Good, Better, Best MRA Blogs

[Percy]

There are many more MRA blogs now than 10 years ago.

Many have started with a minimalist eye for quality and improved over time. Some, especially lately, have hit the floor running hot and fast.

Governments are 'worried' about free speech and especially blogs. Attempts are being made to 'control' the output of and opportunity for discussion.

So, it is important that our blogs get support.

Which blogs do you follow? Which do you think are 'first class'?

I would like to set the answers pouring in by advocating What Men Are Saying About Women(WMASAW)..

Cj's blog experience is long and hard-won. His 'voice' has consistently developed and improved. His main Blog noted here is outstanding.

[Rof L Mao Esq]

Had a ROFLMAO while reading WMASAW, gotta share:

"The guys who push themselves on women at keggers are after one thing only, and it’s not a reinstatement of the patriarchy. Each would be perfectly content if his partner for the evening becomes president of the United States one day, so long as she lets him take off her panties tonight."

No comment required. Made my day.

[Nikonian]

Who could forget Mr Angry Harry's blog... Toysoilder is another one I follow as well as ChristianJ's.

[nivek]

I visit AM and the spearhead daily these are my two favourites, others i'm an occasional visitor to. I was always a big fan of Heretic but he doesn't seem to put much out these days.

[felixblue]

"one man and his blog".. Cannot mow the meadow!

I often wonder what folk get from reading blogs..

They can sing the praises of some folks work, but I often suspect they seem to ignore the most pertinent points of some of the great mrm writers and just latch on to what they agree with or find amusing..

I guess no one wants to find the answers to all the complex questions and concerns can actually be written very concisely on the back of a postage stamp..

[outdoors]

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[Nikonian]

"one man and his blog".. Cannot mow the meadow!

I often wonder what folk get from reading blogs..

They can sing the praises of some folks work, but I often suspect they seem to ignore the most pertinent points of some of the great mrm writers and just latch on to what they agree with or find amusing..

I guess no one wants to find the answers to all the complex questions and concerns can actually be written very concisely on the back of a postage stamp..

Some of the greatest MRA writers run a blog. It not only serves to agree/disagree with an issue but to address new issues and to bring the news to us...

[nivek]

"one man and his blog".. Cannot mow the meadow!

One man and his blog, spot, sausage role and a bottle of pop!

[Arden Linoge]

I generally don't like to recomend sites/channels until I have spent time reviewing their material. I don't like it when the person puts on a tin foil hat and starts ranting about "the joos", or whatever their special moby dick is. If they can't see past their religion or sexual orientation long enough to see the MRM is about all men, then I drop them. Having listened to one racist Thugtician is enough for a lifetime.

sites currently in the reader
a voice for men
anti-feminist theory
Men's Rights Online (news.mens-rights.net)
Dalrock
Feckblog
Feminist Critics
In Bona Fide
female sex offenders
mensactivism.org
national coalition for men
owningyourshit.blogspot.com
the false rape society
toy soldiers
man woman myth
what men are saying about women
alcuin
angry harry
exposing feminism
Leykis 101
Mark Trueblood (just picked him up, and I'm trying to figure out where he stands, so I won't vouch for him or anything)
mgtowforums.com
Men are Angry Now (menareangrynow.wordpress.com)
Menz Magazine (if you haven’t subscribed already, get it now)
mengoingtheirownway.blogspot.com
mensnewsdaily.com
RAMZPAUL
rebukingfeminism.blogspot.com
boysraisedbysinglemums.blogspot.com
shrink4men.com
Steve Moxon Blog
The Badger Hut
The Chef in Jeans (but that's about cooking for single men, not really an MRM site)
The Counter-Feminist (counterfem.blogspot.com)
The Damned Olde Man (thedamedoldeman.com)
The Rights of Man (therightsofman.typepad.co.uk)
The Spearhead (the-spearhead.com)
the MANual (themanual.org)
Z Masked Writer (maskedwriter.com)
antimisandry.com (of course)

Youtube
some of these were added to my list recently and haven't been able to get around to them yet, and some are old. Been watching too much sxephil, failblog, foamy the squirrel (I am your lord and master), and 0generationawesome0 (the bartender hates you). Others on my youtube I won't list because I either can't recommend them because they are not MRM channels or because I haven't seen enough of their material to recommend them.

1menaregood1
ArgusEyes
avoiceformen
barbarossaaaa
christy0misty
endmisandry
factory2590
girlwriteswhat
johntheother
manwomanmyth
menareangrynow
MensRightsVideos
MGTOW
MRAGreatestHits
PaperBagBandits
pinegrove33
ramzpaul
RockingMrE
SaveTheMen
TheAmazingAtheist
TheHappyMisogynist
theignoredgender
TheOutspokenman1
TomLeykisClips

Which are the best? eeh, I really like Man Woman Myth and Factory two of the best in my opinion. girlwriteswhat is really rocking as well. The False Rape Society is one of the best single issue blogs on the internet; well informed, on point, and solid. Sorry I can't give a review of each of these right now as it would get really, really, really long. But if I can get around to it....

