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Top 10 Men’s Rights Issues

March 8, 2011 By 473 Comments

What are men’s rights activists so fired up about? Here are the results of our MRA goal poll.

The editors at the Good Men Project Magazine asked if I could write a piece on the top 10 issues for men’s rights activists (MRAs). As I am only one man, I felt I could not speak for the rest of the community on how we prioritize issues. So I came up with 17 things we consider problems men face and set up a poll. (I would like to thank everyone who voted, especially from Men’s Rights Reddit.)

It is important to note that the poll is far from perfect. It has a small sample size, and the ability to pick a single issue did not go over well with many MRAs—in their mind, the goals of the movement aren’t so easily prioritized—they’re all important and interconnected. That said, while this poll isn’t perfect, it does, to some degree, reflect the distribution of priorities among those MRAs who participated.

More notes on methodology here.

Image DieselDemon/Flickr

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Zeta Male is a sociology major and author of the blog Rise of the Zeta Male.

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  1. Svizzera says:
    July 9, 2012 at 6:48 am

    Oral sex solves a lot of these problems and is less work for the guy. It’s not as easy as eating a woman out, but women get more orgasms anyway so it’s a fair trade.

    And men’s rights issue número uno is circumcision.

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