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No, I Will Not Take the Men's Rights Movement Seriously [View all]
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. . .So, no, I'm not going to "start addressing (the MRM) more comprehensively and less reactively." These are men who would rather spend their time on the internet terrorizing women and wasting the time of domestic violence counselors than actually take action, on the ground, to help men.
Here's what they care to do instead:
Those quotes are not cherry-picked or mined from some deep dark corner, they are commonplace in the manosphere to the point of dullness. So no, I don't believe that those are human beings worthy of good-faith engagement. They're rigid, embittered ideologues attempting to play dress-up with genuine, grown-up discourse. And their views should be acknowledged by mainstream intellectuals about as much as the views of people who think "reverse racism" is as big a problem as racism, people who think we should be concerned about Jews running world banks, and people who think that gay people holding hands cause hurricanes.
Here's what they care to do instead:
In the name of equality and fairness, I am proclaiming October to be Bash a Violent Bitch Month.
I'd like to make it the objective for the remainder of this month, and all the Octobers that follow, for men who are being attacked and physically abused by women to beat the living shit out of them. I don't mean subdue them, or deliver an open handed pop on the face to get them to settle down. I mean literally to grab them by the hair and smack their face against the wall till the smugness of beating on someone because you know they won't fight back drains from their nose with a few million red corpuscles.
And then make them clean up the mess.
[T]here are a lot of women who get pummeled and pumped because they are stupid (and often arrogant) enough to walk though life with the equivalent of a I'M A STUPID, CONNIVING BITCH PLEASE RAPE ME neon sign glowing above their empty little narcissistic heads.
Women are the natural enemies of men. No matter what anyone says and how good women claim to be, that is just the truth. This will never stop and men will continue under the tyranny of women. ... We are called rapists, abusers, bullies, and even homophobes because we don't embrace the faggots biologically backward, queer-ass culture. ... I am so fucking tired of this shit, that I really wouldn't mind shooting a bitch dead in the face. ... They are evil. ALL OF THEM!!! ... This is a gender war, and women, ALL WOMEN! are the enemies, there is no compromising.
Those quotes are not cherry-picked or mined from some deep dark corner, they are commonplace in the manosphere to the point of dullness. So no, I don't believe that those are human beings worthy of good-faith engagement. They're rigid, embittered ideologues attempting to play dress-up with genuine, grown-up discourse. And their views should be acknowledged by mainstream intellectuals about as much as the views of people who think "reverse racism" is as big a problem as racism, people who think we should be concerned about Jews running world banks, and people who think that gay people holding hands cause hurricanes.
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And sometimes when they do the shopping (they actually have to do that sometimes!)
cui bono
Mar 2014
#19
The reason women are customarily given custody of the children is, obviously...
Sarah Ibarruri
Mar 2014
#43
tell you what, we'll take your post on male discrimination seriously as soon as...
CreekDog
May 2014
#63
The general invisibility of male victims of rape and domestic violence, for example
Prophet 451
Mar 2014
#50
I'm not disputing it. Don't need to. Michael Kimmel has already debunked it.
Sarah Ibarruri
Mar 2014
#56
I'll have the main group host review your future in here when she gets the message I sent her.
Starry Messenger
Feb 2014
#15
And now you're sourcing images from a blogger who posts on an anti-woman hate site.
LeftyMom
Mar 2014
#33
Knock it off. The problem isn't that you're a dude, it's that you're posting RW and MRA bullshit.
LeftyMom
Mar 2014
#35
And yet, with all that extra education, women still make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes.
Squinch
Mar 2014
#41
I'm not sure how that is responsive to the violent and abusive threats
Starry Messenger
Mar 2014
#32