For the most part yeah, infidelity is too high across the board

I've always seen people say that humans aren't meant for pair-bonding for life but I don't want to believe that, I want to believe that people can still be happy in a monogamous relationship for 60 years or whatever

The idea of a successful 2 person relationship went right down the drain with the values of previous society, it seems

That ad is an attack disguised as positivity. It paints men with a large, broad brush and implies that "If you're upset, you're part of the problem"

A similar ad targeted at women would not go down well either. Imagine an ad showing women committing paternity fraud, gold digging, abusing children, with the message "Be the best you can be, women".

It's already being shown that Gen Z is far more conservative than millennials

It makes sense, even with a condom there's almost always going to be some contact with some kind of bodily fluid

OP has seen too many instances of reddit being reddit essentially

There are places on reddit where defending a man in even the most innocuous of ways will get you downvoted or even banned

I was banned from TwoX for exactly that, basically saying "All men are not rapists and it's understandable they wouldn't like to be painted that way"

I made my reddit account 3 years ago or so and back then you were auto-subbed to TwoX, so naturally when I saw something anti-male pop up on my dash I'd go try and have a conversation

didn't last long

I dunno I was autosubbed to a lot of stuff, /r/pics, /r/aww, /r/dataisbeautiful, I guess the normal stuff reddit slapped onto peoples accounts as a "starter kit"

just so happened to include TwoX

hey, at least we have more subs than /r/feminism

the original link you posted was fafsa 😛 ironically also relevant since men have to sign up for the draft to receive financial aid

I see this "emotional labor" thing pop up more and more and I don't get it. Make up your mind, feminists, are men allowed to talk about their issues or aren't they?

They always argue that men don't talk about their feelings and then when a man seeks some support it's now emotional labor

that's the wildest part about it, it literally is a religion where the only tenet is "woman good"

I spent so much time when I was younger acting as an emotional caretaker for the women in my life, but I never saw it as "labor" because people generally do genuinely appreciate it

Calling it emotional labor just sounds like something a selfish person who doesn't care about anyone but themselves would call it

I've never heard about that, I didn't even exist in the 80s, but there was a time when communal showering was a part of gym class

This is true, I wish men's rights didn't end where double standards in favor of women began

When we argue against the double standards people are so easily able to excuse it as woman hating or wanting to take rights away from women

This is very true, no one wants to be nekkid in front of their school age peers

I've always used turbotax

the problem with them is they want to charge you in order to import your previous year's info, other than that it's good

I've never seen anyone banned from MRA subs for disagreeing, people only get banned for being actual antagonistic jerks

but I have gotten banned from quite a few subreddits by completely totalitarian mods

I got banned from /r/cryptocurrency for literally saying "now that bitcoin is crashing, maybe GPU prices will settle down" because crypto mining had doubled/tripled the price of graphics cards

I don't know about shadowbanning but I know if you get banned for a post generally you'll get an inbox

I hear a lot of people who post in mensrights are shadowbanned from a lot of subs automatically

I don't even go on /r/all anymore

did you come here through reddit?

/r/all is basically a page that shows the currently top voted threads from a bunch of different subreddits, even stuff you didn't subscribe to

it usually just ends up being a lot of political propaganda

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The comments on the original thread it was crossposted from are fucking awful

I have a load of sympathy for actual rape victims but even if the guy did do it a straight up public execution by beating is not okay

It's just a bit excessive, I think it's a bit sociopathic to see someone do something wrong and think "Well, I wish them death or a great deal of pain for the rest of their life"

One of my ex girlfriends was raped while we were together and yeah, I will admit to wanting to rip the guy's head off but would that have undone what he did? Not at all

it was a gift and I think bergmite is adorable

@Thedemogamer💙

nearing twice as many

I think they're split between several subs though which baffles me

you'd think you'd want people who agree with you to be in the same place?

This is true

I've heard /r/menslib hates /r/mensrights but I haven't gone to menslib and as such don't know what the beef is

The falsifying of statistics and spread of misinformation is what really gets me

My favorite thing is when you ask a feminist "What right do men have that women don't have?" they say something along the lines of "I'm afraid to walk alone at night!"

