Men's Rights

[jessica r]

(without any idea of how I got there) I recently read about Men's Rights and some of the issues for which men fight. I will be honest, as a woman I was shocked and then somewhat amused and slightly annoyed that some men felt the need to define their rights, when "rights"-particularly in the US, were written for men and then women and other minorities had to step up and define and claim those rights. But after I opened my mind to these issues I found that some are very interesting and relevant. So I wanted to post to see what other people think. Here are some of the issues, in no particular order. Men, feel free to correct me if I state something the wrong way or to add something to the list:

1) Men have responsibility to children they father without a choice in the matter of abortion
2) Men make the same amount of money for physical labor as a woman who cannot perform the same physical tasks
3) Men are still expected to "court" women and pay for items on dates, etc
4)Men are required to register for the draft while women are not
5)Men often lose custody of children in divorce and rarely receive child support when they do win custody
6)Violence against men committed by women isnt taken seriously (rape, spousal abuse)
7) Men dont have the creative freedom in their dress codes that women do
8)Men often do not get paid paternity leave
9) The preference of women and children over men in emergency situations
10) Men receive harsher punishments for crime

All of these issues are based on trending data. There are also some issues about men dying sooner than women, girls performing better than boys in school, more money and attention being given to breast cancer research than prostate cancer research.......

[Übereil]

In general, women mature faster than men. That doesn't mean all men are immature and all women are mature. That simply means that the general maturity level of young women is higher than the general maturity level of young men.

[Kenny]

I wanna say it's not our (men's) fault that girls hit puberty at a younger age, but it kinda is =P

that requires an explanation I suppose, so I'll give one when I get home (I'm on my iPhone right now)

[asano_man]

Don't mind me, just seeing if this works.

EDIT:

FUCK. YEAH.

[Gabrielle]

I can't do anything snazzy like that. I only do funstuff like this because of the text editing box thingamajigger.

::is lamesauce::

[Kenny]

::is lamesauce::

::is awesomesauce::

Fixed the typo for you =D

[Gabrielle]

Aw, thanks. Now go to the discussion I made for Gidget. Say a little birdy told ya about it.