The Masculine Mystique
This is a fascinating look at the MRA movement by The Daily Beast; it's eminently fair, bringing up "What it gets Right", using quotes from "moderate" groups,
(This is considered "moderate", and I could rip it apart with ease:“If people want to know my own objection [to the campaign]” says The Spearhead’s W.F. Price, “imagine an anti-crime poster campaign that says, ‘Don’t Be That African-American,’ or ‘Don’t Be That Latino.’ Women should realize the anger they feel at my generalizing their sex is the same I feel when they generalize mine.” Price goes on to argue that modern society’s tendency to assume guilt of those accused of rape has terrible consequences even for those later vindicated—which, to be fair, is not an unreasonable view")
-It also references that 20/20 segment that apparently didn't happen. Nonetheless, MRA's have gone mainstream-- it doesn't take much to expose them for the hate-filled shit heads they are.
Also they are not I repeat ARE NOT some sort of "opposite" movement from feminism, a natural enemy as it were. They just think they--are since feminism is their favorite whipping boy, since they are essentially hate groups, since so many of them are nut jobs; I think not just misogynists are attracted to the movement, but damaged, hurt men who had few other groups to turn to and with no ability or inclination to start their own. MRA's are damaging to men because it clings to fucked up or debunked representation of manhood, as well as women. They're a white hot mess in other words.
I keep in mind that for all it's flaws and differences of opinion feminism is a progressive movement that promotes equal rights, human rights and justice and health promotion for women and everybody else for that matter.
The Internet has strengthened it, just as it's allowed hate groups like most MRA's to exist, it's also allowed us to find our allies, to open dialogs, to promote intersectionality, to get out of the white cis-gender middle class box, to find women in need, to explain who and what we are--a group of women and men and those who don't declare either as diverse as is human kind.
Also, unfortunately as referenced in another thread, it has promoted the continual attempts to threatened women to voicelessness. These attempts are not necessarily by "MRA's---not by a long shot, they are a sign of the inner sickness of misogyny the permeates our society---if women show strength, if they show attempts at independence of the dominate societal system of patriarchy. (And Yes, Virginia, patriarchy exists---only fools in denial think otherwise. One need look no further than congress)
This summer, two competing Canadian rape-awareness campaigns began popping up on posters across Edmonton and Vancouver. The first, entitled ‘Don’t Be That Guy,’ warned young men that having sex with a woman too inebriated to give consent is considered lawful rape. One of the posters featured a picture of a girl passed out on a couch, with the tagline, “Just because she isn’t saying ‘no’ doesn’t mean she’s saying ‘yes’.” Police in both cities credit the campaign with a 10 percent reduction in rapes over the previous calendar year.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/20/the-masculine-mystique-inside-the-men-s-rights-movement-mrm.html
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