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The men's rights movement (MRM) [1] is a branch of the men's movement.The MRM in particular consists of a variety of groups and individuals known as men's rights activists (MRAs) who focus on social issues, such as specific government services, which adversely impact, or in some cases, structurally discriminate against, men and boys.
The fathers' rights movement is a subset of the men's rights movement. [18] [19] [20] Its members are primarily interested in issues related to family law, including child custody and child support that affect fathers and their children. [21] [22] Prominent men's rights activists include Warren Farrell, [17] Herb Goldberg, [17] Richard Doyle ...
The manosphere is a varied collection of websites, blogs, and online forums promoting masculinity, misogyny, and opposition to feminism. [1] Communities within the manosphere include men's rights activists (MRAs), [2] incels (involuntary celibates), [3] Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW), [4] pick-up artists (PUA), [5] and fathers' rights groups. [6]
Advocates for men's rights and father's rights as well as anti-feminist men often accept that men's traditional roles are damaging to males but deny they as a group still have institutional power and privilege, and argue that men in the 21st century are now victims relative to women. [8] [9]
Fathers' rights groups in the West are primarily composed of white, middle or working class, heterosexual men. [ 9 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Members tend to be politically conservative [ 5 ] [ 16 ] but do not share a single set of political or social views [ 16 ] and are highly diverse in their goals and methods.
Allen writes that Gilman used masculism to refer to the opposition of misogynist men to women's rights and, more broadly, to describe "men's collective political and cultural actions on behalf of their own sex", [14] or what Allen calls the "sexual politics of androcentric cultural discourses". [15]
The name "Free Men" was used as an imperative (as in Free Men from unfair divorce laws [4]). By-laws were formally adopted in July. The four founding members were: Richard Haddad, Dennis Gilbert, Allan Scheib and Allen Foreman. Richard Haddad authored the "Free Men Philosophy" which included 26 items from which he felt men should be freed.
This category contains articles that relate to the men's movement, men's rights, the Responsible Fatherhood movement, fathers' rights, and associated organisations or activists. The main article for this category is Men's rights movement .