The internet hates men, and no one's a winner

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2014-11-14 23:33

Article here. Excerpt:

'Sigh. A new current has developed in the polluted ocean of online videos. If you're a Facebook user, you'll have noticed it: it involves women, and men, and the former being incessantly harassed by the latter.
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Depictions of decent men have now become strikingly absent online. The overall suggestion is that men are guilty until proven innocent; this only reinforces gender stereotyping.

Indeed, we have reached a stage where feminist sites like Jezebel run stories like “How to kick men in the balls: an illustrated guide”, confirming the impression that the internet hates men. Misogynist trolling by horrid little men is a huge concern, but the answer is not to alienate the rest of us.

It must be acknowledged – and strongly so – that most of the men watching these videos would never dream of treating women in this way. Call me optimistic, but in my experience, there are at least 10 gentlemen for every abuser. And that's a conservative estimate.

What message are upstanding men, particularly the younger ones, supposed to take from this cataract of negative campaigning? In the current climate of febrile abusiveness, both online and in "meatspace", this is something that should concern everyone. The more the anti-men trend gains traction, the more women will be deprived of decent male allies in the battle against abuse.'

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I went over to Jezebel to read the comments on their essay: “How to kick men in the balls: an illustrated guide."

The first few comments were along the lines of "MRA is going to go crazy over this [essay]."

There were over 800 comments.

There were none from MRA.

I think feminists are going insane.

This is sort of a turning point. The feminists are salaciously waiting for fuming MRA, but MRA guys (and female supporters) are busy building a counter organization to feminism.

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Submitted by ThomasI on Tue, 2014-11-18 10:53

. . . if someone wrote a companion piece to the Jezebel article explaining when it's okay to hit a woman, let alone in the same spot, how that would go over.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Tue, 2014-11-18 18:25

Seriously... feminists are deranged. They would use it as a field day to mock men. And raise the ire.

For me, the best part, after scanning the comments, was that there was not hate.

I think it is disappointing them.

Right now is the time to hold steady and not be swayed by the sirens of anger. Men can focus. So focus. Ignore them and continue the dialogue with other men on MRA. THAT is how to persevere.

They WANT you to lose focus and write such companion pieces.

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Submitted by ThomasI on Tue, 2014-11-18 18:56

Just to be clear, I was only speaking hypothetically to point out how tasteless the Jezebel article was. I never had any intention of sinking to their level.

Hopefully Jezebel, like the one in the Bible, will also be eaten by a pack of angry dogs one day.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Tue, 2014-11-18 23:35