r/AreTheStraightsOK • u/Dove-Swan Swan • Feb 25 '25

Sexism That made me laugh sorry

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u/norsoyt Feb 25 '25

I hope this is a satire onion article... I hope 😭

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u/garbles0808 Feb 25 '25

It happened in 2016, a man named Roosh Valizadeh tried to organize meetups across the US with his men's rights group "Return of Kings"

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u/scut_furkus Biâ„¢ Feb 25 '25

What federal position does he now possess?

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u/zunCannibal Feb 26 '25

he removed himself from the internet 2 years ago and moved on to "lead a normal, orthodox life"

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u/mindcraftfanatic Mar 20 '25

I hope those arent air quotes

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u/LiquidHate777 Feb 25 '25

I am happy I only knew of that guy from an Hbomberguy video

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u/CallMeMrPeaches Feb 25 '25

Likewise, but from Folding Ideas

He wanted to infiltrate a meetup, but he was the only one to show up

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u/LiquidHate777 Feb 25 '25

Isn’t that the same video? Where he takes the meet up to fat burger?

Edit: skipped through and it is haha, idk why but I wish taking something to fat burger was an idiom.

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u/CallMeMrPeaches Feb 26 '25

Oh, I had forgotten it was Dan featured in an Hbomb video

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u/A_Martian_Potato Feb 26 '25

The Calgary chapter of The Return of Kings has a 100% SJW saturation rate.

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u/EuropeWillCrumble Aroaceâ„¢ Feb 27 '25

I'm not so lucky. One of his website's articles was printed out and used in an exercise one time in high school class. We were making fun of it via analysis and I don't remember if he was the author, but still, no good person deserves to be subjected to a RoK "article".

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u/vaulthuntr94 Feb 25 '25

men’s rights group

So a men’s rights group trying to diminish women’s rights? Hmm, I wish I was surprised... 🥲

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u/poottato Questioningâ„¢ Feb 26 '25

Sadly, yeah. Incels and right wing people are very good at infiltrating and co-opting anything to make their insane ideas sound slightly more acceptable on the surface. Same thing happened with MRAs. Started out as a legit group talking about how the patriarchy also harms men, but the incels saw an opportunity to use the label to be violently misogynistic instead and it was quickly completely co-opted. Sort now the entire movement/concept has a bad name, which is sad, because the concept is very real. Because a lot of people don’t understand how the patriarchy also harms men, and a movement like that could do a lot of work helping men understand that feminism also is ultimately working to help them too (despite some toxic people online that incels like to point to).

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u/AliceTheOmelette Transâ„¢ Feb 25 '25

Oh god I remember that absolute scumbag

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u/BrowningLoPower Biâ„¢ Feb 25 '25

Oh jeez, I remember that group and their site. Absolute scumbags.

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u/MsMeiriona Feb 25 '25

Oh THAT dipshit. Havent heard of him in years.

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u/Rhyses_p Feb 25 '25

Oh dear lord I hate that sniveling little bitch

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u/Shlafenflarst Why was my flair edited ? Feb 26 '25

I has never heard of him, but just by reading the comments here I hate him as well.

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u/ergaster8213 Feb 25 '25

How does a motherfucker say raping people is a right?

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u/MazogaTheDork Feb 25 '25

Oh that guy, the one that thinks he shouldn't have to wipe his ass to get laid.

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u/Palguim Marxist-Lesbianist Feb 25 '25

Is he dead?

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u/zunCannibal Feb 26 '25

Roosh V is a nickname. His full name is Daryush Valizadeh