afw2323 Archive

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5	It is cool to see a political candidate have policies to improve the lives of some men Yes, that's much less common here, for both legal and political reasons. Democrats in the US have, for generations, promoted officially colorblind policies that in practice disproportionately advantage racial minorities. Unfortunately, because the policies are officially colorblind, their beneficiaries often don't even realize the programs are targeted at them. This is part of the reason why black Americans often feel like the Democrats only pay lip service to their interests, because the govern…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	16/10/24 04:45 AM
11	It is cool to see a political candidate have policies to improve the lives of some men Government policies that specifically target a certain race are legally questionable and likely to be challenged in court. The way to avoid this is to target the policies at a neutral-seeming characteristic that's correlated with race. No one will question a government program aimed at addressing sickle-cell anemia, vitamin D deficiency, diabetes, or hypertension -- even though these conditions affect black men at a much higher rate than other populations.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	16/10/24 04:34 AM
15	The Men's Rights Movement and The Media Unfortunately, academia is extremely hostile to men's rights activism, and any scholar writing about these issues (particularly if they criticize feminism in the process) would essentially be incinerating their career. You might be able to find someone with tenure to write about it, but even then, good luck getting anyone else in academia to acknowledge their work or care. The scholar David Benatar wrote a book on the topic 12 years ago called The Second Sexism, but it's seldom read and only has…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	15/09/24 02:54 PM
3	Opinion \| What gay men’s stunning success might teach us about the academic gender gap It's also important to acknowledge the role girls play in this. Once (straight) boys hit puberty, a large part of their lives is built around trying to get attention and approval from girls, and many will radically change their behavior in order to earn this attention and approval. Unfortunately, women/girls in our country typically don't value academic success as much as they value other traits in men -- being a nerd or overachiever is heavily stigmatized and won't win you any dates, at least n…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	15/09/24 02:44 PM
2	Man Bear Megathread That doesn't follow at all. If A is a subset of B, and 70% of A are F, it doesn't follow that 70% of B must also be F. Reason more carefully in the future.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	03/05/24 03:06 PM
7	Man Bear Megathread They seem to be suggesting that it's appropriate and reasonable for women to fear men and not want to be alone with them, since men (supposedly) commit violent crimes at a higher rate. Point out that Donald Trump Jr. likewise seems to be suggesting that it's appropriate and reasonable for americans to fear muslim immigrants and not want to let them into the country, since muslim immigrants (supposedly) commit acts of terrorism at a higher rate. Then ask if your interlocutor thinks Trump Jr. is r…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	03/05/24 01:36 PM
-4	Man Bear Megathread I said violated, not violence. Sexual violations are "the sexual advances by one party against another, which cross personal boundaries of the second party." I'm not merely referring to sexually assault. This is a wildly misleading and inappropriate use of language, if someone is described as having been "sexually violated", almost everyone will interpret that as involving sexual assault.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	03/05/24 01:29 PM
1	Man Bear Megathread I'm reporting the number for sexual assault -- "unwanted sexual contact" -- and not specifically for being made to penetrate.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	03/05/24 01:28 PM
-6	Man Bear Megathread You're mischaracterizing the survey's results. It says that 57% of black men have experienced at least one of contact sexual violence, physical violence, or stalking at the hands of an intimate partner. The number of black men who've experienced specifically sexual violence will be much smaller. Also note that the link you're citing exclusively concerns crimes perpetrated by intimate partners -- some men will have been sexually assaulted by people who aren't intimate partners as well. If you're …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	03/05/24 04:27 AM
23	Man Bear Megathread and having to risk their lives because of men The risk is almost entirely imaginary. About 1500 women are killed by their partners every year in the US, out of a population of 135 million adult women. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/us/domestic-violence-victims.html So roughly 1 in 100,000 women are murdered each year by their partners. Oh, and most of those women are poor and/or black. If you're an affluent white woman, your odds of being killed by a romantic partner are comparable to your o…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	03/05/24 04:12 AM
68	Man Bear Megathread This exact same metaphor has been used by republicans as a justification for why we shouldn't let muslim immigrants into the country. Just ask them if they realize they're using the same bigoted tropes as Donald Trump Jr. and Mike Huckabee.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	03/05/24 04:10 AM
