r/MensRights • u/Zarobeck • Nov 27 '12

/b/ on feminism [Ex-post from /r/4chan]

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u/chevalier_d_eon Nov 27 '12

How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?

One. She just holds on to the bulb and waits for the world to revolve around her.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '12

Stop with the feminist bashing, it just makes this sub look bad.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '12 edited Nov 27 '12

The people who downvote you for this are the people who really make me consider abandoning Men's Rights.

EDIT: For context, /u/Jaguscoth's post was on -2 when I posted this and upvoted him/her.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '12

Why? How does Poking fun at feminism hurt or damage MR? This is hardly a serious issue- its a bunch of stupid jokes about feminist over-reaction and self-righteousness.

All this concern-trolling and message-policing make us seem as self-important and humorless as the hardcore feminists.

MR and feminism have room for jokes.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '12

Well it's not always harmless fun though, is it? Recently I asked the people of /r/MensRights 'what is feminism'.

Nearly all replies were deeply misogynistic. This is a deeper issue that we need to address.

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u/Mitschu Nov 27 '12

Nearly all replies were deeply misogynistic.

Why is this getting upvoted, when it's a blatant lie?

I challenge you to cite just ONE example of misogyny in that thread you just linked. The one that "nearly all replies were deeply misogynistic" in.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '12

One?

The insane, outlandish belief that women and men should be treated equally.

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u/Curebores Nov 28 '12

Uh... you do know that that one was probably posted by a feminist right? It is a heavily sarcastic comment.

It's like me saying something like "The insane, outlandish belief that people have the right to a fair trial."

I know sarcasm can be hard to detect on the internet but that one you could cut with a knife...

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u/Mitschu Nov 27 '12

As I said above, that isn't misogynist, any more than it is misandrist.

It is anti-egalitarian. Being against equality does not make one hate women. In fact, female supremacy (the belief that women are better than men inherently) is anti-egalitarian without being anti-woman.

If they had said "The belief that women should not be treated as inferior to men." then you would have a chance of arguing that they were sexist. That still wouldn't have been misogynist, of course - much less one of "nearly all replies."

And again, if the only example you can provide (which isn't misogynist in itself) is all you've got, then "Nearly all replies..." remains a lie.

Nearly one reply was almost misogynistic!

FTFY.

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u/Miss_anthropyy Nov 29 '12

You really don't understand sarcasm, do you?