And of course, consistent with the title of this article, I hate TyphonBlue, Teri Stoddard, Izzey and Girl Writes What. And those are just some of the women that have contributed to this website. Needless to say I hate Barbara Kay, Christina Hoff Sommers, Erin Pizzey, Katherine Young, Kathleen Parker, Phyllis Schlafly and all the upcoming  women, like Bettina Arndt, in the rising chorus of female voices that are critical of gender feminism, and who, shock of all shocks, think men and boys are getting a raw deal from society.
Oh my goodness, I almost forgot, I hate my mother, God rest her soul, my partner of 10 years, and every other woman who has ever lived.
In fact, if you ask a blogger named Coquette, who recently had her work posted to The Daily, my hatred of women is the only thing that drives me as a men’s activist. Well, that and my narcissistic rage.
She said this not of me personally, mainly because she didn’t name a single MRA, critique a single MRA position, or point to a shred of evidence that supports her conclusions. They are just a small part of a barrage of ad hominem and straw clutching offered up by Coquette as her response to the existence of the men’s rights movement.
She goes on to describe men’s activists as impotent, toxic, dangerous and twisted. How she left out bedwetting kitty-killers I will not try to ascertain. And how all this male shaming is supposed to apply to all the women now speaking on behalf of men’s rights will also remain a mystery.  Her entire argument hinges on casting MRA’s as a bunch of unidentified males who can’t get laid.
I had high hopes when I recently offered some heartfelt advice to those so threatened by the idea of men and boys being treated equally under the law that they have gone on the attack in the media. I wanted to help them see the wisdom of actually arguing points of fact and addressing issues head on, as well as the wisdom of not throwing rotten eggs at your enemy that just wind up landing on your own head.
It is disappointing to see they didn’t take that advice, but I won’t let that stop me from another opportunity to point to their stupidity and laugh. Once more we review the basics, which are not near as laughable as the likes of Coquette.
Men are:
94% of industrial deaths and accident (NIOSH)
76% of homicide victims – DOJ
80% of Suicide victims – CDC
The overwhelming majority of rape victims.
Male rape has been called “The most closely guarded secret of American prisons.” (Weiss and Friar 1974) There are estimated to be over 300,000 male rapes per year in American prisons and jails.
Of the top fifteen leading causes of death, men lead in 12 categories, are tied in two and trail in one.  Even though more women die of heart disease each year, men die of heart disease many years earlier – CDC
Yet while there are numerous federal offices on women’s and girl’s health, not a single one exists for men or boys.
There is blatant anti-male discrimination in the criminal justice system and the sentencing disparity between men and women exceeds that between whites and any other minority – DOJ
A man convicted of a capital crime is TEN times more likely to be executed than a woman for the same offense.
There is more, of course; much, much more. So complete is the list of laws and institutions that favor women at the expense of men that we keep a more complete list of them here for reference. All you have to do to see the staggering unfairness of it is imagine that men are human beings.
While Coquette and others are waxing paranoid and hysterical about men’s advocates being dangerous and twisted, these are still the issues driving what we do, and no amount of sexist shaming is going to make them, or us, go away.
We are only dangerous to ideas that have long been exposed as sexist and socially destructive, and the notion that we are on the way out isn’t exactly supported by the mainstreams increasingly panicked and pathetic attempts to marginalize us.
Bernard Chapin sent the link to Coquette’s piece, and quickly put forth his own reaction. View it here.
Spot on, Mr. Chapin.
Perhaps though, the most telling bit of drivel hammered thought Coquette’s keyboard was saved for the end of the article. Says she:

That being said, it’s not fair for me to summarily dismiss all men’s rights issues because of the questionable character of certain men’s rights activists. A number of the issues themselves have some merit, especially those in regard to gender neutrality in the practice of divorce, paternity, and child custody law. 
Of course, the legitimacy of any particular issue doesn’t legitimize men’s rights activism in general, and it sure as hell doesn’t excuse the movement’s undeniable undercurrent of hatred towards women.

