Sampling bias. The reason you never knew the people who would have regretted surviving is because they took steps to make sure they wouldn't survive. I'm not waking up in a hospital with people staring at me.

You should stay alive because I am entertained by your presence and I would be sad if you left, and you make other people happy."

Spoken like a true rich white christian man.

> This is a part of the prejudice we face as MRAs. People assume that because men have traditionally been "on top" in society, we somehow cannot be oppressed by patriarchal norms and traditional gender roles/stereotypes.

This may or may not work depending on how bad your phobia is.

It's strange to hear that necessary tools for success include a lifelong friend and a spouse. My brain should've probably got that memo before developing mental illness.

Part of what I hate so much about the MRM is that it is a quest for men's RIGHTS. What rights as a citizen of America have men had to fight for? If you are interested in starting a progressive movement with the goal of equality for all genders, I would start with a different name, seeing as the majority of jackasses…

My mistake, poor choice of words.

I know exactly how female genitalia operate, and why female circumcision is a pretty horrid thing to do to someone. That still doesn't make it permissible for doctors to advocate for cosmetic surgery on an infant for christ sake. My point is we should be against genital modification for both genders, and not try to…

Yeah, I'm sure my sarcasm was pretty clear, but whatever.

BUT IT'S THE CLITORIS GUYS!! THE CLITORIS!

Yes, but most FGM happens in third world countries in poor conditions. This doesn't happen in first-world USA where doctors advise parents to 'consent' to a cosmetic surgery on an infant. There's a lot of awful shit that happens in these countries, but allowing the same ideals in the US is what I find outrageous. How…

Ugh, this is like arguing that we shouldn't be outraged at the Steubenville boys because they just 'fingered' her, and didn't 'really rape' her. So don't expect me to be outraged to the same degree as an actual rape. I mean, compared to an actual rape, fingering isn't even that bad. I don't know why those boys got…

A couple things:

Aww, poor baby. Will I make it feel better if I tell it that those things are not even close to being the same? Poor baby, I can give it money so it can rush over to those war-torn, misogynistic countries so it can tell all of those poor FGM victims that their pain is soooo much worse than what men are going through…

I'm always curious why people supposed to be for the right to bodily autonomy suddenly forsake their cause when it comes to circumcision. I wonder if those people in general seem to prefer genitalia that has had imprecise surgical alterations to it within days of birth.

Are you really trying to play the mutilation olympics with this? Just because the more common female mutilation is the removal of the clitoris does not make it more of an infringement of a child's autonomy. If I just cut off all the flappy stuff on a girls vulva, would that be excusable because it's just like male…

I don't get the big deal about female circumcision, but I don't have a vagina so I keep my goddamn mouth shut.