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I feel like shooting myself next time anyone calls me an MRA

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 10:00 pm
by psycopathicteen
Title says all.

Re: I feel like shooting myself next time anyone calls me an

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 10:06 pm
by Banshaku
he, well, I don't know what MRA means in that case but if you say so? ^^;;;

I don't think your post will bring any good, even in general forum. Just relax a little bit, enjoy some snes hacking and have fun. That's why we mostly post on nesdev, isn't it? ;)

Re: I feel like shooting myself next time anyone calls me an

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 10:35 pm
by never-obsolete
I don't normally grill chicken, but it was a nice, brisk 60 degrees outside tonight so I fired up the grill. Burnt the skin a little bit.

Re: I feel like shooting myself next time anyone calls me an

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 2:32 am
by koitsu
Probably "men's rights activist". Any time this subject, or even remotely similar subjects come up, there's always drama involved, and ~90% of the time you can be sure Americans are involved.

More importantly: can I ask what this subject, or whatever it is you're posting about at all, has to do with this forum? Let's not have what happened two years ago repeat itself, or this from earlier this year.

Re: I feel like shooting myself next time anyone calls me an

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 5:28 am
by WedNESday
Does anybody here remember that user donknotts from about 10 years ago?

Re: I feel like shooting myself next time anyone calls me an

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 6:24 am
by Banshaku
@koitsu

That's not something I hear in Japan so the only thing I found was magnetic resonance angiography but I would have been surprised that it would have been used for slur or something like that :lol:

@WedNESday

Maybe it was just before I arrived around 2008 then. I remember barf, if my memory is good. We had many drama along the way :D

Re: I feel like shooting myself next time anyone calls me an

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 7:50 am
by tepples
Banshaku wrote:he, well, I don't know what MRA means in that case but if you say so? ^^;;;
As I understand it, men's rights activists (MRAs) believe that feminism has gone so far as to make society prejudiced against men. However, Cracked writers believe that MRAs' concerns are artifacts of feminism not having achieved its goals yet and can be addressed by letting feminism finish.

tl;dr:
5. MRAs complain that men aren't socially allowed to hit women. This is because men on average are twice as strong as women in the upper body, though they're equal in the lower body. (Incidentally, this explains why Tami in The Curse of Possum Hollow specializes in kick attacks and, to a lesser extent, why Lopopn is male.) Similar social taboos apply to children, who are even weaker, except for corporal punishment on the well-padded buttocks. Fix this by buying gym memberships for women.

4. Many domestic violence shelters do not admit or even believe men victims. This is because of limited budgets combined with because the fact that men are in fact the aggressors (in turn because of point 5). To fix it, fund domestic violence treatment more, and continue strength and defense training for women so that women can be taken more seriously in a confrontation.

3. The common myth is that shipwrecks save "women and children first." This isn't the case according to a study, and this myth arose out of the protocol observed on the RMS Titanic as part of propaganda to deny women the vote. To fix it, board airplanes or airships instead of cruise ships, as casualty rates on aircraft do not discriminate.

2. Most occupational casualties are male, 97% of military and 93% of civilians, largely because men choose to take more dangerous jobs. Women are already supporting wounded veterans by volunteering, raising money, and exposing poor hospital conditions. To fix it more, lift more restrictions on women in combat.

1. One of the hottest MRA complaints is that fathers tend to lose custody battles. This has been changing over the years, with more cases going for joint custody than sole (1 parent) custody. To fix it, if you have kids, offer to take care of them more often, and if you don't, offer to babysit.

The fixes for most of these start to sound like more feminism, don't they?

Re: I feel like shooting myself next time anyone calls me an

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:04 am
by Banshaku
America is so complicated, not that Japan is better in some situation though ^^;;

Re: I feel like shooting myself next time anyone calls me an

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:51 am
by Drew Sebastino
Having been to Japan for a bit during the summer and having known quite alot about it before that, I'm not sure how problems it shares with America outside of that of any other first world country. Unrest generally seems to be lower there, but maybe because everyone is working too many hours to care, lol.

Re: I feel like shooting myself next time anyone calls me an

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 9:02 am
by tokumaru
I feel like shooting myself every time people start ranting about their completely unrelated personal problems in a forum about video game programming.

Re: I feel like shooting myself next time anyone calls me an

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 9:25 am
by Banshaku
@tokumaru :lol:

Re: I feel like shooting myself next time anyone calls me an

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 10:17 am
by Bregalad
koitsu wrote:Probably "men's rights activist".
To be honnest, all activists of all kinds, no matter the cause, are annoying.

Re: I feel like shooting myself next time anyone calls me an

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 12:05 pm
by Jeroen
Also if you're seriously considering shooting yourself, give one of these a call: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s ... isis_lines

Re: I feel like shooting myself next time anyone calls me an

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 3:58 pm
by psycopathicteen
tepples wrote:
Banshaku wrote:he, well, I don't know what MRA means in that case but if you say so? ^^;;;
As I understand it, men's rights activists (MRAs) believe that feminism has gone so far as to make society prejudiced against men. However, Cracked writers believe that MRAs' concerns are artifacts of feminism not having achieved its goals yet and can be addressed by letting feminism finish.

tl;dr:
5. MRAs complain that men aren't socially allowed to hit women. This is because men on average are twice as strong as women in the upper body, though they're equal in the lower body. (Incidentally, this explains why Tami in The Curse of Possum Hollow specializes in kick attacks and, to a lesser extent, why Lopopn is male.) Similar social taboos apply to children, who are even weaker, except for corporal punishment on the well-padded buttocks. Fix this by buying gym memberships for women.

4. Many domestic violence shelters do not admit or even believe men victims. This is because of limited budgets combined with because the fact that men are in fact the aggressors (in turn because of point 5). To fix it, fund domestic violence treatment more, and continue strength and defense training for women so that women can be taken more seriously in a confrontation.

3. The common myth is that shipwrecks save "women and children first." This isn't the case according to a study, and this myth arose out of the protocol observed on the RMS Titanic as part of propaganda to deny women the vote. To fix it, board airplanes or airships instead of cruise ships, as casualty rates on aircraft do not discriminate.

2. Most occupational casualties are male, 97% of military and 93% of civilians, largely because men choose to take more dangerous jobs. Women are already supporting wounded veterans by volunteering, raising money, and exposing poor hospital conditions. To fix it more, lift more restrictions on women in combat.

1. One of the hottest MRA complaints is that fathers tend to lose custody battles. This has been changing over the years, with more cases going for joint custody than sole (1 parent) custody. To fix it, if you have kids, offer to take care of them more often, and if you don't, offer to babysit.

The fixes for most of these start to sound like more feminism, don't they?
The biggest men's issue I can think of are false rape accusations, but feminists aren't ever going to take this problem seriously. They care more about statistics than the issue itself.
Also if you're seriously considering shooting yourself
Now that I think about it, I think I know why some conservatives buy guns. So they can commit suicide.

Re: I feel like shooting myself next time anyone calls me an

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 4:54 pm
by WedNESday
Bregalad wrote:To be honnest, all activists of all kinds, no matter the cause, are annoying.
Even human rights or environmental ones? Those guys do have a point.