[felixblue]

Lots of good work, would take many years to digest and what I saw above the pissoir in the gents summed up the problem with too much reading and not enough doing..

"while you are looking up to read this, you are pissing on your feet.."

There are not too many variables regards the MRM, no more than a handful really, 5 perhaps?

Most of the consequential difficulties arise from a combination of a few variables, beliefs, values etc..

Not many writers address all the issues adequately..

And some of them do not want to accept some values that others cherish..

Most blogs are reactive, analytical and often personal too..

Few folks offer "suggestion solutions" and those that do can find themselves under attack..

Personal experience can be the greatest source of education, but don't believe everything that you are told of you think you can learn from others instead..

[Rof L Mao Esq]

Extremely good points.

In all the real-life situations in which I have stood up against feminism and its tentacles in the (US) legal system, I had not one shred of institutional support, resources or counsel. As I have only recently begun to use the internet for anything, I never had any clue that the terms "misandry", "MRM", "MRA", etc even existed. I had to function on the basis of what I believed was right and wrong, not for men or women, but in terms of how human beings should conduct themselves toward each other.

My four-month-old son was abducted by his mother, in collusion with her relatives, and one after another male judge and attorney told me this was not a crime, that my not having the foresight to get a joint custody ruling within a fifteen-year marriage was the reason it had happened, and there was nothing they could do except try and get me a good "deal", so that I could "see" my son, who was conceived by mutual consent of his parents with the stated intent that he would be raised by two parents.

My only recourse, after years of languishing under the extreme constraints of a ruling issued in a no-fault divorce state with no evidence of violence, neglect or unfitness against me, was to begin to refuse to pay child support, a position I have now maintained for several years.

Try, just as one example, promoting that stratagem online as a blogger. I can already hear the outraged cries of MEN about bringing him into the world, my obligations as a father, etc. But the situation was mine to face, the decisions mine to make, and none of my actions had anything to do with any cause or societal ill. I simply had to decide whether or not I could conscionably subsidize an abandoning abductress who had no accountability under the law as to how the money might be spent. One case, one decision.

Trying to organize and institutionalize these issues facing men into some sort of "movement" is unrealistic if not ludicrous, and yet men all over the world just like me have one case at a time they must face with no support, within systems stacked entirely against their interests, and try not to fall into the temptations of addictions, revenge, or just dropping out and living on the street.

So what do we do? Foremost in my mind is the idea that we cannot become some alter-ego of feminism, because with any success we will become more patriarchal, more misogynist, more dominant-by-divine-right than most of us ever were to begin with. And it will be about politics and funding and propaganda, and our children will not thank us for our trouble.

If all these blogs help men, that's groovy. It's just helping us to do what that I remain guarded about. And, through these online resources, the more I learn about feminism as an institution, the less I want to start acting like an activist, and more like a man, and a Dad.

[outdoors]

too much reading and not enough doing..

Yep. Time to get off my arse.

Personal experience can be the greatest source of education,

Nothing can make an activist more active than their own personal experience.

[felixblue]

Nothing can make an activist more active than their own personal experience.

This is very much the case. I don't know any activists who have not become activists as a result of dire personal experience..

Unfortunately I also know very few of these folks who seem able to appreciate that not everyone is in the same shit for the same reason and also not everyone can get out of the shit by the same methods..

[felixblue]

Extremely good points.

In all the real-life situations in which I have stood up against feminism and its tentacles in the (US) legal system, I had not one shred of institutional support, resources or counsel. As I have only recently begun to use the internet for anything, I never had any clue that the terms "misandry", "MRM", "MRA", etc even existed. I had to function on the basis of what I believed was right and wrong, not for men or women, but in terms of how human beings should conduct themselves toward each other.

Interesting.. I started reading what would now be called "MRM" literature back in 1991, when I read in a newspaper about a book "no more sex war" by Niel Lydon.. This must have been something pretty amazingly astonishing for me to find out existed, because I immediately joined a library and read the book.. I am famous for having read no more than a handful of books (other than those I read to my under 5 children) in half a century of what some jokers might call a life.. Until I joined this forum, the concept of such thing as a "mens rights movement" was not something I could possibly imagine.. Even the concept of "fathers rights" seemed hard to accept even though I was a seasoned campaigner with fathers 4 justice.. To my mind, there was simply one way of looking at every issue.. What was my business was my business, the state and others not directly affected needed to butt out and quit interfering with personal freedoms.. Rights are something one is either born with or earns, usually as a result of doing your personal duty to others who will gladly and freely reciprocate as a matter of honour and respect..

