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respect_the_potato/r/MGTOW23/06/19 11:55 PM
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The trouble with strategically not supporting abortion rights in my view is that abortion isn't just a women's issue, it's also a children's issue. Do you think women who don't want children but are forced to have them anyway are going to reliably be half-decent mothers? I don't. Especially if they're not responsible enough to avoid a situation where they would want an abortion in the first place. So I can't in good conscience refuse to support that right. And, to be honest, I also doubt that wo…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/12/23 07:38 PM
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Men, or at least the younger guys I know, definitely do enjoy romance that caters to men, of which there's quite a lot if you look outside feminist-dominated western media. See: nearly every harem manga/anime/visual novel ever, in which the male protagonist is often the generic easy-to-project-on character while the female characters are all unique.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/11/23 02:42 PM
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I think it's based on age-adjusted mortality. So if men and women each had the same age-distribution as the general population, then men would be dying at 1.4 times the rate of women each year.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/01/23 01:51 PM
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Poor countries may have high fertility rates, but in connection with their high inequality they also have higher child mortality, less access to birth control, and less guaranteed ability to retire in old age without relying on children. Should we forgo quality of life in order to increase fertility? The correlation may exist but be more complicated than it appears. People who come from a culture where survival isn't guaranteed and birth control isn't accessible may be much more prone to r-selec…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/01/23 01:24 AM
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More equal distribution of resources probably encourages both monogamy and reproduction compared to very unequal distribution of resources, and increasing inequality could play some role in why the average age of parenthood keeps getting older and older in the US as people want to be financially stable before having children. But either way, I'm also an antinatalist in theory, so I for one would still care about economic well being even if society is dying out.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/01/23 11:42 PM
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Didn't say that. I recognize that the preference for marrying up aka hypergamy is a long-standing tradition. My point was that what "marrying up" actually means in practice is a function of whatever economic and social structures determine who gets wealth and status, and if those systems happen to favor antisocial traits and net-negative behavior, then it will indirectly lead to women favoring men with antisocial traits and net-negative behavior more than they would otherwise, which could be per…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/01/23 05:51 PM
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Okay, hopefully OP will make sure you get your state-mandated A-cup wife when the revolution succeeds.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/01/23 04:48 PM
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Hm... I don't know how that came across in my tone because I don't agree with that. I just believe that sexual preferences can't inherently be right or wrong as long as everyone involved can consent -- unlike economic systems, which can be judged by how reliably they reward people who provide real net value to others, how much freedom and opportunity they offer, how they improve collective well-being, etc. etc.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/01/23 04:37 PM
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I feel like you think you're disagreeing with me but actually you're agreeing with me. When I said that in the second case the "resource" that needs to be distributed more evenly is women, I was deliberately trying to show the absurdity of the idea that regulating the sexual marketplace is comparable to regulating the economic marketplace.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/01/23 04:25 PM
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Sexual poverty isn't usually considered to be a serious moral or social justice issue on the left like financial poverty. Sex is considered to be a luxury, very far from a necessity. Idk, I've been a virgin my whole life and I don't feel like I've missed out on too much by not having sex or a romantic relationship, though I do think social isolation in general can cause a lot of suffering and diminished opportunities on par with financial poverty. I also believe that it's common for guys to get …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/01/23 03:21 PM
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In one case the resource that needs to be distributed more equitably is money, which is an inert social construct, and in the other case the "resource" that needs to be distributed more equitably is women, who are people with their own preferences. That's an important difference, and there's no conflict of values between supporting the former but not the latter if your underlying value is something like "giving individuals greater autonomy in their lives". Another thing is that nearly all leftis…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/01/23 01:57 PM
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It's a way of reinforcing the self-sacrificial aspect of the male gender role by preemptively shaming men for deviating from it without admitting that that's what's being done. If you pretend that men are *already* the more narcissistic gender, then pushing them to be less narcissistic can be framed as dismantling a gender role rather than reinforcing it. Pretty neat, right? I doubt any of this is done consciously by most people though. My suspicion is that the average person simply feels worse …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/12/22 02:27 AM
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I think OP was actually expecting more of the answers to be female characters. A comfort character is similar to a comfort show, a show you might watch when stressed because you find it soothing. A comfort character is a character whose personality and demeanor you find soothing in some way, and who you might think about when stressed (or read books and watch shows where the character appears). It could be partly because you see them as a role model, or because you'd like to hang out with them, …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/08/22 04:30 PM
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Mine are Captain Picard and Data from Star Trek, Gintoki from Gintama, another vote for Sherlock Holmes from the books, and maybe House from House MD
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/08/22 04:09 PM
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If you allow exceptions for rape and incest, don't be surprised if some women choose to use false accusations to get a safe abortion. Also, arbitrarily destroying a lot of things is monstrous when you look at it from the right angle. Nearly all adult animals have a much greater degree of sentience and sapience than a human fetus, but only a small percentage of the population cares enough about that to consider killing them arbitrarily to be wrong. Moreover, there are many children and adult huma…
/r/MensRights25/06/22 01:05 PM
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The source: https://www.marriage.com/advice/mental-health/how-to-deal-with-an-emotionally-unstable-partner/
/r/MensRights29/05/22 08:23 PM
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Strength doesn't mean much in a context where you're not allowed to use it without severe repercussions or where weapons of any kind might be involved.
