Men's Rights Movement

[Shell B]

Hammy, you really need to go and do some research. Firstly, men do suffer legitimate discrimination. Not as much as women, but that's irrelevant to the fact that they do suffer it. Maybe you haven't personally suffered it, but it still exists. Here are a few examples:

Longer prison sentences for the same crime.

Domestic Violence Shelters (there are loads of these for women and children, hardly any for men, despite the fact that 1 in 4 men have experienced domestic violence)

Prostate Cancer Awareness (breast cancer awareness funding is about 4 times as much as that for prostate cancer awareness funding, despite prostate cancer affecting the same numbers of men, and men often dying earlier from it)

Visitation Rights / Family Court in general (this doesn't really need any explanation unless you've lived under a rock for 30 years, men have a massive disadvantage in divorce proceedings that involve children)

Your mischaracterization of MRAs is exactly the same as claiming that feminists are all anti-men. It's fake and you couldn't back up that claim if you tried. This is unfortunately the reality of both movements though, that they have been poisoned by their fringe elements. Feminism is often seen as overreaching and anti-male, and MRAs are seen as anti-woman. However we shouldn't rely on false views of those movements to ignore the real grievances that both have.

If the issues above are important to you, then do something about it. I've gotten up off the couch and stood up in measurable ways for issues that are important to me and people close to me. Meaningful societal changes don't happen by creating a thread or posting on Facebook or social media.
And I'd also venture a guess that nobody's opinion here has changed on feminism despite this thread.

-Teresa

I can't tell if you're suggesting he doesn't do anything about it or if you're just making a general statement. We're active in politics and philanthropy as much as our schedules and income allow, which is more than we could have hoped for, so it's not just armchair activism in our house. That might change when we have littles, but for now, we have time to contribute.

I agree with you 100%. No one has changed their minds about feminism because of this thread. It's for the best.