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http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2012/08/angry-men-feminist-agenda/
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/men-rights-unruh-act-women-discrimination
http://www.slate.com/articles/doubl...ather_evolution_of_divorce_and_paternity.html
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-12-02-paternity-usat_x.htm
https://www.insidehighered.com/news...assault-are-winning-lawsuits-against-colleges
http://chronicle.com/article/At-Harvard-All-Female-Groups/236431

There's little question, then, why Americans increasingly see feminism as NOT being about equality.
In 2012, 28% of Americans would call themselves feminists.
https://today.yougov.com/news/2013/05/01/has-feminist-become-dirty-word/
In 2014, that fell to 20%.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/feminism-poll_n_3094917.html
In 2015, it fell to 18%.
http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenint...ont-consider-themselves-feminists-poll-shows/
In each and every case, the people polled overwhelmingly want equality between the sexes, but yet they also overwhelmingly do not want to be called feminists. This means only one thing - they increasingly do not see feminism as meaning equality between the sexes. A problem that is entirely the fault of feminism's extremist behavior.
It seems even the British feminists have come to understand why people do not associate equal rights with feminism.
http://www.bustle.com/articles/7534...minists-doesnt-match-up-to-the-actual-numbers
The same problem explains their unpopularity in America.
Even feminists are turning toward sympathy for the men's rights movement.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/11/cassie-jaye-red-pill-feminism-mens-rights
Women are also joining the Men's Rights movement, too.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/mens-rights-movement-women-who-love-it
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...ent-who-became-a-mens-rights-activist/372742/
And our diversity is increasing.
http://www.dailyxtra.com/vancouver/...-usesites/all/themes/dailyxtra/images/dailyxt
So while you're raging at me for making this post, remember, MRAs are winning, and winning is what really counts!
Rage on!
Every Wednesday at noon, the Governor’s Council gathers at the Massachusetts State House. The eight-member council is an elected but little-known body that serves as the governor’s advisory board; oversees things such as pardons; and approves or rejects appointments for state judgeships. That means it has a lot of influence on how state laws wind up getting interpreted and carried out.
Amid the smattering of lobbyists and state officials at council meetings, there is always a member of the Fatherhood Coalition, a Massachusetts-based organization that was founded in 1993 to steer state laws in a direction more favorable to fathers. Sometimes it’s Joe Ureneck, the group’s chairman, who attends. He’s a small-business owner who, while going through a divorce, became concerned with the system’s “sexist bias.” Other times it’s Patrick McCabe, a soft-spoken part-time accountant from Hyde Park whose divorce left him similarly disturbed. McCabe, in fact, is running for a seat on the council this November.
Ureneck and McCabe aren’t exactly shy and retiring at the meetings. Along with the rest of the Fatherhood Coalition, they do their best to shut down judicial nominees they view as insufficiently sympathetic to their agenda. A nominee, for instance, like David Aptaker, who in 2010 was up for a position as a Middlesex probate judge. As a bit of background, one thing the Fatherhood Council is particularly concerned about is restraining orders, which it insists are used in a way that’s biased against men. In fact, the group has been pushing legislation to change the system. That’s why the coalition was alarmed by Aptaker’s nomination—according to a post on its website, Aptaker’s “lack of understanding of the restraining order laws made it clear he was not fit for the bench.” So after discovering that the nominee had failed to disclose donations he’d made to two disgraced politicians, the Fatherhood Coalition showed up at a public hearing, registering complaints that he couldn’t be trusted because of his donations. Under pressure, Aptaker eventually withdrew his application. “Whether you agree with them or not, their point of view has become the elephant in the room,” says Mary-Ellen Manning, a council member from Salem. Watertown’s Marilyn Petitto Devaney, who’s been on the council for 14 years, says the presence of the Fatherhood Coalition has “changed the way we do business here.”
Aptaker’s story underscores a disturbing trend: Men’s rights groups, convinced that men are the biggest victims of modern society, have been busy attacking, defunding, and repealing laws that have been very effective at protecting women and lowering rates of domestic violence. And rather than just ranting and raving on the Internet, these men have been pulling political levers to change both state and federal laws. That they’ve done so with remarkable success ought to make everyone very, very scared.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/men-rights-unruh-act-women-discrimination
In April 2014, Stephanie Burns' company, Chic CEO, was gearing up for a networking event at an Italian restaurant in San Diego. Chic CEO hosts online resources for women starting their own businesses, and this spring evening it had teamed up with a local networking group to throw a mixer at Solare Lounge, where women could mingle over cocktails and appetizers while talking business.
