Time magazine's editorial includes a nasty quote from an MRA. One problem: it's not real.

faber541 · 2014-05-30T06:00:12+00:00

Lets not just complain, we should send in a correction.

EvilPundit · 2014-05-30T04:42:13+00:00

Nice catch. A blatant fabrication by the mainstream media.

Is there any sort of organisation concerned with the integrity of the press that this could be taken to?

bw13187 · 2014-05-30T04:42:35+00:00

If someone DID say that on this sub, they would be downvoted and called out.

GrantNexus · 2014-05-30T05:14:19+00:00

Send it to /r/quityourbullshit

Unpopular_But_Right · 2014-05-30T07:31:12+00:00

As someone who has worked in the industry what you should do is call someone higher up than the reporter, like the reporter's editor or the public editor, if there is one, and/or call them out publicly on Twitter so that they have to look into it.

Armagetiton · 2014-05-30T10:59:30+00:00

It's a click bait article. These kind of authors are the lowest of the low, they write like this with the express purpose of pissing off a group and baiting them into visiting the website. You fell for it, good job.
He's not directly quoting anyone. This is what he said.

And general complaints about how "that bitch got my job because she has a uterus"

It's not a direct quote from anywhere, it's a form of mockery. Here, let me give you another example.

And general complaints about how "patriarchy stopped me from getting the promotion"

I'm not directly quoting anyone, I'm simply mocking how people make complaints such as this. Learn the difference between direct quotes and this.

BlindPelican · 2014-05-30T04:41:29+00:00

(in best Morgan Freeman voice): Well, ain't that something...

NiceIce · 2014-05-30T05:44:50+00:00

Feminists have to manufacture false quotes, because if they used actual quotes it would make them look bad.

ThePigmanAgain · 2014-05-30T05:32:11+00:00

The writer is obviously a misandrist piece of scum, but i am pretty sure they don't mean that this is an actual quote, hence the words "general complaints about how." There's a lot of shit in the writer's head, but this isn't part of it.

TRPACC · 2014-05-30T08:39:37+00:00

Nice work.

James Fell is actually selling his own PUA and six packs.

Total incompetence and dishonesty on the part of the good men project.

iMADEthis2post · 2014-05-30T05:57:42+00:00

I wonder if Time magazine has a comment about this.

agiganticpanda · 2014-05-30T08:27:17+00:00

The source seems to be this, under Men's Rights Activists.

They’ll talk about how men get raped too, and how men are abused in relationships too, and how there really is no glass ceiling or pay inequality, and that bitch got my promotion just because she has a uterus.

EDIT : Just to make it clear, TIME took a quote that someone wrote in a terrible anti-masculinity website that supposedly a MRA would say and made it look like if we actually said these things. Journalism.

Grubnar · 2014-05-30T17:00:43+00:00

You guys will love this one. I posted a comment to this CNN post about how Elliot Rodger's rage is "all too familiar in America."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/26/opinion/powell-manhood-rodgers-shooting/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

The guy uses police family domestic violence stats from 1991 and a CDC report for global domestic violence. Not US. Global.

I posted a well written coherent argument saying the author is cherry picking and using old stats that dont apply as well as ignoring male victims and perpetuating this female victim narrative.

My post was removed.

RaptorSixFour · 2014-05-30T05:02:21+00:00

Feminists wouldn't lie to cover up dissent. Never. Blasphemer!

lankrypt0 · 2014-05-30T13:13:11+00:00

I just KNOW if this was pointed out, the retort would be, "But I can guarantee you some man at one point had said this!"

2014-05-30T05:30:46+00:00

This is why I don't click on anything that links to time magazine, huffington post, or nytimes. If it's something that interests me, I just go straight to the comments section.

Nomenimion · 2014-05-30T15:56:54+00:00

In any society, there are untruths. But when the lying is this pervasive, and it's enabled by our institutions, you know you're living in a liar culture.

OldSchoolNewRules · 2014-05-30T17:22:53+00:00

Maybe James lost out on a promotion.

NastyRazorburn · 2014-05-30T11:00:53+00:00

This doesn't seem very definitive. What if the comment or account was deleted between him referencing it and you google searching for it?

nitoko · 2014-05-30T12:57:48+00:00

I am bothered by the grammar as well, "an uterus"!

DrouGluiN · 2014-05-30T13:07:51+00:00

To be just, Google search does filter your results based on the sites you've recently visited. Since you read that article it automatically shows you those results because it thinks you're interested in that.

If and when you find out that nobody said that (which is probable) file an official complaint. Or ask where they took that quotation.

Purp · 2014-05-30T13:35:22+00:00

It's not a direct quote, and would you really be surprised to see someone say that on here? For every comment here that adds to discussion, there are three more the regurgitate trite platitudes about "pussy passes" etc.

Rootkit9208 · 2014-05-30T13:58:52+00:00

Not trying to be inflammatory, but I'm legitimately curious. Isn't this slander? (Or Libel, I always forget which.)

kurtu5 · 2014-05-30T21:52:33+00:00

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

speedisavirus · 2014-05-30T04:50:55+00:00

I've definitely heard this said but not by anybody genuinely interested in men's rights...

scarecrow569_ · 2014-05-30T06:26:37+00:00

All but 2 images missing?

