How many women support the Men's Rights movement?

Dis_mah_mobile_one · 2016-12-02T04:45:22+00:00

I think all women support the Men's Rights Movent..... if and when the MRM affects men's ability to provide the things that women at large expect men to provide.

If you're asking for women who take a proactive stance on the MRM, then you'll find mostly mothers of sons and a vanishingly slim minority otherwise.

2016-12-02T11:48:35+00:00

You're the only girl we've allowed into our treehouse, and that's because you're special.

Relevant from GWW:

You can also see it in the different attitudes of feminists toward male feminists and MRAs toward female MRAs. Men are expected to support and protect women, so female feminists treat it as an entitlement they're free wipe their feet on. Women are not expected to support or protect men, so when they do, they're doing something contrary to cultural expectations, and they get a lot more appreciation.

(That said, female MRAs are held to a "good faith" standard. You get the same leeway as anyone else when people think you're wrong about something, but I've seen some serious shit go down when it turns out a woman was only taking an MRM position out of self-interest or self-aggrandizement, or when she starts wanting to treat men in the movement the way female feminists treat male feminists.)

iainmf · 2016-12-02T06:05:44+00:00

Karen Straughn has probably had more mainstream media coverage than any othe MRA. And don't forget Hannah Wallen, Alison Tieman, Janice Faimengo, Theryn Meyer, Erin Pizzey,Anne Cools

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The MRM is pretty diverse.

JebberJabber · 2016-12-03T11:24:37+00:00

Among feminist women support for the MRM is nearly nonexistent but I believe it will start growing slowly. I recently had a feminist woman friend me on FB because of my habit of supporting men's issues on a feminist site.

I see a few feminist men expressing MRA ideas in feminist spaces, as I do myself. Of course we get spat on if the ideas are recognised as associated with the MRM, but we keep at it.

Feminists are usually sympathetic to men's problems but only if that does not conflict with women's or feminist's interests. That means a large proportion of men's problems are off limits to feminists, they will just fight for their tribe's interests.

Nearly all feminists are stuck in simplistic dismissals of the MRM. They claim most men's issues are caused by patriarchy so will be fixed incidentally as that gets dismantled by feminism.

They understand there are other men's issues which are up to men to discuss and fix.

What they are not ready to face is that there are substantial men's issues which will require negotiation and compromise with feminism. Feminists have been writing their own story on sexual politics since the late 1960s with nearly zero male input. It is inconceivable they could have got a good solution without the participation of half the human race, but they are not yet ready to accept that.

I believe this will change. It will be slow and very difficult, but my prediction is the recent acceptance of male feminists will inevitably lead to a change in the movement. Currently male feminists are extremely restricted in what role they can play, but this can't last forever.

I believe feminists like Cassie Jaye will slowly increase in number. Not that they will all abandon feminism, but that they will expand their awareness to include men's issues and realise that feminism has been one-eyed for too long.

Title	How many women support the Men's Rights movement?
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Date	December 2, 2016 2:57 AM UTC (9 years ago)
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