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And the messaging in many of those campaigns was LITERALLY "man up"
/r/MensRights05/11/22 03:37 PM
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A modest brass (not pot metal) double edge handle and simple nylon brush will last a lifetime, a tube of Proraso soap (not P&G or J&J owned) will easily last a year, and mid tier blades are ten cents each so buy them by the few hundreds. Save huge money compared to cartridge razors, and forget about subscriptions.
/r/MensRights25/10/22 02:16 AM
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Men don’t really want or need a emotional connection like women do. Speak for yourself
/r/MensRights25/12/21 04:14 PM
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Describing predominantly black male youth as conscience-less superpredators is clearly not describing things 'as they were', and I don't think it's forgivable in a political candidate. If that's your point then I don't think we are in agreement.
/r/MensRights13/11/21 06:48 PM
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She promoted genital mutilation of male minors in a speech not even a decade ago. She is a complete scumbag.
/r/MensRights13/11/21 05:13 PM
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It includes mens' rights if and only if you kneel at the altar of its gatekeepers, and the issues you care about will always be of secondary importance. Humanitarianism is a fundamentally different concept. If this were as simple as unmet needs, we wouldn't be asking for changes to law and policy.
/r/MensRights14/12/20 10:24 PM
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I think feminism was originally concerned about women's rights. I don't think it was a reaction to anything other than women's right to vote or build a career. You are so close to actually understanding the very simple point I'm trying to make, which is simply that men's rights exists independently from feminism. It is not a purely reactionary movement, never was a purely reactionary movement, and has plenty of overlapping goals. I just don't understand that logic. It's like saying that if the h…
/r/MensRights14/12/20 09:29 PM
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Keep in mind you're having a conversation with two different people. I never made claims to validity. You hypothesized that the men's right's movement is a reactionary counter-movement to feminism. I'm saying that if feminism had never been a thing, mens' rights issues would still be affecting us, and we would still be trying to address them. Had our society decided en masse prior to the inception of feminism that it's wrong to force men into battle where they were sure to die, mutilate them as …
/r/MensRights14/12/20 09:13 PM
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I don't think the men's rights movement is necessarily a reaction to feminism at all. Almost all of the issues we face existed long before feminism did. The only difference is that we never had a "liberation", and virtually nothing has changed for us with regard to cultural and legal recognition of our issues in over a hundred years.
/r/MensRights14/12/20 08:47 PM
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There's a good reference of men's issues in the sidebar. Point I was trying to make is that feminism and patriarchy theory are usually a package deal. MRAs in general don't subscribe to an equivalent unifying theory that explains the shit outcomes many men deal with, so it's inappropriate to say that they are similar in ideology.
/r/MensRights14/12/20 06:21 PM
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If they were really similar in ideology, wouldn't MRAs be claiming that their problems are a result of 'the matriarchy'?
/r/MensRights14/12/20 05:44 PM
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I think it's fine to express a preference for types of clothes. I think it's also fine to wear whatever you want. I like wearing shorts with an even shorter inseam, and some women wouldn't be seen with me. It's okay, I won't bother dating those women.
/r/MensRights24/07/20 10:54 PM
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But the patriarchy built this!
/r/MensRights12/03/20 10:51 PM
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There are far less invasive treatments for phimosis, and not everyone is retractable by the same age.
/r/MensRights06/02/20 08:03 PM
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we don't have like genetic science to tell us who really needs it and who doesn't. Lol we only have virtually the entire European continent as an example, where people don't agonize over the decision to cut healthy parts off their sons.
/r/MensRights06/02/20 08:01 PM
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If you want to do more to reduce your likelihood of getting it, you could go on a 5ar blocker like finasteride or dutasteride. https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20190124/finasteride-can_safely-cut-prostate-cancer-risk#2 Fuck cancer.
/r/MensRights28/01/20 05:35 AM
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I guess that's just a little one. No small thing, I've personally known men who have taken their own lives over it
/r/MensRights28/12/19 02:08 AM
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Assumed office 9 June 2017 Still in office, eh? Do you think a man would still have a political career after hitting his girlfriend or wife?
/r/MensRights22/12/19 03:48 AM
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Worth noting ACOG is a pro-genital mutilation organization when it comes to the non-therapeutic cutting of boys
/r/MensRights16/12/19 01:16 AM
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Surprising considering how quickly the "like chopping off the entire penis" shills came out of the woodwork whenever the comparison came up as early as a few years ago
/r/MensRights21/11/19 05:22 PM
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That's pretty much what the USA did. Then they spread it wherever else in the world they could manage.
/r/MensRights21/11/19 05:20 PM
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We don’t owe you support for your hatred of men, or any responsibility to include you in our brotherly celebrations, so that you can satiate your penis envy. Base
/r/MensRights02/11/19 04:31 AM
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Pretty sure that entire sub is fake content for ragebait
/r/MensRights28/10/19 11:55 PM
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I'm sorry to be so hard No you're not. The only thing worse than being a callous asshole is pretending not to be one.
/r/MensRights24/10/19 01:41 PM
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cis = genitalia matches gender identity straight = F attracted to M or M attracted to F man = anyone's guess There are a lot of women nowadays who simultaneously refuse to be judged or put in boxes but also generalize men to extremes and have very strong opinions on how they should be and act. Well, I'm sad to report that it is a challenge being an unmasculine straight cis man. And it also wasn't a choice. I didn't choose my personality any more than she did.
/r/MensRights16/10/19 04:51 PM
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What if you, the men, looked to traditional feminine traits and tried incorporating them into your masculinity? What if I told you I was a girly boy growing up, and was an outcast as a result? Because that was my reality. Let's talk about the consequences that boys and men face when they refuse to perform traditional masculinity, which girls and women largely don't when they step up to the plate and lean in. How about you try pretending that you're the least powerful person in any room, and that…
/r/MensRights16/10/19 03:59 PM
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This, but in a different tweet
/r/MensRights19/07/19 08:26 PM
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Trans men arguably also have these privileges with T therapy
/r/MensRights17/07/19 04:02 PM
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Physical and emotional strength could be considered one
/r/MensRights17/07/19 03:56 PM
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MensLib is great if you think men should have to kneel at the altar of feminist social theory before they are allowed to discuss the issues that affect them
/r/MensRights17/07/19 03:53 PM
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In January 2018, she wrote an article in The Guardian calling for people to stop dieting, labelling it as "boring", "triggering", and "neither feminist – nor healthy".[21] In February 2018, Hagen gained attention for calling for Cancer Research UK to pull their campaign that highlights obesity as the second most common cause of cancer. After directing profanity lead abuse towards the cancer charity on Twitter,[22] she decried the campaign as "fat shaming" and said that there was proof that dieti…
/r/MensRights29/06/19 11:03 PM
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Nowhere are boys and men more vulnerable than the places where interest groups from another country can literally put a bounty on your foreskin.
/r/MensRights28/06/19 11:39 PM
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Insulting because you called them "frankencocks". Are you a lizard person? How would you feel if someone mutilated you as a child and you got rejected for it. Have a preference, whatever, but don't kick people while they're down.
/r/MensRights21/05/19 11:25 PM
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Sorry is this a dating site or a men's rights sub? I'm calling you a shallow asshole for insulting men who were mutilated at birth. That's cold as fuck.
/r/MensRights21/05/19 11:16 PM
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Don't worry, I wouldn't date someone as ignorant as you
/r/MensRights21/05/19 06:11 PM
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What a shitty thing to say about someone who wasn't given a choice
/r/MensRights21/05/19 11:27 AM
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Lol, "we just don't want to own a cafe anymore..." "off on our next adventure..." Bye bye!
/r/MensRights25/04/19 04:09 PM
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Isn't this transphobic? Who would propose this?
/r/MensRights21/03/19 02:28 AM
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It's some seriously fucked up shit. Just imagine a sensory part of your body is taken from you before you're old enough to say 'no', ground up and cultured, packaged into a product and sold to serve some ignorant vanity. Your damaged sexuality is literally smeared on womens' faces. The thought of this should be infuriating to any human being. The fact that it isn't, that it can be done on daytime TV without social consequence says it all. I don't think I could write more creative horror.
/r/MensRights21/03/19 01:47 AM
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What difference does it make if the parents get money? There is a profit motive creating a conflict of interest against a child's right to his own body.
/r/MensRights20/03/19 07:41 PM
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The harm is that they took an infant boy, cut off part of his body, sold that part to a cosmetics company who turned around and said "don't worry, they got appropriate consent". Do you see anything wrong with this picture?
/r/MensRights20/03/19 03:25 PM
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A lot of people care. I consider it a serious violation of human rights.
/r/MensRights20/03/19 03:15 PM
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"Obtained with appropriate consent". Right. And what do they say about their product testing on their website? Neutrogena® Product Testing We want you to feel good about how we make Neutrogena products. You can only do that if you have the facts. The fact is, Neutrogena doesn’t conduct animal testing of our cosmetic products anywhere in world, except in the rare situation where governments or laws require it. At Neutrogena, we won’t ever compromise on the quality or safety of our products or sto…
/r/MensRights20/03/19 03:09 PM
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"Unless they have a penis" I have 90% of a penis. Partial credit?
/r/MensRights15/03/19 09:04 PM
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Do people really refer to themselves as 'meninists'? I could have sworn that was satire
/r/MensRights10/03/19 07:53 PM
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"Bullying - "The #MeToo movement" - "Toxic masculinity" "Is this the best a man can get? Is it?" [Some straw-men being shit] [An infinity-line of grilling straw-man dads excusing bad behavior] More news clips of men being shit "We believe in the best of men" (absent: what that even is, aside from policing others' behavior) Terry crews saying "men need to hold other men accountable" The video then tops it off by saying "some" are already doing better, but it's not enough. Looks to me like it's sa…
/r/MensRights15/01/19 06:37 PM
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/r/wicked_edge is a good resource. You can get razors and blades on amazon, ebay, pretty much wherever. I recommend getting a simple razor made of nickel-plated brass or stainless steel in the $20-30 range, a nylon brush (cheap boar brushes smell), and generic soap. Technique is everything, take it slow and don't go nuts.
/r/MensRights15/01/19 06:14 PM
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Wait never mind, now that you mention it I'm cool with my razor brand insisting men fix their gender. They are so brave!
/r/MensRights15/01/19 02:29 PM
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That's a pretty serious claim, did they give any evidence to support it?
/r/MensRights15/01/19 02:27 PM
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I buy Astra and Derby blades for the double edge razor, and Soap brand Soap. I've used tried Wilkinson blades as well and they were fine. I can't vouch for any of these companies' political palatablility but Gillette is done. I will not reward this attack on men with my business.
/r/MensRights15/01/19 05:34 AM
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Certain negative behaviors... it's like a come-to-jesus shame campaign aimed toward the entire gender, how is that not obvious?
/r/MensRights15/01/19 04:50 AM
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Yep, it was the one in Michigan where a doctor mutilated some girls whose mothers belonged to some variety of islam that cuts girls. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2018/11/20/female-genital-mutilation-michigan/1991712002/
/r/MensRights06/01/19 05:00 PM
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The federal law banning FGM was recently overturned. It was a pretty big case but it didn't get a ton of press. Personally I feel like all forms of severe child abuse should be illegal.
/r/MensRights06/01/19 04:17 PM
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Are you referring to her promotion of genital mutilation of male children?
/r/MensRights03/01/19 01:59 PM
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These are the rules in their entirety: You need to be an approved commenter/poster to participate here. For more information on how to become one, please consult our wiki on the topic. Identifiable groups based on gender, sexuality, gender-politics or race cannot be the target of insulting comments, nor can insulting generalizations be extended to members of those groups. Arguments which specifically and adequately acknowledge diversity within those groups, but still advance a universal principl…
/r/MensRights26/12/18 09:50 PM
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It really isn't a shouting match. Why would they bother you? If you don't like them, don't subscribe.
/r/MensRights26/12/18 09:46 PM
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/r/feminism and associated subs aren't worth your time. The mods in particular refuse to be challenged or even to engage with people outside their ideology. If you are interested in good-faith discussion of gender issues with other people including feminists, check out /r/FeMRADebates . Lots of good people there.
/r/MensRights26/12/18 02:54 PM
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The bigger irony is that here we are on /r/MensRights talking about what counts as real feminist advocacy. What laughable a waste of time and effort. Look at the front page, it's all feminism and women behaving badly.
/r/MensRights04/12/18 02:40 PM
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Gatekeeping
/r/MensRights04/12/18 01:12 PM
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I certainly did not expect to see it, I'm making the point that the WHO are a bunch of morally bankrupt, corrupt hypocrite bastards for pretending to care about men's health while at the same time actively promoting what amounts to child abuse and torture, exclusively for men and boys.
/r/MensRights21/11/18 03:17 PM
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Missing: 1/3 of men and boys worldwide are victims of genital mutilation The World Health Organization is an unrepentant mutilator of boys. Hard to advocate honestly when they are the disease. Fuck the World Health Organization, misandrist bastards. edit: Fixed stat
/r/MensRights21/11/18 01:57 PM
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Reals: A biologically female child identifies as male Feels: Your impotent rage over it
/r/MensRights15/11/18 06:54 PM
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I'm not the one getting really irked by the way other people are living their lives. What are you, 14 years old in the Young Republicans Club? Sorry bout your feels, snowflake.
/r/MensRights15/11/18 06:41 PM
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I am an MRA, and I think the same consideration should be shown to all individuals regardless of gender.
/r/MensRights15/11/18 04:34 PM
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How is drinking / driving / crime in any way comparable to gender identity? And I don't think it's a choice to begin with.
/r/MensRights15/11/18 04:33 PM
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Why do you care so much?
/r/MensRights15/11/18 04:29 PM
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True, but you're dealing with children - you could find yourself in hot water over anything and it's important to CYA. So why not take the approach that results in the least amount of drama, and deal with things as they come? This entire article is conjecture and scaremongering. So western society has a nudity taboo and unnecessarily sexualises innocent situations; are men supposed to just lie back and think of diversity when they're left stranded between the contradictions society embraces? How…
/r/MensRights15/11/18 04:25 PM
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Haha okay, you're an asshole. But really though, why should a child be forced to live what to them is a lie to avoid making some prudes feel uncomfortable?
/r/MensRights15/11/18 04:15 PM
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where does the men's rights movement stand on transgender men in mail locker rooms? Where else are those kids going to go? I don't speak for the MRM but I've been active on this sub for years. It's disappointing to see this level of nude body hangups. To me this is a clear example of individual rights. It's only an issue if people make it an issue.
/r/MensRights15/11/18 02:50 PM
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The way this is being framed, you'd think we were living in the Victorian era. Are transgender boys and men not included in men's rights? Teacher needs to fucking deal with it. This a lot of noise and stink over nothing.
/r/MensRights15/11/18 02:41 PM
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Isn't that how a lot of murder happens?
/r/MensRights16/10/18 11:19 AM
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Individual agency, what the heck is that?
/r/MensRights02/10/18 07:19 PM
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Sure, I just like to assume people are generally good and let them prove me wrong.
/r/MensRights10/08/18 01:28 AM
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I feel like making assumptions about individuals based on their gender and treating them certain ways based on that is something we usually rail against. She's a person and not a monolith, and it's very likely she's not even aware of the statistics. Definitely unfair to assume she feels any certain way towards alimony in general. I'm sure now she probably isn't a fan of it.
/r/MensRights10/08/18 12:04 AM
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She feels wronged, and rightfully so. Why should she individually feel like she shares guilt for the stuff that men deal with in divorce? That's the same sort of original sin bullshit that feminists like to trot. It would be "her own medicine" if she were some vocal proponent of alimony, but there's no evidence of that.
/r/MensRights09/08/18 03:20 PM
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Which same women? I don't see any indication that the women affected by this are feminists or bloodsuckers. I just see a fucked up system that's hurting people. The fact that it's hurting women I'm sure is an eye-opener for a lot of people. Maybe when alimony's former proponents see how it's being abused in the other direction, they'll chance their tune.
/r/MensRights09/08/18 03:16 PM
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Did she do this to someone else in the past? I didn't see that in the article.
/r/MensRights09/08/18 02:05 PM
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Good to hear that they have to go through this crap too, but not nearly frequently enough. Maybe I'm naive, but it doesn't make me happy to read of anyone going through this shit. The system seems to be set up in such a way to mainly benefit bloodsucking lawyers and family courts, and relieve the state of any and all responsibility.
