The Red Pill Page #12

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for all of it,

but I think they've had

a role in it.

They've written laws

that discriminate against men.

They've fought

to protect those laws,

particularly

in domestic violence areas.

And for many, many years,

second wave feminism

would go through the statutes

and change everything

that was gender specific

to something gender neutral

unless it was something

that benefited women,

like the domestic violence laws.

They didn't change those.

Other types of areas,

like fathers in prison,

there are statutes that specifically

give mothers certain benefits

that fathers in prison

don't have.

And I challenged that

as well, legally,

but we didn't win on that one.

When I wanted to get

a commission on men

like the county has

a commission on women,

the feminists fought that

tooth and nail.

When prop 209 was before

the California voters,

which was to end

affirmative action,

every feminist

organization opposed it.

Every time men's rights groups

try to pass

joint custody legislation,

feminist groups fight them.

They fought us

on paternity fraud.

The biggest opposition

that I have faced

has been from the radical

feminists that said,

"we don't want truth

to be the standard."

Because if we did,

they wouldn't oppose

automatic DNA testing at birth.

And in countries like France,

they're saying, "well,

DNA should mean 'do not ask,"'

'cause it's now illegal

to even get a test.

And if you get a test without

the mother's permission,

you will be

criminally prosecuted.

In Sweden, they

tried to create a man tax.

In India, the men's rights

movement is trying to get

the rape laws

to include male victims,

and the feminist groups

apparently are fighting that.

I'm not saying

all feminists are this way.

But I think the ones who

are affecting public policy,

who have the lobbying power,

I think they are.

If you just look

at their actions,

they don't want

equality for women.

They want special privileges

for women and girls.

And even though they know

in a lot of areas

men do not have equality,

they are silent.

The commander

of the marine corps

said that he thinks,

and I quote,

all eligible and

qualified men and women

should register for the draft,"

talking about selective service.

Do you think women

should also have to register

for selective service like men?

I have to think about whether

I think it's necessary

to go as far as our military

officers are recommending.

The idea of having

everybody register

concerns me a little bit,

unless we have a better idea

of where that's gonna come out.

Where I want people to register,

I want every young person

to register at the age of 18

to be able to vote

automatically.

And I think if...

What's the motivation?

People don't ask,

what's the motivation?

Do we need

a men's rights moment?

No. We need common sense.

But if there's gonna be

this woman's movement

and this is the movement that's

gonna do all these things,

then maybe we need

a counterbalance,

something called

a men's rights movement,

or men's movement.

I hate to see

either one of them.

I think it's a shame.

I think it's destructive.

I'm hearing what the men's

rights activists are saying.

And I'm finding the sources

to support what they're saying.

Men are just as likely

to be victims

of intimate partner

physical violence.

Men have little to no control

over their parental destiny,

especially when he's tricked

into fatherhood

or he's raising a child

that he later finds out

isn't his.

The sentencing disparity

between men and women

is six times larger

than the sentencing disparity

between blacks and whites.

So while a black man

may be sentenced

to ten percent more prison time

for the same crime

as a white man,

a man is sentenced

to over 60% more prison time

than a woman arrested

for the same crime.

Boys are falling behind

in education.

They are enrolling

at lower rates

and earning

less college degrees.

And while not all MRAs

agree on the issue

of infant male circumcision,

most MRAs do believe it is

a human rights violation.

I spent months learning about

infant male circumcision,

but it only took me

watching a five-minute

medical training video

to convince me

this is a barbaric practice

that needs to stop.

Okay, so first thing,

make sure he's well restrained.

So the foreskin. Okay?

And we repeat the process with

just one end on and clamp.

Anything that gets clamped

gets cut.

All that was

left, a partial penis

and his tiny testicles.

Rhodes says Ashton urinates

through a hole in his penis.

She says she can't imagine now

what she'll say to her son

when he's old enough

to understand

what's happened to him.

How could you explain it

to your child

that you don't have a penis

or you might never be

able to have kids?

Yes, men are the majority

of workplace deaths

and injuries,

war deaths, suicides.

They have a shorter

life expectancy.

Warren Farrell

makes the argument

that prostate cancer

and breast cancer

mortality rates are similar,

but funding

disproportionately supports

breast cancer research

and awareness

over prostate cancer.

The red pill is about

looking at these issues

in an honest way,

even when it's uncomfortable.

And these things

are uncomfortable.

But without the willingness

to set aside the programming

and to set aside the false

beliefs about what power is

and what women are

and who women are...

Part of what we do is a pretty

serious critique of both sexes.

It's brutal.

But critiquing the sexes

is a real valuable thing.

Feminists don't want you

to do it, though,

unless you're portraying

women as the victim

and men as perpetrator.

The red pill is

about understanding

men and women like

everything else in life.

It's a mixed bag.

You've got victims

and perpetrators

on both sides of the fence.

And that's all.

It's real simple.

It's just not easy.

Hmm.

I... I think I agree

with everything you said.

But there's... there's still

some kind of unsettling doubt,

and I don't know

where that's coming from.

I'm recognizing all of these

very serious

men's rights issues.

But what I don't understand

is how I could be agreeing

with men's rights activists.

Is this the same

misogynist hate group

I originally discovered online?

The Southern poverty law center

has classified that group

and men's rights groups

as hate groups.

I looked into what I

was hearing from feminists

and the mass media about

the men's rights movement.

I've read a lot

and I've heard a lot

that the men's rights movement

has been labeled a hate group

by the Southern poverty

law center.

- Is that correct?

- Yeah, that's not quite true.

No, they got it wrong. No.

This was somehow written up

on some kind of

anti-men's rights websites

as us having listed them

as hate groups and so on.

That we didn't do.

He wrote a piece

declaring the month

of October to be

"bash a violent b*tch month."

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