Friday, May 29, 2015

"Are You Man Enough for the Men's Rights Movement?"

"As the flagship political site of the movement (it had just shy of 9 million site visits last year), Elam's A Voice for Men functions as the closest thing there is to a center, an intelligence, a superego to the bloggy manosphere id of lust and fury. Just how big the whole thing is, nobody can say. More than fringe, less than mainstream, but at 3 A.M., sitting with Elam in his hotel room, I'm not looking for numbers. Size doesn't matter. What I'm really asking is, What does it all mean?...

The irony of the men's rights movement is that its critique, its focus on the constraints of gender, is essentially a feminist one. No less an arch-feminist than the late Andrea Dworkin—a "300-plus-pound basilisk of man-hate" who just "wanted to be raped," according to Elam—critiqued the idea of men as "disposable" in her 1983 book Right-Wing Women, ten years before The Myth of Male Power. "Feminism," wrote Dworkin, "proposes one absolute standard of human dignity, indivisible by sex."

"Nope," says the manosphere. Or rather, "I can't hear you!""
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201503/mens-rights-activism-the-red-pill

The anecdotes in here - I mean, it is likely that the journalist had to choose the more extreme people who created the more interesting moments but wow.

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