I’m not a fan of letting MRA take over the term ‘men’s rights.’
That’s a funny way of characterizing it, since MRA was just “men’s rights activist”, which seems like a perfectly sensible thing to call someone who tries to organize people to action because she cares about men’s rights. It was turned immediately into a pejorative, and I’m surprised there are circles where non-abbreviated “men’s rights” is even something you can say without being associated with Nazis.
There are other terms in the neighborhood that haven’t been contaminated in this way, like ‘men’s studies’ and ‘men’s liberation.’ On the other hand, ‘masculinist’ seems to have followed very much the same trajectory as ‘men’s rights (activism).’ My proposal is intended to refocus the discussion on the points of substantive, specific disagreement, while also incrementally remedying the stigmatization of ‘men’s rights’ as the counterpart of ‘women’s rights.’
That’s a funny way of characterizing it, since MRA was just “men’s rights activist”, which seems like a perfectly sensible thing to call someone who tries to organize people to action because she cares about men’s rights. It was turned immediately into a pejorative, and I’m surprised there are circles where non-abbreviated “men’s rights” is even something you can say without being associated with Nazis.
There are other terms in the neighborhood that haven’t been contaminated in this way, like ‘men’s studies’ and ‘men’s liberation.’ On the other hand, ‘masculinist’ seems to have followed very much the same trajectory as ‘men’s rights (activism).’ My proposal is intended to refocus the discussion on the points of substantive, specific disagreement, while also incrementally remedying the stigmatization of ‘men’s rights’ as the counterpart of ‘women’s rights.’