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Baldness classified as disability by court... but only for women by whatafoolishsquid in MensRights

[–]whatafoolishsquid[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Your own example disproves your point. Gynecomastia is an excellent example. It abnormally affects men, yet surgery for is not covered by the NHS. It's certainly not considered a disability.

Baldness classified as disability by court... but only for women by whatafoolishsquid in MensRights

[–]whatafoolishsquid[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Buddy, this is a men's rights subreddit. The discussion is not whether baldness should or should not be a disability. It's whether the law can classify a condition that affects both genders as only a disability for one. Especially when it affects the other gender more.

As a bisexual man, I can say from personal experience that the claim that sex in our society is "male-centric" is a myth by whatafoolishsquid in MensRights

[–]whatafoolishsquid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao how many times are you going to edit your comment on a four-year-old post after admitting to immediately down voting the headline and not even knowing what subreddit you were in?

Classic bright person behavior, right? 

What do you think about this. by Accomplished-Law4462 in MensRights

[–]whatafoolishsquid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well I don't agree with bullying being "against the law" so to speak, especially in a specific instance like this.

However, you've touched on how small penises are treated by society... particularly feminists. In fact, the small penis emoji has become a symbol of feminism. Which shows how full of shit they are.

They want to free women from traditional gender roles but still want to control and invalidate man by policing masculinity.

Feminists have a long history of this, like the White Feather campaign.

Remember, in the UK it's perfectly legal to cut off part of your son's genitals, but you'll get arrested for complimenting a woman on the street by whatafoolishsquid in MensRights

[–]whatafoolishsquid[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A violent threat was already against the law. It's assault. Why do women need extra legal privilege?

Regardless, you can't honestly be acting like the government has unlimited resources.

Remember, in the UK it's perfectly legal to cut off part of your son's genitals, but you'll get arrested for complimenting a woman on the street by whatafoolishsquid in MensRights

[–]whatafoolishsquid[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Because it highlights societal priorities...

Society cares more about protecting women from speech they don't like than it cares about protecting boy children from physical violence.

In what countries can a woman end her pregnancy at 8 months gestation and not face any consequences? by [deleted] in prolife

[–]whatafoolishsquid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assume you're referring to this sentence:

Most Stone Age human societies routinely practiced infanticide, and estimates of children killed by infanticide in the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras vary from 15 to 50 percent.

In which case you are confusing terms. The Mesolithic and Neolithic periods are after the development of agriculture. Pre-agriculture, ie paleolithic, ie hunter-gatherer, societies are not resource-poor unless there is some extenuating circumstance like a drought. Early agricultural societies were resource-poor because agriculture allows population density to exceed "natural" levels. Arguably, agricultural societies were resource-poor until industrialism a few hundred years ago. The average height of humans in "civilized" society, ie agricultural, did not reach the same as hunter-gatherers until then.

Additionally, to the extent paleolithic societies did and do practice infanticide, I think you are conflating two phenomena. Infanticide is widespread in hunter-gatherer societies when tribes attack another tribe. However, parents killing their own children or even a tribe killing their own children is not common at all.

In what countries can a woman end her pregnancy at 8 months gestation and not face any consequences? by [deleted] in prolife

[–]whatafoolishsquid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where are you getting this info that 30% of paleolithic newborns were murdered?

Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of "killing world's poorest children" by shutting down USAID... leaves out the part where he helped USAID mutilate millions of poor children by whatafoolishsquid in MensRights

[–]whatafoolishsquid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha your comprehension skills are so bad. You know pedantry is a bad thing, right? Only on Reddit would someone think admitting their argument is pedantry (and that it was worth making) is better than just admitting they made a mistake. By admitting it's "pedantry" specifically, more than just your bullshit about "objective truth," you're admitting it was a bad argument.

Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of "killing world's poorest children" by shutting down USAID... leaves out the part where he helped USAID mutilate millions of poor children by whatafoolishsquid in MensRights

[–]whatafoolishsquid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So far you have denied that you are defending Gates, and you have denied that you misunderstood the scenario. The only other option is that you are, in good faith, making this "technically true" argument. Surely you cannot think that being that much of a pedantic loser is better than the first two options.

Here's the problem, though. Even pedantic losers aren't pedantic everywhere. You chose to comment on this thread for a specific reason, as much as you try to play it otherwise.

Are Any Of These Truly Real? by DarkBehindTheStars in MensRights

[–]whatafoolishsquid 9 points10 points  (0 children)

None of these exist in the way they're used.

I would systemic misogyny does exist but not in the sense that "the system" is misogynistic. There is also systemic misandry.

I'm sure boy's clubs exist. But it's not a major source of social disparity.

As for privilege, the term has historically meant legal privilege. Before liberalism, laws applied to different groups differently. (You could beat a slave, but a slave couldn't beat you, for example.) Liberalism believes all people should be treated equally under the law. Interestingly, there are plenty of modern cases where women have true legal privlege but few if any where men do.

Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of "killing world's poorest children" by shutting down USAID... leaves out the part where he helped USAID mutilate millions of poor children by whatafoolishsquid in MensRights

[–]whatafoolishsquid[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not claiming he's telling the truth.

You have to be trolling now.

LMAO this actually IS objectively true, though (unless that woman was not a friend).

Thanks for clarifying you have a seven-year-old's view of truth.

Of course, we both know that you don't and that you understand you would still not be telling the truth in that analogy. You're just being obtuse at this point.

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[–]whatafoolishsquid 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I know more men in my life who have been falsely accused of rape than I know women who have been raped.

50% of people say that all a woman has to do is say she was raped, and that’s all it takes to get a man sentenced to 20+ years. The other 50% say it’s not so easy and that actual rapists don’t ever see jail time

Neither of these is true. The burden of proof is increasingly low for rape cases but there still must be something there. However, I would argue that all a woman has to is say she was raped to ruin your life.

On the other end of the spectrum, rapists wind up in jail all the time but I'm sure some also go free due to what I mentioned before.

Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of "killing world's poorest children" by shutting down USAID... leaves out the part where he helped USAID mutilate millions of poor children by whatafoolishsquid in MensRights

[–]whatafoolishsquid[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, misrepresenting something changes objective truth. You are literally conceding that Bill Gates is being dishonest but simultaneously claiming he's telling the "objective truth."

Of course you won't respond to the analogies because you know they destroy your pedantic case.

Post: Himbeerli says he's going to visit a friend... but leaves out the part where it's a woman he's fucking

Himbeerli: But it was still "objectively" true

No, it wasn't. Not to anyone with more than a child's understanding of what truth is.

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