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Mens Rights, er, activists are waving their arms frantically in the air over what they see as a dire new threat to men and manhood: Facebooks recent annoucement that it was going to try to do a better job of taking down violent images mocking victims of rape and domestic violence, and other kinds of misogynistic hate speech.
Last week, as many of you no doubt already know, a coalition of feminist groups launched a campaign targeting Facebook and its advertisers for tolerating this sort of content on Facebook in many cases even after it was reported to Facebook moderators as clearly violating the sites already existing policies against hate speech and graphic violence. (For many truly disgusting and possibly TRIGGERING examples, see here.)
Well, Facebook actually listened, and announced it would be making efforts to better handle gender-based hate speech, and would be solicit[ing] feedback from legal experts and others, including representatives of the womens coalition and other groups that have historically faced discrimination among them some of the groups involved in the protest. While Facebooks promises remain vague, those behind the protest are hailing this, correctly I think, as a victory.
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In a posting he declared probably the most important article I have ever written not that this is saying much Elam attempted to rally the troops to fight against what he called the greatest challenge the M(H)RM has faced so far. Elam claimed that taking down images of brutalized women with captions like women deserve equal rights and lefts isnt the real goal here. No, he charged,
"feminist ideologues are co-opting Facebook, and they will root out any and all opposition to their worldview."
http://manboobz.com/2013/05/31/the-facebookfeminist-plot-to-destroy-free-speech-male-liberty-and-10-13-of-a-voice-for-mens-traffic/
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)And the idiots who "like" what they say. It will someday come back at them in a job interview, or possible relationships. Perhaps there should be secret files on the ones taken down of the "real" you so employers can see ahead of time what they plan to hire for a fee. Facebook should take advantage of this by setting up a pay Facebook to post the most radical shit ever. Let these assholes post crimes and let the police catch them. You know they will, on both counts. We're talking about men after all. Men who believe that babe on the TV is the one now talking dirty to them.
zazen
(2,978 posts)Well, it is helpful of him to make his odious worldview more explicit. Maybe he'll lose one or two future devotees as a result.
Triana
(22,666 posts)The American Taliban.
BainsBane
(53,127 posts)I see. I wish I could say I was surprised. That basically sums up my view of what MRAsmas are about.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Paul Ryan said "Rape is another way of conception" so if they are looking for great examples, they got it all on Faux "News". It's the NEW GOP! AKA Teabaggers AKA GOP.
BainsBane
(53,127 posts)and it's not limited to right wingers.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)But who would have thought someday we would have "news" outlets being able to air this shit. And make a show of how right Paul Ryan is.
Triana
(22,666 posts)I try to avoid them but these attitudes are pretty pervasive. They might be mostly conservatives, but there are some liberal/progressive men who think the same way.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)That's pretty pathetic. These men must be highly conflicted in order to advance and/or support such a lame argument.
-Laelth
And it's incredibly sad. I had figured some version of this reaction and would have loved to have been wrong about it.
Arcanetrance
(2,670 posts)The sooner the world is rid of their thinking the better off we all are
BainsBane
(53,127 posts)that's who.
ismnotwasm
(42,023 posts)It might need to be a societal maturation process, as well as early identification of and intervention for, what is clearly sociopathic thinking
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,023 posts)"Does that really count as rape?"
Nasty little pukes.