Men's Rights

(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.......

Tags: civil rights, equality, human rights, inequality, men, sexism, social issues, women's rights

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Permalink Reply by asano_man on July 23, 2009 at 5:24pm: Heheh. Cupcake Kenny....

Also, Dozzier, that looks insanely delicious.

Permalink Reply by Megan on July 23, 2009 at 5:25pm: CUPCAKES.
If those cupcakes were Helena Bonham Carter, I would-
*stops self*
Mmmmmm. Tasty.

Permalink Reply by Kenny on July 23, 2009 at 5:26pm: Yay, i am now cupcake kenny, very alliterative =D

Now someone give me advice on telling a nerdfighter girl that i may be in nerdfighterlike with her >_>

Permalink Reply by asano_man on July 23, 2009 at 5:28pm: @Megan: O.O don't put those kinds of thoughts into my head! I might get into one of my turns........

@Kenny: I dunno. Cupcakes.

Permalink Reply by Megan on July 23, 2009 at 5:29pm: @Dozzier

Ice cream cupcakes.

Permalink Reply by Gabrielle on July 23, 2009 at 5:33pm: @Kenny (and about the nerdfighterlike, since I have no idea if this is going to show up under it or not): Private message?

I have posted elsewhere, and on my blog, that I don't think it's cool to be all, "I LIKE YOU!" on a forum or something. Flirting is one thing, since everybody flirts. So if it were me, I'd prefer hearing in a private message. (Not that I think it IS me, but you know what I mean). Other gals may think it's highly romantic to have it plastered everywhere first, though, so I guess it would depend on the girl.

Permalink Reply by Megan on July 23, 2009 at 5:36pm: @asano_man
I can't help it, I want steamy hot sex with that woman. She's just so sexy..

Permalink Reply by asano_man on July 23, 2009 at 5:40pm: Right?!

Dammit, the things I would do to her can hardly be considered legal.

Uh... ahem. I, uh.. I'll just be over there now.

Permalink Reply by Megan on July 23, 2009 at 5:46pm: @asano_man
Same. Very much the same. Lock me up in a bedroom with Helena Bonham Carter for a week, and I'd never need to have sex again afterwards.. *sigh*

Permalink Reply by Gabrielle on July 23, 2009 at 4:48pm: Good gawd, I missed a lot. Funny pictures, Matt and Kenny's first lovers' quarrel, asano_man being his usual attention-whore self...

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