Do you know who this is?

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@femnazi ""Mothers who breastfeed baby boys need to stop. We need to empower more females in this world and by breastfeeding them we're giving them a good start in life in which they deserve over a baby boy which are already physically stronger than baby girls. I have feminist views and im not ashamed to admit that. No baby boy will ever be fed from my breasts if i am unfortunate enough to have a son. Formula for him and circumcision to take away sexual pleasure for him when he grows up."

did you really just quote that?.....

@ writes. No problem with what you wrote about womens rights. But today feminism stands for gender WAR. And were we all men are animals and all women are victims. Women should get free pass to all higher positions and qualified men should step back. Men should have all the earlier responsibilities and NO say but women should have all the say and none of their earlier responsibilities. That my dear is asking for gender war. You may think that is not feminism but that is the reality of today for us men.

It appears you have the exact same problems i US as we have in Sweden with Feminazism. They are all victims, men are evil. They want everything for free and NOW, without having to fight or work for it like men. They actually say it loud that because women suffered before they should be compensated NOW. No matter they have the same opportunities as men. The Law in Sweden is gender specific, meaning there are laws that are in favor of women. Thanks to feminazist and weak politicians.

A special thanks to those who protested. We strive for free press and that is exactly what you gave us. Please! Please PLEASE! Protest again. The more you protest the more our story gets out there which turn effects change. Clear and simple

"First they ignore you; then they laugh at you.
Then, they fight with you, and that's when you win."

-MK Gandhi

I love the irony of the protest by the feminist hooligans. Warren Farrell is a feminist:

"Soon I began distinguishing among the feminism I loved (what I now call empowerment feminism) and the two forms of feminism I feared (victim feminism and competitive feminism).
Empowerment feminism empowers a woman by encouraging her to develop all of her potential without regard to gender. It is the feminism I shall always support." — Warren Farrell, in 'Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say : Destroying Myths, Creating Love,' p. 2

I love the irony of the protest by the feminist hooligans. Warren Farrell is a feminist:

"Soon I began distinguishing among the feminism I loved (what I now call empowerment feminism) and the two forms of feminism I feared (victim feminism and competitive feminism).
Empowerment feminism empowers a woman by encouraging her to develop all of her potential without regard to gender. It is the feminism I shall always support." — Warren Farrell, in 'Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say : Destroying Myths, Creating Love,' p. 2

I counted about 50 feminazi protesters in the video, out of approximately 70K students it is one water molecule in the bucket.

General

1. Students

Undergraduate:

The University of Toronto is expecting 66,419 undergraduate students in 2012-2013
Domestic: 57,480
International: 8,939
St. George campus is expecting 43,141 undergraduate students
Scarborough campus is expecting 11,142 undergraduate students
Mississauga campus is expecting 12,136 undergraduate students
Toronto School of Theology is expecting 908 undergraduate students

Graduate:

The University of Toronto is expecting 15,803 graduate students in 2012 – 2013
Domestic: 13,833
International: 1,970
St. George campus is expecting 15,369 graduate students
Scarborough campus is expecting 100 graduate students
Mississauga campus is expecting 334 graduate students
Toronto School of Theology is expecting 342 graduate students

Most of our international students come from China, South Korea, United States, India and Hong Kong. We also have a significant number of students from Pakistan, Malaysia, Japan and the United Kingdom.

2. Faculty and Staff

The University of Toronto has 11,581* faculty members as of September 2011, including 5,553 full-time and 6,028 part-time.
The University of Toronto has 6,017** staff members as of September 2011, including 5,681 full-time and 336 part-time.
The University of Toronto has 161 librarians as of September 2011.

*The number inlcudes all active faculty members with teaching/research responsibilities but excludes Research Fellows and Teaching Assistants.
**The number includes both unionized and non-unionized employees. U of T also employs 4,528 Teaching Assistants and 839 Sessional Lecturers who are not included above.

3. Alumni

The University of Toronto has 496,236 alumni around the world as of Fall 2011.

*The number of individuals (both living and deceased) who have graduated from the University of Toronto is 581,079 as of Fall 2011.

