Now India is home to a thriving men's rights movement that's become its own legitimate political platform, arguing that men's rights, not women's, need protection in the country.
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He got fired and quickly became a Men's Rights Activist.
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The men's rights crowd blames soy, birth control and feminism.
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McCauley wrote it from the perspective of a men's rights activist.
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Men's rights activists, go ahead and hold your breath in anticipation.
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This is not an outtake from a bad men's rights movie.
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The men's rights group that brought the suit welcomed the ruling.
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Men's rights activism bears all the hallmarks of a typical conspiracy theory.
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I also started noticing this increase in membership in men's rights organizations.
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Now to the big question: Is the men's rights movement inherently misogynistic?
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Men's rights activists have been raging about child custody since time immemorial.
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The "men's rights" movement is full of splinter factions and warring tribes.
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Adams has frequently blogged about supporting Trump, men's rights, and far-right ideologies.
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In season 3, Fresco's team moves on from Nazis to men's rights activists.
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You don't say, "Thank you, barkeep!" unless you are a Men's Rights Activist!
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The other part is the world of men's rights activists and pickup artists.
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Men's rights activists, red-state racists, gamergate misogynists, and general pig-headed bigots.
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Armstrong wasn't subject to trolling from men's rights activists, but rather fellow moms.
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His blog is also very popular in both pickup artist and men's rights communities.
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Men's rights activists and pick-up artists are two separate factions of the "manosphere."
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Daly personifies a familiar figure: the Gamergate warrior, the social-media men's-rights troll.
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Unlike the American MRM, men's rights activists in India are viewed as fairly legitimate.
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Do you have a sense of how the broader men's rights movement perceives MensLib?
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It's a flourishing world of men's rights activists, libertarians, anti-feminist atheists, and white nationalists.
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Today, men's rights groups often make similar demands for the expansion of DNA testing. 5.
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For me, William's arc was akin to an origin story for a Men's Rights Activist.
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There are furious MRAs [Men's Rights Movement] who just blame their issues on the feminists.
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The men's rights movement is much more in the "feminism is a bad word" camp.
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Cassie Jaye, who lives in Marin and made a documentary about the men's rights movement called "The Red Pill," said that the tech world and the men's rights community had "snowballed" together and that the rise in the number of people in Mgtow is new.
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Men's rights groups have been harping on paternity fraud for the better part of a century.
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Men's rights activists, incels, and pickup artists created Twitter accounts to pose as women of color.
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My friend had successfully reported hateful content online, including a misogynistic men's rights group on Facebook.
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Meanwhile, conservative activists with the men's rights movement #HimToo organized their own rally the same day.
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Ms. Murphy called Ms. Young a "virulent anti-feminist" and an apologist for men's rights activists.
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Some people, men's rights activists in particular, insist that the philosophy actually seeks to diminish men.
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In the first three pages, the men's-rights activist rants about how society has wronged him.
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Sometimes, it can be a loophole for men's rights activists to sue for discrimination against men.
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Then he went to another subreddit, /r/TheRedPill, a men's rights community known for its misogyny.
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Cassie Jaye, who lives in Marin County and made a documentary about the men's rights movement called "The Red Pill," said that the tech world and the men's rights community had "snowballed" together and that the rise in the number of people in Mgtow is new.
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Since the 1990s, academics have identified "female privilege" as a central tenet of the men's rights movement.
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Last month, the New York Times published an in-depth interview with men's rights activist Jordan Peterson.
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The ad played differently with men's rights activists, Fox News, and the Piers Morgans of the world.
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One of those meetings included members of a men's rights group, outraging victims' advocates and Democratic lawmakers.
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That toxic sentiment Dahl describes also evokes the rhetoric of the alt-right and men's rights activists.
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Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Roosh V. is a men's rights activist.
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For example, there's overlap with men's rights groups, gaming groups, cryptocurrency groups, and other conspiracy theory groups.
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Men's rights groups have long tried to paint sexual assault and domestic violence victims as the true perpetrators.
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That's Daryush Valizadeh, known better as Roosh — one of the internet's most infamous "men's rights" writers and activists.
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Worse, DeVos is asking so-called "men's rights" groups who harass victims to advise her on the law.
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So-called men's rights activists love to claim widespread false sexual accusations are ruining lives across the world.
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"People sometimes confuse us with a men's-rights organization," Andrew Burmon, Fatherly's editor-in-chief, said, sipping coffee.
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In Magnolia, Cruise plays a popular proto-men's-rights guru who has invented a fictional past for himself.
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He decided that Sabrina would be murdered by someone like Rodger: a men's-rights activist and a misogynist.
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John's story doesn't just dismantle the self-victimization narrative that plagues men's rights activists and alt-right trolls.
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Not from a tabloid, not from a half-baked Men's Rights Activism (MRA) blog, but from the BBC.
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Subsequent episodes include a look at an intersex community in Germany and the world of men's rights activism.
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The white nationalist side gets more attention, but men's rights activism has been equally important to the movement.
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I think, fundamentally, there are many individuals within the men's rights movement who genuinely care about men's issues.
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How did you get interested in the men's rights space to begin with, before you started this group?
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You've had a bit of an influence on the "alt-right," crowd, not to mention the men's rights folk.
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The key here, as a man, is not to get mad or complain that men's rights are being crushed.
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Enter DeVos, who early in her tenure invited men's rights groups to meet with her to discuss the issue.
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The "Men's Rights" Reddit group has also seen its subscriber base double to over 100,000 in the same period.
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Started on 4chan, Operation: Lollipop gathered together men's rights and pickup artist enthusiasts and otherwise unaffiliated racists and misogynists.
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" Sodini has been hailed as a hero by some in men's rights activist circles, and considered himself "involuntarily celibate.
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Listen Up: Our weekly podcast looks at why we shouldn't ignore men's rights activists (even though they're sometimes vile).
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But it was widely assailed by men's rights and conservative civil liberties groups as heavily biased against the accused.
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I've written about a new shoe everyone's wearing, as well as a growing acceptance of disturbing men's rights philosophies.
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Just one thing: The band had no idea that the album's title shares its name with a men's rights slogan.
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And I will stop taking Modafinil (Provigil), and I will stop posting on men's rights subreddits (under all my names).
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Opposition to the Obama-era policies is not just a cause for dubious men's rights activists or alt-right agitators.
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It overlaps with large swaths of 4chan, men's rights activism, the online atheist movement, pickup artist culture, Reddit, and Tumblr.
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Do you ever fear talking about masculinity so much that people may think you've made a record about men's rights?
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The tribalist approach to gender and sexuality found among men's rights activists indicates an affinity for this political strategy, too.
