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| 1 | UK Media Frontpages for A-Level Results DayA quick count shows we have a representation of girls/women to boys/men at a ratio of 25:3 (a Binomial test of proportions of the hypothesis that this is happening by chance comes out with a p-value of 0.000001516, if anyone's interested, so clearly not occurring by chance). One possible explanation here is that UK media are simply reflecting the fact that 17-18yo girls are more photogenic. This is testable by comparing, say, other stories about young people. Look up vaccinations and young peopl… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/21 09:26 AM |
| -2 | Why is it only body shaming if you use THIN models? [Feminism]You're reading 'underweight' as automatically a matter for concern (calling it "true clinical fashion"). This is simply incorrect. Being "underweight" is a value-free judgement churned out when you plug in the numbers into the BMI calculator. Being underweight, even significantly underweight, isn't necessarily a problem in itself. It can be an indicator of an underlying problem, however. The most obvious underlying problem here would be that she might well have anorexia nervosa or bulimia, both … | /r/MensRights | 16/06/16 05:45 PM |
| 15 | Why is it only body shaming if you use THIN models? [Feminism]She's not a normal weight. She's 5'10" and 8st3lbs (115lbs). That's a BMI of 16.5, which makes her fairly significantly underweight. She ought to be around 10lbs heavier to be in the normal range. She's not unhealthy because she has an active lifestyle and eats very well. But she definitely is thin. | /r/MensRights | 16/06/16 04:27 PM |
| 16 | Self entitled woman upset that man failed her shit test offer to split the billDo you want to... split it? I think the best answer here would be: Nah, it's OK. I'll get the next one... | /r/MensRights | 14/06/16 05:57 PM |
| 13 | Suggestive Scientific Evidence for Male DisposabilityNot quite. slightly more willing to push a woman off the bridge than a man 'Slightly' doesn't work here - you're looking for statistically significant differences, and slight differences are fairly likely to happen simply by sampling error (chance). In terms of statistically significant findings, it basically goes like this: Female participants are in general less willing than male participants to push the bystander off the bridge to save the five. Move from the gender unspecified condition to t… | /r/MensRights | 11/06/16 11:28 AM |
| 19 | Suggestive Scientific Evidence for Male DisposabilityIf you need a bit more explanation, this is a psychological experiment in which people are posed a variation of the 'trolley problem' invented by Philippa Foot. You are offered the option of allowing a runaway 'trolley' ('tram' to normal people) to crash into 5 people versus pushing someone off an overhead footbridge to slow down the trolley enough so that the 5 may be saved. The thought-experiment is somewhat silly (which raises validity concerns), and there are many variations but it has been … | /r/MensRights | 11/06/16 09:40 AM |
| 1 | Sold Out and not Selling Out - Fathers 4Justice need bigger venues to support the men and their families in need.Senator Anne Cools. | /r/MensRights | 25/04/16 09:19 PM |
| 10 | After being criticized by MRAs, Roosh V gets butthurt and decides to call himself an MRA.Don't you actually have to be on the bus in the first place to be thrown under it? Roosh's agenda has always been very clear: Write stupid shit. Get notoriety. Sell awful e-books. He cares about men's welfare about as much as Jessica Valenti. | /r/MensRights | 10/02/16 09:50 AM |
| 1 | We need a Mandemic - Feminist CurrentPlease don't bother linking this stuff. It's doing this: Post obviously stupid shit. Call it 'satire' although it's not actually satirising anything. Wait for outraged comments. Take the piss out of the outraged people, and laugh at them as they get more and more wound up. It's basically 'Jokes on you. I was only pretending to be retarded' trolling at a website level. Just ignore it. | /r/MensRights | 07/02/16 10:06 AM |
| 6 | Saw this on Facebook. As far as I know no one died fighting for the women to vote.https://youtu.be/wVrlLKAR1S0?t=6m1s | /r/MensRights | 29/01/16 04:44 PM |
| 1 | Is this the feminist version of return of the kings? Is it feminist "ironic misandry"? You know saying hateful things and calling it a joke or is this a legit feminist site? After reading some of Clementine Ford's stuff and others, it's hard to tell.I take your point about Clementine Ford. In fact, I think my only comment on her so far has been to ask whether anyone's ever seen Roosh and her in the same room. But, as others have noted, this is clearly a parody site. Sometimes it is genuinely hard to tell, but this isn't one of those occasions. Except for some radical feminists, no feminist would never say anything like "Women are the biologically superior sex". Mainstream intersectional feminism is basically an ideology of extreme environme… | /r/MensRights | 24/01/16 10:39 AM |
| 13 | Accuse a man of rape on the internet: No Problem. Defend yourself from a rape accusation on the internet: You will be prosecuted.CPS' webpage shows the full charge, that Economou: (a) delivered or caused to be delivered a letter dated 6 November 2014 to the home of David de Freitas; (b) sent a series of emails to the solicitor acting for David de Freitas; (c) uploaded various recordings and comments onto websites such as YouTube, vimeo.com and liveleaks.com, and (d) set up and maintained a website with the domain name eleanordefreitas.com. IANAL, but I'm struggling to see how, if this is all they have, that could even com… | /r/MensRights | 09/12/15 09:51 PM |
| 3 | Accuse a man of rape on the internet: No Problem. Defend yourself from a rape accusation on the internet: You will be prosecuted.Well, Economou claims that David de Freitas was naming Economou as a rapist in a letter sent to media outlets via his solicitor. He also claims that when he: provided David De Freitas with legal documentation and uploaded CCTV footage to try to show no rape had taken place he made allegations of harassment to the police We simply don't know what the truth is here, so it seems inappropriate to take sides. The fact that the CPS is willing to bring a prosecution for harassment, though, admittedly d… | /r/MensRights | 09/12/15 09:28 PM |
| 4 | Noam Chomsky: "Pornography is a humiliation and degradation of women. It's a disgraceful activity."At the heart of what he's saying is a piece of rhetorical trickery. On the surface level, he is arguing for a general principle that, when it comes to practices that are unacceptable on their face, one shouldn't look to improve them, but to prevent them. And, of course, this principle is perfectly correct. One does not ask "How can we make the market for organs better?" One asks "How can we prevent the black market for organs arising in the first place?" One does not ask "How can we make child a… | /r/MensRights | 19/09/15 08:54 AM |
| 12 | Are false rape allegations really "that tiny"?All you know is that one of the two is lying/wrong and the other this telling the truth/right. You don't even know this. People's memories are not accurate, and their subsequent emotional state will in part determine how they remember things. Alcohol can also fuck with memory formation, which makes memory even more unreliable. People can sincerely believe that there was/wasn't consent and be mistaken due to remembering incorrectly. Then there is self-deception. Rapists can kid themselves into th… | /r/MensRights | 14/08/15 12:19 PM |
| 6 | "Try and find a [British] national newspaper photo accompanying a story about today's [A-Level] exam results that includes a boy."As far as I'm aware, there is not significant difference between the numbers of men and women that go to College (and therefore the numbers that do A-Levels), at least, not significant enough to warrant a difference so relatively great as 27,000. Not quite. The recent history is that more boys dropped out of post-16 education whilst it was not compulsory (check out pp.34-5 here), but the law has changed recently and comes into full effect from this year on. For those born after Sep 1997 (which i… | /r/MensRights | 13/08/15 07:48 PM |
| -4 | Great discussion between a men's rights activist and a feminist.She made good points about stereotype threat, and she was right that Milo wasn't actually on point in his response. | /r/MensRights | 24/06/15 12:23 PM |
| 15 | The media will be claiming the South Carolina shooter is an MRA in 3...2...1.....I'm not sure he'll get called an MRA, to be honest. I don't think anyone's in the mood for sidetracking what is clearly an issue of race into an issue of gender. But doubtless there will be lots of chattering, each person repeating the name of the hateful non-entity who engaged in this despicable violence, thereby making it more likely to occur in future. Personally, I don't care what his name is. He has just shown himself to be unworthy of consideration in any shape or form. He should simply be… | /r/MensRights | 18/06/15 08:07 PM |
| 1 | Feminist sociology professor "warns" official crime statisticians about their work - suggests that her crystal ball readings are more accurate (this is a brilliant Pyongyang-style Guardian headline)Do you think it would be worthwhile to attack SJWs on a theoretical level? I'm not sure what this means. If you mean: 'create alternative social theories with concepts like male disposability at the heart of them', then yes, absolutely that's a good idea. By fostering intellectual diversity, you increase the likelihood of self-awareness in terms of realising just how easy it is to spin narratives and present them as 'theories'. But note that I would have similar problems with MRM 'theory' as I d… | /r/MensRights | 10/06/15 04:58 PM |
| 2 | Feminist sociology professor "warns" official crime statisticians about their work - suggests that her crystal ball readings are more accurate (this is a brilliant Pyongyang-style Guardian headline)Well, there are some points that are well made - namely the slippery nature of 'Patriarchy' and the way it slips between description and explanation. That criticism is largely taken seriously by feminist academics, and there are responses out there. But I think, mainly because Pollert is coming from a Marxist background herself, that she wildly overestimates the usefulness of the sort of social 'theory' practised by the likes of Althusser, Lukacs, Gramsci, Gadamer, Habermas, etc. My disagreement… | /r/MensRights | 10/06/15 04:23 PM |
| 2 | Feminist sociology professor "warns" official crime statisticians about their work - suggests that her crystal ball readings are more accurate (this is a brilliant Pyongyang-style Guardian headline)Thanks for the links. I'm not sure I go in for their particular line of thinking, because they appear to confuse the fact that something is socially constructed with the idea that it is (easily) changeable, which is something of a classic mistake amongst people are more Foucault than Frege. Take an example - no doubt the notion of being 'lanky' is socially-constructed. There are no 'lanky' people independently of a live culture in which the term has meaning, and it cannot be reduced to physical … | /r/MensRights | 10/06/15 02:24 PM |
| 4 | Feminist sociology professor "warns" official crime statisticians about their work - suggests that her crystal ball readings are more accurate (this is a brilliant Pyongyang-style Guardian headline)And that's exactly what Walby does in Theorising Patriarchy. Instead of coming to the logical conclusion that 'Patriarchy' doesn't exist anymore since all the things that were previously claimed to be features of the Patriarchy had largely dissipated, she instead resorts to the unfalsifiable idea that the 'Patriarchy' will always adapt. Her overall idea is that women were previously oppressed by rules in public life, such as bars to employment, university, etc., but 'Patriarchy' has transmogrifi… | /r/MensRights | 10/06/15 10:00 AM |
| 5 | Feminist sociology professor "warns" official crime statisticians about their work - suggests that her crystal ball readings are more accurate (this is a brilliant Pyongyang-style Guardian headline)The purpose of the survey is primarily for measuring trends, not the overall level of crime. The latter is not something that can be reliably measured. There is about one reported incident of crime per 6 people in the UK each year, with the vast majority of that being property crime (vandalism and theft). But there will be a small number of people (let's call them 'fantasists' for convenience's sake) in your survey who will report lots of crime for all sorts of reasons other than that they've be… | /r/MensRights | 10/06/15 09:33 AM |
| 3 | Feminist sociology professor "warns" official crime statisticians about their work - suggests that her crystal ball readings are more accurate (this is a brilliant Pyongyang-style Guardian headline)The CSEW brought this on themselves by dropping traditional warnings that were in the BCS (its predecessor) about how the BCS/CSEW should not be used as a way of measuring the absolute level of crime, but merely used for measuring trends. Because they've done this, they're now open to the objection that it doesn't properly measure the level of crime, which is absolutely true. Walby points out one way in which it might be potentially inaccurate in terms of the incidence (though not prevalence) of… | /r/MensRights | 10/06/15 07:31 AM |
| 3 | The Week has featured an article on the Men's Rights Movement. Thoughts?For their part, many other men's rights activists decry what War Machine did — with the noted exception of Daryush Valizadeh, better known as Roosh V, one of the most visible and extreme men's rights activists. Fail. Stopped reading there. | /r/MensRights | 08/06/15 08:20 AM |
| 19 | Radical Feminists are at it again! Disrupt CAFE Ottawa's inaugural meeting.I love the idea that you can 'aggressively' film people who have turned up to disrupt your event! That's a bit like saying "He aggressively ran his face into my fist". | /r/MensRights | 06/06/15 08:58 AM |
| 11 | Dad texted son "delete me out of your life" then hanged himself after receiving £11k child support billIt's very different when you have people depending on you. The shame can be unbearable. You feel like you're constantly letting people down, and it's hard to hold your head up. Then you feel trapped, like there's no way out. That's when suicide seems like the only option. | /r/MensRights | 04/06/15 03:35 PM |
| 17 | A few years ago, such a balanced but convincing article on men being disadvantaged would not be published in a respected publication. Share this Economist article with anyone who cannot understanding the difference between "The powerful are mostly men" and "Most men are powerful"Yeah, gotta agree with other people here. This is more trite parroting of the standard line, failing to consider alternative perspectives. Take the brainless move from the fact that so many CEOs are male to the idea that it's a 'man's world'. What does this illustrate, exactly? OK, so there are plenty of male CEOs earning buckets of money. What happens to that money? Who makes use of that money? To say that 'it's a man's world' implies men are in control. But control is fundamentally about who g… | /r/MensRights | 03/06/15 03:57 PM |
| 3 | Serious question about educationI've got a particular narrative on this based on my own experience. It's wildly speculative, so don't take it too seriously. Anyway, here goes: I would say it goes hand-in-hand with a testing culture where teachers are judged on their students' results. We don't let children fail, and that is an extremely important part of learning. It's an invaluable meta-cognitive skill to learn from failure. Boys, much more than girls, want to do things in their own way. They don't like being told when to wor… | /r/MensRights | 30/05/15 12:32 PM |
| 3 | Americans calling themselves "feminist" has dropped from 28% to 18% in the last two yearsNot really. Here's the Telegraph's take on it. She basically decided to call everything 'misogyny' whilst continually calling attention to the fact a speaker was male as if that somehow invalidated their opinions. And she got punished for it, with polls showing a sharp drop in support. Labor realised she was unelectable, and they had an internal coup. | /r/MensRights | 30/05/15 10:33 AM |