@ Melanie P. writes:

Yep and these feminist women in 10 - 15 years time will be bitching about the fact they can't find a man....

The MRM is not going anywhere!

http://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/more-feminist-violence-on-the-way/

Shame on those who tried to prevent people from speaking.

Men's Rights + Women's Rights = HUMAN Rights

It appears feminism has shown its true colours with quote mining bigotry and lies.
I've experienced violence at the hands of feminist simply for putting up posters stating men's rights are human rights.
IMHO the feminists are getting scared and are resorting to ever increasingly violent and fraudulent tactics.
One example of fraudulent tactics made by a feminist group called "Ottawa Coalition to End violence Against Women" A paper called "Hidden from Sight II: A look at the Prevalence of Violence Against Women in Ottawa" written by Trina Forrester and edited by Dr. Holly Johonson. Dr. Holly Johnson for those of you who are not aware of her work is a professor at the University of Ottawa, wrote the 2006 stats can report on violence against women and is as well listed as an expert in the field of statistics by the Ottawa University.

What this group did in this paper was to claim all the abuse victims (both men and women) as abused women from the general social survey done in 2009.
This fraudulent paper is now greyed out on their web page and I do hope the politicians are paying attention to this in regards to just how much funding they receive to put out lies.

For those of you who wish to see the proof of feminist lies google
"Domestic Violence Lies From Ottawa"
I exposed the lies disseminated by this govt funded group in that video.
Sorry feminists you could have stopped at equality but you got greedy and now men and women are waking up and not putting up with your lies anymore.

"The man in the white shirt" kills me

"Mothers who breastfeed baby boys need to stop. We need to empower more females in this world and by breastfeeding them we're giving them a good start in life in which they deserve over a baby boy which are already physically stronger than baby girls. I have feminist views and im not ashamed to admit that. No baby boy will ever be fed from my breasts if i am unfortunate enough to have a son. Formula for him and circumcision to take away sexual pleasure for him when he grows up." - Hailey Martin
http://mummaelectric.com/stop-breastfeeding-baby-boys-says-feminist/

@ Research is good:

""It is the 1% of top men and the majority of women who seek to oppress the average man into servitude"

This is misogynistic. Is every woman in the world a good person? No. Is every feminist? Again, no. But this is still misogynistic."


Saying it doesn't make it true. Misogyny is the hatred of women, not simply being critical of current social norms. Men are walking away from marriage, and for that, we are seeinging article after article, not to mention many women in our personal lives, discussing the failure of men to grow up, about peter pan syndrom, about video game playing man-children. THIS is an example of institutionalized chivilry. The expectation that a man should come to a woman's rescue (http://www.mommyish.com/2012/01/17/cruise-ship-costa-concordia-from-women-and-children-first-to-every-man-for-himself-918/), or never hit a woman even if she's beating on him, IE even to defend himself (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5wmxtURmW8 (listen to the woman recording)). While the white ribbon campaign may be well in the past, the method is still used today. You will often see posters from feminists saying only men can stop rape/abuse. There are constant demands for men to take responsability for women's safety. So, while I disagree with the quote, in that it is more than just the top 1% of men, he is correct that most women still push this institutionalized chilary on men, ESPECIALLY feminists. If you disagree, "it's misogynistic"is not a sufficient rebuttal.

As to the rest, the "blaming you"... Well, aside from him not actually blaming modern women for those things, only pointing to them as examples of institutionalized civalry (and demonstrations against the perpetual "women were oppressed" assertions), why do en perpetually get blamed in the exact same manner? Why do I have to endure without a voice because women didn't have the vote over a century ago? Why do I get denied a minister to examine and address my sexes issues because women's career opportunities were limited up until 40 years ago (or so)? You don't like getting blamed for things that happened in the past, but we've been blamed so much they have a name for that blame, patriarchy.

As to Warren Farrell, you'll need to provide sources for those quotes. The first I'm confident I'm familiar with, and it is taken well out of context. The second I've never heard of, but can be certain he wouldn't be respected in the white house if it were true and in context.

"I've seen these posters around campus, and they've always maid me slightly uncomfortable...