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Matt Forney, author of virulently misogynistic posts on the men's rights website Return of Kings, has enthusiastically embraced Trump online.
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Today's men's rights/bro-culture crowd doesn't pretend to be interested in taking their porn with a side of Picasso.
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Investigators noted that Rodger was motivated by a personal grievance related to the extremist ideological subculture of men's rights activists.
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But there are also hierarchical conceptions that require a social pecking order, like that of Warren Farrell's men's rights movement.
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If you've spent any time talking about feminist issues on the internet, you're probably familiar with men's rights activists (MRAs).
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I'm curious to hear more of your thoughts on the broader men's rights movement and how you fit into it.
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A place on the internet that's part of the Manosphere and also includes Pick Up Artists, Incels, and Men's Rights Activists.
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"Redpill," for the blissfully unaware, is a slang term in certain alt-right-adjacent internet communities like the men's rights crew.
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This has not gone over well with men's rights activists, many conservatives, and some advocates for the rights of the accused.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. How does an award-winning porn star become a self-identified men's rights activist?
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Different clusters of people — urologists, anthropologists, men's rights activists and start-up founders — became quietly concerned about the state of sperm.
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Some men's rights communities are gathering around the idea that sperm counts are dropping because men are being feminized by society.
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Detractors, colleges and men's rights groups decried these rules as overly harsh and vague, and an assault on due process rights.
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In the years since "Fight Club," the film has been embraced without irony and apparently without humor by men's rights partisans.
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As Andromeda's name suggests, polyandry can contain elements of goddess worship, as well as men's rights activists' worst fear: female superiority.
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Elam—a sworn "anti-gynocentrist" and champion of the American men's rights movement—demurred that he was the student that afternoon.
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Is there any space in the broader men's rights movement, other than you guys, that doesn't blame feminism for men's problems?
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Not long after Taylor announced his suit, men's rights huckster turned Trump cheerleader Mike Cernovich claimed he would sue publishing platform Medium.
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Or that you have to spend a night drinking in the company of a real life flesh-and-blood men's rights activist?
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On Monday, former-Google employee and men's rights activist James Damore filed a lawsuit claiming that Google discriminates against white conservative men.
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Men's Rights Activists, other garden-variety sexists, etc.) or its gynocratic social-sexual system otherwise completely abandoned by self-actualized hermits (e.g.
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All of them—pick-up artists and men's rights activists alike—share a deeply ingrained hostility towards women, and more importantly, feminism.
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All of them—pick up artists and men's rights activists alike—share a deeply ingrained hostility towards women, and more importantly, feminism.
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David Futrelle is a journalist who has spent the past five years maintaining a men's rights watch blog, We Hunted the Mammoth.
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He definitely doesn't identify with "men's rights activists" like Paul Elam, who tend not to share his hedonistic nihilism about sexual conquests.
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The speaker was Paul Elam, the founder of A Voice for Men, perhaps the most popular website in the men's rights movement.
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Men's rights trolls began appearing in the comments section of any article that mentioned her, including in the Columbia student newspaper, The Spectator.
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Anyway, Snape sucks and even more so now that I'm an adult and have had some level of exposure to men's rights forums.
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Absurd as it sounds, it makes horrifying sense in light of other backlashes: Men's Rights Activists believe feminists are out to destroy men.
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Back in 2011, men's rights activists were focusing on issues like male mental health or a perceived bias against men in family law.
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Claire Wasserman says she had never heard of men's rights activists until she was sued by those affiliated with one group last fall.
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I waste time online but I justify it by calling it research, which is how I end up writing about men's rights forums.
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The most grimly fascinating parts of Bacarisse's investigation come when she pieces together Fisher's journey to men's rights activism and The Red Pill.
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Popular media promotes paternal uncertainty as entertainment, and men's rights groups call for expanded genetic testing to solve the "epidemic" of paternal misattribution.
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Watch: The Men Behind the Muscles Red Pill member and MGTOW vlogger Kris Cantu sees Fight Club as an archetypal men's rights film.
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Since then, he's divided his time between running an art gallery and becoming more involved in the murky world of men's rights activism.
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This caused a furor among men's rights activists, "incels," and other internet misogynists, who claimed that Larson hated men and was ruining Marvel.
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She met with critics of the directive, including men's rights groups, as well as survivors of sexual assault and school administrators in July.
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And, contrary to the opinions of some angrier dudes on the internet—I see you, men's rights activists—feminism is for men, too.
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Over the past decade, anti-women communities on the internet — ranging from "men's rights" forums and incels to "pickup artists" — have grown exponentially.
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On Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted that a story on the subject from men's rights activist Mike Cernovich was worthy of a Pulitzer.
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It overlaps with sections of 4chan and Reddit, the men's rights movement, pickup artist culture, the online atheist and libertarian movements, and more.
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But the tactics the men's rights movement has decided to use — in many ways, it's the dark mirror image of what we do.
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It seems like the men's rights issue I hear about the most, both anecdotally from friends and from MRAs, is divorce and custody.
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People who defend accused students bristle at the suggestion they are pro-rape, or that they are all a bunch of men's rights activists.
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Published in the May 1970 edition, Hunt's "Up Against the Wall, Male Chauvinist Pig!" reads like something out of a men's rights chat room.
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A men's rights group at Ryerson University in Toronto is suing the student union for allegedly discriminating against the group's right to free speech.
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A fellow plaintiff on the Facebook matter, Bert Riddick, 20173, came to the men's rights movement after being involved in a paternity fraud case.
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But look a little closer at online conversations surrounding the friend zone concept, and you'll find a troubling link to misogyny and men's rights activism.
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In the last six months, three men tied to the "incel" — or "involuntarily celibate" — community of men's rights activists carried out extreme acts of violence.
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Robert Fisher, a Republican who The Daily Beast identified in April as the creator and former moderator of Reddit's popular men's rights "Red Pill" forum.
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One of Vox's running platforms—in addition to "men's rights"—has been the deportation of Spain's 52,000 undocumented immigrants: the backbone of its agricultural economy.
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After being demonized and attacked by men's rights activists, she apologized, but it wasn't deemed sufficient: "You targeted fathers, and just fathers," Elam rebuked her.
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Daryush Valizadeh, who runs The Return of Kings, a men's rights site, called the situation "a biological crisis" and one that women struggle to understand.
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"It's all related to lower sperm counts and increasing sexual dysfunction," said Paul Elam, the leader of A Voice for Men, a men's rights group.
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Maybe it was because it was a Tuesday night, but there've been Men's Rights conventions that had more women at them than this hotel bar.
