The Men's Rights Movement: I Just Don't Get It.

[Zazzy]

Media’s portrayal of men is a hot topic as the media does portray males, usually as dumb, violent, and/or incompetent.

Agreed to a certain extent- it's a lower midlle class thing: the dumb fat pig married to a wife who usually makes fun of him (there are SO many TV shows with this theme), but I don't think men get this worse than women do- the dumb girl or the bitch are portrayed as often. And I think there are plenty of smart menand women in the media. I don't think this is unequal- it's just that the stereotypes are different, not worse for either. It's possible I could be swayed from this position, though.

When it comes to physical harm, the male gets the shaft in a lot of cases. In the south where I live (which their views of rape are the opposite.) a female can literally go all fight club and put a man in jail for at least 24 hours. Also, in Texas a woman can use this abuse thing and mess up a guy’s life.

I live in Texas, too, and you're right. But again, men mess women up pretty badly on a pretty regular basis, so I don't see this as an inequality issue, either. I don't have the stats, but I don't think the majority of serious domestic cases are women beating on men (although I recently read of a case in Texas where a woman killed her boyfriend with a high-heeled shoe). This is not to say that woman-on-man violence is not an issue, but I seriously doubt it's an even-steven thing.

Concerning sex and martial parts of the courts. Women get alimony (for whatever reason) nearly has a guaranteed chance for getting the kids, and the obvious taking half or more of the man’s material possessions.

Alimony has always confused me, but then again, I have a good education and earning power. I know plenty of women who have given up careers to raise kids, and when the marriage fell apart, hell YES they took half the property. Is it always right? I don't know. But none of the women I know were trying to screw the guy (OK, so one was, but he was a real shit); they genuinely felt half the property belonged to them for their work in the marriage.

In terms of reproductive rights, women have almost a monopoly on this. With the ability to force a man to pay for a child, to forcing a man to give up the child to abortion (which it fine since it is her choice.). Now there is head way in the male contraceptives which I think will remedy this a lot and perhaps cause little bit of issue.

Absolutely 100% agreed. Men should be protesting in the streets and forcing research to provide them with better birth control. It's unconscionable that in this day and age men have so few options to control their reproduction- it mostly comes down to trusting women, and we've all seen how well that works out sometimes.

FYI- a shot of a gel into the vas deferens (which is 100% reversible) has been developed that so far has been 100% effective at preventing sperm release over a period of many years. It's not being marketed because men aren't very excited about it- I guess a one-time shot in the testes isn't that appealing (I'll post some links if anyone's interested- I believe it's called Vasogel).

So in short, we should be equalists and work together!

Of course. Working for equality doesn't mean working for domination- it means equality.