This from Vanessa at Feministing:
Apparently in all seriousness, the lads at Men’s News Daily are asking elderly men’s rights activists (MRAs) to leave their money to charities that will continue the struggle:
Let me talk directly to older wealthy American married males: give us other men a break. Don’t assume that your wife is as conservative as you. Don’t die and leave her all of your money.
In 2007, money is not only flowing into feminist organization coffers from dead widows and vindictive ex-wives like Heather Mills McCartney. The feminist groups are also getting big dollars from big politically correct corporations like Exxon-Mobil and, of course, an American Congress which is filled with blackmailed perverts like Senator Larry Craig who have clearly been doing almost everything the feminists wanted just to keep themselves in business at the local men’s restroom.
Therefore, you real men who might die in the next 10 years (you could be hit by a truck) have an obligation to leave serious funds to men’s rights organizations that can do battle with the above-mentioned juggernaut. Please go change your last will and testament today (tomorrow if it is after 5PM when you read this).
Larry Craig was a feminist? If so, he was pretty darn well, uh, closeted.
Of course, there aren’t a lot of legitimate men’s rights groups that have 501(c)3 status, but perhaps that will change. The article advises:
You can also start a 501c3 non-profit before you die. Ask a lawyer about getting one started sooner rather than later.
Remember, no matter how much you love her, please do NOT leave all your money to a woman (wife or daughter) who could knowingly or unknowingly turn your grandson and great-grandson into the slave of a system completely dominated by feminists.
It’s beyond risible, of course, but worth a visit for the laugh. There’s an interesting comment thread at Feministing.
For my own categorization of the various branches of the men’s movement, see here. For one of many critiques of the so-called MRAs, see here. Quoting myself from many years ago:
The problem with the men’s rights movement is that they confuse men’s unhappiness with oppression. They assume that if men were in control, they would be happy, because patriarchal oppressors ought to be happy. Therefore, if a man isn’t happy, he isn’t oppressing. Newsflash, folks: Just because you don’t know you’re privileged doesn’t mean you’re not. Just because there are aspects of your power and privilege that you find alienating and burdensome doesn’t mean that you are any less a beneficiary of an oppressive system! Both men and women do need liberation from rigid, traditional, gender roles. The difference is that collectively, men are the architects of the system while women are merely forced to live within it.
But here’s the serious question, since I seem to be in a question-asking mood: which charities would you be most inclined to leave your money to, assuming you die with plenty to leave?
You can scroll down on the right sidebar to find my favorites. Put yours in the comments section.
“which charities would you be most inclined to leave your money to, assuming you die with plenty to leave?”
1. Christians for Biblical Equality (www.cbeinternational.org)
2. Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (www.castla.org) (full disclosure: the org I work for)
The bit about Larry Craig seems far more homophobic than I’ve normally encountered among MRAs. Granted, I don’t go out of my way to read them, but I’ve certainly never seen it among, for example, the regulars here.
As for which charity: assuming I actually had any wealth to leave, it would probably go to my local humane society, the African charity associated with my mom’s church (they do things like build schools in `Pygmy’ villages, with minimal proselytizing, which I like a lot), and (following Peter Singer’s lead) Oxfam International.
I’d leave a lot of my money to Make a Wish Foundation.
We’re tentatively exploring putting some of our acreage, including roughly 50 acres of wetlands, bordering state land into some kind of funded preservation trust, given the rapid advance in our direction of “planned lifestyle” McMansion subdivsions.
Mine would go to Unitas, CARE, and Christians for Biblical Equality.
CAM (Christian Aid Ministries)–conservative Amish-Mennonite relief organization, extremely good at getting money and help to those who need it.
Not technically a charity, but I’d like to support NORM-L.
I don’t know if it’s a charity, but I’d give money to the ASPCA.
Marie Curie Cancer Care Hospices - who make death as comfortable as possible and work, successfully, to take away the fear and anxiety which might otherwise surround our own last days and those of the people we love.
Any charity that stops people in Africa suffering - succesfully.
I would like to give something to the small-town library that I loved so much (and pretty much read the entire contents of) as a kid. Something for Doctors Without Borders. And something for animal rescue, but I haven’t done the homework on that yet.
Planned Parenthood, and probably local drama programs.
Wow. It’s not often that you see MRAs cheerfully admit they hate their own daughters and see them as inevitable enemies.
The bit about Craig isn’t even coherent. While Glenn Sacks is openly in favor of GLBT rights, most MRAs aren’t. I’m still waiting on a response to my suggestion that MRAs become “political gays”, much as some women became “political lesbians” in the ’70s and ’80s. ;)
Mythago, your suggestion is the best I’ve seen in a long time! The very absurdity shows that “masculinity”, as MRAs conceive of it, is based on aggression and insecurity, not real love of other men. As for charities, assuming my husband and I don’t spend all our inheritance on anti-porn Google ads before we are rubbed out by the Rhode Island mafia, I’d support Habitat for Humanity and Partners in Health. PIH delivers free healthcare to the world’s poorest communities, like Haiti…and Roxbury. (Pretty embarrassing when you think about it.)
I’d leave money to Rescue House (a local rescue group), Planned Parenthood, some kind of scholarship program to help kids pay for their college, woman’s shelter, and Batworld.
I’d really like to build a shelter for DV victims that need a safe haven to leave their animals while they escape their abusers.
I’d leave money to Rescue House (a local rescue group), Planned Parenthood, some kind of scholarship program to help kids pay for their college, woman’s shelter, and Batworld.
I’d really like to build a shelter for DV victims that need a safe haven to leave their animals while they escape their abusers.
I’d leave my money to groups like Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, The National Center for Science Education, and the Richard Dawkins Foundation.
Seems like a lot of these MRA groups are to men’s rights what PETA is to animal rights.
Whoa… is there a post length limit??? Talk about cut off in midsentence!
Olde Pharte
OP, using MRA rhetoric like “misandry” automatically leads to your comments getting nuked. Pick your words with great care.