Well, pal, we're fucked if we do and fucked if we don't. One of the services provided by this haven is to actually show the misandry. If your order were the rule, this subreddit would be a pretty lonely place.I was pretty surprised about MR being a place primarily to showcase misandry. On the surface, MR seems to be more focused on expanding men's rights (reproductive rights, custody, stuff like that), but to purposefully hunt down and extrapolate misandry from feminist blogs or women-centered websites.. that was a bit surprising, but shouldn't be been, considering the conversations that go on in this subreddit. I guess I was being too hopeful that they would be concentrating their efforts on things that advance the MR movement, instead of regressing what women have done for their own gender issues.
What I feel is an underlying (but major) issue with MR is their ability to misconstrue and misrepresent any sort of feminist literature, female empowerment, or otherwise female-concerned issue, and to wring it out until they can tweeze out some vague misandric references. When I looked at Jezebel, my initial thought was this advertising campaign was aimed at people in countries where they commit female infanticide, or otherwise harm and mistreat females due to their unworthiness compared to sons. Even if the ads weren't, it still relates heavily to the discussion of females in China, for example, and this was not at all discussed in MR. The discussion on this article segued into another hateful venting about feminism, which nevadawildfires posted his endearing thoughts about:
Feminists are like locusts and feminism is the plague they spread. Jezebel is heavily infested. Skimming that all I can say is that we need to bring out the flamethrowers and torch them all until only smoking cinders remain.(I will note that while his submission was downvoted, this attitude is not always very far from the general mindset of the community.)
Jezebel's article was not about degrading men, but it instead, it wanted to highlight an important issue about rearing children, and the value (or lack thereof) that daughters have around the world. The advertising campaign almost seemed like a tongue-in-cheek approach -- unless you have the money to blow for a lab and a scientist to craft your specifically-chosen gendered baby, you can't just "decide" to have a girl or not. It wanted to underline the importance of accepting female children, and not throwing them away/abandoning them/whatever other horrible things in favor of having a hopeful son. Obviously, this just flew right over the heads of the MR participants, which makes me a little more angry, and a lot more saddened that there is such a vile, hateful discussion constantly going on in this subreddit.
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