Bryan Martin
1 min readJul 25, 2022

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It's probably a bad example. You're right, men are committing more violent crimes. A better example of a men's rights issue is the disparity of sentencing between men and women for the same crime. That is an issue that is a reality and there is no fair justification for it.

The point is that if you examine things a little closer, there are almost always inequalities that can be addressed. Saying that 'men already have all the rights' seems a bit dogmatic. It allows you to dismiss the notion that there are issues that uniquely affect men without an honest appraisel.

I agree that so much of the MRA movement has been mired with anti-feminist rhetoric. It doesn't mean everything that the MRA's are saying are wrong. Men suffer. Sometimes they suffer from the patriarchy. Sometimes it's misandry. Sometimes it's both.

Look at the suicide rate for men. Feminists often say, "well, there you go...the partriarchy hurts everyone". How is that helpful? What is really causing male suicide rates to increase? What can we as a society do to improve that. I don't think telling men to rid themselves of toxic masculinity is helping. Why don't we have more support for men? When you say, 'it's the partriarchy', people equate the patriarchy to men. So it's like victim blaming. The fact is, men are not a monolith. The men that suffer from injustice are not the ones in power. So yes, men need right's advocacy, and it has nothing to do with feminism.

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