I could never find any one thing to be angry at them for... In one of his books he says... I forget, what was on the poster?" -Trista Muller

That's right, seeing posters for men's issues makes this woman slightly uncomfortable. The reason, well, she hasn't been able to find a reason yet, but that doesn't stop her from finding them uncomfortable... And it's the men's group that's about hate? And she's willing to condem Warren Farrell, a National Organization for Women New York board member, a respected White House consultant for the council of women and girls, as a rape supporter, based solely on something she read on a poster of those protesting the event (because they have no incentive to lie or misconstrue what's said). One doesn't require being informed when one is a feminist, simply claiming to be a victim, as the next girl does, is all that's needed.

"We've been seeing posters for men's issues awarness group. Many of us were frustrated, just by seeing the posters...

but also seeing that UofT admiistration actually allowed and hosted these events on campus

" -Dani, a "member of the U of T community" who yelled at campus police.

Now, here is some more of the clip from the above interview. I've copied it at the timestamp where she describes the group, as best she can, given she knows very little of it. Only that it is a sanctioned group by the school, and she doesn't like that... That's right, she doesn't know anything about the group, but has already laid judgement on it as being hateful, and takes unbridge at them daring to put up posters, to hold events, and to registers (and get aproved) as an official group within the school. If you wish to watch it from the begining, you'll notice she is using her confrontation with police as evidence of her victimization from the men's group. Proof that the men's group is a hate group because they have been "violently attacked" by the police. Accountability is a foriegn word to these types of proffessional victims.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jv1ZZLNaP0g#t=82s

What's truely funny is, once upon a time, it was feminists being called man-haters and lesbians for wanting to talk about their issues on campus, under the pretense of equality for all. The irony is astounding.

The quality of the comments on here suggests that Farrell's detractors were by and large right about the people attending the event.

"It is the 1% of top men and the majority of women who seek to oppress the average man into servitude"

This is misogynistic. Is every woman in the world a good person? No. Is every feminist? Again, no. But this is still misogynistic.

Some of the other points are just ridiculous; the Titanic disaster happened a hundred years ago and affected a few thousand people. Nobody who experienced that disaster is even alive today. As for the suffragist warmongers, why are you holding me responsible for something a small number of women I didn't know did before my grandparents were even born? Why do I get blamed for that, while the men who actually planned that war and sent my male relatives (and maybe yours) off to die in it get a pass?

If you don't want to hold doors open or pay for 100% of dates or whatever else you consider "chivalrous", then don't. Lots of women are willing to split the bill or take turns paying. If you don't want to support a stay-at-home wife, find a woman who doesn't want to be one. We exist. Of course most of us don't like men who can't tell women apart, who therefore blame us for attitudes we don't hold and stuff we didn't do.

The problems being discussed are, with some exceptions (divorce court screws EVERYONE over, not just men), real, but men won't get anywhere with these problems if they persist in blaming women for them. And you don't do decent men any favours by aligning with a man like Farrell, who is pretty happy about using "force and intimidation" to get sex ("before we called this date rape, we called it exciting") and has gone on the record supporting child rape (oh sorry, "positive incest").

"Addressing women't rights is addressing human rights! Women have always been half the population of humanity..."
That right there is the big clue where you were sooo wrong. If women have always been half the population then men must be the other half of HUMANITY. Arguing against and trying to deny that men do not deserve equal consideration of human rights is not human rights but pure bigotry plain and simple. If you ignore enough facts ypu can always "justify" your position except of course to someone not wearing blinkers as you clearly are.

