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I'm sure it's an interesting article and a fine publication, but I'm not signing up. I have more than enough to read, things that I <i>know</i> are of direct value to me ... I'm not going to sign up so I can read something "on spec".<p>This is a dilemma I grapple with regularly. People need to be paid for the things of value they produce, but it's hard to me to find things that are valuable, and then pay for them. I do subscribe to things, and I make regular contributions to a few people and organisations, but it creates an echo chamber.<p>This is a hard problem to solve ... I wish I could see a way to make things better.
It reminds me of that documentary "The Red Pill" in which an ex-feminist turned into a Men Right's activist after looking at the data.<p>It's good sign that someone on the school side recognise the damage happening.<p>Still, she holds ridiculous beliefs that make me think the problem will never be solved by schools who have staff that is uniquely biased in one direction and can't even realise their bias.<p>How can you even think that "Believe the woman" is a good starting point?
Imagine if the gender were reversed and it was "Believe the man", how outraged would people be?<p>In our justice system, people are innocent until proven guilty.<p>Sure, this makes it harder to catch perpetrators but it limits innocent people from being trapped and blackmailed.<p>It's funny how she criticises people who feel like feminists hate all men and then proceed to do the same thing by saying that MRA groups contribute to a culture of misogyny.
There are surely fringe hateful people in both groups: you can easily find misandrist feminists and misogynist men right's activists.
Capitalism is on its last legs so it is doing whatever it can to sow divisions. That's what this "overcorrection" is about: taking justified grievances and real social problems (e.g., campus rape, racial injustice) and turning them into political wedges that turn working people against each other. Concern for the actual victims of injustice gets lost in the mudslinging.<p>The "Red" flavor is Trumpism (braindead white revanchism), the "Blue" flavor is ultra-woke virtue signaling, and they're both corporate-sponsored products designed to prevent working people from realizing that they have more in common-- including a shared justified animosity toward the corporate elite ("bourgeoisie")-- than apart.