[META] r/MensRights is no longer a forum to discuss the MRM

mgtowolf · 2020-01-13T16:25:37+00:00

I suggest you bookmark sorted by new instead of touching the front page. Also reporting stuff like reposts and low value shit. We can't control who upvotes shit to the front page.

perplexedm · 2020-01-13T17:50:36+00:00

There should be an option to change the color or font size of thread titles depending on the content, flair, etc. That will increase visibility of topics of primary interest.

Lot of content is required to keep a sub like this where it can track general trends in mensrights, societal misandry, androphobia, also is part of it.

Memes are powerful tools which can convey messages simplistically and quick. Xpost those messages to r/mramemes , relevant ones to r/toxic_femininity

MRAs don't have social reach or acceptance in mainstream any where. So, things are not professional, organized, etc. as in feminism which is widely taught in universities.

Just complaining about world in general is not going to help, add some good content, work on it.

problem_redditor · 2020-01-14T11:15:23+00:00

I pretty much agree. I've wanted to participate more here but there's progressively been less and less interesting discussion to take part in on this subforum other than rage-bait posts consisting solely of an image of a Tumblrina saying some dumb shit. I understand that it's somewhat inevitable that this kind of rage-bait would be the most upvoted content as it tends to grab people's attention more than some long, dry post full of links and writing, and I do think there is a place for them in this subreddit, but there's been a real proliferation of them recently to the near exclusion of everything else.

I understand why people here are incensed and angry and feel the need to vent with posts like these - hell, I'm exasperated as fuck with the state of things and I'm especially pissed off about how society sees it as acceptable and even desirable to promote these false and slanderous narratives about men - but I really would like to see users contributing more actual research and statistical evidence to this subreddit regardless. We're not going to get anywhere without that.

Oh, and before someone tells me something like "stop complaining, be the change you want to see", I have recently made some of my own contributions of the sort to the subreddit such as this post and this post. I would like to see other people doing the same.

TL;DR: moar text posts plox

oafsalot · 2020-01-14T11:32:12+00:00

There is no win condition for you. You're going to get trolled, you're going to get debated by idiots, and you're going to get downvoted over and over again.

This sub isn't run by MRA's anymore. It's about time we accepted that and moved on.

Lethn · 2020-01-13T18:21:05+00:00

This sub is more r/antifeminism than r/mensrights at the moment. It’s ruining the sub because 1.) most of the people on here don’t really know anything about actual feminism so there’s no worthwhile conversation to be had and 2.) it’s attracting a lot of actually misogynistic people.

Yknow how MGTOW is supposed to be for finding a life outside of society’s narrow expectations for men? And how the movement was ruined as it became just a neverending circlejerk about how bad and inferior Western women are?

Yeah that’s happening right here.

Edit: To clarify my previous comment, I am NOT stating that this sub is just another mgtow/braincels/trp. I’m saying that you guys need to face reality. There are horrible, disgusting people who label their horrible, disgusting beliefs as being a part of Men’s Rights. This problem is ubiquitous with any group/movement, not just MRM. Every movement/group has this issue where crazy people will label their crazy beliefs as being part of the movement/group to give their claims some validity. The Civil Rights Movement had these people, LGBTQ groups have these people. These people will ruin the MRM because they don’t actually care about men’s rights, they just want to spread their hateful vitriol to a wider audience.

You also need to understand the context of this sub, in that it is on the same platform as some of the worst cesspools on the internet. You also need to understand that if someone notices the same people in those subs posting here, there is no difference between that sub and this sub in their mind. You guys have got to spend more effort purposely distancing yourself from these groups because these groups are claiming that they are part of yours. Incels believe that they’re MRA, so does MGTOW, so does TRP.

To avoid this sub becoming another cesspool (it so easily could if the wrong people became mods), people who post on those shitty subreddits or have names alluding to those shitty subreddits should be prevented from participating on this sub.

Clockw0rk · 2020-01-14T07:45:24+00:00

"You're allowed to feel oppressed, but don't do it here" - some clown, 2020

I'm not a fan of cross posting memes or rage bait from social media nobodies, but I respond to content I don't like by downvoting it.

We live in a world where people laugh off the MRM because they don't understand that men suffer (or they don't care, which makes them sociopaths, and fuck sociopaths, but I digress). The reality is that men do suffer, and this forum is plastered with the issues that men suffer from. It's rarely pretty.

You want to police what people can share about their suffering? Good luck. You'll just strangle what little life this place has out of it.

"Josie was drunk" is a common repost, but it's a valuable one. It's hard evidence of actual, institutional male oppression. That shit was planned by a committee who hired actors and a graphic designer in order to hammer home the point that men are responsible by default to acquire informed consent, while women aren't. The typical questions that follow that repost "If they were both drunk, how could he consent either?" never crossed the minds of the professional misandrists that organized that campaign in the first place. That's why that repost often gets thousands of upvotes, because even the casual subscribers and viewers from r/all can see what absolute bullshit it is. Hard evidence of double standards by public entities? Yes please, repost that shit everywhere. That's why many of us are fucking here.

Title	[META] r/MensRights is no longer a forum to discuss the MRM
Author	genobeam
Upvotes	15
Comments	35
Date	January 13, 2020 4:10 PM UTC (6 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/eo64kv/meta_rmensrights_is_no_longer_a_forum_to_discuss/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MensRights/meta-rmensrights-is-no-longer-a-forum-to-discuss.861130 https://theredarchive.com/post/861130

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