Why do MRA’s think there are feminist conspiracies everywhere?
That the goal is to persecute men? Is this paranoia or fact?
Answer by Spanx for Men!
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There are enough antifeminist conspiracy theories on that site to keep you laughing for WEEKS.
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‘Paranoia is a term used by mental health specialists to describe suspiciousness (or mistrust) that is either highly exaggerated or not warranted at all.
Paranoia can be mild and the affected person may function fairly well in society, or it can be so severe that the individual is incapacitated.
Because many psychiatric disorders are accompanied by some paranoid features, diagnosis is sometimes difficult. Paranoias can be classified into three main categories–paranoid personality disorder, delusional (paranoid) disorder, and paranoid schizophrenia.
PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER
– Derek worked in a large office as a computer programmer. When another programmer received a promotion, Derek felt that the supervisor “had it in for him” and would never recognize his worth. He was sure that his co-workers were subtly downgrading him. Often he watched as others took coffee breaks together and imagined they spent this time talking about him. If he saw a group of people laughing, he knew they were laughing at him. He spent so much time brooding about the mistreatment he received that his work suffered and his supervisor told him he must improve or receive a poor performance rating. This action reinforced all Derek’s suspicions, and he looked for and found a position in another large company. After a few weeks on his new job, he began to feel that others in the office didn’t like him, excluded him from all conversations, made fun of him behind his back, and eroded his position. Derek has changed jobs six times in the last seven years. Derek has paranoid personality disorder.
Some people regularly become suspicious without cause–so much so that their paranoid thoughts disrupt their work and family life. Such people are said to have a paranoid personality.
They are:
–Suspicious
An unmistakable sign of paranoia is continual mistrust. People with paranoid personality disorder are constantly on their guard because they see the world as a threatening place. They tend to confirm their expectations by latching on to any speck of evidence that supports their suspicions and ignore or misinterpret any evidence to the contrary. They are ever watchful and may look around for signs of a threat.
Anyone in a new situation–beginning a job or starting a relationship, for example–is cautious and somewhat guarded until he or she learns that the fears are groundless. People suffering from paranoia cannot abandon their fears. They continue to expect trickery and to doubt the loyalty of others. In a personal relationship or marriage, this suspiciousness may take the form of pathological, unrealistic jealousy.
– Hypersensitive
Because persons with paranoid personality disorder are hyperalert, they notice any slight and may take offense where none is intended. As a result, they tend to be defensive and antagonistic. When they are at fault, they cannot accept blame, not even mild criticism. Yet they are highly critical of others. Other people may say that these individuals make “mountains out of molehills.”
– Cold and Aloof
In addition to being argumentative and uncompromising, the people with paranoid personality disorder are often emotionally cut off from other people. They appear cold and, in fact, often avoid becoming intimate with others. They pride themselves on their rationality and objectivity. People with a paranoid outlook on life rarely come to the attention of clinicians–it is not in their nature to seek help. Many presumably function competently in society. They may seek out social niches in which a moralistic and punitive style is acceptable, or at least tolerated to a certain degree.
DELUSIONAL (PARANOID) DISORDER
Psychiatrists make a distinction between the milder paranoid personality disorder described above and the more debilitating delusional (paranoid) disorder. The hallmark of this disorder is the presence of a persistent, nonbizarre delusion without symptoms of any other mental disorder.
Delusions are firmly held beliefs that are untrue, not shared by others in the culture, and not easily modifiable. Five delusional themes are frequently seen in delusional disorder. In some individuals, more than one of them is present.
– Ruth is a clerk typist who is efficient and helpful. Her employers and co-workers value her contribution to the office. But Ruth spends her evenings writing letters to State and Federal officials. She feels that God has opened her mind and given her the cure for cancer. She wants some leading treatment center to use her cure on all its patients so that the world can see she is right. Many of her letters go unanswered, or she receives noncommittal replies that only make her feel that no one understands that she can save all cancer patients if only given the chance. When one of her letters is answered by an employee of the official to whom she wrote, she is sure that the official is being deliberately kept unaware of her knowledge and power. Sometimes she despairs that the world will ever know how wonderful she is, but she doesn’t give up. She just keeps writing. Ruth suffers from one of the delusional disorders, grandiose delusion.
[AS DO MANY "MRA's", evidently]
*****The most common delusion in delusional disorder is that of persecution. While persons with paranoid personality might suspect their colleagues of joking at their expense, persons with delusional disorder may suspect others of participating in elaborate master plots to persecute them. They believe that they are being poisoned, drugged, spied upon, or are the targets of conspiracies to ruin their reputations or even to kill them. They sometimes engage in litigation in an attempt to redress imagined injustices.*****
Another theme seen frequently is that of delusional jealousy. Any sign–even a meaningless spot on clothing, or a short delay in arriving home–is summoned up as evidence that a spouse is being unfaithful.
