Laughing and/or Making the Wrong Joke? Congratulations! You're a Misogynist!

Willravel · 2012-02-04T08:08:06+00:00

Imagine a situation where the roles were reversed, Desmondus. Imagine you're reduced to an object, something with no worth beyond the physical. This happens every day to both men and women, and it's dehumanizing and wrong.

Men's Rights is about identifying and fighting sexism against men, a community devoted to equality. It's not about supporting sexism against anyone, man or woman.

websterella · 2012-02-06T03:44:52+00:00

Coming to the defense of this behaviour does nothing to support your cause. I agree that mens rights needs a voice, especially in the area of Family Law, however explaining this away/not seeing the issue here makes you seem ignorant.
Now anything else you say will be questioned, at least by me. I mean if you don't quite understand this, then what else are you just "not getting."

2012-02-04T04:50:25+00:00

Hello reddit. I believe this has been posted previously. But it didn't get any significant traction, so I'm going to post is here again.

I also left a comment, under the op-ed. I hope you do as well:

Here is the core problem with your article. You equate young men, joking around about rape, and sex as misogyny. Well, lets take a look at the definition of misogyny: Misogyny... a hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women. That is the definition according to multiple sources. (Google it for yourself). At what time, during your night, did you encounter a "hatred" for women? Because according to your article I see no good reason to believe that the misogyny was "so apparent". Are they misogynist because they "objectified" that young, 17 year old women, on stage? Well, if that's the case. Then it would be only fair to refer the act of women appreciating the physical attractiveness of young men, as misandry. And that's absurd. You know why? Because it's perfectly natural for men and women (especially men) to appreciated the physical attractiveness of the opposite sex. Whether it's flirting, or starring at them. Or do you believe they are misogynist because they make/laugh at sexist and rude jokes? According to your logic, then, I suppose I am anti-semitic because I laughed at jokes putting down Jewish people, and I'm racist because I laughed at a bad joke about African-Americans. Do you not see the flaw in your logic? The DJ may have been rude... but misogynistic/hateful? Come on. The term "misogyny", like the term "sexist", "racist" and "rape" are very serious words, and are used WAY to loosely these days. When you attach those type of words to a individual, or in this case, a group, it has very serious consequences to their social life, or to their job prospects in the future. If anyone should be hurt at the end of all this, it should be the rugby team. Afterall, by referring them to misogynist you refer to them all as hateful. P.S. I'm sure your boyfriend laughed and had a good time last night.... does that make him a misogynist too? I will be waiting for your apology. Vic - Mcmaster University.... Hamilton.

Title	Laughing and/or Making the Wrong Joke? Congratulations! You're a Misogynist!
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Comments	6
Date	February 4, 2012 4:49 AM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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