thehenkan Archive

Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

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-1	Default sub post on the front page drops a massive Red Pill with a dose of equality: “Telling a male to “man up” is the equivalent to telling a woman to “stay in the kitchen.” Is red pill a good thing now?	/r/MensRights	01/11/17 06:08 AM
-1	Everything you wanted to know but you were too afraid to ask about those evil creatures called men Holy shit post	/r/MensRights	06/08/17 10:26 PM
1	In 2010, Sweden scrapped affirmative action in colleges because it ended up favouring men, as women outnumbered them: ''The education system should open doors – not shut them in the face of young women who are motivated to study'' I agree that quotas are not good for anyone involved, that people should make their own decisions regarding what career to pursue, and be judged as an individual on their own merits. Since our experiences seem to differ, however, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree as to what skills are actually useful in the workplace. Around here our job culture is heavily based around meetings and collectively making decisions, maybe that is a factor.	/r/MensRights	01/08/17 01:36 PM
1	In 2010, Sweden scrapped affirmative action in colleges because it ended up favouring men, as women outnumbered them: ''The education system should open doors – not shut them in the face of young women who are motivated to study'' I mean, I'm not saying it's black and white. When they're asked if they know someone with a particular skillset, some people will recommend that person they respect a ton for their skills, but some people are going to recommend that person they also grew very close to. It's certainly possible to have a great career as a woman in tech. I'm just saying there are some situations where you are at a disadvantage being a minority in the workplace - and yes, some where you are at an advantage. I mean, …	/r/MensRights	01/08/17 09:30 AM
0	In 2010, Sweden scrapped affirmative action in colleges because it ended up favouring men, as women outnumbered them: ''The education system should open doors – not shut them in the face of young women who are motivated to study'' Do you really think that? That everyone are judged solely by merit? No, it's as much about who you know and if you get along well with your colleagues. It's not the case for everyone, but a lot of people don't form as close friendships with people of the opposite sex. If your colleagues are all guys, being a girl can put you at a serious disadvantage when networking.	/r/MensRights	31/07/17 06:41 PM
0	In 2010, Sweden scrapped affirmative action in colleges because it ended up favouring men, as women outnumbered them: ''The education system should open doors – not shut them in the face of young women who are motivated to study'' Yes, all tech companies want to hire female new grads, but they still have the hurdle of people subconsciously thinking they are less competent. This both makes it harder to negotiate for a higher salary (though tbf women are more likely to not even try negotiating, can't blame anyone else there), as well as generally not receiving the same amount of responsibility. Less responsibility may sound great in the short run, but long term it means less opportunities to grow professionally and less to …	/r/MensRights	31/07/17 04:41 PM
12	Men 'bullied' out of generous divorce settlements by breadwinning wives Marriage is optional though.	/r/MensRights	06/03/17 12:05 AM
2	Why Google decided to focus on women with new emojis They want to make female emoji, but they shouldn't contain anything that is culturally feminine? I get what they're going for, but it's a tiny cartoon image! When the only thing left separating the male and female emoji are boobs (remember, hair is also just a stereotype), the need for gendered emoji doesn't really seem to be that huge.	/r/MensRights	21/10/16 10:49 AM
1	British father banned from taking his son to church as his mother is Muslim This is the truth. People can downvote and disagree with Mr JJ here all they want, and system too for that matter, but this is how the world works at the moment. The primary caretaker has final say in all decisions regarding the child, if nothing else is agreed upon. In this case the court sees the mother and the child as the family, while the father is just a person who happens to have biological ties to the child, as well as visitation rights. The court sees him as a disruption in their family…	/r/MensRights	28/03/16 04:46 PM
