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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 09:56 PM
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Posted By Georgio
Just a quick note to say thanks and goodbye. This...

Just a quick note to say thanks and goodbye. This thread is over now; I know from countless, soul crushingly predictable experience that as soon as a discussion is infested with tubthumping, tribal...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 09:53 PM
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Posted By Georgio
Completely agree with all that. I feel the same...

Completely agree with all that. I feel the same about Mike Buchanan; I often think, 'Do you actually want anyone to get a different impression of the MRM than the feminists try to make it out to be?...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 08:53 AM
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Posted By Georgio
How do you know? You've just proved that you...

How do you know? You've just proved that you don't know the first thing about A Voice For Men.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 08:51 AM
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Posted By Georgio
No, it wasn't a 'joke', it was meant to prove a...

No, it wasn't a 'joke', it was meant to prove a point. Which it did, as you have just shown. Nobody cares when women hit their partners; nobody cares when women congratulate each other on hitting...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 08:31 AM
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Posted By Georgio
Deep breath. Deep breath. That was a parody...

Deep breath. Deep breath.

That was a parody article in direct response to an unironic Jezebel article actively lauding its readers and writers for hitting their boyfriends and husbands. Paul Elam...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 08:26 AM
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Posted By Georgio
'Anti-feminist' is not a synonym for 'wrong'. And...

'Anti-feminist' is not a synonym for 'wrong'. And I have explained to you about seven million times now how feminism is actively causing a huge number of men's issues so it is completely logical that...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 08:18 AM
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Posted By Georgio
I've just now decided to class feminism as a...

I've just now decided to class feminism as a 'hate group'. Perhaps you would like to tell me how that has any more or less authority behind it than the SPLC's classing of A Voice For Men as a hate...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 07:45 AM
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Posted By Georgio
You had absolutely no idea who they were until...

You had absolutely no idea who they were until you googled them today. You proved this by using the present tense to describe Earl Silverman and making out that lectures by the person who set up the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 07:40 AM
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Posted By Georgio
Many have contended that the earth in flat. You...

Many have contended that the earth in flat. You have consistently argued from your own profound ignorance of the movement and regarding these 'misogynistic lies and tropes' that MRAs apparently...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 07:36 AM
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Posted By Georgio
Because it wasn't an open market of ideas. What...

Because it wasn't an open market of ideas. What statistics were and weren't allowed onto government websites was decided by a single 'Women's Issues' politician in Canada, then that very same...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 07:23 AM
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Posted By Georgio
I'll just leave that there and, in the context of...

I'll just leave that there and, in the context of your other posts, let people reading decide for themselves whether you deserve to be insulted or not.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 07:22 AM
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Posted By Georgio
It is never right to blame feminism for anything...

It is never right to blame feminism for anything :rolleyes:
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 07:20 AM
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Posted By Georgio
Oh my good God. Have you clicked on any of the...

Oh my good God. Have you clicked on any of the links I've provided? The Duluth Model, which is the most commonly adopted in domestic violence 'treatment' programs and that is directly based on...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 06:42 AM
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Posted By Georgio
Don't you dare talk about what is and isn't...

Don't you dare talk about what is and isn't needed most; you know precisely zero about this subject.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 06:39 AM
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Posted By Georgio
Like Earl Silverman did? And why would a...

Like Earl Silverman did?

And why would a weekly lecture by the world's foremost expert on domestic violence and who set up the very first domestic violence shelter in the entire world be a bad...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 06:35 AM
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Posted By Georgio
I've just looked at that site and you aren't just...

I've just looked at that site and you aren't just ignorant you are actively cherry picking data. Everybody should go to that site and read the full list of statistics and come to their own...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 06:25 AM
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Posted By Georgio
No, those statistics are based on a provably...

No, those statistics are based on a provably false model that ignores male victims and reclassifies them as perpetrators, as was outlined in the Erin Pizzey article I linked.

You know nothing...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 06:24 AM
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Posted By Georgio
That site uses the Duluth 'Power and Control...

