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49. Here's my take on the whole "MRA" issue...

For starters, I have neither the time, nor energy, nor inclination to "join", or otherwise align myself with any particular advocacy groups. Being a wage-slave, a husband and a father takes up pretty much any time I might have for that kind of thing. (Aside from the occasional recreational mushroom foraging, or shellfish harvesting..). That being said, it seems some folks here have latched onto the term "MRA", and - while misrepresenting what that SPLC actually said about them - use it as a cudgel, in shorthand, to dismiss any position which challenges their own firmly held ideology. While it seems that many of the more prominent (at least online) MRAs espouse some abjectly ridiculous shit, I do prefer to remember that even the SPLC agrees that "not all grievances they air on their websites – false rape accusations, ruinous divorce settlements and the like – are all without merit." Ultimately, I prefer to examine and discuss issues as an individual, on an individual basis. Regardless of whether some knuckle-dragging jackknobs are also championing the same issues on some barely-read, fringe website.