/r/MensRights09/08/18 02:04 PM
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Wow, that is a surprising amount of hate speech. Did HR not do its research? How can a person say those things and still be employable?
/r/MensRights02/08/18 03:07 PM
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Just imagine how terrible the mentality of "I deserve it because I'm male" would be. Oh wait...
/r/MensRights25/07/18 04:57 PM
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examples of medical procedures that actually have value, and for which people give informed consent on their own behalf ... 229 deaths from a worthless mutilation operation is somehow acceptable ... I desperately want to feel okay about what was done to me / what I did to my son, stop making me feel bad
/r/MensRights21/07/18 09:38 PM
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http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2012/05/when-bad-science-kills-or-how-to-spread-aids/
/r/MensRights21/07/18 01:34 PM
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It doesn't
/r/MensRights21/07/18 12:07 PM
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Like, seriously, Twilight Zone
/r/MensRights21/07/18 03:19 AM
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I wonder how they sleep, knowing they treated those dogs as badly as they treat male children. Now be a good American, and cut that dirty thing off! We don't want you getting the idea that we don't own you, mind, body, and spirit.
/r/MensRights21/07/18 02:04 AM
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Fuck the Gates foundation. Bunch of misandrist assholes playing with people's lives.
/r/MensRights07/06/18 01:04 AM
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The feminist narrative of this post is: society only cared about her looks, so the patriarchy allowed her to float along without really having to try, and she became "The Girl". Which of course is just as silly of a thing to complain about. This is a show of one-dimensional characters and ha-ha-nerd writing.
/r/MensRights13/04/18 11:33 PM
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My philosophy game isn't very strong, but I feel like patriarchy theory has done more harm than good. I'm also skeptical of the claim that creating sweeping generalized theories and making policies based on them is progress.
/r/MensRights28/01/18 09:11 PM
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I'm an MRA, I'm well aware how horribly we treat boys in the USA and abroad. I'm not surprised when these girls-only aid organizations turn a blind eye to the horrible shit boys endure.
/r/MensRights28/01/18 09:02 PM
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I don't think that was lost on the parent comment, or the people upvoting it. Original post is a counterproductive, gatekeeping fallacy.
/r/MensRights28/01/18 07:48 PM
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It's clear that some of these people simply won't advocate for boys. While that's shitty, it doesn't change the fact. If we truly care about the future of men and boys, the best we can do is support organizations that are trying to make things better for them. And to the people who would stand in your way because they see boys and men as perpetrators and perpetrators-to-be, you can tell them "we're doing this because you aren't doing enough". They can't expect a full solution by solving half of …
/r/MensRights28/01/18 05:46 PM
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Everything is relative. Just because someone has it worse than others doesn't mean people should accept their lot in life as 'good enough'. Amen to that. How could anything get better if we accept everything as a given.
/r/MensRights28/01/18 05:41 PM
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The low-quote suggests it was written by a European. So naturally, their fluency is approximately that of an American English teacher.
/r/MensRights15/01/18 02:37 AM
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Fuck these people. Culture some woman's cancer without permission and it's a textbook human rights violation. Tear off the most sensitive part of a boy's penis and grind it up into cosmetics, and it's a normal day in America. Sickening.
/r/MensRights12/01/18 03:01 AM
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They can start by not advocating in favor of male genital mutilation
/r/MensRights12/09/17 12:40 AM
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you're a decent person
/r/MensRights10/09/17 03:37 AM
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Yeah that would be sterilization, so... no. The most common type of FGM is the removal of the clitoral hood, which is directly analogous to the foreskin. I just can't even fathom how people fail to understand why removing a significant part of a sensory organ might be a terrible thing to do to another person.
/r/MensRights10/09/17 03:36 AM
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They get really upset when they see a reasonable argument they don't like
/r/MensRights30/06/17 02:38 PM
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But it would probably be helpful to narrow criticism to cases where actual flag-flying feminists do things that are against men's rights, rather than broadly paint them. I've protested alongside some self-identified feminists involved in the genital integrity movement, and it was really heartening to have a common ground despite other differences in belief. Aside from that, I think the MRM would do well to focus as much on the issues as possible and ignore the noise. Otherwise, it's kind of like…
/r/MensRights08/04/17 04:46 PM
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And for sure every Uber driver has been following this story, I doubt making her name public would do any good.
/r/MensRights07/04/17 03:33 PM
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For real, my girlfriend is an architect with several very visible structures to her credit. Though I did build a few kick-ass tree forts back in the day.
/r/MensRights27/02/17 04:12 PM
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Yep, I was actually thinking of the MensLib sub when I wrote that.
/r/MensRights19/12/16 05:40 PM
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Someone probably went through your comment history. I actually had some healthy conversations on r/feminism until one day I found myself banned. I hadn't broken any rule, or said anything controversial. There are better places to have gender related conversations with people who aren't necessarily MRAs. /r/FeMRADebates is one. /r/masculism is another, but approaches men's issues from a feminist perspective - not something I personally find healthy, since I refuse to feel responsible for someone …
/r/MensRights18/12/16 11:57 PM
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I'd pay a lot more than $50 to have mine back
/r/MensRights28/08/16 05:22 AM
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So advancing genital integrity rights for boys is regressive? Care to explain how that works?
/r/MensRights28/08/16 05:12 AM
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/r/feminism mods exercise their moderator privileges arbitrarily, without regard to the rules of that sub. I used to participate, but one day was banned out of the blue. I broke no rules, but there was still no appealing it. Shame too, as I had a lot of positive interactions with other members. That's in the past now.
/r/MensRights06/08/16 04:31 AM
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It's totally legal Depends where you are, but yes, a good idea for people in positions of power and celebrities.
/r/MensRights26/06/16 01:05 PM
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She's stumped for genital mutilation of boys in Africa, so on a very large scale, she has. In before "it prevents HIV transmission". No, not for prepubescent children, it doesn't.
/r/MensRights13/02/16 06:46 PM
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Ramkissoon told us she’s suspended indefinitely and hasn’t been contacted by the hospital. “I’ve been indeed suspended,” she said, “and I don’t even know when I’m going to get back to work. I’m getting a lawyer and a public-relations firm, but I don’t know if it’s going to do any good. “I’m not sure I deserve what’s happening. But I don’t want to talk any more. Have a great night.” Sounds like a real psychopath
/r/MensRights29/01/16 03:30 AM
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Again, you're pro-feminist, and utterly unlikely to be critical of feminism, even when it's harming swaths of people. So yea, you'll have great conversations with like minded people. I am simply not a pro-feminist. Great. Start one. It would be even more "men's lib-y" than men's lib is. But regardless, with that constraint you'll never be able to get at the core of the vast majority of male issues and how they're treated, both culturally and via policy, because feminism literally is the largest …
/r/MensRights07/01/16 04:29 AM
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I had three-figure comment karma in /r/Feminism and a lot of healthy conversation with members of that sub, before I was banned by a trigger-happy mod for saying something so utterly uncontroversial that I can't even remember what it was. Whatever it was, it was not a violation of the rules. I would like to start a community that isn't pro-feminism, or anti-feminism, but bans the discussion of feminism entirely. I don't care for it myself, but I think it's covered here in excess to the point whe…
/r/MensRights07/01/16 04:04 AM
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I'm not so concerned about right way versus wrong way, I just see it a different type of forum with maybe less noise. for any group claiming to help men Are they really a group though? It seems way looser than that. I like to think of it as a conversational filter. I don't have to agree with the basis for the rules to participate and find value in participating. Then I can close that tab and be as nasty or as sweet as I want to anywhere else where full freedom of speech is allowed.
/r/MensRights07/01/16 03:30 AM
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Okay, well, either way, feminism is talked about way less there than it is here. Kind of funny how that's a breath of fresh air compared to /r/mensrights.
/r/MensRights07/01/16 01:44 AM
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BPD ex. Oh wow, I am sorry you went through that. I had a stalker who I am pretty sure had BPD, and it was the worst experience of my life.
/r/MensRights07/01/16 12:34 AM
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I am subscribed and I may have commented once or twice, but I am much more compatible ideologically with this sub. It's not, as some people are claiming, a "feminist honeypot", nor are the people there pushovers like some are saying. It is a very bland, watered down forum to discuss men's issues. But despite that, and despite how they kow tow to feminism (which I think could change), I still find things way more thought-provoking than the content of this sub. The frontpage of this sub consists m…
/r/MensRights07/01/16 12:30 AM
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For good or for bad, it's no true scots[wo]man. Can self-professed feminists be great people with good judgement and general benevolence towards men and their rights? Sure, and I'd think most of them probably are. But the term was and is murky at best, and it comes with a lot of baggage and assumptions that may or may not hold. Take your pick of definitions, it has been argued to death and nobody has won that war yet.
/r/MensRights02/01/16 11:23 PM
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You take that white rose and put it where the sun don't shine!
/r/MensRights22/12/15 02:24 PM
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Thanks for the link. Pretty mind-blowing stuff - I'm surprised I hadn't seen it before.
/r/MensRights29/11/15 02:47 PM
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Is that an actual thing?
/r/MensRights29/11/15 06:24 AM
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Problem is that most people probably don't want an IT guy cutting their hair. I'm fine with how things are. I don't think we're going to see a massive influx of women getting buzz cuts and cackling about ruining the ambience. I'm also glad that businesses where I am are places of public accommodation. Do you think it would be better, for example, if they could still turn blacks away at the lunch counter?
/r/MensRights09/09/15 11:29 AM
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My local barbershop in Philly does traditional men's style cuts. Last time I went in there was a woman getting one. Totally cool by me, and looked pretty sharp. I don't buy the argument that it negatively affects the environment. At least in my experience, everyone seemed fine with it.
/r/MensRights09/09/15 01:19 AM
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Because we'd first have to work hard simply to end discrimination against men and boys by the UN itself.
/r/MensRights15/08/15 02:58 PM
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I haven't read much from the community, but I've seen a few thoughtful pieces on xojane that make it seem like the place has tolerance for diversity of opinion and critical thought.
/r/MensRights27/06/15 09:48 PM
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Oh, this is a game to you, huh? Troll on, brother, you're doing god's work.
/r/MensRights21/04/15 10:24 PM
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Circumcision is a painless procedure. It doesn't "scar" the child in any way. Pretty sure that circumcision falls very squarely into the category of "painful things that leave a scar"
/r/MensRights21/04/15 09:59 PM
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Sometimes it hurts to speak up when you've been wronged, especially when it falls on deaf or unsympathetic ears. When I was protesting the AAP a couple years ago, the female protesters were easily as vocal, even though they were fewer in number.
/r/MensRights07/03/15 12:55 AM
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It's a shame there are no states that outlaw this, or we could set up an underground railroad. I hope she found a safehouse somewhere.
/r/MensRights06/03/15 11:27 PM
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It's really heartwarming to me that so many of the most influential voices in men's rights are women. Thank you all so much for your advocacy. It gives me hope that things will improve for boys and men worldwide.
/r/MensRights06/03/15 11:25 PM
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Sorry for the daily fail link, but the Florida Sun Sentinel's story is paywalled and I don't know if there are many other sources following this yet. So sad that a parent should have to go into hiding, with no asylum anywhere, to protect the rights of her son and his body. It's more than sad, though. It's insane. If this were a little girl being threatened with the same, it would have been national news the moment it became a possibility, and there would have been a reckoning. You sure as hell w…
/r/MensRights06/03/15 11:12 PM
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I see your point and it is somewhat valid, but lets take a look at the good that happened in this article. What happened in the article is that an organization with the following mission statement (emphasis mine) Planned Parenthood believes in the fundamental right of each individual, throughout the world, to manage his or her fertility, regardless of the individual's income, marital status, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or residence. We believe that respect and valu…
/r/MensRights18/02/15 07:09 PM
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he She If one-sided litigation risk results in boys taking a vow of celibacy until graduation, there is simply no loss whatsoever to society and only gain to individual character. Such efforts at self-control were made before, and can be made again. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. That is some seriously shitty advice.
/r/MensRights17/02/15 10:25 PM
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I'm going to guess lots of these "girls can't walk" anecdotes are college girls who grew up in suburbia and haven't figured out the walking on sidewalks thing yet. That was basically all of Penn State, male and female alike. I saw fights break out over it, it was the dumbest thing ever.
/r/MensRights12/01/15 03:13 AM
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This issue exists independent of medicine or supposed benefits. It is a Mens Rights issue. Yes, as far as moderation goes, they should be stickeying posts and not making them.
/r/MensRights04/12/14 01:57 PM
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This is a human rights topic
/r/MensRights04/12/14 01:29 PM
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Well put, thanks for sharing!
/r/MensRights03/12/14 10:45 PM
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It would probably be better as a new selfpost with a summary of the situation and suggested actions.
/r/MensRights03/12/14 04:42 AM
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CDC may be contacted using the form here. Another commentor pointed out that this release is actually dated, and the relevant statement has just been released. /u/silverias has posted a more appropriate link for feedback here
/r/MensRights02/12/14 09:29 PM
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Apologies, I got the link from a friend and didn't realize it wasn't current. Maybe use the 'contact CDC' link at the bottom of the page. /u/silverias has posted a more appropriate link for feedback here
/r/MensRights02/12/14 07:40 PM
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Well there's a wealth of information available to relieve you of your ignorance, give it a shot and do the research.
/r/MensRights02/12/14 05:54 PM
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Salvation Army Captain Michael Cox says the organization has a longtime policy that prohibits boys ages 12 to 16 from staying at the shelter. According to Cox, the policy is in place for safety reasons; ultimately to protect children. What is a shelter for, again? Last I checked, kids aged 12-16 were still kids. Cox says space limitations at the shelter do not allow the building to house maturing boys. 'Maturing boys' must really take up a lot of space, then? What a weasel.
/r/MensRights02/12/14 05:25 PM
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A Foreign Office spokesman said: 'We are aware of an incident involving a British national in May 2014. We provided consular assistance when notified of this in October 2014. 'We stand ready to provide further support to the individual and their family at this difficult time.' What, are they going to hold her hand and tell her everything's okay? Is the Foreign Office this cordial with all alleged criminals?
/r/MensRights13/11/14 08:17 PM
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That being said, /r/Feminism[1] , for those who are curious like me, has 42,137 subscribers. What I thought was weird is how Feminism is a much more mainstream ideology, and has such lower numbers comparitively, whereas the MRM is still in its infancy and is much more visited. Maybe that's because /r/Feminism is a huge echochamber cesspool where contributors are banned arbitrarily and seemingly at random. From what I've seen, lots of feminists dislike it, many of them recommend /r/feminisms inst…
/r/MensRights11/11/14 02:32 AM
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As individuals, we can only reliably count on ourselves for defense of person. Is that responsibility? If so, that responsibility has been outsourced in many peoples' minds to the police, or to a boyfriend or husband, or pitchfork-carrying mob, which I think is what bothers feminists who get caught up in agency the most. And self defense with force is problematic to those same people who recoil from the very idea as a libertarian ideal, so the whole concept gets lost in a chorus of shouldn't-hav…
/r/MensRights24/10/14 06:25 PM
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As a female lacking sympathy for this issue, my hope is that future legislation will be smart enough to consider mens' perspectives, but my expectation is that it will not. Why aren't you sympathetic to the issue? It is still a pretty significant problem. College aged people have room to grow socially, and a lot of them don't understand boundaries. Back in college I was shy, and a mutual acquaintance got handsy at a frat party when I didn't want to dance. It bothered me to the point where I cons…
/r/MensRights23/10/14 03:49 AM
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You know what else is used in the cosmetics industry? Neonatal foreskin. And I can't think of a better example of systemic abuse. But I guess as far as consideration, it goes women, then animals, then newborn boys.
/r/MensRights20/10/14 06:10 PM
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Don't get me wrong, I am totally fine with celebrating women who excel at what they do. But I think it's silly to celebrate them in particular, and especially, separately from everyone else because they're women. I was watching Cosmos about a month ago, and Neil Tyson mentioned some scientists who happened to be women. They weren't mentioned separately, weren't mentioned in particular, weren't fawned over or lionized, and they were only relevant for their achievements and breakthroughs. Isn't th…
/r/MensRights20/10/14 05:45 PM
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but since our society consistently prioritises and rewards men over women Funniest thing I've read all day. Could anyone clue me in on where the next "Men in [x]" awards ceremony is being held? When women objectify or insult men, it’s just not harmful in the same way as the reverse, because it’s not backed up by thousands of years of oppression. Sorry, I wasn't aware I inherited the guilt for this along with my other gender-based obligations. concerned about the rising tide of manhating women on…
