When
an economist writes a paper on her own, there is no question about who
deserves the credit. Each additional solo research paper raises the
probability of getting tenure by about 8 or 9 percent, she calculated.
The career benefit from publishing a solo paper is about the same for
women as it is for men. But unlike women, men also get just as much
credit for collaborative research, and there is no statistical
difference in the career prospects of authors of individually written
papers and those of papers written as part of a research team.
Unfortunately
for women, research done with a co-author counts far less. When women
write with co-authors, the benefit to their career prospects is much
less than half that accorded to men. This really matters, because most
economic research is done with co-authors.
But because the quality of those core values men’s rights activists are now as self-evident to everyone other than, of course, men’s rights activists, this blog has become rather redundant. This is especially true considering David Futrelle over at We Hunted The Mammoth does such an effective job of quoting the exact words of men’s rights activists, white supremacists, and other politically insignificant reactionary movements.
There doesn’t have to be multiple places that do the same thing, especially if this blog does it so much more inconsistently.
And so, the blog will instead promote excellent writing, especially by women, queer people, and people of color. At the end of the day, it’s better to have a feminism and a progressive politics that center around the boosting and engagement of marginalized peoples’ voices than centering around the online temper tantrums of white men with no political clout.
Hope you enjoy the change!
p.s. all the old posts aren’t going away and the best ones can still be found here
It’s kind of like going down the street with a compressed air horn in hand, and then getting pissed off when people look at you as you keep sounding it.
Look at those heartwarming upvotes!
Isn’t it wonderful that the men’s rights movement provides human rights advocacy for tragically oppressed groups as diverse as men who abuse women along with men who harass women?
There are more jewels of white men’s rights activism in the original source that I’ll be posting soon.
It’s easy to forget sometimes that not all whites were pro-slavery. Similarly with women and feminism. I really hope we’ll see a female Abraham Lincoln one of these days who’ll set free the men and produce a charter for true equality.
If Elam truly does know about Ramsey’s repugnant racial views, why would he support Ramsey’s videos on such a high-profile platform? After all, A Voice for Men is “the most widely read men’s rights website in the world” in Elam’s own words. Does Elam share in Ramsey’s crude racism in addition to his blatant misogyny? If Elam is standing up for all men he should have to answer for that, especially since he’s fresh off the heels of his international men’s rights conference in Detroit — a city blighted by economic turmoil and racism.
One can only hope that all these straight white men get some serious reparations for all the indignities and cruelty they have suffered in America and Europe.
After all, straight white men can get some serious repetitive strain injuries beating and killing people of color, LGBTQ people, and women for daring to not know their place.
As always, check out Man Boobz for the whole story. He really nails the whole men’s rights “movement” down with just a few sentences:
Doxxing by Men’s Rights Activists isn’t an accident; it’s the inevitable result of the peculiar style of Men’s Rights Activism.
MRAs, you see, seem utterly incapable of engaging in any kind of activism that might actually benefit men in the real world in any concrete manner. What they as a group specialize in is demonizing women, and in the case of too many MRAS, nothing gets their activist juices flowing faster than the opportunity to attack an individual woman.
That’s why A Voice for Men “activists” put up “wanted” style posters featuring their favorite feminist villains of the day; it’s why they started Register-Her.com. That’s why a certain red-haired Canadian activist who yelled at some MRAs once at a protest now finds her image splashed everywhere online as a visual representation of an evil feminist. That’s why MRAs show up at protests with cameras and threaten to expose the women they film — even if they’ve done nothing more than stand there with a sign.
And that’s why they doxx.
The Men’s Rights movement isn’t a civil rights movement. As it stands right now, it’s a union of abusers, and their enablers.
Rape culture is when the lyrics of Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’ mirror the words of actual rapists and is still the number one song in the country.
Rape culture is when the mainstream media mourns the end of the convicted Steubenville rapists’ football careers and does not mention the young girl who was victimized.
Rape culture is when cyberbullies take pictures of sexual assaults and harass their victims online after the fact, which in the cases of Audrie Pott and Rehtaeh Parsonstragically ended in their suicides.
Rape culture is when college campus advisers tasked with supporting the student body, shame survivors who report their rapes. (Annie Clark, a campus activist, says an administrator at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill told her when she reported her rape, “Well… Rape is like football, if you look back on the game, and you’re the quarterback, Annie… is there anything you would have done differently?”)
Rape culture is when colleges are more concerned with getting sued by assailants than in supporting survivors. (Or at Occidental College, where students and administrators who advocated for survivors were terrorized for speaking out against the school’s insufficient reporting procedures.)
A core value of men’s rights is celebrating (and upvoting a story about) a judge who victim blames a 13 year old girl who was raped by a 21 year old man.
This is the human rights movement Reddit truly deserves.
Now this is how you do an anti-rape campaign. Great work, Scotland! Via Feministing:
We’ve written about a number ofgreatanti-rape efforts that take direct aim at perpetrators and the rape culture that enables them in recent years. And one of the main differences between those campaigns and the awful victim-blaming ones that simply give women advice on how they can supposedly avoid “getting raped,” (in addition to the fact that the former tend to actually be effective) is that they don’t treat rape as an inevitability. In my opinion, this idea that gendered violence is natural is one of the biggest myths that helps perpetuate the status quo.
In comparison, this is the sad, misogynistic garbage that men’s rights activists have been able to muster up when it comes to their “campaigns”:
wocinsolidarityhave compiled an amazing list ofAwesome PoC Tumblrs! First, give them a follow. Then, check out some of the wonderful blogs on their list below…
Tumblr has come such a long way. I remember when I started this blog four years ago, my dash was all white. As far as I knew, there weren’t many other PoC/Woc related blogs. And I got so much shit for making this. But now, looking at this list. <3 Proud of y’all.
Whoops, reblogged to espritfollet. Anyways. Yay tumblr. If only we could get back the “users recommend” feature. Not just the same eurocentric stuff tumblr recommends.
This was actually said by a prominent member of the Men’s rights community on Reddit who then proceeded to get 24(!) upvotes:
Wearing a skirt has consequences. If we use state violence to protect women from the consequences of her choice to wear a skirt, we remove her agency. This man didn’t assault her, didn’t touch her… all he did was take a picture of what her choice in clothing exposed to the public.
How is that criminal to the point of deserving of state violence upon him?
This is saying that protecting women from the consequences of their choices in clothing is more important than men’s freedom.
Now that’s what I call a real men’s rights issue. Could you expect anything less from a hate group?
Screencap (and more info) over at the always excellent Man Boobz.