5	Dehumanization of Male Victims Yet you insist that these same people give credit and positive attention to the movement/ideology that hurt them I don't insist anyone do these things. I only insist that people not make false claims. Feminism's effect on the world has not been an unmitigated evil, so we shouldn't say that it has been.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	12/03/24 03:18 AM
-2	Dehumanization of Male Victims The other user described feminism as evil, suggesting it had few or no redeeming qualities. This is inaccurate, since feminism has done a lot of good things for women in the past. We can recognize this while also acknowledging its faults. I understand that people who've been harmed by feminism in various ways may not be eager to acknowledge the positive contributions it's made to society, but that doesn't change the fact that they exist.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	11/03/24 03:48 PM
1	Dehumanization of Male Victims In what way do men and men's issues benefit from "acknowledging the good and bad of feminism and its effects"? This is a weird question. We say things because they're true, not because they have good effects.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	11/03/24 02:12 PM
-3	Dehumanization of Male Victims This is too simplistic. Feminism has accomplished great things for women over the years, giving them the right to vote, the right to use birth control, the right to work outside the home, the right to be free from abuse and exploitation, and so on. There's substantial merit to some of what feminists say about men, too -- many men have suffered from being trapped in rigid, traditional gender roles. Of course, feminism has also done tremendous harm, especially to men, by sacrificing liberal princi…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	11/03/24 05:26 AM
1	The Power and Irony of Victimhood This is a left-wing forum. Anti-semites aren't welcome here. Go away.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	07/11/23 04:31 AM
1	Why Robert Card (the maine shooter) is essential to know about and talk about. These are extremely small sample sizes, I would caution against reading too much into them. Although it's not too surprising that house of worship shooters are mostly white (since many of these will be right-wing hate crimes perpetrated against racial and religious minorities), or that college/university shooters are plurality Asian (since Asian-Americans are over-represented in higher education).	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	28/10/23 10:56 PM
3	Why Robert Card (the maine shooter) is essential to know about and talk about. The whiteness of the majority of mass shooters is apparent (79%), This is completely wrong, the graph you posted presents the gross number of incidents, not the percentage. The correct figure is that 79/135 of incidents where the race of the shooter is known were committed by (non-hispanic) white perpetrators. This works out to 58%. For comparison, the US population is currently 59% (non-hispanic) white. However, the graph you posted combines data from 1982-2023, and the US used to be considerab…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	28/10/23 04:10 AM
5	Has anyone here had plastic surgery? After my surgery I realized all the advice woman give for dating is 100% nonsense Women also want a man who's charismatic and socially dominant, that's definitely in the top three.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	19/10/23 01:52 AM
7	Are MeToo/Time's Up a Hate Group? While I agree that these groups have done a shameful job handling female abusers, it's important to acknowledge that there was/is a real problem with men in positions of power abusing women with impunity, often for decades, and the metoo movement was instrumental in bringing these men to justice. There's no reason we can't applaud Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey being taken down, while at the same time thinking Amber Heard needs to face consequences for her actions, too.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	15/10/23 09:47 PM
0	Is It Really a "Man's World?" Sure, if by "men" you mean white landowning Christians with no criminal record. "White landowning Christians" describes a very large proportion of men in late 19th and 20th century American society, generally around half: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/dec/coh-owner.html Family patriarchs weren't sitting on the porch eating bon bons they were in the mines getting black lung or falling into the blast furnaces of steel refineries. This has to do with advantage, not with power. I ag…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	12/10/23 12:04 AM
-1	Is It Really a "Man's World?" 99.9% of men are&have always been powerless, This isn't really true. In the past, men held power at every level of society. They ran the government, yes, but also the businesses, and the town councils, and the school boards, and the churches, and the unions, and the fraternal organizations, and each man was essentially installed as a dictator over his own family. Saying that Men as a group have the most power in Society is the same logic as saying that black people have the most power in USA bec…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	11/10/23 11:25 AM
9	Is It Really a "Man's World?" I find it helpful to think about relationships between social groups in terms of two factors: power and advantage. It's certainly true that, historically, men have wielded most of the power in society. And this remains true to a large extent today -- the president is a man, and so is most of the senate, and most of the house, and 55% of the Supreme Court, and most state governors, and most CEOs... Of course, women have power in other areas: it's women who control the education system and the men…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	11/10/23 01:14 AM