| 33 | Americans calling themselves "feminist" has dropped from 28% to 18% in the last two yearsTo those who think this does not matter: of course it matters. Here's a simple instance where it will change things: the people in charge of Hillary's election campaign will be very interested in this (and recall what happened to Julia Gillard when her spin doctors radically misjudged the Australian appetite for scapegoating men and masculinity). It will change what she says, and how she presents herself. My prediction is that you'll see a lot more "(and men)" in her speeches, and they will be r… | /r/MensRights | 29/05/15 09:12 PM |
| 1 | As a white man, I'm surprised more women aren't tweeting the hashtag #KillAllWhiteMen (more misandrist hate speech in the Independent)What does a white man stand to benefit from promoting #KillAllWhiteMen? You have to think of ideologies as like religion. Religions have been extremely important throughout human history because they allow for the development of social co-ordination. (An obvious example might be in agriculture - you help me with my harvest now, and I'll help you with yours in a week.) All religions involve costly, hard-to-fake displays of commitment. You have to attend a regular meeting that is made as deliberat… | /r/MensRights | 22/05/15 07:55 AM |
| 4 | As a white man, I'm surprised more women aren't tweeting the hashtag #KillAllWhiteMen (more misandrist hate speech in the Independent)And there's a real difference there. Rich people are rich. When you're rich, you don't give a shit what ordinary shitmunchers think of you, because you're never going to interact with any of them. You live in your gated communities; you go to work in your Merc from your garage to a private garage; you have little islands of fiscal segregation dotted across the planet, from New York to London to Monaco to Singapore. You say to people, "You can hate me as much as you like, but as long I'm still ri… | /r/MensRights | 22/05/15 07:38 AM |
| 2 | Salon: "Men's Rights Activists, Beware: Reddit introduces new anti-harassment policy"Voat. | /r/MensRights | 15/05/15 11:27 AM |
| 2 | Mad Max and Men's Rights ActivistsI don't think your characterisation is at all accurate (see, e.g., Michael Kimmel for a clear example of a well-respected feminist actively derogating men and masculinity). However, even if we accept your characterisation, it's still not obviously a good thing. It is not a good thing to 'raise people up to the same level of treatment' if you're mistaken about who's worse off in the first place. A simple example: do we really need to invest huge sums into getting more women into STEM whilst there… | /r/MensRights | 15/05/15 07:53 AM |
| 5 | On r/MR's patronage of other subreddits.If you actually click on the people posting the content you feel isn't in-keeping with KiA, you'll notice that they're largely coming from /r/theredpill, which is now actually larger than /r/mensrights. There's actually something of an invasion on here with lots of TRP shit creeping in. Don't know what to do about it. It's not co-ordinated or anything. But it is annoying. | /r/MensRights | 14/05/15 12:08 PM |
| 2 | Fifty percent of lesbian women experience domestic violenceWow, that's a bad article. Full of pointlessly offensive stuff like 'trannies', 'dyke', and the like. But we're not SJWs, and I respect transgender and gay people enough to know that they don't need to go watch puppy videos and play with play'doh because someone said some mean words about them. The worse thing about the article is his 'Assistant Sociology Professor'-level of wild speculation divorced from empirical reality. His 'theory' (and I use 'theory' in the same sense one would if one talk… | /r/MensRights | 09/05/15 12:34 PM |
| 14 | Can excessive gaming and porn lead to a 'crisis of masculinity'? From BBC radio!Zimbardo simply doesn't understand gaming, and it's leading him to make utterly stupid comments. To see what I mean, consider his thought that boys are stuck behind their screens, cut off from social interaction. This is simply false. Even without considering the importance of overt, IRL, social activity like gaming conventions, tournaments, etc., much gaming is inherently social in nature. It's just that the nature of the interaction is online. Now, by all means talk about the pitfalls of onlin… | /r/MensRights | 07/05/15 01:11 PM |
| 17 | What would you call the presumed innocence women are privileged with (in situations of domestic violence for instance)? There's gotta be a name for it.The "women are wonderful" effect. | /r/MensRights | 30/04/15 12:17 PM |
| 8 | Why young women out earn young men.Nicely put. The fact that women are earning more 33% more college degrees is treated as cause for celebration, entirely down to the hard work of women. But the fact that men earn 5% more given the same college, etc. is not down to men's tendency to negotiate salaries, or to push for higher-paying jobs in the first place, or any number of other confounding variables that co-vary with gender. No, no, we'll do an imaginary process of elimination, and say it's discrimination! And the thing is that w… | /r/MensRights | 20/04/15 08:59 AM |
| 12 | New York Times book review: This book like most books would of been better had a women wrote it (last paragraph).Adria Richards, a woman sitting in front of them, photographed them and reported them to organizers. No. She photographed them and put the photo up on Twitter. In no reality I know of is that "reporting them to the organizers". SJW in 'not being able to grasp basic facts' shocker... I know. | /r/MensRights | 19/04/15 10:12 AM |
| 5 | Students Support Hillary Clinton Because She is a Woman #SexismIt's a pity they couldn't find a black woman with the surname 'Bush' or 'Clinton'. That way you could pop two novelty bonuses with one hit, whilst keeping power in the hands of the elite. | /r/MensRights | 18/04/15 08:33 AM |
| 5 | Watch a man being hounded for the offence of using objective reason and statistics (the show is called free speech FFS)That's the last time they'll re-use the studio audience from Jeremy Kyle. | /r/MensRights | 17/04/15 08:39 PM |
| 7 | National Hiring Experiments Comfirmed Gynocentrism and Sexism Against Men on STEM Where Women Are 200% Perferred Over Men. The Attitude of The Researchers, However, Is Ridiculous.So, to summarise: 'We've uncovered clear evidence of sexist bias against men. This is great! Now all we need to do is to make further changes elsewhere to make them biased against men. Then, one day we will finally be able to achieve the utterly arbitrary goal of having 50:50 ratios in these particular fields.' Think about it for a moment. We're talking about jobs that people dedicate a decade of their life trying to get into, and where you're facing up against 100+ other people who want that jo… | /r/MensRights | 17/04/15 04:11 PM |
| 6 | Women candidates are favored 2 to 1 over men for tenure-track positions in the science, technology, engineering and math fieldsAnd the same (or at least similar) objections go for this study. I guess the researchers assumed that because no one particularly objected to the methodology in this oft-cited study, it wouldn't suddenly be deemed unscientific should they get different results. They clearly don't understand social science. The quality of the methodology depends on whether the results are politically convenient or not. Every social scientist knows that! | /r/MensRights | 15/04/15 09:51 AM |
| 14 | Women candidates are favored 2 to 1 over men for tenure-track positions in the science, technology, engineering and math fields“The article presents evidence of a preference for a female candidate over a male when both performance and lifestyle are identical,” he said of the new study. “This is an important finding and is in fact what I would have hoped to see.” Why? Because there's no sign of “taste-based discrimination" -- or discrimination based on gender alone. This is a paragraph you have to read over and over again to see how contradictory it is. There is evidence of gender-based discrimination. There is no eviden… | /r/MensRights | 15/04/15 09:45 AM |
| 2 | "It's commonly assumed that fem. role models improve women’s beliefs that they can be successful in STEM. The current work tests this assumption. Two experiments varied role model gender and whether role models embody computer science stereotypes. Role model gender had no effect on success beliefs."Basically what the study is telling us is that women are put off by role models conforming to the stereotypical 'nerd' image regardless of whether they are male or female. The researchers attribute this to the 'nerd' image being incompatible with the female gender role. This seems like a reasonable interpretation to me. Doubtless some will say that this is evidence of the inherent sexism of tech culture. But the problem with that idea is revealed through a simple question. Ceteris paribus, if yo… | /r/MensRights | 09/04/15 12:32 PM |
| 9 | MRA's attack Ana Kasparian for defending herself?Ana Kasparian makes a video in which she retells a story in a new way, before attacking 'MRAs' who responded negatively to her previous portrayals. In her new story, she presents an image of herself as alone, afraid, and attacked by a 'guy', whereas the earlier videos painted a picture of her being in a bad mood, and losing it at a 14-16 year-old boy who was being a right little shit (sexually harassing her), kicking him off his bicycle and repeatedly kicking him in the ribs before walking off, … | /r/MensRights | 05/04/15 07:11 PM |
| 21 | Feminists Flagged His "Gender Equality" Video, Now YouTube Is Trying to Shut Down His Channel. The Original Video Has Been Labeled As Hate Speech And Removed!To describe his compilation as men 'defending themselves' is bullshit. Many of them were flat out revenge hits, including some sucker punches. If you want to argue that a person has the right to punch someone who's just hit them even if they're no longer under attack, fine, argue for that. I doubt I'd agree, but I'm sure you can make a reasonable argument on that basis. But don't pretend it's 'self-defence'. This is exactly the same sort of narrative-spinning shit that we despise when the shoe i… | /r/MensRights | 01/04/15 08:00 AM |
| 5 | I have a problem with your reading list... It's too short.David Benatar - The Second Sexism Roy Baumeister - Is There Anything Good About Men? Jack Kammer - Good Will Toward Men All three of the Nathanson & Young books Neil Lyndon - No More Sex War Lionel Tiger - The Decline of Males Esther Vilar - The Manipulated Man I wouldn't necessarily give a full-throated recommendation about the last three, but they're worth reading. I've not read Nathanson & Young myself, but other people say they're good. The first three I can wholeheartedly recommend. | /r/MensRights | 27/03/15 01:06 PM |
| 9 | in /r/AskFeminists a poster gives a brief history of NOW's campaign to make draft laws equal between men and womenTheir own link shows why they are incorrect to laud NOW's efforts: Some in Congress believe groups like the National Women’s Political Caucus or NOW, the National Organization for Women, are the reason the Carter Administration is going through the motions. The same logic applies to NOW itself. Of course the NOW would advance this idea knowing that it stood no chance of happening, because it makes them look as if they're doing something, and enables them to counter the 'argument of entitlement' … | /r/MensRights | 27/03/15 08:08 AM |
| 4 | When Men’s Rights Activists celebrate male rage, they make murder/suicides like the one that may have brought down Germanwings Flight 9525 more likely (archive.today link)God, he really is such a slimy turd. Any normal human being sees this event and reacts with a mixture of horror and bewilderment. But not Futrelle. He sees it and thinks 'Hmm... this would make some good material for poisoning the well against the MRM and soliciting further donations for my shitty blog. The deaths of these people shall not be in vain, for they shall make me money.' | /r/MensRights | 27/03/15 07:46 AM |
| 1 | For several years feminists have been claiming that philosophy departments are biased against hiring female faculty. Finally people are looking at the data and (... surprise) the bias is actually against men.It would be pretty easy to control for this by simply cross-checking them with the citation index of the journals in which they're published. If I were to put money on it, though, my prediction is that it would make the gender bias even worse, not better. But you're absolutely right to urge caution, since there could be any number of confounders here. Perhaps it is a 'pipeline' effect? Perhaps it is an effect of the sub-disciplines men and women tend to go into? There's all sorts of reasons it c… | /r/MensRights | 24/03/15 09:10 PM |
| 4 | Is there a subreddit where men and women can come together to discuss equal rights for ALL humans?Well, there have been plenty of attempts. Warren Farrell, probably the most important MRA, started out that way before he was shut out by Steinem and the NOW. Then there have been sites like 'No seriously, what about the men?' and Feminist Critics. And /r/femradebates is another such innovation. And then there's Cathy Young and Christina Hoff-Sommers, who have both suffered the sort of ostracisation at the hands of feminists that tellingly Jessica Valenti doesn't get. All such innovations always… | /r/MensRights | 23/03/15 01:43 PM |
| 4 | Is there a subreddit where men and women can come together to discuss equal rights for ALL humans?However, what do you call women who still suffer from gender bias against them, yet who also fight against gender bias for men? Gender egalitarians. Realistically there isn't going to be any sort of 'coming together' until there has been a period of Truth and Reconciliation. Feminists do actually have to do some introspection, weed out the misandry and the man-haters, and actually apologise to all the people they've unfairly attacked over the years. A good start would be apologising for the 'Eli… | /r/MensRights | 23/03/15 01:23 PM |
| 7 | As a male victim of domestic abuse, I found this (mostly) gender neutral DV poster refreshingIt's really not helpful, though. As people apparently need to be reminded continually, most IPV is reciprocal. There are all sorts of fucked-up things that can happen in relationships, and it's rarely one-way (although of course that does happen, and it's often the most serious kind of IPV as well). It's much more common that couples, each too terrified to be alone, are locked together in a spiral of negativity that slowly escalates into emotional abuse and then physical violence. These charitie… | /r/MensRights | 21/03/15 09:13 AM |
| 34 | Male college student silenced by his professor for challenging the bogus "1 in 5 college women are raped" statistic and the idea of "rape culture"Nah, this was the best comment: The fact that he keeps pressing his views against the existence of rape culture is an example of rape culture. Compare... | /r/MensRights | 19/03/15 10:32 PM |
| 3 | Recruiting reddit feminists and MRAs for a social psychology study! (updated)Yep. Had the same issue. Those questions should be excluded from the analysis, IMO. | /r/MensRights | 19/03/15 01:07 PM |
| 3 | Recruiting reddit feminists and MRAs for a social psychology study! (updated)Yeah, tend to agree with this. I won't give too much away, but pretty much every questions talking about 'patriarchy' was a bust, because it conflates a system of gender roles (obviously true) with it necessarily benefitting men. It was very annoying because often I did want to attribute stuff to gender roles, but couldn't because it presupposed 'patriarchy', which is unevidenced, pseuciological bullshit. | /r/MensRights | 19/03/15 01:06 PM |
| -1 | Do feminists actually elevate masculinity?I'm often struck by just how little awareness there is of the way in which women wield power, but I don't think it's down to devaluing the feminine. You can account for a lot of it with 'privilege blindness' stuff (although I wouldn't call it that myself). I think a lot of women are just genuinely not aware that when men have problems, no one gives a shit. Because if you think about it, the media is saturated with the problems of high status men, and women's everyday experience is one of people … | /r/MensRights | 16/03/15 10:25 PM |
