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I wonder how quickly will this one get recognized, at the moment it's just an underground movement on Reddit and "Manosphere" etc.:

http://www.singularity2050.com/2010/01/the-misandry-bubble.h...

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I am impressed at the level of downvotes and vitriol shown towards these subjects on here. I think some of the points are either nonsense or stretching things a bit and I don't agree with all of the conclusions, but there are definitely real issues here, and ignoring and suppressing them will only make the eventual backlash worse. Especially with high-handed methods like downvotes and single-sentence dismissals as garbage.

The obvious analogy is race. Talking about race is hard enough. When someone posts a link from Stormfront about how The Jews Did It then there's no point even trying to engage them in discussion.

Parent's link was fucking garbage.

Let us hope that this movement remains firmly situated in your "manosphere" then and keep this shit off HN.

I don't recommend the link above. It's garbage

You have a five minute difference in your posts. Did you ever read the article?

I'm not agreing completely with it, but I'll refrain from commenting until I finished reading it.

Maybe he was already familiar with it before?

I also wonder just how far into an article like this you have to read before you can accurately describe it as garbage. You come across nice quotes like "Contraception made it possible for females to conduct campaigns to act on their urges of hypergamy." pretty early on. Is it really necessary to drink the entire bottle of crap before one can safely declare that it is, in fact, crap?

There's a summary right at the top. It's your typical set of men's rights talking points dressed up in sociological bullshit and I'm disappointed to be seeing it on HN, since these lunatics have already ruined much of reddit.

The URL implies it's from 2010. It's possible that they have read it or encountered it before.

I read enough to discover that it was garbage

I am sure every civil rights movement faces similar kind of backlash in the beginning.

Probably, but that doesn't imply that every movement that faces a similar kind of backlash is a civil rights movement.

They laughed at Einstein, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

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