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As anyone who comments here knows, I like to be as hands-off as possible with comment moderation, and I don't censor people for disagreeing with me. But I will be more aggressive in the future in dealing with those who seem more interested in disrupting or monologuing than discussing, and those who repeatedly misrepresent what others say.
What about the litany of false allegations and insinuations about abuse and rape thats directed against the politically incorrect group David?
ReplyDeleteWell I hope this new moderation policy will also apply for comments from feminists against MRAs.
ReplyDeleteOne of them was calling me recently 'liar, full of shit, hypocrite' ...
So feminsts not "winning" enough arguments so time to change the rules again, eh David?
ReplyDeleteRandom Brother
David, out of innocent curiosity how many feminist comments have you deleted? I can't help but notice that feminists will often post personal attacks, but your eyes seem to have a disease of some sort - you miss them!
ReplyDeleteAdditionally, you claim that posters can't put "words in other people's mouths." Are you aware that you very selectively screen out what you choose to represent the entire Men's Rights Movement, filtering anything which does not fit your feminist paradigm?
I'd really appreciate if you didn't just make some petty excuse like "I complained about one comment, we're beyond done, etc." The problem with the feminist movement is that it's so closed and private to any form of open, unbiased discussion. That conduct is much of what fuels a lot of the vitriol against feminism and its beneficiaries, the results benefiting nobody.
I don't delete many posts. The vast majority of those I HAVE deleted have been spam posts from one person containing the word "cunt." Beyond that I have only deleted a small number of posts containing offensive personal attacks and/or slurs. And one today that was an attack based on a blatant falsehood.
ReplyDeleteAs of right now, there are 2696 comments on my blog, most of them, I believe, from MRAs. Aside from the dozens of comments from the spammer I mentioned, and a couple of special cases (Paul Elam, who has banned me on his blog, and one other blogger who has reposted things of mine without permission), I have deleted perhaps a dozen comments in all. You can calculate the percentage yourself.
Most of the deleted posts contained the words "cunt" and/or "faggot," or other slurs, and/or obscene, vicious personal attacks. Not just personal attacks. I generally let those stand, regardless of who posts them, so long as they are not obscene, vicious, full of slurs, etc.
So far none of the dozen non-spam comments I've deleted have come from feminists. Why? Because no feminist here has ever posted anything as obscene or vicious as the comments I have deleted.
I have WARNED feminists and anti-feminists alike about personal attacks and other things that could get their comments deleted, and in most cases people have backed off and I haven't had to delete anything.
Just to clarify: I have deleted ONE comment from Elam. The comments he posted here before he banned from his blog still stand. (He, meanwhile, puts all the comments he doesn't like on a special "feminists and manginas" page.)
ReplyDeleteDavid, where do you stand on the women here that keep falling back on false allegations about rape and/or abuse?
ReplyDelete@Yohan
ReplyDeleteYou've called me several names, including a pathological liar. It's not a slur if it's true, isn't that what you said to me? And you have been hypocritical and delibrately lied.
Also, the previous comment policy clearly stated that calling someone out on their BS e.g. an idiot, liar, etc. was okay, as long as you didn't call them a fag or cunt or otherwise. In fact, the new comment policy doesn't seem to have revoked this either. Delibrate misrepresentation of what someone has said is wholely different than direct quotations that illustrate hypocrisy and lying.....
IOW, you want to be able to dish it out, but can't take any of it yourself.... In that case, you can always go back to MGTOW and the spearhead and other MPA sites where your beliefs and comments won't be challenged instead of trolling this particular feminist blog.
@David
I always try to follow the comment policy and will continue to do so with the new rules. :)
See now Tec thinks she is exempt on being modded for using allegations about rape and abuse as her default argument and will be protected from being called out when she is telling lies about people.
ReplyDeleteYohan, calling someone "full of shit" or "hypocrite" or "liar" is harsh rhetoric, but I'm not going to delete comments for that. You can call people "full of shit" or "hypocrite" or "liar" if you want.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, if I were to delete every comment in which someone called someone else a liar, I'd have to delete the comment from Eoghan immediately before yours.