0	British father banned from taking his son to church as his mother is Muslim That doesn't matter if he isn't the caretaker, because he's not the one raising the kid, so they're not forcing him to raise his son at all; the opposite, actually. You can disagree with him not having those rights, but if the case is that the mother is the caretaker, that's just the way it is. I'm just trying to explain that morally wrong doesn't always mean illegal, and that we don't the full story. All words are made up. Islamophobe is certainly an overused buzzword, much like lots of people …	/r/MensRights	28/03/16 03:02 PM
0	British father banned from taking his son to church as his mother is Muslim This isn't the court deciding arbitrarily how the child is raised, but the mother making that decision and the court ordering the father to follow her decision. IANAL, but we don't get any information on the reasoning behind the decision. My guess is that the mother is the primary caretaker while the father only has visitation rights. This means she decides everything about the child's upbringing, which may to some extent include what the father is allowed to do during his visits. That said I do…	/r/MensRights	28/03/16 08:36 AM
7	Male students excluded from both of Schlumberger's recruiting events at my uni this semester Suing doesn't really work the same way outside of the US.	/r/MensRights	01/09/15 02:47 PM
7	The top female model made $42 million last year while the top male model only made $1.5 million. Its time to close this wage gap! /sarcasm Or you could stop being a dick and answer the question..	/r/MensRights	08/07/15 08:49 PM
1	CEO forced to pay ex-wife nearly 1 billion dollars in divorce case. Alimony laws are out of control in a time of supposed gender equality. Sounds reasonable.	/r/MensRights	11/11/14 06:20 PM
2	CEO forced to pay ex-wife nearly 1 billion dollars in divorce case. Alimony laws are out of control in a time of supposed gender equality. IANAL, but it seems to me she's entitled to part of his earnings that he is actively responsible for (e.g. salary), however she isn't entitled to passive earnings such as shares increasing in price if he didn't directly affect them. The ruling was that he as a CEO had some impact on his company, but that some of the company worth was due to other things such as rising oil prices. That's why she got some, but not as much as she had filed for.	/r/MensRights	11/11/14 05:46 PM
0	Feminism in Action Yeah, I'd like some sources too. If you make claims like these in comments you are expected to link a source, at least if requested. Images shouldn't be any different. To not provide sources weakens the credibility of the movement,especially since radfems then can put them out of context using their own (likely biased) sources.	/r/MensRights	08/08/14 06:36 AM
3	African man refuses circumcision, because the western people who are pushing it as a "health initiative" are not even circumcised themselves, and never would be. But he isn't circumcised, he'll get AIDS! /s	/r/MensRights	08/08/14 06:05 AM
0	This infuriating double standard! ("You choose the wrong TYPE of girl.") The other way around is almost worse: "Yeah, men are ass holes that can't be trusted"	/r/MensRights	07/08/14 04:34 PM
1	A young man asks (Finnish only) Eva Biaudet, running for presidency, if she, as an activist, thinks it's right that the compulsory military service applies only to men. She thinks it's OK because women can do military service if they want to and only a few hundred per year does. Insane? Yes. Huh, that's more lenient than I'd have thought.	/r/MensRights	25/07/14 06:13 PM
2	A young man asks (Finnish only) Eva Biaudet, running for presidency, if she, as an activist, thinks it's right that the compulsory military service applies only to men. She thinks it's OK because women can do military service if they want to and only a few hundred per year does. Insane? Yes. And if it's like the old Swedish system you still have to complete your service, otherwise it's repeated jail sentences until you do.	/r/MensRights	25/07/14 03:26 PM
2	Tumblr user claims that feminism trivializes real rape Radfem logic	/r/MensRights	07/06/14 09:05 AM
1	Female teacher claims she is victim for having sex with underage male student. I know that many of you feel strongly about this article, but I just want to point out that most comments here are doing the very thing I've seen MRAs condemn time after time: discuss people accused of rape before trial even starts. We all know that media doesn't paint the whole picture. The trial starts in September and lots of information can be dug up until then during investigation, but even after we receive the final verdict it is unlikely that media will report all of the details used to m…	/r/MensRights	06/06/14 08:26 AM
6	Men Are Raped Almost as Often as Women in America. There are scumbags within every gender. What matters is that everyone deserves the same protection against their perpetrators.	/r/MensRights	18/05/14 10:48 AM