| 15 | Has Britain Become Hostile to Blokes? Brilliant response during the Big Question by Milo Yiannopoulos.Feminists: What's the big deal? All we're doing is saying how everything associated with traditional masculinity is awful, and blaming every bad thing under the sun on masculinity. And somehow you get from that to us attacking men? You don't understand feminism! | /r/MensRights | 15/03/15 07:15 PM |
| 4 | Help With Rape Culture DebateAll I can do is tell you about UK law here, but you might find it interesting. Ask a UK feminist, and they will tell you that marital rape was only criminalised in 1991. Viewed in a certain way, this is true. It is, however, grossly misleading, since cases brought to court long before this point were nonetheless successful in spite of the victim being married to the assailant. In the case in which it was 'criminalised' (which, note, is beyond the power of any court, since that is a matter for th… | /r/MensRights | 13/03/15 10:52 PM |
| 6 | Help With Rape Culture DebateNo, he's not a troll. His argument is that people make a strategic mistake in trying to argue 'rape culture' is not a thing, because 'rape culture' is actually about [insert absurdly weak definition here]. Instead they should talk about how there is a rape culture for men. The mistake he makes is always the same: he assumes that feminists are consistent in their use of the term. They are not. This is an area in which the old 'motte and bailey' tactics are used to their fullest. When feminists ar… | /r/MensRights | 13/03/15 10:37 PM |
| 18 | Is feminism inherently sexist?You have to start with the caveat that 'feminism' isn't a well-defined thing to start with, so it's impossible to talk about the properties of feminism in the same sense that you'd be talking about, say, the properties of basketball (say). With that caveat in mind, I think we can still talk meaningfully about 'feminism', because if you take a look out there the thing that binds 99% of feminism is the simple intuition that 'women are worse off'. That idea isn't inherently sexist. It is (or at lea… | /r/MensRights | 13/03/15 08:29 AM |
| 1 | Looks like American Men are Wising Up.Thanks. This looks like an interesting book in general. | /r/MensRights | 10/03/15 06:37 PM |
| 4 | Looks like American Men are Wising Up.All studies have shown that single men have significantly higher rates of social dysfunction. Interesting. Not trying to 'gotcha' you here, but do you have any links I could read? | /r/MensRights | 10/03/15 05:26 PM |
| 7 | MRA's in Germany and elsewhere should call for this professors resignation. An apology is not good enough.Hmm... Can't verify this. According to the Hindustan Times, she wrote the following in an email to them: Unfortunately, this mail was a misunderstanding. Of course, I have nothing against male Indians and I have accepted several Indian students in the past. Currently, two male Indian students work in a lab course with me in my labs. | /r/MensRights | 10/03/15 01:22 PM |
| 13 | MRA's in Germany and elsewhere should call for this professors resignation. An apology is not good enough.Racism is tricky because India is not a race. And it's clear that she's OK with Indian women applying in any case. But not sexist? Come on! Her actions are textbook sexist discrimination - she's judging someone purely on the basis of their sex, and treating them poorly because of it. | /r/MensRights | 10/03/15 12:59 PM |
| 10 | MRA's in Germany and elsewhere should call for this professors resignation. An apology is not good enough.Professor Margret Wintermantel of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) said in a statement on Monday that the Leipzig case was a "regrettable one-off and apparently a huge misunderstanding" Note that there's evidence (unverified at the moment, so be cautious) she's done this before. So it's likely not a 'one-off' case. There needs to be a full inquiry as to this professor's behaviour. Her emails will be available to her IT department, and these things can be verified. If they are verified… | /r/MensRights | 10/03/15 12:49 PM |
| 3 | If you smile at a woman, that's sexist. If you don't smile, that's sexist, too.To some women, everything a man does is wrong. Fortunately, most women are pretty cool. | /r/MensRights | 10/03/15 10:16 AM |
| 2 | German Professor denies internship to Indian man because of India's "Rape Problem"This is one of those occasions where the sheer bewilderment (as to how a professor could be so monumentally pig-shit ignorant) blocks the sense of outrage (over her immensely bigoted, borgifying behaviour). You can't even get angry because it's just so hard to imagine that a professor could be this dumb. | /r/MensRights | 09/03/15 07:27 PM |
| 2 | Should Men Have A Voice In The Abortion Debate?The underlying problem here is people continue to conceptualise abortion as merely an issue of control of one's own body. It is from there that they think it's an issue of women doing what they want with their own body, and that it has nothing to do with men. There are stronger arguments one can use in response, but they require considerable elaboration. The following, weak argument is sufficient as a response, and that is to note that abortion is a medical or surgical intervention, and needs to… | /r/MensRights | 08/03/15 07:05 AM |
| 15 | BBC: "Clever girls, stupid boys" education gender gap continues to widen and leave boys behind, but it doesn't really matter because it's probably mostly their fault anyway.The OECD Report pdf itself is required reading as far as I'm concerned. Spend an hour or so going through it. Perhaps it's just me as an educator, but I found it fascinating. Some of the most interesting findings for me were: boys tend to improve more dramatically than girls when classrooms move from more chaotic environments to ordered environments, suggesting that they are more easily distracted. girls tend to be worse at problem-solving, especially with questions like "Anna is twice as old as… | /r/MensRights | 05/03/15 08:32 PM |
| 10 | Men's pay has 'fallen more than women's in real terms'It's the same with intergenerational points. As soon as you point out that the boomer generation have systematically shafted future generations with a policy of 'borrowing it forward', people say 'Boo! Divide and rule!' It's not divide and rule; it's empirical reality. You can only massively expand money debt once, and it was that lot who did it. At our expense. | /r/MensRights | 04/03/15 09:50 PM |
| 7 | BBC News - A woman who had sex with a 15-year-old schoolboy has been warned she "could" face jail. - Glad to know jail is optional for female rapists!Meanwhile... | /r/MensRights | 02/03/15 08:27 PM |
| 4 | Mike Buchanan in a debate about sexual consent on the BBC's 'The Big Questions': 1 March 2015I really feel that no.1 point here has to be the following: we keep making these points about ascertaining consent in the context of it being solely the responsibility of men. Mike should ask the female audience directly: how many of you actually take active steps to ascertain consent? Because you seem quite happy to brand men who behave exactly like you as 'rapists'. When women are held to the same standards as men, then we can talk. Until then, we will see huge vested interests from women, kno… | /r/MensRights | 02/03/15 09:32 AM |
| 2 | Have The Guardian, Buzzfeed, the Huffington Post etc *always* been riddled with SJW, misandrist crap or have they become significantly worse over the last year or two?My theory: the change at The Guardian is largely down to the disillusionment following the Iraq War and the embarrassment that was Occupy. The Left was gone. Blair had destroyed it. All that was left was neoliberal shit. So what happened is that to avoid the cognitive dissonance of realising that the things that they actually believed in and really mattered (combatting wealth inequality) had gone to shit, the Left had to reinvent itself so as to feel relevant. So they played right into the hands… | /r/MensRights | 27/02/15 07:40 AM |
| 9 | Men rate women's beauty on a bell curve - deemed "abnormal"; Women rate most men as "unattractive", article says it's because "looks... matter far less to women than to men"women are rating the lumpy, bulky bodies of men The same bodies that the Greeks idolised? Also, wouldn't we see the same pattern amongst gay men if the difference were down to what you're saying? | /r/MensRights | 30/01/15 08:00 AM |
| 6 | Article makes men's rights activists to be "haters and trolls" who inspire misogynist-motivated real-life killings of women. On a positive note they publish Warren Farrells response!Uncanny. It's like one was in the room talking to me. | /r/MensRights | 28/01/15 09:14 PM |
| 3 | Article makes men's rights activists to be "haters and trolls" who inspire misogynist-motivated real-life killings of women. On a positive note they publish Warren Farrells response!No. Feminists don't use the word 'and'. They say 'intersection'. It's about the closest they ever come to set theory. | /r/MensRights | 28/01/15 09:06 PM |
| 3 | Promoted comment: Why do we spend so long bashing feminism?No one cares about the definition. We care about the reality on the ground. To understand the reality on the ground, the political reality, I want you to think of two feminists: One writes a book documenting the disadvantaging of boys, and is continually enjoining her fellow feminists to rely on hard, empirical data. One writes a column continually belittling men and the issues they face. Which one do you think will face the campaign on Wikipedia to have her described as 'anti-feminist'? When yo… | /r/MensRights | 28/01/15 10:49 AM |
| 6 | Jonathan Kay (Canadian journalist) on freedom of speech on campus - 'Militant identity politics have replaced religion'.What's great about this particular show is that it moves straight from Charlie Hebdo and the way in which Islamists seek to cower people into silence to (one) way freedom of expression is curtailed in the West - through infiltrating academic institutions and trying to get stuff you disagree with defined as 'hate speech' and taken off campus to make it 'safe' (oh no, WORDS! Someone protect me from the words!). The relevance of this to the MRM should be obvious, since this has been precisely the s… | /r/MensRights | 20/01/15 07:06 PM |
| 5 | Female judge takes male teacher's side in sex with pupil caseSpeaking in crass generalities, you're likely dealing with a girl with massive daddy issues. She is trading sex to get a father figure in her life. The problem is that it's not real. The teacher only becomes a father figure because of the artificial structure of authority and trust that the teaching profession provides. It's like a short-cut wherein he feels 'safe' to her simply because of the institutional apparatus supporting him. So when everything goes wrong, which it always does, she comes … | /r/MensRights | 15/01/15 06:59 PM |
| 1 | Feminists are wrong, UK judge rules male circumcision can be more harmful than FGMWould probably have been better if they'd mentioned type Ia (removal of the prepuce, the 'flap of skin' (ooh, euphemisms) protecting the exposed part of the clitoris (the glans) rather than type IV, which is a catch-all category. Type Ia isn't as common as Type II, but it is relatively widely-practised nonetheless. (Just in case anyone didn't know, the clitoris extends well into the body, and is Y-shaped (see bottom right of this fascinating, SFW image). Thus, there is no FGM procedure that lite… | /r/MensRights | 15/01/15 10:09 AM |
| 3 | While so many feminists claim that women are the victims of misogyny, a woman's life was spared during the Charlie Hebdo killings, because the terrorists said that they 'don't kill women' - only men.Charlie Hebdo was an infidel. Charlie Hebdo isn't a person. The name ultimately derives from Charlie Brown, the Peanut's character. 'Hebdo' is simply short for 'weekly'. | /r/MensRights | 15/01/15 09:56 AM |
| 16 | Elastic heart: this video is being condemned as pedophilia. Yeah, there's no demonization of males as sex monsters in this culture, right?It's funny. People see two people dancing inside a giant cage, and it somehow escapes them that they might be watching something symbolic. | /r/MensRights | 11/01/15 08:52 PM |
| 2 | Underrage teenagers get drunk and have oral sex. Teacher intervention leaves boy dead.I honestly don't care about this beyond being technically correct (the best kind of correct!), but just FYI, you're using a widely-used quote for which no one knows the source. It's also quite misleading because 'corporatism' did not mean what it means today: “Corporations” were not individual businesses. Under fascist corporatism, sectors of the economy were divided into corporate groups, whose activities and interactions were managed and coordinated by the government. The idea was to split the… | /r/MensRights | 11/01/15 04:29 PM |
| 1 | Before believing the sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby, read thisTrue, but the Met investigated and didn't have any doubts about the veracity of literally hundreds of claims. There's a possibility they could all be wrong, I suppose, much in the same way that there's a possibility 9/11 was actually organised by the CIA, but since Savile is dead now (and thus 'innocent until proven guilty' is irrelevant) it's simply a matter of going with the probabilities. Do you have any substantive doubts that he was a mass rapist? I don't, personally. Nor does his family, w… | /r/MensRights | 20/12/14 02:20 PM |
| 9 | Before believing the sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby, read thisBe careful here. We know from Jimmy Savile that a lot of fakers tacked on to the investigation (many of the allegations were, in fact, pure fantasy). But that doesn't mean Savile was innocent. We know he was guilty on several counts. Plus, we don't actually know these women are false accusers either. Certainly the info doesn't look good, but that's exactly the same logic that's being applied to Cosby. Please stick to the only justified position at this stage - we don't know if the allegations ar… | /r/MensRights | 20/12/14 07:39 AM |
| 5 | UCAS 2014 Report (pdf) - "18 year old women a third more likely to enter higher education than men." (p.91)I recommend looking at the data as well. They seem to suggest the following broad picture: The difference is across the board. There are only 7 out of 650 parliamentary constituencies where the female entry rate (i.e. the number of women going to university) is lower than the male rate. The difference is most marked when it comes to applying to lower tariff universities (i.e. Anglia Ruskin University, Bedfordshire University, etc.). Look at this graph from p.93. The difference is also more marke… | /r/MensRights | 19/12/14 09:36 AM |
| 5 | The Guardian has printed the most absolute piece of fucking garbage I've ever read. "The Year Women got Even."Yeah, I couldn't get outraged about this article. It's just another brick in the wall. But I did like the bit where she talks about making cushions from women. The penny dropped for me. Ah! That's why you hate men so much! I think we'd all hate a group of people if we thought that they made cushions out of dead, human, adult females. Someone needs to tell men (bloody men, eh?) that the whole point of women is that they don't need to be slaughtered to provide cushioning: they're built with dirty … | /r/MensRights | 17/12/14 09:19 PM |
| 5 | Just a little Christmas reminder of how batshit insane Anita Sarkeesian is (warning: use a blocker for her video)I love this video, and it deserves to be rated as Sarkeesian's most notable contribution to internet culture. It's the juxtaposition between the insignificance of the material and her dead-pan serious tone, as if she's slaying cultural dragons. There's so many good bits, and you notice new ones each time. I just noticed the bit where, having argued that when a woman sings 'All I want for Christmas is you' is all about perpetuating the 'a woman needs a man myth', she decides that a man singing th… | /r/MensRights | 11/12/14 09:50 AM |