Oh, I get it now. The issues are legitimate, just not the people talking about them. There are problems with divorce, paternity and child custody, but the people who are most affected by those problems can’t talk about them because Coquette and a bunch of other myopic idiots will call them hateful for doing it.
In the last two paragraphs of her piece, Coquette demonstrates perfectly the ideological arrogance and hypocrisy that forms the crumbling foundation of gender feminism. Hell, she is even making our points for us while telling is to shut up about them.
And that, I suppose is also more evidence of how effective we have become, and where this dialogue is ultimately headed.
Just like the SPLC and others who have recently produced slipshod attacks on the MRM, Coquette was forced to acknowledge the validity of the issues, even if in a dismissive, grudging way. The podium has already changed enough in terms of ownership that they are forced to publicly acknowledge the issues, even as they attack us for talking about them. Why? Because the public is catching on to the issues now.
They are watching injustice swallow their son’s and fathers and brothers; seeing them fail out of schools, railroaded in family courts and dragged through the mud of public opinion after false allegations. This is happening to real, flesh and blood men and boys who are loved and connected to family, not just some imaginary fat cats at the top of society’s ladder. The days when “men have nothing to complain about” are part of the cultural memory, but not the current dialogue. And these lying pieces of shit know it.
Undoubtedly, the men’s movement is a reaction to the excesses of modern feminism, and to the age old excesses of male disposability inherent in the old paradigm. It has been a long time coming.
The real knee-jerk reaction, though, is coming from the other side of this. Complacent gender ideologues, feminists, have counted on and enjoyed obsequious silence from the masses for half a century as they busied themselves with advocacy for sexual elitism on behalf of women, with men and boys picking up the tab.
That gravy train is about to derail, and that right quickly. One set of wheels is already off the track. You can even see that in the comments to Coquette’s piece, which without exception trash her for being the ignorant bigot that she is. Like I said, the choo choo is hittin’ poo poo.
For the first time ever, there is mounting public opposition to VAWA that is translating to “no” votes on the floor of congress. It is not because of MRA’s directly, but because we have presented the facts about domestic violence –  and the uglier facts about domestic violence industry – to the public in defiance of people like Coquette. And now they are listening. It is no longer political suicide to vote against that corrupt piece of legislation because people are no longer buying that it is a vote against women.
And check this out. The Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, has just REPEALED the equal pay law in that state. Does that sound like a joke? It’s not. Of course, the write up about it linked here is all aghast at this as the lefts newly dubbed War on Women, but even in that article they could not ignore (but oh, they mightily tried) the real rationale for the move.
After criticizing Walker for the un-p.c. recognition that men who were heads of households actually need to make money commensurate with their obligations, they let the real impetus for the change slip through the cracks.
The law was repealed because there is no gender wage gap. It is pure feminist mythology that has been debunked time and time again. Walker simply took the highly novel initiative to repeal a law that never had a basis in reality to begin with. That knowledge would never have been expressed by a sitting governor unless someone, perhaps a group of frustrated guys who can’t get laid, had not so doggedly pushed for the truth to prevail over ideological falsehoods.
And THAT, my friends, is precisely why we are under attack. And why the attacks are so completely foolish and inept. We are getting the truth – aka feminist Kryptonite – out there.
So expect the trend to continue. You will see more and more votes against VAWA, and more push back against corrupt laws based on agitprop and misinformation. And each time you do, you will see someone rush out here to the internet to attack this website, someone like Bernard Chapin, or as in this case, a generalized attack on unidentified meanies who are at once terribly dangerous and pathetically impotent.
It is the only thing they can do, folks, because they cannot ever really address the issues. But the times they are a changing. The worm is turning and lies are burning. Their whole house of cards is about to go up in a puff. What you are seeing is just the desperation that comes with them waking up to it.
Believe me, it does my heart good. Just to see their frantic scrambling to point the finger at me and my brothers, while they comically pretend our sisters aren’t standing right next to us, every time one more their lies bites the dust, is an absolute highlight in my day.
Must be time to crank up the action around here.

