If you ever have the desire to get yourself downvoted on the Men’s Rights subreddit, here’s one sure-fire strategy: Write a sensible comment suggesting that birth control benefits people with penises as much as people with vaginas.
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I was going to point out some of the ironies inherent in Men’s Rightsers getting mad about women getting “free” birth control, but I suspect you can figure those out on your own.
This is why the so-called Men’s Rights movement is not so much a rights movement as a take-away-other-people’s-rights movement.
Seriously David?
Your complaint with reddit upvote/downvoting behavior gets linked as:
antifeminism, hypocrisy, irony alert, men who should not ever be with women ever, misogyny, MRA, oppressed men, penises, reddit, vaginas, antifeminism, birth control, men’s rights, MRA, mras, reddit, sandra fluke
I wonder what you think of SRS downvote brigades then? I assume you must feel that is absolute proof positive of misandry, right?
And +4 votes and -5 votes! Heavens forfend!
Whuoh! It’s not at -3 votes and 3 votes and there are other comments ahead.
Come on David, don’t keep us in suspense, give us the exciting play by play on chavelah’s vote count!!!!1!!!
SRS downvotes shit comments. That’s not misandry, that’s what we call being a upright netizen.
This chat room is awfully empty. Is it because blitzgal farted?
Pregnancy is not just some normal function. Even with high quality prenatal care, it can be very dangerous and in the best of circumstances, it’s still very hard on the body. Also, talk about penny wise and pound foolish. Birth control is very cheap compared to prenatal care, delivering babies, and raising children. It’s sickening that even today, we have to fight these same battles over and over.
This is such bullshit right here. MRA’s tell feminists to just suck it up when dealing with actual threats and harassment on the web, yet they cry like little babies when they get downvotes on reddit.
eyes glazing over in here, may have to go back to work now. 🙁
Is that why you’re so boring? It’s just your eyesight?
It’s kinda creepy how many people internalized that line from the matrix and really do seem to think that humans are a viris whose only purpose is to reproduce.
Also is anyone else as tired of some guy’s schtick as I am. Not that constant carping doesn’t have an honored place in the abuser lobby, but still, there ought to be a self imposed limit.
Cool, so the next time an incel whines to me about how no one wants to fuck him, I’ll just say, “What’s so offensive about celibacy?”
Wow. Some guy has a pretty ironic name now.
You be sure to stand up and have a good stretch every hour. I understand that sedentary work is actually very bad for the body.
There would have to be actual misandry, as in, systematic oppression of men, for them to upvote (or anti-misandry efforts to downvote). Seeing as neither exists, that isn’t equivalent.
Misandry exists, because women exist. Science. *sage nod*
He has exactly one schtick, which is to pretend that the pattern of upvotes and downvotes in r/mr is not indicative in any way of the general views of its contributors it’s put to a referendum.
“Men haven’t got birth control options as good as women do” – what? Condoms are so terrible now? Worse than having a pill that is also not %100 reliable and can cause health problems of its own (WHEN you can get it, which seems problematic itself in the US)? Worse than having an IUD inserted into your body?
Childbirth and its aftereffects are, IIRC, the highest killer of young women worldwide. Obviously the danger is lower in countries with good healthcare, adequate sanitation, nutrition and so on, but it is NOT a risk-free event, exactly as thebionicmommy pointed out. And why should a woman be blithely happy to risk pregnancy anyway? We’re not baby-making factories. Nor do I see the anti-contraception men stepping up to be actual, you know, fathers, who raise their kids.
Fuckwits, the lot of them.
It hasn’t done a whole lot for his brain, either.
So these are the same guys who claim that women steal sperm to have babies in order to steal their money for life. If women don’t want to get pregnant they just shouldn’t have sex, but if women aren’t having sex with these guys, they are total stuck up bitches.
Tell me again that MRAs don’t hate women.
I’m incredibly bored with some guy’s shtick.
What’s so offensive about saying women should just stay celibate if they can’t pay for birth control? Pregnancy is the proper functioning of the body! It’s not like women go through huge physical changes when it happens, or 32,000 women a year get pregnant from being raped or anything like that. ¡Misandry! False Equivalence! Men have no reproductive rights! Give me boners or it’s all over!
Yeah. That “I’m bored with you and above it all” thing works okay for a driveby trolling or two, but when you stick around and post constantly it just makes you look idiotic.
“How to get downvoted at r/mr.”
Have a vagina or think people who have one should get a final say in how it gets used.
Believe that all humans have equal rights.
Act outside of expected gender norms for all genders.
Failing to act outside of expected gender norms as a female.
MRAs don’t hate wo- BWAHAHAHA!
I’m sorry. It’s not funny, but I couldn’t keep a straight face all the same.
So because men are sometimes told to “keep it in their pants,” women should be denied birth control because they need to just keep their legs shut. Ok.
Btw, if all of the women are celibate, who are the men supposed to sleep with? I though involuntary celibacy was misandry.
MRA’s tell feminists to just suck it up when dealing with actual threats and harassment on the web, yet they cry like little babies when they get downvotes on reddit.
It’s hilarious, isn’t it?
I like how Some Guy is so very, very bored with us that he had to post four times in a 15-minute period, and one of those times was complaining about how no one else is posting as obsessively as he is.
This is particularly true if you go all into a pout because people aren’t commenting for your entertainment as often as you want them to.