My description of men’s rights activists is usually used as negative. First, it implies they are losers, i.e. low-status, which for most people means that their opinions are not worth to consider seriously. Second, it implies that they merely generalize from their personal issues, which against means that they are biased, and that people who don’t have the same issues can ignore them.
To put it in a near mode, imagine that you are at a lecture where someone speaks about men’s rights, and then someone in the audience whispers to their neighbor “this guy had a nasty divorce recently”. Is this remark meant to make the person who heard it treat the lecture more seriously, or less seriously?
My description of men’s rights activists is usually used as negative. First, it implies they are losers, i.e. low-status, which for most people means that their opinions are not worth to consider seriously. Second, it implies that they merely generalize from their personal issues, which against means that they are biased, and that people who don’t have the same issues can ignore them.
I think that’s true of many kinds of activists in the early stages of their (later successful, somewhat) movement. For instance, AIDS activists were considered losers and biased, people of colour were considered losers and biased and so on and so forth. I’m not saying that men’s-right activism is going to become mainstream, since it may be true of all movements. I can’t bring to mind a successful example of a çountermovement that has been later successful, however. The only example I can think of is neo-nazism. As maligned as MRA’s are, it obviously unreasonable to equate them with Hitler. I for one think they have valid problems, but suboptimal, counterproductive and frequently mean ways of dealing with them.
To bring it back to quotes, I feel this one could speak to them:
“Think about the three biggest discouragers in your life… they aren’t your biggest discouragers. You are.”
My description of men’s rights activists is usually used as negative. First, it implies they are losers, i.e. low-status, which for most people means that their opinions are not worth to consider seriously. Second, it implies that they merely generalize from their personal issues, which against means that they are biased, and that people who don’t have the same issues can ignore them.
To put it in a near mode, imagine that you are at a lecture where someone speaks about men’s rights, and then someone in the audience whispers to their neighbor “this guy had a nasty divorce recently”. Is this remark meant to make the person who heard it treat the lecture more seriously, or less seriously?
I think that’s true of many kinds of activists in the early stages of their (later successful, somewhat) movement. For instance, AIDS activists were considered losers and biased, people of colour were considered losers and biased and so on and so forth. I’m not saying that men’s-right activism is going to become mainstream, since it may be true of all movements. I can’t bring to mind a successful example of a çountermovement that has been later successful, however. The only example I can think of is neo-nazism. As maligned as MRA’s are, it obviously unreasonable to equate them with Hitler. I for one think they have valid problems, but suboptimal, counterproductive and frequently mean ways of dealing with them.
To bring it back to quotes, I feel this one could speak to them:
-Nick Vujicic
BAM!