That's an inegalitarian argument for injustice. If the man has no choice in the matter, he should not be obliged to pay.
If the woman unilaterally chooses to have the child, she should be the only one providing. If she can no longer provide, then the state should step in, financed by general taxes, for the good of the child. It is injustice to put this on a man who had no choice in the matter.
And how is it fair to put that on the man? It's the woman's choice.
And it's not in the interest of the child to be thrust into this world without a father willing to have it. So it is the woman's choice that put the child in this position, and thus it's the woman's responsibility.
As far as I'm aware there's no timeline view of all people you follow.
Yes, that would be a good thing to have.
There is a real dearth of men's activism in the Fediverse. I'm not aware of any similar community out there. There's a MensRights magazine here on Kbin, but it is inactive and has all of two posts. There's also a MensRights community on lemmy.world, but it has no content whatsoever. And there's an intactivism magazine here with all of one post.
I've also found /m/humanrights, but the last post there was in May... And there is /m/AskMen, but also with very low activity.
Then there's the Men's Liberation community on lemmy.ca, but that is entirely subservient to feminism and habitually uses toxic terms such as toxic masculinity and patriarchy. Not something we can recommend.
So yeah, there isn't anything specific to male advocacy (and active) in the Fediverse that I've found, apart from this place.
There are a lot of tech people, especially on Mastodon, and I follow some of them. But Mastodon being a Twitter clone, it centers around following people, and has a way flatter timeline. I much prefer the forum style, and especially the Reddit style, of nested threaded discussions centered on a topic.
Some magazines/communities here that I've found interesting are /m/fediverse, /m/space, /m/linux, and /m/[email protected].
Judges often need to be re-elected
Only in a handful of countries. Most countries appoint their judges. Even in the US not all judges are elected. And IMO it's a really braindead idea to elect judges, as that will inevitably influence how they rule.
I know, and I do appreciate that. I mostly speak out of frustration that our moderation tools are very rudimentary. We simply don't have all the tools we need to do proper content curation.
Kbin has burst onto the scene of the fediverse, and is now a serious player. I think it risks defederation if this issue isn't fixed. It is an attack vector for people with nefarious goals.
I don't understand how developers think this is okay. This needs to be fixed with priority!
I disagree. Gender doesn't become meaningless just because we have difficulties defining it within modern sensibilities. There is something about gender that drives certain people to want to transition, for example, and it's not just about genitalia.
Now if you mean to say that one doesn't have to be a masculine man to still be a man, I agree. Tho it does make certain things (e.g. dating) a lot more difficult when you're an unmasculine man.
We care. Because there is a lot of negative messaging about men, and young men especially get distorted ideas because of that. As an educator that's important to me.
It does not. But it has been flagged, so hopefully it will be fixed at some point in the future.