"Addressing women't rights is addressing human rights! Women have always been half the population of humanity..."
No it is not human rights when feminists demean and deny men the same consideration. Neither is it human rights to try and scapegoat almost every ill that can befall a woman at mens door. Men are human beings and women are human beings and both are capable of great things as well as great transgressions. Such form of feminism has absolutely nothing to do with humanism and human rights but rather an exercise of deliberate ignore-ance which filters out anything in reality which might challenge your cosy and may I say frankly bigoted view of the world and reality.
As for defending yourselves men have been doing that for a very long time. Mrs Pankhurst who was after votes for women of her CLASS also gave out and encouraged other to give out white feathers to any boy or man old enough to bear arms. While of course they remained safe at home. More men in First Class on the Titanic died than women in steerage (the lowest class of travel) again because men valued womens lives and protected them.
You claim to want independence from men yet will not relinquish or refuse institutional chivalry which gives girls and women much more funding that men for health even after maternity costs have been factored out and an education system that has been progressively tailored to favour girls over boys style of learning. There are countless other examples where feminists like yourself are happy indeed demanding that only womens rights are "valid" human rights which was basically what your hate filled rant was basically saying. If you wanty a sensible discussion on these issues I suggest you grow up and start from a sensible position i.e. that men are PEOPLE too.

Is this article supposed to represent ryerson's journalism program? If so pathetic!

The fact that the live-blog contains a completely offhand, subjective attack on the "man in the white shirt" is stunning to me. That's not reporting or journalism.

What kind of person reporting for a newspaper would think that is appropriate for a news report? Just one more example of terrible "reporting".

The protest was organized by "International Socialists" according to "The Agitator" student bulletin being distributed outside. While waiting to attend the conference, I engaged in conversation with several of the chanting student protestors. Except for a hard core component that rushed the Campus and city policy barricade around the door several times, most of he protestors were earnest students with a strong one-sided attitude but were partially open to holding an intelligent discussion. I suspect that many of the protestors would be stunned to learn that Warren Farrell, the target of the protest is himself an equality feminist and was thrice-elected to the New York Board of NOW (National Organization of Women).

I was pleased to see that some of the protestors attended Farrell's presentation as they can report to their International Socialist feminist peers he was not the demon he was made out to be in their bulletin, and was certainly not indulging in "hate speech" as claimed by the protestors.

His talk warmly acknowledged the important gains made by women in the modern era, but also invited the important question as to why the state and society have let boys and men fall behind on almost all counts. It's an important societal question for all of us to face.

The protest was organized by "International Socialists" according to "The Agitator" student bulletin being distributed outside. While waiting to attend the conference, I engaged in conversation with several of the chanting student protestors. Except for a hard core component that rushed the Campus and city policy barricade around the door several times, most of he protestors were earnest students with a strong one-sided attitude but were partially open to holding an intelligent discussion. I suspect that many of the protestors would be stunned to learn that Warren Farrell, the target of the protest is himself an equality feminist and was thrice-elected to the New York Board of NOW (National Organization of Women).

I was pleased to see that some of the protestors attended Farrell's presentation as they can report to their International Socialist feminist peers he was not the demon he was made out to be in their bulletin, and was certainly not indulging in "hate speech" as claimed by the protestors.

His talk warmly acknowledged the important gains made by women in the modern era, but also invited the important question as to why the state and society have let boys and men fall behind on almost all counts. It's an important societal question for all of us to face.

The protest was organized by "International Socialists" according to "The Agitator" student bulletin being distributed outside. While waiting to attend the conference, I engaged in conversation with several of the chanting student protestors. Except for a hard core component that rushed the Campus and city policy barricade around the door several times, most of he protestors were earnest students with a strong one-sided attitude but were partially open to holding an intelligent discussion. I suspect that many of the protestors would be stunned to learn that Warren Farrell, the target of the protest is himself an equality feminist and was thrice-elected to the New York Board of NOW (National Organization of Women).

I was pleased to see that some of the protestors attended Farrell's presentation as they can report to their International Socialist feminist peers he was not the demon he was made out to be in their bulletin, and was certainly not indulging in "hate speech" as claimed by the protestors.

His talk warmly acknowledged the important gains made by women in the modern era, but also invited the important question as to why the state and society have let boys and men fall behind on almost all counts. It's an important societal question for all of us to face.

Still when did violence become a gender issue? Oh yeah since there’s money to be made!

Still when did violence become a gender issue? Oh yeah since there’s money to be made!

Apparently, only us females are allowed to address our own gender issues, but men couldn’t possibly have any of their own. These misandrists aren’t guided by the protection of equality for all but the elevation of women above all.