/r/MensRights20/10/14 04:52 PM
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I don't understand how wearing "girl clothes" or "boy clothes" would give someone a better idea of what it means to be either. I could dress like a Buddhist monk, and I still wouldn't have the faintest idea. And for that matter, why is it important that a six year old understand the experience of the opposite gender? I'm decades in and I still don't really understand them. I get the feeling that wearing a skirt as a toddler would not have given me an edge here. If they're going to dismiss gender…
/r/MensRights20/10/14 03:51 PM
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You should stick to selling watermelon
/r/MensRights03/10/14 04:31 AM
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It's one for all of us
/r/MensRights11/09/14 08:11 PM
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Another good one: "Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
/r/MensRights11/09/14 12:31 PM
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I admire his dedication, but that's a long time to hold onto that level of anger (and I'm sure sadness not far below). I wouldn't want to spend a single minute inside his mind. I think it's worth having multiple approaches to reach multiple audiences. Aggrieved people shouldn't have to walk on eggshells, but they need to realize that the nature of their appeals matters and will affect the willingness of their audience to be receptive. I was at the AAP convention where he made sure he was the fir…
/r/MensRights09/09/14 06:11 PM
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I've met him in person. He is very animated and has an aggressive and somewhat confrontational approach to demonstration that most intactivists don't share. He's been demonstrating for decades.
/r/MensRights09/09/14 05:46 PM
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There are plenty of intactivist women who do that in one form or another. I know of a few who participated in this 'bloodstained men' campaign, though I don't think they were at this event.
/r/MensRights09/09/14 05:44 PM
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The U.N., who in the same sentence will categorically reject FGM.
/r/MensRights07/08/14 09:41 PM
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We are all individuals with functioning brains, living in a society that allows freedoms of speech and press. I think we can work things out, no gun barrel diplomacy necessary.
/r/MensRights11/06/14 03:47 AM
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That doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. Rights aren't rights if they can be arbitrarily violated with impunity.
/r/MensRights10/06/14 05:00 PM
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The scars on my genitals world suggest that I never had the right to my own body.
/r/MensRights10/06/14 12:48 PM
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We aim to abolish circumcision of minors (intact activism).
/r/MensRights02/06/14 07:48 PM
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From my perspective involved primarily in the intactivist movement, women make up a very large percentage of us. They are some of the most vocal advocates, and active organizers. It makes my heart swell, knowing how much they care.
/r/MensRights02/06/14 07:34 PM
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Must be nice being able to confidently speak for 99% of the world
/r/MensRights08/05/14 08:46 PM
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I agree, and I think it was a shitty thing to say, but if we're quoting something, let's actually quote it and not sensationalize it.
/r/MensRights07/05/14 06:54 PM
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Did they edit it? I didn't see that quote in the footage.
/r/MensRights07/05/14 06:22 PM
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If you think that's bad, check out the source author's "Woman Logic" section. He may not be wrong on this piece, but jeez, quality control much? Tumblr content (read: drama) should probably stay in tumblr, as it's a poor representation of anything but tumblr.
/r/MensRights19/03/14 05:05 PM
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“Statistically speaking, there are more female survivors than male survivors” Right, you only get statistics when they are reported. The only time I have ever been sexually assaulted was at a party at PSU. I actually planned to act on it, but didn't because my friends didn't think anything would come of it.
/r/MensRights17/03/14 12:09 PM
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It takes familiarity with the area to understand the viewpoint. It's mainly (1) transplant yuppies with viewpoints likely compatible with yours, and (2) Philly originals who are about 20 years behind, and about as conventional as they come when it comes to gender roles. I'd wager this woman is a #2. She knows where she lives, she should practice situational awareness and good decision making. This includes not walking along unlit Delaware ave at 3 in the morning drunk.
/r/MensRights19/02/14 06:37 PM
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Does this mean they can no longer mutilate newborn boys?
/r/MensRights26/12/13 01:25 AM
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True, but Hareetz is notable for being highly critical of the practice - far more so than a lot of media outlets in the U.S.
/r/MensRights03/12/13 11:58 PM
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Or we could act like civilized people, calmly and rationally disagreeing with people when they say hurtful or factually incorrect things.
/r/MensRights02/08/13 06:14 PM
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Howard Stern is vehemently opposed to genital mutilation... he just hosted Georganne Chapin, who is the executive director of Intact America.
/r/MensRights03/07/13 06:52 PM
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I also suffer this condition. There's usually a window of opportunity early on, if it's gentle, and it passes quickly. I can go however long. Eventually it's painful, then numb, and I simply will not finish. Oral sex is usually painful. It's terrible.
/r/MensRights03/07/13 02:44 PM
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But then for you to be what you say you are, you'd have to start caring about... them!
/r/MensRights02/07/13 01:43 PM
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Maybe introduce a bill removing funding for infant circumcision and providing prescription coverage for condoms? Kill two birds with one stone, and not make asses out of themselves to boot. We don't get any say when it comes to our sex organs.
/r/MensRights28/06/13 06:47 PM
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i haven't met anyone that wished that they weren't circumcised Hi, I'm Tony
/r/MensRights28/06/13 02:05 PM
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Who else's opinion counts for what happens to their own body? Correct answer: Nobody's. I keep hearing that cutting is a personal decision. Funny, I don't remember ever given the opportunity to say no. You don't make personal decisions for someone else. I don't use lube to masturbate. The foreskin has a purpose in sex. I don't know why people refuse to acknowledge this, it is demonstrably the case. I have sex 3 or 4 times a week, and I have a lot of trouble finishing. Sex should not hurt. It's v…
/r/MensRights28/06/13 01:59 PM
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And what would that doctor be able to do for me? I actually retain quite a bit of inner foreskin. My issue is irritation from chafing on clothing, and discomfort during sex. Aside from that, I have a lot of grief over being cut, knowing vaguely what I am missing out on, and knowing the ignorance, repressive and ideological history behind this institution. It makes me furious and sad, and it needs to be illegal without religious exemption. circumcised too far There is no acceptable amount of non-…
/r/MensRights27/06/13 08:10 PM
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At the same token, I have never agonised about getting a foreskin. I've never even thought about it in fact. Perhaps you should read more about it. Not everyone feels the same way, which is the strongest argument for its prohibition. It has affected me in a profoundly negative way. What if it is a prevention of the multiple issues that can occur? Not to say that uncircumsised penises are unclean as such, but they are easier to maintain. None of them compelling, nor of great enough incidence to j…
/r/MensRights27/06/13 07:25 PM
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I am glad my parents did choose for me to get it done while I was still a baby, otherwise I would be faced with a difficult choice as to whether to get it done now that I am fully grown, aware of the operation and know of pain. I imagine that, for the majority of men in this world (who aren't cut), the 'decision' never even enters their minds, because it's not something that's done. People don't agonize about getting other body parts removed. Furthermore, there are absolutely 0 problems with cir…
/r/MensRights27/06/13 06:49 PM
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Nah, fuck that. If someone's going to make a specific claim, I want evidence. I've seen too much trollbait, deliberate misinformation to trust most posters at their word. If it's in the sidebar, that's great. If not, well, you must not care enough about it to back it up, so I'm fine ignoring it.
/r/MensRights26/06/13 02:41 AM
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A convert Welcome to /r/MensRights, it's good to have you here. I'd like to point out that men's rights advocacy is not a religion - feel free to continue thinking critically, please point out flaws in logic, ask for proof when claims are made, etc.
/r/MensRights25/06/13 04:45 PM
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You had the power to save the nerds; you've been the nerd messiah, collecting the Fremen together and joining them into a force that toppled Emperors. You took down Jack Thompson, you fought against people who would use tragedy as political capital for their anti-video game agenda, but now you're siding with the people who tell people like myself to kill ourselves. The next guy who tries to kill himself because he's being mocked for not fitting "the Pop Feminist Story" and then apologizing profu…
/r/MensRights24/06/13 05:52 PM
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WHO: Infant Circumcision: A How-To Guide Talk about sexual violence. Fuck you.
/r/MensRights20/06/13 02:22 PM
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Lesson learned, don't flirt with coworkers.
/r/MensRights18/06/13 03:30 PM
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Masculism != Men's Rights Advocacy in the same way that Feminism != Women's Rights Advocacy. You should fix that.
/r/MensRights18/06/13 03:09 PM
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Shouldn't be too difficult to find, but more useful of a measure is prevalence (% of births) by year. In the U.S., it began in the early 20th century and peaked around the 1980s somewhere in the upper 80% range. For comparisons vs. the rest of the world, I've seen several shaded maps. I think one of them is on Wikipedia.
/r/MensRights03/06/13 01:33 AM
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Hi KRosen, I'm an intactivist with a relatively low profile (you're welcome to rummage through my post/comment history). I've been in contact with Francelle before, and she's the real deal. Lots of people in the movement have been looking forward to this.
/r/MensRights03/06/13 01:24 AM
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Are we 4chan now?
/r/MensRights26/05/13 07:33 PM
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Toxic Femininity This is the first I've seen this term, and capitalized no less. Is this actually a thing? Serious question: Do you get upset when gender feminists talk of "Toxic Masculinity"? Assuming they have legitimate use in any case (and I'm not convinced they do), these terms are ripe for over-generalization and misapplication, and I cringe whenever I see them.
/r/MensRights24/05/13 01:30 PM
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Most of the women I know empathize well enough, but just like anybody they are prone to prejudice. I don't understand why people care so much about narrowly defining gender in terms of specific traits. It usually so happens that they have a particular set that they idealize and would like to champion. Maybe what feminists call "masculinity" is simply what happens when you are forced to take sole responsibility for yourself; When you don't have the privilege of a fallback by which you are picked …
/r/MensRights21/05/13 06:21 PM
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No wonder men stay out of it Perhaps it's because we were never invited in the first place
/r/MensRights21/05/13 11:05 AM
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Every circumcision is a botch
/r/MensRights19/05/13 03:22 PM
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TYT had a lot of potential, but I stopped watching them when Cenk entered into apologism discussing circumcision. So much for being progressive, I guess.
/r/MensRights09/05/13 03:47 PM
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"Phallus" is latin for penis. I only used the term for consistency's sake. And yes, penectomy would be the proper term for its removal. I dunno, I hear that's a sensitive part, but as violated as I've felt about circumcision, whenever I've looked at pictures of that portion I always get unsettled. It just seems very tight, like it's pulling you in a direction... Well, I have mine, it doesn't really pull anywhere. Press your tongue up against the frenulum you have in your mouth without pushing yo…
/r/MensRights03/05/13 07:07 PM
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Cutting off the phallus would be analagous to cutting out all of the vagina, clitoris, pretty much everything else. Cutting off the clitoris is like cutting off the glans and frenulum (which itself is often removed during circumcision, which is a tragedy).
/r/MensRights03/05/13 02:46 PM
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Self-serving bureaucrats of the shelter industry Okay, a little weird... ... he was murdered by an establishment including the Canadian government, and including particularly all those who work in the shelter industry. Wow this guy really just went full Alex Jones. Is this what AVfM is all about? I've been put off by their content in the past from what I found to be a conservative slant and persecution complex pandering, but this is fucking ridiculous.
/r/MensRights03/05/13 12:00 AM
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Sure is!
/r/MensRights02/05/13 06:49 PM
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I've been a part of many of those discussions and have never seen anyone try enforce a feeling one way or another. What I have seen is the justified backlash against the people who come into them to say "well I'm fine with mine, so it's okay". You're going to have to back up what you're saying with more than a generalization. Good for you that you're comfortable with what was done to you. Go off, do your own thing, and feel free to not participate in these discussions anymore if they make you un…
/r/MensRights30/04/13 08:33 PM
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How exactly are they shaming you? It appears to me the only sentiment they shame is the sentiment that it's okay to cut a child.
/r/MensRights30/04/13 06:27 PM
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Of course it never had anything to do with public health, or efficacy. Circumcision has always been a solution in search of a problem. In the victorian era, it was about damaging the genitals in the attempt to eliminate masturbation. Now, it's the tens of millions of dollars being dispensed to contractors to perform the operation. And consent of adults is one thing, but there are quite a few boys being coerced into this as well by well meaning, ignorant parents, and predatory ad campaigns which …
/r/MensRights26/04/13 12:01 AM
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That's wikipedia's problem, not ours. It's probably about time there were an article focusing on the practice as a human rights issue - as is the case with FGM.
/r/MensRights25/04/13 10:18 PM
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Still up so far. I can't imagine there's a rational argument for removing it. Should it continue to be removed, we should press for arbitration. For that matter, should we probably add forced conscription into war to this list? I think it definitely qualifies.
/r/MensRights25/04/13 08:04 PM
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I'm curious as to why there's no 'genital mutilation' under violence against men.
/r/MensRights25/04/13 04:09 PM
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Well, those people don't know your address, and don't have a reason to hate you further than you beating them at an online game. She may be toxic and even hateful, but that doesn't mean she deserves to fear for her life.
/r/MensRights24/04/13 01:12 AM
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Go and post it, maybe some reasonable people will attend and point out their sexism. At least it's not like my residence hall experience, where we were required to attend something like this put on by a feminist organization which spent the entire session dancing around blaming us as a gender for rape and sexual assault ('cause, you know, that girl I wasn't interested in totally didn't touch me at that party), and insisting that it was our sole responsibility to prevent it from happening. They g…
/r/MensRights23/04/13 02:19 PM
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I kind of feel like making a shirt that says "I'm the liberal, soft-spoken, pro-choice MRA you weren't warned about"
/r/MensRights19/04/13 02:37 AM
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Seriously. “No hate speech on campus.” "Scum. You are fucking scum." The protesters did their job, interrupting the lecture by pulling the fire alarm and delaying it temporarily. So the job of a protester isn't to protest, it's to disrupt the ability of another group from attending their own independently-organized event? And somehow that's fighting bigotry? We should be able to openly discuss aggression in men, male sexuality, cultural expectations, justice issues, et al., but groups like AVFM,…
/r/MensRights19/04/13 02:28 AM
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There was a discussion on justified rape - how there's different types of rape, and there's one type of criminal rape and accidental rape, and how a woman is mind-raping a man, and thus he couldn't help himself from raping her. So it's okay. Wut¿
/r/MensRights19/04/13 02:01 AM
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This is a new reporting of an old story. TL;DR: Friend helps out gay girls, pregnancy is achieved, they split up, the mother applies for assistance, and the state goes after the biological father because they didn't go through a licensed insemination clinic.
/r/MensRights19/04/13 01:54 AM
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Protracted no cruelties I've lost count of the number of times a feminist will enter a discussion about genital mutilation and insist very loudly, using the same tired factually and ethically incorrect premises, that it's less of an injustice to a boy as it is to a girl, and therefore should be less of a priority to eradicate. Even though FGM is illegal almost worldwide. Even though 80% of us were cut in this country. Even though it's still happening to us. It's rather cruel of them. I'm surpris…
/r/MensRights18/04/13 03:25 PM
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Circumcision is known to reduce a man's risk of HIV infection by at least half, but scientists don't know why. It iis known. If they only knew who went well out of their way to commission and carefully cultivate that study in the first place, they probably wouldn't be making that claim. Even if it hadn't suffered from all sorts of undeclared biases and error, the study was done on men who live in squalor and is therefore only relevant there, not here.
/r/MensRights17/04/13 02:57 PM
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I recall seeing an active shooter reported out in California with an initial report that it was a woman, when it turned out to be a man. Initial reports just suck most of the time.
/r/MensRights16/04/13 07:51 PM
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Am I misconstruing his message that the solutions to our problems won't require changes to the law? Because they will. I don't know where this guy is coming from that he thinks they won't.
/r/MensRights16/04/13 05:03 PM
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Dwyer said CAFE uses the label “men’s issues” rather than “men’s rights” because the latter “implies legal changes are necessary. It implies that there are rights exclusive to men, which we don’t believe is true.” How about we put it this way: There are legal rights and privileges exclusive to women that boys and men do not enjoy, which do necessitate legal change. The demons we face extend past the social constructs, and it's a huge disservice to us to insist that they don't.
/r/MensRights15/04/13 07:32 PM
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It's bad. In my IT-related program, we had a cabal of feminist professors entrenched who knew jack shit about technology and were more concerned with advancing their ideology. They set up shop like a religious outreach and exert their power to the fullest extent possible.
/r/MensRights15/04/13 02:09 PM
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... exactly, which is why the entire article, with its apparent lack of sources, makes no sense to me.
/r/MensRights12/04/13 06:56 PM
10

