How else to explain people who get all up in your face about their rights, about how they are disadvantaged and downtrodden and have been historically hurt by others, who then turn around and act like assholes to everyone else.
Respect, and rights, and freedom are all two way streets, guys (and, yes, gals). Caring about the injustices done to you and waving off the injustices done to other is not only blind, it's counter-productive.
So, yes, guys, men do have some special problems in our society. Can we acknowledge that and work to change it without denying that others have their own special problems that should also be addressed — problems that maybe we have, wittingly or unwittingly, contributed to? And can we do it without suddenly turning all women into lying shrews and castrating lesbians who deserve whatever's done to them because "WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE!"?
Please?
Reshared post from +George Wiman
If you've peeked out from under the rock lately, you know there's a thing going on with Twitter and Facebook and G+ using the hashtag #YesAllWomen, about the awful treatment practically all women have experienced. Not from all men, in case you want to jump in and say "Not me!" but from too many men. Often from men who identify with something called the MRM, or Men's Rights Movement. Many of whom infest the forums of the gaming world.
Except the makers of the role-playing game Eclipse Phase told them to go away; "We don't need you". Which inspired novelist Chuck Wendig to say something similar: go away, MRAs. I am posting his missive here because of a parenthetical comment about balls as a sign of toughness and a vagina as a sign of weakness. That paragraph alone is worth the read…
http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2014/05/29/burning-the-mra-playbook-or-yesallmras/
Burning The MRA Playbook (Or, #YesAllMRAs)
The other day I wrote this thing — “Not All Men, But Still Too Many Men” — with the goal of pointing folks toward the #YesAllWomen hashtag on Twitter, where women talked about their stories, expe…
The thing that makes me sad is that there are mens' rights issues that genuinely deserve discussion (fatherhood, the experience of gay men, the rather fraught way we approach masculinity, etc), and the MRA movement not only ignores that stuff completely but makes it almost impossible to discuss that stuff.
+Brittany Constable Yes, yes, yes. And I wold even say that there are issues they do get on about that have some legitimacy. They are not alone in this, but are certainly exemplars of how some folk are their own worst enemies in terms of getting their issues discussed and addressed.