The Huffington Post has jumped on the SPLC bandwagon, and written an article targeting the men’s movement, this website, and the men’s rights subreddit at reddit.com.
The article is glaring with factual errors and direct falsehoods, including the incredible claim that “The Innocence Project” is a product of the Men’s Movement. There are equally off target claims on nearly every line of the piece. They couldn’t even manage to write the headline without trying to shame MRA’s by telling us to “grow some.” On a normal business day I would walk you through that generic Huffpo writer’s lines of broken logic and repeated falsehoods, for your entertainment if not for anything else.
Today, however, is not just another business day. Today I will just link you to the article. Read it at your leisure or don’t. You have heard it all before. They have us all figured out, only they don’t know even the most fundamental things about us. Same shit, different day.
It has become apparent that after keeping their heads in the sand for as long as possible that some elements in the mainstream are waking up to the fact that the MRM is here to stay, and growing.
They are freaking out.
The SPLC fiasco was an orchestrated warning shot (with Huffpo likely being a hapless, tagalong follow up). They clearly don’t understand the nature of this thing well enough to know that coming after us this way is like trying to stop a thunderstorm by going after one raindrop at a time. I am happy for them to do this. It gives us a bounce in publicity and does nothing to slow things down.
But there is another concern here which takes us back to why this is not just another day in the MRM.
Recently we went through a crisis that, unlike what SPLC and Huffpo can muster, was real. One of our more respected members became despondent and sent me an email in which he stated he was going to end his life. Luckily, with the help of MRA’s we were able to track him down and get some help to him before he took himself out. We still don’t know exactly how he is doing, except that today we are reasonably certain that he is still in the land of the living.
His breaking point was exactly what many of our adversaries want.  Or, as one feminist troll on Reddit quipped hopefully, “1 down 35,000 to go.”
This is not just an isolated scumbag. There are others out there, sitting in corners and lurking, waiting for MRA’s to make posts expressing their feelings of hopelessness. And when that happens, they come out of the woodwork wherever people like David Futrelle hang out, like the SRS subreddit; the same place that assumed feminists were recently taunting suicidal men; goading them; hoping to push them toward ending their own lives.
This is, in the end, who we are dealing with. It is a population of people that want to target the many wounded men that find refuge in this movement and urge them toward the unspeakable.
I can hear the fembots screeching now some crap about how those aren’t real feminists and not to blame them for the actions of a few.  Forget about it. As far as I am concerned, there is no difference between someone who will say, ‘1 down, 35,000 to go,” and other scumbags that will treat abused, disheartened men like they are hate-mongers, or better yet misogynistic whiners that are pettily grieving for some confabulated illusion of male privilege that they don’t and never did have. It is just as cruel and depraved.
It is hard for me to start in on these “people” and not write a book about it, but that is not why I am writing this article.
What I want to say today is that I know what these immoral bigots refuse to understand, and refuse to care about when they do. There are a lot of desperate and damaged men in this movement; men who have been taken to hell and back by a system that started throwing them overboard 50 years ago; men who have not seen their beloved children in years, men living in squalor, working in servitude to a system that owns them like chattel; men who have been destroyed by evil, outrageous lies – taken as gospel by authorities who just don’t give a damn about truth or justice.
We have men in this movement who have been stripped of everything; who have not even been allowed to hang on to their freedom or their dignity. And now, in this faltering, but still female-centric economic climate, we have legions of men who are destitute, homeless, and who see only bleakness in the days ahead. The cruel icing on that cake is that they still live in a world that tells them they are worthless if they are not financially successful.
In short, we have more than our share of men teetering on the edge.
Of course, we don’t have much of any services that are wired to deal with these men, and almost nothing in the way of social understanding.  Increasing numbers of men are, for all most of the world cares, simply a bunch of broken appliances; outmoded, useless and taking up too much room. And the moment some reach out for compassion or help, there are more than a few that will shove the knife in deeper and twist.
