What is the salient difference between this sub, r/mensrights, and r/menslib?

steamedhamjob · 2019-08-16T23:48:07+00:00

To put it in the way I understand it, r/mensrights is known as the all-around sub that is supposed to be about supporting and advocating for men’s rights. r/menslib claims to do the same thing, but it is also sympathetic to and supports feminism, which in turn seems to make it insufficient for supporting men because of the unbalanced nature of feminism. This sub was created because r/mensrights seems to attract a lot of right wing and right leaning attention. This sub is designed to maintain centrist and left-wing viewpoints while being allowed to criticize feminism as well as support men.

Kuato2012 · 2019-08-17T00:05:17+00:00

Mensrights leans more conservative (though there are quite a few liberals there too). You can find high quality stats/data and low quality outrage bait, but not a lot of prolonged, in depth discussion. Moderation is light, which encourages free discussion but also necessarily allows some degree of shitposting.

Menslib is very liberal. They're good at having long-form discussions (within strict boundaries), but the whole enterprise is hamstrung by being explicitly feminist, forbidding criticism of feminist dogma, and moderating too heavily.

So I think this sub is a little like their happy medium. I hope it takes off.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2019-08-17T12:09:31+00:00

Mensrights is pretty big and more or less unregulated. You get a lot of good content, a lot of lazy content, some bad content. Just a lot of content.

This sub seems to be more high effort and less active. And of course left leaning.

Menslib is a dumpster fire for self hating men to blame all the problems in the world on toxic masculinity and to discuss how they can better serve women.

SirSourPuss · 2019-08-17T00:09:08+00:00

One is full of self-hating, narcissistic and passive-aggressive men, one is uncomfortably close to using men's issues as a pawn to advance right-wing agendas and one is this sub.

Aaod · 2019-08-16T23:45:02+00:00

They use feminists ideology and theory then spend most of the time hating themselves. We use our own ideas and say feminism is problematic. As far as the main subreddit this is in response to it shifting too far to the right.

FightHateWithLove · 2019-08-17T11:40:48+00:00

So far? It's newer.

I think what will differentiate in the future is if the posters here can figure out how to criticize feminism in a constructive way without tacitly endorsing gender traditionalism, and criticize gender traditionalism without blaming men for 100% of it.

LeJacquelope · 2019-08-17T17:35:34+00:00

The alt right flourishes on r/MensRights, feminism cannot be criticized on r/MensLib,

the alt right has no home here and feminism can be criticized here.

MrMango331 · 2019-11-19T05:50:29+00:00

Because thanks to america, we can't discuss politics unless we're in "our own precious little club" circle jerking each other until we dehydrate

slothbuddy · 2019-08-17T00:11:18+00:00

menslib isn't sexist

Title	What is the salient difference between this sub, r/mensrights, and r/menslib?
Author	Egalitarianwhistle
Upvotes	16
Comments	25
Date	August 16, 2019 11:23 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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