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An open letter to men's rights activists
Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2013-04-19 22:55
Letter here. Excerpt:
'First, some background for any bystanders who need it: Men’s rights activists (MRAs) have been growing in number for a while as a sort of counter-movement against feminism. Turns out that when women try to get uppity, people get upset. Undoing thousands of years of oppression? That doesn’t sit well with MRAs.
But back to you, MRAs. I’ve seen you on the Internet, commenting on articles about feminist issues. “But what about the men?” is your rallying cry. I wouldn’t be surprised if you comment on this article — prove me wrong, please.
Sometimes it’s hard to even take you seriously. Just take a look at some article and video titles from the MRA website avoiceformen.com. “The Catalog of Anti-Male Shaming Tactics,” “Rape Farming: The next generation,” “What would female supremacy look like?” You even have a tag for “feminist lies.” It’s hard to be offended at times because it’s so absurd.
Sadly, I have to take you seriously, because the MRA movement is harmful — to people of all genders.
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... But whereas a male feminist is devoted to equality and recognizing how oppression of women hurts everyone in the long run, men’s rights activists are devoted to whining.'
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The whining has yet to begin
She thinks we're whining *now*? She ain't seen nuttin' yet! We have not yet begun to whine! :)
My following statement may
My following statement may put even more MRAs against me, but please here me out....I don't believe in gender equality. It is unachievable because it is not based on reality.
It is the flaw I see with feminist and with some MRAs (the MRAs that are seeking equality).
What I seek is for the genders to have an equal need and respect for each other, but I realize we will never be equal. I'm ok with that. For women to be "equal" we will always need "help" and we will have to suppress our reproductive biology (which is where our value is). It's a lose-lose situation.
Feminists want us to believe that woman should NOT be valued for reproductive capabilities (feminists hate women to be defined or associated with being good mothers) but they want women equally valued as men for all other duties needed for survival of society, but if women were naturally equal, they would not need so much help getting into those positions.. There really is no malicious prejudice keeping women out. It is simply having the most qualified person performing the job needed.
What a fool believes
I'm sure feminist will hate this but just as the dawn of civilization with Eve who venture outside of her intended lane to turn this world upside at the start, women will bring this country and the world to a dreadful end.
God has ordained each woman on this earth to care for the most important asset, widget, cog, portfolio or whatever you want to call a child, however a good number of women run from this. It's aligned with having the fattest, slowest kid play center field on the baseball team. Yes, he can play center field but would be best suited at 1st base or catcher. Why, because we know he will do well, an most likely better than his other teammates. He can contribute at CF but his body just wasn't designed to. And that is ok, and this is nothing wrong with that.
Women miss the point in what God (pick any religious doctrine)wants them to do. The most important job is to care for and raise your child, another human, the right way. I know he/she isn't yahoo with billions in assets or the new Windows 8 OS, but somehow, someway, they are more valuable than anything any women can oversee in a business. So when a women is the head of a fortune 500 company and boast about high tech products being made and quarterly earnings, ask her if her company can make a human baby and develop it with the most advanced computer system (brain), most innovative biological system, and most human like interaction of any device every made. Then ask who should take care of its extraordinary technologically advance systems that no other company has been able to produce. Windows 8?? How about Windows 8 million. But for some a reason a baby just doesn't seem to fit the bill for what women want to be in charge of, they want to cut into the second rate jobs held by men...but only certain ones.
LOL
They deleted my first comment. You know you hit them where it hurts when...
Anyway, here is a new comment I just posted which basically sums up the first comment:
I don't know what planet the person who wrote this is from. Feminists are always trying to shut down discussions dealing with men's issues. Just ask the U of T, where protesters tried to derail lectures dealing with the boy crisis in eduation, and male suicide by physically blocking people from entering the building and pulling fire alarms at later lectures dealing with similar topics. Can you see why we don't want to work with feminists? All you do is trivialize our problems, and take non-gendered problems like health insurance, birth control, and domestic violence and make them all about women. Even if you cared to help us out, all you would do is say "the patriarchy is the problem" thereby deferring the problem to a ficticious entity, which does no good. By the way, thanks for deleting my first post. That just tells me your afraid of what I have to say, because you know I'm right.