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.......

[Matt]

"1. Men really should not be able to tell a woman to get an abortion. It is a major medical procedure and can potentially cause things such as scarring in the uterus that would prevent further pregnancies. It is not their body, so they should not be able to tell the woman to do that to herself. I would support the idea of having the father having a say against an abortion, but again, this is more just for politeness."

I don't think anyone is suggesting that a man should be able to tell a woman that she has to get an abortion. I think what everyone is saying is that if a woman can get out of the fiscal responsibility of raising a child, a man should be able to opt out of the fiscal responsibility of raising the child as well. He should be able to let the mother know beforehand that he is not going to help with raising the child and that he wants no legal responsibility for the child. If the mother still wants the child she'll have to raise it on her own or with the help of her family and friends, but the biological father would have no responsibility for it.

And Gabs got the rest.

[Luke Clempson The 1st]

Sorry i just need to say that people thinking that woman are more mature than men is a lie, you can find a lot of immature women in the world and a lot of mature men, but you can also find immature men and mature women.
Yes i know, you can call me Captain state the obvious, but heck, its true.
I just see people for who they are, i dont brand people with a pathetic little label.
But then again, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, so i'll just leave this for now.

[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.