That said, if someone says "you lied about this specific thing," and their claim about what you said is clearly factually incorrect, I'll delete those comments. (I won't go back and delete past comments, but anything in the future along these lines I will.)
I can't fact-check every comment everyone makes on this blog. But if someone makes a specific claim about something you've said that you can show (or that I can see) is demonstrably false, tell me about it, and I will delete the comment. (I'm not going to go back and delete old comments, but this applies to anything posted since I changed the comment policy.)
And of course if someone escalates beyond basic rhetorical stuff like "full of shit" into harsh, nasty personal attacks, I will delete those comments too.
Eoghan: I'm not going to fact-check every comment. If in the future you can cite specific claims made by feminists here about SOMETHING SOMEONE ELSE HERE SAID that are false, I will delete those comments.
General statements about MRAs, feminists, etc don't count. People are free to make generalizations about groups of people. You are as well, and you certainly do it often enough.
Eoghan: you say "Tec thinks she is exempt on being modded for using allegations about rape and abuse as her default argument and will be protected from being called out when she is telling lies about people."
ReplyDeleteGive me specific examples.
Your comment makes a specific claim about what she said, and if you can't beck it up, guess what -- YOUR COMMENT falls afoul of the new guidelines. I won't delete it, but any comments you make along these lines in the future about a specific person will be deleted, unless you can cite specific examples of them doing that.
This of course applies to anyone (feminists too) if they make this kind of claim about a specific person without backing it up with specific evidence.
TEC: @Yohan
ReplyDeleteYou've called me several names, including a pathological liar. It's not a slur if it's true, isn't that what you said to me?
No, I did never say that. Maybe Eoghan?
I am YOHAN, a different person, and I said several times I do not know, who is Eoghan.
David, tec routinely insinuates that other posters are pro rape and abuse, its all over the board.
ReplyDeleteA problem with your policy here is that the first port of call for many feminists in debates with mens rights people is to allege and insinuate that they are pro abuse, pro rape and have an irrational desire to control women under the threat of violence, this new policy of yours has been generated by my response to a feminist publishing her beliefs about american men wanting to control foreign women, for example.
In order for you run this fairly, you will have to mod feminists more than the mens rights people as the mens rights people have a different debating style.
Miranda yesterday for example, here argument with me was based on misrepresenting and it devolved into her making allegations of abuse, claims that women were hiding because of harassment, sexual slurs and comments about physical appearance, and its still up.
Eoghan, I'm not going to dig up old posts of Tec's. If you want to continue making these claims about her, YOU have to provide specific evidence.
ReplyDeleteSame with Miranda. Did she make these claims about specific commenters here? Give me links to the comments.
Yohan
ReplyDeleteI called Tec a pathological liar for repeatedly re framing others comments and misrepresenting them as pro abuse, pro rape, rape apology and so on.
David here is some of miranda's contribution from yesterday,
ReplyDeletehttp://manboobz.blogspot.com/2010/11/women-are-part-one.html
Eoghan, Miranda did not make specific claims about anyone who posts here. She made generalizations about MRAs. You make generalizations about feminists all the time, and I don't delete those comments.
ReplyDeleteOne exception: Miranda made a sort of obnoxious personal comment about Natasha, in response to a sort of obnoxious personal comment about her from Natasha. Neither of the comments were quite obnoxious enough for me to delete.
In the future, you need to cite SPECIFIC POSTS to prove your point. I'm not going to go through whole threads only to discover that your complaint had no merit to it.
Also, Eoghan, if you want to continue attacking Tec and/or other feminists who comment here, you need to provide specific examples of her and/or other feminists commenting here doing what you say she/they has/have said.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't I'm simply going to delete any future comments about feminists' alleged "false allegations about rape," as you've made your point about 7 million times already and your comments are basically devolving into spam.
I'm sorry the blog has to be moderated, but hopefully, it will cut down on the deliberate harassment some posters enjoy dishing out. I think that Eoghan needs to start his own blog that he can have control over so he will stop trying to control yours.
