Article claims men's rights groups "perpetuate misogyny and male power" and that only "feminists can help both genders, by shifting a small amount of focus to men."

thepizzapeople · 2013-09-11T11:13:50+00:00

"Okay okay! We get it! Your house is on fire too. We see that now. But no, you can't use our fire truck so stop asking. It's rude. We need it just in-case our house fire has any flair-ups. We'll send somebody over to your place with a squirt gun. When? Goddamn with the rudeness again! We just said we'd send a squirt gun, what more do you want!?"

AlfredTheGreatest · 2013-09-11T13:30:27+00:00

By shifting a "small ammount of focus to men." Thanks. I'm so glad your awesome feminist movement thinks we need a small ammount of focus. I guess we can all go home now. The feminists have this thing covered.

baskandpurr · 2013-09-11T13:44:50+00:00

I hate the way these people say "the crisis in masculinity". There is no crisis in masculinity. That phrase is designed to produce an image of neurotic men who don't understand themselves. It frames the issue as being about how masculine men behave, worried that they aren't 'real man' enough. It's a patronising smile, "poor little things are having a bit of a crisis".

The problem is that society does not respect men, and yet it demands and places expectations upon men. The legal bias against men, the fact that contributing to society works against men. Men are to be exploited, they are disposal or invisible. Masculinity is irrelevant, articles like this only demonstrate that feminists too blinkered to see the actual problems men face. They can only see from a perspective of female privilege.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2013-09-11T16:31:10+00:00

Claim: feminism is the only solution to men's issues.

Retort: so what has feminism done for men's issues?

Retort 1: well feminism opposes the Patriarchy which is the source of all the worlds problems, including men, so by smashing that everything will just sort of be fine for men somehow possibly involving magic (using a lot of words to say "feminism is doing nothing for men").

Retort 2: IT'S NOT OUR JOB TO HELP MEN SHITLORD!! STOP THIS WHAT ABOUT TEH MENZ YOU WOMAN-HATER!

ThePigmanAgain · 2013-09-11T11:08:12+00:00

"Left Foot Forward is Britain’s No.1 left-wing blog..."

Once again my side of politics embarrasses me.

AndrewLevin · 2013-09-11T12:39:46+00:00

No one tells men to "man up" more often than feminists. No one inflicts guilt by association on men and boys more often than feminists. No one fights harder against equal rights for men than feminists (including in health care and homelessness programs). No one fights harder to remove fathers from their children's lives than feminists.

Men's Rights = equal protection under the law for all.

Feminism = hate.

Full stop.

2013-09-11T14:44:10+00:00

Article Says

When feminity is respected we'll be closer to gender equality

Title Says

The crisis of masculinity

Maculinity is bad, feminity deserves to be respected

EvilPundit · 2013-09-11T09:15:17+00:00

Comments on that page are open. My contribution:

Yawn. Yet more feminist hate propaganda against men.

Femsplaining of this kind won't get you far in the real world, as more and more men - and women - gain awareness of the sexist hate movement that feminism has become.

I urge everyone to comment everywhere that it's relevant. More than anything else at this time, we need to spread awareness!

2013-09-11T14:05:32+00:00

so annoying that whenever the crisis of masculinity is brought up the only 'problems' that arise are that men disrespect homosexuals and women, and that getting rid of that will get rid of all of men's problems

those two things are not exclusive to men, but also not every man is an aggressive bigot! also I don't see how addressing these issues stops disproportianate amount of homeless men, men who commit suicide, etc, etc

typhonblue · 2013-09-11T16:40:06+00:00

Pft. They're just afraid of strong, independent men.

http://i.imgur.com/zTRENyW.jpg

MRMRising · 2013-09-11T22:01:17+00:00

This is because feminism, and the egalitarian goals it seeks,

Stopped reading there.

AgentCircle · 2013-09-11T23:31:08+00:00

A healthy masculinity is one which is not based upon the belittlement of femininity and women.

Would somebody like to point out what belittling femininity looks like? Also, they are aware that healthy femininity should not belittle masculinity or men, right? At least, I hope so.

PeterArching · 2013-09-11T16:41:06+00:00

Too little, WAY too late, as if, what Big Red said, etc.

AvgGuy101 · 2013-09-11T18:36:40+00:00

So... where do I find all of the stuff promoting "misogyny and male power" ?

Woupyy · 2013-09-11T22:53:20+00:00

Usually a lurker, but I created this account as I know the author in real life. What's ironic is that she's a person entirely for equality and men's rights. She's a feminist, but is usually the first person to call out feminist bullshit like misandry and gender expectations. She's a really 'MRA feminist' if there could ever be such a thing.

She's just terrible at getting her point across. Many a time, she's been arguing a point that I agree with, but I've ended up wanting to disagree with her because of how badly it's been worded. Trust me, she means well with this article.

PROOF AND FACEBOOK DISCUSSION: http://i.imgur.com/FYPrS8w.png

Cthulusbaby · 2013-09-11T17:10:58+00:00

Other religions and creeds are evil and of the devil. Only our religion can save everyone's souls, by spreading the word of god to where it's needed most. If you think you don't need our religion or that it's inadequate to your needs, that just means you're risking damnation and you need our religion even more.

double-happiness · 2013-09-11T20:01:31+00:00

Some men’s rights groups have linked this [crisis in masculinity] to an increase in women’s rights and the feminist movement, but this is an argument which is as poor as it is absurd.

Who's arguing that? The current crisis in masculinity has nothing to do with the 'increase in women’s rights' and not much to do with feminism either. It's more to do with globalisation and modernity - specifically the contemporary desire that we men should not have to sacrifice our lives through work or war. To be fair, that standard was already set for women over a century ago!

2013-09-12T01:03:11+00:00

I'm going to be an optimist here and look at the silver lining of this article. At least the author admits there is a problem and, as the saying goes, admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.

According to a 2012 report from the Office For National Statistics, men in Britain are more likely to be involved in substance abuse, be homeless, commit suicide, or have broken and shallow relationships.

She admits men have problems and even cites a legitimate source! That is a huge step for any Feminist. I am hopeful that this is evidence that cracks are beginning to show in Feminism's armor.

Arxl · 2013-09-11T16:13:26+00:00

This SR has become such shit. I subbed for insightful and intelligent posts, left because of you guys turning into exactly what you hate.

"Feminists are bad except when they think exactly like us."

"We are right in every way and will circle jerk about every bad thing to happen to a man that was perpetrated by a woman and say it is connected."

/r/intactivists is more of a real MR sub than this place. Take your feel-bad posts to /r/morbidreality. Please stroke your victimized egos more instead of actually educating rather than blaming.