Category Archives: Anti-feminists and their pals

Where are the men's and father's rights groups in Flores-Villar vs US?

(Crossposted on Alas and on TADA. If you’re not someone I know as a feminist, and you want to write in defense of MRAs, please take it to TADA.) In my prior post on a law that discriminates against fathers, … Continue reading

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The Abuse of the Western Children of Misogynist Attention-Seekers

One of the more bizarre sub-plots from the bizarre story that is the faked balloon voyage of Falcon Heene is the YouTube video in which Falcon and his brothers claimed to be “not pussified.” It’s a lovely video about how … Continue reading

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A Post For the MRA Apologetics and Rebuttals

There are a lot of off-topic comments in this thread. Or rather, there were. But I’m now moving them to this thread. Or, rather, I will. If the plug-in I downloaded works. UPDATE: I think it worked!

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Men's Rights Activists, Anti-Feminists, And Other Misogynists Comment On George Sodini

I’m really hesitant to post this, because it is so ugly and so disturbing. But… here’s a list of some of the worst quotes I’ve seen from (people I think are) MRAs and anti-feminists, commenting on George Sodini, the woman-hating … Continue reading

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Response to Christina Hoff Sommers, part 3: Truths and Lies

In a speech, self-described “conservative feminist” Christina Hoff Sommers said: Let me turn to my second major objection to contemporary feminism: its reckless disregard for the truth. In doing research for my books, I looked carefully at some standard feminist … Continue reading

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Quote: A bit more on malebashing

This post is quoted from “A Feminist Theory of Malebashing,” by Susan H. Williams and David C. Williams, published in 1996 in Michigan Journal of Gender & Law. The original article has lots of footnotes, which I have rather lazily omitted.
Nicholas Davidson, a well-known critic of feminism, opines in the journal Society that malebashing – [...] Continue reading

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The Family Place To MRAs: "Instead of bashing women's organizations, stand up and help somebody yourself."

[This is the third post in a series, criticizing the recent campaign by anti-feminist Glenn Sacks against The Family Place. I'd like to remind readers that "Alas, a Blog" will match any contributions you make to The Family Place this … Continue reading

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Domestic Violence Shelter Targeted by Anti-Feminists: "Some of the vile language and verbal abuse we took on the phone was horrific."

[This is the second post in a series, criticizing the recent campaign by anti-feminist Glenn Sacks against The Family Place. I'd like to remind readers that "Alas, a Blog" will match any contributions you make to The Family Place this … Continue reading

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Anti-Feminists protest domestic violence awareness ads in Dallas

Via Womanist Musings: Men’s rights advocate Glenn Sacks has gotten some press for protesting these ads, which were created by The Family Place and were displayed on buses in Dallas through November 30: (Image description: The image shows a boy, … Continue reading

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Fact-checking MRAs (episode 4,367 in a series)

MRA Robert Franklin writes: New Teen Violence Report is 468 Pages Long–but the Word ‘Father’ Is Nowhere to be Found [...] The report is 468 pages long, and as far as I can tell, the word “father” is nowhere to … Continue reading

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