| 4 | So these posters are thing in men's toilets in the UK, now. (There also isn't a counterpart in the womens' toilets)Is this your photo, OP? If so, may I recommend lodging a complaint with the Independent Police Complaints Commission? Northumbria Police should not be misleading the public on the law like this. There will be plenty of men (and I only say 'men' because of the location of the posters) out there who will read this and then go on to believe that they are rapists because they've had drunk sex. That is misinformation that is likely to cause some men emotional harm. As such, it is completely unaccepta… | /r/MensRights | 30/11/14 06:59 PM |
| 6 | So these posters are thing in men's toilets in the UK, now. (There also isn't a counterpart in the womens' toilets)No. Consent is defined in England & Wales as 'Agreement by choice, and the freedom and capacity to make that choice.' Whether or not someone is so drunk they have lost that capacity is something that is established on a case-by-case basis. There is nothing in statute to suggest that merely being drunk means you can't consent to sex. EDIT: The poster is thus deliberately misleading the public on the law. Anyone who sees it in real life can lodge a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authorit… | /r/MensRights | 30/11/14 06:26 PM |
| 6 | "#Shirtgate: Feminist heckles heard from outer space"But think about how much it annoys the right people! It drives them up the wall that, having made the criteria for what counts as a 'feminist' as empty as possible, they can't now establish she's not a feminist. | /r/MensRights | 25/11/14 08:50 PM |
| 4 | The rise of the Stepford StudentsYou have to listen to the audio. It is unbelievable. She's an English Portlandia feminist bookstore owner. | /r/MensRights | 20/11/14 09:39 PM |
| 11 | [Meta] The top 100 posts by subject on /r/feminism and /r/mensrightsThere's a problem in the US and UK education systems at the moment where we are expecting unrealistic amounts of 'sitting still and shutting up', with not enough time allocated for breaks and physical education. Thus, boys develop disciplinary problems because the education system does not work for them, and are thus much more likely to be diagnosed as having ADHD when the reality is that they would be able to cope in a different environment. | /r/MensRights | 19/11/14 04:47 PM |
| 11 | [Meta] The top 100 posts by subject on /r/feminism and /r/mensrightsI know what you mean. There's not a lot to discuss sometimes. Kids deserve to have fathers in their lives. Thus, there should be a presumption of shared custody. Consent to sex is not consent to parenthood. Thus, men should not be presumed to be consenting to becoming a father when having sex. The sentencing disparity shouldn't exist. Selective service should be equalised one way or the other. Boys have a right to an education that works for boys, and shouldn't be drugged until they behave like … | /r/MensRights | 18/11/14 03:44 PM |
| 21 | [Meta] The top 100 posts by subject on /r/feminism and /r/mensrightsWe know how this will get spun - "/r/mensrights doesn't talk about men's rights". Let's pre-empt this by making sure that people understand that many of the causes are men's rights causes. 'Men's rights' here is functioning as a catch-all category where a subject didn't fit nicely into, e.g. 'sexism', 'violence', 'rape law', or 'parental rights'. | /r/MensRights | 18/11/14 10:31 AM |
| 1 | There's a New [?] Prudishness in Feminism and I Hate ItWhy do I get the feeling that, were it not for the fact that this woman is proud of her tits (and good for her. More expressions of women loving their body are always welcome as far as I'm concerned), she would be one of the prudes she herein decries? In twenty years' time, when gravity and time have done their thing, as they do to all of us, will she suddenly discover that everything she said before was 'problematic'? Also - the hilariousness of: I want no part in any feminism that takes "We kn… | /r/MensRights | 15/11/14 09:10 AM |
| 1 | Feminist is topping Time's worst word poll at 46%lol. (I know what you're going to say next!) | /r/MensRights | 13/11/14 01:19 PM |
| 2 | Feminist is topping Time's worst word poll at 46%They so should have included 'problematic'. Every time I see that it's now like fingernails on a blackboard. | /r/MensRights | 13/11/14 10:27 AM |
| 1 | Dapper Laughs: On the Pull axed by ITV2 after dating show criticised for encouraging rape and normalising sexismCan't say I'll miss it, but I wish they could just have axed it on the grounds that it wasn't funny. It didn't feel like he was 'taking risks' in the slightest, but that he'd produced one of the laziest 'comedy' shows imaginable. | /r/MensRights | 11/11/14 08:14 PM |
| 1 | Political Compass poll continued.Economic Left/Right: -7.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.26 | /r/MensRights | 02/11/14 08:29 PM |
| 1 | Feminists in my country are launching a petition to put this kind of stickers in our subway (English translation on the bottom left). They call opening legs when seated "sexual violence".IJLTH: http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/submit-a-note/ | /r/MensRights | 01/11/14 10:26 AM |
| 2 | "Sex is consent to parenthood for the male, but not necessarily for the female"I love the way the biological fact of gestation translates into being able to avoid telling the father about the existence of the child, and then give it up for adoption after the child is already born. Completely logical argument there. Let's be clear about this: the underlying issue here isn't biological. It is the fact that legal paternity is contingent on the choices of the mother. This is a legal thing that could quite easily be changed. At the moment, if a woman decides not to inform anyon… | /r/MensRights | 01/11/14 10:14 AM |
| 2 | Feminists et al. find it impossible to believe that street harassment -- like every other social pathology -- is more prevalent among disadvantaged peopleI was making a point not so much on the quantity, but the particular quality of it. There was always a bogeyman, and that's the key difference. The alleged false consciousness was imposed on women by men. The alleged false consciousness of men is self-imposed. Because of this broader 'woman are the victims' view, it also limited the scope of the examination of femininity. So you really won't find much work, for instance, on how women use covert aggression in domestic abuse, or how women emotiona… | /r/MensRights | 31/10/14 09:47 PM |
| 3 | Feminists et al. find it impossible to believe that street harassment -- like every other social pathology -- is more prevalent among disadvantaged peopleI think femininity came under attack during second wave of feminism Not really, because the narrative was always that certain aspects of femininity were imposed by men. It was always couched in terms of something other. Even where it got nastiest - attacks on the role of motherhood itself, it was always 'Men put you in this position to exploit your labour'. Women weren't ever blamed. The closest anyone came to a moment of actual honesty about the way women create the problems they then complain … | /r/MensRights | 31/10/14 07:04 PM |
| 2 | Feminists et al. find it impossible to believe that street harassment -- like every other social pathology -- is more prevalent among disadvantaged peopleThanks for the reply. You're certainly correct that the article isn't as poisonous as it might first appear. His argument is subtler than a simple 'masculinity - boo!' I'm not sure what you mean by 'egalitarian' here. The relevant sense would be gender egalitarianism (i.e. the principle that men and women ought to be more equal according to some metric). To be a 'gender egalitarian' presupposes stable categories of gender. What this guy is preaching is gender eliminativism. He wants to eliminate… | /r/MensRights | 31/10/14 05:12 PM |
| 7 | Feminists et al. find it impossible to believe that street harassment -- like every other social pathology -- is more prevalent among disadvantaged peopleThere's no such thing as the feminist definition of toxic masculinity. Even if there was, it's about how people use the term, and in general, popular feminist usage, it is used as an indictment of masculinity in toto, rather than as a contrastive term. Here is a perfect example of the sort of naked bigotry that feminists get away with when it comes to talking about masculinity. | /r/MensRights | 31/10/14 04:02 PM |
| 2 | Saying Hi To a Woman = Harassment?what is your definition of harassment that someone doing something that is annoying as fuck that they know is annoying as fuck is not harassment? If they know that it will be annoying, then yes it is harassment. But that is exactly what is in question. Imagine you're a street vendor. You don't know if the person walking in your direction has been on the street for 2 minutes or 20. You don't know if it will be perceived as annoying or harmless. Thus, you cannot be said to know that it will be ann… | /r/MensRights | 30/10/14 08:23 PM |
| 14 | BBC white knight merely parrots Gamergate lies without digging into the facts. Please complain.I agree that this article, on its own, does contravene BBC editorial guidelines on impartiality. But be careful. It probably isn't going to be the last article on the subject. Dave Lee, the journalist responsible, is actually canvassing interviews from GG people. He should probably have done this before he wrote the piece, in truth, but I think people ought to know this anyway. | /r/MensRights | 30/10/14 08:06 PM |
| 3 | Saying Hi To a Woman = Harassment?Anyone hassling you is harassment. That is tautologous. Street vendors approaching you politely and saying 'hello, are you interested in buying...?' is quite clearly not harassment. It may, however, be as annoying as fuck if it's the 5th time it's happened in 10 minutes. Categorising things that aren't harassment as 'harassment' just gets everyone's backs up. If we focus, however, on the pragmatic issue of 'Whatever you call it, it sucks. How can we sort this out?', you get people on board. | /r/MensRights | 30/10/14 05:54 PM |
| 3 | A 52 year old mother's take on Gamergate, SJW, and FeminismStop making feminism about victimhood. She seems rather late to the party. It's a good video, and she makes several very strong arguments, but I don't think she has the first notion just how different things are nowadays. I'd love it if more 'cultural feminists' or 'intersectional feminists' listened to her, but we know by now that they're not going to. The reason is simple: there's money and power in victimhood. That sounds paradoxical, but it isn't. If you can convince other people to expend r… | /r/MensRights | 24/10/14 03:18 PM |
| 5 | Here's a curious thing - remember how the Ferengi-like use of 'females' is supposed to be an indicator of sexism? Look at the word usage in the infamous '1 in 5' 2007 Campus Sexual Assault study.Here's the original study if you want to check the data for yourself. My point here, in case anyone seeks to jump down my throat, is not that this is good evidence Krebs et al are sexist bigots. My point is that, if you accept the idea that the use of 'females' when you should be using 'women' is sexist and unacceptable, you are forced, on pain of logical inconsistency, to find the Krebs study just as 'problematic', since they're quite happy using 'males' but not 'females'. | /r/MensRights | 14/10/14 12:20 PM |
| 12 | On a positive note, my university does a good job addressing both female and male rape in their signs around campusYou just phrased what you were saying poorly. Here's how to phrase it in future: A person who makes the decision to drink alcohol, a mind-altering drug, is thereby accepting responsibility for the choices they make whilst under the influence of that drug. This in no way entails that a crime cannot be committed against them, since that is not a choice they make. A person who is raped whilst drunk bears no blame for that violation. A person who chooses to have sex whilst drunk, however, has not be… | /r/MensRights | 13/10/14 08:19 PM |
| 13 | So Why does Cracked Constantly Push Feminist Propaganda? -[They answer on Tumblr]This should cheer people up. | /r/MensRights | 23/09/14 06:47 PM |
| 3 | "It is more important to have women in technology because women want to solve different problems - the kind that are life changing."Michael Collins was the first beta male orbiter. | /r/MensRights | 01/09/14 12:07 PM |
| 1 | This is what feminists on Wikipedia look like when they are blocking editors on subjects they are patrolling to keep NPOV from interfering with their ideological narrative.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD,_revert,_discuss_cycle | /r/MensRights | 31/08/14 02:32 PM |
| 10 | The abrasiveness trap: High-achieving men and women are described differently in reviewsI asked men and women in tech if they would be willing to share their reviews for a study and didn’t stipulate anything else. I figured only strong performers would be willing to share and was most interested in looking at the critical feedback that these strong performers had received. The reviews I collected were almost all positive. This renders it pretty much meaningless, unfortunately. You simply can't have a self-selecting sample in the context of a politically-charged issue. For all we kn… | /r/MensRights | 27/08/14 03:13 PM |
| 2 | Get a load of this bullshit: r/relationships LITERALLY just encouraged a guy to walk into divorce-rape.I agree that the top comment is very WTF. Please just be aware that the story is very likely a thathappened.txt. Read the 'update' if you're not convinced. What are the chances of these events happening and someone deciding that the best thing to do is to post on /r/relationships? | /r/MensRights | 26/08/14 10:13 AM |
| 8 | Interesting stats and proof that men get more online harrasment than women.You can download the spreadsheet (XLSX file) or read their findings here. I'll quote the juicy bit: An analysis of 2 million tweets by the think tank Demos reveals that male public figures are several times more likely than women to receive abuse on Twitter. The think-tank analysed 2,006,616 tweets over a two-week period that were sent to a selection of the most prominent and widely-followed public figures on Twitter. The study included celebrities, politicians, journalists and musicians – speci… | /r/MensRights | 24/08/14 08:02 PM |
| 21 | The Young Turks' Cenk and Ana talking about War Machine writing about men's oppression, which is some crazy stuff comparing what is happening to men to the oppression of Jews and pre-civil liberties bDude, grow a sack, man. Just be a man, right, and just be calm and live your life and be in control without having to assault other people and without having to denigrate others... This is literally the next sentence after he says this: Isn't it ironic that the toughest guys... OH MEN'S RIGHTS!... are the ones who cry the most? OH MEN'S... WE'RE VICTIMS! [fake crying] OH POOR MEN WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO US? WOMEN CONTROL OUR LIVES! [fake crying] boohoohoohoohoo. We're worse off than the Jews and t… | /r/MensRights | 21/08/14 10:41 AM |
| 2 | women-only car lanes.That's gotta be embarrassing for the Washington Examiner. What absolute clowns! You know things are bad when you're getting outwitted by Reddit. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/14 06:21 PM |
| 2 | women-only car lanes.Yes, it changed very recently. It was a ruling from the European Court of Justice in 2012. | /r/MensRights | 19/08/14 06:18 PM |
| 7 | Fuck I'm tired of life(wife and kids)You seem monumentally disillusioned and fed up. It must look like an endless trudge to you, and you must feel very trapped. The constant pain from your back can't help, as well - that shit can really grind you down. You really do sound very low, and I feel for you. What you're going through looks like hell from what I'm reading. I can't really give you proper advice because I don't have the experience you have, but can I ask - have you considered seeing a counsellor? It feels to me like you can'… | /r/MensRights | 17/08/14 08:39 PM |
