It wasn't until this very group, the Philosophy group, that I
even was made aware of the acronym "MRA". I remember having to
listen to Rush Limbaugh in the early 1990s at a job at a Print
Shop (I ran 'the' computer - a Mac) because my boss liked
listening to him. That was the last time I had heard people talk
the way MRAs do today. At the time, the wave of Men's Rights was
in a different realm, that of wearing loin cloths (or not),
dancing around campfires in an attempt to reclaim their boyhoods
and validate themselves. Feminism had a different flavor then
too, and Political Correct was _still_ in the realm of etiquette
that was not to be itself abused. But that was a
generation-or-two ago. I spent nearly every day online in some
way in all of those years, talking to as many people as
possible, just like today. But it would be 20+ years before I
encountered MRA. Sure, I knew people that were anti-circumcision
and talked about Men's Rights, usually men who were once married
but went through crappo divorces where they didn't think to
invest in a good lawyer and ended up paying the lion's share,
but they were in a special category for me of Victim Men. Still,
forces gathered in areas of the Internet I didn't hang out in.
I've learned much about subcultures. Then again, I didn't
realize there was a flat earth movement that was till active
until I joined Illumitardi, so I guess I was just hanging around
a lot of nerds for a long time and missed out on fringes that
gathered together and the places they gathered.
