Something I’ve been thinking about is how feminism became really potent because they focused on specific issues that uniquely affected women and are easy to support. They chose a movement for equality and a movement against tragedy: Economic Inequality (“Wage gap”) & Sexual Assault (MeToo)

MRA could benefit from focusing on a couple issues like this that can get support from everyone rather than a whole bunch of loosely connected things to rebuff hypocritical feminism & highlight male victims from many of the same problems women face.

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I believe our two most potent issues are Lack of Fathers & Male Suicide. These are easy to get general support for because the benefits of tackling them are enormous.

Our equality movement is with the Lack of Fathers. Like the Equal Pay Act, we need an Equal Parent Act, which gives fathers the same rights over their children as mothers. There are great statistics that show fatherlessness linked with all sorts of problems. Like encouraging women to be managers, we need to encourage fathers to be more present and make women be more accommodating for this. This can be linked across all ethnicities, and is a really big problem for our black community.

Our tragedy movement is with the historic high rates and record rates of male suicide. We need focus on helping make male mental health important & toning down hateful feminist rhetoric against men. This focus on preventing male suicide — actually preventing death — is the biggest preventable tragedy that everyone can get behind and many people know someone who has. This will help spur a lot more research into male mental health and figure out underlying problems and gives credibility to male voices rather than just these conversations about “toxic masculinity”, which are a female perspective on male issues.

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With focus on the Lack of Fathers & Male Suicide we can gather proper general support that can lead to a Department of Men Affairs, can lead to toning down misandry for mental health reasons, protect fathers from having their children taken away from them, equalize divorce & child-support issues, reduce violence because fathers can keep unruly adolescent men on better paths, and be strong advocates for helping their boys who are struggling in school. This focus will trickle down on so many of our issues, getting the messaging simple and focused on the male experience will be of great benefit. We have strong statistics on both of these topics as well.

The most important thing, is that these are serious problems that disproportionately affect men and require uniquely male perspectives to be accomplished.

What do you think? Maybe there are other issues that are more potent?