A Voice for Men celebrates the holidays with a horrifying, sexualized rape apologist meme

I had an old hiking buddy who died a few days ago (she was 85, and simply used up her time). We would frequently go out climbing mountains in winter, so we would often come across piles of nicely shaped moose droppings, and she would always pick up some of the best ones to make earrings with. I don’t know if she ever actually made any, but about a year ago I visited her in the hospital and we had a ball horrifying a couple of young nurses with a conversation on the beauties of moose dung jewelry.

The funniest/scariest part about the majority of the Men’s Movement is that they don’t actually do anything to help men or boys. I’VE done more to help men and boys (and women/girls) than they have in my 20 years of working with the homeless ( a lot of homeless are men), those with mental health and addictions issues as well as people suffering from PTSD including refugee men who have been tortured and veterans.
Most men’s activists say they really just want to help men and boys but that is a line they have to say instead of the truth: they really just hate women.

Grumpyoldman
Sorry for your loss

ManWank is BANNED wank, so if he’s out there lurking and screenshotting imaginary evidence of feminist hatemongering, he’ll have to do it from another IP address. But yeah. Funny how feminism is also, coincidentally, very good for guys, even if it doesn’t put them automatically ahead of women in every fucking thing!

Also, re: moose poop: Up north, gift shops sell it as a snack. (Spoiler: it’s really chocolate almonds, but by the looks of things, real moose poop doesn’t look terribly different from that. Something to bear in mind if you’re ever lost in the bush and you start feeling peckish!)

ManWalk (aka ManWank) was a troll who turned up a couple of times, and socked as Castle. David banned him the other day. He was a very ordinary troll but did lead to the posting of a lot of excellent kitty pics.

Just read ManWalk on the other post and sadly i lost a couple of brain cells again to a troll.
http://youtu.be/O2sCjYUCAxg

Sorry if I’m late to the party, but when I read the study on page one (about men vs. women as rape perpetrators), these two statements lept off the page at me which no one mentioned yet:

Males were significantly more likely than females to report coercive sex or attempted rape, with similar but nonsignificant results observed for completed rape. White youths were more likely than nonwhite youths to report perpetrating coercive sex, and Hispanic youths were less likely than non-Hispanic youths to report perpetrating coercive sex. Similar, nonsignificant patterns were noted for youths reporting completed rape. Youths living in low-income households were less likely than youths living in higher-income households to report attempted rape. Similar, nonsignificant patterns were observed for youths reporting coercive sex perpetration.

That makes me wonder about reporting bias, even to this survey.

But the second thing, earlier up, is a methodological limitation which I makes me question the entire thing, unless I can see the data (which I can’t):

To more closely align [their fourth question] measure with the time frame of the other 3 sexual violence perpetration items (ever), youths who reported forced sexual contact at any of the 5 waves were included as perpetrators.

This may be a problem because:

Stata version 11 statistical software (StataCorp LP) was used to conduct all statistical analyses. As such, reported percentages are weighted, whereas sample sizes are not.

So the question is, how does this change in question four weight on their perpetrator numbers as a whole? I really wonder.

Human beings can be so appalling. Their comments go beyond “rape jokes”… they just sounds so hateful. It’s scary because you never know if someone you work with – or who you might be acquaintances with – has these same viewpoints about women. :S