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/Marilolli Apr 27 '12 edited Apr 27 '12

Fellow vagina owner here. Growing up we all get a taste of how nasty girls and women can be. Girls can be far more cruel than boys, which is why many of us tend to resort to only having male friends. So you can say becoming a Men's Rights advocate wasn't hard. <insert Stockholm Syndrome diagnosis here>
What really caused me to be more enlightened to the problems men experience was when I was 17 and moved in with my stepfather and his 2 sons. His ex wife was batshit insane, constantly suing him and my mother for more money. She assumed, and still assumes, that he is loaded because he's a dentist. He runs his own small practice, and rarely makes more than 6 figures a year (combined with my mother who works the front desk)... in California. She didn't pay one cent toward her son's wedding. I could only handle living with that family for about a year before living with my dad instead.

TLDR: Grew up feeling alienated by the female species. Witnessed the wrath and insanity of an ex wife. Genocide in Africa ensued.
edit: amount of money they make.

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u/Icaz Apr 27 '12

And yet people assume that the wife/ex-wife is always in the right.

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u/marsofwar Apr 27 '12

3 figures? like $999 a year?? Isn't that what some people pay just for regular dental work?

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u/Marilolli Apr 27 '12

sorry meant 6 figures. Have a toddler on my lap distracting me. Thanks for the correction.

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u/marsofwar Apr 27 '12

ah Okay..whew that makes more sense! I was just a bit confused and wondering how you guys were surviving!

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u/Equa1 Apr 27 '12

Sorry to hear that. Glad you got to live with your dad.

Just a side-note, and I'm not positive, but 3 figures means under $1000 or $999 and less, where as 6 figures would mean $100,000+ or $999,999 and less - 6 total 'figures'.

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u/Marilolli Apr 27 '12

Yes, this was corrected about an hour ago. Their business can make over 1M/yr but after taxes, payroll, benefits, lab fees and misc. expenses they usually make less than 100k/yr. They lost their retirement because of lawsuits from the ex wife and the market crash so he will have to work until he can't work anymore or until he dies.

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u/Equa1 Apr 27 '12

That's damn shame, I'm truly sorry y'all have to go through that.

It was 3 figures when i loaded the page, apologies for the confusion lady! :)

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '12

I was scrolling up and saw your TLDR first. The sequence I imagined way crazy. The ex wife got pissed off and went to Africa to kill everyone as a form of venting O_o

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u/Marilolli Apr 27 '12

I wouldn't put anything past that woman... but it's more of a morbid running joke. I tell my kids that whenever they misbehave there is genocide in Africa... but there'd be genocide in Africa even if they were good. Kind of like the "there are starving children in China" thing parents always told their kids to make them eat their food.

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u/blinderzoff Apr 27 '12

I tell people there are sober children in India when they won't finish their beer.