A perfect example of how self absorbed feminists (and women) are; its all about them, they have to be the center of attention.

They always argue that if women were in charge there would be no violence, but it is clear that they have no problem using violence and not talking about the problem when it doesnt suit them.

And it really surprised me that Trista Muller, a computer science student, is retarded enough to argue against this man without even knowing what he said. yea, im sure a professor said its ok to dayrape women.

"I could never find any one thing to be angry at them for... In one of his books he says... I forget, what was on the poster?" -Trista Muller

these protesters have NO IDEA about what the men's rights movment is. this is unbelievable! how regressive!! at what point do we turn our attention away form women?? when is it safe to discuss violence as it pertains to men?? again, all men should take not, and ingest the extreme prejudice feminist inherently hold toward you.

i can't imagine the seething hatred people have toward men's rights activists. they're promoting men and boys, and have nothing but respect from anyone else. it's an insult to any man on that campus that people are violently opposed to activism on their behalf. just sickening!

i can't imagine the seething hatred people have toward men's rights activists. they're promoting men and boys, and have nothing but respect from anyone else. it's an insult to any man on that campus that people are violently opposed to activism on their behalf. just sickening!

Thanks, Ryersonian, for putting people's opinions of the event out for us to see. If you know Warren Farrell, you know that protesters had been primed with incendiary lies about his very humane and responsible work. University is supposed to be a place where people learn to think rationally based on good information, but we know that it's also a place where gullible kids can be manipulated by borderline personalities or cynical exploiters.

I'm saddened by the behaviour of this protest group. Men's Issues are a serious thing and whether or not Women's Issues are more important or not is irrelevant. It's not a war.

I am the "man in the white shirt" that Jeff Lagerquist says massaged his shoulders and that he felt uncomfortable. If you were uncomfortable Jeff, why did you not ask me to stop? Oh, and why then, when Dr. Farrell asked us to turn around and rub the shoulders of the person who had rubbed ours, WHY DID YOU RUB MY SHOULDERS? I took the suggestion as a friendly icebreaker. So did virtually everyone else in the audience except you. You can see from the photo everyone is smiling and taking it humourously. For the record, I am NOT affiliated with the group and I was not "captivated" by Dr. Farrell. Jeff, did you bother to talk to me to find out my viewpoint before deciding it yourself? No you did not. How can you call yourself a reporter? I found Dr. Farrell's viewpoint interesting. I agreed with some of the things he said and disagreed with others. Mr. Lagerquist, your comments and behaviour were...odd. I'm going to wash my hands now that I know I touched such a creepy person. Yuck.

@Melanie P

Thank you for your input. I too was in the talk, and received the same impression as you. Warren Farrell is a compassionate man that only seeks to help men and women by having us examine how boys are taught to be violent, uninterested in education, be seen as worthless, etc.

The hours-long delay put up by so-called "feminists for equality" was a pain, but I got a chance to talk to a few. Almost everyone I spoke with was in agreement with every male issue I brought up as a legitimate issue, but they couldn't move past their anti-mens-rights stance.

I was called a rapist and a pervert for working my way in the crowd, and I'm glad the cops were there to protect the few of us that just wanted to have a civil discussion.

Are you going to bother putting an article together, or are you just going to leave it like this? Which is a sad piece of reporting that you have to sift through to find information. That leads to people not taking the time, and jumping to conclusions.

Your job isn't just to collect the information, you need to present it in a readable fashion as well. I had to scroll through your "live blog" and play clips that a lot of people won't bother with to even find out what the actual reason was behind people's anger. Which I think is a legitimate concern if it is an actual quote, but I don't know because you haven't found out, you haven't given any explanation.

Don't these feminists have anything better to do? This is somewhat representative of how the movement has lost purpose when they have to sink to this to occupy their time. Which is strange, because I do think there still are women's rights issues to be addressed. Picking a battle as silly as this makes this group look like idiots and possibly even anti-male, which is something all feminists should be seeking to avoid, since after all, they say they seek equality.

I was at this talk. I'm a woman social worker who works primarily with people at-risk of and coping with addiction, violence, etc. Most of my clients are boys and young men.