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Anthropological dives into reactionary horror are a subgenre of internet writing: no meme goes un-analyzed, no men's rights activist un-interviewed, no racist logic unexplained.
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Since President Donald Trump took office, critics including men's rights groups and lawyers representing students accused of misconduct have called for an overhaul of the system.
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It compared the proposal to outlaw marital rape with India's tough anti-dowry law, which men's rights groups say women are misusing to settle personal vendettas.
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As with many male-focused online communities, there are parts of the community that are focused on men's rights, are misogynistic, and that have harassed people.
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That's the question I found myself asking after I crashed the world's biggest men's rights summit—the International Conference on Men's Issues—in London last month.
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In an 8chan post attributed to him, Earnest referenced the "red pill" movement, an anti-feminist, men's rights, alt-right identity group, the Washington Post reports.
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Fisher previously conducted business with another men's rights activist who served on a New Hampshire leadership team for President Donald Trump during Trump's campaign in 2016.
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Incels are just one especially extreme subgroup of the "manosphere," an online nebula of ideologies that also includes men's rights groups and so-called pickup artists.
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The Obama-era rules had been criticized by some conservative and men's rights groups, which said that the rules were biased against the largely male accused.
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"At first [the men's rights movement] here only focused on the laws," said Uma Challa, an American-educated biologist who entered the movement 11 years ago.
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Our policy at MensLib is we're not throwing shade at feminists, and we're also trying not to throw too much shade at the men's rights movement.
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The red pill is about embracing the alpha-dog mentality, treating women like children — whereas the men's rights movement actually wants to talk about men's issues.
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You've got these online communities, whether it's Gamergaters or men's rights activists, who are not actually interested in rights for men or really in anything that coherent.
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The fact that his writings about persuasion appear ideologically similar to what's written about within men's rights communities, he said, is because persuasion is a broad umbrella.
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James Damore, formerly of Google, gave his first interview since the controversy around his internal memo erupted to "men's rights activist" and alt-right ideologue Stefan Molyneux.
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The idea of the internet troll as a grotty men's rights activist in Milwaukee, gently marinating in his own smegma and Cheetos crumbs, make us feel safe.
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Louis Drax embodies the worst fears of men's rights activists: Louis has clearly been raised as an unquestioning man-hater by an unchecked parent with an agenda.
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The alt-right, right-wing populism, men's rights groups and a renewed white supremacist movement have capitalized on many white men's feeling of loss in recent years.
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It was here that I hoped to trace the source of a term that is currently flooding the online forums devoted to male separatism and men's rights activism.
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A recent video by men's rights vlog Men Going Their Own Way hailed the friend zone an "extension of feminist ideology" and part of "these fucking feminist games".
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As Charlotte Shane has detailed, an increasingly visible segment of the feminist left's response to men's rights activists is to make hyperbolic jokes about hating or killing men.
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The next day, PayPal limited the account of blogger Roosh V, a pickup artist associated with the men's rights movement, whose views often align with the alt-right.
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MK: The narratives that I hear, whether it's school shooters, guys who go postal, angry white men, neo-Nazis, men's-rights guys — it's all a language of restoration.
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Before the announcement, DeVos met with a men's rights group with a history of minimizing sexual assault, raising questions about whether she had survivors' best interests at heart.
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It includes "men's rights" activists and pickup artists, or PUAs, men who teach other men that they can sleep with women by insulting them and manipulating their psychology.
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Milo Yiannopoulos, former Breitbart editor who associated with the men's rights movement and the far right, faded to relative obscurity after he was banned from Twitter last year.
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Now, before the men's rights activists get up in arms about the feminists complaining that the president simply said a woman had a "nice smile," let me explain.
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We even get some conspiracy theorizing that all of us are actually women in disguise, trying to dismantle the men's rights movement by pretending to be something better.
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Demanding a return to patriarchy — as many in the alt-right, incel, and men's rights activists communities have done, and as Peterson himself has done — aren't particularly transgressive behaviors.
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Again, if the snapshot was filled with shirtless men at a so-called men's rights brigade, everything would be A-okay and still alive and well on The Gram.
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" The conspiracy-peddling men's rights activist and alt-right blogger Mike Cernovich praised it as "a direct rejection of the media's demand for control over the minds of billions.
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Last week, a guy was beaten up in Oakland after a crowd thought he was a member of the Proud Boys, a right-wing pro-Trump men's-rights group.
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He accepted interviews with Milo Yiannopoulos and men's rights activist Stefan Molyneux, and set up a fundraiser on WeSearchr, a crowdfunding site created by far-right troll Chuck Johnson.
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Unlike the modern Men's Rights movement, they were ostensibly in favor of women's liberation and forged alliances with prominent feminists, though their intentions remained diffuse and difficult to decipher.
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Handmaid's Tale has me so afraid that the men's rights activists from Reddit are going to try to recreate Gilead that I've been inspired to start a mattress fund.
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Writing about men's rights activists and incels, white supremacists and alt-right activists, neo-Nazis and anti-Semites helps explain sources of violence and political power in America today.
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The ruling was in response to a lawsuit brought by a men's rights group called the National Coalition for Men, which argued that the all-male draft is unfair.
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There are few organisms on earth—up to and including those catastrophically invasive river carp and Men's Rights Activists—less immediately sympathetic than the Anonymous NFL Front Office Guy.
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It is nurtured largely by men on the internet who used to nurse their grievances alone, in disparate, insular communities around the web — men's rights forums, video game blogs.
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The suspect in Monday's Toronto van attack referenced an extremist "men's rights" movement and praised a 2628-year-old mass shooter in a Facebook post made before the attack.
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The man is Steve Frye, a men's rights activist, or MRA, who is hardly a stranger to filing discrimination cases against California businesses and, at one point, Donald Trump.
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Obama, a self-declared feminist, was president; freedom of expression was a given; and I had never even heard of the "manosphere" and "men's rights" groups that populated the margins.
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He's peddled the reactionary flavor of the month, whether its Men's Rights, or GamerGate, or Trump, all the way to a massive online following and an interview with 60 Minutes.
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But because "women abuse men" has been such a long-standing misogynist men's rights activist talking point, a lot of us reflexively get our backs up when we hear it.
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Some Democratic senators, who are concerned that DeVos may repeal the Obama-era policies to help survivors, came out against her meeting with some of the controversial men's rights groups.
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Essentially every article you read about men's rights has a section where the writer says, "They're pretty much assholes, but they have a point about parental rights!" because they do.
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Some users think it's hilarious, others say that this is what every feminist deserves, while others complain about how alimony laws favor women and echo other "men's rights" talking points.