| 0 | Yes, Katy Perry, Babies Need DaddiesWhy is it selfish to put your own interests ahead of your child's? If that question does not answer itself for you, no answer will be of any benefit to you. Oh give over. Every parent who sends their kids to bed an hour early so they can have a moment to themselves is being 'selfish' by that standard. You don't need to be the best parent possible. You just need to be good enough. Unless you're arguing that a single parent can't reach that standard, what's your point? That she should break every … | /r/MensRights | 15/08/14 08:36 PM |
| 0 | Yes, Katy Perry, Babies Need DaddiesThat may very well be, but it is sick and selfish of her to frame the situation that way. That's something you'd need to argue, not merely assert. My best friend was raised entirely by his mother. He's turned out pretty damn well (much better than me, in fact, and I had both my parents until I was 17). So I already know it's perfectly possible for a single mother to do a good job by herself on a miniscule fraction of the amount of the resources available to Katy Perry. Why is it 'selfish', let a… | /r/MensRights | 15/08/14 07:14 PM |
| 5 | Yes, Katy Perry, Babies Need DaddiesCan't say I like this article. First off, it's obviously just using Katy Perry as a kicking-off point. What Katy Perry said was so unobjectionable that it barely even needs commenting on. I'm pretty sure Katy Perry, with the resources at her disposal, could do a kick-ass job of being a mother, with or without a father around. She's got a brother, anyway, and I dare say she has stacks of male friends who can be a positive male influence on her child's life. And then there's grandparents. Obama di… | /r/MensRights | 15/08/14 04:16 PM |
| 12 | Guardian comment moderators: Disagreeing with a woman, or mentioning men's issues, is 'abuse'Pretty amused that this article came out after I'd analysed moderation at CIF in 2014. Probably a coincidence, but still... I was surprised no one has referenced it on there. Chipping in with the 88% female authorship on 'gender' would be a pretty devastating point to counter the narrative being pushed. I take it that we've all pretty much given up on The Guardian on here? | /r/MensRights | 11/08/14 01:34 PM |
| 2 | Moderation Rates above 10% on 'Gender' Topics at The Guardian's 'Comment is Free'In this case, I would say it's very common for people to get moderated and nothing else happen. I never went into 'pre-moderation', for instance, but got my comments deleted many, many times. | /r/MensRights | 10/08/14 09:01 PM |
| 6 | Moderation Rates above 10% on 'Gender' Topics at The Guardian's 'Comment is Free'Yep. I've seen that happen myself. They delete huge swathes of discussion sometimes, especially when people start quoting things that got deleted. | /r/MensRights | 10/08/14 06:11 PM |
| 7 | Moderation Rates above 10% on 'Gender' Topics at The Guardian's 'Comment is Free'Did you ever just try talking about genital mutilation without the modifier? Just talk about how awful it is that in this day and age people chop bits off children's bodies. I wonder if that throws them into a bit of cognitive dissonance. They know what you're hinting at, and yet they can't possibly justify the thought that it's off-topic... | /r/MensRights | 10/08/14 05:22 PM |
| 3 | Moderation Rates above 10% on 'Gender' Topics at The Guardian's 'Comment is Free'Can confirm. It's because we don't put fluoride in our water. Fluoride is known for its anti-brainwashing properties. | /r/MensRights | 10/08/14 04:03 PM |
| 6 | Moderation Rates above 10% on 'Gender' Topics at The Guardian's 'Comment is Free'You can determine that moderation is going on simply by looking at the figures I've provided. Whether it was justified or not is of course a separate question, and you're right - you can't evaluate this from what I've provided. A good idea (an opportunity for activism, you might say) would be for someone to create a bot that monitored The Guardian in real time and made a log of all their moderation decisions. Something like this could then even be rolled out to other media sites, and an index of… | /r/MensRights | 10/08/14 03:59 PM |
| 1 | Do You Consider Abortion To Be An MRA Issue?Depends on what you mean by 'have a say'. You could make an argument that he ought to have the right to be informed (not sure about this one), but ultimately it has to be her decision because it's her body. She has a human right to bodily integrity here, and that trumps all other considerations. Remember that the other side of this 'it's not fair men have no control' is that men don't bleed every month for 40-odd years, and don't have to endure pregnancy and the aftermath, with all the back-ache… | /r/MensRights | 07/08/14 08:48 AM |
| 5 | Who’s Lying, Who’s Self-Justifying? - talk by Dr. Carol TarvisTavris, OP. This video is superb, incidentally, especially the latter half. She goes through a forthcoming book chapter by Deborah Davis and Richard Leo called 'Honest false testimony'. The basic problem alluded to is that we suck at remembering things, especially when emotions run high, and especially when alcohol is involved. It's extremely important MRAs as well as feminists grasp this. There really are genuinely tragic cases where someone gets accused of rape by someone who really believes t… | /r/MensRights | 06/08/14 05:50 PM |
| 2 | Throwing domestic violence victims to the wolves (brilliant work by Ally Fogg debunking false feminist claims about serves for male victims)Holy shit. 74 out of 406 comments removed. That's an 18% comment deletion rate! That makes this subject officially more controversial than Gaza! This one on Warsi's resignation over Gaza has a 13% rate. Even that is exceedingly high. Normally, articles rarely go above 3%, and almost never go above 5%. The one on Scottish independence, for instance has a 0.6% rate, and the one on leaving the EU has a 0% rate. This is pretty typical. | /r/MensRights | 06/08/14 08:25 AM |
| 2 | Shoe0nHead's new video : Response to Vocativ's Street Harassment video.Nah. She does look like her, though, I agree. | /r/MensRights | 05/08/14 08:01 AM |
| 11 | Women of the Men's Rights MovementThank you Alex. This was actually very good. It's possibly the first time I've seen some actual journalism on the MRM. You don't slip into lazy clichés, and at the same time you keep your distance. I agree, FWIW, that the use of gendered slurs is definitely something that should be avoided, and not merely for PR reasons. I guess that women of the MRM can get away with a bit more, but still, I'd prefer it if they didn't use such language. It's one thing to be provocative; it's another thing entir… | /r/MensRights | 04/08/14 03:08 PM |
| 4 | How feminists (and other ideologues) view ideology as a way to illuminate the backwards world in ways that rationalism cannotFeminist 'theory' for dummies: Evidence Filter Interpretation X => Patriarchy! not-X => Patriarchy! | /r/MensRights | 04/08/14 12:57 PM |
| 2 | I wish more women would say this: Bad sex is not rape.By omission, yes, but not explicitly. She could have said 'teach people not to rape', or 'teach men and women not to rape', but the fact that she omits those more egalitarian choices of words does not necessarily mean one can assume the misandric default is her whole position. Well, look, I wouldn't jump down her throat and call her a 'shitlord'. If I hear someone say this in real life, I will gently rephrase in a gender neutral way. Nonetheless, the meaning of the phrase is misandric. The idea … | /r/MensRights | 02/08/14 01:51 PM |
| 2 | I wish more women would say this: Bad sex is not rape.Yes. That would be misogynistic. The idea that women need to be singled out for the instruction not to lie is characteristic of a generalised distrust of women. | /r/MensRights | 02/08/14 01:48 PM |
| 1 | I wish more women would say this: Bad sex is not rape.The phrase also has roots in flipping victim blaming around to show how offensive it can be. It's 'roots' come from a typical SJW overreaction to a policeman making a good faith (but very clumsy and not terribly useful) attempt to advise women on their safety. Literally no one was going around telling women what to wear. Having blown the clumsiness of his advice out of all proportion, feminists then used this as a justification for putting forward sexist crap of their own. I see no reason whatso… | /r/MensRights | 02/08/14 12:50 PM |
| 0 | I wish more women would say this: Bad sex is not rape.'Teach men not to rape' is misandry. | /r/MensRights | 02/08/14 11:57 AM |
| 6 | I wish more women would say this: Bad sex is not rape.How was this a "solid piece"? May I recommend reading the following section again?: Yes, we must teach men not to rape, but it’s not as simple as that. In order to end sexual violence, a number of strategies must be employed and to talk about them too often gets incorrectly dismissed as victim blaming. Men should be encouraged to take more active roles in the fight against sexual violence. Sex should be discussed in terms that describe a shared perspective rather than as something that is done t… | /r/MensRights | 02/08/14 08:57 AM |
| 5 | STUDY: "Husband's behavior rated as more likely to be psychologically abusive and more severe in nature than the wife's use of the same actions."Read Sorenson, S., & Taylor, C. (2005) 'Female aggression toward male intimate partners: An examination of social norms in a community-based sample'. in Psychology of Women Quarterly. Consistent with prior research, we found that men's violence against their female intimates is judged more harshly than women's violence against their male intimates. In this study, women's violence against a male intimate was judged to be less wrong than men's violence against a female intimate as well as less lik… | /r/MensRights | 01/08/14 05:23 PM |
| 2 | Anti-Male Bias Within The American Psychological AssociationYou talk about all these things as if they happen in a political vacuum. They don't. Read Dutton. | /r/MensRights | 01/08/14 08:29 AM |
| 3 | Feminists go after Richard Dawkins.If that's what he'd intended, I think he could have made if far clearer. He did make it far clearer. He clarified it in a blog post and linked to it on his Twitter. The only way anyone can be pissed off with him is by deliberately ignoring what he actually wrote. | /r/MensRights | 31/07/14 07:27 PM |
| 7 | The Absurdity of "Toxic Masculinity" Messaging- ITT we'll discussI don't think the term refers to masculinity in and of itself. The problem is, dude, that it typically is used in that way, at least in a popular setting. Whatever noble intentions you might wish to preserve for it, I don't see any hope of it shedding the negative connotations it has picked up from the hands of feminists. If you're interested, you can read my post about this. Besides, what are the elements of 'toxic masculinity'? It seems to me many supposedly 'toxic' elements can quite easily b… | /r/MensRights | 31/07/14 05:54 PM |
| 1 | Feminists go after Richard Dawkins.https://hellojaime.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/lk.gif | /r/MensRights | 31/07/14 08:53 AM |
| 7 | Feminists go after Richard Dawkins.Well, for the logical example to work well, the second thing needs to clearly be worse. No it doesn't. Imagine someone says: Drinking Tabasco sauce is painful. Eating a tablespoon of cinnamon is worse. It is still the case that this person isn't endorsing the drinking of Tabasco sauce. No matter how similar in harm the two things are, the point still holds that saying one is worse still doesn't amount to an endorsement of the other. That was all Dawkins was saying. | /r/MensRights | 31/07/14 08:49 AM |
| 5 | Anti-Male Bias Within The American Psychological AssociationThat was just a check to see if the two sets of forms were comparable (which they were). They do actually talk about the relevant issue on p.448, though: However, three of the most severe items were among those with the different severity ratings, and while it appears that the psychologists clearly felt they had to label these items as psychologically abusive based on their content, they rated a wife's actions as less severe than a husband's actions for the following items: "Threatened to hurt s… | /r/MensRights | 30/07/14 10:22 PM |
| 10 | Anti-Male Bias Within The American Psychological AssociationLet me see if I can summarise your objection. We're seeing clinicians categorise certain things as 'psychological abuse' when it's husband on wife a lot more than they do when it's wife on husband. Your purported explanation is that clinicians are in effect evaluating the likely effect on the partner in question, and judging, in effect, that wives in any such scenario are more likely to be significantly adversely affected, and are thereby more likely to label the action as 'psychological abuse'.… | /r/MensRights | 30/07/14 07:20 PM |
| 2 | Anti-Male Bias Within The American Psychological AssociationWatch this and tell me you're not impressed. | /r/MensRights | 30/07/14 05:48 PM |
| 7 | Anti-Male Bias Within The American Psychological AssociationNah. Go on there. It's not like that at all. /r/psychology is remarkably SJW-free. Just the other day someone posted an article critical of evo-psych from 2006, and it barely generated any interest, with someone merely wryly noting that the title was hyperbolic. | /r/MensRights | 30/07/14 05:42 PM |
| 2 | Anti-Male Bias Within The American Psychological AssociationI doubt the rot is that widespread. I think it's much more likely that you've got a few areas of interest within Psychology that have a heavy feminist bias, mainly because it was feminists that drove interest in that area of study in the first place, and they are rather proprietary about it. | /r/MensRights | 30/07/14 05:39 PM |
| 5 | Anti-Male Bias Within The American Psychological AssociationSo basically, men seeking mental health help are not taken seriously? No. That doesn't follow. The point is that professionals appear to be themselves operating with gendered scripts in terms of their relative willingness to associate abuse with men. That doesn't entail that clinicians wouldn't be able to perform their job adequately, since it's entirely possible that that script operates entirely at a superficial level and is easily brushed aside once a clinical relationship is established. You… | /r/MensRights | 30/07/14 05:35 PM |
| 7 | Anti-Male Bias Within The American Psychological AssociationI'm leaving them be for a bit. I get a bit carried away sometimes and I don't think it helps the community. I think /r/feMRAdebates needs more people who aren't as hostile to contemporary feminism as I am. | /r/MensRights | 30/07/14 05:31 PM |
| 2 | Anti-Male Bias Within The American Psychological AssociationIt's not really the sort of content they like. It's not really big on discussion - it's more a kind of 'Hey, this is interesting' sub. The original study would be worth posting if it were more recent. | /r/MensRights | 30/07/14 05:25 PM |
| 2 | Study Finds That Men Like Nice Women, But Not the Other Way AroundAlso, can we all agree that biological patterns of attraction are not a rights issue please? Agreed. | /r/MensRights | 28/07/14 02:55 PM |
| 32 | Study Finds That Men Like Nice Women, But Not the Other Way AroundOh God... popular science reporting. Seriously, everyone, just ignore this article and get hold of the study itself. The main finding of this study is not that 'nice guys aren't attractive'. This is something everyone already knew. The main finding was that women's responsiveness increased men's perceptions of their femininity, but men's responsiveness had no effect on women's perceptions of their masculinity. This is interesting because we can say two things: That responsiveness is something th… | /r/MensRights | 28/07/14 11:51 AM |
| 6 | I interviewed an MRA for my podcast. I thought you all might be interested.It's so telling how the interviewer, Colin, simply didn't know that there wasn't a shred of evidence connecting the Isla Vista narcissistic non-entity and the MRM. The stream of misinformation put out by feminists in the mainstream media clearly worked. Hopefully, over time, more and more people will become aware of this, and realise that they simply cannot trust these 'news' sources. Good on Colin for being one of the few people out there to go looking for his own information. | /r/MensRights | 27/07/14 10:33 AM |