My four-month-old son was abducted by his mother, in collusion with her relatives, and one after another male judge and attorney told me this was not a crime, that my not having the foresight to get a joint custody ruling within a fifteen-year marriage was the reason it had happened, and there was nothing they could do except try and get me a good "deal", so that I could "see" my son, who was conceived by mutual consent of his parents with the stated intent that he would be raised by two parents.

This is the crux of the matter in my eyes. Parents become parents as a result of making a deal which is validated and set in stone at the point of conception. This starting point of life is a very serious matter which seems to be completely ignored. How many MRA's, or even Feminists for that matter ever even bother to appreciate that a contract FOR LIFE is made at this point? I have only ever seen one activist think along similar lines, and I believe SHE is Wendy Macolroy or someone (don't have time to google it at the moment) of Ifeminists fame.. Sobering to think I have far more in common with libertarian "feminists" than the majority of MRA's who see the answers to all the woes they recieve as a consequence of them failing to make a "good conceptual contract" can be imposed upon the irresponsible and fickle masses by the all-powerful and violence monopolising state sheeple farmers.. AKA the GODvernment..

My only recourse, after years of languishing under the extreme constraints of a ruling issued in a no-fault divorce state with no evidence of violence, neglect or unfitness against me, was to begin to refuse to pay child support, a position I have now maintained for several years.

Good man. This position is a valid attempt to re-assert a somewhat "token" defiant element of control over what is your position now.. My own stance has always been to pay whatever csa has been demanded, under state rules, but to ensure that I have so little income that they cant actually get anything. If my status as a human male is so powerless that my labour is harvested and additionally over burdened by punishing me for the "crime" of having a relationship breakdown I never wanted which was brought about primarily by the state making great efforts to remove me from my own family by perversely incentivising my wife with a life of state handouts simply for keeping me out of the family, then I aint gonna support such a system.. Indeed, I will endeavor to shaft it as it is fundamentally sick and twisted to the core.. Some folks say I am insane for taking this "self flagellatory" stand.. That is it good enough evidence to me to suggest it must be a damned good idea! The wages of madness reflect the hard work it takes to maintain such attitudes!

Try, just as one example, promoting that stratagem online as a blogger. I can already hear the outraged cries of MEN about bringing him into the world, my obligations as a father, etc. But the situation was mine to face, the decisions mine to make, and none of my actions had anything to do with any cause or societal ill. I simply had to decide whether or not I could conscionably subsidize an abandoning abductress who had no accountability under the law as to how the money might be spent. One case, one decision.

Indeed. You are seeking to have some control over what you can control, which is of course increasingly under attack from the state.. Too many men, and fathers, seem to think their primary obligation is to THE STATE, as in the controlling sheeple farmers.. Who were not pertinent to the contract made at conception where they?

What obligations does the state ensure a mother has to the state? Send your kids to school, etc.. They do not impose any obligations from mother to father.. Indeed, to even attempt such is fraught with many difficulties, because, as we all know, a womans priorities, unlike a mans, can always be limited to self and children.. There is no expectation that women or mothers do anything at all for men or fathers.. The reverse is clearly, openly and rather strangely completely the opposite.. Men are expected, encouraged, and cajouled and shamed into "supporting" and protecting not only their own women and children, but everyone elses too! One easy example to show this vast difference in expectations is this:-

When was the last time you heard of some woman, or mangina, or just about anyone for that matter, try to shame and otherwise persuade men that they have a DUTY to sniff out and deal with "abuse" that occurs when men are "not being nice" to women?

One individual who shall remain nameless, suffice it to say she is a famed feminazi and childless tuppence licker who openly declares she "hates men", justifies her hatred of men by stating that in her view, men have a duty to deal with every incidence of "abuse" they see where "a woman is a victim"..

Thats super.. Now, I ask you fine fellows, when did you last hear of anyone insisting that they will declare a hatred of women, unless women will step in and deal with every incidence of abuse perpetrated by women upon men, fathers and children?

You know what?

Its probably not needed.. Because women actually DO that in many cases!

I know this because it is the case that any activist who has spent time on the ground knows that approval from women for the causes of men is much more often expressed than from men..

Its a shame that they tend to have some mental block though when it comes to putting these fine theoretical understandings into practice when THEY personally are in "the shit"!

Trying to organize and institutionalize these issues facing men into some sort of "movement" is unrealistic if not ludicrous, and yet men all over the world just like me have one case at a time they must face with no support, within systems stacked entirely against their interests, and try not to fall into the temptations of addictions, revenge, or just dropping out and living on the street.

