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Men and women have different advantages and disadvantages in life. Men's Rights groups, while it's true that they are often filled with men who have gotten burned in divorces and child-custody battles (and therefore biased and angry), they do actually have a point with regard to certain issues. It's nice and easy to pretend that men have all these advantages over women and no disadvantages, but that's simply not the case. For example, did you know that in France and Germany it is illegal for a man to test the paternity of his children? Courts have ruled that it might cause a man to find out that "his children" aren't actually his biological children, and therefore abandon his wife and the children that aren't his. France and Germany decided they don't want that to happen, so men who attempt to get paternity tests on their children can be thrown in prison and hit with a fine. Men commit suicide at four times the rate of women. Men are the victims of 80% of homicides. Men are far more likely to suffer workplace fatalities. Studies have shown that men get prison sentences 60% longer than women for the same crime, and women are much more likely to serve no time at all in prison after being convicted of a crime ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... ). Men who are victims of domestic abuse or rape are taken much less seriously than women. Men are far more likely to end up homeless than women. Men are scared of the idea pushed forward by feminist groups that, when it comes to sexual assault, you should always believe the woman rather than giving due process and trying to get the facts.

There's a variety of bad feminist statistics which serve to help reinforce the "female victim" status, but it's annoying when you find out that it's not the truth. Some articles to read:
"Economist’s Glass Ceiling Index Distorts Reality" - an example of biased reporting about women's equality in the workplace http://www.feministcritics.org...
"When Is 19 More Than 940?" - regarding workplace deaths, where the white-latino gap is talked about but the male-female gap is ignored http://www.feministcritics.org...
"Yet Another Example Where Equality Isn’t Equality" - An example of biased lifespan data being used to paint women as oppressed - http://www.feministcritics.org...
"More Workplace Gender Lies From HuffPo" - regarding workplace deaths, where HuffPo pretends that women die as often as men on the job: http://www.feministcritics.org...

TLDR: It's silly to say that men have the best of everything in life.

Men and women have different advantages and disadvantages in life. Men's Rights groups, while it's true that they are often filled with men who have gotten burned in divorces and child-custody battles (and therefore biased and angry), they do actually have a point with regard to certain issues. It's nice and easy to pretend that men have all these advantages over women and no disadvantages, but that's simply not the case. For example, did you know that in France and Germany it is illegal for a man to test the paternity of his children? Courts have ruled that it might cause a man to find out that "his children" aren't actually his biological children, and therefore abandon his wife and the children that aren't his. France and Germany decided they don't want that to happen, so men who attempt to get paternity tests on their children can be thrown in prison and hit with a fine. Men commit suicide at four times the rate of women. Men are the victims of 80% of homicides. Men are far more likely to suffer workplace fatalities. Studies have shown that men get prison sentences 60% longer than women for the same crime, and women are much more likely to serve no time at all in prison after being convicted of a crime ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... ). Men who are victims of domestic abuse or rape are taken much less seriously than women. Men are far more likely to end up homeless than women. Men are scared of the idea pushed forward by feminist groups that, when it comes to sexual assault, you should always believe the woman rather than giving due process and trying to get the facts.

There's a variety of bad feminist statistics which serve to help reinforce the "female victim" status, but it's annoying when you find out that it's not the truth. Some articles to read:
"Economist’s Glass Ceiling Index Distorts Reality" - an example of biased reporting about women's equality in the workplace http://www.feministcritics.org...
"When Is 19 More Than 940?" - regarding workplace deaths, where the white-latino gap is talked about but the male-female gap is ignored http://www.feministcritics.org...
"Yet Another Example Where Equality Isn’t Equality" - An example of biased lifespan data being used to paint women as oppressed - http://www.feministcritics.org...
"More Workplace Gender Lies From HuffPo" - regarding workplace deaths, where HuffPo pretends that women die as often as men on the job: http://www.feministcritics.org...

TLDR: It's silly to say that men have the best of everything in life.

Men and women have different advantages and disadvantages in life. Men's Rights groups, while it's true that they are often filled with men who have gotten burned in divorces and child-custody battles (and therefore biased and angry), they do actually have a point with regard to certain issues. It's nice and easy to pretend that men have all these advantages over women and no disadvantages, but that's simply not the case. For example, did you know that in France and Germany it is illegal for a man to test the paternity of his children? Courts have ruled that it might cause a man to find out that "his children" aren't actually his biological children, and therefore abandon his wife and the children that aren't his. France and Germany decided they don't want that to happen, so men who attempt to get paternity tests on their children can be thrown in prison and hit with a fine. Men commit suicide at four times the rate of women. Men are the victims of 80% of homicides. Men are far more likely to suffer workplace fatalities. Studies have shown that men get prison sentences 60% longer than women for the same crime, and women are much more likely to serve no time at all in prison after being convicted of a crime ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... ). Men who are victims of domestic abuse or rape are taken much less seriously than women. Men are far more likely to end up homeless than women. Men are scared of the idea pushed forward by feminist groups that, when it comes to sexual assault, you should always believe the woman rather than giving due process and trying to get the facts.

There's a variety of bad feminist statistics which serve to help reinforce the "female victim" status, but it's annoying when you find out that it's not the truth. Some articles to read:
"Economist’s Glass Ceiling Index Distorts Reality" - an example of biased reporting about women's equality in the workplace http://www.feministcritics.org...
"When Is 19 More Than 940?" - regarding workplace deaths, where the white-latino gap is talked about but the male-female gap is ignored http://www.feministcritics.org...
"Yet Another Example Where Equality Isn’t Equality" - An example of biased lifespan data being used to paint women as oppressed - http://www.feministcritics.org...
"More Workplace Gender Lies From HuffPo" - regarding workplace deaths, where HuffPo pretends that women die as often as men on the job: http://www.feministcritics.org...