What press release? I'd assume this is satire if it were the least bit funny.
/r/MensRights12/04/13 06:16 PM
2

The best way? You be exactly what they expect you not to be. You stay calm. If they say something hurtful, express sadness. They expect you to meet anger with anger, and anything other than that will seriously fuck with them. You're not going to change her opinion, and she's not your actual audience - that's actually everyone else around watching the whole thing go down. If they see her being hateful to you and you not reciprocating, it challenges their preconceptions.
/r/MensRights11/04/13 02:16 PM
10

I would hate to see her get hurt. She's such a shining example of how not to be that I kind of want to see her stick around for as long as possible.
/r/MensRights11/04/13 01:41 PM
8

In the U.S. at least, 6 in 10 males will be sexually assaulted before the age of 1
/r/MensRights11/04/13 01:35 PM
1

I'm really surprised nobody pointed it out already, but this is the exact same list read by a hilariously noxious feminist at a University of Toronto event. Aside from that, what do I think of it? Everything bad is capital-P Patriarchy at work. Yawn. That is such an intellectually lazy argument, it's pathetic. Find and replace for 'patriarchy' with 'Satan's master plan' and it makes just about as much sense.
/r/MensRights10/04/13 08:26 PM
9

Claiming that it's perpetuating the problem and that it's unethical is silly because it's not attacking the problem. I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but in tandem with the AAP's weaselly position statement press release in support of circumcision, there were several other releases which did in fact tote the use of foreskins in cosmetics and burn remedies as support for the practice. Oprah needs to take a step back an evaluate why it might be that these men (and plenty of women as well) are…
/r/MensRights10/04/13 03:17 PM
1

Sorry, meant to say 'unjustifiable'.
/r/MensRights09/04/13 12:55 AM
5

Right, because it was women she sent to the Falklands to kill and die pointlessly in an unjust war.
/r/MensRights09/04/13 12:19 AM
1

These 'benefits' are highly disputed to the point of meaninglessness. Even if you take proponents at their word, it still doesn't make sense - monetarily, vs. (further) complications, etc.
/r/MensRights08/04/13 09:55 PM
1

