April Fools?

[JTFrog]

What an appropriate date to post about all the rights women have that men don't.

Just saying...

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. what? link? thread?

[JTFrog]

3. Don't want to link...

But it's not hard to find given the subject matter. Posted any other day, I might take great offense to it. Today, it's just an April Fool's joke.

[johnp3907]

2. Could you repeat the question?

[seaglass]

4. The author is a regular contributor to A Voice for Men, but she is a woman so something something.

These are the titles of some of her latest blog posts:

20 Feminist Headlines that would count as hate speech if they were written about Jews
5 Feminist Heroes who were actually terrible people
5 Ways Feminists are Literally Like Nazis
6 Times Feminists were Whiny, Joyless Shrews in 2014

Absolutely no agenda there, amirite?

Cannot believe this shit is posted on DU, this does not align with my politics whatsoever.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. could you shoot me a link via PM, please

apparently, I need to vomit one more time today.

[seabeyond]

10. Men's group. I didn't click on it. Saw on latest page. I agree with frog... Nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

22. Saw it.

What a load of crap.

[F4lconF16]

6. Yup. And it's transparent as heck.

I can't believe it's allowed to stand, but then again, this site hasn't cared much about women or PoC, at least in the time I've been here.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. good gawd. what a pant load. Someone needs to tell a couple of people that they

are wasting their time.

[ismnotwasm]

8. Ok I can't find it

I'd appreciate a PM as well

[ismnotwasm]

9. Oh my fucking God--it's MRA delusional woo woo psycho crap!

Oh, fuck I'm gonna laugh until I cry. They actually believe in this. Using misdirection, clearly unresolved misogyny, a touch of magical thinking and voilà! Total Bullshit!

[seabeyond]

12. ;) . Hey. Tell me how much your state is missing me!!! Lol

I love your state. They stepped up once again, I saw this morning

[ismnotwasm]

15. In which way? The Seattle minimum wage law?

Oh, and my state needs you here!

[seabeyond]

18. see, you need me. lol. year and half baby, just a mere year and half. hey, there was something

else right wa did that i read just this morning. i forget.

[BainsBane]

11. Can someone PM me some info

or give me a hint so I can find the thread?

[seabeyond]

13. Men's group... Nt

[BainsBane]

14. Oh, no thanks

I don't have my hazmat suit handy. Someone really should alert though.

[seabeyond]

16. ya. i feel the same about that and DI. nt

[BainsBane]

17. At least on DI, they don't pretend

to be anything other than what they are.

[seabeyond]

19. ya? i am not seeing a whole lot of pretending on du anymore, either. with little to no

consequences.

[BainsBane]

20. True about the lack of consequences

[BainsBane]

21. Imagine these posts

Rights blacks have that whites don't; or rights LGBT have that straights don't. They would be awful, extreme right-wing hate speech, which is precisely what the same argument about women having more rights that men is. They are the equivalent to the KKK and Mike Pence, and should be seen as exactly that. There is nothing liberal, left, moderate, or acceptable about such ideas and they don't belong anywhere on a site for Democrats.

I don't get in for the pissing contest going on in GD about women's vs. LGBGT rights. I find it off-putting. But the fact is there is far too much tolerance of hate speech about women. Anyone who articulates such a view should be treated as the social pariah they are.

Note: I still have not seen the DU thread in question, nor do I intend to. Nor do I know who the OP is. I might only hazard a guess. Therefore my comments are not directed at any DUer.

The fact is MRAS and those who advance similar ideas advertise the fact they are complete and total losers who can't compete in a world where women disproportionately live in poverty and 1/3 of us are subject to violence and rape. They won't be happy until that number is 100 percent, and no woman can support herself. I tangled with one such character on DI who completely lost it in a fit of anger that a few women in Hollywood are wealthy. The idea that a woman anywhere was wealthy meant we had too much because we by virtue of birth deserve to have and be less. I'll link to that thread so people can get a sense of the ideas and individuals we are talking about.
http://www.discussionist.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=82177 (That was all because I commented that the greatest inequalities in education relate to race and class).
http://www.discussionist.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=82847

[etherealtruth]

23. Mercifully this was HIDDEN by a jury

Last edited Wed Apr 1, 2015, 07:37 PM - Edit history (1)

I was on the jury .... even those that voted to leave did NOT support the post (I voted to HIDE)

I corrected my post .... thank you BB (I interchanged LOCKED/ HIDDEN and until BB pointed it out, my post didn't make a lot of sense)

[BainsBane]

24. You mean hidden?

[etherealtruth]

25. Its late, I am old ....yes "Hidden"

Sorry for any confusion .... a jury voted to hide

[BainsBane]

26. Great. Thank you for letting us know.