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Men's Rights in the real world: "No one showed up to the event but organizers say the lack of attendance is not due to a lack of interest."

Come early to get a good seat!

Sometimes it’s worth reminding ourselves that despite all the noise they make online, the Men’s Rights movement has basically no presence in the real world. The picture above is an actual photo of a men’s rights symposium at Montana State University. Here’s how the local NBC affiliate described what went down – or, more accurately, what didn’t go down:

The MSU chapter of the National Coalition for Men organized a symposium to raise awareness of problems in men’s lives.

The group geared the event towards fraternity students at the college and invited speakers to talk about things like men’s rights when it comes to sexual misconduct investigations on-campus.

No one showed up to the event but organizers say the lack of attendance is not due to a lack of interest.

You just keep telling yourself that.

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Snowy
Snowy
12 years ago

Helping the very people who’ve died by the billions in wars, catastrophies, thankless jobs, ect. for the protection and provision of women and children would seem to be an automatic response. Of course you would have to be willing to bloody the nose of a Hanna Rosin as she gloats about men in poverty. Or some other woman high up in the media/political arena when she directs all efforts to help only women and children in an impoverished thrid world country. You’d have to be willing to spill and shed a little blood for the people who’ve spilled and shed oceans of blood for you.

Again with the violence. What would that accomplish exactly, Mr Slave? How does more violence help people who have died in wars or natural disasters?

hellkell
hellkell
12 years ago

Hey, NWO! I see you can still copy/paste.

Citation needed, as always.

Happy
Happy
12 years ago

“Boys will simply refuse schooling and most likey the majority of boys will be imprisoned at some point for truancy.”

I’ll bet you $500 that this doesn’t happen in the next 50 years? I’d bet for longer, but we’ll probably both be dead.

NWOSlave, does it hurt being as wacky as you?

hellkell
hellkell
12 years ago

LOL at “men’s personal wealth being used to teach hatred of men/boys…” NWO doesn’t understand what wealth really is.

Bostonian
Bostonian
12 years ago

So why the hell won’t any of those brave, resilient men show up in public? I mean these are the same people who mock trigger warnings as not needed by strong people. These guys can’t handle the mildest exposure?

NWOslave
NWOslave
12 years ago

@Snowy
“Again with the violence. What would that accomplish exactly, Mr Slave? How does more violence help people who have died in wars or natural disasters?”

The war machine is all over the world as we speak, and all we hear is about from the great State/media complex how men are being sent to kill and die for the betterment of women in all those countries. With all the countless womens groups/organizations funded by the corporate and State coffers, the serfs in reality, why no outcry from women? Is it because only men are dying in service of women?

How about the UN led by Hillary spending billions, spearheading the forced mass genital mutilization of boys/men in Africa along with the propaganda? While at the same time spending billions to stop female genital mutilation.

Thousands of men were beaten and killed in the Egypt uprising and no one cared. ONE woman was beaten and the world demanded justice.

Lip service is cheap. Women have the power and they care only about women. When men had the power, they ensured that those who didn’t have the power were placed before themselves.

It’s easy to say what good does more violence do, as women are quite content to have and demand blood be spilled on their behalf.

jumbofish
12 years ago

Um NWO what are you blabbering on about now?

jumbofish
12 years ago

mutilization???

Polliwog
Polliwog
12 years ago

All of that was great, but I think “Hillary Clinton runs the UN” may be the bit that most needs adding to the Book.

Snowy
Snowy
12 years ago

So, wouldn’t the answer be to have less violence instead of more? Also, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of mutilization, could you explain that to me?

jumbofish
12 years ago

genital mutilization of boys/men in Africa along with the propaganda

mutilization

??????????????

NWOslave
NWOslave
12 years ago

@Bostonian
“So why the hell won’t any of those brave, resilient men show up in public? I mean these are the same people who mock trigger warnings as not needed by strong people. These guys can’t handle the mildest exposure?”