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Rashweat Mukundu, former director at the Media Institute of Southern Africa in Zimbabwe, said he was worried that the two men's rights to a fair trial were being infringed upon.
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Men's rights advocates and defense lawyers laud the new proposed rules, saying they represent a first step to level the playing field for men accused of misconduct on college campuses.
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After Mr. Rodger went on his shooting spree, one men's-rights community called what he did "Going Sodini" — a reference to the 2009 shooting in a gym outside of Pittsburgh.
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The ruling came in a case brought by the National Coalition for Men, a men's rights group, which argued that drafting men exclusively violates the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause.
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Gamergate united men's rights activists, white nationalists, and neoreactionaries around indignation over the inroads that women and minorities had made into video game culture, previously dominated by young white men.
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Recently I interviewed a female men's rights activist (MRA) — they call themselves "Honey Badgers" — who had previously made a number of YouTube videos about me where she called me a cunt.
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Rather than discuss campus rape with "men's rights" groups, espouse rape myths in national publications, and threaten to roll back federal enforcement, the Department of Education needs to do its job.
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It could be delicious to watch women like Quinn and Rachel, who have no tolerance for bullshit, take on men's rights, but at this point I'm mostly just feeling preemptive exhaustion.
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I just find the way that men talk about gender when they do talk is either, 'I'm a feminist,' which is useless, or the men's rights bullshit, which is just bullshit.
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Those in attendance included representatives from a men's rights group, as well as sexual assault survivors and representatives from educational institutions, according to a news release from the Department of Education.
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Giuffre's lawyer Cassell blasted the blogger and men's rights advocate as an avowed "slut-shamer" acting as a straw man for Dershowitz, something the Harvard professor and his attorney vehemently denied.
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The documents were first provided to BuzzFeed News by Mike Cernovich, the men's rights figure turned pro-Trump media activist who propagated a number of false conspiracy theories including the "Pizzagate" conspiracy.
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While the Shame Wizard — the incarnation of embarrassment and self-loathing who was season 2's primary antagonist — briefly appears when Andrew visits a Men's Rights group, he's otherwise absent this season.
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Over the past year and a half, Beirich said, the two groups have migrated from the largely online world of so-called men's rights forums and blogs to having in-person meetings.
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" On 4chan's /pol/ board, one user summarized the situation by adopting the language of Men's Rights, describing the author as a "red-pilled" programmer "complaining about the blue-pills in the company.
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On and around 4chan, groups which had mostly been excluded from the mainstream media, from white nationalists to men's rights activists, developed the dark arts they would use to further their agendas.
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One San Diego man has singlehandedly filed over 25 lawsuits claiming gender discrimination, and there are a number of men's-rights-focused law firms who solely focus on these types of cases.
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DeVos's choice to meet with men's rights groups reveals another flawed argument at the core of her attitude toward this issue — that protections for survivors come at the expense of accused students.
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What it pretends it is: A collection of activists sharing news about the infringement of "men's rights," seeking more parity from the justice system, like 50/50 child custody in divorce cases.
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As the visibility of LGBTQ people has grown, so has the hostility—especially so amid the rise of alt-right, men's rights, white supremacist, and other groups in the age of Trump.
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Instead, he seems to be embracing his role as a de facto leader of the alt-right enclave, and says he will "stand strong for men's rights" in the New Hampshire legislature.
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In 2015, Mr. Martin, a combat veteran, was fighting his dismissal from the United States Army in a military court case that became well known among certain circles, including men's rights groups.
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But in fact incel culture, the "men's rights" movement, and their focus on what they perceive as belittled masculinity have more in common with the broader alt-right than you might think.
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Incels also share ideological similarities with the Men's Rights Movement, a group that believes feminism and other social justice movements have led to the oppression of men, although incels focus solely on sex.
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How did trolls, men's rights activists, conspiracy theorists, gamergaters, "incels," neo-Nazis, and a variety of other subcultures end up coming together to engage in one of the most successful disinformation campaigns ever?
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A spokesperson for the National Coalition for Men, a so-called men's rights group, confirmed that it will have a representative present at the meeting with DeVos but declined to provide further comment.
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Mr. Crouch, who grew up in Anchorage, said he began working in men's rights after a relationship with an abusive woman led him to seek state funding for a program for abused men.
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Other female stars have been criticized for merely admitting to having read a feminist novel, part of a wider backlash by men's rights groups against gradual progress made by the country's women's movement.
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Some, including Weinstein's own attorney and men's rights activists who came to his defense, argue that Bennett's accusation, and the financial agreement between Bennett and Argento, have called the #MeToo movement into question.
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He has developed a fearsome reputation among college administrators and the adulation of men's rights activists, who believe feminism and politically correct campus culture prop up accusations from women who regret consensual sex.
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And if the rising interest in men's rights activism and its adjacent ideologies — incels, the alt-right, white supremacists — is any indication, these kinds of lawsuits are likely to only become more common.
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Kimmy Starts A Crusade Kimmy becomes tangled up with a men's rights activist, played by Bobby Moynihan, who is trying to exonerate Reverend Wayne (and also Lord Voldemort, but that's a whole other story).
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We've got a sexual predator in the White House, Congress keeps declining to renew the Violence Against Women Act, and the Department of Education is deferring to "men's rights activists" on campus rape policy.
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Keegan Hankes, a senior research analyst at SPLC, tells Broadly that they started noticing men's rights communities, including incels, were being used as entry-points leading people into other areas of the far right.
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Find out why — and read on for the author's thoughts about masculine silence, "bullshit" men's rights activism, and why anyone who thinks they deserve to have it all is on the brink of immorality.
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In what could only be described as a men's rights extremist's wet dream, the American government has been overthrown and replaced by an archaic ordering of gender roles — based on scriptures from the Bible.
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While the topic has been newly mainstreamed for the first time since Rodger's mass shooting, the incel ideology has been incubating on forums like 4chan and 8chan and "Men's Rights" message boards for years.
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Now, whether it's the crowds shouting "Lock her up!" at Trump rallies or men's rights activists or self-styled victims of a lack of ethics in the gaming industry, young man-children run amok.
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Mike Cernovich, the men's rights figure and pro-Trump activist who helped propagate the "Pizzagate" conspiracy, first provided the Conyers documents to BuzzFeed because he believed if he published them himself they would be discredited.
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And those Chuck Palahniuk references never went away—they evolved into "the Red Pill", the dubious online "men's rights" movement, and their talk of "special snowflakes" who are too easily offended by harmless free speech.