During the event, Rich Allison, Allan Candelore, and Harry Crouch appeared at the restaurant door. They had each paid the $20 admission fee, and they told the hosts they wanted to enter the event. Chic CEO turned them away, saying that "the event was only open to women," according to the men's version of events, explained later in a legal complaint. Within two months, the three men had filed a discrimination lawsuit against Burns and her company alleging that the event discriminated against men. They are each members of the nation's oldest men's rights group, the National Coalition for Men, and Crouch is the NCFM's president.*
The lawsuit is a recent example of a trend that several men's rights activists have repeatedly deployed in California, one made more successful by their strategic use of the Unruh Act, a decades-old civil rights law named after Jesse Unruh, the progressive former speaker of the California Assembly. The law is quite broad, outlawing discrimination based on markers such as age, race, sex, or disability. In dozens of lawsuits, several NCFM members have invoked it to allege discrimination against men by such varied groups as sports teams and local theaters. And the strategy has worked.
http://www.slate.com/articles/doubl...ather_evolution_of_divorce_and_paternity.html
^^^ Why I don't bother talking about custody wars in the context of today. MRAs have won this war, too. We had to wrench this one from the feminists' cold, dead hands in court. And we fucking did.Men’s rights activists complain that despite the legal changes, mother preference still lingers, and studies have shown that through the 1980s sole mother custody still prevailed. But more recently judges have been catching up to the law. According to one of the most thorough surveys of child custody outcomes, which looked at Wisconsin between 1996 and 2007, the percentage of divorce cases in which the mother got sole custody dropped from 60.4 to 45.7 percent while the percentage of equal shared custody cases, in just that decade, doubled from 15.8 to 30.5. And a recent survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers shows a rapid increase in mothers paying child support.
Berkeley law professor Mary Ann Mason tracked the changing priorities of divorce courts over three decades. The biggest recent change, she writes, is the courts’ preference for the “friendly parent,” meaning the one who can get along with the other parent. Mothers who get in the way of a father’s involvement can in fact be penalized by the courts. In their book, Cahn and Carbone tell the story of the Renauds, a divorcing Vermont couple whose case was resolved in 2004. Before the divorce, the couple shared child care. The mother took Fridays off to be with the children, and the father took them to and from day care and was an involved dad. The marriage ended when the father told the mother that he was having an affair with a colleague. In another era, the mother would have gotten sole custody of the children and alimony, but not much child support. Now, “the mother’s ability to retain custody depends on her willingness to support the father’s involvement,” Cahn and Carbone write. In this case, the mother accused the father of abuse and neglect. When the investigators could not confirm the charges, the court awarded the father 50 percent custody and made the mother’s custody contingent on her working to repair the relationship with the father.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-12-02-paternity-usat_x.htm
Since this story broke, even more states like Texas and, yup, California have fallen to our onslaught against gender injustice.In almost a dozen states, men have won the right to use conclusive genetic tests to end their financial obligations to children they didn't father. But women's groups and many public officials responsible for enforcing child support are battling the movement, which they say imperils children.
Most states design their family laws to protect what they call "the interests of the child." That means siding with the child's financial and emotional needs and against supposed fathers who want to avoid paying for tricycles and braces.
Taxpayers also have a big stake in child support collections, which have grown to$18 billion annually and cover 20 million children. If men who are paying child support no longer have to and authorities can't find the real fathers, welfare agencies will get the bill for family assistance.
Many men who feel deceived by a woman are in no mood to accept a legal system that doesn't recognize DNA science in such cases. "It's like they are saying, 'Let your wife cheat on you, have children by other men, divorce you, and now you have to pay for it all,' " says Air Force Master Sgt. Raymond Jackson, 43. California judges won't consider tests he says prove that the three children of his former 10-year marriage were fathered by other men.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news...assault-are-winning-lawsuits-against-colleges
Yet another case of men's rights activism resulting in victories for our side!While university sexual assault policies do affect male students more than female, the policies themselves aren’t to blame, as they are written to be gender neutral. The disparate impact on male students is not because colleges are targeting men, a number of courts have concluded, but because men commit and are accused of sexual assault far more than women. Two recent lawsuits against the University of Missouri and Augustana University in South Dakota were both dismissed for similar reasons.
