Happy 150,000th!

Lethn · 2017-05-29T08:55:50+00:00

The amount of surprise from brand new people who came here to find out that not only are the people on this sub not 'misogynists' but also how varied ideologically they are was rather funny.

atheist4thecause · 2017-05-29T02:43:52+00:00

/r/MensRights has grown by about 50% just in the last 2 years. A video I made about 150,000 subs, recent history of the MRM, major events, growth rate, etc.: https://youtu.be/MuxEVfyCUcU

theothermod · 2017-05-29T01:39:47+00:00

That's ten times as many as when I joined, several years ago. I had a different username then.

Memories ...

UNLIKELYME · 2017-05-29T07:44:54+00:00

Againstmensrights has 8,924, r/feminism has 68,848. The tide will eventually turn and also the media will see whats right and good and what's bad and false ... or that's what I hope.

Machnow · 2017-05-29T01:49:55+00:00

excellent!!!.....numbers are strength......

Imnotmrabut · 2017-05-29T01:54:42+00:00

Evidently, the Trolls haven't been succeeding. Poor Lambs.

William__F0ster · 2017-05-29T09:03:12+00:00

I first came here, under another username, in January or possibly February 2015.

Before then, I had literally never heard of Reddit let alone "Men's Rights". The closest I knew of "Men's Rights" were "Father's 4 Justice" in the UK who, through a combination of their own stunts and the media's reporting on them, I thought were a bunch of losers who were full of regret for having carelessly thrown away what had once been theirs through their own arrogant stupidity - yes, I know that sounds harsh, but it's probably no worse than what most people think before they actually look into it.

As I said, I had never heard of "Men's Rights" before GamerGate and it wasn't until January of 2015 that I first came by this place, having learned about it through this conversation between Karen Straughan and the BBC.

I don't consider myself an activist, but I just feel that I cannot stand by and watch while the most appalling lies, calumny and invective are heaped on this place and many of the people who come to it.

Communities of any kind often coalesce around a sense of shared moral values.

I would include in this the righteous anger and despair at the power of the media to misrepresent through one-sided narratives (the sidelining of Erin Pizzey for instance); the power of feminist lobbying to shape public policy and influence legal decisions which literally introduce prejudice and discrimination against men as men (the Duluth model being the prime example of this); the intense hostility that academic feminism has been known to express to alternative arguments and the use of outright lies to support the insupportable (e.g. the example of the Senior Lecturer in Journalism at at UK university once proclaiming that Eliot Roger "gunned down six women").

I don't agree with everything that gets linked to, posted and commented on here - but why should I be expected to? Why should anyone? Why should individuals who post comments here that even I find unpalatable be taken to represent the 150,000 subscribers?

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bumblebritches57 · 2017-05-29T01:50:08+00:00

Wtf? Wasn't it just like 115,000 a few weeks ago?

spacedogg · 2017-05-29T04:07:54+00:00

Bravo!

Rethgil · 2017-05-29T21:41:11+00:00

"Do you have any interesting memories to share?" Yes.

This one just created.

"150,000 subscribers"? Realising that is a memory I will treasure.

AloysiusC · 2017-05-30T07:04:39+00:00

The best part of this place is, unlike any other forum, here feminists and "normies" can get exposed to MRA material. We can debate feminists directly. Sure there are other MRA forums but feminists almost never go there. Of course there are also feminist forums but we can't talk openly there.

roland3337 · 2017-05-30T19:22:17+00:00

This is a nice thing to see. When I joined, we were at something like 30,000.

augustfell · 2017-05-30T22:07:38+00:00

I came here when a commenter on HuffPo literally wrote, "Go back to Reddit, MRA."

At the time I didn't know what "MRA" stood for, nor had I ever been on Reddit. So I decided to check it out. This sub was around 100,000 then.

I have mixed feelings about the rapid growth since it's also an indication of how bad things have gotten.

quackquackoopz · 2017-05-31T17:17:50+00:00

I arrived several years ago on an active but now defunct account.

My sub memories are:

110,000 subscribers not so long ago - we're still small, but growing steadily
Helping dozens of first time posting men and young men with their issues, many on throwaways or alts for fear of repercussions
Seeing the rise of Gen Z young men (and some young women) appear in this sub, rising in defiance to the dominance of the deranged feminist narrative, to their indoctrination
Converting many interested visitors, and a good number of self-identified feminists
Conversing with Karen Straughan and Alison Tieman on several occasions! :o
The sub generally being allowed to self-moderate, warts and all, massive fallouts and all, shitposting and all, brigading and all - this is absolutely key as this is how men operate together
/u/johnkimble111 and his regular Action Opportunities, and otherwise created threads - an example to us all and absolutely deserves a special mention
Too many other regular posters to mention over the years who have passed on their knowledge of the current and historical state of men's issues and of feminism over the years, from countries around the world - USA, Canada, UK, Spain, India, Australia, Nigeria, South Africa, Iran, France, Sweden, Argentina, ..........

Keep fucking fighting, guys!

Pornography_saves_li · 2017-05-29T20:07:10+00:00

R/theredpill has 207,000 subs, and was started years after this one.

Good job keeping the sub 'pure' mods.

RealJumboJellybean · 2017-05-29T01:47:19+00:00

Congrats to this sub! The movement is gaining followers!

UDT22 · 2017-05-31T08:16:53+00:00

I know the sub of which you speak and they have fallen way behind this one, because their hate filled posts have run out of steam. But you still have that asshole Futrelle on his own blog spewing his special kind of garbage.

Title	Happy 150,000th!
Author	theothermod
Upvotes	128
Comments	77
Date	May 29, 2017 1:38 AM UTC (9 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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