What research and activism are Men's Rights groups currently engaged in?

schtean · 2025-02-24T00:49:01+00:00

I don't know about MRA groups in particular, but there's examples of individuals doing the hard work. For example you can go to TheTinMen subreddit, he is doing great work on men's issues. Of course it is very hard to make progress. One particular issue he is advocating for regards treatment of male inmates. You can go find the letter he wrote to the UK government. If you want to help out on this issue, you might be able to find a way.

As for me, I'm mostly trying to help out in the areas of employment and educational equity. Trust me even spending a lot of time and effort and trying to go though all the proper channels it is very hard to make progress. But of course we shouldn't give up. We have to learn our lessons from people like the suffragists, it took more then 50 years of hard work to get women the vote.

So don't feel discouraged, if you are interested, get involved and do the hard work.

In particular about research there is a lot of research out there highlighting the disadvantages that men face, however (my impression is that) the main effort in society (in particular at the level of governments, NGOs, unions and other formal organizations) is still very much focused on women's and other (non-men) gender issues. Even though academia also is much more focused on non-male gender issues, there are pockets that work on male issues (or at least do gender research that ends up highlighting male disadvantages), I think it depends on the department and location and so on.

Main-Tiger8593 · 2025-02-24T05:36:48+00:00

actually it is quite funny/sad that we have to divide this by gender because we had it gender neutral already... thinking about martin luther king and similiar people advocated for universal human rights...

what are explicit mra beliefs that go beyond human rights?

Medium-Knowledge4230 · 2025-02-24T01:05:04+00:00

There are some MRA influencers, always spreading data and information or simply advice for men.
Here in Brazil, it is starting to appear MRA groups among lawyers.
In other countries, I think there are movements to change domestic violence and rape laws to protect men.
Even without these, I think it's important to have spaces to vent and communicate... So even without action, I like those virtual spaces. But yeah, there is much complaining and little action.

63daddy · 2025-02-24T02:09:29+00:00

Men groups have been winning equal presumption of joint custody laws, one state at a time despite feminist opposition.

Some MRAs are drawing attention to boys in education.

One men’s group has sued over discriminatory selective service.

There are a couple groups that draw attention to how unfairly college men have been treated under title IX mandates, discrimination many feminists support.

Main-Tiger8593 · 2025-02-24T05:35:41+00:00

ok my first question here is at which point are you considered as feminist or mens rights activist?

if i send money to ncfm or support a foodbank actively or call out toxic behavior or be a member of an union it probably does not count as activism...

https://1in6.org/trainings/research-on-male-survivors/

plagiarism is easy to do and hard to disprove...

btw i commented in this post under a +300 upvoted comment...

StripedFalafel · 2025-02-24T05:38:48+00:00

>research being done on men's issues is all being done by feminist researchers

True. There's a huge industry among feminist academia producing propaganda against men & the men's movement. Many of us would love to do unbiased research that could help men but of course there's no way to get funding. In fact, it's pretty much impossible for a non-feminist to get a job in academia - especially in sensitive areas like health, law, sociology, criminology etc.

g1455ofwater · 2025-02-24T06:58:45+00:00

Complaining is one of the best and most effective ways to advocate. They demean it because it is effective. If more people complained the world would be a much better and more equal place.

hendrixski · 2025-02-24T13:45:31+00:00

Check out the American Institute for Boys and Men.

They publish lots of research on issues affecting men's rights. Especially in the domain of education.

Also check out National Parents Association. They're lobbying for equality in custody laws. And they publish research on how different states are progressing on the issue.

Title	What research and activism are Men's Rights groups currently engaged in?
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Date	February 24, 2025 12:34 AM UTC (1 year ago)
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