After being called an MRA here numerous times, I decided to try define that term

[Warren DeMontague]

8. I would agree, although pretty much everything I've learned about "MRAs" has come from people

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complaining about them on DU.

Taken by themselves, I don't really think you're talking about a very big demographic. Unless the demographic includes a general sort of being-full-of-shit-on-the-internet, which is a VERY big demographic, albeit not limited to any sort of group or gender or philosophical orientation.


What I think has happened, traditionally, on DU is that some people have conflated what you're talking about, with any sort of divergence from or objection to the most radical strains of 2nd Wave Radical Feminist thought (not to be confused, again, with the larger venn circle that is "Feminism&quot and decided to label that "being an MRA". Of course, that means that there are a lot of so-called MRAs out there, including all self-identified sex positive 3rd Wave Feminists.

And as has been shown way too often for me to belabor the point, some folks here are awfully attached to their favorite labels, to which I try to patiently mansplain cough remind them, that the labels are only subjective categorizations for more or less arbitrary groupings of viewpoints or phenomena; ascribing too much objective "realness" to them can be a mistake.