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Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

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3	Women Should Pay More for Health Care They already are paying more as they use it more. This will make it so young men have to pay a lot more when they use it far less. So now, young men have to pay more for auto insurance and health insurance. Plus, as they grow older, they have to pay more for life insurance. Seems sort of one-way, doesn't it? Plus, women recieve free services that men don't such as free check ups and screenings. Men don't get most of these and are required to pay for visits. Again, why is this okay? Why, if every…	/r/MensRights	24/08/13 05:38 AM
2	I want to talk about "fake geek girls" I can't agree more with what you said. And that quote scares the crap out of me. What defines destructive? What defines safe? Who is giving those definitions? Women, like men, define all those things differently. It's a personal feeling, not a universal. I think this is the major problem with the mainstream coming in without understanding the culture they're trying to invade. It happens all the time, but with Geek culture you're going to get some fight back because it's like cornering an animal.…	/r/MensRights	12/08/13 03:38 PM
5	I want to talk about "fake geek girls" I think some of the problem is also, some 'geek girls' trade on being a geek, but are offended easily by the men that are abundant in the geek culture; the socially awkward, sometimes 'off-putting' nature of them. So, they want to change it so they feel more welcome and safe. No one is going to take kindly to that when most of these girls and guys have been shoved aside and made fun of for most of their lives or were outcasts, looking for somewhere to belong with like minded people. Geeks built …	/r/MensRights	11/08/13 07:01 PM
2	Did Anita Sarkeesian actually play the games she showed in her series? Many games have given permission for the use of the video, Minecraft, FTL, Euro Truck, among many others. Some companys don't allow it and that's their right as Fair Use has never been tried in courts under video game commentary, but that's different from her taking someone else's recorded gameplay and using it without any credit. The footage is the issue, not what the footage is. You're kidding, right? What other assumption would anyone make when there are no credits in the video of where she g…	/r/MensRights	20/07/13 11:09 PM
5	Did Anita Sarkeesian actually play the games she showed in her series? At the point she was using other people's work? You may not think LPs are work or are covered, but they're in a very grey part of the law and many games allow the monetization of the video if it has commentary. As such, it is work that she is using without crediting the creator. Plus, even if she isn't 'required' to, it's still common decency to credit things that you, yourself, did not create. In this case, the video footage she used. For your edit: Why would I assume that she's using other peo…	/r/MensRights	20/07/13 07:26 PM
3	Did Anita Sarkeesian actually play the games she showed in her series? At what point did she source her use of clips?	/r/MensRights	20/07/13 07:03 PM
2	Men: The New Second Class Citizens, by Suzanne Venker--blog post Not even that, a lot of the men fighting in those wars couldn't vote either. The voting age until 1970 was 21.	/r/MensRights	13/07/13 05:23 PM
1	MRA tells me, "Women have never been oppressed,"--any opinions? Okay, but why is this always framed as women were oppressed? Eighteen and twenty year old men were sent across the world to die, they had no choice in this. They didn't even get to vote for the people who were sending them to die. The voting age until the 1970s was 21. In my opinion that's your actual oppressed group of people during that time, not women who had no obligation to fight in the wars.	/r/MensRights	05/07/13 04:35 PM
2	"What Will We Concede To Feminism": UPDATE Women are overwhelmingly the ones who vote. Where women run they often win (see New Hampshire). Women don't run as often as men. And now you're just making stuff up.	/r/MensRights	03/07/13 04:36 PM
2	Men better not dare to define Womanhood - but of course everyone and their mother should define Manhood Why not treat everyone with respect? Why always single out a gender? People should treat people with respect. Women aren't special or deserving of respect because they're women, they're deserving of it because they're human, just as men.	/r/MensRights	24/06/13 02:32 AM
2	This sub spends too much time complaining about feminism and not enough time pushing forward men's rights and changes in the treatment of men. I think you did, but perhaps guns blazing is a little strong, but you did come in accusing and trying to define things to people who are likely to lash out to any policing that has even an inkling of an attack in it. If your post had just been 'Let's try harder guys, I think it would be great if we talked about these topics a little more.' and then tried to get the discussion going you would have been better received. The way you went about it was poor, it doesn't mean your message is wrong. You…	/r/MensRights	31/03/13 11:10 PM
9	This sub spends too much time complaining about feminism and not enough time pushing forward men's rights and changes in the treatment of men. I don't honestly know what you expect. It's a subreddit where discussion takes place, this isn't were activism breeds in a normal sense, but it is where awareness can begin to crack through common perceptions. People like to complain, but that doesn't make those here juvenile or whiny. You have an opinion, great. Push with it and try to be the change you want, but don't expect some great activism to spring from this subreddit anymore than some other subreddit. Activism happens outside of these p…	/r/MensRights	31/03/13 10:49 PM
2	How I imagine the Anna Sarkisian product will turn out I see what you're saying, but I have to disagree, at least a little, that we can't compare romance novels, or other genres from other media to gaming. There are other genres of video games that appeal to both genders really well (take the sims as an example, from my experience and yes it's anecdotal, the majority of players are women). And to bring up something I've seen a lot about getting more women into gaming, some of the best adventure games were written and designed by women (Kings Quest, …	/r/MensRights	30/01/13 11:06 PM
