"Men's Rights" cracks me up.

[KitSileya]

173. This is such a good post.

You explain it so succinctly and well, that it is a shame that those on DU, and those on this thread especially, who twist "men's rights" into human rights in an attept to jab at feminists, won't read, and most certainly will not comment. They are not interested in hearing that men are a privileged group, and that most of the problems men encounter because of cultural bias, have been created by men. That women aren't privileged in child custody cases, they are in fact benefitring from something men thought would be detrimental to them because at that time, most men thought that caring for their own children made you less than, so it was suitable only for women. Now that it is biting them in the butt, men are more than happy to blame women for it, rather than their own gender.

The same goes for men having huge problems with job loss because of the idea that men are to be breadwinners. Not only does that invisibilize the fact that a huge number of women have been bread winners in their families, by focussing on just the mechanical aspect - these men must get new jobs - it shifts the focus away from equality. A culture where men are seen as bread winners is wrong. Feminists try to change that - but many on this thread sees this as dismissing men rather than freeing them from patriarchal expectations alongside women.

In the two threads, this and its response, is so much rank hypocrisy it's not even funny. The term "men's rights" (and notice how one side keeps it in quotation marks to show that it is the MRA concept they are talking about, which is blatantly ignored by the hypocritical) does not equate to human rights. They are no better than those who argue that anti-semitic means hatred of Arabs and Muslims.