44	I actually don't know if you guys would like this or not. But I found it super funny. Whoa now. With whom he has sex has no bearing on the value of his comeback.	/r/MensRights	11/05/14 10:14 AM
1	The front page article in the biggest norwegian newspaper "Aftenposten" today is about a psychologist suggesting that rape should be classified and punished according type and severity. The paper itself calls her brave, and agrees. Yeah, that one is similar to VG in Norway.	/r/MensRights	26/04/14 12:21 AM
1	Swedish father released after 10 years after court realises his daughter have made false rape accusation Actually, getting permanent stay without a job is pretty hard in Sweden. The exception is if you are a refugee.	/r/MensRights	25/04/14 09:45 PM
3	Why do we worry that few girls take physics, but not that boys make up just 29% of English A-level students? It's easy: STEM fields generally have more prestige, so women are seen as "losing out" by not studying STEM. Who's at fault for causing this disparity is of course up for discussion, but my view is as usual that if anyone, society as a whole is to blame. Men and women aren't separated into different communities like people of different ethnicities sometimes are; they live together and shape the world together and thus bear equal responsibility for the world being as it is.	/r/MensRights	22/03/14 09:14 AM
3	Swedish newspaper: men shouldn't be taller than women and the only reason they are is because of discrimination This is correct. To those thinking that the author is stating this as the one and only truth: SVT is state owned and can therefore not express an opinion, but only restate what others have said. They work very hard to always be neutral. They cannot even air commercials, or otherwise promote a product, company, idea or opinion. Sweden is not USA. Oftentimes you, as a foreigner, don't have the whole context and in this case not even a good translation.	/r/MensRights	26/02/14 06:31 PM
6	Deliberately exposing yourself to an 11 year old is apparently fine (if you are a woman). NYC allows women to go topless everywhere men can do so.	/r/MensRights	29/12/13 10:49 AM
2	Female teachers giving boys lower marks This is one of the reasons I like the IBDP; it has external examiners grade the tests. To them you're nothing more than a number.	/r/MensRights	24/12/13 10:25 AM
10	College sex, not even once. How would that help? Just because someone else does something doesn't justify doing the same.	/r/PussyPass	22/12/13 04:36 PM
1	My Abridged Kissing Guide So to prevent bad breath I should breathe as much as possible. Got it.	/r/seduction	18/12/13 10:17 PM
2	Swedish sex laws: A boy was convicted, thus establishing that adult women 'are less competent than male children'. The difference compared to other low income jobs is that those aren't illegal. It often takes another level of desperation to turn to something as humiliating as prostitution, especially when it's illegal. Being illegal also places it outside the system, so you don't get any pension etc. Of course, making it legal removes a hurdle to becoming a prostitute and could possibly lead to more prostitutes instead. The thinking behind the law is that the nature of prostitution makes it more humiliating …	/r/MensRights	13/12/13 08:59 AM
1	Swedish sex laws: A boy was convicted, thus establishing that adult women 'are less competent than male children'. Do you have a source for that? Saying specifically that the intent of the law was to worsen men's situation?	/r/MensRights	13/12/13 12:07 AM
1	Swedish sex laws: A boy was convicted, thus establishing that adult women 'are less competent than male children'. Prostitution generally isn't people's first hand choice of profession; they turn to prostitution because they are in a bad place in life. They might be homeless or addicts, or both. Or something completely different. What matters is that they need help to get out of there, and shouldn't be afraid to seek that help in fear of prosecution. The effect could be that the hurdle to becoming a prostitute is lowered since it's not illegal anymore, but the intent was to make help more available. That is …	/r/MensRights	12/12/13 11:38 PM
1	Swedish sex laws: A boy was convicted, thus establishing that adult women 'are less competent than male children'. Buying sex was already illegal. The law changed nothing for 'men' in the role of sex buyers. Just because something good happens to someone else doesn't mean that it's because someone hates you. Yes, the people lobbying for the law were feminist and had women in mind when creating the law. Being pro something doesn't mean being anti something else though. The vast majority behind passing the law did not pass it to penalise men, but to benefit the women who are in a bad situation and want and nee…	/r/MensRights	12/12/13 11:25 PM
