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In reply to the discussion: The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell [View all]CreekDog
(46,192 posts)or do they just take one side?
look at groups that represent women's rights and what do you see? a push towards labor rights (which helps everyone), efforts towards helping children (which helps everyone), and so forth.
men's right's groups? frankly, just about men, apparently to the exclusion of women. it's ugly, frankly.
as a civil rights activist myself, any group that only looks out for one set or one group of rights and remains silent on the rest (as the MRA's here usually do), to me they are just hate groups pretending to be something else.
just like Jesse Jackson's campaign in 1988 wasn't just for helping black people and Gloria Steinem was a feminist but had larger goals of empowerment and egalitarianism that meant to make the world fairer for all of us.
and the MRA movement? just about helping men. we see stories of rape, of unfairness towards women, and the MRA folks here are mostly silent on those issues. MRA is not really different in its approach to civil rights than white power groups are. narrow minded and self interested.
i argue for fairness that promotes equality among all people, regardless of gender and that we work to eliminate poverty and harm to everybody, but doing so necessarily means that we're helping those who are most disadvantaged (women, children, minorities) more than those less disadvantaged. but the point is to help everybody and improve everybody's lot in life.