My issue is with the assumption that there are benefits in the first place. For every study showing a reduction of STDs or other issues, there is another study directly contradicting it or showing an inverse association. To me this means the studies have failed to control for other factors. An easy tiebreaker for conflicts of interest? There aren't millions of dollars in grants for not cutting babies.
/r/MensRights08/04/13 08:39 PM
17

Shouting
/r/MensRights08/04/13 01:41 PM
1

female circumcision has the same benefits as male circumcision Please punch yourself in the face as hard and as many times as you can. The people promoting both practices will say anything to keep on doing what they do.
/r/MensRights08/04/13 01:36 PM
59

Feminists support male circumcision , and are against any efforts to ban infant circumcision. NOW protested the measure proposed in San Francisco to make circumcision illegal to perform on a child under 18. Really? When / where was this?
/r/MensRights08/04/13 02:44 AM
5

Unfortunately I'm pretty sure that ruling was overturned. Angela Merkel made it a priority to ensure that Jews in Germany can continue to mutilate their boys.
/r/MensRights03/04/13 08:29 PM
9

Like pissing in an ocean of piss, dude. Move along.
/r/MensRights03/04/13 05:22 PM
9

Shoved to the back of the bus? When FGM is illegal almost worldwide, and MGM isn't illegal anywhere?
/r/MensRights03/04/13 05:20 PM
3

If they didn't think there was a credible threat to the continuance of their everyday atrocity, they wouldn't be coming out in defense of it with tautological arguments. This is a good sign, it means the intactivists are getting their message across.
/r/MensRights03/04/13 05:18 PM
2

According to Judaism? Mother is Jewish? Son is Jewish. No covenant necessary to be a Jew.
/r/MensRights03/04/13 05:15 PM
3

Fantastically well-said. Too bad the AAP has already cashed out.
/r/MensRights02/04/13 06:53 PM
1

Please rate the following questions on a scale of 0-10, (where 0 represents very dissatisfied and 10 represents very satisfied) This scale is confusing when you then have: How much is your circumcision status a negative issue for you in your every day life? Am I very satisfied that it's a negative issue? Wut? Also: Do you know if there were any complications with the circumcision procedure? This is ambiguous. Am I saying that yes, I know that there were, or yes, I know that there weren't?
/r/MensRights02/04/13 03:49 PM
3

Well, considering the author was a woman and it was an opinion piece, probably nothing.
/r/MensRights29/03/13 07:39 PM
-1

The problem is that feminists insist men did it deliberately. They place more blame on men then women, thus the word "subjugated." Well, that's silly. It's impossible for millions of men to sit down and make a conscious, unilateral decision on how to structure society. Are there any feminists in the crowd willing to weigh in on what you think about this, and what you can gather of your movement's sentiment towards it? Except... why call it 'patriarchy?' Because that's what it was, in a pure sema…
/r/MensRights29/03/13 06:00 PM
9

Women throughout history weren't given the same level of responsibility or status outside the home. Would you disagree? GirlWritesWhat speaks at length about how this structure evolved. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, because in my opinion men are and have been as much slaves to the generations of society's baggage as women have. And I certainly would not paint it as the Big Bad of "the patriarchy". It simply was, and our society is struggling to come to terms with the chaos created by the c…
/r/MensRights29/03/13 05:14 PM
18

Well to start out with, "groups of men"... you're already excluded based on her criteria, or am I remembering incorrectly? I don't mean to be a smartass, but it's worth noting that she's ignoring the very prominent female voices here. My point is that based on everything I've read, most here would not equate feminism (assuming there's a good way to define it - I've yet to find anything I'd agree with that didn't devolve into meaninglessness) with misandry in and of itself, and fewer still would …
/r/MensRights29/03/13 03:35 PM
2

Oh man, it's like the '90s all over again
/r/MensRights29/03/13 02:51 PM
224

One reason for this is the growing popularity of “Men’s Rights Activism” (MRA) — groups of men who refer to feminism as “misandry” and advocate vociferously that men face more discrimination than women. Raise your hand if this accurately reflects your position. Anyone? MRAs and garden-variety geeks expressing similar attitudes may not be radical activists … but they’re radical defenders of the status quo. Wow, I am furious at the level of ignorance here. This article is fucking crap. If we were …
/r/MensRights29/03/13 02:09 PM
1

Trust me, I'm totally on board with you. I'm simply being critical of the mentality that all our problems are in some way related to feminism. It was a legitimate open-ended question to get people to think about it, which I have answered in the past myself.
/r/MensRights28/03/13 01:17 PM
1

What does neonatal circumcision have to do with feminists?
/r/MensRights27/03/13 02:53 PM
11

One thing mah daddy always said is when you're pointing fingers, guess what - that thumb is pointing back at you What a fucking hypocrite. She is not fit to be a judge.
/r/MensRights27/03/13 04:02 AM
5

Cool, maybe now they'll focus less on ensuring that every man on earth is circumcised and polluting the media promoting their policy.
/r/MensRights26/03/13 08:47 PM
2

I'll be there Saturday
/r/MensRights25/03/13 03:54 PM
0

Glad to see a voice of reason opening this discussion up. I'm also genuinely interested in seeing what she actually says. I don't have my hopes up that the cause and effect relationship will be accurately identified (seriously, guys are largely the ones buying games, and publishers are risk-averse), but I guess we'll see.
/r/MensRights07/03/13 04:54 AM
4

It's almost like there's other funding that they're afraid of losing if they oppose it. Hmmmm. Thinking about all the ad campaigns that play on insecurities makes my blood boil. I would hesitate to call it a conspiracy, but if not that, what the fuck is it?
/r/MensRights07/03/13 04:50 AM
2

Source?
/r/MensRights07/03/13 12:40 AM
0

That's fine, I've got karma to burn. These outlets thrive off the exposure they get from controversy. Works the same way as Gawker - they put people in the spotlight who they know will make incendiary and controversial comments. That said, the fact that it's a democratic party strategist is particularly bad. I hope a more reputable news outlet picks up on the story.
/r/MensRights06/03/13 07:31 PM
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Oh yes, The Blaze, the watered-down Alex Jones alternative where it's 1953 again, and if you don't agree with Glenn Beck, you're a commie. Fuck that shit. I am a loosely-libertarian gun owner, but I have extreme disdain for social-conservative bullshit. Oh no, my imaginary internet points! Lay it on, you noble champions of free speech.
/r/MensRights06/03/13 05:26 PM
1

It doesn't have much of anything to do with rights at all (though perceptions are still important), which is why I didn't upvote the submission. I was just bored and lookin' for someone to talk to. So, do you uh... come here often?
/r/MensRights05/03/13 10:03 PM
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Kind of like how in discussions of genital integrity, instead of solidarity and empathy, all you get is "HOW DARE YOU EVEN SUGGEST THAT THEY ARE SIMILAR! THERE IS NO COMPARISON TO BE MADE!" And then, like flies to a turd, a few other people will chime in like "it's true, FGM would be the equivalent of shearing off the entire lower half of your body, micron-layer by micron-layer. You're an insensitive supershithead for even going there, just be happy with what you've got and shut up already."
/r/MensRights05/03/13 09:56 PM
12

we talk about how to introduce the idea of an opposition to feminism to kids Why teach opposition from a young age? They'll do whatever they think gains your approval of them, but they might not understand why. For the same reason that you (ostensibly, I'm skeptical on this) bought into feminism, they'll buy into whatever it is you're telling them. A better idea would be to keep eyes on the prize, recognize and acknowledge inequities independent of gender, and teach the kids to think critically …
/r/MensRights05/03/13 02:48 PM
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It really annoys me when women are portrayed as dainty, shrill things that need constant protection. Lori had an invariable expression of a frightened animal, was never in control, and was just annoying in general. I was kind of glad to see her go. Conversely, I love seeing female characters like Michonne and Carol from TWD, and Arya, Yara and Ygrette from Game of Thrones kicking ass. I pretty much like people who take responsibility for themselves.
/r/MensRights05/03/13 12:22 AM
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Maybe, but I know of few parents, male or otherwise, who wouldn't have done the same if placed in that situation. Seems extra-sad that he got out of the car. That's a big no-no in a blizzard.
/r/MensRights04/03/13 05:54 PM
2

I think it's very sad. It's good that she left. They both seem like they need to get their shit together. He's probably regretting that tattoo.
/r/MensRights04/03/13 05:01 PM
4

and April fool's day is still 28 days away
/r/MensRights04/03/13 04:45 PM
11

Very sad, but I'm not sure how it's relevant.
/r/MensRights04/03/13 04:43 PM
13

The organization has been struggling to put forward a balanced position “that captures the risks, and the benefits, but is also respectful of personal preferences, religious issues and many other things that dictate this decision,” Stanwick said. (Emphasis mine) I'm probably not the first person to point out that there's no such thing as a personal preference for someone else's body. And... balanced position? If some people say the sky is blue and others say the sky is green, you don't strike a …
/r/MensRights03/03/13 10:09 PM
1

Meta posts go in /r/mensrightsmeta. Aside from that, there have been posters who've voiced legitimate concerns about the sub and about the movement. Fuck all of you, you're all batshit and cannot understand a world beyond black and white, us or them. You guys bitch about wanting equal treatment but cannot do so without bitching about women getting better treatment. And you are not one of them.
/r/MensRights03/03/13 07:24 PM
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home-schooling Ugh, don't put your kid through that. You'd be creating a hell of a lot more problems than you'd be solving.
/r/MensRights03/03/13 03:59 PM
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If he think he was raped, he should have brought it up way earlier. I was in an abusive friendship once that turned into stalking. I came very close to going to the police about it, but I didn't. I felt ashamed. I was worried how they would react, how much they would even be able to do about it. A man - especially one in his 20's - should have that shit under control, or so people would think, but it's not that easy. In this case, he went to them a few weeks later. At that point, she may not hav…
/r/MensRights03/03/13 03:47 PM
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Under a strict interpretation of the law, these boys, by virtue of their age, were raped. But family courts have seen these incidents for what they were: consensual sexual encounters. These two statements are not compatible. Statutory rape laws are made because children can't consent. That's why the law is what it is. Just because they didn't go to the authorities about it doesn't mean that it wasn't illegal. These women should have been arrested the moment child support figured out their relati…
/r/MensRights03/03/13 03:17 PM
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Would I love for a future girlfriend to fuck me in the ass? Yes! Would it make me into a feminist ally? Lol, nope.
/r/MensRights01/03/13 10:46 PM
3

Hi submitter. I'm closely involved with the intactivist movement, and had a few thousand miles of barren interstate to consider this, so I figure I'd share my insight. Many of the individual groups are in fact led by women, but to say they are "dominated" by women is a mischaracterization. The leadership style, regardless of gender, is generally very democratic and inclusive, and the role of leaders is strategic, organizational and communicative rather than authoritative. Because the wider movem…
/r/MensRights01/03/13 07:56 PM
2

Sure, two atrocities. One of them common, and driven by delusion and ethical blindness, one of them uncommon, and driven by insanity.
/r/MensRights01/03/13 03:02 AM
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That's not really the takeaway that I had in mind. As far as possibilities go, this one's pretty remote, and if you spend more than a millisecond considering it practically, you've probably wasted your time. The reason it's significant is that it underscores the screwy thought processes that play into circumcision in the first place - the idea that a boy will get rejected if he's not cut, so let's violate his body until it's acceptable to society. Maybe when that intersects with (probable) insan…
/r/MensRights28/02/13 10:01 PM
4

Gender-based violence, yes, but only half of it was illegal. That is why I posted it, and that is why it's relevant to the sub.
/r/MensRights28/02/13 09:28 PM
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So the issue for equality isn't "some kid had his penis mutilated, then judged to be too small, and then he was murdered over it"? If we're talking strictly equality, then I guess it's par for the course in Indonesia, because they cut a considerable percentage of their girls there, too. Or we can get meta about it and see what sort of exposure it garners. Will it be none? Will The View pick it up and laugh about it? Who knows. It's fucking absurdity either way. Oh, and a reduction in penis size …
/r/MensRights28/02/13 08:53 PM
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Couldn't even make this shit up
/r/MensRights28/02/13 08:26 PM
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Can anyone from Aus comment on the viewership / significance of 60 minutes there? In the U.S., this feature would piss off a lot of the show's target demographic. Brian Morris, the pro-circ guy, is well-known by the intactivist movement as the preeminent supporter - possibly more vocal than anyone else. Paul Mason is unknown to me, but seems legit based on connections. I am very interested to see how this turns out.
/r/MensRights28/02/13 04:22 PM
4

A better idea: call her superior to report a hostile work environment
/r/MensRights27/02/13 03:02 PM
2