That site uses the Duluth 'Power and Control Wheel' which does not allow for male victims at all. I'm amazed it wasn't 5 out of 5 since whenever a man is a victim of DV under this model, it simply...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 06:21 AM
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Posted By Georgio
I was asking the person who brought up deadliness...

I was asking the person who brought up deadliness of the violence as a deciding factor regarding distribution of resources what they thought of that idea.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 05:57 AM
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Posted By Georgio
OK, so how about one third of shelters being for...

OK, so how about one third of shelters being for men?
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 05:47 AM
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Posted By Georgio
Citation, please. ETA: And that's no...

Citation, please.

ETA: And that's no argument for refusing entry to shelters to men regardless of the severity of injuries. A man can't go to a shelter even if he has the most severe injuries. The...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 05:46 AM
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Posted By Georgio
Well, it would appear not, wouldn't it since you...

Well, it would appear not, wouldn't it since you are behaving precisely as people behave there.

And anger is quite an appropriate response to the current situation, especially regarding domestic...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 05:10 AM
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Posted By Georgio
How do you know the behaviour is toxic if you...

How do you know the behaviour is toxic if you haven't looked into it yourself? (see below). Again, thanks for comprehensively proving my point about ideologues.



Well done, you. You are now in...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 04:26 AM
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Posted By Georgio
'He's'? Present tense is it? Oh, you really know...

'He's'? Present tense is it? Oh, you really know your stuff, don't you? :D

And, well, what else could it be? We know feminism can never be wrong; we know feminists can never do anything wrong and...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 03:37 AM
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Posted By Georgio
Yes, he was: ...

Yes, he was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt5BRcsOyy0

but even if he hadn't been, his shelter was denied funding despite the overwhelming consensus among researchers that men are almost as...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 22nd April 2019, 12:20 AM
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Posted By Georgio
Yes, IF here are issues with how they're run,...

Yes, IF here are issues with how they're run, such as Earl Silverman's 'misogyny' :D

Notice that he hasn't given a single example of Silverman's 'misogyny'. This is standard practise for his type...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th April 2019, 09:31 PM
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Posted By Georgio
Good catch. I'd misremembered, it was more of a...

Good catch. I'd misremembered, it was more of a Kafkaesque process by the Canadian government. Karen Straughan explains in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt5BRcsOyy0

it was more...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th April 2019, 09:01 PM
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Posted By Georgio
I am :rolleyes:

I am :rolleyes:
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th April 2019, 08:48 PM
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Posted By Georgio
Re: The Suffragettes - I've transcribed a very...

Re: The Suffragettes - I've transcribed a very good video on their history. I would ask the moderators to please not delete this; although the video in question has subtitles, the narrator has a...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th April 2019, 08:43 PM
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Posted By Georgio
How about this: look into the movement yourself...

How about this: look into the movement yourself and come to your own conclusions.

If you do this you may find interviews with Justin Trottier who is setting up men's counselling and domestic...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th April 2019, 01:25 PM
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Posted By Georgio
Could you provide a brief summary as to what your...

Could you provide a brief summary as to what your knowledge of that history is, please?
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th April 2019, 01:06 PM
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Posted By Georgio
Why? That's the bit I can't understand. Why the...

Why? That's the bit I can't understand. Why the attachment to that word when the more you actually look into the subject, the more you realise it isn't what you thought it was or believe?

It comes...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th April 2019, 01:04 PM
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Posted By Georgio
The problem with that being that as soon as you...

The problem with that being that as soon as you point out a men's issue you are told that you are opposing feminism and therefore opposing equality, and if you say you are not opposing feminism then...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th April 2019, 12:55 PM
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Posted By Georgio
But is it your responsibility to distance...

But is it your responsibility to distance yourself from them or my responsibility to know the difference since you both call yourself the same thing? I would argue that since you both call yourself...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th April 2019, 12:53 PM
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Posted By Georgio
Who is using it as a shield to downplay false...

