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The Men's Rights Movement (MRM), better known as Men's Rights Advocacy (MRA), is an antifeminist movement that claims to seek equal treatment between the sexes, but mostly focuses on antifeminism and deriding women, especially women's rights activists. Men's rights advocacy' (MRA) is centered around a group of misogynistic blogs and forums usually dubbed as the "manosphere".

What most people refer to with the term are the self-described "men's rights advocates", most of whom are acting to further solidify their privilege and push an agenda of inequality. Just like how Ayn Rand's philosophy allows billionaires to feel like victims, MRA does the same for (almost exclusively white, heterosexual, cisgendered, first world) men within the very few places that discrimination may happen. Their arguments are tone-deaf towards anybody that isn't male, and criticism is met with accusations of power grabbing by a "feminist conspiracy" to "emasculate" them.

MRAs often crop up in feminist forums to derail topics to focus on men regardless of comparable severity (for example, derailing a discussion on rape to deliberately conflate the issue with the tiny number of false accusations, or a discussion about street harassment to focus on how men have their feelings hurt by female strangers avoiding them on the street). To them, men and the few injustices against them are the only important topic worth discussing.

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-The Men's Rights Movement (MRM), better known as ''Men's Rights Advocacy'' (MRA), is  movement that seeks to seek equal treatment between the sexes in areas not covered by feminism. Some feminist voices suggest that it mostly focuses on antifeminism and deriding women, especially women's rights activists. But this is mostly due to some feminists feeling threatened by the voice of the MRM within the gender debate as they are uncomfortable not being the exclusive voice in this area and find it difficult to handle criticism. Because of this some feminists will go out of their way in an attempt to slander the MRM to dissuade people from joining it. ''Men's rights advocacy''' (MRA) is centered around a group of [http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/spring/misogyny-the-sites blogs and forums] usually dubbed as the "manosphere".
+The Men's Rights Movement (MRM), better known as ''Men's Rights Advocacy'' (MRA), is an antifeminist movement that claims to seek equal treatment between the sexes, but mostly focuses on antifeminism and deriding women, especially women's rights activists. ''Men's rights advocacy''' (MRA) is centered around a group of [http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/spring/misogyny-the-sites misogynistic blogs and forums] usually dubbed as the "manosphere".
-What most people refer to with the term are [http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/spring/misogyny-the-sites the self-described "men's rights advocates"]. Feminists believe men's rights advocates are acting to further solidify their [[privilege]] and push an agenda of inequality, claims these activists deny. Just like how Ayn Rand's philosophy allows billionaires to feel like victims, MRA does the same for (almost exclusively white, heterosexual, cisgendered, first world) men within the very few places that discrimination may happen. Feminists claim that their arguments are tone-deaf towards anybody that isn't male, and criticism is met with accusations of power grabbing by a "feminist conspiracy" to "emasculate" them. Men's rights advocates question wether feminist's claims that feminism is working on men's issues are in any way credible.
+What most people refer to with the term are [http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/spring/misogyny-the-sites the self-described "men's rights advocates"], most of whom are acting to further solidify their [[privilege]] and push an agenda of inequality. Just like how Ayn Rand's philosophy allows billionaires to feel like victims, MRA does the same for (almost exclusively white, heterosexual, cisgendered, first world) men within the very few places that discrimination may happen. Their arguments are tone-deaf towards anybody that isn't male, and criticism is met with accusations of power grabbing by a "feminist conspiracy" to "emasculate" them.
-MRAs often crop up in feminist forums to [[Derailment|derail]] topics to focus on men regardless of comparable severity (for example, derailing a discussion on rape to deliberately conflate the issue with the number of false accusations, or a discussion about street harassment to focus on how men have their feelings hurt by female strangers avoiding them on the street). To them, men and the few injustices against them are the only important topic worth discussing, much like feminism focuses on women and the few injustices against them.
+MRAs often crop up in feminist forums to [[Derailment|derail]] topics to focus on men regardless of comparable severity (for example, derailing a discussion on rape to deliberately conflate the issue with the tiny number of false accusations, or a discussion about street harassment to focus on how men have their feelings hurt by female strangers avoiding them on the street). To them, men and the few injustices against them are the only important topic worth discussing.
 ==Topics==
-* [[Patriarchy hurts men too|Patriarchy doesn't exist]]
+* [[Patriarchy hurts men too]]
 * [[Reverse sexism]]
 * [[Misandry]]

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