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Still, Fisher's willingness to publicly champion his identity as a member of the men's rights community rather than rejecting it speaks to the growing power of the alt-right movement within politics as a whole.
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In higher education, men's rights groups said they welcome the proposed rule, though they also said it may not be enough to restore the presumption of innocence DeVos has aimed to invoke for the accused.
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There, in a visualization on the report's 11th page, lodged above the men's rights activist Stefan Molyneux, pinched between the anti-immigrant pundit Lauren Southern and the self-proclaimed "disaffected liberal" Tim Pool, is Destiny.
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The rise of the alt-right, modern white supremacy, and men's rights activists show how perceived threats to one's race, gender, religious, and cultural identity are one of the only commonalities shared by both sides.
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But victim advocates say the personal nature of these defamation suits, filed by attorneys with close ties to groups that they deride as "men's rights" organizations, makes it difficult to build trust between the warring sides.
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The guest list was something of a who's who of the fringe internet right, ranging from a men's rights activist who brags about "banging" drunk women to the leader of America's foremost white nationalist think tank.
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The answer rests largely on what becomes of the ties between the alt-right and the men's rights movement, two amorphous and symbiotic sectors that have enjoyed increasing power and notoriety in the age of Trump.
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We met up with the founder of India's leading men's rights organization, Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF), to find out what the group is fighting for, and talked to a man who recently joined its ranks.
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The philosophies underpinning incel culture, men's rights activists, pickup artists, Alex Jones-variant libertarianism, the intellectual dark web, evolutionary psychology, and prosperity-gospel evangelism all have in common a model of individualism defined by hierarchical struggle.
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Last year, a volley of death threats against feminist figures at University of Toronto caused the university to point the finger at men's rights group like the Canadian Association For Equality (CAFE) for inspiring hate speech.
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After I started a feminist blog in 2004, I became a target of men's-rights groups who were angry with women about everything from custody battles to the false notion that most women lie about rape.
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That's because Trump is parroting the ideas of a movement of aggrieved men, typically dubbed "men's rights activists" (MRAs), who think that feminism has overreached and that men are now the oppressed class as a result.
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Among the men's rights groups that attended were the National Coalition for Men (NCFM) and Stop Abusive Violent Environments (SAVE), organizations that claim domestic abuse and rape allegations are part of a feminist conspiracy to demonize men.
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Last week, after the Alamo Drafthouse theater in Austin, Texas announced that it would host a screening of Wonder Woman limited to women (with proceeds benefiting Planned Parenthood), the men's-rights types of the world lost it.
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In reaction to this loss of domination, the alt-right has fostered racist, sexist, and homophobic rhetoric — and sometimes far more horrifying actions, as in the case of the misogynistic, men's rights adherent Santa Barbara mass shooter.
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According to one former mentee, Elliott opened up to those he deemed "red-pilled"—a term used by white nationalists and so-called "men's rights activists" to refer to someone who has been awakened to their cause.
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But Mr. Trump's candidacy has also made inroads among a constellation of subcultures with strong online presences — among them, men's rights activists, pickup artists and white nationalists, all of which feed into the freewheeling "alt-right" movement.
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She said she believes the situation was getting better from the '90s onwards, but the conservative government of the mid-2000s slowed progress, and since then a strong men's rights movement in South Korea has made things difficult.
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Incels are usually conspiracy theorists, not victims, who believe the world is purposely denying them their fundamental right to sex on demand—and who share many values and tactics with white supremacist, men's rights, and alt-right groups.
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The National Coalition for Men and Stop Abusive and Violent Environments, groups that DeVos met with last Thursday, are part of a right-wing movement of men's rights groups committed to tearing down protections for women like me.
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Kimmel spoke with Thrive Global about what masculinity studies had to do with feminism, why we should be interrogating masculinity in the first place, and what men's-rights activists and violent extremists had to do with each other.
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At one low point, an Austrian political activist presented his "red pill" political platform, calling for compulsory paternity testing at birth (in general, the men's rights movement is obsessed with cuckolding) and acknowledging common ground with white nationalists.
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" Over at the Reddit Men's Rights forum, another poster fumed: "This entire episode should be a warning to all those male hating feminists out there who believe that they are safe screaming their hate messages on the web.
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Many of the people she spoke to were active in what she would soon find out was the "manosphere"—an online community that now encompasses the alt-right and men's rights activists as well as pick-up artists.
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Since its founding in 2012, the "men's rights" subreddit r/TheRedPill has become one of the most notorious forums in Reddit's history, widely known as a misogynistic cesspool in which men deride feminist ideologies and mock rape victims.
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His Proud Boys, an MRA (men's rights activists) organization, were slated to headline the Boston Free Speech rally this Saturday, but dropped out due to a lack of support from the city and from Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh.
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The campaign drew attention to simmering toxic masculinity in the online gaming community, and has been described as a precursor to the fomentation of incel or modern men's-rights movements, which are defined by their deep resentment of women.
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The Times reported that Jackson walked back the comments, but days later, DeVos met with groups impacted by Title IX policies, including representatives from a men's rights group, as well as sexual assault survivors and representatives from educational institutions.
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So, to further understand the circumstances under which male supremacist groups were officially recognized as hate groups, we've compiled a list of violent, harassing, or otherwise harmful acts that self-proclaimed "men's rights activists" have committed in recent years.
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Straight pride, which has lived for years on the fringes of social media, has struggled to catch on; analogous movements like men's-rights activism and white nationalism, both of which have inspired acts of terrorism, are far better known.
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As the commission was studying the issue, a federal judge in Texas ruled in February 2019 that the all-male draft was unconstitutional in a case brought by a men's rights group known as the National Coalition for Men.
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Reasonable center-left types argued that broadening rape's definitions and weakening men's rights could instill a necessary sort of fear, a kind of balance of terror between male sexual privilege and a female right to accuse and be believed.
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At the risk of sounding like a men's rights activist Missing The Point Entirely, self-care really is one of the rare spaces where women dominate the culture, while men face countless gender-based stigmas and barriers to entry.
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Several Democratic candidates have been targeted by these appropriation psyops so far — most notably entrepreneur Andrew Yang, who, after flirting with the fringe via the Yang Gang, spent the summer disentangling himself from Trump trolls, men's rights activists, and gamers.
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As tennis pro and commentator Jack Kramer (a prototype of men's rights activism before that was the branding) Bill Pullman plays a chilling villain who clearly believes that women who challenge men's societal status deserve to be put in their place.
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Men's rights activists, incels, and Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) all share the same basic sexual ideology as pickup artists—that women are there to be dominated and that any other outcome is a perversion of the natural order.
