The Men's Activist Movement Vindicated --Cassie Jaye

Here is an excellent 15 minute presentation by a feminist-turned-men's-movement-apologist  which is very helpful in the discussion of men's issues (Cassie Jaye who researched men's rights activists and made The Red Pill movie).

Here are some sound bites.

• "Men can be abused too and they deserve care and compassion."

• "[Men's rights activists] are trying to add to the gender equality discussion."

• "Who is standing up for the good-hearted honorable man that loses his scholarships, his job, or, worse yet, his children, because he is accused of something he absolutely did not do? Well, I couldn't keep denying the points that they were making. There are real issues!"

• "Why doesn't our society care about men's rights?"

• "The greatest challenge I faced was pealing back the layers of my own bias. It turns out I did meet my enemy, while filming. It was my ego, saying that I was right, and they were sub-human!"

• "But I must clarify. I am not anti-feminist and I am not a men's rights activist. I still support women's rights. And I now care about men's rights as well. However, I believe if we want to honestly discuss gender equality, we need to invite all voices to the table. Yet, this is not what is happening! Men's groups are continually vilified, falsely referred to as 'hate groups.' And their voices are systematically silenced....If one group is being silenced, that's a problem for all of us."

• "[My advise to everyone:] We have to stop expecting to be offended. And we have to start, truly, openly and sincerely listening."
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"After years of researching and fact-checking what the men's rights activists were telling me, there is no denying that there are many human rights issues that uniquely, or disproportionately affect men.

• Paternity fraud uniquely affects men.

• The United States Selective Service in the case of a draft, still uniquely affects men.

• Work-place deaths, disproportionately men.

• War-deaths, overwhelmingly men.

• Suicide, overwhelmingly men.

• Sentencing disparity.

• Life expectancy.

• Child custody. 

• Child support.

• False rape allegations.

• Criminal court bias.

• Misandry.

• Failure to launch.

• Boys falling behind in education

• Homelessness.

• Veterans' issues.

• Infant male genital mutilation.

• Lack of parental choice once a child is conceived.

• Lack of resources for male victims of domestic violence.

"So many issues, that are heat-breaking, if you are the victim, or you love someone who's the victim of any one of these issues! These are men's issues! And most people can't name one, because they think, well, men have all the rights, they have all the power and privilege! But these issues deserve to be acknowledged; they deserve care attention, and motivation, for solutions."

 --Cassie Jaye (erstwhile feminist activist)