Who is using it as a shield to downplay false accusations of rape and pretend they are rare, and as a stick to beat her political opponents with.

I would link to Jess Phillips openly laughing...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th April 2019, 12:44 PM
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Posted By Georgio
http://web.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm ...

http://web.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm



(Linked about 8 times now. A data set of over 300 papers with a strong consilience on the fact that you are talking absolute bollocks.)

You have a...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th April 2019, 12:39 PM
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Posted By Georgio
Who are you talking about, feminists or MRAs? Or...

Who are you talking about, feminists or MRAs? Or both?

The radical feminists and the feminist lobby groups causing all these problems are all in the same bucket as the 'dictionary definition...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 16th April 2019, 02:30 PM
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Posted By Georgio
I'll retract that and rephrase; people have...

I'll retract that and rephrase; people have argued that this 'Dictionary Definition Feminism' somehow trumps the entire canon of feminist literature and feminist lobbying groups and terrorist groups...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 16th April 2019, 02:23 PM
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Posted By Georgio
I can't imagine how you have got that impression...

I can't imagine how you have got that impression from my posts. Saying that people who call themselves feminists are mistakenly equating feminism with egalitarianism based on complete ignorance of...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 16th April 2019, 01:15 PM
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Posted By Georgio
Fair point, but surely you can understand that...

Fair point, but surely you can understand that that type of horrific language is a very common feature of people lashing out at a society that has taken every opportunity to tell them how worthless...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 16th April 2019, 12:51 PM
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Posted By Georgio
Well, that's fine. But what if, as almost...

Well, that's fine. But what if, as almost uniformly happens and has happened repeatedly on this forum to me, you are then told that this 'modern self identified feminism' is the only feminism that...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 16th April 2019, 11:34 AM
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Posted By Georgio
You mean telling the truth? You sound like a...

You mean telling the truth? You sound like a politician. I'm less interested in getting as many people as possible to call themselves men's rights activists than I am in presenting the true situation...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 16th April 2019, 11:18 AM
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Posted By Georgio
I would come down on it like a ton of ****. I...

I would come down on it like a ton of ****. I would say, 'What in all kinds of **** are you idiots doing? This is exactly what we are supposed to be against - controlling the conversation so that...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 15th April 2019, 09:13 PM
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Posted By Georgio
When MRAs attempt to implement these solutions...

When MRAs attempt to implement these solutions they are shut down by feminist lobbyists and protesters (Earl Silverman, Justin Trottier, Erin Pizzey). When MRAs try to meet to discuss these issues...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 15th April 2019, 05:49 PM
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Posted By Georgio
Certainly not in the case of domestic violence...

Certainly not in the case of domestic violence since, and I'm sorry if you don't like this, everything that's horrifically wrong about the current domestic violence 'treatment' is a direct result of...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 15th April 2019, 01:28 PM
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Posted By Georgio
It's also really, really easy for a woman to make...

It's also really, really easy for a woman to make a false accusation of domestic violence and be believed, after which all bets are off regarding such asset protection.

I may be remembering this...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 15th April 2019, 10:00 AM
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Posted By Georgio
Agreed. And how on earth is it not equally the...

Agreed. And how on earth is it not equally the case for non-whites? Did I miss the meeting where we agreed it was illegal for a black person to happen to have only black friends and acquaintances?
...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 15th April 2019, 09:29 AM
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Posted By Georgio
What lies?

What lies?
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 15th April 2019, 09:28 AM
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Posted By Georgio
"Do whatever you like; talk about whatever you...

"Do whatever you like; talk about whatever you like, so long as it doesn't oppose feminism"

I can't be the only one who is absolutely terrified by this sentiment. It has echoes of the medieval...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 15th April 2019, 09:23 AM
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Posted By Georgio
Incels, PUAs and traditional conservatives...

Incels, PUAs and traditional conservatives really. They all see a man's worth as being defined by his sex life and his deference to women. Their fundamental philosophies are incompatible with the...
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