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His ecelebrity cohorts have turned tail, including former men's rights activist Mike Cernovich, #TrumpCup creator and ex-Buzzfeed employee Baked Alaska, The Rebel mouthpiece Jack Posobiec, white nationalist and living meme Richard Spencer, and Paul Joseph Watson of Infowars fame.
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After West's visit to the White House yesterday, in which he echoed the language of men's rights activists and praised Donald Trump in a scattergun rant, T.I. wrote on Instagram that he could no longer support or even tolerate West.
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There is no reason to mourn this, really, although it is regrettable that men no longer have names like Weeb Ewbank and that the only people currently wearing natty Tom Landry-style hats are men's rights activists and Jeremy Piven.
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While Elam's "men's rights" movement has enjoyed some favorable media coverage, and he has managed to present himself as a moderate voice for men's equality, he is no less dangerous, having advocated for both physical and sexual violence against women.
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If men's rights have a strategic weakness, beyond the outright misogyny espoused by so many of the movement's members, it's the inability to empathize with women who might be in a similar situation—or even build bridges with women's campaigns.
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In practice, however, men's rights activists, colloquially known as "MRAs," often use this agenda to harass women, deny the existence of rape culture, and teach one another how to manipulate women into sleeping with them, often through subtle forms of control.
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Mr. Allison, 47, is a key player in a movement of men's rights activists challenging female-focused businesses, marketing strategies, educational programs and civic projects that have surged since the election of President Trump in November 2016 and the #MeToo movement.
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This week, we've looked at David H. Petraeus calling for Australian military intervention to fight the Islamic State in Asia; we've drawn comparisons to other countries after the Australian census data was released; and tackled men's rights activists and trolling.
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"I was grateful for the community to be raising points that affected my father and my life," he told Vox, noting that Reddit's various men's rights forums were full of "great points" about how society expects men to be emotionally reserved.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With more British men wanting to take an active role in raising their children, are workplaces preventing fathers from spending more time at home, asks an inquiry launched on Monday, with men's rights groups calling for a "childcare revolution".
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Last year opened with a similar, though smaller, anti-feminist backlash against Mad Max: Fury Road from longtime fans and men's rights activists, then closed with waves of protest against the diverse cast and woman-focused storyline of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, one of Trump's most pious cabinet members, has used her authority to shrink the size of the department's already overworked Office of Civil Rights and met with men's rights activists who dispute the prevalence of campus sexual assault.
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Investigators said Rodger was motivated to carry out his attack by a personal grievance related to his immersion in the extremist ideological subculture of men's rights activists, who believe women don't actually want gender equality and have been brainwashed by feminist propaganda.
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But the idea that both trans people and men's rights activists would see themselves in The Matrix speaks in a perverse way to how the Wachowskis translated what feels to me like a very specific trans experience into something much more universal.
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Critics of college sexual assault policies, including men's rights activists, say that in universities' rush to respond to reports of widespread sexual violence on campus — and to atone for past mishandling of these cases — they have overstepped their authority to punish accused students.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. This weekend, the global men's rights movement came to London for the 2018 International Conference on Men's Issues (ICMI)—an annual summit bringing together MRAs and their sympathizers from the US, Canada, Australia, India, and Europe.
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DeVos will also meet with survivors of sexual assault, higher education officials, and their legal teams, but the fact that she's giving men's rights groups and those accused of sexual assault a seat at the table has stoked outrage among women's advocates.
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In May, Green posted a video in which she discussed "taking the red pill," in the sense that "men's rights" activists and other alt-right groups have appropriated it to mean waking up to the "reality" that feminism is a destructive cultural force.
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"One of the biggest concerns that we have, even with the new proposed rules, is that men are still going to face bias in these proceedings," said Gregory Josefchuk, president of the National Coalition For Men Carolinas, a men's rights advocacy group.
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After moving to Southern California, Mr. Crouch met Philip W. Cook, the author of "Abused Men," who told him about N.C.F.M., which emerged from men's rights groups that formed in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in the wake of feminism's second wave.
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Nor has the new era of genetic testing revealed a tsunami of misattributed paternity, despite the impression you get from daytime TV or from men's-rights groups, which conjure up an epidemic of paternity fraud perpetrated by scheming, birth-control-eschewing women.
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Men's rights activists believe that society is actually sexist against men, and Frye has perfected the subculture's favorite way to target what they see as a society that is sexist against men: suing businesses and organizations that incentivize women to go there.
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Zuckerberg (the younger sister of the Facebook CEO Mark) characterizes the "Red Pill" online community as the corner of the internet dominated by men's-rights activists, the alt-right, pickup artists, and the sex-eschewing communities known as Men Going Their Own Way.
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More than 50 congressional Democrats demanded in 2017 that DeVos fire Jackson over comments suggesting that a majority of campus rape cases were actually instances of regret — which Jackson apologized for publicly and in private meetings with survivors — and for meeting with men's rights activists.
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In some of Conner's latest videos, he's tackled the notorious TikTok Hype House, Justin Bieber's desperate quest to get "Yummy" to the number 1 spot, and the existence of a bizarre convention for women run by men's rights activists, all with his signature deadpan delivery.
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"The overwhelming number of responses [to the petition], many from regular Kino customers, has really resonated with us and has led us to reconsider the appropriateness of going ahead with the booking," the cinema wrote in a letter breaking the news to Men's Rights Melbourne.
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The Women's Beer Forum, hosted by Los Angeles-based Eagle Rock Brewery, is the latest victim in a long line of so-called "gender-based discrimination" lawsuits initiated by various men's rights activists (MRAs), who are lashing out events and promotions designed for women.
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As someone who's been following men's rights for a while, I wanted to go along, partly to find out what actually happens at these events, but also to see whether the attendees really all were the women-hating wackos they are believed to be.
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But for several years, higher education administrators have maintained that sexual misconduct rules pressed by the Obama administration unnecessarily burdened them with bureaucratic mandates that had little to do with assault or harassment, and men's rights groups have said the accused have had little recourse.
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In one plot, the father of one of South Park's little boys is a misogynist troll who gets recruited by a global anonymous online army; in another, the boys and girls at the school split into man-hating feminists and woman-hating "men's rights" activists.
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To Schlafly's horror, American women have served in combat roles in the military since 270, and just last month a federal judge ruled the male-only draft illegal (the case was brought by a men's rights group, so add that to the list of wild characters here).
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Nagle approaches the alt-right as a meta-group of semi-divergent subcultures, including the eclectic cadre of feminist-hating chauvinists in the "men's rights movement," Pepe-wielding shitposters, "dapper" white ethno-nationalists, pseudonymous neoreactionary theorists, and "alt-light" allies like Milo Yiannopoulos and Steve Bannon.