TLDR: It's silly to say that men have the best of everything in life.

Men and women have different advantages and disadvantages in life. Men's Rights groups, while it's true that they are often filled with men who have gotten burned in divorces and child-custody battles (and therefore biased and angry), they do actually have a point with regard to certain issues. It's nice and easy to pretend that men have all these advantages over women and no disadvantages, but that's simply not the case. For example, did you know that in France and Germany it is illegal for a man to test the paternity of his children? Courts have ruled that it might cause a man to find out that "his children" aren't actually his biological children, and therefore abandon his wife and the children that aren't his. France and Germany decided they don't want that to happen, so men who attempt to get paternity tests on their children can be thrown in prison and hit with a fine. Men commit suicide at four times the rate of women. Men are the victims of 80% of homicides. Men are far more likely to suffer workplace fatalities. Studies have shown that men get prison sentences 60% longer than women for the same crime, and women are much more likely to serve no time at all in prison after being convicted of a crime ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... ). Men who are victims of domestic abuse or rape are taken much less seriously than women. Men are far more likely to end up homeless than women. Men are scared of the idea pushed forward by feminist groups that, when it comes to sexual assault, you should always believe the woman rather than giving due process and trying to get the facts.

There's a variety of bad feminist statistics which serve to help reinforce the "female victim" status, but it's annoying when you find out that it's not the truth. Some articles to read:
"Economist’s Glass Ceiling Index Distorts Reality" - an example of biased reporting about women's equality in the workplace http://www.feministcritics.org...
"When Is 19 More Than 940?" - regarding workplace deaths, where the white-latino gap is talked about but the male-female gap is ignored http://www.feministcritics.org...
"Yet Another Example Where Equality Isn’t Equality" - An example of biased lifespan data being used to paint women as oppressed - http://www.feministcritics.org...
"More Workplace Gender Lies From HuffPo" - regarding workplace deaths, where HuffPo pretends that women die as often as men on the job: http://www.feministcritics.org...

TLDR: It's silly to say that men have the best of everything in life.

1. There is no such thing as 'rape culture' or 'patriarchy.' In any other circumstance we'd view this kind of thinking as conspiracy.

I believe you're interpreting the terms "rape culture" and "patriarchy" as implying that there's an organization controlling or promoting them, yes? Hence the reference to conspiracies.

There's no such implication. The Internet has a culture of trolling, but that doesn't imply that there's some Trollmaster behind it all. That our society normalizes sexual assault doesn't mean that there's some group of people encouraging it.

Our society treats rape as worse than murder, you ignorant fool. There is no rape culture. Look at this thread, about concern over women victims when male murder victims are ignored. 90% of violent crimes are committed against MEN, it's only news when it happens to women because it's actually fucking rare, and when it does we blow our gaskets over it. That's not "normalization" of violence against women, let alone rape.

2. Enough of the victimhood bullshit. I tire of being labeled an 'oppressor' because of my sex or my skin tone. Don't tell me to check my privilege.

This seems to have nothing to do with the article. Chu never called you an oppressor.

Misogyny is what? Hatred of WOMEN, hence claiming that there is a prevalence of women being victimized by hatred, despite any peer reviewed empirical evidence of rampant hatred towards women. Why isn't there any? Because the social justice brigade doesn't need evidence, they just need a narrative and a witch to hunt. Google: "White Cis Gendered Male Privilege" -- Who are said to be the ones doing the "normalization" and "perpetuation" of this hatred and oppression of women. Chu is calling all male nerds tolerant of women hating, when that's the opposite of what nerds are.

3. That 1/6 ratio is bullshit. If that were true, police stations around the country would be inundated with complaints of rape. That's not the case... Quit lying about them too. One out of six men are NOT rapists. Chu must have a crazy self loathing complex to write what he did.

... you know that none of that is actually in the article, and you're really just making stuff up, right? Here's the quote:

We’re not the ones where one out of six of us will have someone violently attempt to take control of our bodies in our lifetimes.

Does that say that "one out of six men are rapists"? Does it even say that one in six women are "raped"? Even if it did, what tremendous leap of logic did you perform to assume that if 16% of women are raped, then 16% of men must be rapists, because rapists only ever commit one rape or something? In fact, did you just see the words "one out of six" and flip out without reading the rest of the sentence?

I agree. It's a majority of people who are rapists doing repeat rapes. Same for violence. Same for hatred. So, why are we castigating entire demographics: "Misogyny, Entitlement and Nerds", or "Teach men not to rape" -- The latter is not in the article, but the point is all this shit is germane to its discussion. Stop trying to dismiss the points: A pigeon hole isn't a counter argument.

The 1/6 and 1/4, etc. rape figures are completely bogus. They were fabricated by a deliberately deceptive, biased, and hateful bigot named: Marry P. Koss

You sure on the numbers of women raping men? Even major reports redefine rape to exclude "being made to penetrate". Since the report doesn't include offender data, it's impossible to say how many of those rapes were committed by women, but it's likely that sort of poor definition is used elsewhere. Women are still far more likely to be victimized, but it's just plain wrong to say it women don't rape men in measurable numbers.

Well, I need to at least partially withdraw my argument. Here is at least one post critiquing the city journal article, along with the preceding blog post.. Having the actual questions posted, I have to agree that except possibly for the alcohol question, this particular study wasn't nearly as suspect as presented. However, the alcohol questions are pretty big, since "I got drunk and changed my mind" is vastly different from "I got drunk and passed out". I also don't see where Koss claimed 1 in 4... but it could be that the city journal article referred to a different survey by Koss.