Originally posted by FistOfThe North
How does it sound gay to you? These men would still bang women. They just won't marry and have kids and responsibilities with them because of the biased system.
If they don't want to marry, that's fine, perhaps it will hurt their chances with women who desire marriage, but that's their problem. But children are of interest to society as a whole, and some of that responsibility is put on the people who created the offspring, that includes the fathers. Women, tbh, are far worse affected by societies expectations (as well as just biological facts of procreation) than men are. The requirements that are put on men in regards to their offspring can definitely be justified (although I am not a fan of the current system, a system where men get off scot-free and women have to bear the whole cost of child rearing is surely not fair, nor in the interest of society).
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
For example 60% of marriages end in divorce and guess whom benefits the most from a divorce. 70% of divorce initiators are women. Guess who mostly "gets taken to the cleaners"? Who wins child custody cases the most, even if you're a qualified man?
Marriage is a contract. If your contract states that you split your worth and distribute the labours of your relationship (in our society that is traditionally that the men does work for the outside world to bring in monetary funds, while the women does the domestic work of keeping the household, raising the children, etc.) then you have to oblige by these rules you have committed to. In that case men are not "worse off", they just didn't realise that just cause they are the one bringing home the paycheck it is not theirs alone.
There is likely some bias in the court system and that should be worked to be dismantled (in which case MRAs should work together with feminists who are actually doing the work to get rid of the patriarchal structures that in this case benefit women).
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
In the media men mostly are the idiots or the monsters.
Men are the heroes, the leaders, the protagonists, unique people. Women are underrepresented and when represented only as one-dimensional stereotypes.
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
There are far more cases of testicular cancer than breast cancer in the u.s. yet research is 1/6th of the federal funding breast cancer does gets.
That's just not true. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women. Testicular cancer doesn't even make the top-10 in men (it's 16th). Only 1% of instances of cancer in men is testicular, while about 12% of instances of cancer in women is breast cancer (if your stats on federal funding are correct, testicular gets two times more funding than it warrants (in your simplistic calculation)). You would have a bit more of a point regarding prostate cancer, which has about 4/5th of the incidents, but only gets about 1/2 of the funding (if only the federal government, which is by a vast majority comprised of males, hadn't blown all that money on testicular cancer research, amirite?)
Additionally, breast cancer does affect men, although to a much smaller degree.