I was hoping you could tell me a bit about the ways MRM approaches intersectionality. Many of the issues discussed here, especially male incarceration and prison rape, but also men and children living in poverty, domestic violence, issues of masculinity, and so on, are very, very heavily racialized in USian society. I was curious how you would approach these sorts of issues and include intersectionality (I'm focusing on race, obviously, but this also includes sexuality, class, nationality, and disability, among others) in your analyses. Part of this was inspired by an op-ed piece I read, linked to from here, which leveled some charges that the MRM is largely a Eurocentric movement by and for straight white men. But from what I've seen, this board, at least, seems to be very anti-racist and you are very good at downvoting explicitly racist or homophobic posts. I just want to hear how you conceptualize these other forms of oppression within your MRM framework.
I know that sounds vague, but I'm looking forward to your input. thanks.
edit: made a run on sentence less long winded
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I think unlike devotees of post-structuralist academic idiot-obscurantism, a group like Men's Rights views society as more than a series of stacked cultural pressures exerting themselves on individuals who have no personal autonomy and who are doomed to be victimized by their lack of privilege. We see society as a collection of actors with agency who are behaving well or badly.
It is an axiomatic truism that some individuals have more "privilege" than others – we also generally don't care. Life isn't fair, and efforts to make the world more fair for everyone tend to be ineffectual if not disastrous. Every individual is responsible for overcoming his or her personal challenges and becoming a person with utility and value in the culture.
I'm not speaking for everyone, but I think more or less, that's how we see the world.
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Black men also commit crimes at higher rates than other groups, thus contributing to efforts to justify the – admittedly unfair – level of state pressure exerted on their group.
I am sympathetic to the plight of black men and I absolutely see it as relevant to men's rights, but I doubt that the majority of this community would be willing to buy into the simplistic narrative pushed by leftist media/academics that choices made by black Americans are not a major contributor to the difficulty of their struggle.
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