I was also overweight for most of my adolescence and couldn't even get a date until I lost most of my weight.

Upsetting as this no doubt was at the time, this has sweet FA to do with MRAs. You're thinking of the Red Pill, possibly PUAs, probably not MGTOW.

Now it can be confusing as there is clearly some overlap between these four groups, but crucially - and quite helpfully if you ask me - the names they call themselves by and the vocabulary they use to talk about their ideas are kind of a clue that they are, in fact, not the same at all.

Even the girls who couldn't get a date to save their lives used to reject me. Due to growing up in this environment I developed some extreme misogynistic feelings towards women […] Soon after this I discovered the Men's Rights Movement (MRM) online. I read blog posts, articles, and other material …

Would you care to name one of them? Because if what you're about to say, as I suspect it is, is Return of Kings, then you're in the wrong place. That site is not an MRA site.

You can tell it's not an MRA site from this article called 5 Reasons I Am Not A Men’s Rights Activist which includes such gems as "The majority of fervent MRA’s come across as… well, to put it bluntly – losers."

You can also tell that it's not an MRA site by it's repeated references to Red pills and Blue pills, such as here.

You see that difference, don't you? Different names - The Red Pill, PUA, MGTOW, MRA - are kind of a big hint that they are not the same and that they make the differences amongst these groups quite explicit.

… over the past few months I've found it hard to relate to the movement as a whole due to some of the trends I've seen ... I feel that if these trends continue the movement for men's rights will eventually shut down, leaving boys and men to suffer in silence once again.

Suffer in silence from what? From being overweight and not being able to get a girlfriend? That's not really a men's rights or even a human rights issue. There is the right to a family life in the UN charter, I believe, but that means the right not to have others prevent you from having a family life - it's not a guarantee of one.

Constantly writing articles that attack women …

Attack women or attack Feminists? While many feminists are women, not all women are feminists. There is no necessary connection between the two.

If you do actually mean articles attacking women as women name one. Actually, no, name at least five - if you say it's happening constantly then you must have a great deal of evidence, mustn't you?

Constantly attacking/criticizing Feminists in a nonproductive manner … As an ex-misogynist I completely understand where these hostile feelings are coming from

Define non-productive.

Also, there is no relation between criticising Feminism and being a misogynist. Feminists such as yourself tend to assume this automatically, but that's partly a consequence of attributing a political motive to every action a person makes.

There is no such thing as an objective truth in this view, only form of knowledge that supports what they consider to be the oppressor or the oppressed. But that understanding is only relevant and true to a believer. To a non-believer in that world view it's meaningless drivel. Hence, disagreement with feminism is a heresy and the new word for a heretic is a misogynist.

Focusing on pointless issues … An example of this would be the recent articles, criticisms, and attacks on the recently released Mad Max movie. As a filmmaker as well as screenwriter ...

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Yes, you are again wrong. The criticism of Mad Max came from The Return of Kings.

Remember them? They're the ones I just told you described MRAs as "well, to put it bluntly – losers."

You maybe a filmmaker and a screenwriter - am I supposed to impressed by that by the way? - because judging by your research skills, you are probably not a very successful at either.

It seems like lately MRA's are more focused on attacking Feminists than fighting for the rights of the men

I've heard this accusation before and understand it's quite a common one. A number of Feminists are actively pushing for policies that would discriminate against men and have already succeeded in pushing through a number of policies that are quite plainly discriminatory.

Not surprisingly, they come under criticism for doing so.

An example would be some of the recent false-rape protests by MRA's on college campuses. In some instances the protests go well, but others have gotten out of control. In one case MRA's decided to jam the phone services to a campus-rape hotline that people could call in case of an emergency.

OK, you got me here. I've never heard this story and you provide no link.

Judging by your efforts so far, my suspicion is you've got it wrong again. I will also assume that even if you can find a story that describes MRAs as jamming rape crisis phone lines, I am willing to bet money that this is a completely groundless assertion made against some nasty pranksters / trolls who have been labelled MRAs without any shred of actual evidence.

This one speaks for itself. With terms like alpha, beta, red-pill, and blue-pill

The only thing this speaks to is that you are yourself a Feminist troll because you have, as has been pointed out already, no understanding of the differences and similarities between MRAs, MGTOW, The Red Pill or PUAs.

Here, you are clearly talking about The Red Pill - the give away there is the reference to the red-pill - who are not only not MRAs but often are quite derisive of MRAs.

… I am not a member of the MRM I still support what they are trying to accomplish

Sure you do. You support it so much you don't even know what it is having spent the entire 'novel' describing the actions of The Red Pill as MRAs.

You know on that subject, a lot of Feminists, on the rare occasions that they will actually enter a debate, generally avoid having to make counter-arguments by simply putting up their hands and saying things like 'It's not us!' or 'That's not real feminists' and so and so on.

But the thing is, while there are multiple forms of Feminism and they don't all agree on everything - whether trans-women can be considered women at all is a hot topic among them for example - they all do still nevertheless go by the name of Feminist and by and large draw on the same vocabulary e.g. heteronormative patriarchal oppression and so on.

You would think therefore that by calling things by different names - MRA/MRM, PUA, The Red Pill and MGTOW - it would kind of be a clue that there is not just a minor difference in doctrine but a more pronounced difference altogether.

Still, no one would expect a no doubt successful filmmaker and screenwriter to be bothered to do anything so simple as check some facts.