Advocates for men move into social media, Internet in fight for parity

Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2011-10-13 05:22

Article here. Excerpt:

'A burgeoning civil rights movement, focused on eliminating what its members see as broadening social and legal disparities between men and women, is using social media and the Internet to spread its message demanding parity.

Active in North America but also evident in increasingly visible efforts abroad, the Men's Rights Movement (MRM) is fighting proposed and existing legislation its members see as "misandric," while challenging social customs and traditions its activists believe favor women over men.
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While "gender feminism" is frequently blamed as the root cause of these problems, few issues within the MRM inspire as much vocal outcry as false allegations of sexual assault.

"We have men literally going to prison and having their lives destroyed, their reputations... all over finger pointing," Elam says. "This is a huge problem across the movement."

Elam and his fellow activists have fought back by creating their own website, "Register Her," which purports to be a public database of false accusers, violent female offenders and even public figures who have advocated against men.

One of Elam's more prominent targets among the latter is Mary Kellett, an assistant district attorney in Maine, whom the site calls a "corrupt public official" who "has distinguished herself by prosecuting numerous cases of rape and domestic violence against men within her community based on no evidence."

Calls for comment to Kellett's office were not returned.'

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Written by someone who obviously doesn't know much about the men's rights movement. But it's good that this information is getting out there. The fact that the movement is defined first and foremost via a feminist source says a lot. It's time that we defined our own movement, instead of allowing feminists to define it for us.

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Thu, 2011-10-13 18:14

Wikipedia once had a page that defined men's rights (as in the movement). Feminist editors decided that men's rights meant the concept of rights as experienced by men, and proceeded to delete all content relevant to the civil movement and replace it with comparisons of rights men have that women don't... AKA, a feminist perspective.

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Submitted by Kratch on Thu, 2011-10-13 19:30