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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 ...
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]
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]
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 .
Referring to the growing demand for suffrage for African American men, Lucretia Mott, the AERA's president, said, "woman had a right to be a little jealous of the addition of so large a number of men to the voting class, for the colored men would naturally throw all their strength upon the side of those opposed to woman's enfranchisement."
The men's liberation movement, as recognized by feminists and gender scholars, developed mostly among heterosexual, middle-class men in Britain and North America as a response to the cultural changes of the 1960s and 1970s, including the growth of the feminist movement, counterculture, women's and gay liberation movements, and the sexual revolution.