| 0 | Are the majority of MRAs accepting of male homosexuality?Be aware that the last sentence is often used as a dog-whistle for homophobic opinions, because it tends to go along with the view that gay people have to be closeted in public. I'm not accusing you or anything, but you might want to think about your phrasing. | /r/MensRights | 27/07/14 10:11 AM |
| 6 | The Crucible is a powerful illustration of the dangers of strength in numbers and guilt-by-accusation. Daniel Day-Lewis and Wynona Rider are both in top form in this poignant play-turned-film set in tI enjoyed this documentary about the forthcoming New Zealand legal system. Thanks. | /r/MensRights | 26/07/14 09:52 PM |
| 2 | Feminists have again managed to brainwash a woman who was once an anti-feminist.Downvoted for ridiculous title. | /r/MensRights | 24/07/14 06:30 PM |
| 3 | Erm, are we in on some kind of paedophilia conspiracy with The Amazing Atheist? Because I'm not down with that. [I love reading Free Thought Blog comments about MRM]Before you lot get too carried away, please be aware that TAA has admitted saying some stuff that was pretty similar when he was younger: The age of consent thing is based on a post I made on an internet forum when I was like 20. And it was actually a pretty popular sentiment on the boards at that time. Hell, it was a popular sentiment on the internet in general at that time. It was also, I’m sad to say, an opinion that my father held. After experiencing another decade on planet earth, I realize… | /r/MensRights | 21/07/14 10:36 PM |
| 1 | WomenAgainstFeminism tumblr reponds to feminist articles critical of them.That's when you get the back up 'Good for you! But other women do experience oppression' argument. | /r/MensRights | 21/07/14 01:44 PM |
| 4 | Confused neutral trying to look big picturePerhaps this isn't a big issue, but it makes me doubt your 'neutrality': many ancient peoples had heavily matriarchal societies I strongly doubt you'd be able to support that claim. There have certainly been egalitarian cultures prior to the advent of agriculture. But the existence of matriarchies simply isn't supported by the facts. It's basically a feminist mythology. See Cynthia Eller's The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory. | /r/MensRights | 21/07/14 01:37 PM |
| 5 | WomenAgainstFeminism tumblr reponds to feminist articles critical of them.There's actually a position in Philosophy of Religion that runs pretty much like this. It's called 'fideism'. It tallies beautifully with arguments from religious experience in that atheists have literally no way of countering the argument that 'You just don't get it because you've never had the experience I have. You can have it, but you have to open your heart!' except to point out that it's an argument that can be used for anything and has to be regarded as suspect. (Some) feminists employ a … | /r/MensRights | 21/07/14 12:53 PM |
| 2 | Dr. Helen - Would You Want a Wife This Clueless About Sex and Your Emotions?Here's the thread on /r/relationships. And here's the spreadsheet he made. | /r/MensRights | 21/07/14 09:19 AM |
| 9 | Vicks directs flippant disdain toward Men's Health in their latest Australian ad campaign.Proctor & Gamble were already on my list, to be honest, because of it being "The proud sponsor of mums", together with the Pantene and Always adverts. But here is a list of their products so you know what to avoid: Always feminine hygiene product Ariel laundry detergent Bounty paper towels, sold in the United States and Canada (sold as Plenty in the United Kingdom) Braun, a small-appliances manufacturer specializing in electric razors, coffeemakers, toasters, and blenders Charmin bathroom tissue… | /r/MensRights | 21/07/14 08:51 AM |
| 2 | Interview with Christina Hoff Sommers, critic of feminismAccording to Susan Friedman, of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, "Sommers' diachronic discourse is easily unveiled as synchronic discourse in drag . . . She practices . . . metonymic historiography." Say what you will of gender studies academics, they know how to write a zinger. | /r/MensRights | 20/07/14 05:27 PM |
| 132 | WomenAgainstFeminism tumblr reponds to feminist articles critical of them.Also, this slightly older one (from February 2014) even anticipates the reaction. | /r/MensRights | 20/07/14 05:06 PM |
| 1 | The economics of political correctness.PC-brigadiers behave exactly like owners of a positional good who panic because wider availability of that good threatens their social status. The PC brigade has been highly successful in creating new social taboos, but their success is their very problem. Moral superiority is a prime example of a positional good, because we cannot all be morally superior to each other. Once you have successfully exorcised a word or an opinion, how do you differentiate yourself from others now? You need new thin… | /r/MensRights | 20/07/14 12:06 PM |
| 26 | How to avoid paternity fraud and toxic relationships in general while still reproducingAs everyone on this sub knows, paternity fraud is fairly rampant (30% rate) No. We don't know that. Statistics on paternity discrepancy are extremely hard to come by, and it hasn't been directly studied in the general population (mainly for ethics reasons). But experts without an axe to grind think that even 10% is an overestimate. See this paper. The median over the surveys they looked at investigating general population was 3.7%. That isn't to say it's not a problem, however. That's 1 in 27 ki… | /r/MensRights | 19/07/14 03:43 PM |
| 3 | RationalWiki rape culture article biasThis might help. ;-). | /r/MensRights | 18/07/14 03:22 PM |
| 1 | RationalWiki rape culture article biasYou make me sad. | /r/MensRights | 18/07/14 02:58 PM |
| 6 | RationalWiki rape culture article biasRationalWiki biased? No! It's basically run by the FtB/Skepchick/A+ lot. What were you expecting, exactly? This about sums them up. Someone called 'Dave Gerard' responding to criticism about the 'Men's Rights Movement' page: "This has turned into a disgraceful shit-throwing fest that makes me ashamed to be a part of the online atheist community." Good - David Gerard (talk) 14:46, 3 June 2014 (UTC) This is why we can't have nice things. Check out the main page as well. Apparently, this is an MRM … | /r/MensRights | 18/07/14 12:03 PM |
| 4 | More Bashing against the women who don't support feminismAgreed. There wasn't much 'bashing' going on. | /r/MensRights | 16/07/14 09:52 PM |
| 6 | Young woman critiques Feminism as divisive, petty, and out of touch with the way women (and men) live their lives.Check out this upvoted comment beneath the article: I understand your desire to distance yourself from the femisists who spew vitriol and anti-man and anti-woman philosophy at every turn. But the truth of the matter is this: You should not paint us all with the same negative brush. I am a proud feminist. I have a college degree and earned my law degree while working full time and caring for a 2 year old and a newborn. I have been a stay at home parent, as has my husband, and I start back to work… | /r/MensRights | 16/07/14 09:12 PM |
| 3 | Tom Golden about the article Slate wroteI can't tell the difference either! ;-) Will upvote though to make sure the correction is visible. | /r/MensRights | 16/07/14 07:45 PM |
| 1 | HOW TO make your own feminism facebook page and attract more people to the MRM.I'm pretty sure The Guardian is already doing this. | /r/MensRights | 16/07/14 07:39 PM |
| 1 | Everything that is wrong with today's society (xpost from /r/trashy)Possibly. I don't really know. I'm happy to concede that my argument wasn't that compelling, in any case. | /r/MensRights | 14/07/14 11:54 PM |
| 1 | Everything that is wrong with today's society (xpost from /r/trashy)No real difference. It's just that it's considered correct style to use 'may' for present tense, and 'might have' for the past tense. It's not worth losing sleep over, but the use of 'may' suggests a reasonably high level of education. | /r/MensRights | 14/07/14 08:47 PM |
| 4 | Everything that is wrong with today's society (xpost from /r/trashy)It's more the inconsistency between her language and her knowledge for me. "I'm beginning to think he may be impotent." No way someone who doesn't know what impotence is would use the correct 'may' here instead of 'might' (not that 'might' is particularly bad). Also - the obvious question to ask is: why on earth would you post it on a Facebook page about a city as opposed to some forum you'd found after a google search? I'd put money on it being a troll, personally. | /r/MensRights | 14/07/14 06:39 PM |
| 5 | Man spends 10 years in prison because his daughter was disappointed in him and accused him of rape. The daughter and the prosecutor responsible are left unpunished.Article from 2 years' ago flaired as 'news'? | /r/MensRights | 14/07/14 06:15 PM |
| 4 | Shared custody becoming the norm: Study finds dramatic decline in mother-sole custody casesIt's good to see positive news on this. Nonetheless, we should be cautious. The analysis further shows that shared custody remains more likely for higher income families, while the gender and age of the children involved do not carry much weight. This is the key bit. To my mind, what it suggests is that what makes the difference is whether you can afford a good lawyer. That is - the default is still mother gets custody, and you need a good lawyer to wrest the decision away from that. The system … | /r/MensRights | 14/07/14 10:04 AM |
| 2 | /r/femradebates gives me hopeI just checked with the mods, and you're dead right. You are banned. The reason you're not on the list is because the list of why the bans were in place was lost 2-3 months ago but all the permanent bans remained in place. | /r/MensRights | 13/07/14 09:52 PM |
| 4 | /r/femradebates gives me hopeAre you sure? Your name isn't on the list of banned users. EDIT - just to make it clear, /u/notnotnotfred is indeed banned from that sub. | /r/MensRights | 13/07/14 03:36 PM |
| 2 | Question from a newcomerYou've misread it. Read section 1 first: (1)A person (A) commits an offence if— (a)he intentionally causes another person (B) to engage in an activity, (b)the activity is sexual, (c)B does not consent to engaging in the activity, and (d)A does not reasonably believe that B consents. 'A' is the criminal here. 'B' is the victim. Thus, if A makes B penetrate him/her, s/he is liable to imprisonment for life. | /r/MensRights | 12/07/14 02:59 PM |
| 4 | Question from a newcomerSure. EDIT - Sorry, those are just the sentencing guidelines. This is the law itself. | /r/MensRights | 12/07/14 08:51 AM |
| 2 | Question from a newcomerIf a man ties a woman to a bed and has non-consensual sex with her, he goes to jail for life. If a woman ties a man to a bed and has non-consensual sex with him, she goes to jail for 10 years. No. This isn't true. She would be guilty of 'causing sexual activity without consent with aggravating factors'. That does carry a potential life sentence. | /r/MensRights | 12/07/14 08:34 AM |
| 4 | Here is the video of Paul Elam's debate with Matt Binder from earlier today.A few things to note: Matt pretty clearly misled Paul. There is not a snowball's chance in hell that, in that context, any reasonable person would conclude anything other than that Matt was attributing the quote to Elliot Rodger. The immediate context was he was talking about Elliot Rodger, and he then says "Let me read a quote." Paul didn't initially fall for it, clearly indicating that "If that's his quote, it did come from a psychopath." But - Paul does at least appear to fall for it when he … | /r/MensRights | 11/07/14 11:03 AM |
| 6 | Here is the video of Paul Elam's debate with Matt Binder from earlier today.Transcript of the 'gotcha' (from 7:20): Matt - Sure. So... er... Paul. You're familiar with... er... Elliot Rodger's... er... manifesto where he went on and on about, basically, his... his hatred towards women and how all these jerks and assholes... er... basically... that's what women chose over him. Am I correct here? Paul - No. Matt - No? You're not familiar with it? Paul - No, you're not correct. Matt - It's not correct? That's not what his manifesto said? Paul - That's part of his manifesto… | /r/MensRights | 11/07/14 10:50 AM |
| 1 | What are your top 10 Mens Right Issues you think need to be addressed?You may find it useful to look at this Reddit survey of what are considered to be important issues for the MRM. | /r/MensRights | 11/07/14 10:10 AM |
| 5 | Can someone please rationalize this for me? I find everyone but Erin Pizzays comments appalling.http://en.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/290ykz/did_gww_ever_clarify_this_comment_further/ GWW is questioned: Is Domestic Violence wrong? Can Domestic Violence be a part of a healthy relationship? Is it OK to hit a woman in order to make her calm down? Do you think some women "want to be domestically abused"? Her responses: yes no, at least, not if it's not addressed and corrected no yes That ought to clear things up. | /r/MensRights | 10/07/14 10:05 AM |
| 2 | Anti-body autonomy "feminist" defends child genital surgeryAll of their websites, especially those in German, categorically reject any suggestion that their campaign might advance anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim aims, and loudly proclaim their tolerance and opposition to antisemitism. But their denials are hollow. For instance, one website lectures: “Some Jews are afraid to recognize circumcision for what it really is and think that those who reject circumcision are antisemitic. That is ridiculous. Jews are not defined by their practices... People who advan… | /r/MensRights | 10/07/14 09:57 AM |
| 0 | The Uneasy Relationship between Mens Rights and Red PillThis is really interesting, and I'm definitely upvoting you (what a cosy relationship we now have!). Criticisms I have so far: I'm trying to read your data, but it's nigh-on impenetrable in the current format. I've no idea what I'm reading. The relevant control here is not "Redditors who commented in a non-TRP or non-MR subreddit during the same time period." It is non-TRP-affiliated people who comment in MR and non-MR-affiliated people who comment in TRP. You need to disambiguate 'agreement'. I… | /r/MensRights | 09/07/14 04:26 PM |
| 1 | In defense of "boys will be boys"Are you talking ratios within gendered use? I think I already said what I meant: more use of 'males' to 'men' than 'females' to 'women' You say: would you then admit that the MRM has a distinct bias against women, since you're obviously claiming that this report you have demonstrates bias? You've made the claim that linguistic usage on here is 'very telling' and indicates people on this sub-reddit don't think of women as people. I'm asking whether, hypothetically, if I gave you a report displayi… | /r/MensRights | 09/07/14 02:55 PM |
| 1 | In defense of "boys will be boys"So if I linked to you a report that is relied upon by the US government where a simple search for various strings reveals substantially more use of 'males' to 'men' than 'females' to 'women', would you likewise find this a 'very telling' bias that undermined the credibility of the overall report? It's obviously very important to you, so let's see a firm, consistent, ethical commitment on the principle from you. | /r/MensRights | 09/07/14 11:22 AM |
| 2 | Feminists and Human Rights group "Liberty" support female kidnapper and oppose her extraditionLiberty have opposed some extraditions they believe are unjust. But they do not oppose extradition itself. From this document (pdf): Indeed, Liberty believes that an efficient extradition system is in the best interest of victims, the public and defendants. | /r/MensRights | 06/07/14 02:04 PM |
| 3 | Men's activists reacting against 2nd wave feminist coined the phrase "toxic masculinity" and its counter part "deep masculinity", feminism only appropriated "toxic masculinity".That's definitely going on. You could easily argue that that is the sole motivation behind The One Good Man Project and White Ribbon. I can't think of anything these guys do that focus on improving men's well-being independently of how it affects women. | /r/MensRights | 03/07/14 01:11 PM |
| 2 | Philandry in Berkeley, CAI bet they can. It'll be a hipster thing. These are Occupy Wall St idiots, remember. They will definitely have a spell-checker somewhere on their iMacs. Perhaps there's even a proprietary port to plug it in? | /r/MensRights | 03/07/14 12:03 PM |
