'Lies our fathers told us: The men's rights movement and campus-based misogyny'

Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2012-10-07 16:51

Article here. Excerpt:

'I first encountered the Canadian men's rights movement directly when I was in Peterborough last November.

Some friends and associates of mine and I had driven from Toronto early one morning to attend the Policy Assembly of the Socialist Party of Ontario that was being held at Trent University. Upon arriving, we were greeted by the usual array of posters that litter the halls of any university. Among them were dozens of posters for what was a newly formed campus "Men's Issues Awareness Society."

The posters were juvenile in both presentation and content. They made a variety of claims, entirely out of context, that, simply put, attempted to make the case that not only are women no longer victims of systemic inequality, but also that the shoe is now on the other foot. It is men's issues that are being "ignored" and it is men that are now allegedly facing discrimination. This "discrimination," further, is being disregarded due to the influence of feminism in our society.

These claims, of course are absurd, a point to which I will return. However, their very idiocy had the effect of making me not take the groups around this postering campaign seriously. That is a mistake. The "Men's Rights Movement" needs to be taken very seriously, and many of its adherents and ideas are very dangerous.'

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i couldnt make it thru the whole text after i saw the word patriarchy i skipped to the comments and the lie continued there saying there were 2 mens shelters in edmonton alone(on the first comment)!!! ummm where???

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Submitted by Rog on Sun, 2012-10-07 23:52

Fear mongering always works.

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Submitted by el cid on Mon, 2012-10-08 20:33

MASH 4077 is one. They are also desperate for funds, since they aren't government funded http://www.familyofmen.com/donate/. I believe there is also a campus based men's center in one of the universities there that does a lot of work with DV victims. Ironically, those are the only two places in all of Canada that I know of (and not sure they are actually in edmonton, only that they are in alberta)

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Submitted by Kratch on Tue, 2012-10-09 00:36