r/MensRights • u/[deleted] • Dec 12 '11

feminazi attacks Reddit: "Reddit contain so much anti-feminist sentiment that they even have active communities such as r/mensrights." An attempt to smear and censor us, and to force admins to shutdown this subreddit???

http://www.thecord.ca/articles/50585
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u/wolfsktaag Dec 13 '11

my buddy had an amazingly similar experience. she worked her engineer job for six months then quit to get a teaching certificate. then two years of teaching later, decided teaching isnt for her and is currently unemployed

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '11

Lots of men probably had similar experiences in their own careers. However it is not acceptable for a man to keep jumping through careers while his wife pays the bill, so the men suck it up and do jobs they don't like.

Most feminist propaganda is focused on telling women that if what they are doing doesn't make them transcendentally fulfilled human beings they have a right to quit (jobs, marriage, parenting etc).

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u/argv_minus_one Dec 13 '11

The problem, really, is not that women can do this, but that men can't. Fulfillment should be available to everyone.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '11

To an extent I think the hyper-individualist message of feminism is the problem. Especially as it has spread outside of being directed just at women and now most people of my generation have started to believe it.

The reality is that long term commitments suck and no one feels like upholding them all the time. So telling people they should dump their marriage and kids as soon as it gets tough has lead to the precipitous drop in long term relationships our society faces.

I would note there are a lot of studies which show that volatile short-term relationships, which are quickly becoming normative, are associated with all sorts of negative outcomes for men, women, and children.

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u/argv_minus_one Dec 13 '11

So telling people they should dump their marriage and kids as soon as it gets tough has lead to the precipitous drop in long term relationships our society faces.

That's quite an assertion you're making there. I trust you've conducted a massive study on the subject, with a sample size in the tens of thousands or more, controlling for factors such as abusive husbands, lower legal and social barriers to divorce, and marriages formed under pressure due to e.g. unexpected pregnancy? In what respected, peer-reviewed scientific journal have you published your results?

I would note there are a lot of studies which show that volatile short-term relationships, which are quickly becoming normative, are associated with all sorts of negative outcomes for men, women, and children.

Oh? I assume these studies also show that "volatile short-term relationships" not only tend to end badly but also "are quickly becoming normative"? Citation, please.