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Wow, that's rich.

Name them.

It’s known as the Tiffany Problem. “Tiffany” was actually a popular girl’s name in medieval France; it comes from an ancient Greek term for divine manifestation, the English form of which is “theophany”. But it sounds much too “turn of the 21st century suburban” to be taken seriously. Other examples include:

gladiators in ancient Rome had product-endorsement deals, including a brand of premade sauce (which sauce, in turn, was very similar to Worcestershire sauce)

medieval European women could own property, interact with the court system in their own names, vote in any assembly where men of their class voted, and were not only just as literate as men but were the primary audience for most vernacular fiction

-the sheer number of games/companies that do this makes cracking down impractical. The best you can hope for is to get a few high-profile examples that scares everyone off. But frankly not enough people care enough to make that attempt.

-false advertising laws are based on harm, specifically financial harm. ie 'I paid $X for this and didnt get what was promised.' But thats hard to argue if a game is free-to-play. Even people who sank thousand of dollars into a game most likely did so only after playing for some time and realizing what the game was.

-These games and ads can be churned out so cheaply and the potential profits so high(if you can get enough whales) that even the risk of being shut down by the government probably wouldnt change the calculation that much for these developers.

The reason so many MRAs believe feminism and men's rights are fundamentally opposed is because the movement was more or less founded by former self proclaimed feminists who got sick of getting death threats from other self proclaimed feminists for saying "men have issues" and continues to be sustained by people getting sick of "men have issues" being a subject of endless controversy. It's not like they made it up out of thin air and some feminists decided to adopt that belief. It's a central tenet of radfem ideology that many MRAs have conceded on and adopted, but so have many feminists who don't think of themselves as radfems.

Even then I think "Feminism and men's rights are fundamentally opposed" is a "hard" version and not universal enough to call it a central pillar. I think a more accurate "central pillar" of MRA ideology is:

Men have issues. These are not just incidental collateral damage from misogyny but active societal and institutional discrimination against men based on hostile sexist beliefs about men. These issues cause serious harm and deserve to have serious effort and resources devoted to addressing them. The idea that Feminism will help men too is bullshit. "Feminism For Men" projects are doomed to fail because it is impossible to persuade more than a tiny minority of Feminists to agree with the statements above because they are incompatible with either Feminist Theory or individual hostile sexist beliefs about men. Feminism cannot fix many men's issues because it either refuses to acknowledge them, is ideologically incapable of discussing them without reframing them in a way that prevents them from acknowledging the root causes and derails the discussion to be about how women are harmed and men are harmful, or lacks the will to take meaningful action because helping women is always prioritized. Feminism cannot be trusted as an ally in this struggle, and it has repeatedly chosen to make itself our enemy by actively opposing activism on men's issues whether it's done as 'fellow feminists' or not, and by Feminist organizations and individuals that gain any amount of institutional power actively using that power to perpetuate or worsen institutional discrimination against men. It is impossible to reform Feminism from within and all attempts to do so have failed. The only option is to have our own movement so we are not subject to constant tone policing and derailing, and can prioritize helping men because no one else will. We are willing to accept Feminist indifference to men's issues but we will not tolerate active hostility. Our mission includes opposing Feminism when it promotes anti-male beliefs and policies. We will only cooperate with Feminists who are willing to work with us on our terms, because we have tried working on their terms and it's impossible because their terms are "sit down, shut up, speak only when spoken to."

Anyway in reality this has turned into blind and universal opposition to anything feminists do or say, including opposition to women's rights issues out of spite and playing tit for tat, and this is the fundamental failure of the men's rights movement. It gave up on the moral high road and stooped to the level of its worst detractors. But, like, ahistorically attributing other self-identified feminists' bad ideas like treating gender rights as a zero sum game to MRA influence and not acknowledging the homegrown roots of these problems is continuing the exact same patterns of behavior that led to this situation in the first place.

Step 1 - get the best interest rate you can on that 10 million

be a lurker. just read things and think about them without feeling the need to weigh in or call out or disseminate everything you encounter. it's so nice and so freeing and it's a good way to learn things.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/child-bride-in-yemen-dies-of-internal-bleeding-on-wedding-night-activist-idUSBRE98910N/

Western men, for the most part, won't go after young girls, not because it's a legal issue, but because it is a moral, and ethical one.

To the third world, and Islamic theocracies, they view it as being not only legal to, but moral, to marry, and rape girls, even using infants as masturbation tools, with the well known Islamic practice of "thighing."