| 6 | Men's activists reacting against 2nd wave feminist coined the phrase "toxic masculinity" and its counter part "deep masculinity", feminism only appropriated "toxic masculinity".And 'the red pill' has been appropriated by... erm... redpillers. Which is why increasingly you'll no longer find MRAs using it. It no longer means what it used to mean, and has become a hostage to fortune. TryptamineX is a great guy, but he's a bit of a Foucault nut, with all the intellectual corruption that comes with that. As such, he is especially vulnerable to the etymological fallacy (one of Foucault's habitual fallacies related to his 'genealogical' method) - that a word's origins provide… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/14 11:56 AM |
| 6 | Why hasn't Russell's Teapot analogy been used to discredit the idea of patriarchy?Largely because 'God' is intended as a single referent. That is - people believe that 'God' is an existent entity. A better analogy to 'Patriarchy' is the pantheistic idea that 'God' inheres in everything. And Russell's teapot isn't good for addressing this idea. But you're right in one sense - 'Patriarchy' has obviously endemic falsifiability problems. Go back to the late 60s, for instance, and the emphasis in terms of 'patriarchy' was on men's control of the household. The big issues for femin… | /r/MensRights | 03/07/14 11:46 AM |
| 7 | Time for CAFE to change the menuOh fuck off Paul. What CAFE means is that it would be nice if you didn't say utterly retarded shit about women 'begging' to get raped, and saying that fucking feminists' shit up gives you an erection. You embarrass us, you twat. | /r/MensRights | 02/07/14 10:24 PM |
| 2 | As a recent graduate with an undergraduate degree in Social Work, my mind is flooded with feminist information. What are some historical and philosophical based books to read so I can enlighten myself and grasp a better understanding of Men's Rights?The Second Sexism by David Benatar. | /r/MensRights | 02/07/14 10:20 PM |
| 1 | Do men benefit from the media?This segment on The Talk show is a classic. It's always good to contrast it with the relatively contemporaneous sacking of Andy Gray and Richard Keys for making a joke off-air about a female assistant referee not knowing the offside rule: Finding a woman tying up and castrating her husband funny - no sanctions, half-arsed notpology. Making a puerile joke off-air about a female assistant referee not knowing the offside rule - sacking and widespread condemnation (it even made the national politica… | /r/MensRights | 02/07/14 10:19 PM |
| 41 | Women Owned! Yeah, I don't see this backfiring..."In fact, we recently conducted a survey that found 90 percent of female customers in the U.S. would go out of their way to purchase products from women, believing they would offer higher quality." Just stop and think about that sentence for a moment. Women think that products offered by women would be of higher quality. Now, remember, this is coming from a culture that is claimed by feminists to be one of male dominance (patriarchy). So ask yourself one simple question: is this evidence consist… | /r/MensRights | 01/07/14 01:15 PM |
| 6 | This MSNBC article would be overwhelmingly in support of men's rights if AVfM and speakers at last week's conference weren't so anti-feminism. I really think we need to consider reframing our arguments.Imagine you're at sea, and another ship fires a few shells at you. One hits, and the ship starts taking on water. Should you: Retaliate, opening fire on the other ship until it is forced to retreat, and then start repairs? Assume that they hit you by mistake, and just start repairs anyway, hoping for the best? Masculinity is that ship, and it has been under fire by feminism for decades. And it's no longer firing cannonballs like in the 1960s, but is firing 2,700 lb super-heavy shells, backed by … | /r/MensRights | 30/06/14 02:04 PM |
| 27 | PSA: What is "The Patriarchy"? Understanding and dismantling patriarchy theory.I think you're really just putting forward an interpretation of what some feminists mean by 'Patriarchy' here. Some feminists will adhere roughly to what you say here; others won't. One line, for instance, is that patriarchy is literally just male domination. Here it really isn't done through 'norms' as such, but through physical violence. Domestic violence, rape, etc. are viewed as political actions that serve to keep women in a state of oppression. The basic idea is that men have a vested inte… | /r/MensRights | 06/06/14 05:17 PM |
| 3 | Why the Campus Rape Crisis Confounds Colleges. Virtually everyone agrees the system is broken. But while some feminists want colleges to deliver justice, others argue it’s just not their job. Who is right?It's not terribly balanced. I'll give an example. Take this bit on page 2: As months of harrowing headlines have made clear, the dimensions of that crisis are staggering. According to an April report of the White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault, “One in five women is sexually assaulted in college.” This figure, which comes from the National Institute of Justice’s 2007 “Campus Sexual Assault Study,” has been much disputed by conservatives, but according to a detailed anal… | /r/MensRights | 06/06/14 12:08 PM |
| 7 | MRA Glen Poole debates with a (feminist) Women's Aid spokeswoman - May 2014Just watched the whole thing. It was not good for the blood pressure. I've just had to delete quite a lot of verbiage because it's made me really angry, and I don't want to say anything I regret. I'll stick to a salient fact, then. Here is the Home Office definition of domestic violence and abuse: The cross-government definition of domestic violence and abuse is: any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over … | /r/MensRights | 05/06/14 05:39 PM |
| 5 | MRA Glen Poole debates with a (feminist) Women's Aid spokeswoman - May 2014Glen Poole is not an MRA. | /r/MensRights | 05/06/14 05:01 PM |
| 2 | At what point did feminism cease to be relevant for equality?That's a long conversation, unfortunately. Strictly speaking, we don't really know how it breaks down, because inferences from self-reported victimisation to the existence of a crime are extremely dodgy. But if you're interested, though, this article is a good place to start. | /r/MensRights | 05/06/14 03:47 PM |
| 77 | Boy become men when... they put up with abuse?..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder | /r/MensRights | 05/06/14 09:26 AM |
| 4 | I am a feminist (sort of) and would like your take on some thoughts about MRA (not attacking)(not attacking) That's great! I see in many of these posts women are generalized as manipulative and emotionally unstable Whoops. | /r/MensRights | 05/06/14 09:24 AM |
| 2 | At what point did feminism cease to be relevant for equality?The different strands of feminism have been right there throughout the 'second wave', and have been ever since. What basically happened is that the liberal strand grew progressively weaker, and what was initially called 'radical feminism' just became mainstream feminism (forcing 'radical feminism' to take the increasingly frantic form it takes nowadays to retain a distinct identity within feminism). It's hard to put a date on this, but the tipping point occurred somewhere in the late 70s or earl… | /r/MensRights | 05/06/14 08:52 AM |
| 15 | "Stop the Men's Rights Conference" banner found on TiTP.Things have gotten so bad in 'Detorit' that they can't even afford spell-checkers any more. | /r/MensRights | 05/06/14 07:39 AM |
| 2 | Framing the debate, should we change how we speak?And then we can hand them a chisel to hone their cross. But the female feminists around them won't be as easily fooled. As soon as the OOTGO has expended his usefulness to them, they will turn on him. See e.g. Feminist Current's take on Tom Matlack, the money behind The One Good Man Project. Meghan Murphy wasn't fooled. Indeed, her analysis, once you bracket out the feminist dogma, is spot on: He goes about this in a super-sneaky way; reminding us over and over again that he’s on OUR SIDE you gu… | /r/MensRights | 03/06/14 03:52 PM |
| 5 | Framing the debate, should we change how we speak?Proposal: OOTGO (one of 'the good ones') For me, it's not about them being 'traitors'. It's about their motivations being transparently from a hatred of their own masculinity. They hate themselves qua men. They've been brought up to feel ashamed of being a boy and then a man, and that's why they're so busy distancing themselves from other men, and why literally everything they do is all about proving themselves to be one of 'the good ones'. It's why their arguments are often piss-poor (because t… | /r/MensRights | 03/06/14 03:28 PM |
| 1 | Study: Less attractive women are more hostile to men, negative 0.79 correlation between attractiveness and hostility towards men as a genderYou've got this precisely the wrong way round. The more 'empowered' they are, the less low-level hostility towards men they report. I refresh the page before replying normally. I swear. | /r/MensRights | 02/06/14 06:49 PM |
| 11 | Study: Less attractive women are more hostile to men, negative 0.79 correlation between attractiveness and hostility towards men as a genderExactly. The idea is that, because they're using a self-report scale of low-level hostility towards the opposite gender, they need to control for how much that individual would tend to hide attitudes they know would be viewed as unacceptable. A person with a high score will tend not to disclose 'bad' attitudes. Thus, one would expect that a person with a high score would have a low reporting level of hostility towards the opposite sex, since they know that that would be deemed unacceptable. And … | /r/MensRights | 02/06/14 06:49 PM |
| 5 | Anyone up for poking fun at feminists on twitter?If you do this, Amanda Marcotte will be forced to write another column on how society thinks women are like cats, and men are like dogs. Is that really what you want? ;-) | /r/MensRights | 01/06/14 07:49 AM |
| 3 | Harvard Professor Noel Ignatiev wants to rid the world of "whiteness" - "Your views are fairly well received in academia." "Yeah."This is not a MR issue. | /r/MensRights | 01/06/14 07:47 AM |
| 5 | [META] can we tone down all the feminist stuff a bit?I actually agree with a lot of what you say about feminism, and I recognise you've been doing this a long time and you know your shit. But your experience cuts both ways - stuff that's obvious to you will seem like conspiratorial nonsense to someone who is basically a dictionary feminist and doesn't know anything. If we want this place to grow, we have to accept that people, rightly or wrongly (and let's face it, it's wrongly) are going to be put off by staunchly negative comments about feminism… | /r/MensRights | 31/05/14 08:28 PM |
| 6 | Any MRA worth his salt, upon hearing the word 'rape'...Need I remind you that there are victims of rape here on this very sub-reddit? How do you think your comment would come across to them? It comes across to me like you're saying your instinct would be to disbelieve them. | /r/MensRights | 30/05/14 06:19 PM |
| 11 | MRA's sure do talk about the Friend Zone a lot.'friend zone' 'friendzone' 'friend-zone' | /r/MensRights | 28/05/14 08:51 PM |
| 1 | All in favor of putting an end to the 'men's rights movement' say AYE.All that's meant by 'legitimate entitlement' is something conferred on you as a citizen. You don't have, for instance, a right to drive a car. However, you have a legitimate entitlement to drive a car provided you do so within the framework of the rules and laws. I don't think there's a human right to education, for instance, but nonetheless it's an obvious public good and our societies clearly prosper when everyone has a decent education. Thus, it's a legitimate entitlement that everyone receiv… | /r/MensRights | 26/05/14 07:26 AM |
| 2 | MRAs: Can you describe any times when you were growing up when you were taught you were entitled to women, entitled to their bodies, entitled to sex? As TyphonBlue suggests, I was often taught my wortIt's like the song goes: You're nobody 'til somebody loves you You're nobody 'til somebody cares You may be king, you may possess the world and it's gold But gold won't bring you happiness when you're growing old The world still is the same, you never change it As sure as the stars shine above You're nobody 'til somebody loves you So find yourself somebody to love The world still is the same, you never change it As sure as the stars shine above Well, you're nobody 'til somebody loves you So find… | /r/MensRights | 25/05/14 06:57 PM |
| 2 | New PSA uses hidden cameras to show how people actually react when they see domestic violenceEven if you only look at DV hospitalizations, men represent 40% (which is where the PSA's number comes from). If you look at their facts sheet, you can see it's taken from the 2012/13 CSEW. Here's the relevant categories (all measured in 000s estimates): Any domestic abuse (partner or family non-physical abuse, threats, force, sexual assault or stalking): Men Women All 721 (38.4%) 1151 (61.4%) 1875 Any partner abuse (non-physical abuse, threats, force, sexual assault or stalking): Men Women All … | /r/MensRights | 24/05/14 08:47 AM |
| 1 | 91-95% of rapes are committed by serial rapists| 94% of men don't rape| Examining scientific findings about undetected rape and sexual assault (Emory University)A bit off topic, but I found his comparison between serial rapists and drug dealers somewhat tenuous. It's pretty easy to establish that someone is a drug dealer (on campus, at least) - you see how much illegal drugs they have. Please do correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I believe that generally universities are allowed to search student's rooms if they believe you're engaging in illegal activity, and a large stash is presumptively evidence of intent to supply. You then refer the case to the … | /r/MensRights | 20/05/14 03:34 PM |
| 20 | "Men’s Rights Activists advise men how to have consequence-free sex with drunk women" [holy bias batman]In a case that has become a cause célèbre among Men’s Rights Activists (MRA), a vote on a candidate for president of a community college was postponed after the college learned he had failed to inform it that he was on administrative leave for allegedly sexually harassing a colleague. Link goes to TheRedPill... Journalism! | /r/MensRights | 20/05/14 02:55 PM |
| 2 | "Rape culture panic is not the answer" Christina Hoff SommersNice point. It's a telephone survey, but your point would still be relevant because it could easily affect how the questioner asked the question. One should note that, even with the comma, it's a leading question. A natural interpretation of what's going on is that the questioner is giving examples of how one could be unable to consent because of drink or drugs. The questioner, who will be imbued with scientific authority in the public's eye simply by undertaking that role, would be understood o… | /r/MensRights | 19/05/14 07:12 PM |
| 10 | "Rape culture panic is not the answer" Christina Hoff SommersWell, you'd need to know more about where they're getting it from... The claim is more like this: "That 1 in 5 women will be raped in their lifetime in the US is not supported by the available empirical evidence." The onus is on the person making the claim to support that with evidence. If they refuse to do so, they can be dismissed a priori. If they decide to do so, chances are they'll be singing from the CDC's hymn sheet, and referencing the NISVS. And here you just need to walk people through… | /r/MensRights | 19/05/14 05:55 PM |
| 4 | Is this real?LA. If it's real, of course. This comment says it's real on WTF. If it is a 'shop, it's a pretty good one. | /r/MensRights | 17/05/14 12:31 PM |
| 3 | Textbook describes "rule of thumb" as a Roman law for wife beating. Care to help me edit my Clarification/Correction email to the authors?Your second paragraph is using the code feature, which is what you get when you use spaces before the text. It doesn't automatically go to a new line. Edit your comment and delete the spaces. I found the same thing when I looked into it. Buller was clearly being satirised in that cartoon, and there's no evidence that it was common law at the time. Indeed, the fact that he's being satirised strongly suggests that people would have found the idea preposterous. Can't really add much. CHS is the bes… | /r/MensRights | 12/05/14 07:38 PM |
