's the case, I put little faith in it.
/r/MensRights23/04/12 11:41 AM
2

As a Libertarian, I also disagree traditional gender roles are not tyranny. Gender roles enforced by the state are tyranny, be they pushed by the feminist sense of morality or the evangelical. Not that it is necessarily that dichotomy, they're just examples.
/r/MensRights19/04/12 04:08 AM
1

As a Libertarian, equality under the law is something the left-liberal Men's rights advocates and I have in common. This is something I think conservatives and liberals should also be able to agree to. The common locus between all people should be this, hence it transcends any additional political baggage.
/r/MensRights19/04/12 04:04 AM
4

I've never had this problem, though it wouldn't surprise me. Actually, some parental friends of mine like me to take pictures of their kids because I have a nicer camera than them. I'm a fortunate man I suppose.
/r/MensRights19/04/12 03:56 AM
2

The bulk of feminists are leftists of some variety or another, so as a Libertarian I can see why you'd grow weary of their tirades. I'm a Libertarian of the "Austrian school" variety, and it's so bizarre to see the same fallacies pop up time and time again from leftist feminists.
/r/MensRights19/04/12 03:39 AM
3

Is no one else seeing the perverse economic incentives in this? If anything, this would put up a barrier for returning mothers to find work at this company. Reasons: First, As an employer, why would I pay a woman 2x as much as another, or a man, when the value of the labor is the same? I'm not in business to do charity, I'm in business to remain viable. Secondly, even if my policy was to hire moms at 2x the wage, I could only hire half as many moms. How does that help my business or unemployed m…
/r/MensRights17/04/12 09:17 AM
2

Ok.. So why is this posted here?
/r/MensRights16/04/12 04:07 PM
4

Indeed, "a stain in history". Collectivist brain rot. There have been men who have created irreplaceable art, medicine, novels and philosophy - there have been cruel tyrants responsible for the deaths of millions, rapists, thugs and thieves. To smear the greatest of individuals with the sins of the worst merely because they share the same chromosomes is an affront to our greatest virtues.
/r/MensRights16/04/12 03:52 PM
3

Yes, the point was that men are not merely wastrels, profligates, and warlike savages bent on enslaving women. I wasn't trying to "boast" men as inherently superior whatsoever. I was pointing out the willful ignorance of this abysmal person in that all the things she's used to communicate her nonsensical video has been through the efforts of people of much superior character than her. Much of which were men. I am proud of and respect every single person who has lent their genius to each of these…
/r/MensRights16/04/12 12:35 PM
5

Hi, married guy here. First and foremost, the horror stories you hear of are true - however they need not be a part of divorce at all. That only started when the state started being involved in marriages, granting licenses of marriage to couple whom they thought were "worthy". The state hasn't been involved with marriage licensing that long, and only really did so for social engineering purposes (ex. originally intended to discourage interracial marriages) I got married to a woman from an undeve…
/r/MensRights16/04/12 11:07 AM
7

It's kind of like a Nazi Great. I'm "kind of like" a Nazi. Even better, I'm like Hitler.
/r/MensRights16/04/12 11:02 AM
2

Incredible what a difference 10 years (or less) makes. I've also been living outside the country for a few years. Guess I've been in a bubble. I've heard about completely absurd policies in the public schools as well, makes me realize I won't be letting my kids set one foot in those abominations.
/r/MensRights16/04/12 09:29 AM
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I'm terribly sorry ;) Perhaps she buys into the idea of polylogism, that different "classes" of people adhere to different rules of logic - an idea dreamt up by Marx. Oh wait.. even that terrible idea was thought of by a man. I'll see if I can find any insight by such profound thinkers as Andrea Dworkin and Gloria Steinem. I'm sure that's a wealth of thought.
/r/MensRights16/04/12 06:00 AM
2

I'm sorry, I have no idea what your context is. What posts about the Titanic?
/r/MensRights16/04/12 05:54 AM
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20 years old and already the fount of wisdom. Peer review = "many of my female friends" Let's get a brief recap how this video has been brought to us: electricity: Alternating current, an innovation brought to us by a man named Nikola Tesla. Direct current, brought to us by Thomas Edison. Ideas of physics before this were all men. Here are more things brought to us if not entirely by, or a vast majority, by either innovation or investment. establishment of property rights: men free market econom…
/r/MensRights16/04/12 05:30 AM
3

It seems I'm in the minority here. I always thought dating was fun and exciting. Sure it could be expensive after a while, but that was my choice. I dated starting at 16 until I was 29, when I got married. I never had a problem with any sexist women, though I do recall a few neurotic ones. Suppose that happens. I do see a lot of jaded younger fellas here, early 20s? Guys, it's pretty difficult to expect a solid relationship at that age. It just doesn't happen much in developed countries these da…
/r/MensRights16/04/12 04:52 AM
3

