Does anyone have an account on metafilter? If so, can we get some responses to this outrageous post

2009-11-22T11:07:58+00:00

Hmmm, so if what these MRA's say is true … why don't they do what the women's groups did and set up programs to help these victims? … Where are all the battered mens shelters? Or the aid for men escaping violent situations with their children? Or… [etc]

This is the kind of argument that annoys me the most. People always talk about women's shelters and other initiatives as if they were huge victories achieved by the valiant efforts of "women's groups" alone. They weren't. They counted with good support from society, both moral and financial – which is exactly what's missing for men. Even football teams get involved in campaigns for breast cancer but not for prostate cancer, and it's not because no one has never asked. Add to that:

the stigma involved in men admitting they are intimidated and abused by their wives;
the fact that we are predisposed to want to help women (and children), but to compete with men (the more of a loser you are, the more of a winner I can be, so why would I want to help you?);
the manipulation of information on domestic violence, by feminists and the media, that reaches the public…

…and you've got the ingredients for a perfect storm. For example:

Boys commit 86 percent of all adolescent suicides.
…
It occurred to me that if 86 percent of adolescent suicides were girls, there would be a national commission to find out why.
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So why aren't we asking what's wrong with a culture that drives boys, much more than girls, to take their own lives?
…
"As much as I would love to lead the charge (in finding out why boys kill themselves), try to go out and get funding for it," said Lanny Berman, the executive director of the Association [of Suicidology]. He is frustrated that funders aren't interested in studying boys and men.
…
So the association has an expert on female suicide but none on male suicide, even though suicide is an overwhelmingly male issue well beyond adolescence.

If a dramatic number like 86% of all young suicide victims being male does not impress society enough to warrant any specialized support for them, what can we expect when the world at large still thinks 90% of domestic violence is perpetrated by men alone?

2009-11-24T08:44:55+00:00

I do. Im Halfjack on that site.

Sadly, Iv'e run afoul of EmpressCalipygious (Someone i suspect to be Saydah's alt) and my word is not taken very well there.

Ill do what i can. PM me and lets talk about what should be said.

Title	Does anyone have an account on metafilter? If so, can we get some responses to this outrageous post
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Upvotes	9
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Date	November 22, 2009 7:15 AM UTC (16 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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