Is this reddit about mens' rights, or is this about anti-women?

foerthan · 2011-09-12T19:21:23+00:00

How are any of you different than the feminists you so despise?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by that, since we (usually) don't demonize the entire other gender, but rather a subset of it (feminism).

While I would agree that they can be annoying at times, there's something that you aren't realizing about these posts - they raise awareness. If it's a man being screwed over in regards to his children, it shows that women have to power to do this to men in our family courts. If it's about a woman raping a man, it shows that women can be rapists too. If it's about a woman receiving a light sentence in the case where a man would receive a large one, it shows that there is a sexist bias in regards to sentencing in our court system.

It's the same reason that "cross post" threads aren't "useless". It points out things that exist and raises awareness of the issue to everyone involved.

How it's handled sometimes, well...

Timtation1st · 2011-09-12T19:52:43+00:00

Whenever you see a story about women causing a crime too, the reason it's promoted here is because Men feel that Society and Women try to put the sole blame or responsibility on Men.

Please don't take the obvious trolls seriously, a lot of us don't hate women, we're simply interested in equality. We think feminism sometimes goes too far in todays society.

I like the idea of feminism, I like a lot of feminists. I don't like the people who think "we must fill a quota of women CEOs otherwise women are oppressed!" I feel like that's dishonest, people should earn their positions on their performance, not their sex. That means opening up to the notion of women in all forms of employment or what have you, but not giving them a stepladder to get there.

It's stories like the ones regarding women police officers or firefighters who are incapable of meeting the physical standards, so the standards are lowered, that set me off, personally.

jmnzz · 2011-09-13T11:06:03+00:00

How are any of you different than the feminists you so despise?

Feminists created laws and policies that allow legal bigotry towards men.

MRAs and anti-feminists seek to abolish these laws.

You're welcome.

2011-09-12T19:28:22+00:00

I think the answer is this: We are different because we see women in general as damaging forces that take advantage of our sexual needs and our psychological weak spots (in the best cases, sometimes they just go ahead and fuck men over). To do this they don't care if they have to physically hurt us or our offspring; they also try to cause economical and social damage to men. So, in short, our standpoint is defensive, whereas a feminist's approach is offensive, demeaning and often demonizing (is that the word?) to men.

TheRealPariah · 2011-09-14T15:53:12+00:00

Anti-feminism != anti-women.

GTChessplayer · 2011-09-12T19:14:40+00:00

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Title	Is this reddit about mens' rights, or is this about anti-women?
Author	GTChessplayer
Upvotes	0
Comments	43
Date	September 12, 2011 7:00 PM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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