It wasn't some mass movement based on statistics, or claims that men are universally mistreated, but rather a group of men who were rightly angry at being denied their parental rights. The entire point was that the term originated in a genuine attempt to right wrongs
A decade ago I was following the MRA movement. and I wanted to believe that you are right - that it was about awarding poor dads time with their estranged children. However it had devolved into men not taking accountability for their own actions and whining about it. For example, the man who introduced me to MRA had knocked up a woman, didn't want custody, and was whining he had to pay child support. Yet he claimed the MRA movement as his own. They advertised free vasectomies on billboards back then, so the MRA I was a part of was such retardation. There were a few points that maybe had decent reasoning that were just a response to how far feminism had gone, but I honestly can't remember them anymore.
I did some googling, and their current list of "issues" is a
bit pathetic.
Men die more? Medical research data focuses on men, so women are often over-prescribed medications due to having smaller bodies, and womens medical conditions are sometimes just not studied at all. I wonder how many women die due to this data bias. I can't see men dying "more" when this fact exists. Men are the more violent sex, so it makes sense they are more likely to off themselves earlier by accidents or intentionally or die earlier due to stress. I guess
that is a fair point, but what are they doing to socially condition men to be less violent and more mentally stable? Please, I am all in support of that.
Homeless men? Fair, no one should be homeless in countries with a high GDP, even the ex cons and disabled vets. The comparison to women does worry me though, because women are more likely to stay in violent domestic situations or prostitute themselves to avoid being homeless.
Unwanted children? So they want to force women they impregnate to be their surrogate? No, fuck off, that is just rapey. Pro-life people are nuts. A zygote is not a child and "God" aborts more zygotes naturally than all the women who get abortions combined.
Maybe Reddit has more of a cohesive list, but I don't want to venture there today. Wonder if that subreddit even still exists...
Why don't they try to support proper socialization of boys and encourage healthier and richer boyhoods for men? If they are so worried about men dying early of suicide, socialize their children and young men in healthy ways so they don't grow up to shoot themselves or a school. There have been books written on this topic, so maybe someone in that movement is still trying.
Anyways, to bring to back to the topic of the thread, what I am curious about is: how many of the modern-day troons were previous MRA activists, now gleefully twirling their hair sheltered under feminism's wings?
Also I came across a book called Invisible Women, and in the comments on Goodreads some idiot gave it 2-stars and claimed it was transphobic for not mentioning any data on trans people and focusing on women (which was the
entire point of the book - that women are invisible due to the data bias favoring men). Infuriating.