"Why it’s time for men to face up to a violent reality"

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2015-03-10 21:12

Article here. Excerpt:

'We all give lip service to the problem of male-on-female violence, but I think its true horror is rarely felt, at least not by men like me.

On Sunday, which was International Women’s Day, I watched with disgust as a host of male trolls made noise about ‘Meninism’ and male rights.

Like petulant children, they asked why there is no day for men (there is) and why issues like male suicide and rape are ignored (they aren’t).
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To my fellow blokes, I say you punch like men. You rape like men. You drink like men. You fight wars like men. You hurt children like men.

Woman up.'

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Glad to see the readers aren't obsequiously rolling over for this piece of bigotry.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2015-03-14 05:09

Let's suppose a foreign power decided to invade our country. This foreign power wanted to take our wives, our children, our property, and then force us to work and send our earnings to them so they could afford to raise the children they took from us. If we refused to send them money, they would jail us.

Would we be justified in opposing this foreign power using force or violence? Or should we meekly acquiesce?

Yet everyday in divorce court our own government gives our wives our children, our property, and forces us to work and send our earnings to her so she can afford to raise the children the government took from us. If we refuse to send her money, the government jails us.

If a foreign government did this to us as a country, I suspect we would all feel justified in using violence to repulse that government. But men are expected to meekly acquiesce when it's done to them as individuals. As individuals, they can only fight back with the resources they have. The state is typically on her side and has far more resources than the individual man has. So he loses and disappears in a bottle--or he becomes an MRA.

It's important to look carefully at what is routine done to men and understand that male violence is typically the only solution he has left--the laws and the society oppose him and support her. Warren Farrell observed that male DV is the result of male powerlessness, not power. I suspect he's right: male violence is the last resort of a powerless man.

The woman, on the other hand, uses the proxy violence of the state to keep him in place, to force him to comply--and DV laws are simply another tool at her disposal. Male violence is often his last desperate attempt to maintain some power or control over what happens--but he can't match the power of the state. If he turns violent, the state uses even more violence against him.

This article represents all the anti-male ideology used to justify maltreatment of men. And it this maltreatment that often results in individual male violence.

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Submitted by el cid on Sat, 2015-03-14 17:31