| 2 | Boko Haram also murder boys. Where's the ‘selfie’ protest for them?That's because, according to the media, they are not boys. They are 'pupils' and 'students'. 122 schoolboys have been murdered by Boko Haram in the last year, many burned alive in their dormitories. But you wouldn't know it by reading the media reporting on the issue. It's as if it's a coincidence that they happen to kill boys each time. I've talked about the media bias on FeMRAdebates if you're interested. You can follow the links for yourself and see the media bias in terms of how these things… | /r/MensRights | 11/05/14 05:13 PM |
| 9 | Boko Haram also murder boys. Where's the ‘selfie’ protest for them?Neither did GWB or Bill Clinton. If you elect Hillary Clinton and she serves a full term, that will be over a quarter of a century of presidents without sons. A weird anomaly. | /r/MensRights | 11/05/14 04:32 PM |
| 1 | Oxford Dictionary - Why do they feel the need to add "typically a man" to the definition of 'Rapist'?Oh, you can scrap that sentence if you want. It's vague. All I meant by it is that it's not telling people how they (morally) should be using the term. But there are other sense of the word 'normative', and dictionaries are normative in other ways. | /r/MensRights | 10/05/14 10:47 PM |
| -10 | Oxford Dictionary - Why do they feel the need to add "typically a man" to the definition of 'Rapist'?Because that's typically how the word is used. You can argue against this usage, but the definition (i.e. the thing capturing the usage) is accurate. When people stop using the word 'rapist' to refer typically to male perpetrators, the dictionary will update. But dictionaries aren't normative - they just reflect how the word is used at the time. | /r/MensRights | 10/05/14 10:31 PM |
| 8 | Warren Farrell's AMA is now finished. Worth a read.I like the fact that this comment, which was literally just thanking someone for providing a link is showing as 11|12 on my RES. People literally downvoted someone saying 'Thanks'. If people were trying to make it obvious they were voting purely tribally, they did a bang-up job. What absolute clowns! | /r/MensRights | 30/04/14 01:10 PM |
| 1 | "Don’t Say Seminal, It’s Sexist" So we must remove all gendered metaphors from language?http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=seminal&allowed_in_frame=0 | /r/MensRights | 29/04/14 01:25 PM |
| 2 | The leader of the sexual grievance industry on campus says colleges are going too far in finding men guilty of sexual assault. THAT'S how bad it is.Still showing his bias, I see: In the common formulation I offered above, the key is that the respondent’s culpability rests on two factors, the incapacitation of the victim and his knowledge of that incapacitation, whether actual or constructive. | /r/MensRights | 29/04/14 06:29 AM |
| 2 | British academic feminist research paper from 2000 details strategies for 'subverting' services for rape and domestic abuse 'survivors' by 'taking control' of services, 'ensuring the state employs femIt's questionable whether the MRM has an ideology as such. Certain things might in the end prove to be elements of an ideology - e.g. male disposability, hyperagency, hypergamy, etc. But it's still too disparate at the moment to say this with any confidence. It will only be if and when the movement matures that we'll be able to see the forest for the trees. Personally, I hope that it doesn't develop into something worthy of being called an 'ideology'. For me, ideology is the problem - there are … | /r/MensRights | 28/04/14 06:37 PM |
| 3 | "Twitter trolls and online porn mean we've never had it so bad as women" - Germaine GreerYep. The relationship between feminists and trolls is symbiotic. The trolls have laughs getting feminists outraged, and then the feminists love it because they're supplied with a never-ending supply of examples to claim victim-points and up their profile. From these examples, they construct a narrative of male on female abuse. Never mind that one of the people who was done for their abuse of Criado-Perez was a woman (Isabella Sorley). And never mind that trolls don't do it out of hate, but becau… | /r/MensRights | 28/04/14 11:58 AM |
| 2 | Strawpoll- What gender has it worse in modern western society?Utterly meaningless. | /r/MensRights | 27/04/14 08:39 AM |
| 1 | I can't find any statistics about rape that define rape as anything but "penetration." And the studies I find that don't define rape as "penetration," are based on surveys that are taken over the phonI'm unconvinced by the comments by the FBI. Saying that the definition is supposed to include men, when they didn't bother to tell anyone, means nothing. What is the understanding of the definition used by the state offices that forward the data to the FBI? I bet that those state offices have the understanding that male victims are to be excluded just as they always have been. I completely agree. I don't see how they can reasonably expect anyone receiving their guidance to have the first clue th… | /r/MensRights | 26/04/14 05:31 PM |
| 1 | I can't find any statistics about rape that define rape as anything but "penetration." And the studies I find that don't define rape as "penetration," are based on surveys that are taken over the phonOh, there's stacks more information about this. The FBI have confirmed that their updated definition of 'rape' does include 'envelopment', 'made to penetrate', whatever you want to call it, even though all their material heavily implies the opposite. Then there's the NISVS, which actually does measure 'made to penetrate' (although bizarrely is not counted under 'rape'). There's definitely plenty of work to be done all across the world about how women raping men is categorised in official recordi… | /r/MensRights | 26/04/14 09:51 AM |
| 3 | Feminist says "I think men should have a say in the debate about domestic violence ... but"It would be nice, just one of these days, for one of these advanced 'theorists' to sit us all down and explain how exactly the same logic could not be used by racists to argue that blacks are complicit in perpetuating 'hegemonic blackness' that creates violence, or by bigoted anti-thesists in arguing that all Muslims are complicit in terrorism through supporting 'hegemonic Islam'. It's an irony that the people pushing this fantastical connection between 'hegemonic masculinity' and violence imagi… | /r/MensRights | 22/04/14 07:51 PM |
| 9 | The Guardian: Get your grubby hands off my equal rights (re: sexual discrimination pay dispute by 26 male workers)READ THE ARTICLE, and don't get sucked in by the click-bait title. The title and standfirst were not chosen by Barbara Ellen, but by a sub-editor. To say it doesn't do justice to the article is a massive understatement. I was actually well impressed by this coming from Barbara Ellen, she of post-natally depressed men are 'sulky, self-absorbed narcissists' fame. Seriously, big-time respect for her. She's actually reflecting. She's actually thinking about her own beliefs and attitudes. I wouldn't … | /r/MensRights | 19/04/14 11:16 PM |
| 1 | So wait. Where the hell are the non-white guys?Gotcha. Cheers for the correction. | /r/MensRights | 16/04/14 10:44 PM |
| 5 | Feminist tries to get Veterans Fired over TWITTER!Lindsay is still the CEO. There was a petition to oust him following the 'man has an opinion Rebecca Watson didn't agree with' scandal at Women In Secularism, but it flopped rather dismally. | /r/MensRights | 16/04/14 05:32 PM |
| 8 | UK Musician blasts men's rights activists. 'What do [they] have to complain about? The friend zone?'Playing bass is the friendzone of music. ;-) | /r/MensRights | 16/04/14 11:51 AM |
| 22 | Feminist tries to get Veterans Fired over TWITTER!Melody Hensley is the Executive Director for the Washington branch of the Center For Inquiry, an organisation whose mission is described thus: The mission of the Center for Inquiry is to foster a secular society based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values. Science and reason, eh? Is that why you've got the Director of your Washington branch of the organisation publicly stating they got PTSD off Twitter, and then having the chutzpah to double-down when she quite correctly ge… | /r/MensRights | 16/04/14 10:45 AM |
| 3 | So wait. Where the hell are the non-white guys?No idea where 78% comes from... I got 69% or 81% of US Reddit users being white from their figures depending on how you deal with hispanics. Here's how it goes: 5% of non-hispanic whites = 67 +/- 8 4% of non-hispanic blacks = 8 +/- 1 11% of hispanics = 22 +/- 1.5 That makes it 69% +/- 8, 8% +/- 1, and 23% +/- 1.5 respectively. Here's how I get 81% from that. According to US data, roughly half (53%) of US hispanics classify themselves as 'White or European American Hispanic'. If you assume that U… | /r/MensRights | 16/04/14 10:11 AM |
| 4 | Wil Wheaton posts an infographic on Tumblr regarding a survey of this subreddit. Where did this come from? Is it legitimate?You're probably right that it doesn't matter much now. As it was, I couldn't see much point to the survey, seeing as the last one was only 9 months' ago. | /r/MensRights | 15/04/14 06:40 PM |
| 38 | Wil Wheaton posts an infographic on Tumblr regarding a survey of this subreddit. Where did this come from? Is it legitimate?Cheers for letting me know. As much as it's annoying to give him credit, credit where it's due. Good on him for (tacitly) admitting that he got it wrong. | /r/MensRights | 15/04/14 06:36 PM |
| 1 | Wil Wheaton posts an infographic on Tumblr regarding a survey of this subreddit. Where did this come from? Is it legitimate?He'll never give up. He shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary him, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will laugh at him. | /r/MensRights | 15/04/14 06:34 PM |
| 1 | Wil Wheaton posts an infographic on Tumblr regarding a survey of this subreddit. Where did this come from? Is it legitimate?Wheaton's Law is 'Don't be a Dick'. | /r/MensRights | 15/04/14 06:32 PM |
| 42 | Wil Wheaton posts an infographic on Tumblr regarding a survey of this subreddit. Where did this come from? Is it legitimate?That pretty much settles it then. Cheers. Surprised the person who did the survey didn't delete those ones like the 2,486 submissions deleted from row 562. Just thinking about it, I'm wondering if you even need a bot to do this. I'm wondering if you couldn't just mash the submission button, change a category, and then mash again. That would make the most sense. The 2486 submissions must have been a bot, though. Surely not even Aerik and chums are that obsessed with 'proving' us to be ebil reacti… | /r/MensRights | 15/04/14 04:23 PM |
| 477 | Wil Wheaton posts an infographic on Tumblr regarding a survey of this subreddit. Where did this come from? Is it legitimate?Any yahoo with half a brain could see that the survey was sabotaged. For heaven's sake, simply compare the final results with the results at an earlier stage of the process. Look at political affiliation. At 20:15 GMT 10/04/2014: Strong liberal - 38 or 15% Liberal - 39 or 15% Independent - 107 or 41% Conservative - 44 or 17% Strong conservative - 31 or 12% Final results: Strong liberal - 51 or 2% Liberal - 62 or 2% Independent - 314 or 11% Conservative - 59 or 2% Strong conservative - 2497 or 84… | /r/MensRights | 15/04/14 09:59 AM |
| 2 | Alison Tieman's Interview with the WhigThought this was worth submitting separately. I think Tieman made some really good points in here, especially about the way the MRM could actually help women too. I think she's right that, through a combination of confirmation bias, a long-established narrative of men=bad; women=good, and statistical manipulation, the long run effect of gender feminism has been to inculcate a 'siege mentality' of sorts amongst women. It occurred to me the other day when I was reading many women's relating of eve… | /r/MensRights | 10/04/14 10:38 AM |
| 1 | Female lawyer acuses taxi driver of misconduct, he goes to jail loses his license, all without cops viewing his video of the ordeal.I'm sorry if my comment pissed you off. I accept that I was a little terse in it. I was trying to point out that the post wasn't, as you put it, 'bullshit'. I did so mainly because I thought you (and others) would want to know. I agree that it would have been nice for the OP to have set things out for us more fully (perhaps in a text post?), but s/he did bring this to our attention, and that was pretty cool of them. I think we could all do our bit to improve the quality of the postings. Let's su… | /r/MensRights | 09/04/14 09:47 PM |
| 0 | The Mask You Live In (Parody)I wouldn't call it 'twisted'. Pathetic? Gutless? Emasculated? Sure. But not twisted. I'm half-convinced it's all just a North Korean plot to turn the US into a bunch of mewling, whimpering lardasses before the North Koreans just roll up in tanks handing out free twinkies to the ambient blobs waddling alongside. The thing is: I actually strongly value emotional intelligence and being in touch with your emotions. I think that shit is important. A man should know himself, and that means knowing wha… | /r/MensRights | 09/04/14 09:30 PM |
| 11 | Female lawyer acuses taxi driver of misconduct, he goes to jail loses his license, all without cops viewing his video of the ordeal.See paragraph 14 of the complaint. The original officer on scene, however, did apparently view the video (see paragraph 10). But the extortion charges were filed a year later, and it was here that they didn't look at the video, allegedly, which one has to admit would be a pretty serious police failure if true, especially since they seem to have put out a warrant for his arrest on that basis. The claim that he lost his license and was unable to work is in paragraphs 16 and 19. | /r/MensRights | 09/04/14 12:04 PM |
| 8 | Female lawyer acuses taxi driver of misconduct, he goes to jail loses his license, all without cops viewing his video of the ordeal.Better, more up-to-date link here. n.b. A civil lawsuit against the city and Gaubert is in progress, so watch what you say about it. You can see the complaint here. | /r/MensRights | 09/04/14 11:51 AM |
| 3 | How Hyperbolic Linkbait is Destroying the Internet - alternatively, how outrage sellsI'm wondering if newspapers ever were that reliable in the first place. Is it like this? Or is it simply that the ease of informational access combined with comments sections makes it so much easier to check what people are saying from other sources and then rebut (and thereby driving down confidence in the original source). Probably a bit of both. I'd imagine that the collapse of print journalism and the destruction of journalist as a feasible career option has had a big effect. But I think we … | /r/MensRights | 07/04/14 07:40 PM |
| 2 | Can a man "trap" a woman into a child support situation the way women can "trap" men?IANAL, but as far as I know all adoptions require the consent of the mother (barring exceptional circumstances such as her being in jail, etc.). Not all adoptions require the consent of the father, since he isn't automatically a known legal entity, unlike the mother. If he is known and named as the father (or recognised via a court order, or whatnot), then he can veto any adoption proceedings. There are plenty of cases, however, where the mother does not reveal who the father is. A cursory effor… | /r/MensRights | 07/04/14 10:34 AM |
| 26 | Feminist professor exposed by TyphonblueCan I implore people on here to also take a look at Adele Mercier's letter to the editor of Queen's Journal. For the sake of brevity, I won't quote the whole thing, but I will quote this paragraph because I feel it cuts to the heart of things: Yes, men too are raped (and note that it is men who rape them), go to war (and note that it is not feminists who send them there), and yes they have few places to turn, few concepts to frame their circumstances, receive too little local sympathy: in other … | /r/MensRights | 06/04/14 11:49 AM |
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