If you say anything negative about women you’ll lose your job which most men can’t afford, even mooks have to eat. The slightest misspoken word by a man when a woman is within earshot results in termination of employment. The reverse is the opposite. Women treating and talking to men like they’re dogshit, will get you a promotion. That’s how you tell the privileged class from the serfs.

Shadow
Shadow
12 years ago

For realz! When I was 12, this girl saw me cheating on a test and ran and told the teacher. My teacher (who just happened to be a woman) punished me instead of telling her off for tattling!!!

MISANDRY!!

Marc
12 years ago

Wishfull thinking, David. But the men’s rights movement is growing and doing just fine. The meetings at Oxford, University of Chicago, and others, have had great turnouts. Have you seen this recent news coverage in Kenya?.www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLvafgTRFtI

How about the men’s rights march in Mexico City?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZcIL93nTOY

How about NCFM’s recent rally for fathers rights in Los Angeles?
http://www.smdp.com/Articles-opinion-and-commentary-c-2011-12-12-73116.113116-Dads-demonstrate-against-Verizon.html

In fact we just got invited to participate in the biggest Earth Day festival in the nation, in San Francisco, as invited panelists to give a men’s rights perspective. Gee, nobody showing, huh?

Did you see how men’s rights activists in Israel got the United Nations to confront Israel for its anti-father bias in family courts. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150455

Did you see how men’s rights activists in Germany go the European Court of Human Rights to chastise Germany for its discrimination against single dads?

Here are just a few more for you, David. All over the world – Jamaica, Japan, German… the men’s rights movement is growing and you just don’t like it. Tsk tsk.
http://ncfm.org/2011/04/issues/mens-rights-movements-around-the-world/

Bostonian
Bostonian
12 years ago

“If you say anything negative about women you’ll lose your job which most men can’t afford, even mooks have to eat. The slightest misspoken word by a man when a woman is within earshot results in termination of employment. The reverse is the opposite. Women treating and talking to men like they’re dogshit, will get you a promotion. That’s how you tell the privileged class from the serfs.”

Name a real life example of this actually happening, anywhere in the world.

hellkell
hellkell
12 years ago

Really, NWO? If a man says anything negative about women he’s unemployed? In that case, explain Rick Santorum, and please show your work.

red_locker
12 years ago

So, NWO, where did you learn that Hillary runs the U.N.? Super curious about that and the mutilization (?) of males in Africa.

Or is that another gift straight from your ass?

Ami Angelwings
12 years ago

If you say anything negative about women you’ll lose your job which most men can’t afford, even mooks have to eat.

Have you lost your job yet? You say negative things about women ALL THE TIME xD

Shadow
Shadow
12 years ago

Seriously dude. A news article or something? Shit, I’m so curious about this I’ll even accept a random MRA post, just to see what exactly you’re jumping around about

Ami Angelwings
12 years ago

I say negative things about individual women too. I never lost my job, pre-transition or post. xD

Hey, everybody here! Have you ever said negative things (criticism, job reviews, etc etc ) about an individual woman, and did it cost you your job? o:

hellkell
hellkell
12 years ago

Ami: nope, it never cost me my job.

NWOslave
NWOslave
12 years ago

@Bostonian
“Name a real life example of this actually happening, anywhere in the world.”

Every single sexual harrassment case. No sex actually took place, a woman had her feelings hurt and demanded payment and/or retribution. Every woman demanded compensation for what was percieved as sexual harrassment in the Walmart case. Walmart promptly dropped a coupla hundred million to train women to be managers, (in reality that cost is transferred to the serfs). That of course wasn’t enough, a new case is pending.

Shadow
Shadow
12 years ago

Well I haven’t, but that’s prolly cos I’m a mangina

hellkell
hellkell
12 years ago

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but the Walmart case was sexual harassment, it was discrimination. IIRC, they were suing because opportunities for promotion were lopsided, and the court certainly didn’t help with that ruling and makes class action harder to do now.

Harassment and discrimination are tow DIFFERENT things, NWO.

hellkell
hellkell
12 years ago

^Wasn’t sexual harassment

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