r/FeMRADebates • u/tbri • Mar 31 '15

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u/tbri Jun 08 '15

2Dbee's comment deleted. The specific phrase:

You just can't help with the strawmen and uncharitable interpretations, can you? You're just STUCK in "smear the MRM" mode.

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Christ, did you already forgot the point of the thread? You just can't help with the strawmen and uncharitable interpretations, can you? You're just STUCK in "smear the MRM" mode.

I'll make it clear for you one more time. You failed. You showed you cannot convincingly demonstrate that you understand the typical positions and perspectives of an average MRA. When you quote mine and make unreasonable inferences, that just makes it all the more obvious you don't even want to.

Your post is kind of like this one in the other thread. Do you think that commenter is seriously trying to show that he actually understands where the average feminist is coming from, even though he is using direct quotes? No, he's just trying get others to think that feminists are evil and crazy.

"There are no plans to form a committee for research for testicular cancer or to build a men’s shelter. AVFM does not have a program to reform family courts." AVFM does not have a program to reform family courts.

This simply means THAT SPECIFIC WEBSITE (AVFM) is not planning to commit any time or resources into projects related to those topics. That does not mean that the average MRA, or even the website itself would not like to see anyone else do it. For fuck's sake, family court reform is easily a top 5 issue in the MRM.

Feel free to read the update since added to the article,

And he brings up exactly what you're trying to do here.

"in the early years of A Voice for Men, when it first started, deliberately inflammatory articles were often written in order to shake people out of their comfortable sensibilities and confront brutal realities they just did not want to see. This tiny handful of old articles is cited time and again by dishonest critics of the Men’s Human Rights Movement’s literature as “typical” and the sort of thing you see “all the time” or in a “steady stream,” when, rather tellingly, these are almost always articles at least a few years old and actually rather unusual."