The cases that have resulted in wins for the accused are generally built on claims that the disciplined students’ rights to due process were violated, not that they were discriminated against for being men.
Even lawsuits in federal courts are starting to have some level of success by focusing on due process. A recent lawsuit against Pennsylvania State University survived the university’s motion to dismiss, with a federal judge granting the accused student a preliminary injunction that prevented his suspension and deportation back to Syria.
In an analysis of the UCSD case, Erin Buzuvis, director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies at Western New England University, said that institutions can still fulfill their obligations under Title IX without taking the shortcuts the University of California at San Diego and others seemingly have. When colleges fail to follow due process, it makes it easier for accused students to win lawsuits and reverse their suspensions or expulsions -- and that could mean letting predators back on campus, too.
http://chronicle.com/article/At-Harvard-All-Female-Groups/236431
Oh wait, nope, feminists shot themselves in the face here. NVMAt Harvard, All-Female Groups Claim Collateral Damage in Crackdown on Final Clubs
After Harvard University announced plans on Friday to bar members of single-gender social clubs from leadership positions and scholarship endorsements from the college, many of Harvard’s women fought back.
The policy is an attempt to crack down on Harvard’s historic "final clubs," which are not officially affiliated with the university. The new rule, however, does not single out those groups, taking in the campus’s unaffiliated five fraternities and four sororities as well.
Students and alumni took their concerns to Harvard Yard and Twitter on Monday night, protesting the administration’s new policy and asking for women’s groups to be exempted. Many women expressed a need for safe spaces and wondered why they were being treated the same as the dominant and more-problematic male groups.
A Harvard spokeswoman, Rachael Dane, said the university stood by the new policy and will set up an advisory committee of administrators, faculty members, and students to put the changes in place.

There's little question, then, why Americans increasingly see feminism as NOT being about equality.
In 2012, 28% of Americans would call themselves feminists.
https://today.yougov.com/news/2013/05/01/has-feminist-become-dirty-word/
In 2014, that fell to 20%.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/feminism-poll_n_3094917.html
In 2015, it fell to 18%.
http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenint...ont-consider-themselves-feminists-poll-shows/
In each and every case, the people polled overwhelmingly want equality between the sexes, but yet they also overwhelmingly do not want to be called feminists. This means only one thing - they increasingly do not see feminism as meaning equality between the sexes. A problem that is entirely the fault of feminism's extremist behavior.
It seems even the British feminists have come to understand why people do not associate equal rights with feminism.
http://www.bustle.com/articles/7534...minists-doesnt-match-up-to-the-actual-numbers
What feminists do not realize is that this negative connotation associated with their movement was earned by their own movement.Considering the evidence of the polls and the definition of the word feminism, it appears that the issue doesn’t lie in the basic tenets for which feminism fights, but with the connotation that the word seems to carry. Further polling in the U.K. by OnePoll about the public perception of feminism revealed that more people found it to be negative, as opposed to positive.
People viewed feminists as “anti-men,” “aggressive,” and supporters of women being better than men. Interestingly, these sorts of connotative concerns resonated even with the respondents who identified as feminists. Of those 36 percent of U.K. residents who considered themselves feminists, 31 percent “worry about identifying as one.”
A negative word connotation should not stand in the way of progress, though. These polls reveal that we’re hung up on how a certain term sounds and what it implies, rather than what it actually represents. Aside from that revelation though, these polls reveal something else that’s extremely important: Most of us do stand for equal gender rights.
The same problem explains their unpopularity in America.
Even feminists are turning toward sympathy for the men's rights movement.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/11/cassie-jaye-red-pill-feminism-mens-rights
A feminist film-maker has been criticised for deciding to make a documentary about men’s rights activists that takes “a balanced approach”. Cassie Jaye, who has previously directed documentaries about sex education and gay marriage, endured problems with funding and a backlash from other feminists after announcing The Red Pill.