It sounds terrible, and it is. But there is another side to this as well. When our friend Factory reached out, many, many in the MRM offered whatever they could to help. I had offers of help from the town in which he lives. I had emails of support from people who offered to do whatever was asked. I am still getting messages inquiring about how he is doing. There were people, men and women, from Texas to California to British Columbia to Saskatchewan, all taking action of some kind or another. All of this from MRA’s and MRA’s only.
And that is worth writing about. It is a much more important message than dwelling on the society of human garbage in which men and boys currently find themselves living.
I want to encourage those MRA’s who are not in the worst of times to please continue to watch out for those who are. And for the many of you who are just hanging on, hang on a little tighter. If you need help, please let someone know. We will work something out. Scratch and claw if you have to, but choose to live. We have a long way to go, and we need you. Not to mention the fact that despite what people who oppose our cause think, you are worth staying alive just for the sake of living.
Perhaps someday when our culture recognizes that men are human beings we can quit operating everything for them on tattered old shoe strings and the men’s movement can actually start funding some services to help men in crisis. Till then, please hang in there and help us get down that road.

The Punch, an Australian website, employs Tory Shepherd, a feminist activist that has done some bit writing for a few mainstream outlets. She has recently pledged to debunk the men’s rights movement and has begun a series of articles to that end. However, all that has materialized is two short, poorly articulated rants, completely devoid of substance.
In her first piece, she created her own talking points for the men’s rights movement. Yes, she created them, herself, without speaking to or even quoting any men’s activists, and then asserted that she was going to debunk the points she had written, representing them as coming from the MRM. This particular fact seemed to go unnoticed by a following of fellow ideologues, most of which appeared to have no more interest in journalistic integrity than The Punch, or indeed Shepherd herself.
The second piece, recently released, was a cursory overview of conspiracy theorists that didn’t even address the men’s movement, except by loose and tacit implication. It looked to be written in about 10 minutes; an even less involved effort than the first article. Shepherds failure is complete, but it did not emerge from a void.  It was not a coincidence she came out at this particular time and with puerile conduct and taunting that she alleged was a critique of the men’s movement. Lest anyone forget, AVfM is engaged in an ongoing exposé of the corrupt influence currently within the Australian government. It is well researched and meticulously documented. Shepherd is fabricating MRA talking points and using the approach of diversionary ridicule because she cannot contend with the facts in the case, which have been made available in abundance by AVfM research editor Kyle Lovett and managing editor John the Other. A review of her articles reveals she does not dispute any of those facts. She doesn’t because she can’t without digging a deeper hole for herself.
So while she is useless in terms of vetting facts and meaningful discourse, and has presented her series clearly to attempt to personally malign the messengers bearing the information, she has nonetheless brought more attention to the matter, which does help us present it to more Australians who will not hear about it from their own mainstream media.  For anyone visiting this site for the first time, a great deal of that information is available here, and here.
Since Shepherd is not delivering on “debunking” her own assertions as promised, I hoped to fill in some of that gap here. There is debunking that needs to happen, mainly of the idea that there is no need for a men’s movement as a reaction to feminism. Shepherd alludes to it, as has every gender feminist ideologue that I have ever seen address the subject. It is a common theme that feminists are increasing in volume and frequency as the numbers of men participating in the men’s movement continues to steadily increase.
For those that want the basics on the issues faced by men and boys, we have many of them documented here on our Facts Page. Then there is the matter of why men face these issues but have taken so long to even begin doing anything about them. Part of the reason is biology and socialization. Despite feminist rhetoric, men, by their nature, are much more apt to take care of women than themselves. Then there is social pressure. Men don’t take very good care of themselves and that is pretty much the way society likes it. We like men to be strong and independent. It makes them good protectors and providers. Unfortunately, we don’t much like them to be weak or in need. Socially speaking, it is not considered very masculine.
But there is another force at play here; one that also works against men and women who have evaluated the male gender role and found aspects of it detrimental to men and boys in modern times, as well as observing the various ways men and boys face discrimination and prejudice. Those who act on those observations, politically and socially, are who we refer to as men’s rights activists/advocates, or MRA’s.
