How do you promote men's rights in your daily life?

rodvanmechelen · 2012-05-20T05:10:08+00:00

While working at Microsoft I made the mistake of telling my manager that I was writing a book critical of feminism. She had been hitting on me and I was trying to ignore her advances. She accused me of sexual harassment and fired me. Following this, I worked a series of temp jobs while publishing, with the financial help of several MRAs, a men's rights 'zine. When the Seattle Times ran a page-and-a-half hit piece on us, our support dried up and I had to suspend publication. A few months later, I started one of the first MRM websites. It cost me a few jobs, a lot of friends (and girlfriends), and I took a lot of flak from my family for it. In 2002 I scaled way, way back and did very little for the next 9 years while focusing on my job, and served on boards and committees, as well as the council of my tribe. I did that until 2 weeks ago, when I made a motion to direct our DV program to excise the sexism from a single element of the program. (They seemed to assume that women could not be good role models, and that only men need good role models.) While most of the men were afraid to say anything, several of the women accused me of sexism, told me I was abusing and bullying them, and after my motion failed, the chairman's sister demanded my recall. She could not have gotten enough votes, but I took it as an excuse to resign. Sexist feminists have been slowly taking over the council, they have been harassing me for years, and I've had it. Meanwhile, several months ago I dusted off my old website, for the time being just running the home page as a news aggregation site while I upgrade and update the pages of my books. Later, after I make enough from my investing, I'm going to finance more content like what the folks at Man Woman Myth have done, which is some of the best work I've seen. And AVM. And several others. Getting rich is not that hard. No, I have nothing to sell you. You have to do it on your own, and can. On my Yahoo group, I have urged my members to read financial websites. My top picks, which I also post on my website, are Agora Financial, Casey Research, The Gold Report, Daily Bell, John Mauldin, King World News, GoldSilver.com, Gold Scents, SHTF Plan, Sovereign Man, and Zero Hedge. Oh! And Stock Gumshoe. The "stock gumshoe" figures out what most of the stocks are that the newsletter writers pitch as bait to get you to subscribe. Now, I do recommend subscribing to newsletters. I subscribe to several. And, frankly, I think it's fairly easy to figure out what most of the bait stocks are from their online power point presentations. I was hunting down one when I came across the Stock Gumshoe. The newsletter guys give away 90% of their information for free. They deserve compensation. Subscribe to some of their newsletters, if you can manage it. But take that information, carefully consider everything, and then make investments. But be careful. Right now, Bill Bonner, the top guy at Agora Financial, thinks it's best to be "in cash," right now. Gold and silver are gyrating. I read one pitch several months ago that said gold was going to drop to $1421.21 by no later than the end of June. Maybe it will. Silver will follow. But the long term trend for at least a few more years is still up, by a lot. I don't do timing, so I just buy a little every month. Same with stocks. But I'm not just into stocks. I pick and choose carefully. If you decide to get into stocks, you should be careful, too. Do your homework. And when I get rich, and when all of you get rich, then we can all work together to flood this culture with movies, stories, documentaries and studies up the kazoo that oppose anti-male sexism. In the meantime, as perhaps the original MGTOW (in 1992 I published an article titled, "Confessions of a (recovering) Gynaholic"), while I've had a few girlfriends since then, my last one was in 2004, and I'm in no hurry. In fact, at this point I not looking to get involved until after I get filthy, stinking rich and can afford to get a graphene-encased prenuptial, because it's simply no longer safe. Yes, there are a lot of really good, decent women out there, and I do know a few, but the chances of finding one who is also somebody you'd want to get involved with are, in this man-hating culture, very low.

TracyMorganFreeman · 2012-05-20T00:21:24+00:00

Anytime a subject comes up like rape or the pay gap, I drop the stat hammer. Respectfully and calmly at first of course.

In essence I inform people, but don't shove it down their throat. Only when someone is talking about a relevant subject-and then I presume they want to actually talk about the subject-do I bring up the information.

Then again, I'm starting up school again in a few weeks. I might have the means and opportunity to organize something. The school has a women's group that claims to be for not discriminating based on gender. Might to have to see what their deal is. Could just be a love-in, could be something a bit more contentious.

billywms · 2012-05-20T04:10:23+00:00

Just sharing my views when a topic comes up. Besides that, it's mostly just the internet.

Unconfidence · 2012-05-20T00:59:11+00:00

I don't. My MRA-ness is pretty much limited to the internet. This is primarily because I live in Louisiana, so all of my political activism goes toward what I consider to be more locally pertinent issues, such as opposing anti-abortion legislation, picketing BP for its use of dispersants during the spill, picketing the capital when Bobby Jindal used the money for the high-speed rail on subsidies instead, and my personal favorite, bringing to light the fact that the local government committee who was pushing a vote on whether or not to keep the speeding cameras in town suddenly dropped their initiative completely and we never heard about it again (something tells me they were paid off).

I mean, if the issues come up, I voice my opinion. But in general, even the feminists here don't get too oppositional to the ideas of the MRM. Most people who help me hold pro-choice signs at anti-abortion rallies agree with me that false rape allegations should carry a heavier charge than filing a false police report, and that custody should be neutral unless a significant reason is given.

Then, I come to reddit, and get told I'm a woman-hater who wants to eliminate women's rights. Funny.

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UnoriginalMike · 2012-05-20T05:23:00+00:00

I am usually pretty nice about it. I can recognize that shoving it down other peoples throats is not going to win us any friends, even if I'm right.

It's important to remember that you don't have to fight every battle to win the war.

That being said, I started dropping Facebook friends like flies. Life is too short to put up with stupid people.

2012-05-20T07:31:47+00:00

It has to start at home, doesn't it? I have kids and work in a day care, so I try to be really vigilant about the things I say and do. My sons are both uncircumcised.

I'm an expat, so I'm not really politically active where I live (I can't vote or anything) and obviously can't be at home which kind of sucks. I'm the kind of person that has a lot of feminist friends and I'm really working on them towards questioning their belief system. Just a few nights ago, a friend of mine who is very feminist and I were talking about Game of Thrones. The subject took a turn towards Martin's portrayal of women and my friend said something about marriage in the middle ages and how women were forced into marriages. I asked her if she didn't think men were also forced and possible "married off" to women they didn't love. I don't think that thought had ever occurred to her before, so I feel like a had a minor win there.

I do what I can.

gamedude999 · 2012-05-20T16:00:11+00:00

I use my experience to mentor those going through similar things. As someone in a position of authority and trust people come to me for advice on a variety of topics including money management, career management and relationship issues.

primaloath · 2012-05-20T05:26:32+00:00

I talk to people about it - unless I know they're feminists, in which case I don't bother.

I am seriously thinking of forming a men's rights group in the UK. If anyone knows of an already existing group, please let me know about it.

Title	How do you promote men's rights in your daily life?
Author	TheresJustNoWay
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Date	May 19, 2012 11:45 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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