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gollygee

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36. I have a family member who believes all this crap
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 07:48 PM
Dec 2013

And he's a seemingly normal person who holds down a job, has kids, a wife (also an ex-wife, but he was an MRA before not getting custody,) and talks about sports and stuff. Seems totally normal until certain topics come up, including MRA issues like false rape allegations, violence against women, etc.

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Fuck your Men’s Rights Activism [View all] YoungDemCA Dec 2013 OP
Sickening material there. NYC_SKP Dec 2013 #1
+1 nomorenomore08 Dec 2013 #18
at least we are slutty and not frigid. will have more to say later. when i read the rest. seabeyond Dec 2013 #2
I'm not going to use that broad a brush, there are legitimate issues Warpy Dec 2013 #3
Perhaps the broad brush from the author of the article... YoungDemCA Dec 2013 #5
The issues you cite are legitimate, but MRA groups aren't putting any energy into them at all. Squinch Dec 2013 #8
Well, you rarely notice entitlement Warpy Dec 2013 #15
If more MRA's actually did real work on behalf of "men's issues" - child custody, prisoner abuse etc nomorenomore08 Dec 2013 #19
That's why the web site owners and leadership IRL needs to exercise a little discipline Warpy Dec 2013 #21
Agree all around. nomorenomore08 Dec 2013 #24
you were in the thread about the bad mean fems. i did not read it. but the ones that are so out seabeyond Dec 2013 #27
Any belief system can be taken to an unreasonable or unrealistic extreme. nomorenomore08 Dec 2013 #28
They're no joy, that's for sure ismnotwasm Dec 2013 #4
Rape Tourette's!!! xulamaude Dec 2013 #6
speaking as a male, I find those comments baffling.... mike_c Dec 2013 #7
+1 nomorenomore08 Dec 2013 #10
as far as the western thing. that is interesting. for a time i was going into the news comment seabeyond Dec 2013 #13
Good for you ismnotwasm Dec 2013 #16
another issue. when googling. i will type in something about feminism and women and what pops up seabeyond Dec 2013 #17
Ew ismnotwasm Dec 2013 #22
What's the difference between Men's rights activists and men who claim not to be BainsBane Dec 2013 #9
Which is why they need to be called out when they invoke said arguments. nomorenomore08 Dec 2013 #11
You're the one who goes over there BainsBane Dec 2013 #12
I wasn't telling you or anyone else what to do. Sorry if I came off that way. nomorenomore08 Dec 2013 #14
If you came out and said that, they'd ban you BainsBane Dec 2013 #20
No disagreement from me. I really have to shake my head at a few of these posts. nomorenomore08 Dec 2013 #23
I think he's back BainsBane Dec 2013 #25
Yeah, the real assholes always keep coming back, tenaciously... Like drug-resistant bacteria... nomorenomore08 Dec 2013 #26
Yep. gollygee Dec 2013 #34
Show we yours, I'll show you mine BainsBane Dec 2013 #35
simpatico... cause i am with you two. nt seabeyond Dec 2013 #38
The one thing that they all have in common - Dash87 Dec 2013 #29
What sick crap! smirkymonkey Dec 2013 #30
Way more of them than you want to imagine, unfortunately - xulamaude Dec 2013 #31
Plenty. Salon has written about how these views are becoming mainstream. redqueen Dec 2013 #32
I think we all have witnessed it too BainsBane Dec 2013 #33
absolutely. and that is the real danger when googling about rape the whole first page is false seabeyond Dec 2013 #39
^^Right there^^ xulamaude Dec 2013 #40
I have a family member who believes all this crap gollygee Dec 2013 #36
He seems totally normal... xulamaude Dec 2013 #37
I wish it were just the Tea Party BainsBane Dec 2013 #41
Sick stuff. smirkymonkey Dec 2013 #42
I was amused when one of their staunchest defenders tried to shut me up redqueen Dec 2013 #43
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