ReplyDeleteMiranda---> Obnoxious.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's the first time anyone's ever used that word in conjunction with me or my behavior. LOL.
Eoghan, sadly you guys are smart enough to hide behind the computer using fake personas. Otherwise I'd love to cite specifically the things you've said on the forums. (Unless of course, you go by "Eoghan" on all the forums, in which case maybe I should go back and grab some of the comments YOU'VE made so that you can then try to justify those the same as you justfiy all behavior by MRA's.) If it were one or two people making disgusting comments about women, as you guys insist it is, it would be one thing. But the hate is all over the boards, and it is right there for all to see, and sadly for you guys, most people are as disgusted by it as I am.
How's it going David? You doing okay? Life good bro? So. . .blog not quite working out the way you expected now is it?
ReplyDeleteBefore this all began, you were probably sitting back thinking, Dave old boy, if I made a blog that totally disses MRA's feminists would find me so hot! They'd be all over me! I'll just dis some of these losers and oh man, jackpot with the ladies!
Look at you now. Ah, David, going downhill already are you? You know what your mistake was Davey? Well first you got too big for your backside. You challenged Paul Elam and well. . .OUCH, MAN OUCH. It wasn't so much he crushed you under his heel, more like he literally tore you apart atom from atom. Then even worse a flood of MRA's came to your site and started figuratively slapping you and the fems around. Kind of hard to be a white knightt when you spend most of your time on the ground bleeding from the mouth.
So then you wise up and make everyone register to close the gates some and save your bruised backside from the MRA'S who were stooge slapping you all over your site. Good call.
Unfortunately, not all of the MRA's left and the ones that remain are still kicking the crud out of your "Oh mah gawd luk at teh M R A'zzzzz, aren't dey stupids gurlfrend!" posts.
So now you have to once again change policy. You know Davey, if your pro feminism arguments were so strong, they might be able to stand on their own. Nonetheless, you have to change the policy and it stinks of desperation. To that I say HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
A shame you can't develop your own sense of justice without needing a woman to pat you on the head.
You know you're eventually going to have to ban us like the coward you are, right? That or make so many rules (ones that you may threaten feminists with but only actually enforce on MRA'S) that the conversation from MRA'S is so limited (this is what your trying to do now) that the only possible outcome is MRA'S looking bad and feminists looking good. Which honestly is how most feminists operate.
So, Davey, go for it! Make some more changes. Keep whitling away and whitling away until you can salvage some dignity, with a tainted "victory" over the "evil patriarchy." Maybe some fem will even find you hot and pat you on the head. And if you get that then it's all worthwhile, eh David?
Good boy! Good boy! Good boy!
Random Brother
I love how MRA's think they're "winning" with the stuff they write on this blog.
ReplyDelete@Christine
ReplyDeleteI define winning an argument, if that's what you're getting at, as a systematic and acceptable refutation of a statement or claim which the unbiased observer would find convincing. I agree, it shouldn't just be hosted on some feminists blog which is insures its permanency will be volatile, but some of the MRAs have sites or even just online personae to advertise. This is kind of a training ground for us to sharpen our rhetoric and debate.
I'm sorry if all that went over your head. It is a response but it's more addressed to the other MRAs and the unbiased observers on this site than to you.
@Yohan
ReplyDeleteI could have sworn it was you, and I'm not going to go back through your posts, but yeah, you're names are very similar for me so apologies if it wasn't you who called me a pathelogical liar. You have said something along the lines of it's not a slur if it's true and I have pointed out specific quotations that you wrote and denied existing and/or reading...
@Eoghan
If you post something that is pro-rape or pro-abuse, then yeah, I'm gonna point it out as being such but that's all I've ever done. So yeah, like David said, if you have the posts to prove what you say, then show them.