How important is it that unaffected third parties know the names of everyone involved in the case, before it even goes to trial? This all seems very 'scarlet letter'. I don't see a benefit to society here. It gives notoriety to the people who were seeking it in the first place, and makes it impossible for individuals who have supposedly repaid their "debt to society" to reintegrate.
/r/MensRights26/02/13 04:13 PM
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The first thing will be to make sure insurance and medicaid do not fund it, though there's been an increasing trend of defunding on the state level. As for illegality, I think effort should be concentrated towards federal law - not state law. The precedent has already been set with the FGM ban (which does so explicitly with no exception for religious observation). We need to push hard for the same for boys. It won't happen overnight, and in all likelihood it probably won't happen in our lifetime…
/r/MensRights26/02/13 02:54 PM
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female mutilation is way less harmful but outlawed I always hate when people downplay the severity of MGM by saying FGM is 'worse', so let's not do that. They are both morally reprehensible acts which have different repercussions to their victims. Whether one is more harmful is subject to much pointless debate.
/r/MensRights25/02/13 06:19 PM
3

♪♫ I won't be the man... who will fight... for your honor ♪♫
/r/MensRights25/02/13 12:42 PM
3

Sound a lot like an Islamic or Filipino circumcision ceremony. Nine years old, strapped to a table, can you even imagine? Shame nobody gives a fuck.
/r/MensRights22/02/13 02:36 PM
10

Somebody's never been with a sexually submissive guy. I'm not talking BDSM here- there's no need to be restrained to be sub. You probably couldn't tell it by how we generally act, but we are definitely out there.
/r/MensRights22/02/13 12:03 AM
3

I'm not particularly masculine, and I don't care to advocate for a particular gender construct, so for me to call myself a masculist wouldn't make a ton of sense. I am a man though, and my rights (both the ones I have, and the ones I should have had at birth) are important to promote.
/r/MensRights20/02/13 10:36 PM
2

The regressive system which she is advocating sucks even more for men and boys than the status quo. She and her conservative bullshit will get absolutely no sympathy from me.
/r/MensRights19/02/13 07:52 PM
1

Even when it wasn't unheard-of (think mid-late 19th century and early 20th century), it was very uncommon in the U.S. compared to MGM. I agree with you - if we had done the same thing to girls in this country that we do to boys, and in the numbers we have, we'd probably still be cleaning up the mess. As it is now, only half the battle has been won, but the opposing force for that battle was politically insignificant. Because of the power held by those with a vested interest in keeping the practi…
/r/MensRights19/02/13 07:09 PM
3

There is a history of all three in the United States. Baby-cutting pioneers like John Harvey Kellogg advocated using acid to burn girls' clitorises based on the falsehood that masturbation was unhealthy. Even into the '50s, limited numbers of girls suffered clitoridectomies and similar at the hands of ignorant parents and greedy, disingenuous doctors. It simply didn't catch on enough to keep a hold, because it wasn't promoted with the same zeal, and there weren't already cutting cultures integra…
/r/MensRights19/02/13 06:44 PM
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That's not accurate. Many of the countries which practice FGM do it for any combination of those three reasons. When you encounter someone defending FGM, you hear the same arguments that are used here (by 'our contry' I will assume you are referring to the United States) in defense of MGM - with the notable exception of HIV prevention. Nobody's going to sponsor studies to evaluate FGM as a preventive measure, as there aren't tens of millions of dollars at stake for someone wishing to push that h…
/r/MensRights19/02/13 06:20 PM
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It really shouldn't bother you, because qualitatively, they are pretty much the same thing - an adult holds down a non-consenting child and forcibly removes part of his or her genitalia. Even in severity and consequence, the most common forms of each are absolutely comparable. The mechanics and sensation of sex are fundamentally different, and the right of that child to experience them as their genome intended is violated.
/r/MensRights19/02/13 05:57 PM
4

Absolutely. I don't know of any culture which practices FGM which does not also practice MGM. And you'll find that the same-sex parent or grandparent is often the enforcer.
/r/MensRights19/02/13 05:04 PM
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The fact that it was so easily banned when it affects female babies is testament to the callousness with which people generally treat even male babies. I don't think you're giving enough credit to the sheer power of convention in peoples' lack of empathy and consideration. The countries which force the same mutilation on their girls are in most cases not acting out of cruelty - they're enforcing an established social norm, or a religious obligation (yes, there are Islamic populations that practi…
/r/MensRights19/02/13 04:39 PM
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Wrong, the practice is largely unregulated in the UK. There was a high profile case recently where a woman walked after a boy she cut died of blood loss. I guess it would have been too cruel to lock her up forever.
/r/MensRights19/02/13 03:10 AM
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Read their page on FGM. Take note of the perspective from which it is written, and the citations. Surprise, surprise! It's the World Health Organization! The very same one which promotes circumcision of male children in those very same countries! Some gems: Ahlam is a living example of girls who have been coerced into the practice and live regretting why they had to undergo a process that has not only lowered her personal esteem, notwithstanding the fact that it also denied her the opportunity t…
/r/MensRights14/02/13 08:47 PM
5

I hope she treats her boyfriend better than she treats the English language
/r/MensRights14/02/13 04:51 AM
1

I don't find it objectionable. But as much as it's important call out sexism when it's found, the sheer volume and repetition is crowding out much of the other content. It has a place, but I don't think that place is here. It's sensational, but I'll challenge you, where is the value in it? We all nod our heads that it's not okay. Maybe some of us run off to complain to the appropriate parties. Where does that leave us in the grand scheme of things? I'd argue that it leaves us right where we are,…
/r/MensRights13/02/13 09:54 PM
10

That only really holds if you equate feminism with liberation, but of course from a rhetorical point of view, it's all teed up. Though even if you take it at face value (like /u/soylentcoleslaw points out) it doesn't logically follow.
/r/MensRights13/02/13 09:35 PM
1

Thanks for the support, I was starting to question my sanity. Ironic that the being accused of promoting censorship means my comment gets buried.
/r/MensRights13/02/13 09:14 PM
1

I'm an primarily an intactivist, and men's rights activist (in at least the dictionary sense, for as long as there's no cancerous ideology attached) by extension and association. If you haven't been directly involved in the movement, you might be surprised to find that women are probably a decent 50%, maybe more, of our constituency. They are also very often even more vocal in their advocacy. I think a lot of it has to do with the way society perceives men who are complaining. People are hostile…
/r/MensRights13/02/13 05:59 PM
3

It's also semantically correct - just as some victims of rape die or kill themselves, so too do victims of genital mutilation. Sure, the general public may scoff. But then you can point them to people like David Reimer and the thousands and thousands of infants that have died or lost their penises for no justifiable reason.
/r/MensRights13/02/13 05:35 PM
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No, the basis of censorship would be suppression of information that I think is objectionable. I am arguing instead that syndication of sexism examples (the dime a dozen screen shots from twitter / facebook / 4chan / tumblr) which aren't new or notable or even thought-provoking shouldn't take priority over notable events, real activism, selfposts asking for help, and so on. That balance is important, because currently that's all a casual subscriber to this sub sees. People opposed to the movemen…
/r/MensRights13/02/13 05:06 PM
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How is it elitism to want to prioritize relevant news and activism over the countless anecdotal examples of sexism you see every day? Everyone in this sub is already more than familiar with them, so they really don't provide any value.
/r/MensRights13/02/13 04:25 PM
1

He certainly hasn't changed my life for the better. The support that he's thrown behind the pro-circumcision lobby makes my life as a part time, unpaid intactivist a lot more difficult. I'm past dwelling, I'm taking action so to try and end it, so that nobody else has to face this. And if the hateful practice that he put so much energy into preserving and promoting through "stand proud" campaigns, demonizing normal human anatomy continues for the next hundred years, would you still feel it was j…
/r/MensRights13/02/13 01:39 AM
2

Is the language in the bill gendered? It was my impression that the provisions were not. If that's the case, it's maybe less sexist, but then the title is inaccurate. Either way, I have a hard time understanding how women, especially feminists, are okay with this bill as named. Positive sexism is still sexism.
/r/MensRights13/02/13 12:33 AM
4

If it were so simple or so intuitive, then parents wouldn't have allowed doctors to mutilate their kids for the past century. It's important to be patient and gentle with people who don't understand or disagree with us. I myself spent a long time believing that what happened to me was not just fine, but desirable.
/r/MensRights12/02/13 02:37 PM
2

he knows
/r/MensRights12/02/13 02:32 PM
2

That's fine. Sorry people downvoted your (in my opinion) valid question. I tried to offset it a bit. This is a hot topic for a lot of people, and playing devil's advocate isn't usually done from a neutral standpoint. I think it's important to make the distinction between bodily integrity and total autonomy, because while there are justifiable violations of autonomy, there aren't many for integrity.
/r/MensRights12/02/13 12:49 PM
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Parents' primary role is to protect the child from harm, self-harm included. What I'm arguing for is not total physical autonomy. I'm simply arguing for a child's inalienable right to keep all his healthy body parts. A foreskin is not a disease.
/r/MensRights12/02/13 04:18 AM
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Check your foreskin priv! Um, I don't have one? That's the fucking point. The law protects girls from genital mutilation. It doesn't protect boys. You'll find that every once in a while, groups you associate with will take up an issue you don't care about. And if you don't give a fuck about it, then whyyyy are you posting? If it bothers you that much, there's a 'hide' button right there under the post.
/r/MensRights12/02/13 01:01 AM
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The right to genital integrity definitely falls under men's rights. Suggestion: If you consider yourself an atheist and you're cool with organizations that actively support the Christian anti-gay lobby, or an MRA and feel that a child doesn't have the right to his own body... then perhaps you ought to re-evaluate whether you are either of those things.
/r/MensRights12/02/13 12:38 AM
3

Relevant Circleaks entry
/r/MensRights11/02/13 09:50 PM
8

I absolutely fucking hate it. It kills me. What message are you sending to a child by cutting him? Intactivism is what brought me here, not vice-versa.
/r/MensRights11/02/13 09:28 PM
16

mechanical retraction problems (phimosis) in childhood Children do not have retractable foreskins until they begin puberty. Prematurely retracting them will cause scarring and potentially other issues. And this guy's a doctor?
/r/MensRights11/02/13 08:41 PM
2

Understanding is a prerequisite to empathy. If she has no frame of reference, how can she be expected to understand from the get-go? Likewise, if we had never been exposed to the resources we have, we'd probably have the same indifference towards it. That's why it's so important that we're gentle with people in our advocacy. It's a jarring thing to bring up, and unfortunately, without a lot of hand holding and calm explanation, people tend to clam up and be dismissive. Even then, it's a process.…
/r/MensRights11/02/13 03:56 PM
0

Sadly, the people pushing circumcision as a solution to this problem are the same ones trying to defund birth control.
/r/MensRights11/02/13 03:14 PM
2

