RE: Men's Rights Movement
December 22, 2017 at 1:00 pm
(This post was last modified: December 22, 2017 at 1:04 pm by CapnAwesome.)
(December 22, 2017 at 11:11 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(December 22, 2017 at 3:30 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: He literally called Thena a dipshit in like, his second or third interaction with her in this thread. And finished most of his arguements with some kind of personal attack. I know it's atheist forums, and the standard for civility is not exactly a high one, but that should qualify.
I probably haven't seen that doc, but I have seen lots made by MRAs. I read a lot of opinions from people I don't agree with. Basically I've covered most of my objections. My main one is a little more abstract actually, I am a big believer in manliness as a virtue, and I really see none of it coming from these guys. Complaining incesently is unmanly. Complaining when you have almost every position of power in the world is unmanly. The whole movement detracts from my personal esthetic of how a man should behave in the world. With honor and dignity and self sufficiency. A real man would never complain that women are oppressing him! If I think of a manly man, it's like a woodsman, or lumberjack. And that guy is never going to whine about being oppressed by feminism.
To be fair, his dipshit comment came as a response to getting called one. His name wasn't used, but it seems he was exactly who was being talked about. Because it was referring to people who use the word egalitarianism, and he was the only one who had. It came off as a passive agressive jab at him personally. Responding to being passive aggressively called dipshit by calling that person dipshit in return hardly warrants being accused of being an alt right sympathizer.
But anyway, I don't want to create a further tangent out of this. I'll let Tib speak for himself from this point.
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Second paragraph:
Ok, I actually do like what you're saying here and my husband said a similar thing when he watched with me. I agree with you. If I met a guy who talked about men's rights, I'd find it extremely unattractive and unmanly. But as for the points themselves... well, i can stand behind many of the points raised. Men do have certain disadvantages and im not going to deny that just because it sounds unattractive coming from a man.
To be fair, Thena was referring to a specific argument and Tibs apparently took offense at it (and called her a dipshit.) But all of that doesn't matter, because you said you never saw him lose his cool in the entire time you've been here! Not even true if you were just talking about this thread. Besides, him and Shell like to play good cop/bad cop.
Mostly though I like Tibs and im not that far from him on the ideological scale either and you know that I like you. I just thought it was a funny thing to say, given the context of this thread.
This place will for sure warp ones idea of what a calm and rational person is though. Lol.
Other then that I think I've exhausted my thoughts on MRAs, so Captain Awesome out!
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