{Debate} What should the MRM's next step be?

I think this is a very important discussion that the MRM needs to have as a group. I think we've already done a lot of the things that can be done via the internet without a real life presence. People in general seem well aware of men's issues, seem to care about them, and seem to understand what's wrong with feminism which is consistently seeing a worse and worse reputation. Being an MRA may not be totally socially acceptable, but it's not brutally unacceptable anymore and I think it's gotten to the point where MRAs can mostly invalidate real life shaming tactics by being charismatic and decently dressed.

The next step has to come from real world interaction. The reason we can't get positive media and control our own narrative is because we don't have a face. Very few people have actually seen an MRA who identifies as such even though with 108,000 of us, most people probably know a couple. For this to work though, we need actual communication and a group wide effort to make something happen.

I don't think this kind of communication would come from measures like creating a new sub. Very few people would subscribe to it and it'd just be a place where effort goes to die. Rather, I think we need a top down effort taking place on /r/mensrights that's heavily supported by the community itself. MRAs need to speak to each other about meeting up for small protests in their hometown, which will probably make the news all things considered, and about larger protests which might (due to our decent but still small numbers) require commitment and travel from many MRAs.

I think for now, the best way to continue is to decide how exactly we ought to set up the communication and public demonstrations. I think the mods should play a role in this by organizing the discussion with stickied threads that are well thought out, conducive towards discussion, get the entire MRM talking to each other about it, and keep the discussion organized. Good comments should be emphasized and should play a part in leading the discussion in order to ensure commitment and raise morale. It should begin as a relatively slow discussion process, but one that goes somewhere and receives a lot of attention.

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