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In the stories of angry Men's Rights Activists and incels — men who are "involuntarily celibate," and denied their "right" to sex — the women of the world are in control, teasing and taunting and withholding, even as men maintain incredible majorities in nearly every hall of power.
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The tough experiences of many men in the military have been at the core of an anti-feminist backlash to the #MeToo movement in South Korea by men's rights groups, even as the country has made some progress in tackling issues of sexual harassment and assault.
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DeVos, speaking to students and faculty at George Mason University in Virginia earlier this month, said that the new rules were unfair to students accused of sexual assault, a conclusion she announced after meeting with men's rights groups, sexual assault survivors, and school administrators in July.
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Advocates for accused students, including men's rights groups, have long argued that the tenets of the "Dear Colleague" letter, especially the "preponderance of the evidence" standard, deprive the accused of due process in Title IX cases, even though the preponderance standard is common in other civil cases.
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DeVos has apparently been sympathetic to this criticism, meeting in July 2017 with the groups Families Advocating for Campus Equality (FACE) and Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE), which advocate for the rights of the accused, and the National Coalition for Men (NCFM), a men's rights group.
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I once served on a faculty senate "task force" on sexual misconduct, and soon discovered that the underlying goal was to persuade us to recommend that accusations from alleged victims not be taken on face value, precisely to diminish the threat of litigation from men's rights groups.
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Leading up to the release of the proposed regulations, the White House Office of Management and Budget met with men's rights groups and attorneys for the accused, as well as victims' rights groups and civil rights organizations like the Human Rights Campaign and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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In the time since, she's become the treasurer for the National Coalition for Men, a nonprofit educational association whose website describes its goals as raising awareness about the way sex discrimination affects men and boys, and which has been called a men's rights group by left-leaning media.
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When a male domestic violence victim praised recent information campaigns for being more inclusive and helping more victims come forward, you started to think there might be some utility in a men's rights movement—at least, one started from scratch, untainted by what it has now come to represent.
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The forum specifically advocates for the so-called "men's rights" movement, which often bills itself as being about restoring men's self-esteem after it's been damaged by the effects of feminism, protecting fathers' agency in custody battles, and generally restoring their traditional roles as head of the family.
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" It's important to note that while sexism and bigotry ultimately drove RZRtv away from Reddit's men's rights communities, he says he never sought out a great deal of emotional support from them to begin with, "as I'm a pretty private person and don't seek that type of thing out.
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She currently has a GoFundMe page that has raised more than $16,000 of the original $10,000 ask, but the money isn't all for legal fees and the settlement: She's aiming to raise awareness for small businesses and women's groups to protect themselves against lawsuits from men's rights activists.
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What began in the early 2000s as a series of local support groups for aggrieved husbands fighting the supposed misuse of a law that protected Indian women from dowry-related crimes has grown into a network of men's rights groups with the basic anatomy of a political movement.
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The reboot's attempts at modernization also came in for particular loathing, including a ham-fisted take on meme culture, a gratuitous twerking scene, and the presence of demi-misogynist villain Manboy, a would-be lumberjack criticised by Slate's Eric Thurm as an overly obvious take on the men's rights movement.
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While a few women's groups like End Rape on Campus and the National Women's Law Center were invited to make their case to defend the Obama era policies, DeVos is most notably also meeting with advocates for accused students, including "men's rights" groups too, like the National Coalition for Men.
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In that context, libertarianism was mostly men's rights activists who wanted to abolish the federal government, Evolian traditionalism — a strain of occult Italian neofascism following the works of the philosopher Julius Evola — and the neoreaction movement, or "Dark Enlightenment," an anti-egalitarian political theory championed by computer scientist Curtis Yarvin.
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She's melted down enough, probably to the point of no return It's notable that Twitter seems more vulnerable to brigading from the internet's alt-right corners — Reddit, 4chan and 8chan, various men's rights forums, and other niche right-wing, libertarian-leaning, heavily male-dominated communities — than other social media platforms.
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The newfound reverence for cliché men's rights activist Anakin Skywalker, Trump stand-in Senator Palpatine, and even Jar-Jar Binks has sparked a Reddit meme war between the prequel memers and an upstart group of overmatched rebels hellbent on defending the superiority of the original trilogy and the new sequels.
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Take the Wattpad author who stalked and brutally attacked a negative reviewer, the male redditors who harassed a woman into canceling a real-life Reddit meetup, or the online men's rights forums Elliot Rodger hung out in for years before he went on a Santa Barbara shooting spree targeting women.
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I will continue to stand strong for men's rights and the rights of all, and I intend on introducing new legislation in 2018 to push back in the New Hampshire courts and finally bring relief for New Hampshire parents and citizens who face these very real but under-reported issues.
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Increasingly, he's been associated with his fan base, which includes many on the alt-right, men's rights activists, incels, and other reactionary corners of the internet landscape — though it should be noted that Peterson has often criticized the alt-right, and sees his message of personal responsibility as a path out of it.
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Over on r/MensRights, "a place for those who wish to discuss men's rights and the ways said rights are infringed upon," Tune again censors the comments containing curse words on a thread titled "Emma Watson's blatant feminist hypocrisy," even when the comments are condemning the questionable tone of the thread title.
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"ADL considers misogyny a dangerous and underestimated component of extremism, and this report marks the start of an ongoing effort to investigate the ways in which people in the white supremacist, incel and [men's rights activism] orbits feed and inform one another's poisonous hatred of women," the ADL said in the report.
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At that time, he identified as a liberal, and stumbled upon the work of Stefan Molyneux; in addition to producing videos containing life advice, Molyneux also creates videos with social and political commentary, arguing for increased men's rights and a return to the sort of gender politics that were common in previous centuries.
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If you check out the_donald now, it's a disconcerting melting pot of posts that run the gamut from InfoWars-style conspiracies, men's rights activist- and GamerGate-style real and faux outrage, memes and shitposts (basically, jokes that are only meant to be understood by those in the community), and, yes, Donald Trump news.
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The only way out of this lie, as many of its members argue, is to 'take the red pill' — that is, to fall down the rabbit hole of the "men's rights" movement, which will ultimately lead you to an awareness that traditional gender roles and the reestablishment of the patriarchy is better for everyone.
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Fans have already gotten a sneak peek at Emma Watson as Belle singing in previous clips from the film, but in new footage that premiered on Good Morning America on Tuesday we get our first look at the number "Gaston," sung by Le Fou (Josh Gad) and future Men's Rights Activist Gaston (Luke Evans).
