Bad Behavior

All,

I received a note from Terri Lynn Tersak at True-equality.org regarding the MANN post of 3/19 announcing the release of her study.

She said she has received phone calls at the number previously appearing in that post that were not just rude but in some cases hostile to an unacceptable degree, and that those callers have referred to mensactivism.org as the source of the reason for their calls.

I am not suggesting that anyone in the thread associated with that post are among them; indeed I don't know who made such calls if they did. But I am saying that if indeed it is true she has received such calls, it makes MRAs look very, very bad and does absolutely nothing to further the cause.

The approach to take with people who you disagree with is to argue in favor of your position based on factual points and reasoned opinions. If you look at how the typical feminist responds to people who disagree with her (or him), they are usually quickly moved to a very irate state, something that used to serve them but quickly stopped doing so after men caught on to what they were doing. [After that their new approach was dissemination of false information and intense lobbying of legislators with smiling suggestions that such would lose "the women's vote" if they didn't support such-and-such a piece of legislation.]

We have seen this in action repeatedly on Fox News when Marc Rudov takes on some feminist. And each time that happens, Marc walks away looking better than when he came on, more people out there in TV-land have their sympathies and opinions swayed closer to the MRA cause, and he gets more air time from Fox as each such encounter occurs. It's true he sometimes gets annoyed but does he ever say things to the other party that could be interpreted as menacing in any way? Not that I have seen.

Think before you act, guys. It's about the cause, not the catharsis. If you want to vent, vent here.

Matt

---

Follow-up: Note the post here. Whatever individual or individuals who made such calls should now be wondering very much what got into his head to do so. I would suggest to him or them to start looking for a good lawyer or two now. And, I hope they find you.