Beiber_h0le69 · 2014-05-30T06:35:58+00:00

Is there anyway to complain to Time magazine or anything? I mean this is just flt out bad journalism.

putittogetherNOW · 2014-05-30T11:39:55+00:00

Those commies at Time do not care about the truth, never have.

fatw · 2014-05-30T13:02:07+00:00

Am I having a really bad deja vu, or have I seen this post 2-3 times before? Like... months ago.

Sasha_ · 2014-05-30T14:28:58+00:00

I thought making up quotes was what got Jayson Blair fired from the New York Times?

RobbenQC · 2014-05-30T15:08:08+00:00

Even if it was said by an MRA, which cannot be verified and at best was deleted; in context it's just an abrasive comment which isn't PC enough for their liking. He's referring to affirmative action, where women are given a quota of jobs/scholarships/benefits/grants for no other reason than the fact that they're women. Even in areas of life where women doing significantly better than men.

Bitterness at that injustice is not an example of misogyny. It's an example of anger towards unfair discrimination.

iamnotfromtexas90 · 2014-05-30T15:22:49+00:00

What more do you expect from that rag. Time is a joke!

breakwater · 2014-05-30T18:20:07+00:00

Even if the quote were real, it is rather revealing that we are talking about an anon quote. If you are talking about the comment of a random jerk on any topic, I don't think you are being fair. It's not as if you can't find this in any group. This wouldn't even be an example of a no-true Scottsman fallacy.

Mac2TheFuture · 2014-05-30T21:02:59+00:00

Fucking scumbag! These are the kinds of people who want "racism" and "sexism" to disappear, but they're always the ones who bring it up about every issue that happens in the world. And even if nobody's offended and it affects no one, they pretty much force it upon them and tell them that they should be offended.

JustWantToSay1Thing · 2014-05-31T02:09:38+00:00

I just want to make one point...

I can't say that the option is fool proof, but there is the no index option that prevents your user profile from being picked up by search engines.

pauselaugh · 2014-05-30T20:10:30+00:00

There's nothing wrong with quoting your imaginary impression of a generalized bogeyman.

executioncommentary · 2014-05-31T19:16:23+00:00

I believe he's using a quote to represent the type of language/sentiment one might find rather than claiming that that's a direct quote. It's meant to be read as a generalization of comments, not as a quote from a specific instance.

galenwolf · 2014-05-30T10:54:55+00:00

I believe you can post comments on the article if anyone wants to do a rebuttal.

trypx · 2014-05-30T13:23:48+00:00

It might have been because of her Labia not her uterus.

saltytrey · 2014-05-30T14:59:43+00:00

Time is willing to publish the lie because it sells magazines and ad space.

FTFY

slayerx1779 · 2014-05-30T15:16:37+00:00

Everyone is willing to publish anything to make MRAs look bad.

Not many like MRAs, in case you haven't noticed.

dejour · 2014-05-30T15:56:20+00:00

You know, in the sixpackabs.com article and goodmenproject.com articles there are no quotes around the phrase.

The Time one does have a quote.

Is it possible that a Time editor inserted quotation marks?

http://www.sixpackabs.com/the-myth-of-the-alpha-male/

http://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/the-myth-of-the-alpha-male-hesaid/

Kelmian · 2014-05-31T00:11:40+00:00

ok i am going to voice an unfashionable opinion. i am ready for the down votes.

if the comment was real, why would it be wrong? does this sub think that promotions based on gender instead of merit are justifiable? i think that promotions should not take into account anything besides the ability to do the job. gender should be irrelevant. apparently you guys disagree? or do you disagree with the tone of the statement and not its content? frankly i dont think that time magazine gets to decide what is and is not appropriate tone, nor do they get to decide what is and is not "extreme".

i think that was is happening here is pandering to the media at the cost of our principles. and i do not agree with it.

petemate · 2014-05-30T08:14:06+00:00

So, what makes you believe that were willing to publish that thing because it makes MRSs look bad ?

Sorry, but in my book jumping to a conclusion like that is just as bad as printing a false quote. Times probably published this because they thought it was an article that can sell copies, not because it makes MRAs look bad.

I don't want to defend the guy writing the article, but previously there were a lot of things in here that can seem very.. well, sexist. Not by intention, but by outcome.

mcrae44 · 2014-05-30T09:03:14+00:00

im confused, how do you know that no where in this entire sub has someone used that phrase?

PepeSilvia86 · 2014-05-30T12:56:29+00:00

lol because it would be SO hard to find a noxious quote in the blogosphere they had to concoct one. This dude didn't just scrub his history after he was featured in TIME MAGAZINE FOR BEING A MISOGYNIST. Sometimes I just don't know what planet you guys are on, seriously.

Title	Time magazine's editorial includes a nasty quote from an MRA. One problem: it's not real.
Author	meninist
Upvotes	1717
Comments	188
Date	May 30, 2014 4:37 AM UTC (12 years ago)
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