Belated New Year's resolution.

[rivka]

I will not argue with men's rights activists.
I will not argue with men's rights activists.
I will not argue with men's rights activists.
I will not...

[repeat until believed]

Comments

[laurent-atl.livejournal.com]

Can we still make jokes about them, though?

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

hitting them isn't arguing.

[going-not-gone.livejournal.com]

"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."

---George Bernard Shaw

[rivka.livejournal.com]

And it has already been established that I'm all irrational and emotional, rather than logical.

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

Neither is falling back and calling in an air strike.

[geekymary.livejournal.com]

Fantastic quote!

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Men's rights activists? You've got to be kidding -- there's no way in the world that arguing with them will do any good at all.

B

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig." -- R.A. Heinlein,

/me *shudders* at the thought of trying to have an intelligent conversation with an MRA.

[kaitiana.livejournal.com]

There are men's rights activists?

*blinks*

Er...Wow.

[fiction-theory.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. I have urges to do the same thing, but I remind myself that those are the types for whom rational conversation is not possible.

BTW, I love your icon.

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

good luck not.... they make it too easy... and too...

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yeah....

[ailbhe]

Oh, wow. I have a spork if you'd like to gouge your eardrums out instead; it's probably less painful and more interesting.

(POOR MENZ ALL DOWNTROD BY FEMINAZIS)(bet they're all lezzers anyway)(HYSTERIA).

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Man, seriously - go not there. That way lies madness :(

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

But what if your job sometimes requires that you give every appearance of taking their concerns just as seriously as those of the feminists? (Wish I was kidding.)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Yeesh.

I would try to tell myself that that was all the more reason why I shouldn't interact with them for free in my spare time.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

*shrug* IME Sometimes I can't belp it.

[almeda.livejournal.com]

They are oppressed by feminism and its results.

Among their favorite causes, in my experience, is championing men who are either (a) forced to support children who to them were just a fun one-night stand, or (b) forced to have no contact with their beloved, wanted children by harpyish hateful evil mothers.

Plus how the rise of women in the professions steals all their good jobs, and since (of course) self-esteem is a zero-sum game, all gains women have made in confidence and safety come at the cost of insisting men must be pussified, neurotic wimps.

Someone please correct me if this summary is wrong ...

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Someone please correct me if this summary is wrong ...

My impression is that they want the right to walk away from children they have fathered at any point at which they get tired of the children's mother, because child support is tyrrany akin to slavery. But otherwise, I think you're spot on.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

BTW, I love your icon.

I'm pretty sure it's stealable. Check my icon page for the credit.

[ailbhe]

Perhaps it's the most effective way of giving them enough rope?

[ailbhe]

s/'s mother/ or their mother/

Plenty of them think fathers who are expected to share their wives with their children are oppressed, IME.

[phantom_wolfboy]

Yes you will.

And I would be surprised if anyone does it better.