smapte Archive

Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

Upvotes	Comment on	Subreddit	Date (UTC)
8	It is fairly indicative of the ingrained misandry in some places in our society when a book like this is even half way taken seriously. This comment hit the nail on the head. Want to make a quick buck? Take a group of people with buying power and tell them they're better, smarter, and stronger than everyone else. This really isn't any different than those stupid books that tell women they're "goddesses." It's an appeal to low self esteem aimed at people who need to identify with a group in order to feel better about themselves.	/r/MensRights	06/03/11 02:41 AM
1	SF may ban infant circumcision A ballot initiative on track for gathering enough signatures is not the same as on the table and viable for passage.	/r/MensRights	23/02/11 06:07 PM
0	My father got divorced in Massachusetts and has to give 50% of his income to my mother for the rest of her life. She hasn't spoken to my entire family in 12 years. Help end arcane alimony laws in Massachusetts. Actually, there's not for women. They can drop a baby off at a hospital, and never hear about it again. Men can't get away from children they never wanted in the way women can (abortion, Baby Moses/Safe Haven Laws) i have to assume you recognize this argument as a red herring. first of all, men and women are afforded equal protection under safe haven/baby moses laws, and a small amount of searching would turn up reports where fathers relinquished children with no more difficulty than mothers. se…	/r/MensRights	23/02/11 01:53 PM
1	My father got divorced in Massachusetts and has to give 50% of his income to my mother for the rest of her life. She hasn't spoken to my entire family in 12 years. Help end arcane alimony laws in Massachusetts. No worries!	/r/MensRights	23/02/11 03:49 AM
1	My father got divorced in Massachusetts and has to give 50% of his income to my mother for the rest of her life. She hasn't spoken to my entire family in 12 years. Help end arcane alimony laws in Massachusetts. My personal view is that mandatory court-calculated child support should be eliminated if the parent providing majority care remarries. At that point child support becomes punitive to the ex-spouse rather than supportive to the child. That said, I would hope that a responsible parent would see the necessity of providing for the life he/she created and would provide anyway, either by feeding a college fund or building investments to become the child's property at age 18.	/r/MensRights	23/02/11 03:32 AM
1	My father got divorced in Massachusetts and has to give 50% of his income to my mother for the rest of her life. She hasn't spoken to my entire family in 12 years. Help end arcane alimony laws in Massachusetts. I'm not missing the point though. I agree with you completely that in 50/50 custody arrangements no child support should be assessed. And in an ideal world both parents would step up and be honorable and share the extra expenses that go beyond room and board. Don't interpret that as a gender statement. Women and men cam be equally shitty at fostering amicable arrangements that benefit their children in divorce situations. It takes commitment from both parents to make it work. That said, what I'm…	/r/MensRights	22/02/11 10:23 PM
1	My father got divorced in Massachusetts and has to give 50% of his income to my mother for the rest of her life. She hasn't spoken to my entire family in 12 years. Help end arcane alimony laws in Massachusetts. my husband was raised exclusively by his father after his mom ran out on them. so excuse me if i don't automatically assume moms are the primary caregivers and consider this a broader non-gender issue at heart. and since you didn't really answer my question, or really address my original reply in the first place, i assume you're really only interested in soapboxing on the man vs woman point. whatevs.	/r/MensRights	22/02/11 08:56 PM
0	My father got divorced in Massachusetts and has to give 50% of his income to my mother for the rest of her life. She hasn't spoken to my entire family in 12 years. Help end arcane alimony laws in Massachusetts. strong answer. do you believe there is never a situation where divorce results in the need for a child to live primarily with one parent? should the other parent not provide in part for their offspring in that circumstance? keep in mind, i've implied nothing about whether mom or dad is the primary caregiver. this isn't about men and women, it's about providing for the expense of raising and caring for offspring.	/r/MensRights	22/02/11 08:05 PM
1	When being a 'Boy' is considered a Sickness the feminized structure of american public education is undebatable. it works against boys' development and often punishes them for experiencing normal feelings and developmental milestones. young boys learn that girls are "good" in school and boys are "bad," simply because their developmental progress is biologically different (read: not better or worse) from girls. girls reach some milestones first, boys reach other milestones first. by high school any early milestone advantage has evened out …	/r/MensRights	22/02/11 04:57 PM
