"Male Supremacy Organizations are Now on SPLCs List of Hate Groups"
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"The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an organization that, among other things, tracks the activities of hate groups across the country, has added two male supremacy organizations to its list.
SPLC will now monitor A Voice for Men, a group based in Houston, and Return of Kings, a group based in Washington, D.C., as part of its Hatewatch program. This is the first time SPLC has included so-called mens rights activists in the ongoing project and designated their organizations as hate groups, although SPLC first began tracking mens rights groups in 2012. The vilification of women by these groups, SPLC declared in an announcement, makes them no different than other groups that demean entire populations, such as the LGBT community, Muslims or Jews, based on their inherent characteristics.
SPLCs decision arose from the striking similarities their researchers noted between these groups and white nationalist groups, which have been re-invigorated since President Trumps election. It became clear that they treat women the same way that white nationalist groups treat minoritiesby demeaning them and describing all women as a group as lesser beings, intelligence project director Heidi Beirich said. Often, the language is just awful, calling all women bitches and worse. So this year, in the two cases where what we were tracking functioned as groups, we added them to the list.
Mens rights communities often overlap with other hateful communities, such as neo-Nazi groups and white nationalists. They were also at the forefront of the #GamerGate attacks on prominent women in gaming and media, including Feminist Frequencys Anita Sarkeesian and developer Zoe Quinn. In 2014, a mass shooting in Isla Vista was carried out by a man who espoused male supremacist talking points." ...
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2018/02/26/southern-poverty-law-center-will-track-male-supremacy-groups/