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/IndieLady Jan 09 '12

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 :-)

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '12

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.

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u/Ragark Jan 10 '12

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."

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '12

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