Re:To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
by nthrow on Monday January 20, 2014 @05:11AM
(#7088658)
Cherry picking incidents involving the actions of disturbed individuals to attempt to smear a multifaceted movement is intellectually dishonest. That's like claiming all Muslims are terrorists because some Muslims are.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
by DanBC on Monday January 20, 2014 @06:30AM
(#7088950)
MRA at this time is strongly linked to wingnuts.
That is not to say there there is no benefit to considering the rights of men or the problems that men face with issues like violent attack or custody disputes.
Re:To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
by detcader on Monday January 20, 2014 @05:25AM
(#7088710)
"Disturbed individuals"? Did you read the articles? The people being describes are the leaders of the "movement", like Elam. The "movement" obviously encourages the behavior being described -- meanwhile, groups like CAIR work hard to address the popular image of the terrorist Muslim. Where is the CAIR of "men's rights" I wonder
Re:To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
by theorique on Monday January 20, 2014 @07:55PM
(#7092697)
FYI, CAIR is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. It's a dangerous organization.
Re:To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
by nthrow on Monday January 20, 2014 @05:37AM
(#7088763)
There are some Muslim leaders that express disturbing things as well. Once again, this does not make them the voice of mainstream Islam. If you actually visit a large men's rights community, like http://reddit.com/r/mensrights, you'll find that some women participate in discussion as well and the men are not the rape-happy bugaboos that many paint MRAs in general to be.
Re:To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
by detcader on Monday January 20, 2014 @05:43AM
(#7088785)
Oh hey look the top story is someone "cherry-picking" a paragraph from an article one person wrote, about rape. Glad I took the time to visit
Re:To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
by nthrow on Monday January 20, 2014 @05:45AM
(#7088790)
It's almost as if movements in general - feminism and the men's rights movement included - are prone to partisan sensationalism.
Re:To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
by detcader on Monday January 20, 2014 @05:50AM
(#7088805)
I'm confused; "feminism" isn't a singular movement at all
Re:To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes
by nthrow on Monday January 20, 2014 @06:03AM
(#7088843)
Mainstream segments of the movement, if you will. The mainstream of any movement is where a sense of tribal identity emerges that's likely to engage in partisan disparagement of other movements seen as opposition.