UK Feminist MP arrogantly laughs at the idea of Mens Rights

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Rêveur said:

I think my faith in humanity has just been restored! I came across an article on Gawker a while back about a feminist trolling men's rights activists with quotes from Good will Hunting and that was linked through Kotaku, and pretty much all the opinions were the opposite of these. Many qualified Men's Rights Activists (MRAs) as pu**ies and used very violent and derogatory terms to qualify them. I was so shocked at the one-sidedness of the comments that I actually created an account just to try to give people some facts and to defend, as briefly as possible, the MRA movement.

Unfortunately, it would seem that society is so brainwashed that people, men included, don't understand the necessity of MRAs and the MRA movement. So conditioned are people that they will automatically jump at any MRAs as a reflex without taking the time to do research or think critically. So conditioned they are to political correctness and feminist views that they claim men have nothing to complain about, that men have all the privileges, that the only ones who suffer are women. I truly felt that humanity was coming to an end.

Reading these comments on this site has really restored my faith that people are not as brainwashed as I thought, that they are capable of thinking for themselves and against the polically correct conditioned views feminists would like us all to have. Gawker isn't Jezebel (in which case I would understand better the comments), but the violence of the comments made me understand that Kotaku and the associated sites are run by extreme feminists, either because of political correctness or by ignorance on men's issues.

I would just like to extend a big thank you to all! Thanks!

Part of the problem with this, and many issues nowadays is that people trust the News/Journalists, to be truthful in their reporting.  People also conflate sites like Gawker, with Journalism.  These are fallacies.  Whether this has always been done, or whether it's a new phenomena, the facts are, people take studies and then cherry pick the data to support their own argument.  Such as with the BLS report I spoke of above.  That report does indeed show that men earned more money, however, neglects to inform any reader (and in some cases seeks to bury the information) that the report qualifies 'full-time' work as any job where you work at least 35 hours a week.  But, forgets to highlight the fact that men tend to work longer hours (and I've never worked a full-time job that was less than 40hrs/wk).

It's pseudo-science, and it preys on the fact that people simply do not have the time to read through and interpret all the data in every study that's released (and this doesn't touch on studies that are just plain garbage to begin with).  Situations like this, that literally set people at each other, are why I really feel that the News should be held to a higher standard, much like the Army, or the Fire Dept, or Police.   While I'm a firm believer in Freedom of Speech, I also think that knowingly/purposefully misinforming the public is...well, straight up evil.

I believe Fox News perfected this tactic, and that the rest of the media adopted their tactics, simply as a means of raising viewership numbers.