Just another day on r/mensrights, dealing with the terrible injustices facing men today in a thoughtful and compassionate way.
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We Hunted The MammothJust another day on r/mensrights, dealing with the terrible injustices facing men today in a thoughtful and compassionate way.
@sorka Love Lashings of GB! There’s been plenty more mobilisation against transphobia in the UK – all main sites/events have anti-transphobic policies in place. That’s not to say that people like Bindel don’t exist, but she’s on the very edges of the movement – no self-respecting group would host her.
There is somewhat of a problem in the UK feminist scene when discussing sex-work, and honestly – there’s fault to be found on both extreme sides (the ECP have completely smeared people who spoke out about being abused whilst being sex workers and seem to want to deny it ever happens, a lot of groups like OBJECT completely deny sex workers’ agency). However, there is a very large but often unheard middle ground – of which I am a part – which says we can work to improve the safety (etc.) of people who choose to be sex workers while also working to make sure that no person who doesn’t want to go into sex work is forced to. Radical, I know.
I can’t remember who said it (makomk?), but I’d like to take umbrage with the accusation that the F Word is explicitly anti-sex industry. They’re not, they’re a collective and, well, I write for them. And last time I checked I thought sex-workers were people, not broken dolls in need of ‘fixing’.
OMG, men have standards…holy shit! Cue feminist outrage because men have the audacity to see younger women as more attractive. It’s like feminists bitch about sexual objectification because men actually don’t see them in a sexual way. Jealously is a bitch, ain’t it ladies!
@Viscaria: “”It seems like you’re making a circular argument. “Feminism is rampantly transphobic. I know this, because there are a minortiy of spaces that are obviously transphobic, and the rest of the spaces are probably transphobic disasters waiting to happen. I know this, because feminism is rampantly transphobic.””
Just replace the word “transphobic” with any so-called “incriminating detail about feminism”, and you pretty much have the pattern for some of the trolls that barge in here.
Ahahaha Brandon shows up to prove my point for me.
Yes honey, we all want you to be forced to mate with over-21 elderly women because we’re jealous we can’t have your mercedes money… A bloo bloo bloo.
A-HEM! Title IX Police Force! I would like to prosecute Brandon for the high crime against feminism of “not fucking understanding what ‘sexual objectification’ means,” to be punished with no fewer than three readings of The Second Sex with comprehension quizzes after each chapter.
Also “men” don’t have the audacity to see younger women as attractive. SOME men do. Men as a whole are attracted to every damn kind of woman.
Fear ye not, Brandon. As long as they’re consulting adults, nobody cares whose bits you’re jiggling. Please, carry on.
Weirdest mental picture ever
All of my partners consult >_> consenting I meant, of course.
I doubt that helps the image though!
Really Xardoz and Viscaria? Manboobz and the commenters are more than happy to shame men and call them “skeevy” and “creepy” because an older man dares to sleep with/date/marry a woman that is 20+ years younger than him. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t say it is fine for men to sleep with younger woman (or see them as more attractive) then turn around and discuss reasons why he is “wrong”, “not a good/real man”, “creepy” or any other derogatory statements made against him.
Haha, oh man. I’m probably the least appropriate person to direct that comment to that you could possibly find on here.
Brandon, you realize that we can find you creepy and still not really care who you sleep with, right?
Brandon must have missed us, he’s actually adhering to the challenge. So far.
Brandon, you’re creepy for plenty of other reasons, like taping of sex, etc.
Brandon | January 28, 2012 at 11:45 am
Really Xardoz and Viscaria? Manboobz and the commenters are more than happy to shame men and call them “skeevy” and “creepy” because an older man dares to sleep with/date/marry a woman that is 20+ years younger than him. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t say it is fine for men to sleep with younger woman (or see them as more attractive) then turn around and discuss reasons why he is “wrong”, “not a good/real man”, “creepy” or any other derogatory statements made against him.
Examples?
Specific ones. 🙂
I was under the impression that Ashley was within 10 years of your age, Brandon. (Because given your age, if she isn’t, you’d be in some legal trouble.) In your case you don’t need to be sleeping with a much younger women to be creepy – there are so many other ways in which you qualify for creep status.
If you did sleep with a girl more than 20 years younger that would make her what, under 10?
Guys, don’t ever do that.
Oh, Ami, let’s see if he can do it without referring to himself.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone here do that. I could be wrong.
It’s not creepy in and of itself to date someone younger, but when people fetishize it and have website dedicated to younger and in most cases foreign women like our friend No Marriage, yeah, it can get creepy.
Oh, noes, I said the c-word.
Has he finally admitted to being an MRA, or is he still just cribbing their talking points and pretending we can’t tell?
@hellkell well Brandon says we do, so he must know specifically which comments he’s referring to 😀
He’s a BRA… a Brandon’s Rights Activists… MRAs are too broadly focused for him xD
HA, like he’s ever been assed to find a source.
Maybe that should be another condition of his parole… not just that he has to be able to talk without it being about himself, if he makes accusations he needs to source them in the same comment he’s making the accusation in :3
FeministWhore – Thankyou.
It’s impossible for feminists to want to protect underage girls from sex work until they’re old enough to understand what they’re doing. No, feminists only care about protecting young girls because they’re jealous.
/eyeroll
Nobody has said it should be illegal for men to sleep with younger women, as long as everyone is a consenting adult. I have no idea if anyone thinks age gap romances are creepy, and it really doesn’t matter anyway. Who cares if people think it’s creepy?
Are you jealous of 15 year old boys or something Brandon? o_O
I love how Brandon has become completely unhinged now that he’s on parole and unable to talk about himself xD The concern troll Brandon is gone, now comes the angry fire-breathing Brandon xD
But calling some men creepy is the greatest civil rights violation of our time! It’s worse than slavery, the Holocaust, and the comfort women combined!
PS Brandon – you’re creepy.