Almost every one I've gone on, my date will offer to pay before I can even get my wallet out. Usually it ends up that we split the bill, or I'll pay for drinks afterward. I'm really happy the attitude toward this is changing.
/r/MensRights11/02/13 03:12 PM
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The problem is that these twitter memes, image macros and individual small examples of misandry are sensational and arguably important to publicize, but they receive a disproportionate amount of attention and take away from activism, notable events and discussion. The 4chan / twitter screen shots and clever edits devolve into high-fiving, but are ultimately of little value. I think these should be banned outright. There are hateful people all over the place, and they'll stick around no matter wh…
/r/MensRights11/02/13 03:07 PM
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This is a great idea, and I think it should be enforced. There is way too much stupid shit making it to the top and burying more important things.
/r/MensRights11/02/13 02:58 PM
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Don't you have to be a trained person with a degree to be able to do this legally? Nope. It is completely unregulated.
/r/MensRights11/02/13 04:05 AM
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I have been lucky enough to have never encountered any form of abuse in my relationships. I can't even remember a single shouting match. Granted, I haven't been married and probably won't ever be married. A civil union with a prenup? Maybe. Keep an eye out for warning signs, and trust your instincts. I think you'll find that womenfolk are generally good, and want the same things you want out of a relationship.
/r/MensRights11/02/13 03:56 AM
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Kind of like how posts here about petty twitterverse bullshit make it to the very top, while activism posts languish on page 2?
/r/MensRights10/02/13 07:49 PM
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Chopping body parts off a nonconsenting human being is misrepresented by "mutilation"? And characterizing it as what it literally is, is morally wrong? Man, I'll have what you're having. Might be easier to cope that way.
/r/MensRights09/02/13 05:09 AM
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The German Pediatric Association (Berufsverband der Kinder und Jugendärtze) released a statement condemning the AAP's policy update. The Royal Dutch Medical Association has also harshly criticized it in the past for the same. If you dig deep enough, you'll find that there is a small group of very well-funded advocates for MGM (Bill & Melinda Gates, Johns Hopkins, etc.). They have quite a bit of political and media influence - hell, they managed to get 40 million taxpayer dollars to cut boys in A…
/r/MensRights08/02/13 05:43 PM
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mutilate [myoot-l-eyt]: to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting. I didn't write the dictionary, I just call a spade a spade. Fact: circumcision is mutilation.
/r/MensRights08/02/13 05:32 PM
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In this instance, circumcision is a medical procedure with ACTUAL medical benefits, as opposed to FGM which is exists solely to be cruel. The proclaimed benefits are highly disputed. When there's zero risk of HIV prevention as an infant, your implication that it somehow has a place in societies with high HIV prevalence does not make sense. In what way is this not forced? Perpetrators of genital mutilation are not usually acting out of cruelty. They do what they do because their respective societ…
/r/MensRights08/02/13 02:32 AM
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Link to Zero Tolerance Day: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/annual/female_genital_mutilation/en/index.html
/r/MensRights07/02/13 08:26 PM
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I hope you will join me and the rest of my intactivist brothers in Washington, DC this April for Genital Integrity Awareness Week. The Facebook event is public and has the details. If you're unable to use Facebook, the event details are available on the web page of the Bay Area Intactivists.
/r/MensRights06/02/13 11:05 PM
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The simple solution is to amend the law by adding this. We need to start pushing for it, or it will never happen. And these organizations need our financial support to continue existing.
/r/MensRights06/02/13 09:31 PM
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Until people start believing in ignorant generalizations and parroting the same nonsense. See also: Poe's Law
/r/MensRights06/02/13 08:51 PM
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We should focus on genital integrity and human rights, and a man's right to keep his genitals in one piece. You can pretty much skip the entire piece and just read this. The moment someone ignorant goes off on a tangent of "x worse than y", they are playing king of the hill with you and you can safely end the conversation with the above quote. Edit: I'm not saying joe4gi is - in fact, this piece is a good illustration of the phenomenon - just that we need to get past this snag when discussing ge…
/r/MensRights06/02/13 08:49 PM
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Why have there been a grand total of 0 protests against male circumcision while there have been countless in the past for female circumcision? Untrue, people have been holding protests in varying size for half a century. You might try attending one. With love from /r/Intactivists
/r/MensRights06/02/13 04:53 AM
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People like me need more people like me standing next to them at these events. Stay tuned, I'll post some links soon.
/r/MensRights05/02/13 09:37 PM
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Does she ever leave the house? Help your friend put all her shit outside, change the locks, get a restraining order and never speak to her again.
/r/MensRights05/02/13 07:14 PM
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Cutting girls has been a federal crime since 1995. What's that, 14th Amendment? You have something to say?
/r/MensRights05/02/13 07:05 PM
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I protested at the AAP convention down in New Orleans a few months ago. You would not believe some of the callous things that doctors both male and female said to us. Makes me sad to think that the obstetrician who cut me may have relished in it, though the result would be the same regardless.
/r/MensRights05/02/13 07:02 PM
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I feel you, man. It's rare you see sexism, conservatism, ageism, collective guilt together in the same place, and linked here. I'm no fan of affirmative action myself, but this article is fucking crap from start to finish. e: typo
/r/MensRights05/02/13 06:53 PM
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Yeah, this could have been half as long, and I'm thinking that the feelings you're driving at are going to be misinterpreted. I'm not worried that I'm perceived as gay because of ego, I'm worried I'm perceived as gay because it hurts my prospects.
/r/MensRights05/02/13 06:15 PM
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Then that would make just as little sense as fifilabec1 claiming that I'm not an MRA because I'm not sweepingly anti-feminism - which is exactly what he is doing. I reject patriarchy theory, and I think that nothing is beyond question. I am a men's rights activist, because I advocate for legal equality of men and boys. But seeing as there is no single definition of 'feminism' with a codified set of positions for me to agree or disagree with, I refuse to say that I'm anti-anything, and I'll call …
/r/MensRights04/02/13 02:29 PM
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Egalitarian feminism? What if they don't buy into patriarchy theory? I mean, it's not a trademarked term. And when you say "we" are anti-feminism, you're making a claim on behalf of a lot of MRAs who probably don't agree with you.
/r/MensRights03/02/13 10:14 PM
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Inspiring, but while it's positive to oppose sexism, it's logically inconsistent and counter-intuitive to suggest to the audience that they incorporate traditionally-male and positive roles into their identities. Just as I am not "the brute", I am also not "the engineer". I'm just me.
/r/MensRights03/02/13 07:32 PM
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/r/askmen is that way... Not me. Being single sucks, and a healthy relationship is a valuable thing.
/r/MensRights03/02/13 06:43 PM
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because she's a great thinker And very thorough, and rational to a fault. I'm curious what motivates her, but more so, grateful for her contributions.
/r/MensRights01/02/13 03:51 PM
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Maybe on the atomic level, this holds - someone with the simple ability to treat me differently because of who or what or how I am is discriminating against me, no matter who they are. But it still doesn't logically follow that a member of a minority or a historically disadvantaged population is incapable of being sexist, racist, or whatever else-ist, because that would require them to be completely powerless, and this has almost never been the case. It's a narcissistic way for the speaker to ex…
/r/MensRights01/02/13 02:45 PM
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Please please please never let there come a time where MRM-associates enforce ideological purity and lockstep agreement with prevailing opinion based in theory. Ugh.
/r/MensRights31/01/13 07:19 PM
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Not true at all! Hillary knows what's best for men and boys, too: On male circumcision, we’ve supported more than 400,000 procedures since last December alone. And I’m pleased to announce that PEPFAR will provide an additional $40 million to support South Africa’s plans to provide voluntary medical circumcisions for almost half a million boys and men in the coming year. (Applause.) You know and we want the world to know that this procedure reduces the risk of female-to-male transmission by more …
/r/MensRights31/01/13 03:51 PM
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I also congratulate him on his recent marriage, and applaud his strength and conviction to save sex for the marriage bed. Whaaaaaat....
/r/MensRights30/01/13 09:44 PM
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It's an interesting thing to consider. I approached this thinking that it's not malicious - the intent isn't to harm. But really, the intent is to harm. That's the whole point, although it's not framed as harm by those doing it. So this is malicious in the same way as is, for example, a witch hunt. Those taking part are scared of something (demons, witches, satan; smegma, social rejection, masturbation, a child not looking like daddy) and see it as a moral imperative to remove the threat.
/r/MensRights30/01/13 08:26 PM
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I think any rational person should avoid contact with The Blaze entirely, lest they be associated with it
/r/MensRights30/01/13 08:19 PM
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Based on the article, "documents" might be a poor choice of words. This movie appears to be a work of fiction, even though the phenomenon is observably real.
/r/MensRights30/01/13 07:56 PM
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I know my experience doesn't extend past my own head, but I've always found that there are at least one or two other guys in a given group who will connect on a deeper level. I think our generation is doing a lot better with this than our parents' generation. I look at my own father, and he's just been off in nowhere land, without close friends and concentrating mostly on his job, ever since we moved a decade ago. I think he's capable of supporting one of his peers if they open up, but I doubt h…
/r/MensRights28/01/13 03:20 PM
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Madonna had it so close, but missed the mark. For a boy to look like a girl isn't degrading because being a girl is degrading. It's because to look soft is not acceptable and is seen as juvenile or something to 'get over'. Even Justin Bieber is trying his damndest to look like a badass now that his promoters realized that the cute act is unsustainable past age 16. What's his target demo again? If anyone wants to test this theory, pony up for some eyeliner and narrow cut shirt, and point me in th…
/r/MensRights28/01/13 05:06 AM
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Which is different exactly how from life in the U.S.? Taylor Swift just got dumped by her Irish boyfriend because she wouldn't drop the issue of him getting cut. This is as much an issue of women's ignorance here as it is an issue of men's ignorance there.
/r/MensRights28/01/13 12:31 AM
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Big ups to Johns Hopkins University for learning from the experience and taking a stand for medical ethics and against genital mutilation for both genders. Oh wait.
/r/MensRights28/01/13 12:26 AM
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So you're okay with genital mutilation for girls too, as long as it happens in a hospital?
/r/MensRights27/01/13 08:40 PM
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It's amazing how similar it can be
/r/MensRights27/01/13 07:49 PM
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Hmm, so it must have just been a fluke that we saw news articles about the beneficial uses of neonatal foreskin from Bill & Melinda gates affiliates just a week before the AAP released their pro-circ statement. QED, yes it does.
/r/MensRights27/01/13 07:16 PM
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Brings a tear to my eye. I have a friend whose dentist convinced his mother to allow him to sever the frenulum in his upper palate. He laments it to this day. I didn't have the heart to tell him that this wasn't the only frenulum they cut without his consent.
/r/MensRights27/01/13 07:03 PM
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"Excision doesn't remove your desire or ability to enjoy sexual pleasure. The excision of women is cruel on many levels. It is physically cruel and painful; it sets girls up for a lifetime of suffering. And it is not even effective in its intent to remove their desire." -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch feminist (and victim of genital mutilation)
/r/MensRights27/01/13 06:59 PM
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tl;dr: In the US the greatest opposition comes from the religious leadership, all men. Not really When a parent in Israel decided not to cut her son: His paternal grandmother did not stop crying from the moment she heard that her grandson was not going to be circumcised − until the first time she saw him and was enchanted by him. After that, he says, the subject never came up again. On the secular side, Hilary Clinton has made speeches for PEPFAR / WHO / UNAIDS extolling the virtues of cicumcisi…
/r/MensRights27/01/13 06:55 PM
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They're both heinous crimes - the problem is that only one of them is illegal.
/r/MensRights27/01/13 05:59 PM
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Nice Guy (capitalization usually intentional) is a feminist trope that singles out guys who self-describe as "nice guys" but throw up either a red flag or reveal their true nature as a bridge burner when turned down. It's a dead horse at this point, and I can't see why it's even a thing for feminists, because plenty of women will do the exact same thing when rejected. Side note, I gave a girl exhibiting nice-gal-syndrome some advice. She came on very hard. I didn't find her attractive. I could t…
/r/MensRights25/01/13 07:41 PM
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I love Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She is one of my favorite people of all time. For those unaware, she has been a champion of genital integrity for both sexes, publicly opposing circumcision. Calling her a "women's rights activist" and leaving it at that almost cheapens her contribution to the world. I think Ayaan fully qualifies for the title of "human rights activist".
/r/MensRights25/01/13 01:11 AM
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Well, you're for equality right? That automatically makes you a feminist. Which by extension means you believe wholeheartedly in patriarchy theory and acknowledge that women throughout all of history had no role in anything bad, and a crucial role in any and all good. It's okay, comrade. The bad men have hurt you too. Time to take up arms for women's rights to make this all better.
/r/MensRights24/01/13 05:00 PM
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Sure it doesn't help as much if you're unable to convince someone, but I'm sure it will give them pause if the topic comes up. I think the best thing to do in this case is to swallow pride and go public with opposition. It's been what... five, six generations since this shit started in the U.S.? Might as well help it along.
/r/MensRights14/01/13 08:17 PM
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Sure it can be worth it. It's one less parent who when asked about the topic by expectant couples won't be able to say shit like "I had my son cut and he's never complained!"
/r/MensRights14/01/13 05:12 PM
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So PTSD isn't a real thing and all the people I know of who struggle to cope and kill themselves, whether or not they go to therapy, are pretending?
/r/MensRights13/01/13 08:07 PM
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Sure, it's somewhere in chromosome 23, which scientists have postulated predisposes a person to an entire life of hard labor, hard drinking and unfulfilled emotional needs.
/r/MensRights11/01/13 01:20 AM
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Mosey on over to http://www.theweeklyvice.com/, a showcase of the amusing and often terrible things people do. Notice the nearly 50/50 split of male and female offenders - yes, even in cases of violence. They also make up a vast majority of the statutory rape and inappropriate contact cases covered on the site.
/r/MensRights10/01/13 12:58 AM
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Any doctor that intentionally and permanently damages the genitals of a non-consenting child is by definition a shitty doctor.
/r/MensRights09/01/13 04:46 AM
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truly means POP QUIZ TIME! Q: What's the difference between a 'true' feminist and a 'true' MRA? A: Nothing, because neither exists. Leave the ideological purity to the Republican party. I'll reserve my right to dissent.
/r/MensRights09/01/13 04:37 AM
