What I Learned as a Woman at a Men's Rights Conference

Re:What I Learned as a Woman at a Men's Rights Conference by wiejfjiwioef on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @05:10PM (#7979737)

Yes, feminism is pretty much religion today. You can be "kicked out" for being men or not agreeing with some 'axioms' such as rape culture or patriarchy. One link for demonstration:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=auto&tl=en&u=h...

Feminism is not just 'bigger' it is multi-billion dollar industry. MRA is just a few web forums which barely managed to organize single conference.

If you disagree with some radical feminists, perhaps it is time to tell them, instead of bashing on MRAs.

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Re:What I Learned as a Woman at a Men's Rights Conference by pdabbadabba on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @05:18PM (#7979793)

Next time I see a "radical feminist" posting on HN I'll be sure to give him or her a piece of my mind.

Also, you'll need to do better than an article from, of all places, avoiceformen.com that merely assumes the existence of a feminist institution that you can be kicked out of and blames it for a man's suicide.

I'm certainly not aware of any such institution and I'm a feminist! Perhaps my membership card has just been lost in the mail? Or gasp! maybe it's because I'm a man and the mother ship is just not giving me the time of day? That explains a lot, actually...

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Re:What I Learned as a Woman at a Men's Rights Conference by wiejfjiwioef on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @05:37PM (#7979907)

There are many feminists institutions, that guy got kicked out from FEMEN Sweden. Others got kicked out from campus groups or web forums. If you want go to MRA forum and just ask.

Perhaps you have no membership card because you never applied anywhere. But some people are more involved.

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Re:What I Learned as a Woman at a Men's Rights Conference by pdabbadabba on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @09:54PM (#7981043)

Ah ha. There are, of course, organizations that identify themselves as feminist. And yes, you can get kicked out of them, I suppose. But this is not at all the same thing as getting kicked out of "feminism," as you have been alleging to have been the case.

This is more than a mere semantic distinction since any arbitrary feminist group can have whatever arbitrary rule or prejudices it likes without those views' being imputable to all feminists. I certainly don't accept that FEMEN Sweden speaks for all (or even many) feminists or that being kicked out of FEMEN means you can't be or aren't a feminist.

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