That's not a right either

No one should feel comfortable walking alone at night honestly, it sounds like a recipe for disaster even for a man

Pretty much, I think I've seen one feminist, ever, argue against circumcision and it blew my mind a bit

As far as I know, women who actually report their rapes almost never watch their rapist go free

Men who report their rapes however....

Funnily enough it seems like feminism is actually about taking away agency and responsibility for women, almost every change they clamor for is effectively something that will make women no longer have to be responsible people

If you're afraid to walk alone at night that's good. That's being responsible for your own safety

Abortions and free birth control stop women from having to be sexually responsible

The "wage gap" myth aims to prevent women from having to make good career choices

I mean yeah, if you target-swap anti-male statements of course it's going to sound closer to racism

There are a number of reasons I see it closer to religion

Feminism is basically a base set of ideals but the individuals are able to interpret and apply those ideals as they see fit, same deal with religion, there's no real consistency from individual to individual

In religion, if you denounce (insert religion's god here) you are to be damned for all eternity. When it comes to feminism, if you denounce their ideals, you might as well be damned

Comparing it to racism is a very good way to point out particular instances of man-hate

But I've never seen a racist be able to excuse themselves by saying "I'm not against black people, I'm just pro white"

("I'm not against men, I'm just pro women")

Jeez man, in the -20s fahrenheit?

do they cancel school and such for conditions like that?

I hope the homeless there are at least able to do get some sort of help

What are the chances women's shelters would open their doors to the men? (I have my suspicions about the answer)

Wow, the person who posted this got a 7 day ban https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/akrkyq/its_sad_but_its_true/

here's the pic for anyone who doesn't want to follow the link

I just read a bit about it, it does make sense in a way. Such a thing could create weird loopholes in legislation that is already gendered

"the ERA could be used to justify taxpayer-funded abortion because 'only women can be pregnant, (and) therefore denial of abortion funding is sex-oriented discrimination.'"

I wonder how it would affect men-specific rights like circumcision

Abortion is already effectively legal in all US states, it's just a matter of availability

Some states make it more difficult because they can't outright outlaw it but they can make it harder to get

You're right though, it doesn't make sense for it to be tax-funded

Not being able to have kids is already the way people start out, funnily enough. They're meant to have about 14 years to learn some sense before they're physically able to produce a child

it doesn't really work like that though

Pretty much, realistically the idea should be to make it *more* likely that children have both parents, not create a new way for children to only have one parent

This is what I support. Men should have a birth control option that is not condoms or abstinence

Female birth control is already relatively inexpensive (about 50 bucks a month, 1/16th the price of the average abortion)

I think the pharmaceutical industry would jump at the opportunity to charge men for something on the long-term like birth control, honestly

Eh honestly I want something studied and approved by the FDA, I'm not super willing to risk 18 years of financial responsibility on what amounts to a home remedy

Wouldn't the government jump at the chance to reduce accidental children and thus state dependence?

I would just honestly ask what's going on, tell her it's unusual and suspicious

Like if you want answers, be honest and ask for answers, whatever you get back will help you determine if she's actually mentally ill or just stressed or something

Probably not the case but I have seen it happen before where a woman will get herself into some sort of trouble (financially, for example) and start desperately reaching out to male acquaintances. Someone she can seduce is someone who will rescue her

Then that makes the fact that she's sending pictures and hitting on you even weirder

I can understand being lonely but it seems a bit weird to reach out to people you haven't talked to in years to satisfy your own loneliness

I mean if I haven't talked to someone in literal years I don't think it'd be fair to them to contact them with expectations

It's not your fault man, I very seriously doubt that if the situation were reversed she would be feeling guilty about turning you down

To quote an argument I've seen used far too often, "You don't owe her anything"

Her friend even saying "She's going to cry" is just an attempt to guilt you and you're letting it work

Moral of the story is you're allowed to say "no" too, and don't let yourself be tricked into believing you're not @Thedemogamer💙

Nothing like some good ol' victim blaming to start the morning off right

Apparently it's mens' fault that no one pays attention when they're sexually assaulted

Men's rights is through, pack it up guys and girls, we can all go home now