Let’s take a moment, aside from the information on The Facts page, to consider just a few recent events that have induced even more people to take a stand:
The current ridicule and dishonest “journalism” being presented at The Punch is just another example in a long list of attempts to mischaracterize the men’s movement.
Meanwhile, the predominant social narrative is that we live in a patriarchy that operates for the enrichment of all men at the expense of all women. That narrative includes the frequent characterization of men as inferior and sub-human, deserving of every misfortune this society can manufacture and inflict upon them, including the draconian and outrageous matters listed above. Those who vociferously object to these injustices are now targeted with increasing invective and condemnation. The default criticism rests on the allegation of pathological anger.
Yes, we are accused of being angry, about gross injustice, as though we are not supposed to be.  We are accused of having hostile feelings about sweeping social  bigotry; which is to say, in all earnestness, we are accused of possessing human compassion and good values; accused of advocating for a more fair society. In the eyes of ideologues like Shepherd, those values and the compassion are the real problem. She just attacks the anger because it is easier, and she plays on the perception of men as all-powerful to excuse and justify it.
Normally, in the routine course of my work, I would spend at least some time donning a psychological and emotional biohazard suit and plumbing the depths of this mentality in order to try to understand what is driving it. And indeed I am truly curious as to what festering, morally atrophied deviation of humanity could look at anything approaching this level of discrimination and suffering without becoming angry. But I honestly think at this point there is more value in prognostication than etiology.
What is more significant here, and speaks directly to the core of the men’s movement, is the probable fallout from continued neglect of, and indifference toward, these issues. What feminists fail to understand, by choice or ignorance, is that we are attempting to prevent the likes of Thomas James Ball, not inspire it. His inspiration came from policies feminists support; the very policies which we oppose. Thomas Ball represents a tragic, dysfunctional reaction to chronic, systemic abuse. There are many possible reactions. Some even worse than his. And while we cannot, must not, condone violence, we had better learn to expect it as long as an ideological war against men is allowed to make a battlefield in our justice system and within the heart of our own families.
When people are subjected to hatred, bigotry and legal persecution – they always eventually react. Anyone who does not believe that has never cracked a history book. Some of the stories are chilling. There have been acts committed in the name of legitimate civil rights that are inexcusable. But they are an unavoidable part of the human condition. Inflict enough pain, as America did on blacks, and you get cities ablaze. There were burning buildings, bodies in the street and a nation torn apart. All of it could have been avoided with justice and compassion.
When you look at what is happening with feminist influence across much of the planet, you see the same formula coming into play. Pressure is building. That is precisely why even Tory Shepherd expressed caution about a men’s movement that is on the rise. The only release valve for that pressure is the recognition and amelioration of injustices against men, but we are moving, horrifically, in the wrong direction.
This isn’t some specially privileged information that we MRA’s hold license to. All you have to do is read the articles of Kyle Lovett or John the Other, visit The Facts Page here, or investigate the bullet points laid out above and you will see the problem, and why we are angry about it. It is all there in open view available for anyone. The only thing preventing anyone from seeing all this and being angry about it is apathy, indifference, and frequently, evil.
The good news here is that things will eventually change. The bad news is that it will not be easy or comfortable. The social pendulum cannot be controlled. It will swing, back and forth, seeking as always to find balance and equilibrium. It will at times knock people and institutions over in the process. Surely as physics apply in the physical world, they similarly govern our societal existence. Men and boys are under fire, in deep trouble. Most of those problems have emerged in a zeitgeist that fosters hate and indifference toward them. They are losing in our families, our schools, our courts and our media. And they are not losing to women’s rights. They are losing to hatred and depraved indifference. Regardless of anyone’s judgments or prejudices, it is fostering a reaction that is gaining visible momentum. Even as the likes of Tory Shepher denies all else, she is not denying that at all.
Whether it becomes a wave of social change, or a violent tempest of indignation and fury, the pendulum will continue to swing. The men’s movement is pushing for the former, because without that, the latter is the only thing we are left with.
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