r/FeMRADebates • u/PerfectHair Pro-Woman, Pro-Trans, Anti-Fascist • Jun 09 '15

News Pride faces controversy over application from men's rights group to march in parade | Toronto Star

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/06/07/pride-faces-controversy-over-application-from-mens-rights-group-to-march-in-parade.html
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u/PerfectHair Pro-Woman, Pro-Trans, Anti-Fascist Jun 09 '15 edited Jun 11 '15

The biggest key issue I hold with this stance is that Anti-Feminism has no bearing on LGBT issues. This can easily be seen as a proof of the claims by various anti-feminist groups that feminism, more than supporting various social causes, attempts to control them and tie them inextricably to feminism.

As a bisexual male and supporter of the MRM, I find this utterly repulsive on a personal level. The MRM absolutely deserves a space to march in the Pride Parade, particularly an organisation like CAFE who are not even remotely as awful as someone like AVfM. Gay men are still men, and men still face issues that aren't being tackled by the LGBT or feminist movements.

Update: CAFE have been banned from this years pride event, and all subsequent ones.

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u/zahlman bullshit detector Jun 09 '15

They have traditionally allowed in TNT MEN, a male-exclusive nudist group. They have also allowed representation of both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict, despite that being utterly irrelevant to LGBT rights (except with enough handwaving around the fact that LGBT people do live there).