I was there with two other women and one male colleague to learn about how our society boys fall into the traps of violence more often, why they don't address negative emotions properly, why they drop out of school more, etc.

The man in our group was is also a social worker and very passionate about helping people. He was called a rape apologist, accused of being a misogynist, told he was supporting rape culture, etc.

He was there for the same reason we were and was subjected to some incredibly disgusting vitriol from these people. The audience was roughly 50/50 men and women and nothing even remotely sexist was said.

The only sexists I encountered were the ones outside protesting.

I was at this talk. I'm a woman social worker who works primarily with people at-risk of and coping with addiction, violence, etc. Most of my clients are boys and young men.

I was there with two other women and one male colleague to learn about how our society boys fall into the traps of violence more often, why they don't address negative emotions properly, why they drop out of school more, etc.

The man in our group was is also a social worker and very passionate about helping people. He was called a rape apologist, accused of being a misogynist, told he was supporting rape culture, etc.

He was there for the same reason we were and was subjected to some incredibly disgusting vitriol from these people. The audience was roughly 50/50 men and women and nothing even remotely sexist was said.

The only sexists I encountered were the ones outside protesting.

It is the 1% of top men and the majority of women who seek to oppress the average man into servitude.

"Throughout the industrialized world, boys are about a quarter century behind girls --dropping out of school, preoccupied with video games, committing suicide, and demonstrating a "failure to launch." Why and what can we do about it?"

how is that misogynist?

One person here seems to neglect that the other half of the population ie the men are also abused and neglected. What about all the times that men where ripped away from their homes and sent to die? How about all the spending on healthcare for men that is now where near a 1/6 of how much is spent on woman? How about the extreme bias against fathers in divorce courts. How about the 8000 men that commit suicide each year in Canada? You hear nothing about them. Addressing this injustice will benfit in society. The men who oppose and are against feminists are the ones who see how horrible feminism really is. How would you feel if your gender (female)was constantly demonized, viewed as expendable, and talked about as worthless. These men are looking for more rights for themselves and to improve society in the long run. Only you would blindly assume that because they oppose feminism that they are evil.

Good job protesters. Christopher hitchens will be proud of your attempt to disrupt free speech (or "hate speech" as you call it).
Hitchens - free speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyoOfRog1EM

One of the comments has me confused. You refer to a woman's body as unique. Yet if you refer to one of two things a unique and the other not you are stating that the other is the normal way a body should be. I hate to tell you but ALL bodies are unique. Men have as Mich right to discuss their issues as woman do. That IS equality! It is equality for all, there is no such thing as being more equal. I view everyone as equal, treat everyone with the same respect and expect to be treated the same as the next person. Feminists do not fight for equality they fight against the "evil empire of men"

One of the comments has me confused. You refer to a woman's body as unique. Yet if you refer to one of two things a unique and the other not you are stating that the other is the normal way a body should be. I hate to tell you but ALL bodies are unique. Men have as Mich right to discuss their issues as woman do. That IS equality! It is equality for all, there is no such thing as being more equal. I view everyone as equal, treat everyone with the same respect and expect to be treated the same as the next person. Feminists do not fight for equality they fight against the "evil empire of men"

The speakers name is Warren Farrell, not Warren Ellis as in your article.

We're very disappointed that the actions of a few people disrupted what was intended to be an educational event. We welcome difficult questions, but the use of force and intimidation to shut down a discussion is unacceptable in a free society.

Addressing women't rights is addressing human rights! Women have always been half the population of humanity that have been abused, neglected, have less access to share their voice, less money and resources. Addressing this injustice in society is on behalf of the all humanity. Feminists have always defended the rights of women to take care of our unique bodies and acquire the resources we need and rights to decide for ourselves what we need to stay healthy and raise healthy children. Men who stand away, diminish or actively oppose Feminists are stabbing themselves in the foot. If men are concerned about men they should be going after the 1% who are mostly men and hoarding the worlds wealth directing it into practices that abuse women and children.

The chant in the final video there is clearly "cops off campus"