Originally Posted by
Yvaelle
Let me just start with this: denying MRA groups the right to congregate, while allowing feminist groups the same right - is sexism.
With that said, I think there is a real risk with groups like MRA (and feminism, to a lesser extent, because it is a more mature movement) for becoming an echo chamber of bigotry and hate - in which the rhetoric and mythology of male oppression plays telephone tag around the group - until a narrative coalesces which is wholly distinct from reality.
It is easy for such groups to convince themselves that inequality toward women is a myth - solely because they too now experience inequality (and men do, which deserves to be talked about).
You must allow them to meet and talk, and only then can you defeat their ideas in debate. I think it would be healthy for both feminists and MRA groups to get together and debate regularly: to kill the echo effect of either group.
So make it a condition of the group that once a month, they have to debate Ryerson's feminist collective. Civil discourse will only benefit both sides - and move both toward a truer, humanist, position. Both sides want to discuss inequality, and that's great, inequality does exist toward both genders - but framing inequality as though it was gender-unique is fundamentally untrue.