What Kind of Person Goes to a Men's Rights Rally?

DerpaNerb · 2013-10-11T17:55:28+00:00

Blaming women for the problems of men is thinly veiled misogyny.

And the reverse...?

2013-10-11T18:56:24+00:00

Terrible article all around. The author starts by admitting not knowing much about the topic, but it only takes him a few blog articles to already make himself a big idea on how people who go to MRA (I think I missed if he mentioned that there women as important part of it too).

He already had a solid idea on what he was going to find there and he, of course, found it what he was looking for. Focused on what could prove that he was right, instead of keeping an open mind, which would have included doing a deeper research on the people that may go there.

Also, he displayed his big ignorance by once again, mixing up blaming feminism for something with blaming women. Or maybe it's malice. I don't know what's worse.

It was all very stupid.

At least the author had the decency to review his own article.

Michael Toledano, if you stumble into this, would you register and have a chat with us? Maybe you're interested in learning, or you just want to write whatever comes out and publish it? The choice is yours. We'd be happy to help.

NemosHero · 2013-10-11T18:14:32+00:00

Could he conflate feminism with women any more? Not only is a lack of women indicative of no feminist supporters in position of power, but disliking feminism is misogyny.

jimmybrite · 2013-10-11T21:11:36+00:00

What is happening to all my favorite article sites? First Cracked, and now Vice. I guess they're trying to be more female-friendly, but not every woman is a feminist, and frankly it's insulting for them to assume that.

2013-10-11T19:18:44+00:00

Ignoring the fact that this entire article is based on quote mining and generalisations... its still pretty shit. If you want to write an article about a political movement atleast start with the assumption if ignorance and write an informing article instead of just spewing verbally structured bullshit.

BalllsackTBaghard · 2013-10-12T09:21:49+00:00

Vice has gone down the toilet. It had some good docs(the Liberia one e.g.), but now it's like Cracked.

theegrimrobe · 2013-10-11T18:03:08+00:00

I used to read vice ... Having seen that I shall no longer

JaydenPope · 2013-10-11T18:43:48+00:00

The comments are weird but it sounds like vice didn't try to interact with anyone but just watched so they wrote an article based on that.

CosmicKeys · 2013-10-11T22:53:22+00:00

Nice video, shame about the article.

AlexReynard · 2013-10-12T03:53:07+00:00

"Blaming women for the problems of men is thinly veiled misogyny."

Feminism isn't a gender, it's an ideology. Just like Muslim isn't a race. And Libertarianism isn't a hair color.

gprime312 · 2013-10-12T00:08:51+00:00

Please stop linking to Vice. They operate on pageviews and linking there is only giving them more money. Screenshot and post a link to imgur.

typhonblue · 2013-10-12T00:06:25+00:00

Obviously a hideously evil one.

It's the only answer.

baskandpurr · 2013-10-12T13:52:00+00:00

Their movement could be shrunk to only a small, hate-filled contingent if these men were engaged through support groups, therapy, compassion, and education.

I found this extremely patronising "Teh poor little mens are upset coz they cant get laid". Therapy is not going to change the family courts, DV law enforcement, or end circumcision. Support groups won't stop female quota's or the draft. Education has potential, feminists have a lot to learn about equality. Stil, he acknowledges that some men have real grievances and then waves them away. Misandry don't real.

2013-10-11T18:19:31+00:00

Instead of having an actual dialogue, the feminist protesters mostly just yelled insults, the MRAs returned the favor, and everyone became more firmly entrenched in their polarized ideological camps.

It was all very stupid.

Yeah, there is a lot of that going on.

C0CKPUNCHER · 2013-10-11T19:14:23+00:00

He mentioned some of the people there were victims of violence by women, as if that meant they could be ignored as crazy broken people.

Aaod · 2013-10-11T21:58:31+00:00

Linking to a facebook post by a supposed person involved in a movement is a valid source in journalism? What did this journalist graduate from the university next to clown college?

2013-10-12T02:18:41+00:00

Wow, they try to raise awareness of the issue, and an illustrative feminist parade comes in with perfect timing.

2013-10-12T02:20:03+00:00

I think that, like feminism, some of the proponents of men's rights are giving the rest of the movement a bad name.

2013-10-12T13:15:52+00:00

The video itself wasn't bad at all.. the article written underneath was an extreme display of ignorance. The unwillingness to acknowledge mens rights in the media is indeed an indicator of just how emasculated men have become. Feminists have been very successful at destroying mens ability to speak up for themselves. The writer of the article has no balls.

falsfield · 2013-10-11T20:39:51+00:00

Tis a shame. Vice is always pretty good with not injecting bias into their stories.

2013-10-11T22:30:01+00:00

Good lord, what a terrible article. Vice is renowned for having shit writers, but this guy reaches new heights of shitness

And again, we see links to AVfM being used to portray us in a negative light.

2013-10-11T21:51:29+00:00

This guy is obviously homophobic. Calling gay men queers is not the most offensive thing he could have written but he sure demonstrated his need for distance from them. As for the rest of the shit; I fart in your general direction.

Title	What Kind of Person Goes to a Men's Rights Rally?
Author	Kida89
Upvotes	71
Comments	35
Date	October 11, 2013 5:46 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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