For the most part I like rationalWiki, but their page for mens rights is just a disgusting strawman attack trying to paint it as a women-hate movement (obviously written by an extreme feminist). Can we fix this?

2013-12-18T20:31:50+00:00

RationalWiki is awful. Correct or not, they treat subjects don't like or believe in with ridicule, ad-hominems, strawmen, all sorts of logical fallacies. Then they have the nerve to call themselves Rationalwiki. I'm not going to that website again to look, but I'm sure the page on Men's Rights fits right in the rest of their pages.

2013-12-18T21:04:14+00:00

It really is a terrible, badly-written hatchet job, full of deliberate lies.

BenInBaja · 2013-12-18T19:42:27+00:00

Rational wiki is run by a bunch of radical feminist supporters of A-theism-plus.

Lonemango · 2013-12-18T19:42:02+00:00

I gave up on rational wiki when I read their page on thunderf00t. Basically they call him a racist and a sexist and basically say " if you think we should adopt a neutral tone, tough shit." And this was before he did his antifeminism videos.

Thunderf00t is a youtube atheist that has done great videos on creationism and evolution, and some Videos on the dangers of radical Islam. He definitely doesn't deserve that sort of animosity from rational wiki. But he got on the atheism plus and the P.C. Meyers crowd shit list when he said that there really doesn't need to be policing of men's behavior in skeptic conferences (beyond that of the normal laws).

femdelusion · 2013-12-18T19:44:07+00:00

Check out the link under "External Links" called "How Men's Rights activists get feminism wrong".

Whoops!

2013-12-18T18:41:15+00:00

And if you are doing edits - please be reasonable:

don't make it an attack on feminism, list the actual goals (genital mutilation, domestic violence protection, parental and court equality, etc)
cite good sources (not avoiceformen !)

2013-12-19T01:01:31+00:00

I have gone for the article on the Amazing Atheist, just to see what this "Rationalwiki" stands for, and not only it's not objective, it is downright libellous.

Basically, this is Atheism+'s bible, masquerading as wikipedia.

saint2e · 2013-12-18T19:39:30+00:00

I'm not too familiar with RationalWiki, and I don't plan on getting more familiar give the fact that any time I have looked at it it's been horribly biased or just plain wrong.

That being said, if they are a wiki as their name indicates, editing the content should be doable.

Hirudin · 2013-12-19T03:30:57+00:00

Anytime I find something on rationalWiki that I agree with, I start to seriously question that belief. It's the place to go to find out which opinions you have are wrong.

rg57 · 2013-12-19T03:44:13+00:00

RationalWiki (at least as of a few months ago) explicitly notes that they are not Wikipedia. They have an extremist viewpoint, and they make it known in antagonistic ways (i.e snark)

It's not fixable, and I do not regard RationalWiki as a resource, on anything.

Ivan_Fackoff · 2013-12-19T02:23:31+00:00

http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=protect&page=Men%27s+rights+movement

locked indefinitely. We can contest it with other sysops or sue. This is slander

2013-12-19T04:24:46+00:00

For the most part I like rationalWiki... can we fix this?

Hopefully.

itsacalamity · 2013-12-18T23:15:27+00:00

The current "let's ruin an anonymous reporting form with false rape claims" plan is also doing a really fantastic job of showing how obviously only someone really dumb could come to the conclusion that you guys might hate women rather than be working for equal rights. Y'know. Or something like that.

2013-12-18T21:10:28+00:00

Stop hating feminists would be one proactive step for many of the members of this subreddit.

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