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If you're a Men's Rights Activist and these ads hurt your feelings, please get some help and don't freak out at the New York Transit Museum: The exhibition also features retro ads scolding "Birdy Big Bags," discouraging what's now called "she-bagging," whereby people (according to some, mostly women) hog seats with their bags.
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But lefty Tumblr blogs don't get as many serious deep-dive profiles as men's rights advocates or reactionary subreddits, and their minor memes don't get the same wide-ranging publicity — like the massive news cycle dedicated to the alt-right triple parenthesis, a nasty in-joke that got presented to the world as a diabolically clever harassment scheme.
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Also among the Fringe First honorees are "My Left/Right Foot," an outrageously irreverent National Theater of Scotland musical comedy about a drama society attempting to be inclusive by staging a play based on the film "My Left Foot," and "Angry Alan," by Penelope Skinner ("The Village Bike"), about a man being drawn into the growing men's rights movement.
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It reminds me that patriarchy is of a piece with violence, and that it is most often deployed through violence—a message that feels all the more relevant at a time when men's rights movements are gaining momentum, mass shootings are often linked to misogyny, and women in all industries are continuing the fight against sexual violence.
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In addition, bonds among male professors who want to protect not only their male colleagues but also themselves from public humiliation, are reinforced by the defensive strategies of powerful universities that seek to avoid scandal and fend off men's rights advocates who threaten them privately with legal action for giving credence too easily to the accusations of purported victims.
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While she was an early adopter of the MRM in India, Challa had spent years defending men's rights in the United States, where she told me she created a helpline for Indian husbands living overseas and "visited every office of every senator and house of representative" to rally against the signing of the International Violence Against Women Act.
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SK: MRA stands for Men's Rights Activist and it's a group of men who say that they are fighting for quite simply the rights of men, which can vary from them getting custody of their children more frequently to them arguing that rape allegations tend to be overblown and over-reported and men are going to jail for them unfairly.
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DeVos signaled that she might be sympathetic to these viewpoints in July of last year, when she held meetings to discuss the issue with the groups Families Advocating for Campus Equality (FACE) and Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE), which advocate for the rights of people accused of sexual assault, and the National Coalition for Men (NCFM), a men's rights group.
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Misunderstanding the breadth of the hatred prevents us from seeing just how violent and deadly the alt-right truly is: from Elliot Rodger and Alek Minassian, radicalized "men's rights" activists who killed 16 people and injured 30 others; to Alexandre Bissonnette, who murdered six people at a Quebec mosque; to Dylann Roof, who murdered nine people at a black church in Charleston.
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In July, DeVos held a series of meetings to discuss Title IX. She met with groups representing survivors of sexual assault, but tellingly, she also met with the groups Families Advocating for Campus Equality (FACE) and Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE), which advocate for the rights of people accused of sexual assault, and the National Coalition for Men (NCFM), a men's rights group.
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Ben Collins has the forehead-smackingly depressing tale of how a woman who made significant contributions to the quest to photograph a black hole became the target of men's rights activists across the internet last week: By Friday, falsehoods claiming it was not Bouman but a male colleague who deserved credit for the black hole image overtook legitimate coverage in search results on YouTube and Instagram.
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" I can already hear the critics who will argue that representation in emojis seems like such a small matter as compared to other issues affecting young women and girls, or the men's rights activists who will "start screaming about political correctness gone haywire," as writer Sophie Kleeman put it in a piece titled "Hey, Unicode, It's About Damn Time We Had Some Emojis for Professional Women.
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In a post called "Killed by Chivalry: Everything Wrong With the Men's Right's Movement in One Tweet," Futrelle mockingly summarized Elam's hypotheses and then went on to argue — making heavy reference to Elam's writing over the years — that this "killer chivalry" argument epitomized a general disdain in the men's rights movement not only for women but for the very notions of altruism and empathy.
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"Today marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Aileen Wuornos, a beautifully humane woman who will forever hold a place in my heart for her strength and courage in living through the horrific life cards she'd been dealt and that were completely out of her control," read a post on the now-defunct blog Feminist Rag in 2013, later reposted on a Men's Rights forum.
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There was a van attack that happened in Toronto a little while ago--a man drove through a crowd, he killed ten people, he was possibly motivated by misogyny, he made some Facebook comments about the incel movement--which stands for involuntarily celibate--so there are these links to men's rights activist groups, white supremacist groups, Toronto and a lot of active hate crimes that are happening up here.
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There's a movie to be made just about David Blatt, honestly, although as it would focus on an ultra-driven and relentlessly standoffish man in a suit who drives others away with the force of his difficulty, it would have to have been made by David Mamet before he got really into conservative talk radio and men's rights, and we've already been over how stingy Hollywood is with time travel technology.
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More telling is that "Whiskey," off Maroon 5's recent album Red Pill Blues (the band would like to make it very clear the name is not a reference to the men's rights movement) is one of almost a dozen collaborations Levine or the band, known more for being soft than edgy, has done with some of the top rap artists of our time, a fact their lead singer is quite proud of.
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Birds with human arms have cropped up on the websites of shiny modern media companies, in the pits of the internet where men's rights activists and anti-SJW crusaders slip political opinions into the images, amid the comfortable, easy humor of Tumblr, and on Reddit — a unique community with the reach of a modern media company, the lawlessness of golf rush town, the despicable chaos of an MRA forum, and boundless spontaneity and creativity.
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Created by McInnes, a "provocateur" and one of the original co-founders of Vice Media, who has described himself as "an old punk from Canada" and turned right in 22018 (the same year he left Vice over "creative differences"), the Proud Boys are a strange amalgamation of a men's rights organization, a fight club and what some may see as a hate group — one that loves Donald Trump, hates Muslims (and Jews and trans people), but permits nonwhite membership.
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At a time of renewed debates about consent and gender equality in the workplace as well as the rising power of nativist men's rights activists — spurred by a president who has a morbid fascination with the visceral functions of the female body — Bernstein, Schneemann and an entire generation of nearly forgotten women who have fearlessly examined sex and gender in their art, whether anyone was paying attention or not, are suddenly more relevant than they've ever been.
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In a world where Revolver's much-maligned Hottest Chicks in Hard Rock (formerly Hottest Chicks in Metal) issue still exists, where entire websites are dedicated to "protecting" metal from "SJW lefty PC bullshit," and where men's rights forum The Return of Kings (AKA Misogyny Central) covers #metalgate (whatever that was,) I feel pretty safe saying you'd be hard-pressed to find a woman who hasn't encountered some sort of sexist behavior whilst participating in the cock forest that is extreme metal.
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