the-cure-of-folly:

dontneedfeminism:

transdisneyprince:

The last time that I talked to an MRA I asked him how Men’s Rights Activism would help me, as a trans man. He told me that that was not their focus and that I should probably go to the LGBT+ community for support.

Let me break that down. I have social, political, and fiscal needs that far exceed a cisgender man because I am transgender. But they cannot help me as a man because they truly do not consider me to be a man at all– just an queer pretender.

Seriously, fuck MRA’s.

Except that’s not what he meant at all.

The MRM focuses solely on issues that men face for being men. They do not focus solely on the issues that affect transmen, gay/bisexual men, or non-white men, but rather focus on the issues that affect *all* men.

The LGBT community/rights movement is better equipped to handle the issues that you face as a transman than the MRM is.

The MRM focuses on things like the fact that, as a man, if you committed a crime, you would be given a 63% longer sentence than a woman who committed the exact same crime and had a similar background.

Or the fact that, as a man, you are just as likely to be a victim of domestic violence as a woman, but if you were to call the cops on a female partner who is abusing you, you would be much more likely to be arrested than she would, due to biased laws and doctrines.

Or the fact that men are doing worse in every level of education, from elementary school to college, due to multiple forms of bias against them.

Or the fact that men are 3 times more likely to successfully commit suicide than a woman.

Or the fact that men have virtually no reproductive or parental rights.

Or the fact that men, and only men, are required to sign up for selective service, or face a number of consequences, up to and including imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.

These are the issues that the MRM focuses on. These are issues that men face just by being men. The issues you face specifically for being transgender are better addressed by the LGBT rights movement.

Dentist: What can I do for you today?

Patient: My skin is really dry and itchy. 

Dentist: Ummm … I think you should see a dermatologist instead

Patient: Fuck you!

What is it with MRA’s and their really offensive, misleading metaphors?

You know what all of this sounds like? TERF’s. Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminists. Only instead of it being a small group of exclusionary gatekeepers that most feminists have been trying their best to distance themselves from for the last twenty years, the MRA’s pride themselves on it. Maybe you should put a “Cisgender Problems Only” disclaimer on your group until you get your act together.

You talk about men being imprisoned at higher rates, but fail to address that black men are disproportionately victimized by the prison industrial complex and systemic racism in the criminal justice system.

You talk about men having high rates of suicide but ignore that elderly men are at the highest risk of suicide than any other age group.

You talk about how men don’t have as much formal education (and yet they still manage to hold practically all of the most well-paying and influential job positions in the Western world), but don’t want to acknowledge that queer and genderqueer men are paid 27% less than their straight, cisgender counterparts regardless of education.

If you insist that passing, cisgender men are the only ones worth your time then that reflects really poorly on your “movement”. It has with feminism in the past and they’ve learned and grown from it as a whole. But if MRA’s want to complain about issues without thinking too hard about them or doing anything to change things for the better, then that’s on you, friend-o.

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tagged as: goose in the yard. mra. men's rights activists. feminism. anti-feminists.
reblogged from the-cure-of-folly
originally posted by transdisneyprince
posted on July 7, 2015