misandryisalie:

timothygaming:

All this Feminism vs MRA stuff hurts my head. I know there are good people on both sides. There are women who are oppressed/treated badly AND there are men who are oppressed/treated badly. If Tumblr could unite the two sides that’d be awesome. We could take all the energy and time spent on hating each other and spend it on making the world a better place. What would be a good name? Human Rights Movement? Rights For Everyone Movement? Give me some ideas, Tumblr.

I agree. The term is “egalitarian” and there is an egalitarian movement on tumblr that I am tangentially related to. I call myself an MRA, but this fight also tires me. The biggest problem comes down to each individual movement.

The tumblr feminist movement is disgusting. Rather than talk about women’s issues, they hate on men 90% of the time. The MRAs on tumblr, myself included, receive a lot of negative press without people ever checking to see what our views are. It has created a rift where feminists will not even look at us and we have become hardened and frankly unwilling to talk to feminists about some sort of agreement. There are some really awesome feminists, the forth wave is looking awesome. It is really egalitarian and willing to work with MRAs to make the world a better place for everyone.

But until feminists learn to read what we say and until the MRAs get less defensive, the two movements converging is nothing but a pipe dream.

(I should add on: I call myself an MRA because people would read my views and label me as such. After a while I was went “Fine, I’m an MRA”. It is not a label I encourage others to take. Egalitarianism is awesome.)