{"id":328,"date":"2012-09-01T02:18:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T09:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skepticblogs.com\/musingsfromtheskepticalleft\/?p=328"},"modified":"2012-11-30T02:54:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T10:54:49","slug":"omg-an-mra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/2012\/09\/01\/omg-an-mra\/","title":{"rendered":"OMG an MRA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, the only serious criticism I&#8217;ve seen about this blog is my choice of links to include in my blogroll. This is odd, because the blogs I&#8217;ve chosen represent all sorts of secular and political positions, quite frequently, in direct contradiction to my own. And yes, it&#8217;s true, one of the links is to the blog of a real live MRA! They do exist! For those who don&#8217;t know, an MRA is a men&#8217;s rights advocate, and in many corners of the internet they&#8217;re known as vile, vicious creatures. Being called an MRA is an insult that is meant to seriously wound the critic of any item on the third-wave feminist agenda (even the ones that contradict each other). But here&#8217;s the thing: if you haven&#8217;t heard the arguments they&#8217;re making and can&#8217;t respond to them with reason rather than invective and DMCA notices, then you&#8217;ve already lost. So you might as well become familiar with what they have to say, because it sounds a bit like this:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"the tyranny of female hypoagency\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KBgcjtE0xrE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t, now you know. Feel free to criticize Karen&#8217;s arguments, as many valid points can be made in response. Be <strong>skeptical\u00a0<\/strong>of what she says. But personally, I don&#8217;t see her existence as a threat to feminism in any way, and I refuse to judge her character on the basis of her political views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, the only serious criticism I&#8217;ve seen about this blog is my choice of links to include in my blogroll. This is odd, because the blogs I&#8217;ve chosen represent all sorts of secular and political positions, quite frequently, in direct contradiction to my own. And yes, it&#8217;s true, one of the links is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,9,14,16,17,20,22],"tags":[84,95,107,110,115,121,126,127,128,135,182,186],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-feminism","category-freethought-blogs","category-nonsense","category-politics","category-progressive-politics","category-skepticism","category-us-politics","tag-female","tag-girlwriteswhat","tag-hypoagency","tag-insults","tag-karen","tag-male","tag-mens-rights-activists","tag-mens-rights-advocates","tag-mens-rights-movement","tag-mra","tag-videos","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}