Delusional patients are commonly angry people, and thus they are perceived as threatening. In the rare instances when individuals with delusional disorder do become violent, their victims are usually people who unwittingly fit into their delusional scheme. The person in most danger from an individual with delusional disorder is a spouse or lover. ”
I omitted the part about paranoid schizophrenia because that only applies to Gaspari (as far as I am aware).
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
Conspiracies are, by there very nature, secretive. Feminists make no secret of their intentions and there are plenty of lawsuits and laws on the books that they have championed that are proof of their intentions (which they laughably deny). So your assumption is incorrect.
MRA’s are funni
it is fact because some feminists do behave that way.
while not all feminists are out to persecute men a lot are, and they getting more and more success with it.
Maybe because many don’t blindly believe everything feminists say and actually look at feminist actions?
You’ll want to provide some examples of people believing in these conspiracies (just as you would for making any other assertion from out of left field).
You may be mistaking accurate observations about feminism for a belief in conspiracies. Feminism is by definition the pursuit of rights and privileges for women, at the expense of men. The pursuit of this is simply the definition of being a feminist; there is no conspiracy. Similarly, Muslims do not “conspire” to face Mecca for prayer several times a day; this is simply a part of being Muslim.
good question
it is because they have infiltrated our most secret lair and discovered the hidden plans! we must abort the mission sister! abort!
You are wrong if you think MRAs are any suspicious.
The fact is they are sure and can see through the ulterior motives of feminism like the back of their hand.
Your attempt to put forth feminism as something benign is futile.
Because we women are both inferior and would be nothing without men…and immensely powerful with the ability to destroy the entire male population. It’s an interesting paradox.
I don’t think there are feminist conspiracies *everywhere* — there’s bound to be a planet in a far-off galaxy where there are absolutely no Feminist conspiracies whatsoever!
However, here on Earth, the Feminists have long ago convinced themselves that the only way they can achieve domination (i.e. what they call “equality” or “equity”) is to band together in formal associations and informal networks and work towards that goal.
If you’re on the receiving-end of this sort of activity (i.e. if you’re a man), you might tend to call this a conspiracy. That seems to be as good a word as any, in the circumstances!
For the same reason that they involve themselves in the mra movement, many are convicted batterers and all of them want control over women.
Groups like RADAR fall under the broader umbrella of the men’s rights movement, a loose coalition of anti-feminist groups. These men’s rights activists, or MRAs, have long been written off by domestic-violence advocates as a bombastic and fringe group of angry white men, and for good reason.
But lately they’ve become far more polished and savvy about advancing their views. In their early days of lobbying, “these guys would show up and have this looming body language that was very off-putting,” says Ben Atherton-Zeman, author of Voices of Men, a one-man play about domestic violence and sexual assault. “But that’s all changed. A lot of the leaders are still convicted batterers, but they’re well-organized, they speak in complete sentences, they sound much more reasonable: All we want is equal custody, for fathers not to be ignored.”
One of the respectable new faces of the movement is Glenn Sacks, a fathers’ rights columnist and radio host with 50,000 e-mail followers, and a pragmatist in a world of angry dreamers. Sacks is a former feminist and abortion-clinic defender who disavows what he calls “the not-insubstantial lunatic fringe of the fathers’ rights movement.” He recently merged his successful media group with the shared-parenting organization Fathers and Families in a bid to build a mainstream fathers’ rights organ on par with the National Organization for Women. Many of Sacks’ arguments—for a court assumption of shared parenting in the case of divorce, or against child-support rigidity in the midst of recession—can sound reasonable.
But do any of their arguments hold up? Many of the men for whom Sacks advocates are involved in extreme cases, says Joanie Dawson, a writer and domestic-violence advocate who has covered the fathers’ rights movement. The great majority of custody cases, in which shared parenting is a legitimate option, are settled or resolved privately. But of the 15 percent that go to family court—the cases that fathers’ rights groups target—at least half include alleged domestic abuse.
Ur the one under the impression that u are being oppressed as a women so u have no right to judge other people who believe in conspiracies because that would make u a hypocrit
This is why they sport tin foil hats. They accuse feminists of blaming all their probs on patriarchy yet they turn around and blame all their prob on feminism. Oh the irony.
the mra camp are deliberately shaming women by posting false information that incriminates women only and they men to be seen as persecuted victims of feminist male-bashing.