“We weren’t finding executive producers who wanted to take a balanced approach, we found people who wanted to make a feminist film,” she told the website Breitbart. “I started to see the bias towards women’s films and against men’s. There are no categories for men’s films [when applying for grants], though there are several for women and minorities. I submitted the film to human rights categories, and was rejected by all of them.”
After funding was pulled, Jaye turned to Kickstarter where she has raised almost $204,000, more than double her target of $97,000.
Jaye initially planned to profile the men’s rights movement from a feminist point of view, but found her beliefs changing while filming the documentary. The Kickstarter page promises the film will document “a life-altering journey where she would never see the world the same way again”.
Women are also joining the Men's Rights movement, too.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/mens-rights-movement-women-who-love-it
When many people think of the men's rights movement, the image that springs to mind is lonely men lurking in chat rooms and railing against women. But in recent years, a group of brash, witty female activists has taken up the cause. It may seem counterintuitive that women would be helping drive the conversation about a movement that's fighting anti-male discrimination and campaigning fiercely against feminism. But according to Dean Esmay of the men's rights organization A Voice for Men, the fact that they shatter expectations is what makes them such good emissaries. "People want to believe we're a bunch of sad, pathetic losers who can't get laid and are just bitter because our wives left us," Esmay explains. "The very presence of women in the movement creates cognitive dissonance." Often, he adds, this dissonance makes people more receptive than they otherwise would be.
Who are these women men's rights activists? And why do they embrace a movement that some see as blatantly misogynistic? Below is a rundown of key players. A few of them, including Janet Bloomfield, who was the focus of a recent in Vice News article, have been in the spotlight recently. Others are virtually unknown to the mainstream, but within the movement they're seen as luminaries.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...ent-who-became-a-mens-rights-activist/372742/
Karen DeCrow, the feminist attorney and author who served as president of the National Organization for Women from 1974 to 1977, died of melanoma last Friday at 76. Although her passing was widely noted in the media, most the obituaries and tributes overlooked the more unorthodox aspects of her work. A lifelong champion of women’s rights, DeCrow was nonetheless skeptical about many key aspects of latter-day feminism, including its focus on sexual violence and male abuse of women. She was also, for much of her career, a men’s-rights activist.
DeCrow raised eyebrows in 1981 when she served as defense counsel to Frank Serpico, the former New York detective and whistleblower, in a paternity suit. Serpico claimed the plaintiff had used him as a “sperm bank” and lied about being on the Pill while knowingly trying to conceive, and asserted that he had a constitutional right not to become a parent against his will. (The family-court judge, a woman, ruled in Serpico’s favor, but he lost on appeal.)
DeCrow, by then a lawyer in private practice in Syracuse, New York, endorsed Serpico’s argument on feminist grounds. “Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right,” she told The New York Times, calling this “the only logical feminist position to take.”
Quite a few feminists disagreed. Marjory D. Fields, then co-chair of Governor Mario Cuomo’s Task Force On Domestic Violence and later a family-court judge, described the defense tactics in the case as “almost a classic antiwoman presentation: that women seduce and entrap men with their feminine wiles.” DeCrow was unfazed. In a 1982 letter to the Times, she wrote that since men have no legal power to either veto or compel an abortion, it is only just that they shouldn’t have to pay for a woman’s unilateral decision to bring the pregnancy to term: “Or, put another way, autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.”
And our diversity is increasing.
http://www.dailyxtra.com/vancouver/...-usesites/all/themes/dailyxtra/images/dailyxt
The MRA group, SFU Advocacy for Men and Boys (AMB), invited Karen Straughan, an outspoken and charismatic men’s rights internet personality, to speak about “toxic femininity.” Weeks later, the university’s Gender Studies and Women’s Studies Student Union released an anonymously written open letter criticizing the AMB for the “offensive, hostile and aggressive” event, and accusing them of “using men’s issues as a way to attack feminism.”
The AMB shot back with its own letter, calling the student union “histrionic” and “superficial,” and accusing the feminists of demanding a monopoly on the conversation.
But here’s where the story gets interesting: The AMB’s indignant response was penned by the club’s president Theryn Meyer, a transgender woman.
So while you're raging at me for making this post, remember, MRAs are winning, and winning is what really counts!
Rage on!