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The most hilarious thing I have ever read in relation to Joss Whedon

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a pack of wolves:
I think the reason masculinist gets that representation is for much the same reason feminism ends up getting a skewed representation. I must admit the only time I've ever come across people using that term to describe themselves previously they've been very misogynist and anti-feminist so it's interesting to see an alternative use of the word. Unfortunately these people are the most attention-grabbing as opposed to someone just arguing for equality.

SonofZ3:
Its too bad asshats so often give perfectly respectable causes a bad face =/ Guys who are just misogonysts should admit it and not try to hide behind a more PC name. It seems that more and more (at least here in America) any pro-______ stand is immediately skewed into an anti-______ (opposite of first blank) perspective by the media and other individuals. The perfect example I can think of is race, any time a group of the same cultural identiy gets together to celebrate that it gets viewed as someone oppressing other cultures. I don't know why America has a such a preocupation with negativity, fostering this concept of everyone/group either being a victim, or victimism someone/thing. Sorry, rambled a bit there.

Aminal:
Because we want to fight another Revolutionary War and the British won't play with us anymore.  We love overthrowing oppressors!

idiolect:
I actually agree with everything SonofZ said, and would promote similar things, except for that "myth of innocence" bit -- that stuff makes me nervous.  You have to realize that most of the time when people say "female accuser" they mean "alleged rape victim," and that most rapes do not even get as far as being reported let alone actually prosecuted -- so I'd say that if someone actually has a good enough case to get over the institutional bias running against them to the point of getting a trial, we'd probably better listen to them.  I'm not saying that a mere accusation should be enough to lock someone up, just that an accusation of rape SHOULD be taken very seriously and SHOULD be taken to trial to let the accounts of what happened and evidence speak for themselves.

SonofZ3:
I agree with what you're saying with regards to rape, but the idea of the myth of innocence applies to almost any crime. The idea is that, for example, if two men are standing there, a police officer walks by and one says "hey, that guy just hit me and took my mp3 player!" the officer will look into it, but regard neither party as more truthful, while a woman accusing a guy of that same crime would be immediately believed because of her gender. Or, one that I've seen happen personally: A guy I know, when he goes to the bar, puts his money on the bar in front of him with his car keys and stays there until he leaves for the night. I was sitting on his left, a young woman was on his right. The bar was packed. The young woman ordered a drink, the bartender brought the drink but took one of my friends 10's to pay for it. When he came back with the change and put it in front of the girl my friend told the bartender what happened, who looked at the young woman and said "Wasn't that your ten?" she said "yeah". My friend got angry, and we got kicked out of the bar. The bartender (to my knowledge) had no reason to assume my friend was lying, but believed what she said, in my opinion because she was a young woman and my friend wasn't. Maybe the two knew each other and scammed people like that often, I don't know.

when it comes to sexual assault, masculinists want to see cases of sexual assault reported by men taken equally as seriously as women. If a man reports having gotten drunk and sexually assaulted most people would laugh, or even believe that men cannot be assulted sexually by women. Men being sexually assaulted, especially in prison, is a common joke. We would like the legal system to acknowledge that sexual assault against men is real, and not funny, and should be taken seriously.

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