5	My father got divorced in Massachusetts and has to give 50% of his income to my mother for the rest of her life. She hasn't spoken to my entire family in 12 years. Help end arcane alimony laws in Massachusetts. i realize i'm preaching to the choir, but there's no excuse for alimony to exist anymore. a marriage dissolved means financial ties are dissolved. i do believe in child support (fairly assessed and protected from abuse by the custodial parent) but alimony is an insult to both the payer and the payee. can anyone give me a good argument for alimony? what kind of situation would justify it? i honestly can't think of one.	/r/MensRights	22/02/11 04:35 PM
2	Mothers are the perpetrators in the vast majority of child murders. am i mistaken or did i not say anything about whether or not these murders should be punished? i defined a condition and pointed out the distinction that it (and PPP, which you're still confusing) does exist.	/r/MensRights	20/02/11 02:44 AM
4	Mothers are the perpetrators in the vast majority of child murders. They can use the PPD defense because PPD exists. And actually what you're referring to is postpartum psychosis (PPP), an unrelated condition to PPD.	/r/MensRights	20/02/11 12:13 AM
2	Preparing for massive downvotes, but would like to share my opinion You can absolutely quantify the "rape culture" issue by aggregating false rape accusation statistics, by totaling and extrapolating the number of years men have been wrongly imprisoned by women who have made false claims, or by totaling the penalty in years or dollars that false rape accusers would have received if filing a false rape claim were taken as seriously as making false statements about other crimes. If you can directly correlate the culture of "the tyranny of the male gaze" to lost or…	/r/MensRights	15/01/11 01:10 PM
3	Preparing for massive downvotes, but would like to share my opinion feminism is currently eroding my interests. I don't see how I can avoid acting in opposition to something that is actively degrading my position in society. Can you give concrete or quantifiable examples of ways in which your interests have been eroded, or your position has been degraded in society? I'm not baiting you, I really want to understand the concrete ways in which your life has been affected. The problem with any ideological movement, whether based on gender, race, religion, etc, is th…	/r/MensRights	15/01/11 12:07 AM
2	Has anyone else heard this remark? What was your reaction? I find those kinds of comments very offensive. My husband is a fantastic partner and we share in household tasks equally. Friends and even his mother have made comments about having him trained and I feel like it's insulting to both husband and wife. It implies men are useless unless directed, unable to competently identify and complete menial tasks. And at the same time acts as wry commentary on the simplicity and mundane nature of "women's work." I literally just had to fake a smile in respons…	/r/MensRights	27/12/10 04:02 AM
3	Converted. I'm looking for affirmation and need a wake-up call? You're making a lot of assumptions about my stance on men's rights. Here's a protip: part of being an effective member of any advocacy group is being able to correctly identify your allies and supporters and then regarding them inclusively. Second to that task is not falsely identifying allies as enemies and shitting down their necks until they actually become the enemies you imagined them to be. That is, unless your goal is to be forever vict…	/r/MensRights	24/12/10 06:03 AM
10	Converted. Consider that people who respond as you did are the reason some folks look dubiously on men's rights.	/r/MensRights	24/12/10 02:26 AM
4	The date rape drug myth Maybe this is what you meant by false personal responsibility, but I would argue that rape victims do not bear personal responsibility for being raped. The rapist bears the responsibility regardless of whether the girl was too drunk to resist.	/r/MensRights	23/12/10 08:22 PM
4	The date rape drug myth By the same token, lying about the date rape drug doesn't necessarily make a girl less raped. If a girl is too drunk to resist, it's still rape. Just want to throw that out there because many comments in this thread (not necessarily this one) seem to be missing the point.	/r/MensRights	23/12/10 07:31 PM
6	Marry a rich man: The new wave of feminism. so any opinion expressed by a segment of women is a "wave of feminism?" i mean that as a serious question. how is this a form of feminism? some men suck. some women suck, too. it doesn't have to be a movement.	/r/MensRights	09/12/10 06:23 PM
2	Woman has a friend that is trying to get impregnated by random men without telling them. this is what is wrong with women today. ...there are a lot of women who are like this. I don't know the percentages but looking at my HS it's obvious there were many. Tough to argue with that kind of air-tight quantitative analysis.	/r/MensRights	06/12/10 10:30 PM
