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 Kenny on July 23, 2009 at 5:37pm: The cupcake/nerdfighterlike discussion is now here!

@Gabrielle

Thanks, but i think my problem is i don't really know whether this particular Nerdfighter is in nerdfighterlike with me too, and I might seem creepy if i come on to her...

And there's totally 30 girls reading this right now thinking i might be talking about them (and hopefully they're also hoping I'm tlaking about them ;D); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gabrielle on July 23, 2009 at 5:39pm: The hopeless romantic in me says go for it, the realist says be waaaaary, so I dunno...; ▶ Reply to This

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Permalink Reply by asano_man on July 23, 2009 at 5:43pm: is there anything Courage Wolf can't solve?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kenny on July 23, 2009 at 5:49pm: Alright, in addition to Courage Wolf, in order for me to gain the courage i need I'm gonna need to chug about 12 cans of redbull while listening to AC/DC and Iron Maiden

LET'S DO THIS!!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by asano_man on July 23, 2009 at 5:50pm: I'll help.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gabrielle on July 23, 2009 at 5:51pm: I think we also need "Eye of the Tiger," too.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by asano_man on July 23, 2009 at 5:53pm: On it.

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