Ladies & Gentle-men: Meet The Men's Rights Movement

MRM claims discrimination is everywhere

Do you believe the only real men's issues out there are copies of GQ and Maxim? Then you're probably the kind of person the burgeoning men's rights movement wants to talk to.

Tom de Castella of the BBC's got the news of a growing group of men's rights activists who think the gender war pendulum has swung too far in the direction of favoring women over men.

He cites David Benatar (who ironically shares a name with girl-power icon Pat Benatar), a prominent figure in the movement and author of The Second Sexism, who thinks that society overlooks the fact that more men go to prison, suffer violence, lose custody of their children, and take their own lives among other ills.

But de Castella quotes British writer Suzanne Moore, who believes there's nothing particularly novel about the men's rights movement: "It's the same old point that feminism has gone too far." She counters with the fact that men still dominate politics and the upper echelons of the business world, where "the real discrimination is." Psychologist Roy Baumeister suggests an alternative interpretation, noting that while men do indeed dominate at the top tier of society, they also "dominate" at the bottom.

Are you on board with the MRM in thinking society has gone too far in favoring women over men?

[Elise]

LMAO. When women's salaries are equal to men's, when women aren't victimized just because they are women, we'll talk, okay?

[Krazie316]

Women's salaries for the same job and work ARE equal. Wage gap by discrimination is a figment of feminist imaginations and delusions.

Spare yourself and us the victim-hood mentality...