[Wamvan] Thoughts on Men's Rights Activists (MRAs) in Vancouver/Canada?

[Joanna Chiu]

Hey WAM peeps,

A Men's Rights group recently did some poster campaigns in Vancouver.
http://masculism.ca/blog/vancouver-mra-hits-the-streets/

For those who haven't heard about MRA's before, these Urban Dictionary
definitions are actually quite accurate:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mra

Are there any feminist individuals or groups in Vancouver that are actively
resisting against them? Would really like to know. I might write about this
for my next Herizons' column, and a journalism student from Langara asked
me if WAM! members had any comments for an article she's writing on MRA's.

More info on the posters in Vancouver. Some had been torn down.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/09/10/mens-rights-posters-vancouver_n_1871526.html


Here are the journalist's questions below but please comment on whatever
you find pertinent.

Thanks,

Joanna


1. Have you encountered/had any experience with the men's rights movement?

2. What is your perception of men's rights activists?

3. Men's rights activists have many qualms with the feminist movement. One
thing is, the men's rights movement does not believe that, historically,
the scales of power have been tipped away from women, and that society is
not a patriarchy. As a feminist, what would your response to that be?

4. On issues such as reproductive rights, one of the men's rights activists
I spoke with said that it was an issue of religious beliefs and not a "war
on women." Do you agree/disagree? Why?

5. Have women achieved equal status in society?

6. Why do you believe feminism is still relevant?

7. I asked a men's rights activist about the over-sexualization of women in
the media, the madonna/whore dichotomy, and his thoughts were: it's not
only society's exploitation of female sexuality, but women exploiting the
sexual power they hold over men. I am curious to hear your thoughts on this.

8. What would you say to anyone who views feminism as an attack on men's
liberties?

9. Can you point to a point in history, from past to present, when women
have held more power than men?

10. Do you think the feminist movement is threatened by the men's rights
movement?


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