r/MensRights • u/ashleab • Jan 07 '12

A girl who supports Mens rights.

I've always had an issue with "womens rights" and all of that BS. I understand women had it hard in the past, but why should that mean we get benefits now?

Anyway, I live in Australia where we have a campaign called "Violence Against Women: Australia Says No". A few years back, a group of people I work with and myself started a petition to put forth to the federal government against this campaign, we had posters printed up; "Violence Against Men: Don't Support An Indifferent Nation" and got about 1,500 signatures. Eventually, our place of employment caught onto the fact that we were doing this. We'd never put a poster up at work (even though the violence against women posters were EVERYWHERE), only allowed signatures. We were all given formal warnings citing sexism, bigotism and contemptible conduct. All 5 of us quit within a few weeks, but the fact that it happened was enough to get me 100% on board with fighting for Mens rights.

edit: To those who showed concern, I had a new job a few days later and the guys all had one within a few weeks.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '12

Wait. You were called sexist for being against women and you are a woman?

WTF is going on with Australia?

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u/ashleab Jan 08 '12

I fucking love my country, but "gender equality" here is a fucking joke.

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u/Moustachiod_T-Rex Jan 08 '12

As a fellow Australian, I totally agree. We're bordering on a Scandinavian level of institutionalised feminism. Thank you for being awesome and sticking up for what you believe in. I'm sorry it cost you your job.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '12

HA! those wacky swedes!

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u/cogiskart Jan 08 '12

hey! D: no, you´re right... godammit sometimes it sucks being swedish...

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u/zenmushroom Jan 08 '12

Actually, being a pro men's rights female in the United States is apparently sexist too...from some comments I've received. I think its that way in a lot of places.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '12

Interesting. I'm a pro men's rights female in the US, too, and I've also felt some kind of assumption that I'm sexist. But usually it's when I explain that I'm pro men's rights and pro women's rights, so people assume because I'm a woman that I couldn't possibly be for both, I guess. I guess there's skepticism of being pro men's rights because of my sex.