I call myself a "classical liberal" sometimes, that confuses most people. Oh nomenclature, why hast thou been so forsaken?
/r/MensRights13/04/12 03:43 AM
5

Thanks for sharing. This is why I'm libertarian, I want equal rights and liberties for everyone. No favorites.
/r/MensRights12/04/12 03:11 PM
4

We all have stories, it's good to get it out. Thanks for sharing. We can see things through new eyes when we get it on paper, funny how that works.
/r/MensRights12/04/12 03:08 PM
2

"decent men can help prevent rape" is too long for sloganeering I guess.
/r/MensRights11/04/12 10:05 AM
1

Yes, I'm aware. It's no excuse to abandon reason or maturity.
/r/MensRights10/04/12 11:52 PM
0

I totally missed this. I'm often quite bewildered by the behavior of people in this subreddit. This is a great example.
/r/MensRights10/04/12 03:08 PM
2

Those who make this argument are equating all racism to institutionalized racism. That's just a matter of false equivalence. It's quite elementary. The second error would be that of collectivist thinking. Some women are in positions of power, like our very own secretary of state, Angela Merkel or any number of other powerful women. All of which hold more power than a majority of men. There is no "men" or "women" in power except insofar as being individuals. If you are a white man with executive …
/r/MensRights06/04/12 02:05 AM
2

As a kid or teenager, even now and I'm 30, this is correct for me too. I would most likely not get in the car unless necessary. I would not, however, take it as a chance to call the police and harass someone for it.
/r/MensRights18/03/12 02:07 AM
10

Strange, so many people seem to love Jesus though.
/r/MensRights18/03/12 02:02 AM
6

Not sure why this is voted down. People here should look up Warren vs. district of Columbia. Police exist to protect and serve the state. They leave the latter part out part out.
/r/MensRights18/03/12 02:00 AM
3

Ah, I didn't think of those things. I've never understood the amount of ornery anti-capitalists on reddit when this website and all the technology and resources that went into making it possible could only have been brought about through free enterprise. Kids these days.
/r/MensRights17/03/12 11:49 AM
5

Ah true. I'm one of those definitely conditioned to feel embarrassed about it. I also come from the bible belt. Double negative.
/r/MensRights14/03/12 04:38 PM
2

What does this have to do with MR? This just looks like an ad.
/r/MensRights14/03/12 01:53 PM
2

Why the hell are comments chiding Marx being so downvoted? Guys, Labor of theory of value was refuted 142 years ago. Not only that, Marxism and Socialism led to some of the worst dictatorships of the 20th century. The only upside of Marx was that he wasn't Keynesian. Meanwhile, this site exists because of economic freedom. So all of you can thank Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Menger, Bastiat, Frank Knight, and any number of free marketers out there. Marx didn't do jack shit to help anyone but himself,…
/r/MensRights13/03/12 03:45 PM
0

Upvoted for historical sad but true. See also: Mao's great leap forward, Ukrainian famine. :/
/r/MensRights13/03/12 03:40 PM
3

Hey, bro? :)
/r/MensRights12/03/12 03:44 AM
0

if you're going to downvote someone, at least say why you disagree. Lazy asses.
/r/MensRights06/03/12 03:07 AM
1

He sounds like a classic case of delusion to avoid reality to the point where it's entirely ingrained as a psychological deficiency. Splitting with him and you getting full custody might actually be good for him. Or not. Could go either way really.
/r/MensRights06/03/12 02:17 AM
2

Please stop the generalisations. Yes, collectivist thinking is truly the enemy of intellectual thought, either regarding gender issues or any number of other policy issues, especially economics.
/r/MensRights05/03/12 02:27 AM
1

Nanny statism at its finest.
/r/MensRights02/03/12 09:15 AM
2

Brevity is where it's at these days, didn't you know?
/r/MensRights28/02/12 11:44 PM
1

I took it to mean the faulty reasoning, in which case it isn't ad hom - though somewhat superfluous :)
/r/MensRights28/02/12 11:43 PM
4

So the points you didn't address, you don't have particular qualms with those? Or was it a time issue?
/r/MensRights28/02/12 11:26 AM
2

Oh yes, I've read many a-Vonnegut and I remember it coming on tv when I was a teenager in the 90s. Good stuff, you're right!
/r/MensRights28/02/12 12:30 AM
2

Feminism, as I've always understood it, is about promoting the rights of women to be, at the very least, equal to men. There are many issues with the wording and what's left out. Indeed, there is a hidden meaning behind "equal". All people, regardless of category, should have equality under the law, but even more importantly, they should retain liberty. Liberty is largely ignored by the feminism movement, though it isn't necessarily mutually exclusive. Feminists, since they are largely on the le…
/r/MensRights27/02/12 05:21 AM
1

