So, what can be done?

ErasmusMRA · 2012-12-02T21:09:39+00:00

AVFM does a lot of activism, so you should look there. Also check out their sub at /r/mensrightsactivists (although it seems to be inactive).

From what I hear there's plenty of MRAs from Ontario.

Le4chanFTW · 2012-12-03T11:11:30+00:00

I'm starting to doubt that anything CAN be done. I've been battling with major depression for half a dozen years now, so maybe I'm a bit of a pessimist, but I'm starting to get sick and tired of all this anti-male bullshit going on.

Get this. I was at the local park the other day because I felt like walking and enjoying the outdoors because it was unseasonably warm, and I ended up sitting on a bench that overlooked the pond. I sat down on it to relax a bit and watch the ducks and just enjoy nature - and our pond is like a big circle with a concrete walkway around it with benches placed sporadically a few inches from the walkway, okay? So I was sitting there, alone because like I said, I've been depressed for a long time and have generalized anxiety disorder too, so I don't get out much and have a hard time socializing and blah blah blah. Anyway, I'm sitting there just minding my own business and occasionally watching people walking their dogs and stuff like that, and I start to notice this one chick who's been walking her dog around the pond on this the walkway but never passing in front of me. Like, she'll just show up on the opposite end of the pond all of a sudden, and it's then that I notice that she'll pause a handful of yards before passing in front of me with her dog, look directly at me, and then actually take the time to go into the grass and fucking walk behind until she can completely clear the area that I was sitting at.

I'm barely 20 years old, and when I shave, I look like I could pass as a middle school student, so I really don't think I look all that intimidating. So once I notice this chick doing this stuff, I start watching the other people too, and not a single woman that ended up walking around the pond (like I said, it's basically a big circle) would walk in front of me. They'd fucking stop, look at me like they're thinking about doing it, and then they'll just go off into the grass until they can clear the area, and then just go back up to the fucking concrete pathway. The ONLY woman that walked in front of me was some older lady with her gray-haired husband, her little granddaughter(?), and their dog, and she only ever did once and actually looked me in the fucking eyes while she pulled the little girl closer to her and kind of rushed her along.

I feel like shit whenever stuff like this happens. I've been suicidal in the past, and I'd like to think that I'm over it and what not, but I see this kind of stuff whenever I go out where it seems like people are just fucking afraid of me because I'm a 20 year old guy off by himself. It's hard to take, and I just don't know about things sometimes. I come on the internet and I have girls posting on Facebook about how shitty guys are and how they wish they could find some nice guy or whatever and they always make these posts every once in a while about some "creepy" guy who approaches them or something and I just feel like shit and all lonely and I wonder if that's how people see me or whatever and I dunno.

Basically, I've seen a lot of stuff that makes me think the stuff any of us do or even think of doing is just trying to build sandcastles along the beach before high tide sets in. We'll all be able to feel good about ourselves and our accomplishments for a few hours but everything will eventually be swallowed up and it'll all be forgotten once the bigger beast arrives.

themountaingoat · 2012-12-02T21:56:45+00:00

One thing I think is very important is to spread these ideas outside the internet, especially to people who are slightly older and in positions of more authority. Doing things like calling out feminist falsehoods whenever they are said (for example in classes at a university) is also very important.

C0CKPUNCHER · 2012-12-02T21:37:34+00:00

Self empowerment.

rightsbot · 2012-12-02T20:54:18+00:00

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Title	So, what can be done?
Author	RationalSocialist
Upvotes	10
Comments	6
Date	December 2, 2012 8:52 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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