“New father, horrified by what our current mainstream American society wants my son to become.”

Text reads:

I’m 47, recently married. Last week, our second child was born, our first boy.

I suddenly realized what my son is up against, insofar as mainstream American society.

Everywhere you turn, boys are actively encouraged to be girls. Boys who are too rambunctious are deemed “non-compliant” and “difficult”. Boys who like playing cowboys and indians are termed “disruptive”. Boys who can’t sit still in a classroom, and want to go out exploring the world are deemed “ADHD”—and thus drugged to the gills.

All these qualities—calm docility, playing together without competition, sitting still for hours in a classroom—are all qualities of girls.

To top it off, if you let your six or seven year old son walk a few blocks to a friend’s house—learning an important lesson in self-reliance, as I was regularly allowed to do as a child—you are deemed an unfit parent, and can have your child taken away.

American society does not want boys. Much less men. American society wants girls and docile gays. In America, boys exist to be incarcerated.

Every day I thank god I no longer live in the U.S. There really is no point—especially when boys, rather than being celebrated (as they are in every other country) are hated in America.

So basically he’s arguing that boys are hated in America by describing how awful it is to be a girl. I’m always completely blown away by the total inability of these guys to see how little sense their world-view makes.

Someone could probably write a Master’s thesis about the sexual insecurities on display in A Voice for Men’s “memes.”

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Why are so many MRAs and PUAs so invested in the notion that women who reject them will end up miserable?

A Voice for Men’s ongoing campaign to convince the world that “Men’s Human Rights Activists” are a bunch of petty, malicious, sexually insecure douchenozzles continues apace.

I mean, that must be what they’re really up to, right? Because no one who actually had any real interest in human rights of any kind would produce “memes” like the one above and all the rest below, delivered to your eyes straight from AVFM’s Fcebook page.

At their best, AVFM’s memes are merely baffling …

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Looting is a Response, Not an Opportunity

Scott Woods Makes Lists

We need to reexamine looting.

Regarding its critics, let me start by saying that, at the level of determining solid community building options, critics of looting are right: it’s not productive. What is built from looting? Not much. Certainly nothing in the concrete world. On top of that, looting is illegal. It is against the law to break into a building and take what’s inside of it out. I don’t think anybody is confused about that, or believes that taking things out of a liquor store or burning down a Little Caesars should be confused with an urban renewal initiative. None of this, however, means that looting has no merit as an act.

Looting is a response, not an opportunity. Looting doesn’t randomly happen. Looting is what happens after something else has happened to a group of people that feel disenfranchised. There are not bands of random black people running…

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#GamerGate, meet #Ferguson; #Ferguson, meet #GamerGate

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Not a video game

If you grit your teeth and do a search for #GamerGate and #Ferguson together on Twitter, you will find Tweet after Tweet from worried #GamerGaters earnestly imploring their comrades not to make any connections between the two hashtags. Why? Because they know that those who cross the streams are likely to Tweet things like the following.

This what happens when #GamerGaters try to make sense of what is happening in Ferguson.

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