1	If you're a feminist coming to this subreddit, here's some advice (from a feminist) about how to approach Men's Rights issues without coming across as insensitive to the people affected by them excellent post. i would add that longtime members shouldn't assume that someone's first post in this forum indicates a total lack of lurking. i've been on the receiving end and seen this pitched at other contributors. a first response does not mean the person hasn't spent a good amount of time lurking, reading, listening and learning about the forum. disagreeing with someone isn't justification for dismissing them as simply being a "newbie" or deciding they've spent no time getting acclimated. n…	/r/MensRights	29/11/10 02:57 PM
4	Disney decides that they want to make movies for boys and girls instead of just girls. Feminist: "That's sexist!" my thoughts exactly. i know very few "feminists" (in quotes due to divergent definitions of the term) who embrace the disney princess machine.	/r/MensRights	24/11/10 04:11 PM
1	Understanding the ripple effects of underachieving boys Appreciate it. And I sincerely mean what I said, I am a supporter of most of the issues that come up here and I think there's value in having a forum where people can discuss the way the attempt to address historical sexism can have a negative effect on men and boys.	/r/MensRights	16/11/10 02:23 AM
-1	Understanding the ripple effects of underachieving boys Projecting a bit, but that's okay.	/r/MensRights	16/11/10 01:58 AM
-1	Understanding the ripple effects of underachieving boys I'm a college educated chick who is happily married to a non-college educated man whose professional talent I admire almost to the point of diehard fanhood. By nature of career choice I am the breadwinner and will likely always be the higher earner. But who cares? He's an immensely talented designer, as well as a stellar father who cooks and cleans and cares for our two sons. Plus he's dynamite in the sack. He is an exemplary husband and father. Now, I'm someone who dentifies as a feminist. And …	/r/MensRights	16/11/10 01:30 AM
2	Understanding the ripple effects of underachieving boys Care to finish the thought?	/r/MensRights	16/11/10 01:03 AM
-10	So I am writing a paper on Gender Inequality in Schools... Good point, bro. He should be careful because it would be impossible for his teacher to recognize his effort and grade him accordingly rather than simply mark him as a "problem male" and take out all of her PMS rage on him.	/r/MensRights	15/11/10 10:29 PM
2	So I am writing a paper on Gender Inequality in Schools... get your hands on the PBS documentary "raising cain." cite it as a source and use it to help point you to research that shows how the educational system that is currently widely embraced is skewed towards feminine development and puts boys at a disadvantage early on. as a mom of two boys i found the documentary very enlightening and i agree wholeheartedly with its position on gender inequality in schools. make your point rationally, informed by facts, and cite sources for every claim you intend …	/r/MensRights	15/11/10 09:31 PM
15	Apparently, elr on r/women thinks that posting/upvoting stories about false rape accusations is misogynist. It is the most popular thread on r/women right now. I had to check your user name to see if it was a novelty account called "hyperbolic_sweeping_generalization."	/r/MensRights	13/11/10 12:46 PM
8	A man, suffering from liver failure, owed $30,000 in back child support. They took most of his paycheck (his children were adults). He couldn't feed himself; his lack of nutrition and illness were killing him. Their response: "We don't care; go ahead and die." so much bandwagoning for an anecdotal synopsis of a situation that was related with no context or concrete details. but OUTRAGE ANYWAY!	/r/MensRights	08/11/10 02:30 PM
1	"...it's one thing to have a Mom section with nursing pads, but it's another thing to have all the baby carriers in a pink "Just For Mom" section." Upvote for you, trollking.	/r/MensRights	08/11/10 12:48 PM
13	"...it's one thing to have a Mom section with nursing pads, but it's another thing to have all the baby carriers in a pink "Just For Mom" section." Rest assured, fathers, many mothers are just as offended by these skewed marketing campaigns. My husband and I have twins and if he wasn't as fully involved in every feeding and diaper change and decision as he is, I would have never survived the first 2 years. He is never out of focus in the background and to call him "mr mom" implies there's no value in being "mr dad." As a woman I take offense in the reciprocal message, which is that women are by nature the automatic caregivers whose minds ar…	/r/MensRights	07/11/10 10:56 PM
5	Feminists: Who cares if it’s your kid? FTA: "Aren’t feminists constantly calling for BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH" no. no they're not. end hyperbolic overgeneralizing rant.	/r/MensRights	02/11/10 06:17 PM