/r/MensRights20/05/22 06:00 PM
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I'd rather they just came out and admitted that they don't care about male victims without putting up a smokscreen around it.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/05/22 12:46 AM
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It's entirely natural to suppose that women would compete most with other women while still supporting women as a collective over men as a collective. That applies to almost any group of rational self-interested people who have something in common. Supporting your group over another group makes sense because by supporting your group you are indirectly supporting yourself. Competing with your group more than another group makes sense because, for one thing, it's easier to compare yourself hierarc…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/04/22 11:56 PM
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It's not that uncommon for abusive parents to call the police on their children or get them locked up in a mental hospital if they dare to fight back, so fighting back isn't a very good recommendation in general. As long as we live in society, whether a person is weak or strong in the most straightforward sense has very little to do with how their life goes. You said yourself that life isn't fair, and to the extent that life isn't fair, it's the luckiest who thrive, not the strongest, and it's t…
/r/MensRights24/04/22 12:02 AM
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I didn't say the word "proof" in my comment, so I don't know what the upper part of your post is referring to. And yes, I'm absolutely a believer in men's rights activism and have been arguing with people about topics related to it for ages. High male suicide rates, homelessness, the near absence of domestic violence shelters and other forms of protection available to men despite men being victims of domestic violence at a comparable rate to women, the fact that male genital mutilation is still …
/r/MensRights16/04/22 10:01 PM
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Why would you respond to someone's rant by looking through their history to find ways to personally attack them for their sexual preferences or spiritual beliefs rather than just, you know, discussing what they said in the rant by itself? What you did is not okay, nor is it persuasive to anyone who might be reading the conversation. And bringing the conversation over here to gossip about the other person isn't any better. Please keep personal reddit drama out of here.
/r/MensRights16/04/22 03:24 PM
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According to the article, although the city of Fort Collins is dropping its ban on women being topless in public, neither of the nearby cities of Denver and Boulder have a ban on women being topless in public. In fact, several states and places in the US have no explicit ban on women or girls being topless in public. Just because it's no longer going to be classified as a criminal act doesn't mean the city is going to turn into a nudist resort. The vast majority of parents are still probably goi…
/r/MensRights15/04/22 11:13 PM
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I recently recommended this sub to someone in the hope that seeing what we actually talk about here would change their negative perception of men's rights activism, but a few of the posts lately haven't been helping my case. Women being allowed to go topless? A woman in Texas getting an abortion? What? Why are these being presented as men's rights issues? It's not a zero-sum game. We have many more relevant things to discuss and be concerned about.
/r/MensRights15/04/22 09:14 PM
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Unless men do start getting sent to jail for happening to see a woman who is legally topless, this doesn't have much to do with men's rights.
/r/MensRights15/04/22 03:59 PM
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I consider myself firmly left with regard to the economy, with regard to the environment, and with regard to many socio-cultural issues. The only reason the men's rights movement has developed a significant rightwing bent is because much of the self-proclaimed "left" has become increasingly puritanical over the past decade and the self-proclaimed "right" has been absorbing everything they reject. At least, that's what seems to have been happening from my perspective here in the US. In theory, th…
/r/MensRights13/04/22 04:54 AM
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It's a straw man argument in the truest sense. They even use their own name for it so they can say whatever they like about it without technically lying.
/r/MensRights24/07/20 12:10 AM
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Kizuna AI
/r/MGTOW05/04/20 06:42 PM
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Ideally it would separate pets, wild animals, and livestock in that order.
/r/MGTOW07/02/20 03:02 AM
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I'm saying that from my experience it is pretty common - once you know what to look for - and that the people who read these forums and then accuse their partners of gaslighting are, as often as not, consciously doing it as a form of gaslighting or unconsciously doing it as a form of projection. I'll give that it was uncommon until recently, though it seems to me that, at least in America, it's been on the rise for decades.
/r/MGTOW11/01/20 06:17 PM
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Check out r/raisedbynarcissists. Gaslighting is far from male specific or romantic relationship specific and is an extremely common tactic among certain personality types. All it means is using denial, contradiction, and outright lies to destabilize someone's sense of reality and self worth, often with the aim of obscuring other more overt forms of manipulation. People who do it are like little cult leaders, and they do it because it works. I got into this stuff after realizing that my mom had b…
/r/MGTOW11/01/20 05:31 PM
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Zero-sum game mentality, crabs in a bucket, whatever it is it needs to stop.
/r/MensRights16/10/19 12:56 PM
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