The author of that piece may be struggling to come to grips with the feminine aspects of his own identity.

He may find the feminine side of RP appealing as a guide for understanding his own feelings toward men.

How could the author think we are focused on MRA? Did they not read the FAQ? And why leave out the simple basic truth that men are gatekeepers of commitment, women of sex. The author could have explained that our goal here is focused on sexual strategy that will more likely lead to commitment, and supporting women to build happy marriages. Could have also explained how modern feminism is working against women by devauling sex, wasting their prime years, etc.I guess the truth is too "shaming" and 'problematic" for their feminist readers

I didn't find this article to be that accurate or well researched - just look at the title. I personally do not identify with the MRA movement and neither do a lot of the most active contributors to this subreddit. I have no idea who he spoke to to get quotes (if he didn't just make them up entirely) but the women made RPW seem like a space for super religious women when in fact most of the users here are not religious and a significant portion don't care about being homemakers or other traditional and/or stereotypical feminine pursuits. I already ranted in IRC and to M about the piece so I don't really have much to say since I expended the energy this morning haha but ladies please let us mods know if you are approached by a journalist in the future!

Huh. I don't frequent this place (I'm subscribed and drop in from time to time, mainly because I like to have sources of different viewpoints come across my frontpage fairly often), but this article reads like a intentional misrepresentation of nearly every topic it touches on. I have seen some salient and well thought out advice administered here.

shrug

Just an outsiders 2 cents. Back to your regularly scheduled programming.

All I really have to say about this article is the mods will most likely need to step up their game over the course of the next few days. Trolls tend to flood subreddits following any kind of article.

Of course, even if MRAs don't actively hate women, statistics show that their argument that women have more power than men in this country is inherently deeply flawed. In 2013, for instance, Latina and Hispanic women were paid only 54% of what white men were paid, a discrepancy that's representative of the lingering wage gap between men and women.

Groan.

People who work at lower paying jobs make less than people working at higher paying jobs? You don't say.

The rest was ok. He seemed to be trying so hard to be fair, but he couldn't help but let some disdain shine through with his word choices. Oh well. I will give him a little credit for trying.

actively fight mainstream ideas of gender equality.

Some ideas. Not all. I'm an engineer and the idea that someone would downgrade all my work just because I'm female I'm a male-dominated industry horrifies me. RPW is about becoming more feminine in the appropriate situations, not all situations.

Wow! that article was not very fair to the RPW. I read here all the time, and I couldn't tell if anyone was an MRA or not.

"They" hate MRAs, so lumping RPW in with them is a sub-com to shape their readers opinions about what RPW. Hopefully, some will come here and find out about the real RPW instead of being "informed" by this propaganda piece.

Yes we saw this article first thing this morning and it has been posted all day on the IRC. I suspect that we have given the article much more traffic than it would have seen without it being posted here and on the IRC. We haven't gotten an increase in traffic from it at all.