Gravlen wrote:Fartsniffage wrote:I honestly don't remember the last time I was told by anyone to man up.
I'd really like to see some examples of that. On the few occasions I've perused MRA forums of site, I've seen quite prodigious use of the word "fag".
Relevant:
Aurora Novus wrote:"I would rather not see these kinds of "gay, redpill, and proud" posts. Masculinity is in part defined by our attraction to the feminine. If your preference is to be a man-pleaser then you're not expressing any kind of masculinity that's worth celebrating."By the time I got to this point in part 3, I was more than won over. Jesus fucking christ. I guess because I don't hang around these groups I was only ever exposed to their more intellectual sides. I never knew this kind of shit was going on in the deeper communities.
Do you know who spends more time attacking gay men than MRAs?
Feminists. Ranging from feminists who fetishize gay men but are tired of not getting special treatment at gay bars, feminists who think drag queens are evil "appropriation" of femininity (or should be treated as being sexist in the same way that minstrel shows are treated as racists), all the way down to feminists who, like the Redstockings of yore, think that male homosexuality itself is an expression of misogyny.
The Reddit r/MensRights group has a slightly larger than usual population of vocal gay men, and then an incredibly disproportionately large number of male bisexuals (a vanishingly rare species in the outside world). AVFM - which, like it or not, is one of the main other focal points for the MRM - has a position on gay men, bisexual men, transmen, asexual men, queer men, et cetera that can be summarized as "All these men really have the same interests (and feminists hate you)." The men's rights community and the gay community together are the most passionate segment of the "intactivist" movement looking to classify male circumcision as genital mutilation (and accordingly banned as a procedure to be performed on children).
Not all
anti-feminists are in the same boat, but for the most part, opposition to male homosexuality within the modern men's rights movement occupies a similar position to opposition to lesbianism within the feminist movement of the 1970s - really not particularly mainstream and generally on the losing side of the fight within the movement.