@Bishop
Yeah, David has torn to shreds every BS argument you MPAs have come up with, with quite a bit of style... Also, gotta love how the only way a guy could be a feminist - i.e. think of women as human beings - would be in order to get sex (of course, because women only give sex, not for their own sexual gratification, but to control men.) *eye rolls Out of curiousity, does everything a man does boil down to sex? Or is that just a consequence of the Two Rules of Desire meme? Of course, if you think women are human beings or that men are human beings, you don't believe BS like the Two Rules of Desire...
should be your names
ReplyDeletePrime example above of a feminist making false allegations about rape and abuse, its par for course with some of these people, american feminism has moved on since its days of racial hygiene and the wkkk, now they make false allegations about rape and abuse about all men.
ReplyDeleteGo on tec, go get the posts where you went and misrepresented people as being pro abuse and rape.
So, Bishop or Random or whatever your fake name is,
ReplyDeleteHow's it going with the whole growing-the-movement thing?
Not so great, huh? You guys have been at it for, what, ten years, give or take a few? And you still have only a couple thousand worldwide who are crazy enough to identify with the whole movement?
Yikes.....sounds like someone needs to tend to their backyard before making a fool of himself trying to disparage someone else.
Eh, oh well.....you guys will see it for the failure it is in another year or so, and will scrap it and go back to the drawing board AGAIN to see if maybe you canm frame it in a way that will actually interest other men.
Sadly, what you guys continue to FAIL to realize is that normal men do not THINK the way you all do.
So you can come here all you want and try to make David look the fool, but the truth is that....well, why don't you finish that sentence for me. Poor, delusional man.
I define winning an argument, if that's what you're getting at, as a systematic and acceptable refutation of a statement or claim which the unbiased observer would find convincing.
ReplyDeleteIR, no offense, but as something of an "unbiased observer" m'self--I don't think I can be called an MRA or a feminist--I at least haven't really found the arguments of MRAs here to be all that convincing. Despite having a few constructive exchanges with several of them, namely you, Deansdale, men-factor, antifeministtech, and Schopenbecq, the time I've spent on this blog and watching the conversations here have made me considerably less sympathetic to the Men's Rights Movement than I used to be--and I started out liking the MRM somewhat more than I liked feminism.
That said, this isn't a victory for feminism either. I call myself a "vagrant" or "wanderer" because I get the feeling I don't fit in very easily in one camp or another (in this case, feminists and MRAs), and much of what Mr. Futrelle has written here has made me even leerier of feminism than I was before. Still, I myself am just a guest here, and have probably overstayed my welcome (I thought I'd have left after the Great Debate finished up, but I've since managed to stick around). Thus, I suppose I'll refrain from criticizing our host any further.
@Voice - I personally am always open to constructive criticism. Would you be willing to specify what aspects of the exchanges made you less sympathetic to the MRM?
ReplyDeleteIR,
ReplyDeleteI know you're not addressing me here, but are you REALLY open to constructive critisism? Because many of us have offered it to you guys, and you all, including you, have yet to do anything other than project and deflect.
Miranda said...
ReplyDeleteSo, Bishop or Random or whatever your fake name is,
How's it going with the whole growing-the-movement thing?
Not so great, huh? You guys have been at it for, what, ten years, give or take a few? And you still have only a couple thousand worldwide who are crazy enough to identify with the whole movement?
BTW, you are also using a fake name.
MRAs are very active now worldwide and the movement is growing. 10 years ago, the 'MRA - Men's Rights Movement' was unknown and received after an explication only a smile. - Today femininists are afraid of us, the 'female smile' is gone and replace by slander.
It depends where you are living in this world, in Germany feminists are collecting signatures demanding to change the new family law 2008 - which for the first time is in favor of men and children - the law, already with cases of precedence by the Supreme Court 2010 shows significant changes regarding alimony and child-support.
About USA, there are not so few MRAs as you think, and it seems you are pretty afraid of such movements.
Feminism is not productive and MRAs are doing everything they can to cut off financial support to such organizations.
http://www.tahirih.org/2010/09/tahirih-is-being-tested/
Dear Friends:
I write you with distressing news. For 8 years, Tahirih received a Legal Assistance for Victims grant from the Office of Violence Against Women (VAWO) at the US Department of Justice. This grant has provided critical funds ($500,000 over a two year period) to fund our direct legal services for women and girls fleeing domestic violence and sexual assault. We’ve recently received news that the grant will not be renewed this year. This was not anticipated and will have a devastating impact on our ability to serve women and girls fleeing human rights abuses.
