Posted on 09/03/2014 9:52:40 AM PDT by Theoria
This summer, a few hundred men and a handful of women gathered in a VFW hall near Detroit to attend what organizers billed as the first International Conference on Men's Issues.
The crowd wasn't huge, but it was enthusiastic. The event was a real-world gathering organized by the website A Voice for Men, part of an informal collection of websites, chat rooms and blogs focused on what's known as the men's rights movement. Speaker after speaker insisted that history would remember this moment.
"It's happening here. It's happening now. It's happening with us," Warren Farrell, one of the keynote speakers, told the crowd. Farrell, who published The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex in 1993, is often described as the intellectual father of the men's rights movement.
Leaders in the movement say they want to bring more attention to the problems of men and boys. Critics worry, however, that these sites are a breeding ground for misogyny.
For his part, Farrell actually tries to avoid the phrase "men's rights."
"It's like somebody saying we're in favor of the king's rights," he says. "The average person thinks that men are already at the top of the political structure. They have all the rights, they made all the rules, [and] if anything is going wrong with men, it's their fault, because after all, it's just a consequence of men's rules."
But that perspective, Farrell says, is "just completely missing the point."
'Cries Of Pain And Alienation'
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There is nothing feminine about feminism.
Amen!
I want to know why 18 year old boys must still sign up with the draft and girls get a free pass. There must be some man who’d like to take this discrimination case.
Also, when it comes to parental rights men get the short stick.
Preach it.
Actually, it’s come at the expense of both men AND women.
Spot on!
It’s Hillary who needs to get back in the kitchen...and finish baking those cookies ;-)
Men are evil, sexist, privileged, patriarchal, rapists, bullies, etc. < / s >
Not that there’s anything wrong with that...
I noticed something about the left and their “zero-sum” thinking.
Even if a system ISN’T zero-sum, they will make it that way in order to play one group against another.
you know the American male is getting to be pretty pathetic....whiners, wimps,scared to make a fuss, scared to stand up to anybody...
there was a Christian rock song that talked about "we're supposed to be courageous" referring to men....
I think once men and boys put down their porn fix and their video games, and their endless sports on tv like it was a god, and remember that they are supposed to be the leaders, the husbands, the fathers, the wage earners, ALL the so called feminist problems will simply disappear, because women want real men in the final analysis....
That is very true too.
That is why The Femanazi's spent years spitting in men's faces so they would stop trying.
If you have ever been a shooting war and see the damage that a bullet, a mine, can do to a man, lost limbs, chunks blown out of the body, blood everywhere you might understand.
That would be a capital mistake. They have this vet and my sons to deal with before one of my daughters is signed up. It’s bad enough with the gay games they are already playing with our nation’s forces.
“you go to outside countries probably because you’re not much of a catch here....
you know the American male is getting to be pretty pathetic....whiners, wimps,scared to make a fuss, scared to stand up to anybody...
there was a Christian rock song that talked about “we’re supposed to be courageous” referring to men....
I think once men and boys put down their porn fix and their video games, and their endless sports on tv like it was a god, and remember that they are supposed to be the leaders, the husbands, the fathers, the wage earners, ALL the so called feminist problems will simply disappear, because women want real men in the final analysis....”
Just like a feminist...everything is always the man’s fault and women are never at fault or to be blamed for anything.
Well - that video was interesting....very informative
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