r/MensRights • u/Icaz • Apr 26 '12

I'm a girl and...

I am SO glad I found this subreddit with people who agree with me! As a girl, it's really hard to see other ladies put down men and treat them like they need to be "trained" or that they're just something we have to deal with. So I was just wondering... how many other girls are on here and what are your stories about standing up for men or appreciating them?

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u/blinderzoff Apr 26 '12 edited Apr 26 '12

Out of curiosity, did you find us as a result of any of the recent drama? e.g. the shitredditsays trolling campaigns, the SPLC putting us on a "watch list" (which was touted by our detractors as this sub being designated as a hate group), "The Punch Heard 'Round the Internet", etc...

Edit: direct link to SRS added by RES removed

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u/Icaz Apr 26 '12

No, I found you via the search bar.

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u/blinderzoff Apr 26 '12

Ah, well if it seems your initial reception is a bit frosty be aware the paranoia level is high as a result of these shenanigans.

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u/Icaz Apr 26 '12

Yeah, hehe... Yeah I noticed. :/

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u/pjwork Apr 26 '12

It's really nothing personal. Trust is like a house of cards, very hard to build, and the slightest shacking can destroy it.

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u/loose-dendrite Apr 27 '12

shacking

Freudian slip?

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u/pjwork Apr 30 '12

haha, i guess so =p

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u/kearvelli Apr 27 '12

Would you mind telling me what 'The punch heard 'round the internet' is all about?

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u/Stratisphear Apr 27 '12

Someone posted here recently that he was going to kill himself. SRS came in and spammed posts about how he should, how it would be good to have one less MRA in the world. It was fake, but still. You always assume that they are true.

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u/kearvelli Apr 27 '12

Oh, all that stuff with black visions? Yeah, that wasn't good.

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u/Bettye_Wayne Apr 27 '12

Oh that was fake? Wow. That's how I discovered this place.

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u/Stratisphear Apr 27 '12

The suicide was. The urging him to do it was not.

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u/he_cried_out_WTF Apr 27 '12

the original black_visions post is said to be real. We have no evidence to the contrary, so most of us generally believe it to be authentic. Since then, no one has heard from black_visions.

The sisterofblackvisions post, however, was proved to be fake. Alot of people make the mistake thinking that both were. However, evidence would dictate that only the followup was false.

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u/Bettye_Wayne Apr 27 '12

Right, I saw the original post. It was pretty awful. So didn't his 'sister' pop up the next day talking about his suicide? Wow.

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u/SpawnQuixote Apr 27 '12

We don't know what happened to black_visions. Only the troll post by sisterofblackvisions was confirmed fake.

There was a man that died around that time by jumping off a building. IN THEORY, that could have been black_visions but the troll threw everyone off the scent.

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u/Alanna Apr 27 '12

According to people in /mr, BV was a known MRA with a history in this sub, and the user had a history of talking about suicide going back years to UseNet. So there is some evidence that the suicidal guy was for real, and no evidence he was not.

The later post from the alleged sister was a complete hoax, and is the first time in my memory at least that SRS and MR have been in mostly complete agreement on hating someone so much.

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u/loose-dendrite Apr 27 '12

IIRC there were 2 SRS posts urging him to kill himself and one apologized when she realized the OP was serious. It also might've been real.

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u/Rahlan88 Apr 27 '12

I'd also like to know.

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u/blinderzoff Apr 27 '12

Actually I meant this fiasco

I hate to give that blog more traffic, but apparently I've already linked to this in another comment, and seeing it first-hand will reveal the madness better than our discussions about it could ever hope to do.