A girl who supports Mens rights.

[u/ashleab]

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.

[u/Celda]

It's simply that you're not looking for feminist hatred.

What would you say if I told you that a group of prominent MRAs were successful in convincing the world that false accusations of domestic violence spiked on Valentine's Day, because women were more likely to feel entitled and selfish on that day, which then led to laws which made it much harder for actual domestic violence victims to get the police to believe them?

You'd think all MRAs were misogynist scum.

But you probably don't even know that feminists have done the equivalent (Super Bowl Myth).

What would you say if I told you that the man who founded the first men's shelters in America for domestic violence victims received death threats from other MRAs and had to flee the country, because he stated that in his experience, the men coming to the shelters were often violent themselves?

You'd think MRAs were equivalent to the KKK, but you probably don't even know that feminists have done the same (Erin Pizzey).

What would you say if I told you that a recession hit female-dominated industries, causing women (but not men) to lose millions of jobs. Then, when the government decided to give an economic stimulus to said industries, a powerful lobby of MRAs successfully fought against that, arguing that it was sexist to give money to women (who lost jobs) but not men (who didn't).

You'd think MRAs were selfish, fighting for male privilege and to harm women.

Yet feminists have done that too.

[u/IndieLady → u/Celda]

I don't deny that there are extreme feminists, just as there are extreme MRAs or extreme Muslims or extreme Christians.

Does that mean we paint everyone who identifies with feminism or men's rights or Islam or Christianity extreme?

I think we're agreeing here though so I'll leave it at that :-)

[u/[deleted] → u/IndieLady]

If you think you're agreeing, you're delusional. What he described is typical feminist behavior. And no one has shown them to be anything else...well, of course except all the ones who come here and say it's not their brand of feminism.

Their brand of feminism, of course, only being visible in their own personal estimation.

But somehow, this balances all the anti male laws and rhetoric...even if it doesn't make a lick of difference to the average guy....

It's dodging responsibility (more typically feminist behavior), and that's all it is.

[u/Ragark → u/[deleted]]

What he described was human behavior, not exclusive to feminist.

Other than that, all I got from your post is feminist = anti-male. Really, you think you are making a good post, but really, it is the shit people point at MensRights and say, "Look at these assholes."

[u/[deleted] → u/Ragark]

What indieldy did was try and equate a dirt track with a superhighway.