Disagreeing is one thing and disagreements should be discussed, but downvoting into oblivion should be saved for entirely inappropriate, unrelated, or otherwise vacuous comments.
/r/MensRights26/02/12 10:18 AM
0

Which isn't at all what I said. But if that's your interpretation, I can do nothing about that.
/r/MensRights26/02/12 03:59 AM
1

Ah, xie xie si fu. Your wisdom is older than the mountains. No one has ever said that before. The mystery is solved.
/r/MensRights26/02/12 02:30 AM
1

If they didn't tell me as such, detective, I wouldn't have said it was anecdotal. Is the interrogation over? Can I go now?
/r/MensRights26/02/12 02:00 AM
1

Do you think anything I could say in this thread could instantly cure any type of psychological malady? Can you? Of course not, strength to change only comes from within. So what is your point?
/r/MensRights26/02/12 01:58 AM
1

I wasn't projecting, all my in-laws are Filipino. Though to be fair, that still means anecdotal.
/r/MensRights26/02/12 01:55 AM
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Oh, a writer at cracked uses straw man arguments, among other fallacies, to "win"? I am beside myself with shock
/r/MensRights25/02/12 06:20 PM
1

Communication is a pillar of a solid relationship, without it, it's a house sure to be razed to the ground.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 06:15 PM
1

Well I kinda dig Sartre, post ww2 existentialist philosopher that had a very positive influence on a very downtrodden France. The other quotes? Meh. So why's this posted here?
/r/MensRights25/02/12 06:10 PM
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Caring what strangers think about you is tantamount to servitude. Break the chains and stay strong.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 05:58 PM
1

Yeah my wife is filipina, I've been to the Philippines several times since I live in Singapore. I cant even imagine that kinda pain and humiliation.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 05:52 PM
0

If you're going to downvote this comment, at least have the decency to think about it first.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 01:24 PM
-1

gasp I didn't notice the autocorrect error until now.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 01:21 PM
1

No idea, I'm not a lawyer or law scholar. I just know that oral contracts are always bogus, and that in the last 15 years I haven't once gotten anyone pregnant by accident. It's not rocket science.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 01:15 PM
6

Even more to bizarre to me is that in the Philippines they weight until you're 12 to do it. Awesome, huh?
/r/MensRights25/02/12 11:50 AM
0

No legal contract, no way out. Oral contracts are worthless.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 08:44 AM
0

I can tell. As history as an indicator, herd mentality wins out over the rational.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 08:43 AM
1

The question relies on a fallacy. Obviously what I said is contextual, I am positing an exclusively biological argument. In all other cases, a written, voluntary contract between private parties is necessary. The OP unfortunately had no signed legal contract with the woman where in case she were to contract and she were to get pregnant, the contract should be upheld. Without such a contract, legal precedence wins out. End of story.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 08:41 AM
0

Lesson learned: oral contracts are useless. Written contracts are where it's at fellas.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 08:35 AM
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Am I their biological father? False equivalence fallacy.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 07:10 AM
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"Psychologist Philip Zimbardo suggests it’s due to arousal addictions: excessive internet use, gaming, and a seemingly insatiable appetite for porn" Oh fuck off, seriously.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 06:58 AM
4

Fallacy of the false dichotomy. Women tend to prefer intelligence first, this trait often leads to better manners - though they are not mutually inclusive. Of course, intelligence tends to mean whether you agree with them or not. Depends on the woman.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 06:52 AM
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If it were me, and I'm a rational adult, I would consider it far more important to be a role model for a kid than delegating who was and wasn't right.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 06:47 AM
0

That's not even a rational argument. I thought that's what this subreddit is for, rational discussion on a mutual interest. Otherwise it becomes exactly what you just did, a herd mentality.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 06:44 AM
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It does change when you get pregnant. Hypotheticals and reality are mutually exclusive. It all changes. It is an awful thing to go through an abortion, and I see why she'd change her mind. You already knew that contraception does not have a 100% rate of protection from pregnancy whether she did it on purpose (proof?) or not. So you also must bear responsibility for this. If you survive, you do have some moral responsibility. Children need more male role models, not more single mothers.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 03:58 AM
1

Ah, well. That does change the dynamic a bit.
/r/MensRights25/02/12 03:05 AM
1

Abolish gender. While we're at it, let's abolish salt water, clouds and static electricity.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 04:35 PM
12

The obsession with "pure, untainted, virgin women" has largely come from the male-dominated abrahamic religions, insofar as western civilization is concerned. I don't think I need to quote the TaNak, new testament or qu'ran on this.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 04:31 PM
7