I wish I could say this is not the case.. I suspect evidence would show that it is.. Theoretically, on paper at least, a movement could be founded and grow, however "the male condition" means it is a low priority for 99% of men who would even think of it and the "cat herding" problem is another reality that is rarely dealt with..

If an well organised mens movement is to suddenly pop up, be afraid, be very afraid..

It would have to be funded and promoted heavily via conventional "mainstream" means and that is always indicative of something that is being imposed from the sheeple farmers, who have a heavily pro-state agenda..

So what do we do? Foremost in my mind is the idea that we cannot become some alter-ego of feminism, because with any success we will become more patriarchal, more misogynist, more dominant-by-divine-right than most of us ever were to begin with.

The bits you have bolded.. You say them like they are a bad thing? Maybe you don't realise, or maybe you don't want to accept the truth in this..

But look at it this way..

Men are naturally dominant over their wives and families.. Well, thats just the way society developed over many thousands of years, it is the reason men are big and strong and have the minds that they have..

Men provide, women and children consume.. There is no way round that generally speaking.. It's pretty much a universal reality..

Most men have the answer to their situations.

I have yet to come across a single activist in all my time who doesnt have the answer to their own shit!

What is their answer usually?

"They should ensure that fathers have a right to see their kids.." And then these men often follow it up with many other statements, but the fundamental truth of the matter is this:-

If every man knows what is right for him and his family, why do they not trust themselves to apply that solution? Why do they think men are inherently unfit to do this?

Most importantly why would "they" give a shit at all about folks who cant hold their relationships together?

Fact is, "they" are pragmatic beasts who simply manage and herd the sheeple.. Trying to keep them motivated and controlled and productive while they harvest their work..

"They" are dominant, do "they" deserve to be? Is it appropriate that those who are not part of the "fundamental contract" made at conception should then dictate generalist terms when that contract breaks down?

That "they" should have every ultimate and even violent weapon at their disposal?

That "they" should profit immensely from the very shit that "they" need to ensure exists so that "they" can be asked to sort it?

The feminists are pathetic. They need "they", the state, the state's laws, ON TOP OF the natural elements of the male condition that makes men damned nice and fair to women and children anyway ahead of their own worries..

If the MRM is "aping feminism" it is doing it most by expecting the state, "they" to impose their will upon the sheeple..

The feminists succeeded in this because it benefitted the state "them", and also the male condition (which is pretty non-negotiable really if we are honest) allowed it..

After all, if "they" are going to do what men do anyway, i,e, look after the interests of the females, then men don't have to worry about that too much eh? A responsibility or two less, in exchange for just a bit more taxation, which in itself is less burdensome when "they" are making the females work and pay tax too!

Personally, I don't see why the MRM and the FRM REFUSE to trust men and fathers..

REFUSE to accept that men are more than capable of fairly and well heading their families without the state taking that role over and or handing it to women to do..

Or maybe I do.. And that maybe makes me distrust the motivations of many FRA's and MRA's..

The male condition has elements within it that not only put women in a superior position when it comes to handing over power and resources to women.. It also has strong elements of competitiveness and mistrust of other men..

Men compete for women, compete to impress women.. And part of that competitiveness is exploited by "them" which is the desire to Scupper the success of those men who seem to be getting disproportionately more of the "good stuff" than mr average, or mister low status..

Men heading their families, as the feminists like to tell us, are abusive, control freaks and not nice chaps all round..

And too many men agree with that..

I say men who don't want to head their families, will get what they deserve from that abrogation of personal responsibilty as a man..

If you want the state, or women, to have the final word.. Then don't expect the state or women to give a toss about what you want.. Because in the final word, you don't count for shit.. Especially if you keep feeding the system with your labour and taxes!

And it will be about politics and funding and propaganda, and our children will not thank us for our trouble.

Children get what children get.. Eventually they become adults and then its their rightful chance to have a say in what goes on.. They will do the same things as every other generation has done.. Maybe they will learn from the past, maybe they will think the past is just history now and doesn t matter.. Rather like the way the current FRM and MRM seems to totally disregard and disrespect the more successful relationship between the state and the family that existed in the past..

If all these blogs help men, that's groovy. It's just helping us to do what that I remain guarded about. And, through these online resources, the more I learn about feminism as an institution, the less I want to start acting like an activist, and more like a man, and a Dad.

Interesting.. Don't we all want that?

What does it mean to you? What do you think it should mean to others?

How can we work together to find a good way that could be helpful to the many men who are needing good advice from a good perspective?

[Percy]

the more I learn about feminism as an institution, the less I want to start acting like an activist, and more like a man, and a Dad.

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