Tahirih has never experienced the loss of such a large amount of money at one time and is being tested like never before.
Tahirih is this hateful and arrogant feminist US-organization, which masterminded the law of VAWA-IMBRA regarding internet-dating between US-men and foreign women.
@ TEC
ReplyDeleteTEC said: "Bishop
Yeah, David has torn to shreds every BS argument you MPAs have come up with, with quite a bit of style..."
If you call tearing to shreds, whining and screeching: HE CHANGED THE RULES, over and over again winning, well then I guess that's winning.
TEC said: "Also, gotta love how the only way a guy could be a feminist - i.e. think of women as human beings - would be in order to get sex (of course, because women only give sex, not for their own sexual gratification, but to control men.)"
Dear feminism does not equal thinking of women as human beings. Modern day feminism is mainly about giving women near limitless options, while crushing men's options.
TEC said: "Out of curiousity, does everything a man does boil down to sex?"
No.
Tec: "Or is that just a consequence of the Two Rules of Desire meme? Of course, if you think women are human beings or that men are human beings, you don't believe BS like the Two Rules of Desire..."
I don't know what this is.
Random Brother
@ Miranda
ReplyDeleteDear, the MRA IS growing and quite frankly it doesn't matter if you like what we say or how we say it. It doesn't matter if we have placards on walls or billboards or tv commercials, do you know why? It's because we have a built in recruiting device. Do you want to know what it is?
I'll let you in on a little secret, it's you.
Feminuts like you who pass laws that strip men of their rights and strip mine men of their assets. See right now somewhere in America, hell even in the world, there's some nice guy. He believes all of the hype about women being the gentler sex, and more compassionate,while just as smart and tough as men. In other words he's an AFC. And sooner or later Mr. Nice Guy is going to get married or have a relationship with Ms. Empowered by feminism woman, and he's going to get SCREWED.
He's going to lose money. He's going to lose face. He may even lose his freedom. And when this happens and he understands the complete indifference of the modern women in general and feminsts in particular well he's going to start wondering WTF. Eventually he'll stumble across a website or two about MRA'S and he won't look at us as "crazy" but he'll see how the puzzle fits. And while he's living in van down by the river feminuts like you will be telling him he's about his male privilege. About how bad women have it in society, and he'll know it's bull.
You'll do what you do. Call him names. Say he's a loser. Misogynist. Can't get a woman. Sneer. Snark. Call him a rapist.
Eventually he'll rebuild his life and he'll do it without the help of your kind and the value of women which he once help in high regard will completely dissipate.
The problem Miranda dear is that his real life experience combined with the objective facts about what is happening to men will overcome your lies.
And eventaully when enough men have been through the ringer, your feminist bullshit, will be put to an end.
Random Brother
Miranda you are quite wrong about the mens movement not going anywhere, and cherry picking comments on one or two sites isn't going to stop it.
ReplyDeleteRichard Dawkins on women studies "education" and bullying by anti intellectual feminism in academia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzNwjfbVt-U
Schools in UK move to end discrimination against boys in education.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzNwjfbVt-U
German family minister dismisses various feminist superstitions, german feminists respond typically with personal attack and little else
http://www.the-spearhead.com/2010/11/10/german-family-minister-slams-feminism/
Not to the mind body of evidence that completely debunks patriarchal abuse theory and many other feminist superstitions.
I cant speak for the other guys here, but I view feminists as armed with little other than their political dogma, superstition, advocacy research, revisionist history, personal attacks, slurs, false allegations of abuse, rape and teen girl relational type violence/snark and the cherry picked comments of a minority from a couple of websites. You don't have anything of real substance going for you in this debate.
David is you spam filter holding up a post of mine?
ReplyDeleteYes it was, the comment is up now.
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