1	Swedish sex laws: A boy was convicted, thus establishing that adult women 'are less competent than male children'. This is false; the age of consent is invariably 15. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe#Sweden	/r/MensRights	12/12/13 04:13 PM
3	Swedish sex laws: A boy was convicted, thus establishing that adult women 'are less competent than male children'. This is kind of taken out of context. It doesn't really matter that the boy was a minor since both the age of consent and the age of criminal responsibility in Sweden are 15. Being a minor in Sweden just means that you cannot legally enter some contracts (specifically those specified in civil law). You can argue about what effect the law is having, but the intent of the law was, and remains, to help prostitutes seek help. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe#Sweden http://en.wi…	/r/MensRights	12/12/13 04:10 PM
1	Is this legal? I can buy that women are more likely to become widows than the other way around, but it still works out. You see, when a woman's husband dies there are two scenarios: She stays a widow. She is still "married" to her late husband. She eventually starts a new relationship with someone else. You see how the relationship was "permanent" for the man in 2 out of 2 cases (he was in it until he died after all), but only "permanent" for the woman in 1 out of 2 possible outcomes? I'm sure you get my reaso…	/r/MensRights	05/12/13 09:12 PM
1	Is this legal? It doesn't work like that. If a 21 year old woman has a relationship with a 27 year old man and it lasts for 2 years, that's a 2-year relationship on both the male and female side. As every straight relationship contains one man and one woman, the average relationship length would be exactly the same. A woman can't just get married by herself. There is always a partner on the other side of a life-long marriage, and that partner has an equally long marriage.	/r/MensRights	05/12/13 08:43 PM
4	Is this legal? more permanently than us men. How does this even work (assuming straight relationships)? If every relationship has a man and a woman in it, wouldn't the average relationship length be the same for men and women? Please enlighten me. To me, your logic seems a bit off.	/r/MensRights	05/12/13 07:26 PM
3	Is this legal? So having a lower price for white people wouldn't be racism then? Some stuff is okay to discriminate for, like age, because everyone ages and, provided they live long enough, gets to reap the benefits at some point. Race and gender on the other hand, are not okay, no matter how good it is for business.	/r/MensRights	05/12/13 07:10 PM
13	If men did this.... I salute these men who didn't resort to violence, even in self defence. I'm not sure I would have been able to do the same, had I been in that situation.	/r/MensRights	05/12/13 06:59 PM
4	And another good reason to stay single. Masturbation is good for both men and women. I mean, the link is good and all, but I don't see how it nor its title (which isn't even relevant to the link itself) are relevant to this subreddit. This isn't a place for keeping men and women separated. This is a place for achieving equality by illuminating the fact that sexism goes both ways in today's society.	/r/MensRights	05/12/13 06:46 PM
0	A Canadian encounters a Swedish Feminist and... I agree, but that's not what's happening. People seem to think all swedes are extremist radical feminists. Using your analogy, that's like saying everyone in the US are christian fundamentalists who deny the theory of evolution. Or saying that WBC is the main church in the US. These claims are simply not true. WBC is a church, and it happens to be based on christianity. What is true is that almost all major parties in Sweden have a partly feminist agenda, just like most (all?) american president…	/r/MensRights	19/08/13 08:36 AM
5	A Canadian encounters a Swedish Feminist and... ITT: Generalizations and prejudice. Just like everyone in Canada aren't rapists, not everyone in Scandinavia is a feminazi... -_-	/r/MensRights	18/08/13 07:01 PM
4	I've never touched women, where do I start? How will you know if they're attracted to you? By approaching and interacting with people you can show that you're attracted through touch. If they are attracted, they will show it back. Think of a person you are attracted to, but haven't told. Do you think they know you're attracted to them? Probably not. Be the one who takes the first step and shows that YOU are attracted. They will not get mad at you! In fact, even if they have no attraction towards you, they will probably be pretty flattered…	/r/seduction	13/08/13 07:56 PM