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Men are at a disadvantage in almost every aspect of the legal system, from sentencing to child custody. They are more likely to be victims of violent crime. Men are excluded as victims from many rape laws. Male genital mutilation is widely accepted for reasons that have been debunked time and time again.
Frankly, this kind of thinking (in bold) annoys the living piss out of me. If MRAs hate feminists and SJWs so much, can they stop using idiotic SJW-type reasoning to prove how oppressed they are?
Let's go back to basic logic for a sec. If group A is more likely than group B to experience some negative condition, that is NOT evidence that group A is oppressed (as it could very well be a result of group A's own actions), and it is NOT even necessarily a bad thing. What if in 2013, 20% of both men and women were victims of violence, and then in 2014, it became 15% of men and 10% of women? Oh no, inequality! So did things get worse? Of fucking course not. The relevant factor is amount of people who experience violence, not the fucking gender distribution of those who do.
Furthermore, pointing out such a statistic without giving any reasonable, actionable recommendation on how to reduce the prevalence of violence toward men just makes one sound like a fucking whiny bitch rather than someone who's actually interested in improving people's lives. It is no different from when feminists bitch that tech companies don't hire enough women without giving any thought as to why, or proposing any reasonable solution to make women more tech savvy.
Don't blind yourselves to shit logic just because you feel it's coming from your own "team." MRAs actually have a legitimate beef when it comes to divorce law, but when their rhetoric stoops to the level of the braindead SJWs they claim to despise so much, it destroys any legitimacy they may have had among reasonable, intelligent moderates.
EDIT: Just to be clear, I'm not speaking specifically to the writeup on this petition, as I understand its goal is just to be a counterweight to all the women's rights stuff on Change.org. It just reminded me of the larger tendency of MRAs to lambast SJWs while sounding exactly like them.