5	How I imagine the Anna Sarkisian product will turn out Okay, let's say they are, what's wrong with that? Are only women allowed their fantasies? I mean, woman have romance books that sell like hotcakes all the time (I'm not even talking erotica), majority of them are written by women, and the vast majority are consumed by women. Men in these books are portrayed just as stereotypical as a woman in a video game, sometimes more so, but I don't see men getting up in arms over being looked at as only a wallet, or a lap dog, or an accessory to the smart, …	/r/MensRights	29/01/13 10:09 PM
1	Why should male gamers change their behavior? I never meant to put words in your mouth, I was only going by what I understood you were saying. There seemed to be a breakdown on that part and I apologize. I think we're on the same side here. The problem is the media continues to think that xbox live voice chat is what gaming culture is. What most don't realize is that gaming culture includes table top, computer gamers and all console gamers. Most of which are very friendly and very helpful to everyone as long as one isn't trying to cause a p…	/r/MensRights	18/08/12 10:33 PM
1	Why should male gamers change their behavior? Yet again? Where have I replied to you before? You concede that females aren't needed in the group for rules of conduct to come about, so I'm having trouble understanding what you're trying to say when you assign the creation of these 'rules' to (sometimes) the presence of women. "where it's more common that certain types of behavior just aren't accepted anymore because of the inclusion of female gamers." I haven't been in a clan since the early 2000s , but even then all groups had rules that yo…	/r/MensRights	18/08/12 07:31 PM
1	Why should male gamers change their behavior? I have a small quibble with what you said about pc gaming communities and clans and guilds. They aren't better because there are a few women around. They are better because they are a community and that community sets rules of conduct, usually with how one treats others in the group and outside. That has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with wanting to make a good community.	/r/MensRights	18/08/12 06:09 AM
5	Why should male gamers change their behavior? You know what I find strange in your comment? You mention no where that people should just be decent to each other in gaming. You're so worried about how the women are treated that you over look the fact that the asshole in-game attacks everyone. Do you consider women unable to deal with some jackass? I don't, most gamer girls I hang around with can outwit most trolls without even trying. It's actually pretty damn hilarious. These assholes are also a minority and they troll public games. Most pe…	/r/MensRights	18/08/12 05:55 AM
7	This girl has been trying to tell my friends that male opinions are universally invalid. I don't know how to compose a response. Can someone help? I'm not sure how tumblr works exactly (because it's a cesspool and I stay away), but websites usually cache IPs of comments and of visitors. It isn't hard to do a look up on an IP and find out who it's assigned to, at least which ISP owns the IP address. From there you can get the general location (city, state). To have anything else would be breaking into the ISPs client information which... is very, very unlikely and illegal. So, my guess is she's bullshitting and hoping to hit true. edit: ...…	/r/MensRights	25/07/12 02:02 AM
4	/v/'s summary of the "Tropes vs. Women in Video Games" kickstarter, and all the fuzz about it. I'd of liked a look at both sides. When you look at only one gender you're having skewed results. I also think it should take into account the character that is being portrayed. As someone else pointed out above, you can make something into sexism just by how you look at it. There is certainly sexism in games, on both sides with men maybe being seen in a better light as the main character. But then, we're also portrayed as the scum of the earth that needs to be killed by the thousands just in on…	/r/MensRights	18/06/12 10:12 PM
1	Fight back! Sexism exists for males too, support these men in their expose of gender tropes in video games! You do realize that there are a lot of women in the development of video games now, right? From artists to producers to writers. They're in a lot of places. Granted, there are more men making games, but that's not a fault of sexism really. Nothing is stopping women from starting an indie game company and producing games that they would like as well. Male fantasies? Maybe I'm the odd one here, but I play games to have fun, for the competition, to spend time with friends. I play for the story too,…	/r/MensRights	15/06/12 05:41 AM
3	Fight back! Sexism exists for males too, support these men in their expose of gender tropes in video games! In no way am I saying sexism doesn't exist in games, it does, in spades. The problem is that it's only being looked at from one side, and disregarded as you sort of did, when it's brought up from the other direction. Plus, while you may be okay with it, a good amount of people weren't and the developers got slammed hard for it. It's still very taboo in western culture for women to be shown getting badly hurt or murdered on screen. Also, I can think of a number of games off the top of my head whe…	/r/MensRights	15/06/12 05:09 AM
7	Fight back! Sexism exists for males too, support these men in their expose of gender tropes in video games! No, the major problem here is that men are used as the things to be killed. That no one has a problem with nutshots and skill shots for points and men being turned into hamburger by shotguns. If you really believe that showing women in a style that could be considered in bad taste would cause men to see women in a poor light, why don't you think the same about how disposable men are portrayed in games? I'd think men in games are getting the short end of the stick when they're just there to be co…	/r/MensRights	15/06/12 03:34 AM