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I'll agree, it is relevant to a point, though I'm not really convinced that this would provoke anything but dissonance from any feminist with ideological buy-in. I'm glad the MRM doesn't have that in a prominent way, and I hope it never does. Nothing wrong with laughing every once in a while. I am hungry for more content though. Spare some scraps for the poor?
/r/MensRights04/01/13 03:53 AM
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Too right
/r/MensRights04/01/13 03:20 AM
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At the protest of the American Academy of Pediatrics in New Orleans following their statement in support of infant circumcision, the gender ratio of protesters was about 50-50. It was a fucking brilliant experience, one of the best of my life, and I will never forget the wonderful people I met there. If you look at the online intactivist movement, you will notice that there is a slight female majority, and they are some of the loudest voices. It's not a battle of the sexes, it shouldn't be a bat…
/r/MensRights04/01/13 03:16 AM
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Patriarchy is used as a catch-all where it doesn't apply, legitimate grievances of men are falling on deaf ears - and yes, insultingly, it's implied that men are all collectively to blame for everything. I largely don't believe in patriarchy theory as it's used by modern feminists. I don't believe in collective guilt, ever. But I also don't think that posts like this are even slightly beneficial to this sub, and less so to men's rights in general. We all high five each other and move on. No prog…
/r/MensRights04/01/13 02:56 AM
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This programming has been made possible by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - working to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. It's no-foreskin-left-behind, buddy.
/r/MensRights04/01/13 12:32 AM
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That's not even wrong. 'Sturdier'? 'Grit'? What in the world are they talking about?
/r/MensRights04/01/13 12:30 AM
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In other news, /r/MensRights has achieved all its stated goals and is now devoted entirely to ridiculing feminist dogma with edgy 4chan screen shots
/r/MensRights04/01/13 12:18 AM
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The fibroblasts used in those creams only exist in neonates. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, John's Hopkins University, The UN, USAID and several other organizations have funded these programs. For whatever reason, they're making it their mission to ensure that this practice remains not only acceptable, but encouraged both domestically and abroad.
/r/MensRights04/01/13 12:09 AM
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The only woman I see promoting circumcision is Hillary Clinton, and I'm not totally convinced she qualifies as a human being, let alone a woman. e: No seriously, she really does.
/r/MensRights03/01/13 11:56 PM
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Good luck with that, but I think it might be a non-starter. I would recommend contacting a mod there first and asking if they would be willing to sponsor the post as a show of solidarity - it's a fairly reasonable sub, but your effort will probably be more effective that way. If you haven't already, check out /r/intactivists. It's a good source of information.
/r/MensRights02/01/13 09:05 PM
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Turns out the event is public. FB link: https://www.facebook.com/events/403587049704377/ It will be from March 26th through April 1st, in Washington, DC. I'll probably only be there one or two days since I do the 9-5 shuffle.
/r/MensRights02/01/13 08:17 PM
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It's only funny to me in comparison to other sensational news stories where things get zanier instead of more conventional.
/r/MensRights01/01/13 04:47 PM
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Awesome. Amusingly, it appears that the other woman is now in a hetero relationship.
/r/MensRights01/01/13 04:16 PM
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The best part is that one of the two women is putting her support behind this guy. Big thumbs up to her for doing the right thing.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 10:54 PM
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Patriarchy is something that exists. The idea that men are the head of households and lots of gender based issues do stem from this belief. One part is there seems to be this idea that men actively try to keep society this way. Maybe feminists need to re-evaluate their no-role-in-it model of how things have turned out. Because regardless of sheer numbers and of tendencies, women are absolutely enforcers in the status quo. My mother was hounding me the other night about not owning a car when dati…
/r/MensRights31/12/12 04:52 PM
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You go first, I'm too busy being slightly pedantic :P
/r/MensRights31/12/12 04:31 PM
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Whatever works, nothing wrong with that. I only know one or two women interested in auto stuff, I'm sure it's a small minority. Just sharing my observation when it comes to tools and home improvement.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 03:47 PM
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In my local Lowe's at least, a lot of the time they are. They generally know their stuff too.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 08:33 AM
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I've seen it before. I'd bet from the female perspective it's lack of patience over time after being hit on or creeped on, justified or not. I think at least one of the few times a female attendant has been cold towards me, I must have looked hurt because her demeanor softened up a bit. Probably misinterpretation of intent, which makes friendly transactions nowadays kinda suck for everyone. Still, the above described has been relatively rare for me at least.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 08:32 AM
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Protest infant/child circumcision. There's one coming up in DC. I can get details for anyone interested.
/r/MensRights31/12/12 08:22 AM
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Women nowadays want to be treated as equals in public, but when it comes to having a partner, dominant alpha males are preferred. I think the problem is that it's hard to treat sexual attraction and other facets of everyday life the same. Women are just generally attracted to dominant men still, so it makes real gender equality hard to achieve. You're preaching to the choir here. This really sucks for people who outwardly display more or less masculine/gender-neutral traits, but are submissive i…
/r/MensRights31/12/12 08:06 AM
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What they are is a normative force to help keep the sub from radicalizing or just becoming a shitpost mill talking about why we should never trust anyone with different genitalia. What separates the concern trolling from the legitimate attempts are calls to stay relevant, rational and mature. I did upvote the referenced quote earlier today - it's damn funny. In retrospect, it has very little to do with Men's Rights, and would probably fit better in a sub devoted to good-natured ribbing of the ov…
/r/MensRights31/12/12 07:21 AM
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Dude, I did not mean to offend you by suggesting that your actions in that situation weren't warranted - it's clear to me that they were. I was speaking only with the assumption of an otherwise nonviolent relationship that simply did not work out. Peace
/r/MensRights26/12/12 07:00 AM
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Being broken up with is not duress, and it's recognized that judgment in both sexes suffers in actual cases of duress. Yes, the legal system is fucked up and biased against men when it comes to things like this, but that doesn't make it reasonable to presume that an otherwise sane person will become violent just because you're breaking up with them. If a feminist were advocating the same treatment, we would be harshly criticizing them for it - and rightly so. I dig not wanting to get married. I'…
/r/MensRights26/12/12 04:27 AM
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I would generally agree. I'm just worried that shitposts such as this one will slowly become more the norm, as they are already so regular. Have an upvote to counteract the indiscriminate downvoting.
/r/MensRights26/12/12 01:43 AM
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So maybe start a 'shit feminists say' sub and keep r/MensRights about men's rights
/r/MensRights25/12/12 11:04 PM
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I was raised Catholic. People of "faith" love to make sweeping generalizations about entire genders and human sexuality, often attempting to reinforce convention. My CCD teacher told us that men in our "culture" were terrible. The quote I recall almost entirely is that every girl a guy sleeps with is "like another notch in his belt!!!!" Her heart was in the right place, but she went about it the entirely wrong way. Parents, choose wisely who you allow to teach your children. If you only make rel…
/r/MensRights25/12/12 06:26 PM
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This advice really covers both genders, whenever you're involved with a bridge-burner. I am a straight guy and had a close male friend. Things got a little weird, and friend turned into stalker. He became verbally abusive, threatened my life, tried to get me fired, and on and on for two years after I stopped talking to him. Priority #1 should be to protect yourself. A lot of the time, it's not obvious what's happening until it's too late. At that point, your best option usually is to cease conta…
/r/MensRights25/12/12 06:12 PM
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There have been truly great female inventors and scientists. Sure there are people who will make lists like this for political reasons. But I'd be willing to bet that the best scientists are simply proud of being good scientists. No reason to hate on them unless they're being assholes.
/r/MensRights25/12/12 06:05 PM
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True feminism No true scots[wo]man, maybe
/r/MensRights25/12/12 05:59 PM
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The UN has, throughout its existence, turned a blind eye to issues affecting men and boys. UNAIDS and WHO have in fact been actively conducting and promoting circumcision campaigns in vulnerable populations. Fuck them.
/r/MensRights19/12/12 06:51 PM
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At the risk of even more feels, I have to ask - is she serious? And is she on the daily reading list of (I hesitate to say because there probably isn't such a thing) 'typical' feminists? I was under the impression that Jezebel was satire, with the content as hateful as it seems to be.
/r/MensRights13/12/12 09:26 PM
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All the non-cut guys I know have had no issues... warm water only to clean and takes three seconds. I would think pain during sex is a sign of something more serious. Frankly, I don't fucking care what women think. I find the very idea that this factored into the decision my parents made repugnant.
/r/MensRights09/12/12 02:21 PM
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Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. However you see it, it's kind of unfortunate that we don't get to decide for ourselves, don't you think?
/r/MensRights09/12/12 05:57 AM
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Do you have a source for the weed comment? I've both had sex and touched myself high. It made things so much better I could hardly believe it.
/r/MensRights09/12/12 05:56 AM
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Far more than a sheep; she is a zealot. The sheep are the people nodding their heads unquestioningly at this article.
/r/MensRights04/12/12 07:56 PM
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Caring is Creepy
/r/MensRights04/12/12 06:58 PM
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It's great that men are becoming sensitive to the power they exercise over women, and hold it in check. Are you seriously? They look at men like we're animals, make it inappropriate to express interest or give compliments, and then complain when the only attention they get is inappropriate. If you're wondering where the 'good guys' have gone, you've scared them all away. Feminists make finding a date suck for everyone.
/r/MensRights04/12/12 05:54 PM
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Back in college while waiting in the keg line in a frathouse basement, I witnessed a comical (yet horrifying) situation unfold: A guy maybe 21, so drunk he was hanging onto a pipe for support, was being propositioned by a noticeably less drunk and less attractive woman. He was barely maintaining consciousness, and she was all over him. He was literally squirming around avoiding being embraced and saying "no....no" while doing his best to stay vertical. Eventually, an observant bystander noticed …
/r/MensRights04/12/12 03:44 AM
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ankward sinlence
/r/MensRights30/11/12 02:23 PM
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You're assuming I'm referring to feminists specifically, and I'm not. I do agree I should be more specific, and since commenter "C0CKPUNCHER" who made me feel compelled to make this selfpost identifies himself below, feel free to view the original thread in context The entire spirit of that submission was to call out when people make claims that one gender's issues are non-existent or less important than another's, and yet right there you have this poster making a hypocrite out of himself by ins…
/r/MensRights29/11/12 07:42 PM
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What facts, exactly? What I'm advocating is that we don't stoop to the level of trivializing or judging inferior someone else's cause when it's a legitimate one. That doesn't mean allowing feminists to attack our rights unopposed, it means we don't compare the size of our respective wounds.
/r/MensRights29/11/12 06:59 PM
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I understand fully how important it is that we stress the importance of our issues. But what are you doing when you say things like: You know what's worse than fgm. Suicide. Homelessness. Drug addiction. etc etc. Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, Imma let you finish but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time…one of the best videos of all time! Hmm. And if I didn't have empathy for male victims, I probably wouldn't have ridden the 1,500 down to New Orleans to protest the AAP. Because I…
/r/MensRights29/11/12 02:12 PM
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It's not about competing for attention, it's about competing for importance. If that doesn't sound quite right, it's because it's not. I wouldn't trust men's issues to feminists anymore than I'd trust my motorcycle to a botanist.
/r/MensRights29/11/12 01:39 PM
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You don't have to be timid to be respectful, and to avoid the same flawed arguments and myopic viewpoints that MRAs (myself included) criticize so many feminists for. I'm simply giving an example of an unhealthy behavior that I would hope you'd agree does no good for anyone.
/r/MensRights29/11/12 03:29 AM
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Project less. I'm not a psychopath, I just feel the need to point out irrational arguments when I see them. 'Worse', in the absence of any criteria, is a generalized value judgement. The only place it holds true is in your own mind. Suicide is worse than fgm for the individual involved. Again, highly subjective and not at all a direct comparison. How about this: They're all bad, let's end them all.
/r/MensRights27/11/12 11:24 PM
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'Worse' is not a statement of fact, it's a value judgement.
/r/MensRights27/11/12 09:44 PM
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Your post was a variation of the "not as bad as" argument I see so often when comparing cutting boys to cutting girls. It serves no other purpose than to be divisive. This isn't a game of King of the Hill.
/r/MensRights27/11/12 07:45 PM
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That fucking argument...
/r/MensRights27/11/12 07:30 PM
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Female genital mutilation. In countries like Indonesia, it's enforced by elder females who insist on it for the same fallacious arguments we hear for cutting boys in the US, and some we haven't heard for 50 years.
/r/MensRights27/11/12 07:28 PM
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A hundred times this. You could play a game of bingo when you bring it up. It goes from "how dare you; NOT AS BAD AS" to "well I've never heard of a guy who was unhappy about it" (spoiler alert: they're about to) to "well that sure is a peculiar thing to get worked up about." Really? I'm the weird one for wishing I had the body I was born with? The one which should have belonged exclusively to me from birth onward? Protip feminists, if you want equality, do what you do best - call this out as th…
/r/MensRights25/11/12 10:11 PM
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it wasn't cool when Cam Newton recently referred to a female reporter as "Sweetheart" during a press conference, and this is no better. In fact, there are many work environments in which this would officially constitute harassment. 'Sweetheart' is diminutive, maybe borderline disrespectful depending on tone / subtext / context, but calling it harassment is a stretch. Women 15+ years older than I am call me 'sweetie' all the time. I am a younger looking guy. I dread the day they start calling me …
/r/MensRights21/11/12 02:16 AM
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I call him beautiful, tell him that he's wonderful I need the idea of men's rights as much as a man does. Your post is a glimmer of hope, and you've brightened my day, submitter. Thanks.
/r/MensRights21/11/12 01:38 AM
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Not one red cent
/r/MensRights12/11/12 06:22 PM
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No true scotsman.
/r/MensRights27/10/12 04:26 PM
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Yeah, that's why the Obama administration greenlit 40 million dollars to circumcise african men and boys in Uganda.
/r/MensRights22/08/12 10:56 AM
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Religion should not get a pass here. It should be illegal everywhere, in every case unless medically necessary with no other option.
/r/MensRights22/08/12 10:53 AM
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