A hat tip to Womanist Musings for the redirect to this article entitled The Growing Power of the Men’s Rights Movement.
The article itself was well written and brought attention to the radical agenda that certain MRA groups have going. They are becoming cohesive and organized enough to start making judicial and legal differences.
The MRA movement is an expected backlash to the idea that women can be people too. I know this is a radical idea, but it is vigorously opposed by these fundamentalist misogynists. But what is appalling are the comments left by the so called representatives of the MRA. Let’s take a small sample:
(trigger warning)
“ONCE AGAIN, feminist c*nts CONTINUE TO LIE to promote their man-hating campaign.”
“Oh, no kidding. You mean when you refuse to count anything a woman may do to a man as domestic violence, and when you include men who hold up their hands to prevent women from striking them in the head (again) as abusers, your data show that men are more violent than women? Wow.”
“But this faulty rationale fails to recognize the difference between unjust oppression and healthy restriction; limiting a gender’s job responsibilities based on natural capacity is not the same as limiting a racial group’s opportunities based on appearance.”
“delusional c*nts are so funny when they are trying to make sense. this is why women belong in the kitchen and not online. they are too f*cking DUMB to make a coherent, rational point without resorting to hysterics. LAWL :D men need to learn how to protect themselves from these violent, dangerous, man-hating c*nts”
“In the last two weeks, both sex trafficking AND unequal pay have been officially exposed as myths created by feminists and based upon deliberate lies spread by those feminists in order to further the selfish interests of women (and esp. feminists themselves)”
I am saddened by the sheer burning stupidity left on the comments section. The vitriol expressed not only toward women but the rights they are fighting for is shameful.
I thought debating religious people was frustrating. I would not want to even go there and attempt *any* sort of rational debate with this people. They really seem to be without redemption.




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November 12, 2009 at 11:59 am
M
I don’t understand how people who throw around those kind of nasty, misogynistic remarks can call themselves the victims and the good guys. Do they expect me to believe that a man who would call me or another woman a “feminist c*nt” couldn’t possibly be involved in domestic violence.
If I’m not mistaken many of their clients are convicted batterers and I find it hard to believe none of them committed any abuse at all..
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November 12, 2009 at 10:56 pm
The Arbourist
The hubris and utter lack of empathy is truly appalling. There are not many parallels to the degree of hostility exhibited in the backlash by these people.
Yet another confirmation that feminists really are at the thin edge of the wedge as far as rolling back the patriarchy is concerned.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
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April 29, 2011 at 3:26 pm
Thomson, O
Well as a Masculist myself, you see those people you are critiquing? they are the “Radical Feminists” of the Men’s Rights Movement, i assure you that we are not all like that and many of us actively condemn those who behave in that manner.
We Campaign for men to have Equal rights to Women, personally this ain’t a big deal or even controversial, i’ll admit i’m not a big fan of Feminism because i believe some of its central tenets are by definition misandric in nature but i’m more than willing to work alongside feminists to renounce those tenets and work towards equality.
Thomson, O
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April 29, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Evil Pundit
Those commenters are just the male equivalent of “I Blame the Patriarchy”. Yet you condemn one, and link to the other. Such is your misandry.
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April 29, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Chamoflage
“I am saddened by the sheer burning stupidity left on the comments section.”
I hate to ruin your day, but this is true of every comments section, ever, in all of internet history. And by making a case against a movement based on the comments section of a blog, you’ve done more effort to undermine your position than to support it. For anyone who doesn’t already agree with you, at least, and if all you’re doing is preaching to the choir, why bother in the first place? It’s not like “hateful morons leave stupid, hateful comments sometimes” is useful information that no one else knows about.
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April 29, 2011 at 5:11 pm
Aman
By attacking inflammatory comments rather than editorial or article content on men’s rights sites, you completely give away any claim to credibility you might have had. All comments-threads contain angry vitriol. Also : your statement “expected backlash to the idea that women can be people too” is flatly false – and I wont pretend it’s just your mistake. Nobody ever claimed women aren’t people. The anger behind so many MRM comments is at the increasing criminalization of all things masculine. But I expect you knew that already.
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April 29, 2011 at 6:03 pm
Cel
By radical agenda, do you mean exposing the harmful lies that are perpetrated against men? Take domestic violence for example, since you mentioned it. No one claims that men do not commit domestic violence.
Yet, for decades feminists have tried to deny that women commit domestic violence in equal rates as men, have denied that most of these violent women attack non-violent men, and deny that these violent women inflict injuries almost as numerous and serious as those inflicted by men.
Proof that feminists have lied for decades:
Click to access V74-gender-symmetry-with-gramham-Kevan-Method%208-.pdf
Proof that women commit equal DV to men:
http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
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April 29, 2011 at 8:36 pm
The Arbourist
We Campaign for men to have Equal rights to Women
Which seems odd because men are the ones that make the rules and structure society for its benefit. But I’m sure working toward greater equality overall is a good cause.
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April 29, 2011 at 8:39 pm
The Arbourist
By attacking inflammatory comments rather than editorial or article content on men’s rights sites, you completely give away any claim to credibility you might have had.
I am not particularly bothered by my supposed lack of credibility with MRA activists.
The anger behind so many MRM comments is at the increasing criminalization of all things masculine.
If the things in question are masculine and also happen to share the qualities of being pants-on-head retarded or wrong, then they should be called out and criminalized if necessary.
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April 29, 2011 at 8:43 pm
The Arbourist
And by making a case against a movement based on the comments section of a blog, you’ve done more effort to undermine your position than to support it.
Since you seem to know my intent when writing the post, perhaps you could also explain my motivation for responding to MRA ish comments on my blog, since I sincerely doubt any sort of meaningful discussion will take place considering the surreal notions many MRA seem to base their arguments on.
But really, this is already too much of a reply as is.
Thanks for stopping by. ;)
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April 29, 2011 at 9:10 pm
Vern R. Kaine
I think it’s like racist comments – every time they’re repeated in any form (even to discuss), they’re given “air” to breathe. Assuming we’ll never FULLY get rid of man-hating women, women-hating men, or generalizing racist sheepscrewers in-between, I think the best thing is just to leave this kind of trash where we find it so it can asphyxiate and die where it lies.
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April 29, 2011 at 9:30 pm
Sean Patrick Hazlett
So long as your wife doesn’t curse you while she is beating you, it’s all good. ;-)
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