Hey mate, I don't think rape jokes are too popular here. I could be wrong.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 04:26 PM
2

Ok then. Thank you for your time.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 04:20 PM
8

Apparently that being "nice" leads to loserville. "Nice" is just a soft-hearted colloquial term for dull.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 04:16 PM
4

Just to add: watch out for collectivist thinking. When you start with "men have done such and such to women", it is the root of an errant line of rationalization. Being a man, I am no more guilty of the crimes of another man than I am responsible for any invention, innovation, symphony or heroic deed of another man. The same thing goes for anything else, like nationality, generation or creed.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 04:12 PM
2

Downvoted for putting in my $.02. Way to keep it rational, fellas.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 02:53 PM
2

Oh, a Huffington post article about Sarah Palin, how about that.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 07:45 AM
2

Ok.. is there more context here?
/r/MensRights24/02/12 07:42 AM
2

As a son I wasn't taught specific lessons, but I was taught how to reason, which subsequently taught me purpose, giving me self-esteem. From there, all other virtues followed. I was also taught how to survive in the woods for some reason. I've only lived in cities since I was 18.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 07:33 AM
2

Agreed. This isn't compelling.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 07:30 AM
2

"Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so." - Bertrand Russell.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 07:27 AM
2

I suppose I hadn't thought of that - a notion of feminism relying on an economic fallacy refuted 140 years ago. It certainly does give reasonable insight into their respective thought processes.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 07:23 AM
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I'm not seeing an enormous problem with the original posting. The most I'd probably do is scoff at it and move on.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 06:18 AM
1

Not to be too much of an economist here, but: can something be exploitation if it's a mutually beneficial, voluntary agreement? Unless you believe in the long-refuted labor theory of value, then no.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 06:10 AM
3

I assume your divorce included paying monthly child support. If this is the case, she's abdicating a legal contract. She's abdicating it either way.
/r/MensRights24/02/12 06:03 AM
7

We don't have nipples for nothing. Heh.
/r/MensRights23/02/12 10:21 AM
-1

I have no clue what being in a "friend zone" is like.
/r/MensRights20/02/12 02:32 AM
1

Put it that way, better they learn that while they're still young!
/r/MensRights18/02/12 07:28 AM
4

self-defense is met with the same punishment as an aggressor? People are guilty by accusation alone? My god, what kind of values are these supposed to teach? Zero tolerance, infinite ignorance it seems. Public schools are run by the depraved. This young man should consider homeschooling. You can actually graduate sooner with more knowledge, self-confidence and self-reliance than in one of these government asylums.
/r/MensRights15/02/12 06:26 AM
1

A little bit yes. My comment to him wasn't merely "apathetic noise". The point of my statement to the fellow was actually to reassure him that he need not do anything, legally speaking, besides contribute monetarily. This is to counterbalance any thinking that he feel obligated to do more, which it seems like he did. It was also to counterbalance the largely irrational thought-terminating cliches and platitudes like "man up", etc. This kind of anonymous, self-righteous bravado is tired.
/r/MensRights15/02/12 06:20 AM
2

I've never dated a woman who brought politics into who pays the bill. Sometimes they liked to pay, sometimes they liked to split, sometimes I offered. All it takes is 2 minutes of talking to come to an agreement. Communication wins out again.
/r/MensRights15/02/12 03:02 AM
1

I don't need to post anywhere, and you don't need to make me aware of my choices or your opinion on them. I am an adult and I don't need to preached to.
/r/MensRights15/02/12 02:49 AM
2

I don't quite follow. Is there no such thing as burden of proof? I was in high school in the 90s, that was pretty much the standard operating procedure.
/r/MensRights15/02/12 02:39 AM
1

Because he doesn't have my sympathy and I don't have any particular hope or concern with how things turn out. Conversely, I have no particular spite or a particularly righteous superiority, so I'm not going to say anything petty or callous just because I'm relatively anonymous. Either way, I'm not going to say what I don't mean and that's the end of it.
/r/MensRights15/02/12 02:14 AM
1

There's nothing to really "help" with here. I just told him that he's financially responsible, and that's all. What else am I going to do, send the lad some money?
/r/MensRights14/02/12 06:04 AM
2

We're all individuals. You can no more apologize for someone else's behavior as you can eat their breakfast for them. When you begin to apologize for the behavior of others, you give credit to the inherently fallacious collectivist thinking that fuels bigotry.
/r/MensRights14/02/12 05:16 AM
5

My wife is more traditional, which is typical over here in Asia. So she's quite supportive.
/r/MensRights14/02/12 02:16 AM
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In some ways this subreddit is actually a support group, I think.
/r/MensRights13/02/12 03:37 AM
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