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One is entitled to their opinion like very one else. I'm entitled not to have to listen it.
And AFAIK private companies have the same entitlement. "Freedom of speech", at least as I understand it in the US, means being protected from government retaliation only. A restaurant is well within its rights to ban a group of people who loudly praise the KKK inside of the restaurant in question, I can't see much of a difference here.
I don't really understand by what mechanism MRAs could be Eclipse Phase fans anyhow. Transhumanism is all about throwing away outmoded concepts like gender & race essentialism and economies of scarcity and privilege.
Apparently I've been living under a rock, because this MRA thing is something I only heard of very recently. Unfortunately the way I found out about it was someone thinking that I'm part of it (believe me, I'm not, I find it disgusting) because a) I wear a trilby at times (apparently that's a common thing among members, or so I'm told) and b) I was talking about the local MRA, as in the Motorcycle Riders Association. There was some severe confusion there for a while til we figured out that we were both talking about different things.
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When I became aware of it some months ago I thought MRA was some sort of joke reference at first. When I was corrected, I couldn't help but ask "What rights don't men already have?"
After I heard a bit more, I can't help but want to correct the term every time I hear it, because I think MRA is a misleading term. I think it would be more accurate to describe it as SWMPA (Straight White Male Privilege Activists), because I'm not aware of any missing SWMs' rights to campaign for - in my perception MRAs are activists for SWMs keeping un-earned privilege that they (we, really, because I am a SWM, but I would be perfectly happy in a world where all have equal rights and none have un-earned, inherent, or hereditary privilege, and I don't need or want MRAs trying to represent me) have enjoyed for much of history.
TL;DR, I can't help but see MRAs as a bunch of whiners that are angry that they have to go into the kitchen and make their own sandwiches.
Yet another reason I love Posthuman Studios.